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A11253	The Iesuites play at Lyons in France as it was there presented. Both to the amazement of the beholders, and the destruction of the actors, in August last past. Credibly informed by a factors letter (who was an eye witnesse) to his right worshipful maister in London.	R. S., fl. 1607.	1607 (1607)	STC 21514; ESTC S116329	14,309	30

of those seditious impostures is now growne to be the peoples beliefe Here withall sir is to be noted which let me intreate you to take note of that all their preachings playes representations consist of these two subiects to make others infamous and to honor themselues to approue the Sea of Rome the sole rocke and foundation ouer wh●ch as frō his masters mouth Peter had the charge giu●n him and since him for this many hundred years the Po●e and Bishops of Rome are the lawful heyres and successors and haue beene carefull fathers feeders fost●rers and gouernors therof hauing as they say like power and like dominion though their pride witnesseth against them they neglect to exercise the like doctrine that hee whose faith and confidence was built on them whose obedience and reuerence was payd to them might persist in what villanie soeuer he intended if but intending to the aduauncement of their church and the furthering of their ambition though it stretch to the murthering of princes whom God himselfe annointed and the Pope as heauens Vicegerent had full authoritie to pardon them to remit them from purgatorie after death and crowne them with the glories of eternall happinesse Where on the contrarie sir those that are faithfull Christians of them in derision called Lutherans Hugonites Caluinists Protestants from the word Protest meaning they professe much and doe nothing though we serue our maker with vprightnesse of hart though wee rob him not of his glor●e giuing it to men though we seek as he himse●fe hath appointed for no other intercessor betwixt our sinnes and the fathers iudgement but his only begotten sonne though as much as lies in the frailtie of mans flesh to doe wee obey his commaundementes honour our Princes submit to Magistrates hurt no man willingly loue our neighbour as ourselues yet in their decrees and not for obeying their institutions we are the dregges of sinne the bubbles of religion but risen of late and ere long to be confounded we dwell vnder the wrath of heauen and wee shall feele it we drinke of the impoysoned cup and wee shall perish Angels Saints and Martyrs haue no fauour with vs wee are no better then infidels with whome it is vnlawfull to holde league and lawfull to breake oath or promise wee are blotted from out the booke of heauen as wee are excommunicated out of their Church that we shal neuer haue the happinesse to come to their Purgatorie for there is no other locall place ordained for vs then hell wee are not so fortunate as beastes for they liue die and then their labours at an ende but our end is without end perpetuall destruction Thus Sir as in Bookes of large volumes they haue published against vs as in their Sermons they do preach of vs so in this their Play they present vs where by this time if your Worshippe would bee but pleased to thinke the Trumpeters had left sounding that all the dead had assumed new life and were now comming before this Tribunall I will shew as euidently to your iudgement as it was apparant to my fight to what sentence and execution they giue vs Christians our Princes Prelates Gouernours I euen vnto the meanest and how they glorifie themselues from the Cardinall to the Fryar Capochen may your good Worshippe but please to thinke then that in this minute you are seated in Lions at this time you heard the sound of excellent musicke when presentlie as in a shew you beheld all the Popes and Bishoppes who had gouerned in the papall chaire since the time they professe Peter to haue preached there and the decay of the Romain Empire vshered in with conuents of Fryars companies of Iesuites colledges of Cardinals indeed of their needfull ministers of all sorts who in their passage sung Anthems Te Deum and other songes of gladnes euery Pope and Bishop had his name and title written on his forehead as thus sir Some but Christs vicar others who inlarged to that Seruant of seruants other King of Kinges and so of their whole stile euen vnto this Pope which now gouerneth who though all the rest were glad to carry themselues in on their feete he was borne in on foure Kinges shoulders and as that neither death nor earth had had power to pull them from their pride or robes pontificall so though their play was of the generall Sessions before which shall be a change from all earthlie glories they came expressing the greatest power and commaund wherein they liued who when they were all entred vppon the Stage though they were as proud as Popes are yet they themselues with the whole assembly made their obeysance to the vpper iudge who rising with the greatest maiestie he could set and being adorned gorgeosly to beget wonder in the spectators or beholders spake to this purpose that they were the fathers of his church the shepheards of his flocke to whom hee had giuen doth the keies of heauen earth and ful power to bind and loose mens transgressions and hauing founde in his register they had been faithful in their charge and careful in his seruice as his beloued on his right hād he had prepared them a glorious seate and happinesse euerlasting which they entertaining with a Hymne of thanksgiuing according as hee directed them in great state seated themselues Thus hauing beheld the Popes and all their disciples brought in by the hand of Angels and placed on the right hand of the throne may you bee pleased sir but to turne● your eyes on the left hand and view the great Turkes euen from their father Mahomet to him now that raigneth with Bazzes Ianizaries and other instruments administers of his infidelitie brought in by diuels and seated on the left hand as also Prester Iohn the Emperor of Persia and all Protestant Princes namely the Kings and late Queene of England the king of Denmarke all those Princes of Germanie that hold faith with vs Graue Morris and the States of the low Countries to conclude they were figured all that liued contrarie to them in opinion though they beleeue in the same Christ which they professe yet they rancke them in the number amongst infidels where on the contrary the Emperor of Germani●e the Kings of France Spain Portugall all Dukes and Princes of what prouince soeuer had either their presence or character were placed at the Popes feete ouer whom hee seemed to spread his hands and blest them and looking vp towardes him that plaide the Iudge aboue seemed to present them as seruāts to his church and obeyers of his wil whom he graciously seeming to accept there was a Canton sung of the Angels and Martyrs aboue and knit vp with Masse Priests Friers and the rest beneath then was from the Popes hand deliuered vnto him that represented the sonne of God a book wherin was ingrost all pardons curses and excommunications either for or against Princes or their people which he deliuering to him that presented the father