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Show '. 1 30 I Ohjer~Vatiolz.t upon a Libel], pub/ifhed, In An11o 1 59~· Prieflr who he knew would reveal nothing, that was uttered in (;onf1fion.' So Inn~cent, was this Prin:ely, . Prieftly, F1:ntft .. o1t which this Man t~keth, to be, but a mtlltter of Conference; and thinketh it Reafon, it fhould have free Exer(lfe, throughout the Land. 4· Of the Difiurhance,. ef the ~iet, ofChriftendom; And, to what Caufes, It may be JuJUy ~tffigned. [ T isindeedaQuefl:ion, (whichthofe, that lookintoMatte~s of st.f-te, do well know, to.fall out very often; though thts Libeller, feemeth to be more tgnorant thereof; ) whether th~ Ambition of the more Mighty SJate>. or the ]ealouje, _of the ~1/e Jl1igbty state, be to be charged, Wl~h Breach of Amtty. Hereof, as there be many Fxa1f1pler, fo therets one, fo proper, unto t~e prcfent Jl;Jatter ; As though it were., many years fince, yet Jt feemeth, to be a Parable, of thefe Ttmes; and_ namely, of the Proceedings,.of spai11, and E.ngland. The states, Then, which anf wered, to thefe two, Now, were MacedotJ and Athens. Confider therefore the Refemblance, between the t~o Philip}, of lltfacedon, and spain • . He o.f Macedon, afpired, to the 111onarchy, of Greece, as. He of spam, doth,of Europe : But more apparently t_hen the Ftrfl:; Becaufe,that Defigo, was difcovered in his Father, Charles the fifth, and foleft: htm by Defcen t : whereas P hi)fp of Macedon, was th~ firfr~of t?e Kings, of that Nation, which fi~ed, fo great Concetts, 111 hts Bre.alt. The Courfe, which this. King, of Macedon, held, was not, fo much, by great .Armies~ and Invajion1; (~hough t~efe wante~ not when the Cafe requu~d;) But by PralJifo; By fo~mg,ofFatitonr,' in st,rtet, and by obliging, fu~dry p~rticula: perfons, of Great• nejje. The state,of oppoj#io!f, agatnfr ~ts Ambtttous procedmgs, was onely the state of Athens, as now 1s, tlre State of Engl~nd, a-1 gainfr sp~tin. For Lacedemon and ·Thebes, were both low? as France is now; Andlthe refr, of the States of Greece, were, tn Power, amd Territories, far inferiour. The People ()f Athen.r,. were·ex cecdingly, atfeete~ to Peace; And wear~ of Ex pence. BtH the Point which I cluefiy make the Companfon was, that of the oratou~s which wefe, as counfeUom-s, to a rop11/ar State; Such as · were fi1~rpeft fighted, and looked defpe~, intc;> the l'rojefJs, ~nd and jpreading, of the Macedonians, ( doubtmg frrll,. that the Fue, after it licked up, the Neighbo11r Sttttes, and made 1t felf Opportunity to ·paffe, would at laft, take hold, of the DominionJ., oF .Atbens, with fo great .Advantages, as they fhould notbeabl~to I remedy it;) were ever charged, both by the Declaration~)ofthe ' King of Macedon, and b~ the Imputation, of fuc11' Athenzafu, as 1 were ObforvationJ upon a Libell,publifoed, In Anno, 159;;, were corrupted, to be of his Faction, as the ICindlers 0 f '1 roltbles and Diflurbers, of rhe Peace) and Lettgnes: But as that Party ' · f. M' h r . . ' >was, I~ At 'JensJ too tg ty:l 10 as 1t dtfcountenanced, the true corm- Jels, oft~e Orato1trs; And fo bred, the Ruine, of that State · And ~ccomphfhedJ the Ends, of that rhilip: So, it is to be hoped) that In a Monarch.!, where t~ere are, commonly, better Intelligences, and Refolutwns, then 1n a pop1tlar State,tho(e Pl.?ts,as th(:y are detected already, So they will be rdlited s and made Frufhate. ~ut) to foJ~ow the Libeller, ~n his own Courje, the Sum, of that:> which he deltvereth, co?cernmg the Imp1ttation; As well, of the Interr~pt10n, of the A_nnty, between the Crowns, of En. .~. ! and, and ofspatn; As the Di{turbance, of the general! Peace, of Chriflendu~ e; Unto ~he Englifb Proceeding!, and not, to the AmbitiiJtH .Appetzter ofSptnn, may be reduced tnto Three Points. I. Tou~hing .the Proceeding,ofSprlin, and Engl«nd>towards theu NeJ(Ihbour States. , 2. Touchmg ~be Proceeding, ofSpai11=> and Engla1td}etwcen themfelvu. 3· To_uching the Arti:-lu, and Conditions, which it pleafeth htm, a~ tt were) 1n th~behalf of Engl.md, to Pen, and propofe, for the treating, and Concludmg, of an Vni-verfall P eacc. · In the Firfi, he difcqvere.th, how the Ki1zg of Spain never off~red Molefl:ation; Neither, unto the St11t~J of Ita!J, upon whtch he confineth, by Naples, and JJJillaille; Neither unto the States of Germany, unto~hom he confineth, by a pa~t {)f Bur,~ gundy, aod the Low-Countnes; Nor unto Portugall tiH it was devolved~ t~ him, iN. Title, upon wh_ich be confin~th: by spain: But, con~ranwtfe, as one, that had, tn precious regard the Peace of Chrifi'endom, he defigned, from the beginning, to tu~·n his whole F?rcr.s, upon th~ T1trl{. 0~1ely, he coufdieth, that agreeable to hts Devotto", w~tch apprehended, a~ well the purging of cbri-ftendom, from Herdies) as th.e Enlargmg thereof, upon theln_ ftdels; He was ever ready,togtveSuccours!Junto the French Kings againfi: the Huguonotts , efpecially being their own Subjects~ Whereas, on the other fide, ~ngl..m.d, (as .he affirmeth,) hath not only fowed, Tro1tbles, and Dtflentwns tn Frana and Scotland · (The one, their Neighh01tr, upon the Co;tinetzt; The other clivi~ ded', ondy, by the Narrorv Sera;) But alfo hath actually in~aded both King domes. For, as for the Matters', of the Low. COHlttries they belong to the Dealin_g~, wh!ch have paffed by spai11. ' In Anfwer whereo~ tt ts worthy the ConGderation how it plea fed God, in th2-t Kingj to crofs, one Paffion, by anoth;r; And namely, that Paffion., which ~ought. ~ave proved dangerous, unto all Europe (wh1ch was hts Ambttlon,) by another which was only hurtfull to him(elf, and his own; Which w2s 'Wrath and Indignation._, towards his sub jells~ the Netherlandr. For afte; that, he was fetled in his Kingdom, and freed fi·om fome Fear ofi S 2 the l~l |
