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A64604	The Passionate remonstrance made by His Holinesse in the conclave at Rome upon the late proceedings and great covenant of Scotland, &c. : with a reply of Cardinall De Barbarini in the name of the Roman clergy : together with a letter of intelligence from the apostolicke nuntio (now residing in London) to Pope Vrban the 8.	Urban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644.; Rossetti, Carlo, 1615-1681.; Barberini, Antonio, 1607-1681.	1641 (1641)	Wing U130; ESTC R23255	33,662	84

Catholike combustion for certainly some cruelties are better and more necessary than silly improfitable Mildnesse which like a cold and barren quality can never mature the Churches growth No no the braying of Canons the dawbing of Drums are good Catholike Musicke by which our Apostolick expeditions use to advance the Spirituall kingdome and goe in procession through the world Our motions must be restlesse busie like that of the heavens every one bestirring himselfe in his owne spheare And your Holinesse with most grave and venerable alacritie will give the strong impulse Wee in the Consistorie and those ministring and subtle spirits of that rich seed-plot of Sorbone shall come such riddles and shall so inveagle the Heretick soules and Churches that Kings shall find themselves enough puzled From this holy Citadell this impregnable Capit●ll our spirituall Engineeres who are most Canonically bred and authentically practised shall throw such fierie Bals among Nations and People From the Conclave as those that dare oppone Truths Candor shall bee put in a terrible damp Go to holy Father move strongly as becomes the state of your courage and in a high sweld Metropolitan confidence blow downe the strong holds of Errour Remove the Isles out of the sea and shake the mountaines that stand up so heretically against the promised the prophesied Reformations to the faith Catholike Never unbend your infallible Bow till you have hit the conquered marke of your most Euangelick Intentions our adversaries must not erect the Trophees of their ambition upon the ruines of our reproaches Wee will first fetch the compasse of the World and conglomerate our undaunted forces like a destroying and inexorable tempest to sweep away Truths Enemies All our Convents shall first be turned into Fence-schooles before the Great Cause be disgraced We will defend mainly engage our very Crucifixes and Hypothecat our Cardinals Caps before the Mitres honour be any whit touched But now because many Incumbencies advertise us to dissolve and some strange Embassadors attend your Holinesse from whose bosome they come to receive Apostolick directions to lead them as a Starre in the way to the hill of Greatnes where the Laurells of triumph doe condignly attend them Wee forbeare to presume on this Times importance onely daring represent to your Holinesse how necessary it is to imploy pens policies and power to rack all our might for advancing our holy intentions and breaking the clouds of Errour and Heresie which are like to over-spread the whole World Consider how the crying necessities of our bleeding Primitive Mother doe implore the same In the mean time till your Holinesse have more precious leisure to bestow upon further Catholike Resolutions let let there bee a grand Apostolick Nuncio dispatched upon the wings of speed to the Isle of Britain if there bee any courtesie to receive him there worthily Even strongly assisted with the spirit of Truth which your Holinesse Predecessors did usually send to the Tridentine Councell for the actuating of those infallible members and extirping of Heresie Instruct him deeply how to proclaime to the world VVell blown Seignior and write it on the skie with Letters of gold never to be forgotten and print it in the Records of Histories to all after ages that though Religion bee the common pretence of discontent amongst these untamed Hereticks wherewith they use to maske their unbridled licence their affronted boldnesse their high contempt of Soveraigntie and dare commit any Impiety guilded with the lustre of Sanctity Yet nothing is so strongly desired nothing so truely intended by them abhorring the order of subjection than to shake off the yoke of Monarchie breake the Cords of Spirituall and Temporall jurisdiction with the swing of their desperate frenzie It will not bee inexpedient likewise to cause some others who are enriched with the strength of more subtle abilities and doe cunningly know how to creep into the mindes and Cabines of princes and take dominion there be sent forth with all convenience for subverting the Machinations of these Matchiavilian Calvinists Let Authority Lords of Power and Masters of Time be taught for Clemencie is the Nurse of Rebellion how to presse them downe with weight though the conspiring Crew that breaths nothing but fire and vomits blasphemie who hath consecrate their Estates and espoused their neglected lives to the lust of Revolting should crie out violence and rigour and crueltie and tyrannie and craft and malice for those things have been the Soveraigne and effectuall wayes of our enlargings and it is the Mysterie of greatnesse to hold the Inferiors still ignorant of it and strike like Lightning and Thunder Moreover Because the seditious furie of unruly multitude even as a tumbling flood acquiring strength to it selfe by moving carryes all it meets before it in a precipice doth waxe to such a prevailing strength as none can hold out against the bitternesse of the tempest Therefore let us worke wisely and as men use to disappoynt the over-flowings of undaunted Rivers by branching them in little weake Rivulets thus to extenuate the impetuositie of the maine streame by diverting the fulnesse of indocile waters and turning them aside So must wee in a degree more than becomes Supremacie to stoope flatter a while and nourish the hopes and entertaine the desires of Conspirers distract the mindes of the multitude weaken them by the breach of Union and delude them most egregiously for so long as those Conventions rule whereby the consent of the abused People receives most poisosonable Aliment and they become fortified in their Errour than each provokes another even as the Billowes of the inraged Sea are driven forward by their urging and importune fellowes Therefore must it bee amongst the first of the Articles of your Atourneyes Instructions exceedingly to labour this point that those their great Councells infallible Assemblies Well remembred and unwarranted Synagogues of Hypocrites bee most divinely impeded and that Parliaments bee broke up and crushed in the bud both in Scotland and England for those confluences of demure divells have ever given Vs the greatest dash and beene the very bane of our agonies Wee hope withall your Holines out of the bowels of pittie cannot forget the miserable prelates your faithfull Labourers It is indeed their fortune through too eager and unadvised zeale to the glory of raising Altars to your Holines purposes in that land where they lived and not their fault that thus they are left in the wildernesse of Times and Povertie make them taste therfore of the sweetnes of your Remembrances for it were high indignitie to your Holinesse the Prince of Bishops to let those silly Soules engage their Surplis and Service-books for the maintenance of their laborious lives Amongst all other expediencies here is one likewayes which cries extreamely that since we had very justly anchored our best Expectations upon the Northerne Cities of that rigid and infortunate Iland of Scotland where indeede the Religion pretended was never perfectly welcommed

Scotland or the Trienniall Parliaments in England You may see then the combustion which began in Scotland and threatned but weakely at a great distance is now come to the skirts of the Holy Land almost and that you had need to looke to your owne building Our evills multiply as the heads of Hydra for what consequence may Wee apprehend from the Marriage of the daughter of England with those who bee Arch-enemies to your most Catholicke Sonne the right hand of your execution and can the Prince Palatine be arrived here for any thing which will bring either happinesse to the common cause or divert the calamities which are daily emergent like swolne clouds of infection arising upon the Horizon and darkening the skie No our evills are preparing as the Arrowes are ready to bee sent from the bended bow Through this beliefe the prophane world doe glory in most sacrilegious insolencies for the dis-mantling of Churches the pulling up of the railes which make the comely distance from the holy place nay the overturning of Altars which in all the corners of the Kingdome did rise most bravely after the Italian mode are but the daily practises of the undanted and undistinguishing vulgar Wee are come to such height of contempt that Boyes sing our scandale in the streets they tune Ballads to our infamy and hee that can reproach us most handsomly and deepely informe against us has most strongly demerited Church and State I like not the complexion of our affaires strange symptoms of a most dangerous consumption and many pregnant reasons for the encrease of our feares The Pulpits have forgotten that gracious sound with which they were of late most entirely acquainted the Bookes dare not appeare in the Romish dye but come forth in squadrons in strange habit and hereticall colours Our possession heere is gone it seemes and our hopes to recover it wholly blasted nay if the pernicious Counsells and the opinions of the daring Scots prevaile Wee may as easily thinke to entice the Sun from his Ecliptick as work an alteration of their humors or shake them from these new grounds to which they are now so miserably wedded I dare not forget to shew your Holines what great expressions of joy have bin heere in the City of London tearing the clouds with the musicke of their Bells and condensing the aire with the smoake of their Bonefires as if they had already seene their furthest desires crowned and had bin ringing our funerall knels because the Prince has granted to the Estates a Triennall Parliament wherewith the people have beene as strongly affected as if they had beene delivered from Pest or Famine or had received the spoiles of most important conquest by this meanes they resolve to hammer us so flat that Wee shall never set up our heads nor bud againe If ever affliction could awake the Sonnes and Daughters of the Romane Church 't is now when the angry winds are let loose from the corners of the earth Wee have not indeed slept our time here but practised very laboriously and according as the Churches exigency did call us to a double care so likewise have We attempted all expediencies for deluding the purposes of our enemies and strengthning our selves We have stretched our wit and studied fitting policies in all the latitude of a Catholick conscience there remaines nothing in the treasure of invention which We have not sollicite and now in these bleeding times with greater strength of wit but I know not what has interposed betwixt your Holines influence and a good effect some thing of late has made obstructions in the effectuall derivations of your Apostolick Benedictions all has proved unprofitable And not to offend your Holines I feare least the tyde of your sorrowes be but yet growing for whereas Wee have ever magnified and exalted tradition above the Scripture yet we know not how to fasten on these Impostures for they adhere so close to their Scriptures in their reasons and opinions that sooner may you divorce the light frō the Sun then pull them from their grund slighting the traditions and customes of the Romish Church with as much disdaine as we neglect the Alchoran and ever when they oppone Scripture to our Traditions We know not what to say and have not bin acquainted with other Authority then the Churches therefore your Holines would doe well to hearken to this and consider that the times in likelyhood are comming when the Scriptures which have bin so highly esteemed by the simplicity of that pretended Religion will bee the rule of faith and Church-Government and overthrow our subtilties I hope your Holines as the great Ghostly Father of the Church will see that your building be firmely seated upon permanent foundations for if they be not sure and able for all assaults it may happily fall and crush us all and I assure your Holines if your affronts encrease your strength doe not convalesce and this bad fortune of the Miter continue a panick feare will invade all your devoted Kings Princes and Cardinals they will betake them to the strongest side and leave you in the mire It is now therefore high time to summon up all that is vertue about you What ever any of the great Monarches of the Church could ●oe let it now appeare by your power most eminently displayed your Holines would doe well to call a Counsell and consult with heavens and learne how to stop these Hereticks mouthes convince them of the Truth and heape coales on their heads seeke out the end of these troubles that afflict the world for it is indeed to be feared if Heresie become so insolent and swell with so good fortune that shortly their Truth shall shine glorious as the Sun and become as it were the Idole of the world extinguishing the life of our misteries under which Wee have had such Halcyonian dayes Since then all the fabrick of our Religion the standing of the Apostolick Empire and all that is deare and splendid to the glory of the Miter is now shaking Rise up from your throne put to your saving hand to the Helme and doe not neglect one day one houre one minute to weare out with toyle of plot and practise of conceit your busie and fruitfull wit bestir like the first mover your inferiour and obedient Spirits every one in their owne spheare never take rest nor force a smile which is not borrowed from a sacred and Papall vengeance such as becomes the state of your disgrace and unbounded fate till your Holines know what way to satisfie fury and revenge till you and your successors the undoubted Inheritors of the worlds Metropoliticall throne have touched the ends of the earth with your all conquering Scepter and hath led Truth in Procession triumphing over the ruines of errour FINIS The Daughter of Myst'ry the child of Errour Mother of Tyranny of Wars of Terrour The Idol of Reproach Rocke of offence To Iew and Gentile Source of Indulgence For all Impieties and th'usurping Crest 'Bove Diademes the State the Churches Pest Is now discov'red and all the world awake Makes proud Rome and th'opprobrious Myter shake