look about You: OR, A word in Season to a Divided Nation. Cavete ab Esauitis, Take heed of the jesuit. abundance cautela non nocet. Never was yet a Nation undone by too much caution. Martem nôrunt animare Et tumultus suscitare Inter Reges & sedare. Tanquam Sancti adorantur; Tanquam Reges dominantur; Tanquam fures depradantur. Dominantur Temporale; Dominantur spiritual; Dominantur omnia malè. Hosigitur Iesuitas, Nebulones Hypocritas. Fuge, sicoelicaquaras. Vita namque Christiana Abhorret ab hâs doctrinâ Tanquam fictá & msanâ. Ergo, Vos qui cum Jesu itis Non item cum Jesuitis. Quod dat Deus! votum east. LONDON: Printed for Robert Bostock, & are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Kings head in Pauls Church yard. 1647. look about you: OR A word in season to a divided NATION, &c. FEw or none but agree jointly in the chief working and procuring cause of all our Calamity which hath deformed and dis-figured three so famous Realms and Dominions; all Professors Protestant acknowledging it sent by God, 3 Amos 6. as deserved and procured by sin, 2 ler. 17-4. 18. All the question is of the principal instruments among men, who have the chief hand in acting and fomenting of such an universal and cruel design against Liberty, and( which is the life of souls, and soul of life) Religion, Quaritur, whose Agents are these unhappy( however successful) instruments? who sets them on work? Grant, 59 Esa. 2. our sins have separated our kingdom from God; but who hath so far engaged and embroiled the miserably-divided Inhabitants one against another? Is not the hand of joah in all this? Is it not a party( and a great one too, however too securely and presumptuously slighted of such as are ignorant of, or not well red in their principles and practices) whose Religion and Resolution is to Divide and destroy Kings and Princes, People and Nations not a few? who Preach and Print, Divide & Impera for a fundamental Doctrine, which in plain English explains their mystery of iniquity, and gives light enough to guess at, if not openly discover, their black Art of building upon others ruin: knowing the Ark will not let Dagon stand, and Bethel will not give Babel a Toleration, for God is not the author of Confusion. 1 Cor. 14.33. I remember your proverb, if milk burn too, The Bishop's foot is in it. Hath not the jesuit a chief hand in making our seething Nation burn too, and boil over into the fire of his own kindling; Vid. Mr. Pe●er Gosselin's ●pistle to his ●reatise of the ●ate myste●es of the Je●uites, Tran●●ated out of ●rench, and ●rinted at ●ondon for N. ●utter. A. D. ●523. who( under the sweet name of Jesus) preacheth and publisheth little * else then Fire, Marder, & Sedition? But he is so cunning a Sophister as to play least in sight when he is most in action; and to promote the public ruin, whilst he sits, and plots, and acts in private,( as becomes the Younger brother of Perdition) ad ruinam Natus, born to undo a Nation. This is joannes de Altrado, that will personate any man or calling, if so be he may complete all he hath been plotting: The jack behind the hedge( I knew not the meaning or use of the old Fable till of late)( who sets the giants together by the ears. ●… pus in Fa●…. In a word, the crafty Knave at shore, that stands laughing in his sleeve, and clapping his hands for joy to see the hot skirmish at Sea of his own making. Seduced countrymen, who hath bewitched you with a sottish ignorance of the course which three Kingdoms are now running in full career to their own undoing? If ye bee not blind on both eyes, you can hardly avoid the sight of one behind the curtain in the retiring room, who dresseth all or most Actors of this bloody, Popish, Hellish, jesuitical Tragedy, which have so happily( to the rejoicing of their once-within-this-six-years-drooping spirits, & answer of their earnest desires and longing expectation; as they are not ashamed to make their brags) gone through and acted over most of the Scenes in Ireland( almost undone by their means, and now in all probability,( without an intervening miracle of Divine mercy) near a complete ruin by their present design, the Master-piece of their chief Head piece Satan and his Vicar Antichrist) that he is esteemed more then halse an infidel among those Brethren in catholic Conspiracy, and universal Iniquity, who seems to have the least shadow of scruple or doube of finishing the last Scene and Act, and concluding with the ten-Thousand times more unmerciful and altogether Diabolicopapa-Jesuiticall Epilogue in Englands final overthrow and desolation. Quod avertat due! is my frequent and fervent Prayer; and I know herein I do not pray alone, having all well-wishers to Gods Truth and England's Peace, daily instant Orators at the Throne of Grace to bear me company. Exaudinos Domine. Fellow-Citizens, and fellow-soldiers, Will you have a taste of these seeming holy Fathers unholy Principles, shall I give you some hint of their bloody practices? I hope a word of instruction will not be out of season to pave the way to caution and admonition; having in brief acquainted you with some of their inaccessible mysteries. These and such like are the Articles of their Creed, whose faith is faction. 1. The Pope of Rome hath all power in his hand, Ludov. Luci●… Hist, jesuit. 〈◇〉 2. p. 177, 179, &c. both spiritual and temporal; to command and forbid, to excommunicate and punish, to make and unmake Emperors, Kings, Princes and Magistrates of all sorts, to grvernetheir realms and Subjects at his pleasure. he that doth not give credit to this as an article of Faith, approve and obey it is accounted and abhorred as an heretic.— This is held and maintained in the writings of Platina, Sylvester Prierias, Bellarmine, Bezius, Pezantius, Suavez & others of Satan's Chaplains in ordinary, but the Holy Ghost in Scripture speaks clean contrary. 62 Psa. 11. Mat 9. 6.-18.18-6.13-1 Cor. 15.24. 4 Rev. 11. -5.12, 13-19 1, &c. Mark I beseech you how contrary to Scripture, yea nature, and public welfare, the principles of Jesuits are. Need I bid you abhor the Treason? 2. All the Constitutions, Covenants, Agreements, Capitulations, Grants, that any Emperour, King, Prince, or any other( who is not of the present Roman-Catholique Religion, or professeth any other) due make, are voided and null, though ratified and confirmed by an oath since the Pope approves them not. Jacob. Simancha. One of their famous Scribes maintains, There ought be no commerce or peace with heretics, &c. If any promise or oath have been made and given, it ought in no wise to be kept. Conradus Brunus writes, There can be no peace between a catholic and heretic; it is an unjust and blasphemous condition, Quâ Haretisis permittitur ut dogmata sua doceant, Togive any leave to vent any other then Cathalique doctrine— Petrus Ribadeneira, Martinus Becanus, Antonius Possevinus, sing to the same tune— A man shall as soon find Peace as Truth, and Truth as Peace among these catholic Impostors, Soule-cheaters, and both ad Gracas Kalendas, are like to kiss in the Romish Sea where Apollyon domineers. Who would serve under such Enemies of Peace and Truth? look about you( fellow-soldiers) give no toleration for such to lurk among you, and put their bloody designs in execution by you. This is their Principle, you may red out their horrid practise, as full of blood and near to ruin, as they are far from Peace. When they pretend to exhort to, and pled for Peace, believe them not; 5 Psal, 20. for( as David said) They speak not Peace, but they device deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the Land. Lord how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions-35. Psal. 17. Take the Jesuit's character, see him drawn to the life by the pencil of the holy Ghost in holy Scripture; 5 Psal. 20. He hath put forth his hands against such as be at Peace with him; he hath broken[ or profaned] his Covenant. 5 Psal. 21. The words of his mauth were smother then butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer then oil, yet were they drawn Swords. O that God would open the eyes of such as live near or dwell among these men of blood, these sons of Belial, that at last, espying how they have been deluded, they may every one, open his mouth in such words as he uttered upon the discovery of such a crastie Generation. 120 Psal. 6, 7. My soul hath long dwelled with him that hateth Peace. I am for Peace( or a man of Peace) but when I speak, they are for war: Whom I may describe by this Motto, mell in orefel in cord; A pot of gull covered over with Hony. So I leave their second Principle, as another Article of their Creed, and come to a third. 3. It is the duty of all catholics every where, to do what in them lieth, by Fire, Sword, poison, Gunpowder, War, and other such like Plots and Stratagems, to oppress and take out of the way all heretics with their abettors, as also all politic catholics, * Sio Jesuitae consiliarios Principum Pontificiorum, pacis studiosos, cognominant. who study and endeavour to keep Peace & live at quiet, rather then assist and put to their helping hand for the suppression and extirpation of heretics. Ribadeneira, P. Chirlandus, Simancha, and others of those disloyal Loyallists, Orat. ad Car. 5. Imper. writ at large of this point— cardinal pool persuaded Charles the fifth, to leave the Turkes and go against the heretics; His n. compositis, mineri negotie reliqua aggredi ac perficere poteris. A Turcâ minus periculi imminst. i.e. When you have quieted them, you may go on with more ease against the turk. So another of these Gowned assassins, in his Oration to the Emperour Maximilian the second, saith— Quamdiu non equum tuum in Lather anorum sanguine ventre-tenus natare feceris; cogitare minimè debes, te fortunâbonâ aut victoriâ contra Turcam. potiturum esse. It's in vain to imagine or dream of any good success, much less of a victory against the Grand Seignear, until your horse can swim up to the belly in Lutheran gore. Conradus Brunus, Windeck, Petrus Stewartus, Muthias Meyerhofer, Stapleton, Baronius, Ribadencira, Becanus, father Garnet, Hill, and Creswell,( all true Jesuits, though never a True manamong them) with one heart and subscribe to this Article, and conspire in this bloody Religion, which is built on the foundation of lying and destroying, as it is written and copied out in blood and gull: the professors and practisers of which, 8 Rev. 11. are such blazing Comets and falling stars, as embitter all the waters they light upon. Be wise at last ye Popish Kings, These jesuits are devilish things. If peaceable and moderate, Your life, they teach, is out of date. They call you politic, make it good, For these vow they will have your blood. If this be their Religion, What's Murder and Rebellion? 4. Take one more in the last place to make up the quaternio and squadron-. Whensoever Roman-Catholique Subjects do judge, and in their councells or meetings conclude, that the Emperour, King, or Prince, under whom they live, is a Tyrant, they may depose him, and are disengaged from all homage and obedience to him: If the Emperour, or King, or Prince, do forbid their meetings together, then may any Subject, having advised with the Jesuits, kill the King, and therein is accounted by them to do a praise-worthy and meritorious act. Hit erro add, that if they have a Lutheran, or any other heretic for their King, who labours to make the Subjects all of his Religion, then they hold all the Subjects free from engagement and subjection to him, and it's free for them to depose, root out, or suppress him, to kill, or poison him— So do they writ of this, as if such onely deserved the bays and crown who had done some such like Act. See joh. Mariana de rege, lib. 1. cap. 6. who tells us, that in all ages, in magnâ laud fuêre, quicunque Tyrannos opprimere aggressi sunt. So do they tie Kings at their girdle, that if any Prince refuse to give ear to their counsels( which cannot be good, coming from men of such corrupt and bloody principles) presently they give an alarm to the Subjects, whose licence to rebel and Kill is subscribed with their Imprimatur— With him walks Creswell, aliâs Philopater, hand-in-hand together— With these join Guignard, Reinald, Veronaus, joh. Gueret Castellius,( Sainted or Chronicled for a Martyr in remembrance of his killing one of the Henry's of France) who have the approbation and good-liking of their whole Colleges— For what came Parry over to England in the 26 of Queen Eliz.( of famous and pious memory, for Valour, v. Acta Henrici Garneti. wisdom, and virtue) but to make away with the queen, as one whom the Pope had excommunicated— To what other end came Garnet Tesmond, and Gerrard,( prime Jesuits) with their complices into this Nation, 1605. but to undermine and blow up King, and Nobles, & Commons, both Houses of Parliament, Governours and Government at once.— They pretend a reason, as Suarez writes, Rex hareticus, Suar. defence. fdeiCatho. contra Anel. Sect. Error. l. 6. c. 4. statim per heresim ipso facto privatur alique modo dominie & proprietate sui regni: quiavel confiscatum manct, vel ad legitimum successorem Catholicum ipse jure transit. As if a King could no sooner leave or oppose the catholic Religion, but he makes an absolute forfeiture of, and loseth all right to his kingdom and Dominion: As if it were to be a Rule, No catholic, No King; which they can never make good by all their Sophistry, although it should be supposed that we give them leave to screw up their witty equivocation to the highest peg. Let them have Simancha, Tresham, Creswell, Mariana, which last Scribe wrote a book of Regicide or King-slaying,( which he approves and maintains tooth and nail, as if he intended the next step and remove into the papal throne.) Which fiery Treatise was commanded to the fire at Paris, after public censure by a Parliamentary Edict. Whereupon one admonished the French in such a manner: Galli, si sapitis, quid librum traditis igni? Authores vestris pellite limitibus. In cineres abiit liber unus; mill relicti. Horumturbaloquax; mutus at ille fuit. Hortos qui capiunt penitùs purge are veneno Radices properant vellere; non folia. Which may be Englished plainly thus, in our plain habit. Ye French, if wise, the book why do ye burn? Out of your Coasts the Authors rather turn. One Book's to ashes gone; a thousand stay. These are more talkative, but that was dumb. They that would Orchards quiter of poisen rid, Pluck up the root, not leaves; or wish they did. To pull the fruit of this bitter three that grows on such a root of killing and poisonous principles, in France or our own Kingdoms, would ask more time then I have to writ, and as much patience more as you have to red. I am already tyr'dout with leaking in this kennel of bloudhounds, and raking in this bloody channel of their irreligious religion, and pretended faith so much worse then professed infidelity, that I cannot measure in my apprehension, much less parallel in my expression, I should think I said enough, having sent you back to three dying realms, experience of jesuitical treachery and cruelty, which rigged the Spanish Navy in 88, and another Armado within this 8 or 9 yeares, in their conceit as likely to prove invincible as the former. But I shal not adventure beyond my time or leisure. All I have to say, is to relate one or two late stories, which I conceive to be of some observation not altogether unworthy. When I was lately in London, About May, 1647. M. Bodin Mini ster of the Bath. as I passed by Pauls Churchyard, I spied a friend in a Stationer's Shop, who, after salutes passed, with some brief discourse of the times, informed me of some late news out of Italy arrived at his hands in a Letter from a friend, concerning a meeting not very long since among the Popish Priests, and others; whereat, a question being put,( How to reduce England to Rome?) after many had risen up & given in their best advice, An ancient friar begins to speak in such a manner; It is not Fire and Faggot, not the Sword, not Powder-plots, that can effect it; you thought well on another means, viz. to work upon, and gain in the King and Nobles; but no way, in my judgement like this, viz. Set the Puritan against the Preacher and the work is done. I then thought, and( as I remember) said, They have now their work done to their hands; which is their master-plot and grand engine, to pull down more by their policy then ever they could throw down with their pieces of battery. You see the Popish eggs are not all addle, if one device doth not, another may, and will take, and reach as far as God will permit, but further it cannot. This is one, the other follows. Calling to see a friend at Putny, The Minister of Barns. he told me of a Merchat in the same house then present, who related unto him an History, or rather some late experience then Intelligence, then( as he said) not a week old. Few dayes before he was walking in London, About some part of May. and seeing a multitude at a door, he asked who preached there? A woman answered, One whom they count an Anabaptist, but he is a very Good Able Man. He resolved to stay and hear, and upon hearing of the Sermon, he was much taken with the mans parts and abilities: all done, he took more notice of the man, thinking he had seen him of late beyond the Seas, and, taking him by the hand, salutes him, Sir, do you not remember me? The Preacher denies that ever he saw him. At length, he so describes himself, and writes him as it were a Copy of the place, time, company, in such Characters as he admired, and hereupon said, Sir, If you betray me, &c.— putting his hand to his neck. But, I wonder, said the Merchant, how you came to pray and preach so vehemently for purity of Ordinances, &c. just as some among us.— He answered, Our College can reach any of parts, that in a fortnight. The Merchant again, Sir, but you are not of this judgement and way, as you pretend here, are you? No, saith he, but you know Divide & Impera. This Merchant, as the Minister informed me, said, This was a Jesuit whom he saw in Rome sew moneths ago. By what I have red concerning the Principles and practices of these men, I have ground to imagine. There is not one Sect or opinion in this or any other realm, which some or other of them do not pretend to be of and join with, if so be they may hereby play their own game, and make others drive all day long in their mill blindfold, to advance the catholic Cause here and elsewhere. They cannot fish but in troubled waters, every one can tell how good fishing they must needs find here, if they had none elsewhere. I am sorry I took no more punctual notice of them, who informed me concerning a Jesuit, who played his game so well, that he got into a Living of late yeares, and kept undiscovered, until one traveling on the way, being forced to lie in that Town, and resolving to hear one on the Lords day in that place, heard him, and( thinking he knew him) would have had him come to his inn, but the noise of this invitation deprived them of an afternoon Sermon, the Preacher being fled. It's not unknown to him that knows any thing of the Jesuits doctrines, that they use to train up many to seduce and deceive as well as to kill and destroy. Having been excited, partly by a friend who is a weather, but more by my hearty wel-wishes to, and desires of the glory of God and the public good, I could not but hold forth an Item for my Country-mens admonition, and( If I live do no more for them, which is known best unto God, and him onely) entreat them to beware of the Jesuits within( lust, & a deceitful heart) and without, viz. those brats of Ignatius, or rather fire-brands, that kindle distractions in Church and State all the world over; 8 Joh. who descend more remotely from their father the devil, who is the father of a lie, and a murderer ab initio, abominable for antiquity; but more immediately derive their pedigree from Ignatius Loiola that carried fire in his name, whom some of the Jesuits * Salmanassar. do aclowledge to have been by nature fierce, hard, and cruel. This cruel and butcherly nature and bloody disposition he derived unto his followers, who may well be name the Bloody disciples, the fi●… ry Sect. Farewell Reader, Take heed, and say, Ye bad morning. Si populus vult decipi, decipiatur, DIXI. FINIS.