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A14688	A treatise of Antichrist Conteyning the defence of Cardinall Bellarmines arguments, which inuincibly demonstrate, that the pope is not Antichrist. Against M. George Downam D. of Diuinity, who impugneth the same. By Michael Christopherson priest. The first part.	Walpole, Michael, 1570-1624?	1613 (1613)	STC 24993; ESTC S114888	338,806	434

in great part because he is supposed though falsly to arrogate more to himselfe in Temporall affayres then of right he ought how much more would the same imputation fall vpon such a Prince as did first vsurp spirituall Iurisdiction without eyther example or other probable pretense But I will not vrge these odious inferences any further your Maiesty will easily conceaue how far this proiect might be pursued And by perusing this small labour of myne which I now offer to your Maiesty it will manifestly appeare that we haue euident and inuincible Arguments taken out of Scripture and all Antiquity to free our chiefest Pastour the Popes Holynes from this most absurd and false calumniation and that whatsoeuer any Protestant can answere to these our proofes is without any difficulty ouerthrowne and confuted As likewise their rayling inuectiues and friuolous obiections are presently dissolued returned vpon themselues All which considered I account it no presumption to be an humble Suppliant to your most Excellent Maiesty for some release and mitigation in the pressures and persecutions which Catholicks endure vnder this pretence of the Popes being Antichrist For how can it possibly stand with iustice or reason that a lawfull Prince should punish his loyall subiects for performing their duty to their spirituall and lawfull Pastour That Rebells should vphold Hereticks who are Traytors against God and his Church it were no meruaile since they all agree in the impugnation of superiour powers And yet it is too notorious to the world what Catholicks suffer for their conscience in your Maiestyes Dominions what losse of lyuings liberty yea sometyme of life it selfe How busy are Purseuants in ransacking their houses abusing their seruants and apprehending their persons What insolencyes and vexations are they constrayned to endure And to omit the generality and seuerity of this persecution from which neither frailty of sex nor band of matrimony nor Nobility of birth can exempt any how many things lye hid and vnknowne which would astonish and amaze the world if they were laid open to the view therof What prying and inquiring into mens secret actions in somuch that euen ordinary prouision for the sustenance of nature cannot be made without suspition of Treason as appeared not long since by the pot of peares which were supposed to haue bene balls of wildfyre How many are beaten and tormented euen to death in priuate houses without any publick tryall Some Prentises in the Citty of London can giue good testimony heerof I might adde such other particulers as the rods kept in store by some of no small account for yong youths vnder twenty yeares whom they vse like schollers thinking it not to be against their grauity to whip them priuately with their owne hands But I will not offend your Maiestyes eares with the recitall of such base and vnworthy actions Only I will humbly beseech our Blessed Sauiour to moue your Maiestyes hart to take pitty and compassion of these abuses by giuing present Order for the redresse and reformation of so much as your Maiestie already misliketh which we hope to be the greatest part And for the rest we only craue this fauour that we may be spared vntill vve be heard for vve nothing doubt but that if your Maiesty vvould once resolue to informe your selfe thoroughly of the truth God vvould not be vvanting to our iust desires and to your Maiesties so Honourable and necessary endeauours GOD of his goodnes direct and protect your Maiesty AMEN Your Maiesties most faithfull Subiect and humble Oratour Michael Christopherson P. THE PREFACE to the Reader TO some I doubt not this my labour which I haue taken in discussing this question of Antichrist will seeme superfluous or at least not so well bestowed as it might haue bene in many other subiects And they will be much confirmed in this their opinion if they consider that among so many learned men as haue written in our language and euidently confuted the heresies of our tymes none of them haue vouchsafed to yield so far to our Aduersaries as to handle this question of set purpose which doubtles they omitted not without great consideration and weighty reasons the chiefest of which if I be not deceaued was for that they perswaded themselues that few or none especiallie of the prudent and moderate sort did indeed and in their hart hold this absurd paradox though they were content to let it passe because it serued for a motiue to withdraw the common people from the Catholike faith which in their conceipt conteyned other errors And for this cause those worthy and zealous writers endeauored chiefly to take away this false perswasion of the Churches erring partly by confirming and demonstrating the infallibility of her authority and partly by descending to particuler controuersies and most euidently conuincyng the Churches doctrine in euery one of them to be conformable to the diuine Scriptures and all antiquity For they did easily discouer that by this course they should not only confute this abhominable b●asphemy but also with one and the same labour confirme and establish the contrary truth viz. that the Catholike Church togeather with her supreme Pastour is the piller of Truth and the building of Christ against which no force of errors or heresies either hath or euer shall be able to preuayle Which course of theirs as most prudent in it selfe so likewise most profitable to others I am far from mysliking but doe altogeather approue and admyre it And yet notwithstanding I hope that this my labour may be in some sort profitable also For all are not so quick wytted as to make these necessary inferences but rather many are with-held from yielding to the manifest truth in other pointes by a preiudicate opinion which they haue conceaued in this and the iust and discreet silence which hath hitherto bene vsed ministreth to them some cause of suspition that the Protestants haue reason for that they say especially since they vrge this point so much both in their Writings and Sermons and the matter is of so great importance and consequence that whosoeuer hath the truth on his syde in this ought iustly to be belieued in the rest since that Antichrist can neither agree with Christ nor so great a calumniation as this is of the Pope if it be false can agree or stand with the spirit of truth Besides the Protestants out of this their doctrine make most odious inferences against Catholikes as to go no further we may see in M. Downams last Chapter where he deduceth out of it six conclusions First that out of this all other controuersies may be decided and that the doctrine of the Catholike Church is to be reiected as the errors of Antichrist Secondly that their separation from vs is warranted yea commaunded by the word of God and all returning forbidden Thirdly that all they which partake with vs are reprobates and to be damned Fourthly that the Recusant Papists but especialy Iesuites and Seminary Priests

consent Benedictus 3. was created by which words he sheweth that there was no Iohn a woman for all that admit this Iohn do say that he ●ate after Leo the 4. and before Benedictus 3. and that he liued in the Popedome two yeares and 15. moneths They will say perhaps that Anastasius omitteth this Ioln 8. in fauour of the Popes But against this at the leastwise he should haue said that the Sea was vacant after Leo 4. two yeares and a halfe least he should admit a manifest errour in his Chronology and an errour which might be refuted by eye witnesses who liued then They answere that there is no errour in the Chronology because these two yeares of Iohn are added to Leo 4. for Leo 4. is said by Anastasius to haue sitten 8. yeares which are so to be taken that 6. yeares are of Leo himselfe and other two are added out of the yeares of Iohn the woman But against this is that not only Anastasius but also Martinus Polonus and Platina and the Magdeburgians and Bibliander and others who will haue Io. 8. to haue sitten two yeares giue 8. yeares to Leo. Wherefore there wil be perforce an errour in the Chronology of Anastasius if this Iohn be put Pope after Leo. Besides not only Anastasius but also A●o Bishop of V●en●a who liued at the same tyme and of whome there is no suspition that he would lye in fauour of the Popes teacheth that there was no Iohn betwixt Leo 4. and Benedictus 3. for thus he speaketh in the Cronicle of the yeare 865. Gregory the Bishop of Rome dieth and Sergius is ordayned in his place he being dead Leo succeedeth who dying Benedictus is substituted in the Apostolicall Sea And in the like sort speake Rhegino Lambertus Hermanus Contractus Abb●s V●spergensis Otho Fri●●gensis and all other Historiographers which are very many vntill Martinus Polonus who was 400. yeares after this feygned Io. 8. and he first mentioned this Iohn 8. against the testimony of all the ancient and from him did Platina and the other later take it And not only the Latins but also the Greekes who wrote before Martinus Polonus as Z●naras Cedren●s Ioannes Curopalates and others make no mention of this prodigious history among the thinges of that tyme whereas notwithstanding they fauour not the Bishop of Rome and would willingly haue taken an occasion to scoffe at the Latines in this respect if they might Now how is it credible that Martinus Polonus who liued in the yeare 1250. knew better what passed about the yeare 850. then all other Historiographers who liued in the yeare 800. or 900. or 1000 And that which the Magdeburgians say that Sigebert and Marianus Scotus who are more ancient then Martinus Polonus did put Iohn the Woman in their Chronicles is false Although in the printed Sigebert and Marianus Scotus Iohn the Woman is found yet in the most ancient manuscripts she is not found and it is sufficiently knowne that those authors are corrupted There is yet extant in the Monastery of Gemblacum where Sigebert was monke a most ancient manuscript copy which is thought to be Sigeberts owne and in it there is no mention of Iohn the Woman which manuscript copy Iohn Molanus a Doctor of Louayne who is yet aliue witnesseth that he hath seene Likewise that in the most ancient copyes of Marianus Scotus Iohn the Woman is not to be found he witnesseth who put forth the Metropolis of Albertus Krantzius at Colen in the yeare 1574. Secondly that this narration of Martinus concerning Iohn the VVoman is a fable is proued out of the narration it selfe for first he saith that this Iohn was an English Woman of Mentz but Mentz is not in England but in Germany And others to amend this errour are strangly repugnant one to the other for Platina saith that she was an English Woman but come out of Mentz The Magdeburgians contrary wise say that she was of Mentz but come out of England But Theodorus Bibliander in his chronicle saith that she was neither borne nor come out of England but brought vp and instructed in England Secondly Martin and those which follow him say that she studied at Athens But it is manifest that in that tyme there were no Schooles neither at Athens nor in any other place of Greece for Synesius writeth in epist vlt. ad Fratrē suum that in his tyme there was nothing but the name of an Academie at Athens And Synesius was a little after the tymes of S. Basil and S. Nazianzen Cedrenu● also and Zonaras do write in vita Michaelis Theodorae Impp. that about the end of Michaels raigne viz. when he raigned alone his mother Theodora being remoued the Schooles of learning and Philosophy were restored by Bardas Caesar whereas vntill that tyme for many yeares all studies of wisdome were so extinguished in Greece that there was not so much as any step or signe of them extant Now it is manifest that the Empyre of Michael alone Theodora being remoued fell in the tyme of Nicolas the 1. who succeeded Benedictus 3. who had succeeded as these men seigne Iohn 8. the Woman yea all Chronologies and Billiander himselfe put the beginning of the Empire of Michael alone in the yeare 856. and the Popedome of Iohn the Woman in the yeare 854. By which it followeth that the studies of wisdome began to be reuiued in Greece after the death of this Iohn Thirdly the Magdeburgians say that this Io. 8. was deliuered in his iourney when he would haue visited the Lateran Church from the Vatican But it is most certaine as Onuphrius demonstrateth lib. de 7. Eccl. that the B. of Rome did not dwell in the Vatican but in the Lateran Pallace vntill the time of Bonifacius the 9. that is vntill the yeare 1309. how then if she dwelt in the Lateran would she go from the Vatican to visit the Lateran Certainly if one should wryte now that the Pope came from the Lateran to visit the Vatican Church he would be ridiculous since all know that the Pope dwelleth in the Vatican Fourthly Martin and all the rest say that this Iohn was deliuered in a solemne and publike Procession But certainly there is no probability that a woman gone with child so many moneths would then chiefly goe in Procession when she was in most danger to be discouered Thirdly this is proued out of the epist of Leo 9. a most graue pope to Michael Bishop of Constantinople cap. 23. where Pope Leo writeth that it is a constant fame that many Eunuches had sitten in the Patriarchate of Constantinople that among them there had crept in and bene Patriarch a Woman which certainly Leo would neuer haue obiected to the Grecians if any such thing had happened a little before to the Roman Sea yea perhaps from hence arose this fable of Iohn the Woman for wheras there was a rumour that a certaine woman had bene Bishop of Constantinople and after by little and little