Lambert Simnell and Ferkin Warbeck two counterfeits set up by Margaret Dutchesse of Burgoyne King Edward the fourths fister but wisely and valiantly he quitted himselfe of them 3. The Cornish Rebells under Michaell Joseph and Thomas Flammoch made a great head against him distressed Exceter and Tanton but in the end were overthrowne at Black-heath in Kent 4. His cruelty in executing the harmlesse Earle of Warwick cannot be excused 5. The King and Queene of Castile driven into Waymouth by a storme were entertained Nobly by Sir Thomas Trenchard and afterwards by the King with great Pompe 6. His eldest sonne Arthur married Katharine Ferdinando's daughter of Arragon and dyes not long after 7. The King executes Penall Lawes to the great grievance of the Subjects by Empson and Dudley which at his death he repents of 8. He was buried in the stately Chappell he built at Westminster where most of his successors lye His Sonne 2. A.C. 1509 HENRY the eight succeeds 1. Marries his brother Arthurs wife Katharine by a dispensation from the Pope 2. He had Warres with the French and Scotts who received a shamefull overthrow by the Earle of Surrie in Flodden â—eild with the death of their King while our King was in France where the Emperour Maximilian was in his pay with this Motto ICH DEIN I serve 3. His favourites Cardinall Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell after much honour were at length cut off by him 4. Exceptions were taken against his Marriage with his brothers Wife and the Popes dallying with him in the businesse lost him his Supremacy and Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas Moore for standing for it lost their Heads 5. The Rebellions against him of Captain Cobler and the Pilgrims under pretence of Religion were quickly appeased 5. He is blamed for his change of Wives Was the first that wrot himselfe King of Ireland set out a book against Martin Luther and gained the title of Defender of the Faith He grew in his latter time to be very harsh and bloudy Dying he left to succeed him his sonne 3. EDWARD the Sixth A.C. 1548 by his wife the Lady Iane Seymour who lost her own life in his Birth to preserve her Sonnes 1. He being Crowned in the 11th yeare of his Age had for Protector his Vnkle Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset 2. The Scots breaking their promise for the Marriage of the young Queene with King Edward received a great overthrow at Muskleborough 3. Three Rebellions against him The first from Cornwall and Devonshire by Humphrey Arundell and some Popish Priests and seduced Gentlemen whom he distressed at Exceter The second in the North by Ombler a yeoman and Dale a Parish Clearke for Religion The third by Kett the Tanner of Norwich with his Complices for Inclosures were successively extinguished by his worthy Chiefetaines 4. He excellently purged the Church from Popish Superstition and setled the true Service of God and Preaching of his word 5. The unlucky dissentions of his two Vnkles the Lord Protector and his brother Thomas Lord Admirall arising from the siding of their Wives who should take Place was the Breakneck of both of of them Thomas suffered for Treason the Protector for Felony Vpon which the Kings Death soon followes leaving by his will the Lady Jane the Duke of Suffolkes daughter to succeed him but it prevailed not against the Title of his Sister 4. A.C. 1553 MARIE who especially won her right by the Norfolke men 1. Beheaded the Lady Iane with her Husband Gilford Dudly and Abettors 2. Vpon her resolution to Marry with Philip of Spaine Sir Thomas Wiat dangerously Rebells under pretence to oppose it and enters London as farre as Ludgate but was at last taken and executed 3. The Lady Elizabeth is accused as accessary to Wiats Insurrection thereupon is committed to the Tower afterwards removed to Woodstock but at length enlarged by the unexpected favour of King Philip. 4. Who prosecutes the Quarrells between England and France takes St Quintins The French recover themselves and get Callice which stuck in the heart of Q. Mary and with some other disasters cast her into a mortall Melancholy 5. She was ridiculously reported to have been with Child and some triumphing there was at home and abroad for her deliverance But it was but a Popish invention 6. Cardinall Poole was recalled and made Archbishop of Canterbury Her brothers Reformation which abrogated the Popes Supremacy she restored with the rest of that annexed Idolatry 7. Gardiner of Winchester and Bonner of London play the Butchers upon the Professors of the Gospell Arch-bishop Cranmer with the Bishops of Worcester and London Latimer and Ridley were burnt at Oxford with others of all sorts conditions otherwhere 8. The Dutches of Suffolke miserably flying to save her life To all which Troubles and Persecutions the Queenes death after five years Raigne set a Period and the most happy succession of her Sister 5. A.C. 1558 ELIZABETH who often solicited to Marry never consented 1. Shee banished all Popish Idolatry and restored the Purity of Religion 2. Pope Pius the fifth deprived her by his Bull fixed to the Bishop of Londons Gate by desperate Felton but it proved but a Calfe 3. The Insurrâ—ctions thereupon of the Earles of Northumberland and Westmoreland ended with the Ruins of the Rebells as also infinite plots against her Person and State had the same Issue See B. Carletons descâ—ption of them in a Table 4. Her protecting of the Low Countries overthrow of the Invincible Armado of the Spaniards in the Sea fight of 1588. Aiding Henry the fourth of France to settle him in his Kingdome Quelling the Irish Rebells and such eminent Atchievements renowned her throughout all the World insomuch as the Proud Turke by an honourable Embassage acknowledged her Excellency and desited her friendship 5. For her mercifull returning home certain Italians that were taken Prisoners in the 88 Jnvasion she was tearmed St Elizabeth by some at Venice whereof one told the Lord Carleton afterward Vicount Dorchester being there Embassadour that although he were a Papist yet he would never pray to any other Saint but that Saint Elizabeth 2. WIthin the Compasse of this Government may be observed 1. The Protestations of Christian Divines and Princes against Romes Tyranny Errours Idolatry Cheatings and Delusions of which a necessary Reformation was began and prosecuted 2. The Politique Plotts and combustions in the Councell of Trent to interrupt frastrate it 3. The censures Treasons and Massacres inflicted upon them that any way stood for it 4. In the mean while brave Huniades and Scanderbeg purchase immortall Glory in their Heroicall exploits against the Turke Columbus Americus Vesputius for discovering Cortez and Pizarro for Conquest of the West Indies Our Sir Francis Drake and Mr Thomas Candish for compassing the Globe of the world 5. But the chiefest thing of all was the cutting of the Combe of the Popes Supremacy so that it may be said As King Henry the seaventh Courted him
and education in the learning of those times fitted him for greater imployments 3. The expounding of Nebuchadnezzars two dreams when all the Chaldean Wisards were at a non plus gave the first rise to his succeeding advancement and credit To Balthazar he interpreted the condemnatory hand-writing against him Vnder Darius for his Religion he was cast into the Lyons don but there was miraculously freed to the ruine of his accusers 4. His Prophesy which we have is partly in the Chalday partly in the Hebrew tongue and containes the History from the third year of Ioakim to the end of the Captivity in which he was a spectator or actor As also a foretelling from thence the troubles that should befall the Church under the Graecians and Romans The comming of the Messias after 70 Propheticall weekes The Passages from thence in generall to the end of the World 5. The deliverance of Susanna is put upon him and the abbreviating of Nebuchadnezzars transformation from seaven years to so many weekes by his prayers 6. He is said to have refused to be coheire with Baltasar in that Monarchy when it was offered him by Nebuchadnezzar 7. He lived 138 years by Pererius calculation which A Lapide his fellow Iesuit findes fault with who hath afforded us his picture in his Chaldean trowzes out of the Emperour Basilius Porphygenitus booke now in the Vatican where he is also reported with his three fellowes Sydrach Mesach and Abednego to have suffered Martyrdome which other Historians have not observed 2. ZEROBABEL who with Iosua the high Priest and others brought the People again from Babylon by the grant of Cyrus after the 70 years Captivity 2. He set up first the Altar sacrificed upon it and layd the foundations of the second Temple whereat the old men wept to see how farre it came short of the former 3. The worke is hindered by Cyrus successors Haggai and Zachary the Prophets incite the builders to goe onward The Persian gives way and the worke is finished dedicated and the Passcover solemnized 3. EZRA the Priest a ready Scribe in the Law comes with a new supply having commission from Artaxerxes 2. He orders all matters concerning Gods worship in a Councell by the encouragement of Shecaniah separates the Israelites that had taken outlandish wives digests the Canon of the Scripture as we now have it adding the divisions to it whereas before it was one intire masse Begins the Masoriticall notes for the truer reading and distincter pronuntiation of the tongue which had much suffered in the 70 years Captivity 3. There joyned with him in this great worke as the Iewes would have it 1. Danicl 2. Ananias 3. Azarias 4. Misael 5. Iosua 6. Zorobabel 7. Haggeas 8. Zacharias 9. Malachias 10 Nehemias 11. Mardochaeus that makes out a whole dozen The third and fourth of Esdras are casheir'd for none of his 4. NEHEMIAH the Tirshasha or Governour comes after him and builds up the walles by Artaxerxes commission maugre the pestilent opposition of Sanballet Tobiah and Geshem with their confederates 2. He orders all things prudently and with vigilant resolution Restraines Vsurers keeps hospitality causeth the Law to be read and expounded to the People takes a Catalogue of those that returned from the Captivity and made a Covenant to serve the Lord. 3. Reformes the violation of the Sabbaoth and taking strange wives is thought to be the Register of his own Acts. About which time 5. MORDECAI the Benjamite captivated with Iechoniah proved a worthy upholder of his Nation under Ahashuerosh in Shushan 2. By his provident Councell Esther his orphane Kinswoman came to be Queene in Vasti's place who was divorced for her sullennesse 3. He discovered a treason against the King and afterward by Gods providence contrived the matter so happily that Hamon the Iewes deadly enemy who had plotted their utter ruine was hanged on a tree the fame gallowes he had erected for Mordecais execution 4. The King takes a liking to him and makes him the chiefe man under him 5. In which place he behaved himselfe most religiously and prudently and is thought also to have written the booke of Esther His Acts are registred in the Chronicles of Media and Persia 3. COncurrent with these times are 1. The stories of Tobit and Judeth 2. The fragments annexed to Daniel of Susanna Bel and the Dragon 3. The Hiding of the holy Fire in a pitt by the Priests 2. Macc. 1 2. and of the Arke with the Altar of Incense in a Cave by Jeremy in Mount Horeb. 4. The Prophesy of Baruch with the Epistle of Jeremy 5. Ezechiels Haggies and Zacharies predications and predictions to their captive Countreymen 6. The translation of the Assyrian Monarchy to the Medes and Persians 7 The growing up of the Greekes and Romanes INQVIRIES Whether 1. The Representation of Nebuchadnezzars Image extend no farther then the comming of the Messias 2. Those additions to Daniel of Susanna Bell and the Dragon may passe for History 3. The Bookes of Tobit and Iudeth be only sacred Poems 4. Ezra left the old Hebrew letters to the Samaritans and brought in those we now have from the Chaldeans 5. He ordered the bookes of the old Testament as now we have them 6. With the grand Synagogue he added the Hebrew poynts and began the Masorah 7. Xerxes were Hesters husband CAP. VI. Chiefetaines 1. Confer Alsted Encyclop l. 33. c. 3. Graston Chron. THe sixth Distance from the second Temple to the birth of Christ containing the space of 529 years hath three Dynaesties 1. Chiefetaines from the house of David 2. Asmonaei or Maccabes 3. Kings These Chiefetaines we have from Saint Luke in this Order 1. RHESA MESULLAM of whom nothing is recorded but that he left 2. IOANNA BEN RHESA to succeed him in whose time Ezra came to Ierusalem with 1500 men His successor was 3. IUDAS HIRCANUS when Iohn the High Priest being provoked by his brother Iosua slew him in the Temple whereupon Bagoses Artaxerxes a powerfull Eunuch in revenge of his friend Iosua enters the Temple and pollutes it 4. IOSEPH followes him The schisme between Iaddus the High Priest and Manasses his brother falls out about this time wherein the Antitemple of Mount Garesim was built by rich Sanballat Manasses Father in Law to put down the Temple at Ierusalem Him 5. SEMEI-ABNER succeeded who saw the fraudulent surprisall of the Citty of Ierusalem with the Temple by Ptolomaeus Lagi and captivating of his Countrymen in another Aegyptian servitude After him 6 MATTHIAS ELI found small comfort in all those afflictions Nor 7. Mâ—ATH ASERMAH alias Asar Masat that succeeded him nor 8. NAGGE alias Artaxad Nagid that followed him About which times seem to have grown those horrible projects against the Jewes in Aegypt and their strange deliverance related in the third of Maccabees But 9. ESLA alias Haggi Eli received more kindnesse in Ptolomeus Philadelphus daies who procured that translation we have of the Septuagint in Greeke
Methusalah dyed before the Flood CAP. II. The Intervall of the Noachians 1. An. Mund. 1657. THE second Distance takes its rise from the end of the Flood to the calling of Abraham for the space of 367 yeares gathered out of Gen 11.26 2. In which succeed 1. SEM the middle Sonne of Noah Junius as some contend but preferd before the elder Japhet and the youngest Cham. 2. He is thought by the Jewes Gen. 14. Broughton to be Melchizedek that brought provision to Abraham and his company at their return from their victory against the four Eastern Kings which is strongly opposed by some latter writers Cuneus Mouliâ— 3. In the distribution of the world after the Flood Asia fell to his share and his Posterities from whence t is likely that they spread themselves East-ward and so rounded the earth that way to people America as on the West they left Palestina and those Coasts to Chams issue the Cananites whose proper portion was Africke as Iaphets was Europe and the Isles Sems Successour was 2. ARPHAXAD younger Brother as it should seem to Elam and Ashur from whom descended the Persians and Assyrians Abulensis out of Comestor and Methodius mentions one Ionithus or Ionichus begotten of Noah 100 yeares after the Flood who informed the Easterlings in Astronomy Prophesied of the four Monarchies and put Nimrod his forward Scholer first to take state upon him His picture you have in Chronica Chronicorum as also of Persla Cathastua and Funda Sem Ham and Iaphets Wives But these Monkish Figments have lesse show of truth then the foysting in here of Cainan by the Greeks to be Arphaxads Son whom all the Hebrews omitt and ranck in the next place 3. SALAH He is said to have built Salem by Comestor and by others upon the passage of his Father Arphaxad over the River Tygris to seat himselfe with his Family in Chaldea to have named his Sonne 4. HEBER From this man his posterity were entituled Hebrewes In his time fell out a double division first of Tongues then of Nations according to their severall tongues He sticks to the Originall Hebrew and upon foresight of these divisions amongst others nameth his Sonne 5. Gen. 10.15 PELEG in whose time these Divisions fell out He begets 6. REU of whom we read nothing else but that he begate 7. Luk. 3. SARUG whom St Luke termeth Saruch following therein the Septuagint His Successour was 8. C. 24.2 Judith 5.7 NAHOR tainted with Idolatrous Leaven as appeares by Josuah's confession and Achiors Declaration Leaves behind him at Vr of the Chaldeans 9. TERAH He had three Sonns Haran Nahor and Abram but upon Harams death in Vr of the Chaldeans whether burnt by the Fire which faithfull Abram escaped as the Jewsh tradition delivers it or caused by some other meanes he removes from Vr to Charran in Mesopotamia with all his Family it should seeme upon his Sonne Abrams motion Gen. 12.1 A.M. 2020. who had his call from God and dyes there His Family at his death stood thus disposed Haran that dyed before him left behind him one Sonne named Lot and two Daughters Milcah and Iscah Milcah was taken to Wife by her Vncle Nahor who setled in that place But Iscah who should seeme to be termed Sarai for her Beauty and Houswivery was marryed to the great Father 10. ABRAM of whose travels from Charran to Canaan and from thence to Aegypt and Gerar. 2. of his Victories against the foure Easterne Kings 3. his domestique troubles by meanes of the dissention between his Wife Sarah and her Maid Hagar 4. his Circumcision by Gods appointment 5. his entertaining of Angels 6. receiving a Sonne from his Sarah past teeming his readines to Sacrifice him when God commanded 7. his second marryage and issue by Keturah and other passages of note From Gen. 12. to the eight v. cap. 25. the Scripture sufficiently sets downe from whence other Authors have it He is thought to be the first instructer of the Aegyptians in good Learning who before were ignorant He ever relyed on this sure ground that there was one God the Creator of all things and that all happinesse came from his good pleasure not from any strength or worth of our owne A Booke called Ietzira is Fathered upon him but the imposture is manifest and the peece thought to be R. Akibah's The rest of his Children otherwise provided for his Sonne Isaac is left to continue the holy Line the foreman of the next Intervall 2. COntemporary with this Period are reckoned 1. the building of the Tower of Babel 2. the introducing of diverse Languages 3. the Peopling of the World by Noah's Posterity 4. the Foundation of the Assyrian Monarchy in Nimrod Ninus and Semiramis 5. the Overthrow of the foure Easterne Kings by Abram and his 318 Household Servants 6. the Destruction from Heaven of Sodome and Gomorrah Gen. 18. 19. withother Cities of the Plain by Fire and Brimstone 7. the Incestuous Originall of the Moabites and Ammonites and Bastard-brood of the Ismaelites Also the Poets Ship Argos and Gigantomachia the Gyants Warre with their Gods may have reference to Noahs Arke and the Builders of Babel Discourse herevpon may be 3. WHETHER 1. The Flood drowned Paradice 2. The Arke could containe all sorts of Beasts and Fowle with sufficient provision for them for a yeare besides Noah and his Family 3. Sem were Noahs Eldest Sonne and the same with Melchizedec 4. His Posterity by an Easterne passage Peopled America 5. Hebrew were the only Tongue spoken before the Confusion at Babel 6. Abram were the first that had his name changed the first Victorious Leader in the Warres the first Professour of Liberall Sciences the first Circumcised and the first Purchaser of Land we read of 7. His Revelations mentioned by Epiphanius and his Assumption cited by Origen and the Booke Jetzirah put upon him be frivolous and fabulous CAP. III. Of the Israelites 1. THE third Distance is from Abram to the departing of Israel from Egypt and containeth the space of 430. years Gal. 3.17 2. In which succeed 1. ISAAC A. M. 2120. the promised seed given to Abraham and Sarah in their old Age. 2. He was forced by Famine to forsake Canaan and releive himselfe with King Abimelech in Gerar as his Father had formerly done where God gave increase of Seed 100 for one 3. Gen. 26 1â— By distrusting God's protection he denyed Rebecca to be his Wife as Abraham had formerly done Sarah But the plot was discovered by Abimelech and he reprooved for it and sent away safely 4. Notorious is his strange deliverance from being Sacrificed by his Father Gen. 22. and the birth of his twins Esau and Jacob of which 2. IACOB the yonger got the Birth right from Esau by purchase for a trifle and the Blessing by a stratagem Gen. 17. â—â— 2. Thereupon to avoyd his Brothers revenge he fled into Mesopotamia to
intercepts those Kings who had Israel intire under their government In this manner 1. SAUL the Sonne of Kish of an eminent house in Benjamin 2. He sent to seek his fathers Asses stumbled upon a Kingdome 3. He was a goodly man 1. Sam. 10.23 higher then any of the People from the shoulders upward Annoynted by Samuel and applauded by all the States in a Solemne Parliament at Mispah Ib. 4. At his first entry he quitted himselfe nobly in raising the siege at Jabesh Gilead with the overthrow of the Ammonites Ib. But his incroaching upon the Priests Office to Sacrifice Ib. 13. and sparing of Agag with the Amalakites Ib. 15. contrary to Gods expresse command outed him of Gods favour and gave way for an evill Spirit to vex him 5. 1. Sam. 36.14 The valour of brave Prince Jonathan and his faithfull friendship to his Brother-law David cover in a manner the Fathers exorbitances 6. Being left to himselfe in his latter time nothing thrives with him He grew jealous of his own Sonne Jonathan persecutes his most loyall and deserving Sonne in Law and Subject David most barbarously murdered Abimelech the High-priest with 85. Ib. 22.18 persons that did weare a Linnen Ephod and destroyed Nob the Priests Citty with all that belonged to it Consults with a Witch at Endor Ib. 28. Ib. 31.4 and last of all Kills himselfe in Mount Gilboa leaving his carcasse to the Philistims and his Kingdome to 2. DAVID the Sonne of Iesse of the tribe of Iudah a man after Gods own heart designed before and Annoynted to that purpose 2. He first grew famous by the overthrow of Goliahs Ib. 17. in single combate and thereupon after the bringing in for a vantage three hundred fore-skins of the Philistims he marrieth Michall Ib. 18.19 Sauls daughter who convayed him with her brother Ionathan from her Fathers fury 3. His entrance into the Kingdome was strongly withstood by Ishbosheths hereditary title and valiant Abner but those cut off all willingly fell to him without farther questioning 4. After his once setling his first care was for Religion to bring the Arke of God from Kiriath-jearim â— Sam. 6. Obed Edoms house to place it in Sion a more publike and consecrated place And not therewith satisfied he plots to build a Temple for it But forbidden by Nathan notwithstanding makes plentifull provision for his successor to performe it Ib. 7. with the lesse trouble and charge He held the second Councell for ordering Divine Service 5. His thankfull kindnesse to Mephibosheth Ionathans lame sonne Ib. 9. Ib. 16. is an excellent patterne for men advanced to imitate but cheating Zibahs that bearay their trust should be nearer sifted and more severely punished 6. God gave him noted victories against the Philistims Moabites Sobeans Damascens Edomites Ammonites and all other that opposed him 7. But his taking of Vriahs wife and hard usage of the Husband Ib. 11. Ib. 24. with his numbring the People are evident tokens of humane infirmity 8. Vpon these fell the disasters of the deflowring his daughter Tamar the murder of his sonne Ammon the Rebellion of Absolon and of Sheba the sonne of Bichri Ib. 13.15.20 and in his drooping old age the combination of Ioab with his much tendred sonne Adoniah to bury him as it were alive 9. We have the Booke of Psalmes for the most part his 1. King 1. though perchance not written yet made by him the greatest help to devotion left of the Iewish Church 10. His end was most pious and glorious leaving the wisest Statesmen the worthiest Warriors and inestimable treasure of wealth with his heavenly Councell and Blessing to his sonne 3. SOLOMON 1. His piety wisdome and execution of his Fathers directions at the first were admired of all and set him in a pitch beyond any of his ancestors 2. That Temple which his Father intended he began in the fourth of his Raigne and most gloriously finished it and setled the Arke in it in the Holyest of Holies which had formerly been tossed about from the Desart to Gilgal from Gilgal to Shilo from Shilo to the Philistims from thence to Bethshemesh from Bethshemesh to Kiriathjearim from thence to the house of O bed Edom from thence to the City of David So that his wisdom brought him in admiration both at home and abroad with strangers who repaired unto him as to an Oracle witnesse the Queene of Sheba 1. King 4.29 Ib. 10. that came in person from her own Countrey to conferre with him And Hiram of Tyre that joyned with him to fetch gold from Ophir His daily provision for his houshold stables 2. King 4.22 and other expences would be thought incredible in any other History but Canonicall 3. But in the midst of prosperity wealth and ease the multitude of strange women wrought him to favour and further Idolatry which he freed himselfe from as it is thought afterward and left his Proverbs Ecclesiastes and Canticum By De la Cerda a Iesuit a testimony thereof and directions for all posterity 4. Those other writings which are attributed to him whether pious as the booke of Wisdome and Ecclesiasticus or of late his 18 Psalme set forth in Greeke and Latine or Impious and frivolous as 1. Incantationes Solomonis 2. Vid. Pinedam de Rebus gestis Solomonis Clavicula 3. Amulus 4. Contradictio 5. Hydromantia to his sonne Rehoboam 6. de Geniis 7. Liber verborum Solomonis 8. De umbris Idearum 9. his Calender 10. Chimicks 11. Epistles between him and Hyram of Tyre and Vaphres King of Egypt 12. the Ars memoriae that goes under his name are rejected all as forged pieces 5. His latter daies after so much magnificence and pleasure were pestered with insurrectious of Hadad Rezin and Jeroboam whom he lived not fully to quell but left them to vexe his Sonue that succeeded 2. COncurrent with these times are made the obscure posterity of Aeneas in Italy and our Brute here amongst us Plutarch Euseb Iustin 2. Codrus the last King of Athens who purchased by his own death the victory for his Countrey 3. The birth of Homer 4. The famous combate between Abners men and Ioabs wherein twelve of a side 2. Sam. 2.16 slew each man his opposite upon the place 5. The Giants of the Philistims cut off at times by David and his 37 Worthies 2. Sam. 23. 6. The hight of Poetry Musicke and all kind of Philosophy eminent in Davids Psalmes â— Kings 4.32 and Solomons 3000 Proverbs and 1005 songs with his books of Naturall Philosophy mentioned in Scripture 7. His perfection in the Art of Navigation in trading with the Tyrians to Ophir for Gold Whether 1. Musick have any virtue to drive away Divells 2. The Dead may be raised by a Witch 3. Joab might justifie Absoloms killing having a command from his Soveraigne to the contrary 4. A Warrior may not build God
to Babylon then expresseth his syncere repentance by hearty prayer not in the words perhaps but in the sence of that Apocryphall prayer which goes under his name 3. Returnes again to his Kingdome Reformes effectually dyes religiously and leaves 15. Ib. AMON his sonne to succeed 1. This man being of sufficient age could not be warned by his Fathers example but restores Idolatry at the highest and humbled not himselfe but persists in his folly 2. Till his servants conspir'd and slew him in his own house which the people took so indignly that the Traitors had quickly what they deserved And 16. 2. Kings 22. 2. Chron. 34. IOSIAH his sonne was made King in his steed of whom too much good cannot be spoken He began betimes to reforme Religion and repaire the Temple brings the book of the Law againe to light which was formerly lost celebrates a solemn Passeover beyond all the Kings that were before him 2. In an unadvised expedition against Necho of Aegypt he got his deaths wound by an arrow in the valley of Megiddo returnes and dyes at Ierusalem and 3. Ib. 35. 2. Chr. 35.25 was buryed with the great Lamentation of the Prophet Ieremiah and all his Subjects who setled his sonne 17. JEHOAHAZ in his place but long he could not hold it Ib. 36. For after three monthes Pharao Necho comes upon him broken by his Fathers Disasters and carries him Captive into Aegypt Sets Eliachim his brother in his place whom he calleth 18. IEHOIAKIM This man farre degenerating from his Fathers vertues is within a dozen yeares carryed prisoner to Babylon by Nebuchad-nezzar 2. Chr. 3â— with all the Riches of the Temple His sonne Jechoniah or Choniah or 19. IEHOIACHIN is left in his place which he received young managed ill and kept not long For within a yeare Nebuchad-nezzar was also upon him Ib. and carryed him away to Babylon prisoner with his Mother and all his Princes and Officers even to the very Smiths and Artizans where 't is thought he dyed upon the way and had no better buriall then an Asse as Jeremiah had foretold Jer. 22.19 His Vncle Mataniah is put King in his place and called 20. ZEDEKIAH He Rebels against his advancer Nebuchadnezzar contrary to the advice of Jeremiah the prophet and his Oath of Allegiance he had taken Jerusalem after two yeares seige ransackt the King laid hold on 2. Chr. 36.13 the Temple City and all Defaced 2. He was brought to Nebuchad-nezzar at Riblah had his sonnes slaine before him that he might not only feele but see his Woe Afterward his Eyes were put out and he carryed Captive to Babylon where he ended his Woefull daies 3. Ib. One Gedaliah was left behinde to governe the scattered people who were too many and worthlesse to be carryed so farre but he was trayterously slaine by the Treason of Ismael the sonne of Nethaniah and his Confederates They hurryed the people with Jeremiah the Prophet into Egypt 4. Evilmerodach Nebuchad-nezzars sonne and successour dealt kindly with Jehojachim in Babylon but releaseth not the Captivity 2. COntemporary with these were as it appeareth out of the second of Kings and Chronicles 1. The Kings of Israel 1. Politique Ieroboam who got little by Treason and Idolatry for 2. Debosht Nadab his sonne was rooted out with all his House by 3. Boysterous Baasha His son 4. Drunken Elah with all that Familie were on the suddain made away by 5. Rash Zimri He raigned but seven daies before 6. Stout Omri forced him to burne himselfe with the Palace in Tirzah Omri stood longer bought Samaria setled himselfe there in his Idolatrous courses and left 7. Vxorious Ahab his sonne to succeed him He with his Zidonian virago Iezabell â— Kings 21. proves worse then his Ancestors Extorts Naboths Vineyard from him where afterward dogges lickt his blood Yet left his sonne 8. Mopish Ahaziah his successour 2. King 1. who dyes by a fall of which Beelzebub of Ekron could not cure him And leaves the Kingdom to his stirring brother 9. Iehoram This man was taken off by 10. Furious Jehu who makes also an end of the Masculine Iezabell with all the breed of that Line He did well in executing the Baalites but the touch of Ieroboams politique Idolatry tainted all his other good parts His sonne 11. vexed Jehoahaz followes who notwithstanding Gods favour in easing him could not be staved of from Ieroboams Policy 12. Ioash his sonne follows in the same rode Rifled Ierusalem when he had overthrowne Amaziah Leaves the 13. Valiant Ieroboam his successour who somewhat refreshed the State and so leaves it to the 14. Vnfortunate Zachariah he was traiterously slaine by 15. Shallum who made an end of Iehu's race but held the Throne but a month before 16. Menahem tooke him off He left the Kingdome to 17. Pekaiah his sonne But 18. Pekah the sonne of Remaliah soone outed him and held it He was traiterously slaine by 19. Hoshea the sonne of Elah he with the ten Tribes carried captives by Shalmaneser of Assyria 2. Kings 17. 2. Also Prophets 1. That Man of God who came from Iudah 1. Kings 13. and startled Ierobeam in his Calvish sacrificing at Bethel by the renting of the Altar and withering of the hand stretched out to apprehend him 2. Elijah and Elisha eminent for Miracles 3. Besides those Greater and lesser Prophets whose Writings we have 3. With whom fell in 1. the Division of the Assyrian Monarchy through Sardanapalus effeminate Luxury between Phul-Bellock and Arbaces 2. The Founding of Rome by Romulus with the successe of the six Kings following 3. Lycurgus and his Lawes for the Lacedemonians 4. Midas of Phrigia with Asses cares 5. The seven Wise-men of Greece 6. Pharao-Necho's vaine attempt to joyne Nilus with the Red-Sea 7. The building of Carthage by Dido above 200 years after Aeneas death Which discredits Virgils Poem of the hot Affection between them Jnquiries 3. WHETHER 1. Zachariah Jehojadahs sonne were the same our Saviour speaks of in the Gospell Mat. 23.35 2. Vzziahs Mathemeticall Instruments were of the same kinde with those of Archimedes in Plutarch 3. The shadow went back only in Ahaz dyall not the Sunne in the Heavens 4. The captivity of the Tenne Tribes peopled Tartary and the West-Indies 5. Iehojachim had any markes of Inchantment upon him 6. Elisha Prophesied the better by hearing of a Musicall instrument 7. He gave a Toleration to Naaman to be present at Idolatrous Worship SECT II. The time of the Captivity of Babylon 1. THe Captivity of the tenne Tribes by Salmanasar and of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar hath put a period to the first Dynasty in the succession of Kings The second Dynasty here runs along in the continuance of the Captivity for the space of 70 years wherein it is sufficient to note these eminent men 1. DANIEL of the Bloud Royall who was carried away but young with King Ioakim 2. His sober Dyet
eloquence had an Embassage sent unto him with guists from Iustinian the Emperour for condemning the Patriarch of Constantinople Anthemius the Arian An Epistle of his concerning the Fathers and Sonnes equality is much commended His successour and Countryman 6. A.D. 534 AGAPHETUS a Cardinalls sonne was sent by Theodotus the Gothish King to pacify Iustinian the Emperour who was highly offended for the death of the Noble and Learned Queene Amalasunta upon his comming Anthemius the Eutychian Patriarch was removed and Menna set in his place There is a Confession of Faith directed by this Agapetus to Justinian And a tract of his againe to the Emperour containing good Precepts of Government He dyed at Constantinople but was thence conveyed to Rome to be buried where 7. A.D. 536 SYLVERIUS a Campanian had his Chayre Pope Hormisdah's sonne who was somewhat more then a Cardinall This man was used hardly by Theodora the Empresse and Antonia Belisarita wife because he would not consent to the putting out of Menna and restoring of Anthemius the Eutichean the Empresse favourite For this refusall he was depos'd himselfe upon pretences that he dealt under hand with the Gathes who then besieged the City And 8. A.D. 537 VIGILIUS his underminer was set in his place and made the seaventh Schisme But he had litle comfort of his unjust advancement for being charged with breach of promise by the violent Theodora he was fetcht to Constantinople and there with a halter about his neck drawn about the streets and thence banished In returne from which he dyed which made way for 9. PELAGIUS a Romane to take his place A.D. 550 in whose time Tottylas besieged Rome and wonne it Notwithstanding this disaster this Pope was tampering to clayme a Supremacy not from Canons of Councells or Apostolicall Ordinance but from Christ himselfe It is said that by his Intercession he somewhat mitigated Tottylas But 10. IOHN the 3d his fellow Citizen A.D. 559 had better quarter from Narsete the Eunuch who turned out the Gothes and established Iohn in his Chaire There is a decree of his in Gratian dist 99. c. Nullus that cutts off any of the Clergy from the Title of Chiefe Priest or vniversall Bishop 11. BENEDICT a Romane also that succeeded An. D. 574 fell in the time when the Lombards forraged all Italy the griefe whereof brought him quickly to his end That 12. PELAGIUS the 2d might take his place An. D. 579 who being a Romane in the Besieging of the City by the Lombards was made Pope without Tiberius the Emperours consent which Election he sent Gregory to Constantinople for to excuse The same 13. GREGORY a Romane Succeeded next An. D. 590 He was termed Magnus both for the Extraordinary matters performed by him as also for his Learning though he took the Popedome upon him unwillingly and first called himselfe Servus serverum Dei 2. He sent Augustine into England who spread Christianity amongst the Easterne Saxons The most part of them before being Pagans whereas the Brittaines had at that time of his comming seaven Bishops and an Arch-Bishop 3. He translated the Arch-Bishops Seat from London to Canterbury 4. Earnestly withstood the clayme of vniversall Bishop against Iohn of Constantinople Playes the Polititian with Mauritius his Preferrer and graced too much the Traytor Phocas that slew him 5. He is said to have staid a Plague by carrying in Procession the Image of the Blessed Virgine and causing the punishing Angel to put up his Sword Also to have delivered Traianes soule out of Hell by his prayers to have brought in Candles for Candle masse and added foure dayes to Lent Besides to have Cancelled his decree against Priests Marriages upon the finding of 6000 Infant 's Sculls in a Fish pond 6. He is censured by some to be the last of the good but first of the bad Popes To be signified by the Angel flying between Heaven and Earth For one that made many Superstitious orders which yet take place but the good he appointed was never well observed For of the Priests he complaines the World is full of them and yet in the Lords Harvest there are few Labourers We take upon us the Office but discharge it who list and I thinke no dishonour to God can be shewed so great as that which it tollerateth in Priests for they are come now to that passe that they they Jerre at him that lives humbly and Continently and takes better courses then themselves with which fall in those Verses of Mantuan Sordida Gregorij leges observat Egestas Quae teuues scrutatur aquas flumina summa Grande pinque pecus fundo versatur in Imo. At sacri proceres qui lina capacia Petri Altius immergunt laqueant genus omne natantum Poore Curats only keep Pope Gregory's lawes And fish in Rills or Rivers suâ— face sweepe But fatter Jacks and Carpes escape their pawes Mâ—dding themselves in Coverts of the deepe Now our Peers sinck St Peters larger Nett And in the bottome what they find they gett 7. His workes are set forth in one Volumne in diverse Editions Containing upon Job 35 Bookes expositions upon the 7 Penitentiall Psalmes upon the Canticles 22 Homilies upon Ezechiel 40 upon diverse Gospels Of a Pastorall charge upon the first of Kings Answere to 12 Questions proposed by Augustine of Canterbury twelve bookes of Epistles and foure bookes of Dialogues to Queene Theodolinda to confirme her and terrify her Husband with the Horrours of another World All which workes of his 14. SABINIANUS a Tuscane A.D. 604 his successor would have had burnt if he might have had his will But Petrus Diaconus affiemed upon his oath that he often saw a Dove whispering at his eare when he wrote which Dove is commonly painted with him This Quarrell grew betweene Gregory and Sabinian for that Gregory freely bestowed Corne amongst the Poore which Sabinian made them pay for whereupon Clamours arose against him and he to justify himselfe said that Gregory wasted improvidently the Revenues of the Church to get himselfe applause and persisted in such calumniations to wrong the dead untill Gregory believe it who will appeared unto him and knockt him on the head whereof he dyed and so put a period to the Tollerable Arch-Bishops and Patriarches 2. IN these times may be notice taken of 1. Hillary B. of Poiters a great stickler in twelve Bookes against the Arians Prosper and Fulgentius S. Augustines followers Orosius the Historian Priscian the notable Grammarian Dionysius Exiguus the setler of the Calendar 2. The beginning of Regular Monkes by Benedict an Italian Abbot with his sister Scholastica 3. The damnable vexations of Athanasius in the Councell of Tyre and otherwise with the impostures of Idolaters Socr. l. 5. c. 16. discovered in the demolishing of the Images of Cithra and Serapis and the stirres upon it in Alexandria of all which it is sufficient to have given a touch by the way INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. The Pope may justly
and Iohn de Rupe-Scissâ 5. Raymund of Pinnasort a Spaniard of Bercinona composeth the booke of Decretalls Plat. Ciacon whi◠this Pope alloweth In these courses especially against the Emperour old 40. CELESTINE the fourth a Lumbard An. 1241 would have persisted but that almost at his first entrance he tooke a potion that marred his stomack and sent him to his predecessors One Robert Sommerton or Sommerlet an English man because he was upon election to be Pope by the like means was set going the same way 21. weeks the place lies voyd till the Emperour at the request of Baldwine the Easterne Emperour and Raymund of Tholose freed the Cardinalls he had in Prison to goe to an Election Revel 13. This pack of Sorcerers by some is tearmed the Kingdome of the Dragon 2. IN the compasse of this Period are found 1. Besides a knot of Conjurers and Poysoners 2. A Crew of Divelish Rebells abusing Religion to varnish their damnable designes 3. A rable of Orders of Munks that disorder all things 4. Wrangling Sophistry set on foot by Lanfranch Lombard Albertus Magnus with otheir Sects and Factions 5. Canonists glosing and descanting upon their Master Gratian the Collector of the Decrees 6. Comestor with lying Legendaries 7 Hildegardis Katherine of Seene and some other such Shee-Prophetesses notwithstanding Anselme and Bernard and the Hugoes de Sancto Victore and de Sancte-Claro are of better account The vexations of the poore Waldenses and barbarous usage of Learned Beringarius were wonderfull and of long Continuance as their Histories set out at large doe manifest INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Necromancy may be a tollerable way to Ecclesiasticall preferment 2. Pope Sylvesters Brazen head were the same with our Roger Bacons or of any other temper 3. Iohn Gratian the Conjurer had the Popedome at an easy rate for 1500l of Benedict the 9th 4. The Sub-Deacon that poysoned Pope Victor the third in the Chalice and Hildebrand that threw the consecrated host in to the fire believed Transubstantiation 5. Hildebrand aliàs Gregory the 7. poysoned sixe or seaven Popes before he could get the place for himselfe 6. Saladine with the Saracens did lesse hurt to Christianity in the East then the Popes with their Complices in the West 7. The Waldenses in the maine held the same opinions with the Protestants of latter times SECT IX The sixth Ranke of Devouring Abaddons FRom Aegyptian Magitians we fall upon Devouring Abaddons who strengthned their side by multitudes of Monkish Ianizaries that wasted for about 250. years following all that lay before them the leader of these was 1. INNOCENT the fourth of Genua A. 1243 he denounced the fourth Excommunication against the Emperour Frederick who had been his greatest friend held a Councell at Lions and deposed him set Henry of Thuring in his place and after him William of Holland and a great company of Crusiados that the Pope had marked for his own beasts but the Emperour crossed their Crownes as he met with them and Nobly defended himselfe untill he was poysoned at length by the Popes meanes and finally smothered by his bastard Manfred 2. This Pope was the only Patron of the foure orders of begging Locusts Dominicans Franciscans Carmelites and Augustines who hatched under him those addle eggs of Summaries Sophismes Repertories Reductories Quodlibets Exorcismes Breviaries Ritualls and the like 3. He offered to sell the Kingdome of Sicily to Henry the third at a reasonable rate being none of his own and quarrelled with our Robert Grostead Bishop of Lincolne who withstood him stoutly and contemned his Excommunication 4. And after his death is said to have minded the Pope by a thumpe on his side with his Crosyers staffe and this Item Veni miser in judicium Dei come wretch to Gods judgement and so eased the world of this Tyrant He left behind him Apparatum ad decretales an Apology against Peter de Vineis with other tracts mentioned by Ciacon and his successor a Campanian 2. ALEXANDER the fourth A.D. 1254 This man is all for Apulia Excommunicated Munfred diverted the money gathered to recover the Holy Land to work his own ends at home pilled England so farre that Fulke Bishop of London exclaimed against him one Leonard told his Legate that Churches were under the Popes tuition not fruition to defend not to expend and a Clearke he sent to be Prebend of Paules against the Kings Chaplaine was slaine in a tumult 2. He made for money Richard Earle of Cornwall Henry the thirds brother King of Germany whereupon a rime was made Nummus ait pro me nubet Cornubia Romae My purse tells me a quick dispatch 'Twixt Rome and Cornwall for a match Condemnes the bookes of William de Sancto Amore leaves 3. A. 1261 VRBANE the fourth his successor being formerly a Patriarch of Ierusalem He continued his sting against Manfred of Sicily and wrought Charles the King of France his Brother to be his death 2. Withstood the Romanes as much as he could who had set up a new Magistrate amongst them called Bandenses having power of life and death 3. Vpon solicitation by Eva an Anchoresse but as Onuphrius will have it by a drop of bloud distilling from the host in a Priests hand he instituted the feast of Corpus Christi day 4. Albertus Magnus and Aquinas are referred to this mans time 4. An. 1265 CLEMENT the fourth a French man is next who had before a Wife and three children 2. He brings in the French to get Naples sent Octobonus into England to take the value of all Church Revenues But he summoned by Death to a reckoning in a great Hubbub of the Cardinalls 5. A. 1271 GREGORY the tenth a Lombard was thrust into his place whereupon came the verses Papatus munus tulit Archi diaconus unus Quem Patrem Patrum fecit discordia fratrum An Arch-deacon the Papall Incomes gathers Whom Brethrens discord Father made of Fathers 2. He held a Councell at Lions at which was present Mychael Paleologus the Greeke Emperour and acknowledged the Laterane tenent of the proceeding of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne which twelve times before they had withstood 3. Bonaveuture was by him made Cardinall and Peter de Turantesia Cardinall of Hostia Radulphus of Auspurge Crowned Emperour but would not goe to Rome to have it Quia vestigia as he said ipsum terrebant because the Foxe saw no safe returne Peter de Tarautasia succeeds him by the title of 6. INNOCENT the fifth a Burgundian An. 1276 the first Pope of the begging Fryars being the same Peter Tartaret that wrote upon the Sentences and other workes 2. He endeavoured to set Peace amongst all but dyed before he could effect any thing 7. HADRIAN the fifth a Genoway followes A. 1276 named before Octobonus the same that kept so great a stirre here in England in the Raigne of Henry the third 2. Platina Vide Pitgah Evang. p. 182 He dyes before he was consecrated some say
librum solvere septem signacula ejus But foure times seaven dayes had not past before a burning Feaver or somewhat else put the Lord Cardinals upon a new Election of 17. A.D. 1605 PAUL the fifth an Italian Bellarmine and Baronius were named with him but the place needed not so much learning whatsoever learning this Pope had such Inscriptions were afforded him and well taken PaV Lo QV Into VICe Deo Christianae Reipublicae Monarchae invictissimo Pontificiae omnipotentiae conservatori acerrimo Morneus in praef Myster Iniquit out of which inscriptions in the three first words we have the number of the Beast 666. 2. Of no lesse importance are those other Attributes Gens Regnum quod non servierit illi in gladio in fame in peste visitabo super gentem illam ait Dominus Ier. 27. And Dedit dominus potestatem ut omnes populi ipsi serviaut potestas ejus potestas aeterna regnum ejus quod non corrumpetur crunt Reges Nutritij tui c. Vultu in terram demisso pulverem tuorum pedum lingent Isa 49.3 For not stooping therefore to his power and titles a powder plote was set on foot by Garnett the Iesuite and others his Complices here in England to blow up the King and the whole State 4. The state of Venice was interdicted notwithstanding this Popes vsurpatious whereupon the Jesuits that sided with him were banished diverse of other Orders stuck close to the state against the Pope and his learned Cardinals Bellarmine and Baronius where Baroniu's exhortation to his Holinesse Surge and Manduca arise and eate the Venetians would not well goe downe till Cardinall Joyous of France was faine to patch up the matter without the least disparagement to the Venetians 5. The Oath of Alleageance which our King Iames most justly required of his Subjects was forbidden by Breves from this Pope but that learned King with His owne Penne so justified his own right that his Holinesse declined the encounter 6. Suarez Bellarmine Becan and others that interposed against the Supremacy of Kings within their own Territories were censured by the Sorbon of Paris and other Papists At length in France Cardinall Peron Cowed them to allow in some sort of the Councell of Trent 7. In the breach between Cesar and the County Palatine a great taxe was laid upon all the Clergy of Italy towards the upholding of the Catholique cause and a new Order of Knighthood erected at Vienna under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin St Michael and St Francis to root out all Heretiques Saxon joynes with Cesar against the Protestants contrary to the determination of his Divines of Jene and Wittemberg 8. The great Controversies between the Iesuits and Dominicans concerning the immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin is smâ—thered rather then decided a Jubile held to bring in money and so Mort VVs est VICeDeVs 18. GREGORY the 15th of Bononia succeeds him An. 1621 elected by way of Adoration 1. He instigates the French against the Protestants Saints Ignatius Loiola with Teresa Isodorus Gonzaga and Koska of the same Society quarrells with the Venetians for entertaining Greeks when they warred not with Infidells to whom the Venetians replyed that they held all Infidells that opposed their Common-wealth 2. The Illuminati in this mans time keep a great quarter in Spaine which some hold a kind of Protestant Round-heads and multiplied to that height that the Inquisitors were faine to winke at them After two years blustering with much adoe among the Cardinalls 19. VRBANE the eight A. 1623 a Florentine that now holds it was chosen in his place 24. Cardinalls grew sicke in this hot businesse whereof tenne lost their lives with diverse others 2. He first casts about to advance his kindred among whom Cardinall Barbarino is now the man 3. The jarres between the French and Spanish for the Valtoline could not be composed by him the French were first blamed for favouring the â—rotestants cause in Germany and entring into League with them But now the Spaniard is disliked and upon the King of Sweeds victorious proceedings the Spanish Legas was told by his Holinesse that the tyranny of his Master gave just cause of rejoycing at the Heretiques prosperous successe 4. The Jesuits found no friend in him for he hath quite cashiered the shee Iesuitesses which under hand grew to an Order very advantagious to that society Garassius one of their Company wrote a summe of Divinity which their Generall had approved but the Sorbon utterly condemned And upon a Pett taken for being stopped from a Bishopricke which the King of Spaine through Count Olivares procuring had bestowed upon a Jesuit That Iesuit writes directly against the Popes power and Contends that he can doe no more out of his Diocesse then another Bishop and that his Bulla Coenae thundred for formality against his Master every yeare is but a Bable 5. The Arch-bishop of Spalata playing Iack of both sides and passing from hence to Rome met with worse entertainment there then he found here Father Paul was wounded for standing for his Venetians and one Barnes an Englishman led Captive to Rome for expressing himselfe too much against the Iesuits in the behalfe of Kings This Pope seems to be a more polite Scholler then many of his predecessors by the bookes he hath written and not so Barbarous as many of them have been The Lord open the eyes of all those that sit in darknesse whom the God of this world hath blinded that they may see the truth and emâ—race it AMEN 2. INto this Period fall so many varieties of high concernment that they can hardly be glanced at 1. The erecting of new Vniversities Wittemberg Frankeford Marpurg c. Especially in Germany 2. Famous writers of the Reformation Luther and Melancthoâ— in Saxony Zuinglius and Oecolampadius in Helvetia Calvin and Beza in France Peter Martyr and Zanchius from Italy with others in other places of no lesse eminency which with admired Learning and Industry have maintained Gods truth against the Tridentine Engineers of the Romanists and the voluminous Iesuits their Emissaries As also against the domestique underminings of Socinus Armiâ—ians and their partizans 3. The wasting combustians between the Imperialists and Sweadish France and Spaine Polonians and the Turke each requiring a particular History INQVIRIES 3. Whether 1. Luthers Reformation were not at first undertaken out of Emulation rather then conscience 2. The Difference between Lutherans and Calvinists stands in such termes of opposition as may admit of no Reconcilement 3. The conventing of the Councell of Trent were not rather for politique ends then Reforming of any thing amisse in Religionâ— 4. The voluminous Disputes and Comments of the Iesuits be not more for ostentation in Divinity then Edification 5. The Madnesse of the Auabaptists and their Enthysiasts be not as dangerous to States as the projects of the Iesuits 6. The Dissentions of Christian Princes be as advantagious to