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A42310	Anti-Christ pointed and painted out in his true colours, or, The popes of Rome proven to bee that man of sinne and sonne of perdition fore-prophesied in Scripture by the clear witnessing of Roman Catholicks themselves, who lived and died in the communion of that church / by William Guild.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1655 (1655)	Wing G2203; ESTC R27163	64,002	182

were two Churches the one of the wicked which then flowrished over which the Pope doth raigne sayeth hee and the other of godlie and good men which the Pope sayeth he doth persecute which made likewise that forecited worshipfull Esquyre and famous Poët in his time Chaucer to speak thus of the Pope and his Cleargie Were CHRIST on the earth eftsoone These would damne Him to die All his hestes they haue foregone And sayes hi● Lawes beene H●resie And against his commands they cry And damne all His to be hrend For it lyks not them such lose●grie GOD Almightie them amend Whence it is likewise that the forecited Arch bishope of SALISBURG Eberhardus in his oration before the imperiall meeting at Reinsburg anno 1246. Said of the Pope avowedlie Vnder the tytle of High Priest and chief Pastor sayeth hee except we be blind wee may see a most cruell devouring Wolffe And yet no marvell that they were so cruell against the faythfull witnesses of CHRIST in former times who opposed them as wee see foreprophecied Revel 11.7 When they were so cruell each one against another as Platina witnesseth in the life of Sergius the third who tooke the dead carkise of his Predecessour Formosus out of the graue and as he had beene alive beheaded him and thereafter did cast the trunck o● his body into Tyber whereupon sayeth Platina See how farre the Popes did degener from their Predecessours who being most holy men and giving themselves to prayer and preaching of Christian doctrine refused any such dignitie when it was offered but these sayth hee hunting after the Popdome by Simonie and ambition and having so attayned therto misregarding all worship of GOD Inimieitias non secus ac sevissimi quidam Tyranni inter se exercebant That is They did exercise hatred crueltie one against another amongst themselves no lesse than the most cruell Tyrants that ever were sayeth hee What bloodie warres likewise they stirred up thorow all Christendome that Noble Roman Vall● as the Abbot Tritemius calleth him telleth us in his treatise of Constantins counterfite donation in the end thereof saying Papa ipse bella pacatis populi● infert inter civitates principes bella discordias serit that is The Pope both warreth himself against peaceable people and soweth discord warres amongst cities and princes wherupon hee about the middle exclameth thus O Romani Pontifices ●xemplum facinorum omnium caeteris Pontificibus O improbissimi Scribae Pharisei qui sede●is super cathedram Moysi opera Dathan Ahiron facitis That is O ye Bishops of Rome who are an example of all most wicked crymes to all other Bishops O most wicked Scribes and Pharisees who sitteth in Moyses chayre and yet doeth the works of Dathan and Abiron The instance of the trueth whereof may be seene in that Tragicall Historie betweene the Emperour Frederick the second and Gregorie the nynth set down trulie and impartially by Pandolphus an Italian Romanist concerning which sayeth that author When I consider with my self that CHRIST whose vicars the Roman B●shops boasteth themselves to bee said to his disciples that they should follow Him and imitate his example as their Master and Teacher and commanded them further that they should not draw the sword but put it up in the sheath c. And when I compare the Bishops of Rome how neere they follow Him whose vicars they say they are considereth so many and great conspiracies treasons rebellions stirred up by them c. And when I meditate with my self the destruction of so many great and famous Cities the subversion of such Common-Wealthes the slaughter of so many men and effusion of so much Christiā blood c. I am perswaded with my self to think and believe that to bee true sayeth hee which Aeneas Sylvius writteth in his historie of Austria that there is no great and notable destruction no notorious speciall calamitie that hath hapned either to the Common-Wealth or to the Church of GOD whereof the Bishops of Rome haue not beene the authors And as for the Popes crueltie against the poore Waldenses the author of Fasciculus temporum a charter mo●k telleth us in the life of Innocent the third that an hundreth thousand of them wer partlie s●ayne and partlie put to flight by the Earle of Montferrat the Popes Generall of whom their own Reynerus testifyth That they lived before men both piouslie and justlie and helieved all things rightlie concerning GOD and the articles of the Creed onelie that they hated and spake evill of the Church of Rome calling her the malignant Church and that whoore spoken of in the Revelation and which sort of people sayeth hee are thought to haue continued from the very Apostles times and were spread abroad in all places for as Yhuanus telleth us in the preface of the Historie of his time being overcome by armes they fled for refuge some into the countrey of Provence and to the Alpes bordering upon France and found in thes● places refuge for their lives doctrine a part also went into Calabria continued there long sayth ●e till the time of Pius the fourth a part passed also into Germanie and dwelt amongst the Bohemians some also went to Pole and Liue-land and others turning Westward sayeth hee found refuge in Britane A notable example of which bloodie crueltie against the remainder of these Waldenses Wee reade in the historie of the councell of Trent anno 1545. While that bloodie councell was sitting who inhabiting the Alpes of Provence were suddenlie and unexpectedlie persued by the President of the Parliament of Aix Who neyther having Weapons nor thought otherwise than by flight to defend thēselves al such who could not flie but stood to their mercie without sparing old or young of what age or condition soever they slew above 4000. persōs who without making defence begged for mercie razed the Countreyes of Cabriers in Provence and Merindoll in the Countie of Viinoifin wherein they formerlie had their abode From which time of that bloodie crueltie against the Waldenses what also hath beene likewise used against Iohn Huss Ierom of Prague and these who after thē they called Hussits in BOHEMIA Lollards in ENGLAND The Historie of the councell of CONTSANCE and of the BOHEMIAN warres by the Emperour Sigismund and the popes Emissaries writen by Aeneas Sylviꝰ afterward Pope As also the annalls of ENGLAND can testifie and tho the exact number of them bee not set down who suffered death torments for the Trueth in severall places yet it is certane that in lesse than 300. yeares their number farre exceeded thē who suffered in the times of of the ten Heathen persecutions As Sanders the priest maketh mention in his book of the Churches visible Monarchie AND from the rysing of the Iesuits to the year 1580. which was little more to that time nor 30 yeares Baldwin de A●christo

redemption but onelie of intercession which last tho it be altogether unlawfull CHRIST being onely our Mediator of intercession in the heavens this being that part of his priestlie office which he there performeth shall performe till his second comming and wherein he will haue no partner neither Saint nor Angel yet to showe the contrare to wit that they invocate thē as mediators of redemption I shall prove the same 1. Out of their Roman missall where they say to the virgine Marie O Faelix puerpera nostra pians seelera Iure matris impera redemptori And thereafter Tua semper ub●ra nostra sanent vuln●ra That is O Happie Mother who expiats our sinnes by the authoritie of a Mother command our Redeemer and let thy Pape milk heale our wounds Wher we see the expiation of our sinnes and healing our souls wounds attributed to the virgin Marie and her milk which is onlie proper to CHRIST and to His Blood and that most blasphemouslie is ascribed to her a power now to cōmand her Sonne and consequently the Creator to be subject to the creature and therefore also in a book called ANTIDOTUM ANIMAE They speake thus Tu ancillam Iesu Christi te vocare voluisti sed vt doc●● Lex divina tu illius es Domina nam Lex jube● ratio matrem praesse Filio The like blasphemous stuffe wee haue in that book written by a Iesuit of late named Carolus Bonartius alias Scribonius called Amphitheatrum honoris Who inquiring what is the best soules plaister answereth Lac matris miscere volo cū sanguine Nati Non possum antidoto nobiliore frui That is I will mixe sayeth hee the Mothers milk with the Sonnes Blood for I cannot haue a more soveraigne plaister than this Yea moreover they affirme as wee haue it in their owne famous Gabriel Biell That as Asuerus offered to Ester the half of his Kingdomes so GOD hath divyded his Kingdomes betweene Himself and the virgin Marie sayeth hee giving to her Mercie to bestowe and reserving justice onelie to Himself wherefore it is lawfull sayeth BERNARDIN de busto to appeale from the Sonnes justice to the Mothers mercie And therefore in like manner they haue turned the whole psalter of David which suteth mercie from Domine Lord to Domina our Ladie as may be seene speciallie psal. 71. 93. where they say psal. 71 Deus judicium tuum regi da misericordiam tuam Reginae matri ejus and psal. 93. They say of CHRIST Deus ultionum Dominus sed tu Benignae Mater misericordiae ad miserandum inflectis illum That is O GOD Thou art a LORD of revenge but thou myld Mother of mercie thou art shee that moveth Him to pittie And not only call they her Domina but Dea and therefore they sing unto her Tunc tibi laudes Dea dicet omnis sexus aetas So that as their own Vives testifyeth They are come to that hight of Idolatrie in this poynt that they worship no otherwise their he she Saints sayth he then they do GOD Himself neither see I sayth he in many things what differēce ther is between their opinion of Saints that which the verie Heathen haue of their gods Yea They haue placed more confidence in their merits and intercession than in CHRITS merite sayeth their own Cassander and so having obscured that Office of CHRISTS onlie mediation they haue in place thereof substitute sayth he the advocation of the Virgine Marie and others I may heere adde their Idolatrous Adoration by kneeling and kissing of pretended Reliques of Saints which being most part false through the avarice of Priests sayeth their own Cassander haue beene obtruded for entysing of simple People and fained miracles haue beene alleadged to haue beene wrought by them whereby the superstitition of people hath beene greatly fostered Yea not onelie are such Reliques worshipped by kneeling and kissing but also by putting up prayers to them as if they heard or had sense or lyfe for thus they pray to the Crosse as Bellarmine granteth which hath now no being O Crux ave spes unica Ange piis justitians reisque dona veniam That is Hayle holy Crosse our onlie Hope who upon earth do liue To godlie righteousnes augment to guiltie pardon giue So likewise they pray to the speare that pierced CHRISTS side Ave ferrum triumphale faelix hasta nos amore per te fixo saucia That is All hayle triumphant yron and speare that happie is Lance us with love of Him whom thou didst pierce I wis And to that Picture of CHRISTS face on Veronicas Handkerchife they pray thus Nos dedu● ad patriam o faelix Figura ad videnda● faciem quae est CHRISTI purae And as for their worshipping and Idolatrous praying to angels chieflie whom they call their guardians as the same is expreslie against COL. 2.18 Who affirmeth that these who do so under pretēce of Humilitie do not hold the Head and consequentlie cannot retaine communiō with the Bodie which is CHRISTS Church So likewise that famous and ancient Councell of Laodicea CAN. 35. not farre from the COLOSSIANS did solemlie decree against the same as manifest Idolatrie and pronunced anathema to al such who did invocat Angels because say they These who do so haue foresaken Our LORD IESVS CHRIST {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and given themselves to Idolatrie which canon also Theodoret upon the second to the Colossians citeth and showeth that this was their pretence of humili●ie for their Idolatrie saying that GOD was invisible and inaccessible and therefore it was fi● that men should obtaine GODS favour by the means of Angels which is now in like-manner the very excuse of Poperie Thirdlie of Popish Idolatrie in Adoration of the Hoste But before I come to this their Idolatrous adoration I cannot pass by First Their blasphemous assertion Which Gabriel Biell setteth down in these words of the Priest saying Hee that created mee hath given mee power to create Himself and Hee that created mee without mee is created by me Their late Iesuit likewise Cornelius a lapide sayeth That CHRIST is borne and as it were begotten upon the Altar sayth he and if He were not yet incarnat yet as powerfullie Hee should be incarnat by the words of consecration as Hee was at first wherefore the Priest sayeth hee is as the Virgin that boore Him the Altar is the manger the little Emmanuell which he beareth is CHRIST brought foorth under the little Hoste Next as for the worship which is to be given to it the Councell of Trent hath decreed that it is the highest Divine worship which they call Latria Now if the conceate which Papists haue of Transsubstantiation proue false Their Iesuit Coster in his Euchiridion freelie confesseth That then they should committ the grossest Idolatrie the like whereof sayeth hee was never heard nor seene in