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A38820 Discourses on the present state of the Protestant princes of Europe exhorting them to an union and league amongst themselves against all opposite interest, from the great endeavours of the court of France and Rome to influence all Roman Catholick princes, against the Protestant states and religion, and the advantage that our divisions give to their party : wherein the general scope of this horrid Popish Plot is laid down, and presented to publick view / by Edmund Everard ... Everard, Edmund. 1679 (1679) Wing E3528; ESTC R176794 41,879 50

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Discourses ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE Protestant Princes OF EUROPE Exhorting them to an UNION and LEAGUE amongst themselves AGAINST ALL Opposite Interest From the Great Endeavours of the Court of France and Rome to Influence all Roman Catholick Princes against the Protestant States and Religion and the Advantage that our Divisions give to their Party Wherein the General Scope of this Horrid Popish Plot Is laid down and presented to PUBLICK VIEW By EDMUND EVERARD Esquire Kept four years close Prisoner in the Tower by the Contrivance of some English Subjects plotting against us in France whom he five years since discovered and was lately justified and released by his Majesty LONDON Printed for Dorman Newman at the King's Arms in the Poultrey 1679. May the First 1679. I have appointed Dorman Newman Citizen and Stationer of London to print this Treatise EDMUND EVERARD ESSAYES of Politick Discourses ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE Protestant Princes OF EUROPE Exhorting them to an Union and League amongst themselves against all opposite Interests PART I. THe Ancient and Modern Histories furnish us successively with very good Examples that the greatest part of the Monarchies Kingdoms Common-wealths which have heretofore flourished with great Glory and have afterwards for the most part been entirely demolished fell into that miserable destruction by two defaults especially First by degenerating and totally abandoning their pristine virtues and a soft negligence in not applying themselves to those means which might have re-established them in the practice of the same virtues as the principle whence their former puissance was to be derived and from the practice whereof they might be in a condition to preserve it And secondly by internal Divisions which Ambition Jealousie Avarice or Vain glory fomented by the Artifices of their Enemies have frequently produced amongst Princes or the Directors of their flourishing Estates Now then since these pernicious courses have caused the ruine of all the greatest Puissances of the World I conceive that no man will be so imprudent as not to be of accord with me in this point That it is the wisdom of those in whose hand God hath trusted the direction of any soveraign and lawful power diligently with all their care and might to avoid falling into such accidents And I also believe that every wise man will likewise agree That they more especially have the strongest Reasons to keep themselves most exactly on their guard who cannot be ignorant by many pressing experiences that they have on their necks very many both secret and publick armed subtle powerful and active enemies who are perpetually in motion to take advantages of all favourable conjunctures to procure their ruine which they endeavour with very great care and by all sorts of means to procure and foment This foundation being laid let us briefly examine whether in the modern conduct of the Protestant States in Europe they have strictly guided themselves in every thing which may be called the Interest of their Preservation according to such Rules as are sufficient not only to contribute to their maintenance in their Estate but to procure unto them the most considerable Augmentations therein or whether a good part of them have not rather been visibly engaged by the Modern Artifices of their natural enemies into such paths as are capable not only to enervate their principal Forces but by consequence to draw them on like the aforesaid States into an entire destruction No man can deny as it seems to me that God's blessing was abundantly powred out on the labours of those great Persons whom his Providence was pleased to make use of in the last Age for the advancement of the work of Reformation and extirpating out of the Christian communion all the abuses and Idolatrous errours which the Spirit of darkness by the Ministry of the Papacy had established throughout the whole extent of the Western Church By this success it came to pass that two Parties were formed which in what concerns Spirituals and Temporals divided all this part of Europe which composes the said Church Now being the First-Fruits of this Reformation were such as suddenly stopped the progress of the Papacy and broke the greatest part of the measures which the Bishops of Rome had taken up successively since the Reign of the Parricide Phocas to establish a despotick and universal Monarchy over all Christendom as well in Temporals as Spirituals This Truth being perfectly well known by the See of Rome it were extreme folly to doubt of the true Resentments which those Bishops have against the Protestants and especially against the Kingdoms and States that protect and profess this Faith so that it ought to be the more observed that since the providence of God gave this overthrow to the Papal Tyranny this Beast which hath horns like those of the Lamb is in a condition to speak with the power of the first Beast that is to say the Bishop of Rome with the Title of Servant of Servants which they craftily affect to assume have so well ordered their Conduct that they have thereby been enabled no less than the ancient Caesars by sword and fire as Greg. 7. Urb. 2. Paschall 2. Boniface the Eighth did to attempt to make themselves to be acknowledged for despotick and universal Monarchs of Christendome as well over Temporals as Spirituals And to prove in a few words and in an uncontrolable manner what we have propounded we may conclude for certain as to temporal concerns that since the Reign of Charles the Bald the Roman Bishops after many Debates and cruel Wars which they caused to be raised on all hands against the Emperors of the West have not only been dispensed with from being named or approved by the Emperors themselves as the ancient custom was but having by succession of time and a thousand unjust ways so highly advanced themselves above them that these Monarchs have been forced afterwards as History assures us until Charles the Fifth inclusively not only to acknowledge the Roman Bishops for their Superiors but unless they would incur their Indignation which usually was followed with their ruine to abase themselves unto that abjectness of spirit as to go and kiss their feet in all humble prostration or as they mounted to or lighted from their Horses and the most part of them durst not take upon them to be Emperors till after their Approbation or Coronation by their or their Legates hands The chief Monarchs of all Christendom being reduced to this pass is it not true that the Bishops of Rome who hold it for a Maxim never to let go their Pretentions and to make every thing that falls out for their advantage a Prescription have really usurped and effectually enjoyed the Superiority over the Principal Temporal Dominion of Christendom And this is so true that before the holy work of Reformation this petty Priest hath been seen insolently many times to take the Imperial Crown from the Father after he had trod one of