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B01023	Britaines glorie, or An allegoricall dreame: with the exposition thereof. Containing [brace]the heathens infidelitie, the Turkes blasphemie, the popes hypocrisie, Amsterdams varietie, the Church of Englands veritie [brace] in religion. And in our Church of England, [brace] the kings excellency. His issues integritie. The nobles and gentries constancie. The councels and iudges fidelitie. The preachers puritie. The bishops sinceritie. / Conceiued and written by Robert Carlyle gent. for the loue and honour of his king and country.	Carliell, Robert, d. 1622?	1618 (1618)	STC 4650; ESTC S91360	33,166	58

English least their heresies should be detected and their discipline despised for the Pope and his Ministers know in their consciences if they haue any consciences or else God lighten their vnderstanding that they may know that their Doctrine is a Doctrine of vanitie and the worke of errors according to the Prophet Iere. 10.8 They altogether dote and are foolish for the stock is a Doctrine of vanitie Where because the people thought that hauing Images was a meane to serue God and to bring them to the knowledge of him the prophet sheweth that nothing more displeaseth God nor bringeth man into greater errors and ignorance of God But I my selfe in person or else some Of my confederates whom I put in trust Deliuer'd them how and to whom we lust The common people wanting the knowledge of the Latine tongue were forced to receiue the word from the Priests deliuered according to their owne fantasies and so were deluded by these false teachers of whom the Apostle Peter prophesied 2. Peter 2.1.2.3 But there were false Prophets also among the people euen as there shall be false teachers among you which priuily shall bring in damnable heresies euen denying the Lord that hath bought them and bring vpon themselues swift damnation and many shall follow their damnable waies by whom the way of truth shall be euill spoken of and with couetousnesse shall they with feigned words make marchandize of you which is euidently seene in the Pope and his Priests which by lies and flatteries sell mens soules so that it is certaine that he is not the successor of Simon Peter but of Simon Magus 18. Many diseases heerevpon did grow The Ague Palsey Megrims Scurfe and Scab This false Doctrine brought in by the Pope and his Priests hath wrought many sects opinions and diuisions in this our true Catholike-Church and by that meanes many doubts questions and controuersies did arise which are compared to Agues Palsies and Megrims and are as great a blemish to the true faith in Iesus Christ as a scurffe or scab is to a naturall mans body For this cause saith Saint Paul 1. Cor. 11.30 Many are sick and weake among you and many sleepe that is they died or be dead The cause of sicknesses they did not know For no man of the Grapes suspition had The Pope and his Priests will say that they are the people of God make a faire outward shew of sanctitie in words but not in Action for they abuse Gods name and colour it with shadow of Religion to cloake their hypocrisie The Prophet Micah 3.11 speaking of the heads of the house of Iaakob and the Princes of the house of Israell figureth out plainely the state of Rome saying They abhorre iudgement and peruert all equitie They build vp Zion with blood and Ierusalem with iniquitie that is they build them houses by bribery The heads thereof iudge for rewards and the Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof prophesie for money yet will they leane vpon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst vs no euill can come vpon vs Which hypocrisie being thus cloaked with Religion is the more free from suspition of the people By this I got at ending of their daies All that they had for Rosemary and Bayes The silly people were taught such blinde deuotion that notwithstanding their daily offerings to Idols which came to the vse of the Priests and whereby they grew exceeding rich commonly at the time of their deaths they would bequeath all or the greatest part of their substance to massing Priests for maintenance of lights obits and prayers for their soules perswading themselues verily that they should neuer be saued without such fond babling and so the whole Kingdome almost came into the hands of the Church-men So those Dirges are alluded to a little Rosemary and Baies as to a thing of no value or respect but they are hardly so good for indeed the Rosemarie and Baies is a decent ornament for the corps when it is carried to the graue but as for the songs and prayers and their feighned power to doe the soule of the dead any good or to be any ornament therevnto there is no true Christian but will hold him a very simple vnderstanding man that imagines it For as a man dieth so shall he come to iudgement Eccles 11.3 If the tree doe fall toward the South or toward the North in the place that the tree falleth there it shall be 19. At length my diuellish purpose was descried By one that vomited a poysoned Grape By reason of an Antidote applied The whole circumstance heereof is largely and truely recorded in the booke of the Martyrs of the kingdome of England among the memorials and acts done in the time of the Reigne of King Henry the eight to which for breuitie the Reader shall be referred Thus much onely may be said That it pleased the Lord to illuminate the vnderstanding of that renowned vertuous and well affected king with the light of his truth whereby he discerned the hypocrisie of the Pope and his ministers And then caused the Bible to be printed in English and the glorious Gospell of Christ Iesus to be truely preached and so the whole kingdome was plentifully fed with the heauenly and spirituall foode of the Soule which that famous and blessed King hauing receiued and digested it was to him as a preseruatiue or an Antidote against the Heresies of Rome and caused him as it were to vomit out those vilde errors out of the Church of England And all the Countrie then did beare me hate And for those faults which I committed there They banisht me and so I thence came here Heere the people began to obserue the Doctrine and institution of Saint Paul that is to flie from Idolatrie 1. Cor. 10.14 and to hate those detestable follies and superstitious vanities which hindred them from the true seruice of God according as our Sauiour Christ saith Luke 14.26 If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his owne life also that is he that casteth not off all affections and desires which draw vs from Christ cannot be my Disciple And the gouernment of the Church being setled according to the profession now vsed the Pope was not onely iustly depriued of his Supremacie but his authoritie and traditions were quite abolished out of the kingdome his Ministers put to silence their religious or rather irreligious houses as I may rightly terme them vtterly defaced according as the Lord commanded Deut. 12.2 Yee shall vtterly destroy all the places wherein the Nations which yee shall possesse serued their Gods vpon the high Mountaines and vpon the hils and vnder euery greene tree Also ye shall ouerthrow their Altars and breake downe their pillars and burne their groues with fire and yee shall hew downe the grauen Images of their Gods and abolish their names out of that place 20. And

all these Vines which heere you planted see Are of that sort which I from thence did bring The Pope and his Ministers in the manner of their worship in many things doe much derogate from Gods glory insolently attributing their praiers either to dumbe Idols or to Saints or Angels which can doe them no more good then the golden Calfe that the Israelites worshipped Exod. 22.4 Which afterwards Moses abolished Exod. 32.20 Such was the Religion of the Romish Catholike when that Religion was heere professed and such or rather worse is it now at Rome And I haue caused other Weedes to bee Set with them that they may together spring And both at one time put into the Presse The Grapes and Weedes to make a mingled messe By these Weedes is meant the worshipping of Idols inuocation of Saints their rabling repetitions of Pater-Nosters Aue-Maries and Creedes their superfluous Sacraments Transubstantiation their obits lights and prayers for the dead the Popes Buls and Pardons and many other such vaine inuentions which were neuer heard of in the time of the Apostles nor since vsed in any Church but in theirs neither indeed ought any such to be vsed seeing the Lord hath forbidden it with his owne mouth as it is in Deut. 22.9 Thou shalt not sowe thy Vineyard with diuers kindes of seedes least thou defile the increase of the seede which thou hast sowed and the fruit of the Vineyard By this is meant we should walke in simplicitie and not to be curious of new inuentions But by this meanes it is true of them that was spoken by the Prophet Isa to the Iewes Isa 1.22 Thy siluer is become drosse thy wine is mixt with water that is whatsoeuer was pure in thee before is now corrupt though thou haue an outward shew 21. And to keepe well those Weedes I haue ordain'd They be continually vnderpropt with stakes By such as I haue purposely retain'd Who in like case for their owne lucre sakes Ten times more curious are to trimme and prime Their branches than the branches of the Vine By this is perceiued that Birdes of a feather will hold together The Pope and his Prelates to make their Doctrine more probable haue conspired together like the false Prophets and Priests of Ierusalem Ezechiel 22.25.26 There is a conspiracie of her Prophets in the mids thereof like a Roaring Lyon rauening the prey they haue deuoured soules they haue taken the Riches and pretious things they haue made her many widowes in the midst thereof her Priests haue broken my law and haue defiled mine holy things they haue put no difference betweene the holy and prophane neither discerned betweene the vncleane and the cleane and haue hid their eies from my Sabbaths that is they haue neglected my seruice and I am prophaned amongst them And these are such as the Apostle Paul told Titus of Tit. 1.10 saying there are many disobedient and vaine talkers and deceiuers of mindes whose mouthes must be stopped which subuert whole houses teaching things which they ought not for lucres sake 2 Tim. 3.6 Of this sort are they which creepe into houses and leade captiue simple women laden with sinnes and led with diuers lusts And in the margent of that text they are expounded to be Monkes Friars and such hypocrites which I also meane to be those whom the Pope hath retained and appointed in his Church to vphold his heresies 22. This mingle mangle composition Hath much besotted all the Peoples braines The Prophet Isa speaking against the Israelites to wit of the hypocrites which were among them who were altogether corrupt in life and doctrine cryeth out against them Isa 28.7.8 They haue erred because of wine and are out of the way by strong drinke the Priest and the Prophet haue erred by strong drinke they are swallowed vp with wine they haue gone astray through strong drinke they faile in vision they stumble in in iudgement for all their tables are full of filthy vomiting no place is cleane And as naturall wine immoderately taken besotteth the braines of the outward man and causeth drunkennesse so the superfluitie and dregs of the Romish heresies filleth the inward mans vnderstanding with spirituall drunkennesse a beastly kinde of life vomiting their vncleane errors out of their foule gorges And such is their fond supposition They hold him curst that from this drinke refraines It is not vnknowne to any that know any thing at all of the Popes malitious disposition how he and his Prelates curse the children of God that follow not his vilde traditions with Bell Booke and Candle as they say Witnesse his Buls which very often haue beene sent out against the Lords annointed Kings and Princes and their People and Nations and also his excommunications But as we are the children of Abraham the father of the faithfull through Christ Iesus elected and called to our profession so let vs stand fast in our faith and then the Lord will turne their curse vpon their owne heads as he promised Abraham saying I will blesse them that blesse thee and I will curse them that curse thee Gen. 12.3 The gaines being great for selling of this Ale Hath lift my head as high as Dragons taile 23. And all the Countrie call me Demy-god Bending their knees to me with great deuotion And offer Gold Iewels and Emmerods And all they haue for this my potion The yearely profit which comes into the Popes treasurie for pardons and redemption of Soules out of Purgatorie amounteth to a great sum The Peter-pence spoken of in the booke of Martyrs paid quarterly to the Friars came to aboue 500000 li. yearely alone Their mortuaries gifts and legacies for Requiems obits and lights is an vnknowne value The peoples offerings at the Altar and to Images which come to the Priests vse is a secret gaine But if we reckon all the tricks which they haue to get money and adde the profit together it will arise vnto an vnspeakeable masse of wealth The Booke of Martyrs in the time of King Henry the eight demonstrateth many worthy memorials heereof and other the deuises of the Pope and his Prelates to which I also refer the Reader But by this means we see the Pope is growne mightie in riches and power And as the Apostle Paul saith 2. Thes 2.4 speaking of Antichrist he exalteth himselfe against all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he doth sit as God in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that he is God But out alas their blind inchaunted sight Sees not the Adder me that doth them bite The Apostle Paul to the Eph. 4.18 as before is said exhorteth the Ephesians not to walke as other Gentiles in vanitie of their minde hauing their cogitations darkened and being strangers from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the hardnesse of their hearts Which example is very good for vs to follow Let vs not walke as the Romish Catholikes for it is with them

Reade these few leaues and see the Demonstration Which take and coppy out with expedition For I must leaue you now to Vertues guard To whom present it without intermission And he to you for this will giue reward I tooke my penne as he gaue me commission And thus I writ the Visions exposition The EXPOSITION 1 One in a shape diuine BY these words is meant the Spirit of Truth the Reuelation of the Mysterie of Iesus Christ the diuine and heauenly operation of the holy Ghost Transported by the windes as swift as thought Which is inspired and breathed into our soules thoughts and consciences from the mouth of the most sacred Trinitie as Acts 2.2 it is said that when the Apostles receiued the Holy Ghost suddenly there came a sound from heauen as of a rushing and mighty winde and it filled all the house where they sate Whose face more gloious then the Sunne did shine The Word of Truth may well be said to be farre more glorious then the Sun in brightnes and shining in respect of the integritie and eternitie thereof for the Sun onely giueth light vnto the outward eyes to guide our naturall feete from stumbling But this gratious visitation in Christ Iesus hath lightned the darknesse of our hearts to guide our mindes and affections lest we stumble at errors and deadly sinnes and so fall into perdition S. Iohn 1.4 speaking of the worthines of the word saith It was life and the life meaning Christ Iesus was the light of men Me to an vnknowne Climate quickly brought By this is to be vnderstood a Representation vnto vs of such places where the light of the Gospell hath not yet shined and where the word of Truth is not yet preached as amongst the Heathen people Pagans Infidels Virginians and other the like barbarous and bruitish Nations and as it was with vs Gentiles in the time of the Law before our vocation as it is written wee were sometimes strangers from the promise Eph. 2.12 Where of Strange things that were within that Nation And of their Natures he gaue true relation That is the Spirit of grace doth demonstrate vnto vs the strange Religions and Heresies of those forraine Nations their vaine superstitions and blinde Idolatrie and the effects and euents of their errors 1. Cor. 4.5 He will lighten things that are hid in darknesse and make the Councels of the hearts manifest 2 He shewed me Oare of Gold All is not gold that glistereth neither is this meant to be materiall Oare but that which indeed if it had beene of the right touch would haue been farre more pretious then gold It is meant by their Religion which being of a counterfeit stampe is but a superficies faire without but drosse within for instead of worshipping the liuing God they adore a dead Idol of gold and sometimes of wood and stone some of them also worship the Sun the Moone and the Starres some put their trust in their Coyne saying with the couetous miser Pecunia omnia potest I pray God too many of those Idolaters be not amongst vs nay some worship the Deuill himselfe We reade in the 2. King 16.3 That Ahaz King of Ierusalem made his sonne to goe thorow the fire after the abhominations of the Heathen as a Sacrifice to the Idol Molech Also in the 2. Kings 21. It is said of Manasseth that he built the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroied and he erected vp Altars for Baal and made a groue as did Ahab King of Israel and worshipped all the hoast of Heauen and serued them And as in those times they worshipped the Gods of their Nations 2. King 17.29 So is it now with those ignorant incredulous people in our daies which know not the true God which being tried As mettals vse to be in burning fire One should haue thought would haue beene purified But contrarie it turn'd to filthy Mire The Gospell of Christ Iesus is compared to a burning fire most vehement which maketh a change of things through all the World as in Luk 12.49 Christ saith I am come to put fire on the earth speaking of the Gospell so then this is the meaning of the last verses That the Religion of those Idolaters and Heathen people being compared and examined with our Catholike and Apostolike Doctrine it needes no other touchstone it shewes both inside and outside that in respect thereof it is base and vilde and as durt and drosse to pure gold as a pibble-stone to a pretious Diamond If we diligently peruse the Scriptures we shall finde that Idolatrie is forbidden 500. times in the New and Old Testament with seuere punishments And God himselfe for the vilde wickednesse and abhomination thereof hath pronounced that the entisers of Idolatrie seeme they neuer so holy should be slaine Deut. 13.5 Blessed is the Tree whereby Righteousnesse commeth but that is cursed that is made with hands both it and he that made it He because he made it and it being a corruptible thing because it was called God Wisd 14.7.8 And whosoeuer kept it afterward Should be with sprights and goblins strangely scard Heere is to be noted that after our consciences haue beene throughly tried by the word of God and that we haue receiued by the spirit of Grace the knowledge of Christ Iesus if we reuolt againe from the truth to serue strange Gods the Lord will giue vs ouer to the temptations of Satan hardnesse of heart blindnesse of vnderstanding and will bring vpon vs warre famine and all the curses mentioned in the Booke of his Law and in the end death and destruction after death perpetuall damnation It is euident in diuers places of the Old Testament in euery booke that the Kings of Israell so long as they kept the Commandements of God and obserued his Lawes as the Lord hath appointed not according to their owne imaginations they prospered in all their doings and many blessings were vpon them But when they went a whoreing after strange Gods the vengeance and wrath of God came vpon them with many heauy curses pronounced whereof reade 2. King 17.7 Exod. 22.20 also 23.32.33 Deut. 17. from 2. verse to 8. also 29. from the 18. to the last verse also 30.17.18 Reuel 21.8 3. Besides the operation of this Oare Was whosoeuer toucht it to make blinde And sottish so that they could neuer more Haue wit or sight in any perfect kinde Heere are described the effects of Idolatrie blindnesse and dulnesse of vnderstanding So heere are blinde Gods and blinde People 2. Sam. 5.8 When king Dauid and his men went to Ierusalem vnto the Iebusites he promised preferment to those that would smite the Lame and Blinde meaning the Idols which his soule hated as the text mentioneth And Salom. Wisd 14.26.27 saith that the worshipping of Idols which ought not to be named is the beginning and the cause and end of all euill for either they be mad when they be merrie or prophesie lies or liue vngodly or