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A14265	An ansvvere or admonition to those of the Church of Rome, touching the iubile, proclaimed by the bull, made and set foorth by Pope Clement the eyght, for the yeare of our Lord. 1600. Translated out of French; Aviso a los de la iglesia romana, sobre la indiccion de jubiléo, por la bulla del papa Clemente octavo. English	Valera, Cipriano de, 1532?-1625.	1600 (1600)	STC 24578.5; ESTC S116178	21,562	32

Forly holding the Lady thereof inclosed therein Was not this a fayre celebrating the Iubile and getting of pardons to oppresse poore Widowes and fatherlesse children Guichardin saith also Guicciar Lib. 5. in his fift booke And to the end saith he that he might not omit any kinde of gaine he sent pardons into Italy and all other nations which are called Iubile celebrated in Rome with a great assembly of people inhabiting beyond the mountaines and gaue to those that could not come meanes to obtaine the sayd pardons so they payde for them which money so gotten with all the treasure that hee could by any meanes drawe from the Treasors and Landes of the Church he gaue it to his Sonne that dyed at Forly In the fixt booke he addeth that he being poysoned all the Citty ran in great troupes vnto the Church of S. Peter to see his body and none of them could satisfie theyr eyes to beholde this Dragon dead who by his immoderate ambition pestiferous dissimulation and all sortes of examples of horrible crueltyes monstrous couetousnesse and vnspeakeable greedinesse hauing solde without distinction both sacred and profaine things had poysoned all the world He saith that Rome is the place which God hath chosen Rome I say that hath been in horrour and execration to all the world since the Popes haue vsurped this tiranny ouer the bodies and soules of men Mounsier de Januille that hath written the life of S. Loys among other thinges saith that the King returning from Palestina and passing thorough Italy would not goe to salute the Pope fearing to beholde the vices and euill examples of the Court of Rome Petrarke in his Epistles saith thus heere saith he dwelleth Namroth the fearfull builder of the great Tower Heere is resident Simiramis with her quiuer monstrous Minos guideth the processe Rhadamanthus Cerberus dwell there To be short all monstrous execrations haue their nestes therein all confusions obscurites and horrors raygne therein most puisantly The Cannonists themselues cease not to speake of the corruptions that are in this court of Rome As among the rest Iohn Andre in his glose vpō these words Gens sancta wherupon the Pope will ordaine his church of Rome In cap fundamenta de electione et electi potest In the sixt saith thus touching the mallice of the Romaines John the Monke refereth vs heerein to the first Chapter of the Epistle to the Romaines and saith that Saint Barnard hath written of them to Pope Eugenius Which we likewise read in the mirrour of Histories Lib. 29. cap. 27. The said Iohn the Monke sayd that Rome was Founded by rouers theeues other such like persons that it yet sauoreth of the beginning that it was called Rome as gnawing the handes alleadging a verse to the same purpose Roma Manus rodit quos rodere non valet odit This Pope addeth that it is the spirituall Sion the holy Jerusalem not according to the letter but by antephrase Spiritually from whence the law of God and the light of the Euangelicall truth from the first birth of the Church hath been distributed and spread throughout all the world c. We must not wonder why this holy Father and his Coherents so straightly prohibit to the laytye the reading of the holy Scriptures vnlesse they be permitted by their Prelate Bycause it is the onely meanes to license them to preferre all what pleaseth them and to make men beleeue that blacke is white and falshood truth It is certaine that the Church assembled of the faithfull is the true celestiall Jerusalem But what resemblaunce hath it with the Church of Rome the which much more sauoureth of Agar the seruant then of Sara the free woman Gal. 4. For euen as the childe of the seruaunt which was ingendred after the flesh persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit So is it now And to prooue it read S. Paul Gal. 5. Continue sayth he in the liberty by the which Christ hath deliuered vs. After that he addeth all ye are voyde of Christ that are iustified by the law are destitute of the grace for wee stay for the hope of iustice by the spirit which is of faith For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision nor vncircumcisiō do preuaile but faith which worketh by charity Now to tye mans saluation to good works to induce an infinite number of ceremonies contrary to the liberty freedom which Christ hath obtained for vs to entertaine a great part of those obserued in the old law which were al abolished at the comming of Iesus Christ is it not an imposition of a most insuportable yoake vpon the shoulders of the faithfull Is it not to reduce a more hard straight seruitude then that from the which Iesus Christ hath deliuered vs And the P. would make vs beleeue that the church of Rome which is this Agar Apoc. 7. yea two-folde more slaue then Agar is the celestiall Ierusalem the spirituall Sion but he should rather say that it is the great Citty which spiritually signifieth Sodoma But when he saith that from Rome the law of God is deriued the truth of the Euangelical faith frō the beginning of the church hath bin distributed throughout all the world Esay 2. Is not this a manifest contradiction to the holy ghost which teacheth the contrary The Prophesie of Esay was it not manifestly accomplished in the citty of Ierusalem when the Apostles other holy men hauing there receiued the holy ghost preached therin went from thence to goe preach the Gospell throughout all the world as Iesus Christ had commanded them Doth not S. Mar. about the end of his gospel say that Iesus Christ after he had spoken with his Apostles was taken vp into heauen there sitteth on the right hand of God And they being gone forth preached the gospel in all places Now this issuing or going foorth ought to be vnderstood of Jerusalem not of Rome Clement speaking so after his predecessors doth he not wrong to the rest of the Apostles as if they were Ciphers or that they were idle persons contenting themselues with the names titles of Apostles as in truth the Popes other Prelates of their tyrannical dignities do for that only excepted they haue nothing but the bare name But is it not euident and manifest vnto vs by the Actes of the Apostles Rom. 15. that when S. Paul wrote that Epistle he had preached the gospell from Ierusalem and all about it vnto Jlltrica Esclauoma that is to say in diuerse places of Asia Europe Beholde now yee Romaines how that because you neither wold nor wil receiue the loue of the truth therby to be saued God sendeth you the efficacy of deceipt Thes 1. that you should beleeue lyes c. This holy father addeth that it is that happy Citty wherof the faith being cōmended by the mouth of the Apostle is preached throughout the world c. Alas where do

ambitiō he so deceiued that holy man hauing perswaded him to leaue this dignitie hauing taken and put him into the tower of Fumon constrayned him to dye therein before his time And we must not omit by silence that which Nauclerus saith which is that in Anno 1295. the seat being vacant as the Florentine historye declareth Cardinall Benet was in great care for the Papacie not staying till he was called therunto Note like Aaron wherevpon it hapned that one night he went not with any great traine to the Pallace of King Charles promising him all ayde that the Church could giue if by his meanes he might be made Pope whereupon the King perswaded by this hope found the meanes that the Cardinals his friendes elected him Pope Behold the holy man of whome Clement the eight is successor so the supposts and vpholders of the Papacie haue a most firme argument to maintaine and defend their vocation which is the succession of such men To make an end of this matter I will adde that which Platina setteth downe of the gouernment and end of this Boniface or rather Maliface this man saith he dyed when that is like a dogge he sought to procure terror and feare among Emperors Kings Princes nations and people rather then to plant true Religion that vsed all meanes he could to giue and take away kingdomes to banish and after that to recall men againe when it pleased him being without all measure puffed vp with the great treasure by him gotten from all places Let vs now returne vnto our Iubile which the Pope commaundeth at the end of 100. yeeres although saith he some others haue restrained it vnto a shorter number of yeares as Clement the sixt that caused it to be celebrated 50. yeares after but hee did it the easilyer to fill his Coffers And it is to be noted that this said Pope the better to make himselfe to be knowne to bee Antichrist in the Bull by him sent foorth for the same effecte commaunded the Angels to draw out of Purgatory the soules of all those that dyed in the way to Rome But howe can Clement the eyght prooue that this custome at the end of euery 100. yeares to celebrate this holy Iubile is Diuine and that rather in the Citty of Rome then else where What vertue hath this number of 100. more then any other What charity is there so long a time to deferre so great a benefit as this Iubile bringeth Clement the sixt had more reason in appearance in abreuiating the time from 50. to 50. yeares according to that of the Iewes The number of 7. multiplyed in it selfe inclusiuely comprehending 49 signifiyng perfection in the holy Scriptures But yet neuerthelesse the vse of that Iubile of the Iewes did wholy cease at the comming of Iesus Christ and we finde not that any other hath been established for the Christians in a certaine number of yeeres As wee read that Baptisme succeeded Circumeision the holy Sacrament the Paschal Lambe And as this holy Father can not prooue that but onely because it is his pleasure and that his will ought be holden for a decree of the Celestiall Court So can he much lesse prooue that such a thing ought to bee done in Rome by him called the Fortresse and house of christian religion As many words as in that place he setteth down are so many blasphemies that the towne most giuen ouer vnto all the villanies that euer were which also by S. Ierom in his time In the pref vpon Didimus is called the seate of the whore apparelled in purple vestures the Citty wherein al things are permitted where vertue is banished the towne wherin all sacred things yea God himselfe if it were possible are to be solde But what speake I of sacred thinges All things prophane defiled and vncleane are to be bought by him that offereth most money The Citty wherin the Cardinals by the Pope termed his reuerend bretheren leade a life more then Sardanapalike for that they are not ashamed to walke with their Concubines throughout the Citty in the open view and sight of all the people Sodomy is therein tollerable approoued and maintained that such a towne I say ought to be called the Fortresse and house of religion but according to the saying of Petrarke the house of dolour the Schoole of error and the temple of herresie But to what end is this Iubile ordained to reiterate and renue saith Clement the eyght the memory of so great a benefit that is that Iesus Christ the Son of Iustice he that brought saluation to all the world is borne of the Virgin Mary c. Now you shall see how this is done if we ought to referre it to any certaine place of celebration it were fitter to bee done in Bethlehem where Iesus Christ according to the flesh was borne then in Rome but wee haue not any commandement neyther for this place nor for any other But as expresse commandement was giuen vnto the Apostles to Preach the Gospell throughout all the world so is it that throughout all the world wee must celebrate the memory of the Sonne of God without distinction of this or that place The Lord is with those that are assembled in his name according to his will The holy Sacrament was ordained by him to the end that wee should celebrate it in memory of him not onely because that hee was borne but also that he suffered death and passion for the remission of our sinnes and rose againe for our iustification And we must not attend a 100. 50. or 25. yeares but we must doe it as often as we may not at Rome from whence the Gospell yea and Iesus Christ himselfe is banished but in all places where the Doctrine of the Gospell is purely Preached the holy Sacraments administred according to the ordinance of our Soueraigne Pastor and Master our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ The Pope calleth himselfe the successor of the Apostles where doe wee finde that the Apostles did establish any certaine seate whereunto they haue enioyned vs to resort as to the stone of faith But to the contrary they themselues went Preached throughout all the world they themselues went to seeke the sheep and stayed not till the sheep came to finde them S. Peter himselfe preached vnto the Iewes and S. Paul vnto the Gentils Now that S. Peter erected his seate in Rome there is no apparance thereof the booke of the Actes of the Apostles and the Epistles of S. Paul both that which hee wrote vnto the Romaines and that which he sent out of prison in Rome doe sufficiently ouerthrow and disprooue all these impostures that would affirme the contrary for in any of them there is not any mention made of S. Peter And as touching that which the Munke Onuphrius saith that S. Peter did first erect his seate in Rome for the space of nine yeares and that he was driuen away among other Iewes by the