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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

of the coming and suffering of Christ he was of Jerusalem where he also lost his life being most cruelly sawed asunder in the Reign of King Manasses and when his breath near failed him he called for a little water to drink which was given to him out of the Brook therefore is the place called Siloam as much as to say Sent. Joel prophesied of Christ and that God would pour out of his Spirit upon all flesh and his Sons and Daughters should prophesie He dwelt near unto the City Bethomeron in Rubim where he dyed and was buried in peace Jonas the Prophet shewed the Mystery of Christ and his resurrection being three days and three nights in the belly of the whale who cast up Jonas uncorrupted Even so the Son of man was three dayes and nights in the bowels of the Earth uncorrupted and rose again Jonas was of Cariathmaus nigh Azotus on the Sea-coast towards the Gentiles But he went out of the Land because 〈…〉 Infamy that was come upon him by prophesying against he dyed and God raised him to life again by Elias then he went into the Land of Judah and there dyed and was buried in the Cave Cenzenm Baruch lived in the time of Jeremy and was his Scribe He wrote from Jeremy his mouth and he read the Book to Joacim the Son of Josia King of Judah and after he had read it to him he was fain to flye and hide himself And when Jeremy went down into Egypt he wrote that Book that beareth his Name which was sent from thence to Jerusalem to be read in the Temple V●ias was of Cariathjarim the Son of Semei he prophesied against Jerusalem and the whole La●d of Judah as Jeremiah did and Joachim King of Judah sought to kill him but he fled into Egypt from whence the King sent for him and killed him with the Sword and laid his body where the common sort of people were buried Aggaus prophesied of Christ in the time of Zorababel he being a young man came from Babylon to Jerusalem and prophesied of the return of the people and of the building the Temple and he saw it built again He dyed and was buried nigh the Sepulchres of the Priests Zacharias prophesied of Christs coming and riding upon the Foal of an Asse and of Christs wounds in the house of his own Friends He being very aged came out of Chalde to Jerusalem where he executed the Priestly Function He blessed Salathiel his Son and called his Name Zorababel The Land where he lieth is called Betharia from Jerusalem One hundred and fifty Furlongs Malachi prophesied of Christ he saith From the rising of the Sun unto the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place they shall offer a pure offering to my Name and the Son of righteousness shall a●ise with healing in his wings He was born after the return of the people out of Babylon He dyed very young in the prime of his years and was laid with his Fathers in his own field Before the Birth of Christ Four hundred and twelve years John Baptist the Son of Zachary and Elizabeth was of the Tribe of Levi he was the greatest Prophet born of a woman he 〈…〉 the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world He was beheaded of Herod the Tyrant And these Prophets shewed how that all Nations are blessed in the Seed of Abraham and so the Seed of Abraham to be the Saviour of the world Now when the Lord would take up Elija into Heaven by a Whirlwind Elija went to Gilgal and from thence the Lord sent him to Bethel and from thence to Jericho and the Lord sent him to Jordan and he went over Jordan for is a River dan is Judgment and so he went over and through the River of Judgment and then he was taken up into Heaven by the Lord in a Chariot of Fire And the Lord commanded Abraham to go out of his Native Country and his Father's House which was in Caldea and he departed from Haran and passed through Sechem and Moreia and went to Canaan and at Bethel he built an Altar Bethel which signifies the House of God and then he went into Egypt which is anguish and tribulation How to resist the Devil WHen Christ had fasted forty days and forty nights the Devil came to him and tempted him when he was hungry to make the stones bread but Christ said to him Man doth not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God that is it on which whomsoever liveth that is able to resist the Devil the Word of God dwelling in the heart by which Christ spake is that which gives power to resist the Devil which word refresheth those that dwell in the Counsel of God and not bread only Then the Devil tempted Christ to destroy himself under a pretence that the Angels had charge over him and this the Devil in presumption would have had Christ to try whether he had been the Stu● of God But Christ answered him It was written 〈…〉 not tempt the Lord his God And when the Devil could not prevall with him in these things then he tempted him with the glory of the world and took Christ into an exceeding high Mountain and shewed him all the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and said to him All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me But Christ said Get thee behind me Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Then the Devil left him when he saw there was no room for him there was nothing of him in Christ therefore his temptations could not prevail for where the Word of God rules in the heart the Devil hath no power Therefore every one live in the Power of God that you may be able to resist the Devil The Form of Christs Words when he did MIRCLES CHrist said Daughter thy Faith hath made thee whole go in peace and be whole of thy Plague and he said to the dead Maiden Arise And he said Come out of the man thou untlean spiris And he said Son thy sins are forgiven thee arise take up thy bed and walk And he rebuked the unclean spirit saying Come out of him hold thy peace and he took her by the hand and lift her up He said to the blind man Co thy way thy faith hath saved thee Jesus put forth his hand saying I will be thou clean And said to the woman Great is thy faith be it unto thee as thou desireth He said co d●●● blind man Receive thy sight thy faith hath saved thee And to another Go thy way thy Son liveth Jesus said As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world And as soon as be had spo●●pus be spit on the ground and made Clay of the spittle and ann●●● the

and grow and was 〈◊〉 in thy love and be multiplied into the length of dayes and 〈…〉 sprinkles holy Water on the Ring The Papists pray for Souls departed The Priest while he sayes his Prayer stands with his face Eastward and looks unto the high Altar and then turns him to the people and sayes Ye shall pray for all Christian souls for all Bishops Clerks Curates and for the souls of all Christian Kings and Queens and especially for the Kings of England and for all souls that to this Church have given Book Bell Chalice or Vestment or any other thing by which the Service of God is the better done Did you ever hear such Trumpery CHAP. X. Concenning Hallowing the Church VVHen any Church is to be hallowed first all the people must depart out of the Church and the Deacon must remain there only having all the Doors shut fast to him the Bishop with the Clergy stand at the door and make holy Water mingled with Salt In the mean season twelve Candles must be set up within the Church burning before twelve Crosses that are appointed upon the Church 〈◊〉 After the Bishop accompanied with the Clergy and people go 〈◊〉 times about the Church without the Bishop having in his hand a 〈◊〉 with a bunch of Hysop on the end with which he casts Holy Water upon the Church-Walls and as the Bishop goes round every time he comes at the door he strikes the Threshold with his Staff and sayes in Latin Lift up your Gates O ye Princes and be ye lift up O ye ●●●lusting Gates and the King of Glory shall enter in Then the Deacon rayes who is this King of Glory Then the Bishop answers 〈…〉 Lord 〈◊〉 and Mighty even the Lord Mighty in Battel 〈…〉 the Bishop and the Everlasting Gates 〈…〉 The third time the Deacon opens the door to him and he and the Clergy enters but the people stand without still and then the Bishop sayes the Letany and then a Cross of Ashes and Sand is made on the Pavement whereon the Alphabet or Christ-cros ●ow is written in Greek and Latin and then the Bishop with Salt Ashes and Wine consecrates the Altar and then annoints the aforesaid twelve Crosses on the Wall with Cream and then the people may come in and ring the Bells for joy This is to be noted That if the Wine be frozen in the Chalice th● Priest must so long breathe upon it till it be molten and the Ice disso●●ed and if it cannot be dane so he m●y put fine to it CHAP. XI Concerning Hallowing of Beads IN their Prayer to their God they say We beseech thee that thou wilt vouchsafe from the Seat of thy Majesty with thy blessing to sanctifie replenish and fulfil these Bead 〈◊〉 pray on which are apt and meet for devotion of thy Servants to honour that most glorious Virgin Mary Mother of God You read none of this in Scripture Concerning Christining and Hallowing of Bells The Bishop puts upon him a Surplice and having a Cross born before him and accompanied with the Clergy and people they go to the place where the Metal shall be shed which the Bell is made of and while the Bell is casting that it may have right shape The Bishop begins to sing and all the Clergy sings forth aloud and so continue till the Bell is cast and then they sing six Psalms and in the mean time the Bishop washes the. Bell with holy Water and then he goes to prayer and then he wipes it with a Towel People did you ever hear such deceit which is contrary to Scriptures and then sayes a Psalm and then annoints the Bell seven times without and four times within with Oyl and Cream then the Bishop prayes again saying to his God Vouchsafe to replenish this Bell with thy Heavenly 〈…〉 before the m●●● and sound thereof the fiery darts of the 〈◊〉 the Lightnin's and Tempests may be chased away And then he sprinkles the Bell with Holy Water then the God-fathers and God-mothers draw nigh and lay their hands on the Bell to whom the Bishop sayes Name the Bell who gave the Bell what name they thought good and then the Bishop and the God-fathers and God-mothers put upon the Bell a Linnen Vesture white and large These be the works of the Pope and the Papists who are gotten up since Christ and the Apostles and are not the w●rks of Christ as you may read in the Scriptures That the Primitive Christians had no Bells is proved by Vosius in his Commentary upon the two Epistles of Pliny and Trajan and Bernardinus de ri●u concionandi Guido P●ncirolus saith they were invented by one Paulinus Bishop of Nola and that they were called Nolae in Latin from Nola the place where they were first made and Campanie because invented in Campaniae Hospinian de Orig. temp saith they were not used for certain in the first five Centuries almost of Christianity And who were the first that caused them to be set up in Churches as things appertaining to the Worship of God is before related CHAP. XII A short Relation of some of the Ceremonies of the Pope and his Followers taken out of the Works of Christopher Marcellus Bishop of Corcira Dedicated to Pope Le● the Tenth AND first as to the Popes Election All people are shut out of the Election-house saving the Fathers and the Ministers the Senior of the Cardinals exhorteth the other Fathers that they 〈◊〉 mind and consider the highness of the matter whereof the● must p●●sen●ly 〈…〉 then which matter and business nothing 〈…〉 or more excellent for he saith They are about to provide 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 of Christ the Successor of Peter the Pastor 〈…〉 Leader of Christ Flock the Key bearer Pottet and 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 the Prince of the Apostolick 〈…〉 and the chief Pre●●● 〈…〉 Christendom There is four kinds of Election but to make the Work short I will only relate one of them though they are all Wayes which Christ never instituted neither did his Apostles ever practice such things viz. First all the Colledg of the Cardinals agree upon Three Upon one of the Cardinal-Bishops on one of the Cardinal-Priests and upon one of the Cardinal-Deacons Mark people we never read in the Scriptures of Cardinal-Bishops and Cardinal Priests and Deacons to which three they give Pover and Authority to chuse the High Bishop after this sort They let up and light a candle of a certain appointed quantity that it may burn a certain space and their power to chuse lasteth no longer then the piece of candle lasteth for they must chuse him before it be burnt out and the same being so chosen is right Pope Then the Senior of the Cardinals and Colledg do shew their joy and do their duty of reverence to him and putting off his Senate-Robe called Caprea and his little Hood called Capu●ium they cause him to set down in his Rochet where the Seniors do put upon his singer the Fisher's Ring so

called and ask him by what Name he is called Then the Senior of the Cardinal-Deacons opening a little Window by which the people there waiting may see and be seen faith with a loud voice holding out the cross I show you glad tydings we have a Pope and he chuses his Name to be Innocent the Eighth c. or what Name he liketh Then the Cardinal-Deacons do put off the Popes common Apparel and put him in a white Woolen Gown and in red Hose and red Shooes embroidered with a Golden ●●oss in a red Girdle with Golden Bucklers in a red cowle also upon his head and above all in a fair white Rochet then they put upon him his upper Garments viz. A long Albe a Girdle and a Stool set full of Pearls hanging down from about his Neck but if he were but a Deacon before he was elected then the Stool must lye on his lest shoulder only and come down with both ends fas●ned under his right arm Then after they put upon the Pope a red Cope called a Pluvial and Mitre set and deck● with precious stones and they make him sit upon the Altar and then they kiss his feet and then he is consecrated and the Consecrator blesseth a precious Ring to be put on his singer saying O Lord God Creator and Conservator of Mankind giver of spiritual Gifts and Graces and greater of 〈◊〉 health and 〈◊〉 thou O Lord send down thy blessing upon this Ring c. and while this Prayer is said the Pope stands up and in the mean time one of the Colliters holdeth the Ring in his right hand kneeling down at the beginning of the blessing thereof and the Consecrator the Prayer being ended sprinkleth it over with holy Water and then puts it on the Popes singer saying Take this Ring as a sign and token of Faith c. and Oyle being poured upon his Head by the Consecrator the Cardinal-Deacon dryeth it up again with crumbs of Bread and then setteth on the Mitre and then he gives the Cardinals his feet and hands to Rite and so the Consecrator saith forth the Mass and before he is crowned the Cardinals Deacons Sub deacons and Colliters apparel him in a white Amise and long Girdle a Stool and a red Pluvial and a Mitre and being thus decked he goeth down to the place called St. Peters the Cross being carried before him the Cardinals and Deacons on either side bearing up the skirts of his Pluvial and the noblest of the Laity being present though it be the Emperor or a King must bear up the train of the same and next before the Pope goeth the Minister of the Ceremonies with Reeds in his hand upon the one tow and upon the other a burning candle and when the Pope is past the Ch●ppel of St. Gregory so called the aforesaid Minister turning him to the Pope setteth fire on the tow kneeling down and saying with a loud Voice Holy Father so passeth away the glory of the world which he doth three times and then the Gospel-book is laid upon the Popes shoulders and afterwards he goeth up the Altar and the Prior of the Cardinal-Deacons taketh the Robe called Pollium from the Altar and putteth it upon the Pope saying Receive the Pall which is the sacred Plenitude and holy perfection of the Pontificial Office to the honour of Almighty God of the blessed Virgin Mary his Mother of the holy Apostle Peter and Paul and of the holy Church of Rome and then maketh it fast about the Pope with Buckles and Pins And when the Pope first receiveth this Robe he goeth to the Altar and kisseth it and then kisseth the Gospel-Book and then putteth Incense into the Censers Then they proceed to crown him after this sort The Pope receiving the Gloves and Rings with the other Implements goeth upon a high Stage made for the purpose and when all the La● people are gone out of the Church so called and the Pr●●●● are c●me together the Deacon on the left hand taketh off the Popes Mi●●● 〈◊〉 Deacon on the right hand taketh the Tiare or Cro●● called a Triple Crown and setteth 〈◊〉 on the Popes bead and th●n going to the Church of Latte an so called he goeth up into the Gallery or Cloister of the same where the Prior of the Cannons holdeth him the cross to kiss and the triple Crown is taken off and the Mitre put on and then he is had to a place or seat without the Gate on the left hand called Stercoraria which signifies a Dunghil and setting down on the said seat and leanning down so low that he seemeth rather lying then sitting the Cardinals come to him and lift him up saying He lifteth up the needy from the dust and from the dunghil exalteth the poor that he may sit among the Princes and possesss the Throne of Glory Then the Pope rising up taketh so much money in his hand out of the bosome of his Chamberlain as he can gri●e and casteth among the people saying Arge●●um Aurum non est mihi quod autem habeo hoc tibi do I have neither Gold nor Silver but that that I have that I give thee and at the Popes Feast after he is crowned when he drinketh all the Assistants and Servitors kneel down So great is the pride of this Prelate These things are truly extracted out of the First and Second Sections of the First Book of Ceremonies aforesaid written by a Papist CHAP. XIII The time when the Tythes were first given in England by whom and by whose Authority a Law for payment of Tythes was first established First Whereas it is alledged that Abraham paid the tenth of the spoil that he got by the Sword to Melchisedeck and Melchisedeck made him and his Soldiers a Feast this was not by the command of God nor an example that all Kings and Princes should pay tythes of all their spoil nor the tenth of their Estates For you never read that Abra●am paid it afterwards as you may read in Josephus and Genests the twenty third and Jacob saying to the Lord when he went from Esau at his return he would surely give him the tenth of all that he gave unto him when he vowed a vow This is no example for Christians to pay Tythes no more then it is to offer Sacrifice for he ffored Sacrifices And again Wh●reas it is alledged that Levi took ●ythes and Aaron which was called a Heave-offering or a Shake-offering which tythes was for the Priest Levi and the Widow and the Fatherless and the Stranger that there might not be a Beggar in Is●●ael So you that hold up tythes must hold up the first Priesthood which ord●ined to offer Sacrifices and hold up the Shake-offering and the Heave-offering and so deny Christ come in the flesh and to be offered up one Offering once for all For if the Levitical Priesthood be standing which came after the Order of Aaron then your tythes and Offerings is standing for Levi

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

the Church but that the same so remain and that there be a modest and distinct Song so used in all parts of the Common-Prayers in the Church that the same may be as plainly understood as if it were read without singing And yet nevertheless for the comforting of such as delight in Musick it may be permitted that in the beginning or end of Common-prayers either at Morning or Evening there may be sung an Humn of such like Song to the praise of Almighty God in the best sort of Melody or Musick that may be conveniently devised CHAP. XVI Concerning Swearing THE Form of words which Christ hath laid down in Mat. 5 and the Apostle James taught in his general Epistle Chap. 5 is as followeth Christ said Ye have heard that it hath been said ●f old time Thou shalt not forswear thy self which was the false Oath but perform thy Oaths to the Lord which was the true Oath which were to be taken before the Judges Officers and Magistrates to end Controversies and be performed to the Lord. Put Christ said Now I say unto you Swear not at all but let your yea be yea and nay nay for whatso ver is more then this cometh of evil Therefore this yea yea and nay nay wherein Christ doubles his words to make them of force sets them over and above an Oath And also in James 5.12 the Apostle taught and said Above all things my brethren swear not at all neither by Heaven nor by Earth mark nor by any other Oath but he also sets up that which is above an Oath which is Christs words Let your yea be yea and nay nay which form of sound words the Apostle doubles as Christ did when he said in his repeating over Christs words Ye shall swear no Oath lost ye fall into condemnation These are the Commands of Christ and the Apostle which we are to stand by to wit yea yea and nay nay Some Ex ●●ples of the Primitiv Christians and Holy Martyrs that k●pt the Commands of Christ and the Apostles which spoke the truth an both denied and gave their Testimony against S●earing Folycarpus a Martyr who was as it is said John's Disciple and Bishop of Smyr●a being Eighty nine years of Age when he was required by the Proconsul to swear he denied it and said he was a Christian So it appears a that t●me Christians did not swear Acts and Mon. fol. 55. Vol. 2. And also Basillides Martyr who was an Officer among the Soldiers being required to swear before a Judg said plainly That it was not lawful to swear Lib. 6. Chap. 6. tage 98. So it appears plainly That it was the mark of a Christian no to swear And the Waldenses whose Names are so famous amongst the Reformed Churches and who are said immediately to succeed the Apostles and were the most ancient and true Protestants professed it to be no wayes lawful for a Christian to swear And Bishop Vsher late of Armagh Primate of Ireland pleaded their Cause against the Jesuits in his Book De Successione chap. 6. The Ploughman in his Complaint saith Lord thou gavest us a Command of truth in bidding us to say yea yea and nay nay and swear nothing but Lord he that calls himself thy Vicar on Earih hath broken thy Commandment for he maketh a Law and compelleth men to swear Book of Martyrs Vol. 1. p. 527 528. And John Wickliff whose Works are so much esteemed by the Protestants his judgment was That all Oaths which be made for any Contract or Civil Bargain betwixt man and man be unlawful and John Hus and Jerom of Prague were burnt for holding his Opinion by the Papists Fol. 653. And Walter Brute who was a Teacher of Gods people saith concerning Swearing I believe and obey the Doctrine of Almighty God and my Master Christ Jesus which teacheth that Christian men in affirming the truth should pass the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees of the Old Testament or else he excludes them from the Kingdom of Heaven for he saith Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharises you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and as concerning Oaths he saith It hath been said by them of old time thou shalt of forswear thy self but pe●form thy Oaths to the Lord but I say to you now Swear not at all b●t let your yea be yea and nay nay for whatsoever is mo●e then thes● cometh of avl. And merefore as the perfection of the ancient men in the Old Testament was not to forswear themselves so the perfection of Christian men is not to swear at all because they are so commanded of Christ whose command in no case must be broken Origen saith It behoves a man who lives according to the Gospel not to swear at all And Jerome an ancient Father and Teacher of the Church which the Protestants own saith That the great Evangelical sincerity and truth admits not of an Oath since every true saying is equivolent thereunto Theophilact an ancient Father of the Church whom the Protestants own saith Mat. 5. concerning Oaths Learn hence that under the Law it was no evil for one to swear but since the coming of Christ it is evil as is Circumcision And was it not the principal solution given by Ambrose That a Christian should not swear at all And Bishop Gauden saith A true Christians Oath is needless and an evil mans Oath is worthy of no more credit then a lyar p. 17 41. of his Book concerning Swearing Otho Bishop of Banbergenses in Germany and Basilius of Calcedon refused to swear and afterwards there was an Act granted to tender Christians that their yea and nay might be taken to testifie the truth instead of an Oath and the Essaeans amongst the Jews refused to swear as Josephus witnesseth Likewise Basil commends Chinas a famous Greek who suffered a Fine of three talents rather then he would save it by swearing to the loss of his honour And also in Queen Maries dayes many that suffered Martyrdom refused to swear And in Mat. 18.17 Christ saith in the Gospel-times to the Church that by the mouth of two or three Witnesses every word may be established and not in the mouth of two or three Swearers and this Christ spoke in matter of differences that might happen among Christians but said nothing of an Oath for Oaths he forbad before The Examination of William Thorpe Martyr in the days of King Henry the Fourth Anno Dom. 1407 concerning Swearing The Arch-Bishop said Lo it is certified against thee that thou preachedst openly at Shrewsberry that it is not lawful to Swear in any case Book of Martyrs p. 701. Vol. 11. Thorpe said I preached openly that it is not lawful in any case to swear by any Creature and that by the Authority of the Epistle of St. James Then the Clerk asked me if it were not lawful to a Subject at the bidding of his Prelate to kneel down and touch the Holy

ERasmus testified that for above Four hundred years after C●●●● the Bishops did not seek the help of the Emperors again●● 〈◊〉 Hereticks and when they did seek it against the insufferable wickedness of the Donatists it did not please the good people that they should then seek the help of the Civil Powers for they then judged that it became not the Bishops to use any other Weapons or to have any other help then the Sword of the Spirit the Word of God although the evil was incurable yet would they have excluded it by Excommunication which is said to be the greatest Judgment or Punishment that then the Church had The Histories also sheweth how that some of the Clergy have said That the Princes ought to kiss the Son and to use their power for to preserve and defend Religion against all their Enemies though their Lands should therefore be spoiled In the year 553 Pelagius Bishop of Rome instituted first of all That Hereticks and Apostates should be forced by external compulsion And Clement the fifr made Laws that Hereticks should be burned Gerandus Naviomagns sheweth how that the Laws for putting Hereticks to death came not by the free-will of the Emperors but through the earnest importuning of blood-thirsty Bishops whose constant recourse was a burden to the Emperors so that finally they obtained what they desired but when the Clergy could not preva●l with one Emperor they excluded him out of Italy and excommunicated him and brought him in suspension and freed the Subjects from the Oath and stirred them up against the Power And thus have the Clergy handled when they could not have their wills And it might be plentifully manifested how that it hath been blood-thirsty Bishops with others of the Clergy that have provoked Kings and Potentates of the Earth to cruelty and who have counselled them to make bloody Laws like the Bishop Nestorius who in his Sermon spake unto the Emperor and said Oh Emperor give me a Land cleansed of Herticks and I will give thee Heaven help me against ●he Hereticks and I will help thee O subdue the Persians thy Enemies In the years 1538 and 1546 In like manner the Inquisitors and Clergy stirred up the Emperor the Kings of Spain and France to terrible persecution laying it upon their consciences to quit themselves severely against Hereticks if they would escape the Lords rep●o●● In the year 1545 Pope Paul the third counselled and entreated the Emperor Charles and King Ferdinandus to compel the Protestants to forsake their error CHAP. XXIV How since the Apostacy from the Truth the Pope Kings and Rulers makes Ministers and none must preach except they have a Licence from them IN the days of King Henry the Fourth it was agreed upon by the King and the Bishops with other Lords that no man within this Realm or other of the Kings Majesties Dominions presume to take upon him to preach privily or otherwise without special Licence of the Ordinary of the same place Statute Ex Officio R●g Hen. 4. And in the dayes of the same King Henry the Fourth Constitutions were made by Tho Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and others That no person being authorized to preach shall take upon him to preach in English to the Clergy and Laity except he first present himself and be examined of the Ordinary of the place For first the King he nominated who should be Bishop of such a Diocess and then being presented to the Pope he was to approve of him and being approved he was consecrated by the Arch-Bishop in England But when King Henry the Eighth cast off the Pope then it was enacted by King and Parliament that no Bishop should be commended to the Pope but that the King should both nominate them and approve of them to be sufficient Ministers In the year 1547 in Edward the Sixth's time Injunctions were set forth That none should preach except sufficiently Licensed In the Reign of King James Injunctions were made That none should preach except they were lawfully Licensed thereunto by the King or the Bishop Fox Acts and Mon. Vol 2. And likewise in the dayes of Queen Mary none was to preach but such as should be licensed or allowed by her Authority or by the Arch Bishop c. or by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg● Anno 1. Mary 1 Pat C. 1. In the year 1559 Injunctions were likewise made in the first year of Queen Elizabeth that none should appear to preach not be admitted thereto but such as should be Licensed thereto by the Queen or the Arch Bishops or Bishops And thus she followed the Papists who were the first that set up this O●der In the year 1644 the Parliament made an Ordinance to give power to the Presbyter-Assembly of Divines for the Ordination of Ministers according to the Directory for Ordination and they gave the Ass●mbly of Divines Rules for Examination of them they ordained He that was to be ordained was to bring a testimony that he had sworn and taken the Covenant of the three Kingdoms and how long he had been in the University and what Degrees he had taken and whether he was twenty f●ur years old c. Note This was up●olding Popery still notwithstanding there was a pretence of Reformation And an Ordinance was made by Oliver Cromwel and his Council for Approbation of publick Preachers and for this end Commisioners were appointed and were authorized to judg of the Ability and Fitness of any man before he was admitted to any publick place to preach O. C. 1653 Can. 39. and Can. 57. CHAP. XXV Concerning the Priests turning as the Rulers turned to every Power that came up rather then they would lose their Benefices and how they petitioned several Parliaments and Rulers That they might have their Tythes paid them and that they would suppress the People called QVAKERS IN the year 1531 Pope Julius being angry with the King of France sent King Henry the Eighth the Cap of Maintenance and the Sword and gave him the title of Christianssimo that is The most Christian King And because King Henry wrote a Book against Luther the Pope ●ave him the title of Defender of the Faith In the year 1531 being the twenty second year of Henry the Eighth Tyndal did translate the New-Testament into English for reading of which many were sharply punished and the reading of it was forbidden by the Chancellor of England and the Papist-Bishops then in power caused all the Books to be brought into Pauls-yeard and there to be burned and the said Tyndal was shortly after burned beyond Sea for translating the same In the same year one Camphjus being sent Legate from the Pope in to England was at first in great request with King Henry the Eighth and had many honours conferred on him and great Benefices but the King taking dislike of the Popes proceedings with him concerning a Divorce the said Legate brought from the Pope to Divorce the King from his Wife who was the

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

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