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A42215	The [French-man] and the Spaniard, or, [The two great lights] of the world, displayed in lively [characters] representing the antipathy of their humours and different dispositions [with an impartiall survey] of the customes of both those nations / by R.G., Gent.; Oposicion y conjuncion de los dos grandes luminares de la tierra. English	García, Carlos, doctor.; Gentilis, Robert.	1642 (1642)	Wing G210; ESTC R7504	61,948	291

harmony of the world might come to be lost whose preservation is grounded upon the incorruptible unity of this matter It hath bin created but not from everlasting as Plato and others have affirmed it being impious to give or attribute the glory of eternity and of being without a beginning unto a creature which is due onely to God Finally it is sufficient for us to know without engulfing our selves into any other metaphysick that the matter whereof all corporall things are framed is of one and the same kinde and by that reason all your materiall species or kindes are united and coupled together And because that the formes of the compounds which must necessarily be sundry and diverse to make a perfect and faire compound should not deviate from that unity which God ordaines and nature pretends The supreame Artificer determined that they should all come forth of the entrailes of the materia or as the Divines call it de potentia materie that so in all their alterations and changes they might be tributary unto that beginning out of whose bowels and entrailes they came the power of corrupting engendring and altering resting onely in it as not being subject to goe out of the bounds of union and peace By this doctrin is confuted the opinion of many moderne Phylosophers who judging by the sence that which is contrary to reason beleeve that the formes of the Elements have no other end then to destroy and corrupt As for example the fire which we see consumes and devoures all as it findes living in perpetuall warre with the water as also the earth with the ayre For if we leave that seemingnes which sence sheweth us and examine the trueth with reason we shall finde that the elements being constitutive parts whereof all your mixtes are compounded it is repugnant and contrary to them to have destruction be their end their nature being essentially ordained to compound Whence is concluded that the naturall end of the Elements is nothing but union And although there ordinarily seemes to be a continuall enmity betweene them destroying one another yet we must hold for a certaine that this warre is onely made for the preservation of peace and union since the fire in seeking to persecute its contrary doth nothing but seeke a temperament to the rigor of his proper strength and any thing else which might hinder the union and conjunction whereby the compound is preserved So that we will conclude this Chapter saying that Union is an attribute of God the treasure of nature the naturall center of creatures and chain of the whole world This unites the mortall with the divine as the eternall Word with humane nature The mortall with incorruptible as the body with the soule The materiall with the spirituall as the understanding with the sences The living with the insensible as beasts with the earth The heaven with their elements the elements with man man with God And finally from God to God there is nothing but peace concord union agreement and love CHAP. II. That enmitie and discord are monsters of nature and the divels owne children FRom the precedent Chapter we may by very good consequence inferre that which we seeke to prove in this For if union and peace as we have proved be Gods attributes and the perfection of nature it is plaine that enmity and discord capitall enemies of union must of necessity be contraries to God and nature being altogether averse to the noblest perfection that our understanding can conceive in God which is unity and simplicity wherewith his divine attributes and perfections are so indivisibly united together that no manner of distinction can be admitted betweene them either reall formall or fundamentall as Divines doe terme them unlesse we should allow of the distinction of reason which our understanding licenciously frameth conceiving that to be distinct which in it selfe is indivisibly one Daily experience sheweth us the great repugnancy and contrariety that is betweene discord and nature either of them shewing it by their effects seeing the proper and principall end of the one is to corrupt diminish ruine and undoe Of the other to generate to joyne to multiply and unite all wordly things with the most firme bond of peace Because that knowing by evident induction that discord and enmity are enemies unto God and the very plagues of nature we may with good reason conclude them to be the workes of the divell wrought by his owne hands so pestilent a fruite doubtlesse proceeding from such an accursed tree The Apostle did in three wordes admirably set downe the genealogie and discent of this fierce monster saying that through the divells envy death was come into the world Wherein we must note according to the exposition of some Doctors that the Apostle in this place calleth dissention and discord by the name of death And that very properly seeing that the Doctors meaning by death as well the soules as the bodies death we shall finde death to be nothing else but a wretched separation and unfortunate divorce tending to ruine and perdition And as for the death of the body none can be so ignorant as to deny this truth beholding with his owne eies the dissolution of the streightest and internallest friendship as humane understanding can conceive and after that the miserable accidents which ordinarily accompany a dead carcasse And if this passage bee taken for spirituall death it being an enmity and divorce between God and the soule and not an ordinary divorce but an infinite one by reason of the infinite distance that is between God and a sinner we still conclude that death and discord are one and the selfe same thing and both daughters to the divell and envy as the Apostle saith the motive which moved the divell to bring this accursed dissention into the world was a cruell impatient rage against man being not able to endure that God should grow enamored of so ugly base and wretched a nature as humane nature is and that he should enrich it with so many extraordinary favours priviledges as unite himselfe hypostatically to it and make it the instrument of redemption denying that favour to the Angelicall nature which is more noble and perfect then the humane and so being desperately enraged he contracted matrimony with envy in which wedlocke death was borne so that death or discord hath the divell for her father and envy for her mother her grandfathers were pride and contempt and her first root was ambition This cursed plant was the first Angels plague and that which made him to exceed the bounds of his owne nature rashly opening the way unto an unbridled appetite and ambitious desire to climbe up unto the heaven of divine perfection to place his throne above the starres and to be like unto the most high Making the consideration of himselfe and the beauty and perfections wherewith he was enriched the instruments of so blinde a pretence and proud absurdity Judging himselfe thereby

mother to give him all the pap at once This thing made mee laugh so heartily that for two houres after I did nothing but laugh and wonder at it But if I should particularize unto you the broiles the decepts and cousenings which the inkeepers used towards mee I should never have done I never came into an Inne but I came out of it with a quarrell was cousoned and yet forced to aske all those that were present forgivenesse The quart descu in my hands or rather in their handes was worth ten sols a relon of ten sols was converted into a halfe quart d'escu and this into a royall and that of five royalls into five sols and if I chanced to reply any thing they would turn towards me like Lions chiding me and saying that if I did not know what value coynes were of I should learne and not contest with honest people that feared God and caried a good conscience and they would tell me I had no skill in Arithmeticke and especially in subtraction Many times I should buy some wares which I knew would not waste at the ayre nor the fire yet within a quarter of an houre in a pound I should finde foure ounces wanting With these and the like deceipts I passed my first dayes till knowledge and practice of the countrey shewed me what meanes I should use to free me from these evils CHAP. XI The contrariety and antipathy of the soule and body of the Spaniards and the French I Have thought a thousand times to aske the midwife in what manner the French came out of their mothers bellies for seeing the contrariety that is betweene them and the Spaniards mee thinkes it is impossible for them ●o be borne in the same manner seeing one can hardly presume ●hat having the middle and the end the body and the soule yea ●nd their very death contrary they should have their naturall beginning which is their birth alike This contrariety is so great and so remarkable that to define a Frenchman one cannot doe it more properly then to say he is a Spaniard the contrary way For there the Spaniard makes an end where the Frenchman begins as I shall shew in the following chapters As for the soule I must confesse that they are all created in tempore and that they are all of the same species and that God doth with one action create and infuse them into the organicall body And if faith did not teach me I should never beleeve that French and Spanish soules were of the same nature Yet I finde that if we consider the soule of it selfe and without any reference to the body of either Nation the soule it selfe is neither French nor Spanish And this specificall unitie which Divinity admits between them is not against that which I say for considering the soule within the body it is no more indifferent but determined to bee either Spanish or French Wherefore I say that the soule determined into a French body hath her powers quite contrary to a Spanish one First the French understanding hath its apprehension very quicke and with a great deale of ease will goe through any difficulty that can be proposed unto it yet it goeth no further nor entreth into deeper discourses which depend upon the same difficulty But with the same speedinesse as hee did apprehend it with the same it goeth away and is forgotten Contrariwise the Spaniards understanding is slow in apprehending the difficulty but having once understood it he will hold it fast drawing a thousand consequences out of it and sifting every point of it The Spaniard his understanding is altogether speculative since that in all his actions his end is no other but the contemplation of things without afterwards directing or settling of it upon any servile or mechanicall worke Wherefore you shall finde few naturall Spaniards of any mechanick trade as Shoomaker Taylor Cobler Joyner Inne-keeper or the like For which I call the French to witnesse who goe into Spaine and come backe againe offended because they finde no Alehouses nor Innes as they have in France so that sometimes they may travell three dayes and not come at an Inne whereby they are constrained to carry meat with them in their bags and wine in their bottles The French understanding is altogether practicall being it is not content with the only knowledge of things but learnes them for to make use of them therein where he may reap some profit by it and so is not idle but to avoid idlenesse employes it selfe in any manner of exercise and thence growes the variety of trades in that Nation The greatest part of your French wits addict themselves to the studie of the Law and Canons and very few study Positive or Schoole Divinitie Amongst the Spaniards few study the Law and almost all Divinitie The French understanding though it receive and hold things concerning Faith and Religion for infallible yet it cannot stay and fixe it selfe on them but will see consider and also judge whether that which faith sayes is as he meanes and finding some difficulty he runs his boat a ground beleeving himselfe onely and denying that which others hold The Spaniard his understanding is fearfull and humble in that which concernes faith and determination of the Church So that as soone as any Article of faith is propounded unto him he presently sets bounds to all his knowledge wisedome and discourse and not onely strives not to know whether that bee so or no which the faith sets downe but useth all the meanes hee can to avoid speculation thereon fearing to fall into some errour through the frailty of his understanding Whence groweth the punctuall obedience which the Spaniards yeeld to the Church of Rome and the difference and dissention that is thereupon amongst the French The French man will resolve upon businesses of greatest importance when he is in most company being not disturbed by any tumult noise or outcrie so that I have noted in this nation that your Princes Lords and other persons of quality will dispatch their commissions and other weighty businesses sitting at table the eating being no disturbance to the audience which they give to a thousand people and sometimes they will sit at meales and have one of each side of them who at the same time will talke to them and they will answer them all as punctually as if they were shut up privately in a chamber without any disturbance and had nothing to doe but to hearken to them which speake to them All this is contrary to the Spanish understanding who if hee have any businesse of consequence retires himself into some solitary place and is such an enemy of company and tumult that if a fly comes buzzing by his eare when he is in the depth of his businesse it is enough to hinder his resolution In the second power of the soul which is the memory there is contradiction antipathy since the French mans is altogether concerning the present I

to be worthy of so great an honour out of which consideration grew pride which augmenting the raging fire of her mother ambition caused the Angell to forget the respect and honour due unto his creator and to become the heire of contempt These two fierce monsters of nature Pride and contempt made such a slaughter of that faire creature that they left not in him the least signe of perfection and goodnesse yea they did so deprave and pervert his will that seeing himselfe banished out of heaven and condemned to a perpetuall priva●ion of God and ●o the terrible habitation of those darkesome prisons of hell hee enragedly protested to be revenged And being unable to execute his vengeance against God his infinite perfection and greatnesse being not to be reached unto he purposed to wreake his vengeance upon man as the creature in most favour not being able to endure those particular favours and prerogatives wherewith he perceived God did intend to honour him Out of which consideration sprung envie the Divels spouse and mother of death With such weapons doth this fierce Leviathan persecute mankinde and with them he brings to an end all his pretences subjecting unto his empire and command all the Provinces of the earth It being most certaine that cities subject to discord and dissension cannot be free from the divels bondage and consequently subject to ruine The epithets which the Prophet Nahum gives unto the citie of Niniveh shall be sufficient and faithfull witnesses for me herein when he cals it the citie of blood the citie of misery the city of death and perdition attributing the cause of these wretched effects to nothing but to the discord and division of her inhabitants And he doth with so much efficacy insist upon this point that he pronounces an infallible curse upon that citie which shall stand divided and in discord The same doth the Prophet Hosea concluding by an enthymeme the ruine which comes through dissension saying Their heart is divided and therefore they shall perish And if this be not sufficient let us consider that wretched tricke he served our first fathers in the beginning of the world where it being a hard taske to beat downe such knowledge and wisedome so perfectly infused as Adam his wives was he used no other weapons then these perswading them that God had enjoyned upon paine of death not to taste of the tree of life onely through an artificiall malice because that none should be so wise as himselfe which he could so well and with such lively reasons perswade them that being already moved with an ambition and desire of knowledge they conceived such enmity and hatred against God that casting away the respect and obedience which they knew was due unto him they did contrary to that which was commanded them remaining thereby subject unto death and their posterity to an abysse of miseries Let him that is curious observe for the confirmation of this truth the sentence which God pronounced against the Serpent when as being willing to punish him by way of retaliation or as they say in Latine poena talionis He tooke for a meanes of the punishment the same way as the Serpent had taken to make man fall from his originall justice and state of innocency saying unto the Serpent I will set enmity betweene thee and the woman as if he should more plainly say thou hast procured through thine accursed perswasions and lyes to set hatred and enmity betweene the woman and I to make her a slave and all her posterity subject to thy will and tyranny And I say unto thee that thou shalt be chastized with the same punishment for I will sowe such terrible hatred and deadly antipathy betwixt you that you shall alwayes live in continuall warre and enmity she endeavouring with all her might to breake thine head and thou to set snares for her heele Finally by meanes of enmity and hatred the divell did catch Cain never letting him rest untill he tooke away his brother Abels life By meanes of these two he stirred up Esau his anger against Iacob Saul his revenge against guiltlesse Duvid Pharaohs hardnesse against the children of Israel And with dissention discord and ambition the divell hath brought under his dominion and obedience the most noble and fruitfull Provinces of the earth burning up the fruits of peace respect feare reverence and zeale of the publike welfare towards them to whom they were subject by divine and humane lawes Many times have I considered that excellent and admirable invention which Samson used to revenge himselfe upon the Philistines and I truely finde that it is the same as the divell useth to be revenged upon man since if that I well remember the story Samson having sought all the surest wayes to be revenged of the wrongs he had received could finde none more effectuall then division verily beleeving that thereby he should ruine all his enemies goods and wealth and to that end he tooke a number of Foxes and binding firebrands to their tailes he let them run into the Philistines corne fields The beasts feeling themselves loose began to sever and divide themselves in the fields with such disorder that there were not two left together all taking severall wayes fixing their eyes towards their owne homes and terriers Which division was the cause that all the corne was burnt up leaving the land spoyled and Samson revenged With such like industry doth the Divell subject unto his Empire all the countries of the world overthrowing the best things he can finde in them and leaving them utterly unable to helpe themselves Seeing that to turne a quiet and peaceable citie into a citie of bloud and wretchednesse the first thing he doth is to stirre up ambition in them whom he findes most disposed thereunto and alluring them with their owne proper interests he kindles the fire of discord and dissention in such sort that it being impossible to pacifie and unite it the feare of God the zeale of publicke welfare the respect and obedience due to the Prince and the charity towards ones neighbour are all beaten down whence immediatly followeth the totall perdition and ruine of the common-wealth By all this which we have said we may surely inferre that since discord and division produce no other fruit but bloud ruine perdition and death they cannot be positive effects of God to whom is repugnant to be the authour of evill Nor yet of nature whose treasure consists in unitie but meerly the Divels who seekes nothing but to oppose himselfe to all goodnesse and perfection which God or nature brings forth in this world The contrary effects also which are found in both may beare sufficient witnesse to this truth since that all which God and Nature pretend is nothing but peace and union that which the Divel professeth is nothing but warres and dissention Nature loves preservation the Divell ruine that to generate this to destroy Nature finally desires to make every thing like