Bishop of Rome and Pope vniuersall in the Church of God and in that seat ruled two yeares and thirtie and so many dayes And albeit placed in this throne yet liued she not chastly but vsed priuate familiaritie with her slaue in whom she much trusted and by whom she was great with child yet so diligently she cloaked it that no other but himselfe knewe it And as God would not suffer so great wickednesse to rest any longer vnpunished so it happened that vppon a day being the time of her child-birth as she went with accustomed pompe to visite Saint Iohn de Lateran of a secrete sinne it pleased God to shew an open punishment and comming to a certaine place betweene the Church of Saint Clement and the Theater which they call improperly Coliseo with extreme paine shee brought forth a creature to the wonderfull amazement of those that were present and therewithall sodainly died and without honour or pompe was buried For this so strange accident in this place happened it is commonly sayd that when the chiefe Bishops go sithence to the Church of Lateran comming neere vnto it they turne aside go not that way in detestation of so horrible a chance And lest happily another such like woman might worke the like deceit there is now in the sacred palace a seate open below that it may secretly be seene if it be a man that is chosen The Romans now ashamed at the ceremonie for which his seate was inuented call it a dunghill imploy it to other purpose Another like seat there is or was if it be not thence taken in the Monasterie de Monte Cassino where in olde time they chose many Popes The same Author proceedeth In that way saith he is also a statue of stone representing the child-birth and death of this bold woman Thus farre Pero Mexia That which he saith of the statue and the cause of it there being is most true But it is to be vnderstood that the ceremony of the seate to knowe whether it be man or woman is not now vsed because those which are chosen for Popes haue so honestly liued that wanting lawfull wiues amongst their concubines whores and strumpets which they keepe and by whom they haue had he or she bastards they haue shewed themselues to be men Sergius had a bastared by a notable strumpet called Marozia as saith Luithprandus an ancient Writer in his secend booke and thirteenth chapter and in his third booke and twelfth chapter This sonne of the Pope was Pope also called Iohn the twelfth This Iohn the twelfth had a bastard which also was Pope called Iohn the fourteenth Innocentius 8. had 8. sonnes and as many daughters But leauing out the auncient let vs come to our later Popes How manie hee and she bastards had our Spanish Alexander the sixth Of Leo the tenth it is sayd that he had bastardes and that Clement the seuenth was his sonne of whom the Bishop Paulus Iouius counteth manie abominations Paule the third had bastardes among whom was one and Pero Lewis his name the most abominable Sodomite of his time and for the same was put to death Pope Gregorie the thirteenth not long since deceased before and when he was Pope had also bastardes Iohn Pannonius giueth the like reason with vs in these verses Non poterat quisquam resorantes aethera claues Non exploratis sumere testiculis Cur igitur nostro mos hic iam tempore cessat Antè probat sese quilibet esse marem The Church of Rome then hauing such certaine proofes a seate now is not needfull Friar Alonso venero in his Enchiridion of times speaking of the vnhappines of these times saith thus What greater euil thē a woman by her subtiltie worldly learning dissembling her sexe and nature to vsurpe the Pontificall seat of Christ Friar Iohn de Pineda par 3. lib 18. cap. 23. ¶ 6 saith This deede caused great admiration that a woman did dare to be the vicar of God sith the holy virgin Marie for being a woman is held irregular for any ecclesiasticall act or holy gouernment soeuer c. So long haue I dwelled vpō this historie of Pope Ione and with so many to wit 12 authors at the least confirmed it to confound some papists of our time which seing the disorder of this Pope this shee Pope I saie because the Pope is oft of the common of two genders to auoide the same very maliciously denie any such Pope to haue bin and the more to fortifie their vntrueth they are not contented to speak but also to write and print the same Amongest whom Onuphrius Panuinus of Saint Augustins order as they call it is one who among many other notes vpon Platina concerning the liues of the chiefe Bishops speaking of this Pope Ione maketh one verie large note wherein he absolutely or rather dissolutely denieth any such Pope to haue bene And his chiefest argument drawne to confirme his opinion is that such a one and such c. writing of the liues of the chiefe Oishops doe not once mention this Pope Iohn 8. whereupon it followeth as he concludeth that there was neuer any such Pope To this I answer that the Authors by him alleaged either by forgetfulnesse or ignorance or which is more credible mallice or else at least for shame haue made no mention of him As a Logitian I further answer that an argument taken ab authoritate negando is nothing worth For example Cicero vsed not this word therefore it is not Latine but if any other Latine authour as Caesar Liuius Salust c. vsed it it shall be Latine though not vsed by Cicero I now likewise answer that albeit those Authors by him alleaged make no mention of this Iohn the eight others and manie more such also as Pero Mexia calleth faithfull Authours haue done it An argument taken not ab authoritate negando but affirmando is good Of this Pope Mautuan in his third booke vpon Alphonsus speaking of hell thither saith he Iohn the eight descended Hic pendebat adhuc sexum mentita virilem Foemina cuitriplici Phrygiam diademate mitram Et tollebat apex pontificalis adulter Here will we make to the Papists and with much more reason the same demaunds that we did speaking of Constantine the second What will they say of those Bishops Archbishops and other Ecclesiasticall persons by her or her authoritie ordained Take away the cause and the effect ceaseth As she by their owne Cannons was not Pope so all those that she ordained were not Priestes nor did celebrate nor consecrate And all the people in hearing their Masse committed idolatrie Who then was head and vniuersall Bishop of the Church Who Saint Peters successour Who the Vicar of Christ A woman and that a whore both before she was Pope and after Pero Mexia hereof aduising answereth that albeit neither she nor any other woman be capable to receiue any character of ordination nor to ordaine
he let them go Don Fenando 3. reigned in Spaine When Innocent the fourth a Genoway was Pope of a most deere friend to the Emperour Fredericke he beame a mortall enemie I will here recite what saith Ieronymus Marius concerning this Pope of him saith he that being Pope he held a Councell against the Emperor at Lyous in Fraunce in which Councell the Pope himselfe cited the Emperour The Embassadors of the Emperour besought the Pope to giue him time to come to the Councell this time the Pope refused to graunt but there like a mad man excommunicated and deposed the Emperour commaunding that none should obey him and the Princes to choose another Emperour whom he so sollicited and with promises deceiued that they chose for Emperour Henrie Lantgraue of Turingia Fredericke the second vnderstanding hereof against the Pope and the rest defended himselfe valiantly vntill being in Pulla he could not escape the snares of the Pope where a certaine man by the Pope corrupted did poyson him Yet began he notwithstanding to recouer vntill a young man called Manfredo with money also as some say by the pope corrupted strangled him with a towell Concerning this good Emperour no credite is to be giuen either to Blundus Platina Estella nor Sabellicus because they wrote the sayings of the Pope and his flatterers to stirre vp the world if they might against this good Emperour Who listeth to knowe the truth let him reade Petrus de Vinea in his sixe bookes of Epistles Hitherto Marius In Sueuia at this time were preachers that with great libertie preached the truth against the Pope and his Cardinals they iustified the cause of the Emperour Fredericke the second and Conrad his sonne and boldly affirmed that neithe the Pope Cardinals nor Bishops had any authority because they were stained with Simony and that they held no power which Christ had giuen them The Priests sayd they being in mortall sinne did neither bind nor loose nor yet consecrate at al c. At the end of their sermons they said that the indulgēces which they preached were not feigned of the Pope nor inuented of his Prelates but graunted by the omnipotent God In the foresayd Councell of Lugdanum Innocent ordeined that the Cardinals should vse red shadowes which they call hattes and cloakes and ride vpon trapped horses and this saith Platina to adorne his order of Cardinals Note for this purpose concerning the Cardinals that which Pero Mexia vpon the life of the Emperour Henry the fourth saith where to paint Saint Ierome with a hat is made a mockerie for Saint Ierome died aboue 850 yeares before Innocent inuented the hattes This Pope Innocent the fourth had many bastards whom after the popish custome he called Nephewes Vntill the time of this Pope as noteth Bibliander there was no article of faith nor law of the Church that men should worship the bread and wine in the Eucharist This Pope was the first that created a new God by his transubstantiation albeit true it is that Honorius 3. began this building This Pope offered to Henry 3. king of England the kingdome of both Sicils if he would buy it In the 1254. yeare he died and Don Alonso 10. called the wise which was Emperour reigned in Castile Alexander 4. an Italian was the first that persecuted and excommunicated Manfred king of Sicilia By reason whereof many reuolts happened in Italie William de S. Amor a learned man who wrote against the feigned pouertie of the begging Friars was in the time of this Pope which bookes with a terrible edict the Pope prohibited This good man affirmed these idle poore and lazie fellowes which liued by almes were not in the state of saluation This Alexander 4. secretly fauoured Richard the sonne of king Iohn of England for money which he had promised if he would make him Emperour but publikely hee made shewe to fauour Don Alonso 10. king of Spaine of whome hee had receiued verie much money A double hearted man is neuer good In the 1262. yeare or after others 1261. he died and Don Alonso the tenth reigned in Castile Vrban 4. a Frenchman was Pope he tooke against Manfred as his predecessour Alexander the fourth had done And the better to be enabled for his owne reuenge he prayed Lewis king of France to send Charles his brother Earle of Prouince and Aniou whom he called king of both Sicils with a great campe into Italie Charles in the end after many warlike conflicts ouercame and slew Manfred neere vnto Benauente and so took he vnder fealty the kingdoms of Sicilia with Dukedome of Calabria and Pulla the pope against all right as he that faulteth in whatsoeuer he doth giuing the same vnto him This manifest roberie was the cause of manie ensuing murders This Vrban the fourth at the instance of a certain woman called Eua a Recluse in the land of Leege familiarly by him knowne before he was Pope did institute the great feast of the breaden God called Corpus Christi This woman Arnoldus Bostius and Petrus Premostratensis report had a reuelation a diuellish one no doubt vpon the celebration of the feast of the Sacrament which shee by her letters signified to the Pope requesting him by his papall authoritie to cause it to be celebrated Which thing the pope graunted as by a letter in answere thereof appeareth This letter thus beginneth Vrbanus Episcopus seruus seruorum Dei dilectae in Christo filiae Euae salutem c. Vrban Bishop the seruant of Gods seruants to Euah his beloued daughter in Christ health and Apostolique blessing We know ô daughter that with great desire hath thy soule desired the solemne feast of the body of our Lord Iesus Christ to be instituted in the Church of God and for euer celebrated of all faithfull Christians c. The Letter is long and therefore contenting my selfe to haue put downe the summe I haue spared here to recite it Behold heere my brethren the cause of this solemne feast with so manie daunces Castles Maygames playes maydes borne vpon mens shoulders streetes strowed with boughes and decked with Tapistrie A day it is of most great superstition and Idolatrie a day wherein more villanies then vertues are committed For who he or shee vpon this day will not see and be seene that beside which passeth more to be lamented then laughed at True it is that Pope Honorius the third laid the foundation and made the ground-worke of this building In the 1265. or after some others 1264. yeere died Vrban and Don Alonso 10. reigned in Castile Clement 4. a Frenchman was like his predecessors cruell and a great bloodshedder He called into Italy against Manfred king of Cicill Charles Earle of Aniou Charles vanquished and killed Manfred whom this vngentle Clement made king of Sicilia and Ierusalem with this condition to pay him yeerely 40000. duckats This caused infinite numbers of men
Sodomit c. Wherfore Iohn changing his garmeÌ„t fled from ConstaÌ„ce went to Friburg but by coÌ„mand of the CouÌ„cell after he had 5. yeares poped he was depriued of his Popedome euery other office He was sought for found caught imprisond in the castle of Hidelberga in Germany where he was 3 yeares prisoner in great affliction for that his kepers were Germans simple rude which neither vnderstood Latine nor yet Italian the miserable Pope neither spake nor vnderstood Duch From this prison he afterward escaped The questioÌ„ whether the Pope be aboue the CouÌ„cel or the Councel aboue the Pope was in this CouÌ„cel debated And in the 4. 5. SessioÌ„s coÌ„cluded as Caranâ—a himselfe saith that a general Councel lawfully assembled which represeÌ„teth the catholike church millitaÌ„t had it authoritie imediatly of Christ which Councel euery person of what estate dignitie soeuer yea the Pope himselfe ought to obey in matter coÌ„cerning the faith c. This decre of the CouÌ„cel of CoÌ„staÌ„ce is confirmed in the 3. and 18. Sessions of the Councell of Basile In the Councell of Constance was Iohn Gerson a famous diuine present who not onely with wordes but also with writing approued and extolled this decree that the Pope was to be subiect to the Councell This decree he saith deserued to be fixed in all Churches and in all publike places for a perpetuall remembrance He saith that those which brought this tyranny into the Church that the chiefe Bishop ought not to obey the Councell and that the Councell neither ought nor could Iudge the Pope were pernicious flatterers As though the Councell receiued all that power and dignity of the chiefe Bishop and could not be assembled but at the will of the Pope As though there were no law for the Pope nor account to be demaunded of that which he did Such monstrous words saith he ought to be far from vs as those that be contrary to lawes equitie and reason He saith that all authoritie whatsoeuer the Church holdeth the same holdeth the Councell and that apleales from the Pope ought and may be made to the Councell He saith that they which demaunde whether the Pope or Church be greater Doe no lesse then they that demaunded whether the whole or parte bee greater The Councell saith he hath authoritie and right to chuse Iudge and depose the chiefe Bishop All which with the Councell of Constance Gerson confirmed This Councell Iudged the causes of three Popes Gregorie 12. Benedict 13. and Iohn 24. and finding them all there faulty deposed them and elected Martin 5. Eneas Siluius afterwardes called Pius 2. was present in the Councell of Basill and wrote all whatsoeuer was there debated extolling to the clouds that was there decreed but afterwards being Pope he changed his opinion saying that the Councell ought to be subiect to the Pope The vniuersitie of Paris a few moneths before Luther handled the question of Indulgence from Leo 10. appealed to the Councel This decree of the Councels of Constance and Basill did not nor yet doth please the Popes flatterers who against their owne consciences make the Pope God in the earth absolute Lord of all Iohn Wickeliffe an Englishman before in England deceased for freely preaching the euangelical Doctrin which discouereth hypocrisie and false papisticall doctrine was in this Councell condemned For the same also were Iohn Hus Ierome of Prage who suffered their Martyrdome with great constancie and ioyfulnes condemned and burned Pius 2. saith that Iohn Hus was greater in age authoritie but Ierome was greater in learning and eloquence And a little before he saith both suffered death with a constant mind as if they had bene inuited to some banquet they prepared themselues to go to the fire When the fire began they sung a Psalme which the flame rushing in of the fire could hardly hinder None of the Philosophers with such constancy fortitude of mind is read to haue suffered death as these men endured the fire Eneas Siluius albeit an enemy thus speaketh of them Vnder safe conduct came these two to dispute maintaine their cause as they did in the Councell But neither faith nor promise regarded they against all law and reason were condemned and burned The reason which the Papists yeeld for this deed doing is because no faith is to be kept with heretiques This faith-breach was cause of great bloodshed in the great warres which afterwards happened in Bohemia as Siluius himselfe reporteth Great praise worthy are the Bohemians that with great constancy haue continewed in the good Doctrine and reformation which these holy martirs of Iesus Christ taught them And so much the more is their praise by how much the more they haue suffered troubles persecutions for almost 200 yeares yet by the mercy of God doe they stil vse this good doctrine and reformation which from thence hath crept to Morauia and Polonia the bordering regions In our time hath God stretched the same through Germany from theÌ„ce spread throughout al Europe and hath further passed the great Ocean sea and gone to India all the lets of Antichrist by meanes of his Inquisitors notwithstanding and the more they shall burne the more will it spread abroad because as before we haue said of Tertulian The bloud of the Martirs is the seede of the Gospell Carança in his Summa Conciliorum noteth 45 errors as he calleth them of Iohn Wickelife and 30 of Iohn Hus who listeth to knowe what Iohn Hus taught let him read Carion lib. 5. When Iohn 24. had as we haue said escaped out of prison he came to present himselfe to Pope Martin 5. who was chosen in the CouÌ„cel of Constance to Florence came he prostrated himselfe at the feet of Pope Martin acknowledging him to be Pope kissed his feet Martin moued with this humilitie within few dayes after made him Cardinal Bishop of Tuscan read Friar Iohn de Pineda lib. 23. cap. 20. ¶ 3. O. what a Cardinal O what a Bishop if that be true as it was which was obiected and proued against him in the Councel of CoÌ„stance But no new thing it is that the Popes Cardinals bishops should be as he was But a few moneths after Iohn in his Cardinalship of very griefe is supposed in the 1419. yeare died Friar Iohn de Pineda saith that it was suspcted they gaue him poyson And saith that most solemnly was hee buried in the chappel of S. Iohn Baptist Don Iohn 2. theÌ„ reigning in Castil Martin 5. was made Pope in the Councel of CoÌ„sance of whose electioÌ„ Sigismund the Emp. much reioyced so thaÌ„ked the Councel for chusing such a Bishop And prostrating himselfe before the Pope kissed his feete This pope embraced him as his brother gaue him thankes that by his meanes and trauell the Church was quieted after so great a Sisme But for all this
young maidens also This was the first occasion of the warres This warre ended others much more great had they wherein they so much increased and inriched themselues that not contented with Italy they made warres also vpon forreigne nations and leauing their owne limits they inuaded Affrike and Asia Thus were they dayly increasing vntill another Prince and Lord arose vp in Rome thrusting himselfe into the same seat of the Empire and at the side as it were of the Roman Emperour This new Prince at the first made no shew that he purposed ought to diminish the authority of the Emperor but only took care of the affaires of the Church wherein whiles he was so employed the strength of the Emperour Empire flourished But afterwards he began to thinke how to benefite himselfe of that opinion of religion and holinesse which he held and to attaine hereunto he doubted not to intreat the Emperour that by his authority he might hold the souereignty ouer all Churches The cause that this new Prince alleaged was that Rome was alwayes the Lady of the whole world and therefore was it meet that the Bishop of that city shuld go before other Bishops in degree dignity To obtaine this was a thing most difficult For albeit that the Emperour let it slip yet did the Bishops of other nations confidently gainesay him alleaging lawfull causes why they withstood him vnwilling to acknowledge the Bishop of Rome otherwise then for a brother companion and in power equall with them Notwithstanding all this he of Rome forslowed not but continually vrged to attaine to his purpose vntill he obtained of Phocas the Emperour who murthered Mauricius his good Lord and Emperour that which he would and so called himselfe vniuersall Bishop and what besides he best pleased Here may ye see that olde Rome was founded vpon one murder and the new which is the Popedome vppon another In this concerning the primacie was the Pope merely oposit to Christ who sharpely in his disciples reproued the like strife and ambition But the Pope mounted to this height by the benefit of the Emperours did nowe further dare to promise to himselfe greater matters yet long time proceeding with great dissimulation A hundred yeares almost after the death of Constantine the great was the Empire much weakned it lost Fraunce England and Almaine The Hunnes held Italie the Vandals Africke Such was the dissipation that the Emperours leauing Rome which is in the West went to Constantinople where they made their abode The Bishop of Rome seeing the scattering of the Empire minded not to let slippe occasion but armed a question for his parte against the Emperour The chiefe cause was that the Emperour commaunded all statues and Images to be taken out of the Churches So greatly did the Pope withstand this commaund that hee dared to excommunicate the Emperour so much nowe was the horne increased At this time in the East arose vp Mahomet who tooke many landes form the Empire The Emperours notwithstanding would haue it vnderstood that all the dignitie power and Maiestie which the Pope did hold depended vppon them The Pope then to bee freed from this subiection and the warres which the king of Lumbardie made in italie deuised a notable policie and this it was To aduaunce of himselfe another whom he liked and to name him Emperour of the Romans Who accknowledging the benefit should deeme himselfe happie to please and serue him in all that he would And so Charles the great he elected and declared Emperour who had chased out of Italie the king of Lumbardy and enemie to the Pope This caused great anger and strife betweene the Easterne and Westerne Emperours and not betweene them onely but the Churches also of both the one and other partie of all which the couetousnes and ambition of the Pope of Rome were the cause Much contention was there afterwards among the Italians French and Almaynes about the election of the Emperour But in the end when Otho the third Duke of Saxoni◠was Emperour and Gregorie 5. an Almayne Pope order was giuen that seuen electors should choose the Emperour as in the life of this Gregorie the fift we haue declared And this was done to exclude straunge nations that none but an Almayne should be Emperour Great garboyles arose afterwardes betweene the Pope and the Emperour who could no longer endure the vnmeasurable arrogancie and ambition of the Pope Reade the Histories of Henry the third and fourth and of Frederick the first second and to come neerer our time those of the Emperour Charles 5. whose host in the 1527. yeare sacked Rome tooke Pope Clement 7. and held him prisoner This Clement as sang the Spaniardes at the Popes windowe whiles hee was prisoner would haue taken away the cloke from the Emperour as vppon the life of this Clement we haue before declared So also sought Paule the fourth to take away the cloake from our king Don Philip the second The kingdome of Naples would he haue taken from him but the host of the king whose captaine was the Duke Dalua put the Pope into such a straight that he was contented to make peace and chiefly hearing of the taking of Saint Quintans which was in the 1557. yeare as vppon the life of this Paul the fourth before we haue said So proud is the Pope become that he hath made the forme of an oath the which he causeth the Emperour to sweare being in time past his maister and Lord and so Saint Gregorie called Lord the good Emperour Mauricius but now is he his seruaunt and vassall This forme of oath conteyneth that the Emperour by all possible wayes keepe increase and defend the goodes of the Roman Church and chiefe Bishopes their dignitie priueledges and decrees And so no Emperour but if he would be holden infamous a faith breaker durst in any thing contradict him The oath which the Emperour Charles 5. made to Clement 7. or 8. in the 1530. yeare at the time of his Coronation will I here put downe Ego Carolus Romanorū rex c. That is to say I Charles king of the Romans which by Gods assistance hold to be Emperour promise protest affirme and sweare to God blessed S. Peter that I will henceforth be protector and defendor of the chiefe Bishop and of the holy Church of Rome in all their necessities and profits keeping and preseruing their possessions dignities and rightes c. When he had made this oath was Don Charles made king of Lumbardy and after he was king of Lumbardy another oath in this forme hee made Ego Carolus c. I Charles king of the Romanes and Lumbardes promise and sweare by the father sonne and holy Ghost and by the word of the liuing flesh and by these holy reliques that if the Lord permit mee to come to be Emperour I shall to my power aduaunce to holy Romane Church the holinesse thereof and her
or of the diuell And to make that more manifest whereof we intreat let vs deuide into three partes or orders all the Bishops that haue bene in Rome The first shall conteyne all those that from the beginning were Bishops vntill the time of Saint Siluester The second all those which were from Siluester vnto Boniface 3. The third all those that haue bene from Boniface 3. vnto Clement 8. who this yeare of the Lord 1600. doth tyrannize in the Church Come we now to the first order The common opinion hath bene that S. Peter was the first Bishop of Rome the which by holy scripture can no way but the contrary rather be proued Many haue handled this argument to whom I referre those that would knowe it For my part that which our aduersaries say concerning this matter to me seemeth impossible First they soy that S. Peter â—â—ued after after Christ passion 38. yeares which they count in this maner That he was for a time in Iudaea after at Antioch where he was Bishop 7. yeares So saith Bartholmew Caranza in his summa Conciliorum But if that be true which they say that S. Peter liued but 38. yeares after Christ the Epistle of S. Paul to the Gal. sheweth this to be impossible Saint Paul also in 1. chap. of his said Epistle declareth that after his conuersion he went not to Ierusalem but into Arabia and thence turned to Damascus and that 3. yeares after he came to Ierusalem where he found Peter with whom he abode 15. dayes not to learne ought of him but to confer with him 14. yeares after this as he saith in the chapter following he came againe to Ierusalem where those that were pillers of the Church Iames Cephas which is Peter and Iohn gaue him the right hand of fellowship These yeares were 18. at the least 3. saith he and afterwards 14. and the time which passed from the Passion of Christ vntill S. Paules going to Arabia After this they both were at Antioch where S. Paul reproued S. Peter for his dissimulation If there he was seuen yeares and twenty fiue yeares afterwardes at Rome ioyned with the eighteene yeares before mentioned shall make fiftie yeares at the least Then shall it be vntrue which they say that Saint Peper liued thirty eight yeares after the death of Christ as saith Caranza in his summa Conciliorum And much more vntrue shal be that which Humfridus Panuinus in the Chronicle of the Roman Bishops and in his annotation vpon Platina in the life of Saint Peter saith that Saint Peter was martyred 34. yeares 3. moueths and 4. dayes after the passion of Christ Count thus the yeares the S. Peter liued after Christ From the death of Christ vntill the 2. yeare of the death of Claudius were 10. yeares all which time Saint Peter abode in and departed not once from Iudea This time passed he came to Rome where he abode 4. yeares from whence by Claudius Edict against the Iewes he departed and returned to Ierusalem from Ierusalem he went to Antioch and there abode 7. yeares in which time died Claudius and Nero succeeded him in the Empire In the beginning of Neros reigne S. Peter returned to Rome whence after some time he departed and trauelled almost throughout all Europe which peregrination being ended he returned the third time to Rome From Saint Peters first enterance into Rome vntill his death were 24. yeares 5. monethes and 12. dayes which ioyned with the 10. yeares before passed in Iudea make 34. yeares three moneths and 4. dayes All this saith Panuinus Herein he contraieth his owne authors which affirme Peter to haue bene 7. yeares in Antioch and 25. after at Rome And Gracian in a certaine decree saith that Saint Peter by reuelation passed or translated his seate from Antioch to Rome And so Fryar Iohn de Pineda in the 3. part booke 20. chap. 5. Sect. 1 following this opinion saith In Antioch before Rome had S. Peter his seate Papall Caranza in his summa Conciliorum speaking of S. Peter counteth thus He sate saith he in the bishops chaire at Antioch 7. yeares and departing thence came to Rome in the time of the Emperor Claudius where he sate in the Bishops chaire 25. yeares 2. moneths and 3. dayes We see now the count of Caranza and Panuinus to be false In this they agree that he was crucified at Rome Betweene the death of the Lord and the death of Nero were 37. yeares The said Panuinus saith that S. Peter was crucified in the the last yeare of Nero then shal it be 37. yeares and not as he saith 34. yeares after the death of Christ The Legend and Cannon say that Saint Peter and Saint Paul were in one selfe same yeare day and hower beheaded at Rome Saint Ierome saith that Paul was killed with a sword and Peter crucified Eusebius saith that the one was beheaded and the other crucified We demaund and chiefly of our Spaniardes which so much beeleeue these thinges when came Saint Peter to Rome how longe there stayed he when and of what kinde of death and where dyed he who was his successor for some say Linus others Clement we shall finde great confusion and disorder amongst them as already we haue seene and how deale they so with Christians whose faith is to be founded vpon the word of God The Popes Supremacie to be Peters successour they sell for an Article of our faith insomuch as saith Boniface 8. it was de necessitate salutis necessarie to saluation and who so beleeued it not could not be saued behold vpon what holy scriptures it is founded vpon a legend of mens sayinges disagreeing among themselues The cause taken away the effect ceaseth If Saint Peter were not Bishop of Rome it followeth that all whatsoeuer is sayd touching the succession Primacie of the Pope is meere lyes and fashood Also Saint Peters Commission was to be Apostle of the circumcision among the Iewes and that of Saint Paul of the vncircumcision among the Gentiles Gal. 2. 7. Saint Paul to the Romans themselues also saith that he preached the Gospell where none had once made mention thereof and giueth a reason Beast he should seeme to build vpon a straunge foundation Whereupon it followeth that Saint Peter was not at Rome Also in the Epistles which he wrote being prisoner in Rome he sent salutations from the faithfull which were then in Rome without any mention made of Saint Peter And had he bene in Rome it is to be thought he would haue named him Read the 4. chapter of the Epistle to the Colossians from the 10. verse vnto the 14. where he saith Salute Aristareus and Marke and Iesus called Iustus which be of the circumcision These onely be they that assisted me in the kingdome of God and were a comfort vnto me Whereupon it followeth that Saint Peter was not at Rome seeing he neither did assist nor comfort him This Epistle was written from Rome And in
then lighting from his horse led the horse of the Pope and held his left stirrope for the Pope to alight The Pope derided the Emperour because he held not the right stirrop with this dirision was the Emperour somewhat angrie and smilingly answering him said That he neuer had bin horse boie The daie following came the Pope to the Campe of the Emperour who corrected with his former reproofe by holding the right stirrope better perfourmed his office This done the Emperour would be crowned but the Pope wold not crowne him till he had cast from Pulla Willam king of Sicilia and this at the proper charge of the Emperour The Popes resolution vnderstood the princes answered that a greater Campe was needefull that then he should crowne the Emperour who wold returne with a greater host and performe that which he commaunded and so was he crowned the daie following when the Emperour was departed the Pope seeing himselfe destitute of his assistance excomunicated the king of Sicilia and absolued all his vassals of their oath and allegeance but seing this nothing preuailed he incited against William Manuel Emperor of Grecia William seeing himselfe so greatly straighted demaunded peace promising to make full restitution but by the counsaile of some Cardinalls which gained by the warres the Pope would not grant it William seeing the cause to be desperat leuied a great armie wherwith he put to flight the Emperour he besieged Beneuente where was the Pope with his Cardinals and put them to such a straite that they craued peace which William graunted and so the Pope declared him king of both Sicils At this time commaunded the German Emperour that if the Pope sent his Legats into Almaine they should not be receiued but commanded to returne The Emperor also cōmanded that none shold appeale to Rome in letters placed his owne name before the name of the Pope wherwith the Pope was highly offended as by a letter which he sent cōplaining of these things which the Emperor had cōmanded appeareth Whereunto the Emperor very Christian-like among other things answered saying that Iesus Christ cōmāded to giue vnto Caesar that which was Caesars that the Pope being his vicar should do the like He shewed the cause why his Cardinals were not admitted for that they were saith he not preachers but robbers but when they performe their duty office then will we not let to ayd them D. Illescas in his hist Pontif. vpon the life of this Adrian 4. setteth downe the letter of the Pope but craftie as he was he set not downe the answer of the Emperor recited by Nauclerus In the end he excommunicated the Emperor but no further could the Pope shew his malice for that he swallowed a flie and in the 1159 yeare thereof died This Pope granted the Henrie 2. king of England the seignory of Ireland In this yere 1159. died Don Alonso 7. who reigned 51 yere in Castile Alexander 3. was made pope with great sedition for 9 Cardinals which tooke part with the Emperour made the Cardinal of S. Clement whō they called Victor 4. Pope Victor being dead in his place was chosen Pascal then Calistus and afterwards Innocentius All these one after another opposed themselues to Alexander This was a much greater Sisme then the 27 was The last which was Innocent vnwillingly renounced All the time that Alexāder was Pope which was 22 yeres indured this sisme Frederick the Emperor in the time of this Sisme held a Diet in Pauia where he cōmanded that Alexander the Pope his aduersary should appeare that the cause might be examined and he Pope alone which had most right to be Pope Alexander scorning the messēgers of the Emperor proudly answered The Bishop of Rome ought not to be iudged of any thē wrote his letters to the christian Princes excōmunicated the Emperor Victor the Pope To the Cardinal his vicegerent in Rome sent he great presents to gaine the good wils of the Romans that they might chuse such Consuls as shold take part with him To him Philip king of France gaue great assistance The Emperour seing the obstinacy of Alex. leuied a great host came into Italy whē the Emperor was come to Brixia Harmā Bish of that citie who had bin Secretary to the Emperour perswaded him that by the coūsel of Alex. whō he feared to passe with this gret host into the holy land there make war with the Turke The Emp. moued with this exhortatiō of Hermā supposing al waters were cleare and that there was no deceit departed to make warres with the Turkes of whom he had many victories and gained many cities and among them the citie of Ierusalem Aelexander hearing of such and so great victories beganne newly to feare lest the Emperour at his returne into Italie would newly assaile him To preuent so great a mischiefe by all possible meanes he practised to destroy and cause him to be killed Then sent he for a painter which should picture the liuely purtrait of the Emperour which picture or purtraite the Pope sent to the Souldan aduising him by his letters that if he coueted to liue in peace he should kill him by deceit whom that picture represented The Souldan taking the counsell of this diuellish Pope sought all wayes possible to kill him and vnable by force of armes by fraud and subtiltie The Emperour and his campe then marching in Armenia and the season being verie hot he resolued to go bathe in the riuer and none to accompanie him but one of his Chaplaines being thus alone he was taken by such as the Souldan sent to watch him and taken was through the woods and groues carried to the Souldan without the knowledge or suspition of anie of his followers His people on horseback all that day and the next sought him and not finding him it was bruited through the host that the Emperour was drowned And supposing that he was drowned they returned to their owne countries When the Emperour was presented to the Souldan he fained himselfe to be the porter of the Emperour but the Souldan well knowing him by the picture which the good Pope had sent him commanded the purtrait and letters sent by the Pope to be brought forth which in his presence he caused to bee read Then was the Emperour apalled and seeing that his deniall nothing auailed confessed whom he was and craued mercie The Souldan seeing the great goodnesse and wiseof the Emperour with great gentlenesse vsed him and so it happened that he gaue him libertie with this condition that an euerlasting peace should be betweene them and that he should pay an hundred thousand duckets for his ransome for the which his Chaplaine taken with him should remaine vntill it were paide The Couenantes thus beeing made the Soldan dismissed the Emperour and giuing him many presents and prouiding all things necessary for his iourney he caused 34 horsemen to
offended because Apius Claudius had chosen himselfe of the Decemuiri and Lucius Furius Camillus to be Consull and they were pagans and to be named Pope he being a Christian held it no let c. Such like vnto him was this Iohn 24. that elected himselfe This Pope depriued Hugh Bishop of Catura disgraded and deliuered him to secular power to be tormented embowelled and burned till he were dead The cause of his great crueltie was this that the said Bishop he said had conspired against the Pope This Iohn much affected nouelties of one Bishopricke he made 2 and contrarywise of 2 one Of an Abotship he made a bishoprick and of a bishoprick he made an Abbotship Caragoça he made an Archbishoprick and fiue bishopricks of 11 in the Prouince of Taracona hee gaue it for suffraganes The Knights of Christs order as they call it to fight against the Moores he instituted in Portugale and by consent of Don Alonso king of Portugal gaue them the goods of the Templars Those he condemned for heretiques which said Christ and his Apostles had nothing proper He forbad this question in the vniuersities to be disputed He condemned one Peter a Franciscan Friar because he exhorted men to follow Christs pouertie For which cause many were condemned and burned This Pope so cruell against such as he called heretiques erred in the faith and was an heretike For hee taught that the soules seperated from the bodies saw not God nor reioyced with him before the day of iudgement For so as saith Masseus deceiued by the visions of one Tundall an Irishman had his father taught him By that saying of the Lord to the theefe vpon the Crosse This day shalt thou be with mee in Paradice Luke 22. 43. and by the speech which he vttered concerning Lazarus whose soule saith he was in Abrahams bosome Luke 16. 22. by that which saith S. Stephen Act. 7. 59. Lord Iesus receiue my spirit imitating therein his maister who being vpon the crosse said Father Into thy handes I commend my spirit And by the saying of S. Paul Phil. 1. 21. To me Christ is gain whether in life or death and verse 23. I desire to be dissolued and to be with Christ and that he saith is better for him Also Eccle. 12. 7. And dust returne to the earth c. the spirit returne to God that gaue it Also Matth. 22 23. the Lord speaking of Abraham Isack Iacob who were dead as touching the body saith that God is not a God of the dead but of the liuing And Luke 16. 9. Make ye friends of the vnrighteous Mammon that when ye shall haue neede to wit when ye shall die They may receiue you into euerlasting habitation And 2. Cor. 5. 8. we loue to be out of the body and to be with the Lord is this heresie confuted Whereupon it followeth that the soules of the faithful which die in the Lord see God and at the parting from their bodies enioy his presence in these two thinges to see God and enioy his presence our happinesse consisteth To teach and preach this heresie this Pope sent 2 Friars to Parris the one a Dominican the other a Franciscan vnto whom Thomas Vales an English Dominicke opposed himself for which the Pope cast him into prison many others likewise opposed themselues In conclusion the vniuersitie of Paris ayded by the fauour of their king Phillip the faire who had withdrawne himselfe and all his kingdome from the Popes obedience compelled the Pope as he did to recant not without sound of trumpet for feare of loosing his Popedome as Iohn Gerson in the sermon of Easter doth witnes The errors of this Pope which now we will reckon are according to the papists errors but according to Christian religion perfect truth He commaunded the Nunnes called Beguinas to marry He could not abide to see pictures nor Images He affirmed that Iesus Christ gaue no other rule to his Apostles then that which he had giuen to all faithfull Chistians The Apostles said he neuer vowed Chastitie And that vowes make not them perfect which vowe them nor put them in the state of perfection We will now returne to his wonders Iohn Mandeuell lib. 1. cap. 7. reporteth this Pope to haue written a large Epistle to the Greciās saying That there was but one church whose head he was the vicar of Christ Whereunto the Grecians in few words answered thy power ouer thy subiects we verily beleue to be great thy excaeding pride we cānot suffer thy couetousnesse we cannot satisfie the deuill be with thee for the Lord is with vs. In this Laconismo or breuitie well declared the Grecians the whole state of the Pope This Pope Iohn proclamed the Emperour Lodowicke of Bauiera for a Rebell Sismatique and heretique The cause was as saith Ieronymus Marius for that the Emperour being elected by the Princes without othe of subiection to the Pope as Clement 5. had commanded tooke vpon him the administration of the Empire The Emperour to auoyd contention sent his Embassadours to the Pope being then at Auignon requesting at his hands the authority and title of the Emperour But so farre of was the Pope from graunting this that he sent home with a mischiefe and verie euill intreated the Ambassadours peremptorily cyting the Emperour himselfe personally to appeare in Auignon and submit himselfe to the decrees of the Church But the Emperour knowing the tyrannie which the Pope vsurped in the Church and perceiuing that he had receiued onely of God his Emperiall Maiestie would not as a seruant subiect himselfe nor come to Auignon Affecting peace notwithstanding he eftsoones by Embassadours did gently request him to graunt what he demaunded The Pope was still obstinate and for the hate which he bare to the Emperor excommunicated the Vicounts whom the Emperour had placed to gouerne Millan When the Emperour sawe his obstinacie he came to Rome where he was very magnifically receiued and demaunded of the Romanes that which the Pope had denyed him The Nobles of Rome hearing this sent their messengers to the Pope beseeching him to come to Rome and graunt that which the Emperour desired which if he denyed to doe they would doe said they according to the law and auncient custome of the Romans yet for all this was the Pope nothing moued but rather much more incensed and cast them from his presence with many iniuries and threatnings When the people of Rome saw this they determined to graunt that which the Emperour demaunded and so the Senators Stephen and Nicholas by commaundement of the Clergie people crowned the Emperour with his wife the Emperesse This knowne to Pope Iohn he made great processe against the Emperour calling him heretique and saying he had committed high treason he depriued him of all that he had excommunicating him a new with a most cruell excommunication Thus farre Ieronymus Marius Diuines and lawyers in those times
were not wanting that affirmed Christ and his Apostles to haue had nothing in proper and that the Emperour in temperall thinges was not subiect to the Pope The Emperour and Nobles of Rome well perceiuing the villanies of the Pope and the Romans much stomacking their messengers bad intreatie with the Pope all with one consent determined that the ancient custome of choosing the Roman Bishop should bee eftsoones obserued namely that the Pope being chosen by the people of Rome should be confirmed by the Emperour And so declaring Iohn to be an heretique tyrant and no pastor but a perturber of the peace publique of the Church they chose Petrus Corbarensis a Minorite whom they called Nicholas 5. This Pope graunted tenthes to Charles the faire king of France for the conquest of the holy land and willing them against the Emperour Lodwicke Bauare The king was ill thought of and worse also the Pope when it was knowne which was a scandalous theft that to the halfes they were graunted as saith Fryar Iohn de Pineda lib 22. cap. 25. ¶ 6. In this Popes time saith Carion lib. 5. was the question handled if the Emperor ought to depose the Pope when he shal not doe his dutie in his office and put another in his place as did Otho 1. who deposed the Pope after that his cause had bene heard in the Councell In this time and the 1335. yeare dyed Pope Iohn beeing 90. yeares old He left so much treasure as none of his predecessors had done to wit 205000. dragmes of gold or as saith Friar Iohn de Pineda lib. 22. cap 26. ¶ 4. a millyon he left in money and 700000 duckets and in the margin he saith some say 25. millions how shall he say with Saint Peter whose successor he boasteth to be Siluer gold haue I none The Bull of this Popes recantation touching the heresie of the Soules in the Historie of Petrus Premostratensis appeareth In the time of this Iohn Don Alonso 11. reigned in Castille Don Alonso the sonne of Iames 2. in Aragon and another Don Alonso in Portugale Benedict 12. or 10. was no better to Lodowick the Emperour then was Iohn 23. his predecessor He confirmed the excommunication and that moreouer which Iohn had done For which cause the Emperor assembled in Almaine all the Electors Dukes Earles Bishops and learned men In whose presence he shewed that the Electors of the Empire and none others ought to chuse the king of the Romans who being so elected as Emperor without the Popes confirmation might exercise and administer the office of the Emperour This good Emperour shewed further that saying of the Pope to be false that the Imperiall seate being voyde the Pope was the gouernour of the Empire He shewed that this was against the libertie dignitie law and Maiestie of the sacred Empire and that the good and approued custome which hitherto had beene obserued was that the County Palatine of Rhin in the time of such vacation should gouerne the Empire graunt the fees and the Clementine notwithstanding further dispose of the affaires of the Empire In conclusion so great was the goodnesse of this Lodowicke that Benedict receiued him into friendship and absolued him of the excommunication Albeit in very deede the Pope did this not so much for the goodnesse of the Emperour as that he might ayde him against the King of France whom hee feared and so by publike edict adâ—ulled and made voyde all whatsoeuer his predecessors had done against the Emperour saying that Iohn had exceeded his dutie in excommunicating of the Emperour c. And that which in his defence the Emperour had done like a good Christian he had done it In the time of this Pope liued Franciscus Petrarca who had to sister a beautifull woman whom this old lecher the Pope with great summes of money bought for his pleasure of her other brother called Gerrard For the Popes abhorre to haue lawful wiues and loue to embrace strumpets In the 1342. yeare dyed Benedict 12. Don Alonso 11. reigning in Castile Clement 6. as saith Ieronymus Marius Eusebiocatiuo was was much giuen to women very ambitious desirous of honour and power and with a deuillish furie furious He caused writinges to be fixed vpon the dores of the Churches wherein with terrible threates and punishments menaced the Emperour Lodowicke if within three dayes he did did not that which he commaunded The Eemperour being a peaceable man and enemye to blod shed set his embassadors to the Pope beseeching him to pardon and receiue him into his fauour But the Pope answered that by no meanes he would pardon him vntill he should confesse all his errors and heresies depriue himselfe of the Empire put himselfe his children and all that he had into his handes to doe therewithall as he best pleased and had also promised not to take againe these things without his fauour and good will To all this that the Pope demanded for the auoiding of warres and slaughter which he saw imminent if he subiected not himselfe the Emperour yeelded and so sware to obserue that which the Pope commanded Whereat the Pope himselfe wondered and neuer thought the Emperour would so haue done yet for all this was not this vnmercifull Clement appeased but froÌ„ day to day became worse he confirmed all that which Iohn 23. had done against Lodowicke the Emperour commanded the Princes to choose another Emperour tooke the Archbishopricke from the Archbishop of Maguncia and because the Archbishop seeing the innocencie of the Emperor wold not be against him depriued him of the Electorship With great summes of mony were the rest of the Electors corrupted by Iohn K. of Boheme to the end they might vow for Charles his son so they chose him Emperor Which election this vnmerciful Clement theÌ„ approued Thus left Lodowike the gouernment of the Empire But the Pope not herewith contented sent one in wine to giue him poison wherof he died Hasten ô Spaine to know this cruel beast Frier Iohn de Pineda lib. 22. cap. 28. ¶ 2. saith Leaue we Pope Clement in his Court at Auignon where Symony hath free passage in the exchange of benefices c. This pope to rake together mony reduced the Iubile from an hundred to fifty yeares which in his absence the 1350. yeare was celebrated at Rome Boniface 8 did institute the same from 100 to 100 yeares This Clement 6. authorized the Bishop of Bamberg to absolue all such as had takeÌ„ part with the Emperor but with 3 coÌ„ditions The 1. to swear fealty to him as to the Vicar of God the 2. to beleeue that the Emperor had no right in the electing or deposing the Pope the 3. not to acknowledge any for K. nor Caesar if he wer not by the Pope confirmed Euidently shewed this Clement 6. the authoritie hee tooke in heauen Purgatorie and Hell For in his Bull of Iubile speaking of
when Christs glory was in question the Popes excommunication ought not to be feared Antoninus part 3. tit 22. cap. 10. maketh mention of this Thomas And Baptista Mantuanus in the last chapter of his booke de vita beata giueth him an honorable testimonie calling him holy and a martyr This Eugenius as reporteth Platina was verie vnconstant in his life In the beginning of his popedome guided by euill counsell he troubled things diuine and humane This Eugenius celebrated a Councell in Florence to match with that which was holden at Basil He compelled in this Florentine Councell Iosephus the good Patriarke of Constantinople to translate the bible after the vulgar latin editiō which is that which the Roman Church approueth into Greeke that this translation might among the Grecians as the other among the Latines be esteemed In many things did the Greekes conforme themselues in this Councell with the Latines but could in no wise be induced to admit of transubstantiation notwithstanding did the Councell and Pope allow them for faithful as speaking of Transubstantiation in the Treatise of the Masse we will hereafter declare After he had bene Pope almost 16 yeares in the 1446. yeare he died This Eugenius as is reade in the 16. and 17. Sessions of the Councell of Basil declared the same Councell to haue bene and from the beginning to be lawfully assembled and so adnulled reuoked the Buls geuen out to dissolue it Don Iohn 2. reigned in Castile Felix 5. is not accounted of the Papists for Pope In the Councel of Basil he was chosen after that Eugenius who wold not leaue to be Pope was deposed The 30. Sisme was this 9 yeres endured in which time al Christendom was deuided into 3 parts some were for Eugenius others for Felix others were Neuters which neither tooke the one part nor the other Such as tooke part with Felix said the Councell to be aboue the Pope and those of Eugenius part denied it when Eugenius was dead those of his part chose Nicholas 5. in whose time and the 1447. yeere Felix 5. renounced so the Sisme ceased For this renunciation Nicholas 5. to stop his mouth from further barking made him Cardinall of S. Sabina and Legate in Almaine and Fraunce Iulianus Taboecius in the genealogie of the Dukes of Sauoy proclaimeth this Amadeus for a Cannonicall Pope and holy man Two yeres after he had renounced and in the 1449. yeere died Felix Don Iohn 2. reigned in Castile Eugenius being dead Nicolas 5. was made Pope who in one selfe same yere was Bishop Cardinal Pope He gaue the Hat to Amadeus which renounced the popedom He celebrated the Iubile in the yeere 1450. Boniface as in his life we haue said was the first inuenter of this Iubile frō 100 to 100 yeres These Iubilees the Popes did willinglie celebrate for the great profit therof arising Of this Iubile it is reported that as the people vpō a time came from Vaticano to the citie they encountred a Mule of Cardinall Barbo And when the number was verie great of cōmers goers stumbled vpon the vnhappy Mule which with the multitude was fallen to the ground ouer whom fell many more that it seemed they plaied the play which children vse called Crescael monton more sacks on the Mill and cast one vpon another so great was the presse that 200 men were squized stifled with the waight And for that this hap befel as they cal it on Adrians bridge others fell into the riuer See here the effect of foolish zeale without discretiō or true religion For how many of these had it bin better to haue staied and wrought in their houses for maintenance of thē their wiues children But S. P. Q. R. Stultus populus quaerit Romam to wit foolish people go to Rome but the wise abide at home The Turk in the time of this Pope took the most noble city of Constantinople This Pope was much giuen to drink and edifie not soules but wals Platina recounteth his buildings He approued that which the Basile an Councell and Felix the fift had done and also admitted the Cardinals which Felix had created In the 1455. yeare died Nicholas In which selfe same yeare or a little before died Don Iohn 2. king of Castile In whose time liued Iohn de Mena the Spanish Poet as appeareth by the beginning of his poesie which he dedicated saying To the most potent Iohn c. Calistus 3. a naturall Spaniard of Valencia in Aragon before he was Pope called Alonso de Boria who studied and read the Lecture in Lerida an Vniuersite of Spaine was a most learned Cannonist When he was Pope all his care he bent to make warre with the Turks For which cause he sent many Echacueruos or deceiuers in Spaine so commonly called to preach his mockeries pardons and incited against the Turke the Armenians Persians he caused certaine countreymen to be strangled for that they mocked at his mockeries and Buls he commanded that none should appeale from the Pope to the Councell and more of these things would he haue done had he longer liued Ouer much libertie he gaue to his Nephewes and chiefly to Rodrigo de Boria whom he made his Chancellor and which afterwards was Alexander 6. Calistus for very age in the 1458. yere died In whose time Don Henry 4. reigned in Castile Pius 2. before called Eneas Syluius was a Notary Apostolike in the Councell of Basil In his Orations and Epistles he spake against the authoritie of Pope Eugenius but after he was made Pope he changed his copie When he was Pope he treated of making warre against the Turke but nothing did because he speedily died He wrote two excellent bookes of that which was debated in the Councell of Basil which when he was pope he endeuored what he might to hide and obscure as vnwilling to remember what before he had written for he pretended ambitious as he was to magnify greatly aduance his authority papall Estella Veneto speaking of him saith that they neuer saw him feare either kings Captains or tyrants he tooke part with D. Fernado bastard son of D. Alonso whō dispossessing Iohn the son of king Renato with force of armes he made king of Naples He excommunicated Sigismund Duke of Austria because he chastised for his robberies his Cardinal Nich. Cusanus He excommunicated Gregorie of Hamburg a most learned lawyer He tooke from Dirtherus Enseburgus the Archbishopricke of Maguncia put in his place Adulphus de Nassao because he thought euill as he said of the Roman Church The chiefe causes of the deposing of Dirtherus was for that he constantly opposed himselfe to the Popes vniust exactions wherewith they robbed the prouinces vnder pretence of war against the Turke This Pius made a young man bishop because he was nephewe of the duke of Burgonie and brother of the duke
and lyars will the Lord abhorre Returne we now to Paul the third who approued sanctified aduaunced and extolled such monsters in nature Paule 3. hauing Poped 15 yeares in the 1549. yeare dyed In whose time Don Charles the Emperour raigned in Spaine Iulius 3. an Aretinian after great discord had among the Cardinals was chosen who for that by the ancient custome he might giue his hat where his listed gaue it to a youth called Innocent whom he had fauoured being Legate in Bologna so made him Cardinall and receiued him to his ancient office This pleased not the Cardinals And albeit one of them spake freely vnto the Pope saying what saw your holinesse in this young man for which he ought to be placed in so great dignitie The Pope answered what saw yee in me that ye elected me chiefe Bishop So that seeing it is the play of fortune which aduaunceth whom she pleaseth as your aduaunced me without desert of mine we aduaunce this young man and make him Cardinall and so he was This Innocent the Romans called Ganimedes and the Pope they called Iupiter The Fable of Iupiter and his Ganimedes is filthy and therefore will I passe it ouer When the same Iulius was merry he said of his Innocent that he was very laâ—ciuious c. O what a vicar of Iesus Christ ô what a holy father D. Illescas albeit the Popes parasite vttereth these wodes Iulius 3. gaue his hat with the tittle of Cardinall de monte to a youngling of 15 or 16 yeares whom he held with him and mostâ— strangely affected him He shortly made him rich Caesar holpe him with sufficient pensions and all this to gaine the fauour of the chiefe Bishop that the Councell should eftsoones returne and be holden in Trent hitherto Illescas vpon the life of Iulius 3. Iulius was a great blasphemer very filthie in his wordes and much more filthie in his deedes the same blasphemyes he vsed that the desperate souldiers and horsekeepers are accustomed to vse which for that it is so much against the maiestie of that good God that with so great patience suffereth the blasphemy of him who boasteth to be his vicar calleth himself most holy father A sathanicall father I call him I omit to write them Swines flesh peacoks he greatly loued which flesh is euill for the gout therefore his Phisitions forbad them to be set on the table but notwithstanding he would haue them And when vpon a time they failed to set them on the table the Pope missing them demaunded where the porke was become And when the steward answered that the Phisitions had commanded not to set it on the table he cursed with his cursed mouth dispiting God with the same words which ruffians villaines in Italie blaspheme saying that they should bring him the porke Another time as he was eating they brought vnto him a peacocke which was vntouched and the Pope commanded they should reserue it for supper And when he saw not at supper that cold peacoke albeit he had hot peacokes he was terribly enraged blasphemed as he was wont A certaine Cardinal which supped then with him said Let not your Holinesse be so angry for a thing of so small importance whom Iulius answered If God would be so angry for an apple that he cast our first pareÌ„ts out of Paridice why shall it not be lawful for me that am his vicar to be angry for a peacocke seeing a peacocke is a thing of greater importance then an apple If this be not to profane the scripture what shal be So wicked was Iohn of the house of Florence Archbishop of Beneuent Deane of the Chamber Apostolike and this Iulius his Nuncio in Venice that he compiled a booke in prayse of the wicked sinne which booke was printed at Venice in the house of Troyano Nauo Behold if the abhominations of the Ammorits be come to the height Awake Lord remember and iudge thine owne cause behold for thy Churches sake that swine doe destroy her Qual Abad Aizen tal Monazillo such Abbot say they such nouice An abhominable Sodomite was Pope Iulius an abhominable Sodomite was his Nuncie which sat to Iudge the cause of Christians Open thine eyes O Spaine Vpon the money made by Iulius he put this circumscription Gens quae non seruierit tibi peribit The people that will not serue thee shall perish Wherein Iulius 3. appeareth to be another Nabuchadnezzer K. of Babilon of whom these words are spoken Ier. 27. 8. In the 1555. yeare he died In whose time the Emperour Don Charles reigned in Spaine Marcellus 2. a Tuscan changed not his name who being meanely learned in humanitie was made maister of Grammer and afterwards Paul 3. made him tutor of Alexander his grandchild whom he had made Cardinall being a youth of 12 yeares old What a pillar of the Church was this Thus by little and little came Marcellus to be Cardinal afterwards to be Pope He was one of the three Legats whom Paul 3. sent to the CouÌ„cell of Trent This man as he whom the Pope most trusted the Pope commaunded that nothing in the Councell shoud be suffered to be spoken which might any way preiudice the Maiestie of the seat Appostolique that all those which any such thing attempted should be expulsed the Councell and when Iacobus Nachiantes Bishop of Clodia Fossa said that he could not approue the decree which said That traditions ought to be receiued and kept with the same Godly affection and reuerence as the Gospell which was written This Marcellus was the cause that the said Bishop was expulsed the Councell and when Gulihelmus venetus a Dominican Friar said in the CouÌ„cel that the Councel of Constance was aboue the Pope This Marcellus sent for him and most sharply reproued him and when the Friar answered that experience shewed the Councell to haue bene aboue the Pope sith it desposed him Marcellus answered it is not so For that the Pope willingly depriued himselfe said moreouer that this he could proue by a bul of lead and so commanded him to depart the Councell Petrus Paulus vergerius Bishop of lustinople was at this time come to the Councell some held this man suspected in doctrin For that he had bene often the Popes Legate in Almaine The other two Cardinals Legats of the Pope Poole monte the Cardinall of Trent himselfe and Pachecus would haue permitted the fore named Vergerius to haue entred the couÌ„cel this lest in should be said the Councell was not free if they chased away Vergerius a man well knowne in Germany But Marcellus the Popes third Legate neuer stayed vntill hee saw him forth of the Councell Many Bishopes hearing that the purpose was to expulse Vergerius The Councell agreed to write to the Pope that in no wise he should suffer such a thing to be done because many would say the Councell was not free
bishop of Rome albeit the Councel was holden in Italy But what forceth it to alleage so many Councels sith in one Councell this question was heard and determined and both parties heard also The bishop of Rome with the title of Patriark tooke vpon him much authoritie ouer the Churches of Affrique So that the Sismatiques of Affrick as to a refuge retired vnto him For this cause the Councell of Maleuant wherein was Saint Augustine and a great number of fathers pronounced al those excommunicate which should appeale to parts beyound the seas The Bishop of Rome grudging here at sent his Legates to the 6. Councell of Carthage wherein also was S. Augustine present to defend his right This question in this Councell was truly handled Zozimus Boniface and Celestine successiuely being Bishops Aurelius Archbishop of Carthage where the Councell was holden and not the Legates of the Pope albeit they were three and present namely Faustine Bishop Philip Aselias presbiters there gouerned These had the Bishop of Rome sent to the Councel of Carthage to defend the authoritie which the Nicen Councell said they had giuen to the Bishop of Rome to wit that appeale might be made to the Bishop o of Rome from the sentence giuen by any metropolitaine whatsoeuer One Daniell a notarie red the whole 5. chap. of the Councel of Sardice which the Bishop of Rome said but very vntruly was of the Councell of Neece The Pope like a good apothecarie when it is for his profit well knoweth to giue quid pro quo All the Bishops and Archbishops much marueyled and said that such a thing was neuer read in the Councell of Nice and so the same Councell of Nice which they had then in writing they commaunded to be read which beeing read and no word of such appellation found yet did the Romane Legates insist that it was so Needefull it was then to send certaine men to Constantinople Alexandria and also to Rome it selfe that they might bring other copies of the Nicen Councell Within one yeare were they brought and the originall it selfe chiefly which was kept in Constantinople Read they were and no mention nor ought else that might giue suspition of this priueledge which the Romans alleaged to haue bene graunted them in the Nicen Councell was at all found in any of these coppies A letter then was written by consent of the whole Councell of Carthage to the Bishop of Rome wherein no such thinge said they but the contrary rather was found in the Councel of Nice that the Bishop of Rome as did other Popes and metropolitanes should medle within his owne limits and boundes And that therefore if he were wise hee should thenceforth be content with his owne dioces and bishorick not intrude vpon an others possession This letter was subscribed by 230 fathers and among them the Popes selfe same three Legats before named If the Pope and his Legats when they vsed not such tyraÌ„ny as now they vse did dare to falsifie a Councell in almost a thousand two hundred and so many yeares passed after this Councell of Carthage vnto this yeare 1598. What shall they not haue done Quien haze vn cesto hara ciento He that maketh one basket wil make a hundred And no wonder it is that they haue dared to falsifie the Councels seeing they haue shamelesly taken from the law of God the 2. Commandement Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any image c. And seeing but 9 Commandements of the tenth commandement Thou shalt not lust c. haue they made two commandements as in the beginning of this Treatise we haue noted Our Spanish Caranâ—a in his Summa Conciliorum setteth down no one of so many Cannons in it of this 6. Councell of Carthage the cause is least he shuld therein haue discouered the falshood of the Bishop of Rome in alleaging of the Nicen Councell that which the Councell neuer but the contrary rather determined A Summarie onely he made and verie briefe saying that the Councell determined what the Nicen Councell demaunded of the Easterne Bishoppes but saieth not vnto what purpose O great subtiltie This Councell of Carthage albeit it was generall called he prouincial So also calleth it Panuinus notwithstanding they both coÌ„fesse that there were found there present 217 Bishops and three legates of the Pope what letteth it then to be generall The Papists what they may wil forget this sixt Councell of Carthage albeit saith Panninus it was confirmed in Trullo Gracian also interpreting the words of the Councell vseth the same malice That none appeale saith he to partes beyond the sea except it be to the Bishop of Rome The cause why it was commanded in this 6. Councell of Carthage that no appeale should be beyond the sea was for that the sismatikes of Affrike condemned by the good Bishops of Affrike appealed to Rome Therfore commanded the councel they should not appeale but that the businesse without seeking further should be concluded in Affricke And so was the conclusion of this Councell That the Bishop of Rome should not receiue those that were excommunicate by the Bishops of Affricke nor accept their appellations which had in Affrike bene condemned and those that appealed to him should be for the same matter excommunicate The reasons whereuppon this Councell was founded sent by it to Celestine Bishop of Rome be these That in no CouÌ„cel was any such thing determined But that the Nicen Councell contrariwise gaue the charge of the Bishops and Ecclesiasticall persons to the Metropolitane The grace of the holy Spirit saith it will assist euery prouince to iudge controuersies that each one which felt himselfe greeued might appeale to a prouinciall Councell For it is more to bee beleeued that God will rather inspire manie Priests in a Councell assembled then one only man c. By that which wee haue alleaged of the sixt Councell of Carthage it clearely appeareth how false is that which the Pope said that in the Nicen Councell the primacie was giuen him and yet want there not some in our times also which renewe this falshood And so D. Illescas vpon the life of Boniface 3 in the marginall note saith these words Phocas de clared by the Law that the Roman Church is head of the Church vniuersall Also he saith This superiority of the Roman Church hath euer sithens bene and by all faithfull and Catholike Christians is holden for a thing proued without dispute as the Councell of Neece chap. 6. and Raimundus Rufus against the heretiks of this time for louers of nouelties c. most plainely proueth In the seuenth Councell of Carthage the matter of the primacie was also debated The cause was this That Iohn Bishop of Constantinople seeing himselfe fauoured of Maurice the Emperour called himselfe Bishop of Bishops and vniuersall bishop And this because he was Bishop of the citie where the Emperour was resident Mauricius willing to aduaunce his citie and abase Rome did
eate this is my bodie And when he gaue the wine he said Drinke ye all of this This is my blood In giuing the wine he addeth that not without great mistery this word all for with this word All doth the Lord preuent arme vs against the heretikes which were afterwardes to arise saying Drinke not all of the wine Our aduersaries cannot deny the Lord to haue said Drinke yee all of this They cannot deny that all those which haue receaued the bread haue not drunke of the wine And so saith S. Marke And they all dranke thereof As litle also can they deny that they themselues coÌ„mand contrary to the coÌ„mandement of God that all do not drinke thereof What shall we hereupon conclude That they be heretikes Albeit they deny it because they falsify and clip the most holy sacrament which Christ did institute If the lawes commaund that he which falsifieth or clippeth the coyne bearing the figure of the king or the Lord of the land shal die What punishment shal he deserue that falsifieth clippeth the sacrament which hath not only the figure of Christ but his proper body bloud As in bread wine Iesus Christ did celebrate his supper Euen so did his Apostles celebrate it afterwards Read the 11. chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthes where S. Paule intreateth of the celebration of the holie supper But the space of one thousand yeares was the selfe same order touching the substaÌ„ce of the supper obserued in the Church vntil false prophets arose that brake this good order which Christ did institute and his Apostles the Church did long time after obserue These would shew theÌ„se lues to be more wise theÌ„ Christ so coÌ„maÌ„ded they that no Christian were he not a priest shuld receiue wheÌ„ they coÌ„municated the coÌ„secrated wine And their reasons they yeeld but very friuolous ridiculous why they so commaund The first is because there is no difference betwene the priest and the people Great pride arrogancy is this euer haue they pretended to keepe Christian people in subiection So are they called the Clergie for being as they say The Lot of the Lord. As though the people for whom Christ died were the lot of the diuell The second cause is the danger of shedding the bloud by the beardes if the people should drink it If this bee the cause why giue they it not to womeÌ„ seeing they haue no beards why giue they it not to many which either by nature or shauing or cutting haue no beards Why command they not that all Christians should be beard shauen Why permit they the Pope and many Cardinals Bishops in Italie to nourish their beards and so no danger should be The third say they that receiuing the forme of the bread they receiue the body of Christ and by consequence as they call it receaue they the bloud And thus say they that vnder one forme they receaue both thinges the bodie and bloud of Christ Oh learned men Oh great wits The Lord commandeth that all shuld drink They countermaÌ„d saying That all shal not drinke that to receaue one kind is sufficient And a faire thing is this that they coÌ„demne those for heretikes which receiue the supper in both kinds As Christ did celebrate as the Apostles all the Church for more then a thousand so many yeares celebrated the same They see not that in condemning vs they condemne Christ his Apostles all the Church for so many yeares Let theÌ„ shew me one Church that comunicated in one kind for the space of 1000. yeres after the death of Christ Tehâ—s reasons all whatsoeuer they can imagine and in their fantasie forge wil not suffice to diminish nor defeat the order which Christ ordayned in his Church In bread aud wine did Christ institute this sacrament so distributed it to his Apostles and commanded them so to doe the same S. Paul as a good disciple obedient to his maister did so celebrate the holy supper distributing the bread which is the sacrament of the body and the wine which is the sacrament of the bloud Ye saith he cannot drinke the cup of the Lord the cup of diuels c. And a little before by the cup he had made mention of the coÌ„munion of the bloud of the participation of his bodie by the bread Also as often as ye shal eate this bread drinke this cup c. So that whosoeuer shall eate this bread and drink this cup of the Lord vnworthyly c. Let euery one therefore proue himselfe so eate of that bread and drinke of that cup. Also for he that eateth and drinketh vnworthyly c. Of all those that did communicate spake S. Paul and not of the priests alone This selfe same order of communicating in both kindes was for many yeares obserued in the Church As in the ecclesiastical histories writings of the fathers some of whom I wil here alleage appeareth Our flesh saith Tertullian is fed with the flesh bloud of Iesus Christ that the soule may be nourished of God Oftentimes doth S. Cyprian make mention of this coÌ„munion in both kinds in bread wine Read his sermon intituled Delapsis In which not once but 5 or 6 times he maketh mention thereof Also he saith that those which did coÌ„municate receiued the sacrament with the hand giueth a reason why we ought to coÌ„municate in both kinds the which is of other touch then those which our aduersaries giue why we should not in both kindes coÌ„municate How shal we exhort saith S. Cyprian the people to shed their bloud for the confesion of Christ if when they enter the combate we deny them the bloud of Christ Or how shall we make theÌ„ capable to drink the cup of martirdome If we admit theÌ„ not first to drink the cup of the Lord Also that which we said of the same S. Cyprian coÌ„cerning the young Infant wheÌ„ we spake of the miracles that in both kinds receiued the sacrament Chrisostome saith We are not as in the olde lawe where the priest toke his portion and the people had the rest but one selfe same body is here giuen to all and one selfe same cup and all whatsoeuer is in the Eucharist is common both to priest and people Chrisostome in this sacrament putteth not the difference that our aduersaries doe betweene the priest the people That the priest in both kindes communicate and the people only in one But we will shew for greater confusion of our aduersaries all those foure Doctors As they call them of the Church to bee for vs. As great credit giue they to the Doctrine which these foure Doctours with one common consent doe teach As they giue to the Gospell it selfe Saint Ambrose As Theodoret lib. 5. cap. 17. reporteth speaking with the Emperour Theodosius 1. a naturall Spaniarde of Italica which we now call olde Siuill one
did also a Councell holden in the time of this Stephen condemne him But Romanus successor of Stephen and Theodorus And Iohn 10 or 9 condemned Stephen and iustified sn Formosus And this did not these 3 Popes onely but a generall Councell of 74. Bishops holden in the time of Iohn 10. did also the same But all this notwithstanding the third time that Sergius was Pope he tooke part with Stepben against Formosus Condemding that which 3 Popes and the Councell had done and was most cruell against the bodie of Formosus vntombing it and doing that vnto it which vpon his life we will declare Read their liues Christian Reader Dogges shalt thou see that teare in peeces and eate one another Not men shalt thou see but diuels incarnate Thou must also vnderstand that in the names of some Popes there is great disagreement Pope Iohn the last Platina calleth the 24. and in order 214. Carança calleth him 24. But the 213. in order Pero Mexia calleth him the 24. Another way carrieth Panuinus 22. he calleth him or 23. and saith that he is the 209. in order Thus taketh he from out the Catalogue Fiue Popes two whereof be Iohns And it is also to be noted that from Iohn 8. which was a wicked woman All the Iohns almost haue bene pestilent fellowes Read their liues Three causes there be why some do number lesse Popes The first is because some Popes a very small time Poped The 2. is because many reckon not for Popes all those that were not cannonically elected The 3. is because some will not hold them for Popes who albeit they were connonically elected yet in there Popedome wickedly gouerned For the first reason many reckon not for Pope Stephen 2. who but three or as some say 4 dayes Poped For the 2. reason exclude they all those whom they call Antipopes chosen in the time of Schisme 30 Schismes counteth Panuinus to haue bene wherein at one time were 4 Popes another time 3. another 2. Herehence is it that they count not Iohn 18. Whom others call 17. nor Clemēt nor Clement 8. And therefore Clement 9. they call 7. nor Benedict 5 nor Benedict 7. called they 6. nor Benedict 13. For these 2 reasons exclude they al thē that by wicked artes deceipt force gifts or promises were made Popes Such doe the Councels and decrees of the Popes themselues not hold for Popes Read that which the Councell of Lateran holden in the time of Nicholas 2. ordained touching this matter And so many hold not for pope Constantine 2. Who being a lay-man and without any orders was by force made Pope Should this decree be obserued neither Siluester 2. the great inchaūter nor Boniface 8. nor Gregory 7 nor an infinit nomber of Popes which by wicked artes c. Were made Popes shuld be called Popes so very few shuld remaine in the catalogue of the Popes The 3. reason why some be not counted Popes is that albeit they were cannonically chosen yet during their Popedome either in life or in Doctrin or both in life Doctrin were they abhominable For this cause some count not Lando Read his life For the same cause some reckon not Iohn 8. a whore before when she was Pope Were this reason ought worth very few should be counted for Popes For all the Popes ingenerall from Boniface 3. vntill Sistus 5. who now tyrannizeth haue either in life or Doctrine bene wicked And so ought not to be connted Boniface 8. Of whom say all that he entred like a Foxe liued like a Lyon and died like a Dogge And alone was not he that did this he had many companions These be the causes why some reckon lesse Popes then others And in these names Stephen Iohn Clement Benedict Constantine and Felix shal be found this abridgement of Popes There are no liues of kings nor Emperors were they Christians pagans Iewes Turkes Scithians or of whatsoeuer other nation so confusedly and diuersly written as are the liues of the Popes And that which is more to be maruailed written imprinted and approued by the papists themselues The holy Ghost it seemeth hath purposely cast into the writing of their liues this confusion For the Popes being kings and Lords of Rome And Rome as say Saint Ierom Petrark Laurentius Valla and many others is Babilon And Babilon as much to say as confusion all whatsoeuer the Popes haue done doe and shall doe is and shal be confusion And so can no order be held in counting of them And with what more proper name then Babilon or confusion can that Church be called wherein they so pray and sing in straunge confused Language that one vnderstandeth not another And that yet which is worse he him selfe that praieth of singeth vnderstandeth not oft times that which is sayd My desire is friendly Reader to aduise thee of this confusion That if thou shalt read in one author that Pope Iohn 24. for the great villanies and heresies which in his presence and to his face were proued was condemned in the Councell of Constance and others say this happened to Pope Iohn 23. others to Pope Iohn 22. then nothing maruaile For these 3 Iohns 22. 23. and 24. be one selfe same Pope Iohn Concerning the concurrences of the kings of Spaine which I place with the Pope I haue followed Don Alonso de Carthagena Bishoppe of Burgos in his Latine Historie of the kings of Spaine which he calleth Anacephalaeosis as much to say as a Recapitulation No other hath bene the purpose and motiue me mouing to write these 2. Treatises of the Pope and of the Masse But the great desire I haue that they of my nation might enioy the same mercies which the Lord in these last times hath shewed to many nations in Europe giuing them liberty of conscience this not to let loose the raynes to serue the lusts of the flesh but in spirit and truth to serue the liuing God whom to serue is to raigne I very much sorrow that my nation to whom the Lord God for the things of this world hath giuen so much wit hability and vnderstanding which other nations cannot deny In things pertayning to God in the things concerning the saluation of their soules or going to heauen or hell is so blockish and blind that it suffereth it selfe to be carried by the Masse that it suffereth it selfe to be gouerned troden vnder foote tyrannized of the Pope of the man of sinne of the sonne of perdition of Antichrist whom as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that he is God And that moreouer which S. Paul 2. Thess 2. saith All the euill of the Spaniards cōmeth vnto them of a false perswasion which they haue conceiued of the authority of the Pope The Pope they beleeue to be the successor of Saint Peter the Vicar of Christ God vppon earth They beleeue that all whatsoeuer the pope doth on earth God doth it in heauen and what soeuer he vndoeth
in earth God vndoeth in heauen This first Treatise shall serue to open the deceipt vnto them very palpably plainely will it shew the pope not to be the successor of S. Peter But of Iudas Not to be the Vicar of Christ but of Sathan whom the holy scripture calleth prince and God of this world And that we therefore ought not to obey the pope nor make more reckoning of him nor of that hee shal commaund then we doe of that which our mortall enemy commaunds vs. Mine harts desire and prayer to God is for my nation that they may be saued that his Maiestie deliuer them from the power of darknesse and transfer them into the kingdome of his beloued sonne I would if I might by any meanes prouoke my nation I would they had an holy enuie at other nations Why doe they and not the Spaniards read and heare the word of God in their owne Language as in the holy Bible it is written Why do they not the Spaniards receiue the holy sacraments with the simplicity that Iesus Christ did institute and celebrate them Wherewith without any humane inuentions superstitions and Idolatries he commaunded his Church to administer them This testimony giue I of my nation that they haue the zeale of God and so shall you see few Spaniards to be Atheists which haue no religion But this their zeale is not according to knowledge for by the word of God is it not ruled but by that which Antichrist of Rome commaundeth Who hath taken from them and forbidden them the reading of holy scripture For well knoweth Antichrist that if the Spaniards shold read it then would they fall into account and know the abhominable life of the popes and their wicked Doctrine And so would forsake and detest them And should Spaine once forsake the pope the pope would reckon as they say with the Oleados or annointed of whom there is no hope of life O that if God please I may see this day And if the pope should fall then also in a moment would fall the Masse and all the other Idolatries which the pope hath inuented This is the cause why our aduersaries so greatly fight to intertaine and mainetaine the authority of the Pope For very well they know that the Pope once fallen the popish religion of necessity must fall to the earth Very well did Pedro de la Fuente or Fontidonio as others call him a diuine of Seuill vnderstand this who in a sermon which he made the last day of September in the Councel of Trent greatly inueied against the protestants calling them heretiques saying that they sought to cast downe the 2 pillars of the Church To wit the sacrifice of the Masse the Pope This Diuine sayd moreouer that the Councell ought to employ all it force to sustaine and vphold them The pillar said he of the seat papall once pulled downe that the whole Church would fal to the earth The reason which he gaue was because the funerals and obsequies of the Church went iointly and accompanied with those of the Pope There is nothing sayd he that the aduersaries with deliberate purpose more endeuour to doe then to put downe the Pope c. Our aduersaries haue fallen in the reckoning and this is the cause why they maintaine and adore and many of them doe it against their owne conscience The Pope howsoeuer abhominable wicked and great an Atheist he be I humbly beseech his maiesty to send the true Sampson which is Christ who with one pluck may wholy pull downe these two pillars and so the house of Dagon may fall vtterly to the earth Iudg. 16. 29. I know that were the Pope and his Masse pillars built vpon the rock vpon the cornerstone Christ that neither the gates of hell nor whatsoeuer men could imagine should euer preuaile against them But because they be not founded vppon this firme foundation but rather vpon humane inuentions any small thing whatsoeuer that carrieth any reason maketh them easily to stagger The thing which wholy ouerthroweth them is the word of God As by the Lordes assistaunce in these two Treatises shal be seene His Maiestie I hope whose cause we here maintaine will draw some fruit out of this my trauaile To him I commit the charge therof For as saith his Apostle 1. Cor. 3. 7. Neither he that plāteth is any thing nor he that watereth but God which giueth the encrease His cause it is to him I commend it That which in the meane time Christian Reader I beseech thee for that which thou owest to the health of thy soule the which if thou loosest what shal it profit thee to haue gained the whole world is that thou read consider and weigh the reasons which we giue in these two Treatises for confirmation of that which we say and see which more agreeth with the word of God with that which the ancient Doctors and Councels and which naturall reason teach that which we haue said or that which our aduersaries say The holy and true who hath the key of Dauid which openeth and no man shutteth which shutteth and no man openeth Open vnto thee the gate that thou maiest consider and adore his holy law He euer bewith thee Amen The 25. of Iune 1588. Your most affectionate brother in the Lord. C. V. The first Treatise of the Pope and his authoritie IDolatrie which is to giue the honour worship and seruice only due to God to a creature whether good or bad holy or prophane is the most grieuous sin that is or cābe imagined For the Idolater like a traitor to him that made him directly manifestly committeth high treason against his God He endeuoureth what in him lieth to cast God frō his throne therin to place that which himselfe worshippeth albeit the worke of his owne hand To shew the grieuousnesse of this sinne very seuerely hath God punished it as he plagued the Israelites we see when they made the Calfe For the which the Lord had wholly destroyed them had not Moses stept in a very good Mediator Notwithstanding there died of them in one day by the sword about three thousand men And it is to be noted that neither Aaron nor the Israelits were so blockish nor foolish to thinke the calfe which they had made to be God That which they supposed was this that the honor done to the calfe they did it vnto God And so Aaron when he saw the calfe he built an Altar before it and proclaimed saying To morrow shall be a feast vnto Iehouah This he said for the representation of God which he and they supposed they had made in the calf This maner of Idolatrie had the people of Israell seene in Egypt For the Egyptians besides infinite other things adored the figure of Apis which they also called Sirapis being the name of an Oxe The Israelites applyed to their religion the manner of worship which they had seene in Egypt and coueting visible
wit If the head of an horse be put to a humane body A distinction truly very rediculous Conclude we this matter with that which was ordeyned in the Councell of Eliberis in Spaine holden about the yeare of the Lord. 335. whose 36. Cannō was as Carranza noteth in his Summa Conciliariorum Placuit picturas in Ecclesia esse non debere ne quod colitur aut odoratur in parietibus depingatur It pleaseth vs that pictures ought not to be in the Church lest that be worshipped or adored which is painted on the walles Eliberis where was celebrated this ancient Councell was a Cittie neare vnto that place where is now Granada Eliberis was destroyed and of the ruines thereof was Granada builded or augmented And there is one gate in Granada euen to this day called the gate Deluira corrupting the worde in steed of Elibera The gate is so called because men goe that way to Elibera Had this Cannon made in our countrie of Spaine 1263. yeares past bene obserued in Spaine there had not bene such Idolatrie in Spaine as now there is Vp Lord regard thine owne honour Conuert or confound not being of thine elect all such as worship Pesel grauen or carued Images or Temuna picttures or patternes All that whatsoeuer we haue sayd against Images is meant of those that are made for religion seruice worship and to honour serue and adore them Such Images are forbidden by the law of God And so the Arte of caruing grauing painting and patterne making not done to this end is not forbidden but lawfull The superstition and Idolatrie taken away the Arte is good If there be any people or nation that haue and doe commit inward and outwarde Idolatrie it is the Popish Church For what else see we in their Temples houses streetes and crosse-streetes but Idolles and Images made and worshipped against the expresse commaundement of God Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image No nation hath bene so barbarous to thinke that which they outwardly beheld with their eyes to be God They supposed as before we haue said their Iupiter Iuno Mars Venus to be in Heauen whom they worshipped in the Images that did represent them Many of the Moores Turkes and Iewes would conuert vnto Christ were it not for the offence and scandall of Images in the Churches Therefore said Paulus Pricius a most learned Hebrew which became in a Christian Paue that it was very meet Images should be taken out of the Temple for they were the cause that many Iewes became not Christians The Popish Church doth not onely commit the Idolatrie of the Gentiles but farre exceed them also One Idolatrie it committeth which neuer Pagan nor Gentile euer committed It beleeueth the bread and wine in the Masse called a sacrifice celebrated by her Pope or a Priest made by the authoritie of the Pope to be no representation nor commemoration of the Lordes death but his very body and bloud the same Iesus Christ as bigge and great as he was vpon the crosse And so as very God doth worship it We will then in this first Treatise proue by the Lords assistance whose cause we now maintaine the Pope to be a false Priest and very Antichrist that such Idolatrie and other much more he hath inuented in the Church In the second Treatise we will also proue by the same assistance the Masse to be a false Sacrifice and great Idolatrie And because our chiefe purpose is not so much to beat downe falshood as to aduance the truth after we haue shewed the Pope to be a false Priest And the Masse a false Sacrifice we will shew also which is the argument of the Apostle in the Epistle written to the Hebrewes Iesus Christ to be the true and onely Priest and his most holy body and bloud which he offered vnto his father vpon the Crosse to be the true and only sacrifice where with the eternall father is well pleased and receiueth vs into his fauour and friendship iustifying vs by faith and giuing vs his holy spirit of Adoption whereby we crie Abba father and liue in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life And so be glorified of him to reigne ' with him for euer Many will wonder that we with so great constancie or as they call it sawsinesse reiect condemne and abhore the Pope and his Masse And therefore doe slaunder and defame vs not among the common people onely but amongest the Nobles also and great Lordes Kinges and Monarches that we are fantasticke heady arrogant sedicious rebellious partiall and many other false reportes they raise against vs wherewith they fill and breake the eares of the ignorant and of all those that take pleasure to heare them To shew them then that it is no foolish opinion nor fantasie which doth lead vs neither any ambition vaine glory nor other passion that doth alter moue or transport our minds but a good zeale rather of the glory of God and feruent desire of the health of our owne soules A reason will we giue in this first Treatise vnto all that desire to heare vnderstand it of that which we beleeue hold concerning the Pope and his authoritie And chiefely if we be asked because as saith Saint Peter we ought to be ready with meekenesse and reuerence to make answere to euery one that demaundeth a reason of the hope which we hold The reason then which we giue for reiecting condemning and abhorring the Pope and flying from him as from the pestilence is his euill life and wicked doctrine Note also what the Doctors and ancient Councels the holy Scriptures in three wonderfull places chiefly for that purpose say concerning him In the second Treatise we will declare what wee thinke of the Masse and the holinesse thereof The Pope and Masse two pillers of the Popish church be very ancient For it is now a thousād yeares past since they first began to be buylded Their beginnings were very small but they dayly increased adorning and decking themselues vntill they attayned to the estate wherein we now see them For aswell the Pope as the Masse is holden and called God Without are they made very beautifull couered ouer with silke gold siluer cloth of gold rich stones but within is superstition hypocrisie and Idolatrie I haue often pondred with my selfe whether of these two pillers the Pope or the Masse were strongest and more esteemed The vertues excellencie holinesse and diuinitie which they say is in the Masse who can declare How profitable it is for al things liuing and not liuing quick dead By cōsideratiō hereof the Masse I supposed was chiefest and therefore ought to begin with it But the Pope vpon better aduisement mee seemed notwithstanding to be the chiefest piller The reasons mouing me so to beleeue are these that the cause in dignitie is before the effect the creator before the creature the maister before the seruant the Priest before the
sacrifice which he offereth The Pope is he that made and created the Masse as afterwardes God willing we will proue Therefore is the Pope of greater dignitie then the Masse This proueth the Pope to be maister and the sacrament his seruant because when the Pope goeth from one people to another he sendeth before him yea and some time a day or two dayes Iourney his sacrament vpon a horse carying at his necke a little bell accompained with the scumme and baggage of the Romane court Thither goe the dishes and spits old shooes caldrons and kettels and all the sculery of the Courte of Rome whores and Iesters Thus the sacrament arriued with this honorable traine at the place whither the Pope is to come it there awayeth his comming And when the maister is knowne to approach neere the people it goeth forth to receiue him Open thine eyes O Spaine or which is better God open them and behold what account the Pope maketh of the sacrament which he himselfe saying it is thy God for thy money selleth vnto thee Fryar Iohn de Pineda in the third part of his Ecclesiasticall Monarchie lib. 23. ¶ 2. saith That the first Pope which caused the Sacrament to be carried before him was Benedict 13. a Spaniard when for feare he fled from France into Aragon from that time remained it in custome that the Pope caried the most holy Sacrament for his gard before him The Popes in this carrying of the Sacrament before them doe imitate the kinges of Persia before whom went a horse carrying a little Altar vpon him whereupon among a few ashes shone a small flame of holy fire which they called Orismada This fire as a certaine diuinitie did the Persians reuerence and adore So that the King to seeme more then a man and to be ioyntly worshipped with the diuinitie which did accompany him with this pompe went he publikely Read for this purpose the Embleme of Alciatus Non tibi sed Religioni pag. 17. where he treateth of a little asse that went laden with mysteries He also that sacrificeth is of more dignitie and estimation then the sacrifice which he offereth For God regardeth not so much the gift or sacrifice to him offered and presented as the person that offereth it The Lord saith the scripture had respect to Abell and his present and to Caine and his present he had no regard The Apostle giueth a reason saying By saith Abell offered to God a better sacrifice then Caine. The Pope is the Priest the Masse is the sacrifice which he offereth Therefore is the Pope of more dignitie then the Masse By these reasons and others that may be drawne I conclude the Pope to be chiefe piller that susteyneth the Popish Church Of it we will first take hold not to support it but to cast it downe and then we will after intreat of the Masse And this by the helpe of the almightie God the Father sonne ond holy Ghost whose cause we here defend To this name Papa the like as to some other wordes hath happened which in old time were taken in good part and were honourable titles but after with the time haue bene ill taken For example Tyrannis was in old time a King and so King Latinus as saith Virgill Aeneid 7. called Aenaeas whose friendship he desired Tyrant Sophista was taken for a man of wisedome now for a deceiuer or a flatterer Hostis did signifie a stanger now taken for an enemy Euen so in old time was Papa taken in good parte and giuen for a title to Bishops or ministers of Gods word for in the Primitiue Church the Bishop Minister and Pastor were all one Riches haue sithens made the difference as now we see Read to this purpose the Epistle of Saint Ierome to Euagr. tom 2. That Papa was so taken as a foresaid by the Epistle of the auncient Doctors as namely Ciprian Dionysius Alexandrinus Ierome Ambrose Auguistine Sidonius Appolinarius and Gregory and by the Actes of the Councels is proued The Grecians vntill this day call their Priestes Papaous the Germanies call them Psaffen and Flemings call them Papen names which be derined of this name Papa which in the Sicilian tongue after Suidas signifieth Father Of all these authors I will alleage here but onely two Ierome writing to Augustine saith Most hartily commend me I pray thee to our holy and venerable brother Pope Alipius And writing to Pamachius he saith vnto him hold Pope Epiphanius And writing to Augustine calleth him Pope In another place he saith Except Pope Athanasius and Paulinus yet neither Alipius nor Pamachius nor Epiphanius nor Aunor nor Athanasius nor Paulinus were euer Bishops of the Church of Rome Among the Epistles of Saint Ciprian there is one thus entituled The Presbiters and Deacons abiding at Rome send greeting to Pope Ciprian And this is to be noted that the Church of Rome giueth this title to Saint Ciprian who was Bishop of Carthage and neuer of Rome But when the couetuousnesse and ambition of the Bishop of Rome had so increased that he made himselfe a Prince and vniuersall Bishop and therefore Antichrist as Saint Gregorie calleth him then toke he from other Bishops the title of Pope and reserued it onely to himselfe So that none but the Bishop of Rome is now Pope and being Bishop of Rome Antichrist Hence commeth it that to all the Godly the name of Pope is so horrible and wicked because it is onely giuen to Antichrist That which hereafter we will say shall not be against the anciēt first taking of the name of Pope but against the second Which name well agreeth with him for the Pope Popely all to himselfe that is to say he deuonreth and glutteth it vp as he himselfe saith All power is giuen me in heauen and in earth And so the late writers take this name Papa pro Ingluuie that is to say gluttony As Anthonie de Lebrixa in his dictionary doth note it Iesus Christ our Maister whose voyce the Father commaundeth vs to heare and thereby to gouerne our selues hath giuen vs a sure marke and infallible token to discerne the good tree from the bad the true Christian from the false the good shepheard from the hierling A good tree saith he bringeth foorth good fruite Matth. chap. 7. 17. This he saith that we may knowe the hypocrites by their fruites or workes Speaking also of himselfe he saith The workes which I doe they beare witnesse of me Ioh. chap. 5. vers 30. The same Lord saith that the good shepheard giueth his life for his sheep not the hierling but rather flyeth Ioh. chap. 10. 11. Mē cannot iudge but that which they see God onely knoweth the heart Following then the counsel which the Lord hath giuen vs let vs see what hath bin the life doctrine of the Popes vntill this day and so will hold them either for good or bad for the true ministers of Christ
Frederick the Emperour Detrahamus illis nocentes diuitias hoc enim facere opus est charitatis Let vs take away speaking of the Pope and clergie the riches which so much hurt them for this to do is a worke of charitie Here it is to be noted as reciteth Panuinus in his chronicle 30 Sismes to haue bin and that which happened in the yeere 252. betweene Cornelius and Nouatus is counted for the first and the same only hapned in the first order wherin were good all the Roman Bishops except Marcellinus who offred incense to Idols but touched by God he greatly repented so came into the Councell holden at Sessa in the kingdom of Naples where were present as saith D. Illescas three hundred Bishops and thirtie Presbiters or as saith Platina 180. Bishops and there asked he with teares God and them pardon of the most grieuous sin which he had coÌ„mitted FroÌ„ Sessa he went to Rome and there did chide Dioclesian for compelling him to sacrifice to Idolles wherefore Dioclesian commanded to kill him When Marcellinus was dead the seate was voide 7. yeeres and a halfe as saith Illescas and 25. daies or as saith Platina 25. daies The second order conteineth the bishops of Rome from Siluester 1. vnto Boniface the 3. These neither in life nor doctrin agreed by far with the bishops of the first order For persecution nowe ceassing they gaue themselues to idlenesse and pleasure and made Cannons and Decrees wherby they prepared the seate of great Antichrist Those of the second order were called for the space of 200. yeeres Archbishops It is to be vnderstood that from the yeere 320. vnto that of 520. afterwardes from the yere 520. vnto that of 605. they were called Patriarks S. Siluester was then the first Archbishop whome Marcus Iulius 1. and Liberius succeeded Liberius in the beginning of his Bishopdome thought well of the diuinitie of the sonne of God and for ought the Arian Emperour Constantius did would not be drawne to condemne Athanasius for which cause he was banished Rome Theodoretus lib. 2. ca. 16. of his historie reciteth the conference that passed between him and Constantins when he was banished wherein Liberius shewed himselfe verie constant Three yeeres saith Platina and others say lesse was Liberius banished The Romans at this time held a Councell wherein they chose for bishop Felix second This Felix as saith Platina was a very good man and so by his liking and consent of 48. bishops Vrsacius and Valens which held part with Constantius the Arrian Emperour were deposed These two went to Constantius and complained vpon Felix praying the Emperour to restore againe Liberius who wearied with the trouble of his banishment and nowe changed his opinion through ambition and the counsell of Fortunatus Bishop of Aquilea His banishment pardoned and Liberius restored to his Bishoprike in and by all things as saith Platina he agreed with the heretikes This restoring of Liberius and deposing of Felix caused great tumult in Rome so that the matter came to blowes and many Priestes and Ecclesiasticall men euen in the Churches were murthered This was the second Sisme In that which I haue said of Liberius and Felix I haue followwed Platina who vpon the life of Felix saith that faulting in nothing which became a true and good Christian he was caught with manie more good Christians and so by the aduersaries murthered Athanasius in an Epistle written to such as led a solitarie life saith plainly that Liberius after two yeares of his banishment passed being threatened wrth death changed his opinion and subscribed against Athanasius Ierome in his Chronicle saith that Liberius ouercome with disdaine of banishment subscribed to that wicked heresie Tome 1. Concil It is said that when Liberius was entered Rome he agreed with the heretike Constantius The same saith Damasus in his booke de Pontif. And Platina and Alonso venero in his Enchiridion of times and Iohn Stella and others Bale saith With ambition Gigas saith that Liberius moued with the martyrdome of Felix and fearing the like agreed with the Arrians approued their doctrine No mention is made of Liberius repentance therefore he is counted among the Arrian Popes Damasus his successour for this cause condemned Liberius al that he did But Gregorie 7. that abominable Pope as afterward in his life shall appeare canonized notwithstanding this Arrian Liberius and coÌ„manded saith Card. Benon his feast to be celebrated Panuinus the Popes great parasite in his chronicle of Bish cals him S. Liberius Behold if that which is said be true that many bee holden for Saintes whose soules are burning in hell Behold if the Pope may erre in â—aith To write the life of this Liberius hath cost me some trauell and diuersity of opinions the cause Some hold him for a Catholike others for an Arrian and both the one and the other say truth For in the beginning of his Bishopdome he was as we haue said a Catholike but after without repentance an obstinate Arrian Note we here what an euill beast is ambition He that standeth let him take heed lest he fall It sufficeth not to begin well but to end well is needfull He that continueth to the end saith the Lord shall be saued God giue vs grace to tame our ambition which we all haue need of For there is none which reputeth not himselfe for a demi-God and giue vs strength in afflictions which for his name we suffer Remember we Liberius But what speake I of Liberius Remember we Salomon that so well began but how proceeded he afterward The Lord gouerne vs vnto the end In the time of this Liberius and in the citie of Tagasta in Affrike was borne the great Doctor and light in the Church Saint Augustine and on the same day they say that Pelagius the heretike was borne in great Brittaine Oh the great mercie of God that prouided an Antidote against the poison of Pelagius Damasus a Portugall as we haue sayd condemned Liberius Damasus was verie deuout and ceremonious Panuinus in his Chronicle noteth that all the Bishops of Rome vntill Damasus were chosen and consecrated vpon one selfe same day But afterwards saith he this was not so obserued Vpon the day of Consecration now called coronation is a solemne triumph holden in Rome So much haue increased the riches power ambition and pride of those which call themselues the Fishers successours In this time flourished Saint Ierome and was a deare friend of Damasus as by their writings appeareth Betweene Damasus and Vrsinus was the third Sisme But in the 367. yeare Vrsinus renounced and was made Bishop of Naples Damasus died in the 384. yeare and Siricius succeeded him Siricius as saith Gracianus dist 82. was he that first forbad mariage to the Westerne priests which ordination many nations and chiefly our countrey of Spaine nothing esteemed Wherefore Hymerius then Bishop of Tarragona wrote to Siricius that the priestes
Councel of Rome after the said three Popes were deposed Clement 2. an Almaine by commandement of the Emperour was chosen He crowned the Emperour Henry and caused the Romans by an oth to renounce their right in election of the Pope For cofirmation of this renunciation I will here declare what Frier Iohn de Pin. pa. 3. lib. 19. cap. 24 ¶ 2. Blundus saith he holdeth that Clement 2. for the auoyding of Sismes depriued the Romans of the election of the Popes But Crancius Saxus say that in the Sutrian Councell it was forbidden them and granted to the Emperour And Naucterus and Sigebertus write that Henrie the Emperour bound the Romanes by an oth not to intermeddle with the Popes elections Thus farre Pineda The Romanes not regarding their oth after the Emperours departure from Rome poysoned the Pope whereof hauing bene Pope nine moneths he died Stephen they say who succeeded him in the Bishopdome and called himselfe Damasus the second prepared for him the poison Don Fernando 1. reigned in Spaine Damasus the second of Bauara without consent either of the Clergie or people of Rome by force held the Popedome For then as saith Platina was the custome that he which most could he had the Popedome But he enioyed not his bishopprick so ambitiously gotten but 23 dayes for he was poisoned The cause therof was that there was thē in Rome a man called Gerardo Brazuto who vsing a certaine deceitfull kind of friend ship in the space of 13 yeares dispatched with poison 6 Popes whose names be these Clement 2. Damasus 2. Leo 9. Victor 2. Stephen 9. Nicholas 2. The Romanes seeing themselues in such Sismes and seditions by the blacke elections of the Popes sent their Embassadors and besought the Emperour Henry to giue them a pope who sent vnto them Leo 9. Leo 9. comming to Rome encountred by the way with the the Abbot of Clunia and Hildebrand that afterward was Pope who seeing him Bishop-like attired perswaded him by no meanes so to enter Rome because not the Emperour but the Clergie and people of Rome had authoritie to make a pope Brunon before so called did as they aduised him came to Rome confessed his offence so they made him pope When he was pope Hildrbraud he made Cardinall and was with him very familiar granting all whatsoeuer he demaunded And so was Hildebrande of a poore Monke made a rich Cardinall Hildebrand reconciled with Pope Leo his old Lord and maister Theophilact before deposed from the popedome and now hipocritically reconciled In Verceles held Leo a Councell wherein he condemned the doctrine of Beringarius because he would not worship the cōsecrate bread for that it was bread not God Frier Ioh. de Pineda par 3. lib. 19. ca. 26. ¶ 2 of Berengarius albeit an enemie touching doctrine reporteth great vertues Beringarius saith he was a man of good learning quicke and mercifull and S. Antoninus addeth humbled whereof I much maruell c. And a little lower Most chast was he also so that he would not enter where any woman was This Leo 9. and partly at the instigation of that good peece Hildebrandus wholly forbad mariage to to ecclesiasticall persons Of this Leo 9. reporteth Carion lib. 4 of his historie that being Pope he went with the Emperour into Almaine And when the Emperour had called a Synod which was held in Maguncia the Pope being in the Councell would haue preferred himselfe to the Bishop of Maguntia But the Bishop alleaging his right defended the same and so was the Pope constrained to giue place For albeit the Popes had oftentimes attempted the tyrannie to be preferred before other Bishops yet had they not preuayled The which in the time of Henry the fift they obtained Fiue yeares was he Pope and the 1054 yeare of poyson which Brazuto gaue him he died Don Fernando 1. then reigned in Castile Victor 2. was Pope two yeares and somwhat more but Brazuto with poison dispatched him Don Sancho 2. reigned in Castile Stephen 10 or 9. fulfilled not one whole yeare For Brazuto dispatched him quickly in the 1058. year Don Sancho 2. reigned in Castile In the absence of Hildebrand was Benedict 10. or 9. But Hildehrand who then was the holy Spirit which ruled the Court of Rome did much stomacke this election and accusing him that by force bribes he had attained the Popedome so wrought that Benedict was deposed Wretched Hildebrand and how was he afterwards and his predecessors before him The old saying in this Benedict was fulfilled Para los desdichados se hizo la horca For the vnhappie was the gallowes prepared In the 1059. yeare Benedict vnwillingly renounced And Don Sancho 2. reigned in Castile Benedict deposed Hildebrand laboured the Clergie to choose Gerrard whom they called Nicholas 2. But vnable with his safety to make him in Rome they went to Sena and elected him there Nicholas seeing himselfe Pope called against Benedict the 10. a Synod in Sutrio This was the 21. Sisme which Benedict perceiuing who was a peaceable man leauing the Popedome he fled from Rome and so died not of poyson This Nicholas 2. held another Councell in Rome which they called the Councell of Lateran wherin he commanded that whosoeuer either by money fauour popular tumult or warre without the mutual consent of the Cardinals attained to the seat of S. Peter should not be holden for Apostolicall but Apostaticall To the Cardinals Clergie and Laity he gaue power to excommunicate and curse as a thiefe such a chiefe bishop and to call a Councell for deposing of such a Pope And if they could not in Rome yet in some other place they should call it Behold if his successours kept this decree Nicholas 2. poysoned by Brazuto in the 1061 yeare dyed Don Sancho 2. then reigned in Castile By the crafty subtiltie of Hildebrand and without consent of the Emperour was Alexander 2. made Pope for which cause the Lombards in the Diet holden at Basil where the Emperor was present elected Honorius Cadolus This was the 22. Sisme Honorius came with a great host and besieged Rome but he his were destroyed and so Alexander 2. gotte possession This Alexander commanded that the Cardinals only should choose the Pope Great alterations haue bene in chusing of the Pope First by the Senate Clergie and people of Rome with consent of the Emperor he was chosen then was he chosen of the Clergie and people of Rome one while with the Emperours consent another while without afterwards he was chosen by the Clergie now only by the Cardinals and is not to be chosen except he be Cardinall present in the Conclaue when the election is made The holy Spirit that gouerneth in the Popes election is euery day more wise and better aduised Hildebrand cast this Pope Alexander into prison aduancing himselfe with the papall
without consent of the Emperour was made Pope The Emperour leuied a great hoste against Rome Gelasius fearing him went with his partakers to Gaeta When the Emperour was come to Rome hee made another Pope whom they called Gregorie the eight Archbishop of Braga which done the Emperour departed from Rome Gelasius hearing the same came secretely to Rome and boldly went to say Masse in the Church of S. Praxâ—idis where those of the contrary faction did so assault him that he hardly escaped their hands and so fled to Pisa and from thence into France where after he had a yeare and some dayes bene Pope he died In Colonia he held a Councell albeit not present there himselfe where the Emperour was excommunicated He ordained in this Councell that his successors the chiefe Bishops of Rome neither might nor ought to be iudged of anie In the 1119. yeare he died and Don Alonso reigned in Castile In the place where Gelasius died was Calistus the second a Burgoignian by some of the Cardinals that went with him chosen which election some Cardinals abiding in Rome and Italie did also approue He thus made Pope went to Rome where most honorably he was receiued thence sent to command his Legate as then at the Councell to continue the excommunication against the Emperour Who fearing the like should happen to himselfe as did to his father admitted albeit wicked the conditions of peace Gregorie as yet liuing whom he had made Pope This peace concluded Calistus bent himselfe to persecute Gregorie Gregorie seeing his part ouerthrown fled from Rome to Sutrio whither followed Calistus tooke him and with great ignominie brought him to Rome put him into a Monastery This Calistus the more to confirm idolatrie and the better to intertaine superstition made the Church of S. Iames of Galicia an Archbishoppricke and a booke also of S. Iames his miracles In the 1124. yeare he died and Don Alonso 7. reigned in Castile Honorius the second a Bullonist entered not saith Platina rightly into the Popedome For more by ambition then the consent of good men he obtained it The Cardinals chose for Pope Theobald Cardinall of S. Anastasia whom they called Celestine the secoÌ„d This was the 25. Sisme The people sought to haue the Cardinall of Saint Stephen to be Pope There was theÌ„ in Rome a very rich maÌ„ called Leo who so much wrought both with the Cardinals and people that neither the Cardinall of S. Anastasia nor he of Saint Stephen but whom he himself listed called Honorius 2. was Pope Honorius sent into England Iohn of Crema Cardinal of S. Grison his Legate which Cardinall in a Councell by him held in London condemned married Priests and was taken the night following with the theft in his handes with a wicked woman they caught him which as saith Mathew Paris gaue no small scandall to the Church Such be these as were the Pharisies of whom the Lord saith that they binde heauie burthens and hard to beare and put them vpon the shoulders of men but they themselues wil not moue them with one of their fingers Honorius died in the 1130. yeare and Don Alonso 7. reigned in Castile Innocent being Pope shewed great hatred to Rogero king of Sicilia against whom he went forth in battell And as he carried him away vanquished behold the sonne of the king came and tooke the Pope and his Cardinals Now did the Romans make another Pope whom they called Anacletus the second this was the 26. Sisme which Innocent hearing compounded with the king and minding to go to Rome but durst not attempt it He went into France and in Claremount held a Councell where he condemned Anacletus and went to see Philip king of France then Henrie the first king of England and afterwards Lotharius king of Almaine to the end they should restore him to his Popedome Lotharius with a great campe came vpon Rome put to flight Anacletus and in his seat placed Innocent which Pope to shewe himselfe gratefull crowned Lotharius Emperour This Innocent ordained that whosoeuer wounded any Priest or ecclesiastical person should ipso facto be excommunicate and none might absolue him but the Pope himselfe Concil 17. q. 4. Siquis In the 1143. yeare hee died and Don Alonso the seuenth reigned in Castile Lucius 2. was made Pope In whose time the Romans vnable to beare longer the violence and tyrannie of the Popes elected one Patricio a noble man of Rome called Iordan This Patricio demaunding the rights of the citie of Rome aswell within as without the walles said that this right by reason of his office perteined to him which the Pope by meanes of Charles the Great suppressing al the Patricios had so long time vsurped to himselfe He commaunded that the Pope as his predecessors had done should content himself with the first fruits tenths and oblations The Pope seeing himselfe so disquieted by the Romans sent his Ambassadors to the Emperor Conrado requesting him to come into Italie and aide him which Conrado could not do The Pope seeing there was no remedie to be expected by the Emperour vsed this subtiltie He awayted his time when all the Snators of Rome and the Patricio with them were together in the Capitol This oportunitie found the Pope like a good Captaine vtterly to destroy that Senate went with many souldiors in person to the Capitol The bruit of the Popes pretense flue presently through Rome the Romans took armes and fought brauely against the Pope who receiued in the battell so many blowes with stones that thereof shortly after in the 1145. yeare not hauing yet fulfilled a yeare in his Popedome he died Don Alonso 7. reigned in Castile In the time of this Don Alonso 7. and whiles Eugenius 3. successor of Lucius was Pope Don Alonso 1. after he had 27. yeeres bene Earle of Portugal hauing conquered fiue Moorish kings was made king of Portugal and so continued king 46 yeares Anastasius 4. was not so wicked as his predecessours In the second yeare of his Bishopdome he died In his time saith Mathew Paris was William restored to his Archbishopricke of Yorke in England who the same yeere of poyson which in saying Masse they put into the Chalice died Don Alonso 7. then reigned in Castile When Adrian an Englishman and son of Robert a Monke of Saint Albons was chosen he wold not be consecrated vntill Arnold Bishop of Brixta was cast out of Rome This Arnold had perswaded the Romans to recouer their liberty of chusing their magistrates gouerning their common-wealth but the people would not graunt what the Pope demaunded for which cause the Pope did excommunicate them Arnold in the end was expulsed Rome and the Consuls renounced their office At this time came Fredericke the Emperour to Rome the Pope and clergie met him in Sutrio The Emperour
attend him so came he to Brixia where he abode The Gemane Princes hearing of the Emperours arriuall came to kisse his hands and giue him the welcome-home The Emperour rewarded the Souldans people that had attended on him and sent them backe to their Lord againe This done the Emperour held a Diet in Norinberge where he recouÌ„ted that which had hapned the great treason of the Pope read the letter sent by the Pope to the Souldan which seene the Princes promised their aid both for performance of his promise to the Souldan and also for the chastising of Pope Alexander A great campe he leuied without any let passed through Italy and went towards Rome The Emperour sent Ambassadors to Rome by whom he required without mentioning the receiued villanies and iniuries by Pope Alexander that the cause of the Popes might be heard examined that he which had most right might be Pope and so the Sisme cease Alexander seeing his part vnfurnished fled by night to Gaeta and from thence to Beneuente and there attiring himself in the habite of his Cooke in the 17. yeere of his Bishodome came to Venice where he was made Gardiner of a Monasterie from whence by commandement of Sebastian Duke of Venice with great pome he was taken and very pontifically carried to the Church of Saint Marke This historie is cited by Nauclerus Barnus Funcius and others The Emperour hearing that the Pope was in Venice requested the Venetians to deliuer so pernicious a man his enemie vnto him which denied by the Venetians the Emperor with an Armie sent Otho his sonne commanded him not to fight before his comming The young Prince desirous of fame sought with the Venetians against the commandement of his father of whom he was vanquished and carried prisoner to Venice This was a notable victorie for the Generall of the Venetians called Ciano brought but thirie Gallies and Otho 75. I will here recite that which Frier Iohn de Pineda lib. 25. cap. 7. ¶ 3. saith Glorious Ciano entered into Venice c. and somewhat lower The Pope gaue him the glorie of the victorie a little gold ring he also deliuered him saying he gaue him that in token he graunted him the segniorie of the sea which he had gotten and would he should cast it into the sea to bind the sea thenceforth as his wife to be alwayes kept vnder the Venetian Empire And that all the after Dukes should vpon some speciall day celebrate this ceremony euerie yeare And somewhat after the ceremony passed was vpon the day of the Ascension and the Pope granted in that Church vpon such day full remission c. for euer Thus farre Pineda Alexander growne proud with this victorie would not make peace with Fredericke vntill he himselfe should come to Venice at such day as the Pope would appoint The father for the loue he bare to his sonne did all whatsoeuer he was commanded He came to Saint Markes where the Pope before all the people commanded the Emperour to prostrate himselfe and craue mercie which the Emperour there did Then trode the Pope with his feete vpon the necke of the Emperour who was prostrate on the ground and with his mouth that spake blasphemies said It is written Thou shalt go vpon the Aspe and Basiliske and vpon the Lyon and Dragon shalt thou treade The Emperour herewith ashamed made answere Not to thee but to Peter Whereat the Pope stamping vpon the necke of the Emperour said Both to me and to Peter Then was the Emperour silent and so the Pope absolued him of his excommunication Another such like thing as this to the Emperor Henry of whoÌ„ we haue spoken in the life of Gregory 7. hapned The conditions of peace were That the Emperor shold hold Alexander for rightfull Pope restore all whatsoeuer that during the war he had taken The peace thus made the Emperor with his sonne departed Robert Montensis in his historie reporteth that Lewis king of France and Henry king of England going on foot and holding the bridle of the horse whereupon this Alexander rode the one with the right-hand and the other with the left with great pompe they led him through the citie of Boyanci which is vpon the riuer Luera In the time of this Alexander God to reproue the pride and tyranny of the Bishop raised vp the Waldenses or as other call them the poore of Lyons in the yeare of the Lord 1181. in which yeare this beast died and Don Sancho 3. reigned in Castile Lucius 3. who purposed to abolish the name of Consuls in Rome by the commoÌ„ consent of the Cardinals was chosen For which the Romans much offended expelled him from Rome disgraced with diuers kinds of reproches those of his part and some of them also they killed In the 1185. yeare he died and Don Sancho 3. reigned in Castile Vrban 3. whom for his troublesomenesse they called Turbano as saith Albertus Crantzio in the 6. booke and 52. chap. of his Saxon historie determined to excommunicate the Emperour because he was a let vnto him and wold not permit him to do what he listed but he did it not because in the 1187. yere he died before he would Don Alonso 8. reigned in Castile and at this time the Moores tooke Ierusalem Gregorie 8. before he was two moneths Pope died When Clement 3. was Pope he incited the Christian Princes as had done his predecessours to warre beyond the seas which did the Popes not so much for the increase of Christendom as for their own peculiar intents commodities as vpon Alexander 3. we haue already declared because the Princes being so farre remote and intangled with warres against the Infidels the Popes might do and did whatsoeuer they listed The Danes this Pope excommunicated because they would their Priestes should be married and not concubine keepers In this 1191. yeare he died Don Alonso the eight then reigned in Castile The next day after Celestine 3. was made Pope He crowned Henrie 6. and much repining that Tancred the bastard son of Roger whom the Sicilians had chosen for king William their king being dead without heire should be the king of Sicilia The Pope married the Emperour with Constantia the daughter of Râ—gero taking her out of the Monasterie of Panormo where she was a Nunne vpon this condition that expelling Tancred who then possessed it He should demaund for dower the kingdome of both Sicils and for being king of Sicilia should pay his fealty to the Pope which was the cause of much bloudshed When this Emperour Henry was dead great sisme arose in the Empire such and so great was the discord that hardly one parish agreed with another By these coÌ„tentions amoÌ„g the priests the Pope greatly enriched himselfe because in Rome they were to be ended as noteth Conrado Lichtenao Abbot of Vespurg whose words for that
they are worthie of perpetuall memorie I will here recite them Hardly saith he remayned any bishopricke or ecclesiasticall dignity which entertained not strifes whose cause but not with emptie hande was caried to Rome Be glad mother Rome because the sluces of treasures doe open in the earth that the flouds and riuers of money may come to thee in great abundadnce Reioice ouer the wickednes of the sonnes of men because for recompence of so great wickednes the price to thee is geuen delight thou with discorde thy helper which issued from the pit infernall that many rewardes of money might be heaped vnto thee Hold that for which thou hast thirsted Sing to sing because by the malice of men and not their godly religion thou hast ouercome the world draw men vnto thee not their deuotion but the committing of great abhominations and the deciding of strifes for reward Hitherto the Abbot who so now would say thus should be an heretike a Lutherane In the 1198. yeare died Celestinus Don Alonso 8. reigned in Castile Innocent 13. whom the Historians call Nocentissimus bare so great hatred to the Emperour Philip because against his liking he was chosen by the Germane Princes that he said these words Bishop either take the crowne and kingdom from Philip or Philip take from the Bishop his Bishopdome And so stirred he vp Otho a great and rash warriour against the Emperour Much bloud he shed for the Popes cause vntill another Otho and great taitor slew Philip and so his Competitor Otho came to Rome and for his good seruice done to the Pope was crowned Note that which before we haue said vpon Alexāder 3. against the Emperour but long lasted not the friendship between Innocent Otho For Otho willing to recouer that which the Popes had vsurped of the Empire was by the Pope excommunicated all whosoeuer should call or hold Otho for Emperour were accursed And so the Pope procured the Princes to choose for Emperor Frederike king of Cicil. The Popes be like vnto stumpets which no longer loue their ruffians then they do them seruice In the time of this Pope which was in the 1212 yeare some of the Nobles of Alsacia as Huldericus Mucius reporteth condemned the Pope for wicked because he suffered not the Priests to be maried And because certaine men said it was lawfull for euerie Christian to eate flesh and marrie at any time of the yere the bishops burned in one daie a hundred persons If this be heresie then Saint Paule was an heretique 1. Timothie 4. 3. where he calleth them that forbid mariage and meats which God hath created c. apostatates from the faith This Innocent 3. vnder colour to recouer the holy land did celebrate the Councell of Laeteran but his principall intent was to excommunicate and depose the Emperor because he had taken some citties of the Patrimonie of Saint Peter The Pope in this Councell brought forth auricular confession He was the first that imposed this charge vpon christians He was the first that forbad the laitie as they call them the cuppe in the communion This prohibition was confirmed in the Councell of Constance Almericus a learned man he condempned for an heretike and cōmaunded his bones to be burned in Paris and all those that held his opinion This did the Pope saith Friar Domingo Soto in one of his sermons because Almericus had taught that Images should be cast out of the Temple Seest thou not ô Pope that God forbiddeth that which thou commandest and comandeth that thou forbiddest with great reason doe men call thee Antichrist The Councell of Eliberis celebrated in Spaine at the same time almost with the first Councell of Nice comaundeth that that which is reuerenced or adored should not vpon the walles be pictured as in the beginning of this Treatise we haue said This Pope ordeined that when the princes disagreed in election of the Emperour such election should remaine to the arbitrement of the pope Concerning the election of the Emperour and the authoritie of the 7 electors reade Carion lib. 5. fol. 3. and 5. Therewith hath the Pope nothing to doe He commaunded the God Pan the wheaten God should in the Churches be kept And that when they carried it to any sicke person a little bell and light should be borne before it Hee ordained that the Pope ought to correct the Princes of the whole world And that none bee holden for Emperour which shall not bee crowned by the Pope If this be true it followeth that Don Fernando in our Countrey of Spaine nor Maximilian his sonne nor Rodulph his nephewe that nowe is Emperour were no Emperours seeing that none of these three besides other more were crowned by the Pope In the 1216. yeere he dyed Thomas Cantipratensis a Dominican as recounteth Friar Iohn de Pineda lib. 21. cap. 26. ¶ 7. writeth that this Innocent after his death burning in cruell flames appeared to the holy Virgine Lutgarda and said vnto her that so should he goe vnto the end of the world and that for three sinnes hee had deserued euerlastingly to bee condemned but that the glorious mother of God and of mercie fauoured him because he had built a Church in honour of her holy and sweete name And this Authour saith that Saint Lutgarda tolde him what sinnes they were but that hee for the Popes honour would not write them O yee Church-men that for true prelates confound the Churches God grant ye become not worse then Innocent Thus farre Pineda Open thine eyes ô Spaine and vnderstand at last what a one is the Pope whome as a God on earth thou adorest Don Alonso the ninth then reigned in Castile Honorius the third against the excommunicated Otho the fourth and Henry the first crowned Frederick second sonne of Constantia the Nunne of whom we haue spoken in the life of Celestinus the third which Fredericke because he sought that which was his in Sicilia and Pulla the Pope did afterwards excommunicate This Honorius forbad the Ciuill lawe to be read in Paris In the time of this Pope and the 1223. yeare did one Adam Bishop of Cathan in Scotland excommunicate certaine men for not paying their tithes against whome the citizens were so muche offended that they burned him in his kitchin So much did the Pope stomacke this matter that he staied not till the king of Scotland called Alexander did it but 400. of them he caused to be hanged and their sonnes to be gelded that their name shoulde not remaine in the earth Cruell and reuengefull is this beast In the 1227. yere he died Don Fernando surnamed the Holie which wan Seuill Cordoua and a great part of Andalusia reigned in Castile Gregorie 9. the Nephew or to speake better the sonne of Innocent 3. bare great hatred against Fredericke and so he confirmed the sentence of excommunication which Honorius had giuen against him The
Ambassadors which the Emperor sent for his excuse he would not heare He incited manie Princes against him which thing the Emperor seeing to auoyd the furie of the Pope he went to Palestina to make warre with the Souldan as the pope commanded But when the Emperor was passed the sea then the Pope made himselfe Maister of Pulla and would not consent that the crossed souldiers which were to go and serue the Emperour should passe the sea The Emperor went thither where so valiantly he behaued himselfe that he wan Ierusalem and other cities and made truce with the Souldan for ten yeares All which by his Embassadors he signified to the Pope supposing that the Pope would haue reioyced But so farre off was the Pope from reioycing at the newes that he commanded those which brought them to be slaine lest they should tell them to others and bruted it abroad that the Emperour was dead This did the Pope that those certaine citties of Pulla which were not yet rendered hearing of the Emperours death might yeeld themselues vnto him Herein the Pope shewed himselfe a murtherer and lyer the verie sonne of the diuell And that the Emperour might not returne the Pope by letteres requested the Soldan not to deliuer the holie land vnto him But the Emperour set all things in good order returned into Italie and recouered againe that which the Pope had vsurped in Pulla The Pope seeing this did excommunicate him againe obiecting against him that hee had made truce with the Souldan yet in the end by the mediatiation of the Princes the Pope absolued the Emperour prouided that he payd for his absolution an hundred thousand ounces of gold or as saith Hist Pontific vpon the life of this Gregory the ninth a hundred twenty fiue thousand ounces But Nauclerus Friar Iohn de Pineda Rerum Germanicarum Epitome and Carion lib. 5. say 120000. ounces of gold How deerely the Pope selleth his vile merchandise here appeareth There is no Mercer chapman nor Pedler which sell so deere their wares as the Pope selleth his inke paper waxe and leade When the Emperour was departed out of Italy hee vnderstood that the Pope and his confederates sought to depriue him of the Empire whereupon he returned into Italy and chastised the rebelles The Pope hearing thereof did eftsoones excommunicate the Emperour as then in Pauia who now vnable any longer to endure the couetousnesse sausinesse and tyranny of the Pope resolued to make them knowne to all faithfull Christians that they might fly from the error false religion of the Popes For this cause he commaunded a man well exercised in the Scripture to preach in his presence wherein he should intreate of Excommunication and the Roman Church And so it was The Sermon being ended the errours of the Romane Church were so discouered and the craft and subtiltie of the Popes so manifested that the Emperour wrote to the Pope these verses Roma diu titubans longis erroribus acta Corruet mundi desinet esse caput To wit Rome that long time hath stumbled shall fall and cease to be the head of the world The which we see dayly more and more to be verified How many kingdomes haue cast off the Romane tyranny This Pope commaunded that at the Aue Maria the Salue Regina that so blasphemous Antheme against Christ which this Pope first cōmanded to be sung in the Churches and also at the eleuation of his pasted God the bel should be tolled To Saint Fraunces was this Pope very much deuoted and so commaunded that the faithfull should beleeue Saint Fraunces to haue had the fiue woundes Frier Iohn de Pineda as a Frier Franciscan libr. 22. cap. 23. ¶ 3. handleth this matter at large And in the 39. cap. ¶ 3 he intreateth of the Saints which he saith had the woundes as had Saint Fraunces which historie among the swarme of false miracles you shall find in the end of this booke This Pope as noteth Frier Iohn de Pineda lib. 21. cap. 33. ¶ 3. compiled and ordained the Decretals The lawes of the Popes whereby the Cannonists be gouerned some are called Decretals which be as Pineda in the place alleaged doth note it determinatiue Epistles of some doubtful causes which the Pope alone or with the opinion of the Cardinals and consultation of some maketh A Decree is called that which the Pope establisheth by aduise of the Cardinals without request of any A Cannon is that which in an vniuersall Councell is established And this is a distinction of the Glose Cann Omnis Dist 3. vpon a Decree He addeth that the statute in matter of faith is called Dogma and that which consisteth in matters of vices or vertues Mandatum And if it be prohibitiue an Interdiction it is called without punishment assigned and Sancion is the member of the lawe that appointeth the punishment to transgressors c. And somewhat lower Other constitutions which other popes haue sithens inuented remaine in another volume which wee call Liber Sextus compiled and authorised by Pop Boniface the eight and in the Councell of Lyons in France by him published And Clement the fift made afterwards many others which are called Clementines c. Other Extrauagants many Popes made c. Extrauagants be they called because they are not put in the titles of the Law as other ordinarie ones be but each one apart by it selfe euery one intreating of it distinct matter euen as Quodlibets are so called because they be put amongst diuine questions handled apart by themselues euery one according to it matter I thought good seeing in this booke is handled the authoritie of the Pope to set downe here the names of the lawes wherewith the Pope gouerneth his Church Iesus Christ the only vniuersall head of his vniuersall Church with the word of God conteined in the old and new Testament which we call the Byble and our aduersaries so much abhor and detest as the pestilence and doctrine of diuels gouerneth his Church and therefore vnder such rigorous paine forbid they the reading thereof calling it a booke of heresies Arise ô Lord sleepe not disperse thine enemies and driue those away that abhorre thy holie lawe which thy Maiestie hath published by the mouth and writing of thine holy Prophetes and Apostles In the 1241. yeare this Gregorie 9. died Don Fernando 3. reigned in Castile Celestinus the fourth a Milanist assayed what he might to secute the good Emperour Fredericke but for that hee was Pope but eighteene dayes and as is sayd poysoned hee could not performe it In the election of this Celestine the fourth saith the historie an English Cardinall called Robert Somerton lest he should haue succeeded Gregorie the ninth was poisoned Celestine being dead because the Emperour tooke the Cardinals the popedome was voyd almost 21 moneths but in the end at the request of Baldwin Emperour of Constantinople and others
to be murdered For Conradino the sonne and heire of Conrade king of Sicilia sought to defend his right but Charles ouercame and tooke him prisoner together with Fredericke Duke of Austria neere vnto Naples and by the counsell of the pope did behead them For Charles wrote to the Pope what he should doe with Conradino his prisoner The Pope answered The life of Charles the death of Conradino c. After him Adrian 5. against this Charles demanded aide of Rodolph the Emperour The kingdome of Naples by meanes of this cursed Pope came to the French and the Dukedome of Sueuia tooke end In the 1270. yeere this butcher died The seat of Sathan was long time to wit two yeeres and nine moneths and two dayes voide And Don Alonso 10. then reigned in Castile Clement the fourth being dead the Cardinals which were 17. number to chuse a new pope assembled together Amongst whom so great discord arose that in almost three yeeres space they could not agree for euery of them pretended to be pope Philip king of France and Charles king of Sicill hearing of this great discord came to Viterbo where the Cardinals were and prayed them to dispatch and chuse a chiefe bishop but so great was the ambition of the Cardinals that all this trauell and sute of the two kings were to no purpose so they returned without any thing done When they were in the election inuocating the holy spirit bishop Iohn Cardinall Portuensis seeing the great forwardnesse of the Cardinals said vnto them My Lords let vs vncouer this chamber for the holy spirit through so great roofes cannot enter vnto vs. When the same Cardinall vnderstood that Gregory was Pope he cōpiled these two verses Papatus munus tulit Archidiaconus vnus Quem patrem patrum fecit discordia fratrum To wit an Archdeacon attained to the Popedom whom the discord of brothers made father of fathers All this reporteth Panuinus an Augustin Frier Behold here what the Romists thēselues report of the elections of their Popes behold here Ambition the holy spirit which in their election gouerneth Gregory 10. thus elected in the yere 1273. at Lyons in France did celebrate a Councell where Michael Paleologus Emperour of Constantinople who approued the doctrin of the Romaine church his predecessors hauing 12 times done the like as many times more reuoked the same was present In this councell it was ordeined that the Pope being dead the Cardinals shold shut thēselues in the Conclaue And that moreouer which Panuinus in the note vpon Platina vpon the life of this Gregory 10. saith He renued a fresh the warre of the holy land And in 5 yeres that he poped neuer saw Rome In the 1276. yere he died and Don Alonso 10. reigned in Castile Innocent 5. a Burgonion was the first begging friar that was made pope for which cause he much fauored his dominicks And hauing poped 6. moneths 2. daies the same yere with his predecessor he died Adriā 5. a Genoway was the nephew or as is thought the son of Innocēt 4. whē he was Pope he went frō Rome to Viterbo frō whence he wrote to Rodulph the Emperour to aide him against Charles king of Sicilia which Charles had the former popes against all right made king of Sicil as in the life of Clement 4. we haue noted but the Emperor occupied in the wars of Bohemia could not succor him He poped but one moneth 7 daies then died Iohn 22. or 21 or 20 before he was pope called in latin Petrus Hispanus was born at Lisbon by professiō a Phisition Albeit this mā was holden for very learned yet was he very vnskilfull to gouerne And as saith Platina wrought more domage thē profit to the popedom Many things he did which shew his folly lightnes One good property he had that whē he saw a yong man inclined to study with benefits money he would aide him This mā foolish as he was promised by the stars long life to himselfe so would tell it to all men But it farre otherwise happened to him for a certaine chamber which Valerius calleth a sporting chamber Estella calleth it a precious bed chamber which he had builded for his pleasure in the pallace of Viterbo at the end of 4. dayes fell suddenly to the ground the Pope was found betweene the timber the stones who hauing poped 8. moneths and 8. daies at 7. dayes end in the 1277. yere died Six moneths after the death of his predecessor was Nicholas 3. chosen for the Cardinals could not agree at the end of which time Charles king of Sicilia ruling as a Senator in the Conclaue Nicholas 3. was chosen who after he was pope began thē to persecute Charles he tooke frō him the vicaredge of Hetruria he tooke frō him also the power of Senator giuē him by Clement 4. he forbad that no king or prince thenceforth should dare to demand or administer that office tooke it to himselfe But Martin the 4. his successor did restore it vnto him For so agree the Popes that that which one doeth another vndoeth This Nicholas with great wars vexed Italy And the better to effect his purposes he perswaded Don Pedro king of Arragon to demand the kingdom of Sicilia seeing it was his in the right of his wife Constance This counsell much pleased Don Pedro which was afterwards the cause of much bloodshed In the yere 1381. died Nic. Martin 4. a Frenchman Panninus cals him 2. with great humanity receiued Charles king of Sicilia and restored him to the dignity of Senator that moreouer which his predecessor had taken frō him He excōmunicated Don Pedro king of Arragon who leuied a great armie to inuade Charles in Sicilia gaue his kingdome for a prey to the first that could take it absolued all his vassals from their oth to him made as their king c. yet Don Pedro of al this made no reckoning but passed into Italy aided by Paleologus Emperor of Constantinople wan Sicilia The Sicilians for their pride luxuritie bare great hatred to the French so that they conspired against Charles his frenchmen toulling the bels they issued out killed all nor sex nor age regarded yong old men and women albeit great with child they destroyed These be the Euensongs which the Sicilians call so famous After this Charles with his armie comming to Naples was vanquished taken as saith Platina sent into Arragon This Pope Martin tooke the concubine of his predecessor Nicholas 3. when Martin had 4. yeares and one moneth poped in the 1285. yeare he died of whom saith Platina that after his death he wrought great miracles Don Alonso 10. then raigned in Castile Honorius the fourth following the steps of his predecessor Martin 4. confirmed the excommunication and interdiction against Don Pedro which held
the Pilgrime that iornying to Rome to obteine the Iubile should die in the waie We graunt saith he that if being truly confessed he shall die in the waie he shall be free and absolutely absolued from all his sinnes And moreouer we commaund the Angels to place the soule wholly freed from purgatorie into Paradice And in another Bull he saith We will not that the paines of hell shall any way touch him He graunteth to such as take the Cruzado to goe a warfare that they may drawe 3 or 4 soules of whome they will out of Purgatorie The popish Bulles are very mockeries Bulla is a Latin word as much to say as a litle bubble which the raine maketh in the water being a vaine thing and of no continuance There is also in Latine a prouerbe which saith Homo bulla man is vanitie The popes purposely it seemeth haue put this name in their Indulgences and pardons whereby they signifie their bulles to be mockeries and vanitie For such then let vs hold them In the 1352. yere Clement 6. being alone in his chamber sodainly died Don Alonso 11. then reigned in Castile Innocent 6. a Frenchmen was very sparing to giue and very liberall to take and so gaue he benefices most liberally to such as gaue most for them He sent his Legate into Italie Don Gill Carillo of Albornoz a Spanish Cardinall and Archbishop of Toledo A great warrier was this Don Gill and so more exercised in armes then in the Bible In Rome gaue he the crowne Imperiall to Charles sonne of the king of Boheme But with this condition that the Emperor should no longer remain in Rome nor Italie This Cardinall at his owne charge buylded a notable Colledge for the poore Spanish Students in Bologna Thus far Tarapha vpon the life of Don Pedro. Fryar Alonso venero in his Enchiridion of times saith that in the 1351. yeare this Cardinall commanded he should after death be brought on mens shoulders to the Church of Toledo and so was he carried the Pope giuing great IndulgeÌ„ces to whom so euer would be partner in that traueile For which cause all the people by whom he came went out to receiue him and one people carried him to another and the other vnto another vntill they came to Toledo In saying this Don Gill to haue bene in the time of Martin 5. Venero is deceiued Platina and Tarapha place him in the time of Innocent 6. In the courts which at this time were held in Perpinan he commanded that not at the incarnation which is the 25. of March but at the Natiuitie the yeare should beginne This custome to begin the yeare at the incarnation is yet to this day obserued in England When Innocent heard the difference happened betweene the king Don Pedro the Queene his wife Cardinall William to make friendship betweene the king and Queene and the states of Castile which tooke parte with the Queene but seeing the king obstinate without ought effecting he returned and the Queen for griefe sorrow afew dayes after died Auignon in the 1362. yeare this Pope died in Vrban 5. being absent and no Cardinall was chosen Pope Cardinall Don Gill Carillo he sent into Italie for his vicar generall which office he had executed in the life of his predecessor Innocent 6. as before we haue said In the 4. yeare of his Popedome this Pope with his Cardinals came from Rome to Auignon In the Lent time he sent a Rose to Iane Queene of Sicilia made a decree euery yere to giue this Rose vpon that Sunday in Lent which they call Laetare so returned with his court into France In the time of this Vrban was the Archbishop of Colonia as saith Petrus Premostratensis maried D. Illescas vpon the life of this Vrban 5. saith That when he had forgotten where were the heads of the holy Apostles Peter Paule instantly did the Emperour sollicite the pope that they should be sought for And at last were they found in a chest in the Sancto Sanctorum of S. Iohn de Lateran put in the place where nowe they remaine c. See here the assurance which our aduersaries haue of their so great relikes In the 1371. yeare not without suspition of poison Vrban died Don Henry 2. bastard son of Don Alonso 11. reigned in Castile Gregory 11. Nephew or son to Clement 6. being 17 yeers old was made Cardinal When he was Pope seeing all Italy to bee mutinous almost all fallen froÌ„ his obedience by the counsell of Catalina of Sena who was afterwards canonized of Baldo his master as saith Volateranus In the 1376. yere he left France with 12 galleyes came to Rome Clement 5. remoued the Court of Rome into Fraunce where it was holden almost 74 yeares Others say that Saint Bridget returning from Ierusalem came to Rome wrote to Gregory saying that the Lord wold that the Romane Court should returne to Rome So also saith Masseus Others among whom is CraÌ„tzio say that the Pope reproued a certaine Bishop because he followed the Court Papall and was not resident vpon his Bishopricke to whom answered the Bishop And thou Pope of Rome why giuest thou not example to others by returning to thine owne Bishoprick And so the Court of Rome either by the counsell of one of the two women or both or by the counsell of a Bishop at the end of 74. yeares returned to Rome This Pope did excommunicate the Florenâ—ines which had bene the heades of the Rebellions against whome he made great warres because they nought regarded his excoÌ„munication In the 1378. yere died this Gregory In whose time Don Henry 2. raigned in Castile When Gregorie 11. was dead the clergie people of Rome that the court of Rome should not eftsoons returne into France ran to the cardinalls and praied them to make choice of some Italian but in no wise of a French man And as they began to make the election between the Cardinals which were 17. 4 Italians 13 Frenchmen arose great contention The French being many more in number might easily haue preuailed but they durst not for the Romans were in armes and threatened them except they chose an Italian For which cause on Fryday the 9. of April made they a Pope called him Vrban 6. And as saith Platina before he was published not once suspected to be pope the French Cardinals began a grudge saying that this electioÌ„ was vnlawful and nothing worth because the Romans requiring with weapons in their hands that the Pope should be an ItaliaÌ„ by fraud force it was made And so the Cardinals de parted the Conclaue some retired to the Castle S. Angello others to the mountains to escape the rage fury of the people When Cardinall Vrsinus saw the great discord among the Cardinals he well hoped he should be Pope and so did
hee surely pretend it Thus farre Platina Eight of the French Cardinals fearing the seuerity and cruelty of Vrban went to Fundo where for the causes aboue said and alleaging that the seat was voyd yet there were 18 Cardinals ayded by Iane Queene of Naples another Pope they elected whom they called Clement 7. This was the most pernicious Sisme longest lasted of any others For vntill the Councell of Constance began which was 40 yeares after 10 yeres after that it continued so that it endured 50 yeares Who listeth to know the deceipts subtilties periuries dissimulations c. of those that poped in the time of this Sisme let him read Theodoricus de Nyem who as an ey-witnes wrote the historie of this Sisme Bonin Segino in the Florētine history Frier Iohn de Pineda lib. 22. cap. 37. ¶ 3. 4. This Vrban saith Estella was a man subtil reuengefull bearing iniuries in mind not that which he had done but that he had receiued Crantzio saith that he was fierce cruel vntreatable so being Pope he sought not to set peace but wars to reuenge himself on the Frēch Cardinals Queen Iane. For which cause to make thē on his part he absolued the Florentins of the excōmunication which Gregorie his predecessor had giuen out against them This Vrban caused 5 Cardinals to be put in 5 sacks and so cast into the sea where they were drowned From this kind of death but very hardly escaped Adam an English Cardinall The cause why the Pope did this was for that these Cardinals taking part with Clement 7. had conspired against him After this for the better strengthening of his faction he made in one day 29 Cardinals three of them saith Platina were Romans all the rest almost Neapolitans Pandulphus Colenucius a most learned Lawyer addeth in his Latine Neapolitan history another cruelty much greater then this we haue spoken of This Vrban saith he being in Genoa cōdemned to death three Cardinals commanded their heads to be cut off their bodies to be rosted in a furnace being rosted to put thē into sackes and whēsoeuer he went frō one people to another he caried them vpō 3 horses that it might be known they had bin Cardinals they placed their red hats vpon the sackes All this he did to be feared that none shold dare to attempt ought against him Thus far Colenucius This Vrban vnable by force and artes to be reuenged on Queene Iane sent to intreat Charles nephew of the king of Hungarie to come aid him with an host he would make him king of Naples Charles aided with the counsel people of the king his vncle came and seazed the kingdome of Naples tooke Queene Iane who was retired to Newcastle a fort in Naples and so taken put her to death The Pope vntil this time was a great friend vnto Charles but as peace among the wicked doth not long continue so this great loue of the Pope turned into much more hatred And why deeme you his Diuellishnesse was so much offended The cause was for that Charles refused at the Popes request to make the Nephew or as some thinke the sonne of the Pope Prince Campano Platina Colenucius and others recite this historie When the Pope could not obtaine this being a man vnciuill vngentle and ill beloued began to threaten Wherere with the king was so much offended that the Pope for certaine dayes durst not go abroad But the Pope a while dissembling this iniurie for excessiue heate as he said departed by the Kings consent from Naples to Nocera The Pope come to Nocera there fortified himselfe and made new Cardinals He made processe against the king and sent to cite him to appeare before him whereunto the king answered that he would come quickly to Nocera not only with words but with weapons to iustify his cause The king came and with a great campe besieged the citie The Pope seeing himself so besieged escaped and went to Genoua where he acted that which we haue before spoken of the Cardinals When Lodowicke king of hungarie and vncle to Charles was dead the Nobles of Hungarie sent for Charles king of Naples to make him king of Hungarie whither Charles went in the yeare 1385. by great treason of her that had bene Queen of Hungarie was slaine When Vrban as reporteth Colenucius in his Neapolitane historie heard of the cruell death of Charles he tooke great pleasure and when the sword as yet bloudie wherewith Charles was slaine was presented vnto him he beheld and did contemplate the same with great ioy aud contentment So did not Iulius Caesar being a pagan no Christian nor holy Father who saith Plutarch when one presented to him the head of Pompey his mortall enemie in detestation of so great an euill turned away his eyes and would not beholde it Note that which the same Plutar. reporteth of Lycurgus who pardoned him which had put out his eye These exāples I draw from pagans for his greater shame who calleth himselfe holy Father vicar of Iesus Christ Vicar of Sathan I call Vrban who was a murtherer from the beginning With the death of Charles ended not the malice of Vrban it passed further for a yeere after the death of Charles this Pope practised to disinherite Ladislaus Iohn sons of Charles as then but little ones but those of Gaeta kept thē safely The pope returned to Rome and not without suspition of poison hauing cruelly poped 11 yeres and eight moneths in the 1390. yeere died whose death saith Platina very few lamented because he was a man rude and vntreatable In the time of this cruell Pope was founde the cruell inuention of gunnes in Almaine Don Iohn 1. bastard son of Don Fernando K. of Portugal at this time reigned in Portugal This Don Iohn got the victory of Aliubarota another Don Iohn 1. being king of Castile This is that battell against the Castillians which the Portugals so much prize and glory of And so vpon a time as Don Charles the Emperor almost threatened the Portugal Embassadour and said vnto him Behold Embassador there are not many riuers to passe from hence to Portugall It is true answered the Embassador because there are now no more riuers then were in the time of Aliubarota The king of Portugall for this answer rewarded the Embassador Don Iohn 1. and Don Enrique his son raigned in Castile From the election of Clement 7. fully spokē of in the life of his Antipope Vrban 6. the Sisme endured 50. yeres Almaine Italie and England fauored Vrban France Castile Aragon Nauarre and Cathaluna fauored Clement 7. and many there were also that were neuters and neither fauored Vrban nor Clement This Clement celebrated a Councel in Paris In his time and the 1387. yere arose a question betweene the vniuersitie of Paris and the Dominicks about the conception of the virgin Marie And
afterwardes was much brawling betweene the Dominicans and Franciscans the question as yet being vndetermined For the Popes therein haue put them to silence lest the foolish deuotion and superstition of the ignorant common people should be despised In the 1392. yeare Clement died Very many and terrible Bulles sent these Antipopes into diuerse partes of the world many famous libels cast they one against the other where with they did bite detest and curse the one calling the other Antichrist Sismatike Heretike Tyrant Theefe Traitor wicked sower of tares and sonne of Beliall And verily in this that the one saith against the other doe they not lie neuer in their liues spake they more truly For aswell the sonne of Beliall as the rest was both one and other Many holding this Pope for Antipope count him not in the Catalogue of the Popes But certenly he hath wrong for more canonically was he chosen then Vrban if there be any election of the pope canonically made and was not in his life so great a villaine nor so cruell as Vrban was Hereby moreouer great iniurie is done to our countrie of Spaine and to Fraunce which held Clement for true Pope and Vrban for Antipope and Antichrist as Clement called him And so Don Iohn 1. king of Castile that his kingdome should not be seperate from the communion of the Seat Apostolike caused as saith Don Rodrigo Bishop of Palencia in his historie speaking of K. Iohn the Prelates and men most learned in diuinitie and humanitie and the estates of his Realme to assemble together who after they had well examined and debated the businesse declared that Clement 7. was to be obeyed And when Clement was dead they gaue it to his successor Benedict 13. as hereafter we will declare Boniface 9. not being as thē 30 yeares old by the parciality factiō of Vrban 6. who as saith Crantzio intreated the Romans not like a bishop but like a cruel Emperor or tyrant was chosen in Rome And for that he held them suspected put many of thē to death This Pope made a law that no Priest should inioy his liuing without paying to the pope the first fruits called the Annales which is one whole yeres value of his liuing The English only did resist this decree as Platina Volateranus Blundus Polidorus Virgilius Pantaleon c. do note Hee caused Ladislaus sonne of Charles to be crowned king of Naples Vrban 6. as in his life we haue said for the hatred which he bare vnto his deceased father endeuoured to disinherite and vtterly destroy Ladislaus A great Simmonist was this Boniface by his Bulles Indulgences pardons and the great Iubile which in the 1400. yeare he celebrated at Rome he gathered much money which against al law right he with his kindred prodigally wasted In the 1404. yeare he died And Don Henry 3. reigned in Castile Benedict 13. or 11. a Spaniard for the same causes as was Clement 7. is not reckened among the Popes but sith our countrey of Spaine and Fraunce held him for Pope we will not displace him A Spaniard he was borne in Cataluna and called before he was Pope Pedro de Lunae by 20 Cardinals of Clements faction he was chosen in Auignon a man learned he was and before he was Pope disputed against the authoritie of the Pope and concluded that he was not to be feared For this so true doctrine he was by the Pope which then held the seat of Antichrist as an heretike condemned Pope he was vntill the Councell of Pisa deposed him He was afterwards deposed by the Councel of Constance who albeit by two Councels deposed yet left he not for all this to be called Pope vntill the 1424. yeare after he had bene Pope 30 yeares and more he died in his land of Cataluna At his death he commaunded the Cardinals when he was dead to choose for pope Gill Nunoz Cannon of Barcelona whom they called Clement 8. who at the instance of Don Alonso king of Aragon created new Cardinals and did all that the popes were accustomed to do But when pope Martin 5. elected in the Councell of Constance ioyned in friendship with the king Don Alonso Nunoz after he had 4 yeares poped by commandement of the king renounced and was made Bishop of Mallorca and his Cardinals of themselues forsooke their functions In the time of this Sisme liued a learned good man called Theodoricus of Nyem bishop of Verda who as before we haue sayd wrote the historie of this Sisme which historie is now hard to be found because the papists for that it manifested the truth almost cast it out of the world But in the 1566. yeare was it againe newly printed to the popes great griefe in Basilea Among other things this Author said proued that the pope held no politike right ouer the Emperour but contrariwise that the Emperour ought to chasten wicked Popes said moreouer that they which dissemble such enormious abhominations and tyrannies which the popes commit are not worthy to be called Emperours In the time of Benedict 13. Don Henry and Don Iohn 2. reigned in Castile Innocent 7. was chosen in Rome to succeed Boniface 9. whiles he was Cardinall he reproued the negligence and fearfulnesse of Vrban and Benedict saying that they were the cause of the Sismes so long continuance which to al Christendom wrought so great mischiefe But when he was pope he changed his opinion and not only did that which before he had so much reproued but was also much offended if any spake to him thereof In doing what he would he tyrannized ouer the people of Rome but his popedome not long endured and so in the 1407. yeare he died Don Iohn 2. then reigning in Castile Gregorie 12. whom Thodoricus de Nyen alwayes called Errorius and his followers Errorians was elected at Rome in place of Innocent 7. Benedict 13. then liuing in Auignon With this condition was Gregorie chosen that were it for the good of the Church he shold renounce the popedome which being pope he cōfirmed before witnesses Notaries that wrote the same so that Benedict 13. would doe the like But as Benedict would not renounce no more would Gregorie albeit both the one the other being great dissemblers and subtill gaue great hope that they would do it And so they appointed Sauona whither they should come and agree yet al was but wind For this cause in the 1410 yeare was holden a great Councell in Pisa where manie Cardinals on the one side and the other 124 Diuines and almost 300 Lawyers were present Both the Popes in this Councell were deposed and Alexander 5. a Cretian in their place elected This did al Christendome approue Spaine Scotland and the Countie of Ameniaco which claue firmely to Benedict 13. excepted Gregorie and Benedict nought esteeming the Councell of Pisa yet held themselues for Popes but fearing to be caught
Gregorie went to Arimino and Benedict to his land of Cataluna Thus at this time were there three Popes Benedict 13. made in Auignon Gregorie 12. made in Rome and Alexander the Cretian made in the Councell of Pisa Poets do feigne Cerberus the porter of hell to haue three heads which fable we see now verified in the Popedome whose porter which is the Pope hath three heads and as touching the kingdome of Antichrist as well the one as the other was the head Gregorie cast Nicholas de Luca downe from the pulpit and for punishment to him and example to other put him in prison because in his preaching for the good of the Church he exhorted him him to vnitie The fathers in the end and the 1415. yeare assembled in the Councell of Constance wrot vnto him to come or at least to send some in his place to the Councell who seeing their desire was to haue him renounce forthwith there renounced but shortly after for very griefe and sorrowe dyed Petrus de Luna was alwayes called Benedict 13. against whom Iohn Gerson a famous diuine often said in the Councell whiles Luna liueth there shall no peace be in the Church but neither the authoritie of the Councell nor the threates nor requests which they vsed could cause him renounce and so till he died which was aboue thirtie yeares was Pope In the 1424. yeare he dyed Alexander 5. a Cretian was made Pope in the Councell of Pisa as before we haue said An Alexander he was in giuing and so was he accustomed to say merily of himselfe that he had bene a rich Bishop a poore Cardinall and a begging Pope So haughty was his humour that being in the Councell of Pisa Ladislaus king of Naples of whō we haue made mention in the life of Vrban 6. he depriued of his kingdome This Pope ordeyned that all Christians should beleeue as an article of their faith that his Saint Frauncis had the 5 woundes which Christ imprinted vpon him and commaunded solmnely to celebrate the feast of the woundes of Saint Frauncis Herein did Alexander shew himselfe to be very Antichrist seeing he vsurped authoritie to make new articles of faith which whosoeuer would not beleeue should for the same be condemned Saint Paul doth teach vs that if any albeit an Angel from heauen shall preach another Gospell vnto vs then that which he had preached vnto vs he should be anathematized cursed and excommunicate such a one then was Pope Alexander This Alexander which afore time called himselfe Petrus de Candia being as reporteth Theodoricus of Nyem at the point of death said that he neuer knew father nor mother nor brother nor any of his kindred that when he was yong he liued by begging for Gods sake from dore to dore He said that a Franciscan Italian Friar tooke him from that course of life and taught him Grammer afterwardes made him Friar of his orders and carried him with him into Italic And that from Italic he went into England and in Oxeforde studied and after he had continewed many yeares in this vniuersitie he went to Paris where he was made maister in diuinitie from thence he went into Lombardie where by the meanes of Duke Iohn Caleaço he was made bishop of Vincentium and afterwardes Archbishop of Milan then Cardinall and in the end Pope In the 1411. yeare he died The cause of his death as saith Baptista Panecius in his 6. sermon was poyson which his Phisition Marcillias of Parma corrupted with money by Cardinal Baltassar Cossa who sought to be pope as he was gaue him D. Iohn 2. thē reigned in Castil Iohn 24. as Platina calleth him or 23. or 22. for the causes before mentioned with the poyson which he caused to be giuen to Alexander his predecessor was made Pope Hee better knew how to manage armes then bookes and so as noteth Friar Iohn de Pineda lib. 23. cap. 10. ¶ 5. a man he was notable for matters of the world but ignorant in spirituall things a very good beginning for confirmation hereof he aleageth Leonardus Aretinus Blundus Flauius Pius 2. More by violence thē free election as the papists themselues do witnes was he made Pope For when Alexander was dead the Cardinals assembled to chuse a Pope in Bologna he being Legat in Bologna and hauing like a good captaine many souldiars very much threatned the Cardinals except they should chuse a Pope according to his wil. For this cause named they many saying wilt thou haue this wilt thou haue this other but with none of thē was he pleased And when they praied him to name whom he would haue Pope Giue me said he the mantle of S. Peter and I will put it vpon him that shal be Pope And when they had giuen it he put it vpon himself said I am Pope This is like that which is reported of Don Fernando grandfather of Don Charles the Emperor king of Spaine maister for maister this let it be so casting vpon him the habit made himselfe maister of S. Iames. The like election to this was that of Pope Iohn 23. as before we haue declared This deed of the Pope displeased the Cardinals Yet thought they it best to dissemble with him and for that he was so terrible a man to passe with the election In this man saith Platina was more fiercenes boldnes then besemed his profession all his life almost was soulderlike such were his customes that many things vnlawfull to be spoken of he thought it lawfull to doe And such were his abhominations that Platina shamed to speake them When he was Pope he wrote to the Emperor Sigismund that he would crowne him He began to hold a Councell in Rome whereunto when the Emperor and diuers nations could not freely come by reason of the discord that the Pope had raised in Italy at the request of almost all nations the Pope apointed Constance the 1. of Nouember in the 1414. yeare In which Councel he himselfe would be present And albeit that some did coūsel him not to go to the Councell lest he thence returned without his bishoprick yet went he notwithstanding carying with him subtil aduocats to defend him if ought were obiected against him Thē begā the general Coūcel by cōsent of pope Iohn Sigismūd the Emp. other Christian princes The night of the natiuitie the Emp. as a Deacon sang the Gospel which began Exijt edictum à Caesare c. When the Coūcel was set licence of free speech to each one giuē they obiected and proued against Pope Iohn in the presence of the Emp. more then 40. hainous offences he was then cōstrained by the Coūcels cōmand to renounce The causes were for that to make himselfe Pope he had caused poyson to be giuē to Alexander 5. because he was an heretique Symonist a liar an hipocrite a murtherer a witch a gamester an Adulterer a
friendship the Pope secretly departed from Constance as saith Volateranus against the will of the Emp. and so came to Florence where taking his pleasure he 2 yeares remained Before he departed from Constance the Emp. and other Princes exhorted him to giue some good order for reformation of the ouermuch libertie euill customes of the Clergie Whereunto Martin answered That this was with time nature consideration to be done and for confirmation of his answere hypocritically aleaged the saying of S. Ierome that euery prouince hath it customes maners which could not sodainly be abolished without great trouble and damage How much better should he haue put his hand to the worke begun to reforme himselfe and his court of Rome To speake of reformation to the Popes is to speake or preach death vnto them And this is the cause why they cannot brook to heare tel of a Coūcel because they then know that each one tam in capite quà m in membris Aswell in the head as in the members wil begin to speake of reformation They remēber that the Councels haue deposed Popes and placed others They remember that in the Councell of Pisa celebrated in the 1410. yeare 2 Popes were deposed and Alexander elected that in the Councell of Constance in the 1416. yeare were 3 deposed and Martin chosen And in the Councell of Basil in the 1432. yeare Eugenius was deposed and Amadeus chosen For this cause would the Popes haue willingly no Councels And albeit for shame they cannot but graunt that a Councell shal be the Pope feareth as to eate poyson to be present therein but sendeth his Legats which accustomably as in the last Trident Councel which buried so many Popes and none of them appeared in the Councell was seene The Popes doe feare as before we haue said least the like to them as to the others Popes should happen in the Councels For these causes made Martin a decree that no Councel after that of Constance before 5 yeares passed should be holden after that Coūcel ten yeares should passe before another Coūcell were holden See here the reformation which the Popes desire If any Pope in maners be lesse wicked for in Doctrine be they al Antichrists in his Roman Court wisheth practiseth some reformation then doubtlesse ensueth some conspiracy against him that they giue him a morsel wherewith they dispatch him An example we haue in Celestine 5. whō his Cardinal that after him was Pope dispatched in Adrian 6. as afterward we wil declare It is said of this pope Martin that he dispensed with one to mary his own sister After 2 yeeres he went frō Florence to Rome The cause of this going was for that the pages as saith I. de Pineda sang in his disgrace a Sonet which began El Papa Martino no vale vn quatrino Martin the Pope is not worth a rope Whē he came to Rome saith Pineda his face shewed him to be quite chāged for before he was pope he was demed a man gētle simple vnwise wāting that gētlenes that was suposed to be in him was afterwards discouered to be most wise And a litle lower So scraping he was couetous a mony-gatherer that he gaue great cause of slander chiefly because what he euilly got he worse spēt c. whē he was come to Rome he gaue himself to repaire not the true Church of Iesus Christ which is his mēbers but the wals of the citie Churches he adnulled the decrees of the Popes passed in the time of the Sisme he depriued Dex Alonso king of Arragon of the kingdom of Naples gaue it to Lewes And in the 1431. yere died D. Iohn 2. reigned in Castile Eugenius 4. a Venetian after the death of Martin his predecessor was elected in Rome In so great a straite was seene this Eugenius that to saue his life being Pope be left his owne garments in a Friers habit put himselfe with his companion in a fishers boate which he found certaine Romanes which perceiued his flight cast many stones and arrowes at him In the end he scaped and went to Florence where some yeeres he abode and for his better defence made 16 Cardinals In the 1432. yeare was the Eugenius cited by the Councell of Basil But he knowing that the Councell would be aboue the Pope and that vpon appearance he should answere the exhibited accusations against him would not appeare Eugenius not appearing was deposed by the Councel Amadeus Duke of Sauoy who had made himself an Hermit and now called Felix 5. was elected in his place yet for all this would not Eugenius leaue to be pope And so to defeat the Councel of Basil hee assembled another Councel in Ferrara frō thence went to Florence Don Iohn 2. king of Castile albeit he had sent his Embassadors and learned men to the Councel of Basil yet fauored this Eugenius Eugenius incited Lewes the Dolphin of France with an host to go to Basil and breake off the Councell whereof ensued great mischief This Eugenius was the cause of the vnfortunate death of Ladislaus king of Hungarie in counselling him to breake his faith word giuen to the Turke which counsell this poore yongling but of 22 yeares tooke so set vpon the Turke when by reason of the peace betweene them he least suspected The Turke seeing this vnfaithfulnes reinforced himselfe returned vpon him In which battel the king with Cardinal Caesarinus the Popes Legate was slaine his host destroyed It hath wontedly bene argued whether faith and promise giuen to an infidell might lawfully be broken wherunto I answer that which Frier Iohn de Pineda lib. 26. cap. 28. ¶ 1. to this purpose saith There is no doubt saith he but faith is to be kept aswel to an enemy albeit he be an Infidel as to a friend Christian the reason which he giueth is this because the bond to obserue it issueth from the law of nature which is indispensable God hauing bin put for witnes of the truth that each one promiseth to another c. So that Eugenius the fourth was wicked indispensing and Ladislaus was periured against God notwithstanding the Popes dispensation Wickedly did the Councel of Constance which brake faith with Iohn Hus and Ierome of Prage Much better did the Emperour Don Charles who being but young of 21 yeares sent with safe conduct for Luther who appeared before the Emperour at Wormes and publikely gaue an account of his faith and the Emperor keeping with him his word sent him backe albeit the Spaniards did incite him to kill him Much better did the Captaine Mondragon in keeping the faith which he had promised to the Prince of Orange whose prisoner he was This Eugenius most cruelly burned a Frenchman called Thomas Rēdon a Carmelit for saying that in Rome were committed great abominations that the Church had need of great reformation and that
the truth written and manifested vpon men in the olde and new Testament meete it is as saith Saint Paule that they should beleeue lies The report that the Duke of Ferrara against the will and consent of Sistus had made peace with the Venetians caused the death of Sistus For so highly was he offended thereat that within fiue dayes in the 1484. yeare he died In whose time reigned in Castile Aragon Don Fernando and Dona Isabella Innocent 8. a Genowey before called Iohannes Baptista Cibo when he was Pope conspired against Don Fernando king of Sicill taking part with the Nobles that rebelled against the king But his enterprise not succeeding as he supposed vnable to doe more he made peace with the king with this condition that he should haue his tribute the rebels their pardons but the king performed neither the one nor the other The Pope after this gaue himselfe to pleasure which accustomably bringeth draweth with it vanities delights pastimes pompes rioâ— glutony whoredoms other such vices sins He was of like beautiful fair body wherof he much esteemed as was Paul 2. he was also like vnto Paul 2. in hardnes of vnderstanding not giuen to learning Eight sons so many other daughters he had without mariage as by these verses of Marcellus appeareth Octorecens pueros genuit totidemque puellas Hunc meritò poterit dicere Roma patrem Spurcities gula auaritia atque ignauia deses Hoc octaue iacent quo tegeris tumulo To wit eight sonnes he begot and so many other daughters For this cause with reason might Rome call him father Filthinesse gluttony couetuousnesse and negligent slothfulnes lye ô Octaue in this sepulchre With riches and dignities he shamelesly aduaunced his children He was the first Pope that without any circumstance colour or titles of Nephewes or Neeces as others had accustomed to doe dared publikely to doe this Wicelius notwithstanding doth commend him for his holy life learning and eloquence He was much inclined to lucre and when neither his plenary Indulgences nor his Iubile nor was against the Turke could suffice to fill his hands a new inuention he found to draw out money And this it was hee had found in a wall said he the title of the crosse of Christ Iesus of Nazareth king of the Iewes written in three tongues Hebrewe Greeke and Latine and withall the iron of the speare which pearced the side of Christ Friar Iohn de Pineda lib. 26. cap 3 3. ¶ 1. saith that Baiazet sent him the Iron of the launce c. that he should not permit Zizimus his brother to moue wars in Turky This is he which now I will shewe to haue bene called Geme c. This Geme flying from his brother Baiazet retyred to Rhodes afterwardes was he brought to France then to Pope Innocent 8. and then to Naples in the time of Pope Alexander 6. c. Of this Geme will we make mention in the life of Alexander 6. Behold what great thinges can couetousnesse effect A great drinker he was and in his time all the offices in Rome men might haue and had for money In a certaine place called Polo he condemned for heretiques 8 men 6 women the Lord of that people because they said that none of Peters successors had bene Christs vicar but those only which had imitated the pouertie of Christ In the 1492. yeare died Innocent Don Fernando and Done Isabella then reigning in Spaine Alexander 6. a naturall Spaniard borne at Valencia was so abhominable and shamelesse that his papistes themselues doe openly speake it Panuinus an Augustine Friar vpon his life and not without cause saith filthie thinges of him and albeit he said much euill of him yet left he much vnsaid He saith then that Alexander aided by certaine Cardinals corrupted with blind ambition and auarice a good beginning attained to such great dignitie who afterwardes perceiuing the great vnfaithfulnesse of this vngratfull Pope receiued the Chastisement for selling of their suffrages that their seruice deserued the chiefe of these Cardinals was Ascanius Esforcia who sold it for great giftes and promises which Alexander made and principally that Alexander promised he should be his Chauncellor which office very few yeares he enioyed The rest suffered moreouer great misery and calamities some liued in banishment others were imprisoned others violently murthered And that moreouer which of him writeth the forenamed Panuinus among other things he saith Some fathers there were in that election which prophesied and were not false Prophets that a Spaniard was foolishly chosen who was a man that would smother wickednes a great dissembler and one that in the end would be a totall reine to all c. The olde Spanish prouerb in these miserable Cardinals is verified Plaze la traycion mas no eltraydor The treason pleaseth but not the Traytor Ieronymus Marius in his Eusebius speaking of this Pope saith who can reckon the foule neuer heard of deeds of Alexander 6. He made a couenant with the deuils He gaue deliuered himself wholly vnto them So that by their meanes and artes he might attaine to the Popedome which when the diuels had promised and performed so holily Alexander ordered his life that he neuer attempted to doe any thing but first he consulted thereof with the diuell In the 1500. yeare he graunted the Iubile not to such onely as should come to Rome but also to those that would not or could not come thither prouided that they gaue a certaine summe of money Pope Boniface 8. in the 1300. yeare graunted the Iubile from 100 yeares to 100 yeares Pope Clement 6. in the 1350 yeare graunted it from 50 yeares to 50. yeares Pope Sistus 4. in the 1475. yeare graunted the fame from 25 yeares to 25 yeares But it benefited him nothing if he came not personally to Rome Our Alexander moued with that spirit that made him Pope did grant it not to those onely which should come to Rome but to those also that abode at home conditionally to giue money as before we haue said And seeing we now intreat of the Iubile it shal be good to recite here the ceremony which is vsed in Rome Among many other Churches which are in Rome seuen principall there are where pardons are obteyned euery one of these seuen Churches hath one gate or wall at the least fast closed so that none can goe in nor out thereby but in the yeare of Iubâ—le The Pope set in a chaire borne on mens shoulders and clothed with red goeth to S. Peters the principall Church there And being brought to this shut gate saith the 9. verse of Psal 24. Atollite portas principes vestras ' c. Lift vp your heads ye gates c. this saying with a golden hammer which he holdeth in his hand he giueth a blow at the blow giuing in a moment the earth bricke morter which
that he was poysoned with yoyson which Alexander caused to be giuen him This is he that to mainetaine his tyranny called the great Turke aforenamed against the king of France wherein he gaue example to Frauncis of Fraunce to call afterwardes the Turke against our king Don Charles the Emperour This is he which commaunded both the handes and tongue of Antonius Mancinellus a most learned man to be cut off for an elegāt oratiō which he made against his abhominable customes most filthie life and not heard of villanies But God who is iust gaue him his hire And thus it was that being at a banket which he made to certaine Cardinals and Senatos of Rome of purpose to poyson them with the selfe same poyson that he poysoned Geme the Turkes brother withall the seruitors ill aduised mistaking one flaggon for another vnwillingly gaue drinke to the Pope of that flaggon wherein was the poyson and so after he had 11 yeares Poped he and some of the seruants and Cardinals in the 1503. yeare died In the time of this Pope and the 1499. yeare Ieronymus Sauanarola a Dominican that excellent preacher a man admirable in life and doctrin with other his companions was burned in Florence He maintained the communion in both kindes condemned Indulgences sharply reproued the wicked life and great carlesenesse of the Pope Cardinals and moreouer of all the Clergie in their office denyed the Popes supremacie taught that the keyes were not giuen to Peter onely but to the whole Church He said that the Pope followed neither the life nor doctrin of Christ seeing he attributed more to his indulgence trifling traditions then to the merit of Christ He affirmed that the Popes excommunications were not to be feared foretold some things which were to happen namely the destruction of Florencr Rome the restoring of the Church which in our time haue come to passe For this cause the Count Franciscus Picus Mirandula called him an holy Prophet and defended him by writing against the Pope Marcillius in a certaine Epistle and Philippus Comineus in his French Historie say that he had a propheticall spirit and many other learned men defended his Innocencie D. Illescas in the life of Alexander 6. speaking of Sauanarola saith these wordes Many opinions there were and yet wantes there not some which iudge of the iustification of this fact This onely resteth to referre the same to the Iudgement of God who knoweth the secret of all things I heard the most learned father and maister Friar Mancius of the order of Saint Dominicke say that he heard it affirmed of a faithfull witnesse and familiar of Bishop Remolinus which afterwardes was Cardinall that it repented the Bishop all his life time to haue pronounced this sentence And that for satisfaction thereof before God he fasted three daies in the weeke And verily who so readeth some spirituall things which he left vs in writing would not deeme them to proceede from an hypocriticall but a true religious man Hitherto Illescas In the time of this Alexander Don Fernando and Dona Isabella reigned in Spaine In whose time about the yeare of the Lord 1492. somwhat more or lesse sixe notable things hapned in Spaine The 1. the Pope was a Spaniar dthe 2. Grananda was won The 3. the discouerie of the Indies The 4. The inquisitiō of Spaine The 5. the holy brotherhood And the 6. the disease called Bubo Abhominable as we haue seene was the Spanish Pope Alexander neuer good but great mischiefe did he to Spaine or any land of the world The taking of Granada wrought great good vnto Spaine in freeing it from continuall wars slaughters betweene the Christians the Moores and in banishing out of all Spaine the false sect of Mahomet The discouerie of the Indies that being well considered hath done more hurt then good to the soules of the Spaniards that went thither Casaos the bishop who was an eie witnes a natural Spaniards wrote a booke of the cruelties of the Spaniards towards the poore Indians would God those which went thither had had more zeale to teach augment the holy catholike faith conteyned in holy scripture then to enrich thē selues and for the enriching of themselues to murther and on all sides robbe as they say that simple people which had reasonable soules aswell as we and for whom Christ also dyed The Indians as Augustine de çarate complayning reporteth in his Historie of Peru said that the Spaniardes tooke from them their Idols and gaue them the Idols or Images of Spaine crosses the Virgin Marie c. to worship They said that the Spaniardes had taken from them their many wiues telling them that the lawe of Iesus Christ permitted but one onely wife and tooke them for themselues Had they taught them to worship God in spirit and truth as he saith that he will be worshiped no mention at all had beene made of Idols or Images seeing that God in the second commaundement of his holy law forbideth them And chiefly the Indians being so addicted to Idolatrie If the law of Christ permit but one only wife according to the first institution of mariage wherefore kept our Spaniardes many whores and concubines What manner of Doctrine was this If the blind leade the blind both fall into the ditch The which to our Spaniards and their Indians hath hapned God send them better teachers Of good zeale and intention was the Inquisition ordeyned and after some it was ordeyned before the warres of Granada by the same Don Fernando whiles Sistus Poped But be it as it was In the time of Alexander the fixt and after the wiuing of Granada was it trulie executed Then commanded king Don Fernando that all the Iewes should be Baptised which would liue in Spaine or otherwise depart and so as saith Sabellicus departed a hundred and twentie thousand The Inquisition then was instituted to teach the Christian religion to Iewes and Moores which were turned Christians and yet secretly returned to their olde customes But hauing now almost ceased with the Iewes and Moores from day to day hath it done more and more tiranny against the faithfull Catholique and true Christians who detesting Popish Idolatrie and vaine supersticions confesse that only God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost is in spirit and trueth to be worshipped Their manner or teaching them whome they suppose to erre is iniuries disgraces tortures whippinges and euill life Sanbenitos galleies perpetuall imprisonmentes and in the end Fier wherewith they burne those whom God by his mercie maketh constant in the confession of his sonne Christ Iesus Who so listeth to see the craftes deceites stratagemes and cruelties which the Lord Inquisitors or to speake better Inquinators of the faith vse with the poore sheepe of Iesus Christ appointed to the slaughter or furnace let him reade the booke intituled Inquisitio Hispanica translated into
ordinariely see in such like places c. And vppon the life of Benedict the eight saith the same Illescas That it should not be amisse for the prelates to commaund that none remayne by night in such like hermitages for many wicked thinges which are there committed should be excused c. This Iulius with his hoste vpon a time issuing out of Rome hurled the keyes of Saint Peter into the riuer Tyber saying Sith the keyes of Peter are now of no force et the sword of Paule preuayle and so drewe he the sword out of the scaberd For like a good captaine he carried the sword at his side Vppon this so notable a deede many Poetts made verses of which I will recite fower that declare the Historie Inde manustrictum vagina diripit ensem Exclamansque truci talia voce refert Hic gladius Pauli nos nunc defendet ab hoste Quando quidem clauis nil iuuat ista Petri. From scaberd then his naked sword he drew Exclaming with cruell voyce he said This sword of Paul shall make our foes to rew Sith Peters keyes nought serue vs for our ayd What religion had this Pope that so shamelesly mocked with Saint Peter and Saint Paule When hee was made Pope he promised that with an othe that within 2 yeares he would hold a Councell Of this oath maketh mention Friar Bartholmew Carrança speaking of the Lateran Councell that in the time of this Iulius was holden But when the 2 yeares yeares yeares more passed and no hope of a Councell was seene the Pope being far of from any such matter for that the Councels are too bitter purges for the Popes as before in the CouÌ„cels of Pisa Constance and Basile we haue seene 9 Cardinals whereof Barnardino Carauaiall a Spaniard was one together with the procurators of Maximilian the Emperour and of Lewes 12 king of France assembled at Millan and nominated Pisa for the Councel to be holden which should begin the first day of September in the 1511 yeare The causes that moued them so to doe were that the Pope had broken the othe which hee had made sith so many yeares passed yet made he no showe of a CouÌ„cel therfore to accuse the Pope of enormious offences had they called a Councell Their purpose was to depriue him of his Popedome where vnto he had aspired through ambition and bribes But Iulius vnderstanding hereof commaunded vnder a greiuous paine that no person of what condition or estate soeuer should goe to Pisa and that nothing of that should be obeyed which those of Pisa decreed ordeyned and nominated Rome for the celebration of a Councell the yeare following which was to begin the 9. of Aprill 1512. At this time liued in Padua Philipus Decius an excellent lawer who by writing defended against the Pope the cause of these Cardinals When the king of France perceiued that the Pope had ioyned with the Venecians to make war with him he called a Councell at Tours and there propounded these 5 questions whether it were lawfull for the Pope to moue warres and that causelesse against any Prince whether such a Prince defending his countrie might set vppon him that had inuaded him and depart from his obedience It was answered that it is not lawfull for the Pope to moue warres c. and that it is lawfull for such a Prince in defence of himselfe to doe that a foresaid and that for the kingdome of France the law pragmaticall ought to be obserued That no account was to bee made of the Popes censures and excommunications if then hee should passe them The King receiuing this answere sent it to the Pope praying him eyther to be content with a peace or else to call a generall Councell purposely to examine and determine this busines but the Pope admitted neither the one nor the other This wretched Iulius as some authors report was reputed for a great Sodomite Queen Anne of France say they sent 2 youthes to Cardinal Robertus Nanetensis to be instructed whom the Pope abused the like report another author maketh of an Almaine youth great Lord with whom he committed the like wickednesse These be things which neither honest pen ought to write nor chast eares to heare yet is it needfull to discouer the shames of the Roman Courte that Spaine thereby be no longer deceiued And for this pardon mee good Christian reader Albeit that such a one was Iulius yet wanted he not those that did extoll him for very Godly wise prudent and a man of Counsell Woe vnto you that call euill good and good euill When Iulius had Poped 10. yeares in the 1513. yeare he dyed In whose time died also Dona Isabella Queene and in her place Dona Iane her daughter which married with Don Phillip of Austra sonne of Maximilian the Emperor reigned And so the low countries were ioyned with Spaine Leo 10. a Florentine was of his owne nature quiet and gentle but leauing himselfe to be ruled by vnquiet and cruell men he suffered many Insolencies to be commited Much giuen he was to Idlenes pleasure taking and carnall delights many bastards he had whom he greatly enriched making them Dukes and mightie Lords and marrying them with great Ladies At the age of 13 yeares was this Leo made Cardinal what age was this to be a pillar of the Church At this CoronatioÌ„ were made most great feasts which should be long to recount Aboue 100000 duckets they affirme were cast among the people as saith D. Illescas vpon the life of Leo c. Leo 10. at one time created 13 Cardinals among whoÌ„ he would make Raphaell Vrbinas a most excelleÌ„t painter that this way he might recoÌ„peÌ„ce the great sum of money which he owed him for his picturs See here wherfore the hats doe serue yet is this to be passed ouer for they are wontedly giueÌ„ for other abhominatioÌ„s Liberal he was in granting of IndulgeÌ„ces much more in taking money for them to enrich his children In the 1515. yeare Leo graunted a Iubile to Fraâ—ucis king of France which Iubile passed also into many other prouinces The comissares Echacueruos deceiuers did preach that whosoeuer would giue the summe of money which was taxed should draw one what soule he would out of Purgatorie They said that God according to the promise made to S. Peter whatsoeuer thou looseston earth shal be loosed in heauen would doe all whatsoeuer they would But not a farthing said they must be wanting of that which was taxed They pardoned those that tooke this Iubile for thinges done and to bee done which gayne as they said displeased many Godly and learned and so they began to debate the question of the authoritie and power of the Pope Which question was the ruine of the Popedome Martin Luther among others opposed himselfe to these Insolent Pardons and preached against them in Almaigne as saith Bartholomew Carança a
dominican Friar whose wordes be these In the time of Leo 1â— Martin Luther an arch heretique arose vp in Germany who first preached and wrote against the Indulgences of the Pope afterwards against the Primacy of the Roman Church then against constraned single life and other rites and customes of the ancient Church Carança our aduersarie doth herein witnesse what was the cause that moued Luther to speak against the Church of Rome Who listeth to know this let him read Sleidons Historie Eckius tooke part with the Pope and Luther and Eckius in the pulpits preached the one against the other When Leo 10. heard of these rufflings he condemned Luther for an heretike which condemnation vnderstood by Luther he apealed to the first General CouÌ„cel wherin he did imitate the vniuersitie of Paris which a few moneths before had appealed froÌ„ the same Leo to the CouÌ„cel In Rome Leo caused Luthers bookes to be burned which when Luther vnderstood he burned in Wittenberg the Cannon Law which is the decretals and Popish decrees saying as they haue done vnto mee So haue I also done vnto them VVho will not wonder and be astonished at so great a courage and daring boldnesse that a poore begging Augustine Friar should dare to doe such a disgrace and to giue such a blowe and to whom thinkest thou to the Pope Was not the Pope he whom in times past the potentates Princes kinges and Emperours fell prostrate vnto and worshiped How commeth it then to passe that a meane man of no esteme gaue him such a blow that hee left him for dead Not Luther but God it was that chooseth the low thinges to confound the most high Tâ—e stinke of the villainies and abhominations of the Popes Clergie was gone vp to heauen now were the iniquities of the Amorites come to their height And God cast downe the pride of the Pope a second Lucyfer God gaue vs the grace that acknowledging such a benifit we may be thankfull and in holines and righteousnes serue him all the dayes of our life By this meanes hath God brought vs out of darkenesse into light and out of thralldome into libertie And Luther not content here with came to Wormes or Wormacia where Charles the Emperour held his first Dyet presenting himself before the Emperour so many Papists as were with him he disputed mainteined his cause and in the end departed the Emperour better keeping promise with him then it had formerly bene kept with Iohn Hus and Ierom of Prage in the Councell of Constance One thing here I cannot leaue to speake of that Luther going to wormes his friend aduised him in the way before they came at wormes to beware of going thither because they would doe to him as they had done to his bookes which they had burned Whereunto Luther with great courage answered that albeit he knew there were so many diuels against him in Wormes as there were tyles vppon the houses yet for all that would he not let to appeare there and giue account of his faith in so solemne an assembly And so he dyed In the 1522. yeare Leo 10 hearing that the Frenchmen by the Imperialls were vanquished slaine taken and cast out of Italy and that through his assistance died by his excessiue ioy and laughter his soule departed from him but of poyson that they gaue him as Panuinus supposeth An Atheist he was thought there was after this life neither heauen nor hell And so he died without receiuing the sacraments He could not saith Sanazaro receiued them because he had sold them And so almost no chiefe bishop as noteth Panuinus vpon the life of Pius 4 receiued them His Atheisme plainely appeared by an answere which he made to Cardinall Bembus who had alleaged vnto him a passage of the Gospell Whereunto in these wordes he dissolutly aÌ„swered what profit this fable of Christ hath brought to vs and our company All the world knoweth Leo by this answere well shewed himselfe to be Antichrist Obey him then Spaine and hold him for Chists vicar Paulus Iouius wrote the life of Leo 10. where among other thinges he saith these words Leo had also an euill report because it apeared that he affected vnhonestly some of his chamberlaines which were of the greatest nobles of all Italic hartely and freely played with them It is not Luther his enemie that saith this against him but his friend an Italian and Bishop Paulus Iouius Albeit that such a one was Leo as the historians of his time doe paint him yet so great is the flattery of D. Illescas that vpon his life ¶ 12. these words of him he saith After that he came to the Bishopdome his care was alwaies to eate litle of meats but meanely hot because they should not prouoke him to dishonesty Hither to Illescas In the time of this Leo Charles the Emprour reigned in Spaine Adrian 6. a Hollander was tutor to Don Charles the Emperonr and by his meanes came to be bishop of Tortosa Cardinall and ioyntly with Don Francisco Zimenes Archbishop of Toledo gouernour of Spaine being resident in Spaine after the death of Pope Leo was in his absence elected when he was Pope he promised to the princes by his letter to cause the court of Rome which had giuen occasion of commiting great wickednesse to be first of all reformed amended to the end that that which had giuen cause of the malady should giue also the beginning of the medicine health but all was but words For Adrian following the steps of his predecessor the Antichrist of Rome gaue himselfe to persecute Luther Ecolampadius other godly ministers of the word of God He changed not his name nor yet in customes life was so wicked as the other Popes for not being so wicked many say he was dispatched with poyson in the 1523. yeare dyed In whose time Don Charles the Emperour reigned in Spaine Clement 7. or as after some others 8. or 9. for the cause we haue spoken of in the life of the other Clement 7. Florentine was nephew or as others say the sonne of Pope Leo 10. Panuinus saith he was the sonne of Iulianus de medices and of another not certenly or manifestly his lawfull wife D. Illescas vpon the life of this Clement ¶ 5. saith It is a thing much to be noted that Clement hauing all his life time bene most liberall and a spender here with al affable and well spoken exceeding discreet and a great Negociator when he came to be Pope he was not knowne for he wholly changed his conditions and became most sparing and remisse So great is the change which dignities honours doe often make c. In the time of this Clement was great war betweene the Spaniards and French which this Clement did much kindle to his owne shame and Infamie And this by his vnconstancie for now
beautifull who not contented to be Lutherans were teachers of that cursed doctrin c. And alittle after Al the prisoners were of Valladolid Seuill and Toledo persons sufficiently qualified c. And so many such they were that it was thought if they had two or three moneths more slacked to remedy this mischiefe all Spaine would haue burned and we should haue come to the most bitter mischaunce that euer was seene therein Hitherto D. Illescas Whereof we will conclude that God hath reuealed the light of his Gospel in Spaine to learned people and people of renowne famous noble He will shew like mercy when he pleaseth to the vulgar and common sort When they see in Spaine a man well lettered and learned then say they Que es tan docto que està en peligro de ser Luthrano he is so learned that he is in danger to become a Lutheran And there is not almost any noble house in Spaine that hath not had in it some one or more of the reformed religioÌ„ His maiestie for his Christs sake our redeemer increase the nomber for his glory the confusion of Antichrist But returning to Paul 4. In August and the 1559. yeare after he had poped 4 yeres and almost three moneths he died The seat was voyd 4 moneths 7 dayes Don Phillip 2. being king of Spaine Pius 4. a Millanist was not much liked nor loued of his predecessor Paul 4. which Paul in the consistorie did publish openly speake against him saying that by euill meanes he had procured the Archbishoprick of Milan Then Pius knowing the dislike of Paule 4. against him departed from Rome thence was absent all the time that Paule the fourth Poped But when Paule was dead and he chosen after great discord and foure moneths 7 dayes that the sea was vacant he reuenged himselfe of him For many things which Paul had commanded did Pius countermaund so pronouncing Don Charles the Emperour Don Phillip his son kings of Spaine innocent and faultlesse he absouled them of all whatsoeuer Paule 4. had obiected against them He confirmed the resignement of the Empire made by Don Charles to FerdinaÌ„do his brother which Paul whiles he liued neither would approue nor coÌ„firme To master Antonius Columna he restored his patrimony whereof Paul had depriued him many otherlike thinges he did in despite of his predecessor Paul 4. by Panuinus vpon his life recited The same Panuinus of Pius 4. saith that when he was Bishop he became another man entertaining other customes maners not better but worse For he which till then was holden curteous pacient a well doer gentle and not couetous suddaynely seemed to haue changed his nature Such is the seat papall that he which once sitteth therein albeit before he were not euill becometh euill And if he were euill becometh worse and in the end most euill as to this Pius 4. it happened The same Panuinus saith that Pius had no grauitie either in countenance gate or gestures that more scoffing he was then beseemed the maiestie which he represented of him saith he that whiles he liued without charge he was of good life reputation and whiles also he had charge vnder the high bishops his predecessors When he was Pope great shewes he gaue of a good Bishop insomuch that he held the Councell of Trent note the hypocrisie whiles the Councell continewed he fayned to be good but the Councell once ended Pius vsing great libertie did many thinges that pleased not all men And a little lower Pius was a glutton and swillar but chiefly in eating for at supper he exceeded Giuen he was to delights and pleasure he was openly collerique enuious he was but in secret impatient to heare In his answeres sometime hard and bitter ambitious to commaund crafty a fayner and distembler When he saâ—â—e it needefull fearefull but bould in dissembling his feare and ill be loued Panuinus his friend all this and yet much more saith of him Albeit true it is that as a Parasite of the Popes much good he saith of him also But what vertues could possesse a man subiect to such manifest and enormious sinnes He had saith he a singular memorie and so could aptly and suddenly recite the whole volume of the auncient lawyers Poets and Historians but not of the Bible which I suppose he neuer read for by his profession he was not a diuine but a lawyer of him saith he also that at the handes of Cardinall Borromeo his nephewe and sisters sonne with great deuotion he receiued all the Sacraments of the Church the which to my knowledge we doe not read saith the same Panuinus to haue happened to any of the chiefe Bishops Doctour Illeâ—cas speaking of Pascall 2. saith That hauing first receiued the holy sacraments he died Of the other Popes I doe not remember that he saith any such thing The reason is as saith Sanazaro speaking of Leo 10. that the Popes being great Simonists haue sould the Sacraments and so not kept them for themselues Or to speake better the cause is that the Popes hold and say in their harts there is no God and so in the time of sicknes and at poynt to die they make no esteeme of the sacraments or Christian religion but die like swine This Pope Pius 4. ordeyned a confession of faith which all they should make that were to be Bishops the which in his life Panuinus placeth This confession is a summary of all the ignorances supersticions and Idolatries of the Antichristianisme or papisme This Popes whole study was by right or wrong to get money and whereof he had store which vpon his kindred friends buyldings Whereunto he was much inclined he wasted In the 1565. yeare after he had Poped almost six yeares he dyed as in Rome went the common voyce and fame in the armes of his minion which is not much out of square sith Panuinus his friend of him saith that he was giuen to delightes and pleasures and as saith the same Panuinus he procured his owne death Morbo ex victus intemperancia hausto to wit by disorder in eating and glutting whose belly was his God our king Don Phillip 2. then reigning in Spaine In the time of this Pius 4. and the 1563. yeare a thing very strange happened in Seuill the which had it proceeded further the Inquisitors bene a little more carelesse so likely it had brought the whole papasie to the ground else should it at the least haue receiued some notable damage The matter is this In Seuill where some more curious then was mete for the papasie which of the priests and Friars complained bitterly to the Inquisitors because they abused confession as others also afore time had abused it in courting and making loue to honest matrons and damsels and for such end moreouer as such beginnings accustomably succeede The holy office thought meete that such confessors should be
encountered the Inquisitor when he saw him he coÌ„manded his seruant with a good cudgell which he carried to abate the fearcenes of the vnhappy Pereto Infâ—â—lix being thus cudgelled returned to Rome and recounted his mischaunce to Pope Pius 4. very much complayning vpon the Magnifico The Pope hereat disdayning sent him backe to Venice with much more authoritie power then before When Felix was returned vnto Venice he presented his coÌ„omission to the Segniory The Segniory being wise prudent knowing the quarrilous humor of this man wel perceiuing that he came with a desire to reuenge commanded a wax candle to be kindled and Felix if he were wise precisely to depart their dominion and iurisdiction before that candle were consumed This Infoelix vnable to doe otherwise returned eftsoones to Rome complained to the Pope The Pope seeing this man meete for his seruice made him maister of his Pallace After this when the Spanish Inquisition of all men how high soeuer feared liked of none held the Archbishop of Toledo for suspected of heresie the Pope sent Felix into Spaine to heare this cause The General of the FranciscaÌ„s the chiefe dignitie among them now happened to die This dignitie gaue the Pope to Felix whom a few yeares after the same Pope made Cardinall In conclusion when Gregorie 13 was dead Felix by meanes of his good friends in Spaine was made Pope and called himselfe Sistus 5. This name he tooke in memorie of Sistus 4. who was as was he a Franciscan Friar So abhominable truly are the thinges read of this Sistus 4. that their memorie with him deserueth to be buried in hell and perpetuall obliuion Read his life which we haue culled out of diuers authors Notwithstanding all this would Felix be called Sistus 5. because he thought to be another and yet worse then Sistus 4. When he was Pope as though in himselfe his Romane court his Rome his Babilon which for her customes is the mother of all fornications and more then beastly abhominations and for Doctrine the schoole of error and Temple of heresie said her renowned Petrarque now 200 yeares past nothing there were to be corrected or amended he gaue himselfe I say as though in his owne house he had nothing to doe to seeke to correct after his maner to entermedle in the houses of others And so by all possible wayes deceites crafts treason and violence he practized to disturbe the quiet and happinesse of the kingdome of England suborning and animating most wicked men and abhominable traitors promising them that which he neither had for himselfe nor could giue to others at least the kingdome of heauen if they should murder the most illustrious Queene of England who for forty yeares space with so great peace clemencie most prudently hath gouerned her kingdome In which time with temporal riches abundance of bodily necessaries with spiritual riches which is the preaching of the Gospel hath God blessed this kingdome From all these treasons God as a most mercifull father maugre Antichrist of Rome hath deliuered the Queene Let the Pope then burst for anger So also hath this Pope opposed himselfe to the most illustrious king of Nauarre and his first brother the prince of Conde cursing and depriuing them of all whatsoeuer they had and were to haue and chiefly of the vndoubted right which for waÌ„t of right heire male hath the king of Nauarre to the crowne of France God for his infinit goodnes haue mercy on his poore Church which this Antichrist in these princes doth persecute Arise Lord put to flight thine enemies break the hornes of this beast that he doe no more harme to thy poore children hasten to destroy Antichrist with the spirit of thy mouth with the preaching of the Gospel The God of peace beate downe Sathan that speedely vnder our feete and exalt his sonne Christ Iesus subiecting al things vnder his feete placeing him aboue all things for head of his Church which is his body he the fulnes thereof which filleth al things in al persons This most ChristiaÌ„ prince of Conde whom Sistus 5. baÌ„ned in the 1588 yeare died of poyson In the same yeare did Henry 3. K. of France cause the Duke of Guise to be slaine another day the Cardinal brother to the Guise the cause was for that the Duke had coÌ„spired to kil the king vsurpe the kingdom Shortly after but of her natural death died also the mother of the king The death of the Duke of Guise of his brother caused many the most principall cities of of FraÌ„ce as Paris Roan Lyons Tholous others to rebell against the king The yeare following which was the 1589 the king came vpon Paris and besieged it straightly The Parisians seing themselues in that estate resolued of no other remedy for deliuerance froÌ„ their present miserie but to kill the king To him that would kill him did they promise great rewards so there wanted not some desperate persons which offered to doe it Amongst al these was a Dominican Friar called Clement before the rest preferred aman vnlearned of little honesty for such a one had ofteÌ„ bene chastised with the discipline of the couent To the kings campe came he fayning busines to deal with the king of most great importance The king in affection much inclined to these Friars coÌ„maÌ„ded he should come in The Friar being entered kneeled on his knees befor the king the king who was sitting the better to heare him somewhat dubled his body The cursed Sinon then drawing a poysoned knife which he had brought for that purpose thrust it into the bowels of the king The king feeling himselfe wounded cried out to the crie ranne many who stabbed and killed this vnmercifull Clement albeit the king commaunded they should not kil him This wound of the king caused sadnes and sorrow in the kings campe contrariwise great mirth amongst the enemies who instantly demanded aloud if the Friars knife were sharp enough The king after he had appointed the king of Nauarre his brother in law called Henry 4. who was the neerest in bloud for his successor the night following died When newes of the kings death came to Rome Pope Sistus 5. made a solemne Oration in the concistorie of Cardinals the 11. of September 1589. where he not only compared the treason of this cursed Dominick with the act of Eleazar and of Iudith but said also it surpasseth them Of Eleazar is made mention 1. Macha 6. who seing an Elephant more mighty then the rest armed with the armes of the king supposing that king Antiochus was vpon him to deliuer his people and purchace eternall glorie he aduentured himself ran couragiously to the EelephaÌ„t through the middest of the squadron killing on the right hand and on the left and all sides throwing downe vntill he came vnder the Elephant and placing himselfe vnder him slew him the
shall it be if Christ in the end be not wroth with thee founded in chast and humble pouertie liftest thou vp thy hornes against thy founders Shamelesse strumpet where hast thou put thy trust In thine adulteries in so great abundance of euill gotten riches c. If Petrarch 260 yeares and more sithens with great reason and truth said this against the Pope and his Court papall what shall be said now when the malice tyranny vngodlinesse and idolatrie of the Pope and his court are come to the height Danter an Author more ancient then Petrarch and Bocace of the same time with Petrarch as litle flattred the Pope other things as much as Petrarch say they Dante in his 7. song of hell accuseth the Pope of couetousnesse In the 11. song and 6. circle he accuseth him of heresie In the 15. song he accuseth him of sodomie And in the 19. he accuseth him of simonie These bee the foure cardinall vertues which are found in the Popes Couetousnesse heresie sodomie and simonie Bocace in the second Nouell of the Iornada of his Decameron in the name of a Iew called Abraham saith that generally all the Court of Rome from the greatest to the least dishonestly sinned in the sinne of whoredome and not naturally onely but also sodomitically without any bridle without any remorse of conscience or shame c. They haue not saith he either holinesse deuotion or good works c. And in manie other places doth he the same These three Dante Petrarch and Botace bee ancient writers Italians and fathers of the Italian tongue and well experienced in the affaires of the Pope and his Court Sanazaro the most excellent Italian Poet of our times speaking of the Pope thus saith in his Epigrams In vaticano noster latet hunc tamen alto Christe vides coelo proh dolor pateris To wit In the Vaticano which is the pallace of Saint Peter in Rome our Barbarian lieth hid but yet thou Christ from the high heauen beholdest him ah griefe doest thou suffer him What more could Luther or Caluin or the rest of the late writers which haue written against the Pope and his Romish court say then these his Italians haue said Petrarch calleth it wicked Babylon mother of errors he wisheth fire to fall from heauen and consume it such abhominations had seene therein he calleth it a neast of treasons c. gluttonous and luxurious God cannot saith he longer be patient with her c. Idols he saith shall be throwne to the ground c. Hee calleth her the fountaine of griefe harbour of wrath schoole of errours temple of heresies c. Behold if the Pope may erre in faith And it is to be noted that Pope Pius the fifth as in his life wee haue said hath spunged all these places by vs alleaged out of Petrarch and Bocace The cause is least men should know their wickednesse abominations and impieties but may hold him for holy and for God vpon earth Great shame was it for the Pope that so famous Italian Authours that Italian books and printed in Italy should so roundly tell the wickednesse of him his About the 1430. yeare liued Thomas Rendon a Carmelite of whom in the life of Eugenius the fourth we haue before made mention He said in his sermons which in Italy France he preached that in Rome were committed great abhominations c. For which cause Pope Eugenius 4. did cause him to be burned in Rome Aboue a hundred yeares is it sithens Laurencius Valla Patricius a Roman opposed himselfe to the Pope and called Rome Babylon for which cause he was banished but the king of Naples receiued and very honorably entertained him Ieronymus Sauanarola a Dominican Friar preached in Italy the Pope to be Antichrist c. For this that our cursed Spanish beast Alexander 6. as in the life of this Alexander 6. we haue said did cause him in Florence most cruelly to be burned Within these 80 yeares space haue bene infinite numbers that in Almaine France Italy England yea in Spaine and other nations also haue written against the Pope and his Popish doctrine let their workes be read and their reasons agreeing with the word of God considered which is the true and onely squire rule whereby euery life and doctrine ought to bee ruled and confirmed Returne we now to the Primacie which the Pope as another Diotrephes of whom speaketh S. Iohn in his 3. catholike Epistle loueth to hold and so doth vsurpe it A history wrote S. Augustine very wel declaring the equality which hath the Bishop of Rome with other Bishops Donatus saith S. Augustine de casas negras of whom the Donatists take their name had grieuously accused Cecilianus Archbishop of Carthage Constātine the Emperour the cause being simply ecclesiasticall committed the same to Miltiades Bishop of Rome other certaine Bishops of Italy France and Spaine Had there bene ordinarie iurisdiction no commission from the Emperour nor to appoint him associates had bene needfull But listen a litle Donatus was condemned by them aboue named who seeing himself condemned appealed to the Emperour the Emperour remitted the appeale to the Archbishop of Areletum either to allow or disallow of the sentence which the Bishop of Rome and his associates had giuen Where then was the Primacie of the Pope his iurisdiction his sentence without any appellation his knowledge hearing of all appeales his fulnesse of power whereof he so much glorieth And the Emperor wil they not say was an infidel or tyrant for it was Constantine the Great who by their owne reckoning spoiled himself of a good part of the Empire to giue it vnto them That Constantine the Great appointed Miltiades iointly with the rest for Iudge to heare the cause of Cecilianus Onuphrius Panuinus in his note vpon Platina in rhe life of Miltiades doth witnesse the same and confirmes it with Optatus Mileuitanus in his first booke and with that which saith Eusebius in the tenth booke and fift chap. of his ecclesiasticall historie But Panuinus as a Flatterer of the pope maketh no mention of the appeale we haue spoken of because it impeached the authoritie which the Popes haue vsurped As touching the calling of the Councels the Emperours called the General the Patriarks and Metropolitans called the Nationall or prouincial Councels The Patriarkes and not the Bishop of Rome did gouerne in the Councels which they held in their Patriarkedomes for all being equall and vnder one head Christ the Bishop of Rome did not exceede them either in dignity or power So saith Athanasius writing to Liberius Bishop of Rome All the Apostles saith he in honour and power be equall Saint Cyprian likewise more ancient then Athanasius There is not saith he but one bishopricke through the world wherof euery bishop holdeth his part Also that none in his time was called or made Bishop of Bishops nor had by
tyranny subiected his companions to obey him Also he complaineth that the prophane Sismatikes withdrew themselues to the Bishop of Rome There was none saith he that would doe this but certaine lost and desperate men making men beleeue that the Bishops of Affrike had lesse authoritie thē he of Rome S. Ierome to this selfe same purpose saith Wheresoeuer a Bishop shal be be it in Rome or in Egubium be it in Constantinople or in Regium one selfe same dignity he hath and one selfsame priesthood riches nor pouertie either make him superiour or inferior And so the ancient Doctors as Ireneus Tertullian Hillarius Cyprian c. when they wrote to the Bishop of Rome they gaue him not the glorious titles which the flatterers of our times now giue him Most holy father most blessed Pope chiefe Bishop our Lord God vpon earth they called him brother fellow Bishop companion in office other such like titles which sauored of loue Christian simplicitie not of flattery pride wherewith the miserable Popes are puffed vp rest much contēted And if it seemed to those Fathers that the Bishop of Rome countermāded or in any thing faulted seeing he was a man either in life or doctrine they aduised him if need so required reproued him Thus not once by chance but many times that very sharply did Cyprian handle Stephen Bishop of Rome Ireneus reproued Victor for that through an impudent ambition he excōmunicated the Churches of Asia for the differēce in celebration of Easter Who should now dare to do this albeit the Pope were another Iohn 8. 12. 13. 14. 23. or 24. or were he another Boniface 8. another Syluester 2. another Gregory 7. another Alexander 6 Paule 3. 4. or Pius the fift By diuine law all Bishops are equall and so as brothers are to aduise and correct one another If any difference there bee of Maioritie or Minoritie by positiue lawe it commeth as the Cannonists themselues when the truth doth inforce thē confesse saying Quod omnis maioritas minoritas etiam Papatus est de iure positiuo That all maioritie and minoritie yea the verie Popedome it selfe is by the positiue law as much to say that men haue made it And yet go I further The maiority say I which the Pope hath vsurped ouer all the Churches being against the Lambe of the Apocalyps and against his Saints is not by diuine nor yet humane law I say it is de iure diabolico of the diuell that it is an infernall tyranny against which all the world is to rise vp as against a fire and generall burning which toucheth euery particular person Note here that which in the life of Iohn 24. we haue noted where the Pope by a decree of the Councell of Constance and Basile is proued to be subiect to the Councell and that more ouer which there we haue said Not bluntly and foolishly as they say but with good reason me seemeth do I say this as by the sayings of the Fathers and decrees of ancient Councels we haue sufficiently proued the same And had there bene none to haue said it yet their proper life and doctrine which we haue in the beginning mentioned are most euident testimonies to confirme our sayings By their liues may each one see if of wilfull ignorance he become not blockish foolish and blind the Popes which haue bin bishops of Rome from Boniface the third who was a creature of Phocas the Emperour an adulterer murderer and tyrant vntil Clement 8. or 10. which now tyrannizeth to haue almost bene al noted read their histories of terrible enormious and wicked vices and sinnes Witches they haue bene murtherers ill beloued tumultuous troublers of common wealths and kingdomes seditious reuengefull brothellers simonists sodomites periured incestuous Nigromancers sacrilegious wicked without God without religion They then being such we conclude them not to be successors of Peter but of Iudas not to be vicars of Christ but of the Diuell and verie Antichrist But now for more confirmation of that which is said we will alleage certaine passages of holy Scripture which the Papists themselue vnderstand and interpret of Antichrist we will consider if that which the Scripture saith Antichrist shall do and say the Pope doth and saith And seeing that the doctrine and life of the Pope is the very same which the scripture doth say shal be that of Antichrist by the Papists owne confession will we conclude the Pope to be Antichrist The first passage is taken out of Daniel the 11. chapter which saith And the king shall doe what he list By king aswell in this place as chapter 8. 23. and 24. is ment Antiochus a great persecutor of the people of God This Antiochus was a figure of Antichrist which is the Pope Antiochus burned the Bible aduanced his God Mauzim forbad marriage made Idols of gold and siluer adorned them with rich ornaments c. and the same doth the Pope Daniell proceedeth He shall exalt and magnifie himselfe against all that is God and shall speake marueylous thinges against the God of Gods and shall prosper till the wrath be accomplished for the determination is made Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers nor the desires of women nor care for any God for he shal magnifie himselfe against all c. Note here in Daniel 3. notable markes which saith he Antichrist shall haue In whomsoeuer then we shall see them hold we him for Antichrist The 1. is that he shall not acknowledge the God of his fathers 2. is that he shall not regard the loue of women 3. nor care for any God The cause of all this saith he is the excessiue pride The Pope being of the race of Christians which haue worshipped the true God father of our Lord Iesus Christ hath brought into the Church of God where he holdeth his seat Idolatrie and superstition commaunding men in afflictiō calamitie to inuocate another others then God contrary to the expresse cōmandemēt of God Thou shalt haue no other Gods before me and contrary to that which he commaundeth by his Prophet Call vpon me in the day of trouble There is no commaundement of God either in the old or new Testament that commaundeth vs to inuocate any other but God alone Neither is there any example of Patriarke Prophet or Apostle which hath called vpon any saue God alone For how shall they call vpon him in whom they haue not beleeued as saith Saint Paule In one onely God we beleeue vpon him onely let vs call This new Doctrine hath the Pope brought into the Church to call vpon others then God alone Therefore is he Antichrist Who hath forbidden Christians to reade the law of the Lord the bookes of the Prophets Apostles and Euangelists The Pope Who burneth these holy bookes and those that for instruction of their conscience read them The Pope Who hath taken vppon him authoritie
alwayes of long time before hath bene the common way to obteine the Popedome How often hereof complained Platina and the other writers of the liues of the Popes What shal be come of them that liued in the time of Sisme 30. Sismes as Onufrius Panuinus a most papisticall author noteth it haue bene in the Church A Sisme hath bene which 50. yeares endured For from Clement 7. vntil our Spanish Clement 8. renounced hauing poped foure yeares after that Benedict 13. a Spaniard also dyed in Spaine so many yeares passed What shall become of them that liued in the time that foure Popes Victor Alexander 3. Calistus 3 and Pascall in the time of the Emperour Frederiâ—ke Barbarossa were ioyntly together What shall become of those that in the time of 3. Popes Benedict 8. or 9. Siâ—â—ester 3. and Gregorie 6. liued And all they three at one instant held residence in Rome Benedict had his seat in the Palace of Lateran Siluester in S. Peters and Gregorie in Saint Maries the great But the Emperour Henry 3. deposed them all three Somewhat before the Councell of Constance was holâ—eÌ„ Gregorie 12. Benedict 13. Alexander 5. excommunicated one another In Rome was Gregorie made Pope Benedict in AuinoÌ„ Alexander in the CouÌ„cel of Pisa which of these 3. will they hold for Pope what shall become of them that in the time of the Pope Sergius 3. and of Pope Benedict 9. or after other 8 liued Each one of these 2 was 3 times Pope Read their liues These by force deuises bribes were made Popes But came others more strong more cunning in deuises and greater bribes cast theÌ„ forth but recouering strength they eftsonnes returned and cast out them that had cast them our This done the other againe reâ—uâ—ned and cast them out These the 3. time for the 3. â—ime was gotten the victorie returned to be Pope What shamefull heades of the Church of Iesus Christ bee these What shal become of them that in the time of vacations which long continewed and wherein were many dissentions and alteraâ—ions liued After the death of Clement 4. was the sea voyd two yeares 9 monethes and â— dayes After the death of Nicholâ—s 4. was the sea voyd 2 yeares 3 monethes 2 dayes After the death of Clement 5. was the sea voyd 2 yeares three monethes 17 dayes Marcelinus as saith D. Illescas being dead the seat of S. Peter was voyd 7 yeers a halfe 25 dayes And Illescas addeth that Damascus and many other authors affirme the same But Platina satih it was void 25 dayes In such times as these what was the Church How miserable was the state of a Christian if he could not be saued except he beleeued the Pope to be his head What should he do in the time of foure Popes of 3. of 2. In the time of heretike Popes Simonists and to passe ouer worse things whoremongers of so long vacatioÌ„s But most happie is the state of a good Catholique Christian Not vpon men but Christ his head is his faith founded He beleeueth that he caÌ„not die he beleeueth that he once died to destroy the sin of al those that beleeue in him but that being now set at the right hand of his father making intercession for vs he liueth eternally He himselfe is the chiefe Bishop and of such a one and not of the Pope haue we neede To Christ then be glory and Empire and to the Pope confusion and shame let al those which desire that the kingdome of God may come say ioyntly with me Amen so be it Willing now to conclude this Treatise of the Pope briefely wil we here set down by way of an appendix or addition some of the blasphemies which the Pope teacheth or commandeth to be taught for seldoÌ„e or neuer he either preacheth or readeth whereby may be vnderstood what is al his doctrine which he coÌ„mands vs to beleeue adore as if it were Gods word it selfe And woe to him that will not beleeue it to the fire he coÌ„deÌ„nes him for a dogge an heretike a LutheraÌ„ God haue mercy vpon theÌ„ open their eies This then is his doctrine that followeth The Roman Bishop is God Dist 96. cap. Satis and enidenter Baldo in L. vlti C. sentent rescin Decio in C. 1. de Constitut Felino in C. Ego N. de Iure iurando The Pope is not man Lib. 1. sexti de eloctione tit 6. cap. fundamentum in Glossatore The Pope neither is God nor man In prologo Clementinarum in Glossatore Wherein he appeareth to be very Antichrist because Christ is God and man It is lawfull for none to will or breake the commandements of the Sea Apostolique dist 20 ca. Nulli Item dist 12. 22. Whosoeuer obeieth not the statutes of the Pope is an heretike Ibid. in Glos He committeth Sacriledge which lieth to the Pope For he holdeth in earth the place of the liuing God De panitent dist 1. câ— Libenter ignosco The Pope is Bishop of all the world lib 5. sextica Foelicis in Gloss The Pope holdeth the principality of al the world lib. 3. sexti tit 16. cap. Periculoso No man dare say to the Pope Lord why doest thou so In Extrauag tom 22. tit 5. cap. Ad Apostolatus in Gloss 2. Decretal tit 7. cap. 5. Vide Glossam The Pope by these wordes thou art Peter or Feede my sheepe hath obteyned the primacy In Proaemio sexti in Gloss No man may iudge the Pope Caus 9. quest 2. ca. Nemo Item aliorum dist 40. ca. si Papa ca. 12 quest 2. ca. Quisquis in Gloss dist 50. ca. Non nos in Glossatore To none it is permitted to iudge of the iudgemeÌ„t giueÌ„ by the sea Apostolike nor reuoke his sentence ca. 17. quest 4. ca. Nemini The Pope dispenseth against the Apostle Dist 34. ca. Lector in Gloss dist 28 ca. Presbiter in Gloss caus 15. q. 6. ca. autoritatem in Glossatore The Pope hath a heauenly iudgement li. 1. Decret Grego tit 7. ca. Quinto The Pope can change the nature of things ibidem The Pope of nothing can make some thing ibidem The Pope his wil serueth for a reason in that he wil do ibidem The Pope can dispence with the law of God ibidem Of vnrighteousnes can the Pope make righteousnes ibidem The Pope holdeth the fulnesse of power ibidem How great a difference there is betweene the Sunne the Moone so great is it betweene the king and the high Bishop Lib. Decret Gregor tit 33. Solitae Those that are vniustly condemned ought to haue restitution by the Church of Rome and the oppressed succor Caus 2. quest 6. ca. Ideo And because Iesus Christ speaking of himself saith al power is giuen me of my father aswell in heauen as in earth The Romists here vpon conclude â—rgo the Pope absolutely commaundeth in heauen and in earth And for that God saith Daniel
king of kings and vnder the name of Pastor he sheweth himselfe a rauening Wolfe and vnder pretence to be S. Peters successor he declareth himselfe the follower of Iudas For as Iudas with a kisse fayned friendship betrayed his Lord so with fayned holinesse and outward ceremonies doth the Pope draw the common people into the chaines and snares of ignorance and superstitions The said title therefore which Christ gaue vnto Iudas Ioh. 17. 12. the Apostle giueth to Antichrist 2. Thess 2. 4. A contemner of mariage when he esteemes it a carnall estate and therefore with such seuerity forbiddeth it to his Clergie that although fornicators and adulterers can easily purchase absolution of their sinnes no pardon remaineth for the Clergie that mary according to the ordinance of God but the same is reputed and punished by the Pope for an vnpardonable sinne Albeit the holy scripture teacheth 1. Cor. 7. 9. That it is better to marry then to burne And Hebr. 13. 4. Marriage is honorable among all men Also 1. Timoth. 3. 2. Euery Bishop must be the husband of one wife Insatiable is the couetousnesse of the Pope and extendeth into all parts For money he pardoneth sinnes selleth ecclesiasticall functions maketh marchandize of his Bulles indulgences Iubilies Reliques Masses praiers and sacraments and compelleth the miserable people to buy his marchandize not on such dayes onely as other marchants vse to traffique but also and principally on the feast dayes the Lords dayes and Sabboths when other men rest And raketh together euery day in the yeare and of all sortes of people euen of the Iewes and Curtesans of Rome A tyrant he is and persecutor of Saints being the cause of the sheding of so much Christiā blood inciting kings princes to persecute such as contradict him and abandon his Idolatries and superstitions to serue God according to his will and word whom the Pope condemneth for heretiques to be burned and least they should speake putteth a gagge in their mouthes And to fill vp the measure of his crueltie he spareth not Emperours nor kings being the Lords Annointed when they refuse to execute his tyrannies as histories plainely witnesse A deceauer he is sundry waies because he deceaueth the common people with false doctrine and vaine promises with high titles and fayned holinesse with bulles Pardons false miracles and illusions of the diuell c. He is full of impietie because he pleaseth and delighteth himselfe not only in sinne but causeth others also to sinne because he hath depraued the worship of God with idolatrie the authoritie of kings with tyrany The common faith with deceit and the life of his Clergie with shame and filthinesse occasioned by constrayned single life To conclud in the kingdome of the Pope is the fountaine and spring af all abhominations and slaunder according to the old prouerbe The neerer to Rome the worse Christian So the neerer to Antichrist the further from Christ By these demonstrations it appeareth plainely that the Pope is Antichrist whom the Holy scripture hath foretold and by whom the Church of Christ hath so much suffered The second Treatise of the Masse and the holinesse thereof WE haue passed by the Lords assistance the Laborinthe not of Creete but of Rome of the Pope and his Roman Court another much worse and for more intricate troublesōe The Pope haue we proued to be a false Preist and very Antichrist to be the man of sin sonne of perdition to be that whereof whom speaketh S. Iohn in his Reuelation This haue we proued by his euil life wicked Doctrine by the sayings of Doctors and ancient Councels and by three notable passages of holy scripture Now will we shew the Masse which is the second pillar that supporteth and vpholdeth the Roman Church to be a false sacrifice an inuention of the diuell and a profanation of the holy supper which Iesus Christ our redeemer instituted And if such bee the Masse as we will proue it to bee it followeth that wee ought to flie and detest it and so doe we flie and abhorre it as a thing condemned and abhominable before the face of God This done wee will shewe by the Lordes assistance without which we can doe no thing that good is Iesus Christ to be the true and onely priest and chiefe bishop And his propper body blood which he offered vpon the crosse to his father to be the true only sacrifice the memory wherof we shew forth so oftē as we celebrate his holy supper A table wil we place at the end of this Treatise wherein we will shew the conformity vnion and likenesse which the holy supper instituted by Iesus Christ holdeth with the holy supper in the reformed Churches celebrated And thē also wil we shew the differēce disconformity contrariety that the Masse which our aduersaries celebrate holdeth with the holy supper of Christ which is the same we now celebrate As the name of Pope is not found in the holy scripture as little also is there found the name of Masse And doubtlesse had it bene so necessarie for a Christian to beleeue the authoritie of the Pope and holinesse of the Masse without which faith say they it is vnpossible for a man to bee saued It is I say to bee beleeued that Iesus Christ or his Apostles would haue made some mention thereof For all whatsoeuer is necessary for our saluation doth Christ and his Apostles teach vs. Saint Paule speaking to the Ephesians saith Ye knowe that I keepe backe nothing that was profitable but haue shewed you and haue taught you openly and throughout euery house Witnessing both to the Iewes and Grecians the repentance and faith in our Lord Iesus Christ But this holy Apostle so diligent in teaching that which we ought to beleeue maketh no mention of the Pope nor of the Masse Hereuppon it followeth that to beleeue the authoritie of the Pope or holinesse of the Masse is no Article of faith But true it is will they saie vnto me that this word Masse is not found in the scripture but its equiualent is found the supper of the Lord And if we ought to admit the Lords supper thē must we admit this name Missa Whereunto we aunswere that most great Iniurie and wrong doe they to the holie supper which the Lord instituted in saying it to be the same that is their Masse which they haue imagined and forged For how great difference there is betweene Truth and Falshood Light and darkenesse God and Belial So great is the difference betweene the holy supper and the profane Masse Had the question bene concerning the name whether the holy supper were to be called Missa or no. It should not be of great importance Agree wee in the substance of the things and call it as ye list Albeit it bee il done when the holy spirit calleth a thing by such or such name that man dare call it by another name The Apostle calles it
him he saw him free and safe without hurt of the fire These foure so straunge wonders besides others which we passe ouer shall you finde in his sermon of the dead You see heere the Textes of holie Scripture wherewith hee confirmeth his Purgatorie Also to proue the resurrection he citeth the place of Genesis the ninth chapter and the fourth verse where God commaunded Noah The flesh with the bloud shalt thou not eate Also another straunge thing in the chapter of Virginitie he saith that had not Adam sinned men for generation should not carnally haue coupled with their wiues And because hee saw the Text of Scripture to bee against him God might sayth hee by other meanes multiply men without the coniunction of man and woman Also seeing that Saint Basil calleth the bread and the wine of the Sacrament examples of the bodie and bloud of Christ which was opposite to him This saying of S. Basil said he ought to bee vnderstood of the bread and of the wine before sanctification which is not so for the bread and wine before consecration as already wee haue proued by the Fathers are common bread and wine as the rest and be no symbols nor figures of the body and bloud of Christ vntill and not before these words Take and eate this is my body bee sayd Sith such a one then is Damascen leaue we him and let vs followe that which the hole Scripture doth teach vs that which the Fathers whom against Transubstantiation we haue alleaged doe tell vs and that also which experience it selfe of that which we see touch and tast in the sacrament doth shew vs. To Theophilact Anselme Hugo Richardo c. whom they cite against vs and liued in the time that the holy Supper of the Lord was now falling the Popes then tyrannizing the consciences of men who neuer stayed vntill the holy supper destroyed they had made of some reliques patches and remnants of their Masse such as now it is full of abuses superstitions and idolatries do we answer the same He of these late writers which least erred in this matter of Transubstantiation is Scotus who saith as before we haue said that neither by Scripture nor reason it can be proued but would yet be deceiued because the Church so commaundeth How could his Church which is the Pope and his Cardinals make new articles of faith besides those which Iesus Christ our king our Prophet and priest ordained and taught us which be contained in the Creed of the Apostles Let vs now answer to the Councels which our aduersaries alleage against vs. As touching that which they obiect against vs of the Councell of Ephesus wherein Cirillus gouerned and Theodoret who is so appaparantly against Transubstantiation was present therein they doe vs great wrong For the same do wee confesse that the Councell confesseth We say that receiuing this Sacrament we receiue not common flesh but flesh sanctifying which by an inseparable vnion is conioyned with the diuine word But how do we receiue it Spiritually by faith not carnally as say our aduersaries that they receiue eat and digest it For vntil it be digested they affirm it to be the flesh of Christ They obiect the councel of Vercell in the time of Leo the ninth where Berengarius was condemned They obiect the Councel of Lateran in the tyme of Nicholas 2. which caused Berengarius to recant The Lateran Councel also in the time of Innocent 3. Also the Councell of Constance Anno. 1516. The Trident also of our time in the time whereof so many Popes as Paule 3. Iulius 3. Marcellus 2. Paulus 4. Pius 4. and none of these for the causes that speaking of the Popes wee haue shewed were present in it poped But examine wee the recantation which Pope Nicholas the second that poped about the yeare 1060. commaunded Berengarius to make in the Councell of Lateran as it is written in the Decrees de consecrat dist 2. cap. Ego Berengarius Wherein hee was constrained to confesse that the body of Christ is handled or sensnally felt with the hands of Priests that it is broken that it is chewed with the teeth I demand of them how can the body of Christ which now is glorified and therefore impossible and no way subiect to these humane miseries suffer these things Which the Pope and his Councell do say The Glosser of the Decrees himselfe although not verie wise could not but see so great an absurditie as this and therefore sayd that this verie warily and aduisedly ought to be vnderstood for if thou doest not so saith he thou shalt fall into an error farre greater then that of Berengrius The Glossor then vnderstood it much better then Pope Nicholas or his Councell whose holy spirit the Pope was that the body of Christ in the Sacrament could no wayes bee touched with the handes nor broken nor chawed with the teeth For this cause the Maister of Sentences in the fourth willing to amend or conceale this so notable a fault saith That this which was commāded Berengarius to say ought not to be vnderstood of the body of Christ but of the Symbols which say they be the accidents And so in that manner of speaking admitteth a trope or figure according whereunto is attributed to the thing that which is of the symbols But should we vse this figure they would eat out our eyes Now shalt thou vnderstand the account which is to be made of such a Councel and of the other Councels that followed this in which the Pope or his Legates haue gouerned and nothing aught worthy was in them determined albeit the Fathers had broken their heads about it if the Pope approued it not So that the Pope only is hee which maketh and vnmaketh decrees and articles of faith and not the Councel Whē a Councell is celebrated the which from many to many yeares is done as though there were no euill life of the Prelates to be amended nor abuses superstitions heresies nor idolatries in the Church to bee corrected the Legates of the Pope which commonly are three for such is his cause that hee trusteth not one with it haue great regard to write to the Pope this or that is determined in the Councel how liketh it your Holinesse Then doth the Pope either approue it or blotting it out disalow it If he blot it out there is then no more treaty of that matter how true soeuer it be how profitable soeuer for the Church That which he approueth he writeth to his Legats This letter which the Pope sendeth is the holy spirit which now gouerneth the Councels This holy Spirit descendeth not from heauē but commeth inclosed in a budget or wallet Thus is the Councell not free but a seruant and of whom of the Pope Who as before by many most sufficient reasons we haue proued to be Antichrist So necessarie an article to saluation is
our cause which is his because it is the vndeceiueable truth which his maiesty in his holy Scripture hath reuealed Concerning the lies false doctrine of the authority of the Pope the holines of the Masse which our aduersaries maintaine persecuting with fire bloud all those that beleeue it not nor worship it therefore trouble they the world as at this day we see it troubled We assuredly know that it shall perish According to that which the Lord saith Euery plant which my heauenly father hath not planted shal be plucked vp by the roote And we haue the axe which is the word of God put to the root of the two trees the Pope the masse to cut them downe I beseech the Lord our God Christian reader which hath giuen thee a desire and will to be informed to know the causes why we subiect not our selues to the Pope nor wil heare his Masse but rather detest and abhor the one the other that he would please to lighten thine vnderstanding that thou maist comprehend what in these two Treatises haue bin said confirmed not with the sayings of men but of God himselfe of his holy Scripture giue thee such a mind and strength that thou maist wholly depart out from this wicked Babylon which is Rome deliuer thee from all the enormities abominations horrible superstitions and detestable idolatries which Rome hath inuented among which the principal is the Masse These idolatries without doubt be the chiefe cause original and fountaine of all miseries calamities and warres where with they that are called Christians be at this day afflicted For if God in the primitiue Church plagued with infirmities death the Corinthians for the abuses which they had brought into the holy supper the Apostle S. Paul yet liuing which he reporteth in his first epistle that he sent them what shal we say this selfe same Lord wil now do when the malice impiety superstition idolatry haue so greatly increased that the holy supper of the Lord which he instituted and commanded vs in remembrance of him to clebrate haue they wholy conuerted into the prophane Masse of the Pope Truly the abuses of the Corinthes as touching the Supper had no agreement by far with the erronious intollerable abuses which those that are called Christians commit at this day in their Masse And notwithstāding all this Saint Paul speaking to the Corinthians saith vnto thē For which cause many ef you are infirmed and weake many sleepe he wold haue sayd are dead We are not then to maruel if God strong iealous of his honour do chasten at this day such an idolatry as is that which in the Masse is committed with such great warres famine pestilence and which is worse and lesse perceiued a reprobate sense And no other mean there is Christian reader to obtaine pardon for these superstitions passed idolatries to get and keepe the grace of God of whom thou oughtest not only to expect all prosperity goodnesse but to endeuour by all possible meanes to serue him honour him applying thy selfe with all thine heart to all that which pleaseth him which is that which his Maiestie hath ordained and instituted in his holy word flying contrariwise all whatsoeuer may displease offend him and especially all kinds of idolatrie which he more detesteth abhorreth then all other sinnes abhominations and as such doth punish it as in the beginning of the first Treatise we haue declared Such is the Masse fly then from it follow the holy institution which Iesus Christ our king prophet and onely high Priest ordained This is the holy Supper as the Euangelists and S. Paul do shew Do this thē which Iesus Christ ordained commanded vs to doe in remembrance of him as by the mercy of God with all simplicity without all superstition or idolatrie is celebrated in our reformed Church and thou shalt walke aright All they that do otherwise erre God giue thee grace to walk aright that thou be not with this world coondemned And this do he for the vertue merit of the sacrifice with our high and only Priest Christ one onely time offered vnto him To whom who liueth and reigneth with the Father and the holy Spirit be euerlasting glorie and perpetuall power Amen A SWARME OF FALSE MIRAcles and Illusions of the diuell wherewith Maria de la visitacion Prioresse de la Anuntiada of Lisbon deceiued very manie and how she was discouered and condemned Anno. 1588. FOr confirmation of that which in these two Treatises so often I haue said that the Papists confirme their religion with false miracles inuēted by their ecclesiasticall persons or wrought by the Art of the diuell I will here set downe a most true historie deliuered in two popish bookes which by the prouidēce of God came to my hands Out of which with all faithfulnesse as he that must appeare before the iudgement seat of Christ giue an account not only of that hee hath done and said but of that also which he hath thought I haue taken that which I will deliuer Hee that will not beleeue me let him reade the two bookes from whence I haue taken that which I say I name the Authours of these bookes the Printers the yeare and place where they were imprinted as a litle after you shall see Our Aduersaries I wot well would haue buried all these thinges for they open a dore to men to seeke to vnderstand and the truth And that they may vnderstand it I haue put it in writing The Lord which knoweth my desire blesse my trauaile Our Aduersaries hauing no sound proofe to confirme their new articles of faith which they haue made as in very truth there is none haue confirmed them with dreames with fained apparitions and visions of Phantasmes of spirits and of soules come as they say from another world Now I hauing met with a new great and thicke swarme of such things which I found in a Portugal hiue me seemed I should do well by a new familiar and domesticall example which be they that most moue and that none can denie seeing it happened in our countrey of Spaine in the yeare 1588 truly to manifest the same that all the world and chiefly my countrimen the Spaniards for whom I haue taken this paine may hasten to know them and knowing them may abhorre them so may turne to the holy catholike faith true religion of Iesus Christ which is written in holy Scripture This hiue is Maria de la Visitacion Prioresse of the Monastery de la Anunciada in Lisbon who was held so certainly for holy whose hypocrisie false miracles were discouered publikely condemned as we shall after see I hearing much talke of the great holinesse admirable life and maruellous miracles of this womā whom for excellency they called The holy Nunne aduised my countrimen the Spaniards in a booke which I published in the
147 Liberius 27 Linus 23 Lucius 2. 72 Lucius 3. 79 Marcellus 26 Marcellus 2. 165 Martin 1. 36 Martin 2. 50 Martin 4. 91 Martin 5. 118 Miltiades 222 Nicholas 1 49 Nicholas 2. 64 Nicholas 3. 91 Nicholas 4. 92 Nicholas 5. 101 Pascall 1. 42 Pascall 2. 68 Paul 1. 38 Paul 2. 124 Paul 3. 15â— Paul 4. 16â— Saint Peter 20 Pelagius 1. 37 Pelagius 2. 32 Pius 2. 1â—3 Pius 3. 143 Pius 4. 187 Pius 5. 19â— Sabinianus 33 Sergius 2. 4â— Sergius 3. 50 Sergius 4. 59 Siluerius 3â— Siuester 1. 25 Siluester 2. 57 Siluester 3. 61 Symachus 30 Siricius 29 Sistus 4. 126 Sistus 5. 195 Stephen 2. or 3. 21 Stephen 4. or 3. 39 Stephen 5. or 4. 4â— Stephen 6. or 5. 50 Stephen 7. or 6. 50 Stephen 9. or 10. 63 Vrban 2. Vrban 3. 7â— Vrban 4. 88 Vrban 5. 105 Vrban 6. 106 Frban 6. 200 Victor 2. 63 Victor 3. 68 Victor 4. 75 Vigilius 31 Vitellanus 36 Zacharias 37 FINIS Idolatry Exod. 32. Deut. 9. 14. The cause why the Israelites worshipped the molten calfe 1. king 12. 28. The first captiuity of 400. yeares Gen. 15. 13. Act. 7. 6. 2. Captiuitie of 70. yeares Ierem. 25. 12. Ca. 29. 10. 3. Captiuitie of infinite yeares God for vnbeleefe punisheth the Iewes vntill this day Iudges 2. 19. 20 Iudges 5. 8. Two kind of Idolatrie S. Gregorie forbad the Image worship Habakuk 2. 18. 19. Epiphanius Epist ad Hieron Petrus Crinilib 9. de hone sta disciplina Esa 1. 12. Exod. 20. 4. Deut. 5. 8. A true deuision of te ten Commandements The Church of Rome is accursed of God and the cause Deut. 23. 18. Deut. 4. 12. The dutie of a good magistrat to forbid idolatrie Numb 21. 8. The brasen serpent was the image and figure of Christ A Popish distinction betweene Idol Image Pesel what it signifieth Ambrose Erasmus Lactancius Instit lib. 2. cap. 19. Aquinus The argumâ— of both Treâ—tises The argument of the Epistle to the Hebrewes The reason prouing the Pope to be of greater authotie then the Masse Read the booke Ceremon Pontifie 1. Sect. cap. 3. also Sect. 12. cap. 10. 4. Gen. 4. 4. Hebrew 11. 4. Pope Many wordes in old time taken in good part which are now taken in euill Euery Bishop or Minister in old time was called Pope Tome 2. Epist 7. lib. â— The Bishop of Rome seeketh nothing more then to be called Pope Diuision of the Bishops of Rome into 3. orders The first order Saint Peter was not Bishop of Rome Gal. 2. 〈◊〉 This proueth S. Peter was nduep at Rome Rom. 15. 20. Linus Mal. 2. 6. 7. 300 years good bishops in Rome 1. Sisme The 2. order Archbishops Patriarks Liberius an Arrian Felix 2. 2. Sisme That which one Pope doth another vndoeth The Pope erreth in faith Damasus The 3. Sisme 384. Siricius Concerning the forbidding of mariage read afterwards in Gregorie The Pope erreth in the interpretation of the Scripture Boniface 1. Sisme 4. 420. Gelasius 1. Anastasius 2. an heretike Anno 417. the Gothes began to reigne in Spaine Symachus The 5. Sisme 498 Hormisda the the first Patriarke 520 He excommunicated the Emperour Anno. 523. Iohn 1. Ambassadour 6. Sisme Boniface 2. 530. Vigilius The 7. Sisme Pelagius The Primacie of Rome The Cannonists agree not with the Pope The 7. Canonicall houres Iohn 3. contrary to his predecessor Pelagius 2. saâ—â—sfieth the â—mperour 590. The first pardons and indulgences The soule of TraiaÌ„ brought out of Hell Gregorie 1. a great enemy to the Primacy Seruant of Gods seruant Marriage forbidden and againe permitted to priestes 6000. heades of young children in a pond The fruites of Popish single life The saying of Pope Pius 2. agsing constrayned single life Note before vpon Siritius and after in Paul 2. 604. Sabinianus One Pope being dead killed another 605. The 3. order 2. Thes 2. 8. Boniface 3. the 1. Pope Phocas granted Rome to be head of the Churches The fall of the Empire The Pope and Mahomet arise Boniface 4. The false donation of CoÌ„stantine Anno. 613. Deus dedit Godfathers The Gâ—dfather should not marry with the Godmother Boniface 5. The Church a refuge for euill doers Anno. 622. Martinus 1. Crownes Baruc 6. 30. Holy oyntment Vowe of Chasttitie Anno. 653. Vitelanus Diuine seruice in Latine Anno. 672. Agathus 1. Popish constitutions be Apostolicall Mariage to the Greeke priests permitted Anno. 682. Sisme 8. The 9. Sisme Constantine 1. The first Pope that gaue his feete to be kissed Images Anno. 716. dissipation of Spaine Gregorie 2. Gregorie 3. Leo the Emperor excommunicated 731. 741. Zacharias The Church vestments decked with gold c. Making and vnmaking of Kings The king of France most Chrsten and why The donation of Constantine Anno. 752. The king of Spaine Catholique Stephen 2. The donation of Constantine Pipin kissed the Popes feete c. Anno. 757. Paul 1. Exod. 20. A notable lie Anno. 767. The 10. Sisme Constantine 2. a lay man without any order was made Pope The Councell deposeth the Pope The 11. Sisme Stephen 3. Adoration and censing of images Anno 772. Adrian 1. Images Most Christian Anno. 795. The second Councell of Neece Images worshipped The cruelty of a mother Irena an Idolater and a murtherer Leo 3. Two Emperors one in the East another in the West The Popes decrees of more authority then the writings of all the Doctors The Crucifixe of Mantua A most subtill craft to aduaÌ„ce Images Anno. 816. Stephen 4. The Popes excuse for not seeking the consent of the Emperor Anno 817 Pascal 1. was Pope without consent of the Emperour Anno 824. Eugenius 2. The 12. Sisme Gregorie 4. Confirmation of the Emperour Anno 844. Sergius 2. first changed his name Anno 847. Leo 4. promiseth paradise 72 witnesses to condemne a Bishop The Papal crosse A Monke made king S. Peters pence in England Anno 855. Iohn 8. a whore Adout the yeer 1550. An. 852. Pope Ione was chosen The Pope turneth aside and the cause A seat and for what cause A statue in Rome of Pope Ione The ceremonie of the seat now not vsed and the couse A rare example the father son Grand-child Popes none of them either good or honest The Pope is of the common of two genders or els that is worse the boubtfull Rom. 20. 17. Ioh. 14. 26. The faith of the Colliar 1. Pet. 3. 15. Faith is compared to a lampe and why Benedict 3. The 13. Sisme Nicholas 1. The whole driâ—t of this Pope to free himselfe the Clergie from obedience to the Magistrate The Pope called God The diuine office in Latine Blasphemie Read aboue Siricius Gregorie 1. afterwardes Paul 2. and Pius 2. The Masse of a weÌ„ching priest not be heard Anno 867. Martin 2. without consent of the Emperour Anno. 884. Adrian 3. The Emperour lost his right in Rome 885. Stephen 5. The statutes of the Church of Rome necessary to saluation Anno 891.
their religioÌ„ One Pope doth that another Pope vndoeth The first Iubile Indulgences The Pope cannonizeth and vncaÌ„nonizeth Boniface stretched his pardons to purgatorie Anno 1304. Entered like a Foxe c. Benedict 11. Anno 1305. Poyson Clement 5. In the 1305. yere the Court of Rome passed into France there remained almost 74. yeers The Templars dissolued The Fraticellians Begardians and Begninians condemned Anno 1314. Poyson in the Sacrament wherewith the Emperor dieth The Dominicans and their monasteries destroyed and the cause The Pope a Simonist A great vacatioÌ„ Iohn 23. au heretique cruel Iohn 23. elected himselfe The terrible crueltie of the Pope Caragoca an Archbishoppricke The knights of the order of Christ in Portugal Note why the Pope coÌ„maunded men to be burned The Pope erreth in faith touching the estate of soules departed The heresie of the Pope confuted Luke 24. 46. True happines consisteth in seeing of God and enioying his presence Pope Iohn 23. disalowed Images The Grecians answere to the Pope is well to be noted Nothing is giuen by the Pope to the Emperour The ancient custome of Pope choosing renewed Nicholas 5. Sisme 28. Anno 1335. The Pope recanted Benedict 12. The Emperor is Emperour without confirmation of the Pope The County Palatine and not the Pope gouernour of the Empire One Pope vndoth that another hath done The sister of Petrarca the Popes minion Anno 1342. Clement 6. The Pope a Tyrant The Pope causeth poison to to be giuen to the Emperour Iubile from 50 yeares to 50. Anno 1350. The Pope coÌ„mandeth the Angels The Pope speaketh blasphemy What thing a Bull is Anno 1352. Innocent 6. Don Gill Carillo of Albornoz The yeere began at the incarnation Anno 136â— Vrban 5. The institution of the Rose sent by the Pope The Archbishop of Colonia maried The heads of S. Peter and Paule lost and found Anno 137â— Poyson Gregorie 11. In the 1376. yere the Pope returneth to Rome Anno. 1378. Vrban 6. a most cruel Pope Two Popes The 27. Sisme lasted 50 yeeres A cruel Pope Anno 1385. A cruel hatred Poyson Anno 1390. Gunnes Clement 7. Anno 1387. was the question of the conception Anno 1392. The Popes titles Bonifâ—ce 9. 2 Popes First fruits Benedict 13. Two Popes Anno 1424. Clement 8. 2 Popes Theodoricus de Nyem Innocent 7. Two Popes Anno 1407. Gregorie 12. 2 Popes The Councell of Pisa deposed both Popes elected Alexander a Cretian Anno 1410. three Popes Anno 1415. Anno 1424. Alexander 5. An article of faith that S. Fraunces bare the fiue wounds Gal. 1. 2. Libr. 3. Ch. 15. Lib. 3. cap. 53. Anno 1411. Poyson Iohn 24. a notable villaine A stratagem to be Pope A notable election of the Pope The Councell of Constance 1414. The Emperour is a Deacon The Pope by the Councell deposed The Popes customes The Pope an heretique The Counce is aboue the Pope Notable saying of Gerson As the whole is greater then part So the Councell is greater then the Pope Historia Bohemia cap. 36. The Constancie of Iohn Hus and Ierome of Prage The BohemiaÌ„s Constancie Iohn 24. for his villanies depriued of the Popedome is made Bishop Cardinall Anno 1419. Martin 5. The Popes will heare no man to speake vnto them of reformation The Councels haue deposed Popes and elected others The Popes enemies to the Councels lib. 23. cap. 20. ¶ 4. Anno 1431. Eugenius 4. Anno 1432. The Councell of Basil Felix 5. Two Popes A miserable example for such as keepe not their faith albeit to an Infidel Thomas Rendon Anno 1446. Felix 5. Two Popes The 30. Sisme Anno 1439. Anno 1447. Anno 1549. Nicholas 5. Platina One Mule the cause of 200 mens deaths more S. P. Q. R. Constantinople lost Anno 1455. Calistus 3. The Preachers of Buls called Carmerants The Pope forbiddeth appellation to the Councell Anno 1458. Pius 2. The tyranniâ—â— of Pope Pius Anno 1464. Note for this purpose the following life of Paule 2. Paul 2. The Pope a Simonist The red had Pope against Pope Gregorie 1. Nicholas 1. Pius 2. Paule against forced single life Anno 1471. Sistus 4. 300000 duckets euil spent 40000 duckets the Pope hath yearely of the Curtisans The Iubile froÌ„ 25 to 25 yeers The Rosary inueÌ„ted by Saint Dominick Anno 1200. after wards renewed Anno 1470. Blasphemous dishonesties If this be not to make a mock of the death of Christ what shal be The mother of Sistus dreame Papisticall religion founded vpon dreames false miracles 2. Thes 2. 11. Anno 1484. Innocent 8. most luxurious Sixteene sons and daughters of the Pope The Pope found the title of the crosse Iron of the speare Anno 1492. Alexander 6. abhominable Alexander vpoÌ„ condition to be Pope gauehimselfe to the deuill Anno 1500. The first Iubile conditional The ceremony of the yeare of Iubile The holy gate The Iubile by God instituted The Symony and sacriledge of Alexander The Pope calleth the Turke against the French king Poyson Anno 1503. Anno 1499. Sauanarola his life doctrine Sixe notable things happened to Spaine about the yeare 1492. 1. A Spanish and abhominable Pope The taking of Granado 2 3 The discouerie of the Indies Iohn 4. 23. Gen. 2. 24. 4 The InquisitioÌ„ 〈◊〉 The manner of the Inquisitors teaching sheweth the spirit that moueth them 4 The InquisitioÌ„ is the cause of the reuolt of the low countries 1. Pet. 2. 14. Apoc. 6 9. 5 The Brotherhood The 3 holy sisters of Spaine 6 The Bubos a disease called the French pockes Iohn 2. 11. Anno 1503. Pius 3. Anno 1503. Iulius 2. a warriar 200000. men slaine by occasion of Iulius 2. Anno 1512. Nauarre taken Anno 1512. Vigils prohibited in Buâ—gos The Councell of Pisa Anno 1511. The Pope periured The Councell of Lateran Anno 1512. Esaias 5. Anno 1513. Leo 10. An Atheist Matâ—h 16. Martin Luther What the cause was that moued Luther to speake against the Church of Rome Lnther burneth the Cannon Law 1. Cor. 1. 26. Charles the Emperor kept his word with Luther The magnanimity of Luther Anno 1522. Leo dyed for ioy Poyson The Atheisme of Leo. Adrian 6. Poyson Anno 1523. Clement 7. The king of France prisoAnno 1525. Rome Sacked Anno 1527. The Coronation of Don Charles Anno 1530. The confession of Augusta for which they are called protestants He that of a theefe doth steale 100 daies pardon doth not saith The vertues of the Pope The Pope is Diotrephes 3. Iohn 9. Anno 1534. Poyson Paul 3. accursed Poyson Poyson 40000 Curtesanes in Rome Henry 8 made no reconing of the Pope Anotable villany done by the Franciscan friars at orleans The Franciscans deceiue the people with false apparitioÌ„s Iesuites Anno 1537. began the Iebusites or Iesuites The Duke of Gandia a Iesuite Iesuites attempt to kill the Queene of England Iesuites attempt to kill the French king The cause why the Iesuites banished France The Citie Geneua in
the laÌ„d of Sauoy A qualified lie of the Iesuites Iohn 8. 44. Ier. 13. 23. Psal 5. 6. 7. Anno 1549. Iulius 3. a blasphemer The Pope giueth the bar to whom he list The Pope saith that fortune is it that maketh the Pope Pope Iulius 3. his blasphemy for swines flesh Terrible blasmy for a peacocke Anno 1555. Marcellus 2. A youth of 12 yeares old Cardinall The Popp permitteth not any to speake his mind freely in the Councell The blasphemy of the Trident Councell The Legends of S. Christopher end Saint George false after Paul 3. It is no Councell except it 〈◊〉 free Poyson Paul 4. an enymâ—e to the Spaards Anno 1555. The vices 〈◊〉 the Roman Church Anno 1557. The taking of S. Quintanes The death of Don Charles the Emperour and of Mary Queene of England Anno 1558. Elizabeth Queene of England England a refuge for strangers Persecution in Seuill Ephes 1. 3. Seuill the first Citie in Spaine where the Gospell in our time was almost clerely preached Rodrigo de Valer. 1. Cor. 1. 18. Actes 2. 13. Matth 21. 23. Iohn 7. 38. The Principall pomtes of Christian religion About the yeare 1545. D. Edigius Anno 1555. Anno 1557. Iulian brought many bookes to Seuill 800. prisoners for the teligion in Seuill The like was done of the house of Doctour Cacalla in Vallodalid D. Vargas D. Egidius D. CoÌ„stantine The persecutioÌ„ of Voll odalid c. D. Cacalla Cap. 7. â—8 Cap. 44. 17. c. The cause of the present calamities The Pope the Councell and Inquisition can not erre 1 Kings 18. 17. Fire in Valladolid A historie of Iohn Fox Imaginary fire in the Church A boy put himselfe in the cowle of a Monke Apoc. 6. 10. Anno 1559. Pius 4. Pope against Pope So did Benedict 3. Pius 2. Martine 5. and Paul 4. The hypocrisie of Pope Pius 4. The Popes esteeme not the Sacraments be case they be Antichrists Anno 1563. Confession was almost the cause of the ruine of the Popedome Confession serueth for a band Pius 5. Psal 97. 7. Pius 5. tooke out of the bookes that which the authors with great truth said against the Pope Anno 1572. Gregorie 13 The crueltie of a father Luke 21. 18. Ioh. 16. 2 Sistus 5 A notable acte of the seigniory of Veniâ— Ephes 1 21. The French K. causeth the Duke of Guise to be slaine A Dominican Friar killeth the French K. Iudith 13. 10. 1. Samuel â—6 4 2. Sam. 1 A Capuchan fryar practised to kill the French king God commandeth the king to read the holy scripture Prouerbes against the Ecclesiastical persons Euill life Whoredome Couetousnesse Hypocrisie â—â—monie Idlenesse the mother of many vices Ier. 51. 6. Psal 147. 9 Iob. 39. 3. Psal 37 25. 1. King 17. 6. Dan. 14. 32. Two Roman Empire The beginning of the Popedome which is the new Empire Boniface 3. The Popedom founded vpon murder Marke 13. 41. Luke 22. 25. The Pope taking occasioÌ„ of the question about Images denyeth obedience to the Emperour Charles the great made Emperour and why The oath which the Emperour maketh to the Pope The 1. oath of the Emperour The 2. oath The Emperour made a chanon and kinght of S. Peter Matth. 16. 16. The 1. Reason Clemens ad Iacobum The 2. Reason Actes 15. The 3. Reason The 4. Reason Gal. 2. 11. The 5. Reason 1. Thes 2. 3. Apoc. 17. 9. The 6. Reason Lib. 2 de concordia Cathol cap. 12. The Councell of Mileuant against the Primacie The deceit of the Pope discouered In those times euery Bishop was called Pope Cursed is the glose that corrupteth the text Anno 600. The Doctors against the primacie Saint Gregory against the primacie A notable discourse made by Edward bishop of Salisburg How the Popes employ themselues All this is fully accomplished The title of the Pope Arnulphus Bernard Ioachin Fluencius Nicholas Gallus Marsilius Cesenas Wickliffe Iohn Hus. Ierom of Prage Petrarcus Dante The Popes foure cardinall vertues auarice heresie sodomy and simonie Bocace Sanazaro The Church of Rome erreth in faith Thomas Rendonio Laurencius Valla. Sauanarola 3. Io. 9. Epistle 162 The Emperors called the general Councels Epistola ad Liberium Epise opum RomanuÌ„ De simplice Prelat In senâ—entiis Episcoprum libro 1. epist 1. Hieronymus in Epist ad Euagrium repetitur in Decreto Graciani Hieron ad Nepotianum Anno. 605. Dan. 11. 36. Three markes wherewith Antichrist shal be marked The Pope is an Apostata in religion Exod. 20. Psal 50. 51. Rom. 10. 14. The Pope abhorreth matrimony by God ordained Rom. 1. 1. Timothy 4. 2. The Councell of 〈◊〉 S. Gregorie permit mariage 1. Cor 7. 2. The Pope an Atheist Boniface 8. The 2. passage 2. Thes 2. 3. Verse 9. What thing is Antichrist Verse 7. Iohn 6. 15. Contrarieties between christ the Pope The first Contrarietic Phil. 2. 6. The 2. Contraritie To this purpose read Damascen in the sermon of the dead The 3 Contrarictie Iohn 5. 39. The 4. Contrarietie Matth. 11. 28. Ieremy 2 1â— The 5. Contrariette The diuell also worketh miracles Matth. 28. 18. Lying wonpers 2. Thes 2. 11. Purgatorie Of 30000. men one only went to heauen 3 to Purgatory and all the rest to hell Luke 16. 27. Matth. 24. 24. Verie subtill was the Pope in forbidding the reading of the holy Scripture The 3. pasâ—age of the holy Scripture The viâ—tory of the Lambe The waters be kindreds c. The 10 kings hauing altered their minds shall persecute the whore The whore is the Pope The Beast is the Romane Empire Gen. 4. 10. Tertullian The woman is he great citie 7. Mountanes Ten Hornes Apoc. 13. 18. Iohn 1. 29. 2. Thes 2. Ierome in prçfat lib. de spiritu sancto in vita Marci Apoc. â— 3. In prooemio Sexti in Glo. Matth. 16. 18. Iohn 10. 4. An answere to the 2 places wherewith the Pope confirmeth his primacie 1. Cor. â— 11. Ioh. 20. 21. Feede my sheepe Iohn 21. 16. Marke 16. 15. Iohn 20. 22. â—0 Sismes In Cronico pontifiâ—um 4 popes at once 3 Popes â—t once in Rome Sergius 2. and Benedict 9. were each of them thrise Pope Great vacatioÌ„s Matâ—h 28. 18. Extrauag de maiori obedient ca 2 â—an 2. 21. lib 7. Decretal dâ—senten re indicata Extrauag 〈◊〉 Cathol 〈◊〉 Clement in Clement pastoralie Item in rescripto This writing is kept in viena del Dolfinado Et in Extrauag eadem Decisiones Rote Baldu Franciâ—cus de Ripa Phillippus Decius Hostienâ—is Carolus de Ruino Iohannes de Anauias c. Dist 40. cap. â— Papa Ths Pope after the Romists is more mercrfull then Christ why Ca. Non nos Dist 41. 2. Thes 2. 4. Iohn 5. 39. Esay 31. 7. A briefe of the CoÌ„tents of this 2. Treatise Masse There is no thing necessary for our saluatioÌ„ which the scripture declareth not Actes 20. 20. It is not yet knowne where of the Masse is deriued what the Masse is 8 reasons wherwith they confirme
the Masse Gen. 14. 18. Malachy 1. 11. Our aduersaries first reason and our answere The Masse is no sacrifice The difference betwene a sacrifice and a sacrament Christ alone the expiatory sacrifice The sacrifice Eucharisticall Mal. 1. 11. Rom. 12. 1. Hebr. 13. 6. Hosea 14. 3 Hebr. 13. 15. Phillip 4. 18. Luke 17. 10. The second third reasons of our aduersaries and our answer Christ did not institute the Masse neither did the Apostles say it The Romistes raise vp false witnesses against Christ S. Peter S. Iames c. 1. Chr. 11. 23. Goncilium Vercelense Priuate Masses forbidden A reason prouing that neither Christ nor his Apostles said Masse Confiteor Hymnes Collect Respons gradu prefac verè dignum Gloria in excelsis Commemoratio defunctoruÌ„ Antif introit Kerie-elison Alleluia c. Agnus Dei Quorum Soleâ—â—itas Sequeâ—ces Sanctus pax Orate pro me Deo gratias Sanctum Sacrificium Hanc igitur Offertorie Vnleauened bread Water put into wine Qui pridie quaÌ„ pateretur Teigitur Commnâ—icaÌ„tâ— Nobis quoque peccatoribus The Masse patched like a beggers cloak The 4. Reason of our aduersaries and our answere Deut. 32. Exod. 23. 3. 4. Esaie 6. 9. Ieremy 25. 1. kings 19. 10. The Church Councel chiefe Bishop may haue erred in the faith Matth. 23. 37. How the church being the piâ—lar of truth may erre 1. kings 19. 18. Esay 53. 9. 1. Pet. 2. 22. Esa 40. 8. Psal 119. 105. The 5. reason our answer Sermone de lapsis The Communion in both kinds in the time of Saint Cyprian Drinke sanctified in the bloud of the Lord. Two sorts of miracles Mat. 3. 16. Ioh. 1. 29. False miracles Mat. 24. 24. â— Thes 2. Sermone de defunctis The sixt reason and the answer All whatsoeuer is in the Masse is poysoned The 7. reason the answer Gen. 14. 18. Heb. 7. 1. c. Epist ad Euagrium tom 3. Heb. 7. Melchisedech in three things was the figure of Christ Heb 7. Psal 110. 4. pssalm 110. 4. Rom. 10. 19. Deâ—â— 32. 21. Esaias 65. Malach. 1. 10. Mar. 16. 15. The calling of the Gentiles Iohn 4. 24. The 8 reason of our aduersaries our answere The propfits of the Masse 7. domages the Masse causeth The 1. domage The 2. domage Rom 10. 4. Ioel 2. 23. Ieremy 2. 13. prayer psal 120. Ioel. 2. 23. Act. 2. 21. Rom. 10. 13. Heb. 12. 17. The third Domage Tim. 2. 5. Heb. 8. 6. 9. 15 12. 24. Rom. 14. 23. Heb. 11. 6. 1. Ioh. 2. 1. Saint Iohn saith not we haue aduocates but an aduocate psal 51. The legend of S. Christopher after the pope himselfe is fabulous Ier. 2. 28. 11. The priest which saith the Masse and the people which heare it commit idolatrie The authority of the popish Priest Scotus super 4. sent Three reasons wherewith they confirm Transubstantiation The answere to the first reason wherwith they confirme transubstantiation Act. 3. 21. The heresie of the Papists The second confirmation of transubstantiation Two maners of eating Christ The one carnall the other spirituall Read the recaÌ„tation which Nich. 2. commanded Berengarius to make which we wil place a litle beneath in answering to the Councels Ioh. 6. 63. Ioh. 6. 60. Ioh. 6. 63. An obsnrditie of transubstantiation The spirituall eating in two sorts 1. Cor. 1. 9. Ephes 5. 30. Iohn 6. 36. Iohn 17. 21. Origin Ierome The sacrament Consisteth in 2. thinges the one earthly the other heauenly Origin snpper Matth. cap. 15. 1 1. Cor 10. 16. 23. 1. Cor. 10. 17. 4 1. Cor 11. 27. 5 1. Cor. 11. 28. Math. 26. 29. Mar. 14. c. Luke 22. 18. 1. Cor. 10. 16. 1. Cor. 11. 27. 1. Cor. 11. 28. It is no sacrament but when it is taken and eaten Rom. 10. 2. Athanasius Mark 16. 6. Act. 3. 21. The hetesie of the papists The hetesie of the papists These crosses with the papists haue their mysterie Blasphemi of the Priest The third confirmation Ireneus Tertullian Origen Ciprian Ambrose Chrystome Augustine Hillary Leo. Damascen Theophilact Auselme Hugo Ricardus de sancto Victore The Councell of Ephesus The Conncell of Veceill The Couucell of Lateran Another councell of Lateran The Councell of Constance Trident Councell Transubstantiation cannot be proued either by Seripture or reason Common consent of the Fathers against Transubstantiation Ireneus Tertullian Origen Ciprian Ciprian Athanasius Basil Dionysius Ambrose Ierome Crisostome Augustine The wicked eat not the body of Christ Leo. 1. Ciril Hesychius Gelasius Gregorie 1. Bertram Two maners of the body of Christ Bernard Theodoret. 363 Bishops in the Councell of Chalcedon Dialogue Iohn 15. 1. Iohn 6. 51. Ciprian What Consecration is Three causes why the fathers haue giuen the name of things figured to the figures Ireneus Tertullian Origen Cyprian Ambrose Chrisostome Augustin Hillarie Damaseen and how much his authority is to be estemed Sermone de de functis purgatory confirmed with wonders Gen. 9. 4. Lib. 4. cap 25. Orthod fideâ— Leo. 1. Transubstantiation can neither be proued by Scripture nor by reason The Councell of Ephesus The Councell of Latâ—ran The Councell of Lateran The Councell of Constance The Councell of Trident. Great wonde In the end of the Treatise shal ye see how the Councel of Trent was celebrated The manner of celebrating the Popish Councels There was neuer mutual coÌ„sent of the Church touching Transubstantiation The 5. domage of the Masse purgatory Masses sold for money according to the prouerbe No peny no Pater noster Thus doing they do contrary to that which the Apostle saith Euill is not to be done that good may come of it Rom. 3. â— The. 3. Credes containe the some of that whicha ChristaÌ„ is to beleeue The. 6. Domage Mar. 14. 23. The heresie of the Papists 1 Cor. 10. 20. Tertullian lib. de resurrect Cyprian Serm De lapsis Chrisostom vppon 2. Cor. â— Ambrose The sacrament taken with handes and in both kynds Ieorme Augustine Gregorie Gelasius The papists be Superstitious Sacrilegious The 7. Domage 1 Gor. 14. 40. 1 Cor. 14. Leuit 11. 3. Deut. 14. 4. Psal 〈◊〉 Iosua 18. Absurdities which the Masse causeth The faithful only receaue the body and bloud of Christ The first absurditie Transubstantiation is the cause that the papists beleeue the mouse c. to eate the body of Christ 10. 6. 53. Tractat. 59. in Iohannem Origen super Math. 15. 11 Saint Ierome vppon Esay Chap. 66. The 2 absurdity The papistes which heare the Masse Communicate not are ex communicate by their owne Cannons The Nouices commonly are little villaines The 3. Absurditie The 4. Absurditie The estimation wherein the pope holdeth his God the Sacrament The pope cast the Hoste into the fire the cause The pope erreth in faith Victor 3. poisoned in the Chalice Thh Archbishop of Yorke poisoned in the Chalice The Emperor poisoned in the Sacrament Impietie The legat by the Popes commandement gaue the eleuation