GOod Cosin ; I haue receiued your letter of the first of this present , written in a spirit too derogatiue from the honors and innocence of the Appealant-Priests , & supererogatiue in the praise of Iesuits , as it were aboue Iesus . Wherein you shew your selfe vncharitable in the one , immoderate in the other , vncatholicke in each . But perhaps you holde your selfe herein excusable , as being so affected either in obedience and reuerence to , and of your ghostly Father ( who happily is a Iesuit ) or in respect you are willing to runne with the greater number . If the first , take it with you that the Iesuits in this case of the Appeale , are Principals on the one partie , & so in iustice to be thought partiall : if the other , what so erres as the most ? You are ( good Cousin ) to captiue your sences rather to the species , then to the Number of any obiect , and so farre forth to iudge your selfe in the right or wrong , as you apprehend the same right or wrong : and to runne with the most ( making that your ground ) is very vulgar . True it is , that to erre with authoritie is lesse shame , though no lesse blame , and therefore your better excuse may bee vpon Maister Arch-priest ; which notwithstanding is also vnallowable in this case , both for that the Apostle wils vs , that Seruitus nostra sit rationabilis , and likewise forasmuch as Maister Arch-priests authoritie was both obtained sinisterly ex parte of the Procurers , though not of his Holines graunt ; and it as factiously administred euer since . The ground of which faction began since our good Cardinals death , first of all in Wisbicb , where the Iesuits being taught vindicta diuina ; Aemulari charismata meliora then iurisdiction ouer the secular Clergie ( they being religious , and so within the compasse of an expresse Canon to the contrarie of such subordination ) haue since procured this Arch-priestship by sleight and surreption at his Holinesse hands , and inuested it in Maister Black-well to their vse . This is that man , who to shewe himselfe no lesse gratefull to those Fathers his Founders for such his office , then hee hath shewn himselfe most glad and greedie of the same , hath by auowing their wrongs against the Appealants , notably preiudiced the Catholicke Church of late here amongst vs , and like an vngentle birde berayed his owne nest . Whereby both for the one and the other , he hath brought himselfe to be also a triable partie together with them at the Apostolike barre ; who else ( had he been the man hee ought ) might for all the blemish of his authorising , haue been admitted of both parties for competent Vmpier betwixt them of al aggriefes . But see what a thing Ambition is , and how seruill are the obligations that it makes . Herehence is all the Catholicke Church on fire amongst vs at this instant , whiles the Iesuits hauing offred the wrong , maister Arch-priest in obsequious correspondence to them for being such their creature , maintaines that wrong against his own brothers ; so much against all nature is his loue rather in ascent then descending .

Herehence haue proceeded his thundring suspensions , and preiudiciall decrees against them , to the intangling in a thousand scruples the consciences of the ignorant , and lesse learned sort of Catholickes ; herehence the bandiyng of lay and cleargie one against another throughout the Realme ; herehence the vnchristian calumnies , and reproches , together with the withdrawing of wonted charitie on the Iesuits partie , or rather their more & more drawing to them by flat fraud and rapine , quae sua sint , non quae dei . Briefe ; herehence is proceeded the lamentable domage to all our Church , both in her former and future fruits amongst vs , for which all Protestants ( being the Chorus hereunto ) lowdlie laugh vs to scorne . Whiles ( God he knowes ) these good Fathers the Appealants in their wisdomes and charitie can aduise no fitter meanes to right all these scandals together with their innocence , then their present appeale , being taught by former experience how that to compremize aggriefes amongst themselues here at home , or to send priuatelie to Rome about the same , is but to make the Iesuits way to farther miscarriages , and giue their insolencies the more ground : whiles namelie father Cowbuck their brother serues them as goaler for our complainants at Rome , and here in England M. Arch-Priest is no head ouer them to checke their exorbitance , but at their curtesie ( they hauing made him that head he is ) but he rather a votary Fautor of all their misdoings , whereby they rest here amongst vs the most lawles and incorrigible men in the world .

But oh ( say some of them ) there is a General of our order , called Aqua-viua , who vpon complaint to him , is to order vs in any part of the world wheresoeuer , if we misdoe . Forsooth , a goodlie reference : an Italian man liuing in Rome , to be complained vnto of wrongs done here in England , which were a matter both exceeding chargeable and hazardous , in regard of the distance betweene , and likewise vnlikelie of due redresse , he being no whit English , nor otherwise competent for the same . Besides , that such complaints to be carried to the Iesuits General by our Priests , were to thrall the Ecclesiasticall libertie to their iurisdiction , in that it might seeme Agnitio Authoritatis to them ( being religious ) which were absurde .

Seeing then the Iesuits here in England haue no other lawe nor awe in their carriages then their owne consciences , it is no maruell if they haue giuen these scandals , especially hauing two such Patrons , the one heere , the other at Rome , as aforesaid . Yet , who would euer haue thought that in a Religious societie , so titularly professing Iesus aboue all other Christians , there could haue bin found so notabiles percussores Cleri ? Was it fit ( trow yee ) for a Religious person , so vncharitably , and so vnlearnedly , as hee hath done , to taxe by libell so many reuerend Priests as thirtie : I may say one hundred , so deepely in their reputations , as by expresse tearmes of Schisme , Rebellion , &c. to the Catholicke Church ? And further ; after a pacification of the saide scandall ( whereunto the good men though much to their priuate preiudice , yet for the generall peace of the Church were willing ) another of the same societie with many other their fautors at their instigation to reuiue the same since to the passe it is now come ? Or were the Priests so incorrigible men , as ( were it true that they were Schismatickes , Rebels , &c. ) there was no priuater meanes left to reclaime them , nor no charitie other then by libell ? they offering to purge themselues of such imputations by disputation , which was denied them by maister Arch-priest , as a tumultuous request . Againe , if they were such , yet what had a Iesuit to doe to censure them , being no head but a member , and that not of theirs , but of another bodie , and but onelie a borrower of their institution and honours in comming thus to Englands vinyeard , their owne not being so worthie ? Surely , the Iesuit thought that Propter quod vnumquodque tale , & illud magis tale ; that Maister Blackwel hauing his authority from them , à fortiore hee might administer the same . Be it so , yet was it not competentlie , nor condignely administred in that manner , as by a libell so despightfull , and so vnlearned ; as for the vnlearnednes whereof , I can ( sure ) make no other of it , then paenam peccati to the authour for the spite . Had he bin borne into the world with teeth & nailes , his spirit could not haue beene more Satyricall , nor yet his tearmes through malice more vnschollerlike . And for such the learned vniuersitie of Paris hath censured the tract both to the Authours and the Fautors disgrace .

Greatlie therefore was Maister Arch-priest to blame to giue it countenan e at the first ; but more , since the said censure . Who but hee would haue shewed himselfe so abiect minded for office , not procurable , but already procured , as to engage his existimation in so foule a defence of but his Benefactors against his owne brothers , & so famous an vniuersitie ? Call yee this either in the one or the other fraterna correctio ? is this vna or altera admonitio ? is this Dic ecclesiae ? wherby so vertuous , so learned , and so manie Confessors of Christ to be at once denounced , as Ethnicks & Publicans ? Could the Fathers aduise vpon no worthier reuenge against the Appealants for their concurring with God almighties miracle against their ambition in Wissbich , wherein to make vse of the Arch-priestship , then thus by Libell ? Or could Maister Arch-priest also against the same parties , for their not acquainting him with their counsell concerning a subordination to be porcured from Rome ( hee weening himselfe worthie to haue bin not onelie a partie in that consult , but the verie head and soule thereof , as should seeme by his Concaleat stomacho vnto them since ) be so grosse in his reuenge , as to support such a libel ? Ah poore aduise , or rather too prodigall spite . Cease ( Cosin ) cease henceforth those your Fathers their equiuocation to the world , whereby vnder colour that the Arch-priest is a secular-Priest , they would haue his authoritie thought to shine but oblique toward their Societie , and too direct toward the Seminaries , in matters that may arise in difference betweene them ; seeing both his attaindour to that dignitie was ex professo procured by their meanes ; and but interpretatiuely by the Priests ( as their Agent himselfe hath confest ) as also his homely administration thereof in thus auowing their libell , and other his partiall carriage in their behalfes against them euer since asseuers the contrarie . But Iustus est dominus , & iusta iudicia eius ; the Blacke-well or pit that they digged for others , themselues are fallen into ; being like to learne ere long what it is Mentiri in spiritum-sanctum , as too flatly they haue done in abusing the Apostolike Sea , by such their interpretatiue colloguing with it for the said Authoritie toward the maintaining of libell and faction . Which neuerthelesse forasmuch as it was well graunted by his Holinesse , though ill obtained by them ( he doing it in opinion of their honest information whereof they failed ) I list not here to dispute it with you , but in reuerence to Rome admit it with all faults in full force and vertue , seeing the Appealants themselues ( being the parties most wronged ) haue so done , not doubting but his Holinesse , ( as hee is wholy Clement ) will vpon due information aswell touching the said Authoritie , as other their aggriefes therewith complained , right both them in especiall , and all our Church in generall against the Iesuits , and Arch-priest , happily with the demolition of that Arch erected on so muddie a foundation . Suffice it , that in the meane time we hold such an Authoritie fit enough for such a manner of adeption , and administration ; and too preiudiciall both to the present state of our Church , and the future of our Countrey : and as for his auowrie of the libel , the same to be both vnclerkly , and vnnaturall ; yea and schismaticall in him , subiect to farre more satisfactions as well to all our Church , as to the Complainants , then he and his twelue Assistants are euer able to make . Such a dousen to such a thirteenth was neuer seene in the Church of God to this day , either for Ecclesiasticall or ciuill faction ; but what shall I say ? Imparum infida amicitia , and therefore like head , like hornes . And wherein may we comfort vs , but to thinke that ( in his Holinesse prouidence ) such a head of faction will not long holde . It is but our patiences of the Laytie in the meane time , by the example of our Ghostly Fathers the Appealants , and our zealous vnion with them against so foule a scandall . The first , though the Iesuits and Arch-priest deride as a vertue perforce ( they for their parts not brooking to be forced to any vertue ) yet the latter haply they may rue . As for Patience , it is certaine that Father Cowbuck asking the two messengers at Rome his Prisoners vpon what hope of friends , or countenance they came thither about such a busines ; and they answering their Innocence onely and the goodnesse of their cause , he laught both them and such their answere to scorne . Euen so likewise Maister Arch-priest here at home . Oh , ( saith he by his Agents ) cannot Seminary Priests professing so passiue a spirit of persecution and Martyrdome for Christs cause ( as they doe in their very institution ) put vp some wrong for Iesus sake . Truely yes : were it not that in cases of scandall Beatius est non dare quàm accipere ( howsoeuer the Iesuits in money matters holde it other ) and also , so long as the persecution proceeds not from a societie of Iesus , and in Iesus name ; a name which hath alwaies throwne out diuels , neuer brought in any . It is no waies fit that so glorious a name should be thus abused , as to be made vse of ex parte dati scandali : and more tolerable were euen murder at an enemies hands then at a brothers , most of all at a Fathers , such as all Iesuits ( though but score-yearlings ) call themselues .

Haue the Seminaries bred vp Maister Blackwell and his dousen Aydants , thus in steede of being themselues Martyrs to martyr others ? And what others ? Their own Brothers : and how ? In Iesus name . Good Cardinall Allan neuer founded the Seminaries for such impietie , nor yet endowed he them by his Presidence with such a spirit ; who ( doubtlesse ) were he now aliue and sawe this disfigure in his broode from his institution so all of loue , so all of charitie , would scarse know it to be his , or knowing it would weepe salte teares , and repent him at the heart that euer he coupled Iesuits therewith , who euen in his life time began to distaste their factious fashions , and namely notably Father Cowbuck . At a word ( my good Cosin ) little reason haue the Seminaries to shew themselues so mute and neutrall toward their Appealant-Brothers in this businesse , as most of them haue done till now of late , seeing that euen as such , the Libeller ( if they marke it ) asseuers them to be no lesse then Rebels too ; much lesse so very opposite as many of them are , and notably the twelue Assistants , of whom not one ( that I heare ) is a partie for them : little reason ( I say ) haue they or these to be such , considering that therein they betray their owne and the Seminaries honours wholy to the honouring of the Iesuits , and forget that implicitè euery one of themselues in particular is inuolued in the same disgrace . For , to haue it spread throughout all the Christian world , that thirty English Seminaries are at one clap become Schismaticks , Rebels , &c. to the Catholicke Church , what a blot will it be aswell to all that are of the nurserie , as of the number ? and in especiall , how much may it contrist the holy Ghost ouer the Seminaries , and also iustly alien from them their benefactors were such a scandall true ? Namely , the Popes Holinesse how deepely may he feele it in his Apostolike and paternall spirite . Whereas on the other side it not being true , that so many , yea or any of the Libellés are such Schismatickes , Rebels , &c. to our holy mother as the libeller doteth , how heartily ought the whole bodie , and all the members of the Seminaries applaude the same , and vnanimously concurre to propulse the reproch . But ( alas ) too many of them ( we see ) are bought and solde to the Iesuits thus from their brothers , and their owne honors ; they hauing the Ecclesiasticall purse of our Countrey wholy in their pocket , like the Steward in Scripture , who betrayed his and our good Lord and Master , and these others so deiect , nay abiect mindes . For , were they truly zealous , it were possible enough for them to hold out against the double persecution ( to wit ) both that of the Protestant , and this of the Iesuits and Arch-priest , with and for their brethren , especially such brethren as ( without offence be it spoken ) are the very creame of our Clergie . Not that I thinke any of them so vnlearned , no not of the Assistants , ( who it seemes were most called to the place for their insufficiencies , though in faith sufficient enough for such employment ) as to iudge the Appealants Schismaticks , &c. by the booke , whereby to be parties against them , or neuters ; but only of meere pusillanimitie . This Mammon is such a Monarke , that it bribes and bridles all but Capuchines , tainting their humours and honours both ; especially where Authoritie concurres , as in this wrong of the Iesuits Maister Blackwels ( such as it is ) doth ; who whom their largesse allures , or parfimonie not , his Authoritie makes good in each . For , as for his late answere to the Appealants booke , that importeth no such reason or satisfaction why they should thinke his proceedings , and consequently their partie thereunto any waies iust against their brethren ; it arguing onely a meere ostentation of his Arch-priestship , and a bare Ipse dixit , and nothing else ; so full is euery line besides of absurdities and contradictions as touching the matter ; onely the sayings of the Doctors hee hath therein not vsed , whereby nor abused , which is a maruell .

Great pittie therefore it is , and a scandall ; our Cleargie ( which for being a persecuted Cleargie should be the more vnite as per antiperistesin ) to be found guiltie in this case so much concerning their honours , of that vice which the Scot noteth nationall and naturall to our people ( that is ) like dogges all to take part with the iniuring dogge against the iniured ; or rather not like hogs ( which quoth he the Welchmen are ) to ayde the fugitiue and weaker hogge against the stronger . Great pitie likewise and a shame it is vnto our Seminaries , who being Luminare maius in our Fermament then the Iesuits , they notwithstanding to eclipse and obnubulate them therein , by disseuering them , as thus by libell they haue done . Briefe , that Iesuits who in their institution are but Confessors ( vz. ) but Graduates , Beson̄os and Proficients towarde perfection , shoulde dare so basely to blemish the Seminaries , whose institution is far more hautie ( vz. ) Pascere gregem and ponere animas suas pro ouibus suis , which implies perfection alreadie acquired ; as , then which , maiorem charitatem nemo habet : they ( I say ) to blemish them so libelliously as is said , not onely by seuering them thereby one from another , but ( which worse is ) by setting them one against another .

Is Christs supreme Vicar in earth a secular Clearke , yea , so farre forth secular , as being once chosen out of a Monasticke-order to that Sea ( for a Iesuit Pope neuer yet had yee any ) straight his Monasticke-nature dies . And also are all Bishops vnder him in the Vniuersall Church such , whereby they haue authoritie ( as such ) to visit and correct the religious person , and not the religious them ; that thus the religious should insult ouer our Seminaries ( being likewise such ) and that without encounter , nay with their own assents ? I speake it boldlie , and I hope , abest inuidia verbo ; not so glorious by ods is the Iesuits societie as the Seminaries , either for institution , or practise ( especiallie practise here in our countrie ) whatsoeuer it be elsewhere . For the institution , as afore is touched ; for practise , as for example . Shew yee mee from Father Ignatius time their founder to this day ( which is now well nigh a hundred yeeres since ) halfe so many Martyrs thoroughout the whole world in all that time of the Societie , as haue beene of our Seminaries within these thirtie yeeres here in our countrie : omitting that euen to this day , there is not so much as one Canonized Saint of the order , Confessor , or Martyr ; no not their founder himselfe : whom neuerthelesse with a great manie moe of the Societie , I reuerentlie thinke to be such , and as such , doe verie humbly commend me to their praiers . Which defect of honour to their Order ( which all other religious Orders haue ) they would excuse by saying ( as some of them haue done ) that the Canonizing of Saints is but a superfluous pompe in the Church , which may verie well be spared . Wherein ( surelie cosin ) besides that it founds hereticallie and against Catholicke religion , they haue little reason euen in moralitie , seeing that euery gallant Champion is well worthie of his Bay . And therefore as little reason haue they to beare themselues so superlatiuely aboue all other holy Orders , were it but for the Puneisme of the societie , which blemish to counteruaile together with all other blemishes in it , they haue giuen it the name which is aboue all names , and holy aboue all holies , the name Iesus . In which name well I graunt them they may iustly and victoriously goe against all Gods enemies , but not against his friends ; especially bearing no more crosses along with them wheresoeuer they goe , then we see they doe : quaerentes in most places quae sua sunt , rather then quae Dei , both worship and wealth . Whereby they haue purchast them a hard opinion of all religious Orders , euen so farre forth as to be written against by some of them in most parts of Christendome ex professo , and in particular are banisht for such out of all the most Christian Kingdome of France , as also for their Spanish faction there ; where for all their great meanes , and flattering Ballades of late made and exhibited to the King , they are not like to get in againe this yeare , nor yet the next , hee hearing of their turbulent carriage here in England . Onely they holde in here and there with the good Capuchines ( being at oddes with all other orders , and oftentimes among themselues ) which is their greatest credit , and which they may easily doe , for that ( as one of those good Friers on a time confest ) they couet to haue all , and these nothing . Vpon this grounde likewise it was that the excellent good Bishop of Bamberge in Germanie being laboured vnto some fewe yeares agoe , by the importunat commendations of the house of Austrich , and other Catholicke-states of the Empire , for their admittance into his most reformed diocesse , he answered ; no , I brooke no such Quiddits .

To conclude then with that I began to say ; seeing the Iesuits are a societie so inferiour to all other religious Orders , and yet ambitioning aboue them all in the bare name of Iesus , scorning ( belike ) in their singularitie to bee called after their founder , hee being as yet no canonized Saint ( as aforesaid ) and namely an Order farre inferiour to the Seminaries both for institution and merit to our Church and Countrey ( as alreadie is partly proued ) though not in priuiledges from the Sea Apostolicke ( wherein howsoeuer otherwise they come short in merits to other orders , it will be sure to be neuer a whit behinde to any ) it is ( I say ) great pusillanimitie in the brothers of the same , cedere suo iuri so much , as to giue them the preheminence in our Countrey for ecclesiasticall rule , either in their owne name , or to their vse , as Maister Blackwels is ; much more to suffer themselues to be so infamed by them as by flat libell , and which worse is , by their owne partaking therewith . Is it not enough that the Iesuits disgrace and supplant them with their zizaniaes in their owne Colledges , liuing vnder their Ferrule ; that they expell them thence at their pleasures ; that they beate them almost to death ; but also in their Countrey they will assay the like ? and euen not there manumize them from their wrongs ; Pharao himselfe being no longer cruell to the Israelites , then whilest they liued in his land , saue once , when in reuenge thereof the red Sea miraculously deuoured him , and all his host . Is it not enough that for euery one Martyr of those Fathers , there haue been twentie at least of these Brothers to our Church , and yet they to vsurpe the honour of all , like the Spanish-Souldiour in the Lowe-countries , who hath been alwaies the least part in his Lieges seruice there , and yet the most in the praise ? Is not all this ( I say ) and a great deale more of the Iesuits vnkindnesses , and vndeseruings both of our Seminaries , our Church and Countrey , enough ; but needes to al this they must adde libelling vpon them too , forgetting that Qui dixerit fratri suo Racha is reus gehennae ignis ? I could wish , and I verily hope they will valew themselues aboue the Iaponian , and other Indian Clergie , who know no other Pope then the Iesuits , and take their bare words for Canons . At least I could wish that in this case of so reall reproch to their whole bodie , and preiudice to their Apostolike-haruest in our vineyard here , they would ( as I hope in God they will , abiuring Mammon , and all other sinister allure , and adiure of both Iesuit , and Iesuited Arch-priest ) ioyne with their wronged brethren in a confident and vnanimous defence , and not suffer their honours which is also their owne , so basely to be bandied out of our Church and Countrey ; namely , by an intruding societie , were it but in honour of their excellent Founder , our late Cardinall , a man no whit inferiour to their Father Ignatius , but rather afore him in all manner of rare desert to the Sea-Apostolicke , for which hee was worthie to die a Peere of the same : à fortiore then , they being the naturall broode of our English Church ex traduce from Saint Augustine and Mellitus , continued rather then founded by the said good Cardinall to our Countrey in all this age of persecution . Surely ( Cosin ) rather then this shall come to passe through the indiscreete obedience , or rather pusillanimitie of the Seminaries themselues toward the Iesuits ; there will not want amongst the Catholicke-laitie spirites to vndertake the defence , in honour both of our Church and Countrey , and namely of the Appealants our so reuerend Patriots , and ghostly Fathers : who , though they for their parts haue all this while been content in their exceeding charitie , but to holde the buckler to their eares against the Societies blowes ; yet these haply will not sticke to returne them in their behalfes a sound venny at least . Yea , seeing those Fathers haue thus presumptuously broken quarter with ours , and that in our owne Countrey ( they being meere Spanish ) let them either yet make amends ( if at least it be not too late ) or else be sure that they sit fast ; for that ( saluo the Appeale ) they are like to carrie as good as they bring , for all our good Cardinall be dead and gone ; such being Lex talionis ; dens pro dente , oculus pro oculo : and againe a meere morall iustice , that Quisquis quae non licet loquitur , quae non lubet audiat . We Catholickes standing as yet on the one side of the Riuer ( the Appeale depending ) and the Iesuits on the other , I doe not doubt but God will giue vs the day when once we come to closing ; or if not , at least God shall lose no honour by our foyle , so humbly will we all with our Appealant-Fathers yeeld vs obedient to the disgrace , and the Apostolicke Sea ; which spirite ( I pray God ) they beare . The Societie hath giuen scandals enough , and daily doth throughout all the parts of Christendome , which if they were but halfe made into a nosegay , would ( I doubt not ) yeeld so vnsauorie sent vnto English noses , that we should esteeme such flowers not worth the setting in Englands garden . But this debt they may yet forestall if they will , and all harder measure that may therewith befall them , by licking out their Racha so irreligiously written , and more impudently maintained against our Fathers , and withall absolue themselues in so doing , from their reatus gehennae ignis . Well , ipsi viderint . They know very well that Non dimittitur peccatum nisi restituatur ablatum , and that confession of a fault is the least part of Pennance , saue letting the wrong fall ; which ( we see ) they would now gladly doe , if that would serue the turne , but it will not ; for that as the French man saith : Desbender l'arque ne guerit pas le play : To vnbend the bowe , heales not the wound . More charitie were it in them by a penitent confession , though with the lesse satisfaction ( which once our Fathers for peace-sake would haue accepted ) they to shame the Diuell rather then themselues still by the contrarie : for to stand vpon Puntoes in sinne , especially such a sinne as brings Schisme with it , what a shame is it for a religious person in a persecuted church ; who though it were no wrong at all , but right that he hath written , yet had he Saint Paules spirit , who wished Anathema esse pro fratribus suis ; he would not sticke to confesse it a fault ( though none ) and also satisfie for it as such : much more Maister Arch-priest ( the matter being bad ) had he the spirit of that good Pope , who of an Arrian-Prelate ( as he was ) being by the strong hand of the Empresse Eudoxia ( as I remember ) exalted to the Sea Apostolicke , was no sooner inuested therin , but did straight renounce his Arrianisme , and decree the Catholicke faith against it ; had he ( I say ) but halfe his spirit , he would now in his authenticke authoritie doe both himselfe and his brethren right in this matter against the Iesuits his makers , howsoeuer afore time he stoode for them in the wrong . But he is all for Gloria patri , and as for Filio hee seemes the flat Arriane , for which great pittie it is , that Fratrum quoque gratia rara est . Nay , hee that can penne expresse Sermons , and vtter them openly in blemish of the partie present ( being a Gentlewoman of Nobilitie in this land ) which ( as she her selfe hath protested ) was the onely cause of her turning Protestant : he also that can by his letter expressely incharge one of his Assistants ( as he did ) to calumniate and defame a certaine reuerend Priest by name ( whom I know ) he ( I say ) that can thus do , no maruell if such a Iudge be of counsell to a Libell , and a countenance thereunto . No maruell also if he be an vnfortunate Father to his ghostly children , as to one he was to my knowledge , and that I rue ; who after a long and worshipfull confession of the Catholicke faith in the Towre of London and other prisons , in the end fell vnder his hand . Lastly , no maruell if such a one for want of good neighbours be faine to praise himselfe , as lately hee hath done , and that in the first place too , afore his founder Father Parsons , in a certaine tract intituled Pius griefe , which by the confused huddle of the Doctors sayings therein , and the stile , is held to be his .

But to the Iesuits againe . Dico meam culpam being their owne lesson , and so boyish a pennance , as they vse it , me thinkes they should not shame to say it when it comes to their turnes , as now through their misdoing it doth ; much lesse shuld they persist so stiffe-necked in defensione peccati , it being a sinne in the highest degree against the holy Ghost . But seeing they doe so , as chusing rather to shame themselues then the Diuell ( such is their charitie ) truly ( Cosin ) I doe not see , but some lay-cauterie as well as the religious Appeale depending , is requisite to be applied to them ( as aforesaid ) though better a great deale , and more meritorious were voluntarie pennance from the heart , then that which so perforce they may haue cause to take to the heart . Some shew of grace they haue alreadie made in proffering a parley of peace to the Appealants ; but it is indeede but grace in shew , nor gratia gratis data ; but a meere seruile grace , extorted out of the iust feare they haue of the Appeale ( which by Braues nor by their great friendes they see they cannot suppresse ) and also for the high iniurie they haue done to Saint Peters chayre touching the same ; for which they are like to bee put to such a pennance vpon the issue thereof ( I feare me ) as besides to see the Appealants faculties and honours restored vnto their innocence by the Apostolike Pastor ( which they haue taken away ) theirs , and the Arch-priests vice versa , to bee suspended and attainted as Schismaticall , &c. In which predicament I am perswaded they haue been ipso facto from the first : for which cause ( for my own part , I assure yee Cosin ) I make it a scruple in my conscience to communicate with any of them in Sacraments till they be humbled , especially the Iesuits , holding it ( as they do ) lawfull vti scientia in confessione , as much to say as to make vse of mens Confessions .

As for Maister Blackwell himselfe ( setting aside the libell which in the libeller was Schisme primariò and principaliter , and also in his brother Father Cowbuck , for procuring himselfe to be gaoler at Rome , to the precursor-messengers thither touching Ecclesiasticall libertie , together with his dismissing them in the end from thence vnheard , disgraced , yea , and with expresse prohibition to returne to their countrey , and that without exhibition to liue else where ) setting this aside which was expresse Schisme in them primariò , was it not ( I pray ) if not Schisme in Maister Blackwell ( for that he is since a receiued superiour , as may be obiected ) at least schismaticall in him secundariò , and as in vse to Schismatickes , so farre forth in countenance of that libell , to discountenance an Appeale made to his Holinesse concerning the same ( all Appeale being intrinsecè , Agnitio authoritatis in the highest degree to the Appealé , and the greatest Plea of Iustice both ciuill and ecclesiasticall , that is , to discountenance it ( I say ) by suspension of the Appealants faculties spirituall , and also their temporall reliefe from their friends for the same ; to interdict so honourable a censure as that of the Vniuersitie of Paris was toward the forwarding of the same Appeale ; to diswarne the Appealants booke , being dedicated to his Holinesse owne eye in the reall nature of an Appeale , to be read of the Catholickes of our countrey as schismaticall , nay hereticall ; to slaunder the sacred Sea with a flat lye , affirming that hee had receiued a resolution from the mother-Citie , against the said censure of Paris toward the backewarding of the said Appeale ? Briefe , to approue the tract of Schisme , whether true or false against his Brothers , it being to the so great and generall disorder of our church both in the Cleargie and in the laytie , especiallie the libelés , beseeching him to call in the said treaty so disparageable to their reputation , and all the Seminaries , together with their shewing themselues corrigible by their offer of disputation , whether it were schisme or not , and his refusall of each as aforesaid ? Was not all this ( I say ) with a great deale more , à primo ad vltimum schismaticall in him , as being to the disunion of an vnited bodie ; at least Excommunication to him as in preiudice of ecclesiasticall libertie ( in which nature al Appeale is ) and ( sure ) flat schisme in them , viz. the Iesuits , both for that cause , and also for that by their said libell they on their parts principally procured the said disunion in Gods church here amongst vs , deuiding the members therof one against another ? Was not al this schisme , & schismaticall in him , or them , or both , whether the Appealants be Schismaticks or no ? Which ( verily ) they are not if these be , because the question is not ad diuersa , but ad contraria in eodem subiecto , ( vz. ) whether in the case whereof they are both agreed , the Appealants be Schismaticks or none . Nor serues the reason afore parenthesed of the Arch-priests now authentike headship for his excuse from schisme ; for , though it may be graunted , that in such cases whereto his authoritie is of force ( as it is but ad officia certa & determinata ) members to concurre with his misguidance in those cases be no schisme in him ; but rather those members schismaticall , that goe against the same ( though iustly ) the vnitie in that case seeming to stand on his side in respect of his authoritie especiall ( as a head ) to those cases , which vnitie they deuide by their opposition : yet in a case which is meerely out of his authoritie ( as a head ) such as this of the Appealants is in fundamento ; to wit , he being therein a principall partie , and so not iust he to be his own Iudge , ( vz. ) as a head , Maister Arch-priest both may be , and ( vnder correction ) I take it , is a schismaticke ( carrying himselfe as he hath done ) and all they that take with him though the greater number ; for that herein he is to be taken not as a head ( the matter not being in his iurisdiction as such ) but as an equall member , and that triable like the rest : so as his deuiding his fellowe-members in such a case not as a head ( though a head ) but as a member himselfe , from being an vnited body as aforetime ; I doe not see why it should not be schisme in him ; much more forasmuch as this separation both of himselfe , and others from the vnited bodie by his partaking , and procuring part to be taken with the libell , was at the first when hee was indeede but a member , and no compleate head in esse , but only in potentia , and that in voto proprio more then any others ( vz. ) in the interim of the Cardinals constitutiue-letter , and his Holinesse Briefe ; so as it is not his being since an autenticke head can salue the Schisme which he then incurred as a member , especially he persisting therein by expresse censures against the Appealants in the behalfe of the libell : but rather more and more the same is heauie vpon his now headship , by how much , Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet , quanto maior qui peccat habetur . Nor euer was it holden in the Lawe , a good acquittance of a widdowes debt ; much lesse a iustification of her breaking ( for example ) her neighbours wiues head in the time of her widdowhood ( vz. ) in the interim of her two Husbands , to say she is now a remarried Wife : but so as her second Husband is liable thereunto ( as her head , and in her right ) and he answerable for all the same . The like or very little different is this case of Maister Blackwels , whereby ( I doe not see ) but if he were a schismaticke in the interim aforesaid as a member of the Seminaries , and ( as such ) so notable an instrument of the Iesuits who were schismatickes , and so hee a schismaticke in their right though not his owne : à fortiore now ( as a head ) he is such ; he continuing the separation ( as such ) a great deale more : at leastwise take him as you will , head , or member , in the right or in the wrong ; to impeach ecclesiasticall libertie as he hath done in thwarting this Appeale , whether importing right or wrong in the Appealants ( which the triall must shew ) is Excommunication to him , and all that take his part . And also whether a head neuer so autenticke , or his case neuer so good ; he to suspend an Appealant , and otherwise to censure him , yea , to decree against him lite pendente ; was vniust dealing , and he subiect to Excommunication therefore ipso facto .

Then againe for the Iesuits , that they are notable Schismatickes in this case ; it is not their disclayming from being members of the bodie of the Seminaries , but of another bodie , vz. their owne societie , that can excuse them : for that , to be a schismaticall member to a bodie , it sufficeth to be membrum genericum to that bodie , though not specificum ; and such they are , being members of the Catholike Church with these ; so that as such they are Schismatickes in the case in the question , they hauing made a separation in the Seminarie-members , whereby the vnion of their bodie is in hazard to be dissolued , and consequently of our whole Church thoroughout England . To pleade that they are indiuidua vaga , and vndependant of any bodie at all ( as in truth they seeme to be here in England , so lawlesse is all their carriage ) would sound much better for their not being Schismatikes , for so might they be held in the nature of Painters and Poets , of whom the verse is : Pictoribus atque Poëtis Quodlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas . Or to stand vpon defence of the Tract , and so to thinke by maintaining it for good to cleere themselues of Schisme against the Vniuersitie of Paris ; that were most of all absurd , neither shew they any such want of wit & grace , but rather labour all the wayes they can , and as farre as their Pride will giue them leaue , to hinder it from comming farther in question ; although their faction founded thereupon they no whit desist , but rather augment it more and more for other their priuate interests . Or say , that they should maintaine it good to the end , and to a decree at Rome on their behalfes ; yet cannot that honour to them counteruaile one halfe of their mischieuous carriages , & the domages they haue done to our church in the meane time concerning the same ; so much may a good matter be marred in the ill handling ; and so haue they done ( were their case good ) whilest ( for example ) labouring to proue there is a God , they raise vp the diuell : but their case is not so good , being simply bad ; bad afore , and bad after .