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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39110	An extraordinary express sent from Pasquin at Rome, to all the princes and potentates of Europe.		1690 (1690)	Wing E3931A; ESTC R219788	27,030	89

AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS Sent from PASQUIN AT ROME To all the Princes and Potentates OF EUROPE LONDON Printed for Henry Hills and are to be sold by the Book-Sellers of London and Westminster 1690. THE PREFACE EUROPE hath suddenly fallen in very great and dangerous Convulsions which are known naturally to proceed either from a too violent commotion or dispersing of the animal Spirits or from an oppression caus'd by fear or lastly from the corruption of some gangreen'd member Such hath been the miserable condition of this part of the World in these later times ever since it was attackt by all these Distempers at once for we have seen several Princes and their chief Ministers of State thrô a prodigious and incomprehensible perturbation of spirit seiz'd with an abstraction from their true interest compelling them blindly to follow that of the King of France to facilitate his Conquests and to labour in promoting his Glory to the prejudice of their own With how many fears hath Christendom been terrifi'd during that inundation of the rapid Torrent of Vsurpation which happen'd within these few years last past when the thundring voice of the Ambassadors of Lewes XIV was heard to roar in all the Soveraign Courts of Europe who assum'd to themselves no less a Quality than that of the Ministers of another Jupiter whil'st his Armies flew 〈◊〉 like lightning in divers Places and the Subjects of those Princes were miserably oppress'd that would not be engag'd in the interests of this Monarch on purpose to make them an example to others and by horrible Combustions devastations to strike a terrour into the minds of all those that should dare to refuse to offer Incense to this new Deity on Earth styl'd Dieu donné even to this immortal Man Viro immortali As for the Corruption it was almost Vniversal throughout all Europe the Gangreen in some places had spread itself from the lower members even to the head and mercenary Parasites were employ'd in all the Courts for time was when to adhere to the interest of France was to become à la mode and others were ridicul'd and esteem'd as dotards that knew not how to advance their Fortune Lastly it may be affirm'd that the greatest number greedily swallow'd the Spiritus Gall. as water burnt incense with a great deal of satisfaction to this Grand Idol ran after this Golden Lewes and by a strange depravation had promoted their total ruin and had desperately cast themselves on the top of a dreadful precipice without any possibility of recovery if Heaven had not commiserated their condition and unexpectedly snacht them from the danger by the miraculous revolution that happen'd as it were in the twinkling of an eye None can be ignorant that this was the sad and deplorable state of Christendom a little before the year 1689. but since that time the spirits being recollected all Terrour is expell'd the Contagion is stopt and a considerable part of the Gangreen'd Members being cut off Europe hath recover'd a better air more wholsom and more temperate these thick and dismal clouds having pass'd away and these menacing whirl-winds being altogether dissipated for King William foresaw the Storm and ascending the Throne of Great Britain soon dispers'd these dark Foggs and without fearing the Thunder caus'd light to spring out of the gloomy Tempest Sequar per fulmina These remarkable contingences and so suddain an alteration excited a curiosity in all the Princes to go and consult the Oracle to know what effects might the Oracle where being arriv'd the Priestess Phoebas to express her respect to this old Gentleman gently lead him to the Shrine and the good Father having rested a while approach'd in his slippers to the Sacred Den and spake to this effect AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS Sent from PASQUIN AT ROME To all the Princes and Potentates OF EUROPE I. O thou suprem Deity that presidest in these lower Regions after having rendred most hearty thanks for my promotion to the Popedom I 'm come to represent to you with profound respect how much I am surprized that during the time of my Predecessor the Rights of the Holy See have been violated the Sanctuary prophaned the Papal authority threatned with rude assaults by the Schism which the French have caused in the Church the eldest Son thereof having lifted up his hand against his most Holy Mother and against our infallible Power Nevertheless at a time when the Holy See had reason to fear these menaces our Son is returned to his Father's House and we have seen him lying prostrate at our feet and with a great shew of repentance professing to restore all that he had violently taken away having assur'd us by his Ambassador of his entire submission to our Paternal correction promising alwaies to maintain for the future a very good correspondence with the Holy See and as a testimony of the sincerity of his intentions to restore the City of Avignon and the whole County to oblige all the Bishops of his Kingdom that were present in the General Assembly of the Clergy in the year 1682. to renounce the faith of that Conventicle and to rase out of the Register of his Parliament all Acts derogatory from the Reverence Honour and Respect due to my Predecessor provided that I would use my utmost endeavours to procure a Peace between him and the Catholic Princes Being amazed at such a suddain fit of repentance I betook my self to this place that I might be inform'd from your sacred mouth of the cause of this great Revolution and to whom I am beholding for this unexpected advantage When the Pope had made an end of speaking there was a great silence throughout the whole Temple and the Oracle with a loud voice answer'd William Rex Afterwards all the Sacred Trumpets were hear'd to sound in the Temple in like manner as at the gaining of a great Battel The Pope being extremely surpriz'd at this answer could not forbear expressing his astonishment to the Priestess that conducted him to the Shrines she replied that the good Father ought not to wonder at this answer since it belonged only to the Gods to unravel the most hidden mysteries that mortal men should know in process of time the truth of that which at present appear'd obscure and that his Holiness need only to make a serious reflection on what he had seen with his eyes this day But Alexander VIII having already been too forward in attributing these wonderful successes to his own Politic contrivances was not very well satisfied However fearing lest the answer of the Oracle might be divulg'd he took no notice of any thing not being willing that it should be known to the World that he was oblig'd to an Heretical Prince for his repose The good Father not being able to recollect himself from this consternation was very desirous to add a few words before he went out of the Temple but a suddain qualm that insensibly seiz'd on his spirits put an