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cause_n	believe_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	16	3	8.5754	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91834	Albania or, Certaine concernments of Great Britanny. With an explication of the present state thereof; truely represented under the faigned person of Albania. / By George Raleigh.	Raleigh, George, b. 1600?	1641 (1641)	Wing R150; Thomason E179_16; ESTC R7782	47,700	65

his imagination and well suspected never to have beene more than by the fabulous report of foolish Legends which are commonly repeated in the Sermons of the Fryers to withdraw the memories and minds of their hearers from the love of the sacred Oracles But to heare what blasphemies and absurdities are contained therein any modest eare would blush and the Reader that made conscience of truth would be altogether ashamed But why stir I this filthy puddle what doth not this pretended undertaker to manage all things in heaven earth presume He can make of a creature a God as of bread in the Sacrament of the Eucharist by the vertue of Transubstantiation Hee can make God as a creature by turning the glory of God into the similitude of a corruptible creature This Agnoa is thy holy Father so omnipotent and so rare a wonder worker And I am not so much ashamed of thy grosse ignorance that may well be called the mother of such devotion but of great Potentates and worldly wise politicians so well do carnall doctrines agree with great wealth and projects that love to be blindfolded and stumble in the darke in such a Sunshine of the Gospell and light of the truth as shines round about them and yet they as that silly old woman in Seneca though she were stark blind would not be perswaded that shee could see nothing was caused onely by the darknesse of the roome and no defect of her eye-sight will make no question but that they only are in the right and will maintaine the infallibility of their supreme guider and defend with tooth and naile lies and wonders treasons and murders by clipping of Orthodoxe truths with an Index expurgato●ius or harsh censure and clapping in forged inventions and manifest falshoods into many of those learned Authors workes and treasure them up in the Archives of their Babylonish Vatican that according to the beleefe and after the manner of their forefathers they as the true Catholiques of Verana are onely within the pales of the Church and that all such as are otherwise minded are capitall heretiques and worthy by sword and fire to be rooted out from the face of the earth and the society of mankind But thankes be to the Almighty that takes our part so that rage how they will wee shall never be left wholly to their power although for our sinnes they may prove sometimes as the Canaanites to the children of Israel in those times thornes to our sides It shall be for a tryall to bring us to repentance and cause us to sticke more neere unto our God whom whilst wee onely serve will against all enemies tempopall or spirituall mightily defend us but those which in this manner strive against him are worthy in my judgement I am not so uncharitable to have them drowned and so to perish body and soule to be set up to the chin in the mad mans poole till they come to see their folly and be capable of some recovery and thus Agnoa said thee must you be dealt with if you meane to stay here or shortly resolve to recant your errours without delay and declare your mind plainly without any equivocation or mentall reservation Agnoa who was as it seemes of a very flexible disposition and somewhat easie to be wrought upon as having neither Sophistry nor subtill distinctions to set a faire colour upon a foule matter nor impudencie flatly to deny or contradict those apparent truths which Aletheia had delivered and being out of the sight and advise of any Erra Pater that might disswade her promised to be ruled by their counsell When Astene one of Albania's faithfull servants and that was very carefull of her Mistresses welfare and guilty of nothing so much if tendernesse of conscience in things indifferent be an errour as of too nice restraint of Christian liberty when she saw that Agnoa whose breeding and condition did so much differ from hers was like to be admitted for a fellow servant she could not brooke it upon any termes and was about in a passionate way to shew some tokens of her displeasure but that Aletheia who well knew her nature perceiving and much misliking by the way of prevention first began Astene said shee you need not be so much troubled as by your countenance appeares in that we have condescended to the request of Agnoa wherein wee do neither approve nor meane to beare with her ignorance and errour but hoping some good may be wrought upon her by reclaiming her from her wrong opinion and instructing her in the knowledge of the truth I am sure you cannot be so much her enemy as to begrudge her the one nor so uncharitable as not to joyne your helping hand with ours in the other Let not her simplenesse cause in you either disdaine or contempt and consider that no one can presume to know so much but that there is a great deale more to learne neither need you be ashamed in somethings to be better informed I confesse you are very zealous in your profession and I beleeve without dissimulation and there cannot be too much zeale in matters that concerne immediately the glory of God but in some causes zeale must be moderated with discretion when a circumstance may be used or not and the worship of God no wayes lessened or the more furthered thereby in which respect Obedience is better than Sacrifice Beare you with Agnoa's infirmities as those which are stronger beare with your weaknesses Consider we hate no ones person but their ill qualities and we judge 〈◊〉 to be so bad as to deny him our prayers and endeavours for his amendment His obstinacie when there is occasion shall not diminish our charity Wee do not detest Idolana so much as not to desire or be glad of her reformation in Doctrine and Manners We depart only from her corruptions as she is departed from the purer times and Primitive Doctors We goe no further from the falshood of her traditions but as wee may come neerer to the truth of Gods Word I wish her Doctrine were as consonant unto ours as ours is to the Scriptures and so agreeing with Us in Ceremonies as we are different from it in superstitions Wee do not any good we do the more as in opposition to her but because it is commanded and do not take the contrary of her actions to be the best rule to square our devotions Wherein shee erres not from the truth wee may not dissent from her Who would hate the good conditions of any man for the rest of the bad qualities in him Who would fast the rather or eate f●sh onely upon Fridaies if the Papist should eate nothing but flesh that day or who would make invitations the sooner upon those dayes designed by our adversaries to abstinence Or what Minister of the Gospell would be the lesse scrupulous to say his Service in white if he did know a Priest of Idolana without Cope or other like Vestment to say

hee you that are so precise and such a Puritan have you nothing to say in the defence of your owne cause and yet presume to be an instructer of others But when Aletheia perceived that Astene was much abashed at his reproofe and that hee triumphed upon her weaknesse not for any love to the truth but the more to bolster up his owne loosnesse Fie Neophytes said shee I am ashamed that a man of your profession and parts should be thus light in your actions and uncircumspect in your speeches I see you do not consider the dignity of your calling nor the duty of your charge the one doth require more gravity in your carriage the other more charity in your words Ministers cannot be too cautious in their speeches and should be as children and lambes without offence A jest or scurrilous word towards the meanest of your brethren should be as farre from your tongues as malice from your heart It is more uncouth said one well to see a Minister wanton or light in discourse or behaviour than it was for Socrates to ride upon a sticke with children or for old grave Cato to learne to fiddle If Astene have offended and her offence is the more pardonable because not wilfull it should be your part to pity her weaknesse not to make sport of it and seeke to informe her judgement better by mild and loving admonitions rather than to grieve her or make her any way contemptible by your scorne But why tell I these things to you that know them so well and teach them to others But here Agnoa who all this while had beene very attentive to what was spoken could be no longer silent The truth is said shee the common report is such in Idolana that the Preachers in Verana have as many Beliefes as Sects and almost as many Sects as heads so that every yeare they coyne some new point of Doctrine and their Ministers which are the setters abroach and teachers thereof do least of all beleeve what they teach for the most part are so licentious in their lives and given to their ease and liberty that it cannot be thought that they thinke that to be true in their hearts which they speake with their tongues And this is the cause that many in Idolana are deterred from consenting with you in opinion or of joyning with you in practise Stay Agnoa not too fast said Aletheia the worst spoake in the wheele creakes first you are too credulous of reports as of other your superstitions and where you have the least hint of any thing to worke upon you will make of mole hils mountaines I cannot excuse the courses nor conditions of many in Verana that by the manner of their living lay themselves open to censure and scandall There is no Pomegranate wherein there may not be some graines rotten but what is this to the sound fruit But if you will be impartiall and looke upon the manners of the Priests and fraternities of most orders in Idolana you shall find them farre to transcend in number and nature the worst of ours and in some sort to justifie their actions but the corruption of manners that they say and do not doth not proceed from the purity of Doctrine in any professours nor the more prove it I speake not this to extenuate the faults of our Ministers or to aggravate those of the Priests in Idolana Where there is corn there will be some tares in all fields and for the diversity of Sects that are imputed to the disgrace of Verana whilst our differences are about matters of circumstance and not of substance let the scandall returne from whence it came and Idolana keepe it home to her selfe whilst her Doctrines are as many as her errours and her errours so many that it would require more time than I meane to afford in counting the least part of them But Neophytes said shee I would neverthelesse have you to be very carefull of your wayes to be in no wise Cynicall or surly in your carriage towards the meanest that you give no just cause to the enemy to speake ill of the truth by meanes of your conversation Nor you Astene to wrangle so much about a ceremony that the Doctrine be ill spoken of by your wilfull opposition And I would have both preferre the Glory of God and the generall good of the Church before any private pleasure or respects and so farre condescend to comply with each others weaknesse as God be not dishonoured nor the parcell of truth betrayed to the obloquy of the common enemy And thinke not Neophytes that I usurpe this liberty of speech to disparage your worth or calling I know it is the most honourable of all others and they that imploy themselves diligently therein are worthy of double honour You are if rightly qualified the Embassadours of the most High God and King of Kings and cannot be ignorant what care and circumspection there is required of Embassadors in their words and behaviour lest they be disrespected for the one and their judgement questioned for the other You are termed the Lights of the Word and your light must not be hidden under a bushel but so shine before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie your heavenly Father Your light must be cleere as burning for the candle must be set on a candlesticke and not have too much snuffe in it You are called the salt of the earth and therefore ought to be seasoned with ability of knowledge to teach with holinesse of life to give example that you may be profitable to the Church both by Doctrine and Conversation You are named Shepheards to lead your flocke in the right way and to feed them in the best pastures You are Gods husbandmen to dresse his vineyard to worke in his harvest the harvest is great the labourers are few your time is but short your diligence must be the more in your study in the Church in visiting the sicke and in all other practises of Piety and Charity that come within the compasse and verge of your charge But beware especially of Covetousnesse and seeke more the gaine of your peoples soules to God than of their goods to your selves If they be forgetfull of their duties be not you therefore of yours Be not transported with passion and no unseemly or uncharitable surmises in your Doctrine nor consume your precious time in invectives against the persons of any or in disquisition of impertinent truthes new opinions schoole querkes or needlesse controversies but let the end of your calling alwaies have the chiefe place in your thoughts and endeavours And when you are in the Pulpit you must have a grounded assurance for what you deliver I would have you strive to speake to the understanding of the Auditory rather than to shew the strength of your understanding to deliver such matter as may be more for their edification than your owne applause may more benefit the heart than fancie the