The Jesuits; Their moral maxims and plots against nations and churches by James Aitken Wylie

Author:James Aitken Wylie [Wylie, James Aitken]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

—Dr. Martin F. Tupper.

Wisdom the Romanists have never possessed; their cunning would seem now to have departed from them. They looked at the surface of society. In especial, they fixed their eyes on the throne. They marked not the earthquake that was mustering below their feet Suddenly its mighty throes shook England, and when they lifted up their eyes after the first moments of surprise, the Stuart had disappeared, and with him had passed the hopes they had entertained of carrying over the nation to Popery; and on the throne from which revolution had precipitated James II, sat William of Orange, the representative of Protestantism.

There is another well-marked but unpleasant peculiarity of the Jesuits which we must not pass unnoticed. When they have some special villainy in hand, then it is that they make the loudest professions of amity and goodwill. The welkin at these seasons rings with their songs in praise of peace. The blow is generally the first intimation their victim receives that he has been singled out for destruction. History abounds with examples in point The annals of France are full of such, and not less the records of England. Oaths and treaties, friendships and festivities, formed the lure which drew the victims of the St Bartholomew to the fatal spot where the hideous butchery was to be enacted. When the Babington conspiracy was hatching for the murder of Elizabeth and the setting up of a Popish sovereign, the party who had it in hand published a book which overflowed with sweet and charitable counsels, “that good Catholics were to employ no other arms against their prince but the arms of the primitive Christians, tears and daily prayers.” They first attempted to prevent James I. ascending the throne of England, and when they found they could not effect their end, they fawned most hypocritically upon him, styling him, “Most Puissant Prince and Orient Monarch.” They continued to sing this syren song till the King and nation were all but drawn into the abyss of destruction. The deeper their plunges into treason, the louder their professions of loyalty. It was while they were devising the Gunpowder Plot that they published the “Lay Catholic’s Petition,” wherein they protested their fidelity and unfeigned love to His Majesty, offering to be bound life for life, with good sureties for their behaviour. These faithful and loving subjects were all the while storing barrels of gunpowder by the dozen in the cellar of the Parliament House, and fearful lest their good deeds and loving intents should come too soon to be known, they covered them up with billets and faggots. When all was ready to blow King and Parliament into the air, Father Garnet was pleased to talk much of bulls and mandates from his Holiness to charge all the priests and their Catholic flocks in England to carry themselves with profound peace and quiet; and to maintain the deception, he sent a messenger to Rome with a letter, supplicating that commandment might go forth staying all commotions of Catholics in England.

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