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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67131	The state of Christendom, or, A most exact and curious discovery of many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the times written by Henry Wotten ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1657 (1657)	Wing W3654; ESTC R21322	380,284	321

mee best to bee followed For since mens consciences ought to be free and at libertie since no man may rightfully be deprived of the benefit and ●ommoditie of his Conntry without some off●nce committed worthy of ban●shment since the life and wellfare of their Subj●cts is recommended unto Princes since the fault that is committed by their Sufferance cannot be well punished without great prejudice unto their honor and reputation and briefly since the life may be more beneficial then the death of such Subjects unto their Kings it should undoubtedly be great Tyranny to deprive them either of their lives or of their Country But we are commanded in the Scriptures to r●ject him that is an Heretick after one or two admonitions Wee are told that he that will not be obedient unto the Church must be unto us as an Heathen man or a Publican And we are willed to take heed 〈◊〉 no man deceive us and that we keep not company with such men how then shall the religious converse with the Reprobate How shall the Papist live with the Protestant And how can a Prince maintain both in one Kingdome in one City in one Town in one house This is all that can be alleaged against us out of the word of God and by these words the Protestants are not commanded to shun the Papists nor the Papists to avoid the Protestan●s only we are all in general taught to beware of vain Philosophers of men delighting in many speeches of such as with vanity of words excuse sins and mock at at the Menaces and judgements of God we are forbidden to give any credit to their Philosophie and humane reasons to put any confidence in their Traditions in their Fables to be moved any thing at all with their Miracles to participate with them in their Doctrine and Ceremonies and to admit them to conference or communication with us this commandement stretcheth not unto men varying somwhat from us in Religion these words forbid not the true worshippers of God to converse with them that worship God truly but not in the ●●me manner in all respects as they do For if this were a general commandement then all men not being well instructed or perswaded in Religion should not be admitted into the company of Christians The Church of God from the beginning hath withstood and infringed this commandement yea our Saviour Iesus Christ should seem to have given contrary commandements ●nto his Apostles unto his Disciples For when he willed them to go and preach his word unto all Nations as well unto the Iewes as unto the Gentiles unto the b●leivers as unto the unbeleiving Is not this Commandement contrary unto the former Or could they as they were commanded teach the Infidels or instruct the ignorant without conversing with them did not he whose word is a Lanthon unto our Feet whose life must be our guide whose Actions must be our imitation daily converse with Publicans with Pharises with Sadduces with all sorts of people never having respect of men nor careing of what profession they were because the end of his coming was to save the Sinner and to conver● the Infidel And hath he not said that two shall be in one bed whereof the one shall be received and the other rejected And doth not this saying import that the true Christians shall converse with the Schism●ticks of the world Did not Abell live with Cain untill he was murthered by Cain Did not Seth and Enoch both beleiving in God dwell amongst the other Children of Adam who lived without Religion without any knowledge of God Abraham was commanded by God to leave his native Country and to go to seek a new Habita●ion amongst men not knowing nor worshiping of God Isaack swore friendship and Alliance with Abimelech an Infidel and Iacob dwelt with Laban an Idolator ●ut these and the Prophets of God were men so well instructed in Gods word so affected thereunto so willing to observe every Precept thereof and so unwilling to give any occasion of offence in what Company soever they came that they lived in peace with all men they exhorted all men unto peace and there was no man so ungodly that could receive any loss detriment scandal or offence by their company Men are not so in these daies And therefore the like effects will not follow of their company And yet in these dai●s the unbeleiving may not onely but are also commanded to abide with the believers and the believers are enjoyned to dwell with the unbelieving for the woman that hath an husband that believeth not if he be content to dwell with her let her not sai●h the Scripture forsake him for the unbelieving husband is sanct●fied by his wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband becau●e t●e Faith of the believer hath more power to sanctifie Mariage then the w●ckedness of the other to pollute it And the Scripture goeth further saying what knowest thou O wife whether thou shalt save thy husband Or what knowest thou O man whether thou shalt save thy wife Why then there cometh a benefit by suffering the Reprobate to converse with the Religious the Faith of the one may sanctifie the other and the b●l●ever may chance to save him that believeth not and were it not th●n impious wicked and irreligious to deprive the one of the societie and of the instructions of the othe● But they will not live together in p●ace and quietness How know you that or what shall cause variance betwixt them forsooth the varietie of their Religion But may not they be forbidden to argue of matters of Religion and take away all kinde of dispu●ation and argument and do you not therewithall remove all cause of cont●ntion know you not that knowledg comet● partly by hearing and if they should heare one another with mildness and modestie would not the Faith of the believers be able to confound and confute the Infidelitie of them that beli●ve not the prayer of a righteous man availeth much as it was seen by Elias who being a man subject to the like Passions as we are prayed earnestly that it might not raine and it rained not on the Earth for three years and six months and he prayed againe and the Heaven gave Raine and the E●●th brought forth her Fruit. The prayer of Fai●h shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up and if he have committed any sin it shall be forgiven him If then by prayer raine is staied and raine may be procured if by prayer he●lth be restored and sin be forgiven shall not the prayer of the faithfull availe much or shall not the Infidel be benefited or saved by their prayer faith is the g●ound of things that are hoped for and ●he evidence of things that are not seen By faith Abell offered unto God a greater Sacrifice the Caine. By faith Enoch was taken away that he should not see death By faith Noah being warned of Go● of the things that

gracious Queen Elizabeth hath hitherto enjoyed that it lieth not in the ambitious Spaniard nor in the proud Prelate of Rome her mortal enemies her sworn and professed adversaries to shorten her days but one day or one minute Their wishes are on earth but cannot ascend to heaven they may purpose but not dispose they have often desired but could never prevail they have suborned many but never found nor shall find any that shall be able to accomplish their desire the Axe may be layed to the root of the Tree but it shall not have power to fell it the Lyon perhaps may go about to seek his prey but he shall never find it the divel as a divel may provoke and procure his instruments to be ready to further his attempts but Gods Angels attending on her person having a care of her health and a special charge of her safety will not permit divellish ministers to have the least power that may be over her The Rule and Government of Women is rare and omnia rara sunt chara Their Sex is weak and the Almighty hath promised to be the Protector of the infirm and weak Their capacity is not answerable to mans policy and the Lord hath said that his elect shall not be confounded with humane wisdom he hath said and we may swear That heaven and earth shall sooner perish then his word shall fail Why then do the Princes rage Why then do the Pope and the King of Spain fret and fume against the Lords Anointed Against his chsen Vessel Against his dear Virgin Why the cause is the Lords and he will try it he will end and determine it Is it because she upholdeth and defendeth the Spaniards afflicted and oppressed Subjects Why therefore she was ordained therefore the Lord preserveth her Is it because she liveth in peace and they in wars Why the Almighty hath blessed the Peace-makers and hath vowed to be the Protector and Patron of as many as love peace Is it because her subjects rebel not against her as theirs do Why that is an express and manifest sign of their evil and her good Government Is it because she withstandeth their attempts and purposes Why she medleth not with their doings but with such as tend to her hinderance and those it is both lawful and honourable for her to cross and prevent Briefly Is it because the wisest Princes and Subjects of the world favour her more then them Why that is because their actions are not in any respect equal or comparable unto hers for they pretend one thing and intend another her thoughts and pretensions do alwaies agree together They would seem to love Peace and yet dwell continually in wars she seeketh peace and embraceth it They combine themselves and employ their strength and Forces against Christian Religion she useth her power to no mans detriment or destruction Briefly they do or would usurp more then belongeth unto them and she requireth no more then is her own That such is her mind desire and purpose is most apparent to all the world because when she might have had the Soveraignty and universal Government of Flanders she accepted it not when she might have excluded the Spaniard out of the possession of his rich and wealthy Indies she deprived him not of them And when as her Forces are sufficient to disturb his whole Realms of Portugal and Spain she employeth them not to his disturbance But In magnis voluisse sat est She hath assaulted the Indies attempted the conquest of Portugal and assayed what her Forces could do in Spain It cannot be denyed but that her Majesty hath done as much and perhaps more then is said but not before she was provoked thereunto neither with a mind so much to prejudice the Spaniard as to provide for her own safety For when Sir Francis Drake with such Forces as he and his friends with a very slender help from her Highness had provided happily spoiled part of the Indies and returned thence with no smal prey if he had gone thitherward somwhat sooner then he did better furnished then he was with a larger commission then he had al which lay in her Majesty to have granted him undoubtedly either the season of the year or the number of his ships or the largenes of his Authority would both have encouraged and also enabled him to have done those her Highness enemies much more and greater despight then he did But as wise men going about a great piece of work and finding when they have begun the same that their ability will not serve to accomplish it sit down and study what ways to take and how to put those ways in execution for the full perfection of their enterprise So her Highness having so mighty an enemy as the Spaniard whose Attempts and purposes it was necessary for her own security to cross and prevent And finding that her Treasure was not comparable to his wealth especially seeing he attempted divers ways to annoy her and purposed to weary her with length of time and variety of expences resolved with her self that it could not be amiss to permit her loving Subjects to adventure some part of their wealth and a small portion of her own Treasure in●hope to bring from the Indies much more then they carried thither The which her Resolution being put in practise found the same event which was expected and the sequel thereof sufficiently declared that a greater Navy well furnished with sufficient men and good store of Victuals and Munition might then and may yet put her Majesty in quiet possession of the richest and best part of the Indies But it sufficeth her Highness to try the Forces of those Countries to acquaint her Sea men and Souldiers with the way thither to give them a taste of the Indian wealth and to make her power known as well unto the Inhabitants of those remote Countries as of other nearer Regions of the world who thought too basely of her strength and carried too good a conceipt of her Adversaries might and puissance And finally to fetch from her mortal enemies own Dominions some Treasure wherewith to withstand the Rancor and extremity of his malice In which Action her Majesty fully and wisely imitated the example of the Florentines who fearing that Pope Iulius the second would war upon them for consenting unto that Counsel which divers Cardinals with the consent and furtherance of the French King and other Princes had summoned against him and thinking it convenient to defray the charges of Wars moved in defence of Church-men with Church goods seized upon so much of the Clergies goods as they thought would suffice for the maintenance of those Wars Even so her Highness hearing that the Spaniard had a long time prepared to invade her Realm and being well assured that as soon as he could be well able he would send the same preparation towards England held it expedient and necessary to seek all means possible whereby