-------------------~~~~~=-~--------2-----~-----, EP I sr. Y. A. -Along our way,how many Churches faw we demolifl1ed ! Nothing lefr,bur rude - heapes totell the paffenger,there bath boon both devotion and hofliliry. 0 the mife· rabic f~ot· fteps ofwar, befides blood£bed, ruine, and defobtion! Fur; bath done that there,which Crvm•(n•ffi would do with us;woulddoe,but fillll not:The truth with· in, £hall favethe walls without. And, to fpeak truly (whJ!-ever the vulgarexclaime) Idolatry pull•J dowoe thofe walls; nor rage. If there bad beene no Hollander to raze them, they fuould have fallen alone, ratherrhen hide fo muchimpiety unda their guilty roofe.Thefeare fpechcles,not fo much ofcruelry, as Juft•ce. Cruelty ofman, Jullice of God.But(wbich I wondred at) Churches fall,and Jefmtes Colleges nfe, every where, There is no City,where thofe are not either rearing or built. Whence commerh this~ Is it,for that devotionis not fo nece!Tary as policy~Thofe men(as we a_ fay ofthe Fox) fare beO:,when they are moO: curfed.None lo much fpighted oftheir · own; none fo hated ofall; nons.foop~cdbyours: and yet thefeill weeds grow. Whofoever lives long,fuall foe them feared ofthdrown,which now hate them,flllll fee rhefe feven leane kine devoure all the fat beafts that feed on rhe medowes of TJ. btr. I prop.h~cyas Phmoh dreamed: The event fl1all juO:ifie my confidence. At BruxeUts I fay fame Englifu-women profeffe rhemfC:Iv<S Ptf/•ls; with athoufand rites, I know not whether more ridiculous , or magicall . Poore foules ! they could nor be fooi<S enough at home. It would have madeyou to pity, laugh, difdaine(l know nor which more)ro fee by what cunning I! eights and f,ire pretences char weak fex wasfetchr into awilful! bondage; and (if rhofe two can agree) willingly confirained tofervea mafter whom they muft and cannot obey: whom they C neither may forfake for their vow, ·nor can pleafe for their froilry. What foilowes hence~ Late lorrow, lecrermifchiefe, mifay irremediable. Their fonvardneffe,f.>r will-worfhip, fuall condemneour coldneffe forrruth. I calked thert(in more boldneffe perhaps then wifdome)with C.j/trm o fJmous Jcfuit; an old man,more reaftythea fubtile,and more able tu wrangle then farisfie.Our difcourfewas longand roaving, and on his part f"ll both ofwords and vehemency. He fpake as at home; I as a ftrangcr: yet fo,as he faw me modeftly peremptory. The particulars would fwell my Letter too much: It is enough , rim the Truth loft leffe then I gained. At G•unl(a City that commands reverence for age , and \Vondcr fvr rhegreatneffe) we fell upon a C•ppucint novice, which wept bitterly, becaufe he was nor allowed to be mifcrable.His head had now felt the razor,his b1ck the rod:all that D Lacooicall difcipline pleafed himwdl;whichanother, being condemned to, would jullly account a torment. What hind«d then~ Piery to his mothor, would not permit this which he thought piety ro God:He could not be a willing begger,unleffe his mo· thermufi beg unwillingly. He was the only heirof his fathet, the only ftay of his mothemhe comfort ofher widow hood depended on this her orphane;who now naked muft enter into the world ofthe Cappucinu, as he come firftimothis; leaving his goods to the divifionof the frarerniry:rne Iooft parr whereoffhould h2ve been hers, whofe he wifhed ali:Hente thofe rears,that repulfe.l pitied his ill bellowed zeale;and rather wifhed,then durfi reach himmorewifdome.Thefe men for devout,the Jefuires for learned and pragmaticall,have ingroffed all opinion fromother Orders. 0 hypocrifie! No C•ppuci•• may ta1te or touch filver: forrbefeare {you know) the quinref· E fence of Francift•n fpiri<S.Tbis metal is as very an Anathtma to thefe,as the wedgeof gold to Achan; at the offer whereofhe ftarrs bad,as Mofis fmm the Serpent: yet he carriesaboy with him,that takes and caries it;& never complains ofeither metall or meafure. I faw and laughed atir, &by this open trick of hypocrifie fufpected more, moreclofe. How could l chufe~while commonly the leaft appears ofthat which is; efpeciall y ofthat which is loathfom in appearance,much more in oature.ArN •mrm, on a pleafanr & fieep hill -top,we found one that was termed a maried Hermire, approving his wifdome above his fdlows, that could ma1te choice offo chcarefull and fociable a folitarineffc. Whence, afrer a delightfull paffage up the fweer River Mofo, we vifired the populous & rich Clergy of Ltodi•m.That great Citymight we! be di. chotomized into Cloyfters and Hofpitals.lfl might adventure, I could bore play the Cririck,after all the ruins ofmy negleckd Philology.Old monumenrs,and after them Z 3 our
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