SEVEN ARGUMENTS PLAINLY PROVING THAT PAPISTS Are Traitorous Subjects to all true CHRISTIAN PRINCES. With a Touch of jesuites Treacheries. Estote proditores Betray your Country the pope, riding a seven-headed lion-like beast, encourages clerics and laymen to rebel. Printed in the Year 1641. SEVEN ARGUMENTS PLAINLY PROVING That Papists are traitorous Subjects to all true Christian PRINCES. The first Reason. ALL good Subjects which obey for conscience, as every one ought to do, must have their consciences informed by the word of God. But perfect Papists hate our Assemblies, despise the preaching of the Word, which should direct ●heir consciences both in duty towards God, and loyalty towards their Prince; and in stead thereof, entertain a strange worship. Perfect Papists the worst knot of thiefs, and why. Therefore perfect Papists cannot be sound hearted Subjects. I have heard wise men say, that there is no knot of thiefs so dangerous, as when there is a whore in the company. There is none so errand a whore in the world, as the strumpet of Babylon, who is an actual dealer in wicked and ungodly practices against all Kings and Kingdoms. Then whether hearts hating GOD'S truth, which should rightly inform them, and carousing of this whorish cup, which doth strangely enchant them, be faithful to his princely person, or peace of this Realm, I commend it to the judgement of all them that love our prosperity. The second Reason. Papists obedience but at the Pope's pleasure. THey that carry a countenance conformable to his Majesty's Laws no longer than it stands with the Pope's pleasure, can be no true hearted Subjects. But perfect Papists obey his Majesty's Laws no longer than it stands with the liking of the Pope, as the Jesuit Hart sometimes confessed. Therefore perfect Papists can be no good subjects. Greater cause to fear than to trust them. Here let the true Subjects understand, that the Pope hath poured an opinion into his Papists, that Kings and Princes, if he dispense with them, may break their faith and promise: that nulla fides est servanda cum haereticis, no faith is to be kept with God's friends and his foes; that Papists with liberal permission may swear & unswear, if advantageable opportunity do occur: which since that they do believe to stand in his power to dispense withal, and that he is both able to pardon them, and willing to reward them; yea that it is within his reach not only to give them the Kingdom of England, but the Kingdom of heaven also: then let them swear, their protestations are not worth the paring of a rotten apple, their obedience is but at the Pope's ad placitum: Whereupon ariseth a good caveat, that we rather tie short than trust a two-legged Fox. The third Reason. Papists read and recommend popish libels. THey that receive, entertain, read and recommend such lying libels and heart-stealing pamphlets, as whereby his Majesty's right is impeached, his regiment reviled, his title of supremacy defaced, his faith defamed, Christian Religion nourished by him, called heretical, devilish, and damnable, and the professors thereof worse than nullifidians and infidelious Atheists, can be no good subjects. But this is the dealing of our perfect Papists. Therefore the conclusion followeth, that such can be no good subjects. Many wicked and traitorous pamphlets have been scattered in this realm to darken the glory of the Lords anointed, to weaken the good wills of his highness' loving subjects, to win worthless male-contented malicious wretches treacherously to conspire with our sworn enemies, whereby to fortify the Romish faction. These have and do want no favourers to scatter them in corners, to send them to their lovers, to commend their substantialness as matters unanswerable, both such Merchants as send them, and such brokers as utter such Babylonish wares, are right worthy to pay their heart blood for custom. The fourth Reason. Papists receive pardons to free them from loyalty. THey that receive pardons, absolutions, and such like stuff, to exempt, and free themselves from loyal obedience, are but subjects in show, watching their times to work their own wills. But our absolute Roman Catholics receive pardons and absolutions, to acquit them from dutiful allegiance. Therefore shake a perfect Papist out of the masking weed of his pretended conformity, and then shall you find that an heart devoutly affected to the Romish Religion, is as deeply infected with the venom of treason. Gregory 13. Pius 5. Sixtus 5. The deal of the Popes is not unknown, of Gregory the 13. Pius 5. and Sixtus 5. who labouring our subversion by England's unnatural children, have sent their pardons and absolutions to free them from subjection; a thing abhorring from all Religion, hated of the Heathen, the age present loathes it, and succeeding posterity shall be astonished to hear of such cruelties. The fift Reason. The Pope erecteth seminaries for the hatching of Fox-Priests, and Catholics receive them to nursing. THey, for whose catholic good the Pope pretends the erecting of his seminaries, and therefore receive from thence such subtle treacherous and disloyal wretches, as infect them with poison, and persuade them to treason, cannot be faithful and true hearted subjects. But the Pope maketh his Catholics believe that he erecteth seminaries for their good, and they also receive and entertain his Jesuits and Fox-Priests, issuing out of those dens of Idolatry. Therefore the conclusion followeth, that such can be no good subjects. Parsons. Campion. Parsons, Campion, and Hart, with the rest, cast in the Pope's mould and fitted for the service of the beast that sits upon the seven hills, have wanted no entertainment in this Land in their times, although there were nothing more intended of them then this, namely, to set the subjects against their Prince, and Englishmen against their own Country, as leave was given to Parsons and Campion by Gregory 13. to interpret the Bull of Pius Quintus. The sixth Reason. Papists gape for a golden day. THey that are weary of these days, and live in hope of another world, which in their ordinary byword they call their golden day or year of Jubilee, can be no faithful subjects to him, by whose gracious government these days are continued. But the Papists are weary of these days, and languish in looking for their golden day, which Almighty God send them in leaden haste. Therefore Papists can be no good subjects. Believe them without further proof. That the Papists are weary of these days and times, wish the death of his Majesty, and alteration of State and Government; there needs no further proof than their conspiracies, their treasons and secret attempts, their platforms and practices for foreign invasion: whereby it is evient, that these are the days of their grief and sorrow; and that they regard the safety neither of Prince nor Country, so they may return to the flesh pots of Egypt, and eat their fill with peaceable freedom. The seventh Reason. Papists regard no state, so that Popery may prevail. THey that regard not into what subjection, slavery, shame and dishonour his highness, his Kingdom and subjects be brought unto, so that their blind worship and pageant of Papistry may be erected, can be no good subjects. But perfect Papists neither regard Majesty of the Prince, nor dignity of the Nobles, nor gravity of age, nor difference of sex, nor excellency of learning: so that Popery may be set up in stead of the Gospel. Therefore such can be no good subjects. Woeful experience. The desperate deal and damnable practices of Papists heretofore prove plainly, that allegiance to their Prince cannot keep them from treason; the duty of love to their natural Country, cannot withdraw them from favouring rebellion at home, nor lincking with strangers abroad; that the duty of obedience of children to parents, or of parent's affection to children, cannot keep them from unnatural cruelty; that the duty of mutual love, and society betwixt the husband and wife cannot remove them from monstrous immanity; that the duty of kind and natural pity cannot stay a Papists hands from murdering feeble sex, tender babes, or reverend age: lastly, that the duty of familiarity in youth, of friendship in graver years, of continual society during all the life passed, cannot stay a Papists hands from sacrificing his dearest friends. Nay, which is more, not only are they contented to yield their bracelets and carerings to the framing of the golden calf, as did Israel, nor to offer their friends in sacrifice, as did that unnatural King of Moab in offering his sons to assuage the ire of his angry Gods; but to make their own lives a prey to their enemies; as did the Athenians, when they accorded by casting of lots to give themselves to be devoured of that ghastly monster Minotaurus. Wherefore since it is so clear a case, that the consciences of these Catholics are altogether Romish; that they hold the Pope's Excommunication against our dread Sovereign the King's Majesty to be lawful; that they yield their obedience no longer than durante beneplacito of the Pope; that they receive and commend such libels as deface our Church, abuse his Highness' person, and all his loving subjects; that they receive pardons to exempt themselves from dutiful obedience; that they receive and entertain the enemies of this Realm, Jesuits and seminary Priests; that they look for a golden day, and long for an alteration; that they care not to conspire at home with traitors, and to plot abroad with strangers, whereby to convey the crown to a foreigner: subence, I say, this is so, then two conclusions do follow. First, that every perfect Papist is a secret traitor to his Prince and Country. Our land cannot be at ease, so long as these lie on her stomach. They prick and wound her sides, not with praying against her (for their imprecations we hope, are irrita vota) but with preying upon her: and when all stratagems fail, ready to fetch arguments from the shambles, and conclude in ferio. Whose Religion is politic, learning bloody, affections malicious, ambitious, devilish. The Inquisition is their Grammar, fire and faggot their Rhetoric, fleet and fetters their Logic, the Cannons roar their Music. and poisoning is their Physic. Whose Priests have such almighty power, that they can make their Maker, that whereas in their Sacrament of Order, (as they term it) GOD makes an impotent creature a Priest: now in their Sacrament of the Altar, the Priest shall make Almighty God. Yea, as he made them with a word, and put them in their mother's womb: so they can make him with a word, and put him in a box. They that thus blaspheme their Creator, shall we trust them with their fellow-creature? It was an ingenuous answer of a Spanish Noble man, commanded by Charles the fist 10 lodge the Duke of Bourbon at his house in Madrid; I will obey thee, but set my house on fire so soon as the Duke is our of it. My Predecessors never built it to harbour Traitors. Did he think that a conspirator would poison his house; and shall we think that such are no infection to our Land? David did counterfeit himself mad. when he was not, for his own security: these are mad, and dissemble it; till by one frantic act, they can bring us all to ruin. If they were foreign, public and professed enemies; we would not blame, not fear them) While Kingdoms stand in hostility, hostile actions are just. But these are domestical, intestine, secret adversaries, bred and fed in the same Country; therefore the more intolerable, as the more pernicious. Tut, they can satisfy their consciences by distinguishing of Treasons, Indeed, all their Religion is a religion of distinctions: such as that is, that an excommunicate Prince may be dethroned; and being once uncrowned, may on his penitent submission be restored to the Church, Quoad animam, non quoad rognum. Thus they leave positive, textual, school divinity, and fall to Crowne-divinitie Antichrist pleads, their Religion is maintained by the Fathers. Did ever any Father allow of Treason? Shame they not to aver it? If any abused, wrested, falsified writing of the Fathers did seem to consent to their errors: yet we know, that Audiendi Patres, non ut Judices, sed ut rests: The Fathers be heard as witnesses, not as Judges. It is God's Scriptum est, not their traditum est, that must give decision of all doubts. And secondarily, that it is a safer way to truss than to trust a two-legged Fox. Our gracions God that hath hitherto protected us, bless his Majesty, and the nigh Court of Parliament, that through their wisdoms, zeal and courage, God's glory may be promoted, the undermining of these Foxes, which destroy our Vines, sound sifted, and secret traitors sharply punished. Then shall England less fear her ruin (which GOD forbidden) by stranger's force, when vengeance deserved shall strongly seize on household foes; nay, else may England more suspect the weakening of her present state, by nourishing a Viper in her own bowels, than Popish power, or any else, who gnash their teeth at her peace and welfare. Thus holding Popery to be an hotchpotch of new Religion coined in the mints of the Babylonish whore, who contendeth to advance, her Kingdom above the Kingdom of Christ, by all means that themselves, or hell itself can invent, by cruelty, by blood, by deceit, by abusing the word of God, by equivocation, by what not? yea ●●ee hath so taught 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the Priests and Jesuits, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by them seduced to swear and forswear, to promise and protest, by whatsoever can be named, (although they have no purpose to make good any of their vows in this kind) as that they have almost left no means whereby a man may be assured of another's intentions, although he vow it never so seeming setiously. Call to mind the great and serious protestations that Warson the Priest made in his quodlibetical questions, That albeit he differed in Religion from that which was professed in the Church of England, yet if either Pope or Spaniard should seek by hostile means to invade his Country, he would willingly spend his substance, nay his dearest blood against any such as should attempt it, and yet he himself was the first afterwards as I remember, that came to the gallows for violating it. If I could find any thing that good is in either Priests of Jesuits, I would commend them for it, but because I cannot, holding them all to be traitors in heart unto his Malestie, and their favourers to be scarcely good subjects; I will end for their commendations with the words of a late, but witty, Satirist, Fevet illis, quisquis de illis tacet. A TASTE OF THE BLASPHEMOUS Treacheries of wicked JESUITS. SUch is the most bloody, and most blasphemous impudence of these Romish Incendiaries, that when they put on a devilish and desperate resolution, to murder any Emperor, King, or Prince, whom they have once pronounced to be an Heretic, and excommunicate person; and thereupon intent to murder him by some Raviliack, whom they make choice of for the execution of the said Treason; that after such an unfortunate and wretched person is once alured, and entered into their place of consultation, or chamber of (Philonicall) prayers, (forsooth) as they call them: These infernal firebrands kneel all down, who in their prayers observe their time; and put before the intended traitor, a knife folded up in a scarf; shut up in a little Box, covered with an Agnus Dei; written about with black letters of perfumes, odoriferous Characters: and when they draw it out themselves, they cast or sprinkle some drops of holy water upon it, which done, they hang at the haft of the said knife, five or six grains of Coral, which are blessed by them, who blasphemously give him to understand, and make him believe that so many blows, as shall be given by him with the said knife; so many souls shall be released out of Purgatory. Afterwards, putting the knife into the intended Murderers hand, they pronounce these words, saying; Go now like Jephte, with the Sword of Samson in thy hand, the Sword with which David did cut off Golia's head, the Sword of Gidion; yea, the Sword with which Judith did cut off Holophernes head; the sword of the valiant Machaboes, and the same with which Saint Peter did cut off Malcas his care, yea, I say, the sword of Pope Julius the second, with the which (breaking the forces of oppugning Princes) he took out of their hands with great effusion of blood, the Cities of Sezza, Imola, Fayance, Bologna, and many other Cities: Go thus, I say, thou magnanimous Champion of the chair of Rome, and be valiant, and God strengthen thine arm for the great work now intended by thee. After which, this infernal kennel of Romish bloodhounds kneel all down, and the most wretchedly renowned and cursedly qualified amongst them, with a cauterised conscience and immarbled heart, pronounceth the bloody Conjuration, impiously and impudently saying as followeth. Come Cherabims, come Seraphims, and highest Thrones that rule, come blessed Angels: yea, blessed Angels of charity, come and fill this holy Vessel with glory and eternity, and bring him presently the Crown of the Virgin Mary, of the patriarchs, and of the Martyrs, for he belongeth no longer to us, but to you. And thou Oh dreadful and terrible God, who hast revealed to him in these our Prayers and meditations; that he ought to murder a Tyrant, and confound a Heretic, and to give the Crown to a Catholike-King. And being by us disposed to this meritorious Murder, vouchsafe to fortify his senses, and increase his forces: to the end that he may accomplish this thy great will; and vouchsafe to arm and furnish him with the harness of thy powerful providence, that he may valiantly perform the worthy work he hath piously undertaken, and may happily escape from those who would apprehend him: give him Eagles wings, that the spite and malice of those Barbarians whom he goes against, may not once touch his sanctified members. Extend also the beams of thy joy and celestial relicitie upon his sacred soul, to the end that by the blessed influence thereof, the parts and members of his body also may be encouraged and enabled to this great work, and that it may cheerfully dispose itself to this holy Combat without fear or shrinking pusillanimity. This accursed Conjuration being thus audaciously and gracelesly uttered, they carry the thus enchanted bloody Regicide, and set him before an Altar, where they show him a Picture, wherein the Angels are seen and shown to have lifted up and elevated long since James Clement, a bloody Jacobine Friar, and represented him (as it were) before the Throne or God, saying: Lord, behold thy Pupil, behold thy well-instructed Champion, and the accomplisher of thy justice: Whereupon all the Saints rife out of their feats to make him room, and give him place among them. And when all these things are thus done and finished, there are no more but four Jesuits only left with him, who when they come near him; they with diabolical impudence and lying flattery, say unto him: that they seem to perceive that there is some Deity infused into him, and that they are so astonished with the radiant light shining and glistering in him, that they hold it their honour to kiss his hands and feet, and make him madly to believe that they account him not a mere man any longer; but that they esteem themselves (as it were) as they say, half unworthy of the happiness and glory which he hath already obtained by his Catholic resolution, and sighing deeply before him; they say unto him: we would that God had chosen us, and called us to your estate: since we should be truly assured, that we should go really and directly into Paradise without coming at Purgatory. And thus having intoxicated and bewitched the miserable wretch, they thus leave him to his intended bloody design. The end of the Conjuration. O Lord preserve our Noble King CHARLES, and all his posterity from the power of all such Romish Regicides and bloody Traitors, who thus plot and practice to build up their Romish Synagogue with blood. And grant good God, that our gracious King Charles, may with his posterity, long continue a happy and prosperous Reign over this Kingdom, for the maintenance and propagation of Christ's Gospel in despite of Antichrist, and all his bold and bloody adherents: and let every good and loyal subject, and true hearted English Christian say, Amen, and Amen. FINIS.