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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09847	A gagge for the Pope, and the Iesuits: or The arraignement, and execution of Antichrist Shevving plainely, that Antichrist shall be discouered, and punished in this vvorld: to the amasement of all obstinate papists.		1624 (1624)	STC 20111; ESTC S120961	58,414	88

of Queene Maries raigne after three yeares bur●all and God knowes whether their bones or no. Such things are written of Bonners crueltie besides the Stories in the Acts and Monuments that the inhumanitie exceedeth all the extrauagancies of Heathenish Tyrants The other day when Fryer Paul of Venice could not bee caught in person they burnt him in Rome by pourtraiture and sent twise to murther him in priuate Shall I name the mischiefes against Queene Katherine Parre in the latter end of Henry the eight by the workings of the Bishops especially Gardiner Shall I recite the murthers of the two Kinges of France the Prince of Orange and divers others who seemed to oppose their disor●ered proceedings It were a wonder to tell you how Queene Elizabeth the wonder of all times escaped their malice but to end with the Powder plot it must make an end of this Controuersie that the Pope of Rome is a meere Tyrant in earth and the Doctrine of Rome most opposite to the Gospell of Iesus Christ Humilitie last of all is such a marke of the true Church Humilitie of God that in diuers places you haue the very garments of a Prophet named Elias vesture Isaiahs nakednesse Ieremies du●geon Amos frocke Christs seameles coat Iohn Baptists Cammells hayre and such like But the Pope must be a God on earth and the Cardinalls take place of all Princes that are not absolute Monarkes Their Carosses are so sumptirous and stately that they haue foure veluet chayres within and sixe stately Moiles without and how they ride with publicke Curtezans to the Conclaue is well knowne Baptista Fulgosus recordeth Pride of Rome that Peter Riarus first a Fryer Minorite afterward Cardinall to Sixtus the fourth had Gownes of cloth of Gold Couerings and Tikes of Beds sutable and all other Furniture of the best Silke There was a Feast made at Rome by a Cardinall to Elenor of Aragon as shee went to marry Hercules de Est Duke of Ferrara which lasted seauen houres with all varietie of Musicke and delicate Acates which had also playes and dances Another Cardinall had a Concubine called Tiresia whose Chappinos were embroydred with Pearle and precious Stones to an inestimable value But what neede I goe so farre as Rome to instance this Inditement of opposing the Word of God against them when I can name you such Prelates in England that for pride and wealth exceed any Cardinalls of Rome and liued as if they would tell vs plainely Antichrist was discouered and there was neither heauen nor hell to bee thought vpon but the present brauery of the world and the magnificence of a Courtly and maiesticke life In the time of William Rufus you had an Otho Bishop of Baieux and Earle of Kent In the time of Henry the second you had a Thomas of Canterbury that affrighted the King with Excommunication In the time of Richard the first you had a Bishop of Durham who gaue ten thousand pound for an Earledome In the dayes of King Iohn Stephen Langhton opposed the Maiestie of England In the time of Henry the fift the Bishop of Winchester lent the King twentie thousand pound In the time of Henry the sixt Cardinall Beuford was infamed for pride and wealth In the time of Henry the eight Woolsey writ Ego rex meus and so exceeded in magnificence and greatnesse that all Europe wondered at the prosperitie of our countrey and yet repined that such a Prince would endure the ambition and impietie of a Prelate To conclude Cardinall Poole was cosen to Queene Mary and therefore endured for his magnificence and pompe but yet all these belonged to the Church and should haue beene Preachers of the Word of God but they proued Wolues in Sheepes clothing and the humbled soule made this Vse of their liues that Antichrist was discouered and so beng the mayne Aduersary must needes oppose the Word of God and doe contrary things to truth and Christianitie And thus much of his first Inditement The second Inditement of Antichrist for teaching The second inditement mens traditions and foisting into the doctrine of the Church both Heresies errors and absurdities BEfore I goe any further let mee answere certaine obiections which I should haue done in my former Inditement namely what greater humillity can there bee then for the Capuchines and Friers Mendicants to refuse and despise the vanities of the world and bee contented with pouertie disgrace scornes and neuer-heard of humiliation insomuch that Princes haue euen pricked their proud swelling hearts and let out the corrupt blood bringing them downe to prostitution and contentment in Vnsauerie pouertie as you saw Duke Iogenx became father Angelo Faelix of Sauoy thrust himselfe into a Monasterie Charles the fift forsooke the world and left amongst all his ●ewells as principall his whippe of small cordes wherewith hee lashed his sides and many other Princes finished their dayes in Religious houses I answer with the Prophet who required these things at your hands and when it is the best humiliation it is contaminated and defiled with wrong circumstances and though it tend to the worshipping of Angels it is but diuelish and Colos 2. 23. vnprofitable Againe concerning outward garments coules weedes haire or hempen girdells penance whipping fasting Kings and such like tormenting the flesh is it any other then the priests of Baall cutting and lashing themselues then ●dolatrous sacrifices wherein the Heathen practised the shedding of blood and continued with Monstrous murthers and Diuelish shapes to the people Rent your Ioel. hearts and not your garments saith the Prophet and when you fast or mourne hang not downe your heades like Bulrusshes or doe as Hipocrites doe sayth Christ Last of all concerning good workes and releeuing the poore which they tearme Charity What profit can Math. 6. such things doe where is presumption of merit what good can they procure when they are full of corruption why doe you plead for pouerty when you grow so rich your selues and fill your treasuries with all manner of gifts from liuing and dying men what talke you of religion When you minde nothing but pollicies of State and to trouble all Christendome with deuises as for the outward forme of good deedes I will bee bold to say wee haue had amongst our selues more Colledges builded Almes-houses erected Chappels edified Churches repaired Poore relecued Prisons visited and Lands giuen to pious vses and that within these fiftie yeeres then in two hundreth yeeres before let them name what Countrie they please and thus much for the Obiections now to my purpose in hand To make you a Collection of all the deuises and tr●● peries in Poperie were to make a rope of sand and begin a worke which could haue no end For this wodden wheele hath beene so often turned that the Coggs are worne asunder and either they must erect a new frame or inuent a new superstition For all the old is discouered and in a Booke called the