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A42258
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Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre.
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Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.
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1651
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Wing G2150A; ESTC R24265
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Pollio was walking up and downe the roome before his friends came considering his fine Glasses he began to thinke what a feare his Servants lived in by reason of those Glasses saying to himselfe that they were but brittle toyes and if any of them hapned to be broken it would disquiet him more then they were all worth saying further that if he brake them himself it would both prevent his being angry with his Servants and free them from a great deale of feare hereupon he gives the Cup boardâ—loath a twitch downe came all the â—â—lasses and were shattered to peeces This Story was related in a Sermon before King James by Doctor Burges of Ipswich and thus applyed Sir speaking to the King the Ceremonies of the Church of England are pretty specious things but very brittle and subject to breaking and your Majesty hath given strict charge to your Servants with severe threatnings that they break none of them your Subjects live in great feare of incurring your displeasure if by chance they should breake any of them and 't is likely you will be very angry if any of them be broken I most humbly beseech your Highnesse in the behalfe of your good Servants who feare to displease you that you would play the part of wise Pollio and breake these Glasses your selfe abolish these brittle Ceremonies your selfe that so your faithfull subjects may be freed from their continuall feare and the occasion of your Majesties displeasure removed King Iames was much taken with this handsome passage countenanc'd the Doctor and seemed inclinable to the motion till the Bishops about him had changed his minde which they did by buzzing into his head their old principle of no Ceremony no Bishop no Bishop no King and so cunningly did they play their Game that they had suddenly incensed the Kings minde so against him for that audacious passage in his Sermon as they termed it that the Doctor was clapt up in the Tower whence he could not be delivered till he past his promise to leave the Kingdome which accordingly he did and went over into Holland where he remained for many yeares preacher at the Hague The Churches security That Ship cannot be cast away wherein Christ is the Pilot the Scripture the Card his Crosse the maine Mast his Promises the Anchors his Spirit the Winde Jâ—ctatur nunquam mergitur ista ratis it may be â—ost but never shipwrack't No Jesuites in Hell A Jesuite preaching at the great Church in Padua towards the end of his Sermon he fell into a large commendation of the Order of the Jesuits exâ—olling it above all the Religious Orders that then were or ever had been in the world giving God thankes that he had the happinesse to be of that Order and in the close of his Discourse he told his Auditory that he would acquaint them with a Vision which he had lately seene The other night said he I dreamed that I was in Hel where me thought I saw Popes Emperours Kings Queens Cardinals Bishops Abbots Monks Fryers and some of all sorts of men both Ecclesiasticall and Secular but not one Jesuite amongst them all which made me to blesse God that ever I was borne to be of so blessed a Society which though it had sent so many thousands of that holy Order to the Grave yet never any of them went to Hell and so he concluded his Sermon with a fresh encomium of the Society of Jesuites The next Sunday after a Dominican Fryar preached in the same Church and he also towards the end of his Sermon fell upon the high praises of the Order of the Jesuits repeating much of the Jesuits Sermon the day before and bewayling himselfe that it was not his fortune to be of that holy Order whereof none ever went to Hell as the reverend Father had told them the day before at last he told the people that he also had seene a Vision and dreamed likewise one night that he was in Hell where he saw Popes Emperours Kings Cardinals and all sorts of Orders as the Jesuite had notably shewed them the day before but not a Jesuite said the Fryar could be seen amongst them all then thought I to â—y selfe O what a blessed Order is this O that I had been a Jesuite and not a Dominican and still I cast my eyes all over He but could not finde so much as a peece of a Jesuite there but store of all other religious Orders yea even of Dominicans my owne Order I saw great store at last me thought I beckned a little Devill to me and askt softly in his care whether there were any Jesuites in that place or no he answered That there were none there but that they were kept in a Hell by themselves which is a great roome under this where said the little Devill there be abundance of them and they come hither so fast that my master Lucifer scarce knowes where to bestow them and besides they are so unruly that if they were not kept by themselves every body would be soone weary of this place He further told me me thoughts that his master durst not let them have any Gunpowder for feare lest they should blow up this place A worthy example of gratitude Thomas Cromwell who was borne of meane Parentage became Earle of Essex and Lord Chancellour of England when he was a young man he had a desire to see the world his first adventure was into France whether he went as a Page to a Souldier to carry his Knap-sack but that Army being over-throwne Cromwell wandered up and downe till he came to Florence where his necessities made him beg up and downe the streets it hapned that one Francis Frescobald a Merchant of that City and one that had traded much in England meeting with this young tatter'd stripling and finding him to be an English youth he carried him home to his house and there bestowed a new suit of apparrell upon him entertaining him with all courtesie till he was minded to returne home into his Country when Frescobald perceived Cromwels desire to be going homewards he provided him a Horse which he bestowed upon him and sixteene Ducats of Gold in his purse Now it pleased God after a long time that as Cromwell was advanced to high preferment so Frescobald was brought low in his estate through many misfortunes and losses insomuch that he was forced to come over into England to get up some monies which some Merchants of this Nation were indebted to him being here and following his businesse in London it hapned that Cromwell who was then Lord Chancellor as he was riding in the street towards Court espied this Italian and guessing who he was by his habit he called him to him asking his name who answered that his name was Francis Frescobald Cromwell expressing much gladnesse to see him caused one of his Servants to carry him home to his house there to stay till his returne Frescobald all this while knowing not what this meant