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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

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

AN ANSWERE 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 LONDON Printed by E. Allde for Iohn VVolfe An aduertisement 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 yeere of our Lord. 1600. YOu of the Church of Rome that beare the name of Christians and vaunt your selues to be Catholike members of the Catholike and Apostolike Church adding thervnto the name of Romaine Now it is time that you awake from the profound sleepe wherein long time you haue continued and open your eies in a manner blinded with the obscurity of errors where with you haue continually bin nourished and fed by the traditions of worldly men vnder the beautifull tytles which by vsurpation they attribute vnto themselues for if euer you had matter or occasion to acknowledge that the sonne of perdition of whome Saint Paul speaketh in the 2. to the Thess 2. is reuealed and that he sitteth in the Temple of God making himselfe God and vsurping the power and authority that appertaineth onely vnto God yea and lifting vp himselfe aboue that which is called God in that he taketh vpon him to controwle the ordinaunces and decrees of God certainly it is now or else neuer And againe if you will looke narrowly into and examine the contents of the Bull rightly to bee termed a bubble or bottle of water touching the Iubile you shal most manifestly perceiue it God grant you the grace that in truth this yeere may be vnto you the agreeable and peaceable yeere of your saluation and remission of your sinnes in one only Iesus Christ 1. Cor. 1. Act. 4. our wisedome Iustice Sanctification and redemption who is onely giuen vs by the Father to this effect Pope Clement the eyght following the good and commendable custome of his Predecessors as he saith therby the better to strengthen and increase the Kingdome of Antichrist and more and more to bring in subiection the consciences of men vnder his tiranny hath pronounced the Iubile for the yeere of our Lord 1600. adorning and inriching the same with most beautifull tytles the better to cause his Marchandize to be esteemed But as being placed in this seate he is the eldest Sonne of Sathan that he hath rather succeeded Simon Magus then Simon Peter in this pretended authority therfore he beginneth his goodly Bull with a most manifest and open lye And to speake truth he could not otherwise maintaine his trumpery and abhominable errors He saith that the Iubile ought to be celebrated according to the custome within the Citty of Rome because it is found to be so by the auncient traditions c. But he cannot shew that this custome hath bin ordained and appointed by Iesus Christ our great Doctor and onely Master Neither yet that it was euer practised nor put in vse by the Apostles For as the auncient Doctor S. Tertullian saith Iesus Christ saith not I am the custome Against Hermogenes but I am the truth And Saint Ciprian conformable thereunto custome without the truth is the antiquity of error And if wee must onely heare Iesus Christ we must not stay nor lay holde vpon that which any one before vs shall haue esteemed lawfull to be done but vpon that which Christ who is before all men hath first done for wee must not follow the customes of men but the truth of God And althought Clement the eyght saith that this institution hath not proceeded from a vaine superstition but of a pure and religious worshipping Yet can it not be true but cleane contrary for that all whatsoeuer is done without faith is sinne and faith is not grounded vpon the institution and traditions of men but onely vpon the pure word of God So that then it appeareth that the superstition grounded vpon insatiable auarice and immoderate ambition of such as haue attained vnto this Seate haue forged this Iubile after the manner of the secular yeere of the Romaines That is of a certaine Feast and playes which was celebrated euery hundred yeeres within the Citty of Rome among the Pagans as in like manner Candlemas day hath been established by them in place of the Feast which the Pagans vsed to celebrate vpon the same day and with the like ceremonies of Candles and Lights in the honor of their Goddesse Proserpin Marke then how these good Prelates and heades of the Church haue transfigured the feastes of the Pagans into their Papistical Feastes onely changing the names But let vs see the antiquity of the institution of this Bul Platine vpon Boniface 8. Naucler we finde by writing that in Anno 1300. Pope Boniface the eight caused the first Iubile to bee published to the same ende aforesaid as hee said according to the institution mentioned in the olde Testament Gen. 44. and commaunded it to be celebrated euery hundred yeares Beholde the originall of the Iubile edified vpon a good foundation beholde a good successor of the Apostles that taught vs a ful deliueraunce and discharge from the yoake of the cerimonies of the Law and this Pope will inclose and holde vs in a much more straiter seruitude The Iewish Iubile ordained by the expresse commaundement of God was indifferently obserued throughout all Iudea Leuit. 25. not any man for that cause beeing bound to goe vnto Ierusalem And this Pope incloseth it within his Citty of Rome but of that we will speake more heereafter There are then but three hundred yeares fully accomplished since that this inuention hath been established and so by consequence it was not at any time vsed within the precedent 1300. yeares Beholde the great antiquity wherewith these Holy Fathers seeme to fight against vs and by the meanes thereof abuse so many poore people But what is this Boniface of happy memory of whome Clement the eyght is successor If wee may beleeue certaine Historiographers as in truth his entrye into the Papacie all the course of his life and his death manifestly declare he was one that entred like a foxe raigned like a lyō and dyed like a dogge Is he not then a Pope of happye memorye Notwithstanding it is no meruayle though Clement saith so for that the memorie of the most parte of the rest of the Popes is not much better and diuers of them much more abhominable The Historians aforesaid speaking of the wicked acte he had played with this Pope Clement his predecessor which was that after he had perswaded him like a craftie foxe to leaue the Papacie whē this poore Celestine went againe vnto his Hermitage he like a furious lyon caused him to be cast in prison where with griefe he dyed Adde further that this man appeared to be a personage ful of great ingratitude and deceit in this that being prouoked by

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

men at this day speake of the faith of the Romaines Is it in Turkie Persia or Tartaria but is it in the places subiect to the Pope It may be by those that know neither faith nor religion but beleeue onely by heresie and as they themselues alleadge beleeue in the faith of their Vicar But all those that know what Rome is how they gouerne liue therein will say and affirme that it is not onely the Schole of Epicurisme but also of Atheisme despising of God his holy word the receptacle support of all wickednes But behold a right papal lodgick The faith of the Romaine christians in the time of S. Paul was cōmended through the world therfore the faith of those that dwel in Rome now is commended through all the world as if faith were successiue in them if the true faith did not make it self knowne by good works But for that corruption is a thing successiue in such as are not regenerate by the holy ghost we might better trulyer reason thus the corruptions intollerable vices Sodomy that raigned among the Romaine Panims were known to all the world So at this day such vices raigne in Rome not onely among the people but among the principall of this infernall Hirarchy are known through al the world Thē it is not there that we must search the faith of these first christians for it is wholy buried vnder the earth Nowe if such a consequent as this which the Pope alledgeth of the time past to the time present were receauable wee might saye as much of those that dwell in Thessalonia for Saint Paul giueth the like witnesse to those that liued in his time yea a greater then of those in Rome You haue been saith he patrons to all the beleeuers as well in Macedonia as in Achaia For the word of God hath not onely shined from you into Macedonia and Achaia but your faith which is in God is spread throughout all the world Beholde then reasons well grounded to maintaine the excellency and prerogatiue of Rome But beholde one which crowneth the worke that is that the most blessed Princes of the Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul haue shed all theyr doctrine with their bloudes to the ende that by meanes of S. Peters chayre being made the capitall Citry in the world it should be the Mother of all the beleeuers and Mistresse of all other Churches c. But if it should be denyed him how could he prooue it but onely that it pleased the Popes his predecefsors builders of this tyranny for with other proofe he could not furnish himselfe If the preaching of the Gospel with effusion of bloud could obtaine this dignity who knoweth not but that Ierusalem ought to bee preferred therein before all others considering the great prerogatiues that it had before ouer all the Citties in the world For that besides them the Prophets did therein Preach the word of God and likewise were therein stoned and put to death There Iesus Christ did Preach there hee was scourged beaten spit vpon and lastly put to death Saint Peter also and his companions were there beaten and holden in prison because they Preached Iesus Christ within the Citty there S. Stephen was stoned for the same occasion and S. Iames beheaded and the other S. Iames killed with clubbes this neuerthelesse gaue no aduantage to Jerusalem much lesse to Rome The Pope knoweth wel or else he ought to know how much this primacy hath bin debated betweene Popes Pelagius and Gregory Bishops of Rome and Iohn Bishop of Constantinople that Gregory condemned the vnmeasurable ambition of the said John and that the Bishops of Rome neuer obtained it vntill the time of Boniface the third who by the authority of the cruell tyraunt and parricide Phocas obtayned the tytle of the vniuersall Bishop and yet the Popes did not as then mount vp into so high a degree of soueraignetie as at this day they are For as it is found written in the first lesson that is Song vpon the first day of Nouember which beginneth Legimus which within a certaine time hath been gelded of certaine breuiaries Pope Boniface that was the fourth Pope after Gregory by petition obtained of the Emperour Phocas one of the Pagans Temples within Rome called the Pantheon which he dedicated to the Virgin Mary and to the Holy Mattirs whereby it appeareth that the Popes as then were not Lords of Rome to dispose of the Temples therein at their pleasure as at this day they doe So this Soueraigntye hath been a most vniust and more then tyrannicall vsurpation All that is added that there is the stone of fayth the fountaine of sacerdotall vnity c. It is to be vnderstood which S. Paul saith 2. Thessal 2. That this Sonne of perdition will come with all fraud of injustice in those that perish For all that no not the least point can be found within the Citty of Rome namely that which he sayth that it is the fountaine of sacerdotall vnity For besides that this Pontificats is an vsurped dignity contrary to the expresse ordinaunce of Iesus Christ tending rather to the ruine of the Church then to the conuersation thereof It is a totall destruction of the sacerdotall dignity of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ But where was this faire spring of sacerdotall vnity when scismes raigned in this church more thē in any other especially when there were two seates one at Rome the other at Auignon and then when there was not onely two Popes but many times three Shall we say that there is the sincere verity where the traditions of men are in the like yea in greater authority then the word of God There where those that shall haue transgressed the commaundements of that which they name the holy Mother Church shall be more grieuously punished then swearers and blasphemers of the sacred name of God there where the Pope vsurpeth the authority to dispence against the word of God He saith that there that is to say at Rome are the keies of the kingdome of Heauen and the power to binde and vnbinde but it is an vsurpation for this authority doth properly belong to all those that are called to the charge of preaching declaring the doctrine of the Gospell As also that which he addeth that the Pope is the dispensator of the treasors of the Church which can neuer be diminished For all the true and faithfull Pastors of the Church of God are the true dispensators of the Treasors of Iesus Christ And we must mark well that which S. Paul saith 1. Cor. 4. That it is requisite that such a dispensator should be faithfull but where shall this fidelity be found in Popes that sell that which they call the Treasors of the Church yea and all thinges both sacred and prophane for ready money True dispensation doth it consist in making a signe with two fingers to present the Pantable to kisse and to giue a