the eternall See of the Church into another place for such a punishment is due to that City as if the Iudge shold say Flay off the whole skinne draw all the blood out of the flesh and cut all the flesh into peeces and so breake the bones that all the marrow may fall out thus their Briget and Spousesse of Christ how much to their content let themselues demurre But we haue a more firme propheticall speech which warranteth vs that the purpured whore by which the Romane Church is denoted which sitteth vpon Apoc. 17. many waters gouerneth many peoples shall be desolated and ruinated by such Princes as had first drunke of the cup of her whoredomes and this is so cleere a truth touching Romes destruction by such Kings that the Pontificians themselues cannot deny it only they would shift it off from themselues and their Popes and lay it vpon some one singular man who shall raigne three yeeres and a halfe and then destroy Rome and with fire consume it wisely indeede Antichrist raigning three yeeres and a halfe shall cause many peoples Kings and kingdomes to drinke of the cup of his whoredomes and yet the same kings and kingdoms within the space of the same three yeeres and a halfe shall vtterly desolate and ruinate Antichrist and his Antichristian kingdome Surely the Pontificians thus aduocating for their Poâ—â—â— are to be pitied for if they should not so say of necessary it would follow that they were seruants of the man of sinne and sonne of perdition The cause which maketh them so eagerly to contend for this their Romane supreme Monarchy is because they account the verie pith and marrow of religion to consist in the continued succession of Bishops in that See wherein their glorying is but vaine for I dare binde my selfe to shew that there is a better and a lesse interrupted succession in the Churches of England then can bee shewed in the Romane Church Alasse for them it is enough if they can shew Church-walls Idoll-Bishops dumbe Ptelates yet for forsaking the coÌ„munioÌ„ of such they wil condemn vs as hereticks Schismaticks This follie the saying of a graue father redargueth non ille de ecclesia c. Hee doth Ambros lib. 6. in lutam not seeme to goe out of the Church who corporally goeth out but he who leaueth the foundations of Ecclesiasticall truth we went from them in body but they from vs in minde we went from them in place but they from vs in faith we left with them the foundations of the walls they left with vs the foundation of Scriptures Which agreeth well with that Prophecy which by some is cited as of Hildegard but by others is deliuered out of Hylarie it is thus Vnum vos moneo canete Orat. contra Auxent See another prophecy of Hildegardis related in my motiues out of Theodorick nieme pag. 49. Antichristum c. One thing I admonish you beware of Antichrist you are not well affected with the loue of walls you doe ill worship the Church in couers and buildings you doe ill vnder these pretend the name of peace Is it doubtfull that Antichrist shall sit in these Mountaines and woods and lakes and prisons are more safe to me for in these Prophets remaining haue by the spirit of God prophecied This prophecie seemeth well for the Papists who glorie so much intemplo Domini in the Temple of the Lord the Romane Church the externall succession and yet but rotten broken often interrupted by Schismes as the Ponficians themselues cannot deny Another prophecie and vision I haue for the Papists Lib. Reuelat. 6. cap. 72. to delight themselues withall it is taken out of their Briget who bringeth Christ speaking thus vnto her Filius dei loquitur c. The sonne of God speaketh to Briget There are two spottes in my Church one is that few are absolued without paying of mony the second is that Parish-Priests dare not absolue sinners from all their secret sinnes but affirming that themselues cannot absolue them in certaine cases reserued to Bishops they doe send such sinners to the Bishops who are so long in examining and discussing vntill such secret sinnes come to be made manifest wherefore those who haue zeale of soules must wholsomly oppose against such things least their soules through shame or obduration doe die in mortall sinnes This vision maketh but little for the Romane abuses in reseruing cases which is growne so intollerable especially since the Tridentine decrees that it cannot sufficiently be detested the Collegiates and fellowes of Iesus societie haue lost nothing by such reseruations for therby hauing greater priuiledges then others haue they make increment in their wealth by marchandizing of soules the which how well they performe setting aside some other examples the curteous reader may obserue by two fresh ones Not long since the mother of Cardinall A payre of Ignatians deluded Sforsa being like to die did through the mediation and intercession of an Ignatian her gostly Father bestow vpon the Ignatians Colledge a 1000 Crownes and gaue her schedule for the same the ghostly father hauing gotten the bill higheth him home looking for thanks sheweth it to his fellow-fathers who considering the bill found that it was not specified in the same what manner of crownes should be paid unto them they therefore perswade the ghostly marchant to returne vnto the Lady and to intreat that the crownes might be specified to be French crownes and of gold but in returning such was the Fathers lucke that he meeteth with Cardinall Sforsa his mother through weaknesse being not to be spoken withall who cunningly insinuateth himselfe into the Fathers businesse which hearing he seemeth to applaude the same and to like very well of the suite with which words the good Father was so â—ulled that he deliuered the former bill to the Cardinall desiring him to procure his Mother to make of ordinarie Crownes Crownes of gold the Cardinall no sooner got the bill but with an Ignatian tricke of equiuocation hee rent it and so the Ignatian lost his errand The like hapned in Naples there was a Noble Woman of great substance much addicted to the Ignatians who vpon speciall intreatie of her Ghostly Father an Ignatian gaue vnto them towards their buildings a 1000 Crownes with which bill the Ignatian going home he is commanded by his Superiours to returne vnto her againe and to intreat of her that shee would make that 1000 Crownes to be 1500 the good Ladie hearing his request was somewhat amated therewith but lothe to offend telleth the Father that if he will stay vntill her Steward come home shee will take care that hee might haue his desire wherevpon the good Father deliuereth backe againe vnto her the bill which shee taketh but vpon the returne of her man and some consultation had with him she altreth her minde and sendeth the bill of a 1000 Crownes which shee had receiued from the Ignatian vnto a certaine Congregation
auenged them by miraculous punishments you can easily call to minde what manner of prodigy was in the iudgement of your Ignatian Society that holy one Sixtus the 5. but I pretermit to speake of him or those prodigious impieties which your society obiects against him by that which I haue said the iudicious Reader may obserue how idle that inference of yours is when you thus write Is Gods power or his loue lesse towardes mankinde since Luthers preaching this your is is so idle that it is fit for you to put againe vp into your budget and rescrue it for your blinde Obedients at Saint Omers I say before that God had not often nor ordinarily auenged your holy Sires impieties yet it cannot be denied but that God hath sometimes auenged them with his furious rodde I could out of your owne Authours put you in minde of disastrous ends of some of your Popes your Bonifacies your Beneaicts your Siluesiers Gâ—nebra Plat. Baron Anastasies Iulies Alexanders Sabinian Iohns Paules and your Gregories and â— famous Peter Aleisius sonne of Paul the 3. was met withall What thinke you of that prodigie from heauen which Glaber relateth thus in effect one Fulco an Earle of Glaber lib. 2. hist cap. 4. The temple of S. Idoc with the sacred things in it were quite burnt Auâ—nt lib 7 hist pâ—g 495. Gaunt had built a Church for the sacring of which there must be sent belike no Bishop of France was holy inough a speciall Legate à latere from your Pope Iohn of that time what followed he came hee consecrated the same which done instantly the day hauing beene very faire and bright-shining before there arose such a tempest as though heauen and earth would haue rent in sunder by which your new sacred Churche was ouerturned and by the Deuills ministery execrated defaced Call to minde what prodigious punishments happened Gregor epist 30. lib. 3 mentioned aboue You cannot but haue heard how a late Papist Monarch was consumed to death with lyce a iust guâ—rdon either for his â—uâ—ury or his â—ury against Gods Saints you know whom I mean a Grand friend of yours and the tale is true to those who by commande of your Popes and Prelates did dig about the body of S Laurence as likewise to those who out of superstitious purpose did dig about some Saints bodies in Saint Paules Church without the Citie of Rome felt they not Gods reuengfull hand smiting them with suddaine death Thinke of that iudgement which happened to the workemen at Doway when vpon command they were to remoue one of our Dioses made of stone I haue related the same in my Motiues And concerning the endes of some of your late Cheeftaines I thinke you shall not haue any cause to reioyce either in Allens end Parsons Sanders Garnets or Holts with some other such like but inough of this kinde And so here I would end with a scorne to all the rest which followeth in this diuision sauing that you prouoke me iustly by your gybing at Master Crashaw for affirming truely that God is neuer wanting to his seruants in the affaire of marriage and further by your reproachfull scorning that famous Galeacius for his keeping of two maide seruants in his house for his daily attendance whereof you affirme that it is one of the greatest miracles which our Gospell did euer beget that Galeacius should keepe such flaxe in his house and conuerse so many yeares together domestically with them and yet abstaine from scorching of them Wherein I first taxe that your rash iudgement you hauing forgotten that of our Sauiour Nelite iudicare non iudicabimini c. Iudge not Matth 7. 1. and yee shall not be iudged This your headlong censure putteth me in minde of as wicked a one which yee vsed against that most Reuerend man and Martyr of God Bishop Craumer as if he should haue poysoned himself and this you say to take away credit from a very credible Triumph pag. 14â— num 22. Fox his Acts and Monum relation which is that your cruell fire could not burne the heart of that blessed man when it was cast into the same A like you calumniate when you make Mr. Mason a Fulsarie as though hee had cited some vnautentike records touching the Ordinations of the Bishops of the Church of England but Mr. Flud I may tell you that formy satisfaction when I came to the Church of England I saw them by the appointment of the Lord of Canterburie his Grace in Mr. Costines office neere the D. Commons Where also of late certaine of your Priests of the Clinke did diligently view pervse and consider the same that so for the time to come you may if it please you with your Mr. Fitzherbert D Smith some others leaue to harpe any longer of that lying stringe as though there were no true ordination in the Church of England I dare boldly make profer to enter into dispute with you or any of your side and vndertake The Ordination of Bishops in the Church of England more Orthodoxe then that of the Popes to shew that the Ordination vsed in the Church of England is more Orthodoxe and sound then the Ordination of your Popes themselues in your Roman See is or hath been of later times and yet neither will I nor can I denie but that there is in your Church true Ordination and Priesthood howsoeuer most egregiously infected with your superstitions But not to adde more of this seeing you idly tell vs of so great a miracle done in our Church in the person of Galeacius giue me leaue to tell you truly and to purpose of some such kinde of miracles done in your Church which you would fasten so willingly vpon vs. You inforce vs Mr. Flud to discouer some of your miracles Are there not great miracles begotten by your Ignatian Gospell here in England that your Priests with iolly Dames should be shut vp in secret places I meane such places as your Priests are The Ignatians and their Fauourites forbeare not in particulars and by name to personate though falsly We therefore are to be excused if conteyning our selues in generalls do not nominate any in particular hid in whilest the Messenger is searching your houses and yet there should be no burning nor scorching of such flaxe Is it not a great miracle that your Priests should sit in secret chambers hearing the Confessions of their female Penitents and yet all be well no flaxe scorched Is it not a great miracle that Priests should whilest their faire Females are confessing vpon their knees behold looke meditate feele with their hands their faire necks stroke their vermilion cheekes of such their Penitents should take their hands into theirs and daily with them and yet be no scorching or burning of such flaxe Is it not a miracle that some of your deuoted Priests should desire to behold the length thicknes c. of some of their fine Dames feete and
profession of a Popish vow of like vertue against sinne 206 Two beasts described 227 236 237. c. Beasts Image 238. 239 Bellarmines eighth Sacrament 107 His contradiction ibid. Basils feigned Masse 296 Brigets visions 297 C True Church worketh not miracles 8 Christ changeth his heart with Catherine 13 A cousening tricke of a Frier with an Energuminisse 26 Certainty of Popish miracles 46. 47 Church customes vary 71 Chrysostome corrupted 81 Churches particular haue erred 109 110. 116. 117 How Christ conuerseth in closets 265. 255. mar Coster his foure places 291 Christines prodigious reuiuing 302 She a redemptresse of Soules out of purgatory ibid. Conuerts from Rome subiect to calumnies 51 Et preface  D Dragons voice 11 Doctrine of diuels 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25 Deuill delighteth with Popish sacred things 27 Diuel dissembles with crosses 106. marg 107 Dispensacion to votaries from Popes 193 Dispensations what manner giuen by Popes 202 Dispensation and declaration how they differ 194 E Equiuocation of an Ignatian 29. 30 Equiuocation casteth acrow into a feuer freed by absolution 231 mar F Who fly to Rome 52 Master Fluds flanderous lying 53. 54 His flattery 55 His idle diuinity 60 His lying 86 His blasphemies 20. 21 22. 23. 166 His skill in numbring 153 His lying 153. Forraine mysterie of the Pope and his confederates 180 181 Feare of Lipsius 48 Of Maldonat 253 A Friers deuise 112 G Ground of Popish nouelties  God tempteth not 215. 216. Gallonius his blaspemy 294. 295 Galeatius defended 132 Gennings his prodigious tooth 320 The prodigie of his miraculous finger 331. 332 His prodigious praying at his death 330. 331 H Hypocrisie of Pope and his 284 Heauens two of Coster 291 I. Ignatians first Librarie in Oxford 40. Ignatians misterie 61. Idolatry about Images 91. 92. 93. True vse of Images 94. 97. Images attired 98 Image crucified 103 Iguatians policy 138. marg Their manner of restitution 177 Their austereliues 189. 190 Indians how conuerted 178 Ignatius his Hobgoblin 64 Best defence for Pope Ione 148 Apaire of Ignatians gulled 310. 311 K A Papist King consumed with lice 132. mar L Lawes of Popes for their Cleargies Celibacy resisted 197 Lawes ancient cashierd by Popes 198 Luthers conflict with the diuell defended 212 Laughing toyes diuerse 222 to 224 Lambe ouercome how 241 Literall interpretation of the Beasts Image by Papists most fond 232. 233. 160. 161 Laikes touch not altar cloths 89 M Miracles cease 11 Maide of Lisbo 14 Miracles no certaine token of the true Church 34. 35 c. 187 Madnesse obiected by Papists 50. 51 Popish miracles 89. 90 Monkes rosted like geese in Purgotory 224 Mariage of Priests apostolicall 285 Manichaisme mooued the Pope to forbid mariage in Priests See Brigets vision 297. 298 Mystery of Church Papists See Preface  Mysterye of the Papist Ignatian 61 Miraculous deliuerauces of the christiane of Bohemia 314. 315 Martyrians and their superstition 327 Pseudo martyrdome 328 Mystery of Church Papists and Communion Recusants preface  N Newtons vision 175 Nerius his ribs miraculous raised 293 Nerius by smell distinguisheth vertues and vices 295 O Opinions touching Antichrist 56 Ordination of Bishops in the Church of England 133 Oathes desperate of Baronius c. 293. 294 P Papists teach doctrines of diuels 16 Periury of an Ignatian Priest 28 Priests deuise miracles 33 Popish prodigies like Panyms wonders 41. 42 Papist Angels their negligence 83. 84 Strange prodigies 127 Popish miracles in Master Fluds phrase 134. 135. 136 Popes forge 150 Proud 143 Popes Turbant interpreted 165 Popes fraud 173 Popish forgeries 182 Popes hardly saued 280 Popish Priests manner of making their Proselites 186 Popish prodigies in England 249. 250 Prophecies of Christ touching Antichrist 251. 279 Parsons brag 25 Popish exorcists their conflicts with ihe diuell 23. 24 R Romes Ineubies 18 Her false fingers 63. 64 Corruptions 129. 130. 131 170. to 173 Romane Empire taken out of the way 238. 239 Roberts the Monke his brag 70 Regulus his Asse maketh the signe of the Crosse 107 mar 131 Relikes counterfet 334 S Stapletons error 38 What is adored at receiuing of the Sacramentes why kneeling 73. 74. 75. Spanish gallants how they adore the Masse Christ. 79 Sixtus Quintus his end 131 Satan doth miracles 157. 815 Spanish souldiers cruelties 179 Sanctity of Popish Preachers 183 Sichems Goddesse fell downe and is stolne 47 Sacrament Christ equiuocateth 90 Is buried 297 Clipped 22 Is consecrated by a possessed woman and is adored 21 Signes of true Christianity 319. 320 T A tale of Carmelite Monkes 82 A false tale of a Iew. 88 The tale of Pope Ione examined 143. to 148 V Vasquez his idle conceit about transsubstantiation 3. Variance in popish Doctours  Vanitie of popish tablets 112. 113. Virgin Mary to bee blessed 125. Adored by Papists as a mediatresse 139. 140. 155. 168. Vision of Fryer Leo. 155. mar That votaries may marrie proued clearely out of popish principles 191 to 211 A votary sinnes in keeping his vow of celibacie 205. Popish votaries endes of their vowes 205. Vowes made for an ill end of no force 207. Votaries vowes idle 191. to 213 Viegas his blasphemie 236. Vision of Briget for marriage of Priests 287. Append 297. Visions against Poperie seq 304. Visions prodigious 307. Visions of Briget against the Church of Rome 299. 308. W Master Whitaker defended 218. The wound of one of the beasts heads cured 241. Women in the habits of men 145. Waterson Pseudomartyr 325. The courteous READER be pleased to mend these errates or the like PAge 12. vordicus read veridicus Pag same marg lib. 2. read lib. 1. Pag. 15. marg Langius read Lazius Pag. 81. honour read horrous Pag. 101. premacio read supremacie Pag. same marg mast read mart Pag. 104. with Father read with the Father Pag. 139. marg Leo 1. read Leo 10. Pag. 146. breadlesse read beardlesse
consider how both Weston Dibdale and himselfe and diuers others were deluded by this Mainye and amongst many of their delusions none is worthyer of laughter then that Mainye would sometimes pretend that the Virgin Mary with a great companie of Saints and Angells did appeare vnto him in the chamber at which his words presently graue Father Edmunds with his Priests would not onely ducke but euen prostrate themselues to the ground and there adore Mainyes imaginations At an other time would Mainye pretend that all the deadly sinnes did present themselues vnto him in most vgly shapes and then forsooth with no small horrour would some of the standers-by tremble then would they knocke their brests then holy Edmundes begins to inueigh against sinne especially against pride appearing like a Peacocke with which if euer any man liuing vpon earth he was most egregiously in all hypocrisie and dissimulation infected tainted corrupted But the whole proceedings of Edmundes and his Priests with their Minions and Energumenisses is largely and learnedly set downe and confuted by Doctour Harsenet the worthy Bishop of Chichester and therefore I cease to relate any more of these Ignatian fables referring the Reader to the same Booke As the popish Exorcists doe euer seeke testimonies from their indiueled persons for confirmation of their Such a kinde of conflict and coniuâ—ing is vsed by the coniurers themselues See Austen de ciuit Dei lib. 10. cap 9 and none of the Pontificians can deny but that Magicians can command the deuills in like sort read Victoria in lus prelection of Magick q. 6. heresies euen so that counterfeit and seeming conflict and warfare which passeth betwixt the Deuills and their Exorcistes the Exorcist coniuring the deuills trembling the Exorcist commanding the deuill obeying not to depart not to go out of the possessed but to wander vp and downe like a come aloft Iacanapes within the lists of the possessed bodie sometimes in the face then in the tongue after in the throat anon in the great toe by and by in those parts which a modest pen may not mention and yet there and then will the holy Exorcists fingers signe with their crosses to driue the deuill thence all these their dealings I say do euer tend to this proiect that the standers-by may be perswaded of some point of poperie or of the Priests power ouer the deuills which their power is so great and powerfull that as yet neither Edmunds Campian Sherwin powerfull Cornelius of ould and of late Wodward Kempe Warmington Colington Hill Walpole Father Thomas with diuers others could euer cleare any one either possessed person or seeming so to be Witnesse their sundry and late attempts in Hampshire in London in the Clinke in Bread streete yea the holy Dame Lucia at Barbican at Hygate in her Spittell-nunrye hath been with her Ignatians and Ignatianed Priests and her Nunnes very forward in this kinde but her assaults haue proued nothing else but towe and powder for neither shee nor hir champions haue been able to deliuer any or to cleare any This is only the comfort which such poore soules and hypocrites receiue from them whether it be here in England or at Sichem or at Loretto or Sancta Croce in Hierusalem at Rome that they are or seeme most cruelly to be tormented and afflicted and this especially in their holiest places and sanctuaries as at Loretto at Sichem where it seemeth the deuills if any be there haue greatest power because there they doe most afflict the possessed there they doe most scorne the Exorcists there they doe most blaspheme against their religion and yet there will they not out despising scorning deriding their nayles their crosses their reliques their lyes their trumperies That I speake truth herein there was of late an Eye example a man of worshipfull Mr. Bluett estate and faire reuenues who either was or seemed to be indiueled Alas poore man how often hath he been exorcised in this Kingdom by Francis Kempe by Philip Wodwarde by sundry others but especially by Mr Warmington who hath often promised that he would make the deuill speake in Mr â—luett and as this wretched man hath had many sweating combats here in England so it were lamentable to relate the tormentings true or seeming which he hath had at Loretto Sichem Lile and elsewhere beyond the seas and all the consolation which he hath found is to returne worse as though the Popish Sanctuaries added strength to his deuils and farther from hope of deliuerance then when he went And yet our Popish Thrasonicall Priests will bragg and boast that they can like a tennis-ball or like a dogg in a sheete tosse and canuase a deuill in a possessed woman and driue him from tongue to toe from toe to finger to her great affliction and their owne small ease Being in Spaine in the companie of Robert Parsons I haue more then once heard the man impudently affirme and desperately promise that he would vndertake The like bragâ— others haue made most vainely wherein they shew themselues ministers of that King which is termed by Daniel Impudens facie and hath os blasphemum Reuelat. to make the deuill speake in any Bishop Archbishop or Arch heretike in England and yet the man was so full of spirituall magnanimitie that after hee had Caualier-like ranged vp and downe this kingdom for a short while for feare of Tyburne he voyded the kingdome A great ouersight surely in the man that being here he attempted no such matter for surely if he had been so powerfull he might at the very barre haue had store of Arch heretikes so esteemed by him vpon whom he might haue shewed his coniuring power But that the courteous Reader may well conceiue what credit is to be giuen to these Exorcists their cobats with their deuils I will here relate a true historie A certain Fryer-Priest there was in Italie who vndertooke to exorcise a young maide either seeming or indeed possessed but such was this Fryers manner of exorcising her that not once not twice but very often euen day by day he would so well accord with the maide that he would haue carnall knowledge of her bodie and yet by no meane could shee agree with the Fryer or endure him when he would take flagellum DaemonuÌ„ the deuills scourge a booke of their exorcismes into his hands for then would shee so roare and make such vgly faces against him as if Michael the Archangell had been combatting with her and if any here aske how it came to passe that the deuill in this young maide did not reueale the sinnes of this Fryer mary thus the case stood The Fryer would euer haue to doe with the maide after his exorcising and coniuring of her and before he would vndertake to coniure her againe he would be assured to go to confession cry peccaui the which he did exceeding often as I haue been most credibly informed from A notable cousening tricke of a Fryer with an