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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90668	St Paul's late progres upon earth, about a divorce 'twixt Christ and the Church of Rome, by reason of her dissolutenes and excesses. With the causes of these present commotions 'twixt the Pope, and the princes of Italy. A new way of invention agreeable to the times. Published by James Howell, Armig.; Divortio celeste. English.	Pallavicino, Ferrante, 1615-1644.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1644 (1644)	Wing P212; Thomason E1174_2; ESTC R203120	41,006	172

do terminat in acts of simple defense Now what would Christ have said who told his Disciples O you of little Faith why have you doubted rebuking the weaknes of their Faith and consequently of their fear when the boat was toss'd with waves and upon point of sinking In such a confusion Rome was involv'd at this time and tydings therof comming to Hell the chiefest Cacodaemons began to sit in Councell and one amongst the rest smoak'd out this following speech Brethren the state of the Roman Hierarchy is now in apparant danger it is not fitting we should suffer a friends Kingdom to perish for therby ther would follow some reformation in Christianity which would hinder the peopling of this Kingdome Therfore we must lend our wonted help and Counsels since that the pusillanimity of Vrban can do little good At these words ther starts out a Daemon that was most practis'd in policy amongst them all and offring to support the common cause he took a flight to Earth and came invisibly to the soul of Vrban who was in extreme anguish and us'd this speach Vrban what dost dost thou behold thy temporall dominion is tumbling down thy mundane greatnes is upon point of extinguishing what dost thou pawse upon fear cannot repair thy losses nor thy squandred and baffled squadrons thy honor it is needfull to have recourse to craft Empires use to be conserved by the same artifices they are got Treat of an accommodation propose hostages and promise restitution In the mean time the Dukes forces may waste break thy word what matters it it will not be the first time Thou art a Pope And so canst dispense with Oaths as thou shalt think most convenient This parly the Demon held with Vrban who immediatly followed his counsell In fine Hell oftentimes executes that which Heaven determines but for differing ends The Princes of the League might in this confusion and tremblings of Rome have seized upon the whole State Ecclesiastick The Duke of Modena might have gain'd the City of Ferrara to which he hath so just pretensions The Duke of Florence might have made himself Master of the Duchy of Vrbino the Fees therof appertaining to his House by dotall right The Republick of Venice might have vindicated those outrages which have bin so often offer'd her upon her confines Lastly those colleagu'd Princes might have redeem'd from Papall tyranny the unhappy vassals throughout all the Roman dominion Now the omnipotent Majesty saith since these Princes cannot husband the opportunity which Heaven offreth them I decree for the punishment of their irresolution that the setling of peace be prolong'd and that in the interim Vrban have means by a new breach of faith to work upon their credulity So the counsels of Hell joyning with the Decrees of Heaven Vrban the eight by the mediation of Cardinall Spada sword found a way to spin out the busines at length and to amuse the Duque till his Troops which could not be idle being diminished by these dead delayes he was inforc'd to abandon the enterprise having reap'd no other fruit by this march but the glory to have displayed his colours almost in the face of Rome In this case I left the affairs of Italy when to stay no longer on Earth I reascended to Heaven whither I came in a fit conjuncture of time for amongst those bliss'full spirits it was discours'd that a proposition was made in Rome to lay hands upon Sixtus his Tombe every one concluding that these garboiles would much redound to the expence of the Church and consequently to the exhasting of Peters patrimony And Saint Peter concurring in the same opinion with the rest went one day before the Lord with his hand upon his cheek crying out oh Sir The Barberini who have unsheath'd the Ecclesiastick sword in lieu of hurting the Enemy have hit me upon this eare wherunto the Lord said that he understood well what he alluded unto The time was that Peter with the armes of the Church cut off Malchus his eare and now it is not to be wondred at if to fulfill the Law of retaliation the Barberini with the same armes cut off a member of Saint Peters this being said the Lord turn'd towards me and commanding me to him said I intend now to come to the expedition of the Spouse therfore go and retrieve Paul and tell him from me that he consigne the Processe to you which he hath already framed which you shall cause to be publish'd that in case she will defend her self she may produce her proofs Let Paul in the interim continue his sojourne on Earth and make an inquisition upon all cloyster'd Regulars that when the Divorce is granted the world may know who are spurious and who are my true and legitimat children {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A CAVEAT TO THE Knowing Reader EVery Language hath certain Idiomes Proverbs and peculiar expressions of it's own which are not rendible in any other therfore he over-acts the office of an Interpreter who doth servilize himself too strictly to words and phrases I have heard of an excesse amongst Limmers call'd Too much to the life when one aymes at similitude more then skill So in version of Languages one may be so over-punctuall in words that he may marre the matter The greatest fidelity that can be in a Translator is to keep entire the true genuine sense and designe the Author drives at And this was the thing chiefly observ'd in this version Moreover think it not strange that ther are some Italian words made free denizons of England in this Discours for by such means our Language hath grown to be so copious and grows every day more rich by adopting or natularizing rather the choicest forren words of other Nations as a Nosegay is us'd to be made out of a tuff of flowers gather'd from divers beds and banks I. H. FINIS

me to traverse the world up and down in that manner I bethinking my self of Heaven answered my Country most gentle Sister is too far distant from this place and wherunto few of this Region arrive Touching the fancy that leads me thus to traverse up and down the world it is no other then a curiosity which often drawes youthfull lightnes to neglect their own profit and to regard others Foolish youthfulnes which canst not learn how to value thy Countries good but afar off then I added happy are they who never departing from within the Paradise of these holy wals seem as so many Angels alwayes appearing before the face of God She being as full of spirit as she was of beauty answered thus O how many os us would willingly change our Paradise for your Peregrination wherfore then do you complain so causlesly of your Travels which being no other then the motions of a civill life it cannot chuse but be so much the sweeter to elevated minds by how much the higher the motions of their souls are Behold the Sun behold the Planets which never staying still in one place delight to be continuall Travellers in the Vnivers I being much taken with the vivacity of her spirit replyed It is true Lady that the Sun and the Planets are in a kind of continuall peregrination but ther are in Heaven fixed Stars also which because haply they are more noble are superior to the other and consequently nearer to the Throne of the Almighty Those Nuns then who to serve God are alwayes permanent in one place like the fixed Stars may more then any other Mortals comfort themselves with an assurance that they are nearer God The beautuous mayden sigh'd at these words and then answered God I deny not dwels nearer to the fixed Stars but not to desperat souls And now you discover your self to be a true stranger that you are not acquainted with our miserable condition The cruelty of our parents and the rigor of our destiny hath penn'd us in here for ever the Church of Rome concurring herunto by admitting any pretext whatsoever bear with me Sir that I speak thus It is a hard fate to be borne to a perpetuall prison while 't is seen that all other living creatures have the whole world to solace themselves in And that prison which it seems the very Infants do fly from when they sally out of their mothers wombs before they have as it were any sense of life we are constrain'd to endure after that nature hath given-us the perfect use of sense and life and the knowledge of our own miseries the destiny of that Mortall must needs be a hard one who is born to live in restles infelicity This Cloyster which surrounds our liberty is not as you imagine a Paradise for in Paradise there dwels no discontentment It is rather a Hell where in the flames of inextinguishible desire the naturall affections of our humanity are condemn'd to be tortur'd every minute I will not stand to expresse the cause why our Parents are so inhumanly cruell unto us for it is too well known that for to spare that dowry which is due to our sex they condemne us 'twixt these wals to be depriv'd for ever of any worldly delight for no other cause but because we are borne women Yet you must know that the shutting us thus by force between these stones cannot deprive us of those carnall affections which may well be cover'd but not quench'd in that religious habit which you see about us Nor can this kind of life conduce to Heaven considering ther is no concurrence of the will which is so acceptable to the all-knowing Lord We are rather destinated to an Abisse by a cours clean contrary to our genius being bereft also of that common priviledge which other souls use to have to go to Hell what way they please In ancient times it was the custom to slay the Victimes first and then sacrifice them to good because haply the principall Seat of the corporeall affections lying in the bloud 't was not held convenient to offer his divine Majesty any Holocaust which was not first purg'd by effusion of that bloud from all earthly passions But this is not observ'd in us by our Parents who do make sacrifices of us with all our bloud and passions about us then how can we beleeve that it is gratefull to God and being not gratefull to him consider in what a despair our souls are plung'd in which see themselves shut out of the world here without any assurance to enter Heaven herafter in regard we have not power to extinguish our naturall affections and so are in danger to precipitat our selves headlong into Hell through a kind of suppos'd innocence If Christ died to reduce us to such a hard condition O how better were it for us that he had not died Be not offended O stranger at these words for the toungs of the damned can bring forth nothing but blasphemies Yet we know that Christ hath no hand in this our hard condition for his death had for it 's principall object the freedome and enlargement of souls not their captivity The Popes are most in fault by yeelding to the cruell covetousnes of our Parents to transvert the keyes of Paradise iuto the keyes of a prison It was not Christ no it was the impiety of Herod that by reason of the humanation of our Saviour caus'd so many Innocents to be slain Behold we are in a case equall to theirs because we being yet innocent children under a mark of holines we are segregated and cut off from the society of the living ther being no difference 'twixt us and them but that they died before buriall and we are buried before death Nor can our innocency or our fears prevaile any thing nor are those priviledges sufficient which nature hath granted these faces of ours for which peradventure you stiled us Angels to implore from others piety any succour having found the Church of Rome so ingratefull while we consider that the time was when Saint Peter was freed by an Angell out of prison but now clean contrary Angels are cast into prison by the Successors of Saint Peter But whither doth the violence of a just passion transport me thus to rave Helas the name of Angels doth not suit with our condition and lesse with our operations For although we are brought Innocents hither yet we cannot preserve our selves long in this Monastick life from the motions of desperat passions The Religion which clap'd us in here is not ador'd but detested by some of us vanity and feminine wantonnes is here in the height Here dwels curiosity in exces and desire of knowledge in worldly matters without end Ambition envy discord and hatred is never wanting amongst us Lastly her 's observ'd neither constitution Law or vow but out of pure necessity and unavoydable violence But what shall I say of that mayden chastity for the conservation