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Show An Embaffage to the Emperour, &e return every fifth year, butnot any liberty of Trade ;5 butth Emperour hath alteredthe fifthto the eighth year, whichis equivalent with a forbid to return again. The day before Pu blithing the Emp rours Decree (whereof I here fend your Facher-hood a Copy)Father Adam t ld me he had f;poken wit the Emperou : Thus far Father Balion Your Lordfhips may obferve how much our Lord God d th favour and affif true Catholick Chriftians ; for the Tartars and Chinefes are highl offended wic the Hollanders, and account them Barbarians, for refufin the Ceremonies an Reverence of the Court : and the Hollsnders (withall the ufeowites) are equall diftalted that they could not be admitted to the Empcrour Prefence withou them ; and juft is it that Hereticks and Schifmaticks fho ld depart with hatre and difgaft, that by their ill example they mighe not ive fcandal to the ne Chriftianity here planted, nor caufe the Religion of Europe tob ill fpoken of Wherefore moft Noble Captain and the reft of the Governours of the Hol City , be your Lordfhips of good courage, and hope ft ongly in the Bowels o the Mercy of God, that as he hath fuffered his City (mo t faithful to his Divin Majefty) of late' years to undergo fo many Tribulations he hath done it fo direction only, not for defiru@ion. Doth Gold melte in the Furnace, com out wafted and confumed ? no, but more Pure, Bright,: Preci us. Can God forget the Piety of fuch a City, which maintains fo many Relig ous of all forts an Sexes, and where fo many Mafles and Oblations are dail the Refuge and San&uary of Religion, but in thi City, which is Glorioufl called after the name of God? Can God forget his Promile? he ath promife Tribulations, and an hundred-fold fos the fuffering of hi Samnts, and an hundre will he pay |