Inflruilion! for a rit.ht comforting • -o--------------- - - -· - -------- .- An earthly Prince would difdaine, m1d hold it in·J foulc fcorne to fend unto his inferiour for reconcile.. mei1t; efpccially, who had behaYd himfelfe baieiy & unworthtly towards him, & juCHy provoked his royall indignation. WDulJ not the King of Spcti;te, _• There spanvarJs b~ . thinke you, fo grey1t a Monar~b, hold it an inexpiable ing. mcerc. {hangers, di(honour and indignity, to fend-Embai-hdours now, havmg no narur~H re· and fue unto the Hollanders, fo farre below him for gard 1u tlmr govern- .1 • , J •6 J ~ ' • ment to the maime- reconct/ment. anu P?OC~, prom1 n~ anu anurm;s nance ofthofe Coun- them o. an entire reihtutiOn,and ex:erctfe of all thetr tries al)d people_, in k Ancient rights, priviledges, liberties and fundatheir anc-ient & ruru mentall Lawes · that they fhould not n::ed to fc:are rail manner. of. the{r th~t greute{f J t)'~anny, and foverefl kjnde of perfocu-ti~ Pe\l~e~le1 l1•vmgd,asth(ie on unde-,- hcavei1, the Sp.t.ni./h Inqui/ition ,· that b~;; mon ~.,.u) e an wr c • · 'J'· · Emperour Charles;yca W~uld reft.1me ~HS former m 0~1th, the Popes dtfpen- :md as his Son PJJilip fatwn, for whtch begun all. the trouble, &c. Rather himfelfe _had, whdH then he: wou1d do it, .Hee hatl1 paid <.lre,ll{y a g0od hee remained m thofe · · Countnes, and ufcd the Counfds of the States and N~t;vcs.of the C( untrirs, not vi olating the ancient liberties of the Cou:mlCS; but cot1tranvvif: ,thde Sp.l~yardr being,-x.. altcd t~ abfolute govcrnmem,by ambition ,and for priv.Hc lucre,hw v to lend y bro k ~:t l the anctent Lawes nrd Lt bernes of all the Coumm:s ,:md in a nnnnous forth ' v cbJ· JJilhed and defrroycd,vvithout order of Lnw, wnhin the fpacc oHew months, :mny of the lll(){.bncicnt r>nd jmncipall p~rfons of the natur.?.l Nobday, thJt were moltworr-hy of governmenc.And hovvfo: v ~r in' the heginning of chefe crucllperfecut!Ons, the pretencevvherofwas for the m1intcnan.:e ofthe Romtfh Rcligi(~:J; yet chey fp:md noc to deprive very m_:my Catho!Ihs and Eccldi .llicall P~rfom of their Franchifes and priviledses: Atad of the chiefeftrh<lt were executed of the N >biliry, none WJS m t~1e whole Counnjy more aff:Cl:cd ta,that Religion then VVJS the moll: noble and v .1\iant· Count of Eg~?Jond.thc ve.ry ~lory cf that Con!ltry ; who neither for his Gngu\~r v.• Cl:ories>in the lcrvi~e of t~r !{in~ of Spa·ine ,can be forgntten in the trn~ H1 llcnes ; WJ r ~ yet for the erne! ty ufed for his defiru6iou, to .be .but for ever lamcilted in the hems _of the natural! people of that Commy. S~e a Book-lmim!ed, ~ 'Dfdl.l'ation ofthe cauferJ moving the !i!_uem of £~".gland to?i"Je aide tot be Jeje1ice •J the peaple ajJZLtferi &opprcj?eJ iiuhe LO'W. Countryer ,pag. 5, 6. 1 Pba 'ari~,.a.1d Ht' fdiow· tyrams, come fan-e fMn of t!lefc bloud hounds1Heylin,p. p. m Philip·the fecond of &paine, 3fte.r m1ny precedmg V J{b.:ions and prdfllres,di_d laftly by !hang h.a:td.:md m3tne forcc:;:m~mpt .not ornyH> make him[elfe an abfolu~e Monarch over tl~~ Holi?Z11derr, but. Turkc~ukc to tread .uu. der bis iecr,a\1 their Nati'on,o.U and Fu-ndamental L.aw~s,P(ivi1edges and ancient Rites., To eff.!ctW:1ich,'lfter he.e hid eaGiy obtaineJ from th~ Po?e a·difprnfation of bis formeroathes(vvhich difpenfation w.>s the tru~cauf:Of-d1e VVJ.rres aAd blond-lhed Gnce t hcn;&c0S.TJ1 . R inbu ~"fa,e.
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