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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85916	A discovery of certain notorious stumbling-blocks which the devill, the pope, and the malignants have raised to put nations at variance: together, with some zealous wishes, that such stumbling-blocks as prove prejudiciall unto the common-wealth of England might be removed. / By Sr. Balthazar Gerbier Kt.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1652 (1652)	Wing G553; Thomason E656_8; ESTC R206602	3,389	8

A DISCOVERY Of Certain Notorious STVMBLING-BLOCKS Which the Devill the Pope and the Malignants have raised to put Nations at Variance Together With some zealous Wishes that such Stumbling-blocks as prove prejudiciall unto the COMMON-WEALTH of ENGLAND might be removed BY Sr. Balthazar Gerbier Kt. LONDON Printed by T. M. 1652. A Discovery Of certain Notorious Stumbling-blocks which the Devill the Pope and the Malignants have raised to put Nations at variance THE Devil apprehending the encrease of Christs Kingdome hath insinuated a capacity into the Sea of Rome to suspect a Hircanum from the Northern parts And therefore hath provisionally engaged its conclave and hath induced the same to enjoyn the Clergie of Spain not to permit Justice to be done on those who murthered Mr. Ascham the Agent which this Common-wealth sent to Madrid to the end that the procrastination of that expected Justice might at least afford the Portingals time to give this State some satisfaction conceiving that by their so doing the friendship of Spain might be slighted if not totally waved Moreover that thereby Spain might be enforced to keep the longer correspondence with the Hollanders during which time the Pope dispaires not to gain many thousands of Vassals for that since the last Pacification between the said King and the States General of the United Provinces many thousand families in North Holland are said to have turned unto the Romish Belief The said stratagem hatcht by an Italian Devil Fostered by the Antichristian Father the Pope and fomented by a world of Malignants to boot hath another reach in it which is not only to stirre up those North-Holland blades but also the several inhabitants of the other Provinces to stand upon Impossibilities and to pretend that the Parliament of England hath not onely been ill informed concerning the advantages which might ensue unto the English by the Act of prohibiting Importations but that the Parliament ought to wave their Act when as the maintaining of the said Act is conceived to be not onely a Justice which may be expected from their grave and unalterable decrees lesse to be violated then the Parthian or Median Edicts but also an effect of the Parliaments tendernesse and care of the publike good and welfare farre from a particular intent as some Malignants have forestald to undoe their neighbours and especially the Netherlanders for whose making and subsistance so much of the English blood hath been spilt and such vast Treasures have been exhausted On which particular that ever to be remembred Queen Elizabeth of England replyed thus unto a Solemne Embassie of those States when as they were in a dismal condition I will said shee spend even to the last drop of my blood for to maintain your People reflecting on them as on one of the Tribes of Israel and that she conceived also their cause to be Just Nor do any true godly reasonable English men conceive otherwise of them so far forth as concerns their fought for Liberty when as they had bin tyrannized by such as would enslave them force them in the profession of their Belief bereave them of their lives means and laws Far lesse that any godly English had or hath any intent to destroy that tribe which hath cost them so much blood and treasure to defend Moreover as the Devil and his arts Master the Pope together with the Malignants his fire-brands have on the subject of late Mr. Ascham forestalled an Impossibility for Spain to give that Satisfaction on his particular as hath ever since he was murthered been expected by this Common-wealth of England So likewise have they cast such a stumbling block in the Hollanders way as to mistake the said Parliaments Act of Importation purposely to thwarft the resolves on the settling of a good and firm amity between this Common-wealth and them for that otherwayes they ful well knew how that a difference more or lesse for the reparation of the Amboina businesse or for a due acknowledgement of the Seas Right ought not to be able to cause a breach of Amity between two such Potent Nations who are of one Profession in matters of Religion of one and the self same strength by Sea and who being in Peace may counterpoise all the other parts of Europe Nor could they imagine that either party should be so overmastred by firebrands who onely seek to fish in troubled waters as to be hindred from their shaking of hands and from the fooling of the Devill who would needs involve them in a cruell and bloody warre which may be justly termed so should it come to such a passe for that the displeasure of friends doth usually passe even unto extreames and when as such extreams would even change the name of a Narrow sea into a red Sea of blood cause a cruell slaughter of men many widdows and orphans when as finally many souls which would be separated from the bodies of enraged men in their hot blood would run hazzard to find themselves knock at a wrong door in the next world when as it must not be supposed that as the Hollanders cannot presume to aim at a Conquest of the English Soil which is so well guarded and defended by Saints So likewise is it not conceived that the godly English busie their minds with any thoughts contradicting a Christian brotherly love nor that any of them do conceive it to be possible so to drain the seas as that the Hollanders should not be able to make sailover them with their fleets consequently to encounter such as would be minded to dispute the case by canon Law for that the English must not expect lesse in case they should stand upon impossibilities putting the Hollanders to pay vast summes of moneys beyond a possibility but that the very turf fish wives amongst them would not onely adde to the number of those who might even rise against their own Magistrates for to enforce them to wave the furnishing of such vast summes and Treasures as might be demanded of them but that they would also expostulate the case with their arms a kimbo and exaggerate the businesse with a Myn Heere our Bugomasters rather then we will suffer this we will venter our best Ghevoyert Nerssien off that is our furred coats nay onse beste pack that is our Sundayes garments and if that will not do you shall have onse silvere slentel reemen our silver key chains rather then you should want of such a stock as may be demanded of you But by your leaves you shall not part with it for that we will rather try whether we shall not be as able to fight the English if it must come to it as we have withstood the Castilian and Austrian powers for the space of threescore and twelve years together and why should we not since we may justly expect to be backt by the Danes the Swedes the Spaniards the French the Polanders and who not In this manner ill humours chance to be raised by the Devils power by the Popes craft and by the malignants drift and not by the threatning effects of this Moneths Eclipses forestalled by the present Almanack makers All which conduce onely to the involving and intangling of severall States unto so endlesse a warre as that thereby both the English and Hollanders may be debarred from the reaping of the benefits of a Peace and from the approving of themselves to be two of the best tribes of Israel And that it may be the more apparent that these our complices apprehended lest the Devil might at length be fooled indeed Let us but observe how the Romish firebrands themselves do cast apples of discord among our next neighbours and by how far a fetcht reach they aim at the compassing of their ends even under the cloak of plausible pretences as for instance on the maintaining the Royall Diadem on the head of one who is a Successor to a second Saint Lewis and Son to a termed Just Lewis So likewise on the other side let us but reflect on the stumbling block which the Devill hath cast in the way and how he hath forestalled an inreconciliability between those who profess one the self same thing for that the liberty and welfare of all people the which he endeavours by all possible means to thwart could he compasse the same is not in any wise consistent with the interest of a Favorite and of a stranger to boot such a one as the Cardinall Mazarine is And to the end that the Devils game may have the better event why as then he moves the Papall Firebrands to debar that favourite from entring his Territories who in regard thereof could not choose but prove to be the instrumentall Stumbling-block and the essentiall cause of an irreconciliabilitie all which he backs with a second far fetcht reach viz. That by the means of the said conflict and contention the conquering power either the French royalists or that of the Princes might be sure to compasse a peace between the French and the Spanish Nations and that by the conjunction of such a triumvironatical power of Bell Book and Candle trinkets their forces might be the more formidably bent against and their swords sheathed in the bowels of Gods people viz. One of the Tribes of Israel which is but too much left unregarded that so by the same means they might also with the greater ease proceed to attempt on the Tribe of Israel which is on this side of the English Jordan it being doubtlesse the Center whereunto all the lines of the Papal and devillish crews compasse doe tend That so they may by their own power and not by the influences of any Ecclipses either of the Sun or Moon attain unto their wicked ends nor do they