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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60722	Sodom fair: or, The market of the man of sin Containing, a true account of the prices of the Pope's pardons and dispensations; being a treatise very useful and necessary for all young English papists who intend to take Holy Orders, or travel through Italy; and all such as intend to be cheated both out of their souls and money. To which is added, the history of adultery, as it is now at Rome by law established; with the life of Clement the Sixth, and blasphamous bull which he published for the year of jubele, 1350.		1688 (1688)	Wing S4417AD; ESTC R221570	18,300	35

to Lewis the French King 's Son. Anno 1215 he called a Councel at Lateran where after he had Excommunicated and Deposed the Emperor for suing for some of his own Cities which the Pope had purloyn'd to the Holy Chair he Condemned one Almericus a Learned Man for an Heretick and commanded his Bones to be burn'd with the rest of his Sect at Paris because as saith Dominicus Soto he had Preached against Images And thus saith one Pope Innocent was Iudg both of the quick and the dead contrary to Rom. 7. 12. he wrested out Auricular Confession and deprived the Laity of the Communion-Cup He commanded the Quarrels of Princes to be brought before him and by him to be decided He Commanded that the Communion-Cake should be kept in a Box in the Church and that when the Priest should visit the Sick he should go with a burning Taper and a Bell before him He ordained the Canon of the Mass to be reputed equal in Authority with the Holy Scriptures and that the Pope should have power to correct and controul Princes and that none should be Emperor but he that were Crowned by the Vniversal Bishop of Rome Among many other Ambitious and Nonsensical Decrees he Condemned and Anulled the Marriage of the Clargy for ever It is observed that this Innocent Anno 1212. went about to accomplish three great Designs viz. The Deposing of Otho a Voyage to Ierusalem and the holding of a General Councel Also the same Year saith Vlricus Mutius certain Noble-men of Alsatia did condemn this Pope of Impiety because be would not suffer the Clargy to keep their Wives and the Bishops burned an Hundred Clargy-man in one day because they taught That Christians might lawfully eat Flesh and Marry at any time Peter King of Arragon who it seems had been a great sinner was enveigled by the Romish Clargy to give up his Kingdom and all his Dominions to the See of Rome before he could purchase his Salvation from Pope Innocent Yet for all this his Holiness died Anno 1216. A certain Noble-man in England hearing that this Pope had again condemned the Marriage of Priests in Lateran Councel did on his Decree of Adultery make this following Rhime Anno 1216. I. PRisciani regula penitus cass atur Sacerdos per hic et haec olim declinatur Sed per hic solummodo nunc articulatur Cum per nostrum praesulem haec amoveatur II. Ita quidem Presbyter cepit Allegare Peccat capitaliter qui vult separare Quod Deus conjunxer at foeminam amare Tales dignum duximus fures appellare III. O quam Dolor anxius quam tormentum grave Nobis est dimittere quoniam suave O Romane Pontifex Statuisti prave Ne in tanto crimine moriar is cave IV. Non est INNOCENTIUS imò nocens Verè Qui quod facto ducuit verbo vult delere Et quod olim Iuvenis voluit habere Modò vetus Pontifex studet prohibere V. Gignere nos praecipit vetus Testamentum Novum quod non retinet nusquam est inventum Praesul qui contrarium donat Documentum Nullum necessarium his dat Argumentum VI. Dedit enim Dominus maledictionem Viro qui non fecerit Generationem Ergo tibi consulo per hanc rationem Gignere ut habeas benedictionem VII Nonne de militibus milites procedunt Et Reges a regibus qui sibi succedunt Per locum a simili omnes jura laedunt Clericos qui gignere crimen esse credunt VIII Zacharias habuit prolem uxorem Per virum quem genuit adeptus honorem Baptizavit etenim Mundi Salvatorem Pereat qui teneat novum hunc errorem IX Paulus rapitur ad Coelos superiores Vbi multas didicit res Secretores Ad nos tandem rediens instruensque mores Suas inquit habeat quilibet Vxores X. Propter haec alia dogmata Doctorum Reor esse melius magis decorum Quisque suam habeat non proximorum Ne incurrat odium iram dorum XI Proximorum foeminas silias neptes Violare nefas est quare nil deceptes Verè tuam habeas in qua delectes Diem ut sic ultimam tutiùs expectes XII Ecce jam pro Clericis multum allegavi Nec non pro Presbyteris plura comprohavi Pater Noster nunc pro me quoniam peccavi Dicar quisque Presbyter cum sua suavi This is the Pedigree of Adultery this is the Line of Spiritual Fornication as it is now by Law at Rome established in his Holyness's Spiritual Court the monster of the Man of Sin and By-blow of the Son of Perdition that imposeth a necessity of Sinning on the Houshold of Anti-Christ to commit Fornication and Uncleanness without Shame or Limitation Neither have I here affirmed any thing against our Adversaries the Papists but what is undoubtedly true our Enemies themselves the Pope's own Secretarys and best Popish Writers being Witnesses Yea next to their Imaginary Transubstantiation wherein they pretend to make and eat an Immortal Deity this is the great wonder of their Faith for my own part I am struck with Admiration and Astonishment when I think that men endued with reason pretending to do nothing against Gods known Will should call that ordinance unclean which the holy God hath termed clean and honourable and recommended to ALL men and pereist in celibacy when they know it neither lawful nor convenient as Malum qua malum potuit ap●eti For proof of which I shall bring only one Testimony of Stanislaus Ruthenus who of Pope Paul the second speaketh thus When Pope PAUL had seen certain Latine Verses written against him and his Daughter it is reported that he wept and cried out against the hardness of the Law of single Life among his Friends because that he who ought to have been not only the Head of the Church but also of Chast Life should see his Daughter live in the Face and Countenance of the City with great shame and disdain who although she was very Beautiful yet it grieved his Heart that it should be said that he begat her in Whoredom because he knew that there was a Law of God whereby she might have been Born in Wedlock unless the Law of single Life had disanull'd it They say therefore that he took Counsel how he might restore again the Marriage of the Clargy but being prevented by Death he could not attain to his purpose Tell me then you Romanists had it not been better for Pope Iohn the 13th to have married and liv'd honest than to have had it prov'd against him before the Emperor in open Council that he had lain with his own Sisters ravished Virgins and strange women with Rainera and Ann two Widows with their Neices and Stephana his Father's Concubine and that he made the Pallace of Lateran a Stews and open Brothel-house Had it not been more decent and Religious both before God and Man for Pope Innocent the 8th to have taken a Wife then to