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A50564 A Melius inquirendum into the birth of the Prince of Wales, or, An account of several new depositions and arguments pro and con and the final decision of that affair by the grand inquest of Europe, being a supplement to the depostions. 1689 (1689) Wing M1646; ESTC R918 26,205 16

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was brought to Bed we are ordered by the Holy Father and all the Clergy of Spain to Sing Ora pro nobis and to Pray our Lady of Loretto that the Queen of Spain may be with Child also If the Princess of Orange and her Sister the Princess of Denmark were not Hereticks we could at the same time Pray for them and they should have no cause to complain if it happen that they remain Barren while all the other Princes of Europe have reason to rejoice at their Fruitfulness The ORACLE In Barrenness Father of Marvelous Effect as well as the assistance of some good Father The most Serene Republick of VENICE came forward attended by all the Senators Morosini spoke in Quality of the Doge and said to the DIVINITY We have purged one part of Greece the Adriatick Gulph the Morea and some of the Islands of the Archipelago of infamous Mahometism and we are about placing the Standard of Christians in all the Churches of Constantinople The Ports of the Holy Sophia are open to us the Impostor Mahomet shall shortly have no Sanctuary but the fearful Deserts of Arabia the Emperour our Allie solicites us to make Peace all Italy represents to us that France makes advantage of our Conquests If we suffer him to pass the Alps and if he advance on the Rhine what ought we to do The ORACLE All Europe enjoys Peace in the East and wish the War were in the West But since you have gone so far take Candia to assure the Conquests The King of SIAM to the ORACLE I have sent the Reverend Father Tachart of the Society of Jesus in Quality of Embassador Extraordinary to the Court of France there to treat of the Means to Convert my People from Idolatry and to break Commerce with the Hollanders Part of the Pagods of my Kingdoms are already Consecrated to Christianity and have purged them of Marmasets and of False Gods with which they were filled The Reverend Father Tachart hath Counselled him to put in their places the Statues of St. Louis and St. Ignatius On the other part I have set out a Fleet and I have built Fortresses on the Frontiers of my Countries and the King of France hath sent me Ingineers and he desires me to send my Son to him that he may be Taught the Art of Reigning The Jesuits perswade me to be willing that the Dragoons come as Missionaries from France to Convert my People I beg of you to inform me what I shall do The ORACLE A good Dragoon is a good Apostle but hath no Faith Law or Baptism The King of PERSIA to the ORACLE We are at the end of the World if it be true that the Evangilest of Jesus Christ is Preached thro' all the Habitable Earth There is no other Discourse but of making New Converts as if the Son of God was come The King of Siam my Brother hath chosen rather to embrace the Cross than the Alchoran and a great many open the Port of the East to the Fathers of Loyola who advance in Troops and assembles in the Indies like Wild Loupes If the Prophets accomplish their Prophesies and my Brother the Sultan is driven out of Europe Constantinople and all the Holy Places of our Prophet Mahomet's Repose will be purged of Mahometism and I only shall be left in Asia I beseech you what must I do to continue the Circumcised that they may spread over the whole World like an Universal Fire And will not they Reduce to Cinders the Mosques of the Great God if we do not take hold of this opportunity The ORACLE The surest Remedy that can be is to make a great Rampart Wall from Ispaham to the Frontiers of Persia which may make a Tower of a Kingdom to hinder the Fathers of Loyola from entring The Canade or New-France to the ORACLE There is no finer Countries in the World for the Chasing the new Converts than this is if the Fathers of Loyola will believe us one passeth whole America and principally into Canada where are several great and vast Campagnes Mountains and Forrests where the Land flows with Milk and Honey where the Taste and Delicateness is to be prefer'd to the best Chicken in France If the Great Louis was well Counsell'd he would let them Sing no more in his Kingdom for fear that France in the end should become a frightful Desert where none but the Society of Jesuits Inhabit FINIS