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A78293	The Iesuits undermining of parliaments and Protestants with their foolish phancy of a toleration, discovered, and censured. Written by William Castle, for the confirmation of wavering Protestants, and the reducing of seduced papists.	Castell, William, d. 1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing C1229; Thomason E124_7; ESTC R4761	12,847	16

THE IESVITS UNDERMINING OF PARLIAMENTS AND PROTESTANTS With their foolish phancy of A TOLERATION Discovered and Censured Written by WILLIAM CASTLE for the confirmation of wavering Protestants and the reducing of seduced Papists LONDON Printed by E. G. for Joseph Hunscot 1642. THE IESVITS UNDERMINING OF Parliaments and Protestants VVith their foolish phancy of a TOLERATION Discovered and Censured IT seemeth to wise men exceeding strange that Ignatius Loyola a worne Souldier a man of very little Learning when he was meerly necessitated by breaking of his legge to leave Mars and follow Mercury should in lesse then ten yeeres become such a grand proficient as to procure from the See of Rome the last new order of Jesuits whose number at first was but small But after some time the Pope finding them to be wel verst and most acute in all kind of literature exceeding active in undertaking and men no lesse able then willing to support the Papacy which without their unexpected rising like Locusts out of the pit had undoubtedly long since fallen without any hope of recovery their number was from time to time enlarged untill it became as now it is in all Kingdomes where the Pope hath any thing to doe unlimited and unsatisfied But it seemeth yet much more strange that Christian Princes to whom the Jesuits incomparable treasons cruelties adulteries perfidious and crafty stratagems are so well known should permit any of these Locusts to remaine within their coasts Yea or that Jesuits themselves whose matchlesse treasons and treacheries since the time of reformation have been so often discovered and punished with no lesse then setting their quarters assunder should be so audaciously confident as to conceive such extraordinary power or policy in themselves as to be able to reduce these Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland to the blind obedience I should say the miserable slavery of Antichrist And yet they have often attempted that since the beginning of King Iames his raigne and are not yet utterly out of hope to effect it notwithstanding the present cleere discovery of their damnable designes and the strong opposition which is daily made against them But the infernall practises and most irreligious positions of these Jesults the weake and improbable meanes which their carnall wisdome hath proposed unto themselves together with the generall detestation of them and their tenents in these Kingdomes may somewhat though not altogether secure us that they shall never be able to effect their so long desired toleration which once obtained an utter extirpation of Protestants might soon follow after for such are their principles There was indeed not many yeers since some grounds of their hopes when instead of being close hid in vaults they boldly walked the streets when instead of being imprisoned and having the Law executed upon them they were preferred to be Confessors to great Court-Ladies where they were very plentifully fed and royally maintained when being imprisoned they were soon enlarged by a Secretary of State one of their owne society when they had an Arrchbishop after their owne heart from whom holding intelligence with the Pope they found greater favour with him then did the sincere professors of the Gospell But that still they should flatter themselves with a hope of a toleration plainely sheweth them to be what they are most audaciously bould and impudently restlesse which that it may more plainly appeare I shall here briefly discover so many of their hellish positions and practises as may justly render them as wel formidable as odious To begin then with their dangerous positions First they maintaine that Princes are so subordinate to the Pope as that he may as he shall see cause discharge their Subjects from their loyalty and obedience yea and depose them and confer their Kingdomes at his pleasure nay further that in case they will not come in and submit to his Holinesse after admonition and excommuication that their subjects may and ought to rise up against them and destroy them which doctrine how contrary it is to Scripture the often repeated precepts and practices of the Prophets and Apostles yea and of Christ himself sufficiently declare Here the Jesuits as is their usual manner double extreamly according to the men they have to doe withall if it be with a Papist they dare justifie the premises in each particular in that the power and liberty of the Catholique Church is boundlesse and in that they kill them not as Kings but as favourers of hereticks but if they have to do with a Protestant who abhorreth the very thought of deposing much more of killing of Kings then they say that it is but a private opinion of some over zealous Catholiques not the doctrine of the whole Church Againe they answer by the way of recrimination that the late armes of Scotland and the present preparations of England for war prove them to hold the foresaid tenents As if there were no difference between discharging subjects from their due obedience and the setting a Kingdome in fit posture of war when forraigne invasions and homebred conspiracies in the judgement of Parliament the Grand-Councell of the Land do threaten the present utter ruine both of King and Kingdome As if it were the same to deprive the King or lay violent hand on the Lords anoynted as to desire his goverment may be regulated according to law or in case of extreame necessity to endeavour the removing the wicked from the King which is so far from being dishonourable or prejudiciall to his Majesty as that in the end it will prove the most effectuall means for the more firme establishing of his throne A second detestable position of Jesuits is that of equivocation which they stile a safe holy mentall reservation but we more properly the art of lying for confirmation of which their lying reservation they produce the authority of the Counsell of Constance Anno 1414. which tooke it selfe not bound to keep faith with heretickes though the same were solemnly sworne Whence they infer they are much lesse bound to speake the truth although urged by oath And they further confirm that by the example of Pope Eugenius who gave liberty to Hildeslaus King of Hungary to breake faith with Amurath the Turke and perswaded him to it I wonder they doe not remember what the fearefull event was of the liberty so given and taken was not Hildeslaus after many great victories obtained and a peace concluded the most advantageous that ever was upon the breaking of his faith not only beaten in the battell when he was far stronger then ever But he lost his honour his army his life the Empire of Greece and a great part of his own Kingdom which could never be recovered Why doe not these acute learned Jesuites remember that the oath is made to the living God not to the dying man were they so well versed in holy writ as they pretend they should find miserie and destruction to be the reward of Perjury and infidelity Did

tranquility of the Kingdome and the protestant religion now established First his Majesty was drawn on to conclude a peace with the King of Spaine the most disadvantagious to this Kingdom as ever was were it but for one particular which indeed was rested in but upon the concluding of the Articles and it was this that no English be permitted to trade in the West-Indies and if any did venture so to doe they should be hanged and tortured without mercy Hence it followed that the English who had resolved with the Netherlands for the sending of ten thousand men between them into those parts were so deterred as that our best friends the Netherlands were left to shift for themselves who thanks be to God have got a greater footing in Brasill not the tenth part of America yet bigger then three Englands then that the Spaniard will be ever able to remove them thence And whilst the English have for many yeeres sate still and have not in the generall dared to adventure into those parts the Pilatage into those spacious and goodly Countreys hath been by us well nigh lost and the King of Spaine so well inabled by a yeerely abundant comming in of his vast treasure there to make full and due payment to his Jesuiticall pensioners here as that ever since they have performed such faithfull service unto him as may shortly prove destructive to these Kingdoms if not timely foreseene and prevented by the wisdome and blessed accord of his Majesty and this his present Parliament And lest any thing should be wanting to the Catholique King undertaking the Catholique cause his faithfull pensioners perswaded King James to arme the King of Spaine with 20●0 peeces of Ordnance under colour of which licence one Sir Iohn Ferne transported twice as many more What others did here in is not so well known but by wise men who have had knowledge of former times it is conceived that if the King of Spaine were as well prepared with men and shipping as he is with guns and amunition from us he might beat us with our own weapons A third thing wherin King Iames was strangley abused by the Spanish pensioners the best friends to Jesuits was that by reason of their continuall crying up his boundlesse prerogative a point which Princes generally are overmuch pleased to heare of his Majestie though otherwise very iudicious was at last drawne to di●affect and undervalue Parliaments as intrenching too much upon his royall prerogative by how much they did more carefully endeavour to preserve the laws enacted in their full strength and to enact other laws as might tend but to due regulating of regall power which ought never to exceed law but when it tendeth to the releife of the subject in mitigating the vigour of law not to the oppressing and impoverishing of them with illegall Monopolies and unwarrantable taxations I might instance in many other particulars but one more shall suffice to shew how prevalent the Spanish faction were with King Iames when upon the motion of Gundumore that arch politician seconded by their strong approbation his Majesty neglecting the profers of some German Protestant Princes did condescend to send his only sonne and heire into Spaine for the contracting of a mariage there with the Spanish Kings Sister one of a contrary Religion which had it accordingly proceeded it might have proved more inconvenient and troublesome then hath his mariage with France How the Jesuits and Jesuiticall Spanish pensioners plots have succeeded since the accesse of his Majesty that now is unto the Crowne I need not relate at large the wisdome of this present Parliament hath saved mee that labor in their first unanswerable remonstrance I shall therefore only breifly mention some of the chiefe after which I shall lay forth their yet more bold practizes and bloody executions in France and else where The first was the laying of their foundation at the conclave at Rome wher it was concluded that his holines should have a Nuntio in England and the Queene of England should have an agent at Rome to act things here as should be there resolved upon The 2. was to perswade his Majestie by meditation of the Queene whom they too well knew he did as entirely love as if she had bin of his owne Religion to preferr those to places of dignitie at Court and of judicature both in Church and common weale as might serve to put in execution their mischewous designes Whence it came most unhappily to passe that the Spanish pensioners became here Cabinet Councellors so usually over-awing and overswaying the farre greater and better part of the privy Councell as that their meere proposalls past for resolutions and hence it was that the Star-chamber where these Jesuiticall pensioners and such as they had promoted bare Sway did abound with extravagate censures no lesse unconsionable then terrible to the oppressing of the common people by maintaining illegall taxations and unwarrantable monopolies and in advancing prerogatives farr beyond all the presidents of former times And Shurely had it not bin for those exceeding powerfull Popish factors the high commition had no dareth so eagerly to oppose true Religion by suspentions deprivations excommunications fines and imprisonments much les would some Bishops and in eriour ecclesiasticall Courts have adventured with such animosity to propose or bitternes to persecute their owne superstitions articles as if they had bin Cannons concluded upon by the whole Church of England as then consisting only of Bishops Deanes Archdeacons Cathedrall Priests and 2. such country Clarkes as every Bishop and his Sly officiall thought good off ought to bind the whole Church being so partially if not corruptly represented For what are Cathedrall Church but such places as Queene Elizabeth and her Councell for some by Politicall ends were pleased to let rest in some part of that Popist splendor which might take with neighboring Princes and not render her and her people utterly irreconcilable to the Church of Rome when as yet the Parochill Churchs here were better clensed from Popish relickes according to the well setled constitution of other reformed Churches and yet for south these better refined Parochiall Churches must againe be reduced to a Cathedrall garbe why But that it is more ceremonecus more Majesticall and therin more resembleth Rome To conclude this point by reason of the oversweling greatnesse of those Cabinet Councellours men were preferred to places of Judicature in the common-weale which either could not or would not maintaine Justice but were alwayes forward to advance prerogative above and against law witnesse some millions of mony in few yeares wrested from the subject under the name of Loane Knighthood Shippe Coat and conducte mony by colour of forrest law the Statute of improvement the commission of severs abused Tunnage and Poundage inhaunced by unwarrantable rates All which though unlawfull yet were they all either justified by the most part of the Judges or the people miserablely oppressed whilst being debarred the