in so doing as Petrus Rauennus saith Though handling kissing be occasions of inconstancie and vnchastity in lay persons yet in priestes and those that are in holy orders it is far otherwise a wife he must disauow forswear but not a whore It is not good to touch a woman therfore it is euil And seeing euery priest maketh a God euery day or as often as he consecrateth and therefore excelleth the virgine Mary that did beare him but once and from vvhom he onely tooke flesh and bloud It can not be that they can intende commit or performe any such greate euill And if they doe vvhat great matter is it seeing Christ redeemed the whol vvorld vvith one drop of his bloud and left the rest to the pope his vicar generall at Rome and from him to all the other priestes that they mighte haue the ouerplus to make pardons vvithall for these eyther waightye or petty offenders It vvould vvery a man to reckon vp all their abhominations The Pope and his generation are as like vnto Christe as light is vnto darknes and as Parsons Owle is to a Nightingale For Christe being God became verye man the pope being an abhominable man taketh vpon him the office of God yea and to bee aboue him and his word Christ humbled himselfe and put him selfe as it vvere out of himselfe the pope maketh himselfe equal with God not without rob bery more then God Christ neuer came amōgst the multitude vpō a barred horse both with swordes keyes like a Prynce and a Prieste thoughe in deede he vvere both But the pope that wil needes be his Vicar he hath done it The two swords vvith Christ are both iurisdictions ciuil ecclesiastical a Pope in the forenoone a vvarier in the after yea Emperours kings princes dukes serue him vvaite vpon his styrrup leade his horse holde basen and to vvell carry in his seruice vvaite vppon his cup kneeling and all the rest kneeling vvhile this is a doing They beare his Canopy ouer his head they kisse his foote and vvhom the Lorde hath annointed to beare his image amongst men they abase themselues and become slaues to this prond beaste of abomination Christ had conuersation vvith the poore the pope looketh at leisure vpon the mighty and he scarcely vouchsafeth them his presence Christ liued sparing ly and porely they deliciously and wantonly Pope Iuly notvvithstanding his goute vvoulde haue his porke in despite of God and was in such a rage also for his pecocke that he blasphemed God alleaging that if God vvere angrye 〈◊〉 an apple hee had greater cause to be angry for his pecocke Christe vvashed his disciples 〈◊〉 the pope treadeth vpon the Lords annointed vvith his feete He crouned Henry the sixt vvith his foote and vvith his foote vncrovvned him againe Christe 〈◊〉 to be made a king the pope giueth disposeth and transposeth kingdomes at his pleasure and appoyntmente He setteth princes and Subiectes together by the eares and maynteineth factions on all sides to vpholde his proude Hierarchie 〈◊〉 Gregory the second did irritate the subiects of Leo the Emperour agaynst him As 〈◊〉 assoyled Pypin and the rest of the Frenche from their othe and alleageance to Childericke vvhome hee made to trotte at his horse hecles three miles together Phocas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a murtherer is by him lifted vp to an Empire he againe for recompence aduaunceth him to be Antichrist by giuing him that which the other sought for to wit to be the vniuersall Bishop which his predecessors condemned Hildebrand that firebrand of hel of whom al stories write shame made Henry the fourth with his wife Sunne to coole his feete the space of three daies at his gate before he would admit him to his presence and yet that was by the 〈◊〉 of his whore And Clement the 〈◊〉 who pronoūced the empire to belong to him made Dan dalus a noble man an Embassador from the vene tiās in chaines like a dog to lie vnder his table The Pope is the Sunne The Emperor is but the moone Emperors princes be his Vassalles feodaries receiue their crovvns dignities frō him They become his men Euery hedge priest is before a prince because Priests make God but al his Princes are the Popes creatures Christ * sent his disciples to preach the Gospel The pope his Cardinals persecute stop the preaching of the gospel their chiefest busines is to practise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that his Soueraignty may be maintained in al dominiōs Christ himselfe taught the gospel The pope can flye as wel as preach * Christ being both poore weake vvas compelled to bear his ovvn crosse the pope being fat strōg is born of others * Christ wore a crown of thorns the Pope weareth a triple crovvn of gold 〈◊〉 with precius stons * Christ vvold not take vpō him the deciding a ciuel cause vvhen tvvo brethren stroue for land The pope vvil meddle vvith al causes deale with al persons in heauen earth and hell Christ died to saue vs bring vs to heauen the Pope liueth to kil vs and lead vs to hell Christ thorough his death recōciled vs to his father the Pope continually killeth vs and dravveth vs to his father the diuel Fire vvater are not so 〈◊〉 as Christ and the pope Christ vvas true and sincere he is fals and counterfaite and notvvithstanding al the prerogatiues of his chayre as hath bene partly touched before vvhich as Cusan saith hath the trueth cleauing vnto it yet it is euident that Leo Liberius Anastasius vvere Arians Celestinus and Marcellinus Nestorians Honorius vvas a Monotholite Ioh. 13. a cruel villain the 14 a tyrant Hildebrand an helhounde a coniurer an incestuous vvretche Reade his life set out by one of his ovvne Cardinalles Boniface the 8. vvho entred as a VVolfe raigned like a Lyon and died like a dogge vvas so farre from not erring that he is tainted vvith all kinde of villanies and is accused to haue affirmed vvhoredome to be no more sinne then the chaffing of tvvo hands together No more vvas Pope Paschall vvho set the sonne of Henrie the fifte againste his ovvne father And made Pope Calixte to ride through Rome vppon a Camill vvith his face tovvard the tayle and to holde the 〈◊〉 tayle in his hande in steede of a bridle vvhiche doeth no more commende his innocenice then this doeth Pope Innocentes vvho armed Philippe of Fraunce agaynste King Iohn sometime our souereigne Prince to the disturbance vndooing and spoyle of this Realme Thinke you not that Pope 〈◊〉 the fourth also vvas a holy Father vvho not onely himselfe vvas giuen to that sylthie sinne of
lavves against the procuring of excommunications Bulles or ecclesiasticall censures from the pope or See of Rome against the king or any of his 〈◊〉 in those dayes when popery moste flourished 〈◊〉 the time of Edward the first one for 〈◊〉 an excommunication from Rome againste one of the 〈◊〉 subiectes vvas 〈◊〉 the realme and had suffered as in case of high 〈◊〉 had not the Chan cellor and treasurer of England made speciall suite for him Theresore also it vvas enacted that no forreign power should hold any plea without the kings protection vvithin this realme or take any vvithout The pope should giue no benefices nor byshop rickes here They that procured cytations or procurations from Rome fell into a Premunire So did they that tooke letters of Attourney lormes or administrations for benefices vvithout the kings speciall licence It was made death to 〈◊〉 procure or cause to be procured any Summons excommunications or 〈◊〉 from Rome If any tooke vpon them the 〈◊〉 of any byshop sued any proces or sentence excommunication Bull or 〈◊〉 touching the kings crown or regality brought them in or receiued them notified them or made execution of them vvithin the Realme or vvithout both the offenders and mainteiners vvere out of the kings protection their Landes and goods vvere con fiscate and Bulles from Rome for 〈◊〉 was a 〈◊〉 I speake not of our late parliamentes and lavves because they vvill holde they are 〈◊〉 as not being ratified by their Pope and themselues This being so manifest plaine I maruell at Campions impudencye that vvill auouch the Romish religion not only by 〈◊〉 and philosophy but also by law both ciuil temporall yet in force and yet herein I 〈◊〉 appeal to those lawyers that are his best frends 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 mostè the laws stāding as they do if they vvould plainly shevv their iudgment 〈◊〉 must the trial of Gods religiō that is alway one perfect be subiect novv to the changeable 〈◊〉 of men and yet it may appeare in al ages and times sith Antichriste displayed himselfe that hee and his members haue beene the 〈◊〉 practisers of treasons that euer 〈◊〉 and being such euill men haue brought forth those good 〈◊〉 that hath ben made agaynst such vsurpation and vnnaturall trechery against God 〈◊〉 naturall prince state and country I could 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from their practise specially vvhen princes began to see some 〈◊〉 of the truth And this vvas the cause that vvhen king Henry began to banishe the Popes aúthority he and his land vvere interdicted And did not Cardinall Poole 〈◊〉 Charles the 〈◊〉 in an oration being bent against the 〈◊〉 to leaue all that businesse to bend his 〈◊〉 against 〈◊〉 encouraging the subiectes of the 〈◊〉 against their souereigne Lorde The gospell and the 〈◊〉 thereof hovvsoeuer 〈◊〉 be charged by viperous 〈◊〉 tongues such 〈◊〉 as Surius VVicellus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the rest vvho seeme to haue 〈◊〉 that faculty aboue the rest that from it and the preachers thereof hath sprung 〈◊〉 blodshed disobedience contention and 〈◊〉 in france Germany and other countries The trueth is that from themselues and vnder their ovvn vvings these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of treason and rebellion haue euermore bene hatched or else from suche 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 I mean the 〈◊〉 vvho howsoeuer they differ in some heads yet they are fast tied together by the 〈◊〉 For Caluine Beza Luther and such other excellent instruments haue bin from time to time the onely oppugners and resisters of these heretiques and their rebellious proceedinges when papists haue clapped their handes and laughed in 〈◊〉 sleeues at them because hereby truth was brought into hatred vvith Christian princes they 〈◊〉 the aduantage to set vp their 〈◊〉 I dolatry and heresie And therefore I vvonder not a litle at this platterfaced ovvle of Parsons that vvith his staring and shamelesse countenance dareth euen to the maiesty of a prince vvhom the Pope his maister and al the right Papists such as he calleth the hotter sort of Catholiques condemne as a Schismatique heretique and therfore think themselues discharged of all obedience and her highnesse to haue no 〈◊〉 of gouernment ouer them that he should thus savvn vpon her vvhō he condemneth and loueth as vvel as the light of the gospel vvhich neither he nor any of that darke broode could euer abide yet I say that he dareth thus shamlesly to flatter as thogh she were so simple to be caried away with vvords when she seeth vnderstādeth their deeds hath selt their practises and if God of his wōderful mercy had not kept her highnes had tasted of their cruelty as other Princes noble gentlemē haue done before her round about her VVhat should I blot paper in setting down such things as euery book soundeth forth only let vs hear out of the mouth of the papaists on of their own doctors how they 〈◊〉 of her 〈◊〉 I meane not to set dovvn that might yeelde me some aduantage against them as neyther standing vvith my 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 spoken to the dishonoure of her maiesties person not beeing fit to be noted by vvriting in the face of the world but rather to receiue a punishment due for suche presumtuous 〈◊〉 onely I vvill mention howe he maketh Story Felton others that vvere condemned not in any cause of religion but for high treason 〈◊〉 he maketh them Martyrs The moste 〈◊〉 that refuse without al reason the meanes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and haue bene for 〈◊〉 iust 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet 〈◊〉 he calleth constāt 〈◊〉 but I hope some of thē are ashamed I know whatsoeuer they ar they may be to haue their names in such a kalēder Of those same rebels in the north that appeared in actuall rebelliō against her highnesse he maketh a solemne kalēder he putteth in a Catalogue their names cōditions giuing it this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qu 〈◊〉 fidem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 arma 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The names cōditions of those englishmen vvhich tooke arms are yet in exile for the Catholike 〈◊〉 for the primacy of the church of Rome He reherseth the Bull of 〈◊〉 Quintus against her highnesse plainly asseuereth that it vvas for iuste causes declared published He calleth her maiesty the pretended Queene and sheweth hovve Doctor Morton was sent into England to admonish 〈◊〉 catholike noble mē that Elizabeth that then gouerned vvas an 〈◊〉 that for that cause she was by very right fallen from all gouernment power vvhich she vsurped ouer the catholiques that she might be 〈◊〉 of them without any danger 〈◊〉 an heathen publicane neither that they were frō 〈◊〉 bound to obey her laws 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he sheweth that 〈◊〉 noble men 〈◊〉 to deliuer their brethren ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de from the tyranny of heretiques and albeit thinges fel not out to 〈◊〉 expectation
And therefore he is rightly called Antichrist because he shall particularly oppose himselfe againste Christe our onely mediatour and sauiour And as 〈◊〉 in composition signifieth For and agaynste as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is hee vvhich is in the Kings steede or agaynst the King so bothe 〈◊〉 this agreeth of the pope For that 〈◊〉 is Christes 〈◊〉 and yet setteth him selfe 〈◊〉 Christe bothe in Doctrine and manners And though he do not this in plaine vvords because he hath tvvo * hornes like a Lambe and yet a * dragons mouth yet it is 〈◊〉 that hee counterfayteth 〈◊〉 the Gospell but a fable and vsing only die name and letter of it for his gayne and aduantage * Christe came to fulfill the lavves vvhich vvere ordeyned of his Father the pope violateth 〈◊〉 dispenseth 〈◊〉 them and altereth them at his pleasure * 〈◊〉 submitted him selfe to the 〈◊〉 vvill of his father * humbled him selfe to the death of the Crosse * declared his kingdome not to be of this vvorld * 〈◊〉 vvhen they vvould haue made him king * refused the decyding of cruill causes * rendred obedience to 〈◊〉 magistrates the Pope challengeth of right to be Christs high and generall vicar 〈◊〉 him selfe 〈◊〉 all soueraigntye and povver 〈◊〉 agaynste the very Angels iustleth the vvoid of God out of his Churches keepeth it lockt in a straunge 〈◊〉 from the vnderstanding of the cōmō people demeth al obedience chalengeth both the 〈◊〉 and medleth in all 〈◊〉 All that holde of him muste honour him for Peters successor though 〈◊〉 be a Iudas and a theese yet he must be the head of Christes Church without 〈◊〉 vndergoe the gouernement of it which onely 〈◊〉 to Christe Maruel it is how contrary they be to thēselues in so substantiall poyntes of their religion For at other times they affirme that the spirite can neuer depart from him and then howe can he bee a thiefe and a Iudas and cary soules to hell VVhatsoeuer Christ requireth it maketh no matrer he admitteth nothing neyther must they that is againste his prerogatiue against his idolatrous Masse traditions ceremonies and customes * Christ will haue his children to beware of Idols The Pope will haue them placed worshipped in euery Church * Christ saith you erre not knowing the scriptures the pope his adherents for him say The scriptures breede errors that ignorance is the mother of deuotion that the people are swine and dogs holy thinges are not to be giuen vnto them they are dumb Iudges dead ynke a blacke gospel ynken diuinity therefore the Church is the liuely brest of Christe The Church of Rome may giue authority to writings which neither haue it of thēselues nor of their Authors The fables of Esope the comedies of Terence may if the Church will be made Canonicall scriptures 〈◊〉 the Pope teacheth is the expresse word of God whosoeuer leaneth not to the doctrine of the 〈◊〉 and of the Bishop of Rome as to the 〈◊〉 rule of God of whiche the 〈◊〉 taketh force and 〈◊〉 hee is an Heretique 〈◊〉 the authoritie of the Churche is aboue the authoritie of the Gospel The change of the Churches iudgement chaungeth Gods iudgement and Gods commandement also VVho can vvithout horror and trembling in all his ioy nts 〈◊〉 these blasphemies which this man of sinne 〈◊〉 himselfe in his members beleheth out against the maiesty of the moste highest I meane Andradius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pighius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Osorius Melchior Canus Harding Sanders and suche other bottomles locustes In deede our new Iesuites M. Censurer and suche like vvho hath vndertaken Campions defence and the rest of this nevv broode they seeme to dislike this old rotten stuffe For they professe knowledge they seeme to take a course of Catechising and laying foorth the principles of Popish religion auouching the necessity of being learned and taughte so that Hosius Collyers sayth to beleeue as the Church beleeueth is scarce sufficient with them And yet al this helpeth not their cause for that they refuse to bee directed by the rule of fayth vvhich is the onely vvorde of God * The doctrine of Christ acknowledgeth but one mediator the Pope and papistes an infinite number Christ teacheth that his doctrine is profitable full and absolute to make the man of God 〈◊〉 The pope and his shauelinges saye it is not so and therefore vve must receiue vnvvritten verities traditions and vvhatsoeuer theire idle braynes vvyll thrust out vnto vs. The scripture sayth * It is a more blessed thing to giue then to take The Pope sendeth out his infinite svvarmes of begging 〈◊〉 the very Locustes that came out of the bottomlesse pit that deuour vp all that groweth vpon thearth vvho take all and giue nothing The number of which Sectaries following sundry Sect masters and patrons vvas long agoe amounted to 94. sundrye 〈◊〉 beyond all vvhich the Iesuites now go vvho seeming to professe more learning 〈◊〉 and righteousnes are the greatest hipocrites confirming their falfe doctrine vvith wonderfull illusions which they call miracles vvho yet are as emptie of trueth godlines and vertue as any of their predecessors S. Frauncis that in most thinges was preferred before Christe vvith vvhome Augustine S. Clare and S. Bridget by their disciples were matched are now put cleane out of countenance and their memories in a manner 〈◊〉 blotted out by these new repairers of that 〈◊〉 church Christ taught that mariage was lawful he consirmed it both by doctrine myracle vvith his owne presence the Pope and his greasie 〈◊〉 condemn it as vnholy and rather admitting whoredoome to their Clearks and such as haue receiued 〈◊〉 marke then this 〈◊〉 remedy they giue thē a vvatch worde to walke vvarily 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 caute And though they vvill needes haue it a Sacramente yet it defileth their Cleargy as a prophane thing and is for them vtterly vnlawfull And as the Pope in 〈◊〉 and in an infinite number of other pointes the greatest and vvaightieste of 〈◊〉 religion 〈◊〉 him selfe flatly against Christ so do all they vvho hold of him whom for that cause vve iustly call papistes Such holde this Antichrist the pope to be their onely Gods vicar in earth they depende vppon him as heade of the Churche in whome they acknowledge the only direction and ordering of al Churche 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 throughout the vvorlde in all kingdomes and countries and therefore 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 of God and the vvholesome lavves prouided in that behalfe they shut out all Princes and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from hauing any thing to doe 〈◊〉 those cases they barre them from the 〈◊〉 of their ovvne kingdomes and from the most principall charge *
it in it ovvne language vvhich vvhilest men haue neglected we see hovv by the 〈◊〉 indgement of God they haue 〈◊〉 into palpable darknesse I wil omit the Psalmes as they are sung in the popish churches diuers other places in sundry lessons moste absurd in euery popish pie and ser uice booke of theirs yet extant For to reckon them all vvoulde make a iust volume and vveary a man Onely let this be marked that as Hierome noteth the corruption of the Greeke interpretation of the seuenty interpretors vvhich eyther came through ignorance or negligence or both so the common translation done by an vn knowne aucthor drawne from them strayeth further The Greeke I will passe ouer and only note some fevv places out of the lattin sufficiētly cōuincing the translatiō that is to be none of Hieroms because it differeth so much both from the Hebrue the Greek as in the 65 Psal. ver 11. where he saith thou shalt water the riuers in sted of the furrowes in 68. Psalme verse 19 day and daily in steed of daily and in the 87. 〈◊〉 vers 6. there is read Nunquid de Syon vvheras 〈◊〉 is neither in the Hebrue not Greeke and so there he saith Many were For many vvere borne in her and in the 88 Psalme vers 14. Lord vvhy doest thou reiect my prayer for my soule The places are infinit and haue bene found fault vvith by many and yet neuer mēded by any onely somtimes they set the trueth in the margent but they keep the errors stil in the text vvhich shevveth their malic as in the article referred to the seede and vvhich is masculine yet that they may mainteine their error they keepe the article feminine and vvould haue it vnderstood of the virgine So for 〈◊〉 domum shee svvepte the house they keep euertit domum she ouerthrevv the house 1. Pet. 4. 23. He cōmitted himselfe to him that iudgeth vniustly referring that vnto Pilate if it haue any sence vvhich the Apostle meaneth to god For it is contrary He committed him selfe or his cause to God to him that iudgeth iustly These a nūber of such absurdities there are some noted also by diuers greate learned men vvherof I make no mention yet forsooth they vvill haue vs onely bound to this cōmon translation and no other VVe say notvvithstanding that vve are so farre from condemning the labours of those 70. interpreters vvosocuer they vvere that 〈◊〉 thanke God for them vvherein they haue done well we praise their industrie and so doe vve the labours of him that did that common translation and theirs also that since 〈◊〉 rendred any thing either out of the Hebrue or Greeke but thervvithall vve affirme vvith Hierome that if any question arise amongst the lattines concerning the new 〈◊〉 or if the copies vary vve must go to the 〈◊〉 of the Greeke or if any doubte occure vvith the Greekes we must to the Hebrue read Augustines councell in his booke de doctrina Chr 〈◊〉 lib. 1. If this course had ben held since God gaue encrease of knovveledge from the beginning many 〈◊〉 had bene amended and the papists vvould not haue ben so obstinat in that vvhich they cannot defend but it is the proper nature of these 〈◊〉 of God still to vpholde errors neuer to acknovvledge their 〈◊〉 and faults 〈◊〉 the children of God are 〈◊〉 ready to amend that vvhich is amisle and to be thankfull to them that admonish them Such enemies they are to God that they ioyne and participate vvithal the heretikes that euer vvere in one pointe of heresie or other They haue nothing sound in the vvhole masse and body of their religion From Satan the subtil serpēt vvhose eldest sonne this Antichriste is he carrieth his fathers resemblaunce in all things The Adamites vvere beastly againste marriage vvente naked vsed all kindes Sexes in common and 〈◊〉 as vvee read the frantique Annabapristes did likevvise and hovv 〈◊〉 off are they from these villanies Pope Leo the 9. and Paschall the one in the yeare 1150. the other 1100. ioyne both together in the condemnation of marriage Their ovvne diuines teach their priesthoode to be defiled vvith marriage but not vvith harlots yea that it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to playe the 〈◊〉 then to marrie It is 〈◊〉 for a Christian man vvho hath not a vvise to haue a concubine Neither doe 〈◊〉 forsvveare incontinencie but matrimonie This is the cause that the Pope taketh a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his Priestes for their concubines and in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they haue any or no they paye their 〈◊〉 for it And 〈◊〉 Syxtus buylded Stevves for bothe kindes like an horrible monster in the yeare of Christe 1474. Herein they likewise ioyne vvith Tatianus Montanus and Carpocrates for they mayntein the 〈◊〉 tollerate vvhooredome by bulles and licences yea they preferre Sodomitrie and filthy buggery before that holy remedy of mariage in their priestes vvhich God hath appointed sor a remedye to all that haue not the gifte of 〈◊〉 and therefore Paul the thirde besides his common reuenevve sor forty fiue thousande whoores 〈◊〉 paying forty thousand duckets in Rome he had also as some report forty thousande ruffians kept vppon their charges at an houres vvarning to do him any kinde of seruice For euery one of these harlots had a champion to keepe her house to be her speciall desendant vvhatsoeuer other incōmers there vvere besides And though Parsons Nichols discouerer defends both the stevvs and the stipends arising to his vnholy holinesse for them vnder the name of a punishmente yet vvho seeth not that it is tollerated vpon this condition and matrimonie cannot be tollerated in priestes vppon any condition The 〈◊〉 taught the putting awaye of mens vviues for any cause and so in a manner doe they For the pope will dispence vvith any and there are tvvelue 〈◊〉 alleadged such as the scripture 〈◊〉 aproued off why mē may put away their wiues The 〈◊〉 vvoulde haue the vse of othe mens wiues adultery and sornication to bee an indifferent thing and so will they For they teache that simple fornication is no sinne and though M. 〈◊〉 slaunder Luther for pleading the 〈◊〉 of marriage as much as of eating and drinking yet they say in deed it is lawful to haue a woman once in a moneth ad de 〈◊〉 renes to purge the reynes I would haue seene lusty Campion to haue beene as diligent in 〈◊〉 the manifest abhominations of their 〈◊〉 and Canonistes as hee is to corrupt Luthers sayings and to dub that whiche before vvas dispr oued and neither coldly nor fearfully defended But they and their complices haue 〈◊〉 vvhole bookes de ratione 〈◊〉 liberos de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 concubandi and Ioannes a Casa an Archbishoppe hath vvritten a booke in the prayse of filthy Sodomitrie calling it a diuiue vvoorke Horrible vvere
Kin. 21. b Though this be spoken of al in respect of original sinne yet by a special priueledge it belongeth to this troupe of perdition Iob. 15. Ephes. 4. Rom. 1. a Saunders de visibili monar chia Ecclesiae lib. 8 cap. 3. c. b Plinie lib. 10. Nat 〈◊〉 cap. 17. Auxiliatur Accipiter colegio quodam naturae bellumque partitur c Aug. lib. 20. de ciuitate dei cap. 19. Apo. 13. 15. 16. Chris. in epist. ad Thes. ca. 2. Apoc. 17. 18. * Ioh. 14. 1. Tim. 1. * Phil. 2. Iude. * Rom. 10. * Rom. 1. a Read the spanish 〈◊〉 and the stories of Fraunce England Scotland and other countries a Volater in Polych onic b Mare histor Ioh. Marius c 〈◊〉 lib. 2. cap. 12 〈◊〉 Anno 928. d Plat Sabellic Luitprand e Volater Plat. Ioannes Mari us Naucieru Chronic. Sigisb Robert 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 6. Capg in catalogo Anglic. f Volater lib. 12. Platina Praemonstratensis a Capg in Catolo c. b Plattin a seteth out the vvhole story fully c Supplementum chronic mare histor 〈◊〉 tempor Ioh. Marius Rob Barnes d Bucchingarus 〈◊〉 e 〈◊〉 the Cardinal Sigebert volat Carranza a This vvas he vvho before vvas called Hildebrand his life is writ ten by Benno the Cardinall Marianus Scotus b Blondus Plat Othofr and others say that Benedict vvas in the pallace at Lateran Syluester and Gregorye and Clement the second vvas elected the 4. Caranza c De 〈◊〉 obedientia Vnam sanctā in glossa distinc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 * Apoc 17. 18. * Apoc 16. 16. Virgii lib. 2. Georgic d Roma metro 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hanc olim ve teres c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e Vrbs septicolis 〈◊〉 nate 〈◊〉 illa 〈◊〉 Roma Chryso hom 40. in Mat. Bernard ad Eugenium * Apoc. 17. 18. a Read Lact. lib. 7. cap. 17. b Polycr Caxton Marianus Scotus Martinus Polonus Sabellicus 〈◊〉 9. lib. 1. pag. 469 c 〈◊〉 tem Mare historiarum Plat and a number besides d Penes portam Petri Pauli peperit Papa pater patriae paruulum puerum * Apoc 17. 18. 18. 9. Ioh. 17. Near the gate of Peter and Paul the pope the father of the country brought forth a little childe a Actiue pas 〈◊〉 dicitur filius 〈◊〉 2. Thes. 2. 4. 7. b Plattina 〈◊〉 Anno 〈◊〉 Confirmed by a Synod vnder 〈◊〉 607. by 62. b. shops 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 deacons Synod 〈◊〉 vnder Constance Heracli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Gregor lib. 40 32. 36. 〈◊〉 40 〈◊〉 38. li. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 30 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. Apoc. 16. 13. c. 17. 3. 4. Apoc. 3. 11. Apoc. 〈◊〉 13. 〈◊〉 4. 10. b Leo the tenth said it to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 22. 42. c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 art 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 caus 15. 〈…〉 pope Mar. 〈…〉 〈◊〉 2. 8. Ioh. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6. 13. Luk. 12. 13. Mat 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 d Pelag dist 21. cap. e 〈◊〉 Nich. 〈◊〉 21. cap inferior f Bulla Clementis g Dist. 〈◊〉 3. 40 〈◊〉 h Non habet papa superiorem i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tat 3. Distinc. 〈◊〉 2. in her 〈◊〉 at 1370 a Glossa extrauag de sede vacant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Decret de translat Episcopi cap. Quanto 1. 〈◊〉 5. ver vlt. b See Carolus magnus Catharinus in libello de imaginibus 〈◊〉 in ca. 1. ad Rom. Sand. de Typhon adora imaginum c Conci Trid. ses 4. de canon cis Scrip. d Harding in his ansvver to the challēge Mat. 22. 29. Hosius de 〈◊〉 dei 〈◊〉 f Pighius in lo cis communi 〈◊〉 lib. 1. cap. 2. g Eckius Hosius lib. 4. de tradit 〈◊〉 Dei 〈◊〉 i 〈◊〉 Roman distinct 〈◊〉 Cusanus li. 6. excitat vbi ecclesia k Prierius contra 〈◊〉 l 〈◊〉 lus Hos vt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Andr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. contr 〈◊〉 m Andra. 〈◊〉 2 〈◊〉 n Orth. 〈◊〉 19. a Vaux Canisius catechisme printed at Antvverp by Plantine b Carbonaris fides fides ecclcsiae romanae Fides Romana id est 〈◊〉 1. Tim. 25. c To the virgin Salua omnes qui 〈◊〉 glorificant d Thomas 〈◊〉 kets bloude is made a ladder to heauen 2. 〈◊〉 2 〈◊〉 e 〈◊〉 Roma 〈◊〉 nugas dabit accipit 〈◊〉 verba dat 〈◊〉 Romae nunc sola pecunia regnat Act. 20. 35. a Lambert in pre The 〈◊〉 of conformities in the beginning S. Clare Bridget S. Kat. and our S. Kath. of Seene with all their goodly reuelations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ioh 2. 3. 5. 1. Tim. 4. 1 Cor. 7. 〈◊〉 13 b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 82 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 di 34 cap lector c 〈◊〉 otho licet ad 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dist 82. 〈◊〉 d The name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Saund. 〈◊〉 and all the 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 a Christus 〈◊〉 coelo paesidet papa in terris residet 〈◊〉 17. 17. 18 19. 20 3. Reg. 5. 2. 2. Par. 1. b Hovvlet 〈◊〉 c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alias Ducket executed the last of Iulie 1581. A verve 〈◊〉 and vvilfull 〈◊〉 proueth this d Iacob 〈◊〉 trac de 〈◊〉 lib. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tim. 2. * 〈◊〉 7. 10. Rom. 6. * Psal. 110. 4. Heb. 15. 10. 7. 21. * Heb. 10. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. c. Phil. 4. 18. Heb. 13. 16. Psal. 51. Heb. 4. 4 26. 〈◊〉 10. 12. 14 Heb. 〈◊〉 11. Heb. 10. 7. 12. 15. 16. 17. a D. Smith of the sacramen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the reall presence 1. Cor. 11. 23 26. b Durandi rationat 〈◊〉 see Gabriel Biel. the Pontificall a Alexand. ab Alexandr lib. Ouid. de 〈◊〉 Genialio 40. cap. 17. b Rom. 1. 19. 20. 21. c. c 2. Thess. 2. 7. Sacerdos est creator sui creatoris Qui creauit me sine me iam creatur mediante me d In the title do dignitate sa cerdotum in a masse booke printed at Paris a Ioh. Andreas Innocentius Ioh. de turre cremata de ec cle Summa b Lanfr contra VVicklefum Lepus c See their casus 〈◊〉 d Hochstratus Eckius in his Enchiridion Hosius de expresso dei verbo Laurentius Ockam in dia logo par 1. lib. 5. Ioan. Dreido de Dogmatib vari s. lib. 4. e See the stories of their gouernment the book of martirs Spanishe inquisitio c. f Iuly 18. 1581 g Iohn Diazius Pantalio in his Chronic. Sleyd an Chrisp a Hovvlet pag 5. 6. b M. Dimocke his ovvne friends hath testified this to be true c Bridevvell a fit place for M. 〈◊〉 that behaued her selfe immodestly before aucthority Diuers that vvere of the priuate church were committed to that place till they vvere reformed Conscientia non fine scientia a Se the lamen table stories of England France Irelād c. Rom. 13. b 〈…〉 a As Daniel in the Chaldey some other vvere in Syriake al the rest in Hebrue and Greeke b Reade Freder Furius de lib. sacris in vernaculum conuertendis c The common translation fathered vpon Hierom non