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A90212 Speedy advice to all Roman Catholicks; especially, those concerned in Scotland and Ireland Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1689 (1689) Wing O56aA; ESTC R230350 17,548 24

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called Henry III. King of England his Vassal Slave and Page whom he could imprison and put to open shame at his pleasure Hadrian IV. fell out with the Emperour of Germany for holding his wrong Stirrup Innocent III. took from John King of England both his Crown and Kingdom and gave it to Lewis the French Kings Son without any just cause Celestine III. Crowned the Emperour and Empress of Germany with his Feet and throwing off the Crowns again with his Toe said I have power both to make and unmake Kings and Emperours Nicolas III. begot a Bastard Son that had Claws and Hair like a Bear. Boniface VIII because Philip King of France would not suffer the Revenues of his Kingdom to be transported to Foreign Countries Cursed both him and his to the fourth Generation He likewise gave Authority to Ecclesiastick Persons in England to deliver the people to Satan twice a year This man came by the Popedom after a most devilish and treacherous manner for finding his Master Pope Celestine the Fifth a simple doting Man he hired one of his Bed-chamber to make a Ghostly noise in a long Reed through a hole which he had caused to be made privately in the Wall of his Holiness's Chamber crying CELESTINE CELESTINE give over thy Charge for it is above thy strength and ability The Old Man thinking the Infernal noise had been the Voice of an Angel sent from Heaven in spite of all opposers gave over the Popedom on St. Luke's Eve and went to a Desart to lead an Eremit's life as Massaeus writeth But the Impostor Boniface who had thus cheated the simple man and gotten to be his Successor fearing that the people would follow him as Pope apprehended Old Celestine and put him in close Prison where he lay till the day of his Death But Boniface himself did not escape the just Judgment of God for he dyed in a miserable condition with a guilty Conscience This is he of whom it was said He enter'd like a FOX he reigned like a LYON and dyed like a DOG Clement the V. caused his Hang-man to take Francis Dandalus a Venetian Duke and bind him with Chains and throw him at his Feet under his Table where for very hunger he gnaw'd bones like a Dog. Clement VI. caused to Poyson the Emperour Lewis without any cause but Pride Covetousness and desire of Superiority Urban VI. drowned seven Cardinals because he suspected that they had conspired against him with Charles King of Naples and Clement his Competitor an Antipope This Urban whom some termed Turban for his wicked and troublesome life as he was in haste riding from Naples with his Spiritual Court of Rogues and Sodomites caused one of his Cut-throats to kill the Bishop of Aquilo his Prisoner leaving his dead mangled body on the way because after his racking and tormenting he could not ride so fast as His Holiness Pope Sixtus IV. gave liberty to several Families of the Clergy to defile their bodies with all manner of filthiness and brutish uncleanness for the three hot months June July and August Innocent VIII begat sixteen Children on sixteen several Women and was so brutish every way that after his Death this Epitaph was made upon him Octo Nocens pueros genuit totidemque puellas Hunc merito poterit dicere Roma patrem Spuricies Gula avaritia atque ignavia Deses Hoc octave jacent quo tegeris tumulo Benedict the XII bought with a large summ of money the Sister of Francis Petrarch a very beautiful Woman to satisfie his Carnal desire Alexander the VI. lay with his own Daughter on whom after her death this Epitaph was made Hic jacet in tumulo Lucretia nomine sed re Thais Alexandri filia sponsa nuras Paul III. in disguise lay with a young Gentlewoman under pretence of Wooing her by whom he had a Son called Peter Aloysius the express Image of such a Father For being General of his Father's Army he caused his Souldiers violently to hold the Godly Old Bishop of Fane till he in spite of the poor Old Man's heart committed that abomination with him that is neither proper to be Written nor spoken of the Bishop afterwards dying for very grief This Pope Paul had a Daughter named Constantia whose Husband he poison'd to enjoy her person with greater convenience and with her to wallow in uncleanness With whom also her Brother Peter Aloysius in imitation of his Father made bold to commit Incest This Pope also kept a List of 45000 Harlots about Rome which paid him a monthly Tribute for Liberty of Whoring These are Demonstrations of the Pope's Fallibility and the fruits of his manifest Wickedness These are the doings of the Son of Perdition and the wicked Works of the Romish Man of Sin which to number up all or as many of them as have been published in Popish Historians would make a book larger than twenty Church Bibles But ex ungue Leonem We may know by this little what the whole Volume would be and what metal the Mystery of Iniquity is made of Are these the Works of him that hath the Spirit of God or the Spirit of Anti-christ Tell me ingenuously Reader how you relish this drop of the Cup of Romish Abominations and if you can digest a whole Draught of it without Poysoning your Conscience Doth it surfeit your Soul to a future forbearance and force you to cry out O Man of God Death is in the Cup The second thing that I object against the Church of Rome is the keeping the Laity from reading the Holy Scriptures It is life eternal to know God Joh. 17.3 but how to know the God of Truth without the knowledge of the Scriptures of Truth I never could yet find out they being the right way and appointed guide to lead us unto Christ himself Our Saviour saith Joh. 5.39 Search the Scriptures And it was the commendation of the Noble Bereaus Act. 17.11 that they tried the truth of Paul's Doctrine by the Touch-stone and Scriptures of Truth For the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets All the Apostles wrote to the Saints in general and Paul desired the Colossians to read his Epistle publickly in the Churches and charged the Thessalonians by the Lord to read his Epistle unto all the holy brethren Now shall I conclude that there are no Saints but great ones and learned Doctors No Church or Congregation but what consisteth of Learned Rabbies and Clergy-men No Brethren but Bishops Abbots Priests Monks and Friers c God forbid For as Augustine saith Conf. lib. 3. cap. 8. Men unlearned earnestly contend for Heaven whilst learned Men without understanding wallow in flesh and blood And although Paul wrote many things hard to be understood which the unlearned and unstable wrest yet did not Peter who giveth an Item of it in his second Epistle 3.16 desire his Writings to be taken from them Meat and Drink must not be rejected because of Drunkards and Gluttons
With which and many such Miracles or rather lying Wonders he deceived and perswaded ignorant people to believe that he was a Lamp of pure Holiness As also he kept a Brazen-Head in his Closet wherein dwelt a Spirit wherewith in any danger he consulted to know the result of his undertakings But on a certain time as he was preparing to War against the Emperour his Domestick God gave him such an ambiguous Answer that he could make no sense of it therefore took the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper his supposed Deity and setting it on a Table Conjur'd it with the same Words that he had his Brazen-Head a little before but the Sacrament giving him no Answer His Holiness in a great passion threw it in the fire with these Words There 's a God indeed Could the Idol-Gods of the Heathens give them Answer in their Success and canst thou give me none The Cardinals then present were much displeased that Hildebrand should have burn'd the God which they had made to be eaten Therefore John Bishop of Portua of the Popes Privy Council made his Apology in a Sermon in St. Peter's Church the next Lord's Day thus What meaned HILDEBRAND and We to do these things for which We all deserve to be burned alive From whence I infer that Pope Gregory was an Heretick and did not believe the real Presence and that the Sacrament was a True God. Yet this Gregory alias Hildebrand or Hell-brand as some term him for all he Poyson'd seven Popes to make way for himself to the Popedom dyed at Salerne in great Misery Anno 1086. My fourth proof is by consequence from the Words of Pope Gelasius concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper who against the Eutychians speaketh thus Biblioth patr Tom. 4. Surely the Sacraments which we receive of the Body and Blood of our Lord are a Divine thing so that by them we are made partakers of a Divine Nature and yet it ceaseth not to be the Substance or Nature of Bread and Wine and certainly the Image and Resemblance of Christ's Body and Blood are Celebrated in the Action of the Mystery Whence it will undoubtedly follow that he was a Heretick according to the Canon of the second Council of Lateran which confirmed the Doctrine of Transubstantiation or else that all the Popes since have been Hereticks who have maintained Christs real presence in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper My fifth and last proof shall be of Pope Leo the X. who when Cardinal Bembus moved a Question out of the Gospel very contemptuously Answered All Ages can testify enough how profitable that Fable of Christ hath been to us and our Company Who then dare be so impudent to affirm him Infallible in Faith who denyeth the very foundation thereof and him by whom only Salvation can be obtained Be astonished O ye Heavens at this and be horribly afraid c. Jer. 2.12 Now if this be the Fountain of the Romish Faith and the Creed of his unspotted Holiness what mud and dirt is in Babel's streams What Atheism and Infidelity must there be among the Crew of the Romish Clergy And Rabble of Brutish Priests Monks and Friers Est petri Sedes saith Bellarm. in praefat ante lib. de Pontif. Rom. Lapis probatus angularis pretiosus in fundamento fundatus St. Peter's Chair is an approved Corner Stone precious and laid in the foundation And again lib. 2. de pont Rom. cap. 31. The Pope of Rome is the foundation of the Church And Stapleton Relect. princip Doctr. in praef Alii nunc a Christo eorumve Doctrina praedicatio determinatio fundamenti apud me locum habebunt That is others now beside Christ and their Doctrine Preaching and Determination shall be esteemed of me as a Foundation The Begging Friers in the time of William de sanct amore as the Doctors of Paris in lib. de peric novis temp relate collected all their Dreams Fancies and vain Traditions into one Volume calling it the Eternal Gospel and Preach'd The Gospel of Christ shall cease and our Eternal Gospel shall be Preach'd and receiv'd to the end of the World. The Pope with great reluctancy did at last condemn this blasphemous Book of Abominations and lying Wonders at the earnest Request of the Doctors of Paris against whom his Holiness conceived such implacable hatred that he could never after be reconciled to them and favoured the Friars so much that he both preferr'd them and enlarg'd their Priviledges Now if any of the Romish Clergy perswade a Lay-man to believe as the Church believeth he must tell him what is the Church For if he believe what the Church of Rome preach'd formerly then he must not believe the Doctrine of Popery now Yea if he believe Pope Gelasius whom I have Quoted he must not believe the present Church of Rome or else if he will believe the Doctrine of Rome now he must acknowledge that Pope Gelasius was a cursed Heretick which will overturn the Doctrine of the Popes Infallillility which hangeth betwixt a Possibility and an Impossibility Now to prove the Pope Fallible in respect of evil Works Sin and Wickedness his godless and brutish life is enough to declare him both a Beast and an Atheist And I really believe that as soon as ever he sitteth down in the old rotten Stool which they call St. Peter's Chair as from an old enchanted Oracle he is possessed with the spirit of Delusion and Errour which driveth him headlong to all Abominations and Uncleanness And as an evil spirit from God troubled Saul so suffereth he the wicked one to take possession of this Prince of Pride that they who follow and wander after him and term him His Holiness may be inexcusable in the day of their accounts in reputing him a Terrestial God whom they see an Infernal Devil And for further satisfaction I shall here insert some Popish Pranks and Wicked Villanies committed by the Popes of Rome which the Reader may judge whether or not they can consist with Infallibility and unspotted Holiness Pope or rather Popess Joan was a Fornicatrix and died in Labour bringing forth a Bastard Pope John XIII lay with his own Sisters forced his Fathers Concubines played at Dice drank the Devils good Health pray'd to him for good luck and put out the Eyes of Benedict his Ghostly Father Gregory VII caused a fellow to put great stones right over the place where the Emperour Henry used to pray in St. Marys Church to knock him on the Head by an ingenious contrivance whilst he was at his Devotion he Cursed and Excommunicated him without occasion and took his Crown from him without any just cause Paschal II. stirred up Henry the V. to Rebel against his good Old Father who at last by his assistance beat him from the Empire and brought him to beg his Bread so that he lived and died miserable and was caused to lye rotting above ground without burying five years at the Pope's special command Innocent IV.