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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04415	A relation of the late iourney of the Iesuites, banished out of the kingdomes of Bohemia and Hungaria; Relatio nuperi itineris proscriptorum Jesuitarum ex regnis Bohemiae et Ungariae missa ex Helicone juxta Parnassum. English.		1620 (1620)	STC 14537; ESTC S121301	17,224	38

France and there not onely swarme in the Iesuite Colleges but also creepe into the Kings Court and Counsell and so domineere that no man dare open his lippes against them Thus the Iesuites flew out of the countrey as it were with the wings of Peggasus and no maruell for no man would hold vp his finger to stay them whether Papist or Protestant The Superior Commanders among the Iesuites rid thus in pompe but the ordinary frye of them did laky it out on foot and carried euery one his pack at his backe and these were as proud as their masters that ridde and would be thought to imitate the Apostles and as they went in Procession they chaunted a Letany to saint Rorspine making the faberdum of their song Nunc dimittis Seruos tuos Domine whereto Germany sung an Ecco Iusta sunt iuditia tua Domine Thus I haue deliuered in briefe the relation of the sending of the Iesuites of Bohemia and Hungary on a long arrante to Saint Rorspine whereto I adde nothing else but that it is hoped that all Germany wil furnish their Waggons with all their Iesuits to follow their Fellowes on this iourney the eyes of great many of the greatest haue bene long time hoodwinked and the darke night cast ouer them but now that vaile vanisheth and cleare light appearing discouereth the danger which hangeth ouer the Empire so that now small brabling controuersies being laidaside the Princes of the Empire wil haue an eye to the publick forasmuch as they see that all this danger and mischiefe doth arise from the Iesuites why should not they begin at the right end with casting them out and it being euident that these are spies and vnderminers for the aduancing the Spanish Monarchy Why should they not be more iealous of them then of the Ottoman Empire Spaine boasteth that the Empire of the West is due to them by destinie vpon this hope they which had their beginnings from the Mores and Sarizens goe on to worke their owne ends by their bloudy Inquisitions This creeping Gangreine must be cut off lest it grow to farre in the Low Countries in Italy France and England What Priuy Counsels of State are there in Germany vnreuealed to the Spaniard Where hath he not in other countries his Pensioners for intelligence and his partie among the Counsellors of State linked to him with a golden chaine What Diets or publike meetings haue we the secrets whereof are not knowne to the Spaniard as well as to them that sit in those Parliaments A thing most pernicious to our States and dishonourable to the name of Germany What Prince or people is there of the reformed Religion whom the Spaniard doth not thinke he hath as iust cause to ruine as to quell the Turkes or Pagans Nor is this iust feare to be found in Protestants but it concernes them also that are pure Roman Catholikes Were not the Fredirankes Othoes and Henries thinke you good Catholikes yet drunke they of this cuppe They that will not beleeue that all the Bishoprickes in the Empire were promised by the Spaniard to the Iesuites They that would rather haue the Spaniard rule ouer them then a Caluinist or Lutheran Prince let them expect the reward which he gaue to the Neopolitans and Portugales Vestram animam pertranscibit gladius the Iesuites Creede is that there is one God one Pope and one Catholike or Vniuersall King Be wise O yee Kings yee haue an enemy as full of gold as Midas who hath in readinesse in diuers Garrisons for any exploite thirty thousand Spaniards all olde beaten Souldiers Moreouer he sends out his Firebrandes into Europe Affrica Asia and America and into the East and West Indies also He commandeth Lucitanta with the most fertill Iles and Kingdomes of Oceanus besides Italy and he thirsteth after your prosperitie Your prosperity That sufficeth not but he thirsteth after your bloud hee is potent But hee will neuer disturbe you if these his grounds be broken by vnited forces But O good God! How men are most secure in their dangerousest most hazardablest matters O yee Lords Princes of the Empire if all the Spaniards heare me let them view with a curious eye the Lands situated with long distance of place to which they deny passage they cut off ayde and doe waste all places this is a hard matter but he will put to his hand againe that the Spaniard may bring forth the extreamest of his cruelty and tyrranny that the Subiects lamentably should see the last Act of the Tragedy whose heart doth ake through the feare and horror of the Spaniard that they can desire nothing but occasion how they may gett out of this bondage into their former libertie Let vs see the Belgie destitute of all hope they shaked off his yoake they retained the Field let vs see the Prince of Auratia the huge number of Souldiers hee derideth and explaudeth them and their madde attempts And that I may goe no farther o Princes and Peeres who are yee are yee not Germaines surely altogether the same Now the dignitie and power of the Germaine Empire is not to be measured by the greatnes of Countries and people but by the vnited faith power and fortitude by these but what doe I stand to say it you shall ouercome the Kingdomes of the whole world if yee be of one mind I say your dignitie oh yee Peeres of the Germaine Empire and power are mightie if they be vnited Oh yee States of the Empire doe not suffer that Heroycall vertue and those deuine forces to bee extinct in the Germaynes by which yee haue tamed the whole World but exercise your valiant breastes and vnconquered strength against these Massing Priestes and doe yee all meete and agree in one holy league against your professed and sworne enemies if any generositie or courrage remaine in you shew it but if otherwise I like another Cynicke will laffe at your sluggishnes and Lethorgie and will say that I cride out in vaine to this age which hath a great number of sleepers and very few wakers heare a parradox I will giue you a great precept if you will remaine great Cauete Consulite Vigilate this is only nescessary in this age Hoc agite Thou in the meane while good and courtious Reader be fauorable and fare thou well if there be any pleasant speech let it redound to our loueing Country and also to thy pleasant and fauorable iudgement in the meane time doe not esteeme and thinke it my purpose to speake of any Classicke thing to wheet one and stire vp the Professors of the Gospell against the Catholikes to adde fewell to that publike fier I haue another minde that the sweetenes of concord might shine betweene the Professors of the Gospell and the Catholikes in this Empire which the Iesuitticall and Spanish Clowdes haue not only obscured but almost extinguished these Iesuitticall and Spanish wickednesses haue drawne the speaches from me against my will we vnfainedly imbrace these sincere affection of the rest of the Catholikes in this Empire and with our vnited and conioyned forces as it becommeth bretheren in one Land wee doe seeke remedy for these publike euils I did write with a troubled penne in a troublesome yeare wherein we see that good men are pressed downe and euill men set vp and wicked men pressed downe and good men set vp FINIS