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A04528	The Catholique iudge: or A moderator of the Catholique moderator Where in forme or manner of a plea or suite at law, the differences betweene those of the Reformed Church, and them of the Romish Church are decided; and without partialitie is shewed which is the true religion and catholique Church, for the instruction of either partie. Together with eight strong arguments or reasons, why the Popes cannot be competent iudges in these controversies. Written in the Dutch and French tongue, by Iohn of the Crosse, a Catholique gentleman. Translated out of French into English, by the right worshipfull and learned Knight Sir A.A.	John of the Crosse, a Catholique gentleman.; A. A., Sir.	1623 (1623)	STC 14651; ESTC S107831	50,836	96

tipice dux normaque Minorum See lib. con Fo. 228. Col. 4.231 Col. 1. Sedes nobis perpetuò da regni caelorum that is to say Good Saint Francis head of Friers minors which of Iesus Christ art the true figure Cause vs to haue part of heauenly honours and life to obtaine that ever doth endure And the Iacobins are so bold as not onely to compare there Saint Dominicke with our Sauiour Iesus Christ See epist Flor. Aut. intust part 3. art 23. 24. but which is more in many thinges they placed him afore Iesus Christ The golden legends of the he-Saints and shee-Saints are all at this day printed which sufficiently set forth the fained miracles of one Stanislaus Adulbertus and of such other Saints And for so much as the Popes approue and allow such bookes yea and propound them to Christians to be held in equall honour and reuerence with the written word of God Aut. 23.27 fo 137. From thence also the Reformed Christians conclude that the Popes are prophane Tyranny the second cause of refusall The second reason for which the Reformed will not accept the Popes for their Iudges The second reason is that they haue vsurped dominion and soveraignty ouer the Church For first of all the Pope causeth himselfe to be stiled the Head the Spouse and Soveraigne Bishop of the Church Howbeit that title cannot properly appertaine to any person but Christ Iesus alone In the second place because that the Pope will beare rule and haue soueraignty over all the earth and all the Potentates of the earth Of the donation of Constantine For touching the donation of Constantine the Great by which they striue to confirme their dominion and rule besides that it hath beene heretofore sharpely questioned by Nicolaus Cusan Laurentius Valla Volaterranus Aeneas Silvius and diverse other very learned Authours the which notwithstanding haue not ceased to bee patrons and defenders of the Romane Sea The Reformed Christians maintaine that they can convince the sayd donation of falshood and vntruth by these reasons following Ten reasons by which it is proved that the donation of Constantine the Great is false and counterfeit First because none of the best and most approoved Authors either affirme or speake any thing of this donation of Constantine 2. Because that Eusebius and other ancient Historians testifie that the Emperor Constantine divided the three parts of the world to his three sonnes Socr. Theolo Evagr. Ruffin Okeb Beda Sozom. hist pan 2 Vol. lib. grn 3. 3. Because the Instruments and Decrees which touching the same were imprinted are very different and their stile no whit agreeing 4. That it is an absurd thing and likewise incredible that Saint Peter and Saint Paul should haue appeared to Constantine in his sleepe and that hee should haue adored them as gods 5. That hee was never infected with the Leprosie 6. That he was not baptized by Sylvester at Rome but by Eusebius in Nicomedia Alb. Krant in Sax lib. 2. ca. 1. Mansil indefens part cap. 11. 7. That it is a prophane kinde of speech to say that the hand of God was seene by Constantine 8. That he could not giue to the Pope a greater right then he had himselfe 9. That hee could not conferre or bestow vpon the Pope power or authority over the Patriarch of Constantinople the sayd title at that time being not built nor finished 10. And lastly Euseb de vita Constan Ruff. l. 1 c. 39. Viues l. 24. hist Beul de Con. Nue l. 8. c. 4. because such donations contained in the priviledges and grants made to the Popes which they haue received from the Emperour Constantine are the certaine markes of Antichrist Surely by all these reasons aforesayd it manifestly appeareth say the Reformed that such donation was never made to the popes by Constantine but that it hath beene forged and counterfeited by the Popes themselues And concerning the wordes of our Saviour Christ pronounced to Saint Peter and to all other Preachers Teachers of the word of God Aug in Io. tract 10 12. de ver dom Ser. 20. Cyril in Dial. de Trin. lib 4. Ambr. Epist ad Ephes cap. 2. saying Feed my sheepe this sentence and speech doth not import or signifie a politique and outward dominion or authority but onely the ministery of the Gospell For in another place our Lord Iesus Christ taxeth the ambition of the Apostles for that some would beare rule and haue dominion over other some and for that vpon this occasion they entred into consultation Chrys hom 55. in Math. Ber. Epist 230. Mat. 20.25 Dist 4. ca. multi quicunque cap. 1. Sedis dist 99. si quis 7. Der. de por The Kings of the Nations saith Iesus Christ beare rule over them but it should not bee so among you yea and the very Canons haue expresly forbidden that the Bishop of Rome should be called Soveraigne Bishop or vniversall head of the Church wherefore say the Reformed the Popes beat themselues with their owne rodde seeing they cannot rightfully attribute or appropriate to themselues such authority and domination and that for diverse causes and reasons Corruption of Religion the third cause of refusall The 3. reason which the Reformed Christians produce for which they will not submit themselves to the iudgement of the Popes is this that they haue not only intricated and confounded religion and divine service with many vaine ceremonies Can. 9. dist 34. Can 4. in dist 82. Can praeb lib. decretal Greg. tit 7. can 5. but haue also grossely erred in doctrine For some decrees affirme of the Popes that they are not men but gods that they cannot bee iudged by any person in the world that they may dispose and dispense against the Apostles that they can change the properties of things that they can make something of nothing that they haue power to make iustice of iniustice Io. 1.4 2 Tim. 3. Mat. 15. Gal. 1. Ier. 7. Iren. Epist 4. Con. Trad. 4. con li. cer per. sur 7. Now how exceeding false all this is say the Reformed it appeareth by that which almighty God testifieth himselfe that there can be but one forme of religion that is to say that which is contained in the writings of the Prophets and of the Apostles yea verily that an Angell from heauen hath no power to adde thereunto nor from it to diminish Whereas the Pope for all that will haue religion to consist in humane traditions such as are the Agnus Dei which they call 2. The complaint of Maximilian the baptisme of Bels the invocations of Saints the single life of Priests the withdrawing or depriving of the Cup in the Lords Supper De coen dom lib. 3. decret Greg. tit 41. Cal. cum dist 2. the vsing of a strange language and not vnderstood in the outward service of the Masse Buls and Indulgences and other like traditions all which as they say came

called God sitting as God in the Temple of God The whore that is drunke with the blood of the Saints being seated vpon the Beast with seven heads who committeth fornication with the Kings of the earth and fighteth against the Lambe by whom shee shall be ouercome and finally shall bee forsaken by seven hornes or seven Kings For since that the Popes attribute to themselues more honour then to Iesus Christ and to the Magistrate and so advance and lift vp themselues aboue God Behold the reason why they dispence against the commandements of the Apostles against right and the law of Nature Ten arguments that the Pope is Antichrist that they place their acts aboue the iudgement of man that they equall their ordinances to divine institutions That they attribute to themselues the power of transferring and changing of kingdomes That they name themselues head spouse and high soueraigne Priest or Bishop of the Church The Heralds cry before the Pope Abasso Abasso that is all downe on your knees Dist 19. 11. 96. Bald. vlt. cap. Decius 1. de constit Felin c. eg 1. de iure Eber. Hardin Anna. Iron yea verily they terme themselues the cause of causes and the Lord of Lords That they are seated in the Temple of God being drunken with the blood of the Saints possessing the Citie set vpon seven hils which hath had soveraignty and rule ouer all the Kings of the earth In briefe seeing that all the things which haue beene foretold of Antichrist in the holy Scripture agree fitly sort rightly and are proper to the Pope we need expect no other Antichrist from Babylon Beholde wherefore the Reformed conclude from all the reasons before going that the Popes of Rome are the true Antichrist The villanies of the Popes the eight cause of refusall The eight reason In the eight place the Reformed Christians will not admit the Popes for their Iudges for these their filthy vices and villanies ensuing First they haue beene whoremongers 2. Tyrants 3. Possessed by Divels 4. Atheists without any sence or feeling of God 5. Tormentors or bloody persecuters 6. Traytors 7. Poysoners 8. Bastards All the which things the Reformed say they can sufficiently proue true by the testimonies of such Writers and Authors being Papists as in diverse ages past haue written bookes thereof which are at this day every where printed and set out and consequently may be read by every man And first of all the Reformed prooue That the Popes haue been whoremongers and Sodomites that diuerse Popes haue beene Brokers or Bawds whoremongers incestuous and Sodomites For Sergius the third committed filthinesse with diverse Harlots but especially with Marozia that famous strumpet of whom hee begat Pope Iohn the twelfth Landus the first begat Iohn the eleventh in beastly whoredome Iohn the eleuenth being heire to Landus the first came also by right of whoredome to the Papall dignity by the meanes of the Romane Courtezan Theodora Luitpran Firm. lib. 3. cap. 12. De gest imper Patr. praem Platin. Firm. l. 2.13 Luitp lib. the which being often enflamed with the fire of lust I would spare or favour chaste eares if I were not to expresse the very wordes of Luitprands did not onely allure and provoke the Pope to vse carnality with her but did also sometimes importune and compel him Iohn the thirteenth Mantuan was conuinced at a Sinode in the presence of the Emperour Otho the first of diverse notorious vices among which the principall was his horrible incontinency which was that hee committed incest with both his sisters that hee had made a brothell-house of the Laterane Palace that hee had forced Stephana his fathers concubine as also the widow Paniete and Anne together with his Neece And being convinced of all these villanous acts hee was deposed from the Papall throne but the whores restored him againe by a sedition and mutiny that they raised among the Nobility of Rome Alexander the sixt suffered Peter Mendoza Cardinall of Valence to abuse his bastard sonne the Marquis of Zanete Vates Volater as if he had beene his wife And how much the said Pope was tainted and polluted with lustfulnesse sufficiently appeareth by this Epitaph of his daughter Lucrece Hac iacet in tumba Lucrecia nomine sed re Thais Alexandri filia sponsa nurus That is to say Here lies entomb'd Lucrece by name but in her life Alexanders daughter daughter in law and wife Ioan or Ione Pont. Iohn the eight before called Gilberta being gotten with childe by a Cardinall was delivered in a publike Procession going towards the Church of Laterane betweene the Collosse or Statue and the Temple of Saint Clement Actus Sanara and that in the presence of all the people in the open street in which place also she died in labour vpon which occasion Baptist Mantuan composed these verses ensuing In Alphon. l. 3. Platin. Funct Hic pendebat adhuc sexum mentita virilem Foemina cui triplici Phrigiam diademate mitram Extollebat apax pontificalis adulter Non poterat quisquis deferrantes athere claues Non exploratis sumere testiculis Curigitur nostro mus hic cum tempore cessat Anne probat sese quilibet esse marem That is to say Here was a Wench disguis'd in mans attire to Popish triple Crowne that did aspire Shee was with child a Cardinall was the fire none afterwards might vse heauens opening keyes Vnlesse his markes of manhood were espied why ceaseth then the custome in our dayes Because each Pope himselfe a man hath tried We reade that Iulius the second besides diuers others did principally spoyle by Sodomie two very yong noble Gentlemen which Anne queene of France Ian. Panop Epist Quin qua ecclesia Commenta Mag Paris Greuel George Iuil had recommended and giuen in charge to Robert Cardinall of Nauetia to traine them vp in good instructions Innocent the third was so villanous a leacher that he abstained not euen from the Cardinals whose Sodomie hauing beene followed by Grouanni Delacasa a Florentine Archbishop of Beneuent The Booke was imprinted at Venice by Troy anq Xanius he wrote a a booke in Italian verses in prayse of Sodomie which hee termeth diuinum opus affirming that hee merited there by Sixtus the fourth set vp at Rome publike stewes and appointed them for fleshly villaines allowing to the Cardinal of Saint Lucie the act of Sodomie during the three hottest months of Summer adding for the conclusion or shutting vp Fiat quod petitur Iron Qucis Ioan Rauis Bap. Man lib. 4. Alphons Volat in declam ad Leo. that is be it done that is required or I grant thy request Iohn the fourth was deposed from his papall seate at the Councell of Constance because of his Sodomie rauishing of women and such other enormious and haynous acts and afterwards detayned prisoner at Hedelberge for the space of three yeeres Valer. Anctin Vergarius Agrippa Clement the eight was