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A69022	The baiting of the Popes bull. Or an vnmasking of the mystery of iniquity, folded vp in a most pernitious breeue or bull, sent from the Pope lately into England, to cawse a rent therein, for his reentry With an advertisement to the Kings seduced subiects. By H.B.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.; Catholic Church. Pope (1623-1644 : Urban VIII)	1627 (1627)	STC 4137.3; ESTC S106960	93,251	154

of heauen for his rebillious pride and shall his sonnes thinke to gaine heauen by the merit of their proud rebellions Suffice it Cain when his very conscience gaue him to be a vagabond and exile from that city aboue and justly for his bloody fratricide he was the first that founded and built a city on earth for his habitation Cain was a figure of the Pope and his city of Rome the Popes eternall habitation And for the Popes diadems of eternitie we reade of a certaine kind of Locusts arising out of the bottomlesse pit hauing a scorpion-like power to sting yet whose power was limitted not to hurt but onely those which haue not the seale of God in their foreheades which Locusts like horses prepared to battell had on their heads as it were crownes of gold Such Diadem may the Pontifician priests merit to weare who not onely resemble these Locusts but are those very froggs spoken of Reu. 16 13 14. which are vncleane spirits comming out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the false Prophet being the spirits of Deuils working miracles and go forth vnto the Kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battaile of that great daie of God Almightie But passe we to the next Indeed we had rather being mindfull of humane frailty that glory and riches were in the Tabernacles of the righteous but when we contemplate your miseries Beloued Sonnes we put so much confidence in your vertue and Christs defence that we dare gratulate vnto you plenty of triumphs Answer INdeede wee cannot blame your father-hood ●o wish all prosperity to your Beloued Sonnes and for your selfe and your triumphall chaire wee are not ignorant how prouident you haue beene in your Pontificall Decrees to estblish a triumphant state in that your palace at Rome to be free from all incursions and inuasions and that by your Apostolicke irrefragable constitution Onely wee cannot but admire to see how in the midst of all your Pontificiall pleasures and pompe you can reflect the bcames of your contemplation vpon the miseries of your afflicted Sonnes in England But herein yee show the bowells of a father But you are sensible thereof onely in your contemplation If you contemplate this out of some propheticall vision foreseeing the calamities which your sonnes impieties through your fatherly instigation may further pull vpon them if they shall attempt some speciall service for your father-hood wherein they shall faile of their purpose herein wee desire and hartily pray you may bee as true a Prophet as Balaam was who though you would neuer so faine to obtaine an housefull of gold and siluer which you haue formerly had out of England yet the curse in the end shall fall vpon your own Moabites But if you contemplate and such great present calamitie vpon your sonnes among vs wee are giuen hereby to perceiue that your holinesse may erre vnlesse you will excuse it that you speake it by the figure Iroma you are able to contemplate more herein then all wee can discerne with open eyes Yea on the contrary whereof your holinesse cannot bee ignorant your sonnes are so kindly intreated among vs as though wee might thinke thereby to winne them the more to loue vs and our religion yet forasmuch as they are your holinesse owne sones wee meane the Jesuites and Preists especially the truth is we haue the more cause to feare them We know of old what recompence to expect of the snake if wee foster him in our bosomes Thus doe your sonnes recollect their strength among vs and such vertue wherein to repose your confidence Herevpon it is in plaine truth that your holinesse dare congratulate to your sonnes such plenty of triumphs you may bee confident of it so long as your frogs are suffered to friske and range vp and downe among vs at pleasure without controwle in defiance of Lawes and Proclamations to seduce the Kings Liege people to increase their number daily to strengthen their partie to weaken vs by sowing their seeds of faction that no lesse then a rich plenty of triumphs must needes insue But herein wee comfort our selues that your Papall confidence in your sonnes vertue is preferred before Christs defence you set that in the first place and surely if you had not more confidence in your sonnes vertue then in Christs defence it were very small for wee know that in Christs defence you haue no confidence at all your owne apostatized heart can tell you so much Except yee trust at all in Christs defence because our sinnes haue so much prouoked God against vs and none more then that your sonnes haue beene too indulgently intreated among vs not onely to the damage and murther of many soules if the Lord bee not the more mercifull to giue them repentance to returne to the truth but to the endangering of this noble State if the same our God no lesse mightily then mercifully preuent it not You know too well the Kings of Israeil are mercifull Kings but wee know againe that many times pitie though it is pitie yet being shewed to Amileck and Aramites may redound to the Authors hurt witnesse these * Kings of Israell On the other side wee know what Elias did and afterward what Jehu did to the Prophets of Baal and what a blessing came vpon them from the Lord Iehues Sonnes sate vpon the throne to the fourth generation and had done longer if hee had not cleaued to the sinnes of Ieroboam And Jezabell for all her vengeable malice and impotent fury yet could not wreck it vpon Elias though one single poore Prophet no more then the Pope with all his pontificall and imperiall power could preuent poore Luther of dying peaceablely in his bed so miraculously mightie is the Lord in preseruing his poorest seruants that are zealous for his cause Yf we shew the like zeale now in this frozen age wee may with comfort hope for the like blessing and protection Then put you neuer so much confidence in your sonnes vertue our confidence shall bee in the defence of Christ whose cause wee defend and so wee doubt not but through Gods neuer failing goodnesse to his people all you confidence and daring promises of plentifull tryumphs will vanish into the ayre whereof they were ingendred It followeth The Church well hoped indeed that the minde of the most potent King who of a Catholique wife wished to beget heires that might rule his Countrey kingdomes being mollified by the sighes of his wiues ✚ pietie would permit the dowry of royall wedlocke to bee the libertie of faith but now the vowes and counsels of your enemies are feared and whereas the oxthodox Religion is crowned with a royall diadem in that most Excellent Queene yet there are not wanting those which dare threaten imprisonment and punishments to our sonnes Answer YOu meane the Church of Rome what may it not hope

THe Triple crowned Vicar horn'd Lamb-like Pretends Christs soveraine pow'r ov'r Kings and States These hornes but borrow'd proue Rammes hornes to strik● Even Christ himselfe ruling in Potentates Strong spells that come in Iesus name and finde Blind credulous zeale to captivate the minde Who might this Monster bee his speech bewrayes T is like the Dragon's who to Christ durst say All worldly power is myne I rule I rayse Whom pleaseth mee and my behests obey Such the Popes voyce such is his practise too Kings he vnkings that will not kisse his shooe How comes it then that sith the Papall power Is from the Dragon all men doe not see The Pope is Antichrist to over●ower All that is called God By reason hee Makes showes by Lambes hornes seeming innocence His power is from divine Omnipotence His Triple-crowne three Kingdomes notes what three Pope reckons fower three are controversorie Heaven hee despaires for surety Earth must be His heaven the while vsurpt tho Purgatorie He holds by blind beleife but never any Question'd the fowrth due to him and his Meiny Loe vnderneath a Romish Prelate placed With teh Popes Bull Romes Catholicks absolving From th' Oath of their Allegiance but not imbraced By th'wiser truer English most resolving Clossely to cleaue vnto their soveraine head Least forraine tyranny might on them tread The noble Charles with sword and scepter armed Ready to'ffend his foes defend his friends Victorious proues and Papall charmes vncharmed While royall throne justice and truth defends How can that state but vndivided stand In spite of foes where loue and lawes command THE BAITING OF THE POPES BVLL Or An vnmasking of the Mystery of iniquity folded vp in a most pernitious Breeue or Bull sent from the Pope lately into England to cawse a Rent therein for his Reentry With an advertisement to the Kings seduced subiects By H. B. My Son feare the Lord the King meddle not with them that are giuen to chang Pro. 24. 21. Bernard ser 3. in dedicatione Ecclesiae ●avendum ne quis pusillanimitate deiectus fugias a munitione vbi trepidaus timore vbi non est ●imor vbi vero summum periculum insana temeritate securus Imprinted at LONDON by W. I. for MICHAELL SPARKE 1627. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES BY THE GRACE of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Dread Soveraigne I ACCOVNT it my greatest misery that being to present Your Maiestie with a busines of such consequence so neerelie concerning the safety of Your sacred Person and Crowne I am inforced to adventure so rich a fraight in so brittle a barke so ticklish to be overturned with the least disgust or blast of displeasure wherein yet I should bee happy if miscarying herein I might but perish alone Mine owne experience might be sufficient to teach me to feare For if the noble Queene Hester so gracious in the Kings eyes yet feared to hazard her person into the Presence vncalled how much more a poore Out-cast yet betweene feare of the yron law and hope of the golden scepter shee pressed in with this resolution And if I perish I perish chusing death rather then not to discharge the duty she owed to Gods people now destinated and doomed to destruction Only this is my comfort looke what advantage that excellent Queene had of my despicable person as a Petitioner no lesse haue I of her in regard of the royall Person petitioned Shee had to deale with a heathen King the Captiuer of Gods people and who had already consigned their Massacre and that by a Decree irrevocable according to the Law of the Medes and Persians though a it appeared without his speciall knowledge Haman hauing abused the Kings hand and seale to his owne wicked purposes as chap. 5. 7. besides which might be not the least discouragement she was to passe the Pikes of a most tyranni all and vnkingly law forbidding any vpon paine of death to enter into the Kings presence vncalled as Hester now had beene for 30. dayes Haman in the meane time hauing the onely Monopoly of the Kings care who like the vast lunary body eclipsed the beames of his favour especially from Gods owne people whose cause the while lay a bleeding and became the more desperate through the inaccessiblenesse of intercessors to moue Kingly compassion vpon their iust complaints such were the difficulties which the noble Hester was to incounter with yet poore I liue vnder a more benigne Climate vnder a Christian Prince a Protector of Gods people Defender of the faith one whose royall presence is not by any seuere law locked vp from the free accesse of the poorest sutors whose naturall disposition also like the Sunne vneclipsed is freely to impart light and heate to the inferiour Creatures yea whos 's owne deare Person and crowne is imbarked in the same adventure of Gods people and His to reioyce or suffer together all these giuing mee incouragement and as it were reaching forth the goldē scepter while I humbly present to Your sacred Maiesty the dangerous condition wherin the royal scepter it selfe by all the prognosticating signes of a Papall Bull or Breeue lately come into England is like without speedy preuētiues to be involved Dauid now desolate and disconsolate about Ziglag was willing to harken to a poore starueling Amalekite lad giuing him intelligence where his enemies were I acknowledge my selfe vnworthy to doe Your Maiesty the least seruise and I could haue wished this Task rather to any other yet the indeleble character of my fidelity so often reimprinted in my heart by sacred Oath in Your Highnesse service besides the habituall affection of a loyall subiect deeply ingaged me rather then it should be vndone in this addressement And God forbid that by ouercautelous or rather cowardly silence I should contract the guilt of Misprison of no lesse then high treason against Your Maiesties Crowne and Scepter Yea otherwise I should be also vngratefull to God who of late hath mercifully if not miraculouslie preserued my life from a Iesuited Assassin The causes with the Circumstances I here omit to trouble Your Maiestie withall Onely I take occasion to mention it as not altogether vnworthy of Your Maiesties knowledge For what assured confidence may not Your Maiestie haue in the protection of that God whose eyes runne to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himselfe strong in the behalfe of them whose heart is perfect toward him If his diuine vigilant eye watcheth ouer the life of the poorest yet faithfull Ministers to deliuer them euen in the midst of danger how much more ouer the more precious persons of Kings and Princes while as Gods Vicegerents they faithfully and diligently execute his will by iustice and iudgement It is for the Infidell Virginians for feare of the Devil to adore and please him with their gifts neglecting God because he is good but faithfull Christians doe by the true feare and worship