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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

Arminius they send Got by Pelagius and in Rome nurst up VVhence drunke vvith superstitious errours cup He 's sent to Leyden by the Popes direction To blast the vvorld vvith 's heresyes infection Nor rests th' ambiguons crafty monster there But spewes the poyson of 's false doctrine here Comes like a protestant in shew before And vowes he hates the Antichristian whore Disclaimes her tenents Nay none seemes to be More zealous in the gospells cause then he Oh that false tongues were ever made so smooth Or lying lips should haue the power to sooth Tell him the doctrine of the Pope is ' true Concerning merits he will censure you For errour straight Say that vve may attaine By nature povver saluation to gaine By vvorking it our selues he vvill reply These doctrines are condemnd for heresy And yet vvhat positiuely he thus denyes By necessary consequence implyes So that obserue him vvell vvithin you 'le find A friers hart as here his coule behind Behold novv sathans masterpiece t'or'e spread The Church vvith Popery so long banished Had he in publique these his tenents held And justify'd he should haue beene expelld From all reformed Churches and confuted Had he such Theses in the schooles disputed Therefore vvith truth dissembling to take part He Ioab like doth closely vvound her heart And silly soules entangled by him ly In nets of errors that they cannot spy Yet though Arminius Holla●d had infected Since vve his poysonous doctrine had detected And that blest King most learnedly refelld Those false positions seduc'd Vorstius held VVhat madnes vvas 't for vs to foster here Those errours that our Church condemned there Had sathans instruments beene all vvithout The danger vvere not great vve need not doubt So much our safety But vvithin they lurke That vnder name of truth's stout'st chāpions vvorke Her ruine and to back her making shovv Betray her and conspire her overthrovv No sooner comes Arminius to vntwine The bond of concord and to vndermine Religion vvith condemn'd Pelagianisme To make way for the Pope but factious Schisme VVith sencelesse Atheisme cold neutrality Loose Epicurisme and damned Policy Are ready t' entertaine him and declare Themselues perfidious vvretches as they are For him g'ainst truth receiud VVherefore in hast As he is formost by the divell plac't VVith schismes vvild fire Riligions Port to set In a combustion he is straightvvay met By messengers sent to salute him VVho They are I scarce can yet precisely knovv But Bishops Chapleines they should be I deeme For by their stately port no lesse they seeme And such is he vvhose purblind Couzning eye It's objects as 't appeares doth multiply And make tvvo Sacraments seeme sea'vn Like him But that his Carriage something is more grim Is he that takes vpon him to suppresse All bookes against his Leyden friend vnlesse His sence of feeling be a little feed VVere I his indge it should be so indeed But him that welcomes first this Heretick His very lookes proclaime a Schismatick He hath Commission with a false forg'd key To let this monster in and so make way For all the rest of that accursed crevv In truthes chiefe Martyrs bloud their hands t'mbrue These these not those at Clerkenvvell we tooke The strong foundation of our Church haue shooke And made Religion reele Our foes we shun But these false faigned friends haue truth vndone Oh vipers most vnnaturall thus to teare The bowells of that mother held you deare Alas alas too true it is I see All men are for themselues few Christ for thee Errour prevailes and while thy sheapheards sleepe Wolves in sheepes clothing Worry all thy sheepe VVho almost cares which way Religion bends So they may compasse their ambitious ends Hovv sone doe those that should firme Mo●ntaines be For truth to build on leane to popery Laude Romish lawes and to disgrace endeavour In truth's profession such as would persever So they may rise they make their betters fall Thus doe they ship wrack faith loue soule and all Yet blest be God Truth ne're was so distrest But she had still some Champions those the best T'abet her quarrell See the faiths defender VVth's brandish'd sword is ready ayd to lend her And thouhands more of soldiours stout there be VVhich never yet to ertour bow'd their knee For truths sake would in midst of faggots dance Yea Bishops some But see a luckles chance Befalls one Prelate hastning to repell Arminius and 's adherents back to hell For feare of faction He himselfe is tane By proud Ambition that is still the bane Of all religious acts the roote of evill The Character and darling of the devill Aud violently I know not why 's throwne downe Vnable to resist ev'n bv a frowne Me thinkes 't is pitty for a cause vniust That godly gravity should ly i' th' dust But though he fall himselfe he sayes shall rise And he shall fall when none shall vvet their eyes Hovv speed the rest their vvell meant labour 's lost A bald appa'ritour hath their iourney crost VVho muzz'ling them by virtue of his box Extorts the spirits svvord from th' orthodox Nor doe these flattr'ing Prelates cease to bring Such men in hatred dayly vvith their King And falsly that th' are Calvinists report Onely to make them odious in the court Nor is 't vnlike some hope by pleasing so The Kingdomes secret bane and Churches foe They may in this golden corrupted state Bishopricks purchase at an easier rate Then the chiese-iustice-ship Thus Errour beares Her selfe aloft while Truth bedevv'd vvith teares To thinke vpon the wofull sad events Schismes ever bring vpon the Church laments For if the monuments of formerages VVe search and studiously turne ore the pages Of all historians they vvill shevv vs plaine No state or Kingdome ever did sustaine Such fatall dovvnfalls gene'rall devastations Finall subversions and depopulations By open foes though ne're so fiercely bent As by intestine civill broyles Hovv went The Graecian Monarchy to nothing why Lost Rome her greatnes vvherefore doth she ly Buryed in her owne ruines who vvas once The glory of the East an heape of stones But aske antiquity how these did fall 'T will answere discord hath or'ethrowne thē all Enquire of Carthage and her rubbish towers Will cry would Hannos ' house had ne're beene ours Aske how the Thracian empire's stately seate Became a slaue to Mahomet the great How we lost all those Countreyes in the East And how that land our Saviours presence blest Truth must reply dissension was their fall And Christian princes discord lost them all This was spide wisely by a graue Bashaw And as a strong persuasion vs'd to draw Great Soliman to Rhodes For while quoth he The Christian princes thus divided be They hasten their destruction 't was too true This Counsaile Rhodes and Hungary did rue Civill dissensions are most mortall ever But when religion breeds them then they sever The very

pavves As damne themselues for his vnhallovved cause Next him the Cardinalls march in pompous sort VVh ' vvould rather the defendants of the port Corrupt then force by conquest This implyes They shall not vvant for earthly dignityes And temp'rall honours that vvith Rome vvill side Gainst heaun in vvordly triumph those shall ride And he for Babels vvhore vvill spend a soule Shall quaffe in fornications golden boule Be it so Lord such their revvard haue here And plagues hereafter but thy children deere Novv suffer that they may be after Crovvn'd VVhen they shall in thy cup of vvrath be drovvnd A squadron of fat Bishops marcheth next VVhose armes are Pickaxes in stead of text Truth by the spirit can sustaine no harme Therefore they 'd batter't vvith the fleshes arme The last though not the least in force consists Of a vvhole Legion of * Ignatius Priests VVho hauing learnd the vndermining art From him that taught it first to † Berthold Schwart Doubt not to make Truth 's strongest hold to fly VVith * pouderbarrells vp into the sky VVhen lying forging and equivocation Too vveake they found to batter truth's foundation And that the seeming'st reasons they could rack From their sublimest braines reflected back Vpon themselues with shame and vvith disgrace For falshood must at last to truth giue place Though ne're so nearly varnish'd they betooke Themselues to treasons and their bookes forsooke As Iulius did his keyes vvith fire and svvord In stead of zeale and the spirituall vvord They take the field not only to enthrall Mens consciences but liberty and all Thus arguments for armes they haue refused And treasons base for their best reasons ●sed Thus haue they chose for Pallas povverfull charmes Mars his more harsh and forcible alarmes And not prevailing by far-strain'd conclusions Would put dovvne Truth by lavvlesse vvrong confusiōs This Germany too sensibly hath felt And smarted for vvhose soule can chuse but melt To thinke on 't vvhere the title to the Crovvne Of that vnhappy Kingdome tumbled dovvne Truth 's best professours For the plot vvas layd Before th' election of the Paltz grave made Hovv to defeate him This vvas onely done To make him on his owne confusion runne And that they might the eyes of iustice blind VVith some pretence of equity and bind Our hands that vvere engaged to support So iust a cause How grossely did they sport VVith thy mild nature thou whose sacred name The title of the Prince of Peace may Claime How was thy soule abus'd with false relations And hopes of ne're-meant reconciliations How did that damned Don and 's agents here That were of all thy subjects plac'd most neere Thy nought-suspecting heart infatuate The wisest Prince on earth and captivate That iudgment whereat all the world did gaze Sure he that skrew'd thee into such a maze Of errour was no Spanyard but a devill Sent vp from hell to worke the Church such evill Hovv couldst thou else vvith patience sit and see Truth 's fall and thine ovvne childrens misery VVhile as 't is thought there vvas more treasure spēt In fruitles embassades and complement Then vvould not onely haue the Paltz secur'd But in it's bounds the Austrian pride immur'd VVer 't nor for this blest King and th' old ones playster Thou migh'st perchance haue yet beene Britaines master Novv Germany lyes drovv'nd in her ovvne blood And all that for Religions quarrell stood Haue suffer'd Martyrdome and Frances King Is set a vvorke the Huguenots to bring Into subjection Yet one sore doth ly In th' eye o' th' Pope and 's Catholique Majesty VVhich needs must be remov'd before the rest And that 's our land of Heretiques the nest As they please terme it hovv they this may doe Spaines councell and the Romane Conclaue too VVith Beelzebub that sits as President At Councell table haue a long time spent VVith forreigne forces to invade a land So rich so vvell appointed so vvel mann'd VVith high resolved spirits that ever bore Themselues in vvarres victorious heretofore And made good proofe of perfect valour till Base treachery against the valiant's vvill Did Generally Mislead them novv of late And the vvhole vvorld may Admire all thereat T' invade so stout a people needs must be A dang'rous action full of jeopardy Besides the very thought of eighty eight Dants them and quells such resolutions straight VVherefore 't is safest in such case to fly From open vvarre to secret trechery He that intends to bring a countrey vnder Either he must before he lighten thunder Or else rayse vp and nourish in 't a faction May make him entrance through their ovvne destraction In eyghty eight the former they assay'd Then treating peace vvhen th' had their anchores vvaigh'd To saile to our destruction But be blest You heav'ns their svvord vvas turn'd on their ovvne brest Novv of the second project they make tryall And Spanish gold alas finds rare denyall From Spaines exchequer some some from the Popes A●e fed with gold but more with golden hopes This th' haue attempted long and how too true T is th' haue prevaild I feare too late we rue ●i●st seeing Religion is the strongest Chaine To ty mens har●s together and 't is vaine To hope for conquest whiles that Concords band Environs like a wall of brasse our Land His Holynes hath learn'd of Machiavell In whom all Popes haue ever beene read well T' advise his standard bearer to devide Truths chiefest followers that while they doe side In factions mongst themselues he may with ease Destroy them all ev'n as himselfe shall please By taking part with th' one Which to effect Sathan his writts doth readily direct To all the peeres of darknes VVho being met And capering to the Councell-table set In comes the Divells Duke great Lucifer VVhen all to make obeysance quickly stir Scraping their cloven feet and lovvely bending Because their honours are from him depending Straight Beelzebub the chosen President After a hem that all in pieces rent The walls of L●mbo an oration roar'd To all the Luciferians amply stor'd With threatnings what he sayd I did not heare If needes you 'le know the cause I was not there But by the sequell I perchance may guesse That solemnly his hate he did professe To Truth and all her follo'wers and 's desire T' enlarge his empire and to bring it ●igher To vniversall greatnes But there lay To curbe his great designes a rubbe i' th vvay Truths fortresse vvhence he often had sustaind Losse irrecov'rable and seldome gaind Ought else but shamefull falls disgracefull foyles Or strong repulses Therefore all their vviles Of hellish policy they novv must proue This let of their ambition to remoue All spend their censure that since force prevailes not Treason must do 't that too too often failes not VVherefore vvith generall voyces they conclude That fiends in shevv of friends must truth delude And so betray her To this cursed end In humane shape