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A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

smelt out your drift and banished your Iesuites to requite some part of your hospitalitie to strangers in that for the space of a whole yeere and better you restrayned their Embassadour at Lisbone from entring into your Hypocriticall Church And as he wrot to Damianus a Goes such was your insolencie that by no meanes you would admit them to communicate nor keepe companie with you as if they were the arrantest Heretickes of the world The Romish Church much agrieued that the Patriarke of Alexandria had preuented her in a Suit which shee had cunningly canuased and almost brought to perfection pleaded that all the world ought to be vnder her Gouernment For our Sauiour Christ after his Passion said that all Power was giuen vnto him in Heauen and Earth And this Power with the keyes did Hee before his Ascension into Heauen commit vnto Peter Which Soueraigne Authoritie after Peters death rested like the Spirit of Elias on Eliza the Prophet vpon the Successors of Peter For proofe of which Princely preheminence shee alledged the testimonie of Pope Gregorie the ninth who flourished in the yeare 1225. how God made two great Lights in the firmament of Heauen that is to say of the Catholicke Church the which two Lights are the Pontificall Authoritie and the Regall Power whereby men might know that there is as much difference betwixt Popes and Kings as betwixt the Sunne and the Moone At these words the Patriarke reioynd and said these arrogant words of yours pronounced now in your drooping and declining Age doe decipher you to be like an old Bawd and gracelesse Strumpet Was not the cure of Soules sufficient for you but you must also domineere ouer their bodies and more ouer their Purses This last is the cause of your discontent How doth the Spirit of Saint Peter rest on you more then the Spirit of Saint Matthew or Saint Philip rest on mee or my Aethiopian Clergie By that similitude Caiphas might vaunt that he had the spirit of Aaron But their Glorie ought not to countenance our Infirmities Neither as Saint Chrysostome said is the Place able to sanctifie the Successor nor can the Chaire make a Priest Saint Peter was of a higher Function then a Pope an Apostle to trauell from one place to the other hauing the charge of the Circumcision as Saint Paul of the Gentiles Hee was not tied to any one peculiar City O I would that both of vs were able to follow his godly steps and to labour vp and downe the world in conuerting of Idolaters and to preach nothing but Christ crucified without collaterall Mediators and worldly respects of Dignities Pompes or in hunting for Superioritie Gaine and fat Benefices Saint Peter had no Gold nor Siluer to giue as himselfe told the Creeple in Salomons Porch Hee wore no Triple Crowne but reioyced in the Crowne in his Masters thornie Crowne the Crowne of Martyrdome Hee wore no filuer Crucifixe but in his heart hee bore the contemplation of the bloudie Crosse which day and night hee earnestly beheld He taught his conuerted Flock to bee subiect vnto Kings The Pope exalts himselfe aboue all Kings aboue the Generall Councels Saint Peter would not suffer Cornelius to kneele vnto him The Pope expecteth that euen the mightiest Monarchs should kisse his Feet Et mihi Petro. Saint Peter willingly endured reproofe at the hands of Paul But who dares rebuke the Pope and tell him of his faults Saint Peter acknowledged the rest of the Apostles for his Brethren and Fellowes The Pope allowes of no Patriarch nor Bishop to be his equall nor of any Clergie man to be made but by his Authoritie Saint Peter and Saint Paul preached that Christ was the Head of the Church as the Husband of the Wife and for that end hee sent the Holy Ghost as his Vicar generall to direct the Soules of the Elect in spirituall mysteries during his residence in Heauen without apointing any Earthly Potentate or visible Head to execute that high Office and left their bodies to the Gods of the Earth to bee tried as Gold in the fornace It is the Soule the noblest part of man which hee takes most care of Why should He then ordaine a visible Head an ambitious Pope to domineere nay to tyrannize ouer that I●uisible Part What neede any other Head as ministeriall ouer our Consciences He that ouerlookt the seuen Golden Candlestickes that is the seuen Churches in the Reuelation and further promised the presence of his God-head I am with you to the Worlds end no doubt but hee will supply the place of a spirituall Head and infuse both spirituall nourishment into our Soules as also afford food and necessaries to our bodies though not according to the vaine desires of flesh and bloud which gape after superfluities yet enough to content nature O miserable state of Rome In what danger lyes thy Soule Saint Bernard long agoe reprehended this aspiring humour of the Romish Clergie And yet such is the force of tempting Gaine dolosinummi that if Moses himselfe and the Prophets arose from the dead they would not heare them as long as they spake against their worldly profit At first you beganne saith he to vsurpe as Lords ouer the Clergie contrary to Saint Peters admonition and within awhile after against Saint Pauls counsell who was Peters fellow Apostle yee got the rule ouer the Faith of men Nor yet doe yee stay heere but yee haue gone further and obtained a peremptorie dominion ouer Religion it selfe What remaines now but that yee climbe on high to bring into subiection the very Angels of Heauen Apollo very well approued the Catriarkes reproofe of the Romish Church and fell into such detestation of her intolerable ambition that he made this speech against her Three things haue wrought this absurditie in the Religion of the Westerne Christians the one hapned by the Opinion of the Popes extraordinarie Power imprinted in mens minds by their Ghostly Fathers that his Holinesse as Saint Peters Successour cannot erre in matters of Faith The second and most craftie that all men whatsoeuer who beleeue not in the Catholick Church which you must perswade your selfe to bee onely the Romish are vndoubtedly in the state of Damnation The third are the lyes of Purgatorie the which being at his dispose as Iudge Iayler made euery man specially the melancholick to take heed of angring him or any of his tribe as on the contrarie to appease his humour with Gifts and the buying of his idle Pardons But now my Beloued of Par nassus the vaile is taken from his painted face and you shall see and read in his eyes the affections of his heart And least some of you bee not so quicke sighted as others I will briefely runne ouer the two first causes of his Greatnesse After our Sauiours death for the space welnigh of three hundred yeeres the Christian Religion was so persecuted by the Romane Emperours specially at Rome it selfe

golden Touch As Whales doe play vpon the lesser Fish Till Harping-irons spoyle their latest wish So These wound Christ againe through Neighbours sides Till Earth denoures her due their hideous hides O curuae in terras Animae Coelestium inanes O stooping Soules to Earthly trumperies And quite deuoid of Heauenly Mysteries Shall I sleepe on both eares as the Prouerbe saith while these indignities range abroad vnpunished or conniued at among the learned Societie of Parnassus No mighty Monarch I feele an inward motion in my Soule pricking me like a spurre to run as at a deified Deuill against the defied foes of Charitie And now the rather being heere enforced in your Maiesties Court of Parliament the transcendent Light of all worldly Actions Take away the chaine of Charitie take away the Communion of Saints established on the eternall vnion of the Sonne of God who left vs at his departure this last Commandent Loue one another And doe we loue one another if we liue in hatred and watch opportunitie to hurt the members of Christ Decretum profer Apollo I appeale to this high Tribunall How can we say that God is in vs if our Soules and Bodies bee not his Temple The Ground-worke of this Temple is Faith as Saint Paul writes Faith is the ground of things hoped for The walles are the Gifts of Hope without which wee of all men were most miserable And what is the perfection of the Roofe which couers this Temple but Charitie This is the fruit of all our Actions both immanent and transient This brightsome vertue extends to God and man to Heauen and Earth It lifts it selfe vp to God as the prime Mouer of our wils to the Angels as our Guardians and to the triumphant Saints for their participation and spirituall fellowship with our Soules in the harmonious concent and agreement of Holy Workes expecting our humane minds to ioyne with them in their vniuersall Alleluiahs without iarres discord or disproportioned tunes O Angelicall Concord which requirest this Contemplation and Practice of all such which are predestinated to be saued O the depth of Gods scope which exacteth this obedience of the true Catholike Church to loue our Neigbours as wee would haue him to loue vs to doe euill to no man to wish well to all the World like vnto the Sunne which not onely casts his beames vpon all but refresheth the very earth which beareth weeds In what a miserable case then stand those Lawyers which polish their wits and with hired tongues goe about to defeat O●phans Widowes and other innocents by desending wrong-doers Cursed be yee which speake good of euill and euill of good saith the Prophet Which likewise the Wiseman testified He that iustifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the Iust they both are abhominable vnto God What auailes it a man to gather wealth for a small time when hee knowes hee must leaue them behind him and answere for euery idle word and sentence which he produced to disgrace or hinder his Neighbour whom he was bound to tender and loue as himselfe What profit shal he get by his golden fees when Death dogges him at the heeles When his pulses shall faintly beat his senses faile and his eye-lids shut neuer more to open vntill they see the gates of New Ierusalem shut fast against their wretched Master No doubt but some of our Lawyers doe happily thinke vpon this fatall stroke but alas that weake thought for want of Zeale quickly perisheth like those seedes which were sowne by the Husbandman and afterwards for want of care suffered to be ouergrowne with weeds and choaked with auarice The want of employments in some other Professions or Trades which might benefit them in their worldly thoughts and dreaming conceits of priuate lucre doe constraine many great Spirits to fall to this wrangling course of life who otherwise would proue more notable members for their Countries Good But seeing no other way then this to arriue without danger of a bloudie nose to a great estate they forgoe those braue flames which Nature had kindled in them and in their steed doe harbour earthy and slimy cogitations like the Serpent whom God cursed and destinated to creepe vpon his belly and to licke the dust of the earth All their mind runnes on Gaine Gaine is their God the God which deliuers them out of the Land of bondage out of the iawes of Pouertie Gaine is the golden Angell which leades them out of the Wildernesse into the Land of Canaan Gaine is their Iosuah that gouernes their battels and giues them superioritie and victory not ouer the vncircumcised Philistines but ouer their owne Brethren the heires of Saluation in the world to come What faire protestations and goodly hopes will they not faile to promise at the first opening of their Clients Cause yet when the matter by their vnluckie Counsell succeeds not as they promised they will shamelesly stand vnto it that their Clients had not throughly informed them or else with admiration and eyes lift vp towards Heauen they will ioyne to lay an aspersion on the Iudge whereas themselues were the chiefe Procurers of the Suite About twenty yeeres past it was my fortune to bee present in a Counsellers Chamber at the Counsell of the Marches where a Gentleman of Worcestershire bitterly complained that the Counsell had ordred him to pay seuenscore pounds which hee might haue compounded for fiftie pounds And that this rigorous sentence proceeded by his relying altogether vpon his Opinion that the Counsell would not deale in matters aboue fiftie pounds being limited by their Instructions from the King To which the Lawyer answered that he had hard measure offered him that the Counsell reduced his Cause from a Common Law businesse to bee a matter of Conscience wherein the King had left vnto them the determining at large without tying their powers to a certaine Summe That hee was sory to see such extreme seueritie Yet notwithstanding somewhat glad that the matter hauing beene so chargeable and trouble some for a long time he might now enioy the continuall company of his wife and children at home which before he could not doe That Peace was a blessed thing and Patience an excellent vertue Which the Gentleman hearing and hauing no comfort else for his great expence paines and troubles he brake forth into Passion saying what doe you tell me of Peace and Patience and going home to haue the company of my wife and children All this I had before I met with your vnfortunate Counsell and but for you I might haue had more meanes to doe for them then now I haue Which Answere of his cals backe into my memory Captaine Eliots Tragedie which about fiue and twentie yeeres agoe he related vnto me at Paris In Queene Elizabeths dayes being enticed by a Iesuite heere in England this Captaine Eliot went to Lisbone with a Pinnasse of the Queenes which hee purposed thence forwards to employ for his New Masters seruice the King