. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . oifade to King AUfhonfus the Eleventh. Urban the Fifth , a third £art ofthe Benefices of Cafiile to Peter the Cruel. Sixtus the»Fourth , confented to have the Clergy contribute atone time an hundred thoufand l)ucates for the War ofGranada ; which favour feveral other Popes continn-1ed» Julius the Second, granted Emanuel, King of PorÁtugal, the third Part of the Revenue which belongd to]the Church-Building, and the Tythes of all other EcJclefiaftical Incomes. Thefe Subildies ought not to bedipent but in Neceffities, and for the Pubiick
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . oifade to King AUfhonfus the Eleventh. Urban the Fifth , a third £art ofthe Benefices of Cafiile to Peter the Cruel. Sixtus the»Fourth , confented to have the Clergy contribute atone time an hundred thoufand l)ucates for the War ofGranada ; which favour feveral other Popes continn-1ed» Julius the Second, granted Emanuel, King of PorÁtugal, the third Part of the Revenue which belongd to]the Church-Building, and the Tythes of all other EcJclefiaftical Incomes. Thefe Subildies ought not to bedipent but in Neceffities, and for the Pubiick Ufes, toJwhich they were defign d This Queen Jfabella fo reli-gioufly obfervd, That feeing Ninety Millions raisd byjthe Croifade, jhe immediately commanded they ihouldlbe employd to the very Ufes prefcribed by the ApoJftolick Bulls. Thofe Favours Will ihine more, and pro-duce better Frujt, when fo expended. But Neceffitiesjand Danger ufually confound all thjngs, and eafily jSyreft the Popes meaning to what was not intended. EM. VoU. *** EMBLEM XXVÍ.. j T was an impious Opinion, that of thofe who impa--,■*■ dently afferted the Heathens to have had more Cou-rage than the Chriftians ; upon this ground, that ftrcngthned their Minds,and renderd themmore fierce and manly by the difmal fight of fo manybloody Vi&ims, as they offerd to the Gods in their Sa-crifices ; and held them only to be Men of Courageand Magnanimity, who got the better of other Nationsrather by force than reafon: Accufing on the contrarythe Inftitution of our Religion for recommending Hu-mility and Meeknels ¡ Virtue is good for nothing butto make Men mean fpirited. What an impious andunreaibnable Opinion this! The fpilling of Blood mayindeed make the Mind more barbarous and cruel, morevaliant it never can* Fortitude and Magnanimity enter not I9Ó The Hope ofViftory comes from not at the Eyes, but are born within the Breaft ,• noraie thoíé che moft generous, who are moft pleas
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