MOST noble couple of Angels , least it hould be sayd that you did neuer agree , and neuer meet , but that you did euer abhorre one another , and euer Resemble Ianus with a diuerseface , I attempted to bring and ioyne you together once in these papers ; not that I might compose your differences , for you haue not chosen me for Arbitrator ; but , that you might beware of an enemy c̄omon to you both , I will relate what I saw . I was in an Extrasie , and My little wandring sportful Soule , Ghest , and Companion of my body had liberty to wander through all places , and to suruey and reckon all the roomes , and all the volumes of the heauens , and to comprehend the situation , the dimensions , the nature , the people , and the policy , both of the swimming Ilands , the Planets , and of all those which are fixed in the firmament . Of which , I thinke it an honester part as yet to be silent , then to do Galilaeo wrong by speaking Nuncius syd●eus . of it , who of late hath summoned the other worlds , the Stars to come neerer to him , and giue him an account of themselues . Or to Keppler , who ( as De stella in Cygno . himselfe testifies of himselfe ) euer since Tycho Brachcs death , hath receiued it into his care , that no new thing should be done in heauen without his knowledge . For by the law , Preuention must take place ; and therefore what they haue found and discoured first , I am content they speake and vtter first . Yet this they may vouchsafe to take from me , that they shall hardly find Enoch , or Elias any where in their circuit . When I had surueid al the Heauens , then as The Larke by busie and laborious wayes , Hauing climb'd vp th' eternall hill , doth raise His Hymnes to Phoebus Harpe , And striking then His sailes , his wings , doth fall downe backeagen So suddenly , that one may saesely say A stone came lazily , that came that way , In the twinckling of an eye , I saw all the roomes in Hell open to my sight . And by the benefit of certaine spectacles , I know not of what making , but , I thinke , of the same , by which Gregory the great , and Bed● did discerne so distinctly the soules of their friends , when they were discharged from their bodies , and sometimes the soules of such men as they knew not by sight , and of some that were neuer in the world , and yet they could distinguish them flying into Heauen , or conu●sing with liuing men , I saw all the channels in the bowels of the Harth ; and all the inhabitants of all nations , and of all ages were suddenly made familiar to me . I thinke truely , Robert 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . 6. Aquinas when he tooke Christs long Oration , as he hung vpon the Crosse , did vse some such instrument as this , but applied to the care : And so I thinke did Iosethina di Gi●ron . Gratian. he , which dedicated to Adrian 6 , that Sermon which Christ made in prayse of his father Ioseph : for else how did they heare that , which none but they euer heard ? As for the Suburbs of Hel ( I meane both Limbo and Purgatory ) I must confesse I passed them ouer so negligently , that I saw them not : and I was hungerly caried , to find new places , neuer discouered before . For Purgatory did not seeme worthy to me of much diligence , because it may seeme already to haue beene belecued by some persons , in some corners of the Romane Church , for about 50 yeares ; that is , euer since the Councell of Trent had a minde to fulfill the prophecies of Homer , Virgil , and the other Patriarkes of the Papists ; and beeing not satisfied with making one Transubstantiation , purposed to bring in another : which is , to change fables into Articles of faith . Proceeding therefore to more inward places , I saw a secret place , where there were not many , beside Lucifer himselfe ; to which , onely they had title , which had so attempted any innouation in this life , that they gaue an affront to all antiquitie , and induced doubts , and anxieties , and scruples , and after , a libertie of beleeuing what they would ; at length established opinions , directly contrary to all established before . Of which place in Hell , Lucifer affoarded vs heretofore Theod. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Tra. 6. 〈◊〉 some little knowledge , when more then 200 yeares since , in an Epistle written to the Cardinall S. Sexti , hee promised him a roome in his palace , in the remotest part of his eternall Chaos , which I take to bee this place . And here Pope Boniface 3 , and Mahomet , seemed to contend about the highest roome . Hee gloried of hauing expelled an old Religion , and Mahomet of hauing brought in a new : each of them a great deluge to the world . But it is to be feared , that Mahomet will faile therein , both because hee attributed something to the old Testament , and because he vsed Sergius as his fellow-bishop , in making the Alcoran ; whereas it was cuident to the supreme ●udge Lu●fer , ( for how could he be ignorant of that , which himselfe had put into the Popes mind ? ) that Boniface had not onely neglected , but destroyed the policy of the State of Israel , established in the old Testament , when he prepared Popes a way , to tread vpon the neckes of Princes , but that he also abstained from all Example and Coadiutor , when he took vpon him that newe Name , which Gregorie himselfe ( a Pope neither very foolish , nor ouer-modest ) euer abhord . Besides that , euery day affords new Aduocates to Boniface his side . For since the Francis● were almost worne out ( of whome Sedulius Apolog. pro libro consorm . lib 2. cap. 2. their General , Francis , had seene 6000 souldiers in one army , that is , in one chapter ) which , because they were then but fresh souldiers , he saw assisted with 18000 Diuels , the Iesuits haue much recompenced those decayes and damages , who sometimes haue maintained in Harlay 〈◊〉 des Iesuites . their Tents 200000 schollers . For though the Order of Benedict haue euer bene so fruitfull , that they say of it , That all the Volladerius de Canoniza . Francis . Ro. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . new Orders , which in later times haue broken out , are but little springs , or drops , and that Order the Ocean , which hath sent out 52 Popes , 200 Cardinals , 1600 Archbishops , 4000 Bishops , and 50000 Saints approued by the Church , and therefore it cannot be denied , but that Beniface his part is much releeued by that Order ; yet if they be compared to the Iesuits , or to the weake and vnperfect Types of them , the Franciscans , it is no great matter that they haue done . Though therefore they esteeme Mahomet worthy of the name of an Innouator , & therein , perchance not much inferiour to Boniface , yet since his time , to ours , almost all which haue followed his sect , haue liued barren in an vnanimity , and idle concord , and cannot boast that they haue produced any new matter : whereas Boniface his successors , awakened by him , haue euer beene fruitfull in bringing forth new sinnes , and new pardons , and idolatries , and King-killings . Though therefore it may religiously , and piously be beleeued , that Turkes , as well as Papists , come daily in troupes to the ordinary and common places of Hell ; yet certainly to this more honourable roome , reserued for especiall Innouators , the Papists haue more frequent accesse ; and therefore Mahomet is out of hope to preuaile , and must imitate the Christian Emperours , and be content to sit ( as yet hee doth ) at the Popes feet . Now to this place , not onely such endeauour to come , as haue innouated in matters , directly concerning the soule , but they also which haue done so , either in the Arts , or in conuersation , or in any thing which exerciseth the faculties of the soule , and may so prouoke to quarrrelsome and brawling controuersies : For so the truth be lost , it is no matter how . But the gates are seldome opened , nor scarce oftner then once in an Age. But my destiny fauored mce so much , that I was present then , and saw all the pretenders , and all that affected an entrance , and Lucifer himselfe , who then came out into the outward chamber , to heare them pleade their owne Causes . As soone as the doore creekt , I spied a certaine Mathematician , which till then had bene busied to finde , to deride , to detrude Ptolomey ; and now with an erect countenance , and setled pace , came to the gates , and with hands and feet ( scarce respecting Lucifer himselfe ) beat the dores , and cried ; Are these shut against me , to whom all the Heauens were euer open , who was a Soule to the Earth , and gaue it motion ?

By this I knew it was Copernicus : For though I had neuer heard ill of his life , and therefore might wonder to find him there ; yet when I remembred , that the Papists haue extended the name , & the punishment of Heresie , almost to euery thing , and that as yet I vsed Gregortes Bellar. de purgat . 〈◊〉 . cap. 8. and Bedes spectacles , by which one saw Origen , who deserued so well of the Christian Church , burning in Hell , I doubted no longer , but assured my selfe that it was Copernicus which I saw . To whome Lucifer sayd ; Who are you ? For though euen by this boldnesse you seeme worthy to enter , and haue attempted a new faction euen in Hell , yet you must first satisfie those which stand about you , and which expect the same fortune as you do . Except , O Lucifer , answered Copernicus , I thought thee of the race of the starre Lucifer , with which I am so well acquainted , I should not vouchsafe thee this discourse . I am he , which pitying thee who wert thrust into the Center of the world , raysed both thee , and thy prison , the Earth , vp into the Heauens ; so as by my meanes God doth not enioy his reuenge vpon thee . The Sunne , which was an officious spy , and a betrayer of faults , and so thine enemy , I haue appointed to go into the lowest part of the world . Shall these gates be open to such as haue innouated in small matters ? and shall they be shut against me , who haue turned the whole frame of the world , and am thereby almost a new Creator ? More then this he spoke not . Lucifer stuck 〈◊〉 meditation . For what should he do ? It seemed vniust to deny entry to him which had deserued so well , and dangerous to graunt it , to one of so great ambitions , and vndertakings : nor did he thinke that himselfe had attempted greater matters before his fall . Something he had which he might haue conueniently opposed , but he was loath to vtter it , least he should confesse his feare . But Ignatius Layola which was got neere his chaire , a subtile fellow , and so indued with the Diuell , that he was able to tempt , and not onely that , but ( as they say ) euen to possesse the Diuell , apprehended this perplexity in Lucifer . And making himselfe sure of his owne entrance , and knowing well , that many thous●nds of his family aspired to that place , he opposed himselfe against all others . He was content they should bee damned , but not that they should gouerne . And though when hee died he was vtterly ignorant in all great learning , and knew not so much as Ptolomeys , or Copernicus name , but might haue beene perswaded , that the words Almagest , Zenith , and Nadir , were Saints names , and fit to bee put into the Litanie , and Orapro nobis ioyned to them ; yet after hee had spent some time in hell , he had learnt somewhat of his Iesuites , which daily came thither . And whilst he staied at the threshold of Hell ; that is , from the time when he deliuered himselfe ouer to the Popes will , hee tooke a little taste of learning . Thus furnished , thus hee vndertakes Copernious . DO , you thinke to winne our Lucifer to your part , by allowing him the honour of being of the race of that starre ? who was not onely made before all the starres , but being glutted with the glory of shining there , transferred his dwelling and Colonies 〈◊〉 this Monarchy , and thereby 〈◊〉 our Order a noble example , to spy , to inuade , and to 〈◊〉 forraine kingdom● Can our Lucifer , or his 〈◊〉 haue any honour 〈◊〉 that starr● Lucifer , which is but Venus ? whose face how much wee scorne , appeares by this , that , for the m●st part we vse her auersly and preposterously . Rather letour Lucifer glory in Lucifer the Calaritan Bishop ; not therefore because he is placed amongst Heretiques , onely for affirming the propagation of the soule ; but especially for this , that he was the first that opposed the dignity of Princes , and imprinted the names of Antichrist , ludas , and other stigmatique markes vpon the Emperour ; But for you , what new thing hane you inuented , by which our Lucifer gets any thing ? What cares hee whether the earth traueil , or stand still ? Hath your raising vp of the earth into heauen , brought men to that confidence , that they build new towers or threaten God againe ? Or do they out of thismotion of the earth conclude , that there is no hell , or deny the punishment of sin ? Do not men beleeue ? do they not liue iust , as they did before ? Besides , this detracts from the dignity of your learning , and derogates from your right and title of comming to this place , that those opinions of yours may very well be true . If therfore any man haue honour or title to this place in this matter , it belongs wholly to our Clauius , who opposed himselfe opportunely against you , and the truth , which at that time was creeping into euery mans minde . Hee onely can be called the Author of all contentions , and schoole-combats in this cause ; and no greater profit can bee hoped for heerein , but that for such brabbles , more necessarie matters bee neglected . And yet not onely for this is our Clauius to bee honoured , but for the great paines also which hee tooke in the Gregorian Calender , by which both the peace of the Church , & Ciuill businesses haue beene egregiously troubled : nor hath heauen it selfe escaped his violence , but hath euer since obeied his apointments : Harlay defence des lesuites mesdi . 6. so that S. Stephen , Iohn Baptist , & all the rest , which haue bin commanded to worke miracles at certain appointed daies , where their Reliques are preserued , do not now attend till the day come , as they were accustomed , but are awaked ten daies sooner , and constrained by him to come downe from heauen to do that businesse ; But your inuentions can scarce bee called yours , since long before you , Heraclides , Ecphantus , & Aristarchus thrust them into the world : who notwithstanding content themselues with lower roomes amongst the other Philosophers , & aspire not to this place , reserued onely for Antichristian Heroes : neither do you agree so wel amongst yourselues , as that you can be said to haue made a Sect , since , as you haue peruerted and changed the order and Scheme of others : so Tycho Brachy hath done by yours , and others by his . Let therefore this little Mathematitian ( dread Emperour ) withdraw himselfe to his owne company . And if heereafter the fathers of our Order can draw a Cathedrall Decree from the Pope , by which it may be defined as a matter of faith : That the earth doth not moue ; & an Antahema inflicted vpon all which hold the contrary : them perchance both the Pope which shall decree that , and Copernicus his followers , ( if they be Papists ) may haue the dignity of this place . Lucifer signified his assent ; and Copernicus , without muttering a word , was as quiet , as he thinks the sunne , when he which stood next him , entred into his place . To whom Lucifer said : And who are you ? Hee answered , Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombast of Hohenheim . At this Lucifer trembled , as if it were a new Exorcisme , & he thought it might well be the first verse of Saint Iohn , which is alwaics imployed in Exorcismes , and might now bee taken out of the Welsh , or Irish Bibles . But when hee vnderstood that it was but the webbe of his name , hee recollected himselfe , and raising himselfe vprig 〈◊〉 , asked what he had to say to the great Emperour Sathan , Lucifer , Belzebub , Leuiathan , Abaddon . Paracelsus replyed , It were an iniurie to thee , ô glorious Emperour , if I should deliuer before thee , what I haue done , as though al those things had not proceeded from thee , which seemed to haue bin done by me , thy organe and conduit : yet since I shal rather be thy trumpet herein , ' then mine own , some things may be vttered by me . Besides therfore that I broght all Methodicall Phisitians , and the art it selfe into so much contempt , that that kind of phisick is almost lost ; This also was euer my principal purpose , that no certaine new Art , nor fixed rules might be established , but that al remedies might be dangerously drawne from my vncertaine , ragged , and vnperfect experiments , in triall whereof , how many men haue beene made carkases ? And falling vpon those times which did abound with paradoxicall , & vnusuall diseases , of all which , the pox , which then began to rage , was almost the center and sinke ; I euer professed an assured and an easy cure thereof , least I should deterre any from their licentiousnesse . And whereas almost all poysons are so disposed and conditioned by nature , that they offend some of the senses , and so are easily discerned and auoided , I brought it to passe , that that trecherous quality of theirs might bee remoued , and so they might safely bee giuen without suspicion , and yet performe their office as strongly . All this I must confesse , I wrought by thy minerals and by thy fires , but yet I cannot dispaire of my reward , because I was thy first Minister and instrument , in these innouations . By this time Ignatius had obserued a tempest risen in Lucifers countenance : for he was iust of the same temper as Lucifer , and therefore suffered with him in euery thing , and felt al his alterations . That therefore he might deliuer him from ` Paracelsus , hee said ; You must not thinke sir , that you may heere draw out an oration to the proportion of your name ; It must be confessed , that you attempted great matters , and well becomming a great officer of Lucifer , when you vndertook not onely to make a man , in your Alimbicks , but also to preserue him immortall . And it cannot be doubted , but that out of your Commentaries vpon the Scriptures , in which you were vtterly ignorant , many men haue taken occasion of erring , and thereby this kingdome much indebted to you . But must you therefore haue accesse to this secret place ? what haue you compassed , euen in Phisicke it selfe , of which wee lesuits are ignorant ? For though our Ribadenegra haue reckoned none of our Order , which hath written in Physicke , yet 〈◊〉 able and sufficient wee are in that faculty , I will bee Bulla 18. in Greeze . cont. Ha. 〈◊〉 . tryed by that Pope , who hath giuen a priueledge to Iesuites to practise Phisicke , and to be present at Death-beds , a a 〈◊〉 de maiest . Eccle. 〈◊〉 . cap. 7. which is denyed to other Orders : for why should hee deny vs their bodies , whose soules he deliuers to vs ? and since he hath transferd vpon vs the power to practise Physick , he may instly be thought to haue transferd vpon vs the Art it selfe , by the same omnipotent Bul ; since hee which graunts the end , is by our Rules of law presumed to haue graunted all meanes necessary to that end . Let me ( dread Emperour , ) haue leaue to speake truth before thee ; These men abuse & prophane too much thy mettals , which are the bowels , and treasure of thy kingdome : For what doth Physicke profit thee ? Physicke 〈◊〉 . Theor. 1. cap. 〈◊〉 . is a sost , & womanish thing . For since no medicine doth naturally draw bloud , that science is not fit nor worthy of our study , Besides why should those things , which belong to you , bee employed to preserue from deiseases , or to procure long life ? were it not fitter , that your brother , and colleague , the Bishop of Rome , which gouernes vpon the face of your earth , and giues dayly increase to your kingdome , should receiue from these helps and subsidies ? To him belonges all the Gold , to him all the pretious stones , conceal'd in your entrailes , wherby hee might baite and ensnare the Prince ; of the earth through their Lord , and counsellours meanes to his obedience , and to receiue his commandements , especially in these times , when almost euery where his auncient rights & tributes are denied vnto him . To him belongs your Iron , and the ignobler mettals , to make engines ; To him belong your Minerals apt for poyson ; To him , the Salt-peter , and all the Elements of Gun-powder , by which he may demolish and ouerthrow Kings and Kingdomes , and Courts , and seates of Iustice . Neither doth Paracelsus truly deserue the name of an Innouator , whose doctrine , Seuerïnus and his other followers do referre to the most ancient times . Thinke therefore your selfe well satisfied , if you be admitted to gouerne in chiefe that Legion of homicide-Phisitians , and of Princes which shall be made away by poyson in the midst of their sins , and of woemen tempting by paintings and face-phisicke . Of all which sorts great numbers will daily come hither out of your Academy .

Content with this sentence , Paracelsus departed ; and Machiauel succeeded , who hauing obserued Ignatius his forwardnesse , and saucinesse , and how , vncal'd , he had thrust himselfe into the office of kings Atturney , thought this stupid patience of Copernicus , and Paracelsus ( men which tasted too much of their Germany ) vnfit for a Florentine : and therefore had prouided some venemous darts , out of his Italian Arsenal , to cast against this worne souldier of Pampel● , this French-spanish mungrell , Ignatius . But when he thought better vpon it , and obserued that Lucifer euer approued whatsoeuer Ignatius sayd , he suddenly changed his purpose ; and putting on another resolution , he determined to direct his speech to Ignatius , as to the principall person next to Lucifer , as well by this meanes to sweeten and mollifie him , as to make Lucifer suspect , that by these honors , & specious titles offered to Ignatius , and entertained by him , his owne dignity might bee eclipsed , or clouded ; and that Ignatius by winning to his side , politique men , exercised in ciuill businesses , might attempt some innouation in that kingdome . Thus therefore he began to speake . Dtead Emperour , and you , his watchfull and diligent Genius , father Ignatius , Arch-chancellor of this Court , and highest Priest of this highest Synagogue ( except the primacy of the Romane Church reach also vnto this place ) let me before I descend to my selfe , a little consider , speake , and admire your stupendious wisedome , and the gouernment of this state . You may vouchsafe to remember ( great Emperour ) how long after the Nazarens death , you were forced to liue a solitarie , a barren , and an Eremiticall life : till at last ( as it was euer your fashion to imitate heauen ) out of your aboundant loue , you begot this deerely beloued sonne of yours , Ignatius , which stands at your right hand . And from both of you proceedes a spirit , whom you haue sent into the world , who triumphing both with Mitre and Crowne , gouernes your Militant Church there . As for those sonnes of Ignatius , whom either he left aliue , or were borne after his death , and your spirit , the Bishop of Rome ; how iustly & properly may they be called Equi●ocal men ? And not only Equiuocall in that sence , in which the Popes Legates , at your Nicene Councel were called Equiuocal , because they did agree in all their opinions , and in all their words : but especially because they haue brought into the world a new art of Equiuocation . O wonderfull , and incredible Hypercritiques , who , not out of marble fragments , but out of the secretest Records of Hell it selfe : that is , out of the minds of Lucifer , the ` Pope , and Ignatius , ( persons truly equiuocall ) haue raised to life againe the language of the Tower of Babel , 〈◊〉 long concealed , and brought vs againe from vnderstanding one an other . For my part ( 〈◊〉 noble paire of Emperours ) that I may freely confesse the truth all which I haue done , where soeuer there shall be mention made of the Iesuites , can be reputed but childish ; 〈◊〉 this honor I hope will not 〈◊〉 denied me , that I brought 〈◊〉 an Alphabet , & prouided certaine Elements , & was som● kind of school maister in preparing them a way to highe● 〈◊〉 ; yet it grieu● me , and makes me ashamed that I should be ranked wit● this idle and Chymaeri● Copernicus , or this cadauero vulture , Paracelsus . I scor● that those gates , into which such men could conceiue any hope of entrance , should not voluntarily flie open to mee : yet I can better endure the rashnesse and fellowship of Paracelsus , then the other : because hee hauing beene conueniently practised in the butcheries , and mangling of men , hee had the reason to hope for fauour of the Iesuites : For I my selfe went alwaies that way of bloud , and therefore I did euer preferre the sacrifices of the Gentiles , and of the Iewes , which were performed with effusion of bloud ( whereby not only the people , but the Priests also were animated to bold enterprises ) befote the soft and wanto sacrifices of Christians . If I might haue had my choyce , I should rather haue wished , that the Romane Church had taken the Bread , then the Wine , from the people , since in the wine there is some colour , to imagine and represent blood . Neither did you , ( most Reuerend Bishop of this Dioces , Ignatius ) abhorre from this way of blood . For hauing consecrated your first age to the wars , and growne somewhat vnable to follow that course , by reason of a wound ; you did presently begin to thinke seriously of a spirituall warre , against the Church , and found meanes to open waies , euer into Kings chambers , for your executioners . Which dignitie , you did not reserue onely to your own Order , but ( though I must confesse , that the foundation , and the nourishment of this Doctrine remaines with you , and is peculiar to you , out of your infinite liberalitie , ) you haue vouchsafed sometime , to vse the hands of other men in these imploiments . And therefore as well they , who haue so often in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it in England , as they which haue brought their great purposes to effect in Fraunce , are indebted only to you for their courage and resolution . But yet although the entrance into this place may be decreed to none , but to Innouators , and to onely such of them as haue dealt in Christian businesse ; and of them also , to those only which haue had the fortune to doe much harme , I cannot see but that next to the Iesuites , I must bee inuited to enter , since I did not onely teach those wayes , by which , thorough perfidiousnesse and dissembling of Religion , a 〈◊〉 might possesse , and vsurp● vpon the liberty of free Commonwealths ; but also 〈◊〉 arme and furnish the people with my when they were ●nder 〈◊〉 oppression , they might 〈◊〉 est conspire , and 〈◊〉 tyrant , or reuenge them 〈◊〉 of their Prince , and redeem their former losses ; so tha● from both sides , both from Prince and People , I brough● an aboundant har●est , and noble encrease to this kingdome . By this time I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lucifer to bee muc● moued with this Oration , and to incline much towards Machiauel . For he did acknowledge him to bee a kind of Patriarke , of those whom they call Lay-men . And he had long obserued , that the Clergie of Rome 〈◊〉 downe to Hell daily , easily , voluntarily , and by troupes , because they were accustomed to sinne against their consci●ence , and knowledge ; but that the Layitte sinning out of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and negligence of 〈◊〉 the truth , did rather offend by ignorance , and 〈◊〉 . And therefore he thought himselfe bound to reward Machiauel , which had awakened 〈◊〉 drowsie and implicite Lay● to greater , and more bloody ●ndertakings . Besides this , 〈◊〉 Ignatius could not bee ●enied the place , whose ambitions and turbulencies Lucifer vnderstood very wel , he thought Machiauel a fit and necessarie instrument to oppose against him ; that so the skales beeing kept euen by their factions , hee might gouerne in peace , and two poysons mingled might doe no harme . But hee could not hide this intention from Ignatius , more subtil then the De●ill , and the verier Lucifer of the two : Therefore Ignatius rushed out , threw himselfe downe at Lucifers feet , and groueling on the ground adored him . Yet certainly , Vasques would not 〈◊〉 this idolatry , because in the shape of the 〈◊〉 hee worshipped him , whom hee accounted the true God . Here Ignatius cried and thundred out , With so great noise an horror , That had that powder taken fire , by which All the 〈◊〉 of Britaine had flowne to the Moone , It had not equalled this noise and horror . And when he was able to speak distinctly , thus hee spoke . It cannot be said ( vnspeakable Emperour ) how much this obscure Florentine hath transgressed against thee , and against the Popo thy image-bearer , ( whether the word bee accepted , as Gratian takes it , when he calles the Scriptures , 21. q. omni● 〈◊〉 . Imaginarie Bookes ; or as they take it , which giue that style to them who carrie Modest in verb. 〈◊〉 . the Emperours image in the field ; ) and last of all against our Order . Durst any man before him , thinke vpon this kinde of iniurie , and calumnie , as to hope that he should be able to flatter , to catch , to entrap 〈◊〉 himselfe ? Certainely , whosoeuer flatters any man , and presents him those praises , which in his owne opinion are not due to him , thinkes him inferiour to himselfe and makes account , that he hath taken him prisoner , and triumphs ouer him . Who euer flatters , either he derides , or ( at the best ) instructs . For there may bee , euen in flattery , an honest kind of teaching , if Princes , by being told that they are already induced with all vertues necessary for their functions , 〈◊〉 thereby taught what thos● vertues are , and by a facile exhortation , excited to endeauo to gaine them . But was it 〈◊〉 that this fellow , should dar● eitherto deride you , or ( which is the greater iniury ) to teach you ? Can it be beleeued , that he delivers your praises from his heart , and doth not rather 32 , 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 , Pudor . herein follow Gratians leuity ; who saies , That you are called Prince of the world , as a king at Chests , or as the Cardinall of Rauenna , onely by derision ? This man , whilst he liued , attributed so much to his own wit , that hee neuer thought himselfe beholden to your helps , and insinuations ; and was so farre from inuoking you , or sacrificing to you , that he did not so much as acknowledge your kingdome , nor beleeue that there was any such thing in nature , as you . I must confesse , that hee had the same opinion of God also , and therefore deserues a place here , and a better then any of the Pagan or gen●le idolaters : for , in euery idolatrie , and false worship , there is some Religion , and some peruerse simplicitie , which tastes of humilitie ; from all which , this man was very free , when in his heart he vtterly denyed that there was any God . Yet since he thought so in earnest , and beleeued that those things which hee affirmed were true , hee must not be rancked with them , which hauing beene sufficiently instructed of the true God , and beloueing him to be so , doe yet fight against him in his enemies armie . Neither ought it to be imputed to vs as a fault , that sometimes in our exorcismes wee speake ill of you , and call you Hereticke , and Drunkard , Flagel . Damon . 〈◊〉 . and Whisperer , and scabbed Beast , and Coniure the elements that they should not receiue you , and threaten you with Indissoluble Damnation , and torments a thousand thousand times worse then you suffer yet . For these things you know , are done out of a secret couenant and contract betweene vs , & out of Mysteries , which must not bee opened to this Neophite , who in our Synagogue is yet but amongst the Cathecumeni . Which also we acknowledge of Holy Water , and our Agnas Dei , of which you doe so wisely dissemble a feare , when they are presented to you : For certainly , if there were any true force in them , to deliuer Bodies from Diseases , soules from sinnes , and the Elements from Spirits , and malignant impressions , ( as in the verses which Vrban the fist sent with his Summa Bullarij , verbo Agnus Dei . Agnus Dei to the Emperour it is pretended . ) It had beene reason , that they should first haue exercised their force vpon those verses , and so haue purged and deliuered them , if not from Heresie , yet from Barbarousnesse , and solecismes ; that Heretiques might not iustly say , there was no truth in any of them , but onely the last ; which is , That the least peece which thence doth fall , Will doe one as much good as all . And though our Order haue aduentured further in 〈◊〉 then the rest , yet that must be attributed to a speciall priuiledge , by which wee haue leaue to question any possessed person , of what matters we will ; wheras all other Orders are miserably bound to the present matter , and the businesse then in hand . For , though I do not beleeue , that either from your selfe , or 〈◊〉 your 〈◊〉 the Pope , any such priuiledge is issued ; yet our Cotton deserues to be praised , who being questioned , how he durst propose certaine seditious Interrogatories to a possessed person , to deliuer himselfe , 〈◊〉 such a priuiledge ; and with an vn-heard-of boldnesse , and a new kind of falsifying , did ( in a manner ) counterfeit Lucifers hand and seale , since none but he onely could giue this priuiledge : But , if you consider vs out of this liberty in Exorcismes , how humble and seruile we are towards you , the Relations of Peru testisie inough , where it is recorded , that when one of your angels at midnight appeared to our Litera di Diego Torres . Bareena alone in his chamber , hee presently rose out of his chaire , and gaue him the place , whom he professed to bee farre worthier thereof , then he was . But to proceed now to the iniuries , which this fellow hath done to the Bishop of Rome , although very much might be spoken , yet by this alone , his disposition may bee sufficiently discerned , that hee imputes to the Pope , vulgar and popular sinnes , farre vnworthy of his greatnesse . Weake praising , is a kind of Accusing , and wee detract from a mans honour , if when wee praise him for small things , and would 〈◊〉 to haue said all , we conceale greater . Perchance this man had seen some of the Catalogues of Refer● Cases , which euery yeare the Popes encrease , and he might thinke , that the Popes did therefore reserue these sinnes to themselves , that they only might commit them . But either hee is ignorant , or iniurious to them . For , can they bee thought to haue taken away the libertie of sinning from the people , who do not onely suffer men to keepe Dist. 32. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Concubines , but sometimes doe commaund them ? who make S. Peter beholden to the stewes , for part of his reuenue : and who excuse women from the infamous name of whore , till they haue deliuered themselues Ibid. 〈◊〉 . ouer to 23000 men . The Professors of which Religion Scappus de ture non script . l. 1. cap. 54. teach , that Vniuersitie men , which keep whores in their chambers , may not be expeld for that , because it ought to be presumed before hand , that schollers will not li●e without them . Shal he be thought to haue a purpose of deterring others from sinne , which prouides so well for their security , that he teaches , 〈◊〉 Angel . verb . Papa . N 1. that he may dispense in all the commaundements of the second Table , & in all moral law , and that those commandements of the second table can neither be called Principles , nor Conclusions , necessarily deduced from Principles ? And therefore , ( as they euer loue that manner of teaching ) hee did illustrate his Rule with an Example , & dispensed in a mariage between Brother and Sister , and hath hoorded vp so many Indulgencies in one barne , the citie of Rome , that it is easie for any man in an houre , or two , to draw out Pardons inough for 100000 yeares . How cleare a witnesse of this liberality is Leo 10 ? who only for rehearsing once the Lords praier , and thrise repeating the name of Icsu ( bee it spoken heere without horrour ) hath giuen 3000 yeares indulg● . How profuse a Steward or Auditor was Boniface , who acknowledges so many Indulgences to be in that one Church of Lateran , that none but God can number them ? Besides these , plenary Indulgences are giuen , not only to the Franciscans themselues , but to their Parents also : and to any which dies in their habit ; and to any which desire that they may do so ; and to those who are wrapped in it after death , though they did not desire it ; and fiue yeares Indulgence to those who doe but kisse it . And at last , Clement 7. by a priuiledge first giuen to one Order , ( which since is communicated to our Order , as the priuiledge of all other Orders are ) gaue to any who should but visite a place belonging to them , or any other place , if hee could not come thither : or if he could come to no such place , yet if he had but a desire to it , All indulgences which had beene graunted , or heereafter should be graunted in the universal world . And though it be true , that if in any of these Indulgences a certaine sum of money were limited to bee giuen ( as for the most part it is ; ) a poore man , which could not giue that money , though he were neuer so contrite for his sins , could haue no benefit thereby : and though Gerson durst call those Indulgences foolish , and superstitious , which gaue 20000. yeares pardon for rehearsing one praier , yet they do aboundantly testifie the Popes liberall disposition , and that he is not so couetous in reseruing sinnes to himselfe ; But if perchance once in an hundred yeares , some one of the 〈◊〉 of the people be put to death for Sodomy ; and that , not so much for the offence , as for vsurping the right of the Ecclesiastique Princes , wee must not much lament nor grudge at that , since it is onely done to discontinue , and interrupt a praescription , to gaine which Title , the Layety hath euer beene very forward against the Clergie : for euen in this kinde of his delicacies , the Pope is not so reserued and couetous , but that he allowes a taste thereof to his Cardinals , whom you once called Carpidineros , ( by an elegancy Money-takers . proper onely to your Secritaries , the Monkes ) in an Epistle which you writ to one of Theol. Niem . Nemus vnio Tract. 6. c. 29. that Colledge : For since , the Cardinals are so compacted into the Pope and so made his owne body : That it is Rodol . Cupers de Eccles. vniuer . fol. 4. not lawfull for them , without licence first obtained from him , to be let bloud in a Feuer , what may be denied vnto them ? Or what kind of sin is likely to be left out of their glorious priuiledges , which are at least 200 ? Which Order the Pope can Azor. par. 2. l. 4. c. 1. Mos●onius de maiest . Eccles. Milit. c. 5. Ibidem Idem . c. 6. no more remove out of the Ecclesiastique Hierarchy , then hee can Bishops ; both because Cardinals were instituted by God , and because the Apostles themselves were Cardinals before they were Bishops . Whom also in their creation he stiles his brothers , 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 . l. 1. c. 25. and Princes of the world , & Co-iudges of the whole earth : and to 〈◊〉 all : That there are so many Kings as there are Cardinals . O fearefull body ; and as in many other things , so in this especialy monstrous , that they are not able to propagate their species : For all Azar vbi 〈◊〉 . the Cardinals in a vacacy are not able to make one Cardinal more . To these men certainly the Pope doth no more grudge the plurality of sins , then he doth of Bonafices . And he hath beene content , that euen Borgia shoud enioy this dignity , if hee hath heaped vp , by his ingenious wickednesse , more sorts of sins in one Act , then ( as far as I know ) as any the Popes them selues haue attempted : For he did not only giue the full reine to his licentiousnesse , but raging with a second ambition , hee would also change the Sex . Therein also his stomacke was not towardes young beardlesse boyes , nor such greene fruit : for hee did not thinke , that hee went farre inough from the right Sex , except hee had a manly , a reuerend , and a bearded Venus . Neither staied he there ; but his witty lust proceeded further : yet he sollicited not the Minions of the Popes ; but striuing to equall the licentiousnesse of Sodomits , which would haue had the Angels ; to come as neare them as hee could , hee tooke a Cleargy-man , one of the portion and lot of the Lord : and so made the maker of God , a Priest subiect to his lust ; nor did hee seeke him out in a Cloyster , or Quire ; but that his Venus might bee the more monstrous , hee would haue her in a Mitre . And yet his prodigious lust was not at the height ; as much as hee could he added : and hauing found a 〈◊〉 , a Cleargy-man , a Bishop , he did not sollicite him with entreaties , & rewards , but rauished him by force . Since then the Popes doe , out of the fulnesse of their power , come to those kindes of sinne , which haue neither Example nor Name , in somuch that Pope Paulus Plat. in vit. Adri. 1. Venetus , which vsed to paint himselfe , & desired to seeme a woman , was called the Goddesse Cibele ( which was not without mysterie , since , prostitute boyes are sacred to that Goddesse , ) and since they do not graunt ordinarily that liberty of practising sinnes , till they haue vsed their owne right and priuiledge of Preuention and Anticipation , This pratling fellow Machiauel doth but treacherously , and dishonestly preuaricate , and betraie the cause , if hee thinke hee hath done inough for the dignity of the Popes , when he hath affoorded to them sins common to all the world . The transferring of Empires , the ruine of Kingdomes , the Excommunications , and depositions of Kings , & deuastations by fire and sword , should haue bene produced as their marks & characters : for though the examples of the Popes transferring the Empire , which our men so much stand vpon , bee not indeede true , nor that the ancient Popes practised any such thing ; yet since the states-men of our Order , wiser than the rest , haue found how much this Temporal iurisdictio ouer Princes , conduces to the growth of the Church , they haue perswaded the Popes , that this is not only lawfull for them , but often practised heeretofore : And therefore they prouide , that the Canons and Histories bec Apologia pro 〈◊〉 . detorted to that opinion for though one of our Order doe weaken that famous Canon , Nos sanctorum , which was vsed still to bee produced for this doctrine , yet hee did it then , when the King of Great 〈◊〉 was to bee mollisied and sweetned towardes vs , and the lawes to bee mitigated , and when himselfe had put on the name Eudamon . But let him returne to his true state , and professe himselfe a Cacod●mon , & he will bee of our opinion . In which respect also wee may pardon our Cudsemi● his rashnesse , when he denies the English nation De despera● 〈◊〉 . causa . c. 11. to be heratiques , because they remain● in a perpetuall succession of Bishops : For herein these men haue thought it fit , to follow , in their practise , that Translation , which reades the Rom. 12. 〈◊〉 . words of Paul : Serue the time , and not that which saies : Serue the Lord . As for the iniury which this petty companion hath offered to our Order , since in our wrongs , both yours , and the Popes Maiesty is wounded ; since to vs , as to your Dictators , both you haue giuen that large and auncient Commission : That wee should take care that the state take no harme , we cannot doubt of our reuenge : yet this aboue all the rest , doth especially vexe me , that when he calls me P●elate , and Bishop , ( names which wee so much abhorre and detest ) I know well , that out of his inward malignity , hee hath a relation to Bellarmines , and Tolets sacrilegious Vow-breaking ambitions , by which they imbraced the Cardinalship , and other Church-dignities : but heerein this poore fellow , vnacquainted with our affaires , is deceiued , being ignorant , that these men , by this act of beeing thus incorporated into the Pope are so much the neerer to their Center and finall happinesse , this chamber of Lucifer , and that by the breach of a vow , which them selues thought iust , they haue got a new title therunto : For the Cardinalship is our Martyrdome : & though not many of our Order , haue had that strength , that they haue beene such Martyrs , and that the Popes themselues haue beene pleased to transferre this persecution into the other Orders , who haue had more Cardinals then wee ; yet without doubt , for such of ours which haue had so much courage , new Crownes , and new Garlands , appropriate to our Martyrs , are prepared for them in this their Heauen ; because , being inabled by greater meanes , they are fitter for greater mischiefes . Wee therefore lament the 〈◊〉 Catalog . sol. 60 & 100. weaknesse of our Laynez , & our B●rgia , who refused the Cardinalship offered by Paulus 4. & Iulius 3 ; ( for in this place and this meeting it is vnfit to say they did so ) euen amongst the auncient Romans , when 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 . they sacrificed to you those sacrifices , which offered any resistance , were euer reputed vnaccepted : And therefore our Bellarmine deserues much praise , who finding a new Genius and courage in his new Cardinalship , set out his Retractations , & corrected all those places in his workes , which might any way bee interpreted in the fauour of Princes . But let vs passe ouer all these things : for wee vnderstand one 〈◊〉 well inough ; and let vs more particularly consider those things , which this man , who pretends to exceed all Auncient and Moderne States-men , boasts to haue beene done by him . Though truly no man will easily beleeue , that hee hath gone sarr in any thing , which did so tire at the beginning , or mid-way , that hauing seene the Pope , and knowne him , yet could neuer come to the knowledge of the Diuell . I know what his excuse and escape wil be : that things must not be extended insinitly ; that wee must consist and arrest somewhere , and that more meanes & instruments ought not to be admitted , where the matter may be dispatched by fewer . When therfore he was sure that the Bishop of Rome was the cause of all mischiefe , and the first mouer therof , he chose rather to settle & determine in him , then by acknowledging a Di●el to induce a new tyrany , and to be driuen to confesse , that the Pope had vsurped vpon the diuels right , which opinion , if any man bee pleased to maintaine , we do not forbid him● but yet it must be an argument to vs of no very nimble wit , if a man do so admire the Pope , that he leaue out the Diuell , and so worship the Image , without relation to the Prototipe and first patterne . But besides this , how idle , and how very nothings they are , which he hath shoueld together in his bookes , this makes it manifest , that some of euery Religion , and of euery profession , haue risen vp against him , and no man attempted to defend him : neither doe I say this , because I thinke his doctrine the worse for that , but it is therefore the lesse artificially c●rried , and the lesse able to worke those endes to which it is directed . For our parts wee haue not proceeded so : For wee haue dished & dressed our precepts in these affaired , with such cunning , that when our owne men produce them to ensnare and establish our puples , then we put vpon them the maiesty and reuerence of the Doctrine of the Church , and of the common opinion : But when our aduersaries alleadge them , either to cast enuy vpon vs , or to deterre the weaker sort , then they are content with a lower roome , and vouchsafe to step aside into the ranck of priuate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . And the Canons themselues are with vs sometimes glorious , in their mitres & pontificall habits , & sound nothing but meere Diuine resolutions out of the Chaire it selfe , and so haue the sorce of Oracles ; somtimes we say they are ragged & lame , & do but whisper with a doubtfull and vncertaine murmure , a hollow cloistral , or an eremitical voice , & so haue no more authority , then those poore men which writ them : sometimes we say they were but rashly thrown into the peoples ears out of pulpits , in the Homilies of fathers ; sometimes that they were deriued out of such Councels as suffered abortion , and were del●uered of their children , which are their Canons , before inanimation , which is the Popes assent , or out of such Councels , as are now discontinued and dead , ( howsoeuer they remained long time in vse and liuely & in good state of health ) and therefore cannot be thought sit to be vsed now , or applyed in ciuil businesses ; sometimes wee say the Popes voyce is in them all by his approbation ; sometimes that onely the voyce of those authors , from whom they are taken , speakes in them . And acordingly we deliuer diners and various ` Phylosophy vpon our Gratian , who compiled them ; sometimes we allow him the honour and dignity of Diamonds and the nobler sort of stones , which haue both their cleerenesse , and their firmenesse fromthis , that that they are compacted of lesse parts , and atomes , then others are : and so is Grat●ian ; whom for the same cause , sometimes we account but a hil of many sands cast together , and very 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 any foundation . I must confesse , that the fathers of our Order , out of a youthfull siercenesse , which made them dare and vndertake any thing ( for our order was scarce at yeares at that time ) did amisse in inducing the Councell of Trent to establish certaine . Rules & Definitions , 〈◊〉 which it might not be lawfull to depart : for indeed there is no remedy , but that sometimes we must depart from them : nor can it be dissembled , that both the writers of our Order , and the Vide 〈◊〉 . Dominicans haue departed from them in that great war and Tragedy lately raised at Rome , about Grace & Free-wil . For it is not our purpose , that the writings of our men should be so ratified , that they may not be changed , so that they bee of our Order which change them : so by the same liberty , which 〈◊〉 Ioannes Apolog. 〈◊〉 : 〈◊〉 3. hath taken in deliuering the King of Britaine from the danger of Deposition ; ( because as yet no sentence is giuen against him ) and also from many other Canons , which others thinke may iustly bee discharged against him , it will be as lawfull for vs , when that kingdome shal be inough stupified with this our Opin̄ , to restore those Canons to their former vigor , and to awake that state out of her Lethergy , either with her owne heat , intestine warre , or by some Medicine , drawne from other places : for Princes haue all their securities from our indulgence , and from the slacke & gentle interpretation of the Canons : they are but priuileges , which since they are deriued , & receiue life from vs , they may be by vs diminished , reuoked , & anulled : for as it was lawfull for Mariana to depart from the doctrine of the 〈◊〉 of Constance , so it was lawfull for Cotton to depart from 〈◊〉 which , notwithstanding , wee would haue onely lawfull for our Order , to whom it is giuen to know times , and secrets of state : for we see the Sorbonist● themselues , ( which may seeme to haue an Aristocratical Papacie amongst themselues ) though they laboured to destroy the doctrine of 〈◊〉 , did yet wisely forbeare to name him , or any other Iesuit , which was a modesty that I did not hope for Gretzer . Examen Speculi . fol. 139. at their hands ; since , before I I dyed , they made one Decree against 〈◊〉 but yet therein , I thinke some what may bee attributed to my patience , & 〈◊〉 ; who knowing their strength , and our owne infancy forbad all of my Order to make any answere to that ` Decree of theirs : neither were we so Herculean as to offer to strangle Serpents in our cradle . But yet since after that time , they haue beene often prouoked by our men : ( for I gaue not so iron a Rule & Precepts to my Disciples , as Francis did to his who would not haue his Rule applyed to times & to new occasions ) certainly they might haue bin excused , if they had beene at this time sharper against vs . And if the Parliament of Paris thought it not fit to carry the matter so modestly in their Arrest against Mariana , but made both the Booke , and the Doctrine , and the Man , infamous : What should wee say more of it , but that it is a Gyant , and a wilde beast , which 〈◊〉 fol. 25. our men could neuer tame : for still it cryes and howles , The Pope is bound to proceede lawfully , and Canonically : and this they malitiously interprete of their owne lawes , Idem . so. 32. and of auncient Canons , which they hope to bring into vse againe , by an insensible way of Arrest , and Sentences in that Court . This then is the point of which wee accuse Machiuell , that he carried not his Mine so safely , but that the enemy perceiued it still . But wee , who haue receiued the Church to be as a ship , do freely saile in the deep sea ; we haue an anchor , but wee ha●e not cast it yet , but keepe it euer in our power , to cast it , and weigh it at our pleasure . And we know well enough , that as to sailing shippes , so to our sailing Church , all rocks , all promontories , all firme and fast places are dangerous , and threaten shipwracke , and therefore to bee auoyded , and liberty and sea-roome to bee affected ; yet I doe not obstinatly say , that there is nothing in Machiuels commentary , which may bee of vse to this Church . Certainely there is very much ; but wee are not men of that pouerty , that wee neede begge from others , nor dignify those things with our prayers , which proceede not from our selues . The Senate of Rome gaue vs heeretofore a noble example of this temperance and abstinence , which therefore refused to place Christ amongst their gods , because the matter was proposed by the Emperour , and begunne not in themselues . As for that particular , wherein Machiauel vseth especially to glory ; which is , that he brought in the liberty of dissembling , and lying , it hath neither foundation nor colour : For not onely Plato , and other fashioners of Common - 〈◊〉 , allowed the libertie of lying , to Magistrates , Obseruationes in cassianum , fol. 736. ex collat. 〈◊〉 . & to Physicians ; but we also considring the fathers of the Church , Origen , Chrysostome , Hierom , haue not onely found that doctrine in them , but wee haue also deliuered them from all imputation , & reprehension by this euasion : That it was lawfull for them to maintaine that opinion , till some definition of the Church had established the contrarie . Which certainely , ( though this should not be so openly spoken of ) as yet was neuer done . But yet wee haue departed from this doctrine of free lying , though it were receiued in practise , excused by the Fathers , strengthened by examples of 〈◊〉 & Angels , in the Scriptures , and so almost established by the law of 〈◊〉 , and Nature ; onely for this reason , because we were not the first Authors of it . But we haue supplied this losse with another doctrine , lesse suspitious ; and yet of as much vse for our Church ; which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and Mixt 〈◊〉 . The libertie therefore of lying , is neither new , not safe as almost all Machiauells precepts are so stale and obsol●te , that our Serarius vsing I must confesse his lesuiticall Triha● li. 2. cap. 4. liberty of w●lde anticipation , did not doubt to call Herod , who liued so long before Machiuell , a Machiauellian . But that at one blow wee may cut off all his reasons , & all his hopes , this I affirme , this I pronounce ; that all his bookes , and all his deedes , tend onely to this , that thereby a way may be prepared to the ruine & destruction of that part of this Kingdome , which is established at Rome : for what else doth hee endeauor or go about , but to change the forme of comon-wealth , and so to depriue the people ( who are a soft , a liquid and ductile mettall , and apter for our impressions ) of all their liberty ; & hauing so destroyed all ciuility & re-publique , D●lamesse fol. 358. to reduce all states to Monarchies ; a name which in secular states , wee doe so much abhor , ( I cannot say it without teares , ) but I must say it , that not any one Monarch is to be found , which either hath not withdrawne himselfe wholy from our kingdome , or wounded & endamadged in some weighty point ; hereupon our Cotton confesses , that the authority of the Pope is incomparably lesse then it was , and that now the Christian Church , ( which can agree to none but the 〈◊〉 , ) is but a diminutiue . And herevpon also it is , that the Cardinal , who were 〈◊〉 Thol . sa . l. 15. c. 4. v. 7 wont to meete oftner , meete now but once in a weeke , because the businesses of the Court of Rome growe fewer . To forbeare therefore mentioning of the Kings of Britaine , and Denmarke , and the other Monarkes of the first sort , which haue vtterly cast off Rome ; euen in France , our enemies are so much encreased , that they equal vs almost in number : and for their strength , they haue this aduantage aboue vs , that they agree within themselues , and are at vnity with their neighbour Resourmed Churches ; whereas our men , which call themselues Catholick there , doe so much differ from the Romane Catholick , that they do not onely preferre Councels , but euen the king , before the Pope , and euermore oppose those their two great Gyants , Gog and Magog , their Parliament of Paris , and their Colledge of Sorbon , against all our endeauours . Besides all this , we languish also miserably Scapp . de iure 〈◊〉 Script . l. 1. c. 6. Ibid. c. 16. in Spaine , where Cleargy men , if they breake their fealty to their Lord , are accused of treason ; where Ecclesiasticall persons are subject to secular 〈◊〉 ment , Ibid. c. 25 and , if they be sacrilegious , are burnt by the Ordinarie Magistrate ; which are doctrines and practises , contrary , and dangerous to vs . And though they will seeme to haue giuen almost halfe the kingdome to the church , and so to haue diuided equally ; yet those Graunts are so infected , with pensions , and other burdens , by which the kings seruants , and the younger sons of great persons are maintained , that this greatnesse of the Church there is rather a dropsie , then a sound state of health , established by welconcocted nourishment , and is rather done , to cast an Eouy vpon the Church , then to giue any true Maiestie to it . And euen in vsurping Ec●siasticall ●sdiction , the kings of Spaine haue not onely exceeded the kings of Fraunce , but also of Britany . For ( says De Regno Sicilia . Baronius of that king ) there is nowrisen vp a new Head , a 〈◊〉 , and a wonder . He Excommunicates , and he Absolues : And he practiseth this power euen against Bishops , and Cardinals : He stops Appeales , and he acknowledges no superiority 〈◊〉 the sea of Rome , but 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 of Preuention : And therefore , the name Monarch , is a hateful and execrable name to vs . Against which , Baronius hath thundred with such violence , such fiercenesse , and such bitternesse , that I could hardly adde any thing thereunto , if I should speake ( vnspeakable Emperour ) with thine owne tongue : For he cals it an Adulterine name , and a Tower of Babel , and threatens destruction to that king ( though himselfe were his subiect ) except he forbeare the name . In the meane time , he resolues him to be a Tyran● , and pronounces him to stand yearely Excommunicate by the Bulla 〈◊〉 . Neither doth he offer to desend himselfe with any other excuse , when a Cardinall reprehended his fiercenes towards the king , then this ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 . Imperions zeale , hath no power to spare God himselfe . And yet he confesseth , that this zeale was kindled by the Popes speciall commaund , and by his Oath taken , as Cardinall . Neither hath our Bellarmine almost any other cause of aduauncing Monarchicall gouernment so much as he doth , then thereby to remoue all secular men from so great a dignitie , and to reserue it only to the Church . It was therfore well done of that Rebullus ( who now begins to bee knowne in this state ) when hauing surfeited with Calumnies against the French Church , and her Ministers , he hath dared of late to draw his pen , and to ioyne battell against a most puissant forraine Prince : hee did well ( I say ) and fitly , when hee called Bellarmine and Baronius , Salmonees . The sword and buckler of the Romane Church . And I cannot choose but thanke him for affoording the Title of Sword to our Order ; as well , because after so many expositions of those words , ( Behold , heere are two 〈◊〉 ) which our side hath gathered , to establish a temporall Iurisdiction in the Pope , and which our Aduersaries haue remoued , worne out , or scorned , this man hath relieued vs with a new , and may seeme to intend by the two swords , the Popes Excommunications , and the Iesuites 〈◊〉 , and King-killings ; as also because he hath reserued to our Order that soueraigne dignity , that as God himselfe was pleased to defend his Paradice with fire and sword , so we stand watchfull vpon the borders of our Church , not onely prouided , as that Cherubin was with sire and sword , but with the later inuention of Gunpowder ; about the first inuentour whereof I wonder , why Antiquaries should contend , whether it were the Diuell or a Frier , since that may be all one . But as ( O vnspeakable Emperour ) you haue almost in all things endeuoured to imitate God : so haue you most throughly performed it in vs ; For when God attempted the Reformation of his Church , it became you also to reforme yours . And accordingly by your Capuchins , you did reforme your Franciscans ; which , before we arose , were your chiefest labourers , and workemen : and after , you Reformed your Capuchins , by your Recolets . And when you perceiued that in the Church of God , some men proceeded so farre in that Reformation , that they endeuoured to draw out , not onely all the peccant and dangerous humours , but all her beautie , and exteriour grace and Ornament , and cuen her vitall spirits , with her corrupt bloud , & so induce a leannesse , and il-fauourednes vpon her , and thought to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . l. 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 . 57. a rigid coldnesse with a 〈◊〉 , you also were pleased to follow that Example , and so , in vs , did Reforme , and awaken to higher enterprise , the dispositions as well of the Circumcellions , as of the Assassins : for we do not limit our selues in that lowe degree of the Circumcellions , when we vrge and prouoke ohers to put vs to death ; nor of the Assassins which were hired to kill some Kings , which passed through their quarter : for we exceed them both , because wee doe these things voluntarily , for nothing , & euery where . And as wee will bee exceeded by none , in the thing it selfe : so to such things as may seeme mysticall and significant , wee oppose mysticall things . And Carrauca stat. synod , N. 41. so , least that Canon ; That no Clergy-man should weare a knife with a point , might seeme to concerne vs , by some prophetical relation , we in our Rules haue opposed this precept : That our knife be often whetted , 〈◊〉 . Iesuit . cab. 〈◊〉 . Refe●tor . & so kept in an apt readines for all vses : for our diuination lies in the contemplation of entrails ; in which art we are thus much more subtile then those amongst the old Romans , that wee consider not the entrails of Beasts , but the entrails of souls , in confessions , and the entrails of Princes , in treasons ; whose hearts wee do not beleeue to be with vs , till we see them : let therefore this pratling Secretary hold his tonge , and be content that his booke be had in such reputation , as the world affoords to an Ephemerides , or yearely Almanack , which being accommodated to certaine places , & certaine times , may be of some short vse in some certaine place : and let the Rules and precepts of his disciples , like the Canons of prouincial Councels bee of force there , where they were made , but onely ours which pierce , and passe through all the world , retaine the strength and vigour of Vniuersall Councels . Let him enioy som honourable place amongst the Gentiles ; but abstaine from all of our sides : neither when I say , Our side , doe I only meane Moderne men : for in all times in the Romane Church there haue bene Friers which haue farr exceeded Machiauel . Truely I thought this Oration of Ignatius very long : and I began to thinke of my body which I had so long abandoned , least it should putrifie , or grow mouldy , or bee buried ; yet I was loath to leaue the stage , till I saw the play ended : And I was in hope , that if any such thing should befall my body , the Iesuits , who work Miracles so familiarly , & whose reputation I was so careful of in this matter , would take compassion vpon me , and restore me againe . But as I had sometimes obserued Feathers or strawes swimme on the watersface , Brought to the bridge , where through a narrow place The water passes , throwne backe , and dela●d ; And hauing daunc'd a while , and nimbly plai'd Vpon the watry circles , Then haue bin By the streames liquid snares , and iawes , suck'd in And suncke into the wombe of that s●olne bourne , Leaue the beholder desperate of returne : So I saw Machiauel often put forward , and often thrust back , and at last vanish . And looking earnestly vpon Lucifers 〈◊〉 , I perceiued him to bee affected towardes Ignatius , as Princes , who though they enuy and grudge , that their great Officers should haue such immoderate meanes to get wealth ; yet they dare not complaine of it , least thereby they should make them odious and contemptible to the people : so that Lucifer now suffered a new Hell : that is , the danger of a Popular Diuell , vaine-glorious , and inclined to innouations there . Therefore he determined to withdraw himselfe into his inward chamber , and to admit none but Ignatius : for he could not exclude him , who had deserued so well ; neither did hee thinke it safe to stay without , & giue him more occasions to amplifie his owne worth , & vnder-value all them there in publique , and before so many vulgar Diuels . But as hee rose , a whole army of soules besieged him . And all which had inuented any new thing , euen in the smallest matters , thronged about him , and importuned an admission . Euen those which had but inuented new attire for woemen , & those whom Pancirollo hath recorded in his Commentaries for inuention De rebus nuper 〈◊〉 . of Porcellandishes , of Spectacles , of Quintans , of stirrups , and of Cauiari , thrust themselues into the troupe . And of those , which pretended that they had squared the circle , the number was infinite . But Ignatius scattered all this cloud quickly , by commaunding , by chiding , by deriding , and by force & violence . Amongst the rest , I was sory to see him vse Peter Aretine so ill as he did : For though Ignatius told him true when he boasted of his licentious pictures , that because he was not much learned , hee had left out many things of that kind , with which the ancient histories & poëmes abound ; and that therefore Aretine had not onely not added any new inuention , but had also taken away all courage and spurres from youth , which would rashly trust , and relie vpon his diligence , and seeke no further , & 〈◊〉 loose that infinite & precious treasure of Antiquitie . He added moreouer , that though Raderus , and others of his Order , did vse to gelde Poets , and other Authors : ( and heere I could not choose but wonder , why they haue not gelded their Vulgar Edition , which in some places hath such obscene words as the Hebrew tongue , which is Harlay Defe● des Iesuit . fol. 12. therefore also called Holy , doth so much abhorre , that no obscene things can be vttered in it ) insomuch , that ( as one of them very subtilly notes ) the starre of Venus is very seldome called by that name in the Scripture : for how could it be , the word being not Hebrew ? yet ( said hee ) our men doe not geld them to that purpose , that the memory thereof should bee abolished ; but that when themselues had first tried , whether Tiberius his Spintria , & Martialis symple●ma , and others of that kinde , were not rather Chimeraes , & speculations of luxuriant wits , then things certaine & constant , and such as might bee reduced to an Art and methode in licentiousnes : for Iesuits neuer con● themselues with the Theory in thing , but straight proceed to practise ) they might after communicate them to their owne Disciples and Nouitiates : for this Church is fruitfull in producing Sacraments ; and being now loaded with Diuine sacraments , it produces Morall sacraments . In which , as in the diuine , it bindes the Layety to one species ; but they reserue to themselues the diuers formes , and the secrets and mysteries in this matter , which they finde in the Authors whom they geld . Of which kind I thinke they giue a little glimmering and intimation , when in the life of their last made Goddesse , Francisca Romana , Valladerius fol. 24. they say : that the bed where shee lay with her husband , was a perpetuall Martyrdome to her , and a shop of miracles . But for all this , since Aretine was one , who by a long● custome of libellous & contumelious speaking against Princes , had got such a habit , that at last he came to diminish and dis-esteeme God himselfe . I wonder truly , that this Arch-Iesuite , though hee would not admit him to any eminent place in his Triumphant Church , should deny him an office of lower estimation : For truly to my thinking , he might haue beene fit , either to serue Ignatius , as maister of his pleasures , or Lucifer as his Crier : for whatsoeuer Lucifer durst think , this man durst speake . But Ignatius , who thought himselfe sufficient for all vses , thrust him away , and when he offered vpward , offered his staffe at him : Nor did he vse Christopher Columbus with any better respect ; who hauing found all waies in the earth , & sea open to him , did not feare any difficulty in Hell , but when hee offered to enter , Ignatius staid him , & said : You must remember , sir , that if this kingdome haue got any thing by the discouery of the West Indies , al that must be attributed to our Order : for if the opinion of the Dominicans had Matalius Metellus , Praefat. in ●sorinm . preuailed , That the inhabitants should be reduced , onely by preaching and without violence , certainely their 200000 of men would scarce in so many ages haue beene brought to a 150 which by our meanes was so soone performed . And if the law , made by Ferdinando , onely against Canibals ; That all which would not bee Christians should bee bondslaues , had not beene extended into other Prouinces , wee should haue lacked men , to digg vs out that benefite , which their countries affoord . Except we when wee tooke away their old Idolatrie , had recompenced them with a new one of ours ; except we had obtruded to those ignorant and barbarous people , sometimes naturall things , sometimes artificiall , and counterfeit , in steed of Miracles ; & except we had ben alwaies ready to conuey , & to apply this medicine made of this pretious Cretian drug , vnto the Princes of Europe , & their Lords , & Counsellours , the prof●te by the onely discouery of these places ( which must of necessity bee referred to fortune ) would haue beene very little ; yet I praise your perseuerance , and your patience ; which since that seemes to be your principall vertue ) you shall haue good occasion to exercise heere , when you remaine in a lower and remoter place , then you thinke belongs to your merits . But although Lucifer being put into a heate , and almost smothered with this troupe and deluge of pretenders , seemed to haue admitted Ignatius , as his Lieutenant , or Legat a latere , and trusted him with an absolute power of doing what hee would , yet he quickly spied his owne errour , and danger thereby . He began to remember how forcibly they 〈◊〉 to vrge the Canon Alius ; by which the king of Fraunce is sayd to haue beene deposed , not for his wickednesse , but for his infirmity , and vnfitnesse to gouerne : And that kings do forfeit their dignity , if Paris de puteo , de syndicat , de e●…cess . regum . they giue them selues to other matters , and leaue the gouernment of the State to their officers . Therefore Lucifer thought it time for him to enter into the businesse , least at last Ignatius should prescribe therein ; by which title of prescription he well knew , how much the Church of Rome doth aduaunce and defend it selfe against other Princes . And though he seemed very thankfull to Ignatius , for his deliuery from this importunate company , yet when he perceiued , that his scope and purpose was , to keepe all others out , he thought the case needed greater consideration ; For though he had a confidence in his owne Patriarkes , which had long before possest that place , and in whose company ( as an Abbot said to the Diuell , Sophronius ca. 45. Consenuerat . who after long intermission , now tempted him ) hee was growne old , and do●bted not but that they would defend their right , and oppose themselues against any innouation , which Ignatius should practise , yet if none but hee in a whole age should bee brought in , hee was afraid , that this singularity would both increase his courage and spirit , and their reuerence , and respect towards him . Casting therefore his eyes into euery corner , at last a great way off , hee spied ` Phillip Nerius : who acknowledging in his owne particular no especiall merit towardes this kingdome , forbore to presse neere the gate ; But Lucifer called to his remembrance , that Nerius and all that Order , of which hee was the Author , which is called congregatio Oratorij , were erected , aduaunced , and dignisyed by the Pope , principally to this end , that , by their incessant Sermons to the people , of the liues of Saints and other Ecclesiastique Antiquities , they might get a new reputation , and so the torrent , and generall superstition towards the Iesuits , might grow a little remisser , and luke-warme : for at that time the Pope himselfe beganne to bee afraid of the Iesuites , for they begunne to publish their Paradox of Confession and absolution to bee giuen by letters , and Messengers , and by that meanes to draw the secrets of all Princes onely to themselues ; And they had tried and sollicited a great Monarch , who hath manie designes vpon Italy , against the Pope , & deliuered to that prince diuerse articles , for the reforming of him . Now the Pope and Lucifer loue euer to follow one anothers example : And therefore that which the one had done in the middle world , the other attempted in the lower . Hereupon he called for Philip Nerius , and gaue him many euidences of a good inclination towards him . But Nerius was too stupid , to interprete them aright . Yet Ignatius spied them , and before Lucifer should declare himselfe any further , or proceed too farre herein , least after he were farre engaged , there should be no way , to auert or withdraw him from his owne propositions ( for he saw there must be respect had of his honour and constancy ) hee thought it fittest to oppose now at the beginning . He sayd therfore , that he now perceiued , that Lucifer had not bene altogether so much conuersant with Philip as with the Iesuits , since he knew not , how much Philip had euer professed himselfe an enemy to him . a a Vita N 〈◊〉 fol. 107. For he did not onely deny all visions , and apparitions , b b Fol. 108. And commaunded one to spit in Maries face , when she appeared againe , because he thought it was the Diuell ; c c Fol. 212. And droue away an other that came to tempt a sicke man , in the shape of a Phisition ; d d Fol. 229. And was hardly drawne to beleeue any possessings ; but e e Fol. 19. when three Diuels did meete him in the way , to afright him , he neither thought them worthy of any Exorcisme , nor so much as the signe of the Crosse , but meerely went by them , as though he scorned to look at them , & so despighted them with that negligence . It may be that hee hath drawne others into Religion , but himselfe remained then in the Layety ; in so much as I remember , that f f Fol. 26. I vsed to call him , The Saints Bell , that hangs without , and cals others into the Church . g g Fol. 313. Neither doe they which follow this Order , bind themselues with any vow or oath ; Neither do I know any thing for which this h h Fol. 163. kingdome is beholding to him , but that he moued Baronius to write his Annals .