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A36301	Paradoxes, problemes, essayes, characters written by Dr. Donne, dean of Pauls ; to which is added a book of epigrams ; written in Latin by the same author ; translated into English by J. Maine D.D. ; as also, Ignatius his Conclave, a satyr, translated out of the originall copy written in Latin by the same author, found lately amongst his own papers.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.; Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing D1867; ESTC R1266	68,704	226

Sister and hath hoorded up so many In dulgencies in one Barn the Citie of Rome that it is easy for any man in an hour or two to draw out pardons enough for 100000 years How clear a witnesse of this liberality is Leo the tenth who onely for rehearsing once the Lords Prayer and thrice repeating the name of Iesu be it spoken here without horror hath given three thousand years Indulgence How profuse a Steward or Auditor was Boniface who acknowledges so many Indulgences to be in that one Church of Lateran that none but God can number them Besides these plenary Indulgences are given not onely to the Franciscans themselves but to their parents also and to any which dies in their habit and to any which desire that they may doe so and to those who are wrapped in it after death though they did not desire it and five years Indulgence to those who doe but kisse it And at last Clement the seventh by a priviledge first given to one Order which since is communicated to our Order as the priviledge of all other Orders are gave to any who should but visit a place belonging to them or any other place if he could not come thither or if he could come to no such place yet if he had but a desire to it All Indulgences which had been granted or hereafter should be granted in the universal world And though it be true that if in any of these Indulgences a certain sum of money were limited to be given as for the most part it is a poor man who could not give that money though he were never so contrite for his sinnes could have no benefit thereby and though Gerson durst call those Indulgences foolish and superstitious which gave twenty thousand yeares pardon for rehearsing one prayer yet they doe abundantly testifie the Popes liberall disposition and that he is not so covetous in reserving sinnes to himselfe but if perchance once in an hundred years some one of the scum of the people be put to death for Sodomy and that not so much for the offence as for usurping the right of the Ecclesia stick Princes we must not much lament nor grudge at that since it is onely done to discontinue and interrupt a prescription to gain which Title the Laity hath ever been very forward against the Clergie for even in this kind of his delicacies the Pope is not so reserved and covetous but that he allowes a tast thereof to his Cardinals whom whom you once called Carpidineros by an elegancie proper onely to your Secretaries the Monkes in an Epistle which you writ to one of that Colledge for since the Cardinals are so compacted into the Pope and so made his own body That it is not lawfull for them without licence first obtained from him to be let blood in a Fever what may be denied unto them or what kind of sin is likely to bee left out of their glorious priviledges which are at least two hundred Which Order the Pope can no more remove out of the Ecclesiasticke Hirarchy then he can Bishops both because Cardinals were instituted by God and because the Apostles themselves were Cardinalls before they were Bishops Whom also in their creation he stiles his brothers Princes of the world and co-judges of the whole earth and to perfect all That there are so many Kings as there are Cardinals O fearefull body and as in many other things so in this especially monstrous that they are not able to propagate their species For all the Cardinals in a vacancy are not able to make one Cardinal more To these men certainely the Pope doth no more grudge the plurality of sins then hee doth of Benefices And he hath been content that even Borgia should enjoy this dignity if he hath heaped up by his ingenius wickednesse more sorts of sins in one Act then as far as I know as any the Popes themselvs have attempted For he did not only give the full rein to his licentiousnesse but raging with a second ambition he would also change the sek Therein also his stomack was not towardes young beardlesse boyes nor such green fruit for he did not thinke that he went farr enough from the right Sex except he had a manly a reverend and a bearded Venus Neither staied he there but his witty lust proceeded further yet he solicited not the Minions of the Popes but striving to equall the licenciousnesse of Sodomites which would have had the Angels to come as neer them as he could he tooke a Cleargy-man one of the portion and lot of the Lord and so made the maker of God a Priest subject to his lust nor did he seek him out in a Cloyster or Quire but that his Venus might be the more monstrous he would have her in a Mitre And yet his prodigious lust was not at the height as much as he could he added and having found a Man a Clergy man a Bishop he did not sollicite him with entreaties and rewards but ravished him by force Since then the Popes doe out of the fulnesse of their power come to those kindes of sinn which have neither Example nor Name insomuch that Pope Paulus Venetus which used to paint himselfe and desired to seem a woman was called the Goddesse Cibele which was not without misterie since prostitute boyes are sacred to that Goddesse and since they doe not grant ordinarily that liberty of practising sinnes till they have used their own right and priviledge of Prevention and Anticipation This pratling fellow Machiavel doth but treacherously and dishonestly prevaricate and betray the cause if he thinke he hath done enough for the dignity of the Popes when he hath affoorded to them sins common to all the world The transferring of Empires the ruine of Kingdomes the Excommunications and depositions of Kings and devastations by fire and sword should have been produced as their marks characters for though the examples of the Popes transferring the Empire which our men so much stand upon be not indeed true nor that the ancient Popes practised any such thing yet since the States-men of our Order wiser then the rest have found how much this Temporall jurisdiction over Princes conduces to the growth of the Church they have perswaded the Popes that this is not onely lawfull for them but often practised heretofore And therefore they provide that the Canons and Histories be detorted to that opinion for though one of our Order doe weaken that famous Canon Nos Sanctorum which was used still to be produced for this doctrin yet he did it then when the King of Great Britain was to be mollified and sweetned towards us and the Laws to be mitigated and when himself had put on the name Eudaemon But let him return to his true state and profess himself a Cacodaemon and he will be of our opinion In which respect also we may pardon our Cudsemius his rashness when

he denies the English Nation to be heretiques because they remain in a perpetual succession of Bishops For herein these men have thought it fit to follow in their practise that translation which reads the words of Paul Serve the time and not that which says Serve the Lord. As for the injury which this petty companion hath offered to our Order since in our wrongs both yours and the Popes Majesty is wounded since to us as to your Dictators both you have given that large and anti●…ent Commission that we should take care that the state take no harm we cannot doubt of our revenge yet this above all the rest doth especially ve●… me that that when he cals me Prelate and Bishop names which we so much abhor and detest I know well that out of his inward malignity he hath a relation to Bellarmines and Tolets Sacrilegious Vow-breaking ambitions by which they imbraced the Cardinalship and other Church dignities but herein this poor fellow unacquainted with our affairs is deceived being ignorant that these men by this act of being thus incorporated into the Pope are so much the nearer to their Center and final happiness this chamber of Lucifer and that by the breach of a vow which themselves thought just they have got a new title thereunto for the Cardinalship is our Martyrdom and though not many of our Order have had that strength that they have been such Martyrs and that the Popes themselves have been pleased to transfer this persecution into the other Orders who have had more Cardinals than we yet without doubt for such of ours which have had so much courage new Crowns and new Garlands appropriate to our Martyrs are prepared for them in this their Heaven because being inabled by greater means they are fitter for greater mischiefs We therefore lament the weakness of our Laynez and our Borgia who refused the Cardinalship offered by Paulus 4. and Iulius 3. for in this place and this meeting it is not unfit to say they did so even amongst the antient Romans when they sacrificed to you those sacrifices which offerd any resistance were ever reputed unaccepted and therefore our Bellarmine deserves much praise who finding a new Genius and courage in his new Cardinalship set out his Retractions and corrected all those places in his Works which might any way be interpreted in the favour of Princes But let us pass over all these things for we understand one another well enough and let us more particularly consider those things which this man who pretends to exceed all ancient and Modern Statesmen boasts to have been done by him Though truely no man will easily believe that he hath gone far in any thing which did so tire at the beginning or mid-way that having seen the Pope and known him yet could never come to the knowledge of the Devil I know what his excuse and escape will be that things must not be extended infinitely that we must consist and arrest somewhere and that more means and instruments ought not to be admitted where the matter may be dispatched by fewer When therefore he was sure that the Bishop of Rome was the cause of all mischief and the first mover thereof he chose rather to settle and determine in him than by acknowledging a Devil to induce a new tyranny and to be driven to confess that the Pope had usurped upon the Devils right which opinion if any man be pleased to maintain we do not forbid him but yet it must be an argument to us of no very nimble wit if a man do so admire the Pope that he leave out the Devil and so worship the Image without relation to the Prototype and first pattern But besides this how idle and how very nothings they are which he hath shoveld together in his books this makes it manifest that some of every Religion and of every profession have risen up against him and no man attempted to defend him neither do I say this because I think his doctrin the worse for that but it is therefore the less artificially carried and the less able to work those ends to which it is directed For our part we have not proceeded so For we have dished and dressed our precepts in these affairs with such cunning that when our own men produce them to ens●…re and establish our pupils then we put upon them the majesty and reverence of the Doctrin of the Church and of the common opinions But when our adversaries alledge them either to cast envy upon us or to deterr the weaker sort then they are content with a lower room and vouchsafe to step aside into the rank of privat opinions And the Canons themselves are with us sometime glorious in their mitres and pontifical habits and sound nothing but meer Divine resolutions out of the Chair it self and so have the force of Oracles sometimes we say they are ragged and lame and do but whisper with a doubtfull and uncertain murmure a hollow cloystral or an eremiticall voice and so have no more authority than those poor men which writ them sometimes we say they were but rashly throwne into the peoples ears out of Pulpits in the Homilies of fathers sometimes that they were derived out of such Councels as suffered abortion and were delivered of their children which are their Canons before inanimation which is the Popes assent or out of such Councels as are now discontinued and dead howsoever they remained long time in use and lively and in good state of health and therfore cannot be thought fit to be used now or applyed in civil businesses sometimes we say the Popes voice is in them all by his approbation sometimes that only the voice of those authors from whom they are taken speaks in them And accordingly we deliver divers and various Philosyphy upon our Gratian who compiled them sometimes we allow him the honour and dignity of Diamonds and the nobler sort of stones which have both their clearness and their firmness from this for that they are compacted of less parts and atomes then others are and so is Gratian whom for the same cause sometimes we account but a hill of many sands cast together and very unfit to receive any foundation I must confess that the Fathers of our Order out of a youthful fiercenes which made them dare and undertake any thing for our Order was scarce at years at that time did amiss in inducing the Councel of Trent to establish certain Rules and Definitions from which it might not be lawfull to depart for indeed there is no remedy but that sometimes we must depart from them nor can it be dissembled that both the writers of our Order and the Dominicans have departed from them in that great war and Tragedy lately raised at Rome about Grace and Freewill For it is not our purpose that the writings of our men should be so ratified that they may not be changed so that they be of our Order

do not only prefer Councels but even the King before the Pope and ever more oppose those their two great Giants Gog and Magog their Parliament of Paris and their Colledge of Sorbon against all our endeavours Besides all this we languish also miserably in Spain where Clergy-men if they break their fealty to their Lord are accused of treason where Ecclesiasticall persons are subject to secular judgment and if they ●…e sa●…rilegious are burnt by the Ordinary Magistrate which are doctrines and practices contrary and dangerous to us And though they will seem to have given almost half the Kingdom to the Church and so to have divided equally yet those Grants are so infected with pensions and other burdens by which the Kings servants 〈◊〉 the younger sorts of great persons are maintained that this greatness of the Church there is rather a dropsie then a sound state of health established by well-concocted nourishment and is rather don to cast an envy upon the Church then to give any true majesty to it And even in usurping Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction the Kings of Spain have not only exceeded the kings of France but also of Britany For sayes Baronius of that King there is now risen up a new head a monster and a wonder He Excommunicates and he Absolves And he practiseth this power even against Bishops and Cordinals He stops Appeals and he acknowledges no superiority in the Sea of Rome but only in case of Prevention And therefore the name Monarch is a hatefull and execrable name to us Against which Baronius hath thundred with such viol●…e such ●…ercheffe and such ●…nesse that I could hardly add any thing thereunto if I should speak unspeakable Emperor with thine own tongue for he calls it an A●…lterine name and a Tower of Babel and threatens destruction to that King though himself were his subject except he for beare the name In the mean time he resolves him to be a Tyrant and pronounces him to stand yearly excommunicate by the Bulla Coenae Neither doth he offer to defend himselfe with any other excuse when a Cardinall reprehended his fiercenes toward the King then this An Imperious zeale hath no power to spare God himselfe And yet he confesseth that this zeale was kindled by the Popes speciall command and by his Oath taken as Cardinall Neither hath our Bellarmine almost any other cause of advancing Monarchical government so much as he doth then thereby to remoove all Secular men from so great a dignity and to reserve it only to the Church It was therefore well done of that Rebullus who now begins to be known in this State when having surfeted with calumnies against the French Church and her Ministers he hath dared of late to draw his Pen and to joyne battell against a most puissant forrain Prince he did well I say and fitly when he called Bellarmine and Baronius The Sword and Buckler of the Roman 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 heer are two swords which our side hath gathered to establish a temporall Jurisdiction in the Pope and which our Adversaries have remooved worn out or scorned this man hath relieved us with a new and may seem to intend by the two swords the Popes Excommunications and the Iesuites Assassinates and King-killings as also because he hath reserved to our Order that soveraigne dignity that as God himselfe was pleased to defend his Paradice with fire and sword so we stand watchfull upon the borders of our Church not only provided as that Cherubin was with fire and sword but with the later Invention of Gunpouder about the first inventour whereof I wonder why Antiquaries should contend whether it were the Devil or a Fryer since that may be all one But as O unspeakable Emperour you have almost in all things indeavoured to imitate God so have you most throughly performed it in us for when God attempted the Reformation of his Church it became you also to reforme yours And accordingly by your Capuchins you did reform your Franciscans which before we arose were your chiefest Labourers and Workmen and after you reformed your Capuchins by your Recolets And when you perceived that in the Church God some men proceeded so farre in that Reformation that they endeavoured to draw out not onely all the peccant and dangerous humours but all her beauty and extorior grace and ornament and even her vitall spirits with her corrupt blood and so induce a leannesse and ill-favourednesse upon her and thought to cure a rigid coldness with a Fever you also were pleased to follow that example and so in us did reform and awaken to higher enterprises the dispositions as well of the Circumcellions as of the Assassins for we do not limit our selves in that low degree of the Circumcellions when we urge and provoke others to put us to death not of the Assassins which were hired to kill some Kings which passed through their quarter so we exceed them both because we do these things voluntarily for nothing and every where And as we will be exceeded by none in the thing itselfe so to such things as may seem mysticall and significant we oppose mysticall things And so lest that Canon That no Clergy-man should wear a knife with a point might seem to concern us by some propheticall relation we in our Rules have opposed this precept That our knife be often whetted and so kept in an apt readiness for all uses for our divination lies in the contemplation of entrails in which Art we are thus much more subtile then those amongst the old Romans that we consider not the entrails of Beasts but the entrails of Souls in confessions and the E●…trails of Princes in treasons whose hearts we doe not beleeve to be with us till we see them let therfore this pratling Secretary hold his tongue and be content that his Book be had in such reputation as the world affords to an Ephemerider or yearly Almanack which being accommodated to certain places and certain times may be of some short use in some certain place and let the Ru●…s and 〈◊〉 of his Disciples like the Canons of Provinciall Councels be of force there where they were made but only ours which pierce and passe through all the world retai●… the strength and vigo●… of Universall Councels Let him enjoy some honorable place amongst the Gentiles but abstain from all of our sides neither when I say Ou●…side doe I onely mean modern men for in all times in the Roman Church there have been Friers which have farre ex ceeded Machiavel Truly I thought this Oration of Ignatius very long and I began to think of my body which I had so long abandoned lest it should putrifie or grow mouldy or be buried yet I was loath to leave the Stage till I saw the Play ended And I was in

yet when the Pope shall call me back from hence he can be in no danger both because in this contract God cannot bee presumed to have thought of me since I never thought of him and so the contract therein voyd and because the condition is not broken if I be not removed into Heaven but transferred from an earthly Hell to a Lunatique Hell More then this he could not be heard to speak For that noyse of which I spoke before increased exceedingly and when Lucifer asked the cause it was told him That there was a soule newly arrived in Hell which said that the Pope was at last intreated to make Ignatius a Saint and that he hastened his Canonization as thinking it an unjust thing that when all Artificers and prophane Butchers had particular Saints to invocate onely these spirituall Butchers and King-killers should have none For when the Jesuit Cotton in those questions which by vertue of his invisible priviledge he had provided for a possest person amongst others dangerous both to England and France had inserted this question What shall I doe for Ignatius his canonizing and found at last that Philip King of Spain and Henry King of France contended by their Ambassadors at Rome which of them should have the honour of obtaining his canonizing for both pretending to be King of Navarre both pretended that this right and honour belonged to him and so both deluded the Jesuits For D Alcala a Franciscan and Penafort a Iacobite were by Philips means canonized and the Jesuite left out At last he despaired of having any assistance from these Princes nor did he think it convenient that a Jesuit should be so much beholding to a King since Baronius was already come to that height and constancy that being accused of som wrongs done to his King he did not vouchsafe to write in his own excuse to the King till the Conclave which was then held was fully ended lest as himselfe gives the reason if he had then been chosen Pope it should be thought he had been beholden to the King therein For these reasons therfore they labour the Pope themselves They confess that if they might chuse they had rather he should restore them into all which they had lost in France and Venice then that Ignatius should be sent up into Heaven and that the Pope was rather bound to doe so by the Order which God himselfe seems to have observed in the Creation where he first furnished the Earth and then the Heavens and confirmed himselfe to be the Israeiltes God by this Argument that he had given 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 doe in Heaven Now the Pope would fain have satisfied them with the Title of Beatus which formerly upon the intreaty of the Princes of that Family he had afforded to Aloisius Gonzaga of that Order He would also have given this Title of Saint rather to Xaverius who had the reputation of having done Miracles Indeed he would have done any thing so he might have slipped over Ignatius But at last he is overcome and so against the will of Heaven and of the Pope Lucifer himselfe being not very forward in it Ignatius must be thrust in amongst the Saints All this Discourse I being grown cunninger then that Doctor Gabriel Nele of whom Bartolus speaketh that by the onely motion of his lips without any utterance understood all men perceived and read in every mans countenance there These things as soon as Lucifer apprehended them gave an end to the contention For now he 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 that the Pope would take all delay ill at his hands because Canonization is now grown a kind of Declaration by which all men may take knowledge that such a one to whom the Church of Rome is much beholden is now made partaker of the principall dignities and places in Hell For these men ever make as though they would follow Augustine in all things and therfore they provide that that also shall be true which he said in this point That the Reliques of many are honoured upon earth whose souls are tormented in Hell Therefore he took Ignatius by the hand and led him to the Gate In the mean time I which doubted of the truth of this Report of his Canonizing went a little out for further instruction for I thought it scarce credible that Paulus Quintus who had but lately burdened both the Citie of Rome and the Church with so great expences when he canonized Francisca Romana would so easily proceed to canonize Ignatius now when neither any Prince offered to bear the charge nor so much as sollicited it for so he must be focred to wast both the Treasures of the Church at once And from Leo 3. who 800 years after Christ is the first Pope which canonized any I had not observed that this had ever been done Neither doe I think that Paulus Quintus was drawn to the canonizing of this woman by any other respect then because that Rule which she appointed to her Order was dictated and written by S. Paul For though Peter and Magdalen and others were present at the writing thereof as witnesses yet Paul was the Author thereof And since St Pauls old Epistles trouble and disadvantage this Church they were glad to apprehend any thing of his new writing which might be for them that so this new work of his might bear witness of his second conversion to Papistry since by his first conversion to Christianity they got nothing for to say that in this business Paulus Quintus could not chuse but be God God himselfe to say that he must needs have lived familiarly with the Godhead and must have heard Predestination it self whispering to him and must have had a place to sit in Councell with the most Divine Trinity all which Valaderius sayes of him is not necessary in this matter wherein the Popes for the most part proceed as humane affections lead them But at last after some enquiry I found that a certain idle Gazettior which used to scrape up newes and rumors at Rome and so to make up sale letters vainer falser then the Iesuits letter of Iapan and the Indies had brought this newes to Hell and a little Iesuiticall Novice a credulous soul received it by his implicit faith and published it I laughed at Lucifers easinesse to beleeve and I saw no reason ever after to accuse him of infidelity Upon this I came back again to spy if the gates were still open with what affection Ignatius and they who were in ancient possession of that place behaved themselves towards one another And I found him yet in the porch and there beginning a