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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

have not one and the same Joynt-interest in Religion and State with themselves And that the Governours ought to be very vigilant in care themselves to forbid or at least discountenance all Councils and Things which may in any respect hurt or but disorder a good Government lest the Subjects thereof should be caught with any guile or seduced to embrace any opinions which may be repugnant either to good Government or sound Religion And I hope this Nation will never again be so infatuated as ever to put power into their Hands who have so often given such palpable Demonstration and Testimony how they have used it already and such pregnant presumptions how they would use it again could they obtain it Even they that run may read what the Papists like Jehn drive so furiously at even to make England once more Issachar like to couch and carry the Saddle Vah Papae shall it ever be again the style and reproach of England Glorious England that is scituate among the Rivers whose Rampart is the Sea and whose God is the Lord to carry the Saddle again God forbid But if so unhappy so unfortunate I 'le prophesie that not the Pope only but the Devil will ride her Pardon these Expressions I have encouragement from St. Jerome Neminem volo patientem esse in causa laesae fidei and from Moses the Mirror of meekness who knows no patience in Israels Idolatry Numb 12.3 Exod. 22.19 26 27. Idem manens idem semper facit idem THE REAL MERITS OF THE PAPISTS SUch hath the Confidence of the Papists of these latter times been as to claim a Right unto the Kings Majesties favour for a tolleration of their Religion upon the account of their great Merits as having best deserved of His Majesty because of all they were the most faithful to him and his Father The purport of this hath not only been averred by the generality of them in their ordinary discourses but also set out in print by several of them P. W. R. P. J. S. H. M. and others At which confident Assertion of theirs when I consider how boldly and feircly the contend for meritorious works nay for works of super-errogation even with God himself I do not so much wonder that such Merit-mongers broach it so confidently now as that they have not done it all this while § He that is first in his own Cause seemeth just but his Neighbour cometh and searcheth him Prov. 18.17 Which that we may the better do we will only a little look back into our own Chronicle without cloying the Reader with like Foreign Stories which would fill Volumes and first see how true and trusty Trojans the Papists have been to the Kings of England no Protestants but Papists and if they shall be found to have been neither true nor trusty but Traytors and Rebels to the Kings of their own Religion can it then ever be believed or hoped that they ever will be Loyal and Faithful to Protestant Princes when a neat opportunity offers the contrary and that Maugre all Roman Mandates to the contrary What Prince or other Sovereign soberly considers the new founded Society of Jesuits erected by Pope Paul the 3 d. about 1540 who although at first but 10 in Number yet so wonderfully encreased since that they bragged not a few years ago that they were 1300010. they lived in Colledges and places of residence besides those that trotted up and down that they had 359. Colledges or Schools 18 Domus professae 40 Domus probationis 8 Seminaries 1010 Residentiaries Vide speculum Jesuiticum Runninge Register And what their Principles and Doctrins are and what their practices have been for the destroying of all Princes quacumque Arte that will not become Vassals to the See of Rome and and acknowledg a Spiritual Monarchy in that Roman Chair paramount all temporal Crowns and Scepters and how strict and of what extant their vow of Obedience is to the Roman Bishop and how it is decreed by several Popes that the Institutions and Doctrins of the Jesuits must not be contradicted or disputed by any Ordinary Delegate Judg or Magistrate and how vastly that society is enlarged both in their Clergy and Layety since these great brags of theirs will be sufficiently convinced that neither their persons or their Kingdoms can ever be secure where either one sort or other are suffered to flourish § Let us now see matter of Fact Did not Pope Alexander the 3d. by violence and tyranny force King H. the II. to surrender his Crown Imperial into the hand of his Legate and afterwards b e content with a private Condition for a while to the great regret and Indignation of his Subjects Did not Innocent the 3d. stir up the Nobility and Commonalty of this Kingdom against King John and gave the Inheritance and Possession of all his Dominions unto Ludovicus the French King What were those 52000. but Papists that rebelled against Richard the I. Anno 1196. And all those that rebelled against Edward the II. Anno 1316 1317 1321 1322 1326. Amongst whom was Robert Baldock Bishop of Norwich and Lord Chancellor of England And all those that consented to the Murder of Edward the Third's Father and sought to kill John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Edward the Third's Son Anno 1330. 1372. And those in Richard the Third's time Anno 1381. Annimated by John Ball a Priest who at his Execution refused to ask the King forgiveness and despised him so peremptory was he Jack Straw confessing that when he sent for the King to Black-Heath they purposed to have murdered all Knights Esquires and Gentlemen that should have come with him and when they had got sufficient force they would suddenly then have put to death in every County all Lords and Masters of the Common people in whom might appear to be either Council or Resistance one Argument used by some of the late Protectorians for the death of our Glorious King and Martyr that he was too knowing and too intelligent to be suffered to live and especially they would have killed the Knights of St. John and all Men of any Possessions only Begging Fryars should have lived that might have Administred the Sacraments throughout the Realm and lastly they would have killed the King himself and made Kings in every Shire Thomas Arrundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury traiterously practiced the deposing of the said Richard his lawful Sovereign § It were no very wild conjecture to Divine that our late Generation of Levellers Major Generals Quakers and Phanaticks were spawned from them and that they are still but Badgers plotting and digging Holes for Romish Foxes to lie couchant and covertly in for their more subtile contrivances § What were those but Papists that rebelled against H. the 4th designing to Murder him under the colour of Justinge and other pastimes pretended 1399. And also those who raised Arms against him among whom was John Madelyn a Priest who had been Chaplain to King

had attempted any thing against Ireland If Gregory the 13th had not renewed the said Bull and Excommunication If the Jesuits had never come into England If the Pope and King of Spain had not practised with the Duke of Guise for his attempt against Her Majesty If Parsons and the rest of the Jesuits with other our Countrey-men beyond the Seat had never been Agents in those traiterous and bloody designs of Throckmorton Parry Cullen York Williams Squire and others If they had not by their Treatises and Writings endeavoured to defame their Sovereign and their own Countrey labouring to have many of their Books translated into divers Languages whereby to shew their own disloyalty If Cardinal Allen and Parsons had not published the Renovation of the said Bull by Sixtus Quintus If thereunto they had not added their scurrilous and unmanly Admonition or rather most prophane Libel against Her Majesty If they had not sought by false perswasions and unghostly Arguments to have allured the hearts of all Catholicks from their allegiance If the Pope had never been urged by them to have thrust the King of Spain into that barbarous Action against the Realm If they themselves with all the rest of that Generation had not laboured greatly with the said King for the Conquest and Invasion of this Land by the Spaniards who are known to be the cruelest Tyrants that live upon the Earth If the Pope had not ordered Ridolphi to distribute 150000 Crowns to advance the attempt whereof some was sent to Scotland some to the Duke of Norfolk alias And King Philip to send the Duke of Alua and his Forces into England to ass●st the Duke of Norfolk If in all their whole proceedings they had not from time to time depraved irritated and provoked both Her Majesty and State with those and many other such like their most 〈…〉 ungodly and unchristian practises there had been no Speeches amongst us of Racks and Torments nor any cause to have used thim for none were ever vexed that way simply for that he was either Priest or Catholick but because they were suspected to have had their hands in some of the said most traiterous designs And most assuredly the State would have loved us or at least born with us and we had been in much better condition than now we are Important Considerations c. fo 39 40 41. printed 1601. Furthermore antoher in answer to a Letter of a Jesuited Gent. by A. C. fo 89. complains of the Jesuits averring That Her Majesty is an Heretick an Excommunicated Princess and consequently to be deposed What Jesabelling of her have I heard them use What questioning whether no Jehn have subdued her why yet she prospereth why yet she Reigns why yet she lives what defaming her what throwing Soil at her Picture what avowing her Royal Lyons and Flower-de-luze no better worth than to serve for Signs to Baudy-houses Thus do the Jesuits and Jesuited use Her Majesty to my express knowledg and worse which for good manners I omit fo 90. nay they sent one to me in the nature of an Engineer from beyond the Seas to perswade my assisting his firing the Queens Navy throughout England against the next years coming of another Spanish Armado f. 90. Was it not Fa. Parsons and Fa. Creighton F. 9. That with much vehemency and bitterness contended for the disposing of the Crown of England the one for the Lady Infanta the other to his King of Scotland Were they not Jesuits which plotted with the Duke of Parma for surpriseing or stealing away of the Lady Arabella and sending her into Flanders who imployed the Messenger into England about the affair but Fa. Holt Jesuit who but the same Jesuit was consenting with Sir William Stanley to the sending in of Richard Hesket for soliciting Ferdinando Earl of Darby to rise against Her Majesty and claim the Crown was it not the same Jesuit that entertained York and Young in the Plot of firing Her Majesties Store-houses that set on work Mr. Francis Dickinson and others to perswade Watermen to fly with Ships and all into the service of the Spaniard f. 93. their Conspiracies were not confined to England only but they were extended also to Scotland whereupon were the Three Catholick Earls Angus Arrol and Huntley convicted of High Treason by Act of Parliament about 1593. if not upon certain plots laid by Fa. Creighton Fa. Gourdon and upon hopes given them of succour from Spain Why was the Lord of Fentry Executed but for the same designs imparted to him by Fa. Ro. Abercronii a Jesuit Was it not the principal cause of Fa James Gordons travel to Rome about the same time to solicite the Pope and other Princes to assist the King of Scots if he enterprise any thing either against England or in his own Countrey 93 94. And yet these matters will not be believed at this day by the Papists though it be their own voluntary confession in several of their printed Books yet extant Priests and Jesuits each deservedly accusing other of Treasons and Conspiracies against the Queen Her Person Crown and Dignity with this difference only that the Priests mostly the Jesuits seldom acknowledged the Queers great favours and Jenity towards them the Queen had great reason to believe them both not barely because cause they peached one the other but because thereof she really found the sad effects And indeed because she and her Council did very wisely consider that Papists some Centuries of Years before ever Jesuits were thought of did universally incline unto and side with the Pope against their temporal Princes usurping many great and exorbitant authorities and priviledges over them whereof Histories are full and therefore it was but high time that the Queen should by wholsom Laws inflicting moderate pains and mulcts provide against both one and the other This is no small Bedrall of Treasons Vide Important consider f. 16 17 18. Conspiricies provocations c. and yet as many more they might have urged nay to do the Secular-priests right they have done it particularly sparsim both in this and divers others their Books and also made large very large acknowledgments of the Queens Bounty Moderation and Clemency towards those Papists that were quiet and faithful a gratefulness that I have not found in any of the Jesuits and in so doing they did the Queen but right for from the year 1. Eliz. unto 11. Papists came to our Church and Service without scruple so that for 10 years they made no Conscience nor Doubt to Communicate with us in prayer But when once the Bull of Pius Quintus often called by the Queen Impius Intus was published wherein the Queen was accursed and deposed 16 and Her Subjects discharged of their obedience and Oaths of Fealty yea cursed if they did obey Her Then and not till then they refrained our Churches and Service so that recusancy in them the name of Recusant being never heard of until the 11.

Year of Eliz. as is evident by the very Acts of Parliament is not for for Religion but in an acknowledgment of the Popes power which was little regarded here our famous Kings being never afraid of Popes Bulls no not in the very midnight of Popery as Edward the Confessor Henry I. Edward I. Rich. II. Henry IV. Henry V. c. And in the time of Henry VII and in all their times the Popes Legate never passed Callais but staid there and came not to England until he had taken a solemn Oath to do nothing to the detriment of this Crown or State so Jealous were our Kings even in those days A shrewd sign and a plain demonstration what their judgment is concerning the right of the Prince in respect of Regal power and place there being nothing in our Liturgy that a Conscientious Papist might justly except against out of the Word of God but because the Pope had Excommunicated and Accursed therefore forsooth be it lawful of unlawful they must obey the Pope and disobey the Queen their incomparable Liege Lady Now by reason of this Bull the very bringing in whereof by a subject was adjudged Treason in the time of Edward the I. the very foundation of all the ensuing Treasons Rebellions c. And in Edward the Third's time the Abbot of Tavestock was fined at 500 Marks for receiving a Bull from Rome wherein were but aliqua verba regi Coronae suae prejudicialia One main Article in Parliament inforced for the the deprivation of Richard II. was that he had by admitting Bulls from Rome inthralled the Crown of England which was free from the Pope and all other Forrein power In Edward the Third's time there was a seisure of all the Temporalties of the Bishops of Ely and Norwich for the publication of a Bull against Hugh Earl of Chester And the Bishop of Ely was Condemned of Felony by a Jury at the Kings-Bench notwithstanding his bold challenge to be unctus Dominit Frater Papae The state of Romish Recusants became very miserable being thereby ensnared in a lamentable Dilemma for either they must be executed for Treason against the Queen if they did resist or be accursed by their Holy Father if they did obey Her But rather than the Pope and his Crew would loose the Design and Effect of his Bull which for ought I know is in force to this very day for if the Pope will say that it was not directed and intended against the Queen only but that its force and efficacy extends still to her Successors I am sure it must go for good Doctrin with them if they will be true to their Oaths Doctrins and Principles he quickly found out a means to extricate them out of that miserable Condition wherein they were thereby involved viz. A Dispensation from himself which was afterwards reinforced by Gregory the 13th that all Catholicks here might shew their outward Obedience to the Queen Ad redimendam vexationem ad ostendendam externam obedientiam but with these cautions and limitations Rebus sic stantibus things so standing as they did 2. Donec publica Bullae executio sieri possit until they might grow into strength until they were able to give the Queen an unavoidable Check-mate that the publick execution of the said Buil might take place And so much was confessed openly at the Barr by Garner as before he had done under his own hand for the better execution whereof the Pope granted Faculties to Rob. Persons and Edmond Campion then ready to go for England 14 April 1580. which Hart also confessed Perside Gens A strange Generation of perfidious-Men whom no favours can oblige to be quiet and loyal It was observed by Sir Edw. Coke Attorney General at the Tryal of the Powder Traytors that since the Jesuits set foot in this Land there never passed 4 Years without a most pestilent and pernicious Treason 11. b. tending to the subversion of the whole State And was there ever any Prince that would endure or not execute such persons within their Dominions as should deny him to be lawful King or go about to withdravv his Subjects from his Allegiance or incite them to assassinate or to resist or rebel against him and vvithall endeavouring to justifie it by their pens Nay by their deaths vvith strong presumption of meiting thereby What possible hopes can there be of such Men enslaved to such Principles Nay vvhat Prince under Heaven can think his State secure so long as every pettish Pope may vvithout thime or reason pick a quarrel vvith him vvhence a Citation thence a Sentence vvhich either neglected or not satisfied infers Contumacy vvhich deprives the supposed Delinquent of that right vvhich God gave Conscience avovvs and consent of Ages and successive Generations hath fortified and being declared an Heretick the Croysade is published The Words of the Canon strongly bent against the Crovvn Impereal of Hen. 4. are not many but very heavy and very fatal and extensive to all Princes and in English thus We observing the Statutes of our Holy Predecessors do absolve those that are bound by Fidelity and Oath to persons Excommunicated from their Oath and do forbid them to observe or keep their Fealty towards them quousque ipsi ad satisfactionem veniunt till they come to yield satisfaction In this case I appeal to the judgment even of the Priests themselves who confess That in all the Plots against Queen Eliz. none were more forward than many of the Priests were but how many of them were so inclined and addicted the State knew not In which Case fay they there is no King or Prince in the World disguisting the See of Rome and having either force or mettal in hin that would have indured us but rather have utterly rotted us out of his Territories as Traitors and Rebels to him and his Countrey and therefore we may bless God that we live under so merciful a Prince which had she been a Catholick might be accounted the mirror of the World Import Consid fo 16. There were sparks of Ingenuity in these their Acknowledgments but much more saucily writ those Emperor-like Quaker-like say I Jesuits Parsons and Creswel who in one of their Books spake thus to Her Majety In the beginning of Thy Kingdom Thou didst deal something more gently with Catholicks none were then urged by Thee or pressed either to Thy Sect or to the denial of their Faith All things indeed did seem to proceed in a far milder course No great Complaints were heard of There were no extraordinary Contentions or Repugnancies Some there were that to please and gratifie you went to your Churches c. Ibid. f. 6. And yet did Queen Eliz. not only not call into question Thousands that were capitally guilty of the pains of her Laws but favoured many known Papists professing Loyalty and Obedience to Her Majesty None of which sort were for their contrary opinions in Religion prosecuted or charged with