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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16303	Tvvo letters or embassies The one sent by the states of Bohemia, to the Elector of Saxony: the other from the Popes Holines to the Emperour, concerning the troubles of Germany.	Bohemia (Země). Sněm.; Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621. aut; Barlow, William, of Amsterdam.; Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony, 1585-1656.; Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1578-1637.	1620 (1620)	STC 3215; ESTC S102769	21,755	45

to su 〈…〉 nor giue way to a contamination 〈…〉 wiped off For though you could bee 〈…〉 to forget Vs yet remember your selfe Though you could giue way to the desertion of Bohemians amity yet there is no forsaking of mercy nor the loue of God and heauen Though you could reioyce in the sincking and beating downe of an enemy yet be not an enemy to your owne soule nor hazard the losse of eternall reward For it is now Gods cause and the people will liue and dye in the defence of their Religion Oh that the Emperour himselfe would hearken to the voyce that told Saul there was no kicking against the pricke and if a Lightning from Heauen strucke him from his horse and made him blinde what shall the armies of Gods Angels doe when hee meanes to deliuer his people Be not therefore transported to fight against God or with the olde Gyants to begin a new warre and throw the mountaines against Heauen For I am fully perswaded that you thinke how Antechrist is not onely discouered but know he shall be punished yea laide open in this world to the hissing of all the passengers and then woe to the Princes of the earth that haue worshipped the Beast and drunke of the Cup of the Strumpet that rideth vpon the Beast But leauing Religion which yet will not be left out of Gods account What stumbling blocke of offence hath bene further laide or who hath cast these rubs in your smooth walke to amity former combination Is it the person of our King you maligne Oh say not so For if euer Titus was called Deliciae generis humani He may well be proclaymed the Prince of happines and Peace as a man composed by Nature ordayned of God selected by Prophesie confirmed by Miracle and established by all our suffrages as if the Dignity belonged vnto him as a Prince and other blessings as a happy man Is it our reuoltings you disalow of as if either the rejection of Ferdinand were not lawfull or ratification of this our choyse suspencible Why wee haue answerd it to the whole world that when Mathias had his owne endes in the adoption and inauguration of this man to the Kingdome of Bohemia for which he left him a pledge of his loue the Towne of Budwis It was absolutely contrary to his owne Oath and our immunities and Priuiledges For neither did the incorporated Prouinces know of it nor wee our selues condiscended to the agreement but onely certain Iesuites the firebrands of Hell ran vp and downe to set all in combustion and with Meleagers mother tooke the torch of his Life in a rage and held it downeward till the flame was extinguished and other traytors of our owne molded to another Impression by the warming handes of Spanish Papists and all to let out the blood of their Mother I meane their Countrey and Common-wealth to see her languish and perish before their faces for priuate respects or some praedestinated vengeance to fall vpon their owne heads Is it the obseruation of the Emperour himselfe or respect to his Family wherein hath he deserued better of reputation then your selfe or other Princes of Germany or what hath beene done these 100. yeares for the good of Christendome or why shall this glowing meteor or exhalation darken the light of truer starres and more radiant Planets Hath he not abused the trust committed vnto him by betraying all your Princely liberties into the handes of Strangers and setting vp the Spaniards Monarchy in the Westerne world to the terrifying of all Christian Princes For what Nation haue they not beene tampering withall euen to the placing of Soldiers and garisons amongst them I hope Italy hath knowne them and the Ilands of those Seas Ireland hath had them and felt some endurances for them France bin tormented by them the Grisons haue still their forte Fuentes The passages of some Mountaines are kept by them Sauoy is full of them Hungary is not yet freed of them Austria swarms with them our selues are but newly ridde of them some Imperiall townes as Wesell and others possessed by them and euen at this instant is hee calling in of greater troopes amongst you Is it the care of the Empire you shoot at how can that be when by these Warres all Gouernment must be turmoyled and that natiue beauty of our peace and prosperity made adulterate by Iesabels paintings and the thicke laide colours of wicked pollicy when the slaughtered Armies of Christians shall pollute your fields Cities and fill your swolne eyes with tears for the losse of Parents Husbands Children friends c. Is it the Popes Curse you are afraide of Why that 's impossible considering that hee now resembles a fire in a painted cloath which neither yeeldeth warmth nor lustre For his Fulminations are now made ridiculous and his Cursings proue like Balaams corruption who for all the King of Moabs promises sang a Parable of blessings to Ifraell nay you may be assured that the time of his desolation is comming faster on then the winde and the Prouinces are falling away like vntempered Morter from a wall Is it Spaines mightines you stand in awe of Be not amated He hath many Territories indeed but may thanke the endeauours of other Princes as also the slacknes of some who gaue way to his owne seruitors whē they had first offred the West Indyes to themselues He is rich indeed but hath much to doe with his money and greater charges to defray then present reuenues can supply He is strong indeed but is beholding to the Peace of other Kingdomes and the honesty of such Nations as make a conscience in infringing of an Oath Is it the Marquesse Spinola's Army which terrifies you I answer briefly with Elisha to his seruant there are more with vs then with them and it is but the opening of eyes to see Chariots and the horsmen of Heauen on the mountaine tops But I could say thus much further that you haue the more cause to adhaere to the Princes of the Vnion and propulse a common enemy of whom I will onely apply that which Count Meloun assured the English in the later time of King Iohn that if Lewis of France had preuailed hee was resolued to destroy all such first as prooued Traytors to their Countrey and led him by the Arme to trample on the bruised body of England So say wee euen to the Catholicke Bishops themselues whether Warre or Peace they will repent this hard bargaine with disturbance and when they see their exaltation depressed or liberty vsurped cry out vpon the first cause of their troubles and name the Iesuites as so many Incendiaries of a Common-wealth For had they not bene better to haue continued in their Electiue powers for the choyse of their Emperours and let the Confession of Auspurg alone to the freedome of mens Consciences and the quieting of free Citties Then now to bee assured that the Protestants will neuer be reclaymed nor taught other

and suffer dissolution of your Army how will you renue the same considering the remotenesse of your friends the weaknesse of confederates the convulsion of your people the infection of your Subiects with Lutheranisme the repining of Stiria Curniola and Carinthia the murmuring of the Swisse and Grisons and in a word the shaking of the whole frame of your gouernment as you see a high and heauy topped tree loosened in the root and standing on vnfirme ground wauering and ready to fall so much for your selfe Concerning my feare say that successe for it is a wisedome to presuppose the worst should bring them forward into the walke of preuayling would they not runne thinke you without interception Nay could the Alpes Barricado the way or the Venetian Gulph deny them transportation the high Hilles and white Cliffes of Ancona would be a Sea marke to bring them directly to Rome the Appenine is but a poore mountaine in respect of those they haue passed But you will say our Friends about the Mediterranian Sea will come in apace to preuent this mischiefe and a 1000. Ships and Gallies will keepe the Ostia of Tiber after they haue landed our Friends in our behalfe I thinke and hope so too yet I would be loath to put it to such an aduenture For the straights of Gibralter are wider then the Gates of the Citty that Sampson carryed on his shoulders and they that cannot bee detained from going to the Indyes will not be denyed to come into the Leuant Our enemies haue more Shipping then our selues and our Friends are far fewer then our Opposites they that know the way for traficke and commutation of Marchandize will know the way to spoile and getting of riches so easily Againe our aduersaries are constant sure and exasperated with zeale and fury against Vs They march like Iohn the Sonne of Nimshi and cry aloude to cast Iesabell out of the window our Friends are wauering vnconstant and fearefull of alteration so that to relye vpon them is but to trust Egiptian reedes or a broken staffe In a word they haue Prophesies and calculations in their mouthes wishes of reuenge and eternall hate in their hearts fury and bloody executions in their actions and all against Rome Some talke of the Scriptures and compare the vomiting of the Priests at their tables spoken of in the Prophets to the feasts of Cardinals and banquettings in our Court some tell a tale of Bell and the Dragon and when they come to the deuouring of so much meate they say that Daniel sifted Ashes in the place and discouerd the footsteps of the Priests their Wiues and their Children and all against Rome some coniecture of Pauls Epistles to Timothy and Titus concerning the Doctrine of Deuils the man of sinne Antechrist and Idolatry some descant of the Apocalips and dare name Iesabell Babilon Rome in Italy the Whore vpon the Beast the Cup of Abhomination all against Rome some repeate the Prophesies of the Sybels the Praedictions of Moncks and Fryers the praedil sages of Nunnes and Saincts the foretelling of Martyrs and the persecuted vnder Tyrants and all against Rome Which though it end with blasphemous inuectiues yet hath made such impressions in the hearts of Heretickes that as they haue set their blacke mouthes on worke with contagious rayling so they long to set their soule handes on worke with our vncharitable destruction and is not this a iust cause of our feare Therefore Deare Sonne for Gods sake for my sake for the Churches sake for your owne sake for our Friends sake and in a word for the generall cause sake both of Peters Chayre and Caesars Throne Be contented to mingle a little water with your Wine and coole the heate of your passion with some sweeter compounds then rage and reuenge Hearken to a Treatise of pacification though it sound not such a Diapason of musicke as will answer proportion and satisfie the cares of your Maiesticke greatnes Admit of a Peace in this case of extremity and remember how Abimelech though a Heathen idolater when hee saw Abraham so prosper in his enterprises descended to contracts of amity and came so lowe as to allow him for a Prince amongst them As for the Aspersions of disparagement and extenuating the worthines of so great a Monarch let all bee wiped away with the hand of Charity and the auoyding effusion of Christian blood blot out the exaggeration of your enemies mischiefe against you or the conceit of their trayterous reuolts amongst themselues Bee wise in your owne harmes and for your owne good Let Spaine and your kindreds example induce you to immitation they haue pollitickly kept their distances and for aduantage made Truce with their owne rebels I meane the Low-Countries and contracted Peace with them whom not long agoe they thought to swallow vp I meane England it selfe which now to shoot against will returne their Arrowes in their owne bosomes If this be harsh and vnpleasant as curbing the Heroycknes of your Spirit by descending so lowe as making the first proffer wee will goe another way to worke and rather then faile of this Blessing of peace put on Esaus hairy necke rough hands and bring to Isaac his Venison though the voyce bee Iacobs I will send a Legate Spaine an Embassador France an Intercessor England a Mediator yea it shall bee so contriued that all the States of Christend●me shall make you beleeue at least they wish you prosperity and their owne good and how euer the Children of Edom will cry downe with it downe with it yet shall the Natiues of Iudea speake peace to Zion and wish Ioy to the gates of Ierusalem You shall reade amongst the Prophets in a certaine Vision that there was a great Thunder and noyse but the Lord was not in it a great Lightning and earthquake but the Lord was not in it a great winde and shaking of the Trees but the Lord was not in it A soft and gentle murmuring of the Leaues and the Lord was in that so when you heare of Warres of the marching of Soldiers of the raising of Armies of the thundring of Canons of the sound of Trumpets of the demolution of Cities rauishment of women the murthering of men with thousand of other outrages vnnamed Beleeue it the Lord is not in or among them but when they mention Peace quietnes loue charity remitting of iniuries pacification of troubles and such like the Lord is and will be there As for the swelling tumour of Greatnes losse of renowne disgraces giuing way to rebellion diminution of honour and such like It resembles but the Imposturing incantation of Sathan to Eua that made her taste of the forbidden Fruit to the vtter subuersion of all Mankinde so that I will say no more but if God doe come with this murmuring sweetnes of Peace vnto you hearken to his voyce that tuneth such pleasant notes to your soules and Consciences But if Sathan wish you to bee vnderstanding men and like God himselfe to know good and euill hearken not vnto him your first Mother was deceiued and your last ruine is a contriuing FINIS King Iames.