which I willingly let passe and come to the rest of his seditious Bookes as his Admonition and Appendix For the former of these Don Lucifer the wittiest Fiend in Hel could not haue written more spitefully so that all posteritie cannot choose but condemne him for a most scurrilous Traitour and had he beene brought vp amongst all the Ruffians and Curtizans in Christendome he could not haue learned to haue writ more vilely prophanely and heathenishly for the later to wit his Appendix the booke was impudentlie fathered on Cardinall Allen after his death being hatched by the vnnatural heat of his ambitious hart wherin the Arch-Statist presumes to cal his learned Maiestie that now is king of great Brittaine and then was of Scotland obstinate Hereticke Who so bold they say as blind Bayard he feares no colours hath no shame or conscience what he writes so he write with an invectiue humour as hath beene largely proved already Wherefore having viewed examined and reexamined his Bookes and Writings we will now enquire farther after his life and conversation for as the Poet said a man may chance to write a lewd Booke which is a sober honest man But was he so so was Don Lucifer and al the Fiends in Hell from whom this man seemed to be descended in the right line giving occasion to diverse by his soule enormous and divelish life to think that he was not a meere man but some Fairies brat or begotten by an Incubus or aerish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman Shew me that Treason treacherie or noted villanie wherein Parsons had not a hand a heart and a head name that vice whatsoever it be lying coosening forgerie periurie craft hypocrisie dissimulation envie pride covetousnes vaine-glory backebiting selfe-loue crueltie murders and oppressions ambition heresie Atheisme whereof he was not guilty in the highest degree Speake you holy Priests of a sacred function that knew him best and lived longest with him speake boldly and shame not to tel him roundly of his faults We wil descend vnto some few particulars in order as they shal lie most convenient for our purpose and first of his foule conspiracies treasonable plots plottings of Treason You wil say perhaps it is not good rubbing that sore any more it hath beene touched alreadie to the quicke I confesse it hath beene so but in a different kinde For it is one thing to write an other to act treasons Parsons is guilty of both of the former there is little doubt by that which is spoken and of the later lesse by that which now followeth by way of evident demonstration To proue that Father Parsons was no lesse a traitour in action then in writing first we shew and can proue that we say with a wet finger that he gaue his concurrence furtherance to a forraine invasiō here in England sought to indanger his Maiesties person by the Scots set his rest vpon the hopes of Spaine procured himselfe to be the kings servant practised with the students there and diverse others to giue their names to a Charter of subscription first prophecied and promised vnto himselfe good successe and then tooke vpon him with his Iesuiticall Plotcasters to be an Actor an orator or a broker in labouring to bring that prophecie to an effect and rather then it should faile to be the bloudie instrument to worke it of his owne head Againe who is it that caused the Seminaries in Spaine and S. Omers to be erected and that alone procured 2000 crownes a yeare pension more for the College at Doway though he deserved small thanks for his labour considering the decay of Students at Rhemes and Lovaine Father Parsons Who was it that procured that the first forme of oath now vsed was brought into the Roman Seminarie and after that example by himselfe into the Seminaries of Spaine whereby al promised to take holy orders and returne into England when they should be appointed by their Superiors Father Parsons Who was it that vsed perswasion at Rome to the Students there that they should haue at State and al for which State-medling they could but die and dy they should if they were taken without State-medling Father Parsons Who is it that vpon a Luciferian pride durst presume to cal the king of Scots an obstinate hereticke and the French king a reprobate of God forsaken Father Parsons Who is it that chopped and changed the crowne of England 8. or 9. several times as it pleased him playing with it as little boies sport themselues with king by your leaue the great ones every hand while crying a New King a new and in the end set it to sale wherevpon a certaine Romish gentleman affixed a briefe Libell vpon Pasquines buttock in dirision and scorne of him If there bee any man that will buy the kingdome of England let him repaire to a Merchant in a blacke square cap in the Citty and hee shall haue a very good penny-worth thereof Was not this F. Parsons so then the premises duly considered we may safely conclude that this is that same Parsons whome all the Realme Prince and Peeres with all true English hearts haue cause to curse hate spit at and so an end of that matter Now as his predominant and most exorbitant qualitie was Treason so was he deepely learned and in a short time a great proficient in sundry other qualities belonging to the Divels craft as first for truth in him there was none Qui posuit mendacium spem suam professing the Art of lying and vsing tricks as in adding diminishing equivocating and subintelligiturs to serue his turne for you must note by the way that Equivocation is the Divels Sophistrie and the common principle of the Iesuits and he is not scarsely to be accounted a Iesuit that cannot lie dissemble and equivocate at every word these be the Aphricanian Phalanges and Iesuiticall forces Hence it is that Cameleon like he hath banded of and on with time like Protheus and in truth neither Protheus in his complements nor the Sea Euripus in his Crosse tide Ebbes and flowes for his inconstancy of old hath beene held more infamous then E. Parsons Yet he had a worse fault then all these and that is he incurred the hateful crime of forgerie taking vpon him to thrust in and out for his purpose as if hee had had a dispensation granted to forge at his pleasure Hee was shrewdly mistrusted to haue added or altered somwhat in Bellarmines Letter hee did alter the sentence of the two Cardinals Caietan and Burghesio Corrupted the Registers and Records at Rome and hee was charged in Oxon amongst very many things with forgerie by one Stancliff his fellow Bursar these wee thought good to note by the way for a tast of some of his forgeries in lesser matters but hee
as also by countermined platformes in practicall conspiracies for else whereto tended a Blanke importing treason wherevnto many were requested to subscribe their new Spanish Doleman to which day for the delay of it they giue the daily pox their treasonable plots for surprizing the Lady Arbella for solliciting Earle Ferdinando to rise against her Maiestie for entertaining Yorke and Yong in the plot for firing her Maiesties storehouses and to flie with ships and all into Spaine c. And the like in Scotland For by their doctrine of Prince-killing haue they not enioined one for penance to murder his Soveraigne and doe they not hold it for sound doctrine that if one of them be commanded to murther an annointed Prince he must doe his endeavour and none hath beene wanting as lately enough in the murther of the last French king and latelier might haue beene seene in the now regnant in our own deare Soveraigne sundry times by the Iesuiticall hand had not Gods hand beene the stronger Three or foure of them were esteemed Martyrs in Englād but they died rather to their shames for their sinnes than to Gods glory if her Maiestie and the State would take them at the worst they might all bee iustly condemned for erroneous and traiterous persons For out of the Jesuits docttrine certainely there is nothing else but treacheries treason and conspiracies and hence it must needes followe that there is not a Iesuit in all England but hath a smacke of impietie irreligiositie treacherie treason and Machiavillian Atheisme and it cannot be but as long as there is one Iesuit left in England there wil be mutinies treason conspiracies and factions do what Pope or Prince or any other is able to do or say to the contrary All their plots and conspiracies wherof I am fully perswaded there are a great many yet lie hidden and vnknowne tend herevnto this is it that makes their bookes so full of plots exasperations and conspiracies against the Church and common weale that causes their mony to fly so fast over the Ocean two thousand pounds intercepted in one yeare going over to prepare for an invasion for an exploit in time to come But how hath God favored these prevaricators Pharisees and Conspirators against God and their country these massacring butcherlie buyers and sellers of their deare countrymens bloud Their hopes of the English Nation were vaine and their Catilinian coniurations and conspiracies were not sanctified nor blessed by the hand of God Gods hand was ever the stronger and to conclude their evill successe shewes that God was not pleased with them The 61. Proposition Murderers of Kings Popes Cardinals c. THe Iesuits and their seditious faction do broach publish such a kinde of doctrine that subiects are no longer bound to obey wicked Princes in their temporall Lawes and commandements but till they be able by force of armes to resist them A most dangerous doctrine most vnfit to be published in this age By this doctrine the Iesuits murdered Henry the third and writ a discourse against him de iusta abdicatione H 3. as if it had beene hatched in hell practised against divers kings in France defeated the Polonian of his kingdom and here in England haue sought to compasse their wicked purposes by Norfolke Stukely Saunders For all which and many mo traiterous practises the Iesuits are at this day an odious detestable Generation But though they seeke to murder wicked Princes and propose rewards to such as kill tyrants yet it may be they will spare Popes Cardinals Bishops surely no they grow as bad as bad may be namely to the outraging of that which is most holy and if there be as there are shrewd suspitions in Rome cōcerning the death of two Popes two Cardinals and one Bishop already I make no question at all but that if hereafter any Pope shall crosse their plots and purposes the Iesuits wil haue such a figge in store for his Holines that shall do so as no Rubarbe Angelica Mithridate or other medicine or Antidote shall expell the venim poison and infection from his heart nor any bezar perle gold or vnicornes horne long preserue his life after it The 62. Proposition In Doctrine they turne all topsie turuie THey plunge themselues over head eares into Ecclesiasticall affaires with such audacity and obstinacie as they haue turned all topsie turvy The 63. Proposition By hereticall Positions OVt of the Iesuits doctrine certainely therein is nothing els but fallacie vpon fallacie errour vpon errour one contradiction encountring an other all nothing A Iesuit mainetained this most vile Atheall and heathenish assertion that one that is not a Christian may be Pope of Rome and an other Iesuit openly and for sound doctrine maintained it first to his Auditors in the Schoole at this instant openly in the Inquisition doth viz non est de fide credere hunc Romanum Pontificem esse Christi vicarium that it is no matter of faith to beleeue that this or that Pope of Rome is Christs Vicar To let passe their erroneous doctrin concerning their Generals infallibilitie of truth for deciding of matters their absurd Paradoxes of Equivocation The Iesuits every way in printed Books in writen copies or Manuscripts and most of all in privat conference haue taught contrarie to the beliefe of the Romane Church and therefore it is no marvell if in materiall points of catholike faith they oppose against the Angelicall Doctour and be therefore at this present in dighted before his Holinesse by the Dominicans in Spaine for Pelagians and sundry other kindes of Hereticks as also for impostors by the Sorbonists of Paris and all other French cleargie as we credibly heare The 64. Proposition By extravagant opinions NEver was there any religious order that tooke their course that held such phantastical extravagant exorbitant irregular opinions as they do The 65. Proposition Approving of the Stewes Fa Weston and Archer charged by Doctor Norden for defending the Stewes to be lawfull and very necessarie to be as lawfull as the Pope himselfe as if they had made as it seemeth a verie league with Hell against truth The 66. Proposition Abuse of Confession THEY abuse this sacred seale for the managing of worldly businesses herevpon it is reported that the Pope sent a precept or a decree to the Religious houses in Rome thereby prohibiting vnder great penalties that any should vse the knowledge of a mans estate in the Sacrament of confession to any Politicke ende or matter in any external affaire whatsoever but the Iesuits delayed their obedience herevnto and so they make confession a cony-catching or cousening tricke or slight to picke a man or womans purse nay to get all their lands by it and yet
aboue all their intolerable backbiting tongues for invectiues against them they hate What shall we say when a religious societie and that of Iesus can beget such brats Fie on such Fatherhood so rooted so fruited Are they not rockes of scandall to all Priesthood and is it not a shame that so religious a corporation should so ioine hands with the Divel against the vertuous Surely I see no reason why to the Wickelevist vpbraiding vs with the enormous manners of the religious heretofore in Gods Church we should be so straight laced as not to acknowledge him as much seeing that even at this day in England we haue Iesuits such manner of Religious The 7. Proposition The Iesuits are noted of Ambition THe wicked Iesuits are of Luciferian ambition most ambitious and cunning in seeking to beare rule over the Clergie and being once fired in the ambitious mounts of Phaetons chariot they trouble all Europe by this their ambitioning aboue all Religious orders in holy Church in ordine ad daemonem aemulantes stil charismata pessima The 8. Proposition Vaine-glory THese good Fathers are so desirous of their own credit and glory as if they were a companie of Swaggerers Ruffians or bragging braggates of Toledo The 9. Proposition Envy There is Envy in them to see any doe well that followes not them proving themselues right Momists Zoilists and Aristarchists and I verily thinke nether Zoilus Aristarchus Timon or other Misanthropos ever equald or else was to be compared with a Iesuit in the damnable art of detraction or Envy The 10. Proposition Malice WHat should I speake of the inhumane parts of these cruell men their dogged natures Jewish hearts where once they conceaue a dislike rightly following that Atheall principle of Machiavell never to pardon vnlesse for disadvantage where once thou hast taken a displeasure so that revenge with them hath never an end but with the death of their adversaries their reproch after death whereby it is evidently proved that there is more like Divelish then humane malice in them The 11. Proposition The Iesuits are noted of Vncharitie THe Iesuits pretend Fatherly Charitie exhibited towards all Priests an affirmance so far from truth as to doubt concerning this matter in question whether it be true or no were to doubt whether there be a Sunne in the Firmament or no. For what is more cōmon with them then by their Iesuiticall vncharitie to leaue a man not to Gods mercy but to his iudgement The 12. Proposition Of Crueltie THey are mercilesse hard and cruell harted to their afflicted brethren for insteed of meekenesse mercy and compassion they haue put on a steme harth and cruell hardnes void of all pittie mildnesse or remorse And in the Low-countries they haue beene so cruell as that they haue not only brought many excellent men to a miserable end but haue reproched thē after death The 13. Proposition Famous for murders and Massacres THe only thing they long for is to bring al a flore in fire and sword according to their prowd Machiavillian and cruell designements committing many secret murders open Massacres And verily some breath of bloudy garboyles and cruelties is threatned to all nations by these Assassinists For what are they all say some that know them but massacring butcherlie buyers and sellers of their deare country mens bloud The very Canibals and Anthropophagies shall rise vp at the last daie and condemne this barbarous and savage generation of Belials bloud for this crime The 14. Proposition Saucie fellowes THese malapert Iesuits become sawcie everie where where they once get but never so little advantage The 15. Proposition Impudent WHo would thinke that anie strumpet were shee never so impudent could put vpon her such a brazen forhead They are all like common strumpets For they will stand to nothing though there be a thousand witnesses The 16. Proposition Iniurious THe Iesuits abettours of most grievous wrongs and infamie especiallie to the Priests The 17. Proposition Vnhospitall A man may as soone breake their neckes as their fasts at a Iesuits College The 18. Proposition Pillars and polers of the People THere is much polling and pilling of Catholickes in England vnder the colour of holie vses Verres not more odious for pilling than the Iesuits The 19. Proposition Causers of dissention THe Iesuits beginners of contention firebrands of all seditions All the Cleargie and sociall dissention in our Realme proceeded from the Fathers of the Society and these are the very first brokers breathers brochers of contention abroad Whose delight is in nothing but in factions and novelties and why because with their Zizaniaes of faction they make boot havocke of Catholickes estates getting more by discord than otherwise and therefore it is no marvell if in private families they separate brethren one from an other and the husband from the wife inflaming them with rancour and envie one against an other For this is a knowne position amongst the Iesuits Divide impera and therefore they do both stir vp and maintaine dissentions The 20. Proposition Accusers and diffamers of their brethren THeir Adversaries haue alwaies found them to vse as sharpe teeth and as hurtfull tongues to the renting asunder their good names and wounding them other wise yet all in secret manner as anie other men they had occasions to deale with For why they passe all that ever yet were for detraction yea even when they haue tormented a man to death yet haue they most slie and cunning slights to make it seeme apparent they never did such a thing and withall to make the party crucified by them yet still to be condemned of the worlde as maledictus and an iniurious slanderer of them And that you maie know that of defamations their Societie hath the exactest schoole vnder heaven they obserue certaine Atheall orders and Machiavillian maximes for their owne advantage as detrahe audacter aliquid adhaerebit but the chiefe points to be kept are these two the one that the matter haue some shew of probabilitie in it selfe the second point is that having a ground to build vpon what kind of detraction he pleaseth he must alwaies apply the infamie in iust opposition to the true fame and report Thus by accusing others they make way for their owne hawtines But is it not a most vnchristian Turkish hereticall and traiterous ground they stand vpon and a Promontorie farre beyond all the capes and points of pietie lying out into the dead Sea Persian gulfe or Stygian lake of perdition to affirme that all must be defamed detracted backbitten despised and borne downe that are opposite to them and their designes yea whatsoever parson is directly bent against them they must never leaue him but calumniat
a Masse in the forenoone to a Puritan Sermon in the afternoone and lastly licensed to marry with Catholikes The 36. Proposition Falsaries IT is no newes with them to alleage Auctors corruptly by nipping of words and cutting of that which confuteth the thing for which they are alleaged which false play of theirs in taking that which serveth their turne as they think and leaving out the substance of the matter is often practised but aboue all other things most shamefull is the corrupting of the Cardinals letter vrged by the Priests against the Iesuits The 37. Proposition Polititians THe Iesuits religious pietie is turned into meere Secular or rather temporall and Laicall policie and they are Priests indeed but exceeding cunning Politicks withall and these Politicke canvasers or Matchiavilian Polititians haue so many Matchiavilian devises as every plot and drift seemeth to bee an infallible rule of falsehood and a principle in chiefe whereby the Iesuits doe square their actions as never a Prince in Christendome nor any man living can tell where to find or how to trace or trust them For in all sacrilegious and temporizing platformes Atheall plots of perdition h Matchiavilian or rather Mahumetan-like faction Heathenish tyrannical Sathanicall and Turkish government none goeth beyond the Iesuits at this day and they are able to set Aretin Lucian Matchiauel yea and Don Lucifer in a sort to schoole as impossible for him by all the Art he hath to besot men as they do The 38. Proposition Entermedling in state-affaires too far ALthough there be an expresse clause in the Iesuits mission into England that they should not deale in matters of state yet the Iesuits themselues sticke not to vaunt that they haue a finger not only in the Catholicke commons of this Realme but also in the State and they are become officious sticklers in Princes affaires Ecclesiastical or Tēporall both in England and Scotland as is proued very sufficiently according to their doctrine of statizing they must be stirring tamporing temporizing and statizing like martiall men or common souldiers in the field of war in all temporal mundane and stratagematicall affaires this is their delight but ever they doe rather harme than good thereby and therefore it was well done of the Secular Priests earnestly to request that all proceedings of State-busines by the Iesuits should be vtterlie and presently forbidden The 39. Proposition They haue and mainetaine Intelligencers and spies IT is an honourable policie in Princes to entertaine spies counterfeits and traitors by whom they know presentlie what is intended against them semblably the Iesuits haue their intelligence in all the kings courts in Europe by some principall man or woman of marke of their placing and their chiefe Agent to discover the secrets of Princes is alwaies a Iesuit in re or in spe These Agents in all Princes Courts giue information to their Generall once a month so that nothing is done in England but it is knowne in Rome with in a month after at the least And say now is it a fit thing that Religious men that should spend their time in study and contēplation should take their greatest pleasure delight and contentment in writing and receiving packets of newes from all coasts and countries making that their whole study and travaile The 40. Proposition Worke by great men The Iesuits haue learned one tricke of Machiavell throughly practised by Erasmus to be at composition with certaine noble men gentlemen and others in Princes Courts to spread abroad their workes with report every thing to bee rare and there is no Prince in the world but hath some great Lord or other about him that wil be ready to speake a good word for the Iesuits in hope of a better time at their hands at one time or other when kingdomes are at stake The 41. Proposition They effect all by Bribes and promises THe no lesse consciencelesse than mercilesse Iesuits collect great summes of money over all the Realme and wherefore is all this done Because the greatest enterprises taken in hand by thē are done more by bribes given to brokers and c great promises made to them that are sticklers for them for the later it hath beene long the faction of the Religious Fathers so to doe to put men to great expectation of favour and advancement when their day shall come to ring every yeare fresh Alarums of forein preparation and I know not what and as touching the former it was an old stale principle of Machiavell to packe and sack vp sackes of mony to bring and binde mens tongues therewith to preach and prate in court country and Pulper what they will haue to keepe themselues in The 42. Proposition Intercept Letters VVHo knoweth not that the Jesuits such as should haue made a conscience to open other mens letters doe intercept letters and lie so in wait to intercept what passeth to and fro that a small letter can hardly and that very seldome escape them For they especially the Iesuits of Rome do intercept all manner of letters of al men whosoever as they please themselues not forbearing the packets neither of the Cardinals nor of Princes The 43. Proposition Iniurious to Priests by debasing them THe Iesuits tongue-torments more cruell and heavie to the Priests thā their adversaries racks ropes or Tiburne Tippets calling anointed Priests knaues villaines spies south-saiers Idolaters Libertins Atheists with other the most odious termes that the Divell or malice is able to invent shaking their heads vsing diverse very disdainfull exclamations as ah hah hah a Seminarie an old Queene Marie Priest a Secular ah ah ah alas poore men you shall see thē all leape at a crust ere it be long and where these Fathers haue had most conversation and dealing many of modest and temperate constitution are become impious brazenfaced furious men against Priests wherevpon the Catholickes haue not beene afraid to lay violent hands with offer to strike or to run with drawne swords at Priests and reported that it were no more offence to kill one of them than to kill a notorious persecutour and hereticke so that if the Iesuits should prevaile the poore Seculars were as good to be all hanged vp togither as liue to endure the insults triumphs vpbraidings that shal be laid against them as though no Secular Priest were worthy to be named the same day that mention is made of a holy Iesuit and that it might be sufficient for them if they might haue some curat-ships to say Masses and so much favor as to attend vpon them to know their Masterships pleasure what they would command them and this debasing and abasing all Priests the Iesuits will not cease vntill they haue cast out the