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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B22568	The pope shut out of heaven gates, or, A dialogue between Pope Julius the 2d, his Genius, and Saint Peter wherein is most elegantly, learnedly, and wittily set forth how Pope Julius (after death) imperiously knocking at heaven gates, is absolutely denied entrance by Saint Peter, so that though having been alwayes stil'd His Holiness, and made famous by his warlike actions, whereby he hoped to become Lord of heaven, he is notwithstanding delivered over as a slave to Satan, and hurried away to the Devil's mansion / exactly from the original of the famous and learned Erasmus Roterodamus.	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.	1673 (1673)	Wing E3208B	31,750	50

shadow of that mighty Name These things if thou shouldst see and hear what wouldst thou then say St. Pet. That I saw worse then any Heathenish Tyrant the Enemy of Christ and Plague of the Church Jul. Thou wouldst say another thing if thou hadst seen but one of my Triumphs either that when I was carried into Bononia or when I entred Rome having o'recome the Venetians or when flying from Bononia I re-entred Rome or when lastly the French were so beyond all hope Routed at Ravenna If thou hadst but seen the stately Coursers the numerous Bands of Souldiers the delightful spectacles of delicate Boyes the Torches shining on all sides the mighty feastival Preparations the Pomp of Bishops the Pride of Cardinals the Trophys and Spoils of War the rebounding Acclamations of People and Souldiers the Applauses ecchoing everywhere the winding of the Cornets the thundring of the Drums the lightning of the Guns the Money thrown among the People saw you I say but all this and at last Me the Head and Author of all this Pomp carried aloft like a Deity you would say the Triumphs of the Scipio's Emilius's and Auguslus's were frugal in comparison of mine St. Pet. Hold hold enough of Triumphs most glorious Souldier yet them though Heathens do I prefer before thee whom having for thy Cause slain so many thousand Christians yet Triumphest like a Holy Father in Christ Of so many slaughtered Legions thou art the Cause who never either by Life or Doctrine gainedst one Soul to Christ O fatherly bowels O worthy Vicar to that Christ who died himself to save all whilst thou to defend one pestilent Head callest all the World t● destruction Jul. You talk these things because you envy my glory when you think how pitiful and mean your Bishoprick was in comparison of mine St. Pet. Darest thou impudent compare thy Glory with mine Though my Glory be not mine but Christ's In the first place if thou allow'st Christ to be the best and the true Prince of the Church to me he gave the Keyes of the Kingdom to me committed the feeding of his Sheep and my Faith with his own mouth He approved Thou by Mon●y industry of man and fraud wast made Chief Pastor if such a one may be called a Pastor I gained so many thousand Souls to Christ Thou betrayedst as many to perdition When Rome was yet Gentile I first taught it Christ thou art become a Master of Christian Heathenism I even with the shadow of my body healed the Sick cast out Devils raised the Dead and where-ever I came was beneficial to some What have all thy Triumphs equal to that with a word of my mouth I could deliver whom I would to Satan and what my Power reach'd to was experienced in Saphira and her Husband yet whatever Power I had I employ'd for the benefit of mankind Thou useless to all whatever thou couldst do nay and whatever thou couldst not do thou pervertest to the publick dammage of the whole World Jul. I wonder in the Catalogue of your Glories you do not add these too Poverty Watchings Labours Judgment-Seats Prisons Bonds Scorns Reproaches Stripes and finally the Cross St. Pet. Thou advisest evil now for in these I may more justly glory then my Miracles In these Christ bid us be glad and rejoyce in these he called us Blessed So Paul once my Colleague when he boasted his great works mentions not Cities gained by violence Legions slain with the Sword Princes of the World provoked to War nor Tyrannical Pride but shipwrack bonds scourgings dangers lyings in wait for his life This is the true Apostolical Triumph this is the glory of a Christian Captain He boasts of those he had drawn from sin not how many millions of Duckets he had horded up Lastly we to Eternity triumph with Christ being praised even by the worst of men thou art cursed by all unless those like thee or some flatterer Jul. These are things I never heard before St. Pet. I believe it for what leasure hadst thou to turn over Evangelical writings to read Paul's or my Epistles whilst so many Negotiations so many Treaties so many Leagues so many Armies so many Triumphs took up thy whole employment Other Arts do indeed desire a mind released from sordid cares but the Discipline of Christ requires a breast wholly purged from all worldly solicitudes nor did so great a Master descend from Heaven to Earth to teach men an easie or vulgar Philosophy 't is no idle nor secure Profession to be a Christian To avoid all pleasure like poison To trample on riches as dirt To esteem life it self as nothing this is the Christian-man's Profession these because they seem intollerable to those who are not actuated with the Spirit of Christ dwindle into idle words and meer ceremonies and to a fictitious Head of Christ and a fictitious Body Jul. What remains of good are there then for me if you take away my Money if you deprive me of my Kingdoms rob me of my Revenues restrain me of my Pleasures and at last take away my Life St. Pet. By this thou pronouncest Christ himself unhappy who being chief of all was made the scorn of all in Poverty Labour Fastings and Hunger he led all his life and at last died the most opprobrious of all deaths Jul. He may possibly find some to praise him but none to imitate him at least in these times St. Pet. Yet that praising is some imitation though Christ deprives not his followers of good things but for false good he replenishes them with true and Eternal good but he replenishes them not till they have abdicated and renounced all worldly goods as himself was all heavenly so he would have his Body that is the Church to be most like him to wit purg'd from all contagion of the World for else how can it be the same with him who fits in the Heavens whilst it is yet drench'd in Earthly dregs But when it shall have shaken off all the delights of this World and which is more the affections to them then Christ opens his treasure and for forsaken pleasures which seem'd dipt in Honey but are indeed seasoned with Aloes he gives them a taste of heavenly joyes and for their forsaken treasures far more durable riches Jul. What I pray St. Pet. Lest thou shouldst think them vulgar riches they are the Gift of Prophecy the Gift of Knowledge the Gift of Miracles unless you esteem Christ as vile whom whoever possesses possesses all things Finally lest thou should'st think we here lead a life of Poverty know that the more any one is afflicted in this World the more abundantly he is delighted in Christ the poorer he is in this World the richer he is in Christ the lower he is in this World the higher and more honoured and the less he lives to this World the more he lives in Christ But Christ would have all his to be pure in their whole body and principally his