A Key for Catholicks To open the Jugling of the Jesuits and satisfie all that are but truly willing to understand whether the Cause of the Roman or Reformed Churches be of God and to leave the Reader utterly unexcusable that after this will be a Papist The first Part. Containing some Arguments by which the meanest may see the Vanity of Popery and 40. Detections of their Fraud with Directions and Materials sufficient for the Confutation of their Voluminous Deceits particularly refelling Ts. Manual some Manuscripts c. With some Proposals for a hopeless Peace The Second Part sheweth especially against the French and Grotians that the Catholick Church is not United in any meerly Humane Head either Pope or Council By Richard Baxter a Catholick Christian and Pastor of a Church of such at Kederminster LONDON Printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons Bookseller in Kederminster and are to be sold by him there and by Thomas Johnson at the Golden Key in St. Pauls Church-yard 1659. At 4. s. bound To his Highness RICHARD Lord Protector OF THE Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. SIR THese Papers presume to tender you their service because the Subject of them is such as it most neerly concerneth both us and you that you be well acquainted with The Roman Canons that batter the Unity Catholicism and Purity of the Church of Christ are mounted on the frame which I have here demolished The swords and pens and tongues that you are now engaged against and which you must expect from henceforth to assault you are whetted and managed by the senseless tyrannous ungodly principles which I have here Detected As unreasonable as they appear to the unprejudiced they are such as have animated the studies and diligent endeavours of thousands to captivate the Princes and Nations of the Earth to the Roman yoke As vain as they appear to us that see them naked they are such as have divided and distracted the Churches of Christ and troubled and dethroned Princes and laid them at the feet of the Roman Pope They have absolved subjects from their Oaths and other obligations to fidelity They have involved many a Nation in blood O the streams of the blood of Saints that have been shed by these Roman Principles in Savoy France Bohemia Poland Germany Ireland England and many other Lands As easie a war as here I manage it is against those adverse Principles that have armed Thousands and Millions against the innocent or against their lawful Soveraigns whom God had bound them to obey They have fastned knives in the breasts of the greatest Kings as the lamentable case of Henry the third and fourth of France doth testifie They have in a few days time in Paris and the adjoyning parts of France perfidiously butchered Nobles and other persons of eminency and people of all sorts to the number of neer thirty thousand as Thuanus reckoneth them if not forty thousand as Davilah The Doctrines which I here confound have invaded England by a Spanish Armado whether by the Popes consent and upon the account of Religion I have after shewed out of their own Writers they have prepared knives and poyson for our Princes which God did frustrate they have laid Gunpowder to blowup King and Parliament and hellishly execute the fury of the deluded zealots in a moment and then to have charged the Puritans with the fact They have in a time of Peace by a sudden insurrection murdered so many thousands in Ireland in a few days or weeks as posterity will scare believe They are dreadful Practicals and not meer speculations that we dispute against I beseech you therefore that you receive not this as you would do a Scholastick or Philosophical Disputation about such things as seem not to concern you but as you would interess your self in a Disputation upon the Question Whether you should be deposed or murdered as an Heretick And whether we should be Tormented and burnt as Hereticks And whether the lives of all the Princes and People upon earth whom the Pope judgeth Hereticks should be at his mercy c. so do in this cause I speak not this to provoke you to deal bloodily with them as they do with the servants of the Lord I abhor the thoughts of imitating their cruelty It is only the Necessary Defence of your Life and Dignity and the Lives of all the Protestants that are under your Protection and Government and the souls of men that I desire On what terms we stand with those men whose Religion teacheth them to kill us if they can and to venture their lives for it is easie to understand When we have no security from them for our lives but their disability to destroy us we must disable them or die I utter no melancholy dreams nor slanders I have here shewed it in the too plain and cepious Decrees of the approved General Council at Lateran that the deposing of Princes and absolving their Subjects from their fidelity and giving their Dominions to others not only for supposed Heresie but for not exterminating such as deny Transubstantiation c. is an Article of their Faith and no man can disown it without disowning Popery in the Essentials If once they will renounce the Decrees of General Councils approved by the Pope we shall be soon agreed Saith Costerus Enchirid. cap. 1. p. 46. Quae sanc Decreta si veritatem si obsignationem Spiritus Sancti si praesentiam Christi spectes idem habent pondus momentum quod Sancta Dei Evangelia They believe these Decrees to be as true as the Gospel I need not therefore tell you that Bozius Hostiensis and many more of them make the Pope to be the Lord of all the World Or that Bellarmine and the stronger side do carry it as The common judgement of all Catholick Divines see what a rabble he heaps up De Pontif. Rom. li. 5. c. 1. that the Pope ratione spiritualis habet saltem indirectè potestatem quandam eamque summam in temporalibus Which cap. 6. he saith is just such over Princes as the soul hath over the body or sensitive appetite and that thus he may change Kingdoms and take them from one and give to another as the chief Spiritual Prince if it be but necessary to the safety of souls cap. 78. He gives us his proof of this And whether the Pope do take your Government to be for the good of souls I need not tell you It is the stupendious judgement of God on Christian Princes for their sins that they have been so far blinded as to endure such an usurper so long and have not before this blotted out his name from among the sons of men Non licet c. It is not lawful saith Bellarmine ib. c. 7. for Christians to Tolerate an Infidel or Heretical King if he endeavour to draw his Subjects to his Heresie or unbelief but to judge whether a King do draw to Heresie or not belongeth to the Pope to
of God If there be but one Protestant that you know or any one of all that have been that you take to be in a saving state you cannot possibly turn Papist if you know what you do For it is essential to Popery to contradict all this Nay this is not all but think of all the Greek Church that lyeth under the tyranny of the Turk and of all the Armenians and Abasines and other Christians in the world that are more in number far then the Papists and you must conclude that not one of all these are saved before you can be a Papist And is this an easie task to one that hath the heart of a man in his brest If you are no true Christians your selves dare you conclude that not one of these are true Christians If you confess that you love not God your selves dare you say that among the far greater part of the Christians of the world there is not one man or woman that loves God This you must say if you will be a Papist And then on the other hand Look on the words of Jesus Christ and see what thanks he will give you for such a censure Mat. 7. 1 2 3 4 5. Judge not that ye be not judged for with what judgement ye judge ye shall be judged and with what measure you meet it shall be measured to you again And why beholdest thou the mote in thy brothers eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see cleerly to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye Jam. 4. 12. There is one Law-giver that is able to save and to destroy who art thou that Judgest another Rom. 14. 1 2 3 4 10. Him that is weak in the faith receive ye but not to doubtful disputations For one believeth that he may eat all things another who is weak eateth herbs Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth for God hath received him Who art thou that judgest another mans servant to his own master he standeth or falleth yea he shall be holden up for God is able to make him stand One man esteemeth one day above another another esteemeth every day alike Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind But why dost thou judge thy brother or why dost thou set at nought thy brother we shall all stand before the Judgement seat of Christ For it is written as I live saith the Lord every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God so then every one of us shall give account of himself to God Let us not therefore judge one another any more Matth. 18. 6. But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that be were drowned in the depth of the Sea Mat. 25. 40 45 34 41. Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom For I was hungry and ye gave me meat Verily I say unto you in as much at you have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren ye have done it unto me And ver 41. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire Verily I say unto you in as much as you did it not to one of the least of these you did it not to me I will recite no more Judge now by such passage as these how Christ sets by one of the least of his servants and consequently how he will take it of you to judge the far greatest part of his Church to be graceless and none of his Church but such as shall be damned And if you dare not venture on so unreasonable and inhumane a censure against the experience of so much holiness as appeareth in them before your eyes then you cannot be Papists And if you dare venture on it I leave you to consider whether under pretence of being the only Christians you have not done violence to the common reason and nature of man So much for the second proof of the Minor 3. But I have yet another proof that many that are no Papists are good Christians and consequently that Popery is a deceit and that is the Testimony of many of their own Writers I will not call for their testimony concerning our selves for we know our selves better then they do but concerning other Churches whom they condemn as Hereticks or that are no subjects of the Pope of Rome And I will at this time content my self with one of many that might be cited and that is a Monk Burchardus that lived in the Holy Land and having wrote a Description of it and those that inhabit it saith of them as followeth p. 325 326. And for those that we judge to be damned Hereticks as the Nestorians Jacobites Maronites Georgians and the like I found them to be for the most part good and simple men and living sincerely toward God and men they are of great abstinence c. And of the Romane Catholicks he saith page 323. There are in the Land of Promise men of every Nation under Heaven and every Nation lives after their own Rites and to speak the very truth to our own great confusion there are none found in it that are worse and more corrupt in manners then Christians he means Papists And page 324. he tels us that the Syrians Greeks Armenians Georgians Nestorians Nubians Jubeans Chaldaeans Maronites Ethiopians Egyptians and many other Nations of Christians there inhabit and that some are schismaticks not subject to the Pope and others called Hereticks as the Nestorians Jacobites c. but saith he there are many in these sects that are very simple or sincere knowing nothing of heresies devoted to Christ macerating the flesh with fastings and cloathed with the most simple garments so that they far excel the very Religious of the Church of Rome so you hear an Adversaries testimony Well then when a Papist can prove to me that I love not God contrary to my own experience of my self and when he can make me believe that no one of all the holy Heavenly Christians of my acquaintance Ministers or people are in a state of charity or Justification and that no one Christian on earth shall be saved but a Papist then I will turn Papist And till then they do not desire me to turn But I must solemnly profess that this belief is so difficult to me and abhorred by my reason and my whole heart and so contrary to my own knowledge and to abundant evidence and to all Christian charity that I think I shall as soon be perswaded to believe that I am not a man and that I have not the use of sence or reason or that Snow is black and the Crow white as to believe this Essential point of Popery I should a hundred times easier be brought
whom the care of Religion is committed therefore it belongs to the Pope to judge a King to be deposed or not deposed You see here it is not Lawful for such Christians as the Papists to Tolerate you which may help your judgement in the point of their Toleration Si Christiani saith Bellarib olim non deposuerunt Neronem Valentem Arianum similes id fuit quia deerant vires temporales Christianis You have your Government and we our Lives because the Papists are not strong enough They tell you what to trust to Saith Tollet one of the best of the Jesuites li 1. de Instruct Sacerd. c. 13. They that were bound by the bond of fidelity or Oath shall be freed from such a bond if he fall into Excommunication and during that Debtors are absolved from the obligation of paying to the Creditor that debt that is contracted by words These are no private uneffectual Opinions Saith Pope Pius the 5th himself in his Bull against our Queen Elizabeth Volumus mandamus We will and command that the Subjects take Arms against that Heretical and Excommunicate Queen But their crueltie to mens souls and the Church of Christ doth yet much more declare their uncharitableness It is a point of their Religion to believe that no man can be saved but the Subjects of their Pope as I have after proved and is to be seen in many of their writings as Knot and a late Pamphlet called Questions for Resolution of Unlearned Protestants c. and Bishop Morton hath recited the words of Lindanus Valentia and Vasquez Apol. lib. 2. c. 1. defining is to be of Necessity to Salvation to be subject to the Roman Bishop And would not a man think that for such horrid doctrines as damn the far greatest part of Christians in the world they should produce at least some probable Arguments But what they have to say I have here faithfully detected If we will dispute with them or turn to them the Scripture must be no further Judge then as their Church expoundeth it The Judgement of the Ancient yea or present Church they utterly renounce for the far greatest part is known to be against the Headship of their Pope and therefore they must stand by for Hereticks Tradition it self they dare not stand to except themselves be Judges of it for the greatest part of Christians profess that Tradition is against the Roman Vice-christ The internal sense and experience of Christians they gainsay concluding all besides themselves to be void of charity or saving grace which many a thousand holy souls do find within them that never believed in the Pope Yea when we are content to lay our lives on it that we will shew them the deceit of Popery as certainly and plainly as Bread is known to be Bread when we see it feel and taste it and as Wine is known to be Wine when we see and drink it yet do they refuse even the judgement of sense of all mens senses even their own and others So that we must renounce our honesty our Knowledge of our selves our senses our reason the common experience and senses of all men the Judgement and Tradition of the far greatest part of the present Church or else by the judgement of the Papists we must all be damned Whether such opinions as these should by us be uncontradicted or by you be suffered to be taught your Subjects is easie to discern If they had strength they would little trouble us with Disputing Nothing more common in their Writers scarce then that the Sword or Fire is fitter for Hereticks then Disputes This is hut their after-game Though their Church must rule Princes as the soul ruleth the body yet it must be by Secular Power excommunication doth but give fire it is Lead and Iron that must do the execution And when they are themselves disabled it is their way to strike us by the hands and swords of one another He that saw England Scatland and Ireland a while ago in blood and now sees the lamentable case of so many Protestant Princes and Nations destroying one another and thinks that Papists have no hand in contriving counselling instigating or executing is much a stranger to their Principles and Practices Observing therefore that of all the Sects that we are troubled with there is none but the Papist that disputeth with us with flames and Gun-Powder with Armies and Navies at their backs having so many Princes and so great revenews for their provision I have judged it my duty to God and his Church 1. To Detect the vanity of their cause that their shame may appear to all that are impartial and to do my part of that necessary work for which Vell. Paterculus so much honoured Cicero Hist lib. 2. c. 34. Ne quorum arma viceramus corum ingenio vinceremur And 2. To present with greatest earnestness these following Requests to your Highness on the behalf of the cause and people of the Lord wherein the Papists also shall see that it is not their suffering but only our Necessary Defence that we desire 1. We earnestly request that you will Resolvedly adhere to the cause of Truth and Holiness and afford the Reformed Churches abroad the utmost of your help for their Concord and Defence and never be tempted to own an Interest that crosseth the Interest of Christ How many thousands are studiously contriving the extirpation of the Protestant Churches from the Earth How many Princes are consederate against them The more will be required of you for their aid The serious endeavours of your Renowned Father for the Protestants of Savoy discovered to the world by Mr. Morland in his Letters c. hath won him more esteem in the hearts of many that fear the Lord then all his victories in themselves considered We pray that you may inherit a tender care of the cause of Christ 2. We humbly request that you will faithfully adhere to those that fear the Lord in your Dominions In your eyes let a vile person be contemned but honour them that fear the Lord Psal 15. 4. Know not the wicked but let your eyes be upon the faithfull of the Land Psal 101. 4 6. Compassionate the weak and curable Punish the uncurable restrain the froward but Love and cherish the servants of the Lord. They are under Christ the honour and the strength of the Commonwealth It was a wise and happy King that professed that his Good should extend to the Saints on earth and the excellent in whom was his delight Psal 16. 2 3. This strengthening the vitals is one of the chief means to keep out Popery and all other dangerous diseases We see few understanding Godly people receive the Roman infection but the prophane licentious ignorant or malignant that are prepared for it 3. We earnestly request your utmost care that we may be ruled by Godly Faithfull Magistrates under you and that your Wisdom and Vigilancy may frustrate the subtilty of Masked Papists
the Papists to call for express Scripture for these that are not Articles of Faith in proper sence CHAP. XLIV Detect 35. ONE of their Practical Deceits consisteth in the choosing of such persons to dispute with against whom they find that they have some notable advantage 1. Commonly they deal with women and ignorant people in secret who they know are not able to gainsay their falsest silliest reasonings 2. If they deal with a Minister it is usually with one that hath some at least of these disadvantages 1. Either with some young or weak unstudyed man that is not verst in their way of Controversie 2. Or one that is not of so voluble and plausible a tongue as others For they know how much the tonguing and toning of the matter doth take with the common people 3. Or with one that hath a discontented people that bear him some ill will and are ready to hearken to any one that contradicteth him 4. Or else with one that hath fixt upon some unwarrantable notions and is like to deal with them upon terms that will not hold And if they see one hole in a mans way of arguings they will turn all the brunt of the Contention upon that as if the discovery of his peculiar Error or weakness were the Confutation of his Cause And none give them greater advantage here then those that run into some contrary extream They think to be Orthodox by going as far from Popery as the furthest About many notions in the matter of Justification Certainty of Salvation the nature of Faith the use of Works c. they will be sure to go with the furthest And a Jesuite will desire no better sport then to have the baiting of one that holds any such opinion as he knows himself easily able to disgrace One unsound Opinion or Argument is a great disadvantage to the most learned Disputant Most of all the insultings and success of the Papists is from some such unsound passages that they pick up from some Writers of our own as I said before And they set all those together and tell the world that This is the Protestant Religion Just as if I should give the Description of a Nobleman from all the blemishes that ever I saw in any Nobleman As if I have seen one crook-backt another blind another lame another dumb another deaf another a whoremonger another a drunkard c. I should say that A Nobleman is a whoremonger and drunkard c. that hath neither eyes nor ears nor limbs to bear him c. So deal they by Protestants And what a Character could we give of Papists on these terms But I would intreat all the Ministers of Christ to take heed of giving them any such advantage By over-doing and running too far into contrary extreams you will sooner advantage them and give them the day then the weakest Disputants that stand on safer grounds Inconsiderate heat and self-conceitedness and making a faction of Religion is it that carryeth many into extreams when Judgement and Charity and Experience are all for Moderation and standing on safe ground A Davenant a Lud. Crocius a Camero a Dallaeus c. will more successfully confute an Arminian then a Maccovius a so it is here The world sees in the Answer of Knot what an advantage Chillingworth had by his Principles when the Jesuite having little but the reproachful slander of a Socinian name and cause to answer with hath lost the day and shewed the world how little can be said for Popery CHAP. XLV Detect 36. ANother of their Practical frauds is in seeking to Divide the Protestants among themselves or to break them into Sects or poyson the ductile sort with Heresies and then to draw them to some odious practises to cast a disgrace on the Protestant Cause In this and such Hellish practises as this they have been more successful then in all their Disputations But whether the Cause be of Heaven or Hell that must be thus upheld I leave to the considerate to judge What they have done abroad in this way I leave others to enquire that are more fit But we all smart by what they have done at home Yet this I may well say that if their own secular Priests are to be believed as Watson and many more It is their Jesuites that have set many Nations in those flames whose cause the world hath not observed And I may well set down the words of a Priest of their own John Brown aged seventy two in his Voluntary Confession to a Committee of Parliament as it is in Mr. Prins Introduct pag. 202. Saith he The whole Christian world doth acknowledge the prediction which the University of Paris doth foresee in two several Decrees they made Anno 1565. When the Society of Jesuites did labour to be members of that University Hoc genus hominum natus est ad interitum Christianae Reipubliae subvertionem literarum They were the only cause of the troubles which fell out in Muscovie when under pretence to reduce the Latine Church and plant themselves and destroy the Greek Church the poor King Demetrius and his Queen and those that followed him from Polonia were all in one night murdered by the monstrous Usurper of the Crown and the true progeny rooted out They were the only cause that moved the Swedes to take Arms against their lawfull King Sigismund and chased him to Poland and neither he nor his successors were ever able to take possession of Sweden For the Jesuites intention was to bring in the Romish Religion and root out Protestants They were the only cause that moved the Polonians to take Arms against the said Sigismund because they had perswaded him to marry two sisters one after the other both of the house of Austria They have been the sole cause of the war entered in Germany since the year one thousand six hundred and nineteen as Pope Paulus 15. told the General of their Order called Vicelescus for their avarice pretending to take all the Church lands from the Hussites in Bohemia to themselves which hath caused the death of many thousand by sword famine and pestilence in Germany They have been the cause of civil wars in France during all which time moving the French King to take Arms against his own subjects the Protestants where innumerable people have lost their lives as the siege of Rochell and other places will give sufficient proof For the Jesuites intentions were to set their society in all Cities and Towns conquered by the King and quite to abolish the Protestants They were the cause of the murder of the last King of France They were the only projectors of the Gunpowder Treason and their Penitents the actors thereof They were the only cause namely Father Parsons that incensed the Pope to send so many fulminate Breves to these Kingdoms to hinder the Oath of Allegiance and lawfull Obedience to their temporal Prince that they might still fish in troubled waters Their
Letters of the Agents of the Agitators from France telling us how good men the Jesuites were and how agreeable to them in their principles for a Democracy which they vainly call a Republick as if there were no Common-wealth but a Democracy and telling us what exceeding meet materials for such a Common-wealth the Jesuites would be The Agencies of particular men with Jesuites I shall purposely omit 11. Whence came it that all the maddest dividing parties had their liberty and the reproach and envy was most against the united Ministry and if the Lord Protector had not stept in they had been likely to be taken down 12. And whence came it that Sexby and others that have been Souldiers in our Armies have confederated with Spain to murder the Lord Protector And whence came their Jesuitical Treasonable Pamphlets such as Killing no Murder provoking men to take away his life Much more may be proposed tending to a discovery how far the Papists have crept in among us and had to do in our affairs But I think God hath yet much more in season to discover Truth is the daughter of time As concerning the death of the King I shall not meddle at this time with the Cause nor meddle with the Reasons brought for it or against it But suppose as bad of it as you can the Providence of God hath so contrived it that nothing but ignorance or blind malice can lay it upon the Protestants Episcopal or Presbyterian that strove so much against it and suffered so much for it as they have done When many on the other side charged the Scots and the imprisoned Ministers of London with those that were put to death for going too far on the other side in manifesting their distastes Of which I take not on me to be judge but mention it only as Evidence that clears them from the deed And to vindicate the Protestants openly before all the world and to all posterity from that Fact it is most publikely known 1. That both Houses of Parliament in their Protestations engaged themselves and the Nations to be true to the King 2. That they openly professed to mannage their war for King and Parliament Not against his Person or Authority but against Delinquents that were fled from Justice and against evill Counsellors 3. That the two Nations of England and Scotland did in the midst of the wars swear in the Solemn League and Covenant to he true to the King 4. That the Committees Commanders Ministers and people through the Land professed openly to go only on these terms as managing but a defensive war against the Kings miscarriages but an Offensive against Delinquent subjects 5. In that it was known that the Army was quite altered not only by a new modelling but by an intestine Jesuitical corrupting of multitudes of the Souldiers before this Odious fact could be done 6. And it was known that the corrupted part of the Army though the fewer did so excell the rest in industry and activity that thereby they hindered their opposition 7. And it is known that the Jesuited part that afterward so many of them turn'd Levellers did draw into them the Anabaptists Libertines and other Sects upon a conjunction of Interests and by many sly pretenses especially tying all together by the predicated Liberty for all Religions 8. And yet after all this the world knows they were fain before they could accomplish it to Master the City of London to Master the Parliament to imprison and cast out the Members and to retain but a few that were partly of their mind and partly seduced or over-awed by them to joyn with them in the work 9. It is known that before they were put out and imprisoned by the Army the Commons voted the Kings Concessions in the Treaty to be so far satisfactory as that they would have proceeded on them towards a full Agreement See Mr. Prins large Speech in the House to that end And if they had not suddenly been secluded and imprisoned they had agreed with the King 10. And it is well known to all that dwell in England that before and since the doing of it the thing is disowned distasted and detested by the main Body of the English Nation Nobility Gentlemen Ministers and people Yea to my knowledge multitudes that are now firm and loyal to the present Power supposing it to be set over us by God and therefore would abhor the like practises against them do yet detest that fact that intervened and made way to it So that experience may satisfie all men that Protestants even those called Puritans were the Enemies and not the Actors of it 11. And it is well known how the Protestant Ministers that had engaged in the war for King and Parliament were so great Adversaries to the putting of the King to death that they opposed it and disswaded from it and thereby drew the Odium of the Corrupted part of the Army upon them and that the London Ministers unanimously concuered in an Address to the Lord Fairfax to prevent it and printed their abhorrence of it and published it to the world And that many of them were imprisoned and Mr. Love beheaded and many others put to death or other sufferings for being against these designs and endeavouring to oppose the progress of them 12. And lastly it is known that the Kingdom of Scotland disowned it from first to last and so far proceeded in opposition to it and in adhesion to the ancient line as cost them the miseries of a grievous war and a conquest of their Kingdom I speak but of the matter of fact that is known to the world So that it is against all humane Reason and Equity that when we have all sworn to the contrary and endeavoured it and the Parliament men of one Kingdom are secluded and Imprisoned for it and the other Kingdom conquered for it and the Protestants still generally disown it that yet it should be charged on the Protestants or their Religion that they put to death their King This is most unreasonable in justice especially from those men that were the causers of it I do therefore leave it here to posterity having been my self a member of the Army four years or thereabouts that it was utterly against the mind and thoughts of Protestants and those that they called Puritans to put the King to death the twelve Evidences fore-mentioned are undenyable Arguments that it was the work of Papists Libertines Vanists and Anabaptists and that the Protestants deeply suffered by opposing it as the face of Scotland and England sadly testifie to this day And yet though we have such open Evidence that this cannot be charged on our Religion or us I must needs adde that every wise man sees that the Case it self much differs from the Papists If the Body of a Common-wealth or those that have part in the Legislative Power and so in the Supremacy should unwillingly be engaged in a war with the Prince and