with Linen which covers all the top of the Table and hangs down at the two ends to the Ground sometimes at the end of that Linen they will have a deep rich Lace but these are some rich Silks and the like stretch'd upon a Frame of a convenient Size and set close before the Altar so as to seem of a piece with it and the Figures upon them are sometimes suited to the Holiday they celebrate so they have several of these things for several Days There were in this great Box or Press I believe about thirty of these things and all different in some respects from one another some of them were Cloth of Silver or Silver mixed with Gold some were Velvet or Sattiâ— or other Silks of Scarlet Purple and other Colours Many of them had large Flowers of Silver some were full of broad Flowers of Gold some had a broad Flanders-Lace or a Point laid round at the Edge of them on three sides that is along the top and down at the ends some had laid across them a deep Gold-Fringe which run from the one end to the other at the distance of about a Foot from the top some were richly embroider'd with Gold and Silver in the place of Lace Some were all over embroider'd with Silver and Gold and some with Silk and the Stalks of the Embroidery I think of more than one were set with a multitude of Pearls one was of flower'd Silk with a great many small Flowers in it and the Eye of every Flower was a small Ruby there must be a great many scores of Rubies in the whole piece One had a great deal of curious Needle-work of divers Colours in Silk and in a large Oval in the middle of it was a small Picture of an handsome Lady at full length whom the Jesuit that show'd these things call'd the Lady of Princen-Land her self and I suppose he told some of their Religion whom he spoke softly to that she had presented this To provide and maintain all this Pomp and Riches this Church of theirs is endow'd as we may say for these things are in the nature and have the effect of Revenues with a multitude of Plenary and other Indulgences to be obtain'd throughout the whole Year They have Indulgences to be obtain'd on the Festivals of several pretended Saints of their own Order besides what they have on the days of other Saints I shall give an Account of the Publications of some of these Gaudy Days as they are celebrated by these good Fathers in which we shall see some of the greatest Extravagancies that the Church of Rome is run into in the Worship and Honour of the Saints Plenary Indulgence Upon the Feast-day of Franciscus Borgia First Duke of Gandia and afterwards Third General of the Society of Jesus in the Church of the Profession-house of the Society of Jesus On Wednesday next being the 10th of October shall be celebrated in the Church of the Profession-house of the Society of Jesus the Feast-day of the holy Franciscus Borgia First Duke of Gandia c. Clemens the 10th has granted to all Believers in Christ who with upright Repentance being confess'd and having receiv'd the most holy Sacrament of the Altar shall there pray for the Union of Christian Princes the Extirpation of Heresies and Advancement of our Mother the Holy Church which Indulgence begins from the first Vespers on the Day before and continues till the Sun-setting on the Feast-day of the Holy Franciscus Borgia which follows On Tuesday it being the Eve of the Feast-Day there shall be perform'd a solemn Laud with the Benediction of the most holy Sacrament of the Altar On Wednesday being the Feast-day of the Saint aforesaid shall be sung at 10 a Clock a solemn Mass Afternoon at 5 a Clock shall be a Sermon after which shall be perform'd a solemn Laud with the Benediction of the most holy Sacrament of the Altar On the Evening of the Feast-day after the Service and during the Octave every Morning for the furthering of the Devotion and Comfort of each person shall the holy Relicks be offer'd to be kiss'd To the greater Glory of God and of the Holy Franciscus Borgia 1696. They have a Plenary Indulgence also for the Feast day of Xaverius whom they call Apostle of the Indies and of Japan which is to be obtain'd in this same Church The Publication of which after the mention of several Devotions to be perform'd promises a Plenary Indulgence to those who within such a time shall come to that Church and pray there for the Union of Christian Princes the Extirpation of Heresies and Advancement of our Mother Holy Church and then concludes That all this is to be done To the greater Glory of God and of St. Franciscus Xaverius An Indulgence of 40 Days is granted to this Church by the present Bishop of Antwerp upon the Day of our Saviour's Ascension and some following Days The Publication of which for the extravagant and impious Form of it is very observable It runs thus The Expectation of the Holy Ghost Through the Intercession of the most holy Maid and Mother of God Mary and of all the Saints in the Church of the Profession-house of the Society of Jesus with Prayer for the Preservation of this City and Indulgence of 40 Days This 40 days of Indulgence is to be obtain'd by those who shall be once present at the Devotions of this time and if they come to them more than once as often as they come so often shall the 40 days of Indulgence be multiplied to them Here we see the Mediation of the Virgin Mary applied to for the Gifts and Graces of the Holy Spirit and they profess to expect the obtaining of these thereby and that at a time when the Christian Church has been wont to celebrate the Ascension of our blessed Saviour into Heaven who promised upon his Ascension to send the Holy Spirit upon his Apostles and Followers So that as true Christian Religion would much more properly and justly direct us at this time to pray for that promise of our Saviour to be fulfill'd upon us in such a measure as may be necessary to our Salvation and to betake our selves to the Intercession of Jesus who ever lives to make Intercession for us This Marian Religion diverts its miserable deluded Votaries from him and teaches them to pray for these greatest Blessings and to expect them through the Mediation of the Virgin Mary Besides this their very fine Church the Jesuits Chappel of the Sodality have here belonging to this Colledge another which they call the Chappel of the Sodality where the Fraternities that are wheedled to joyn themselves and belong to them do perform their foolish Devotions upon their solemn Days Of these we must give some Account They have joyn'd to them a Sodality or Brotherhood of the Virgin Mary which is honour'd as they say with many Indulgences and Favours Particularly the Popes have granted to
I might see elsewhere Things succeeded in some Measure according to my Wish I found I could be spar'd from the Family I was in and easily obtain'd leave to be absent for a little while I resolv'd to improve my time as well as I could and directed my Course to such Places within a little Compass as I thought fittest to afford me the Matter of such Observations as I sought for Thus I came to be furnish'd with the Materials which are here put together I now resolve to publish them for several Reasons and hope they may be serviceable to several important Purposes We have indeed especially the Vnlearned Part of the Nation forgotten what the Popish Religion is in Truth And there is an Ignorance of this among us which gives us a great deal of Disturbance and which does a great deal of Harm For hereby some things among us are cried out against with a mighty Ardour and Fierceness as Popish which are truely Innocent and Vseful and which are deriv'd from the most pious and purest Times of Primitive Christianity And on the other side some things both in Doctrine and Practice are fondly hugg'd and stickled for by the same People who make that unreasonable Out cry which were brought in with and do truely belong to the Corruptions of the Roman Church These People want to have their Notions rectify'd and their Idea of Popery corrected and made more accurate and just by a distinct Representation of the Particulars which will give the true Character of it There are very unhappy Consequences and Effects of this Mistake Some of the Reform'd Churches abroad who do not know distinctly the State of ours are prejudiced against us by the Writings and Reports of these foolish People as having a World of the Popish Superstition and Corruption still among us and as being very tenacious and fond of it And they cannot think us fit for their Correspondence in order to our mutual Defence upon that score Besides the Influence which our Church and Nation might have abroad towards the Defence and perhaps the propagating and promoting of the Reformation is hereby much abated at least if I may not say 't is wholly lost while so many among us apply all their Concern and Endeavour in Caballing against and Seeking to undermine and throw down an Imaginary Popery in the Church of England That Influence might be very considerable if there were a Concurrence of all Parties towards it by the Help of our Extensive Trade and with the Advantage in respect of Learning which our Vniversities and Clergy have over the greatest Part of if I may not say all the Church of Rome But especially under the Conduct and Management of an Excellent Prince who has so wise and just and so great a Zeal for the Honour and Interest of the Reformation in General as his present Majesty has and who has the greatest Renown and Glory and the most extended Interest of any Monarch in the World whom God grant long to Reign over us and to have yet more Influence by his Great Wisdom and Glorious Vertues among us It is an Amazement that amidst all our Jealousies especially since they have most abounded we should never to any Purpose fall upon this to suspect that the Jesuits and Romish Emissaries do in Disguise promote our Divisions on purpose to hinder any such Vnanimous Concurrence amongst us against them We have indeed a Zeal against Popery amongst us but as much of it is lost by a Mistake in the Object so I doubt a great deal of the rest in the Wise Men of the World is of less Effect and Extent than it might and ought to be for want of a due and right Principle I wish it be not their only Concern to secure themselves from the Losses they might sustain in their just Liberties and their Properties if it were imposed upon them at home and that they be not too regardless what becomes of the Reformation in other Parts of the World It seems indeed easie to see but even Wise Men sometimes look too intently upon one thing that while the Protestant Religion is destroy'd by degrees abroad and one Part of the Reformation after another is trodden down the common Interest of it must be weaker and weaker and it must be less able to subsist with us at home It is the great Concern of all sorts of Persons on the other side to promote and propagate their own Religion and to extirpate ours Among them 't is not only the villanous Treacheries and Plots of Jesuits that are employ'd in the Work 't is not the Wheedles of the other Missionary Monks alone or the Business of those who seem to make the greatest Gain of propagating their Religion but even Princes have applyed their utmost Power and have hazarded or lost and almost ruin'd their Dominions in their Zeal to serve their Cause And the greatest Statesmen have found time to consider and serve this amidst their most Important Affairs They concern themselves to extirpate the Protestant Religion not only out of the Countries which they govern but even out of the World And what formidable Successes have they had against us with their continued Applications and Endeavours After other mighty Havocks made upon the Reformation we have seen them trample upon it in our Time in Hungary and France and at this present they are making an End with the small Remainders of it in the Palatinate and that by Virtue of Advantages gain'd against it by their extraordinary Vigilance and Application to the matter in a late Treaty They are zealous and industrious while We are indifferent It has been seen that the Wise Men on our side have been too sharp for those of the other in Matters of Trade while the others have been too hard for them in the Matter of the Interest of the Reformation which speaks plainly the Difference of Application and Concern to the Matter One would suspect from these things that the Trick of Representing and Expounding the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome had cheated our Politicians of the true Notions of Popery and had made them believe the Differences between that Church and those who are Reformed to be but small and inconsiderable and this had betrayed them into Indifferency and Neglect to watch and oppose the Designs of Rome against us And that it were necessary to show even to them or at least to call to their Remembrance how Absurd and Vnreasonable how Impious and Wicked many of the Doctrines and Practices of that Church are to be sure if the Spirit of Christian Religion did every where prevail among us As it is a Disposition possess'd and govern'd by the Reverence and Love of God and the Love of our Neighbour none could be unconcern'd that Christian Religion should be so abus'd and Almighty God so much injur'd in his due Reverence and Honour and the Souls of Men so endanger'd with damnable Errours as these
he is here There are two distinct Burgomasters in the City and other Magistrates to govern the distinct People but in common concerns of the City they meet and join together in determining matters The Duke of Brabant was notwithstanding this Sate of the City reckon'd the chief Soveraign of it and at present the States General seem to have the greatest power here There was now a great Garrison in the Town consisting of Ten Thousand Men which we were told were all in the States pay They then by consequence have the Command of the Gates the Fortifications and the Amunition This City is extreamly well fortified besides a strong Wall and a broad deep Ditch there are several Bastions round it which are well planted with Cannon there are also many strong out-works with cover'd ways to them and all these are provided of Mines ready made There is an Hill on the South East side of the Town which lies somewhat near and within reach to annoy it considerably but against that they have rais'd a Bastion there to a great height which is a good defence to the Town and this is within the Walls This is altogether a fine City the buildings are good after the common manner of these Countries and really all things look in a thriving flourishing Condition the Streets are generally very broad The chief Church in the City is dedicated to Popish Churches St. Servatius the Bishop before mention'd It is now possess'd and used by the Papists The peice of Painting over the high Altar represents him with the marks of a Bishop It is a Collegiate Church as it was and formerly the Duke of Brabant now the King of Spain as Duke of Brabant is one of the Chanoines There is by it a large Cloyster which goes round a good piece of ground for a Garden but it is now neglected This St. Servaâ— as the Vulgar language calls him died they say in the Year 395 and after him the Episcopal See continued here to the time of St. Lamberi who made the 20th in Succession from St. Servaes but he did not fix here but remov'd the See to Leige upon what occasion he did this will be said when we come to Leige There is besides this a Church dedicated to St. Nicholas in Possession of the Papists They have also a large Church dedicated to the Virgin Mary Over the great door of this Church stand 3 large Images one represents an old Man next to him at his right Hand stands a Woman at her right Hand is a young Man the two Men are made holding a Crown in their Hands as putting it upon the Head of the Woman 't is well enough known what they of the Church of Rome mean by such a Representation but ought not to be mention'd without the utmost detestation and Horrour Within the Church are Altars and Images as usual There is one Altar to St. Roch by which stands a strong Box lockt with a hole to put in Money by and by it is an Inscription which says Give here your Charity to St. Roch or honour him with your Charity that God may divert from us the Pestilence For this Sain talso is address'd to by the Roman Church as a Friend at need against the Plague Story says of him that he heal'd several People sick of the Plague in Italy by making the sign of the Cross over them and they say Heaven show'd that his Intercession should be a remedy against that distemper by this evident token to wit that he himself at last died of the Plague I think a Man must have Roman Spectacles to see the Evidence of this There are several Convents of Friers and Nuns in this City The Jesuits have a College Convents here We saw their Chappel which was but mean The High Altar is dedicated to Xaverius who is there said to have been Apostle of the Indies and Martyr At the East end of the Isle on the right side of the high Altar is an Altar to the Virgin Mary there are about the Church a few Pictures of the Saints of their Order I doubt if there were to be the Pictures of none but true Saints they would be yet fewer but it must be confess'd the Gallows and the Scaffold between them have made a pretty many Saints of that Order such as they were and yet most People believe not so many by far as they should have done Here is also a House of Capucines which has yeilded lately tho' unwillingly a considerable man to the Reformation M. Loefs a Convere of the Reformation He was one of the best Preachers that the Papists had in this City had long been dissatisfied with many things in the Roman Church travell'd into France Spain and Italy to see if he could meet with any thing that might reasonably confirm him in his Religion instead of that he saw every where abundant evidence of the monstrous corruption of the Church of Rome he found it almost every where much worse than in this his own Country and saw more reason still to leave it He return'd to Maestricht with this resolution and took his opportunity to put himself under the protection of the States General who have receiv'd him into their protection and allow him a Pension He has printed a good Book which is a comparison of the Beliefs of the Roman and Reform'd Churches His name is Michael Lâ—efs The Dominicans have also a Convent here we saw their Chappel which was the finest that we saw in this City but had nothing in it particular or worth taking notice of The Calvinist Religion is that which the Calvinists States â—stablish and encourage here and that which their Magistrates profess They have in pay here 6 or 8 of their Ministers but they have but two Churches which are call'd by the Names of St. Martins and St. Johns this latter we fell into it is not a large Church it was Reform'd after the Calvinist modell One sees there a Pulpit to Preach in and a great many seats for People to sit on and hear but no conveniency to kneel and pray nor any provision for the Celebrating of the Lord's Supper or Baptism The truth is this part of the Reformation have generally brought all the business of Publick Worship almost to only the Ministers exercising his Gifts and Parts in Prayer or Preaching Indeed all of them beyond Sea have composed Forms for publick Prayer before and after Sermon and for administration of Sacraments and condemn such of our Dissenters who will have this unlawful There is also here a Church and Congregation of Protestants as they call the Lutherans in all Protestants these Countries and in Germany as distinct from the Calvinists who call themselves Reform'd The Hill before mention'd on the South-East Quarries side of this City yeilds a very pleasant prospect to it in time of Peace and when they expect no mischief from thence It is all cover'd with
AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY Through some Provinces of Germany In the Year 1698. OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING The Present State OF RELIGION IN THE Romish Church WITH Some REFLECTIONS upon them Made in a JOURNEY Through some Provinces of Germany In the Year 1698. AS ALSO An ACCOUNT of what seemed most Remarkable in those COUNTRIES By THEOPHILUS DORRINGTON Rector of Wittresham in KENT LONDON Printed for John Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1699. TO THE Most Reverend Father in GOD THOMAS By Divine Providence Lord Arch-Bishop of CANTERBURY And Metropolitan of all ENGLAND May it please Your Grace IT affords the greatest Satisfaction and Contentment of any thing a Man can do to serve the Glory of God and the Interest of his True Religion Establish'd among us And I must reckon my self peculiarly oblig'd to endeavour this by the great Favour of the Divine Providence in leading me by his Grace out of an Unhappy Separation in which I had been Educated to unite my self to the Church of England It has also pleas'd the Divine Goodness to make some Use of my mean Endeavours according to a Method usual with his Infinite Wisdom which is Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings to ordain Strength and to chuse the weak things of the World to perform by them some of his most Glorious Effects These things have carried me on in this Endeavour these things have supported me under the Difficulties and Disadvantages I have sometimes encountred And by Vertue of them as I entred the Church of God upon a deliberate Consideration and with a full Conviction of Conscience that it was my indispensible Duty as I did it in Defiance of that terrible Storm of Persecution which threatned it and was begun at that time from a Combination of all the Sorts of its Enemies against it so I thank God I have been so supported that no Hardships have ever been able to make me repent the doing so And I think my self infinitely more oblig'd to the Divine Goodness for having been in any measure able to exercise the Faith and Patience I had occasion for than if I had in any of the Ways of Schism grown Rich and Prosperous in the World And I have Reason at length to say I waited patiently for the Lord and he enclined unto me and heard my Calling This Acknowledgment I think my self bound to make as publick as I can for the Edification of others and for the Glory of God to whom be all Glory for ever and ever My Lord I know what is said in due Thankfulness and Acknowledgment to Almighty God whom you Love and Honour will be very acceptable to Your Grace But I must go on and say that which will not be so acceptable and yet I think my self indispensably oblig'd to say it I must own with all thankfulness that Your Grace has been by Your Condescending Goodness the Instrument of the Divine Providence in my Support and Encouragement And I am oblig'd entirely to Your Grace's Favour for a Competent and Comfortable Subsistence Your Grace has shown herein the Excellent Spirit of a true Church-of England-Man that is of a very good Christian The Disposition which is a Glorious Imitation of the Goodness of God in being Merciful as our heavenly Father is Merciful and ready like him to pardon and favour a returning Penitent May it please the Divine Goodness in Favour to his Church to continue long in Your Important Station a Person who knows so well how to Honour and Recommend his Church to those that are in Error and Disobedience and what is the best Course and Method to cure our Unhappy Divisions May Your Grace live to see us well and generally United among our selves and in a strong League and Union with all Foreign Protestants for our mutual Defence against the common Enemy My Lord I humbly beg leave to present the following Memorials to Your Grace hoping they may obtain the Favour of Your Patronage as demonstrating a Concern for the Glory of God and for the Honour of Christian Religion and as containing Matters of Fact which many among us will be able to make use of in Defence of the Reformation and Conviction of the Roman Church of the heaviest Imputations which ours has ever charg'd upon her to much further and better Purpose than I have done or can do it I could not so justly present them to any Person as to Your Grace because of my greater Obligations to Your Grace than to any other Person in the World And because it was by Your Grace's Favour and Recommendation that I obtain'd the Means and Opportunity to make up these Observations I must now humbly beg Your Grace's Pardon for this Presumption and the Interruption I have given to Your more Important Thoughts And engage my self for ever to be My Lord Your Grace's Most Humble Obedient and Dutiful Son Wittresham Decemb. 8. 1698. Theophilus Dorrington THE PREFACE HAving lately had Occasion to sojourn almost Two Years in a * Antwerp City of the Roman Communion And that such an one as follows and observes all the Methods and Practices of Superstition and Idolatry used in that Church perhaps in as good earnest and with as much Exactness as any other whatever I had thereby Opportunity to observe several things of that Nature in common Vse there which are not now com ✚ monly known to us in England This may well be I think because 't is some time since the Goodness of the Divine Providence to us has happily deliver'd our Church from the Corruptions of Popery Besides this the Church of Rome which hates to be Reform'd has since that time carried its Corruptions and Disorders yet further and to more enormous Degrees to fulfil the Character of Evil Men and Seducers who grow woâ—â—e and worse I saw too among them a Multitude of things that are a plain and perfect Contradiction to those Plausible Expositions and Representations of the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome which have of late been made use of with but too much Success in many Places This Artifice indeed has been lately very learnedly and strongly oppos'd among us and the Cheat of it abundantly discover'd But after all those who go abroad into Places of the Roman Communion and who set themselves to observe what they may and to examine what they observe cannot chuse but think there may be Materials collected which may yet be used to a further Effect against this Desire and I wish there were no need to do this I had therefore a Design to have communicated to the Publick what I had observ'd upon my coming home from that Place but could hardly have perswaded my self to do it because the Observations I had made there were confin'd to one City only I was therefore glad when I found my self engag'd to go abroad again hoping that an Opportunity might offer it self to go further and to improve or confirm them at least by what
purpose But to curse excommunicate murther and damn People as Hereticks because they do not believe and comply with such Stuff as this must be as much beside true Christian Charity as the other is beside a true Faith But let us look a little also into the Trick of the Fraternities and see how these are contriv'd and manag'd for the making provision for these idle useless Drones call'd Religious among whom the Christian Faith like stagnating Water has been so monstrously corrupted for want of being exercis'd duly in Works truly good And upon consideration of the matter we shall find these Fraternities to be as great and wicked a Corruption of Christian Religion as any is in the Roman Church or indeed as any can be To these Monks belongs the Fraternity of the Cord of St. Francis by Virtue of which many of the People are joyn'd to them coming to publick Worship constantly in their Meeting-Places and receiving all Administrations of the Divine Ordinances from them I shall give some Account of this from what themselves say of it in a Book written to recommend it to the People call'd The little Spiritual Wine-press or a short Account of the Original Worthiness Miracles Conditions Priviledges Fruits Indulgences of the far renowned Archbrotherhood of the holy Five Wounds and Sufferings of Christ nam'd the Cord of St. Francis It is pretended indeed that this Fraternity is set up to honour and commemorate the Sufferings of Jesus Christ but we shall find by understanding it that 't is rather design'd to honour St. Francis and to maintain these his Brothers To show how acceptable to God the Remembrance of Christ's Sufferings is they tell this Story of St. Francis He had they say such Compassion and Devotion to the bitter Sufferings of Christ that he would often burst out with Tears and cry and moan most bitterly as if Men were putting him to the greatest Torment Therefore Christ also honour'd him with the Marks of his holy Five Wounds to renew in the World the Remembrance of his Benefits and Love shown to us in his bitter Sufferings So the World is to remember the Sufferings of Christ by the Wounds of St. Francis and I doubt not 't is one Conformity of the pretended Saint to Jesus Christ that Men must expect to be sav'd by the Merits of his Wounds too They say that St. Francis hearing that Scripture read Provide neither Gold nor Silver nor Brass in your Purses nor Scrip for your Journey neither Shoes he immediately threw off his Shoes disposed of the little Money he had and his Purse too and laid aside his Girdle and instead of it girt himself with a Cord. But certainly if this Scripture is to be taken in the strict literal Sence for a common Rule St. Francis should have let alone the Cord and not have girt himself at all for even the Cord might be reckon'd a Girdle But for all that they tell us that through this Cord Almighty God has done many wonderful Works so that not only the Cord but also the Water in which the Cord had been wash'd would heal Diseases which signifies in what great Esteem men ought to hold this Cord. But is it possible for any man seriously to think it worth while for the Infinite Wisdom and Power to alter the Course of Nature and work Miracles for the Honour of this Cord Certainly nothing can be more impious and blasphemous than the ascribing to the great Sovereign and Author of the World the working Miracles on so trifling Occasions as they many times find for them in the Histories of their Saints which is as if the Divine Power like a paultry Jugler would show Tricks for the sake of showing them To go on Pope Leo X. granted to the Order of the Minor Brothers the Power to administer the Cord to all Christian People with great Indulgences and Priviledges Many Great and Noble Persons have born this Cord openly namely 4 Popes 48 Cardinals 2 Emperors 12 Kings many other Noble and a multitude of meaner People Sixtus the Fifth Pope of Rome through his pious and religious Charity establish'd in the Year 1586. this Archbrotherhood of the Cord of Assise for the purposes following In the first place to renew the remembrance of the Sufferings of Christ as is pretended but it might have been let alone for all this because Jesus Christ himself has left us a fit and sufficient memorial of them in the Sacrament of his Supper 2. He having observ'd how great Devotion many People bore to the H. Francis who yet had no opportunity to forsake the World and live under the direction of any of his 3 Holy Rules he therefore instituted this Brotherhood that they might at least in the wearing of this Cord become the followers of St. Francis be excited to all Virtue and might live and die in the love of God 3. And also that all faithful People through the whole World who afford daily Sustenance and Food to the minor Brothers may from the same Religious receive Spiritual Gifts and Assistances And this without doubt is the chief reason for this wise Institution to encourage and oblige an easie and abus'd Devotion to contribute real Benefits for the empty return of Imaginary ones Further to recommend this Brotherhood or wheedle the People are told that among other Privileges granted by God himself to the H. Father Francis this is one That he should release every Year upon the day of his Festival all the Souls of those of his three Orders and the Souls of those who have been Benefactors to them from the dismal Fire of Purgatory The mighty Privileges and Benefits belonging to this Fraternity are too many to be here enumerated but I shall mention some of them Those that enter themselves herein shall enjoy all the Indulgences and Favours granted to the minor Brothers They shall be partakers of the merits of all the Fasts Prayers Watchings and other good Works which are done through the whole World by those who live cloister'd in eternal Idleness the Order of minor Brothers the Clarisses the third Rule and by the whole Brotherhood of the Cord. They shall receive Plenary Indulgence upon the day of their coming into the Brotherhood once and at the day of their Death Upon all the Feast-days of our Saviour and upon all the Festivals of our good Lady upon St. Francis's day All-Saints-day and through the whole good Week before Easter This is granted by Leo the 10th Note That the Brothers and Sisters of the Archbrotherhood ought to seek of their Father Consessor who must also be a Minorite these great Indulgences and Absolutions Plenary Indulgence to all those of the Brotherhood who shall joyn in the monthly Procession of the Archbrotherhood and to those who are not of the Brotherhood but shall join in that Procession an Indulgence of an hundred Years At Ruremond Venlo c. upon the first Sunday of the Month at Brussels Bruges c.
there were 8000 Wax Torches and Flambeaus carried before it I doubt not but some mighty Indulgence was the Lure that brought so many People together and perhaps it was a new one granted in consideration of the late Sufferings of the City for these Occasions bring Money both to Priests and People At the place where this Hostie is kept in this Church there hangs up a Table on which are written these Verses following which relate the matter in short Quisquis ades summi quem tangit cura Tonantis Dum proper as coeptum siste viator iter Hic tibi viva caro aeterni Sapientia Patris Christus adest vivus panis una salus Invida Judaeûm quam dum laniare laborat Impietas meritis ignibus ecce ruit Quare age divinos bic funde Viator honores Funde Deo dignas supplice mente preces If this Story were true it might be reckon'd a miraculous Confirmation of the Truth of Christian Religion but it does not all conclude for the Absurdity of Transubstantiation tho' 't is very likely it was at first but a Juggle contriv'd for a pretended Proof of that as it is to this day reputed a mighty one I will allow it to be the best they have In this Church as I remember I saw an Altar with an Image of the Virgin over it which has an Inscription belonging to it that calls her Maria pacis On the Front of the great House before-mention'd call'd the Bakers there is somewhat relating to this matter One sees there two Inscriptions in great Letters which run cross the whole Front the one of which is A Peste Fame Bello libera nos Maria Pacis The other is Hic Votum fecit Elizabetha pro Pace publica I suppose this Elizabeth to have been Isabella-Clara-Eugenia Daughter of Philip the second King of Spain who married her in the Year 1598. to Albert the Sixth Arch-Duke of Austria whom he made Governour of these Countries This Inscription speaks fully out what they mean by their Application to the Saints and downright asks of the Virgin Mary that she would deliver them from the Plague Famine and War It speaks too their Opinion of Images while the Prayer is made as their Phrase is to that particular Virgin Mary and the People in common Talk will say One Virgin Mary has done a great many Miracles but another has done nothing at all There are a great many Convents of Friars and Nuns in this City for these people commonly chuse the most populous and pleasant places to retire from the World and mortifie themselves in many of them were beaten down by the Bombs out of the French King 's ardent Zeal to promote the Roman Religion The Dominicans had a large Church here the Dominicans Walls and Cover of which are up and they were saying Mass at two or three sorry Altars in it to be doing for something doing something coming A large Division of this Church which is almost half of it was before and is design'd again for the Chappel of the Rosary The Rosary is a Set of Prayers to the Virgin which if you will believe them she her self order'd and assisted St. Dominick to recommend to the World a thing that has done mighty matters but chiefly has well provided for this Order and fatned them up as Hogs for the Slaughter For as the Institution of this blessed The Rosary From of Devotion is deriv'd from this Order so they have all the Profits of it The Chappels of the Rosary belong to them and the Brotherhood of the Rosary are their People and are joyn'd to them and all the mighty Priviledges and Indulgences granted to the Rosary are dispensed by these Monks and by Virtue of these matters there is no sort of the pretended religious Orders who look more jolly and fat and shine with their own Grease more than these Butcherly Fellows This method of Devotion has drawn in such multitudes of People of the Roman Communion and makes so great and considerable a part of the Worship and Devotion of that Church that one should give a very imperfect Account of the State of Religion in the Roman Church without somewhat a distinct Account of the Devotion of the Rosary I shall therefore produce some of the most observable Particulars which I have met with relating to this matter wherein we shall see a great deal of dull and tedious trifling under the Name and Pretence of Devotion a deal of impious Idolatry in the Worship of the Virgin if ever there was or can be such a thing as Idolatry in the Worship of a Creature and we shall see the main business of Worship turn'd into Applications to the blessed Virgin and in a word the Christian Religion turn'd Marian. What the Rosary is The Rosary or Garland of Roses is a Set of Prayers to the Virgin Mary intermixed with the Lord's Prayer These both one and other are number'd by the Beads which one shall so often see in the Hands of the People in Popish Countries especially when they go to Church The String of Beads is tied together at the ends and has commonly fifty small and five greater Beads in the round and there are besides about ten◠I think of the small Beads with one great one upon a little strait String with a Cross which hangs to the other On the smal Beads they say so many Ave Mary's as these Prayers to the Virgin are commonly call'd because they begin with the Words of the Angel's Salutation of her when he came to tell her she should be honour'd with bearing the Messias To which Salutation they have added moreover that of Elizabeth and a Conclusion in the Form of a Supplication to the B. Virgin The whole Prayer runs thus Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou above all Women and blessed is the Fruit of thy Womb Jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us poor Sinners now and in the Hour of our Death This Prayer is repeated ten times and then comes the Lord's Prayer which is repeated as often as the great Beads come The whole Rosary or Garland of Prayers consists of this String of Beads three times repeated which comes to fifteen times ten Ave Maries and fifteen Pater Nosters When and upon what occasion the Rosary was instituted This method of Devotion so erroneously partial to the Virgin whom they pray to ten times in it for one Prayer to Almighty God has no other Foundation but a Story as impudent as silly and evidently devised to derive it from the Blessed Virgin her self Indeed this does but help to fill up the Parallel between Rome Heathen and Popish and if Numa Pompilius might pretend to derive his Rules of Religion from a Goddess why might not the holy Dominick derive his from such an one too Thus then as they say this great and divine Institution as brought into the World When the holy Dominick had
the Lord Ernest who was Brother to the Elector and Duke of Bavaria and Arch-Bishop of Cologne The present Prince and Bishop of Leige Joseph Clement is also Arch-Bishop of Cologne and Brother to the present Elector of Bavaria the Governour of the Spainsh Netherlands The common Revenue of the Bishop and Prince of Leige is said to be more than 30.000 Ducats per An. Besides which he that gains the Love of his People is assisted in extraordinary exigences with considerable Subsidies And he has in his Gift many Prebends and other Ecclesiastical Benefices He is chosen by the Members of the College of St. Lambert approv'd by the whole Body of the People and as all other Bishops of the Roman Church in a slavish subjection must be confirm'd by the Bishop of Rome The Episcopal See being transfer'd as has been said from Tongeren to Maestricht by St. Servatius it continued there under a long Succession of Bishops to the time of Lambertus In his time one Hubert of Aquitaine a Son they say of a Lord of that Country left his Country and came to visit Brabant led by the same of the prosperous Condition of Christian Religion in these parts He went to Maestricht and there contracted an intimate Friendship with the good Bishop Lambert After some time he had a desire to see Rome also which he went to fulfill While he was there news came to Rome that the People of Maestricht had Murder'd Bishop Lambert upon which the Pope of that time who was Sergius created Hubert Bishop of Maestricht and sent him thither It so happen'd that he was receiv'd by the Citizens with great appearances of kindness and Civility But he was so distated with the Murther of his good Friend their Bishop Lambert that he apply'd his thoughts from the very first to the removing of the Episcopal Seat to some other place And after some time the necessary preparations being made by Laws and the Approbation of the Pope being obtain'd he did in the Year 713 remove the Episcopal Chair to the City of Leige carrying with him thither the Body of his Friend St. Lambert He built the Noble Church which bears the name of S. Lambert and founded the College of Cannons belonging to it and liv'd the rest of his Life here in great Reputation for Piety and Vertue and since his Death he is thought worthy of that Veneration which the Church of Rome pays to some of the departed Saints and to those whom they account such The Pallace of the Bishop is a stately and Magnificent Pallace Structure It goes round 3 Courts the innermost of which is a Garden but I believe in no good Condition at present We would have seen the inside of the Pallace but they said the Rooms were unfurnish'd and we perceiv'd they had no mind to let us see what condition it was within from whence we supposed there was now nothing fine or worth showing to Strangers The usual Residence of this Prince he being Arch Bishop of Cologne is at Bonne upon the Rhine which may occasion this Pallace to be neglected The outermost Court of the Pallace is commonly pass'd through It is an Area bigger than that of the Royal Exchange in London and surrounded like that with a Piazza which is supported on the outside with a great number of Pillars Under the Piazza are Shops The beginnings of this Noble Building were made by the Excellent Erardus à Marca Bishop of Leige and Cardinal of whom more will be said anon The City of Leige is seated for the greatest City part of it on the West side of the Maese which runs along by it a great way The River makes here a very short turn in two Channels One of which and the lesser of the two compasses a good large Island which is all built and must be accounted part of the City to which it is join'd by several Bridges The bigger Channel of the Maese turns short of the other and runs between this Island and the place call'd the Wyke another part of the City which lies on the East side of the Maese It is a large place well built containing several Streets and seem'd to have its proportion of Trade with the rest of the City to which it is join'd by a good Stone Bridge cross the Maese which has 6 Arches under it A great number of Vessels lay all along by the City on both sides of the River We went along a good way by the Water side to observe what the Ware-houses there are stor'd with The greatest number were of those stockt with Iron and Iron-Utensils Some had great numbers of Bars of Iron others Iron Pots Backs for Chimneys Stoves Frying-pans Nails c. There were also great Stores of Marble squar'd for Floors many great Stores of Coals Some of Butter and Cheese some with Pitch and Tar and Cordage for Ships This City is very large and very full of People and seems to have a great Trade It stands part of it in a flat about the Maese aad a great deal of it runs up some very steep Hills The bigness of it cannot well be judged of by the sight though one can take several prospects over it all as we did with a great deal of pleasure because it hides it self from the sight in several steep Hollows and Descents There are some Vineyards above the City at the top and on the steepest part of the Hill within the compass of the Wall The Streets of the City have no beauty they are very narrow and few of them strait the buildings are much like the Old City of London They are commonly 3 or 4 Stories in height but those Stories are not very high ones The New buildings which are the repair of the Mischief which the Mareschal de Boufflers did with his Bombs in the late War are generally built after the common new Fashion and like our new buildings in London they are mostly built with Brick or Stone It was but a very small part of the Town which was hurt in proportion to the whole It is chiefly a little tract from St. Lamberts Church down to the Water-side and along by the Water somewhat above and below the Bridge to the Wyke The City House was ruin'd The front Wall of it is good part standing it does not seem by the remainders to have been a very great or Magnificent Building It stood upon the Great Market as it is call'd which is indeed the widest and most spacious place that we saw in this City but not very big We went up a very long Street and a steep Hill to the Cittadel which stands above the whole City Where having ask'd leave of the Corporal who was then in Duty there we were permitted to walk upon the brow of the Hill which overlooks the whole City and views the Country for a good way about upwards and down the River Here we could see the short turn which the River makes Our
Archbiship of Colen Elector and Archchancellor of the Empire in Italy to the end that there may be between us and our well-beloved the Burgesses and the City of Colen a friendly Confederacy an entire Confidence and sincere Peace and that it may continue inviolate do make it known by these present Letters that we have promised and assured and do promise and assure in good Faith without any Fraud that we confirm all the Rights and Franchises written and not written old and new within and without the City of Colen which were granted it by the Popes Emperors Kings or Archbiships of Colen without ever endeavouring to contradict them In Testimony whereof we have put the Seal of our Arms to these Presents c. In all this here appears no Engagement of Subjection on one side or Pretence to Authority on the other and the thing looks more like an Agreement between Allies than an Acknowledgment or accepting of Sovereignty It is evident the Archbiship is not to be accounted the Supream Governour or Sovereign of this City but the Sovereign Power is properly lodg'd in the Senate and to them the People make no such conditional Promise of Subjection Indeed it were absurd and unreasonable that any such should be implied or exprest in the Peoples Acknowledgment of the Sovereign For this Fancy in the Heads of the People that they are no longer bound to be subject than while the Power rules them well and preserves all their Rights and Properties gives them the Pride of Censuring the Actions of their Rulers and they will condemn and dislike for the most part and certainly and always whatever they do not understand and there is no wise Government but will do and order many things which the People must not understand till they have their Effects that the Good they design by them may not be prevented This Fancy makes them very apt to be jealous and suspicious of the Designs of their Governours Besides there is no State which is destitute of ill Men some of whom will have Designs of Revenge and Mischief upon others some will have Designs of Covetousness and Ambition and all such for the sake of accomplishing those Designs will be fond of having themselves a share in the Government and to that purpose they will be continually allarming the People with Fears and Jealousies misinterpeting the Actions and Designs of the Governours and representing they do infringe their Rights or tend to get Power to do it and then they form a Faction which by Degrees may grow strong enough for Sedition and Rebellion Thus the Supream Power becomes first too weak to govern and to give the People the Felicity of a good Government and when they design well things shall through the Perversness of the People succeed ill and be imputed to ill Designs and the Good which they do not because they cannot shall be thought neglected because they would not do it Then the People grow mad enough to venture the dangerous Experiment of changing Governours or Forms of Government and then these ill Men gain their own Ends. They are accounted mighty Patriots and Friends of the People for bringing them into Confusion and Disorder and shall be thought the fittest to govern who were the proudest and most unwilling to be govern'd and the just Judgment of God often leaves the infatuated People to be plagued by the Tyranny of their new Governours for their Injustice to their old ones and brings upon them what they unreasonably fear'd by the ill Means which they used to prevent it The City of Colen indeed being upon such Terms as they are with the Archbishops must be justified in their Defences of their ancient Privileges against them Several Archbishops have strugled hard to gain the Sovereignty of this City but the City has hitherto steadily maintain'd their Freedom from that One Archbishop in the Year 1297 thought to make them submit to him by Force and gather'd an Army and was marching towards them for that Purpose The Citizens knowing this put themselves in Arms and met him They laid the Keys of their City in the Field as the Price of the Victory and then bravely fought for the Right to keep them still themselves The Providence of God favour'd their just Endeavour and they utterly defeated the Bishop's Forces and his Design together They return'd with Joy and Triumph to the City and celebrate the Memory of this important Victory still upon the Day on which they gain'd it The Archbishop since he may not reside at Colen has his Residence at Bonne This was formerly call'd Ara Ubiorum and Julia Bonna It is a very ancient City situate upon the Rhine about Four Leagues above Colen 't is encompass'd they say with a good Fortification We were bound now to be returning Homewards so we could not go thither Maternus Bishop of Colen was at the Synod Bishops of Arles held in the Year 314 against the troublesome Schismaticks and Puritans of Africa the Donatists and he is the first that I can find mention'd here This was at first but a Bishoprick and was Suffragan to the Archbishop of Treves In the Eighth Century St. Boniface then Archbishop of Mentz and the first that was so supported by the Authority of Carloman and Pepin the Short obtain'd the transforming Colen into an Archbishoprick in Favour of Agilulf whom he got promoted to it because he had been his Companion and Assistant in preaching the Christian Religion to these Parts of Germany The Prince Joseph Clement younger Brother of the present Electour of Bavaria and Governour of the Spanish Netherlands is the present Archbishop of Colen He was chosen in the Year 1688. The Chapter of Colen is very Noble it Chapter consists in all of Sixty Chanoines It does not admit a meer Gentleman or Baron to be a Member but requires that they be â—rinces or at least Counts The Twenty four of the most ancient Chanoines are those who have the Voices active and passive as they call it in the chusing of a Bishop that is they may chuse or be chosen such The Country call'd the Bishoprick of Colen Bishoprick and Estatâ—s of the A â—bbisâ—op is a Part of Germany included within the Circle of the Four Electours on the Rhine which are Mentz Triers Colen and the Electour Palatine It is bounded on the East with the Dutchy of Westphalia on the North by the Bishoprick of Munster on the West by the Dutchy of Juliers on the South by the Archbishoprick of Treves The River Rhine runs through it but the Estates subject to the Prince and Archbishop of Colen have yet a farther Extent and comprehend besides that which is call'd the Bishoprick the Dutchies of Westphalia and Angria and the County of Arensberg From all together the Prince is said to receive a Revenue of an Hundred and twenty thousand Crowns per Annum and is able to bring into the Field an Army of Twenty five thousand Horse
Dutchy of Mons and so are under the Dominion of the Duke of Neubourg The Houses of this Village look well and seem as good as those in the common Villages of England After this we pass'd above Zons a little City upon the Rhine on this side which is also in the Bishoprick of Colen We did not go down so far as Nuys on this side but within a near view of it and saw that it is a pretty large and a fortified City When we came to the River there were other Companies had just fill'd and were gone off with the Ferry-Boat so we were forced to be contented with a Naken It was a great deal of trouble to stow upon this three Charrettes one at each end and one in the middle with their Horses This done the Passengers went into another Boat which was fastned to the Naken and so we were conducted over by two sturdy Women and an old Man Each Person paid for himself two Slivers for his Passage The violent Stream carried us I believe almost a Mile down the River in crossing it we got in at a very inconvenient and troublesome place to land at and our Charretes were longer a getting out than in This Passage cost us near two Hours We were glad and thank'd God when we were got safe over this very broad and rapid River in a sorry Boat and with a great deal of encumbrance We had from our Landing-place but an Hour and half to Dusseldorp DVSSELDORP Upon our entrance into this City we were examin'd by the Officer at the Gate he ask'd us several Questions to know what we were and why we came thither We gave him for a general Answer that we were English Men and Students and were travelling only to see the Country He sent a Musquetier with us to the place where we lighted from our Charrette who took us along with him to the Corps du Garde he gave the Officer the Account which we had given at the Gate the Officer talk'd with us in â—ow-Dutch ask'd a few impertinent Questions and then dismiss'd us having first taken notice at what Inn we intended to â—odge This City is situated in a large Plain upon the right side of the Rhine as it descends tho' we left the River as soon as we had cross'd it which makes a turn here it is at this City I believe not much broader than the Thames at Gravesend but this is recon'd one of the narrowest places of the Channel by consequence the Stream runs here very swift and it is they say of a depth like a Sea Dusseldorp in Latin Dusseldorpium has this City Name from a small River call'd the Dussel which runs through it and here falls into the Rhine The Addition of Dorp which signifies a Village seems to intimate that it was at first but such It is now a wall'd City and has a good Fortification 'T is the head City of of the Dutchy of Mons or Berg so call'd from the high and steep Mountains which they say 't is full of I speak thus because we met with none of them in our way We pass'd thro' a plain Country to it and from it full of Corn Fields which prov'd the goodness of the Soil by the richness of the Crops which stood upon it We saw no Hills but at a distance beyond the reach of a distinct view where indeed the Country seem'd to rise very high and the ridge appear'd to us as we were on the other side the Rhine upon that ridge of Hills from whence we look'd down upon Colen We could there see it run as it were parallel to that which we were upon a great way Northward and Southward all the way continued and it seem'd to run both ways beyond our sight This Dutchy of Berg is a part of the Circle of Westphalia it is but of a small extent it lies along the Rhine on the East side between the Country of Mark and the Bishoprick of Colen This City is little at present and so are the Houses they are built some of Timber some of Brick and generally but low a new Street of Brick Houses is lately built with the top of the Fronts after the new Fashion and the Houses are uniform and of an equal height It is likely this will be the Fashion of all the new Buildings intended For 't is said the City at present is too little for its Inhabitants it seem'd indeed pretty full of People but I believe it may cheifly be too little for the Vanity of the Prince He is therefore at present upon the Design of making it bigger The Enlargement will not be round it but on one side The Ditch is already almost finish'd which is to enclose the new Part it is begun at the Rhine upwards from the old Wall and so runs up into the Country as far as the former City reaches with some compass and then turns towards that It seems to include a space as big as that which the present City stands upon We easily walk'd the Compass of the present City almost in half an Hour The Family which has now the Sovereignty Family of the Electors here are but lately come to this Principality They are a Branch of the House of Bavariaâ— and were call'd Dukes of Neubourg from a City of that Name within the Dukedom of Bavaria By Marriage with the House of Cleve they came to pretend to a right to succeed to the Estates belonging to that House upon the Death of John William the last Duke of Cleve Mons and Juliers as hath been said at Juliers and the utter extinction of that Family The Grand-father of the present reigning Prince who was Wolfgang William Duke of Neubourg was the first of the Family that came hither His Father Philip Lewis a zealous Assertour and Friend of the Ausburg Confession bred him in the same way but when he came to contend with the Electour of Brandenburg as has been said about Succession to the Estates of the Duke of Cleve finding the necessity of Assistance from the Spaniards and being supported by them in complaisance to them and to secure them to his Interest he chang'd his Religion and turn'd Papist and made his first publick Profession of his Change in the City of Dusseldorp in the Year 1614 to the great Grief of his Father who was yet living at Neubourg and died in the same Year The Brandenburger on the other side being supported by the States-General of the United Provinces in complaisance to them and to confirm them to his Interest left the Ausburg Confession and turn'd Calvinist This Wolfgang William being chang'd himself fiercely set himself to force all his People who had embrac'd the Reformation to return also to the Follies and Idolatries of the Church of Rome being instigated to this by the Jesuit Reihingius His Son follow'd him in his Religion and Zeal for it and in the Year 1663 went about to Banish all that profess'd
Scripture Songs or Psalms and also some devout Hymns composed by Luther and other pious Protestants of their Communion There were I think in one part of the Book Forms of Prayer The Worship here began about Eight a Clock in the Morning and ended at Eleven It was begun by a Reader a grave ancient Man who is the School-Master of the Protestants Children He first read a short Prayer then he read several Chapters of the Old and New Testament while the Congregation came together When a good Number were assembled they began to â—ing with the Organ their Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs I observ'd many People both Men and Women fell in with the singing without using their Books which they had before them very often and the Children who sate together very readily found what was to be sung though I saw it was taken out of several distant Places of their Books which shows that they were all very well acquainted with their Liturgy I perceiv'd that in one place they sung the Apostle's Creed for a Person by whom I sate and who very civilly turn'd to and show'd me every thing that they sung at length pointed to what I understood to be that This singing took up the greatest part of the time of their Assembly They all sung with most perfect Concord and Agreement with their Organ which was very pleasant and which was more pleasant they did it with greatest Seriousness and Devotion I never saw in any Quire of Monks or Priests in the Roman Church that they sung their Devotions with so much Solemnity and Abstraction as they speak as the People generally here did As soon as they were entred in their singing they appear'd as if the whole Soul was engag'd and elevated above the vain World as if they were all Thought and Devotion I confess it transported me with Pleasure to see how fitly they sung the Praises of the Great and Good Being I thought my self in Circumstances that were a a pleasant Emblem and Resemblance of Heaven and blessed my self to find that I was now amidst the pure Praises and true Worshippers of God And I conceiv'd such a Disdain and Detestation of the Worship of the Papists where one sees divine Honours paid to poor Creatures at the best and some of them perhaps miserable Sinners in Hell that I could hardly perswade my self after this to look into any more of their Churches This singing was twice interrupted for a little space at which times the Minister went from his Pew by the Pulpit and stood before the Communion-Table with his Face towards the People and read first the Gospel and the second time the Epistle for the Day After they had spent a good while in this pleasant part of Worship they ceased and the Minister ascended the Pulpit where he pray'd and preach'd His Preaching was as he told me afterwards an Explication of the Gospel for the Day He perform'd his part with a great deal of Gravity and Seriousness and with a very natural unaffected Zeal which seem'd to demonstrate him sincerely sensible of what he said When he concluded the People sung again for a while and then they were dismiss'd with a Blessing In the Afternoon I had some Conversation with this Minister in which he appear'd a very pious and good Man and a judicious well-studied Divine as I found afterwards He has the Reputation of a good Scholar among the Protestant Divines He was mightily pleasd to see a Priest of the Church of England in his Church and in his House and express'd a great Veneration and Esteem for our Church He ask'd several important Questions concerning it and rejoyc'd at every thing I could tell him which look'd well and in favour of it He positively condemn'd those of our Nation who separate so needlessly from a Church so wisely and justly reform'd but he spoke this with a Spirit of Compassion and Tenderness becoming a Christian and he discover'd that he heartily lamented it as a thing of mighty Prejudice to the Progress and Prosperity of the Reformation He told me they had many things wanting in their Assembly here for want of Means which are usual among the Protestants in other Places where they have more Encouragement He had indeed a good Congregation and many People appear'd there of good Fashion I observ'd some of the Electour's Guards there in their Livery both of the Horse and Foot who are Lutherans But it cannot be so well with them as it should be under a Prince that inherits something of a Bigottry for the absurd and monstrous Religion he professes This Minister told me that there are Five and twenty Congregations of Protestants in this Dutchy besides Calvinists Some of which I think enjoy a settled Revenue for the Maintenance of the Minister and publick Charges but the most of them supply both these from their own immediate Contributions He told me the Churches of the Ausburg Confession have not all one Form of Liturgy every where exactly the same nor all the same Modes or Methods of administring the Divine Offices but in several Countries they have their several Forms and Rites yet they do not censure or quarrel or separate from one another upon this score but he that is used to Methods of one sort in one Country when he comes into another joins with the Congregations and conforms to the Methods there with the Spirit of Meekness and Charity and Wisdom which was in the Primitive Christians and directed them to demean themselves in like manner in the like Cases Passage from Dusseldorp to Cleves ON the second of June we hired Places in a Charrette which was bound for Arnhem a Journey of Three Days from hence they would carry us to Emmerick and leave us there for our Design was to go by Cleves Home This was the only Passage we could obtain for that Day We paid each Person for it Three Guilders Ten Stivers We were Six Persons in the Charrette and had but Two Horses and the same Horses were to go through the whole Three Days Journey Our Company happen'd to be all of the Reformed Religion as they call the Calvinists in these Countries They were glad when we told them we were Protestants and we were very agreeable Company to each other Some of them went with us quite to Emmerick and were bound further They were of this Country Natives and Inhabitants of the Dutchy of Mons. I asked them how they were used under the Popish Government here They shook their Heads and sighed and signified that it is but very hardly and intimated as much as amounted almost to Oppression I said their Prince seem'd in his Person to be good and gentle and to have no appearance of Fierceness in his Nature they acknowledg'd that but said his Confessour is a Jesuite and by him and his Bretheren who manage this Prince too much he is often instigated to do things which lie very hard and uneasie upon the Protestants
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