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A94760	The Pope's cabinet unlocked, or, A catalogue of all the popes indulgences belonging to the order of S. Mary together with a list of all the indulgences daily, yearly, and for ever, to be had at Rome, S. James of Galatia in Compostella, Jerusalem and all places in the Holy Land / written in Italian by Fr. Ancangelo Tortello of the said order of S. Mary : and now translated into English by John Sidway late seminary priest, but now of the reformed religion and vicar of selling in Kent and one of the discoverers of the horrid popish plot, with the cause of his conversion : whereunto is added an appendix by the translator in which the grounds and foundation of the said indulgences being themselves apparently proved to be meer cheats : and also shewing that the Church of Rome doth lay the chief basis of their religion on indulgences : dedicated to the right honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury.	Tortello, Arcangelo.; Sidway, John.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1943; ESTC R3021	71,116	87

the sixth Feriae after the third Sunday through the whole Octave of Easter any day hath granted an Indulgence of three thousand seven hundred and eighteen years and one hundred and thirtie daies And Benedict the tenth hath granted any day eightie years and eightie times forty daies space and twice the Remission of the third part of their sins and by going to a Church dedicated to S. Salvatore any day they obtain a plenary Indulgence To those that shall visit the Churches of the holy order of the Servants in the Feasts ensueing have been granted by divers Popes these Indulgences following to wit The day of S. Anthony by Gregory the ninth and Innocent the fourth a thousand years and an hundred daies Indulgence The day of S. Fabian and Sebastian by Leo the fourth and Innocent the fourth a thousand years and seven times forty daies space of Indulgence The day of S. Thomas of Aquine by John the twenty second Alexander the fifth and Vrban the fifth an hundred and forty years The day of S. Peter and Paul by Innocent the Eighth Martin the Fifth and Leo the Fourth a thousand two hundred and forty seven years and two hundred thirty two times fortie daies space of Indulgence And by Sisto the Fourth the Remission of the third part of their sins The day of S. John the Baptist by Gregory the Ninth Innocent the Eighth Leo the Fourth and Martin the Fifth a thousand two hundred forty seven years and two hundred thirty two times forty days space of Indulgence The day of S. Dominick by Clement the Fourth Gregory the Ninth Boniface the Eighth Nicholas the Fourth Innocent the Fourth Alexander the Fourth Boniface the Second John the Twenty Second Alexander the Fifth and Sisto the Fourth seventy seven hundred thousand years Indulgence The day of S. Philip our Brother by Martin the Fourth and Innocent the Fourth forty hundred years and twelve times forty days space The day of the Apparition of S. Michael Arch-Angel by Leo the Fourth seven years and seven times forty daies space and by Nicholas the Fourth the like Indulgence The day of S. Francis by Gregory the Ninth and Martin the Fourth an hundred and forty Years and twelve times fortie daies space of Indulgence The day of all Saints by Leo the Fourth and Innocent the Fourth a thousand and seven Years and seven times fortie daies space of Indulgence The day of S. Nicholas by Leo the Fourth seven years and seven times forty daies space of Indulgence THE TRANSLATOR'S APPENDIX Wherein the very Grounds and Foundations of the said Indulgences are utterly overthrown and consequently the Indulgences themselves apparently proved to be a meer Cheat. CHAP. I. Wherein is shewed what the Indulgences before mentioned are and upon what they are grounded THE said Indulgences according to the Doctrine of the Roman Church are certain Distributions made by the Pope of certain penal and fatisfactory Works taken by him out of the Churches Treasury and bequeathed to such persons as although dying in the state of grace yet having not first here in this world fully satisfied the Justice of God for their sins are after their death cast into Purgatory where they are burnt and tormented in the fire thereof until such time the same be fully satisfied They are grounded upon certain false and pernicious Tenents whereby she holdeth First that there lyeth a necessity upon all the Faithful notwithstanding their Redemption by Christ to satisfie and content the Justice of God for their sins which satisfaction the Catechism of the Council of Trent defineth thus Cap. de Sacramento Penitentia Satisfactio est rei debitae integra solutio Est compensatio cum homo pro peccatis commissis Deo aliquid persolvi Satisfaction is an entire Payment of that thing which is due and a recompence which a man maketh to God for his sins And it is made they say here in this life by fasting whipping Pilgrimages giving something to the Church and such like works of Penance and after this life by being imprisoned involved and tormented in a fire called Purgatory 2. That many in this life do not only satisfie the Divine Justice for their sins but exceed the same for them in their satisfactions for there be many say they that have sinned but little yet have satisfied very much and consequently have undergone more Punishments than their sins have deserved or Gods Justice for the same required and this excess or superfluity which they call Superabundant Satisfaction That is to say the overplus that these men have paid to God more than they needed to have done may be given to others that want the same And thirdly That the Church hath a certain Treasury in which are reserved inestimable Treasures that is to say the said superabundant satisfactions to wit the superabundant satisfactions of the Saints Martyrs Monks Nuns Fryers Eremites and such like others as have satisfied beyond Gods Justice or the desert of their sins Of which Treasury the Pope having the Keys and being thereof Guardian turneth the said Treasures into pay for others and bequeaths them out by Indulgences to those that are wanting in satisfactory Works These Indulgences although they are now and have been of late years through the great resort of Pilgrims to the places unto whom they are given and the great and splendid Solemnities of the Jubilees at Rome had in great veneration and esteem among the Romanists were never known in the Churches Infancy nor for a long time afterward Alph. congr bares 8. verbe Indulgentia Durand Sontent 4. dist 20. quae 3 ●…den Sess 25. Decretum de Indulg but as Alphonsus à Castro confesseth harum usus in Ecclesia videtur strò receptus their use is seen to have been received but lately in the Church and moreover Durand another of their own Writers telleth us De Indulgentiis pauca dici possunt per certitudiuem quia nec scriptura expressè de iis loquitur Sancti etiam Ambrosius Hilarius c. minimè loquuntur de Indulgentiis Little can be said of any certainty of Indulgences or of their being undoubtedly true seeing the Scriptures speak not expresly of them and S. Hilary S. Ambrose and other Fathers speak not at all of them And yet the Council of Trent doth not only teach and command them to be retained in the Church but also condemneth all them with a Curse which either term them unprofitable or deny the Churches Authority to grant them Now what a bold presumption was it for a Council to determine a new and uncertain Doctrine for a Point of Faith And what a senseless and weak Faith must it needs be which wanteth Antiquity Authority of Scriptures and consent of Fathers But I will not stand to argue this in regard it maketh not much to our present purpose neither will I altogether deny but the said Indulgences are to some profitable For indeed since many are come to have so good an opinion as they have of them they

Printed for Isaac Cleave at the signe of the Starr next to Searjants Jnn in Chancery Lane THE Pope's Cabinet UNLOCKED OR A CATALOGUE Of all the POPES INDULGENCES Belonging to the Order of S. Mary TOGETHER With a List of all the Indulgences daily yearly and for ever to be had at Rome S. James of Galatia in Compostella Jerusalem and all places in the Holy Land Written in Italian by Fr. Arcangelo Tortello of the said Order of S. Mary And now Translated into English by John Sidway late Seminary Priest but now of the Reformed Religion and Vicar of Selling in Kent and one of the Discoverers of the horrid Popish Plot with the Cause of his Conversion Whereunto is added an APPENDIX by the Translator in which the grounds and foundation of the said Indulgences being examined are utterly overthrown and by consequence Indulgences themselves apparently proved to be meer Cheats And also shewing that the Church of Rome doth lay the chief Basis of their Religion on Indulgences Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury LONDON Printed for Isaac Cleve at the Star next to Serjeants-Inn in Chancery-Lane 1680. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANTHONY EARL of Shaftsbury Baron Ashly of Winbourne S. Giles Lord Cooper of Pawlet c. My Lord THE signal Favours received from your Honour and the confidence I have of your Lordships Endeavours to conserve Religion in its true purity imboldeneth me to present you with this worthless Present designed for you ever since it was in the confused Mass of my thoughts which if your Lordship please to peruse and receive into Protection and the pious Reader reap advantage by my intendment my Design hath succeeded to my wish The matter contained in the Translation is a Catalogue of the Popes Indulgences or Inventory of the Romish Treasure which Treasure or Indulgences being grounded upon meer Fictions and consequently at best but Cheats I have in my Appendix endeavoured to destroy overthrowing the very Ground-works both by Scripture and Fathers whereupon they are founded My Design herein is to unmask this grand Deceit of the Romish Church conceiving that they that trust to the said Indulgences rely on worse than Reeds being thereby exposed to the greatest danger and meerly guld not onely of their Money but their Expectations Thus humbly craving your Lordships Pardon for this my boldness beseeching God daily to increase that ardent affection you bear to Religion and that his Grace and Goodness may always supply you with meet gifts and Priviledges to do him Service and increase your Comforts here and hereafter I adventure to subscribe and esteem my self happy in the honour of being My Lord Your Lordships most humble and most devoted Servant JOH SIDWAY TO THE READER Courteous Reader WHatsoever thou art great is the benefit that thou mayest receive by this little Book Art thou a Romanist knowing thy Religion to be grounded in all Controverted Points upon those Indulgences thou mayest by the Grace of God seeing them here overthrown be brought to relinquish thy Erroneous Opinions Art thou a Protestant or any other dissenting from the Church of Rome here thou mayest discover a great part of the Roman Ecclesinstick Policy and by what means such absurd Tenents as are held in the Roman Church are introduced into the good Opinion of the people and admitted into their Faith nevertheless not to the end they may by thee be imitated but abhored and avoided Would'st thou know by what means they came to so many Religious Orders and why so many enter as they call it into Religion 't is because of the many and great Indulgences which they are possest with a belief they obtain thereby Wouldest thou know wherefore they invocate and adore Saints the Host the Crucifix Holy Relicks and Images 't is because of Indulgences Wouldest thou know the reason of their strict observance of these and other their Churches Ceremonies their prefering of one Church and Altar before another and of all their Pilgrimages 't is because of Indulgences In fine there is nothing Controverted betwixt the Roman and other Churches but lest the same should be utterly overthrown they are some way underpropped by Indulgences which although but meer Cheats and therefore at best but rotten Posts yet since the people are brought to have so good an Opinion of them serve as most itable and firm Pillars In the overthrowing whereof though I have used much the Fathers yet 't is not with an Opinion they are more infallible than others or that we are to regard any more their Testimony but because dealing with the Romanists I deal with an unreasonable people who believe no other no not so much as the holy Scriptures unless as the Fathers expound them I have here produced them amongst other Testimonies For my part I was brought up and continued until about three years since in the Church of Rome in which I was of no small repute and esteem but Conscience did so accuse and torment me being Conscious to my self of so many grand Absurdities gross Idolatries and superstitious Practices which I found I must of necessity be guilty of dayly continuing therein that utterly relinquishing that of Rome I adjoyned with the Church of England in my coming unto which although I was put to beat out the way as it were through Fire and have been since by many thereof very hardly dealt withal which I pray God forgive I have received the greatest joy in Spirit and Consolation in Conscience imaginable verily believing That amongst all established Churches in the whole Universe which I have seen and blessed be God I have seen all or most that there is not any nearer to Scripture and Primitive Practice than is the Church of England and rather than I would return to the Church of Rome admit my self or condescend to maintain any one point of the Romish peculiar Doctrine there is not a Torment so great nor a Death so grievous which I would not gladly suffer The said Indulgences amongst other things were one reason of my relinquishing of the Church of Rome having indeed been at most of the places where the said Indulgences are obtained and know the ensuing Catalogue to agree with the Records and Reports of each place and conceiving that those that are cured of a dangerous Malady ought not to conceal the means conducing thereunto from those that either are or may be sick of the same Disease I have thought meet to publish the same to the World which if kindly accepted may induce me to many other Works of the like kind and of shewing my self Thy very Well-wisher Joh. Sidway THE AUTHOR'S EPISTLE DEDICATORY To my illustrious and venerable Brothers and Sisters of the Company of the most glorious Virgin BY how much the more I know my self obliged in general and in particular to your most noble Country and the more I go about accusing my self a Debtor for so many Favours and Benefits in the same continually received so much

are not only profitable but very profitable to the Roman Church For first hereby she establisheth confirmeth and upholdeth all her wicked new-fangled Idolatrous and absurd Doctrines and doth easily impose them upon the Faith of those that perhaps otherwise might doubt of them and the People are thereby as it were allured and enticed into a belief of that which before it may be they never heard of or once thought of nay peradventure not only doubted but altogether disliked of And therefore when the Pope would establish any new Opinion or confirm it when called in question he presently contriveth the doing thereof by some Indulgence that may conduce thereunto As for Example tending to the Adoration of Images and Prayer to Saints departed whosoever being in the state of Grace shall say seven Prayers before the Crucifix and seven Pater-nosters and seven Ave Maria's shall obtain six and fifty thousand years of Indulgence to wit fourteen thousand granted by S. Gregory fourteen thousand by Nicholas the first and twenty eight thousand by Sixtus the Fourth Thesau Indulg Tending to the Adoration of Saints Reliques and other like things belonging to their Altars to whosoever before an Altar shall say Miserere Sisto the Fourth hath granted all the Indulgences that are that day in Rome 〈◊〉 Indulg Tending to Prayer for the dead to whosoever shall say the Office for the dead Leo the Tenth hath granted a Plenary Indulgence and to such as shall say one Pater noster and one Ave Maria for them Innocent the Fourth hath granted forty days Indulgence Gregory the Ninth forty days Honorius the Eighth forty days Benedict the Elerenth an hundred days and Lotino Cardinal forty days and in the same manner tending to all such like Doctrines Secondly By the same she maketh her self fat getteth good store of Coyn and accumulateth to her self whole heaps of Money whereby she is able to erect most sumptuous Pallaces build most famous Monasteries manage and maintain Wars and carry on all her wicked and self-ended Designs Mod. Exam Sat. Ord Cand. de Indulg In the Book called Defensio Parisien cure pro Libertate pag. 77. For you must know that these Indulgences although the Romanists would fain have them to be heretofore called Donationes to wit Gifts to the end that thereby if it be possible they may find out some way whereby to found them upon the Holy Scriptures do not at all when they are bequeathed come gratis but must be well paid for Insomuch that only the Indulgences with the Letters of Pardon and the Reservationes Pectorales M●…tales Regressor Gomeles and Speciales access●… with other such like Trifles are adjudged to be worth to the Pope of Rome in France only above two hundred thousand Crowns a year and in all Christendom to be worth above ten Millions of Crowns yearly which indeed is a pretty Sum. But that they are in the least profitable to the persons who are supposed to obtain them and to whom they are granted as Indulgences I deny utterly For a Man can by no means redeem his Brother or pay a Ransom to God for him no not for the Body and therefore much less for the Soul for the Redemption of the Soules precious and it ceaseth for ever Psal 49.7 8. And the dead have not any more Reward neither have they any more Portion for ever in any thing that is done under the Sun Eccles 9.5 6. These and the like Testimonies are so plain and manifest against the validity of the said Indulgences that several of the Romanists by the Relation of Thomas Aquinas have been of Opinion as Greg. de valent affirmeth The Aqu. in suppl 3. Part. 4. Qu. 25. Art 5. Greg. de val de Indulg Cap. 2 That Ecclesiastical Indulgence of it self could remit no Punishment Nec in fore Ecclesiae neque in fore Dei neither in the judgment of the Church nor in the judgment of God but that it was a pious kind of Fraud whereby the Church by promising such Remission might allure men to the devout performance of those pious works which were required in the Form of the Indulgence even as when a Mother to move her Child to run doth Promise him an Apple yet notwithstanding afterward she doth not give it him Thus you see that divers of the Romanists themselves as 't is here acknowledged have held Indulgences to be given only to allure and intice men to a devout Performance of what is required in the Form of the Indulgence which is according to what I have here before shewed and that they are not at all profitable as Indulgences but are in themselves meer cheats Nevertheless this is not all they are not only meer cheats and altogether unprofitable as Indulgences but also Damnable and the Persons are accursed that broach and maintain them For although they concern Christ and his Church and appertain as the Papists tell us to our Faith and Life yet they are not received in the Legal and Evangelical Scriptures That they are not received in the Legal and Evangelical Scriptures is a truth so manifest that it is even confessed and acknowledged by the Romanists themselves for besides Duranaus Anto. Part. 1. Tit. 10 c. 3. Prier Contr. Luth pro Indulg of whom I have before spoken Antenint saith De Indulgentiis nil expresse habemns in Sacra Scriptura c. Concerning Indulgences we have nothing expresly in the Holy Scriptures c. And Silvester Pierias saith Indulgentiae Authoritate Scripturae non innotuere nobis sed Authoritate Ecclesiae Romana Romanerum Pontificum quae major est Authoritas Indulgences are not known to us by the Authority of the Scripture but by the Authority of the Roman Church and of the Roman Popes which is greater than the Authority of the Scripture And that they are therefore damnable and the persons are accursed that broach and maintain them Aug. Contr. lit Petil. l. 3. cap. 6. Tom. 7. is also manifest for S. Augustine saith Sive de Christo sive de Ecclesia sibe de quatanque alia re que pertinet ad fidem vitamque nostram non dream nos nequaquam comparandi ei qui dixit sed si Angelus de caelo vobis annunciaverit praeterquam quod in Scripturis Legalibus Evangelicis accepistis Anathema sit Whether concerning Christ or his Church or any other thing appertaining to our Faith and Life I will not say if we who are no way to be compared to him that so spare but if an Angel from Heaven shall preach unto you any thing but what you have received in the Legal and Evangelical Scriptures let him be accursed And S. Basil saith Edit Basil pa. 437. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all that which is without the Scripture Divinely inspired not being of Faith is sin for saith he Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God and all that is not of Faith is Sin CHAP. II. Wherein is shewed That Christ hath fully and