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kingdom_n	denmark_n	king_n	sweden_n	2,083	5	12.1810	5	false

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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

of all which some briefe view seemes necessarie to bee taken For as for Poland and Transcilvania with Ualachia and the remaines of Hungarie by reason of theyr neere and daungerous confining with the Great Turke together with the multitude of Religions which are swarming in them in Poland especially of which it is said by way of by word that if a man haue lost his religion let him goe secke it in Poland and he shall be sure to find it or else make accompt it is vanished out of the world there is no great reckoning to be made of theyr force eyther way Then England with the more Northerne Kingdomes Scotland Denmarke and Sweden whose King notwitstanding is of the Roman saith now but hath few there that follow him they are accompted wholly to haue cast of the Papacie For albeit they make reckoning of many favourers in them as of fourtie thousand sure Catholikes in England alone with foure hundred English Roman Priests to mainteine that Militia who upon quarrell with the Iesuites affectors of superioritie and disgracers of all that refuse to depend upon them haue instantly of late demaunded a Bishop of the Pope to bee chosen by them and to bee resident among them but are crost in that desire by the countermine of an Arch-priest obtru●ed upon them by the practise of the Iesuites yet this is so small a proportion being compared with the whole as not to be esteemed especially seeing in Italy compted wholy theirs there are full fourty thousand professed Protestants that haue exercise of theyr Religion also in the Valleys of Piemont and S●l●zz● besides sundry Gentlemen in Piemont who liue abroad and resort unto them In Lucca also a great part are thought favourers of the Reformation and some of that sort there are scattered in all places especially in the State of Venice But theyr paucitie and obseuritie shall enclose them in a cipher So that for Italy wee will accompt it wholly to stand for the Papacie True it is that the Princes and other free states of Italy little fauour the Popes enlarging in his temporall dominion at home beeing already of a large size in proportion with theirs and especially for those pretences which his sea neuer wanteth and those extraordinarie advantages which the concurrence of his spirituall supremacie by interdictions excommunications discharging oaths of obedience doth giue him aboue all other Princes in the world Which they also aboue all other men in the world haue greatest cause to feare both in regard of the huge multitude of Priests Praelates and Friers wherewith hee hath fortified him selfe exceedingly in all other states and in theirs aboue all excessiuely as also for that discontent which theyr cruell and crying extortions and oppressions by monopolies and taxes by impositions upon mens persons upon theyr lands and goods upon theyr viands and markets upon theyr trades and labours upon theyr successions upon theyr mariages in summe upon all beneficiall or easefull actions haue bred in theyr owne miserable and consumed subjects who wish rather that all Italy were reduced into the hands of some one naturall Potentate whose greedinesse how great soeuer they were able to satisfie and of the Popes aboue all mens who promiseth some more lenitie by his late example at Ferrara where hee remitted many imposts which theyr late Dukes had raysed than to bee thus dayly racked fleyed and devoured by so many petie tyrants as it were with theyr prolling Gabelliers whose ambitions and emulations whose prides and pleasures thirteene millions of yeerely revenew which Italy now yieldeth them is not able to exsatiate Howbeit though as I said for these important causes the Princes and States of Italy no way favour the Popes strength in his temporall at home considering withall what swelling and turbulent spirits mount sometimes into that chaire who haue purposely set Italy on a flaming fire that in the sacking of many them selues might get somewhat for the advauncing of such as nature and bloud did cause them to loue best yet on the contrary side for his spirituall power and soveraigntie abroad they wish it upheld and restored if it were possible both for the honour of theyr nation which is thereby the tryumphant Queene of of the world and much more for the commoditie which by vicinitie they and theyrs reape thence in more aboundance than all other together what by sharing as occasion serues in his booties abroad what by beeing alwayes in sight to receiue favours at home what by that which necessarily sticks to them in very passing through theyr territories Then to exclude any innovation theyr owne safetie and not quiet alone perswades them it beeing daungerous in a body so full of diseased and discontented humours to chaunge or stirre any thing seeing all alteration set humours on working and one humour on foote quickneth up all other what allured by sympathy what by antipathy provoked the end whereof is eyther the dissolving of nature by length of conflicts or the disburdening of nature by expelling that which before opp●est it For this cause no audience to be given to the Reformation as enemie to theyr peace which is the nurse of theyr riches and sole anchor of theyr ●atetie For it were but simplicitie to thinke that conscience and loue of truth did sway this deliberation the world having in most places done Religion that honour as to remoue it out of those secret darke Cabinets of the heart where the jealousie of some devout dreamers of the gardens of Paradise had imprisoned it and advanced it to the fairest sight and shew of the world even to make a very maske or vi●ard of it with eyes and mouth fairely painted and proportioned to all pretences and purposes And other of yet more gallant free spirit haue giuen it a generall passe to goe whether it selfe list so it come not neere them It doth grieue me to speake yea the thought of it must needs bring horrour and detestation what a multitnde of Atheists doe braue it in all places there most where the Papacie is most in his prime what renouncers of God blasphemers of his sonne villanizers of his Saincts and scorners of his service who thinke it a glorious grace to adore the King of a Country but to name or thinke reverently of the Creatour of the World to proceed from a timorous very base mindednes abjectnes of so deepe reach and judgement are these pedlers in theyr proportions who know no other Magistrates but those of theyr parishes These men are favourable alike to all Religions but can best endure that wherein they are least checkt and may raunge with most impunitie But for the Souldiarie of this age a profession and exercise in old time reputed for an only Schoole of vertue but now infamed with all vice and villanie in old time such that the wisest Philosopher thought it reason sufficient why the Lacedaemonians were generally more vertuous than other Nations because they followed the warres more at this