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A40122	The arraignment of popery being a short collection, taken out of the chronicles, and other books, of the state of the church in the primitive times : also, the state of the Papists, and how long it was before the universal pope and mass was set up, and the time of bringing in all their rudiments and traditions, beads and images, purgatory, tythes and inquisitions : also, a relation of their cruelties they acted after the Pope got up, being worse then the heathen and Turk, New Rome having proved like Old : also, what the people of England worshipped before they were Christians : with several other things, which may be profitable for people to read over, where all that fear God may see, read, try, and give judgment by the spirit of truth : to which is added, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church / by G.F. and E.H.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1750A; ESTC R15884	93,976	138

Relict of his Brother made an Act that no more Annal should be paid for Bulls or Pardons to the Pope nor no Appeals be made to him but that all should appeal to the King for pardon Ab●ut this time the whole Clergy of Engla●d was charged by the Kings Council to be in a Praemunire for supporting and maintaining the Popes power and were called to answer in the Kings Bench but before their day of appearance came they in their Convocation concluded an Humble Submission in Writing and offered the King One hundred thousand pounds to pardon them which after some labour the King promised them pardon in which Submission the Clergy called the King Supream Head of the Church Bakers Chron. This Pardon was signed by the Kings hand Mark The King turning and denying the Popes Supremacy the Priests turn and deny their old Head of the Church called Peter's Successor And in the year 1535 the Popes Authority in England was abolished by Parliament and about two years after an Act was made which gave the King all Religious Houses and all their Lands and Goods And then an Oath was ministred to the Clergy which they took That they should renounce the Popes Authority and swear to be true and faithful to the King his Heirs and Successors of life and limb and to live and dye with him against all people and to acknowledg their holding their Bishopricks of the King only beseeching him to make restitution of the temporalities of the said Bishoprick So God me help and aell Saints said they About this time the Bible was first permitted to be read in English and Injunctions were set forth by the Lord Cromwel That the Creed Lords Prayer ten Commandments and Articles of the Christian Faith should be read in English which caused twenty thousand people to rise in arms in Lincolnshire being headed by a Monk and others and they were scarcely appeased but there arose forty thousand in the North where on one side of th●ir Ensigns they had Christ hanging on the Cross and on the other side the Cup and Bread of the Sacrament but they were suppressed In September 1537 by the special motion of the aforesaid Cromw●l all the Images unto which were made any special Pilgrimages and Offerings were taken down and burnt and forthwith by the means of the said Cromwell all the Orders of Fryars and Nunns with their Cloisters and Houses were suppressed and put down After all this and notwithstanding this Reformation Popery had so much power in the hearts both of King and people that one Nicholson alias Lambert being accused for denying the presence in the Sacrament he appealed to the King and the King heard him openly but all would not do neither would the King pardon him and shortly after he was drawn to Smithfi●ld and there burnt and this was done about the thirteenth year of his Reign And in the thirty seventh year of his Reign the Parliament gave him all the Colledges and Chantries And one John Smith was burnt in Smithfield and one Andrew Howet a Taylor for denying the Real presence in the Sacrament And further in the thirteenth year of his Reign was set forth by the Bishops the Book of the six Articles condemning all for Hereticks and to be burnt that should hold 1. That the Body of Christ was not really present in the Sacrament after Consecration 2. That the Sacrament might not truly be administred under one kind 3. That priests entred into holy Orders might ma●ry 4. That vows of Ch●stity entred into upon mature deliberation were not to be kept 5. That private Masses were not to be used 6. That Auricular Confession was not necessary in the Church These Articles and the Penalty annexed to them were called a whip with six strings which penalty was they were to be burned to death and forfeit their Estates real and personal to the King After King Henry the Eighth succeeded Edward the Sixth Son to King Henry the Eighth in whose time new injunctions were set forth for pulling down and removing all Images out of Churches also Homilies wee appointed to be read for peoples instruction and that the Sacrament should be ministred to lay-people in both kinds Also Marriage was allowed to the Clergy Auricular Confession was forbidden and prayer for the dead and in his fifth year the Book of Common prayer was established After King Edward succeeded Queen Mary about whose coming to the Crown there was some combustion to whom first the Suffolk men resorted who being always forward in promoting the proceedings of the Gospel and promised her their aid and to help her so that she would not attempt the alteration of the Religion which her brother King Edward had before established To make the matter short unto this condition she agreed and made promise to them that no alteration should be of Religion being a Papist and setting Popery up the people and priests generally turned that way and all Bishops that had been deprived in the time of Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks and all Beneficed men that were married and would not forsake their opinion and turn were turned out of their Livings and in her time the Mass was again sung in Latin and the Popes authority was by Act of Parliament restored in England and the Mass commanded in all Churches to be used In her second year the Realm was absolved and reconciled to the Church of Rome by Cardinal Pool and the first Fruits and tenths were restored to the Clergy but this was soon revoked the Council finding the necessity of it for the Queens support In her fourth year Monastaries were begun to be re-edified the number of those that dyed for Religion in her time which was but six years was two hundred fourscore and thirteen men and women Now see the Oath which the Clergy took to the Pope They swore to be true to Saint Peter the holy Church of Rome and to the Pope the holy Father and to defend it against all men and to acknowledg the Rules of the holy Fathers Decrees which to my power say they I shall keep and cause to be kept and all Here●icks and Schismaticks to our Holy Father I will persecute to my power So help me God and the holy Evangelists In the year 1559 Queen Mary being dead Queen Elizabeth began to reign and she with the advice of the Parliament soon made an Act for Uniformity of prayer and administration of the S●craments And the title of Supream Head of the Church was confirmed to Queen Elizab●th by the Parliament and they gave first fruits and tenths to her The Supremacy thus confirmed to the Queen the Oath was tendred to the Bishops and others who had been Papists in Queen Maries dayes and as many as refused to take it were deprived of their Livings and of the number of above Nine thousand Priests Bishops Deans Prebends Masters of Colledges Arch-Deacons Abbots who had then been in place in Queen Maries

before him never thought of Johannes Patriarch of Constantinople put forth himself and would needs be called the Universal Bishop of the World But the Bishop of Rome in no case would suffer that but put a stop to it but after the Bishop of Rome could take it to himself CHAP. VI. Concerning the several Reliques and Superstitious Practises in the Church of Rome Who were the first Institutors of them and what and how much of their Idolatry is still upheld by the Protestant Professors in England at this day which was set up since there was a Vniversal Pope IN the Year after Christ Six hundred and two Phocas murthered Mauritius his Master the Emperor and slew two of his Sons and put his Daughters and his Wife to death And then this Phocas this Murderer was crowned Emperor and Boniface the third Bishop of Rome he obtained of this Murderer Phocas to be the Universal Bishop over all the Bishops and so that the Bishop of Rome should be called Pope And here got in the Pope by murder Platina Christ Misseus Hen. Panteleon c. Epist lib. 4. Epist 32 33 34. cap. 76 77. See Becon sol 295. And then the Bishop lost the greatest part of Christendom and all the Churches went together by the ears about him and the Emperor lost the greatest part of his Empire And here you may see the Pope was set up six hundred and 〈◊〉 years after Christ And this Pope in the year 605 first decreed That white Linnen Clothes should be laid on the Altar And further in another Author concerning Phocas which murthered Mauritius his Master who was a Noble and Virtuous M●n he obtained through Treason the Empire he also treacherously slew his Children that none of his should claim the Crown 〈◊〉 him This Murdering Tyrant set up the Bishop of Rome contraa●● 〈◊〉 Ch●ists command who said You are all Brethren And so the Bishop of Rome Boniface the third Lucifer-like exalted in pride above all his fellow Bishops challenged to himself the Supremacy and Authority that he and his Successors after him for ever should be taken for the chief Bishop and Universal Head of the Church throughout all the world And that from that day forward the Church of Rome should be called the Head Church of all the whole World And that the Church of Rome should be in subject on to no other Church but that all other Churches should be in subjection to it For until that time Constantinople Church was counted the highest where the Emperor dwelt and before that time the Church in Jerusalem was called the highest for Constantine was a Christian but in Rome there was Heathen Emperor● a long time after Christ Otho frisin Gen. Chron. lib. 5. cap. 8. Marrian Scot. in Anno 608. Vsperg in Phoca Becon fol. 295. It is before recorded that Joseph of Arimathea first preached the Gospel in England amongst the Britans in the year sixty four and about six hundred and two the Pope sent over to them Augusti●● to spread his Doctrine with his silver Cross his Letany his Procession Images Reliques Canticles and Books of Ceremonies charging the Britans that they did many things contrary to the Custom of the Church of Rome in their preaching Baptism and keeping of Easter c. and that they regarded not mans traditions but the Britans refusing to follow his Commands he threa●●ed them with Warr and to revenge it by death which immediately ensued Read Beda in his Ecclesiastical History of England the second Book and second Chap. Here all people may see that Christianity was planted in 〈◊〉 some hundreds of years before the Popes Rudiments Cand●● 〈…〉 Letany Procession and Images with the rest of his Trumpery 〈◊〉 into England who lyeth in saying that Christianity came fi●st in by them who came in by Murder and the outward Sword and hath held up his outward Tradition by Murder and the outward Sword ever since Chron. Ranulph Chest Bec. fol. 323. In the year 606 Boniface the fourth he instituted the Feast of All-Souls and All-Saints and he got the Temple of Phocas built by Agrippa and consecrated it to the Virgin Mary and all the Martyrs Plat. volat Polydore Bec. fol 355. In the year 645 At Rome where Meletus was present it was ordered that Monasteries should be erected in England in Boniface the fourth's days and this Boniface the fourth instituted the Feast of All-Souls In the year 637 England first divided into Parishes In the year 640 Lent was first set up in England in Pope Severinus's time Carcumbertus King of England commanded the people to keep Lent in England Segeb. in Chron. Pautal In the year 643 Pope Martin the first ordained that a man should not lye with his Wife till the Priest had hallowed or blest his Bed and the same year he ordained Mass to be sung openly with a loud voice and that Churches should be trimmed and dressed on Holy-days Pol. Paulel Bec. fol. 322. In the year 650 Pope Eugenius the first ordained that Monks should be shut up in Cloisters for before that time they did go up and down Euseb Chron. Cantz In the year 603 Pope Sabiniani commanded Lamps should be kept continually burning in the Church he also instituted Bells in the Church and called them Saints Bells Plat. Albert. Crantz de Barns c. He also decreed in the same year That the People should be assembled together to their Serv●ce by ringing of Bells Plat. Durand de Barns Plantal Bec. fol. 322. In the year 636 the University of Cambridg founded or enlarged by Segebert King of the East-Angles So these things were not set up by the Apostles but by the Pope In the year 622 Honorius decreed That none should keep company with excommunicated persons He also devised the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross Plat. Pant. Bec. fol. 355. In the year 622 About this year being fifteen years after the Pope came Mahomet the Turk In the year 635 the first Cross was set up in England by Oswald King of No thumbe●land who fighting against Cadwalda in the same place set up a Cross kneeling and praying there for Victory In the year 653 Pope Vicilianus brought in Organs first into the Church to make the people merry Chron Volat. Plat. c. Eugenius the fourth was the first that appointed B●shops to have Prisons of their own to punish people in In the year 664 a Controversie was in England about the observing of Easter In the year 676 Pope Leo the second devised the Pax and that it should be kissed of the people Plat. festi temp In the year 684 the Election or chusing of Popes without the Emperors approbation was granted by the Emperor Whereby it may be noted that before that time the Emperor had power to chuse the Pope In the year 666 Pope Bennet the second obtained of the Emperor Constantine that the Bishop of Rome for ever after should be taken of all men for Christs true Vicar

1110 Petrus Heremita a French man of the City of Annias first of all devised Beads to say Ladies Psaltery on Chri. Pol. Bec. fol. 334 and not Christ no● the Apestles In the year 1120 Pope Calixtus the second pronounced all such excommunicated at took money either for baptizing or burying In the year 1161 Pope Alexander the third compelled the Emperor to he down and the set his soot upon his neck crying out with a loud voice It is written Vpon the Adder and Cockatrice Ly●n and Dragon thou shalt t●ead Nauclerus Sabel Jac. char Bec. f●l 298 H●ark●n people what he calls the Chriscian Emperor In the year 1170 Pope Honorius the third in his time were set up the White-Fryers and Grey-Fryers with Cloaks and no Shoes Lib. germ Pol. In the year 1161 the same Pope ordained that none should be Saints except they were first canon zed and admitted to be Saints by the Bishop of Rome's bull and from that time the Popes began to make Saints Under the Reign of Pope John the twenty second they made above five thousand Saints as they called them so not Christ Der. 3. tit chap. 46. Relique Pelid Panteleon Becon fol. 357. In the year 1195 Pope Innocent the third decreed that all the Apostles Eves should be fasted on except Philip and Jacob and John and this Pope invented the Pixes and boxes to put the Sacramental bread in Paul volat Ph●i Pol. Pantal. In the year 1195 the same Pope crowned Otho the Emperor and afterwards deposed him again and said It lyes in my power to set up and pluck down Emperors Kings and Princes at my pleasure for all power is given unto me both in Heaven and in Earth Sebast Frank. Chron. teton fasc temp Paulisphrig c. Becon fol. 298. Mark people this is Lucifer in his pride this is not Peter in his Chair Peter used no such language nor authority In the year 1193 the same Pope decreed that the Cardinals should for ever wear red Hats on their heads Joan. Loz Chron. S●el Christ Massaeus In the year 1195 the same Pope ordained in the Council of Lateran that whensoever the Sacrament of the Altar is carried about there should be born before it a Bell ringing with a Light to cause the people to kneel down and worship it Jacobus de Visaco Becon fol. 329. In the year 1204 Guido Aretinus devised first of all prick-song in the Church viz. these six notes ut re my fa so la. Christianus Massaeus Bec. fol. 335. In the year 1214 Pope Honorius the third commanded that the Missal Bread should be heaved and lift up above the Priests head at a certain time and that all the people should fall down and worship it and so not God Extra de Seleb Miss Biel. super Can. Missaeus Lect. 4.9 Dec. 3. chap. 10. In the year 1214 the same Pope commanded that the Sacrament of the Altar should be worshipped and kneeled unto and that it should be born unto the sick in a most reverent sort yea and that with with Candles lighted though at noon-day This was in a time of darkness In the same year Pope Honorius aforesaid decreed that a woman might be separated from her Husband if she did not like him In the year 1215 Pope Innocent the third did first of all forbid that the Lay-people should receive their Communion in both kinds In the same year the same Pope disallowed the Decrees of Pope Julius and Pope Gregory See these counted infallible that cannot erre how they contradicted one another The same Pope Decreed that Fonts should be hallowed and Bells christned and no priests should wear a Beard or long hair In the same year Pope Innocent the third ordained Auricular Confession that all men women and children as they are at age should confess their sins to the priest at least once in the year Paulus phri Maess Polyd. Bec. fol. 332. In the same Pope's time the crossed Fryers Order was set up who wore a black cope and carried a cross in their hands Chron. lib. Germ. In the year 1225 in the same Popes time was the order of the Nunnes of St. Clare invented These things Christ and his Apostles did not decree The same Pope amongst other devices in his time brought in this That Lights should burn in the Church before their God's Body In the year 1220 in the same Popes time the Order of Black-Fryers came up Lib ger Joan Laz. Pol. c. In the year 1225 Grego●y the ninth appointed the Feast of the Nativity of John Baptist to be kept holy and the same year he ordained Salva Regira to be sung in Churches with all Devotion Chron. ger Bec. fol. 355. In the year 1242 Pope Innocent the fourth ordained the Feast of the Nativity of Mary the Virgin with the Octaves thereof Volat Sabel Pant. Bec. fol 355. In he year 1254 Pope Vrban the fourth ordained the Feast of the Sacrament of the Altar with indulgences and pardons and ordered to be kept holy the Thursday after Trinity Sunday and the Feast of Co●pus Christi Christ Mass Joan. Stel pol. Pant. Becon fol. 354. In the year 1242 Pope Innocent the fourth in his time it was agreed in one Council at Lyons what holy-days should be kept holy viz. Sunday should be kept from Saturday at noon to Sunday night and the Feast of the Nativity of Christ of Saint Stephen and St. John the Evangelist and Childermas-day called Innocents and Saint Sylvester and Circumcision and Epiphany with Easter and the whole weeks that go before and after and the Ascention of Christ of Whitsuntide and the two dayes following Saint John Baptist and the twelve Apostles dayes Saint Lawrence the Martyr his day St. Michael called Michaelmas day All-Saints day St Martin All these the Pope set up to be kept holy but not the Apostles One thousand two hundred forty two years after Christ And a Councilat Tollatain decreed the keeping holy the ☞ Feast of the Annuntiation of the Virgin Mary called Lady-day and the Feast of the Nativity of Christ called Christmas Lib. Concil Pollyd Guilielmas Durandus Bec. fol. 356. See you Protestants who were the first setters up of your Holy-days In the year 1252 in Innocent the fourth's time the Bible was divided into Chapters In the year 1250 the Priory for Grey-Fryers founded in Nottingham by King Henry the third In the year 1253 the Prio●y of Austin-Fryers founded by Humphry Earl of Hereford In the year 1254 Pope Al●xander the sourth in his time was the Order of Begging-Fryers confirmed This is cont●ary to the Apostles wh● said Those that did not work should not ●at In the year 1272 Pope Grego●y ordained That at the chusing of a new Pope the Cardinals should be shut up in a house and should neither eat nor drink till they had chosen a new Pope when the old one was dead Christ Mass This was unt the way of Ch●ist and the Apostles in making Ministers And Boniface