verie apparant that by this Doctrine and policy the Popes opposices and enemies especially the states and Princes of the reformed Religion are inestimably preiudiced being reduced hereby to a continuall vncertaintie and confusion in all their weightiest actions counsels and resolutions there beeing a warrant for all men to breake league and oath with them and no neede of particular dispensation from his holines Their Church long since by her rules and some of great reckoning amongst them more lately by their writings have published preached to al the world that faith given to heretikes is not to be kept that leagues with them are more honourable in their breaking then in their making denying that right vnto Princes of Christian profession which Christians vnto Heathens Heathens one to another of how different religion soever yea al honorable princes vnto very traitors rebels have alwaies kept vnviolable And finally if father Parsons at his last coÌ„ming to Rome pretending to make peace betwixt the Eâ—glish scholers the Iesuits who were charged with too much indirect dealing large imblessing setâ—ing downe certaine indifferent Articles betweene them to that purpose whereby each part should be bound to desist impugning of the other did by handling the matter with such conveiance and cunning imitating therein a rule of fast on the one side loose on the other in the grouÌ„d of their order as first to sweare the Scholers to observe that which was their part after to leave the Iesuites vnsworne to theirs to effect his secret ambitious intent to the great grief of the Scholers made the Iesuites their governours what other account can be made of these leagues peaces betwixt those of the Romane of the reformed religion but that the one side being tyed by oath the other left free for so are they taught they shall so far-forth have performance continuance as shal be to the advancement and profit of that party which esteemeth it selfe at liberty the sacred the soveraigne instrumeÌ„t of all iustice amongst meÌ„ what is it what can it be in the world but an oath beeing the strongest bound of coÌ„science This is the end of strifes particular this is the sodder of publike peace the sole assurance of amity betweene divers nations which being made here below is inrolled in his high Court whose glorious name doth signe it who hath made no graunt of accesse to his celestial pallace but to such as have sworn true though it redound to their owne damage yet swarve not from it that nothing but mischiefe can be presaged to the world in this age most wretched wherin Peâ—iuty hath vndermined the tribunals of iudgement which hath chased out true iustice out of the world left no place for a iust man where to stand against the craftie But what may bee said when he that sitteth in the Temple of God shall so far advance himselfe above God as to dispence with oathes made sacred by the most holy high name of God when he that professeth himselfe sole vmpire peace-maker of the world shal cut in sunder those onely finewes that hold peace together when the father of Princes shall cary himself with so wicked partiality and cast by dissolving of oaths affliction on the partie he hateth and making the other perpetually obnoxious to him to worke his owne certaine advantage from both and lastly by making of that ancient bridle of the vniust to be now an onely snare to intrap the innocent and impose that blemish vpon Christianitie which the Pagans in their naturall morality have abhorred I will not here omit one other great helpe which casualty rather then cunning may seeme to have wrought it falling out often in the affairs of men that where wisdome hath furnished out sundry aids instruments there some also do frame themselves as it were by chance resulting out of the concurreÌ„ce of diverse accidents with the former as at this day the greatnesse of the house of Austia extending it selfe well nigh to all quarters of Europe and confining with many of the Popes principall adversaries who having long since vpon the rich purchase which they had of the Indies devoured in assured hope and conceit the Monarchy of our Westerne world and finding no fitter meanes to enlarge their temporall Dominions than by concurring with the Pope in restoring his spirituall have linked themselves most fast with his Sea and investing themselves voluntarily with an Office of their owne direction have taken vpon them to be the executioners of his Excommunications that having title from the Pope who giveth his enemies the foyle by distracting their owne Subiects from them vpon feare of his curse the rest they may supply out of their owne force and opportunities having erected for this purpose that superpolitique and irrefragable order as they count it of the Iesuites who couple in their perswasions as one God and one Faith so one Pope also and one King bearing the world in hand and there is no other meanes in the world for the Church to stand but by resting vpon this pillar and by vniting in this sort all the forces of the Christians this the onely meanes to vanquish the Arch-enemy of Christianitie that the Italians may not brag to have beene the onely men who have subdued the world vnto them by their wit the Spaniards having prooved so good Schollers in their Schooles that though they follow them in their grounds of pretending the advancement of Religion and in their instruments of religious Orders to practise mens minds with yet in this they out-goe them that they vse the Popes weapons lightnings and thunderings and terrors for instruments of their owne greatnes his hope of reestablishing his spirituall reputation by them to the immoderate increase of their secular power by him that the Pope also himselfe must in the end be constrained to cast himselfe into their armes and to remaine at their devotion acknowledging him henceforward for his good Lord Patron whoÌ„ he hath heretofore governed commanded as his Son a point which as some of the ministers of Spaine in the height of their pride have not beene able to hold in but have braved the assembly of Cardinals to their beards that they hope ere long to see the day that their master should tender halfe a dozen to the Pope to be made Cardinals at once wherof he should not dare to refuse to choose any one And the Cardinals themselves should as little daâ—e to choose any other Pope then whom he named so their too important pressing of the Pope in these latter times to serve all their ambitious and raging turnes in the long preiudicing the libertie of the Conclave in their elections have given them good assurance that they speak as they meane that their brags are hopes purposes and these threatnings being the naturall fruits of the Spanish hautines insolency who in the pride of their Monarchie are
they make their principall was then but an accessary addition to their greatnesse For among other blowes which Luther hath given that See it hath compelled them besides the intire losse in Countries revolted even out of those which sticke to them to draw more moderately then before for feare of offending yea they have beene also in these latter times forced to share or yeelde vppe into the hands of great Princes of Fraunce namely and Spaine for the better assuring them a great part of those fleeces which themselves were wont to share from the Clergy heretofore without any partners howbeit in Italy and some other places their annuities and tenths doe still runne currant besides the Spogly as they terme them or strippings which they have of Clergy men at their deaths vnlesse in their life-time by some yerely pension they list to redeeme and amount no doubt to a good round summe His gaine out of Spaine is thought matchable very neere to that of Italy which the Kings thereof doe and will more contentedly endure for the better assuring of the Papacy vnto them which otherwise were likely to run mainly with France I would not report it but that I have it froÌ„ meÌ„ good of place that Pius Quintus vnder pretences after the Councell of Trente of reforming their Clergy and such like affaires was complained on to the Counsell of Spaine to have drawne fourteene millions from them out of the Kingdome what gaines their pardons bring I cannot estimate they being not solde now to particular persons after their former vsage saving in Spaine and the appurtenances to them whereof also the late King himselfe was said to have the greater share and in regard thereof to have pressed it mightily vpon his people It is to be presumed that such a multitude of generall perpetuall and plenary indulgences for all persons times and offences as are granted to the religious houses and to some other Churches of Italy and to sundry in France also yeld somwhat to the holy father in way of thankful acknowledgment considering that their gaine by them is nothing The Cordeliers at Orleance at the publishing of one indulgence picked vppe as they say there foure thousand at a blow But howsoever the mistrie of that secret standes this is plaine and apparant that the Popes are contented to vse their religious houses as verie spunges to drinke what iuyce they can from the people that afterwardes hee may wring them out one by one into his own cesterne The Covents have from him these indulgences of grace to remitte sinnes and free soules from Purgatory at the yerely publishing whereof in their Churches there stands in some convenient place the boxe of devotion with some poore begging crucifixe likely before it and two tapers of each side to see the chinke to put mony in What man can be so vnthankefull so stony and dry-harted as to give nothing to them who have forgiven him so much especially there never being wanting some holy pretence to incourage nor many an eye open to see their good doing Besides this the Pilgramages to their miraculous imager which drew great commodities to their Cities also states wherein the people not ignorant thereof helpe to set them a working a consideration that brings contentment therewith no lesse to the Princes So sweete is the taste of gaine from whatsoever the visiting of their holy reliques both which have their offerings the purchasiing of masses both auxiliatory expiatory their rewards for praying their collections for preachings besides sundâ—y other duties amongst which their obiâ—â—s which are so beneficiall that their account is from a rich man to draw viis modis some hundred at his funerall or else it goeth hard yea this is so certaine and so good a rent vnto them that if any man should be buried without their solemnitie and some of their odors to accoÌ„pany his coarse he should be thought a very heriticke and to be sure to have some bad bruite set abroach concerning him as fell out not long since to a welthie Citizen of Lucca who willed by his testament to be buried in the night without their ringing tapering censing attending or singing hadde a rumour soone spread on him by the belly devote Friers whom hunger and losse of hope haue made wickedly irefull that he was haunted and molested with rattes on his death bedde these meanes extraordinarie be sides these ordinarie revenewes increasing often by inheritance discending vpon them which happen to any of their brotherhoods goeth to the convent for ever such is the law of Italy being granted or permitted by the Pope to the Friars and all to enrich them The lawe requires reason and equitie allowes and their vowes of povertie adviseth that when they grow too rich his Holinesse should let them blood in their over-full veines for his necessarie sustenance as did Sixtus who pared away the superfluities of sundry rich Covents as fitter for his high estate and honourable designes then for them who had poverty in their vowed recommendations This Pope dealeth more gently by way of loanes which may perhaps in the end come all to one reckoning Besides the which when warre against the Turkes or Heretiques or other enemies of the Church or any other great affaires requires imployment of the Church treasure then are taxes and subsidies imposed or requested to a certaine proportion vppon the revenewes of all Abbeyes and other religious Covents in Italy besides the rest of the Cleargie which can be no small matter as was done these last yeares for the service of Hungarie I might adde hereunto the toll of his forreine commodities the fees of dispensations chiefly in prohibited degrees for mariage and infinite other expeditions wherin his Papal authority doth accommodate is accommodated reciprocall of all Nations but this is sufficient to verifie that assertion that eveÌ„ at this day those out-incoms are good helps for an extraordinary odd share when need is And yet all this notwithstanding the treasure of the Church is smal Sixtus Quintus left five millions by his great reckonings husbandry his successor Gregory the 14 wasted foure of theÌ„ iâ—ten months lesse above his ordinary revenews in pompe riot This man is very chary over that one remaining disstilleth all other devices rather then set finger to that string which yet his late Prowesses have caused him to assay But were the Church rent and gaine how huge soever two assiduall Horseleaches which never leave sucking it will never suffer it to swell over-great in treasure The first is the high place of honour which hee taketh farre above all other Princes and Monarchs in the worlde which draweth him to inestimable charge in all places to carrie it wiâ—h countenance and comelinesse requisite being forced thereby in his owne traine in the intertainment he giveth Princes in the allowance he giveth his Legates Nuncioes and other Ministers which according to his owne greatnesse are sent into other Countries
oportunities are often lost besides the trying both of themselves their horses before they arme And the truth here of is assured by fresh experience he having done no great matter in all his wars of Hungarie to speake of onely Germanie with some small helpe of Italy being opposed against him But if we consider the effeminatenes of the education of their great Earles in these times a thing which they are advised and constrained vnto even contrarie oftentimes to the manlinesse of their owne natures and al to keepe the father from iealousie of his owne sonne whose bravenesse of minde and warlikenesse is still suspected And vse having once soaked into their bones in youth doth for ever after loose the sinewes of manly dispositions and assubiect them to the softnesse and basenesse of pleasures considering also the avarice and corruption which raignes there all peace and warre all frenships and enmities all favours and wrongs all counsailes and informations being growne to be saleable If these be as they are the signes of the diseased and prognosticators of a â—ying Monarchie much more of a tiranny then surely have we not now so great cause to dread him as to blame our selves and our wrangling who choose thus in practising to exterminate each other to trace out a dishonourable and fruitlesse life At the ende finding our selves at the same or woorse termes then when we beganne rather then establishing first a firme accorde at home to attempt with vnitie zeale love and forces so iust so Christian so honourable so rich a warre And verily if but Princes confining vpon him though agreeing among themselves for the most patte in Religion were not so strongle infected with emulationand home ambitions as â—o condiscend to paie Tribute to the Turke in severall for so doe they as a redemption each of them of their peace whereof it hath no longer assurance theÌ„ his pleasure which with double as much vnderhand bribes and presents must be dayly sweetned And which is yet woorse when he list commeth to invade any one of them as he doth for his verye exercise avoyding tumults at home the rest doe hold off from giving succours to their neighbours for feare of drawing on revenge vpon themselves some other time which is the cause of the Polonians and Venetians at this present who scarsely dare so much as pray against them in their devotios otherwise then in their hearts which I weene they doe duely where it not I say that their private ambitioÌ„s feares and mistrustes did drive them to make so abiect and vnchristian choyse as to inthrall themselves into such bonds of tribute and slaverie to so proude and insoleÌ„t and wicked enemie rather then to ioyne in one course for the â—ooâ—ing of him his tyranny out of this part of the world it were not so much to bee doubted but the feare now of this side would soone turne to the other seeing that one good blow to a body so built so ful of distempers were able to put the whole in danger of ruining and shivering These reasons induâ—e me not to thinke that the daunger from the Turke should bee so great as to enforce the Christians to runne mainly to an accorde and though it should yet without other sounder working by perfect composing of all inward dissention this would be but a civill accord onely for this time which the feare once past would dissolve of it selfe and the former contentions revive as fresh as ever For the bond of common feare is the strongest indeede of all other but the shortest withall which nothing during the daunger is able to breake and the danger once past falles in sunder of his owne vnsoundnesse howbeit if the Turke should set foote in Italie and abate the Popes strength by possessing his State then would I not doubt much but that both himselfe would bee content and all other Princes forwarde that some such vâ—itie as is before spoken of might bee established Vnity of perswasion But that is a case as vnlikely in short time as in tract of time not impossible to happen if some manly stowâ—e Turke should succede these womanâ—sh There remaines then the vnitie by perswasion only which both sides seeme now to â—est on each practising and hoping in tract of time to eate out the strength of thâ—ther by his industrie in drawing away by perswasion his followers and adherents wherein the Protestant accounâ—eth his advantage so much the greater in that the vnitie of veritie is it which hee perswadeth and truth beeing by so infinite degrees stronger than vnâ—râ—etâ— having God to blesse it heaven and earth and all the creatures of GOD to witnesse it and falshoode it selfe which is alwaies his owne cut-throte by his crossing and conâ—rariety to yeeld confession vnto it vnlesse the fault be exceedingly in the â—aÌ„dler and pleader it must needs in the end maugre the malice of all enemies and craft of all inventions prevaile and have the victorie although the vtter abolishment of the Kingdome of Antichrist they referre with the prophecie to the appearance of our Saviour in iudgement triumph now shortly approaching On the other side the Papists hope that their perswasion being seconded by so great Princes authoritie and fatâ—ered by so many collaterall aydes of motives and practises leaving nothing vâ—assayed which may preiudice inflict or annoy their opposite and providing as they do a perpetuall succession of instruments to be imployed in each kind over all partes of Christendome they shall in the end tyre eate out and vtterly consume the strength and stomacke of their vnpolitique and divided adversaries In the number wherof though they score vp all religions especially christian that acknowledge not the Pope and the three-fold plenitude of his supernall terrestriall and infernall power extending to heaven in canonizing Saints to the lower parts of the world in â—reeing from Purgatorie over the earth in being the vniversall guide and pastor of all mem yet are they not affected to all their opposites in like sort speaking of such as with whom they live and daily converse For to omit the Iew whom they moâ—ke with their Mâ—ssias so long in comming as also the Gâ—aecian whom they pittie with their Patriarch vnder the Turkish slaverie their hatred is to the Lutheran the Author of their calamitie But hatred and feare both of the Calvinists onely whom they account the onely growing enemy dangerous of their state For Lutherans in Germany as for the Lutherane he was long since at the highest if he fetch an inch forwards one way for an ell he looseth an other it is only by a kind of boysterous force and violence against the Caâ—vinists as in Strasborough of late The reason â—herof besides the absurdities of the â—biquitary Chimera â—ath perhaps beene in part for that their opinion tooke vp his seat in Germanie a stiffe people but on heavie which will hold their owne well but gaine little vpon
translation which they had is called in and taken from them it is printed in Hebrew letters but not in Hebrew language at leastwise not in such as they can vnderstand With Greeke and Latine their nations never medled besides which the Inquisitors have inhibited and taken from them all bookes that were ever published in that theame on either side as well those that have bin written in defence of christian religion as also the contrary against it alleadging they will have no disputing in matter of religion either way much like to an Edict set vp at Dola in the french County where the Iesuites reside forbidding any talke of God either in good sort or in bad Then lastly for those few sermons they are bound to repaire to seldome are they directed to the pointes they sticke on but holde on their vsuall tenour as respecting meerely the Christians The last discouragement to men especially of their mettall is that at their conuersion to Christianity they must quitte their goods to the Christians And the reason is for that in baptisme they re-renounce the divell and all his workes part whereof are the Iewes goods being gotten eyther of themselves or of their ancestors by vsury Now this is such a cold comfort to a man set on the world as that Nation is wonderfully that for my part I have not hard of any coÌ„verted in those parts save some Phisitians with some of their children who by friendship to the Pope have obtained dispensatioÌ„ to retaine their goods stil in as much as they were gotten by their honorable profession But if on the contrarie fide the Christians would againe in their charity give somewhat for the competent entertainment of such as for Gods sake did give vp their owne I could not but well commend that rigor of iustice which the bountifulnesse of this mercy did mitigate and asweeten But being no such matter there remains nothing for a Iew converted but to be friared a trade which of all other they lest can fancy as being contrary as they alledge to Nature it selfe which hath made man sociable and each helpfull to other in all civill duties a trade never commanded or commended by God never practised nor counselled by their renowmed ancestors who received continuall instruction and inspiration from above which none of their Patriaâ—kes or Prophets hath given example of Onely in three or foure thousand yeares Elias and some one other hath beene found vpon verie extraordinarie cause to haue taken also an extraordinarie course of life though of other nature and to other purpose then the votaries of our times And these are the termes that the Iewes stand on in those parts and so must I leave theÌ„ to the mercifull care of God an vnblessed and forsaken people obstinate within and scandalized without indefatigable in their expectations vntractable in perswasion worldly yet wretched received of their enemies but despised and hated scattered ouer all countries but no where planted daily multiplying in number but to the increase of their servitude and not to their power In summe a long continued and marked example of Gods iust severitie to abate their pride that glory even as they in their ancestors and founders Gods Temple and Oracles promises and many prerogatives long continuance in honourable estate and glorie which things if they were sufficient to preserve any seat in the world euen their seat had beene preserved by them and to proclaime to the whole world that there is no assurance of the fauour protection and assistance of God without which all falls to ruine but in beleeving in his Sonne and in keeping his commandements And this also may serve touching the Church of Rome sufficient The Greeke Church Next followeth the Greeke Church inthralled all in a manner save the Muscovites and Candians with some few other of no great name or number vnder the Turkish tyrannie of which Church as their farre distance from vs requireth not to speake much so their vniformitie in miserie yeeldeth not much to be spoken for their Religion except onely their ancient error touching the proceeding of the Holy Spirit from the Father alone wherein they have long dissented from all Latine or VVest Churches In other points they seeme to stand in some middle termes of opinion betweene the Romish and the Protestants in the more weightie or at the leastwise in the dominative With Rome they concurre in the opinion of Transubstantiation and generally in the service and whole bodie of the Masse in praying to Saints in auricular confession in offering of sacrifice and prayer for the dead and in these without any or with no materiall difference They hold Purgatory also and the worshipping of pictures but for images they will not so much as indure them in their Churches As well for the proclivitie they have to trayne away the ignorant into the crime of Pagan errors as also to avoid that similitude betweene their Churches and Heathenish Temples of Idols which imagery doth cause And for their pictures they kneele to two onely to Christ and our Ladie the rest they passe over with an ordinarie reverence For Purgatory they hold none in hell or in the skirts thereof or by any outward torment but that the soules of the faithfull are not received into glory till by an extreame compunction and anguish of mind they have worne out those staines with which the same and the pleasures therof in this life defile them In summe those opinions which grew into the Church before that separation betweene the Greeks the Latins and all those ceremonies which were common vnto both they still retaine as their crossings and tapers with certaine other But for these superstitioÌ„s which have crept in fresh memory or which were as antient yet not so currant and in generall all those Canons of the Romish faith which have beene thrust on the Church in those times by the vnaccountable power pride of the Papacy tending to the advancement of their owne Sea and to the exempting of their Church doctrine from triall by those Anabaptifticall fancies of the spirit that mans them and protecteth them from error in their consultations or resolution touching matter of faith extenuating the sufficiency and authority of the Scriptures in comparison of their spirit or Church guided by it all these things they abhorre no lesse then the Protestant they hold vnderstanding requisite to concurre with affection for the accomplishment of devotion in praying to God And although their Lyturgies be the same that in the old time namely Saint Basills Saint Chrysostomes and Saint Gregories translated without any bending of them to that change of language which their tongve hath suffered yet doe they say that alteration is not so great but that their people with small accustoming vnderstand the language well enough But by praying with Saint Dominickes round counters they esteeme of it no better then those heathenish repetitions and vnnaturall lip-labour which our Saviour censureth
neither can they beleeve that the Apostle Iames the lesser who is painted vnder the Papacy with his great beads at his girdle even as Mary Magdalen lightly praying before a crucifixe was Saint Dominicks disciple but a wiser mans farre one that introduced a better fashion of praying if the world would have bin contented to have followed his prescripts In like sort for the holy water so much vsed vnder the Papacy they beleeve no such feare that the divel should have of it nor svch force in it as to purge sin as their neighbors doe teach they repute it a very vain opinion that the Church cannot erre both in the whole in every part therof and consequeÌ„tly that their neighbours of Rome had bestowed their pains better which they have spent in proving perswading that they caÌ„not erre in providing caring more not to have erred They acknowledge that there is sufficient doctrine in Scripture for salvation though to the antient vsages of the Church writings of the fathers they yeeld due reverence Three things in the Pope they condemne especially his pride in arrogating of so exorbitant a iurisdiction over all Churches contrarie to the decrees of antitient Counsels vpon no shadow of right or good foundation but chiefly in vsurping that temporall tyranny over Princes the States in deposing of the one disposing of the other at his absolute pleasure his cruelty in persecuting other Christians with such extremity for their different opinions his presuÌ„ption in mounting to the seate of God by dispencing with the lawe of God granting pardon for sin liberty out of Purgatory which they accouÌ„t to be of those royal prerogatives incident to God only For as for the doctrinal foundations of these indulgences the overplus of merits satisfactions in some being more theÌ„ they needed or then were to be required of any ioyes of heaven in their particular persons consequently remain as a perpetual treasure to the Church to be conferred by the Pope on his weaker lesser deserving or rather lesse satisfying children for so is their opinion so farre are they from prising mâ—â—ts at such an estimable valew that contrariwise they concurre in assertion with the Protestants that it is impossible for any creature to merite as by way of right the least dramme of reward at his Creators hands the service of ten thousaÌ„d millions of worlds being not able to adde any shadow of perfection to him who is perfection it selfe hauing whatsoever is good or desireable within himselfe even froÌ„ all eternity in infinitie of degrees with impossibility of any the least addition But whatsoever reward is bestowed vpon the Creature floweth forth from the meere bounty gratiousnes of the Creator who as in goodnesse alone meere grace did make him so also in meere grace doth advance him to that high happines That service intermediall which he requireth is a gratious disposition of sweetest harmony from the inexplicable wisdome of a Lord Father still abounding inlarging his hands in all bounty goodnesse towards his sons and servants destined to no others then to the creatures meere benefit advancement only that by his requisite indevors in those honorable waies of wisdom vertue of love thankfulnesse of imitating of his Maker in doing good in the world he may growe to a higher degree of glorie which is proposed reserved by that great rewarder in the height of the heavens as a full finall accomplishment of his whole deserts as the Crovvne of his celestial blessednesse Now as in this opinion they agree in generall vvith Protestants doctrine so do they mightily dissent from that doctrine touching the eternall counsels of God vvhich Calvine as some conceive first reveiled or rather introduced into the vvorld And since some of his friends and fellovves have seconded as thinking it very iniurious to the goodnes of God directly immediatly opposite to his nature in regard vvhereof one of their Bishops hath vvritten a booke against it vvhich hath bin sent to Geneva and there receiued Thus much of their doctrine vvhich though it may better and fuller be taken out of their Bookes yet have I thought not inconvenient to deliver this in briefe hovv I have found them also in speech and conference affected 55 Their Liturgies for the most parte are those three I have named all which they vse for varieties sake in the severall feasts and times allotted for them For the forme and ceremonies they much resemble the Latines though of the two the French Masse more than the Italian not onely in their holy bread but especially in their Altar which with great misterie as is said they both inclose from the people that the Arcana of those their ineffable crossings and convertings may not bee prostituted and Polluted by vnsanctified view whereas the Romanes lie open on all sides to all eyes In their hoast they vse leaven which the Latines avoyde They elevate it forward which the Latines doe backeward and neare the bodie of the Church which the other doe at the Altar In their crossings they are verie plentifull but herein swarving from the Latines The Greeke who is more nimble therein beginneth his crosse on the right side and the Latines on the left each with his severall mysterie They have also a shifting in one and the same Masse from one Altar to another which the Latins have not who contrariwise haue in a Church a dozen Masses sometimes all going at once at severall Altars which the Grecians vse not for ought I could see they have much adoe with their lights in putting them out and in againe at severall times and parts of their service their Liturgy is much intermedled with singing performed in a tune neither artificial nor altogether neglected but grave alternated branched with diuers parts At the Creede the Priests come forth to the doore of the chancels hold vp a little imbrodered picturé of Christ towards which they do reverence and pronounce their be liefe Their gesture or reverence are the very same with the Iewes standing vp and bowing forwardes their bodies at times for kneeling they vse none save only as they say one day in the yeare At there comming they bow themselves thriâ—e toward the Altar and three times crosse themselves at their departure having taken their holy bread with kissing their Prelats hands from whom they receive it they finally salute the pictures of Christ our Lady kissing their hands which are plated over with mettall for wearing But the Grecians pictures of Christ of our Lady are nothing like the Latines but as different as any two ordinarie faces that a man shall see The most vniformity therin that I have seene is with vs in England For in Italy there is little especially of our Lady whose very pictures which they say S. Luke himselfe partly did drawe partly begun an Angel did finish may argue