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

and commanded them to be kept through all Christendome in Schooles and Iudgement Thus the word of God is set aside for their traditions Peter de Vienna complained That all the world cannot fill the insatiabilitie of the Pope That the turpitudes of the Clergie are so great and enormious as shame forbiddeth to speake thereof Hee also maintained that the Pope neither by diuine nor humane right hath any power of the Sword The Pope excommunicated him William the Gold-smith at this time sheweth that the Pope is Antichrist Rome Babylon the Prelates members of Antichrist Caesarius 10. Distinct 3. of his Dialogues The Pope was driuen out of Rome by the Romans He cursed the Emperour Frederike for not going to the holy Land and the second time for punishing Rebells and receiued 12000. ounces of gold for absoluing him Vide Plat. and the Mysterie of Iniquitie pa. 360. He cursed the Greeke Church and they him againe he plagued the Clergie of England by exactions foure markes of euery Church the fift part of euery Ecclesiasticall person 10000. markes for maintaining of the warres against the Emperour he stirred vp his sonne against him He wrote to the Sarazens not to agree with him He fell out with the Cardinall Columna because he would not doe a vile message to the Emperour saying I hold thee not hence-forth for Cardinall Nor I thee for Pope sayd Columna and so he departed Math. Paris See the Mystery of Iniquity fol. 304. Gregorie afflicted with so many mischiefes fell sicke and dyed with sorrow and griefe 1241. Celestine the fourth sate eighteen dayes was poisoned Innocent the fourth sate eleuen yeeres and sixe moneths He canonized many Saints made much of begging Friers Hee prescribed the Emperour Frederike and Conrade and then commanded William to be chosen against him He exacted in England the third of all Church-goods and the yeerely fruits of vacant Benefices and halfe of all Non-residences and all the intestate Ecclesiasticall Againe of some Priests fifteene of some tenne of some fiue able men furnished with horse and harnesse to the warres for one whole yeere besides 10000. markes and after 70000. markes to this warre in despite of King Henry besides Peter-pence 60000. markes yeerely of A●…ent Clarkes He reuoked Friers priuiledges excommunicated them and all religious persons The Emperour sayde foreseeing what would follow when hee was chosen Pope I haue lost a Cardinall my friend and haue chosen a Pope mine enemie Plat. So honours change manners and the very pride of the place makes them forget all duty to God and man He dyed miserably at Naples sooner than he thought Naucler 1250. Alexander the fourth sate seauen yeeres he was set vp against Conrade the Emperour hee reuoked the acts of Innocent condemned the Bookes of Gulielmus de Sancto amore written against Begging Friers Plat. popish Clergie calling the Pope Antechrist He lost his armie in Nicrea and comming to Viterbe he dyed there 1261. From Siluester the second that diuellish Magitian vntill this time the Popes haue reigned as incarnate diuells in all trumperies deceits oppression of the good and manifest tyrannies and haue tormented by their infernall furies the greatest monarkes Henry the fourth and fift the second Fredericke and other princes of the earth Vrbane the fourth sate three yeeres and one moneth hee raised vp warres against Maufroy and after against Conradin and ouercame them both and so obtayned the lands but the end was miserable for the Sicillians after the yeere 1282. rebelled against him and slew all his French army in an euening sodainely and opened their women great with childe and cast away their fruit that they nor none of that generation might remaine This occasion was afterward commonly called the Euensong of Sicilie This Pope dyed at Peruse Clement the fourth sate three yeers and nine months He had wife and children Hee was the King of France his Chancellor After his wifes death he was Bishop of Pauy after Archbishop of Narbon after Cardinall and was chosen Pope Hee demanded a certaine tenth in Almayne Iohn Glossator of the Decree and Prouost of Saint Stephen de Alberstate opposed himselfe against it and appealed to the next Counceil for the which hee was excommunicated of the Pope and depriued of his office Sea of Histories Clement had a nephew which held three Benefices he constrained him to forsake two of them Naucler He died at Viterbe Gregorie the tenth sate foure yeeres he assembled a Counsell at Lions where was agreed the tenth part of the goods of the Church to be giuen for sixe yeeres to maintaine the warres for the conquest of the lands beyond the Seas He labored to bring the Greeke Church vnto Rome but all in vaine so as he is not vniuersall Bishop nor his Successors 1272. He came to Aretinum where he died Innocent the fift sate sixe moneths and two dayes Adrian the fift sate fortie dayes he died at Viterbe 1276. before hee was consecrated Iohn the two and twentieth sate eight moneths promising himselfe long life foretold by the Starres as hee affirmed it but in the presence of his people a new Vault Valerius calleth it a playing Hall Stella a rich and precious chamber which he had built in his pallace at Viterbie fell the fourth day following sodainely vpon him in the yeere 1277. and the seauenth day after the sayd ruine he was found miserably slaine betwixt the stones and the timber and was buried in the great Church Here the Pope found by experience the vanity of his diuination At this time was the doctrine of the Waldois holding but two Sacraments baptisme and the Communion The Masse an abhominable and detestable thing and therefore to be abolished All humane tradition to be reiected as not necessary to saluation against many other toyes of Popery against the Popes Supremacie called Rome very Babylon and the Pope the fountaine of all euill Nicholas the third sate foure yeeres He transported to himselfe the dignity of the Senator of Rome He made a Parke for Hares and Conies for his pleasure to hunt in He gaue much to his nephew or rather bastard called Barthand that hee tooke from others by force as some say hee ingendered vpon a Concubine of his bastards a monster whose haire and nayles were like a Beares See Iohn de Naion in his Institutions of Beda And as hee was determined to preferre the house of the Vrsins of which house he was and therefore had caused to be paynted the pictures of Beares in the Pallace being in the towne of Sutry hee was taken with an Apoplexy of which he died sodainly and without speech Anno 1291. Martin the fourth sate two yeeres and eight months he excommunicated Peter King of Aragon and exposed his kingdome for a prey to the first that could get it because hee ordayned an army by Sea into Sicilie against Charles and absolued his subiects of their oath Note that all the pastime of Popes is to set Princes together by the eares Hee

exceeded in crueltie before hee was Pope hee had written with singular diligence two bookes of the Acts of the Counsell of Basill but being Pope he sought to represse them labouring not to lessen the Papall tyranny but to increase it in what he could Stella He made warres with Borge Duke of Mutine because he fauoured Sigismund Malatest with many other great cruelties For his profit he deposed many Bishops He was sumptuous in building hee made a Sepulchre of Marble for his fathers and mothers bones See Plattina Amongst many things left in writing this was one With great reason saith he was Marriage taken from Priests yet there is a farre greater reason wherefore it ought to haue beene yeelded them againe Also in his second booke of Counsells he saith It may be that it were not the worse if a many Priests were married for many being married Priests should be saued which in their barren singlenesse are damned Himselfe abolished the Monasteries of S. Brigit and S. Clare commanding them out that they might burne no more and vnder the habite of Religion they should not hide whoredome Caelius secundus Hee was surprized of a slowe feauer whereof hee died at Ancon 1464. Plattina Sabellicus Paul the second sate seauen yeeres he was of a proude spirit ambitious and couetous Hee exceeded all his ancestors in sumptuous attire and all kinde of precious attire Plattina O noble Successour of Peter Hee was an enemy to learning hee put away many learned men as forreiners and strangers with their bookes giuen to the spoyle But diuers with Plattina himselfe desiring the matter might be referred vnto the Iudges the Pope in great anger answered Do you not know that all Iudgement is placed in our breast Plattina wrote a letter to the Pope desiring that if without cause he would spoyle them of their iust purchase yet it would please him they might haue leaue to complaine of their wrong and vniust ignominy For being banished of you wee must passe vnto Kings and Princes and we will intreate them that you appoint a Counsell wherein you may be constrained to giue a reason of your doing Paulus hauing read the letter he presently chargeth me of Libells spreading out against him And though I freed my selfe of that charge because I had set my name thereto yet I was bound with grieuous fetters and put into a high Tower in the middest of winter exposed to all windes foure months At the length at the importunate suite of a Cardinall I was set at libertie with admonition that I should not depart the Citie affirming that if I went among the Indies Paul would fetch me thence He was sodainely put in feare by a report that youths hauing Calimacho their Captaine had conspired against him whereby he feared to be surprized at home and abroad whereupon hee put many to torture with Captaine Calimacho whereof many died in the torture Hee was a great eater of Melons he eate the same day that he died in the night two very great Melons he died of an Apoplexie the tenth of the Kalends of August 1471. being alone in his Chamber no man seeing him when that day being very merry hee had a Consistory He went about to establish Priests marriages but hee was preuented by death It was said when hee came abroad he was wont to paint his face with all kinde of precious stones about him Aaron-like desirous to be seene and wondered at Hee was a great drinker but of small wines He so hated the study of humanitie as he called the students thereof by one name Heretickes Hereupon he perswaded the Romans they should no longer bring vp their children in learning it was enough if they learned to reade and write Plattin Others say the Diuell brake his necke as he was committing Sodomatrie Sixtus the fourth sate thirteen yeeres he was in great danger of his life at his Coronation by reason of a mutiny whilest they carried him in his Litter to the Church of Lateran hee was in danger of his life being assailed with stones so as he was forsaken almost of all that accompanied his Litter Hee made many warres against Ferdinand King of Pouill Hee builded in Rome Stewes for both kindes Cornelius Agrippa cap. 64. he graunted to Cardinalls the vse of Sodomatry for three hot moneths Sextus being sicke of a feuer vnderstanding that a peace was made betwixt the Venetians and other Potentates sodainely yeelded the spirit Naucler The rents of the Curtizans amounted to the value of twenty thousand ducats yeerely Onuphrius Agrippa de vanit Scient Wisellus de Indulgentijs Witnesses Naucler 1484. Innocens the eight sate eight yeeres hee was once a poore childe he was nourished amongest the seruants of Ferdinand king of Sicilie afterward he came to Rome he remained long time with Philip Cardinall of Bolongne After hee was made Bishop of Sauonne at the length he was made Cardinall and Pope He was of a great stature but farre from learning Almost from the beginning of his Popedome hee conspired against Ferdinand that brought him vp with the Princes of the Kingdome and warred against him c. but being wearied with warres he gaue himselfe to all pleasures He aduanced his bastards as Francis and inriched his daughter Theodorin which he married to a rich man of Genoa He begat eight sons and as many daughters Marcellus poeta No maruell though Rome calles him Father See his Epitaph following Why seekest thou witnes to proue Cibo a man Looke on his brats faire gages deny 't and you can Eight bastard sonnes he begat as many daughters Worthily then may Rome count this man Father saith Marcellus Alluding to the triall of the Sexe ordayned after the deceit of Pope Ioane Vncleannesse Auarice Sloath Gluttony Are heere octaue intomb'd where thou dost lye Alexander the sixt called Borgia before a Cardinall seeking to mount higher being a Negromancer hee vsed the helpe of the Diuell who promised him vpon agreement by oath and writing so as hee would in all things thew himselfe a faithfull protectour of Sathan Afterward the Diuell came vnto him hauing promised he should not appeare in any hideous or fearfull forme honourably apparrelled who after certaine talke had betwixt them assured the Cardinall he should be Pope Borgia being very ioyous hee inquired how long hee should reigne The Diuell gaue him an ambiguous answer viz. that hee should reigne the space of eleauen and eight The Cardinall foolishly promised himselfe nineteene yeeres but Sathan meant eleuen yeeres and eight moneths Now being chosen Pope hee named himselfe Alexander the sixt he made his bastard sonne called Valentine being a Cardinall a Duke and surnamed him Caesar Borgia he shed much bloud saith Valerius He gathered siluer as much as hee could to satisfie his lust He solde offices for 750. ducats apeece hee aduanced his bastards as his predecessors had done hee made the youngest of his sonnes a Prince of Sicilie his second sonne called Caesar Valentine hee