great Patron Philip the second King of Spaine called them Clerigos negotiadores and that Marcus Antonius Columna Generall of the Nauie to Pius quintus in the battell of Lepanto and Viceroy of Sicilie could say to Father Don Alonso a famous â—esuite affecting to be of the counsell of his conscience Voi altri padri di â—hâ—su â—auete la mente al cielo le mani al mondo l' anima al diauolo Sect. 16. Yet were there the lesse perill of their vehemence if it were onely rude and boisterous as in some other sects that so as it is in Canonâ—shot it might be more easily shun'd then reâ—â—sted but here the skill of doing misâ—hiefe contends with the power their mis-zealous passions hide themselues in a pleasing sweetnesse and they are more beholden to policie then strength What Gentleman of any note can crosse our Seas whose name is not landed in their bookes before hand in preuention of his person whom now arriued if they finde vntractable through too much preiudice they labour â—irst to temper with the plausible conâ—â—rsation of some smooth Catholike of his owne nation the name of his Country is warrant enough for his inâ—inuation Not a word yet may be spoken of religion as if that were no part of the errand So haue wee seene an Haâ—ke cast off at an Heron Shaw to looke and flie a quite other way and after many carelesse and ouerly fetches to towre vp vnto the prâ—y intended There is nothing wherein this faire companion shall not apply himselfe to his welcome Countriman At last when hee hath possest himselfe of the heart of his new acquaintance and got himselfe the reputation of a sweet ingenuitie and delightfull sociablenesse hee findes opportunities to bestow some wittie scoffes vpon those parts of our religion which lie most open to aduantage And now it is time to inuite him after other rarities to see the Monasterie of our English Benedictines or if elsewhere those English Colledges which the deuout beneficence of our well-meaning neighbours with no other intention then some couetous farmers lay faltcaâ—s in their doue-cotes haue bountifully erected There it is a wonder if our Traueller meet not with some one that shall claime kindred or Country of him in a more intire fashion The societie welcomes him with more then ordinary courtesie neither can hee refuse except hee will be vnciuill to be their guest He cannot mislike the loue of his Countrimen hee cannot fault their carriage And now that they haue mollified the stiffenesse of his preiudice and with much tempering fitted him for their mold he is a taske meet for one of their best workmen who willingly vndertaking it hath learned to handle him so sweetly as if he would haue him thinke it a pleasure to bee seduced Doe yee thinke this Doctor will begin first with the infallibilitie of their great Master and perswade him that a Necromancer an Hereticke an Atheist cannot erre in Peters Chaire or tell him that hee may buy off his sinnes as familiarly as he may buy wares in the market or teach him that a man may and must both make and eat his God to his breakfast This hard meat is for stronger mawes Hee knowes how first to begin with the spoone and to offer nothing to a weake stomacke but discourse of easie digestion As first that a Caâ—holike so lâ—uing and dying by our confession may be saued That there is but one Church as but one Christ and that out of this Arke there is no way but drowning That this one Church is more likely to bee found in all the world then in a corner in all ages then in the last Century of yeeres in vnitie then in diuision And now comes in the glorious bragge of the Roman Vniuersalitie their inviolate Antiquitie their recorded successions their harmonious vnitie their confessed magnificence That theirs is the mother Church as to the rest of Christendome so especially to the English How well a Monarchie the best forme of gouernment beseemes the Church How vnlikely it is that Christ would leaue his Spouse in the confusion of many heads or of none And now what are wee but a ragge torne from their cote and where was our religion before Luther lay with Bora And what miserable subdiuisions are there in our Protestancie and what a gleaning are we to the haruest of Christendome wâ—th infinite suggestions of this nature able as they are plausibly vrgâ—d to shake an vngrounded iudgement which iâ— they haue so farre preuailed as that the hearer will abide himselfe hood-winkt with this vaile of the Church how easily shall time lead him into those hatefuller absardities Sect. 17. In all which proceedings these impostors haue a double aduantage First that they deliuer the opinion of their Church with such mitigation and fauour as those that care to please not to enforme forming the voyce of the Church to the liking of the hearer not the iudgâ—ment of the hearer to the voyce of the Church wherein it is not hard to obserue that Popery spoken and written are two things In discourse nothing is more ordinary then to disclaime some of their receiued positions to blanch others It is the malice of an aduersary that mis-reports them they doe not hold that images should bee adored that the wood of the crosse should be worshipped with the very same deuotion that is due to Christ himselfe that the Church is the Iudge of Gods writings that Panl the fift cannot erre that a man may merit of his maker much lesse supererogate that a mouse may runne away with that which either is or was God Almighty That it is lawfull to kill an hereticall King and all other those monsters of opinion which their most classicke Authors haue both hatched and shamelesly thrust into the light of the world They defie those ridiculous Legends which we father vpon their Church and how much doe they scorne S. Francis his Bird or his Wolfe or his Wounds or his Apostles of Assise Pope Ioane was but a fancy Neuer Pope was an hereticke If now wee cry out of impudence and call their allowed writers to witnesse Lo euen they also are forged by vs are taught to play booty on our side Thus resolued to out-face all euidence they make faire weather of their fowlest opinions and inueigh against nothing so much as the spightfulnesse of our slanders It is not possible that any wise stranger should be in loue with the face of their Church if he might see her in her owne likenesse and therfore they haue cunningly masked one part of it and painted another so as those features of hers which are vgly and offensiue shall not appeare to any but her owne eyes And because bookes are dangerous blabs and will be telling the generations to come how strangely that face is altered with Age and Art therefore their tongues are clipped also and made to speake none but her owne words Out of this licence and hope to winne
intelligence of this wrong only vpon others eyes as if a booke though of a Cardinall were too meane an obiect for the view of Maiesty and as all subordinate greatnes flowes from the head so doe commonly also the dispositions Neither haue the Doctours of the Romish Church vpon whom the implicit faith of the Laitie is suspended found it any ill policie to cherish this dislike of bookishnesse in the great for whiles the candle is out it is safe for them to play their trickes in the darke and if the Assyrians be once blinded how easily may they bee led into the midst of any Samarâ—a If the light of knowledge might freely â—hine to the world Poperie would soone bee ashamed of it selfe and vanish amongst the workes of darknesse Now how well these examples and this conuersation shall whet the appetite vnto good studies it cannot be hard to iudge Sect. 11. But perhaps it is not the learning of the schoole but of the State wherein our Traueller hopes for perfection The site and forme of cities the fashions of gouernment the manners of people the raising and rate of forraine reuenues the deportment of Courts the menaging both of warre and peace is that wherein his owne eye shall be his best intelligencer The knowledge whereoâ— shall wâ—ll requite his labour whether for discourse or for vse What if I say that saue the soothing vp of our fancy in all this these lessons may bee as well taken out at home I haue knowen some that haue trauelled no further then their owne closet which could both teach and correct the greatest Traueller after all his tedious and costly pererrations what doe wee but lose the benefit of so many iournals maps hystoricall descriptions relations if we cannot with these helps trauell by our owne fire-side Hee that trauels into forraine countries talkes perhaps with a Peasant or a Pilgrim or a Citizen or a Courtier and must needs take such information as partiall rumour or weake coniecture can giue him but hee that trauels into learned and credible Authors talkes with them who haue spent themselues in bolting out the truth of all passages and who hauing made their labours publike would haue beene like to heare of it if they had mis-reported The ordinary Traueller propounds some prime Cities to himselfe and thither hee walkes right forward if he meet with ought that is memorable in the way hee takes it vp but how many thousand matters of note fall beside him on either hand of the knowledge whereof he is not guilty Whereas â—ome graue and painefull Author hath collected into one view whatsoeuer his country affords worthy of marke hauing measured many a fowle step for that which we may see dry-shod and worne out many yeeres in the search of that which one houre shall make no lesse ours then it was his owne To which must be added that our vnperfit acquaintance may not hope to finde so perfect information on the sudden as a naturall inhabitant may get by the disquisition of his whole life Let an Italian or French passenger walk through this our Iland what can his Table-bookes carry home in comparison of the learned Britaine of our Camden or the accurate Tables of Speed Or if one of ours should as too many doe passe the Alpes what pittances can his wilde iourney obserue in comparison of the Itenerary of Fr. Schottus and Capugnanus Or he that would discourse of the Royalties of the French Lillies how can hee bee so furnished by flying report as by the elaborate gatherings of Cassaneus or of Degrassalius What should I bee infinite This age is so full of light that there is no one country of the habitable world whose beames are not crossed and interchanged with other Knowledge of all affaires is like musicke in the streets whereof those may partake which pay nothing Wee doe not lie more open to one common snnne then to the eyes and pens of our neighbours Euen China itselfe and Iaponia and those other remotest Isles continents which haue taken the strictest order for closenesse haue receiued such discoueries as would rather satisfie a Reader then prouoke him to amend them A good booke is at once the best companion and guide and way and end of our iourney Necessity droue our forefathers out of doores which else in those misty times had seene no light we may with more ease and no lesse profit sit still and inherit and enioy the labours of them our elder brethen who haue purchased our knowledge with much hazard time toile expence and haue beene liberall of their bloud some of them to leaue vs rich Sect. 12. As for that verball discourse wherein I see some place the felicity of their trauell thinking it the onely grace to tell wonders to a ring of admiring ignorants it is easie to answer that table-talk is the least care of a wise man who like a deepe streame desires rather to runne silent and as himselfe is seldome transported with wonder so doth he not affect it in others reducing all to vse rather then admiration and more desiring to benefit then astonish the hearer withall that the same means which enable vs to know dâ— at oâ—ce furnish vs with matter of disâ—ourse for the forme of our expression if it proceede not from that naturall dexterity which we carry with vs in vaine shall wee hope to bring it home the change of language is rather an hinderance to our former readinesse and if some haue fetcht new noses and lips and eares from Italy by the helpe of Tagliacotius his schollers neuer any brought a new tongue from thence â—o conclude if a man would giue himselfe leaue to bee thus vaine and free like a mill without a scluse let him but trauell through the world of bookes he shall easily be able to out-talke that tongue whose feet haue walkt the furthest what â—ath any eye seene or imagination deuised which the pen hath not dared to write Out of our bookes can we tell the stories of the Monocelli who lying vpon their backes shelter themselues from the sunne with the shadow of their one only foot We can tell of those cheape-dieted men that liue about the head of Ganges without meaâ— without mouthes feeding onely vpon aire at their nosthrils Or of those headlesse Easterne people that haue their eyes in their breasts a mis-conceit arising from their fashion of attire which I haue sometimes seene Or of those Coromandâ—e of whom Pliny speaks that couer their whole body with their eares Or of the persecutors of S. Thomaâ— of Canterbury whose posteritie if wee beleeue the conâ—ident writings of Degraâ—â—alius are borne with long and hairie tailes souping after them which I imagine gaue occasion to that prouerbiall iest wherewith our mirth vses to vpbraid the Kentish Or of Amâ—zons or Pygmeâ—s or Satyres or the Samarcaudean Lambe which growing out of the earth by the nauell grazeth so â—arâ—e as that naturalâ—â—â—ther will reach Or
of Trauell are euer limited But what are wee the better for Gods owne lawes without execution Or what are limits vnto the lawlesse Good lawes are the hedges of the Common-wealth iust dispensations are as gates or stiles in the hedge If euery stragler may at pleasure cast open a gap in this fence of the State what are we the better for this quickset then if wee lay open to the common Who sees not how familiarly our young Recusants immediately vpon their disclosing are sent ouer for their full hatching and making Italie Spaine Artois and now of late France it selfe prouides nests and perches and mewes for these birds with the same confidence wherewith wee breede our owne at home which when they are once well acquainted with the Roman lure are sent backe againe fit for the prey And as for those of our owne feather whereas the libertie of their Trauell is bounded chiefly with this double charge one that they haue no conuersation or conference with Iesuites or other dangerous persons the other that they passe not into the dominions of the Kings enemies both these are so â—ommonly neglected as if they were intended only for a verball formalitie yea as if the prohibition meant to teach men what they should doe Euery of our nouices hath learned to make no difference of men and dare breathe in the poisonous aire of Italie it selfe and touch the very pommell of the chaire of pestilence It is this licentious freedome which wee mis-call open-hearted ingenuitie that vndoes vs. Doe wee not see the wary closenesse of our Aduersaries which will not so much as abide one of our books a mute solicitor to harbour in any of their coasts How many of the Italian or Spanish Noblesse haue wee knowne allowed to venture their education in our Courts or Vniuersities Doe they lie thus at the locke and doe wee open our breast and display our armes and bid an enemie strike vs where hee list Since then wee haue no more wit or care then â—o bee willingly guiltie of our owne shame oh that the hands of supreme authoritie would be pleased to locke vs within our owne doores and to keepe the keyes at their owne girdle And to speake truth to what purpose are those strait and capitall inhibitions of the returne of our factious fugitiues into thâ—s Kingdome if whiles the wicket is shut vpon them that they should not come to vs the posterne be open to vs that we may goe to them As all intercourse is perillous so that is most which is by our owne prouocation Here yet they dare but lurke in secret and take only some sudden snatches at a weake prey like vnto euening-wolues that neuer walke forth but vnder the cloake of the night but in their owne territories they can shew the sunne their spoiles and thinke this act worthy of garlands and trophees Here we haue mastiues to secure our flockes there the prey goes stragling alone to the mouth of their dennes without protection without assistance and offers to be deuoured Ye whom the choice of God hath made the great Shepheards of his people whose charge it is to feed them by gouernment suffer not their simplicitie to betray their liues vnto the fangs of these cruell beasts but chase them home rather from the wilfull search of their owne perdition and shut them vp together in your strong and spacious folds that they may be at once safe and yee glorious Sect. 24. Lastly for those whom necessary occasions draw forth of their owne coasts that wee may haue done with those which like foolish Papists goe on pilgrimage to see another blocke better dressed then that at home let mee say to them as Simeon that propheticall Monke said to the pillers which hee whipped before the Earth-quake Stand fast for yee shall be shaken And therefore as the Crane when shee is to flie against an high winde doth ballace her selfe with stones in her bill that shee may cut the aire with more steddinesse so let them carefully fore-instruct and poise themselues with the sound knowledge of the principles of religion that they may not bee carried about with euery winde of doctrine Whereto if they adde but those lessons which they are taught by the State in their letters of passage there may be hope they shall bring backe the same soules they carried It was at least an inclination to a fall that Eue tooke boldnesse to hold chat with the Serpent And as subtill Lawyers desire no more aduantage in the quarrell which they would picke at conueyances then many words so neither doe our Aduersaries Whiles our eares are open and our tongues free they will hope well of our very denials Errour is craâ—tie and out of the power of his Rhetoricall insinuations oft-times carries away probabilitie from truth I remember in that famous Embassie of the three Philosophers which Athens sent to Rome Critolaus Diogenes and Carneades there falling out many occasions of discourse wise Cato perswaded the Senate to a speedie dismission of those otherwise welcome guests because said hee whiles Carneades disputes scarce any man can diâ—cerne which is the truth There is more danger of these spirituall Sophisters by how much the businesse is more important and their subtiltie greater Let our passenger therefore as that wise Grecian serued his fellowes stop vp his eares with waxe against these Syrens Our Sauiour would not giue Satan audience euen whiles hee spake true because hee knew that truth was but to countenance errour There is euer true corne strowed vnder a pit-fall those cares are full and weightie which wee dresse with lime to deceiue the poore birds in a snow No fisher lets downe an emptie hooke but clothed with a proper and pleasing bait These impostors haue no other errand but deceit If he loue himselfe let him bee afraid of their fauours and thinke their frownes safer then their smiles And if at any time as no flie is more importunate they thrust themselues into his conuersation let him as those which must necessarily passe by a carrion in the way hold his breath and hasten to be out of their aire And if they yet follow him in his flight let him turne backe to them with the Angels farewell Increpet te Dominus FINIS Edicto del â—ey Dâ—n Phelippedâ— Espana coâ—tra el Trâ—ct adâ— della Monâ—râ—â—ia dâ— Sâ—cilâ—a eâ—xeridâ— por Cesar Baronio Cardenal on el Tâ—mo vndecimâ— de 〈◊〉 Annales Ecclâ—siâ—sticâ—s â—â—bert Pâ—intâ— in his preâ—ace to the tâ—stimonies for the râ—all presence 2 Chron. 24. 〈◊〉 â—n Iâ—sâ—am l. â— c. 〈◊〉 q. 19. Gretâ—er contra Leâ—â—â—eum c. â— 2. V râ— aiâ— quida◠〈◊〉 Iesuâ—taâ—â—n sâ—cris lâ—â—â—ris â—â—pâ—riri Exemplar Epist Scriptae ad Dâ—minum Paulinum quondam datarium sub Ciementis 8â— beatâ— mâ—moriâ— Pontiâ—â—catâ— Ibid. Ibid. Lib. 4. de salut Ind. c. 12. c. Examplar â—piâ—t supr cit At etiam nuâ—â— non animaduertimus quod Latiâ—â— sermonis obâ—â—nâ—â— impurissimè Gallici inuentutis mores ingenuos foedant bonarum literarum praeteâ—t â—pessimas edocent artes dum ingenia excolunt animas perdunt c. Oratio ad Curiam Parlamenti super Henrici magni parricidali nâ—ce