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A34097	A generall table of Europe, representing the present and future state thereof viz. the present governments, languages, religions, foundations, and revolutions both of governments and religions, the future mutations, revolutions, government, and religion of christendom and of the world &c. / from the prophecies of the three late German prophets, Kotterus, Christina, and Drabricius, &c., all collected out of the originals, for the common use and information of the English.	Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.	1670 (1670)	Wing C5507A; ESTC R24277	200,382	315

of the Covenant Espouse unto thee O God! the People in faith that all may acknowledge thee Jehovah to whom thou mayst say My People and they to thee My God Let Men thy Image now cease to respect Stones Wooden Golden and Silver gods and to exhibit honour unto those which are no Gods but Vanity Let the Society or Tribe of Priests cease to commit Preys and Robberies in thy Name and with their wickedness to rejoyce Kings and Princes with their lyes adulterating all things Appointing to themselves Kings but not by thee and setting up Princes whom thou doest not acknowledge but with their Gold and their Silver making themselves Idols to their destruction Root out therefore O God! but even now at length Idols with the Worshippers of Idols and Errors with the Sowers of Errors As thou didst in the time of Elias Ezekias Josias Let it become manifest to the World how great difference there is between Light and Darkness that Victory may give place to the Truth and all men may learn to walk in the Light and being made the Sons of the Light may be brought back again to thee the Fountain of Light Gather together the sheep going astray stragling up and down O Prince of Shepherds by men chosen to this work from the East and the West from the North and the South giving faith in to their hearts unto thy words and by a strong and inflexible obedience and dutifulness to execute the purpose of thy Eternal Counsel to bring Vengeance upon Spiritual Babylon and upon the Whore sitting upon the Beast that she may no longer by committing Fornication with her Abominations seduce the Nations on the face of the whole Earth Grant O God! that successfully and happily once may go on forward that wish'd-for Recollection or gathering up together again of thy Rational Creatures out of the Streets and Villages and from among the Lanes and out of the High-ways that they may be introduced into thy House Here indeed into the House of the Church thy Sheepfold but there into the House of Eternity thy Glory where are many Habitations and Joys never to be ended Sitting down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob at thy Table O Jesus Christ my only Saviour and of all that believe in thee Whither also my sel● now hastening apace I bid my last farewel to thee O World to thee my earthly Country to thee my Body the Habitation of this Soul Farewel all beloved Friends in God! known and unknown to me Ye who have not known me in this mortality shall see me in that day wherein our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the living God by his illustrious coming shall gather us call'd forth out of the Dust of the Earth and from all parts every where to himself To whom be Honour and Glory and Empire and Benediction for ever and ever Amen! After these things had been thus acted Paul Laurine a new Pastor of the Exiles and a new Adversary of Drabricius a young man and of a firm strong complexion and always otherwise lusty was seized with an unexpected Disease as hath been before noted the Physicians call'd it an Hectick but in vain was all their Physick and departed this Life about the end of September Veterine hitherto preserv'd perhaps to behold the works of God to which he stiffly and pertinaciously denies Faith and Credit and to acknowledge his Error God have Mercy on him even as also on us all whosoever do erre with whatsoever Errors Amen! So Comenius We 'll conclude onely with a wise and sober Remarque out of the Mystery of Jesuitism concerning the Prophecies of St. Hildegard which very well agrees and may very well be applied to these Thus far says he the Prophecy it self Of which and the like what to think and what credit is to be given thereto others have given their opinion viz. That 't is not impossible Prophecies and Predictions of this kind may amount to no more than the Dreams of melancholy superstitious and distempered Persons Such as of which it may be said Augurium vanum vani docuere Parentes Cui credens dignus decipiatur erit Our vain Fore-fathers taught's vain Auguries Let them be cheated that believe such Lies But to deny all credit to Prophecies is to be guilty of an incredulity greater than that of the incredulous Thomas Nor are we to think what God saith by the Prophet Joel to be spoken in vain That in the last days the old men should dream Dreams and see Visions and the Sons and Daughters prophesie Many Examples might be alledged of Prophecies of this kind which the Events have confirm'd to be true and therefore they may challenge Belief when they are in their Effects fulfilled Mystery of Jesuitism concerning St. Hildegard 's Prophecies approved of in the Councel of Trier and also by Pope Eugenius the Third Remarkable also is that of the Angel to Kotter concerning the time of accomplishment What things are said unto thee concerning things future are not said after an human manner But after a manner which thou shalt never attain by human Reason and Wit Jehovah hath these times in his power Kotter Chap. 17. Great and Marvellous are Thy Works O Lord God Omnipotent Just and True are Thy Ways Thou King of Saints Who shall not Fear Thee O Lord and Magnifie Thy Name Because Thou alone art Holy Because all Nations shall come and worship before Thee For Thy Judgements are made manifest FINIS An APPENDIX of the planting of the Christian Religion in China c. THE marvellous and unheard of Alterations and Troubles The terrible and bloody Wars and most wonderful Revolutions even of all Asia and Africa in this present Age likewise but especially of the mighty antient and most flourishing Empire of China have been no less astonishing and stupendous then the Europaean and those shameful and cursed ones of Unchristian if not Pagan Christendom But would require another and larger Table to represent also a general view thereof And therefore we shall only add an Appendix according to promise of some things remarkable touching the Introduction of the Christian Relion into China by the Fathers of the Society and the Queens the young Princes her Son the Mandarins and Colaos and chief Ministers of State c. Conversion from Idolatry to Faith in Jesus and Worship and Confession of the Son of God so nois'd of in the World of late years And probably they would have prov'd better Christians and Disciples under better Masters and Teachers then such Apostles as have now the glory thereof About the Year 1580 as soon as the Jesuites had by fair shews of Religion and Learning found general success and acceptance in Europe and well rooted themselves here With great Zeal they compass Sea and Land as far as even the East Indies and China it self to gain Proselytes After the example of the more devout Religious and Zealous Monks and Fryar before them Riccius at first mentioned and Rogerius

of JESUS AFTER the Faith first carried by St. Thomas the Apostle and after the same by the Syrians in the time of the Empire I am again further propagated Thirdly again under the Empire Mim after the same St. Francis Xaverius and Fa. Mattheus Riccius being Leaders By men of the Society of Jesus both by Word and Books in the China Language divulged indeed with very great study and labour but by reason of the Inconstancy of the Nation scarce sufficient the Empire being now devolved to the Tartars the same Society for a Crown of the labours in restoring by Theirs the Calender called Hien Lie A Temple to God the Best and greatest publickly at Pekin the Court of the Kings of China HATH ERECTED AND DEDICATED IN THE YEAR MDCL Xun Chi. VII FATHER John Adam Schall à Zell a German profess'd of the Society of Jesus and Author of the foresaid Calendar out of the labours of his hands bequeaths this House and Patience to Posterity And moreover he was so delighted with Globes Spheres and Astronomick Instruments sent for out of Europe that he would permit them no where but in the Closet of his own Chamber and would be instructed in the use of them by the Jesuites whom he bore out against all the envy and opposition of the proud Chineses who thought They should give the Laws of Arts and Sciences to all the World and not receive them from obscure Barbarians and unknown Sons of the Earth as they thought Indeed 't is pity the Christian Faith should be conveyed thither by no better hands and that it should be so mix'd and marr'd with their Jesuitism which yet they were so cunning as pritty well to hide and conceal and like the Serpent first to get in their head that afterwards they might winde and wriggle in their whole body As appears by their Catechism which we shall insert at the end of this Table by way of Appendix that you may have the sight thereof herewith And because it is a very good one for the most ignorant sort of people to apprehend else how could they think to win others from Idolatry that are such gross Idolaters themselves Also great pitty 't is that they that are so merciless and cruel to all other Religions and Christians themselves at home should finde such favour for their own abroad But however that which is Good and Laudable every where is to be approved of And 't is to be wish'd that all zealous and sincere Protestants would rather be more ready to imitate than envy their proceedings And if we compare latter times with former we shall sind the Arts and Sciences never more flourishing And though many rare ones it must be confessed have been lost yet amends has been made for that in more and better and more universally useful found out All Antiquity cannot shew the like to PRINTING the Chard and Compass Powder and Cannon Circulation of the Blood and perhaps hereafter may be added the Universal Character and Language PRINTING it self is so rare an Art that Bodin sayes That alone may contend for prize with all the Inventions of the Ancients whereby may be dispatched in a day and with greater fairness and much more neatness and elegancy by far as much as by the swiftest Pen in some years By the Loadstone Magelane Drake and Candish have sail'd round the Earth and prov'd Antipodes to be neither a Romance nor Heresie and have found out greater Worlds than all the other known and enlarged Commerce to the utmost East and West Indies So that We 're not to Ceres so much bound for Bread Nor yet to Bachus for his Clusters red As Segnior Flavio to thy witty Tryal For first inventing of the Seamans Dial. The use of th' Needle turning in the same Divine Device O admirable Frame Whereby through th' Ocean in the darkest Night Our hugest Carracks are conducted right Whereby we 're stor'd with Truce-man Guide and Lamp To search all corners of the Watry Camp Whereby a Ship that stormy Heav'ns have hurld Near in one Night into another World Knows where she is and in the Chard descries What degrees thence the Aequinoctial lies DUBARTAS And as by the Chard and Compass new Worlds have been discovered so by Powder and Cannon they have been conquered And wicked Mortals seem now to imitate the dread Thunderer and his Thunderbolts by those terrible Instruments of death and execution which Liphus therefore calls the Invention of Spirits and not of Men and yet they sooner put an end to fight and perfect victory than all the lingring tools of death among the Ancients The Turks imployed a Peece of Ordnance against Constantinople that required seventy yoke of Oxen and two thousand Men to hale it along The Circulation of the Bloud is such an invention for which the Ancients would certainly have deified the Author no less than Ceres or Bachus Aesculapius and Apollo The Universal Character and Language almost equals that of Letters in the Invention as it is far beyond it in the Thing They have no less also transcended the Ancients in Chymistry and Destillation of Inorganick and as it were Mechanick Motion and Fermentation of Nature To wit of the Principles Particle Ferments and Archeus's or Vital movers of Nature and all natural Bodies specially as to the Bloud and Feavers and all preternatural Effervescencies of this Microcosm or little World of Man And indeed in all the New Modern Mechanick Philosophy or as it were Mechanism and Magnatism of Universal Nature Viz. In all the Atomick Chymick Magnetick Magick and whole Mechanick or Corpuscular Philosophy both the rational and the experimental or in another sense the indeed Mechanick i. e. Operative Philosophy In all the Mathematicks and Mechanicks their Subtilties Rarities Curiosities and Wonders If Archytas had his Dove Regiomontanus had no less his Wooden Eagle and Iron Fly animated as it were with artificial life and soul Why should I not the Wooden Eagle mention A Learned German's late admir'd Invention Which mounting from his fist that framed her Flew far to meet an Almain Emperor And having met him with her nimble train And weary wings turning about again Follow'd him close unto the Castle Gate Of Norimberg whom all their Shews of State Streets hang'd with Arras Arches curious built And Pageants with their rich devices guilt Gray-headed Senate and Youths gallantize Grac'd not so much as only this Device DUBARTAS He goes on and describes the Fly Once as this Artist more with mirth their meat Feasted some Friends whom he esteemed Great From under 's hand an Iron Fly flew out Which having flown a perfect round about With weary wings return'd unto her Master And as Judicious on his Arms he plac'd her O Divine Wit that in the narrow Womb Of a small Fly could find sufficient room For all those Springs Wheels Counterpoise and Chains Which stood instead of Life and Spurs and Reigns DUBART And if the Persian

Lutherans and the Calvinists which we put both together as Protestants united against the Romanists and now also labouring hard on both sides to unite among themselves though the latter only took the Title of Reformed As we blame the pride and haughtiness of the Chineses who before that the Tartars had humbled them believed that all the rest of the Universe beyond their Mountains and Walls that encompass them was wholly desolate or barbarous In like manner ought we not to suffer an infinity of Ignorants who because perhaps in Colen they see but an hundred Protestants or so presently imagine the same of all Germany and of the whole World and reckon their Church Catholick when 't is but a moity of the least part of the Earth and not esteeming things but by their outward splendor and glittering pass unjustly from the unequal esteem and false count of their number to the unequal esteem or false count of their Virtue and Cause Besides the advantage of Number is no great advantage The Mahometans on this account carry it from the Christians and the very Heathens from both So that neither the one or the other have any great reason to glory The only glorying is to have God on their side But let us come to the Countries which each possess Europe as was said is almost all Christendom Yet Idolaters and Heathen are still found in the cold Region of the Laplanders and although they are distinguished into Danes Swedes and Moscovites yet they hardly obey either the Duke Moscovy or the King of Suede or of Denmark Mahometanism is more spread but not beyond the Turks Territories It is follow'd at Constantinople in Romania and in the places of Dalmatia and Hungary where he is Master It has its course also in the Taurick Chersonese and the lesser Tartary But all these Countries together make not above one tenth part of Europe Lastly Judaism onely lurks in little corners and holes of Christendom and dares hardly shew its face but with some kind of disgrace and infamy Witness their yellow Hats in Italy and Avignon for a mark of dishonour Yet the Jews have their Synagogues and their principal ones are at Amsterdam Avignon Rome Venice and divers other places of Holland and Italy They are found moreover at Franck-fort Hamburgh and other Cities of Germany and some at London also through connivance though the Laws be against them But they are least troubled in Poland and Bohemia and there as well for their Number as for their Priviledges through the force of Silver Weapons they make something a greater noise than elsewhere Greece is yet fuller they have free Trade at Constantinople and Grand Caire They manage principal Affairs they have places of Profit and Revenues and generally they are powerful through all the Ottomans Empire For Christians according to the three Branches of Christianism mentioned viz. the Christians of the East the Christians Roman and the Christians Protestant they take up all the rest The Christians of the East or the Eastern Church advantagiously divide with the Mahometans and the Jews all Greece and all the Neighbouring Isles of the Archipelago And in Mount Athos alone for which cause they have since given it the name of Monte Sancto or the Holy Mountain one may see twenty four Monasteries of Caloyers or certain Monks of the Order of St. Basil of which Order generally the Greek Church are to the number of six thousand And under this Branch comprehending all the several Sects that use different Liturgies the Eastern Church is extended yet further into Russia who are all thereof and out of Europe into Ethiopia and Egypt in Africa into Georgia Armenia Assyria and Persia in Asia and if one would even to India it self and to the Kingdom of Tenduc on the North of Cathay where Mark Polo found some Christians of St. Thomas the Apostle Each of these Sects has their Patriarchs and these Patriarchs like as the Bishops also are all Monks of one of the two Orders of St. Basil or St. Anthony his follower For the other Religions the Roman Religion is absolute Mistress in Spain Portugal and Italy The Religion Protestant in the Islands of Great Britane in Swedeland and Denmark The Roman Religion bears the sway intirely in the Spanish Provinces of the Low Countries the Protestants in the United Provinces The Roman Religion reigns solely in the petty Cantons of Switzerland the Protestant in the great Cantons The Roman Religion has the upper hand intirely in the Countries of the three Electors Ecclesiastick of Mayence Trevers and Colen The Protestant in the Countries of three of the Electors Saecular the Palatinate of the Rhine Saxony and Brandenburgh The Roman Religion has not any mixture apparent in the Haeredetary Countries of the Emperor Austria Bohemia Moravia Tirol Carinthia Stiria and Carniola nor in the Electors the Duke of Bavaria The Protestant has little or none at all in Suavia Silesia both the Prussi's Pomerania Hisse the Archbishoprick of Breme and in the Dukedoms of Holstein Lunenburgh Meckleburgh But in the other Provinces of Germany as in the Dutchies of Cleveland Juliers Alsatia Westphalia and Franconia the two Religions are almost equally divided except that the Protestant hath all the Authority in its hand in the grand Imperial Cities hereof and the Hans Towns which make up the number of an hundred and fifty whereof there are but very few to be excepted The most famous are Nurenburgh Franck-fort Wormes Stratsburg Ausburg Ulms Ratisbone Spire Strelsond Wismar Rostoch Stetin Osnaburg Brunswick Breme Hamburgh Lubeck Dantzick Elbing Conigsberg where the Magistrate is Protestant There is but only France and Poland where the number of the Romans surpass the number of the others and where nevertheless these have the free and publick exercise of their Religion and each live together in peace though the Romanists daily incroach upon the Protestants and increase and the others decrease and lose their Priviledges and Power for want of some Heroick Princes to maintain them To conclude The Roman Religion has been carried to the ends of the World into the East and into the West Indies by the Spaniards and Portuguese The Protestant has been carried to the same places by the English and the Dutch and the French also are setled in the Isle of Madagascar in Canada in Africa and in America and take their course also through Asia insomuch that all are there generally call'd Franks But these are almost universally French Catholicks But to take things apart The Roman Religion is spread in some Maritine places of Asia and has it 's principal Seat at Goa a Puissant City on the Western Coast of the Peninsula on this side Ganges The Protestant upon the shores of the same Asia and has its principal Seat at Batavia a City upon the Southern Coast of Grand Java which the Commerce of the Hollanders has rendred famous The Roman Religion fills some places of the Eastern Coast of Africa as

since the occasion of War between them He then besieges Smolensko 1634 and there receives a great and shameful Overthrow and Destruction by the Poles which Dukedom has ever since been the Apple of Contention as well as formerly betwixt them He reigned till 1645. To whom succeeded his young Son Alexius the present Emperor In 1646 they made peace with Poland and during the Kings minority there was some troubles and distempers in the State and an horrible Sedition 1648. but all soon quietly setled Anno 1654. The Moscovites invade Lituania overcome Smolensko and 1655 take Vilna invade Livonia 1656 The Cossacks a Confederate Army of Rogues and Robbers that take either side for their Prey or Money or other ends and designs or as they are pleased or displeased with affairs and belong chiefly to Poland they joyn with the Poles and defeat the Moscovites anno 1659. The Poles prosper But the Cossacks at last break Faith and again rebel to the Moscovites and invade and spoyl some Provinces An. 1660 Czarneckie in Lituania beats the Muscovites Their Army also in Poland under Zeremetzie reduc'd to straits and forced to surrender themselves to the Poles Vilna in Lituania besieged by the Poles till next year An. 1662 The Moscovite beats the Tartars Overcomes the Cossacks under Chimilinsky But again overcome by Cossacks and Tartars And 1664 The Moscovites overcome and beat by the Pole Peace since between them The Emperor of Moscovia now sollicits for the election of his Son to the Crown of Poland offers fair Conditions and that he shall change his Religion from the Greek to the Roman which would have much influence upon the Jesuites perhaps and zealous Religionists of the Papists if Reason of State otherwayes did not hinder The great Enemies you see of the Russes then are the Pole the Swede and the Tartar helpt by the Turk Anno 1230 the Tartars over-ran all Russia and made it tributary and for three hundred years kept their Power over it more or less and gave and took away Dukes over them as they pleased Anno 1500 Basil shook off this yoke Yet Anno 1570 an hundred thousand Tartars on a sudden overran Mosco and laid it wholly in Ashes The Poles and Russes strive for the Dukedom of Smolensko and Severia which both claim and both win and take continually Of late years the Cossacks with all Ukrain revolted to the Russes But since Peace and Compositions of things made The Swede and Russe contend for Livonia The Swede by success of Arms has expell'd both the Russe and the Pole and annex'd it to their Crown Hence the Wars between the Russe and Swede continually Riga has been often attempted and besieg'd in vain by the Russe But we pass to their next neighbour Poland The Revolutions of Poland Poland has for many ages been a distinct Soveraignty The first that was elective was Piastus after the failure of the former line a plain Country-man elected Duke of Poland An. 800. Afterwards became a Kingdom still in Piastus's line An. 1320. Silesia fell from Poland to Bohemia and could never be recovered An. 1386. They made the Great Duke of Lituania by marriage into their King's Family King and so joyn'd that great Dukedom to Poland An. 1466. Casimir adds Prussia and 1561 Livonia is added to it also The Royal Family being extinct they chuse forreign Princes anno 1573. and first chuse the Duke of Anjou Brother of Charles the 9 th King of France about the year 1575. But he quickly left it for the Crown of France An. 1579 they chose Bathor Prince of Transylvania by recommendation of the Turks He firmly united Livonia to the Crown and had a great hand upon the Moscovites He dying without issue they chose Sigismund the King of Swede's Son about the year 1590 whose posterity has ever since enjoy'd it but now the line fails He joyn'd the Kingdom of Swede and Poland But turning Papist endeavours by the Jesuites perswasions to disturb Religion in Swedeland and so was ejected and losing his Patrimonial kingdom only keeps Poland Hence those lasting Wars between the two Nations To him succeeded Uladislaus famous for the memorable Victory against the Moscovites besieging Smolensko an 1634. After whose death Anno 1647 The kingdom became extreamly imbroyl'd by Factions specially by the mutinous and seditious Cossacks a Rebellious Army as it were of Boors and Moss-troopers that live upon prey and rapine and serve any side as was hinted risen first and chiefly out of the wild parts of Poland Lituania c. next Russia who at this time began to be more troublesome than ever during all the present king Casimir's Reign and not fully setled till very lately and perhaps not to hold long neither King Casimir succeeded an 1648. so troubled all his dayes that he has been a long time weary of his Crown and now at last laid it down not obtaining leave to nominate his Successor The better to understand the late Revolutions of Poland in brief take them thus Poland has suffered great Revolutions and Troubles from forreign Enemies Rebellious Cossacks and Confederate Nobles Grand Enemies are the Swede the Russe the Tartar and the Turk The Wars with the Swede are for Livonia for pretence to the Crown of Swede for Titles and Arms. Hereupon the late king of Sweden overran in one year almost all Poland but lost all again the next But these pretences now cease in the present king having no heirs With the Russes for several causes before mentioned With the Tartars commonly call'd the Crim Tartars distinct from those in Asia these bordering upon Russia and Poland who make yearly Incursions almost for prey and plunder either as friends or enemies all 's one Therefore the Tartars do not seek to conquer so much as to plunder Poland But the greatest Enemies are the Turks ever since they got Walachia Moldavia and Transylvania the Walls Bulwarks as it were of Poland and also the Tartars to be subject to them But they have yet threatned more than done any thing and little has passed besides consultings and fears hitherto betwixt them The seditious and mutinous Cossacks have done most mischief One of the chief causes of their Rebellion was the great oppression of the Natives by the Jews in all the Customs and Tributes almost of the Kingdom granted to them by King Casimir and ever since possessed by them by the means of Esther a Jewish in behalf of her Nation who obtain'd great Priviledges for them And in the late fatal Confusions of Poland the Russians again besieged Smolensko and seiz'd not only on it but all Ukrain or black Russia and great part of Lituania The occasion whereof was first the Jesuites taking away the Russes Temples and hindring the free Liberty of Religion to them Next the Nobles Tyranny over the Peasants killing them at their pleasure Hence inraged they rise up against their Masters kill the Jesuites and Priests call the Cossacks and Tartars to their help

present House of Bourbon and granted good terms to the Protestants but was afterwards stabb'd by Ravillac of the Romish and Jesuitical Faction The first occasion as was hinted of these Troubles was the Massacre at Merindal Anno 1545. but specially the great Massacre at Paris and thereupon presently throughout the whole kingdom an 1572. from which time the Holy League began Which was a Sacred Confederation of the Pope king of Spain and Duke of Guise for the Catholick Religion and to root out Hereticks And to that end to set up some more Catholick and zealously affected and engaged King and Interest either the King of Spain or Duke of Guise of the Family of Lorrain descended from Charles the great on whom the Pope pretends to have bestowed no less than the Roman Empire upon its ruine and the kingdom of France upon its alienation to Pepin his Father Lewis the 13 th his Son succeeded 1610 the most absolute King of France since Charles the Great For he reduc'd the Protestants to his obedience and all the Forts and Castles held by them to the number of three hundred diminishes the Liberty of Religion granted by Henry the fourth by Decree ordering that all the Protestants should be in all things equal with the Catholicks and enjoy the same Priviledges and Immunities In which War the Siege of Rochel was most famous where all the Art of War was shewn Anno 1628. taken and its Walls demolished Cardinal Richlieu was his chief Counsellor and Minister of State under whom he brings all France into one entire body and state yet Liberty of Religion by agreement continued to the Protestants And from that time bent all his Horce against Spain and House of Austria then encreasing So by the Conduct of Richlieu accomplish'd great things in Italy Germany Spain and Flanders as well as his own Kingdom So that by the peace at Munster between both Emperor and Spain all Alsatia was added to France and the strongest places on this side the Rhine and a good part of Flanders c. whereby France recovered the bounds as it were of ancient Gaul The Dukedom of Lorraine also during the German wars was put into the protection of France about the restoring of which there has been some difficulties of late or demurres An. 1642. Lewis the 14 th four years old succeeds in whose minority the Queen Mother managed affairs with Cardinal Mazarine a stranger which stirred the envy and hatred of the French against him 1650. The discontented Princes are imprisoned which causes intestine commotions the Prince of Conde chief 1651. They are freed Mazarin driven out of Paris and banished But the King entering his 14th year recalled Conde arms against the King 1652. At Mazarin's return now Civil Discords revive But the Cardinal outdoes them and becomes more potent and glorious Prince of Conde takes the Spaniards part in Flanders Afterwards Mazarine made Peace with England 1660. The Wars between France and Spain for twenty six years ended and Peace made The Kings marriage with Spains Infanta follows by Mazarin's and De Haro's means Which has since occasioned the late War in Flanders Conde reconcil'd to the King and restor'd Since which the Protestants never in lower condition nor more under the hatches and have lost more by this Peace then ever they did by their own Wares Aurange taken into the Kings protection and unwalled 1661. Duke of Orleans the Kings Brother Marries the Princesse of England The Duke of Lorraine sells his Provinces to the King of France his Nephew dissenting The rest since are flesh in memory Namely the Political and Civildeath as it were of the Protestants since the General Peace 1660 and since this last Peace also The Wars with England France confederating with Holland or rather poizing the lighter Ballance or weaker side The Comprehension of the Jansenists and the four Jansenian Bishops with the chief thereof Doctor Arnaud within the Bounds of the Romish Church Marshal Turein turn'd Catholick So that France is like to be one entire Body of Catholicks which no doubt is one main design on foot of the Pope and Jesuites who by strange and unobserved artifices sway Princes and their grand Ministers of State c. The Foundation and Revolutions of Spain and Portugal After the breaking of the Roman Empire there was a Kingdom founded over all Spain and Portugal by the West Goths coming out of Italy This Kingdom was destroyed afterwards by the Moors and Saracens The Goths began soon after to revive again and to erect several lesser Kingdoms by degrees as they could which in time were variously united and disunited again and perpetual Wars with one another The grand division at last was into the kingdom of the Moors and of the Christians or Goths The Moors Kingdom in the end fixed only in Andalusia or most Southern parts of Spain The Christians became divided also in time into four chief Kingdoms Castile Arragon Navarre and Portugal which could never unite till 1. Ferdinand the Great sirnamed the Catholick King of Arragon laid the Foundations of the last and greatest Monarchy of Spain by marriage with Isabel Queen of Castile c. towards the year 1480. in which Race continued ever since Whereupon mighty things ensued 1. Perpetual Union betwixt those two potent Kingdoms 2. The utter rooting out presently thereupon the Moors and Saracens from the kingdom of Andalusia who had held Spain more or less in subjection for seven hundred years Anno 1492. Upon which they presum'd to stile themselves King and Queen of Spain i. e. all Spain to the prejudice of Navarre and Portugal who were yet distinct Kingdoms 3. The seizing on the kingdom of Navarre whereto belonged Naples and Sicily c. 4. The discovery of the New World America the year 1492. After which they had the title of Catholick by the Pope to the prejudice of all other Kingdoms 5. The marrying of their only Daughter and Heir to Philip the Emperors Son Archduke of Austria Prince of the Netherlands thereby uniting those great Estates and laying the Foundation also for the present Austrian Greatness and Family continued ever since by so many intermarriages between the Spanish and Imperial branches of that potent Family And thus the Spaniards first became considerable in the World and a Terror to Neighbours and suddenly look'd like the beginners of a fifth or Universal Monarchy of the World at least the New-World Which they affected first in Title Getting 1. that of Catholick Kings after they had usurped that of Kings of Spain as designed by the Pope for Universal or Catholick Monarch to promote the Catholick Cause on Religion to root out Hereticks c. which has been alwayes their pretext and which they have been alwayes zealous and mighty sticklers for And 2 they have hereby claimed prerogative over all other Kings and by pretext of their Title have ever since look'd on themselves as the Greatest Monarchs of all the World as indeed they had