This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...suppress them. And far be it from me to think that many even of those that hold no communion with us in the Church should give other nations the cause to say that in England are the false men that take up God's weapon against him and their own weapons against themselves, in the favor of a foreign ambition, that makes ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...suppress them. And far be it from me to think that many even of those that hold no communion with us in the Church should give other nations the cause to say that in England are the false men that take up God's weapon against him and their own weapons against themselves, in the favor of a foreign ambition, that makes the pretense of religion but a port-hole to lay his artillery out at, or his scaling-ladder to assault by. Now to the second point touching the wealth of the kingdom, if I did call the Council of Spain itself to give judgment in the cause, I should need no better sentence to condemn their opinions that think the King of. Gteat Britain poor. Their master knows well enough he shall find it otherwise whensoever he shall undertake to attempt us, or we them. Now for Spain, his Majesty there, though accounted the greatest monarch of Christendom, yet if his estate be inquired through, his root will be found a great deal too narrow for his tops. His dominions are so far in distance asunder, as they cannot give relief time enough one to another upon an alarum; which is the reason he is more powerful to assault than to defend; and therefore are compelled to have continual garrisons of that charge which he is unable to maintain. He hath more to do with shipping than any other prince, yet hath few seamen at his devotion, but by extreme charge; and those of the worst sort. His poverty heretofore hath appeared in the mutinies of the Low Countries' armies for want of pay; which was a great cause of his ill success there. And I cannot see how his estate should be much better now than it was, for though it be true that his charge is somewhat less, yet it is true that his subsidies in Spain are diminished, as well in respect of insupportableness as indisposition...
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