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A08453	The fountaine and vvelspring of all variance, sedition, and deadlie hate Wherein is declared at large, the opinion of the famous diuine Hiperius, and the consent of the doctors from S. Peter the Apostle his time, and the primitiue Church in order to this age: expresly set downe, that Rome in Italie is signified and noted by the name of Babylon, mentioned in the 14. 17. and 18. chapters of the Reuelation of S. Iohn.	Ocland, Christopher, d. 1590?	1589 (1589)	STC 18778; ESTC S113367	31,748	48

The Fountaine and VVelspring of all Variance Sedition and deadlie Hate Wherein is declared at large the opinion of the famous Diuine Hiperius and the consent of the Doctors from S. Peter the Apostle his time and the Primitiue Church in order to this age expresly set downe that Rome in Italie is signified and noted by the name of Babylon mentioned in the 14. 17. and 18. Chapters of the Reuelation of S. Iohn Chap. 17. verse 5 And in her forehe●d was a name written a mysterie great Babylon the mother of whoredome and abhomination of the earth 6 And I saw the woman dronken with the blood of the Saintes and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus LONDON ❧ Printed by Roger Ward dwelling vpon Lambard hil neere vnto olde Fish-street 1589. ¶ TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND noble Earls the Earls of Huntington and Warwicke Grace Peace felicitie in the Lord Iesus RIght Honorable the warres rumors of warres breach of brotherly loue manifolde troubles and dissention growing euerie where through Europe which is the part of the worlde professing Christ argue the dissolution of all things premonished by our Lord not to bee farre hence distant It behooueth therfore all good Christians considering the time to be circumspect to watch and pray accordingly as vve are commanded by our Sauiour in these words Vigilate Orate againe Estote prudentes sicut Serpentes Be ye wise as Serpents And we are deeplie to consider from whence this venome and poyson floweth which drunk and sucked in by the space of many years passed hath transformed and as it were charmed the braines and sences of many men that according to the words of the Prophet seeing they see not hearing they heare not and vnderstāding they vnderstand not in matter concerning principally the saluation of their soules The remedie of which mortall maladie consisteth in this to knowe and search out the cause and that knowen to remooue the same and then to apply medicine for curing of it In all which pointes Right Honorable I shew briefly in this small treatise following the doctrine of S. Peter the Apostle and the best learned and most approoued Authours opinions consenting deliuered from age to age which open the sinfull man and misterie of iniquity the onely cause of troubles and not yet well perceiued neither vnderstanded of the greater sort Committing these my labours to your Honors tuition and protection whose zeale to true and sincere Religion attentiue eare giuen alwaies to the Preaching of Gods worde and laudable life concurring as sure testimonie well knowen to the world makes me bolde to dedicate vnto your LL. this Pamphlet hoping that the booke beeing your own as it is and therefore the more to be desired to be read and to come into many mens hands whome all in generall for your singular vertues do reuerence honour and loue may profite doo good and perchance conuert not a few from their obstinate opinion in cleauing to the woorishe Babilonicall Church wherein rather of selfe-wil than of any grounded reason they dwell and persist And on the contrarie side confirme and establish the others whose hearts alreadie conducted by the holy spirite see the light of Gods truth and ensue it And herein withall humblenes I make manifest my conscience according to the small talent which vnto me is lent hope that my dutie obedience and good vvill to her Maiestie Lords of her Counsell and my Countrey may in the sequel sufficiently appeare Praying God to send both your Lordships long life with encrease of honour Your Lordships most humble Christoph. O. The Fountaine and VVelspring of all Variance Sedition and deadlie hate throughout Christiandome MEdicines be applied to the bodie sicke and diseased but exhortations are vsed to giue courage and more stomacke to the forwarde stout and industrious that the spark of vertue alreadie ingenerated in them may grow to a bigger flame and substance with increase or els to stir vp raise and plucke forward the mind of man when it languisheth I therefore of the lowest sort of all among the learned purposing to vtter my conscience and knowledge by way of exhortation my most bounden dutie first towardes the Quéenes Maiestie and ne●t to the people of my natiue soile and Country of England déeply considered and moouing me thereto doo earnestly pray and instantly require al true English men of euery degrée as they tender y ● safty of their soules and bodies to giue attentiue eare and wel to marke the whole discourse of this my purposed treatise the rather because it is of waight of most great importance touching the weale publique in this litle Isle of England and preseruation of our most royall and gratious Quéene Elizabeth and next of vs all English ingenerall our countrie wherein we are bred and borne our wifes children kinsfoolkes and posteritie whereof we should haue a most cheefe and especiall care regard especially and aboue all of religion which concerneth our soules to liue here and euer in the world to come In al which by God his grace I intend to vse perspicuity to be as briefe as the vrgent occasiō of so necessary a cause shal suffer me yet pretermitting many things which otherwise should haue bene touched to auoid tediousnes and prolixitie in matter now apparant already and many yéeres alredy past made manifest vnto y ● whole world Cōsider O noble Eugland that thou hast enimes that hate thée deadly that go about as much as in them is to work thy destruction Consider how the professors of the word of God els wher in Europe far hence and those that dwell next almost vnto vs be manaced vexed and persecuted with all rigor and crueltie from time to time afflicted euen to death the malice whereof procéedeth of causes of long time afore growen hereafter specified and fore warned in holie Scriptures Ponder déeply and call to minde with your selues Nos incidimus in tempora periculosa We are fallen into the perillous time Nos sumus in quos fines Seculorum deuenerūt We be those vpon whom the ends of the world be come The tokens thereof be plaine and manifest told afore by our Sauiour and Lord Iesus Christ which be these Nation shall rise against nation and Realme against Realme then shall they put you to trouble and shall kil you and yee shall be hated of all Nations for my names sake And then shall many be offended and shal betray one another c. So the time is certaine that the day of iudgment is at hand But of the day and hower saith Christ knoweth no man no not the Angels of heauen but my father onely The Apostle S. Paule in his 2 Chap. of his Epistle of the Thessalomans teaching when the day of Christ shall be at hande thus saieth Let no man deceiue you by any meanes For the Lord shall not come except their come a departing first and that the sinfull man be opened the

that escapest aliue shalt be in worse case than he that is dead A continuall torment pinching tearing of a man liuing is worse then any sharpe death The senses by death are taken the anguish on the other liuing in torment in the day time is euill and in the night worse It fretteth and suffereth still and continually as is the fable of Prometheus his liuer which as it wasteth by féeding the gréedis vultures mawes So it is renued and encreasing againe ministreth matter euery day of n●w and fresh torment and punishment This one chiefe and principall comfort but there bee many mo besides may make glad all true Subiects to call to remembrance how our Quéenes most excellent Maiestie Quéene Elizabeth together with her Graces prudent Counsellers haue prouided such plenty from the beginning of her Raigne of principall Armour Artillarie Munition a●d all other necessary furniture of warre as neuer was in England at any time before and thanked be god therefore the English throughout the Realme so appointed and fenced with Corselets and weaponed in all sortes with such readines at one houres call so forward in theyr musters that the children and yonglinges leape and spring for ioy at the sight of the same imitate men in their order of warlike array A greater comfort is that our gratious Lady and Quéen hauing reigned ouer vs now thirtie one years with al clemency administration of Iustice hath conserued this noble Island of England in long 〈◊〉 with increase of great wealth in euery sort and her highnes gouernement is such that it farre excéedeth the rule of any whatsoeuer Princesse either in Affrica Asia or Europa from the beginning of the world to this day except Debora that beloued of God among the Iudges of Israell Read the Cronicles and Histories in g●nerall written in Greeke Latine or any other tongues and it may be séene that her Maiestie is without comparison Elizabeth of England her gifts of the mind be so rare so excelling so surpassing that is her most fine and royal peircing wit in al her Princely spéeches and communications fre●●ent and mo●● apparant her learning and knowledge in the Gréeke Latine Italian French and Spanish tongues well knowen to all Ambassadours and others who haue conference in causes with her Grace farre aboue the capacitie in the Feminine Sex oner and beside the gifts of the body and other that they make this Queene of the West noble through the whole world Note also how oft by the mercie and great prouidence of God and carefull watch of her most noble Councellers her Maiesties person hath beene deliungred from perill and daunger of Treason and lately from the deuelish pra●●ses of Pary first alias Vphary called after that of Babington and his fellowes a thing miraculous in the sight of all good Subiectes in the which the wonderfull mercy and loue of our God hath bene shewed to her grace and Realme of England Looke and read ouer the Chronicles of all nations for the long raigne of women Princes and ye shall find non to haue raigned so long but Debora and one more wee English trust in GOD shee shall double her yeares of her raigne with like felicitte and victorie as her Maiestie hath already inioyed which one thing is a sure token of the fauour of God towardes the Realme and vs the inhabiters of the land For as it is written in the Prouerbes of Salomon Short raignes of Kings and Princes and oft changing of the regall seat signifieth that God is displeased with that Country or land And contrary the long raigne of a prince betokeneth Gods great blessing God grant Quéene Elizabeth long to raigne Amen Ouer and besides this the care study and diligence by her highnes Lords ●f the priuie Counsel hath beene and is such for to continue good gouernement and to preserue in vnitie peace and loue both England and her Subiects that it must néeds breed a comfort and ioy in all true Englishe people Further howe déepely hath her Grace lamented the rage and furie now many yeares practised and put in execution both in France and in the Low-Countries How hath her highnes ende●oured with all Godly zeal first to stoppe and represse the great cruelties there exercised Secondly to make mediation for vniting perfect amitie and peace betweene the one side 〈◊〉 the other heerein and in this poi●● the 〈◊〉 Noble and valiaunt Robert Earle of Leicester who from hence lately deceased meriteth his commendation of eternall fame and glory who of his own frée will and zeal to true religion leauing at home his deare Lady and wife his lands and possessions in maner and sort neglected his ease and pleasures altogether abandoned hath in two seuerall voyages very fortunate in the yeares 1586. and 1587. aduentured and hasazarded his person spent and consumed his goods money and plate euen to the great endebting of himselfe The first time he went ouer in the deepe and middest of the winter in a dark and stormy night taking shipping at Harwich Sir Henry Palmer knight Captaine and M. Gray Maister of the ship and landed the next day at Flushing so passed by Zealand into Holland And this is to bee remembred that during his ab●ad in Zealand and Holland for the more force of his martiall affaires hee was accompanied with the Earle of Essex the noble and valiant Lord Willoughbie The Lord burrowes The Lord Wentforth Lord Rich. The Lord North. Sir Thomas Cicil son heire to the Lord Burghley Lord high Treasurer of England Sir Phillip Sidney Sir Thomas Gorge Sir Thomas Sturley knight Sir William Pellam knight Sirr Thomas Perot knight Sir William Druery knight Sir Phillip Butler knight Sir William Goodier knight Sir William Read knight Sir Iohn Connaway knight Sir Iohn winckefield knight Sir Robert Sidney knight Sir Cholmely knight And many other worthy Knightes and Gentlemen of England furnished with great Horse Geldings and Armour that it was a most worthy sight to bee séene What care study and watch being there in the Low-Countries as a most wise and politike Captaine and Generall did hee vse in the night what industrie labour and paines did hee take in the day both in the house in consultations necessarie and abroad in the fieldes present in person at skirmishes and sieges of sorts and strong townes What occasion rei benè gerendae as the latine phrase is did this Earl omit either to aduance the honour of his Country either to preferre the weale publique there what good example of religion and good life did not this valiant Gentleman and noble Lord giue hauing two godly and famous learned men adorned with degrées of the Schoole of the Vniuersitie M. D. Tomson and M. D. Holland euery day preaching Gods word and saying diuine seruice what Hospitality and open house as we terme it what princely Court did this Earle kéepe for bread meat wine and béere and all other