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A36301	Paradoxes, problemes, essayes, characters written by Dr. Donne, dean of Pauls ; to which is added a book of epigrams ; written in Latin by the same author ; translated into English by J. Maine D.D. ; as also, Ignatius his Conclave, a satyr, translated out of the originall copy written in Latin by the same author, found lately amongst his own papers.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.; Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing D1867; ESTC R1266	68,704	226

new contention for having presently cast his eyes to the principal place next to Lucifers owne Throne and finding it possest he stopt Lucifer and asked him who it was that sate there It was answered that it was Pope Boniface to whom as to a principal Innovator for having first challenged the name of Universal Bishop that honour was afforded Is he an Innovator thundred Ignatius shall I suffer this when all my disciples have laboured all this while to prove to the world that all the Popes before his time did use that name and that Gregory did not reprehend the Patriarch Iohn for taking to himself an Antichristian name but for usurping a name which was due to none but the Pope And could it be fit for you Lucifer who in this were either unmindfull of the Roman Church or else too weak and incapable of her secrets and mysteries to give way to any fentence in Hell which though it were according to truth yet differed from the Iesuits Oracles With this Ignatius flyes upwards and rushes upon Boniface and throwes him out of his Seat and Lucifer went up with him as fast and gave him assistance lest if he should forsake him his own Seat might be indangered And I returned to my body which As a flower wet with last nights dew and then Warm'd with the new Sun doth shake off agen All drowsiness and raise his trembling Crown Which crookedly did languish and stoop down To kiss the earth and panted now to finde Those beams return'd which had not long time shin'd was with this return of my soul sufficiently refreshed And when I had seen all this and consider'd how fitly and proportionally Rome and Hell answered one another after I had seen a Iesuit turn the Pope out of his Chair in Hell I suspected that that Order would attempt as much at Rome An Apology for Iesuits NOw it is time to come to the Apologie for Iesuits that is it is time to leave speaking of them for he favours them most which says least of them Nor can any man though he had declaimed against them till all the sand of the sea were run through his hour-glass lack matter to add of their practises If any man have a minde to add any thing to this Apologie he hath my leave and I have therefore left room for three or four lines which is enough for such a paradox and more than Iungius Scribanius Gretzerus Richeomus Cydonius and all the rest which are used to Apologies and almost tired with a defensive war are able to employ if they will write only good things and true of the Iesuits Neither can they comfort themselves with this That Cato was called to his answer four and forty times for he was so many times acquitted which both the Parliaments of England and France deny of the Iesuits But if any man think this Apology too short he may think the whole book an Apologie by this rule of their own That it is their greatest argument of innocency to be accused by us At this time whilst they are yet somewhat able to do some harm in some places let them make much of this Apologie It will come to pass shortly when as they have bin dispoyled and expelled at Venice and shaked and fanned in France so they will be forsaken of other Princes and then their own weakness will be their Apologie and they will grow harmless out of necessity and that which Vegetius said of Chariots armed with sithes ond hooks will be applyed to the Jesuits at first they were a terror and after a scorn FINIS Place this after Paradox XI fol. 37. Nuncius ●…ydereus De stella 〈◊〉 Cygno Paleotus de Sindone cap. 6. Iosephina di Gieron Gratian. Theod Ni em nemus unio Tra. 6. cap. 29. Sedulius Apolog. pro libro Con form l. 2. cap. 2. Harlay defence des Iesuites Vollader deCanoniza Fran cis Ro. in Epist. Bellar. de Purgat lib. 2. c. 8. August de Haer. c. 81 Harlay defence dis Iesuites mesdi 6. Bulla 18 in Gre●… cont 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 ovius de Majest E●…s milic c. 7 Mosnes Theor. 1 cap. 2. Imaginarium 21 q. Omnis jactura Modest. in verb. Milite 32. q. 2. Pudor Flagel Daemon Menghi Summa Bullarii verbo Agnus Dei Litera di Diego Torres Dist. 32. qui. Ibid. Vidua Scappus de jure non script l. 1. c. 54. Sum. Angel verb. Papa N 1 Money-takers Theol. Niem nemus unio Tract 6. c. 29. Rod Cupers de Eccles univers fol. 4. Azor par 2. l. 4. c 1. Moscontus de Maj. Eccl. Mil c 5. ibid Idem c 6. Scappus de Iure non scrip l 1. c 25. Azor ubi supra Plat in vit Adr. I. Apologia pro Garnete De desperata Calv causa c. 11 Rom 12. 11 Ribadineyra Catal fol 60 100. Brisson de formul l 〈◊〉 Gretzer Examen speculi fol 139. L'eschuffier f 25. Id fol 32. Observat in Cassianum fol 736. ex collat 19. Triha●…es lib 2. c 4. De la messe fol 358. Synta Tholos lib 15. c 4. v 7. Scap de Iure non script l. 1. c 6. Ibid c 16 Ibid. c. 25 De Regno Sicil●… Resp. ad Card. Colum Salmonees Hypocr l. 4. Aphor. 57. Garrauca stat Synod N. 41 Regul Iesuit cap. praefect Refector De rebus ●…uper inventis Harlay defence des Iesuit fol. 12. Valla-der fol. 24. Matalius Metellus praefat in Osorium Paris de puteo de syndicat de excess regn Sophronius cap. 45. Conse●…uerat 1 Vita Nerii-fol 107. 2 Fol. 108. 3 Fol. 212. 4 Fol. 229. 5 Fol. 19. 6 Fol. 26. 7 Fol. 313. 8 Fol. 163. Brisson d●… formul l. 1. Reinsulk Manual Franciscan cap. 9. Nuncius Sydereus e Rog. Iesuit f●…l 73. lbid fol. 47. Heissius ad Aphor Iesuit fol. 135. Eudaem Ioan. Apol pro Garn●… c. 5. Acosta d●… procur Ind. Salu l. 2 c. 9. De studiis Iesuit abstrus c. 5. Bellar. de Purg. l. 2. c. 8. Pierre Mathier i. l. 1. Nar. 4 Litera ejus ad Philip. 3. Gen. 2. 4. Gen. 17. 8. Vita ejus Epist. ad Paul 5. L. 1. de ve●…blig Valade eius fol. 57. Fol. 5. Bonar in Ampbitb Lib. 1. c. 14.

he made serve him for all weathers A Barrenhalf-acre of Face amidst whereof an eminent Nose advanced himself like the new Mount at Wansted over-looking his Beard and all the wilde Countrey thereabouts He was tended enough but not well for they were certain dumb creeping Followers yet they made way for their Master the Laird At the first presentment his Breeches were his Sumpter and his Packets Trunks Cloak-bags Portmanteau's and all He then grew a Knightwright and there is extant of his ware at 100l 150l and 200l price Immediately after this he shifteth his suit so did his Whore and to a Bear-baiting they went whither I followed them not but Tom. Thorney did The True Character of a Dunce HE hath a Soule drownd in a lump of Flesh or is a piece of Earth that Prometheus put not half his proportion of Fire into a thing that hath neither edge of desire nor feeling of affection in it The most dangerous creature for confirming an Atheist who would straight swear his soul were nothing but the bare temperature of his body He sleeps as he goes and his thoughts seldom reach an inch further then his eyes The most part of the faculties of his soul lye Fallow or are like the restive Jades that no spur can drive forwards towards the pursuite of any worthy design one of the most unprofitable of all Gods creatures being as he is a thing put clean besides his right use made fitt for the cart the flail and by mischance Entangled amongst books and papers a man cannot tel possible what he is now good for save to move up and down and fill room or to serv as Animatum Instrumentum for others to work withal in base Imployments or to be a foyl for better witts or to serve as They say monsters do to set out the variety of nature and Ornament of the Universe He is meer nothing of himself neither eates nor drinkes nor goes nor spits but by imitation for al which he hath set forms fashions which he never varies but sticks to with the like plodding constancy that a milhors follows his trace both the muses and the graces are his hard Mistrisses though he daily Invocate them though he sacrifize Hecatombs they stil look a squint you shall note him oft besides his dull eye and louting head and a certain clammie benum'd pace by a fair displai'd beard a Nightcap and a gown whose very wrincles proclaim him the true genius of formality but of al others his discours and compositions best speak him both of them are much of one stuf fashion he speaks just what his books or last company said unto him without varying one whit very seldom understands himself you may know by his discourse where he was last for what he read or heard yesterday he now dischargeth his memory or note-notebook of not his understanding for it never came there what he hath he flings abroad at al adventurs without accomodating it to time place persons or occasions he commonly loseth himself in his tale and flutters up and down windles without recovery and whatsoever next presents it self his heavie conceit seizeth upon and goeth along with however Heterogeneal to his matter in hand his jests are either old flead proverbs or lean-starv'd Apophthegm's or poor verball quips outworn by Servingmen Tapsters and Milkmaids even laid aside by Bassaders He assents to all men that bring any shadow of reason and you may make him when he speaks most Dogmatically even with one breath to averr pure contradictions His Compositions differ only terminorum positione from Dreams Nothing but rude heaps of Immaterial-inchoherent drossie-rubbish-stuffe promiscuously thrust up together enough to Infuse dullness and Barrenness of Conceit into him that is so Prodigall of his eares as to give the hearing enough to make a mans memory Ake with suffering such dirtie stuffe cast into it as unwellcome to any true conceit as Sluttish Morsells or Wallowish Potions to a Nice-Stomack which whiles he empties himselfe of it sticks in his Teeth nor can he be Delivered without Sweate and Sighes and Humms and Coughs enough to shake his Grandams teeth out of her head Hee l spitt and scratch and yawn and stamp and turn like sick men from one elbow to another and Deserve as much pitty during this torture as men in Fits of Tertian Feavors or selfe lashing Penitentiaries in a word Rip him quite asunder and examin every shred of him you shall finde him to be just nothing but the subject of Nothing the object of contempt yet such as he is you must take him for there is no hope he should ever become better An Essay of Valour I Am of opinion that nothing is so potent either to procure or merit Love as Valour and I am glad I am so for thereby I shall do my self much ease because Valour never needs much wit to maintain it To speak of it in it self It is a quality which he that hath shall have least need of so the best League between Princes is a mutual fear of each other it teacheth a man to value his reputation as his life and chiefly to hold the Lye unsufferable though being alone he finds no hurt it doth him It leaves it self to others censures for he that brags of his own valour disswades others from believing it It feareth a word no more then an Ague It always makes good the Owner for though he be generally held a fool he shall seldom hear so much by word of mouth and that enlargeth him more than any spectacles for it maketh a little fellow be called a tall man it yeilds the wall to none but a woman whose weakness is her prerogative or a man seconded with a woman as an usher which always goes before his betters It makes a man become the witness of his own words and stand to whatever he hath said and thinketh it a reproach to commit his reviling unto the Law it furnisheth youth with action and age with discourse and both by futures for a man must ever boast himself in the present tense and to come nearer home nothing drawes a woman like to it for Valour towards men is an Emblem of an ability towards women a good quality signifies a better Nothing is more behooffull for that Sex for from it they receive protection and we free from the danger of it Nothing makes a shorter cut for obtaining for a man of Arms is always void of Ceremony which is the wall that stands between Pyramus and Thisbe that is Man and Woman for there is no pride in women but that which rebounds from our own basenesse as Cowards grow Valiant upon those that are more Cowards so that only by our pale asking we teach them to deny and by our shamefac'dness we put them in minde to be modest whereas indeed it is cunning Rhetorick to perswade the hearers that they are that already which he would have them to be This kinde of

noise and horror That had that powder taken fire by which All the Isle of Britain had flowne to the Moon It had not equalled this noyse and horror And when he was able to speake distinctly thus he spoke It cannot be said unspeakable Emperour how much this obscure Florentine hath transgressed against thee and against the Pope thy image-bearer whether the word be accepted as Gratian takes it when he calles the Scriptures Imaginary Books or as they take it which give that stile to them who carry the Emperours Image in the field and last of all against our Order Durst any man before him thinke upon this kind of injury and calumny as to hope that he should be able to flatter to catch to entrap Lucifer himselfe Certainly whosoever flatters any man and presents him those prayses which in his own opinion are not due to him thinkes him inferiour to himself and makes account that he hath taken him prisoner and triumphs over him Who ever flatters either he derides or at the best instructs For there may be even in flattery an honest kind of teaching if Princes by being told that they are already indued with all vertues necessary for their functions be thereby taught what those vertues are and by a facile exhortation excited to endeavor to gaine them But was it fit that this fellow should dare either to deride you or which is the greater injury to teach you Can it be beleeved that he delivers your prayses from his heart and and doth not rather herein follow Gratians levity who sayes That you are called Prince of the world as a king at Chests or as the Cardinall of Ravenna only by derision This man whilst he lived attributed so much to his own wit that he never thought himselfe beholden to your helps and insinuations and was so farr from invoking you or sacrificing to you that he did not so much as acknowledge your kingdome nor beleeve that there was any such thing in Nature as you I must confess that he had the same opinion of God also therefore deserves a place here and a better then any of the Pagan or Gentile Idolaters For in every Idolatry and false worship there is some Religion and some perverse simplicity which tasts of humility from all which this man was very free when in his heart he utterly denied that there was any God Yet since he thought so in earnest and beleeved that those things which he affirmed were true he must not be ranked with them which having been sufficiently instructed of the true God and beleeving him to be so doe yet fight against him in his enemies Army Neither ought it to be imputed to us as a fault that sometimes in our Exorcismes we we speak ill of you and call you Heretick and Drunkard and Whisperer and scabbed Beast and conjure the elements that they should not receive you and threaten you with indissoluble damnation and torments a thousand thousand times worse then you suffer yet For these things you know are done out of a secret covenant and contract between us and out of mysteries which must not be opned to this Neophite who in our Synagogue is yet but amongst the Catechumeni Which also we acknowledge of Holy Water and our Agnus Dei of which you do so wisely dissemble a feare when they are presented to you For certainly if there were any true force in them To deliver Bodies from Diseases Souls from Sinnes and the Elements from Spirits and malignant Impressions as in the verses which Urban the fifth sent with his Agnus Dei to the Emperor it is pretended it had bin reason that they should first have exercised their force upon those verses and so have purged and delivered them if not from Heresie yet from Barbarousnesse and Soloecismes that Hereticks might not justly say There was no truth in any of them but onely the last which is That the least piece which thence doth fall Will doe one as much good as all And though our Order have adventured further in Exorcismes then the rest yet that must be attributed to a speciall priviledge by which we have leave to question any possessed persons of what matters we wil whereas all other Orders are miserably bound to the present matter and the businesse then in hand For though I do not believe that either from your selfe or from your Vicar the Pope any such priviledge is issued yet our Cotton deserves to be praised who being questioned how he durst propose certain seditious Interrogatories to a possessed person to deliver himselfe feigned such a priviledge and with an un-heard-of boldness and a new kind of falsifying did in a manner counterfeit Lucifers hand and seal since none but he onely could give this priviledg But if you consider us out of this liberty in Exorcismes how humble and servile we are towards you the Relations of Peru testifie enough where it is recorded that when one of your angels at midnight appeared to our Barcena alone in his Chamber he presently rose out of his chaire and gave him the place whom he professed to be farre worthier thereof then he was But to proceed now to the injuries which this fellow hath done to the Bishop of Rome although very much might be spoken yet by this alone his disposition may be sufficiently discerned that he imputes to the Pope vulgar and popular sins far unworthy of his greatnesse Weak praising is a kind of accusing and we detract from a mans honour if when we praise him for small things and would seem to have said all we conceal greater Perchance this man had seen some of the Catalogues of Reserv'd Cases which every year the Popes encrease and he might think that the Popes did therefore reserve these sinnes to themselves that they only might commit them But either he is ignorant or injurious to them For can they be thought to have taken away the liberty of sinning from the people who doe not onely suffer men to keep Concubines but sometimes doe command them who make St. Peter beholden to the Stews for part of his Revenue and who excuse women from the infamous name of Whore till they have delivered themselves over to 23000 men The Professors of which Religion teach That University Men which keep Whores in their chambers may not be expeld for that because it ought to be presumed before hand that Scholars will not live without them Shall he be thought to have a purpose of deterring others from sinne which provides so well for their security that he teaches that he may dispense in all the Commandements of the second Table and in all Morall Law and that those Commandements of the second Table can neither be called Principles nor Conclusions necessarily deduced from Principles And therefore as they ever love that manner of teaching he did illustrate his Rule with an example and dispensed in a marriage between Brother and

which change them so by the same liberty which Daemon Ioannes hath taken in delivering the King of Britain from the danger of Deposition because as yet no sentence is given against him and also from many other Canons which others think may justly be discharged against him it will be as lawfull for us when that Kingdom shall be enough stupified with this our Opium to restore those Canons to their former vigour and to awake that state out of her Lethargy either with her own heat intestine war or by some Medicine drawn from other places for Princes have all their securities from our indulgence and from the slack and gentle interpretation of the Canons they are but priviledges which since they are derived and receive life from us they may be by us diminished revoked and annulled for as it was lawfull for Mariana to depart from the doctrin of the Councel of Constance so it was lawfull for Cotton to depart from Mariana which notwithstanding we would have only lawfull for our Order to whom it is given to know times and secrets of state for we see the Sorbonists themselves which may seem to have an Aristocratical papacy amongst themselves though they laboured to destroy the doctrin of Mariana did yet wisely forbear to name him or any other Iesuit which was a modesty that I did not hope for at their hands since before I died they made one Decree against me but yet therein I think somewhat may be attributed to my patience and providence who knowing their strength and our own infancy forbad all of my Order to make any answer to that Decree of theirs neither were we so Herculean as to offer to strangle Serpents in our cradle But yet since after that time they have been often provoked by our men for I gave not so Iron a Rule and Precepts to my Disciple as Francis did to his who would not have his Rule applyed to times to new occasions certainly they might have bin excused if they had bin at this time sharper against us And if the Parliament of Paris thought it not fit to carry the matter so modestly in their Arrest against Mariana but made both the Book and the Doctrin and the Man infamous what should we say more of it but that it is a Gyant and a wilde beast which our men could never tame for still it cries and howles The Pope is bound to proceed lawfully and Canonically and this they maliciously interpret of their own Laws and of ancient Canons which they hope to bring in to use again by an insensible way of Arrest and Sentences in that Court This then is the point of which we accuse Machiavell that he carried not his Myne so safely but that the enemie perceived it still But we who have received the Church to be as a ship do freely sail in the deep sea we have an Ancor but we have not cast it yet but keep it ever in our power to cast it and weigh it at our pleasure And we know well enough that as to sailing ships so to our sailing Church all rocks all promontories all firm and fast places are dangerous and threaten shipwrack and therefore to be avoided and liberty and sea-room to be affected yet I do not obstinately say that there is nothing in Machiavels Commentary which may be of use to this Church Certainly there is very much but we are not men of that poverty that we need beg from others nor dignifie those things with our praises which proceed not from our selves The Senate of Rome gave us heretofore a noble example of this temperance and abstinence which therefore refused to place Christ amongst their gods because the matter was proposed by the Emperor and begun not in themselves As for that Particular wherein Machiavel useth especially to glory which is that he brought in the liberty of dissembling and lying it hath neither foundation nor colour For not only Plato and other fashioners of Commonwealths allowed the liberty of lying to Magistrates and to Physitians but we also considering the Fathers of the Church Origen Chrysostome Hierome have not only found that Doctrin in them but we have also delivered them from al imputation and reprehension by this evasion That it was lawfull for them to maintain that opinion till some definition of the Church had established the contrary Which certainly though this should not be so openly spoken of as yet was never done But yet we have departed from this doctrin of free lying though it were received in practice excused by the Fathers strengthened by examples of Prophets and Angels in the Scriptures and so almost established by the Law of Nations and Nature only for this reason because we were not the first Authors of it But we have supplied this loss with another doctrin less suspicious and yet of as much use for our Church which is Mentall reservation and Mixt propositions The liberty therefore of lying is neither new nor safe as almost all Machiavels precepts are so stale and obsolete that our Serarius using I must confess his Jesuiticall liberty of wilde anticipation did not doubt to call Herod who lived so long before Machiavel a Machiavelian But that at one blow we may cut off all his reasons and all his hopes this I affirm this I pronounce That all his books and all his deeds tend only to this that thereby a way may be prepared to the ruine and destruction of that part of this kingdom which is established at Rome for what else doth he endeavor or go about but to change the forme of Common-wealth and so to deprive the people who are a soft a liquid and ductile mettall and apter for our impressions of all their liberty and having so destroyed all civility and re-publick to reduce all States to Monarchies a name which in secular States we doe so much abhor I cannot say it without teares but I must say it that not any one Monarch is to be found which either hath not withdrawn himselfe wholly from our kingdome or wounded and endamaged in som weighty point hereupon our Cotton confesseth that the authority of the Pope is incomparably lesse then it was and that now the Christian Church which can agree to none but the Romans is but a diminutive And hereupon also it is that the Cardinalls who were wont to meet oftener meet now but once in a week because the businesses of the Court of Rome grow fewer To forbeare therefore mentioning of the Kings of Britain Denmarke and the other Monarchs of the first sort which have utterly cast off Rome even in France our enemies are so much encreased that they equall us almost in number and for their strength they have this advantage above us that they agree within themselves and are at unity with their neighbour Reformed Churches whereas our men which call themselves Chatholick there do so much differ from the Roman Catholick that they

do not only prefer Councels but even the King before the Pope and ever more oppose those their two great Giants Gog and Magog their Parliament of Paris and their Colledge of Sorbon against all our endeavours Besides all this we languish also miserably in Spain where Clergy-men if they break their fealty to their Lord are accused of treason where Ecclesiasticall persons are subject to secular judgment and if they ●…e sa●…rilegious are burnt by the Ordinary Magistrate which are doctrines and practices contrary and dangerous to us And though they will seem to have given almost half the Kingdom to the Church and so to have divided equally yet those Grants are so infected with pensions and other burdens by which the Kings servants 〈◊〉 the younger sorts of great persons are maintained that this greatness of the Church there is rather a dropsie then a sound state of health established by well-concocted nourishment and is rather don to cast an envy upon the Church then to give any true majesty to it And even in usurping Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction the Kings of Spain have not only exceeded the kings of France but also of Britany For sayes Baronius of that King there is now risen up a new head a monster and a wonder He Excommunicates and he Absolves And he practiseth this power even against Bishops and Cordinals He stops Appeals and he acknowledges no superiority in the Sea of Rome but only in case of Prevention And therefore the name Monarch is a hatefull and execrable name to us Against which Baronius hath thundred with such viol●…e such ●…ercheffe and such ●…nesse that I could hardly add any thing thereunto if I should speak unspeakable Emperor with thine own tongue for he calls it an A●…lterine name and a Tower of Babel and threatens destruction to that King though himself were his subject except he for beare the name In the mean time he resolves him to be a Tyrant and pronounces him to stand yearly excommunicate by the Bulla Coenae Neither doth he offer to defend himselfe with any other excuse when a Cardinall reprehended his fiercenes toward the King then this An Imperious zeale hath no power to spare God himselfe And yet he confesseth that this zeale was kindled by the Popes speciall command and by his Oath taken as Cardinall Neither hath our Bellarmine almost any other cause of advancing Monarchical government so much as he doth then thereby to remoove all Secular men from so great a dignity and to reserve it only to the Church It was therefore well done of that Rebullus who now begins to be known in this State when having surfeted with calumnies against the French Church and her Ministers he hath dared of late to draw his Pen and to joyne battell against a most puissant forrain Prince he did well I say and fitly when he called Bellarmine and Baronius The Sword and Buckler of the Roman Church And I cannot choose but thanke him for affoording the Title of Sword to our Order as well because after so many Expositions of those words Behold heer are two swords which our side hath gathered to establish a temporall Jurisdiction in the Pope and which our Adversaries have remooved worn out or scorned this man hath relieved us with a new and may seem to intend by the two swords the Popes Excommunications and the Iesuites Assassinates and King-killings as also because he hath reserved to our Order that soveraigne dignity that as God himselfe was pleased to defend his Paradice with fire and sword so we stand watchfull upon the borders of our Church not only provided as that Cherubin was with fire and sword but with the later Invention of Gunpouder about the first inventour whereof I wonder why Antiquaries should contend whether it were the Devil or a Fryer since that may be all one But as O unspeakable Emperour you have almost in all things indeavoured to imitate God so have you most throughly performed it in us for when God attempted the Reformation of his Church it became you also to reforme yours And accordingly by your Capuchins you did reform your Franciscans which before we arose were your chiefest Labourers and Workmen and after you reformed your Capuchins by your Recolets And when you perceived that in the Church God some men proceeded so farre in that Reformation that they endeavoured to draw out not onely all the peccant and dangerous humours but all her beauty and extorior grace and ornament and even her vitall spirits with her corrupt blood and so induce a leannesse and ill-favourednesse upon her and thought to cure a rigid coldness with a Fever you also were pleased to follow that example and so in us did reform and awaken to higher enterprises the dispositions as well of the Circumcellions as of the Assassins for we do not limit our selves in that low degree of the Circumcellions when we urge and provoke others to put us to death not of the Assassins which were hired to kill some Kings which passed through their quarter so we exceed them both because we do these things voluntarily for nothing and every where And as we will be exceeded by none in the thing itselfe so to such things as may seem mysticall and significant we oppose mysticall things And so lest that Canon That no Clergy-man should wear a knife with a point might seem to concern us by some propheticall relation we in our Rules have opposed this precept That our knife be often whetted and so kept in an apt readiness for all uses for our divination lies in the contemplation of entrails in which Art we are thus much more subtile then those amongst the old Romans that we consider not the entrails of Beasts but the entrails of Souls in confessions and the E●…trails of Princes in treasons whose hearts we doe not beleeve to be with us till we see them let therfore this pratling Secretary hold his tongue and be content that his Book be had in such reputation as the world affords to an Ephemerider or yearly Almanack which being accommodated to certain places and certain times may be of some short use in some certain place and let the Ru●…s and 〈◊〉 of his Disciples like the Canons of Provinciall Councels be of force there where they were made but only ours which pierce and passe through all the world retai●… the strength and vigo●… of Universall Councels Let him enjoy some honorable place amongst the Gentiles but abstain from all of our sides neither when I say Ou●…side doe I onely mean modern men for in all times in the Roman Church there have been Friers which have farre ex ceeded Machiavel Truly I thought this Oration of Ignatius very long and I began to think of my body which I had so long abandoned lest it should putrifie or grow mouldy or be buried yet I was loath to leave the Stage till I saw the Play ended And I was in