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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13960	The fierie tryall of Gods saints as a counter-poyze to I.W. priest his English Martyrologie. And the detestable ends of popish traytors. ...		1611 (1611)	STC 24269; ESTC S106306	40,636	90

as doth that of yours by euident proofes elswere convinced do allow of any such doctrine and enterprises This Powder-plot-treason was in it selfe in the eyes of some of the actors therein so horride and detestable as that one of your owne Iesuites from an apprehension of the jmmane cruelty thereof not mooued with any commiseration of their miseries who were by their designes destinated to the rage thereof but proceeding from a trembling feare least it should be discouered could say to his fellow in profession and action That if it were discouered it would be the vtter ruine and dissolution of their Society Remember also Robert Winters dreame and the horror thereof how it terrified his very soule with the gastly appearance of some of his consorts And forget not the fearefull vengeance of God in suffering their faces to be so vgly disfigured with Gunpowder in Littletons house who had prepared a Destructiō for this whole kingdome with the same matter and Substance and then conclude that God is iust and therefore in his justice did punish their wickednesse with the inventions of their owne braines Was it not time to lop those ambitious aspyring thoughts of Watson the Priest and his confederates as also to clippe the winges of the Powder-Treason contriuers and their fauorites the first affecting in his owne person the high Chancelorship of England and the latter building their hopes aboue the Moone amongst themselues concluding to set vp a Protector of their own choosing out of the number of those Popish Lords that by them were intended should bee preserued from that generall destruction of their sulphurious fire all of them directlie ayming at the vtter ruine and destruction of this noble and renowned Iland and to make desolate the most glorious Kingdome that is couered by the Heauens But as the most fruitfull trees beare their tops lowest and the most barren and vnfruitfull shoote vp highest euen so is it amongst men Those that are most emptie of vertue and laudable qualities aspire in their ambition to places of highest honour vncalled whereas the more worthy and vertuous would in their humility refuse them being jmposed were it not onely for this that they may thereby be the better jnabled to do good Admit that the Kings Majestie had in a religious pollicy promised a toleration before he were fully seated in his kingdome or come into this Kingdome nay that hee had so also meant indeed as some of you haue falsely and jmpudently giuen out yet had he not for your extreame ill carriage and disloyall demeanour just cause to haue reuoked it For before that liberty could be established for you there must needes haue beene a repeale made of those Lawes and Statutes formerly made against Recusancy which as they were by act of Parliament confirmed so must they haue been by the like authority disanulled But your Watson and Clarke thought to make a shorter cut then so by preventing the King in the performance of that which Watson himselfe knew full well the King neuer purposed nor promised albeit it should seeme by Watsons owne confession that he had much laboured and jmportuned his Majestie therein Since which time also if his Majestie had promised the like as some of your faction haue falsely giuen out was not that matchlesse Powder-treason plotted contriued furthered and assisted by beasts for men I cannot call them but rather deuils of your religion both Priests Iesuites and as you stile your selues lay Catholiques a sufficient warrantise without prejudice to his honour to recall such a grant as might giue protection to Caterpillers Degenerate persons Miscreants Vipers Monsters and not men and whatsoeuer name more odious that also yea vnworthy to bee called by the name of any of Gods creatures for they persist in their created natures but the other do not but are degenerated from men to Devils That their damnable practise doth rightly moralize the tale of the Husbandman wherein hee is fabled to haue found a Snake stiffe and almost dead with cold and to haue brought him home in his bosome and warmed him by the fire which after recouering began to hisse at the good man of the house for his paines and would with his venomous tongue haue stung him to death who had before saued his life which plainely bids King Iames beware that he nourish not vipers in his own Kingdome I pray God not in his Court. You seeme in some places of your writings to taxe Queene Elizabeth and in her all true professors of religion for a backward and frozen zeale towards the Kings Majesties rightfull succession in these his kingdomes to blazō your own forwardnesse in his Majesties behalfe but know you false-hearted and degenerate men that king Iames knowes how to judge of spirits and to hold you but hollow-hearted vnto him now because whiles you were yet Queene Elizabeths subiects you were then so vnto her and to esteeme of our late Queene Honourably and of vs as faithfull Subiects then vnto her so now no lesse vnto him And albeit that for some reasons of State vnto her selfe best knowen and which no doubt but his Majestie now very well vnderstandeth it pleased her to conceale the kings right from the multitude yet I verily perswade my selfe that his Majesty did neuer so much as conceiue a thought that Queene Elizabeth did euer purpose or intend to debarre him in his right of lawfull succession And in this poynt your fellow Catholiques thought to cast a Bone between his Majesty and his good subiects but you are made to swallow it your selues and some whose throats were to little it choaked Nor may I here let passe vntouched that Propheticall speech of that worthy Matriarke Honourable amongst women Q. Elizabeth who when in the first yere of her raigne shee was motioned to dispose her selfe to Marriage that her subiects might enioy an happy issue of her own body like as Abraham when his Sonne Isaac sayd Behold the fire and the wood but where is the Lambe for the burnt offring Gen. 22.7 replyed Deus providebit mi fili So shee Abrahams daughter by fayth likewise Fideles mei subditi my louing and faithfull Subiects although you may justly fear what may be the euent of my disposednes to a Virgin life yet be not depressed with care that way nor dejected with sorrow but trust in God for Deus providebit hee euen God euen that God who made Sarahs barren wombe fruitfull and he who although I should marrie can cause my wombe to be barren He who had another meat to eat that his Disciples knew not of Ioh. 4.32 Euen he I say will provide you a king of his owne choosing whome you do not so much as dreame of My Fathers Will must bee done Ioh. 4.34 I the Lord will bee their God and my seruant David shall be the Prince amongst them I the Lord haue spoken it Ezech. 34.24 Which that your eyes haue after

necessitie from Ambition Likewise as then by one was obserued his ambition in his jntentions and thoughts so by another of higher rancke and dignitie was noted his dissimulation in his actions for said he there are in all his proceedings Vestigia manifesta vestigia occulta giving withall an jnstāce herein That this great personage had admitted T. P. that Archtraitor to be a Pentioner but yet without hauing any oath administred him either for his allegeance or yet for his particular discharge of that place whereunto he was admitted and yet vnderhand giuing out that he was sworne wherevpon he jnferred thus That wheresoeuer things were palliated which were or fayned to be which are not there alwaies is some deceit At which time he was by a third honourable personage taxed expreslie for his Hippocrisie as being Iacke on both sides whereby hee had made himselfe odious to both Protestants so tearmed and Papists nor yet though these are jnough are these all But to returne to our purpose and matter in hand Before he ascended vnto that height of honor which then by the Kings speciall favour he was advanced vnto I meane in Queene Elizabeths time when his predecessours carriage had givē just occasion of the successours further disgrace then at this very time was the same person imployed vnto his maiestie with letters from Garnet the Iesuites Prouinciall who had about that time receaued the Popes Breues to this purpose Quandocunque contigerit miseram illam faeminam meaning Q. Elizabeth ex hac vita exire c. that whensoeuer that wretched woman should die the papists should not admit of any other to inherite how neere so euer in bloud vnlesse he were a Romish Catholique and not so onely vnlesse he would also sweare to vphold to his power the popish Religion But the Kings happie acceptation with his good Subiects caused those to bee converted into ashes and then come other Breues enioyning their obedience to his Maiestie but Coacta virtus non est virtus Gramercy horse when you cannot choose then obay This is that Obedientia ex necessitate nempe ferreâ jlla coactâ which Bellarmine noteth Recognitionum pag. 16. And how long this vntill they be able to cast him out whō they were forced to receaue And your Watson soone attempted that which hee knew his vnholy Father the Pope hartily wished Hee was a lowe man in person but he aspyred high when he thought to bee Lord Chancellor of England but missing that hee was aduanced to the Gallowes for preferment but I thinke being purblind he missed the waye that hee meant I say did this double-hearted Lord jmploy T. P. the Traytor vnto the Kings Majestie then King only of Scotland with certain letters of advise but much in the behalfe of the English Romish Catholicks aduising him that he should at such time as it should please the Lord to call him to the possession of this his kingdome which as now he doth so long Lord grant he may quietly enjoye giue faire promises and hopes of tolleration vnto the Papists thereby as he therein pretended to prepare a more easie entrance for his Majestie when time should serue The Kings Majestie not as then suspecting the depth of this his Councellors drifts but vnderstanding him simply returned him an answere with thankes for his advise but withall jnferring a clause directly as since it appeareth contrarie to his Councellors expectation His Majesties words in answere to the letter were in effect as followeth Whensoeuer it shall please GOD in his due time to call mee to the possession of my right in England I purpose not to make any jnnovation in the State or to alter the Lawes and Ordinances thereof c. Wherevppon a wise man would as the LL. did haue thus jnferred No alteration in the State no changing of Lawes and Ordinances therein established why then no toleratiō of Poperie no allowance of Recusancy not because it pleased the kings Majestie out of the meeknesse of his Spirit voyd of guile and double dealing to returne him thankes for his aduise although hee did not so much as make shew that he liked thereof therefore to conclude that a toleration should be granted But he in his ambition besotted with his own follie not expounding his Majesties words as he meant but as he himselfe conceited them because he so as it should euidently appeare wished that it might bee did so farre exceed the limits of his commission and was so farre vainely transported as that at T. P. his returne from the Kings Majestie it was amongst the Papists divulged though falsely that the King had also by the sayd T. P. giuen directions to the afore remembred great Personage by word of mouth to wind himselfe into their favours for that was the word and to giue hopes of toleration in his Majesties name vnto Recusants and herehence chiefly arose that scandall of the kings Honour that he had broken promise with Recusants For the better confirmation whereof and that his Majesty neuer intended any such matter of toleration Conferre herewith Watson the Priest his confession vnto the Honourable Lord the Lord of Northampton at Winchester who being by the Earle by his Majestie therevnto appoynted examined vpon the poynt of promise of toleration freely confessed that albeit he were by some falsly accused to be the Author of that report yet it was most true that hee could neuer at any time draw any comfort from his Maiestie in the point of conscience All which notwithstanding besides the just cause that the Powder-treason and other dangerous conspiracies against his Maiesties life and kingdomes hatefull to God and all good men gaue of an hard hand ouer the Papists yet let any of you that I may vse the words of an Honorable Counsellor even the most jmpudent brazen faced amongst you shew any the least prints if you can of bloody steppes in his Majesties Course Nay rather I may much more truely say hee is a man composed all of mercy and not of any earthly element subiect to passions and disturbance but in a farre more diuine manner then ordinary men resembling his Maker for good Kings and mercifull are the most liuely representatiue jmages of the Deitie which causeth as the wicked without warrant vpō Gods mercies so Traitors and miscreants without reason vppon his Majesties Clemency jmpudently to presume to their more just condemnation And here let me tell you yet voyd of any desire of bloud or bloudy courses as God can beare record vnto my foule but onely admiring the mercies of our King That I greatly doubt whether any Prince in the world King Iames excepted if the like treason as was the Powder-treason had been plotted against him by persons of another religion or sect whatsoeuer would haue suffered either man woman or child of so dangerous and damnable a profession to haue breathed within his Dominions especially if the grounds of their religion