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tradition_n	authority_n	holy_a	scripture_n	3,181	5	5.9823	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67127	Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1672 (1672)	Wing W3650; ESTC R34765	338,317	678

good men may retain their esteem and Princes their Dignity that your Marts may not be pester'd with the prostituted Pens of Parasites nor the Press the brave Invention of the Germans be so miserably tormented and lastly that as much as in our weakness lyes the happy quiet of Kingdomes and Churches may ensue which the highest Teacher and example of peace hath commended to us But if he cannot leave off that impudent scurrility which from his base extraction he has very suitably contracted 〈◊〉 without great inconvenience to his Belly surely he deserves at least to have his Commons shortned for that execrable subtilty whereby he seems to himself quicker-sighted then the Council of Trent for they first of any that I know of decreed that Traditions and holy Scripture were with equal affection only of piety and reverence to be received But this new Ecclesiastick not in the Album of Friends but in the 485th Page of his fine Syntagma pronounces with a blasphemous and shameless mouth that the Authority of Tradition is above the written Word of God I could produce six hundred such Scioppieties but that were to rake a Dunghill Wherefore farewel most Noble Sir and again farewel From London Decemb. 2. after the Julian Accompt in the Year of our onely Mediatour 1612. TO THE Right Worthy Provost AND PROFESSOR REGIUS OF DIVINITY IN CAMBRIDGE SIR THough my feet cannot perform that Counsel which I remember from some Translation in Syracides Teras limen sensati viri yet I should at least have often visited you with my poor lines But on the other side while I durst not trust mine own conceit in the power of my present infirmity and therefore have seldome written to any I find my self in the mean time overcharged with d●…vers Letters from you of singular kindness and one of them accompanied with a dainty Peacefull Piece which truly I had not seen before so as besides the weight of the Subject it was welcome even for the grace of Newne●… Yet let me tell you I could not but somewhat wonder to find our spiritual Seneca you know whom I mean among these Reconcilers having read a former Treatise of his if my memory fail me not of a contrary complexion Howsoever now let him have his due praise with the rest for shewing his Christian VVisdome and Charity But I fear as it was anciently said by a Roman General that Bellum sese alit so it will prove though in somewhat a different fense likevvise as true of this Church-warfare That the very pleasure of Contending will foment Contention till the end of all Flesh. But let me leave that Sacred business to our well-meaning Fathers And now Sir having a fit Messenger and not long after the time when Love-tokens use to pass between Friends let me be bold to send you for a New years gift a certain Memorial not altogether unworthy of some entertainment under your roof namely a true Picture of Padre Paolo the Servita vvhich vvas first taken by a Painter vvhom I sent unto him from my House then neighbouring his Monastery I have newly added thereunto a Title of mine own Conception Conci●… Tridentini Eviscerator and had sent the Frame vvithal if it vvere portable vvhich is but of plain Deale coloured Black like the Habit of his Order You have a luminous Parlour vvhich I have good cause to remember not only by delicate Fare and Freedom the Prince of Dishes but above all by your own Learned Discourse for to dine with you is to dine with many good Authors In that Room I beseech you to allovv it a favourable place for my sake And that you may have somewhat to tell of him more then a bare Image if any shall ask as in the Table of Cebes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am desirous to characterize a little unto you such part of his Nature Customes and Abilities as I had occasion to know by sight or by enquiry He vvas one of the humblest things that could be seen vvithin the bounds of Humanity the very Pattern of that Precept Quanto doctior Tanto submissior And enough alone to demonstrate That Knowledge well digested non instat Excellent in Positive excellent in Scholastical and Polemical Divinity A rare Mathematician even in the most abstruse parts thereof as in Algebra and the Theoriques and yet vvithall so expert in the History of Plants as if he had never perused any Book but Nature Lastly a great Canonist vvhich vvas the title of his ordinary service vvith the State And certainly in the time of the Popes Interdict they had their principal light from him When he vvas either reading or vvriting alone his manner vvas to sit fensed vvith a Castle of Paper about his Chair and over head for he vvas of our Lord of St. Albons opinion That all Air is praedatory and especially hurtfull vvhen the spirits are most employed You vvill find a Scar in his Face that vvas from a Roman Assassinate that vvould have killed him as he vvas turned to a vvall near to his Covent And if there vvere not a greater Providence about us it might often have been easily done especially upon such a weak and wearyish Body He was of a quiet and settled Temper vvhich made him prompt in his Counsels and Answers and the same in Consultation vvhich Themistocles vvas in Action 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as vvill appear unto you in a passage between him and the Prince of Conde●… The said Prince in a voluntary journey to Rome came by Venice vvhere to give some vent to his own humours he vvould often devest himself of his Greatness and after other less laudable Curiosities not long before his departure a desire too●… him to visit the Famous obscure Servita To vvhose Cloyster coming twice he vvas the first time denied to be vvithin at the second it vvas intimated that by reason of his daily admission to their deliberation in the Palace he could not receive the Visit of so illustrious a Personage vvithout leave from the Senate vvhich he vvould seek to procure This set a greater edge on the Prince vvhen he savv he should confer vvith one participant of more then Monkish Speculations so after leave gotten he came the third time and then beside●… other voluntary Discourse vvhich it vvere a Tyranny over you to repeat he assail'd him vvith a Question enough to have troubled any man but himself and him too if a precedent Accident had not cased him The Question vvas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this He desired to be told by him before his going Who vvas the true unmasked Author of the late Tridentine History You must knovv this that but newly Advertisement vvas come from Rome that the Arch-bishop of Spalato being then re arrived from England in an interview between him and the Cardinal Ludovisio Nephevv to Gregory the XV. the said Cardinal after a complemental welcoming him into the Lap of the Church told him by order from the

the Dukes Oath which they gently call his Promise The Inquisitors are upon Complaint and not otherwise against the deceased Prince especially in matter of Extortion to enquire of the truth and accordingly to punish his Heirs Which Office doth continue in Authority the term of a year The Correctors at this time presented four new Law 1. That the Brothers and Children of the Prince shall take place in publick Processions after the principal Magistrates namely next to the Censors 2. That immediately after the choice of any new Duke in the next Grand Councel shall be openly rehearsed all former Decrees against Defrauders of the Publick Chests This they call in their Dialect Intaccamento di Casse as unpardonable here as Treason The other two merit no Memory being only about little encrease of Provision for the Dukes Attendants and some Enlargement of time for the Correctors Office which heretofore did determine as soon as the Election began These new Orders thus made and approved by the Grand Councel from whence all Authority floweth they proceeded on Friday morning to the Election About which time were discovered four Competitors Antonio Priuli Gieconimo Giustiniano Augustino Nani and Niccolo-Donato The three first all Procuratori di St. Marco Who are in number Nine in degree the second Personages of the State and commonly the Seminary of their Princes though not of necessity as well appeareth by the fourth Concurrent who was yet no more then a Senator of the Wide Sleeve a Vesture of eminent Gravity and Place in their Councels Of these Priuli and Giustiniano having before been chosen Commissioners in the Business of the Uscocchi were by a new Warning and Penalty in the Senate on Friday before the Prince then languishing commanded to be gone But this did not prejudice their Hopes For I have noted one singular property in the Composition of this State That no mans fortunes without other Demerits are hindred by their Absence Now it shall be fit to set down with what Foundations and with what Oppositions they entred the List. Priuli had passed through all the principal Charges of the State in the Civil way And had lastly in the Military been Generalissimo till sickness sent him home in the Austrian Action His own Family numerous His Alliance strong Himself a man of moderate nature of pleasant and popular Conversation rather free then sowr and reserved of good extemporal judgement and discourse for the satisfying of publick Ministers which is the Dukes proper part Lastly Threescore and ten years old for that must not be forgotten among his helps But he suffered two Objections though both rather within his Fortune then his Nature The one that he was the Father of a Cardinal which might distract his Affection between the State and the Church The other that he was poor and somewhat behind-hand Of which Objection on the other side his Favourers made up part of his merit as having indebted himself in the publick Service Giustiniano was a Gentleman that had likewise passed through the best places at home of excellent Gravity and Judgement and of most unquestionable Integrity not violent not avaricious singularly beloved of the people to whose satisfaction in a time of this nature it was perhaps meet to yield somewhat He was besides one year elder then Priuli but his old age did not help him so much as he was hindred by the Antiquity of his Name For the Princedome having been for the two last Successions in the old Families it was likely the new would now strive to bring it back again among their own Blood Nani had carried himself meritoriously in forraign Imployments particularly against the Pope in the time of the Interdict which held up his Credit among the good Patriots And having been near the Supream Place at the last Election he re-entred now with the more hope Besides being by nature stiff and sensitive his cunning friends did mould that to his advantage the time seeming to need such a man But two wilde rumours did much oppress him The one with the better sort that he had purchased by close gifts certain of the poor Gentlemens Favours The other with the people that he had of late been Author of some hard Decrees his age besides was but 63 years and his complexion duràble Donato sirnamed Testolina for the littleness of his head had been long time conversant in the gravest Consultations was reputed one of the wealthiest Gentlemen of the whole City of good natural capacity and above the rest adorned with Erudition Besides he had the Commendation of fourscore years and of a weak body But it was thought somewhat presumptuous that he should contend with persons of higher Rank whereupon some conceived his end only to gain a friend by his voices and to make himself Procurator in the room of him that should be Prince With these hopes and with these objections they entred the Field after they had laboured their friends one whole Week namely from the Friday night of the Dukes death to the Friday morning following and perhaps a good while before within which time at the place of their Broglio as they term it where the Concurrents sue for voices Nani the youngest of the four was noted by some vacant searching wits to tread softly to walk stoopingly and to raise himself from Benches where he sate with laborious and painful gesture as Arguments of no lasting man Such a counterfeiting thing sometimes is Ambition To come now to the Election The Election of the Duke of Venice is one of the most intricate and curious Forms in the World consisting of ten several precedent Ballotations Whereupon occurreth a pretty Question What need there was of such a deal of solicitude in choosing a Prince of such limited Authority And it is the stranger for having been long in use the ancient Forms being commonly the most simple To which doubt this Answer may serve the turn that it was as the tradition runneth a Monks Invention of the Benedictin Order And in truth the whole mysterious frame therein doth much ●…avour of the Cloyster For first a Boy must be snatched up below and this Child must draw the Balls and not themselves as in all other Elections then is it strangely intermingled half with Chance and half with Choice So as Fortune as well as Judgement or Affection hath her part in it and perhaps the greater One point as now and then happeneth even in the mòst curious webs of this nature seemeth somewhat unequal Namely that the 41 who are the last immediate Electors of the Duke must be all of several Families and of them twenty five at least concur to his Nomination For hereby the old names which are but twenty four cannot make a Duke without help from some one of the new And that is not easily gotten through emulation between them as strong perhaps as any publick respect So as the two last Dukes Memo and Bembo both of the ancient Blood