of the world as Rebels by their very Religion and the Bane of all Governments The whole Work is purum putum mendacium right mettle of untruth in the main substance The Title is false for it picks a quarrel with the Presbyterians only whereas the Book declareth open war to all the Protestants under heaven The pretence false for the Author pretends to undertake that task out of love to the King whereas he works the Kings ruine by calumnies against his true Subjects and by maintaining the Jesuites the sworn enemies of his Crown and State The face he puts on is false many wayes for he pretends in his Epistle and Prefaces to publish the Book of a dead man whereas the uniformity or rather deformity of the affected broken Style and Billings-gate language in the Epistle Prefaces and body of the Book shews all that false coin to have been stampt in the same base Mint The Author is produced as a Priest of the Church of England whereas he speaks as a Priest of the Church of Rome The Publisher calls himself Bellamy whereas he is a false Friend and a true Enemy and most like it is that no such man as he names himself is to be found For such Vizards are borrowed by these children of darkness A wrong Name A contrary Profession A dead man that speaks out of his Grave three Vizards one over another lyes upon lyes in the Porch a right Entry into a Shop of Lyes But how much falshood is in the Epistle Was Bellamy or the pretended dead Author well acquainted with that venerable Prelate to whom the Book is dedicated Did Bellamy ever present the Book to his Lordship Did he chuse him for his Patron and stroak him with deserved praises to honour him or to betray him and make him odious as a Patron of Popery and Protector of Jesuites And lastly the accusations laid against the several Protestants even these that are true if any be are they not falsely imputed to the generality of the party And are not most of the alledged passages out of their writings maimed detorted or plainly forged O God of Truth who lovest Truth in the inward parts and lookest with piercing judicial eyes into the bottome of crafty projects through all the coverings of hypocrisie Is thy Truth to be defended with Falshood What followship hath the simplicity of thy Gospel with this heap of multiplyed Impostures And how can the zeal of Religion put a man that hath some sense of Ingenuity upon such false and crooked wayes Well I see my self engaged to fight with wilde Beasts as St Paul did at Ephesus Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered Let them also that hate him flee before him I did not see the Book but after the second Edition eight moneths after its first appearing And though I had seen it before I would have made no haste to appear upon the lists against this Adversary but expected of the Secular Power a more substantial and indeed the right Confutation But what the smalness of the Libel and the Libeller kept them hitherto from the Censure of Authority For those that stand in high places can hardly discern such strawes below But we that stand below may look neerer and see poyson in a straw and ought to represent unto our Superiours the mischievousness of this small yet dangerous thing Dangerous I say not for the strength of reason nor for the bitterness neither for the very extremity of malice in that Book makes it weak in reason as it is the natural effect of pride and choler to enervate the judgement and take reason off the hooks But that which makes the Book dangerous is the unparallell'd boldness and presumptuousness of the attempt Could we believe but that we see it that in England where the Law gives no Toleration to the Romish Religion a Papist durst appear in Print with his and his Printers name to the Book to tax not only the Protestant Reformers but the very Reformation of Rebellion and High Treason Put among Luthers crimes That he preached against the Tyrannie and Superiority Pag. 73. 74. of the Bishop of Rome and perswaded the people not to render him any Obedience Call the Reformation the New Gospel Excuse Mariana and justifie the Jesuites against those that charge them with the Doctrine of King-killing Cry down Protestants as persons not to be trusted with any part of the Government of the State or suffered to live in any Commonwealth Bestow upon them the most contumelious termes that he could devise Traytors Diabolical Cockatrices Infernal Spirits are the mildest words that he giveth them It is a silly colour to his malice to name them alwayes In his pa 109. his vizard falls down and he saith openly These rebel doctrines are backt by the generality of those that call themselves Protestants pag. 71. Protestants of Integrity as if he meant a different sort from other Protestants whereas under that name he persecuteth all the Reformed Christians of Europe following them from Countrey to Countrey And although he durst not so openly rail against the English Reformers yet can he not abstain to tax them of Rebellion under Queen Mary saying most falsely That there was more Rebellions in her poor five years then in the forty four of Queen Elizabeth thereby to shew that the Roman Catholicks are the far more loyal subjects But that which goes beyond all examples of the most superlative impudence that most virulent Libel against the Protestants of Integrity which is the Religion profess'd in England he makes bold to recommend to the Protection of that Eminent and Vertuous Prelate now our most Reverend Lord Archbishop of Canterbury then the second Ecclesiastical Person of all the Province and President of the Convocation I pray Sir Philopapa for Philanax Anglicus is too good a Title for you do you know who you speak to Do you think what you say Do you remember where you are In qua tandem Civitate Catilina arbitraris te vivere Do you think you are at Rome or Madrid where you may bring as you do all Protessants to the Inquisition Or do you hope that our loyal Clergie will mistake you for one of their side because you rail against Knox and Buchanan and make some profession of Obedience and declame against the late rebellion And when they know you once for the man you are do you presume that you can make them forget what Sovereigne you are sworn unto and what power the Pope claims over all Kingdoms and what particular Title he pretends to England and Ireland Certainly Sir Philopapa for the Pope is the King you love and whose Interest you promote among our Kings Subjects I hope you shall finde that your loud cryes at my Lords Grace of Canterbury's door for the putting down of all Protestants of Integrity will prove as improper and unseasonable as if you proclaimed at the Court gates the Ordinance of the Rebels
shed in Christendome by the meanes of that plague of mankind Pope Julius the II. that it is thought that he was the death of two hundred thousand Christians in seven years time In a Synod of the Gallican Church at Tours it was Nicol. Cilles in Vita Ludov. XIII Thuan. lib. 1. declared that the Pope hath no power to make warre against a Christian Prince and if he do so that the Prince hath power to invade the Popes Territories This the King signifieth to Julius and cites him to answer to a General Council which both the Emperour and he had called to be held at Lyons The Council was held there but soon removed to Pisa where the Council cited Julius to appear and he not appearing was condemned as an Incendiary unworthy to sit at the Helme of the Church and declared deprived of the Papal Dignity There also Lewis coined golden Crownes with this Motto Perdam nomen Babylonis I will destroy the name of Babylon For it is observable that all that have quarrelled with the See of Rome these thirteen hundred years have called it Babylon and Saint Hierom ad Marcellam Hierome was he that began We cannot charge the Successor of Iulins Leo the X. to have stirred Wars abroad he loved too much his ease at home for that But I could not pass by him for indeed his memory is precious to all Protestants for giving occasion to the Reformation by his Indulgences And he is worthy to be recorded for his sentence spoken to his Secretary Cardinall Bembo Quantum nobis Crispinus nostrisque ea de Christo fabula profuerit satis est omnibus saeculis notum an anxiome of too high a nature to be Englished After him came next but one Clement the VII the Fomenter of the quarrell between the Emperour and the French joyning sometimes to the one sometimes to the other and playing false with both whereby he gave occasion to the taking and sacking of Rome The thundering of this Pope and of his Successor Iovius Paul the III. against Henry the VIII did him no harm but to themselves and to the Roman See very much Of the following Popes till Pius the V. the Protestants have much to say as of men that sought their own pleasure and wrought their ruine Hence so much blood split in horrible Massacres But these are besides my subject which is to make the Popes to appear Authors of rebellion But now in a good time we are come to Pius the V. that Pope whom the English Protestants have most reason to remember For without admonition or citation Cambdens Hist of Qu. Elizabeth premised he pronounced a sentence of anathema against that blessed and glorious Queen Elizabeth to raise rebellion in the Kingdome against her Authority and Life and caused the same to be published and set up upon the Pallace Gate of the Bishop of London the Title was this A sentence declaratory of our holy Lord Micolaus Sanderus de schismate Anglicano lib. 3. Pope Pius against Elizabeth Queen of England and the Hereticks adhering unto her Wherein her Subjects are declared absolved from the Oath of Allegiance and every thing due unto her whatsoever and those which from thenceforth obey her are innodated with the anathema In that Bull Pope Pius having first styled himself Servant of Servants declareth that God hath made the Bishop of Rome Prince over all people and all Kingdoms to pluck up destroy scatter consume plant and build Then he calleth Elizabeth the pretended Queen of England the servant of wickedness And having declared her crimes which are to have taken upon her self that supremacy which his Holiness pretended to and to have establish'd the true Catholick Orthodox Religion in her Kingdomes he doth thunder out this seditious Decree against her and all her loyall Subjects We do out of the fulness of our Apostolick power declare the aforesaid Elizabeth being an Heretick and a favourer of Hereticks and her adherents in the matters aforesaid to have incurred the sentence of anathema and to be cut off from the unity of the body of Christ And moreover we do declare her to be deprived of her pretended Title to the Kingdom aforesaid and of all Dominion Dignity and Priviledge whatsoever And also the Nobility Subjects and People of the said Kingdome and all other which have in any sort sworn unto her to be for ever absolved from any such Oath and all manner of duty of Dominion Allegiance and Obedience as we also do by authority of these presents absolve them and do deprive the same Elizabeth of her pretended Title to the Kingdome and all other things abovesaid And we do command and interdict all and every the Noblemen Subjects People and others aforesaid that they presume not to obey her or her Monitions Mandates and Laws And those which shall do to the contrary we do innodate with the like sentence of anathema This Bull was the fire and the roaring of the Canon and the bullet came forth immediately which was the rebellion in the North for which Chapino Vitelli was sent into England from the Duke of Alva under pretence of compounding some controversies about commerce And Nicholas Morton was sent from the Pope to knit the rebellion Which he did denouncing from his Master that Queen Elizabeth was an Heretick and thereby had forfeited to the Pope all her dominion and power At the same time a rebellion broke out in Ireland kindled or blown by a Spaniard Iuan Mendoza And when the Rebells of England were defeated they found refuge among the Papist Rebells of Scotland who set up again the English rebellion All these in vain by the gracious assistance of God to poor England as if his compassion had been stirred up by his jealousie after that the Pope had declared himself so insolently Prince over all People and all Kingdoms to pluck up destroy scatter consume plant and build And God would shew that to himself not to the Pope belongeth the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever Neither did Pius the V. fight onely by Bulls but at the same time that the Bull was published he laid down a hundred thousand Crowns to raise the rebellion and promised fifty thousand more yea and to bear the whole charge of the War That money was distributed by one Ridolpho And how active that Pope was to stirre Spain France and Netherlands against the Queen and to put her Kingdome in combustion is related by Hieronymo Catena an Authour of great credit at Rome in his life of Pius the V. Gregory the XIII succeeded Pius the V. in all his plots against England He gave to Thomas Stukely an English Rebell a Commission to help the Rebells of Ireland and get that Kingdome for the Bastard-Son of his Holiness Iames Boncompagnon and gave him the command of eight hundred Italians to joyn with King Sebastian of Portugal who had engaged his word to the Pope to serve him
with his whole power against Queen Elizabeth and had raised a great Army for that expedition But when Stukely came to Sebastian he found him possess'd with a new project to help a Moor King of Fez against another King who kept him out of possession and to get the Kingdome from them both To that War he invited Stukely promising that presently after that work done which he represented to him most easie they should go together to the War against England and Ireland So they sailed over into Africa where Sebastian and his whole Army were destroyed and with him Stukely and the Popes Italian Souldiers were cut in pieces A deliverance of England ever to be remembred with praise and admiration So let thine enemies perish O Lord. This Pope had a great hand in that unparallelled villany wrought by the marriage of Henry King of Navarra with the Sister of Charles the IX of France A marriage which Pius the V. would never consent unto by reason of their difference in Religion But when his Successor Gregory the XIII was told by the Cardinall of Lorrain that this marriage was intended as a trap to destroy Henry and his Protestant party he presently gave his dispensation for the celebrating of it and encouraged the design The horrible massacre which attended the jollity of that marriage was received at Thuanus Rome with triumphant expressions of publick joy And Cardinal Vrsin was sent Legat into France to praise the Kings piety and wisdom in that great action and to bestow blessings and spiritual graces upon the King and the Actors of that fearful Tragedy The Court of Rome might well praise what themselves had procured if not contrived and truly the plot hath an Italian garb and looks not like a production of the French soil Not long after this Pope sent to Henry the III. of France and to his people Indulgences for millions of years which were to be obtained by making processions to four Churches in Paris and by being zealous and diligent in the extirpation of heresies that is in his style to extermine the Protestants The male line of the Kings of Portugal being extinct this Pope laid a claim to the Kingdome as depending from the holy See and would have the Nation to have taken Arms for him against the heirs from the females But his claim was hissed out with great scorn In the year 1580. this Pope sent an Italian called San Iosepho with some Italian Troops into Ireland to joyn with the Irish Rebells When they were demanded by a message from the Lord Deputy who they were and what they came for they answered Some that they were sent by the most holy Father the Pope and some from the Catholick King of Spain to whom the Pope had given Ireland because Queen Elizabeth had justly forfeited her Title to Ireland by her heresie A doctrine which at the same time was preach'd in England and Ireland by Jesuites and other Seminary Priests with great boldness and vehemency till the Queen and her Councell perceiving what danger the State was running into by these mens activeness and impunity Campian and some others sent by the Pope on that errand were apprehended And being examined they obstinately defended the Popes authority over the Queen and maintained that she was no Queen as being lawfully deposed by the Pope upon which they were condemned and executed That Crown of Martyrdom the Pope procured to his Confessors And the greater the number is of those Martyrs that the Papists muster the more they exaggerate the Popes cruelty to his truest Vassalls For could the Pope expect that persons sent to perswade the people to dispossess and kill their Sovereign should have other dealing from the hand of Justice The principal Article of the late Papal Creed is that which Pius the V. sets forth in his Bull against the Queen that God hath made the Bishop of Rome Prince over all people and all Kingdoms But the English Papists are taught that besides that general right over all Kingdomes the Pope hath a peculiar right over England and Ireland as his proper Dominions This is Bellarmins doctrine which he hath made bold to maintain unto King James himself The King Bellarm. lib. cui Titulus Tortus pag. 19. Rex Anglorum duplici jure subjectus est Papae uno communi omnibus Christianis ratione Apostolicae potestatis quae in omnes extenditur juxta illud Ps 44. Constitues eos Principes super omnem terram Altero proprio ratione recti dominii of England saith he is subject to the Pope by double right The one by reason of his Apostolick power which extends over all men according to that Charter Ps 44. Thou shalt establish them Princes over all the earth The other proper by a right dominion Then he pleadeth that England and Ireland are the Churches dominions the Pope the direct Lord and the King his Vassal This then being become an Article of Religion in which the English Papists are instructed and this in consequence that if the Pope disallow the King he is no more King of England but an Usurper and must be used accordingly Let any man judge who hath some equity and freedome of judgement left whether a prudent Prince and Council of State ought to suffer such an instruction to be given to the people Truly the more Religion is pretended for that doctrine and the practice of Rebellion obtruded as a commandement of the Church the more it concernes the loyal Magistrate to oppose it vigorously Pope Sixtus the V. to favour the enterprise of Philip the II. upon England renewed the Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth pronounced by Pius the V. deprived her verbo tenus of her Kingdome absolved her subjects from all Allegiance to her and published a Croisada against her as against the Turk giving plenary Indulgence to all that would make warre against her But the Popes Curses provoked Gods blessings upon the Queen who might say as David when Shimei cursed him The Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day All the storms raised against England were blown over without harme The great preparations of Spain served onely to disable it and secure England And the many attempts against the Queens life upon that Bull contributed to her safety by manifesting to the World the wickednesse of Rome and the pernicious effects of the Roman principles For which I might produce the Examinations and Confessions of many that suffered for attempting to murther the Queen but I will bring but one for all William Parry acknowledged that he had promis'd at Rome to kill the Queen about which he was most troubled in his conscience till he lighted upon Dr. Allens book which taught that Princes excommunicate for heresie were to be deprived of Kingdome and life Which book saith he did vehemently excite me to prosecute my attempt This Popes Excommunications had more effect in France for after that he had excommunicated King Henry the