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A26189	Hell illuminated, or, Sancy's Roman Catholic confession wherein are such lessons, which if studiously practis'd, 'tis much to be fear'd, the Devil himself will turn Jesuit.; Confession catholique du sieur de Sancy. English	Aubigné, Agrippa d', 1552-1630.	1679 (1679)	Wing A4187; ESTC R16534	72,199	180

of an hour together the Painter was paid to his heart 's content and the Picture hung up as safe as St. Marks The Court of the Emperour and Poland rang with nothing else but public thanks for putting the Empire into such happy and victorious hands and nothing but re-union of Religions or a toleration of all was in every mans mouth Much talk there was of bringing Italy to this that the King of the Romans should be really so and not merely titular And for the reduction of the Pope to his Bishopric the Duke of Saxony caus'd several Sermons to be Preach'd before him upon the similitude between David and this King honour'd and rewarded those that were more in favour with this then the former King and sent a chain of Gold as far as Zurick to the Author of Carolus Magnus Redivivus This high luster of Reputation seconded with so many warlike exploits what did they not promise from this Prince had he made use of the divisions already created betweeen the Muscovites Poles and Swedes the Transilvanians and the Emperour and well knowing the infirmities of the King of Scotland the several designs in England upon the old age of the Queen the revolt of Ireland the decrepit years of the King of Spain the ambition and suttlety of his Daughter the small reputation of his Son the designs of the Princes of Italy to recover their liberty upon the declining years and affairs of their Tyrant The Court of the grand Duke open to the King Caesar of Ferrara attempting the succession in France which he saw beginning to fail The Duke of Savoy disputing about the accomplishing the Articles of his Marriage La Bresse lost the rest almost ruin'd by Les Diguieres and ill succour'd by their own Above all things the preparations of the Turks mainly distracted both the minds and forces of Christendom These Occurrences design'd the King for the supreme Head of Christendom in regard that all people beleiving in their hearts that this King was acceptable to God for the purity and sincerity of his Religion prepar'd themselves either to suffer or follow him At the same time I also began to think of throwing off the Popes yoak and so bring all Benefices without Curates into the treasury at War by changing the Order of Priesthood into the Order of Knight-hood This was to be done by putting into the Princes hands four times le Peron without the expence or hazard of Convoys I came to Court big with overtures full of advantages to be a partaker of such great expectations Master of such a Treasury and a good Servant to my Conscience by the same means which was the chief consideration Judg. now Gentlemen if this change of judgment were not maintainable In truth I was not sufficiently verst in the Cabals of the World the infirmities of Princes and less in the grand interests of Councellers of State to uphold the Diana of Ephesus CHAP. IV. An Apology for my long stay among the Heretics MAnifold are the considerations by which I was allur'd to a Religion once already tasted and follow'd whence I was thrown out by the miseries that attended it which miseries seem'd to be permitted to afflict a poor Church which instead of Militant took the course to become Triumphant Some light of Salvation also entic'd me and whoever has at any other time experienc'd such combats of the mind will excuse me for having consider'd and paus'd a while before I resolv'd But having withal seen at a distance what a leap I was to take I took a resolution to assist the Catholic Party assisting my Master to jump the first frisk that the Servant might be the less asham'd to follow him The question was how to weaken the Huguenot Party and to bring that to pass nothing more conduc'd then to undermine their two main Pillars the first of which was that distinction of condition by which under the Law of Truces they were separated from our Politic Regiment The second was that difference of Religions which it was requisite to render less that it might be afterwards utterly annull'd We had a touch at the first of these when the Huguenots liv'd in full prosperity when very unhappily they concluded That having a King and a Protector in one and the same person these two qualities were inseparable without the loss of the thing Upon this point we dispatch'd away that M. Busie-body du Fay deservedly a deceiver and as deservedly deceiv'd as appears by his Will and Testament wherein he confesses That he had betray'd the people of God to raise his own Fortune But we are forbid to speak of that Will He having a smooth tongue in his mouth impudence enough upon his Forehead in a months time he sent the Mass where he pleas'd himself put down all the Chambers of Justice caus'd them to quit their Treasuries taught their men of War to dispute concerning States to acknowledge none but the King who having obtain'd that point soon after lay'd the Protectorship aside for finding the name of Protector too weighty for his shoulders he buried it near the King 's at the door of St. Denis's Church For the bringing about these fine preparations to all those who demanded of Fay his particular Commission Du Fay for answer shew'd the Key of Madam Martine's Love-letters which he said was the key of the Seals of Nature Some malicious Huguenots endeavour'd to oppose this conspiracy the other Huguenots either out of simplicity or being brought over call the War the Horn-war and accuse their Brethren to the King So that now the whole power rests in one man's hands Their Judicature and treasure fall into the hands of Madam Formality by which means we withdrew from them in a little time the strong holds of Clermont Joynville Chasteaudun and in Lorain Stenay Ville Franche Dan and Beaumont Chavigni Aubena and several other places Thus I may safely boast to have given the most considerable stroaks toward the undermining the Rampart of this distinction For the second God rest the Soul of the deceas'd Morlas For if he and his Companions had acted their part as well for the business of Religion as for du Fay's Estate there had been no Huguenots in France but such as were good for nothing but to be burnt for the Huguenots of State or of the Sword which you please had made up their pack Yet we endeavour'd to astonish the more Godly to have gain'd the proudest and most stately Six of their Ministers who had sworn that being chosen for the dispute after they had boasted very high they would make use of a Holy prevarication That it might not be so my Master Rotan whisper'd me in the Ear as he was going to the dispute at Mantes that he would do like Otho when he kill'd himself that is he would quit all his particular Interests to save Christianity from utter Ruin but he was taken with a fretting in the Guts which

Crowns for the hire of my third Conversion But let that pass only let me tell ye had I bin Earl of Burgundy I had paid my Swisses in salt We have seen the lower Hall of the Loure chang'd into a Comic-Stage from a Comic-Stage into a Tragic from a Palace Royal into a place of Execution when President Brisson and his Companions were there hang'd To which I will only add the example of the Duke of Merceur who from a petty Prince became the King's Brother in Law from thence Governour of Bretaigne from a Governour a Tyrant from a Tyrant a Duke and in his own fancy the Terrour of France and the hope of Spain And indeed he is so transubstantiated that the new Proverb of Spaniards calls him The scorn of France the shame of Lorrain the disdain of Bretaigne He is neither Duke nor Tyrant nor Governour and he that had bin Victorious in Battel has suffer'd that fair Fortune to go to Ruin without the shot of one single Pistol only one Scape which he let the other day in cold blood in the presence of the King THE CATHOLIC CONFESSION OF THE Sieur de SANCY SECOND BOOK CHAP. I. A Dialogue between Madam Mathurine and young Peronne I Have lately receiv'd here such an odd piece of Divinity that methinks I cannot but for shame stick it in among the rest because it looks so all of a piece 'T is a very modest discourse that truly considering the times may very well pass muster By the contents you will find what a strange sort of Cattel our careful and provident Mother the Church employs to bring men back into the broad Road. Dame Mathurine that Mad Girl was coming from Madam de Monlukes where she had been tutoring Vignoles and met with Perronne going thither to perform the same Office He blush'd to see Mathurine and stroking his bald Pate thus accosted her Well met Madam I hear you boast about the Town how you have converted St. Mary du Mont. Math. Who told you this merry news my good friend Per. By my troth 't is very probable you are indeed a dainty She-Divine Math. 'T is very true where men are to be converted by Smock-learning And now I think on 't don't you remember that he engag'd to meet me this night With that I went to carry the joyful news to your Brother and as good luck would have it for 't was somewhat early i' the morning who should I meet but Madam de la Cour just tripping out of his Chamber Per. Hold my dear brisk Madam hold a little you do ill to bespatter so renown'd a Prelat and Father of the Church Math. Why Sir such delights and innocent sports as those don't hinder the work of Conversion Besides La Chesnay is a witness for he going to visit him as I did a little more early then ordinary saw fairly in the Chamber the accoutrements of a certain female among the sanctifi'd Garments of thy Brother in Orders Per. Pray leave off these gigling stories I shall be angry else at your impertinence I don't say but that Msr de St. Mary gave you a promise but the day before I had made a handsome progress i' my undertaking For the day before that I had caus'd three whole Porters loads of Books to be sent in to the Lady Marquesses Lodgings Math. Think you that I am ignorant what game you were at instead of disputing But I would have you to know too that 't was I that first tickl'd his humour 't was I that play'd the same Ledger-dumain with him below the wast-band as I did with you when we were first sweet together I taught him to be a good marks-man and to swim without water Thou didst not so much as speak with him till two months after that at least and then you were forc'd to wait wi'your gravity when I was still sent for and circumspectly usher'd in Per. Truly your Introductions were very Ceremonious but can any man imagin that with the air and levity of a Curtizan thou should'st be admitted to talk of such a difficult matter as Conversion Ma. And can you imagin by that silly invention of yours of interpreting the familiar Epistles of Cic. to become familiar with him I have heard La Brosse the Pedagogue say that when he was Regent of the third Classis in Burgundy he would have lash'd his boys if they had not translated better Per. Do you think I have taught him nothing else He was at first a meer Novice and a block-head I have taught him to cite the Fathers without ever reading them to quote the Councils which he never saw I have not only taught him to chop Logic like a Sorbonne Mountebank but to talk of State affairs to admire the great Kingdom of Spain and to propose projects of Government according to the humour of the Church of Rome Instead of naming the Pope I have taught him to say his Holiness Instead of calling the King the King I have taught him to say His Majesty Before he cry'd plain Little Roche Zamet Varenne as if they had been meer Dwarfs Lackies or Turn-spits But I have taught him to say Monsieur Varenne and to snarl out the r. with a grace He began to laugh when I told him that to speak otherwise was a piece of High-Treason But I shew'd him how that unmannerliness only befitted morose Antiquity and that to honour by halves the Darlings of a King was below the Politeness of this Politic Age. I have taught him also with his right fore-finger and his left Thumb to thunder out Maxims of State to disclose and complain of distempers of Government to nod his head and cry mark the End on 't to accept of a fair proffer to mind his fortunes and to season his discourses with the true terms of Art as for example To have a jealousie to ambitionate intregue to take his measures and the like the true Phrases whereby a man may be judg'd capable of business Math. A Coxcomb you mean I confess I have not taught him so many scrapps of State Gibberish But I have taught him all his Clock-work Motions to a hair to walk as upright as a Gentleman-Usher to bow often and not to laugh without a serious cause I gave him the Postures of Monsieur Le Grand I taught him to turn his heels inward to walk in State like a Goose to shrink up his shoulders to give an admiration start to screw his head gently a one side upon dislike all the quarter and half quarter Motions of the Al-a-mode scrape to laugh a one side of his mouth and grin like a Dog when we give him Garlick to speak i' the Throat to comb his Periwig at least while his friend speaks to cry by my faith hay instead of plain by my faith I have taught him and that quickly too all the knick-knacks of Admiration as Jesu drawl'd out But that you say it I should never well He Ave-Maria When