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Vatican Assassins by Eric Jon Phelps - Amazing Discoveries

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120 <strong>Vatican</strong> <strong>Assassins</strong><br />

“There was no disguise they [the Jesuits] could not assume, and therefore,<br />

there was no place into which they could not penetrate. They could enter<br />

unheard the closet of the Monarch, or the Cabinet of the Statesman. They<br />

could sit unseen in convocation or General Assembly, and mingle<br />

unsuspected in deliberations and debates. There was no tongue they could<br />

not speak, and no creed they could not profess, and thus there was no<br />

people among whom they might not sojourn, and no church whose<br />

membership they might not enter and whose functions they might not<br />

discharge. They could execrate the Pope with the Lutheran, and swear the<br />

Solemn League with the Covenanter.” {7}<br />

J. A. Wylie, 1878 English<br />

Historian History of<br />

Protestantism<br />

The Reformation was prospering in England. Queen Elizabeth I, “every inch<br />

a queen” speaking six languages better than her own, permitted the reformed<br />

doctrines of the Bible to be openly preached. From her kingdom, she first banished<br />

the Order in 1579. Of course the Jesuits hated her, called her a bastard, denied her<br />

right to the throne and attempted to murder her several times. The Ridolfi Plot (1571),<br />

the Throgmarton Plot (1583) and the Babington Plot (1586), although failures, were<br />

instigated <strong>by</strong> the soldiers of the Jesuit General in attempting to reduce England to the<br />

earthly, political rule of the Pope — the Temporal Power of “the Vicar of Christ.”<br />

Meanwhile, the Jesuits were in control of Spain. Philip II was the king through<br />

which they sought to destroy the Reformation in the Netherlands as well as in<br />

England. (Philip II enjoyed the execution of his cousin Dona Isabella who, before a<br />

mock Inquisitional Court, professed Christ as her Lord and Saviour.) Therefore, with<br />

the military might of Philip, the Jesuits plotted the “extirpation” of England’s<br />

Protestants and Queen with one great stroke. They would invade with thousands of<br />

Spanish soldiers carried <strong>by</strong> a huge array of ships – the invincible Spanish Armada – its<br />

building having been financed <strong>by</strong> Rome’s Papal Caesar for two million crowns!<br />

Setting out in 1588, assured of naval supremacy and ultimate victory, the Jesuits<br />

urged their thirty thousand attackers aboard 128 ships on to heretic England. But the<br />

risen Son of God chose to intervene. After five desperate days of naval battle with<br />

the fleets of both Howard and Drake out of food and ammunition, we read:<br />

“A mighty storm – a storm, which, to use the emphatic expression of<br />

Strada, ‘shook heaven and earth’ – finally decided the contest, and<br />

delivered England from the slightest apprehension of a rally, and fresh<br />

attack, from the scattered ships of the Armada . . . But winds and waves<br />

fought mightily for England, and while not so much as a single boat of<br />

The Jesuits – 1588

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