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A01175	The restorer of the French estate discouering the true causes of these vvarres in France & other countries, and deliuering the right course of restoring peace and quiet to all Christendome: wherein are handled these principall questions touching religion, policie, and iustice: whether it be lawfull to sweare, and keepe promise to heretikes, to force mens consciences for religion sake, to liue with, and dwell nigh heretikes, to breake the order of succession to the Crowne bycause of religion, or no. Who be schismatikes; and of the chiefe poincts of religion. How we are to iudge of the schisme in Christendome at this day. Lastly, the conclusion conteining notable admonitions to the clergie, nobles, magistrates, people, and King of France. Translated out of French. Ecclesiæ & reipub. D.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 11289; ESTC S102588	139,883	174

patrimonie Gods demain As for Popes most of them haue clymbed vp to the holy See by lyes hypocrisie guiles and deceipt by money armes massacres sackings poysonings and Magicall arts There is no kind of impietie Atheisme idolatry enchauntements heresie schisme but ye shall commonly read it in their stories View the the life of Siluestre the second Misnia and after the death of Hebert being still wedded to his owne selfe will and stubborne opinion against God who brought all these Emperors being the Popes creatures to confusion he gaue the Empire to Henrie the fift the sonne of Henrie the fourth who was yet liuing allowed and acknowledged of all men for Emperor except the Pope and his adherents Histories are full of such contempts we learne by them that Emperors during foure hundred yeeres and vpward were tossed and troubled by th' iniuries and oppressions of the Pope that such stormes and tempestes neuer tooke end till after th' Emperors had quitt to the Popes the greater part of their possessions and rights and had subiected to them their persons dignities The Pope tooke the Crowne from Childerik gaue it to Pepin took it from Lewis the meek gaue it to his sonne which is a story as lamētable as that of th' Emperor Henry the fourth there was no let in him that he disposed not our Crowne more often Boniface when he had excōmunicated Philip the Faire gaue the Realme to Albert king of the Romanes it passeth all account to tell how many times he hath excommunicated our kings hath exposed our kingdome in pray hath adiudged it to him that first could seize on it and by dispensation hath discharged the Subiects of their othe to turne them from their fidelitie and allegeance How oft and how long he hath put and held the Realme of England in interdiction is knowen By this gate of iniustice hath the Spanish tvrāt inuaded the kingdome of Nauarre this is all the iust and lawfull title he hath there to It is knowē how the Pope hath played with the Realm of Naples and Sicile He tooke it from the Germaines to geue it the French and after from the French to geue it the Spaniardes a very long time hath he made faire shew to these two Nations crossing or fauouring the hopes now of th' one then of the other he let it be taken from Conradin he opposed himself against Maufred made war on him calling this war holy which touched th' estate of Religion in nothing but only the ease securitie profite enuie and grudge of his holinesse he called thither the Earle of Aniou he condemned and put to death Conradm by the hand of the hangman and a douzen or fiftene great Lords with him for no other cause than his owne priuate hatred after that he fauoured the Earle of Aniou against the house of Arragon a great while but at last in fauor of the house of Arragon he tooke from Charles of Aniou and his successors that which he had geuen them Briefly there hath bene no quarrell nor iar betwene the Lords of Christendome which hath not bene kindled by him wherof he hath not taken intelligence wherein he hath not demaunded the obedience of both parties He hath stirred vp the French against the Greeks and Lombards the Germaine against the French the French against the Germaine the Italiā against the Germain the French against the Italian the Italian against the French and againe the Spaniard against the French all Christen dome against the English the French against th'Arrogomans the Spaniard against the Nauarreans He hatched the diuision of th'Vrsins and Columnas of the Guelfs and Ghibelins the warre betwixt the Genoans and Venetians It is impossible to discourse of al these in particular I cannot abide to stand vpon them their remembrance is so grieuous In like maner the diuisions that Popes haue made in the Church the schismes of two or three Popes at once the sects of Monkes Friers and Nunnes require so long a processe that I may not vndertake to recite them at this present But what is said sufficeth to shew that the Pope despiseth gouernments and maketh diuisions It is written that Antichrist shal be an aduersarie 2. Thes 2. the true significatiō of this word Antichrist is as much to say as against or contrary to Christ now let vs compare the least actions doctrine of Popes to that of Iesus Christ and his Apostles and ye will iudge that nothing is more contrary Our Sauiour had no place where he might rest his head Math. 8. Luke 9. Popes and Bishops do possesse the most delightfull and rich places vpon earth Our Lord Iesus Christ refused to iudge and deuide an inheritance betweene two brethren Luke 12. and whereas one of them praied him to do it he sent him away saying who hath made me a iudge or a diuider ouer you The Pope hath vsurped secular iurisdiction of all thinges among all persons without speaking of the spirituall whereof he maketh none partakers In so much that in the reigne of Philip Valois the court of Parlement and other iudges royall were enforced to complayne to the King They declared to him how all the iurisdiction belonging to the Iudges Royall flowed away from the kings Benches to th'Ecclesiastical courts and that farre mo profane or ciuil causes were iudged by Bishops their Officials and other Officers of the Church then by the kings Iudges that he which for the least occasion would not obey and abide the censures and sentences of the Ecclesiasticall should forthwith be excommunicated depriued of the Sacraments and that there power and auctority was come to this passe that for a simple debt a man vnable to pay was interdicted that they had vsurped the imprisoning deteyning of all malefactors with the notice triall of their crimes Poore de Cugneres was diffamed for hauing too truly pleaded on this declaration And yet at this day ye retaine the proceedings which ye call the Chicanerie of the Popes court he did you that good while he aboad at Auimon Ye iudge the most part of your processes by the Popes ordinances There is no company of iudges where the Pope hath not brought in his Lieutenants the courtes where your goods your life and honour are iudged euen the courts of Parlement do partly consist of persons Ecclesiasticall Chanons Abbats Bishops and Archbishops the great and goodlier processes th' affaires of the Royall reuenues Eschequer and Estate are iudged and determined by them in the great counsell in the priuie counsell in the counsel of the Finances in the counsell of Estate and in the most Secrete counsell they are Peeres and soueraigne Iudges of this Realme are Princes therein Th' imperiall dignitie is adiudged giuen by the Popes after the iudgement electiō of Bishops and Archbishops which also iudge all the affaires of the Empyre Ouer and besides this the Pope chalengeth and reserueth from all others priuatly

manifestation and glory and for th'aduauncement of the spirituall kingdome We haue a captaine that cannot be put to the worse if he lets the enemie approach it is not to the hazard of being vanquished and we with him it is for to trie the valour of his soldiers to discerne the faithfull from others Let vs not doubt if we belong to him he wil neuer lose vs. Notwithstanding it is good for euery one to trie and sound him selfe and as he feeleth in his heart th' assurance and motion of Gods spirit so to go forwarde to the medley If the Apostles Bishops and Ministers of the Church had bene so delicate and tender as we would be both Afrik and Europ had not yet bene washed from the steine of Arianisme we had neuer heard the soūd of the Gospel we should not haue bene so nigh as we are to th' accomplishment of our Sauiours Prophecie Mar. 13. that all nations must heare the noise of his voice there should be no Christen Church neither should any haue bene for all these things could not haue come to passe without communicating with Pagans and Insidels as hath bene saide Phisitions do visite the sicke so should they that are able succor persons spiritually diseased howbeit discreetly wisely according to the doctrine of S. Paul to haunt them for their soule-health for th' aduancement of Christ his kingdome measuring their haunt according to th'assurāce knowledge ability that God hath geuen them lomtly there is no occasion to dispaire of the recouerse and conuersion of them of this time for God hath rescued and healed soules more desperatly sicke than they Finally let vs ponder how Popes in this doctrine haue bene contrarie to thēselues which maketh vs doubt that sometimes they applie their doctrines to their passions and to their commoditie as soone as to the veritie Councels Popes Emperours Kings of Fraunce and the greater part of other Kings Lords of Europe haue permitted the Iewes to dwell in Cities of Christendome to erect them Sinagogues and exercise their religion there are of them moreouer at Rome where the Pope holdeth his See they haue bene receiued and comprised within Christen Common-wealths they haue bene admitted to the power and part-taking of generall and particular policies the Emperours by their lawes and ordinances approoued of the Pope haue called them to publike charges honors and dignities with Christians and ouer them Furthermore Popes haue not only receiued into Christendome the enemies of the Gospel but haue also licensed Christians to seeke them dwell and traffike with them and for that ende to trauerse all the compasse of the world to aduenture al the dangers of th' earth the sea the aire of men and of beastes So the Portugals with th' allowance of Pope Alexander the sixt traffikt with the Affricans the Sauadges and the Indiās built dwelling towers forts among them Away then with your opinion it gainsayeth the letter and sence of the holy Scripture it gainestandeth the actions of our Lord of his Prophetes Apostles and of th' olde Church it is contrary to the power of the Church it is impossible to be performed in this world it is contrarie to it selfe and is condemned by their contrary actes that were th'auctors Admit that it were best most profitable for the Church if the nūber were fulfilled if it delayed not hir glory that she were quite separated frō infidels and heretikes yet sith this fulnes of contentment and triumph is kept in store for another world we must acknowledge that where we are commaunded to separate our selues frō them it is chiefly meant of Ecclesiasticall separation to th' end they may haue the mark of enemies and not the separation ciuile politik Lo here againe how the Lord instructeth vs wherein to communicat with them and wherein to deuide our selues from them Loue saith he your enemies Mat. 5. that ye may be the children of your father which is in heauen for he maketh his sunne to arise vpon th' euill and the good sendeth rayne on the iust and vniust Then as the Lord denies them not thinges common to all men the ayre th' earth the light and the water but denyeth them his holy spirit which he reserueth for his chosen so let vs not reiect those their societies that concerne but this world and are necessary to all men as they are men though not as the elect of God specially considering that we can not commodiously and without putting the Church in perill of ruine driue them wholy out from vs. God hath left them to the world tarying for their conuersion let vs leaue them by the Church tarying for their repentance and Gods grace to bring them in Meane while let vs with spirituall weapons with watchings and labours hinder th'executiō of their attempts Let vs make a rampar round about the Church of holines of life ioyned with earnest prayers and godly exhortations CHAP. IIII. Whether the order established in successions and namely of the Crowne ought to be broken bycause of Religion I Know that there yet remaineth dissension in your soule and that yee are not resolute Lo here your doubt well say yee be it that we must liue nigh heretikes and infidels seing otherwise it may not be and that it seemeth necessarie for th' aduancement of the kingdome of Christ yet must we trauaile as Saint Paul appointeth and do the worke of Euangelists to let them from plucking downe the building of the Church yea to let them from building in the house of God if it were possible Perhaps it is tolerable to liue with them vnder one politike gouernement prouided that we haue at the least equall power with them but it is intolerable to be commaunded by them by cause that seemeth preiudiciall to th' aduancement of the soueraigne auctoritie of Gods word For the most part of men conforme themselues to the man●r and Religion of their Princes By common obseruation all peoples require in their Emperours Kings gouernours not to vary frō them in Religiō Th'Ægyptians approued not their king till he had learned and assented to the Religion of their Priestes likewise the Persians Indians and euery nation welnigh Ye alledge surther that the bond of Religion betweene kings and their subiects being rent in sunder and taken away there is nothing but confusion there is no more will and consent it is nought els saue force and tyranny that Religion aboue all things doth perswade and conteine subiects in obedience as appeareth by most Empires Monarchies and common wealthes begun enlarged and mainteined rather by Religion then by iustice and armes that in consideration hereof kings submitted them selues to the heads and Princes of their Religion or els were intitled them selues Princes of Priests and Sacrificers So did the Spartan and Romain kings call themselues soueraigne sacrificers Mahumet his successors the Caliphes Sultans the Sophies of Persia the kings of Calicut and of AEthiopia called

their naturall kings after a forrein maner Charlemaine was borne king of Fraunce he descrued and obteined th' Empire he would haue gouerned this Realme with th'Impetiall lawes and haue enclosed Fraunce within th' Empire your forefathers as Frenchmen in deede iustly ielous of their name franchise and libertie could not abide it and though he was one of the most redoubted kings that euer were yet they stood against it most freely One of my childrē stept vp boldly and vsed such speaches to th'Emperour Charlemaigne their king in the middes of his army As thou appointest vs ô sacred Mareshe we will folow thine ensignes in what part soeuer they are borne for there is no monster nor thing so fearfull that can keepe vs back Thou beganst at Rome to be Emperour of other nations but thou art borne Prince and King of the Frenchmen whose valiance I wot not with what destiny al strangers do enuie thinking our freedome to be the cause of their seruitude although that before thy reign not one onely part of the land could call it selfe free Thou hast power to giue the Hungarians a king the Greekes demaund of thee but amitie thou commaundest in all Europe for the feare that Astrike hath of thee the alliance thou hast in Asia thou holdest all the earth in peace men in safety Thou causest religion to be obserued And yet thou vndertakest one care wherewith all the world may be troubled We that are Frenchmen though we see thee so great demaund nothing of thee but to cōtinue Frēchmē as afore If thou employest vs not in thy warres we shall thinke our selues aboue all others most vnhappy infamous Why thē wilt thou that thy souldiers thy realme thy Frāce should fall into the subiectiō of th' Empire O French mē are ye bastards are ye degenerated are ye chaungelings what haue ye not one sparke left of this braue and couragious ielousie of your Ancestors is there lesse heart in you then was in the Burguinions that reiected the rule of Conrad th'Emperour for this onely cause that he was a stranger to them Frenchmen since when came ye out of kinde to become cowards and bondmen ye sell one another ye sell your selues ye sell me also Doubtlesse ye wil consume in these warres the price of my sale and with it whatsoeuer ye haue els and in th' end if your misfortune be so great as to deliuer your selues and me also to the Buyer ye must afterward repay to him that which he gaue you and whatsoeuer pouertie ye alleage yet must ye restore to him the price of my sale with excessiue vsury besides and yee must disburse all the charges Ye seeke the ruledome of straungers if ye be so wretched as to find it ye shall know what a straunger may and is woont to do in a countrie wonne by conquest he will not vnderstand your language he will not heare your complaints in fine deuouring fire to your destruction will come from him Determine to resigne the honour of gouernments iudgements to yeeld your triumphant swords and stately robes to straungers Determine to loute vnder the Lordly looke vnder the threatnings and stripes of the cruell Spaniard Beginne by times to harden your tender hands with all toyles handy-crafts and day-labour determine to deliuer all the fruicts of your lands and hands into the grype of the greedy Spaniard then to wayt without daring to open your mouth till he takes pitie on you shares you out a poore pittance to liue by Leaue to straungers the ancient seat the commodious site and stately building of your castles gotten with so great trauaile possessed with so great honour and cōtentation stored and enriched with stories armes and statues of your worthy sorefathers Dreame no longer of degree of place of nobilitie Take ye the carke and care of housekeping and leaue the profite and pleasure to them Stoupe like drudges and giue account to them like vnderlings of your day-works with trembling at their sterne lookes and enduring their maister full demeanour Abandon your faithfull feeres your deere and delicate daughters to ferue and please them in all their abhominable lusts Let your sonnes be pages and lackeyes to sterne and lord-like strangers None shal be seen within your houses castles palaces and townes within the Courts of Princes and courts of Iustice if any iustice be but strangers they will carie all the swinge and then Iacke wil be a Gentleman if he can speake Spanish Think not that the Courts Royall and those of Iustice will haue any other speech but how to keepe you vnder to vexe and torment you more and more to ouer-burden you with new taskes and tallages and though ye be fleesed and flayed yet if ye venture to come neere them to complaine ye shal be set backe with store of blowes It were a follie to hope that all these miseries yea worse then these shall not fall on your heads Such curses scourges of God ye cā not escape in cases like to these they are ordinary and vnauoidable yet further the Lord will lay his hand on you more heauily by oddes then on them which caried away through impatience alone seeke the Rule of strangers Because the hatred you beare to him and to the puritie of his word and Gospel pricks you on to runne after strangers The Lords of the houses of Loraine of Guise trim you vp this banqueting dish and lay before you this poysoned bait they are the brokers of these your miseries neuertheles ye say they beare a marueilous louing hart towards me and towards you and are honest and vertuous Beleeue me they loue you like strangers as they are that is for profit and aduancement that they hope to reape of you Their vnpacified malice their vnsatisfied auarice and gaping ambition is that which they pursue and not your cause quiet contentment and profit This is the truth of their commodities which they only seeke vnder the name visour and lying counterfeit of your cōmoditie For what are their propositions but vaine shewes and empty shadowes If they haue bene well affectioned and honestly minded towards you they haue fairely left them both whatsoeuer good affection or minde they had it gaue vp the ghost at least when this goodly enterprise of the league began If it be not permitted them from aboue to shew no other kindnesse then hitherto they haue done God saue me mine from it and graunt by his grace that the feare may issue from you and deuour them Come on let vs teach them that the noble hart of Frenchmen is not quayled nor the ielousie of their name quenched that the loue charitie zele of Frenchmen towards their countrie and Princes are not yet vanished away Let vs teach them that such a realme as this can not be sold nor payd for that that is not surely bought of some particular persons which belongeth to so many braue couragious and valiant Princes Lords and Gentlemen

and effects thereof are most mischieuous deadly that the feares and hopes thereof are false and vaine Shake of then your bondages visours and dissimulations take againe to you the libertie freedome that iustice and God haue granted For of God and of iustice ye hold your honours in chiefe and not of men ye dishonour it as much as in you lieth with dastardly cowardise ye are in Weales-publike and Monarchies that which reason is in man if reason hath lost her libertie if she be enchained man doth nothing but builde and hasten on his owne losse and ignominie Seeing then ye are fountaines from whom the reason is drawen wherewith this realme is gouerned keepe your soules cleere and free vnder the commaund of reason and iustice onely which is true libertie in deede and according to the same condēne the League all the Leagued And since that happy wisdome which foreseeth preuenteth perils could not obteine it at your hands let vnfortunate after-wit obteine it For ye begin to see to feele and to be oppressed with the miserable effects of the League and of your winking thereat Condemne it then freely euen as it is contrary to the commaundements of God to the lawes of nature and nations to the lawes customes and vsages of this land the intent of it is to ouerthrow and confound all a Countrey wasted say they of the League is better then a Countrey lost thinking that lost which they cannot catch I do not say decree and commaund that armies be sent against it but onely I say condemne it and so leaue it be resolued on peace geue this counsell to our king and leaue to God to the order of nature and to the law th' euent of the succession of the crown colour the League no lōger with your dissimulatiōs it will then remaine so naked filthie stinking that none will make account of it each one will reiect it and so shall we all liue in peace and so shall ye perceiue the restablishing of all estates in their former beautie and brightnes with the restoring of your greatnes authoritie and credite in this Realme the king all true Frenchmen will acknowledge themselues to holde their libertie name and safetie from God you And keepe your selues within the limites of ciuile iustice Assay not to confound your power with Gods to encroch vpon the rights belonging to the Lord or els he will discouer your shame he will take from you grace iudgement fauour and meanes he will take from you all Learne not to exceede the bounds of your auctority of the Romaine Iudge who is mentioned in the Acts the Iewes brought before him S. Paul saying Acts. 18. this felow perswadeth men to worship God otherwise than the law appointeth and as S. Paul was about to open his mouth Gallio for so was the Romane Iudge called said to the Iewes if it were a matter of wrong or an euil deed I would according to reason mainteine you but if it be a question of words and names and of your law looke ye to it your selues for I wil be no Iudge of those things he draue them frō the iudgement seat I cite not this example of Gallio as though ye should be carelesse to know the truth in religion as he was but that ye should proceed with indifferencie betweene both parties in cases not throughly knowen to you as he did And whereas he refused to heare that which belonged not to him to iudge although the partie accused was present much lesse ought ye to condemne that cause which ye may not define or those persons whom ye neuer heard speake in their owne defense Likewise as he draue those importunate accusers from the iudgement seat so ought ye to driue these imperious Leaguers from your seats of Iustice from your tables of counsell when they go about to driue you to trespasse the bounds of your dutie and inuade the king dome of the word which in all causes of Religion should iudge now as it shall iudge at the latter day Leaue then to the word of God alone that which pertayneth to the iurisdiction thereof and must be reserued thereto according to Gods commaundements And if ye proceede to take knowledge of religion let the word of God onely be the rule and squire of your proceedings On th' other side account them not condemned nor heretikes conuict nor iustly deliuered to your secular arme who are not condemned but by their aduersaries by their sworne enemies against the order and manner of iudgements Fauour no more with hazard to be ioinct persecutors them that trouble the Church and this Realme for no cause but their appetites reuenges and ambition and not for weeding of the Church as they pretend and yet that is not permitted them Vse no more the seruice of butcherly executioners of principall massacrers robbers and riflers for th' execution of the wrongs and oppressions of the League of th'excommunications and condemnations of the Clergy pronounced vpon no cause but fury and ye shall finde the blessing of God the fauour of your king the wishes applauses and praises of the people shall assist you in so doing rather then otherwise And ye my poore People murmur no more To the People mutter nor mutine no more within your Cities Boroughs and Villages to fauour with your outcries your wishes your trauail your armes and your life this damnable cōspiracie of the Leagued Ye feele to the quicke how vaine and deceiueable their propositions are They promised you discharge comfort liberty abundance case and quiet They said they would deale betweene the king and you to obteyne of his Maiestie the reformation of all things to your contentment and chiefly to the abolishment or diminishing of taxes And now see how their armies haue spoyled you of al your goods haue depriued you of the fruit of your labours haue gnawen you to the very boanes haue taken the bread and water out of your hands They haue and yet do constraine your king to encrease the taxes to draw bloud from you till the last drop to vrge you with all rigors wherewith he is extremely aggreeued Furthermore ye know and feele by the pestilence and famine which outragiously range among you that God alloweth not such conspiracies Beleeue me no other thing can come to you of the League except a most great and vnrecouerable desolation For this is ordinary that diuisions among great men whatsoeuer pretence they make work no other effect then wast of the coūtrie turmoyle losse ruine of the people the people alwaies play the principal part in the tragedies of Ciuil warres they serue in steed of the Chorus or Quier to bewaile their misfortune without ceasing great men consume them as fewell to maintaine the fire of their diuision the fire of their ambition Behold th' ordinary fruit and successe of enterprises which people vndertake or fauour against God his word and Iustice So long as the League shall