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christian_n	church_n	particular_a	universal_a	4,571	5	9.4486	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06678	An ansvver to the vntruthes, published and printed in Spaine, in glorie of their supposed victorie atchieued against our English Navie, and the Right Honorable Charles Lord Howard, Lord high Admiral of England, &c. Sir Francis Drake, and the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, captaines, and soldiers of our said navie. First written and published in Spanish by a Spanish gentleman; who came hither out of the Lowe Countries from the service of the prince of Parma, with his wife and familie, since the overthrowe of the Spanish Armada, forsaking both his countrie and Romish religion; as by this treatise (against the barbarous impietie of the Spaniards; and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Majestie) may appeere. Faithfully translated by I.L.; Respuesta y desengano contra las falsedades publicadas en España enbituperio de la armada Inglesa. English	D. F. R. de M.; Lea, James, fl. 1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 17132; ESTC S109021	42,817	64

Themistocles and the Siracusans to Hermocrates and Dion and the Romanes to Camillus and Rutilus and to Metellus And Cato Vticensis being nothing covetous nor Hercules at any time a coward Plutarch mentioneth that they noted Cato for covetous and Hercules for a coward Finally all men of great and heroicall virtues are envied and wounded by the evill toong for even as the shadow accompanieth the bodie so doth envie pursue vertue and from hence it groweth that the vertuous are so murmured at and persecuted by the wicked O England England and how art thou bound to give immortal thanks to God in seeing thy selfe persecuted and murmured at by so many an evident signe and probable token that thou art the citie of the most highest To those whome God loveth he sendeth troubles prooving them as Gold in the fornace And to his beloved people in Egypt he sent many and sundry scourges and this bicause he loved them The troubles of the just saith David are great and addeth foorthwith but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Even so thee O England hath the Lord delivered frō all thy troubles from so mightie an Armada from so much death from so many and sundrie kinds of torments as having bin overcome thou must of necessitie have tasted from these tribulations hath he delivered thee by his strong hand giving thee such valiant captaines If he gave to the people of Israell for they bringing out of Egypt a Moyses an Aaron and a Marie To thee he hath given a most Christian and puissant Queene adorned with sundrie vertues a Charles Howard a Francis Drake and manie others whom the Lord had ordained kept long before for the defence of his universal church this particular kingdome which all he yet stil preserveth for greater matters and what these thy woorthies ô England made not an end of in performing thy totall deliverance the rest did the wind the sea the rocks the sand the heavens the fowle and the fish and now lastly he delivereth thee of the untruthes wherein thine enimies boasted and slandered thee putting time for the unfolding of deceit fame for the proclaimer and truth for the certaine proofe and so their slanders and false publications remaine al untwisted But returning to my purpose Saint Anastasius saith that even as he who taketh up a viper in his hands to throw to another to bite him is first bitten of the viper himselfe so the malicious and murmurer that would persecute and infame the just doth first persecute himselfe and remaines infamed and desirous to bite the fame of another slaieth his owne soule for there is no byting of Viper or Aspe so poisonsome as the malice of the perverse But this cannot sinke into their understanding which murmur at vertue charge hir with vice and with falshood make that which is good seeme ill and of stocks make stones like to the fountaine in Almaine whereof Albertus Magnus maketh mention Of the number of these me seemeth that the Postmaster is seeing of the peace and affinitie which is betweene the English and the Scots he wil make wars saieng that the Scottishmen had taken weapon against the English a most inconvenient thing and utterly unwoorthie to be beleeved for it were the very instrument for the Scots to strike off their owne heads withall to favor their enimies in arms and religion whereby to make them Lords of their houses and possessions And without all doubt had the Spaniards taken sure footing in this land they would never have staid till they had beene Lords also of Scotland and who can doubt it for the onely blazon now adaies amongst Spaniards is nothing els but NON SVFFICIT ORBIS as if they should say All the world is too little and they cannot see that their grave sufficeth them But such was the malice of him that wrote this letter that therwith he meant to stir up the minds of English men that there might be wars betweene two kingdoms borne of one bellie brethren in religion confederate in perfect peace and of one language in a maner and the health of the one depending in not damaging the other And this the Scottishmen knowing well when the Spanish ships passed by their coasts the King commanded to take weapon against them forbidding to permit any Spaniard to land this is the truth go not then about to make of stocks stones neither to give us to understand things so contrarie to reason In this prevention the King of Scots shewed plainly that he knew the kindled and loftie minds of the Spaniards who if they had landed imitating the Goads of whom they descend though it had been under the title of peace they would soone have reacht the crowne not so much to depose the King as to become Lords of the whole world and to shew their greatnes and courage Now in fine he that will see cleerly who these glosers are let him behold what they say and be attentive to their speeches and he shall see their putrified harts laid open Saint Ambrose saith that most commonly the looking-glasse of the soule shineth in the words Saint Hierom saith that the words which issue foorth are the signes of that which remaineth within this is also asentence of Aristotle Saint Bernard saith that the mouth is a gate and servant of the hart Socrates saith that such as the man is such is his talke Themistocles compareth men that be silent unto pictures rold up and inclosed and those who talke and use speech to pictures spred abroad and laid open If thou wilt know what pictures there are in a linnen cloth painted in Flaunders spread it abroad would you know whereof the hart of a man is painted be conversant with him What need we more Christ our Saviour saith that Of the abundance of the hart the mouth speaketh and that by our words we shall be justified or condemned Well knowen and manifestly do the writers of these letters shew heere their want of charitie and as to the sonnes of leazings it may be said unto them You have the Divell for your father This seemeth unto me like that which we reading the sacred Scripture where the incontinent mistresse of chaste Ioseph condemned him of incontinencie and the proud Hebrewes condemned divine Moses of pride and the unruly Absolon reprehended David of ill government and the mischievous Rabshaketh living by deceit accused the innocent king Hezechiah of deceit Even so the writers of these fabulous letters they being the vanquished publish themselves victors and the Englishmen by the divine favor being conquerors they accuse them for vanquished and they being those that disquiet this kingdome and make war against it lay the fault upon the Scottish men publishing them for our enimies and that they tooke armes against English men and they being the swift inventors of these novelties so false they accuse the Governor of Roan of an inventor and lightnes and the like they lay