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A49770	The interest of Ireland in its trade and wealth stated in two parts first part observes and discovers the causes of Irelands, not more increasing in trade and wealth from the first conquest till now : second part proposeth expedients to remedy all its mercanture maladies, and other wealth-wasting enormities, by which it is kept poor and low : both mix'd with some observations on the politicks of government, relating to the incouragement of trade and increse of wealth : with some reflections on principles of religion, as it relates to the premisses / by Richard Lawrence ...	Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1682 (1682)	Wing L680A; ESTC R11185	194,038	492

with that strength by Wickliffs Books c. dispersed in Germany Bohemiah France Piedmont c. the Popelings observ'd it to be past the Cure of preaching Fryars whereupon Paul the third discern'd it necessary to raise a more warlike Regiment and instituted these Knights of the Virgin Mary as the Jesuits first stiled themselves Ross Stillingf p. 306. You have an exact account of their Original and Progress by that eminent Protestant Divine Dr. Stillingfleet in his Fanaticism of the Church of Rome pag. 301. to p. 320. and by Grimstone in his States and Empires fol. 1213. to which I shall refer you And if you neither laugh at the Ridicule nor weep at the Ignorance and Stupidity of that age you must be of a steddy temper But to give you an account of the bloody Wars barbarous Massacres and treacherous Assassinations since Anno Dom. 1545. the Council of Trent confirmed their Order and their Hetrodox Articles of Faith would be to copy Volumes of their own and our Authors but you may read some brief hints in Sect. 5. SECT III. Shews the Authority whereby they were confirmed EXcepting the Popes whose vowed slaves they are the Council of Trent is the only Council that approved and confirmed their Institutions therefore it is worth observing the Qualifications of that Assembly saith Dr. Stillingfleet pag. 106. so contrived as not to condemn the grossest Error The occasion of the Council was to suppress Luthers Doctrine in the designe of the Conclave at Rome but press'd by the Emperor c. to reform things amiss too and restrain the Imperiousness of the Pope and his Conclave Hist Coun. of Trent fol. 17. the Policy of Rome thought it not prudent to deny the calling it least it should be imposed nor safe at present to admit it least it should impose on them fol. 37. Christendom groaning under their unsupportable Exactions and Tyranny which Germany presented in an hundred Grievances fol. 37. Therefore the only expedient was to delay it and to that end raised many scruples about the Authority of their Summons fol. 54. the Qualifications of their Members place of Sitting c. fol. 233. fol. 25 57. by which means they drill'd out twenty years the Lives of six Popes before the first Session 1542. saith Grimstone then transferred to Bolonia after back to Trent fol. 465. And after that what time they spent in Preambles c. vide Council of Trent p. 139 c. 1. About the Title some of the Bishops were for stiling it the most holy Council representing the Church universal others opposed it the Italians vehemently Hist Council of Trent p. 138. So betwixt the Bishops and the Regulars about Priviledges p. 151. between the Dominicans and Franciscans in several points betwixt the Italian Bishops and others about Residence and the extent of Episcopal Power but the Legates informing the Pope of these Controversies he sent them these Orders Not to broach any new Difficulties in matter of Faith nor to determine any of the Points controverted among Catholicks and to proceed slowly in the Reformation but vigorously against the Hereticks vide Sleidens 12th Book But with what vehemency their proceedings were opposed by most Princes vide Field p. 107 c. by the French King Sleiden lib. 22. so Charles the fi●●h by his Ambassador Mendoza disclaimed against the Popes Power in calling Synods to re● th● Church besides all the Members of 〈◊〉 Council were enjoyned to take this Oath against their Freedom and Liberty I will defend 〈◊〉 ●●●pacy against all men so help me God c. 〈…〉 no 〈◊〉 durst offer his Reasons or ob●●●●●●●●●●st what the Popes Creatures proposed 〈◊〉 presently expelled the Council Sleiden 〈…〉 Craken p. 158. Yet for all this Car●●● ●antar● c. urged for the true Doctrine 〈◊〉 j●●●●fication the Spanish and German Bishops ●●●●ve to reduc● the Popes boundless Authority t● opp●se wh●m he encreased the number of Bishops many of whom only titular and of a sudden created thirteen new Cardinals sent his frequent Instructions to direct and lead the Council that it became a Proverb The Holy Ghost travelled from Rome to Trent in a Packet Such as they could not expel as Cardinal Cantaren c. they cut off by Poyson and whilst they were thus amusing the world with an expected Reformation the Pope raiseth an Army invades Germany to impose the Tridentine Faith This is the Council of Trent called by the usurped Power of the Pope guided by Fraud and Subtilty awed by illegal Expulsions and treacherous Poysonings ending in bloody Wars from whence proceeded all their new Articles of Faith But with what Dissatisfaction not only to the Emperor and French King but most other Princes except the Popes Vassals the Italians these things were received you may read by their respective Letters printed at the end of the History of the Council of Trent fol. 782. to fol. 823. and then judge whether these Principles were not imposed on their pretended Catholick as well as on Protestant Princes But the History of this Council being writ by an Author so generally applauded amongst the Romanists that it became a proverb Father Paul is so blameless and pure that his very Pantables were canonized vide his Life fol. 43. but being voluminous I shall refer the Reader to Bishop Bramhall's Vindic. p. 351. to 355. where he demonstrates that Council to be neither general free nor lawful and yet this is the best Authority the Jesuits and their Principles are confirmed by and by which they are grown so presumptuous as to excommunicate all the Christians in the world for damned Hereticks that disown the Pope though they cannot be ignorant that their Principles and communion are rejected by far the greater number of Christians in the world v. Paget p. 1. to p. 33. where you may also read their Harmony both in Doctrine and Worship with Protestants of Europe and how vehemently they explode the Usurpations Heresies and Idolatries of the Roman Church fol. 59. to fol. 109. in so much that the Patriarch of Constantinople c. excommunicates the Pope and his Clergy once a year Therefore Rome cannot be the Mother Church nor the Mistress of other Churches being the fewest in number and last in being Jerusalem Antioch Constantinople and Alexandria nay England were in the Faith before her if we may believe the most authentick of Authors as Bishop Jewell Dr. Fulk Willet Paget vid. fol. 146. Bishop Bramhall Taylor Stillingfleet Ursinus c. indeed she was first in Apostacy in that she deserves the Primacy in departing from the Faith and holy Life of the Apostles and primitive Churches as is manifest from their own Authors that writ from Boniface 3. the first debauch'd grand Apostate to Leo the tenth who obtained a Confirmation from the Council of Trent of their Errors and Usurpations Saith Erasmus on the thirteenth Chapter of the Revelations When the Roman Kingdom after the time of Julianus

against the King and most barbarous inhumane Cruelties exercised upon his most loyal Subjects in Ireland did they transact in the Kings Name to which they counterfeited his Great Seal vide Borlacy fol. 29. and declared all they did was for the Kings Service See their Remonstrance at Trim March 17. 1642. with their other Addresses but especially the grand Bond of their Catholick Confederacy their Oath of Association they declare thus in the Preamble As also for the defence and safeguard of his Majesties Person regal Power just Prerogatives Honour State and Rights in the body of the Oath thus I A.B. do prosess swear and protest before God his Saints and Angels that I will during my life bear true Faith and Allegiance to my Soveraign Lord Charles c. that I will to my power during my life defend uphold and maintain all his just Prerogatives Estates and Rights c. Now to say this in that very act in which the Bond of their treasonable Rebellion consisted which after the greatest deliberation they agreed to publish in contempt of the Kings Laws and Soveraign Power puts dull Hereticks to a stand what to make of Popish Loyalty unless they can loyally rise in Rebellion against their King and barbarously murder two or three hundred thousand of his loyal Subjects for his Honour and Service Sir John Temple p. 6. The Lords of the Pale desired Commissions and Arms to resist the Rebels and then imployed them to assist them for his Service Sir John Temple p. 60. They maintained a long and bloody War against His Majesties Vice-Roy and Army commissioned by him for His Majesties Service After near two years viz. June 1643. they by the utmost extremity of War against the Kings Vice-Roy had reduced his Majesties Army into great extremities of wants c. yet in their Instrument impowering their Commissioners to treat about the Cessation they stile themselves His Majesties most faithful Subjects necessitated to take up Arms for the Defence of His Majesties just Prerogatives and Rights vide Dr. Borlace pag. 126. And this near two years after His Majesty had declared them and their Adherents and Abettors lewd and wicked persons that had rob'd and massacred multitudes of his loyal Protestant Subjects Rebels and Traitors against his Royal Person Enemies to his Crown c commanding his Justices and Army to prosecute the said Rebels and Traitors with Fire and Sword as persons unworthy of Mercy or Favour vid. Dr. Borlaco's Hist fol. 53 54. It is evident His Majesty esteemed that Treason and Rebellion they called Loyalty and good Service yet so confident they were all they had done consisted with their Loyalty they menaced the Lords Justices and Council July 1643. if any Messenger brought any Papers to them containing other Language than to His Majesties loyal and obedient Subjects they should not return safe Dr. Borlace p. 128. And to pass by all the Breaches of their Articles of Cessation which you may read a Brief of in Dr. Borlace's Hist fol. 147 148. Take but a brief view of their Behaviour after the Peace was proclaimed 1646 and 1648. 1. They treacherously contrived to cut off the Lord Leutenant and his Army who in confidence of the Articles of Peace they had got into their Quarters as far as Cashel Borlace p. 161 Their Excommunicating all that adhered to the Peace and joyning with the Nuntio's Army to besiege and distress the Lord Lieutenant with the Kings Army in Dublin Borl p. 162 165. Their treacheorous Consult at Waterford to cut off the Lord Lieutenant and his Party who visited them in kindness to contrive their Security and was instrumental to the great hazard of his Person to preserve a Body of Foot that had otherwise been cut off in their Retreat from passage were these things for His Majesties Service Borlace's Hist fol. 231 232. Nay from that time all their Affronts Indignities and Contempts put upon the Kings Authority in the Persons of the Marquesses of Ormond and Clanriccard were still for the Kings Service you may read in Borlace's History of the Years 1650 1651. When not only the Lord Lieutenant was dayly affronted to that height as is not to be parallell'd for Rudeness and Ingratitude and after all his patience bearing with and winking at so many repeated affronts which his high Spirit would have disdained the least part of if the Kings Interest had not weighed down all they excommunicated and rejected his Person and Authority with all imaginary reproach and slander vide Borlace 259. to 273. but it was still for the Kings Service And little better Treatment did that most loyal and upright Catholick Peer the Marquess of Clanriccard meet with from his Countrymen vide id 291. to 295. But after all for that unpardonable sin of Loyalty c. was excommunicated as a Contemner of the Authority of the Church because he would not betray his Trust from his Prince vide idem fol. 287. But all these intolerable Affronts and Contempts put on the Kings Authority from the Peace 1648. was only by the Clergy and Nuntio's Party for not only the Marquess of Clanriccard but many other Catholick Noblemen and Gentlemen with a considerable party of the Popish Army adhered stedfastly to the Kings Authority to the last the other only pretended to it Which fully evidenceth all Papists as is before asserted are not Jesuited Papists And it would be better both for themselves and us if they would more visibly distinguish themselves that we might know our Fiends from our Enemies My Opinion is those Subjects indulged by their Prince in the Liberty of their Consciences ought not only to explode all pernicious Principles to the Peace of his State in themselves but detect them where they discover them in others of their Sect or Persuasion or otherwise they justly suffer those Miseries that shall ensue by their neglect for though Unity in Religion is an excellent bond for Christian neighbourly Society where it can be obtained without violence to Reason and Conscience Yet I judge an Unity in Loyalty that is mutually to adhere to the Civil Constitutions of the Government they live under is much more steddy and safe Civil Interest being much more inclusive and less disputable than Religious for since St. Paul withstood St. Peter to the Face Galat. 2.11 and that sharp Contention betwixt Saint Paul and Barnabas on which they separated Acts 15.39 I do not find either in sacred or other History but there hath been Contentions and Divisions in the Church but still their Civil Interest was the same against Pagan Persecutors until that wicked Error of the Arrians became potent and persecuted the Orthodox since which time that Antichristian Spirit of Persecution hath rendered Christians less sociable than Pagans That were I to choose my Habitation in the world I should think my self more safe and comfortable in the Neighbourhood of moral Turks or Heathens that retain the Principles of Humanity than amongst such Christians