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B01023	Britaines glorie, or An allegoricall dreame: with the exposition thereof. Containing [brace]the heathens infidelitie, the Turkes blasphemie, the popes hypocrisie, Amsterdams varietie, the Church of Englands veritie [brace] in religion. And in our Church of England, [brace] the kings excellency. His issues integritie. The nobles and gentries constancie. The councels and iudges fidelitie. The preachers puritie. The bishops sinceritie. / Conceiued and written by Robert Carlyle gent. for the loue and honour of his king and country.	Carliell, Robert, d. 1622?	1618 (1618)	STC 4650; ESTC S91360	33,166	58

of God maketh the wicked afraid The Israelites hauing seene the mightie power of God feared the Lord Exod. 14.31 Adam after he had sinned was afraid of God Gen. 3.10 And the word of the Lord is heerein fulfilled for the Lord threatneth they shall be afraid in their chambers which prouoke him by Idolatrie Deut. 32.25 Northward from hence there is within a Land Amidst the Sea a fruitfull Paradice made Where goodly Vines in curious order stand Which proue exceeding plentifull That is within this Iland of great Britaine which lieth Northward from Rome the Gospell of Iesus Christ which is compared to a fruitfull Paradice of Vines which plentifully abound and the profession thereof is spreadth oughout the same like as goodly Vines florish and spread The Prophet Dauid speaking of the Church Psal 80.8 compares it to a Vine Thou hast brought a Vine out of Aegypt thou hast cast out the Heathen and planted it thou madest roome for it and diddest cause it to take roote and it filled the Land the mountaines were couered with the shadow of it and the boughs thereof are like the goodly Cedars shee stretched out her braunches vnto the Sea and her boughs vnto the Riuer I am the Vine saith Christ and my father is an husband-man Iohn 15.1 And there I sometime great authoritie did beare Too great was the Popes authoritie in this Kingdome when before the Reigne of King Henry the eight he had the supremacie 15. And those faire Vines to all estates were free As well the Plough-man as the Potentate And euery beggar might sufficed bee Without controlement of the Magistrate The freedome of the Gospell is two-fold free of expence and restraint The Apostle Paul 1. Cor. 9.18 speaking of the Preaching of the Gospell saith thus What is my reward then verily that when I preach the Gospell I make the Gospell of Christ free that I abuse not mine authoritie in the Gospell that is that I be not chargeable to them to whom I preach seeing that they thinke I preach it for gaines And the same Apostle 2. Tim. 2.8.9 exhorting Timothie to be constant in trouble to suffer manly and to abide fast in the wholesome Doctrine of our Lord Iesus Christ bids him remember that Iesus Christ made of the seede of Dauid was raised againe from dead according to Saint Pauls Gospell wherein the Apostle suffered trouble as an euill doer euen vnto bonds but the word of God is not bound thereby shewing that notwithstanding his imprisonment the word of God hath his race and increaseth That all degrees by vertue of that Grape Grew perfect wise sober temperate Who seeke wisedome early shall finde it that is they that study the word of God diligently and with a desire to profit shall finde wisedome Riches and honour are with her euer durable riches and Righteousnesse that is spirituall treasures and heauenly things Pro. 8.17.16 Moses exhorting the people to keepe the ordinances and lawes of God Deut. 4.6 tels them that is their wisedome and their vnderstanding in the sight of the people which shall heare all those ordinances and shall say onely this people is wise and of vnderstanding and a great Nation The wisedome of the World is but foolishnesse with God 1. Cor. 1.20 But vnto them which are called both of the Iewes and Grecians Christ is the power of God and the wisedome of God for the foolishnesse of God is wiser then men and the weaknesse of God is stronger then men 1. Cor. 1.24.25 Also the wordes of God are the words of sobrietie and truth as appeareth in the Acts of the Apostles 26.25 where the Apostle Paul rehearsing his conuersation to approue his Innocencie being accused before Festus said I am not mad noble Festus but speake the words of truth and sobernesse 16. But I by craft and deuillish inuention Desiring their subuersion cut those Vines Vnseasonably to hinder their extention In growth and spreading The Deuill and the Pope haue euer yet beene enuious against the propagation of the Gospell and haue laboured by all the deuises that possibly they could to extinguish or at least to obvmbrate the true light thereof wherefore it was a subtile deceit of the Pope to haue the word of God set forth in the Latine Tongue which the common people could not vnderstand whereby the knowledge of the Gospell was like the Sunne in Eclips and could not be so generally spread as if it had beene written in their naturall English so thereupon it may be said that it was vnseasonably cut to hinder the extention thereof The Apostle Paul 1. Cor. 14.1.2 speaking against prayer and seruice in a strange tongue exhorteth men to follow after loue and couet spirituall gifts and rather that they may prophesie that is to expound the word of God to the edification of the Church for he that speaketh a strange tongue speaketh not vnto men but vnto God for no man heareth him that is vnderstandeth him Also in the 4 and 5. verses of the same Chapter the Apostle saith he that speaketh strange language edifieth himselfe for he profiteth none saue himselfe greater is he that prophesieth then he that speaketh diuers tongues except he expound it that the Church may receiue edification And as oftentimes As J with blood the Rootes should haue made moist A poyson strong I closely in did foist That is As often as the Pope and his Ministers should haue sincerely deliuered the word of God to the people according to truth whereby it might haue taken roote in their hearts So often they preached their owne inuentions bringing in many horrible new heresies which poisoned the peoples vnderstanding Saint Paul gaue them other direction 2. Tim. 2.15 Studie saith he to shew thy selfe approued vnto God a workeman that needeth not be ashamed deuiding the word of truth aright But the words of that holy Apostle 1. Tim. 4.1.2.3 are truely verifide in the Pope and his Ministers Now the spirit speaketh euidently That in the latter times some shall depart from the faith and shall giue heede vnto spirits of error and doctrines of Deuils meaning false teachers which speaking lies through hypocrisie haue their consciences burned with an hot Yron forbidding to marry and commanding to abstaine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which belieue and know the truth And as for the Gospell as it is professed by them Deut. 32.32.33 there it is decyphered Their Vine is the Vine if Sodom and the Vines of Gomorah their Grapes are Grapes of gall their Clusters be bitter their Wine is the poyson of the Dragons and the cruell gall of Aspes 17. Which to conceale from mens detection This trick I had I suffer'd none to come Within that Paradice to make collection To cast a mist before the peoples eies that they might not discerne the false Doctrine and superstitious ceremonies which were then brought into the Church the Pope would suffer none to haue the bible in

English least their heresies should be detected and their discipline despised for the Pope and his Ministers know in their consciences if they haue any consciences or else God lighten their vnderstanding that they may know that their Doctrine is a Doctrine of vanitie and the worke of errors according to the Prophet Iere. 10.8 They altogether dote and are foolish for the stock is a Doctrine of vanitie Where because the people thought that hauing Images was a meane to serue God and to bring them to the knowledge of him the prophet sheweth that nothing more displeaseth God nor bringeth man into greater errors and ignorance of God But I my selfe in person or else some Of my confederates whom I put in trust Deliuer'd them how and to whom we lust The common people wanting the knowledge of the Latine tongue were forced to receiue the word from the Priests deliuered according to their owne fantasies and so were deluded by these false teachers of whom the Apostle Peter prophesied 2. Peter 2.1.2.3 But there were false Prophets also among the people euen as there shall be false teachers among you which priuily shall bring in damnable heresies euen denying the Lord that hath bought them and bring vpon themselues swift damnation and many shall follow their damnable waies by whom the way of truth shall be euill spoken of and with couetousnesse shall they with feigned words make marchandize of you which is euidently seene in the Pope and his Priests which by lies and flatteries sell mens soules so that it is certaine that he is not the successor of Simon Peter but of Simon Magus 18. Many diseases heerevpon did grow The Ague Palsey Megrims Scurfe and Scab This false Doctrine brought in by the Pope and his Priests hath wrought many sects opinions and diuisions in this our true Catholike-Church and by that meanes many doubts questions and controuersies did arise which are compared to Agues Palsies and Megrims and are as great a blemish to the true faith in Iesus Christ as a scurffe or scab is to a naturall mans body For this cause saith Saint Paul 1. Cor. 11.30 Many are sick and weake among you and many sleepe that is they died or be dead The cause of sicknesses they did not know For no man of the Grapes suspition had The Pope and his Priests will say that they are the people of God make a faire outward shew of sanctitie in words but not in Action for they abuse Gods name and colour it with shadow of Religion to cloake their hypocrisie The Prophet Micah 3.11 speaking of the heads of the house of Iaakob and the Princes of the house of Israell figureth out plainely the state of Rome saying They abhorre iudgement and peruert all equitie They build vp Zion with blood and Ierusalem with iniquitie that is they build them houses by bribery The heads thereof iudge for rewards and the Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof prophesie for money yet will they leane vpon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst vs no euill can come vpon vs Which hypocrisie being thus cloaked with Religion is the more free from suspition of the people By this I got at ending of their daies All that they had for Rosemary and Bayes The silly people were taught such blinde deuotion that notwithstanding their daily offerings to Idols which came to the vse of the Priests and whereby they grew exceeding rich commonly at the time of their deaths they would bequeath all or the greatest part of their substance to massing Priests for maintenance of lights obits and prayers for their soules perswading themselues verily that they should neuer be saued without such fond babling and so the whole Kingdome almost came into the hands of the Church-men So those Dirges are alluded to a little Rosemary and Baies as to a thing of no value or respect but they are hardly so good for indeed the Rosemarie and Baies is a decent ornament for the corps when it is carried to the graue but as for the songs and prayers and their feighned power to doe the soule of the dead any good or to be any ornament therevnto there is no true Christian but will hold him a very simple vnderstanding man that imagines it For as a man dieth so shall he come to iudgement Eccles 11.3 If the tree doe fall toward the South or toward the North in the place that the tree falleth there it shall be 19. At length my diuellish purpose was descried By one that vomited a poysoned Grape By reason of an Antidote applied The whole circumstance heereof is largely and truely recorded in the booke of the Martyrs of the kingdome of England among the memorials and acts done in the time of the Reigne of King Henry the eight to which for breuitie the Reader shall be referred Thus much onely may be said That it pleased the Lord to illuminate the vnderstanding of that renowned vertuous and well affected king with the light of his truth whereby he discerned the hypocrisie of the Pope and his ministers And then caused the Bible to be printed in English and the glorious Gospell of Christ Iesus to be truely preached and so the whole kingdome was plentifully fed with the heauenly and spirituall foode of the Soule which that famous and blessed King hauing receiued and digested it was to him as a preseruatiue or an Antidote against the Heresies of Rome and caused him as it were to vomit out those vilde errors out of the Church of England And all the Countrie then did beare me hate And for those faults which I committed there They banisht me and so I thence came here Heere the people began to obserue the Doctrine and institution of Saint Paul that is to flie from Idolatrie 1. Cor. 10.14 and to hate those detestable follies and superstitious vanities which hindred them from the true seruice of God according as our Sauiour Christ saith Luke 14.26 If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his owne life also that is he that casteth not off all affections and desires which draw vs from Christ cannot be my Disciple And the gouernment of the Church being setled according to the profession now vsed the Pope was not onely iustly depriued of his Supremacie but his authoritie and traditions were quite abolished out of the kingdome his Ministers put to silence their religious or rather irreligious houses as I may rightly terme them vtterly defaced according as the Lord commanded Deut. 12.2 Yee shall vtterly destroy all the places wherein the Nations which yee shall possesse serued their Gods vpon the high Mountaines and vpon the hils and vnder euery greene tree Also ye shall ouerthrow their Altars and breake downe their pillars and burne their groues with fire and yee shall hew downe the grauen Images of their Gods and abolish their names out of that place 20. And

in the Reuel 21.10 descending out of Heauen from God And by the Trees Corne Vines and Herbes is vnderstood how plentifully the word of God aboundeth there for sometimes the Gospell of Iesus is compared to a Tree Reuel 22.2 Which beareth 12. manner of fruits and gaue fruit euery moneth and the leaues of the tree serued to heale the Nations with This is the tree of life Christ the life of his Church and is common to all his and not peculiar to any one sort of people Sometimes the Gospell is compared to Corne as in the parable of the sower Math. 13.3 Behold a sower went out to sowe c. Sometimes it is compared to Vines as before is mentioned in the 14. staffe And in respect the Gospell is the Spirituall foode of the soule it may be compared to herbes and any other sustenance which is the naturall foode of the bodie applying the one to the soule spiritually as the other is applied to the body naturally from whence The Tyrant had before beene banished Who when he kept it was not so perfidious As is the man that keepes it now Religious This our Nation is the Paradice where the Pope sometime did beare such great authoritie as before is relation made in the 14. staffe And from whence he and his errors were abolished as in the 19. staffe Whose perfidious treacherie he himselfe hath heere already at large demonstrated But the Lord be praised wee haue now a Religious Soueraigne Lord King James who is supreame head and gouernour of our Church vnder God to whom for sinceritie and truth in Religion the speech of Saint Paul may be appropriated Eph. 4.20 That he hath learned Christ and hath heard him and beene taught by him as the truth is in Iesus that is he hath cast off concerning the conuersation in time past the olde man which is corrupt through the deceiueable lusts and is renewed in the spirit of his minde and hath put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse And for integritie of life he is like vnto Samuel 1. Sam. 12.3 And for vprightnesse in heart he is like vnto those worthy Kings Iosias Hezekiah and Dauid whose deserued commendations are singularly set forth in the Booke of Ecclus. cap. 49. And God grant that he may long liue to multiply his vertues in himselfe and his Royall issue 28. For hauing Children he instructs them how They may those Trees Corne Vines and hearbs best keepe From Caterpillers Cankers and the Sow That longs into that place by stealth to creepe To spoile the Paradice Of which there were Some by that Tyrant left of purpose there By the Caterpillers and Cankers is meant al such as either enuie or wish hurt to or depraue derogate or speake ill of the true Preaching of the Gospell of Christ of what Religion or Sect soeuer they be But by the Sow is particularly intended the Papist of which sort their be too many yet remaining that doe much hurt secretly to the weake members of our Church animated and set on by the Pope but by the Religious care of our vertuous King the Paradice is pretty well rid of them the Church is reasonably cleered and the word of God more plentifully planted amongst vs then heeretofore it hath beene And heerein all the World may see his Maiesties great prouidence in the education of his children for the continuance and vpholding of the Gospell according to the commandements of the Lord Deut. 11.18.19 Therefore shall you lay vp these my words in your heart and in your soule and binde them for a signe vpon your head that they may be as a frontlet betweene your eies and you shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest downe and when thou risest vp 29. So that this Paradice is like to flowrish Vntill the finall period of all things For his faire issue know well how to nourish Those holy Plants and those cleere water-springs Running there-through to keepe from foule pollution Till all things haue their finall dissolution Heere is set forth the excellent towardnesse of our renowned Prince Charles Prince of Wales Frederike Prince Elector Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth his wife as the issue of our royall King which may well be said to be faire and beautifull Not as Absolon That was comely in outward proportion onely 2. Sam. 14.25 Nor as Saul which was a goodly yong-man and a faire 1. Sam. 9.2 for among all the children of Israell there was none goodlier then he in person Nor as the daughters of men whom the sonnes of God saw were faire Gen. 6.2 For this is but the beautie of the flesh which withereth and decaieth like grasse 1. Pet. 1.24 But their beautie is an euerlasting beautie which excelleth the beautie of all other Princes in Christendome and like the Sunne appeares glorious to the whole World their beautie is the Deuine beautie of their soules made and fashioned after the image of Christ Iesus The holy plants of that Paradice they haue learned of their royall father to nourish that is they allow and maintaine the Gospell truely preached amongst vs and to keepe those cleere watersprings from pollution that is that the word of God be not defiled with Heresies whereupon dependeth a great hope of the prosperous estate of this kingdome for the Lord hath promised that whosoeuer meditateth his word continually his daies shall be multiplied and the daies of his children as long as the Heauens are aboue the earth Deut. 11.21 30. And how prouision is by Vertue made To keepe the Caterpillers from the Trees Js thus A fire vnderneath is laide Whose smoake consumes them as in swarmes of Bees Is vsed commonly to rid the Drones And so they proue continuall fruitfull ones Vnder the name of Vertue is comprehended our royall King Iames for whose desert no lesse name can be giuen him seeing that God hath endued him with such full measure of Faith knowledge temperance and godlinesse which is euidently seene in that he is continually carefull and prouident that the Gospell of Christ may haue free propagation and so proue fruitfull amongst his subiects and that it be not hurt or violated by ill affected people who as Caterpillers are consumed with fire so are they vtterly destroied by the truth of the word professed which is also compared to fire Luke 12.49 31. And that the Corne from Cankers may be cleane Thousands of carefull Laborers are fitted To polish cleanse and winnow by which meane None but good Seede is to the ground committed The like care is to cleare the hearbs from weedes So there good Corne and good hearbs onely breedes That the word of God be not mingled with the false Doctrines of Heretikes thousands of diligent preachers are prouided who are called Laborers Math. 9.37 who as Saint Paul saith 2. Cor. 4.2 haue cast from them the cloakes

of shame meaning such shifts and pretences as become not them that haue such a great office in hand and walke not in craftinesse neither handle the word of God deceitfully but in declaration of the truth approue themselues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God And so deliuer the word of God purely to the people 32. But to keepe out that beastly breed of Swine Three thick-set hedges decently are placed About the Paradice least they should vndermine And so it might be vtterly defaced These Fences being strong this stincking rout Shall ne're get in though they runne round about The three thick-set Hedges are three sorts of people principally in this his Maiesties Dominions which being true and sincere professors of the Gospell of Christ and stedfast and confident in their profession doe keepe out the Papists insinuation and incroaching into this Kingdome with the traditions of their deuillish inuentions And as long as they continue in the true faith of Iesus Christ it is impossible that the Pope with all his host of erroneous and subtle Clergie shall euer haue any place heere though they worke neuer so closely or diligently range about seeking to seduce from the true faith daily by cunning circumstances such as they finde or suppose to be weake members of the Church of Christ 33. The first and out-most hedge is guarded well By Champions of valiant condition Who watch continually them to repell With shield and speare or sword or such munition And if the Swine but once come neere that fence One of those weapons sure shall beate them thence The first outward hedge or defence consisteth of three degrees of people vizt Noblemen Knights and Gentlemen of vertuous and Religious disposition which being of the number of the faithfull are well prouided with their spirituall weapons to repell the dartes of the Papists For by the shield speare or sword is not meant those which are material for the exercise of such weapons is forbidden in some respect Math. 26.52 Put vp thy sword saith Iesus into his place for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword And Reuel 13.10 If any lead into Captiuitie he shall goe into Captiuitie this is meant of leading soules captiue If any kill with a sword hee must be killed by a sword Neither indeed is it the sword or bowe or any other materiall weapon whereby Gods children ouercome Ios 24.12 But by this shield is vnderstood the shield of faith by the sword the sword of the spirit For the faithfull haue not only to striue against men and themselues but also against Satan their spirituall enemie which is most dangerous for he is ouer our heads so that we cannot reach him and therefore he must be resisted by Gods grace Dauid by faith feared not to fight with the Giant Goliah with a sling and a stone for he flung away from him his Armour and weapons which Saul put vpon him 1. Sam. 17.37.39 Nay by faith we resist the Deuill and ouercome both the World and him 1. Iohn 5.4 For all that is borne of God ouercommeth the World and this is the victorie that ouercommeth the World euen our faith Also in the Reuel 19.15 the word of God is called a sharpe two-edged sword in these words And out of his mouth went a sharpesword that with it he should smite the Heathen for he shall rule them with a rod of Yron c. These are infalliable weapons which the weake faith of the Papists is not able to resist which shewes that their faith is but counterfeit and that ours is the true Catholike and Apostolike 34. But if the Swine doe chaunce to sneake vnseene Of all that well approued outward guard Within their hedge a little space betweene The first and second fence them to reward Lie beagles to discouer the intrusion Of those that wish to Paradice confusion Vnder the name of Beagles is comprehended all subordinate officers and Ministers who are appointed by the superiour powers to hunt out or make inquisition or search for all slye Recusants Papists Iesuites Priests and such like who closely sneake and insinuate into the bosomes and hearts of many well disposed persons attempting to extirpate and root out their well affected thoughts 35. Being set on by this quick-sented crue The second guard being hunts-men soone prepare Who make those Swine their boldnesse for to rue By force of Iauelin Pistol Pike or Speare Whose proued shields and vertue of their Armes Them ' gainst a thousand boares will saue from harmes After these subordinate officers haue found out any such they report to the Iudges and Councell of this Land who are put in the place of the second Guard are likened to huntsmen because indeede if the knowledge of such persons come once to their eares either they doe vtterly subdue them with their spirituall Armes strong arguments of Religion or else they chase them quite out of the Kingdome whose wisedome in this I cannot sufficiently expresse and whose worthinesse I want experience to commend Only thus much I haue obserued in them which now supply those eminent places of authoritie and iustice that they haue a watchfull care for the suppression of all hereticall and diabolicall Inuentions that may happen to proceede from the fantasticall delusions of seducers and maintenance of such things as shall tend to vertuous institutions and are so sufficiently furnished with the weapons of the spirit that a thousand foolish blind Papists with al their philosophicall deuices are not able to preuaile against the least one of them whereby is approued the sinceritie and truth of their Religion the inuincible power thereof which as it worketh in them vprightnesse of heart so it araieth them with many other vertuous induments as mildnesse aswell to poore as rich indifferencie in the hearing of causes aswell for strangers as their friends sinceritie in affection soundnesse in their skill and iudgement constancie in their resolutions besides great prudence in politique gouernment and that which is the true token of a wise discreete Iudge to be more apt to heare see and consider then to speake or giue iudgement which should be also in euery person of what degree or condition soeuer seeing that nature hath giuen all men two eies two eares and but one tongue To conclude if any ●●ation vpon the Earth be well supplied with a vertuous Councell and vpright Iudges this Land may boast thereof which is furnished with such as are spoken of Exod. 18.21 Men of courage fearing God men dealing truely hating couetousnesse Deut. 16.18 That iudge the people with righteous iudgement that wrest not the Law nor respect any person nor take reward which blindeth the wise and peruerteth the wordes of the iust 36. But say a foule Swine in a cleane beasts skinne Were closely put as none but cleane come there Thinking by subtile policie to get in Yet would it be discried ere it come neere For the third guard is clad in