A Seasonable Discourse Shev;iiig 
 the Necessity of Maintaining the 
 Established Religion in Opposi- 
 tion to Popery 
 
 William Lloyd, bp. of Worcester
 
 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 AT LOS ANGELES
 
 A ScafonaBle 
 
 DISCOURSE 
 
 SHEWING 
 
 The ^jecejfity of Maintaining 
 THE 
 
 Eftablifhed Religion, 
 
 In opposition to 
 
 POPERY. 
 
 fourth cation cojre Set) acco^ina to 
 
 L O N <D O N: 
 
 Printed for Henry ^rome, at the Gun in S. 
 Church- Yard. M DC LXXIII.
 
 
 
 

 
 A Seafonable 
 
 DISCOURSE 
 
 SHEWING 
 
 The NECESSITY of Maintaining 
 THE 
 
 I Eftablifhed Religion, 
 
 In Oppofiticu to 
 
 POPE R Y. 
 
 T is not to be doubted, but that 
 the Papifts (againft whom the 
 Penal Laws were moft (harp) 
 are and will be watchful to im- 
 prove to their utmoft advan- 
 tage 3 His Majefties Declara- 
 tion of Indulgence -, wherein 
 he grants Liberty to all forts 
 of Diffenters from the Church of England^ to ex- 
 ercife their Religions, and fufpends the Execu- 
 tion of the Penal Laws in force againft them. 
 They will now fo much the more induftrioufly fet 
 themfelves to feduce Proteftants, fince they may 
 fecurely own and defend their Perfwafions, an? 
 even their Priefts openly act in all parts their Fun- 
 ftion, which was before no lefs than Capital in 
 any of His Majefties Subjects. If the induftry we 
 expect from them meet not with a proportionable 
 A 2, zeal 
 
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 zeal in all true Protcftants, it will not be hard to 
 conjecture what the Succefs will be, when the 
 Attaque is vigorous and induftrious, and the De- 
 fence faint and negligent. And therefore I think 
 it cannot be unfeafonable to offer a few Motives 
 to the ftirrlng. np the zeal, and awakening the 
 prudence of all fuch Proteftants as fear God, and 
 love the King,, the Church,or themfelves ; as well 
 as to arm them with fome Arguments for their 
 own confirmation in the grounds of Proteftancy, 
 in oppofition to Popery. 
 
 IT The fiffir Confederation (hall be that of Duty 
 tso Almighty God, who has made us Members of a 
 Chriftian <. hurch, in which we may afiuredly find 
 Salvation if we continue in it, and live according to 
 its Rales and Precepts. This Chriftian Church our 
 holy Mother has no other Rule ofFaith and Practice 
 
 *AK 6. than the Holy (a) Scripture 3 0f which^when lefs was 
 
 b i rw-3.1?. written than we have now in our hands, S.Pau/ '&) 
 fa id then., they were able to make men wfe unto filva- 
 tun t hrovg h faith in Chrift Jefa. It receives f or C a - 
 nonical Scripture neither lefs nor more rhan thofe 
 
 *Anis. 15. Books (c^ofvohtft authority there was never any doubt 
 in tht church, yielding herein as- much to Univerfal 
 Tradition as any Church in the world .-much more 
 than the Roman docs, who obtrudes her particular 
 
 ouo$tU. Didhues and moft nororions Innovations for the 
 Fundamentals of the Catholic Faith. It profetfes 
 the fame Faith and n& more than what all Chrir 
 ftians have made rhe Badge and Symbol of their 
 ProfefTion, namely that which is briefly compris'd 
 
 d^t..?. ,- n c - ne (^ A-pofiles Creed,, explained in thofe o- 
 
 thers
 
 fn oppofitton to f&opetp* 
 
 thers which are called the Nicene and Athanafian., 
 and proved by the Holy Scriptures taken in that 
 fenfe which is evident in the Text to any indif- 
 ferent judgment, and approved by the confent of 
 the (t) Univerfal Church, the Decrees of the 
 firft General Councils and Writings of the Fa- 
 thers. 
 
 We are Members of a Church where are irfed 
 the fame (f) SacrAments which Chrift exprefly left f ^ r * - 
 in his Church, and no other. We wor{bip the only 
 (g) God, as we are taught to believe in him, and g^. f . 
 HO other. Our Adminiftration of this Worfliip and 
 of thefe Sacraments is in a (h) Language under- hi cor, H. 
 flood by all thofe that are concerned in them, be- 7 > 
 wig performed with fu<:h (/) Rites as are agreeable p^flce'of 
 to the Word of God, being for Decency and Or- rem. to the 
 der ; and we ufe them not as ntcefTary in them- Lmt '' 
 felves, but in obedience to that Authority which 
 God has given to every particular Church over its 
 own Members, (/>) Qur 'Discipline likewise is ac-k^ 33 . 
 cording to the Scripture Rule, and Primitive Fat- 
 terns , as far as the loofenefs of this Age will 
 bear; and if this has weakned the Difcipline of 
 ur Cfiurch, we believe it has the fame effect even-coww/a^ in 
 in thofe of the Roman Communion, and had 
 no lefs in the Church of Corimk in the ApofHes- 
 times. 
 
 And for tire (I) Perfons who are employed in-iB 
 the Minijlry of Gods Worfliip and Sacra men rs y ^ w - 
 and in the feeding and governing of the Flock of Mtf 
 Chrift , they are lawfully called to their Office ^. 
 and Minlftry 5 and are confecrated and ordained 
 according to tJie ScijpturcSj and Canons of the 
 
 Unb- 

 
 Univerfal Church: and we (hew the Succeffion of 
 our Bifhops to the Apoftles of Chrift, as fully as ic 
 can be {hewn in any other Church at this day. 
 
 Laftly, We are members of a Church, which 
 
 above all other Conftitutions in the Chriftian 
 
 mJrt.w. World enforces the great duties of (w) obedience 
 
 '* Charles anc j fubmiflion to the ^Magiftrnte , and ceaches 
 
 '?%**** to be fubject not nly for Wrtfh , hut Confciencc 
 
 fake. 
 
 In all thefe refpe&s our Church holds a Com- 
 munion with all true Churches of Chrift that are 
 or have been in the World, and is together with 
 them a true Member of that holy x Catholic Apo- 
 flolic Church which was from the beginning, and 
 u t ' will be to the end, 
 
 As we pafs not fevere cenfures on other 
 Churches, though exceedingly erroneous, and are 
 for that charity unworthily repaid by the moft 
 criminal, thatof0#2d?: Scare we excommunicated 
 by none that we know of, but Her^ The Pope 
 herein dealing with us as he does with all other 
 CXM. Chriftians in the (n) World, namely, with rnoft 
 of the European Churches, and all in other parts, 
 except thofe few whom he has gained of late by 
 his Miiftonaries. 
 
 The common Caufe for which we faffer is no- 
 3- thing elfe but the defence of the (0} Faith which was 
 owe delivered to the Saints^ and of that Liberty where- 
 with Chrift has m&de tts free , againfl thofe additional 
 Articles which he would intrude into the one, and 
 that Anti-chriftian Yoke which he would impofe 
 on the other. 
 
 The difference between our cafe and that of our 
 
 fellow
 
 utoppofitiontoiloptr?. * 
 
 fellow Chriftians who fufFer with us is only this 5 
 that they are fliut out from Heaven as far as the 
 Popes Cenfures can do it , for they know not 
 what; many of them, even Millions in the remoter 
 parts, having never fo much as heard of him, or his 
 pretenfionsj whereas we know them- too well by 
 woful Experience. 
 
 It is not much more than an hundred years fince 
 that our Anceftors were under his Tyranny : which, 
 as their Fathers had infenfiby drawn upon them- 
 felves, by their deference to the See of Rome* from 
 whence the SAXONS had partly (j>) their Conver- /> Ethelbert 
 fion; fothey having endured it as long as they 
 were able , after many fruitlefs eadeavours iQf 
 make it tolerable, at laft with one (cfi confent 
 threw the Yoke off their necks. 
 
 Our Church being thus freed from the Ufurpa- Parliament 
 tions of Rome by them who were deeply (r,>im- J^- 
 merftd in the errors and corruptions of it 5 . the be(W Herb.H/p.f 
 ufe they could make of their liberty was this> to Hen - 8 - Speed., 
 reftorethe primitive purity of the Chriftian Faith, 
 and Worfhip, which ignorance an.d interefl had 
 fatally depraved. Indeed, 'twas morally impof- 
 ilble that they fliould pafs untainted through fo-/Guicdai\l 
 many Av^es of darknefs , when the Popes given ( l . 6 - 
 
 J w \n. , * - r >i . .* 3 luitprand, 
 
 up to profligate ( f} vice feem d to drive on.no/ z . e% ,,. 
 other defign but for Wealth and Dominion ; when Ba ron.^ 
 fcarce any in their Communion underftood the 
 Originals of Scripture j when thofe that governed ses.\\. 
 were fo jealous of it, that they would not fufFer Gen ^ r ' 
 any (0 TraniTation, but the Latine, which was- r sixt 'v. 
 overgrown the mean while (as they now confefs ) Clem.,iit& 
 with many thoufands of Corruptions. 
 
 III Ha.-
 
 I.I Having confidered the Obligation we have to 
 
 the Religion we profefs, it may be feafonable next 
 
 to reflect on the Religion to which we are invited. 
 
 Wee are invited to one that recals us to the 
 
 Idolatrous practice of the heathen World , to 
 
 cwi/.r.-j- (*) pray unto our fellow Creatures canonized, to 
 
 MjS'iiSg. Saints and Heroes, to worihip Images , and fall 
 
 /. a. down to the (lock of a tree. "Nay to the worlhip- 
 
 ping of the confecrated hoft, which by the confef- 
 
 tSc* ! ion of (*) c ft er * the J efuite > and Some thers > 
 
 trovcrf c. . is a more ftupid Idolatry then the word of the Hea- 
 
 ^ncTj-ri^' l ^ ens werever u ^ [ y ^ incafeTranfubftantia- 
 
 tent.stftfi, tlon cannot bee made out. Now that Tranfubllan- 
 
 IHJ. deEiick. tiation is not real, we have all the evidence that 
 
 we are capable of, the teftimony of our reafon and 
 
 our fenfes. The abfurd and mo'nftrous confequen- 
 
 ces of that Dodrine will fill Volumes , a great 
 
 part of which are with great truth and juftice 
 
 drawn together by Dr. 'Brevint in his late Traft 
 
 entituled, The Depth And Myfttry of the Romtn Mafs* 
 
 We are invited to a Religion that takes from us, 
 
 y cwcii.cn- half the Sacrament of the Eucharift, (/) nottvith- 
 
 rT/.'^'t!!/^^the InditutionofChrift in exprefs words, 
 
 vdideEucb. and notwith ft unking the pra<5tice of the Primitive 
 
 ' 4 * Church to the contrary. 
 
 We are invked to a Church that revives the 
 Mwrl?' ^ eat ^ en Perfecution of taking away our ^)Bibles ; 
 Bciu/Jfr.'tf* and would involve every Lay-man in the guilt of 
 4rf.fr* being a * Trtditor , the next ftep in the account 
 TS*iX of the P firaiti ve Church to Apoftacy from the 
 tont.'pvmen. Chriftian Faith. We are invited to a Church, 
 that as it takes away the Scriptures and half the 
 
 Com--
 
 fnoppofifton foj&opef?; 
 
 Communion, robsus iikcwife of the benefit of the 
 Publick Prayers, putting the Offices in an un- 
 known f Tongue -, infomuch that when about 
 thirteen years ago fome of the Prelates of the A n r ht -ex 
 Church of France had taken care to tranflate the 
 Liturgy and Scripture into the vulgar Tongue, ^u& p-i . 
 Pope' CO Alexander the feventh damns the At- 
 tempt, and under pain of Excommunication com- p 
 mands all perfons to being in their Books to be 
 publicly burnt. We are tempted to a Religion, 
 which contrary to the command of trying all things^ 
 And holding fa/t th A t which u good, and -paying to 
 God A reafoxable fervice,^en)oyns an () implicite An. 1660. & 
 Faith and blind Obedience: to a Reliion 
 
 ^ 
 inftead of the guidance of the Word of God, 
 
 up an (c) infallible Judge and Arbitrator of all Cellar. & 
 Dodlrines, the Pope of 7(ome: Which inftead tflccfe/.^^ 
 the faith once delivered to the Saints adds ( d ) new d $ u d<: 3. 
 Articles of Faith ^ Which inftead of that one pro- 
 pitiation made by Chrift, and the condition 
 thereof Faith and;Repentance,fets remiflion of fins 
 upon quite other terms, and propofes that gi r t of 
 God to be bought with Money in the vile Market 
 of CO Indulgences 5 for inftance ( f) Sacriledge e Beiiar.fe 
 is valued at feven groffes, Inceft at five, Simony **/* l> r ' 
 
 ** ' 
 
 feven , Perjury fix, Murder five , and fo on in 
 the Tax of the Apoftolic Chancery. 
 
 We are invited to a Church where we muft 
 be Schifmatics that we maybe Catholics; and 
 adhere to the (g) Roman in oppofition ta all 
 other ; that is to the Catholic Church. Eecuf. i. 
 
 'Twere cndlefs by retail to reckon up the 
 Etrors and the Guilts to which w6 are invited $ 
 
 B the
 
 the fond ridiculous Rites, the fuperfUtious , 
 burthenfom and heathenifh Ceremonies , the 
 Exorcifms and Conjurations , the Blafphemies 
 and forged Miracles, Cheats and pious Frauds, 
 the Lies and Stories ftupin andimpoflible as thofe 
 of Amadii de Gaul^ the Knight ofphe Sun^ or- the Seven 
 Champions. Witnefs the^Go/ttftt Legend, the Lives 
 tf the Sahts , of S..Fracu^ Brtwoj S.Dominic and 
 infinite others ^ or if we, have a mind to a Ro- 
 mance of eur own , the long Tale of a Tub 
 nift. which (j&) Father Serexw Creffy has lately put 
 ou t borrowed from Father Alford; the impro- 
 bable , that is, the greater Miracles, as he 
 tells us , being omitted becaufe of the unbelief 
 c the Heretics- and yet enow arc left to 
 weary the credulity of themoft fanguine Catholic: 
 Wherein alfo, as he tells us, we may fee the 
 Iraith of our Forefathers , and truly we have 
 great reafon to thank him for theprofpeft, which 
 (,as hereprefents ic) gives us ftrong inducements- 
 info unequal a competition, to retein our own. 
 
 "Motwithftanding all that has been faid, there 
 are a fort of pacific Writers, who reprefent 
 the Do6hines of the Church of Rome under a- 
 fairer lig,ht, and would have us believe th-ey 
 hav-e a better meaning than is ufually fuggefteo. 
 And God forbid that we fhould take things by 
 the worfl handle, or make that breach wider, 
 whofe clofure we fhould endeavour to make up 
 wit ^ a zeal e ? ual to t ^ iat ' o f tne gallant (i)Rwa&, 
 who threw himfelf on behalf of his Country into 
 the gaping Gulf. Indeed no price can be too great 
 for Peace, but only Truth; thewJiich we may 
 
 not
 
 in opposition to $oper^ 
 
 not part with for all the tempting charms of 
 Charity and Love: and God knows, in the 
 prefent cafe 'tis evident, that the excufes which 
 are fram'd in the Romanifts behalf are fhort and 
 frivolous; nor befides can any man be efteem'd 
 a Roman Catholic by admitting the Doctrines 
 of that Church in his own private or fomemore 
 probable Doctors , but in the public fenfe. And , 
 had thefe undertakers in the Catholic Caufe 
 power to difpenfe therein according to that 
 Candor which many of them make (hew of, we 
 might attend to what is faid$ but we are well 
 aflur'd , that all thefe fair words can fignlfie 
 nothing but are merely a bait and fnare laid to 
 draw in the eafie Profelyte: for when he's re- 
 concil'd and brought into the bofom f the 
 Church, thefe painted (hews are prefently wafht 
 off-, and all conceffions immediately retracted ; 
 the Convert muft then learn the Colliers Greed, 
 believe as the Church believes, and St. Peter's 
 Key which threw the gate open to admit into the 
 Church, will (hut the Prifoner in: and the 
 CJiild which had a piece of money given him 
 to keep him quiet, (hall foon after have it 
 calUd for back again , and be aw'd with the 
 rod, if he repine or murmur. So that 'twill be 
 a frivcjous Project to talk of a reconcilement 
 with the Church of Rome , till (he firft conform 
 herfelf to Truth 5 and a Conviction, and much 
 more a Reformation muft here be impoflible > 
 where the grofTeft Errors are joyn'd with an Af- 
 furance of being free from any-, nay, a Perfua- 
 fion of being Infallible. 
 
 B z IV. The
 
 IV. The Motive which deferves the next place 
 is the Safety of the Kings Pe rfon , and the Pre- 
 rogative of the Crown, which hath no higher or 
 more neceflary appendent than his Supremacy 
 in his, Dominions in all< Catffes Ecclefiaflical 
 and Secular, according to 'the powers invefted 
 in the ( k ) Jewtfb Kings cnder the Law, and ex- 
 &c. erc if e d by the firft (7; cbrrfltm Emperours* 
 
 'Tis obvioufly known how deftruclive both to 
 it ft If and the Community the Partnerfhip is of 
 Regal Power 5 but this rauft be infinitely mif- 
 chievous when fliared by a Foreiner, whofe in- 
 terefts are neceflarily contrary to thofe of our 
 Prince and Nation, as the Popes certainly are. 
 But this mifchief ftays not within the aforefaid 
 bounds ; for the Pope is not content with a 
 /^ bare Co-ordination, but demands the Preference 
 Eud. for his fpiritual Sword y a d claims a power to* 
 de P fe Kings and difpofe of Kingdoms. 
 
 This we learn at large from (m) X<tUrmiy 
 suareZ) Turrecrematt) Cztd. Perron ^ Thorn* ^qttin. 
 LtdtfiA> Maldfriusy to pafs by innumerable others, 
 all whofe Works were pablifht by Authority, 
 '* and fo own'd as confonant to the Doctrines ol 
 Ledef! Tfai. the Church: to which may be added the Pope's 
 Definition r wlio makes it; authentic Law ia 
 thefe words we fay and define and provouxce t hat it u 
 abfilutfly neceffary to falvation for every knmAn Cre&- 
 
 *" * he fi*j<# '<> ths s $y *f R w> and this- 
 Law of Pope () Boniface the Eighth's making^, 
 ne e ff^^^iy comtneated on himfetfj :of whom- 
 j. (o) Phtinfl fays 3 That be made it hi* bnfwefs to 
 s (I give
 
 in oppoflttott to 
 
 give and take away Kingdoms , to expel men and 
 rcjlore- them At hi* pleafttre. All which , that it 
 might want no Sanction or Authority to render 
 it the Do&rine of the Church, is juftified in the 
 third and fourth (p) Later** Council, the Council P Conc - 
 of Lions, the Council of &$*" 5 all which 
 call themfelves General, and are fo accepted in p.^i. 
 
 the Roman Church, and therefore fpeak the Do- l f- *' 
 r i /-M i_ row.ib 
 
 clrme or the Church. 
 
 What has been .done in this kind fince the 
 days of Gregory the. Seventh throughout Europe 
 would fill a large Volume, in -the bare Narra- 
 tion 3 whoever has a mind to feeJthofe black 
 Annals need not confult Proteftant Writers, but 
 read BwwitM or PUtin*^ and there, iie. will -fatisfie 
 himself. Behold at large the laft- and i greater 
 Triumphs, of the Capttpl: Crowns and Scepters 
 and the necks of Emperors and Kings trampled 
 upon in great Self-denial by ckrift's hiumble Vicar,.. 
 their Realms and; Countries taken front them 
 and involv'd in blooJ by the Lieutenant of the 
 Prince of Peace: Subjects difcharg'd from their 
 Allegiance in the right of him , who himfelf 
 difown'd the being a divider and a Judge; and 
 in a word , the whole world made his-Kingd'om, 
 who pretends his intereft deriv'd from tfflr- Lord 
 y^,. who difclaim'd the haviag 'a"klbgd-om'of 
 this World. So that it was not faid amifs by 
 Paffwantiwi That the Devil made tender of all the 
 Kingdoms of the World and the glory vf - them t* our 
 Lord ChriJ? , but be refufid them ; Afterwards he 
 made the feme offer to kk View the Popt , and he 
 
 pefently
 
 Accepted it , with the \Condition annext rf 
 falling down And worfoipping. The Engiifh Reader 
 -who defires to be fatisfied in matter of Faft 
 to confult the (^) Hiftory of 
 
 Treafovs and Vfurpattons not long fince written by 
 Mr. Foulis, to pafs by others who have alto 
 dealt -in that Subject 
 
 At prefent I ftiall only add that although our 
 neighbouring Princes have difficulty enough gives 
 them by this Univerfal Monarch, who like hi-s 
 Predecetfors in Heathen Rome^ makes it a^ piece of 
 his Prerogative to have Kings his Vaflals , yet 
 -they often help themfelves by fome Advantages 
 which our Sovereign is not allowed. The moft 
 Chriftian King has his Capitularies, Pragmatic 
 Sanctions, Concordats, and the Privileges of the 
 jGdlican Church to plead upon occafion. And his 
 Catholic Majefty as the eldeft Son of the Church 
 has feveral Rights of Primogeniture, efpecially 
 in the Kingdom si Sicily, But the Crown of Eng- 
 Und'\s not to be treated with fuch refpect : it alas 
 ever finoe the days of Henry the Second or at leaft 
 Kihg.3V;is held in fee of the Pope, and we are 
 in hazard to be called unto account for the Ar- 
 rear of JJQOO Marks per Annum payable ever fince 
 rtfttUtme: And Cardinal (r) Allen has given it 
 for good C a non Law, That without the approbation 
 tf the See ^fpcftoltc nwe can he lawful King or Queen of 
 England by rea(on of the antient Accord made between 
 Alexander .the Third in the year 1171. and Henry 
 the Second then King, when he was abfolvdfir the death 
 tfS. Thomas of CAntctbury : That w man might 
 
 law-
 
 fn oppofltfoti to $opetf, 
 
 lawfully take that Crown , nor be accounted at 
 till he were confirmed by the Sovereign Paftor of oar 
 fouls which for the time fhould be ; Thu Accord being- 
 afterwards renewed about the year 1210. by King John, 
 who confirmed the fame by oath to Pandulphus the 
 Pspes Legate At the fpecial requeft And procurement of' 
 the Lords And Commons as A thing mo ft necefary for 
 the prefervAtiofr of the Realm from t/x unjuft usurpation? 
 vf Tyrants y and avoiding other inconveniences which 
 they hadproved., &c. But if this be bat the fingle 
 Opinion of a probable Doftor, we may have the- 
 fame afferted by an infallible one, Pope (f ) Innocent /M 
 t-he Fourth, who before his College of Cardinals, .An.ii^.- 
 and therefore in likelihood I 'Cathedra 5 declares*, 
 that the King (/England was hit* raff d, nay y to fpeak 
 truth, his Slave* From hence it is that the fuc- 
 ceeding Pop^s have been fo free on all occafions of 
 turning out of doors thefe theirTenants ttpon every, 
 Difpleafure- and little pet. Not to mention the 
 old Mif-adventures of Richard the Second, King 
 John,&c.. Hence it was that -(t) Panl the Third ' Cherabinf 
 fentagainft King Henry the Eighth, in the year^f; nw ' 14 ' 
 15-58. his terrible thundering Bull, as the Author Hift. cone. 
 of the Hiftory of the Council of Trent calls it, y^- 1 A *> 
 fuch at never wot u fed by hi* Predecrffors ntr imitated '* 
 by hisSucceffors in the Pttnifiwents to -the King were 
 deprivation of hit Kingdom >j . and to his adherents of what* 
 fteverthey poffeft-y commanding his Subjects to deny him 
 Obedience) and Strangers to have any Commerce in that 
 Kingdom^ and all to take Arms again/I, and to ferfecutc 
 both himfelf and hit followers, granting them their - 
 fates and Goods for their frey^ and their TerfoHS for tbch> 
 
 Slaves* .
 
 5ajeftabua)tDeUsfon 
 
 8 
 
 ' would not acknowledge Queen Elizabeth) 
 the Kingdom was A Fee of the Papacy, and it was tu 
 
 dacioujly done of her t affttme it without hit 
 Aftd therefore ( x ) Piut the Fifth went on , and 
 Cherubim fairly depofed her by his Bull, dated Febr. ^^. 
 **;**'*' 1570. but becaufe the ftubborn Woman would 
 7Jhiun./.*4. needs be Queen for all this, Pope.y; Gregory the 
 Cambd.E//t. Thirteenth depofes her. again, and having two 
 "'' )7> '' hopeful Baftards to provide for, to the one he 
 gives the Kingdom of England^ to the other that 
 .of Ireland. Nor was (he unqueen'd enough by all 
 ^Cafnb.Et- this, but (jc) sixtus Quwtus gives away her Dorai- 
 An. jjs^. nions once more to the King of spun; and after 
 * Camb.E//t- all when nothing of all this would thrive, * cle~ 
 An. 1600. ment t j ie Eighth fends two Breves for failing into 
 England^ one to the Laity, the other to the Cler- 
 gy, commanding them not to admit any other 
 but a Catholic, though never fo near in blood, to 
 the Succeflion in plain terms, to exclude the 
 Family of our Sovereign from the Crown. When 
 King Junes was come in notwithstanding thofe 
 Breves, the Gun-powder Plot was contriv'd to 
 throw him out again 5 and when that had occafi- 
 on'd the State for its own Security to require the 
 taking of an Oath of Allegiance, Paul V. fent his 
 Breves with all fpeed to forbid the taking ofit 5 
 and for fear thofe might be forgotten in time, in 
 M * 3 r ' l ^ e y ear l6z *' ^ Vr ^ An VIII ^nds again to forbid 
 715. ^^ s belwedSons, the Catholics ^/England, to take that 
 pernicious and unlawful Oath of Allegiance. Yet more,in 
 the late unnatural Rebellion mireltnd theLoyal Ca- 
 
 tholics
 
 in oppofit ton to $opctv . 5 
 
 tholics, as now they call themfelves, fubmitted 
 
 that unhappy Kingdom to his aforefald Holinefs 
 
 Pope (4) Vrbaxy to pafs by other offers no lefs a ^ r f Orrc - 
 
 treafonable : and after that, as we are credibly ' 
 
 informed, Pope Innocent the Tenth beftowed it 
 
 as a Favour on his dear Sifter, and much dearer 
 
 Miftris DonnAOlyfopia. And fure we have all the 
 
 reafon in the world to believe that every thing of 
 
 this will be done again when the old Gentleman 
 
 at Rome is pleafed to be angry next, has a mind 
 
 to gratifie a neighbour Prince, oir wants a Portion 
 
 for a Son, or a Favour for a Miftris. And as^it is, 
 
 the Papiftsof England have but this oneexcufefor 
 
 that mortal finof obedience to their Heretic Prince; 
 
 (b) that they are not ftrong enough to carry a. Rebel/ten: 
 
 And truly 'twere great pity thefe men fliould be en- 
 
 trufted with more power, who give us fo many 
 
 warnings beforehand how they are bound to ufe it. ****" 
 
 But to all this the Roman Catholics have one 
 mort reply , That they are the moft Loyal Sub- 
 jecls of his Majefty : and have fignally approved 
 their duty by their fervice and fidelity in thelaft 
 War. To this I fay in fliort, that as bad as Pope- 
 ry is, Idonot think it can eradicate in all its Vo- 
 taries their natural confcience ; no Plague was e- 
 ver fo fatal as to leave no Perfon uninfedfced, but 
 alwayes fome have fcap't its fury. The cafe is 
 fully dated by King (c) fames of famous memory, c v^ing Jaai9 
 AsononepArt^ munyhoneft men^ feducedwith fime Er-^^> 
 rors of Popery , may yet remain good, and. faithful Sub- 
 je$s -j fo on the other part, none ofthofe that truly know 
 and believe the whole grounds and School eonclttpons of 
 
 C their
 
 6 Ije Oiiblifocb Religion 
 
 their Doctrines^ can ever prove either good cbrifttAns t or 
 good. Subjects. To fpeak the plain truth, and what 
 the infolent boafts of Papifts makes neceflTary to 
 be told them, whatever was done then, was no 
 trial at all of Loyalty. The late Rebels found it 
 neceflfary for the countenancing their caufe to 
 make a loud pretence againft Popery , and to 
 have the benefit of fpoiling them : So that the 
 Roman Catholics did not fo much give afliftance 
 to the King , as receive Protection from him. 
 When they (hall have adher'd to their Prince in 
 fpightof the commands of their holy Father the 
 Pope, and defended their Sovereign and his Rights, 
 when it was not their intereft to do it, they will 
 have fomewhat worth the boafting ; As the cafe 
 now (lands, they had better hold their peace, and 
 remember that the Sons of another Church ferved 
 their King as faithfully as they, though they 
 talk lefs of it. But fince they will needs have 
 the World know what good Subjects they have 
 been, let them take this'fliort account from t be 
 1 4, Anfwer to the ( d} Apology for the Papifts , Printed 
 An* 1667. I** Ireland there were -whole Armies of 
 Jrifh Arid nglift> that fought again ft hit >JM.a]cfty 
 Jolefy upon the account of your Religion. In England 
 it it true fome came in voluntarily to affiji him , hut 
 many more of you were hunted into hti Garrifons by 
 them that knew you would bring him little help, and 
 much hatred. And of thofe that fought for him as 
 long as his Fortune flood 5 when that once declined^ a 
 great, part even of them fell from him. And from 
 that time forward you, th*t were, always all deem'd
 
 iii oppofit ton to i&opec^, \ 7 
 
 Cavaliers where were you '. In a/I thofe weak efforts 
 of gafping Loyalty what did you ? Tou complied , and 
 flattered^ and gave fugtred words to the Rebels the> 
 a> you d* to the ^oy^llifts now ; Ton addrefied ycur 
 Petitions to the Supreme Authority of this Nation the 
 Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. Tou 
 affirmed that you had generally taken 3 and punctually 
 kept the Engagement. Tou promifed^ that if you might 
 hut enjoy your Religion 3 you would he the mo ft qttiet 
 and ufefttl Subjects of England. Tou pr&v'd it in 
 thefe words: The Papifls (/England would he bound 
 by their own intereji 3 the (trongeft Obligation among/I 
 wife men , to live peaceably and thankfully in the pri- 
 vate exercife of their Conscience , and becoming gai- 
 ners by fuch companions , they could not fo reasonably 
 be diftrufted ai the Prelatic Party which were lojtrs. 
 If this be not enough to evidence the fingular 
 loyalty of Papifts in the late War, they may 
 hear a great deal more of their vertue celebrated 
 from their Petitions and public Writings in my 
 (e) Lord Orrery V anfwer to Peter Welfh his Letter. e P^ H , l 
 Andbecaufe in thofe Writings they are fo ready &c. 
 to throw the firft ftone againft the late Regicides, 
 they would do well to clear themfelves from the 
 guile of that Sacred bloud which is charged 
 home upon them by the Anfwerer of (f)PhilanaxtPAg, u. 
 AnglicM^ who has not yet been controuled for 
 that accufation. 
 
 V. To this barbarous iafolence $f Excommu- 
 nicating and Depofing Kings may fucceed the 
 ufual confequent of that , but greater prodigy 
 
 C 2 of
 
 of Tyranny , the -putting, whole Nations under In- 
 tcrditf) and depriving them of all the Offices and 
 comforts of Religion ,- and that generally with- 
 out any other provocation, than that the Prince 
 has infifted onhis:juft rights, or the people per- 
 formed their neceilary .-duty. Hiftory is full of 
 inftances hereof. Within the compafs of v one 
 
 g Baron, cent. Age, I mean the eleventh (g) Century, almoft 
 
 undtn*. ail the Nations of Europe fe\\ under this Difci- 
 pline, France*) En^Und^ SMt Ian d^ Spain ^ and GermA* 
 0j'-'aod fome of them feveral times over*, and 
 fo it has gone down in following Ages. The 
 nature of the punifhment we may learn from 
 
 kAn. iio ? . (h) Matthew Parti ) who defcribing the Interdid 
 ki the days of King JW^, w*hich lifted amongft 
 usfor fix years, threcmonths, and fourteen days, 
 f-ays , There cetfed throughout England all Eccleji- 
 afticdtWites , 'Altfolutwn And the Eucharift to per[bs 
 iw y }hetr /aft Agonies , And the baptizing of Infants only 
 cxfcpted: alfo the bodies of the* dead were dragd out 
 
 ' ktJ-i^ of Cities dndV'ilUgeS) And buried like the Ctrkaffes of 
 Dogs in the high-ways *nd ditches without any prayers 
 or'' the- Saccrdetal Mimftry. One would imagine 
 that he 'who pretends to hold his.Empire from 
 the Charter of pafce oves , the feeding of Chfift-s 
 'Sheep would find himfelf concerned not to de- 
 fttoy and ftarve- them , or .withhold from them 
 their fpiritual foodfor almoft feven years together' 
 an unufual prefcript for abftinence in order unto 
 health. But' we may not wonder at all this; 
 
 *plat!na for (/) 'jpafce oves with a' .Roman Comment means 
 all Coercion and Dorfiinion j, and they who 
 
 take
 
 take away the Scriptures and half the Commu- 
 nion from the Layty are not to be controuL'd, if 
 they alfo withhold the other offices of piety. 
 
 VI. A farther confideration may be the Laws 
 of the Lavd, which in cafe of Popery muft be 
 content to truckle under the Canon Law 5 and 
 occafional Bulls of his Holinefs , or Legantine 
 Commiflions: The proceedings of the Courts 
 in weftminfter veiling to Prohibitions and Ap- 
 peals to Rome , againft which a Premunire will 
 be a weak fence in bar to the plenitude of the 
 Apoftolic Power; and to murmur or difpute 
 any thing will be efpecially to new Converts, 
 interpreted Herefie , a word of fo (harp an im- 
 portance, as not to need a Comment. x There 
 is. a Tradition that heretofore the Gentlemen of 
 the long Robe were in that mean eftate as to 
 ply at wtftmifttr Hall Gate as now Watermen 
 do at the Stairs for a Fare, let the Pra&icioners 
 in that noble Profeflion confider whether fome 
 fuch thing would not in earned be the confequent 
 of Popery. And the reft of the People of EnglktoJ, 
 would do well to think whether they are fitted 
 fora Journey to R9me , as often as they (hall be 
 called thither: I do not mean the divertifement 
 of Travel, or devotion of Pilgrimage, but the 
 compulfion of Citations from that Court, where 
 the attendance and expence is not likely to be 
 lefs than formerly it was, when it occa/ioned 
 the groans and fad complaints of our Fore-fathers 5 
 which though they have efcaped , our experi- 
 mental
 
 mental knowledge fufficiently appear in all our 
 . (^Hiftories. Or mould the Englifli Law have 
 iis# f me quarter given it, and be allowed a little 
 ' Chamber pra&ife , this muftbe only in reference 
 ^ the Layty< AU (/) Ecc ief ia ftics are under a 
 more perfect difpenfation , and only accountable 
 to the Apoftolic See either for their Actions or 
 concerns, the benefits of which though the Secu- 
 lar Priefts (hare in Come proportion , the Regu- 
 lars much more liberally enjoy, being owned 
 ^ *ke PP e ( m ^ ** hi* Souldiers and Praetorian 
 bands, lifted under the Generals of their feve- 
 ral Orders , maintained indeed at the coft of 
 the Countries where they live , but for the 
 fervice of their Sovereign abroad , to whom 
 they owe an entire and blind obedience : And that 
 they may give no Hoftages to the State where 
 they refide , are forbid to marry. So that if 
 Popery mould prevail, we muft, befides all 
 charges neceffary to fecure our felves form for- 
 reign enemies both by Land and Sea, conftantly 
 maintain a vaft Army of poflibly an hundred 
 thoufand men , for fuch were the old numbers, 
 to allure ur flavery to the Roman Yoke, Nor are 
 thefe fcriviledges of the Church only perfonal, 
 the places themfelves which thefe religious men 
 pofTefs are hallowed into Sanctuaries , and give 
 protection unto any criminal that treads within 
 their threfholds , the moft horrid Murther or 
 barbarous Villany is to have the Benefit of the 
 Clergy, and if the Malefactor have but time to ftep 
 into a Cloyfter, he fears no farther profecution. 
 
 VII.But 
 I
 
 in oppoOtf on to 0o pcrjn 
 
 VII. But befides the inconvenience of fubmit- 
 ting to a foreign Law, that certain mark of {la- 
 very, and the intolerable burthens that attend its 
 execution, it will be of moment to advife how 
 well our Property and intereft in our eftates will 
 (land fecur'd ; And though when Princes are upon 
 their good behaviour, to be difTeized of their do- 
 minions, whenever they offend his Holinefs of 
 f tyme, the Pefant or the Gentleman have no great 
 reafon to expect indemnity : yet (hould the' Farm 
 or Manor- houfe be too low a mark for the Roman 
 Thunderer to level at, 'tis not to be imagined the 
 Lord Abbots and the Lands of all Religious hou- 
 fes will be paft by as trifles. The Church is ever 
 a Minor, and cannot be prefcribed againft by time, 
 or barr'd in her claims, and our holy Father out 
 of his Paternal care will find himfelf cncern'd to 
 vindicate the Orphan committed to his truft. Some 
 perchance who enjoy thofe Lands think they need 
 not apprehend any thing, becaufe they hold un^ 
 der A<5ts of Parliament : But they who imagine 
 this, mould confider, that the fame ftrengththar 
 can repeal thofe Laws that eftablim Proteftancy, 
 may alfodo as much for thofe which fupprefs-Re- 
 ligious houfes : and no body can tell what the 
 force and fwing of a violent turn, efpecially in 
 En&Un^ may. produce, where we feldom proceed ; 
 with coldnefs or referve. Ads ofrefumption are 
 not things unheard of in ours, or in forreinftories.. 
 Nor is the confent of the Pope in Queen () MA- 
 ries dayes a better fecurity ; for.in cafe of a change- 
 
 of;
 
 of Religion all thofe grants will be interpreted a 
 bare permiflion, and that conditional in order to 
 the great end of reclaiming an heretical Kingdom, 
 which not being then accepted of, and finally fub- 
 mitted to, will not be thought obligatory when 
 Papifts by their own skill or injtereft have gotten 
 the power into their hands. King Charles the Firft 
 tttbc yielded at the ijle of (0) wight that the Church 
 ic ./ wihr. - Lands fljould be leafed out for 99 years, in order 
 to a prefent peace and fettlement of all things, 
 through the interpofition of a powerful and vio- 
 lentFaclion it was not then accepted of: Does any 
 man think the Obligation of leafing for 99 years 
 remains now ? Let our Lay- Abbots apply this to 
 their cafe, and then judge whether they upon 
 a revolution will be more fecure of their Pof- 
 feflions than the late Purchafers were; or whe- 
 ther thofe Purchafers were not as confident of 
 tranfmitting their Acquifitions to their pofterity 
 as any pofleflbr of Church Lands now is or has 
 been. T he King of France, not long fince has re- 
 deemed back to ' the Crown thofe demefnes 
 which belong'd to it , paying back fuch fumms 
 as were really laid out by the Purchafers ; and 
 allowing the mean profits as intereft for the mo- 
 ney fo laid out : Which method of procedure has 
 been defended by very considerable Arguments to- 
 be juft and equitable. If the money expen- 
 ded on the Church penniwonhs at the diilblu- 
 tion of Religious houfes were now refunded, and 
 the advantage of above TOO years profit already 
 teceived wtre thrown into the bargain-, though 
 
 the
 
 in 0ppo6ffon to 
 
 the prefent Proprietaries would have an ill ex- 
 change , yet there would be fo much plaufible- 
 nefs in the grounds of it, as in the zeal and heat 
 of a turn would not be eafily controul'd : efpe- 
 cially if it be farther preft, that the firft claim 
 from the A&s of Parliament fupprefling Church 
 Lands appear to be not full and peremptory $ the 
 Lands of the firft fuppreflion in the 27. year of 
 Henry 8. not feeming to intend an alienation to 
 common and fecular ufes, but to have been vefl> 
 ed in the King in truft, that the revenues might 
 be employed (f)to thepleafure of Almighty Got, and to 
 the honour And profit of this Realm. As to thefecond 
 in $i year of Henry%. The A& fuppofes, and is 
 built upon the alienations legally made by the 
 refpective Religious Houfes and Corporations 3 
 who are faid (^) of their oven voluntary mMt 5 good q 
 wills and ajfents> without conftr*int> coaftion^ or compttl- 
 jlon of any manner of per fin or perfons by the due order 
 and cwr\e of the common Laws of this Realm ^Eng- 
 land 5 and by their fufficient Writings f Record under 
 their Covent and common Sea/s y &c. Now to the ve- 
 rifying of thefe particulars a great many doubt- 
 ful circumftances and nice points of Law are eafi- 
 ly drawn in as requisite , the fuggefting whereof 
 in the forementioned cafes however flight and fri- 
 volous they may be, no body can tell what force 
 they will have when dilated on by a Roman 'Ca- 
 tholic Advocate, and interpreted by an infallible 
 Legiflator. That all this is not an idle dream, 
 fuggefted to make Popery odious, will be mani- 
 feft to any one who will take pains to read what 
 
 D a
 
 a Trench Marquefs of that Religion has lately 
 written on this very fubjeft , who having repre- 
 fented us asa.(0 People without Friends-^ without Faith > 
 
 r Twttt de U w ithout Religion** without Probity* without Any iufiicr- 
 poltttjue .if r <? * . y . i ' 
 
 France, c.i 4. rwjtrujiful^ ineortjtAnt to the utmojt extremity-^ crttd^ im- 
 
 ?! A8 3/ ^ At tent , ^urmanMZ>ers 5 proud y audiiciou* t covet OM^ Jit- 
 
 only for handy (hokes and rtfidy execution but tncapa.- 
 ble of managing t War with d'-fcretion. After this' 
 friendly charader he proceeds to fliew by what 
 ways and methods we are to be deftroyed, which 
 are fifA to put M to the expenccs of a war, <md by rat* 
 fing of forcfs create ajealoufie bctvwett the Km% and his 
 Ptople. Then to amufe us with fears of invafion* Third- 
 ly , To Jlir up th fever al Parties among us , and to 
 favour one Sect, again ft another v especially the Catholics , 
 prowifing fecretty t& the Bexediffmes as from the King 
 of England, which they, -will eajlly believe , that they 
 fhall he rejlored to all that they formerly poffefl accord- 
 ing to the Monajlicon lately printed there : whereupon^ 
 fayes this worthy Author, the Monks will move 
 heaven and earth^ and the Catholics will declare them* 
 (fives. It will not be material to tranfcribe the 
 whole defign laid down for our deftru&ion by this 
 bold Writer, which with all other Machinations,. 
 the providence of God 5 and the prudence of his 
 Sacred Majefty will, we hope fruftrate. This is- 
 enough to (hew that: thexe are! per/ons in the 
 world, who can yet nourim hopes of deflroying- 
 the- Nation , and repoflfefling the Lands of the 
 Church , and in printed books make a 
 - of them,, 
 
 A
 
 But if one general Aft of Refumption mould 
 not difleize at one ftroke all the Lay-PofTeflbrs of 
 Church-Lands, 'tis plain that in cafe of Popery, 
 by retail they will be all drawn in, for what Pa- 
 pift in his laft Agonies will obtain Abfolution 
 without fatisfaction firft made to Holy Church, 
 for the Goods facrilegioufly detained? Or how 
 \villheefcapethelyingin Purgatory atleaft, and 
 frying there for feveral thoufands of years, who 
 inftead of having benefit from the Indulgences of 
 the Church, is folemnly ( (') curfed and anathe- tconcit. 
 rnatized with the word of Heretics in the % 
 Caw&) as alfo the Declaration of the Council of r/ Cherubfa. 
 Trent , upon the fcore of being Robbers of the 
 Church? 'Tisno.t to be hoped they mould have any 
 benefit from the fpiritual Treafureof the Church, 
 who have enriched themfelves with that real and 
 material Treafure belonging to her, which is the 
 only price that buyes the other. Indeed, they 
 who without the plea of a precedent right in few 
 centuries gain'd to themfelves a fifth part of the 
 whole Kingdom, will not doubt in a much fhorter 
 time, having the fore-mentioned pretences to re* 
 cover it again, even the fix hundred forty five Abbics, 
 whereof twenty feven had their Abbots Peers of 
 EngUnd. : The ninety College s^ two thousand three hun- 
 dred feventy four Chantries and free Chtppels^ and one 
 hundred and ten Hofpitals^ (t) which (befides the lef- ^Herbert fr/jfc 
 fer Ditfblutions of Templars, Hofpitaiers, Friers 
 Alien and others that preceded ) fell together 
 under the hands of King Henry VIII. 
 
 W-i ' vlH . . 
 
 D 2, VIII.lt
 
 CftabitfteD ttcligtoti 
 
 VIII. It would be farther weigh'd in reference 
 to the Wealth and flouriftiing of the Kingdom, 
 and what is neceflfarily required thereto, the Pre- 
 fervation of Trade , and the value of Lands and 
 Rents-, that the more Popery grows, the more 
 will Idienefs increafe, the more Abbey-Lubbers, 
 that is, perfons exempted from contributing in 
 any kind to the ufes of a State either in War or 
 Peace, and yet maintain'd as drones on others 
 fweat and labours. The more it increafes, the 
 mere will Celibate or fingle life prevail ; the 
 more Daughters will be fent to Nunneries abroad, 
 till they can be fix'd at home , the more men 
 will turn Priefts and Friers , and fo lefs people 
 in the Nation which already has too few. And 
 that the numbers in thofe Societies may be fure 
 to be full, it is a known and cuftomary practice 
 to entice and fpirk away Children from their 
 Parents into their Covents , from whence they 
 cannot be withdrawn without Sacriledge. Of 
 this abufe complaint was made long ago in behalf 
 of the Englifh Nation , co the Pope by (; Rich. 
 c F ^- Ra J y called Armachanw^nno 1 3<5o, though 
 Avc- without redrefs LA? men , fays he , refrain from 
 finding their Sons to the Vniver fates fearing to htvc 
 them taken away from them , chujing rather to keep 
 their Sons At home , and breed them to Husbandry y 
 than to lofe them hy fending them to the Schools : In 
 my time there were thirty thoufand Students * Ox ford, 
 and now there are net fix thottfand , and the great 
 caufc of tbit decreafe in numbers u the aforefnid cir- 
 
 cum-
 
 in oppoftf ton to $0pcep, 27 
 
 ctimventing ofTouth. To this Accufation (x) witl'iAm 
 widford, a begging Frier, makes anfwerinhis 
 Apology for his Order, by undertaking to prove 3 
 That it is very l&vcfuL to entice children into their 
 Covexts without their Parents confent* Since the 
 Reformation , what Arts have been ufed to 
 People the Seminaries abroad , is a thing too- 
 notorious to need an account, if any defire 
 fatisfa&ion therein, he may have it from Mr, 
 Wtdveorttis Englifo Spanifh Pilgrim. As by this en- 
 gaging of the Youth in Monafteries and Nunne- 
 ries there will be many more idle hands, fo by 
 the more Holy-days which will be kept there 
 will be the lefs work done ; confequently what 
 is done will be fo much the dearer 5 an ill ex- 
 pedient for promoting of Trade , for four days 
 work muft perhaps maintain a man and his 
 Family feven. The more Popery encreafes, the 
 lefs Flem will be eaten, a third part of the 
 year being one way or other Fading days, be- 
 fkles particular Penances, as good an expedient 
 for Rents, as the former was for Trade. To 
 falve this, I exped the Papiils (hould tell us, 
 That great numbers of Forreiners of that Reli- 
 gion will come and live among us, and fupply 
 by their numbers the other inconveniences : but 
 the Englifh Artificers and Merchants are already 
 fenfible of the mifchiefs which thofe interloping- 
 Strangers which are here already do among us>, 
 and defire no new Colonies: Befides, 'tis obvi- 
 ous to any common underftanding, that if the 
 admiflion of Popery bring in forreiners, the 
 

 
 a X!)e CftaWtfljtD Keligfon 
 
 difcouragemetu of Proteftancy will in greater 
 and more difadvantageous proportions drive out 
 Natives: and though it be not certain who 
 will gain by the chinge- 'tis manifeft that the 
 'true TEnglim Intereft will be alofer by it. 
 
 IX. But to procced^/w? will wring out of pri 
 sons -a vaft expene in Mafles, ' Dirges, Mortua- 
 ries, Penances, Commutations, Pilgrimages, In- 
 dulgences, Tenths, Firft Fruits, Appeals, Inve- 
 ftitures, Palls, Peter-pence, Provifions , Exem- 
 ptions, Collations, Devolutions, Revocations, 
 Unions , Commendams , Tolerations , Pardons , 
 jubilees, &c. paid to Priefts, the Pope and his 
 "^Officers 5 which upon computation amounted 
 to 500000 m. per Annum, a great part there- 
 of carried out of the Kingdom in a time when 
 the Indies had not filled it with Gold and Silver* 
 The tyranny was fo intolerable , that the whole 
 Nation protefted againft it in their Letter to 
 . the Council of (^) Lyons, Anno 1145*. wherein 
 amo ng other things they declare, That/? //*//- 
 4*s received hence yearly dove fixty thoufand MArk^ 
 lecfidet All other payments U the See of Rome , And 
 wried oat of the Kingdom a greater revenue than the 
 King hud , who JVM Tutor to the Church and wo* 
 to (uport the charge of the State. Which com- 
 plaint yet had no other anfwer than delays, and 
 a fevere example to terrific them , immediately 
 made upon the Emperour Frederick the Second, 
 againft whom his Holinefs innocent the Fourth 
 then Pope , to ufe the words of the Ads of the 
 
 Council
 
 in oppoStfott to 
 
 Council 5 ( js) Pronounced and thundred out the ?-?* 4**. 
 Sentence of Excvmunication , mi without the hor- 
 rour and amazement of all hearers and by- (tenders. 
 Only the Annats or Pirft Fruits of Bifhopricks 
 .as they were computed in * Parliament , Anno * Hcrb H'/fc" 
 1532. in a few years came to an hundred fix ty J^>. Hcn " s ' 
 thousand pound fterling ; it would be endlefs to 
 aud;t the whole Account. As England was by 
 the Popes filled an \ inexh&Hft-Me fit , fo was 1 v ^t. p<ai 
 there no> bounds fet to the induftry of them 
 who attempted to drain it. After a fad conr- 
 piaint of the Rapine , Avarice, and Tyranny 
 cf the Pope and his Officers among us , (a) Mat- a 
 thcw Paris breaks out into thefe words, we 
 might there fee heartbreaking grief \ the cheeks of 
 pious per fons drown din tears- ) the doleful moan that ' 
 thtymade^ and the jlghs which -they mult ip lie d^ fay Kg 
 with bleeding groans^ It were, better for us to die , 
 then behold the calamity of our Cfttntry and ftGtts 
 Pfop/e of it. woe to England , vfh& heretofore was 
 Prince fs of Provinces , and Ruler of Nations , the 
 mtr r our of Excellence ^ and pattern * of Pitty , is now 
 become Tributary ^ "jile per font ha^t trampled npo* 
 her , and (be u a prey to ths \ignoble : : But cur mani* 
 fold fins . have procured tkefe judgments from God 
 who in his- anger, for the iniquity of his People h^ 
 mtde A Hypocrite and Tyrant to rult. over them; If 
 Almighty, God- (hould for. the like Provocations-- 
 put us again under the fame Egyptian Tfcsk- 
 mafters, we need not doubt ofthe felf-fame ufage*. 
 But now , for all this expence , 'tis-pleafanc 
 to. examine. what is to come back to -us in-exi 
 
 change ; k
 
 change ; even Parchments full of Benedictions 
 and Indulgences , ftore of leaden Seals , Beads, 
 and Tickets * Medals, Agntu-Defs^ Rofaries, 
 hallowed Grains, and Wax-candles, fuch Traf- 
 fique that an Indian would fcarce barter for ^ fuch 
 pitiful Gauds, that would hardly bribe a child of a 
 year old ^ and yet this is the goodly price they offer 
 for all the wealth of a whole Nation. 
 
 X. After this Tyranny over our Efhtes in 
 the particulars rehearfed , there is a very re- 
 markable one behind which will well deferveto 
 beconficicred; Itis W AiricuUr Confeffion, where 
 not to mention its ill afpect upon Government, 
 as being made an Engine of State, and Pick- 
 lock of the Cabinets of Princes, fealing up all 
 things from the notice of the Magiftrate ; but 
 making liberal difcoveries againft him $ hereby 
 not only the Eftate, but Soul and Confidence of 
 every private man are fubjecled to the Avarice 
 and Rapine , and withal the Humour and 
 Caprice, the Infolence and Pride , nay, Luft 
 and Villany of a debauched ConfefTor 5 Every 
 mortal fin upon pain of Damnation muft be 
 confefled , and when the Penitent after great 
 anxieties has freed himfelf from this difquiet, 
 fee muft fubmit to the Penance , however rigo- 
 rous, or Chargeable 3 or fbolifh, which the 
 Prieft enjoyns , he and his Family are entirely in 
 the power of this Mafter of their fecrets. 
 
 And if this Awe and Empire, however grie- 
 vous, were the whole Inconvenience , 'twere 
 
 fome-
 
 fomething. tolerable, it being to be hoped, that 
 fofevere a Remedy would affright from Guilt ; 
 bat the very contrary happens:,, the Prieft 
 takes often benefit of the Sin which he ab- 
 folves from , and having the advantage of 
 thefe two Points, that the perfon whofe 
 Confeflion he has taken has loft Modefty, 
 and that he can abfolve from the Grime, it 
 will be eafre to perfuade the Repetition of 
 that Sin , which his breath can eafily blow- 
 away and render none. I iliall not here men- 
 tion on the other part the perfunctory Penan- 
 ces, which feem only impofed to invite to fin 
 again, and thofe authorized by a moft authen- 
 tic pattern, that of the Popes themfelves, for 
 what Markets may we not expeft from a poor 
 Prieft, when his Holinefs in his U) Tax of the c 
 Apoftolic chancery has valued the mofi horrid 
 crimes at fo eafie rates as a few GroiTes , or 
 a Julio * and eighteen pence or half a crown 
 compounds for the fouleft moft abominable 
 Guilt. Nay, when a Vifit. to a priviledg'd 
 Shrine or Altar , and the bare recital of a 
 fhorc Prayer purchafes panion for ioa, 500, 
 546, 6646 days-: Nay, for 7500, 10000, 
 JOOGOOO years according to the grants of fe- 
 veral Popes , to be feen for our great comfort 
 and edification in the (d) Uor& B. rirgmis. So that a 
 theftory of that plump ConfefTor^ who for fix w 3 
 AiSs of Adultery is faid to have enjoyn'd the 
 
 repetition of fix) Penitential Pfalms, and when 
 'twas, told him that there were fcven of them, 
 
 E adrifed
 
 advifcd the Votary to, commit Adultery once 
 more, and repeat the whole number, may feem 
 a very fevere aft of Difcipline, and (befides 
 a full atonement for pad fins) fupererogation 
 for future ones. 
 
 So that Vice being brought to this eafierate, 
 befides all other misadventures, unlefs w will 
 ftand for the honour of being Cuckolds, and 
 have our pofterity mare the Title which is 
 proverbial in Popim Countries, to befits de 
 yreftrc ; it will concern us to look about us, 
 while 'tis time , and' prevent thefe vile dif- 
 honours which are preparing for us.' If it fhall 
 be faid, that 'tis not imaginable men fhould 
 pervert fo facred an adion, as the receiving 
 of Confeltions to thofe purpofes of villany 
 that are fuggefted. I answer firft, That .we 
 may without breach of charity fuppofe that 
 thing poflibly to be done , which is notori- 
 oufly known to have been done : as alfo, that 
 the horror of the crime is compdtently allay- 
 ed by their Doctrine, who think only Marriage, 
 comm. anc j not (^) Fornication inconfiftent with the 
 dignity of a Clergy-man. And therefore the 
 Nephews of great Clergy-men and Popes have 
 in all Ages been owned and preferred , and 
 moreover ( /V fornication has been allowed to 
 p r j efts an( j p r i ers i n compenfatioa for their 
 reftraint from marriage, three or four Whores 
 as part of their fpiritual preferment. I fay, 
 all this being put together,- ttare will belittle 
 hopes to preferve hono.ut in Families , where 
 
 fo
 
 . 
 
 fo' many circumftanCes concur together to be- 
 tray it. 
 
 33 
 
 XI. After all this there ftill remains a far- 
 ther reafon why we fhould refift the growth 
 of Popery, even the moft preffing that can be 
 urged, Self-frefervAtion, to avoid Imprifonment 
 and Inquifition , Fire and Fagot, MalTacres, 
 Racks and Gibbets, the known Methods by 
 which the Roraanifts fupport their Caufe, and 
 propagate their Faith. Should that Seel: pre- 
 vail , the Nonconformift mall no longer com- 
 plain of a Bartholomew day ; the Parifan refperf, 
 which bore that date, will be refumed again, 
 and filence all complaints of them or us: and 
 as his Holinefs thought fit to celebrate that 
 barbarous villany, calling together, as (g) Thtt- g Thuan.fr/yf; 
 anus tells us, his Cardinals folemnly to give 1 '^' 
 thanks to ^Almighty (jod for fo great a blejfing con- 
 ferred uf on the T(6masSee^ And thechriftitn-world^ 
 nay, a Ju&lee was to be proclaimed through the 
 Chriftian World , whereof the caofe was ex- 
 preffed to give thanks to God for deftroymg in 
 France the enemies of the Truth *nd of the church ; 
 There may be found on this fide the Sea men 
 who will imitate the Princes of the holy 
 League, who upon fuch encouragements from 
 the See of Rome, and for the greater glory of T.U 
 
 God, will be ready to confecrate their hands 
 in a MaiTacre here with us. It is vulgarly 
 known what was done to the poor Alhtgenfts- 
 a-fid waldenfes : How many hundred thoufand ol 
 E 2 lives
 
 lives the planting of the Roman 'Gofpel in the 
 Indies coft : What cruelties were pradifed in 
 the Low-Countries by the Duke Alv&, what 
 bloud in this Lfland in the days of Queen Mary^ 
 what defigned to be&ed in the Powder TreafcH> 
 and that by the privity and direction of the 
 -Pope Mmfelfas () Dei informs us in fpight 
 ' of all the palliations that are now fuggefted : 
 who withal adds, that his Holinefs Clement the 
 VIII by his Bull a little before that time g-ave 
 order that no Priefl fiould difcover any thing thtt 
 came t* his knovoledg in confeffion to the benefit of the 
 Secular Government : It fee m ing fafer to thefe 
 good men to break all the Obligations of Duty 
 and Allegeance, though bound by Oaths, than 
 violate the Seal of ConfeiHon, or put a flop to 
 that meritorious work at one moment to de 1 - 
 ftroy their Sovereign with all his Royal Family, 
 his whole Nobility and Sen ate, and fubvert the 
 Government of their Native Country. But 
 , Orrer we need not feek for inftances without our own 
 
 i5? . ry memories, the carriage of the (/) irifb RcbclliGn } 
 where the Papifts in a few monaths cut the 
 throats of about two hundred thousand, innocent Pro- 
 ttfttnts cf all Sexes and Ages ', cannot be yet for- 
 gotten. Which A<ft was fo meritorious as to 
 deferve from his Holinefs a moft plenary Indul- 
 
 *P,ir 61. gence for all that were concerned in it, (k) eve* 
 tbfoJutwn from Excommunication^ Sufpenjlon^ and all 
 rther Ecclefitftical Sentences and Ccnfures by nvhem- 
 faver , erfor what cwfe foever pronounced or inflitfed 
 *po tbcw, as dfofrom All Jins, trffptfles, tranfgref- 
 
 z
 
 in opposition to $ope*y, 3 j 
 
 JionS) ctimes And delinqucnces^ how heinous And attro- 
 zhus (oevertkey le^ &c. 
 
 Nor let any man be fo fond to hope for 
 better terms, or Liberty of Confidence, if Po- 
 pery mould now prevail. Let us look into 
 the world, and we (hall fee on all hands, that 
 nothing is any where differed to grow either 
 under or near that Seel. Where Proteftan- 
 tifm has been fo ftrongly fix'd as not to be 
 batter'd down at once, it has by degrees been 
 perpetually undermin'd : witnefs the Pro- 
 ceedings againft them in PoUnd and Hungary 
 and feveral parts .of Germany^ the late Per- 
 fecutions in the Vallies of Piedmont^ and the 
 methods ufed in France to demolifn their Tem- 
 ples, and difable them for their Employments, 
 and altnoft' exclude them from common Trades. 
 I need not enquire what is now done \nvtrecht 
 and other acquifitions of the French upon the 
 Hollanders this. we are fute of^ Whatever 
 Articles are, or, .can be made of favour and 
 compliance , 'tis fomewhat more than a pro- 
 bable^ /> Doctrine, Tha.t Faith u not to be! CC -xiz. 
 kept with Heretics. The jefuited Roman! ft -is x$3< 
 at large by Equivocations to fay any thing., 
 and by directing of Intention to do anything: 
 they can with a very good confidence difTemble 
 their own 5 and. pretend to the Proteftant 
 ProfefHon , come to the devotions efHeathen 
 Idolaters, and that from exprefs Licence from 
 hfc Holinefs Pope Clement the Eighth upon 
 account of ^hich, m ma? 9 fays () The.
 
 , he prefent without any fcruple at the Rites 
 and divine Offices of Infidels 5 Heretics and, Schif- 
 
 iut.'mjttics. Nny Pettr ( : n ) Wttjfeim makes it his 
 boaft, that IgnAtiut Loyola imitated the Devil in 
 ail hi* tricks , cheats and waning , to convert 
 fouls: and how his followers have tranfcrib'd 
 that Pattern the world does know. 
 
 Yet farther they, fome of them at lea ft, can 
 fet up a new Gofpel, where there is not one 
 word of the Crofs of Chrift ; can worfhip 
 Heathen Idols with that pitiful referve of 
 having in their Sleeve a Crucifix , to which 
 they privately direct their Adoration: All 
 which as they are notorious for , being com- 
 
 Bp. plained of to the ( o) Pope, fo are they un- 
 0/Angeiopoiis controu j' ( j fo t OU gh t appears and permitted bv 
 
 tn vtf Lttter to , ., jjir r t J 
 
 .x. him. Indeed what conversation can there be 
 with thefe men who are under no obligations 
 of Society, no Character of notice or Diftin- 
 &ion 5 who at the fame time are Priefts and 
 Heclors, Cafuifts and Artificers, Presbyterians, 
 Anabaptifts, Quakers, Theifts, Atheifts, and 
 amidft all this very good Catholics. Let any 
 honeft fober man judge what kind of Religion 
 this is, in it felf, and how fit to be encourag'd 
 and fubmitted to.. 
 
 XII. To clofe up all that has been faid 
 from uncontroulable Teftimonies and Proofs, 
 we have feen the influence which Popery h^s 
 either heretofore or may hereafter nave a- 
 inongft us in all the great concerns of our 
 
 Religion,
 
 in opposition to $opcr# 37 
 
 Religion, our Prince, our Laws, our Property, 
 our Countrey, our Families and Lives, and 
 found it evidently deftrudive unto all: the 
 inference from whence can be no other, but 
 that if we have any love of our Religion, any 
 abhorrence of the grofleft Superftition , Error 
 'or Idolatry 5 any regard for the fafety of His 
 Majeffy, any care of our Laws or our Eftates, 
 any concernment for the Strength, the Wealth 
 or Numbers of our Nation $ any defire to 
 hold v the Freedom of our Confcience, the Vir- 
 tue and the Honour of our Families; and laft- 
 ly, arty care of Self-Prefervation , to efcape 
 Maflacres, and the utmoil rage of Perfecution 5 
 it will behoove us to beware of the prevail- 
 ing of that Se&, in whofe Succefles we have 
 reafon to expe<5t to forfeit ail thefe Interefb, 
 periCh our felves, and bequeath Idolatry and 
 Beggery and Servitude to our Pofterity. 
 
 F.I 3\C 
 
 ^9763,3
 
 Some Books Printed lately for H.ftrome. 
 
 THc late Apology in behalf of the Papifts reprinted and 
 anfwered in behalf of the Royallifts. in quarto. 
 
 A Sermon preached before the King at White- Hall? by 
 William Lloyd D.D. and one of His Majefties Chaplains. 
 
 A Sermon preached at Guild~Hall> Vecemb. 12- 1672. 
 at the Funeral of the of the Right Reverend Father in God, 
 John late Lord BUhop of Cfce/friyby Wi\&im Lloyd D.D. 
 Dean oiBangor and one of His Majefties Chaplains. 
 
 Fivt captious Quefrions by aFadorfor the Papifts, and 
 anftvered by Charles Gatafyr a Divine of the Church of 
 England, in quarts 
 
 ;'A Setinon preached in the Cathedral at Canterbury, a 
 the Funeral of I'homM ?umtr D.D. and Dean of the fa id 
 Church, by Peter dit Moulin D.D, Canon there, and. one of 
 His MajeOies Chaplains in ordinary. m quarto. 
 
 DiredHons for the Education and Governing of Children 
 cf all Conditions. Translated out of French by Dr. 0* 
 
 . Toferzfion Difcufs'd, in two Dialogues betwixt a Coi> 
 formift and a N on- Con form 5ft, laying open the Impiety 
 and Danger of a General Liberty. The fecond Edition 
 enlarged by Kogcr L' EJlrangc. in oQavt. 
 
 Presbytery difplay'd, for the Juftirication offuchasdo 
 not like the Government, and for the Benefit of fuch as do 
 not underftand it. in quarto. 
 
 The Grand Controverfie , concerning the pretended 
 Temporal Authority of Popes over the whole Earth, and 
 ihe true Sovereign of Kings within their own refpective 
 Kingdoms, in 24 Letters between twoEnglifh Gentlemen, 
 one of the Churc^ if Aigland, the othesof the Church of 
 Hiote. in quarto.. 
 
 A Common Place-Book out of the Rehearfal Tranf* 
 prosed digefted under thefe heads, his Logic, Chronology, 
 Wit, Geography, Anatomy, Hiftory , Loyalty, with, 
 ufefulNotes. inottave* 
 
 Erafmut Colloquies in Englifli. 
 
 A Guide to Eternity, extracted out of the Writings of 
 the Holy Fathers and Antiem Philofophcrs.
 
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