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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07880	The Popes funerall Containing a plaine, succinct, and pithy reply, to a pretensed answere of a shamelesse and foolish libell, intituled, The forerunner of Bels downfall. VVhich is nothing else indeede, (as the indifferent reader shall preceiue by the due peruse thereof,) but an euident manifestation of his owne folly; with the vtter confusion of poperie, and all popish vassals throughout the Christian world.	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1605 (1605)	STC 1825; ESTC S101478	72,528	132

viz. to propine vnto them a cup of dangerous Letharge which pittifully annoyeth the power sensitiue almost vtterly quencheth right reasoÌ„ that so they shuld neither be able to discerne truth from falshood nor to behold the bright light shining cleerly before their faces On the one side it grieued them aboue measure vexed them at their very hearts to heare continuall out-cryes against them for the non-answering of my bookes On the other side it wounded galled and deepely goared their coÌ„sciences that they were not able to withstaÌ„d or gainsay my strong reasons euident proofes inuincible demonstrations Being thus perplexed and at their wits end what to say or do they resolued to publish a counterfeit and pretensed answere rather then none at all so to stay in some sort at the least the outcryes exclamations of the people against them And to the ende their couzonage and legierdemaine should not be espyed if that were a thing possible to bee done and effected their scurrilous Libell which containeth onely fiue Chapters in all is fraught with nothing else for the foure first but with notorious lyes antichristian speeches vain bragges railing words couzoning trickes ridiculous asseverations most slaunderous and false accusations Yea of fiue partes one only is reserued for their pretensed answere to my booke I say of their pretensed answere because all the Iesuits or at the least the best of them aswell beyond the seas as in this kingdome gaue their best aduise for the effecting thereof Now if any man demaund the cause why they bestir themselues so much waste so much pretious time spend so many Chapters in things meerely impertinent and plaine by-matters mee thinketh I can not answere that question more fitly then by relating their owne words in their scurrilous and shamelesse Libell albeit by them intended to an other purpose These are their expresse words If he be such a sincere writer as he protesteth so consideratiue and respectiue in the penning of his bookes that no suspition of misreporting or corruptioÌ„ can be iustly fastned vpon him then doth it euidently followe that we haue great dissentions in matters of Faith and that our Doctors bee the bane of Catholique doctrine and then no maruell if hee make challenge vppon challenge and remaine vnanswered when as not onely our enemies but also those that we take for our friends and rely vpon stand in open field against vs and haue as it were sworne our destruction Thus writeth the Libeller vnder which name I euer vnderstand the Iesuites and all Iesuited persons whose heads wits concurred in deuising the same Againe a little after he hath these words the matter as he handleth it seemeth so odious that some no question condemne vs highly vpon his report and my selfe was since the comming forth of his booke assaulted with this very question so markeable it is in euery mans eye Thus prateth the godlesse Libeller euen to his owne shame and confusioÌ„ though vnwittingly Out of whose words I note sundry very necessarie memorable points for the true comfort of the Christian Reader First that of force and meere necessitie it must be graunted that the Papists haue great dissentions among them euen in matters of Faith Secondly that their very best doctors be the bane of the Pope and the Popes religion Thirdly that it is no maruaile that I make challenge vpon challenge and stil remaine vnanswered Fourthly that those doctors whom they take for their friends and doe relie vpon stand in open field against them as if they were their sworne enemies Fiftly that many Papists begin to stagger and to stand in doubt of the popish Religion and that by reading of my bookes as by an Instrument vnder God in that behalfe Sixthly that the libeller himselfe hath bene assaulted with that which hath beene gathered out of my bookes Seuenthly that the doctrine deliuered in my books is verie markable in euery mans eye Blessed be our Lord God for all his mercies and fauours to this our Church of England Wee see here gentle Reader that the Papists generally euen the Iesuits and Seminarie-Priests begin to feare the ruine and downe-fall of Poperie One thing the Reader must heere remember that the first foure notes or obseruations are respectiue must be vnderstood conditionally viz. that if the Papists doe not confute my bookes effectually then must they all and euery of them perforce and of necessitie be truly verified of the papists of their popish religioÌ„ It therfore standeth the Papists vpon to answere me both directly and soundly for else destruction of necessitie must come vpon them and breake the necke of their Poperie This confession God be praised I haue by insoluble reasons and euident demonstrations extorted from their owne pennes But gentle Reader they will neuer answere my bookes till the worlds end because they cannot and consequently euen by their owne free confession which is to be admired Poperie must haue a downefal the sooner the better Amen the case is cleere and evident euen to euery child For they that haue bene buzzing about the answering of my bookes these many yeares and confesse freely withall that the life of their Poperie depends vppon the confutation of my bookes and thereupon haue assaid all meanes they could deuise haue no doubt made choyse of those small parcels with which they thought themselues most able to deale VVherein for al that they haue done nothing else indeede but onely laid open to the viewe of the world their great malice and extreame folly VVhich if I bee not deceiued euery indifferent Reader will affirme with mee so soone as hee hath perused this my briefe plaine discourse so briefe and succinct as none I thinke will deeme it tedious so sound and sincere as none can iustly and truly reproue it and so plaine facile and perspicuous as euery childe may vnderstand the same For if I doe not soundly pithily and effectually confute the Libeller yea euen turne him out of his skin I will be content and well pleased to lose my life for my paines And let the Reader thus perswade himselfe bcause euident reason conuinceth it to be so that if the Iesuits and Iesuited Papists are not able to make good against mee those sillie snatches and pieces of my bookes whereof themselues haue made the choyse that much lesse are they able to confute my whole workes No no they doe in effect confesse so much while they dare neither answere any one booke of all nor yet any one Chapter wholy heere and there an odde piece or sentence I protest vnto the gentle Reader that I partly blush on their behalfe Garnet the prouinciall of the Iesuits in England some yeares agoe was coÌ„sulted with his aduise required that some course might be taken for the answering of my bookes because their silence in that behalfe brought no smal detriment to their Religion The good father hauing on

among many others are his owne words Quid. n. facilius quaÌ„ diliges proximum tuum for what is more easie theÌ„ thou shalt loue thy neighbour Yea a thousaÌ„d histories as S. Chrisost. saith are contained in the Scriptures which the meanest simplest cannot but vnderstand Which thing our Iesuite Bellarmine did truly obserue when he affirmeth the same S. Chrisostome where hee saith the Scriptures are easy to be vnderstood to speak only of the historie such like things So then our sottish doltish Iesuite may go sighing and sobbing to his brethren and tel theÌ„ in sad earnest that it is better for him to sit stil then to rise vp fal as he hath already done CHAP. V. Of the condigne merit of workes THE Libeller hath so long pleased himself in his coozening tricks and in his bewitching of the simple ignorant Papists that he bosteth therof and presumeth to preuaile vnto the end but by the power of God I shal proue him such a noddy before I leaue him that all the world wil deeme him worthy to weare in his forhead a cox-combe for his foolishnes and on his back a fox-tayle for his badge Disputing saith our shameles Libeller against the condigne merits of works he citeth this senteÌ„ce of a Catholike writer Iosephus Angles Eodem etiam modo c. as other holy Doctors also considering after the same maner the natural value only of good works and perceiuing that it is exceeding far distant from the value and iust estimation of eternall life said wisely That our works are not meritorious nor worthy of eternall life yet for the couenaÌ„t and promise made vnto vs the good works of man with the helpe of grace are worthy of eternall life and equall with it which for all that that promise of God which is frequent in Scripture set aside were altogether vnworthy of so great a reward Thus doth the shamelesse Libeller recite my words and that done hee proceedeth in this maner in these words Although nothing be contained hurtfull to Catholike doctrine yet Bell by his Alchymisticall arte of changing truth into falshood can gather out matter sufficiently against vs. Now mark the answer and both his knauery and folly will appeare The Answere I answere first that Robert Parsons that trayterous Iesuite whome I challenge to bee the penner of the shamelesse Libel is a most notorious lyar and malicious corrupter of my Authors I proue it because in the very beginning of that only Doctors words of whome Parsons made choyce before all the rest hee hath changed the first word which hee perceiued to strike him dead to giue the Pope a mortall wouÌ„d for where the Popish Fryer and Bishop Iosephus Angles hath these words All other holy Doctors the Libeller hath these words As other holy Doctors placing the word as for the word all What a trechery is this Parsons committeth the murder and chargeth an other man with the fact Hee telleth me of changing truth into falshood which hee neither is nor euer shall be able to proue and yet doeth himselfe change so much trueth into falshood vse so many coozening tricks as I am very weary in relating a small part therof All other holy Doctors sayth Iosephus Angles As other holy Doctors sayth Parsons Diabolus mendax est pater eius Parsons our shamelesse lyar impudent Libeller not able to indure the sound of their holy Friar and reuerend Bishop when hee affirmeth all holy Doctors to be against their holy Pope his late Romish religioÌ„ deemed it his best course to change the word all into the word as that so the Reader might bee bewitched with his legierdemaine and not able to behold the truth But Iosephus Angles telleth vs plainly that all other holy Doctors teach the very same doctrine Marke well gentle Reader for Christs sake for the sauing of thine own soule for my life my soule I dare gage in this quarrell the Iesuite is at his non plus condemned in his owne conscience and neuer able to defend the cause which he hath takeÌ„ in hand The Papists are so impudent that they affirme their late Romish religion to be the old Religion and Catholike doctrine And with this most shamelesse and impudent asseueratioÌ„ they haue a long time seduced and bewitched a great part of the Christian world But this very questioÌ„ of condigne merits of works which the Libeller snatched at but durst not for his lugges answere directly to it will make their coozening tricks their legierdemaine so manifest and so vnfold their iuggling and so lay open the nakednesse of late Popery that all the world may perceiue the doctrine which I deliuer which is also the doctrine of the Church of England to be not the new Religion as many silly soules do think but the old Roman Religion from which the late Bishops of Rome by little little haue swarued and the true ancient Catholike faith The doctrine which the Church of England maintayneth and my selfe defends is not a new Religion as the Papists falsely beare the world in hand but the olde ancient Christian Catholike Romane ReligioÌ„ reformed refined and purged from superstitions errors and heresies which by peece-meale haue crept into the Church Would God the Papists durst once answer my books directly that so the combat for the triall of this controuersy might be foughten valiantly But they are cowards they dare not do it Secondly that when the Libeller saith Nothing brought is hurtfull to Catholike doctrine by which words he euer vnderstandeth late Romish Religion he sheweth himself to be an impudent lyar with a shamelesse brazen face For Iosephus Angles doth not only tel the Pope and in him all his popish vassals that the best works of all considered in their owne nature and natural value are vnworthy of eternall life but also marke well my words that the best works of all euen with the helpe of Gods grace and the assistance of the holy Ghost are altogether vnworthy of eternall life if Gods promise free acceptation be set apart Where I wish the reader to marke seriously these words prorsus indigna altogether vnworthie which are not mine but the Fryers and are most emphaticall against the late Romish Religion I proued this point of doctrine both by the Scriptures fathers best approued Popish writers yea euen by the verdict of Cardinall Bellarmine himselfe But the Libeller durst not aduenture to encounter me and to grapple with my doctrine I wil now adde some few sentences out of Bellarmine which afore I did not once touch The first sentence At vt bono operi debeatur merces ex iustitio conuentio vel promissio necessaria est non n. tenetur vnus alterius obsequium acceptare nisi coÌ„uentio interuenerit Deus autem non promisit mercedem vita aeternae nisi per Christi gratiaÌ„ regeneratis et adoptatis But

Well gentle Reader wilt thou know the trueth They haue no answere to my books and therfore do they publish none And if they will needs stand vpon this poynt that they haue an answere in store but still suppresse it for vnknowne causes I must bee so bolde with their grauities as to tell them in sad earnest that their answere is such a silly one as they are ashamed to haue it knowne or seene and therfore do they hide it in a poore pipkin lest wisemen should deride their folly therein For vpoÌ„ my credit and my life I gage for the tryall thereof I haue confuted Popery euen by the testimony of the best approued Popish writers WheÌ„ we affirme with S. Austen S. Paul that the vnuoluntary motions of coÌ„cupiscence in the regenerate are truly and properly sin indeed the Papists answer vs with S. Austen that euery sin is voluntary and consequently that the said motions being vnuoluntary are no sin at all To this obiection I replyed out of S. Austen in many places of his works that albeit such motions were vnuoluntary in the act yet were the same voluntary in the originall To which I added that the Papists may as well deny coÌ„cupiscence to be sin in vnbaptized infants as in them that are baptized vpon this their falsely supposed grouÌ„d for it is as inuoluntary in the one as it is in the other neither can it be any more auoided in the one then in the other Now let the Reader iudge what coozening tricks the shamelesse Libeller vseth CHAP. VII Of Pope Martins dispensation THE Libeller is here in great iolity and tryumpheth before the victory howbeit I haue reserued this Dispensation for the last end which he placed in the beginning My reason is this because I hope in God to giue him such a Down-fall therby as all the Papists in England and elsewhere shall not bee able to lift him vp again Marry if the Popes holinesse will dispense with him therein of whose power it is sacriledge to dispute to that can I say nothing In the Down-fal of Popery I haue proued most euidently euen by the testimony of most famous Popish Doctors that the Pope hath often by his most execrable dispensations taken vpon him to dissolue that matrimony which is most firme and stable by Christs holy institution One onely example the Libeller espied with the which his courage serued him to deale not daring for his guts to answer the article directly though it be a very short one No no this one example will bee ynough for him if not too much It wil make his heart pant his neck crack his belly ake and his bowels to gush out wheÌ„ he shal read or heare my Reply which I haue directly and soundly framed to the same The controuersie standeth thus I affirmed out of Antoninus that Pope Martin gaue one licence to marry his owne naturall sister The Libeller answereth that I haue belyed their Arch-bishop and that their Pope gaue no such dispensatioÌ„ Now that the controuersy may bee examined ad amussim I purpose in God to proceed in this maner First I wil purge my selfe and retort the lie vpon the Libellers head as vpon the author the person that best deserueth the same And this I wil perform God willing by the testimony of most famous and best approued Popish writers This being truly soundly effected al wise men I weene wil deeme the Libeller worthy for his iust reward to keepe continually a whetstone about his neck a cox-combe in his forhead a Foxe tayle in his right hand and a fooles bable in his left to this end forsooth that being so comely attired in regard of his great wisedome he may henceforth be a fit Counseller for the Pope Howbeit if he shall vse no better dexterity in counselling then hee hath practised in defending the Pope it may be feared that his final reward wil be a rope Secondly I wil answere directly and fully to euery thing and things reasons causes circumstances and imaginations which the Libeller with the ioynt aduice of his friends possibly could deuise in his owne defence and for the honour of their Pope and Popery The first Popish Doctor is Siluester Prieras a religious Frier an absolute diuine so termed by the Papists sometime master of his Holinesse sacred Palace He must therefore bee of good credit amongst the Papists and the victory is mine owne if he stand on my side These are his expresse words Reperitur tamen Martinus quintus vt archiep refert dispensasse cum eo qui cum sua germana contraxerat consummauerat habito consilio cum peritis Theologis Canonistis propter mala scandala alias inde ventura licet aliqui dicerent eum hoc non posse Howbeit Pope Martin the 5. as the Arch-bishop reporteth dispensed with him who had contracted and consummated matrimony with his owne naturall sister hauing first consulted with his skilful diuines Canonists so to auoyd scaÌ„dall which otherwise was likely to insue thereupon although some said he could not do it The second Popish Doctor is Bartholomaeus Fumus a religious Dominican Frier one of the masters of their most holy Inquisition as they terme it therfore a man of great credit amoÌ„g the Papists For I wil confound kil Popery with Popery God willing after my woÌ„ted maner These are his expresse words Post factum tamen dicit archi Flor. Martinum quintum dispensasse cum quodaÌ„ qui cum sua germana contraxerat consummauerat habito tamen prius peritorum consilio propter scandala alia mala vitanda Neuerthelesse when the deed was done the Archbishop of Florence affirmeth Martin the fift to haue dispensed with one who had contracted consummated marriage with his owne naturall sister after he had the counsel of the learned for the auoyding of scandall and other euils The third Popish Doctor is Angelus de Clauasio a very religious Franciscan Frier and Vicar generall of the Cismontain-Minors and consequently a witnesse of good reckoning among the Papists These are his expresse words Vnde Dominus archi Flor. in summa dicit se audiuisse a fide dignis quod Papa Martinus quintus habita consaltatione cum multes doctissimis viris in sacra Theologia iure Canonico dispensauÃ¬t cum quodam qui acceperat germanam suam in vxorem propter multa mala scandala quae euenissent si eam dimisisset quae euitari non poterant nisi sic dispensaretur Wherupon my L. Arch-bishop of Florence in his suÌ„me affirmeth that he heard men of good credit say that Pope Martin the fift after hee had consulted with many very learned diuines Canonists dispensed with one that had married his owne naturall and ful sister to auoyd much euil scandal which would haue chaunced if hee had forsaken her and which could no way be auoyded but

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