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A41989	Autokatakritoi, or, The Jesuits condemned by their own witness being an account of the Jesuits principles in the matter of equivocation, the Popes power to depose princes, the king-killing doctrine : out of a book entituled An account of the Jesuits life and doctrine, by M.G. (a Jesuit), printed in the year 1661 and found in possession of one of the five Jesuits executed on the 20th of June last past : together with some animadversions on those passages, shewing, that by the account there given of their doctrine in the three points above-mentioned, those Jesuits lately executed, were, in probability, guilty of the treasons for which they suffered, and died equivocating.	M. G. (Martin Grene), 1616-1667.; M. G. (Martin Grene), 1616-1667. Account of the Jesuites life and doctrine.; Hopkins, William, 1647-1700.	1679 (1679)	Wing G1826; ESTC R13202	29,605	24

when FALSHOOD is vented by Speech 'T is evident that the only way of concealing Truth allowed by St. Augustine is silenced and he esteems it a Lie to speak any thing that is false Now in Mental Reservation that which is uttered is absolutely false intended to deceive and in the judgment of the Jesuits themselves would be a Lie but for the help of a secret reserve in the Speakers breast which can no way alter the real quality of the proposition uttered That this must be that Fathers meaning will appear by the occasion he had so to determine in that point the Priscillianists defended Lying as the Jesuits do Equivocation by the example of the Holy Patriarchs particularly of Abraham in the case of his Wise Aliquid ergo veri tacuit ron falsi aliq●id dixit tac●it ux rem dixit sarorem Aug. uti sapr St. Austin denies that Abraham Lied he did not deny her to be his Wife which had been a Lie but declared to be his Sister which was true he concealed the Truth but spake Truth also As he hath abused St. Augustine who held it not lawful to Lie upon any account no not to save a Soul so I am apt to believe he doth Aquinas whom he calls St. Thomas For I find * Sepulveda de ratione dicendi testim cap. 17. Sepulveda impugning the use of ambiguous Speech in giving evidence saith that none of the ancient and eminent Divines allow it and before telling whom he meant by those ancient Divines expresly saith such was Themas Aquinas How he hath used St. Chrysostome and St. Ambrose I have not had opportunities to examine I fear ill enough he cites no place nor so much as refers to any and I believe quotes Fathers as he doth Protestants upon trust and from no very honest Authors M. G. Among the Protestants are divers mentioned in the Protestants Apology as P. Martyr Zuinglius Willet Melancthon Luther Musculus Wieleff and divers others cited at length in the 7 Section of the 3 Tract under the letter M. number 76. and in the 703 page of the Impression An. Dom. 1608. Though of the Authors there cited some will not use the name of Equivocation or Mental Reservation but call these doubtful Speeches Officious Lies which notwithstanding they say one is sometimes bound to use So Luther there cited saith of Rahab and concludeth that there is an Officious Lie by which men provide for the same and safety of their Neighbour Igitur honestum ac pium mendacium est ac potius officium charitatis appellandum And Osiander there cited saith of the Calvinists Hane maximan seu regulam habent Calvinistae licere pro gloriâ Christi mentiri The Calvinists have this for a ground or principle that it is lawful to Lie for the glory of Christ Answ I confess I was at first amazed to find there had been any such Protestant Apology taking it for granted as our Author whose honesty appears answerable to those principles he is maintaining desires his Reader should that it was an Apology for the Protestant Religion and written by some Protestant but upon enquiry I find that his worthy Author is Mr. Breerly who hath written a Book intituled The Protestants Apology for the Roman Church a Book fraught with many prevarications one of which cited here by our Author gave me enough of the Apologist and he and our Author may go together for their veracity M. G. Yet Catholicks generally do not allow of Lying but as many Protestants of concealing the Truth by Equivocation Answ Here he stily and maliciously insinuates that Protestants are more favourable in the point of the lawfulness of Officious Lies which he calls doubtful Speeches than the Jesuits or other Popish Doctors generally are but the malice and falshood of this insinuation will readily appear to any man who is able and will take the pains to compare the Casuists on both sides M. G. Now that this Doctrine may and sometimes must be allowed examples will make manifest I will instance in one When His Majesty after Worcester Fight was constrained to shelter himself in Boscobel There was as we all know very narrow search made after him Among the rest one of the Pendrils those Loyal Subjects ever to be commended in all History was asked where the King was he answered that he knew not meaning that he knew not for to tell them He thought he might and ought in that case conceal the Truth And all the Jesuits in the World are of his opinion He was bound there under pain of High-Treason to Equivocate And those that deny Equivocation to be lawful let them say what they would have done Sure I am that if they would not in that case have used Equivocation or Mental Reservations they must have been either Lyars or Traytors Answ Here he triumphs in a cunning instance and seemingly invicible A. D. 1661. which suited very well the time of Publishing his Book The happiest instance sure that ever was thought on which besides the fair opportunity it gives him to extol the Papists Loyalty seems to prove Mental Reservations not only lawful but even meritorious He would make us believe that we owe the great blessing of his Majesties preservation after Worcester Fight to a Mental Reservation and to that honest Jesuit Pendrills Confessor who taught him dextrously to use it I am apt to believe Pendrills is a made case and not a real fact Be it how it will I conceive a Protestant might have as laudably saved his Majesty by a Lie as Mr. Pendrill did by a Mental Reservation I honour and commend his Loyal affection and zeal for his Majesties preservation as much as our Author and thus far I concur with him and all the Jesuits in the World That in this case he ought to conceal the Truth but that he ought to do it in that way by such a Mental Reservation I utterly deny If we may not Lie for God neither may we for the King And there is not a pin to chuse between Equivocation Mental Reservation and a Lie But since we will not admit Equivocations or Mental Reservation what would we have done in Pendrils case he says we must have been either Lyars or Traytors there is no avoiding it By his leave I am of opinion that there is no necessity of either I think I can fit him Aug. lib. de Mendac ad Consentium c. 13. Quanto ergo fortius quanto excellentius dices nec prodam nec mentiar Fecit hoc Episcopus quondam Tagastensis Ecclesiae Firmus nomine firmior voluntate c. with a case very like this out of St. Augustine which will make out what I have said and withall shew how much that Father was a friend to Equivocation He tells us that Firmus Bishop of Tagasta in Africk had received a man belike some persecuted Christian and hid him the Emperor sent his Officers to search for him who demanding where

Pages This is that which King Henry the fourth said p. 110. that he was sure Jesuits taught nothing in this matter which did differ from other Catholicks It is one and the same passage with that cited by Mr. Gawen though he varies the Phrase and words it more pompously in honour of the Society 2. Doth Mr. Gawen deny that any Jesuit ever taught the Doctrine of killing Kings except Mariana the Spanish Jesuit So did our Author before him only Mr. Gawen hath out-stript our Apologist and speaks without Book in asserting That Mr. Gawen learnt out of Philanax Anglicus p. 94. that Mariana defended it not absolutely but only problematically He saith all the Authors of the Society EXCEPTING ONLY MARIANA teach the contrary And whereas Mr. Gawen saith his Book was called in p. 116. and the opinion expunged our Author tells us p. 115. the Society would gladly have called it in and that their General took order to have the place corrected 3. As Mr. Gawen complains Is it not a sad thing that for the rashness of ONE MAN a whole Religious Order should be sentenced So our Author complains of those p. 116. who will have it that the fault of ANY ONE of the Society must like Original Sin infect all for ever and unpardonably Both you see take care that the Society may not suffer upon Mariana's account 4. Mr. Gawen and our Apologists agree in the use of a word very exotick and unusual Mr. Gawen saith I never did in my life MACHINE or contrive the Deposition or Death of the King Our Author tells us p. 115. that the Jesuits are prohibited advising that it is lawful to kill King or Princes or MACHINE their Death The word MACHINE is commonly in the English Tongue used as a Noun Substanstive but I am perswaded there cannot be many instances produced beside these two of its being made a Verb. And I think it not impertinent to add that the Book whence I transcribed the following passages was bought among other Books of one of the Jesuits Executed with Mr. Gawen and I am apt to believe not one of the five but had it Now in regard Mr. Gawen so far honoured this Account of the Jesuits Life and Doctrine as to borrow what he said in vindication of himself and his Order thence and one more and probably all the rest of his Fellow-Sufferes had it there is little reason to doubt their approbation of it And the nature of the thing it self being an Apology requires that the Account given of those scandalous and horrid Doctrines held by the Jesuits should be as fair cautious and moderate as it could be contrived nay that it should as 't is apparent it doth mince the matter and extenuate even the common and univer sally received opinions of the Doctors of the Society So that we have reason to believe that Mr. Gawen and his Brethren held the objected Points to the heighth of what this Author owns and allows and did renounce or disclaim them no further than he hath done We cannot suppose their Principles more moderate and innocent than they are here represented Hereupon I thought it might be of use for the further satisfaction of such honest minds as are apt over-easily to credit whatever any person takes on his death measuring others by their own integrity and never considering how much their consciences may be debauched by bad Principles and seared by suitable practices to represent the sentiments of the Jesuits in this Authors words who is an English Jesuit and an Apologist for them and one that seems to have been in good credit and esteem with these very Persons Executed June the 20th That they may see how far one of the most sober and moderate of them even while writing on purpose to palliate their dangerous Principles asserts the Doctrine of Equivocation and Mental Reservation and the Poes power to Depose Princes and withall how saintly and fallaciously he denies the King-killing Doctrine The Principles of those Executed so far as we can learn them from their Speeches are the very same however they cannot be reasonably supposed better than our Authors Now there being a most Hellish Plot against our King and Religion by Gods wonderful mercy brought to light and horrid Treasons being expresly and legally proved against them to the satisfaction of the Court and all impartial Auditors when they understand rightly their Principles these honest well-meaning Persons not only Protestants but even moderate Roman Catholicks will be more ready to credit the Kings Evidence and be satisfied in the Justice of the Kingdom which is now most impudently traduced And they will further see cause to believe that in their confident protestations of their Innocence these Jesuits made use of Equivocations and Mental Reservation or that fine shift mentioned indeed by Mr. Gawen but nót renounced by any of the rest material prolocution i. e. To speak the words materially so as to utter the sound of them without intending that any thing should be signified by them 'T is apparent from the passages hereafter cited out of this Account of the Jesuits Life and Doctrine that the Jesuitical Principles no way restrain men either from such Treasonable Practices or from those vile Arts of concealing them The passages cited are all in the VI. Chapter of this Account In the citation I have used all possible Fidelity I have transcribed them intire and as they lie in order I have omitted nothing but the second Objection and its Answer as not pertinent to my design though liable enough to Animadversion and some reproaches cast upon other Roman Catholicks and Protestants which serve no way for the Jesuits vindication I thought it was but necessary to add some strictures by way of Animadversion on the passages I am forced to cite for an Antidote against the poysonous Doctrines which are contained in them If I had not said all that might be expected I have purposely omitted many things being unwilling without necessity to repeat what hath been already said by others and withall the refutation of this Author is beside the main end and design of making these Papers publick which is to make use of him as good evidence against the Jesuits in general and especially against those five last Executed An Advertisement THESE Papers were sent to the Press in the beginning of the Vacation but the delays they met with thereby have occasioned their late and almost unseasonable appearance in Publick You are directed to the Page of the Account of the Jesuits Life and Doctrine whence these passages are cited by the Figure over against them in the Margin ERRATA PAGE 1. Line 13. in the Paragraph l. 29. as Statera norum doth p. 172. p. 2. l. 30. in his VIII IX and the following Epistles l. 37. which are as good l. 47. r. silence p. 3. l. 4. declared her to be p. 5. l. 42. not out of dread l. 52. for