doe yeeld sufficient testimonie to make vs to beleeue that prophetie to belong to them, as being therein so figured as they are.Now presupposing the premises to be true, say they, we would weeteWhether con∣federaties with the Turkes be law∣full.how a Christian Prince can confederate or make any stedfast league with such barbarous nations as are as it were marked and appoynted to be the scourges to Christians? For as we thinke, they can hardly be vsed without offence to pietie. In olde tyme God expressely forbad the Iewes to enter amitie with the Canaanites or Amorites, people whom for their abominable vice he did abhorre. Neither were the compa∣rison amisse in setting the Turkes downe for the one, and our selues for the other: whereof it must of necessitie followe, that the same defence ought to stand vs in stead of a lawe to restraine vs, least we pollute our selues in their abominations. Then did I tell them, that I much meruailed how so many Cardinalles, Bishoppes and Doctors endued with great learning, of whome France had no want, could brooke this league, or made no meanes to breake it. Hereto their aunswer was: that many tymes Princes made the gownes to yeeld to the sword, and the counsaile of the Clergie to the necessitie of the state. And so wee brake off our conference: which hauing since well considered, hath forced me to say: That these barbarous peo∣ple are the same against whome the Pope ought to turne his ex∣communications, and all Christian Potentates their wrath and weapons, rather then against them selues or their Subiects, to whome very rashly they impute Heresie, when they should haue in much greater abomination all Turkish infidelitie. Against those should they drawe their Swordes, not to conuert them (for the Gospell taketh no roote in mens mindes, but by preaching and holinesse of life) but to represse their crueltie and tyrannie: and these warres would bee as necessarie as our domesticall bee vnnecessarie.But there are some, who seeing the Turkes prosperitie to con∣tinue so long, and to encrease rather then deminish, are as it were Answer to an obiection grounded vp∣on the consi∣deration of the Turkes pro∣speritie. confounded in themselues, and cannot thinke their dominion to bée so detestable, considering that God powreth not his wrath vpon them, but rather his fauour. I doubt not but such as want instruc∣tion in Gods prouidence, are sometimes, when they enter into dis∣course hereof, euen shaken: but they ought to bee assured that this power can haue no perpetual continuance, which hath her bounds, as had the Sarazēs that is ended, together with their name, so that these many yeeres we haue heard no newes thereof.0