A Commentaryupon the C4el Chap.q. reus. I tremble and (hake ( faith a Roman -Catholike, out of and M n. whole letter to his Lord this is tranfcribed) even to remember [4.859. how the executioner heldhis bloudy knifebetween his teeth, with thebloudy muflier in his hand, andhis arms all in gore-bloud, up to the elbows, going to the fold, and taking everyof them one at.- ter another by thehand, and fo difpatching them all, nootherwife then doth a butcher kill his calves and fheep. Notwithftànding all which barbarous cruelty the Waldenfes or Proceftants were fo 'fpread, not inFrance only their chief feat, but in Germany alto, Cade of the many years before this, that they could travell from Callen to Chutch,p,i8'. Millain in /nay, and every night lodge with boils of their own profeflion. It is not yet adozen years lincePope Vrban the eighth ( that now fitteth) upon the furrender of Rochel into the French Kings hands, fent his Breve to the King, exafperating him againft the, Proteftants in France, and eagerly urging, yea, enforcing, the deftruftion of all the heretikes, fiabling in the French vine. yard, as his Inurbanity is pleafed toexpreffe it. But wh:at'ball be given unto thee ? Or what 'hall be done unto thee, thou foul tongue ? Sharp arrows ofthe mighty with coals of ?sniper (Pfal. 120. 4, 5.) whichburn vehemently, and finell tweedy. God {hall thortly put into the hearts of the Kings of the earth ( and this King among the rest of the ten) to hate the whore, to eat her Beth, and to burn her with fire, Revel. 17. i6. There are not Reliquias on- nee bnreticoril en Gallica vi. Plea fiabulantiiii proped'em pro - fingatum iri. S. Halts aniw. to Pope Urban hit Inurbani tY, o'c. Babylon alters adbacfiat, cite, many ages paft, fince one of his predeceffours broke open the gates. iridem cafura,fi ofRome, mouldred the wals, difperfed the Citizens, and con- :attire.' demned the Pope toa darkdungeon, ladinghimwith bitter fcoffs ut fc. and curfes. There are not many years aft lince the Realm of a . fart.dial, Y Y P it 8 France was ready, upon the Popes refufall, to reblefie K. Henry 4.. Philip, le Be"' upon converfion to them, to with-draw utterly from the obedi- sadshis. rela- ence of his Sea, and to ere a newPatriarch over all the French. non . f Weil, Church. The then Arch-biChop ofBarges wasready to accept it: ig, and but that the Pope (in fear thereof) did haften his. benedicci url-.,wf. of on, it had been effeeted, tohis utter disgrace and decay. Before Toner. by Ga- hewould doe it, he lathed the King in the perfon of his Embafa br:ei Porvtll,F.. dour, after thetinging of every verte of miferere, until' the whole Pr;deasx Psalmwas Tung out. Sed exorto Evangelij. jiebare, (gaciores, M, rra Eesd.e. nt ffiero,principes, adnutarn hajus Orbil- non (ilvent f bligaca- ara 'o.tn la, faith a great Divine of ours. King Henry the eighth and the French King ( tome half a year before their deaths) were at a. point tohave changed theMatfe in both.theirr Realms into a Corn- reunion.. ` ----
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