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A53471
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The popes ware-house, or, The merchandise of the whore of Rome published for the common good by Titus Oates.
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Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.
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1679
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Wing O49; ESTC R16997
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Luke painted in Troas of Greece This Image an Angel brought from the Frangapanes unto Rome into the said Church which Church being burnt in the time of Pope Honorius the third this Image stood and was nothing hurt St. Luke had two strings to his bow Physick and Painting Gods word speaks the former but as for the latter we have none but Mr. Pope's word for it and let the Papists believe him if they will Protestants are so saucy as not to believe him In the Church of St. Mary Transpontin in which are the two Pillars unto which the blessed Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul were bound when they were scourged is 300 year of pardon In the Church called Sancta Maria de Campo is 40 years of pardon In the Church of St Mary in Porticum is 200 years of pardon In this Church is a certain precious stone called a Saphir wherein as they write is graven by the hands of the holy Angels the Image of Christ and of our Lady and was delivered miraculously from Heaven to a certain Noble-man called Galla. And to this Stone also is granted great Pardon I never knew the Angels to be Gravers before and it seems they kept their Graving-shop in Heaven but are not their Tools with which they Graved these Images to be seen also Certainly they would be excellent Reliques and would give a little credit to this incredible story In the Church of our Lady De aqua Salina is 1000 years of pardon and in the day of the Consecration of the same is remission of all sins In the Church of our Lady De Apostolis is 200 years of pardon In the Church of St. Mary called Schola Graeca is 100 years of pardon In the Church of our Lady called Scala Coeli is also great pardon This is one of the first Temples that was built in the world unto the honour of the blessed Virgin Mary It is called Scala Coeli This Church is of great height where St. Bernard saw this sight because in it blessed St. Bernard deserved to see a Ladder which reached up to the very Heavens In this Church whosoever says Mass or cause it to be said for the the Souls that are in Purgatory the aforesaid Souls are delivered out of hand But the misery is no Masses can be gotten without mony through the virtue of the Mass and the Merits of the blessed Virgin Moreover whatsoever thing is devoutly asked in that place it is straightway without all doubt obtained And there is great abundance of pardon a poena culpa toties quoties In the Church of St. Mary called Imperatrix is great Indulgence and manifold pardon even to the number of 6000 years In this Church is an Image of the blessed Virgin which spake to St. Coelestine the Pope saying Why dost not thou pray unto me more often seeing that when thou goest by my Image thou clost always salute and reverence it St. Coelestine hearing this voice fell down upon his knees and prayed and desired before that Image forgiveness And more this holy Father hath granted to them that kneel before this Image and say with a good intent three Pater Nosters and as many Ave Maries 15 years of pardon toties quoties In the Church of our Lady called Libera nos a poenis inferni i.e. Deliver us from the pains of Hell is great plenty of pardon St. Sylvester Bishop of Rome who delivered Constantine the Emperor from his Leprosie and afterward baptized him Consecrated and hallowed this place which being the Chappel of the blessed Virgin is called Libera nos a poenis inferni He hath also granted to all and singular persons that devoutly come unto that place and give somewhat to the maintenance thereof 11000 years of pardon toties quoties In the Church of our Lady De Consolatione is an Image of the blessed Virgin which hath wrought many Miracles and there is in the same Church full remission of all sins on the second Sunday of the month of June from the first Even-song unto the last granted by Pope Sixtus the fourth In the Church of our Lady entituled Maria inviolata is the Oratory in which blessed Luke painted four Images of the glorious Virgin One of these Images he made after such sort as he himself knew and saw the blessed Virgin and therefore he painted and set her forth with a Ring on her finger which Image remaineth at this present day in the aforesaid Oratory And forasmuch as the blessed Virgin doth work many miracles in the said Image therefore is there great resort of People unto the said Image which receive there great help and comfort great indulgence and pardon and are replenished with many Graces and singular Benefits In the Church of our Lady De populo is great Indulgence and Pardon For Pope Pascalis hath given and granted to all that devoutly visit this Church at the Feast of the Dedication of the same and bring somewhat for the maintenance of the said Church from the Friday after the third Sunday of Lent unto the Octaves of Easter for every day 1000 years of pardon and as many Lents Pope Sixtus the fourth also hath endowed this Church with marvailous and many great Indulgences insomuch that all and singular persons that of a good mind come and visit this Church at the Feasts of the Nativity Purification Annunciation Visitation and Assumption of Mary the Virgin or at any one of them shall have for every time full remission of all their sins Here follow certain other Churches with their Indulgences and Pardons IN the Church of St. Agnes is every day 48 years of pardon and in the Feast of the same Saint 200 years of pardon In the Church of St. Susan is 300 years of pardon In the Church of St. Tabine the Wife of St. Alexius is 2000 years of pardon and as many Karins In the Church of St. Praxed is remission of the fourth part of all sins and in the same Church is the Pillar that Christ was bound unto when he was scourged The old Latin book saith that in the aforesaid Church there is daily 12000 years of pardon and as many Lents and the forgiveness of the third part of all sins In this Church also is an Altar upon which Pope Pascalis sung 5 Masses for a certain Soul departed which 5 Masses being once ended he saw with his corporal eyes the blessed Virgin Mary to fetch the Soul out of Purgatory and to carry it into the bosom of Almighty God as ye may see it painted upon the wall of the aforesaid Church In consideration whereof the aforesaid Pope Pascalis by his Apostolick Authority hath given and granted to so many as either say Mass themselves or cause Mass to be said in the aforenamed Church power to deliver one Soul out of Purgatory toties quoties In the Church of St. Katharine is 200 years of Pardon In the Church of St. Felix is 40 years of Pardon In the
Reliques certain pieces of the fragments which remained of the five barley Loaves and two fishes when Christ in the Wilderness fed so miraculously five thousand people There are divers others Reliques which were brought out of the churchyard of St. Calixt But whether fragments of the bread or of the fishes or both we will not contend and he that is minded to fish for lyes let him cast his nets into the Roman Ocean which Sea is certainly stored with such fish As for the bread of life I am sure they have none and as for their nameless Reliques I suppose we may give as much credit to them as to the fragments and we may look upon them with as much veneration but any thing good Mr. Pope to fill our Treasures and maintain our pride and tyranny In the Church of the holy Apostles are these Reliques following The Bodies of Philip and Jacob. Bodies of St. Philip and Jacob. St. Thomas his Cloak The Body of Sabinus the Martyr The Cloak of St. Thomas the Apostle The Foot of St. Philip. The Arm of St. James A Rib of St. Lawrence The Shoulder-plate and the Arm of St. Blase We have but their bare word for all this and they which we have taken in so many lyes already how shall we give them credit in this Arm of Saint Matthew In the Church of St. Marcellus is the Arm of St. Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist In the Church of St. Sylvester is the Head of St. John Baptist Head of St. John Baptist Hands and Feet of S. Lawrence the Hands and Feet of St. Lawrence and a piece of St. Francis Cowle and many other Reliques which are shewed on the Feasts of St. John the Baptist and of St. Sylvester This looks as like a cheat as all the rest for can any wise man think that Herod preserved it and in four days it would stink as bad as any dead flesh therefore this untruth accuseth it self and as for the Cowle of St. Francis he being a notorious thief is as miraculous as the Cross of the Thief which they say is preserved In the Church of St. Lawrence are these Reliques following The Blood the Fat the Clout the Gridiron Two Flagons full of the Fat and Blood of St. Lawrence Also a Vessel full of the roasted flesh of blessed Lawrence The Clout wherewith the Angel did wipe the Body of St. Lawrence Item the Cridiron whereupon St. Lawrence was roasted That St. Lawrence was roasted is true but first Saints did not use to be very fat 2ly His fat dropt into the fire so did his flesh 3. How could they separate his fat from his blood as it dropt through the Gridiron and that the Tormentors should give the Christians his flesh is as uncredible as that they have vessels full of it and that the Angel stood in need of a clout to wipe his body is as likely as that they have the Clout or Gridiron In the Church of St. Julian there is a certain kind of holy water whose virtue and power is so great that it easily healeth all them that be diseased of the Ague It cureth also all other infirmities and diseases so that they which will be made whole take that holy water fasting and say three Pater Nosters and as many Ave Maries in the honour of Almighty God and of the glorious Virgin 〈◊〉 and also of St. Julian and St. Albert or else cause one Mass to 〈◊〉 in the honour of the aforenamed Saint Albert. I wonder so many Papists die of the Pox and that the old Priest was so long in a Doctors hands that kept an Apothecaries shop in St. Giles Parish if there be such healing vertue in their holy water But one thing I note that the Virgin and the Saints have honour but Christ is forgotten and how the Popes themselves have not been cured of those foul diseases by which they have perished if they have had such excellent and infallible Remedies In the Church of St. Vitus there is a Marble stone set about with Iron Stone on which a 1000 poor Saints was slain upon which were slain more than a thousand bodies of holy Martyrs In this Church there is so great virtue and grace through the merits of those holy Martyrs Vitus Modestus and Crescentia that if so be any man be bitten with a mad Dog or of any other beast and take a piece of bread and dip it in the Oyl of St. Vitus and so eat it he shall straightway be made whole All their healing is ascribed to the Virgin or to Saints not to Christ And if they were not all bit with some Beast or another they would not set Saints of their own coining above the Son of God Jesus whom God hath made to all a means of spiritual health and eternal salvation But of this Oyl of St. Vitus I find not one word but at Rome and its virtues are not there mentioned In the Church of St. Braxed there is a Chappel which is called Libera nos a penis inferni and Ortus Paradisi in the which is a Pillar whereunto our Lord Jesus Christ was bound in his passion But our comfort is That we are not bound to believe it In the midst of this Church there is a round stone inclosed with Iron under this stone is the blood of many holy Martyrs which blessed St. Braxed gathered up with a certain Sponge and put it in a pit laying that round stone upon it They that tell these lyes will be in a pit one day in which there is no water to cool their tongues Luke 16.24 In this Church also there is an Altar upon the which Pope Pascalis said five Masses for a certain soul departed Which Masses being once finished he saw the blessed Virgin Mary take that soul out of Purgatory and carry it into the bosom of Almighty God as ye may see it plainly painted upon the wall of the said Church When Pope Pascalis had seen this miracle he granted by his Apostolique Authority That whosoever did either sing mass or cause mass to be sung on that Altar he should deliver for every time so doing one foul out of the bitter pains of Purgatory That this looks as the rest do like a piece of Forgery from top to the bottom for the Virgin never came near any other place but where Gods blessed presence is since she left this World her spirit went to God that gave it and thence it did never stir In the Church of St. Potentiana is the Altar upon which St. Peter did sing his first mass Also a Pit in which lieth hid the blood of three thousand martyrs It is as scandalous to fasten saying mass upon St. Peter as upon St. Paul who knew that your Massing-trick never came into the heart of Christ or any of his sincere followers if St. Paul himself say true Acts 20. ver 20 comp with ver 27. and if the Popes Massing had been Gods