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A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

vnder-ballance of Trade with other Nations that it is high time now or neuer to looke about before wee bee driuen to a narrower pinch The causes in two words of this ouer-ballancing is Prodigality and Pouerty The one brings in by Excesse of Forraigne goods into the Kingdome an ouerballancing The other by the Defect and hauing too little from their partiall Mother keeps our Trading backe in vnder ballance Apollo sighed at the relation and all his Court which fauoured the Protestant Religion both outwardly and inwardly demonstrated great heauines for this Decay of Trade in Great Brittaine that in the dayes of peace vnder a Religious King this vnder-ballance should happen and openly protested that Peace consumed more men and goods in that Kingdom then all their Warres with Spaine and Tyrone Likewise his Maiesty said that if the Noble King Iames had not betimes raised the Iacobus piece to twenty two shillings and his other Gold to the like proportion other Nations had by this time attracted all the treasure of this land vnto themselues and that the riotous flaunting in Apparell with their prodigall Feasts did helpe to vnder-ballance their Trading which together with many other abuses crept into that State hee wished some of the Inhabitants if they had any feeling of their Countreyes smart should present without delay or partiality CHAP. 2. Apollo causeth a Iury to be impanelled out of the Vniuersities of Oxford Cambridge S ● A●drews Aberdine and the Colledge at Dubin to find out those persons which sold Ecclesiasticall Liuings The Pres●ntours discouering some bring them before Apollo His Maiesties censure with his discourse of the Right of Tithes APollo perceiuing that one of the chiefest causes of the miseries which perplexed Great Brittain proceeded from Si●●ny and the enforced Periury of some Ministers who being driuen by meete necessity were faine to accommodate themselues to the iniquity of the times caused about Whitsontide last 1626. a Iury to be impanelled of the precisest Preachers in that Monarchy viz. sixe out of the Vniuersit● of Oxford sixe out of Cambridge sixe out of St. Andrewes sixe out of Aberdine and the like number out of the Colledge at Dublin in Ireland 30. in all integros vitae scelerisque puros men of vnattainted liues and pure from notorious vices These his Imperiall Maiesty appointed to enquire of such Patrons as presumed directly or indirectly to play the Marchants and sell those worldly meanes which God himselfe had allotted to his earthly Angels towards their maintenance and wages in labouring to reduce his astrayed flocke to their true Shepheard Ou●r this impanelled ranke he placed D. Raynolds a man of very austere Conuersation so temperate in his affections that hee made choise rather to bee Head ●● Corpus Christs Colledge in Oxford then to become a Bishop which the famous Queene Elizabeth offere● vnto him About ten dayes after the Inquisitors returned and presented the names of 40. Patrons and so many Ministers which had truckt and bargained for Benefices Likewise they presented that 6. Widdowes whose Husbands had coped and giuen 4. yeers purchase for Benefices were ready to starue some of them hauing seuen or eight children lying on their hands And that before the first fruits were satisfied without receiuing one penny for their purchase their poore Husbands died Apollo moued to Commiseration to see the wretched estate of the Church brought to this wofull plight said that it was no maruell all things went to wrack and ruine in that Noble Iland when the Patrimony of the Church became a prey and pillage to Marchandizing Greedy-guts For how quoth he can vertue harbour in their hearts when the Rewards of vertue are rauished embezeled and turned topsy turuy This inequality compelled many braue Spirits desperately to runne into the gulfe of discontentment This made Campian Parsons Harding Stapleton Creswell Dallison Garnet and infinite others to forgo their natiue Countrey and betake themselues to the Seminary Colledges in Doway in Valladolide Ciuill Rome and other Popish places After these speeches his Maiesty ask't the delinquent Patrons what infernall fury possessed them to wrong the Ministers the selected seruants of their Heauenly Father Why they forced them to buy their owne Right and due The Patrons answered that they held a hand ouer the Aduowsons and Ecclesiasticall liuings in their gifts aswell as ouer the impropriate Tithes Both which being wrested and extorted by the Clergy-men themselues heretofore in time of Popery towards the Religious houses belonged as a lawfull spoile vnto them for ridding the Land of such Lazy Lordanes Abbey-lubbers Likewise they alleged that they could not support their magnifique Port and pompe without making sale of such Benefices as were in their donations To this Apollo replied Though yee haue beene tolerated to detaine the impropriate Ti●hes dare ye aduenture to take money for those Spirituall Liuings which appertaine not vnto you ● 〈◊〉 yee againe deuoure the forbidden Fruit Could not the many examples of them which felt the Stroke of Diuine vengeance for purloyning of forbidden Wares terrify your mercenary minds Ach●n for the wedge of Gold and the Baby●o●ish●ayment ●ayment was stoned to death Gehezi for receiuing the two Talents and the change of garments from Naaman was strucken with Leprosie No ill gotten goods can long thriue with any man Male parta male dilabuntur which yee might obserue by the Crane in the Embleme which hauing a wrongfull prey could not digest it As in like manner it befell to an Eagle which snatching a Coale from the Altar fired her nest therewith Famous are the destructions of sacrilegious persons in all ages Of Heliodorus who was scourged by an Angell for seeking to rob the treasure of the Templeat Ierusalem of Pompey which tooke away the Golden Table out of that sanctified place of the Galles which spoyled the Delphicke Church of C●pi● who robbed the Church of Toloza that gaue an occasion to the Prouerb Aurum Tolozanum which proued fatall to the takers Although these two last serue not so fit for our turne because they were Heathenish yet in as much as they portend fatal success Mal●omē to the rakers of Church goods let men feare to share in Sacred things or in any Commodity annexed to the Spiritualty But now-a-dayes yee are not content onely to exact of the poore Ministers such vnreasonable prizes but yee must get some by humane reasons and vnwarrantable authority to iustifie your Acts training their ouerfluent wits to proue the Word of God to become mutable in matters of Tithe for the ●onfounding of which leprous opinion I will now onuert my speech vnto you my learned Courtiers Be it knowne vnto you that Tithes are due to the Clergy Iure Diuino before the Law by the Law of Moses and vnder the Gospell Before the Law Abraham payed Tithes to Melchised●ch euen the tenth part of all which he had as the Authour to the Hebrewes explayned Hee payd Tithes as a temporall Prince to a

to that effect to Iohn Bishop of Ierusalem hee recommends the said vaile charging him to beware how he permitted any such Idolatrous things to bee set vp in any place within his Iurisdiction To conclude let it suffice that Christians honor the memorie of the blessed Saints vpon those Daies which the Church haue allotted for that purpose Let them glorifie God for vouchsafing to send those Seruants of his as the chiefe Elders and Pillars vnder their Sauiour Christ the Head of their corporation But in no wise let them pray vnto them for feare of that Iealous Eare which heareth euery word No man can come to the Father but by the Sonne Nor can any man come to the Sonne except the Father who sent the Sonne doe draw him Our Sauiour by his Godhead knowes the secrets of our hearts Hee alone is enabled with power to helpe vs. He alone is the Master of Gods Court of Requests Come vnto him all yee which are heauie laden and he will refresh you without suing vnto any other Mediatour whatsoeuer Remember the words of Saint Paul that Iesus Christ alone is our Aduocate with the Father One God one Mediatour CHAP. X. Martine Luther arriuing at Parnassus shewes to Apollo how the Popes vnder colour of redeeming mens Soules out of Purgatorie vsed to conicatch Christians by the sale of Pardons Apollo condemnes both the Fable of Purgatorie and the vse of Popish Pardons MArtine Luther a famous Diuine of Germany whom some of his Countrymen call the second Elias for his bold and constant asseueration of the Truth against the Ahabs of his time came in great pompe to Parnassus on Tuesday in the Easter weeke last 1626. associated with Er●smus Melancton Bucer and many other valiant Champions of the Protestant Religion And hauing lighted off their Pegasean horses they entred into the Parliament house where they attended vntill Apollo the Lady Pallas the Muses the Graces and other Princely Courtiers of his Maiesties traine were seated in their classicke ranks Assoone as they saw the Ceremonies ended Martin Luther made this Oration Most noble Emperour It is now aboue an hundred yeares since I first preached against the inualiditie of Popish Pardons grounded on those dreames of Purgatorie for the life of these Pardons is deriued from this Acheron and as farre as I see notwithstanding all my vigilant cares and toilesome labors matters are like to issue to their first elements and former confused Chaos except some course bee sodainly taken to banish these Indulgences and doting Pardons into the abisme of Lethe neuer more to be remembred What a shamefull thing is it for the Pope to vsurpe a higher prerogatiue then our Sauiour himselfe euer affirmed that his Almightie Father left vnto him Hee knew not the Day of Doome nor did hee seeke to know more then became the Sonne of Man to know And yet the Pope in worldly craft to bring more sacks to his mill and a concourse of trading to his Babilon hath granted a Pardon of 6000. yeares to come vnto all such as shall resort to the Church of Saint Iohn de Laterane in Rome and also an absolute Pardon of eight and twentie thousand yeares with plenary remission of their Sinnes to as many people as shall repayre thither vpon the Feast day of Saint Iohn the Euangelist when as the Elect of God doe surely belieue that this world cannot last so long but that the Sunne of Righteousnesse shall shine before that time and descend from the Heauens to iudge all the Sonnes of Adam Many of my poore Countrymen of late since the Conquest of the Palatinate haue beene forced to shift their Religion and to accept of these idle Pardons against their consciences Our humble motions now are to your Imperiall Highnesse that you will curb this Man of Sinne in making frustrate histricks of Legerdemaine Let Purgatorie fables bee taken away these Indulgences and Pardons will cease And if they cease the Reuenues which support his Pride will become abated But as long as this Gulph doth lie open the Christian World shall neuer enioy peace in bodie or mind Apollo at these speeches of Luther seemed much to bewaile the condition of the times And to firret out the better the Originall of Purgatory and of the Popish Pardons he asked Peter Lumbard Master of the Sentences who flourished about fiue hundred yeeres agoe whether in his time the world did belieue there was any such place as Purgatory Peter Lumbard answered that there was not the least thought of such a place in his time Nor doe the Greekes to this houre said hee credit any such matter And shall I sleepe still replied Apollo while this Enchanter beguiles with his false lure the ares of simple Soules The Poets had their Elisian fields as this Fellow his Fable of Purgatory They deuised theirs of pleasure But He inuented his of base couetousnesse to rake to his Treasury what others got with infinite troubles Hence arose that Prouerbe that the Pope can neuer want money as long as he hath a hand to hold a pen. While euerie Chimney in England paid the taxation called Peter-pence they wanted not sanctified wares like amulets and charmed scrowles to defend their soules from Belsebub Princes of Deuils They wanted no Pardons to ransome them from the iawes of Cerberus But if they slighted them as scar-crowes no peny no Pater noster sinke or swimme they were abandoned and left to the fatall Ferriman O childish Popelines shall papers thus bewitch you Shall Pedlers deceiue you with false trinkets Shall Iugglers and Mountebankes circumuent your vnderstanding with trifles and nifles in a bag or with a pigge in a poke Here in this World is your Purgatory your place of triall where the Righteous which liues by Faith which loues his fellow Christian shall possesse Heauen for his Reward as on the contrary Hell if hee bee ouer worldly minded and cares for no man but himselfe and his own Family Dust returnes as the Prophet testified into dust from whence it came and his soule returnes to God from whence it came Saint Cyprian makes no doubt of any other place When men saith he are once departed out of this life then there is no place of Repentance left There is no more effect of any satisfaction Heere in this World euerlasting life is either lost or giuen Saint Augustine who liued aboue a hundred yeeres after Saint Cyprian writes that some in his time began to mooue the question whether there were any such third place after this life Yet for his owne part he positiuely concludes vpon those two of Heauen and Hell But quoth he of a third place we know not Neither doe we find any such in the holy Scriptures Therefore let no man trust to the moon-shine in the water by other mens merits his Sauiour excepted to redeeme his soule from the place where God appoints it Dauid when hee vnderstood that his child got on Bethsabe was dead left off

of Spaine And for this cause with his commendatory Letters from a Iesuite in England to his brother Iesuite Robert Parsons at Madrid he posted thither in hope of high preferment In the meane time his men which hee left a ship-boord finding themselues betrayed by Captaine Eliot and destitute of necessaries to relieue their wants they complotted to steale the Pinnasse away But the matter casually discouered some of them were hanged and the rest made Gally-slaues which comming to the eares of Captaine Eliot at Madrid and hearing that his Brother whom he had left to ouer-see the Pinnasse had likewise tasted of this Spanish Courtesie hee repayred in this male-content to Father Parsons pittifully complayning of his cruell fortune and this bloudie course extended toward his people which hee brought of purpose to serue the King of Spaine hoping of reward rather then to bee so inhumanely dealtwith Father Parsons at that time being more in a moode of deuotion then willing to shew himselfe a Statesman began to reade a Lecture to Captaine Eliot of Patience Humilitie and of Mortification The which hee for a while gaue eare vnto but at last perceiuing that his speeches tended to defeate him of his Ship and to get him into a Cloyster he brake into these impatient termes What doe you preach vnto mee of Patience and Mortification Can flesh and bloud rest satisfied with this vsage Can I be patient when I see my brother and my friends executed and the rest of my men condemned to the Gallies Had it not beene for the aduise which your friend and brother Iesuit gaue me to betray the Q Pinnasse I might haue liued in my own Countrie a happy man far from this barbarous end Surely it were fitting that those which vndertake for money to direct their Clients should requite them for their charges if by following their sinister Counsell the matter goes against them If a Smith hauing but a penny for his paines vnwitting ly chance to prick a horse to the quick whereby the horse is the worse for it there lyes an Action of the Case against the Smith How much more then ought a poore Country fellow altogether without the rudiments of Law haue remedie against a learned Master of the Lawes which takes vpon him to know the whole proceedings of Iustice aswell as the wisest Iudge of the Kingdome O I would that men would become more charitable the one to the other that I might heare from time to time the like complaints as Lawyers made at the end of Michaelmus Terme last 1625. They bewailed their misfortune that whereas some one of them vsed to haue sixtie Clients hee had scarce eight at that Redding Terme which complaints moued mee no more to pittie then to see a Goose goe bare foot I rather reioyced to heare the tidings that Suites of Law were not become eternall And presently I ministred this Pill vnto them My Masters said I you seeme for all the world to bee like the Sextons and Diggers of Graues now of late in London who when any askt them how they did they answered with you Neuer worse It is a hard time For whereas one of vs haue receiued fees for ringing and opening of foure hundred graues a weeke now the Plague being abated wee receiue not money for eight graues A pitifull Case To end this my Apologie against Doctor Bartolus and Master Plowden for my vsurping of Orpheus Iuniors Title I doe it permissu Superiorum by your Maiesties command emboldned by the examples of those which in the like matters borrowed the like Titles as Terentius Christianus and Democritus Iunior lately haue done to their great honour and the Readers satisfaction euen as Ausonius before them had imposed the name of Cato to his little Booke of Manners Nor can any man much blame me if hee compare the Aduentures of our Newfoundland with the Argona●ticks Golden Fleece though more sweetly sounded by the elder Orpheus Apollo after this Apologie seemed highly to extoll it And further to let the world know his fuller resolution hee vttered these words God forbid that Vice should raigne without controulement If my Attendants shall bee tongue tied when such vncharitablenesse possesseth mortall men it is to be feared that men wil sooner glory in euill then turne to good nay more it is to be suspected the whole world but for our peales of Charitie and sounding retraits from Hatred will fall vnder a generall Excommunication from the presence of God Take away the abuse which is meerely accidentall and let the substance of Law remaine still Long may Iustice flourish without ecclipse or stormie oppositions Florescat viuat vigeat celebretur ametur CHAP. XII The learned Vniuersities of Great Brittaine doe finde themselues agrieued that Popish Physicians are permitted to practice Physick in this Kingdome Apollo remedies their grieuances and decreeth that the Popish presume not to minister Physick to any Protestant but to them of their owne Sect. VPpon the Wednesday after Low Easter Sunday there arriued at Parnassus certaine Deputies sent from the Learned Vniuersities of Great Brittaine pitifully complaining that whereas sundrie honest Persons of wonderfull rare Spirits and singular dexteritie had spent the most part of their time in ruminating reuoluing the workes of Hippocrates Cornelius Celsus Galen and also had read the volumes of other Physicians aswell Arabian as Paracelsian Antient as moderne there crept notwithstanding some false Brethren seruants to the Mysticall Whore as Drones which vnder a counterfeit maske of more pregnant knowledge had ingrossed the Gaine and Rewards due vnto them as the laborious Bees of their Country and wrought so effectually with some of the Greater sort that by their example others repaired to them for helps in their Bodily Infirmities forsaking them being of the same Religion and no way inferiour vnto these Romish Physicians The danger both eminent and imminent which by this conniuence might happen they submitted to his Maiesties good will and pleasure Apollo nettled at this complaint called for the Romish Physicians and caused some Patients which had lately taken Physick at their hands to be brought before him to whom he said O yee of little Faith what a lunacie and distemper of the Braine hath peruerted your vnderstanding as to moue you to abandon the medicinable waters of Silo and Bethesdae and to haue recourse vnto muddie Pooles not deriued from the Rocke of liuing waters Is it because there is not a God in Israel that yee goe to the God of Ekron to enquire and looke counsell Did the example of Lopez the Portugall who by warrant from the great Dispencer of Murthers poysoned some Noble Personages of your Countrie nothing terrifie your mutable phantasies but ye must resort for cure vnto your knowne Foes the Foes of Christ Is it possible that my Remedies shall worke their proper effect which are ministred by profane hands but rather the contrary being accursed like the Fig-tree in the Gospell It was a sinne in

Asa King of Iuda for putting his trust in Physicians of his owne Religion How much more had it beene if he had relied on succour from the vncircumcised If God blesse not the Physicke it proues ominously vnluckie and perhaps to the ruine of the Patient though for a time it may seeme to ease Doe we not often see that many men rise vp miraculously as it were from death to life like Hezechias when all earthly helpes proue vaine and fruitlesse euen by Kitchen Physicke So all blessings with Faith must concurre together with the Medecine or commonly it ill succeeds In tender consideration of these ensuing perils and in commiseration to the states of your Soules and Bodies which may suffer for want of mature Discretion to discerne Friends from Foes We Order that no Papisticall Physician minister Counsell nor Receit in Physicke to any Protestant from this day forward but that euery Patient do repaire to some of their owne Religion to whom Rewards belong and whom God hath ordained for a vertuous purpose We do also order that these Verses of Orphcus Iuniors be annexed to this Decree Misso pecunifices volo te Medicosque cauere Caedere Magnates quos Mariana docet c. Beware of Physicke mixt by Romish brood Whom Mariane taught to let great Princes bloud By Lopez learne by poyson hir'd to kill What mind those haue a Christians bloud to spill Tobacco late which men haue brought frō Spain Is thought to taint the bloud heart lungs brain The Iesuits this teach as a point of merit To murther some and Heauen to inherit Lust creepes and Theft by opportunitie Then cheere not Aesops Snake with iollitie CHAP. XI The Nobilitie of Parnassus doe complaine that their Inferiours with their Wiues doe weare richer Apparell then themselues shewing likewise that they haue encroached on other Priuiledges of theirs to be hurried in Coaches by which presumptions many other Corruptions are lately crept into Apolloes Court. VPon Thursday in the Easter-weeke last 1626. the Noble Families of the Fabricy and Len●ul● and others aswell of the Romanes as of the ancient Bloud of the Argines complayned vnto his Maiestie shewing that one of the chiefest Causes of the decay of Trading and of the want of Money in these Times proceeded through the proud affectation of men of Inferiour Rankes who contrary to the Prescriptions of Ciuill Gouernment following the Example of Lucifer the Prince of Pride had perked vp so high that they wore gorgeous Garments more glorious then Princes And not so content they pestered the streets of Parnassus with needlesse Coaches so that Carters and Wainmen could hardly passe to and fro with necessary prouision and commodities for the Courtiers and Citizens vse Apollo informed of these indignities sent for the Lords Reformers before him and askt how this Excesse got into his Imperiall Citie which ought to bee the mirrour and sountaine of moralitie They answered that the World as it grew in Age so it multiplied in Infirmities That the Prince of this World perceiuing the state of Religion to become better purified then in former times whereby he lost many Soules had infected a great number of his Maiesties Subiects with the poyson of Toades to make them swell with Ambition to the end they might burst and that he by that meanes might repaire his great losses which the Protestant Religion had caused to his Infernall Kingdome And that for the further setling of his poysonous power hee had employed Asmodeus the Spirit of Lust and other petty Agents of his to sow Tares in the night season after the Dinine Preachers had in the day time plowed and sowed pure seed in mens hearts That likewise he had seduced their embosomed second selues whom they terme the Night-crowes to insin●ate on his behalfe the Pompes and vaine glory of humane loftinesse into their Husbands Heads and neuer to cease pecking vntill they preuailed of their purpose to expell his mortall Enemie the Spirit of Humilitic which the Holy Ghost had placed for his Deputie Guardian in their minds The Reformers also declared that the Deuill had so strongly possessed some of them both men and women that to continue their brauery of Apparell and charge of Coaches they mutually agreed sometimes to horne the other but yet so slily and politickly that they might take off their Hornes at set times and lay them in their pockets to keepe for feare of too grieuous a head-ach To this end they vsed this Song the one to the other It matters not so much to weare the Horne If that it might be free from others scorne Hornes haue no cure but when thy selfe art sped To graffe those Hornes vpon anothers head If the Wife want embroydered Peticoates and Wastcoates if her Husbands meanes and credit extend not to furnish her with Iewels equiualent to the greatest Countesse or if shee cannot honestly deuise how to maintaine her Caroach the debauched Gallant will in this distresse and exigent lay that which shee can spare euen Honestie it selfe to pawne In the meane time my Cuckoldly Gentleman winkes for his profit Non omnibus dormio sed Mecenati solum He will not dissemble sleeping for any mans pleasure but onely for hope of treasure And if any of vs your Maiesties Officers should chance to cry out vpon it or to say with that innocent King Henry the Sixt Forsooth you are to blame when he beheld certaine Ladies with their breasts nakedly discouered with their haire cut like a Tomboy one of these horned ranke will retort no other counterplea then Tarletons Woe to thee Tarleton that euer thou wert borne Thy Wife hath made thee a Cuckold and thou must weare the Horne What and if she hath Am I a whit the worse She keeps me like a Gentleman with mony in my Purse Hope of Gaine to supply immoderate expenses extorteth a thousand complements ceremonious seruices so that it is not Lust alone for indeed Tobacco hath almost mortified that motion which causeth many to Court their Mistresses or these to entertaine Seruants but the in finite charge of New Fashions of Apparell one while with the Spanish another while Frenchified doth make Clownes to weare Gownes to polish their dul wits and of Carterly dispositions to become Courtly Musicians and Poeticall Courtiers As that English Satyrist obserued O those faire starlike eyes of thine one sayes When to my seeming she hath look● nine wayes And that sweet breath when I thinke out vpon it It would blast a flowre if she breathed on it But bee she neuer so well qualified in affections neuer so full of vertuous qualities Maide Widow or Wife vnlesse shee haue sufficient to defray this endlesse cost of prodigalitie she may stand long enough without courting euen vntill mosse grow to the soles of her feet Apollo hauing bewayled with teares the miserable Condition of his vertuous Followers seduced now of late to regard the out-side more then the precious in-side which of old was reputed

admonition Saint Paul giues vs that in the Church vnder Antichrist there should bee working of Sat●●n with all Power Signes and lying wonders The like doth Saint Iohn prophesie of Spirits of Deuils working wonders In the Primitiue Church when the Gospell was setled Miracles ceased Which made Saint Chrysostome to answer their curiositie which looked for such rare signes in this wise There be some saith he that aske why men now ada●es doe not worke Miracles as the Apostles did If thou beleeuest Christ as thou oughtest thou hast no neede of Miracles for these were giuen to vnbeleeuers and not to beleeuers Sometimes God permits men with iugling trickes and legerdemaine or by the Deuils deuises to deceiue them either to ●rie the soundnesse of their Faith or to confirme them in their Errors As heretofore he suffered the Israelites to bee deluded with Baals Priests and the Golden Calfe who assuredly produced the like Miracles as the Iesuites boast of The tenth marke of Antichrist whom Saint Iohn calls the Wh●re of Babilon the mother of Harlots and abhominations of the Earth is that shee shall be drunken with the bloud of the Saints and the Martyrs of Christ Iesus Of whom may this bee more significantly spoken then of the Pope How many thousands haue beene murthered in France in the Low Countryes and other places of Christendome by his procurement euen those which acknowledge Christ Ies●● for their onely Mediatour with the Father which confesse the euer-liuing God in Vnitie and Trinitie hath hee caused to bee burnt for Hereticks or made to row as slaues in Spaines Gallies O bloudy Tyrannie O poisonous Imposture which vnder the colour of the Catholicke Faith doth shed the bloud of Innocents like mercilesse H●r●d not sticking to wound Christ anew through his seruants sides CHAP. XVI Apolloes iudgement of Chau●ers Apologie concluding that the Pope is the great A●tichrist AFter that Sir Geffrey Chaucer had ended his speech Apollo gaue his definitiue sentence in this wise Euen as all the lesser sicknesses in mans bodie doth grow and descend into the Plague when contagion raignes And as by reason of oppilations the shutting vp of the spirits passages and their want of transpiration through the veynes all other inferiour diseases fall into the miserable Se●r●y and principally for want of the Sunnes presence in the winter So for want of the Holy Spirits illumination caused through the corruptions of mens depraued wills by little and little the Antichrist increased and grew as it were with an inundation into one great Sea the Romish Sea Euen as Mahomet composed his Alcoran of many Sects so the Romish Religion by the policie of the Pope is stuffed and stored with many Heresies which all meeting together in his ambitious spirit and transferred to his successours doe make him that great Antichrist From Elixay the Heretick hee borrowed his Doctrine of celebrating Diuine seruice in an vnknown language For such was his Heresie From Montan●s the Heretick he learned to prescribe his rules of Fasts For hee first limited times of Fasting From the Collyridians he was inspired to worship the Virgin Marie From the Caianes to inuocate on Angels From the Carpocratians to adore the Image of lesus and Saint Paul From the Manichees and the Aebionites he got that damnable precept to prohibit Marriage vnto the Clergie Euen as all true Christians haue a relation vnto Christ their Head being through Faith his ingraffed members like as also the Patriarkes and Prophets vntill Christ had a dependance vpon that great Prophet whom God promised to raise vp like vnto Aloses so on the other side all the lesser Heretickes depend vpon Antichrist through whose lying mouth they oppose the Truth and the Apostles Humilitie And as Machiauellian members they ioyne with one consent to aduance his Maiesticall power though many of them in their consciences are fully perswaded that such state and pomp in a Clergie man cannot but displease the Author of Humilitie who pronounced them blessed which are poore in spirit CHAP. XVII Apolloes sentence promulgated for the Impurity of the Church Militant D. Whitgift Arch bishop of Canterbury complaines against Cartwright Browne and other Puritane Separists for inuaighing against their Superiours Apollo condemnes th● Sect exhorting them to vnitie to return to the bosom of their Mother Church AFter Apollo had condemned the Arch-hereticks of the Christian Church he caused that saying of that Ancient Father to bee retorted against the like erroneous seducers Ecclesia non di● post Apostolorum tempora mansit virgo That the Church after the Apostles time continued not long a Virgin And this his Maiestie did to the end all mouthes should bee stopt which arrogate to themselues extraordinarie Holinesse as the Popes doe who as his Courtly Cardinalls affirme cannot erre or which ascribe to themselues a degree of greater puritie in calling and conuersation then others of their Brethren in Christ forgetting his neuer fayling prophesie All men are liers Another cause why his Maiestie aduised his Religious Christians to remember that saying was to the end that they should not become amazed nor troubled when any hot-spurs and busie braind people doe maintaine new opinions differing from the old but rather to call into their memories that many false Christs many fraudulent Sects must from time to time spring vp in the Church like taxes among the good seede to shewe likewise that no Creatures can bee long pure without some spots or taint and that God alone who created them is only pure No sooner had Apollo ended these reasons for the Churches Impuritie but the graue and learned Whitgift Archbishop of Canterburie informed his Maiestie that one Cartwright Browne and others stiling themselues Puritans Precisians and holy ly Separists inueighed against him and his fellow Bishops with Libels and defamations worse then O●id against Ibis or any woman scold put in a Cuckinstoole because hee gaue order in his visitations to present refractaries and stubborne minded persons disobedient to Authoritie and kicking against things indifferent triuiall and indeed very bables in respect of Faith Humilitie Charitie and Diuine Gifts which they had now more cause to pray for then to spend their precious times in railing and withstanding those outward things tending only to distinguish the Leuits from the Temporall Tribes to the view of the outward man whose fancie must bee stirred by outward obiects aswell as inward Apollo at the report of these selfe-opinions like to breake into a schismatick combustion became mightily perplext Yet like himselfe recollecting his spirituall tempers and resuming his wonted Maiestie hee said to Cartwright Browne and the rest of the P●rit●●icall Sect How long will you persist by your peenish positions to minister scandall vnto your Christian Corporation I haue long since heard of your rash and turbulent oppositions against your Churches Canons But I hoped that the calme dew which awaites on the ●iluer and staid age of Maturitie had by this time cooled