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A07768	The mysterie of iniquitie: that is to say, The historie of the papacie Declaring by what degrees it is now mounted to this height, and what oppositions the better sort from time to time haue made against it. Where is also defended the right of emperours, kings, and Christian princes, against the assertions of the cardinals, Bellarmine and Baronius. By Philip Morney, knight, Lord du Plessis, &c. Englished by Samson Lennard.; Mystère d'iniquité. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.	1612 (1612)	STC 18147; ESTC S115092	954,645	704

Epist 58.65 But in this cleere light in this Sun-shine wherin we liue where is the shame And for as much as he compares him in this with S. Paul 2. Thessal 2. let him heare what Paul saith The comming saith he of the man of sinne and sonne of perdition that is Antichrist of whom he foretold before is by the working of Sathan with all power and signes and lying wonders Which words of S. Paul are they not accomplished 41. PROGRESSION Of the factions that arose in the Popedome by the death of Gregorie the seuenth Of the rebellion of Conrade against the Emperour Henrie his father Of the diuisions and strange opinions that grew among the people through the schisme betweene Clement the third and Vrban the second GRegorie if we beleeue some Authors neither doth Baronius himselfe denie it had prouided as we see that his enterprise should not dye with himselfe for he nominated to the Cardinals those whom he thought fittest to succeed him in the Popedome which Desiderius the Abbot of Mount-Cassin failed not to giue those Cardinals to vnderstand that tooke part with him And as he was the first of the three that Gregorie had commended so all mens eyes were especially cast vpon him who whether it were out of a consideration of the greatnesse of the charge or to the end he might be the more earnestly intreated twice or thrice refused it yea and disrobed himselfe of his Pontificall ornaments and retired himselfe to his Monasterie at Cassin euen then when it was thought that he had yeelded to the persuasion of his friends Sigonius giues a little touch Sigon l. 9. de regno Ital. Eight dayes after his retire to Cassin the Countesse Mathilda aduertised him of her arriuall at Rome and that she desired much to conferre with him whereupon he returned to the citie and being by her and her armie with all duetie receiued for the space of eight dayes he continued in the Vatican Auentine speakes more plainely Mathilda and the Normans create him that is to say in hatred of Clement who neuerthelesse held the seat at Rome and was called Victor the third But as soone as Hugh Bishop of Lions one of the three that Gregorie had commended thought that Desiderius had in good earnest accepted of the Popedome he presently banded himselfe against him and in a Synod held at Beneuent he excommunicated him and with him Richard of Marselles But Desiderius liued little aboue a yeare after Gullielm Malmes b. l. 4. and if we may beleeue William of Malmesburie he was poysoned in the Chalice saying his first Masse In that short time neuerthelesse that he liued he had published new excommunications against Clement and Henrie and vnder the selfesame pretence that Gregorie did He retired himselfe to his Abbie at Cassin for the better recouerie of his health and there vpon his death-bed according to the tradition of Gregorie he recommended vnto those that were his assistants Otho Bishop of Ostia Leo Ostiens l. 3. c. 72. who had beene brought vp at Clugni for his successor in so much that taking him by the hand he peremptorily said vnto them Take him and place him in the Roman seat and vntill you haue done it hold my place Benno calls him Pedissequum the Page or Lackey of Hildebrand The Bishops therefore that tooke part with him in the yeare 1088 An. 1088. meet at Terratina to consult of a successor There were first present in the name and by the commaund of the Romans who did adhere to this part for the Clergie Iohn Bishop of Portua and for the Lay Benedict gouernour of the citie A new kind of proceeding it was because Clement held the place in the citie neither was there here any mention at all of expecting the Emperours consent herein There without any other solemnitie they nominated Otho Pope called Vrban the second who was no sooner entred into Rome but he was driuen out againe by Clements faction Hereupon saith Leo of Ostia if we will judge of the validitie of this election we must say That he was chosen by the statutes of Gregorie Leo Ostiens l. 3. c. 72. But William of Malmesburie more freely To that part that seemed to be the more iust the armie of Mathilda ioyned Herfeldens Theol. in tractatu de vnitate Eccles conseruand an 1090. Sigon l. 9. de regno Jtaliae who forgetting her sex not vnlike to the auntient Amazons led her armie into the field and by her voyce Vrban obtained the Apostolicke throne But another saith more plainely Vsing the helpe and succour of most wicked people with whom the Law of God and man had no place Sigonius confesseth that Mathilda who called her selfe the daughter of Peter tooke vpon her the protection of Vrban and that Vrban was the cause that she married Welfo Duke of Bauaria to the end he might strengthen himselfe by him against the Emperour in Germanie Not so much saith Bertholdus for incontinencie Bertholdus Constant Presbyter in Chron. as for obedience to the Pope that she might be so much the more able to giue ayde and succour to the Church of Rome against the Schismatikes therfore he presently addeth that he wholy sequestred kept himselfe free from her being more greedie of the principalitie than the woman Are these then the lawfull ends of marriage Neither is it here to be omitted that there were certaine lots drawne at Rome to know who should be successour to Gregorie the 7 which was then a thing vsuall at Rome and it was found that one Otho should succeed him Fragmentum Monastici Cadomens an 1084. whereupon Otho Bishop of Baieux and brother to William the Conqueror King of England though he were Earle of Kent and Lieutenant generall of his Realme conceyued a hope of obtayning the Popedome whereupon he sent to Rome great presents and there built great and goodlie houses and left nothing vndone with the Senators that either gifts or his other best endeauors could worke But hauing embarked himselfe for this voyage taking with him diuers of the Nobilitie king William vnderstanding in Normandie of this expedition took shipping for England meeting him in the Isle of Weight there arrested him for many offences he had committed in the carriage of his matters of State cast him into Prison The other Otho therefore Vrban the second obtained the chaire and his first exploit was in a Synod holden at Melfe to excommunicat Clement and Henrie and all those that receiued either orders of the one or inuestiture of the other to be briefe all those that in any respect had any commerce with them Moreouer he confirmed Roger Guischard of the race of the Normans Duke of Apulia and Calabria the better to retaine his friendship and fidelitie towards him But Henrie passing into Italie in the yeare 1091 got into his possession and wasted the greatest part of those Countries that belonged to Mathilda but for some

remoue than confirme the opinion she formerly conceiued of it Katherine also gaue the like censure of the state of the Roman Church nay and if we may beleeue Antoninus she presaged That euen then the Churches confusion was at hand and that presently a reformation would ensue When she heard of the Perugians rebellion against the Pope Begin not your lamentation saith she so soone for you shall haue weeping too much for this you now see is but milke and honie in respect of those miseries to ensue Thus doe the Laitie and presently you shall see the Clergie will doe worse for they shall giue a generall scandall to the whole Church of God which like an hereticall pestilence shall disturbe and dissipate the same It shall not properly be an heresie but as it were an heresie and a certaine diuision of the Church and all Christendome This saith Raimond who writ her Legend we see accomplished in the schisme that followed vpon Gregories death For when the schisme began Raymond told her That what she had prophesied was now come to passe and she replied Euen as then I told you that the present molestations were but milke and honie so I say vnto you That this you now see and behold is but childrens sport in comparison of future miseries especially in adiacent and bordering Prouinces Which we haue seene come to passe saith he ouer all Italie and Sicilia whereunto wee may worthily annex France which neuer felt a more sharpe and terrible warre than at this instant Then Raymond againe prosecutes Being curious saith hee to demaund of her what would follow after this wonderfull agitation and reuolt because it manifestly appeared that shee entertained celestiall reuelations she replied God shall purge his Church from all these tribulations and miseries by a meanes altogether inperceptible and vnknowne vnto men and after this shall occurre such a wonderfull reformation of Gods Church and a renouation of sacred and holie Pastors that through the cogitation thereof onely my spirit euen reioyceth in the Lord. And as otherwhiles I haue many times told you the spouse that now is deformed and rent shall then hee adorned with goodlie and precious iewels and all the faithfull shall exult for being honoured with such holie Pastors Antoninus addes further What this sacred virgine foretold of schismes and tribulations we haue seene them cleerely and euidently come to passe but for that shee denounced touching good Pastors and the Churches reformation that hath not yet beene effected And yet he wrot in the yeare 1450 after the schisme extinguished and the dissolution of the Councels of Constance and Basil the which as it seemes he thought had not sufficiently prouided for the reformation of the Church conformable to this virgines predictions neither can it any wayes be perceiued in the Church of Rome or in the Popes whether you consider doctrine or manners so as this prophesie may verie well be applied to that reformation that began not long after which purged both the errors of doctrine and the abuses of discipline through the diligence and zeale of those godlie ministers which God stirred vp in the age following by a meanes as she said inperceptible of men the which was then a preparing before his death In Bohemia mention is made of one Militzius a famous Preacher of Prage whom Iacobus Misnensis tearmes renowmed and venerable This man declared how against his will he was enioyned by the holie Ghost to search out of the holie Scriptures the comming of Antichrist whom he found to be now alreadie come the same spirit conducting him he was constrained to go to Rome where he preached publikely and afterwards before the Inquisitor he confirmed That the great Antichrist of whom the Scriptures doe prophesie was already come The same man said That in the Church Idols should be erected which would destroy Ierusalem and make desolat the Temple but that they were couered with hypocrisie That many know the truth and yet through iniustice suppressed it and therefore in this silence they renounced Christ and durst not auouch his truth before men He also inueyed particularly against many abuses as we may see in Iacobus Misnensis his treatise de Aduentis Antichristi which he wrot about the yeare 1410. An. 1410. We find also a Bull of Gregorie the eleuenth directed to Iohn Archbishop of Prage wherein he is commanded to excommunicat and persecute Militzius and his auditors who were taught and instructed by him That the Pope and his companions were Antichrists That there was no truth amongst them vndepraued So as it is manifest that the Church in Bohemia came to haue some reformation and so much the rather because the Waldenses as we formerly saw fixed here their habitations long time before In these verie dayes about the yeare 1460 one Iohn Wickliffe An. 1460. a man of singular vnderstanding began to lift vp his head who was trayned vp at Oxford in all learning and science being both a famous Diuine and Philosoph●● who was for these parts highly honoured and esteemed of all the Faculties and Degrees in that Vniuersitie This man questionlesse charged the Roman Church on euerie side verie stoutly for not satisfying himselfe in shewing the Pope to bee an Heres●arch the Antichrist deciphered in the Scriptures the abhomination of desolation in abstracto in abstract brought in by Sathans guile and their Churches impostume and that he conuinced him to be the same both by the Scriptures the course of all histories diuers preualent reasons and his owne proper actions but further he assaileth the inward poynts of his doctrine taxing it with vanitie superstition and idolatrie reprehending the seruice of the creator conuerted to the creature to mortall men to Saints to reliques to images That the Sacrifice of the Redeemers Passion was turned into the foolish spectacle and mummerie of a Masse the benefit of the death and passion of Christ the sonne of God into dispensations absolutions pilgrimages and indulgences the benefits or rather inchauntments not of a pure but most impure man The people were fallen away from the incomparable merits of Christ our Sauiour to their owne workes from the firme tuition and defence of Christs crosse to the shaken reed of their owne demerits To conclude from God the generall creator to a ridiculous host which must bee worshipped as God though it were knead and made with mens hands And for the furtherance of this so high a worke of Gods he translated the whole Bible into the vulgar Tongue all those heads of doctrine he deliuered to the learned in Latine and to the ignorant in the vulgar Tongue In publique lectures at Oxford he was a Doctor in ordinarie Sermons of the Church a Pastour putting on a brasen forehead against the shamelesse strumpet and a breast of Diamant against the power and violence of the whole Clergie thundring the like euen into the eares of Edward the third then raigning in England and he drew vnto himselfe the attention

others amongst whom in the age following was Conradus Pellicanus a man expert in the knowledge of the Tongues and all manner of learning who being instructed by Stanffich in the knowledge of the abuses of the Church of Rome did afterwards good seruice in the reformation of the Church but yet by the diligence of the Franciscans he was banished In Carnia Andrew the Archbishop of whom we haue spoken before importuned the Emperour Frederick the third for a Councell for the reformation of the Church who had alreadie assembled certaine Bishops at Basill with a purpose to proceed farther had not Pope Sixtus the fourth beeing much moued therewith compelled Frederick to breake off that assemblie in such sort that to gratifie the Pope he cast Andrew in prison where being for a time kept and attended with a certaine gard in a priuat place they of Basill denying him any publique prison he died being found strangled with a halter the Pope out of all doubt saith Stumphius procuring it Henrie the Agent then Inquisitor Johan Stump in Historiae Holuetica writ against him and accused him for reprehending the Pope as well in those things that belonged to matter of faith as manners and for that hee had exhorted the Prelats and Vniuersities by his letters to a Councell a hainous offence for the reformation of the Church In Rostoc a citie of the lower Saxonie Nicholas Rus a Priest and Bachelar in Diuinitie preached not onely with his tongue Nicholas Rus in lib. de tripl funiculo German conscripto but his penne to That the power of the Pope was not such as they boasted it to be That hee that wandereth from the word of God is not to be obeyed That the Popes indulgences were meere impostures and those onely true which did proceed from God and his free mercie for his sonne Christ Iesus sake That Saints are not to be inuocated much lesse their bones to be adored That they who call themselues spirituall persons that is to say the Clergie of Rome haue placed all Christian religion in humane traditions and vayne superstitions neglecting their duetie in the rest and that they are the Ministers of Antichrist These are all read in his Treatise Of the threefold cord where he expoundeth the Symbole the Decalogue and the Lords prayer which he writ in the Saxon Tongue for the better instruction of the common people in the puritie of religion There he had his Auditors and his assemblies and was sometimes visited by the Pastours of the Waldenses in Bohemia from whose companie and comfort he gathered heart vntill at the last the Popes catchpoles following him he was enforced to flie into Liuonia where he dyed It appeareth by those his workes that are come to our hands that he was a man very learned and well seene in the Scriptures There was likewise in that countrey Ernestus Archbishop of Magdeburg a man famous for his pietie and justice Clement Schaw his Chaplain who was present at his death witnesseth That a Minorite vsing this speech vnto him Take a good heart most worthie Prince we communicat to your Excellencie all the good workes not onely of our selues but our whole Order of Frier Minors and therefore doubt not but you receiuing them shall appeare before the tribunall seat of God righteous and blessed His answer was By no meanes will I trust vpon my owne workes or yours but the workes of Christ Iesus alone shall suffice vpon them will I repose my selfe It is verie likely that there were many in all parts of the world that professed the same faith since in despight of their aduersaries there remaine so many witnesses It is a strange thing and doubtlesse cannot bee attributed to any thing but the good motion of Gods spirit which we read verie common in this age and noted almost in the histories of all nations That many in their soundest judgement and vnderstanding and not otherwise noted of any notable crime after the consecration of the Priest carried with a kind of horrour and detestation of that Idolatrie should lay violent hands vpon the Hoast and that vpon the most solemne feast dayes when there was greatest concourse of people and with an assured danger of their liues teare it in peeces To omit others we read of one M. Iohn an English man that did it in Paris the day after the feast of Corpus Christi in the chappell of S. Crispin An. 1491. An. 1493. An. 1502. and in the yeare 1491 of one Hemon of Picardie in that which they cal the holie chappell in the yeare 1493 of another student in the yeare 1502 vpon S. Lewis his day in a chappell on the right hand all of them continuing constant and detesting this Idolatrie euen to the death Christoph Maslaeus in Chron. Monstrelet in Additionib especially the last notwitstanding all the admonitions of the Sorbonists the teares of his parents who were brought vnto him to persuade and the horrour of the punishment which was passing grieuous But there was at this time in Italie Hieronimus Sauanaruola of Ferrara by profession a Dominican a famous Preacher and much renowmed for his pietie sanctitie and doctrine in so much that by many he was taken for a Prophet Philip Comineus being sent into Italie by king Charles the eighth Philip. Comineus in vita Carol 8. c. 25. 52 reports That he saw him at Florence commended of all for his godlie conuersation who did alwayes affirme that Charles should come into Italie whatsoeuer others write to the contrarie and that nothing could withstand him or defend it selfe against his power Moreouer That whatsoeuer preparations and oppositions should bee made against his returne were to small purpose for he should breake through them and returne home with glorie for he that was his conduct into Italie would not forsake him at his returne And as touching his death he sayd That if in that expedition he reformed not the Church according to that charge hee had receiued from God his sentence was pronounced against him in heauen the execution whereof presently followed vpon the returne of this miserable Prince Comineus giues there this testimonie of him That he was a man of a commendable life and his sermons verie profitable to win men from vice vnto vertue The Earle likewise Iohannes Picus Mirandulanus a man admirable both for his profound learning and rare pietie calleth him a Prophet and writes an Apologie in the defence of him against the Pope And in like manner Marsilius Fiscinus that famous Philosopher in a certaine Epistle spends much time in his commendations liuing both at one time But let vs heare what Guicciardine saith aboue all the rest Guicciard l. 2. who liued at Florence and was an eye-witnesse of his conuersation He witnesseth therefore that most men that knew him accounted him a Prophet Guicciard l. 3. Because in Italie at a time when there were greatest tokens of peace he many times in his