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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02833	An aduertiseme[nt] to the subjects of Scotland of the fearfull dangers threatned to Christian states; and namely, to Great Britane, by the ambition of Spayne: with a contemplation, of the truest meanes, to oppose it. Also, diverse other treatises, touching the present estate of the kingdome of Scotland; verie necessarie to bee knowne, and considered, in this tyme: called, The first blast of the trumpet. Written by Peter Hay, of Naughton, in North-Britane.	Hay, Peter, gentleman of North-Britaine.	1627 (1627)	STC 12971; ESTC S118431	133,365	164

Prince and bee of vnited Myndes tymouslie to employe the meanes that GOD hath given vs to with-stand so strong an Enemie then there is no doubt but wee shall bee bastant to oppose him but if wee bee relenting in these then I would say as one of the Parthian Kings sayde long before they were conquered by the Romanes Timeamus ●●●eamus magnum illum Romanorum Genium qui tam brevi spacio torrentis instar effusus est per orbem terrarum Wee haue great cause to project Feares and long before to parralele the flowrishing destinies of the Spanish Empyre which lyke vnto a Torrent hath with-in these hundreth Yeares over-flowed the fairest and strongest Countreyes of Europe Certainlie it is no time for vs to delay in murmurations and to object our povertie amongst infinite Examples that bee in Histories of the fatall ruine that hath followed to Princes and People by such doing the pittifull and mercilesse sackage of Constantinople by Mahomet the second may onelie serue to terrifie vs from the lyke the Citizens of that Towne being full of Ritches did so misregard their late Emperours that one of them Baldwine after hee had solde his Silver Plate Iewels and best Moueables hee was forced to pawne his Sonne to the Venetians for Money to maintaine Warres against the Turkes The last of them Constantine the eight being desperatelie besiedged by the saide Mahomet was not able to furnish Pay to his Souldiours by reason of exorbitant Vsuries exercised by his Merchands nor Corne nor Victuals by reason of their Monopolies although there was great store of both with-in Where-vpon after some Weekes of mutuall grudges and exclamation of the Emperour against his Subjects and of them against him that glorious Citie so commodiouslie seated for dominion over the World vpon the shoulders of Europe and Asia so Emperesse-lyke over-looking both was taken by the Turkes her miserable Prince and People cruellie murthered her beautifull Churches turned in Stables her hudge Ritches possessed by the Enemies and shee made a Port for that bloodie and barbarous Nation to come in vpon the necke of Christendome I will no more insist thus in this place because the Treatise is full of Practises and Examples convenient for your present vse I will onelie say againe That it is no tyme for vs now to contest with our King when question is for preservation of the State and I exhort you to reade this with that disposition as I wryte it not of private Subjects but of States-Men and kyndlie Children of this Common-wealth that wee may all in one voyce say with Pericles of Athens when his Citie was reduced to great straites for want of Money in tyme of hote Warres Ne cernere cogamur cuncta nostra in servitutem rap● mensae cubilis supellectilis ac dierae superflua abscindamus no●●que liberos servemus ut quum pinguior fortuna aspiraverit nobis rursus ea restituere valeamus Let vs curbe our Humours controll the delicacie of our Dyet make sober our Moueables and cut off what-so-ever is superfluous in our Manners for our owne safetie and let vs referre the farther fruition of those to more propitious and fortunate Tymes Thus much more must I say tout●cing the myste●ie of the number 10 here treated to some of you who d ee disdaine to heare from an-other that whereof your selues are ignorant I wish yee bee not scandalized by the mention of remote or naturall Theologie remembring how Sainct Paul 1. Cor. 15 calleth him a Foole who in the Analogie of GOD'S Workes cannot finde a naturall Argument to corroborate his supernaturall Beliefe for the Resurrection of his Bodie And the learned Scaliger in his Exercitations against Cardan discoursing of the Angelicall nature hee calleth that kinde of knowledge fastigium omnis scientiae the top of humane Wisdome and doth verie confidentlie censure the contemners there-of saying Irridebuntur ista à quibusdam sectis nebulonum qui otio supinitate marcentes fastigium scientiae contemnunt titulo curiositatis noting two sorts of them who sayth hee doe constantlie barke against the search of anie other thing than the naked and literall sense in the Scripture one is of those who bee meerlie naturalists nunquam assurgunt ad supremam causam Another of some presumptuous but shallow-brained Theologues who covering their Ignorance with pretext of Holinesse semper assurgunt ad supremam causam they are ever speaking and talking of the knowledge of GOD but may not abyde one word of Nature contemning the high contemplations there-of which are the verie paeth-way that doe leade vs vnto that Knowledge Neither of which two sayeth hee haue tasted this sweet Science of Analogicall harmonie that is betwixt the intellectuall and visible World whereof sayeth the divine Plato that that is the reall substance and this but the shadow depending there-fra that Trueth and true subsistence are there and heere nothing but as a flowing and transition of Images Nulla sunt vera nisi quae sunt aeter●● ista autem quae vide●us non sunt vera sed ve●i similia the things that wee see are but temporarie shadowes of things true and eternall and as the shadow of anie creature doeth perfectlie declinate vnto vs the shape the forme the space and name there-of although wee doe not see the bodie it selfe so sayth hee into this great bodie of visible Nature which is the Image of that intellectuall and infinite World there is the true deliniation and viue Images of the severall creatures which bee there and of the Heavenlie Governament and blessed harmonie that is amongst them And briefe sayth Plato wee haue no knowledge in this World but that which is symbolicall having reference to things invisible as the shadow hath vnto the bodie The Prophets of the olde Law did receiue their revelations from the Angels in symbolicall speaches and sayeth Christ Him-selfe litera occidit spiritus vivificat The letter is dead but it is the Spirit that quickeneth And of Him sayeth Sainct Marke That without Parables Hee spake nothing to them and twelue severall Parables of the Kingdome of Heaven Hee did delyver to them all which doe thus begin Simile est regnum coelorum and the Prophet David sayeth I shall open my mouth by Parables Certayn●●e if ever there was an Age of the World where-in the super-natural light of Christ's Gospel had neede to haue annexed vnto it the darke light of Nature for alluring and intertayning the weaknesse of our spirituall sight it is even this which we now liue into where-in the Heresies of doctrine are so pregnam 〈◊〉 and the loue of the World pryde of Lyfe and singularitie of Opinion so predominant in the professors of the Trueth that we may say not onlie with ●lato but with Hosea the Prophet Non est veritas in terra the pure Veritie hath left the Earth So that I say to you Yee must not be disgusted if vpon the sudden ye cannot comprehende everie symbolicall Veritie that is