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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

be made 5. Novemb. for the Gun-powder-treason to root them out of the Confines and Limits of the Kingdom protesting in Parliament that he could not permit the increase and growth of Popery without betraying the liberty both of England and Scotland and of the Crown in his posterity and did declare in his Speech in Parliament 1605. That none of those that truly know and believe the whole Grounds and School-Conclusions of their Doctrins can ever prove-good Christians or good Subjects Vide his Works 504. Nay farther in the Second Year of his Reign ter ' tr ' upon a false rumor being spread that His Majesty intended to grant a Tolleration to Papists he commanded all the Judges with divers of the greatest Nobility viz. Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer and to Assemble in the Star-Chamber to receive their opinions upon these and other points at which time the Lords severally declared how the King was discontented with the said false Rumor and had made but the day before a protestation unto them that he never intended it and that he would spend the last drop of Blood in his Body before he would do it And prayed that before any of his Issue should maintain any other Religion than what he truly professed and maintained that God would take them out of the World Vide Sir George Crokes Reports part 2. ter tr Anno 2 Jac. Reg. in Banco Regis § When a Match with Spain was propounded to King James for Prince Charles and there with an Article defired for a Tolleration of the Popish Religion which when King James had propounded to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1623. the Arch-Bishop did write his Sentiments of King James in which Letter He besought His Majesty to take into his consideration what your Act is and what the Consequence may be by your Act you labour to set up the most Damnable and Heretical Doctrine of the Church of rome the Whore of Babilon How hateful it will be to God and grievous to the good Subjects the professors of the Gospel that your Majesty who hath often disputed and learnedly written against those should now shew your self a Patron of those wicked Doctrins which your Pen hath told the World and your Conscience tells your self are Superstitious Idolatrous and Detestable Besides this Tolleration which you endeavour to set up by your Proclamamation cannot be done without a Parliament unless your Majesty will let your Subjects see that you will take unto your self ability to throw down the Laws of the Land at your pleasure c. prout King James not long after viz 23. Ap. 1624. returns this Answer to a Petition of his Parliament touching Recusants viz. What my Religion is my Books declare my profession and my behaviour do shew and I hope in God I shall never live to be thought otherwise sure I am I shall never deserve it And for my part I wish that it might be written in Marble and remain to posterity as a mark upon me when I shall swerve from my Religion for he that doth dissemble withy God is not to be trusted by Man My Lords Ip rotest before God my Heart hath bled when I have heard of the increase of Opery and God is my Judg it hath been so great a grief unto me that it hath been like Thorns in my Eyes and Pricks in my sides so far have I been and ever shall be from turning any other way And my Lords and Gentlemen you all shall be my Confessors if I knew any way better than other to hinder the growth of Popery I would take it and he cannot be an honest man who knowing as I do and being perswaded as I am would do otherwise The Romish Catholicks for want of this liberty and tollerance in the time of Queen Eliz. and since have made and written many bitter Complaints and Invectives against the Rigour of our Penal Laws c. Rex Talionis I could requite them by commemorating the flames they kindled in England to burn their Brethren to dust How Pius Qintus conferred England on Philip II. King of Spain and approved as an Act lawful by Azorius Instit Mor. part 2. lib. 11. c. 5. And how many Princes they have displaced poisoned and murdered The Holy House which the Friars have planted in spain resembling the Torments of Nero his Garden the Massacres of Provence Piedmont of old and of late and of Paris where they murdered Men Women and Children by Thousands against the very Grounds off all Equity Piety Charity and Humanity without Convicting Accusing or so much as Calling them before any Judg to hear what was misliked in them And when was any of this put in Execution some of it even the 24 Aug. 1572. the very Year that Charles IX the French King pretending great kindness to the Protestants had in Testimony thereof desired a Confederacy at Blois with Queen Eliz. and the Princes of Germany in favour of them whom notwithstanding he had secretly and treacherously designed to the flaughter For no sooner were the Articles of Confederacy agreed on which was the 11th of April and confirmed by Oath by the Queen at Westminster 15. May in the presence of Montmo rency stiled the first Christian Prince and accounted the most Noble Family of all france who also again earnestly sollicited the Marriage with the Duke of Anjou but for that they could not agree about the Exercise of Religion he hasted into France to the Marriage of Henry of Navarre and Madam Margarite the French Kings Sister To this Marriage in pursuance of the said Bloody Design were invited the Queen of Navarre and all the choicest of the Protestants and also Burleigh and Leicester our of England pretending Honour to them and the Palatine Elector's Sons out of Germany that being brought into the snare both they and with them the Protestant Evangelical Religion might with one stroak if not have had their Throats cut yet at least receive a Mortal Wound For no sooner was the Marriage Solemnized but that barbarous Massacre of Paris and the Bloody Butchering of the Protestants throughout the Cities of France upon men of all Estates was cursedly put in Execution and that within Two days after Mota Fennelon the French Ambassador had propounded the Marriage between Queen Eliz. and the Duke of Anjou at Kenelworth Camb. Elisab 162. Which considered I annot but wonder to hear you thus complaining at the Fatherly Chastisement wherewith this Realm seeketh your amendment and sucketh not your Blood Compare the penalties which you fret at with the Laws of former Emperours and you will see how easie they are in respect of their ancient Edicts which restrained such as did forbear to communicate with the Church of Christ from buying selling disposing bequeathing Goods or Lands by will or otherwise yea from receiving any Legacies or enjoying their Fathers Inheritance the place where Schismatical Service was faid Chappel or House to be forfeited and the Bishop and Clergy-man

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

against the Jesutis and the Jesuits against the Priests whereby the Reader may in transitu besides all this perceive that there be as many and as great differences between them as among Protestans Smiths Preface to the Apology f. 12. See also Citizen the Morgentine Jesuit f. 2 c. 18. of his POliticks and Campanella in his Monarchia Hispan The Jesuits now seem to drive another design all the World over viz. as they have one Ecclesiastical or Universal Monarch so to set up a temporal universal Monarch which Eul. Postellus attributes to Terra sancta cui Gallia ob primariam orbis nomen jus substituitur eo quod Ambae toti arhi legem sunt daturae I now proceed to shew you how faithful the Papists were to the Crown of England after King James came to it The first Meritorious Act towards King James was to calumniate him with a breach of promise as made to some of them before he came into England for a Tolleration of their Religion which now he did deny to perform which had this intended double mischief in it viz. That it should bring an Odium upon him from the Protestants for making such a promise and the like from the Papists for the breaking of it And unto whom should this promise be made but unto that Arch-traitor Percy and to that false Priest Watson both afterwards found in other Treasons for which being condemned Watson confessed to the Earl of Northampton purposely sent by the King to examine him who was the first first Author of that false report at Winchester a day or Two before he was Executed at which time no man is prefumed to lye that he never could receive any spark of Comfort touching ease of Counscience to Catholicks from His Majesty 17. b. how unjustly soever the World had made him Author of that Scandal though withall he added how unwilling he had been to declare to his Fellows how averse the King shewed him in his own Words lest over great discouragement might render them desperate The like did Percy another desperate Traitor aver after his return out of Scotland both before and after the Queens death that in the point of Conscience he found the kings intent and final purpose to be peremptory Proceedings against Traitors 182. A. 6. 45.6.46 The like slander and Scandal was raised upon the King by the Lord of Belmerinath his Scotish Secretary by sending the Pope Word that King James would become his obedient Son who afterwards being Arraigned acknowledged his offence in devising Letters and sending them to Rome which himself got cunningly Signed in shuffling them in amongst others His Majesty being utterly ignorant of the Contents Speed 917. Another faithful service towards King James his Person Crown and Posterity was plotted by Watson and Clark Two Secular Italianated Priests who drew others of the Nobility and Gentry into their Hellish Confederacy as Lord Cobham Lord Gray of Wilton Sir Walter Raleigh Lord Warden of the Stanneries Sir Griffin Markeham Sir Edward Parham George Brooke and others their design was to have surprised the Kings person and his Son Prince H. to have kept them prisoners in the Tower or in Dover Castle and there by violence to obtain their Ends viz. A Tolleration of Religion and a removal of evil Councellors or to put some other projects in Execution and then to obtain their Pardons Watson to have been Lord Chancellor Lord Gray Earl-Marshal of England George Brooke Lord Treasurer Sir Griffin Markham Secretary c. Thus did they divide the Bears-skin which is not yet caught though the same Generation in all probability be still in hot pursuit of the same Quarry viz. A Tolleration and Change of Religion in the transferring of all Crowns from Protestant to Popish Princes and Government according to Parsons and Campanella's Plat-form Of those Consederates only Sir William Parham was acquitted and Three only Executed viz. George Brooke Clark and Watson who had taught equivocating and to avoid his other solemn protestations both by Word and Writing that the Act was lawful being done before his Coronation for that the King was no King before he was Anointed and the Crown solemnly set on his Head By this we may conclude that there is no trust to be reposed in Papists of any Order What Man in the World could profess and pubish to all the World in Writing more obedience and faithfulness to a Prince than Watson did to Queen Eliz. most fiercely and bitterly blaming the Jesuits for their iterated and re-iterated Treasons and Rebellions against her and for creating disturbances in allt he states of the World where they are As he lived to see so I hope he lived to repent of his sin and error for he left this brand and suspicion on the Jesuitical Order at his death that they in revenge had cunningly and covertly drawn him into this Action which brougt him into this shameful End § What shall I say more 18. b. 31. Vox faucibus haeret I am now come to that monstrum horrendum Informe Ingens cui Lumen Ademptum unto Guy Fawks and his dark Lanthorn that never to be parallel'd Gunpowder-Treason in which I will say with the Grave Senator repertum esT hodierno die facinus quod nec Poeta fingere nec Historia sonare nec Minus Imitare poterit This plot of plots is yet so fresh in memory and so well known all the World over that I will not enter into the particulars of it though there are some so desperately Jesuited that either out of simplicity or Impudence will not confess the truth thereof others extenuate it by saying they were only a few discontented persons desperate in Estate or base or not setled in their Wits without Religion Habitation Gredit Means or Hope and as our Apologizer for Catholicks f. 5. A few Desperadoes But most certain it is that they were Gentlemen of good Houses of excellent parts and of Competent Fortunes Besides that Percy was of the House of Northumberland Sir William Stanley who principally imployed Fawks into Spain and John Talbot of Graston both of great and Honourable Families others say That there was never a Religious Man in this Action which is no truer than the other Whoever yet knew a Treason without a Romish Priest In this there were many Three of them Legiers and States-men Henry Garnet alias Waller superior of the Jesuits Legier here in England T. F. Creswel Legier Jesuit in Spain Fa. Baldwin Legier in Flanders as Parsons at Rome besides their Itinerant or Cursory Men as Gerrard Oswald Tesmond alias Greenway Hamond Hall and other Jesuits Proceedings 27 18. Others of them condemn it now that happily would have commended it it had taken effect Prosperum Scetus virtus vocatur would have been a good Axiom then such Hellish Actions being of their Nature and Number quae non Laudantur nisi peracta 〈◊〉 ●gainst whom was this Hellish Plot contrived not to name Parliament Council