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A14601	A looking-glasse for papists to see their owne deformities in matters of faith, and religion: and for formall protestants; to make them more carefull of the true profession of Iesus Christ: lest at any time they fall away from the sinceritie of the Gospell of Christ. With a briefe history of the Popes liues, from the first three hundred yeeres after Christ, vntill Paul the fift.	R. W., minister in Norfolk.; Woods, Richard, minister of Frettenham, attributed name.; Wrathall, Richard, attributed name.; Burges, John, 1561?-1635.	1621 (1621)	STC 24912; ESTC S119311	60,513	116

alleadgeth that Bernard sayth in a certaine place It seemeth O good Iesus that all the vniuersity of Christians haue conspired against thee and they are the chiefe of the conspiration which obtaine the Primacie of the Church Anastasius sate one yeere Adrian the fourth sate fiue yeeres and sixe moneths he would not goe to the Church of Lateran to be consecrated vntill first Arnold Bishop of Brixe was cast out of the Towne who opposed himselfe against the administration of Ciuill things and Temporall Sword which the Clergie had vsurped Hee was angry with the Emperour for holding his left stirrope at his lighting Hee stirred vp all Italie to rebell against him for receiuing homage of his owne Bishops He was troubled of the Romans for their auncient Liberties Iohn of Salisburie Bishop of Chartyrs was a worthy man Hee reproued many things in the Clergie and Popes and being very familiar with Adrian he was heard to say to Iohn That there were many Popes which rather succeeded Romulus in murther then Saint Peter in feeding the sheepe He excommunicated William King of Sicilie and Pouill Finally he was choaked with a flie he sayd the life of a Pope was most miserable 1154. Alexander the third sate about two and twenty yeers He was chosen by one halfe of the Cardinalls and Victor on the other side and so continued a Schisme of two Popes twenty yeeres euen all the dayes of Alexander For after Victor came Paschalis the third then Calixt lastly Innocent vnto these all the Bishops of the Empire were sworne Alexander granted the auncient Liberties to the Romans He caused all Italie to rebell against the Emperour hee troade vpon the Emperours necke Hee defended Becket against Henry the second King of England 1160. Hee seeking the Emperours death while he was busied with the Turke sent a Letter to the Turke with the liuely Image of the King to seeke to slay him The Emperour with his Chaplaine on a hote day going to wash him was surprized by an ambush of the Sultans and brought before the Turke where he fained himselfe to be the Emperours Chaplaine but the Turke shewing him his Image and the Popes Letters he confessed the truth and desired fauor at length the Turke sent him away vnder certaine conditions agreed betwixt them The Emperour returning assigned a day at Noremberg and assembled his Court declared the Pope Alexander his treason shewing his Letters and the Image Briefly euery one promised his helpe to pay his ransome and to doe iustice vpon the said Alexander The Pope vnderstanding his treason was come to light and what the Emperour intended against him he fled from Rome in the habite of his coole and came to Venice The Venetians maintained the Pope The Emperour sent Embassadours to demand Alexander finally he sent his sonne Otho the youth led with his Company gaue battell he lost the victory and was taken prisoner which the Pope seeing would not agree with the Emperour except he came to Venice and receiued the meanes he would offer The Emperour to helpe his sonne came to Venice The Pope would not absolue him of excommunication vntill he presented himselfe at the doore of Saint Markes Church When he came thither the Pope commanded him in the presence of al the people to cast himselfe vpon the ground and demand pardon which he doing the Pope set his foot vpon the Emperours necke and pressing it downe sayd Thou shalt goe vpon the Aspe and Basiliske and tread vnder thy feete the Lyon and the Dragon The Emperour answered This was not said to thee but to Peter But the Pope stepping againe vpon his neck answered Both to me and to Peter The Emperour fearing some danger held his peace and so was absolued and vpon conditions agreed Estate of the Church and Plat. Now let the world iudge whether this be Christs Vicar Peters true Successour a seruant of seruants or a Luciferian proude Pope the sonne of perdition and Antechrist himselfe that ●itteth in the Temple of God and boasteth himselfe aboue all that is called God 1180. Lucius the third sate foure yeeres and two moneths while he went about to expell the Consuls and Patricij of Rome he was cast out and withdrew himselfe to Venice Such as tooke his part had their eyes put out others were set vpon Asses with their faces towards the tayle and ignominiously handled Platin. Hee dyed at Veron Vrban the third sate one yeere and sixe months Sup. Gregorie the eight sate fiftie seauen dayes Clement the third sate three yeeres and sixe months he made a Decretall against all such Priests as celebrated Masse in woodden vessells and with common bread Heere is nothing respected but outward things and the commandement of God neglected Note againe common bread was now in vse in the Lords Supper Celestine the third sate sixe yeeres Hee crowned the Emperour with his feet sitting in his Pontifical Chaire and holding the Imperiall Crowne betweene his feete and the Emperour bowing downe his head and likewise the Empresse receiued it from his feet and immediately hee kickes it off againe to the ground in token that he had power if he so deserue to depose him The Cardinalls standing round about reuerently tooke it vp and set it on their heads againe Baronius Ranulph Mysterie of Iniquitie Innocent the third sate eighteene yeeres he absolued the Princes from their oath to the Emperour caused them to choose Otho the fourth and after excommunicated Otho also This Pope added a very dangerous pestilence vnto the Articles of the Faith that is Transubstantiation as a thirteenth Article of the Faith See the Decretalls Tit. 1. De Summa Trinitate fide Apostolica cap. Firmiter credimus This Decretall was made in the yeere of Christ 1215. and promulged in the Counsell of Lateran Hee made another Decree of the Cannon of the Masse and commanded it to be receiued as from the Apostles Thus they place in the roome of the doctrine of the Apostles their owne Decrees Hee also commaunded confession in the Priests eare at the least once a yeare See Decretal Tit. 38. cap. Omnes vtriusque sexus He dyed at Pice Anno 1216. Honorius the third sate tenne yeeres and seauen moneths he excommunicated the Emperour hee raised the French against the Earle of Thelossa for fauouring Albingenses He was denyed in France the exactions of two Prebends in euery Church and two Monkes in euery Abbey 1216. Hee confirmed the order of the Iacobines which his predecessors had refused to do and confirmed the order of the Mendicants He commanded the Hoste should be kept in a place by it selfe and well inclosed When the Hoste was lifted vp the people to do reuerence and bowe to it and also when it was carried to the sicke He confirmed the order of Saint Francis Fasci temporum Thus the fulnesse of infection is come into the Church by the foure plagues of begging Monkes Gregorie the ninth sate foureteene yeeres and three moneths This Pope heaped vp Decretalls

Nailes to the end those dead Idols might be adored by the Christians Before his death was such an Eclipse of the Sunne as was neuer seene Massius Plat. As he was preparing an army by Sea against the Turke the Romans being in troubles and seditions he was so vexed in minde that hee dyed with griefe Anno 1362. Vrban the fift sate eight yeeres He sent a Legat into Italie with full power and so repressed the Vicounts and other Gouernours of Townes threatning great losses if they would not submit themselues vnder the obedience of the Roman Church Armacan a learned man and Bishop of Ireland published Conclusions against Friers teaching that it was a villainous thing for a Christian to begge without neede Volater He sayd he could not finde foure Bibles in Oxford Iesuites began by Iohn Columbau and Francis Vincent of Burgony Volat Sabell Iohn Wickecliffe of Oxford in England a rare Theologian he touched liuely the abuses of the Popedome against begging Friers and Monkes hee had King Edward to friend The Pope as he returned into France dyed at Marcellus not without suspition of poyson Sabell Charles the fift Emperour and King of France caused the Scripture to be translated into French 1366. Gregorie the eleuenth sate at Auignon seauen yeeres and fiue moneths Many of the townes of Italy reuolted from his obedience At the perswasion of a Nunne he pronounced sentence of Interdiction against the Florentines the first Authors and seised all the townes about them and made warre vpon them Naucler Gregorie dyed being tormented with an intollerable paine in the bladder Plat. 1378. Vrban the sixt sate eleuen yeeres he was a cruell man of whom by prayer nothing could be obtayned Crautzius He being come to the Popedome sought to reuenge himselfe he was forsaken of his Cardinalls as a false Pope and Clement the seauenth chosen Clement the seauenth sate in Auignon fifteene yeeres and thus beganne the two and twentith Schisme of two Popes 29. yeeres vntill the Counsell of Constance the one cursing and warring with the other that about 200000. were miserably slaine and drowned Clement was chosen three months after Vrban Vrban made thirtie new Cardinals in one day and displaced the old and put them in prison Hee was vnder the safe keeping of the King of Naples for his pride certayne dayes at the length desiring that hee might goe to new Cesarea for his health hee was set at libertie where hee gathered forces against the King But Raymundus the Generall of the Kings forces Vrban comming with all his Court to the next shore he shipped them and brought the Pope to Genua and of seauen Cardinals being taken at new Cesarea putting fiue of them into sackes he drowned them in the Sea because he thought they fauoured Clement The Pope Vrban succeeding vnhappily in his Popedome dyed the eleuenth yeere of his Popedome few lamenting his death as a rude and execrable person Plattina Theodor. Cerinth The waters and fountaines were poysoned whereof he dyed and all his nobility Naucler These two Popes sent terrible Bulls into diuers parts of the world and so sowed defamatorie bookes wherein they named one another Antechrist Schismatickes Heretickes tyrants traytors theeues vniust sowers of tares and children of Belial Iohn de Ligni in a Treatise in fauour of Vrban and the Abbot of Saint Vast the Kings Chancellor of France in fauour of Clement That the Pope is Antechrist no better witnesses then themselues Clement dyed at Auignon 1394. Matthias a Bohemian proueth the Pope to be Antechrist and Friers heretickes Walter Brut In likewise many Noble men in England maintained Wickecliffes doctrine The Lord Montague Lord Clifford Earle of Salisburie Swinderby a priest wrote against Transubstantiation 1387. Boniface the ninth sate at Rome fifteene yeeres Hee was chosen after Vrban He made a Law whereby hee obtayned the seigniorie of all the world that is that no Parson should be promoted to any Benefice before hee had payed to the Apostolique Chamber all the reuenewes of the first yeere Hee made great marchandize of Indulgences and sold them for money Bennet the thirteenth sate at Auignon one and twentie yeeres He gaue to Charles the sixt King of France the tenth part of all Ecclesiasticall goods to make him his friend and to diuide the spoyle And as hee was in his Country Catalongue in a strong Castle called Pauiscole maintaining himselfe the true Vicar of Iesus Christ hee was condemned many wayes by the authority of the sayd Counsell Finally dying at Pauiscole he commanded his Cardinals that presently they should choose another in his place and they elected one Giles Menios and called him Clement the eight Plattina This Pope made Cardinalls at the instigation of Abphonsus King and did all that a Pope should doe But after Martin 1. had agreed with Alphonsus by his commandement Giles renounced all his right to the Popedome and was declared Bishop of Maiorque and the Cardinalls made by him willingly renounced their dignities Innocent the seauenth was chosen after Boniface the ninth sate at Rome two yeeres he being Cardinall was wont to taxe the negligence and fearefulnesse of the former Popes for he said it came to passe through their sloath that the Church of Rome and the destruction of the whole Christian Common-wealth was not yet cut off But when he came to the Papacie he followed the steppes of Vrban and Boniface whom being a priuate man hee had taxed Hee warred with the Citizens of Rome The Anti-pope Benedict reclayming Plattina With the neglect of his sepulcher his memory perished Hee had a care that Nicholas the fift should be restored to his Popedome Plat. 1404. Gregorie the twelfth sate eight yeeres he was chosen after the death of Innocent and an oath taken to yeeld if the profit of the Church required it but hee would not though hee promised before a Notarie before he was confirmed Pope 1407. Benet and Gregory were perswaded by Charles the sixt Emperour for the good and vnion of the Church to giue ouer their rights Benet gaue no answere but dismissed the Ambassadour without farewell and for feare to be constrained prouided for himselfe A Counsell was held at Pice to vnite the vniuersall Church whereunto Gregorie and Benet were cited but had no care to appeare but derided it So at the said Counsell Gregory and Benet were both deposed one called Alexander was instituted so were three Popes together but Gregorie fled to Austrich c. To their deposition all Christian Nations consented except a part of Spaine and the Count Arnimacke and the King of Scots who fauoured Benet Alexander the fift sate eight moneths He was a learned man a worthy and a godly man hee was chosen with the consent of all the Cardinalls in the Counsell of Pice Thus Gregorie and Bennet not giuing ouer were three Popes at once Alexander was so liberall to the poore and to men worthy of his charity as within a while he left nothing to himselfe Whereupon