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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

else lightly forsweare themselues The Apostle Paul also writing to the Eph. 4.17.18.19 exhorteth them that they will not walke as other Gentiles in vanity of their minde hauing their cogitation darkened and being strangers from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the hardnesse of their hearts c. And it may be truely applied vnto them that is spoken by Isa the Prophet cap. 59.10 They grope for the wall like the blinde and as one without eies they stumble in the noone-day as in the twilight and they are in solitarie places as dead Men. Except by bathing in one Riuer pure In Europe Northward where they might haue cure The word of God in diuers places of the Scripture is likened to Riuers and waters whereby is meant that if those Idolatrous Nations haue recourse to the holy Scriptures as they are now professed and taught in the Church of Great Britaine they shall be deliuered and freed from their blindnesse and ignorance Iohn 4.14 Whosoeuer drinketh of the water saith Christ that I shall giue him shall neuer be more a thirst but the water that I shall giue him shall be in him a well of water springing vp into euerlasting life Ezech. 47.8.9 The Scriptures are called wholesome waters in these words These waters issue out toward the East Countrie and runne downe into the plaine and shall goe into one Sea and the waters shall be wholesome and euery thing which moueth wheresoeuer the Riuers come shall liue and there shall be a very great multitude of fish because these waters shall come thither for they shall be wholesome and euery thing shall liue whither the Riuer commeth Also in the 36. ver 25. Gods Spirit is compared to cleane water where the Lord saith I will pure cleane water vpon you and ye shall be cleane yea from all your filthinesse and from all your Idols will I clense you And the Apostle Paul writing to the Eph. cap. 5. ver 26.27 sheweth how Christ sanctifieth and clenseth his Church by the washing of water through the word that he might make it vnto himselfe a glorious Church not hauing spot or wrinckle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blame Lastly Baptisme which these Heathen people haue not is a token that God hath consecrated the Church to himselfe and made it holy by his word that is his promise of free iustification and sanctification in Christ 4. In this strange Countrie also was a flower Which this good Angell had no sooner gather'd But within one halfe quarter of an hower As a thing blasted suddenly it wither'd And as the Marigould by the Sun is spread This by the Sunne shut vp and seem'd as dead Certaine it is that there is a flower in the Indies which when the Sun shineth it shuts it selfe close as a Marigould openeth by the Sun And there is a Tree called the shamefac'd-Tree which groweth very faire and greene whose leafe if you touch though you pluck it not from the Tree yet it will shrinke together for a season like as if it should wither and so continue vntill your departure from that place but the purpose heere is not to discouer naturall causes but to make Spirituall vse Therefore By this flower is signified the weake faith of these Infidels which as it is little or none at all so it hath no sure foundation whereupon it is built and therefore cannot stand against the power of the spirit of truth no more then the Idol Dagon did before the Arke of the Lord whereof it is written 1. Sam. 5.2 3.4 That the Philistines tooke the Arke of God and brought it into the house of their chiefe Idol Dagon and set it by Dagon And when they of Ashdod rose the next day in the morning behold Dagon was fallen vpon his face on the ground before the Arke of the Lord And they tooke vp Dagon and set him in his place againe And they rose vp early in the morning next day and behold Dagon was fallen againe vpon his face on the ground before the Arke of the Lord and the head of Dagon and the two palmes of his hands were cut off vpon the threshold onely the stumpe of Dagon was left to him And so is it with this flower which properly I cannot call Faith seeing the Apostle Paul 2. Thes 3.2 saith all men haue not faith but it is a kinde of blinde zeale in their blinde Religion which at the appearance and tryall of the spirit of God withereth like a flower 5. The Angell then transfer'd me to a Land Where huge deformed vgly Giants breed Who spoil'd and burnt good Corne which there did stand And set Tobacco that foule stincking weede By this land is conceiued so much as is vnder the Dominion of the great Turke where the people may properly be called deformed vgly Giants in respect of their horrible foule Heresies and blasphemies which in them is more monstrous and damnable then in the Heathen people before mentioned which neither haue heard of Christ since his comming nor any type figure or Prophesie of him before his comming But these Monsters haue euer had the Law of Moses among them and also the bookes of the Prophets which likewise they haue now in vse whereby the fore-knowledge of the true Messias was prefigured vnto them They did also know of his comming they haue heard his Doctrine seene his miracles he liued and died amongst them Yet these sauage and wilde Giants of the earth which neuer were naturally borne as I may say in respect of Regeneration wast and burne vp our Bibles wherein is written the Gospell of our blessed Sauiour that good seed which that great Husband-man Christ himselfe did sow within their Land The bread of life Iohn 6.48 I am the liuing bread saith Christ which came downe from Heauen If any man eate of this bread he shall liue for euer And the bread that I will giue is my flesh which I will giue for the life of the World Ioh. 6.51 This bread was giuen to the Iewes before any other Nation which is within the Turkes Dominion now by Inuasion being the elect people of God before the calling of vs the Gentiles as appeareth Math. 15.26 When the Canaanitish woman cryed out to Iesus for her daughter which was miserably vexed with a Deuill Christ answered It is not good to take the Childrens bread which were the Iewes and to cast it to whelpes whom Christ so called being strangers from the house of God But Christs holy name be glorified that we now are made partakers of this heauenly bread whereby we are made one body with him 1. Cor. 10.17 But instead of this bread of sinceritie and truth 1. Cor. 5.8 These deformed Giants the Turkes haue sowed another kind of seede such Corne as will proue vnto them as the bread of affliction mentioned in the 1. King 22.27 Or as the bread of teares Psal 80.5 Or as the bread

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

enuie had At that good fruit seeing their owne was bad Enuie is one of the fruits of the flesh as before mentioned and therefore is altogether repugnant to the Spirit And heere is demonstrated vnto vs the malice of the Children of the Deuill against the Children of God According as Christ saith to his Disciples Yee shall be hated of all men for my sake Math. 10.22 They that doe maintaine those wicked Heresies and vaine inuentions haue their eies euill because the Protestant is good The similitude of sharpe pricking bryars and thornes is alluded vnto such as haue heard the word but the cares of the world and the deceitfulnesse of Riches and the lusts of other things enter in and choake the word and it is vnfruitfull Mark 4.19 But that is not all the hurt they doe to be vnfruitfull in themselues for the nature of such bryars and thornes is to make the ground barren round about where they grow and to hinder the growth of any thing that is neere thereunto And they may be said to be wilde Trees which haue not the knowledge of truth grafted in their hearts of which there are too many in that place and those of seueral Sects so that it is now with the good Protestant in that place as it was with the Children of Israell who being but one people in their iourney to the Land of promise met with diuers Nations that resisted them being there is but one truth which the Protestants professe there they are much cumbred and troubled with many hoastes of Errors but as the Lord euer gaue the Conquest to the Israelites so no doubt he will be to the Protestants 12. Pitty it was the husband-mans respect Did not roote out those inconuenient lets He might haue remedied that great defect By plucking vp those preiudiciall sets What greater ruine and spoiling of a delicate faire garden then to suffer it to be ouer-growne with weeds What greater confusion to a Common-wealth then errors in Religion and as it belongs to the prouidence and care of a good Gardener to preuent the one So it appertaineth to Magistrates and Ecclesiasticall gouernors to remedie the other so neere as they can But it fals out sometimes that those weedes onely which are growne great and apparant are onely pluckt vp the rest being neere the ground amongst good hearbes are not so easily discerned so is it with Sects which if they once grow vp and shed their seede they cannot be clensed they multiply so fast and grow so thick that commonly they ouergrow the good Religion And likewise in goodly fruitfull Orchards where trees are pestered thick together the bad trees that are vnfruitfull hinder the prospering of the good trees that they cannot be so fruitfull as otherwise they might be Euen so is it with the good and sound Religion of the Gospell amongst other wicked Sects and diuisions of opinions But if laborers were purposely appointed for the one and subordinate Ministers for the other because the eie of the Magistrate cannot see all both the one and the other might be freed from these great inconueniences For those Trees properly are made to burne As some to build and some for other turne The vse of Trees is diuers according to their natures some are for timber and building as we read 1. King 5.56 And behold saith Salomon I purpose to build an house vnto the name of my Lord my God Now therefore command that they hew me Cedar trees out of Lebanon Of such trees that is of the faithfull God hath beautifully built his Church militant heere on earth Yea are Gods husbandrie and Gods building 1. Cor. 3.9 Now as concerning Thornes and Bryars that is the wicked they were from the beginning ordained for the fire And so likewise euery tree though it bring forth fruit yet if the fruit be not good it is hewen downe and cast into the fire Math. 7.10 If any man abide not in me saith Christ he is cast forth as a braunch and withereth and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they burne 13. This when I had perused curiously The Angell led mee to a goodly Vine-yard Kept by a Tyrant who swore furiously That hee would kill mee with his bloody whineyard By this Vineyard is meant the Church of Rome in respect the Gospell of Christ is there preached though with many heresies and by the Tyrant is vnderstood the Pope whose bloody disposition I need not tell to the World he is so wel known manifested to be such as Salomon speaketh of Pro. 28.15 As a Roaring Lyon is a wicked Ruler ouer the poore people for he can neuer be satisfied but euer oppresseth and spoileth And he is worse then Herod the tyrant who sent forth and slew all the male Children that were in Bethlehem and in all the Coasts thereof from two yeare olde and vnder For the Pope he neither spareth men women nor children yong nor olde The Prophet Micah cap. 3.2 writing against the tyranny of false Prophets saith they hate the good and loue the euill they pluck off their skinnes from them and their flesh from their bones and they eate also the flesh of the people and breake their bones and chop them in peeces as for the pot and as the flesh within the Caldron And as the Prophet Zeph. spake concerning the Citie of Ierusalem so it may be fitly applied to the Citie of Rome Zeph. 3.1.2.3.4 Woe to her that is filthie and polluted she heard not the voice she receiued not correction she trusted not in the Lord she drew not neare vnto her God her princes within her are as roaring lyons her Iudges are as Wolues in the euening which leaue not the bones till the morrow her Prophets are light and wicked persons her priests haue polluted the Sanctuary they haue wrested the Law The Angell sau'd mee It is the Lord that deliuereth vs out of all aduersitie 2. Sam. 4.9 Dauid in the 22. Chapter of the same Booke 2.3 verses confesseth that the Lord was his Rock his fortresse and he that deliuered him saying further God is my strength in him will I trust my shield and the horne of my Saluation my high tower and my refuge my sauiour thou hast saued me from violence Euery word of God is pure he is a shield to them that trust in him Pro. 30.5 and compel'd him to Declare the mischiefes which hee there did do It is the iustice of God that the wicked confesse their sins to their condemnation for they will not belieue to obtaine remission and their owne words shall be a sufficient proofe to condemne them if there were no other thing Euery man shall be iustified or condemned by the words of his owne mouth Math. 12.37 Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and confessed that he had sinned and that the Lord is righteous but he and his people were wicked Exod. 9.27 14. Then thus the Tyrant timerously said This sheweth that the power

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