in the Church of Saint Paul IN the Church of Saint Paul the halfe part of the bodies of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul which Saint Siluester equally deuided by weight as we heard before vpon a certaine altar which is in the Church of Saint Peter in the yeare from the natiuitie of our Lord three hundred and nineteene and the other halfe was left at the second Church of Saint Peter There is also in this Church of Saint Paul the head of the first Martir Saint Steeuen 6 What if any other place say that they haue Saint Steuens his head No great matter for that the Church of Rome hath power to multiply at her pleasure and to doe many fine trickes besides to the great edification of deuout Catholickes And there is also one of the armes of Saint Anne the mother of Marie the Virgin There is also a Cloyster of Munkes scituated without the wales which hath a Church consecrated to the honor of Saint Eustachius this Cloister is commonly called the Cloister by the three fountaines And there is also in the same Church the piller vpon which Saint Paul was beheaded 7 A very pretious relicke doubtlesse for they that loued Saint Paul cannot but make much of the blocke whâ—reon hee was beheaded The Lutherans and Caluinists seely fooles doe make much of Saint Pauls Epistles as being a better Relicke of him let the poore asses alone with their Epistles and them with his Epistles The holy Roman Church where wisdome dwels knowes that it had beene better for her if some of them had neuer beene written and therefore lets them lie in Libraries and commends to her children this holy relicke of the blocke on which his head was striken off for this shee is sure will teach nor breed no heresie as Saint Pauls Epistles haue done too many Indulgences belonging to the foresaid Cloister of the Church of Saint Paul IT is written of the foresaid Church that Pope Vrbane gaue and granted to all men penitent and truly contrite and confessed that shall repaire to the said Church in the vigills of blessed Marie the Virgin the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and of the Apostles and Euangelists and of Saint Marie Magdalen and of Saint Katherine and of Saint Agatha and Saint Agnes and Saint Lucie Saint Margaret and of the holie Martir Saint Laurence Saint Vincent and Saint Anastasius And also in the Octaues of the said feasts or vpon any Sunday through the whole yeare or in the dedication for euery day of the foresaid solemnities three thousand yeares of pardon And as many were giuen by Pope Siluester and as many by Pope Nicholas Also Gregorie the Pope granted as many to all and singular Pilgrims that shall come to the said Church at any time of the yeare or that for the 8 Here a penitent hath 9000 yeares of pardon for once visiting the Church is not here a roiall recompence for so litlit labour Oh thrice blessed Romans that liue so neere reuerence of Paul the Apostle shall come to the Cloister of the salt waters otherwise called the three fountaines either to pray there or as a pilgrim to visite it or for any other deuotion All men so doing shall haue released or forgiuen their sins forgotten the vowes broken their offences against father or mother vnlesse they did lay violent hands vpon them Furthermore vnto the same Church there doe belong of old 9 See how anticent the giuing of Indulgences is for these be giuen of old saith this blessed booke a thousand and fortie yeares of pardon Moreouer it is written and recorded in that Church of Saint Marie at the salt waters aforesaid That vpon the day of the consecration of the said Church there is true 10 Yea certainely as true remission is there of all sinnes as the bread in the Priests hands is the true transubstantiat body of Christ or as the maffe is a true expiatory sacrifice or as the Pope is the true Vikar of Christ But whereas the Caluinists loudly laugh and say that if in other places where it is said there is remission there bee not true remission then the people are deluded and if there bee then this word here is an idle boast No matter what they prace they be heretickes remission of all sins and that is vpon the nine and twentie of the month of Ianuarie Likewise there is a certaine Chappell of the said Church which is called the Ladder of Heauen as it is written in the Chronickles of the Citie of Rome where wee also finde that the said holie Chappell was builded in the honour of blessed Marie the Virgin vnder the High Altar of this Chappell there rest the bodies of tenne thousand holy Martires that were souldiers in the time of Tyberius the Emperor 11 Behold another wonder 10000. souldiers that were Christians in one army in the time of Tiberius immediatly after Christ The Scripture tells vs of no such wonders for there the beleeuers are reckoned in fewer quantities but the Catholicke traditions of the Roman Church supply the defects and wants that be in the Scriptures and the Catholicke cause were in a faire case indeed if nothing might bee beleeued but that is in the scripture or gathered from it as these foolish Heretikes would haue it And what Priest soeuer shall deuoutly celebrate one masse at the said altar for the liuing and the dead with a pure conscience and a contrite heart shall haue remission of all his sinnes both from the punishment the fault and shall deliuer one soule out of purgatorie 12 See what a happy thing it is for a man to liue in Rome for its impossible he should euer come in purgatory if hee list to auoide it for how easie is it to get a Priest say Masse at this altar for him But all the difficulty will bee say the Caluinists in getting a Priest with a pure Conscience for such it is said are not common in Rome Oh idle Heretikes as who say in the holy City and so neere his Holinesse can be suffered any but holy Priests for though they goe at noone day to the Stewes can they not goe afore night to confesse it and so bee made as pure as they were the day they were baptized Certainely if Cardinall Poole and his fellow committees had remembred regarded this they would not in their report they made to Paul the third of the abuses in the Church haue held it so foule a matter that Priests of Rome and Cardinals Chaplaines doe at noone day goe to Whores for as for Cardinals themselues they goe modestly in the night time vnlesse it be in the Carniuall Seeing that a wife being forbidden them as a most vnholy and vnlawfull thing therefore they vse this but as a conuenient remedy to keepe them from that foule sinne of marriage which by the Catholicke teachers Iesuits and others is concluded to bee in them a farre greater sinne
will doe vs little good hee is so set against vs and transported with zeale to his owne religion which He good soule thinkes verily to bee the true Gospell of Christ Iesus as now all the gold we can keepe from Rome will scarce purchase vs a protector or finde one that dare once open his mouth to speake a word for vs. Oh then deere Catholikes what doe wee here what stay we for what can you hope or looke for here but for a heauier yoke and more grieuous persecution euery day why then doe we not get vs all to Rome out of the stormy and tempestuous England into the happy hauen and sweete sun-shine of his holinesse fauours where should the Children be but with their father where the Seruants waite but on their Lord where the Sheepe feede but with their Shepheard where can you drinke so pure as at the Fountaine where graze so daintily as vpon the Seauen hills where sucke so sweetely as at your Mothers teats Is not his Holinesse your father and the holy Roman Church your mother why then can you bee kept from them vnlesse you bee bastards and not children But if you feare to finde him a hard father or a step-mother of her bee not deceiued how deerely he loues all his children aske Venice Naples Sauoy and Sicily who euer committed themselues to his care that repented but once And for her most louing mother that she is she neuer receiued more then came to her nor deceiued any that trusted her not her lappe was euer open to receiue and her treasure to disbuse againe but marke the difference and magnifie her bountie for she takes from you but your siluer or gold or such like temporall trash but opens you her treasure and lades you againe with better blessings spirituall riches holy pictures blessed graines Agnus deis holy bones holy stones holy wood holy bloud holy relikes holy ragges glorious pardons gratious Indulgences and other inualuable Iewells and well may I call them so for no liuing man can tell the value of them leaue then these Heretikes who grosse heads know not the vertue of these riches leaue them I say to their Onions and Garlike their word and Sacraments their Psalmes and Sermons their praying and preaching like Dogs to their crusts or Swine to their akornes Let vs as more refined spirits seeke for purer feeding and therefore hasten to the seuen hils where holinesse dwels and where we shall at easie rates bee made partakers of such riches as the poore Protestants neuer tasted of witnesse this booke that here I send you venerable only for the antiquitie of it For as to the truth of it it cannot be questioned seeing Onuphrius and many other great and well Onuphrius de 7 vrbis Ecclesijs approued Authors confirme the same and all trauellers finde it to be true as their purses will testifie if they should deny it Oh then what a worthy change shall you make Italy for England Rome for London Tiber for Thames Masse bookes for Bibles seauen Sacraments for two and many other great blessings to boote you shall be deliuered from Sermons and Psalmes singing and Praiers in a knowne tongue and many other such superstitious ceremonies which heere you are combred withall and whereas here you can scarce walke in Pauls nor make a bargaine in the Temple Church without being offended with Psalmes singing Bells ringing to serue hereticall deuotions nor walke scarce by any Church but shall bee scandalized and tormented with a Sermon There you shall bee quite deliuered from all such purgatories and contrariwise you shall not peepe into a Church nor creepe into a Cloister where you shall not finde more bounties and blessings and more thousands yeares of pardon then all the Churches of England are able to giue as you shall well perceiue by this ensuing Booke And if you haue such quesie and tender stomackes as you cannot bee without a Sermon his Holinesse herein also condiscends to your infirmitie and prouides therefore you shall haue store of them in Lent when like Fish they be in the best season And if the feare of Purgatory happe to trouble you Rome is the onely place in the world for you for you will perceiue by this booke so many fine and easie waies to escape it as you will hold him more then worthy to goe to hell that euer suffers himselfe or any hee loues to come within the sent or smoake of purgatory And for your Clergy and confessors and young men vnmaried feare not they will be in better plight then they euer were in England for the stewes are there in euery streete which his Holinesse out of his owne former experience no doubt of the necessity thereof in great wisdome tollerats both for Clergy and Layetie for eschewing of greater inconueniences but espetially that his Clergie may auoide that fowle and detestable sinne of mariage which with vs is held a greater Costerus in Euchirid Gretsecus Ignatius c. sinne then to lie with other mens wiues or twenty whores And if any thing doe afterward trouble the conscience you haue there at euery houre a Confessor at hand and are not to seeke him a farre off send for him with cost keepe him with danger and send him away in secret as you doe in England and he is as readie to giue you absolution as you to pay him and as able to discharge you of all your sinnes as of his owne And as for worldly wants feare them not how can so tender a father and so louing a mother see their children want who knowes not the rich and royall entertainment that Westmerland had when hauing lost all for his Holinesse he fled to them and least the English should plead it as their priuiledge call to minde how the Scottish Bishop of Rosse was receiued rewarded first with Vnde laesleum in sua congratulatione ad Albertum Archiducem de Seipso the title of the Bishopricke of Constance in France and afterward because Constance by reason of the warres was little worth with a promise of the Archbishoprike of Macklin and that hee might not starue in the meane time hee had a pension assigned him of fiftie scutes a moneth which though it was most ill fauouredly paide him yet was it most fairely and frankely bestowed on him And howsoeuer you be not such Arch-traitors to your owne states nor such wel-deseruing fauorits of the Roman Church as these two were yet feare not for you shall at your first comming be welcome and well refreshed at the English Colledge and after that know for your comforts that euery day certaine pilgrimes of seuerall nations dine in the Popes presence of meate from his owne table blessed with his owne most holy hands oh who were not worthy to want it that would not post from England to Rome for such a dinner And it is but a reasonable sute to some Cardinall or the fathers of the Colledge to be often made
guests at this table the very crummes whereof gathered vp and carried away are of as much vertue as many of the Reliques in Saint Peters Church Now then seeing there be such entertainments and rewards to be had for the bodie as these examples proue and such riches for the soule as this Booke declares let vs leaue these Heretikes to wallow in their mire let couetous Merchants goe to the Indies and Gallants to Guiana let silly Catholikes goe dwell in Ireland and fooles into Virginia Let vs take a wiser course and post to Rome where wee are sure to haue as good entertainement as wee deserued at home and to finde as much honesty as holinesse and as much happinesse as both And as the Heretikes make themselues sport with this Booke because poore fooles they beleeue it not so doe you more wisely who know it to bee true take it with you reade it in your iourney for your recreation and when you come there examine the truth of it Church by Church And if you finde the Reliques there as pretious and as full of vertue and value as you will finde the relation heere made of them to bee true I dare say you will bee the richest and happiest people in the world And further off this bee assured for your better content the Heretikes will not so much enuy your rich and happie State in Rome as they doe the little libertie you haue in England and to say truth If I may without offence they are not such cruel bloud-suckers as wee speake and write of them for I haue often heard many of them say they had rather haue you all sent away to Rome then the bloud of any of you to bee shead in England And that you may require them for this courtesie Let mee aduise you when you come at Rome and now and then for your recreation goe foorth to see an Heretike burnt after a sessions from the Holy house where it is pretty sport to Catholikes to see how the fat Friers out and how the burning Torches bring away pieces of their flesh then if it happen to bee an English-man doe him this fauour for countries sake to get him a little sooner dispatched out of his paine But I put you to too much paine by keeping you so long from preparing for your Iourney which I am sure you will doe as soone as you haue read this Booke vnlesse it bee you doubt of the truth of it which none will doe that are true Catholikes and then I suspect you are turning Heretiks and therefore will wish that for your punishment you neuer see Masse againe and for your penance may euery Sunday heare a Sermon daily reade two Chapters of the Bible and receiue the Eucharist once a moneth which most grieuous penance if you would auoide get you first to your Booke and then to your Iourney And as true as the Pope is as wee call him the Vickar of Christ and his brest the habitation of Holinesse and truth and as the Cannon-law calls him our Lord God so certainely you will bee most happie in your Iourney and most welcome to his Holinesse espetially if you leaue all you haue in England and come to him poore and vnprouided and so giue him occasion to exercise his Charity for you know He and his Cardinalls and all his Court hold it a better thing to giue them to reciue FINIS Good Reader Hee out of whose study this old booke was printed and by whose meanes it was transcribed being absent these errors escaped the Presse which thou art desired to amend or pardon besides many lesse and literall faults B 4. For thirty read thirteene C 2. for Clement the 5. read 8. for Sixtus the 6. read 5. D 3. for censure read answere E 1. for prayes read preacheth 3. for soule read sonne 4. for vocall read royall F 3. for Ides read Kalends G 1. for God his read God knowes his for Epistles read Thistles H 1. for per read pro. 3. for Stephani read Sehastiani 4. for 38000 read 366000. I 3. for altare sancti read altare sub quo sancti 4. for cezend read cozening K 1. for three read there L 4. for with read which 4. for quarte sunt read quarte feriae sunt M 1. vnibiculus read vmbilicus 3. for anni read omni Index Authorum COrpus Iuris Ciuilis Onuphrius de 7 Vrbis Ecclesijs Azorij Institutiones Morales Villamonts Trauels in French Corradi casus Conscientiae Iacobus de Grafijs Decisiones Petri Mathaei constitutiones Rom. Pontificum Platina De vitis Pontificum Rom. Onuphrius De vitis Pontificum Rom. Cicerella De vitis Pontificum Rom. Molani Compendium practicae Theologiae Toleti Instructio Sacerdotum Iac. Ledesma de sacra Scriptura non Iegenda c. Serranus de Ecclesijs Vrbis Rom. Hen. Korumanni liber inscriptus Roma Communis Patria Certaine Notes to explaine the Text. a The glorious mother Citie of Rome which some good Catholickes call The Mistresse of the world some The wonder of the earth some The eternall Citie not because they beleeue it shall be eternall but for that they wish it is built on seuen hilles which are called by these names Capitolinus Quirinalis Caelius Exquilinus Auentinus Viminalis Palatinus and of late are added 4 more Mons Hortulorum Vaticanus Ianiculus Testaceus Of the great glory of this Citie if any would bee more fully satisfied let him reade the little booke called Roma communis Patria written lately by one that was there and it will giue him a stomacke to go thither if it were further of then it is or else surely he wants Catholicke deuotion And as it is built on seuen hilles so it hath seuen principall priuiledged Churches aboue the rest and Patriarcall they be St Iohn Laterane St Peters in the Vaticane St Paul St Mary the great St Crosse St Laurence and Steven St Sebastians No tongue can tell the glorious gracious and blessed Indulgences that belong to these seuen Churches But this ancient Manuscript copy sets downe good part of them much more then these idle Caluinists will beleeue but no matter for them if they will be ignorant let them be they know not the vertue of an Indulgence therfore they contemne it But if any Catholicke thinke lightly of these gracious Indulgences they wrong themselues and their religion And therefore whereas some zealous English Catholick of late a I. R. In his confutation of the Protestant Pulpit-babels against W. Crashaw called this booke contemptuously an old worme-eaten Manuscript he was much vnaduised and hath giuen I feare too much aduantage to his aduersary who cannot but tell him againe as I heere tell you my Catholicke brethren that the truth of these Indulgences set downe in the old boookes is averred and confirmed by the late bookes of many great and learned Catholikes as Onuphrius b Onuphrius de 7. vrbis Ecclesijs a great man in his time since him Serranus c Serranus
and since him Villamont d Villamont therefore no good Catholicke may doubt of the truth and validity hereof vnlesse hee will deny such grounds as may not without mortall sin be cald in question b Here be not all but a great part and yet there bee in one Church 33000 yeares of pardon for once going vp one paire of staires and in another Church is to be had within the compasse of one yeare more then two and twenty hundred thousand yeares of pardon Oh what a glorious treasure the Pope is Lord of his Exchequer is neuer empty and what silly fooles are the Heretickes to depriue themselues they know not of what c We read say the Caluinists in the fathers of bookes Canonicall and the Papists tell vs of houres Canonicall but of any booke called by the name of Canonicall it selfe or any thing else so called they might do well to haue told vs more plainly and particularly for Possevine the Iesuite their good friend who takes vpon him so exactly to describe all Authors and their bookes speaking of this Silvester mentioneth no such Booke therfore take heed this Canonicall proue not some Apocriphal hidden and forged story Thus prate the Heretickes out of their ignorance and presumption not knowing that the holy and authenticall Canon law of the Pope teacheth in the Decree that the Popes Decretall Epistles are numbred amongst Canonicall Scriptures but these Caluinists care little it seemes what the Popes law saith they are all for Scripture Scripture and that makes them such Heretickes as they be d If this be true that there were in Siluesters time 1505 Churches in Rome how comes it to passe say the Heretickes that the greater number is now defaced it cannot bee said to bee done in time of persecution for in Siluesters time the persecutions of the Heathen were all ceased What then hath Popish deuotion puld downe the Churches that the persecutions left standing Hath Rome been Gods Church and Gods house all these yeares and yet puld downe aboue 800 Churches They accuse Protestants of pulling downe Churches but they cannot shew so many puld downe in this whole kingdome as here they haue done in one Citie And for these that are downe mens corruptions not our religion tooke them away sauing some few which being needlesse and superfluous others or more in places more needfull haue been erected for them But if any good Catholicke heare any Hereticke babling on this fashion stoppe his mouth presently and tell him that their Churches beeing Hereticall Churches therefore the more the worse e None may say Masse at these Altars but the Pope or those that haue license from him but hee tels vs not say the Caluinists who may preach in their Pulpits An idle obiection and so let all good Catholickes hold it for what is Preaching to a Masse euen nothing at all nay it s hard to say whether the Roman Church hath got more good by Masses or hurt by preaching and therefore let all deuout Catholickes neuer stumble at it if in all Catholicke bookes they finde the altar so much spoken of and the pulpit so little the Altar so magnified and the Pulpit set aside for his Holinesse well knoweth it is the Altar that sends him in his rent hee neuer got any thing by the Pulpits what he hath lost by them hee knowes and feeles so well that if he knew how to carry it cleanly he would rid his Churches as cleane of them as he hath done of the Bibles in the vulgar tongue In the meane time his Holinesse out of great wisedome is content that any disgraces be cast vpon Preaching that can bee deuised insomuch as if any bee great preachers in Catholicke Countries it is enough to suspect them for heretickes and their bookes must be purged witnesse Stella Ferus and many others and though Christ and the Scriptures seeme to magnifie preaching neuer so much yet good Catholickes must not care for it but must know that Christ spake what was fit for those times but his Holinesse knowes and must appoint what is fit for these times and therefore hee will notwithstanding giue it what place he list And if any man offer to compare it with the Masse it is little better then Heresie But Frier Lobo a great preacher in Rome could not containe but in the hearing of Pope Gregory the 13 deliuered this in the Pulpit That it is of greater worth before God and more profitable to the doer to heare Gods Word preached then to see a Masse But what followed His holy stomacke could digest no such doctrine nor indure such blasphemy against his God and therefore forthwith he constrained the poore Frier to go vp againe and in the same place to eate his words to teach the contrary Thus he made him in the Pulpit to disgrace the Pulpit in the place of preaching to disparage preaching And not thus content he also susspended the Frier from preaching yea his recantation could not keepe him from suspension and no maruell for hee that durst magnifie preaching aboue the Masse is not a man fit to preach in Rome * Bapt. Corradus Resp cas con To. 2o. quaest 253. art 2o. Nauar. in Manual cap. 13. art 30. Fumus in verb. Festum pag. 378. Neither is this practise contrary to our doctrine for do not our Iesuits and Casuists teach and write that as vpon the Sabboth day the Commandement of the Sabboth enioynes not the inward worship of God but onely the outward * Soto de Iust Iure lib. 2. q. 4. art 4. Iac. de Graf de decis aur To. 1o. lib. 2o. cap. 34. art 8. Azor. Institut Moral To. 1o. lib. 7o. cap. 3. q. 6. Posseu Bib. sel To. 1o. l. 11. cap. 1o. a peece of rare Diuinity So also that that outward or exterior worship only commanded in that Commandement consisteth onely in hearing the Masse and as for praying or hearing of Sermons they are not of the essence of that Commandement Nay our Church say they hath no law for hearing or being present at any part of Gods seruice but onely at the Masse nor is it any where a custome in the Catholike Church that a man is bound vnder paine of mortall sinne to pray to God on the Sabboth day or heare the word preached but onely to heare a Masse Oh sweete and dainty doctrines And these be no triuiall Doctors but of our chiefe ring-leaders especially * Molanus Comp. pract Theol. Tract 2o. c. 9o. Azorius who was one of the principall founders of Iesuitisme This was he whom as Possevine reporteth Gregory the thirteenth called to Rome to be one of them that should make lawes and orders for the whole society This holy Iesuite hauing gotten some secret inspiration from his Holinesse and suckt out of the Popes owne breast more pure Popery then all the rest he goeth further and saith It is the common opinion that there is no Diuine law compelling or commanding
Christians to heare Sermons on the Sabboth or festiuall dayes And whereas there was so much goodnesse in the Councell of Trent as the Heretickes call it or rather so much curiosity as we may say as to decree that Bishops should diligently admonish their people and tell them that they are bound to come to their parish Churches to heare Gods word Azorius the Iesuite hath answere ready that the Bishops are bid to warne them not to compell them and if that seeme too slight he hath a better in store whereas saith he the Councell would haue them come to heare Gods word that must be vnderstood of the Gospell in the Masse for is there not a Gospell read in euery Masse and is not the Gospell Gods word Then he that comes to the Masse heares a Gospell read and consequently heares Gods word Is not here deepe diuinity and shall not an ignorant man be well edified when hee heares a peece of the Gospell read in Latine whereof he vnderstandeth not one word Yes doubtlesse saith learned Ledesma the Iesuit if they come with deuotion and a good intent Thus then you see that preaching is a meane matter in respect of the Masse And this is the reason why here and elsewhere in our Liturgies and chiefe and best bookes of state as our Missall Pontificall Ceremoniall Sacerdotall and the like for one mention of a Sermon and a Pulpit you shall heare a hundred times of an Altar and a Masse And if this bee done by the Church and that Church cannot erre then all good Catholickes must know that not Pulpits Preaching but Altars and Masses must they looke after The Heretickes I confesse do hereat take great offence and hereupon doe cauill and raile bitterly and say that it is no maruel to see the pope preferre the Altar before the Pulpit a Masse before preaching for say they and my eares haue heard them say it to my great griefe if they gained no more by the one then the other his Holinesse would be faine to strike saile for the wings of his pride would soon be clipt He tels vs say they of a miracle in Transubstantiation that the Bread and Wine are turned into Christs Body and Bloud and there remaines nothing but the fashion colour or likenesse of Bread and wine But as our faith findes none such in Scripture no more doth our bodily sence finde it in experience But we can tell them of a much more true and sensible wonder daily amongst them for their Pulpits are transubstantiated if we may be so bold with their word for Gods it is not into Altars their Preachers into Priests their Sermons into Sacrifices their Bibles into Missals and these are so absolutely altered and really changed that indeed there remaines nothing but names and shadowes For the other haue the substance Pulpits say they are for Lent Altars for euery day Masses are commanded Sermons but aduised Sermons may doe well but Masses are necessary The Bible hath bred many heresies but the Masse booke breeds and feedes deuotion Therefore Gods Dan. 11. 36 37. 38. booke the Bible is to be remoued from the people as a dangerous thing and the Masse booke of mans making is to bee their daily bread Is not this the same say they or as bad that Daniel prophesieth of that there shall be a King that shall doe what him list and shall exalt himselfe and magnifie himselfe against all that is God and speake maruellous things against the God of Gods and shall prosper till the wrath be accomplished c. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers nor the desires of women nor care for any God for hee shall magnifie himselfe aboue all And in stead of God shall worship his God Mauzzim euen the God that his fathers knew not Whether their Masse be this Mauzzim here meant or no say they we affirme not once this is cleere that hee hath turned his Masse into a Mauzzim and made an Idoll of it and worships in it a God of his owne making a God that his fathers knew not for his transubstantiation and his propitiatory sacrifice which two be the life and soule of the Masse were not knowne in the ancient and purest Church for 500 yeares after Christ And this Mauzzim is set vp in the very roome of God For since the Masse was erected vnto this height it is at Christ neuer had his due but was despoiled of his Offices and Honour Gods booke cast aside and a Masse booke laid in his place Sermons accounted but things indifferent or conuenient but Masses the onely necessary duty of the Sabboth day And as he here saith No man may say Masse at the high Altars of the seuen Churches in Rome but the Pope or his Deputie but you shall finde no such prerogatiue for preaching here or else-where Arise O Lord mainteine thine owne cause against that Idoll the Masse and Mauzzim of the Romish Synagogue Thus madly and extrauagantly doe these idle heretickes prate but let not this nor ought that can be brought out of Scripture trouble any good Catholicke conscience these be but the temptations of the Diuell let him hearken what the Pope teacheth who is Gods Vicar and Peters successor and if they be good Catholickes they know that he cannot erre and that whatsoeuer he doth or teacheth as he is Pope it is all one as if God did it or taught it let hereticks then if they will extoll preaching let this satisfie deuout Catholicks that here the Pope takes order for saying Masse reseruing certaine Churches to himselfe at whose high Altars none may say Masse but himselfe or some by commission from him but finde me any whose pulpits he reserues to himselfe nay finde me any in whose pulpits he will come at all No it is too base a place and preaching too painfull a duty for his holinesse hee harh something else to doe as namely to create Cardinals to translate Empires and dispose of Kingdomes to reade and answere letters from the Princes of the earth and to giue audience to their Embassadors to controll Kings when they displease his holinesse and to excommunicate them if they submit not to his pleasure and if they persist to depose them and discharge their subiects of their oath and alleageance to giue their kingdomes to whom he list and to raise their owne subiects against them to augment Saint Petars patrimony by procuring Princes and Dukes to giue him the reuersions after them to goe and take possessions of the Prouinces that fall to him by such excheates as Clemens the 5 did lately of Ferrara to make leagues betwixt Princes and to breake them when he seeth good yea though they be confirmed by Oath and Sacrament * Vide Peter Math inter constitutiones Pont. Rom. in Bulla Pauli 3. contra Henricum 8. Angliae Regem as Paul the 3. did against Henry the 8 of England Pius 5 against Elizabeth and Sixtus 5. against Henry of
of Hereticall bookes and rid it of hereticall Kings to restore learning and preserue the truth which without them had perished to make plaine and perfect the Scriptures which till their time lay neglected to compose all controuersies reade all riddles know all secrets heare all confessions and to discouer no more then makes for their purpose censure all questions satisfie all consciences resolue all doubts and in a word to be the very Oracles of the Christian world as holy as true and as infallible as euer was that of Delphos or Iupiter Hamon I say let vs hearken how those reuerend Iesuits and for them all how renoumed Azor one of their most glorious Fathers and founders of that blessed company handles this question It 's moued saith hee and made a question if on one day a Masse and a Sermon doe so concurre as both cannot bee heard whether is to be omitted with lesse losse and sinne The fore-named Doctors and many other more Dunses as they be doe teach that the Masse must yeeld to the Sermon And the good Iesuit ingenuously confesseth which hee doth not for that hee holds Iesuits tied to speake truth who can speake nothing but truth and whatsoeuer they speake is therefore truth because they speake it but because the more and greater his Aduersaries be the more glorious is the victory Therefore he freely confesseth that many of the Popish Doctors be of the same opinion and that they ground this their opinion upon the Decrees and vpon S. Bernard and S. Augustine But what are all these to such sincere learned and iuditious men as the Iesuits euen nothing at all when once the truth comes in question for then downe goe Doctors Fathers Councels Scriptures and all to make roome for the holy Catholique Romish Truth out of the Iesuites holy mouthes In which Catholique zeale the noble Iesuit thus resolues the question But whatsoeuer saith he these or any of these or all these or any other doe thinke It is to bee said Marke yee dull Heretiques with what maiesty a Iesuit concludes against Canon-law Schoole-men and Fathers and tremble when you see what potent aduersaries you haue of them It is saith he to be held without controll That the Masse which is to be heard by the Churches commandement is to be preferred before the hearing of the holy word of God And marke his reason whereby hee proues it for though it bee no reason to expect a reason from so great so graue so godly men as the Fathers of the Society who by their nature and constitution will not thinke speake nor doe any thing without a reason yet is his Father-hood here pleased to giue vs a reason but marke it I say againe for it 's as good as honest and as religious a reason and as well-beseeming a Iesuit as the opinion it selfe The Masse saith he is to be preferred before the Sermon and the Sermon is to be omitted for the Masse for that saith he there is great difference betwixt that that is due by Commandement and that that 's due by Counsell for that that 's due by Commandement may not bee omitted nor can be vnder paine of mortall sinne But it is no sinne to omit that that 's due onely by Counsell Now the Masse is commanded Preaching is but counselled to heare a Masse a man is tied by vertue of the commandement to heare a Sermon he is but counselled or aduised therefore it 's apparant that a man is bound to preferre the Masse before a Sermon and to omit or loose a Sermon for a Masse And thus so learnedly so holily so irrefragably is this question resolued that none but professed foes to the holy Romish Church and open enemies to the Masse and aduancers of that dangerous booke called the Scriptures and who therefore are iustly condemned for Heretickes can or will or dare gainesay it And as for those that durst hold the contrary though they were none of them of these vp-start Heretickes yet it 's not fit that they passe without reproofe and iust censure for this their so grosse ignorance or so foule impiety as to perfer a Sermon before a Masse and therefore saith the Iesuite religiously and learnedly like himselfe If this be so It will bee here demanded whether Angelus and the rest that hold this Detestable Error that a Sermon is to bee heard rather then a Masse bee to bee condemned as holders of a Timerariouse opinion Some saith he absolutely condemne it and them so to be Others hold it to bee a false Opinion but not Temerariouse And thus they excuse them and they glosse it ouer with some shewes and shadows of argument as if it were a hard case for the Church to tye a man for the gazing of a masse to loose so great a matter as a Sermon But this is idle saith the Iesuite and therfore for you shall alwaies see Iesuites take the better part seeing they haue no good reason for their opinion in my iudgement the opinion is to be holden Temerariouse and they to bee condemned to haue spoken Temerariously that is rashly vnaduisedly and without iudgement So then these Heretickes might see if they were not blind that in the holy Romane Church it is so firmely holden that a Sermon is not so good so holy so necessary as a Masse That whoeuer holds the contrary be it Caluinist or Schooleman Father or Councell they are subiect to censure and punishment for it And euen Bernard and Augustine may be glad they had so good hap to bee made Saints by that Romane Church for otherwise for this their impious conceit to preferre a Sermon before a Masse they had beene sure and that very worthily to be condemned for Heretickes But seeing the Church that cannot erre hath vouchsafed to Canonize them for Saints she will therefore deale more mercifully with them then their impiety deserues and at the humble mediation of the charitable Iesuites will onely pronounce them temerariouse but not condemne them for Heretickes If this then bee cleere that by the resolued Doctrine and Definition of the Romane Church A Masse is the principall part if not the whole worship of God and that onely the Masse is strictly commanded and hearing of Gods word preached is but conditionally aduised And that therefore a Masse is farre more excellent in it selfe more auaileable with God more profitable and comfortable to the soule then is the hearing of sermons then who sees not but if the Popes holinesse praies but seldome or not at all Yet doe often and continually say Masse that then he hath stopped the mouthes of all heretickes that like curres doe bawle and barke against him and call him and his great Bishops Dumbe Dogges that cannot barke O silly fooles these Heretickes that bring these words of the Prophet against his Holinesse For doe they not know that when the Prophet complained of those dumbe dogges that could not barke there were then no Masses in the world for if
there had hee would haue blamed their negligence in them rather then of preaching and this I say by the warrant and president of the Mariale which saith that whereas Salomon writes thus The name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous flye vnto it and are helped Salomon saith he knew little of the Virgin Mary for if he had he would haue said The name of our Lady is a strong Tower the righteous flye vnto it and are helped And surely with as good right may I say the Prophet knew little of the dignitie vertue and efficacie of the holy Masse for if he had hee would not haue blamed them for not preaching but for negligence in saying Masse But Salomon and Esay are both to be pardoned because of the times they liued in but as for these Heretickes that liue in these times and cannot but see the great vertue and high price that Masses are at and how beneficiall they bee to the Catholicke Romane Church and consequently how good cause the Church hath to magnifie Masses aboue Preaching they are without all excuse and their fault vnpardonable But though they be so madde to moue it and so malicious to presse it that the Pope and all his Cleargy ought rather to preach then say Masses yet hee is too wise to hearken to it nay though sometime some of his owne Catholicke children are bewitched with this poyson and are harping on this string that preaching is the greater and worthier of the two yet he hath wit enough to discouer and power to suppresse them in time therefore if any of them write so he commands it to be razed out of their bookes that hereafter it may not testifie against them and if any be so bold to preach it his holinesse takes such order with them as few dare follow their example Witnesse Frier Lobo of whom wee spake before whose iudgement was so iust and sentence so sharpe by Pope Gregories owne holy mouth for that his impious presumption in preferring a Sermon before a Masse and that also in Rome where like a foole that he was he might haue remembred that preaching hath been out of season these 500 yeares that from that day we haue not heard of any that durst attempt the like in Rome and if the like course had beene taken in Germany France and England these new heresies had neuer spred as they do For it is nothing but hearing Sermons reading the Bible that hath bred fed and still feeds and disperseth those heresies of the Lutherans and Caluinists as daily and lamentable experience lets vs see and feele For his Holinesse knowes full well that if he could but rid the world of the Bibles in the vulgar tongues and pull downe this talking trade of Preaching we should soone see these Heresies and this new Gospell of Luther and Caluin melt away and come to nothing for take away the meanes and cause and the effect will follow And full well spoke a wise Cardinall to the Pope when in a priuate consultation there was complaint of the growing and spreading of Lutheranisme Wee may thanke our selues saith he and our owne sloth and carelesnesse for this who let the Scriptures flye abroad and become so common for we ought to haue kept them vnder colour of Maiesty and to procure them greater Generation in the learned tongues and laid them vp in safe and secret Libraries so should neither they haue beene corrupted by heretickes and Iewes as they haue beene nor they haue corrupted and made so many Hereticks as they haue done A wise and worthy speech doubtlesse and well beseeming a Cardinall and a full deuout soule I warrant him was he of the Romish Mother Church And from that day forward hath the Pope beene more carefull in this poynt and hath set on worke his darlings the Iesuits who haue done him faithfull seruice in this kinde as may appear to their great honor to al them that wil loose a litle time to reade their bookes for by their bookes their Sermons and their perswasions they haue so preuailed that where euer any of them do remain or but lurk you shall not finde a Romish Catholicke but he can learnedly prate against the Scriptures whereof he heartily thanks his God he neuer read one booke and can tell you what a dangerous booke it is and how many haue beene made Heretickes by it and by this meanes their Disciples bogle at it and auoyd it as snare or a pit in the way or a rocke in the sea Now if this bee true that the Scripture is so dangerous a booke and that preaching must be out of that booke who sees not that therefore in good Popish reason and Pope-holy religion it followeth that it beseemes all men to be wary tender and dainty euen how they make or heare too many Sermons For if the Scripture be a dangerous booke surely preaching cannot but be a dangerous exercise in which regard appeares the wisedome of the holy Romish Church who hath ordained there shall be Sermons daily in the Lent in most great Cities and so by making them proper to Lent she makes them seeme to be out of season all the yeare besides and in most places neuer expected neuer thought of till Lent come againe wheras contrariwise the holy and blessed Masse is alwayes in season and by the strict order of the holy Roman Church is daily to be said without omission nay some dayes two or three and euery day the more the better So then sermons are but the Lent prouision but Masses are the daily bread of the holy Roman Catholikes And howsoeuer the holy fathers the Popes and his Cardinals doe not trouble their heads nor disturbe the peoples mindes with much preaching yet they make them a bountifull amends with the multitude of Masses wherein all good Catholikes know they doe but as if a housholder kept away course bread and gaue his people store of fine Manchets for it for what bee sermons but as course bread but the Masses these bee the fine Manchers they be the dainty feeding for the refined stomackes of all Romish Catholikes Therefore let these bawling heretickes know that because the Popes Holinesse sawe the olde Church in former times surfetted of Sermons and that euery hereticke brought Scripture presently for his heresie therefore in these latter more prudent times they haue made a blessed exchange and for poore homely vestments wodden Chalices and a golden Cleargy haue giuen the people goodly rich Copes and golden Chalices good store to make amends for their leaden Bishops and wodden Priests which we cannot deny but are plentifull in many Catholique countries For the Scripture in the vulgar tongues which thereby was made too common and exposed to contempt haue giuen them the Latine Gospell in the Masse which is read so solemnly so stately and with such glorious ceremonies that all the people stand stricken with admiration and amazement and are oftentimes edified as much by
Disciples at his last supper In the same place is the old Testament to wit Moses his rod the Arke of the Couenant All these did Titus and Vespatian bring thither from Ierusalem together with those 4 great brasen pillars which now stand about the high Altar within which Altar are the heads of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul And when these heads be shewed vnto the people then there are as many Indulgences at that Church as there bee at S. Peters Church 13 True as many in the one place as in the other at the shewing of Veronica * Hee meanes a picture of Christ which they say he gaue to a woman called Veronica in that handkercher which shee gaue Christ to wipe his face withall Also there is the Image or picture of our Lord which was painted vpon the wall not with mans hands but by the Diuine worke of God before all the people of Rome 14 Here is a picture that is worth speaking of which God himselfe painted If the hereticke Caluenists did beleeue that God made this Picture they would not be so earnest against Images But they poore soules thinke that some of the cunning Clergy of Rome made it secretly in the night or some way else conueighed it thither And thus they wilfully cast away themselues as though the holy Mother Church of Rome would say this if it were not true And this Image thus appeared vpon the 5. day of the Ides of Nouember Also there are the golden Candlestickes that were in the first Tabernacle of the old Testament Also the Table wherein the Law was written with the finger of God 5 The Heretickes also will not beleeue that these be the true Tables wherein the Law was written because the Iewes that are in Rome in great abundance would by one meanes or other haue got them away though it had cost them their liues but no matter what Iewes or Heretickes say as long as the Holy Mother Church tels vs these be they Also some of the 5 barley Loaues and two Fishes with which fiue thousand men were fed by Christ Also the coate without seame which Mary the virgin and mother of our Lord made for Iesus her sonne And there is also the purple garment that Mary made for her selfe Also there is some of the bloud and water that flowed out of CHRISTS side Also some of the ground where Christ stood when he ascended into Heauen Also some of the haire and of the bloud of S. Iohn Baptist And some of the dust ashes of his body when it was burnt And the haire-cloath which hee ware being of Camels skins There is also the Coate of S. Iohn the Euangelist with which hee raised vp two dead men to life And there is some of the Manna of S. Iohn Baptist his Sepulchre which was found in his graue euen a great pot full Also there is an Image of our Lord Iesus Christ which Nichodemus made as the Iewes were a beating him 16 A very fit time to take a mans picture when one is beating him But it seemes Nichodemus was a very cunning painter Likewise there is that very linnen cloath or towell with which Christ wiped his Disciples feet 1 This fore-kin was missing many years but it was found againe saith Onuphrius such good happe hath the holy Church of Rome that if any reliques be stolne or lost they are found againe in a short time some are so bold to say that others are put in their roomes but they prate like Hereticks at his last supper There is also the foreskinne of Iesus which was cut from him in his circumcision 17 Furthermore there is the head of Zacharias the Prophet and of S. Pancrase out of which bloud did streame forth for 3 dayes space when the Church of Laterane was burnt Also there are the breeches of S. Laurence 18 Was it not a strange thing that when S. Laurence was broyled to death on the grid-iron the fire that burnt his flesh and bones would not touch his breeches The Catholicke Roman Church is full of these miracles let the Caluinists match them if they can Also there is a Casket full of the Reliques of Mary Magdalen Also Christs hand-kercher Also the Cuppe out of which S. Iohn drunke the poyson Also the shirt which the blessed virgin Mary made for Iesus Also that linnen cloath which the blessed virgin gaue vnto Iesus about his thigh as hee hung on the crosse There is also a great deale of the crosse it selfe our Lord died on Also two of Saint Peters teeth Moreouer in the same Church there is another Chappell which is called the sancta sanctorum or holy of holiest whereinto women may not enter 19 Not on the day time by any meanes least they should pollute it but is not so on the night In it is a picture of our Sauiour that was taken when hee was foureteene yeares old And in that Chappell there is daily euery day remission of all sins 20 If there bee remission of all sinnes there why are women excluded because they haue no sin or because they need no remission or they must not haue remission so lightly as men Let euery good Catholicke aske his Confessor this question both à poena culpae from the punishment and the sinne also Not farre from the same Chappell there is an ascent of three and thirty steps and how oft soeuer any man shall deuoutly ascend vp that ladder for euery step he hath a thousand yeares of pardon 21 so then the going vp of these steps procures to a man three thirty thousand yeares of pardon oh what a bountifull Lady the holy Mother Church of Rome is these steps were brought from Ierusalem and be those very steppes which Christ ascended when hee went vp before Pilate the President to his iudgement Also there is the chaine with which S. Iohn was bound when hee came from Ephesus to Rome and the sheares with which he was polled at the cōmandement of Domitian 22 There bee the sheares that polled him but where is his haire surely they were too blame to leaue the haire that were so carefull to preserue the sheares especially seeing they haue the haire of other Saints Also the virgin Maries vaile with which she vsed to couer her head And some of the Reede with which they smot Iesus in Pilats house And a Table full of the reliques of Martyrs Confessors and virgins and a great quantitie of the true Crosse 23 The Crosse on which Christ died which Simon once bore is multiplied by miracle For an hundred yeares agoe Erasmus wrot the greatest ship in the world could not carry the peeces of it that are kept shewed worshipped in the holy Churches Roman let the Heretickes shew such a miracle if they can And of the apparrell milke and haire of blessed Mary the virgin And of the haire of Saint Iohn Baptist
cum felle mixtum Item ibi sunt duo sophiri quorum vnus est plenus sanguine Christi alter plenus lacte Mariae Virginis Item caput Innocentij Martiris Item in dextro latere altaris est liguum crucis latronis conuersi Item ibi est vnus digitus Beati Thomae Apostoli Item ibi est titulus Iesu Christi appositus cruci scilicet Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum Item in eadem Ecclesia iacent corpora xlij summorum pontificum quorum vnusquisque suam dedit Indulgentiam CHAP. 9 6 The sixth principall and patriarchall Church is the Church of Saint Crosse Indulgences of the Church of Saint Crosse IN the Church of Saint Crosse there are euery day eight and forty yeares of pardon and as many quarentens and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes Also a little lower on the side of the Church there is a Chappell called Hierusalem into which women may not enter but onely vpon Saint Benets day 1 Blessed Saint Benet was the good womans friend who got them leaue on his day to come into the holy Chappell which is one reason doubtlesse why women are so deuout to the Benedictins And then there is in that Chappell full remission of all sinnes both a paena a culpa Further Constaniina the Empresse builded this Church to the honour of the holy Crosse 2 Bawling heretikes doe here make a stirre and wonder that wee dare build Churches in honour of the dead Crosse But they be fooles and know nothing But all deuout and learned Catholickes doe know that the holy Roman Church teacheth to pray to the Crosse and hath a praier to it in the holy Masse booke or Breuiary O cruxaue spes vnica hoc passionis tempore auge pijs Iusticiam Reisque dona veniam and least some should thinke who haue too nice and spiced consciences as some Catholickes haue that this praier is to him that died on the Crosse and not to the Crosse our approoued Doctors haue handled the case and resolued it that ipsam Crucem alloquimur ipsam Crucem deprecamur quasi ipsum Crucifixum If wee may speake to the Crosse and pray to the Crosse it selfe as to Christ Then surely no man will deny but wee may build Churches to it and Pope Siluester did Consecrate it at the instance and praiers of Saint Hellen. Likewise vpon euery Sunday and euery Wednesday there bee in this Church two hundred fiftie and foure yeares of pardon and vpon euery other day an hundred thirty eight yeares and as many quarentens And there bee many other pardons and indulgences here which wee dare not set downe 3 Let the heretikes here see to their shame First the great modesty of the Roman Church who forbeares to put downe the Indulgences when they are so exceeding many as they cannot bee counted and behold also the bounty of our spirituall mother who grants Indulgences so plentifully as modesty forbids to expresse them what good Catholicke can stay from going to Rome that there hee may diue into the middest of this sea and partake of this bottomlesse Treasure for vpon euery Lords day and euery Wednesday Saint Siluester doubled all the Indulgences The reliques of the same Church IN the foresaid Church of Saint Crosse there is the rope 4 Behold a pretious relicke the Rope that Christ was led in for though the Gospells speake of none yet here is as good warrant for it as the Gospell to all good Catholickes where in Christ Iesus was led to his death when hee bare his Crosse There is also one of the nailes with which he was nailed to the Crosse Also a great deale of Saint Iohn Baptists coate and two of the teeth of Saint Blase the Bishop And two armes of the Apostles 5 Here bee two armes of Peter and Paul in this Church and yet we are to beleeue that the whole halfe of them both is in Saint Peters and the other whole halfe in Saint Pauls Church for these two arraes the Pope created by his power Peter and Paul And vnder the high altar of that Church doe lie the bodies of Saint Anastatius Caesar Saint Prothatius Also there is in that Church some of the wood of the true Crosse 6 Here is some of the wood of the true Crosse to put a difference betwixt too many that are counterfeits by which good deuout Catholickes are darly cozened to their great discomfort Also a lamp full of baulme wherein lies the head of Saint Vincentius Martire Also there is the Spung with which the Iewes gaue Iesus Christ vinegar mingled with gaule to drinke Likewise there bee two glasses whereof the one is ful of the bloud of Christ and the other full of the milke of Marie 7 God Catholickes doe greatly wonder seeing the holy virgin had no child after Christ how this milke of hers was preserued for sure shee would not keepe it her selfe and in those daies few regarded either her or her sonne for thirty yeares wee hope therefore his Holinesse will let vs know this great secret for sure there is some great miracle and mysterie in it But seeing in that Church there is both of the milke the bloud wee now see the reason why father Scribanius the Iesuite writers that hee so longs for the milke of the mother and bloud of the Sonne that he knowes not whether to desire more and saith that therefore he will mingle them both together and of that mixture make a pretious soueraign medicine for his soule Indeed we doe easily beleeue Iesuites to bee such extardinary men that they haue some extraordinary spirituall phisicke for their soules which others haue not yet as great and as good as he is he may now be beholding to vs that publish this blessed booke for now hee knowes where hee may haue both his simples to make his confection both the milke and bloud and let him not feare that they at Rome can spare none of it for if he pay well for it he shall haue it and yet by the supreme power of the Pope though neuer so much be taken continually yet they multiply againe and the last is as good as the first and all of like vertue the Virgin Also there is the head of Innocentius the Martire And vpon the right side of the altar there is the wood of the Crosse wherupon the good theefe died And there is also one of the fingers of Saint Thomas the Apostle There is also the title of Iesus Christ which was set vpon his Crosse namely Iesus of Nazareth King of the Iewes Moreouer in the same Church there lieth the bodies of two and fortie Popes or chiefe Bishops whereof euery one bestowed their indulgence vpon this Church CAP. 10 Indulgentiae Ecclesiae Sancti Laeurencij ITem Papa Pallagius qui hanc Ecclesiam consecrauit concessit ibi in quatuor temporibus anni in omnibus festiuitatibus Stephani
day of the month of Nouember and there is there vpon that day remission of all sins which was obtained at the supplication of Constantine the Emperor For saith hee after that Constantine the Emperor was healed of his leprosie by receiuing holy Baptisme he said to S. Siluester the Pope holy Father I haue ordained or consecrated my owne house to bee a Church thou therfore infuse and powre vpon this Church thy plentifull blessings for all that shall repaire and come vnto it Hereunto S. Siluester answering said our Lord Iesus Christ who of his own mercy hath healed thee cleansed thee from thy leprosie cleanse purifie from all their sins all that come to this place without mortall sinne 10 This is most vndoubtedly true that whosoeuer comes to that Church without mortall sin shall obtaine all these Indulgences and the very Caluinists and Lutherans will not for shame deny this But if they be so curious as to reply and say that none can come without mortall sin and therefore by this grant none at all shal get any good let them goe like busie heretickes as they are for being Heretickes they are not worthy to be censured but by fire and fagot at what time of the yeare so euer they come to it And we by the authority of S. Peter and S. Paul and our owne do remit pardon them and do grant vnto them remission of all their sinnes Likewise S. Gregory who also consecrated this said Church after it was repaired hauing been defaced by Heretickes confirmed all the aforesaid Indulgences formerly founded by S. Siluester Moreouer Boniface the Pope once said The Indulgences that are to bee had in the Church of Laterane no man can number 11 Here againe the heretickes will laugh say that it is most true they that are not at all cannot bee numbred as no man can number or count the gold in a beggars purse because there is none But these shew themselues bold heretickes indeede that dare suppose holy Pope Boniface especially the 8. would aequiuocate yet I confirme them euery one CHAP. 2. Reliquiae eiusdem Ecclesiae IN illa Ecclesia est quaedam Capella quae vocatur Sacristia ibi est Altare sancti Iohānis quod habuit in Deserto ibi tabula super quam cenauit Christus cum suis discipulis in cena Domini Ibidem est testamentum vetus scilieet virga Moysi et archa foederis Ista omnia apportauerunt Titus Vespasianus de Ierusalem cum quatuor columnis aeris quae stant circa summum Altare vbi sunt capita beatorum Apostolorum Petri Pauli Et quando ista capita monstrantur tunc sunt ibi tot indulgentiae quot sunt ad sanctum Petrum in ostentione Veronicae Item imago Domini quae depicta est in pariete non per manus hominum sed Diuino opere coram omni populo Romano apparuit quinto Idus Nouembris Item Candelae aureae quae fuerunt in priori tabernaculo Item mensa in quae lex est scripta digito Dei Item de quinque panibus ordeaceis duobus piscibus ex quibus saturati fuerunt quinque millia hominum Item tunica inconsutilis quam fecit Maria virgo mater Domini nostri Iesu Christi Item est ibi vestimentum purpureum quod Maria sibi fecit Item est ibi de sanguine aqua fluente de latere Chricit Item de loco ascenfionis domini in coelum Item de crinibus sanguine beati Iohannis Baptistae Item de puluere cinere corporis eius combusti Item cilicium eius quod fuit de pellibus Camelorum Item tunica sancti Iohannis cum qua duos mortuos resuseitauit Item de Manna sepulturae Iohannis Baptistae quod fuit inuentum in sepultura sua magna pulla plena Item Imago Domini nostri Iesu Christi quam fecit Nichodemus sicut Iudei Christum percusserunt Item ibi est linteum cum quo Christus pedes suorum Discipulorum tersit in coena Domini Item praeputium Domini Iesu Christi quod sibi abscissum fuerat in Circumcisione Domini Item caput Zaechariae Prophetae caput sancti Pancracij de quo sanguis emanauit ad tres dies quum Ecclesia Lateranensis combusta fuit Item stapula sancti Laurentij Item vna Capsa plena reliquijs Mariae Magdalenae Item sudarum Christi Item Cyphus ex quo sanctus Iohanne bibit venenum Item Camisia quam beata Maria virgo fecerat mhristo Item pannus ille quem beata Maria dedit filio suo pendente in cruce circa femur Item magna pars de cruce Domint Item duo dentes de sancto Petro. Item in eadem Ecclesia est vna Capella quae vocatur ad sancta sanctorum in quam mulieres non intrant vbi est vna facies saluatoris quando fuit quatuor decem annorum Et ibi est omnibus diebus remissio omnium peccatorum à poena à culpa circa eandem Capellam est vnus assensus triginta trium graduum quoties homo aliquis illos devote ascenderit de quolibet gradu habet mille annos Indulgentiarū qui gradus apportati sunt de Ierusalem quos etiam gradus Iesus ascendit ad Pilatum presidem Item Cathena cum qua venit sanctus Iohannes de Epheso Romam forpices cum quibus fuit tonsus de mandato Domitiani Item velum quod portauit beata Maria in capite Item de arundine cum quo percusserunt Christum in domo Pilati Item tabula plena de reliquijs Martirum Confessorum atque virginum magna pars verae crucis Item de vestimentis lacte capillis beatae Mariae virginis Item de capillis sancti Iohannis baptistae Item iuxta lauaecrum omni die est remissio omnium peccatorum in quem locum non intrant mulieres Item in Aula domini Papae sunt tria ostia cuilibet intro eunti per vnum exeunti per aliud concedūtur xliiij anni indulgentiae tot carenae Et in parte orientali Ecclesiae capitalis sunt tria ostia quae portata fuerunt de Ierusalem CHAP. 2. Of the Reliques in the said Church of Laterane IN this Church of the Laterane there is a certaine Chappell which is called the Sacrist or the Vestry in it there is S. Iohns Altar 12 Here the Heretickes may see how ancient Altars be for as sure as this is true Altars bee as old as since S. Iohn Baptist Now whether this be that very Altar or no whether those vnder-named be not the very Table that Christ supped at and Moses his rod the right Arke of the couenant Heretickes will make question but good Catholicks will as firmely beleeue it and more then they will that the booke of the Reuelation is Canonical Scripture euen that very Altar which he had in the Wildernesse And there is also that very Table vpon which Christ supped with his