c. Cyprian lib. 1. Epist 3. Hierom all Bishops are of one Worthiness neither Riches nor Poverty maketh Bishops higher or lower St. Augustine about a hundred years after St. Cyprian rejects it vid. Council of Africa ch 9. So Chrysostome Hom. 3. and 35. Gregory the Great the last of good Bishops at Rome did not only condemn the Title as Antichristian but greatly bewailed it as the forerunner of the Churches Misery saith he Ages succeeding shall feel the dismal effects of that fond Title which he termeth Nomen vanitatis vocabulum prophanum perversum superbum scholestum superstitiosum 4. Not from the Councils 1. The Council of Carthage saith there is none but a few desperate and loose companions take the Authority of the Bishops of Africa to be less than that of Rome Cyprian Epist 3. 2. The Council of Nice Canon 6. vid. Russinus History of the Church lib. 1. ch 6. 3. Council of Constantinople ch 2. 4. The Council of Africa Canon 26. ch 5. Council of Ephesus ch last 6. Council of Chalcedon ch 28. Canon 16. 7. Council of Constantinople ch 35. 8. Council of Carthage ch 4. Canon 26. But it is manifest both the Popes Infallibility and Supremacy proceeded from detestable Treachery and intolerable Pride and Debauchery vide Sect. 2. Not only our Protestant but their own Authors commence the Reign of Antichrist from that time see Luthers Opinion pag. 72 of my 2 d. Part viz. the first that obtained the Supremacy was Boniface the third the most vitious of Popes we read of who by the help of Brasutus cut out his way to the infallible Chair by poysoning six Popes his Predecessors viz. Domasus the second Leo the ninth Victor the second Stephen Benedict the tenth and Nicholas the second vide Paget 244. and after wickedly approving of Phocus his treacherous and barbarous murdering his Master Maurice the Emperor with his Wife and Children for which he was condemned by Cyryacus Patriarch of Constantinople Phocus in revenge declares Boniface to be Universal Bishop vide Plat. in His Life After him Adrian the second by flattering another Tyrant Basilius who murdered his Master Michael the Emperor obtain'd of him that none should enter the Council of Constantinople till they first subscribed to the Popes Supremacy circa Anno 870. from which time they daily gained ground by Force or Fraud over the Bishops of other Churches But Urban the second was not contented with bare Subscriptions but required them to swear Obedience to him And this Supremacy gained from the Clergy by specious pretences of zeal for the Liberties of the holy Church and to free Clerks from Civil Tribunals and Taxes by Lay-Princes who were thereby also deprived of their antient priviledges of the Investiture of Bishops and withal prohibited all Appeals but to the infallible Chair upon this our Thomas Becket c. contested with Henry the second about Arraigning Clerks before criminal Judges for Murders Robberies Felonies c. which cost Becket his Life and the King intolerable Troubles and Vexations and at last the loss of his Kingdom and Life which Vexations were continued by the insolent Clergy against his three Successors Richard the first King John and Henry the third but Edward the first to be quit with them outlawed all the Clergy Matthew Paris Ann. 1213. What kind of Creatures the Pope and Clergy were after this read Sect 2. and what woful work they made in the world after they had gained the Supremacy read Sect. the 5. SECT II. Observes the Original of these cursed Principles ALthough they had been long a hatching and dispersed throughout the Popedome asserted by some and opposed by others yet never espoused as Articles of Faith till the Jesuits adopted them And if you would know the Divine Original of the Jesuits you may read St. Johns Prophesie of them Revel ch 9. where they are described to the life by Characters that sute with no Sect but themselves Where they are distinguished from all other Locusts whatsoever 1. From their Place the bottomless pit v. 2. vide ch 11. 7. 17. 2. From the Time when the Smoak of the Pit had darkened the Air in the time of deep Ignorance 3. By their Shape like Horses prepared unto Battel terrible being movers of bloody Wars c. vers 7. 4. By their Swiftness in execution they had Wings v. 9. 5. By their Cruelty their torment was as the torment of a Scorpion when he striketh a man vers 5. 6. Their Strength to devour their Teeth were as the Teeth of Lyons v. 8. 7. Their Security they had Breast-plates of Iron v. 9. 8. Their Grievousness to the world men shall seek Death and shall not find it c. v. 6. 9. Their Honour On their Heads shall be Crowns of Gold v. 7. 10. Their Visage or rather Vizard their Faces were as the Faces of Men and they had Hair as the Hair of a Woman v. 8. 11. Their Attendants they had Tayls like unto Scorpions and there were Stings in their Tayls vers 10. 12. Their King over them the Angel of the bottomless pit v. 10. 13. The terrible Noise they shall make in the world the sound of their Wings was as the sound of Chariots of many Horses running to Battel v. 9. vide Famous Mead his Remains and the Learned Broughton on this Chapter Now these Characters are only found in the Jesuits all other Orders of Fryars c. are not only defective in most of these Qualifications but in the End and Design of their Institution The first Votaries we read of were the Hermits or Pilgrims who were driven into desolate places in the height of persecution Grimstones States and Empires fol. 1197. And soon after in Constantines time when the Church had rest St. Basil and St. Hierome gathered these dispersed Hermits into Societies and Convents Ross View of Religions p. 249. After them St. Augustine in the fourth Century was moved to institute his Order from his sense of the Corruption and Pollutions with which the generality of Christians were defiled In the seventh Century the first Order in the West was instituted by St. Benedict who imitated the Augustines in severity of Discipline and strictness of Morals but much more superstitious out of which Hive swarmed twenty four distinct Orders the Daughters still worse than the Mothers Ross 270. Grimstone fol. 1203. to 1210. But the Popes having been struggling first with the Clergy and next with the Emperors and Princes for the Supremacy from Boniface 3. in the beginning of the seventh Century to defend their Title instituted the Franciscans and Dominicans as Fryars Preachers that they might from the Pulpit chase Princes out of their Thrones but the stubborn Emperors c. defending their Rights with their Swords as you may read in Urfinus who abbreviates the History His Holiness observ'd St. Peters Keys would not do he threw them into Tyber and drew St. Pauls Sword for the Light of the Gospel broke out
evidence the authentickness of this opinion by the practice of our Princes since the Conquest p. 122 to 156 A Copy of the present Establishment of Ireland p. 156 to p. 162 A Table for reducing Plantation-Acres into English c. p. 162 163 The establishment of the Subsidies of Ireland p. 164 to 172 CHAP. VI. On Coins IN answer to this Question whether it be advisable to enhance the Value or debase the Alloy of the currant Money of Ireland p. 137 to 188 The Contents of the Supplement p. 181 SECT I. THe Objection answered If the Government of Ireland by its own Members be of so great advantage to the Trade and Wealth of Ireland why was it no more advanc'd under the Lords Justices and Duke of Ormond in their nine years Government p. 181 to 190 Sect. 2. Answering the Objection p. 93 What those Popish Principles are that make them so desperately dangerous to humane Society 1. Not the Religion of their Church relating to Worship but the Policies of their State respecting Government p. 193 194 Their Principles inconsistent with humane Society abstracted p. 195 196 to 199 Their Principles of Treason and Rebellion c. collected p. 200 to 203 The Comment or Gloss made on their inhumane rebellious Principles by their own Authors p. 204 to 207 Since all these wicked Principles have attended the Popes pretended Infallibility and Supremacie from whence did they proceed Answered 1. Negatively not from Christ nor his Apostles nor from the ancient Fathers nor Councels p. 208 209 2. Positively from Vsurpation Treachery and Rebellion p. 210 SECT II. Shewing the Original of their bloody Principles p. 211 The Jesuits first adopted them who are charactered by the locusts prophecied of to ascend out of the Bottomless-pit Rev. 9 p. 211 212 No other Votaries or Orders of Friars c. answers the description p. 213 The design of their Institution by the Pope was to manage his Treasons c. against Princes p. 214 SECT III. Shews that no Authority but the Pope and his Illegal Council of Trent ever confirm'd their Institution p. 214 The Illegality of the Council of Trent proved p. 215 216 217 Rome is no mother-Mother-Church nor Mistress of other Churches and why p. 218 Rome only hath the Primacy in Apostacie ibid. The testimony of Rome's vile Apostacie from her own Learned and Applauded Authors p. 219 220 221 The bloody work Rome's Apostacy and the Pope's Rebellion against Emperors c. made in Italy p. 222 They enjoyed not the Supremacie until they had so vexed and wearied the Emperors that to stay the stream of blood they kept running in Christendom they permitted them to do what they pleased p. 222 All Papists in Ireland not jesuited Papists p. 222 223 Not only their principles but their persons and Order exploded and banisht bymost Popish Princes and States p. 223 224 SECT IV. Of the natural consequences of their inhumane principles p. 225 They abrogate all Laws of Humanity and Divinity p. 225 226 The iniquity of their principles aggravated by fathering their villanies on innocent persons p. 227 The Popes advantage above all Tyrants in the World to Massacre and Assassinate by his Emissaries in all parts to perform his pleasure p. 228 Instances of their detestable stabbing and poysoning of Princes c. ibid. They have made Temples and Sanctuaries their Slaughter-houses in time of Worship ibid. They have poysoned their Disciples by the Sacramental Wine p. 229 What vitious men many of their infallible Popes have been ibid. Like Popes like Preists like Priests like People p. 230 SECT V. Shews their Tyrannical practice since they usurpt the Supremacy p. 231 Instances of Emperors and Princes Excommunicated Deposed and Destroyed by them p. 232 233 Their imperious insultings over mighty Princes submitting to their censurre p. 234 The reason why so many High born Potent Princes have so sordidly subjected themselves to their Tyranny is from Gods judgment upon them p. 235 Princes no sooner become Slaves to the Pope but turn Tyrants over their own Subjects ibid. After his Holiness became his Mightiness he contented not himself to insult over some Christian Princes by the aid of others but brought them all to lay their profane necks under his holy feet by his own power p. 235 236 The Popes cruel project by the Jesuits to have incenst the Turk against the Patriarch of Constantinople and thereby to have destroyed all the Asian Christians that would not own his Supremacy p. 236 237 The saying of Rodulph the Emperor as to the danger of Princes imposing on their Subjects consciences p. 237 Shutting the mouth of Gods Ministers hath usually lifted up the hands of Gods judgments p. 238 The Jesuits bloody work in the West and East-Indies ibid. Of all the Countries in the World England with its Territories hath been the mark the Jesuits have levelled their fiery darts at for 100 years past p. 239 SECT VI. Of the inconsistency of their principles with the just Power and Rights of Temporal Princes p. 140 The most Sovereign Prince under the Popes Jurisdiction more Slaves than any Conquered or Tributary Prince is to the Great Turk instances p. 240 No hereditary Title though of the most ancient Royal Dissent can secure them p. 241 No legal Election c. can do it p. 242 No strength of Arms nor strong Holds can preserve them against their Assassinations p. 243 No Oaths Articles of Peace nor publick Leagues can do it p. 243 244 No Sovereign Prince in the World that either is free or knows how to be so from the Popes Supremacy if not infatuated but would choose it p. 245 Popish Harmonie is only in their Errors Superstitions and Immoralities ibid. Popish Slavery not only Corporal but Spiritual we must believe against reason and sense or be damn'd Hereticks p. 246 Christians must either he Rebels at home or Hereticks at Rome if the Pope and their Prince fall out ibid. We must believe their Blasphemie is Pietie and their Rebellion Loyaltie or be perverse Hereticks instances p. 246 247 The bloody Massacres of Paris and Ireland were perpetrated in Gods name and for Gods Glory and Service p. 246 247 Their most horrid Treasons and Rebellions must be esteemed Loyaltie and for the service of the Prince they rebel against p. 248 to 252 It would be better both for the Papists and Protestants if moral loyal Papists would distinguish themselves from Jesuited Papists p. 352 Vnity in Loyaltie on Civil Interests much more easie and safe than in Religious p. 252 253 The Scripture as positive against Subjects Rebellion on the account of Religion as any one Wickedness there condemn'd p. 254 The Wars betwixt the Protestants of France Germany Belgia c. against their Princes was not primarily for Religion but what p. 255 The difference betwixt Papists and Protestants in their claims of liberty of Conscience p. 255 No vengeance of God upon Popish Persecutors will restrain them instances p. 256 257 SECT
Head over Christendom became potent and submitted to by most Christian Princes as the whole World once became an Arrian so the whole Church became a Prophanist till the intolerable Pride and Insolence of their Prelates and Ignorance and Debauchery of their Clergy mov'd some of the German Princes who groan'd under their intolerable Yoke to murmur at it and discourse of Reformation which encouraged John Huss and Jerome of Prague and after them Luther with many other both German and French Divines to declare publickly against the Pride and Debauchery of the Clergy with their cheating Indulgences but his Holiness with their Eminencies though they confess'd there were cause yet disdain'd a sorry Fryar should be the Promoter When I was at Worms said Luther the Bishop of Magdeburgh came unto me and said I know we have an evil Cause in hand and that your Doctrine is right yet for some reasons best known to our selves we neither may nor will receive it In like manner the Cardinal of Saltsburgh said unto me we know and it is written in our Consciences that Priests justly might marry and that Matrimony is far better than the shameless and wicked Whoring which Priests drive and use yet notwithstanding said he we must neither alter nor reform it for the Emperor will not suffer Germany to be disturbed for the Conscience sake Luth. Colloq 325. In the Council of Lateran ann Dom. 1515. they first concluded the Article of the Resurrection though the Pope had been infallible long before and then also decreed that a Cardinal might lawfully keep but five Whores and Youths to be his Chamberlains c. But they had his Holinesses stores of his tolerated Stews to supply their wants besides his vast treasure of Indulgences to pardon these venial Sins Surely said Luther some fearful Destruction attends them who practice such horrible abominations that if with my eyes I had not seen them I should never have believed them fol. 324. And then writes the Generation as he titles it of the abominable Desolations of Antichrist the Son of Hypocrisie the Son of the Devil saith he The Devil begat Darkness Darkness begat Ignorance Ignorance begat Error and his Brethren Error begat Free-will and Presumption out of Self-conceit Free will begat Merit Merit begat Forgetfulness of God Forgetfulness begat Transgression Transgression begat Superstition Superstition begat Satisfaction Satisfaction begat the Mass-offering Mass-offering begat the Priest of Unction the Priest of Unction begat Misbelief Misbelief begat King Hypocrisie Hypocrisie begat Trading with Offerings for Gain Trading for Gain begat Purgatory Purgatory begat the yearly solemn Vigils yearly Vigils begat Church livings Church-livings begat Mammon Mammon begat swelling Superfluity swelling Superfluity begat Fulness Fulness begat Rage Rage begat Freedom Freedom begat Rule and Dominion Dominion begat Pomp Pomp begat Ambition Ambition begat Symony Symony begat the Pope and his Brethren about the time of the Babylonian Captivity after the Babylonian Captivity the Pope begat the Mystery of Iniquity the Mistery of Iniquity begat sophistical Divinity sophistical Divinity begat rejecting of the holy Scripture rejecting of holy Scripture begat Tyranny Tyranny begat slaughtering of the Saints slaughtering of the Saints begat contemning of God contemning of God begat Dispensation Dispensation begat wilful Sin wilful Sin begat Abomination Abomination begat Desolation Desolation begat Anguish Anguish begat Questioning Questioning begat searching out the Ground of Truth out of which the Desolator the Pope called Antichrist is revealed Thus you have the Rise and Growth of Error and Prophaneness how they gained ground against Truth and Piety step by step by a person that lived in an age of Discovery and made it his business to detect their Errors and Prophaneness Now from this polluted Fountain hath flowed all the Debauchery of Christendom and since the reformed Churches have so tenaciously contested about the true Forms many of them have lost the true power and holy Life of Religion and degenerated into Romes Prophaneness and doubtless will lick up their Errors and Superstitions rather than part with their Lusts when they come in competition for when once a people have prostrated themselves to all sorts of vitious Manners what should restrain them from imbibing all sorts of corrupt Doctrines Consciences once hardened by a custom in Immoralities can never much struggle for the truth of Divinityes And no History sacred or civil gives an account of any age so depraved in their Morals as this we live in Never did men so glory in those Vices Turks and Pagans would blush at as the debauched Christians of this age never did any so attempt to outface Sobriety Temperance and Chastity as if they were the properties of a sneaking peasantly Humour compared with their Heroick Vices how have men learned to degrade humane Nature as if the Nature of Brutes were more excellent that live as if they had abandoned the common hope of Mankind relating to a future state and even say as their predecessors in Voluptuousness and Atheism Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die The Taverns c. are their Oratories and their Devotion scurrilous Drollery at all things serious as if they designed to jeer all Morality and Divinity out of the world and esteem all men out of their wits that are not mad enough to be free Denisons of their Bedlam if these men do believe there is either Heaven or Hell they must suppose the difference is so little they would not give much to choose or else they dream of a Paganish Elysium where all sensual Delights will be enjoyed and conclude what is to be the Happiness of the next world cannot be the Sin or Misery of this if they do believe there is a God it must be as Psal 50. a God that is altogether such an one as themselves these Fools that make a mock of Sin are neer akin to those Fools that say in their Hearts there is no God Psal 14.1 for they 'l worship none devoutly but Bacchus and Venus and their Servants ye are saith the Apostle to whom ye obey c. If their Senses did not convince them of the contrary their Reason is so depraved they would conclude grim Death durst not arrest persons of their Quality and Mettle though every Vice they so welcom are Deaths Serjeants and daily seise them and post them away to their dreadful Eternity Had they but leisure to consider how many of their jovial Companions have been haled out of the world by Adultery and Drunkenness c. and would but observe how many maimed Souldiers to Bacchus and Venus creep up and down the streets it might convince them if God hath not given them up to a reprobate sense c. that this way of sin is not the way of safety either to Body or Soul If they believe a Judgment to come they fancy they shall be there treated like Gentlemen they cannot believe their own Consciences who they have enslaved and kept silent
Essentials in Worship agreed and maintain'd by Conforming and Nonconforming Protestants p. G. F. Fishing how to increase p. 13 Friars their several Orders whence and why instituted p. 212 213 Fundamentals agreed to by Dissenters with the Church p. G. G. Governors of Ireland unacquainted with the Country not capable of well managing its Affairs and why p. 102 to 107 This hath been the opinion and practice of our Kings from its first Conquest of which instances p. 108 109 In what cases excepted p. 110 111 I. Ireland's English Interest potent above what it was before the last Rebellion p. 47 48 Irelands Interest in being Govern'd by its own Members p. 47 to 96 Irish Papists their interest in the potency of the English Interest in Ireland p. 73 to 94 Ignorance in the Scripture the cause of Papists Rebellion p. 91 92 Judges and Juries of Ireland much more ingaged to suppress Sedition and Rebellion in Ireland than those of England can be and why p. 105 106 Jesuits their inhumane bloody principles from their own Authors p. 195 to 203 Papists reflections and glosses on them p. 204 to 207 Jesuits their Original and Characte p. 211 to 214 Jesuits by what Authority their Order Instituted p. 214 Jesuits banished and their Tenents exploded by whom p. 222 to 225 Jesuits the natural consequence of their Principles p. 225 They abrogate the Laws of Humanity Morality and Divinity p. 226 Their dexterity in fathering their Brats on innocent persons p. 227 Jesuits their suitable practices to their bloody Principles p. 231 to 240 Jesuits imployed by the Pope to destroy the Greek Church p. 236 Jesuits bloody work in the West and East-Indies p. 238 L. Lands of Ireland most possest by English Proprietors p. 48 Loyalty evidenc'd in many of the Irish Papists p. 89 to 203 Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany more differ than English Protestants yet esteem each other Protestants and unite against Popery p. H. Laws against single life useful in Ireland and why p. A. B. C. M. Massacre of Ireland how inhumane and barbarous p. 81 to 87 Militia of Ireland is its great Security p. 98 Militia neglected the cause of the easie massacring the naked Protestants 1641 p. 81 Manufacturies of Ireland by whom incouraged and erected how ruined p. 188 to 191 Mystical Babylon who in the opinion of Papists p. 220 N. Nobility or Peers of Ireland most English Protestants p. 63 to 67 Nobility their Catalogue 1571 and 1641 p. 67 to p. 73 Non-residents enjoying Salleries a great loss to Ireland p. 99 O. The Original of most Noble and Worshipful English Families of Ireland were from Offices p. 96 Ormond Duke the longest Regency over Ireland under the greatest difficulties and why p. 112 113 Ormond the great confusion he found Ireland in at his access to the Government 1662. and how soon composed p. 182 to 188 P. Parliaments of Ireland altered in their Constitution from an Irish to an English Interest p. 58 to 63 A good Plea for Irish Papists against their Jesuited Priests that shall again instigate them to rebel p. 88 Planting of Ireland discouraged by restraint of Trade and being liable to be tried for capital Offences by Judges and Juries in England to whom they are unknown c. p. 106 Poysonings and Stabbings the Popes arguments to convince gainsayers instances p. 228 229 Principles of the Jesuits inconsistent with the just power and right of Princes p. 240 R. Religion Protestant condemned as a venomous Doctrine and Hellish Opinion by the Papists p. 76 Religion Protestant why no more received by Irish Papists p. 90 91 Rebellion and bloodiness of Popery above all other Religions in the World whence p. 193 194 Rome can be no mother-Mother-Church nor Superior to others why p. 218 Rome hath only the primacy of Apostacy from the principles of the Primitive Church p. 218 to 222 Rome c. always promoted and encouraged the rebellions of Ireland p. 76 to 85 Romes struggles with the Greek Church for Supremacy reduced them to Turkish Slavery p. 237 S. Statute Staple its original use and method p. 43 to 47 Souldiers who are best for Field-Armies p. 98 99 to 120 The Statutes of the 10 th of Hen. 7. and 23d of Hen. 8. no bar to persons born in Ireland from being Lord Lieutenant c. p. 100 101. Souldiers 1000 bred in Ireland worth 2000 bred in England for Irish Service and why p. 118 Subsidies of Ireland their establishment p. 164 to 173 Supremacy from the Pope from whence p. 208 209 Supremacy a Tallent so well improved by the Pope that he deserves it p. 234 Schism Criminal when p. D. E. T. Trade of England ingrost by the Guild of the Hance p. 18 Trade in Companies countenanc'd by the Kings and Parliaments of England since Edward the Third p. 20 Trade to the East-Indies when first obtained p. 24 Treasure the vast summ Ireland hath cost England above what it was ever worth p. 53 Table reducing Plantation Acres into English p. 162 1â—â— Trade why no more improv'd under the Government of the Justices and Duke of Ormond p 181 Tyrants are those Princes over their own Subjects who are Slaves to the Pope p. 235 Turkish Slavery of the Greek-Church the Product of the Popes Supremacy p. 2 7 Trent Council illegal c. p. 217 U. Usher Bishop his opinion declared it was the Interest of Irish Papists to support and strengthen the Interest of the Crown of England in Ireland p. 77 to 81 Usher Bishop Prophecies of the Irish Rebellion 40 years before it was and 〈◊〉 great trouble to the Protestants by thâ— Papists yet to come p. 80 81 Vengeance of God dreadful on the Irish foâ— their bloody Massacre 1641 p. 86 87 Vnity though boasted of by Papists yet arâ— they much more divided than Protestants p. H. I. Vnion of Papists chiefly in Errors and Immoralities Vnion in Religion how far necessary amongst Protestants to promote the Prosperity and secure the Peace of Ireland p. C. D. W. Weaving Broad cloath when first set up in England p. 25 Wools first prohibited their transportation p. 25 Wools may easily be prevented transporting expedients proposed p. 39 to 43 Wools transporting the ruine of our Clothing Trade p. 39 Wall'd-Towns to be increased and well planted to secure the safety of English Protestants in Ireland p. A. Women drunk with the blood of the Saints Rev. 17. who in the Papists opinion p. 219 221 Y. Guild of the Hance its Antiquity and great Trade p. 43 Their dissolution and why p. 34 Z. Zeal preposterous like Hell hot without light that makes different Opinions different Religions saith B p. Bramhall p. E. Zeal Popish and Jesuitical that esteems all Separation Criminal Schism ibid. Books lately Printed A Judgment of the Comet which became first generally visible to us in Dublin Decemb the 13th 1680. By a person of Quality Foxes and Firebrands or a Specimen of the Danger and Harmony of Popery and
no Reward or Riches is to be found only to draw the people unto the Church of Rome whereas some of our idle Ministers having a way for credit and estimation thereby opened unto them and having the Livings of the Country offered unto them without pains and without peril will neither for the same nor any Love of God nor zeal of Religion nor for all the good they may do by winning Souls to God be drawn forth from their warm nests to look out into Gods Harvest which is even ready for the Sickle and all the Fields yellow long ago doubtless those good old Fathers will I fear me rise up in the day of Judgment to condemn them thus this great Scholar and true Protestant avers the true Religion is not to be planted by penal Laws or the terror of punishments which may fill a Church with temporising Hypocrites but never with sincere Professors nor is it to be propagated by a vitious slothful Minister So Heylin writing of the Irish saith he For their Religion they either adhere to the Pope or their own superstitious Fancies c. and it is no wonder they should there being no care taken to instruct them in the Protestant Religion either by translating the Bible or English Lyturgy into their own Language c. And to manifest the Irish are as capable of Conviction as others he instances in Ric. Fitz Ralph Archbishop of Armagh who flourished an 1350. a declared enemy to the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome Heyl. Cosm 341. But notwithstanding these Defects that have been in the Governments and Clergy it is evident many of the ordinary sort of Irish Papists are now Protestants and not only they but divers Noble and Worshipful Families of great Interest in their Country formerly Papists are now Protestants as appears by the annexed Catalogue of the Irish Nobility which as it greatly weakens the Popish Irish so it much strengthens the English Protestant Interest by reducing the highest Court of Judicature from an Irish to an English constitution which doth alter the nature of our Parliaments that as the House of Commons if Election be permitted without a Test will be three for one on the English side as they that know the constitution of the Corporations in the annexed Schedule will grant so the House of Peâ—rs is hereby reduced at least three for one on the English Protestants side as by the annexed Catalogue appears and while God blesses us with an English Protestant King and Parliament Ireland can never degenerate from an English Protestant Interest and therefore may safely be trusted under the Conduct of an Irish Protestant chief Governour as in the next Chapter is asserted A LIST of what PLACES return PARLIAMENT-MEN IN IRELAND Leinster COunty of Catherlough 2 Bor. of Catherlough 2 Borough of Old Leighlin 2 total 6 County of Dublin 2 City of Dublin 2 University of Dublin 3 Bor. of Newcastle 2 Bor. of Swordes 2 total 11 Villa de Drogheda 2 County of Kilkenny 2 Bor. of Callen 2 Borough of Thomas Town 2 Bor. of Gowran 2 Bor. of Kells 2 Bor. of Emisteoge 2 Bor. of Knoctopher 2 Bor. of St. Kennis 2 City of Kilkenny 2 total 18 County of Kildare 2 Bor. of Kildare 2 Bor. of Naas 2 Bor. of Athy 2 total 8 County Regis 2 Bor. of Philips Town 2 Bor. of Byrr. 2 Bor. of Banagher 2 total 8 County of Meath 2 Bor. of Trim 2 Bor. of Kells 2 Bor. of Navan 2 Bor. of Athbuy 2 Bor. of Duleeke 2 Bor. of Ratooth 2 total 14 County Reginae 2 Bor. of Bellakill 2 Bor. of Maryborough 2 Port Arlington 2 total 8 County of West Meath 2 Bor. of Athlone 2 Bor. of Fower 2 Bor. of Kilbegan 2 Bor. of Mullingar 2 total 10 County of Wicklow 2 Bor. of Wicklow 2 Bor. of Caresford 2 Bor. of Baltinglass 2 total 8 County of Wexford 2 Town of Wexford 2 Town of Ross 2 Bor. of Eniscourthy 2 Bor of Featherd 2 Bor. of Bannow 2 Bor. of Cloghmaine 2 Bor. of Arkloe 2 Bor. of Taghman 2 Bor. of Newborough 2 total 20 County of Longford 2 Town of Longford 2 Bor. of Lanesborough 2 total 6 County of Louth 2 Bor. of Dundalk 2 Bor. of Arthdee 2 Bor. of Carlingford 2 total 8 Munster County of Cork 2 City of Cork 2 Bor. of Mallow 2 Bor. of Baltimore 2 Bor. of Cloghne Kilty 2 Bor. of Bandonbridge 2 Bor. of Kinsale 2 Bor. of Youghal 2 total 16 County of Clare 2 Bor. of Inish 2 total 4 County of Kerry 2 Bor. of Traley 2 Bor. of Dinglecough 2 Bor. of Ardfart 2 total 8 Cunty of Limerick 2 City of Limerick 2 Bor. of Kilmalock 2 Bor. of Askeaton 2 total 8 County of Tipperary 2 Town of Tipperary 2 Bor. of Clonmell 2 Bor. of Featherd 2 Town of Cashell 2 Bor. of Thurles 2 total 12 County of Waterford 2 City of Waterford 2 Bor. of Dungharvan 2 Bor. of Lismore 2 Bor. of Tallow 2 total 10 Vlster County of Ardmagh 2 Bor. of Ardmagh 2 Bor. of Charlemount 2 total 6 County of Antrim 2 Bor. of Belfast 2 Bor. of Carickfargus 2 Borough of Lisbon 2 Borough of Antrim 2 total 10 County of Cavan 2 Bor. of Cavan 2 Bor. of Belturbett 2 total 6 County of Down 2 Bor. of Down 2 Bor. of Newtown 2 Bor. of Newry 2 Ballkillaleagh 2 Bor. of Bangar 2 Bor. of Hilsborough 2 total 14 County of Donnegall 2 Bor. of Lifford 2 Bor. of Ballishanon 2 Bor. of Kilbegs 2 Bor. of Donnegall 2 Bor. of St. Johns Town 2 total 12 County of Farmanagh 2 Bor. of Eniskilling 2 total 4 County of Londonderry 2 City of Londonderry 2 Bor. of Coleraine 2 Bor. of Lamnevaddy 2 total 8 County of Monaghan 2 Bor. of Monaghan 2 total 4 County of Tyrone 2 Bor. of Donnegall 2 Town of Clogher 2 Bor. of Agber 2 Bor. of Strabane 2 total 10 Connaght County of Gallway 2 Bor. of Gallway 2 Bor. of Athenry 2 Bor. of Tuam 2 total 8 County of Leitrim 2 Bor. of James Town 2 Bor. of Carickdrumrusk 2 total 6 Couty of Mayo 2 Bor. of Castlebarr 2 total 4 County of Roscommon 2 Bor. of Roscommon 2 Bor. of Tulsk 2 total 6 County of Sligo 2 Bor. of Sligo 2 total 4 The whole number 285 Of which considering the present constitution of these Corporations no man can think where ten Papists can carry an Election A Catalogue of the present PEERS of IRELAND 1681. not in exact Order as to Seniority though I used my utmost endeavours to have done that designing only to manifest the Strength of the English Interest in the House of Peers PROTESTANTS PAPISTS Duke Ormond Marquess Antrym Earls Kildare Thomond Cork Desmond Barrymore Meath Ossery Roscommon Londonderry Donnegall Arran Conaway Carberry Ardglass Rannalagh Cavan Inchiquin Clancarty Orrery Mountroth Drogheda Waterford Mountalexander Down Longford Tyrone Earls Clanrickard Castlehaven West Meath Fingall Castlemayne Carlingford Viscounts Grandison Wilmot Loftus
set up another and from thence all their Subjects are absolved from their Oaths of Allegeance c. they must believe it having never read St. Peter though claimed for their own peculiar Apostle from whose pretended Supremacy they usurp theirs who as if he had foreseen the abuse they would put upon his Doctrine more expresly declares the Supremacy in the Civil Magistrate than the other Apostles in his first Epistle ch 2. v. 13. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supream or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him c. So St. Paul as if he had foreseen the Apostacy of the Roman Church from their primitive Obedience to the Civil Magistrate is more express in his Epistle to the Romans chapt 13. from the 1st to the 19th vers than to any other Church he writes to saith he Let every Soul be subject to the higher Powers for there is no Power but of God The Powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation So that the Pope and his Clergy must prove they are no Souls before they can prove they are not bound by this Divine Canon for every Soul is required to be subject Object If it be as you say that the Irish Papists in the last bloody Massacre were under no personal provocation to fill them with malice and revenge nor are depraved in principles of Humanity but are of a sociable kind friendly temper and capable of the highest improvements in the liberal Sciences and ingenious Arts whence is it they have so often been treacherous and bloody as their Histories declare If you place all their Faults upon their Religion you might do well to instance what Points of their Religion render them so dangerous c. considering they profess themselves Christians and own the the same God and believe in the same Jesus c. Answ It is not the Religion of the Church of Rome viz. what properly relates to Faith and Worship due to God but the Policies of the State of Rome that render them so incompatible with civil Order and Society multitudes of Christians live safely mixed with Turks and Pagans in Asia and Africa under the Governments of their respective Patriarchs of Constantinople Alexandria Antioch Aethiopia India c. without any dread of Assassinations or Massacres frequent in Popish Countries of whom it may be said as of Manasseh King of Israel they have made Cities and Countries to swim with Blood witness Piedmont Bohemiah France Ireland Belgia c. besides the multitudes destroyed by their unjust Wars in vindication of their usurped Supremacy c. whereby Christendom hath been made an Akeldima and all this from Principles foreign to their own Christianity and novel to their Church as was believed in Gregory the Greats time who exploded the Title of Supremacy c. as Antichristian but I shall respit my more particular Answer to the Supplement at the end of this Treatise whereto I refer all Answers to Objections being not willing to interrupt the argumentative part that it is the Interest of the Irish to promote the Prosperity of the English Protestants in Ireland And having hinted the miserable Desolation and Ruine a weak and feeble English Interest hath encouraged them to bring upon themselves and posterities and the desperate hazards of an utter Extirpation if they should attempt another Rebellion and that an equal Prosperity with their English Neighbours they do and may enjoy if they please I shall close this Chapter with this Repetition that if it be more their Interest to be in safety than in danger to be in equal capacity of Honour and Trust from their Prince with his Protestant Subjects than excluded if it be their Interest to enjoy the Fruit of their Labours and leave their Possessions and Wealth to their Children rather than to have them possess'd by others if it be their Interest to enjoy the hearty good Will and Respects from their Protestant Neighbours rather than their Prejudice arising from their Jealousie and Dread of being massacred robbed and spoyled by them in a word if it be their Interest to secure to themselves and posterities a settled prosperous state rather than to be subject to frequent ruine and destruction then it is their Interest to promote the Prosperity of the English Interest amongst them for whilst that is weak and impotent these things can never be at best not long continue whilst there is a Pope that can not only pardon Rebels and Murderers but also approve and applaud the most barbarous actions as meritorious or a Foreign Popish Prince to encourage and aid them or a Jesuited Priest to instigate them to it If this be the present state of Ireland that the English Interest there hath gained so much ground by the last Act of Settlement c. What now obstructs its progress to that strength and perfection you propose Vide Supplement SECT II. Shewing that above all it is the Interest of the Protestants of Ireland to promote the potency of the English Interest in Ireland IF it be not only the Interest of England but of the Romanists of Ireland to promote the Prosperity and Potency of the English Interest how much more is it the great Interest of all Protestants in Ireland by all lawful and possible means to do it England is obliged more remotely but the Protestants of Ireland more immediate would you not see and feel the miseries of 1641. repeated would you not see your Wives ravish'd and Infants ript out of their Wombs your Daughters deflowred your innocent Babes barbarously murdered before your eyes your stately Buildings in a flame your well improved and planted Estates all laid waste your Princes Authority despised and his Laws rejected your Religion reproached and suppressed as a pestilent Heresie c. I say if these and the like dismal calamities be worth the avoiding then let nothing in your power be omitted tending to the promotion and security of a potent English Interest which nothing will so naturally effect as a vigorous propagation of Trade and Manufacture it is not your building stately Houses nor the draining planting and stocking your Land with the best English Corn and Cattel c. will do it your 41. Experience may convince you all that may be immediately surprised and destroyed by your Enemies and put them in a capacity to maintain a destructive War against you but the well planting our Wall Towns and erecting them where they are wanting and keeping them in a posture of defence by their own Militia's which will be ready Receptacles to the English Families dispersed in the Country adjacent and by the aid of the Country Militia's able to imbody against an Enemy that would fortifie the English Interest and this may be easily effected without much charge to the King or Country by
in the common Bottom out of his Love to the common Eaglish Interest of Ireland and was also nominated when the Act was perfected to come over as Lord Lieutenant to see it executed they then began to take heart and inclined to see the issue of his Government before they would further unsettle themselves consideâ—ing that if his Humour were moderte towards them he had an Interest and Spirit big enough to strengthen his own Resolutions and not 〈◊〉 be diverted from the practice of his own Reason for fear or savour of any of the Parties which was not the case under the present Justices which soon after his arrival they found made good beyond their expectations having equal access with others into his presence and that with good acceptance and also finding they could have equal Justice at the Court of Claims and other the Kings Courts with other the Kings Subjects they gave over their thoughts of removing and disposed themselves to industry in the Country or Cities as their Estates and Educations capacitated them Now it is not to be expressed what sudden alterations this made in the Humour and Deportment of the persons of several Interests one towards another this equal Countenance and Justice of the chief Governour begat an equal Familiarity betwixt the people of different parties and so deep a resentment had the principal persons of that party before most dejected they agreed as many of the Field Officers as were in Dublin to make a solemne return of Thanks to the Duke and withal a Tender of their Service to his Son the Earl of Ossory then Lieutenant General of the Army that they were ready with their Lives and Estates when his Majesties Affairs required to engage themselves against the Kings Enemies under his Conduct which was courteously accepted by the Earl who with many affectionate Expressions in his sweet obliging way assured them when the Kings Affairs required he should highly esteem their Company and Assistance From which time that party esteemed it their duty to study how to approve themselves not only loyal Subjects to their King but grateful Servants to his Vice-Roy Thus all Interest being determined by the Act of Settlement and thereby all Humours composed each party and every person bent their minds and industry to defend their Titles to what the said Act gave them a pretence unto in the Court of Claims where such a brisk Trade was driven in purchasing and prosecuting Titles to Land no other Trade or Manufactures were thought on the bulk of the Cash of the Kingdom being swallowed up in that gulph Yet in that time the Duke considering Land in Ireland would little differ from Land in America without Inhabitants to plant and improve it was very inquisitive after the Intrigue of Trade and Manufacture if he met with any persons that he apprehended were acquainted with those Affairs and in May 1664. gave a Commission to a Council of Trade with full and large Instructions for them to govern their Proceedings by which are printed in my Preface and most persons of Quality having by that time gained possession of great scopes of Land in several of their Lots they found old ruined Towns and discerning no other way to get them planted greweager of Manufactures to whom the Lord Lieutenant gave all possible incouragement that within a few years after we 〈◊〉 erected by private persons on their own accounts many considerable Manufactures â—he Leinster Alderman Daniel Hutchenson at â—â—by Earl of Arran at Tullagh Lord Chancellor Eustace at Baltinglass Esquire Parsons at the Byrr the publick Manufacture of Chappelizod on the Kings account besides several other lesser Attempts In Munster the Earl of Orrery at Charlevil several Dutch Merchants in Limerick and Clare Baron Hartstongue at the Bruff Besides very considerable addition of Cloth Bays Stuffs and Stockins at Cork and Bandon c. In Connaght the Lord Kingston at Abby Boyle Sir James Cuff at Some time after the Duke on his particular account attempted a Manufacture at Callen and also gave great incouragement to some Undertakers to erect the most considerable Manufacture Ireland ever saw for Cloth and Stuffs at Clonmell which for some years imployed many hundreds of people and made as good Cloth and Stuffs as England could produce In Ulster the Lord Dungannon at Dundalk but the Scotch and Irish in that Province addicting themselves to spinning of Linnen Yarn attained to vast quantities of that Commodity which they transported to their great profit the conveniency of which drew thither multitudes of Linnen Weavers that my opinion is there is not a greater quantity of Linnen product in the like circuâ— in Europe and although the generality of theiâ— Cloth fourteen years since was sleisie and thin yet of late it is much improved to a good fineness and strength and will in all probability increase daily both in quantity and quality but all the other Manufactures mentioned after the Dukes removal from the Government dwindled away to nothing except two or three that like sick folk are ready to expire the Causes of which and Remedies I shall shew at large in my Discourse of Manufacture supposing this account of the state of Affairs all the time of the Dukes first Government is a sufficient Answer to the Objection and corroborates my Assertion that it is the Interest of Ireland to be governed by persons peculiarly interested in its prosperity An Answer to the Objection pag. 93. IT is objected in pag. 93. of the 2d Part if the bloody Massacre in 1641 c. proceeded not from any depravity from Principles of Humanity nor from any spirit of revenge or personal hatred against the Protestants but only from their bloody Tenents in matters of Religion as you affirm it were necessary to instance what Points of their Religion they are that render them so dangerous they professing themselves Christians c. Answer As I there hint it is not the Religion of the Church of Rome viz. what relates to Faith and Worship but the Policies of the Court of Rome that renders them so incompatible with civil Order and humane Society multitudes of Christians live safely amongst Turks and Pagans in Asia Africa and America without danger of Massacres or Assassinations on the account of Religion though they have no Law of true Religion to influence them yet the Law of Humanity is not wholly obliterated they know what it is to do as they would be done by as Gage and other Historians of the Spanish West Indians inform us those miserable Pagans will ask what place the Spaniard goes to after death vehemently declaring they will not worship that God whose Servants are so cruel lest they should be as barbarously used by them in the other world And as their inhumane bloody cruelty is condemned by the Law of Nature so much more by all moral and divine Laws Therefore what I shall insist on shall be such Tenents as are not only against all Christian but Moral
Principles nay against the common Law of Nature and Nations such as render humane Society more dangerous than brutish who prey not on nor devour those of their own kind but rather unite their strength in common dangers for common safety In the stating of which I shall observe this method 1. Propose the Principles themselves and shew you what they are and how esteemed by their own Authors 2. To observe their original from whence they proceed 3. The Authority by which they are approved and confirmed and by whom rejected and condemned 4. Their natural Consequences what they must produce 5. The actual or practical Operation of them what Work they have already done in the world 6. Their Inconsistency with the just Power of Princes and States c. 7. Shall give give some Reasons why it is not only the Duty but the Interest of the Irish Papists to reject and explode them above all other Papists in the world First Sect shews what those Principles are that are so incompatible with humane Society and civil Peace It may be said of them as the unclean Spirit replied to Christ Mark 15. they are legions the detection and rejection of which hath engaged many of our Protestant Authors to write many great Volumes to conâ—ute them as Dr. Fulk Willet Field Jewell c. and later Chillingworth Stillingfleet Poole and of Ireland Bishop Usher Bramhall Taylor c. with several of our dissenting Divines as Mr. Baxter c. besides many German and French Protestant Doctors But to avoid prolixity I shall chiefly observe what is asserted by the Author of the Mystery of Jesuitism Mystery of Jesuitism p. 296. who is so thorough a Papist that he asserts the Church of Rome to be the only true Church out of which there is no Salvation and therefore his Testimony and the Doctors of Sorbon c. whom he vindicates in their opposition to their Casuists and Schoolmen c. is without exception But that they may be known by their proper names I shall stile them Jesuitical Tridentine Tenents the Jesuits laid the Cockatrice eggs and the Council of Trent hatch'd them into flying Serpents into mortal stinging Scorpions as I shall observe in the 5th Section The first born of this viperous brood was the Popes personal Infallibility which though contended for from Boniface 3. yet was never received nor imposed as an Article of Faith until that illegal Council of Trent but attributed to General Councils only but this was so needful a point without which they could never have attained that one thing necessary the Popes personal Supremacy and of these two Parents were begot that litter of bloody Tenents which as I shall shew Sect. 5. hath since made Christendom an Acheldama or field of Blood 1. Their Doctrine of probable Opinions whereby they may not only reject all Doctrines of Faith c. If two nay if one grave Doctor maintain the grossest Error it is a probable Truth M.J. p. 71. But they thereby justifie the declining all Rules of Morality 1. No man is bound to obey his Superior though the superior Opinion be the more probable nay though just but he may embrace what is most acceptable to himself M.J. p. 78 83. 2. It is lawful to kill a man for a Box o' th' ear either given or offered and to kill an Informer a Witness or Judge if he suspect they will be corrupt pag. 91. 3. To kill a man for the Lye or opprobrious speeches affrontive signs or gestures pag. 94. 4. If a man take our Goods to the value of a Crown it is no sin to kill him pag. 97. 5. If there be reason to suspect a man will disgrace him by opprobrious speeches it is lawful to kill him pag. 97. 6. To kill a Jansenist if he reflect upon their Society much more a Hugonite pag. 98. For the justifying of these Opinions is cited Escober Molina Tanerus Becanus Reginaldus Lay-man Lessius Amicus Filusius Carramuel and other Jesuits 7. Judges may receive Gifts and give their Sentence in a probable Opinion against a more probable Opinion in his own Judgment cited Castro Palata Escober and Layman pag. 103 104. 8. If a man gain an Estate by violence rapine and extortion c. in order to his honorable Subsistance rather than it should be scattered amongst his Creditors he may turn Bankrupt and delude his Creditors with a good Conscience cited Escober Lessius c. pag 108 109. 9. It is lawful nay charitable to direct a Thief about to rob a poor man to quit him and rob a rich man Vasquez Escober c. pag. 109. 10. If a man entreat a Souldier to beat his Neighbour or fire his House that hath offended him he is not obliged to repair him especially in Ireland pag. 109 110. 11. Goods purchased by Crimes as by Murder c. is lawfully possest and the person not obliged to make restitution Escober c. page 112 113. 12. He then asserts the Doctrine of Equivocation and Mental Reservation and how to have a false thing believed for a truth without lying useful to baffle a true and to prove a sham Plot vid. Ursinus p. 197. 13. Saith Sanchez page 129. a man may swear he hath not done a thing he really hath by understanding within hlmself that he did it not on such or such a day or before he was born c. this is a thing of great convenience on many occasions and is always necessary or advantageous p. 130. and is absolutely necessary when confessing the truth would discover Plots against Heretical Princes c. or any ways reflect on the Catholick Cause 14. Promises oblige not when a man hath no intention to engage himself when he makes them p. 130. this is a probable Opinion for more than two grave Doctors assert it 15. A man may lawfully deflower a Virgin if she consent provided he direct his intention aright to pass for a Gallant c. though the Father hath just cause to be troubled at it yet neither she nor the person to whom she prostitutes her self is guilty of sin and lest any bold Heretick should presume to question the truth of this necessary Point they give this reason for it For the Maid is in possession of her Virginity as well as her Body she may dispose of it as she pleases and to whom she pleases p. 132. A necessary Doctrine for the better keeping the Vow of Chastity 16. Saith Escober p. 134. a wicked intention as haply looking on a Woman with an impure desire joyn'd with that of hearing Mass as a man oft hinders not a man from fully performing the duty especially in Venus Temple 17. That an Ecclesiastick surprised in Adultery by the Womans Husband may lawfully kill him in his own defence saith Escober Ad M.J. p. 94. The merit of the Murder is to expiate the sin of
Adultery 18. That according to a probable Opinion if a Tax imposed on Merchandize is not just it is lawful to use false Weights to gain the more and if he be charged for so doing he may deny it by Oath making use of equivocal expressions when he is brought upon Interrogatories before a Judge Escober ad M.J. p. 93. A Tenent useful to Merchants but pernicious to the Farmers of Customs 19. That he who hath a will to commit all the venial sins that are doth not sin mortally Granados Diana Muchat ad M.J. p. 98. as they do that question the Popes Infallibity 20. That a man doth not commit any sin or is guilty of any irreverence towards God when he presumes to address himself to him in his devotions having an intent mortally to offend him Ad M.J. p. 98. 21. That a religous man having made use of a Woman may kill her if she offer to discover what passed between them Ad M.J. p. 19. You may easily guess what Religion this religious man is of You may read their pious slights as they call them Letter 10. p. 137. to 155. in the business of Confession Pennance and Absolution They affirm Absolution ought not to be denied or delayed though the Sinner continue in habitual sins against the Laws of God Nature and the Church though you discover not the least hope of amendment M.J. p. 145. vid. the Bishop of Machlin's Collection and Rejection of 43 horrid Errors ad M.J. p. 90. But what is yet mentioned are but little piccadilloes only inconvenient to neighbourly Society and civil Converse betwixt private persons and to blast their Reputation or deceive them of their Good and Lives is but a petty Retale trade Therefore I shall hint a few of their Whole-sale Merchants that trade for Empires Kingdoms and States which are the great Arms of the Tree of Supremacy c. the other but small Boughs and some of them twigs comparatively And that you may believe their deposing and dethroning Kings is from good Authority read the Reasons given by Saunders the Jesuit published by Ursinus p. 190. If the Pope be infallible which no Roman Catholick dare question there is great reason he should be supream and make Laws for the regulating the Consciences of fallible erring Princes and States the first we read of that assumed this supream Power as an Article of the Catholick Faith was Hildebrand which Dr. Paget observes pag. 248. and records his infallible princely Canons I shall only mention these few That it is lawful for the Bishop of Rome to make new Laws for the necessity of the times which all Princes and States are obliged to observe though they cross their own Laws and hazard the ruine of their Interest or Lives That the Pope only may use Imperial Robes lest temporal Princes should mistake their carnal Emperor for their spiritual Lord and Master That all Princes shall kiss the Popes Feet his Hands being seldom clean from Blood or Lips from Blasphemy That it is lawful for him to depose Emperors c. because they are so much his slaves as to let him That no general Synod might be called without his Holiness Command lest they should proceed contrary to his Instructions which his Council of Trent durst not do That he ought to be judged by no man lest they should judge him as others his predecessors to be Atheists Conjurers Blasphemers perjured persons Traytors Tyrants Whoremongers Sodomites infectious monsters of men That he is not to be accounted Catholik that agrees not with the Church of Rome Vid. Ursinus pag. 204. to 240. that never yet agreed with her self in any thing but what tended to the propagating Error and suppressing the Truth That Subjects do not sin when they refuse without reason alledged to submit to a Law whereof there hath been a legal Proclamation made by their Prince Ad M.J. p. 92. That Clergymen are not subject to secular Princes nor obliged to any obedience to their Laws even though those Laws are not any way contrary to the State Ecclesiastical pag. 92. Saith Bellarmine if the Pope should command us to sin we are bound to obey him Others say if the Pope should lead thousands to Hell we must not reprove him vid. Pooles Nullity of the Romish Faith p. 243. And admit their Popes to be such as Baronius Platina Genbrandus and others of their own Authors describe them to be monsters of men rather Defilers than Rulers of the Roman Seat prodigious slaves to all Vices and the wickedst of men none more filthy that is admit the Popes be as bad as Vice can make them yet saith Bellarmine Kings are rather Slaves than Lords Church-men being as far above them as the Soul is above the Body that Bishops who are at the Popes nod may depose them Nay saith Masconius Prins Romish Positions of Rebellion 1650. the Pope is above Law against Law and without Law and therefore can do all things he is Rex Regnum and Dominus Dominantium in short he hath the same Tribunal with God himself vid. Regula juris Romani quoted by Ursinus p. 193. Well might one of their great Clergymen say when he found a Bible he knew not who was the Author of it but sure he was some pestilent Heretick for he every where condemns the Doctrines of our Church Pooles Nullity of the R. F. p. 218. Their Sublimity and Immensity is so great said Cassenius Ursinus p. 186. no mortal man can comprehend it no man can express it no man can think it vide Bishop Taylors Dissu Part 1. He can increase the number of the holy Scriptures dethrone Kings and dispose of all temporal Dominions at his pleasure punish them with temporal punishments and this Power is more necessary over Princes than over Subjects if he could not depose Kings and compell their Subjects to execute his Power his Power were not only inefficax but insufficiens Review of the Council of Trent ' An excommunicate King may with impunity be deposed or killed by any one ' Suarez Des Fid. lib. 3. cap. 23. ' Nay F. Parsons affirms p. 149. that if any Christian Prince whatsoever decline the Roman Religion c. he presently loseth all Power and Dignity before any Sentence of the Pope is pronounced and his Subjects are absolved from all Oaths of Allegiance and ought to reject such a one from the Government of Christians by the strictest bond of Conscience and the utmost hazard of their Souls for he hath ipso sacto lost his Kingdom ' Id. p. 109. 149 160. ' The Pope is not only advanced by these Papal Janisaries above all the Emperors and Princes but above all that is called God ' vid. Prynnes Roman Positions of Rebellion 1650. Dr. Du Moulins Vind. Answ to Apolog. 1666. But to compleat all the rest lest any Promise or Faith engaged to Hereticks when Policy of State requires it should after
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 fiâ—â—h by his Ambassador Mendoza disclaimed against the Popes Power in calling Synods to reâ— thâ— Church besides all the Members of 〈◊〉 Council were enjoyned to take this Oath against their Freedom and Liberty I will defend 〈◊〉 â—â—â—pacy against all men so help me God c. 〈…〉 no 〈◊〉 durst offer his Reasons or obâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—st what the Popes Creatures proposed 〈◊〉 presently expelled the Council Sleiden 〈…〉 Craken p. 158. Yet for all this Carâ—â—â— â—antarâ— c. urged for the true Doctrine 〈◊〉 jâ—â—â—â—fication the Spanish and German Bishops â—â—â—â—ve to reducâ— the Popes boundless Authority tâ— oppâ—se whâ—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