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A02834	A vision of Balaams asse VVherein hee did perfectly see the present estate of the Church of Rome. Written by Peter Hay Gentleman of North-Britaine, for the reformation of his countrymen. Specially of that truly noble and sincere lord, Francis Earle of Errol, Lord Hay, and great Constable of Scotland.	Hay, Peter, gentleman of North-Britaine.	1616 (1616)	STC 12972; ESTC S103939	211,215	312

Romulus their King they did secretly murther him making the people to beleeue that he was rauished to the Heauens and relatus inter Diu●…s and the Iesuites this day who be the first Senators and Counsellors of the Court of Rome fearing the superintendencie of Christian Princes ouer her pride who are deputed by God to be Fathers of his Church they haue vented a pernitious Doctrine through out the World authorising the slaughter of Kings making people belieue that it is a Doctrine from Heauen and an act meritorious before God In Ethnick Rome Numa by his pretended secresie with the goddesse Aegoria procured the popular acceptation of his fond and foolish superstitions and the Iesuites this day by their pretended priuity with the blessed Virgine they haue bewitched multitudes of people with false beliefe in points of Doctrine neuer heard of before Ethnicke Rome in her beginning being resolued for her grandure and encrease to transplant the Town of Alba to be incorporated with her selfe because the fortune had fallen so in the combat betwixt the brethren Horatij and Curiatij The Albans did withstand it from a religious reuerence vnto their Gods vntill a craftie Romane demanding their chiefe Idoll vis venire Romam ' did answere quod annuit Dea that she did becken with her head in token of her consent And the honest Albans did beleeue it holding it for a Diuine oracle for their coniunction with Rome And I did see at nostra Donna de Regge in Lumbardie where there is a portract of our Lady lately found olde and defaced but esteemed myraculous a gentleman who in my presence did affirme that in time of the Masse the image did moue her countenance albeit I who also looked on could perceiue no such thing and many Images in Italie are said to haue spoken at diuers times Ethnicke Rome in their conquests they did still obserue this trick to transport to their Pantheon the Gods of euery conquered Countrey what else doth Rome now neither altering the forme of that Temple Pantheon nor in effect the name calling it Omnium Sanctorum of all Saints of olde the receptacle of all Gentile Gods and now the station of all forged Gods in Christianitie Briefely it semes to me the Gentiles did no other then they doe to take Idols in Gods place wil we say the Gentiles embraced many Gods for the true God all is one if it were so but contrarily there was neuer Philosopher nor wise man among the Gentiles who did not acknowledge that one only great God and the immortallity of Soules suppose he knew not how were for opinions of state the arch-pillers of good pollicie and good manners That pluralitie of Gods was but craftily obtruded vpon the popular to illude them for misteries of gouernment Let any man reade Cicero in that which he writes de natura Deorum Let vs consider how Socrates gaue his life for that opinion that there was but one God How Plato doth establish the vnity of one God with admirable conceptions of the blessed Trinity how the Poet Iunenal doth mock that base and senselesse ignorance of the pluralitie of Gods among the Egyptians and how the yong Lucan speaketh Diuinely of the ●…mortalitie of the soule in the death of Pomp●…y In all which things one shall see preferment of happinesse after this life granted to good and virtuous soules by those Poets and Philosophers So that in the point of Images we are as guiltie at the Gentiles and equally idolatrous they did acknowledge as we doe one omnipotent God And for the like good endes as be propounded in the Popish Church for Images had they the pluralitie of Gods that is to say to be the Bookes of the people to be the instruments of deuotion order and obedience if we will say the common people among the Gentiles esteemed a Deitie in the Idoll I replie that Christians now a daies do it much more because I haue proued it to be so a hundred times first how can we say it is abuse or ignorance popular that causeth Idolatrie for it is not only the multitude that holdeth the reall presence in the Sacrament of the Alter and whether it be idolatrous to doe so and to affirme that a peece of bread is that blessed body of whom the holy Scripture saith in quo habit at corporaliter omnis plenitudo Dictatis Secondly we cannot say that by vulgar abuse but by expresse authoritie the Virgine is in all their prayers encalled in the proper termes of God Sauiouresso Goddesse fons misericordiae sons salutis gratia salus omnium in Te sperantium which no doubt is to wrong that holy virgine to vsurpe her name to derogate from the worship of God thirdly touching Images I know your Lo will say howsoeuer there be abuses in them yet the Popish Church doth not approue it and if it were so the strong abuses which be are reason enough why to condemne them but it is other waies the Doctrine of Rome doth authorise in matter of Images both falsehood and abuse I shew it thus Our prayers are heard and regarded of God not for the qualitie of our words which are but a sounding and as imbassadors to carry our suplications but they are heard for the disposition of our heart as God himselfe hath said this people is full of babling but their heart is farre from me therefore I will not heare them Now God himselfe hath said of himselfe that he is only Cardiognostes only searcher of the raines and vnderstander of the heart whereupon I ground my argument That which may lawfully be prayed vnto doth know the secrets of the heart But the Church of Rome teacheth I may pray to the Image of our Lady in Loretto Ergo The Church of Rome teacheth that an Image knoweth the secrets of the heart And that againe is meere falsehood because it is only propper to God to know the heart heere againe I know it will be answered that it is not the image sed quod numen ibi est praesentius and I reply if it were so is not that truely to put a Deitie into the person of our Lady to make her know the secret hearts of milions of people who at one time be prostrate before her in diuers clymats of the world and for diuers causes which in like manner is both false and impossible But I say that the people holdeth that the image it selfe in Loret doth heare more grant more worke more then any other whatsoeuer and than the operatiue vertue is in the image because the person of our Lady is but one thing like to it selfe at all times and not diuers I tell this to your Lo out of experience which is most sure of any thing and I appeale to the Diuine light of your Lo conscience whether you do not thinke that Plato Socrates Cicero Iunenal Lucan would not haue esteemed this to be idolatry which is ordinarily practised there with such strange

can change himselfe into what creatures hee will change creatures in what forme he will can transport our spirits and bodies can enter to possesse them can counterfait creatures like to our selues by his wicked abusing of humane seed againe his malice is dangerous by reason of the multitude of seditious spirits who hee doth command so farre that some alleadge that euery man hath his good and euill Daemon which for my part I will not affirme it is enough that the Scripture maketh mention of diuerse diuels who haue practised diuerse wickednes Some are called by Esay Vasa furoris the vessell of fury Some by Ieremy the vessels of wrath some by Ezechiel vasa interfectionis the vessels of murther some by Moses the vessels of iniquity some of them haue aiery bodies and power in that Element as those foure which had the windes in their hands Quibus datum est nocere mari terrae to whom it was giuen to trouble the earth and the seas by gendring of pestilence and destroying thunders as that of Iob which suddenly threw downe his house which sort of aiery diuels is said to inuade the intellectuall spirits of men to seduce them to Heresie or ambitious faction in State and of this kinde he is esteemed the Prince who is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or exterminans others againe that bee more earthly doe trafficke with base sorceries as those who taught the enchanters of Pharaoh vnto all which the Lord hath opposed millions of good Angels to gouerne his workes and to presidiate and gard the Saints so many to rule the spheares Celestiall which we may perceiue by Ezechiel and in the sixtie eight Psalme where it is said the Chariots of the Lord are 20000. Angels and hee is among them as in the sanctuary of Sion whereupon the Chaldean interpreters say that there bee so many principall lights in heauen and as many Angels to gouerne them and Leo Hebreus hath written in his second Booke that the eight heauen or primum mobile which maketh his couse in twenty foure houres is moued by a Cherubin with such miracolous swiftnesse that euery moments motion ariseth to more then a million of miles And of the Angelike care of the Saints of God on earth the Scriptures are full of testimonies that which guarded the Israelites comming from Egypt that which wrastled with Iacob and blessed him that Ceraphin which purged the lips of Esay and made him eloquent that Raphael whose presence Asmodeus cannot abide those Angels who carried Lazarus into the bosome of Abraham that which deliuered S. Peter out of prison that which went with Azariah into the furnace and made him thinke the flames a soft deaw and so forth The Lord God doth not only furnish vs with spirituall armes against Satan as by the power of his Angels by the force of his word and by our faith in Christ but he hath taught vs some familiar things which they cannot indure in nature as is thought as the fire whose presence doth terrifie him by a mysterious antipathy as the presence of the Wolfe astonisheth a Sheepe because God who is his enemy is a fire a lampe a light of glory and power to the godly a fire of loue mercy and goodnesse and to the wicked a consuming fire of wrath and vengeance and as by a naturall strife the voyce of a tyrannous Schoolemaster doth affraye a wayward childe so doth the sound of musicall instruments accompanied with the praises of God afflict and terrifie the diuell by a naturall Antipathy wherewith God hath indued them Againe the harmony of musicke doth by a naturall simpathy collect and vnite the distracted powers of our weake mindes to greater strength and deuotion and is quasi vehiculum the conduct of deuotion We read of the Prophet Elisha who being for sent to prophesie the issue of the battell he would not doe it vntill hee first caused to sound vp an instrument of musicke and then he fell into his Prophesie wee read likewise that when Samuel had consecrated king Saul God said hee to him to the Mountaine and thou shalt finde a company of Prophets who sound instruments and prophesie thou shalt enter among them and the spirit of God shall come vpon thee there and thou shalt bee changed into another man the reason of this naturall antipathy betwixt Musicke and the Diuell is because it is a diuine thing which draweth the spirit to harmony concord loue and heauenly contemplation and the constitution of his nature is contrary to these to be seditious discordant and implacable This whole Fabricke of the world is nothing else but a musicall order of Gods workes they stand as the Scripture saith in numero pendere mensura by number weight and measure All the creatures are but a musicke euery one hauing in their kindes their Supreme or Alt their Counter Base and their Tenor to shew it in few examples Among the Planets the austerity of Saturne and the rigour of Mars are tempered and tied together with the serenity of Iupiter as among the Elements the repugnance of the fire and water are kept in concordance by the promiscuall qualities of the ayre and speaking of the inteligentiall world the Angels are a mediate creature betwixt the diuine Essence and man man is a mid couple betwixt good and euill spirits the Ape betwixt man and fourefooted beasts the Niriades Tritoues which be not things fabulous betwixt men and fishes The Hermophrodite betwixt man and woman the Mandrake betwixt man and plants betwixt the fruites of the earth and things which growe within her bowels there are fruits and cornes petrefied that is to say naturally shapen in stones betwixt the earth and the stone Argillum is amid couple betwixt earth and mettals the Marcazitae are neither of them but a mediate thing so that as that diuine Philosopher Iesus the sonne of Syrac hath obserued in his Booke of Ecclesiasticus there is first a common antithesis and contradiction in all the workes of God Omnes via Domini secundum dispositionem sapientiae suae Duo contra vnum vnum contra vnum contra malum bonum contra vitam mors contra virum iustum peccator sic intuere in omnia opera altissimi saith the Scripture in that place All the waies of God according to the disposition of his owne wisedome two against one one against one good against euill life against Death the iust man against the reprobate and so looke into all the workes of the most high saith hee which in effect is so true that there is nothing in the world which can fall into our imagination wanting this contrariety but God againe hath made a concordance in all by this diuine Musick not only in natural substances but in their qualities and accidents yea in time it selfe Summer and Winter be contrary but by the harmony of the spring time they are conioyned blacke and white contrary do meet in mediate colours heate and

of his Church and a conspicuous marke of his extraordinarie grace vouchsafed vpon this great Kingdome I say extraordinarie for if the Papall Bishops while they doe impugne the truth of Gods word forbidding marriage to authorise the doctrine of their coelibat they do not the lesse contaminate the same with lewd and open pollutions and your Grace all in contrarie while you doe stand for the Euangelicall libertie of Matrimanie you doe in the meane time by the puritie of your life practise the perfection of the cloysterrall Caelibat taking vnto you that religious word of the more innocent and vertuous ages Si placet licet I thinke it is a cleere mirrour wherein the world may see that it is the good spirit of God who doeth freely distribute his extraordinarie giftes to such faithfull Prelates as worship him according to the trueth of his word and that no vsurped authoritie of Popish or humane traditions can doe so much And since there is no better meanes to make your GRACES Excellent and spirituall partes tanquam Thus redolens in Templo Domini as was said of that worthie Priest Symon Onia to smell as a sweete perfume in the LORDS house then by continuing your delight to cherish the studie of vertue where it is found in the most remote partes of the land which is indeede a sauorie presage of that perfect vnitie which God doeth dispose to bee in the whole Church of the same Therefore let it please your GRACE to receiue these first and tender Seedes of my publike Seruice to God to my most Sacred Soueraigne PRINCE and to this Common-wealth whereof you are the first vitall member and so to nourish them by the kindly ayre of your vertuous spirit that they may bee found to produce a happie fruite that is to say a fruite which hath not aborted nor hurt his bearer by vntimely partting with it but comming to maturitie prooueth wholesome to all those who taste it and leaueth the Tree in full vigour and reputation Your Graces humble and affectionate sermant P. Hay TO THE CHRISTIAN READER CHristian and curteous Reader this Treatise which I haue framed for the glory of God the comfort of his Church and the seruice of this common-weale wherein wee liue why it is Intituled A vision of Balaams Asse you may perceiue in the entry thereof It containeth in speciall these three First the cause of my voluntary recantation of Popery Secondly a cleere discouery of the tyranny of Rome mounted in our time to her Meridian or Altitude And of the treacherous trade and doctrine of the Iesuite who doth falsly maintaine the Papall Soueraigntie tending to the ouerthrow of Christian Princes and states Thirdly a discourse of the apparant approach of her reformation or downefall and of the probable meanes whereby the Lord God doth dispose the restitution of Christian people from the spirituall captiuity of this Babel with a sincere exhortation to you to honour aswell the meanes as the instruments whom God doth pointforth for the aduancement of this great worke as you haue them here set downe in particular In the which exhortation if any thing be that vpon the suddaine seemeth distastfull to you I do entreate you that you will not for that rashly reiect it but do taste it againe and againe remembring how oftentimes disgusts do grow rather by the distemper of our sence then by any fault which is in our meats As a diseased person must for the sake of his health controle his naturall appetite and as nature in generall who seldome doth erre by offering violence vnto her particular members for her common benefite doth proue a good Physitian to her selfe So if wee cannot straine our priuate humours for a publike weale wee are senselesse and cauterized members of the commonweale and our diseases when they come they shall be desperate and deadly It was a worthy saying of him who spake so Omnis magna lex habet aliquid iniquitatis that euery great law had something of iniquitie in it not that any expresse iniustice was in the law but because when so many liue within their own Spheares onely to themselues without respect to the commonwealth it is impossible to establish any great law which shall not bring displeasure to those particular members whose actions are not ruled by common equity common reason or common good If we doe grudge against our lawes or our lawgiuers because they are not pleasant to our peculiar taste we be farre inferiour in true vertue to the Ethnicks who thought it the chiefest mark of their vertuous mind and their greatest glory to remit proper losses proper grudges and proper opinions to the common wealth The precise Cato Vticensis who might haue brooked the first dignities vnder Iulius Caesar because it was not to his mind he chose rather to die then to liue distracted in opinion from the state That vpright Philosopher Socrates hauing in his choice to be banished or to die he embraced death saying that a man cast off from his common wealth was no more a man Is it not strange then amongst vs in whom that obscure light of nature which onely did guide them is made celestiall by the diuine splendor of Gods reuealed word to see that a Christian Pastor before he will quit singularitie of opinion and singularity of name to our common wealth spirituall to the peace and credit of our Church conforming himselfe to orthodoxall lawes established by the authoritie of a most Christian Prince a setled Church and well gouerned state he will first choose either to liue at home a seditious tribune In perpetuo obstrepit●… or a trasfuga exiled from his natiue countrey Certainely where there is no perfect vnitie there can be no perfect peace nor perfect loue and consequently no Church because these are the whole scope of the Euangell and of all true Religion Vnanimitie is the bond which maketh the Church strong Ecce circumdedi te vinculis saith God in Ezechiel Behold I haue hedged you about with bands It is the knot and sinnewes which tye the members of Christ together in one body and therfore is so diligently recommended by him to his Apostles and so oftentimes figured to vs in the old Testament by tipes By the vestiment of the high Priest wherof euery thing was tied to another all being but one piece By the Tabernacle wherof euery thing was iointed in an other the whole standing in coniunction for wee bee so called in the Apocal. Ecce tabernaculum Dei cum heminibus habitabit cu●…ijs The Tabernacle of God which dwelleth among men By the vessels whereof so many as were not closed together but were open in diuers pieces they were said by the spirit of God to bee vncleane as we see in the Booke of Numbers We are the vessels who be made by the hand of our heauenly Potter of whom Saint Paul saith Alia quidem in honorem alio verò vasa in contumeliam If we be