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A10294	The spy discovering the danger of Arminian heresie and Spanish trecherie: written by I.R.	Russell, John, d. 1688.; Rhodes, John, minister of Enborne, attributed name.; Robinson, John, 1575?-1625, attributed name.	1628 (1628)	STC 20577; ESTC S115559	23,654	58

THE SPY Discovering the Danger of ARMINIAN HERESIE and SPANISH TRECHERIE Written by I. R. Possibile est Satyras non scribere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Printed at Strasburgh 1628. TO ●ll zealous Professor● and true hearted Patriots in Great Britaine MY blus●ing disabilities haue at length adventured to passe the pikes of censure vnprovided of any other armes or ornaments then sincere loyaltie devoted to my King and Countreys service rather then my King and Countrey should be for want of a timely discovery of those dangers wherein they haue beene cunningly and intricately entangled thrust blindfold upon the pikes of forreyne enemies or the poyniards of domestick traytors Sooner had these naked raptures visited the world had this age afforded but an Egyptian midwife to forward them Faine would they haue fluttred abroad the last Parliament but the supercilious lookes of over-awing greatnesse had so danted these degenerous times that none durst adventure to giue wings to their desire Howsoever I hope their flight home from a forreyne Countrey will not now be unseasonable The raine was ceas'd and the windowes of heauen were shutt when Noah sent forth his returning raven but the inundation remayned All the fabrick falls not assoone as ever the foundation sinckes but the mystery of iniquity runnes on so many wheeles that it is to be feared the removall of one though it may slacken can ●●●●●erly hinder the motion Yet unlesse all be d●…red the danger may be indeede partly abated can not be wholly avoyded If any censure me for presenting so graue a subject treading in measure they may consider that the whole book is but an explanation of the Frontis-piece such expressions square best with a metricall proportion As for statelynes of style my scantling of time permitted me not had I affected that more then plainnes in so serious a matter to be so refyn'd Whatsoever the acceptance be it proceeds from a well meaning hart And J beseech God that with the oracles of our Lawes and ornaments of our state especially with him that is the chiefe of both they may worke the same effects for the preventing of imminent danger and providing for the publique safetie that I desire Whose consultations that they may haue free proceeding for the establishing such wholesome Lawes as may tende to the advancement of Gods glory his Majesties honour the Gospells encrease and the Kingdomet welfare I will dayly offer up my most earnest supplications before the throne of grace Strasborgh Aug. 23. sty vet Your affectionate though afflicted Servant and Countreyman J. R. THE SPY MVST I turne mad like Solon and write rimes VVhen Philippicks would better fit the times Yes Yes I must For what soe're they be In presse or pulpit dare of speech be free In truth's behalfe and vent their grieved mind In phrase more serious or some graver kinde Though at the common good they onely ayme And be as strictly Carefull to shun blame As wisdome can devise they cannot scape The malice of the age Some mouths must gape VVhos 's guilty Conscience tells them this was pend To lash at vs their sland'rous breath to spend In their disgrace and bring them into hate As movers of sedition in the state As if truth's friend must needs be Englands foe These rimes I hope shall not be censur'd so Councels of old encourag'd such men still Till those made Councellours did curbe their will VVho boldly would for publique safety vtter VVhat novv the best in private dare not mutter Vnder the Fleetes damnation Nay 't is fear'd That their advise in Councell is not heard VVho passe their kewes enioyn'd or else come short Nor is this strange for we have Presidents for 't Our fathers dead their sonnes their courage lost Many of bloud of spirit few can boast Where now is Essex Norris Rawleigh Drake At whose remembrance yet proud Spaine doth quake Where 's Burleigh Cecill all those axletrees Of state that brought our foes vpon their knees Where are such fearelesse peerelesse Peeres become All silenc'd what is all the world turnd ' dumbe Oh how hath trech'rous coward feare enchanted This plying temporizing age and danted Our noblest spirits what dull heavy fate Hath lull'd asleepe and stup●fi'd our state That few will see at least none dare disclose Those plots our forreine and domestick foes Haue layd to ruine vs. Shall th' Austrian brood Abroad be gorg'd and glutted with the blood Of our allies and friends nay shall they here At home a Babel of Confusion reare And none speake to prevent it is there not Vn slaughter'd or vn poyson'd left one Scot Dares tell the blindfold state it headlong reeles To Spanish thraldome vpon spanish wheeles And that those Pillars may be iustly fear'd VVill fall on vs that we our selues haue rear'd Then giue him leaue for Stons sake to speake whose heart with griefe had it no vēt would breake Thou therefore sacred Mother Christs deare Wife From whose pure breasts I suck'd the food of life And thou deare Countrey in whose peacefull lap First to receiue my breath 't was my blest hap Vouchsafe t' accept and graciously peruse Th' abortiue ofspring of an vnripe Muse And suffer not weake insufficiency To counterpoyse his harts true loyalty In your affections who to doe you good VVould thinke th' exhausion of his deerest blood Great happines and want of liberty Large freedome nay could ev'n contented be Or for your safety to be sacrific'd Or your saluation Anathematiz'd Nor feare I censure though strict Cato read VVhil'st in the well knowne path of truth I tread And travaile in her cause The subiects vveight Repells the breath of eu'ry vaine Conceit And for Spaines agents and times flatt'ring Minions I neither passe their persons nor opinions For God that doth the hearts of all men see Knovves my intentions just and honest be ' 'T is no vainglorious humour makes me doe it Nor doth malicious envy force me to it But hate of Spanish treason and true zeale Vnto the good of Church and Commonvveale VVhy therefore armed vvith so iust a cause Should I the censure feare of right-full lavves Or once suspect a Check or prohibition From any but a Popish pack'd Commisssion Nor can the Councell take such subjects ill As to true Patriots haue beene vvellcome still VVhat ever yet did merit condemnation Tending alone to publique preservation Mistake me not you Props of state I pray Such bold presumption never yet bare sway In my acknowled'gd weakenes as to goe About ●'informe your well tri'd judgments no I b●● persuade and not prescribe incite And not instruct your wisdomes to what 's right Those then of malice shall traduce my name By being guilty bring themselves to shame Should such squint Lamian envions eyes reflect O● their owne brests they would themselues correct Beforeth would censure others but such spight Shall never mount my Muses lowest flight So high this world I prize not as to close VVith falshoods fautours

vndermine 't VVho ever found fall Corrivalls in a throne endure each other VVhat ere he be friend kinsman father brother VVhen empires ly at stake the one must dovvne Such jealousies ever attend a Crowne And think'st thou thē cause th' art imploy'd by Spaine The German princes freedome to restraine Th' empire shall by succession be deriu'd To the right line no that must be depriu'd To make thy founders large extents entire Thus thou art but the faggot set to fire Thy friends and burne thy selfe the bee vvhose sting In others fix'd her selfe to death shall bring The same ignoble Saxon is thy case Whom envy stir'd and emulation base Against the checks of conscience to forsake Truth 's cause and part with errours friends to take What hast thou gain'd hereby first God that knovves The harts of all men heavy iudgments shovves To curbe such irreligious Atheists pride That vvillfully vvith earth 'gainst heav'n doe side He loues no sinners but such reprobates And grosse dissemblers from his soule he hates Hereby blind Duke what purchase hast thou made But ev'n a yoke vpon thine owne neck layd And made thy children slaues Could'st not foresee VVhen Austria hath subiected Germany Th' Empire shall by inheritance descend As Boheme long hath done then to what end Serue the Electours but to serue like slaues Spaines Tyrants and endure their basest braues By ayding thus in friendly sort thy foes And with an envyous spleene pursuing those That were thy friends Th' hast cut with luckles hand Thy right hand of So maymed shalt thou stand Vnpityed to posterity As one VVho by opposing that religion Against his conscience he himselfe profest On earth gain'd slauery and in hell vnrest So speed Truths foes that dry deaths seldome see Such turne coate Saxon 's like thy end to be Now march on Spaines right arme whose hardned skill In feates of war so many mouthes doth fill VVith high encomious as if thou of men Deseru'dst alone to make the Worthyes ten VVhy dost thou here whose well knowne name and force Frights further then it strikes the Troian horse Beare for device vvhat doth it intimate Thy Sinon craft got the Palatinate Yes sure it iustly may For all knovv vvell That since your divelish maxime rose from hell Of breaking oathes and leagues vvhen ere you please Y' haue gained more by such damn'd tricks as these Then by your svvords VVhen thou hadst past the Rhine Into the countrey of the Palatine Thou knew'st thy iourney like to cost thee deare If Thurlach and Count Mansfield tarried there The Tyger then his vvonted courage vvanted Being by a more couragious Lyon danted See what the fox can doe Thou knevv'st so farre Our peacefull King did hate the name of vvarre That rather then he vvould of battels heare He 'd beg for peace or purchase 't ne're so deare Therefore th' Arch-duchesse sends to him vvith speed An embassade as Spinola decreed King Iames did ' by persuasion soone consent Desiring blouds effusion to prevent That on condition Spinola vvould avvay To free the countrey Mansfield should not stay The time 's prefix'd By th' style th' Arch-duchesse gets Ten dayes And first Count Mansfield forvvard sets And marcheth fairely vvith his army thence As Thurlach did vvhen novv vvithout defence The Paltz vvas left th' Italian quit indeed The land in person as it vvas decreed But left his army vvith Gonzales there VVho seconded by Mounsieur Tilly vvere These none opposing vvast vvith fire and svvord And all the cruelty vvarre can afford The miserable countrey Naked left Vnto th' invaders fury And bereft Of Mansfields helpe for vvhom in vvait they lay But through their sides his valour made him vvay Then might you see flames frequent murthers rapes On all sides none the soldiours fury scapes But torrent-like the Wallon beares dovvne all Not sparing yong or old or great or small And in contempt of God and men detaines Perfidiously these his ill-purchas'd gaines Our King being made by this Italian vvile The Instrument his children to beguile Iustly vvith such a base affront incens'd Had vvith his quiet nature novv dispens'd Then zealous in Gods cause and ours vvert thou Earle Pembroke but the case is alter'd novv And vovves to take revenge by open vvarre VVhich to prevent Spaines old familiar Most cunningly corrupts the English court Suborning some and those of highest sort In vaine their King to credulous to persuade For all wrongs satisfaction should be made Which ne're was meant they knew sometimes they 'd fire him VVith high encomions All the vvorld admire him As peaces Patron all posterityes Him as the Prince of peace shall memorize But if his svvord vvere dravvne oh vvhat a floud VVould it dravv out vvith it of Christian bloud Then should that honour he by peace had gain'd Be lost and vvith a boutefeaus title stain'd At other times his feare they 'd vvorke vpon VVith faign'd surmises of invasion For breach o' th' league if he should succour those That must be Spaines because th' are Austrias foe● Thus vvhile too iustly he doth vveigh the cause They make him breake the bond of natures lavves Yet nettled something vvith so grosse a vvrong From one that to th' Arch duchesse did belong He sent to let her knovv he vvas abus'd She flightly vvith a Punick trick excus'd Her servants actions Sending vvord vvithall Neither Gonzales vvas her generall Nor Tilly therefore by no meanes it lay In her the army to command avvay VVhich yet she vndertooke till those had quit The countrey vvho had else safe guarded it And Spinolas army lay there Then amaine Another posts vnto the King of Spaine He ansvvere makes it vvas not in his povver Tilly commanded for the Emperour To vvhom another's sent and he replyes Lieutenant for Bavaria there he lyes Bavaria this disclames and doth professe He tooke and kept it for his Holynesse So vvas thy Paltz Prince Frederick quite forsaken Of all thy friends by fraud not valour taken But rise thou God of Truth avvake from sleepe Hovv long shall thy distres'd and slaughter'd sheepe Be thus by VVolues devour'd lift vp thine head And let thine enemies be scattered Though we haue been thus backward all this while And let our foes as 't were besiege our Ile Yet now oh now at last your hearts combine Great Caesar and graue Senate yet now joyne Your force witts whatsoe're is yours t' abate French Spanish Austrian pride and let our state Gaine once againe what rate so ere it cost If possible the honour it hath lost The fire in frost its heat doth recollect T' expell the cold let this conceit reflect Vpon your breasts Let publique danger bind In publick vnity your soule and minde So may our concord giving life and heate To our allies abroad remoue the seate Of war from home which had bene done ere this Had not our Councels guided bene amisse So may I liue to see proud Austria sit perchance as low as poore as ever yet So may the Gospell flourish and regaine It 's former splendour and our land retaine Her ancient prosperous happines and rest Neither abroad nor yet at home opprest Which that it may doe and th'unconquer'd Fort Of Truth for ever safely may support Thy poore distres'd ones Let oh Lord the Eye Of thy most watchful Providence descry All danger may annoy't And let it stand Safe guarded with thy strong Protections Hand And let the Scepter of thy Power defend The Scepter that defends it to the end FINIS * Exo. ● 17. * Solo●… mentia 〈…〉 mulan insolitis tibi v●● sibus capitis 〈◊〉 persuasit Atheniensib 〈◊〉 Mega●●s●● 〈◊〉 b●llu inferre Iust l●… † Certain● bitter invectiue oration● of de 〈◊〉 nes against Phil. of Macedon and 〈◊〉 Cicero 〈◊〉 mitation of him against M Antonius † Neither totally no● fully but in the sencibility of operation * 1. Kin 22. 31. Miles saci●n feri A Caste●●o 〈◊〉 ●a verita B Port orthe dosso C The Pope ● ● 〈…〉 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 * Nido d'he●●●tici ● † Of Pardons c. † A Religā●o * The Diuel * Da chi mi fido mi guar do Dio. Da chi mi nō fido mi guar ●●ro 〈◊〉 H ● ● † Intus quod latet externa pingitur in facie Ca●e a signatis ● * 〈…〉 19. 18 M N † Tu null● plangente 〈…〉 * In quo discordia cives Perduxi● mi●eros Virgi † 〈…〉 * Christia●us occas●●●●testinis discordijs lab●●● † Qui sub nomine Chri stiano doctri uae resisterent Christianae Tertul * † Mahomet * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sozom Scholis ac parietibus clausit Aug. de C. D. * Act. 15. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sep. Ps. 23. 2 * To true P Port della Fidelita ● † Kind of 〈…〉 an ●…an Rat creepes ●…elly a sleeping ●…s out ●utts ●●●sse ●i● † ●●tu●sse ●●n l●ng ●o●●iers to ●●●●n agt. ●…ke ●●nd agt. 〈…〉 Arch ●●agt the 〈…〉 c. 〈…〉 one ●…hers 〈…〉 R † ●h of Maced thought no gate so strong but an asse laden with gold might passe ●t He was not far from ●●uth I feare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pind. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dem. Olynt 1. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the same case Dem. Oly. 1. Princip●●● obsta * 〈…〉 2 Fides non est ●enonda cum h●reticis Gallus gallicus * Neque enim bénefacta ma ligne detrectare meum est Mat. 13 * Dunkirke † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Xerx de Artem in Her Vn is Pellaeo iuveni non sufficit orbis * Ad gene● Cereris sin●c aede sa● guine pan● c. Iuve ● sat T V * Too familiar with K. Iames. Hac ratione potes iustus Rex forte videri sed non crudelis non potes esse pater X Y Z