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Nevv shreds of the old snare Containing the apparitions of two new female ghosts. The copies of diuers letters of late intercourse concerning Romish affaires. Speciall indulgences purchased at Rome, granted to diuers English gentle-beleeuing Catholiques for their ready money. A catalogue of English nunnes of the late transportations within these two or three yeares. By Iohn Gee, Master of Arts, late of Exon-Colledge in Oxford.
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Gee, John, 1596-1639.
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All-hallowen day take bread and deale for all Christen soules And one good Woman a widdow who had in store but three pecks of flower did make it all into loaues and deale it saying to them that receiued it Remember to pray for the soule of my Mother And one of them praying very earnestly for the soule of this good Womans Mother her Mother appeared vnto her and told her my daughter by her charitie and thou by thy good prayers hast now helped me out of Purgatory Tell my daughter that shee sell her Cow and goe presently to Rome to the Popes Holines for a Pardon for her sinnes and then shee may be eased of such paines as I haue indured which being told to her daughter shee reioyced much and did as shee was bidden and went to Rome and had Indulgence And the Pope by divine revelation knew before shee came of all that had happened to her This Tale is alledged by Father Steuens in his Booke called The Vnity of Gods Church pag. 271. Let me then intreat all honest English Italianated Romanists who are willing to chaffer for this singular exquisite commoditie of Indulgence at the best hand in this next ensuing yeare of Iubilee that they provide them of good store of cash though I heare Pardons will be then very plenty and therefore the lesse dainty The prices they shall find high or low according to the coursenesse or finenesse of their Remission the lightnesse or weightinesse of the crime the abilitie or weaknesse of the purchaser I haue within these few daies seene in the hands of one who esteemeth it as a great raritie an authenticall Booke of the particular Prices and Taxations of all Pardons Faculties and Indulgences grantable by the Popes liberall Holines which Booke was Printed aboue an hundred yeares agoe in Paris bearing the name of Taxa Cameâ—…e Apostolicae which as I guesse is like to be published in English ere long against the opening of the great Market for the benefit of the Christian world And sure a great benefit it is and speciall conveniency to our Romanists who are willing to trade to know before hand the prices of the Market by the Booke of the generall Bailiffe or Clearke of the Market It is defended by some Writers Deseusio Parisien Curiâ—… pro libertate Eccl. Gall. Ludouic 11. Oblato arus 77. that the common Indulgences onely with the Letters of pardon and the Reseruationes pectorales mentales regressus generales speciales accessus with other such trifles more are worth to the Pope in one onely Kingdome aboue two hundred thousand Crownes a yeare which through all Christendome would amount to aboue tenne millions of Crownes which is a prettie moderate reckoning or summe I haue beene informed by some of the Priests in London that some great persons of our Kingdome haue sent the Pope two or three hundred pounds a piece for Pardons The vse of some of which Indulgences in the manner of their proceedings is very remarkable For they are the Mother or Midwife of many wicked practises for the advantage of their Church as being the very bellowes which blow the fire of Treason against the persons and states of Princes This ware bewitcheth not onely private men but great Kings For her Merchants are the great men of the earth Apoc. 18. 3. Therefore infinite store of this Babylonian trumpery was transported vnto the poore Indians for the pretended benefit of their soules but for the intended benefit of a Princes worldly estate The Ministration of the Popes pardons is with the ingredients of Parchment Waxe and encaunted Words all which by purging the entrailes of their purses haue a wonderfull operation in them The Treasury of Indulgences is shut vp in a Chest his Holines having the Keyes wherein is heaped vp all the superfluous meritorious good workes of St Francis S â— Benedict St Dominick S â— Thomas a Becket St Boniface St Alphonse and other holy Fathers Petrus Asores in Catholica assertione de lege whose merits being so overflowing plentifull over and beside what hath answered for their owne sinnes Vid. Extrauag Clement 6. the Pope dispenseth and distributeth the remainder to every person according to his Holines discretion which is much guided by weight and measure of that which is brought to purchase a good Market Thesaurum Ecclesiae vocant Christi sanctorum Apostolorum Martyrumque merita Caluin Instit lib. 3 cap. 5. The bottome of this Chest is so vnplummetable that it can never be sounded emptied nor diminished If it were possible that all the people of the world did goe to Rome in one yeare of Iubilee that every one might receiue full Indulgence and Pardon yet should the same Chest be no more emptied thereby then the Ocean Sea should be with taking out of it one spoonfull of water or St Goddards mountaines be diminished by taking from them one handfull of sand Tho. Becon de Reliqu Eccl. Rom. sol 186. Lastly as for the extent of these Indulgences Some of them are for an hundred thousand yeares so liberall is the holy Father Pope Innocent the 8. granted some for fifty thousand yeares as but an ordinary kindnesse Pope Clement the 7. for fortie thousand Pope Clement the 5. for thirtiâ— thousand yeares Plenariae Indulgentiae a Papâ CentoruÌ„ annorum a Cardinalibus centum dieruÌ„ ab Episcopis quadraginta Some are granted to the liuing some to the dead Some purchase pardons as they doe Lands not onely for themselues but their heires Some haue their whole sinnes remitted some but part Some haue power granted for the freeing of one soule out of Purgatory by the Popes Indulgence others haue libertie to free many Some of their dispensations are the dissipations of divine and humane right some are the disvniting of naturall and morall bands Some are to tye Princes in vnlawfull marriage some to vntie many Subiects from lawfull obedience All of them are of great presumption against the Lawes of God and Nature Caluin Institut lib. 3. cap. 5. Sunt sanguinis Christi prophanatio Satanaeque ludibrium quo Christianum populum a Dei gratia â vita quae est in Christo abducant a vera salutis via avertant SPECIALL INDVLGENCES PVRCHASED AT Rome granted to diverse English Gentle beleeving Roman Catholickes for their money MY chiefe intent in propounding a recitall of particular Indulgences given to diverse particular men of our Nation is not God is my witnes to cast imputation of folly vpon Gentlemen of worthy and respected Families in our Nation but to imply and signifie in regard of the publicke by this tast and essay what great summes of money are exhausted and gotten out of this Kingdome to inrich Rome vpon pretence of these and other such like Trumperies They make a Mart of the Nations Esa 23. 3. The Papall pardons indeed which like Summer-swallowes so busily fly abroad what are they els then very Nets for
Bond and whom else of my acquaintance you meet withall and let them know what is become of me Tell Master Midleton that he looke well to my Bookes and if I never see him againe they are his I desire him to write to me so soone as he can Let me heare how the Catholicke Cause doth thriue of late I heare all is as we would haue it Not so Sir for you would haue all turnd topsie turuye Againe your new Hierarchy is not yet established I cannot write what I would at this time but deferre it till I heare of another Messenger And so desiring you to pray for me I rest Your loving Brother P. Rowe Lisle Aprill 8. 1623. The Hollanders haue had a late overthrow and for other Newes we haue none The Comment THose newes now which the Romanists the Authors of the aforesaid Letters intended should be Occulté dimissa privately conveyed to their true-hearted friends in England are by a wrong Messenger Oculis auribus subiecta infidelibus miscarried farre contrary to their hopes and expectation It is easily collected from their said Letters of what spirit and temper they are what marke they shoot at I desire the Reader to make construction of some things himselfe I haue by the meanes of good friends come to the sight of other Letters of theirs all which savour of nothing but rancour and malice against vs Protestants But alas what are all their stout Invectiues but so many gusts of wind to drowne in disgrace the ship of Christ What are all their threats but raging waues that batter her What are their peevish and malicious slanders the fond absurdities they foist vpon vs but horrible monsters What all their brags and boasts but Syrens songs Such waues against Gods Church haue never wanted in any age who by battering her haue broken themselues yet will not the latter learne of the former nor feare their ends whose courses they follow but with a new rage of fury run to their ruine A PROCLAMATION Concerning the Sale of Jndulgences at the next Staple Faire at Rome now neere at hand Anno Domini 1625. Called the great yeare of Iubilee IT is not vnknowne to the learneder sort especially of those who liue within the Circle of the Christian Papalizing world that this present yeare of Grace 1624. is the Eeue or Vigill of the bâ—…th iolly yeare of Iubilee beginning In die Natalis Domini prox when the grand Mart of Pardons Indulgences is to be set vp and open shop thereof to be kept in the Pope-holy merry old Citie of Rome In the Eeue of this great Staple Faire it behooveth we who haue devoted my selfe in all service to his Holines to exhort and advise all tender-hearted Romanists to provide themselues with two things especially Sinnes inough and Gold inough Sinnes inough else there will be no wounds to cure Gold inough else there will be no cure for the wounds The weakenes and corruptioÌ„ of our nature will be get the first we need no spurre to gallop downe that Hill And the corruptions of the Court of Rome will attract the other Deposcuntur opes tanquam medicina malorum Exportantur opes irritamenta malorum In this great Faire I must tell you wee haue nothing but honest and faire dealing our trading being by way of compensation in equall ballance Sinne you know is so heavie a thing that it presseth a man downe into Hell Nothing therefore is able to lift a man vp from the downefall but that which it selfe is most heavie Philosophy and Experience tell vs that Auro nihil grauius no created matter in the world weighes heavier then gold Nothing therefore hath our hallowing holy Father the Pope thought fitter to put into his scales to lift men out of Purgatory and mount them on high than massie silver and gold Whereof if thou come to our Stations at Rome see thou bring thy burthen and weight Auro enim nihil r arius nil charius nil suauius nil gratius Nothing at his Holines Market may be sold without gold But bring that and then as for Dispensations Absolutions Appellations Faculties Inuestitures and such Interests as the Church of Rome doth affoord thou shalt want none So say the Negotiators of that Apostolicall Sea Oh braue and beautifull Rome Apoc. 18. The Merchants are waxen rich with the aboundance of thy pleasures Vnde haberi possit Indulgentiarum communicatio nisi ab hac sede saith Bellarmine the great Bailif and Clerke of this Market Who can forgiue sinnes but the Pope onely His Pardons are that traffique whereby the Church of Rome whereof his Holines is the Head keepeth her intimate correspondency and participation with all her members tying thereby their consciences by a secret and strong obligation vnto the Pontificall Seate Doth any one thinke that they are ordinary trinkets and trifles which are set to sale in the Popes Market In forâ— Papali Commodities vendible at Sturbridge or Bartholmew Faire Fye younster you are much deceived Famous Babylon the seauen hild Citie Papall Rome Shee shall haue many that shall be Merchants vnto her of the soules of men Apoc 18. 13. Her Indulgences are a relaxation of temporall paines inflicted vpon soules in Purgatory And is it a small matter I pray you to escape the hot fiery flagrant torrid sulphurous smoake and flames of Purgatory Oh no It is written in the Decrees Capit. quid in aliud distinct â—5 There is no earthly paine or Martyrdome to be compared to the paines of Purgatory And the holy man that Angelicall Doctor Thomas of Aquine saith That the paine of the fire of hell and the fire of Purgatory is all one and that they differ nothing at all but that the one is but temporall and the other eternall Virgill set a partition of Iron and other mettall betwixt those two fires Aeneiad lib. 6. Yet some men be of opinion that the partition was but a pale made of Wainscot which because it was of wood was long agone burnt away Hell and Purgatory both but one Kitchen so that now Hell and Purgatory enter both in at one hole and are both but one fire There was a soule which had lyen thirtie yeares in Purgatory saith the Booke called Sermones discipuli de Tempore Sermones discipuli de tempore de sanctis serm 160. and at last there came an Angell who did bid the soule chuse whether it would tarry yet one short Winters day in Purgatory or that it would returne into the world againe and there doe a marveilous hard penance to wit for one long hundred yeares space should goe barefoot and tread still vpon sharpe iron nailes eate nothing else but browne bread and drinke bitter gall mingled with vinegar and weare a cloth of Camels haire next the skinne and a stone vnder the head in place of a pillow This soule did chuse much rather to doe all that same hard penance in earth than