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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

Prince of the Priests or Highest Priest but only the Bishop of the chief See that is Seat A Council held at Hippo Decreed That Bishops and Priests should look well to their Children That the Head-Bishop of the Head See should not be called the chief Priest and that no Scripture should be read in the Church but Canonical that is such as they approved by exact Rule The Council held at Taurinum was for the Reformation of the Clergy which then was corrupted but now much more The Council of Malta condemned the Pelagians and D●●●● and concluded that Infants were to be baptized The Council of Agatha decreed that none should be made Prie●● before they were thirty years old and that the Clergy should 〈…〉 such attire as became their Profession with many other Con●●●tions The first and second Council held at Vasio decreed that in such Churches where Preachers were not the Deacons should read ●●milies A Council held at Carpentoracte decreed that the Bishop sh●●●● not poll the Parishes A Council held at Venice decreed that no Clergy-man should 〈◊〉 at Wedding-Dinners Dancing and hearing of wanton Sonnets 〈◊〉 vain Songs All the Bishops of Africk came together by the commandment of Hororicus the Arrian where his Heresie was confirmed and Four hundred forty four Bishops exiled or banished Anno 490 A Synod of Seventy Bishops were called together at Rome where the Canonical Scriptures were severed from such as rhey counted Apocrypha A Synod met at Epaunis decreed that no Clergy-man should either Hunt or Hawk and that throughout the Province such Divine Service at the Metropolitan or chief City liked of should be retained Euseb Note the Apostles decreed no such things as this that we read of 〈◊〉 Scripture A Council held at Aurelia decreed that Lent should be solemnly kept before Easter the Rogation with the Ember-Dayes about the Ascention A Council held in Gerundia in Spain decreed that every Province should observe one Order of Divine Service that Baptism should be Ministred only at Easter and Whitsuntide and at other times is necessity so required and that the Lords Prayer should be said at Evening and Morning-Prayer Euseb A Council held at Caesar Augusta accursed such as received the Sacrament and eat it not in the Church A General Council was held at Constantinople which decreed that Mary should be called the Mother of God The First and Second Synods were called at Lyons for the removing of Schism raised in the Church Six Synods were held at Rome touching the Election of a Bishop and the Preservation of Church-Goods CHAP. V. Concerning the state and condition of the Church as it was before there was a Vniversal Pope Also what Decrees and Institutions were made by Bishops for the first six hundred years after Christ and how the Apostacy begun to overspread the Church NOvatius a Priest of Rome two hundred fifty four years after Christ abhorred second Marriage he was condemned as an Heretick at a Synod held at Rome the same year Eus●b lib. 6. cap. 48. Apostalici were Hereticks in Pisidia who two hundred and fifty five years after Christ condemned Marriage and said the Apostles were unmarried men Which is a lye for several of the Apostles were married men Aug. lib. de Haeres Ephip Haer. 61. Originiani were Hereticks Anno 273 they prohibited Marriage but committed Fornications and all uncleanness and filthiness and rejected some Books of the Old and new-New-testament which made against them Ephip Haeres 63. About three hundred and ten years after Christ one Lucina a holy Maid of Rome dying made Ma●cellus Bishop of Rome her heir and gave him all her great Substance From that time forth saith Pollidore Lib. 6. the Bishops of Rome were greatly enr●ched and then came to be pust up in pride Which riches the Apostles denyed Pol. lib. de Invent. cap. ult In the year three hundred and ten Macarius was Bishop of Jerusalem he was the means with Helena that the Cross of Christ was found So there was no Cross before among the Apostles Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 6.9 In the year 308 Dioclesian the Empetor of Rome was so puffed up with pride that he would needs be worshipped as God saying 〈◊〉 brother to the Sun and Moon and adorned his shoes with 〈◊〉 and precious stones he commanded the people to kiss his 〈◊〉 which practice the Popes afterwards followed And this E●●●●●● caused the Christians to be persecuted in the Tenth Persecution Euseb lib. 7. c. 29. lib. 8. c. 2 3 14 19. Soc. lib. 1. c. 2. In Three hundred and eighty years after Christ the Name Catholick beginneth being instituted by Damacius a Bishop of Rome In the year 391 Set-hours to Prayers instituted by St. Jerome In the year 394 in Bishop Ciricius time the word Mass●● was brought first into the Church In the year 398 Anastatius Bishop of Rome decreed That men should stand up at hearing the Gospel read In the year 412 Cirilius succeeded Theophilus in the See of Alexd●ia and withall he challenged to himself more Authority than ever any other Bishop before him From that time forth he took to himself also the Government of Temporal Matters and banished all the Jews And this Bishop went contrary to Christs command which saith You are Brethren Foelix Bishop of Rome appointed the Feast of Michael the Arch-Angel called Michaelmas In the year 528 Justinian instituted swearing by the Gospel Hore swearing came in In the year 533 Agapetus Bishop of Rome first commanded the people to go a Procellioning and to follow the Cross Plat. Polid. Deborus c. This is contrary to Christ and the Apostles Philosophy was not taught in Christian Schools before nor in the time of Justinian the Emperor who began to reign in the year of Christ 527. Part. 2. Chap. 26. Pag. 89 90. In the year 560 Gregory Bishop of Rome commanded That neither flesh nor any thing that hath affinity with flesh as Cheese Butter Milk Eggs c. should be eaten on such dayes as are appointed to be fasted on In the year 569 King Conwall had alwayes a silver Cross carried before him and caused Crosses to be first set upon every Steeple in England In the year 578 Pelag●us Bishop of Rome decreed That Sub. Deacons should either leave their Wives or else their Offices All this is contrary to the Apostles In the year 590 Gregory Bishop of Rome approved and allowed the Feast of Trin●ty Gulielm Durand In the same year he set up Prayers for Saints Sacrifices for the Dead and Purgatory in the Church In the year 595 a certain wicked woman an Emperess requested of Theodore Bishop of Rome that Images might be set up in their Churches and it was agreed that it should be by the said Theodore and his ●ouncil This is contrary to the Primitive Church In the year 600 Benedictus was the first Founder of the Order commonly called St. Benedicts He presumed to invent new wayes which all the godly Fathers

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.

of Fasting and parted married souls asunder he abhorred the Offering of the Married Priests he was condemned by three Council● for his cursed Doctrine And ho● cometh this Doctrine now to be blessed after the six hundred years when the Po●e got up which before was cursed but it seems the Pope doth bless th● Doctrine of the Hereticks now which formerly the Councils cursed In the year 351 Liberius Bishop of Rome yeilded to the Arria●s as J●rom saith in his Chron. and C talog c. and subscribed ●nto their Heresie to save his place It seems he was not infallible In the year 383 Collydrians were Hereticks which worshipped the Virgin Mary as the Papists do now like them Hereticks which 〈◊〉 condemned In the year 401 The Monks of the Deserts of Egypt in their 〈◊〉 Imagination thought that God had a Carnal Body from whom 〈◊〉 crose that invention of painting God the Father like an old man with a grey beard which is still used to this day by the swage-worshippers In the year 404 Pelagius a Heretick said that the Grace of God was given to us according to our merits the Hereticks corrupted the Works of the Ancient Writers A Sect of Hereticks went always bare-foot In the year 47 And Simon Magus the Sorcerer was honoured it Rome with a Picture And wherein do the Papists differ who are worshippers of Images from those that worship the Image of Simon Magus are not they likewise Idolaters CHAP. VIII Something concerning Indulgences Pardons Priviledges and Stations of Rome truly Copied out of two old Books one in Latin the other in English See Becons Works out of which all these things are extracted IN Rome seven of the Steeple-houses called by the Papists Churches are priviledged above all others with great Holiness and Pardons The first is called Saint Peters Church which has twenty nine steps up to it and as oft as a man goeth up and down them stairs he is released of the seventh part of Penance enjoyned This was granted by Pope Alexander And above the door is an Image of Christ and between his feet standeth one of the Pence that God was sold for and as oft as any looks upon that Peny they have fourteen hundred years of pardon and in the same Steeple-house are eleven Altars and at every Altar is forty eight years of Pardon Also the Priests say that as many times as a man goeth through the Crowds at the same Steeple-house he hath four hundred years of Pardon At one of the Altars in the said Steeple-house is five hundred years of Pardon and every high Feast a Soul out of Purgatory And as oft as a man followeth that they call their Sacrament to sick bodies he hath one thousand four hundred years of Pardon for his sins Pope Sylvester granted to all them that daily go to the said Steoplehouse the third part of all his sins relealed And upon the one side of the said Steeple-house lyeth a Yard called Gods Field and there they bury none but poor-Pilgrims In the Chappel at Rome called Jerusalem Women do not enter but only once in the year at which time they have a full Remission granted of their sins none excepted In the Church of Saint Cater is two hundred years of Pardon In the Church of Saint Foelix is forty years of Pardon Unto every one of them called Churches have they ordained a certain number of Pardons to all that come to them and in Lent the Pardons are double Part of their Stations are as followeth In the Circumcision of Christ the Stations are to the Church of their Lady so called On the Epiphany the Stations are to St. Peters On the Sunday called Septuagessima the Stations are to Saint Lawrence without the Walls On the Sunday called Sexagissima the Stations are to Saint Paul the Apostle On Ash-Wednesday the Stations are to Saint Sabine On the first Sunday in Lent the Stations are to Saint John Latrint On Christmas-day the Stations are at the first Mass unto Saint Mary Major in the Chappel in the Manger of their Lord as they call him into the which Women do not enter And for every day called Holy-day they have Stations appointed to what place to go which Stations Pope Gregory Pope Cornelius and divers other Popes of Rome from time to time have invented and devised and that all that come to them and give any thing towards the maintenance of them they have ordained that they shall have Remission and Pardon of sins Also certain did grant Indulgences and Pardons to all such as de●●●● said certain Prayers or Ave-Maries which is contrary to Christ and the Apostles Pope Six us granted to all them that should say this Prayer 〈◊〉 the image of our Lady as they called her and her Son one the 〈◊〉 one hundred years of pardon Ave-Sanctissina Maria c. The Bishop of York and Bishop of Canterbury and nine other Bishops in he days of King Henry the seventh granted forty days of pardon for every Ave-Maria and for Gratia Plen● one hundred days The Hallowing of Candles Upon Candlemas-day the Priest turning himself to the South desireth his God that his Candles which he had there in his hand might receive such a strength and blessing through the token of the Holy Cross that being lighted the Devil might sly away and tremble for fear and after Even-Song the Priests distributed to the people their portion of Candles which they esteemed highly of and if any Thunder Lightning or Tempest arose then their Candle was lighted with faith that that would quiet the Tempest and drive away bad spirits They also Hallowed Fire and Bowes and Hallowed ashes on Ash-Wednesday and Hallowed Incense Myrthe and other Perfumes and many other things The priests also hallowed Cheese and Butter CHAP IX The manner of the Priests Hallowing the Font. FIrst he makes two Crosses in the Water with his right hand and then says a short Prayer saying Wherefore I bless Cross thee thou Creature of Water by Cross the living God c. And then he makes a Cross in the Water again and says another short prayer as before and then takes a burning Candle and drops it into the Water after the manner of a Cross and then crys'aloud a few words over it That the Holy Ghost would descend into it to make it fruitful that it might have power to regenerate and beget a new This being done he breathes thrice into the Font and then he puts Oyl into the VVater and then Cream and says some few words over them crossing them c. People you read none of this in Scripture in the Primitive Church Of the Papists Hallowing the Marrying Ring For Hallowing of the Womans Ring at her Wedding this Prayer following is appointed to be said by the Priest Hallow thou Cross Lord this Ring which we bless Cross in thy holy Name that what Woman soever shall wear it may stand ●all in thy peace and continue in thy will and live

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

singing of Psalms sometimes brandishing naked Swords sometimes shreeking in a most h●decus and fearful manner So that many of the Popish Irish which dwelt near thereabouts being affrighted therewith were forced to remove their Habitations further off into the Country Divers Protestants were thrown into the River of Belterbert and when any of them offered to swim to the Land they were knocked on the head with Poles after which their Bodies were not seen of six weeks but after the end thereof the murtherers coming again that way the Bodies came floating up to the very Bridge where they were Sir Con Mac Gennis so ca●led with his Company slew one Turge Minister of the Newry with divers other Protestants after which the said Mac Ge●nis was so affrighted with the Apprehension of the said Turge's his being continually in his presence that he commanded his Soldiers not to slay any more of them but such a should be slain in Battel A young Woman being stript almost naked there came a Rogue to her bidding her Give him her mony or he would run her th●ough with his Sword Her answer was You cannot kill me except God give you leave Whereupon he ran three times at her naked body with his drawn Sword and yet never pierced her skin whereat he being confounded went his way and left her This was attested by divers Women that were present and saw it As for the Protestant Ministers whom they surprized their manner was first to strip them and after bind them to a Tree or post where they pleased and then to ravish their Wives and Daughters before their faces in sight of all their merciless rabble with the basest Villains they could pick out after they hanged up their husbands and parents before their faces and then cut them down before they were half dead then quarter'd them after dismember'd them and stopped their mouths therewith They basely abused one Mr. Trafford a Minister in the North of Ireland who being assaulted by these bloody Wolves of Romes brood that know not God nor any bowels of mercy This distressed Minister desired but so much time as to call upon God before he went out of the World but these merciless wretches would admit no time but instantly fell upon him hackt and hewed him to pieces Sir Patrick Dunstan so called his Wife ravished before him slew his Servants spurned his Children till they dyed bound him with Match to a board that his eyes burst out cut off his ears and nose teared off both his cheeks after cut off his arms and legs cut out his tongue and after run a red hot Iron into him These particulars with many more were attested before the Commissioners appointed for that purpose CHAP. XXVII In the History of the Churches of Piedmont collect●d and compiled by Samuel Morland in the year 1658. WHerein you may see the cruel Massacre and Murthering of several Christians both men and women by the bloody Antichristian Papists who cut off the heads of men and boiled them and eat their brains until they vomited again as in page 336 in the year 16 5. And also in page 339 you may read the bloodiness and cruelty of the persecuting Papists who ript up a womans belly from the bottom to the navel with a Sickle because she would not say the Papists Prayers and this woman had bid her self in the snow for two days having no nourishment and when they had ript up her belly they barbarously cut off her head And yet they say in the Book called Fiat Lux being a Relation between-Papists and Protestants that they do no hurt to no one but their actions do declare both in this and in the days of Queen Mary and at other times what they have done And in page 640 The Papists cut off a womans breast and part of her ●rivities and carryed the same to Maes in Piedmont and fried them and eat them and other people thought they had been Tripes Yet these Papists say they do no harm But soon after they had eaten some of them fell sick and some died and afterwards they put this woman to a cruel death having ravished her before they cut off her tetts And in page 341. These bloody Papists cut off a mans privy-members and afterwards put a lighted-candle to the wound which man had received of them divers stabs in the soles of his feet and ears then they hanged him up by the hands tearing off his nails with hot pinchers Yet for all this they could not cause him to forsake his Religion and then they tyed him by one of his legs and drew him wi●h cords draging him about the streets until his eyes and brains dropt out and then cast him into a River And also in page 342 they tyed a man with his neck and heels together being about eighty years old and cast him down a hill and there he hung in a Tree several dayes in a lameatable state to the beholders And in the same page An old man about Ninety years old and a woman they hackt their bodies and chopt them to small pieces and strewed them along the High-wayes and hanged it upon hedges when they had cut it so small Page 343 They took two poor old women and ript up their bellies and left them upon the Snow And also four women the Papists cut off their Noses their Fingers and their Hands and many Infants they threw down steep places And one women they tyed her head between her legs And another woman her flesh was taken from her bones and chopt as small as Herbs to the pot And another old blind woman they cut in pieces in a certain Cave as you may see in page 344. And in page 345 they set a woman upon a stake putting her upon a pole through her privities and carried her upon their shoulders And these are the Papists which carry their Hoast upon their shoulders And then they stuck the stick down and let her hang in the air And page 646 Another woman had three children torn in pieces tearing them by the legs one from another And one of six weeks old they took from the Mother dashing the brains out against the Rocks And also they took a man out of his bed plucking the skin off his Arms and Legs and then starved him to death in prison And a man they dragged by one Leg with a Mule through the streets and stoned him after they had cut off his privy members and afterwards they stopt his mouth and crambed things down his throat and cut off his head and called themselves Catholicks against the Protestants And page 348 There was a beautiful young Maid about ten years old whom these wicked Papists held and did such horrid things to her even out of the bounds of humanity to speak so that after she was found half dead wallowing in her blood And p. 349 A Woman carrying her Child in a Cradle being pursued by the Papists she left her Child whom

they took and 〈◊〉 into four quarters and afterwards finding the Mother they 〈…〉 and cut off her head leaving her in the Snow And in page 350 A young woman about eighteen years old was taken as she was flying upon the Snow and they thrust a Pike through her alive and roasted her and brought a piece to make a meal of but she not being roasted enough stopt their stomacks And thus the Papists are Beasts And the Papists took a Protestant and tyed his hands to his privy-members hanging him upon a Gate by his hands to make him renounce his Religion And also they tyed two more in the same manner only they after they had tyed their hands to their privy-parts they tyed their hands behind them until their very bowels were torn out and so they dyed Besides other cruel barbarous usage to prisoners And in page 352 a man about fourscore years old they cut off his Nose his Ears and other parts of his body and left him in the Snow who dyed there And page 353 the cruel Papists put Gunpowder into many men and womens mouths and cramb'd it down their throats and set it on sire and tore their heads to pieces Fol. 354 They stript one naked and tore off his Nose with Pinchers and made holes in his hands and dragged him with a Cord by the middle and they cut off his flesh as they dragged him and struck him saying Wilt not thou go to Mass and then they cut off his head and threw him into a River And page 355 these bloody Papists pluckt out another mans eyes and cut off his privy-members putting them into his mouth and then they cut off his skin and hung it up in four Windows of their principal houses And page 356 they took a man and cut off his head and fryed his brains and eat them up and took out his heart frying it and took it and eat it also And page 357 several aged people they burnt alive Page 358 they dragged a woman and her daughter with Horses through the streets stabbing them with Pitch-forks and threw them into a River throwing Batts at them And page 359 Others as they were passing from the bloody perrecating Papists they shot one in the neck and after they slit his Chin and Nose throwing of him to the Dogs And page 360 and 361 Eleven men they forced to throw one another into the Flery Furnace and forced them to carry one another on their backs and the Papists themselves carried the last man And these bloody Papists hunted the Protestants up and down the Rocks upon their bare feet when were cut with Ice and Flinty-Rocks until they bled grievously And y●t these bloody Papists like one that Solomon speak 〈…〉 their mouths and say they have done no hurt but they that desire to rea● more of their Cruelty and Wickedness let them look in the said Book And as for the Papists Powder-Plot in King James 's time and their Massacring of many thousands in Ireland it is not out of memory yet At Guttenburg in Bohemia where were deep Metal-Mynes the Papists threw into one of them 1700 persons and into another 1038 in the year 1420. The Papists killed of the Waldenses about a thousand men women and children in one place and robbed and spoised the poor Christians and when that the Christians would not receive their Hoast they gagged them and thrust it down their mouths The King of Nordan Humbers slew twelve hundred Christians because they prayed to Christ for assistance CHAP. XXVIII A List of some of the Accusutions for which the aforesaid People suffered in the Valleys of Piedmont by the Papists FOr that they believed the Church of God was without spot or wrinkle Also they believed that it was not lawful for the Prelates of the Roman Church to have temporal Jurisdiction in the world and that none hath a greater degree of Power and Authority in the Church then he hath of Holiness Also that they believed that the Sacraments administred by the Priests of the Romish Church are of no Efficacy Also they believed that tythes ought not to be paid to the said Priests Also they believed that the Romish Church is a House of Confusion and the Synagogue of Satan Also they believed that it was not lawful to swear any thing be it true or false Also they believed that it was as prositable to pray to God in a Stable as in a place called a Church Also they believed that rain-water ●ad as greant virtue as holy water in the Church Also for that they believed that no man ought to observe the Festival-days of Saints but that it was lawful to do work upon them Also for that they believed that it was lawful to eat flesh every where and at all times and that Lent was not to be kept See page 217 and 218. And for these causes and some other Decrees which are contrary to Scriptures did the Papists murther them in the year 1655. Here followeth a List of some of the Article for which the Martyrs suffered in Queen Maryes Reign in the year 1556 and by other Papists 1. First For confessing that an evil man doth rot receive Christs body 2. That it is Idolatry to creep to the Cross John for bids it and saith Beware of Images For confessing that they should not pray to Mary and other Saints For these things and denying the Papist Principles were five men and women burnt in the year 1558. The Article against Marga●et Marringe Martyr was That she had refused to come to Church that she had not come to the Parish-Church for the space of one year neither did she mean to come any more unto the same in those Idolatrous dayes Articles exhibited against R Lusse Martyr 1. For refusing to call the Lords Supper by the Name of the Sacrament of the Altar 2. For denying Purgatory Prayers and Alms and saying they did not profit the dead bodies 3. For holding that Images are no● to be suffered in the Church and that all that kneel to Images are Idolaters 4. That they which are burn'd of late for denying these things are Gods Servants and Martyrs 5. For denying the Church of Bome to be Universal Articles against other Martyrs Henry Crimses for marrying his Wife on Palm-Sunday in Lent was punished as some are now Also that they would not follow the Cross or confess to a Priest Also that they did not believe the Pope to be the Supream Head of the Church Also that they did not believe that Bread Water Ashes and Palms were Holy Ceremonies in the Papists Church Also the Martyrs confessed that the Popish Mass was Blasphemy Some of the Papists Canons or Decrees which the Martyrs suffered for and which those called Church-Wandens and Priests we●e by the Command of the Bishops to make Enquiry into in their several Parishes 1. Whether they see the Font be comely kept and have Holy-water always ready for Children to be Chris●ned 2.

by Council Papist Those Councils was gathered by Popes Quaker The Councils was gathered some by the Christian Emperors were them Emperors Popes Dost thee believe the Chronicle six hundred years after Christ Papist I do then there was no Universal Bishop until six hundred years after Christ Quaker And one Council was gathered by the Emperess and was she a Pope Nay this was before the Universal Pope was and Christ said to the Apostles that the Gentiles exercise Lordship one over another but it should not be so amongst them for they are all Brethren and the Gentiles were called gracious Lords which titlethe Bishop of Rome and other Bishops had from the Heathen and not from the Apostles for they was not be called of men Master And so Peter was not set over the rest of the Apostles as Head over them and what was said to Peter concerning having the Keys and binding and loosing was said to the rest of the Apostles as you may read in Scriptures And as concerning the Church that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church of the Papists when Phocas got up to be Emperor did not the Emperor lose most part of his Empire and the Pope most part of Turky and Egypt and Jerusalem and the Land of Canaan Has he not lost England Ireland and Scotland and part of Germany Holland Denma●k and Swerden 〈◊〉 and yet the old man the Pope tells people that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against his Church Let him look about him and see what he has lest and what he would have had left if he had not set up his Inquisitions to torture Christians in the time of the Council of Trent and when that the Princes of Germany in the time of Luther when they defired that for every tristing businesse they might not be summoned down to Rome was it not the Popes answer If it should not be so their Courts would be made or no authority but would go down And did not the German Princes desire that the Concubinary priests might marry For though by the Law they had Concubines yet they desiled other mens wives did not the ope say If I should suffer the priests to marry then they would not go where I would have them but would sit down with their wives And when the German Princes and others desired a free General Council such a Council as was in the time of Constantine mark that was before the Pope was three hundred years See Council of Trent p. 2. did not the Pope chuse a Council of his own Legates and people contrary to the mind of the Germans and others and then did not many of them fall from the Pope and many in France who got the victory over he Pope and yet he says the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church Consider people see what he has lest And after the Pope got up and had lost most of Christendom and the Emperor had lost most of his Empire for the Emperor's seat was at Constantinople before the Turk got up which was after the Pope and then after a time the Emperors came to be thrust up into Germany and called the Emperors of Germany So here see whether the Pope is not he that loveth and maketh a lye Rev. 22. Papist You speak as if you could tell our principles if you know them what is our principles Quaker I 'le tell thee I 'le begin with one There was a woman in Kent one of your Religion and by her Wisdom and Books she had brought many into your way and upon a time it pleased the Lord to convince this woman to see your way was false and Christ was to be her Way her Teacher and Salvation and so she went and declared this among the Papists And upon a time a Taylor that she had brought to be a Papist came to work at her house and she declared to him how Christ was her Way her Teacher and Salvation and he got betwixt her and the door and drew his knife at her it was askt her why did he draw his Knife she said he would have stabb'd me why would he have stabb'd thee why it is their principle What is it their principle to stab people Yes said she if they turn away from their Religion and the woman said Put up thy Knife I know thy principles Papist VVhat do you declare this abroad Quaker It is declared abroad and the women since dyed in the belief of the truth of God and forsook your way and so the Papist went away and never denyed but that it was his principle Papist The Papists say the Quakers are Antichrist and false Prophets Quaker VVhy are they Antichrist and false Prophets Papist Because they say they do prophesie and say Christ is in you c. Quaker Then thou may say the Apostles were false Prophets which shews thy ignorance for they said Christ is in you except you be Rep obates and we preach Christ in you and I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh and my sons and my daughters shall prophesie Read Cor. Col. and Acts. POSTSCRIPT AND you Papists that say there hath been a Head of the church and therefore the Pope must be Head of the Church for Aaron was Head and Moses was Head To which I say Moses was a married man and Aaron was a married man and Eleazer and Ithamer and Aaron was a Priest and Eleazer and Eli the Priest was a married man and Samuel was a Priest and was a married man and had Sons 1 Sam. 8. And by the Law of God the Priests were to marry as you may read in the Books of Moses But your Pope whom ye say is Head of the Church makes a Law contrary to Law and Gospel That Priests must not marry and Popes must not marry but the Popes have bastards and by the Law the priests may have Concubines and this is contrary to the Law to have Bastards and contrary to the Gospel to have Concubines for every man must have his own Wife And you Popes and Papists who say that you brought over the Bible first in England and you preserved the Bible think you not that all people sees you in this For you have been them that have kept the Bible from people in an unknown Tongue and though all profess to be believers in Christ yet they must not have the Scriptures in their own Language in this you are contrary to the Apostles shewing you are degenerate from them who judged them that spoke in an unknown Tongue And Christianity was planted many hundred years in England by Joseph of Aramathea before Austin the Monk brought over his trifling Traditions and Ceremonies And whereas you Papists call some Lay-people and some Spiritual which was not the way of the Apostles to do so and such that be under some Oaths Vows or Orders or has the natural Languages which began at Babel these you call spiritual which be in swearing