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A gagge for the Pope, and the Iesuits: or The arraignement, and execution of Antichrist Shevving plainely, that Antichrist shall be discouered, and punished in this vvorld: to the amasement of all obstinate papists.
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carry it with zeale deuotion and austeritie of penance Bellarmine Thomas Aquinas and others proue the Popish Monarchy by the Gentiles gouernment the seauen Sacraments by Philosophicall arguments and that one body may be in many places at once by sophisticate principles Is not the worship of Saints and Images a meere tricke of the Gentiles and are not all the deâ—ises of adoration sprung from hellish â—dolatrie The temple of Romulus and Rhemus is now the Church of Saint Cosmas and Damianus the temple of Faunus is conuerted into the Church of S. Steuen The temple of Iuno Cupra into the Chappel of our Lady of Loretto where the altar stood dedicated to Apollo is now one erected to Saint Iohn the Image of Brasse of Iupiter is now Saint Peters as their antiquaries iustifie There was one supreme God among the Gentiles and many inferiors vnder him so the Papists acknowledge one God in tearmes but haue an hundred inferiors for euery action and disease the burning of incense commeth from the Gentiles and they assite Virgils testimony with other prets the washing of hands their skippings and turnings their sacrifices with fire and water their tunickes Albes and other pompous ceremonies their Purgatory and beliefe of good and bad Genius their worship of trees stones and fountaines with infinite other absurdities abominations are all the deuises of Gentils and customes of Pagans which if it be so Answere a Gods name you that must answer before the iudgement throne of the Lambe how comes this about if the Papacy shall not come to ruine and Rome it selfe at last be destroyed after Antichrist is discouered and the man of sinne consumed with the breath of Gods nostrills I must beginne with a smile For you cannot choose Popery keepeth Christians in ignorance but laugh when you heare of the Colliers faith to beleeue as the Church beleeues though it was not knowne what that beliefe was the obscuring of the Scriptures the inhibition of their reading their praying in an vnknowne tongue their not suffering men to dispute their preaching of stories and tales without one word of edifing their suppressing of religious bookes and infinit other palpable enormities what are they any other but instrumentes of Sathan to keepe vs in securitie or Synens hands to rocke the Cradle of our frailtie till wee fall a sleepe yea snort againe in the Cimerian caue of darkenes ignorance and superstition Oh harken for Gods sake what Historiographers write of ignorance dulnes and stupidity in spirituall affaires Alphonsus a Castro lib. 1. de haeresi sayth that diuers Popes were vtterly vnlearned Lazierdus Author Plaâ—â—â— speaking of Gregory 6. reciteth that he caused another to be consecrated with him for saying Masse because hee himselfe scarce knew a letter but this matters not for Ielium approues that the Pope cannot be deposed for want of learning Pope Zachary condemned Virgilius a Bishop of Germany as an heretike for saying there were Antipodes Paul the second was so vnlearned that he determined them to bee Heretikes that named the word Academy Iohn Pecham in the Prouinciall constitution supposeth it â—uffâ—cient for Priests either by themselues or substitutes once a yeere to tractate or at the most euery quarter of the ten Commandements of the law the twelue Articles the two commandements of the Gospell the seuen workes of mercy the seuen deadly sins the seuen vertues and the seuen sacraments without curiositie or putting it home to edifying vses of the conscience Durandus teacheth that the two points of a Bishops Miter signifies the old and new Testament but Lewis marcilius an Augustine Frier said that the stropps of the Miter which the Bishop hangs at his backe did foreshew that they neither vnderstood old nor new Testament Aluarus Pelagius complaines that the Bishops of Spaine committed thousands of soules to yong nouices that were fitter to play with Apples and Peares shall I name the Sermons of the Frier Menot Maillard Bromyard and their fellowes they were so full of ridiculous fables that the people went to Church to sport themselues in the hearing The Germans of late complained to Adrian 6. that Bishops aduanced vnlearned ideots vnfit vilde and ridiculous It is well known that many Priests and Friers could not say Masse nor distinguish of dayes but by the great letters and all your Schoolemen and Inquisitors generally fill their studies with bookes of Rhetorike stories legends Decretalls Canons Ciuell law and such trash For is not stubble trash compared to the comeâ— but neither Bible nor expositors of Scriptures scarce a father or diuine author shall bee found amongst them for in truth how euer now a daies they swell with the tumor and accent of great Schollership and learning they are still for the most part illiterate and ignorant and that reputation they haue proceedeth either from their auditors and disciples want of knowledge or their Glosses and tedious Cataloging of vncertaine authors who handle curious questions and at the best school-diuinitie Nouation cannot stand without Christian pollicie nor Popery repugnant to the lawes of nature and nations pollicie bee maintained without obseruation and performance of othes promises compacts leagues and treaties of trade and commerce yet you shall see what either the scorne of Papist negligence presumption equinocation or one tricke or other hath done Formosus being deposed for-swore his Bishopricke yet regarded not his oath but resumed the same In the life of Henry 4. Emperour Gregory 7. was inuested Pope contrarie to his oath Paschall the second solemnly swore to the Emperour being his prisoner but at least subiect to his danger that hee would keepe and religiously obserue the Articles set downe betweene them bur hee proued so false repugnant that after he had escaped he rebelled and excommunicated the Emperour Charles the French Theodoriâ—k King chaâ—geth Gregory 12. and Benedicke 13. of violation of their faith and Omâ—phrius alleadgeth against Alexander 6. that hee was a delinquent in more then punicke perfidiousnes Guicciardine speaking of Climent 7. sayth plainely â—ra di poca sâ—de Iulius 2. Leo 10. and diuers others endeuored to proue that the Pope was not bound by any oath but he might both infring the same and incite others to dishonorable practises Henry the 4. as Helmoldus complaines accuseth the Pope for the rebellion of his subiects and this by his instigation the tumults of Germany were raised and the people set all in combustion vpon the Popes warrant and pardon In the Counsell of Constance the Pope and his complices perswaded the Emperour to violate the safe conduct of Iohn Husse whereupon that damnable position of fides non est consernanda cum hereticis was ratified and concluded which if it bee so what trust can bee secured of any contract or treatie but still vpon aduantage the aduersary will breake out and imitate the Panther who sheweth not her tallents till the beasts be within her reach Did they not of late dayes perswade
against me in casting away the booke as vnderualewing the same as though you shall be acquainted with no other things then is in the Legenda aurea or Doctor Sheldons discouery of Popish miracles or common Relations whereby you may say I know the stories already for I hope I shall not name one of them yet excite laughter by relating such particulars as shall enforce your meditation how the Deuill had no greater cunning nor preuaileable arâ—e then to support the Romish religion by such palpable grosse filthy and idle inuentions or maâ—â—o better iudgment or if you will infused grace then to be seduced with absurditie and impossibilitie for what is there in this doctrine of Papistry more then in the poeticall fiction of the Gods the tales of Homer Herodatus Ouid Bâ—ocace and the rest the cunning of crafty women and false Priests and Prophets who made an Art of morning diuination prophesying calculating natiuities the deceites of lying tongues the presumption and bragging of inchanters and the ceremonies of Augurers Pithonists and Arts masters in incantations against whom the Poets themselues had many inuectiues and condemned the Priests of that time as we doe the Friers of this age for which purpose I haue cited some few extracts of sufficient authors Heì mihi Versipelles vt homines semper odi Euripides Ion. qui componentes tniusta deinde fraudes adornant In another place Linguae enim nulla fides quae externa quidem Eurip. Hippolitus Coronatus concilia hominum corrigere nouit A se ipsa vero plurima pâ—ssidet mala In another place Lingua enim affectans ca quae iniusta scit probe obtegere Nudet fraude agere Enrip medea In another place the wicked woman takes vpon her to say Metamorp Flectere sinequeam superos Aâ—heronta moucbo In another place Palluit attonitus sacris seralibus Aruns atque iram superum raptis quaesiuit in extis Lncun lib. 1. Phars terruit ipse color Vatem c. And in another place perstat rabies nec cunctalocuta est quem non emisit superâ—st deus illaâ—eroces torquet adhuc oculos totoque Vagantia Caelo Lumina nunc Vultu pauido Nunc torua minaci stat nunquam facies â—ubor igneus inficit ora Lucen lib. 5. Phars liuentesque genas nec qui solet esse timenti terribilis sed pallor inest necfessa qniescunt Corda sed vt tumidus Boreae post flamina pontus rauca gemit sic nulla leuant suspiria vatem And in many other places the selfe same things are obiected against imposturing men in what art soeuer as now the true Christian imputes to coosening Monkes Friers let the carnall Gospeller and lukewarme professor come out with piae fraudes neuer so much But to the purpose in hand They begin with Nero whose bodie they will haue the Nero. Deuills to keepe after he had kild himselfe whereby great harme besides nocturnall terrours was done to the people till by a Miracle of our Lord the body was taken away found farre of and at last buried whereby the firmament was quieted and the fiendes departed They follow with a tale concerning Vespasian they will Vespasian haue Waspes to breede in his nose but as soone as he beleeued the history of Christ or at least made them beleeue his conuersion he was cured and the nest fell away like a core or if you will a combe full of holes Traian was a great enemy to Christians as by his persecutions Traian appeared yet Saint Gregoâ—y acquainted with many excellent things in his gouernment prayed to our Lord to keepe his soule out of Hell but receiuing no absolute answere more then a tempest he left it disputable amongst the Doctors whether he be saued or no as it is of Sampson Salomon Origen and others of whom the Church of Rome disputeth Pro Con and as their passion leades them vnder-takes to deliuer out of Hell it selfe They tell a strange tale of Fabianus Bishop of Rome Fabianus and a martyr who was chosen by the descending of a white doue vpon him and saying thou shalt be Pope wherein there is some probabilitie For in the life of Mahomet it is recorded that he made the people beleeue that the holy Ghost vsed to appeare to him visibly and acquaint him with the secrets of heauen to countenance which imposture he had taught a doue indeede to come and take pease out of his eare which he many times performed in the sight of the people They confesse that Marcelinus was Pope yet he offred Marcelinus incense to Idols for feare of death but at last he repented and was a martyr notwithstanding for his offence his body lay three dayes vâ—buried till by a vision of S. Peter and Marcelinus it was allowed for sufficient penance so at last it had the ceremonies of a mortyr About the time that the Saxons entred into England they haue a miracle of the seauen sleepers who were two hundred Seauen sleepers yeares in a caue and then came abroad with strange discoueries the Storie is much enlarged by them with their seuerall names and we haue the play and why may not this be true considering Epimenides going to seeke his Fathers sheepe tooke vp his resting place through the heat of the day in a caue and there slept fiftie yeares without alteration of his bodie either in constitution or complexion Leo Tuscus was a Confessor Martyr and Pope in which Leo Tuscus time he was tempted by a woman who would needs kisse him but the holy man by no meanes consented to such immodestie yet with much strugling shee kissed his hand whether he would or no whereupon he commanded it to be cut off because no corrupt flesh should remaine about him which when the people perceiued they earnestly intercessed our Lady for him and shee most mercifully restored it againe as if a broken peece were to be cemented and then he sayd Masse as before and acknowledged our Lady his Sauiour What you call the Stonendy on Salibury-plaine being indeed Stonendy and Merlin the monument of Aurclius Ambrose from whom the towne of Amsbury tooke originall and denomination they will haue a deuise of Merlins who brought them by miracle out of Ireland from the hill Kian called Giants Karrol and so placed with wonderment as you see them This Merlin liued in the time of Vter Pendragon and was as wonderfull in his actions as his birth he was they say the sonne of a Succubus and Incubus and performed strange things for the King especially in imitation of the story of Iupiter and Mercury who in the likenesse of Amphitrio lay with Alcumena and so begat Hercules he transhapt Vter the King into the Earles figure of Cornwall and Vlfrie the chamberlaine into Iordane his man whereby he came into the castle of Tintagill and accompanied the faire Igrena and so the valiant Arthur was borne When S. Augustine preached