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A61104	Chrysomeson, a golden meane, or, A middle way for Christians to walk by wherein all seekers of truth and shakers in the faith may find the true religion independing upon mans invention, and be established therein : intended as a key to Christianity, as a touchstone for a traveller, as a probe for a Protestant, as a sea-mark for a sailor : in a Christian dialogue between Philalethes and his friend Mathetes, seeking satisfaction / by Benjamin Spencer ...; Way to everlasting happinesse	Spencer, Benjamin, b. 1595?	1659 (1659)	Wing S4944; ESTC R13439	363,024	312

Town of Vassiace neer Champaign Then came to Paris and seized on the King and Queen Mother at Forteblew and carried them both to Paris Then the Prince of Condie with many other Nobles at Orleance of the protestant part French Hist consulted to deliver the King and Queen Mother to which they were much sollicited by letters from the Queen her selfe and also to defend the reformed professors They took many Towns as Orleance Roan Burges c. Roan and Burges were taken again by the Guisians But at the siege of Roan the King of Navar was slaine that had turned from the reformed and they hanged Marlorat a true preacher of Christ This Duke of Guise was afterward slain by a souldier at the siege of Orleance and so the Protestants gained some peace by a new Edict March 13. 1563. Mathe. Had the Protestants peace in other Countries Phila. No for in the reign of the same Ferdinand Emperour they suffered much in Piedmont for abolishing the masse in the Towns of Angrona Lucerne Perose Tallarat with other places in those vallies for the Duke of Savoy sent Tritineus with an army to destroy them utterly except they would again receive the masse and relinquish their Ministers The people of Angrona being first assaulted fled to the mountains but being fiercely pursued turned again and with stones only worsted their enemies So Tritineus thought good to use policy and offered them peace if they would send and crave pardon of the Duke and pay to him 1600 Crowns They sent but nothing would be obtained A new army was sent against them and they driven into the snowie mountaines with wives and children defended themselves so well in the strait passages that with the losse of a few they killed 1000. of their enemies and obtained of the Duke peace and liberty to use their Religion after their goods were spoiled and their houses burnt Mathe. Had they yet peace in France and other places Phila. No for in the reign of Maximilian the second who succeeded Ferdinand his Father more troubles arose in France and the Low Countries about this reformed Religion For the Protestants encreasing much in the Low Countries the popish faction executed very severely the Spanish inquisition among them Protestants persecuted in the Low Countries that Countrie being at that time under the King of Spain who sent Duke de Alva thither with an army to root out the true professors of the Gospell This Duke was very tyrannicall over the nobility and people and beheaded Count Egmount and also Count Horne and suffered his souldiers to abuse mens wives and daughters before the faces of their neerest friends The people therefore took up arms under the conduct of Nassau Prince of Orange and his brother who freed Zeland and Holland from that tyranny but in that war his brother Ludovicus was slaine So in France notwithstanding divers Edicts made on the Protestants behalfe as that of January and another in March 1563. yet the Romish faction made a league against them about the year 1564. and also their King Charls the ninth Charls the ninth King of France covenanted with King Philip of Spain at Bayon who sent his Queen Elizabeth sister to Charls thither to confirm that covenant in his name for the rooting out of the Reformed Religion The Prince of Condie is appointed by the Protestants to exhibit a Petition to the King in their behalfe But the King in a vain fear of him flieth to Paris and so heard not his supplication Upon this began a second civill war for the Prince of Condie and the Protestants seeing nothing but danger toward them and injuries done to them and none of the Edicts of pacification regarded besieged Paris and afterwards the Town of Chartnesse The subtill Queen mother sent to the Prince of Condie desiring him to require of the King such conditions of peace as he pleased He affecting peace desired of the King that the former Edicts set forth for the Protestants might be observed and their wrongs redressed All was granted but not performed For the Prince having dissolved his army re-delivered the places conquered The Protestants at their return to their Towns were forced to lay down their arms and to keep within their houses upon which many were massacred about three thousand and all devices put in practice to intercept the chiefe leaders of the Protestant part who by great providence escaped to Rochel And from thence the Prince of Condie complained much in his letters to the King of the breach of the pacification made sealed and sworn to by the King himselfe but he received no answer But the Kings brother Duke of Anjou is made Generall of an army against the Protestants The Queen of Navar and the Prince of Condie and Andelot join forces in defence of them and so began the third civill war in which the old Prince of Condie was taken and slaine and Andelot died as is reported of poison which was found in his body when it was opened Now the young Prince of Condie and the King of Navar govern the army to whose aid came the Duke of Bipont out of Germany who died quickly and appointed the Count of Mansfelt to be Commander in his stead The army of the Duke Anjou and the Protestants joined battell at Moncontuire there the Protestants were discomfited but they intented to adventure againe in Languedock but that a new Edict of pacification was set forth and proclaimed in both armies and kept better then formerly Plot for the massacre in Paris Yea the King proposeth his sister Margaret in marriage to the young King of Navar and met the Queen of Navar at Bloies and conferred with her very friendly and also with the admirall and appointed him generall over the army which he pretended to raise for the aid of the Prince of Orange a patron of the Protestants in the Low Countries The time of the marriage drawing neer the Queen of Navar came to Paris to prepare for it The admirall and principall Noble men of the Protestants were invited But the Queen of Navar died suddenly and was thought to be poisoned with a pair of gloves The King seemed very sorrowfull but the marriage went on and was celebrated on August the 18. 1572. But on the 22. day after the same month the Admirall was shot in the arme going from the Louver upon which the King of Navar and the Prince of Condie desired to depart from Paris but the King of France prevailed with them to stay and he himselfe went to visit the Admirall and seemed to lament very much and set a guard about him as if to protect him and caused the protestants to take all their lodgings neer him to be his assistants if any commotion should arise But the next night after the Duke of Anjou and the Duke of Guise had souldiers ready planted in the street to make a massacre of the protestants And upon the sign given the Kings

and then some to set up his truth as you have see And lastly Luther to oppose the Popes errors and King Henry the eighth to imitate his successors by abolishing his authority in England Now then to your third Question How Reformation went on after King Henry the eighth I have shewed you though that King did write against Luther and abolished the Popes power yet he persecuted the Protestants and those that professed Luthers doctrin of which there were many by reason of his books dispersed in England Luther himselfe was much troubled The Pope sends forth his roaring Bull against him he answereth it and appeals to the next generall Councill But his doctrine was very acceptable to good Christians generally though in some points they differed from him He died in ●slebia in the County of Mansfelt Febr. 17. 1546. where he was born Mathe. How thrived the Protestant Religion after Luther Phila. Beyond the seas fell out great troubles A Councill was called at Ratisbone to end controversies of Religion but no agreement and so the Emperour referred the controversie to the next generall or provinciall Councill of Germany but still the popish side desired to suppresse Luthers doctrine but yet decrees against Protestants were suspended yet the fire of malice broke out against them for Henry Duke of Brunsick invaded their Cities the Duke of Saxony resists him in the name of all the Protestants confederate at Smalcaldy and won all his dominions The Emperour and the King of France make peace and both covenant to join to restore the Romish Religion which cost France and Germany great troubles for the King of France sent Minerius Governor of Provence against the Waldenses of whom you have heard who dwelt in some part of that Countrie as in Merindol and Cabriere They of Merindol for fear fled into the woods He spoiled and burned their Towns left desolate Cabriere was delivered upon composition but yet none were spared but some killed in Churches some burned in barns some smothered in caves others sent to the Gallies others starved in the woods But God strook Minerius with a sad disease a fire scorched him within his limbs rotted made bloody urine and died in torments The Emperour Charls the fifth by policy suppresseth these Princes that upheld the Protestants as the Duke of Saxony and others as the Landgrave of Hesse About the year 1546. when the Councill of Trent was gathered to convene where the Emperour and the Pope made a league against the protestants and the Pope gave 200000 Crowns to make war against them to the Venetians and maintained an army for a while to cut them off The Emperour laboured hard with many of the Princes to submit to the Councill of Trent as also the free Cities and in hope they would he desired that the Councill of Trent which was carried from Trent to Bononia might come to Trent again which they refused upon which the Emperour disanulled all they did at Bononia and said he would take care of Religion himselfe And to this end consulted with Princes and Bishops about it who drew out a book of Reformation called Interim to which few would consent and many fled away to other Countries because they would not allow it As Musculus preacher of Ausburgh fled to Switzerland Brentius from Suere to the Duke of Wirtembergh Martin Bucer and Paulus Fagius from Germany to England The Pope himselfe would not allow it without correction because it allowed the marriage of Priests and the use of the Sacraments in both kinds though it maintained the rest of the Roman Religion But especially the City of Magdeburgh withstood the book nor acknowledged the Councill of Trent Mathe. How went things now in England Phila. King Edward the sixth now reigning the masse was there forbidden by Parliament and a Book of Common Praier set forth in the English tongue with an order of administration of Sacraments Bonner Bishop of London and Gardiner Bishop of Winchester for their obstinate defence of Romish doctrine were imprisoned But King Edward dying Queen Mary let them out and made great havock of the Protestants and restored the Popes supremacy and the masse in England and got the Parliament to crave absolution of the Pope and Cardinall Pool to absolve the Realm See Fox his Martyrology She neither spared Bishops Ministers nor common people nor spared those who had set her forward to obtain the Crown Her persecution was sharp but God shortned it by her death and Queen Elizabeth whose death was intended succeeded her Mathe. How thrived the Protestants cause now in England and other Countries Phila. In England popish Religion was abolished and the Popes supremacy disanulled King Edwards profession followed Anno 1. Eliza. and his Book of Common Praier allowed again by Parliament But Ferdinand the Emperour succceeding Charls the fift would endure no alteration of Religion and Henry the second King of France would not admit it neither but moved persecution but he being killed by the splinter of a spear at Tilting Francis the second his son succeeds and marrieth Mary Queen of Scots of the Guisian Family which Family endeavoured to abolish the Protestant Religion in France and sent an army into Scotland too for the same purpose which by the aids of Queen Elizabeth was forced to retire This King of France by the advice of the Guisians called a nationall Councill at Orleance under colour to settle Religion But there the Prince of Condie was seized upon and accused of practise against the King But this King shortly died and the Prince of Condie was cleared by a Parliament at Paris and young King Charls the ninth was committed to the care of the Queen Mother and the King of Navar. These governors appoint a disputation by the advice of the States of the Realme at Poyssie 1561. which was four years before Calvin died where Theodore Beza preacher of Geneva and Peter Martyr and Marlorat and the protestant party had the better and the popish side as the Cardinall of Lorain and others concluded with them that Christians do eat in the Sacrament spiritually by faith the body of Christ which died for for us although the Doctors of Sorbon would not agree thereto and so that disputation broke off After which the number of protestants increased and much fear there was of uproars But the Queen Mother assembled the estates at St Germane and made an Edict in January that the professors of the reformed Religion should assemble to hear sermons without the Town and unarmed which grieved the Guisian and popish faction who sought to get the King and Queen Mother into their hands and prevented the King of Navar from the reformed Religion upon hope to have the Kingdome of Navar restored to him againe by Philip King of Spain at the Popes mediation In the mean time the Duke of Guise raiseth an army First Civil war in France and murdered 1500. hundred poor unarmed protestants at Church in the

from the King and the Assembly to disable the King of Navar from succession to the Crown of France The other Leaguers at Paris were mad for the death of the Duke of Guise and railed at the King raised mony for wars against him and the Doctors of Sorbon declared the people of France free from their obedience to the King and so might take arms against him Upon this the Parliament at Bloyes dissolves and the King prepares to suppresse the rebellion at Paris To this purpose he took truce with the King of Navar by whose forces he discomfited the Leaguers and intended to besiege Paris but the Leaguers prevented him by procuring Frier Jaques to kill the King who did it in his chamber with a knife while he read a letter the Frier brought him This was done in that chamber say some wherein the massacre at Paris was formerly plotted this King being then Duke of Anjou and chiefe in the plot Mathe. How fared it then with the Protestants Phila. Henry the third before he died of that wound the Frier gave him which was not many hours after declared the King of Navar lawfull successour who after his funerall confounded the Leaguers in many Battels July 25. 1593. But he then began to halt in Religion for the Doctors of Sorbon and divers Bishops prevailed with him to hear masse in St Dennis Church But still the Leaguers hated him and sent one Peter Burrier to slay him by the instigation of a Capuchin Frier a Priest and a Jesuite but he was prevented Upon this the King published his declaration prescribing a months liberty to all that would come in and submit to his government but else they should afterwards find no favour from him By this means many Towns yielded to him and at last Paris it selfe which he entred so peaceably that within two hours the shops were all set open as if no wars had been But the wicked Leaguers again plotted his death by one John Castil Decem. 27. 1594 who came into the Kings chamber at the Louver among the Presse and strook at the King with a knife who stooping in taking leave of his Lords was strook by it on the right cheek and one of his teeth cut out This traitor as he confessed was a scholar of the Jesuits French Hist p. 874. and executed and the Jesuits banished out of France This King received many of his enemies into favour as the Duke de Mayenne and Nemours and enterteined peace with King Philip of Spain by the Popes mediation This King escaped many treasons plotted against his life And yet 1604. restored the Jesuits again and afterward admitted them to go into Navar and Berne to the great discontent of the Judges and Officers of that Country yet 1606. this King made speciall good orders in the behalfe of the reformed Religion confirming the Edict of Nantes 1598. concerning their pacification But this halting between two opinions did not certainly please God for though he suffered the Protestants to have a nationall Synod at Gap concerning their doctrin and discipline and therein to declare the Pope to be Antichrist foretold by the word of God and made it one of the Articles of their confession yet taking no warning by that stroke given on his mouth formerly he was strook to the heart by a cursed villain one Frances Ravillac riding in his Caroch even the next day after his Queens coronation day moved thereunto as he confessed by no other reason but because the King maintained two religions in France and by reading the book of Mariana the Spanish Jesuite and Bellarmins book of the Popes temporall power which books by a decree of the Colledge of Sorbon and by sentence of the Parliament were burnt as also Jasper Scoppius his book containing the same doctrine tending to the subjects rebellion against Princes 1612. This soule fact was suspected to be of the Jesuits plotting however Father Cotton endevoured to wipe off the aspersion yet the Author of the book called Anticotton refused it and proved the Jesuits to be the maintainers of that doctrine and were guilty of this Kings death by Ravilac's own confession to father Aubigny who being examined upon it said that God had given him the grace alwaies to forget what he heard in confession and so he saved his neck by that fine and false excuse But he that cals light out of darknesse brought out of this damnable act more respect to the Protestant and a check to the Pope For now the great chamber called the Tornelle made a decree against the Popes temporall power And the Protestants began an assembly of the reformed Churches at Saumur where Monsier de Bulloin told them from the King and Queen Regent that all their just requests should be favourably answered and whatsoever had been promised should be paied And the Universitie of Paris concludes against the Jesuits and propounds to them by Monsieur Servin four Articles to subscribe 1. That the Pope hath no temporall power over Kings nor can he by excommunication deprive them of their estates or dignity 2. That the Councill is above the Pope 3. That Clergy men ought to reveal conspiracies against the King or Kingdome to the magistrate though it be revealed in confession 4. That Clergy men are subject to the secular Prince or politicall magistrate Mathe. How sped the reformed Religionnow among the Netherlands Phila. They having suffered much misery under Duke de Alva their governor History of the Netherlands who had in his time executed 1860 people beside by wars and tumults as you have heard and Don John of Austria being little better the States Generall called Matthias Arch-Duke of Austria to be their governor He appoints the Prince of Orange for his Lievtenant which much displeased the Earl of Lalain who expected that dignity so that Don John by this discontented siding defeated the Netherlands Army The Duke of Anjou offers aid to the States it is accepted and prospereth against Don John and he is chosen at last Lord of the Netherlands Yet for all these wars and troubles the reformed Religion thrived For notwithstanding the Popes Bull offering pardon of sins and life eternall to all that would take part with Don John against the Prince of Orange yet Amsterdam agreed with the States of Holland and turned all the popish magistrates and Friers Monks and Priests out of the Town and pulled down the images in the Churches and suffered only the reformed Religion to be exercised so they drove the Jesuites and Friers out of Antwerp and granted Churches to the Protestants In Gaunt they whipped and burnt Friers for committing Sodomy At last the Prince of Orange accepts the government of Flanders and in the year 1580. images and cloisters were demolished in Deventer Swool and Vtrich And being the King of Spain would allow no Religion in his dominions but the Roman the General Estates set forth an Edict whereby was declared that the King of

guard killed the Admirall and flung his body out at windowe at which the Duke of Guise greatly rejoiced and encouraged the souldiers to kill the rest of the protestants who made havock and killed man woman and child which they could find crying that wicked seed of the protestants should be quite rooted out So all those that attended in the Louver about the King of Navar and the Prince of Condie were commanded to disarm and go forth where they were all slain The King of Navar and the Prince were both brought before the King and threatned to be slain except they would renounce their Religion The King of Navar desired the King to remember the friendship made up between them The Prince of Condie more stoutly said he would not renounce his Religion for fear of his life Some protestants that were lodged in the Fobers of St Germane escaped by flight The Prince of Condie and the King of Navar by perswasion of Rozarius an apostate preacher fell away from the Reformed Religion for a time but afterward that Rozarius repented and testified it to the Prince of Condie This massacre of Paris put to the sword about 10000. people And in Lions and other places within one month 20000. more It was so cruell that many would not beleeve it others colour it over with lies of treason plotted by the protestants Canagnius and Briguemald and some Noble men protestants were tortured for to extort somewhat but they died in the faith and truth and confessed no matter of treason Mathe. Was not the Reformed Religion now extinguished in France Phila. No for though their chiefe Leaders were murthered yet there were certain Towns which were full of protestants as Rochel Mountalban Nimes and Sarsarre Rochel was besieged by the King both by sea and land 1573. in December and endured till June God helped the poor by abundance of fish The fish Surdonnes which were never seen before nor since Liberty of Religion was granted to them and conditions of peace and to their associate Towns Sarsarre was also besieged even to famine yet the people continued firm in Religion but on conditions of peace resigned the Town This King of France died in May 1574. Charls the 9th dieth and much blood issued from many parts of his body as a remembrance of his bloody life Henry the third his brother who was chosen King of Poland Henry the 3d succeedeth succeeded him and was ill affected to the protestants yet at last they obtained another act of pacification and liberty to exercise their Religion in all places save in Paris and some adjacent places They were also declared to be capable of places at Court and places of Judicature and all judgements passed against them were null'd But when they required security for this many waies were offered but the Deputies for the protestants rejected all The Queen Mother said Is not the word of a King sufficient security One did answer No by St Bartholmew Madam for then was the massacre So they had at last eight Towns delivered to them six years for security and the pacification was proclaimed all over the Country May 1576. Mathe. How fared the cause of Religion now in other Countries Phila. The Citizens of Magdenburg Magdenb obtained by the intercession of the Duke of Saxony and the Elector of Brandenburg free exercise of Religion by license of their Archbishop according to the confession of Ausburg called also the Augustan Confession And in 1606. the Embassadors from the Hungarians came to Vienna Hungarians and obtained Articles of peace and that they should use their liberty of conscience throughout all Hungary wherein no Religion should be admitted but the Roman Catholick Lutheran and the Calvinist So likewise about 1608. the Protestants of Austria being denied the free exercise of Religion took up arms but within a little while obtained peace Protestants of Austria Bohemia So in Bohemia the next year following the Protestants stood upon their guard fearing the Roman Catholicks but the Protestants and Catholicks finding the Jesuites to be occasion of these combustions agreed in peace and the Protestants had freedome of Religion and Churches allowed them to preach in their native language Mathe. Did the Protestants in France enjoy the peace concluded in May 1576 Phila. No for still their enemies sollicited the King to break peace with the Protestants and finding him unwilling they assembled at Perone Nemours and Nancy about 1576. and made a league to root out the Protestants because the Protestants did not yield up their cautionary Towns after six yeers expired whereas they had obtained of the King a longer time But the death of Alanzon the Kings brother dying in the Low Countries and the King having no issue and therefore they feared the King of Navars succession made them extream mad upon this League Now the King also perceived that the Leaguers aimed at his life and crown and to set up whom they pleased to succeed him and this he did upon good grounds 1. Because libels were scattered about Paris to his dishonor 2. Because the Duke of Guise raised an army and was made generall of it 3. Because they carried the war rather towards Paris then the Protestant Towns These things put him in so great fear that he desired the Queen Mother to procure the Duke to lay down arms and he would give him any part of his Realm to let him live in peace This made the Leaguers to ask high requests and securities so that the Protestants were prohibited to exercise their religion and to turn Papists or else to depart the Realm Upon this the King of Navar began to oppose himselfe with the Prince of Condy and the Duke Mommerancy And yet although the King of France and the Leaguers were united yet the Pope excommunicates him and declares him uncapable of the Kingdome There came also Embassadors from the Electors of Germany to desire his favour toward the Protestants who received no contenting answer and returned Then the Duke of Guise fearing invasion of France by the Rutters advised the King to set quickly upon the Protestants army under the command of the King of Navar but were discomfited at Contras However the Pope much extolled the Duke of Guise and the preachers of France advanced him above the King with which he was so puffed up that he came to the King at Soissons and after to Paris intending to make him grant many unreasonable requests against his own honor and for the utter ruine of the Protestants which raised such troubles in Paris that the King fled to Chartnesse and to Roan meditating revenge yet he resolves to join with the Leaguers rather then the Protestants and therefore the Protestants could not be heard at Bloyes by the Parliament though the Duke of Guise was there slaine when they petitioned for restoration to their Religion Goods and Liberty But the Leaguers ceased not till they had procucured a declaration