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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20624	Ignatius his conclaue or his inthronisation in a late election in hell: wherein many things are mingled by way of satyr; concerning the disposition of Iesuits, the creation of a new hell, the establishing of a church in the moone. There is also added an apology for Iesuites. All dedicated to the two aduersary angels, which are protectors of the Papall Consistory, and of the Colledge of Sorbon. Translated out of Latine.; Conclave Ignati. English	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1611 (1611)	STC 7027; ESTC S100082	38,639	188

foundation nor colour For not onely Plato and other fashioners of Common 〈◊〉 allowed the libertie of lying to Magistrates to Physicians but we also cōsidring the fathers of the Church Origen Chrysostome Hierom haue not onely found that doctrine in them but wee haue also deliuered them from all imputation reprehension by this euasion That it was lawfull for them to maintaine that opinion till some definition of the Church had established the contrarie Which certainely though this should not be so openly spoken of as yet was neuer done But yet wee haue departed from this doctrine of free lying though it were receiued in practise excused by the Fathers strengthened by examples of 〈◊〉 Angels in the Scriptures and so almost established by the law of 〈◊〉 and Nature onely for this reason because we were not the first Authors of it But we haue supplied this losse with another doctrine lesse suspitious and yet of as much vse for our Church which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Mixt 〈◊〉 The libertie therefore of lying is neither new not safe as almost all Machiauells precepts are so stale and obsol●te that our Serarius vsing I must confesse his lesuiticall liberty of w●lde anticipation did not doubt to call Herod who liued so long before Machiuell a Machiauellian But that at one blow wee may cut off all his reasons all his hopes this I affirme this I pronounce that all his bookes and all his deedes tend onely to this that thereby a way may be prepared to the ruine destructiō of that part of this Kingdome which is established at Rome for what else doth hee endeauor or go about but to change the forme of comon-wealth and so to depriue the people who are a soft a liquid and ductile mettall and apter for our impressions of all their liberty hauing so destroyed all ciuility re-publique to reduce all states to Monarchies a name which in secular states wee doe so much abhor I cannot say it without teares but I must say it that not any one Monarch is to be found which either hath not withdrawne himselfe wholy frō our kingdome or wounded endamadged in some weighty point hereupon our Cotton confesses that the authority of the Pope is incomparably lesse then it was and that now the Christiā Church which can agree to none but the 〈◊〉 is but a diminutiue And herevpon also it is that the Cardinal who were wont to meete oftner meete now but once in a weeke because the businesses of the Court of Rome growe fewer To forbeare therefore mentioning of the Kings of Britaine and Denmarke and the other Monarkes of the first sort which haue vtterly cast off Rome euen in France our enemies are so much encreased that they equal vs almost in number and for their strength they haue this aduantage aboue vs that they agree within themselues and are at vnity with their neighbour Resourmed Churches whereas our men which call themselues Catholick there doe so much differ from the Romane Catholick that they do not onely preferre Councels but euen the king before the Pope and euermore oppose those their two great Gyants Gog and Magog their Parliament of Paris and their Colledge of Sorbon against all our endeauours Besides all this we languish also miserably in Spaine where Cleargy men if they breake their fealty to their Lord are accused of treason where Ecclesiasticall persons are subject to secular 〈◊〉 ment and if they be sacrilegious are burnt by the Ordinarie Magistrate which are doctrines and practises contrary and dangerous to vs. And though they will seeme to haue giuen almost halfe the kingdome to the church and so to haue diuided equally yet those Graunts are so infected with pensions and other burdens by which the kings seruants and the younger sons of great persons are maintained that this greatnesse of the Church there is rather a dropsie then a sound state of health established by welconcocted nourishment and is rather done to cast an Eouy vpon the Church then to giue any true Maiestie to it And euen in vsurping Ec●siasticall ●sdiction the kings of Spaine haue not onely exceeded the kings of Fraunce but also of Britany For says Baronius of that king there is nowrisen vp a new Head a 〈◊〉 and a wonder He Excommunicates and he Absolues And he practiseth this power euen against Bishops and Cardinals He stops Appeales and he acknowledges no superiority 〈◊〉 the sea of Rome but 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 of Preuention And therefore the name Monarch is a hateful and execrable name to vs. Against which Baronius hath thundred with such violence such fiercenesse and such bitternesse that I could hardly adde any thing thereunto if I should speake vnspeakable Emperour with thine owne tongue For he cals it an Adulterine name and a Tower of Babel and threatens destruction to that king though himselfe were his subiect except he forbeare the name In the meane time he resolues him to be a Tyran● and pronounces him to stand yearely Excommunicate by the Bulla 〈◊〉 Neither doth he offer to desend himselfe with any other excuse when a Cardinall reprehended his fiercenes towards the king then this 〈◊〉 Imperions zeale hath no power to spare God himselfe And yet he confesseth that this zeale was kindled by the Popes speciall commaund and by his Oath taken as Cardinall Neither hath our Bellarmine almost any other cause of aduauncing Monarchicall gouernmēt so much as he doth then thereby to remoue all secular men from so great a dignitie and to reserue it only to the Church It was therfore well done of that Rebullus who now begins to bee knowne in this state when hauing surfeited with Calumnies against the French Church and her Ministers he hath dared of late to draw his pen and to ioyne battell against a most puissant forraine Prince hee did well I say and fitly when hee called Bellarmine and Baronius The sword and buckler of the Romane 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 heere are two 〈◊〉 which our side hath gathered to establish a temporall Iurisdiction in the Pope and which our Aduersaries haue remoued worne out or scorned this man hath relieued vs with a new and may seeme to intend by the two swords the Popes Excommunications and the Iesuites 〈◊〉 and King-killings as also because he hath reserued to our Order that soueraigne dignity that as God himselfe was pleased to defend his Paradice with fire and sword so we stand watchfull vpon the borders of our Church not onely prouided as that Cherubin was with sire and sword but with the later inuention of Gunpowder about the first inuentour whereof I wonder why Antiquaries should contend whether it were the Diuell or a Frier since that may be all one But as O vnspeakable Emperour you haue almost in all things endeuoured to imitate