there is no such matter for this last age hath seene some strange practises thereof and that either executed or attempted Their crueltie executed in France is not our The Massacre of Paris is their shame wee may say Their fained peace stroue with warre and prevailed Pax ficta cum bello de crudelitate certavit vicit For these last yeares they haue made that floorishing Kingdome a wonder to the World and astonishment to it selfe They found the two Francises Henrie the second and Charles the nynth according to their heart to maintaine Poperie and represse the trueth But after the Butcherie of Paris their rage increased at the reviving Trueth and therefore set forward to the like massacres and finding Henrie the third vnfitte for their cruell purposes they cutte him off to serue themselues of the D. of Guise who was lutum sanguine maceratum Clay knedde with blood Hee was indeered to the Pope for the massacre of Paris and the Cardinall his brother thought it a cause to thanke God that his house was honoured to be the instrument of that massacre Henries catholick zeale could not saue him because hee had not a Iesuited zeale to destroy all the Hugonots hee agreed with them in all points of Religion but in this his clemencie and their crueltie could not agree and therefore hee must bee killed When Henrie the fourth arose their rage was more kindled because of his Religion and notwithstanding his formall reconciliation to their Church yet they ever keeped their prejudices and hatred to him Their rage was not satisfied but doubled by Castellus his misse and their banishment And their desire to returne was not so much for the loue of their Countrie as to haue occasion to cut him off and their hatred had never a pause till his death That same spirit is yet powerfull in them Though King Lewes bee zealous in their Religion and contraire to his clemencie hath beene drawne by instigation to destroy many thousands of the Sainctes yet they are not satisfied with that is done They perceiue in him an halting and therefore are wearie of him They haue boasted him to desist from his League with Protestant Princes which they see a meanes to strengthen himselfe against his common enemie and haue threatned him with rebellions and insurrections They haue also giuen him an Admonition in nyne questions disputed whereof the summe is That if hee relent in destroying the Hugonots in France or assist the Protestants in Germanie they shall set vp with him a coniunct King And least he should think that but wind they stirred vp Franciscus Martellus a Priest neare to deepe like another Ravilliacke to kill him but God discovered the Traitour who before his suffering deponed that two Iesuits Guyotus and Chapusyus were his Counsellours and instigators And lastlie they are brewing a browst like the Guysian faction against Henrie the third and stirring vp his brother against him vnder colour of Courtlie miscontentments against Cardinall Richliâ—u And this is the corregnans or coniunct King whereof their Theses spak It is a wonder that so mightie a Kingdome should bee so fearefullie shaken by plots and more that they see it and groane for it and yet can not expede themselues of these snaires There was matter for redresse when Henrie 3. was killed but nothing answerable followed and Henrie the fourth had just cause of anger and revenge by Castellus stroake but it turned to nothing for when hee had banished the Iesuits within fiue yeares that martiall King turned a pleader for their restoring And after his death wheÌ„ the presumptions of their treason were pregnant they threw from the young King a declaration of their innocencie and a condemning of the Booke-seller that dispersed the Copies of it And when the Nobilitie did their best homage to their dead King to kisse his heart affecting to shew their lone in marking their months with the blood of it the Iesuits by right of a pretended or if it was true an ominous Legacie of his heart left to them caryed it to their Colledge of Laflex and that not so much in the sorrow of funerals as in the ioy of a triumph for that they had found such a morsell for the paines of their long hunting It were an hard matter to determine whether the hearts of the Nobilitie were more grieved or the heartes of the Iesuits more over-ioyed about the Kings heart but sure it is that the Iesuits gloried of it In that common sorrow Abbas Sylviuâ— the Abbot of Boes in the iust griefe of a loyall heart when hee considered the Iesuits Probleme An fas esset tyrannos occidere if it were lawfull to kill tyrants and how Marianas and such Bookes were in the hands of people hee turned him to the Iesuits in his Sermon and exhorted them that they would provyde that no Booke passed vnder the name of their Societie and with the Superiours approbation that might any wayes offend the French Summo studio providerent ne ex ipsorum officina vllus liber qui Gallos offenderet prodiret except they would expose themselues to such a danger which all their wisedome supported with authoritie and riches of their favourers could not eschew The Iesuits tooke that graue admonition so hardlie that they complained to the Queene and made him to bee sharplie rebuked But what they could not doe at Paris they effected at Rome when they caused him to bee put to death there whereof some accused them because that hee was the first who after the Kings death reproved them out of Pulpit albeit in the funerall oration which hee published hee left out the speach that hee directed to them This was a Iesuitish tricke that they who should haue beene punished for treason turned the punishment of it on them who challenged them It is like a new devyce of Bellarmines who seeing how odious the Iesuits are made to the world by their wickednesse layed open in sundrie Books suggested to the Pope and his Consistorie that a new censure of Bookes should bee institute to raze and purge out all thinges that were written against them A devyce of a gnawing Conscience for though all these Bookes were burnt yet the treacherie of that order will bee knowne to Posteritie Let France consider her estate Before Iesuits arose they were loyall to their Princes But since Spaine thirsted for that Kingdome as his great stay of the European Moarchie and hath as manie friends in her bowels as Iesuits there is nothing but Leagues Plottes and Factions formed and everie faction ending in the killing of a King The Sorbone standeth yet in her honestie but can doe no more than a Schoole censure and is borne downe by the incroaching of the Iesuits on her to punish her for her former loyaltie to Kings The auncient forwardnesse of the Court of Parliament seemeth to bee relented since the
of religious worship so is He onlie Directour and Iudge of it Next Pastors are not Iudges but Indices or interpreters to point out that that God hath set downe in his Word Thirdlie Princes are neither Iudges nor â—ndices but Vindices or Promoters of true Religion They are neither the Rule nor exponers of it but Vrgers of men to doe according to the Rule proponed of God and exponed by faithfull Pastors Constantine the great made this distinction to Church-men God hath made you Bishops of the inward things of the Church but hee hath made mee Bishop of the outward things That is ye haue a calling to discerne betweene Truth and heresie in doctrine hurtfull or wholesome in worship or maners To preach the word minister the Sacraments and lead people in religious Worship to deale with the Inner Man and instruct the Conscience in the Truth But my place is to maintaine Religion in the Professors and their maintenance to deale with the outward Man and to see that my Subiects worship and obey God according to the Rule that hee hath given and yee point out of his Word All his businesse about the Councell of Nice was nothing but a Commentar of that distinction hee saw the Church poysoned with the Heresie of Arrius and rent with the Schisme that followed therevpon And not beeing able of himselfe to iudge and determine these questions hee conveened the most learned and godlie Church-men to whom that inquitie appertained and when they had determined the matter hee repressed the Heresie that they damned and maintained the Truth that they proponed So Theodosius the great curbed the Macedonians in the Councell of Constantinople Theodosius the younger the Nestorians by the Councell of Ephesus And Marcianus the Entychians by the Councell of Chalcedon And when the Nestorians raised vp their head againe Iustinian curbed both them and Pope Vigilius their Patrone both by a Councell and by his Edicts against their tria Capitula the summe and marrow of Nestorianisme Synods and Councels assembled in the Name of the Lord are as Counsels to Kings in matters of Religion and the Word of God is to rule both Princes and Synods So though David was a Prophet yet hee did nothing of himself in Gods house but with consent and advyse of Gad the Seer and of Nathan the Prophet for so was the Commandement of the Lord by his Prophets He had Gods command for the warrant of his Command And Iehoshaphat sent through the Cities of Iudah and they taught the People and had the Booke of the Law of the Lord with them This was their Directorie Concerning the extent of their power some Princes got wrong of others and some did wrong to themselues They got wrong most of the Pope who after hee affected Antichristian greatnesse closed vp Kings within civill affaires and counted them but profaine Laickes who had no intresse in matters Ecclesiasticke If they medled with Investitures of Benefices it was called Simonie and oppressing of the Ecclesiasticke libertie And the discharge of that duetie which God hath founded in their Thrones and Scepters was called the Henrician heresie and a fighting against God On the other part they bewitched Princes by the show of Canonizing This was a deepe policie by the hope of that baite to steale from Princes their authority as the best way to that Canonizing and to turne them Babes in this life vnder hope to bee Saintes after death It was too superstitious simplicitie for that hope to disgrace themselues and their places by surrendering their power to the Beast He knew that Princes were ambitious of honour and there was none greater than they had alreadie except it were to bee sancted Hee perswaded them that there was no way to that honour of sancting but by his Canonizing who had the Keyes of Heaven at his Girdle Therefore when Princes were tickled with that Ambition they cared not how baselie they prostitute themselues and their dignitie to him for that Imaginarie Advancement Or rather shall wee say that God in this politicke abusing of Princes was discovering a part of the Mysterie of iniquitie For about thâ—se times when Kings were made Sainctes the Popes were Monsters In the ninth and tenth Ages Ignorance reigned in the Church barbarous Crueltie in Popes everie one disgraced his Predecessour and abrogat his Ordinances then Princes abhorring that wickednesse were the more stirred vp to Pietie and so comparatiuelie they seemed to be Saincts in respect of these monstruous Popes It was the complaint of these times That it was easier to finde many Lay-men turne good than one religious man grow better And that it was a rare fowle on earth to find one ascend but a little aboue the degree that he hath taken in Religion The Chaire of Peter was some time broodie of Saincts but then it became so barren that it brought out none but Monsters and that justlie for the Popes loathed that Chaire and affected the Throne of Princes And holinesse beeing banished that Chaire found her place more in Princes than Popes This was Gods Iustice that since Popes would bee Kings that Kings should bee counted Saincts And yet both of them were but vsurpers for neither did God admit these Saincts in Heaven for intercessours whom the Popes thrust on him neither did hee allow the Popes kingdome which hee threw from Princes Againe some Princes wronged themselues concerning Religion that in Policie Superstition Neglect For Policie some of them harboured Religion in their Kingdomes but abused it politicklie to their owne ends They measured it by the persons of Preachers and seeing them in worldlie things the meanest of their estates did thinke as baselie of Religion it selfe so served themselues of it as the fairest colour to lustre their foulest purposes Iehu in shew was zelous for God but indeed all his zeale was to stablish the Crown of Israel in his own house So soone as hee obtained that end his zeale for God was quenched and he followed the idolatrie of Achab It was the Authoritie of Achabs house not their Idolatrie that made him zealous So Ieroboam followed the counsell of his owne heart in making two calues and sparing the peoples paines in going to Ierusalem But indeed he cared neither for Gods glorie nor the people but for stablishing his owne house Hee pulled the hearts of the People from God and from the house of David So Iulian when he thirsted for the Impyre he gaue vp his name among the Cleargie and frequented the Assemblies of Christians to mak him mor acceptable to people as Basile obiecteth vnto him So Mahomet made himselfe great by the colour of Religion though hee neither beleeved nor keeped these Precepts which he fained to bee of God and the Popes seeking a Monarchie haue vsed Religion for a cloake as Leo the tenth in his last words tolde
tastlesse hee delighteth in his lame and pithlesse dilemmes and like a Con in a Cage moveth much but promoveth nothing c. If a man shall cast over their Volumes with Martiall hee shall offend at Homers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nothing but triviall iuffâ—ing a thousand tymes refuted by Protestants and as oft reponed by Papists Some new quirk of humane Invention and some new forme or lustre put vpon olde damned heresies and exsibilate Paradoxes Ther Expurging Indices are Evidencies of their evill conscience in an evill cause they distrust all and adde delete change in bookes what maketh against them They destroy genuine bookes as Bertrame calling it Oecolampadius forgerie And set out supposititious Treatises without number and rase Scripturall sentences out of the Indices of all Wryters Yet they stand not at these Purgations Sixtus did it with more iudgement Possevine with more diligence and yet they are not content with them The purging of Doway and Spaine are not enough but the Vaticane must bee added And when Angelus Rocha hath revised all Ioannes Maria must purge out more But Bellarmine latelie vrged a further purgation of Bookes against the Iesuits Their new faith is so ambulatorie that it knoweth not where to consist They are convicted by the testimonies of their owne writers and therefore reject them as Tertullian said of the Pagans But let them purge Bookes as they will their faith is damned and stobbed by so manie testimonies as they in revenge doe pearce with the Popes obeliske It were good service to God and his Church to gather in one all these sentences which they haue purged And a worke worthie of the Church of England who is most able for it How ever they deale with Authours wee say as S. Austine did to Donatists Constantinus quidem defunctus est sed eius Testimonium contra vos vivit These men are dead yet their Testimonie is quicke against you Men would thinke that with all this furniture they would bee bold to dispute But they are come now to shift disputs So Salmeron condemneth disputing with Protestants So Becan and Scioppius in the foundations of peace Iansenius giveth vs a floorish out of Tertullian Wee neede not to bee curious after Christ nor to inquire after the Gospel And Baronius before him abusing Ambrose That wee neede not accuse the Apostolicke faith of noveltie But this wee craue is not a curious inquiring after Christ but a tryall of their faith if it bee that Faith that Christ delivered to his Apostles They confesse reallie that it is not that same faith while they eschew the try all of Scripture This their shifting of Disputs is contrare to the auncients practice as may bee seene in Athanasius against the Arrians Cyrillus against the Nestorians Augustine against the Pelagians and Donatistis c. And most against their owne Practice for first when the Iesuits arose they made disputs their sacrum Asylum or sacram Anchoram and for this cause glutted themselues with humane learning But now in end they finde their furniture as stubble before the fire For one place of Scripture rightlie vrged against them burneth vp all their baggage This shift commeth first of experienced weaknesse in disputes and next of a confidence in bloodie massacring So Austine noted these two The first in the Donatists e Sed quia bonam causam c. Because they knew they had not a good cause they first did what they could that there should bee no Dispute and that their cause should not bee handled all The confidence in other meanes hee noteth in the Manicheans g Non enim disputare amant for they loue not to dispute but pertinatioustie to overcome any wayes In like manner Mahomet discharged all disputing in his Religion And the Iconolaters the Papists fathers refused to dispute with Orthodoxes But if they bee forced to dispute they fill all with clamours as Cyprian noteth of the Pagans and boast of victorie though they bee overcome as Pascentius and Maximus two Arrian Bishops did boast that they overcame Augustine in disputs Yet they like some sort of disputs such as they had with Iohn Hus and Ierome of Prage whom they burnt at Constance and the like latelie with Padre Fulgentio and Abbas Sylvius at Rome thogh incoÌ„stant Spalato could not be wise by their example This they haue learned of the Arrians For when King Hunnericus called a dispute at Carthage hee began it with burning an Orthodoxe Bishop Lactance shall close this point and lead mee to their last refuge Novi hominum pertinaciam I know the mens pertinacie They feare least they be convicted and forced to yeeld vn to vs Therefore they close their eyes least they should see the light wee offer to them Wherein they shew the diffidence of their damned reason while they will neither vnderstand neither dar dispute because they know they will bee easilie over-come Their seventh and last refuge is crueltie The Ignatian fierie temper of the Iesuits This Lactance a noteth Disceptatione sublatâ pelliturè medio sapieÌ„tia vigeriturres They lay aside all reasonable dealing and take them to violence And that because sententiam quam defendere nequeunt mutare erubâ—scunt they thinke shame to change that opinion which they cannot defend This they haue oâ— Mahumet and Cusane objecteth that the sword was his greatest argument wherein hee resolved all d And Baronius Macta and Manduca kill and eate So Paul the fifth at his death recommended the inquisition to the Cardinals quo vno niti affirmabat Apostolicae sedis authoritatem a bloody pillar of a bloodie Kingdome and not content to kill vs by Inquisitions they draw on Princes to be their Burrioes This is the fruite of their fornication with the whoore in giving their power to the beast against the Lambe France serveth them at turnes but when shee openeth her eyes to see the Butcheries of her owne to bee the vantage of Spaine shee relenteth till a new deceite set her on againe And yet because the trueth shineth greatlie in her they incline more to the Bigotisme of Austria and the wilfulnesse of Spaine as bloodie in zeale as pertinatious in errour Their rysing at the least in the Ambition of a fifth Monarchie is a fitte support for staggering Rome The Pertinacie of Heresie and furie of blind zeale can haue no other arguments of defence but Ureseca burne and cut as an absurde man wanting reason turneth to passion and furie This proues the Pope to bee his first-borne who was a lyar and murtherer from the beginning The credulitie of his pretended Omniscience hath long misled the world Now when they see and would refuse his lyes hee vseth the crueltie of his pretended Omnipotence to destroy them Hee is now Abaddon the authour of bloodshed in Europe for many ages Thus wee haue traced them in their degrees
Vrbanus the second following his steppes forbade these who were sworne to their Prince to serue him so long as hee was excommunicate But more cleerely in his bloodie Canon Wee iudge them not Man-slayers who burning in the zeale of the Catholicke mother against them that are excommunicate doe kill some of them And Becane in his latter writes is more Iesuited affirming that the Pope having excommunicate and deposed Kings may take their life from them and their Kingdome also that hee may depose them two wayes one by absolving his Subiects from the bond of Obedience The other by way of compensation that seeing they will not protect people but trouble them for their Religion they are no more bound to them In like manner Sixtus the fifth delyvered a gratulatory oration in the Consistorie for killing of Henry the third preferring it to the fact of Iudith Cydonius denyeth it not And while the world was astonished and France sunk in sorrow for the death of their last King a Preacher at Culen publickelie commanded Raviliacke But wee nee le not inquire the opinions of their I heologues Let vs heare Sixtus the fifth commending the fact of Iaques Clement in the Consistorie And how Bellarmine defends that Oration What can bee found saith hee of Sixtus Oration but praises and admiration of the wisedome and providence of God The Pope extolleth to the heavens that a simple Monke with one stroke killed a great King in the midst of his Guards And then giving vs the vses of that Oration Thereby the Pope would admonish Kinges for that King commanded to kill a sacred man the Cardinall of Lorrane and God caused a sacred man a Monke to kill that same King not without a manifest miracle of the providence of God Here the Popes Oration defending Clemens Regicide is defended and the fact it selfe fathered on God With what face then doe they deny that they allow Regicide Cyprian said of another wickednesse that it was not onelie committed but taught and wee may adde more that by them greatest treason is both taught practised and which is the toppe of iniquitie ascrived vnto God Some times disapointment maketh them speak moderatlie I excuse not the fact sayeth Bellarmine of the powder-plot I hate murther I abhorre conspiracies But If God for our sinnes had given way to that blow wee should finde them Apologists defending the lawfulnesse of it who now abhorre it and his damning of it is not for Atrocitie of the matter but for the disappointing of the successe as in Castellus attempt And how can it stand with the posed resolvednesse of the Iesuits to maintaine the Doctrine and condemne the practice And what meaneth Garnets exhortation to his Catholickes to pray profelici successu gravissimae cuiusdam re◠in causa Catholicorum at the beginning of the Parliament It could not bee for the disappointing for that hee might haue done by revealing it which hee knew without confession That happie successe therefore was the blow it selfe These facts are such quae non nisi peracta laudantur they praise them when they are done and consequentlie frustrata damnantur they are damned when they are frutrated How ever then they deny excuse or transferre the matter it standeth on their doctrine and practise that Kings may bee excommunicate and killed and Richemous speaches were neither from his heart nor according to the trueth but to serue the time in glosing a wise and offended King The Iesuits then were in great disgrace and the sacrifice of publicke hatred as a Fox in the snaire they gaue faire words but beeing at libertie returned to their nature So soone as they were restored the Pyramide cast downe and the King himselfe pleading for them whereof they boast they proved irreconciliable For though hee of a Princelie clemencie pardoned their treason yet they neither layed downe their natiue or first hatred nor the second that they conceived of their supposed disgrace in banishment but cut him off and so declared to the world that their Apologies were nothing but fained complements That good Patriot whom Iesuits call a profaine politicke proved a Prophet in the end of his diswasiue Oration to the King and foretolde with teares That if hee restored them they would destroy him and so it came to passe This is the summe of their Tergiversation wherein the Iesuits labour to purge their order So when that order is iustlie pressed then some one must suffer But when France is in a broyle Mariana must bee sacrificed to quench the fire Cotton condemneth him Gretzer calleth it his provat opinion Cydonius extenuats it but Aquaviva censures it severelie in shew The Authour of the Iesuits Apologie defendeth all praiseth all except Mariana alone But that nicenes is needlesse for hee is guiltie of a crime that commandeth to doe it as Cyprian sayeth In the meane time of all this shifting they giue no securitie to Princes but they are cutted downe and cannot tell who doeth it they ioyne scoffing with violence as the Souldiers did to Christ when they buffeted him and said Prophecie who smote thee But some may thinke that these Effronts which they haue suffered in the late tossing of their cause hath brought them to some moderation No but they are as hard sette against Princes as ever Let vs heare the Cardinals of the Consistorie It is in the Popes hand to set vp the Maiestie of the Impyre to transferre the Impyre from Nation to Nation and alluterlie take away the right of Election They thinke matters succeede to their desire and therefore tell plainelie that their intention is no lesse than to overthrow Impyres for the establishing of their Hierarcho-Monarchie And Marta giveth a strange advertisement to Kings Let Princes sayeth hee beware to cast out or misregard Bishops or other Prelats and Ecclesiasticks if they will possesse their Kingdoms and States for a long time This is plaine talke and the just extract of that which the King of the Assasines caused one carying a long speare full of sharpe knifes proclame before him Fugite ab eo qui portat exitiū regum flee from him who caries the ruine of Kings But I answere Let Princes looke to this piece of Divinitie so deepelie contrived for their ruine ex ungue Leonem Iudge what a Religion it is that maintaines such bloodie Doctrine and canonizes the executioners of it And that so much the more that they are not ashamed of it as a sinne but glorie in it as their perfection in setting large Catologues of Kings excommunicate deposed and cut off by them And that speciallie to terrifie Kings in showing them their doome if they doe not adore the Pope CHAP. XVI Of their fourth coverture to wit LVDIFICATION And first of their pretended loue to Kings THe fourth Coverture of their tyrannie is Ludification They are not content with indignities done to Princes but scoffe
are alreadie both iudged of GOD and sentenced in his word to consumption and Abolition and the hand of Providence goeth on in the execution of that sentence there is neither ground to treate for reconcliation nor hope to attaine to it Or if wee will treate of it wee accuse the Lords sentence of iniquitie and his execution of rigour Let Babell then bee vnder her sinne and punishment begun and approaching and let all that loue the Lord Iesus separat themselues from these wickedmen A CONCLVSION Exhortatorie to Princes I Turne now that speach which they abuse to you most sacred Princes Bee wise O Kings bee learned yee Iudges of the earth Christ Iesus whom yee haue long pursued by Antichirsts direction when hee might destroy you calleth you to repentance to change both your mindes and course Your Mindes to know that poperie is that foretold Apostasie and that the Religion which yee persecute is the trueth of God And your course that since blind zeale the companion of false Religion hath made you thinke it good service to God to destroy his Saincts you would turne your power for the service of the Lambe of whom yee haue it and both revenge Gods quarrell and your owne vpon the Beast Consider how GOD setteth downe his Dittay and Dâ—ome His Dittay in Idolatrie Filthinesse and aboue all the blood of the Saincts Rome was ever bloodie the Mathematicians observed that when her ground-stone was layed the Moone was in cauda Draconis to tell that all her changes in rysing growing standing would bee in the câ—uâ—ltie of the Dragon And soone after Romulus wet her wals with his Brothers blood Shee turned the earth in a Butcherie by warres abroad And her Ganâ—es at home in the Theater were bloodie Shee shed the blood of the Saints in her persecuting Pagan Emperours And lastlie sheddeth the bloodie of the Protestants by her Antichristian head Ierusalem was guiltie of the blood of all the Prophets because they succeeded the Murtherers in malice and crueltie And Rome succeeds Ierusalem and exceedeth her in persecuting Christ All blood of the Saints is shedde either in Rome or by Romes authoritie Shee hath shedde more blood than Ninivie Babylon Shusan and Ierusalem it selfe Her Doome is doe to her as she hath done to you And what she hath done to you your Soules Thrones may feele For beside your soules killing the Pope hath overthrowen the Maiestie and dignitie of Impyres Shee denuded you of Kinglie Authoritie when shee exposed your Sacred Persons to the contempt and violence of the basest Villanes Shee ate vp your flesh not so much in catching the riches of your Kingdomes as by nesting in your bosome like a Viper to destroy you Shee burnt your with the fire of excommunication raising such combustions that your Countrie and Courts were divyded The Sonne set against the Father as Henrie the fifth against Henrie the fourth to pursue him to death and after death to deny him Buriall Therefore this is her recompence that you make the Whoore naked eate vp her flesh and burne her with fire God hath sentenced her and there remaineth no more but execution Though wee rest on none but Scripturall Prophecies yet their owne Prophets foretold their ruine For Hildegardis and Catharina Senensis whose contraire visions Delrio laboureth to reconceale Brigitta telleth them of their destruction What ever bee the force of her writ it must be Canonick to them since Boniface the nynth hath cannoized her and Martine the fifth confirmed that canonization and their later writers as Chemensis Capistranus Aytinger c. haue spoken broadlie That Rome shall bee ruined by the Almaines and the French As God calleth and commandeth you to doe it so you are bound to it by these two bonds wherey they presse you most your Baptismall initiation and sacred oath In Baptisme yee were initiate in Christian faith and not in Antichristian perfidie And the substance of your oath is to defend Apostolicke and primitiue trueth and not the yesterday novelties of Rome Their own Patrons graÌ„t that in the middle ages they were Apostaticke and Apotactick but since we never find their reformation or amendement The errour of time confirmed by badde custome hath made men mistake these Notions of Christ and Antichrist trueth and vntrueth and so to misplace their affections and actions about them but open your eyes to the light God offereth in his word and your better informed mindes shall reforme your affections and rectifie your actions least you take darknesse for light night for day and death for life that you may forsake Antichrist and heresies and ioyne your selues to the Lambe and his trueth in the reformed Churches Or if you will not take Gods cause to heart nor bee moved with these bonds let your Life and Crownes moue you Though hee vnder a Iudiciall hardnesse bee senselesse of the guiltinesse of his vsurpation yet be not you senselesse of these indignities He maketh you to fight against your selfe in his quarrell while hee abuseth your power for the maintenance of his greatnesse to the overthrow of your authoritie Remember hee is head of that Court whose Ambassadours boasted in England that they served at that Court which commanded both other Kings and their Courteours It hath ever beene your fault to neglect the commoun cause of Princely authoritie There is nothing more sâ—oothed than that that is pleaded by many When any one Prince was thunder-beaten by Iupiter Capitolinus hee exhorted other Princes that they should not betray the common cause but all in vaine For the ruine of one made a prey to many Therefore they suffered the present storme to passe over and that because by a wicked purchas some accession came to their state This was specially when a great Prince was broken whose greatnesse was fearefull to them all The Emperour was most left in the sturre while smaller Princes thought it their securitie if he were redacted to that state that hee might not rise to the greatnesse of his Ancestors It is tyme for you to awake when their flatterers pittie your injuries and the Iesuits admire your patience Petrus Ferrariensis marking how the Pope insnared you to inlarge his owne iurisdiction cryeth out But alace miserable Emperours and secular Princes who suffer these things and make your selues slaues to the Pope and see the world by infinite cousanages abused and yet you thinke not of a remeede And where the Iesuits please to bee free they wonder fatuos fuisse veteres Imperatores imperij nostri ordines qui sibi tanto cum dedecore ora sublinia Papis sustinuerint that Emperours and the States were so foolish as to bee gulled with Popes Wee haue better cause than Athanasius to say I am Ecclesiae tempora oculatos operosos Principes requirunt that the tymes of the Church require seeing and doing