foundation nor colour For not onely Plato and other fashioners of Common 〈◊〉 allowed the libertie of lying to Magistrates to Physicians but we also coÌ„sidring the fathers of the Church Origen Chrysostome Hierom haue not onely found that doctrine in them but wee haue also deliuered them from all imputation reprehension by this euasion That it was lawfull for them to maintaine that opinion till some definition of the Church had established the contrarie Which certainely though this should not be so openly spoken of as yet was neuer done But yet wee haue departed from this doctrine of free lying though it were receiued in practise excused by the Fathers strengthened by examples of 〈◊〉 Angels in the Scriptures and so almost established by the law of 〈◊〉 and Nature onely for this reason because we were not the first Authors of it But we haue supplied this losse with another doctrine lesse suspitious and yet of as much vse for our Church which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mixt 〈◊〉 The libertie therefore of lying is neither new not safe as almost all Machiauells precepts are so stale and obsolâ—te that our Serarius vsing I must confesse his lesuiticall liberty of wâ—lde anticipation did not doubt to call Herod who liued so long before Machiuell a Machiauellian But that at one blow wee may cut off all his reasons all his hopes this I affirme this I pronounce that all his bookes and all his deedes tend onely to this that thereby a way may be prepared to the ruine destructioÌ„ of that part of this Kingdome which is established at Rome for what else doth hee endeauor or go about but to change the forme of comon-wealth and so to depriue the people who are a soft a liquid and ductile mettall and apter for our impressions of all their liberty hauing so destroyed all ciuility re-publique to reduce all states to Monarchies a name which in secular states wee doe so much abhor I cannot say it without teares but I must say it that not any one Monarch is to be found which either hath not withdrawne himselfe wholy froÌ„ our kingdome or wounded endamadged in some weighty point hereupon our Cotton confesses that the authority of the Pope is incomparably lesse then it was and that now the ChristiaÌ„ Church which can agree to none but the 〈◊〉 is but a diminutiue And herevpon also it is that the Cardinal who were wont to meete oftner meete now but once in a weeke because the businesses of the Court of Rome growe fewer To forbeare therefore mentioning of the Kings of Britaine and Denmarke and the other Monarkes of the first sort which haue vtterly cast off Rome euen in France our enemies are so much encreased that they equal vs almost in number and for their strength they haue this aduantage aboue vs that they agree within themselues and are at vnity with their neighbour Resourmed Churches whereas our men which call themselues Catholick there doe so much differ from the Romane Catholick that they do not onely preferre Councels but euen the king before the Pope and euermore oppose those their two great Gyants Gog and Magog their Parliament of Paris and their Colledge of Sorbon against all our endeauours Besides all this we languish also miserably in Spaine where Cleargy men if they breake their fealty to their Lord are accused of treason where Ecclesiasticall persons are subject to secular 〈◊〉 ment and if they be sacrilegious are burnt by the Ordinarie Magistrate which are doctrines and practises contrary and dangerous to vs. And though they will seeme to haue giuen almost halfe the kingdome to the church and so to haue diuided equally yet those Graunts are so infected with pensions and other burdens by which the kings seruants and the younger sons of great persons are maintained that this greatnesse of the Church there is rather a dropsie then a sound state of health established by welconcocted nourishment and is rather done to cast an Eouy vpon the Church then to giue any true Maiestie to it And euen in vsurping Ecâ—siasticall â—sdiction the kings of Spaine haue not onely exceeded the kings of Fraunce but also of Britany For says Baronius of that king there is nowrisen vp a new Head a 〈◊〉 and a wonder He Excommunicates and he Absolues And he practiseth this power euen against Bishops and Cardinals He stops Appeales and he acknowledges no superiority 〈◊〉 the sea of Rome but 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 of Preuention And therefore the name Monarch is a hateful and execrable name to vs. Against which Baronius hath thundred with such violence such fiercenesse and such bitternesse that I could hardly adde any thing thereunto if I should speake vnspeakable Emperour with thine owne tongue For he cals it an Adulterine name and a Tower of Babel and threatens destruction to that king though himselfe were his subiect except he forbeare the name In the meane time he resolues him to be a Tyranâ— and pronounces him to stand yearely Excommunicate by the Bulla 〈◊〉 Neither doth he offer to desend himselfe with any other excuse when a Cardinall reprehended his fiercenes towards the king then this 〈◊〉 Imperions zeale hath no power to spare God himselfe And yet he confesseth that this zeale was kindled by the Popes speciall commaund and by his Oath taken as Cardinall Neither hath our Bellarmine almost any other cause of aduauncing Monarchicall gouernmeÌ„t so much as he doth then thereby to remoue all secular men from so great a dignitie and to reserue it only to the Church It was therfore well done of that Rebullus who now begins to bee knowne in this state when hauing surfeited with Calumnies against the French Church and her Ministers he hath dared of late to draw his pen and to ioyne battell against a most puissant forraine Prince hee did well I say and fitly when hee called Bellarmine and Baronius The sword and buckler of the Romane Church And I cannot choose but thanke him for affoording the Title of Sword to our Order as well because after so many expositions of those words Behold heere are two 〈◊〉 which our side hath gathered to establish a temporall Iurisdiction in the Pope and which our Aduersaries haue remoued worne out or scorned this man hath relieued vs with a new and may seeme to intend by the two swords the Popes Excommunications and the Iesuites 〈◊〉 and King-killings as also because he hath reserued to our Order that soueraigne dignity that as God himselfe was pleased to defend his Paradice with fire and sword so we stand watchfull vpon the borders of our Church not onely prouided as that Cherubin was with sire and sword but with the later inuention of Gunpowder about the first inuentour whereof I wonder why Antiquaries should contend whether it were the Diuell or a Frier since that may be all one But as O vnspeakable Emperour you haue almost in all things endeuoured to imitate
as any the Popes theÌ„ selues haue attempted For he did not only giue the full reine to his licentiousnesse but raging with a second ambition hee would also change the Sex Therein also his stomacke was not towardes young beardlesse boyes nor such greene fruit for hee did not thinke that hee went farre inough from the right Sex except hee had a manly a reuerend and a bearded Venus Neither staied he there but his witty lust proceeded further yet he sollicited not the Minions of the Popes but striuing to equall the licentiousnesse of Sodomits which would haue had the Angels to come as neare them as hee could hee tooke a Cleargy-man one of the portion and lot of the Lord and so made the maker of God a Priest subiect to his lust nor did hee seeke him out in a Cloyster or Quire but that his Venus might bee the more monstrous hee would haue her in a Mitre And yet his prodigious lust was not at the height as much as hee could he added and hauing found a 〈◊〉 a Cleargy-man a Bishop he did not sollicite him with entreaties rewards but rauished him by force Since then the Popes doe out of the fulnesse of their power come to those kindes of sinne which haue neither Example nor Name in somuch that Pope Paulus Venetus which vsed to paint himselfe desired to seeme a woman was called the Goddesse Cibele which was not without mysterie since prostitute boyes are sacred to that Goddesse and since they do not graunt ordinarily that liberty of practising sinnes till they haue vsed their owne right and priuiledge of Preuention and Anticipation This pratling fellow Machiauel doth but treacherously and dishonestly preuaricate and betraie the cause if hee thinke hee hath done inough for the dignity of the Popes when he hath affoorded to them sins common to all the world The transferring of Empires rhe ruine of Kingdomes the Excommunications and depositions of Kings deuastations by fire and sword should haue bene produced as their marks characters for though the examples of the Popes traÌ„sferring the Empire which our men so much stand vpon bee not indeede true nor that the ancieÌ„t Popes practised any such thing yet since the states-men of our Order wiser theÌ„ the rest haue found how much this Temporal iurisdictio ouer Princes coÌ„duces to the growth of the Church they haue perswaded the Popes that this is not only lawfull for them but often practised heeretofore And therefore they prouide that the Canons and Histories bec detorted to that opinion for though one of our Order doe weaken that famous Canon Nos sanctorum which was vsed still to bee produced for this doctrine yet hee did it then when the King of Great 〈◊〉 was to bee mollisied and sweetned towardes vs and the lawes to bee mitigated and when himselfe had put on the name Eudamon But let him returne to his true state and professe himselfe a Cacodâ—mon he will bee of our opinion In which respect also wee may pardon our Cudsemiâ— his rashnesse wheÌ„ he denies the English natioÌ„ to be heratiques because they remainâ— in a perpetuall succession of Bishops For herein these men haue thought it fit to follow in their practise that Translation which reades the words of Paul Serue the time and not that which saies Serue the Lord. As for the iniury which this petty companion hath offered to our Order since in our wrongs both yours and the Popes Maiesty is wounded since to vs as to your Dictators both you haue giuen that large and auncient Commission That wee should take care that the state take no harme we cannot doubt of our reuenge yet this aboue all the rest doth especially vexe me that when he calls me Pâ—elate and Bishop names which wee so much abhorre and detest I know well that out of his inward malignity hee hath a relation to Bellarmines and Tolets sacrilegious Vow-breaking ambitioÌ„s by which they imbraced the Cardinalship and other Church-dignities but heerein this poore fellow vnacquainted with our affaires is deceiued being ignorant that these men by this act of beeing thus incorporated into the Pope are so much the neerer to their Center and finall happinesse this chamber of Lucifer and that by the breach of a vow which theÌ„ selues thought iust they haue got a new title therunto For the Cardinalship is our Martyrdome though not many of our Order haue had that strength that they haue beene such Martyrs and that the Popes themselues haue beene pleased to transferre this persecutioÌ„ into the other Orders who haue had more Cardinals then wee yet without doubt for such of ours which haue had so much courage new Crownes and new Garlands appropriate to our Martyrs are prepared for them in this their Heauen because being inabled by greater meanes they are fitter for greater mischiefes Wee therefore lament the weaknesse of our Laynez our Bâ—rgia who refused the Cardinalship offered by Paulus 4. Iulius 3 for in this place and this meeting it is vnfit to say they did so euen amongst the auncient Romans when they sacrificed to you those sacrifices which offered any resistance were euer reputed vnaccepted And therefore our Bellarmine deserues much praise who finding a new Genius and courage in his new Cardinalship set out his Retractations corrected all those places in his workes which might any way bee interpreted in the fauour of Princes But let vs passe ouer all these things for wee vnderstand one 〈◊〉 well inough and let vs more particularly consider those things which this man who pretends to exceed all Auncient and Moderne States-men boasts to haue beene done by him Though truly no man will easily beleeue that hee hath gone sarr in any thing which did so tire at the beginning or mid-way that hauing seene the Pope and knowne him yet could neuer come to the knowledge of the Diuell I know what his excuse and escape wil be that things must not be extended insinitly that wee must consist and arrest somewhere and that more meanes instruments ought not to be admitted where the matter may be dispatched by fewer When therfore he was sure that the Bishop of Rome was the cause of all mischiefe and the first mouer therof he chose rather to settle determine in him then by acknowledging a Diâ—el to induce a new tyrany and to be driuen to confesse that the Pope had vsurped vpon the diuels right which opinion if any man bee pleased to maintaine we do not forbid himâ— but yet it must be an argumeÌ„t to vs of no very nimble wit if a man do so admire the Pope that he leaue out the Diuell and so worship the Image without relation to the Prototipe and first patterne But besides this how idle and how very nothings they are which he hath shoueld together in his bookes this makes it manifest that some of euery Religion and of euery profession haue risen vp against him and no
say that this was properly an Innovation lest there by I should confesse that Luther and many others which liue in banishment in Heaven farre from vs might haue a title to this place as such Innouators But we cannot doubt but that this lunatique Queene will be more inclinable to our Innouations for our Clauius hath beene long familiarly conuâ—sant with her what she hath done from the beginning what she wil do hereafter how she behaues herselfe towardes her neighbour kingdoms the rest of the starrs all the planetary firmamentary worlds with whom she is in league amity and with whom at difference he is perfectly instructed so he haue his Ephemerides about him But Clauiâ— is too great a personage to be best owed vpon this Lunatique Queene either as her Counsellour or which were more to our profit as her CoÌ„fessor So great a man must not bee cast away vpon so small a matter Nor haue we any other besides whom vpon any occasion we may send to the Sunne or to the other worlds beyond the world Therefore wee must reserue Clauius for greater vses Our Herbestus or Busaeus or Voellus and these bee all which haue giuen any proofe of their knowledge in Mathematiques although they bee but tastlesse and childish may serue to obserue her asspects and motions and to make Catechisones fit for this Lunatique Church for though Garnet had Clauius for his Maister yet he profited little in the Arts but being filled with Bellarmines Dictates who was also his Maister his minde was all vpon Politiques When wee are established there this will adde much to our dignity that in our letters which wee send downe to the earth except perchaunce the whole Romane Church come vp to vs into the Moone we may write of what miracles wee list which we offered to doo out of the Indies and with good successe till one of our Order in a simplicity and ingenuity fitter for a Christian then a Iesuite acknowledged and lamented that there were no miracles done there Truly it had bin better for vs to haue spit all those fiue Brothers Acostas out of our Order then that any one of them should haue vomited this reproach against vs. It is of such men as these in our Order that our Gretzer saies There is No body without his Excrements because though they speake truth yet they speake it too rawly But as for this contemplation and the establishing of that gouernement though it be a pleasant consideration we may neither pamper our selues loÌ„ger with it now nor detaine you loÌ„ger therein Let your Greatnesse write let the Pope execute your counsell let the Moone approach wheÌ„ you two think fit In the meane time let me vse this Chamber as a resting place For though Pope Gregory were strucken by the Angell with a perpetuall paine in his stomach and feet because hee compelled God by his praiers to deliuer Traian out of Heil and transferre him to Heauen and therefore God by the mouth of 〈◊〉 tooke an assurance for all his Sâ—cessours that they should neuer dare to request the like againe yet when the Pope shall call mee backe from hence hee can be in no danger both because in this contract God cannot bee presumed to haue thought of me since I neuer thought of him and so the contract therein void and because the Condition is not broken if I bee not remoued into Heauen but transferred from an Earthly Hell to a Lunatique Hell More then this he could not be heard to speake For that noise of which I spoke before increased exceedingly and wheÌ„ Lucifer asked the cause it was told him that there was a soule newly arriued in Hell which said that the Pope was at last entreated to make Ignatius a Saint and that hee hastened his Canonization as thinking it an vniust'thing that when all artificers and prophane Butchers had particular Saints to inuocate only these spirituall Butchers and King-killers should haue none for when the Iesuite Cotton in those questions which by vertue of his inuisible priuiledge he had prouided for a possest person amongst others dangerous both to England and France had inserted this question What shall I do for Ignatius his Canonizing and found out at last that Philip King of Spaine and Henry King of Fraunce contended by their Ambassadors at Rome which of them should haue the honour of obtaining his Canonizing for both pretending to be King of Nauarre both pretended that this right and honour belonged to him and so both deluded the Iesuits For D'Alcala a Franciscan and Pâ—nafort a Iacobite were by Philips meanes canonized and the Iesuite left out At last hee despaired of hauing any assistance from these Princes nor did he thinke it conuenient that a Iesuite should be so much beholden to a King since Baronius was already come to that heighth and constancy that being accused of some wronges done to his King hee did not vouchsafe to write in his owne excuse to the King till the Conclaue which was then held was fully ended least as himselfe giues the reason if hee had then beene chosen Pope it should bee thought hee had beene beholden to the King therein For these reasons therefore they labour the Pope themselues They confesse that if they might choose they had rather hee should restore them into all which they had lost in Fraunce and Venice then that Ignatius should be sent vp into Heauen and that the Pope was rather bound to do so by the Order which God himselfe seemes to haue obserued in the Creation where he first furnished the Earth and then the Heauens and confiâ—med himseâ—fe to be the Israelites God by this Argument that he had giuen them the land of Canaan and other temporall blessings But since this exceeded the Popes omnipotence in Earth it was fit he should try what he could do in Heauen Now the Pope would faine haue satisfied them with the title of 〈◊〉 which formerly vpon the intreaty of the Princés of that Family he had affoorded to Aloisius Gonzaga of that Order He would also haue giuen this title of Saint rather to Xauerius who had the reputation of hauing done Miracles Indeed he would haue done any thing so hee might haue slipped ouer Ignatius But at last hee is ouercome and so against the will of Heauen and of the Pope Lucifer himselfe being not very forward in it Ignatius must bee thrust in amongst the Saints All this discourse I beeing growne cunninger then that Doctor Gabriell Nele of whom Bartolus speaketh that by the onely motion of his lippes without any vtterance vnderstood all men perceiued and read in euery mans countenance there These thinges as soone as Lucifer apprehended them gaue an end to the contention for now hee thought he might no longer doubt nor dispute of Ignatius his admission who besides his former pretences had now gotten a new right and title to the place by his Canonization and he feared