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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11511	The free schoole of vvarre, or, A treatise, vvhether it be lawfull to beare armes for the seruice of a prince that is of a diuers religion; Quaestio quodlibetica. English	Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642.; Brent, Nathaniel, Sir, 1573?-1652.	1625 (1625)	STC 21758; ESTC S116734	27,201	78

their limits and to further the Seruice of God and aduancement of Catholicke Religion but with Prudence and Moderation And in this I could giue many instances of conspicuitie and note that diuers Embassadours without any disgust or giuing iust subiect of complaint haue for certaine done greater Seruice to the Catholicke Religion by the modest retirement and moderate temper of their Priests than those Busibodies or as the French haue it better those Remuant spirits that out of heat and hast to doe much haue rather defaced than built And a demonstration of this may be drawne from the good effect which hath followed thereupon and euery day increaseth that without any occasion of querimony or exception the same or greater concourse of Catholickes is present at the Diuine exercises of the Catholicke Roman Réligion than was before to the considerable aduancement of the Seruice of God and of Religion which ought to be the principall obiect of humane actions It is not improbable that the Confessor of whom wee speake may haue amongst his Instructions this also expressed Not to absolue such Jtalian Penitents as reside in those Countries For a matter of that importance as is the exclusion of men from the participation of the Sacraments would not bee vndertaken by a priuate Priest without great motiues from abroad especially since it is an action not onely repugnant vnto Pietie but to Wisedome also that when with so much art they labour the reduction of any from the Protestant vnto the Catholicke Roman Religion of which the best proofe is to bring them to receiue the Sacraments they should notwithstanding exclude those from the participation of them who from their infancie haue made profession of being Catholicks And put case that the Priest haue receiued no such Jnstructions from Jtaly nor by any letters or faculties which is the vsuall and easie way yet may hee bee induced to such a resolution in the very Low Countries themselues because it is an indubitable truth That the Nuntio who resides in Bruxels doth manage all the practises appertaining to Religion in the Low Countries and there hee appointeth his Ministers and Emissaries who vnder other pretences and habits promote that worke which wee call the Conuersion vnto the Catholike Faith and Protestants tearme the Seminarie of Sedition against the State Neither doth the Nuntio want bold and potent instruments which are diuers disguised and masked Jesuits and other Religious persons also It was in times past an vse and the practise thereof still continueth That Bishops and principally the Pope of Rome were procurers of many expeditions sending Religious persons into Regions inhabited by Infidels with most ample Spirituall authority to absolue from Cases reserued to dispence with Vowes to grant Indulgences and Graces and to doe all that which was necessary or opportune for the Conuersion of Infidels to the holy Catholicke Faith or for the corroboration and comfort of those beleeuers which were still to bee found in those parts from whence Christian Religion and the free profession thereof had by the Infidels beene formerly discarded The Sea of Rome in times past was for the most part wont to steede it selfe with the endeauours of the Minor obseruant Fryers concerning whom we may reade in sundrie Pápall Constitutions the Priuiledges and ample Concessions which they had with power also to create titular Pastors of those Countries where they did exercise the workes of so much deuotion But after the Fathers the Jesuits grew great and besides the fourth Vow which specially concerneth Missions tooke into their secret Institutions a particularitie of their owne to receiue power to lay aside their habits and to take those whereunto they had the greatest fancie so that they could metamorphise themselues into Souldiers Marchants Courtiers and into any other Trade or Profession and counterfeit themselues to bee of any Sect or Religion Gentile Turke Iew Hereticke or any other which they should conceiue propitious vnto the ends that they propose vnto themselues so that from hence it might bee that Father Aio sayd Iesuita est omnis homo the Missions for the most part especially in the Countries where Protestants doe rule consisted of Iesuits who leaue vnto other Religious Orders onely those Missions where there is the slenderest hope of gaine and the greatest feare of danger And these swarme ouer England Germany and indeed euery where and now lately more than euer since the erection of the new Congregation in Rome which is conspicuous alreadie both for the greatnesse of their riches and for the multitude of Ministers to be imployed by them and it goeth vnder the title De propaganda Fide Of these such as are sent into the Low Countries besides the Instructions which they carry along with them from Rome and from their Superiours receiue also directions from the Popes Nuntio resident at Bruxells Whence it may be certainly conceiued that this Confessor had some such commands laid vpon him and such like seedes sowne into him from whence these fruits doe grow which haue so strangely disturbed the Consciences of those Gentlemen that did so little expect in this kind to bee disquieted Therefore as the introduction of these Missions had in their origine the respect of Deuotion and Zeale of Religion for their motiue and princ●pall obiect together with a burning desire to conuert and saue Soules so is it sure that afterward they degenerated into humane affections and interrests and these expeditions haue onely serued to spie into Temporall Gouernements into the strength of States into the factions of Countries into the deficiencies of Policie into the wayes and meanes how to debilitate Gouernement how to sow ciuile Discord how to diminish the reputation of Princes or to bring it into contempt how to corrupt and entice from them their Souldiers of account and conduct Nay they are passed on so farre as to blowe the coales of Sedition to foment the Malecontents to make set and formall leagues against Princes to manage Conspiracies other like scandalous actions which haue so foulely denigrated the beautie of these holy Missions that they haue made them to bee esteemed no better than the sending forth of Bloody Trecherous and Insidiarie persons and haue caused them to bee branded by the Aduersaries with those abhominable attributes which Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Romanes in the end of the first Chapter doth accumulate on those that are of a reprobate minde Yea the Catholickes themselues haue beene greatly ashamed of the villanies that are sprung from these moderne Missions And although the fruit of such detestable seede is in these dayes but too rife and plentifull yet now that the war is kindled against the Protestants the fertilitie is much greater than formerly it was So that at this present when so formidable a warre is waged against the States of the Low Countries by the King of Spaine no maruell if the Emissaries of the Popes Nuntio in Bruxels who swarme in disguises through those