Farre it is God knowes from my minde to add affliction to his afflictions sufficiat Diei malitia sua nec unquam fuit mea consuetudo lacerato animo discere vitia amicorum talem zelum ut cum S. Augustino Loquar semper fensui magis impetum punientis quam caritatem corrigentis The same Saint tells mee how to handle Sall. Dilige saith hee dic quod voles But what shall I doe to a man that hath stained his soule with the spott of herisy with what waters shall I wash him for wyping away the staine with those of Siloe quae fluunt cum scilentio or those of Rasin quae transeunt cum tumultu The last seem the more naturall for purifying him though my inclination is more for the soft running waters of Siloe Had Sall's sinn beene noe more then a slipp of Ignorance or frailty wee could have covered him with a Mantle of Charity but the abominable abjuration of faith being a sinn of a high nature and full of Impiety against God against Christ and his unspotted spouse against Charity and the Holy Ghost I can not be silent but must openly rebuke his wickedness and maintaine truth against him before all the world can I see aman deare to mee vaunting and soe desperatly defying the Hostes of the living God and say nothing that cannot be Silence here were a great sinne being the true tyme of taking up Davids Sling and stone and throwing at this Gyant dominering and vaporing against the camp of Israell I am not to powre oyle upon the head of such a sinner flattery will not cure him I must then in charity chide him and Exprobrat his deserting the Catholick faith and if hee is wise and penitent hee will say with repenting David The Just shall rebuke mee in mercy and shall reprehend mee but let not the oyle of a sinner fatte my head After lamenting Sall's woefull perversion I begin to think of my deare Contry's affliction and with feare and amazement to inquire the ground and cause of persecution there and in Enland Nothing was less feared I am confident by the Catholicks of both Kingdoms then a tempest of this nature to come upon them lying safe as they conceived under the wings of soe great and mercyfull a Monarck as Charles the second a King of pardons How then say men came this about how could soe clement a King be induced to afflict soe loyall a people as the Catholicks of England and Ireland I see noe Mistery in this business all is cleare theire affliction and cause therof is well knowne over all Europ and is as I may say even the same with that of innocent Daniell whose Loyall fidelity to Syrus King of Babylon was soe cleare as his malignant Enemys said expressly of him wee shall not finde against this Daniell any occasion unless perhaps in the Law of his God the Crime then against Daniell and all the Jews was theire Religion upon this ground the Counsellers and great men of the Kingdome gott the King to sett forth an Edict against the Jewes for professing theire Religion and by this means Daniell was cast into the lake of the Lyons by a King that lou'd him The King lou'd Daniell but hee feared the great men who pressed the Law to be executed against Daniell and this feare more strong in the King then love made poore Daniell Companion to the Lyons Your Religion noble Contry-men your Religion is the sole Cryme for which you suffer Blessed for ever be the name of God for this your Religion hath stirred up this tempest which ought not to terrifye you over much seeing the Apostles our first Captains and Leaders in this holy cause those darlings of God endured hard things for Religion Prisons whippings contumilies and all sorts of vexations were to them delights and consolations they after being scurged went from the sight of the Councell rejoycing because they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus Doe not therfore feare all that men can doe against you while with tears and patience you march under the purple Standart of Crucify'd Jesus for in the end the day and victory will be yours feare not the power of men in this glorious tryall there be more with you then against you Legions of Angells though you see them not those heavenly hostes are pitching theire tents round about you Hee that Led the Children of Israell out of Egypt in wonders through the redd Sea neuer wants power to deliver you waite for his good tyme for hee will come A Table of sage Counsells that hung by the bed of Ptolomeus Arsacides King of Egypt by him Religiously obserued all the tyme of his raigne was delivered by a Priest of the Idols to the wise Emperour Marcus Aurelius whoe dying gave it to his sonn with this short speech My sonn leaving you Emperour of many Kingdoms I presume you will with that great power be feared of all and if you wil faithfully Keep the Godly Counsells in this Table you shall be infalibly beloved of all The Table of Counsells 1. I Neuer deny'd said the vertuous King Ptolomeus justice to a poore man for being poore nor pardoned a rich man for being rich 2. I neuer loved a rich wicked man nor hated a poore just man 3. I neuer granted favours to men for affection nor distroy'd men to satisfy my passion 4. I neuer deny'd Justice to any demanding Iustice nor mercy to the afflicted and miserable 5. I neuer passed by Evill without punishing it nor good withovt rewarding it 6. I neuer did Evill to any man out of Malice nor villany for avarice 7. I was neuer without feare in prosperity nor without courage in adversity 8. My dore was neuer open to a flatterer nor my eare to a murmuring detractor 9. I indeavoured still to make my selfe beloved of the good and feared of the Evill 10. I ever favoured the poore that were able to doe little for themselves and I was evermore favoured by the Gods that were able to doe much for all Those rare Counsells should be exposed in the houses of Kings and all puplick places to the view of men to be knowne of all in theire respective dignitys and callings and it would be a pious and noble action if our gratious souveraigne would be pleased to consider seriously with himselfe how farre these just and Laudable Counsells haue been regarded during the tyme of his raigne especially in conferring of estates and lands from one part of his subjects to another part of them contrary to all due course of Law and without hearing of the partys oppressed which hath been procured to be done by the undue information and perswation of certaine of his Councellers and Ministers of State and chiefly of the Chancellor the Earl of Clarindon If his Majesty shall doe this grace and justice to his Catholick subjects of Ireland thousands of Widow's and Orphans will be eased and relieved who
in great feare and left behind him his stately buildings places of pleasure great Riches and the veneration of many that adored this man like an Idoll the glory of the man is gon away like smooke and his name rotten and hated in England and flying into France walked over some Provinces of that Kingdome in trembling like another Cain before any Settlement of himselfe Iustum O Domine est Iudicium tuum And wee are poore soules as yet living as wee can and hopeing for Gods mercy I am here to advertise my Reader of an abominable ingagment agree'd upon in the tyme of usurpation against the Royall Family the contents will teach you how good frinds they were to the King that conceived this ingagement P. W. hath this oath page 74. of his reply to Orery's answer and aptly tearms it one of the oathes taken by the Saints themselves the fautors of Crumwells Tyranny and the wellwishers of his Kings-ship Which ruuneth thus I. A. B. doe hereby declare that I renounce the pretended title of Charles Stuart and the whole line of late King Iames and of every other person pretending to the Goverment of the Nations of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territorys therunto belonging and that Iwill by the grace and assistance of the Allmighty be true and faithfull to this Common Wealth against any King single Person and House of Peers and Every of them and here unto I subscribe my name Can any oath be more horrid or can any written wickedness ascend higher and consequently can any mercy be greater then the pardon his Majesty hath granted to the men that hartily took this oath This Ingagment was forced upon the Irish Catholicks in soe high a Nature that those who would not take it were debarred not only from the benefitt of law but alsoe expos'd to an inevitable danger of death the Soldiers of Crumwells Army being commanded by publick Proclamation to kill any man they met on the high-way who carryed not a Certificate about him of having taken that ingagment Commaunds which were Cruelly executed on silly Pesants who out of Ignorance or want of care having left theire ticketts at home were Barbarously Murthered by the mercyless Souldiers Make now a serious reflextion upon said ingagment out of the same Author It is very remarkable saith hee that they who devised this ingagment who hartily subscribed and forced others to take it shall not be questioned or held Criminall and that those who neuer saw it before it was administrated to them who abbor'd it in theire harts and were forc't to signe it to avoyd a blooddy and violent death shall be declared nocents and an irecoverable Sentence of Loosing theire estates given against them and theire estates soe forfeted to be confirm'd on those very persons who compell'd the proprietors to that forfeitur Obstupescite Caeli super hoc portae ejus desolamini vehementer I defy all the Annalls and the Histories of Tartars Turcks Scithians or of what People soever to produce soe horrible an injustice as this or a more wicked and Barbarous pranck of knavery then those our Enemys have contrived King Charles our Soveraigne your Royall Authority in England maintains the Peer in his splendor and Dignity the Commoner in his birth right and liberty you protect the weak from the oppression of the mighty secure the Nobility from the insolence of the people and by this Equall and impartiall Iustice is indifferrently distributed to all the inhabitants of that great and flourishing Realme And at the same tyme use is made of the same Royall Authority in your Kingdom of Ireland to condemne innocents before they are heard to destroy soe many hundred Widdow's and Orphans to confirme soe many unlawfull usurped possessions to violate the publick faith to punish vertue to countenance vice to hold loyalty a Crime and treason worthy of reward These are verities not to be doubted of in our days wee feel them by sore tryall but after-ages will hardly admitt them and it must be avery difficult matter to perswade those now that have not been eye-wittnesses that the fact ever happened Now things being carryed in this nature let your Majesty seriously consider of whome shall God take account of our Distruction of those wicked states-men who abused your Authority or of your Royall Person for not bringing those men after our humble and publick prayres and petitions to your Majesty for redress to the test and tryall of Iustice for having opprest us Consider great King the prayer of King David to God O God give the Iudgment to the King And the Iustice to the Sonne of the King Why soe King David To Iudge saith David thy people in Iustice and thy poore in Iudgment The Royall Prophet here gives the reason wherfore the power of Iudging and Sword of Justice is given to a King to witt that hee Judge the people in Justice and the Poor in Iudgment Which was not done soe complains the Widdow's and Orphans in Ireland perishing in poverty and famin and the world abroad is in amazement that this was not done Wonders they say were done after his Majestys restauration Rebells made honest men and honest men made Rebells by the Kings Royall pleasure and all this brought about by the cunning and wickedness of certaine Statsmen wherby the King was cheated and betrayd the innocent People ruin'd and impious Statsmen enricht and magnify'd soe that thee Poore Catholcck People have nothing left them but to cry to thee O Lord. Tibi deretictus est pauper Orphano tu eris adjutor Contere Brachium peccatoris maligni To thee is the poor left to the Orphan thou wilt bee a helper Break the arme of the sinner and malignant Our Eyes and harts O God are turn'd upon thee seing men have abandon'd us O Lord when will the day come of our Happiness when shall wee with thankfullness say to all the world Our Lord hath heard the desire of the Poore and Iudged for the People and the humble Kings are more oblig'd to commiserat the calamity's of the afflicted rhen privat men because they are the Fathers of the People Iob a holy Prince in the land of Hus some hold hee was an absolute King did this Heare him speak King Charls I was an eye to the blinde and a foot to the lame I was the Father of the Poore I brake the Iawes of the wicked man and out of his teeth I took away the prey This is it the poore Catholicks most need to have done for them that the Royall hand will break the jawes of wicked men and take the prey out of theire teeth Iob says further The eare hearing counted mee blessed for that I had delivered the poore man crying out and the people that had noe helpe The blessing sf him that was ready to perrish came upon mee and I comforted the hart of the Widdow There are thousands of these wedows and
treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland marcht two of his Daughters one to great Geraldin Earl of Killdare first Earl of Ireland another to the Lord Barry Viscount of Barremore hee used for his Motto in this his great prosperity Gods providence is my in heritance a Christian and modest one which for all that signifyed hee had nothing left him by his parents These things I utter not by way of reproach for wee are all the Children of Adam but to minde Orery a little of the low and small nest in which his Father was hatched that hee should not soe farr forgett himselfe as to contemne and trample under foote a whole Nation wherin are soe many antient and noble Familyes and let him give mee leave to till him it is agreat and an unwary Impertinency for guilty and contaminated men to reproach the Innocent Hee that says much or displeaseth others must heare somthing will displease himselfe as alsoe hee that goes armed against many expects many armed against him In tyme of usurpation those that commaunded were very insolent it was then indeed men could say of England what was said of Athens that there only small theeves were hang'd but the great ones were free and condemn'd the rest wee hope it is not now soe in England however Orery for one man hath had the good Fortune to escape in all tymes and on all sides and to have a good post and place in Every goverment It is commonly said that against a mischief badd parents doe to theire Children there is noe other cure then patience but Orery being noe Parent but an Enemy to our Nation is not to be borne with and it is more reasonable his owne confusion should be his cure then our patience The Catholicks of Ireland look upon him as a great beast makeing a prey of all that 's weaker and realy hee hath soe dealt with us wherfore wee may deal with him in the same way according to our strength and if hee is soe strong and in court soe much favoured as wee may not have him cited to make answer the court will give us leave to expose his vertues or vices as wee finde them written by others In what I have writt I have but done my duty in strycking him that stryck's my Country for as Tertulean says In hostem Patriae omnis homo miles est I will here take my leave of Count Orery minding him of what P. W. in his little book stiled the Irish Cullours foulded printed at London Anno Domini 1662. in pag. 20. therof hee speaks of Orery to the Duke of Ormond as followeth For indeed my Lord hee appears to mee all a long his writings of the number of those who see heaven and all the hopes of the other life as Mathematitians make us behold in a darke Chamber what soever passeth a broad through a little Crany in such a manner that all things wee see appeare like shaddows and landsckips turned topsceturvy Verily I take this Gentleman to be abused soe by himselfe And that after hee hath stopped up all the windows and accesses to heavenly Ray's hee hath made a little hole for the Moone and all the blessings of the other life have seemed very slender to his distrustfull spiritt and that hee hath put on a Resolution to make a Fortune at what price soever and to build on earth like Caine after hee hath allmost renounced the hopes of heaven If Orery be such a man as P. W. discribes him if hee hath not a trembling in the head as old Cain the Murtherer had hee cannot Chuse but have a trembling and great heavenisse at the hart After ending with Orery I sinde a nother Kinde of snake in the grass latet anguis in herba full of poyson this man conceals his name wherfore I know not for hee needed not feare to write any thing against the Catholicks when all things runn against them Likely his fancy was to throw the stone and hide his hand Hee writt at London Anno 1664. a Book full of vennime with this title Horae Subcesiva In pag. 83. hee affirmeth that Charles the second is not obliged in the least by any Law of God or man of warr or Nations to keep any one particle of the Irish Articles made or granted by King Charles his Father in the yeare 1648. to this purpose hee setts downe formally these words in pag. 81. King Charles the second May Iure Belli gentium lege talionis without breatch of faith or Articles not excepting those of 1648. soe much insisted on and soe mightily pleaded for by P. W. by that just Law soe often used and prescribed by God himselfe take the lives and fortunes of all bloodd-thirsty Popish Rebells and theire confederats and assotiats M This Godly man doth not cite in what Code or Book this Law often used and prescribed by God himselfe is to be had nor can hee nor doth hee give any other reason or proofe for his assertion then his owne Authority which can be of noe vallue with any pious man I appeal to all the noble-men and the worthy Protestant People of England if this is not rather the proposition of a Murtherer then of a Christian Gentleman This mans Book Horâ— Subcesivae P. W. did learnedly confute in an Appendix hee added to his reply to Orerys answer and soe confounded him that hee neuer writt word after in his owne defence I remitt the Reader to what hee shall finde in said Appendix of this Matter and after reading all let him Iudge as hee shall finde fitting and reasonable Can wee forgit to list in the number of our Enemys the Earle of Clarendon Chancellor of England hee deserves to head the first ranck of them a man of Ruine and Distruction a Pest to Catholicks and Ireland Was not this Clarendon this blooddy and covetous Statesmaen heard oft to say with a fierce countenanc and passionat tone the Irish deserve to be exterpated and then hee would after his usuall manner com out with a great oath and swear they shall be extirpated Good God what a heathnish Expression is this in the Mouth of a Christian Statesman a Chancellor of Engelland Is not a Christian King well Counselled in having neare him for chiefe Minister of State such a blooddy man voyd of all Iustice and mercy But did this Athist soe great an Enemy to Godliness can not be a Christian think that God that hath appoynted an Angell for the Guard of Every indivtduall person would take noe care to preserve the body of an intyre Nation but let them all be destroy'd to satisfy the minde and anger of a blooddy man Clarendon was in this Bussiness like that Astronomer or Philosopher who look't upon the starrs and fell into a well before his feet hee had then designed in his owne minde the ruine of the Catholicks of Ireland and very soon after hee stole out of England with a Guilty Conscience and Baggs of Gold