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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08896	Fiscus papalis. Siue, Catalogus indulgentiarum & reliquiarum septem principalium ecclesiarum vrbis Romæ. Ex vetusto manuscripto codice vere & fideliter descriptus. = A part of the Popes exchequer, that is A catalogue of the indulgences and reliques belonging to the seauen principall churches in Rome. Laying downe the spirituall riches and infinite treasure which (as sure as the Pope is holy & true) are to be found in the Catholike Roman Church, whereof the poore heretikes in England haue not one mite. Taken out of an antient manuscript, and translated. Together with certaine notes and comments explaining the more difficult place, for the ease and helpe of good Catholikes, who had best goe to Rome, to trie the vertue of the glorious indulgences. By a Catholike diuine.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1617 (1617)	STC 19174; ESTC S114000	84,865	184

Christians to heare Sermons on the Sabboth or festiuall dayes And whereas there was so much goodnesse in the Councell of Trent as the Heretickes call it or rather so much curiosity as we may say as to decree that Bishops should diligently admonish their people and tell them that they are bound to come to their parish Churches to heare Gods word Azorius the Iesuite hath answere ready that the Bishops are bid to warne them not to compell them and if that seeme too slight he hath a better in store whereas saith he the Councell would haue them come to heare Gods word that must be vnderstood of the Gospell in the Masse for is there not a Gospell read in euery Masse and is not the Gospell Gods word Then he that comes to the Masse heares a Gospell read and consequently heares Gods word Is not here deepe diuinity and shall not an ignorant man be well edified when hee heares a peece of the Gospell read in Latine whereof he vnderstandeth not one word Yes doubtlesse saith learned Ledesma the Iesuit if they come with deuotion and a good intent Thus then you see that preaching is a meane matter in respect of the Masse And this is the reason why here and elsewhere in our Liturgies and chiefe and best bookes of state as our Missall Pontificall Ceremoniall Sacerdotall and the like for one mention of a Sermon and a Pulpit you shall heare a hundred times of an Altar and a Masse And if this bee done by the Church and that Church cannot erre then all good Catholickes must know that not Pulpits Preaching but Altars and Masses must they looke after The Heretickes I confesse do hereat take great offence and hereupon doe cauill and raile bitterly and say that it is no maruel to see the pope preferre the Altar before the Pulpit a Masse before preaching for say they and my eares haue heard them say it to my great griefe if they gained no more by the one then the other his Holinesse would be faine to strike saile for the wings of his pride would soon be clipt He tels vs say they of a miracle in Transubstantiation that the Bread and Wine are turned into Christs Body and Bloud and there remaines nothing but the fashion colour or likenesse of Bread and wine But as our faith findes none such in Scripture no more doth our bodily sence finde it in experience But we can tell them of a much more true and sensible wonder daily amongst them for their Pulpits are transubstantiated if we may be so bold with their word for Gods it is not into Altars their Preachers into Priests their Sermons into Sacrifices their Bibles into Missals and these are so absolutely altered and really changed that indeed there remaines nothing but names and shadowes For the other haue the substance Pulpits say they are for Lent Altars for euery day Masses are commanded Sermons but aduised Sermons may doe well but Masses are necessary The Bible hath bred many heresies but the Masse booke breeds and feedes deuotion Therefore Gods Dan. 11. 36 37. 38. booke the Bible is to be remoued from the people as a dangerous thing and the Masse booke of mans making is to bee their daily bread Is not this the same say they or as bad that Daniel prophesieth of that there shall be a King that shall doe what him list and shall exalt himselfe and magnifie himselfe against all that is God and speake maruellous things against the God of Gods and shall prosper till the wrath be accomplished c. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers nor the desires of women nor care for any God for hee shall magnifie himselfe aboue all And in stead of God shall worship his God Mauzzim euen the God that his fathers knew not Whether their Masse be this Mauzzim here meant or no say they we affirme not once this is cleere that hee hath turned his Masse into a Mauzzim and made an Idoll of it and worships in it a God of his owne making a God that his fathers knew not for his transubstantiation and his propitiatory sacrifice which two be the life and soule of the Masse were not knowne in the ancient and purest Church for 500 yeares after Christ And this Mauzzim is set vp in the very roome of God For since the Masse was erected vnto this height it is at Christ neuer had his due but was despoiled of his Offices and Honour Gods booke cast aside and a Masse booke laid in his place Sermons accounted but things indifferent or conuenient but Masses the onely necessary duty of the Sabboth day And as he here saith No man may say Masse at the high Altars of the seuen Churches in Rome but the Pope or his Deputie but you shall finde no such prerogatiue for preaching here or else-where Arise O Lord mainteine thine owne cause against that Idoll the Masse and Mauzzim of the Romish Synagogue Thus madly and extrauagantly doe these idle heretickes prate but let not this nor ought that can be brought out of Scripture trouble any good Catholicke conscience these be but the temptations of the Diuell let him hearken what the Pope teacheth who is Gods Vicar and Peters successor and if they be good Catholickes they know that he cannot erre and that whatsoeuer he doth or teacheth as he is Pope it is all one as if God did it or taught it let hereticks then if they will extoll preaching let this satisfie deuout Catholicks that here the Pope takes order for saying Masse reseruing certaine Churches to himselfe at whose high Altars none may say Masse but himselfe or some by commission from him but finde me any whose pulpits he reserues to himselfe nay finde me any in whose pulpits he will come at all No it is too base a place and preaching too painfull a duty for his holinesse hee harh something else to doe as namely to create Cardinals to translate Empires and dispose of Kingdomes to reade and answere letters from the Princes of the earth and to giue audience to their Embassadors to controll Kings when they displease his holinesse and to excommunicate them if they submit not to his pleasure and if they persist to depose them and discharge their subiects of their oath and alleageance to giue their kingdomes to whom he list and to raise their owne subiects against them to augment Saint Petars patrimony by procuring Princes and Dukes to giue him the reuersions after them to goe and take possessions of the Prouinces that fall to him by such excheates as Clemens the 5 did lately of Ferrara to make leagues betwixt Princes and to breake them when he seeth good yea though they be confirmed by Oath and Sacrament * Vide Peter Math inter constitutiones Pont. Rom. in Bulla Pauli 3. contra Henricum 8. Angliae Regem as Paul the 3. did against Henry the 8 of England Pius 5 against Elizabeth and Sixtus 5. against Henry of