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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79535	A christal for the clergie, especially those that are corrupt in doctrine, scandalous in their lives and conversations. An. Dom. 1641.		1642 (1642)	Wing C3932; Thomason E135_40; ESTC R16423	3,770	7

A CHRISTAL For the CLERGIE Especially those that are corrupt in Doctrine scandalous in their lives and conversations An. Dom. 1641. LONDON Printed for R.P. 1641. A CHRISTALL FOR THE Cleargy that are corrupt in Doctrine scandalous and impure in their lives and conversations Anno Dom. 1641. IF we judiciously view ancient Histories as well Divine as Morall as the present corruption of the times we shall finde that those of impure and uncleane spirits of the Cleargy corrupt in their Doctrine tyrannicall in their government scandalous in their lives and conversation have alwaies beene the roote and first beginning of the destruction of Kingdomes and Common-wealths when they are increased with riches and pompe of this world by which they wax proud and ambitious they aspire to sit in places of great power and authority in Kingdomes and States both Spirituall and Temporall which having attained so presumptuous is pride they dare presume to denominate themselves Lords nay higher in authority then Princes and Emperours nay to command and compell them to doe what pleaseth their desires and fantasies and nothing else though never so contrary to the word of God or contrary to naturall reason or morall civility and if these then desires be neglected or rejected then never rest they till they have brought to ruine such Kings and their Kingdomes I desire Reader you would peruse this little Yreatise which I tearmed a Christall for the Cleargy and you will easily discerne that the corruption pride ambition and luxuriousnesse of the Cleargy in antient time exercising tyranny as well over Princes as their people who they have wonne and as it were subjected to their obedience and that in these our times and this our Kingdome doth little ornothing differ The Bishops of Rome having attained to the highest step of honour and dignity that ever was any in the whole Kingdome and having obtained the power of both swords the sword of the Spirit and the sword of the Magistrate they then beganne to display their banners both as King and Bishop and whom they could not bring to their obedience by the one they then exercised and used the other In their first combat they had to fight with any to subdue them and draw them to their faction they used their thunderbolts of excommunication and cursing this was terrible to Kings and Emperours if this failed then treacheries and treasonable practises of subjects against their lawfull Princes by poysoning powder plots stabbings and the like if these prevailed not they procured the nationall war one Kingdome against another I will only give a touch of either and then compare them to these times First Platina in the life of Gregory the 7. sheweth that this Emperour Henry the fourth was excommunicated by the Pope afterward he addeth the Emperour saith he came speedily to Canosie where the Bishop was with Mathilda and by and by laying aside his royall robes went bare foot to the gates of the City and humbly required to be let in his entring denied he took in good part notwithstanding that the winter was sharpe and all was frozen hard remaining three dayes in the Suburbs of the Towne continually craving pardon at length at the request of Mathilda and the Earle of Savoy and the Abbot of Chinnes he is absolved Frederick Barbarouse that he might be reconciled to the Pope laid his neck under his feet to be trodden on The Venetians besieged Farrare which paieth tribute to the Church of Rome forthe which cause they were excommunicated by Clement the fifth therefore Francis Dandalous which was afterward created Duke went into France where that time the Bishop was to aske pardon for that offence long it was ere ever he was admitted to come in the Popessight at last he was led with an iron chaine about his necke to the Bishops table like a dog and there faine to be under the table amongst the dogges so long till the wrath of Clement without all clemency being over past This is written in Sabellicus in the end of the 91. Encide the 7. both full manifest are the injuries of this beast done to other Kings and people And thus much of their first meanes to bring as well Princes as people to their subjection I come now to the second meanes practised by the Bishops to draw both Princes and people to subjection and that in briefe Platina writing of Gregory the fifth Silvester the second saith he before called Gilbert a Monk of Florey forsaking his Monastery followed the Divel to whom he gave himself whole and by and by he addeth Gllbert moved with ambition and a divelish desire to rule through bribery got first the Archbishoprick of Regns afterward of Ravenna and after with greater suit the Divell furtnering him he obtained to be Pope yet under this condition that after his death he should be the Divells wholy c. Beno in the life and acts of Hildebrand called Gregory the seventh one Gilbertus which had infected the city with sorcery saith he after the thousand yeares fulfilled comming up out of the bottomlesse pit of Gods permission was Pope foure yeares and changing his name was called Silvester the second and after Gilbert the yeare 25. Theophilactus his scholer atchived the seat violently called Benedict the seventh after him Gratian called Gregory the sixt after him Sabinus and he was called Silvester the third all these three were Popes at one time Henry the second Emperor a godly man and valiant going to Rome to purge the Church compelled Benedict or Theophilact the Magitian to flee east Gregory into prison and sent away Silvester to his old Bishoprick and he holding a Counsell placed the Bishop of Bamberge whom hee called Clement in the seate of whom also he received the Crowne and he brought Gregory with his disciple Hildebrand with him into Germany In the meane time Benedict returning to Rome from flight vexeth Clement and with much inchanting infecteth the City and by letters receaved from Hildebrand out of Germany he learneth what is done in the Emperors Court Gregory dieth there in prison and lest Hildebrand his heire both of his false packing and of his mony Clement dieth also whom Damasus the second succeedeth immediately but straightwaies poisoned and Junio called Leo the ninth succeeded in his place And thus much of the second meanes practised by Bishops to raise themselves into places of authority and to bring all that oppose and resist them to their subjection or utter confusion 3 Thirdly and lastly a word or two of their last meanes when neither of them can prevaile to bring their purposes to perfection that is by raising warres and seditions in Kingdomes one against another wherein they have shewed themselves more mercilesse and cruell then the most heathenish and barbarous nations in the world Benedict otherwise Theophilact which before I have mentioned was carried by the Emperor prisoner into Germany returning with Leo the ninth he armed Leo against the Normans and betraied him to