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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00505	A discouery of the great subtiltie and wonderful wisedome of the Italians whereby they beare sway ouer the most part of Christendome, and cunninglie behaue themselues to fetch the quintescence out of the peoples purses: discoursing at large the meanes, howe they prosecute and continue the same: and last of all, conuenient remedies to preuent all their pollicies herein.; Traité de la grande prudence et subtilité des Italiens. English	G. B. A. F.	1591 (1591)	STC 10638; ESTC S101803	74,257	108

because it most consisteth in visible things to be beholded with these our bodily eyes as are sumptuous and goodly Temples glistering with costly glasse windowes triumphantinges liuely pictures images exquisitely carued forth most precious clothes of Arras Chalices Crosses of the finest Ducket gold height of Piramides Copes of crimsin veluet others of cloth of gold and siluer which are thinges most pleasant to the eies to behold And to delight the hearing with songs of Mnsicke noyse of Organs and sound of Belles al these things are delectable in déed and haue some shew of humane wisdom for all that haue they not God for any Authour neither did Iesus Christ nor his Apostles euer institute or occupie the like rather they taught vs to despise the world and all that is therein to aspire vp to heauen instructing vs to renounce our selues and all the lustes of the flesh to do the holie and perfect will of God to take vp our Crosse and wade thorow many tribulations into the glorie of God And this cannot we abide we must haue a religion which wil helpe to augment our dignities and earthly riches that we may liue here in all voluptuousnes and securitie And because the Gospell taken in his puritie is quite contrarie to that there is nothing in the earth that this nation hateth more then to heare speake thereof farre preferring a worldly felicitie present which by no meanes they will forgo vpon hope of any eternall absent and hidden ioyes which are to come Cap. 14. A comparison of the diuine seruice inuented by the Italians with the counsell of some subtill Phisition HE that would thorowly examine the forme of Religion planted by the Italians by the authoritie of their soueraigne high Priest shall finde all these things afore truely obserued amongst them So that flying therby with wings swifter and stronger then the wings of any Engle they are able to beate downe to the ground those that are so sawcie as to withstand in any thing or gainsay in any wise the formes of their seruices which they haue introduced to fetch vnder their subiection the greatest Potentates of the earth and to draw thereby deniers and reuenues from them imitating herein some craftie Phisition who preferring a good bootie of siluer before the health of the sicke patient will learne what meate and drinke pleaseth best his appetite and hauing found that he loueth claret wine aboue all things and sugar to make it haue a daintie taste which he taketh imagine that he goe visit the patient who will straight begin to tell him how he can get no recouerie of his sicknes albeit he hath vsed much blood letting taken many pilles and other phisicke which hath brought him verie low and put him to much paine this same impudent Phisition that tell him that all that serued but to weaken him to take away his stomacke and by mouing a question to the sicke patient shall aske him if he loue not well good claret wine He answering with all his heart this Phisition shall reply that he will warrant him to recouer his health againe if hée leaue taking these hard medicines and those pilles so bitter in swallowing and to get some daintie wine of most delicious taste if he should send his man ten miles for some to haue alwaies at the least thrée or foure good bottles in his Celler in store And bid him besides least the vapours should sume too much to intoxicate his head to take Coriander comfits at the end of his repast assure him that this wil make him more lustie againe then all the phisicke in the world I let you iudge with what audacitie the sicke shall dare to imbrace this counsell But if it chaunce after he hath béen verie ill and his sicknes begin to grow away he come to recouer straight here vpon how will he honour this Phisition he shall neuer be able sufficiently to set foorth his praise But in the seruice of God it is otherwise we must eate the bread of affliction and sorrow drinke the water of bitternes which are verie bitter and loathsome drugs to swallow as things much offending our taste whereas in the seruice inuented by the Italians there is nothing but y t which is verie pleasant to our humane senses and which doth verie well agrée with our carnall nature and therefore do ignorant men imbrace with a most ardent desire all that they inuent which when they haue once receiued is hard to be rooted out of them because their eye sight is not quicke inough to discouer the marke whereat they shoote which is only to beare rule and to share and make boote of the money which they get from them Cap. 15. That they care not at Rome for any diuersitie of Religions so they tend only to maintaine their Domination THis is most manifest for if any man inuent any new form of religion neuer knowne before in the world apparelling himselfe after a straunge fashion neuer séene before vsing iestures altogither rediculous and foolish liuing after a most austere to cruell and brutish maner as do the Capuchians Fucillians and such like foolish orders of Friars all shall be approued and receiued by the Italians with great plaudities so that such religions will serue them for a wall and defence for their kingdome and gaine but if any one appeare or come neare them that dare speake against such abuses and touch them to the quicke a litle leaning vpon the pillar of that doctrine which hath béen giuen from the terrestriall Paradice they will shake a heauen and earth and remoue all a world to stop his mouth and kill him with great exclamations that he went about to sow new doctrines and begin some new sect of religion whereby we may cléerely sée that vnder this cloake of religion they do but aspire to be rulers and to finger mony from other peoples and nations and that all the warres and ciuill broyles which haue so long troubled Germany Swicerland all Flanders and France haue byn broched and begun by them for such matters albeit those who had the conduct thereof enterprised them for the zeale they bore to their owne religion Cap. 16. That the Romanes are not contented to staie themselues with that which is spirituall but would also dispose the kingdomes of the earth at their pleasure THat the Italians shoote at this marke also I bring euident proofe that when they had set their matters in so good forwardnes that the Emperour and the other Christian kings had graunted this title of soueraigne high Priest and vniuersall Bishop to their Prelate of Rome for to be a greater staie and pillar of the Christian Church and to kéepe the other Bishops and Pastours in better order and within the compasse of their dutie they are not content to rest with that passe further and cause to preach and publish by word and writing that their Bishop is Christes onely Lieftenant on earth to whom all Scepters and

being so much followed by studentes take no hire of them that heare them contenting themselues only with the gaine of their pensioners They hold opinion that the Bishop of Rome is aboue the Consuls by this meane altogither ouerthrowing the authoritie thereof As for their Disciples they tie them so fast by the héeles with the cords of the Italian superstitions that they put them in such feare that they tremble againe if they transgresse the least of them neuer so litle and the more easily to strike this feare into their hearts they robbe the tender youth of all iudgement and vse of reason For to iudge truly of anie question in controuersie we must diligently heare and weigh the reasons on both sides all affection laide apart These on the contrarie hauing brought their Disciples to belieue in the Catholike and Romane Church they conclude thus thereupon that they stop their hearing and giue none eare to any one who soeuer dare speake against the Popes authoritie nor against the ceremonies which he hath instituted nor dare once so much as to reade any booke which may call them in doubt as not altogither necessary to saluation and that he which feareth the plague ought to flie from such places persons which are infected so they before all thinges must take héede not to heare any nor receiue any bookes which may go about to remoue them from their opinion in one iote These are their propper foundations and grounds whereby they do not onely depriue their Disciples of all iudgement but also of the vse of all their natural sences wherwith God hath indued man to make choice of things and to know how to put a difference betwéen good and bad by this meanes they make them not onely dull spirited but altogither as brutish beasts in heauenly and diuine things fighting directly against the instruction of S. Paul who teacheth vs to proue all things praising in this place of scripture the diligence of those that did examine the Prophecies to know if Christ were the true Messias And whereas the Prophets did not cease to exclaime against the abuse of the Sacrificators and Priests of the olde law S. Iohn Baptist in like maner Christ also the soueraigne Prophet the Apostles who euer cried out against the false pastors And S. Augustin complaining of the multitude of ceremonies which were entred into the Church at his time and besides we haue séene heretofore many Bishops Doctors and Pastors do the same in contemning the greatest part of them These on the other side hold all good and maintaine them not onely ouer aboue the word of God but further thē this beside y e word of God By reason wherof if the Catholikes looke not about them to bestir themselues otherwise then they haue done since the entrance creation of these Iesuites to shake off the yoke of the Italian Domination it will soone be restablished in the highest degrées of soueraintie that euer was since it began And there shal be neither King nor Prince be he neuer so strong nor mightie but the Romans will make him tremble at one winke of their eye and will put them in as bad feare as the poore Israelites were at the publication of the Law when they shall threaten them with the thundrings lightnings of their Romish excommunications to discharge all their subiects of the oath of their loyaltie to inuest others with their kingdomes and principalities so that the Italians shall triumph ouer them as they did ouer the Duke of Venice trailing him with a cord about his neck for his disobedience to their Romish Bishop Cap. 32. A brief refutation of the Iesuites BVt whosoeuer would not make himselfe obstinat against his owne good and saluation might easily helpe himselfe out of these Iesuits halters setting before his eyes how that they alledge things contrary to that which they professe cause to be executed indéed For this is the summe of their Doctrins that euery one most firmly abide in his owne Religion without hearing any thing to the contrary and neuerthelesse they haue enflamed the Spanyards to kill thousands and Millions of the new world because they would not change there Religion to embrace another And as it is proper to shifters deceauers and those that haue not loyall Marchandises to deale in secret asmuch as they can and closely to couer there action to sell there ware in darke places to th ende to kéepe the truth of the matter hidden lest their abuse should bée discouered so theise which feare so much the examination of their Doctryne conuince themselues that it is not sownde nor allowable Whereas that man that séeketh but the glorie of God withont any respect of any Domination or wordly profit will take singular pleasure séeing his Doctrine examined by the worde of God and with the workes that he hath created and likewise be delighted to maintayne and defend it against whosoeuer would dispute to the contrarie For all this this would neuer the Church of Rome permit her pollocie is so great herein albeit Italy is replenished with a great number of verie learned men and great Schollers as well in Philosophy as in any of the lawes and very desirus to maintayne any dispute against heretikes as the tearme them who are so themselues to giue them their right title and definition and against all those that goe about to diminish or speake against there kingdome and gaines for that the repute not others for such For the are not so grosse witted as the Almons who dispute about the Consubstantiation and Infinity of the bodie of Christ against the confession of the Switzers and Frenchmen without hope of any profit or Domination to bee gotten thereby But the Italian smelling out any profit or gaine in that which is propounded he will agrée to all and repugne onely in that whereby he thinketh to receaue any dommage Which is a most cleare and manifest proof that there is nothing but worldly wisedome in all that he pretendeth and goeth about Cap. 33. The councell of Rome is like to certaine Petifogging layers who will not consent to haue there causes disputed and heard in open audience TO make this more apparent we must note that when the councel of Rome wil neuer accord to haue there cause defended in any open audience against there aduersaries what other thing thereby may be inferred but that they secretly yéeld that there cause is scant good for the are not so grosse witted nor so much blinded as the Iesuistes Schollers of whome I speake euen now but as crafty Layers of good meanes and habilityes finding there low matters like to goe against them prolong the indgement and curry fauour with the Iudges as much as the can yet séeing the plantifes sue them hard they will labour tooth and nayle to referre there cause to those of the counsell hoping by fauour and instance of them they may soner win there processe then in any open audience