REASONS AND ARGUMENTS alleged to satisfy the kingdom, wherein it is proved to be unfit to trust Papists with any power, government or command in the Church, State, or Wars of England, and the evil consequence therof, confirmed by several proofs, with the names of divers Seminary Priests, Friers, and Papists, and their pernitions designs and plots, found out by the high Court of Parliament, and remain in sundry Prisons in the Cities of London and Westminster, whose names are as followeth.  
Father Philips, the queens confessor, Father brown a Priest, Rivers and Haman two Priests, Coleman and Norton two Friers, Father Thomas, Father Conner, Father Hall, and ●obert gross a Priest, who was committed to Newgate on Saturday last, for framing a picture in scorn of the earl of Essex L. general.  
Wherein is shewed the cruelty and inhuman actions of the Papists, in torturing and putting to death many hundred Protestants in Ireland and other places.  
LONDON, Printed by R.A. and A.C. for T. Bates. Septemb. 21. 1642.   

Reasons and Arguments to prove that it is unfit and dangerous to entrust Papists with any power, government or command in the Church State, or warres of England, and the evil consequence thereof, confirmed by several proofs, with the names of divers Seminary Priests, Friers, and Papists, and their pernicious designs and plots found out by the high Court of Parliament, and remaining at this time in sundry prisons in and about the cities of London and Westminster.  
BEcause some are easily inclined to believe, that Papists orderly demeaning themselves, may bee capable of any place of trust or command in the Commonwealth, and may, as other subjects, do their country service in the discharge of such offices as are or shall be committed or designed unto them in peace or war, it shall hereby appear by many good convincing reasons drawn from divers politic & civill grounds, that the negative of this affirmation is onely true by several arguments, demonstrating that Papists ought not to be entrusted with any government or command in the Church, State, or Wars of England, proved from the effects and evil consequences thereof, and also by an induction of divers pernicious designs which have been wrought, plotted and contrived by divers Seminary Priests, Friers and Papists.  
The first argument is drawn from their adhering to the Pope: for the Papists do depend on the Pope for their faith, and give the Pope pre-eminency and supremacy before the King in all ecclesiastical matters; and also authority to excommunicate: and therfore they cannot bee good subjects to the Kings Highnesse. And whereas good subjects are known by yielding a willing obedience to the laws of the Land, and strive to maintain them in their essence and liberties,( the cause of the distractions of these times) Papists in many matters controverted and dubitable, or of weighty consequence, do allow appeals to be made to Some, which is evidently contrary to the Laws of this Land. And whereas the King is as incompatible of any other equal, much less superior, in all matters whether ecclesiastical or Civill, being supreme Head and governor, they derogate from the Kings royal office, in attributing to the Pope a supremacy in all spiritual causes. And besides they both count all such to be martyrs, who have been executed for treason, which is a slander to the State, and they give aid and maintenance to Seminaries and jesuits, and thereby cherish and foster enemies to their country. Thus if the common-wealth had no better shield to defend itself, then by suffering Papists to command or govern in the Church or State, it would be like Brusidas the Lacedemonian, who being wounded through his shield, cried out, prodente me clypeo vulneratus, my buckler is the traitor through which I am wounded.  
The question moved by the Popish Priests of consimilitude and likeness between them and Puritans, inust be resolved by distinction; for if they be taken largely, for dangerous wits, that courteously seek the destruction of the Church, they may in some sort resemble Martin Marre-Prelate, and Hatchet, the l tter leaping o●t of a Paritans skin into a Papists hid; but if they scandaloussy call many worthy Ministers of the gospel Puritans, as Calv●n, and Beza, and the Preachers of Scotland, and the pious and true professors of the reformed Religion amongst us, very profitable Labourers and loyal Subjects, between those and the best learned of the Papists for true Religion, sound Divinity, and faithful obedience to their Prince, there is no comparison at all.  
Hereby it appears that the faithful Ministers that hold the orthodox articles of the Protestant Religion, excepting external matters of discipline & ceremony, never attempt any thing against the life of their Prince, or the destruction of the kingdom, as Priests and jesuits have done, but maintain the authority of the King, and the purity of Religion; not seducing in corners, but communicate with the Assembly in the Word and Sacrament, who publicly and privately pray for the King and State, detecting the conspiracies of common adversaries, not denying the oath of supremacy, but aclowledge the English Church to be a true Church, whereof themselves are members.  
But because contraries set forth each other mutually in a clear and illustrious manner, behold how dangerous the Popes Champions have been and are in the English Church or State. First Morton was the instrument or fire-brand of the commotion in the North. Allen, Hall, and Arden were continual practisers against the State. Babington and his fellow-conspirators, incited by Bullard, were the plotters of the horri●le gun-powder-treason. Gefford, Sanadge, Williams and York were other conspirators. sergeant-major Georgio the Popes Nuntio here was a turbulent politic agent that did much harm in England, and likewise Caca Fugo. Father Philips, the Queens Confessor, it is well known how dangerous he hath been, for which he was sent to the Tower, Brown the Priest in the Gate-house, Canon the Bishop of Calcedon, who having liberty to walk abroad, was afterward found to say mass, for which he now lieth condemned in New-gate. Coleman and Norton two Friers in New-gate condemned also, with Father Thomas and three other Friers, with many other Priests, Friers, and Papists in the Gate-house, New-gate, and the Kings Bench, &c. who have always, and daily do labour to work division and mischief in the Church and State. Therfore a toleration of Popery would be dangerous to the name of the Protestant Religion, the dishonour of the Kingdom, to the offence of other Protestant Princes, and all reformed Churches, to the overthrowing of good laws made against Popish practices and the mass, to the dishonour of God in permitting idolatry, and contrary to the Popes own resolution, who will rather grant a toleration to Jews and Turks, then Protestants; and contrary to the example of the good Kings of Judah, and of King Edward VI. who though requested thereunto by Charles the Emperour, B. Cran●er and B. Ridley, would not grant his sister the Lady Mar● to have mass in her house.  
Besides an induction of the Papists particular cruelty may make us afraid & cautious to prevent their bloody practices: they hanged a good Minister in German●e in his own house, others they drowned, as Peter Spengler at Ensiglein, &c. Nicolas Paul they beheaded at Gaunt; some they butted alive, as two women at louvain, An. 1543. they have put out the eyes of others, as a Priest in Germany; others they pulled asunder by weal, as John clerk at Melden: they hung up protestants by the hands with a great weight at their feet, some they poisoned, others burnt with oil, as Stephen Brown at Poitiers; some burnt with brimstone, as Martius Alba, and Petrus Scriba at Lions; some burnt with pitch and tar drooping on them, as George Marsh and others; some broiled, as John Whiteman at Ostend: others had their tongues cut out, as Peter Roscan at Bloys; and it was generally decreed at Paris An. 1546. that Protestants should have their tongues cut out, others had their tongues bored through, as Henry Cowboron in Calabria: 10000 were slain in Paris in ten days; within four years 300 Protestants were burnt in England: Vitesio Proconsul of Asia in one day beheaded 300, saying, Rem verè regiam perfeci, I have done a royal dead. This is the practise of the Church of Rome; God root them out of this kingdom, that they may have no power in Church or State.  
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