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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

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from death to life and that hee shall not enter into condemnation Did he send vs to Rome or any other place Doth he not say if wee cate his fleshe and drinke his bloud which he had preposed before in these termes if we come to him and if we beleeue in him he dwelleth in vs and wee in him Can there be any charity to expose so many persons to infinite paines trauailes and daungers to put them in great charges to leaue their houses and vocations to goe a long iourney to seeke that which they may haue at home at their own dores if they haue a true faith working by charity But I pray you doth not the holy Father and his supports shew a manifest contradiction in their opinions and by consequent what spirit of error lying speaketh by their mouths and not the spirit of truth They proclaime with hewe and crye that in their Masse the Sacramentall wordes being pronounced the substance of bread is transubstantiated into the body of Christ and the wine into the bloud Now Iesus Christ ordaining the holy Supper would there by assure vs that if wee communicate worthily and examine our owne consciences we communicate his body which was deliuered for vs and his bloud which was shed for the remission of our sins To be short wee are participants of the efficacy vertue of his death and passion If then it be so that Iesus Christ very God and very man is there as they pretend yea in corporall presence Is it not a great folly and indiscretion to goe so far to seeke that which they may haue among themselues Wherefore should Iesus Christ present himselfe there vnto vs and should not haue so much power in his corporall presence as men are made beleeue that the bones sepulchers Temples and Images of S. Peter and S. Paul haue Is it not to make lesse account without comparison of the Master then of the seruaunts Yea is it not a despising of the Lord who is alwaies liuing to adore and worship the putrified carkasses of his seruantes If then it bee true that they are his seruants who will deny it to be a manifest blasphemy Wherefore all these goodly exhortations by the Pope made both to the Prelates and to Kings and Princes are like to Suger and other Spices wherewith he seeketh to sweeten his venomous drinke thereby the easier to impoyson all the world We must not stay nor attend the 100. yeare of the Romaine Iubile to amend our liues correct our vices to dispose our selues to doe good and to be intentiue to the word of God to read the holy Scriptures to exercise charity to giue honor to whome honor belongeth and tribute to those that ought to haue tribute and to pray to God one for an other and namely for Kings Princes and such as are in authority Such holy exercises are necessary for all the faithfull and at all times and seasons And also such as are called to feede the Lords flocke ought not to attend vntil that time to teach and instruct the people committed to their charge Act. 20. but they are alwaies to doe it as S. Paul writeth to the Bishop of Ephes yea in time and out of time according to the instruction by him giuen to his Disciple Timothy For that following their Masters example they must trauel in his Vineyard the 12. houres in the day without staying till euening comes Wherfore you my maisters of the church of Rome if you desire to be participants of saluation harken rather to the voyce of the great Pastor of al Pastors our only Sauiour redeemet Iesus christ Math. 11. who so sweetly inuiteth you vnto his word Come vnto me all you that are laden and I will comfort you Also If any man haue thirst let him come vnto mee and I will refresh him Ioh. 7. Then vnto these false Prophets which make you runne from place to place binding your consciences cause you to doubt of your saluation And the better to empty your purses set before your eyes a fire of purgatory wherein after you haue bin tormented in this world by fastings abstinences pilgrimages and other corporall exercises you must as they make you beleeue passe through and therein remaine to be as it were new boyled and refined before you enter into Paradice But the Sonne of God maketh one selfe same promise vnto all those who by a true faith shall seeke their saluation in him as he did vnto the poore theefe when hee said vnto him this day shalt thou be with me in Paradice that is to say if we commit our soules into his hands he will receiue them and place them in ease and rest attending the moste happy resurrection by meanes whereof he will leade vs all both in body and soule into his Paradice which is the heritage prepared for vs before the foundation of the world This great eternall and vniuersall Iubile whereunto God calleth and summoneth vs euery day hath bin written by the precious bloud and signed by the death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ the eternall Sonne of the eternall God our great King and onely soueraigne Sanctifier Vnder written by the holy Apostle that Preached and declared it vnto all the world to be indifferently receiued and celebrated in all places where the name of God is called vpon and sealed with two great seales of his Maiesty Baptisme and the holy Supper Ga. 1. Whosoeuer Preacheth any other Gospel let him be accursed 1. Cor. 16. If there be any man that loueth not the Lord Iesus Christ let him be accursed Maranatha FINIS
Emperour Claudius whereby it fell out that he was present in Jerusalem at the assembly of the Apostles recited by Saint Luke Act. 15. which is but a meere iest and a notable lye Act. 15.16.17 deuised in his Monkish cap For he can by no meanes shew nor by any approoued Author verifie it besides that that Saint Luke alleageth touching this matter prooueth him a lyer Where he sayth that S. Paul hauing stayed for a time in Antiochia after his returne from Ierusalem went to visit the Churches where he and Barnabas had Preached and hauing past by Siria and Cilicia came to Iconia and from thence went for Phrigia and Galatia and then to Macedonia where he stayed long time Preaching in many places thereof at the last he came to Athens and from thence to Corinthus where he met with Aquilla and Priscila who not long before or lately came thither out of Italy because Claudius had commaunded the Iewes to depart out of Rome Now this word lately sheweth that Onuphrius deceiueth himselfe or else would deceiue other men affirming that S. Peter was driuen out of Rome by Claudius For S. Paul hauing stayed from the time of the Sinode at Ierusalem in Antiohia could not haue made so long a voyage Preaching the Gospell almost in euery place where he past in so short a time And touching the rest if it were so that S. Peter had been at Rome doth it follow that hee was the head of the Church There is but one onely Iesus Christ who is also the true stone of the Fayth whereupon the Church of God is erected and not Saint Peter Which hath been so often prooued by the Authorities and witnesses of the most auncient Doctors that it would be but meere labour lost to reiterate it onely I wil alleadge one witnes taken out of their own Authors which by consequent they cannot reprooue Petra dedit Petro Petrus diadema Rodulpho The stone that is Christ gaue the Diadem to Peter and Peter gaue it to Redulphus Now although this is false as it shall heereafter be prooued so is it notwithstanding that God by a iust iudgement admirable wisedom hath drawne from this lye that the stone gaue Peter the Diadem this true confession that Christ is the stone as also the glose Et Super hanc Petram in the distinction 19. C. ita Dominus sayth I beleeue that the Lord by this indiction hath declared no other thing then only the words which S. Peter answered vnto the Lord when he said thou art the Christ the Son of the lyuing God For the Church is erected vpon this article of the faith Then God hath built his Church vpon himselfe Also behold what is added in the margent Where he saith vpon this stone c. That is the same which thou hast confessed that is to say my selfe for the stone was Christ De consecrat dist 2. C●re vera Vpon which foundation Peter was edified It is then by a false tytle that the Pope saith that he sitteth in S. Peters chayre that he is the Father of those that call themselues Catholiques soueraigne Pastor of the sheepe For without making any long discourse touching the disloyalties disorders couetousnes ambition intollerable tyrannie and pride more then diabolical where with the most part of those that haue mounted vp into this abhominable seate haue bin adorned and inriched or rather spotted and defiled seeing the hystories of their liues are filled therewith What duety of a Father or Pastor I beseech you doe they shew Is it in setting Iesus Christ and al his benefits to sale Is it in sucking the substance of Kingdomes by theyr pardons and indulgences And further by meanes of the Annates and such like diabolicall inuentions and all to draw money into their purses Haue we any one example of the Apostles which in any thing doth resemble these things Sueto in Tiberio The Emperor Tiberius although an Infidel and a tyrant did neuerthelesse say that it is the ducty of a good Pastor to sheare the sheep but not to flea them If wee looke into the trafique and pollicies of the Citty of Rome we shal find it to be but a right fleaing how much wors I omit That which this holy father addeth is no truer then the rest that went before for how is it possible for saith to shine where it is not Will you say that there is the fayth where mans traditions and inuentions are preferred before the expresse commandements of God This onely example shall suffice God often times sayth and that in most plaine and cuident wordes Thou shalt not make any Image nor the likenesse thereof neyther shalt thou worshippe them The Pope saith thou shalt erect Images and the likenesse of God and of his Saints and shalt worship them with the same worship that belongeth vnto the thinges which they represent Can there bee any faith there where the simple people are taught to haue recourse vnto creatures to inuoke and call vpon them and to make vowes and seruices to them that belong to God alone Likewise can there bee faith where men teach that we must doubt the promises of God there where the soueraigne Bishop with his supporters openly boldly and shamelesly maintaine that the holy Scriptures although diuinely inspired and profitable Doctrine to reprehend correct and reprooue that the man of God may bee perfect and instructed in all good workes are neuerthelesse imperfect and vncertaine and that wee must haue recourse vnto traditions which they terme the vnwritten word Where he saith that this truth hath neuer bin changed by any course of times That shal be found to be most vntrue by such as will but conferre the Doctrine which the holy Prophets and Apostles haue left vs in writing with their inuentions and traditions for that the one resembleth the other as much as light and darknesse and truth and vntruth But beholde a most sufficient witnes of the vnion that the celebration of this Iubile where the name of God is outragiously blasphemed the bloud of the Sonne of God villanously abused and troden vnder foote and his death and passion exposed for a mockery and pastime This notwithstanding this holy Father the better to couer his subtilty and mallice full of deceipt will ground his Iubile vpon that which is Prophesied of our Lord Iesus Christ in Esay 61. As our Lord himselfe expoundeth it in Luk. 4. But beholde vnaduisedly not thinking thereof he discouereth his deceipts and impostures being cleane contrary to that he saith hee will doe following our Sauiour Christ It is said in Luke 4. that Iesus Christ according to his manner being entred into the Sinagogue of Nazareth vpon a Saboath day stood vp to read and that the booke of the Prophet Esay was layd before him hauing opened it he turned to the parcell of Scripture where it is witten the Spirit of God is vpon me because he hath annointed me He hath sent me to the
end that I might Preach vnto the poore that I might heale those that are contrite of hart that I should annownce deliuerance vnto captiues and sight vnto the blinde and set at liberty those that are bruised and broken in peeces c. But how did Iesus Christ doe this did he command the Iewes to whome he Preached to come and finde him in a certaine place there to cause them to visit certaine Temples and Churches and for the space of thus many or so many dayes with other such like follies as they must do at Rome Was it not rather in Preaching repentaunce and amendment of life and free remission of sinnes vnto all that are true repentant by the faith which they ought to haue in Iesus Christ without sending them hyther and thither with Tapers golde and siluer And did it not onely in Nazareth Mar. 1. but throughout all Iudea and in Jerusalem it selfe as you may read in the Euangelistes especially in Saint John Math. 25. Act. 1. The like he commandeth his Apostles when he saith goe and Preach the Gospell throughout all the world Also you shall bee witnesses vnto me in Ierusalem and through all Iudea and Samaria and to the end of the world In doing this did he ordaine the celebration of the true spirituall Iubile to bee in one certaine place and to be celebrated at the end of euery 100. of 50. yeares This solemne Feast ought it not to be celebrated euery day as Saint Paul also exhorteth vs touching the spirituall celebration of the true Paschall Lambe our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ 1. Cor. 5. The Apostles among others Saint Peter and Saint Paul did they vse by theyr Buls to proclaime this yeare of Iubile Did they not Preach it openly themselues going personally from towne to towne and vilage to vilage to announce and declare remission of sinnes by the precious bloud of Iesus Christ to all beleeuers as also conuersion and amendment of life They also sent Epistles to the Churches but not to cause the faithfull to come to the places where they were resident there to kisse theyr Pantables and to receiue a signe of the Crosse as they call it Neither yet attribute vnto them selues such a tyrannicall power ouer the Kings Princes and people of the earth as the Popes doe The Sonne of God neither yet his Apostles did not appoint a certaine time place nor daies to perswade the faithful to repentance Euery day and euery yeare ought to bee the yeare of Iubile to all the faithfull It is therefore a plaine mockery to publish this goodly Iubile The Pope saith that he Preacheth as being the Ambassador of Iesus Christ vnto al the world But who gaue him that charge a certain number of Cardinals And from whom haue they this authority Act. 1. 6. 14. Is it from Christ No for it was not so from the beginning when S. Mathias should be chosen others likewise that were called to any Ecclesiastical charge But it is the Pope himselfe that hath aduaunced them to this high dignity to establish fortifie his realme of Abbadon Had the Apostles this proude manner when they went into any country to send for Kings Princes and people to come to kisse theyr Pantable Did they cause themselues to be borne vpon mens shoulders as this goodly Ambassador doth Cornelius the Centinier did he goe to S. Peter But according to the instruction of the Angel did not he send to fetch him did he not say vnto him that he had well done that he came It is true he would haue worshipped him but he was sharply admonished to the contrary So much there wanted that S. Peter wold haue made him to kisse his pantable It is therfore necessary for the Pope for the well exercising of his office of Ambassador to go as the Apostles did preaching the gospel thorow out all the world not to content himselfe with sending a peice of paper to cause so many people to come to Rome to obtaine pardons In truth it is a good exhortation that he gieth vnto al men to conuert turn vnto God For so the doctrine of the gospel teacheth vs. But to speake with the authority of soueraigne Pastor it is the part of Antichrist as also to assigne a certaine place certaine daies to do penaunce and obtaine pardon These are thinges that may not bee prolonged neyther yet posted ouer til the next day as Dauid saith Psal 95. Psa 95. To day when you heare his voice harden not your hearts The grace of God is not at this day tyed to a certaine place but is spread thorowout all the world to all the faithfull which giue certaine testimony of their faith by a true repentaunce and amendment of life As touching that which this holy Father saith that if it were need he would shed his bloud for those that are strayed out of the way I leaue that to the secret iudgement of God seeing that there is not any likelihood or apparance that those who so long and many yeares haue bathed themselues in the bloud of so great numbers of peoples nations especially such as haue sought their saluatiō in the bloud of Iesus Christ would shed their owne bloud But the Sonne of God at the day of his iudgement so much desired by his elect so fearefull to the wicked will iudge them But if Pope Clement had neuer so little feare of this iudgement which hee calleth feareful if he would beleeue that there is a God iudge of all the world would hee not tremble in his heart Would not his hayres stare and stand vpright vpon his head and all his body become pale and wan when hee dareth in such sort power out so many blasphemies all at one time First when he speaketh of the Iubile that was celebrated in Rome a hundreth yeares past vnder Pope Alexander the sixt will you know who that Pope was read the Histories of such as haue written his life Guichardine sayth his Pontificats being gotten by villanous meanes was peraduenture maintayned by more villanous meanes then euer were heard off And some there were that beleeued for there is nothing so wicked and vniust which was not thought to be in him that Baiazeth hauing intelligence that the King of Fraunce came into Italy corrupted the Pope with money by meanes of George Bucciard to cause him to procure the death of Iemy his brother All the rest that write speake of him as of a monster in nature And it appeareth by all the discourse of his life that the reason why he caused the Iubile to be celebrated was more to haue money whereof he was extreame couetous to inrich his Son Caesar Borgia then for any deuotion hee had to the holy Church And to prooue it at the beginning of the same yeare as it were at the very instant time when this goodly Iubile should beginne the aforesaid Caesar battered the Towne of