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234 Vatican AssassinsBut above all the Calvinists regarded resistance to unlawful government – theAnti-Christian tyranny of the Jesuit General’s absolute monarchies – a sacred duty.We read the words of John Knox, the great Scottish Reformer nicknamed “Calvinwith a Sword of Just Defense,” spoken to Mary, Queen of Scots:“ . . . we are constrained by unjust tyranny purposed against us, to declareunto Your Grace, that except this cruelty be stayed by your wisdom, we willbe compelled to take the sword of just defense against all that shall pursue usfor the matter of religion, and for our conscience sake, which ought not, normay not be subject to mortal creatures, farther than by God’s Word man beable to prove that he hath power to command us . . . Better we think, toexpose our bodies to a thousand deaths, than to hazard our souls to perpetualcondemnation, by denying Christ Jesus, and His manifest truth.” {14}[Emphasis added]This classic Calvinist conviction was expressed by a Scotch Covenanter, IsabelAlison, in 1681 before her heartless execution by the government agents of theRoman Catholic King Charles II. (In being fair, we must remember that during hisreign the king, later given “the poison cup” on his deathbed in 1685, sanctionedParliament’s decree to banish all Catholic priests in 1662, consented to theProtestant’s anti-Popish “Test Act,” signed a proclamation in 1674 confirming all thepains and penalties issued against Catholics by former sovereigns, and consented tothe execution of no less that fourteen Jesuits, including the Provincial Fr. ThomasWhitbread, convicted of conspiring to his assassination. The plot, having beensecretly financed by Pere La Chaise, the Jesuit confessor to France’s King LouisXIV, was revealed in 1678 by Dr. Tongue, Titus Oates and Bedlo.) We read:“They said, Thought I ever that Charles II was our lawful king? I said, Yes;for he entered into covenant with God and the land; but he hath broken andcast off that tie, and hath exercised so much, both tyranny and cruelty, that Ihad just ground to decline him and them both. Then they bade my blood beupon my own head; but I told them they would find it would be on theirheads, for it was owning of Christ’s kingly office that they put me to suffer,say the contrary who will. Now I bless the Lord I am free from Jesuiticalprinciples. The Scripture is my rule, and when obedience to men is contraryto obedience to God, I am clear to disown them.” {15} [Emphasis added]When this Calvinist conviction was brought to the battlefield in prayer we seethe American War for Independence from unbridled English tyranny in all its gloryand success. J. T. Headley writes:“ . . . the patriotic clergy of the revolution never practiced self-deception;they did not wish for one thing in their hearts and pray for another with theirlips. When they wanted the destruction of their foes, they did not pray aboutThe Jesuits – 1775 - 1815