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A60228	The minister of state vvherein is shewn, the true use of modern policy / by Monsievr de Silhon ... ; Englished by H. H. ...; Minister d'estat. English	Silhon, sieur de (Jean), 1596?-1667.; Herbert, Henry, Sir, 1595-1673.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3781; ESTC R5664	174,658	197

towards Rome in spight of his Generall I speak not of the raising of 14000 furious Lutherans and burning with the first Zeale of that Heresie t' employ them in a Warre where th' Holy Chaire had so great a part But after that Rome was taken that dreadful accident was hapned by the course wherewith it was guided After that th' Holy Citty had served for spectacle to the World of the justice and of th' Impiety of Men After that the Pope was besieged in the Castle of St. Angelo Why did not th' Emperour cause the scandall to cease at the first news he heard of it Why did he not deliver Rome of that heretique Garrison which abused th' holy things who prophaned the most sacred Mysteries of our Religion and added to all the kinds of cruelty all the kinds of sacriledge Why did he suffer the Pope to be put to Ransom to redeeme himselfe with Money from the vexation of victorious Heretiques and that Ostia and th' other strong place of th' Ecclesiastique State were the Price of his liberty and th' Arguments of his servitude I know well that some answer may be made in his favour and for his discharge That 't is permitted to make use of th' Advantage which we have not sought but fortune hath offer'd That 't is lawfull to draw good from th'evill which happens against our intentions That 't is the destiny of the things of this World That the prosperity of some is raised by th' Adversity of others and that th' affairs of State are like those of Merchandize wherein the greatest secret is to know when to make right use of the time and t' employ th' occasions to profit when they are offered To that I answer first that the evills which I have spoken of and those dreadfull Accidents were the sequells of the breach of many treaties made with Clement and of the violation of publique faith in his person And therefore that the effects could not become Lawfull whose causes were so notoriously unjust That the River cannot be very sound if the Spring be poysoned That conclusions retain alwaies the conditions of the principles f●om which they arise and partake of their spots and weaknesses and that they who have been the promoters of some Evill or have not diverted it when they were obliged are bound to repaire it and ought to be security for th' ill consequences they bring with them In the second place I answer that the person of the Pope and the dominions of th' Holy Chaire are priviledged-things and of right are not subject t' all th'Inconveniences and t' all the disgraces to which the Person and States of other Princes are exposed for the Reasons above given and which shall not here be repeated As to th' affliction th' Emperour seemed to declare at the News of th'Accident and the Demonstrations he published of an eminent grief As to the mourning he put on to make his Displeasure visible and to the Processions he made upon that occasion And the Rejoycings for the birth of his Son He caused to cease To weep th' ill fortune of the Pope All that was but illusion and Comedy So that false sadnesse suddenly disappeared and that vain shew of griefe was presently belyed by the proceedings above mentioned And moreover Francis the first reproached him in one of his Manifests that he had dared to think to send Clement into Spain and conceived that monstrous vanity To have at the same time in his hands the two principall persons of the World and two so great prisoners as a Pope and King of France The Spaniards answerd that if Charles had had the will who could have hindred him to have executed it And who are strong enough to oppose his designes in a time when Fortune refused nothing to his desires when his prosperities gave feare t' England and Italy was amazed at the blow which it had newly received When France was mortified for th'Imprisonment of its King and th'heretiques of Germany made brags of the purging of Rome from its abominations and abating the Pope dome under th' Authority of a Catholique Emperour To that Answer may be made with Francis the first That Charles was diverted from that designe by th' Horror the proposition raised to all Spaine That the people murmured and the Clergy raged when there was speech of leading the Vicar of Jesus Christ in Triumph and to make a Prisoner of th' head of the Church Though it be very hard to justifie the truth of this fact to make visible a matter so darke 't is better to leave it in darknesse and to suspend herein ones beliefe for the honour of a Prince that hath much merited of the Church in divers occasions and to whom the glory of beating back Soliman cannot be denyed and th'assuring of all Christendome in the defence of his patrimny and the States of his brother At least 't is certain that if he was a sinner he was a Penitent and that he washed his faults with the teares of three years which he poured out in his retraite from the world before death tooke him away from it Others aggravated this fault by th'Evills which Fortune raised t' interrupt his prosperities and by the diverse faces which she shewed to them of his Race They mentioned the disgraces of his Brother The Route of his Armies at Ezechio and at Bude and th' other Victories which Valour did not so much give to the Turk as th' ill Fortune of Ferdinand and the Cowardise of his Captains They did not conceale th' occasions wherein he saw his designes overthrown and his person in danger The sinking of his Fleet in th'haven of Algiers and that fearfull losse which hath not been equalled by any losse made by Christians on the Sea but by that which his Son made in the Sleev of England They represent the successe which the second League had against him in Germany The Chase which Maurice Duke of Saxony gave him And the necessity whereunto he was reduced to save himselfe by night and the sixth person at Isburg and to consent to the peace of Passo so injurious to Religion and so unworthy of th' Empire And to conclude they adde th' ill successe of the Enterprize of Provance and the shame of the siege of Mets which was the last deceit fortune put upon th' Emperour and th' accomplishment of the designe he meditated to put himselfe out of her power in quitting the World where she is so soveraign I will not affirme that all these Evills befell him in revenge of the sacking of Rome and th' affront offered to th' Holy Chaire It might happen that God sent or permitted them for that subject And it might fall out also that they sprang from other reasons and were th' effect of another cause Insomuch that according to the judgements that are made upon that Matter and th'Examples which are alleadged of them whom God hath punished for offending of Popes There 's

to Conquer all and to carry by assault what makes resistance But that we are not able long to preserve that heat nor to maintain our Conquests The same may be said of the Spaniards that their designs have sometimes good beginnings which attain not alwaies their Ends because they are Immoderate That they begin well but finish not alwaies the work they undertake because they withdraw themselves to other work that they make not an end of all things they undertake in regard that they undertake too much at a time that they Grasp more then they know how to hold and devour more then they can digest 'T is not for want of patience but for their too great Ambition nor that they forsake the Labour for being a weary and to rest themselves but they suspend it or slack it in one place to attend it in another where they think to prosper better And as the Covetous person hath no sooner the desire in his heart of being rich but he desires suddenly to become rich The like is the condition of the ambitious person there are no degrees for the growth of passion 't is great as soon as 't is born and he hath th' unhappinesse that his Imagination knows not how to bound the Conquests which it meditates upon nor lengthen the time must necessarily be imployed to act them This hath happened to the Spaniards It may be said that they have found their enterprises more difficult then they were represented unto them in having too great an opinion of their own virtue or too little of other mens virtues Le ts come to the proof of this truth wherewith they have furnished us and whereof they have given us cause to beware They observed that th' Enterprise upon England and preparation for that Fleet which they called Invincible broke the course of the Victories of the Duke of Parma that it drayned Spain of Money and Men and hindred that Prince from receiving necessary recruits to continue the War They also acknowledged that the journies he made into France to relieve the League had unfurnished the two Countries of their best Souldiers and left those fair Provinces for a prey to their Enemies which had been so long their Indyes and since have been so long their Poverty and Church-yard We may indeed say here by the way and then we will return to our subject That Philip the second did not a little forget himselfe in these occasions and that his Conduct was then too wise or not wise enough That it was not truly ill argued for the subduing of the Hollande's first to ceaze on France and Conquer England to cut off at once th' Armes that supported them and force away the Dugs which fed the Rebellion of that people But also that it was too vast a Design for a Prince so decayed and a way too long and too dangerous for a person of so small strength and short breath That if he was transported by the zeal of th' house of God and could not suffer Religion to perish in the first Kingdom of the world If he was concerned in th' ill of France and if he so vehemently loved the Church that he could not permit so faire a member to be separated from her It must be confessed that his zeal had been commendable if it had been more prudent But he should have remembred that true Charity excludes not Justice that it perverts not th' order of things that it disorders not the duty of life and that it hath as much light as heat and of moderation as force And therfore that it had been better to withdraw the people from Heresie which God submitted to him and from rebellion wherein they were involved then to ingage in th' affaires of his Neighbours whereof he was not to give an Accompt and that he was more obliged to labour the Cure of his sick subjects then the lesser diseases of strangers But le ts speak the truth It troubled Philip much to lose so fair an occasion as that which then presented it selfe to gain by our disorders And he well saw that after the French were divided into Factions and that the Children had torn in pieces their Mother it would be easie for him to recollect the scattered members and the pieces of th' Inheritance That if the lost this Conjuncture he might after in vain desire it that the madmen might return to their senses and that they had been corrupted by Charmes and Drenches That they being cured might change their love into hatred and be animated against them who had put them into that Condition Though the Spaniards made the forementioned reflections they failed not to strike upon the same sands and to repeat their faults Th'Emperour had incredible success in Germany His Conquests forced in upon him like a Torrent God sent him Victories like those of the Children of Israel when they marched under the Conduct of Moses and Joshua and it was no more a Caesar by name and the vain Imagination of what he ought to be but he had the power and the majesty His Authority gave reputation to the Spaniards His Armies rendred them more fearfull than they were and they saw their desires crowned with the taking of Breda which Spinola boasted to have taken in spight of four Kings and th'ayds of divers Nations in League After that nothing was thought impossible for them And notwithstanding instead of pursuing the great progress which they had made in the Low-Countties and to follow their Fortune which marched before them they provoked troubles in Italy and sharpned the spirits of divers Princes in possessing themselves of the Valtoline The usurpation of that passage gave occasion to make a league for to make it free and the War was carryed into Piedmont whither they conveyed great forces which served onely to make th' affront more eminent which they received before Verrne and to augment the shame of that retreat But they fell not alone into the precipices They drew in the Emperour whose name they made use of to vex Monsieur of Mantouë To put I say a poor Catholique Prince into his shirt who reverenced him they compelled him to agree with the King of Denmark and to make a dishonourable peace with the Protestant Enemy They constrained him to take the Law of the Conquered to restore him his Losses and to let loose the Chain which pressed all Germany There 's apparance that if he had continued the designs he had in that Country and those in Flanders They had compleated His Happiness At least they had avoided the disgraces which happened unto them they had given no scandall to Christendom Boldne had been preserved and so Catholique a City had not entertained Heresie within its walls nor lamented the losse of th' ancient Religion But in this they had not onely men for Enemies but God seemed to declare and to make War against them And as he suffered heretofore the Philistins to take th' Ark of the