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The popes ware-house, or, The merchandise of the whore of Rome published for the common good by Titus Oates.
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Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.
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OF RELIQVES The Introduction AS the Holy Prophets of old made it their business to shew the vanity and folly of the Apostate Church of the Jews and wherein they had gone away from God to the foolish inventions of idolatrous and superstitious men So our late zealous Reformers laboured to discover the madness and folly of them which did abide still in the Communion of the Popish Religion by shewing wherein the people were cheated by the superstitious pretences feigned miracles and useless reliques with which the seducing Priests Fryers Monks and Antichristian Popes of Rome had deceived the poor sons and daughters of men And herein the faithful Servants of God in the days of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth have laboured and have discovered the fanaticism of the Church of Rome in many instances and shewn what horrid Fanaticks the Popes and their followers have been And because the Papists are to my own knowledg still such Fanaticks and will not be reclaimed I have thought it my duty for the Honour of God and the preventing the good Christian people of this Generation from being any longer deceived by them to revive and recover out of oblivion the old observations and collections of the Servants of Christ which time hath buried in forgetfulness which together with my own Observations I have transcribed and caused to be published that so the madness and folly in which they persist may be known to all men that so as St. Paul saith of the Fanaticks of his time they may proceed no further read 2 Tim. 3.8 9. And I think it but reason if the disease be still the same the means of curing should be continued and of this I am sure that they do still cheat the people with their pretended Miracles and Reliques of pretended Saints and amongst the rest with the Fanatical pretences of Pardons and Indulgences by going to such a Saints Shrine or Sepulcher and of being healed of diseases by the touch of a Relique of a pretended Saint And because you shall see that I do not impose new fictions of my own brain but do follow the wise example of them who to undeceive the people and recover them out of the Fanaticism of the Church of Rome did discover her â—ollies and frauds to all men I have not only followed their methods but transcribed their very Collections which I doubt not but will be as useful in the present recovery of the English Christians as in the the days past And as the Prophets of old used no other means to reduce men but bringing them back to the Law and Testimony shewing them the folly and madness of their forefathers and of them that would or did mislead the people in the days in which they prophesied so ought the Servants of God in this day and I doubt not but the same method will have the same good effect AT Rome in times past as St. Sylvester the Pope writeth in his Chronicle there were One thousand five hundred and five Churches whereof the greater part at this present is destroyed But among those that remain there are Seven principal Churches which as they say * Query Who endued these Churches I am sure not Christ for he bestows spiritual Gifts on persons not Places are endued with greater and more singular priviledges than the rest are yea and that for the grace holiness and dignity which is found in them passing all other Churches * All are but Stone and Timber and dead matter and not capable of any holiness one more than other In those Seven principal Churches there are many yea almost innumerable Indulgences Pardons Priviledges c. and Reliques also as they fain And first I will rehearse the names of all such Reliques as be at Rome not only in those Seven Principal Churches but in the residue also and afterwards rehearse the Indulgences Pardons Priviledges c. that appertain unto the same And because no man shall think that I invent these things of my own head I here truly and faithfully confess that whatsoever in this Treatise is written of Rome is translated out of a Book Printed in Latin at Rome by Mr. Stephen Plank of Patavia in the year of our Lord 1489 the 7th of November the sixth year of Pope Innocent the Eighth And whatsoever is added is declared out of what Books they were taken and the judgment of all these things left to the indifferent Reader But first of all we will go in hand with such Reliques as be in the Churches at Rome and begin with the Seven Principal Churches whereof the Church of Lateran is the first Of the Church of Lateran and of the Reliques contained in the same THE Church of Lateran was dedicated of St. Sylvester the Pope in honour of St. Saviour St. John Baptist and St. John the Evangelist In the Relique-House of this Church there is the Altar of St. John Baptist which he had in the Wilderness It is a likely matter they should have the Altar of St. John Baptist who had no Altar there nor had he use for one A blessed company Why did they not tell us what he offered upon that Altar And besides this the Altar of which they boast is in eight or nine several places Also in a certain Chappel at the end of the said Church Ark. there is the Ark of the Lord which Moses made at the Commandment of God in the Desert after the Children of Israel were delivered out of Egypt They that will believe this story must needs be ignorant and willing to believe lyes seeing the Prophet Esdras 2 book ch 10. v. 22 saith it was spoiled by the Babylonians which any man will believe sooner than the Pope But to put it out of doubt that they do wickedly read Jer. 3.16 There is also the Table whereupon our Lord Jesus Christ did eat his supper with his Disciples when he ordained the Sacrament of his Body and Blood The Table I have seen a great part of this Table so called in Spain and Flanders and it is of excellent virtue if we may believe the holy Fathers of the Society of Jesus Item The Rod of Moses and Aaron which being cast on the ground Rod. became a Serpent wherewith also many and notable Miracles were wrought by the power of God It is strange to hear that they should have that stick or rod of Moses which was 2000 years before Christ in the wilderness of which the Scripture makes no mention after Moses smote the Rock with it Numb 20.11 and one of the Jesuits forgetting that it was said to be at Rome preached this Doctrine that Moses broke it when he smote upon the Rock All these things aforesaid did Vespastanus and Titus bring unto Rome from Jerusalem Padre Antonio de Laudayada on the Feast of St. Alban June 21. 1677. with four Pillars of Brass which are set up and stand about the high Altar of the said Church If we
from such frauds Note Would it not be a dreadful judgment upon this Nation that it should again be given up to such blindness and have such Villains to lead us as these Popish Priests are the Lord Almighty deliver Prince and People from them and make their folly manifest to all men At St. Stephens a mile from Canterbury was the Boot of St. Stephen kept for a precious Relique The Reliques that follow are taken out of an old written Book yet remaining in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury This Book is called Memorale multorum Henrici Prioris And it may appear by the account to be 262 years since it was written and left for a perpetual remembrance of such things as at that time appertained unto the Monastery commonly called Christ's Church being then a place of Monks now through the benesit and liberality of the most noble King Henry the Eighth a most worthy Cathedral Church and Place of Godly and Learned Prebendaries c. First the Body of Thomas Becket Bishop of the said Church which was first buried in the Undercrast and afterward translated into the upper part of the Church on the East side and there lay in a Coffin of pure Gold as a most holy and precious Relique The Body of St. Alphege which was put into a Coffin of Silver and gilt The Body of St. Dunstan in a Coffin of Copper and gilt The Body of St. Odo in a Chest of Wood gilded The Body of St. Wilfrid in a Coffin of Copper gilded The Body of St. Anselme in a Coffin of Wood gilded The Body of St. Elphrick in a Coffin of Wood gilded The Body of St. Blase in a Chest of Wood gilded The Body of St. Andoen in a Coffin of Silver and gilt The Body of St. Salvin in a Coffin of Wood gilded The Bodies of St. Wulgan and St. Swithune The Head of St. Blase The Head of St. Fursey The Head of St. Austrobert these were framed of Cases made of Silver and gilt enamell'd Item two Arms of old St. Simeon wherewith he embraced Christ in the Temple as we read in the Gospel of St. Luke when he said Nune dimittis servum tuum domine c. We have heard before that one of his Arms was given to Carolus Magnus King of France for the good service he did to Mother Holy Church Whether that Arm were one of these two Arms that were at Canterbury or whether the third Arm was begotten since that time or not I know not for in the Art of Multiplying the Papists for lucres sake are very wise and expert Item the Arms of St. Blase St. Bartholomew St. George St. 〈◊〉 St. Richard Bishop of Chichester of St. Roman Gregory the Pope St. Hugh Bishop of Lincoln St. Mildrith the Virgin and of St. Edburg All these as Holy Reliques were covered over with Cases of Silver and gilt enamell'd Item a Piece of Christ's Cross More of the Cross still A Fragment of the Cradle wherein Christ was rocked A Parcel of the Maunger wherein Christ was laid after he was born A Piece of the Sepulchre wherein Christ was buried A Remnant of Moses's Rod which was turned into a Serpent Christ's usual Napkin wherewith he wiped his Face To say no more of the Cross Note which hath afforded a good Cart-load allready let us observe their Foolery about his Cradle and Maunger and Sepulchre which was of Stone all which it seemeth lay dormant till Antichrist did awake to deceive the Nations which was not till 800 years and is it not 〈◊〉 they should tell us who kept all the so bits of 〈◊〉 before we believe the reallity there of In a great Cross of Gold given by Stephen Arch-bishop of Canterbury with a Ruby on the top and two Emeralds on the sides were these Reliques contained In the midst of the Cross there was a piece of the Cross that Christ dyed on More of the Cross yet a Bone of St. Benigne a Tooth of St. Blese a Bone of St. Julian a piece of St. Paul's Staff certain Reliques of St. Quintin St. Mark and Marcellian Item a Bone of the man of God also a Bone of St. Stephen the Pope How were those poor people pulled in pleces by these Popish Villains Note if what they say were true but the things are so gross yea so impossible that we will rather put them down for Lyars than suppose the people were thus born Limb from Limb by the Primitive Professors of the Christian Religion In the Cross of St. Andrea being of silver and gilt set with divers goodly and precious Stones were these two Reliques First a piece of St. Andrent's Cross Secondly one of his Bones In a Cross of Silver and gilt set with divers goodly and precions stones was this one Relique viz. a piece of the Holy Cross In the Cross of S. Peter which was of Silver and gilt was this one Relique that is to say a piece of the Cross that St. Peter dyed on In a Cross of Silver gilt on the one side and not on the other were contained these Reliques following First a piece of the Holy Cross a good gobbet of Christ's Sepulchre certain Bones of St. James of St. Osuha of St. Andrem of St. Paneras of St. Brigide and of St. Faith In a little Cross of Silver and gilt without any precious stones having the Image of a Lamb on the back-side was this one Relique viz. a piece of Christ's Cross What Fictions are here about the Cross and what abundance do we meet with Note is worth noteing In a Glass of Chrystal was this one Relique contained The Thorns of Christ's Crown sure were many Aron's Rod again viz. one of the Thorns of Christ's Crown Item In a great Aumbry or Cupboard were these Reliques found Aaron's Rod a piece of the Coffin that our Lady was buried in the superaltare of St. Elphege Item a Chalice of St. Elphege made of Crystal gilt and enarâ—â—led with a paten of Mother Pearl The people have no other ground to believe these things to be such Note but that the false Priest tells them so In a certain great Chest of Crystal set in silver and gilt and garnished with many goodly precious stones were these two Reliques first our Ladies Hair secondly a piece of hee Vail It 's impossible that a little Hair Note and a piece of her Vail should laft and not be rotten or lost in those 1000 years that passed before the Papists began to make such show In a Coffer of Copper and gilt was the Blood of St. Edmund King and Martyr a piece of his Shirt a remnant of his Breeches and a fragment of his Cushion The ground of their Faith in these things is the bare word of their Priests Note why may not these bits be old Clouts gathered off a Dunghill and the Blood might be the Blood of a sheep as well as of St. Edmund but they are bound to believe