The Quakers unmasked, and clearly detected to be but the spawn of Romish frogs, Jesuites, and Franciscan fryers, sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy-headed English nation by an information taken upon oath in the city of Bristol, January 22, and some evident demonstrations / by William Prynne ...

A Post-script.

THat the Jesuites

(The * 1.1 Pests and Perturbers of all Republicks, who domineer by discords, tu∣mults, Sects and Schisms)

(as well as Franciscan Fryers) have a principal hand in erecting, promoting the new sect of Quakers or Shakers lately sprung up, and much increased amongst us, and that by Diabolical delu∣sions, sorceries, enchantments, practices, to divide us as much as possible, and extirpate our Ministers and Religi∣on; these particulars superadded to the premises, may more than probably perswade, if not satisfactorily convince all intelligent English Protestants, and our Quakers like∣wise; for whose information I have made them publick, being unknown to most, who are utterly ignorant of the stratagems of these Imps of Satan, to seduce them, to their eternal ruine.

1. That Ignatius Loyola, the Father of the Jesuites, and first Founder General of their Order (at first a Soldier by profession) when he began to play the Impostor, Sedu∣cer, and institute his New Sect,

pretended a divine Call from God, and Jesus Christ, appearing to him, where∣upon he left his former Profession, House, Habitation, cast off his costly Apparel, (which he gave away to the

poor) cloathed himself in course Sackeloth and ragged beggarly cloathes, lying upon the bare ground with∣out a bed, wandred up and downe in them from place to place, like a pilgrim, professing the study of poverty, penance, Mortification and contempt of the world, leading a most austere life for a time, mostly eating little else but course bread, drinking nothing but cold water, fasting the greatest part of the week, except on the Lords-day; conversing with the poorest and meanest sort, teaching and preaching to them often gratis in the open streets and woods, and all other places where he came, without any Ordination or licence at all from the Bishops or Clergy, exhorting them to repentance austerity of life, and contempt of all earthly things; whereby he got great estimation amongst the rude peo∣ple, (especially for his pains in instructing their chil∣dren and them without any Reward) gained many followers and some Scholars likewise to be his Com∣panions:

Maffaeus Vegius, Ribadeniera, Joannis Eusebius Niremberger, Hasenmullerus (all Jesuites) record at large in his Life, with Hospinian, and Ludovicus Lucius in their Historia Jesuitica: And is not this the very pra∣ctise of our Quakers and Shakers now, who exactly imitate him herein?

2. That Ignatius upon his first resolution to enter into this new strict kinde of Life, and erect his New Jesuiticall Order, fell into a fit of Quaking and Trembling, as Ribadeniera (his Disciple) and others record in his Life: Yea, Hasenmullerus (who was a Jesuite sundry yeares, and lived in divers Jesuites Colledges) in the end of his Jesuitical History, with Ludovicus Lucius Historiae Jesuiticae, l. I. C. I. p. 8. record in expresse terms, from the Testimony of Tunianus the Jesuite. That Ignatius

ITA A DAEMONIBUS EXAGITATUM, was so vexed and SHAKEN BY DEVILS (not God or his spirit) both in his Dinner, Supper, MASSES;

and likewise in his Recreations, that he powereth forth the most cold sweat of death in great plenty;

tandem vero CƲM▪ TRE∣MORE

ipsum objisse, and that at last he died Quaking, o•…•… with a TREMBLING, having a most black counte∣nance.

Yea, † 1.2 Ribadeniera himself, in the life of Ignatius l. 1. c. 5. 17. records;

That Ignatius had many conflicts with the Devil, who frequently appeared to him in the form of a Serpent, and that he whipped his companion Xavier whiles he was praying.

And l. 5. c. 9.

That the Devil painted Ignatius so lively and exactly in his co∣lours, that Laynes his companion much admired at it

And yet cap. 8. and 10. he relates;

That Ignatius cured one possessed with a Devil with one word: that the De∣vil in another possessed one, was cast out by the Jesu∣ites, onely naming Ignatius to him; saying, Name not Ignatius to me, whom I most hate of all:

And another Devil in a Maid possessed, said;

That Ignatius his greatest enemy, was in heaven after his death among other Founders of holy Religious Orders.

Let our Quakers and their Disciples hereupon seriously consider and examine, whether their Quaking fits be not derived from this Father of the Jesuites; and proceed not origi∣nally from the very Devils themselves, as his fits did▪ Yea, let them take heed they be not vexed and shaken by Devils as he was, and dye Quaking and Trembling as he did, with a most black countenance, as if he had been strangled by the Devils, which made him a Quaker first, and then a Seducer; whose Disciples have made most Christian Kingdoms, Churches (especially our own of late years) both to Quake and Tremble, and Shake them in pieces.

It is the observation of learned a 1.3 Physitians;

That Shaking Palsies, Quakings, Tremblings of the Mem∣bers and Joints, are very dangerous diseases, proceeding from the coldness and weakness of the Brain or Nerves, cold flegme, extraordinary cold weather:

(which makes most shake without any divine influences of Gods Spirit)

sudden fears or frights, extraordinary Venery, Drunkennesse, frequent handling of Quicksil∣ver, Poysonous fumes of Henbane, white Poppy or the

like: And sometimes from Sorcery and the Devil himself contracting, shaking the Nerves and Muscles of the body in a violent manner:

That if they grow inveterate they are hardly curable, and bring certain Death. Let our Quakers and new Trembling Paraliticks, examine, whether their Quakings and Tremblings (if real, not feigned, as some of them doubtless are) be not rather Diseases and Infirmities, then the motions of Gods Spirit in them, proceeding from some of these natural causes, (especially overmuch Venery, some of them having been late∣ly taken shaking with their female Proselytes between the Sheets in a warm Bed, as I am credibly informed) or from the Devil or his Instruments, Sorceries, Enchant∣ments; and let them speedily seek out for cure, lest they prove deadly to their Bodies and Souls too, in conclu∣sion, as Ignatius his Quaking fits did.

3.

That many Jesuites and their Schollars study the art of Sorcery and Magick, and are Arch-Magicians; affir∣ming blasphemously, that Paul himself received so great Revelations from Heaven, by being instructed in the Art of Magick: that St. John had skill in this Art; yea, that Christ himself was the most absolute Magician of all others; as Joannis Cambilhonus, (once a Jesuite in Styria) in his Relatio de abstructoribus Jesuitarum Artibus & Studiis, Printed 1608. & Ludovicus Luci∣us Hist. Jesuitica, lib. 1. cap. 8. p. 172, 173. record.

Yea, these two Authors, together with the * 1.4 University of Paris, in their Answer to Peere Cotton the Jesuite, (Confessor to King Henry the 4. of France) Thuanus. hist. I. 132. physiogmonia Jesuitica, Printed Lugduni 1610. & Speculum Jesuiticum p. 106, and do all attest:

That this Father Cotton was an Arch-Magician, and the best skilled in this black art of any of their Society: That the Jesuites themselves affirmed he had a Magical Glass, wherein he would plainly represent to the King what ever he desired to know; and that there was no thing done or consulted so secretly in the most private Cabi∣nets of other Monarchs, which he could not disclose

and reveal by the help of that constellated, or rather condiabolated Glass. That by the help of this Magi∣cian, the Jesuites hoped to convert one of the greatest Protestant Princes of the Empire to their Religion and Party: That he consulted with the Devil many times, and demanded his resolution of sundry questions and doubts, which he entred into his Magick-book;

which Devil possessed one Adrian Fresna, a Maid at St. Victors in France, which he used as his instrument to predict many strange things: particularly, he demanded of the Devil that possessed her these Questions: What should be the issue of the Conversion of the Lord Lavalii, and of the Counsellors of the City of Gema Geneva? How long Heresie should continue? What hopes there were of the Conversion of such and such particular persons? How Hereticks might be most easily secluded from the Court? What was most profitable for the Conversion of all Hereticks? By what Sermons, Books, Means, the people might be most benefitted? What danger might be created by the Devils against the Jesuits Society? Whether God would permit him to know by him, the time wherein the heresie of Calvin should be extinguished? And (that which most con∣cerned England) Qua ratione converti Rex Anglae, Re∣gina, & Regnum maxime & facile quaeant? By what means THE KING, QUEEN, AND REALME OF ENGLAND MIGHT MOST OF ALL AND EA∣SILY BE CONVERTED TO THE ROMAN RE∣LIGION? Whether our Jesuitical Impostors, Quakers, and Enthusiasts do not now study, practice the self-same Art of Magick, Sorcery, and consult with the very De∣vil himself in their Diabolically inspired, possessed Prophets and Prophesies, demand not the like Que∣stions, Resolutions from them, and the Devil acting, speaking, Prophesying in them, as this Jesuite Cotton did from this possessed Girle, and the Devil in her, let their owne practices and consciences resolve them and o∣thers? And how truly they act the Jesuites parts in these particulars, * 1.5 Hasenmullerus (a reclaimed Jesuite) in his Historia Jesuitica, cap. 8. records. That John th•…•…

Jesuite in his Sermon, 15. October, 1583. publiquely said, Believe me, the Devils follow us Jesuites every where.

That the Monks of Ʋldaric would have cast out a Devil out of one possessed, but he would not depart: Being interrogated, why he would not? He answered, I will not depart before my three Sonnes (so he termed the Jesuites) who are passing from Delinga hither, are come; who no sooner entred the house, but the Devil departed out of the person possessed: most likely to en∣ter into these Sonnes of his, whom the Devils every where follow. Yet the * 1.6 Jesuites boast of many Devils ejected by them, out of their feminine Proselytes and others: particularly, the Rector of the Jesuits at Vienna records; that a Maid possessed with Devils, who could not be dispossessed by any Exorcismes, coming at length to their Jesuites Church was there freed, and no less then 156152. Devils (if the Jesuite computed a right) were there cast out of her; the last of them seeming to him to be Luthers Tutor, because after the manner of the Luthe∣rans, he spake many things against their Society and Re∣ligion.

Surely this Jesuitical Rector, had very intimate familiarity with these Devils, who knew both their Number (being so incredulous) and could so accu∣rately distinguish between them.

Yet some Devils there were in women, whom they could not dispossess, and derided all their Jesuitical Exorcismes.

Let all Christi∣ans then beware these incarnate Devils and their Emissa∣ries, lest they be really possessed by the Devil with whom they are so familiar, and who accompanies them every where.

4.

That the Jesuites send forth their Emissaries and Agents into Protestant Kingdoms, Churches, States, un∣der the disguises of Souldiers, Merchants, Mechanicks, Physicians, Chyrurgeons, Travellers, Exiles for Religi∣on, and pretended Converts to the Protestant Religi∣on, in all sorts of h••its, disguises, the better to con∣ceal their persons, the easier to intrude themselves into the Courts, Company of all Protestant Princes, Nobles,

Ministers, and persons of all ranks, to fish out their Secrets, insinuate themselves into their favours, poy∣son them with their Errors, divide them in their Judge∣ments, excite them to Warre upon and destroy each other by their mutuall discords, and accomplish their Treasonable designes against them, to their ruine: Per∣mitting and dispensing with them freely, to resort openly to the Sermons, Churches and Assemblies of Protestants, to dispute and speak against Popery, to eat flesh on Fast∣ing dayes, and allowing their perverted Disciples to do the like, to feign themselves the most Zelous Protestants, to be present in the Senates, Parliaments and Councils of those of the Reformed Religion; to consent to the ap∣prehension and dissipation of Papists by severe Lawes against them, together with the rest, that so they may the better conceal themselves, discover, divert or hin∣der the Consultations against the Papists, promote the Popes and Papists affairs with more facility, propagate the Popish Religion upon all occasions, and give them time∣ly notice of any Intentions against them upon any ur∣gent necessity: provided alwayes that they be secretly Catholicks, and submit themselves wholly to the beck and counsels of the Jesuits, as their Instruments and Intelligencers:

as you may read at large, in Jesuitica per Ʋnitas Belgii Provincias Negociatio, printed Anno 1616 (containing the Instructions in this kinde given to Je∣suits by their Superiors sent into the Netherlands to im∣broyl, divide, ruine them) in Joannis Cambilhonus de Abstructionibus Jesuitarum Artibus & Studiis: printed 1608. & Ludovicus Lucius Hist. Jesuitica p. 170, 175, 676, 677, 678. Therefore it is no wonder, that their Emissa∣ries, and Disciples to effect the utter ruine of our Pro∣testant Kingdomes, Churches, Religion, now thus dis∣guise themselves amongst us, to promote their most dangerous Designes against them, by the self same means and stratagems now.

5. That the Jesuits make and profess it, one of their prin∣cipal Designs, to withdraw, alienate the peoples affections from, stir them up against the true Protestant Ministers and Preach∣ers of the Gospel, and to cast them out and take them quite out of their way, that so they may with more facility and speed seduce, devour, their Flocks, domineer and set up Popery in all places without opposition. Witness * 1.7 Gregorius Baderus Pro∣vincial of the Jesuits in Bavaria, his words at Landsperge. We and ours shall have no peace in Augusta (or in Germany) unless we take care, Evangelicos Concionatores ejici ac tolli; that the Preachers of the Gospel be ejected and removed out of the way. By our Councils THE EVANGELICAL PREACHERS WERE CAST OUT OF VIENNA: Whereupon our Society do now there teach in peace, and rule all things according to their hearts desire. Seconded with their † 1.8 practices, in ejecting, imprisoning, banishing, suppressing, per∣secuting all the Protestant Ministers in Bohemia, in the years of our Lord, 1602. 1607. 1621. and 1652. to the extirpation of the Protestant Religion, and Protestants there: and their ejecting, suppressing above thirty of the Protestant Prea∣chers, and shutting up their Churches in the Dukedomes of Ju∣liers, Cleve, and Bergen; Anno 1628. To omit other la∣ter Presidents in Austria and elsewhere. And is not this the Quakers and their Disciples principal designe, endea∣vour, labour now, to withdraw the people wholly from, and excite them against, and stir them up to reject, suppress, renounce all our lawful Orthodox Ministers, and Evangelical Preachers, as false Guids, dumb Dogs, Seducers of the People, Deceivers, Antichrists? &c. Their railing Pamphlets, Preachments, and pretended Messages to them from heaven; enjoyning them to come down out of their Pulpits, to Preach no more hereafter, &c. contrary to Christs own express commands unto them. Matth: 28. 19, 20. Mark 16. 15. Acts 10. 42. c. 16. 10. Rom. 10. 15. 1 Cor. 1. 17. Phil. 1. 16, 17, 18. 2 Tim. 4. 17. 1 Tim. 2. 7. 1 Pet. 1. 12. especially 1 Cor. 9. 16. Though I preach the Gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for NECESSITY IS LAID UPON ME; and wo is me if I preach not the Gospel. And 2 Tim. 4. 1, 2, 3. I charge thee before God and the Lord

Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his ap∣pearance, and his Kingdom. PREACH THE WORD, BE INSTANT IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and Doctrin (mark the reason, suitable to our times and Quakers) FOR THE TIME WILL COME (and now is the time) that they WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE, but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves Teachers, having itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto Fables. But watch thou in all things, endure affliction, do the work of an Evangelist, make full proof of thy Ministry. Certainly then those Quakers, and their seduced Disciples; who say unto the Seers, see not, and to the Prophets prophesie not, prophesie not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesie deceit: Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the Path, cause the holy One to cease from before us; are like those Jews of old, Esay 30. 10, 11. Wherefore let them there read their Doome, Character, and what spirit they are of, v. 8, 9. (and I be∣seech them, with all others to observe it well) from Gods own mouth. Now go, write it before them in a Table, and note it in a Book, that it may be for the time to come, for ever and ever; that this is a rebellious people, lying children, chil∣dren that will not hear the Law of the Lord: But is this all? No, there is a Judgement with a Witness, pursuing all such: Verse 12, 13, 14.

Wherefore thus saith the holy One of Israel: Because ye despise this word, and trust in sraud and perverseness and stay thereon; therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in an high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. And he shall break it as the breaking of a potters vessel, that is broken in pieces: He shall not spare; so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it, a sheard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the Pit:

(Let those States∣men or Magistrates, who out of designe, or self-interest, tollerate or secretly countenance such dangerous Rebels against God, his Word or Ministers, remember it as well as these Seducers and their followers, lest God break them

thus to powder suddenly and irrepairably together, and our whole three Kingdoms too.) And if this Text be not sufficient to convince them of and deterre them from this their Sin; let them read at leasure Micah 2. 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11. Amos 7. 10. to the end: and quake and tremble at the reading of them. But if they hold these to be obso∣lete and Old Testament onely; Let them then consider, who they were, and what a transcendent sin it was in those, who prohibited (not seducing false Apostles and Jesuitical Emissaries, as these vagrant Quakers are) but Christs commissioned, * 1.9 lawfully called, instituted, Apostles and Ministers, to preach any more in the name of Jesus, and dispence his Gospel: Acts 4. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. cap. 5. v. 17. to 42. eompared with 1 Thess. 2. 15, 16. Even those, who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own Prophets, and have chased us out, and they please not God, and are con∣trary to all men, FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED, TO FILL UP THEIR SINS ALWAYS: for THE WRATH IS COME UPON THEM TO THE UTTERMOST.

6.

That the Jesuits professed doctrine and practice is, that if they can, to suppress, destroy, extirpate Prote∣stant Ministers, Kings, Princes, Churches, States, and all professors of the Protestant Religion, by raising Schisms, Seditions, Devisions, Civil Wars and Commotions a∣amongst them, and dividing them one from and against another to their mutual ruine; which hath been their great designe of late years, whereof we have felt the sad effects:

As you may read at large in Hospinian, and Ludovicus Lucius, their most excellent Historia Jesuita, Speculum, sive Jubilaeum Jesuiticum, and the Epistle to my VINDICATION, &c. of the good old Fundamental Liber∣ties and Laws of England;

which if they cannot effect by these means, then to excite all Christian Kings and Princes to accomplish it in conclusion, BY FIRE, SWORD, WAR, and THE POWER OF AN ARMY;

as you may there be satisfied by undeniable

Testimonies of Jesuites themselves, and Presidents of former and latter Times: More particularly by the Words and Writings of Jacobus Crucius, the Jesuite, in his Explication of the Rules of the Jesuites, and his Sermon, Anno 1584. Thomas Stapleton; his Speculum pravitatis Hereticae, Duaci 1580. Thom. Campian, his Concer∣tatio Ecclesiae Catholicae Treviris. 1583. page 22. Pau∣lus Windeck, De Extirpandis Haeriticis. Antid. 10. and 11. Franciscus Verona, his Apologia pro Joanne Castle, part 5. cap. 13. Cunradus Brunus, de Haereticis, lib. 3. cap. ult. Cornelius Cornelii, his Praefatio ad S. Trini∣tatem increatam, Commentariis in Minores Prophetas praefixa. Wherein, he

blesseth the Trinity, for opening the eyes of Christian Kings, and stirring them up all a∣gainst Calvinisme, as the plague of their Realms: For inabling the King of France, Spain, and Emperour in a short time to overthrow, conquer, expell, and destroy the Arch-Heriticks; the * 1.10 Hussites and Calvinists in France, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Hungary, and both the Palatinates, as the fire-brands of Rebel∣lion, to their eternal glory:

concluding thus; Agite Principles generosi, pergite magnis animis, opus faelicibus adeo auspiciis caeptum CONFICITE; paribus studiis REBELLEM CALVINI HAERESIN, pene evulsam, STIRPITƲS ƲBILI∣BET ERADICATE, &c. And by Antonius Possevinus the Jesuite (to omit * 1.11 all others) in his Miles Christianus (published when Pope Paul the fifth sent an Army into France, against the Enemies of the Church, wherein he asserts, That all Christians are bound of right, to defend the Roman Religion against the doctrine of the Gospellers (or Pro∣testants) with all their forces; and the effusion of their blood: That neither Peace nor the publick good can be preserved in the Roman Church, unless these her Enemies BE QUITE EX∣TIRPATED.

Exhorting the Captains of the Army, to permit nothing at all to these Hereticks; not to keep their plighted faith with them; to suborn secrat Inqui∣sitors against them; * 1.12 DOMESTICA ET INTE∣STINA BELLA INTER ILLOS EXCITARI CURENT:

To take care to stir up Domestick and

Intestine warres between themselves Proditores ac Sicari∣os, omnibus locis, contra illos, instituant: and to institute Tray∣tors and Murderers against them in all places: Asserting, that the Captains who did otherwise, sinned against the Roman Church, & were rendred inexcusable and damned. Now see∣ing Barisonius the Jesuit, in his Letter to * 1.13 a Noble Venetian (who deserted their order,) dated at Bononia 21. April 1608. Printed 1609: amongst other things thus boasts of the excellency, power and perfection of their Iefuiti∣call Order, PRO LIBITU NOSTRO, ET BELLUM ET PAGEM MUNDO APPORTAMUS. That they can at their pleasure bring both War and Peace to the World, as the chief Authors of both.

That they lawfully may and do sow discords and divisions between King and Subject, Man and Wife, Father and Children, Brothers and Kin∣dred, and usurp absolute Dominion and Tyranny over any private men, Cities, or whole Kingdoms they suspect, for the benefit of the Church and See of Rome, in whose Service and Greatness true piety and the highest Point of Religion consists; and that for this end they may in their * 1.14 Chamber of meditation, animate their Assasi∣nates to murder Hereticks, Enemies and Rebels to the Church of Rome, not only though private Persons, but though the greatest of princes and Kings, by repre∣senting to them the heroical fact of Ehud, recorded in sacred Scripture, and promising them a seat in heaven amongst the Saints and Martyrs for such an heroicke deed. And seeing the Jesuits (dispersed like Locusts over the world) are increased in a few years to so great a Number, that they boasted long since, * 1.15 that they had no lesse then two hundred thousand Scholars in Europe: and Claud us Aquacia, their late General▪ haunted; that he could bring into the field and than in a shorter time, more souldiers then any one Christian King: and proferred Pope Paul the Fifth (during the interdict of Venice, when they and he were in some danger) to aide him with forty thousand men, so as those of them slain in the warres, might be reputed Martyrs: so infinite are the

Numbers of their Society, Novices, Disciples, Trea∣sures, Revenues; yea all their Colleges in foreign parts, so many strong Castles, Forts and Magazines of Arms; Ammunition, Powder, and all military provisions

(as they bost, and * 1.16 others write) And seeing these Jesuits, who make it their Masterpiece to weaken and destroy all others by divisions, Schismes, Factions, Tumules, pre∣scribe it as the principle part of their own policy,

Safety, Power, Successes and Growth, to maintain Unity, Peace, Amity, and prevent all Schismes and Divisions amongst themselves, * 1.17 Prescribing sundry Rules and Orders for this end, to which they are all sworn to yeild exact Obedience; I referre it to the con∣sideration of all prudent, Zealous Protestants and States∣men in our whole three Nations; How dangerous a Plot and * 1.18 Jereboam like desperate Policy it may in a short time prove, to all our Churches, zealous Ministers and Professors of the Protestant Religion (yea to our pre∣sent Governors, swordmen, and their Posteri••ies like∣wise) any longer to tollerate these Jesuitical, fiery, treacherous Agents, with other Romish Emissaries, freely to vent their Errors, Blasphemies, Heresies, Fancies, and set up Separat Congregations in all places, to multiply our divisions, dis-unite us all one from another, and aug∣ment their strength and party, predominating in most Councels, Places; the better to secure any in actual Power for the present; though to hasten their, with our whole Kingdoms, Churches, Ministers, and reformed Religions ruine by it in conclusion, even by force of Arms * 1.19 and Tumults, when they see their opportunity, as we have all just cause to fear? I shall therefore close up all with the words of * 1.20 Huldricus Zwinglius against those Dip∣pers and Anabaptists in his age, who denyed the Office and Coercive Power of christian Magistrates (specially in mat∣ters of Religion) as most of our Anabaptists, Quakers, dis∣guised Jesuits & Franciscans now do. Propter istos ipsos qui negant, Christanum posse gerere Magistratum, maxime egemus magistratu; quam vitam omnium talemesse videatis ut rigi∣dissimo

magistratu opus habeat. Quod si * 1.21 propacato statu ora∣re licet; licet & nimirum orare, ut Deus pium magistratum concedat, quo commodius, pax & concordia concilientur. Quin omnes hoc agimus, ut vitam innocentissimam ducamus, & nihil nos premet magistratus: * 1.22 For Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil; wilt thou not then be afraid of the powers, do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. Hoc ipsum Oro, ut diligenter expendant,

qui Magistratum detrectant. Si potestatem odio habent aut ti∣ment; quod rectum est faciant. Expendant simul Principes ne recte factis timori sint. Qui ergo jam NOVIS EXACTIONI∣BUS, TRIBU••IS, VECTIGALIBUS, non modo expilant in seram plebem sed onerant, excarnificant, excindunt, ut vide∣antur esse in communem nati perniciem; Qui malis defectantur, & bonis minacitur imminent, Principes non sunt; sed Tyrannt, sed Tortores, sed Lanii. Qui ergo omnium malo praesunt, vide∣ant quo pacto Christinomine glorienter; qui non modo ut Prae∣dones & Furis in omnium bono, sed ut Pestes quoque in omnium corpora grassantur. Sunt autem & isti Ministri Dei, sed quo∣modo Satan Minister Dei est, qui ubi{que} adversatur, circumve∣nit, terdi. Omni a in manibus sunt cupidissimorum hominum, ut jam non unum Tyrannum habeant, qui sub talibus Imperiis degunt, sed sexcentos. * 1.23 Friget omnis justitia, fervet cupiditas imo dominatur, putant enim si Tribut a sint quacunque ratione amplissima, jam recte administraci Imperium. Ne ergo tenure summam rerum imprudentibus, pueris, stupidis, CUPIDISVE nedamus, sediis quorum probitas, fides, prudentia, longo usu per∣spectae sint, alioqui frustra nos aliquando queremur, quod dici∣tur, non putavisse: Tribuat nobis omnipotens Pater, Magistra∣tus tales, qui nullum aliud exemplum spectent, quam ejus, cujus, ordinatione ad hoc cocuneris inautorati sunt, ut ad modum Creatoris nostri sese geraent quo Patres nos multos habere glo∣riare possimus: Nec queri cogamur, quod Propheta Mic. 7. (ver. 1. 2 3 4. 5. 6.) queritur. Vae mihi, &c.

Amen.

Notes

• * 1.1

  See Ludovi∣cus Lucius H st. Jesuitica, P. 293, 235, 328, 336, 447, 592, 624.
• † 1.2

  See Speculum Jesuiticum, p. 3, 4. 26.
• a 1.3

  Gulielmus Ronde letius, Methodus curandi Mor∣bos, c. 23. 39. See Wierus de Praestigiis Daemonum, l. 1. c. 11.
• * 1.4

  See Ludovi∣cus Lucius, Hist. Jesuiti∣ca, p. 172 396, 432.
• * 1.5

  See Speculum Jesuiticum. p. 59, 60, 62, 63.
• * 1.6

  Hasenmulle∣rus Hist. Je∣suitica c. 8. Speculum Je∣suiticum p. 62, 63. Petrus Thyraeus de Daemoniacis.
• * 1.7

  See Ludevi∣cus Lucius Hist. Jesuitica l. 1. c 1. p. 2.
• † 1.8

  Hespinian & Ludovicus Lu∣cius Hist. Je∣suitical. 4. Grimstons Im∣perial History p. 821. Romes Master-piece. Speculum Je∣suiticum, p. 175, 176.
• * 1.9

  Matth. 28 18 19 20. Mar 3. 14. c. 16. 15. Acts 10. 42 c. 1. 22 &c. c. 14. 23. c. 13. 2, 3. Rom. 1. 1. Rom. 10. 15. John 15. 16. 1 Tim. 2. 7. Tit. 1. 5. 1 Tim. 4. 14. c. 5. 22. Heb. 5. 1. to 6.
• * 1.10

  See Hasen∣mulerus Hist. Jesuitica l. 1. Speculum Je∣suiticum p. 61.
• * 1.11

  See Ludevi∣cus Lucius Hist. Jesuitica l. 1. c. 1, 2.
• * 1.12

  We may see by this, who were the rai∣sers and origi∣nal contrivers of our late in∣testine wars, &c.
• * 1.13

  See Ludevi∣cus Lucius. Hist. Jesuitica, l. 1. c. 8. p. 164. 166.
• * 1.14

  Of which read Iudovi∣cus Lucius. p. 129. 199. 200
• * 1.15

  Ludovicus Lucius. l. 1. c. •• p. 156. 172.
• * 1.16

  Speculum Jesuiticum, p. 207. to 213. Lud. Lucius, Hist. Jesui∣tica. l. 1. c. 6. p. 156, 157. 238 171.
• * 1.17

  Regulae Jesui¦tarum. Printed 1627. and Lu¦dovicus Luci∣us. Hist l. 1. c. 3. p. 18. 19. 21. 24. 26. 31.
• * 1.18

  1 Kings 12. 26 to the end 6. 13. 2. &c.
• * 1.19

  Mat. 12. 25.
• * 1.20

  De vera & Falsa Religione cap. De Ma∣gistratu. Printed, 1525
• * 1.21

  1 Tim. 2. 1, 2,
• * 1.22

  Rom. 13. 3.
• * 1.23

  A Character of our times.