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A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

PHILANAX PROTESTANT ' OR PAPISTS Discovered to the KING As guilty of those Traiterous Positions and Practises which they first Insinuated into the worst Protestants and now Charge upon all To which is added PHILOLAUS Or Popery discovered to all Christian PEOPLE in a serious diswasive from it For further justification of our Gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. and are to be sold at the Royal Exchange Westminster-Hall and most Book-sellers Shops PHILANAX OR The PAPISTS discovered unto the King SECT I. NOw the Popish Party being disappointed in their great design for Indulgence 1. B the care of our gracious Soveraign Who will neither be provoked by the affronts of some that call themselves Protestants nor enticed by the favours and civilities of those that call themselves Catholicks to do any thing in prejudice of the Faith Once delivered to the Saints 2. By the vigilancy of Orthodox and good Bishops and Ministers who stand fast in the faith and are set for The defence of the Gospel 3. By the honourable Interposition of those most Noble Lords who search the Scriptures the first Counsels and fathers Whether these things are so 4. By the resolution of the most Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled to stand by the grand establishment of the Kingdome 5. By the Ingenuity of our two most excellent Queens who wil not unseasonably interpose to gratify a few mens opinions against the conscience of a whole Kingdome Now the Popish Party I say thus happily disappointed of their designe against the Church of England and the Protestant Religion grow desperate and shake off all modesty Ingenuity and fear Now they dare Publish to the world a Caveat to all Kings Princes and Prelates against the Protestants Under pretence of some mens miscarriages Involving all now they dare charge us with those Principles against Government which they themselves teach with those treasons which they act with those Rebelions which they promote which our Learned and sober writers disown our Confessions and Articles of Religion oppose and our Religion discountenanceth no Religion in the world stating government and obedience on better principles enforcing them upon higher motives Or securing them by better Lawes than ours We your most Loyal Subjects who look upon you as The light of our eyes as the breath of our nostrils as the crown of our head Who make prayers and supplications for you and all that are in authority under you who obey you for Conscience sake cannot resist you knowing that whosoever resisteth resistethto hisown damnation who must needsbesubject to you as supream and to those that are in Church State sent by you who fear God and honour you our King and meddle not with them that are given to change for we know their calamity shall arise suddenly and who knoweth the ruin of them both Who dare think no evil of you not in our hearts much less murmure and speak evil against you Who though your Spirit should be stirred against us yet will not stir out of our place who dare not call you to any account of your matters nor say unto you what do you who with the antient Christians worship God above all and obey honour and reverence you as next unto God on earth We to vindicate our selves to inform the world aright to shew the true grounds of our late misery and the present opposition to Government and to confirm your Majesty in your very good affection for the Protestant religion and in your just care against the growth of Popery a care that aequally tends to your honour and security and our comfort We humbly desire the world may know that it is not any private respect or opinion it s not any kindnesse you have for heresy or schism It s not any cruelty or persecution that you provide just laws against Popery a new or execute those that are already provided but it s a royal care you owe your own Government and safety both which are indangered by those unworthy principles first asserted by the Pontificians and than taken up from them by the loose giddy turbulent and discontented sort of Protestants that have nothing indeed of Protestants but the name for you know 1. They teach that the Magistrate hath nothing to do in matter of Religion hath no power to restrain or punish any man in any matter that hath but the colour and prete●…ce of Religion Contzen polit c 16. Bellarm 5. de pont A 2 de Primati●… In vain do you Govern if these men and these positions be endured one mans Religion is to revile authority the others Religion is to rebel anothers Religion is to raise scandal upon all publick establishments anothers religion is to refuse all manner of oaths whether of Allegiance or Supremacy c. anothers Religion is to deny all ordinances ministry Church duties c. anothers Religion is to disturb all congregations and meetings but you must sit still and let these men play all these prancks under the notion of Religion you must endure all these extravagances Least you should persecute or oppresse tender consciences your Subjects may be perverted your people may be debauched and your Kingdomes seduced from their Allegiance and Loyalty by men of desperate principles and you all the while not stir for the Magistrate hath nothing to do in matter of Religion we your poor Protestant Subjects thought that you as Nebuchadnezzar and Darius among the Persians as the Governours among the Grecians whose first care was Religion as the Roman Kings Senates and Emperours whose great prudence it was not to admit of a strange Religion as the Primitive Governours who as appears by their Laws Orders Institutes and nemo Canons Laid out their highest endeavours for the settlement of the true Religion and as your Ancestors of blessed memory who are famous for nothing more then for being defenders of the Faith had power to defend true Religion so that under you by the influence of that Religion we might lead peaceable and quiet lives in all godliness and honesty but alas temporal Princes saith Suarez must meddle with temporal matters they must let men be of what principles they please though never so dangerous they must look on their Subjects divided with different religions which lead to different conversation and to confusion and every evil work for why should they saith Costerus the Jesuit meddle with the affaires of the Church of God 2. We your Loyal Protestant Subjects were really perswaded that there was none above you to whom you should give account of your selves but God and that there were no Christians that durst say that any men or estates of men were above you in your Dominion ha poor we alas it seemes there are some 50. learned writters of that one society of Jesuits who in several printed books which you may

Antonii Arnoldj the truth a sad truth really the truth defended against the Arrest of Arnold Nay but we wrong them this business of King-killing is but a disputable question which some may hold one way and others another Not so neither saith Bellarmine Non opinio sed tertitudo it s not onely an opinion but a great certainty res certa explorata you must look upon them in this point as in others Insallible But you will say I pray deal faithfully with me do you think the Church of Rome holds such dangerous positions Ans. 1. Ecclesia erreret si impune c. If the Church should offer to let Kings go unpunished it should erre though it be built upon Cephas though it be otherwise infallible though its faith should never fail yet in this it would erre Bellarmine saith in one place if the Pope perswaded a man to go to hell it were a sin not to believe him if he teach a damnable error he is yet infallible always provided he doth not teach that dangerous error That Kings ought not be brought to justice If he doth he erres 2. That you may be sure the Church is right in this point Bellarmine tells you ex authoritate frequenti Ecclesia facit c. The Church doth these things Frequently It s a very usual thing it seems nay saith Johannes Eudaemon mistake not your self this Doctrine non est Jesuitarum propria sed totius Ecclesiae to give the Jesuite his due it is not the Doctrine of the Jesuits only but of the whole Church yea that the world may know the Jesuits are well backed Universa Theologorum juris consultorum Scholasticorum Schola saith Creswell The whole School of Divines and Lawyers make it a Position certain and undoubtedly to be believed that if any Christian Prince whatsoever shall manifestly turn from the Roman Catholick Religion or desire or seek to reclaim others from the same or but favour or shew Countenance to an Heretick he presently falleth From and loseth all Princely power and dignity and that by vertue and power of the Law it self both Humane and Divine even before any Sentence pronounced against him by the Supream Pastor and Judge That thereby his Subjects are absolved from all Oaths and Bonds of Allegiance to him as to their Lawful Prince nay that they may and ought provided that they have competent power and force to cast out such a Prince from bearing rule amongst Christians as an Enemy to his own Estate and Commonwealth and that the Kingdom of such an Heretick or Prince is to be bestowed at the pleasure of the Pope with whom the people upon pain of damnation are to take part and fight against their Soveraign Lord you will say can any men after so many Oaths and Obligations upon the Pope or others Instigation rebel against their lawful Soveraign A. Aas do you not know that children are deluded with Rattles and men with Oaths Papa potest quanquam absolvere de juramento fidelitatis when you have taken all the care Imaginable to oblige men to peace and Obedience the Pope can absolve men from all their Oaths I pray hear how the Iesuite in Bishop Usher would make a fool of the wise King James and the Parliament that formed the Oath of Allegiance sed vide saith he in astutiâ quanta sit simplicitas c. But see what simplicity here is in so great craft when he had placed all his security in that Oath he thought I poor man how contemptible this Jesuit looks upon an excellent King and his August Parliament he had framed such a manner of Oath with so many circumstances which no man could any way dissolve But he poor man Could not see that if the Pope dissolve the Oath all its knots whether of being faithful to the King or of admitting no dispensation are accordingly dissolved Thus now he was teaching the world a strange doctrine saith he I will say a thing more admirable you know I believe that an unjust Oath if it be evidently known to be such or openly declared such obligeth no man that the Kings Oath is unjust is sufficiently declared by the Pastor of the Church himself you see now that the Obligation of it is vanished into smoak and that the band which so many wise men thought was made of Iron is lesse than straw a trick to over throw the world But sure no Christians will be so wicked as to attempt such things against their Soveraigns Ans. They must hear what Father Creswell saith Certe non tantum Licet sed summa etiam juris divini ●…ssitate ac praecepto Imo conscientiae vineulo extremo Animorum per ●…ulo hoc incumbit certainly this is not onely Lawful but necessary as that which is incumbent upon all Christians upon no lesse obligation than that of Divine law and command of the bond of their Conscience and the utmost danger of their soules But the Counsel of Constance hath denied that it is lawful for any private men to attempt any thing against Publique authority Alas What is that as they resolve in other things Non abstante sic Scriptura so in this Case Non obstantc Concilii const decreto licitum est privatis c. Notwithstanding any decree of that Counsel by the authority of the Pope who is above all Counsels Private men may Omni ratione vi●… by any means no matter what so it be successeful attempting the destroying of an heritical or a wicked Prince How may a Prince be safe in that Case An. Bellarmine told K. James of famous memory si secure regnare velit Rex c. If the King would reign with safety if he would secure his mens lives and his then let him suffer the Catholicks to enjoy their Religion Wellfair thy heart Bellarmine that was plain English It seemes that if the Roman Catholicks are not pleased there is no security for King or People but may not a Protestant King enjoy the Liberty of his own conscience as the Papists desire ●…berty for their consciences Ans. No it is not saith Bellarmine de Pont. Rom. lib. 2 cap 7. For Christians to tolerate an Heritical King and he that cannot come up to all the abominations of Rome is Heritical if he ende●…vour to draw his Subjects to his Heresie or unbeleif but to judge whether a King doth draw to Heresie or no belongeth to the Pope to whom the case of Religion is committed therefore it belongs to the Pope to judge a King to be deposed or not deposed We Protestants indeed did think that we should be obedient unto the death rather then resist as all the primitive Christians did who said they could dye but they could not disobey Alas We are deceived alas if the primitive Christians did not depose the Emperors it was because they wanted strength and not because they wanted will saith Bellarmine so that no Prince is safe any longer

English joyn with the Spaniard as soon as he is Landed offering rewards and pardon of sins to them that will Lay hands on the Queen and so shewing on what Conditions he gave the Kingdome to the King of Spain Read the rest there for though dangerous it is worth the reading When We received King James your Grandfather and him your self and we hope your posterity to whom we do and may acknowledge that by you we enjoy great quietnesse and we hope many worthy deeds may be done to this Nation by Your providence which we shall accept alwayes in all places with all ehankfulnesse When I say we received that excellent King with all cheerfulnesse there was a Bull from Pope Clement the 8th directed to H. Garnet Superiour of the Jesuites in England Whereby he Commanded all the Archpriests Priests Popish Clergy Peers Nobles and Catholiques of England that after the death of Queen Elizabeth by the course of nature or otherwise whosoever shall lay Claim or Title to the Crown of England though never so directly or nearly interested by descent should not be admitted unto the Throne unlesse he would first tolerate the Popish Religion and by his best endeavours promote the Catholique Cause unto which by his solemn and sacred Oath he should Religiously subscribe after the death of that miserable Woman so he styleth Q. Elizabeth By virtue of which Bull the Jesuites after her decease disswaded the Romish Subjects from yielding in any wise obedience to King James as their Soveraign Insomuch that the Catholiques durst not be good Subjects until Parsons and Champions procured them an Indulgence to that purpose from the Pope And what do you think would Cobham Gray c. have done They say they would have surprized K. James his person before he was crowned and his Son H. and Imprison them in the Tower of London In Dover-Castle till they enforced them by durance to grant a free toleration of their Catholick Religion to remove some evil Counsellors from about them Evil Counsellors do you hear Or else they would put some further project against them in execution to their destruction But say the good Papists here really we abhorre all these Treasons A. Do you in earnest it is well but I will tell you a story when the Parliament of Paris asked the Jesuites their judgement of Sanctarellus his Book v. 12. seeing their general had approved the Book and judged the things there written to be certain whether they are of the same mind they answered that living at Rome he could not but approve what was there approved of But say the Parliament what think you say the Jesuites the clean contrary say the Examiners But what would you do if you were at Rome say the Jesuites That which they do that are at Rome at which said some of the Parliament what have they one Conscience at Rome and another at Paris God blesse us from such Confessors as these I leave it with you to apply it Not to be endlesse hear what one John Brown a Priest aged 72 years saith of them Prynnes Introduction p. 202 203 204 205 206 212. The principal Instruments the Popes imployed of late years in these their unchristian Treasonable Designes have been pragmatical furious active J●…ites whose Society was first erected by Ignatius Loyola a Spaniard by Birth but A c SOULDIER by profession and confirmed by Pope Paul the 3. Anno 1540. which Order consisting onely of ten persons at first and confined only to sixty by this Pope hath so monstrously increased by the Popes and Spaniards favours and assistance whose chief Janizaries Factors Intelligencers they are that in the year 1626. d they caused the picture of Ignatius their Founder to be cut in Brasse with a goodly Olive Tree growing like Jesses root out of his side spreading its branches into all Kingdomes and Provinces of the World where the Jesuites have any Colledges and Seminaries with the name of the Province at the foot of the branch which hath as many leaves as they have Colledges and Residencies in that Province in which leaves are the names of the Towns and Villages where these Colledges are situated Round about the Tree are the Pictures of all the illustrious Persons of their Order and in Ignatius his right hand there is a paper wherein these words are engraven Ego sicut Oliva fructifera in domo Dei taken out of Ps. 52. 8. which pourtraictures they then printed and published to the world wherein they set forth the number of their Colledges and Seminaries to be no lesse then 777. increased to 155 more by the year 1640. in all 932. as they published in like Pictures and Pageants printed at Antwerp 1640. Besides sundry New Colledges and Seminaries erected since In these Colledges and Seminaries of theirs they had then as they print 15591 Fellows of their Society of Jesus besides the Novices Scholars and Lay-brethren of their Order amounting to near ten times that number So infinitely did this evil weed grow and spread it self within one hundred years after its first planting And which is most observable of these Colledges and Seminaries they reckoned then no lesse then 15 secret ones IN PROVINCIA ANGLICANA in the Province of ENGLAND where were 267 SOCII or Fellows of that Society besides 4 COLLEDGES OF JESUITES ELSEWHERE In IRELAND and elsewhere 8 Colledges of IRISH JESUITES and in SCOTLAND and otherwhere 2 Residencies of SCOTTISH JESUITES What the chief imployments of Ignatius and his numerous swarms of Disciples are in the World his own Society at the time of his Canonization for a Romish Saint sufficiently discovered in their painted Pageants then shewed to the people e wherein they pourtraied this new Saint holding the whole world in his hand and fire streaming out forth of his heart rather to set the whole world on sire by Combustions Wars Treasons Powder-plots Schismes new State and old Church-Heresies then to enlighten it with this Motto VENI IGNEM MITTERE I came to send sire into the World which the University of Cracow in Poland objected amongst other Articles against them Anno 1662. and Alphonsus de Uargas more largely insisteth on in his Relatio de Stratagematis Sophismatis Politicis Jesuitarum c. An. 1641. c. 7 8. 24. Their number being so infinite and the f Pope and Spaniard too having long since by Campanella's advice erected many Colledges n Rome Italy Spain the Netherlands and elsewhere for English Scottish Irish Jesuites as well as for such secular Priests Friers Nuns of purpose to promote their designs against Protestant Princes Realms Churches Parliaments of England Scotland Ireland and to reduce them under their long prosecuted UNIVERSAL MONARCHY over them by Fraud Policy Treason intestine Divisions and Wars being unable to effect it by their own power no doubt of late years many hundreds if not thousands of this Society have crept into England Scotland and Ireland lurking under

several disguises yea an whole Colledge of them sate weekly in counsel in or near Westminster some few years since under Conne the Popes Nuntio on purpose to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars thereby to endanger shake subvert these Realms and destroy the late King as you may read at large in my Romes Master-piece published by the Commons special Order An. 1643. who occasioned excited fomented the first and second intended but happily prevented wars between England and Scotland and after that the unhappy Differences Wars between the King Parliament and our three Protestant Kingdoms to bring them to utter desolation and extirpate our reformed Religion We conclude this Importunity with the Prayer on the 5 th of November for your Majesty O Lord who didst this day discover the snares of death that were laid for us and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same Be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our enemies that delight in bloud infatuate and defeat their counsels abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices Strengthen the hand of our gracious King Charles and all that are put in authority under him with Judgement and Justice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn religion into rebellion and faith into saction that they may never prevail against us or triumpth in the ruin of thy Church among us But that our gracious Soveraigns Realms being preserved in thy true Religion and by thy merciful goodnesse protected in the same we may all duly serve thee and give thanks in thy holy congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PHILOLAUS OR Popery discovered to the People In a serious Disswasion from it Dear Country-men and beloved in the Lord Jesus YOu are so conscious of your Duty to Kings so obliged to their Government so faithful to their Person so regardful of the peace and happiness you enjoy under them every one under his own Vine and under his own Fig-tree and so sensible of the Misery of rebellion disturbance and confusion that we need not use any other argument to disswade you from Popery than this That it is a Religion written in many of your dread Soveraigns sacred blood a Religion whose prime Article as some of them say is Treason a Religion managed by conspirators and advanced by those who are born for the overthrow of States and Kingdoms who turn the World upside down We know your souls abhor these courses and detest these villanies but this is not all this way threatneth not onely your Kings but your selves endangereth not onely Their lives but your souls It 's not onely a great inconvenience that hindereth your peace and settlement in this World but a mischief that may hinder your Salvation in the next We hope indeed that you have received the truth of your own Religion in much assurance that you are rooted and grounded in the Faith Since you have scarched the Scriptures which the Papists kept from you and finde that these things are so Since you have felt the power and comfort of the Truth in your souls Since you finde it owned by Gods wonderful dispensations in the World whereby it 's great and doth prevail and seated in your hearts by his Spirit Since you see it eminent in the lives of many good men and confirmed by the death of as many excellent Confessors and Martyrs who vouch it with their last breath and seal it with their dearest blood Since you know it 's owned by the Church of Rome its self which hath nothing which we may call a Religion but ours viz. The Scriptures the Lords Prayer the Creed and the Ten Commandments c. to which they have added their own idolatrous superstitious idle and vain inventions which is all the Religion they have differing from us We are perswaded that you will not easily be moved from the the hope of the Gospel Yet that we may according to our duties assist our gracious Soveraign and endeavour to establish your hearts while he is establishing your Religion that while he with the advice of his great Council by a serious Law restrains you from Popery for fear we by serious motives may refrain from it for conscience sake The scandals given you are many the seducers are numerous their insinuations are plausible their temptations are taking you many of you are weak and we the Lord forgive us have been too careless and almost asleep while the Enemies sow Tares among us therefore we must leave with you a few plain words that you may have always before you Yea that they may be in your heart that you may teach them diligently to your children that you may talk of them when you sit in your house when you walk by the way when you lie down and when you rise up Many may write to you with more profoundness none write to you with more sincere servencie and earnest desire to save you and we are very sensible that while exact learned writings are taken up onely by learned men it is necessary that there be some plain discourses written whereby the truth may with evidence be conveyed to you 1. We taught you who are our joy and crown who we hope will be our rejoycing in the day of our Lord Jesus we taught you a Religion pure and undefiled before God which consists in solid virtue serious holiness an exact conversation led soberly righteously peaceably and Godly in this present World a Religion perfect right pure sure faithful holy just spiritual lively operative heavenly that enlighneth the minde sanctifieth the heart reforms the life frames a man after Gods own image in righteousness and true holiness We taught and do teach you a truth which is after Godliness a Mystery of Godliness a Religion that may make you wise to Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus which may be profitable for Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that you may be perfect and throughly furnished unto all good works in whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virture if there be any praise Alas The Papists having nothing besides the Scripture which we have as well as they which yet you shall not read but vain shadows of holiness a gross form of godliness which they cozen the Vulgar with consisting in Latine-service Images Tapers Rich Vestures Crosses Sentings Holy-water Offerings Prostrations Processions Pilgrimages and other bodily exercises that profit nothing whereas that true godliness which you profess is profitable for this life and for that which is to come They can teach you nothing but their own vain and useless inventions whereby they make void the Commandments of God nothing that may settle the heart establish the conscience satisfie the soul weaken sin strengthen grace promote your comfort or secure your eternity 2.