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A11467	Europæ speculum. Or, A vievv or survey of the state of religion in the vvesterne parts of the world VVherein the Romane religion, and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same, are notably displayed: with some other memorable discoueries and memorations, never before till now published according to the authours originall copie.	Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629.	1629 (1629)	STC 21718; ESTC S116680	134,835	260

plain words of that Law which was written by the finger of God with their speculatiue playsters of distinguishing betweene the Images of the true God and the Idolls of false Gods of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of intention instrumentall and finall in worship All which are the unsavourest druggs to the Iew in the world who saith there was never Nation yet so blockish under the sunne as to worship a stock and stone as a finall object but onely as a representation of some absent divinitie and that the Heathen them selues call them every where the Effigies and Simulachra of other yet such Effigies as that the divine power by his vertue did somtime inhabite and worke miracles by even as our Lady doth in her Images in infinite places of Christendome whereby if the poore Idiot were deceived among the Pagans to think some-times that very Image some divine matter or person as cleere is it that the like befalls infinite simple Christians seeing theyr Images eyther to grow or to weepe and bleed as they do often and so infinite cures wrought by viewing or touching them And for theyr degrees of worship betweene Gods Images and the Saincts they cannot perceiue them they kneele to them alike they pray to them alike they vow to them alike they incense thē alike they burn candles to thm alike they cloth thē alike they offer gifts to thē alike the difference if it be any is in their mentall affections which whether the blunt undistinguishing witts of the vulgar do obserue they suppose a small measure of discretion may conjecture In like sort for theyr distinction betweene the Images of the true God and of false Gods they tell them that in other cases that might haue this use but none in this Law it being expounded in other places as prohibiting this base sensuall and seducing kind of worshipping even God himselfe by an Image if any Image of God were possible to bee made that thus the Law it selfe doth plainely deliver thus they which received the Law understood it thus all theyr holy Auncestours and learned Doctours haue still interpreted and thus hath their Nation in all ages believed And therefore they say for theyr comming to the Christian Sermons that as long as they shall see the Preacher direct his speech and prayer to that little wooden Crucifix which stands on the Pulpit by him to call it his Lord and Saviour to kneele downe to it to embrace and kisse it to weepe upon it as is the fashion of Italy this is preaching sufficient for them and perswades them more with the very sight of it to hate Christian Religion than any reason that the world can alleage to loue it And these bee the scandalls which as I haue heard them selues alleage they take on that side besides their Transubstantiation which they can at no hand disgest The particular scandall from the Protestants is their mutuall dissention which they hold to proceed from the want of the Vnitie of truth in theyr foundation otherwise saue for their generall exceptions against Christianitie they hold their Religion very conformable to the Law of Nature which they accompt the principall But were all the unneedfull scandals in those parts removed yet is there no good meanes there of the Iews conversion They complaine first that the New Testament being the ground of our Religion they cannot see it That Italian 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 such as they can understand With Greeke and Latine their Nation never medled Besides which the Inquisitours haue inhibited and taken from them all Bookes that were published in that theame on eyther side as well those that haue beene written in defence of Christian Religion as the contrarie against it alleaging they will haue no disputing in matter of Religion eyther way much like to an Edict set up at Dola in the Franch County where the Iesuites reside forbidding any talke of God eyther in good sort or bad Then lastly for those few Sermons they are bound to repaire-to seldome where I haue beene are they directed to the Iews or to the poincts they stick on but hold on their usuall tenour as respecting more the Christians The last encouragement to men especially of their mettall is that at their conversion to Christianitie they must quit theyr goods to the Christians And the reason is for that in Baptisme they renounce the devill and all his works part wherof are the Iews goods being gotten eyther by them selues or by their Auncestors with Vsurie Now this is such a cold comfort to a man set on the world as that Nation is wonderfully that for my part I haue not heard of any converted in those parts saue some few Physicians with some of theyr children who by friendship from the Pope haue obteined dispensation to reteine theyr goods still in as much as they were gotten by theyr honourable profession But if on the contrary side the Christians would againe in theyr Charitie giue somewhat for the competent enterteinment of such as for Gods sake did giue up theyr owne I could not but well commend that rigour of Iustice which the bountifulnesse of this Mercie did intigate and assweeten But being no such matter there remains nothing fof a Iew converted but to bee Friered a trade which of all other they least can fancie as being contrary as they alleage to nature it selfe which hath made man sociable and each helpefull unto other in all civill duties a trade never commanded or commended by God never practised or counselled by their renowmed Ancestors who received cōtinual instruction inspiration from aboue which none of their Patriarchs or Prophets haue given example of only in three or foure thousand yeers ELIAS and some one other haue bene found upon very extraordinary cause to haue taken also an extraordinary course of life though of other nature and to other purpose than the Votaries of our times And these are the tearmes that the Iews stand in in those parts and so must I leaue them to the mercifull cure of God an unblessed and forsaken people obstinate with in and scandalized with-out indefatigable in theyr expectation untractable in perswasion worldly yet wre●ched received of theyr enemies but despised and hated scattered over all Countries but no where planted dayly multiplying in number but to the encrease of their servitude not of their power in summe a long continued and marked example of Gods just seueritie to abate theyr pride that glorie even as they in theyr Auncestours and Founders Gods Temple and Oracles many promises and praerogatiues long continuance in honourable estate and glorie which things were they sufficient to preserue any sea in the world even their seat had bene preserued by them to proclaim to the whole world that there is no assurance of the favour protection and assistance of God

no lesse than his head-piece And as by these kind of sclaunders so also the more to harden mens minds against them they will tell of straunge miracles that haue befallen them A Poinct wherewith the Pulpits of Fraunce also do ring dayly where in the siege of Paris they were growne to that audaciousnesse as to perswade the people there who generally believed it that the thunder of the Popes excommunications had so blasted the Haeretiks that theyr faces were growne black and ougly as Divels theyr Eys and looks ghastly their breaths noysome and pestilent Much like to one of the Servi di Madonna at Bolonia whom I heard in Pulpit among a multitude of moderne miracles which had fallen out to their punishment who were excommunicated the continuing wherin a yeere without seeking absolution incurre suspition of Haeresie tell this also of an haereticall gentleman of Polonia who talking at a solemne dinner against the Pope the bread on his trencher grew black as inke and upon his repentance and conversion returned to his former whitenesse A thing happ'ned but lately and reported by the Polonish Ambassadour to a Cardinall by the Cardinall to a Bishop by the Bishop to this Frier An imitation perhaps of that renowmed miracle of eating tables for hunger threatned by that winged Prophetesse with like deduction of credit Quae Phoebo pater omnipotens mihi Phoebus Apollo Praedixit vobis Furiarum ego maxima pando And these things are in steed of refuting the Protestants Religion which are not in vaine For the vulgar sort who belieue as they say in God and the Pope thinke all to be Gospell that their Friers tell them And I haue heard some conjecture at others to be Lutherans onely by reason they were so monstrous blasphemers as they were But all are not of that stamp those gentlemen and other who haue travailed abroad and those also at home that are not passionatly blind but discreet and inquisitiue of the truth of all things howsoever dissenting from them yet haue no such hard conceipt of the Protestants opinions or actions But the most straunge thing as to me it seemed of all other is that those principall writers who haue employed themselues wholly in refuting frō point to point the Protestants doctrine argumēts are so rare in Italy as by ordinary enquirie I belieue not to be found The Controversies of Cardinall BELLARMINE I sought for in Venice in all places Neither that nor GREGORIE of Valenza nor any of such qualitie could I ever in any shop of Italy set eye on but in steed of them an infinite of meere invectiues and declamations Which made me entertein this suspicious conjecture that it might be their care that no part of the Protestants positions and allegations should be knowne they were so exact as to make diseurrent in some sort even those very books which were constreined to recite them that they might refute them in such wise as not to suffer them to be commonly salable but only to such or in such places as the superiours should thinke meet But the truth of this conjecture I leaue to farther enquirie The conclusion is this no sound of the reformed Religion eyther stirring in Italy or by any humaine wit now possible to bee raised For to bring in from forrein places any haereticall writing though it were without malice were two yeers streight imprisonment as they say if he so escaped So farre are they from their aduersaries either simplicitie if their cause be bad or honestie if good who not onely in most of their replies print both together to giue meanes of indifferencie in judgeing to the reader but euen permit their aduersaries yet unanswered disputes to runne current among them so they be in the latine and not purposely written as some are to misdraw the multitude It remaineth now to restraine the Italians from going abroad to forreine Country's where those contagious sounds and sights might infect them Herein the nature of the Italian doth supply who wonders at us Englishmen that come traueiling so far thither him selfe hauing no humour to stir one foot abroad and indeed little needing considering how all Nations of Christendome do flock to him But not so for Merchants these flye abroad in exceeding abundance to all places and in wealth where-ever they come over-top all other such is theyr skill theyr witt theyr industrie theyr parsimonie Behold then this Popes late exploit also for that poinct He hath by his printed Bull under paine of excommunication forbidden them all repaire for traffike to haereticall countries Whereupon some as I heare are retired from England and other in other places are said to haue importuned and obteined some out-Chappell to haue their Masse in Thus hath every gap his bush each suspition his prevention One thing only remaineth as a garland to all the rest It were an hard state and a tyrannicall where the Superiours should assume to them selues all licence of doing and not permit to the inferiours at least-wise libertie of speaking which is but a slender revenge For so great a wrong as ill government yet such as by giving vent to the boyling fumes of hatred doth evaporate and asslake that heat which otherwise would flame out into furic and mischiefe For which cause the wisest men haue bene always best pleased that loosers should haue their words and they who haue endevoured to bridle mens tongues by sharp laws whom they rather should haue charmed and held in tune by their own integritie haue learned that things violent are seldome permanent and that the enjoyning of too much patience makes men breake into madnesse Yea I haue heard men of great experience and judgment say that the best way to reconcile the Country enmities is to let the good men chide a while hartily together and their stomacks being once disgorged a peaceable motion wil find good audience so necessarie are these evaporations to the minds of the multitude which may serue for some justification of the wisdome of the Papacie in those former free times when they did and other said what each humour advized But little was it then feared which since hath followed Little was it imagined that the time should come when the world awakened by the cries of a Frier should looke about so broadly and search so narrowly all the plaits and hidden corners of the Papacie what their doctrine had bene what their liues what their scopes and what their practises Not so many of the consecrated divine Patrons of the Romane state with thousands of prayers and vowes daily adored nor so many of theyr enshrined and miracle-working Images to whom such store of lampes and pure candles were dayly burning so much incense perfumed so long and toylsome Pilgrimages performed such abundance of gifts and glad offerings presented on whom lastly so many so devout so humble both bowed knees and hung-downe heads and beaten breasts and life uppe eyes attended did ever fore-tell so notable a calamitie It was