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A14601	A looking-glasse for papists to see their owne deformities in matters of faith, and religion: and for formall protestants; to make them more carefull of the true profession of Iesus Christ: lest at any time they fall away from the sinceritie of the Gospell of Christ. With a briefe history of the Popes liues, from the first three hundred yeeres after Christ, vntill Paul the fift.	R. W., minister in Norfolk.; Woods, Richard, minister of Frettenham, attributed name.; Wrathall, Richard, attributed name.; Burges, John, 1561?-1635.	1621 (1621)	STC 24912; ESTC S119311	60,513	116

made Cardinall the eldest he made Duke of Spaine he was slaine at Rome and his brother Cardinall being wearie of Priesthood he espoused one of King Lewis his kinswomen his daughter Lucrece whose carnall copulation himselfe had was married to three Princes successiuely See Iohn Functius He was odious to the whole world and except God had shortned his dayes by an errour of his Cup-bearer giuing him a poysoned Cuppe for another as he poysoned some of the Cardinalls he had a purpose to haue poysoned all whose goods he had challenged after their death See Guiccinard li. 5. Onuphrius Alexander supping vnder a vine neere the Vatican to enioy the coolenesse of the ayre he was sodainely carried away desperately sicke into the Pallace The next morning he dyed blacke swolne and beyond all credit deformed Baleus Being sicke in bed he sent his seruant Madena to his wardrobe to fetch him a little booke enriched with gold and precious stones This booke contained all manner of illusions and inchantments whereby hee would haue beene certified of his life The seruant running thither saw one in the Popes Chaire very like himselfe whereat being afraid he ranne to his master pale and wanne halfe dead which the Pope perceiuing suffering him to recouer willed him to goe the second time where finding the man still in the Chaire hee was wonderfully afraide and being demanded of him what he had to doe there he answered To fetch a certaine garment for the Pope At which words the Diuell being then in the Chaire making an horrible noyse sayd I am the Pope These things reported to the Pope His euill beganne to encrease and Death approached A short time after a man apparrelled like a Lackey knocked at the Popes chamber doore saying he must needes speake with the Pope All other drew aside and great speech was betweene them The Pope pleaded his time was not yet come for he promised him nineteene yeers continuance but the Lackey answered He promised him eleauen yeeres and eight moneths which was accomplished and therefore hee must needes die The Pope pleading for longer time could not be heard This talke was heard by them in the next chamber Finally as Sathan went away the Pope with great cries and sighes and fearefull sobbes died See Onuphrius the Popes Historiographer Guicciardin Volateran Iohn Baleus much more these Authors report This Pope had with his sonne a daughter with whom both the father and sonne lay Pontanus and Samozarius haue left written 1502. Opposition Iohn Weselne an excellent Diuine called Fax mundi against the Pope and his doctrine Rodolph Agricola was of the same opinion Hierom Sauanorola with two more Friers were against Iustification by workes merits pardons they were hanged and burned Sabellicus 1499. This Pope caused to be cut out the tongue and both the hands of Anthonius Mancenellus a learned man because he had written a very elegant Oration against the wicked manners villanies and dishonest life of him Pius the third as soone as he was made Pope hee intended warre with France because they had occupied a part of Italy vnder their subiection whom the Pope hoped to haue driuen cleane out of those Lands hee intended also an army against the Turkes but while hee went about this he dyed the 27. day after his election Anno 1503. Note from Siluester the second Anno one thousand vntill Innocent the fourth 1240. the space of 240. yeers the grashoppers were sent out from the bottomlesse pit to deuoure Christians in soule and body From Innocent the fourth vntill Iulius the second 1504. that is 196. they haue beene permitted to nourish and maintaine it obscuring all truth that by false doctrine and lying myracles they might seduce if it were possible euen the Elect by Friers Mendicants and massing Priests and haue cruelly put to death the gaine-sayers But from that time vnder Iulius the second and euer since the Papacie hath and through Gods mercie is like to decay still euen till the comming of Christ who shal confound Antechrist with the breath of his mouth Iulius the second a man as it were chiefly borne for warre Hee besieged Rauenna and tooke it and from diuers Princes he tooke diuers Townes not without great effusion of bloud He excommunicated the king of Fraunce and king of Nauarre and gaue their Kingdomes to whomsoever could first occupy them Massius cap. 20. Chron. The Counsell of Latterane was begunne by Iulius 1512. This monster died the yeare following after he had begunne the Counsell hauing committed an in finite number of murthers and wickednesses vnheard of before Iulian meaning to goe to warre against Maximilian and Lewis passing ouer the bridge he cast Saint Peters keyes into Tyber and tooke the Sword of Saint Paul saying The Keyes of Saint Peter serue vs to no purpose it may be Saint Paules Sword will doe something He dispensed with King Henry the eight for his marriage hee excommunicated Lewis the French King and gaue away his kingdome Epigram By fraud the Merchant Iulius rakes in pelfe For heauen he sells yet hath it not himselfe 1513 Leo the tenth he gaue himselfe to pleasures and lusts of the flesh he had Singers and Musitians at his Table He hated mortally the Gospell and on a day Bembo the Cardinall vttering a thing out of the Gospell he answered It hath euer sufficiently beene knowne what profit the fable of Christ hath brought vs and ours The same day that Leo made thirty one Cardinalls in the very Temple where they were assembled happened such a great tempest which shooke and carried away the Image of Christ out of his Mothers lappe and the Keyes out of the hands of Saint Peter there 1517. At which very time Luther beganne to thunder against the Pope He commaunded Luthers bookes to be burnt at Rome and Luther burnt his Cannons and popish Decretalls at Wittenberge The Pope reioycing at the ouerthrow of the French King making good cheere sodainly died at his Table Baleus 1524. Opposition Picus Mirandola against reall Presence the worship of the Crosse and Images Adrian the sixt sate two yeeres the Bookes of a certaine Phisitian and Magitian were burnt at Rome some of which were brought to Adrian whereof hee made great account and they were after his death found amongst his secret papers Adrian after hee had persecuted the truth of the Gospell as his predecessors in the person of Luther and Occolampadius dyed suspected of poyson Abb. Vesp Others say he was too good to be a Pope for seeing the abuses of the Court of Rome and going about to reforme them he was taken away by death 1523. See a Bishop of their owne Espenseus a learned man who saith that he deliuered by his Nuncio to the assembly of the States of Germany his resolution that way Therefore they would euer since chuse none but Italians Clement the seauenth sate eleauen yeeres The twentieth of Ianuary following 1522. the iourney of Swises was held at Lucerne where they wholly confirmed

A LOOKING-GLASSE FOR PAPISTS To see their owne Deformities in matters of Faith and Religion And for formall Protestants to make them more carefull of the true profession of IESVS CHRIST lest at any time they fall away from the sinceritie of the Gospell of Christ With a briefe History of the Popes liues from the first three hundred yeeres after Christ vntill Paul the fift Of Babylon There came a voyce from heauen saying Come away from her my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes lest ye be partakers of her plagues Reu. 18. 4. Printed at London by T. S. for Nathaniel Newbery 1621. TO HIS COVNTRIMEN the Papists in ENGLAND R. W. wisheth all encrease of knowledge in Spirituall things with a desire to know the Truth and power of CHRIST crucified BRETHREN my hearts desire with Paul and earnest prayer to God for you is that you might be saued For of many of you I may say You haue a zeale but not according to knowledge whom I chiefly pitty But I can not so say of many who with-hold the truth in vnrighteousnesse their consciences daily accusing them that they striue against the light which shineth in darknesse namely the word of God which is a Lanterne vnto our feete and a light vnto our paths to direct vs in all doubts and difficulties in matters of saluation The want of the knowledge whereof is the maine cause of all errour as sayth our Sauiour Christ Math. 22. 29. Ye erre not knowing the Scriptures c. Againe Iohn 5. 39. Search the Scriptures for in them yee haue eternall life and they are they that testifie of me But indeede the god of this world euen the Diuell and Sathanas who knoweth that his kingdome is assaulted by them and finally shall be ouerthrowne by this breath of his mouth laboureth by all possible meanes to stoppe the course thereof And therefore hath set his Agent the Pope on worke to take from you the knowledge thereof to the end to keepe you in the darkenesse of Idolatrie and superstition that so his king dome may be continued and increased amongst the chilaren of vnbeleefe Else why hath hee caused the Scriptures in our mother tongue to be publiquely burnt and the owners of such Bookes held and condemned for heretickes and their bodies also consumed with fire Againe why doth hee deliuer the small portions or fragments of Scripture which hee vseth in his Lyth●rgie vnto the people in an vnknowne tongue Teaching them also to pray in Latine which they vnderstand not whereas the Apostle 1 Cor. 14. 19. sayth I had rather in the Congregation speake fiue words to edification then tenne thousand words in a strange tongue verse 11. and 16. how shall they that occupy the roome of the vnlearned say Amen at the giuing of thankes And againe verse 23. If one come in vnlearned will he not say yee are out of your wittes c. See the whole Chapter Notwithstanding the Pope as the Diuels instrument hath taken from you the vse of your owne language in Gods seruice pre●ended the fountaine of liuing water I mean the Scriptures and haue digged pits that will holde no water I meane their owne decrees traditions and constitutions which they put vpon the people instead of the word of God as a rule of life to be obserued and kept vpon paine of the Popes curse Beloued Countreymen consider I beseech you what I say and suffer not the Diuell by him to keepe your soules captiue and refuse not the voyce of the wise Charmers Psalme 58. 5. Come and heare our Ministerie our prayers and preaching and suspect betimes as others haue done of late as zealous in your profession as your selues that all is not well on your side while they keepe from you the knowledge of your owne euidence I meane the Scriptures which propoundeth vnto you your right in that immortall inheritance in heauen purchased vnto you onely by his most precious bloud-shedding and by faith in him alone obtained The Lord giue you a right vnderstanding in all things And accept I pray you of my poore Labours which is but the gleaning after other mens haruests Let not preiudice or olde errour cause you to refuse the gift of a friend that meaneth well vnto you It will ease you of the search of many Authors and most of them Papists for religion as your selues c. You dwell not in Rome nor vnder the Popes command except the fault be in your selues where indeed it would be the danger of your liues to haue any English Booke of the Scripture or other bookes against the Pope or any point of Poperie But in a kingdome which thorow Gods mercy hath banished the Pope and Poperie many dayes since Vse therefore your libertie and see what they whom you hold for enemies can say against your errours If you refuse this aduice it is not the Pope that can stand you in stead in the day of Iudgement but your condemnation shal be so much the more iust because you haue refused counsell Ezech. 2. 5. The Lord giue you a heart to consider of these things aright Your well-willer in Christ Iesus R. W. a poore Minister in Norffolke Aetatis suae 74. ¶ The Printer to the Reader CHristian Reader by how much the shorter the time of the Diuells rage against Gods Church is to indure by so much the more fiercely doth hee incite his Instruments to bestirre themselues for to persecute the people of God yea if it were possible to destroy them for euer which although it be restrained by Almighty God who doth so gouerne and protect his Children that the Gates of Hell shall not preuaile against them insomuch that all true Louers of Truth and Godlinesse may reioyce and be comforted in assurance thereof yet may wee not so slumber in securitie as to neglect the meanes of our safety and of the impugning of the powers of Sathan especially the kingdome of Anti-christ but euery one must indeuour diligently to doe that which belongs vnto him To this end not long since according to the trust reposed in me by that Reuerend worthy man master Doctor Burges I aduentured vpon thy courteous acceptation with one Treatise called The Popes deadly Wound which hauing already found some kinde entertainement at thy hands I could not keepe backe this second committed vnto my dispose by the same Learned man a little before his Trauailes into forraine Countries that so as with two Stones out of one Siing the great blaspheming Giant may the more easily be layd groueling It is the worke of a very auncient and graue Minister of GODS Word and very briefe and pithie I hope thy acceptation of my good-will and I beseech GOD for CHRISTS sake to make it profitable vnto thee Farewell The Contents of this Booke 1 THAT Peter had no Supremacy ouer the Apostles fol. 1. 2 That Peter neuer sate Bishop of Rome 7 3 An Examination how the Popes succeede Peter 10 4 The time

sedition burst out This Pope renewed the hatred of his predecessour Pius the fift against Queene Elizabeth of England First by sending his great Armada into Ireland then by sending Parry and others This Pope had his Concubine before hee was Pope and after hee was Pope by whom he had two little sonnes which sayd vnto him such graces as made him laugh Philippicus his sonnes grace was That the Pope his Father gaue him fiue thousand crownes a yeere M. Cyp. Volater He died at Rome Aprill 11. 1585. Sixtus the fift sate sixe yeeres This Foelix so called before being a poore mans sonne was brought vp by a Gentlewoman so long as he grew proude then shee caused him to be beaten Then hee fled to Rome and the Pope tooke him into seruice at the length he made him a Cardinall and by his good friends in Spaine hee was made Pope M. Cyp. Volater One day talking of his meane birth he said he came of an illustrious house for said he the vpper part of the house being alwayes torne and vncouered the Sunne made it most glorious with his beames See Antonius Caracalla De vitis Pontificum This Pope excommunicated the King of Nauarre and Condie giuing his Countrey to such as could get it declaring him vncapable of the succession of the crowne of France He approued a Nunne called Maria de Visitatione who long deluded the people She grew so famous as the king of Spaine inquired of her his good successe for England 1588. Shee promised good successe and that Duke Medina Generall she pronounced openly should returne a victorious Prince So prosper all Gods enemies But the next yeere after all her holinesse false miracles and great dissimulations were soone found out and she punished for the same See M. Cyp. Volater The most Christian Prince of Condie whom the Pope excommunicated and cursed was poysoned The king of France whom hee also excommunicated with many threats was slaine by a Iacobine Frier in his priuy-chamber vnder colour of deliuering a letter out of his sleeue he drew forth a poysoned knife out of his sleeue wherewith he killed him D. Chytreus 1589. No Religion will stay the Papists The Pope at Rome made an Oration in the commendation of this Frier comparing him with Eleazer and Iudith and not thus satisfied he denyed any honour to be made at his buriall or any man to pray for him This Pope died the seauen and twenty of August 1590. He made many new Holidayes M. Cyp. Volater Vrban the seuenth sate twelue daies There happened a great earthquake vpon the day of his Election at Vienna and Austria The next day after his election he fell sicke and determined to remoue his Court to the hill of Quirinus a better ayre but hee tarried because it was against the custome to goe abroad before hee was crowned But he dyed the twelfth day after Arthur Cicer. Gregorie the foureteenth sate tenne moneths and ten dayes hee was proclaymed by the high Court of Parliament Chalnut and Toures an enemy to the common peace and to the vnion of the Catholique Religion and to the king and his royall seate adherent to the conspiracie of Spaine a fauourer of Rebells guilty of the most cruell most inhumane and most detestable death of Henry the third most Catholique King Againe an Act was made against the Popes Bulles hee dyed of a quartane feuer He was troubled with a continuall flux which he had Arthur Cicer. 1591. Innocent the ninth sate two moneths and odde dayes and died being threescore and ten yeeres of age so that in the space of foureteene moneths foure Popes dyed Sixtus Vrban Gregorie Innocent as it is to be thought the most or all died of poyson for Bazutus is not dead that killed sixe Popes with poyson See the life of Damasus the second 1591. Clement the eight sate nine yeeres The Earle of Fuentes practized with Lopus and promised 50000. crownes to poyson Queene Elizabeth Hee also dealt with Emmanuel Adrian to kill the King of Fraunce with the odious smell of a poysoned rose Da. Chytreus 1594. Iohn Castill a Scholler of the Iesuites strucke the King of Fraunce with a knife but the King stouping to take vp the Lords before him hee strucke out one of his teeth and was apprehended c. The King after two yeeres intreating the Pope was receiued into the lappe of the Church and declared Christian King of France with condition to receiue the Counsell of Trent and to remoue the young Prince of Condie from the company of Hereticks That he should restore the reuenews and goods taken from the Bishops and Abbeys and testifie his conuersion to the Catholique Princes c. Da. Chytreus The Pope discontented at Caesar Est who enioyed the Empire after the death of the Emperour Rodolph whom he declared his heire in his life time strucke him with the Thunder-bolt of Excommunication and made warre vpon him Caesar Est Duke of Ferrara the matter being taken vp yeelded Ferrara to the Pope who vnited it to the Popedome Pope Clement made thirteene Cardinalls amongst whom was Rob. Bellarmine Iesuite 1599. This yeere 1600. Richard L. Bishop of London with two other Commissioners Doctor Parkins and Doctor Swale were sent in Embassage to Embden to treate with the Commissioners from the King of Denmarke and returned the eight of Iuly following 1600. Paul the fift renewed the Index expurgatorius wherein is contayned MERCVRIVS GALLO-BELGICVS The humble supplication of Roger Widdrington an English Catholique vnto the most holy Lord Pope Paul the fift Item a little Booke tituled Marcus Anthonius de Dominicis Archbishop of Spalato with others Now to conclude this point by recapitulation The Popes that claime to be Peters Successors you see they neither succeed in place as hath beene proued for sixe or seuen Popes sate at Auignon about fourescore yeres nor in manner of liuing as by their owne Chronicles with others doe appeare for some were couetous Couetous Boniface the eight Calixt the third Iohn the twenty three Boniface the ninth Proude Bennet the twelfth Adrian the fourth Celestine the third Innocent the fourth Alexander the third Gregory the thirteenth Clement the fift sixt seauenth Boniface the eight Paul the second Iohn the three and twenty Ambitious as may be seene since about fiue hundred yeeres after Christ when they laboured for superioritie Policarp Bishop of Ierusalem Misda Bishop of Rome Iohn Bishop of Constance Pelagius Bishop of Rome Iohn Bishop of Constance opposed by Gregorie the great and Iohn the third Bishop of Rome See fol. 6. Blasphemers Leo the third Iohn the thirteenth Iulius the third Leo the tenth Heretickes Leo the seauenth Boniface the eight Iohn the twenty three Eugenius the fourth Schismatickes as two yea three Popes together some two yeeres sixeteene yeeres sixe yeeres twenty yeeres thirty nine yeeres seuen yeeres thirteene yeeres See Alexander the second third and sixt Hildebrand Paschalis Calixt the second Honorius the second Innocent the second Bennet the thirteenth Three

Chrysostom ad populum Antiochenum Homil. 22. sayth After the end of this life there is no occasion of merits Hebrews 1. 3. Christ hath purged our sinnes by himselfe Counsell Aquisgrane lib. 1. cap. 1. speaketh of the punishments two in this life one in the life to come most grieuous Of the two heere the Apostle speaketh If wee would iudge our selues we should not be c. The first is the punishment wherein euery sinner taketh reuenge of himselfe The second but when wee are iudged of God wee are chastised c. This is the punishment which God in mercy doth lay vpon sinners in this world The third is most fearefull and terrible not in this world but in the next Depart from me c. Ergo no Purgatorie The Papists can neuer agree of the place nor continuance of time how long And thus we still conclude that their doctrine is Antichristian condemned by Scripture and all antiquitie and Fathers Merits By Merits wee vnderstand any thing or worke whereby Gods fauour and life eternall from the dignitie of the worke binding God c. Merits are two-fold one of the person another of the worke Of the person dying after Baptisme Of the worke by the condignitie yea more Supererrogation I omit their idle and blasphemous speeches and proofes and come to the Answere Wee renounce all personall merits of any meere man therefore of Infants that cannot worke also of workes done by them Onely wee acknowledge Christs workes to merite which are made ours by imputation But Papists will be saued by their owne workes See Exod. chap. 20. 8. I will shew mercy to them that loue mee and keepe my commandements If these must haue mercy who can pleade merits Romans 6. 23. The wages of sinne is death but eternall life is the gift of God thorow Iesus Christ Ephes 2. 8. 10. By grace ye are saued through faith not of your selues it is the gift of God c. Romans 8. 18. The sufferings of this life are not worthy c. Titus 3. 5. We are saued not by workes which wee wrought but according to his mercy c. Merit hath no place where mercie is required See Fathers Bernard Those which wee call Merits are the way to the Kingdome not the cause of raigning Augustine All my hope is in the death of my Lord His death is my merit my merit is the passion of my Lord. Manuel chapter two and twentie Againe He crowneth thee because hee crowneth his owne gifts not thy merits Psalme 120. Againe Lord thou wilt quicken me in thy Iustice not in mine not because I haue deserued it but because thou hast had compassion Ps 142. See more in the title of Iustification Thus I cease to follow them in their idle discourses concluding our Doctrine to be more auncient as from Christ the Apostles Scriptures and Fathers They obiect places of Scripture for reward Answer Reward is two-fold either of merit or of mercy Life euerlasting is not of merit but of mercy Secondly they obiect merits by couenant Doe this and thou shalt liue Solut. No man can doe this Ergo a legall Couenant condemneth all men Againe there is an Euangelicall couenant this promise is made not to the work but to the person to his faith laying hold on Christ Beleeue and thou shalt be saued Marke 16. 16. Acts 8. 37. and 16. 31. Now to conclude this poynt for Doctrine as before of the liues of the Popes I will vse the Argument our Sauiour Christ vsed against the Scribes and Pharisies who saying they had Abraham to their father Iohn 8. 39. answered If yee were the children of Abraham ye would doe the deedes of Abraham So say I if the Popes be Peters successors concerning Doctrine they would shew it in teaching Doctrine agreeable to Scriptures c. But this they doe not For Peter taught Iustification by faith in Christ alone as the rest of the Apostles and Christ himselfe and haue left the same written in Scriptures for our instruction and imitation See title of Iustification Againe Peter Christ and the Apostles and Scriptures teach only two Sacraments of the new testament But they teach seauen contrary to Christ Peter and the Apostles See title of Sacraments the number Moreouer Christ instituted Baptisme the outward signe whereof is onely Water and the forme to baptize In the name of the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost Peter the Apostles and Euangelists rested in this and left the same written in Scripture but the Pope and Papists vse a number of idle ceremonies contrary to Peters practise the Apostles and Scriptures See title of Baptisme Againe for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper In the Supper Christ vsed in the Institution thereof bread and wine as outward signes of his body and his precious bloud shed in remembrance but these will vse but one outward signe bread alone Againe they will haue Christ bodily present in the Sacrament and will vtterly abolish the signes by Transubstantiation a toy of their owne deuising so as no bread shall remayne contrary to common sence against Christ Peter and Stripture See Reall presence Supper and Transubstantiation and so they vtterly destroy the Sacrament Againe wee teach no Images to be vsed in Gods seruice either publique or priuate according to the second Commaundement Scripture and Churches practise foure hundred yeeres after Christ and euer contradicted since but they iustifie Image-seruice as Lay-mens bookes and the seruice of God directly contrary to Scriptures See title of Images We teach that God onely is to be worshipped neither Saints nor Angells and that God is robbed of his honor by how much is giuen vnto them c. according to Peter the Apostles and Scripture They directly teach the contrary as derogatory to the office of Christ See title of Worship of Saints We teach according to Scripture No Purgatorie nor Purgation for sinne but the bloud of Christ in this life according to Peter the Apostles Scriptures But they teach a Purgatory to purge sinnes after death See title of Purgatory We teach that neither person nor worke can merit but the immaculate person of Christ God Man and his innocent workes without sinne They contrary teach Merit of person and workes amongst sinfull men See title of Merits To omit many other Popish points of erronious doctrine we conclude as before That the Pope is no way Peters successour but an Hereticke and plaine Antichrist fore-told by the Apostle 2 Thessal 2. 4. Which sitteth as God in the Temple of God boasting himselfe that he is God Arguments to proue the Pope Anti-christ And first their silly reasons to the contrary The late Counsell of Lateran 1517. commanded all Preachers they should not meddle nor dare once to speake of the comming of Anti-christ which argueth a guiltie Conscience Now obserue their Arguments to proue the Pope not to be Anti christ 1. Argument Anti christ is but one man but the Popes haue beene many Ergo.