vatican-assassins-by-eric-jon-phelps

120 Vatican Assassins“There was no disguise they [the Jesuits] could not assume, and therefore,there was no place into which they could not penetrate. They could enterunheard the closet of the Monarch, or the Cabinet of the Statesman. Theycould sit unseen in convocation or General Assembly, and mingleunsuspected in deliberations and debates. There was no tongue they couldnot speak, and no creed they could not profess, and thus there was nopeople among whom they might not sojourn, and no church whosemembership they might not enter and whose functions they might notdischarge. They could execrate the Pope with the Lutheran, and swear theSolemn League with the Covenanter.” {7}J. A. Wylie, 1878 EnglishHistorian History ofProtestantismThe Reformation was prospering in England. Queen Elizabeth I, “every incha queen” speaking six languages better than her own, permitted the reformeddoctrines of the Bible to be openly preached. From her kingdom, she first banishedthe Order in 1579. Of course the Jesuits hated her, called her a bastard, denied herright to the throne and attempted to murder her several times. The Ridolfi Plot (1571),the Throgmarton Plot (1583) and the Babington Plot (1586), although failures, wereinstigated by the soldiers of the Jesuit General in attempting to reduce England to theearthly, political rule of the Pope — the Temporal Power of “the Vicar of Christ.”Meanwhile, the Jesuits were in control of Spain. Philip II was the king throughwhich they sought to destroy the Reformation in the Netherlands as well as inEngland. (Philip II enjoyed the execution of his cousin Dona Isabella who, before amock Inquisitional Court, professed Christ as her Lord and Saviour.) Therefore, withthe military might of Philip, the Jesuits plotted the “extirpation” of England’sProtestants and Queen with one great stroke. They would invade with thousands ofSpanish soldiers carried by a huge array of ships – the invincible Spanish Armada – itsbuilding having been financed by Rome’s Papal Caesar for two million crowns!Setting out in 1588, assured of naval supremacy and ultimate victory, the Jesuitsurged their thirty thousand attackers aboard 128 ships on to heretic England. But therisen Son of God chose to intervene. After five desperate days of naval battle withthe fleets of both Howard and Drake out of food and ammunition, we read:“A mighty storm – a storm, which, to use the emphatic expression ofStrada, ‘shook heaven and earth’ – finally decided the contest, anddelivered England from the slightest apprehension of a rally, and freshattack, from the scattered ships of the Armada . . . But winds and wavesfought mightily for England, and while not so much as a single boat ofThe Jesuits – 1588