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A08453	The fountaine and vvelspring of all variance, sedition, and deadlie hate Wherein is declared at large, the opinion of the famous diuine Hiperius, and the consent of the doctors from S. Peter the Apostle his time, and the primitiue Church in order to this age: expresly set downe, that Rome in Italie is signified and noted by the name of Babylon, mentioned in the 14. 17. and 18. chapters of the Reuelation of S. Iohn.	Ocland, Christopher, d. 1590?	1589 (1589)	STC 18778; ESTC S113367	31,748	48

that escapest aliue shalt be in worse case than he that is dead A continuall torment pinching tearing of a man liuing is worse then any sharpe death The senses by death are taken the anguish on the other liuing in torment in the day time is euill and in the night worse It fretteth and suffereth still and continually as is the fable of Prometheus his liuer which as it wasteth by féeding the gréedis vultures mawes So it is renued and encreasing againe ministreth matter euery day of n●w and fresh torment and punishment This one chiefe and principall comfort but there bee many mo besides may make glad all true Subiects to call to remembrance how our Quéenes most excellent Maiestie Quéene Elizabeth together with her Graces prudent Counsellers haue prouided such plenty from the beginning of her Raigne of principall Armour Artillarie Munition a●d all other necessary furniture of warre as neuer was in England at any time before and thanked be god therefore the English throughout the Realme so appointed and fenced with Corselets and weaponed in all sortes with such readines at one houres call so forward in theyr musters that the children and yonglinges leape and spring for ioy at the sight of the same imitate men in their order of warlike array A greater comfort is that our gratious Lady and Quéen hauing reigned ouer vs now thirtie one years with al clemency administration of Iustice hath conserued this noble Island of England in long 〈◊〉 with increase of great wealth in euery sort and her highnes gouernement is such that it farre excéedeth the rule of any whatsoeuer Princesse either in Affrica Asia or Europa from the beginning of the world to this day except Debora that beloued of God among the Iudges of Israell Read the Cronicles and Histories in g●nerall written in Greeke Latine or any other tongues and it may be séene that her Maiestie is without comparison Elizabeth of England her gifts of the mind be so rare so excelling so surpassing that is her most fine and royal peircing wit in al her Princely spéeches and communications fre●●ent and mo●● apparant her learning and knowledge in the Gréeke Latine Italian French and Spanish tongues well knowen to all Ambassadours and others who haue conference in causes with her Grace farre aboue the capacitie in the Feminine Sex oner and beside the gifts of the body and other that they make this Queene of the West noble through the whole world Note also how oft by the mercie and great prouidence of God and carefull watch of her most noble Councellers her Maiesties person hath beene deliungred from perill and daunger of Treason and lately from the deuelish pra●●ses of Pary first alias Vphary called after that of Babington and his fellowes a thing miraculous in the sight of all good Subiectes in the which the wonderfull mercy and loue of our God hath bene shewed to her grace and Realme of England Looke and read ouer the Chronicles of all nations for the long raigne of women Princes and ye shall find non to haue raigned so long but Debora and one more wee English trust in GOD shee shall double her yeares of her raigne with like felicitte and victorie as her Maiestie hath already inioyed which one thing is a sure token of the fauour of God towardes the Realme and vs the inhabiters of the land For as it is written in the Prouerbes of Salomon Short raignes of Kings and Princes and oft changing of the regall seat signifieth that God is displeased with that Country or land And contrary the long raigne of a prince betokeneth Gods great blessing God grant Quéene Elizabeth long to raigne Amen Ouer and besides this the care study and diligence by her highnes Lords ●f the priuie Counsel hath beene and is such for to continue good gouernement and to preserue in vnitie peace and loue both England and her Subiects that it must néeds breed a comfort and ioy in all true Englishe people Further howe déepely hath her Grace lamented the rage and furie now many yeares practised and put in execution both in France and in the Low-Countries How hath her highnes ende●oured with all Godly zeal first to stoppe and represse the great cruelties there exercised Secondly to make mediation for vniting perfect amitie and peace betweene the one side 〈◊〉 the other heerein and in this poi●● the 〈◊〉 Noble and valiaunt Robert Earle of Leicester who from hence lately deceased meriteth his commendation of eternall fame and glory who of his own frée will and zeal to true religion leauing at home his deare Lady and wife his lands and possessions in maner and sort neglected his ease and pleasures altogether abandoned hath in two seuerall voyages very fortunate in the yeares 1586. and 1587. aduentured and hasazarded his person spent and consumed his goods money and plate euen to the great endebting of himselfe The first time he went ouer in the deepe and middest of the winter in a dark and stormy night taking shipping at Harwich Sir Henry Palmer knight Captaine and M. Gray Maister of the ship and landed the next day at Flushing so passed by Zealand into Holland And this is to bee remembred that during his ab●ad in Zealand and Holland for the more force of his martiall affaires hee was accompanied with the Earle of Essex the noble and valiant Lord Willoughbie The Lord burrowes The Lord Wentforth Lord Rich. The Lord North. Sir Thomas Cicil son heire to the Lord Burghley Lord high Treasurer of England Sir Phillip Sidney Sir Thomas Gorge Sir Thomas Sturley knight Sir William Pellam knight Sirr Thomas Perot knight Sir William Druery knight Sir Phillip Butler knight Sir William Goodier knight Sir William Read knight Sir Iohn Connaway knight Sir Iohn winckefield knight Sir Robert Sidney knight Sir Cholmely knight And many other worthy Knightes and Gentlemen of England furnished with great Horse Geldings and Armour that it was a most worthy sight to bee séene What care study and watch being there in the Low-Countries as a most wise and politike Captaine and Generall did hee vse in the night what industrie labour and paines did hee take in the day both in the house in consultations necessarie and abroad in the fieldes present in person at skirmishes and sieges of sorts and strong townes What occasion rei benè gerendae as the latine phrase is did this Earl omit either to aduance the honour of his Country either to preferre the weale publique there what good example of religion and good life did not this valiant Gentleman and noble Lord giue hauing two godly and famous learned men adorned with degrées of the Schoole of the Vniuersitie M. D. Tomson and M. D. Holland euery day preaching Gods word and saying diuine seruice what Hospitality and open house as we terme it what princely Court did this Earle kéepe for bread meat wine and béere and all other

delicate chéere so amplie so plentifully so aboundantly that the best sort in the Countrey had him in admiration the second and meanest praied wished and desired that he might continually dwell among them How did he tender the poore redresse wrongs restraine and bridle the enemie from iniurying those vnder his charge win many strong townes castles and forts and as it were wall Holland and that part of Zeland that the enemy might not approch but with great danger and difficulty And at the two yeares end came away from thence with great honor loosing in fight very few especially of fame and name but that noble hardie and most worthie knight sir Phillip Sidney who béeing hurt in a very hot and bloudy skirmish with a musket shot a farre of afterward returning to Arnam died of his wound whose fame glory no age at any time shall weare away The noble king Carolus Iacobus Sextus king of Scotland and diuers others of the Nobility of the same country beside infinite numbers of euery degrée in England mooued with his vertues valour and prowes made Latine verses most learnedly lamenting his vnripe death happening in the flower of his age Truly yea most truly there was nothing els sought either by the puissant Quéene Elizabeth the Lords of her Counsell either by the said noble earle but to preserue true and pure religion that it might not be troden vnder the foot and to stop effusion of bloud which otherwise would haue bene much And that ought to be the care and studie of euerie Christian king and Quéene to stoppe and inhibit outrage of spilling of Christians bloud Finally the gouernement of the said Noble Earle of Leycester in his abode beyond the seas hath bene such that the wise and well disposed euery where grauely consindering vpon the same giue to it condigne praise to the great benefites of the Countrey where he hath bene and to no small strengthening of vs Englishe at home in such sort that the Low-Countreis reaped thereby the benefite of quietnes and rest from the molesting of the enemie which otherwise would haue assailed them most sharpelie to their vtter confusion and vndoing This also haue wee English to ioy and to comfort our selues with all and to deliuer the same for an euerlasting memoriall to our posteritie that the last yeare it pleased God of his infinite mercie and goodnes to giue victorie by Sea to the right noble and valian● Lord the Lord Charles Howard Lord high Admiral of England vpon and ouer the Spanish Armado or fléet so huge so strong so great so furnished with double Canons and Canons and Culuerins and all other sort of geat ordinaunce and small as musket shot calyuer and others so fraught with Captaines souldiers and marriners to the number of 28000 so garnished with armor all maner of weapons so laden and stuffed fully with euerie kind of victuall to serue for long time all which did so farre passe surmount and excéed that it was Vique ad mundi miraculum Euen to the wonder of this age that the Spaniardes vpon the confidence they had in the same their owne strength were so puffed vp with pride that they had denoured all England in their hearts whilest they were yet in Spaine and before they came any thing néere our coast Neither is this here to be vntouched how the said Lord Charles Howard Lord Admiral with the nauie of England went to the Seas in the moneth of December beeing the deepe of winter to expect the enemies comming and so continued till August following What watch what labour what paines especially in winter What stormes and foule weather this noble man and his company did sustaine and abide and indure out during these nine monethes It cannot be vnknowen to al those which haue experimented voyages by Seas And in the Comming approching of the Spanish Armado to the west part of Cornewall which was about the 19 of Julie 1588. How ready desirous glad the said Lorde Howard was to méet and encounter with the Spaniard it doth by this appeare that the said Lord Admiral accompanied but with fiftie saile not exspecting the rest of the Queenes Nauie or any further aide so come did begin and enter fight with the Spaniards and so continued pressing and chacing the Duke of Medina Sidonia high Generall of the enemies companie and his hundreth and thirtie two saile from Sonday till Saterday following by the space of seuen daies night and day forbearing sléepe and bodilie rest which nature of man doth exact and require Al which time my Lord Thomas Howard my Lord Shiefield Sir Edward Hobby knight of yeares but young yet for the gifts of the mind wit learning knowledge boldnes and courage equall to the best Captaines and many other Gentlem●n in this our English Nauie of good and ancient houses for the loue zeale and dutie they did beare to the Quéenes Maiestie their Countrey and my Lord Admirall did voluntarilie not without their great charges as it were not onlie offer but intrude them selues into the seruice of the sea in this warre to winne honour and same and most couragiouslie and with lyons hearts did assault pursue and terrifie the Armado that where their purpose and pretence was to inuade and land in Englande they durst not once drawe néere to any shore but kept their course still in the chanell and déepe streame alwaies flying and seeking by night if it might bee in the darke to leese the sight of our ships On saterday night when y e enemies came to an anker afore Calis th'english anchored hard by thē y ● they could haue no rest expecting still when our men should boord them And it was deuised by the Lord Charls Howard the next night following by sira●ageme well known and therefore not needful at large to be here rehearsed to fire all the Spanish ships which in part was done and had taken further effect but the enemie for saking the rode leauing Ankers cables behind them for hast set vppe saile and fled And the next morning being Monday my Lord Admirals number being augmented aboue the Spanish with my Lord Henrie Seimers fléet of warlike shippes a feesh fight began the Spaniard flying afore to the north towards Scotland and the English folowing the chace with most sharpe bloudy fight In all which Battaile of nine daies together continuing both great wisedome and manhood was vsed by the said Lord Charles Howard by the Lords and Knights in hys company Mariners and souldiours and marueilous force was bent against the enemy For one of the ships of the Quéenes on Monday the last day of the fight shot in eight houres fiue hundreth and 32. great pellets out of her great ordinaunce hard vnder the sides of the Spanish Armado What number may we thinke all the rest of the great shippes did discharge that day They of this great fléete of the enemies beside the great

wilde Irish to rebellion and armed shippes and Souldiors to infringe the publike peace there who not long after their arriuall had their welcome so that of faure or fiue hundred not past twentie escaped aliue The English vnder the conduct of the Lord Gray Lord Deputie of Ireland atchieuing the victorie vpon the Pope his Italians and Spaniardes the fourth day after they came to the place where these Strangers had entrenched themselues in good order of war He remarke well gentle Reader the great goodnes and mercy of God towards our most gratious Quéene Elizabeth and her realme of England and Ireland Note the wisedome forwardnes and diligence of the Noble man chief● Captaine and General of her highnes Armie How he spared not to catch hold of oportunitie in the colde and deepe of the winter according to the saying Principijs obsta arripienda est occatio For if they with the badge of the crosse Keies of their brests might haue bene suffered to harbour the winter time there this small sparke would haue growen to a bigger flame and not so easilie haue beene quenched But the Lords of England be so hot with their souldiers vnder them that let the enemies make triall when they will let them trust to it they shalbe fought withal if they attempt to come on land before the swimming growen of the Sea-sicknes bee quite out of their heads The Pope can and will raise warre to spill Christian bloud take out of the Uestries Church plate for not any must controlle him exact tasks vpon his Cleargie to cause his Cardinals and Bishops to giue contribution to bestow the same where it pleaseth him to murther innocents to force wiues and widowes to deflower virgins For these be the fruits of warre the benefits that be reaped vpon insolent victories Now take in few woordes of what godly conuersa●ion and life Popes haue bene of late time that either the Catholiques may be ashamed of such spirituall and holy Fathers or els in time to forsake them and to begin to abhor and detest them and their most wicked and abhominable actions and to learne to bee of better vnderstanding than they haue bene For the successor is commonly worsse and more had than his predecessour Séeke and sée the writer Raphaell Volaterranus whether I make true report of them or no. Search in other faithfull Historiographers what Xistus the 4. was in his Sée of Rome A man not caring so hee might haue his will whether it were right or wrong raising warre for euerie trifling matter selling benefices and offices for mony rouling himselfe middle among harlots What was Innocentius the eight a man both couetous and factious giuen to set out the Sword and pike boasting aboue measure of his aduoultries and bastard Children and occupied continuallie in aduauncing and promooting them to high dignities What was Alexander the sixt a man of lust and carnal desire that it is to be wondred at and for shame almost not to be named which thing very cunningly did he paint out which wrote these two verses of his Daughter Hoc tumulo Dormit Lucretia nomi●●e sed re Thais Alexandrifilia Sponsa nurus In this graue sleepes Lucretia so men her cal'd by name Yet Thais she by maners might and eke be clipt for fame Daughter she was to Alexander the Pope and sometime wife And married was to bastard his marke here the fathers life This Alexander created of his bastard sonnes not without great ignominy to true Nobilitie Earles Dukes and marquesses and did beare the charge of the Armie of the which is sonne was generall Of this sort and facultie was Iulius the second and likewise also like to these was Leo the tenth And to these is annexed Clement the 7. a subuerter and destroyer both of Rome and of his natiue soile the city of Florentia And after these succéedeth Paulus tertius for his auarice wicked liuing incest tyrany and other horrible crimes so odious that men indewed with any sparke of honesty and godlines abhorre to remember them the Heauens the Earth and the Seas wil flie away from the hearing of them Heere the place moouing me thereto let such as bee addicted to the Church of Rome beware in season that they be no longer seduced and take héed and learne to knowe the bad from the good by that token which our Lorde Christ himselfe gaue saying Ex fructibus eorurn cognoscetis eos Ye shall know them by their fruits These Popes afore rehearsed were not men but monsters of men and to read their liues trulie penned and set down and déepely to consider of it were sufficient to drawe away any man from that selfe-will loue and confidence they haue put in that whoorish and Babilonicall Church of Rome Homines sunt ergo errare labi possūt saith he But these be men monsters of men as I haue already said and their errors be so grosse and palpable that children and boyes sée them and are able to confute them their maners actions so wicked and vicious that euery good Christian must condemne them I am bere further to vse a few wordes to the Papistes who call and terme themselues Catholiques by a word as it should seeme that many of them doo not well vnderstand or if they doo they haue no great reason to vse it For Catholique a Gréeke word signifieth vniuersall in English and Ecclesia Catholica in our Cr●●de or Articles of our beliefe hath Sanctam set afore that is the Catholique Church of God dispearsed wheresoeuer it bee vppon the fa●e of the Earth not tied to any one certaine or terminate place but vniuersall where the Congregation small or bigge is dispersed throughout the world professing truly Christ and his holy Gospell We beléeue one holy vniuersall Church to be How holy the Romish Church is let indifferent men iudge where such good liuers as the Pope● aboue mencioned be the chiefe a●●ors in the plaie So the word Catholike maketh quite against the papists who would haue the true church at Rome depending vpō the same Romish church as tied to one certaine place where many of the Bishops of the same church haue bin at this day be as wicked and cruell as were in times past Phalaris Dionysius Nero or Diocletian Nam vitiato capite viti●ntur mēbra corporis The head being corrupt néedes must the members of the body be infected with corruptiō I therfore pray you which be not yet come out of the mistie clouds of Papisme in the bloud and bowels of our Lorde Iesus Christ deceiue not your selues Look wel about you in time Pin not your faith vppon another mans sléeue No man can make attonement for his brothers soule It is the bloud of Iesus Christ the son of God that clenseth vs from all sin as witnesseth S Iohn in the first Chapter of his Epistle Againe he the same Apostle saith in the same

Chapter If we acknowledge our sins he that is Christ is faithfull aend Iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnes And our Lord himselfe giueth vs this lesson Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis onerati estis ego reficiam vos Come vnto me all yee that Labour and are heauie laden and I will refresh you It is he our Lord Christ that hath borne our sinnes and paied the ransome for them vpon the Crosse. Now brethren wil you trust in the Popes Pardons who hath no more authority than any brother Bishop or Minister hath to forgiue sins and to pronounce absolution to them that be hartely penitent by authoritie giuen to the Apostles generally and so to their successours and all Ministers that come not in by the window but by the doore For as for the wordes spoken by Christ to Peter alone of binding and loos●●ng it is answered If all the Apostles had the same authoritie by Christes his worde as it may appeare in Mathew 18. and Iohn 10. Than Peter being but one had it not alone But if if it were spoken to him alone in Mathew yet it doth not restraine the generall grant made to others in the places cited before Quorum remiseritis peccata c. Whose sinnes yee shal forgiue they shalbe forgiuen quorum retinueritis retenta sunt For those words are spoken in the plurall number whereby all Priests claime true interest in absoluing For will you hear what the Priests vtter after auricular confession hard at any mans hand and iudge your selfe Dominus Iesus qui est summus Pontifex absoluat te ab omnibus peccatis tuis c. ego auctoritare mhi commissa absoluo te in nomine patris filij Spiritus sancti Amen which is to say Our Lord Iesus which is the highest Bishop absolue thee from all thy sinnes and I by the auctority committed vnto me absolue thee in the name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Amen Where is sinnes reserued in the Canons to the Pope onelie to forgiue Why practiseth hee to send abroad his pardons in parchment with leaden seales for money where is his warrant in holy Scripture wherevpon our Sauiuiour Christ saith in the fiftéenth of S. Mathew In vanum colunt me homines docentes doctrinas mandata hominum In vaine doe they serue me teaching the doctrines precepts of men Here I must put you in remembrance of a fond fellow who hath set out a book intituled Hierarchia a Gréeke word a glorious title a shewe or promise by the word of a great matter where in the end and effect it prooueth nothing It is a rehearsall by name of the popes from Peter which was the first Bishop of Rome if it so be true and how one succéeded an other from time to time and this was by Election in diuers sorts one whi●e by the voice or suffragies of the people as though Democratia were in vre sometime by the consent of the better sort in degrée as when the Deane and Chapter elected and that doth adumbrate Aristocratia And lastly and principally when the chiefe gouernour maketh his choice of any person where is the rule of Monarchia But succession by election is one thing and the right of inheritance another We daily sée that a good father hath sometime an vngratious sonne that godly parents haue a child descended from them afterward to be euill disposed I haue found a man according to my hartliking saith God of Dauid the king And yet his son Salomon succéeding him fell to women and Idolatry insomuch that God being angry rent his kingdome after his daies into two parts viz. Rehoboam reigned ouer 2 tribes Ieroboam ouer 10. If this be where state of inheritance claimeth his right that for sin God put teth downe one and setteth vp another and oftentimes changeth the inheritance from one line of kindred in to another of what force is succession that commeth by Election which is grounded upon humaine pollicie The Electors naming and appointing to office whome they will mooued thereto somtime by méed and corruption of mony sometimes by fauour and friendship procured somtimes by hatred and enuie the better ma●r●iected and the worse chosen It is not denied but that many lerned vertuous of laudable life haue bene Bishops and Pastors professing Christ in Rome But t●ey with their whole flocke as they might be caught for the most part suffered Martirdome vnder the persecuting Emperors of the same city as Nero Diocletian others A body of the best complection which is sanguine by continuance of time and disorder of diet in meats drinks and other féeding draweth vnto it grosse humors and so ●alleth into diseases that the alteration wil be such that ye shall not know it to be the same So the See of Rome both during the time of the Primitiue Church and long after retained a beautie of knowledge and holynes but by litle and litle it fell away and was defaced as rust créepeth vpon yron and other metals by contin●ance especiallie when they be not rubbed scraped and dried S. Paule spake these words in this time Etiam mysterium iniquitatis operatur and now the mistery of ●iquitie doth worke And againe as is aforesaid by the said Paule what withholdeth euen that the sonne of perdition might bee reuealed at his time Most true it is where Christ saith Ego sum vobiscum vsque and consumationem Seculi I am with you euen to the end of the world that the holy ghost hath bin is and will be with his Church to to the end and wil neuer leaue it destitute As when the Heresie of the Arrians oue●●●owed the worlde the holy Spirite of God stirred vp Athanasius to defend his truth which Athanasius albeit he was forced to flie hide himselfe oftimes in dens ca●es for the space of diuers years yet the Church of God was with him in hys dens and caues For where the truth is there is the church Idolatry worshipping of Images masses dirriges and Heauen to be sold for mony murdring of saints stewes in whole stréets of Curtesans blessings for méed cursings for enuy are to be found in Rome yea and Antichrist himselfe who exalteth himselfe aboue all that is called God therfore there is not the true Church What monsters haue bene admitted to the Papacie after one thousand and od yeares after Christ it hath bene somewhat afore touched may séeme to such as haue not read Histories almost incredible What execrable practise was this to enter and possesse the Popes chaire by Magicke and Art forbidden both by Gods law and mans to giue himselfe to the deuill to gette worldly dignitie and promotion to infame himselfe for euer to purchase a momentary and transitory pelfe to win wealth glory on the earth to léese eternal ioy and heauen Upon this monster last rehersed popes afore