I presume, better then euer did Ribadeneira)
transposing the letters of Robertus Parsonius Iesuita,
found this anagramme, Personatus versuti
oris abi: the wit-foundred drunkard, Henry
Garnet (who did not according to the Counsell
of [ar]_Paul_ vse vino modico: but as [as]_Paulinus_
pretily modio) that lecherous treacherous Arch-priest,
Arch-traitor, Arch-diuell in concealing, if not in
contriuing: in patronizing, if not in plotting
the powder intended massacre, is returned a Saint from
beyond the seas with [at]_a sancte Henrice intercede
pro nobis_: his action is iustified, his life
commended, his death honoured, his miracles and memorie
celebrated by that Ignatian spirit, ([au]_portentum
nominis portentum hominis_, hauing a great deale of
name, though a very little modestie) Andreas Eudaemon
Ioannes Cydonius: but notwithstanding his
apologie, the saintship of Henry Garnet is so
buffeted by the replies and antilogies of our accuratlie
learned diuines, as that his straw face will hereafter
hardly be worth a straw. Catesbie, Winter,
Rookwood, and the rest of the Cole-saints and
hole-saints (who laboured in the diuels mine by the
Popes mint) are numbred among the holy ones also:
Babilon and Egypt praise God in them, and for them.
I haue heard much of roaring gentlemen in London
and Canterburie, but if the Lord himselfe had
not watched ouer his Church, if the Lord himselfe
had not written England in the [ax]palmes of his hands,
if the Lord himselfe had not kept King Iames
as the [ay]apple of his eye, [az]if the Lord himselfe
had not been on our side (now may Gods Israell in
England say) if the Lord himselfe had not been on our
side, when they rose vp against vs, if the Lord himselfe
had not (out of his vnspeakeable goodnesse toward
vs and our posteritie) broken their snares, and deliuered
our soules out of that horrible gunpowder pit; these
bellowing Buls of Basan, and Canon-mouthed hell-hounds
would haue made on this day such a roare, that all
Christendome should haue felt it, and the whole world
haue feared it. [ba]_O Lord God of all power, blessed
be thy name, which hast this day brought to nought
the enemies of thy people,[bb] so let all thine enemies
perish._ O Lord, that our[bc] mouthes may be filled
with laughter and our tongue with ioy. Sint
diui modo non viui, let England hang such, although
afterward Rome hallow such, he that hath an eye to
see without the spectacles of a Iesuit, will affoord
as good credit to the register at Tiburne as
to the Calender of Tyber: for if these
be Martyrs, I wonder who are Murtherers? If these
be Saints, I pray you who are Scythians? If these
bee Catholikes, who are Canibals?
[Sidenote ak: Dr. Sutclif examin. of Rom. cap. 7.]
[Sidenote al: Dr. Abbot Antilog. pag. 3.]
[Sidenote am: Sutclif. vbi sup.]