THE English Prelates Practising the Methods and RULES OF THE JESUITS, FOR Enervating and altering the Protestant Reform Religion in ENGLAND; and Reducing the People to POPERY.  
Plainly Demonstrated by a Reverend and godly Divine.  
Take heed to thyself, that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee, and that thou inquire not after their gods; saying, how did these Nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise,  Deut. 12.30. 
Though thou Israel play the Harlot, yet let not Judah offend, and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, etc.  Hos. 4.15.  papal crown, topped with a crescent 
Printed in the Year. 1661.   

The English Prelates practising the Methods and Rules of the Jesuits, for enervating and altering the Protestant reform Religion in England, and reducing the people to Popery.  
Quest. HOw doth it appear that the English Prelates do design the alteration of Religion amongst us here in England?  
Answ. As face answers to face in a 〈◊〉 so the practices of the Prelates in England do symbo … with the Rules and methods of the Jesuits, who hope to accomplish that by sleight of hand, which they cannot effect by force and downright Blows.  
Adam Contzen a Jesuit of Mentz, and a great Politician, 
Contzen Polity. lib. 2. cap. 18.  in his second Book of Politics, hath laid a Plot for the cheating of a people of the true reformed Religion (which should be dearer to them than ten thousand worlds) by sleight of hand, and the serving in of Popery again upon them, by art of Legerdemain; that they shall neither know nor see who hurts them, till they be utterly ruined, Neh. 4.11.  
The Method for accomplishing of this (which certainly is one of Satan's methods) he lays down in certain Rules in his sorementioned Book of Politics. Let Englishmen and Protestants observe how exactly, the late and present Prelates of England, have moved and acted according to those Rules, and then judge of their designs.  

I. Rule.  
The Jesuits first Rule is this; To proceed as Musicians Do, in tuning their Instruments; who proceed gradually, straining their strings with a gentle hand, and setting them up by little and little. Or as Physicians do in curing diseases, who abate noxious humours by degrees and pauses.  
This Rule hath been diligently observed and practised amongst us both for the destructive and adstructive way; for the destruction of the true Religion, and the advancing of the false, The English Prelates (though some of them are more violent and  than others) have learned this policy, to proceed by degrees and pauses.  
1. And first for the Destruction of the true Religion, and eating out the vitals and power of godliness, though that be their great design, yet as to the execution of it, they must go warily and gradually to work: It would make too great a noise (now that so much Gospel-light is broke forth) to suspend all the Orthodox Powerful Preachers in the Land at once; and therefore they will proceed by degrees; And first suspend all Lecturers, who boggle at the Service-book, and P … Ceremonies, then after a little pause, put down all Lect … as an order of Vagrants, not to be tolerated in the Chu●●●. (Some of our zealous Bishops have already presumed to suppress divers choice profitable Lectures) When this is done; they will forbid all faithful Ministers to preach in their own Parish- Churches upon weekdays (the Jesuits and Prelates being both bitter enemies to sound and powerful Preaching) Next, they will inhibit Preaching upon the Lord's Day in the afternoon under pretence of advancing Catechising by that means, and yet within a little while after, all Catechistical exposition shall be inhibited by these Soul-destroyers, and able men tied to the bare words of the Primmer-Catechism. Nay, have they not forbidden all praying, save in the words of the Canon? and are they not of the same spirit still? to wit, enemies to the Spirit of God, both in Preaching and Prayer? What can any ingenious man think the design of all this should be, but to rob us of true Evangelical Preaching and Praying? and thereby at length of the Gospel and True Religion? Only these men will do it by degrees for fear of noise and Tumult; they will do it so, as we shall neither know nor see.  
2. And then for the Adstructive way, the Rebuilding of the Romish Babel among us; do they not proceed by the same steps, as if the Jesuits and they were animated by one soul?  
First, They rigidly urge the practice of the old Ceremonies, beyond the intention either of Law or Canon; yea, they bring in an Idolatrous fardel of new Popish Superstitions, without warrant either of Law or Canon, but their own paper Injunctions, imposing them on Ministers and People, but yet by pauses and degrees.  
The Communion-Table must be first railed in.  
Soon after it must be set in an Altar-posture.  
Then all must be compelled to come and kneel before it, or not receive the Sacrament.  
Then it must be cried up as the Sanctum Sanctorum, the place of God's chief residence upon earth; the seat and throne of God's Majesty.  
And upon this Consideration, all men's faces in prayer must be turned towards it. Men may, yea must, (say some) adore and bow before it, etc.  
What (I pray you) should the design of all this be, but after the Altar, to bring in the Popish Sacrifice, and with their wooden worship the Breaden God? Only they will do it by degrees. They will reconcile us to Rome by degrees, and in a cunning way, that we may neither know nor see.  
Secondly, I may further add their making null and void the Ordination of so many godly Ministers (who were ordained by Presbyters alone, without a Diocessan Bishop) and their ascribing more virtue to the Popish Antichristian Orders of the Church of Rome, than to Ordination by Protestant Presbyters; for Popish Priests, when they turn Protestants, are not re-ordained. By this means our English Prelates do undermine and supplant all the reformed Churches in France, Holland, Scotland, etc. where they have no Diocessan Bishops to ordain Ministers, and if their Ministers be not lawfully called, than they have no true Churches, Baptism, Ordinances, etc. And will not this (think you) contribute much to the rebuilding of Babel amongst us, and reconciling of England to Rome? whither (at length) men will be forced to go for a lawful Ordination (according to these men's Popish principles and practices) for if Ordination by Presbyters, qua Presbyters be held unlawful (which yet the most learned and judicious of the Protestant Bishops have proved to be lawful, and therefore not to be iterated) than we must have recourse to the Pope and Church of Rome (for a lawful ordination) from whom, as from the fountain our Lordly Diocessans derive their exorbitant Ecclesiastical Power and Jurisdiction over the Ministers and Flock of Christ, and not from the Scriptures, nor the Church of Christ.  
Again, as the Prelates have practised the Jesuits Rule (for altering Religion) in Discipline and Ceremonies, so they have likewise observed it in Doctrine. First, they will bring in the Arminian Doctrine, and the Cassandrian-Grotian Divinity, and then they know that downright Popish Doctrine will easily follow. Let the Serpent but wind in his head, he will soon work in his whole body: Let Arminianism but obtain Countenance and Licence in the Kingdom, our Universities, Schools, Pulpits, Presses, will soon be filled with Popish Doctrines. Witness the publishing of so many points of Popery one after another, especially those two (which you may frequently meet with in the Books of Dr. Hammond, Dr. Bramhall now Primate of Ireland, and Dr. Jeremy Tayler, now a Bishop in that Kingdom, and of other High Prelatists) namely, That the Pope is not Antichrist. And that the Church of Rome is a true Visible Church. Altae sic surgunt maenia Romae. Thus according to the Rule of their Masters the Jesuits, they seek to re-establish Rome by degrees here in England, and to do it so as we may not know nor see. So much for Contz●ns first Rule.   

II. Rule propounded by the Jesuit.  
His second Rule is this, To press the examples and practices of some eminent men, as a good means to draw on the rest.  
And is not this Rule likewise well observed by our Prelatical men? They dazzle the eyes of the meaner, and less judicious people, with the practices of some noble and learned persons. If any begin to startle, or be troubled at the matter, and cannot swallow down the Service-book and Popish Ceremonies and observations, they presently answer, My Lord Bishop doth thus and thus: and my Lord's Grace of Canterbury doth thus and thus. The Knights of the most noble order of the Garter-bow versus Altar towards the Altar at their Instalment. His Majesty's Chapel is thus and thus adorned, many honourable Lords do observe these Orders and Ceremonies. 
A. C. Speech 〈◊〉 Star-Chamb. p. 47.  The learned Doctors of the Universities are conformable thereunto. Such a zealous Minister, is Re-ordained by a Diocessan Bishop, and now reads the Service-book. Such a strict Professor is present when the Service-book is read, and the Ceremonies practised: And what, will you be wiser than so many noble persons, so many reverend Prelates, so many learned Doctors, so many eminent famous Preachers and Professors? By these, and the like pretences, they cast a mist before the people's eyes, and so dazzle them that they cannot, or will not see that Jesuitical design that is carried on for Altering Religion.   

III. Rule of the Jesuit.  
His third Rule is this, That Arch-heretics, and such as are teachers of Heresy, must be banished the Commonwealth at once, if it may safely be done, but if not, by degre●s.  
It is easy to know who are the Jesuits Arch-heretics (whom they would have banished) even the most active, orthodox, conscientious Protestants, the Calvinists (as they call them) who have eyes in their heads to discern and discover their Antichristian designs, and will not be gulled by their sleights as the ignorant people are.  
For the extirpating and rooting out of these, the Jesuit prescribes a method of twelve or thirteen steps, 
Contz. Poll. l. 2. c. 18 sect. 6.  for which I refer the Reader to the Book itself, such as will not Bow, they must Break, such as will not comply with the Popish Design, must be crushed. According to this Rule the Prelates have acted. By them the Puritan Preachers have been counted the Arch-heretics and teachers of Heresy in England, though they teach nothing but what is consonant to Scripture, and the public Doctrine of the Church, yet they are the teachers of Heresy. And being too many to root out at once, it must be done by degrees. The Puritan party must be divided one from another, and then they may be more easily suppressed. It may be done with more case, and less noise.  
And therefore first they did cast all those out of the Minister that were not punctual and full Conformists to the old Ceremonies. This was the practice of Prelates. Next (because there was a company of conformable Puritans as themselves styled them) they procured an Edict for Recreations upon the Lord's day; and this must be published by Ministers, that such as could stand under the Ceremonies (though groaning under that burden) might fall and be broken in pieces under this: And yet because some men suspected of Puritanisme, might have a latitude here beyond their brethren, they had a third Engine, and that was the enjoining now Ceremonies and Adorations, that if any could swallow the Book, yet they might discover, and cast them out by straining here. To this they added a fourth, Prayers and Proclamations to be read against the Anti-prelatical party in Scotland. And their last and greatest Engine which was like the Powder-plot against the godly Ministry of the Nation to blow up the Relics of them at once, was the Oath for Episcopacy, the Oath Etcaetera.  
By these successive Stratagems, they made account utterly to extirpate those Arch-heretics. As it was sometimes said to Elijah, Him that escapeth the sword of Hazael, shall Jehu slay, and him that escapeth the sword of Jehu, shall Elisha slay, 1 King. 19 So had they said, Him that escapeth the dint of the Ceremonies, shall the Book of Sports slay, and him that escapeth the Book of Sports, shall the new Injunctions slay, and him that escapeth the new Injunctions, shall the Proclamations slay; and him that escapeth the Proclamations, shall the Oath slay. And this by degrees and pauses, that they shall neither know, nor see till we slay them, and cause the work to cease. If one snare do not entangle them, another shall: If one Engine do not batter down this party, another shall. The Prelates have variety of means and engines to ruin conscientious Ministers and Professors.   

iv Rule of the Jesuit.  
The fourth Rule is this, That those which are adversaries to the true Religion (which with him is Popery) be put by their Dignities, places, and offices, and not trusted with power or public Employment.  
I think none is such a stranger in England, but from his own knowledge can witness this, The bestowing of all Offices, the collating of Benefices, the election of Masters and Fellows of Colleges in both Universities, who have had the overruling hand in them all, the power of Mandamus, but the Prelates and their faction? and whom were they conferred upon usually, but upon men infamous for, and impudent in Arminian and Popish opinions? protested Arminianism and boldfaced Popery hath been the only speedy way to Church preferment. These have been, and are still confided in (as to public trust and employment) whilst the soundest and most zealous Protestants are discountenanced, by our high Prelatists, whose practice suits well with the Jesuits Rule.   

V Rule of the Jesuit.  
His fifth Rule is, To make the Protestant Religion odious, by laying load upon such tenants as are most subject to harshest constructions, and rendering the persons of those who maintain them contemptible.  
In this our Prelates have not been sparing, Quot plaustra conviti●rum, have they poured out upon some Doctrines of our Religion, specially the points of Grace? The Pulpits of Italy and Rome, never spit more Gall and Venom against the Protestant Doctrines of Election, Freegrace, Justification by faith, perseverance, touching Antichrist, and the Exp sitions of the Protestants on Daniel and the Revelation; and in a word against all those Doctrines wherein we do in a special manner differ from, and are at an irreconcilable enmity with the Church of Rome. N ver did the Popish B shops and Doctors, as Eecius, Cocleus, Stapleton, Harding, Bellarmine, the railing Rhemists sweat more to exaggerate the seeming absurdities, which carnal prejudiced men would draw from our Doctrine, than many of the English Prelatical Clergy have done. And as for the persons of the most famous reformed Divines; as Calvin, Beza, Pareus, Whitaker, Reynolds, Perkins; It is well enough known how they have been, and are to this day slighted and aspersed by this sort of men.   

VI Rule.  
The Jesuits sixth Rule is, To foment the quarrels that are among the Protestants, and strengthen that party that is nearest a compliance with Rome. And, the wretched Jesuit hath the unhappiness to prescribe one thing as the proper means of England's Cure. For who (saith he) 
* Quis enim non facile puri●anos in Angli a ●edigat in ordi●em si Episcopo●um approbatio●em, ab iis ex●orqueat. Contz. ubi supra paragraph. 9  might not easily reduce the Puritans of England into Order (you know what the Jesuits reducing into Order is) if he could extort from them an Approbation of the Bishops. And had not the Prelates attempted, and almost effected this? They had made us their Slaves before, and were they not about to make us swear we would be so for ever? Certainly, though nothing but Episcopacy floated in the surface of that Oath, yet Popery was in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, in the &c, of it, or reducing the Puritans of England into Order sensu Pentificio. And do they not to this day frequently speak for, yea strenuously endeavour after, and contend for a general Conformity of all sorts and sexes, to the Prelatical Government, Service-book, and Ceremonies, yea higher than was formerly attempted? none must buy or sell, unless he receive the mark of the Beast; not only England and Ireland, but Scotland, and the foreign Isles must bow or break before this Idol. Our Prelates therefore have well observed this Rule of the Jesuit.   

VII. Rule.  
His seventh Rule is this, That all private Conventicles, and public Meetings must be forbidden.  
As for private Conventicles, you all know that to meet together to pray, or to confer (which with them is a Conventicle) is peccatum irremissibile; a man may at a better rate almost answer any thing than such a Meeting; The terrible Canons of our Prelates are mounted higher, and more deeply charged against this commendable practice of Christians, than against Drunkenness, Swearing, Adultery, Sabbath-breaking, and the greatest abominations. Nor would the restless spirits of these persecuting Prelates be quiet, till they had got all such meetings utterly suppressed; men may meet together at , Horse-coursing, Stageplays, to swear, and be drunk, and unclean; but they must not meet to pray and confer together of the Scriptures, no, not in those places and Parishes where the Ministers are no better than dumb Idols. Behold here the Tyranny of our Prelates!  
And then for public meetings, the ancient laudable exercise of Prophecy (I mean not in that sense, the word is lately taken, for private spirits to interprer Scripture.) But prophesying by men in office, peculiarly gifted and called to that work; these must be banished, ejected, silenced; the public and most frequented Lectures blasted; public fasts by consent of Ministers (which had of long time been used in many parts of the Kingdom) are become piacular; a Sermon at next Church the forbidden fruit, when they had none at home, or worse than none. The Prelates have been, and still are very diligent, to suppress holy Assemblies, under the notion of Conventicles and seditious meetings, whilst they keep up their Cathedrals and Popish service.   

VIII. Rule propounded by the Jesuit.  
The eighth means to reduce us to Popery is, By severity of Laws and punishments to compel the obstinate unto duty; and yet the rigour of the Law must be slowly drawn out, and not against all, but only such as be most dangerous.  
Now what severity not only ad summum Jus, to the highest Apex of the Law, but even supra Jus, beyond the extent and rigour of the Law hath been used to such as stood in the way of their great design, let the walls of their High Commission Court speak; and if that Babel were once raised up again in England (which the Lord in mercy prevent) not only the ordinary people, but the Gentry of this Nation, (if they do but cross the ambitious designs of these men) should drink deep of their cruelty and rigour.  
Our Chronicles report, that when our Forefathers demolished the Abbeys, they found in their Walls, and Vaults, and Ponds, heaps of skulls, and bones; the Monuments of their smothered cruelties, I doubt not but the Abolishers of that High Commission have found as manifest evidence of their cruel practices: heaps of the blood of Innocents', whose skin hath been flayed from off them, 
M●c. 3.  and their bones broken, and they and their families chopped in pieces, as flesh for the Cauldron: And this fruit they reaped of their severity managed with this Art which the Jesuit promised. That though compulsory Reformation could do no good upon old standers, 
* Itaque refor●atio quae prov●ctos non ad●uvat, atatem tamen puerilem Catholicam raddet. Contzen.  yet it would render the younger sort Catholics.   

IX. Rule of the Jesuit.  
The ninth means, and (as he saith) of all the rest most effectual is, That such as are in authority, and have the public mannagement of Ecclesiastical Affairs, do religiously practise and maintain Integrity of life, and purity of manners. The Reformation of Religion (that is, the introducing of Popery into a Reformed Church) will go on very slowly, and prove very difficult, unless the Prelates and Doctors shall outshine the whole Commonwealth, not only in innocency, but in reputation and fame of integrity.  
Now, though this Rule be far from the practice of most of the servants, followers, and adherents of the Prelates (who for the most part are profane, Atheistical, and debauched persons, in whom there is little appearance of morality, and less of Religion) yet some of the Grand Masters of this faction do counterfeit much devotion and piety in their outward Garb, looks, gestures, conversation: Or else it were not possible for them at any time to obtain so far upon the hearts of Prince and Parliament (whose Interests do thwart the ambitious designs of the Prelates) as to leave the disposing of all Church Affairs wholly unto them: If they should not outwardly demean themselves as the only Saints upon earth, as incarnate Angels, men wholly composed of Devotion to God, Compassion to his Church, 
* Quem ubi vident constanter Religion's adharentem, non adeò temerarii saint, ut direct calumnieutur & traducant apud eum Orthodoxam Religionem: sed occasiones commodas accipiunt, quibus d●plorem turbat … pacem Ecclesiae, hortantur principem ad eam restituendam, id facile esse dicunt auferatur modo contentionis studium, quod dissidium non sit in rebus magai momenti sed exigui ponderis. Vedel. de prud. vet. Eccles. l. 2. c. 5.  grief for the Rents and breaches of it, Zeal for the peace and good of it; they could not prevail with the Magistrate to trust them with so much power, specially considering how often they have abused it in this Nation, and entrenched upon the Royal Prerogative, and the authority of Parliaments, as appears by above a hundred instances in the English Chronickle.  
Doubtless it stands not with reason that a Protestant Prince should knowingly and willingly give way to the re-establishing of the Popish Religion, and therein ipso facto divest himself of his Supremacy, and lay his head at the Pope's feet for him to kick off the Crown from his Royal Brow, with a spurn of his disdainful foot at pleasure. But why the Bishops (specially such of them as have been observed to wish well to Popery ab Incunabulis) should contrive and carry on such a Plot; some reason may be given; For could they but once obtain this, That Popery should Triumph over the Reformed Religion, than they know that the Mitre would soon Trample upon the Crown and Sceptre: Haec enim est veritaes, etc. (saith Bellarmine 
(a) Bell. de offic. princip. Christi L. 1 c. 5. ) This is the Truth, whatever custom hath introduced; That the Bishop is the Father, Pastor and Doctor, as well of the Prince, as of the rest of the people. And according to these Appellations the Prince ought to be subject to his Bishop, and not the Bishop to his Prince. Swarez saith, 
(b) Swarez. Defence. fid●i. lib. 3. cap. 17. ss. 18. & lib. 4. c. 17. ss. 16, 17. cap. 15. ss. 1.  unusquisque Rex Subditus est, etc. Every King is subject to his Bishop in spiritualibus, unless he be exempted by the Pope. Would not this be a brave world for our Bishops, and the whole Clergy too, to be exempted from the power of Laws, and civil Judicature? Leges non obligant Clericos, etc. (saith Swarez again) The Law doth not bind the Clergy by virtue of any La●k Jurisdiction, neither can Kings bind the Clergy by laying any special Law upon them; And again, Ecclesiastical persus are privileged in Court, not only in case of Ecclesiastical, but of Civil Crimes.  
And therefore Reader, though thou canst see no Reason why a Prince or State professing the Protestant Religion (having sufficiently smarted under the Popes and Prelate's Tyranny) should decline to Popery; yet thou mayest see strong reason why a proud Prelacy, and a corrupt Clergy should underhand endeavour to bring it in, and thou mayest here take notice of the method and ways whereby they may compass their designs, and neither Prince nor people shall know nor see, and yet our Prelatical Clergy are so confident of the truth of their Maxim, No Bishop, no King, That they would make us believe that it is as true as the Gospel, whereas their great design is to make the Sceptre subject to the Mitre, so much are they for the Royal Prerogative, and the Power of Parliaments.  
It is well enough known (he that runs may read it) that the Jesuits Rules for introducing Popery, have been practised by our English Prelates of late years, and still are practised by them. Let any ingenious spirit judge of their intentions by their actions.  
I have only let you see from whose Quiver they have drawn their shafts; you may hereby judge of the mark whereat they aim. You have seen whose Heifer it is they ploughed with: Judge by that of the seed they would have sown. If they never knew that a Jesuit had delivered these Rules for the altering of Religion in a Christian state, they were very unhappy in complying so exactly with them, when they did not know them: And what can we think but that they were, and are acted by the same Genius, or the same Angelus informans that the Jesuit was when he penned them? But if they know (as it is most probable they do) that these are the Rules, this the Art delivered by a Jesuit for the subverting the true Reformed Religion, and the introduction of Popery again, and yet do knowingly, and de Industria conform to them, and make proof of them, what can we think is their intention, but to alter our Religion? But blessed be the Lord who hath said (and will perform it) That no weapon form against his Jerusalem shall prosper.  
Give me leave (Gentle Reader) here to subjoin the say of some wife and learned men, as well Papists as Protestants touching the Grotian Arminian Design carried on by the Prelates and their Adherents in England, for introducing Popery and reducing England to the Church of Rome.   

A Jesuit writes in a Letter to the Rector at Brussels thus:  
Father Rector, etc. We have now many strings to our Bows, and have strongly fortified our Faction, and have added two Bulwarks more; for when King J. lived, we know he was very violent against Arminianism, and interrupted with his pestilent wit and deep learning, our strong designs in Holland: Now we have planted the Sovereign Drug Arminianism, etc. which we hope will purge the Protestants from their heresy.  
This Letter was seized in Archbishop Lands Study, and attested against him at the Lords Bar.   

An English Jesuit in a Book inscribed, A Direction to be observed by N. N. printed 1636. p. 20, 22. Thus writes,  
To speak truth, what learned judicious man can after unpartial examination embrace Protestantisme which now waxeth weary of itself? Its professors declare themselves to love temper and moderation, allow of many things which some years ago were usually condemned as superstitious and Antichristian: And are at this time more unresolved where to fasten, then in the infancy of their Church: for do not the Protestant Churches begin to look with another face? Their walls to speak with another language? Their Preachers to use a sweeter Tone? Their annual public Tenets in the Universities to be of another stile and matter? Their books to appear with Titles and Arguments which once would have caused much scandal among th● Brethren? Their Doctrine to be altered in many things, and even in those points for which their Progenitors forsook the then visible Church of Christ? Their 39 Articles, the sum, the confessions and almost the creed of their faith are patiented, yea ambitious of some sense wherein they may seem to be Catholic? To allege wife and children in these days is but a weak plea to compass a Benefice. Fiery Calvinisme once a Darling in England, is at length accounted Heresy, yea and little less than Treason, men in word and writing willingly use the once fearful names of Priests and Altars; nay if one do but mutter against the placing of the Altar after the old fashion, for a warning he shall be well warmed with a Coal from the Altar, etc.   

That aspiring Prelate Dr. Laud in his Letter to Bishop Hall concerning Episcopacy, hath these words,  
You do extremely well to distinguish the Scottish business from the state of the foreign Churches; but yet to those Churches and their Authors, you are a little more favourable than our case will now bear. What should be the intendment of this word Now?   

Bishop Carleton in his Examination of Mountagues Appeal, page 62.  
What greater pleasure (saith he) can a man procure to the exemies of the truth than to speak evil and odiously of those men whose service God hath used, and made them excellent Instruments to make the truth known to us? Some take it for a sign of such as are looking towards Popery, when they offer such a service to the Papists, as to speak evil of them who have been the greatest enemies to Popery, the greatest Propagators of the truth.   

Dr. Robert Abbot Bishop of Sarum, in a Sermon preached before the University of Oxford, 1615.  
Men under the pretence of truth, and preaching against the Puritans (saith he) strike at the heart and root of faith and Religion now established among us; This preaching against the Puritans, was but the practice of Parsons and Campians counsel, when they came into England to seduce young Students, and when many of them were afraid to lose their places if they should professedly be thus, the counsel they then gave them was, That they should speak freely against the Puritans, and that should suffice: And they cannot pretend that they are accounted Papists, because they speak against the Puritans, but because they are Papists indeed, they speak not against them. If they do at any time speak against the Papists, They do beat a little upon the Bush, and that softly too, for fear of troubling or disquieting the Birds that are in it. They speak of nothing but that in which one Papist will speak against another; as against Equivocation, the Pope's temporal Authority, and the like, and perhaps against some of their blasphemous speeches; but in the point of , Justification, Concupiscence, being sin after Baptism, inherent Righteousness, Certainty of salvation; the Papists beyond the Sea can say, They are wholly theirs; and the Recusants at home make their brags of them: And in all things they keep themselves so near the Brink, that upon all occasions they may stop over them.   

The University of Cambridge in a Letter March 8. 1595. to their Chancellor subscribed unanimously by the Heads of the Colleges.  
They desire his Lordship to use some effectual remedy for suppressing of Baroes' Arminian opinions, lest (say they) by permitting passage to these errors, the whole body of Popery, should by little and little break in upon us to the overthrow of our Religion. And a little after, Vouchsafe your Lordship's aid and advice both to us (wholly consenting and agreeing in judgement) and all others of the University sound affected: and to the suppression in time not only of these Errors, but even of gross Popery, like by such means in time easily to creep in among us, as we find by late experience it hath dangerously begun.   

Declaration of the House of Commons to his late Majesty.  
The hearts of your subjects are perplexed when with sorrow they behold a daily growth, and spreading of the faction of the Arminians; that being as your Majesty well knows, but a cunning way to bring in Popery: And the professors of those opinions, the common disturbers of the Protestant Churches, and Incendiaries of those States in which they have gotten any head, being Protestants in show, but Jesuits in opinion and practice.   

The Noble Lord Falkeland in his excellent speech to the House of Commons, printed anno 1641. pag. 3, 4, 5.6, 7.  
Master Speaker, he is a great stranger in Israel, who knows not that this Kingdom hath long laboured under many and great oppressions, both in Religion and Liberty, and his acquaintance here is not great, or his ingenuity less, who doth not both know and acknowledge, that a great, if not a principal cause of both th●se, hath been some Bishops and their adherents.  
Mr. Speaker, A little search will serve to find them to have been the destruction of Unity, under pretence of Uniformity, To have brought in Superstition and scandal under the titles of reverence and decency, to have defiled our Church by adorning our Churches, to have slackened the strictness of that Union which was formerly between us, and those of our Religion beyond the Sea, an action as unpolitick as ungodly.  
And again p. 7. As Sir Thomas Moor says of the Casuists, their business was not to keep man from sinning, but to inform them quam prope ad peccatum sine peccato liceat accecere; so it seemed their work (meaning the Prelates) was to try how much of a Papist might be brought in without Popery, and to destroy as much as they could of the Gospel without bringing themselves into danger of being destroyed by the Law.  
Mr. Speaker, to go yet further, some of them have so industriously laboured to deduce themselves from Rome, that they have given great suspicion, that in gratitude they desire to return thither, or at least to meet it half way: some have evidently laboured to bring in an English, though not a Roman Popery: I mean, not the outside only, and dress of it, but equally absolute, a blind dependence of the people upon the Clergy and of the Clergy upon themselves: And have opposed Papacy beyond the Sea, that they might settle one beyond ●●e Water: Nay, Common fame is more than ordinarily false, if none of them have found a way to reconcile the opinions of Rome to the preferments of England; be so absolutely, directly and cordially Papists, that it is all that 1500 l. per annum can do to keep them from confessing it.  
And again p. 9 We shall find of them to have o'th' kindled and blown the common fire of both Nations, to have both sent and maintained that Book, of which the Author hath no doubt long since wished with Nero, Utinam nescissem literas: and of which more than one Kingdom hath cause to wish, That when he writ that he had rather burned a Library, though of the value of Prolomies'. We shall find them to have been the first and principal cause of the breach, I will not say of, but since the Pacification at Barwick: We shall find them to have been the almost sole Abetters of my Lord of Strafford, whilst he was practising upon another Kingdom, that manner of Government which he intended to settle in this, where he committed so many, so mighty, and so manifest enormities as the like have not been committed by any Governor in any Government since Verres left Sicily. And after they had called him over from being Deputy of Ireland, to be in a manner Deputy of England (all things here being governed by a Juntillo, and that Juntillo governed by him) to have assisted him in the giving of such Counsels, and the pursuing of such courses, as it is a hard and measuring cast, whether they were more unwise, more unjust, or more unfortunate, and which had infallibly been our destruction, if by the Grace of God their share had not been as small in the subtlety of Serpents as in the innocence of Doves.   
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