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Ireland -- Church history -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. 2006-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-12 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-02 Robyn Anspach Sampled and proofread 2007-02 Robyn Anspach Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE BLEEDING IPHIGENIA OR An excellent Preface of a Work unfinished , published by the Authors frind , with the Reasons of publishing it . THe picture of Iphigenia ( one of the rarest peeces of antiquity ) goeing to be sacrifised for appeasing the anger of Diana offended with her Father King Agamemnon for killing a stagg consecrated to that Goddess , made Timanthes the Author therof very famous . Hee placed in lively cullors , round about this faire Princes , her Kinsmen , Frinds , Allyes , and suite in great Consternation , all drown'd in lamentations and teares ; but the gallant Lady ( nothing in nature appear'd more comly ) smiled , bearing in her countenance a Majesty , and contempt of death : soe charming was the art of this picture , that few could view it without teares . Courteous Reader , the Author of this Preface hath drawne another Iphigenia of the body of a noble , ancient Catholick Nation cla'd all in redd Robes , not to bee now offered up as victime ; but already sacrific'd , not to a profane Deity , but to the living God for holy Religion : look but on this our bleeding Iphigenia , and I dare say you will lament her Tragedy . 1. In the first place the Author sets downe his owne feare and care about long Eternity ( which should be the chiefest care of a Christian ) confessing with griefe and compunction of hart , that hee had walk'd in daunger , even to the age of 71. years , and at length found himselfe touch't with that dreadfull theme : Aut paenitendum aut ardendum . That is : Either wee must doe pennance , or burne . This drove him to a resolution of laying aside all wordly intanglements , and conversations , for obtaining the Kingdome of heaven and taking order with the house of his Soule , for that hee was sure to dye , and could not live longe . 2. Hee expresses a Godly anger against his frind Sall an Apostata . Sanctè Irascitur qui pro Deo Irascitur . hat is : THee is justly Angry , that is angry for Gods Cause . 3. Hee delivers in sencible Language the slavery ▪ ruine , and distruction of his deare Country . 4. Hee presents to the view of our gratious King Charles the second a Catholick People , his faithfull subjects wounded by theeves , and left halfe dead , like the miserable man , that went from Hierusalem to Ierico ; desiring his Majesty with prayres , and teares to com neare and binde up rhe wounds of the afflicted , powring in Oyle and Wine , as did de Godly Semaritane . His Language to the King is with submissive duty , and yet with a Priestly freedome Iudging with Saint Ambrose . Neque imperiale est libertatem dicendi denegare , neque Sacerdotale , quod sentiat , non dicere . That is : It is neyther Kingly to deny the freedome of speaking , nor Priestly , not to speake what hee thinks . 5. Hee names in particulare certaine Capitall , Implacable , blooddy Enemyes of his Country , and gives them the Caracters , they deserve : and to justify this , says with Tertuliane , In hostem Patriae , omnis homo miles est . That is : Every man is a Souldier against the enemy of his Country . The subject of his writing was to reprove Sall a Iesuit of the Fourth Vow , for abjuring the Catholick Faith , and leauing his holy Order : In the work hee proceeded to 8. or 9. Chapters , and went noe further ; but I hope some zealous Israelite will build upon the foundation hee hath laid , a handsome structure . You will perhaps inquire who hee is that began , and did not finish a good work ; hee is a learned worthy Priest , of whome , all that know him , will say , ( his modesty may not be offended with the trueth's I utter ) hee hath beene all his life tyme , sincere in all his writings , ways , and conversation ; ( Hee is truly one of those can say with Seneca : Quod sentimus loquimur , & quod loquimur sentimus . That is : I thinke what I speake , and speake what I thinke . ) Ever Loyall to his Prince , faithfull to his Country , and true to his frind ; and soe harty a lover of peace , with all kinde of men ; that hee neuer ingag'd in any contention , but what was pious for defending Religion , and the Jurisdection of the holy Sea : in quarrells of this nature hee was still fervent , and feared noe man , and used to say with great Ambrose in such incounters . Nemini facio injuriam , si omnibus Deum praefero . That is : I injure noe man by praeferring God before all . Having considered with attention this sound Preface , and finding the contents sollid , well ordered , and such as may be usefull to my poore Country , I thought it my duty to make all publick to the World ; hoping that pious Christians beholding the grievous wounds wee have received for God , and Religion , from the Enemys of both , will open the bowells of mercy to us soe sorely oppressed . I conclude with a word or two to my deare Countrymen , recommending seriously to them all , at home and a broad , to humble themselves under the Iudgments of God , and powre forth theire harts like Water upon the Earth , in contrition , teares , and prayrs ; which is the only way left for asswaging the anger of God , come upon us , for our owne sinns , and those of our Forefathers ; Initium salutis ( saith holy Hierome ) est nostra intelligere , & flere peccata . That is : To understand and deplore our sinnes is the beginning of Salvation ; and because a disease deeply rooted ( as ours ) needs a strong and long cure , it is fitting wee calle to minde that saying of Saint Ambrose . Grandi plagae , alta , & problixa est opus medicina ; and apply the same . I beseech you , gentle Reader , pray to God for my afflicted Country , and for the Catholick Religion therin persecuted , that it be not wholy extinguished , and soe commending you to the tuition of the Almighty , I remaine Your humble servant in Christ Iesus N. N. AMICUS ANONIMUS ad AUTHOREM ANONIMUM . QVam bene Magnates stringis : tibi dicere verum Innatum est : aliis dissimurare placet . Fallacias Mundi , Scriptor venerande , nec artes ; Tu curas , ut Mundum falsa docere probes . ERRATA .   Faults . Corrected . Pag. 5. discere dicere ▪   scilentio silentio Pag. 7. Syrus Cyrus Pag. 27. indigint indigent Pag. 40. repelere repellere Pag. 46. defensiones defensionis Pag. 52. contumiles contumelies Pag. 55. tili tell Pag. 60. extorpated extirpated Pag. 70. place peace Pag. 76. weddower widdow 's Pag. 79. erat erant Pag. 83. furoro furore Pag. 85. dissoluite dissolute . The Censurs of a venerable and learned Prelate , and three Professors of Divinity given of the Bleeding Iphigenia , in theire Letters written to the publisher therof . The first . AS for the Bleeding Iphigenia I perus'd it sencibly , and according to my sentiment , it is the best I perus'd yet upon that subject , and I am sure the fittest for the gaine of the Nation , and therfore the more welcome that ever since theire Misery I have seen . I would all our writers had contained themselves Intra istos limites for the greater Satisfaction of poore Soules , Qui persecutionem patiuntur propter justitiam . If I had the tree of life in my Custody , I would give of the fruite to the Author , Vt deponeret senectam , aeternumque Patriae viveret . I have noe more to say , but remaine your owne for ever . Tertio Februarii , 1675. The second . Gratias humillimè ago pro Iphigenia mihi nuper transmissa , quae verè Sanguinolentam Hiberniae faciem vivis coloribus adumbrat : opus est peridoneum , ut afflictis Catholicis non parum suppeditet solatii , atque animorum , ut laeto vultu tristes casus , & erecta fronte iniqua persequentium tela excipiant . Scenam quoque sat apertam adversantium oculis proponit , in qua sua delicta sine fuco agnoscant , agnita plangant , ac laesam aequitatem resarciant , nisi velint supremi Tribunalis feralem catastrophen experiri ; quando scilicet in scenam prodibit laesa Metanaea , ac mucronem Iphigeniae cervicibus incumbentem ipsa arripiet , ad sumendam de iniquis ultionem . Gratulor ego hujus operis Authori , in quo agnosco singularem eruditionem , cum sincero Patriae a more decertantem , utraque apud aequum Lectorem palmam feret . Utinam in aliis tantum valeat Religio & aequitas , quantum in Authore scientia & charitas . 27 Februarii , 1675. The third . I have exacttly perused the Preface or Bleeding Iphigenia , and read it twise over , it is full of sollid truths , excellently well expressed . For my owne part I never took it into my hands , but I found my selfe mou'd to a tender compassion upon the account of those distressed fuffering Catholicks in Ireland . Our good God the Father of mercy , be to them a mercifull comforter , I think morouer that those , who shall read this Preface and feel not themselves moved to pitty the affliction of those distressed , and now violently oppressed servants of Almighty God , have harts harder then stones , and that God will show his Iust Iudgment upon them , even in this world . Much more I could say in commendation of this little book , but am loath togive you the trouble of soe long a letter . The prefiged Title pleases mee extreamly . And shall not the Bleeding Iphigenia make the most obdurate to relent ? I am sure the whole learned , and well pondered discourse will draw teares from Innumerable . My cordiall wish is that it draw compassion from those that have Massacred Iphigenia , and should before all others shed teares with repentance . 13'th Februarii 1675. The Bleeding Iphigenia deserves a Virgil or Homer to commend it . No such Poets now living , be pleased to receive my judgment of that discourse in the ensuing Vers. I am ever your owne . 23'th Ian. 1675. Iphigenia Sanguinans . SAnguinat ante aras hoc Iphigenia libello , Quis nisi praedurus temperet a lacrimis ? Magnates , duros magnetes innuit esse , Quos non confringit , non movet iste cruor . Transit levites plangens ; quid Samaritanus ? Durus percussam morte perire sinit : Sic gentem superis fidam , & te semper amantem Rex das mactandam ? Regis an iste amor est ? Insontem perimunt amente furore Rebelles ; Te Regem ostende , & ne patiare mori : Lex naturalis , lex hoc divina reposcit , Sunt jura haec Regi non violanda pio . Parcito subjectis , & debellato superbos ; In te ne justi saeviat ira Dei. Tandem Levites Vinumque Oleumque puellae Infundit plagis , & ducit in stabulum . Est medicus Levita pius ; nec dicere verum Principibus trepidat ; totus amat Patriam . Vive diu Levita precor , quo fcribere possis , Omnes ô mecum dicite , vive diu . THE PREFACE TO THE STUDIOUS READER . AFter a toylsome peregrination for the space of full seaventy years in this Babilon of confusion and miseryes , ( wherin men are soe strangely tormoyl'd , that the pleasures they enjoy , often become theire greatest torments . ) I began at length with a sencible care to consider of Long Eternity , purposing , to lay aside all false contentment , deceiving Illusions , and prophaine conversations , heavy Chains I haue carry'd to long with small pleasure , and great feare ▪ and although I found great danger in carrying them , yet I had not courage enough to shake them of for good and all . Vere trahebam catenam meam ( to use S. Augustins Language ) solui timens . My declining age forewarning mee the downfall of my decaying body would be soon , and perhaps suddaine , bid mee prepare for a surer , and a more durable habitation ; and it seemed to mee my Guardian Angell whispered to my disquieted soule even the same words the Prophet Isaie uttered to King Ezechias when dangerously sick . Thus saith our Lord : take order with thy house , for thou shalt dye , and shalt not live . This inevitable alarme of dying raysing a high storme within mee , I concluded without further fluctuation to spend the short remnant of tyme I haue to live , in pennance , Holy contemplation , prayers , and Mortification for schanselling with tears ( if God would be soe pleased ) the sinns and vanitys of my former life . I had hardly begun to settle my minde in this devine meditation , when behold a printed paper from London came to hand , of a publick abjuration of the Roman Catholick faith made by Andrew Sall a Iesuit of the fourth Vow . This paper indeed gave mee a great heaviness of hart , for I loved the man dearly for his amiable nature , and excellent parts , and esteemed him both a pious person and Learned , and soe did all that knew him , but I see wee were all deceiu'd in him . However this suddaine change of him made mee say with a sad attention those words of Saint Paul. Hee that thinketh himselfe to stand , let him take heed least hee fall . For God knowes I noe way feared this man would have falen into herisy . As I was Reading with great attention Sall's Abjuration I call'd to minde that great read Dragon , whose tayle drew the third part of the starrs of heauen , and cast them to the earth . And then said to my selfe , the tayle of an infernall beast had cast this Sall to the Earth out of a little heaven : ( The state of Religion ) wherin for a tyme , hee shined like a small starr in vertue , and learning . After deserting the Socitey of Iesus and running away with infamy and shame , out of the whole House of God I could not Endure him , and therfore resolued to give him a sharp reprehension : at which if hee shall repine , and fall into Choller for my indevouring to doe him good , I shall hould that for an ill Symptome of his disease qui corripientem Eum contemnit ( saith Salomon ) non sequetur Eum Sanitas . Some sick men there are , that now and then think themselves sound and well , when they are most sick , all those can not abide the sight of a Doctor , which is a Kinde of madness : if Sall be one of those , his cure will be the harder ; however for Charity-sake , and for the ancient amity wee had , I will Imploy all paynes , and dilligence for healing him , but the cure must come from aboue , Ab illo medico in caelis , qui spargit medicamentae in terris . Farre it is ( God knowes ) from my minde to add affliction to his afflictions , sufficiat Diei malitia sua : nec unquam fuit mea consuetudo lacerato animo discere vitia amicorum , talem zelum ( ut cum S. Augustino Loquar ) semper fensui magis impetum punientis , quam caritatem corrigentis . The same Saint tells mee how to handle Sall. Dilige , ( saith hee ) & dic quod voles . But what shall I doe to a man , that hath stained his soule with the spott of herisy ? with what waters shall I wash him for wyping away the staine , with those of Siloe , quae fluunt cum scilentio , or those of Rasin quae transeunt cum tumultu ? The last seem the more naturall for purifying him ▪ though my inclination is more for the soft running waters of Siloe . Had Sall's sinn beene noe more then a slipp of Ignorance , or frailty , wee could have covered him with a Mantle of Charity ; but the abominable abjuration of faith being a sinn of a high nature , and full of Impiety against God , against Christ and his unspotted spouse , against Charity and the Holy Ghost , I can not be silent , but must openly rebuke his wickedness , and maintaine truth against him before all the world : can I see aman deare to mee , vaunting and soe desperatly defying the Hostes of the living God , and say nothing ? that cannot be : Silence here were a great sinne being the true tyme of taking up Davids Sling and stone and throwing at this Gyant dominering and vaporing against the camp of Israell . I am not to powre oyle upon the head of such a sinner , flattery will not cure him , I must then in charity chide him and Exprobrat his deserting the Catholick faith ; and if hee is wise and penitent , hee will say with repenting David . The Just shall rebuke mee in mercy , and shall reprehend mee : but let not the oyle of a sinner fatte my head . After lamenting Sall's woefull perversion , I begin to think of my deare Contry's affliction , and with feare , and amazement to inquire the ground and cause of persecution there and in Enland . Nothing was less feared ( I am confident ) by the Catholicks of both Kingdoms then a tempest of this nature to come upon them , lying safe ( as they conceived ) under the wings of soe great and mercyfull a Monarck , as Charles the second , a King of pardons . How then say men came this about ? how could soe clement a King be induced to afflict soe loyall a people , as the Catholicks of England , and Ireland ? I see noe Mistery in this business , all is cleare : theire affliction , and cause therof is well knowne over all Europ , and is ( as I may say ) even the same with that of innocent Daniell , whose Loyall fidelity to Syrus King of Babylon , was soe cleare , as his malignant Enemys said expressly of him , wee shall not finde against this Daniell any occasion unless perhaps in the Law of his God ; the Crime then against Daniell and all the Jews was theire Religion : upon this ground the Counsellers and great men of the Kingdome gott the King to sett forth an Edict against the Jewes for professing theire Religion , and by this means Daniell was cast into the lake of the Lyons by a King that lou'd him . The King lou'd Daniell but hee feared the great men , who pressed the Law to be executed against Daniell , and this feare more strong in the King then love , made poore Daniell Companion to the Lyons . Your Religion noble Contry-men , your Religion is the sole Cryme , for which you suffer : ( Blessed for ever be the name of God for this ) your Religion hath stirred up this tempest , which ought not to terrifye you over much , seeing the Apostles our first Captains and Leaders in this holy cause , those darlings of God , endured hard things for Religion : Prisons , whippings , contumilies , and all sorts of vexations were to them delights , and consolations : they after being scurged went from the sight of the Councell rejoycing , because they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus . Doe not therfore feare all that men can doe against you , while with tears and patience you march under the purple Standart of Crucify'd Jesus , for in the end , the day , and victory will be yours : feare not the power of men in this glorious tryall , there be more with you , then against you , ( Legions of Angells though you see them not ) those heavenly hostes are pitching theire tents round about you . Hee that Led the Children of Israell out of Egypt in wonders through the redd Sea , neuer wants power to deliver you : waite for his good tyme , for hee will come . A Table of sage Counsells , that hung by the bed of Ptolomeus Arsacides King of Egypt , ( by him Religiously obserued all the tyme of his raigne , ) was delivered by a Priest of the Idols to the wise Emperour Marcus Aurelius , whoe dying gave it to his sonn with this short speech . My sonn leaving you Emperour of many Kingdoms , I presume you will with that great power be feared of all , and if you wil faithfully Keep the Godly Counsells in this Table , you shall be infalibly beloved of all . The Table of Counsells . 1. I Neuer deny'd ( said the vertuous King Ptolomeus ) justice to a poore man , for being poore ; nor pardoned a rich man for being rich . 2. I neuer loved a rich wicked man ; nor hated a poore just man. 3. I neuer granted favours to men for affection ; nor distroy'd men to satisfy my passion . 4. I neuer deny'd Justice to any demanding Iustice ; nor mercy to the afflicted and miserable . 5. I neuer passed by Evill without punishing it ; nor good withovt rewarding it . 6. I neuer did Evill to any man out of Malice ; nor villany for avarice , 7. I was neuer without feare in prosperity ; nor without courage in adversity . 8. My dore was neuer open to a flatterer ; nor my eare to a murmuring detractor . 9. I indeavoured still to make my selfe beloved of the good ; and feared of the Evill . 10. I ever favoured the poore that were able to doe little for themselves ; and I was evermore favoured by the Gods , that were able to doe much for all . Those rare Counsells should be exposed in the houses of Kings and all puplick places to the view of men , to be knowne of all in theire respective dignitys and callings : and it would be a pious and noble action , if our gratious souveraigne would be pleased to consider seriously with himselfe , how farre these just and Laudable Counsells haue been regarded during the tyme of his raigne , especially in conferring of estates and lands from one part of his subjects , to another part of them contrary to all due course of Law , and without hearing of the partys oppressed , which hath been procured to be done by the undue information , and perswation of certaine of his Councellers , and Ministers of State , and chiefly of the Chancellor the Earl of Clarindon . If his Majesty shall doe this grace , and justice to his Catholick subjects of Ireland , thousands of Widow's and Orphans will be eased and relieved , who now sitt downe in great poverty , Lamenting extreamly their Lands , Houses and all they had wrongfully taken from them , and this day possessed and injoy'd by those invaders . God bindes all Kings , and Iudges by this commandement : Thou shalt not doe that which is uniust nor Iudg uniustly . Consider not the person of a poore man , neither honour thou the countenance of him that is mighty . Judg justly to thy Neighbour . God alsoe forbids to give away one subjects bread to another ; reason , vertue , and the lawes of God , Nature and Nations are the rules that ought to guid all Princes and Magistrats in the goverment of the people under them . Did not God himselfe complaine of Evell Iudges in this Kinde . How is the faithfull Cittie , full of Iudgment , becom an harlott ? Iustice hath dwelled in it , but now man-killers . The Princes are unfaithfull , Companions of thieves ▪ al love guifts , follow rewards . They Iudge not for the pupil : and the widowes cause goeth not in to them . And againe our Lord saith . They are made grosse and fatt : and haue tranegressed my words most wickedly . The cause of the widow they have not Iudged ; the cause of the pupil they have not directed , and the Iudgment of the Poore they have not Iudged . Shall I not vissite upon these things , saith our Lord ? or upon such a Nation shall not my soule take revenge ? Certainly it is against Gods just Iudgment to omitt such things , and crimes unpunished . There are thousands of distressed Catholick Pupils , and wedowes ( his Majesty cannot chuse but know it ) that have not gott Iustice ; whose cause and complaint had noe Entrance into his Courtes ; they cry'd out for Iustice , and were not heard , they Cry'd for mercy , and found it not ; and such as live of those oppressed soules are still crying to heaven , and the King for remedy ; Poore desolate and dejected , they are waiting at the doore of the Kings pallace and noe regard is had of theire tears , prayres , and petitions . Wee are indeed becom the reproach of all Nations round about us , by the craft and iniquity of States men , that have poysoned the Fountaine of Iustice , It is said of some of those that theire vices have farre exceeded theire vertues , and that in all theire proccedings against our Nation , there was found in them noe truth , noe integrity , noe Religion , noe shame ; but an insatiable covetousness , and a flameing ambition of making themselves great and powerfull : and are not such men say you able to poysen the Fountaine of Iustice ( and mercy toe ) in a Kingdome . This sore oppression , and our necessitys every day growing greater , forceth us to implore Iustice and mercy , and to minde the King of what the Apostle saith to a King. Non enim sine causa gladium portat . If the Law of God will alow of soe many thousands of innocents to be destroy'd , is a maxim , that toucheth much his Royall Wisdome , and to be distroy'd and sacrificed to augment the estates of men , that were great and rich enough before : can Iustice suffer this ? can the mercifull brest of a Clement King endure to see soe many sad spectacles of woes , and miserys without all relief ? will not God at long running look downe , and examin these cruell proceedings ? It hath been a principall care , and study of some statesmen neare the King , to oppress and overthrow the Catholicks of Ireland , and at the same tyme to perswade his Majesty , that wee ought to be destroy'd by Iustice and Law. Theire Malice they have evidenced in theire language , and viperous writings . Of this stuff you have enough in the Earle of Orerys answer to Peter Welsh his letter to the then Marquis , now Duke of Ormond desiring ajust and mercifull regard of the Reman Catholicks of Ireland : what could be more rationall then such a demaund ? yet Orery must quarrell with the contents of said letter , and beleh out poyson against the whole ▪ Nation and theire Religion . To this answer P. W. replyed and solidly confuted Orery : lett the indifferent Reader after deliberation Iudge of which side truth , sollid reason , and learning is in the writings of both . It vexed Orery above all measure that P. W. advanced these two propositions . 1. That the worst of the Irish Papists were no Regicids , 2. That the Irish Papists fought against such men , when England , Scotland , and the Protestants of Ireland deserted the Royall cause . To the first Orery makes this pittifull answer . That the Irish Papists are no Regicids ; let it be considered , that the Doctrin of Regicids is common in Romish Schools , and the practice in theire courts . This is a false Calamny , tell us Orery in what Romish University or School is this Doctrin Common ? in what Catholick Court is this practice ? you can not tell us , and therfore you are convinced of Calumniating Catholick Schools , and Courts , which is no creditt for you . In the meane tyme wee demaund Orery in what School was the Doctrin had , by which Crumwell and the rabble of blooddy Rebells murthered the good King Charles the first , in the School of Geneve or Rome ? Speak freely your minde , and tell us on what side were you when the King was murthered , of Crumwells party or the Kings ? of Crumwells party you were then , and had you been then in London likely ( this is the opinion of many ) you had been a high man in that blooddy jury ; and after that Kings death noe man desired more ( as was generally spoken of you ) to King Crumwell , and unKing our present soveraigne then you . To P. W. his second proposition you answer thus . That to touch the annoynting , is virtually to touch the annoynted , take away the regalia , and in effect you take away the King. Orery all this is true , but what Illation make you of this ? who I pray are those that touched the annoyntings , and the annoynted , the Catholicks of Ireland ; or Cromwells party ? ( whose faithfull Ianniser you haue been . ) The annoyntings you haue touch'd formally , all the Regalia , the Kings Cittys , Townes , Forts , Militia , and for addition to your treason you made open warre against the Crowne and King , ( it was Crumwell and you all touched then the annoynted virtually ) and here you stayd not , but touch'd the annoynted formally , when you put him to death by an unheard and most blooddy solemnity , and as it were by Iustice or course of law , an asacinate , that hath contaminated the glory of the English Nation , though the best and most of the Peers and good people of England abhorr'd it . Your answer to this second proposition you conclude thus . Had the Devill had leave to touch Jobs person , hee would not haue spar'd him , when hee touch'd all that was his . You say right Orery ; but what say you to this ; that you and your Companions after touching all that was the Kings , have touched his sacred person , and Barbarously kill'd him . See and recken among your selves , what Kinde of Divells you were then , and if you haue not gon a stepp farther against your owne King , then the Divell did against Job . Orery you might take us for men of short memory , if wee should forgett , how you by a way of rallery said of 54. Catholick Gentlemen Nominees , that were to be restored , ( and made account they should be soe ) to theire chief houses , and 2000. Akers of ground , that it was intended by the act , they should be only Nominees , Nomine restorable , but not re . You have play'd the Prophett Orery ( though you spake in a leering way ) for as yet none of them have been restored , ( as wee are informed ) nor likely shall ; yett at that tyme you abused the Kings goodness and credulity , assuring his Majesty , there was a sufficient stock of reprisalls to satisfy all . After taking some paines , in reading over the hott ( papering ) contention between the Earl of Orery , and Father Peter Welsh Frier Minor Lector of Divinity , I found Orery's answer to P. W. his letter to the then Marquis now Duke of Ormond , to be an Eloquent , Pollished , Elaborated piece , but full of Cavills , artifice , fallacies , untruths , and sophistry ; all his study and paynes tend to render the Catholicks of Ireland odious , and infamous , and theire peace of 1648. voyd : ( Rem non bonam facis Orere , ultra vires tuas est negotium ) hee showes in his writings a bitter soule , and a great pride and presumption , ( I owe not soe much to his degree as to spare telling him truth , nor want I confidence to defend truth , and my Country , against a person of higher quality then hee is . ) Neuer came in my way an Author , that writes of a whole Nation , and theire Religion , less Christianly , less nobly , and less truly ; and for his paynes hee is worthy of the praise S. Angustin gives to such aman , as this : Ingenium in malo venenum in auro . Upon a Bull of Vrbanus 8. to the confederate Catholicks of Ireland Anno 1643. he makes a mocking malicious coment . This Bull imports noe more then an exhortation to the Catholicks to free themselves from the oppressions , and grivous Injuries , theire fellow subjects the Protestants did them , who had designed to pull them up roote and bransh , ( as was evidently made appeare ) hee alsoe praised the Catholicks for indevouring to defend themselves , and theire Religion , and gave them Indulgences in soe just and good a quarrell ; his Holliness speaks not a word in all against the King , nor obedience due to the King ; Richard Belings esquire Agent to that Pope from the confederate Catholicks hath atested , that his Holliness commaunded him to tell his Children the Catholick Confederats , that hee would have them in defending themselves , and Religion , to continue constantly obedient to theire King , and after his Holliness sent an excellent and pious letter to the suprem Councell of the confederate Catholicks , of which I shall speak more hierafter . Will not the world rather believe his Holliness owne Letters , and the Messenger wee sent him , in declaring his sence in the aforsaid Bull , then Orery the Popes enemy ? What I pray is contained in that Bull , that an honest man can reprehend ? would Orery have the Pope be soe madd , as to forbid his Children to defend themselves and Religion against him , and his Companions ? Good God how this man doth abuse this Popes pious and good meaning expressed in foresaid Bull , which Orery tells the world was a Cherishing of the Catholicks in Rebellion , as if our taking up armes for our necessary defence of lives , and Religion against the Protestants our fellow subjects could haue been a rebellion , as hee would faine perswade his reader , and that the Popes aforsaid Bull was a Cherishing of the Catholicks in a Rebellion : to which purpose hee speaks thus . If the Popes power over the Irish be soe great , theire obedience to the King must be little : as if the Religion of the Catholicks had an inconsistency with theire duty and obedience to the King , which is most false . The Popes power over the people is in spiritualibus ; the Kings power in temporalibus ; and those powers doe wel agree ( as is evidently knowne over all the world ) in the power of Catholick Princes over theire subjects , and in the Popes power over the same people ; those powers , and Juridictions in Catholick tymes in England did not Clash , nor doe they now in theire nature , the Catholick people paying theire duty to both ; it is true the Luminare Majus ( the Pope ) Catholicks venerate more , then Luminare minus ( the King ) because Luminare Majus hath the greater light and influence ; yet they doe not therfore omitt to pay due veneration to the King. Orery brings noe proofe , or sound argument , to prove what hee assumed , ( that the Pope's Bull was sent for Cherishing a Rebellion , ) but his owne authority , which with us hath little creditt , and will soe with any , that shall know his ways and dealings . I pray Orery to make this reflection , whether there have ever been in the world more execrable and blooddy Rebells then himselfe and Companions ▪ who had noe dependence upon the Pope , but quite contemned his authority , and his person hated . Hee will not ( I hope ) say the Pope Cheris'd theire Rebellion . The man hath much strained his brains in impugning the mentioned Bull ; and as if hee had done a great bussiness , says thus of the Irish Catholicks . If they succeed , heaven and Ireland is theirs ; if they succeed not , heaven is theirs . Orery by the quarrell , wee intended to hold what of Ireland was ours , against invaders ; who can blame us for this ? and fighting for Religion , wee had a good claime to heaven ; and though wee succeeded not in fighting , our claime to heaven is still good by our faith and good works ; this claime all our Enemys , with the Protestant Parlaments of England , and Ireland are not able to take from us . Orery and all of his band , and Combination hath dealt with us as the Divill did with Iob ; the Divill touch't all that was Job's , except his life ; Orery and his people have touched all that was ours except our soules , which wee hope in his Devine mercy God will preserve for his owne Worship and glory , soe as wee have still title to say , heaven is ours : but hee and his cannot say for themselves , heaven is ours , untill they shall change , theire Religion into a true faith , doe good worcks , and restore what they haue uniustly taken from us . I will here sett downe a few of Orerys propossitions , let the reader after perusing them , Iudge of them . In his auswere to P. W. his Letter to the Marquis of Ormond hee calls the Irish Nation a beast , the Country a very pest-house , and the Religion of the Catholicks somthing that pinns them upon the sleeve of the Pope . Was ever such a diffinition given of Religion ? S. Paul defines faith thus . Est fides sperendarum substantia rerum , argumentum non apparentium . The Apostle speaks nothing here of pinning , or of the Popes sleeve . Orery this kind of scoffing rallery in holy things is ignoble , and better becoming Comedians then Counsellors . Wee owe the Pope and his sacred Dignity due obedience , which wee will with Gods blessing Religiously pay all our lives , fremant , frendeant , rumpantur invidia Oreri & mille impij nugatores ; and this obedience did neuer take away , obedience due to our King , nor ever will. Who but a beast would call a noble and ancient Nation a beaest ? sum will tell him he kicks against the whole Nation , because hee is a beast , highly pampered , and fed with honours , lands , and Riches . Did ever any call the faire Country of Ireland a Pest-house but this man ? why came soe many poore indigint men out of England this age into this Pesthouse to make theire fortunes ? why came his Father thither ( likely hee hath herd , in what state , and plight his Father then was ) hee found himselfe very well for many yeares in this Pest-house . In his answer to P. W. hee speaks these Godly words . Let it not seem strange or hard , at least to P. W. and his Country-men , if a continued Series of Covenant-breaches , rapines , Murthers , Massacres , Crueltys , perfidies , treasons , and Rebellions , exercised against the Crowne , and Protestant Religion , raise jealousies in the harts of all Iudicious Protestants . Is not this a pious gloss of a Geneua Presbiterian upon a wicked theme ? doth not hee show the spleen , and rancor of a cankered hart , in this high tone , and storme of Language against a whole Catholick Nation ? Orery it is a great Callumnie , that the body of the confederat Catholicks exercised , Rapins , Murthers and those other abominations , or acted any thing against King and Crowne . To the contrary in theire oath of association you will finde an express branch of defending the Crowne , King , and Royall Family . Wee are not accountable for what Murthers , some of the common people at the first rising in the North , committed against poore Protestants , with the taking away of theire cattel and goods ; which wee pittied with all our harts : the body of the Catholicks were not , as yet com into the quarrell ( but awhile after were forced to take Arms to avoyd theire owne Destruction which could not be otherwise avoyded ) and since taking Arms they have done all a long what the lawes of a just warr allow'd . But when you have your selfe commaunded a part of the Parlaments Rebellious Army have you contained your common soldiers from Murthering , and Robbing the innocent common people ? wee found the contrary by experience . Orery Pagina 28. of his answer to P. W. plays the Hypocrite with a great show of holiness . However ( saith hee ) the once seduced Protestants of Ireland are willing to take shame to themselves , and give glory to God in confessing their guilt such , ( though not by causing , yet by complying wtth the late usurpation , though to a good end ) that they redily acknowledg , they owe theire lives and estates to his Majesty's grace and Indulgence . This is humble and dutifull language , and such as should be spoken to a King , but all is spoken to a King coming home with tryumph , and entring , into Ierusalem with Osanna in excelsis , Benedictus qui venit in Nomine Domine : But to this Kings Father , a King and the Fountaine of Iustice , as well as the Royall Sonne , sorely afflicted , what were the Salutations , and cry's of Orerys Companions ? Tolle , tolle , Crucifige : some men have witt to change theire dialect of speaking according to the change of tymes , and fortune , Orery is said to be one of these . I pray you heare the scurrill impudency of this people in tyme of theire Rebellion , sending in a derisory manner Huae and cry after his Majesty , when they could not light on his Royall person . If any man can bring any tale , or tydings of a wilfull King , who had gon a stray these foure years from his Parlament , with a guilty Conscience , bloody hands , a hart full of brooken vowes , and protestations : if these marcks be not sufficient , there is another in the * Mouth , for bid him speak and you will soone know him : then give notice to Britanicus , and you shall be well payd for your paines . God saue the Parlament . Who may not doubt but these kinde of men are those crept in unawarrs , who ( as the Apostle Jude tells us ) despise dominion , and speak evill of dignities : did not the same Apostle foretell , that there should be such mockers in the last tyme , whoe should walke after theire owne ungodly Lustes . I hope Orery will not say the great Rebells , the Irish Catholicks ( such hee would haue them be ) did ever revile afflicted Majesty in such a scoffing way : truly they did not , but at all tymes , and upon all occations in theire Pulpitts , theire congregrations , and publick assemblyes they spake of the King with all veneration , and Compassion . Now his Majesty coming home in prosperity , those mockers of his Father are all becom purify'd Musaellmans and speake nothing but Magnalia of the King. For all this , there are thousands of good true Protestants , Royallists in England that still feare , those new penitents , for abusing Royall Autority ( or at least faigne themselves soe to be ) would be glad to heare once more that millitary word as you were , and if this shall com about , the King will not have soe dutifull language from them . That Orery says hee and other Protestants complyed with the usurpation to a good end , is a strange expression , hee needs explaine himselfe . They invaded all the regalia , that is , they took away the Kings Navy , Forts , Townes , Militia , and in the end they Murther'd the King himselfe . Does Orery call this a good end of complying with the usurpation . The truth is , Orery and his Companions in Ireland came home , when they could noe longer stand of ; the King may thank Generall Muncks ingenious stratagem for theire coming in , theire intention and ways were well knowne . Now the Kings worke being don by Munck with all wished success ( soe as those in Ireland had noe power to hinder it ) then Orery and the rest thought fitt to cry out let the King live ; and as hee and his trusty comrades syding with the usurpation , had goverment and places of trust and profitt ( they then all danced to Crumwells pype ) soe now they court the King returning home , and show themselves great penitents , taking shame to themselves of theire guilt , and giving Glory to God. Is not this a great glory to God , to confess a rebellion , they could noe more deny , then wee can deny its day when the Sonne is shining and scorching the earth . That which much troubles Orery , is , that the Irish Catholicks doe not acknowledg themselves guilty of a rebellion with him , and give glory to God that way , but they being , not guilty of such rebellion and treason against the Crowne answer with S. Augustine , Praestat magis innocentem esse quam poenitentem . Orery ingag'd ( as aboue was said ) in a horrid rebellion , if hee could make the Catholicks confess themselves to have been Rebells , if this hee could compass , hee would indeed triumph , and say in a leering way : behold the Irish Catholicks Confess they have been rebells as well as wee ; but wee have obtain'd pardon , which was denyed them , and have gott theire estates and lands to boot ; let them now walk through out the world like poor and naked rebells . But of our side some will say , that at the tyme Orery and his people had pardon , and the Catholicks not : Non erat Rex Iupiter omnibus idem . And that his Majesty's censure in the case between us was that the Poet speaks of . Dat veniam coruis , vexai censura columbas . Certainly his Majesty , in our , and your case , Orery , hath not walk't according to Plato his excellent rule : Non infaelix , sed malus semper castigandus est , ut fiat melior . Not the unlucky , but the wicked man , is allways to be Chastysed , that hee may be amended . The Royall Iudgment went quite another way , for the unfortunate Irish Catholicks were severly punished , and the wicked Crumwelian people have bin pardoned , and rewarded with the estates of the Irish Catholicks . Kingdoms a broad can hardly believe matters were soe carryed . Likely these people are now contented , having theire harts desire in this world , soe as they may say without feare Ireland is ours . But theire memory will perish , and themselves , or theire posterity will be distroyd by as wicked men as themselves that distroy'd us . Salomon sayd well : The memory of the just is with praises : and the name of the Impious shall rott . I will give Orery and his frinds a good counsell out of the wise man ▪ Stuppa collecta Synagoga potententium , & consumatio illorum flamma ignis . The Sinagog of sinners is as tow gathered together , and theire consummation a flame of fire . This man for wounding Catholicks makes arrows of all wood , and frequently brings out this expression of the King against them . Wee doe extreamly detest the odious Rebellion , which the recusants of Ireland have without ground or cullour , raised against us , our Crowne , and Dignity . Hee further says : These words of the King were not spoken in a corner but under the great seal , and were worthy to be written with a beame of the sonne . All this is but an exaggeration to render us more odious . But will Orery tell us , with what Beame would hee have the blooddy Rebellion of Crumwell , of himselfe and the rest written ? if there be any brighter then that of the sonne wee are to seek out for it . Orery knows well there is noe fouler staine , ( except Heresy which is a spirituall Rebellion ) then that of Rebellion , and therfore leaves noe stone unmou'd to make our warre such : the name is execrable and ignominious , and the marks of reproach inflicted upon Rebells , are full of disgrace . The Civilians speak much of them , as thus . Rebellis , incurrit , ipso jure paenam mortis . Rebellis , perdit ipso jure dominium bonorum Rebellis , potest a quolibet impuné occidi . Rebelli , nec jus reddi debet . Rebelles , subditi , tanquam piratae & latrones tractari solebant . Rebellium domus solo aequari debent & sale spargi . Rebellium legati possunt occidi . Rebelles perdunt privilegia , & pro mortuis habentur , non habent Civitatum beneficia , non jus azili , neque servanda est eijs fides . Rebelles non debent in Iudicium citari , sed celeri vindicta puniri ; & Rebellionis factum fufficit absque sententia declaratoria . Seing Rebells are soe odious and execrable persons , Orery is to make in this place a dubble reflection ; the first , how infamous and wicked men they have been , whose guilt was a confessed Rebellion ; secondly they are for ever to praise the Kings Clemency , who pardoned soe wicked a crime . The Iudgment of Civilians , of Rebells being as above specifyed noe greater injury can be done to the Irish Catholicks , who have beene still Loyall to the King , then to tell the world , theire just warre was a Rebellion . However it imports not much , that our enemys call us soe , for an Enemys testimony against another Enemy , is of small force : my possitive denyall of what hee affirmes is a Iustification good enough ; if hee brings not against mee , Tabulas , testes and great Evidences , hee does nothing . My present subject of writing is not to Iustify the Irish warre of 1641. which , I heare , is already don by a learned penn ; yet somthing I will say for confuting Orery's ill affected Iudgment of us and our quarrell . That a defenfive warre can be raised without the consent and Authority of any Prince is a Common Doctrin of Divines , Canonistes , and Civilians , and that it may somtymes extend it selfe in effect to the nature of an offensive warre . This Doctrin is warranted by the Law of Nature , ( a more binding law then are the possitive law 's of men , ( which if repugne to that of nature are noe law ' s ; ) for by this law , aman can defend himselfe against violence with out recurring to the Prince . The Law of God is alsoe for the like defence . Si effringens vir domum sive effodiens fuerit inventus , & accepto vulnere mortutus fuerit , percussor non erit reus sanguinis . If the tbiefe be found breaking up the house or undermining , and receiuing a wound dye , the stricker shall not be guilty of blood . By this divine precept , as alsoe by the Law of Nature , it is cleare and evident a private man may kill another in defence of his houshold goods . Sed multo magis ( says S. Thomas ) Licitum est defendere propriam vitam , quam propriam domum . That is to say ' it is much more lawfull for aman to defend his life then his house . Ergo if aman kills another in defence of his owne life , hee shall not be guilty of Murther : which case is to be understood , that hee intends not to kill t'other man but in defence of his owne life ; and though some hould ; the man defending himselfe may not intend the killing of that other man , but only the preservation of his owne life , yet the more Common opinion is , hee can , and any other thing else that tends , to the preservation of his life . The sacred Canons alsoe subscribe to this Doctrin in this Dialect . Sine principis authoritate per aliquod particulare bellum Licitum est alicui injuriam repelere . That is : It is lawfull without the authority of the Prince , for any man by a particular warre to repell injuries . If you question by what Authority is such a warre legitimated , answer is given out of the Cannons . Authoritate Iuris : which warranteth all men to prosecute theire right , and defend themselves ; see the Divines . By the Lawes of the Kingdom of Ireland , if a private man kills another se defendendo , hee is quitt , because the action is judged lawfull , and yet to Legitemat such an act the Princes Authority interuenes not , the reason is evident , because : Id licitum est jure naturali , Divino , & Civili , & Canonico : by the Law of Nature , Devine , Civill , and Cannon , it is lawfull by force , to repell force . Azor. It is here to be obserued that this inculpable defence hath soe large an extent , that it reacheth to the defence not only of every privat mans life , but alsoe of his goods , Chastity , honour , if such things can not be otherways preserued . Soe S. Thomas . Now if such defense is lawfull for privat men , how much more for a Common wealth or Nation ? Bonum enim commune excellentius , universalius ac subendé Divinius est . Bannez . For that a Common good is more exellent , more universal , and somtymes more Devine then a private good . And if it be lawfull to wage warre upon such inferiour motives , as is the preservation , or recovery of temporall goods , honour and the like , how much more lawfull is it to manage warre upon that supreme motive of defending , and preseruing , the Catholick faith , without which there is noe Salvation . This was the Iudgment the pious and valiant Machabees made of the warre they undertook , and nobly persued for theire Religion and Laws , which they preferd before theire wives and Children , and all temporall things most deare unto them . The Machabees being exhorted with the words of Iudas exceeding good , &c. they resolued to fight and to encounter manfully : because the holy Citty , and the Temple were in-danger . For there was less care for theire wives , and Children , and alsoe for theire Bretheren , and Kindsmen : but the greatest and principall feare was for the Holiness of the Temple . How farre a defensive warre may extend , the Schoolmen tell us , and say that by accident , it may be somtyms lawfull for the Common wealth to doe , and offer all such damages and Evill , as may be done and offered in a just offensive warre . Aliqnando ( saith Bannez ) contingere potest , ut liceat illis , inferre hostibus omnia illa mala , que possunt in bello justo aggresivo . It may happen somtymes , to bee lawfull for those ingaded in a defensive warr , to doe all Evills and Damages which can be offered or don in a just offensive warr . Which happeneth when the agressors are publick Enemys , and when there is noe recourse to the Prince , and that those defending themselves can noe otherwise avoyd the violence offered by the Assailants . This was truly the case of the confederate Catholicks as will clearly appeare to such as will be pleasd to examin it . Moreover the case then stood soe with his Majesty that hee was not able to redress the injuries don us , nor did our Enemys then obay his commaunds , ( I mean a little after the warr begunn ) but the Parlament , that fell from the King. For the better and clearer understanding the nature of a defenfive warr , those therin ingaged hould not themselves passively , but actively , soe doe the words repell or beat back signify : if the end it be lawfull , then are the necessary means to compasse that end alsoe lawfull : if the defence of on 's selfe be lawfull , then is the killing of the invader ( without which the life of the invaded cannot be preserued ) Lawfull , soe as to kill is involued in the act of defence , and the lawfullness of the one inferrs the lawfullness of the other . Si vis ( saith the civill Law ) fiat personae , tunc licitum est se defend●re , & defendendo percutere , imo etiam occidere , si aliter non potest quis evadere manus ejus . If violence is don to a person , it is then lawfnll for him to defend himselfe , and defending himselfe to strick , and alsoe to kill , if hee cannot otherwise escape the hands , of his Enemys . Thus stood the case with the Irish Catholicks , that they must have kill'd , or have beene killed . Yea soe great is the Iustice of a defensive warr , that devines teach , it is lawfull for the Sonne to defend himselfe against his Father , the wife against her husband , the servant against his Master , the subjest against his Superiour , and the vassall against his Prince or King. Soe Azor : Nempe , Licitum esse Filio contra Patrem , uxori contra Maritum , subdito contra Superiorem , vassallo contra Principem sive Regem se desendere . If it be lawfull for the Subject or vassall in a just cause to defend himselfe against the Prince , it must be lawfull to defend himselfe against his fellow subject , Here I meet with an objection in which our adversarys put great force . The Irish Catholicks ( say they ) were the first aggressors . The objection is easily answered , as thus . It is a Common Doctrin of the Devines , that it is lawfull to prevent an Evill that can not be otherways avoyded then by preventing it , E. G. I see you take your pistoll in your hand cocking it to shoote at mee , in that case it is lawfull for mee to discharge my pistoll and kill you , otherwise I should be kill'd by you : will any law punish mee for killing you soe , would the Law of God or nature have mee stay my hand untill I am kill'd by you . Tannerus a good Devine teacheth soe . Licitum est etiam praevinire injustum aggressorem , si alia via commodae defensiones non supetat , & is jam aliqualiter est in culpae , sive in proposito aggressionis injustae versetur . It is lawfull to prevent an uniust invader , if there is noe other way of defence , and that astually the invavader is in fault or in a purpose of an uniust invation . Becanus doth declare ( examining this question ) an aliquando liceat invasorem praevenire & illum occidere antequam nos actu invadat ? hee answers . Licere in his casibus , primo , si accedat ad invadendum , nec evadere possum , nisi illum preveniam : Secuudo , si nondum accedat , tamen instructus sit ad invadendum , nec possum effugere nisi priveniam . Whether somtyms it is lawfull for us to prevent the invader , and kill him , afore he actually invad's us ? hee answers that it is , in these cases : first if hee coms to invade mee , and that I cannot escape but by preventing ; secondly if hee does not as yet invade mee , but is ready and prepared for that invation , and that I cannot avoyd him but by preventing : in this case if I kill him I doe it me defendendo , and consequently ( though I struck first ) I am the defender , and hee the aggressor . Sotus Navar Corduba Covar : and many houlds this Doctrin , and Navar gives this example , of a Married man who has a dagger under his pillow , to kill his wife withall , which shee discovering and knowing may prevent by killing her husband , if there is noe other remedy ; the reason is , though actually hee has not done the execution , however hee is in a radiness to perform it , for which end hee kept her soe boulted up , and inuironed , as shee cannot otherwise escape . This was truly the case of the confederate Catholicks at the beginning of the warr , they were boulted up in an Iland , as that woeman in the Chamber ; there was noe doore open for them , then by preventing the Presbiterians blooddy designe ; if this they had not done , there had beene an end of them all . Richard Bealings Esquire to Vrbanus 8s ; from the body of the Irish Catholicks , and the Lord Bishop of Fernes , and Sir Nicholas Pluncket sent to Innocentius X. did not tell those Popes they came from a body of Rebells , but from a people Catholick the King of England's Subjects , and for such they were respected , and vissited by the greatest Princes , and Cardinalls in the Citty : and foure of the gravest Cardinaells were deputed by Pope Innocentius to heare the two last , as Caponi , Spada , Carassa , and Pansirolli Cardinall Secretari , and the afforsaid Bishop and noble Gentlemen , were esteemed over all the Citty for good Catholicks , good Subjects , and able men ; and with other instructions received commaunds from theire Holliness to the people of Ireland , to continue constant in the Catholick Religion , and Loyalty to theire King. Thus much I thought fitt to say by way of digression for Iustifying our warr that it was noe Rebellion , and that this Argument of Orery , the King call'd the warr of the Irish Catholicks a Rebellion , ergo it is a Rebellion doth not hould ; It is true , it is a received maxim , that the King can wrong noe man. The reason is , because the King is the Fountain of Iustice , and must be supposed not to have a will to wrong or offend any of his people . But there is noe maxim that the King may not be informed by Evill men or Counsells , to the Distruction of his People , which hath been often done by statesmen , and Counsellors , who seek after theire owne interest more then the preservation of the people , which is and ought to be the Kings principal care : in this kinde the Lord Iustices in Ireland , Persons and Burlase with a malignant part of the Kings Counsellors in the yeare 1641. informed his Majesty that the Catholicks of Ireland without discrimination had entred into a Rebellion , when only some discontented men began a Revolution in the North , and those ( as was generally spoken ) men of small estates , and broken fortunes , the Lords and Gentlemen of the other three Provinces , and all the Catholick townes , and Corporations having not taken arms , untill forced thereunto for the necessary defence of theire estates , and Religion , ( as aboue hath been said . ) I doe not heere accuse , or excuse the first rysing in the North , but I confidently affirme , the nobles , and Catholick Gentlemen in the other three Provinces ( and some of those in the North to , that did not joyn with the first Rysing in that Province ) and all the Catholick Townes , and Corporations , lived in soe happy a state and soe opulent and rich , that they would neuer abett a Revolution for gaining other mens estates ; it is alsoe well knowne , that all those have bin still faithfull to the Crowne , and theire Fathers before them , as was well try'd in the warrs of Desmon , Tyron , and other smaller Revolutions . Thus it happend , that his Majesty grounded his opinion upon the information of foresaid Parsons Bnrlays , and a mallignant part of the Counsell , corrupt men , ( who after fell from the King and adhered to the Kings Enemys , the Rebellious Parlament . ) Those represented the body of the Irish Catholick Rebells ; and the King deceived , and deluded by this information , call'd us Rebells , and our just warr a Rebellion , and to this day wee were not heard to speak for our selves , and being unheard ▪ ought to be reputed innocent . It is to be obserued , that the first flame of the rising in the Noth , had beene soon quenched , had Parsons and those of the Councell given a Commission to the Marquis Of Ormond now Duke , to raise five thousand men , as hee demanded for that effect , with him had gon alonge , the Catholick Nobility and Gentlemen , and soe they had made a speedy work of it : But the plott of those Crooked Ministers of state was to involue all the Catholicks in the Bussiness , and there by to finde a Cullor of confiscating theire estates . Orery stays not here , but puffed up with his great Fortune and a gall in Pupe tells the world in a supersilious manner . That the birds of the ayre ; noe , nor the flyes contributed less to his Majestys restauration , then the Roman Catholicks in Ireland . Orery this is to much , this great contempt of the Catholicks , coms from a great pride in you , and what you say is very false , for the harty prayres of the Catholicks ( though with steel they could contribute nothing , being then unarmed , and closed up in prisons by you and your Companions , ) have more contributed to the Kings restauration then birds and fly's that want reason could . Are wee bound to suffer this and other great contumiles from a man soe lowly discended , as to tell us , the whole Nation is a beast , our Country a Pest-house , and our Religion somthing that pinns us upon the Popes sleeve ? Shall wee indure all this from a man that hath bin esteemed one of Crumwells spyes , ( to be a spy , is an infamous office . ) Orery if you are an Englishman ( as you would have your selfe to be , and likwise the Duke of Ormond , ) it is true the Duke was born in England , and of an English Lady ( som say , had hee bin born in Ireland , hee had been kinder to the Nation and favoured them more then hee did upon the last settlement ) but his Forefathers have all of them beene borne in Ireland about four hundred and sixty years , and the house had the Creation of Earle in King Edward the third's tyme anno Domini 1332. Orery you cannot say soe much for your selfe in the ranck of Nobility but be what you will , English or Irish , I will tell you what an English Gentlemen writes of you , ( I have my selfe seen the man ) disguised under the name of William Allen , in a most excellent piece , stiled killing is noe Murther , speaking therin of the quality's of a tyrant applying all to Crumwell , of the fift quality hee speaks thus . In all places they have theire spyes , and delators , that is , they haue Fleetwoods ; theire Broughalls , theire S. Iohns , ( besides innumerable small spyes ) to appeare discontented , and not to side with them ; that under that guise , they may gett trust , and make discoverys , Orery in Crumwells tyme was Lord Broughalls . This noble man hath used still against us , his sword and penn ; but the latter hath made the deeper wound , if men creditt his writings : cannot hee live contented with a good patrimony , his Father provided for him , and agreat lump of Catholicks lands the King conferr'd upon him , at once with the place of Lord President of the faire and goodly Province of Munster ( a dignity his Fathers Child did little think to obtaine , and a reward his perfidy against the Crowne did not meritt ) cannot all these great Honours , Estates , and Riches satisfy the man , unless hee see 's innocent Maerdochaeus hang'd on a high gibbet ? The goodness of God ( wee hope ) will not allow , what hee desires , the exterpation of a Nation . Noble mindes ordinarily esteem the place where they , or theire parents have gain'd agreat Fortune and Settlement : Orery's Father ( it is well knowne ) from a lowstate came to one of the greatest Estates in the three Kingdoms , hee was neither Sword-man , nor Gown-man , nor favoritt in Court , and yet purchased a prodigious estate , came to the Dignity of an Earl , High treasurer , of the Kingdom of Ireland , marcht two of his Daughters , one to great Geraldin Earl of Killdare ( first Earl of Ireland , ) another to the Lord Barry Viscount of Barremore ; hee used for his Motto in this his great prosperity . Gods providence is my in heritance , a Christian , and modest one , which for all that signifyed hee had nothing left him by his parents . These things I utter not by way of reproach , for wee are all the Children of Adam , but to minde Orery a little of the low and small nest , in which his Father was hatched , that hee should not soe farr forgett himselfe , as to contemne and trample under foote a whole Nation , wherin are soe many antient and noble Familyes : and let him give mee leave to till him , it is agreat and an unwary Impertinency for guilty and contaminated men to reproach the Innocent . Hee that says much , or displeaseth others , must heare somthing will displease himselfe , as alsoe hee that goes armed against many , expects many armed against him . In tyme of usurpation those that commaunded were very insolent ; it was then indeed men could say of England , what was said of Athens : that there only small theeves were hang'd , but the great ones were free , and condemn'd the rest ; wee hope it is not now soe in England : however Orery for one man hath had the good Fortune to escape in all tymes , and on all sides , and to have a good post and place in Every goverment . It is commonly said , that against a mischief , badd parents doe to theire Children , there is noe other cure then patience , but Orery being noe Parent , but an Enemy to our Nation , is not to be borne with , and it is more reasonable his owne confusion should be his cure , then our patience . The Catholicks of Ireland , look upon him as a great beast makeing a prey of all that 's weaker , and realy hee hath soe dealt with us , wherfore wee may deal with him in the same way according to our strength , and if hee is soe strong and in court soe much favoured as wee may not have him cited to make answer , the court will give us leave to expose his vertues or vices as wee finde them written by others . In what I have writt , I have but done my duty , in strycking him that stryck's my Country , for as Tertulean says . In hostem Patriae omnis homo miles est . I will here take my leave of Count Orery , minding him of what P. W. in his little book stiled the Irish Cullours foulded , printed at London Anno Domini 1662. in pag. 20. therof hee speaks of Orery to the Duke of Ormond as followeth . For indeed my Lord hee appears to mee all a long his writings , of the number of those , who see heaven , and all the hopes of the other life , as Mathematitians make us behold in a darke Chamber , what soever passeth a broad , through a little Crany , in such a manner , that all things wee see , appeare like shaddows and landsckips turned topsceturvy , Verily , I take this Gentleman to be abused soe by himselfe . And that after hee hath stopped up all the windows and accesses to heavenly Ray's , hee hath made a little hole for the Moone , and all the blessings of the other life have seemed very slender to his distrustfull spiritt : and that hee hath put on a Resolution to make a Fortune at what price soever , and to build on earth like Caine , after hee hath allmost renounced the hopes of heaven . If Orery be such a man as P. W. discribes him ; if hee hath not a trembling in the head , as old Cain the Murtherer had , hee cannot Chuse but have a trembling and great heavenisse at the hart . After ending with Orery I sinde a nother Kinde of snake in the grass latet anguis in herba full of poyson , this man conceals his name , wherfore I know not ( for hee needed not feare to write any thing against the Catholicks , when all things runn against them . ) Likely his fancy was to throw the stone , and hide his hand . Hee writt at London Anno 1664. a Book full of vennime with this title , Horae Subcesiva . In pag. 83. hee affirmeth that Charles the second is not obliged in the least by any Law of God or man , of warr or Nations to keep any one particle of the Irish Articles made or granted by King Charles his Father in the yeare 1648. to this purpose hee setts downe formally these words in pag. 81. King Charles the second , May Iure Belli & gentium , & lege talionis , without breatch of faith or Articles ( not excepting those of 1648. soe much insisted on , and soe mightily pleaded for by P. W. by that just Law ( soe often used , and prescribed by God himselfe ) take the lives , and fortunes of all bloodd-thirsty Popish Rebells , and theire confederats , and assotiats . M This Godly man doth not cite in what Code or Book this Law often used and prescribed by God himselfe is to be had , nor can hee , nor doth hee give any other reason or proofe for his assertion then his owne Authority ; which can be of noe vallue with any pious man. I appeal to all the noble-men and the worthy Protestant People of England if this is not rather the proposition of a Murtherer then of a Christian Gentleman , This mans Book ( Hor● Subcesivae ) P. W. did learnedly confute in an Appendix hee added to his reply to Orerys answer , and soe confounded him , that hee neuer writt word after in his owne defence . I remitt the Reader to what hee shall finde in said Appendix of this Matter , and after reading all let him Iudge as hee shall finde fitting and reasonable . Can wee forgit to list in the number of our Enemys the Earle of Clarendon Chancellor of England , ( hee deserves to head the first ranck of them ) a man of Ruine and Distruction , a Pest to Catholicks , and Ireland . Was not this Clarendon , this blooddy and covetous Statesmaen heard oft to say with a fierce countenanc and passionat tone , the Irish deserve to be exterpated , and then hee would after his usuall manner com out with a great oath , and swear they shall be extirpated . Good God what a heathnish Expression is this in the Mouth of a Christian Statesman , a Chancellor of Engelland . ( Is not a Christian King well Counselled in having neare him for chiefe Minister of State such a blooddy man voyd of all Iustice and mercy . ) But did this Athist ( soe great an Enemy to Godliness can not be a Christian ) think that God , that hath appoynted an Angell for the Guard of Every indivtduall person , would take noe care to preserve the body of an intyre Nation , but let them all be destroy'd to satisfy the minde and anger of a blooddy man. Clarendon was in this Bussiness like that Astronomer , or Philosopher , who look't upon the starrs , and fell into a well before his feet : hee had then designed in his owne minde the ruine of the Catholicks of Ireland , and very soon after , hee stole out of England , with a Guilty Conscience and Baggs of Gold in great feare , and left behind him his stately buildings , places of pleasure , great Riches , and the veneration of many that adored this man like an Idoll , ( the glory of the man is gon away like smooke and his name rotten , and hated in England ) and flying into France , walked over some Provinces of that Kingdome in trembling , like another Cain before any Settlement of himselfe . Iustum O Domine est Iudicium tuum . And wee are poore soules as yet living as wee can , and hopeing for Gods mercy . I am here to advertise my Reader of an abominable ingagment agree'd upon in the tyme of usurpation against the Royall Family ; the contents will teach you how good frinds they were to the King that conceived this ingagement . P. W. hath this oath page 74. of his reply to Orery's answer , and aptly tearms it one of the oathes taken by the Saints themselves the fautors of Crumwells Tyranny , and the wellwishers of his Kings-ship . Which ruuneth thus . I. A. B. doe hereby declare that I renounce the pretended title of Charles Stuart , and the whole line of late King Iames , and of every other person pretending to the Goverment of the Nations of England , Scotland , and Ireland , and the Dominions , and Territorys therunto belonging , and that Iwill by the grace and assistance of the Allmighty , be true and faithfull to this Common Wealth against any King , single Person , and House of Peers , and Every of them , and here unto I subscribe my name . Can any oath be more horrid , or can any written wickedness ascend higher ? and consequently can any mercy be greater then the pardon his Majesty hath granted to the men that hartily took this oath ? This Ingagment was forced upon the Irish Catholicks in soe high a Nature , that those who would not take it , were debarred not only from the benefitt of law , but alsoe expos'd to an inevitable danger of death , the Soldiers of Crumwells Army , being commanded by publick Proclamation , to kill any man they met on the high-way , who carryed not a Certificate about him of having taken that ingagment : Commaunds which were Cruelly executed on silly Pesants , who out of Ignorance , or want of care , having left theire ticketts at home , were Barbarously Murthered by the mercyless Souldiers . Make now a serious reflextion upon said ingagment out of the same Author . It is very remarkable , ( saith hee ) that they who devised this ingagment , who hartily subscribed , and forced others to take it , shall not be questioned , or held Criminall , and that those , who neuer saw it , before it was administrated to them , who abbor'd it in theire harts , and were forc't to signe it to avoyd a blooddy , and violent death , shall be declared nocents and an irecoverable Sentence of Loosing theire estates given against them , and theire estates soe forfeted , to be confirm'd on those very persons , who compell'd the proprietors to that forfeitur . Obstupescite Caeli super hoc & portae ejus desolamini vehementer . I defy all the Annalls , and the Histories , of Tartars , Turcks , Scithians , or of what People soever to produce soe horrible an injustice as this , or a more wicked , and Barbarous pranck of knavery , then those our Enemys have contrived . King Charles our Soveraigne your Royall Authority in England maintains the Peer in his splendor and Dignity , the Commoner in his birth right and liberty , you protect the weak from the oppression of the mighty , secure the Nobility from the insolence of the people , and by this Equall , and impartiall Iustice is indifferrently distributed to all the inhabitants of that great and flourishing Realme : And at the same tyme use is made of the same Royall Authority in your Kingdom of Ireland , to condemne innocents , before they are heard ; to destroy soe many hundred Widdow's and Orphans ; to confirme soe many unlawfull usurped possessions ; to violate the publick faith , to punish vertue , to countenance vice , to hold loyalty a Crime , and treason worthy of reward . These are verities not to be doubted of in our days , wee feel them by sore tryall : but after-ages will hardly admitt them , and it must be avery difficult matter to perswade those now , that have not been eye-wittnesses , that the fact ever happened . Now things being carryed in this nature , let your Majesty seriously consider , of whome shall God take account of our Distruction ; of those wicked states-men who abused your Authority ; or of your Royall Person , for not bringing those men ( after our humble and publick prayres and petitions to your Majesty for redress ) to the test and tryall of Iustice for having opprest us . Consider great King the prayer of King David to God. O God give the Iudgment to the King : And the Iustice to the Sonne of the King. Why soe King David ? To Iudge ( saith David ) thy people in Iustice , and thy poore in Iudgment . The Royall Prophet here gives the reason , wherfore the power of Iudging , and Sword of Justice is given to a King : to witt , that hee Judge the people in Justice , and the Poor in Iudgment . Which was not done ; soe complains , the Widdow's and Orphans in Ireland perishing in poverty and famin , and the world abroad is in amazement , that this was not done , Wonders ( they say ) were done after his Majestys restauration , Rebells made honest men , and honest men made Rebells by the Kings Royall pleasure , and all this brought about , by the cunning and wickedness of certaine Statsmen , wherby the King was cheated , and betrayd , the innocent People ruin'd and impious Statsmen enricht and magnify'd . soe that thee . Poore Catholcck People have nothing left them , but to cry to thee O Lord. Tibi deretictus est pauper Orphano tu eris adjutor . Contere Brachium peccatoris & maligni . To thee is the poor left , to the Orphan thou wilt bee a helper . Break the arme of the sinner and malignant . Our Eyes and harts O God are turn'd upon thee , seing men have abandon'd us ; O Lord when will the day come of our Happiness ? when shall wee with thankfullness say to all the world . Our Lord hath heard the desire of the Poore , and Iudged for the People , and the humble . Kings are more oblig'd to commiserat the calamity's of the afflicted rhen privat men , because they are the Fathers of the People : Iob a holy Prince in the land of Hus ( some hold hee was an absolute King ) did this . Heare him speak King Charls . I was an eye to the blinde , and a foot to the lame . I was the Father of the Poore ; I brake the Iawes of the wicked man , and out of his teeth I took away the prey . This is it the poore Catholicks most need to have done for them , that the Royall hand will break the jawes of wicked men , and take the prey out of theire teeth . Iob says further . The eare hearing counted mee blessed , for that I had delivered the poore man crying out , and the people that had noe helpe . The blessing sf him that was ready to perrish came upon mee , and I comforted the hart of the Widdow . There are thousands of these wedows and people crying out , comfort theire harts for they are perrishing , and let it be done ( as God would have it to be done ) by your Majesty , that the blessings of the poore may fale upon you as they did upon Iob , and all the blessings of heaven . But why great King ( give mee pardon for speaking to you ) why have wee , your Catholick subjects of Ireland been neglected , even to ruine and Distruction ? what did your Majesty see in us , that could render us in capable of the pardon granted to the Rebells in generall ? if our rising in arms ( which was against our fellow-subjects , for our owne defence , and not against the Crowne ) hath bin Iudged a Rebellion by your Royall Father and your selfe , I hope you hould us farre smaller Rebbels then those that made open warre against the Crowne and your Majest'ys , and in fine Murther'd your Father ; why then are they pardon'd , and wee not ? but incase our Revolution hath bin Iudg'd a Rebellion ( and in case it had bine truly soe ) upon the place made and concluded Anno 1648. ( The Marquis of Ormond hauing bin your Royall Fathers Commissioner to that Effest . ) Wee had an act of Oblivion from your Father of blessed Memory for all that had passed , and after confirmed by your Majesty : this Act of Oblivion hath wyp't away the Rebellion , ergo it can not rise , againe in Iudgment against us , nor can wee be punished for a Crime already forgiven : this being soe , why are wee cast of ? why left under a staine of Rebellion , the true Rebells being forgiven ? why being Innocent doe wee suffer this contumely ? why are wee strucken downe as dead men by your Royall Hand , Lands , Houses , Estates , and all wee had , being conferr'd on men , which have noe right to them , our Enemy's , and one tyme your owne : they pretend noe claime to our estates and livings , noe pack't , stipulation or convieance : by your Majesty's pleasure only ( that 's theire sole tytle ) they hold all , and wee have lost all . By what Law are wee thus treated , and destroy'd , by that of God , or Nature , or Nations ? all done against us , is against all those Lawes , and against the Law of Englaend , to , a good Law , by which noe man is to be deprived of his lands and goods , but by a due course of Law , the benefitt of this Law was denied us . Wither then shall wee turne , what are wee able to doe for our selves : the Father is not able to helpe the Child , nor the Child the Father , Mothers are weeping over theire little ones languishing in want and hunger . If wee are Innocent , ( the Act of Oblivion hath made us soe , though wee had bin guilty before ) why are wee cast out of our Houses , despoyl'd of our Lands , and Estates , that our Forefathers have possessed soe many ages ? If wee have committed any Crime or treason against the Crowne , your Royall Father , or your selfe , ( that was not remitted ) it were a greater mercy , to hasten us into the other world , by a short and violent death , then to condemne us to a lingering one , to be consumed , in coldness , hungar , and nakedness , and a shamefull slavery at home and in all the Regions of Europ . Your Majesty hath been pleased to tell publickly the Peers , and People of England . That wee abroad have followed your Majesty from Kingdom , to Kingdome , and that with all cheerfullness and obedience ; that wee received and submitted to your Royall Orders , and betook our selves to what fervice your Majesty directed , at that tyme most convenient , and behooffull to your Majesty , though attended with inconveniences enough to our felves , and your Majesty Iudged this our demeaniour very worthy of Protection , Iustice , and favour . Your Kingly Language the 27. Iuly 1660. to the House of Peers touching the Act of indemnity , was this . I hope I need say nothing of Irelande and that they alone shall not want the benefitt of my mercy : they have shew'd much affection to mee a broad , and you will have a care of my honour , and what I have promised to them . These veritys uttered by your Majesty are owned by our greatest Enemys ; for such , and that wee sacrifised our selves and all wee had faithfully , and hartily in your Majestys service . Let mee demaund here , where then have been Braghall , Coot , Cloathworthy , and others of that band , those Grandees your Majesty hath been pleased to honour with great titles ; the two first were made Earls of Orery , and Montrath and the last ( Cloathworthy , that knowne plunderer of the Queens Chappell , and summersett House an infamous man ) created viscount Massaren ? where I say againe , have these men been in the dark day of your Callamitys , and adversitys ? what were they then doeing ? They were then stiffly struggling against your Crowne and person , and Laying about them with maine indeavours , that the Royall Family of the Stuarts should neuer returne to theire owne Dominions ; ( to which purpose they contrived the forementioned horrid ingagement . ) In those days they stiled your Majesty only Charles Stuart , to call you King was a treason among them . And what is don in the end ? After all theire villanys , contempt of Royall Family , open Rebellion and warr against the Crowne , and after putting the good King to death : after our fidelity , obedience , and harty affection to your Majesty , and after your owne Kingly Testimonys , and expressions of the same : the matter hath been strangly carryed . How ? The knowne Rebells had your Majestys pardon , they were magnify'd , had places of trust and profitt in the cammon wealth , and to boot they carryed away our Houses , Lands , and Estates , by your Majestys Graunt under the great Seal . O tempora ! O mores ! O Laceratam Iustitiam ! And what is our lott , and share of this Tragicall play , after your Royall promisees of all favour and Protection ? wee are left naked and desolate , crying to God as those of Jerusalem did distroyed by theire Enemys . Remember O Lord what is fallne unto us , behold and regard our reproath : Our inheritance is turned to Aliens , and our Houses to strangers . Wee are Pupills without Fathers , the joy of our hart hath failed , our quire is turned to mourning . This is our deplorable state : what your Majesty will doe with us , or for us , is only knowne to God aud your selfe , and wee are to pray that God will be pleased to incline your hart to such a resolution , as may bring us some comfort , which wee much need ; Cor Regis in manu Domini , quocunque voluerit , inclinubit illud . Give freedom great King to a poore Priest , to speak truth to your Majesty , it is noe new thing that good Priests speak to Kings , and God himselfe saith , hee will curse the blessings of those Priestes , that will not speak truth , and give glory to his holy Name ; And the Prophet Malachias tells your Majesty , that regard is to be had of what the Priest says . For the lipps of the Priest ( saith that Prophet ) shall keep knowledg , and the Law they shall require out of his Mouth : because hee is the Angell of the Lord of hostes . The truth I presume to speak to you my King with all submission and sincerity is this . That your Majesty hath great cause to feare the heavy Iudgments God for soe many thousands of Wedow's and Orphans perrishing for want in the view of the world , by that fatall sentence called the Bill of Settlement . Iob tells us God hath , and doth somtyme punnish Kings . Balteum Regum dissoluit , & cinget fune renes eorum . Hee Looseth the Belt of Kings , and girdeth theire reynes with a cord . Hee Loosed the Belt from your Fathers side , and girded his Reynes with a cord of sore affliction : and yet hee was esteemed a sober , just , chast King. God , is a God of Iustice holding an Iron Rod in his hand stretched over the heads of all Kings , Emperours , and Popes , and tells them . Potentes , Potenter tormenta patientur ▪ Ezechias , the holy King , when the Prophet told him hee should dy , turning his face to the Temple said . Quis est qui sic humiliat sublimes reges terrae ? Examen my Soveraigne , and ponderwell the words of that good King , and how hee was frighted , hearing from the Prophet that hee should dy . Dy you must great King , when that shall be God alone knowes , Et post mortem sequiter Iuditium . Those men that abused your Authority on Earth will make noe answer for you ; your selfe must before that Tribunall , receive ( as the meanest of your subjects ) according to what you have done in this life . Many men use to speak to Kings . Omnia placentia . But those will be found in the end flatterers , and false Prophets ; I speake to your Majesty as a Priest of God should speak , ) naked truth , & sic liberavi animam meam . Your Majesty will doe well to sitt downe , and deeply Meditate upon this weighty poynt , and theme , of eternall Damnation , or salvation . Having exposed to my Soveraigne our calamity's , ruine and miserys , and offered humble prayers , for ease and mercy . I now turne my speech to you my most deare and honourable Countrimen , for your sake I have spoken noe way minding redress , for what I my selve have lost , which was somthing . If Iustice shall be don you , and cause of joy come from the Kings good pleasure and determination , prays God and the King for that Happiness , and pray to God for his long and prosperous Raigne . But if this shall not be done ( God permitting things to goe on as they doe , either for punnishing ours , and our Fathers sinns , or for trying our patience in this world . ) Let his holy Name be ever blessed : beare patiently your poverty , and you shall finde poverty a great blessing , S. Iohn Chrisostome compares it with Martyrdome . Egestas ( saith the Saint ) bene tollerata facit Martirium . I doe not think there can hardly be any found in the world , that have come to a greater distress , and poverty , then that you endure , suffer all willingly for God's sake and you are sure of a Crowne : minde often that excellent sentence of S. Augustin . Saeculi homines , infaeliciter faelices sunt , Martyres autem faeliciter infaelices erat . The men of this world , are unhappily happy , but the Martyrs have been happily unhappy . This is your case , or very like it , soe as in your nakedness , your are happier , then those that have all that was yours , living in pleasurs , and plenty , Let this alsoe be some comfort to you , that you have but lost , those things you could not long hould , nor shall the present possessors long enjoy them . Though they think theire fortuns in that Land surely settled , they are but Pilgrims in the way as you are , and must part as you shall ( and with more greef , and feare , for having more then you have ) and then they shall know and feel Gods Iudgment for what they have done to you . In all your afflictions , I shall pray and conjure you , to demean your selves like good Christians , paying faithfully to God his due , and to the King his ; to the King Fidelity and Obedience in Civilibus , and that for Conscience sake ; to God Veneration and highest Worship , which can not be performed without professing a true Rcligion , the same you are of : wherfore let noe wordly preferments , or comodity's , that men can conferr on you ; nor punishments they can inflict , shake your Religion , but hould the same constantly in all tempests and stormes , for of it depends eternall salvation . And to speak at the present tyme of your great afflictions , imitate I pray you , the three Isralites cast into the furnase of Babilon , and you shall finde , as they did , an Angell to comfort you . They in the fyre blessed the name of God , when Azarias standing in the flame said . Blessed art thou O Lord , the God of our Fathers , and laudable and glorious is thy Name for ever , because thou art just in all things which thou hast don to us , and all thy works are true and thy ways righteous , and thy Iudgments true , for wee have sinned , and done unjustly , revolting from thee , and and now wee follow in all our harts ; and feare thee , and seek thy face , confound us not , but doe with us according thy meekness , and according to the multitude of thy mercy deliver us in thy mervells , and give glory to thy name O Lord. None of you have suffered soe much as innocent Iob , set him before your Eyes , invironed with the messingers of all his disasters . One of them said to him . The Sabean● tooke away the Oxes and Asses , and kill'd thy servants . A nother said , a fyre from heaven struck thy sheep , and thy servants , and consum'd them all . The third ; The Chaldeans made three troups and invaded the Cammels . The last told him . A vehement winde came from the Country of the desert , and shook the foure Corners of the House , wherin thy Children were feasting , and falling oppressed them , and they are all dead . Iob hearing all this sad newes , blamed not the Sabeans , Chaldeans , fire from heaven , or winde coming from the Country of the Desert , nor did soe much as mention them . But hee rose up , and faling on the ground adored , and said . Naked I came out of my Mothers Wombe , and naked shall I returne thither , our Lord gave , our Lord hath taken away , as it pleased our Lord , soe it is done , the name of our Lord he blessed . Bless you likewise the the name of our Lord for all that hath befalen you , offering all up purely to his holy will. One thing my honoured deare Country-men I seriously commend to your pious Considerations , the ensuing weighty golden sentence of S. Cyprian . Deus unus est , ( saith hee ) Christus unus est , & una Ecclesia , & Cathedra una , supra Petrum Domini voce fundata : aliud Altare constitui , aut sacerdotium novum fieri prater unum Altare , & unum Sacerdotium , non potest . Qnisquis alibi collegerit , spargit . Adulterum est , impium est , sacrilegum est , quodcunque humano fur●ro Institutitur , ut dispositio Divina violetur . Let the words of this most holy Bishop and Martyre goe to the hart of every one of you . This one God hath created you . This one Christ hath redeemed you . This one Church hath baptized you , and imbued you with the Elements of faith , and Christian Rules of living well : This one and holy Chaire ( of Peter ) hath governed you , and all the Christian world in verity , and sanctity all a long from the Apostles tyme. There is but one Altar , and one Priesthood ( and this only in the Roman Catholick Church : ) hee that gathereth out of this congregation , disperseth . This Church only hath the keyes of heaven , and true Commission to save soules ; any power on Earth , that seeks to pull downe this Altar , to Abolish this Priesthood , to distroy this Church , is Impious , Adulterous , Prophane , and Sacrilegious . The holy Doctour gives another Devine Counsell to his people . Nemo vos fratres errare a Domini viis faciat ; Nemo filios Ecciesiae de Ecclesia tollat ; pereant sibi soli qui perire voluerint . That is to say , let noe man bring you into error from the pathes of our Lord ; let none take out of the Church , Children of the Church ; those that have a minde to perrish and be lost , let them be lost alone . Let Egan ( a lost dissolaite Fryer that latly fell ) and this Sall , and all such prophane men , that will not remaine In Gods House , let them perrish alone , seeing they will haue it soe : doe not you follow theire evill example , Impiety and maddness , but wisely stay within the Ribbs of the Ark , the holy Roman Catholick Church ( Ad quam ( teste Cypriano ) perfidia non habet accessum , And out of which great Augustin assures us there is noe hopes of salvation : ) And be constantly , and Religiously obedient to the Apostolick Sea , and to the man , that stands upon the Rock Clement the X. conspicuous for his Zeal and Piety , on earth the prime Lord of the House of God , with full power to guide and governe all soules in the way of salvation . Praying God of his infinit goodness to graunt you in your great afflictions fortitude ; patience , and comfort ; to his holy Protection I commend hartely you and my selfe , this 23th . December , 1674. Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A40452-e1940 Isa . Cap. 38 , 1. Cor. Cap. 10. Apoc. Cap. 12. Dictum S. Ambrosy . Isa . Cap. 8. Psal . 140. Act. Apl. cap. 5. Levit. cap. 19. Isa . Cap. ● . Ierem. Cap. 6. Ad Rom Cap. 13. Ad Hebr. cap. 11. In Merc. Britanicus . * Bos in Lingua . Iudae Epist . Plato legum 2. lib. Prov. cap. 10. Eccles . cap. 21. Exod. cap. 22. S. To. 2a . 2ae . q. 6. A. 7. De grafys ex cap. significasti , desce : 36. M. 35 , In 2a . 2ae . q. 40. & q. 64. and the interpriters of holy writt in Rom. 13. 3a . part . lib. 2. cap , 1. In 2a . 2ae . q. 64. a 7. In 2a . 2ae . q. 40. a 1. dub : 2. con . 1. Mac. l. 2. cap. 15. 2a . 2ae . q. 40. a. 1. d. 10 , con . 1. §§ . ad L Aquill : L scientiam §§ . qui cum aliter . Instit : Moral : P. 3. l. 3. q. 6. q. 6. n. 7. de Iustitia & Iure . Out of the Narrative of the Earl of Clarindons Settlement and Sale of Ireland Out of Clarendons Settleement and Sale of Ireland pag. 8. Psal . 71. Psal . non●●… . Iob. cap. 29. Ierem. Thren● cap. 5. Malac. cap. 2. Iob. cap. 12. Dan. cap. 3. Iob. cap. 1. S. Cyprianus Epist . 40.