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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11467	Europæ speculum. Or, A vievv or survey of the state of religion in the vvesterne parts of the world VVherein the Romane religion, and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same, are notably displayed: with some other memorable discoueries and memorations, never before till now published according to the authours originall copie.	Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629.	1629 (1629)	STC 21718; ESTC S116680	134,835	260

that mightily afflicted the Papacie and consequently advanced the Reformation in her proceedings was a course in my opinion surely more excusable where it cannot than commendable where it can be spared and that is the Discoverie of the private blotts of an enemie farther than the question in hand constraineth Howsoever the Protestants at leastwise sundry of them by example of those ancient renowmed Oratours ripped up to the quicke the liues of theyr adversaries in theyr particular actions especially of the Popes and of theyr Praelates as also of theyr Votaries of all sorts and sexes Wherein the store of matter was so huge the qualitie of it so enormous loathsome and ougly matchable in all kind of vâ—llanie to the veriest monsters of the Heathen the persons defiled with it of so eminent place in the steering and upholding of theyr Church and lastly the truth thereof so undoubted and certeine being drawne for the times past out of theyr owne stories and authors printed and approved among them selues to be true for that present being of things done ordinarily for the most part and openly in the fight of all men at Rome and in Italy even as they continue perhaps not much better in many things at this very day that the publishing and presenting it to the prepared minds of the world besides an extreame horror and detestation which it brought did worke in them this perswasion also that it could not be but Hell-gates had prevailed against that Sea whose Governours whose Praelates whose Priests whose Virgins had lived most of them so long time in the very jawes of the Prince of Hell neyther that it was probable they had beene carefull in preserving the doctrine of Christianitie who had beene so carelesse of all parts of Christian life and honestie And as in their liues so in theyr writings also of doctrine and devotion and in their actions concerning them theyr deifying of the Pope with most impious flatterie theyr abusing of the Scriptures with all irreverence and prophanitie theyr jugling in theyr Images to make them weepe sweat and bleed to rayse in the people a devotion towards them of Heathenish Idolatrie theyr forging of miracles in exorcismes in cures in apparition of soules for theyr Lucre and advantage theyr graunting of pardons to some Prayers before Images for XXX thousand long yeeres theyr pardons for sinnes to come before they bee committed their shamelesse and ridiculous tales of our Saviour and theyr Saincts making marriages here vpon earth betweene him and some of theyr women-Saincts with infinite childish vanitie and sottish absurditie as to theyr adversaries it seemed though themselues I must confesse conceiue otherwise of them some of theyr graver Doctors both preaching them still in Pulpit and publishing them newly in ample and elaborate hystories their promising to the use of certeine devotions to our Lady to haue a sight of her some time before theyr dying-dayes adding to this and much more theyr falsifying and forgerie in all matters of antiquitie thrusting in cutting out suppressing true suborning feyned writings as theyr turnes did require all which though beeing in this sort unto them they had eyther theyr allegations of good intents to defend or at leastwise theyr commiserations of humane infirmitie to excuse them yet were they not so washed away from the minds of the people who could not conceiue this house to haue beene guided by the spirit of God wherein they saw so many foule spirits of Pride and Hypocrisie of lying and deceiving to haue borne so great office so long and without controllment These things being perceived by the favourites of the Papacie to haue made so deepe impression in the hearts of all men and to haue greatly praejudiced them in theyr more plausible allegations mens hearts beeing aheady taken up and fraught with detesting them they haue cast about for revenge and redresse in the same kind not as the plaine blunt Protestant who finding all his matter made ready to his hands bestowed no other cost but the collecting and setting it in some order together but like a supernaturall artisan who in the sublimitie of his refined and refining wit disdaines to bring onely meere art to his worke unlesse hee make also in some sort the very matter it selfe so these men in blacking the liues and actions of the Reformers haue partly devised matter of so notorious vntruth that in the better sort of theyr owne wryters it happens to bee checked partly suborned other postmen to compose theyr Legends that afterwards they might cite them in proofe to the world as approued authors and hystories as is evident in the liues of CALVIN and BEZA written by theyr sworne enemie BOLSACK the twice banished and thrice renegate Fryer and Physitian for those names his often changes and hard chaunces haue given him This man being requested by theyr side to write thus is now in all theyr writings alleaged as classicall and Canonicall But in this kind surely me thinks the conditions of these parties are too too unequall For the Protestant whatsoever he say eyther in impeaching his adversarie or clearing his owne actions unlesse he can directly proue it out of the adversaries owne writings it is with them as nothing and no better than are Testes domestici in the Law whereas the Romanist whatsoever he sclaunderously surmiseth unles the other partie be able by direct prouf to disproue it which being to justifie the negatiue is always very difficult and for the most part impossible hee triumphs as in a matter of truth not to be gain-said and howsoever makes his accompt that in these kinds of blowes even where the wound is cured the skar lightly continueth At this present they giue out that they haue a booke in hand of the liues of the Ministers of England amongst whom it were to be wished that some who by their examples in dissolutenesse and corruption haue given occasion of offence against the Order it selfe might by theyr exemplarie punishment withall expiate the reproach Though at these mens hands who in disgrace of our Praelats haue cited MARPRELATE in theyr late books for a graue Author and witnesse and others of like and lesse indifferencie and honestie the innocent and culpable are to expect perhaps like measure Then for the writings and doctrine of the Protestants the books of some of our owne Country-men besides many other are famous who haue taken a toyle how meritorious God knowes surely very laborious out of infinite huge volumes which that part hath written to pick out whatsoever especially severed from the rest may seem to be either absurdly or falsly or fondly or scandalously or dishonestly or passionatly or sluttishly conceived or written for even in that kind hauing the advantage of the homely phrase of one Country and namely in those times they haue not spared and these with theyr crossings and contradictings one of an other set cunningly together they present to the vieu of the world and demaund whether it be likely

that these men should haue bene chosen extraordinarily by God to be the Reformers of the Church and restorers of his truth who besides theyr vicious liues and hatefull conditions in their more sober thoughts and very doctrine it selfe were possessed with so phantasticall so wild so contrarie so furious so maledicent and so slovenly spirits Wherein as they do in some sort imitate theyr adversaries so yet with this difference that the one hath objected that which eyther as being the approved doctrine of theyr Church was with publike authoritie delivered unto the people or else which was so usuall amongst their Canonâ—sts and Clergie as might plead uncontrolled custome to shew it lawfull Whereas the other part finding belike small store of that nature haue run for supply to every particular mans writings wherein in â—â— huge a multitude of authors and works as in this over-ranke age mens fingers over-itching haue produced it had bene surely a great Miracle if they should not haue found matter enough eyther worthy to be blamed or easie to be depraved in theyr enemies writings one of the most renowmed sages and Fathers of the auncient having found so much to condemne and retract in his owne And if the Protestants should list to requite them in that kind they might perhaps find stuffe enough I will not say as one doth to load an Argosie but to over-lade any mans witt in the world to reply to But verily these courses are base and beggerly even when singlenesse of mind truth doth concurre with them and farre unworthy of an ingenuous and noble spirit which soreth up to the highest and purest paths of veritie disdaining to stand raking in these puddles of obscaenitie unworthy of that charitable and vertuous mind which striveth by doing good to all to attain the high honour of being an imitator of God which is sory of those very thoughts that infect his enemie and discloseth them no farther than is necessarie eyther for defence of impugned truth or for warning unto the world to avoid the contagion of the disease or seducement by the dangerously and unapparently diseased But if to this basenesse of discoveries other injustice be also added if mâ—lice preferre them if sleight encrease them if falshood and sclaunder taint them then do they not only abase men from the dignitie of theyr nature but even associate them with the soule enemie and calumniator thereof whose name is the sclaunderous accuser of his brethren I suppose there was never man so patient in the world that pattern of all perfection our blessed Savior excepted but if a man should heap together all the cholerick speeches all the way-ward actions that ever scaped from him in his life and present them in one view all continuate together as is the fashion of some men it would represent him for a furious and raving bedlam whom displaying all his life in the same tenor it was led the whole world might well admire for his courtesie staydnesse moderation and magnaminitie They that obserue nothing in wise men but theyr oversights and follies nothing in men of vertue but theyr faults and imperfections from which neyther the wisest nor the perfectest haue bene free what doe they but propose them as matter of scorne and abhorring whom God having endued with principall grace hath marked out for very patterns of honor to imitate Yea this age hath brought out those curst and thrice accursed witts who by culling out the errours and shewes of errours by formalizing the contrarieties mis-interpreting the ambiguitie intangling more the obscurities which in the most renowmed authors for humane wisdome that were ever in the world theyr envious and maliciously fine braines could search imitating him therein who by his labours of the very same nature though with lesse and no ground at all against the sacred Bible purchased the infamous name of the enemie of Christianitie haue done that hure unto the studyes of learning which nothing but utter extinguishing of theyr unlearned workes can expiate But of this matter sufficient The last meanes I will here speake of that were used in setting forward the Reformation of Religion was the diligent compiling of the Histories of those times and actions and especially the Martyrologies of such as rendred by theyr deaths a testimonie to that truth which was persecuted in them These memories and stories presenting generally to the world the singlenesse and innocencie of the one part the integritie of theyr liues the simplicitie of theyr devises the zeale of theyr desires theyr constancies in temptations theyr tollerancie in torments theyr magnaminious and coelestially inspired courage and comfort in theyr very agonies and deaths yielding theyr bodyes with all patience to the furious flames and theyr soules with all joy into the hands of him that made them on the other side representing a serpentine generation wholly made of fraud of policies and practises men lovers of the world and haters of truth and godlinesse fighters against the light protectors of darkenesse persecutors of marriage and patrons of brothels abrogators and dispensers against the Lawes of God but tyrannous importuners and Exacters of theyr owne men false in theyr promises treacherous in theyr pretences barbarous in theyr executions breathing nothing but crueltie but fire and sword against men that had not offended them saue in theyr desire to amend them which could not endure and much of this set out in sundry places with pictures also to imprint thereby a more liuely sence of commiseration of the one part and detestation of the other did breed in mens minds a very strong conceipt that on the one side truth and innocence was persecuted on the other side violence and deceipt did persecute that the one part contrarie to all humane probabilitie being nourished with the onely dew of divine benediction did flourish in the flames and like Camamil spread abroad by being trod under foote the other notwithstanding all humaine and infernall succours and devises yet being cursed from aboue did fade and would come to ruine The Papacie being netled extreamely by these proceedings hath relâ—oved first to giue over the kindling any more of those unfortunate fires saue in places secure to keepe that law in usage the ashes of which they haue perceived to haue beene the seed of theyr adversaries but rather by secret makings of men away in theyr Inquisitions for which purpose as some of theyr owne friends in Italy haue reported whether truely or falsely I am not able affirme they haue theyr trap-doores or pit-falls in darke melancholy chambers or such other devises perhaps and chiefly by generall massacres to extinguish them Then to affront them in the same kind of Martyrologies and Hystories they haue first caused sundry new Fryerly stories to be written also in theyr favour making in them a representation of authoritie and justice proceeding by politike execution of law in the necessarie defence of Gods Church and Priests and of Catholike states and Princes against a

serue and by drawing in the marginall notes and glosses of their Friers into the text of the Fathers as in some of them they haue already very handsomly begun the mouth of Antiquity should be also opened for them There remained then only the rectifying of S t. PAVL whose turne in all likelyhood if ever should be the next and other places of Scripture whose authoritie beeing set beneath the Churches already it were no such great matter to submit it also to her gentle and moderate Censures especially for so good an intent as the weeding out of Haeresies and the preserving of the Faith-Catholike in her puritie and glorie But aboue all other the second Commandement as the Protestants Graecians and Iewes reckon it were like to abide it which already in their vulgar Catechisms is discarded as words superfluous or at least wise as unfit or unnecessary for these times And then without an Angell sent downe from Heaven no means to controll or gain-say them in any thing But these are but the dreams perhaps of some over-passionate desires at least wise not likely to take place in our times But what is it which the opinions of the not possibilitie of erring of the necessary assistance of Gods Spirit in their Consistories of authoritie unlimited of power both to dispense with Gods Law in this world and to alter his arrests and judgements in the other for thereunto do theyr pardons to them in Purgatorie extend what is it which these so high and so fertill opinions are not able to engender and do not powerfully enforce to execute carrying men away head-long with this raging conceipt that whatsoever they do by the Popes they do by Gods owne commaundment whose Lieutenant hee is on Earth by a Commission of his owne penning that is to say with absolute and unrestrained jurisdiction that whatsoever they do for advancement of his Sea and Scepter they do it for the upholding of the Church of CHRIST and for the salvation of mens Soules which out of his obedience do undoubtedly perish And verily it seemes no caâ—slâ—sse doubt or feare that these humours and faces so forward so adventurous to alter and chastise with palpable partialitie the works of former times in an age which hath so many jealous eyes on theyr fingers so many mouths open to publish theyr shame such store of Copies to restore and repaire whatsoever they should presume to maime or depraue that in former ages when there were few Copies small difficulties no enemies as it is found by certein and irrefragable arguments that many bastard-bastard-writings were forged in theyr favour and fathered on honest men who never begat them So also they might beside other their choppings and changings puttings in and puttings out suppresse many good and auncient evidences which they perceived were not greatly for theyr purpose to be extant But of all other in reforming and purifying of authours the care and diligence of this Pope doth farre exceed who not content with that which hath bene done in that kind before him nor thinking things yet so bright as they should be causeth much to be pervsed and scoured over a-new yea and it is thought will cashiere some worthy authours who as yet though with cutts and gashes hold ranke among them And for a farther terrour not to retein books prohibited I haue seene in theyr printed instructions for Confession the having or reading of books forbidden set in ranke amongst the sinnes against the first Commaundment And for farther provision The Iewes who haue generally not any other trades than friperie and usurie loane of money and old stuffe are inhibited in many places the medling any more with bookes for feare least through errour or desire of lucre they might do them praejudice Neither is it lawfull in Italy to carrie bookes about from one place to an other without allowance of them from the Inquisitours or search by theyr authorities Wherein as I confesse they haue neglected nothing which the wit of man in this kind could possibly devise so yet may it be doubted that as too much wiping doth in the end draw blood with it and soile more then before so this too rigorous cutting of all Authors tongu's leaving nothing which may favour any freedome of spirit or giue any satisfaction for understanding times past may raise such a longing for the right Authors in the minds of all men as may encourage the Protestants to reprint them in theyr first â—ntiâ—enesse hauing hope given to vent them although in secret These haue I observed for the complotts and practises of the Roman-Church and Papacie not doubting but they may haue many more and much finer than I can dreame of and yet in the surveying of these altogether me thinke they are such and so essentiall in theyr proofe that it causeth me in generality of good desire so to wish that eyther the cause which they striue to maintein were better or theyr policies whereby they mainteine it were not so good Now to take a briefe view of the Present State of the Papacy or rather of some poincts therein more requisite to bee knowne first to consider it in his owne proper and Peculiar Dominions namely in the Signories and Territories which the Pope holds in Italy for as for Avignon with his Countie Ueniâ—llâ—ne in France by reason of the ill neighbourhood of the Protestants of Orange it hath yielded him I weene in these latter times no great matter yea rather it hath beene an over-charge unto him for which cause they like well to bee under the Pope as bringing more in to them than hee taketh from them I take it at this day of the foure great States of Italy by reason of the accesse of the Dukedome of Ferrara escheted to him of late to bee clearely the third at least and to surmount the great Dukes which it hath well-nigh surrounded also Yea question might be made concerning the second place For although the Venetians in amplitude of Terriitorie farre and in greatnesse of revenew not a little exceed it Yet beside other difficulties and charges of necessitie to which they are more subject in militarie force they greatly come short the Popes men retaining still the braue hearts of theyr auncestours and breeding among them plentie of able leaders whereof at this present both the great Duke and the Venetians do serue themselues whereas the Lombards wherein is the flower of the State of Venice are as heavy and unwarlike as theyr soile is diepe and fat insomuch that the Venetians are driven to seeke abroad and especially to the Grisons from whom they are â—o haue at all times ten thousand at call But on the contrary side being to be alleaged that the Venetians are by sea puissant where the Pope can do nothing I suppose they may stil hold the second place of greatnes the first even in Italy without other respect being incompaâ—ably due unto the Spanish mightinesse And this in possessioÌ„ Besides which all Italy

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