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A40122	The arraignment of popery being a short collection, taken out of the chronicles, and other books, of the state of the church in the primitive times : also, the state of the Papists, and how long it was before the universal pope and mass was set up, and the time of bringing in all their rudiments and traditions, beads and images, purgatory, tythes and inquisitions : also, a relation of their cruelties they acted after the Pope got up, being worse then the heathen and Turk, New Rome having proved like Old : also, what the people of England worshipped before they were Christians : with several other things, which may be profitable for people to read over, where all that fear God may see, read, try, and give judgment by the spirit of truth : to which is added, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church / by G.F. and E.H.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1750A; ESTC R15884	93,976	138

time not above One hundred and twenty of them refused to take the Oath but turned from their Religion to Protestantism because the Queen set it up notwithstanding they in Queen Maries days had burned some hundreds because they would not bow to Popery And in the first year of her Reign a Book of Injunctions to the Clergy was published some of which are as followeth That every Holy-day throughout the year when the people had no Sermon the Priest should recite the Pater-noster the Creed and ten Commandments to the intent the people might learn the same by heart c. Item That they should keep Holy-dayes Item That the Church-Wardens at the common charge of the parishioners shall provide a comely and honest pulpit to be set in a convenient place and to be there seemly kept Some of the Articles published in the y●ar 1610 by the Arch-D●acon of Rochester Whether is your Minister a Preacher Licensed if yea then by whom Whether doth he bid Holy-days and Fasting-days Item Whether have you in your Church or Chappel a seemly Pulpit a decent Communion table with meet Clothes to cover it a Font of Stone set in the old usual place a Communion-Cup of silver with a Cover a large Surplice with Sleeves c. Some of the Articles published in t●e year 1636. 1. Whether is your Church or Chappel sufficiently repaired the Walls and Covering thereof strong and close Are the Bells unbroken and their Frames strong and safe and fit for use Are the Windows well glazed and Floors well paved and seats decent without dust in such decent manner as becomes the House of God 2. Have you a Font of stone in the ancient usual place and a decent Pulpit with a decent Cushion and a decent comely Surplice with wide sleeves for your Ministers use 3. Have you a decent Communion-table and a Carpet of silk or other decent stuff for this Table also a fair Linen Cloth And is the said Table covered therewith c. And after Queen Elizabeth in King James his time the Book of Common Prayer was confirmed by the King and then the Bishops and Clergy in England by the Kings Licence set forth Canons and Constitutions in the Church some of which are as followeth That there should be a Font of stone in every Church and Chappel according to former Constitutions Also that in all Churches there should be decent tables and covered in time of Divine Service with a Carpet of silk or other decent stuff and in the time of administration a fair linnen cloth on it and that the ten Commandments should be set up on the East end of every Church and Chappel Also that a comely and decent Pulpit should be provided in every Church and Chappel Also they set forth a Form of Prayer that they should say be●ore Sermon And that in Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches he that administred the Communion on principal Feast-dayes should wear a decent Cope And when there was no Communion in Cathedral Churches they should wear Surplices and Hoods Also that the Letany should be said or sung on Wednesdays and Fridayes weekly and that Sundays and all holy-dayes should be observed Also that Ministers according to their degrees should wear decent and comely apparel to have them known to the people thereby to receive honour c. Gowns with standing-Collars and sleeves strait at hands or wide sleeves with Hoods or Tippets of Silk or Sarsenit and square Caps also some Ministers were to wear the like apparel but no tippets Also that they should wear in their Journeys Cloaks with sleeves commonly called Priests cloaks with sleeves welts long buttons or cuts Also that no Ecclesiastical person should wear any Coif or wrought Night-Cap but only plain Caps of black Silk Satin or Velvet Also that in publick they go not in their Doublet and Hose without Coats or Cassocks also that they wear not any light-coloured stockins likewise that poor-beneficed Curates that could not provide themselves long Gowns may go in short Gowns And in the time of the Long-Parliament which was ended in the year 1652. they having denied the Common-Prayer and a Directory for the publick Worship of God being set out in the year 1644 by a Synod of Priests sitting at Westminster the generality of the Prie is rather then they would leave their Benefices conformed to that power likewise and the truth being then broke forth in the people called Quakers the Priests rage was so hot against them that they joyned together and petitioned the Parliament against the spreading of the t●uth in the aforesaid people and c●lled the truth heresie and bl●sphemy In the year 1653 a Council of State was called by Oliver Cromwell unto whom the Priests cemonstrated their great willingness to conform to and in the same year a Parliament was chosen which was called the Little Pa●li●ment unto whom the Priests in several Counties presented several Petitions against the people called Quakers In the same year was Oliver Cromwell made Protector to whom the Priests were read● also to join the Priests of Cumberland e●●tioned that some present course might be prescribed for the enforcing the payment of tythes and other D●es to Munisters to which the people in these parts said they are extre●mly averse And Oliver Cromwe● upheld their interest and made an Order how they might she the people called Quakers for tythes there being no Ecclesiastical Courts to ●efor them in as it had been formerly ordained they should be sued for in no other Courts In the year 1658 Richard Cromwell was made Protector whom the priests fl●ckt to as their Rock of Defence that he whom they called in their petition their Joshua might lead them into their promised Land which indeed was but a Benefice of tythes or augmentations and they told him that the Gospel was bound up in him and so cleaved to him by flatteries as they did in all ages And on the twelfth of the eighth month 1658 the Independents made a Form of Faith in the Savoy and published it In which Form of Faith they laid down in chap. 13. that they that are united to Christ effectually called and regenerated having a new heart and a new spirit created in them through the virtue of Christs death and resurrection are also further sanctified really and personally through the same virtue by his Word and Spirit dwelling in them the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed and the several lusts thereof are more and more weakned and mortified and that this sanctification is throughout in the whole man Yet in the conclusion of the same article they say That it is imperfect in this life and that there abideth still some remnants of corruption in every part Note sure these peoples Faith is one with the Papists who hold a Pu●gat●ry that is a place to purge from sins after this life for the Scriptures say As the Tree falls so it lyes and as death leaves us so judgment shall

THE Arraignment OF POPERY BEING A Short COLLECTION taken o●● of the CHRONICLES and other Books of the State of the CHURCH in the Primitive Times Also The State of the Papists and how long It wa● before the Universal POPE and MASS was set up and t●● time of bringing in all their Rudiments and Traditions Beac●●●● and Images Purgatory Tythes and Inquisitions Also A Relation of their Cruelties they acted after the Pope got up being worse then the Heathen and Turk New Rome having proved like Old Also What the People of England worshipped before they were Christians With several other things which may be profitable for people to read over wherein they may see the Worship of the Beast and Whore where all that fear God may see read try and give judgment by the Spirit of Truth ●o which is added The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the CHVRCH By G. F. and E. H. LONDON Printed in the Year 1667. The Contents Rulers makes Ministers and none must preach ex●●●● have a Licence from them Chap. 24. Pag●● Concerning the Priests turning as the Rulers turned to 〈◊〉 Power that came up rather then they would lose their ●●●fices and how they petitioned several Parliaments and F●●lers that they might have their Tythes paid them and that they would suppress the People called Quakers Ch. 2● Pag. 73. A Relation of some of the Cruelties insticted on the Christians by the Heathen Chap. 26. Pag. 81. An Abstract of the Bloody Massacre in Ireland by the Instigation of the Jesuits Priests and Fryars c. in the year 1642. Chap. 27. Pag. 84. In the History of the Churches of Piedmont collected and compiled by Samuel Morland in the year 1658. Chap. 27. Pag. 96. List of some of the Accusations for which the aforesaid people suffered in the Valleys of Piedmont by the Papists Chap. 28. Pag. 99. Te Doctrines of Christ and Antichrist distinguished Chap. 29. Pag. 103. A Discourse betwixt a Quaker and a Papist Ch. 30. P. 106. THE ARRAIGNMENT OF POPERY CHAP. I. The State of the Church in the Primitive Times and tho Time when the Apostacy from the Truth began Also a Relation of those few that were raised up from time to time to testisie against the Idolatry brought in and set up in every Age since the Apostles dayes From the Year Sixty four to the Year One Hundred and Fifty CHristianity was first brought into England in the Year 64 by Joseph of Aramathea and twelve Disciples sent by the Apostle Philip so that Christianity came into England long before the Universal Pope was Euseb lib. 3. John for preaching the Gospel was banished by Domitian into the Isle of Pathmos about the Year 97 and after the death of the aforesaid Domitian was released again under Peru●● the Emperor and came to Ephesus Anno 100 where he continued until the time of Trajan and lived until he was ninety nine y●●● of age Between the Years One hundred and One hundred and fifty Ignatius in the Persecution of Trajan the Emperor was for the Christian Faith delivered to wild Beasts to be devoured Euseb lib. 3. chap 35 36. It is written of him That as he passed through Asia being under the most strict Custody of his Guarders he strengthned and confirmed the people every where as he went and admonished them especially and before other things to beware and shun Heresies and vain Superstitions newly risen up and that they should cleave only to the Apostles Doctrine Ex Hierom in Calassanct Eccles The Church at Jerusalem in or about One hundred and ten years after Christ writeth That until that time she was as an uncorrupt Virgin there was no false Doctrine sown there From the Years One hundred and fifty to Two hundred Polycarpus Bishop of Smyrna resisted Annasetus Bishop of Rome ●nd withstood divers Ceremonies then beginning to be set on foot Iraneus Bishop of Lyons in France wrote in the name of his Brethren in France unto Victor Bishop of Rome reproving him for offering to excommunicate the Churches of Asia who withstood his Traditions touching the time of the Celebration of Easter he was reprehended of divers Bishops but sharply of Iraeneus About this time there was six Synods held in Asia touching the Celebration of Easter where the Bishop of Rome had no more Authority then the other Bishops and when he challenged Authority Iraeneus reproved him From the Year two hundred to the Year two hundred and fifty Polycrates Bishop of Antioch was a married Bishop he together with divers other Bishops of Asia withstood Victor Bishop of Rome and opposed certain Constitutions by him urged about observation of Dayes Meats Drinks and Vestures Euseb lib. 5. chap. 26. From the Year Two hundred and fifty to Three hundred Fabian Chanimon of Nilus and Fructuosus of Tarracona were married Bishops Asclepiades a Bishop of Antiochia of whom Alexander Bi●●● Jerusalem being the Prisoner of Christ in Caesaria wro●● the people in Antiochia That it was a comfort unto him 〈◊〉 made his imprisonment the more easie that he heard of the 〈◊〉 constancy of Asclepiades Euseb lib. 6. chap. 11. Note in th●● the true Bishops were no Persecutors but persecuted Narcissus Bishop of Jerusalem was a great Enemy to Super on Euseb lib. 5. cap. 6. From the Year Three hundred to Three hundred and fifty Silvester Bishop of Rome Three hundred and fourteen years 〈◊〉 Christ when Constantine offered him a Golden Scepter he ref●● it as a thing not fit for a Priests Function Sabel Euseb Chron And you may see there was a great difference between this Bishop and Popes when they got up And do you think that a Protestant Bishop Priest would refuse to take a Golden Scepter if it were offered him The same Bishop also ordained in the year following That ●●ry Priest should be the Husband of one Wife according to th●● postles Doctrine This was before the Popes Laws were made ag●●● Marrying The Councils of Ancyra Nice Tyrus Gangra in which condemned the Heresie of Eustatius speaking against Marri●● and eating of flesh c. Eliberis Carthage where the Bisho● Rome was stoutly withstood Antioch and Sardica were all su●●ed at the Commandment of the Emperors not of the Pope 〈◊〉 Concil Basilius Magnus Bishop of Caesaria in Cappadocia in his ●●●tings he complaineth of the pride of the Western Churches and ●●●demneth their seeking of Supremacy Basil Transmarin Epist 〈◊〉 and Epist 10. ad Eusamos Gregorius Nazianzenus testified against the pride of Pre●●● seeking Supremacy over others Zozam lib. 7. cap. 5. Gregorius Nyssenus was a married Bishop Niceph. Chalist I●●● cap. 19. Eusebius Caesariensis wrote against the Bishop of Romes ●●●●cy Lib. 2. de vit Const 3 37. He wrote against Images Lib 3. de presp Evang. And 〈◊〉 against Popish Injunctions of Fasting Lib. 5. Eccles Hist cap. 23. Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria whose Name was famous in the Church wrote much against Traditions Epist de Synod Nicen. Decr.

be accursed without the ground of Gods Word And the man said Sir our Priests say That they curse men thus by Authority of Gods Law And I said Sir I know not where this sentence of Cursing is Authorized now in the Bible and therefore Sir I pray you that you will ask the most cunning Clerk of this Town that ye may know where this sentence of cursing them that tythe not is now writ in Gods Law for if it were written there I would right gladly be learned where and I said to this man in this wise In the old Law which ended not fully till the time that Christ rose up again from death to life God commanded tythes to be given to the Levites for the great business and daily travel that pertained to their Office but Priests because their travel was mekil more easie and light then was the Office of the Levites God ordained the Priest should take for their livelihood to do their office the tenth part of those tythes that were given to the Levites But now I said in the new Law neither Christ nor any of his Apostles took Tythes of the people nor commanded the people to pay Tythes neither to Priests nor Deacons but Christ taught the people to do Alms that is Works of Mercy to poor needy men of surplus that is superfluous of their temporal Goods which they had more then them needed reasonably to their necessary livelihood and thus I said not of tythes but of pure alms to the people But as Cisterniensis telleth in the year 1274 one Pope Gregory the tenth ordained new Tythes first be given to the Priests Now in the new Law the words of the Law are these That it should not from thenceforth be lawful to give their Tythes as their own pleasure where they would as it had been before but pay all their Tythes to the Mother-Church The Judgment of David Pareus of Hidleburgh in the Palatinate concerning Tythes He saith that Tythes or Tenths were free and Arbitrary before the Law as appears by the Example of Abraham and Jacob a man might give them a man might now them or he might not as he pleased under the Law they were commanded by God to be given to the Priest Lev. 27. And the reasons thereof are clear First The tenths were a compensation unto the Levites for the twelfth part of the Land which ought to have fallen otherwise to their shares Moreover they were the Sallaries of Priests and Levites and maintenance of the poor for God instituted three tenths First the tenths of the Levites Lev. 27. Secondly the tenths of tenths or the hundredth to be paid by the Levites to the Priests Numb 18.26 Thirdly the poor mans tenths which was to be paid every three years after the Jubile unto the Poor Strangers Widows and Orphans Deut. 14.28 Therefore saith he when the Levitical Priesthood did cease then did the right of that Priesthood cease and the right of Tythes did revert to the giver of them Laws and Canons for Tythes among the Saxons In the year 786 in the time of Off●● which was in the time of Hepterchy in England there was a great Couned holden in Merci● by two Legats sent from Pope Adrian the first wherein as it is reported tythes were first established in England so that the first Law for payment of tythes came from the Pope and decreed by his Agents in Mercia being but a seventh part of England and afterwards as Popery encreased so tythes also were established in other parts of England by the several Kings thereof King Ethelbert King of Kent coming to the Court of Off● King of Mercia the said Offa murthered him in or about the year 793 and at length understanding the innocency of the said Ethelbert and to mitigate the hainousness of the Fact gave the tenth part of his Good to the holy Church and to the Church of Hereford in the remembrance of this Ethelbert and after wards went up to Rome for his Po●● 〈◊〉 where he gave to Peter's Church so called a penny through every House in his Dominion which is called Peter's pence or Romes shot and there was transformed from a King to a Monk and this was 794 years after Christ so was not set up by Christ and his Apostles See Seldens History of Tythes This Pope Adrian bestowed cost on Altars dead mens Tombs bones and Steeple-houses he attributed more Worship to Images then ever any did and wrote a Book of the honour and profit of them and appointed them instead of Scriptures to be Lay-mens Calenders He condemned in a Council those that detested Images This Adrian clothed the Image of Peter all in silver and covered the Altar of Paul with a Pall of Gold And this Pope set up Tythes 794 year after Christ In the year 797 after Christ Alchwin School-Master to Charles the Great in his Letter to the said Charles who was a Romish Emperor and had ordained Tythes to be paid wrote touching the Exaction of Tythes which he calls Jugum decimarum that is The Yoke of Tenths and Exaction of something from every house of the Huns and Saxons who were but then lately conquered by the said Charles and had newly made profession of the Christian Faith And the said Alchwin further advised in his Letter for the Christian Cause to omit it amongst them and not to put the yoke of Tythes as he said upon the people and not to exact something from every house but to shew that we are the Apostles sent of God and Christ into the world to preach and rather to give to them that ask or want then to exact Tythes for it is better to lose them then to destroy the peoples faith See Seldens History of Tythes King Athelstone King of the West-Saxons about the year 940. to pacifie the Ghost of his murthered Brother Edwin to whose death he is said to have consented did not only undergo seven years pennance but also built certain Monasteries and made a Law that people should pay Tythes viz. himself his Bishops and Officers hoping thereby to expiate his sins These following are the words of the Law Book of Martyrs p. 193. vol. 1. I Athelstone King Charge and Command all my Officers thorough my whole Realm to give Tythes unto God of my proper Goods as well in living Cattel as in Corn and fruits of the ground and that my Bishops likewise of their proper Goods and mine Aldermen and mine Officers and Head-men shall do the same Item This I will That my Bishops and other Head-men do declare the same to those that be in their Subjection and that to be accomplished at the Term of St. John the Baptist This was in the time of Popery Edmund King of England ordained Tythes to be paid for every Christian man in the year 941. Book of Martyrs vol. 1. p. 195. Edgar about the year 959 is said to have confirmed the payment of Tythes upon as bad a ground as Athelstone did See

find us And in chap. 23 they laid it down as part of their Faith That it was a sin to refuse an Oath being lawfully imposed by authority So are in the same path as the Papists and other apostates from the Truth are in for Christ said Swear not at all Mat. 5. And the Apostle James sad Above all things my Brethren swear not c. Jam. 5. And then after Richard Cromwell the Long-Parliament sate again under whose time the Priests were in great fear they should have lost their Tythes and Maintenance that they some of them got in Arms but being routed they petitioned the Parliament for pardon and by their subtilty got them to establish their Tythes and then they were quiet And when the King came in and the Common-Prayer Book was again set up how many of these Priests turned in the Nation is well known in the Countrys and some of them cryed They would preach in a Surplice or a Fools Coat rather then the Gospel should not be preached Here you may see the Turn-Coat Priests which minded more their Benefice then the Gospel CHAP. XXVI A Relation of some of the Cruelties inflicted on the Christians by the Heathen AND these called Papists have acted their Cruelties upon Christians like unto their Fathers the old persecuting Roman Heathens who acted many such Cruelties as follow though they profess Christianity in words yet the actions of the young Romans are like the old who have in their actions denied Christ who saith Love 〈◊〉 ●ther One was wrackt upon a Wheel and beat with a Bulls-p●●●●● One hanged and her skin fleyed off One bound about a Globe and her skin fleyed off her head and face One had his tongue cut out One broken in a Mortar One bound to a Pillar his head downward and 〈…〉 One fryed 〈…〉 The Mother 〈…〉 Some 〈…〉 Some bound to Axel-trees and so burned Some thrown to Lyons Beasts and Tygers One put into a Caldron of boyling Oyl Some Christians crucified with their heads downwards Some gored upon stakes one end fastned in the ground the other end coming out of their mouths Some tossed upon the horns of wild Bulls Some Women stript and hung by the hair of the head and scourged Some Christians brains beaten out with Clubs Some broiled upon Gridirons some beheaded with the sword Some burned at Stakes Some thrown down from Rocks and broken to pieces Some prest to death with great weights of Lead Some stoned to death some hanged upon Gibbets Some Christians hung up by the heels and choaked with smoak Some had sharp Reeds thrust under their nails and other parts of their bodies Some hung upon trees by the middle until they dyed of hunger Some hung up by one hand with Weights of Lead at their heals Some roasted upon Spits by a soft fire Some naked women hung up by one Legg upon Trees till they dyed Some had all their flesh torn with claws of wild Beasts Some were hewn in pieces with swords Some were sawn asunder in the middle Some hid their naked bodies annointed with Honey and then hung up in Baskers to be devoured of Wasps and Flyes Some Ministers loaden with great burdens and prickt forward with swords and spears Some tyed by the feet and haled thorough rough places till they were torn in pieces Womens bellies ript open and Barley put into them and so devoured by Swine A Ship set on fire with fourscore Ministers in it Some Christians cut in pieces from the Fundament Some had stinking Water Vinegar and Grease poured down their hroats Some smothered in Caves on the Mountains some racked until their bowels brake out Some Womens bellies ript up and their children trodden underfoot Two and two tyed together and slain Some had their bowels pulled out and put into a Bason Fourscore slain and their Quarters set on stakes thirty miles together Some murthered at the time and place of their Worship Some had Boots of Oyl put on their legs over a small fire This was invented by a Monk Some had their heads miserably torn with Gunpowder put into their mouths and fired Some thrown out at windows upon spears Some their bellies burnt till their bowels fell out Some their ears and cheeks cut off and holes burnt in divers p●●ts of their bodies Some had their mouths slit up to their Ears Some had their Eyes bored out A Minister had Hens and Geese tyed about his body and was torn with Dogs Some were tormented in a Trough A Minister tormented by a Cat on his belly Somehad their Faces plained Some had their Arms cut off Some had Noses and Ears cut off to make Hatbands Some had their Eyes twisted out with Cords Some had Corns drawn through their Arms and Legs Some cast into Dungeons amongst Frogs and Toads Some were let down with a Pulley into the fire by degrees Some had their hearts pulled out which the Papists 〈…〉 〈◊〉 teeth 〈◊〉 had their their throats cut with Butchers Knives other 〈…〉 〈…〉 with Axes Some had their Breasts and Noses pluckt off with red hot Pincher●● A Smith had his brains beat out on an Anvil with a Hammer Some had their right hands and feet crushed between red hot Irons Some were hanged up by one foot and their heads and breasts in the water Some were torn in pieces by Horses Some hung upon Tenterhooks Some had their Infants cut out of their Wombs and thrown to dogs and swine Some were set in the ground up to the Chin to be starved to death Some were pistolled to death Some thrown down from Bridges into Rivers Some burned with straw tyed about them to cover their nakednesse Some buryed alive A woman and her daughter hanged in their hair CHAP. XXVII An Abstract of the Bloody Massacre in IRELAND by the Instigation of the Jesuits Priests and Fryars c. in the Year 1642. VVHen their Plots were ripe for Execution we find their first proceedings against the English various some of the Irish only stripping and expelling them others murdering men women and children without mercy all resolving universally to root out all the Protestants out of Ireland so deeply malicious were they against the English Protestants that they would not so much as endure the found of their language The Irish when the Massacre began perswaded many of their Protestant Neighbours to bring their Goods to them and they would secure them and hereby they got abundance peaceably into their 〈◊〉 whereof they cheated the Protestants refusing to restore them again yet so confident were the Protestants at first of them that they gave them Inventories of all they had and d●gged up their best things that were hidden in the ground and deposited them in their custody They also got much into their hands by fair promises deep Oaths and Engagments That if they would deliver them their Goods they would suffer them with their Wives and Children quietly to depart the Country and when they had got all they could