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A46361	A continuation of the accomplishment of the Scripture-prophesies, or, A large deduction of historical evidences proving that the papacy is the real antichristian kingdom to which is added A confirmation of the exposition of the sixteenth chapter of the Revelation concerning the pouring out of the vials / written in French by Peter Jurieu ... faithfully Englished.; Accomplissement des prophéties. Suite. English	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.	1688 (1688)	Wing J1200; ESTC R17274	212,359	335

of Piety which are no other than liberal Contributions to Convents and Priests They fail not to urge the advice of Daniel to the King of Babylon to very good Purpose Redeem they sins by Alms-deeds Lastly that arrogant piece of new Divinity which exalts the Clergy so far above the rest of mankind is of great use to serve a Covetous design The Pope must be the first and principal Monarch of the world the Cardinals must be the Princes of the Church and Arch-Bishops and Bishops must be Lords and Peers and consequently very rich to support their Dignity No wonder therfore that the Church exacts Tribute from the whole Earth and hath got possession of one half of the Wealth of Christendom To this purpose doth Cardinal Pallavicini argue in his History of the Council of Trent By this we see how the Popish Theology turns altogether to the side of a dishonest Gain let us see whether their Practice be not answerable Prodigious Riches of the Papacy First let us consider the Extraordinary Riches of the Papacy There is no Empire upon earth which can equal it The City of Rome and a very great part of Italy is intirely their own The Kingdom of Naples is held Feudatory from the Pope He is the temporal Lord of very considerable Lands and large Revenues as the Cities of Liege with the Country that depends upon it Cologne Treves Mentz He did once possess all those great Bishopsticks of Germany Saltsburg Munster Osnabrug Magdeburg Paderborn and several others whose Bishops are Soveraign Princes and many Abbies whose Abbots are Princes and members of the Empire The Papacy had all this some part of it 't is true is lost but they yet retain a very considerable share How large are the revenues of the Church in France There are Lordships and Dutchies and Peerages and Bishopricks of a vast revenue wealthy Abbies and great Commendoms 'T is the same in Spain where all the Prelates are more Potent than the King even at this day England formerly was altogether the Territory of the Court of Rome All the rest of Europe was almost in the same condition In a word we may say truly that the Papacy in its height and glory was Master of more than half the Riches of Europe To speak plainly is this the Character of Jesus Christ or of Antichrist of Jesus Christ who had not where to lay his head and foretold his Disciples that they must look for Poverty and Tribulation Distress and Suffering How blind and sottish must we be not to perceive that this prodigious Power and Riches is Antichristian exalting it self upon the ruin both of true Christianity and of Christian Princes Unlawful ways us'd by the Papacy to get Riches Let us see by what methods the Papacy hath attain'd to this height of Power and Riches It was by unjust and unlawful Means by Impieties so horrible that we must be altogether insensible stupid and of a seared Conscience not to take notice of the working of the Man of Sin. The Reader would do well to peruse the treatise of Father Paul concerning Benefices God permitted that in these latter days it should be drawn out of Darkness to open the eyes of the most blind in this matter 'T is wrote in a grave stile by a learned Pen without discovering any other design than to speak the Truth 'T is properly an History of the Roman Church who made use of one Knavery after another to draw the Riches of Europe into their Net. He had good reason to begin the History of Benefices with the Instance of Judas who carried the Purse of the Apostolical Colledge and for Lucre of Money sold his Master for he was the true Forerunner of the Bishop of Rome and his Clergy and of the carriage of the Church of Rome There we see the Tricks and Cheats which the Clergy used to persuade the Laity to alienate their Lands and Revenues to put them into the possession of the Church How the Clergy understood the knack of getting money by Excommunications Interdicts Holy-wars and the Fewds of Germany and the Contentions between the Popes and Emperors the Divisions of Italy the Weakness of some Princes and the Superstition of others therby to attain to this Prodigious Wealth When we see a beggar one that was such become of a sudden immensly rich we need no other proof of his being a Cheat and a Robber and we may therupon charge him with it without Injustice for such excessive Riches cannot be got by honest means To consider the Prodigious Wealth of the Papacy is sufficient to assure us that they did not honestly come by it but by Rapine Fraud and Violence The Church was poor and had neither Gold nor Silver in those days when she open'd the eyes of the Blind and made the lame to Walk the Liberality of Christian Princes drew her out of this Indigence but it was to her unhappiness and loss for as soon as she became Rich she became Covetous Luxurious and Wicked and because those Riches which she got by the bounty of Princes and the well-meant tho mistaken Piety of others could not satisfie her greedy desire of more no shamefull and dishonest means have been unattempted to acquire larger Revenues than she had before and to add more to what she had already The Simony of the Papacy She then set her self to work upon the Living and the Dying and to scare and frighten 'em that they might part with their Goods in favour of those whom they intrusted with the care of their Souls that is the Monks and Priests By plain and down-right Usurpations without other mystery the Popes and Prelats have seiz'd divers Kingdoms and the most considerable lands of Europe and to enrich themselves have made use of the most execrable Simony which hath risen to that degree as would make an honest Heathen tremble These are but small matters in comparison the Sale of Benefices Reunions Commendams Degrees Reservations Expectatives Preventions Provisions Resignations Rescriptions Dignum Arbitramur Rescriptions in common form and of the lesser one signing the Grace of First-fruits Translations Erections Cathedrals Subrogations Dispensations for Non-residence Dispensations for Defects of Body for Defect of Age c. These I say are but little things and trivial in comparison with some others Who can read without Horror the Sale of the most enormous Crimes Incest Parricide Buggery Sodomy and Murder of the nearest Relations set at a certain price so much for Buggery or Sodomy so much for a Nun who suffers her self to be known by a man several times within and without her Convent with a capacity again for any dignity of the Order even that of being Abbess so much for a Woman who hath kill'd her child in the Womb so much for having destroyed Infants by Inchantments so much for having murder'd a Father or a Mother c. Can we read without trembling the Robberies which several Popes have

plain Blasphemies against the Creator by the mouth of their Missionarics and Preachers who preach to the people a Ridiculous and profane Gospel made up of impertinent Fables and absurd stories most unbecoming expressions and vile comparisons foolish and unworthy subjects and the whole accompanied with trifling and Mimical gestures with an air suited to a Farce or Comedy rather than a Sermon IX 'T is a prodigious heap of Superstitions which are criminal and Idolatrous in the plainest and most simple use of 'em but in their Abuse are the most extravagant Idolatry that can be named according to which the most proper Divine Adoration is given to a Creature making the Virgin to be the Queen of Heaven and of the rest of the World the Salvation of mankind the Redeemer of the World the distributer of all saving Grace the Goddess the Divinity of Men and Angels the Completion and Perfection of the Trinity and so in proportion to all the other Saints Male and Female X. 'T is real Paganism reviv'd wherein besides the great God of Heaven and Earth the Great Jupiter most good and most great they worship innumerable inferior and subordinate Deities A Queen of the World Spirits separated from matter Mediators between God and Men good Demons and Genius's who perserve and take care of men and watch over ' em They likewise worship as the ancient Pagans did the Souls of dead men they build Temples and consecrate Altars to 'em and offer Sacrisices to their Honour they put themselves under their protection they establish them to be Patrons of Kingdoms and Cities and Families and particulier Persons insomuch that Juda had as many Gods as Towns. In this new Paganism they worship the Reliques of the Dead their Bones their Askes their Garments their Shirts their Shoes and their old Rags They worship also Images and Pictures as the ancient Pagans did And this worship is such in all the parts of it as besides its agreement with Heathenism is not at all Spiritual or Rational made up of Ceremonies that are carnal corporal and vain apish and foolish postures signs of the Cross Holy and lustral Waters Temples and Altars adorn'd with magnificence and pomp grimaces and wry faces and gesticulations of a Priest round about the Altar turning about now to the right hand and then to the left sometimes speaking and then on a sudden silent now thundering with a loud voice and presently after muttering somewhat between his teeth one while reading another while speaking without Book and always saying that which is not understood by the common People This is the goodly worship of Popery and must pass for Divine service tho without spirituality or reason XI 'T is a Religion animated throughout by a spirit of Lying and founded and supported by Fab●es Their Invocation of Saints Adoration of the Virgin Purgatory Sacrifice of the Mass Adoration of the Sacrament and all their other Superstitions are built upon a fabulous Gospel but framed by a spirit of Lying so gross and palpable that the least measure of sincerity would be enough to make a man blush and be asham'd of 'em They are meer Romances and stuft with Ribaldry and Filthiness The Romance of the Virgin is more ridiculous than that of S. Rose The Lives of their Saints do paint'em out as a Company of Fools Fanaticks and Bedlams with a vast multitude of frightful Miracles the number whereof is sufficient of it self to contradict the truth and overthrow the Authority of 'em But for the most part they are such as are mean and trifling sottish and ridiculous unworthy of the Grandeur and Majesty of God Miracles wrought on purpose to prove the Holiness of some little Monk that after his decease Temples may be built in honour of his memory and he may be worshipt as a God or to introduce and encourage the worship of a piece of Bread of Wood or of Stone and none of 'em to promote the worship of God. XII 'T is a cruel Master who hath teeth of steel and nailes of Diamant that tears and devours what he can and treads under foot the remainder He establishes his Kingdom under the name of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ with Fire and Sword destroying all that stoops not to him overturning Cities and Kingdoms making whole Provinces to be so many burying places and large Cities to be ruinous heaps inflaming Europe with Wars and destroying Germany and Italy by that means arming the Father against the Son and Children against their Parents Subjects against their Prince and Princes against their Subjects causing the most horrible Massacres and covering the Earth with Human Blood. He erects Gibbets prepares Scaffolds kindles Fires to hang behead and burn those that resist him and not content to take away their lives would destroy their Honour and Reputation likewise by imputing such opinions to 'em as they abhor making them to pass for the Enemies of God and of the Saints charging them as Hereticks Arrians Photinians Mamenees and as believing the most horrible Doctrines accusing them of Incests and Promiscuous Impurities in their night meetings to worship God putting on them the Skins of Bears and wild Beasts and exposing them to publick Execution in the view of the multitude as the worst of men XIII Lastly 't is a cruel Tyrant which for many Ages hath enjoyed a profound Peace and the utmost of temporal Felicity without any interruption save by the troubles it hath given unto others and the cruel Wars it hath raised against the Innocent If at any time it hath met with any check or opposition it hath given a great deal more to the peace of others for at length it hath subdued and overcome all its Enemies and by violence stopt the mouth of all its Adversaries The Emperors after long and cruel commotions have at last stoopt to the feet of this Tyrant Insomuch that this Strumpet glories in her victories saying This is Babylon the great that I have built by the greatness of my power and who can resist the force of it She hath brought all Opposers under the yoke and peaceably enjoyed her richess and rapines her pleasures and her Crimes She hath said to her Soul Eat drink and be merry thou hast goods laid up for many years She had added to these riches from time to time and the Soul of this wicked Miscreant is not yet required of her so that She hath enjoyed all the fruits of her Iniquities without seeing sorrow and all the desires of her Eyes without knowing Trouble Behold the true Picture of the Papacy if any think it is more deformed and more horrid than it ought to be represented let him but have patience till he hath perused this Book and he shall find all these Characters made good by Historical proofs against which nothing that is solid and reasonable can be objected I have here performed that which I long ago promised viz. to give an Extract or Abridgment of my Book