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B01023 Britaines glorie, or An allegoricall dreame: with the exposition thereof. Containing [brace]the heathens infidelitie, the Turkes blasphemie, the popes hypocrisie, Amsterdams varietie, the Church of Englands veritie [brace] in religion. And in our Church of England, [brace] the kings excellency. His issues integritie. The nobles and gentries constancie. The councels and iudges fidelitie. The preachers puritie. The bishops sinceritie. / Conceiued and written by Robert Carlyle gent. for the loue and honour of his king and country. Carliell, Robert, d. 1622? 1618 (1618) STC 4650; ESTC S91360 33,166 58

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English least their heresies should be detected and their discipline despised for the Pope and his Ministers know in their consciences if they haue any consciences or else God lighten their vnderstanding that they may know that their Doctrine is a Doctrine of vanitie and the worke of errors according to the Prophet Iere. 10.8 They altogether dote and are foolish for the stock is a Doctrine of vanitie Where because the people thought that hauing Images was a meane to serue God and to bring them to the knowledge of him the prophet sheweth that nothing more displeaseth God nor bringeth man into greater errors and ignorance of God But I my selfe in person or else some Of my confederates whom I put in trust Deliuer'd them how and to whom we lust The common people wanting the knowledge of the Latine tongue were forced to receiue the word from the Priests deliuered according to their owne fantasies and so were deluded by these false teachers of whom the Apostle Peter prophesied 2. Peter 2.1.2.3 But there were false Prophets also among the people euen as there shall be false teachers among you which priuily shall bring in damnable heresies euen denying the Lord that hath bought them and bring vpon themselues swift damnation and many shall follow their damnable waies by whom the way of truth shall be euill spoken of and with couetousnesse shall they with feigned words make marchandize of you which is euidently seene in the Pope and his Priests which by lies and flatteries sell mens soules so that it is certaine that he is not the successor of Simon Peter but of Simon Magus 18. Many diseases heerevpon did grow The Ague Palsey Megrims Scurfe and Scab This false Doctrine brought in by the Pope and his Priests hath wrought many sects opinions and diuisions in this our true Catholike-Church and by that meanes many doubts questions and controuersies did arise which are compared to Agues Palsies and Megrims and are as great a blemish to the true faith in Iesus Christ as a scurffe or scab is to a naturall mans body For this cause saith Saint Paul 1. Cor. 11.30 Many are sick and weake among you and many sleepe that is they died or be dead The cause of sicknesses they did not know For no man of the Grapes suspition had The Pope and his Priests will say that they are the people of God make a faire outward shew of sanctitie in words but not in Action for they abuse Gods name and colour it with shadow of Religion to cloake their hypocrisie The Prophet Micah 3.11 speaking of the heads of the house of Iaakob and the Princes of the house of Israell figureth out plainely the state of Rome saying They abhorre iudgement and peruert all equitie They build vp Zion with blood and Ierusalem with iniquitie that is they build them houses by bribery The heads thereof iudge for rewards and the Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof prophesie for money yet will they leane vpon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst vs no euill can come vpon vs Which hypocrisie being thus cloaked with Religion is the more free from suspition of the people By this I got at ending of their daies All that they had for Rosemary and Bayes The silly people were taught such blinde deuotion that notwithstanding their daily offerings to Idols which came to the vse of the Priests and whereby they grew exceeding rich commonly at the time of their deaths they would bequeath all or the greatest part of their substance to massing Priests for maintenance of lights obits and prayers for their soules perswading themselues verily that they should neuer be saued without such fond babling and so the whole Kingdome almost came into the hands of the Church-men So those Dirges are alluded to a little Rosemary and Baies as to a thing of no value or respect but they are hardly so good for indeed the Rosemarie and Baies is a decent ornament for the corps when it is carried to the graue but as for the songs and prayers and their feighned power to doe the soule of the dead any good or to be any ornament therevnto there is no true Christian but will hold him a very simple vnderstanding man that imagines it For as a man dieth so shall he come to iudgement Eccles 11.3 If the tree doe fall toward the South or toward the North in the place that the tree falleth there it shall be 19. At length my diuellish purpose was descried By one that vomited a poysoned Grape By reason of an Antidote applied The whole circumstance heereof is largely and truely recorded in the booke of the Martyrs of the kingdome of England among the memorials and acts done in the time of the Reigne of King Henry the eight to which for breuitie the Reader shall be referred Thus much onely may be said That it pleased the Lord to illuminate the vnderstanding of that renowned vertuous and well affected king with the light of his truth whereby he discerned the hypocrisie of the Pope and his ministers And then caused the Bible to be printed in English and the glorious Gospell of Christ Iesus to be truely preached and so the whole kingdome was plentifully fed with the heauenly and spirituall foode of the Soule which that famous and blessed King hauing receiued and digested it was to him as a preseruatiue or an Antidote against the Heresies of Rome and caused him as it were to vomit out those vilde errors out of the Church of England And all the Countrie then did beare me hate And for those faults which I committed there They banisht me and so I thence came here Heere the people began to obserue the Doctrine and institution of Saint Paul that is to flie from Idolatrie 1. Cor. 10.14 and to hate those detestable follies and superstitious vanities which hindred them from the true seruice of God according as our Sauiour Christ saith Luke 14.26 If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his owne life also that is he that casteth not off all affections and desires which draw vs from Christ cannot be my Disciple And the gouernment of the Church being setled according to the profession now vsed the Pope was not onely iustly depriued of his Supremacie but his authoritie and traditions were quite abolished out of the kingdome his Ministers put to silence their religious or rather irreligious houses as I may rightly terme them vtterly defaced according as the Lord commanded Deut. 12.2 Yee shall vtterly destroy all the places wherein the Nations which yee shall possesse serued their Gods vpon the high Mountaines and vpon the hils and vnder euery greene tree Also ye shall ouerthrow their Altars and breake downe their pillars and burne their groues with fire and yee shall hew downe the grauen Images of their Gods and abolish their names out of that place 20. 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