a Popish action haeriticis non esse fidem seruandam a man may breake his oath troath and faith that is plighted to an heretick Religion was the pretence wherefore Henry the third of France was killed by a dissembling Monke Religion was the pretence why an hypocriticall Papist shot the Prince of Auris with a Gunne after he had humbly saluted his â—â—aiestie And is not this a Popish Theorem principi protestanti qui siâ—em non seruat qui prodit qui perdit â—â—m non delinquere It is no sinne to forsweare deceiue betray and murder a Prince that is a protestant Vnder this pretence two Iaâ—â—bins with a crosse in their handes procured the murdering of more then 4000. Christians in Lisbon but were publickely burned for it in Ebora Anno. 1600. at the commandement of Emanuell the king Vnder this pretence a Gray Frier named brother Ferdinand dela place perswaded the king of Castile to put sundry Christians to death calling them Apostates Vnder this pretence of religion did Phocas kill Mauritius the Emperor and his children and was absolued both from murder and treason by Pope Boniface vpon this conditioÌ„ that as Phocas should be Emperor Platina in viâ—â— Bonifac. â— so the Pope should be Episcoporum princeps and caput ecclesiae the prince of the Bishops and head of the Church and can a Church whose head is the Pope not Christ be without Atheisme Specul Pontis A church that hath many heads at one time Yea and vnder this pretence did Boniface the eight Dart regna et auferre bestow take away kingdomes Platina and gather aurum plusquam dici potest gold without measure vnder this pretence the Pope sent Parry Ianuary 3. 1584. to kill our blessed Queene Elizabeth promising him for his labor pardon of all his sins and calles it an holy act Yea vnder this pretence they sent forth excommunications both against Prince and subiect debarring the one from his dignitie and the other from his dutie Thus Sixtus the 5. excommunicated Henry of Burbon king of France the fourth of that name calling him the pretenced king of Nauarre and Henry Prince of Condy saying Nos illos illorun que posteros priuamus in perpetuum c. We depriue them Datum Romae apud 5. MarcuÌ„ Anno. 1584. 5. idus Septemb. Anno primo nostri pontificatus offices c and then absolues all their nobles vassailes subiects of their oathes allegeance and duties in paine of excoÌ„munication And siquis hoc attenuare praesumpserit indignatiouem omnipotentis Dei et beatorum Petri ac Pauli Apostolorum eius se nouerit incursurum If any shall presume to diminish any whit hereof he vndergoes the wrath and indignation of almighty God and of his blessed Apostles Peter and Paule Yet Pope Clemens the 5. abrogated the decree of Boniface the eight and freed Philâ— king of France from the cursâ— thereof And S. Augustine was oâ— the contrary minde in his Epistlâ— to Auxilium Lib. 5. cap. 7. Ernan con c. 7. Aug. Epist 75. how be it not subiect to his Popish penalty Thus Boniface the 8. Martin the 5. Iulius thâ— 2. sent many thundering excommunications into France but theâ— were all disabled by the Counseâ— and court of Paris in France Gratian. c. sihabes 24. q. 3. Thuâ— delt Gregory the 9. with Frederickâ— sending three Bulles to tormenâ— him In the first accusing him of sacriledge periury lying cruelty patricide and all vngodlinesse In the second freeing all people Cities Extat apud Auentinum in Anal. cont brid 2. Imperat. Townes iure iurandi religione from their oathes commandes it to be preached vnto the people In the third he calles him hereticke beast with other vilde tearmes commanding all Christian people if they will haue God â—o tender them and to haue mercy â—pon their soules not to fauour the Emperor in deede worde or thought Yet saith God thou shalt not speake euill of the ruler of the people 2. Leuit. 22. Exod. Thus delt Gregory the 7. with Henry the 4. most miserably â—yranizing ouer the silly Emperor stirring vp trayterous Rodolph against his Lord and Maister Antoninus part 2. sending him a golden crowne with this inscription Petra dedit Petro Benno Cardinal Petrus Diadama Rodolpho the rocke gaue the diadem to Peter and Peter bestowed it vpon Rodolph but it was the ouerthrow both of the Pope Rodolph For Zedechias periury shall not go vnpunished Ezechi 17.17.18 because he dispised the oath Thus delt Paulus the 3. with Henry the 8. king of England a prince of happy memory And his Popish Poole perswaded with Charles the 5. transported his army prepared against the Turke into England against Henry the 8. because the Pope being banished from hence Cardiral Poole lib. 3. ad Hen. 8. here waâ— sparsum semen Turcicum Turcismâ— was sowed in the land Thus deâ—â— Clemens the 5. with Franciscus Deâ—dalus Duke of Venice But it were a world to rip vp all their Bulleâ— and cruell treasons Religiosulos peregrinationum et votorum praetextâ— obambulantes prouincias Cornel. Agrip. de vanit scient exploraeâ— secreta ad omnium proditionum genera extractos esse their Fryars and walking mates vnder pretence of vowes and pilgrimages are fitte companions for all treacheries treasons And no maruell seeing it is a principle of Papistry that euerie oathe and vowe must be holy vnto the Pope but neither vowe nor oath vnto the Prince but what shall please his Popedome Neither are these Bulles and Bullmen hurtfull onely vnto Princes â—ut also full of blasphemies against almighty God as is euident in the Bull of Pius Sixtus vpon the celebration of the Iubily Ex promonstreÌ„ Ioh. Bal. H. Bulling Cornel. Agrip. and in the Bull of Gregorie the 9. directed to Albert Beham of Bath Notwithstanding least I seeme to dwell oâ—uer-long vpon this demonstration I come vnto the thundring Bull of Pius Quintus roaring and breathing out his beastly threats against our gracious Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth thus popishly inscribed Sententiam declaratoriam contra serenissimam Reginam Anglia â—es ei adhaerentes haereticos Qua etiam declar antur absoluti omnes sabditi à â—iuramento fidelitatis Datum Romae a pud sanctum Potium 5. kaleÌ„d Mart. Anno. 1569. et quocunque alio â—debito et deinceps obedientes anathemate illaqueantur A sentence declaratory against the most renowned Queene of England and all her hereticall adherents absoluing all her subiects from their oath of trustinesse â—loyaltie and whatsoeuer other duty accursing with a fearefull execration all those that shall yeeld vnto her any seruice or obedience Beholde the fruites of Romish religion periury treason disobedience and vilde reuiling of the Lords annointed calling her serua vitiorum the woman seruant of vice and wickednesse And why because she yoaked not her selfe vnto his Popeship held not his stirrup with Ludouicke yeelded not her necke
at the last giues vp his verdit Bellar. lib. 5. de iustifiâ—at c. 7. saying propter periculum maius gloriae tutissimum est fiduciam totam in sola Dei misericordia et benignitate reponere for the more assurance of future glorie it is the safest way to put our whole trust and confidence in the mercy and louing kindnesse of Almighty God 17. Luke 9. Dan. For when wee haue done all that wee can wee are but vnprofitable seruants wherefore wee pray not in our owne righteousnesse but in thy manifolde mercies Now let the Papist then speake whether he be that blood desiring or soule-deuouring Atheist Pope Hildebrand Benno Cardinal in vita gest Hildebrand quia diebus per paganos Christum publice persequi non poterat per falsum Monachum sub habitu Monastico sub habitu religionis nomen Christi fradulenter subuertere disponebat because he could not in publicke conueniently persecute Christ he sought in secret vndeâ— the pretence of religion deceitfullie to subuert the name of the annointed Seneca The old Romaines professed religion magis admorem quam adrem rather for fashion then for truth and more to satissie the law then to be pleasing vnto God Wherefore Pontifex Sheuola said expedit falli in religione ciuitates Ang. ciuitat 6. c. 10. lib. 4. cap. 26. quia non nisi homines in metu quodam et officio continendos eandem proponi censendum est It is expedient that cities should be deceiued concerning religion because it serues to â—o other end but to keepe them in feare and in their dutie And to what other end belongs the Romish Indulgences and Popish Purgatorie but to keepe men in feare and picke their purses For who doe they place in Purgatorie but the rich and wealthy men by whome they may haue proffit and aduantage by helping them out of pryson Bellar. de purg lib. 2. cap. 15. 18. and praying for them that they might haue ease Platina Yet Harding somtimes called it purgatorij pictas flammas and Papyraceos parietes painted flames and paper wals And Platina recorded that Pope Bone-face and 8. populis et regibus terrorem potius quà m religionem incutere conabatur indeauoured rather to feare and terrifie kings and people then to instruct them in religion Ioh. Dubrau hist Bohem. lib. 13.1 Did not the Popes Indulgences to the Bohemians promise plenam condonationem delictorum full pardon of all their sinnes which made Iohn Hussius depart from the sea oâ— Rome Huss And Tetzelius that impudent publisher of that trash perswaded the people animam in coelum euolare quam primum iactuâ— nummulus in cista tinuerit the soule should flye to heauen so soone as the money gingled in the box which made Luther forsake the Pope And good reason for what is his religion but the high way to Atheisme seeing no man will feare to sinne that can buy it off with a little money Taxa cancel Apost printed at Paris 1520. Hath not periury fratricide theft whoredome murder sacriledge patricide and euery sinne his price to be sould in the Popes shop Lib. Tax published at Rome 1475. An absolution for them that carnally know their mother sister kinswoman tantuÌ„ quinque 13. Rom. Barnard Epist 42. grossis est taxata yea any sinne may haue his pardon for his price Thus may the Pope not only breake the laws of God himselfe Chrysest in Rom. hom 23. but likewise dispence with others for the same He will not be subiect to Kings Princes nor permit his Priests Theod. Theoph Oecumen in Rom. lib. 4. sent dist 34. and Monkes to obey the word Yea illa praecepta quaein â—ege Dei de gradibus matrimonialibus lata sunt Papa iure positiuo siue ecclesiastico immutare potest He may change the lawe of God touching degrees of matrimonie and now Emanuell king of Portugall may marry two sisters and if the king of Naples marry his fathers sister C. acsi Clerici deiudieiâ—s Vuâ—sleius Gronninges â—â—act de indulgent Alexander the sixt can grant a dispensation if the Priest cleargie men be adulterers Episcopis datur à pontifice dispensandi facultas the Pope will giue the Bishops power to grant them dispensations yea Sixtus the 4. gaue the whole familie of the Cardinall of Saint Luce a dispensation to vse Sodomie in Iune Iuly August It may be you beholde a peece of their Atheisticall physnomie but will you see it wholely vnmasked Matchiauell that politique Atheist sets it downe for a principle that Princeps Mach. de princip cap. 17. quum morte adficere aliquem cupâ—t speciosum aliquem praâ— textum adhibere debet The Prince must haue alwayes some probable pretence sor his practise and then he may proceed vnto his murders Dion in Nerone Dion in Caracalla As had Nero when he put his Mother to death and Caracalla when he killed his brother Seta The Iewes making stirres and commotions in Indea and Samaria Iosephus lib. 4. de bello Iudaic. about the time of Neroes Empery pretended religio and insâ—â—uta maiorum religion and statutes of their auncienters to be the cause of their rebellion whereas indeed they cared for nothing lesse then for religion Templum enim pro cuius gloria pugnarese dicebant igne consumpserunt et pertinacia sua vrbem et ecclesiam extrema clade deuastarunt for they burned the temple for which they said they tooke vp armes and by their obstinacie vtterly destroyed the citie and the temple And is not the Popes pretence religion when he would achieue any matter or performe any mischife for who so fulfils not the Popes mind must by and by be an hereticke Volatcran What translated the Empire of Constantinople heresie as the Popes did please to call it Philip. haeret Auno 713. And why was Philip the Emperor denounced to be an hereticke quod ex mandato Dei Idola ex templis sustulisset because he tooke Idols out of the Temples and from the Churches according to Gods commandement Why was Fredericke the second an heretick for holding the wrong stirrop of the Pope why was Philip of France an hereticke 4. Philip. because hee would not take vâ— armes against forraine nations Betrand hist Thol Guido Perpin lib. de haeres aâ— the commandement of Pope Bâ—niface the eight How was Raimâ—â— handled by his holinesse Egiliard for nâ—â— burning the Albigenses And wâ—â— not religion his pretence Palmerius when â—â— exiled Desiderius king of Italy with wife and children into Lions there to end his dayes in misery and his kingdome made S. Peters patrimâ—â—ny Yet it was cuident Guisies non religionem sed regionem affectare Was not religion the pretence of that infamous Masacre of FraÌ„ce of the poysoning of Iohn king of England by a Monke albeit the king had farmed his crowne of the Pope And is it not
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But the Iesuites both against the scripture nature religion and all antiquity allow the murdering of Princes an euident signe who is their father The Papists say kings raigne by the Pope but the scripture saith they rule by God And he that resistes the king withstaÌ„des the ordinance of God Ieroboham was an Idolater yet none of the Propheâ—â— perswaded any of the people to kill him Ahab was an Idolater yet Elias seekes no insurrection Ieremy vnder Zedechias Daniel vnder Nabuchodonoser Christ vnder Pilate Iohn vnder Herod Paule vnder Faelix and Peter vnder Nero line yet moue not the people to rebellion But the Papists haue beene the authors almost of all the warres euersions and dissentions that haue happened for the space of 700. yeares in disturbed Christendom Gregory the second Gregory the third and Leo the third made Italy decline from their soueraigne Emperor Adrian the first set the Frenchmen against the Lombardes and maintained Pippins rebellions against king Childerick Were they not Popes that set the FreÌ„ch Germans at oddes that held war themselues against Henry the 4. the 5. Fredericke the first and the second Ludouick Bauarus and suggested others to do the like Were they not Popes that disturbed Naples Aragon sowed discorde betweene France and Spaine the Greekes and Normans England FraÌ„ce France and Germany Prince and people Hist Flor. lib. 1. Guiccard lib. 1. Machi hist Flor. lib. 1. Insomuch as Machauell could note the Romaine Church to bee the cause of all the calamities of Italy What should I here relate the hurliburlies raysed and increased by Iulius the second the slaughters caused by Innocentius the third Of Nice and Goâ—stantinopl Synod Carthag can 6.2 q. 2. c. placuit c. 36. Gratian. â—â—st 22. â—â—renouintes Tonstal burned English testaments at Paules crosse and Nicholas the third these may giue vs a tast that their whole religion is but politique Atheisme It were worth the noting to marke how they corrupt the scriptures suppresse the trueth depraue the auncient counsels falsifie Synods change the Canons set vp fictions displace antiquities forge nouelties falsifie laws faine authors peruert tables burne bills set some of the fathers vpon the racke thrust the rest into purgatory Witnes one for many Bellarmine their chiefe champion whose pollicy is sometime to change the state of the cause at his pleasure sometime to trouble the whole order with new distinctions on the wordes Now to giue one and the same author yea one and the same booke both the liking and the lie Index expurgatorius as it shall be for him or against him then to turne the affirmatiue sentences of the fathers into Negatiues Abraham Sculteti Epist nucupator and their negatiues into affirmatiues otherwhiles to quote halfe a speach and period for the whole and then againe to bring in counterfeites among the fathers coine yea and to preferre the barbarous translations of the Latins if they serue his turne before the purity of the Grecian coppies that make not for him And it is no pollicie to keepe their nouices froÌ„ reading the booke of protestants Concil Trid. or was it not foxlike cruelty to condemne William Tolwin for an heretick being maister of artes because he had bookes of Frith and Ridley Melanthon and the confession of the Germans Anno. 1541. compelling him to recant it at Paules crosse Bellar. lib. de Rom. pontific 2. 3. And now men must build their faith vpon the Popes mouth for he caÌ„not err Yet Liberius was an Arrian Acasias 2 Nouatian Honorius 2 Monothelite Siluester the 2. Iohn the 18. Gratian. 2. dist 19. Platina Luitprand Iohn the 19. Iohn the 20. Bennet the 8. Bennet the 9. Gregory the 7. were Negromancers Iohn the 13. maintained open stewes Boniface the 8. was fouÌ„d guilty of heresie murder Fascie tempo Theod. a Nieen lib 3. cap. 9. Abbas Vrsperg Simony and Iohn the 14. was conuicted of heresie by the counsell of Constance Howbeit the Papists would not beleeue the scriptures no not Christum natum passum c. Benno Cardinal that Chrst was borne suffred rose neither the resurrection life euerlasting the trinity no nor that there was a God Nisipropter ecclesiae authoritatem but for the authority of their Church and yet the church depends vpon the Pope Stapleton lib. 1. 10. sect 3. c. 2 sect 6. c 2.13 sect 12. qui pleruÌ„que tantuÌ„ in se fidei habet quantum Turcarum imperator who for the most part hath as much faith and religioÌ„ in him Whittach cont Staplet oc author sact script lib. 1. cap. 2. as their great Turke And I pray you what more high way can there be vnto Atheisme then to build faith scriptures church and all vpon the Pope in whome is nothing but a masse of heresie and infidelity No maruell now if the canon of the scripture be so vncertaine among the Papists seeing the Pope may detract adde vnto it what he list If the third councell of Carthage decree vpon a canon Trid. concil sess 4. cap. 2. yet may the councell of Trident adde vnto it Baruch and Ecclesiasticus by the priuiledge of his Popeship Rhenatus Bcnedictus vpon commission may adde the 3. Lib. 1. cap. 8. stromar 4. books of Esdras to the Canon And his papacie may put in more into the canon then either the Fathers Concil Laod. c. 84. Origin Gelasius Nazianz. Hieron in prolog Galiato Athanas in synops sacr script or the Laodicean councell and for the interpretations of the scriptures if the Romists interpret it it must stand for the word of God be it meuer so false and ridiculous But can the Papists deride their religion How thinke you what did Hildebrand the Pope wheÌ„ he asked councell of the diuell Hosius de expres verbo Dei or the Bishops the sacrifising Priests demanding Satans iudgement policie touching the ruine of the Florentines signo dato hostiam Benno Cardinal id est deum suum igni inijciunt when they receiued a discoÌ„tented signe Volater lib. 5. Georg. they threw their host that is their God into the fire Boniface the 8. because Procherus tooke part with the Gibellines Harding Confut. Apol. Anglic. which were his aduersaries said vnto him vpoÌ„ Ashwednesday the solemne day of ashes memento homo quod Gibellinus es Concil Later sess 10. sub Leone 10. et cuÌ„ Gibellinis in terraÌ„ reuerteris RemeÌ„ber maÌ„ not that thou art ashes but that thou art of the stocke and faction of the Gibellines Nauclerus Ann. 677 Agathon in the first generall Councell at Constantinople and that with the Gibellines thou shalt returne vnto the earth and forthwith he threw ashes in his face Do they not defend whoredome taking tribute à meretricibus of stewes and harlots do they not defend vsury and call them montes pietatis rockes and mountaines of piety and deuotion