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NOtwithſtanding you were pleaſed in Your Manifeſto to tell Us, that You could eaſily diſtinguiſh betwixt an Ambitious, Irregular, SePeter and Your Majeſty, to bury all ſuch Diſtinctions for the Future in the Channel of Obedience and Charity, as well becometh the Eldeſt Son of our Church; and that with Us, Your Majeſty would be pleaſed to caſt an Eye upon the Calamitous Condition of the Catholick Church, which if ſome Soveraign Antidote be not ſpeedily applyed, will undoubtedly ſink into the irreparable Ruins of Heretical Contempt and Deſolation: For the avoiding of which we think it the beſt Expedient that there be forthwith a Right UnderNuncio that we have given particular Order to Our preſent Legate at the Imperial Court, to move theſe things to His Imperial Majeſty, and to urge them with ſuch Arguments as We truſt may prove Effectual, for Concluding a Laſting Peace betwixt You.
Luther from whom as from a ſecond Hydra, all theſe numerous and various Hereſies we now ſee did ſpring? Was it not the time when the Venetians were of great power; and therefore envied of many, and feared as his Imperial Majeſty is now? Did not theſe Hereſies we now ſee owe their Birth and Growth to thoſe unhappy Jars: Which were the Effect of that League made againſt the Venetians in that year 1505. by Maximilian the Emperour; Lewes the 12th King of France, and Pope Julius the 2d? Yes, Yes! Let Us therefore at length learn to be wiſe, and remember that Fable concerning the Bundle of Reeds, which being ſeparate, might eaſily be broke, but being knit together were impregnable: We therefore obteſt you by the Bleſſed Virgin, yea, by bleſſed Peter and his Succeſſors, that your moſt Chriſtian Majeſty would be pleaſed to ſuffer that excellent ReprehenſiPaul gives to his Corinthians, Not to ſtrive one with another, and that before unbeleivers; but rather to take wrong and ſuffer your ſelves to be defrauded; For beleive in theſe Warr-like preparations, if not prevented will end in nothing but deſolation, and cut the Vitals of the Catholick Faith: Yea fill the very mouths of Hereticks with Arguments; and their Arms with Power: may there