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A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

was a hard speech for a man to eat his Body and to drinke his Bloud by adioyning these words afterwards It is the Spirit which quickneth the Flesh profiteth nothing The words which I speake vnto y●n are spirit and life What plainer sense will any man looke for then the speech it selfe This is my Body that is this very Bread is my Body which bread he broke into pieces before he suffred on the Crosse and gaue it in commemoration and remembrance of his after-passion The Papists will not allow that the bread is broken but that it is transubstantiated and changed into his very Body which the Apostle vtterly conuinceth saying the bread which wee breake is the Communion of the Body of Christ. And in another place he writes that it is to bee taken in remembrance of the Lords death vntill he comes To which manner of taking it all the antient Fathers of the Primitiue Church subscribe with one consent Iustine Martyr who liued within one hundred and fiftie yeares after Christ protesteth that the Lords Supper is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 recordatio a remembrance of the Incarnation and Passion which Christ sustained for penitent sinners Irenaus who liued about the same time calls it Res terre●as earthly things Clemens Alexandrinus who liued about ninescore yeares after our Sauiour saith that it is the Body and Bloud of Christ allegorice allegorically or by an obscure Figure Origen which flourished within two hundred yeares after Christ writes that it is the Image of Spirituall things and words feeding the Soule Tertullian the first Latine Father which wrot about two hundred yeares after Christ termes it the Figure of the Body and Bloud of Christ. Dionysius Areopagita saith that the Bread and Wine at the Communion were sensible images and apparell symbolically put about our Sauiour Christ. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bishop Chrysostome that was called the Golden-mouthed Father makes this protestation of it The Bread after that is sanctified is worthily termed the Lords Body although the nature of Bread doe still remaine in it Of this beliefe was Saint Augustine To eat the flesh of a man saith he and to drinke his bloud one would thinke it were a heynous matter Therefore it is a figure which our Sauiour vsed commanding vs to communicate his Passion and in our memories profitably to lay vp that his flesh was crucified and wounded for vs. CHAP. XIII The Romish Church accuseth the Church of Aethiopia for denying to acknowledge her to be the Mother and Catholike Church The Patriarch of Alexandria challengeth the primacie ouer that Church and proues the Pope of Rome to be an Intruder and to haue no Right at all ouer the Church of Aethiopia Apollo determineth the Difference by discouering the wayes how the Pope got the Supremacie ouer the Westerne Churches and how both he and the Generall Councels erre in matters of Faith THe Church of Rome seeing that by the helpe of Printing the Spirits of the Westerne Empire were illuminated with the bright Rayes of the Gospell and thereby had shaken her Foundations Superstitions and Traditions which shee had inuented to inueigle mens Soules and to maintayne her temporall Ambition by diuing into their secrets and treasurie and that which was was the greatest Corrosiue to her heart shee had found Apollo and the most part of his learned Troope ardently bent to crosse her proceedings by trying her impostures and suggestions on the Touch-stone of the sacred Scriptures shee vtterly despayring of repayring her credit in that Part of the world before her last motion to enter into the herd of Swine with the vncleane spirits in the Gospel made intercession vnto Apollo by some neutrall Papists and luke warme Lutheranes that shee might haue some Soueraigntie ouer those Countryes which lay remote from his Maiesties Court at Par●●ssus Apollo not accustomed to grant any Charters Monopolies nor other appendants to the state of his Empire which might preiudice either the Reuenues of his Crown or the weale of his Subiects without the aduise of his Parliament willed her to preferre her Suit on the sixteenth day of Iune next after 1626. at the first Sessions of the Parliament to be held at Parnassus The Romish Church failed not to motion vpon the said day and signified that whereas she had liued in infinite glorie and pompe for the space of eight hundred yeeres and that now in her old Age like to the decrepit Lyon in Aesops Fables euery beast had a fling at her euen the veriest Asse and cowardly Hare began to contemne her commands to vilifie her Iurisdiction and to esteeme no otherwise of her thundring Buls then if they were the windie brauadoes of a Braggadochian or the bellowings of the Buls of Basan The consideration whereof did now prick her to intreat a Boone at his Maiesties hands that it might be lawfull for her to exact the same obedience of the Christians in Aethiopia vnder Precious Iohns Scepter which sometimes she had extorted from the Christians of Great Brittaine Germanie and other Prouinces in Europe whereby she might liue in some reputation as yet in her ancient yeares The Patriarke of Alexandria netled with this request and fearing les● by the suffrages of those luke-warme Ecclesiasticks which like Iacks on both sides stood as it were betwixt Heauen and Hell this Imperious Lady might preuayle and depriue him of the Primacie which he and his Predecessors had successiuely enioyed from the Apostles time opposed her with this Oration Was it not enough for you O Ambitious Dame to tyrannize in your youth to prostitute your body for gaine to all commers but now you must bee like another Romane Flora after your abominable whoredomes adored for a Goddesse and triumph ouer those innocents which the scorching Sunne hath diuided by the Aequinoctia●● line from the Meridian of Rome what interest what colour of Title can you prescribe to haue in those places where your Constantine your Phocas and your Charles of France neuer trod nor euer any of the Roman Legions These People were first conuerted to the Christian Faith by the Eunuch in the Acts of the Apostles Seruant to the Queene Candace not without a singular mysterie that there shee might soiourne during the time of the Great Apostasie when Faith was departed according to Saint Pauls prophesie and the Bible represented by the two Witnesses in the Reuelation of Saint Iohn did lye worme-eaten in the Sodomites Libraries Saint Matthew confirmed them afterwards in the Truth And from his time vntill this present we the Patriarkes of Alexandria haue had the Prerogatiue to install their Bishops to institute their Priests and to order their controuersies Nor did you proud Lady heare of the manner of their Liturgie and Ecclesiasticall policie but within these seuenscore yeares It is true you sent your flying Spirits thither of late sundrie times to peruert them and to kindle a combustion in their Religion but all in vaine for they

what they list and at the last obtaine for a little money full remission of all their Sinnes mortall as veniall But now that the Spirit of life is entred into their Carcasses and they stand vpon their feet according to Saint Iohns Prophecie Feare seizeth on them they waxe amazed shunning their glorious Light They reele to and fro and stagger like drunken men Apollo liked exceeding well of Z●ing lius his zealous speech And further adioyned this Admonition to Gratian and the rest of the Popes Fauorites Not without a profound mysterie did Saint Iohn in the Reuelation compare the Romishh Curch to Spirituall Aegypt For euen as the Children of Israell were for many yeares kept in Bondage vnder the yoke of Pharaoh so the Soules of Christians in the times of the generall Apostasie and departure from the true Faith were miserably subiected vnder the Popes Tyrannicall Command insomuch that they were prohibited to haue Seruice in any other language saue in the Romane whose chiefe Citie the Tyrant himselfe vsurped and in subtile policie would admit of no other Tongue then of his own Latine which some hold to comprehend the mysticall name of the Beast who possesseth that seuen hilled Citie We doe therefore ordaine that it shall bee lawfull for euer hereafter to euery Kingdome and Prouince to celebrate Diuine Seruice and to read the Scripture in the Mother tongue following the examples of the Primitiue Church And euen as the Greeke Church the Georgians in Armenia the Abis●ines in Aethiopia vnder Precious Iohn and other Christians in the East haue from the first time of their Conuersions vsed their Godly sacrifices prayers and thanksgiuing euery Nation in their owne language so now wee doe here allow ratifie and decree that the Waldenses and Albigienses shall honour and glorifie their Creator in Vnitie and Trinitie after the same manner in their owne knowne Tongue as they haue accustomed for these fiue hundred yeres last past And if any person be so hardie as to bring in a Bull of Excommunication from the Pope against them for so doing we doe by these Presents pronounce the same to bee void siustrate and of no effect and that the Publishers of that thundring Libell bee laesa Maiestatis reus guiltie for wounding our Royall Maiestie and to suff●● the Punishment due for Capitall Treason CHAP. XII Berengarius reneweth his opinion of the Lords supper and proues both by the Scriptures and by the Authoritie of the most antient Fathers of the Primitiue Church that the same is to bee taken after a spirituall manner and in commemoration of the Lords death VVIcklisse vnderstanding that his old Master Berengarius had for feare of Death recanted his notable Demonstration of the vse of the Lords Supper which in his flourishing yeares hee had maintayned against the Pope and all the Romish Clergie caused him to bee cited into his Maiesties Court at Parnassus to shew the reasons of his Recantation and whether hee did the same in good earnest or else out of the frailtie of flesh and bloud Berengarius appeared and being asked of Apollo wherefore hee made that attestation contrary to his Conscience Berengarius trembling with teares confessed that the Pope extorted that Recantation from him with menaces and threats but that like to Hippolitus in Euripides hee kept a mind vnsworne and that hee still perseuered in the truth of the Doctrine which he formerly had taught that the Body and bloud of Christ ought to be taken spiritually and not really Apollo obseruing his contrition and inward sorrow freely forgaue him vpon condition that hee would yeeld sound proofes out of the Scriptures and the ancient Fathers of the Primitiue Church to conuince the Papists wherby they might be thenceforth toungtied and fully satisfied touching that materiall point of Faith Berengarius glad of his Maiesties pardon promised to declare his full knowledge and out of hand drew out of his pocket this schedule which Apollo presently caused Saint Bernard to read before all his learned Courtiers Saint Bernard obeyed his Soueraignes command and publikely read the Contents as follow Euen as by the Law of Moses there were two Sacraments ordayned to bee kept vntill the comming of Christ that great Prophet whom God promised to raise vp like vnto Moses viz. Circumcision and the Passeouer or the sacrifice of the Lamb at Easter the one seruing to bridle their carnall affections the other to prefigure the eternall Lamb which was to be crucified so in the New Testament two Sacraments were instituted to Christians in their stead Baptisme and the Lords Supper the one supplying the vse of Circumcision the other of the Lamb at Easter both to testifie our admittance and incorporation into the Christian Church as ou●ward visible markes signes or badges of our Faith onely in Christ. To these the Pope added fine Sacraments more in worldly policie to gaine money Confirmation Penance Orders Extreme vnction and Marriage which last his Holinesse debarres his Clergie of because Gods Elect might suspect the rest as humane Traditions These fiue sometimes may bee necessarie as other Diuine vertues Loue Humilitie Sobrietie and such like but not properly to be called Sacraments Which Saint Augustine very plainely affirmeth in these words Christ and his Disciples deliuered vnto vs a few Sacraments instead of many Baptisme and the Lords Supper Neither was the Pope content onely so to adde more yokes of bondage to the free Church of Christ but likewise for his further condemnation hee peruerted with those old Heretickes the Capernaites the true sense of those words This is my Body saying they must be taken literally and really which a sober minded Christian lothes to heare asmuch as Auerroes the Moore who detested Christian Religion for nothing more then for that they did eate their God with their teeth and sought to hale their Sauiour from the Right hand of God where his Father had placed him vntill the Day of Iudgement After the Consecration of the Bread and Wine we confesse that there is an alteration in respect of the End and vse of this mysticall Sacrament to put vs in minde of the Lords death vntill hee comes to iudge the world but we vtterly deny that there is any alteration at all in the substance of the Bread and Wine which remaines as it did before and enters into our Bodies to be digested and concocted like vnto other naturall and corruptible Food Yet most significantly they may bee called Sacramentall Bread and Sacramentall Wine representing the Body and Bloud of Christ if they bee taken with a spirituall mouth and a deuout mind that is by Faith and not receaued with a carnall mouth and bodily appetite For as Saint Paul wrot haue not wee houses for that purpose As a bodily mouth requires bodily meat so a spirituall mouth must haue spirituall Food to refresh and nourish the Soule And this manner of Eating Christs Body did himselfe expound when some grew displeased saying that it

counselled them to erect a speciall society of men of war to ioyne together in the Nauall expedition and to lend vpon reasonable considerations some of those shippes which they tooke to waft our Fishermen and to defend the Plantations Sir Thomas Smith protested that there must be strait Lawes enacted against superfluous commodities imported into the land out of other Countreyes before the Golden Fleece could possibly become the Catholike Restoratiue Among many superfluities hee insisted principally on three 1. vpon the extraordinary vse of Tobacco 2. vpon forraigne stuffes and silks which wrought the Decay of English cloth and consequently of many poore Housholds which liued by spinning weauing fulling and dressing of cloth 3. He enueighed against the multitudes of wine tauernes and Alehouses saying that a great part of our Treasure were yearly wasted in these fiery houses That halfe of them might well bee spared and that in Cities and Townes next to the contagion of the Aire formerly mentioned they were the chiefe causes of the inflamation of mens blood and so of Feuers and most of our late sicknesses And in conclusion he pronounced these verses In anciant times they vsed much to Fast And what was spar'd they turn'd to Almes at last But we the Sabbaths make Saturnall Feash On Holy dayes Drinke makes some worse then beasts If men did Custome pay for Ale and Beere Great Charles then Spaines King Philip richer were Our bloods inflam'd Diseases grow by Wine Our Barnes waxe lesse The Poore doe grone and pine Tempore Maiorum leiunis multa colebant Inque Ele●mosynas Copia versa suit Sabbata nunc mutant in Satur nalia Bacchi Patrum Festa di s ebri tate scatet Si pro Ceruisid persoluer●t Anglia Censum Ditior Hispano Carole magne fores Corporis hinc nimy facta ebull●tio morbos Accers●● minuunt Hordea languet Egenis Lastly William Lord Burleigh brought forth his opinion and said that all the meanes restoratiues and good orders which hee had heard deliuered would proue of no validity nor euer come to perfection except his Maiesty of Great Britaine might find some zealous ministers to execute the Lawes and statutes concerning the hindrance of Trade And further he signified that one maine point for reformation and repaire of Trading consisted in rewarding those vigilant spirits which like Sentinells awaked when others slept or proiected for the cōmon benefit while others spent their time like belly-gods in bibbing of sugred sack in pampring their guts with gluttonous fare In these two positiuely he laid the foundation of Great Britaines well fare In the execution of these new Decrees and in rewarding of the industrious whereby the obstinate might be punished and the vertuous heartned And in conclusion this prudent Atlas on whose vnwearied shoulders sometimes relied the waight of Englands cares made this discourse In one thing more I note the prouident Remedy which the diuine wisedome lately manifested in this Kingdome by remouing from hence many people with famine war plagues feuers and other sicknesses A remedy surely applyed for two beneficiall respects In his loue to these by translating them to a happier place In his mercy to the rest which suruiue that they take heed by such terrible sudden accidents how they wast those means whereof they are but his Stewards in lauish feasts in Tobacco Apparell in suites at Law or in drinking more then sufficeth nature And to bestow the estimate of what they shall saue hereafter by their thrist on nobler monuments in offring of sweet smelling sacrifices to his sacred nostrills by helping to build places of succour for their distressed brethren seeing that the noney-bees doe ouerswarme at home for certainely if all these whom He lately tooke to his mercy had been yet liuing their natiue Countrey could not containe them but that a greater Decay of trading would necessarily haue ensued nor could all the wits of our wisest Politicians haue deuised remedies to restore it which now may in all humane probability serue to make the Golden Fleece an absolute Catholike Medicine God grant that the same may worke effectually and conuert the steely heart into a relenting tender and into that which is truly Christian Let all good Christians say Amen Fiat voluntas Domini CHAP. 12. The Order which Apollo tooke for the setling of the Golden Fleece before his late Progresse into the Tropick of Cancer recommending the same to the care of the Fraternity of the Rosie Crosse the foure Patrons of Great Britaine The Consultation of the foure Patrons for the good of Great Britaine The copy of Saint Dauids sonnet which he pronounced in the Amphitheater at Parnassus in honour of the King of Great Britaines mariage and Coronation THe day before the summers Solftice in Iune last 1626. Apollo sent for the famous fraternity of the Rosie Crosse St. George St. Andrew St. David and St. Patrick those carefull Patrons of Great Britaine and in the presence of the Lady Pallas the Muses the Graces and other vertuous persons his Fauorites he deliuered this short speech The time now drawes on that we must take our Progresse into the Tropicke of Cancer where we must exhilarate with our influence those rude subiects of ours which inhabit neere the Northerne Pole to gratifie their natures which otherwise would proue more fullen with some perpetuall Dayes without Nights for their patience in tolerating so many long nights without dayes at the winters Solstice during which timeof our Progresse I require you my Gratious friends to assist the planters of the Newfoundlle which we haue lately styled Britanniol and to treat on their behalfe with that magnanimous King Charles of Great Britaine that hee confirme the commission and orders which his Father of blessed memory granted about three yeares past for the establishing of Wafting ships for the defence of that hopefull Plantation and of the fishing fleetes against the oppressions of Pyrats assuring him from vs that there lies the principall part of the Golden Fleece which Orpheus Iunior hath sounded out in his Cambrensium Caroleia which he published at the celebration of his Mariage with the Paragon of France which likewise he lately renewed here before vs at Parnassus And not onely hee but others haue intimated the benefit of this Proiect namely the Noble Sir William Alexander in his New Scotland and Master Misselden in his Circle of Commerce who in most liuely termes paints out the substance of this Fleece A braue Dessigne it is as Royall as Reall as Honourable as Profitable It promises renowne to the King reuenew to the Crowne Treasure to the Kingdome a purchase for the Land a prize for the Sea Ships for nauigation Nauigation for ships Mariners for both Entertainment for the rich employment for the poore aduantage for the Aduenturers and encrease of Trade to all the subiects A myne of Gold it is The Myne is deepe the veines are great the Oare is rare the gold is pure the extent vnlimited the wealth