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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26189	Hell illuminated, or, Sancy's Roman Catholic confession wherein are such lessons, which if studiously practis'd, 'tis much to be fear'd, the Devil himself will turn Jesuit.; Confession catholique du sieur de Sancy. English	Aubigné, Agrippa d', 1552-1630.	1679 (1679)	Wing A4187; ESTC R16534	72,199	180

haughty King after so many Armies vanquish'd so many flourishing people so many great Princes his Enemies layd at his feet at length for all his Grandeur prostrating himself at the feet of the Pope receives his commands at the hands of his Monsieur Confessor and Cardinal D' Ossat Which two were layd upon their bellies jigg by jowl like Mackarel upon a Gridiron while you might have read half a Mass They say moreover That there was the same play to be play'd over again between his Majesty and Monsieur the Legat but that was to be done gently and under the Rose They who would turn the Holy See quite out of doors instance the boldness of the Court which being a Fugitive as far as Tours yet ventur'd to burn the Bulls of his Holiness by the hand of the common Hangman After that they tell of a second piece of Audacity of the Court united together which was the Banishment of the Jesuits out of France a high contempt of the Romish See But I answer to that That we have no reason to repent of it Witness the good Catholic City of Tournon and in imitation of her the Parliaments of Tholouse and Bourdeaux who both in spight of Fate re-established these stout Champions of the Church Thus you have the proofs of the one and the other side by Consequences and Effects Now for proofs by reason and let no man wonder at this way of proceeding It has been the humor of France for many years to mind the effects and not the reason of things Then I must tell the Reader that a man may sooner venture his Neck and get a hundred thousand Crowns then disengage himself out of the labyrinth of such difficult affairs I shall therefore only say this That I believe the Pope to be more then all the rest of the World together nay then all the Saints and all the Angels I 'll shew ye certain passages which Monsieur Confessor gave me to confirm me in this opinion Bernard of Sens calls him Prince of the Bishops Heir of the Apostles for antiquity of dignity Abel and Noah as a Patriarch Abraham as to his Order Melchisedec as to his Priesthood Aaron as to his Soveraignty Moses in Judgment a Samuel in power a Peter in authority Christ I remember the words of one of the Bulls of Clement the 6th The Pope is to be admir'd The Pope is the astonishment of the World Neither God nor Man but as it were between both The Glossary upon q. Sect. 1. cap. 17. is positive That the Pope is no man I have also read the Distinct and Canon Proposuit de con prae 19. c. Si humanarum Where it is pithily observ'd That the Pope according to the latitude of his Authority has power to give a dispensation against any Law And 5. Transub Epist 5. in Gloss he explains himself farther saying That the Pope can turn injustice into justice Monsieur Confessor never admire at these last passages when I shall tell ye by way of reinforcement that the Pope can make infecta facta that is he can make Something out of Nothing and Nothing of Something By one History alone will I undertake to prove that the Pope can do all this That high and mighty Pope Sixtus Quintus who in his time caus'd above four thousand pair of shoulders to want heads and envy'd the Queen of England for nothing more but that she had the Honour to cut off a Queen's Head who put down the Bawdy houses and consequently took away fourscore thousand Duckets of rent from the Church He that was wont say There 's no trusting in this Religion for it will not last He whom the King call'd Mr. Sixtus who was made Pope that he might bring his Hoggs to a fair Market This Great Personage having unfortunately entred into a Contract with the Devil and having read how Alexander the Sixth for that he had usurp'd the Chair by force was couzen'd in his term of years made his bargain absolutely for seven years but notwithstanding all his wit the Scrivener he had to deal with found a way to get loose from his Articles For after he had raign'd five years very formidably he fell sick the last day of the five years at what time there came to his Bed-side in the sight of his chief Chamberlain a certain grave Abby-Lubber with whom the Pope entred into a very high Contest insomuch that they in the next Room could hear the Pope call the t'other perfidious asking him withal whether he had not promis'd him seven years and whether there were any more then five past To which the Devil's Envoy made answer with a loud voice 'T is true said he I promis'd thee seven years and there are but five elaps'd and yet for all that I am no perfidious Person For do but remember That when you had a desire to put to death the Son of such one for such a Crime when you were inform'd by Justice that Legally he could not be put to death till he was Seventeen years of Age I say then do but remember how you said you would lend him two of yours Now five and two make seven and therefore you must go there 's no remedy By this Story we find the absolute power of the Pope and a confirmation of the fore-mention'd Characters of his Grandeur For by putting the young Lad illegally to death he dispens'd with Law against Law That Justice which should have sav'd the Lad he turn'd into Injustice And the Devil and he made out the third point For the Bargain which was for seven years at first imperfect by the power of the Pope and the Devil became a good Contract as the Devil made it out by the Pope's own Act and Deed. And therefore that buffonly President of Beaulieu when the Pope had excommunicated the Mass which had been said when the King was crown'd together with all that assisted at the Coronation did not much amiss according to his rambling Divinity to say That where there was an Assembly of Ecclesiastics it was such because there was a God among them The Chancellor going about to reply By the body of Sir cry'd the Belswagger you shall grant me that God was present at that same Council The Chancellor not daring to deny the other demands if any Heretic were there who durst venture to bound the puissance of his Holiness Every one shrug'd up his shoulders choosing rather to allow the Excommunication of the God of Heaven then limit the power of a God upon Earth CHAP. II. Of Traditions WE puzzle the Heretics infinitely when we demonstrate to them that the Authority of the Church and Traditions teach us to acknowledge the Scriptures although the Canonical Writings teach us not to acknowledge either Traditions or the Authority of the Church In truth we must hold to the Legends of the Church and not to Canonical Scripture otherwise the Heretics will goad us to Eternity with their Texts out of

the Bible But that I may seem to have done something more I made use of this advice not to reck'n for Tradition-Mongers those ancient Doctors of the six first Ages wherein the Church was not as yet fully nobilitated when her Sumptuous Buildings were not as yet rear'd when the Popes liv'd up and down in Caverns and in short might pass for the first Promoters of her troubles at what time the Church smelt somewhat strong of Huguenotism or rather of the Faggot I say they wrote nothing boldly or over-confidently in those first times therefore I allow for Traditions the Books corrected by the devout Council of Trent For some time after that we have seen at the Court and we have still some Doctors who affecting squeamishness of Conscience play the Demi-Huguenots and Appointers of Religion This ought to be a fair example to Monseiur Benedict and his Compagnons Berenger and Chauveau in their Deaths of Melancholie or Poyson These Hero's would fain persuade the suppression of a Book entitl'd Index Expurgatorius Accordingly it was one Result of the Council of Trent whereby all Printers were commanded to expunge or correct the most boistrous passages wherewith the holy Fathers had besmear'd the belief of the Church with a Catalogue of such Sentences as it was convenient either to stifle or amend to the end the Heretics might make no use of them These Prudent Worldlings esteeming themselves wiser then the Council would needs have this Expurgatorie Index suppres'd to conceal● as they said the shame of the Church which was not to plead for its self upon false Evidences But they have display'd the shame by thinking to hide it For about 11. or 20. years since the Book I mean a copie of it sign'd by the Council fell into the hands of the Family of Antwerp and is now carefully preserv'd among the Rarities of the Elector Palatine And which is worse some Doctors among the rest Baronius who were chosen to make this Reformation are reformed themselves and have confess'd in their printed writings that one of them had for his part alone alter'd above sixty of those passages Thus the design of the Council being discover'd in going about to suppress this Book we might suppress the Authority of the Church and make it questionable whether it be not lawful to change the Expositions of the Doctors and something of the Text of the Ancients Certainly the Affirmative is to be maintain'd and that the Church ought to change both the old and new Testament without bogling any more at the Translation of the Septuagint then at the Translation of fifteen Score if we would have all the main Principles on our side The Primates of Bourges and Lyons would discard out of the number of Traditions the Conformities of St. Francis the Pattern of Wisdom the Garden of disconsolate Souls Marial the Sermons of Menot Manipulus Curatorum Stella Lavacrum Conscientiae Summa Peccatorum dedicated to the Virgin Mary the Golden Legend the Book of Rates and the Life of Christ A Preacher whose name was Christi preach'd at Nantes to the Ladies in these words My dainty quaint Ladies if I find a Bible or a new Testament in any of your hands you shall tast of my Whip but have always between your fingers the good Vita Christi the Vita Christi who made Vespasian and Titus Christians and brought about the design of the Siege of Jerusalem to revenge the Death of Christ and then he condemn'd and vilifi'd all other Historians to establish the truth of that Book But one of those Prelats might sooner have instructed himself to believe in God then us to believe in Him and it is as difficult a thing to make us quit our love of those Books as to make him quit the love of his kind Sister For those books are the only foundation of our belief Neither do they allow the defeat of Monsieur Cayer They say that the Tales of St. Francis were made at Geneva That 's well for the Alcoran of St. Francis However the studies of these abstemious Find-faults are full of those books of the old Impressions 'T were better for them to defend them and say that they were made with a good Intention As when we read of St. Francis living with his Wife of Snow We ought to speak the best and say the good man did it to cool not only his own naturally sinful heat but as a president to his posterity When he preaches to the flesh thereby it is intimated that when his offspring should preach they would require a mute Auditory When he preach'd it up for a Miracle that God would not suffer the flesh to be drown'd in the Deluge thereby he insinuates that the Miracles of the Church of Rome ought to proceed from natural causes as Richeome labours to make out When he calls the Wolves his Brethren and stroaks them with his hand he did it to show that the Franciscans should be rough footed and surprizers of the Innocent sheep He calls the Swallows his Sisters because their Brothers like them all morning prayer time build their nests i' the Country-mens Houses When the Angel told St. Francis as he was at his devotions that Antichrist should be born of his Order that was because it should not be thought an Indignity to make the Franciscan Friers Popes And when he disrob'd himself before the Women and set up his Crucifix what was that but to display the beauties of Nature as not having eaten of the Tree of Knowledg and to lay open if not the understanding yet the nakedness of Father Adam When St. Germain raises a dead Ass wherefore should not he out of his brotherly love and Asinine commiseration being alive give life to Asses who had bin the death of so many at St. Germans de prez and Auxerrois Blase of Anjou who threaten'd his Son with Excommunication if he offer'd to read one line in the Scripture especially the Commandments at length at the intercession of Aubraye a good Catholic gave him leave to read the Maccabees As for Frier Jacopon when I was a Huguenot there was nothing made me laugh like the Legend of that pious Saint and among the rest how he made Confession of his sins to one of his Brethren by signs These things seem absurd but they work this effect among the people as to lead them into a belief that there is no absurdity in the World And therefore it is that St. Paul calls the preaching of these things the folly of preaching From whence Monsieur Cayer draws this notable Syllogism It pleases God to save Believers by the folly of preaching the folly of preaching is the preaching of Legends therefore God is pleased to save believers by preaching of Legends If any person requires the note of Universality and insists that nothing is to be concluded ex puris particularribus he may do well for the School-men However to conclude from pure particulars is rather the Logic