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A54586 The visions of government wherein the antimonarchical principles and practices of all fanatical commonwealths-men and Jesuitical politicians are discovered, confuted, and exposed / by Edward Pettit ... Pettit, Edward. 1684 (1684) Wing P1892; ESTC R272 100,706 264

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by Thomas Pittis D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty Advice to the Readers of the Common Prayer and to the People attending the same With a Preface concerning Divine Worship Humbly offered to Consideration for promoting the greater Decency and Solemnity in performing the Offices of Gods Publick Worship administred according to the Order established by Law amongst us By a well meaning though unlearned Laick of the Church of England T. S. The Life of the Learned and Reverend Dr. Peter Heylin Chaplain to Charles I. and Charles II. Monarchs of Great Britain Written by George Vernon Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire The Crafty Lady Or the Rival of Himself A Gallant Intriegue Translated out of French into English by F. C. Ph. Gent. ERRATA The Reader is desired to take notice of two mistakes which escap'd the Press PAge 22. line 16. for Castles read Cabal● p. 29. blot out with Liquors not Symbolical THE First VISION OF GOVERNMENT The CONTENTS The Introduction The Ghost of S. Jerom a Native of Hungary after a relation of the Present State of that Kingdom condemns their Rebellion from the Doctrine and Practice of the Christians of his Time The grand Confederacy against Christian Religion and Government discover'd in a Dialogue betwixt the Ghosts of the late Vizier Cuperlee a General of the Jesuits and of the Earl of Shaftsbury The Reasons why the Fanaticks of England lament the Defeat of the Turks a parallel in some new remarques betwixt them Whether was the more Unchristian to wish the Success of the Turkish Arms before Vienna or of the Moors before Tangier The impious and foolish conceit of preventing Arbitrary Government under the Protection of the Grand Seignior THE Famous Story of the Apparition of Buda in Hungary after the successful Victory which the Christians obtained over the Turks at Barkan is so generally known that I need not relate it again I am sure that when it was first told to me it made such an impression upon my Fancy all that day that I no sooner slept at night but I dream'd at such a swift rate that I was got as far as the Berg Towns famous for those profound and rich Mines of Silver in possession of the Rebells under the Command of Count Teckeley Whether it was my Fear or Curiosity that let me drop down to the bottom of one of them I cannot certainly tell But I no sooner found my leggs again but methought I march't through a dark and narrow Passage at the farther end of which I espied a very old Man with a long white Beard sitting at a Table with a dim Light and a Book before him and laying his right hand upon a Deaths-head he seem'd to weep very bitterly Bless me quoth I Where am I In Limbo Patrum Have I stumbl'd upon one of the Antediluvian Patriarchs What Venerable Sage is this I am resolv'd to know what part of the Chronology he belongs to In order to it I advanced three or four steps with a design to ask him his Name but as soon as he lifted up his head I perceived that it was S. Jerom the most eminent Scholar that ever that * Born at Stridon Nation bred and a worthy Father of the Latin Church I was extreamly amaz'd to meet with him so far under ground and being desirous to know the Reasons of it he prevented my boldness by saying You may wonder to meet with my Effigies or Ghost in any other place under the Sun but in the Chappel of the Nativity of Bethlehem * Sandys Trav. p. 141. where I spent the latter part of my Life in those Religious Duties which became so Sacred a place you may wonder that I who liv'd and dy'd where the Saviour of the World and the King of Glory was born should here appear where the Mammon of Unrighteousness is hatch'd in the Womb of the Earth I should be much more surpriz'd Holy Father said I to meet you upon the surface of it which is all o're stain'd with the Garbage of Insidels steep'd in whole streams of Christian Blood as if they had utterly banisht the Doctrine of that Prince of Peace How cry'd he have the Goths over-run the World again Is my Native Soyl trodden down once more by those impure Barbarians No cry'd I they are not call'd Goths nor Vandals neither but they style themselves The Brethren the Elect Holy Saints and Reformed Christians These are reply'd he fine Titles which some ancient Hereticks usurp'd and abus'd but pray let me know their present case as short as you can I shall with all submission said I give you an impartial account of them to the best of my memory This your Native Kingdom of Hungaria after many revolutions from being a Province of the Roman Empire fell at last into the possession of the Austrian Family which now upholds the small remains of the Western parts of it in Germany Ferdinand the Brother of Charles the Fifth laid claim to it in right of his Wife who was Sister to the unfortunate Ludovicus the Second but the Hungarians made choice of John Sepusio Vaivod of Transylvania who to settle himself call'd in Solyman the Magnificent Emperour of the Turks John Sepusio dying left only an Infant who was Crown'd in his Cradle upon this the Turkish Emperour who had restor'd the Father under pretence of protecting the Son seized the Regal City of Buda with many other Towns and filled them with his own Garrisons upon which the Hungarians seeing their growing danger did with universal consent elect the aforesaid Ferdinand their King as best able to defend them in whose Family it has continued for an hundred and forty years their Elections being matter of Formality only They took the best course reply'd the Father What is the reason that they now revolt from them You must understand said I that these Princes of the House of Austria are great Patrons of the Jesuits a pestilent sort of Hereticks who have poison'd the Christian World with their damnable Doctrines of Deposing and Killing Soveraign Kings and Princes and though one would think this were enough to enflame all the Potentates of the Earth against them yet they have gain'd so much upon the Emperour that upon the account of their forsaking the Romish Superstitions they have not only advised him to abridge them of some of their Civil Rights but to persecute them with extream Rigour for the sake of their Religion upon which a Party of them have renounc'd their Allegiance to their Temporal Lord have set up one of his sworn Subjects against him and to confirm him have recall'd the Turks the Disciples of one Mahomet who has damn'd many Millions of men with his impure Doctrines made up of a monstrous confusion of Arianism Judaism and Paganism and now threatens all Religion with his Blasphemies and all Christendons with his Arms. What! said he looking as austerely upon me as if Ruffinus had peep 't over