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A42725 Nevves from Poland wherein is declared the cruell practice of the popish clergie against the Protestants, and in particular against the ministers of the city of Vilna, in the great dukedome of Lithuania, under the governement of the most illustrious prince, Duke Radziwell / faithfully set downe by Eleazar Gilbert ... Gilbert, Eleazar. 1641 (1641) Wing G705; ESTC R9201 20,227 38

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abovementioned be a foelix quem faciunt or warning-peale unto all the Orthodoxe and Reformed Churches in the world to make them not only hate and abhorre all Popish and Antichristian devices but also abandon if they wish their owne welfare and as much as is possible exterminate and extirpate out of their Lands and Kingdomes all pragmaticall and busie he●ded Romanists but especially these of the Jesuited sort which are more rigidly devoted and addicted to the Roman Sea Let this Historie I say be as wormwood to the dug to make the Sons of our Mother the children of this Church forsake the paps of that Antichristian whore and not to admit upon any termes much lesse to approve or maintaine the least semblance of a Papisticall Hierarchie least if they doe their ghostly fathers Prelates and Fraternities shew them a tricke of Machiavelisme and how doggetly they can insult and domineere over their simple and Reformed Brethren whersoever they take footing as they have lately done these two yeares past in the Kingdom of Poland over that famous Illustrious and Orthodoxe Prince Duke Christopher Radzivil the father and his distressed Ministers and are like to do still over his most excellent and Illustrious sonne Prince Ianussius unlesse the Lord provide some remedy to the contrary But especially let them take notice of this unto whom both God and his Anointed our Soveraigne hath freely and graciously granted all sort of power right Law and prerogative to execute establish and reforme matters tending to the preservation and welfare of this Kingdome for whom as true and naturall sonnes of this Sion let us be carefull in our best devotion and prayers to sollicite and implore the favourable assistance and gracious presence of the Almighty who hath the hearts of Kings and great men in his hands turning them like the rivers of water which way he listeth That he may be pleased so to affect and dispose the hearts of the Peeres and Princes Magistrates of this Land that they may speedily bethinke themselves of some opportune way and meanes whereby all fractions and factions schismes separations sidings and backslidings contentions combustions confusions prevarications finally all Antichristian polypragmaticall tyrannicall and treacherous heresies schismes practices professions and enterprises may be quite or at least as much as is possible abolished and removed from the body and bounds of this Monarchie and that all his Majesties subjects here and elsewhere may from henceforth concurre and consent in unity of mind opinion judgment conscience and affection to embrace professe maintaine retaine beleeve and Practice such a platforme and patterne of wholesome doctrine and Religion as is most consonant and agreeable to Gods revealed will loving the truth and peace and following after the truth in love in a word if it be possible and as much as in them lyeth following peace with all men and holinesse that there may be amongst them all but one body and one spirit even as they are called in one hope of their vocation one Lord one faith one Baptisme one God and Father of them all in them all and through them all Amen Ephes. 4. FINIS Lord William Cavendise ANAGR A wise Lord can live milde ACROST LEt Natures seeming lustre gull or blind Our dazeled eyes with earths vaine glistering rayes Rarest soule-filling pleasures you shall find Deriv'd from thence where grace and vertue swayes Were all perfections in the earths great round Inclosed and ingros'd in one Free-hould Let Pearles streame as the pibles gold abound Like silver silver as the sand yea could In one great Magazing Dame Nature fold All that the Heaven or Earth and Sea containes My Muse hath here from Truths bright fountaine told Combind in one that yet the soule remaines A wandring wondring wavering Pilgrim toile Voyde of her Maker barr'd from restfull blesse Ever with sinnes feare care or sorrow soild Never appeased in this vast Wildernesse Did reason season wit and faith comply In all these stormes with love hopes Anchor then Should safely make this brittle Barke of clay Enter with joy into her wished Haven Vestrae Magnificentiae addictissimus E. G.
NEVVES From POLAND Wherein is declared the cruell practice of the Popish Clergie against the Protestants and in particular against the Ministers of the City of Vilna in the great Dukedome of Lithuania under the Governement of the most Illustrious Prince Duke RADZIVILL Faithfully set downe by Eleazar Gilbert Minister to the foresaid Prince and Preacher to the Scots Congregation in Keydon Read it over and you shall find it a most unparalelld story for barbarous Treacherie NOLI ALTVM SAPERE LONDON Printed by E. P. for Nathanael Butter and are to be sold at his shop at St. Austins Gate 1641. To the Right HONOVRABLE ROBERT Lord Bruce Baron of Byfleet and onely Sonne to the Right Honourable Thomas Earle of Elgin Eleasar Gilbert wisheth all possible Happinesse Right Honourable I Have placed you here in the Frontispiece of my Dedicatory first because you have a chiefe place in my affections as one whom God hath graced with a more than ordinary portion of his Image for to speak without Flattery what Grace what Vertue what endowment either of body mind or fortune Finally what Perfection or Excellency can make men truly Honourable on Earth and eternally happy in Heaven which doth not shine in your Lordship in the fullest lustre so farre as your condition and yeares can be capable of insomuch that if it please the Lord to addc yeares unto your life as hee hath gifts unto your person a starre more radiant then your selfe I conceive in our age will scarcely appeare in our Brittish Firmament moreover your Lordship may justly challenge the first fruit of my publike labors because I had the first encouragement tomy ministerial studies in your Honourable Familie under your Right Honourable most pious never without much Reverence to bee mentioned Grandmother Magdalen Ladie Bruce where I have beene an eye-witnesse of your vertuous education ab imis as I may say incunabulis from your very infancy and where I have often observed the most vigilant and religious care of your Right Honourable Parents in your vertuous education which to this day doth most spectably appeare as a pattern of imitation to all the Nobles in the Land Goe on therefore most Noble and hopefull Lord good luck have you with your Honour continue that course in these paths of Vertue w●ich you have begun to tread especially seeing you have already made so good a progresse for Dimidium facti qui bene coepit habet And you shall find that although the way bee thorny yet the end shall be Honourable that paines which you now take and have taken to please and serve God and your right Honourable Parents shall produce unto you at length not onely the favour of God the love of your Soveraign ●ōmendation of your equals praise of all good men but also contentment to your mind peace unto your conscience protection to your person a blessing unto your estate and a sweet relish to all the honours wealth and pleasures which you shall afterwards enjoy Which that you may doe I shall never be wanting in my best devotion to implore the gracious assistance of that Father of lights the Watchman of Israel to double his spirit upon you and wheresoever you goe for good to be present with you to guard you by his Providence guide you by his counsell and when he hath here satiated your Lordship with honours and pleasures temporall bring you at length unto ioyes and happinesse eternall So prayeth he who desireth to bee reputed as he is One of your Lordships most ancient and affect onately devoted Servants Eleazar Gilbert From my Study in St. Mary-Axe this 8. Decemb. 1641. A True Description of the present estate of the Reformed Protestant Churches within the Kingdome of Poland c. THe industrious policy or rather politick industry of the Roman Clergie for advancing their cause and promoting the Papisticall Hierarchy is as much if not more commendable then was that of the injust Steward Luke 16. 8. did it not crosse the word or Law of God which is the rule of righteousnesse and breake the bond of charity which is the complement and perfection of that Law For what pains doe they not take How doe they stretch their wits What Countries peopled or worthy to be knowne or inhabited have they not peragrated to accomplish their designes and zealous if I may so call them devotions So that if their cause were good and their laborious indeavours to manage that cause guided by a good Spirit or squared to the rule of Justice they should certainly be no lesse then that which they call themselves and pretend to be namely The onely true Catholike Church of Christ that Royall Priesthood and chosen Generation mentioned by the Apostle Peter But true wisedome which is from above is onely justified by her children who doe judge and estimate things especially in matters of Religion and Divine worship not as men value them but as God esteemeth them For God seeth not as men see man oftentimes by reason of the corruption of his heart weakenesse of judgement perversion of will and imperfection of knowledge and understanding may both deceive be deceived but so cannot God who being all eye estimateth and knoweth all things perfectly and essentially as they are as having within himselfe the expresse and true paterne and Ideas of all things that ever have beene are or shall be That therefore men I meane onely Christian men who are within the Pale of Gods Church may be the better setled and persuaded in the truth of that Religion which they doe professe It will be most necessary and profitable for them to take speciall notice of some markes and symptomes whereby the true and orthodoxe Religion or Church of Christ may be distinguished and discerned from all false Antichristian phanaticall inventions traditions enthusiasmes and in a word from all hereticall pragmaticall schismaticall or diabolicall opinions imaginations doctrines and professions in the world which for brevities sake and that I may sooner come to my intended scope I will onely at this time name leaving the more large explication of them unto some other Treatise 1 The first is the purity or rather as I may say the spirituality of a Religion as it is cleansed from the drosse of externall ceremonies and exorbitant superstitions for Almighty God loveth best that Religion or manner of his worship which is most like himselfe and agreeable to his word who being a Spirit will be worshipped in Spirit and truth the more therefore that a Religion hath of outward and gaudy Pompes and Ceremonies to dazle and delude the fancies eyes and affections of the ingorant and simple it is the farther from the nature of God the more contrary to his will it hath more drosse and is the more to be suspected of falshood and to be Antichristian and idolatrous 2 Secondly the more that the grounds doctrine discipline tenets of a Religion are adverse or to do crosse the corruption