St. Mathew Be not in any case called Masters because there is one that is your Master but be as if you were all Brothers Can any thing be more clear can any thing be of greater proof When Christ spake these words to his Apostles St. Peter was present and therefore like but not Superiour to the rest So as what authority is that the present Divines give to St. Peter over the Apostles and by consequence to the Popes over the Cardinals In my judgement both sides are too blame the Popes to usurp and exalt themselves so much and the Cardinals to prostitute and debase themselves These are the errours that occasion if not the greatest part of our Heresies at least the most stubborn and perverse part of them it being most certain that a great part of their Passion and Acrimony against the Church would be taken away could they but see things honestly administred by an equal concurrence both in Cardinals and Pope But to return from this point from which also we have in some measure been forc'd to digress I will speak now of the infallibility of the Church Let us first examine if there be or ever was such a Church in the world to whom God had vouchsaf'd out of his profound Counsels to bestow any such privilege There is no need of studying or using any long and elaborate arguments to prove that all Churches whatsoever have been subject to Errour dayly experience presenting us with continnal examples that they have fallen into errour as great as can be imagin'd by man The Jewish Church that flourish'd so long under their Patriarchs and Prophets that before the coming of our Saviour had the honour to be call'd the only visible Church of God though it was govern'd by pious and experienc'd Pastors Err notwithstanding and was most miserably involv'd in the puddle of Idolatry so as we read in the Chrenicles That for many days together the Israelites had neither God nor Law nor Priest amongst them all to direct them And the Prophet Esau with Tears in his Eyes and Sorrow in his Heart complains That all their Governors were blind And the Prophet Ezechiel tells us that this Idolatry over-spread the Church as well in Egypt as in Israel But we need not trouble our brains for an instance of their erring the Golden Calf the people made to themselves and worshipp'd as a God in spight of Aaron and Moses who went up into the Mount to receive the Tables of the Law is too sad an evidence Jeremiah complains with great anguish of the miseries of Juda that was fallen into that profound and bottomless impiety it was a question whether there were more Cities or Idols in her Dominions And at the time of our Saviours coming into the world he found the Church infected with an infinite number of Heresies and Innovations introduc'd by the false Doctrines disseminated by those very Scribes and Pharisees that govern'd it Let the Scriptures be look'd over never so seriously let the Ecclesiastical Histories be examin'd never so strictly I am sure there is not any particular Church to be found since the time of the Apostles that retains its proper and Primitive Purity and has not deviated by some corruption or other from its first method and form So as St. Paul had very good reason in the beginning of his Epistle to the Romans to exhort them to have a care they did not wander from the truth The Church of Rome notwithstanding all this believes her self infallible or at least some Divines would perswade her so In Genoa there was a Priest called Father Zachary as I remember I am sure he was a Dominican that Preach'd upon that Subject he was a great Orator and had a vast memory he us'd all the arguments were possible to prove it and amongst the rest this one in St. Mathew And the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it which he urg'd with that vehemence that he declar'd that as often and every time the Church did err so often should Christ himself break his promise with the Church The Father being himself both Opponent and Respondent there was no answer given to that position yet it may be very well alleadg d that Christ in those words spake not of any particular Church but only of the Church of his Elect and therefore assures us also in other places that all the Machinations Persecutions and Conspiracres of the three implacable Enemies of mankind united shall not be able to extinguish and irradicate that Church because Gods Foundations are firm and unmoveable and he knows who are his own As it is in the Apostle to Timothy to which may be added those words of our Saviour The Heaven and the Earth shall pass away but my Word shall not fail intending thereby the Church where the word of God is preach'd And if it happens at any time that any particular Church deviates from the right way which is the way of truth the only foundation of the Church and upon which our Salvation is built God of his mercy will raise up another to convince that of the errour it is fallen into Amongst all the Churches since the beginning of the world there has not been found that unconstancy and confusion as in the Church of Rome so many Anti-Popes Schisms Heresies Controversies Confusions Suspensions Persecutions so many false Opinions Scandals Tyrannies and Intestine Quarrels as there Several times have they been known to adore two Popes in the same Province at once at another time three of several Nations the very Colledge of Cardinals being divided some of them favouring one side some another and some of them believing neither of them lawfull This I am sure that at the Election of one Pope there grew such Schism in the Church the people were in great perplexity and confusion and not knowing by reason of the difference amongst the Cardinals which was the true Christian Church they were to follow they remain'd not only months but years in that irresolution as if they had belong'd neither to God nor the Devil Is it not too true Their Ecclesiasticks themselves do not only dispute in their Councels but fall out and quarrel with that vehemence and passion they will sooner leave the Councel than their Opinions so pertinaciously proud are they of any thing that is their own though with the greatest scandal to the people who in that uncertainty of the truth forsake not only their fiery and unreasonable Opinions but their Religion it self But what shall I say Are there not Bishops that Preach false Doctrine in their Diocess chaulking out Rules of living to the people contrary to the meaning of the Gospel and what is taught in Rome And have there not been Popes that have been disclaimed by their Clergy From hence it may be easily concluded that their Opinion that hold the Church infallible is false and erroneous and if the Church be fallible much more the Pope who though Governour
much better to have the Pope than God Almighty to ones enemy He will not take away my life sure because I gave him not my Vote I believe he will lessen my diet deâ—y me my Pensions banish me his presence and never consider me in my distresses Why in Poverty I have been hardned I have liv'd in poverty till now and in poverty I will die He will not take away my Muses who are my greatest refreshment In short I trust in God for the rest who will never suffer the Church his Spouse to fall into the hands of so impure and lascivious a person The goodness of God will not endure that Vatican to be turn'd into a Den of Thieves and an infamous receptacle of Harlots which has hitherto been the habitation of so many holy and religious Popes If the Holy Ghost makes the Pope he will not be the man if the Devil makes him let him give his consent that has a mind to t. The power of the Conspirators will vanish the design being laid in so sordid a place In the morning by the Grace of God it will be seen whether the Pope be made by the combination of men or the inspiration of Heaven and if you be a good Christian as well as a zealous Cardinal you will not give your vote for one who is a perfect member â—f the Devil In the morning early Aeneas went to Cardinal Roderigo a Spaniard and one of the Conspirators for Rotomagensis who had receiv'd a promise in writing from the said Rotomagensis and the Cardinal Avignon that the Chancellorship should not be taken from him He excus'd himself to Aeneas that he had concurr'd because he did certainly believe he would be chosen and he was unwilling to hang off and lose his Chancellorship But Aeneas return'd him this answer And will you then sell your Vote and by the sin of Simony run your self into the displeasure of God do you take so little care then to obtrude a youth upon the Vatican and one that is an Enemy to your Nation Oh blindness Oh folly will you give credit to the words of a person of no credit know that the Chancellorship which is promis'd so faithfully to you is promis'd likewise and confirm'd to the Cardinal of Avignon so that for you there will be nothing left but the bare policy for it can never be that a French Pope will do more for a Spaniard than for one of his own Nation But if he should give you the Chancellorship which never will be the worm of Conscience will be still gnawing at your heart as oft as you remember that you concurr'd to the giving such a Vicar to the Church of Christ In short if you will not have an eye to the Christian Religion to the interests of the Church nor to the honour of Christ have at least some care and compassion for your own reputation Such was the contumacy and indignation of Roderigo Borgia that he gave him not a word so Aeneas departed to find out the Cardinal of Pavia who was one of the Conspirators likewise and having found him he accosted him in this manner I am inform'd of your resolution to choose Rotomagensis Pope which I could never have believ'd as esteeming you another person than it seems you are You ought to be asham'd to degenerate so much from Cardinal Brando your Vnkle who with so much labour and sweat tyr'd himself out to transfer the Pontifical Court from Germany to Rome and you that are his Nephew would transport it from Italy into France it must necessarily be believ'd that Rotomagensis will never give the Italians the precedence before the French and you that are an Italian will confederate sooner with France than your own Country what a sad thing Italy will be without a Pope what light can we see without that light and have you the heart to be instrumental with your authority and counsel to deprive us of the greatness and splendor of such a Guide if he should stay still in Italy what a shame would it be to see her enslaved to a Foreign Lord must Italy therefore who is the Queen of all other Nations beg her Monarchs from amongst them can you have the heart to see your self a slave to the French when it is in your power to make the French obedient to our Nation is it not enough that you have had experience of the Catalonians but that you must try the French too who perhaps when you think least of it will make himself Master both of Sicily and all the Cities and Fortresses belonging to the Church and the rather the example of Calisto being so fresh who gave his Countrymen the Catalonians his utmost assistance to get possession of all Cardinal Pavia reply'd but with a very low voice that he did not believe the French had any thoughts against the profit and advantage of the Church they having given with so much generosity the greatest part of the Provinces it possess'd and they would not probably take that away which they had given so lately to which Aeneas reply'd thus But suppose that should be ought it not to stir up your heart against Rotomagensis to consider the infamy of his manners are you not asham'd to choose a man Pope given to lasciviousness and of so unconstant a mind do you not abhor to prepare such a Bridegroom for the Spouse of Christ and to recommend the innocent Flock of Christ to the tuition of a ravenous Woolf where is your justice where is your conscience where is your zeal to God where is your prudence how are you so much alter'd from your self you have told me many times you would sooner dye and endure Martyrdom than give your Voice for Rotomagensis knowing the wickedness of his nature and yet now you make him Pope in despight of your knowledge what is the reason of so great a changâ— is he in the twinkling of an eye become an Angel of a Devil or are you become a Devil of an Angel Pavia was astonish'd at these words and wept I know not whether for sorrow or disdain but fetching a deep sigh he reply'd 'T is true indeed Aeneas all that you say but I have past my word to make Rotomagensis Pope and if I do it not I shall be held infamous and a Traitor To which Aeneas answered As far as I see things are reduc'd into such a state that which way soever you turn you you cannot scape the blemish of a Traitor it is in your power yet to choose whether you will betray Italy and your Country and be true to Rotomagensis or betray him and be faithful to your Country and Italy Cardinal Pavia was overcome by these words and took a resolution to betray Rotomagensis as the lesser evil of the two and therefore meeting with Cardinal Pietro di Santa Maria Nova and other Italian Cardinals in the Cardinal of Genoa's Chamber they altogether began to contrive the
these things but how by persecuting and perplexing of such as by their writings would remedy them nevertheless that remedy they apply which is neither Christian nor politick instead of doing good causes great hurt both to themselves and to the Church for the pens of the Censurists are like the head of Hercules his Hidra cut one off and there will succeed seven in its place and those much worse than the former To take away this unhappy effect the best way would be to remove the cause The Theologist should be forbidden to write such Rodomontads and not the Censurists to Censure It were strange if things should by this course succeed as they desire and design The Popes would suffer no body in Rome to write but only such as write of their Holiness their Majesty their Authority their Infallibility and their Impeccability Those on the other side that write in defence of the Jurisdiction and Supremacy of Princes must be banish'd persecuted and exterminated but 't is to small purpose in my judgement for whilst the Pope incourages his party to write in his praise the Princes will not want Assertors of their prerogatives and perhaps in greater numbers than his Holiness If the Roman Theologists should go on as they have began whether would things go For these thirty years they have added every day new Degrees new Titles new Authority new Soveraignty to the Pope now those that shall come after observing the writings of their Predecessors rewarded either with Abbeys Bishopricks Cardinalships or good Pensions will in all probability set their brains upon the tenters for an invention of enlarging his authority and not knowing any nearer way will attempt to take the Soveraignty away from the Temporal Princes and confer it on the Pope A certain Confessor I met lately by the City in a conference I had with him about the Authority of the Pope told me in these very terms Sir I believe it as an Article of my Faith that a Pope cannot possibly be damned I desir'd his reason with as much respect as I could but he gave me this answer only That many Divines now adayes in Rome did assert and write so and likewise many of the Faithfull began to believe it For my part I believ'd he said true and would to God the Jesuits were not in the way of maintaining this Opinion publiquely every where it being the highest complement they can use to him for if he be not lyable to damnation by consequence he is not subject to the sentence which God Almighty shall pass at the last day upon the Souls of Mankind Which Opinion being receiv'd the Pope is not only exempt from the Censures of Counsels and of the Church but from the Judgement of God himself and in times to come having gain'd this point they may perhaps perswade the people he is Eternal also But I am confident if Princes will gainsay his other pretences God Almighty will not grant him this of Eternity reserv'd as a peculiar attribute and prerogative to himself But I hope the prudence of the Popes will not suffer them to admit such Doctrine into the Church and then whilst they are good and just to the People the Princes and the Church I doubt not but they will be respected and reverenc'd by them all Too great a wind bruises or breaks a Vessel to pieces by a too hasty and violent concussion against the Shore though in the very Harbour it thought it self safe If the Popes had been contented to carry themselves with mediocrity they had never run that hazard of losing all and Christendom had been of larger extent than it is Whilst the Popes were satisfy'd within the limits of their Authority the Church increas'd to that wideness that the most barbarous Nations from the remotest parts of the Earth came to Rome to pay their Devotion to the Church Since they found things alter'd and all tending either to vanity or pride not only new accessions have ceas'd but those have withdrawn themselves who had been setled in the Church before The Divines are so insatiate to heap up honor upon honor upon the Pope that I fear they will one day make him lose all In short let the Theologists say what they please both Prince and people will always take the liberty 〈…〉 commend the good and find fault with the bad actions of the Popes But some will say perhaps since they cannot regulate the Pope it would be their best way to restrain the people because 't is more easie for a person to contain himself from upbraiding then from committing a Sin In former times the Popes serv'd for examples to draw people to works of piety and holiness and the Saints in their private Assemblies and Conversations took great pleasure to discourse of the charity of this Pope and the Martyrdom Zeal and Goodness of the other Now they talk indeed of their Popes but 't is to their reproach and disparagement not of their Sanctity but of their zeal to the preferment of their Nephews Formerly their discourse was only of their Virtues now it is only of their Errours God Almighty put it into the Hearts of the Cardinals to create holy Popes and into the hearts of the Popes to continue as the Cardinals create them Il CARDINALISMO di Santa Chiesa OR THE HISTORY OF CARDINALS In III. Parts PART I. BOOK II. The Contents Wherein is discours'd of the place proportion'd to the Fabrick of Cardinalism Of some particularities about the Essence of the Greek the Roman and the Jewish Churches Of the obligations upon the Church of Rome to banish and persecute the Jewish Church with more severity than the Greek Of the name of Church and what it signifies Of the distinctions in Rome betwixt the Catholick Church and the Roman Of the infallibility of the Church Of the Liberty of Conscience in their Divines The reason why they are punish'd more strictly that offend against the Pope than the Church Of the coldness of the Popes in remunerating those that serve the Church and their liberality to those that are serviceable to them Of the true remedy to hinder the Divines from flattering the Popes Of the Ecclesiastical charges and by whom they are to be dispens'd An efficacious way to prevent murmuring against the Pope Of the way in which the Popes serv'd the Church in the primitive times and of the honor they receiv'd by being call'd heads of the Christian Commonwealth Of the great necessity of taking from the Popes il motu Proprio and of the way to effect it Of the Election of Cardinals in the primitive times Of the age of Poverty and of the age of Riches Of the submission wherewith the Popes now adayes are treated by the Cardinals Of the great Errours into which the Church of Israel fell Of a certain Father that preach'd up the infallibility of the Pope That the Church of Rome is subject to several Errors Of a discourse betwixt a Priest
Countryes wandring up and down in great indigence with their whole Families perishing with hunger in the fields begging in other Countries or submitting themselves to other Princes to our great reproach And indeed for the reasons aforesaid there are not now above half the number of Subjects in the Ecclesiastick State that there has formerly been and in the numbers of his people consists the power and riches of a Prince The Genoeses that are found to have imploy'd above fourteen millions of our money though they were carefull enough in their affairs do now perceive it desperatâ— either from our disability to pay it or from some urging necessity upon the people that incites them to shake off from their necks so insufferable and tyrannical a Yoak God Almighty forgive the Ministers of that time who with so little Prudence and Equity perswaded your Holiness in the Infancy as it were of your Papacy without any necessity at all to the reduction of the Banks out of which so many millions were drawn as would have immortaliz'd your Holiness his name had they been apply'd to the satisfaction of those debts in part if not in the whole Your Holiness had not those sentiments heretofore when it pleas'd God to give us you for our Pastor and I dare affirm as I have done often and that to more than one that the first stings and compunctions that disturb'd your generous breast was those of compassion towards the exhausted people to that purpose you deputed a Congregation to inspect their grievances and was more than one time present there your self so that not only the Cardinals but all the rest of the Prelats expected an universal redress But God did not permit that your Holiness his good mind should be seconded by the good practises of your Ministers who oppos'd themselves against it to the great dissatisfaction of all that were well inclin'd It is now time most Holy Father to reap the fruits of it as you did when you provided against the abuses introduc'd in the administration of the Annona or annual provision of Corn which arriv'd to that excess as might have irritated the minds of the people to such disorders as would have been beyond all remedy But the exemplary chastisement of a single Minister only that for several years has with great corruption and universal dissatisfaction executed his office is no competent provision unless the cause be remov'd all occasions for others to do the same be prevented and the opinion that the Cardinals have their share be pull'd up and irradicated out of the hearts of the people The authority of these Officers is arriv'd at that height that in spight of all Laws both Humane and Divine and all rules of Charity and Justice they endeavour to make the name of your Holiness odious to the world by their squeâ—zings and extortions out of Corn Oyl Flesh and whatever is most necessary to the life of man it deserves certainly a severe reprehension if for no other end than that your Holiness might not appear consenting thereunto But although your Holiness even to these open and pernicious Enemies of the publique has been pleas'd to abound in your most admirable Clemency I could wish nevertheless your Holiness would in a particular manner regulate the affairs of the Annona for the future that those Subjects which your Holiness is oblig'd to provide for both as the Shepherd of their Souls and their Temporal Prince be not brought into a worse condition than the Beasts of the field who feed and sustain themselves with the Fruits of the Earth as their Creator ordain'd without being cosen'd and defeated by the malicious covetousness of others In the Congregations that I might not be wanting to my charge as being one deputed amongst the rest I have endeavour'd to display my opinion in this matter and as to the particular of keeping the City of Rome and the whole Ecclesiastick State likewise if not in a plentiful at least in a competent provision of Corn I have nothing to add to the report I made by your Holinesses Commission in the very beginning of your Papacy This I shall only say that if no relief be immediately apply'd to the sufferings of your Subjects their ruine and destruction I see most eminently and unavoidably at hand Your Holiness would do well to take off part of the impositions upon Edibles and to restrain the insatiable voracity of the Treasurers of Provinces and other publique Ministers who to Monopolize and forestall the Markets by a barbarous invention do render the people miserable and not so much as Masters of that which by the blessing of God they do gather upon their own ground It would be a great relief to your Subjects likewise if the Commerce with the Venetian which with much detriment has been interdicted till now were open'd again nor would those most prudent Senators make any difficulty to consent as well for the mutual advantage it would bring as that it would be a means to make the Apostolick See more ready and dispos'd upon any Exigence of theirs to tax its own Subjects to relieve them In short a Prince that desires the relief and ease of his Subjects cannot want wayes to effect it And this your Holiness may do by incouraging and introducing arts into several places in the State by making Civita Vecchia and Ancona free Ports by favouring Agriculture that is almost forgotten in most places by employing able and dexterous men in all Governments and Offices and not call in so many strangers to usurp and ingross what belongs naturally to your Subjects By this means your State would be repeopled the golden Age restored and your Treasury recruited I should have had something to say about the affairs of Portugal but finding my breath to fail me my head no less than my hand to tremble and that I might not be any longer tedious to your Holiness I will only beseech you to ponder and deliberate with your self in a business of so great consequence and having ask'd Counsel of God rather than of man who is sway'd and actuated by passion that you resolve and perform that zealously that shall be directed by his infinite wisdome It troubl'd my very Soul to consider the small hopes with which you suffer'd the English Gentleman to depart that was sent to your Holiness to endeavour the promotion of the Abbot Aubigny a person so qualify'd by his Birth Abilities and Piety that he would without doubt have become a Pillar and Support to the tottering Catholicks in England as Cardinal Poole did formerly Having heretofore with great vehemence and fervour supplicated your Holiness to bestow upon a person so honourable and so necessary to the Church that Cap that has so long though unworthily adorn'd my head and which still I would with all my heart lay down at your Holiness his feet for the investure of such a person I do now with all my heart reiterate those Prayers that it
of his Spirit they were patient and cry'd still observe the end And indeed it succeeded as they presag'd for Innocent being disgusted by him that he had before look'd upon as an Oracle either because he would not sing as he would have him or that Donna Olimpia had given him a lift or for other considerations unknown he not only made no use of him in his affairs but turn'd his love into disdain reviling that person as extravagantly as ever he had commended him Alexander the seventh that pretended to understand the merits of a man as well as any body and was resolv'd to use no mans judgement but his own in the Election of his Cardinals was no sooner leap'd into the Chair but he made him his Maggior domo and because he knew this person to have a brain capable to dispatch several businesses at once he gave him a hundred employments there being never a Congregation where there was any affair of importance to be transacted but he was present and yet he discharg'd exactly his duty as he was Maggior domo to the satisfaction of the Pope endeavouring with might and main to secure himself of the affection of the house of Chigi by whose favour he facilitated the acquisition of the Terra Farnese which was his own jurisdiction and found out a way to exclude the Duke of Parma who was to succeed him in case the right line fail'd All these things consider'd the Pope resolv'd to give him a Cap and at the same time sent him Legat to Bologna in which he carry'd himself to his Holinesses satisfaction but he found things well dispos'd by the good management of Lomelini his Predecessor who had govern'd that City to the incredible satisfaction of the People He is a man of a very great brain which perhaps would be a prejudice to him if the Chair was vacant because they all know too much wind does more hurt to a Ship than too little In all his Negotiations he has behav'd himself like a true Roman It is a hard matter to find a man so devoted to business as he He administers justice with such exactness that it appears severity He is old and of a weakly complection and yet of a strange extravagant life going to supper either when other people rise or go to bed He is not much inclin'd to Piety nor Charity he gives Almes sometimes but 't is more out of policy than any thing else all the injuries that are done him stick close at his heart so that he does best that offends him not at all and so much the rather because he can dissemble his malice so well For some months past he has forborn coming to the Congregations del Annona upon a disgust that Cardinal Barbarino gave him by obstructing some resolutions of his under pretence that it was necessary to stay till the Abbot Rospigliosi was present but he had a greater quarrel with Imperiale because he oppos'd himself in one of the Congregations against Farnese about the validity of the Bull for the Incameration of Castro for which Imperiale had no great thanks he having thereby expos'd himself to the indignation of the Crown of France In short Farnese is something refractory in his opinion and is angry with every body when things go not as he advises and sometimes he is angry alone He has but few Kindred and those he has have so little esteem for him that they do not care to trouble him yet some suspect that all is but Hypocrisie and like that of Alexander the sevenths who alwayes express great alienation to his till he was Pope and then he chang'd his mind to some purpose so that the more he hated them when he was a Cardinal the more he lov'd them when he was Pope and just so it is believ'd Farnese would do were he in that quality He is moreover no great rewarder of his Servants nor do his Friends receive much benefit by his protection he showing himself but indifferent in the affairs of his greatest Confidents ANTHONIO BICHI of Siena is Nephew to the Sister of Alexander the seventh and Brother to Prior Bichi a Knight of Malta and one that has the commendations of a very worthy man The Popes design was to make a Cardinal of the Knight and to leave the other alone in his Bishoprick of Osimo but to prevent that the whole Family of the Chigi conspir'd I mean the branches of Don Mario and Don Agostino The Knight had intelligence of all and made all imaginable submission to redintigrate with Cardinal Flavio and Don Agostino and such as perhaps the worst Servant he had would have scorn'd to have done but ambition was too predominant in his heart and the extreme desire he had to be a Cardinal would have made him do ten times worse to obtain it However he was not so fortunate for the Chigi were too positive for his exclusion though they seem'd well enough satisfi'd with his obsequiousness The principal cause of this opposition of the Nephews proceeded from a suspition they had that if that Cousin of theirs should arrive at the Cardinalship that is into such an eminent degree as would authorize him to speak his mind freely he would not fail to create some differences betwixt them and that the rather because they had already more jealousies of one another than the Pope or their Conâ—anguinity would allow nor indeed was their fear without reason for though he be outwardly civil he has a strange dexterity at setting other people by the ears In this manner the Cavalier being excluded with no little satisfaction to the Chigi who thought they had atchiev'd a great matter the other Brothers interest was set on foot against which the Chigi made not only no opposition but recommended him to his Holiness who to revive the memory of his Sister was resolv'd to make of them a Cardinal Alexander having resolv'd from the beginning of his Papacy to give the Cavalier a Cap could not without some repugnancy be perswaded to quit that resolution and give it to the other Brother that he never intended nor was it a wonder for the Cavalier knew well enough by acts of submission and obsequiousness of behaviour how to gain upon his Unckle whereas the other remaining as it were shut up in his Church at Osnno had not those opportunities to ingratiate with him that had the power to advance him to the degree he is now in perhaps by the ill fate of his Brother the Cavalier Whilst he was Bishop of Osimo he gave good demonstration of his ability in governing the Church having wrought himself into the hearts of all people especially the Clergy who magnifi'd him for one of the best Bishops that ever was in that place After he was promoted to the Cardinalship his Holiness began to employ him in several important and politick affairs But in a short time it was plain that what credit he got in his Pastoral Cure he lost