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A64604	The Passionate remonstrance made by His Holinesse in the conclave at Rome upon the late proceedings and great covenant of Scotland, &c. : with a reply of Cardinall De Barbarini in the name of the Roman clergy : together with a letter of intelligence from the apostolicke nuntio (now residing in London) to Pope Vrban the 8.	Urban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644.; Rossetti, Carlo, 1615-1681.; Barberini, Antonio, 1607-1681.	1641 (1641)	Wing U130; ESTC R23255	33,662	84

your honour and combine for your finall fall and all this under the gallant name of Loyalty to their King and specious pretext of defending the faith Oh the cunning Hereticks the Scots they have besieged us most subtilly and sprung a mine as it were under your Holinesse owne throne Amongst other inveagling devices they have coined such a blasphemous way of argumenting against Venerable Episcopacy that it will prove most destructive of that heavenly Hierarchy by which your Holinesse had anchored on the beauty of this Church and this malignancy is followed with congruity of humours so easily elemented that I doubt the miserable torne thing can escape shipwracke in this hell-blowne tempest They laugh at the authority of our Church they scorne the arguments of antiquity saying that Truth did precede errour and all the considerations of pompe and state and externall magnificence they hold lighter then vanity As to the Assembly of the high Court of Parliament here upon which all hereticke Churches doe gaze more superstitiously then the Indians looke upon the Sun which they adore 't is more terrible then many Armies with banners and by unmercifull wayes intends a mighty vengeance against the Romish and Prelate faction They are in a strange motion and run a tyde cleane contrary to our standing some wonderfull assistance must prompt the times dangerously and the great body of this justly redoubted Parliament is like to have a vertue too immense for one region to containe and moves with greater Majesty then as it were resolved to confine its revolutions within the narrow limits of this Iland for the policies are so many and transcendent their resolutions so firme and immovable that they are easily powerfull not onely to banish the Catholicks out of their owne Land but doe violence to the Romish faith in the heart of Jtaly and perswade the Turkes and Barbares to become hereticall Impostors It is able to make your Ancestors breake their mabre lodgings come forth and quarrell this superlative fury which riots so boundlesly Hee that would dis-compose this Parliament must first overthrow a Kingdome a Prince a Law nay else as easily might hee commixe with lightnings or call backe a Thunderbolt as offer to restore it for it is diseased in mind diseased past recovery All the Canons and constitutions of that sacred Synode which were truely the Magazin of our spirituall strength are here bitterly pestered and swept away and the children of Policy who made the advancement of your estate and honour the greatest part of their study are now most dangerously censured and made the deplored subject of the times They take as little notice of your off-spring the reverend Prelats as the surly North does of the Snow which when it has engendered its vild breath scatters through the earth forgotten If businesse take so hot a working truely for what I can conjecture by the purposes of heaven or earth all the Lawrels growing on your Holinesse Crest will bee turned to Cypres serving to no use but to adorn your funeralls and the Cardinalls Arch-bishops and Bishops of Italy shall bee shortly sent to visite their cold Urnes and the Nunnes left to keepe warme their ashes with their dearest teares Your Arch-officers and friends can be no more usefull to your Holinesse though they were indeed your ministring and faithfull spirits yet are they now shut up in prisons and groane under the martyring hand of impious and corrupt Justice resolve to compose their funerall Anthemes and make ready condigne places for them in the Calender for the blackest crime in their charge is that they have befriended the Romish cause trusty soules and laboured to rectifie a stubborne State too imperiously The persecution is so hot here and the winnowing of men so exact that sundry out of conscience of humbling and weakening the State to make it more capable of alterations and and apt to obey not able to stand before such a sophisticat light as is their Parliament which notwithstanding of our light esteem has melted them as Snow have embraced a voluntar banishment and transplanted themselves beyond sea where they may enjoy the safety of a more gracious shade and under your Holinesse beames grow fat Wee have not yet seene all the links of this chaine of providence till the unwearied spheares the dispensers of time spin them out one after another but if your Holinesse will cast your eyes about you and looke to the commotions and earth-quakes in Kingdomes and Common-wealths Wee dare almost be bold to say that your Kingdome is now at the age of consistence and can grow no further Your Sun-beames have past the meridian and chased with the stifling mists of errour like smoake out of the pit are swiftly declining and that without hopes to arise againe so they take it universally for granted and beleeve with strong confidence that now upon the stage of Europe there is a strange Comedy acting whose Epilogue shall be in Rome for matters cannot stand at this point but our enemies who have their desires strengthned will strive to encompasse what yet remaines May it not wel be feared that the English Majesty with his two puissant armies in the fields ready for all undertakings shall espouse the cause of the Hugenots in France and now when the French King is offering to set his foot upon that little republicke of Geneve shall appeare most terribly for their reliefe and lift up the Hereticks horne now lying in the dust and finally confound all the pioning policies of the Cardinall Richilieu who has so prosperously triumphed in his garlands of Lillyes and Floure-de-luces What should hinder him from becomming the head of all these pretended reformed Churches and display an uncontrolled banner till he have sprung over the Alpes upon the wings of renowne and as full of successe as hopes spread feare and love through the world and having forgotten your right to the Patrimony of the Church by the benevolence of Constantine the Great hee strip you naked of all your riches and eminence making you miserable as the poorest Capuchin and armed with zeale teare downe the walls of Rome like a ramping Lyon I think Wee should be sufficiently puzled and the most generous Armies your Holinesse could command would take them to their last abilities and have use of all their Counsell and strength if these motions should bee followed It is here likewise reported to the great encouragement of our enemies that there be strange and dangerous Novations in France which leade to an open revolt and the powerfull prevailing of heresie for if their Church Service be received in a known tongue against the practises and constitutions of the Church as the same flyes and that by the advice of the Hugenots who will never move beyond their Line to meet us not a haire breadth certainly you may then make the Myters Epitaph and perswade your selfe of greater inundations of evills then ever was thought to have sprung from the Covenant of

Catholike combustion for certainly some cruelties are better and more necessary than silly improfitable Mildnesse which like a cold and barren quality can never mature the Churches growth No no the braying of Canons the dawbing of Drums are good Catholike Musicke by which our Apostolick expeditions use to advance the Spirituall kingdome and goe in procession through the world Our motions must be restlesse busie like that of the heavens every one bestirring himselfe in his owne spheare And your Holinesse with most grave and venerable alacritie will give the strong impulse Wee in the Consistorie and those ministring and subtle spirits of that rich seed-plot of Sorbone shall come such riddles and shall so inveagle the Heretick soules and Churches that Kings shall find themselves enough puzled From this holy Citadell this impregnable Capit●ll our spirituall Engineeres who are most Canonically bred and authentically practised shall throw such fierie Bals among Nations and People From the Conclave as those that dare oppone Truths Candor shall bee put in a terrible damp Go to holy Father move strongly as becomes the state of your courage and in a high sweld Metropolitan confidence blow downe the strong holds of Errour Remove the Isles out of the sea and shake the mountaines that stand up so heretically against the promised the prophesied Reformations to the faith Catholike Never unbend your infallible Bow till you have hit the conquered marke of your most Euangelick Intentions our adversaries must not erect the Trophees of their ambition upon the ruines of our reproaches Wee will first fetch the compasse of the World and conglomerate our undaunted forces like a destroying and inexorable tempest to sweep away Truths Enemies All our Convents shall first be turned into Fence-schooles before the Great Cause be disgraced We will defend mainly engage our very Crucifixes and Hypothecat our Cardinals Caps before the Mitres honour be any whit touched But now because many Incumbencies advertise us to dissolve and some strange Embassadors attend your Holinesse from whose bosome they come to receive Apostolick directions to lead them as a Starre in the way to the hill of Greatnes where the Laurells of triumph doe condignly attend them Wee forbeare to presume on this Times importance onely daring represent to your Holinesse how necessary it is to imploy pens policies and power to rack all our might for advancing our holy intentions and breaking the clouds of Errour and Heresie which are like to over-spread the whole World Consider how the crying necessities of our bleeding Primitive Mother doe implore the same In the mean time till your Holinesse have more precious leisure to bestow upon further Catholike Resolutions let let there bee a grand Apostolick Nuncio dispatched upon the wings of speed to the Isle of Britain if there bee any courtesie to receive him there worthily Even strongly assisted with the spirit of Truth which your Holinesse Predecessors did usually send to the Tridentine Councell for the actuating of those infallible members and extirping of Heresie Instruct him deeply how to proclaime to the world VVell blown Seignior and write it on the skie with Letters of gold never to be forgotten and print it in the Records of Histories to all after ages that though Religion bee the common pretence of discontent amongst these untamed Hereticks wherewith they use to maske their unbridled licence their affronted boldnesse their high contempt of Soveraigntie and dare commit any Impiety guilded with the lustre of Sanctity Yet nothing is so strongly desired nothing so truely intended by them abhorring the order of subjection than to shake off the yoke of Monarchie breake the Cords of Spirituall and Temporall jurisdiction with the swing of their desperate frenzie It will not bee inexpedient likewise to cause some others who are enriched with the strength of more subtle abilities and doe cunningly know how to creep into the mindes and Cabines of princes and take dominion there be sent forth with all convenience for subverting the Machinations of these Matchiavilian Calvinists Let Authority Lords of Power and Masters of Time be taught for Clemencie is the Nurse of Rebellion how to presse them downe with weight though the conspiring Crew that breaths nothing but fire and vomits blasphemie who hath consecrate their Estates and espoused their neglected lives to the lust of Revolting should crie out violence and rigour and crueltie and tyrannie and craft and malice for those things have been the Soveraigne and effectuall wayes of our enlargings and it is the Mysterie of greatnesse to hold the Inferiors still ignorant of it and strike like Lightning and Thunder Moreover Because the seditious furie of unruly multitude even as a tumbling flood acquiring strength to it selfe by moving carryes all it meets before it in a precipice doth waxe to such a prevailing strength as none can hold out against the bitternesse of the tempest Therefore let us worke wisely and as men use to disappoynt the over-flowings of undaunted Rivers by branching them in little weake Rivulets thus to extenuate the impetuositie of the maine streame by diverting the fulnesse of indocile waters and turning them aside So must wee in a degree more than becomes Supremacie to stoope flatter a while and nourish the hopes and entertaine the desires of Conspirers distract the mindes of the multitude weaken them by the breach of Union and delude them most egregiously for so long as those Conventions rule whereby the consent of the abused People receives most poisosonable Aliment and they become fortified in their Errour than each provokes another even as the Billowes of the inraged Sea are driven forward by their urging and importune fellowes Therefore must it bee amongst the first of the Articles of your Atourneyes Instructions exceedingly to labour this point that those their great Councells infallible Assemblies Well remembred and unwarranted Synagogues of Hypocrites bee most divinely impeded and that Parliaments bee broke up and crushed in the bud both in Scotland and England for those confluences of demure divells have ever given Vs the greatest dash and beene the very bane of our agonies Wee hope withall your Holines out of the bowels of pittie cannot forget the miserable prelates your faithfull Labourers It is indeed their fortune through too eager and unadvised zeale to the glory of raising Altars to your Holines purposes in that land where they lived and not their fault that thus they are left in the wildernesse of Times and Povertie make them taste therfore of the sweetnes of your Remembrances for it were high indignitie to your Holinesse the Prince of Bishops to let those silly Soules engage their Surplis and Service-books for the maintenance of their laborious lives Amongst all other expediencies here is one likewayes which cries extreamely that since we had very justly anchored our best Expectations upon the Northerne Cities of that rigid and infortunate Iland of Scotland where indeede the Religion pretended was never perfectly welcommed