THE jesuits CHARACTER. OR, A Description of the wonderful Birth, wicked Life, and wretched Death, of a jesuit.  
A Discovery, on purpose made unto this end, that all men knowing him by this Description might beware of him, as of one which is the most subtle, Obstinite, cruel, Counterfeit, Ambitious, vicious, Treacherous, and Rebellious Person in the WORLD.  
LONDON, Printed by Edw. Griffin. 1642.   

THE IESVITES CHARACTER.  
A jesuit is the Nimblest pated Fellow that the Pope hath to sand on his Errand, and of most Resolution and Service: but 
a They spared not Pope Sixtus the fifth in their Pulpits: and it is said, they gave him a dram to sand him packing, because they thought that he favoured Henry the fourth of France, before he came to the crown▪  Least in awe.  
He is the very staff on which the Tottering popedom now Leaneth, strangely Hewn at first out 
b Ignatius Loyola a soldier at the siege of Pampelune in France where being lame and made unfit for the Service of the Warres, he betook himself to reading of the Fathers, and became the first Founder of this Order.  of a soldier, and then put into the Popes Hands, when Luther tripped at his Heels, to stay his greatness up from Falling: and he is a Chip of the old block( as we say) for he is such a staff, as carries a Sword in it to cut the Throat of Monarchies and kingdoms.  
He is the Erra Pater or Vagabond Father of the Church of Rome. He and a roaring Lion the devil in his company compass the Earth too and fro: and both go on the self same errand seeking whom they may devour.  
He is the worst man of the best name: calling himself a Iesuite, as it were a follower of jesu●; he is indeed a( 
c Jos. 15. 63. ) jebusite, that is, an Enemy to all the Israel of God in the very midst of( 
d Londo● the Metropolitan City of England, as Ierusalm of judea. ) jerusalem, and( 
e The Israelites could not expel the jebusites, but they dwelled amongst them, and were as thorn▪ in their sides, in that place of Ios. no more can the English the Iesuit●. ) Israel alas cannot expel him.  
He is the M 〈…〉 olist● by( 
f But of Paul 3. of Iulius 3. of P●●s 4. & 5. and of Gr●●ory 13. which Popes gave them several privileges and dispensations. ) P●tent ●as of all ●●vil●ges ecclesiastical▪ 〈…〉 of a●● variti●● of L●y ●ab●● ●d ●●lings: whom if you know to day, you may meet and see, bu● not know to morrow; and ●at● as many shapes as Proteus had, and as many names as a welshman hath: by these two he avoids all acquaintance both with your eyes and ears; no man is more publicly busy, and yet no man hides his head more: a mere composition he is of V●illany, subtlety, and falsehood; and hi● very cloths Equivocate, in not resembling but dissembling him: whose Religion as it is Papistry, so we may well call it( 
g A French word. ) Papelardie, that is, fl●t Dissimulation, and hypocrisy.  
These make him in the Art of Insinuation to b● the most absolute Proficient of the world, the Serpent was a Bungler to him: Confession is his engine by which he Skrews himself into acquaintance with all Affairs, all Dispositions; which he makes the best conducing to his ends, that is, the worst use of. But for this point of Craft, he is owing to the Serpent, to grow inward with the Woman when he dares not immediately adventure on the Man; whose Secrets whilst he indeavou●s to discover in Confession, if she be Obediently yielding( a matter which he earnestly presseth her unto, as a thing simply necessary to her salvation) then he proves most Indulgent unto her in Penance, which himself Acts upon her; and he is therefore the most Impious Lecher of the world, because he prostitutes not only her Body, but her Conscience to his Lust; the ancient manner of confessing was, the Penitents kneeled at the Confessors Side, but he humbleth the women to his bosom, and thus he becomes a Father, by his Supernumerary vow of( 
n Vow of Mission is, that at the command of the Pope or superintendant of his Order, he will go into any part of the world whatsoever, into which either of them two shall sand him, which none of any other Order doth take: therefore it is called Supernumerary, as being superadded to the 3 ordinary vows, and when he hath made this vow, he is then invested with the title of Father. ) Mission and getting children.  
Of all the Orders of and in the Roman Church professed, he is the only one out of all order, and yet professed; for whereas all of them may be comprited in these two Secular and Regular, we cannot say he is a Regular, because he enjoyeth the Immunities of a Secular, and useth neither( 
h That is, he neither liveth in Cloisters, nor weareth a Friers gown with a Cowl or Hood, nor hath his crown shaved as all regulars do and have. ) Cloister, Cowl, nor Tonsure; neither yet can we say that he is a Secular, because he Vowes Poverty, Chastity and Obedience, which are the ordinary Vowes of Religious men and Regulars: indeed he is neither Secular nor Regular, but Irregular; who ties himself to no Rule, but to Over-rule.  
Ambitious he is above measure, and( impud●ntly pursuing the world by his practise, who hath utterly cashiered it by his vow) upon the gradual steps of Schoolmaster( his( 
i Ignatius Lo●●la and his fellows, when first they presented themselves to Paul 3. did it under this offer, to teach children for nothing. ) first disguise) Disputant, public Lecturer, and Rector, from a Pendant he hath raised himself to that greatness in which now he stands: he hath been a( 
k ●olet, Baronius, Bellarmine, &c. Cardinals, and Jesuits. ) cardinal, would have been a( l) King, his thoughts are 
( m) They moved Schastian King of Portuga●,( being childless) a great fautour of their Order, to nominate some one of the jesuits for his successor, and to make an Act, that for the time to come the election of the King of Portugal should be by the college of the jesuits, no otherwise than as the Election of the Pope is by the Colledg● of Cardinals.  restless, till he be a Pope, nay( for that neither will yet, suffice him till he be( 
m For this they have laid a Foundation by one of their own constitutions, which is to this effect, that the same order of which the present Pope is, he being dead, may choose the next: so as if a jesuit doth obtain the popedom at any time▪ that order will never part with it again to any other, or else he is more charitable then I think him. ) Onely Pope.  
He reads the Fathers much, and the Scriptures( not Pure, but( 
o Which they call Index expurgatorius, in which they have altered the Text of the Scripture, expunged whatsoever doth make against them, and added such things as seem more advantageous for them; and and this by authority from the council of Trent, which firrt began this sacrilege. ) Sophisticated, mangled and mingled by himself, not the Bible but the Trent Index) a little to confute heretics, that is Protestants, but most of all Machiavil to confounded Princes, that is h●s Master-work: no attempt happeneth against any King or Prince in Christendom, but it hath him either for the Projector, or abetter, like the Salamander he lives in Fire and himself first kindles it, he is the Alastor and Fury that sows calamities, Plagues and Death amongst men; the peace of Princes is his Bane, their Quarrels both his Pastime and Preferment: if they haue none, he makes some; in which, he always is the chiefest Stickler, Papists, Atheists, and Discontents his seconds. That the Sulfureous Breath which hath lately kindled, and still foments, and increaseth these present Western Flames was blown from the bellows of his Lungs, and that his Mouth( like that of the Dragons) did spit this fire, it is not to be doubted of.  
A Papist might be a Richer, Honester, and Happier man then always he is, but only for Him, he is ever and anon Emptying his purse, ever and anon Thrusting him upon some disloyal and Desperate practise, under the pretence of Religion in prosecution of his own secret Ends and Policies: the event whereof is( if not the Death of his body upon the Discovery, yea of his soul too, that D●sl●yalty not repented of) yet the just indignation of the King o● kingdom so unjustly dealt withall, ●ot against his own person conceived only in particular, but now against the whole b●dy of that partiality, to ● general detriment;( which being a just indignation for Treason, yet th● jesuit hath a trick to make it odious to the world, by calling it an Unjust persecution for Religion: to recompense the Traitor in show, if he death for the Fact( and to encourage others to the like undertakings whensoever at his instance) he procureth the Pope to make him( 
a So were Percy, Catesby, and the rest of the Powdermen made Martyrs at Rome, who died for treason here in England. ) a Martyr. The Papist calleth a Iesuite Father; so doth the Iesuite also call the Papist his son, but he maketh him his Slave.  
His principal Errand( as commonly conjectured) is to gain the absolute sovereignty of the Western Empire by these stirs unto his great ●enefactor and Protector, the King of Spain, and so to settle the catholic Religion( that is, the Religion of the Church of Rome, for so he calls it) by and under him as under one temporal head throughout all Christendom;( in disposition whereunto, as giving an Omen thereof, the Pope hath therefore already styled the King of Spain with the Title of the catholic King) and for this reason it is( as thought) that the Iesuite doth never practise against the King of Spain, but( 
b And when he hath made his vows, at his first entry into the order, he addeth this Brevet in favour of the King of Spai●: I pray( saith he) that all Kings may be children, blind, unwise▪ unhappy, and that the King of Spa●n may reign alone. ) for him. But wiser judgements do foresee, that it is to get the absolute Monarchy of the whole World unto the Pope( and, by a plot consequent thereto, to his own order at last) whose Stale, to bring in the game and gain to them by the Iesuites fine policy the King of spain is made: and therefore it is that he doth seek so highly to advance the Power, and Authortiy of the Pope, even in temporal matters, above that of Kings, and hath brought the King of spain himself also his opinion to submit thereunto. In the prosecution of t 〈…〉 s project he is apt to be be designed against any King or Prince whatsoever, Yea his own▪ Iudas was one of the society of Iesus, as is he; and he as forward to betray his own Master to gain by it, as was Iudas, and a Iesuite is a Iudasite, a Loyalist a flat Disloyalist. and, as he is complyable with Iudas in his Fact, which was Treason; so he is also with him in his punishment, which is, to have his Neck brok● and his Bowels rent forth, that is, to be hanged and quartered, and so to go with Iudas to his own place. If there be any difference between them in their ruins, it falls out in the person of the Executioner, for, whereas Iudas hanged himself, the Common Hangman hangs the Iesuite; who as he makes his Entrance hither by Tibur so hath this Destiny sometimes, to make his Exit hence again by tyburn, and well deserves it, if they will not abide from hence, It will never be well with England, till they be all hanged: and they have my Vote for it.   

IESVITE Anagramme I USE jet.  
The meaning.  

jet by a certain secret power doth draw,  
Light things unto itself, as Chaff and Stra●.   

I USE False Glosses, Reasons counterfeit  
But plansible, which have the power of jet.   

The secret verine to draw men( as much)  
Light of ●lief to Rome, and none but such.   
FINIS.