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A69775	The history of popery, or, Pacquet of advice from Rome the fourth volume containing the lives of eighteen popes and the most remarkable occurrences in the church, for near one hundred and fifty years, viz. from the beginning of Wickliff's preaching, to the first appearance of Martin Luther, intermixt with several large polemical discourses, as whether the present Church of Rome be to be accounted a Church of Christ, whether any Protestant may be present at Mass and other important subjects : together with continued courants, or innocent reflections weekly on the distempers of the times.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1682 (1682)	Wing C521; ESTC P479002	208,882	288

and False Doctrines then obtruded in the Church which much Incensed the Prelates with Rage and particularly observing that Sir John Old-Castle a valiant Religious Knight of Kent and who in the Right of his Wife was Lord Cobham to be a great Favourer of that Doctrine they resolve to take him to task but first of all Complain of him to the King in the first Year of his Reign who sent for and discoursed him to whom the Lord Cobham declared his Loyalty and Obedience but added That as touching the Pope and Prelates he ow'd them neither Suit nor Service for that by the Scriptures he knew the Pope to be Antichrist c. Upon which the King would talk no further with him Then Arundel the Arch-bishop began to Cite him before him and not being obey'd Pronounc'd him guilty of Contumacy at last the Lord Còbham drew up a Confession of his Faith being an Explanation of the Apostles Creed and very Orthodox with which he repaired to the Court and humbly tendred it to the King but he refused to receive it and by the Kings Commandment he was sent to the Tower and in the 23 d. of Sept. 1413. Conven'd before the Arch-bishop and the Bishops of London and Winchester The chief Objections against him were That he held Erroneous and Heretical Opinions in these Four Points viz. Touching the Sacrament Touching Pennance Touching Images And touching Pilgrimages Therefore he delivered in to the said Bishops a Writing Indented containing his Opinion in each of these Particulars which not being long we shall here recite Verbatim I John Old-Castle Knight Lord of Cobham Will That all Christian Men Weet and Vnderstand that I Clepe Almighty God into Witness that it hath been now is and ever with the help of God shall be mine intent and my will to Believe faithfully and fully all the Sacraments that ever God Ordain'd to do in Holy Church and moreover to declare me in these four Points I Believe that the most Worshipful Sacrament of the Altar is Christs Body in the Form of Bread the same Body that was Born of the Blessed Virgin our Lady Saint Mary done on the Cross Dead and Buried the Third Day Ros● from Death to Life the which Body is now Glorified in Heaven Also as for the Sacrament of Pennance I believe that it is needful to every man that shall be Saved to forsake Sin and do due Pennance for Sin before done with true Confession very Contrition and due Satisfaction as Gods Law limiteth and Teacheth and else may he not be Saved which Pennance I desire all Men to do And as of Images I Vnderstand that they be not of Beleeve but that they were Ordain'd sith they beleeve was zewe of Christ by sufferance of the Church to be Calenders to Lews Men to Represent and Bring to mind the Passion of our Lord Jesu Christ and Martyrdom and good Living of other Saints and that who so it be that doth the Worship to dead Images that is due to God or putteth such hope or trust in help of them as he should do to God or hath Affection in one more than in another he doth in that the greatest Sin of Maumetrie Also I suppose this fully That every Man in this Earth is a Pilgrim towards Bliss or toward Pain and that he that Knoweth not ne will not Know ne Keep the Holy Commandments of God in his Living here albeit that he be go on Pilgrimages to all the World and he die so he shall be Damned he that knoweth the Holy Commandments of God and Keepeth them to his End he shall be Saved though he never in his Life go on Pilgrimage as Men now use to Canterbury or to Rome or to any other Place The COURANT. Papist and Tory. Tory. WEll and how go Cases now Papist Not altogether so well as we expected The heat against Dissenting Hereticks in many places begins to Cool not can we get the people to believe That Godfrey Murder'd himself Tory. Murder'd himself Why Thompson Num. 131. talks as if he were still alive and expected next fair Wind. For he says the Truth of his Two Sham-Letters will be as effectually prov'd as the Appearance of the Viscountess Cambaen's Steward did clear that business Which can no otherwise so effectually nor indeed at all be done without Sir Edmund Bury's appearing alive again and indeed I have often wonder'd that the Church which boasts of Miracles for one of her Notes hath not all this while wrought One by raising that Gentleman again to Life which undoubtedly would destroy the suspition of the Plot for ever Pap. Tush I may tell you as a Friend we are better by half at Raising of Lies than at Raising the Dead This Godfrey's Ghost always haunts us and all the skill of the South-sayer Gadbury the Hagg Celier or our Saterdotal Conjurers cannot tell how to Lay it How many Devices have we started to Evade not the Guilt but the Scandal of having Murder'd him Once we would have put it upon the Earl of D. to which purpose we scatter'd about a Libel call'd Reflections c. But that not taking comes in Macgrath and his Crew and they were for Swearing That he hang'd himself and his Man Mr. Moor cut him down This being likewise Confuted we revive our first story and Now we would make the World think he Murder'd himself with his own Sword Tory. If you had left the Management of this Intrigue to Roger he would have dispatcht it better by half than Natt for to speak Truth all the Priests are but Bunglers to him Pap. O but he had formerly given it under his hand That he did not in the least doubt but Sir Edm. Godfrey was Murder'd by Papists Tory. No matter for That He shall unsay it again for Two pence and prove that they were Presbyterians kill'd him and then we will have a new Set● of Abhorrencies go about to Abominate Detest and Defie John Calvin and all his Works This were somewhat to ●he purpose but to come as Natt does with Ifs and ands If Sir E. B. Godfreys Body were full of Blood If his Nostrils c. were fly blown If his Body stunk and Cakes of putrified Blood were found in his Cloathes c. Well what then Why then if all this were true Natt Thompson is a Lyer for Printing in October 78. a Narrative upon his own personal view quite contrary to all these Assertions But Friend Natt the Whiggs have often told you That these Suggestions are All notorious Lies forg'd out of a devilish Design to Conceal Murder and stifle Treason c. and they have Challeng'd you to produce the Witnesses that you boast of and you have not been able to name One except it be Mr. W. and him the very next Week you u●braid with Tankard stealing Pap. Well! well a little patience we have a parcel of Witnesses on the Stocks and as soon as we can Equipp and Rigg them something may be done

be excused since they contain apparent Idolatry others are vain and foolish which yet do not defile a man unless he have entertained a Superstitious Opinion in observing them 3. Some things are there wickedly Imposed and Commanded which yet a man may observe without offence others which neither can nor ought in any manner to be observed I shall not enlarge on each of these 't is enough in general to have hinted them and to shew that I intend not to forbid a Christian Man wholly and without exception from Communicating with the Papists in any Rite Ceremony or Observation whatsoever I only shew the danger of being partakers with them in what is plainly evil As for Example Mass is every day said those that would appear Religious go thither can this be excused A Person but meanly instructed in the Gospel cannot but know that that action is abominable Sacriledge For how can any man bow down before an Idol their Breaden God is no more with a design that all present shall think that he does it unfeignedly and not sin grievously in so doing If this be not Criminal what means that of the Holy Ghost whereby we are forbidden to have any Communion with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather to reprove them I see a wicked work adoing and odious to God I thrust my self in and make as if I approv'd it with what Face with what Fore-head can I afterwards deny that in so doing I have sinned For what is this but to boast with those ungodly ones of whom David speaks Let us do whatever we list God seeth not But you will say though you freely confess that in the Mass there be many corruptions yet in your Opinion it is a Remembrance of the Lords Supper and in that respect you come there to be put in mind of our Lords Death But tell us I pray what Similitude hath the Sacrament instituted by our Lord with this Mock-Shew For First The Papists Imagine their Mass to be a Sacrifice which reconciles to God not only the Living but also the Dead and is this think you nothing Secondly The Canon a principal part of the Mass is stufft full of Execrable Blasphemies Thirdly Herein are Prayers offered up for the Dead tormented in Purgatory which we know to be altogether Superstitious Fourthly Were there nothing else amiss but that Diabolical Fiction whereby they think that Christ is there offered up to God That by that Act the Sins both of the Living and the Dead may be Expiated is not this to deny the Death of Christ which is made of no value unless it be acknowledged to be the one only and perpetual Sacrifice And is not the Lords Supper hereby Prophaned These Pollutions can no more be separated from the Mass than heat from Fire And whoever comes to participate thereof can he be pure and clean doing such a filthy work Is this the Honour we give to God our Father This the gratitude we pay to Christ our Redeemer That when we see them both thus reproach'd and dishonoured we not only do oppose but joyn our selves Companions in the Wickedness and invite others by our Example to do the like The COURANT. Truem. Eading THe Jesuites are hated by all the World and yet they always Reign They are like the Astrologers in Tacitus Divinatuli genus hominum potentibus infidum quod in Urbe vetabitur semper retinebitur A sort of people treacherous to Princes deceiving them with fair promises and vain hopes who were always regarded with horror in the City and yet were always harbour'd there they have been driven out of several states but they ever found means to Re-establish themselves They are the greatest enemies and the greatest friends to Monarchies enemies to those where they cannot govern all things at their pleasure and friends to those that intirely submit to their Conduct The more Absolute the Monarchy is the more they love it for they themselves are also most Absolute and govern their Society altogether Despotically therefore they hate perfectly Aristocratical and Democratical Governments because there they cannot make so grand a fortune for to do it 't is necessary they should be Confessors to all the Magistrates and all that have any share in the Government who yet still would not be so easily wrought upon for 't is not to be hoped that they should all at once be brought to a Death bed but there will still some survive that will not accord the Fathers those advantages they aim at nor will the Popes Excommunications so soon make Impressions of fear Tory. What the Devil art thou Mumbling there Truem. 'T is a late French Book that calls it self sure and honest means for the Conversion of all Hereticks I was Translating a Paragraph of it part 2. p. 56. meerly for Exercise 't is good to be a little acquainted with the French Tongue for who knows how soon a man may have occasion ●or't and besides methought 't was a pretty notable Description of the Jesuits Tory. Prethee let the French and the Jesuites alone they are honest Fellows and mean England no harm all our danger is from the Whiggs and the Fanatichs this Preaching and Praying will undo us I was glad to see the Blessed Work began here i' th Town t'other day Bristol is a brave Example to follow what though the Trade be lost what 's Trade to be valued when Whiggery is in the Case I hope to see all the Dogs Muzzled and that e're long we shall have no History but Thompson nor any Divinity or Politicks but the Observator And then people will be quiet and not disturb the Government Truem. The Government we live under ought certainly to be regarded with all respect and veneration and he that goes about to disturb and vilifie it deserves exemplary punishment But there are a parcel of Vermine that horribly prophane the word for though they are not fit for the Office of a Scavenger they call themselves The Government There was Tory Tom a Worshipful Journey-man Barber who with half a dozen Ruffians like himself the other Night way-laid and fell upon an honest Gentleman in Cheapside that neither saw any of them before or gave them the least provocation and had 't is probable murdered him if by accident one or two had not come in to his Assistance Being taken up for this Exploit O cries Tory Tom The Government is on our side will you send me to Prison for my Loyalty as if the Government would favour Breach of the Peace and Assassinations or Loyalty consisted in violation of Laws Ask Thompson why he Prints horrid Popsh Lies three times a week he 'll tell you ' t is to serve the Government Why did he endeavour to Sham Godfrey's Murder No doubt out of pure Loyalty Why did Roger forge that damnable double Printed Story from Scotland on purpose to raise false Scandals and get an opportunity to vindicate the Papists Why still if you will

believe him all is for the interest of the Government when in truth such Villains pretences are the greatest Affronts in the World to the Government and will no doubt in due time be deservedly punisht as such Quod defertur non aufertur Printed for Langley Curtis 1682. The Weekly Pacquet OF Advice from Rome OR The History of POPERY The Fourth Volume FRIDAY June 9. 1682. An non nimiae Impudentiae est Excusare opus quo Deus contutumeliâ afficitur proximi impelluntur ad exitium A further detection of the sin of going to Mass and complying with Papists in their wicked and Foppish Ceremonies The Case of Naaman the Syrian explained TO deterr any Sober Christian from daring to be present at the Popish Mass he needs only consider the horrible Idolatry that is there committed where a bit of Bread is adored for God and no longer esteemed Bread but God himself 'T is most true were the Lords Supper there rightly Administred there would then be there a true Exhibition of the Lords Body and Blood but it would not therefore follow either that the substance of the Bread is chang'd into the Body or that the Body lies included under the Bread For the end of Instituting that Sacred Supper is to elevate our Minds to Heaven not to detain them in the visible Elements but indeed by what right does that promise This is my Body which shall be delivered for you at all belong to the Mass Before our Lord promises any thing there of that kind he commands the Sacrament to be distributed amongst the Faithful Is this done in the Mass No but on the clean contrary the Priest dispatches it all alone as a private affair and on such a manner as if he purposely meant to Excommunicate himself from the whole Congregation Christ adds another Command that we should do This in remembrance of him shewing forth the inestimable benefit of his Death with Thanksgiving But how can this be done in the Mass where not one word is understood but all things are whisper'd by the Priest with an obscure murmur and unknown Furthermore the Lord directs his word to his Disciples when reaching forth the visible sign Bread he promises them the Communion of his Body but in the Mass there is no such thing but the Priest after the manner of Conjurers or Jugglers blows upon the Bread sufflation they call it that with a secret Exorcism he may Inchant it And what is there in all this of God's Institution can day and night be more different than our Lord's Supper and this Romish Pageantry What then shall we account the Adoration paid there to the Bread Must we not confess it execrable Idolatry more gross than ever was practised amongst the Heathen and if so tell us with what fore-head with what Conscience can any Christian man dare resort thereunto that he may seem to Conform and do as others do Here 's an Idol erected to that very purpose that it may be Worshipped and Invoked in God's stead I come and down on my knees and publickly profess to adore it what Fig-leaves what excuses what evasions can palliate so shameless a wickedness But let us in some other particulars consider what these complying men must do if for sinister ends and temporal respects they will against the convictions of their Consciences joyn in outward Communion with the Papists They must not only on Sundays come to the Holy water Bottle and Mass but also on Holy-days a great part of which are instituted by Superstition then there is a Mass sung in honor of such or such an He or She Saint Now to omit that many of their Saints were little better than Devils and that several of them as St. Christopher c. were mere Phantasms Romantick Hero's that never had Being but in the Lying Legend c. passing by all this I say and supposing they were all Saints in good earnest yet still here is a Mass sung in honor to a person dead Now what can be more vile than that the Supper of our Lord should be transported to such an abuse Besides what Prayers are there used are they not for the most part impious an fill'd with Blasphemies and yet will you voluntarily interest your self in these Profanations and countenance them with your presence and complying approbation and yet hope to escape guiltless in the terrible judgment of a jealous God who is of purer Eyes than to behold vanity or connive at sin There is none of us I speak of those to whom God hath vouchsafed the Light of his Gospel but is well satisfied that the Obsequies of the dead as they are practised amongst the Papists with the Masses attending them and other appurtenances are meer abominations as well because they are falsly feigned against the manifest word of God as more especially because they extenuate and depreciate the effect and vertue of the Death and Passion of our Blessed Saviour But now if it happen any of your Relations Friends or Neighbours dye you that call your self a Christian come with others to attend the Funeral you are prefent at the Masses and pretend with the rest to pray for the Soul of the deceased dare you offer to justify all this if it be your Father or Mother that is departed you will presently be smelt out for an Heretick if you do not only approve of this Sacriledge but purchase it with your money and give so many shillings to some Priests to say so many Masses to redeem their Souls out of Purgatory I will not mention the damnable Superstitions you must run through at Easter when you must prostrate your self before the Vicar of Antichrist some wicked Popish Priest who by the authority of the Pope gives you Absolution and injoyns you pennance which perhaps may it self be as great a sin as any you have committed as to murmur over so many Ave Maria's to say so many Prayers before a Crucifix to buy so many Masses c. and to what end all this why forsooth that thereby as so many Compensations you may satisfie God for your sins if this can be approved and justified I know not what ought to be Condemned But furthermore when a man has thus spun out his days in Hypocrisie and liv'd in this filth the last Scene is still the worst in the Tragedy and that is when he comes to dye then come the Priests and the Monks the Devils Fans to Winnow him like Wheat and though he knows they are the very Locusts that proceed out of the bottomless pit yet out of complaisance he must seem to hearken unto them to be satisfied with their gibberish prayers to be content with their lew'd Absolution and ridiculous extream unction and under what throws and pangs and tortures of Conscience must such a poor soul lye when he perceives he must immediately appear before the Tribunal of that Judge whose Truth he dares not to acknowledge especially when this Sentence