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cause_n	blood_n	open_v	vein_n	1,697	5	10.0344	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90668	St Paul's late progres upon earth, about a divorce 'twixt Christ and the Church of Rome, by reason of her dissolutenes and excesses. With the causes of these present commotions 'twixt the Pope, and the princes of Italy. A new way of invention agreeable to the times. Published by James Howell, Armig.; Divortio celeste. English.	Pallavicino, Ferrante, 1615-1644.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1644 (1644)	Wing P212; Thomason E1174_2; ESTC R203120	41,006	172

so ardent towards the Church of Rome thy Spouse to go cooling within thy heart Were it fitting for the Deity to wonder I would without doubt much wonder at so great an alteration in the person of the Eternall Word I know well 't was he who for the love of his Spouse went under a servile shape as far as upon the Crosse to expose his life to gaine valuable merits to purchase her affections 'T was he I say who lov'd before he was belov'd who dyed not for any other greater necessity than to make it appeare that he was a Lover Is it possible then that that love being turn'd to dislike he should now live discontented with a Spouse obtained by his own bloud and got by so many Martyrs I deny not O Son that the time was when the Divine Iustice exhorted you never to turne your eyes of love upon the ingratefull nature of man who was introduc'd to the world with contempt of his Creator But since thy love prevail'd over the rigor of just revenge since for the accomplishment of thy benigne desire the Divine providence decreed a reconciliation What new reason doth now estrange from her thy affection and disquiets all Heaven with this alienation Remember O Son the contentment of this Empyrean Heaven when the Roman Church being advanced to be thy Bride ther sprung dayly such a numerous and blessed off spring out of those reciprocall Embraces betwixt you that I hoped to see Heaven peopled in a short space and the end of humane Creation fulfill'd But now what is become of that happy time that time when thy Beloved vying with thee for love did correspond dayly with the death thou didst undergoe for her and by the suffrance of so many thousand innocent Martyrs who in counterchange of thy bloud did continually expose their veins to be opened and pierc'd by the merciles instruments of tyrants Son I patronize not her cause I recount not her merits pass'd to sweeten thereby the bitternes of this present distast But it is very true that if any ill Spirit daring per adventure to tempt the Deity it self hath sowed any tares amongst you I should be sorry that once so delightful a Spouse lying now under the cloud of a sudden disdain should by this repudiation find her bed widdowed and her womb barren This would tend too much to the prejudice of peopling this Heaven with equall advantage to Hell it's Enemy And if this be what fruit can thy passions pass'd produce This this in conclusion is that Spouse for whom thou didst make no reckoning of this Empyrean of the decorum belonging to thy Divinity of life it self What conceits will people frame to themselves to see thee so repenting Forget not O Son that it becomes not the Deity to repent SECT. II. The Eternall Word answers the Father He unfolds in generall the cause of his disgust with the Roman Spouse and pleads for a Divorce REpentance O Everlasting Father entered into this Heaven ever since the time that thy Majesty having granted a being to man he was necessitated afterwards to be destroyed for his wickednes And so this creature proving so ungratefull for Divine favours not long after his Creation deserved those dolefull words from his Creator Paenitet me fecisse hominem I repent me to have made man Nor doth that clash awhit with the immutability of his most gracious nature since it was decreed so from the beginning that his disfavours should necessarily succeed the demerits of man Then what wonder is it if I being grievously offended with the ingratitude of this Apostat have chang'd my love into dislike and that I repent to have exalted him so high with the expence of my own bloud It belong'd to you O Father to create man To me it belong'd to redeem him And to both of us to be sorry that he hath shew'd himself so unworthy either of your Creation or my redemption But to reduce my self particularly to the Church of Rome my Spouse I beseech your Majesty to cast your eyes upon her a while and doubtles you will find my disdain to be just and this alienation to be necessary Behold her O Father most vily prostituted to the lusts even of those to whō the Holy Ghost hath consign'd her to be govern'd Behold how she continually hugg's in her bosom these adulterers who using her like a lawfull Husband do corrupt her and together with my honor contaminat her Customes Let thy divine Eyes see how gay she goes in gold how embellished with gems how full of excesse and luxe The Spouse of Christ was never us'd to go so untill the time that she began to study how to please her adulterers But what excesses doth she not commit now adayes by letting the reins so loose to a reprobat sense What dissolutnes What impudence al shamefulnes being lost doth she not give way unto in my own House yet nevertheles to affront me the more she goes still by the character of my Spouse her Adulterers by the title of my servants and those which trample upon the dignity of my Name by the stile of my Ministers The time was when I call'd the Temple in Jerusalem a den of Theeves because I found it full of Buyers Brokers and Sellers What may I now call the Roman Church which harbours such a multitude of those that do not buy but plunder Of those that do not sell but powre out so wastfully to fulfill their own lusts and ambition that which being bought with my bloud is so unworthily provided for them These are they O Father which my Spouse idolatrizeth and I being mock'd and vilipended must suffer them to sit in my Throne to receive the honour of faithfull Innocents I will not discourse of the use of my substance which being bequeath'd by the piety of ancient Christians for the sustenance of poore Beleevers is now reduc'd to the property of one alone and he so insatiable that he seems to take away the credit of that miracle describ'd in the Gospell That Christ with so little bread and few fishes did satisfie so many thousand persons wheras now adayes 't is found that he cannot fulfill the gourmandizing-appetit of one only Bishop with so many millions of gold Let your Majesty behold Vrban the eight how he hath swallowed all the wealth of the Church which he imployes only to nourish the pride the avarice and tyranny of his Nephewes and this in such a height of scandall that it is publiquely reported that Julian the Apostat who robb'd the Church of all her riches was more beneficiall to the increase of Christianity then the pious Constantin who endowing her with such large incomes ministred fuell to foment such pernicious abuses But I marvell not at it in regard when I was upon Earth my self my garments were parted even by them who crucified me But I am not a little aggriev'd that the dishonest pranks of my Spouse are now more than openly