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The Romanists designs detected, and the Jesuits subtill practices discovered and laid open collected from their own authors and other approved testimonies / by Anthony Egan, B.D.
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Egan, Anthony, B.D.
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guilty if false he may punish that is cast out the Accusers The sum of Campanella's Counsel for the promoting of the Spanish interest in England in Queen Elizabeths days was 1. Above all to breed dissentious and discords among our selves 2. To have Seminaries in Flanders that for the changing of our Religion may first sow the seeds of division in points of natural Sciences 3. By suborned Forreiners to promise great matters to the great ones here 4. To promise to King James the help of Spain so he would set up Popery or at least not hinder the Indian Fleet. 5. At the same time to perswade the chief Parliament men to turn England into the form of a Common-wealth by telling them that the Scots will be cruell when they come to Rule them c. 6. To perswade Queen Elizabeth that King James would revenge his Mothers Blood c. 7. To exasperate the minds of the Bishops against King James by perswading them that he was in heart a Papist and would bring in Popery and by these means the seeds of an inexplicable War will be sown between England and Scotland so that no party will have leisure to disturb the Spaniard or if King James prevail he will be a friend to Spain or if the Island be divided or the Kingdom made Elective we shall neither have mind nor power to enlarge our Dominions or if the Island be turned into the form of a Commonwealth it may keep continual War with Scotland and will manage all its affairs so slowly as that they can little hurt the Spaniard 8. The Catholicks here also are to be awaked and stirred up that the Spaniards may take the first opportunity to enter upon England under pretence of helping them 9. The Irish are perswaded to Rebellion these with the hiring of the Dutch to defend the Spanish Plate Fleets and fall out with us that we may not hinder it are the sum of this Friers design against England Their Method to win particular Persons you may find in Costerus Pref. Encheirid Thoma a Jesu de Convers Gent. L. 8. Par. 2. Sect. 2. p. 544. 545. Possevinus Lorichius c. 1. BE sure to keep the Respondents part and not the Opponents It 's not so easie to prove as to wrangle against proofs 2. Follow them with certain Questions which the vulgar are not verst in as Qu. 1. Where was your Church before Luther or where hath it been visible in all ages Qu. 2. How prove you that you have a true Scripture that is the word of God among you Qu. 3 What express word of God do the Catholicks contradict Q. 4. How prove you that you have a truly called Ministry that is to be heard and believed by the people Qu. 5. By what warrant did you separate from the Catholick Church and condemn all your own Fore-fathers and all the Christian world Qu. 6. If you will separate from the Catholick Church What reason have you to follow this Sect rather than any one of all the rest Qu. 7. What one man can you name from the beginning that was in all things of Luthers or Calvins Opinions Qu. 8. Do you not see that God doth not bless the labours of your Ministers but people are as bad as they were before what the better are you for hearing them Many more such silly questions they train up their deceivers to propound and prosecute which a knowing man discerneth easily to be transparent cheats but the ignorant may be gravelled by them The abominable Treachery and villany of the Gunpowder-Plot undertaken under pretence of maintaining and restoring the Roman Religion engaged the then Governours to consult the preservation of themselves and the Kingdom And considering the furious zeal and wicked principles of some men in affirming the lawfullness of deposing and killing Heretical Kings That the Pope had power to deprive temporal Princes absolve subjects from their obedience and such like villanous positions with the many wicked practices then fresh in memory against the Crown and life of Queen Elizabeth and King James it was thought fit to draw up a solemn Oath whereby every one should abjure such treasonable Doctrines and swear for the future to behave themselves as became good subjects But so far were they from intending to be good Subjects that fancying Robert Cecil Earl of Salisbury and Secretary of State to be the chief promoter of this Oath against them and considering that if they could deter him from prosecuting it the King and others would trouble their thoughts the less about the matter and so the Parliamentary proposals would fall of themselves a threatning Letter was sent to the said Earl of Salisbury a Copy whereof I have here inserted that all good men may see that they will not stick at Murther or any other villany to uphold their Religion My Lord WHereas the late unapprovable and most wicked design for destroying of his Majesty the Prince and Nobility with many other of worth and quality attempted through the undertaking spirits of some more fiery and turbulent then zealous and dispassionate Catholicks hath made the general state of our Catholick cause so scandalous in the eyes of such whose corrupted judgements are not able to fan away and sever the fault of the Professor from the profession it self as that who now is found to be of that Religion is perswaded at least in mind to allow though God knoweth as much abhorring as any Puritan whatsoever the said former most inhumane and Barbarous Project And whereas some of his Majesties Council but especially your Lordship as being known to be as the Philosopher termeth it a primus mortor in such uncharitable proceedings are determined as it is feared by taking advantage of so soul a scandal to root out all the memory of the Catholick Religion either by sudden Banishment Massacre Imprisonment or some such unsupportable vexations and pressures and perhaps by decreeing in this next Parliament some more cruell and horrible Laws against Catholicks than already are made In regard of these premises there are some good men who through their earnest desire for the continuing of the Catholick Religion and for saving many souls both of this present and of all future posterity are resolved to prevent so great a mischief though with a full assurance afore hand of the loss of their dearest lives You are therefore hereby to be admonished that at this present there are five which have severally undertaken your death and have vowed the performance thereof by taking already the blessed Sacrament if you continue your daily plotting of so Tragical Stratagems against Recusants It is so ordered that none of these five knoweth who the other four be for the better preventing the discovery of the rest if so any one by attempting and not performing should be apprehended It is also already agreed who shall first attempt it by Shot and so who in order shall follow In accomplishing of it there is expected no other
reveal all Conspiracies and Treasons against me which shall come to their hearing and knowledge XI That it is not Heretical and Diabolical to hold That Princes being Excommunicated by the Pope may be either Deposed or Killed by their Subjects or any other XII That the Pope hath power to absolve my Subjects from this Oath or from some part thereof XIII That this Oath is not administred to my Subjects by a full and lawful Authority XIV That this Oath is to be taken with Equivocation Mental Evasion or secret Reservation and not with the Heart and good will sincerely in the true Faith of a Christian man One would now think that none that intended to be good Subjects or indeed did not intend to be otherwise when they had opportunity should refuse the taking this Oath yet so it was that though some did take it yet the most refused it And because the Pope would not have those of his Religion tyed from acting Treasons and Villanies to support his Power he sent several Buls into England against this Oath one of which being of later date viz. in King Charles the First 's dayes I have here inserted so much thereof as concerns the said Oath VRBANVS Pp VIII Dilectis Filiis Catholicis Angliae Dilecti Filii Salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem NON semper terraena foelicitas est beneficium Coeli Patrimonium Pietatis pacem enim peccatorum videns Ecclesia non raro experta est potentiam mortalium esse stipendium sceleris Quare Catenas Martyrum anteferimus exuviis Triumphantium Rex sempiternus Principatus Coelestes pollicetur non ils qui superbo pede jura proterunt sed qui persecu ionem patiunturpropter justitiam c. Quod si eousque vis progrediatur ut vos ad noxium illud illicitum Anglicanae fidelitatis jura mentum adigat mementote Orationem vestram ab universo Angelorum spectantium consessu audiri Et adhaereat lingua vestra faucibus vestris priusquam Authoritatem B. Petri ea jurisjurandi formula imminutam detis Non enim ibi id solum agitur ut fides Regi servetur sed at sacrum Universae Ecclesiae sceptrum eripiatur Vicariis Dei Omnipotentis Quod foeliciis Recordationis Paulus V. Praedecessor noster in tam gravi deliberatione decrevit id omnino tanquam Decretum Veritatis servare debeatis Dilecti Filii Tributum hoc Principi Apostolorum debitum nullae hominum minae aut blanditiae a vobis unquam extorqueant qui secus suadent ij visionem mendacem divinationem fraudulentam prophetantvobis Citiusenimviro Christiano debet potentium gladius vitam eripere quamfidem Quod si Angelus etiam e Coelo descendens vos aliter quam veritas Apostolica doceat Anathema sit c. Datum Romae S. Petri sub Annulo Piscatoris die xxx May 1626. Pontificatus nostri Anno tertio Pope VRBAN VIII To his beloved Sons the Catholicks of England Beloved Sons Greeting and Apostolical Benediction TErrene foelicity is not always the benefit of Heaven and the Patrimony of piety For the Church seeing the prosperity of sinners hath often found by experience that the greatness of Mortals is the stipend of Impiety Wherefore we prefer the Chains of Martyrs before the spoils of the Triumphant and the Eternal King promiseth Heavenly Principalities not to them who proudly trample the Laws under their feet but to those who suffer Persecution for Righteousness sake c. And if Violence proceed so far as to compel you to that pernicious and unlawful Oath of Allegiance of England Remember that your Prayers are heard in the whole Assembly of the Angels beholding you And let your Tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth rather than you permit the Authority of St. Peter to be diminished with that form of Oath For that is not all that Fidelity be kept unto the King but that the Sacred Scepter of the Catholique Church be wrung from the Vicar of God Almighty That which our Predecessor Paul V. of blessed memory with so great deliberation Decreed that ought ye altogether to observe as a Decree of Truth Beloved Sons this Tribute due to the Prince of the Apostles no threats or flatteries of men ought at any time to extort from you and they who perswade you otherwise prophesie unto you a lying Vision and a fraudulent divination for sooner ought the Sword of the Mighty take from a Christian his life than his Faith yea if an Angel from Heaven teach you otherwise than the Apostolique Truth let him be Accursed c. Dated at Rome at St. Peters under the Signet of the Fisher xxx of May 1626 the third year of our Popedom I shall here give a farther instance that abhorrence of Treason and Fidelity to the Prince is not only contrary to the desire and express command of the Pope but to the opinion of the greatest part of the Roman Catholicks themselves Peter Walsh a Romanist of the Order of St. Francis somewhat more honest and peaceable minded than the rest esteeming it not only his but the Duty of all Persons to be subject to the Prince under whom they live and by whom they receive protection about the year 1662. drew up a formulary and procured it to be subscribed by as many of the Romanists in the Kingdom of Ireland as he could whereby they did profess their obedience to his Majesty and subjection to the Laws with their Resolution to live peaceably under them and although this submission occasioned his Majesty to be much more favourable to them than before yet the greatest part of the Romanists of that Kingdom were so far from subscribing the said Formulary that they got it not only to be condemned in formal terms as unlawful detestable Sacrilegious yea in effect as Schismatical and Heretical by the publick Censures of the Lovaine Theological Faculty and by the publick Letters also of the Bruxel Internuncio's De Vecchii and Rospigliosi and of the Roman Cardinals de propaganda fide but prosecuted the Subscribers of it for these twelve years especially for these six last with continual Monitories Citations Depositions Excommunications Denunciations and even publick affixing or posting of them and have persecuted and hunted them almost to death for no other cause but for professing Allegiance to his Majesty So dangerous a thing it is reputed in the Court of Rome for Subjects to give their natural Prince any pledge of their Faith which the Pope cannot undo It is no less Criminal in the esteem of that Court than if the very essentials of the Papacy were invaded by it as you may see at large in a Letter to the Catholicks of England Scotland and Ireland written by the said Peter Walsh And now I shall leave it to the Candid Reader to judge what reason those have to be protected by the Laws who will not be tyed by them nor subject to them but profess themselves the subjects of a Forreign power Their Designs to