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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Mr. Gawen in his Speech at Execution tells us he pronounced himself and he saith well for few believe it was composed by himself but by the Jesuits for him in defence of the Jesuits It is very well known that when the King made that Speech to the Parliament of Paris he came resolved to gratifie the Pope who had long and with great earnestness pressed the revocation of Jesuits from banishment and not to take advice of that Assembly what was fit to be done Had he admitted a fair debate of things and suffered the weightier reasons to preponderate Harlay one of the Presidents of that Parliament gave reasons unanswerable against their revocation But the truth of the matter was plainly thus The same necessity of affairs which at first enforced that great King to embrace the Romish Religion now also constrained him to re-call the Jesuits from banishment While he was a Protestant he saw there was no hope of sitting quiet upon his throne so long as the Leaguers with whom the * Oratio Harlai apud Thuanum lib. 130. ad An. 1604. Jesuits unanimously sided and not so much as one single man of the Society took part with the King could have the pretence of Heresie to excite his Subjects to Rebellion When he was turned Roman Catholick one Chaste a Scholar of the Jesuits attempted to kill him and confessing that he had learnt that Doctrine which animated him to this attempt among them whom he had often heard call the King Tyrant saying it was lawful to kill him and that he was out of the pale of the Church c. and upon searching Father Guinart's Chamber having found several papers owned by himself to be his writing which contained that dangerous Doctrine the Jesuits were at the Petition of the Universities of France banished the Kingdom and Guinart was hanged During their exile he saw himself in continual danger of Assassination by their Friends He was plied with earnest sollicitations from the Pope on their behalf Rivet Jes Vapulans cap. 12. n. 5. as may be seen in Cardinal d' Ossat's Letters and at last saw he should never make any interest in the Court of Rome unless he would comply with the Pope in their Revocation He therefore thought it good policy to make necessity a vertue and try if by an unexampled piece of Clemency he might at once oblige the Pope and appease their restless malice Hereupon he repeals the Sentence of their Banishment receives them into more than ordinary favour admits one of the Society for a Confessor bequeaths his heart to them and by all Arts endeavours firmly to oblige them to his Interests hoping he might find them as serviceable to him for the future as formerly they had been to the Spaniard against him Otherwise 't is notorious to all the World that this great King retained too much kindness for his old Religion to be Bigot enough for the Jesuits It was fear made him Court them and after all the flourishes our Author makes 't is more than probable he was their Orator for his own Ruin And when the Jesuits found him not for their turn they soon sent him after his Predecessor having hopes of playing their Cards to better advantage with a King in minority and an Italian Queen Regent M. G. I easily believe that those who have already calumned the Society in this matter will endeavour some sleeveless answer to this Authority of the words and actions of so great a King but withal I confide that his Majesty will give more credit to the single Assertion of his Grandfather p. 108. than to ten thousand detractions and all wise men will joyn in his Majesties opinion If so much stress lie on the Authority of his Majesties Grandfather why should not the Authority of King James be as valid against the Jesuits as that of King Henry the 4th of France for them But if you would understand truly the sentiments of King Henry the 4th See the instructions given to Villeroy his Anbassador at Rome where he paints them out in their proper Colours Answ This or whatever else shall be offered may be pre-judged and called a sleeveless answer but I am sure 't is as considerable as the Argument which is an Authority of more pomp than strength And methinks the Jesuits have little reason to triumph over the Protestants upon account of the Testimony of King Henry the fourth That their Doctrine concerning the Popes Authority over Kings differs not from that of other Catholick Divines which if true is really though not intentionally rather an accusation of the Popish Religion in general than any Apology for the Jesuits M. G. But to go on and prove both first and second part of what I asserted Nothing else need be said to make all my Assertion evidently clear but only to give a true Historical account of what hath been done in this matter which I will do sincerely and faithfully The opinion then of the Popes Authority in deposing of Princes was held by many Religous and Clergy men before any of the Society writ of it Answ That other Orders and that before Ignatius Loyala had founded the Society of Jesus were Assertors of the Popes Authority in deposing Kings I deny not And I further acknowledg that the Jesuits have not maintained the Hildebrandine Doctrine at that extravagant rate as many of the Canonists have done They have too much Learning too much Wit and I wish I might add Honesty to boot but I must not ascribe too much to that No they have as much affection for the cause as any Canonist of them all but they are fallen into too knowing an Age to bear it Their Order was Erected and Confirmed by Pope Paul the III. A. D. 1540. at a time when Learning was much retrieved and when those trifling proofs would not satisfie nor would those Arguments convince which had passed for demonstration uncontrolled for four or five hundred years before M. G. For example there were ordinarily cited for this opinion of the renowned Order of the Benedictines Gregory the VII and other Abbots that joyned with him as Desiderius Abbot of Mont Cassin Anselmus Lucensis did and Panormitanus c. of the Order of St. Augustine Aegidius Romanus Augustinus Triumphus c. of St. Dominicks Order St. Thomas St. Antoninus Cajetan c. of the Franciscans St. Bonaventure Joannes de Capistrano Relagius Alvarius Alexander Ales c. of the Carmelites Waldensis and Bacon of the * That is Seculars p 109. Clergy very many Priests and Bishops and Cardinals as Gerson Doctor of Paris c. of the Lawyers Bartolus and Baldus c. these and many more were cuted in Schools for this Doctrine which Barclay rightly calleth the common Doctrine of both Canonists and Divines Answ All this plainly discovers that the Popish Religion as Popish is dangerous to the rights of Princes all Orders by reason of their immediate dependence on