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A12577	A briefe and learned treatise, conteining a true description of the Antichrist, who was foretold by the prophets and apostles And an evident proofe that the same agreeth vnto the Pope. Written in Latin by M. George Sohn Doctor of Diuinitie, and publike professor thereof at Heidelberg, and translated into english.	Sohn, Georg, 1152?-1589.; N. G., fl. 1592.; Grimald, Nicholas, 1519-1562, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 22891; ESTC S114124	33,734	90

necessarie to saluation Cap. super gentes extra de consuet The Bishop of Rome is appointed by the Lorde aboue all nations and kingdomes Cap. si Imperatore dist 96. Gods will is that the powers secular should be subiect vnto the Church or the Priests Cap. nunquam eadem dist 96. It is a custome that princes shoulde submit their heads vnto the Bishops girdle and not iudge of their liues Cap. solita de maiorit obed God made two great lights in the firmamēt the greater light to rule the day the lesse light to rule the night both of thē great but the one greater Therefore hath God made two great lightes for the firmament of heauen that is the vniuersall Church to wit he hath appointed two high states or dignities which are these the authority of the Pope the power of the king But that which ruleth the day that is in matters spiritual is the greater that which gouerneth carnall affaires that is the lesse That it may appeare that looke what difference there is betwixt the sunne the moone so great oddes there is betwixt Popes Kings C. fundament de elect in 6. Papa nulli homini subest Finally the Emperour is bound to take an oath of alegiance obedience vnto the Pope the forme whereof is extant cap. 1. de jurejurando c. tibi domino dest 63. clement vnica de jurejurando And so it is said lib. 1. ceremoniarum Pontificialium cap. 7. The Pope in the night of the birth of our Lorde doeth hallowe the sword which he afterward giueth vnto some Prince in token of the infinite power which is giuen vnto the Pope according to that saying All power is giuen vnto me in heauen in earth that also He shal rule frō seato sea frō the riuer to the ende of the earth So it is also in the Glosse of the Canon law to wit that the Pope is al things aboue all thīgs that he is the lord of lords hath the right of the king of kīgs ouer his subiects that he may turn roūd into square that he is the cause of causes therfore no inquirie is to be made into his authoritie because there is no cause of the first cause that the whole world is the Popes diocesse that his authority extēdeth vnto things in heauen earth and vnder the earth that he may command the Angels that he hath so great power both in Purgatorie also in hell that hee can by his pardons deliuer as many soules as hee will which are in those places place them presently in heauen in the seats of them which be blessed as it is saide in the Bull of Clement the sixt that hee hath such power in heauen that hee may canonize whome hee will that is dead for a saint though all Byshops and Cardinals were against it And who can recken vp all his blasphemies To conclude Sixtus quintus to omit the rest doth at this day thus begin in one of his Bulles The authoritie graunted to blessed Peter and to all his successours by the infinite power of the everlasting King excelleth the power of all earthly kings and Princes Secondly for that he will be accounted the highest iudge who neither can erre in making decrees concerning faith or lawes concerning manners neither yet ought to be iudged of any And for that hee setteth vp himselfe aboue all euen the generall councels and ordaineth new sacraments and transformeth and altereth those which Christ did institute He imposeth new lawes vpon mens conscienees as for those which Christ made hee doeth ratifie and repeale at his pleasure as Cap. nunc autem dist 21. The chiefe seate that is the chayre of Rome is not indeede of any Can. si Papa dist 40. If the Pope should drawe by heapes innumerable people with him into hell no mortall man presumeth or taketh vpon him to reprehend his faults for that he is to iudge all men and himselfe to be iudged of none Can. cuncta seq 9. q. 3. Euery Church in the worlde knoweth that the holy Church of Rome hath authoritie to iudge of all persons no man may censure her iudgement Can. nemini 17. 4. It is permitted to no man to iudge of the Apostolicall seat or to retract that sentence because of the primacie of the Church of Rome cap. proposuit de concept praebend According to the largenes of our authority we may dispense with aboue law cap. significasti de elect elect potest Al councils both are called haue their strength by the authoritie of the Church of Rome the authoritie of the Bishop of Rome is manifestly excepted in their cōstitutiōs cap. regula dist 17. No council is or shal euer be established which shall not be cōfirmed supported by the Popes authority And so the Glosse saith again that the Popes pleasure is heauenly and for this cause he may chāge the nature of thigs by applying those things which are substantial in one thing vnto another That he hath allaws in the closet of his brest that he hath the same consistory which God hath and the same iudgement seat with Christ that he can make any thing of nothing and make that to be a sentence or iudgement which is none that in what so euer he pleaseth his will is to him in steade of reason and yet no man may say Why dost thou thus that he may dispense beyond law make iustice of iniustice by concealing and altering the laws that he can do all things sinne excepted whatsoeuer God himself cā do that he must be iudged of none that if he should throw downe heaps of soules into the hels yet none may demand of him Why doest thou it that he may dispense against both Apostle and Apostolicall Canon that he is aboue lawe that what soeuer is done of the Pope is to be supposed is done of God that he is all and aboue all that hee may doe all things aboue law contrarie to law and without lawe ad cap. quanto de translat Episcopi cap. proposuit de concess praeb and else where c. Thirdly for that he taketh and vsurpeth power authoritie to transferre kingdoms which is the onely worke of God as Clement vnica de jureiur ando in priu The Romane Emperours haue the approbation of the B. of Rome for the person which is to be preferred vnto the dignity of the Emperiall M ie as also the anointing cōsecratiō the crown of the Empire Clem. Past. de sent re iudic in fine The Pope hath superiority ouer the Empire whē the Empire is void succee deth the Emperour C. venerabilē de elect The right authoritie to choose a king to be Emperor appertaineth vnto the Bishop of Rome cap. 2. de sent re iudic in 6. The Pope may depose the Emperour Can. alius 15. quaest 6. Zacharie the Pope deposed the French king from

whoredomes filthie lustes or at least doeth tollerate them filleth all Christendome with whores with Bastards with buggerers and others more of the same stampe as it is knowne full well and yet further by giuing dispensation he permitteth incestuous mariages and that which is more then all the rest he maketh a gaine and raiseth a yerely rent of the common stewes So Iohn 13 being found with a queane was run through of the husband of the same harlotte Further how great was the chastitie and honestie of Alexander the sixt it appeareth by this epitaph made for his daughter Hic iacet in tumulo Lucretia nomine sedre Thaïs Alexandri silia sponsa nurus Here lyes entombd Lucretia by name but wee her sawe Thais in life Alexanders childe spouse daughter in lawe So Iohn Casus Archbishop of Beneventum the popes legate among the Venetians hath cōmended published in print that horrible kind of lust and venerie which is not at all to be reported yea that who is called P. Iohn the 8 was both a woman and an harlot as she went to the palace of Laterane shee traueiled in the third yere of the Popedome died of that trauell in the same place whereupon Mantuan in his time writeth after this maner Jpudor in villas si non patiantur easdem villae vomicas Roma est iam tota lupanar O shame to village packe away If it may be found deere Rome is a stewes now chastitie hath no abiding there He also abstaineth from certain meates yet exceedeth in all kinde of excesse because he forbiddeth flesh all things which haue generation by seede or doe sauour of flesh as milke cheese egges to be eaten on set daies vnderpain of deadly sinne to satisfie for sinne to deserue the grace of God life euerlasting but he granteth all the dainties delicates whatsoeuer de consec dist 3. de esu carnium dist quia eadem dist 5. quadr dist 4. c. denique c. 13. quaest 2. animae And yet he will for mony dispēse for the self samething He is couetous because he vseth Symonie that is buying selling making a marchaudise of things spirituall he giueth nothing but selleth al things as the grace of God the sacraments good works heauen life euerlasting out of all of them he piketh out gold and siluer and raiseth his gaine for heauen hell the earth yea time itselfe and all creatures whether they haue life or be without life as wine bread oyle linnen milke butter cheese water salt fire perfumes the stewes c. So that there was neuer hearde of either any greater or more abominable marchandise Whereupon his marchants brokers that is the Monkes the Bishops Cardinals are not onely become rich but are euen princes vpon the earth So likewise doeth he make a gaine of Masses satisfactions pardons burials and Church liuings to wit by selling of benefices annats or vacations preuentions resignations for fauour commendatus dispensations for age for orders for irregularity for blemish of body for redemptions of the Bishops pall and the Bulls Further by reseruation of cases by mariage causes by sinnes and offences to wit when as license for sinnes and all kind of mischiefes are bought and sold after a certaine price and rate and by other cases and causes of the like nature which if wee shoulde recken vp one by one would be very tedious because they want both measure and modestie and there is no great necessitie so to doe for that there is a booke extant of these things which hath this title Taxae Cancellariae Apostolicae Taxae sacrae Poenitentiariae itidem Apostolicae cum not abilibus iuxta stylum hodiernum curiae Romanae In which book thus there is a sentence worthy the remembrance set downe in these wordes And marke this diligently that such immunities and dispensations are not graunted vnto them which be poore For they because they bee not rich can not be comforted Hereof commeth it to passe that an infinite masse of gold and siluer is brought vnto Rome which afterward the Pope Cardinals and the rest of the same rable do consume in their stewes and brothel-houses and doe riotouslie spend as it were in the bottomles gulfe of their vnsaciable gluttonie sensualitie to the great shame ignominie of Christianitie So Franciscus Petrarch hath left it in record that in the treasure house of Pope Iohn the 22 there was founde when hee was dead by his heires 25 thousand thousand crownes that is 250 tunne of gold And of Boniface the eight who was taken prisoner spoiled at the commandement of Philippus Pulcher the French King wee finde it registred that all the kings of the world were not able to disburse so much out of their treasurie within the compasse of one yere as was taken and caried out of the Popes palace wherefore there haue alwaies beene some at all times who both detested that in satiable hunger and vncontented desire and greedines of riches and also lotted not to enueigh against the same hereupon Mantuan saith thus venalia Romae Templa Sacerdotes Altario Sacra Corona Jgni● thura preces Coelum est venale Deusque which is in English thus Churches and Priestes Altars and Princes at Rome are to be solde Kingdomes and rites incense and heauen yea God Rome is so bolde And another thus Curia Romana non carpit ovem sine lana Dantes exaudit nō dantibus ostia claudit which may be thus translated The Romish court doeth make no pay Of sheepe that fleece doe want No man can speed vnlesse he pray Bring giftes and take our graunt And againe another speaketh after this manner The treasure house Apostolicall is like vnto the sea into which all flouds doe runne and yet it doeth not ouerflowe for euen so thousand waightes of golde are brought into this out of diuers partes of the worlde and yet it is not filled Hee is also craftie deceitfull false and giuen to lying craftie hee is for that hee blindeth trueth and falshoode together deceitfull and a lyar hee is in that his feigned seruice to witte when as hee entituleth his lordlinesse with a name of seruice that is when hee calleth himselfe the seruant of seruants vnder pretence of humilitie according to the example of Gregorie the great who for this ende called himselfe the seruant of the seruants of God that hee might giue his successours a patterne of lowlinesse and yet in words and deede hee proudely exalteth himselfe aboue all kings and princes desiring to bee the lorde of lordes as wee declared at large heretofore in so much that hee indeede retaineth the bare name and title but vsurpeth a statelinesse altogether disagreeing from the title so further in the fained donation of Constantine as is mentioned in Cap. Constantinus dist 96. hee produceth a forged instrument of Constantine his deede of gift in which hee affirmeth that