THE JESVITS UNDERMINING OF PARLIAMENTS AND PROTESTANTS With their foolish fancy of A TOLERATION, Discovered, and Censured.  
Written by WILLIAM CASTLE, for the confirmation of wavering Protestants, and the reducing of seduced Papists.  
LONDON, Printed by E. G. for Joseph Hunscot. 1642.   

THE JESVITS UNDERMINING OF Parliaments and Protestants With their foolish fancy of a TOLERATION Discovered, and Censured.  
IT seemeth to wise men exceeding strange, that Ignatius Loyola a worn Soldier, a man of very little Learning (when he was merely necessitated by breaking of his leg to leave Mars and follow Mercury) should in less than ten years become such a grand proficient, as to procure from the See of Rome the last new order of Jesuits; whose number at first was but small. But after some time, the Pope finding them to be well versed and most acute in all kind of literature, exceeding active in undertaking, and men no less able than willing to support the Papacy, which (without their unexpected rising like Locusts out of the pit) had undoubtedly long since fallen without any hope of recovery, their number was from time to time enlarged, until it became as now it is in all Kingdoms (where the Pope hath any thing to do) unlimited and unsatisfied. But it seemeth yet much more strange that Christian Princes, to whom the Jesuits incomparable treasons, cruelties, adulteries, perfidious and crafty stratagems are so well known, should permit any of these Locusts to remain within their coasts. Yea or that Jesuits themselves whose matchless treasons and treacheries, since the time of reformation, have been so often discovered, and punished with no less than setting their quarters asunder, should be so audaciously confident as to conceive such extraordinary power or policy in themselves as to be able to reduce these Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to the blind obedience, I should say the miserable slavery of Antichrist. And yet they have often attempted that since the beginning of King james his reign, and are not yet utterly out of hope to effect it; notwithstanding the present clear discovery of their damnable designs, and the strong opposition which is daily made against them: But the infernal practices, and most irreligious positions of these Jesults, the weak and improbable means which their carnal wisdom hath proposed unto themselves, together with the general detestation of them and their tenants in these Kingdoms, may somewhat though not altogether secure us that they shall never be able to effect their so long desired toleration, which once obtained an utter extirpation of Protestants might soon follow after, for such are their principles. There was indeed not many years since some grounds of their hopes: when instead of being close hid in vaults, they boldly walked the streets; when instead of being imprisoned, and having the Law executed upon them, they were preferred to be Confessors to great Court-Ladies, where they were very plentifully fed, and royally maintained; when being imprisoned, they were soon enlarged by a Secretary of State, one of their own society: when they had an Arrchbishop after their own heart, (from whom holding intelligence with the Pope) they found greater favour with him than did the sincere professors of the Gospel. But that still they should flatter themselves with a hope of a toleration, plainly showeth them to be (what they are) most audaciously bold and impudently restless, which that it may more plainly appear, I shall here briefly discover so many of their hellish positions and practices as may justly render them as well formidable as odious.  
To begin then with their dangerous positions: First, they maintain that Princes are so subordinate to the Pope as that he may as he shall see cause discharge their Subjects from their loyalty and obedience; yea and depose them, and confer their Kingdoms at his pleasure: nay further, that in case they will not come in and submit to his Holiness (after admonition and excommuication) that their subjects may and aught to rise up against them and destroy them; which doctrine, how contrary it is to Scripture, the often repeated precepts, and practices of the Prophets and Apostles, yea and of Christ himself sufficiently declare.  
Here the Jesuits as is their usual manner double extremely, according to the men they have to do withal, if it be with a Papist they dare justify the premises in each particular, in that the power and liberty of the Catholic Church is boundless, and in that they kill them not as Kings, but as favourers of heretics; but if they have to do with a Protestant, who abhorreth the very thought of deposing much more of killing of Kings, than they say that it is but a private opinion of some over zealous Catholics, not the doctrine of the whole Church. Again, they answer by the way of recrimination, that the late arms of Scotland, and the present preparations of England for war prove them to hold the foresaid tenants. As if there were no difference between discharging subjects from their due obedience, and the setting a Kingdom in fit posture of war, when foreign invasions and homebred conspiracies (in the judgement of Parliament, the Grand-Councell of the Land) do threaten the present utter ruin both of King and Kingdom. As if it were the same to deprive the King, or lay violent hand on the Lords anointed, as to desire his government may be regulated according to law; or in case of extreme necessity to endeavour the removing the wicked from the King, which is so far from being dishonourable or prejudicial to his Majesty, as that in the end it will prove the most effectual means for the more firm establishing of his throne. A second detestable position of Jesuits, is that of equivocation, which they style a safe holy mental reservation; but we more properly the art of lying: for confirmation of which their lying reservation they produce the authority of the Counsel of Constance, Anno 1414. which took itself not bound to keep faith with heretics, though the same were solemnly sworn. Whence they infer, they are much less bound to speak the truth although urged by oath. And they further confirm that by the example of Pope Eugenius, who gave liberty to Hildeslaus King of Hungary to break faith with Amurath the Turk, and persuaded him to it. I wonder they do not remember what the fearful event was of the liberty so given, and taken; was not Hildeslaus after many great victories obtained, and a peace concluded, the most advantageous that ever was, upon the breaking of his faith, not only beaten in the battle when he was far stronger than ever, But he lost his honour, his army, his life, the Empire of Greece, and a great part of his own Kingdom, which could never be recovered?  
Why do not these acute learned Jesuits remember that the oath is made to the living God, not to the dying man? were they so well versed in holy writ, as they pretend, they should find misery and destruction to be the reward of Perjury, and infidelity. Did not Zedekiah for breaking faith with a Pagan see his children and servants slain before his eyes, after which his own eyes were torn out of his head? How were the Israelites miserably afflicted in King David's time, with 3 year's famine for saul's slaying of the Gibeonites? whose preservation was sworn 400 years before, by the congregation of Israel, which agreement, though it were fraudulently obtained by the Gibeonites, yet the Israelites having by oath confirmed it in the name of the Lord dared not break it: And though Saul were so bold as to violate the covenant so solemnly sworn, yet just vengeance ceased upon his posterity, whereof seven of them were delivered into the hands of the Gibennites whom they hanged up before the Lord, and the famine ceased. And although they account us Protestants but Heretics, and infidels yet they might likewise remember that Abraham swore to many unbelieving Princes, Isaac gave his faith, and observed it to Abimelcch, Jacob and his sons, especially Joseph, were allied and lived with the Egyptians. And for their distinctions in promises, it will breed in short time such confusion in all the states of Europe, as there will be nothing more pernicious & lamentable; For if a serious promise, much more a solemn oath shall not be kept inviolable upon what agreement may any rely upon? There are few towns, castles, Cities, governments, that are not bound by oath. The Protestant by oath taketh assurance of the Papists. The Papists of the Protestants. Kings from their Subjects. Subjects from their Kings, By oaths the lives and states 〈◊〉 all men are tried, and the whole religious world governned. How can this Kingdom, or any other stand long, if equivocation prevail so far as that things covenanted and sorwn need not to be observed? This once known there can be no end of war, nor hope of peace, nor safety to treat of. Shall it be made but a bait for lying, treason, and cruelty, by which our Predecessors passed through the arms of their enemies, & through the weapons of their most hateful foes. The Romans ignorant of the true God, in their swearing, and contracting alliances were wont to say, O Jupiter smite, and with lightning blast him, whosoever he be that is here with an intent to deceive; what can be more horrible, then to cover falsehood with the name of the living God? We may not touch them said the Princes of Israel meaning the Gibeonites, because we have sworn to them in the name of the living God. Now then that Jesuits dare to take liberty to themselves and dispense with others to equivocate to the breach of faith given upon oath, we may safely conclude that they give the greatest wound to Chistian society as ever it received  
A third no less perilous than arrogant position of Jesuits is blind obedience to their conclusions and commands, be they never so differing, nay never so contrary to the law of God, of nature, of nations. They indeed by virtue of their order are bound to obey their general, though his command extend to the kill of a King. And whereas their general is ever a Spaniard, be the Jesuits English, Scottish, French, Dutch or of any other nation whatsoever, he must venture upon the person of his own natural Prince, rather than the Catholic King might suffer, and so the Romish cause (which is upon the matter only supported by him) might come in jeopardy. But it doth not hence follow, that the people should herein follow their blind guides who dare publish to the world that they under his Holiness can pardon slips to God's commandments, But can afford no pardon unto those who break the commandments of the Church, which how fare it doth derogate from the Majesty and authority of God, and his holy word let not only religious, but even rational men judge. I will now instance in one more no less dangerous than blasphemous position of Jesuits, upon which the three former, and many more are grounded, namely, that the Church is above the Scriptures and so judgeth of the Scriptures, as that she may reproove or reject Scripture, as she shall think fit, that the Church and the head thereof, the Pope, is the rule of faith, better known and fare more certain than are the Scriptures, by whom Scripture ought to be judged, and not either Pope or Church by Scripture, whereas in truth the Scripture affordeth such a clear and perfect light as may sufficiently guide our feet in the way of truth, and fully instruct us what we are to believe, and what we are to do, what to affect and what to hope, which four contains the whole duty of a Christian. To say no more, the Church became the Church, by receiving, believing, and so lowing the Scriptures from which when it shall in any sort vary it is, no more the Church of God. And now to their dangerous positions, I shall add so many of their bloody, nefarious practices, as may in all reason endue those, who most admire and are most addicted to them, to detest and abandon them. It is well known how often and how miraculously Queen Elisabeth escaped their many close contrived plots against her person, and kingdom. And it is no less known that in the beginning of King james his reign, an impudent petition for a toleration contrived by father Garnet & other Jesuits was preferred to his Majesty, but advisedly rejected upon the Archbishop Abbot's grave counsel to the King. Upon the rejecting of which their audacious petition growing desperate, they enterprised by the advice of the said Garnet, the gunpowder-treason, the most cruel and barbarous as ever was heard of, which had it taken, it had been accompanied with a greaer effusion of blood, than was the massacre in France, but herein much more destructive, when King, Prince, Nobles, Gentry, and the whole wisdom of the land should have received an irrecoverable blow, in being blown up in a moment: so as the amazed headless people not able to resist them, and their army, being at an instant in readiness, they must have yielded to them both in matter of religion, and liberty, or have been miserably slaughtered by them, A man might reasonably have concluded that such a matchless treason, and bloody design upon King and kingdom should have produced execution of law to the extirpation of them, and a dissipation of their Jesuitical adherents. But such was then their interest with foreign Prince's subject to Rome, especially with the King of Spain, and his pensioners here, some of our Nobility, Church-papists (whose entertainment came to no less than 3000 l. or 4000 l. a year) as that after execution done upon some few of them, the father due prosecution of Law was stopped, yea so powerful and prevalent were our Spanish pensioners, with King james (a very wise Prince) as they by many importunate solicitations induced him to yield to somethings, and to deny other things, which have, or may prove exceeding prejudicial to him, and his royal posterity, to the peace, and tranquillity of the Kingdom, and the protestant religion now established. First, his Majesty was drawn on to conclude a peace with the King of Spain the most disadvantageous to this Kingdom as ever was, were it but for one particular (which indeed was rested in but upon the concluding of the Articles) and it was this, that no English be permitted to trade in the West-Indies, and if any did venture so to do, they should be hanged and tortured without mercy. Hence it followed, that the English who had resolved with the Netherlands for the sending of ten thousand men between them into those parts, were so deterred, as that our best friends the Netherlands were left to shift for themselves; who thanks be to God have got a greater footing in Brasill, (not the tenth part of America, yet bigger than three England's) then that the Spaniard will be ever able to remove them thence. And whilst the English have for many years sat still, and have not in the general dared to adventure into those parts, the Pilotage into those spacious and goodly countries' hath been by us well nigh lost, and the King of Spain so well enabled by a yearly abundant coming in of his vast treasure there, to make full and due payment to his Jesuitical pensioners here, as that ever since they have performed such faithful service unto him as may shortly prove destructive to these Kingdoms, if not timely foreseen, and prevented by the wisdom and blessed accord of his Majesty, and this his present Parliament. And lest any thing should be wanting to the Catholic King undertaking the Catholic cause, his faithful pensioners persuaded King James to arm the King of Spain with 20●0. pieces of Ordnance, under colour of which licence, one Sir john Ferne transported twice as many more. What others did here in is not so well known; but by wise men who have had knowledge of former times, it is conceived that if the King of Spain were as well prepared with men and shipping, as he is with guns and ammunition from us, he might beat us with our own weapons.  
A third thing wherein King james was strangley abused by the Spanish pensioners the best friends to Jesuits, was that by reason of their continual crying up his boundless prerogative a point, which Princes generally are overmuch pleased to hear of, his Majesty (though otherwise very judicious) was at last drawn to disaffect and undervalue Parliaments as entrenching too much upon his royal prerogative by how much they did more carefully endeavour to preserve the laws enacted, in their full strength and to enact other laws as might tend but to due regulating of regal power, which ought never to exceed law, but when it tendeth to the relief of the subject in mitigating the vigour of law, not to the oppressing and impoverishing of them with illegal Monopolies, and unwarrantable taxations.  
I might instance in many other particulars, but one more shall suffice to show how prevalent the Spanish faction were with King james, when upon the motion of Gundumore that arch politician seconded by their strong approbation, his Majesty neglecting the proffers of some Germane Protestant Princes, did condescend to send his only son and heir into Spain for the contracting of a marriage there with the Spanish King's Sister, one of a contrary Religion, which had it accordingly proceeded, it might have proved more inconvenient and troublesome then hath his marriage with France. How the Jesuits, and Jesuitical Spanish pensioners plots have succeeded since the access of his Majesty that now is, unto the Crown, I need not relate at large, the wisdom of this present Parliament hath saved me that labour in their first unanswerable remonstrance. I shall therefore only briefly mention some of the chief, after which I shall lay forth their yet more bold practices, and bloody executions in France, and else where.  
The first was the laying of their foundation at the conclave at Rome where it was concluded that his holiness should have a Nuntio in England, and the Queen of England should have an agent at Rome to act things here, as should be there resolved upon.  
The 2. was to persuade his Majesty by meditation of the Queen (whom they too well knew) he did as entirely love, as if she had been of his own Religion, to prefer those to places of dignity at Court and of judicature both in Church, and common weal as might serve to put in execution their mischewous designs. Whence it came most unhappily to pass that the Spanish pensioners became here Cabinet Councillors, so usually over-awing, and overswaying the fare greater, and better part of the privy Council, as that their mere proposals passed for resolutions: and hence it was that the Star-chamber (where these Jesuitical pensioners and such as they had promoted bare Sway) did abound with extravagate censures no less unconsionable, then terrible, to the oppressing of the common people, by maintaining illegal taxations, and unwarrantable monopolies and in advancing prerogatives far beyond all the precedents of former times, And Surely had it not been for those exceeding powerful Popish factors, the high commition had no dareth so eagerly to oppose true Religion by suspentions, deprivations, excommunications, fines, and imprisonments much les would some Bishops, and in eriour ecclesiastical Courts have adventured with such animosity: to propose or bitterness, to persecute their own superstitions articles: as if they had been Cannons concluded upon by the whole Church of England, (as then consisting only of Bishops, Deans, Archdeacon's, Cathedral Priests and 2. such country Clerks as every Bishop and his Sly official thought good off,) ought to bind the whole Church being so partially if not corruptly represented, For what are Cathedral Church but such places as Queen Elizabeth and her Council for some by Political ends were pleased to let rest in some part of that Popist splendour which might take with neighbouring Princes, and not render her, and her people utterly irreconcilable to the Church of Rome when as yet the Parochill Churches here were better cleansed from Popish relics according to the well settled constitution of other reformed Churches, and yet for south these better refined Parochial Churches must again be reduced to a Cathedral garb why. But that it is more ceremonecus, more Majestical and therein more resembleth Rome. To conclude this point by reason of the oversweling greatness of those Cabinet Counsellors, men were preferred to places of Judicature in the commonweal, which either could not, or would not maintain Justice but were always forward to advance prerogative, above and against law witness some millions of money in few years wrested from the subject under the name of Loane Knighthood Ship Coat, and conduct money, by colour of forest law the Statute of improvement the commission of severs abused Tonnage, and Poundage enhanced by unwarrantable rates.  
All which though unlawful yet were they all either justified by the most part of the Judges, or the people miserablely oppressed (whilst being debarred the usual remedy at law either by Habeas corpus or otherwise) they were left destitute of all legal defence for the preservation of their goods, or persons.  
A 3. Jesuitical plot was to weaken his Majesty both at whom and ahroad. Which way could they more weaken him here in England then to employ the Cabinet Council to perswade him to make sail of his own  hereditary land, and to raise money for the supporting of his royal Dignity, by unlawful or unufuall means which could not but much with draw the dutiful affection of his subjects from him wherein his chiefest strength consisteth, And how could they have devised more to have lessened the repute of his wisdom and puissance with foreign Princes then by inciting his Majesty to begin war and conclude peace both with France, and Spain, partly without and paetly against the approbation of Parliament swherunto may be added the taking of Rochel by the aid of his Majesty's ships the little assistance, or countenance which of latrer times hath been from England afforded unto our best friends the netherlands And from all these promises yet may strongly be concluded that these were destructive ways to the Protestant Religion and therefore promoted, and prosecuted by Jesuits, and persons Popistly addicted.  
A 4. plot as to overaw and impowerish the whole Kingdom by billeting souldiets in all parts of it, by intending to bring in foreign forces especially many hundreds of Germane horses and by proposing Martial law to be put in execution which had it taken affect, it would much more have impowerish the land then have many millions of money exacted from the subject hince his Majesty's reign; merely under a pretence of law when there was neither reason, law nor equity for the raising of the least part of those infinite sum, which yet had they been employed in any reasonable proportion either for the good of King or Kingdom, neither King, nor Kingdom had been so distressed as now they are. But the truth is as they were illegally imposed, so they have been as faudelently disposed without his Majesty's privity even to the strengthening of the professed enemies of our Religion which now threaten no less than the bringing under, if not the utter extirpation thereof.  
A 5. design was at once to embrace, and imbecile the coin of the Kingdom by making brass money as currant, and more common than silver whilst our gold was so slyly convoyed away as that in the greatest payments, the tenth of that gold, which formerly hath been usually mad, could in no place appear, and how should it be otherwise when the French (to omit other nations) of all sects and conditions from the highest to the lowest, for the enriching of the Popish Jesuitical party there have been permitted to carry it away. How much Queen mother had for here share is not exactly known but it is conceived upon very good grounds that she, and her Jesuitical train have had 2 Millions of money which is ten times as much as the Queen her daughter brought into this Land.  
Another deep plot of the Jesuits was grounded upon their intimate acquaintance, with Canterbury and Wren and other such like Popishly affected prelate whereby they procured the discountenancing yea and the suppression of the most able most sincere and most faithful Ministers of the gospel. When in the mean time countenance, and maintenance yea and the greatest preferments were conferred upon Arminian Socinian Priests upon meert Formalists and time serving preachers whose poisonous, tenants in somethings are the same with Rome, In other fare worse and more dangerous, as being more subtly contriced.  
Upon such who had, only a show of godliness & were more for the ceremony than the substance of Religion: such as were most forward in their Sermons at Court or in other eminent places to cry up the unlimited power and prerogative of the King to the perverting of law and in as much as in them lay to the utter debarring of the people from their ancient liberties and immunities, from all right and property in their own proper goods.  
But of all the Jesuitical plots that which is now in action: the separating of his Majesty from his Parliament and the working an ill opinion in some people and counties against their own representative body so advisedly aggregated in all shires, is most fearful and admirably desperate. For who could imagine (did it not evidently appear) that the Jesuits & Spanish pensioners should have such a powerful influence with his Majesty or be so prevalent with to contemptible number of Nobles & con non people as to make his Majesty and them believe that this Parliament is set against him and the good of the land. And that Privadoes, Sycophantizing and time serving courtiers (who for the most part are blinded and transported with those by respects of profit or preferment) should be better affected, better able to see and advise than they are for the good and safety both of King and Kingdom. This in the general is the Jesuits last plot now in agitation, but that consisteth of many branches very considerable: among which take special notice of some few particulars here and there scattered in some papers lately published by the Jesuitical faction in his Majesty's name, whose person they have captivated, and whose power they have ceased upon. They dare boldly affirm with the greatest confidence that the regal power is so derived from God, and the law as that it hath no dependence upon the trust and consent of man, but is absolutely boundless and indefinitely supreme as well universis as singulis: so over all, that he may dispose of all at pleasure and be no way accountable to the Kingdom. That the being of Parliament is merely of grace, and may only counsel in some things but not determine in any thing. That the major part in Parliament is not considerable when many are absent or descent, or when some few overaw and over rule the rest. That Parliaments may do dishonourable nay treasonable things and are questionable and triable elsewhere. As if it were probable that the wisdom, & till now the never suspected integrity of both houses of Parliament could ever prove so treacherous to King or Kingdom or so careless of themselves, and their posterity as to do things dishonest and treasonable.  
Or as if it were credible that men for the most part never formerly known to his Majesty, nor never greatly entrusted by him, or the State, should be able to give more faithful counsel then the Parliament, or to be less subject to erroneous advices, to desperate, and treasonable resolutions, then are those who now sit in Parliament, whose great pains, prudence, and patience, we to whom the benefit hath and will redound, have great cause to bless God for; As if a few factious persons (were they deservedly so censured) were able to lead the whole Parliament the wisdom of the land. That a country jury of twely men may be misled by two subtle Knaves, is not musuall, but that four hundred or five hundred gentlemen, so considerately chosen as these were in all counties, should be so abused, as without any show of probability, Unless we conceive that those few accused members work by no ordinary means; And if it were granted (as few truly religious will grant it) that those accused members were any way guilty of misdemeanours, yea or of treason against his Majesty, and the government established, yet it is but reasonable that their offences should be examined and decided by Parliament: otherwise upon mere pretences the Parliament might be extremely dismembered, And in case the whole body of Parliament do err, yet it cannot be reasonably conceived, that the body of this Parliament, and their resolutions are questionable, and triable by any other power, then by some succeeding Parliament.  
Oh than that all protestants, would seriously consider how the foresaid positions tend to the dissolving not only of this, but of all other Parliaments, without whose assistance neither our religion, nor our liberties have any hope of continuance, by reason of many hellish subtle contrivements of jesuits, who as they have from their first original disturbed many other Nations, so now they have procured our present calamities, and a geeat effusion of blood in Ireland I cannot at large relate what they have no less trecherou  contrived then bloodily executed in France, Germany, and other places, yet I may not altogether pass them over in regard we may be admonished, and thereby armed against these firebrands of Christendom, who in these our times are no less insolent, and dangerous to kingdoms, and States, than were their forefathers, and founder's the Popes of Rome.  
The great Massacre of France, wherein were slain more than 50000, was the jesuits damnable plot, and so were the murders of the two French Kings Henry the third and Henry the fourth.  
Henry the third was bred a papist from his cradle, and when he became a man while he was Duke he was made general of the popish forces, and gave the protestants that fatal blow at the battle of Mouncounter, and made them sue for peace and after he was King, he maintained the Roman Religion to the uttermost of his power. And yet because he gave peace to the Huguenots whom he could not constrain and because he had compassion of his poor people eaten up with the arms of strangers, And because the cries of the widow and fatherless pierced his royal heart, and because he would not deliver the crown itself unto the hands of his vassals, he was wounded to death, and the fact approved as meritorious. And for Henry the fo●r●h though he changed the profession of the protestant religion, which he had professed from his childhood, and though he caused his own children, and the next Princes of the blood to be trained up in popery, and to have jesuits for their Instructors, yet because he would not continue the civil wair, in his own country, and turn the sword against the Huganites who had most faithfully served him in his greatest distress, and because he would not break of his leagues, and prove ungrateful to his protestant Princes and States which had assisted him with men, and money in attaining the crown he was shameful, murdered by the procurement of jesuits. Oh that he had been more const●n● in the way of his religion, that he had depended more upon the power, and providence of the Almighty, and less upon the arm of flesh, for the preservation and continuance of his kingdom, then undoubtedly that God who so often protected would also have protected him against Raveliack. And oh that our King would seriously consider the untimely end of both those french Kings murdered by jesuits though professing, and maintaining popery then might we hope that his Majesty who deeply professeth to live, and die, in the protestant religion would cause the laws to be severely executed upon these King-killing Athisticall agents for the Pope.  
In Germany the Duke of Saxony, and many more other Luthran Princes, have of late been miserably deluded by jesuits who induced them to stand Ne●ters whilst the Emeprour with his Popish army plundered the most part of Germany, and hath perplexed, and well vigh destroyed that Goodly Country, with twenty year's war, Which hath consumed many thousands of Luthrans, as well as Calvenists, all which ealamities, and slaughters might have been prevented, had they not been unhappily disunited by the subtilety of jesuites. In Polonia now lately they have kindled such a fire betwixt the King and his subjects, as that they who choose him with one general consent do now think how to be rid of him by reason that through their Counsels he entrencheth upon their Liberties more he ought to do.  
And in V●nis where Popery is professed they have been long since Banished by reason of their treacheries, cruelties, and insolent inte meddling with state affairs, wherein they do but resemble their holy Fathers the Popes of Rome whose pride, cruelties and treachries were such, as no Christian could believe them, were they not recorded by their own popish authors.  
And yet these jesuites the Poops youngest sons do in all the forenamed respects and many more equal them especially in regard of their audacious intermeddling with State affairs.  
As the pope's heretofore have disturbed kingdomns, destroyed kingdoms and confirred kingdoms from nation to nation, from family to Family, so now his dear sons the JESVITES take upon them, by his leave to do no less, How have they set the FRENCH against the SPANISH, the Spanish against the French, The French against the Italians, The Italians against the French. The Spaniard against the Portugal, the Portuall, against the SPANIARD. But almost all Nations against ENGLAND, And the Dominions hereunto annexed, as evidently appeareth by the great store of aid, shipping, men, money and all kind of Warlike A nunition sent, and to be sent, against these united Kingdoms from France, Spain, Polonia, Denmark. Dunkercke, and other Popish places of the Low Countries, whereof some have been taken, others have unhappily escaped; but fare more are it in readiness and preparation to be sent.  
And shall we permit such Vipers as these jesuites, and they Jesuicticall Abetors are to live among us until they have eaten up the bowels of the Common Weal, and which is it much more the life, and substance of true Religion by no by means: But let us stand and acquit ourselves like men of Wisdom, and courage, for the King and kingdom, but chiefly for our GOD, and that pure Religion which for many years we have now enjoyed.  
Let our wisdom appear first by our Piety, in crying mightily to God by seeking him by Fasting, Weeping and Mourning in truth and sineerity and all other duties wherein we may manifest our true humiliation before him. And then submitting our own particular understandings let us hearken unto and observe diligently the grave observations and directions and resolutions of this present Parliament, which cannot choose but see more and decide better than any private man, yea or many men, be they never so wise, however men of no understanding, or men of no religion, or Neuters in religion, or of a contrary religion, either rashly or maliciously dare to affirm the contrary.  
Let our courage appear in a stout and resolute opposition of all opposers of our Religion, and laws established more especially against jesuits, and their abettors who strive fiercely even to the effusion of much blood to disturb and alter the Militia of the Kingdom, both by Sea and Land, under a fond pretence of defending the King and kingdom religion and law, whereas in truth they seek the utter subversion of them all. For how can it be reasonably imagined, that papists should take up arms for the defence of the protestant religion, utlaws for the preservation of the Law, or delinquents & fugitives from parliament for privileges of parliament which is the representative body of the kingdom And yet these are the men and but few other of any better quality or condition who pretend to fight under the King's Standard, against King and kingdom: A very strong motive and unanswerable argument to incite all of any understanding or resolution to stand firm to God and his truth for his Majesty and royal posterity, for the peace and safety of the realm against all foreign invasions and homebred conspiracies, which necessary prudence and happy resolution if it shall please the Lord to give unto the land in general, we need not much fear what either of them can do against us. Our Militia by Sea so strongly and so completely set forth and so well assisted by our no less grateful than provident friends the Netherlands may under God sufficiently assure us against any great hurts from foreign forces, though France and Spain, though Denmark & Poland a thing very unlikely) should at once join their forces of shipping men money, horse, and other warlike ammunition against us. And as for homebred conspiracies, now that the wisdom of the parliament hath so well contrived and disposed the order of the Militia in all countries so well approved of all (some few only excepted as they intent by God's assistance to live and die in the defence of it. The jesuits and their abettors are very likely ere long to their shame and confusion to find their damnable plots to be fully discovered, their persons and estates to be left to the severity of law as is most just and but necessary for the preservation of this Kingdom.  
FINIS.