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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10294	The spy discovering the danger of Arminian heresie and Spanish trecherie: written by I.R.	Russell, John, d. 1688.; Rhodes, John, minister of Enborne, attributed name.; Robinson, John, 1575?-1625, attributed name.	1628 (1628)	STC 20577; ESTC S115559	23,654	58

and Gods favour lose If friends by flatt'ry be procur'd alone Befriend me heav'n on earth I 'le looke for none Grant therefore God of truth into his hands I Never fall that holy truth withstands The Explanation of the Table Prefixed AN endles bloudy war that never yet Cessation truce or peace did once admit From the worlds Cradle so it 's hoary age Hath still beene wag'd with vnappeased rage By cursed Sathan and his damned bands Of reprobates against Christs church like sands Her foes in number are no station 's free From fierce assaults and furious battery When time began this malice first began Nor will it end but with the latest man ' ' Time shall produce Thus iustice hath decreed ' ' Those shall be crown'd in heav'n on earth must bleed To exercise the Churches patience hope And faith God hath ordaind a Turke or Pope To persecute her saints her sins to scourge And from her purer gold the drosse to purge Of vaine corruption oft he tryes in flames Her glorions Martyrs and sometimes he tames Herself admiring and applauding pride That on presumption of his loue doth ride In to that high conceit the Iewes haue told her Since God hath chose her he is bound t' uphold her By drawing from her his supporting grace That see'ing in what a weake and vvretched case She is vvithout his helpe hovv soone she 'd fall If grace be not her leader Generall To Heresy or any other snare The tempter to entrap her shall prepare She may rely vpon his povver alone VVho is the Rock of her salvation To be exposed thus to Sathans spleene Of Christs true Church a true marke still hath beene The church malignant vvhose prodigious head The Divel is himselfe vvee see hath led The Captiue vvorld in triumph liu'd at rest And most of nations vvith subiection prest No streames of Martyrs blood her temples di'de Nor did she persecution e're abide His Cruelty not to his friends but foes The Prince of darknes here in this vvorld shovves VVhom but th' Apostles did he sift like wheate And whom like Paul did he desire to beat VVithout with Ievvish scourges and vvithin VVith buffets of his flesh-assaulting sin Such barb'rous tortures vvho did e're endure VVithout all pity as the saints most pure This bold adventurous foe his fiery darts Directs vvith matchlesse cunning at the harts Of them that are the best of saints And vvhere He sees the richest graces shine most cleere There he his strongest engines doth erect If possible ev'n to subvert th'elect Thus haue vve seene in heate of vvarres alarmes VVhere bloudy fields are pav'd vvith broken armes The foes redouble all their force and might To breake the battailes vvhere the gen'ralls fight Such vvas the Syrian monarchs charge to bring Captiue o● kill none else but Israels King So Caesar thought those soldiours vvorthiest grace VVhose poynts still levell'd at their foemens † face Thus strong temptations forcibly appli'd Haue made the best of Gods owne children slide Lot Noah David Peter fouly fell Because their gifts did all mens else excell Adam in Paradise no safety found Nay he that of all safety is the ground Escap'd not vnassaulted of vvhose fare Good reason all his servants should haue share Stand forth then Roman strumpet vvipe thine eyes Pull of thy scales of blindnes yet be vvise Ere 't be too late Then shalt thon cleerely see VVho the erroneous vvho the true Church be I vvill not nor is 't fitting here discusse Those points of doctrine vvhere in you from vs Are in Diameter oppos'd as farre As bright truth from darke fals hood such a vvarre Requires a larger and more spatious field Then this restrained straine can aptly yeeld VVherefore in freer methode more solute I leaue your tenents for the schools dispute And yet hovv easy vvere 't to make you knovv Humane traditions are alas too lovv To mate Gods sacred vvord nor may the vaine Inventions of an erring mortall braine Braue th' oracle of truth if th' Arke to check Dagon presume Dagon shall breake his neck Hovv easy vvere 't to proue that saving grace Of our corrupted nature must take place Errour hath Champions 't is not my intent That Antichristian Councell which from Trent Takes it's denomination to refell Since those blasphemons Cannons now doe smell O're all the vvorld and you your selues are faine Many for shame back to revoke againe No were there no marke else the Church to knovv Our truth your falshood this vvould cleerely shovv To proue vs Christs and aggravate your sin VVe haue the patients you the agents bin In all massacres treasons persecutions Close murthers cruell bloudshed and dirutions Of Cityes kingdomes vvofull devastations Rebellions povvderplots and vvrong invasions Perform'd to force mens consciences and make Inconstant soules vvith errour part to take These are the bloody glosses of your text VVhich you vvell hop'd vve should interpret next And if your projects be not timely crost Our freedome and religion both are lost For that our safety might be vndermind You haue not onely all your povvers combin'd Abroad but ev'n at home prepar'd such vvay That vve our selues should our ovvne selues betray To vvhat end else did you in time of danger You introduce vve entertaine a stranger T' our reform'd doctrine was 't for Conscience sake To bring vs to the truth or was 't to make Entrance for Spanish waspes to th' English hiue VVhile vve for conscience with our selues should striue Thus simple truth hath by your cunning bill Assaild without falsely betrayd within And when religions bond 's once broke asunder No mervaile forreigne Atheisme bring vs vnder Which that the Church may better take to hart And yet prevent that for which else she 'le smart Her dangers here appeare that when you view them You better may advise which way t' eschew them Truths Fortresse whose fundation's layd vpon Th' Apostles Prophets aud that Corner-stone VVhereon they build morter'd and cemented VVith blood of Martyrs for the gospell shed Then by degrees rays'd to the present frame By such of ancient and of later fame VVhose workes and wordes liues lines harts hands haue made Truth flourish errour vanish falshood fade And shak'd proud Babel stands beleaguer'd here On all sides by her foes Two Ports appeare Gainst which th' assailants ar'md with fury rage And hellish spleene that nothing can asswage But blood and ruine all their engines plant And forces bend here is of plots no want Or Cunning projects for their braines are filld VVith all the stratagems that hell can yeeld Religions Port's beleaguer'd by the whore Of erring Babel's cursed Paramour VVhose right hand 's armed vvith the fulmination Of Kingdomes-blasting excommunication To send to hell or some such place all those His jurisdiction or his lavves oppose His bull 's his buckler vvherevvith he defends As he makes credulous soules beleeue his friends Pardons their sinnes pulls such from Sathans

pavves As damne themselues for his vnhallovved cause Next him the Cardinalls march in pompous sort VVh ' vvould rather the defendants of the port Corrupt then force by conquest This implyes They shall not vvant for earthly dignityes And temp'rall honours that vvith Rome vvill side Gainst heaun in vvordly triumph those shall ride And he for Babels vvhore vvill spend a soule Shall quaffe in fornications golden boule Be it so Lord such their revvard haue here And plagues hereafter but thy children deere Novv suffer that they may be after Crovvn'd VVhen they shall in thy cup of vvrath be drovvnd A squadron of fat Bishops marcheth next VVhose armes are Pickaxes in stead of text Truth by the spirit can sustaine no harme Therefore they 'd batter't vvith the fleshes arme The last though not the least in force consists Of a vvhole Legion of * Ignatius Priests VVho hauing learnd the vndermining art From him that taught it first to † Berthold Schwart Doubt not to make Truth 's strongest hold to fly VVith * pouderbarrells vp into the sky VVhen lying forging and equivocation Too vveake they found to batter truth's foundation And that the seeming'st reasons they could rack From their sublimest braines reflected back Vpon themselues with shame and vvith disgrace For falshood must at last to truth giue place Though ne're so nearly varnish'd they betooke Themselues to treasons and their bookes forsooke As Iulius did his keyes vvith fire and svvord In stead of zeale and the spirituall vvord They take the field not only to enthrall Mens consciences but liberty and all Thus arguments for armes they haue refused And treasons base for their best reasons ●sed Thus haue they chose for Pallas povverfull charmes Mars his more harsh and forcible alarmes And not prevailing by far-strain'd conclusions Would put dovvne Truth by lavvlesse vvrong confusiōs This Germany too sensibly hath felt And smarted for vvhose soule can chuse but melt To thinke on 't vvhere the title to the Crovvne Of that vnhappy Kingdome tumbled dovvne Truth 's best professours For the plot vvas layd Before th' election of the Paltz grave made Hovv to defeate him This vvas onely done To make him on his owne confusion runne And that they might the eyes of iustice blind VVith some pretence of equity and bind Our hands that vvere engaged to support So iust a cause How grossely did they sport VVith thy mild nature thou whose sacred name The title of the Prince of Peace may Claime How was thy soule abus'd with false relations And hopes of ne're-meant reconciliations How did that damned Don and 's agents here That were of all thy subjects plac'd most neere Thy nought-suspecting heart infatuate The wisest Prince on earth and captivate That iudgment whereat all the world did gaze Sure he that skrew'd thee into such a maze Of errour was no Spanyard but a devill Sent vp from hell to worke the Church such evill Hovv couldst thou else vvith patience sit and see Truth 's fall and thine ovvne childrens misery VVhile as 't is thought there vvas more treasure spēt In fruitles embassades and complement Then vvould not onely haue the Paltz secur'd But in it's bounds the Austrian pride immur'd VVer 't nor for this blest King and th' old ones playster Thou migh'st perchance haue yet beene Britaines master Novv Germany lyes drovv'nd in her ovvne blood And all that for Religions quarrell stood Haue suffer'd Martyrdome and Frances King Is set a vvorke the Huguenots to bring Into subjection Yet one sore doth ly In th' eye o' th' Pope and 's Catholique Majesty VVhich needs must be remov'd before the rest And that 's our land of Heretiques the nest As they please terme it hovv they this may doe Spaines councell and the Romane Conclaue too VVith Beelzebub that sits as President At Councell table haue a long time spent VVith forreigne forces to invade a land So rich so vvell appointed so vvel mann'd VVith high resolved spirits that ever bore Themselues in vvarres victorious heretofore And made good proofe of perfect valour till Base treachery against the valiant's vvill Did Generally Mislead them novv of late And the vvhole vvorld may Admire all thereat T' invade so stout a people needs must be A dang'rous action full of jeopardy Besides the very thought of eighty eight Dants them and quells such resolutions straight VVherefore 't is safest in such case to fly From open vvarre to secret trechery He that intends to bring a countrey vnder Either he must before he lighten thunder Or else rayse vp and nourish in 't a faction May make him entrance through their ovvne destraction In eyghty eight the former they assay'd Then treating peace vvhen th' had their anchores vvaigh'd To saile to our destruction But be blest You heav'ns their svvord vvas turn'd on their ovvne brest Novv of the second project they make tryall And Spanish gold alas finds rare denyall From Spaines exchequer some some from the Popes A●e fed with gold but more with golden hopes This th' haue attempted long and how too true T is th' haue prevaild I feare too late we rue ●i●st seeing Religion is the strongest Chaine To ty mens har●s together and 't is vaine To hope for conquest whiles that Concords band Environs like a wall of brasse our Land His Holynes hath learn'd of Machiavell In whom all Popes haue ever beene read well T' advise his standard bearer to devide Truths chiefest followers that while they doe side In factions mongst themselues he may with ease Destroy them all ev'n as himselfe shall please By taking part with th' one Which to effect Sathan his writts doth readily direct To all the peeres of darknes VVho being met And capering to the Councell-table set In comes the Divells Duke great Lucifer VVhen all to make obeysance quickly stir Scraping their cloven feet and lovvely bending Because their honours are from him depending Straight Beelzebub the chosen President After a hem that all in pieces rent The walls of L●mbo an oration roar'd To all the Luciferians amply stor'd With threatnings what he sayd I did not heare If needes you 'le know the cause I was not there But by the sequell I perchance may guesse That solemnly his hate he did professe To Truth and all her follo'wers and 's desire T' enlarge his empire and to bring it ●igher To vniversall greatnes But there lay To curbe his great designes a rubbe i' th vvay Truths fortresse vvhence he often had sustaind Losse irrecov'rable and seldome gaind Ought else but shamefull falls disgracefull foyles Or strong repulses Therefore all their vviles Of hellish policy they novv must proue This let of their ambition to remoue All spend their censure that since force prevailes not Treason must do 't that too too often failes not VVherefore vvith generall voyces they conclude That fiends in shevv of friends must truth delude And so betray her To this cursed end In humane shape