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Barneuels apology: or Holland mysterie· With marginall castigations.; Mysteria Hollandica. English
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Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van, 1547-1619.; Holderus, Petrus.
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BARNEVELS APOLOGY OR HOLLAND MYSTERIE WITH MARGINALL CASTIGATIONS NON PLVS Printed for Thomas Thorp 1618. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL AND WORTHY DAVID PAREVS DOctor of Diuinitie and chiefe Professor of the same in the most famous and princely Vniuersity of Heidelberg all tranquility of life THIS that I dedicate to your Worship right reuerend Doctor is but small in bulke and matter but great in estimation and respect And although the bulke appeareth of it selfe and of it owne accord sheweth it selfe to ech beholder neither is the labour any other then a Translation out of the mother-tongue into Latine and that almost word for word without any ornament of style yet Respect and Estimation doe adde an honour and grace to the bulke and labour that euen therefore I hope the worke will be acceptable and pleasant when you reade it Acceptable verily because I offer it to you with all singular affection and bending submission to your grauitie Pleasant certainly for that therby you shall know the profitable proceeding of the sincere Gospel in Holland as also the tottering and extreme ruine of the new vpstart Arminians For who among these was euer either a greater or bitterer enemie to our naturall Allies then this same not so truly Olden-Barneuelt as Berneuelt Hitherto verily we feared and trembled at him as oft as any mention came vnto vs of that lamentable and noysome Schisme to vs out of Gelderland Holland Vtreicht Ouer-Isle Fries-land and the other vnited Prouinces and wee vnderstood him among many to be the onely One who durst audaciously oppose himselfe vnto the Ministers of the sincere Word the onely One that beyond the rest malepertly and malitiously affirmed the secular authoritie to be aboue the Ecclesiasticall and all and any assembly whatsoeuer or lawfull meeting together at the least of Doctors end Diuines the onely One that could and durst represse and keepe vnder Prince Maurice his Excellency now Prince of Orange whom God graunt shortly to be Prince of all Holland also that hee should not restraine from their course those false brethren false teachers euen farre worse then the Papists and stoppe their pestilent doctrine concerning Predestination and Iustification that he should not hinder by strong-hand and warlike prowesse all their conuenticles nor compell them to come to more wholesome Sermons nor put to death those babblers and praters who seditiously often repeate and cry out for liberty of conscience Lastly the onely One whom no man durst offend vnlesse he himselfe would grieuously offend and at once ouerthrow himselfe and all his fortune And yet this Champion is now driuen to that streight by the secret vnderminings of some Protestants of sincerer note being disrobed of his accustomed authoritie and desire of bearing rule rather then any abilitie at all that he hath that way that he must become a suiter to the meaner sort and craue their ayde whom heretofore he domineered ouer Reioyce O worthy Doctor and be glad O deere Brother and so much the rather for that not he alone is throwne downe but because he hath also drawne downe with him other of the chiefest followtrs and heretickes of that most desperate Arminian sect whose condemnation long since slacketh not and their destruction sleepeth not For Maurice the Prince of Orange his Excellency who vouchsafeth neither to see nor speak with him and most resolutely fighteth in defence of the Gospel which wee professe hath this yeere the first of Ianuary remoued all the Arminians from the Senate at Nimmeghen and hath put away the false Ministers of the Word and from Zutphen called foorth Damman a man not easily to be seduced and most constant for our true Doctrine he hath called foorth others also from other places appointing them to their former roomes these deeds of his he afterward approued in the next Parliament of the Dutchie of Gelderland So with the like courage and religious industrie he depriued from all honour and authoritie wherein he much excelled in the Councell of the States the noble Lord Henry à Brinen who had likewise opposed himselfe to the Court of the Hage and fauoured the Arminians And so hath he brought to order all them of Ouer Isle who except Deuentrie were already wholy bent to Arminianisme and especially those of Campen hee hath so daunted who whilome since were vtter heretickes making merchandize of the word of God that scarce any one dare so much as whisper against the sound and sincere doctrine of the Gospel as it hath beene taught by that most learned and eloquent Doctor Iohn Caluin So that we hope assuredly that those Innouators of Campen and false Ministers of the Word Thomas Goswin Iohn Schotler Euerhard Vosculinlus Assuerus Matthisius Satans owne excrements who in the moneth of October in our consecrated secular yeere 1617. published their diuellish Confession that they might pollute and defile the common ioy almost through the whole Empire and therby giue occasion to the Papists to write against the Word of God which endureth for euer in which Confession beside other horrible matters They haue branded euen the best and religious men To alter a little from the words of our excellent Poet happily as I suppose for I trust that thou the Muses darling and the worlds delight art still of the same integritie whereof thou wert when we reasoned so pleasantly together of our mutuall studies and hast not blemished thy faire conditions with that same foule Goddesse of Daniel Hensius who by reason of his in-bred want of audacitie concealed his name that published excellent Epigrams against them out of a city in Holland and set himselfe against a certaine shamelesse Libell of those or some other Arminians called the Scales or Ballance We hope I say that those seruants of Hell shall shortly be restrained driuen out or by the helpe of God compelled by strong-hand to be of our opinion and to make a better Confession The like we desire also with our heart to heare and vnderstand concerning Greuenchouius Bertius Vorstius Grotius Vtenbogartius Slatius Episcopius Venator Iohn Arnoldi and other such like fore-runners of Antichrist whose dismall enterprises and horrid blasphemies doe too often trouble our eares and mindes Bee glad and reioyce my Pareus that those former ring-leaders being subdued without all doubt a Nationall Synod must be assembled and happily by your aduice declared in your Irenicon Will it not be an honour to thee and a commoditie verily to vs all Especially if the warlike prince Maurice sit as President therein who will be able by his owne power and presence so to terrifie the aduersaries and aboue all if Sir Dudley Carleton Lidger for his Maiestie of Great Brittaine a most heauie friend to the Arminian-asses be his Assistant that no man dare vtter a word that he knoweth will displease them and so will there be a most excellent peace and great quiet in our inuisible Church Reioyce at leastwise for that the first yeere of our New hundred after the yeere of
fastened on you who stand in defence of Gods honour and true Religion and the good of the common-wealth Remember I beseech you that the stone is to be fitted to the square not the square to the stone and this must bee done while the morter is new before it waxe hard least the ruine of a faire building ensue plainely and expressely which now maintaine the opinion of the Contra-remonstrancers with tooth and naile said that such a doctrine as the Contra-remonstrancers was then auerred to bee was (f) You are the same man still But wee knowe what you aime at Namely that you may open a gappe to the Arminians for the committing of all impieties lusts rapes c. hinder the progresse peace of the Contra-remonstrancers who are the founders and furtherers of the true Reformation neuer before this time heard off Wee (g) Obserue the cunning wiles of Antichrist for why should I not call this Pope and Priest of the Antichristian Arminians so how stily he steales in that he may murder wrecke and destroy We reioiced sayes he because he himselfe was ioifull and could not hold for laughter seemed to reioice that there was no greater difficulty and trouble in the matter The Remonstrancers desired a Copie that their chiefe men might vpon consideration conferre thereof and a conclusion of all things might be made in a few dayes After (a) This was effected by this Machiuels leigerdemaine and cunning and whilest others lesse intended the businesse he most desirous to establish his opinion obtained what hee wished and restrained in our men the liberty of conscience which he would not haue burdened O father of mischiefe these things it was determined that none should bee troubled in conscience about the foresaid opinion but that it be free (b) Most dissolute libertine corrupt Atheist How could this be possible in a matter of greatest import in a matter of faith and a point necessary vnto saluation But yet too few know that you are most expert in pro and contra that you may ouerthrow both parts and your selfe gaine by the mutinie for euery one both to thinke and teach further in the matter (c) Forbeare for shame to thrust now this third time on vs the repitition of falsehoods and vntruthes Wherein nothing else was done but that which the Ecclesiasticall persons themselues from the beginning of the Reformation both approued and agreed too as well in the Vniuersitie of Leiden before the Professors of Diuinitie there as also before many Preachers of Cities and townes who were left in their places office though it was euident they were of the same opinion and did teach the same The Queenes Maiesty also of Great Brittaine in two seuerall Letters liked counselled the said toleration so that your Honours and Highnesses forenamed determination might by no meanes giue any iust cause of the lamentable schisme of the present times which tended to nothing else but that the gospellers who were the greater part of the coūtry might be diuided among themselues and so weakened As (d) Here are Coleworts twice sodden yet they agree well with this old dotards stomack palat concerning your authoritie in and ouer causes and persons Ecclesiasticall I protest as a thing necessary both for the seruices and safety of your state as also for the preseruation of religion it selfe and matters akinne thereto I protest I say that I haue alwaies defended it as the singular and most necessarie prerogatiue and superiority of the countrie whose profit and gouernment to procure I am bound both by (e) Pol qua opera iurato credam tibi vna opera adligem fugitivum canem agninis lactibus Trust you yes so I will a stragling Dogge Haltred with tender Lambsguttes to a clogge oath and duty Which (a) The Prince knowes what Basill sayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The respect due vnto Church-men proceedes from God and is to be referred to him opinion from the beginning of the war the Prince of Orenge the States alwaies auouched and defended for good against the Ecclesiasticall persons who defended the contrary I alwaies laboured to preserue the authoritie of the (b) L'euento è spesso giudice non imperito delle cose Things are many times well iudged of by the euent companie of Ciuill iudges as it did become mee and according to the instruction of the said Prince States conformed the Church-men to the rule of your determination as it was both fitting most necessary for them to doe for the peace good of the Countrie and free-Cities The (c) I would I might once see that performed indeede which you professe in words onely end of all things which vvere done by mee either in your meetings or with the deputed Magistrates Generall-States was the countries and your honour seruice and good and the enlarging of the laudable estimation of the same wherein I alwaies vsed discretion moderation so that I desire and from the bottom of my hart vnfainedly wish that my successour may for so many or more yeares doe you as much good if it be possible greater seruices with your better approbation and liking then I haue done And I referre my selfe in as much as concernes my forementioned actions proceedings both in your meetings and in the meetings of your deputies and the general States to your owne (d) The time wil come when you wil wish you had eaten that word enquirie and iudgement and the iudgement of your Commissaries both those who in generall and those who in particular haue had to doe in your companies and meetings for these 32. yeares last past seauen or eight whereof doe yet suruiue in the alone citie of (e) Take heed how you call honest men to witnesse in your cracked cause they are of the true reformed Religion you neuer were so Amsterdam and either are or haue been Burgomasters of the same city who haue bin acquainted with my actions and proceeding these 25. yeares If being slandered against reason and set vpon with apparant lies which by reason of a consciousnesse of my daily and faithfull seruices I could not digest I therefore somtimes reproued this impudence and slander a little too bitterly I intreat that humane (a) Behold laugh to see the old dotard becom suppliāt brought on his knees so a burnt childdreads the sire But what if he being a shamelesse and lying fellow be too sharpe in his reprehensions and therein exceede the limits of truth and modestie May wee not then apply that in sacred writ vnto him Let him that is vniust be vniust still and he that is filthie be filthie still This is my opinion For he is now grown old in his sinnes and impieties infirmity and my olde age may heerein excuse mee Now if any thing though (b) What haue we heere Is your bleating so soone changed into bellowing Beware of