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cause_n	deal_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	14	3	8.7093	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

as yet Albania was without sense of her malady or remembrance of their cause which the good old Chronos perceiving and much pitying as one that had beene a constant friend to her for many yeares had seene much in his time and had overpassed many alterations in himselfe and others posts away for though he was aged he was not slow paced to a solitary grove in a remote Land wherein was a cave so deepe and obscure that it was alwayes night there but he that was wont to travaile no lesse in the greatest darkenesse than at mid-day enters undauntedly and returnes with the faire Alitheia in his hand whom he brings to see the light and she naked though she was is not ashamed to be seene to her he declares in what case he had left Albania and the cause of his comming Alitheia soone conceived what in truth before she feared when she last saw her and therefore was much grieved at her departure so to leave her but seeing the least delay was very dangerous expostulating no farther with the old man about cirdumstances she called to her an old servant of hers named Veridicus whom intending with all speed according as she heard or saw occasion to follow after she sent with Chronos having given him sufficient instructions what to doe Veridicus was as his name spake him an honest tell-troth though plaine yet bold and though forward yet respectfull and he was so well skild in his Art and so confident of his undertakings that if his prescriptions were carefully observed he doubted not of such successe as might be justly expected and in this hope his ability and charity pressing him onward he soone arrives with Chronos in a happy season at the lodging where the sicke Lady was Veridicus staid and knockt at the gate Chronos past on as his manner was when forth comes Philauta a stately dame and opens but casting her eye upon Veridicus and seeing him in such homely array judging of the person by the attire she disdainefully without speaking a word or asking what he would retires her selfe and shut fast the gate after but Veridicus nothing dismaid with this affront well understanding from what subject it proceeded knockes againe and with more earnestnesse such are the times for pooresuters till that Novata another of Albania's attendants more desirous of novelties than fearefull of her Mistresses disturbances le ts him in without further question and then understanding the cause of his comming whether for to satisfie her curiosity or because her Mistresse was forsaken of all others in this desperate estate she ushers him to her presence who presently without more complement or regard of the standers by takes their sicke Lady by the hand feeles the pulse which sometimes was very slow in motion and then presently as violent in agitation he takes the Urinall viewes her state findes it to be of a very high sanguine colour and much troubled he lookes on her visage beholds it wan and gastly he would have asked her some questions but she could not answer for want of the use of her senses besides that her tongue was all blacke and swolne the which and other like symptomes argued the patient to be in a dangerous distemper in all parts of her body And hereby he further perceived that the two prime senses of sight and hearing were so ill affected in their instrumentall nerves that all objects seemed to exceed or lessen from their due proportion in quantity and quality so that discords were taken for unisons and apparences for ture substances and so on the contrary and being in this manner presented to the common sense were likewise delivered over to the phantasy which by reason of divers fumes ingendred in that cell of the braine caused the like error in the judgement and memory and by reason of the ill affection of these superiour intelligible faculties he found the inferiour and more sensitive parts to partak and be oppressed with their particular maladies as the heart to be much passionated with the dissimulations and waverings of Liliana the Lungs to be obstructed and breath faintly through the hot and biting distillations of Idolana the stomacke to be overcharged with the gluttony and surfettings of Aquilina the belly tympanized with the windy vapours of Gloriosa the Loynes impostumatized with the inflammations of lustfull Zelotypia the hands blistered with the itchings of Argyria her legges and feet lamed and swolne with the gout of Argoa into which loathsome estate she was not so much fallen by meanes of native constitution or complection but through infection of the humours by the corruption of the times imitation and too familiar converse with her Neighbours the negligence and ignorance of covetous attendants ill Counsellors and unskilfull Physitians so that Veridicus considering her deplorable estate much grieved thereat and could not but abruptly in some short and passionate expostulation thus expresse it Oh Albania distressed and pittifull Albania and the more said he to be pittyed in thy distresse because Albania There is no time now to thinke on Megala thy owne misery is too much to thinke upon happy hadst thou beene if thou couldst sooner have thought thy selfe unhappy hadst thou beene sensible of thy inward corrasives as thou wert overjoyed with thy outward felicities thy sore had not thus growne to an ulcer nor the pricke brought thee in danger of the Gangrene thy too much overweening in prosperity hath humbled thee to this grievous adversity thy too much magnifying thy owne power and excellencies above thy Neighhours hath now dejected thee to their contempt and conspiracies thy exalting thy selfe in comparison of all others hath almost made thee unworthy the comparision for any But I will not adde reproach to misery The occasion and cause require rather helpe to draw thee out of the danger thou art unworthily brought into then enquiry by what meanes thou wert brought into the danger Both since the time is short and the disease sharpe the cure must be as quicke and the medicine of the greater vertue and operation which the more it smarts the sooner will heale Have but the patience to endure you shall the sooner finde ease and but pardon the rudenesse of the Physitian and let me not be mistaken in the sincerity of my endeavours you shall soone perceive that in the least flattery is most friendship and although a sweet bit doth best please a curious pallat yet that a bitter pill is more profitable and that plaine dealing hath no fellow Having thus said he againe tooke her by the hand and bid her be of good cheare but perceiving that she was insensible of what he spake or did he saw it was high time from the apparent cause to bethinke himselfe of the convenient cure and that first of all it was necessary to use the next meanes for restoring her to the use of her senses that she might come to some feeling of that deplorable estate she was then in To