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the Bible But that I may seem to have done something more I made use of this advice not to reck'n for Tradition-Mongers those ancient Doctors of the six first Ages wherein the Church was not as yet fully nobilitated when her Sumptuous Buildings were not as yet rear'd when the Popes liv'd up and down in Caverns and in short might pass for the first Promoters of her troubles at what time the Church smelt somewhat strong of Huguenotism or rather of the Faggot I say they wrote nothing boldly or over-confidently in those first times therefore I allow for Traditions the Books corrected by the devout Council of Trent For some time after that we have seen at the Court and we have still some Doctors who affecting squeamishness of Conscience play the Demi-Huguenots and Appointers of Religion This ought to be a fair example to Monseiur Benedict and his Compagnons Berenger and Chauveau in their Deaths of Melancholie or Poyson These Hero's would fain persuade the suppression of a Book entitl'd Index Expurgatorius Accordingly it was one Result of the Council of Trent whereby all Printers were commanded to expunge or correct the most boistrous passages wherewith the holy Fathers had besmear'd the belief of the Church with a Catalogue of such Sentences as it was convenient either to stifle or amend to the end the Heretics might make no use of them These Prudent Worldlings esteeming themselves wiser then the Council would needs have this Expurgatorie Index suppres'd to conceal● as they said the shame of the Church which was not to plead for its self upon false Evidences But they have display'd the shame by thinking to hide it For about 11. or 20. years since the Book I mean a copie of it sign'd by the Council fell into the hands of the Family of Antwerp and is now carefully preserv'd among the Rarities of the Elector Palatine And which is worse some Doctors among the rest Baronius who were chosen to make this Reformation are reformed themselves and have confess'd in their printed writings that one of them had for his part alone alter'd above sixty of those passages Thus the design of the Council being discover'd in going about to suppress this Book we might suppress the Authority of the Church and make it questionable whether it be not lawful to change the Expositions of the Doctors and something of the Text of the Ancients Certainly the Affirmative is to be maintain'd and that the Church ought to change both the old and new Testament without bogling any more at the Translation of the Septuagint then at the Translation of fifteen Score if we would have all the main Principles on our side The Primates of Bourges and Lyons would discard out of the number of Traditions the Conformities of St. Francis the Pattern of Wisdom the Garden of disconsolate Souls Marial the Sermons of Menot Manipulus Curatorum Stella Lavacrum Conscientiae Summa Peccatorum dedicated to the Virgin Mary the Golden Legend the Book of Rates and the Life of Christ A Preacher whose name was Christi preach'd at Nantes to the Ladies in these words My dainty quaint Ladies if I find a Bible or a new Testament in any of your hands you shall tast of my Whip but have always between your fingers the good Vita Christi the Vita Christi who made Vespasian and Titus Christians and brought about the design of the Siege of Jerusalem to revenge the Death of Christ and then he condemn'd and vilifi'd all other Historians to establish the truth of that Book But one of those Prelats might sooner have instructed himself to believe in God then us to believe in Him and it is as difficult a thing to make us quit our love of those Books as to make him quit the love of his kind Sister For those books are the only foundation of our belief Neither do they allow the defeat of Monsieur Cayer They say that the Tales of St. Francis were made at Geneva That 's well for the Alcoran of St. Francis However the studies of these abstemious Find-faults are full of those books of the old Impressions 'T were better for them to defend them and say that they were made with a good Intention As when we read of St. Francis living with his Wife of Snow We ought to speak the best and say the good man did it to cool not only his own naturally sinful heat but as a president to his posterity When he preaches to the flesh thereby it is intimated that when his offspring should preach they would require a mute Auditory When he preach'd it up for a Miracle that God would not suffer the flesh to be drown'd in the Deluge thereby he insinuates that the Miracles of the Church of Rome ought to proceed from natural causes as Richeome labours to make out When he calls the Wolves his Brethren and stroaks them with his hand he did it to show that the Franciscans should be rough footed and surprizers of the Innocent sheep He calls the Swallows his Sisters because their Brothers like them all morning prayer time build their nests i' the Country-mens Houses When the Angel told St. Francis as he was at his devotions that Antichrist should be born of his Order that was because it should not be thought an Indignity to make the Franciscan Friers Popes And when he disrob'd himself before the Women and set up his Crucifix what was that but to display the beauties of Nature as not having eaten of the Tree of Knowledg and to lay open if not the understanding yet the nakedness of Father Adam When St. Germain raises a dead Ass wherefore should not he out of his brotherly love and Asinine commiseration being alive give life to Asses who had bin the death of so many at St. Germans de prez and Auxerrois Blase of Anjou who threaten'd his Son with Excommunication if he offer'd to read one line in the Scripture especially the Commandments at length at the intercession of Aubraye a good Catholic gave him leave to read the Maccabees As for Frier Jacopon when I was a Huguenot there was nothing made me laugh like the Legend of that pious Saint and among the rest how he made Confession of his sins to one of his Brethren by signs These things seem absurd but they work this effect among the people as to lead them into a belief that there is no absurdity in the World And therefore it is that St. Paul calls the preaching of these things the folly of preaching From whence Monsieur Cayer draws this notable Syllogism It pleases God to save Believers by the folly of preaching the folly of preaching is the preaching of Legends therefore God is pleased to save believers by preaching of Legends If any person requires the note of Universality and insists that nothing is to be concluded ex puris particularribus he may do well for the School-men However to conclude from pure particulars is rather the Logic

only deny'd with your lips has only smitten your lips but so soon as you shall renounce him with your heart he will strike and peirce that heart I could name another that was an ancient Deputy who sitting one day with the rest of his associates upon a Trunk in the Anti-Chamber took notice that M. d'O young Rosny and some others of the Court Gallants laught to see the Deputies in their old fashion'd Garments These airy Courtiers having a mind to shew their Wit says one to the other I 'le say he 's a brave fellow that dare's but go and ask that old Curmudgeon of a Heretic his name D'O to shew his valour approaches the old man and full of high flown conceit Sir says he these Gentlemen and I have an earnest desire to know your name If I knew how to call you said the other I might perhaps give you an answer I am a Gentleman but not at your Conmand Sir said the Courtier my name is D'O It may be so reply'd the Deputy had you bin in as many Battels as I you needed not have ask'd the Question As for O 't is a Cipher better known in the Chamber of accompts then where I have bin The Brethren of the Cabinet fell a laughing but the poor Messenger was more dash'd out of countenance upon what the Deputy added Go friend go go kill some-body that the King may bestow some favour upon yee otherwise ye may chance to go without it The Sieur Bellevre being sent by the King to the King of Navar at Mont de Marsan every morning through the window of his Lodging saw the Countess de la Guiche then Miss in waiting going every morning to Mass attended by d'Espent little Lambert a Black the Baboon Bertrand an English Page a shock Spaniel and a Lacquey Of all which the great Senatour took notice to a Huguenot in these terms I have several times said he seen some Mistresses of our Kings who are with them in such esteem that the greatest Peers of the Nation think themselves happy if they can but watch their coming out in a morning to pay their respects But here I see a Lady of a noble Family who turns and winds the King as she pleases walk to the Church in a morning fitted for all purposes with a Monkey a Shock and a Buffoon Oh Sir the reason 's plain reply'd the Huguenot for in this Court there is neither Ape nor Shock nor Buffoon but what you see The French Courtier was not a little non-pluss'd at the reply but much more when he knew the St. Maxants Curse upon the cheek of Madam Duras CHAP. VIII Of Martyrs after the Romish way OF all the Books which are enough to make a man a Heretic or of which at least a Roman Catholic ought to be very careful I find none next to the Bible to be so dangerous as this great Volum of Martyrs For 't is a great matter to see five six or seven thousand dead people with all the Marks of real Martyrdom as probity of Life purity of Religion and full freedom to choose either Life or Death This has depriv'd us of abundance of people that beheld those Preachers who had no other Pulpits then the Scaffold the Ladder or the flaming Faggot These are the glorious Nicks of time when vain hopes are said to give place to Zeal and Vertue They order their affairs now more prudently both in Italy and Spain There does not a Year go about wherein they do not put to death some hundreds But their constancy has no other witnesses then Goalers and Hang-men who are like the Cranes of Pyrrhus for keeping secrecy 'T is not above Thirty Years ago that all the Processes of which this dangerous book is full and which testifie the truth of it were order'd to be taken off the files of all the Courts of Parliament But is their no way to stifle the memory of these things and to cry down all these Stories for Fables though the eye-witnesses are living What shall we do I am of opinion that the best way will be to make Choice of some florid stile like that of the Count de Permission and to write a Book of which the Title shall be The Martyrs a la Romana or after the Romish manner Wherein we will not have so much as one finger of a Martyr of the Primitive Church in regard there is some debate concerning them between the other and us as also for that these blessed Reformers cry that the Church has bin as long reformed as it has bin persecuted according to what Pope Silvester said when Constantine freed him from the Rocks of Soracte Farwel Poverty Farwel Purity Now then we must make it out that we have Martyrs of this Age of as good Families as any of others The Bel-weather of the Flock shall be the Curate of St. Medard in Paris who was wounded in ringing the Alarum Bell. The Curate of St. Crespin in Tourain who was hang'd in the Bel-rope performing the same Office both taking pains to stir up the people to make another sort of Martyrs From thence to disguise the Story we will take a frisk to Japan where the Jesuits say some of them have bin crucifi'd and where they have done several Miracles which could be done no where else but at Japan because of the incredulity of the rest of the Indians Moreover we will condemn all the Huguenots in France to go thither to see if what they say be true Our Fathers the Jesuits foreseeing the necessity of this book that there will be more Confessours then Martyrs On the other side the Huguenots instead of putting men to death for the Faith busying themselves in praying to God for their Conversion The sharp-witted Projectours have provided a remedy for both having set up at Rheimes and at Rome two Colleges of young English chosen out of a Melancholy adust humour the most part Exiles Thieves or defam'd persons who when they are put into these Colleges as Marius Navarrus writes in his 3. book of Councils by an establish'd Papal constitution are bound to swear That after so many years they shall return into England to publish what they have learnt And because it has bin observ'd that much good has come of it witness Cardinal Alain in his Apology for Seminaries the Pope has redoubled their Pension Hereupon I guess Baronius in his Roman Martyrology said these words That the holy Priests as innocent Lambs fatted in the Sacred Cloysters by the holy society of Jesus with divine instructions for Martyrdom Sacrifices acceptable to God and the Sacred Colleges of Rome and Rheimes have bin put to death because they preach'd in England the Doctrine of the Holy Romish Church I wish he had not said it in regard they are Envoys of the Society of Jesuits because they are accus'd to be liberal enough of other men's blood and therefore though it be a commendable thing to meet Martyrdom yet

the League being cast up the whole sum amounted to above seven millions seven hundred and sixty thousand Crowns More then this these good works have extended their benefits and supererogations to others who have taken lesser Towns and Villages under the chief Leader so that the Followers have been canoniz'd for the super-abounding merit of the Commander I do not bring into this rank either Merceur or Espernon They are yet to know more what it is to trust in works Now then let us see who they are that are so diligent in prese●ving their faith to their King and Countrey believing That the just shall live by faith These are they That do deeds worthy of Repentance but not good works not considering that faith without works al-a-mode is a dead faith Whence it comes to pass that some are starv'd to death others attend in the low Court of the Loure mangl'd Captains consumptive Majors maim'd Soldiers wooden-leg'd Engineers Spies and Discoverers with their Stockins out at heels that walk all together in the Switzers-Hall and have nothing to do but to exclaim against Madam Ingratitude in genere petitorio non suasorio Captains carrying the Basket the poor Soldiers the Mattock some shewing their wounds others numbring the fights they have been in the Estates they have lost some mutt'ring libels others modelling a Reformation and others studying where to get a meal upon the Coin of Reputation But some person or other will say have not all these poor Miscreants by your relation toil'd sufficiently Tell us some of their works I answer they were works of Iniquity in regard it is an ill thing to serve the ingrateful And Limaille reproaching the King with the long continuance of his services and his patience and how he had render'd himself irreconcileable to his neighbours for having faithfully executed his Majestie 's commands concluded his discourse with telling him he had not wherewithal to buy himself a Dinner Ventre St. Gri said the King who was not wont to swear after the Roman manner my Kingdom has been a pillaging for these so many years last past why did not you rob something for your self Rob as the rest do Nothing shews that works of that nature are not works and by consequence unworthy of reward The poor man continu'd to his dying day and considering his condition carry'd off the greatest share of the honour of the Siege of Amiens where he dy'd in the Mines of the Wall and this is call'd doing nothing He that would see this subject more learnedly handl'd let him read the King's Apology compos'd by Monsieur Catrier then chief Minister to Madam The King shew'd it me for the style of Madam de Rohan An Apology full of prevarication which Roquellaure hearing read cry'd out Mort dieu They that wrote this how much do they know of our business Some there are who accuse La Ruffie in regard that after a discourse concerning the humor of the King which was to punish good Services and recompence Crimes he said to them that complained of his Majesty you ought to blame your selves not him For since you understand his humor if you expect rewards you should do well to merit them by works worthy of recompence After that he speaks of those who have the honour to be a kin to his Majesty and those he renders worse us'd then the meaner Servants which makes me suspect La Ruffie to be the Author of this writing wherein he calls himself one of the King's kinsmen Witness the speech that his deceas'd Mother made to Madam at Bergerac I recommend said she to your care that poor knave La Ruffie You have more reason to love him then any other For the same reason that I have known the King your Father So have many others besides you reply'd Madam To which the Perigordine made answer so vostra gratia prou intendi so l'honordi die garde de la Compania Carnaument Afterwards La Ruffie was honor'd with the Office of a Spie at Chastellerault where he did a deserving act for he stole certain papers and was made Counsellor of State and Cuckold general under pay He that desires to read more of this Story may read the Last Will and Testament of Salbeuf a Gentleman of Gascognie who though he were a good Catholic accompany'd the K. in his flight from Paris untill the Siege sold seven Horses which belong'd to his Train making known to the King his daily losses At length shame drave him away from the Court But the desire he had to dye in his Prince's service detain'd him in the Army where he listed himself in one of the Companies of the Guards commanded by his younger Brother It happen'd that when the Cannons had ruin'd the shops under the Gate St. Honorè this very person desir'd to be set the outmost Sentinel in the Ruins whereupon the King visiting his Guards and his Approaches in the night-time the Captain from the corner of a house shew'd him his Eldest Brother The King seeing himself touch'd so to the quick went away without speaking one word Some few days afterward this poor Gentleman having again try'd the inclination of his Prince at length o'recome with grief and labour of body dy'd and though unlearned made his Will wherein he first beg'd pardon of God and then of the King his Master for having serv'd him in his Amours with Katharine de Luc d' Agen and several others some of whom were also themselves starv'd to death with the Children which they had by the King There was also much about the same time another Will made by the younger Son of the Chancellor of the Hospital who having left his Estate betook himself to attend the King in all his afflictions and to stick to the Faith and Religion of his party who thinking to have found a Sanctuary for his Errors at Quillebeuf which of a small Village was made a Garrison was shamefully repuls'd and disgrac'd by the Sieur du Plessis Thereupon pronouncing with his own mouth the Sentence of his death he call'd for Paper and made his Will which contain'd much of the same subject but more openly and plainly detecting the King's secrets but his servants violated the last commands of their Master and surrender'd up the Copy which as they say fully justifi'd my opinion concerning the Justification of Works CHAP. VI. Of Miracles and Pilgrimages THE Deceas'd Cardinal of happy memory in regard of his birth as being of the house of Lorrain understanding that the Marshal de Fervaques of happy memory also had discover'd a young Girl whom Belovet the Priest otherwise call'd the holy man had instructed how to counterfeit a Demoniac or person possess'd with a Devil on purpose to make out a Miracle the Easter following this great Prelate pronounc'd Fervaques guilty of a high peice of Impiety saying That though Miracles were false they were useful to make out pious frauds and certainly he did a very great kindness to the Country