7 That HE should not bee the man , these rea●…ons are probable ; First , it much greeueth HIM yea , HE accounts it a violence offered him to interrupt the course of his peaceable Preface to his Manifestation Priestly labours , by entring into a warre of writing : therefore for HIM , like an other G●…liah , ( Pigmae as he is ) to enter this combat , not prouoked there vnto , and vpon such disaduantage , cannot sort with HIS retired profession .

Secondly , that HE , a man of no inferiour talent ( so he pub lisheth of himselfe ) an Author of no meane labours , should , like an other Ahimaas , needes thrust himselfe to carrie a Manifestation pag. 51. 2. Sam. 18. 12. Message , hauing neither leaue nor errand ; that is , should write so shallow a Pamphlet , whereout , rid those offalls of Sophistry , Railings , and some addle Discourses ; of the remnant ye may truely say , as Ahimaaz of his owne message , Vidi tu multum , sed nesc●… al●…ud , is scarcely coniecturall . Vers. 29.

Thirdly , if Parsons were euer famous for any good thing , he woon himselfe credit by the booke of Resolution , though not inuented ( as the Priests say ) but borrowed peece-meale from others ; translated only , and methodized by him : which Quodlib . pa. 71. 237. when a man reades , he will take the Compiler or translator to be that very Crucifix of Mortification described by Saint Gal. 6. 14. Paul , The world crusified vnto him , and he vnto the world : now that HE should fall into such passionate prophane , and Barbarously-distempered Pag. 27. &c. reuiling of a Christian Princesse , the mirror of the world while she liued , some yeares dead , and laid vp in rest with her Fathers ; as if the very mention of HER Sacred Name , were an Eleborous purge to make him disgorge the gall of his bitternesse , and the venemous rancor of his cankred heart , by his Rabshakeis pen ; no man that professeth the name of Christ , can beleeue it to bee the labour of one that is ingralted into Christ : For they that are Christs , haue Gal 5. 24. crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts ; sauing that one of his owne Priestly Coat assureth vs , that , for all this Resolued or Resoluing Diuinity , he hath not as yet fully cast off the Iust. defene . pag. 297. outward man .

8 And yet that he should be the Author , besides the gerall report , and certaine intelligence , First , his straining at the elder T. M. as he cals him , is euid●…nce sufficient ; whose Discouery of Romish Doctrine , and Practises for hainous Rebellion ; as also his full Satisfaction for Heathenish Aequiuocation Tho. Morton Deane of Glocester . ( which Parsons vnder the dumbe Characters of P. R. vndertakes to patronize by a Mitigation ) like Pope Adrians Flie , will not leaue troubling the Iesuites throat till hee hath forced out his gall , heart and all . Secondly , the so cunninglie concealing his knowledge of the Apologies true Author , wherein hee sheweth himselfe to bee right Doleman , not as himselfe deriues the name of Dolor , virdolorum , as a man of Manifestat . page 51. griefe , repleat wi●…h sorrowes , ( blasphemously applying the title of our Sauiour Christ vnto himselfe , and quotes the place of Scripture in the margin for it ) but of Dolus , vir dolorum , Es. 53. being , as his owne Priests tearme him , the Abstract quintessence of all coynes , coggeries , and forgeries ; that lies , dissembles , and equiuocates at euery word . Quodlib . page 236.

9 For is it probable that Parsons , who makes himselfe another Elizeus , takes vpon him to knowe what is done 2. Reg. 6. 12. and spoken in the Kings Priuy Chamber , ( as it seemes by that he writs page 37. concerning T. M. the younger ) that HE , the great Intelligencer among States , who weekely spends fiue or sixe Crownes for postage of letters onely ( as the Priests of his owne ranke report ) should bee ignorant that our Soueraigne King himselfe was Author of the Apologie , Iust. defence . page 236. it being not onely in euery mans mouth stiled by the name of the Kings Booke , but the warrant in the frontispice ( which this Confuter obserueth ) Autoritate Regiâ , ●…owing , though not proclaming it to the world , that it was his Maiesties doing ? ( for you shall not finde , to my remembrance , a booke of an English man extant , in those wordes warranted , but the King himselfe hath a hand in it ) which the Iesuite knew well enough , as vnder those Ciphers of T. M. he implies ; for by them , if he will speake without Aequiuocation , hee meant TVA or TANTA MAIESTAS : but being guiltie to himselfe that hee cannot write with modestie , he faines an aduersary to himselfe , through whose sides he might lash his Sacred Matestie with le●…e enuie , and more libertie ; as Aiax the whipper in the Tragedie , wreaking his teene vpon a Ram for Vlysses ; hee madly ; this Iesuite Sop●…oc . Aiax . purposely .

10 This quarell of the Oath which receiued life by his Maiesties Royall assent , and whose safetie it principally concernes to be secured , by all meanes , of his Subiectes loyaltie , among whom a great many by those Breues and Letters ( as the Israelites by the detracting message of the Esp●…ls ) staggered and mut●…ered , it behoued his Maiestie to ●…pouse Num. 13. and vndertake . But to front the Apologie with his owne Name , being a King of so Royall Discent and Blood , had beene a displaied disparagement of so great a Maiestie , the aduerse parties ( with whom hee was to cope ) beeing no other but Burghesie and Bellarmine , men of no eminent birth , except as Sixtus Quintus , another manner of Pope then the first of these that is , or the second that would bee , Ci●…rella in Sixto qu●…ato . they would plead themselues Ortos ex illustrious Familia , and ( as he ) to come out of an illustrious and resplendent familie , because the Cottage wherein hee was borne was so poore and ragged that the house was gloriously bright by the Sunnes and Moones shine through the walles and roofe thereof day and night .

11. Nor yet concealed he his Name as ashamed of the Worke , for it is his most Kingly Resolution , not to harbour the secretest thoughs ( they are his owne words ) but such as in Presace of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . ●…o the Reader . the owne time he will confidently and openly auouch ; examining euer so the secretest of his drifts before hee gaue them course , as how they might some day abide the touch stone of a publike triall : Much lesse for feare of any defaults by gaine-saiers , to be detected therein , especially if no other or greater then this scribling Linceus hath alight vpon .

12. For to omit till their due place , whereunto hee referreth vs , page 3. the Challenges of the Kings iudgement in matter of altering the state in question ; of Bellarmines contradictions ; and his abasing Royall dignitie : that one maine blarre of inciuilitie , wherewith hee doth heere besme●…re his Maiestie ( as appeaching the Kings honour , Numb. 6. for a great contempt offered by his Maiestie , in calling the Cardinall Master Bellarmine ) must first bee wiped out . Wherein humbly crauing pardon of his Maiestie for doing him this wrong , Compare wee the Persons ; the Vnciuill Stile-giuer , a King , a Name and dignitie founded by God himselfe , and fastened by him vpon Abrahams seede as Pro. 8. 25. the chiefest part of his blessing ; and which is more , the Gen. 17. 6. KING OF GREAT BRITAINE , one of the most absolute MONARKES of Christendome : the great partie so stiled , a Cardinall . Search the Scriptures ; there appeares no shadow of such an Office , vnlesse as Sowters their leather Polydor. de in uent . lib 4. ca. 9 with their teeth ( it is the comparison of one of their owne in this very case ) so they will stretch the Scriptures , ( namely 1. Sam. 〈◊〉 . that place , Domini sunt Cardines terrae ) to serue this their purpose . Peruse all the Fathers ( I speake not of Gregorie and Bernard ) say if you finde it once named , as now ca●…ed , Interpre . vocl●… Ecclesiast. vnlesse with Onuphrius you will fetch it from Cyprian , because he writes of the CARDINALL workes of Christ ; and yet that is not Cyprians booke : reckon all the Ecclesiasticall degrees , greater , lesser , higher , lower , which the ancient Councels record , in that row you finde them not : — Sicnou●…s imponunt nomina rebus : a dignitie denominated either of the Carpenters Mortizes , out of Vitrunius , as being Incardinated ( it is Gregories word ) that is Mortized or riuited Onuphr . vbi supra . to a Church , as a hinge to a dore ; or of the foure windes out of Seruius vpon Virgil , as bearing the principall sway where hee hath the title .

13 Now for the King , so great a King , to call such an Vpstart Officer , that knows not where to rake for the beginning of his sublimity ( as Polydor confesseth ) to call HIM Vbi supra . ( I say ) Master , is as vnmannerly an ouersight , saith this CARDINALL WOVLD-BEE ( the Priests say he went to Rome for it , and had Scarlet brought him ) and no Quodlib . pa. 121. lesse dissonant , then if a man should call the chiefe Officers of Estate by that name , as Master Chancellor , Master Treasurer , Master Duke , Master Earle . &c.

14 Such a dignitie it may be , that Master prefixed before it , may proue a diminishing Tearme ; but if put to the Sirname of any man , i●… is an addition of Worship . Did his Maiestie call him Master Cardinall ? then had those instances some semblances of fit application . No , but hee called him Master Bellarmine . And is the stiling him Master Bellarmine , such a Scandalum magnatum ? In which of the words rests it ? in Bellarmine ? This Censurer within the compasse of Pa. 3 5. one leafe , doth thrise Bellarmine him barely , without all preface either of Honour or Worship . Belike familiaruie may doe more then Souereignty ; and a Iesuite with his Superiour Iesuite , may be more bold then a King .

15 Is it in Master ? Better men , both for honour and vertue then the Cardinall euer will bee , haue not refused that title in any age or language . Take the Hebrew Rabbi , it was giuen our Sauiour Christ by those that wished him neither Contempt nor disgrace , as by Nicodemus a Ruler of the Iewes ( and therefore knew what belonged to manners ) who was no bad friend to our blessed Sauiour , as appeareth Iohn . 7. and hee So saluted him ; as also by the holy conuert Mary Magdalen , who called him Rabboni , that is to Ioh. 7. 51. say ) saith the Euangelist ) Master . Briefly , by all his Disciples , which our Sauiour acknowledgeth and approueth , Ioh. 20. 16. Yee call me Lord and Master , ye say well , for so I am . Take the Greeke ; whether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , how could this Greate Ioh. 13. 13. Man be fitted better then with the first , were hee among the Cardinalls , as Saul among the Israelites more eminent then the rest ? or with the second , were hee the principall of the Conclaue ; or with the third , as he is the great Reader of Controuersies ? for these all import nothing but Master : & in Hieronym . in Catalogo . Latin when S. Cyprian would grace Tertullian most , hee would call for him in that title Da Magistrum ; and Peter Lombard hath the name Master giuen vnto him aboue all their Schoole Doctors , as an Antonomasticall eminence of note and stile .

15 And therefore , seeing neither God himselfe , nor Gods Liuetenants on earth , whether Emperours or Kings ( from whom all true titles of honour are deriued ) haue giuen this name or dignitie , but a Pope onely inuented it , without sound warrant ; what reason had his Maiestie to take such respectfull knowledge thereof ? Of which , euen a Bishop did make so meane account , that hee refused then to be created a Cardinall , because ( hee said ) hee would not descend from a higher to a lower place . For the true first institution of Cardinals was but to be Vicar ; of the particular Parish-churches of Rome , vnder the Bishop thereof ; howsoeuer now , by the iniquitie of time , the pride of Popes , and the sloth of Christian Princes , they are start vp from Parish-Priest's to be Princes Peeres , taking it in scorne to be called Master's , euen by Princes . And yet , if his Maiestie had either continually thorow the Booke , or at least at his first naming of him , called him Master , it had beene some thing , but since he is so farre from being ceremonious in giuing of Titles vnto him , as sometimes hee calleth him Bellarmine , sometimes Cardinall , sometimes Cardinall Bellarmine , and seldomest Master Bellarmine of any of them , heereby may the groundles and malitious quarrel of this shallow wrangler most cleerely appeare .

16 But why is it not as lawfull for so Mighty a King to call the Cardinall Master Bellarmine , as for euery Popish Scribler ( euen this fugitiue Tenebrio , Parsons himselfe ) hauing occasion to name our Arch-Bishops and Bishops ( dignities meerely Apostolicall , and therefore more honorable ) neuer to stile them otherwise but Master Cranmer , and Master Whitguift , Master Ridley , and Master Iewell ? Yea , wee must bee beholden vnto them , if they bee pleased to affoord them a title so mannerly and ciuill . But enough of this ; the truth and conclusion whereof is , if this MASTER ( forsooth ) of Ceremonies had the grace to leaue Aequiuocating , his secret intendement and drift is ( what Prep●…●…b . f●…de 〈◊〉 . ●…t . o●…n ●…n &c. vide Pl●…ra apud . Cass●…d . some Canonists haue openly auowed ) that Cardinals are Kings Compeeres and Equals , and therefore that the King should haue spoken of the Cardinall as of a King . Meane while is it not a saucie part of Robin Cowbucke ( for that is his right name , by the wrong man that knewe his mother Quodlib . pa. 109. ( as the Priests say ) to twit a King with inciuilitie , and ( Su●… Mineruam ) to teach his Maiestie Ceremonies of ciuill respect ?

17 We now come to his Censure ( such as it is ) of the Apologies substance ; the reducing whereof into an orderlie Analysis for answer ( of which he made no conscience at all in his Pamphlet ) will trouble a man more then the answering it selfe . The Preamble to the Breues , concerning the nature of the Oath , the Contents thereof , with the Popes proceeding therein ; the Examination of Bellarmines Letter to the Arch priest is the Diuision he makes of the Apologie , Num. 8. ( or rather was made to his hand , for he shewes not so much Logicke in his whole Censure . )

Paragraph 1. Numb. 9 10. 11.

18 The Preamble is a Colloquintida vnto him , not so much in respect of the Epithetes giuen to the POWDER-TREASON , of monstrous , rare , nay neuer heard of treachrous , famous and infamous attempt ; it descrues them , saith hee : but first , that it should be SINGVLAR FROM ALL EXAMPLES , there hauing beene the like done by Protestants ( though not in specie , yet in indiuiduo ) as at Autwrep , the Hage , & in Scotland . Secondly , that it should be Crambe his posita so often repeated , the parties being executed . Thirdly , that the Kings promise and Proclamation being , that other Catholikes Garnet resolued it to bee lawfull when the Parliament house should haue beene blowne vp . shall not fare the worse for it ; yet * the innocent for the nocent are punished , at least oppressed , as by Libels , Inuectiues , and by searching of houses ; with other outward affictions : so aboue all , whith this NEW DEVISED OATH , for their inward pressure of Soule and Conscience . This is Mors in Olla , and makes him dilate his Stile into dolefully Rhetoricall expostulations .

19 The Epithetes please them well now , which aggrauate the detestation of the fact ; but had there not beene ( as Decad. 1. lib. 1. Liuie speaketh in a Case of treachery ) error insidiatoris , their applause had beene greater in the attestation thereof ; Such actions are not commended but when they are finished : So Hall ( alias Old cor●… ) the Iesuit said of this Plot when it was discored . The murther of a King alone , pleased a Pope so well , that he made a solemne Panegyricke in praise of the Murtherer ; and we make no doubt , but if the Parliament House had burned , that the Iesuites ( who were the principall priuy Counsellors in that bu●…nes ) would with Nero haue beene Suetoni . in eius vita . pleasant Spect●…ors thereof , as at a Feu-de-ioy , and haue sung to their instruments the Destruction of Troy in that combusture of the Senate , and graced it with no lesse Epithetes then Sixtus the Pope did the murther of Henrie the third to bee Rarum , insigne , memorabile Facinus .

20 But were the attempt so odious and lothsome , as this tender-stomacks Censurer maketh it , wherefore is the Coriphaus of that Complot ( Garnet I meane ) turned to a Miracle and his Face made to aequiuoate after his death ? one rotting vpon the Bridge for his horrible Treason , the other shining in a straw for his Ghostly puritie ? and why in Spaine is his Picture drawn with two ropes about his necke , & his bowels ( like an other Iudas ) trilling down his body , with the inscription of a Martyr for the Catholike cause ? yea , by this Censurer his fellow-Traytor himselfe so entituled and maintained ? In his Epistle to Sir Ed. Cooke . Sect. 51. but that their meaning is to en-ammell , with a glorious pretence of Sacramentall Confession , the Counselling , supporting and Concealing an HIDEOVS TREASON .

21 Which , howsoeuer this Censurer straines at it , is , both in Specie & indiuiduo SINGVLARFROM ALL EXAMPLES , and not to be Paralel'd with any one out of ancient or moderne Historian or Poet , either in Fact or Fiction ; as if of purpose their meaning were to doe an Act which should put the Holy Ghost to Schoole , and consure his Maxim penned by Salomon , that Nihil nouum sub sole . For weighing all circumstances , of conspiracie , parties , Eccles. 19. obiects , instruments , crueltie , pretence in this Prodigious attempt ; it deserueth to be graced with that Motto of singularitie from all other , Ecce hoc recens est : vnlesse they will account all murthers in hostile armes , or priuate fewde , done verse 10. by Gun-powder , to be matches aquiualent .

22 And it seemes this Censurer doth ; else would hee not mention those of Antwerpe , Hage and Scotland ; the first in open Hostilitie , what time all actions for discomfiture are lawfull , either by sleight or Force : the other a plot of one single man , and in reuenge vpon the States for giuing him discontent , and by the report of some writers hee was Meteranus Lib. 11. distraught and mad . But by his noting of the last he discouereth the rancor of his heart against our Soueraigne ; for though the execution of Paricides and murthers vpon Princes , hath eft-soones alighted vpon some of the greatest and best of that royall sort , that euer were , and therefore no dishonour to them nor their posteritie ; yet to cast vp such a disastrous example in his Maiesties teeth , prooueth well that he is sorie that his Maiestie escaped the like perill , whom hee so earnestly wished to haue beene his Fathers successor in such a fortune , as hauing by hope devoured the same , he came on his iourney a good step ( as some report ) towards England , that he might haue sung a Te Deum in his natiue Countrey , for the good successe of that happy exploit . And yet that all men may see how malice blindeth iudgement in this his resemblance , the truth is that his Maiesties rather was not blowen vp with Gun-powder , but after that the murtherers had strangled him in his bed sleeping , hee was carried out to the Garden , and then was the house blowne vp , to make the world beleeue that it was but a Casuall accident of fire : and so what semblance of comparison is there betweene the Powder-Treason and it ?