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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09847	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.		1624 (1624)	STC 20111; ESTC S120961	58,414	88

borrowed this Heresie from the Sadduces or rather Epicurean Philos●phers and blasphemed God in their repugnancy yea that beastly opinion of the Capernaites concerning the eating of the flesh of Christ really was maintained by Pope Nicholas in a certaine Chapter beginning Ego Berergarius c. If Simon Magus was detested by the Apostle for 〈◊〉 money to buy the graces of the Spirit What shall become of Papists in their Mart of Masses Po●tsaile of Indulgences chaffring for Benefices and selling all things for money more execrably then euer Iudas did Christ As for that small account or slighting the sinne of vsing common Women hearken I pray you what is recorded of Saint Austen Docebat detestandam turpitudinem indifferenter vtendi faminis If you reade Ecclesiasticall Histories you shall finde many Heretickes condemned for doing those thinges wherein Heretickes the Papists doe now transgresse and inueigh against true Christians for reputing their Doctrine loathsome The Basileans by Irenaus were esteemed Heretickes for Images Enchantments and diuers superstiticus exorcizations Carpocrates and Marcellina one of his followers adored the Images of Iesu Paul Homer and Pythagoras and who doth not know what estimation George the Dragon-killer Saint Katherine aed Papia haue in Europe And the Marcosians were condemned for Baptizing in an vnknowne Language and annointing with Chrisme c. Witnesse all this and much more Ireneus and Epiphanius c. The Messalians were condemned for vsing much babling and multiplicitie of prayers What thinke you then of the Papists Rosary and certaine numbers of Creedes Ane● and Pater-nosters The Angelikes and Caians inuocated Angels which Heresie proceeded from Simon Magus and is disallowed of by Epiphanius Tertullian Austin and others and yet the Papists haue still a Masse in the honour of Angels The Seuerians are traduced for forging of Miracles and one Philumena accused for drawing a loase of bread out of a narrow mouthed glasse but what is this to the Papists Legend And how can Bellarmine make miracles Austin c. 24. Haeres a marke of the Church or other Iesuites maintaine the notorious absurdities of Popery Now if it be thus that these things are prooued against them that infinite thousandes of errours like so many Locusts in a filthy standing lake increase to an vnsufferable fulsomnesse in the Church of Rome that diuers reformed places haue yet cleansed themselues from their pollution and that the true seruants of God doe daily rise like the childe Daniel to examine the hypocrisie and vnsauoury lust of the Iudges O let no i●dicious men for any worldly respect whatsoeuer come so neere the Chariot wheeles of this Strumpet as to be dasht with the filth and durt which it casteth vp let the true ser●an●● of God come out of Babell For questionles it will fall and then whosoeuer shall presume of her strength glory and mightinesse will bee pressed and ouer-whelmed with her rubbish if they tarry within let all regenerate soules come to the pure streame of the Scriptures to drinke the waters of life and not seeke the pudled filth and noysome lake of mens deuises and inuentions which must needes either choake with the mudde of superstition or poyson with the venome and mixture of vnequall impositions As for pollicie temporizing making leagues ciuill honestie and such like forbearances with so great an aduersary to Christ Why should not the Iewes vse the language of Canaan Why did Iosuah tell the people he and his house would serue God Why did Iob cry out though thou kill me I will not forsake thee Why did Elias and Micha proue Antagonists to foure hundred false Prophets Why did Amos oppose Amasiah Why did all the Prophets stand in the gappe against the corruption of time and the mayne currant of the world Why did Christ weepe for the hardnesse of mens hearts and call the Priestes Pharises Scribes and Lawyers hypocrites Why did Paul confesse that after the way they called Heresie he serued the God of his fathers Answere a Gods name you that must answere 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 the man of sinne is consumed with the breath of Gods nostrills But we will yet goe forward For there are more mustred Armies readie to march vpon them and come to the charge to their vtter ouer-throw and execution Shall I now name certaine blasphemies and nefarious actions committed by the Popes themselues and borne withall or published in the Church of Rome by which you may see how this Inditement is vnanswerable and there must needes follow a Iudgement of condemnation after the Arraignement Beno the Cardinall recites a story that Gregory the 7. consulted Fearefull actions of Popes with his God in the Host or the Eucharist and because he could receiue no answe of it against the Emperor he threw the Sacrament into the fire and Pius the fift cast an Agnus De● into Tyber and burnt another as Hierome Catena affirmes Clement the 6. would haue men pray and cry to the Pope Lord open thy treasure the fountaine of liuing Ch Vnigenit ext water Horatius Tursellinus in an Epistle to Peter Adobrandini sayth that God made the Virgin Mary as much as could be the companion of his Matestie And Bernardine with Bonauenture giue her power ouer her sonne Iure matris Virgin Mary In the Roman breu●ary shee is called Dulcis amica Dei and in the Missall of Sarum the Sauiour of the world Bellarmine alloweth a saying of the Fryers to the Crucifixe thou hast redeemed vs thou hast reconciled vs to the Father The Turkes and Saracens honor the bookes of the Olde The Scriptures Testament but the Papists prophane the Scriptures The Rhemists call it a killing letter Stapleton endeuors to proue that all Heresies proceed from the Scriptures Kellison sayth that the Deuill doth wappe himselfe from toppe to toe in Scriptures Turrian writing against Sadeel calleth the Scriptures Delphicum gladium an Instrument to all purposes Bellarmine accuseth them as imperfect and insufficient Piggius and Eckius mis-termeth them a dead Letter Cardinall Poole an Incky Gospell Montanus a nose of Waxe and many others a Ship mans-hose Steuchus in his Treatise for the defence of Constantines donation calleth the Pope a God and the Abbot Panormitanus Blasphemies expresly sayth that Christ and the Pope haue but one Consistory Iulius the second vpon Easter day fought with the French at Rauenna Gregory the 7. mustred his Armie against Henry the 4. on good Fryday and thought to murther the Emperour in Saint Maries Church by throwing a stone vpon him from a vault Sixtus the 4. euen at the eleuation of the Sacrament endeuoured to kill Laurence and Iulian Volater●● de medices Although Leo the 10. called the Gospell a Fable and the wicked and monstrous liues of the Popes were euer discouered yet did the people fall downe like beastes before