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A08896	Fiscus papalis. Siue, Catalogus indulgentiarum & reliquiarum septem principalium ecclesiarum vrbis Romæ. Ex vetusto manuscripto codice vere & fideliter descriptus. = A part of the Popes exchequer, that is A catalogue of the indulgences and reliques belonging to the seauen principall churches in Rome. Laying downe the spirituall riches and infinite treasure which (as sure as the Pope is holy & true) are to be found in the Catholike Roman Church, whereof the poore heretikes in England haue not one mite. Taken out of an antient manuscript, and translated. Together with certaine notes and comments explaining the more difficult place, for the ease and helpe of good Catholikes, who had best goe to Rome, to trie the vertue of the glorious indulgences. By a Catholike diuine.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1617 (1617)	STC 19174; ESTC S114000	84,865	184

there had hee would haue blamed their negligence in them rather then of preaching and this I say by the warrant and president of the Mariale which saith that whereas Salomon writes thus The name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous flye vnto it and are helped Salomon saith he knew little of the Virgin Mary for if he had he would haue said The name of our Lady is a strong Tower the righteous flye vnto it and are helped And surely with as good right may I say the Prophet knew little of the dignitie vertue and efficacie of the holy Masse for if he had hee would not haue blamed them for not preaching but for negligence in saying Masse But Salomon and Esay are both to be pardoned because of the times they liued in but as for these Heretickes that liue in these times and cannot but see the great vertue and high price that Masses are at and how beneficiall they bee to the Catholicke Romane Church and consequently how good cause the Church hath to magnifie Masses aboue Preaching they are without all excuse and their fault vnpardonable But though they be so madde to moue it and so malicious to presse it that the Pope and all his Cleargy ought rather to preach then say Masses yet hee is too wise to hearken to it nay though sometime some of his owne Catholicke children are bewitched with this poyson and are harping on this string that preaching is the greater and worthier of the two yet he hath wit enough to discouer and power to suppresse them in time therefore if any of them write so he commands it to be razed out of their bookes that hereafter it may not testifie against them and if any be so bold to preach it his holinesse takes such order with them as few dare follow their example Witnesse Frier Lobo of whom wee spake before whose iudgement was so iust and sentence so sharpe by Pope Gregories owne holy mouth for that his impious presumption in preferring a Sermon before a Masse and that also in Rome where like a foole that he was he might haue remembred that preaching hath been out of season these 500 yeares that from that day we haue not heard of any that durst attempt the like in Rome and if the like course had beene taken in Germany France and England these new heresies had neuer spred as they do For it is nothing but hearing Sermons reading the Bible that hath bred fed and still feeds and disperseth those heresies of the Lutherans and Caluinists as daily and lamentable experience lets vs see and feele For his Holinesse knowes full well that if he could but rid the world of the Bibles in the vulgar tongues and pull downe this talking trade of Preaching we should soone see these Heresies and this new Gospell of Luther and Caluin melt away and come to nothing for take away the meanes and cause and the effect will follow And full well spoke a wise Cardinall to the Pope when in a priuate consultation there was complaint of the growing and spreading of Lutheranisme Wee may thanke our selues saith he and our owne sloth and carelesnesse for this who let the Scriptures flye abroad and become so common for we ought to haue kept them vnder colour of Maiesty and to procure them greater Generation in the learned tongues and laid them vp in safe and secret Libraries so should neither they haue beene corrupted by heretickes and Iewes as they haue beene nor they haue corrupted and made so many Hereticks as they haue done A wise and worthy speech doubtlesse and well beseeming a Cardinall and a full deuout soule I warrant him was he of the Romish Mother Church And from that day forward hath the Pope beene more carefull in this poynt and hath set on worke his darlings the Iesuits who haue done him faithfull seruice in this kinde as may appear to their great honor to al them that wil loose a litle time to reade their bookes for by their bookes their Sermons and their perswasions they haue so preuailed that where euer any of them do remain or but lurk you shall not finde a Romish Catholicke but he can learnedly prate against the Scriptures whereof he heartily thanks his God he neuer read one booke and can tell you what a dangerous booke it is and how many haue beene made Heretickes by it and by this meanes their Disciples bogle at it and auoyd it as snare or a pit in the way or a rocke in the sea Now if this bee true that the Scripture is so dangerous a booke and that preaching must be out of that booke who sees not that therefore in good Popish reason and Pope-holy religion it followeth that it beseemes all men to be wary tender and dainty euen how they make or heare too many Sermons For if the Scripture be a dangerous booke surely preaching cannot but be a dangerous exercise in which regard appeares the wisedome of the holy Romish Church who hath ordained there shall be Sermons daily in the Lent in most great Cities and so by making them proper to Lent she makes them seeme to be out of season all the yeare besides and in most places neuer expected neuer thought of till Lent come againe wheras contrariwise the holy and blessed Masse is alwayes in season and by the strict order of the holy Roman Church is daily to be said without omission nay some dayes two or three and euery day the more the better So then sermons are but the Lent prouision but Masses are the daily bread of the holy Roman Catholikes And howsoeuer the holy fathers the Popes and his Cardinals doe not trouble their heads nor disturbe the peoples mindes with much preaching yet they make them a bountifull amends with the multitude of Masses wherein all good Catholikes know they doe but as if a housholder kept away course bread and gaue his people store of fine Manchets for it for what bee sermons but as course bread but the Masses these bee the fine Manchers they be the dainty feeding for the refined stomackes of all Romish Catholikes Therefore let these bawling heretickes know that because the Popes Holinesse sawe the olde Church in former times surfetted of Sermons and that euery hereticke brought Scripture presently for his heresie therefore in these latter more prudent times they haue made a blessed exchange and for poore homely vestments wodden Chalices and a golden Cleargy haue giuen the people goodly rich Copes and golden Chalices good store to make amends for their leaden Bishops and wodden Priests which we cannot deny but are plentifull in many Catholique countries For the Scripture in the vulgar tongues which thereby was made too common and exposed to contempt haue giuen them the Latine Gospell in the Masse which is read so solemnly so stately and with such glorious ceremonies that all the people stand stricken with admiration and amazement and are oftentimes edified as much by

France to canonize and make Saints at his pleasure to set vp shrines for them and appoint them their holy daies as Sixtus the sixth lately made a new Spanish Saint namely S. Diego whom he canonized at the request of the last Phillip to encourage him in the inuasion of England Anno 88. * Vide canonizationem S. Didaci To make new holidayes and alter the Kalender as Gregory the 13. did putting out many of his old Saints by whom he hath got well and are now past date and out of memory and to put in new ones in their roome which as new broomes shall cleanly sweepe vp the gold of the world into his Coffers These are imployments fit for Popes and not to busie their brains and spend their spirits about preaching And are these all Nay who is able to recount all the honourable affaires his Holinesse hath to manage Therfore fie vpon these Decretum foolish heretickes who hold that the Pope ought to preach For is not he the vniuersall Bishop of the world and Pastor of Pastors and is not all the world his prouince and is not the care of the whole world and gouernement of the whole Church laid on his shoulders how then can he finde time to preach For besides all the aforenamed weighty imployments he hath much more to do and which none can doe but himselfe as namely to receiue appeales from all parts of the world made vnto him to review matters iudged and reuerse disanull and alter them at his pleasure to nominate and fill the Abbacies and Bishoprickes of the world as they fall voyd to elect into all places or at least to confirme the elections made by others to send his prouisions into all Lands for what liuings he list against they be voyd that hee may haue them to gratifie his Minions to appoynt generall Councels when and where and as oft as hee pleaseth to call them continue them proroge them remoue them dissolue them to nullifie or confirme them as he list or to take that that is for him and reiect that that is against him as hee did and yet doth in the Councels of Constantinople Chalcedon Constance and Basill To deuise and create new reliques when the old ones are lost perisht or worne and to hallow them that deuout Catholickes may haue what to worship and so may be encouraged to pay their rents well and when need is to execute his admirable skill in Arithmetical Multiplication or rather his transcendent power and Omnipotency for the multiplying of holy reliques as hee did to the great comfort and edification of his Church when he multiplyed S. Iohn Baptists head of one making three and of the three Kings of Collen making three more and found out a third arme of Saint Peter and that little and cursed Crosse which Simon of Cyrene once bare vpon his shoulders he by his mighty power hath multiplied in such sort as now neuer a ship in the world can carry it And as he multiplied the substance so hath he changed the nature and quality for being cursed before he hath made it now so blessed that as he Gretserus de Cruce Tom. 1. Cap. teacheth it ought to be worshipped with the same worship as Christ himselfe Oh silly heretickes that will tye him to study and preach that hath these things to doe what thinke they that these can be done in a day No no it hath cost the holy Mother Church many a yeares labour and it hath sore beaten her braine to bring these matters to this passe As for the multiplying of the nails that fastned Christs body to the crosse which of 3 are brought to more then 23 that we will not speake of as being but a small mater for euery Goldsmith can make of one great plate of gold 100 little ones and euery one as good gold as the great one but let vs leaue that and proceed to see what further imployments his holinesse hath Hath he no more to doe Yes to weed out the heresies that spring so fast with the hookes of his holy Inquisitions to confute the heretickes with those excellent arguments of Fire and Fagot Daggs and Daggers Pistols and Poniards Murders and Massacres to looke to the bookes and writings of the world that nothing be left that may make against him to allow what and how many hee will haue read and to barre or prohibite all the rest and for those that are to be read to alter them as hee seeth cause taking out what makes against him and putting in what nay make for him surely he hath little time to spare that hath all this to doe And yet hee hath more to doe namely to create new religions and set vp new orders For Christ when hee ascended left but one religion in the world but to multiply that one into many and to deriue 100 seuerall from it and yet all these to be religions this labour because it beseemed not the Author of vnity to leaue many but one religion he left to his Vicar who hath performed it most diligently for since his Ascension into heaven he hath reared vp at least an hundred more then Christ euer thought of and yet stil euery day he deuiseth more all tied together by the tailes like Sampsons Foxes but euery one looking and drawing seuerall wayes one pulling against another one enuying and supplanting another so that another businesse that much troubleth him is to reconcile them one to another and yet all he can doe is not sufficient to keepe them in loue and amity And when hee seeth any of them grow too high and too full of wealth then another part of his care is to squeaze the spunge being too full as hee did the Templars for their lands and riches whose order he puld downe and burnt their great Maister at Paris Thus to create newe religions and erect new orders to keepe them from one ouerthrowing another and to dissolue them againe when he seeth cause are not these sufficient imployments to keepe him from preaching if he had no other yet there is one more and that no small one which he hath to doe namely to looke to the succession of Princes and to take care how kingdomes may be prouided when their Princes either dye or be by him deposed As Innocentius the fourth hauing deposed Frederick the Emperour Alexander the fourth tooke paines to make a Decree touching the succession of the Empire publishing a Bull prohibiting and forbidding the Electors to chuse Conradus his sonne to be Emperour A fact without example and beyond beliefe that a forraine Prince should publickly dare to interpose himselfe in a forraine election and publish his letter to the world written against that Prince whom the Princes Flectors and all the Christian world had their eyes vpon as the most probable successor of the Empire But by this that idle Heretikes Huguenots Caluinists and Lutherans may see that the Pope is tied to no presidents of

then whoring or Adultery Alasse then who can blame them or rather doth not commend the holy Clergy of Rome if of the two euills they chuse the lesse to auoide the great and if any little fault remaine after that fact how easily may they goe to confession or as soone as they haue done all being Priests may one absolue another and so come out of the Stewes as holy and pure as they went in where as all good Catholikes know that these heretike Priests that haue their owne wiues though they neuer toucht other woman are neuer pure but euer defiled with that pollution that followes them in that damned estate of mariage as whatsoeuer the heretikes prate out of the Scriptures the holy Roman Church hath truely and holily determined Seeing therefore the Clergy in Rome are not wrapt in the sacrilegious bonds of marriage and so not tied to one And for all other scapes haue the holy and happy and present helpe of confession euer at hand and alwaies in season let no good Catholicke doubt but as all that haue trauelled thither doe well know holy Clergy men and Priests with pure Consciences are as common in Rome as post-horses in Venice And this Indulgence thus granted was confirmed by sixe and fortie Popes whose bodies doe all rest in the Church-yard 13 If 46. Popes lie buried in one Church-yard It seemes those daies were not so deuout as these of ours nor the Popes so pompous nor so rich for now it is not agreeable to Catholicke deuotion Nor to the Maiesty of his holinesse to be buried in a Churchyard but in as stately and pompous manner as any of the greatest kings of the earth of Saint Sebastian and namely by Pope Ieruatius Pelagius Vrbanus Siluester Benedict Honorius Leo Clement Innocent c. Who all and euery one of them haue confirmed the foresaid Indulgence for the increase of deuotion Furthermore it is found registred in the same most holy Monasterie that whosoeuer shall drinke the water of these three fountaines where Saint Paul was beheaded shall from thenceforth be deliuer frō whatsoeuer disease he hath 14 The Heretikes will here obiect and aske how it then comes to passe that any in Rome or neere it bee sicke or die of such filthy diseases as they doe for either they may here drinke and bee healed or else this here praemised is but a cosenage and delusion But heretikes are not worthy to be answered let thē go And whosoeuer shall drinke of these three fountaines as afore shall haue from euery fountaine a thousand yeares 15 Here is a sweet a gracious indulgēce when for drinking 3 draughts of 3 sweete fountaines in a hot Sommers day in a hot country a man may gaine 3000 yeares of pardon Is it not pity but so good a mother as the holy Roman Church should haue deuout children of pardon and all this because that when Saint Paul was there beheaded his head being smitten off leaped three times and at euery leape when it fell to the ground forthwith there sprung vp a fountaine of water 16 The Heretikes cauill and say that this is a fable of the three fountaines and that there is no good history for it and say further that he made and digged foureteene better fountaines and left them not for Rome alone but for all Christians and say that whosoeuer drink of these fountaines shall receiue true Indulgence indeed and haue the diseases of his soule healed but they babble and shew themselues true heretikes who alwaies come with Scripture Scripture But contrariwise al good Catholickes know that the holy Roman Church in these later and wiser daies found these fountaines so dangerous to drinke of that prudently she stopt and wald them vp within the wall of the Latine tongue And the wiser sort of Catholickes doe know and some of them are bold and zealous to affirme it had beene better for the Catholicke faith if they had beene better and safer stopt vp then they haue beene But as for these three blessed fountaines that sprange when Saint Pauls head leapt three times after it was smitten off which is as certaine as that Saint Denise tooke vp his head when is was striken off and carried it in his hands three miles as the Breuiary saith in his seruice these the Pope is sure will not infect the drinkers with heresie as those Epistles of Paul haue often done And therefore these fountaines his holinesse stops not vp but lets them be alwaies open that good Catholickes may resort vnto them at all times of the yeare and from all parts of the world to the great honour of Saint Paul at least to the great gaine of his holinesse and of the Roman Citizens who could not well maintaine their City without these good helps and consequently to the great aduancement of the holy Catholicke Roman faith Moreouer in the Chappell there is saphire stone which whē it is laid to the side of a sick-man that hath an Apostem presently the sicke partie shal be healed with onely touching Also in the same Chappell there doe rest the bodies of many holy Martires and Confessors And there is also the sword with which Saint Paul was beheaded and it standeth there in a wall 17 Behold a most pretious relicke the sword that cut off Saint Pauls head And hath not the Popes holinesse good cause to preserue and honour the sword that cut off his head who durst rebuke Saint Peter whose successor he is The Caluinists bragge of a better sword which they say Saint Paul left them Ephes 6. 1. The sword of the Spirit which is the word of God but let them like foolish Cockes take the barley come and leaue vs the Iewell for all good Catholickes know that the sword of the Scripture howeuer Paul commended it in those times is found in these daies to bee a dangerous sword to be vsed and the holy Roman Church had neuer seene so many of her children fall to be Cauinists and Lutherans had it not been that the vse of this sword was too easily and freely premitted vnto them As for this sword that cut off Saint Pauls head that neuer did hurt to the Catholicke Roman Church but hath gained it many a faire million of crownes euen the very shewing of it to people and pilgrimes seeing then the Popes holinesse gaines so well by this sword and hath lost so much by the sword of the Spirit full wisely therefore he prohibits the vse of that sword but allowes the other to bee seene of all men and if Saint Paul bee angry that wee make more account of the sword that cut of his head then that sword of the spirit which vpon his knowledge he commended so earnestly to the Church let him know his holinesse cares not a pin for though he was so bold to reprehend Peter when they were on earth Yet now his holinesse being Peters successor hath made and enacted it for a law