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A08690	The vnmasking of all popish monks, friers, and Iesuits. Or, A treatise of their genealogie, beginnings, proceedings, and present state Together with some briefe obseruations of their treasons, murders, fornications, impostures, blasphemies, and sundry other abominable impieties. Written as a caueat or forewarning for Great Britaine to take heed in time of these romish locusts. By Lewis Owen.	Owen, Lewis, 1572-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 18998; ESTC S113782	125,685	175

of the Mendicant Friers which the Romish Antichrist hath set forth as the last proppe and stay of his tottering and ruinous kingdome for he perceiuing that as Saint Paul hath foreshewed Christ hath begun to consume it with the breath of his mouth and abolish it with the brightnesse of his comming that is the preaching of the Gospell And seeing moreouer the world to grow to a disliking contempt of the ignorance sluggishnesse lewdnesse of the other Orders of Monks and Friers taken from men as Benet Dominick Francis and such like hath sent abroad into Christendom this new Sect hypocritically adorned with the name of Iesus and furnished with more shew of learning holinesse and godlinesse than their other Popish fraternities to the intent that Iesus Christ may be the sooner betrayed while these holy Iesuits giue him a Iudas salutation and kisse Because hee is in good hope that they are the men by whom he shall recouer againe that so large a circuit of ground which he hath lost in France England Germany Scotland Ireland Denmarke Swethland and other Countries of Christendome Furthermore he vseth this speciall policy to cause them by all meanes priuily to allure and entice the youths of the Vniuersities and Countries where the Gospell is preached to depart from the places where they are vnto his Colleges Seminaries and Cloisters to the end that being there for a time nuzled and trained vp vntill they bee hardened in hypocrisie obstinacie and malice against the truth and poisoned with the pestilent errours of the Romish Synagogue they may be sent out as new false Apostles into their owne countries or else thither where it is thought they may doe most harme Wherein they follow their forefathers the Scribes and Pharisees the like hypocrites who as Christ saith compassed both sea and land to make one Proselyte or of their profession and when he is made they make him two-fold more the childe of hell than they themselues Now to the intent my Country-men who as yet are not throughly acquainted with these Monks Friers and Iesuits or with their profession doctrine and purposes and therefore are in danger the sooner to be deceiued by them may be the better admonished yea armed and prouided against them I haue compiled this ensuing discourse or Treatise of their Genealogie Proceedings and present estate my purpose being at this time in some sort to vnmaske these monsters wherein I doe vse such modestie as the subiect can beare to reproue their errours the which the loue of the truth and vertue enforceth me and not to cauill or to slander any one of them which I detest and abhorre Moreouer I doe craue of the Readers that they bring with them to the reading hereof a loue and zeale of the truth ioyned with godlinesse and desire of their owne saluation Farewell Thine in the Lord LEWIS OWEN GEntle Reader I pray thee if thou seest some literall faults escaped in this Discourse correct them but especially I must admonish thee of these viz. Page 74. line 27. for vniuis reade viuis p. 93. l. 11. for 1504. r. 1540. codem p. l. 12. r. in stead of Paul the 5. Paul the 5. or Gregory the 15. p. 98. r. Catulos in some bookes for Catulo p. 160. l. 34. for you vnto r. vnto you THE VNMASKING OF ALL POPISH MONKS FRIERS AND IESVITES ALbeit that the Apostle Saint Paul saith Coloss 2.2.3.4 vnto the 22. verse That in Christ Iesus and in the knowledge of him all the treasure and wisdome of God lieth hidden so that the faithfull ought not to receiue any institution or doctrine of men Yet many hundred years after the Apostles decease the Church of Rome hath found out a wonderfull and vnspeakable hoord of wisdome and knowledge through which a man may come to perfect Iustification and to an Angelicall life and withall get a store and a heape of merits and good workes to helpe a good friend withall at a pinch and to release a dozen or twaine of silly soules out of Purgatory And these are they especially the holy Orders and full perfections of Monkes and Friers especially of Saint Francis Saint Bernard Saint Dominick Saint Ignatius and many more of the same stampe which the Apostles knew not of when men were satisfied with the pure and vnmingled milke of God Word Like new-borne children as Saint Peter saith 1 Pet. 2.2 Iohn 14.29 15. yea these rich treasures were not yet reuealed to Christ himselfe who taught nothing but that which he had receiued of his Father and the same did he fully and wholly deliuer to his Disciples and Apostles This is plainly written in the fifth booke of Sexti Decret in Bulla Nic. 4. beginning at Exit qui Sem. nec his 1. de Verb. sign And in their Legends and in the booke which Almas made in the Inspiration of Mary the Aegyptian Vid. Conformitat S. Francisci 83. and established with the Popes Bulles But this as it seemes was too daintie a dish for his mouth and therefore must be kept for the last course against the time that the holy Fathers Saint Francis Saint Dominicke and Saint Alane who sucked the blessed Virgins brest as well as Christ himselfe and walked about the towne with her as the Bridegroome with the Bride and many more of that rable should appeare I dare giue them a paire of siluer Eyes to be offered to the blacke woodden Lady of Loretto if they can finde in the Bible that either Christ or his Apostles did euer know or teach that whosoeuer should die in a Gray-friers habit should neuer come into Purgatory or that Saint Francis is placed in Lucifers seat in heauen aboue all Angels at the vpper end and that he did liue a more perfect life than Christ and that the Angels are not to be compared with him or what knew they that he that should die in a White-friers Scapularie should be saued as they say the blessed Virgin did declare to Frier Symon Stocke In hoc moriens saluabitur that is Who so dies in this shall be saued as in their Churches euery where is painted forth Or what knew they that Frier Alanus should make the Rosary of our Lady which must be esteemed as the Gospell as Tarthemius Leander and others their Diuines haue written and their famous great Champion Blindasinus in his book called Panopolie or his full furniture of Weapons and harnesse saith that Saint Francis his Vineyard the Golden Legend the booke of the Conformitie of Saint Francis and the mass-Masse-booke must be as much esteemed in all respects as the holy Scripture yea in the booke of the Conformitie of Saint Francis made by Frier Bartholomew of Pisa Anno 1389. and allowed by the Chapter generall of Assyso is written that the same booke is better than the Gospell And therefore to maintaine these errors and blasphemies the Church of Rome and the Popes her holy Vicars haue at sundrie times erected seuerall

he was dead euery Courtier belonging to the Eternall King was admitted all the celestiall people ran to see him Angells Archangells Thrones c. It is now among the Papists as it was heretofore among the Heathen people for they had many gods as Apollo Iupiter Mars Mercury Aeolus Neptune Pan Cupid c. And goddesses likewise as Minerua Pallas Venus and the like And euery one of them their distinct office as for example Apollo was the god of Wisdome Mars the god of Warre Aeolus the god of the Winds Neptune of the Seas Pan for Shepherds and Cupid the god of Loue. Minerua was the goddesse of Learning and Venus the goddesse of Loue. The Papists haue as many Saints which they honour as gods and euery one haue their seuerall charge assigned vnto them by God for the succour of men women and children yea ouer Countries Common-wealths Cities Prouinces and Churches nay to help ones bones et caeterapecora campi al manner of beasts as S. George for England and other Countries S. Dauid for Wales S. Andrew for Scotland S. Patricke for Ireland S. Denis for France S. Iames for Spaine S. Antony for Italy S. Marke for Venice S. Roch for to cure the Plague and for Sheepe S. Antony for Swine and for fire S. Lucy for the Tooth-ach S. Petronel for the Feuer and S. Martin for the Itch Moreouer S. Valentine for Louers S. Chrispin and Crispianus for Shoo-makers S. Clement for Bakers Brewers and Victualers S. Sebastian for Archers S. Nicolas for Butchers and an hundred more some assigned to this office and some to that But would you know what office hath our Limping Ignatius in good sooth an office well agreeing with the humour of a Spanyard who loues to be conuersant with the female sex for he is become a Midwife for thus saith one of his owne Children Serm. Vald p. 51. Blessed Father Ignatius doth assuredly and most readily assist all women that are in labour for this vigilant Pastor doth alwaies accompany the sheepe that are great with young for to helpe them to be deliuered as it is written in Esay Foetas ipse portabit that is to say He will looke to the Ewes for to haue their wooll and their lambes For you must lay the blessed Fathers Signet vnto the patient and she will soone be rid of her paine and the only sight of his name hath giuen eyes to the blinde hands to the maimed and legs to the lame hath consumed the stone in the kidneyes and very easily brought women to bed By this it seemes that this Saint hath shouldered the blessed Virgin out of doores for all good Catholike women were wont to call vnto her for helpe in that extremitie And it is not long since I read in a Catholike book how the blessed Virgin her selfe came accompanied with two Angels to visit a Lady Abbesse that was gotten with childe and or the preseruation of her honour commanded those two Angells to deliuer her of her burthen and to carry it to an Hermit to bring it vp which in time became a Bastardly Bishop it may be he was a Spanish Bishop for they are all or the most part Bastards Cum sec part Serm. discip de tempore Magun apud Ioh. Albinum Anno 1612. I maruell how the other Monks Friers and Priests can brooke that S. Ignatius should play the Mid-wife considering that a great part of their maintenance doth depend vpon women that are great with childe for they come often vnto them with money in their fists and many other good gifts to haue Masses said for their safe deliuery But aboue all the rest the Augustine Friers of Burgos in Spaine who sell the measure of their Crucifix at so deare a rate because it is a precious Relicke for many diseases especially for a woman that is in labour And is not this a great hinderance to the Franciscans that haue S. Francis Cordon and likewise to diuers other Religious persons that haue many pretious Relickes of wonderfull vertue especially for such women that are in labour of child-birth Why do they not sue and implead against the Iesuits for Monopoly And besides it is against the Popes profit for many good Ladies especially in Italy whē they are great with childe doe vow if they can haue a safe deliuerance to goe on pilgrimage to the Image of the blessed Virgin Mary of Loretto and there offer some costly thing vnto her Shrine All which comes into the Popes Exchequer And I am sure that the Montebanckes shall all fare the worse and Mid-wiues nothing the better But because I would not be too tedious I will leaue this halting holy-hee Mid-wife and descend to suruey his spirituall Babes I meane the Iesuites the maine pillars of the Antichristian Synagogue of Rome the Intelligencers of Spaine the Incendiaries of Christendome and Belzabubs chiefe Agents Among all other Orders of Monks and Friers though the Common-wealths wherein they liue are exceedingly exhausted by them in matters of charge especially in Italy and the Spanish Dominions as being in a manner compelled to reedifie their ruined Cloisters and Couents to build them new from the very ground and from time to time to repaire the same to furnish them with costly Images and rich furnitures and daily to supply their wants as well in yeelding them victuals as in satisfying their exorbitant demands which are infinite of which who so denieth any is presently reputed to be an Hereticke yet all is nothing in comparison of that which by the Iesuites they are compelled to endure who haue now gotten that hand ouer them that the chiefe Magistrate-ship and places of dignity are not granted but vnto such as shall be by their likings allowed and by their authority confirmed neither without their aduice and counsell dare they determine of any great matter concerning either gouernment or policie There is not any mans businesse but they must haue an oare in it They neuer place themselues any where but in the middest of goodly rich Cities for as one saith Opulentas ciuitates vbi sunt commoditates semper querunt istipatres Where they wring themselues into the fairest Palaces in some of them dispossessing by violence those to whom they pertained As for example their Colleges at Antwerp the one belongeth to the society of the Merchants of Aquisgranum and the other to the society of the English Merchants of the Staple and was called heretofore by the name of the English house where English Merchants and their Factors liued vntill such time that they were tyrannically abused by the Spanyards and their adherents Moreouer their Colleges at Bruxels and at Paris are detained by them from the true owners thereof I could name an hundred more of these their vsurpations to proue their intrusions into Cities Townes Castles and Noble-mens houses but this shall suffice in this place Their Churches are rich and sumptuous their moueables and houshold-stuffe magnificent rather than decent their gardens

and the concupiscence thereof but they carry it with them into the Monasteries for without doubt it is not possible to see the world better than in the Monasteries where a man shall behold nothing else but affections and passions of minde quarrels discords ambition pride hypocrisie and the like Oh that men will suffer themselues to be thus mocked and deluded by these Frierly shauelings that endeuour as much as they may in deceiuing the people with their counterfeit holinesse to liue like Epicures and to bee esteemed like Lordlings Oh that men should credit these Pharisaicall hypocrites that more regard the pampering of their bodies than the saluation of the soules of men which is the end of our hope and faith yea the very end of our life in this life Oh that men cannot see how they fight against the Gospell and seeke to ouerthrow faith with superstition couered with the cloake of true piety Why do not men open their eyes and perceiue how these Masse-mongers daily studie to inuent and finde out some new toy or bable therewith to draw the common people vnto them who are so simple and ignorant that they are straight way bewitched with euery new foolish and apish Ceremony that these Iuglers represent to their view What Christian is he that seeth not their hypocrisie that vnderstands not their fraudulent superstition wherewith the foolish people is inueigled Is there any but blinde buzzards that thinke that to weare the weed or habit of Saint Francis or to goe cloathed in that colour is good against the quartane ague and other diseases and to be buried in that habite is the right way to goe to heauen And therefore the Emperour Charles the fitt and his sonne that ambitious King Philip the second of Spaine the Count of Arrenbergh the Lord Albertus of Carpi Rodulphus Agricola Longolius a Noble Roman and many other great personages haue beene perswaded by the Franciscan Priers to die in Saint Francis his frocke But what need I to vse so many words These Monks Friers Iesuits and Popish Priests are come to that point with that opinion of holinesse that they haue rid themselues out of all other mens hands and aurhoritie and haue brought all other men vnder their feet They know not Christ whom the Gospell doth plainly set forth vnto vs which they keepe in prison And since they only had the handling of the booke of peace and libertie the common people thought they had taken all their doctrine out of that booke and with cursed and abominable lyes they take out here a peece and there a peece and with strange and fearfull false miracles and fained dreames of Purgatory they keep the people in so great feare and awe that they are constrained to beleeue their blasphemous and wicked lyes and deceits And withall if we consider their lawes and the waight and heauie burthen they lay vpon mens shoulders we may truly say that the Iewes law is farre more easier than theirs Thus haue they turned Christian liberty into slauery and bondage worse than that of Aegypt if worse could be What a presumptuous boldnesse is it to vsurpe the name of Saints yea of the most glorious and blessed Trinity and that sweet name Iesus which signifieth a Sauiour and vnder those godly and most blessed names to deceiue the world vnder the formes of Angels to worke all their deceits and trumperies Verily I beleeue that their cowles and ridiculous party-coloured habits were inuented by the Deuill to deceiue the world withall for if they were the same they pretend themselues to be and would be accounted for what need they weare such foolish disguised habits or garments more like women than men the which say they doe signifie that which they ought to be And therefore I say vnto euery hypocriticall Monk Frier and Iesuite Appare quod es vel est● quod appares Appeare to be what thou art or else be such a one as thou seemest to be for it is a cleare case that where there is but a shew or signification of a thing the thing it selfe is not there If they were so in deed what need they to be in shew Praestat esse quam videri It is better to be than to make a glorious shew of being and againe Quid simio prodest leo si creditur Outwardly they are one thing and inwardly another of whom our Sauiour forewarneth vs in the Gospel saying That there should come wolues to deuoure vs clad in sheep skins because they would not be knowne The Deuil is craftie and he knowes how prone men are to beleeue euery toy or trifle euery counterfeit holinesse and superstitious hypocrisie hee oftentimes transformeth himselfe in his members to an Angell of light he informeth and teacheth his children to frame themselues after the manner of Hypocrites he maketh his seruants learned and expert in that art he maketh them to goe bare foot and bare leg'd to weare shirts of haire that by meanes of their outward austerity in apparell and food although all but meere deceits the people may proclaime and extoll them as Saints and honour them as Gods omnipotent and finally beleeue whatsoeuer they teach them their words to bee Euangelicall Much more could I say but because I am perswaded these few examples may suffice any iudicious and indifferent Reader I passe them ouer and referre him to the Histories of euery age since their first creeping into the world yea when Antichrist chiefly raigned in the hearts and consciences of most men and when his doctrine repugnant to Gods Word flourished most in all quarters of Christendome yet God raised vp some that spake boldly in publike assemblies and wrote against him and his Monks and Friers and their impious doctrine In their owne bookes one may reade how wickedly and hypocritically the papisticall votaries liued and daily experience teach vs how incontinently they liue at this present I will shew you what nine famous and eminent men in the Church of Rome wrote of them in a booke and exhibited it to the Councell of Trent and to Pope Paul the third desiring the Pope to haue certaine abuses corrected and amended in the Clergy men which booke is extant in Tom. 3. Concil per Crab. editionis Colon. Anno 1551. but in all other impressions through the thefts and deceits of the Monks Friers and Iesuites left out and suppressed In that Booke among many other things the Monks and Friers were taxed in these words Alius abusus corrigendus est in ordinibus Religiosorum quod adeò multi deformati sunt vt magno sint scandalo secularibus exemploque plurimum noceant Conuentuales ordines abolendos esse putamus omnes non tamen vt alicui fiat iniuria sed prohibendo ne nouos possint admittere sic enim sine vllius iniuria citò delerentur Nunc verò putamus vt omnes pueri qui non sint professi ab eorum Monasterijs repellerentur that is to say Another abuse