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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11467	Europæ speculum. Or, A vievv or survey of the state of religion in the vvesterne parts of the world VVherein the Romane religion, and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same, are notably displayed: with some other memorable discoueries and memorations, never before till now published according to the authours originall copie.	Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629.	1629 (1629)	STC 21718; ESTC S116680	134,835	260

with certeine select exercises and devotions into which it being a reputation to bee admitted it must cause in congruitie the forwardest of theyr schollars to fashion them selues by all meanes as to content theyr humours and so to bee received in shew into a degree of more honourable estimamation but in truth into no other than a double bond of assurance I shall not need here to insert their singular diligence and cunning in entising not seldome the most noble of their schollars and oftentimes the most adorned with the graces of nature and industrie especially if they haue likelihood of any wealthie succession to abandon their friends and to professe theyr Order a thing daily practised by them in all places yea wher-ever they espie any youth of rarer spirit they will bee tempering with him though he bee the onely sonne and solace of his Father Whereby though they draw on them much clamor and stomacke yet do they greatly enhaunce the renowme of theyr societie by furnishing it with so many persons of excellent qualitie or nobilitie whom afterwards they employ with great judgement as they finde each fittest Neither yet doe they here make an end with this part this order hath also theyr solemne Catechizing in theyr Churches on Sondayes and Holydayes for all youth that will come or can be drawne unto it that in no poinct the diligence of theyr adversaries may upbraid them But this poinct of theyr Schooles and instructing youth is thought of such moment by men of wisedome and judgement being taught so by very experience and tryall thereof that the planting of a good College of Iesuites in any place is esteemed the onely sure way to replant that Religion and in time to eate out the contrarie This course hold they in all Germanie in Savoy and other places and the excluding it from Fraunce is infinitely regretted and that which makes them uncerteine what will become of that Kingdome A third course that much advantaged the Protestants proceedings was their Offers of disputation to theyr adversaries in all places theyr iterated and importuned suits for publike audience and judgement a thing which greatly assured the multitude of theyr soundnesse whom they saw so confident in abiding the hazard of tryall being that whereof the want is the onely prejudice of truth and the plentie the onely discoverie and ruine of falsehood they standing in like tearmes as a substantiall just man and a facing shifter whereof the ones credit is greatest there where he is best knowne and the others where hee is least And by reason that the Romanists were not so cunning then in the questions nor so ready in their evasions and distinctions as they are now growne the effect of these disputations whether received or refused was in most places such as to draw with them an immediate alteration of Religion Hereunto may be added those admirable pains which those first Reformers undertooke and performed in translating the Scriptures forth-with into all languages in illustrating all parts thereof with ample comments in addressing institutions of Christian Religion in deducing large histories of the Church from the foundation to their present times in furnishing all common places of Divinitie with abundance of matter in exact discussing of all controversed questions lastly in speedy reply to all contrary writings the greatest part of these labours tending to the justifying o● their own doctrine and to the discoverie of the Corruption and rottennesse of the other that they might overbeare those with the streames of the evidence of reason by the strength of whose power they complained to be over-borne There is not scarce any one of these kinds of writings saue the translating of the Bible into vulgar languages wherin the Romanists haue not already or are not like very shortly eyther to aequall or to exceed theyr adversaries in multitude of works as being more of them that apply those studies in diligence as having much more opportunities of helps and leysure in exactnesse as comming after them and reaping the fruicts of theyr travails though in truth they come short and in ingenuitie being truths companion But as for the Controversies them selues the main matter of all other therein theyr industrie is at this day incomparable having so altered the tenures of them refined the states subtilized the distinctions sharpned theyr owne proufs devised certein and resolved on eyther answers or evasions for all theyr aduersaries arguments allegations and replics yea they haue differences to divert theyr strongest oppositions interpretations to elude the plainest texts in the world circumstances and considerations to enforce theyr owne seeliest conjectures yea reasons to put life into theyr deadest absurdities as in particular a very faire case in schoole-learning proportions to justifie theyr Popes graunts of many score thousand yeeres pardon that in affiance of this furniture and of theyr promptnesse of speech and witt which by continuall exercise they aspire to perfect they dare enter into combate even with the best of theyr oppugners and will not doubt but eyther to entangle him so in the snares of their own quirks or at least-wise so to avoyd and put off his blowes with the manifold wards of theyr multiplied distinctions that an ordinary auditor shall never conceiue them to be vanquished and a favourable shall report them vanquishers Whereupon they now to be quit with theyr adversaries and by the very same art to draw away the multitude cry mainly in all places for tryall by disputations This CAMPIAN the Iesuite did many yeares since with us this as I passed through Zurick did the Cardinall ANDREA of Constance and his Iesuites with theyr Ministers being by auncient ●ight within his diocesse Not long before the same was done at Geneva and very lately the Capuchins renewed the challenge In which parts I observed this discreet valour on both sides that as the Romanists offer to dispute in the adversaries own Cities which they know theyr Magistrates will never accord so the Ministers in supply thereof offer to goe to them to theyr Cities and that now is as much disliked on th' other part each side beeing content that the fire should be kindled rather in his enemies house than in his owne Yea there are not wanting some temperers among them that haue bene talking a long while whether out of they● owne dreames or out of the desires of some greater persons which I halfe conjecture o● a Generall solemne Conference to bee sought and procured of the choyse and chiefe every way of both the sides under pretence of drawing matters to some tollerable composition but in truth as I conceiue rather to overbeare and disgrace the contrarie cause with theyr varietie of engines and strength of wit to wield them at all assayes at pleasure than upon synceritie of affection or probabilitie of any unitie or peace to ensue So great is theyr hope of having cure by that very weapon from whence heretofore they haue had theyr wounds 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the very same plagues which haue ruined the glory and grace of Christendome should now also infect the graund-Enemie thereof namely Effeminatnesse and Avarice whereof the one is the corruption of all sound deliberations and the other the quailer of all manly executions which prevailing in his state as they doe at this day giue hope that his tyrannie draweth towards his period and for this present provide so that a weake defendant may shift better having but a cowardly assailant the matter would haue growne to that extremitie by this time as would haue called the King of Spain with all his forces to some more honourable enterprises than hee hath hitherto undertaken And this is the bridle which holds in the Papacie with all his followers from any universall proceeding by force against the Protestants who herein are greatly advantaged aboue them in that eyther theyr opposites lye betweene them and the Turke or theyr Countries costing so much as they doe towards the North are out of his way and no part of his present ayme But these advantages and disadvantages of the Papacie aequally weighed I suppose this disadvantage more mischievous for the present as proceeding from outward force in the hands of an enemie and the other advantages more stable for continuance as springing from the inward strength of theyr owne wealth and order This then beeing so and that all things considered there falls out if not such an indifferencie and aequalitie yet at leastwise such a proportion of strength on both sides as bereaveth the other of hope ever by warre to subdue them seeing as the Proverbe is a dead woman will haue foure to cary her forth much lesse will able men bee beaten easily out of theyr homes and since there is no appearaunce of ever forcing an Vnitie unlesse Time which eates all things should bring in great alterations it remaineth to bee considered What other kinde of Unitie poore Christendome may hope for whether Vnitie of Veritie or Vnitie of Charitie or Vnitie of Perswasion or Vnitie of Authoritie or Vnitie of Necessitie there beeing so many other kinds and causes of concord A kind of men there is whom a man shall meet withall in all Countryes not many in number but sundry of them of singular learning and pietie whose godly longings to see Christendome reunited in the loue of the Author of theyr name aboue all things and next in brotherly correspondence and amitie as beseemeth those who under the chiefe service of one Lord in profession of one ground and foundation of faith doe expect the same finall reward of glorie which proceeding from the Father and Prince of peace rejecteth all spirits of contention from attaining it haue entred into a meditation whether it were not possible that by the travaile and mediation of some calmer minds than at this day doe usually write or deale on eyther side these flames of controversies might bee extinguished or asslaked and some godly or tollerable peace re-established in the Church againe The earnestnesse of theyr vertuous desires to see it so hath bred in them an opinion of possibilitie that it might bee wrought considering first that besides infinite other poincts not controversed there is an agreement in the generall foundation of Religion in those Articles which the twelue Apostles delivered unto the Church perhaps not as an abridgement onely of the Faith but as a touch-stone also of the faithfull for ever that whilest there was an entire consent in them no discent in other opinions onely should breake peace and communion and secondly considering also there are in great multitude on both sides for so are they undoubtedly men vertuous and learned fraught with the loue of God and of his truth aboue all things men of memorable integritie of hart and affections whose liues are not deare unto thē much lesse their labors to be spent for the good of Gods Church and people by whose joinct-endeavors and single and sincere proceedings in common conference for search of truth that honorable Vnity of Verity might be established But if the multitude of crooked side respects which are the only clouds that eclipse the truth from shining now brightly on the face of the world the only prickles that so enfroward mens affections as not to consider the best do cause that this chiefe Vnity find small acceptatiō as is to bee feared at least-wise that the endlesse and ill frui●ts of these contentions which tend mainly to the encrease of Atheisme within of Mahometisme abroad which in obstinate the Iew shake the faith of the Christian taint the better minds with acerbitie and load the worse with poyson which breake so out into theyr actions which themselues thinke holiest namely the defence of Gods truth which each side challengeth that in thinking they offer up a pleasing sacrifice to Gods they giue cause of wicked joy unto his and theyr enemie that these wofull effects with very tediousnesse and wearinesse may draw both parts in fine to some tollerable reconciliation to some Unitie of Charitie at leastwise to some such as may be least to eythers praejudice Let the one giue over theyr worshipping of Images theyr adoring and offering supplications to Saincts theyr offensiue Ceremonies theyr arbitrary Indulgences theyr using of a language not understood in theyr devotions all which themselues will confesse not to bee necessary to bee orders of the Church and such ●s at pleasure shee may dispence with yea Pope CLEMENT the vij th gaue some hope to the French King that hee would not be stiffe in things of this qualitie and that respect of time might justifie the alteration and some of the latter Popes condiscend to them of Bavaria the Cup in the Sacrament hoping that would content them which since they or theyr successours haue againe inhibited on the other side let the Protestants such at leastwise as think so purge out that negatiue and contradictory humour of thinking they are then rightest when they are unlikest the Papacie then neerest to God when farthest from Rome let them looke with the Eye of Charitie upon them as well as of severitie and they shall find in them some excellent orders for governement some singular helpes for an encrease of godlinesse and devotion for the conquering of sinne for the perfecting of vertue and contrariwise in them selues looking with a more single and lesse indulgent Eye than they doe they shall find that there is no such absolute or unreproueable perfection in theyr doctrine and Reformation as some dreamers in the pleasing view of theyr owne actions doe fancie Neyther ought they to thinke it straunge they should bee amisse in any thing but rather a very miracle if they were not so in many For if those auncient Fathers and Sages of the Church with greater helpes beeing nearer the times of puritie with aequall industrie so spending theyr whole liues with lesse cause of unsinceritie having nothing to seduce them notwithstanding were not able in the weaknesse and blindnesse