selfe-liking and singularitie to valew theyr owne witts and peculiar devises did cut out in such sort theyr reformation of religion as not onely in all outward religious seruices and ceremonies in government and Church discipline to striue to bee as unlike to the Papacie as was possible but even in very lawfull policies for the advantaging and advauncing of their part to disdaine to seeme to any to bee imitators of theyr wisdome whose wickednesse they so much abhorred much like to a stout-hearted and stiff-witted Captaine who scornes to imitate any stratageme before used by the enemie though the putting it in exploit might giue him assured victorie Neither doe those mens schollars as yet a whit degenerate yea perhaps that disease if with leaue I may so censure it hath tainted in some degree all the protestant partie who never could find the meanes in all this age to assemble a generall Councell of all theyr side for the composing of theyr differences and setting order in their proceedings for want I must confesse of some opportunities but of a great deale of zeale also in their Governours as to me it seemeth Neither yet haue they in any one of all theyr dominions erected any Colledge of meere comtemplatiue persons to confront and oppose against the lesuites but haue left this weightie burthen of clearing the controversies of perfecting the sciences of answering the adversaries writings of exceeding huge travaile either upon their ordinarie ministers to be performed at times of leysure from their office of preaching and they performe it accordingly or upon such as in Vniversities having some larger scope shall willingly and of their owne accord undertake it for some time according to their abode Whereas on the contrarie side the Papacie seems unto me very diligently and attentiuely to haue considered and weighed by what meanes chiefly their adverse part hath growne so fast beyond either their owne expectation or the feare of their enemies as in lesse than an age to haue won perhaps a moietie of their Empire from them and those very means them selues to haue resolved thence-forward to apply in strong practise on their side also that so as by a countermine they may either blow uppe the mines of their adversaries or at least-wise giue them stop from any farther proceeding like a politike Generall who holdeth it the greatest wisdome to out-go his enemie in his owne devises and the greatest valuâ—e to beat him at his owne weapons I will not here presume to presse in with my determination upon this great difference and question although it seeming to me to be no other than a plain quarrell between stomacke and discretion a small dealâ— of wisdome me thinks might decide it especially considering that all good things are from God though they be found in his very enemie and whatsoever is not unjust being used in a good course is good The first and chiefe means whereby the Reformers of Religion did prevail in all places was their singular assiduitie and dexteritie in Preaching especially in great Cities and Palaces of Princes a trade at that time growne cleane in a maner out of use and request whereby the people being ravished with the admiration and loue of that light which so brightly shined unto them as men with the Sunne who are newly drawne from a dungeon did readily follow those who caried so faire a Lamp before them Hereto may be added their publishing of Treatises of Vertue and Pietie of spirituall ex ercises aud devotion which ingendred a firme perswasion in the minds of men that the soile must needs be pure sound and good from whence so sweet so holesome and so heavenly fruiâ—ts had proceeded Now though the opinions of the Papacie and of a great part of the Reformed Religion be as opposite herein well-nigh as heat and cold as light and darknesse the one approving no devotions severed from understanding to be a means often rather to divert or dazle the devotion than to direct and cherish it and for Preaching in like sort the French Protestants making it an essentiall and chiefe part of the service of God whereas the Romanists make the Masse only a work of dutie and the going to a Sermon but a matter of convenience and such as is left free to mens pleasures and opportunities without imputation or sinne yet in regard of the great sway which they haue learned by their losse that these carie in the drawing of mens minds and affections they haue endeavoured in all places in both these kinds to aequall yea and surmount their adversaries For although in multitude of Preachers they greatly come short being an exercise wherein the secular Priests list not distemper their braines much but commend it in a manner wholly to the Regulars and Fryers and these thinking the Country capacities too blockish or otherwise not worth the bestowing of so great cost on doe employ them selues wholly in Cities and other places of greater resort all which they haue great care to haue competently furnished yet in the choyse of them whom they send out to preach in the diligence and paines which they take in theyr Sermons in the ornaments of eloquence and grace of action in their shew of pietie and reuerence towards God of zeale towards his truth of loue towards his people which even with theyr teares they can often testifie they match their adversaries in theyr best and in the rest doe farre exceed them But heerein the Iesuites doe carry the Bell from all other having attained the commendation and working the effect of as perfect Oratours as these times doe yield And of these beside certeyne drawne yeerely by lot to goe preach abroad among Infidels and Hereticks and besides other times of the yeere wherein they preach to theyr Catholiks at Lent in especiall by order from theyr Generall residing at Rome theyr choise Preachers are sent out one to each Citie in Italie with yeerly change And the custome of Italy is for the same man to preach every day in Lent without intermission if their strength will serue them whereof six dayes in the weeke to preach on the Gospells apportioned and the Saturday in honour and praise of our Lady So in theyr yeerely change there is the delight of varietie and in theyr dayly continuing of the same the admiration of industrie Some such like course it is to bee thought that the Iesuites hold also in other Countreys theyr projects being certeine and exactly pursued But wonderfull is the reputation which redounds thereby to theyr order and exceeding the advantage which to theyr side it giveth For Bookes of Prayers and Pietie all Countries are full of them at this day in theyr owne language both to stop in part the out-cry of theyr adversaries against them for emprisoning the people wholly in those darke devotions and specially to win the loue of the world unto them by this more inward and liuely shew of true sanctitie and godlinesse Yea herein they conceiue to haue
I hold in generall too much suspiciousnesse as great a fault and as great an enemie to wisedome as too much credulitie it doing often times hurtfull wrong to friends as the other doth receiue wrongfull hurt from dissemblers yet viewing the short continuance of sworne Leagues at this day the small reckoning that Princes make of Oathes solemnly taken whether to neighbours or subjects not saith but profit beeing the bond of alliance and amitie which altering once the other haue no longer during it making me thinke not unpossible that the Popes unlimited fingers may bee stirring even at this day more often in secret in uniting those knotts of the bonds of conscience than the world is ware of at leastwise that by authoritie and imitation of his example Princes assume unto them selues a like facultie of dispensing with their owne Oathes whensoever they can perswade them selues it is behooffull unto their kingdomes as he when to his Church But howsoever that stands this is very apparent that by this doctrine and policie the Popes opposites and enemies especially the States and Princes of the Reformed Religion are inestimably praejudiced beeing reduced hereby to a continuall incerteintie and confusion in all their weightiest actions counsells and resolutions there being a warrant dormant for all men to breake league and oath with them and no need of particular dispensation from his Holinesse their Church long since by her rules and some of great reckoning among them more lately by their writings having published and preached to all the world that Faith given to Hereticks is not to be kept that leagues with them are more honourable in their breaking than in their making denying that right unto Princes of Christian profession which Christians unto Heathen the Heathen one to an other of how different Religion soever yea all honourable Princes unto very Traytours and Rebels haue alwayes kept inviolable And surely if Father PARSONS at his late coÌ„ming to Rome pretending to make peace betweene the English Schollars and the Iesuites who were charged with much indirect dealing and large imbeazeling and setting downe certein articles betweene them to that purpose whereby each part should be bound to desist impugning of the other did by handling the matter as is said with such sleight and conveiance imitating therein a rule of fast on the one side and loose on the other in the ground of their order as first to sweare the schollars to obserue that which was their part and afterwards to leaue the Iesuites unsworne to theirs effect his secret and ambitious intent and to the great griefe of the schollars make the Iesuits their Governours what other account can be made of these peaces and leagues betweene those of the Romane and of the Reformed Religion but that the one side being tied by oath and the other left free for so are they taught they shall so farre forth onely haue performance and continuance as shall proue to the advantage in ease or profit of that partie which esteemeth itselfe left at libertie The sacred the soveraigne instrument of justice among men what is it what can it bee in this world but an oath being the strongest bond of Conscience this the end of strifes particular this the soder of publike peace and the sole assurance of amitie betweene divers Nations which being made here below is enrolled in his high Court whose glorious name doth signe it who hath made no graunt of accesse to his Coelestiall palace but to such as hauing sworne once though it redound to their owne damage yet swarue not from it that nothing but mischiefe can be praesaged to the world in this age most wretched wherein perjurie hath so undermined the very tribunals of judgement that it hath chased true justice out of the world and left no place for a just man where to stand against the craftie But what may be said when he that sitteth in the Temple of God shall so far advance himselfe aboue God as to dispense with oaths made sacred by the most holy and high name of God when he that professeth himselfe the sole Vmpire and Peace-maker of the World should cut in sunder those only sinews that hold peace together when the Father of Princes and Prince of Religion shall carie him selfe with so wicked partialitie and craft as in dissoluing oathes by afflicting therein the part he hateth and making the other perpetually obnoxious to him to worke his owne certeine advantage from both and lastly by making that auncient bridle of the unjust to be now an onely snare to entrap the innocent shall impose that blemish upon the name of Christianitie which Pagans in their naturall moralitie haue abhorred I will not here omit one other great helpe which casualiie rather than cunning may seeme to haue wrought it falling out often in the affaires of men that where wisedome hath furnished out sundry aids and instruments there some also doe frame themselues as it were by chaunce springing out of the concurrence of divers accidents with the former As at this day the Greatnesse of the House of Austria extending it selfe well neere to all Quarters of Europe and confining with many of the Popes principall adversaries who having long since upon the rich purchase which they had of the West-Indies devoured in assured hope and conceipe the Monarchy of our Westerne-World And finding no sitter and more plausible meanes ro enlarge their temporall Dominion than by concurring with the Pope in restoring his spirituall haue linked themselues most fast with his sea and investing them selues voluntarily witb an office of their owne erection haue taken upon them to bee the Executioners of the Papall Excommunications that having title from the Pope who giveth his Enemies states Occupanti and distracting their subjects from them upon feare of his curse the rest they may supply out of their owne force and opportunities And for this purpose hath bâ—ne erected and by them highly cherished that super politike and irrefragable order as they compt it of the Iesuites who couple in their perswasions as one God and one Faith so one Pope and one King bearing the world in hand that no other meanes for the Church to stand but by resting upon this pillar and by uniting in this sort all the forces of the Christians this the onely meanes to vanquish that Arch-enemie of Christianitie That the Italians may not brag to haue beene the onely men who haue subdued the world unto them by their wit the Spaniards hauing proved so good schollars in their schooles that though they follow them in their grounds of pretending their advancement of Religion and in their Instruments of religious orders to practise mens minds with yet in this they out-goe them that they use the Popes weapons lightnings thunders and terrours for instruments of their owne greatnesse and his hope of re-establishing his spirituall reputation by them to the immoderate encrease of their secular power by him that the Pope also himselfe must in
act how dangerous and desperate soever that may tend to the advauncement of theyr side or Order I need not seeke farre back nor farre off for examples The late HENRY of Fraunce slaine by a Iacobine and this man wounded by a Schollar of the Iesuites the one for want of Zeale only in theyr violent courses the other as misdoubted of sinceritie in his Conversion may shew what measure theyr profest enemies were to attend if they could obteine as open and ready accesse unto them At this present this King hath gone in daunger of his life a long while from a Capuchine having at the instigation as is sayd of certein Iesuites of Lorraine undertaken to dispatch him whose Picture being brought hither by the MARQVIS DV PONT caused search for him over all Paris and at length hee is taken and lastly also executed together with an other Iacobine convicted of the same Crime And what may it not be thought these men would do being commanded by their Generalls whom they haue vowed to obey and in the Popes necessary service and with his expresse desire who are caried with so desperate rage and furie against whatsoever impediment theyr bare conceipts without warrant of higher Authoritie present unto them And as in violent attempts to be executed by them selues they are men resolved and hardy as having no posteritie to be oppressed by theyr ruine which of all other things doth conteine men most in dutie so in exciting the multitude to Sedition and tumult in favour of theyr cause and of theyr Catholike Religion they are as sedulous and secret using the opportunitie of Confession to practise the vulgar with annexing of such conditions to the absolution they giue them as the turne which they intend to serue requires a poinct very remarkable in weighing of the manifold fruicts which at this day that Sacrament doth beare the Papacie Of late here at Paris it hath bene discouered that certein Confessors having taken a solemne promise of theyr penitents that they would liue and die in the Catholike religion yea and die for it also if need should require haue enjoyned them there-upon to oppose by all means against the verifying of the Kings Edict for the Protestants Soone after ensued a generall rumour and terrour of new Massacres though uppon no other great ground for ought I can learne But among many other poincts to be regarded in these Friers Their very Multitude seemeth to me to bee one not of least consideration if the Papacie being reduced to any termes of extremitie should resolue to put them marmes for his finall refuge and succor The Franciscans alone in the time of SIXTVS QVINTVS their fellow and Father are sayd to haue been found by survey to be XXX thousand The Capuchins a late branch of them do vaunt to be VIII thousand at this present The Dominicans striue in competencie with the Franciscans in all things The Iesuites great Statists are withal exceeding rich mighty many but for their greedinesse of wealth and rare practises to get it infamous in all places The Carmelitans and Augustines haue their hiues in every garden and every-where swarme The other Orders of Friers and Monks being exceeding many complain not of paucitie in theyr severall professions In summe other Countries are sowne but Italy thicke strawed with this kind of people whose number perhaps in the whole may passe a Million of men of which the one halfe at the least eyther are or would easily grow to be of lustie able bodies not unfit to be soone employed in any warlike service If the Pope having plaid away the rest of his policies were brought to this last hand to set uppe his rest upon these men what should hinder him from raising huge armies of them in all places Their course of life perhaps their vowes and profession whereof him selfe hath the Key to lock and open at pleasure Their unwillingnesse of mind or backwardnesse to such actions which cannot be imagined by them that know their eagernesse of spirit and consider withall their standing onely with his State and falling with his ruine Their unaptnesse then and indisposition of body which fasting watching lying on the ground enduring cold exact keeping of orders obedience to theyr commanders ought rather to make fit to all militarie discipline The difficultie then of assembling them in such case together Here needs must I celebrate the excellencie and exactnesse of theyr order and government being such as needeth not yield to any I know for that purpose Each order hath his generall residing at Rome for the most part to advize with the Pope and receiue direction from him who being men of great reputation and power are chosen though in shew indifferently by all the Masters that is Doctours of their order wheresoever yet in an election so finely and cunningly contrived that the voyces of Italy are farre praedominant even as in the election of the Pope the Italian Cardinalls and in their moderne Generall Councells the Italian Bishops do farre exceed all the rest of Christendome that so the safetie of the Papall Sea and the greatnesse of Rome may rest assured These Generalls haue under them their Provincialls as Lieutenants in every Province or State of Christendome and the Provincialls haue under them the seuerall Priors of Convents and these their companies A commaundment dispatched away once from the Generall passeth roundly by the Prouincialls to the Priors with all speed Being received by the inferiours they addresse them selues to performance yea though it commaund them a voyage to China or Peru without dispute or delay they readily set forward To argue or debate their Superiours mandates were presumption proud curiositie to search their reasons and secrets to detract or disobey them breach of vow equall to Sacriledge so that as in a well disciplined Armie the Generall guiding the Souldiers follow hee commaunding they obey without farther question or doubt so these haue no other care than to performe with dexteritie what mandate soever their Generall in the plenitude of his authoritie shall addresse unto them This order this diligence this secretie this obedience in a people that may wander without suspition in all places and find good reliefe and aide in their passage will answer both the former and many other objections to which being added the good grace wherein they are generally with the vulgar the meanes which they haue to prouide them selues of all things necessarie what with their repositories of reliques and silver Images what with Church-plate and Treasure wherein some of them are exceeding rich and daily encrease vnlesse the world should with generall consent bend against them it may bee if the times should enforce such employment they would be able being associated with such favourers as they should find to make a very strong part for the Pope in all places especially considering that these forces should bee then raised out of his enemies Countrey and so weaken them as bloud drawne out of the
veines of their owne bodies And that no man may deceine himselfe with that errour that in these professours of peace there is no humor of war that minds wholly possest with sweet contemplation can embrace no thoughts of so bloudie resolution let him view but a little into the late French troubles hee shall find that the militarie Companies of the Leaguers were often times euen stuffed with Priests and Fryers tall men and resolute Hee shall find that of these people there haue served what in Field what in Garrison at one time suffcient to haue made a great Armie of themselues onely Hee shall finde that at Orleans a Capuchine being expresly sent to that purpose by his Prior went up and down the streets with a great wooden Crosse crying Comeforth good Christian destroy the enemies of the Crosse of thy Saviour and therewith put to the Sword at sundry times six-score of the Religion till hee left none remaining Lastly he may understand if hee please that very lately in Paris some of them in their Sermons haue incited not obscurely to a new Massacre complaining that the bodie of this Realme is sorely diseased beeing over-charged with corrupt humours as not having bene let bloud these fiue and twentie yeeres as it ought To conclude I conceiue this force of Friers to bee so great what in regard of their very multitude what by reason of their deadly rage against their opposites that it would be hard for any State to bring in the Reformed Religion without discharging it selfe first of this difficultie and burthen In Germanie the first reformers of Religion in this age were Friers them selues who being men of great mark and reckoning amongst theyr owne drew theyr Convents and other troups of theyr orders with them and thereby set the rest in such an amazement and stand that the Pope grew in a general great jealousie of them all as doubting their universall revolt from his obedience In England they were with great policie and practise dissolved before any innovation in Religion was mentioned whereas to haue done both together had bene perhaps impossible but first cleane preventing them of pretence of Religion and after finding their religion cleane stripped of that succour both they were quietly ruined and of this more quietly reformed In Fraunce this King upon that out rage against his person smoked the Iesuits out of theyr nests in most parts of his Kingdome If hee had done the like also at the same time to the Dominicans a most potent and flourishing order in Spaine aboue all other in revenge of the murther of the King his predecssour or if hee would and could do it now to them and to the Capuchins who at this day next the Iesuites are of greatest renowme in punishment of these last practises so fortunatly discovered and so chastise the schooles also when he tooke theyr schollars in so enormous faults there were great hope for the Reformed Religion in time to prevaile which is now so prejudiced and persecuted by these Friers that hardly can it keep foot on the ground it hath Thus much of the strength which these religious Orders doe yield to the Papacie Whereto I must add the like invention of Spirituall fraternities and Companies perhaps equalling yea exceeding in number the orders of Friers in which under the protection and in honour of some Sainct or of any other holy name or religious mysterie and often times annexing them selues to some of the orders of Friers the lay people of all sorts both men and women both single and maried do enroll them selues into one or more of these Societies approaching so much neerer to the state of the Clergie unto which sundry of them are no other than meere appurtenances Whereby as they tie themselues to the Orders of them consisting in certeine extrordinarie devotions and processions bearing also at certeine times some badge of theyr Company so are they made partakers of all such spirituall praerogatiues whether partnership in the Churches meritts or interest in sundry Indulgences some halfe plenarie some whole some for the time past some before-hand for sundry yeeres to come and chiefly the avoyding or speedy dispatch out of Purgatorie as the Pope and his antecessours for the encouragement and comfort of Christian people in theyr devotion haue thought good in theyr Charitie to graunt unto them These Fraternities are not yet growne into any great request in other places Howbeit in Italy they haue so multiplied that few especially of the vulgar and middle sort of men who either are or affect any reputation of devotion but haue entred into some one of them and sundry into many The assurance of whom to the Papacie must needs be doubled sith loue groweth according to the proportion of hope Now come I to the last ranke of Romane Policies arraigned against their professed and feared Enemies by vertue whereof they both seeke to re-enter where they haue in this latter Age beene disseised and practise as well for the wasting away of their opposites where they are as for the shutting of them and their doctrine out where yet they haue not beene I will not heere enlarge uppon things manifest and ordinarie being high wayes so plaine that a guide were needlesse Their persecutions their confiscations their tortures their burnings their secret murthers their generall massacres theyr exciting of inward sedition and outward hostilitie against theyr adversaries theyr oppressing and abasing them where them selues are the stronger are things whereof they were none of the inventours though perhaps the commendation of exact refining them of straining them to their highest note of sedulitie and perseverance in putting them in execution may bee more due and proper unto them than any other Neither yet will I meddle greatly with theyr art of sclaundering theyr opposites of disgracing theyr persons misreporting theyr actions falsifying theyr doctrine and positions things wherewith theyr Pulpits doe daily sound and theyr writings swell againe But they are not the first neyther that haue runne this blacke course no more than the former red other haue done it before them yea the buying of mens consciences by proposing reward to such as shall relinquish the Protestants Religion and turne to theyrs as in Auspurgh where they say there is a knowne price for it of ten Florens a yeare in Fraunce where the Clergie haue made contributions for the mainteinance of renegate Ministers past and to come is a devise also not fresh and of casie conceipt I will rather insist upon theyr inventions lesse triviall and more worthie to bee marked A wonderfull thing it is to consider the great diversitie of humours or tempers of mind shall I terme them which this age hath produced in this one poinct wee speake of touching the meanes of growing onward upon the adversarie part A sort of men there liues in the world at this day whose leaders whether upon extremitie of hatred of the Church of Rome or partly also upon some spice of
that PIVS QVINTVS under pretences after the Councell of Trent for visiting and reforming of theyr Clergie with other Papall affaires was complained of to the Councell of Spaine to haue drawne fourteene millions from them out of that Kingdome What gaine theyr pardons bring I cannot well estimate they beeing not sold now to particular persons after theyr former usage saue in Spaine and those out-appurtenances where also the late King himselfe was said to haue the greatest share and in regard thereof to haue enterposed his Regall authoritie in pressing theyr sale upon all his people It is to be presumed that such a multitude of generall perpetuall and plenarie indulgences for all times persons and offences besides other more limited as are graunted to the greatest part of the religious houses and to some other Churches of Italy and to sundry in Fraunce also yield somewhat to the holy-Father in way of thankefull acknowledgment considering their gaine by them is not nothing The Cordeliers at Orleans at the publishing of one Indulgence picked up as they say there foure thousand Crownes at a blow But howsoever the mysterie of that secret stand this is plaine and apparent that the Papacie is content to use these Religious houses as very spunges to drinke what juyce they can from the people that afterwards hee may wâ—ing them out one by one in his owne Convents The Convents haue from him these indulgences of grace to remit sinnes and free soules from the flames of Purgatorie at the anniversarie publishing whereof in theyr Churches there stands in eminent place the box of devotion with some poore begging Crucifix lightly before it and two tapers on each side to see the chinke to put money in What man can bee so vnthankefull so stony and dry hearted as to giue nothing to them who haue forgiuen them so much especially there never wanting some holy pretence to encourage nor many a deere eye to obserue theyr good doings Besides this the Pilgrimages to theyr miraculous images which draw great commoditie to the Cities also and States wherein the people not ignorant thereof helpe to set them a working a consideration that bringeth contentment therewith no lesse to the Princes so sweet is the tast of gaine from whatsoever the visiting of theyr holy Reliques both which haue theyr offrings the purchasing of Masses both auxiliatorie and expiatorie theyr rewards for praying theyr collections for preaching besides sundry other duties among which theyr Obits which are so beneficiall that theyr accompt is from a rich man to draw Vijs Modis some hundred crownes at his funerall or else it goes hard Yea this is so certeine and so good a rent unto them that if any man of sort should be buried without theyr solemnities and some of theyr orders to accompany his course he should be thought a very Haeretike and bee sure to haue some odde bruit set abroach concerning him As fell out not long since to a wealthy Citizen of Lucca who willing by his Testament to bee buried in the night without theyr attending tapering censing or singing had a rumour of him soone spread by the belly-devout Friers whom hunger and losse of hope had made wickedly irefull that hee was haunted and infested with blacke ratts on his death-bed A matter of like truth to the Cordeliers spirit at Orleans These meanes extraordinarie besides theyr ordinarie revenew increasing often by inheritances descending upon them which happ'ning to any of theyr brotherhood goe to the Convent for ever such is the Law of Italy being graunted or permitted by the Pope to the Friers and all to enrich them the Law of thankefulnesse requires reason and aequitie allowes and theyr vow of povertie adviseth that when they grow too rich his Holinesse should let them blood in theyr overfull-veynes for his owne necessarie susteinance as did SIXTVS QVINTVS who pared away the superfluities of sundry rich Convents as fitter for his high State and honourable desseines than for them who had povertie in recommendation This Pope dealeth more gently by way of loanes which may perhaps in the end come all to one â—… Besides which when warre against Turkes or Haeretikes or any other enemies of the Church or any other great affaire requires employment of the Church-treasure there are taxes and subsiâ—ies imposed or requested to a certeine proportion upon the revenew of all Abbeys and other religious Convents in Italy besides the rest of the Clergie which can be no small matter as was done these last yeeres for the service of Hungarie I might adde hereto the roll of his forreine Commodities the fees of dispensations chiefly in prohibited degrees for marriage There beeing few royall families at this day in Christendome which by reason of theyr often alliances and neerenesse in bloud are able by his Canons to enter-mary without his Licence Which fashion of restraining of things lawfull upon shew of vertue that afterwards by dispensing even with unlawfull things they may raise theyr benefit is the base brood of the mixture of hypocrisie and coveteousnesse borne to the common calamitie and pressure of them for whose ease and â—â—â—â—câ—â—ie all gâ—…ment was instituted But by those and â—… other dispensations and expediâ—ions his Papaâ—â— Authoritie doth accomodate and is accomodated â—…lly of all Nations the particularities whereof I â—… not farther insist upon this being sufficient to vâ—…fie this assertion that even at this day those out-incomes are good helps for an extraordinarie od-chare when need is And yet all this notwithstanding the treasure of the Church is small SIXTVS QVINTVS left fiue Millions by his great racking and husbandrie His successor GREGORIE the Xiiij. th wasted foure of them in ten moneths and lesse aboue his ordinary revenew in pomp and ryot This man is very charie over that one remaining and distilleth all other devises rather than set finger to that string which yet his late prowesses haue caused him to assay But were the Church rent and gain how huge soever two assiâ—uall horse-â—eeches which never lin sucking it will never suffer it to swell over-greatly in treasure The first is the high place of honour which he takes farre aboue all other Princes and Monarchs in the world which draweth him to an inaestimable charge in all places to carie it with countenance and comlinesse requisite being forced thereby in his owne traine in the enterteinment he giues Princes in the allowance to his Legats Nunâ—io's and other Ministers which according to his owne greatnesse are sent into all Countries and lastly in furnishing out to the multitude of his actions and practises over the world to raise his charge for the most part according to the proportion of his high state For honour and frugalitie are the unfittest companions that can be It is liberalitie and expence which both breeds and mainteins honour Neyther can a judiciall man perhaps wish worse to his enemie than to haue an honourable calling and a poore living An other thing which keepes the Papacie