great bussle again not onely about the five Propositions with the Jansenists but concerning their great Idol the Popes power over Temporal Princes declared against about four or five years since by the King and Parliament at Paris 1667. And now doubtless they are labouring hard at the Popes Bellows to enkindle new slames against the Gallican Bishops for allowing the Jansenists to translate the New Testament into French § 6. Before I leave this Section somewhat may be noted of their attempts in Helvetia and the annexed Territories Though the Inhabitants were not so ruff with them Jesuits as those in Asturia who slew them as Cheats and Spies when they came to plant there * Luc. Hist p. 312. 1608. whatever they have been forc'd to since yet the Valesians when the Jesuits began to nest and fix their stations amongst them fortified themselves with fourteen Reasons against the entertainment of those pompous luxurious covetous sacrilegious Harpyes so they call them who were promoters of the King of Spain into their Democraticall state * Hosp i. 3. c. 2. fol. 136. 1610. But before that and since they found great favour in the Savoyan Court on which they have had so great an influence that the Evangelical Churches in the Valleys of Piedmont have a long time groaned under the severity of outragious practises effected by the counsels of their Missionarie Priests and Monks who have made it their business to debauch young men in their Principles and by suborning false witnesses to deprive the Evangelical Professors of their estates and to represent those innocent subjects as infernall Monsters in the eye of the Prince utterly destroy them by the Sword and FIRE burning some alive and unexpressible tortures as they did in the years 1640 1641 1642. c. and 1655. which you may see at large in Now Sir Samuel Morlands History * See especially l. 2. c. 1. 2. 3 set forth with Cuts in fol. 1658. There you l find they Copy'd out in BLOUDY Characters the Ignatian avowed principle of not keeping faith with Hereticks since within this seven years they were violent again in the same Practises against Gods wonderful owning and defending the poor despised Relicts of the Waldenses by his sheltering them with a natural munition of Rocks supplying them with supernatural courage and giving them success beyond all imagination I might here annex the stirs they made in the Vniversity of Padua and that unhappy Voyage they put Sebastian King of Portugal upon 1578 whilst by the Plot they get the King of Spain their great Patron into the possession of that Kingdom * Hosp l. 3. c. 2. f. 149. and in the interim some of their Fraternity were in the Isle Tercera one of the richest of the Azores belonging to Portugal attempting to betray it to the Spaniard which caused a tumult amongst the Islanders who were so inrag'd by this treachery they could hardly be kept from burning the Colledge of these Incendiaries But the poor Monks of other orders in Portug felt the smart of Phil. IId in Castile his hostile Invasion at the same time by the instigation of the Fathers of the Society who lately have made the very Bishops of Portugal feelingly to know the Jesuits Interest in the Roman Court. Sect. 3. § 1. If we pass into the Empire of Germany taken in its fullest Latitude we shall meet with Reports every where of the Jesuits continually prosecuting the advice they gave to the Emperor in an Oration at Auspurg 1566. saying So long as you do not make your Horse to swim in the bloud of the Lutherans you in no wise ought to think you shall enjoy any good fortune or Victory against the Turks * L. Luc. Hist p. 186. ventre tenus Amongst whom there were a Sect of Assassines a Pope call'd them Arsacides of the Mahometan Discipline but extinct â—262 whose principles about Government the famous Padre Paul shew'd the Jesuits have imbib'd * Id. 200. 201. 202. For as these Assassines were for killing and ruining any Magistrates or others that oppos'd them vi fraude dolo pro re natâ oblatâ occasione by force fraud damage according as the advantage lay and they had opportunity so the Jesuits conclude when they meet with opposition as P. Stewart one of the Society said * Id. p. 186. 200. Vrendum secandum esse we must BURN and cut the throats of Hereticks i. e. Protestants who I learn from Sleidan * Lib. 18. de statu Relig. Rep. sub anno 1546. about seven years after these Incendiaries were famous at Rome did emit a writing wherein they declare that the Pope the Roman Antichrist the instrument of Satan the Author of the German War who in the precedent years had grievously distressed Saxonie Per INCENDIARIOS Conductos by hired FIRE-BRANDS now had sent out Poysoners who might corrupt the Wells and Ponds of Water that what was left by the Sword they might destroy with Poyson Therefore these Protestant Magistrates gave order within their Ditions that these Emissaries might be apprehended and punished and within a few days afterward the Electors Son John William chargeth those under him to be watchful sith lately not far from Vinaria a Town of Turing one was took upon suspicion an Italian who upon examination confess'd that at Rome money was given to him and some others in the POPES Name * Nomine Pontificis ut Incendiis atque veneno quantum omnino possent per Germaniam damni darent that by BURNINGS and poyson they would make what havock they possibly could throughout Germany How consonant this practise is to the Jesuits principle of forcing Religion with FIRE or Sword is obvious to every ones observation These Ignatians did not only at Munstâ—r and Colen raise abominable lies against the Evangelicall professors and traduce them for Ignoramusses but father their Parricides upon them as Creswell and Coster would lay the massacre at Paris to the charge of Queen Elizabeth and the Calvinists which all the world laughs at * Luc. Hist p. 207 208. Thuan. but when they had an indulgence from the Pope to Temporize at the Diet then at Ratisbone or Regensperg they importuned the Prelates to diswade the Emperour Electors and Princes from any connivance to the Evangelicall concluding it would be detriment to the Roman Church * id p. 188 it seems they were much concern'd about the Inconveniencies of a Toleration however limited and thereupon their conclusion against the wise-Councellers then as of some now against the Sentiments of wise men among us who are of opinion that Reformed Christianity rightly stated in its due latitude is the stability and advancement of the Kingdome of England consonant to the celebrated Maxime of the D. of Rohan That besides the interest which the King of England hath common with all Princes he hath yet one particular which is that he ought throughly to acquire the
Mr. Baxters Key for Catholicks Dr. Du Moulin Dr. L. to be the Principal Agents There did then above 600. Protestant Ministers Remonstrate against it and so many thousands and more had they not been over-powr'd by an Army wherein Jesuits were active would have done so likewise But Protestant Ministers had not a conquering Army oblig'd to their obedience as the Jesuits have their Novices whom they can make to do what they please 'T is absurd then to impute that Action to Protestants as such whoever were the Executioners 't was agreed to in the Council of Jesuits * Answ to Pa. Apol. p. 12. Mr. Pr. pres to to Vind. C. So that it can be no imputation to the Protestant Religion which abhors the Jesuits priciples and practises As Dr. Du Moulin hath solidly vindicated the sincerity of the Protestant Religion * Page 56 57 c. upon that account against the fictitious Philanax Anglus Therein he declares amongst other things yet 't is said some from his pon stuck in the Press The Roman Priest and Confessor is known who upon cutting off the Kings head flourished his sword and said Now the greatest enemy that we had in the world is gone * p. 58. And there were other Jesuits on horseback did so too as is credibly reported And the Doctor adds from a Gentleman of good credit a notable passage at Roan of Jesuited persons rejoycing there upon the news of the Kings death saying we have kept our word to him since he would not keep it to us * p. 59. as if the King had made a promise to them which the Doctor there says is most false offering to make good when Authority shall require it That a Select number of English Jesuits were sent from their whole party here in England First to Paris to consult with the Faculty of Sorbon then altogether Jesuited to whom they put this Question in writing that seeing the State of England was in a likely posture to change Government whether it was lawful for the Papists to work the change by taking away the KING which was answered Affirmatively upon this thirty Jesuits were met betwixt Roan and Deip going to England with endeavours to be Agitators they said in the Independant Army * Id. p. 60. At Paris the scarlet Jesuit who would have the English Lady he had proselyted to rejoyce at the Kings death distasted her with the Popish Religion upon that score so that God gave her grace to be no more of it and the Doctor saith hitherto she keeps her word * p. 61. It seems also there was great joy in the English Seminaries abroad and here at home Mr. White and others were applauders of the succeeding Government F. Bret was for the prevailing power †p. 62 64. under which the Dr. saith they got from the top of the House of Lords two of the Gunpowder-Traytors heads which we may hear in time are as Holy Reliques shrined up in gold and working miracles SECT V. § 1. And shall we think these Fiery temper'd Loyolans have been asleep these late years when such dreadful Burnings at Sea and such a lamentable conflagration in the City of our solemnities have awaken'd so many I dare say argumento ad homines they themselves who percinatiously assert the Doctrine of PROBABILITY have no just reason to quarrel me if I suggest more than THAT to conclude they have been very vigilant and active may I not say mechanically even in the burning of London as well as politically in the three Kingdoms Dies diem docebit Truth is the daughter of time And I confess as Jamblicus in explaining the Pythagorical Symbols says * Pyotrept Symb 18. p. 146. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Truth is commonly hid and difficult enough to find out yet as he well adds there a man ought to look after it and search it out I know sub judice res est The Petition of the Common Council of London is That the Parliament would be pleas'd to assume the Enquiry about the causes of the late Fire 1666. And I have not an itch either by any peremptory or immodest sentiments of mine to anticipate what they in wisdom which I pray for shall think meet to determine in that great affair concerning which I am prompted from the argument I have in hand to annex something in complyance with the expectation of the Reader but with all Candor and submission to the truly wise § 2. I desire to be as forward as any in adoring the Soveraignty of God the Supream Majesty who by Prerogative Royal rightfully disposeth of all things and places persons and actions according to his own good will and pleasure to the magnifying of his own power and goodnesse and to say with the Prophet * Amos 3.6 shall there be evil in the City and the Lord hath not done it Di gitus Dei hic We ought undoubtedly with great reverence to acknowledge the hand of God as in the Plague so in the War and Fir◠all the judgements we have groaned under are Providentially from the Supream righteous Judge and indeed procuringly from our own sins Hinc illae lacrimae tua te peccata cremârunt Londinum Ah! our multiplyed hainous trangressions provoked the Lord for the honour of his justice to enter upon his strange work with the Plague and Sword and when these would not move us incorrigible ones then to break forth into his fury very conspicuous in the raging fiercenesse of the burning through the violence of the wind which he commanded to go forth when he could have held it in his fist or turn'd it another way or have given our Magistrates wisdome and our people strength or many other ways have prevented our ruines by the devouring flames But it seemed good to his Majesty to humble us for our iniquities To remember which with sorrow of heart and shame we are by Statute * XIX Car. II. called upon to an annual observation of that day in publick fasting and humiliation Yet this does not exclude Gods permitting of Instruments it may be for the filling up of their iniquity from contriving and acting in the late dismal Conflagration any more than the Assyrian from being the Rod of his anger or the staff in their hand his indignation * Isa 10.5 Neither doth it discharge us from a modest enquiry and endeavour within our several Sphaeres to bring those to the test who may be rationally suspected to be guilty Hereupon after all that hath been said in the premises of the Fiery Jesuits temper and behaviour compar'd with the antecedent concomitant and consequent Circumstances of Londons Burning methinks it should not appear incredible that they had an hand also in the kinding of these Flames § 3. To bring the matter then nearer to an issue I shall briefly propose some things by way of recollection which have been prov'd in the foregoing
Printed 1650 a little before wrote he could point at several such with a dry finger who had been took for contrary men in England some 3. 4. 6. 10. 20. yea 40. years § 4. A 3d. Sort are Residentiaries in Religious Houses and Monasteries Ecclesiasticks whose office 't is to promote their Religion as Priests Clerks or Converts who may at the pleasure of the F. General be dispensed with as to any thing concerning their Profession which of themselves they have no power to leave though they be not yet under the Solemn but only the simple vow For the Carnal Policy of the Jesuits * Spalato de Rep. Eccles l. 2. c. 12. Sect. 34. 43. 46. is not to admit many but few whom they have many years prov'd to be fully ready at the Nod of their F. General unto the solemn vow which they make to be not only a Promise but also an active Donation and consignation of a mans self unto and a solemn Acceptation of him by the Fathers of the Church which the Archbishop of Spalato in a new coyned word calls Impossesatio I think he means a putting of himself into the Possession of his Superiors and their owning of him as their Creature wholly at their Arbitrary disposal The rest they retain under their simple vows * L. Lucii Hist Jes l. 1. c. 4. p. 120. that if they be deficient in any Punctilio of obedience Generali ejusque Satrapis liberos dimittere to the General and his Lord Lieutenants he may dismiss them or if he be better humor'd refuse to prefer them however otherwise devout learned and deserving only keep them at some druggery about collecting materials out of books or some far meaner employment which shall be sure to subjugate them § 5. The 4th Sort is the Superior degree of the Jesuit Politicians in whose care is the Government of the whole order the regulation of all affairs wherein the Society is concern'd These are the Grandees as was noted above resident at Rome where the Informations from the Emissary spies concentre in the Consistory they have Dub'd with the Title of the Congregation de propaganda fide which the great Tyrant * Hist l. 2. ad Ann CCC XIX the F. General Domineers in as Sulpitius Severus said of the Emperor when depraved by the influence of some perfidious Arrians †Perfecta Tyrannis dicti Generalis ib. Dum sibi religionis officium videtur implere vim Persecutionis exercuit while he would be thought to do the best office for promoting Religion he did exert his utmost force in persecuting of that which is so indeed From this Privy Councel the Provincials and their subordinates are influenc'd as those in Bohemia * Ecclesias politeiam subvertendi Artes more suo captarunt incendioque illi quo nunc deflagravit Patria paulatim fomites comportarunt Eccles Bohem. Persecut c. 38. were who pretending the Institution of youth after their manner insinuated the Arts of subverting Churches and States and by little and little carryed together chips to that fire whereby the Country was burnt up and ruin'd Sect. 5. § 1. The professed Fathers Assistants having voted what makes most for the Monarchical Interest of their Society upon a review of occurrences craftily wind themselves into the Courts of Cardinals Prelates and Ambassadors representing frequently in what disguise they please the particular state of affairs abroad which they often make to appear white when they are black clear when cloudy and è contrâ through their adulterate Relation The notions of which being first disseminated many times take deeper root and so slily exasperate one Prince against another when there was no real ground for their falling out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Behold how great a wood a little fire sets a burning * Jam. 3.5 which that these Incendaries might do with greater success and secresie they obtained from Gregory XIII foremention'd * Sect 2. Sect. 3. who alter'd the Calendar and erected many Colledges for the Ignatians in testimony of his thanks for their Bartholomew Mattins at Paris * Thuan. Hist 1572. that all Apostolical Legates and Nuncio's should take for a companion and confident a Jesuit by whose counsel and advice they should govern all their actions which they might render more serviceable to the Court of Rome * J. Lud. Lucii Hist Jes p. 119. having at hand such an experienc'd Ingeneer who communicating secretly with the active spies especially those in England and amongst the Princes of Germany knows where he may successefully cast the fire-balls of contention § 2. To blow up flames and thereby to aggrandize the Majestick State of the Society each principal Agent hath some secret Instructions which usually have little alliance to the Printed standing Rules For these Cabinet memoirs * Mysteria Cereris nulla alâ—â re quam silentio sacra fuisse inq Just are suited to particular Negotiations under a Privy Seal and are as variable as the Itinerants Habits Some of these reserved Advertisements were found amongst the Papers of the Rector at Paderborn * Vide monita privata Soc. Jesu in Hist Lud. Lucii l. 4. c. 1. 1615. since rendred out of Latine into English about ten years ago and annexed to the farther discovery of the Mystery of Jesuitism * Print Laud. 1658. wherein they discover how they are to ingratiate themselves after a grant of a new foundation in any place to insinuate into the favor of Princes and Grandees to direct their Preachers and Confessors to Cajol rich Widows into a veneration of the Society and perswade them to a single life and through a pious neglect of their friends to scatter their wealth to Religious uses according to the direction of the Society to improve the revenues thereof and make a shew of the severity of Discipline to ensnare Boys of good wits allowable beauty a noble extraction and fair Estates to manage reserved cases dexterously c. 16 heads in all which in the close the grave Fathers are to impart sparingly unto those under their Conduct and then as sentiments of their own experience against which if any thing chance to be alledged then a recourse to the general Rules will salve the credit of the Society and be a means to palliate that which passeth for the advice of a private person though under-hand they account it mostly to be observed § 3. Of the same complexion were those 40 occult lessons * In Lud. Lucii Hist Jesuit p. 678. consilia secretiora Jesuit per unitas Belgii provincias Leovard 1616. Sect. 56. 34. 36. 38. found in the Pocket of a Jesuitical Priest at Harling in the Netherlands to gain Proselytes by drawing some of the great ones into their Nets allowing them to hear the Reformed preach and to eat flesh any day at pleasure so they conceived by degrees to tempt the youth for which purpose Father Temple resided Incognito at Leiden
Advancement of the Protestant Religion even with as much zeal as the King of Spain appears Protector of the Popish But truth is great and it will prevail though the Germans as well as others have groaned under the snares of the Ignatian Tribe § 2. In Austria and Hungarie The Jesuits could effect no great matter under Maximilian the Emperor nor under Rodolph till 1592. they fell more close to work and by Clandestine machinations with their secret Agents got an advantage * id p. 591. 1602. to get Rodulph sign an Edict for the shutting up of the Evangelicall Churches and excluding the Ministers But when tidings came upon it of the Turks taking Alba-Regalis the chief City of Hungary Persons of credit report that the Emperour being astonished said I did expect some such thing this day after that I begun to usurp Gods Government over mens consciences * Eccl. Boh. perf c. 40. and he was really afterwards more indulgent But before this in Styria Carinthia Carniola the Jesuits were extream active in exasperating Charles the Arch-duke of upper Austria against his faithful Subjects beginning at Grats or Graecium the Metropolis where they instigate Sonnabond a Parish Priest Septem 1598. to accuse the Evangelical Preachers before the Lords Ordinary or Cinque-Virs to gain an interdict of their preaching but they answer the accuser with silence knowing the insolence of the Jesuits who for this complain to Ferdinand then Duke and obtain his command to the Lords Ordinary to prohibit the foresaid Ministers preaching and see them leave Styria within 15. days * Luc Hist p. 616 617. The five Lords answer Ferdin at large in writing and importune him not to suffer his mind to be exulcerated by the Jesuits against his innocent Subjects But Ferdin having Jesuits whispering in his ear Septem 23. chargeth the Ministers again to be gone within eight days and leave preaching under pain of death They seek to the Lords but then within five days a more strict Precept comes the Lords and the greater part of the Magistrates earnestly supplicates yet the Jesuits suggestions were still more prevalent and the Arch-Duke goes on purpose to the Prince of Ferrara and so to Rome where the Pope would not receive him to audience till he had at the Sacrament promis'd to expell all the Lutherans out of his Provinces Then he returns with Spanish and Italian guards upon pretension to fetch into Spain his sister the Arch-Dutchess who was so influenced by these Popish Janizaries the Jesuits that she protested that she would not go before she saw the Evangelicall Ministers ejected The Nobles are terrified the five Lords in Ordinary compelled the Citizens by threatnings and force constrained and the poor Ministers nineteen in number are ejected Though the Lords at the Parliament complain'd of the Jesuits snares send Letters and supplicate the Prince to make good the priviledges covenanted and granted to his innocent subjects and RESTORE the Ministers * id p. 6. 8. Nor onely they but Jan. 19. 1599. those in Carinthia and Carniola for liberty of the Evangelicall Christian and salvificae Religionis as they express it * id p. 620. the truly saving Religion alledging words would fail them to enuâ—â—â—ate the calamities straits and dangers they were brought into by the Jesuits against whom they beg'd remedies with tears in their eyes and truly christian groans * p. 629. but all the answer was made to this mournful Petition and above three moneths after to it repeated Decemb. 8. 1609. was onely to signifie the Arch Duke was resolved to carry on the Reformation so they would call that he had begun with the Jesuiticall mode extirpate rotestantism yet Caraffa Bishop of Aversa the Popes notable agent in this Reformation acknowledges the Protestants to be the Major part * Com. de Germ. Sacr. Restaur p. 114. in execution whereof the Evangelical Temples and Houses were destroy'd and blown up with POWDER dead Bodies dig'd up and BURNT or cast into the Rivers Preachers banish'd and many thousands of Books among which were many BIBLES every where publickly BURNT and men wanting Christian courage forc'd to forsake the true Religion * Luc. Hist p. 631. § 3. And alas The true Evangelical Professors are no better treated by the Jesuits in Bohemia and the adjacent Countreys there the domineering Ignatians turn out their Ministers and tantum non Busiridis bove excarnificant even torment them out of their skins * Id. 592. 'T is true at Praguê in the Emperors name 1608. a promise of indulgence was made to them but the Casuistical Jesuits who teach Princes to violate their word given to those who Worship God only according to his own prescription in the Bible soon made it void Then 1609. in a Petition laying open their grievances and the miserable Tyranny of the Jesuits they were under Rodolph IId grants an Amnesty and for an accordance requires that one party should not upbraid another who would agree to subscribe the Bohemian confession * Luc. Hist p. 598. having prohibited all persecution of â—ny one for Religion and endeavour'd to oblige his Successors thereunto and articles were agreed upon betwixt the several Orders or States for a friendly transaction and mutual accord betwixt those who did participate sub utrâque under both kinds and those sub unâ under one kind in the Sacrament and Pseudo Hussitism being laid aside there was scarce the hundredth man who did not profess the Evangelical Doctrine which occasioned great rejoycing so that to the Posts of the Churches were up and down affixed * Eccl. Bohem. pers c. 40. §. 3. 4. Templa patent Leo laetus ovat firmante Rodulpho Quam dederas fidei Maxmiliane fidem c. Yet this publick establishment lasted but a while for the Hungarians with the Austrians and Moravians by a Politick fetch of the Jesuits having created the Archduke Matthias their King Duke and Marquess who enters into Bohemia with an Army where he is also made King Rodulph dies for grief * Id. â— 41. §. 3. 1611. upon which the Jesuits gaining more power from Matthias fall to their old Arts and aggresse the Evangelical with many reproaches and calumnies libelling those who did communicate in both kinds and banishing the Evangelical Pastors under a meer pretension of their medling in secular Affairs and so influenc'd the Emperor to oppress them whiles these Fathers of the Society do not only invade their Rights but the Rights also of other Ecclesiasticks * Luc. Hist p. 602 c. About 1617. Matthias would have the Bohemians to receive his Cousin Germain Ferdinand who by subtilty was Crown'd The Jesuits to entertain Ferdinand at Olmutz in Moravia erected a triumphant Arch wherein among other Ornaments they paint the Bohemian Lion fasten'd with a chain and the Moravian Eagle and an Hare at their feet sleeping with open eyes upon which was written this Emblem ADSUEVI scoffing at and