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A08690	The vnmasking of all popish monks, friers, and Iesuits. Or, A treatise of their genealogie, beginnings, proceedings, and present state Together with some briefe obseruations of their treasons, murders, fornications, impostures, blasphemies, and sundry other abominable impieties. Written as a caueat or forewarning for Great Britaine to take heed in time of these romish locusts. By Lewis Owen.	Owen, Lewis, 1572-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 18998; ESTC S113782	125,685	175

Orders of Monks and Friers like so many bulwarkes or strong forts to oppose all batteries and assaults whatsoeuer her Aduersaries shall plant or set against her As the Benedictins Carthusians Ieromites Bernardins Augustins Carmelites Dominicans Franciscans Capuchins Recollects Iesuites Theotines Oraterians Fullians Barnabists and an hundred more of these bald pates Also Nunnes Beghins close Nunnes loose Nunnes Sisters Canonesses And Hermites as those of the Orders which they attribute to Saint Anthony Hilary Macarius S. Theon S. Frontinian S. Paul the Heremite S. Apollonius and many more Now hath the Popes added to these the holy Gildes or Confraternities of Saint Roch Saint Hubricht S. Sebastian S. Coronna who are clad in blew Saint Anthony in blacke Saint Martin in white Saint Dominicke in blacke Of the Iesuites and Capuchins c. Yea moreouer holy Orders of Knights as those of the Rhodes or Malta Teutonickes or Dutch Knights Templers Knights of Saint Iames Our Ladies Knights Knights of Ierusalem Knights of the Order of Calatraua and many more whom for breuitie sake I omit for truly I had need of six hundred tongues and two hundred pens yea a mouth of steele with a brazen voice if I should declare all the diuersities of Orders and Religions which the holy Popes haue set vp not only without but also against the holy Scripture And yet I name not the Popes themselues their Cardinals Prelates Patriarkes and such like beasts whereof neither the Apostles or Prophets euer heard of nay I dare boldly say that if the Apostles or Prophets had but once seene or heard the hundreth part of these new Religious Orders named they would haue beene afraid of them For seeing that Saint Paul could not suffer that among the Corinthians some should call themselues the disciples of Peter others of Paul and others of Apollo how would he haue been then afraid and out of quiet to haue seene and heard of such an innumerable company of new and diuers names Professions Religions and Rules of perfection some clad in black some in white some in gray greene blew some in red and some in furres c. And euery one to esteeme his owne Order and Rules for the best and most worthy to be regarded he would surely haue thought himselfe to be in a new world Therefore the holy Father the Pope and his Monks and Friers yea all his Clergie men will not haue men to found themselues or depend only vpon that which the Prophets and Apostles haue written and taught for say they the world is now altered and the Popes haue found out and established new Religions new Commandements and new Articles of Faith whereof the Apostles neuer heard or knew of For otherwise beleeue me if nothing else were esteemed but the bare Scriptures and writings of the Prophets and Apostles then should the Decrees Decretals and Ordinances of the Church of Rome and all the Councells which haue beene kept and holden by the Order and Commandements of the Popes yea all the before specified Orders and Religions of Monks Friers Nunnes Heremites Gildes and Knight-hoods be vtterly ouerthrowne yea all their pretended Merits and Supererogations Prayers to Saints Purgatory and such like trumperies would not be worth a rotten Apple If men I say would begin to esteeme the holy Scripture alone for a true and sufficient rule and direction to attaine to saluation then should Luther be commended and praised for causing the Decrees and Decretalls of the Pope to be burned in Germany when his bookes were burned at Rome Now because there are many Monks Friers and Iesuites sent and transported into England out of the English Seminaries Colleges and Cloisters that are in forraigne parts as trading Factors for the Pope and the King of Spaine to extoll the sanctitie of the one and the power of the other I haue according to my bounden duty to my natiue Country and out of the zeale and reuerence I beare to Gods Church and true Religion vndertaken to write this ensuing Discourse my purpose being to discouer the beginning and in some manner the proceedings and present estate drifts and impostures of all Monks Friers and Iesuites in generall and of our English in particular and as well to instruct all those my louing Country men that are not as yet thorowly acquainted with their Impostures Hypocrisies Fornications Murders Idolatries Blasphemies many other abominable Impieties and inaccessible Mysteries as also to informe those that are carried away with the blind loue of these busie Hornets that they will not be perswaded that they are such wicked Hypocrites and impious Traitors as they are indeed to the end that the truth being knowne it may appeare in the face of the world what they are who in stead of the wholsome milke of the Word of God doe feed them who are committed to their charge with the poison of detestable Blasphemies and humane Traditions applying vnto the Virgin Mary and others their Saints many passages of holy Scriptures which are only proper vnto the Diuinity with their impious and abhorred doctrine of killing and murdering of Kings and Princes that are excommunicated by the Pope and Church of Rome We reade that many religious men heretofore contemning the world and all the pompe pride and vanity thereof withdrew themselues into Wildernesses and desart places in Syria Egypt and other Countries to the end they might the better being not troubled with worldly cares and incumbrances bestow their time in reading and studying the holy Scriptures fasting praying meditating and such diuine exercises Whereof Paul surnamed the first Heremite Anthony Hilarion Basil and Ierome were the first and chiefest among the Christians who for their sanctity of life were in those daies had in great honour for then this kinde of life was simple and free and not bound or tied to such vnlawfull Vowes and ridiculous Ceremonies as our moderne Monkes and Friers now adaies pretend to obserue and keepe Their Habit was then homely and yet decent as euery man best pleased to weare Neither were they bound to abide or remaine in any one particular place or Couent nor tied to one kind of life by vow but free to stay there where they liked best or to goe vnto any other City or Country where they would at their owne pleasure if that at any time it repented any of them to haue vndertaken or entred into that kind of life it was in his owne proper power to recant and withall to returne to his former vocation or calling againe without any note or signe of inconstancy or scandall which kind of life if the Monks of our time would imitate we should hold them farre more holy than we doe or to say the truth than they are indeed They sought out the most desart places they could find that is in the Wildernesse and therefore were called Heremites quasi eremum colentes inhabiting in the Wildernesse which the Grecians call Anchorites because they liued alone without any company and therefore

a Saint by Pope Gregory the ninth and his worship was the first inuentor or founder of the Inquisition and the Friers of his Order are as yet the Inquisiters in all Italy Saint Dominick if you will beleeue his Friers wrought more miracles than Christ for they write many blasphemous and ridiculous things of him in his Legend whereof I could recite many but for feare that I should rather surfet than satisfie you I will produce here one or two and so passe ouer the rest La vida de San. Domingo A certaine man was possessed with Deuills whereupon Saint Dominick bound about his necke certaine Reliques whereof some of them were no better than shitten clouts at the least whose perfume the Deuills could not abide and therefore cried out that they would depart But good Saint Dominick would not beleeue the Deuils vntill the Reliques became sureties for them Ibidem Another time as the holy man preached certaine women were amazed at his doctrine and cried out that if he said true they had serued a strange Master the holy man bade them be quiet and they should see what strange Master they had serued Whereupon comes in an vgly Cat with fiery eyes shewing her hinder-parts vnto them which was very filthie to behold at last he leapes into the Belfrie and left such a smell behind him that had almost choak'd them all Ibidem It fortuned also vpon a time that a Nun called Mary had a sore thigh for which she prayed to S. Dominick because she durst not pray to God who pitying the Religious Votary that was so well deuoted vnto him came vnto her when she was asleepe and annointed the place and healed the sore But now leauing the Saint I will proceed to suruey his spirituall babes the Dominican Friers Ouo prognatus eodem In the yeare of our Lord 1470. one Allen of the Frocke a Frier of this Order was the first that deuised and composed the Rosarie of our Lady who neglecting the Gospell of our Lord and Sauiour he preached it abroad and so his booke was published wherein are related many miracles of the Virgin Mary wrought by vertue of this Rosarie wherein he saith That vpon a time the blessed Virgin Mary came vnto his chamber or Cell and hauing a ring made of a locke of her owne haire she by deliuery of it betrothed her selfe vnto him kissed him and offered to him her paps to be handled and sucked by him and finally conuersed with this sweet Frier Allen as familiarly as a spouse is wont to do with her mate O sweet Iesus what true Christian is there that is not astonished at the hearing of these horrible blasphemies These Dominican Friers doe make a great benefit of this foresaid Rosarie for in euery Towne or City that they haue a Couent there is a fraternity of the Rosary consisting of the Lay people of either sex who doe pay to them a good sum of money at their first entrance into the same fraternitie and a yearely pension besides to say Masses for them and the soules of the Brethren and Sisters of the fraternity that are in Purgatorie Of all other Begging Friers these are the Richest and best schollers And therefore the Iesuites and they can neuer agree for they wrote many railing books and libels against each other and in their Sermons especially they doe exclaime and raile the one on the other A certaine Iesuite preaching vpon a time told his Auditors that he had seene a Vision which was thus He thought that he had beene in Hell and that he saw there some of all sorts of men and women as Popes Cardinals Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Monks Friers Priests Abbesses Prioresses and Nuns yea Emperours Kings Princes Noble-men Knights Gentlemen to conclude all manner of men women and children but hee saw there neuer a Iesuite And therefore praised God that had giuen him grace to be of the Societie of Iesus and not of any other Order of Friers or of any other vocation profession or calling whatsoeuer So that all his Sermon was in commendation of the Iesuites These two learned Sermons were preached in the yeare 1600. as a Student of Padua in Italy witnesseth in a Pamphlet which he writ in the Italian tongue about the yeare 1607. it is intituled Condolenza de vn Studente de Padua a 1. Patri Iesuiti par 2. The next Sabbath day a Dominican Frier came and preached in the selfe-same place and told the people that he had likewise dreamed or seene a strange Vision and that hee thought he had beene in Hell and saw there the soules of all sorts of men and women yea of Friers of his owne Order but saw neuer a Iesuite there whereat he wondered and was so amaz'd that he could not say an Aue Maria or a Pater noster and repented him a thousand times that he had not beene a Iesuite In the end he demanded of a little Deuill what was the reason there was neuer a Iesuite there seeing there was some of all other men women and children yea of all other Orders of Religious men The Deuill told him that the Iesuites were by themselues in another hell vnderneath that for said he they come hither so fast and are so many that Pluto and the rest of the Deuills could scarce rule them The Frier replied saying I would wish Pluto to haue a great care to search them with speed for feare that they haue conueyed hither some gun-powder with them for they are very skilfull in Mine-workes and in blowing vp of whole States and Parliament-houses and if they can they will blow you all vp and then the Spanyards will come and take your Kingdome from you whereat the Deuill laughed and the Frier awaked out of his sleepe And was not this good sound doctrine I pray you to edifie their Auditors withall In Spaine the Dominican Friers beare a great sway for the Kings Confessor is alwaies a Dominican Frier yet a Iesuite is the Queenes Confessor both their Patrons were Spanyards and therefore so much the greater Saints It was my fortune about nine years ago to come vpon a Holy-day I think it was S. Isidors day to heare a Sermon which a Dominican Frier preached in commendation of this Spanish Saint who extolled him so much that he preferred him before S. Peter This Saint was as he said once King of Andaluzia in Spaine and forsooke his Kingdome and became a Bishop Others doe write that he was driuen out of his Kingdome by the Moores and then became a Bishop This Frier citing that place of the Gospell where our Sauiour saith Whosoeuer shall forsake father or mother wife or children for my name sake shall haue it a hundred fold in heauen then Peter said Master we haue left all to follow thee what shall we haue Our Sauiour told him that they should sit vpon twelue seats and iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel The Frier cried out