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A35694	The burnt child dreads the fire, or, An examination of the merits of the papists relating to England, mostly from their own pens in justification of the late act of Parliament for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants : and further shewing that whatsoever their merits have been, no thanks to their religion and, therefore, ought not to be gratified in their religion by toleration thereof by William Denton ...	Denton, William, 1605-1691.	1675 (1675)	Wing D1064; ESTC R16886	91,543	165

not succeed being Illegitimate and that it was a great boldness to assume the Name and Government without him and therefore refused to hear Sir Edward Kerne her Ambassador All this and more was pretended to have been done in favour of that Admirable person M. Queen of Scots But what think you would they have done if the Tables had been turned And Q. Eliz. had been an Illegitimate Papist and M. Q. of Scots a Legitimate Protestant would you then have been so zealous and industrious for the Q. of Scots Certainly not which is demonstrable by their Actings and Endeavours to hinder King James from the English Crown And it is plain that it was not Bastardy but Heresie i. e. for being a Protestant that made their malice so implacable and this is apparent by the Bull of Pope Pius V. Dated 25. Febr. 1570. in which there is not the least mention of Bastardy No No Illegitimacy is not so monstrous a Gudgeon but that it will easily be swallowed at Rome Gregory XIII had a Bastard James Buon Compagna and to him he gave Ireland and impowred Stewkely with Men Arms and Money to Conquer it for him And England he gave to Don John the Emperors Bastard both admirable Catholicks without all peradventure and gave him leave to Conquer it for himself Christs brave Vicar give that which was none of his own or had any thing to do withall But that perverse Queen had no occasion to part with either on such ridiculous Nods And his Successor Sixtus Quintus took no Notice at all of King James proceeded against her with all his Italian Scarcrows curst her afresh and publisht a Croysade against her and gave all her Dominions to Philip II. King of Spain but forgot to give his Benedictions of Craft and Cunning to get them and so they still remain vested in the hands of the right owners and long may they so do even till time shall be no more Now if Romish zeal for Qu. M. of Scots had had its Rise and Original from her more rightful Title to the Crown of England then it would have continued unto King James also but their Actings being Diametrically opposite and contrary it was visible to all the World that it was Popery not the Title that they contended so furiously for And it was the common voice amongst the Jesuits of those days That if King James would turn Catholick they would follow him but if not they would all die against him Watson Quodlib p. 150. The mutual love and amity that was between Queen Elizabeth and King James his immovable constancy in Religion the strict Laws made against Jesuits and such kind of Men the Execution of Graham of Feutre the forwardest of all those that affected the Spanish party the granting of Supreme Authority in matters Ecclesiastical to the King by the States and the assotiations against the Papists did so quash all hope of restoring Popery in England and Scotland that some of them in England which most of all favoured his Mothers Title began to project how to substitute some English Papists in the Kingdom of England when they could not agree uon a fit man of their own Number they cast their Eyes upon the Earl of Essex who never approved the utting of Men to death in the cause of Religion feigning a Title from Thomas of Woodstock King Edward the Third's Son from whom be derived his Pedigree Indeed rather for any Body then for King James who they foresaw would be Malleus Hereticorum such was their faithfulness to him as also witness the designs of Gordon Creighton Abercromy Jesuits and others plotting the ruine of King James of Scotland And also the Two Breues sent by Clement the 8th to exclude King James from the Inheritance of the Crown of England unless he would take an Oath to promote the Roman Catholick Interest But the Fugitives favoured the Infanta of Spain although they feared lest the Queen and the States would by Act of Parliament prevent it by offering an Oath to every one and they held it sufficient if they could set the King of Scots and the Earl of Essex at Enmity To which purpose to Book was Dedicated to Essex under the Counterfeit name of Doleman but wrote by Parsons Cardinal Allen and Sir Francis Inglefeild as was believed In this Book despising the right of Birth they project that the Antient Lawsz of the Land concerning Hereditary Succession to the Crown of England are to be altered that new Laws are to be brought in cocerning Election That no man but a Roman Catholick 14. b. of Blood soever they be is to be admitted King And was not this another piece of meritorious service to King James like the rest no doubt of those that went before and of those that will follow They traduced most of the Kings of England as wrong possessors and all in England of the Blood-Royal as either Illegitimate or uncapable of the Crown The most certain right of King James to the Crown of England they most unjustly sought to overthrow and did by forged Devices most falsely Entitle thereunto the Infanta Isabella of Spain because she was a Roman Catholick Yea they proceeded with that violence herein that they compelled the English in the Spanish Seminaries if they themselves are to be credited to subscribe to the forged title of the Infanta therein set down and exacted in Oath of the Students in the Seminaries to maintain the same brave Blade They rested not in their Pens and Tongues but prosecuted the same by Actions For Thomas Winter as he himself confessed and Jesmund a Jesuit being come into Spain from Garnet and others of them privily plotted to cast off Queen Eliz. and exclude James King of Scots from his most just Title to the Crown of England Yet not long after when King James was proclaimed this Impudent Parsons excused by Letters to a Friend of his as proceeding not from a mind to do King James wrong but out of an earnest desire to draw him to the Romish Religion and he hoped he should be excused for that these Injurres did not prejudice the King because forsooth they failed of success As in the Year 1592. Patrick Cullent Treason who was incited by Sir William Stanley Hugh Owne Jaques Frances a base Laun dress Son who said That unless Mrs. Elizabeth be suddenly taken may the State of England is and will be so settled that all the Devils in hell will not be able to prevail with it or shake it Hitherto a true Prophet I hope will be so still And Holt the Jesuit vvho resolved to kill the Queen vvas accompanied vvith a Book called Philo-pater written for the abetting and warranting of such a Devilish Act in general by Creswel the legier Jesuit in Spain so was Tesmunds Treason accompanied with Two Bulls or Breues from Pope Clement the 8th when the Queen was full of days and infirm one to the Clergy the other to the Laiety unto H. Garnet

Nobility Gentry c. but against King James that peaceable obliging Prince who had sought all Mild and Royal means possible to have reduced them unto a quiet peaceable and Loyal Temper and yet even 1 Joc. when His Majesty used so great lenity towards Recusants in that by the space of a whole Year and Four Months he took no penalty due by Statute of them For at the time of Watsons Treason when some of the greatest Recusants were convented at Hampton-Court and not found Participes Criminis were presently dismissed with incouragement favour and promise that those mean profits which had accrued to His Majesty since His coming to the Crown for their Recusancy should be forgiven to those who had kept themselves free from all Conspiracies Nay so far was His Majesty from severity nay from discriminating that he indifferently Honoured all with Advancement and favours And were they at all Reclaimed by this Nothing less for at that very time they gave out That the King would deal rigorously with them designedly to keep up the Hearts of Catholicks against him for that end indeed they had more Treasons then hatching against him before they saw his Face in England and all grounded on those Two Papal Breves For in March 1603. 19. b. Garnet complained to Catesby That the King had broken his promise with the Catholicks And in September following Catesby making a grievous complaint to Thomas Percy That ocntrary to their Expectations His Majesty both did hold and was like continually to run the same course which before the Queen had held Percy presently breaks forth into this Devilish Speech That there was no way but to kill the King which he would undertake to do but Catesby cunningly replyed No Tom Thou shalt not adventure thy self to so small purpose If thou wilt be a Traytor there is a Plot to greater advantage and such a one as can never be discovered viz. thereby meaning the Powder-Treason How impudently soever this is now Extenuated nay denyed by some Papists yet Johannes Barclaius a French Catholick wrote the History of it under the Title of Conspiratio Anglicana the very same Month it was discovered viz. Novemb. 1605. where he thus brands it Ingens Atrox horridum facinus quale nec Antiquit as vidit aegre posteri credent Denique velut omnium flagitiorum compendium in hanc diem fortuna contulit So matchless and horrid a villany that our Fore-fathers never saw the like and which future Ages will hardly believe it being the very Quintessence and Compendium of all the villanies that the Sun yet ever saw Christ passion excepted Which history he improves to this Axiome Saepe Divinitatis opera haec sunt ut Furias in ipso jam successu securas subito vitio excipiat Ne vel unquant improbis timor vel spes absit calamitosae virtuti When they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as Iravel upon a Woman with Child and they shall not escape 1 Thes 5.3 Neither doth God ever leave the wicked without fear nor distressed righteous without hope This pitiful politick device of theirs is so improbable and looks so Jewish that I can resemble it to no other Though Pilate by the Advice of the Chief Priests and Pharisees made the Sepulchre wherein Christs Body was laid sure by stealing the Stone and setting a Watch and Guard of Souldiers lest His Disciples should come by night and steal Him away and though His Resurrection was made unquestionable by an Earth-quake and by the rowling back of the Stone from the Door by an Angel descending from Heaven and sitting upon it whose Countenance was like Lightning and his Raiment White as Snow so that for fear of him the Keepers did shake and became as dead men yet when some of the Watch had shewed unto the Chief Priests all the things that were done yet so hard of belief were they that they assembled with the Elders and having taken Council they gave large Money unto the Souldiers to say His Disciples came by night and stole him away whilstowe slept and if this come to the Governors Ears we 'l perswade him and secure you so they took the oney and did as they were taught Mat. 28. which saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day And if Brows of Brass and Brazen Faces can prevail the 5th of November shall no more be believed by them another Age than Pope Joane is now Had these kind of Men had any spark of Loyalty or Gratitude in their Hearts it had been impossible they should ever have plotted and conspired so desperately against so mild and gratious a Prince as King James was and who had sought their quiet and safety by many obliging means Did not he bestow many Honours on many Catholicks Did not he allow them free Access both to his Court and to his Person not only on just occasions but for their comfort and at their pleasure though he was not ignorant that the Jesuits had been tampering with the Catholicks as well to disswade them from the Acceptance of His Majesty at his first coming alledging that they ought rather to die than to admit of an Heretick for so they termed His Majesty to the Crown And that they might not under pain of Excommunication accept of any but of a Catholick for their Sovereign as also to disswade Catholicks from their Loyalty after he was King Did he not open the Gates of Justice indifferently to Protestants and Catholicks alike Was his predecessor so confident in the fidelity of any Catholicks as to imploy them to Forrein Princes in Embassie Would she have called the Chief Catholicks to her Councel Board that upon their laying open their just complaints they might have redress with favour Did not Recusants in his days that were in Arrear compound with a Commission directed only to that end almost for what term and at what rates they might best satisfie Did he not put them in possession of their whole Estates drawn out of the Farmers hands upon due proof made of spoil without further command of any other Contribution or Taxation than the Laws limited Did he not give order for the punishing of Informers and Messengers that preyed upon the prostrate Fortunes of Recusants with harder measure than the Justice of the State Warranted Was he not pleased in the General Pardon granted at the close of the Parliament that Priests and Jesuits should be comprised in the List and among them both Garuet and Greenwell who in recompence whereof were shortly after pleased that so Royal a Dispenser of Grace and Bounty towards them should be blown up by their Bontefeaux Had they not greater freedom than formerly in their own Countries and to serve what Prince or State abroad that they pleased to travel when and where they pleased without yielding an account at their return 20. b. 35. Did ever any Magistrate in cold Blood proceed against a Priest