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A40122	The arraignment of popery being a short collection, taken out of the chronicles, and other books, of the state of the church in the primitive times : also, the state of the Papists, and how long it was before the universal pope and mass was set up, and the time of bringing in all their rudiments and traditions, beads and images, purgatory, tythes and inquisitions : also, a relation of their cruelties they acted after the Pope got up, being worse then the heathen and Turk, New Rome having proved like Old : also, what the people of England worshipped before they were Christians : with several other things, which may be profitable for people to read over, where all that fear God may see, read, try, and give judgment by the spirit of truth : to which is added, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church / by G.F. and E.H.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1750A; ESTC R15884	93,976	138

THE Arraignment OF POPERY BEING A Short COLLECTION taken o●● of the CHRONICLES and other Books of the State of the CHURCH in the Primitive Times Also The State of the Papists and how long It wa● before the Universal POPE and MASS was set up and t●● time of bringing in all their Rudiments and Traditions Beac●●●● and Images Purgatory Tythes and Inquisitions Also A Relation of their Cruelties they acted after the Pope got up being worse then the Heathen and Turk New Rome having proved like Old Also What the People of England worshipped before they were Christians With several other things which may be profitable for people to read over wherein they may see the Worship of the Beast and Whore where all that fear God may see read try and give judgment by the Spirit of Truth ●o which is added The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the CHVRCH By G. F. and E. H. LONDON Printed in the Year 1667. The Contents Rulers makes Ministers and none must preach ex●●●● have a Licence from them Chap. 24. Pag●● Concerning the Priests turning as the Rulers turned to 〈◊〉 Power that came up rather then they would lose their ●●●fices and how they petitioned several Parliaments and F●●lers that they might have their Tythes paid them and that they would suppress the People called Quakers Ch. 2● Pag. 73. A Relation of some of the Cruelties insticted on the Christians by the Heathen Chap. 26. Pag. 81. An Abstract of the Bloody Massacre in Ireland by the Instigation of the Jesuits Priests and Fryars c. in the year 1642. Chap. 27. Pag. 84. In the History of the Churches of Piedmont collected and compiled by Samuel Morland in the year 1658. Chap. 27. Pag. 96. List of some of the Accusations for which the aforesaid people suffered in the Valleys of Piedmont by the Papists Chap. 28. Pag. 99. Te Doctrines of Christ and Antichrist distinguished Chap. 29. Pag. 103. A Discourse betwixt a Quaker and a Papist Ch. 30. P. 106. THE ARRAIGNMENT OF POPERY CHAP. I. The State of the Church in the Primitive Times and tho Time when the Apostacy from the Truth began Also a Relation of those few that were raised up from time to time to testisie against the Idolatry brought in and set up in every Age since the Apostles dayes From the Year Sixty four to the Year One Hundred and Fifty CHristianity was first brought into England in the Year 64 by Joseph of Aramathea and twelve Disciples sent by the Apostle Philip so that Christianity came into England long before the Universal Pope was Euseb lib. 3. John for preaching the Gospel was banished by Domitian into the Isle of Pathmos about the Year 97 and after the death of the aforesaid Domitian was released again under Peru●● the Emperor and came to Ephesus Anno 100 where he continued until the time of Trajan and lived until he was ninety nine y●●● of age Between the Years One hundred and One hundred and fifty Ignatius in the Persecution of Trajan the Emperor was for the Christian Faith delivered to wild Beasts to be devoured Euseb lib. 3. chap 35 36. It is written of him That as he passed through Asia being under the most strict Custody of his Guarders he strengthned and confirmed the people every where as he went and admonished them especially and before other things to beware and shun Heresies and vain Superstitions newly risen up and that they should cleave only to the Apostles Doctrine Ex Hierom in Calassanct Eccles The Church at Jerusalem in or about One hundred and ten years after Christ writeth That until that time she was as an uncorrupt Virgin there was no false Doctrine sown there From the Years One hundred and fifty to Two hundred Polycarpus Bishop of Smyrna resisted Annasetus Bishop of Rome ●nd withstood divers Ceremonies then beginning to be set on foot Iraneus Bishop of Lyons in France wrote in the name of his Brethren in France unto Victor Bishop of Rome reproving him for offering to excommunicate the Churches of Asia who withstood his Traditions touching the time of the Celebration of Easter he was reprehended of divers Bishops but sharply of Iraeneus About this time there was six Synods held in Asia touching the Celebration of Easter where the Bishop of Rome had no more Authority then the other Bishops and when he challenged Authority Iraeneus reproved him From the Year two hundred to the Year two hundred and fifty Polycrates Bishop of Antioch was a married Bishop he together with divers other Bishops of Asia withstood Victor Bishop of Rome and opposed certain Constitutions by him urged about observation of Dayes Meats Drinks and Vestures Euseb lib. 5. chap. 26. From the Year Two hundred and fifty to Three hundred Fabian Chanimon of Nilus and Fructuosus of Tarracona were married Bishops Asclepiades a Bishop of Antiochia of whom Alexander Bi●●● Jerusalem being the Prisoner of Christ in Caesaria wro●● the people in Antiochia That it was a comfort unto him 〈◊〉 made his imprisonment the more easie that he heard of the 〈◊〉 constancy of Asclepiades Euseb lib. 6. chap. 11. Note in th●● the true Bishops were no Persecutors but persecuted Narcissus Bishop of Jerusalem was a great Enemy to Super on Euseb lib. 5. cap. 6. From the Year Three hundred to Three hundred and fifty Silvester Bishop of Rome Three hundred and fourteen years 〈◊〉 Christ when Constantine offered him a Golden Scepter he ref●● it as a thing not fit for a Priests Function Sabel Euseb Chron And you may see there was a great difference between this Bishop and Popes when they got up And do you think that a Protestant Bishop Priest would refuse to take a Golden Scepter if it were offered him The same Bishop also ordained in the year following That ●●ry Priest should be the Husband of one Wife according to th●● postles Doctrine This was before the Popes Laws were made ag●●● Marrying The Councils of Ancyra Nice Tyrus Gangra in which condemned the Heresie of Eustatius speaking against Marri●● and eating of flesh c. Eliberis Carthage where the Bisho● Rome was stoutly withstood Antioch and Sardica were all su●●ed at the Commandment of the Emperors not of the Pope 〈◊〉 Concil Basilius Magnus Bishop of Caesaria in Cappadocia in his ●●●tings he complaineth of the pride of the Western Churches and ●●●demneth their seeking of Supremacy Basil Transmarin Epist 〈◊〉 and Epist 10. ad Eusamos Gregorius Nazianzenus testified against the pride of Pre●●● seeking Supremacy over others Zozam lib. 7. cap. 5. Gregorius Nyssenus was a married Bishop Niceph. Chalist I●●● cap. 19. Eusebius Caesariensis wrote against the Bishop of Romes ●●●●cy Lib. 2. de vit Const 3 37. He wrote against Images Lib 3. de presp Evang. And 〈◊〉 against Popish Injunctions of Fasting Lib. 5. Eccles Hist cap. 23. Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria whose Name was famous in the Church wrote much against Traditions Epist de Synod Nicen. Decr.

and against Invocation of Saints Epist ad Adelph against their Seven Sacraments against Images and against the Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome and many other things Orat. 2. Contr. Arian Epist ad●e it F●om the Year Three hundred and fifty to Four hundred In the Year Three hudred fifty one Liberius Bishop of Rome was banished by Constantius the A●rian Emperor In the Year Three hundred fifty four the same Liberius made a Law That no Priest should forsake his Cure for any Persecution or Trouble though Death should ensue This was before there was a Pope but since they will change any way for to save their Benefices as their practises have manifested turning from Popery to Protestantism and after to Popery again Flavius against whom Damatius Syricius and Anastatius Bishops of Rome were mighty Opposites who mis-informed the Emperor Theodosius against him before whom when Flavius appeared he said O Emperor if the Disputation be only concerning Principality and Eminent Places I will not contend with any man but deny my self of all Superiority and commit the Charge of Antioch to whom ye like best Theod. Lib. 5. Chap. 23. Cyrillius was an Enemy to the Pomp of the Clergy and had more regard to feed the poor and to preach the word then to the outward garnishing the Churches Zozomen Lib. 5. Chap. 25. Nictarius Bishop of Constantinople in his time Auricular Confession was abrogated in Constantinople upon occasion of Adultery committed between a Penitentiary and a Woman confessing her sins to him Socrat. Lib. 5. Chap. 19. Letotius Bishop of Meletina in Armenia was a great Opposer of Monkish Profession whose Society he called a Den of Thieves Theod. lib. 14. cap. 11. Gregory the first restored Marriages again to the Priests which before had been denied and when they would have made him Universal Bishop he denyed the Title alledging it was a proud Name From the Year Four hundred to the Year Four hundred and fifty● Accatius was Bishop of Constantinople Seventeen Years in 〈◊〉 time the Roman Church contended for Superiority This Accat●●● resisted the same and little regarding the pride of the Roman B●●shop excommunicated Foelix and razed his Name out of th● Roll of Bishops Histor Magd. Cent. 5. chap. 10. Note at this time there was no universal Pope at Rome for the Bishop of Rome was excommunicated Hillarius Bishop of Arles opposed Leo Bishop of Rome and denied Superiority over other Churches and went to Rome and withstood the Bishop of Rome to his face Leo. ad Gal. Episc Epist 77 89. From the Year Four hundred to the Year Four hundred and fifty John called Tabenesiota Bishop of Alexandria he kept the true Faith and was bamshed by Anastatius because he would not damn the Council of Chalsedon Magd. Cent. 6. From the Year six hundred about which time the Pope got up to the Year Six hundred and fifty Mellitus Brockmaile and about Eleven hundred men more were miserably slain because they withstood the proceedings of Austine the Monk who from the Pope was sent over into England ●iticus 20. Martyrology page 107. Serenus Bishop of Marce●les in France opposed the bringing in of Images and brake down all the Images where he had power Alphons 2. Imag. The whole Gre●k Church complained of Phocas when first he gave the Supremacy to Boniface Plat. Bonifac. 3. Gregory a Bishop concested against the Supremacy of the Pope taxing the desire thereof as a Character of Antichrist Greg. Epist 32 34 38 39. About the Year Eight hundred Albertus Ballus a Bishop in France was excommunicated by Pope Zachery because he held divers things contrary to the Romish Superstitions Hist Magd. Cent. 8. cap. 10. Lotha ius Emperor of Germany about this time reduced the Pope to the obedience of the Empire and sent some of his Clergy to dispute with the Pope who confuted him And here the Papists are proved lyars who say the Pope is Infallible Anaestus vit Pont. in Se●g 2. The Waldenses so called from one Waldens a man of great substance in the City of Lyons in France who about the Year One thousand one hundred and sixty taking occasion by the sudden death of one with whom he was walking began with a careful study to reform his life and to this end studied the Scriptures diligently and taught amongst people the Word and some thousands in a short space joyned with him who were dispersed abroad into divers parts of the world These Waldenses were miserably persecuted by the Pope and his Faction See the History of the Waldenses Raymond Earl of Tholouse for taking part with them was wrongfully vexed and dis-inherited by the Pope Mat. Paris The Religion of the WALDENSES They held That the Pope is not greater then another Bishop and that there was no Purgatory That it was in vain to pray for the dead That the Masses for the dead are the Inventions of the coverous Priests That Images hallowing of Water and other Creatures are superstitions They contemned the Masse and all that appertained to it They misliked the distinction of Days and Meats they defended the reading of the Scripture by the Laity Naur vel 2. pag. 900. Evarardus Invanensis a Bishop in Germany spake thus of the Pope about the Year One thousand two hundred in an Assembly of Bishops at Regensburg He under the colour of Religion layeth the foundation of the Kingdom of Antichrist These Priests of Babylon will reign alone they can endure no equal They will never rest until they have trampled all things under their feet He sitteth in the Temple of God and is exalted above all that is worshipped in whose fore-head is written the Name of Blasphemy I am a God and cannot erre CHAP. II. A Brief Relation how the ancient Christians were no Persecutors in the beginning but sussered by the Heathen for the first Three hundred years after Christ The First Persecution NEro was said to be the first Tyrannical Emperor that persecuted the Christians it was called the First Persecution because it was under the Emperors Power and it begun in the Year Sixty six after Christ and at that time was chiesly within the City of Rome In the latter end of his Reign Paul was put to death for the Testimony of the Faith of Christ in the year Sixty nine Act. Mon. The Second Persecution In the year Ninety three did the Second Persecution begin under the Emperor Domitianus under whom several Christians were put to death and about the same time was the Apostle John banished into the Isle of Pathmos where he wrote his Revelation In those dayes the Christians were so little esteemed that the people called them Coblers Weavers Combers of Wool illiterate and exceeding Rustick and Clownish yea such as knew no good fashions Origen lib. 30. ad Cels The Third Persecution In the Year One hundred and two did the Third Persecution begin under the Emperor Trajanus who though he was called 〈◊〉 good Emperor did nevertheless

persecute the Christians out of his mility to the gods in which persecution several Bishops were put to death And at that time the Bishop of Antioch testified That sufferings made them like unto Christ who had suffered for them himself preparing a way through suffering unto eternal life About the same time did a Governor write unto the Emperor in the Christians behalf whereupon the Emperor wrote That they should seek no more of them but those they had in prison should they put to death The Fourth Persceution In the Year One hundred sixty four was the Fourth Persecution of the Christians which arose under the Emperors Ma●cus Auretius and Lucius Verus in which Polycarpus Bishop of Smy na was put to death who had been a Disciple of John and had been many years in the service of the Lord as he himself acknowledge About the same time was Julianus put to death at Rome in whose time the Christians were accused to have a fleshly conversation one with another which he marked to be lyes by their willingness to dye and thereby he coming to be converted became an Eminent Teacher of the Christians Baron Anno 164. numb 2. Enseb l.b. 4 cap. 6. At Lyons in France there did go forth a Proclamation That the Christians might not dwell in their houses nor that they must not converse in the streets nor shew their faces which being impossible for them to perform their sufferings became exceeding great and in the mean time some of the slaves gave out that the Christians lived in filthy lasciviousness among themselves In this persecution there was one Lucius put to death for reproving the Judg for putting the Christians to crueller deaths then any Transgressor The Fifth Persecution In the Year Two hundred and one did the Fifth persecution begin under the Emperor Severus which was thus in part occasioned to wit When the Emperor had a Warr and had gotten the Victory the Christians kept themselves still and quiet without making tokens of joy with I ires or May-poles or other Triumphs according to the manner of the Heathen Whereupon they accused the Christians our of envy as if they despised and hated the Emperor and the rather because the Christians would not swear by his Fortune Tertul. pag. 30.127 In those dayes it was the manner among the Christians not to go to any Comedies or Stage-playes for they understood that if they did forsake the Devil and all his works with the world that then they must forsake Comedies and Stage-Playes Moreover the Christians said We renounce your Shews as we condemn their divers Originals by the knowledg we have that they are effects of Superstition and Idolatry The Sixth Persecution In the Year Two hundred thirty seven did the Sixth Persecution under the Emperor Maximinus arise who partly out of envy to his Kinsman Alexander who had been favourable to the Christians did persecute the Christians in which Persecution there were many put to death for the Heathen in those dayes were so spightful against the Christians that when there was an Earthquale or a Storm or the like they laid the blame upon the Christians saving Their gods were angry because their honour went to nothing through the Christians This Emperor did not Reign very long therefore did this persecution cease the sooner The Seventh Persecution In the Year Two hundred fifty three did the Seventh Persecution arise under the Emperor D cius who with excessive Cruelty did persecute the Christians In this Persecution several of the Bishops were put to death and such as were the chief among the Christians did theytorture with many torments and plundered the Christians houses and that which the Plunderers did not esteem they burn'd In this Persecution many suffered Martyrdom some being burned some beheaded women as well as men some whipt to death and some Soldiers fo encouraging these Martyrs in their sufferings were put to death In this terrible Persecution several departed from the Faith for fear of the Torments yet after wards came to be restored again The Sufferings of the Christians were great under this Emperor but his days were also shortned for he had not reigned Two years but was caught in a Quag-mire where he met with a check or reproof for his Cruelty Note a particular account of the terrible T●rments is mentioned towards the end of this book The Eighth Persecution In the year Two hundred fifty nine did the Eighth Persecution arise under the Emperor Valerianus who put forth a Proclamation against the Christians wherein he forbad their Meeting and when this Proclamation or Order was not observed then did there follow a great Persecution of the Christians in which there was very many put to death and some were banished and the Christians converted some of the Heathen in the places to which they were banished But the Emperor under whom the Christians thus suffered did not go unpunished for his cruelty for he was taken Prisoner by the King of Persia who made use of him for a Foot-stool when he got upon his Horse The Ninth Persecution In the Year Two hundred seveaty three did the Ninth Persecution arise under the Emperor Aurelianus but this Persecution was not so great as the other because he was cut off by death soon after he had determined the same yet in this Persecution was Foelix Bishop of Rome put to death with several others The Tenth Persecution In the Year Three hundred and two begun the Tenth Persecution which was so great that it exceeded all that had been before it not only in Cruelty but in Continuance for it contiued Twelve years Eusebius who lived at that time writes of it at large in his Ecclesiastical History saying It was occasioned through the freedom of the Christians who were come into great Reputotion and were put in Places of Office to Rule in Countries and Cities but through their prosperity and voluptuousness brotherly love came to decrease and haughtiness and pride got up and instead of Worshipping of God an insolent Authority begun to get up in the Church of the Christians And at that time the Emperor Dioclesian gave forth a Proclamation wherein he commanded that all the Christian Churches should be pull'd down and the Holy Scriptures burned and that the Christians should be turned out of their places with other such like things After that there came another Order That they should cause the chief of the Church to offer unto Idols or else such as resisted were to be put to death and some were constrained to offer This Persecution begun as a little spark but it spread over the whole Church and the Persecution was so hot and great that the Persecutors themselves were troubled if not wearied In Syria there was so many of the Christians in hold that rheir Prisons were filled with them and with joy they went unbound to their death Eusebius writes how that many of the Christians had their Ears cut off and their Noses slit and others

of their Members our off also But they who caused it to be thus done unto the Christians did not escape the hand of the Lord for Dioclesian who had endeavoured to root out the Name of Christianity did nevertheless see in his old age that the Christians flourished at which he was troubled and killed himself Baron An. 3.6 Num. 1. Chron. f●l 80. Enseb lib. 8. cap. 18. lib. 9 cap. 10. And Maximini●nus another Persecutor was terribly perplexed with pain in his bowels and other misery which came upon him and the hand of the Lord was heavy upon others who had persecuted the Christians yea and some were made to confess that they deserved those Judgments from the hand of the Lord. Thus it is evident that while the Emperors ruled and had power the Christians suffered and were persecuted but afterwards growing numerous and coming to have the outward Power in their hands they became Persecutors of such as they counted Hereticks and were rather crueller then the Heathen as may be seen by the Cruelties they insticted upon the Protestants a particular Relation of which is at the latter end of this Book CHAP. III. Concerning Councils gathered before there was a Pope what Deerees they made and Papists reproved that say None gathered Councils since Peter but the Pope THE first Council was of the Apostles Acts 16. Anno 46. amongst whom James gave his Judgment unto whom they all agreed and wrote accordingly to the Brethren So that Peter was not the Hood of the Church as the Papists prete●d and cause many to believe● Ag●● when Pau● came to Jerusalem Acts 〈◊〉 A●●●● ●e went with the Brethren unto James where all the Elders were Assembled and there they determined what they thought best to be done Anno 63. After the Death of James the Apostles from every place gathered themselves together at Jerusalem and chose Simon Cleophas in his stead Ninety nine years after Christ there was two Synods summoned in Asia where John the Evangelist was present One hundred and sixty three years after Christ there was a Synod in Ancyra in Galatia gathered together of the faithful not by the Unisal Pope In the Year One hundred seventy nine the Brethren in France assembled together Anno 128 A General Council was called at Nice in Bythinia of Three hundred Bishops by Co●stantius Magnus not by the Universal Pope Anno 350 A General Council was summoned at Sardis by Constantint and Constance the Emperors Anno 355 Constantine the Emperor commanded the Eastern Churches to meet at Nicomedia in Bythinia the Western at Armenium in Italy Anno 299 A Council of a hundred and fifty Bishops met at Const●nople by the Commandment of Theodesius Magnus the Emperor Anno 450 A Council of Six hundred and thirty Bishops held at Chalcedon by the Commandment of Martianus the Emperor CHAP. IV. Concerning some of the Decrees of the General Councils after the Apostacy began to spread over the Church and how they contradicted and excommunicated one another and what Idolatrous Institutions some of them set up contrary to the Councils and Assemblies of the Apostles and Brethren we read of in the Scriptures IN Asia sundry Synods were held in which Montanus wa●●xcommunicated and his Heresie condemned Eus●b lib. 5. cap. 〈◊〉 Anno 193 There was a Synod held at Rome touching the c●leb●tion of the Feast of Easter where Victor excommunicated all the Eastern Churches Eus lib. 5 c. 23. Anno 195 There was five or six Synods held in sundry parts of the World about the Celebration of the Feast of Easter in which the Bishop of Rome had no more Authority then the other Bishops He in his City and they in theirs were chief and when he went about to challenge Authoritie over the Eastern Churches Ire●●●s Bishop of Lyons in France reproved him for it Euseb lib. 5. cap. 23. There vvas a Synod held at Carthage which is said to have erred about the re-baptizing of Hereticks Anno 287 There vvas a Council of Three hundred Bishops called together at Sinuessa where the Bishop of Rome was condemned for denying Christ and sacrificing to Idols Anno 311 There was a Council held at Neocasarea where among other things it was decreed That none should be made a Priest before he was thirty years old Constantine called a Council to remove the Dissention risen among Bishops Anno 330 A General Council was called at Nice of Three hundred and eighteen Bishops by Constanti us Magnus where they condemned Arrius debated the Controversie about Easter and laid down a Form of Faith c. Sylvester called at Rome Two hundred and eighty four Bishops in the presence of Constantine where they laid down Canons for the Government of the Clergy Anno 336 A Council held at Eliberis in Spain in the time of Constantine Decreed That the Usurer should be excommunicated That Tapers should not burn in the day-time in Church-Yeards That Images should be banished the Church That nothing should be painted upon the Wall to be worshipped Anno 340 The Council of Grangra condemned the Heretical Opinions of Tustathius and allowed the Marriage of Priests A Council held at Carthage Decreed That there should be no rebaptizing and that Clergy-men should not meddle with Temporal Affairs A Council of Arrian Bishops met at Antioch where they end avoured to abrogate the Nicent Creed Note one Council throw● down what auther Council sets up ●nno 350 A General Council was fummoned at Sardis for the heating of them whom the Arrians had exiled the Council restored them and deposed their Accusers condemned the Arria●s and confirmed the Nio●ne Creed Anno 355 A Council of Arrians held at Sermium sccurged among them Osius and made him subscribe unto Arrianism A General Council was summoned to meet at Millain where the East and Western Churches brawled about Athanasius and dissolved the Council agreeing upon nothing Anno 368 A Council at Laodicea Decreed That the Laity or common people should not chuse the Priest That Lessons should be read in the Church between certain Psalms and Service should be read morning and evening That the Gospel should be read with other Scriptures on the Sundays That Lent should be observed righteously and that Christians should not dance at Bride-houses A Council was called at Illyricum where the Trinity Three joined in one was confessed A Council held at Valentia in France Decreed That Priests should not marry The First Council held at Tolledo in Spain Decreed That Priests should marry N●te O●e of these Councils have erred though the Papists say they could not erre There was a Council held at Chalcedon where Chrysostom was condemned of spight and for no crime A Council was called at Cyprus where through the spight of Theophilus Bishop of Alexandria the Books of Origen were condemned The Third Council held at Carthage Decreed That the Clergy in their years of discretion should either Marry or vow Chastity and that the chief Bishop should not be called

before him never thought of Johannes Patriarch of Constantinople put forth himself and would needs be called the Universal Bishop of the World But the Bishop of Rome in no case would suffer that but put a stop to it but after the Bishop of Rome could take it to himself CHAP. VI. Concerning the several Reliques and Superstitious Practises in the Church of Rome Who were the first Institutors of them and what and how much of their Idolatry is still upheld by the Protestant Professors in England at this day which was set up since there was a Vniversal Pope IN the Year after Christ Six hundred and two Phocas murthered Mauritius his Master the Emperor and slew two of his Sons and put his Daughters and his Wife to death And then this Phocas this Murderer was crowned Emperor and Boniface the third Bishop of Rome he obtained of this Murderer Phocas to be the Universal Bishop over all the Bishops and so that the Bishop of Rome should be called Pope And here got in the Pope by murder Platina Christ Misseus Hen. Panteleon c. Epist lib. 4. Epist 32 33 34. cap. 76 77. See Becon sol 295. And then the Bishop lost the greatest part of Christendom and all the Churches went together by the ears about him and the Emperor lost the greatest part of his Empire And here you may see the Pope was set up six hundred and 〈◊〉 years after Christ And this Pope in the year 605 first decreed That white Linnen Clothes should be laid on the Altar And further in another Author concerning Phocas which murthered Mauritius his Master who was a Noble and Virtuous M●n he obtained through Treason the Empire he also treacherously slew his Children that none of his should claim the Crown 〈◊〉 him This Murdering Tyrant set up the Bishop of Rome contraa●● 〈◊〉 Ch●ists command who said You are all Brethren And so the Bishop of Rome Boniface the third Lucifer-like exalted in pride above all his fellow Bishops challenged to himself the Supremacy and Authority that he and his Successors after him for ever should be taken for the chief Bishop and Universal Head of the Church throughout all the world And that from that day forward the Church of Rome should be called the Head Church of all the whole World And that the Church of Rome should be in subject on to no other Church but that all other Churches should be in subjection to it For until that time Constantinople Church was counted the highest where the Emperor dwelt and before that time the Church in Jerusalem was called the highest for Constantine was a Christian but in Rome there was Heathen Emperor● a long time after Christ Otho frisin Gen. Chron. lib. 5. cap. 8. Marrian Scot. in Anno 608. Vsperg in Phoca Becon fol. 295. It is before recorded that Joseph of Arimathea first preached the Gospel in England amongst the Britans in the year sixty four and about six hundred and two the Pope sent over to them Augusti●● to spread his Doctrine with his silver Cross his Letany his Procession Images Reliques Canticles and Books of Ceremonies charging the Britans that they did many things contrary to the Custom of the Church of Rome in their preaching Baptism and keeping of Easter c. and that they regarded not mans traditions but the Britans refusing to follow his Commands he threa●●ed them with Warr and to revenge it by death which immediately ensued Read Beda in his Ecclesiastical History of England the second Book and second Chap. Here all people may see that Christianity was planted in 〈◊〉 some hundreds of years before the Popes Rudiments Cand●● 〈…〉 Letany Procession and Images with the rest of his Trumpery 〈◊〉 into England who lyeth in saying that Christianity came fi●st in by them who came in by Murder and the outward Sword and hath held up his outward Tradition by Murder and the outward Sword ever since Chron. Ranulph Chest Bec. fol. 323. In the year 606 Boniface the fourth he instituted the Feast of All-Souls and All-Saints and he got the Temple of Phocas built by Agrippa and consecrated it to the Virgin Mary and all the Martyrs Plat. volat Polydore Bec. fol 355. In the year 645 At Rome where Meletus was present it was ordered that Monasteries should be erected in England in Boniface the fourth's days and this Boniface the fourth instituted the Feast of All-Souls In the year 637 England first divided into Parishes In the year 640 Lent was first set up in England in Pope Severinus's time Carcumbertus King of England commanded the people to keep Lent in England Segeb. in Chron. Pautal In the year 643 Pope Martin the first ordained that a man should not lye with his Wife till the Priest had hallowed or blest his Bed and the same year he ordained Mass to be sung openly with a loud voice and that Churches should be trimmed and dressed on Holy-days Pol. Paulel Bec. fol. 322. In the year 650 Pope Eugenius the first ordained that Monks should be shut up in Cloisters for before that time they did go up and down Euseb Chron. Cantz In the year 603 Pope Sabiniani commanded Lamps should be kept continually burning in the Church he also instituted Bells in the Church and called them Saints Bells Plat. Albert. Crantz de Barns c. He also decreed in the same year That the People should be assembled together to their Serv●ce by ringing of Bells Plat. Durand de Barns Plantal Bec. fol. 322. In the year 636 the University of Cambridg founded or enlarged by Segebert King of the East-Angles So these things were not set up by the Apostles but by the Pope In the year 622 Honorius decreed That none should keep company with excommunicated persons He also devised the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross Plat. Pant. Bec. fol. 355. In the year 622 About this year being fifteen years after the Pope came Mahomet the Turk In the year 635 the first Cross was set up in England by Oswald King of No thumbe●land who fighting against Cadwalda in the same place set up a Cross kneeling and praying there for Victory In the year 653 Pope Vicilianus brought in Organs first into the Church to make the people merry Chron Volat. Plat. c. Eugenius the fourth was the first that appointed B●shops to have Prisons of their own to punish people in In the year 664 a Controversie was in England about the observing of Easter In the year 676 Pope Leo the second devised the Pax and that it should be kissed of the people Plat. festi temp In the year 684 the Election or chusing of Popes without the Emperors approbation was granted by the Emperor Whereby it may be noted that before that time the Emperor had power to chuse the Pope In the year 666 Pope Bennet the second obtained of the Emperor Constantine that the Bishop of Rome for ever after should be taken of all men for Christs true Vicar

them that believe and that unto all such as receive thee thou mayest be health of soul and body and that from out of the place thou shalt be sprinkled may flye away all Fancy Wickedness and Craftiness of the Devils subtilty and every foul spirit The Papists Conjurations of Water I conjure thee thou Creature of Water in the Name of Cross God the Father Almighty and in the Name of Cross Jesus Christ his Son our Lord and in the Vertue of Cross the Holy Ghost that thou become a Conjured Water to expel the power of the Enemy Here the Pope is smothered with his own smoak Pope Leo the thrid Pope John the seventh Pope Adrian the first with others made Decrees for establishing of Images Leo the third Emperor of Greece decreed that Images should be taken out of the Churches and burnt openly at Constantinople The said Emperor threw out of the Temple all the Images and burnt them in the open Market This was contrary to the Pope Pope Eugenius decreed that Children which were to be Christned should have a God-father and a God-mother A Council held at Rotomage decreed that their Sacrament the Priests should put it into the Lay-peoples mouths and that they should not touch it with their hands contrary to the use and practice of the primitive Christians many hundred years after Christ Lib. Concil Bec. fol. 329. In Pope Urban the First 's time was the Order of the Nunnes of Saint Briget invented by Brigeta and that the Nunnes should be closed above in a Closet and the men beneath Pop● Nicholas the first ordained that no temporal man whether King or Emperor● should have ought to do with those things that appertain to the Priest In the time of Pope Alexander the third there was one Vict●r a Pope so Alexander got his Popedom by money and force of Ships and Arms in the year One thousand one hundred sixty one And this Pope compelled Lewis King of France and Henry King of England to be his Lacquies and to run on foot by him holding his horse bridle one of the right hand and the other of the left leading him thorough the street in his pomp This is like the Glory of the world this is not like Peter In the year 757 Stephen the third he was the first Pope that was carried on mens shoulders Where was Christ or Peter so carried Pol. vit Pant. In the year 1075 the Emperor deposes the Pope and the Pope excommunicates the Emperor and ill requites the Emperor for his love who gave him power to be chosen Pope without his Election Pope Gregory the ninth ordained that the Sacring-Bell should be rung when the Priest lifteth up the Mystal-Bread and Chalice above his head to move the people to behold that new-found god which they worshipped in knocking kneeling and lifting up of hands to a piece of Bread Crates Malleotes a Heathen he brought the study of Gramar into Rome in the year of the World Three thousand seven hundred eighty nine Pope Boniface the seventh procured a company of men to take his part by whose means he took Pope John the fifteenth and put out his eyes and then threw him into prison Boniface dyed not many days after who after his death was drawn by the feet through the streets of Rome in the year Nine hundred seventy-six Pope Stephen the sixth so envied the Name of his predecessor For●●osus that he abrogated and dissolved his Decrees and taking up his body after it was buried he cut two of his fingers off his right hand and commanded them to be cast into the River Tyber Pope Sergius caused the body of Formosus where it was buryed to be taken up and afterwards sitting in the Papal See first degraded him then commanded his head to be smitten off with the other three fingers that were left as Sigeberius writeth which done he caused his body to be thrown into Tyber deposing all such as by the said Pormosus before had been consecrated and invested By this Murderer Pope Ser●ius first came up the use to bear about Candles on Candlemas-day for the purifying of the Virgin Mary Anno 684. Durand G. Achil. Becon fol. 351. It is recorded of Pope Hidlebrand tha● he enquired of the Sacrament a Divine answer against the Emperor and because it did not speak he threw it in the fire and burned it Sure the Papists will allow this Pope erred After the death of Pope Clement the fifth the Romish See stood vacant two years and three months Book of Mart. vol. 1 p. 487. Pope Gregory the third was the first that brought into the Masse the Canon or clause for Reliques also he brought into the Memorial the Offering and Sacrifice for the dead Pope Zachary brought in the Priests Vestures and Ornaments Constantius was the first that gave his feet to be kissed of the Emperors about the year Seven hundred Book of Mart. Volume 1. p. 176. Henricu the Emperor with his Wife and Child bare-footed and bare-legged waited on Pope Hidlebrand three days and three nights at the Gates of Conusium before he could be suffered to come in Pope Sylvester the second was accounted a great Sorcerer Pope Alexander the second was forced into a Chamber by Soldiers and there beaten by Pope Hidlebrand This is contrary to the Apostle who said A Bishop must be no striker King Ines ordained in England before the Conquest that Infants should be baptized within thirty days Pope Vrban the second amongst many other Enormities concluded that no Priests son should be capable of Orders And yet Priests must not marry Pag of Popes fol. 87. Bishop Bonner said If an Image be made a god it is no Idol Thus you may see the Papists are contrary to the Scriptures and God who forbiddeth to make Images of him or the likeness of any thing in He●●●● bo●● 〈◊〉 Earth be●●ath Fox Vol. 3. p. 262. CHAP. VII Concerning Hereticks Judas Iscariot was the first Apostate that fell from the truth who sold his Master to the covetous Priests for thirty pieces of silver and slew his Father married his Mother and in the end hanged himself Read Euseb Chr●n In the year 163 Demas which Paul spake of forsook the truth and became an Idol-priest at Thessalonica Pilate that gave sentence upon Christ afterward slew himself M●rcellina the Heretick worshipped and offered Incense unto the Images of Jesus and Paul c. In the year 81 Cerinthus the Heretick dreamed that the Kingdom of Christ should become Earthly and that Christ should reign on the Earth a thousand years Montanus the Heretick forbad Marriage and commanded abstinence from certain meats as unlawful In the year 287 Marcell●nas the Heretick Bishop of Rome denied Christ and offered sacrifice unto Idols for which he was condemned by a Council of three hundred Bishops called together at Sin 〈◊〉 Whereby it appears the Bishop of Rome erred and was fallible In the year 340 Eustathius the Heretick forbad Marriage 〈◊〉 Laws

be accursed without the ground of Gods Word And the man said Sir our Priests say That they curse men thus by Authority of Gods Law And I said Sir I know not where this sentence of Cursing is Authorized now in the Bible and therefore Sir I pray you that you will ask the most cunning Clerk of this Town that ye may know where this sentence of cursing them that tythe not is now writ in Gods Law for if it were written there I would right gladly be learned where and I said to this man in this wise In the old Law which ended not fully till the time that Christ rose up again from death to life God commanded tythes to be given to the Levites for the great business and daily travel that pertained to their Office but Priests because their travel was mekil more easie and light then was the Office of the Levites God ordained the Priest should take for their livelihood to do their office the tenth part of those tythes that were given to the Levites But now I said in the new Law neither Christ nor any of his Apostles took Tythes of the people nor commanded the people to pay Tythes neither to Priests nor Deacons but Christ taught the people to do Alms that is Works of Mercy to poor needy men of surplus that is superfluous of their temporal Goods which they had more then them needed reasonably to their necessary livelihood and thus I said not of tythes but of pure alms to the people But as Cisterniensis telleth in the year 1274 one Pope Gregory the tenth ordained new Tythes first be given to the Priests Now in the new Law the words of the Law are these That it should not from thenceforth be lawful to give their Tythes as their own pleasure where they would as it had been before but pay all their Tythes to the Mother-Church The Judgment of David Pareus of Hidleburgh in the Palatinate concerning Tythes He saith that Tythes or Tenths were free and Arbitrary before the Law as appears by the Example of Abraham and Jacob a man might give them a man might now them or he might not as he pleased under the Law they were commanded by God to be given to the Priest Lev. 27. And the reasons thereof are clear First The tenths were a compensation unto the Levites for the twelfth part of the Land which ought to have fallen otherwise to their shares Moreover they were the Sallaries of Priests and Levites and maintenance of the poor for God instituted three tenths First the tenths of the Levites Lev. 27. Secondly the tenths of tenths or the hundredth to be paid by the Levites to the Priests Numb 18.26 Thirdly the poor mans tenths which was to be paid every three years after the Jubile unto the Poor Strangers Widows and Orphans Deut. 14.28 Therefore saith he when the Levitical Priesthood did cease then did the right of that Priesthood cease and the right of Tythes did revert to the giver of them Laws and Canons for Tythes among the Saxons In the year 786 in the time of Off●● which was in the time of Hepterchy in England there was a great Couned holden in Merci● by two Legats sent from Pope Adrian the first wherein as it is reported tythes were first established in England so that the first Law for payment of tythes came from the Pope and decreed by his Agents in Mercia being but a seventh part of England and afterwards as Popery encreased so tythes also were established in other parts of England by the several Kings thereof King Ethelbert King of Kent coming to the Court of Off● King of Mercia the said Offa murthered him in or about the year 793 and at length understanding the innocency of the said Ethelbert and to mitigate the hainousness of the Fact gave the tenth part of his Good to the holy Church and to the Church of Hereford in the remembrance of this Ethelbert and after wards went up to Rome for his Po●● 〈◊〉 where he gave to Peter's Church so called a penny through every House in his Dominion which is called Peter's pence or Romes shot and there was transformed from a King to a Monk and this was 794 years after Christ so was not set up by Christ and his Apostles See Seldens History of Tythes This Pope Adrian bestowed cost on Altars dead mens Tombs bones and Steeple-houses he attributed more Worship to Images then ever any did and wrote a Book of the honour and profit of them and appointed them instead of Scriptures to be Lay-mens Calenders He condemned in a Council those that detested Images This Adrian clothed the Image of Peter all in silver and covered the Altar of Paul with a Pall of Gold And this Pope set up Tythes 794 year after Christ In the year 797 after Christ Alchwin School-Master to Charles the Great in his Letter to the said Charles who was a Romish Emperor and had ordained Tythes to be paid wrote touching the Exaction of Tythes which he calls Jugum decimarum that is The Yoke of Tenths and Exaction of something from every house of the Huns and Saxons who were but then lately conquered by the said Charles and had newly made profession of the Christian Faith And the said Alchwin further advised in his Letter for the Christian Cause to omit it amongst them and not to put the yoke of Tythes as he said upon the people and not to exact something from every house but to shew that we are the Apostles sent of God and Christ into the world to preach and rather to give to them that ask or want then to exact Tythes for it is better to lose them then to destroy the peoples faith See Seldens History of Tythes King Athelstone King of the West-Saxons about the year 940. to pacifie the Ghost of his murthered Brother Edwin to whose death he is said to have consented did not only undergo seven years pennance but also built certain Monasteries and made a Law that people should pay Tythes viz. himself his Bishops and Officers hoping thereby to expiate his sins These following are the words of the Law Book of Martyrs p. 193. vol. 1. I Athelstone King Charge and Command all my Officers thorough my whole Realm to give Tythes unto God of my proper Goods as well in living Cattel as in Corn and fruits of the ground and that my Bishops likewise of their proper Goods and mine Aldermen and mine Officers and Head-men shall do the same Item This I will That my Bishops and other Head-men do declare the same to those that be in their Subjection and that to be accomplished at the Term of St. John the Baptist This was in the time of Popery Edmund King of England ordained Tythes to be paid for every Christian man in the year 941. Book of Martyrs vol. 1. p. 195. Edgar about the year 959 is said to have confirmed the payment of Tythes upon as bad a ground as Athelstone did See