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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

that for want of means to procure a pardon had been kept in prison fince the time of the Queens decease By all which and much more that might be said it fully appears That King James was no hard Master reaping where he had not sowed and gathering where he had not strowed nor yet Revengeful who though he was to have been blown up after all these Favours and Liberties conferred on them still continued I might say increased them notwithstanding that horrid and matchless Conspiracie even to his dying day with as much Indulgence and Favour as he could without Offence or Scandal to the tender Consciences of his own Church which as he ought so he did chiefly regard § Neither were King James his Favours confined to the Papists of Great Britain only but were extended also to those never to be obliged Catholicks in Ireland For he resolved not to take any advantage of great Forfeitures and Confiscations which he was most justly Entitled unto by Tyrones Rebellion but out of his Royal Bounty restored all the Natives to the Intite possession of their own Lands in hope this would for ever have engaged their Obedience to him and his at least if not unto the Crown of England And yet he had not Reigned 6 Years e're the Earl of Tyrone not long before obliged by the Queen with Titles of Honour great store of Lands Commands of Horse and Foot in her pay was designing afresh the raising of another Rebellion into which he easily drew the whole Province of Vlster then entirely at his Devotion But his Design being prevented he with his chief Adherents fled into Spain from whence he never returned which impious and ungrateful Act of his and his Adherents rendred them justly suspected to be Irreconcilable to a Protestant Prince which forced the King to cause their persons to be attainted thehir Lands to be seized those Six Countries within the Province of Vlster to be Surveyed c. And the same course to be taken likewise in Lemster where the Irish had made Incursions and violently repelled the Old English And though the King was by due course of Lavv justly Entituled to all their vvhole Estates there yet vvas he gratiously pleased to take but ¼ part of their Lands vvhich coming to Brittish undertakers made them to flourish vvith costly Buildings and vvith all manner of Improvements 21. b. so that the very Irish seemed to be very much satisfied with the flourishing and peaceable Condition of the whole Kingdom and yet could not Acquiesce therein but Rebel they must against King Charles the Son who besides many other Favours and Connivances had so far gratified the Natives Anno 1640. that he grants unto the Commissioners then sent unto him out of Ireland the Act of Limitations so vehemently desired by the Natives and the Act for the rilinquishment of His Majesties Right and Title to the Four Counties in Connaught Besides at this time the Papists privately enjoyed the exercise of their Religion throughout the whole Kingdom by the Indulgence and Connivance of the late Governours they having their Titular Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Abbots c. who all lived freely though obscurely yet without controll and exercised a voluntary Jurisdiction Multitudes of Priests Jesuits and Friars returning out of Spain and Italy where the Irish Natives that way devoted were thither sent for Education and now returned lived in the chief Towns and Villages and in the Houses of the Nobility and Gentry exercising their Religious Rites and Ceremonies none of the severer laws being put in Execution whereby great penalties were to be inflicted on Transgressors in that kind Were they ever the more faithful for these great Indulgencies nothing less For in August 1641. after about forty years peace the Popish party in both Houses of Parliament then sitting in Dublin grew so insolent as being scarce compatible with the present peaceable Government they were forc'd to adjourn for 3 Months before which time viz 23. Octob. 1641. they brake out into that detestable and desperate Rebellion as is not to be matcht in any story wherein in less than Two Years they murdered in cold Blood above 200000. English Protestants destroyed some other ways and expelled out of their Habitations nay moreover they threatned to burn Dublin destroy all Records and Monuments of the English Government to make Laws against speaking English and that all names given by English to places should be abolished and the Antient names restored And was not this also a great demonstration of their Faithfulness to the King and Crown of England Let every man judg as he sees cause how faithfully they requited King Charles the first for his favours towards them which were many and great which I will not here enumerate it being super-abundantly done already in print in divers Pamphlets though I fear with no good intention towards that glorious Martyr but rather to raise an Odium towards him from some of his weaker Subjects willing happily for other ends to be so seduced many whereof I hope have lived to see and consider that his pious life and death gave a just contradiction to those false Imputations and Jelousies And yet I must not forget one remarkable kindness of his who loved not to punish scrupulous peaceable Consciences sanguinarily towards Papists who being sent unto by both Houses of Parliament Anno 1640. for the Execution of John Goodman a Condemned Priest did in answer to them 3. Febr. 1640. own that he had reprieved him not without giving them great reasons for his so doing viz. For that neither his Father nor yet Queen Eliz. did ever avow that any Priest in their times was Executed meerly for Religion and therefore did remit this particular cause to both the Heresies cautionating them withall That happily his Execution might seem a severity in other States 22. b. and might draw inconveniences on his Subjects in other Countries and therefore held himself discharged from all inconveniences that might ensue upon his Execution And this did he notwithstanding the Popes Directions unto the then Superior of the Catholicks in England Anno 1638. were expresly to command them suddenly to desist from making such offers of Men towards the Northern Expedition then under consideration as we hear they have done little to the Advantage of their Discretion and that they be not more forward with Money than what Law and Duty enjoyns tem to pay § Such was the kindness and faithfulness of those Irish Papists to the King and Crown of England that indeed they did rise I must needs say most Catholickly in Rebellion against both from all parts of the Kingdom designing thereby to monopolize the whole Government of that Kingdom into their own hands exclusive of the King if several Oaths are to be credited published by the Kings Warrant to enjoy the publick profession of their Idolatrous Religion and to Expell all the English by whose protection countenance favours and purses that Kingdom was so

Catholick Cause in England by making away the King whom there was no hope to turn from his Heresie which was answered affirmatively After which the same persons went to Rome where the Question being propounded and debated it was concluded by the Pope and his Council That it was both lawful and expedient for the Catholicks to promote the alteration of State What followed that Consultation and Sentence all the World knoweth and time the bringer forth of Truth will let us know But when that Horrible Paricide committed on the Kings Sacred person was so universally cryed down as the greatest Villany that had been committed in many Ages the Pope commanded all the papers about the Question to be gathered and burnt In obedience to which order a Roman Catholick in Paris was demanded a Copy which he had of those papers but the Gentleman who had refused to consider and detest the wickedness of that project refused to give it and shewed it to a Protestant Friend of his and related to him the whole carriage of this Negotiation with great abhorrency of the practises of the Jesuits In pursuance of that Order from Rome for the pulling down both of the Monarch and Monarchy of England many Jesuits came over who took several shapes to go about their work but most of them took party in the Army About Thirty of them were met by a Protestant Gentlemen between Roan and Deipe to whom they said taking him for one of them That they were going into England and would take Arms in the Independent Army and endeavour to be Agitators A Protestant Lady living in Paris in the time of our late Calamities was perswaded by a Jesuit going in Scarlet to turn Roman Catholick When the dismal News of the Kings Murder came to Paris this Lady as all other good English Subjects was most deeply afflicted with it and when this Scarlet Divine came to see her and found her melting in Tears about that heavy and common disaster he told her with a smiling Countenance That she had no reason to lament but rather to rejoice seeing that the Ca-Cholicks were rid of their greatest Enemy and that the Catholick Cause was much furthered by his death Upon which the Lady in great anger put the Man down the Stairs saying If that be your Religion I have done with you for ever Many Intelligent Travellers can tell of the great Joy among the English Convents and Seminaries about the Kings death as having overcome their Enemy and done their main Work for their settlement in England of which they made themselves so sure that the Benedictins were in great care that the Jesuits should not get their Land And the English Nunns were contending who should be Abbesses in England An understanding Gentleman visiting the Friars of Dunkirk put them on the discourse of the Kings death and to pump out their sence about it said That the Jesuits had laboured very much to compass that great Work To which they Answered That the Jesuits would engross to themselves the Glory of all great and good Works and of this amongst other Works whereas they had laboured as diligently and as effectually as they So there was striving for the glory of the Atchievment and the Friars shewed themselves as much Jesuited as the Jesuits In the height of Olivers Tyranny Tho. White a Priest and a right Jesuit in all his Principles about Obedience set out a Book Entitled The Grounds of Obedience and Government wherein he maintains That if the people by any Circumstance be devolved to the state of Anarchy their promise made to their expelled Governor binds no more That the people are remitted by the evil mannaging or insufficiency of their Governour to the force of Nature to provide for themselves and not bound by any promise made to their Governour that the Magistrate by his miscarriages abdicateth himself from being a Magistrate and proveth a Brigand or Robber instead of a Defender that word Defender he writes with a great D. that the Reader may take notice whom he means His Book is full fraught with Argumentations of this Nature All in barr and prejudice to His Majesties Restauration Of the same opinion was F. F. Bret when at St. Malo he was earnest with those Gentlemen that had so gallantly defended the Castle of Jarsey to take the Engagement from which they ought to be freed by the Articles of their Rendition maintaining that they were not to acknowledg any Supreme but the prevailing power Du Monlin Ibid. § Having dwelt thus long on this unpleasant Theme it is now time to wind up this Botton and therefore Admit the Papists had merited in these late troubles as much as they pretend they have from the King and his Father yet doth it not follow that they ought therefore to be rewarded with a Tolleration of their Religion or with any Mitigation of our Laws prohibiting the exercise thereof no more than it was fit Joseph for the good service done to his Master should be be gratified with the company of his Masters Wife Neither did his Master think this reasonable though he acknowledged the extraordinary good Service of his Servant much less did Joseph expect it In like manner the Papists must first satisfie us That the Tolleration of their Religion is not Tolleration of Idolatry which the Scripture calls Spiritual Adultery nor yet the exercise of a World of Impieties under the Mask of Religion before they can convince as whatever their Loyalty may otherways be that it is either lawful or reasonable for Magistrates whom the Scripture stileth Gods and who standing in Gods stead ought to be as jealous of his Honour in that case as a Husband would be of his Wife Nay as much as in them lies even as God himself who professeth himself to be a Jealous God to Authorize or connive at the Exercise of such a Religion or as to account very strict Laws too severe in that Case for which there is both Precept and Example in the Word of God It is a very great Truth That Kings neither can nor ought to give permission or allowance of any things which in their own Natures are evil and opposit to the Salvation of Mens Souls and which though they should permit them would nevertheless continue and remain sins and exclude them that do and practice them from obtaining Salvation And of such a Nature are many Popish Doctrins c. And certainly those Princes are most worthy of the praise of God and Men that endeavour to remove such Abuses and all things forbidden by God which remaining make it impossible for men to be saved or if saved yet so as by Fire very difticultly But in things not repugnant to the will of God all Princes have liberty to do that which the good and weal of their State requires I appeal to all the Oaesars in the World nay to all mankind if it be reasonable that the requital of the good Services of particular

persons should be gratified with the vacating or but suspending those Laws which are our strongest security or should be debarred from making yet stronger Laws against Butchering and Idolatrous men and Principles This State seeks not your Blood it only desires to be secured and safe from those destructive dangers unto which Popish Doctrins practises and principles do most manifestly expose it against which no persect security can possibly be given but by as publick condemnation and detestation of them as they are ratisied by 1 by Popes Councils Decrees great and learned men Abjurations and the like And I appeal yet further to all the World if our Popish Traytors here have not in defiance of our Laws and for their Justification Honour and Encouragement been rewarded at Rome with Honours and Offices made Holy Martyrs Canonized for Saints and their very Bones kept for Reliques Mighty Motives I must confess to perswade us to reward and tollerate such men and such a Religion A Religion that no Protestant I might go farther can embrace without becoming worse than bruitish by unreasoning themselves out of their own reasonable Souls yea their very Senses according to Jer. 10.8 14 23. They are altogether bruitish and foolish Their Stock is a Dostrin of Vanities Every Man is bruitish in his knowledg Every founder is confounded by the Graven Image for his molten Image is falshood and there is no Breath in them Nay the Pastours are become Bruitish and have not sought the Lord And what are they but bruitish that will not know that will not understand and that hate reproof Now let all the Romish Doctors and Jesuits shew if they can if the Doctrines of the Popes power to Excommunicate Depose and Murder Emperours Kings and Princes and to absolve their Subjects from their Oaths of Obedience and Allegiance to them And if the Extravagant de Majoritate Obedientia and that other of unam sanctam be not in as full force and vertue now at Rome as ever only the most Christian King did cudgel Clement the 5th into better manners and made him to expound that Extravagant of Boniface the 8th in favour of him and his Subjects by another of Meruit de privilegiis And did not Paul the 5th Innocent the 10th and Alexander the 7th of later days ratifie these monstrous opinions with a particular respect to the case of His Majesties Subjects of Great Britain And shall we after all these demonstrations of their rancour and malice towards us and our Religion mitigate or suspend our Laws that secure us or ought not they rather to repent and amend their lives their Religion and their Doctrins I appeal to all unbiassed persons if they have not incapacitated themselves of all possibility of ever giving any probable security to a prudent State whilst they remain in the Communion of that Church by becoming Votaries to Rome by their Vows and Oaths except they will abjure them and imbosom themselves in our Church And shall we then fear to Countermine such destructive bloody principles and practises by moderate and cautionary Laws preventing them or by any precautions to disappoint the mischiefs designed against us and which if they should fall upon us were never to be repaired by any future Laws or punishments how severe soever Let God and the whole World be Judg between us I must confess my self so little discerning that I cannot perceive any difference between the Idolatry of the Jews and that of the Papists The Jews were reasonable Creatures had the same senses and faculties inward and outward as Papists have and can it then reasonably be imagined that the Jews after they were come out of Aegypt and had themselves broken off the Gold Ear-rings which were in the Ears of their Wives of their Sons 32. Ex. and of their Daughters and given them to Aaron to Make a Golden Calf withall Should yet be such Changlings so void of all sense and reason as to think That that very Calf made but Yesterday by Aaron should be the very God that brought up them and their Fathers out of the Land of Aegypt so many years before It is true they said These be thy Gods O Israel that brought thee up out of the Land of Aegypt and accordingly built an Altar proclaimed a Feast unto the Lord not unto the Calf offered burnt Offerings and brought peace Offerings and sat down to eat and to drink and rose up to play i. e. to Idolatrize 1 Cor. 10.7.1 To play the fool by thinking to please God by making a representative of him for they could only mean that the Calf represented that God not that it was the very God that brought them out of Aegypt leading and defending them by a Cloud by day and a Pillar of Fire by night Those Athenian Idol-worshippers whose altar inscribed to the unknown God Acts 17.23 argues That their Sacrifices and Devotions did not center and terminate in the Idols they worshipped but had respect to the True God though unknown to them whom therefore they did ignorantly worship whereby it is manifest that their Worship had respect unto God Paul did declare unto them to be him that made the World and all things therein c. Vers 24 25 26. Is Romish Idolatry less or other I doubt not Jehu riding in pomp in his Chariot brag'd and boasted of his zeal towards God as much as Papists Come see my zeal for the Lord 2 Kings 10.16 and pretended worship to God when he worshipped representatives 1 Cor. 10.18.20 21. Psal 106.37 Deut. 32.17 Golden Calfs nay Devils 2 Kings 10.29 2 Chr. 11.15 By which it is plain that their worship did not terminate in the Calves but had a farther prospect even a respect to God himself Is not Romish Worship the same where 's the difference Crux Legati a dextris collocari debet quia ei debetur Latria If the Legates Cross must be placed on the right hand for that very reason because Latria which is the same Worship and Reverence which is due to the one only God Graece servitus dicitur que quamum ad Religionem attinet non nisi uni soli Deo deb●●●r Vide Isid 12. lib Vide August contra Faust Manich. lib. 20. c. 21. Vide Aquin. 1 2. q 130. Art 3. is due unto it I for my part must acknowiedg my self so thick Scull'd as not to discern any difference between the Jews worshipping the Calves and the Papists worshipping the Cross their Breaden God or any Picture Thing or Representative though Vasques be so bold as to ascribe Worship even to a Wisp of Straw Tho. Aquin. sumnt part 3. Quest 25. Artic. 3. Concludes Sic sequitur quod eadem reverentia exhibeatur Imagini Christi ipso Christo cum ergo Christus adoretur adoratione Latriae c. That the same Reverence is to be given to the Image of Christ and to Christ himself and by Consequence seeing Christ is adored with the Adoration