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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01233	Tvvo spare keyes to the Iesuites cabinet· dropped accidentally by some Father of that societie and fallen into the hands of a Protestant. The first wherof, discovers their domestick doctrines for education of their novices. The second, openeth their atheisticall practises touching the present warres of Germany. Projected by them in the yeare 1608. and now so farre as their power could stretch, effected, till the comming of the most victorious King of Sweden into Germany. Both serving as a most necessary warning for these present times.; Colloquium Jesuiticum. English	Francke, Christian, b. 1549.; Freake, William.; Camilton, John. De studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus. English.	1632 (1632)	STC 11346.3; ESTC S102623	30,485	64

Subtiltie and Policie that whereas hee is not able to preserue his reputation by testimonies of his owne Holinesse and vertue as CHRIST and his Apostles and other Holy men haue done hee may vphold it at least by the outward glory of another least that whereas the auncient Romanes were in times past Lords of the whole World if the power of the Bishop of Rome should not extend it selfe fully both to Heaven and Hell yea and Purgatorie also a place deuised for this purpose the Pope might hap to seeme inferiour to them or at the least not greater That as Iupiter Optimus Maximus the prime GOD of all among the Romans is supposed to strike some persons to hell with his Thunderbolt so the Romane Bishop should haue in like manner his terrible Thunderbolt of Excommunication whereby he might make the hearts of all Christians to shake and might thrust down as many as should but dare to lift vp their tongues against this Soueraigne power of his lower then hell it selfe if it could be possibly Last of all that whereas the ancient Romanes being Lords of all the world had a most honourable and stately Magistracie cloathed in purple whereof some were Gouernours of the Citie others ruled as Vice-Royes in forraigne Nations Euen so the Pope of Rome should haue not onely his Bishops as Princes but also his Cardinals as Senators clad in purple who should bee companions for the greatest Kings and out of whom alone the Vicar of CHRIST should bee chosen by the very instinct of the Holy Ghost As if the Holy Ghost should not aswell be tyed to the Cardinals those base and beastly sinckes of Lust and Ambition as the Chaire of PETER to the Citie of Rome For indeed it is true that the Holy Ghost hath sayd That by his goodwill hee cannot indure to dwell in any but quiet modest and humble persons and yet forsooth of late he is euen constrained by compulsion and as it were halfe against his will to reside wheresoeuer the Church of Rome shall be pleased to confine him Howbeit I must confesse in this case my Conscience did often tell mee that they of the Church of Rome haue not beene able to tye the Holy Ghost so close to themselues and their Sea but that twenty and seauen sundry times fayling of the presence thereof they haue raised those XXVII Schismes which stand vpon Record in the Chronicles of their Popes A thing which surely giueth infallible euidence against their holy Spirit and causeth all the priuiledges and power thereof to incurre a just Censure For alas what shall wee say Is it possible that the Divine Godhead can bee an author of Errour and Dissention But when they are held close to this Argument then they answer That the Holy Ghost departed not from the Church of Rome at such or such a time but onely through the mistake of some and ambition of others the Church had gotten a Monstrous head hauing sometimes a double sometimes a treble head but that onely one of the rest was the true and lawfull head of the Church Oh what monstrous spirits haue you the Romanists what a monstrous Church Which can be compelled through Errour and Ambition to subsist so often and with so many counterfeit Heads To weare them so many yeares and to inforce so many poore Christian soules to accept and to beleeue them vpon paine of Damnation for true Heads of the Church to their owne mistake the abhomination of all good men and your owne and their most desperate ruine Well now I perceiue plaingly enough that this Monster which hath so often had two Heads and sometimes three at once may also through your monstrous Lust and Ambition as easily acquire Seauen heads at once But this may be sufficient touching the first Monster or Idoll The other Idoll I haue seene at Loretto which the Italians call their Lady of Loretto And this is a Picture carued as they would haue men beleeue by St. LVKE the Evangelist And for that cause it is reported to be a worker of wonderfull Miracles I am not able in words to expresse in what infinite estimation this Idoll is held what a report there is all Italy ouer of the Myracles that it worketh This is the onely Saint that all Italians haue in their mouth presently whether they bee amazed with any sudden feare of Death or taken Sicke with any grieuous disease whatsoeuer Vnto this Lady of Loretto doe all sorts of people in such cases make Vowes promise guifts vndertake to goe on Pilgrimage vnto her Temple And if it so fall out that any man bee deliuered from any imminent danger or disease they presently then cry out a Miracle a Miracle and resolue to performe their promise and straight wayes they vndertake a Pilgrimage to Loretto Vpon these occasions there is great resort to Loretto day by day out of all the parts of Italy daily are innumerable Offerings presented at her Shrine and painted tables hanged vp in her Chappell expressing the whole manner of the Miracles And truely at the first sight thereof the infinite multitude of Tables did somewhat moue me and I was of the mind that some Divine essence ruled in that place But when I came a little to my selfe vpon serious consideration of all the passages together I easily discerned that it was nothing else but meerely the dotage of the blockish people who being onely guided by outward sence labour to haue a sensible God I meane a Deitie which they might see and feele For vpon the one hand I obserued a man pictured vpon the Racke and valiantly induring all those torments by prayer made to the Lady of Loretto hard by him was portrayed a man falling from his Horse and escaping death by a sudden prayer made to the same Lady On the other hand you might see a multitude of Sicke people miraculously restored to health by calling vpon her Name Not farre from them diuers Tables of people of all sorts in a storme at Sea escaping the violence thereof by a Vow made to the same Lady with many others of like nature not to be numbred Which follies euen CICERO himselfe being a diligent obseruer of the Roman Superstitions did in his time seeme to deride in his booke De Natura Deorum touching the nature of the Gods of the Romanes wherein making mention of the Philosopher DIAGORAS deriding the Roman Deities hee thus writeth That when DIAGORAS vpon a time was come to Samothrace and that a friend of his had tooke ocasion to say vnto him You Sir who are of Opinion that our Gods doe not heare the prayers of their Suppliants and order humaine Affaires doe not you obserue by this multitude of painted Tables how many men by prayer to the Gods haue escaped the violence of tempests and stormes at Sea and come safe to Land It is true indeed said the Philosopher heere is a multitude of Tables of them which haue escaped For they are no where