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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10294	The spy discovering the danger of Arminian heresie and Spanish trecherie: written by I.R.	Russell, John, d. 1688.; Rhodes, John, minister of Enborne, attributed name.; Robinson, John, 1575?-1625, attributed name.	1628 (1628)	STC 20577; ESTC S115559	23,654	58

soules of men This nature makes Become vnnaturall it no notice takes Of father brother friend but all doth vse With like Contempt with equall hate pursues VVhich Sathan th' enemy of humane peace The gospells glory and the truths encrease Perceiving and by long experience knowing That nothing keepes religion more from grovving Then Church contentions As the surest way To rayse vp errour and make Truth decay He hath suborned in all ages those That vnder Christs ovvne name should Christ oppose None 's hurt but by himselfe to Christ none is A foe so mortall as he that seemes his Schismes in the church are like i' th' soule a vvound To cure't no Aesculapius can be found Th' are like * Elias cloud though small at first Yet still encreasing and being dayly nurst VVith male contented humours at the length They by degrees attaine to so much strength Truth 's suune is by them overshadowed quite And like a tempest on the church they light Or'ewhelming vvith a bloody inundation Cityes and kingdomes ev'n to desolation Such sad proceedings had the Arrian errour VVhich first contemn'd prou'd aftervvards a terrour To all the vvorld That sparke whence once it brake To flames made Europe Asia Afrike quake And so obscur'd the Churches glory over She never could her lustre yet recover So vvas th' Arabian in Heraclius dayes Whom Sathan did another agent rayse Truth to disturbe vvhen he began to broach His damned Dogma's fitter of reproach And scorne reputed then represt to b'e By force or Councells censure And thus he Though an vnread Barbarian after came By this connivence to attaine such fame For false supposed truth since no man could Gainsay as it vvas thought because none vvould This nevv-spring doctrine that it quickly grevv Through force and juggling of this Pagan Ievv To such an height of greatnes and of povver That from that age vnto this present hovver His barb'rous proud successours still haue beene The executioners of Sathans spleene And heaviest scourges for the Gospells side That ever Christendome did yet abide So fatall 't is oh then vvhat state vvould doe ' To let an errour in the church take root If later times examples better take And in mens minds deeper impression make What frequent streames of bloud of Christians drevv The mad phantastick giddy-headed crevv Of Germane Anabaptists to maintaine VVhose grosse erroneous tenents there vvere slaine Thrice fifty thousand soules vvho lost their breath In that false quarrell by a timeles death If then th' obtrustion of nevv dogmatiques Vpon th' abused Church so deepely pricks Her grieved hart if it her quiet marre And turne her happy peace to bloody vvarre VVhat Belials brats or Bichris sonnes could find In hart to be s'vnnaturall and vnkind As to that mother ill for good to render VVho hath beene ever of their vvellfate tender Oh that such dang'rous serpents ere should rest I' th' choysest mansions of a Kingdomes brest VVould suck her hart bloud out it vvere too much In monster-moulding Africk to find such VVho then would ere suspect a monstrous seed And more prodigious Africk ere did breed Should spawne in England in so cold an ayre VVhere matter of corruption should be rare That then that doth this mi'shap'd births create Is not the sunne of zeale but fire of hate And slime of pride and treason these they be That turne a man into a prodigie And such there are too many who doe hope And strongly labour to reduce the Pope Vs her'd b' Arminius that themselues in time To th' honour of a Cardinalls cap may clime First let them breake their necks And let that hand Be ever mark'd with th' ignominions brand Of infamous sedition whose appeale For Spanish-English favour not for zeale To God or truth did hither first transferre The Belgian Heretick to make vs erre Did we not see of late what sad effect This doctrine wrought in that pernicious sect Had not the States like to their cost t' haue felt By th' trecherous designes of Barnevelt His sonnes and others what religious fruites We might expect from such seditious bruites If the same danger we had meant to shun VVhy the same hazard did we rashly run Nor vvere these tenents in the schooles discust Fit places vvhere such paradoxes must Be controverted but in publique print To make vnlearned vulgar eyes to squint From truth on falshood all the land about These dang'rous bookes are cast to make men doubt The truth receiv'd and not resoluing vvhere Safely to stand or to vvhat side t' adhere To fall as fast to Rome or atheisme As those in Arrius time to Gentilisme Better discretion from the heathens lavves Might be observ'd For no religious cause VVith them vvas handled ' mongst the vulgar sort And vvith the Turckes his life he forfaites for 't Dares question any Learned Varro shut Such bookes in schooles and private closets But Boue all th' Apostles and the fathers vvere Herein most chary For vvhen ever there Sprung any diff'rence ' tvvixt them they ne're made Saucy appeales to temprall Kings to shade Or bolster up their fancyes None did write Bitter invectiues gainst his opposite Nor clamorous bills in any princes court Put up but lovingly they did resort I' th' feare of God together there propose Their doubtes alleadge their reasons confirme those And then determine from Gods sacred word VVhat must be follovv'd vvhat must be ahorr'd Good sheapherds lead their flocks to feeding nigh Those pleasing rivers that streame quietly And not in whirle pooles Those of highest place Shall haue fruition in th' almighty's grace That draw most soules vnto him VVhere shall they Become that fright vnstable soules away Consider this all you whose hot desire Of worldy honour far surmounts the fire Of your cold zeale And fix in heav'n your mind Where onely lasting honour you shall find So shall our Church be happy in her seed So shall she be from present dangers freed So shall the Gospell 'mongst vs ever flourish So shall our state the true professours nourish So shall the God of Truth your labours blesse And your endeavours Crovvne vvith vvish'd successe Port della Fidelita NOw rise vp Rawleigh helpe me to vnfold A mystery shall make the bloud grow cold In all true English harts VVhich to defeate Those boundlesse braines ofthine did ever beate Till Wisedome swallovved Spanish figges and thou Great Lesters treach'rous ghost assist me novv To vnrip Treasons bowells That may be Hath harbour'd in as great a Peere as thee As highly honour'd and as highly plac'd In Offices of vveight more highly grac'd And novv you Catilines that agents are For Spaines designes to hang your selues prepare For we already haue though late detected Your Treasons blest be God ere th' are effected Nay novv our eyes peace blinded long haue found The plots the meanes to worke by and the ground Of your attempts VVhereby y' haue slily sought Our English freedome Traytor like t' haue brought