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A02834	A vision of Balaams asse VVherein hee did perfectly see the present estate of the Church of Rome. Written by Peter Hay Gentleman of North-Britaine, for the reformation of his countrymen. Specially of that truly noble and sincere lord, Francis Earle of Errol, Lord Hay, and great Constable of Scotland.	Hay, Peter, gentleman of North-Britaine.	1616 (1616)	STC 12972; ESTC S103939	211,215	312

beene or can be without error other then Iesus Christ the Iust or that any cannons traditions bookes other then that one indited from the heart of God and penned by his Spirit to remaine for euer The vnchangeable rule of our faith in Christ the only sustance thereof and our only infallible example that we are to follow she●… first in the old Testament darkely to Moses in the mountaine when it was said to him fac secundum exemplar quod tibi in monte monstratum est 〈◊〉 secondly in the new Testament more cleerely in mount Tabor and now most cleerely in the true mount of God That great spirit is the only inditer who cannot lye That Scripture the only booke which will not be wrested that Iesus the only man who cannot erre Therefore this word as it is said must be sufficient to make the man of God perfect Christian perfection standeth in knowledge and in action referring knowledge to our faith and action to our practise of faithfull workes to hold that the ●…ly Scripture is not accomplished for knowledge as the Euangel saith sapientia est per fidem Iesu Christ or to hold that Christ was not a perfect Architype and Schoolemaster of all vertues who hath himself said discite 〈◊〉 I thinke it is blasphemie so that talke what we will it must be blinde ignorance to affirme that the originall fountaines of Gods word as they are comprehended in the holy Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles are not more sincere and wholesome then the riuers flowing from the same through the channels of humane brains which can no more remaine vnspotted by mans weakenesse then naturall waters running from cleere fountaines can be without alteration of colour or taste according to the qualitie of ground through which they passe The vniuersall Clergie of the Church of Rome doth damne this opinion of the sufficiencie of holy Scripture what then it is more strong the multitude doth abhorre the wayes of God to walke in the broade way If the Gibeonites had securely depended vpon the multitude of their neighbours of Canaan they had perished in that common naufrage certaine they are few who truely beleeue this word some poore Gibeonites doe heere the voice of God and are mocked of the world the multitude like vnto the Crowe for loue of the sensuall carrions which flote among the waters of the earth refuseth to remaine within the Arke This holie Arke of Gods word is builded for a small number of his Saints who find no rest without it The multitude leaueth the sincerity of this word to follow the wisedome of men as the sonnes of Adam departed from the Orient to builde the Tower in the land of Senaar which is interpreted stincke how many were saued in Iericho by that red marke which was vpon the house of Ra●…ab how many doores were marked in Egypt to be spared by the holy Angell within this small Arke there was safetie but not without Now to come to my intended purpose which is not to play the Theologue with your Lo there be certaine yeares gone since I went forth of the Countrie poussed thereto from a scruple of my conscience hauing from my childhood drunken in some preiudicate and forestalled opinions which did euer trouble and disquiet my minde so oft as I called to memory howe Plato and other Philosophers had trauailed ouer the world to acquire natural knowledge I thought it both ignominious and dangerous for me i●… I should not paine my selfe to vnderstand the truth of Gods worship whereupon transported with the fury of this preiudice and closing my eies against the splendor of the word which doth shine at home I resolued once to fine my selfe intra l●…mina Apostolorum within the towne of Rome that pretended mother Church without the which there was no meanes of Saluation as then I did imagine And this I doe protest before the heauens and before him who did creat them was the true cause of my voyage enterprised to seeke my fathers Asse as he said which was so truely spoken of him that like vnto that high Priest Annas he hath vttered a notable veritie vnknowne to himselfe as I will shortly set downe from such graue theologicall reasons as shall both free me from passion and idlenesse in this point and serue for the Christian edification of others we see how it is familiar with the spirit of God in the Scripture to vse the names of beastes to make our grosse vnderstanding more capable by that kinde of sensible instruction there is mention of good and euill beastes and in the legall sacrifices of cleane and vncleane beastes By euill beastes generally are meant the Diuell and his Angels and the dominion of sinne into vs it is said by the Prophet erit se●…ita recta via sancta vocabitur mala bestia non ascendet per eam And Dauid Ne trada●… bestijs animas confitentes●…bi And in the Reuelation vidi de mari Bestiam asce●… habentem capita septem cornua dec●… which beside that true interpretation to be the Antichrist some doe also allegorize to be the seuen deadly sinnes and tenne seuerall transgressions of the commandements whereby Satan doth make himselfe Prince of the world confringam cor●… peccatorum saith the Lord And the Prophet Zach. hac sunt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Israel So the tyranie of sinne into man makes him to get the names of beastes as the holy man getteth the style to be called God or the sonne of God as in the Psalmes God iudged in the assemblie of the Gods and in St. Iohn Dedit ijs potestatem fil●…s D●…ifieri And St. Paul of himselfe vi●… ego iam non ego viuit vero in me Christus So are beastes said to liue in the wicked man as the Prophet Dauid saith in 48. Psalmes The cruell man is said to be like the Ostrige Filia populi 〈◊〉 crud●… quasi 〈◊〉 i●… deserto The craftie insidious man as a Beare Ursus insidians factus est mihi the proud man like a Lyon ●…sse quasi Leo in do●… the obstinate and wilfull man like vnto the Adder which desperatly closeth her eares sicut a●…is sur 〈◊〉 obt●…rantis aures 〈◊〉 the wrathfull man as a Dragon fold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fraud●…lent man as a Fox quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prophe●…ae tui Israel the oppressor as a woolfe Beniamin lupus rapa●… the lustfull man as a Goate ir●…tus est furor 〈◊〉 super capr●…s visi●…abo the lasciuious man as a horse equi am●…tores in faeminas emissarij facti sant the murtherer as a serpent 〈◊〉 Dan ooluber in via the tyrant as a Pard quasi Pardus laedet eos the ambitious man as an Eagle si exaltatus fueris fieut aquila trahant te dicit Dominus the backbiter as a dogge quare maledicit canis hic Domino meo Regi the filthie man as a sow quasi sus lot●… in volutabro luti These

sorts of musicall instruments at whose presence numbers of Princes stately Embassadours great parsonages and multitudes of people doe fall to the ground saluting him holy holy as if he would not onely be Christs Vicar vpon earth but also emulator of his diuine glory in the Heauens and be worshipped like that glorious Lambe before whom numbers doe fall downe to crie holy holy holy that vpon the sight thereof I was indeed amased as if it had beene a vision and demaunding a French Gentleman who had newly also arriued with me and was a zealous Papist how he did esteeme of that which he had seene he answered me in the termes of be God that he thought it farre different from the carriage of him who said Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo and who said to his Disciples Exemplum de di vobis vt quemadmodum ego feci ita vos faciatis which answer I haue many times since thought to be as pertinent as if the holy Spirit had inspired it into him For if the kingdome of the world be called the kingdome of sinne and of darkenes then it is likely that the kingdom of Satan is at Rome and not the kingdome of Christ but that the kingdome of the world is called the kingdom of sin the Scripture doth shew The Spirit of God in the Euangell compriseth the world vnder the name of sin hath diuided it in three Whatsoeuer saith Iohn is in this world it is either concupiscence of the eye concupiscence of the flesh or pride of life we may behold the wonderfull harmony and correspondence of the same spirit of God throughout the whole Scriptures in old and new Testament as I said before he hath made this diuision of the world and of sinne heere equall with that diuersitie of sinne which did enter into the world with Eua in the beginning of the booke of God The text of Moses saith and the woman saw that the Tree was pleasant to the eie there is concupiscence of the eye that it was good for meate concupiscence of the flesh and that it was to be desired for knowledge pride of life emulation with God so that the enioying of these three concupiscences is the enioying of the kingdome of the world as Iohn saith and that againe to bee contrarie to the kingdome of Christ no man can denie For Christ had the offer made vnto him of the kingdomes of the world from Satan as we know and did refuse it Haec omnia tibi dabo si cadens adoraneris me Now whither or not the Popes haue taken this dominion of Rome from Christ who said to their predecessor S. Peter Exemplum tibi dedi vt quemadmodum ego feci ita faciastu or from the diuell who is prince of the world it must bee tried from those concupiscences The Spirit of God bath said in the Scripture Haec fuit iniquit as Sodomae abundautia otium I will not rashly say that Rome is Sodom vnlesse I shew reason but I will aske if euer any towne state or people had more abundance and idlenesse then haue the Pope Cardinals and Consistory of Rome and all their togall Clergie who doe more truely proclaime Cedant arma Togae then euer did their predecessor Cicero For he was ouerthrowne by armes and the seate of Rome amidst neighbor combustions what doth she Circundata Marte quiescit For concupiscence of the eye I would know who they be in the world that may match with Rome of whose magnificent Palaces sumptuous vineyards with their royall fountaines volaries picsaries walkes vmbrages and all sort of most princely pleasures one may make such a description as Ouid did of Regia solis after he had made the materials to bee most rare and precious then he saith Materiam superabat opus Which is a sure argument that they haue store of that eye concupiscence which standeth in infinite Treasures of golde and siluer most easilie gotten by them for they lie in the center of the richest countries in the world of those a great part be vnder their subiection and then they sit aboue the neckes of their people as the sunne is aboue the inhabitants of the burnt clymate they doe exhaust their fogges and that with such dexteritie that they can mooue them to quite their very earerings for making of the golden Calse There is no trauaylour who doth not know that for beautie of buildings for gold and siluer either in money or in plate for store of Iewels they goe beyond the greatest Kings that are or euer haue beene As for concupiscence of the flesh speaking generally either of the Court or of the Cloyster of the Priests or of the people Eloquar an siliam But what is spoken to the glory of God ought not to be blamed of any man I doe thinke that as they haue more abundance and more idlenesse then euer was in Sodom so there be among them villanous lustes neuer knowen in Sodome as for that sinne which we call Sodomie God helpe vs it is indeede thought a veniall transgression yea a man shall heare it maintained in reasoning by persons carrying religious dignities that as they haue followed the Idolatrie of the Gentiles they haue also followed their pollution and filthinesse And to iustifie by speeches and admonitions against such thing●… it is thought an idle curiositie thère and such also as a stanger would find dangerous while as it is a familiarthing there to know that the Cardinals Illustrissima Signoria hath in the retyred place of his Vignia his Suirginata that is to say his gallant wench of braue fresh blood brought perhaps from the farthest part of Germanie to be defloured by him and hath his Ganimedes at home to shew that his monstrous Religion hath made a monster of himselfe one day to obey nature in the actions of his luste an other day to be contrary to heue And whither their Cur●…isanes haue learned this M●…ngiar in tondo as they call it it is well enough vnderstood of those who haue beene any while among them While those be the practises of the Court and of the Cloyster to aske what is among the popular it is not necessarie nor to defile oliaste and vertnou●… cares with vncleane speeches of Bordels and Bardasches which bee there as ordinarily frequented as the Church but for the manners of their multitude otherwise they are fearefull to a heart which feareth God to heare their more then blasphemous oathes that one cannot say whither they smell more of i●…pletie or of Atheisme their secret practises of mutuall deceipts their diuelish artes to execute their malice not forbearing clan destine murthers amongst neerest kinsfolkes and their filthie trade of Purgatory founded vpon Indulgences of these abhominable vilanies To come to the third concupiscence which is pride of life VVas there euer a pride like vnto this pride a company of pretended Priests to sit at Rome and presume to subiect to them