A Satyrical Poem On the most HORRID and EXECRABLE Jesuitish Plot in 1678. FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF THE KING, Subversion of the GOVERNMENT, Destruction of PROTESTANTISM, And Introduction of POPERY. Tantum Religio protuit Suadere Malorum? Also an humble Address to his most Sacred MAJESTY for the Extirpation of POPERY: By a Loyal Subject to the KING, a True Son of the CHURCH of ENGLAND, and a faithful Servant to his COUNTRY. W. M. Esq LONDON, Printed for Tho. Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poultry over against the Stock-market. 1679. A Satyrical Poem, etc. A PLOT! heavens bless us! will the ROMISH Whore Never leave Teeming? will She ne'er give o'er? But like Impraegnate AETNA fright the World, With fresh Granados from her Entrails hurled; Or, like her Mother-WOLF bring forth a Brood Of Miscreant Whelps, t' be sucked with human BLOOD; T' ravage the CHRISTIAN- Lambs with griping Claws, A ravenous stomach, and Blood thirsty Jaws? But, blessed be heavens! Th' Brats of the PAPAL Chair (In general) Abortive EMBRYOS are. A PLOT! Begot in th' DEVIL'S Limbo; come Hither to life by th' Midwifery of ROME! Whose KEYS unlock all Conclaves, th' deepest Cell, As Beldam-Regent of the Earth and Hell; Or if than Hell a worse place found can be, There th' JESVITS forged this damned CONSPIRACY. Hell's HEROSTRATIAN Firebrands! who Conspire To Chymify the Universe by FIRE; For, these IGNATIAN Bouteseus do bear A Spirit only fit for th' FIERY SPHERE! A PLOT! of such a Tincture and deep stain, That th' JESUITS now prove very Rogues in grain; SATAN'S prime Engineers; to Blow up STATES, Vndermine KINGDOMS, and Confound DEBATES: Assassin PRINCES; make fond Fools believe That Faith ought only t' hung on their POPE'S sleeve: To Holocaust whole Regions; Cheat and Gull Their Proselytes with a Bubble, or a Bull; * Bulla. That CHURCH which can indulge such Monstrous Evils, Owns a RELIGION not for MEN but DEVILS! A PLOT! of such a Latitude; that can't Be comprehended, but a Name must want; Nor can't be CHRISTENED; unless understood (By its Intent) Baptised in CHRISTIAN BLOOD; But by the Monsters features We may gather Its genealogick Title, Mother, Father; And by their Savage Dogmeos th' World may see Th' excellent Virtues, both of th' Fruit and Tree; The Holy JESUS never did ascribe Lust, Avarice, Pride, as Texts for's holy Tribe; Love, Piety, Humility, were th' Lesson Preached to th' Disciples of his pure Profession; Who acts not then, as JESUS doth indite, Is nor true CHRISTIAN, nor true JESUIT; For the Red-Lettered PRIEST and LOYALIST Are of th' Society of ANTI-CHRIST; Nor CHRIST, nor PAUL, nor PETER, did command Rebellion; to kill Kings; or damn a Land, To play the Wolf under a Sheepskin, Wear Th' Poenitents Conscience pendent at thy Ear; In Stones, Wood, Medals, GLASS, to make, draw, Paint, Adore, and Invocate a GOD, or Saint; T' Canonize, Malefactors, or dispense Saintship t' a BARRABAS, (for's Innocence.) Th' GOSPEL expects no fiery Saints; but blames That Zeal, that only doth consist in Flames; Religion (by no Rules of Holy Word) Is to be introduced by Fire and Sword; It craves no BLOODY Sacrifice, or t' make Its progress by the Faggot and the Stake; He, that delights not in the Blood of Goats, Thirsts not for Offerings, by cutting Throats; Or Human Shambles; no Propitiations Can be entailed from Heaven by such Oblations; Th' Scripture prescribes no Inquisition; t' slay Th' innocent Souls, and make their Wealth a prey; Nor doth it impose for Pardons Custom-Rates, Or teach that MONEY opens HEAVEN'S strait Gates; That PETER should stand Porter, or have leisure To let in, or shut out, at th' POPE'S good pleasure; Or that his KEYS hang at th' POPE'S Girdle; t' have A Patent-privilege to Damn or Save; T' open and shut Heaven's Portals; Or with Spell, And Exorcisms, to charm the powers of Hell; That the Flames of Purgatory quickened are, Or dampt, by th' Breath of POPE joan's grunting Chair; Or to invade a PRINCES Right, by swarms Of Libels, Treachery, or Force of Arms; PAUL'S Sword is thus ill used, nor's CHRIST'S Flock safe Under the Verge of such a Shepherd's Staff; That th' HOLY GHOST should act thus, can't proceed From the true CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CREED; Such execrable Maxims cannot be In th' Faith of th' CATHOLIC, though of th' ROMAN SEE; Whose Missals only may such Rubrics claim With Characters fit for her BLOODY fame; Whilst her Religious Politics applaud For GOSPEL-practise, all that 's Pious Fraud! Votum Illustrissimo Regi Carolo Secundo. But, fear not, CHARLES! JEHOVAH is Thy Guard; Whose Angels keep for Thee strict Watch and Ward; Let Hell and ROME club Wits; th' Superior fate Stands Centinel to protect Thy Throne and State; So that Their DEVILISH Cabal no power hath 'Gainst Thee th' Defender of th' true CHRISTIAN FAITH; Th' PROTESTANT Cause doth sue for Thy Defence; Armed with 'tis own Piety and Innocence; Thy Loyal Subjects fear no Bulls, nor wonder At any Excommunicative Thunder; We dread no Hellish Machinations; All Our care's t' prevent, or to Revenge Thy fall; And that Thou may'st our mutual Bliss retrieve, We pray CHARLES long may Reign, CHARLES long may live. We ruminate on th' past, and present Age; Th' Laments of BELGIA under D' ALVA'S Rage; Th' PARISIAN Barricadoes; PIEDMONTS' Groans, (Potent to work Remorse in th' ALPS and Stones;) Those doleful NUPTIALS, which FRANCE did keep, When, for COLIGNI, BARTHOLOMEW did weep; That horrid INQUISITION, which doth rain Both BLOOD and FIRE, in PORTUGAL and SPAIN; Th' INVINCIBLE-ARMADO, and its Freight Of SPANISH VILLAINY in EIGHTY EIGHT. With horror and amazement, We Remember, QUEEN MARY'S Reign, and th' Fifth day of NOVEMBER; The frequent Treasons to attempt the death Of th' Ever-blessed, (Good QUEEN) ELISABETH; Thy Grandfather; Thy Father; and what e'er Was destined by the IRISH Massacre; Or th' SCOTCH Rebellion; who first gave th' Alarm TO our late insulting Demagogues, to warm Their hands by ENGLISH Flames; and teach them how To kill THREE KINGDOMS by one FATAL Blow; Whilst Church and State made headless, might become A laughing Stock to th' WORLD; a prey to ROME. Nor is't unknown what Stratagems they have laid That Thou (dear Prince!) and Thine might be betrayed; By Pistol, Daggers, Poison; and what not, That could be thought by th' Junto of the PLOT; And (when almost th' whole Nation was t' be undone) Th' late dismal CONFLAGRATION of LONDON; Brave GODFREY'S Blood to Thee, Great CHARLES! doth call For Vengeance on those Barbarous PRIESTS of BAAL; Were all whose Murderers in one bunch engrossed, They ' l make too small an Hecatomb to is Ghost. Let EUROPE see Thy Justice is in grain, That Thou wear'st not Thy Crown, or Sword, in vain. Be zealous to exert Thy Right; maintain That, by GOD only, not by th' POPE, KING'S Reign. Since Thy Indulgence they abuse, Let none Find shelter near the Shadow of Thy Throne. As they denounced Our Doomsday, Let it be Inverted to their own Catastrophe, Make th' POPISH Priests, and Jesuits, stand in awe Of Execution by the SVEDISH Law. Thus Thou ' lt prevent the Progress of their Creed; And th' future Propagation of their Seed; Nor shall their Tribes of a Succession vaunt In PAPIST Brats, or BASTARD Protestant's; Though Thou art Good and Great, Thyself out do; Be here, and be hereafter Glorious too; Thy Resolution will secure Thy Own, And strike a Palsy in the Triple Crown; IT will please th' amazed World, that th' POPE should be Out-witted, and Dethrone himself, not Thee; That He's no more infallible, but took False Measures from's Red-lettered Pocket-Book; Redeem GREAT-BRITAIN then from th' ROMISH Yoke; And make th' proud Bishop tremble at Thy Stroke; Unpearch the JESUITS, Kick them out of th' Saddle, And all their Cockatrice eggs will prove addle; For, though their PLOTS (like BASILISKS) Kill, Concealed; Yet, blessed be Heaven's! They die, when once revealed. Extirpate PAPALISM; and then Truth shall Unveiled triumph at th' BABYLONIAN fall; Thy People grown Unanimous, and bold, Will raise Thee Statues, not of Brass, but Gold; Thy Empire then will need no other Arts, Thou'lt Rule Our Persons, Purses, and Our Hearts; And so wouldst Reign, Blest by the Powers above, Absolute Monarch in Thy People's Love; And strong in this support, Thy Arms advance Not to Oppose, but to Re-conquer FRANCE; PROTESTANTISM will own to Thy good Laws The chief Protection of its Sacred Cause, All 'tis Members reunite without th' least Schism; And POPERY prove th' only Fanaticism; PAPISTS th' Sole Heretics; all else will be Ashamed of Sects and Non-Corformity; Subscribe to th' Test, and manifest a Zeal Fervent for th' Church, Thine, and the Common-weal; Let ROME, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, and FRANCE repine, Whilst Thou dost own GOD'S Glory, He'll own Thine. With Bell, Book, Candle, Let th' whole Conclave rail, Or Curse; We fear not the Dragon or his Tail; GREAT BRITAIN will take heart at Grace, and rise In honour t' be Thine and th' World's Paradise; Thy Royal Virtues than will shine at th' full, And none will need to crave, or fear th' POPE'S BULL. Our Loyal Hearts and Hands attend Thee; Thus Thou, truly wilt Defend Thyself and Us; This done, in Panegyrics we will Sing, CHARLES doth deserve to be more than a KING. CHRONOSTICHON. 220 Perfas; perqUe nefas; sUperos, ACherontaqUe VeLLent, 1458 FLeCtere? ReLLIgIo est haeCCIne RoMa tUa? ALIUD. 315 Ista ne ReLLIgIo LIbUIt sCeLerosa? PapatUs 1363 HIC Labour, hoCopUs? est haeC sUa DIra FIDes. ALIUD. 193 ReX, LeX, GreX pereant; pereatqUe BrItannICUs OrbIs, 271 Ense, foCo, fUrCâ, eXantLato & sangUIne; fata 1214 TaLIa RoMa AngLIs ReLLIgIosa VoVet. ALIUD. 1217 ConspIrent Pappae; MaChInetUr Vana PapatUs, 243 ConIUratI-qUe eXUrgant eX aeqUore GaLLI; 218 AngLIa tUta sUâ ReLLIgIone VaLet. ANGLICE. 416 A fUrIoUs zeaL the Papal ConCLaVe hath 109 For th' propogatIon of th' UnChrIstIan FaIth, 919 In aLL the Evils th' DeVILI Can InVent; 234 If not In Heavens IUst pour, WIth Hell's Consent. ANOTHER. 819 By Treachery or VILe PLots, t' soW th' ChrIstIan seeD, 859 Is not In th' Catholic bUt th' PopIsh CreeD. ANOTHER. 679 That th' KIng, La, PeopLe, In oUr BrItIsh WorLD, 669 B' Into theIr Ruin, or ConfUsIon hurled, 140 Is th' PopIsh WIsh, Whose BrUtIsh faIth allows 190 SUCh IrreLIgIoUs ecstasies In Vow's. ANOTHER. 1280 Let th' Pope WIth's jesuits; Room WIth HeLL ConspIre, 221 In aLL the Villainies theIr fUrIoUs Ire 112 SUggests; Th' ProteCtor of oUr BrItIsh fate 65 SaVes th' pUre ReLIgIon In spite of theIr hate. ANOTHER. 1539 Where IesUItIsM's In pour; Who Dare say, 139 OUr LIfe's oUr oWn, That LIVe not In theIr Way. 1678 MDCLXXVIII. FINIS.