foundation nor colour For not onely Plato and other fashioners of Common 〈◊〉 allowed the libertie of lying to Magistrates to Physicians but we also coÌ„sidring the fathers of the Church Origen Chrysostome Hierom haue not onely found that doctrine in them but wee haue also deliuered them from all imputation reprehension by this euasion That it was lawfull for them to maintaine that opinion till some definition of the Church had established the contrarie Which certainely though this should not be so openly spoken of as yet was neuer done But yet wee haue departed from this doctrine of free lying though it were receiued in practise excused by the Fathers strengthened by examples of 〈◊〉 Angels in the Scriptures and so almost established by the law of 〈◊〉 and Nature onely for this reason because we were not the first Authors of it But we haue supplied this losse with another doctrine lesse suspitious and yet of as much vse for our Church which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mixt 〈◊〉 The libertie therefore of lying is neither new not safe as almost all Machiauells precepts are so stale and obsolâ—te that our Serarius vsing I must confesse his lesuiticall liberty of wâ—lde anticipation did not doubt to call Herod who liued so long before Machiuell a Machiauellian But that at one blow wee may cut off all his reasons all his hopes this I affirme this I pronounce that all his bookes and all his deedes tend onely to this that thereby a way may be prepared to the ruine destructioÌ„ of that part of this Kingdome which is established at Rome for what else doth hee endeauor or go about but to change the forme of comon-wealth and so to depriue the people who are a soft a liquid and ductile mettall and apter for our impressions of all their liberty hauing so destroyed all ciuility re-publique to reduce all states to Monarchies a name which in secular states wee doe so much abhor I cannot say it without teares but I must say it that not any one Monarch is to be found which either hath not withdrawne himselfe wholy froÌ„ our kingdome or wounded endamadged in some weighty point hereupon our Cotton confesses that the authority of the Pope is incomparably lesse then it was and that now the ChristiaÌ„ Church which can agree to none but the 〈◊〉 is but a diminutiue And herevpon also it is that the Cardinal who were wont to meete oftner meete now but once in a weeke because the businesses of the Court of Rome growe fewer To forbeare therefore mentioning of the Kings of Britaine and Denmarke and the other Monarkes of the first sort which haue vtterly cast off Rome euen in France our enemies are so much encreased that they equal vs almost in number and for their strength they haue this aduantage aboue vs that they agree within themselues and are at vnity with their neighbour Resourmed Churches whereas our men which call themselues Catholick there doe so much differ from the Romane Catholick that they do not onely preferre Councels but euen the king before the Pope and euermore oppose those their two great Gyants Gog and Magog their Parliament of Paris and their Colledge of Sorbon against all our endeauours Besides all this we languish also miserably in Spaine where Cleargy men if they breake their fealty to their Lord are accused of treason where Ecclesiasticall persons are subject to secular 〈◊〉 ment and if they be sacrilegious are burnt by the Ordinarie Magistrate which are doctrines and practises contrary and dangerous to vs. And though they will seeme to haue giuen almost halfe the kingdome to the church and so to haue diuided equally yet those Graunts are so infected with pensions and other burdens by which the kings seruants and the younger sons of great persons are maintained that this greatnesse of the Church there is rather a dropsie then a sound state of health established by welconcocted nourishment and is rather done to cast an Eouy vpon the Church then to giue any true Maiestie to it And euen in vsurping Ecâ—siasticall â—sdiction the kings of Spaine haue not onely exceeded the kings of Fraunce but also of Britany For says Baronius of that king there is nowrisen vp a new Head a 〈◊〉 and a wonder He Excommunicates and he Absolues And he practiseth this power euen against Bishops and Cardinals He stops Appeales and he acknowledges no superiority 〈◊〉 the sea of Rome but 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 of Preuention And therefore the name Monarch is a hateful and execrable name to vs. Against which Baronius hath thundred with such violence such fiercenesse and such bitternesse that I could hardly adde any thing thereunto if I should speake vnspeakable Emperour with thine owne tongue For he cals it an Adulterine name and a Tower of Babel and threatens destruction to that king though himselfe were his subiect except he forbeare the name In the meane time he resolues him to be a Tyranâ— and pronounces him to stand yearely Excommunicate by the Bulla 〈◊〉 Neither doth he offer to desend himselfe with any other excuse when a Cardinall reprehended his fiercenes towards the king then this 〈◊〉 Imperions zeale hath no power to spare God himselfe And yet he confesseth that this zeale was kindled by the Popes speciall commaund and by his Oath taken as Cardinall Neither hath our Bellarmine almost any other cause of aduauncing Monarchicall gouernmeÌ„t so much as he doth then thereby to remoue all secular men from so great a dignitie and to reserue it only to the Church It was therfore well done of that Rebullus who now begins to bee knowne in this state when hauing surfeited with Calumnies against the French Church and her Ministers he hath dared of late to draw his pen and to ioyne battell against a most puissant forraine Prince hee did well I say and fitly when hee called Bellarmine and Baronius The sword and buckler of the Romane Church And I cannot choose but thanke him for affoording the Title of Sword to our Order as well because after so many expositions of those words Behold heere are two 〈◊〉 which our side hath gathered to establish a temporall Iurisdiction in the Pope and which our Aduersaries haue remoued worne out or scorned this man hath relieued vs with a new and may seeme to intend by the two swords the Popes Excommunications and the Iesuites 〈◊〉 and King-killings as also because he hath reserued to our Order that soueraigne dignity that as God himselfe was pleased to defend his Paradice with fire and sword so we stand watchfull vpon the borders of our Church not onely prouided as that Cherubin was with sire and sword but with the later inuention of Gunpowder about the first inuentour whereof I wonder why Antiquaries should contend whether it were the Diuell or a Frier since that may be all one But as O vnspeakable Emperour you haue almost in all things endeuoured to imitate
that hee hath drawne others into Religion but himselfe remained then in the Layety in so much as I remember that I vsed to call him The Saints Bell that hangs without and cals others into the Church Neither doe they which follow this Order bind themselues with any vow or oath Neither do I know any thing for which this kingdome is beholding to him but that he moued Baronius to write his Annals To all this Nerius sayde nothing as though it had beene spoken of some body else Without doubt either he neuer knew or had forgot that he had done those things which rhey write of him But Lucifer himselfe tooke the boldnesse hauing with some difficultio got Ignatius leaue to take Nerius his part and proceeded so farre that he aduentured to say that Baronius Bozius and others which proceeded out of the Hyue of Nerius had vsed a more free open and hard fashion against Princes and better prouided for the Popes Direct Iurisdiction vpon all Kingdomes and more stoutly defeÌ„ded it then they which vndertaking the cause more tremblingly then becomes the Maiestie of so great a businesse adhered to ` Bellarmines sect and deuised such crooked wayes and such perplexed intanglings as by reason of the various and vncertaine circumstances were of no vse And that whatsoeuer Nerius his schollers had performed must be attributed to him as the fruit to the roote Ignatius perceiuing that Lucifer vndertooke all offices for Nerius and became Iudge Aduocate and witnesse pursuing his former resolution determined to interrupt him least when hee had enlarged himselfe in Nerius commendation hee should thereby bee bound to a reward He therefore cried out What hath Nerius done what hath he or his followers put in execution haue they not euer bene onely exercised in speculations and in preparatory doctrines Are these bookes which are written of the Iurisdiction of the Pope to any better vse then Phisitians Lectures of diseases and of Medicines whilest these Receits lie hid in Phisitians bookes and no body goes to the Patient no body applies the medicine to the disease what good what profit comes by all this what part what member of this languishing body haue they vndertaken In what Kingdome haue they corrected these humours which offend the Pope either by their Incision or cauterising what state haue they cut vp into an â—natomy what SceletoÌ„ haue they prouided for the instruction of Posterity Do Do they hope to cure their diseases by talking and preaching as it were with charmes and enchantments If Nerius shall bee thought worthy of this Honour and this place because out of his schollers writings something may be gleaned which may be applied to this purpose why should we not haue Beza and Caluin and the rest of that sort here in Hell since in their bookes there may be some things found which may be wrefted to this purpose But since their scope was not to extirpate Monarchies since they publisâ—ed no such Canons and Aphorismes as might be applied to all cases and so brought into certaine vse consequence but limited theirs to circumstances which seldome fall out since they deliuered nothing dangerous to Princes but where in their opinion the Souereignty resided in the People or in certaine Ephori since they neuer said that this power to violate the perso of a prince might either be takeÌ„ by any priuate man or committed to him that therefore none of their disciples hath euer boasted of hauing done any thing vpon the person of his soueraigne we see that this place hath euer bene shut against them there haue bene some few of theÌ„ though I can scarce affoord those meÌ„ the honour to number them with Knox and Goodman and Buchanan which following our examples haue troubled the peace of some states and beene iniurious to some princes and haue beene admitted to some place in this Kingdome but since they haue performed nothing with their hands nor can excuse themselues by saying they were not able for wherein was Clement or Rauillac more able then they or what is not he able to doe in the middest of an Army who despiseth his owne life they scarce euer aspire or offer at this secret and sacred Chamber Lucifer had a purpose to haue replied to this that perchaunce all their hands which had bin imbrued in the bowels of Princes were not so immediatly armed by the Iesuits as that they were euer present at all consultations and resolutions and yet he meant to say this not as sworne witnesse but as Lucifer himselfe the father of lies in which capacitie he might say any thing But that it was inough that Confessours do so possesse them with that doctrine that it is not now proposed to them as Phisicke but as naturall food and ordinarie diet and that therfore for the performance of these things a Iesuits person is no more requisite then that the heart of a man because it sends forth spirits into euery limbe should therefore bee present in euery limbe that when it was in vse for the Consuls of Rome for the safety of their Country and army to deuote themselues ouer to the infernall god it was lawfull for themselues to absteine and forbeare the act and they might appoint any Souldier for that Sacrifice and that so the Iesuites for the performance of their resolutions might stirre vp any amongst the people for now they enioy all the priuiledges of the Franciscans who say That the name of people comprehends all which are not of their Order And that if this be granted Nerius his schollers are inferiour to none with whose bookes if all the Iesuites should perish the Church might content herselfe and neuer feare dearth nor leanenesse This Lucifer would haue spoken but hee thought it better and easier to forbeare for hee obserued that Ignatius had giueÌ„ a signe that all his troupes which were many subtile busie set vp their bristles grumbled and compacted themselues into one body gathered produced and vrged all their euidence whatsoeuer they had done or suffered There the English Legion which was called Capistrata which Campian led and as I thinke Garnet concluded was fiercer then all the rest And as though there had beene such a second martyrdome to haue beene suffered or as though they might haue put off their Immortalitie they offered themselues to any imploiment Therefore Lucifer gaue Nâ—rius a secret warning to withdraw himselfe spoke no more of him and despairing of bringing in an other began earnestly to thinke how hee might leaue Ignatius out This therefore he said to him I am sorry my Ignatius that I can neither find in others deserts worthy of this place nor any roome in this place worthy of your deserts If I might die I see there would be no longe strife for a successour For if you haue not yet done that act which I did at first in Heauen and thereby got this Empire this may excuse you that no
man hath beene able to tell you what it was For if any of the Auncients say true when they call it Pride or Licentiousnesse or Lying or if it be in any of the Casuistis which professe the Art of sinning you caÌ„not be accused of hauing omitted it But since I may neithor forsake this kingdome nor diuide it this onely remedy is left I will write to the Bishop of Rome he shall call Galilaeo the Florentine to him who by this time hath throughly instructed himselfe of all the hills woods and Cities in the new world the Moone And since he effected so much with his first Glasses that he faw the Moone in so neere a distance that hee gaue himselfe satisfaction of all and the least parts in her when now being growne to more perfection in his Art he shall haue made new Glasses and they receiued a hallowing from the Pope he may draw the Moone like a boate floating vpon the water as neere the earth as he will And thither because they euer claime that those imployments of discouery belong to them shall all the Iesuites bee transferred and easily vnite and reconcile the Lunatique Church to the Romane Church without doubt after the Iesuites haue been there a litle while there will soone grow naturally a Hell in that world also ouer which you Ignatius shall haue dominion and establish your kingdome dwelling there And with the same ease as you passe from the earth to the Moone you may passe froÌ„ the Moone to the other starrs which are also thought to be worlds so you may beget and propagate many Hells enlarge your Empire come neerer vnto that high seate which I left at 〈◊〉 Ignatius had not the patience to stay till Lucefer had made an end but as soone as hee saw him pause and take breath and looke first vpon his face to obserue what changes were there and after to cast his eye to an other place in Hell where a great noyse was suddenly raysed hee apprehended this intermission and as though Lucifer had ended he said That of Lucifers affection to the Romane Church and to their Order euery day produced new Testimonies and that this last was to bee accounted as one of the greatest That he knew well with how great deuotion the Bishop of Rome did euer embrace and execute all counsels proceeding from him And that therefore he hoped that hee would reserue that imployment for the 〈◊〉 and that Empire for him their founder and that he beleeued the Pope had thought of this before and at that time when he put Parsons the English Iesuite in hope of a Cardinalship hee had certainly a reference to this place and to this Church That it would fall out shortly that all the damages which the Romane Church hathlately suffered vpon the earth shall bee recompenced onely there And that now this refuge was opened if she should be reduced into greater streights or if she should be vtterly exterminated the world would not much lament and mourne for it And for the entertainment of the Iesuites there there can be no doubt made at this time when although their profession bee to enter whether Princes will or no all the Princes of the world will not onely graciously affoord them leaue to goe but willingly and cheerfully accompany them with Certificates and Dimissory letters Nor would they much resist it if the Pope himselfe would vouchsafe to go with them and so fulfill in some small measure that prophecy of his Gerson De Auferibilitate Papae Besides this a woman gouernes there of which Sex they haue euer made their profite which haue attempted any Innouation in religion with how much diligence were the two Empresses Pulcheria Eudoxia sollicited by the Pope for the establishing of Easter how earnestly did both Pelagius and the Pope striue by their letters to draw the Empresse to their side For since â—ulia had that honour giuen to her in publique coines that she was called the mother of the Armie the Mother of the Gods and of the Senate and the Mother of her Countrie Why may not woemen instructed by vs be called Mothers of the Church Why may not wee relie vpon the wit of woemen when once the Church deliuered ouer her selfe to a woman-Bishop And since wee are reputed so fortunate in obtaining the fauour of woemen that woemen are forbid to come into our houses and we are forbid to take the charge of any Nunnes since we haue had so good experience of their fauour in all the â—dies or at lest haue thought it fit that they which haue the charge to write our anniuersary letters from thence should make that boast and adde something to the Truth both because the Auncient Heretiques helde that course in insinuating their opinions and because they which are acquainted with our practises will think any thing credible which is written of vs in that behalfe why should wee doubt of our fortune in this Queene which is so much subiect to alterations and passions she languishes often in the absence of the Sunne and often in Ecclipses falles into swounes and is at the point of death In these aduantages we must play our parts put our deuises in practise for at these times any thing may be drawne from her Nor must we forbeare to try what verses and incantations may worke vpon her For in those things which the Poets writ though they themselues did not beleeue them we haue since found many truths and many deep mysteries nor can I call to minde any woman which either deceiued our hope or scaped our cunning but Elizabeth of England who might the rather be pardoned that because she had put off all affections of woemen The principall Dignity of which sex which is to be a Mother what reason had she to wish or affect since without those womanish titles vnworthy of her of wife mother such an heire was otherwise prouided for her as was not fit to be kept any longer from the inheritance But when I who hate them speake thus much in the honour of these two Princes I finde my selfe caried with the same fury as those Beasts were which our men say did sometime adore the Host in the Masse For it is against my will that I pay thus much to the Manes of Elizabeth from scorning of which word Manes when the king of great Brittaine writ it I would our Parsons had forborne fiâ—e one of our owne Iesuits vseth the same word when reprehending our Aduersaries he says That they do insult vpon Garnets Manes And yet this Elizabeth was not free from all Innovation For the ancient Relioion was so much worne out that to reduce that to the former dignity and so to renew it was a kinde of lanouation and by this way of innouating shee satisfied the infirmity of her Sex if shee suffered any for a little Innouation might serue her who was but a little a woman Neither dare I