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A07958 A toung-combat, lately happening, between two English soldiers; in the tilt-boat of Grauesend The one go-ing to serue the King of Spayn, the other to serue the States of Holland. Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640. 1623 (1623) STC 18327.5; ESTC S113013 26,750 92

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therein the Diuelles clawes which ma●…ie that are yet lyving haue seene displayed in the town of Liere in Brabant at such tyme as it stood out in rebellion against the King so may you now see how rebellion against the king rebellion against God do concurre toge ther for where as ancient good Christians having bin taught by the example of the moste glorious Christian Emperor Constantinus Magnus to fight vnder the signe of the Crosse these new contrarie Christians abhorring that signe haue more deuotion to the clawes of the deuill a well deuysed and befitting ensigne for such as foght vnder it Tawncy-scarf I wote well there is in Holland free libertie of conscience allowed to all and free exercise of Religion allowed to some but of anie their enclyning to Mahometisme or to Iudaisme or of their marching vnder the deuilles clawes haue I not heard Red-scarf Where free libertie of conscience is allowed why may not euerie one belieue as him list what shal restrayn him If you doubt of the Hollanders making difficultie of turning Turckes do but enquire what they haue don at Tunis where they haue fal●…e to Mahometisme by whole shipfulls at once and afterward to mend the matter haue taught the Mahometanes of those partes the laudable science of Piracie for the more affliction of Christians and as for Iudaisme such as lyke there of and lyke no swynes flesh or can bee content to forbeare the eating thereof may bee circumcised when they wil and then speak as much blasphemie against Christ as the devil wil direct them to do Thus haue I heer shewed you what great wrong the King of Spayn hath donne this people and what great cause they haue to complayn of his breach of their priuileges which is alwaycs in their mouthes albeit they would neuer vouchsase to produce anie one old priuilege for the robbing of Churches I haue also shewed you where the inquisition began and the cause why it was first put in practise in Saxonie afterward in Spayn the name whereof is now asmuch put in practise in Holland in continuall pamphlets preachings as is the name of a Bulbegger to make litle children afrayd Tawney-scarf These bee thinges I haue not to do withal Red-scarf But these bee thinges that belong to the purpose heer to bee alleaged Tawney-scarf The Hollanders were and are our neer neyghbours freindes and therefore Queen Elizabeth saw great reason to vphold them against her potent enemie the King of Spayn Red-scarf Before I come to discours about Queen Elizabeths reason for taking the Hollanders partes giue mee leaue I pray you to speak a litle of the blynd ignorance of our vulgar multitude heer in England to the end you may consider of the reasōs why they hate the Spagniard loue the Hollander to see how well wisely this loue hatred is founded That England and Spayn haue anciently remayned in great amitie together Histories Chronicles wil witnes and the diuers alliances and mariages often made between those two countries can also giue testimonie thereof True then it is that the great breach and hostillitie between England and Spayn began but in these our dayes let vs now see consider why how it began to wit whether by Spayn or by England King Phillip the second of Spayn as all the world knoweth did vpon the death of Queen Marie his wyf giue place and quiet entrance vnto Queen Elizabeth for further proof of his desyre of continuance of peace and amitie with her hee freely gaue vnto her all Queen Maries Iewelles they iustly belonging vnto himself hee also kept his Ambassador lidger in England as the sayd Queen kept hers also in Spayn profeising out wardly vnto him all loue and amitie and yet this not-withstanding shee permitted secretly and vnderhand the transporte of Artillerie and Munition of warre to the Moores of Granado to enable them to rebel iust about the verie same tyme that the Netherland rebellion was determined to bee begun that thereby thee King of Spayn might haue his handes full by beeing thrust in-to two warres at once both which shee vnderhand furthered but more the warre of the Netherlandes then that of Granado because of the redier comoditie Soon vpon the contryving of this plot when the King of Spayn to appease the Netherland broyles in the beginning had sent the Duke of Alua with forces into those partes and after his arryuall there sent him a supply of 600000 crownes some affirme it to haue bin 800000. shee ceazed vpon this monie in the west parte of England and having gotten it into her handes did therewith assist his Netherland Rebelles whereby his monie ordayned to haue serued himself against his rebelles came to serue his rebelles against him and bred besydes this a farre greater inconvenience for it was the cause why the Duke of Alua demaunded the tenth pennie of the countrie peoples goodes whereby they became the more alienated and apt to rebellion Some yeares after this Captayn Drake was employed from England to the west-Indies where hee robbed the King of Spayn of about a million and a half of his treasure These and sundrie other wronges and detriments were donne by the sayd Queen vnto the King of Spayn at such tyme as either had their Ambassadors the Ministers of peace in each others countrie they professing to each other loue and amitie The King of Spayn dooing against the Queen of England no acte whatsoeuer to the contrarie whereas she contrariwise continued to do against him vnderhand as manie wronges as she could besydes those great notorious wronges heere mentioned But when these grew so frequent that the smart vnto the King of Spayn became intollerable and so manifested vnto the world that all other Princes and people took notice thereof how was it possible that it could stand with the honor of a King and of such a potent King as is a King of Spayn stil to continew to put vp wronges as fast as shee continued to do them hee was therefore at the last moued to the preparation of his great Armada naual of the yeare of our Lord 1588. the memorie whereof by the incessant clamours of Puritanical enemyes of peace hath possessed more place in the heades of the inconsiderate vulgar multitude then the manie great wronges that enforced it But thankes bee vnto God our peacefull King Iames coming to the crown and wel knowing how matters had passed did to the great happynes of the Realme salue vp this sore from further festering wherevnto hee found Spayn most redie and willing and wel content to let pas and forget all English iniuries for to giue the Spagniaerds their due certayn it is they are men that are not of vnreconciliable revengefull natures nor such long entertayners of desyre of reuenge as some other nations are sayd to bee And this appeereth manifestly in this nation more thē in others for notwith standing all fore going hostillitie between Englishmen
exercise of religiō but to the fowre sortes afore-named to wit to the profession of their own Geus or Caluinian religiō To that of the Lutherās to that of the Anabaptists to that of the Synagogue of the Iewes none of all which relig●ōs beeing allowed in Englād but beeing by authoritie of the States allowed in Holland whosoever employeth himself in defēce of that vsurped State Gournment doth consequētly defend these fowre different religious aswel all fowre as anie one He defendeth that Caluinisme that maketh either Prelate or Prince that hath the title of Supreame headship or Gouernment of the Churche to bee an Idol Hee defendeth Lutheranisme that holdeth the real presence of Christe to bee in the Sacrament euen the verie same bodie that was borne of the blessed Virgin Marie Hee defendeth Anabaptisme that holdeth it vnlawfull to Baptise children and among other heresies teacheth that Christe took no flesh of the Virgin Marie And hee defendeth Iudaisme that denyeth our Sauiour Christe to bee the true Messias and Sauiour of the world for if by force of armes the state of these States were not defended these different sectes could haue in Holland no allowance of free exercise of religion Now besydes these allowed exercising sectes there is the late risen sect of the Pe fectists which as it seemeth needeth no leaue or allowance of exercise because it is come to such perfection that it is past exercise These bee such as haue bin great travailers in the woord and continual goers to sermons and fynding that S. Paule speaketh of some that are alwayes learning and neuer attayning vnto the knowledge of the truthe they wil not bee accompted such truants or non proficientes as stil to haue need of teaching and instruction they perceaue by their inward illumination of spirit that they are come to the rypenes of perfection they haue made trial thereof by their examining one another aswell about the exposition of textes as of their text-fastnes in citing chapter and verse without mistaking it as redelie yea and some tymes more redelie then the Preacher himself whereby they see themselues somuch to haue profited that they haue no need to run vp and down after sermon-makers but leaue them to the instructing teaching of the ignorant These now and then meet together among themselues and consolate one another in the Lord with singing of Psalmes discoursing out of the woord according to the perfection greatnes of their knowledge Where are our poor Puritanes in respect of these that all the dayes of their lyues run vnsatisfied with sermon-hearing behold how these Holland bretherē haue gotten the start of them and leaue them to remayn the perpetual prentises of their sermon-makers Tawney-scarf Mee thinkes you haue drawn out the reconiug of my seruice which is greater then my self vnderstood it to bee Red-scarf Greater but not better for I suppose you vnderstood it not to bee so il but beeing so good as you supposed it to wit to bee employed in defence of the Ghospel it could bee but bad because no good Ghospel can allow stealing Tawney scarf No more doth that for they hang thieues as wel in Holland as they do in England Red-scarf Thieues that steal try fles are there hāged by thieues that steal whole prouinces citties so as they are not hanged because they steal but because they steal not fiō the King of Spayn as thogh it were honester theft for a man to robbe his master then to robbe another man Tawney-scarf You haue exceedingly disgraced my seruice Red-scarf Not with intention to disgrace your self but to let you see how vniust and wrōg a cours both you and others take to the end that knowing it you they may relinquish it and make choyce of a cours more agreable to your woorthinesses and valour Tawney-scarf But now Sir I must tel you concerning your choyce of seruice that if wee had one of our preachers heer hee would tel you that it were in desence of Idolatrie Red scarf If hee did so and could prooue it so I would aske God forgiuenes leaue it but that is hee not able to prooue Tawney-scarf Hee would tel you that you woorshiped bread in the Masse for the bodie of Christe Red-scarf If wee so did that were Idolatrie in deed Wee do not in anie sorte intend anie woorship vnto bread all the deuotion woorship and honor which there wee doe is meerly sincerly intended vnto the true bodie of Christ the which if it should not bee there then is there no woorship or honor at all by vs intended But our warrant for the beeing thereof there is so great that it is not deryued from the mouth of anie mortall man but euen from the verie mouth of him that is Christe and God who cannot possiblie deceaue vs neither can his power bee insufficient to make good his own woordes and if it were possible that it could bee but bread yet hee having sayd it was his bodie and I belieuing it so to bee his ●ustice goodnes is such that hee cannot condemne mee of misbelief himself having bin the cause why I so belieue for if hee neuer had sayd it I had neuer belieued it I can do Christe no greater honor then to giue credit vnto his woordes nor no greater dishonor then not to belieue them to bee veritable Tawney-scarf But Sir our Learned men say that Christes woordes at his last supper oght otherwise to bee interpreted not vnderstood as hee there spake them but that in saying the bread was his bodie hee intēded to haue it vnderstood to bee the signe or figure of his bodie Red-scarf They that pretend to prooue all their doctrine by scripture do consequently oblige themselues to shew vs wherein scripture it is sayd that Christe ment it for the signe or figure of his bodie If they haue this knowlege by inward illumination how can they let vs know that it is of God Tawney-fcarf I do not remembr to haue heard anie text of Scripture alleaged for it And for inward illuminations I know not what to say Red-scarf That Christe ment it for the figure of his bodie is Caluinistical Anabaptistical scripture made without book but in sacred scripture not to bee foūd as for their inward illuminatiōs what cā they bee other thē such dreames as all other sectaries are as full of as they cā say aswel as they that they had thē frō aboue perhapsly not altogether neither for it may bee that such fancies came in their heades when they were in their garrets And yet was the inward illumination of Loy the Slater of Antwerp in lyklyhood more higher for hee as hee sayd had his as he sat aboue on the top of a how 's couering it with slate and it was that there were no devilles no hel nor no resurrection of the dead and that Christe his Apostles mētioning such thinges ment otherwise thē they spake and in