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A68037	A world of vvonders: or An introduction to a treatise touching the conformitie of ancient and moderne wonders or a preparatiue treatise to the Apologie for Herodotus. The argument whereof is taken from the Apologie for Herodotus written in Latine by Henrie Stephen, and continued here by the author himselfe. Translated out of the best corrected French copie.; Apologia pro Herodoto. English	Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598.; Carew, Richard, 1555-1620, attributed name.; R. C., fl. 1607.	1607 (1607)	STC 10553; ESTC S121359	476,675	374

puts me to a plunge to inuent a name answerable to their nature I meane a word sufficiently emphatical to expresse their wickednes But for want of a better they may not vnfitly be called thrise accursed damned Atheists 10 I come now to those hel-hounds of the damned crue who not content to belch out their blasphemies among their mates companions like themselues or in presence of those whom they would gladly anger by swearing and blaspheming nor to furnish the table at great feasts and merry meetings with them where they passe for currant vnder the name of ieasts and pleasant conceits do further set them forth in print that all the world may take notice of them Who knoweth not that this age hath reuiued Lucian againe in the person of Francis Rabelais making a mock of all religion in his diuelish discourses or what a prophane Scoggin Bonauenture des Perriers was in deriding of God and what pregnant proofes he hath giuen hereof in his worthy worke The marke we know which these varlets aimed at was outwardly indeed to make as though they would but driue away melancholike dumps and passe away the time with pleasant discourse But indeed and truth to insinuate themselues by varietie of ieasts and quips which they cast forth against the ignorance of our forefathers which was the cause they suffered themselues to be abused and as it were led by the nose by superstitious Priests and by this meanes A ietter des pierres en nostre iardin as it is in the French prouerbe that is to mock and gird euen at Christian religion it selfe For after diligent perusing of their discourses it will easily appeare that it was their maine drift the onely marke and scope which they aimed at to teach the Readers of their bookes to become as honest men as themselues that is to beleeue in God and to be perswaded of his prouidence no otherwise then wicked Lucretius was that whatsoeuer a man beleeueth he beleeueth in vaine that whatsoeuer we reade in Scripture of eternall life is written for no other end but to busie simple idiots and to feede them with vaine hope that all threatnings concerning hell and the last iudgement denounced in the word are nothing but meere bugs like those wherewith we terrifie yong children making them afraid of the fayry hob gobling or bul-begger in a word that all religions were forged and framed by the braine of man And I feare me such masters haue but too many schollers at this day readie to listen to such instructions For some there be who are not as yet plaine Atheists but onely inclining that way who deale with the knowledge they haue of God as sicke men do with the licence of Phisitians For as sicke patients notwithstanding they haue resolued to eate and drinke what themselues think good and not what the Phisitian shall prescribe importune him to dispence with them against his prescript for such and such meates as though it would do them more good or lesse hurt when they haue once obtained such a licence so is there a generation of monsters rather then of men who notwithstanding they haue resolued to go on in their wicked courses though their consciences checke them neuer so much yet could wish with al their hearts they might follow them with consent thereof and therefore labour by all meanes to extinguish and obliterate all sense and knowledge of God out of their minds the light whereof doth shew them the leudnes of their liues And they can make no shorter a cut nor take an easier course to come to the period of their intended purpose then to go to schoole to the foresaid Doctors To conclude the bookes which haue bene written by these two worthy writers and their pue-fellowes are so many snares or baited hookes layd to catch such simple soules as are not well guarded with the feare of God being so much the more hard to be espied by how much they are better sugered ouer with merry conceits delighting and tickling the eare And therefore all those that feare to go astray out of the right way wherein God hath set them must be admonished to beware of such hunters As for professed Atheists they are the lesse to be pitied considering they fall not into such snares at vnawares but voluntarily intangle themselues therein 11 But what shall we say of Postel and such like scribling companions Verily I know not what conceit others may haue of them for mine owne part to speake that which I haue often said since I was acquainted with Postels braine-sicke blasphemies partly from his owne mouth and partly by his writings and had seene so many silly soules deluded and bewitched by them I haue not a little wondered why any man should maruell that Mahomet could win so many countries kingdomes to his fond fancies and doting dreames For is it not much more strange that Will● Postel preaching in the face of the Vniuersitie of Paris about thirteene yeares ago that an old beldame whom he called his mother Ioane should saue all women as Christ did all men should find so many disciples then that Mahomet should make the world beleeue that men onely went to heauen and not women If Postel had preached such fooleries I say not to the citizens of Paris but to the simplest sots of Auuergne or the rudest Normans not to learned men but to silly idiots which could scarce tell their fingers not since the trash and trinkets of Popish trumperies were discouered but whilest the darknesse of ignorance and superstition was more grosse and palpable then that of Aegypt which a man might haue felt as it were with his finger yet might we well wonder how euer it was possible that such diuelish doctrine should find entertainment How much more then that it should not onely be entertained but highly esteemed especially in that citie which hath this long time bragged and doth euen at this present to be the flower of all France and the onely paragon for matter of true riches such as arts and sciences are But some may here haply reply and say that though many went to heare him in such multitudes that for the very throng presse of people they were in danger to be smothered yet is it not probable he should haue any disciples or followers except some of the simpler sort To which I answer and that confidently as knowing it to be a most certaine truth that he gaue such a relish to his words that he made many men otherwise learned and wise to sauour them who before they had heard him scorned and derided them as the fondest impietie and foolishest foppery in the world Further this wicked wretch not content to vtter these his monstrous blasphemies in priuate to such as resorted to him hath set them forth in print and therefore is in the number of those of whom we now speake Howbeit I cannot well tell whether a man may find in any of his bookes certaine

that recorded by Herodotus viz. that the son succeeding in his fathers office who had bene a corrupt Iudge should be forced to sit vpon his fathers skinne we may assure our selues they would looke a little better about them neither would they so eagerly pursue nor so greedily gape after offices as they do But I feare me such Lawyers wil answer that when that punishment mētioned by Herodotus was inflicted vpon this Iudge offices were not set to sale and sold by the drumme as now they are seeing this customary buying and selling of offices began but of late yeares and therfore that they had great reason to looke a little better to their places whereas the hast which men make now a dayes to fill their bags againe causeth them now and then to forget their dutie They may further alleadge that whereas Herodotus reporteth that a yong girle about 8. or 9. yeares of age said vnto her father Looke to your selfe father least this man corrupt you with his bribes they on the contrary are sollicited by wife and children by friends and kinsmen to take euery present that is offered Now albeit this excuse may passe for currant with men yet the question is whether he before whom they must one day giue an account of their stewardship will take it for good paiment questionlesse they may assure themselues he wil not But to returne to the impunitie formerly mentioned if we consider how the course of iustice is peruerted and how they who should remedy and redresse it are the greatest agents for it we shall not greatly wonder at the matter And where they should begin to punish such as offend in this kind I make them their owne iudges For say they should punish some malefactors yet what likelihood is there they should punish those to whom they secretly giue the watchword not to do as they enioyne them in their letters missiue But I will not prosecute this point any further seeing a word is enough to the wise onely let me for a conclusion of this chapter parallele this ancient history in Herodotus with a moderne example which seemes to sute and second it in this very point touching rigor and seuerity in the execution of iustice much differing from the impunitie which raigneth at this day The story is recorded in Froissard where he recounteth a fact of Baiaget the Turkish Emperour whom he calleth Amorabaquin by the name of his father being accompanied with certaine French Lords who vpon the receipt of their ransome were newly set at libertie in the raigne of Charles the sixt king of France His words are these Moreouer it happened that whilest the Earle of Neuer● and other French Lords were in the Court with Amorabaquin a poore woman came with a petition to the Emperour desiring she might haue iustice against one of his seruants for it was his pleasure that iustice aboue all things should be kept inuiolably throughout all his dominions who made her complaint in this sort My Lord ô King I come vnto thee as to my Soueraigne to complaine of one of the groomes of thy chamber who came lately into my house and drunke vp my Goates milke which I had prouided for my selfe and my children for all the day I told him that if he did offer me that wrong I would complaine vnto thee and I had no sooner spoken the word but he gaue me two boxes on the eare and would not forbeare though I threatned to complaine vnto thee Do iustice my Lord ô King and take order that I may be recompenced for the iniury he hath done me that all men may know that thy will and pleasure is to rule thy people with iustice and equitie according to thy oath and promise The Emperour gaue good eare to her words and said With all my heart And thereupon caused his Turkish seruant to be brought before him and the woman also commanding her to renew her complaint The man who was terribly afraid of the Emperour excused himselfe and said that there was not a word true of all that she had said The woman replied both wisely and boldly affirming that she spake nothing but the truth At these words the Emperour made a little pause and said Woman be well aduised what thou sayest for if I find thine accusation to be false thou shalt die a cruel death She answered Be it so my Lord ô King for if it were not true I should haue had no cause to haue troubled thee therefore do me iustice I aske no more I will do iustice said the Emperour for I am sworne to do it to all my subiects within my dominions And immediatly he caused certaine of his Iannizaries to apprehend his groome and to open his belly for otherwise he could not haue knowne whether he had drunke her milke or not who finding it to be as she had said for it was not yet digested in his stomacke informed the Emperour thereof Who vnderstanding that her cause was iust said vnto her Thou didst not complaine without cause now go thy way thou hast iustice for the wrong that was done thee and forthwith caused her to be recompenced for her losse Thus the man that had committed that fact was punished The French Lords who were at the Court with Amorabaquin saw this iudgement executed This historie I thought good to parallele with that of Herodotus for that in this point of seueritie they seeme to haue some similitude and agreement albeit as well the actions as the persons vpon whom the punishment was inflicted be somewhat different Howbeit I denie not but that this fact of Amorabaquin ought to be termed crueltie or temeritie rather then seueritie in that the theft which he punished was but pettie larcenie and the partie not conuicted thereof by order of law But like enough the Emperours intent was to terrifie others by his example I could further alleadge sundry other examples of like rigour and seueritie exercised by Iudges and that vpon their nearest kinsmen And not to seeke farre off for examples we reade in the French Chronicles of certaine Kings who haue done the like But that which should especially moue Princes to execute iustice though they had no regard of him who will one day call them to a reckoning is the example of those who through neglect or for default thereof haue first wasted and after lost their countries And if we consider the great change and alteration which is to be seene at this day as well in this as in other things we may well wonder thereat for it is well knowne that fiftie pardons are granted with lesse suite at this day then fiue could be obtained two hundred yeares ago And we haue heard how a Iudge of Paris who was liuing within these hundred yeares would vse the same reasons for the due execution of iustice which men vse now a dayes to hinder the same For whereas we say he is a yong man and in the Aprill of his age it were