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A40122	The arraignment of popery being a short collection, taken out of the chronicles, and other books, of the state of the church in the primitive times : also, the state of the Papists, and how long it was before the universal pope and mass was set up, and the time of bringing in all their rudiments and traditions, beads and images, purgatory, tythes and inquisitions : also, a relation of their cruelties they acted after the Pope got up, being worse then the heathen and Turk, New Rome having proved like Old : also, what the people of England worshipped before they were Christians : with several other things, which may be profitable for people to read over, where all that fear God may see, read, try, and give judgment by the spirit of truth : to which is added, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church / by G.F. and E.H.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1750A; ESTC R15884	93,976	138

them that believe and that unto all such as receive thee thou mayest be health of soul and body and that from out of the place thou shalt be sprinkled may flye away all Fancy Wickedness and Craftiness of the Devils subtilty and every foul spirit The Papists Conjurations of Water I conjure thee thou Creature of Water in the Name of Cross God the Father Almighty and in the Name of Cross Jesus Christ his Son our Lord and in the Vertue of Cross the Holy Ghost that thou become a Conjured Water to expel the power of the Enemy Here the Pope is smothered with his own smoak Pope Leo the thrid Pope John the seventh Pope Adrian the first with others made Decrees for establishing of Images Leo the third Emperor of Greece decreed that Images should be taken out of the Churches and burnt openly at Constantinople The said Emperor threw out of the Temple all the Images and burnt them in the open Market This was contrary to the Pope Pope Eugenius decreed that Children which were to be Christned should have a God-father and a God-mother A Council held at Rotomage decreed that their Sacrament the Priests should put it into the Lay-peoples mouths and that they should not touch it with their hands contrary to the use and practice of the primitive Christians many hundred years after Christ Lib. Concil Bec. fol. 329. In Pope Urban the First 's time was the Order of the Nunnes of Saint Briget invented by Brigeta and that the Nunnes should be closed above in a Closet and the men beneath Pop● Nicholas the first ordained that no temporal man whether King or Emperor● should have ought to do with those things that appertain to the Priest In the time of Pope Alexander the third there was one Vict●r a Pope so Alexander got his Popedom by money and force of Ships and Arms in the year One thousand one hundred sixty one And this Pope compelled Lewis King of France and Henry King of England to be his Lacquies and to run on foot by him holding his horse bridle one of the right hand and the other of the left leading him thorough the street in his pomp This is like the Glory of the world this is not like Peter In the year 757 Stephen the third he was the first Pope that was carried on mens shoulders Where was Christ or Peter so carried Pol. vit Pant. In the year 1075 the Emperor deposes the Pope and the Pope excommunicates the Emperor and ill requites the Emperor for his love who gave him power to be chosen Pope without his Election Pope Gregory the ninth ordained that the Sacring-Bell should be rung when the Priest lifteth up the Mystal-Bread and Chalice above his head to move the people to behold that new-found god which they worshipped in knocking kneeling and lifting up of hands to a piece of Bread Crates Malleotes a Heathen he brought the study of Gramar into Rome in the year of the World Three thousand seven hundred eighty nine Pope Boniface the seventh procured a company of men to take his part by whose means he took Pope John the fifteenth and put out his eyes and then threw him into prison Boniface dyed not many days after who after his death was drawn by the feet through the streets of Rome in the year Nine hundred seventy-six Pope Stephen the sixth so envied the Name of his predecessor For●●osus that he abrogated and dissolved his Decrees and taking up his body after it was buried he cut two of his fingers off his right hand and commanded them to be cast into the River Tyber Pope Sergius caused the body of Formosus where it was buryed to be taken up and afterwards sitting in the Papal See first degraded him then commanded his head to be smitten off with the other three fingers that were left as Sigeberius writeth which done he caused his body to be thrown into Tyber deposing all such as by the said Pormosus before had been consecrated and invested By this Murderer Pope Ser●ius first came up the use to bear about Candles on Candlemas-day for the purifying of the Virgin Mary Anno 684. Durand G. Achil. Becon fol. 351. It is recorded of Pope Hidlebrand tha● he enquired of the Sacrament a Divine answer against the Emperor and because it did not speak he threw it in the fire and burned it Sure the Papists will allow this Pope erred After the death of Pope Clement the fifth the Romish See stood vacant two years and three months Book of Mart. vol. 1 p. 487. Pope Gregory the third was the first that brought into the Masse the Canon or clause for Reliques also he brought into the Memorial the Offering and Sacrifice for the dead Pope Zachary brought in the Priests Vestures and Ornaments Constantius was the first that gave his feet to be kissed of the Emperors about the year Seven hundred Book of Mart. Volume 1. p. 176. Henricu the Emperor with his Wife and Child bare-footed and bare-legged waited on Pope Hidlebrand three days and three nights at the Gates of Conusium before he could be suffered to come in Pope Sylvester the second was accounted a great Sorcerer Pope Alexander the second was forced into a Chamber by Soldiers and there beaten by Pope Hidlebrand This is contrary to the Apostle who said A Bishop must be no striker King Ines ordained in England before the Conquest that Infants should be baptized within thirty days Pope Vrban the second amongst many other Enormities concluded that no Priests son should be capable of Orders And yet Priests must not marry Pag of Popes fol. 87. Bishop Bonner said If an Image be made a god it is no Idol Thus you may see the Papists are contrary to the Scriptures and God who forbiddeth to make Images of him or the likeness of any thing in He●●●● bo●● 〈◊〉 Earth be●●ath Fox Vol. 3. p. 262. CHAP. VII Concerning Hereticks Judas Iscariot was the first Apostate that fell from the truth who sold his Master to the covetous Priests for thirty pieces of silver and slew his Father married his Mother and in the end hanged himself Read Euseb Chr●n In the year 163 Demas which Paul spake of forsook the truth and became an Idol-priest at Thessalonica Pilate that gave sentence upon Christ afterward slew himself M●rcellina the Heretick worshipped and offered Incense unto the Images of Jesus and Paul c. In the year 81 Cerinthus the Heretick dreamed that the Kingdom of Christ should become Earthly and that Christ should reign on the Earth a thousand years Montanus the Heretick forbad Marriage and commanded abstinence from certain meats as unlawful In the year 287 Marcell●nas the Heretick Bishop of Rome denied Christ and offered sacrifice unto Idols for which he was condemned by a Council of three hundred Bishops called together at Sin 〈◊〉 Whereby it appears the Bishop of Rome erred and was fallible In the year 340 Eustathius the Heretick forbad Marriage 〈◊〉 Laws

Osburn 's Case of Tythes This Edgar was of a vicious life favourable to the Monks he displac'd the marryed Priests and brought in Monks of single life to possess their places he built and prepared several Monasteries and Nunneries He was cruel to Citizens and a deflowerer of Maidens he was joyned in the Act in shedding the blood of Earl Ethelwold that he might enjoy Elf●ida his Wife Canutus also the first Danish King who being guilty of the blood of Edward and Edmund Sons of Iron-side and Heirs to the Crown about the year 1016 confirmed Tythes and built the Abbey of St. Bennet so called in Norfolk● and in Suffolk he with great Devotion built the Monastery of St. Edmund so called which Saint he most dreadfully feared for the seeming Ghost of him often affrighted him for which cause as also to expiate the sins of his Fathers he confirmed Tythes See Osburn 's Case of Tythes Thus its plain that Tythes were given for the satisfaction of the sins of the Donor and to maintain the Popish Clergy to say and sing Mass to pray for the souls of the Donors Ethelwolfe King of England in the year 844 in his Devotion to holy Church and Religious Orders and for the remedy of their souls and that their sins might be remitted he gave the Tythe of all his Goods and Lands in West-Saxony with liberty and freedom from all servage and civil charge in the days of Pope Jone which Pope fell in labour as she was going a Procession and died being accompanied with Cardinals Patriarchs Arch-Bishops Bi-Deacons Monks Fryars and Nuns Pope Paschal about the year 1110 a Council being held in his time by his order it was decreed that it should be Heresie for any to deny obedience to the Pope and made a Canon for paying of Tenths to Priests concluding it sin against the Holy Ghost to sell the Tenths he renewed an Excommunication against the Emperor and thrust him from his Crown and Princely Title and provoked his Son Henry the Fifth and armed him to rebel against his Father The great Decree which speaks most plainly and till which nothing was given forth which did directly constitute them but rather still supposed them as due by some former right was made at the Council of Treat under Pope Plus the Fourth about the year 1560 and yet that great Council followed the Doctrine of their Fathers and said they were due to God and had no new Authority for their great Decree which they commanded to be obeyed under the penalty of Excommunication But notwithstanding the many Laws Canons and Decrees of Kings Popes and Councils and Bishops that every man ought to pay the tenth part of his encrease yet was it left to the Owners to ofter it where they pleased which made so many rich Abbeys and Monasteries And till the year 1200 or thereabouts every one gave their ●ythes as their own pleasure which made Pope Innocent the third send his Decretal Epistle to the Bishop of Canterbury commanding him to enjoin every man to pay his temporal goods to those that ministred spiritual things to them which was enforced by Ecclesiastical Censures And this was the first beginning of general Parochial payment of tythes in England and this Popes Decree is recorded by Cook in the second part of his Institutes who saith That because the Popes Decree seemed reasonable it was admitted and enjoyned by the Law of the Nation the King and People of England being then Papists Yet notwithstanding our English Parliaments not willing wholly to forget the poor for whose sakes tythes were chiefly given did make divers Laws that a convenient portion of the tythes should be set apart for the maintenance of the poor of the parish for ever 2 R. 15 16.4 H. 4 as the Statutes at large do witness The Pope having brought in tythes and made a pretended Title by prescription set up Courts to recover them which were called Ecclesiastical Courts where his own Creatures were Judges Afterwards Henry the Eighth King of England being a Papist and believing the Popes Doctrine as also did his Parliament That Tythes were due to God and holy Church made a Law that every one should set out and pay Tythes He made a second Law in his time to the like purpose in pursuance of the former and great reason he had and need there was for them for having dissolved many Monasteries after he denied the Pope to be the Supream Head of the Church and took it to himself which Monasteries had many Tythes and Rectories appropriated to them and either had them in his own hands or sold them to others to be held as Lay-possessions And they having no Law to recover them by the Popes Laws not reaching to Lay-persons so called he was nocessitated to make new Laws to enfore the payment of them but still restrained the Tryal of Tythes to Ecclesiastical Courts After him Edward the Sixth in pursuance of his Fathers Laws and upon the same grounds makes another Law for the payment of Predial and Personal Tythes uader penalty of double damages and cost who also restrains the Tryal of them to the Ecclesiastical Courts So here you may see the Papists were the first that set up Tythe and forced Maintenance and the Spiritual Courts contrary to Christ and the Apostles in the primitive times CHAP. XIV Concerning the Religion and Customs of the old Britans before they were Christians and after they were Christians VVHen they were Heathen in old time in England in their Worship they offered mens blood thinking that to be the most precious Sacrifice of all others and when the Priest by Lot cast who should dye they had all their brains knockt out at one 〈◊〉 and then they sought out the veins of the heart and drew 〈◊〉 blood and struck it upon the head of his friend then they ho●●●ed up the Sails And this they thought pleased their God The Danes and Normans in the Province of Selon every ninth year sacrificed and killed unto their gods ninety nine men and as many horses and dogs and cocks for Hawks which their gods sent them and said by the same they should please them And the blind ignorant people the Britans had Altars and they worshipped the Heads of great Rivers Camb. p. 698. Crysanthus was Bishop in B●itan and of all his Ecclesinstical Revenues and Prosits was wont to reserve for himself but two toaves of bread only on the Lords day Camb. p. 84. But u w-a-dayes neither Bishop nor Priest will think this sufficient but they would scorn it being grown so old in oppression In the River called Swale in Yorkshire Augustin baptized an innumerable multitude of Women and Children Camb. p. 136 137. Then they had no Fonts Augustin the bishop caused the people to enter into the Water and they were baptized And here was no talk of a Cross nor God-fathers Pauli us Bishop of York baptized the Inhabitants of Nottinghamshire in the River Irent Ca●●h

ERasmus testified that for above Four hundred years after C●●●● the Bishops did not seek the help of the Emperors again●● 〈◊〉 Hereticks and when they did seek it against the insufferable wickedness of the Donatists it did not please the good people that they should then seek the help of the Civil Powers for they then judged that it became not the Bishops to use any other Weapons or to have any other help then the Sword of the Spirit the Word of God although the evil was incurable yet would they have excluded it by Excommunication which is said to be the greatest Judgment or Punishment that then the Church had The Histories also sheweth how that some of the Clergy have said That the Princes ought to kiss the Son and to use their power for to preserve and defend Religion against all their Enemies though their Lands should therefore be spoiled In the year 553 Pelagius Bishop of Rome instituted first of all That Hereticks and Apostates should be forced by external compulsion And Clement the fifr made Laws that Hereticks should be burned Gerandus Naviomagns sheweth how that the Laws for putting Hereticks to death came not by the free-will of the Emperors but through the earnest importuning of blood-thirsty Bishops whose constant recourse was a burden to the Emperors so that finally they obtained what they desired but when the Clergy could not preva●l with one Emperor they excluded him out of Italy and excommunicated him and brought him in suspension and freed the Subjects from the Oath and stirred them up against the Power And thus have the Clergy handled when they could not have their wills And it might be plentifully manifested how that it hath been blood-thirsty Bishops with others of the Clergy that have provoked Kings and Potentates of the Earth to cruelty and who have counselled them to make bloody Laws like the Bishop Nestorius who in his Sermon spake unto the Emperor and said Oh Emperor give me a Land cleansed of Herticks and I will give thee Heaven help me against ●he Hereticks and I will help thee O subdue the Persians thy Enemies In the years 1538 and 1546 In like manner the Inquisitors and Clergy stirred up the Emperor the Kings of Spain and France to terrible persecution laying it upon their consciences to quit themselves severely against Hereticks if they would escape the Lords rep●o●● In the year 1545 Pope Paul the third counselled and entreated the Emperor Charles and King Ferdinandus to compel the Protestants to forsake their error CHAP. XXIV How since the Apostacy from the Truth the Pope Kings and Rulers makes Ministers and none must preach except they have a Licence from them IN the days of King Henry the Fourth it was agreed upon by the King and the Bishops with other Lords that no man within this Realm or other of the Kings Majesties Dominions presume to take upon him to preach privily or otherwise without special Licence of the Ordinary of the same place Statute Ex Officio R●g Hen. 4. And in the dayes of the same King Henry the Fourth Constitutions were made by Tho Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and others That no person being authorized to preach shall take upon him to preach in English to the Clergy and Laity except he first present himself and be examined of the Ordinary of the place For first the King he nominated who should be Bishop of such a Diocess and then being presented to the Pope he was to approve of him and being approved he was consecrated by the Arch-Bishop in England But when King Henry the Eighth cast off the Pope then it was enacted by King and Parliament that no Bishop should be commended to the Pope but that the King should both nominate them and approve of them to be sufficient Ministers In the year 1547 in Edward the Sixth's time Injunctions were set forth That none should preach except sufficiently Licensed In the Reign of King James Injunctions were made That none should preach except they were lawfully Licensed thereunto by the King or the Bishop Fox Acts and Mon. Vol 2. And likewise in the dayes of Queen Mary none was to preach but such as should be licensed or allowed by her Authority or by the Arch Bishop c. or by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg● Anno 1. Mary 1 Pat C. 1. In the year 1559 Injunctions were likewise made in the first year of Queen Elizabeth that none should appear to preach not be admitted thereto but such as should be Licensed thereto by the Queen or the Arch Bishops or Bishops And thus she followed the Papists who were the first that set up this O●der In the year 1644 the Parliament made an Ordinance to give power to the Presbyter-Assembly of Divines for the Ordination of Ministers according to the Directory for Ordination and they gave the Ass●mbly of Divines Rules for Examination of them they ordained He that was to be ordained was to bring a testimony that he had sworn and taken the Covenant of the three Kingdoms and how long he had been in the University and what Degrees he had taken and whether he was twenty f●ur years old c. Note This was up●olding Popery still notwithstanding there was a pretence of Reformation And an Ordinance was made by Oliver Cromwel and his Council for Approbation of publick Preachers and for this end Commisioners were appointed and were authorized to judg of the Ability and Fitness of any man before he was admitted to any publick place to preach O. C. 1653 Can. 39. and Can. 57. CHAP. XXV Concerning the Priests turning as the Rulers turned to every Power that came up rather then they would lose their Benefices and how they petitioned several Parliaments and Rulers That they might have their Tythes paid them and that they would suppress the People called QVAKERS IN the year 1531 Pope Julius being angry with the King of France sent King Henry the Eighth the Cap of Maintenance and the Sword and gave him the title of Christianssimo that is The most Christian King And because King Henry wrote a Book against Luther the Pope ●ave him the title of Defender of the Faith In the year 1531 being the twenty second year of Henry the Eighth Tyndal did translate the New-Testament into English for reading of which many were sharply punished and the reading of it was forbidden by the Chancellor of England and the Papist-Bishops then in power caused all the Books to be brought into Pauls-yeard and there to be burned and the said Tyndal was shortly after burned beyond Sea for translating the same In the same year one Camphjus being sent Legate from the Pope in to England was at first in great request with King Henry the Eighth and had many honours conferred on him and great Benefices but the King taking dislike of the Popes proceedings with him concerning a Divorce the said Legate brought from the Pope to Divorce the King from his Wife who was the

before him never thought of Johannes Patriarch of Constantinople put forth himself and would needs be called the Universal Bishop of the World But the Bishop of Rome in no case would suffer that but put a stop to it but after the Bishop of Rome could take it to himself CHAP. VI. Concerning the several Reliques and Superstitious Practises in the Church of Rome Who were the first Institutors of them and what and how much of their Idolatry is still upheld by the Protestant Professors in England at this day which was set up since there was a Vniversal Pope IN the Year after Christ Six hundred and two Phocas murthered Mauritius his Master the Emperor and slew two of his Sons and put his Daughters and his Wife to death And then this Phocas this Murderer was crowned Emperor and Boniface the third Bishop of Rome he obtained of this Murderer Phocas to be the Universal Bishop over all the Bishops and so that the Bishop of Rome should be called Pope And here got in the Pope by murder Platina Christ Misseus Hen. Panteleon c. Epist lib. 4. Epist 32 33 34. cap. 76 77. See Becon sol 295. And then the Bishop lost the greatest part of Christendom and all the Churches went together by the ears about him and the Emperor lost the greatest part of his Empire And here you may see the Pope was set up six hundred and 〈◊〉 years after Christ And this Pope in the year 605 first decreed That white Linnen Clothes should be laid on the Altar And further in another Author concerning Phocas which murthered Mauritius his Master who was a Noble and Virtuous M●n he obtained through Treason the Empire he also treacherously slew his Children that none of his should claim the Crown 〈◊〉 him This Murdering Tyrant set up the Bishop of Rome contraa●● 〈◊〉 Ch●ists command who said You are all Brethren And so the Bishop of Rome Boniface the third Lucifer-like exalted in pride above all his fellow Bishops challenged to himself the Supremacy and Authority that he and his Successors after him for ever should be taken for the chief Bishop and Universal Head of the Church throughout all the world And that from that day forward the Church of Rome should be called the Head Church of all the whole World And that the Church of Rome should be in subject on to no other Church but that all other Churches should be in subjection to it For until that time Constantinople Church was counted the highest where the Emperor dwelt and before that time the Church in Jerusalem was called the highest for Constantine was a Christian but in Rome there was Heathen Emperor● a long time after Christ Otho frisin Gen. Chron. lib. 5. cap. 8. Marrian Scot. in Anno 608. Vsperg in Phoca Becon fol. 295. It is before recorded that Joseph of Arimathea first preached the Gospel in England amongst the Britans in the year sixty four and about six hundred and two the Pope sent over to them Augusti●● to spread his Doctrine with his silver Cross his Letany his Procession Images Reliques Canticles and Books of Ceremonies charging the Britans that they did many things contrary to the Custom of the Church of Rome in their preaching Baptism and keeping of Easter c. and that they regarded not mans traditions but the Britans refusing to follow his Commands he threa●●ed them with Warr and to revenge it by death which immediately ensued Read Beda in his Ecclesiastical History of England the second Book and second Chap. Here all people may see that Christianity was planted in 〈◊〉 some hundreds of years before the Popes Rudiments Cand●● 〈…〉 Letany Procession and Images with the rest of his Trumpery 〈◊〉 into England who lyeth in saying that Christianity came fi●st in by them who came in by Murder and the outward Sword and hath held up his outward Tradition by Murder and the outward Sword ever since Chron. Ranulph Chest Bec. fol. 323. In the year 606 Boniface the fourth he instituted the Feast of All-Souls and All-Saints and he got the Temple of Phocas built by Agrippa and consecrated it to the Virgin Mary and all the Martyrs Plat. volat Polydore Bec. fol 355. In the year 645 At Rome where Meletus was present it was ordered that Monasteries should be erected in England in Boniface the fourth's days and this Boniface the fourth instituted the Feast of All-Souls In the year 637 England first divided into Parishes In the year 640 Lent was first set up in England in Pope Severinus's time Carcumbertus King of England commanded the people to keep Lent in England Segeb. in Chron. Pautal In the year 643 Pope Martin the first ordained that a man should not lye with his Wife till the Priest had hallowed or blest his Bed and the same year he ordained Mass to be sung openly with a loud voice and that Churches should be trimmed and dressed on Holy-days Pol. Paulel Bec. fol. 322. In the year 650 Pope Eugenius the first ordained that Monks should be shut up in Cloisters for before that time they did go up and down Euseb Chron. Cantz In the year 603 Pope Sabiniani commanded Lamps should be kept continually burning in the Church he also instituted Bells in the Church and called them Saints Bells Plat. Albert. Crantz de Barns c. He also decreed in the same year That the People should be assembled together to their Serv●ce by ringing of Bells Plat. Durand de Barns Plantal Bec. fol. 322. In the year 636 the University of Cambridg founded or enlarged by Segebert King of the East-Angles So these things were not set up by the Apostles but by the Pope In the year 622 Honorius decreed That none should keep company with excommunicated persons He also devised the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross Plat. Pant. Bec. fol. 355. In the year 622 About this year being fifteen years after the Pope came Mahomet the Turk In the year 635 the first Cross was set up in England by Oswald King of No thumbe●land who fighting against Cadwalda in the same place set up a Cross kneeling and praying there for Victory In the year 653 Pope Vicilianus brought in Organs first into the Church to make the people merry Chron Volat. Plat. c. Eugenius the fourth was the first that appointed B●shops to have Prisons of their own to punish people in In the year 664 a Controversie was in England about the observing of Easter In the year 676 Pope Leo the second devised the Pax and that it should be kissed of the people Plat. festi temp In the year 684 the Election or chusing of Popes without the Emperors approbation was granted by the Emperor Whereby it may be noted that before that time the Emperor had power to chuse the Pope In the year 666 Pope Bennet the second obtained of the Emperor Constantine that the Bishop of Rome for ever after should be taken of all men for Christs true Vicar

be accursed without the ground of Gods Word And the man said Sir our Priests say That they curse men thus by Authority of Gods Law And I said Sir I know not where this sentence of Cursing is Authorized now in the Bible and therefore Sir I pray you that you will ask the most cunning Clerk of this Town that ye may know where this sentence of cursing them that tythe not is now writ in Gods Law for if it were written there I would right gladly be learned where and I said to this man in this wise In the old Law which ended not fully till the time that Christ rose up again from death to life God commanded tythes to be given to the Levites for the great business and daily travel that pertained to their Office but Priests because their travel was mekil more easie and light then was the Office of the Levites God ordained the Priest should take for their livelihood to do their office the tenth part of those tythes that were given to the Levites But now I said in the new Law neither Christ nor any of his Apostles took Tythes of the people nor commanded the people to pay Tythes neither to Priests nor Deacons but Christ taught the people to do Alms that is Works of Mercy to poor needy men of surplus that is superfluous of their temporal Goods which they had more then them needed reasonably to their necessary livelihood and thus I said not of tythes but of pure alms to the people But as Cisterniensis telleth in the year 1274 one Pope Gregory the tenth ordained new Tythes first be given to the Priests Now in the new Law the words of the Law are these That it should not from thenceforth be lawful to give their Tythes as their own pleasure where they would as it had been before but pay all their Tythes to the Mother-Church The Judgment of David Pareus of Hidleburgh in the Palatinate concerning Tythes He saith that Tythes or Tenths were free and Arbitrary before the Law as appears by the Example of Abraham and Jacob a man might give them a man might now them or he might not as he pleased under the Law they were commanded by God to be given to the Priest Lev. 27. And the reasons thereof are clear First The tenths were a compensation unto the Levites for the twelfth part of the Land which ought to have fallen otherwise to their shares Moreover they were the Sallaries of Priests and Levites and maintenance of the poor for God instituted three tenths First the tenths of the Levites Lev. 27. Secondly the tenths of tenths or the hundredth to be paid by the Levites to the Priests Numb 18.26 Thirdly the poor mans tenths which was to be paid every three years after the Jubile unto the Poor Strangers Widows and Orphans Deut. 14.28 Therefore saith he when the Levitical Priesthood did cease then did the right of that Priesthood cease and the right of Tythes did revert to the giver of them Laws and Canons for Tythes among the Saxons In the year 786 in the time of Off●● which was in the time of Hepterchy in England there was a great Couned holden in Merci● by two Legats sent from Pope Adrian the first wherein as it is reported tythes were first established in England so that the first Law for payment of tythes came from the Pope and decreed by his Agents in Mercia being but a seventh part of England and afterwards as Popery encreased so tythes also were established in other parts of England by the several Kings thereof King Ethelbert King of Kent coming to the Court of Off● King of Mercia the said Offa murthered him in or about the year 793 and at length understanding the innocency of the said Ethelbert and to mitigate the hainousness of the Fact gave the tenth part of his Good to the holy Church and to the Church of Hereford in the remembrance of this Ethelbert and after wards went up to Rome for his Po●● 〈◊〉 where he gave to Peter's Church so called a penny through every House in his Dominion which is called Peter's pence or Romes shot and there was transformed from a King to a Monk and this was 794 years after Christ so was not set up by Christ and his Apostles See Seldens History of Tythes This Pope Adrian bestowed cost on Altars dead mens Tombs bones and Steeple-houses he attributed more Worship to Images then ever any did and wrote a Book of the honour and profit of them and appointed them instead of Scriptures to be Lay-mens Calenders He condemned in a Council those that detested Images This Adrian clothed the Image of Peter all in silver and covered the Altar of Paul with a Pall of Gold And this Pope set up Tythes 794 year after Christ In the year 797 after Christ Alchwin School-Master to Charles the Great in his Letter to the said Charles who was a Romish Emperor and had ordained Tythes to be paid wrote touching the Exaction of Tythes which he calls Jugum decimarum that is The Yoke of Tenths and Exaction of something from every house of the Huns and Saxons who were but then lately conquered by the said Charles and had newly made profession of the Christian Faith And the said Alchwin further advised in his Letter for the Christian Cause to omit it amongst them and not to put the yoke of Tythes as he said upon the people and not to exact something from every house but to shew that we are the Apostles sent of God and Christ into the world to preach and rather to give to them that ask or want then to exact Tythes for it is better to lose them then to destroy the peoples faith See Seldens History of Tythes King Athelstone King of the West-Saxons about the year 940. to pacifie the Ghost of his murthered Brother Edwin to whose death he is said to have consented did not only undergo seven years pennance but also built certain Monasteries and made a Law that people should pay Tythes viz. himself his Bishops and Officers hoping thereby to expiate his sins These following are the words of the Law Book of Martyrs p. 193. vol. 1. I Athelstone King Charge and Command all my Officers thorough my whole Realm to give Tythes unto God of my proper Goods as well in living Cattel as in Corn and fruits of the ground and that my Bishops likewise of their proper Goods and mine Aldermen and mine Officers and Head-men shall do the same Item This I will That my Bishops and other Head-men do declare the same to those that be in their Subjection and that to be accomplished at the Term of St. John the Baptist This was in the time of Popery Edmund King of England ordained Tythes to be paid for every Christian man in the year 941. Book of Martyrs vol. 1. p. 195. Edgar about the year 959 is said to have confirmed the payment of Tythes upon as bad a ground as Athelstone did See

Relict of his Brother made an Act that no more Annal should be paid for Bulls or Pardons to the Pope nor no Appeals be made to him but that all should appeal to the King for pardon Ab●ut this time the whole Clergy of Engla●d was charged by the Kings Council to be in a Praemunire for supporting and maintaining the Popes power and were called to answer in the Kings Bench but before their day of appearance came they in their Convocation concluded an Humble Submission in Writing and offered the King One hundred thousand pounds to pardon them which after some labour the King promised them pardon in which Submission the Clergy called the King Supream Head of the Church Bakers Chron. This Pardon was signed by the Kings hand Mark The King turning and denying the Popes Supremacy the Priests turn and deny their old Head of the Church called Peter's Successor And in the year 1535 the Popes Authority in England was abolished by Parliament and about two years after an Act was made which gave the King all Religious Houses and all their Lands and Goods And then an Oath was ministred to the Clergy which they took That they should renounce the Popes Authority and swear to be true and faithful to the King his Heirs and Successors of life and limb and to live and dye with him against all people and to acknowledg their holding their Bishopricks of the King only beseeching him to make restitution of the temporalities of the said Bishoprick So God me help and aell Saints said they About this time the Bible was first permitted to be read in English and Injunctions were set forth by the Lord Cromwel That the Creed Lords Prayer ten Commandments and Articles of the Christian Faith should be read in English which caused twenty thousand people to rise in arms in Lincolnshire being headed by a Monk and others and they were scarcely appeased but there arose forty thousand in the North where on one side of th●ir Ensigns they had Christ hanging on the Cross and on the other side the Cup and Bread of the Sacrament but they were suppressed In September 1537 by the special motion of the aforesaid Cromw●l all the Images unto which were made any special Pilgrimages and Offerings were taken down and burnt and forthwith by the means of the said Cromwell all the Orders of Fryars and Nunns with their Cloisters and Houses were suppressed and put down After all this and notwithstanding this Reformation Popery had so much power in the hearts both of King and people that one Nicholson alias Lambert being accused for denying the presence in the Sacrament he appealed to the King and the King heard him openly but all would not do neither would the King pardon him and shortly after he was drawn to Smithfi●ld and there burnt and this was done about the thirteenth year of his Reign And in the thirty seventh year of his Reign the Parliament gave him all the Colledges and Chantries And one John Smith was burnt in Smithfield and one Andrew Howet a Taylor for denying the Real presence in the Sacrament And further in the thirteenth year of his Reign was set forth by the Bishops the Book of the six Articles condemning all for Hereticks and to be burnt that should hold 1. That the Body of Christ was not really present in the Sacrament after Consecration 2. That the Sacrament might not truly be administred under one kind 3. That priests entred into holy Orders might ma●ry 4. That vows of Ch●stity entred into upon mature deliberation were not to be kept 5. That private Masses were not to be used 6. That Auricular Confession was not necessary in the Church These Articles and the Penalty annexed to them were called a whip with six strings which penalty was they were to be burned to death and forfeit their Estates real and personal to the King After King Henry the Eighth succeeded Edward the Sixth Son to King Henry the Eighth in whose time new injunctions were set forth for pulling down and removing all Images out of Churches also Homilies wee appointed to be read for peoples instruction and that the Sacrament should be ministred to lay-people in both kinds Also Marriage was allowed to the Clergy Auricular Confession was forbidden and prayer for the dead and in his fifth year the Book of Common prayer was established After King Edward succeeded Queen Mary about whose coming to the Crown there was some combustion to whom first the Suffolk men resorted who being always forward in promoting the proceedings of the Gospel and promised her their aid and to help her so that she would not attempt the alteration of the Religion which her brother King Edward had before established To make the matter short unto this condition she agreed and made promise to them that no alteration should be of Religion being a Papist and setting Popery up the people and priests generally turned that way and all Bishops that had been deprived in the time of Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks and all Beneficed men that were married and would not forsake their opinion and turn were turned out of their Livings and in her time the Mass was again sung in Latin and the Popes authority was by Act of Parliament restored in England and the Mass commanded in all Churches to be used In her second year the Realm was absolved and reconciled to the Church of Rome by Cardinal Pool and the first Fruits and tenths were restored to the Clergy but this was soon revoked the Council finding the necessity of it for the Queens support In her fourth year Monastaries were begun to be re-edified the number of those that dyed for Religion in her time which was but six years was two hundred fourscore and thirteen men and women Now see the Oath which the Clergy took to the Pope They swore to be true to Saint Peter the holy Church of Rome and to the Pope the holy Father and to defend it against all men and to acknowledg the Rules of the holy Fathers Decrees which to my power say they I shall keep and cause to be kept and all Here●icks and Schismaticks to our Holy Father I will persecute to my power So help me God and the holy Evangelists In the year 1559 Queen Mary being dead Queen Elizabeth began to reign and she with the advice of the Parliament soon made an Act for Uniformity of prayer and administration of the S●craments And the title of Supream Head of the Church was confirmed to Queen Elizab●th by the Parliament and they gave first fruits and tenths to her The Supremacy thus confirmed to the Queen the Oath was tendred to the Bishops and others who had been Papists in Queen Maries dayes and as many as refused to take it were deprived of their Livings and of the number of above Nine thousand Priests Bishops Deans Prebends Masters of Colledges Arch-Deacons Abbots who had then been in place in Queen Maries

THE Arraignment OF POPERY BEING A Short COLLECTION taken o●● of the CHRONICLES and other Books of the State of the CHURCH in the Primitive Times Also The State of the Papists and how long It wa● before the Universal POPE and MASS was set up and t●● time of bringing in all their Rudiments and Traditions Beac●●●● and Images Purgatory Tythes and Inquisitions Also A Relation of their Cruelties they acted after the Pope got up being worse then the Heathen and Turk New Rome having proved like Old Also What the People of England worshipped before they were Christians With several other things which may be profitable for people to read over wherein they may see the Worship of the Beast and Whore where all that fear God may see read try and give judgment by the Spirit of Truth ●o which is added The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the CHVRCH By G. F. and E. H. LONDON Printed in the Year 1667. The Contents Rulers makes Ministers and none must preach ex●●●● have a Licence from them Chap. 24. Pag●● Concerning the Priests turning as the Rulers turned to 〈◊〉 Power that came up rather then they would lose their ●●●fices and how they petitioned several Parliaments and F●●lers that they might have their Tythes paid them and that they would suppress the People called Quakers Ch. 2● Pag. 73. A Relation of some of the Cruelties insticted on the Christians by the Heathen Chap. 26. Pag. 81. An Abstract of the Bloody Massacre in Ireland by the Instigation of the Jesuits Priests and Fryars c. in the year 1642. Chap. 27. Pag. 84. In the History of the Churches of Piedmont collected and compiled by Samuel Morland in the year 1658. Chap. 27. Pag. 96. List of some of the Accusations for which the aforesaid people suffered in the Valleys of Piedmont by the Papists Chap. 28. Pag. 99. Te Doctrines of Christ and Antichrist distinguished Chap. 29. Pag. 103. A Discourse betwixt a Quaker and a Papist Ch. 30. P. 106. THE ARRAIGNMENT OF POPERY CHAP. I. The State of the Church in the Primitive Times and tho Time when the Apostacy from the Truth began Also a Relation of those few that were raised up from time to time to testisie against the Idolatry brought in and set up in every Age since the Apostles dayes From the Year Sixty four to the Year One Hundred and Fifty CHristianity was first brought into England in the Year 64 by Joseph of Aramathea and twelve Disciples sent by the Apostle Philip so that Christianity came into England long before the Universal Pope was Euseb lib. 3. John for preaching the Gospel was banished by Domitian into the Isle of Pathmos about the Year 97 and after the death of the aforesaid Domitian was released again under Peru●● the Emperor and came to Ephesus Anno 100 where he continued until the time of Trajan and lived until he was ninety nine y●●● of age Between the Years One hundred and One hundred and fifty Ignatius in the Persecution of Trajan the Emperor was for the Christian Faith delivered to wild Beasts to be devoured Euseb lib. 3. chap 35 36. It is written of him That as he passed through Asia being under the most strict Custody of his Guarders he strengthned and confirmed the people every where as he went and admonished them especially and before other things to beware and shun Heresies and vain Superstitions newly risen up and that they should cleave only to the Apostles Doctrine Ex Hierom in Calassanct Eccles The Church at Jerusalem in or about One hundred and ten years after Christ writeth That until that time she was as an uncorrupt Virgin there was no false Doctrine sown there From the Years One hundred and fifty to Two hundred Polycarpus Bishop of Smyrna resisted Annasetus Bishop of Rome ●nd withstood divers Ceremonies then beginning to be set on foot Iraneus Bishop of Lyons in France wrote in the name of his Brethren in France unto Victor Bishop of Rome reproving him for offering to excommunicate the Churches of Asia who withstood his Traditions touching the time of the Celebration of Easter he was reprehended of divers Bishops but sharply of Iraeneus About this time there was six Synods held in Asia touching the Celebration of Easter where the Bishop of Rome had no more Authority then the other Bishops and when he challenged Authority Iraeneus reproved him From the Year two hundred to the Year two hundred and fifty Polycrates Bishop of Antioch was a married Bishop he together with divers other Bishops of Asia withstood Victor Bishop of Rome and opposed certain Constitutions by him urged about observation of Dayes Meats Drinks and Vestures Euseb lib. 5. chap. 26. From the Year Two hundred and fifty to Three hundred Fabian Chanimon of Nilus and Fructuosus of Tarracona were married Bishops Asclepiades a Bishop of Antiochia of whom Alexander Bi●●● Jerusalem being the Prisoner of Christ in Caesaria wro●● the people in Antiochia That it was a comfort unto him 〈◊〉 made his imprisonment the more easie that he heard of the 〈◊〉 constancy of Asclepiades Euseb lib. 6. chap. 11. Note in th●● the true Bishops were no Persecutors but persecuted Narcissus Bishop of Jerusalem was a great Enemy to Super on Euseb lib. 5. cap. 6. From the Year Three hundred to Three hundred and fifty Silvester Bishop of Rome Three hundred and fourteen years 〈◊〉 Christ when Constantine offered him a Golden Scepter he ref●● it as a thing not fit for a Priests Function Sabel Euseb Chron And you may see there was a great difference between this Bishop and Popes when they got up And do you think that a Protestant Bishop Priest would refuse to take a Golden Scepter if it were offered him The same Bishop also ordained in the year following That ●●ry Priest should be the Husband of one Wife according to th●● postles Doctrine This was before the Popes Laws were made ag●●● Marrying The Councils of Ancyra Nice Tyrus Gangra in which condemned the Heresie of Eustatius speaking against Marri●● and eating of flesh c. Eliberis Carthage where the Bisho● Rome was stoutly withstood Antioch and Sardica were all su●●ed at the Commandment of the Emperors not of the Pope 〈◊〉 Concil Basilius Magnus Bishop of Caesaria in Cappadocia in his ●●●tings he complaineth of the pride of the Western Churches and ●●●demneth their seeking of Supremacy Basil Transmarin Epist 〈◊〉 and Epist 10. ad Eusamos Gregorius Nazianzenus testified against the pride of Pre●●● seeking Supremacy over others Zozam lib. 7. cap. 5. Gregorius Nyssenus was a married Bishop Niceph. Chalist I●●● cap. 19. Eusebius Caesariensis wrote against the Bishop of Romes ●●●●cy Lib. 2. de vit Const 3 37. He wrote against Images Lib 3. de presp Evang. And 〈◊〉 against Popish Injunctions of Fasting Lib. 5. Eccles Hist cap. 23. Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria whose Name was famous in the Church wrote much against Traditions Epist de Synod Nicen. Decr.

on Earth and Saint Peter's lawful Successor Anselmus Rid. Achilles Rerminius Sebastianus Franc. c. Bec. fol. 295. This Pope also brought it to pass that the Bishop of Rome only should be called Pope that is to say the Father of Fathers for before that time all Bishops generally were called Popes In the year 684 Pope Sergius the first invented the Agnies Dei and commanded that it should be sung of the Clergy and People together at the Communion Flat Durand de Barns Bec. fol 341. The same Pope in the same year dev●sed first the Clothes of the Saints to be kept for Rel●ques and confirmed the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary Segeb. Pant. Bec. fol. 356. In the year 714 a Council of Pope Gregory the second was against Marriages of Priests and was for the worshipping of Images in England In the year 729 the same Pope confirmed the having of Images in Churches and excommunicated the Emperor for abolishing them and stirred up his Subjects to rebel against him Blondus Chron Bec. fol. 324. In the year 752 Pope Zachary devised Oyl for the Lamps and invented the Priests Apparel Chron. Achil Bee fol. 304. In the year 768 Pope Paul the first devised the Service for Lent The same Pope also commanded that in the time of L●nt the Divine Service should be done before the sixth hour in the Morning Pope Constantine the second decreed That no Lay-man should be Pope Also he condemned the seventh Council of Constantinople as Heretical for condemning the worshipping of Images and wrote a Book of worshipping Images calling them Lay-mens Calendars In the year 769 Pope Constantine he condemned the Emperor for destroying Images and made a Decree to establish them in their Churches Plat. Pol. Bec. fol. 324. In the year 740 Gregory the third commanded Oblations and Sacrifices to be offered by the Priests at their Mass for the dead and made a Law that Images should not only be had in Churches as Lay-mens Books but that they should be worshipped and had in greater Reverence then ever they were and whoever was of the contrary Opinion should be condemned for a Heretick Seg. Bland Plat. Sabel Becon fol. 324. In the year 772 Pope Stephen the third decreed That Images should not only be had in Churches but that they also should be senced Seg. Plat. volat Bee fol. 324. In the year 796 Pope Adrian the first in his time there was a Council held at Frankford in the which it was decreed That whosoever did any Service in the Church he should wear a Surplice upon his back in Service time and no man to go in his common Apparel without a Surplice no not so much as the Sexton Christ Massaeus Becon fol. 323. These things are all contrary to Christ and the Apostles The same Pope about the same time ordained the Impropriation of Benefices and granted Priviledges to Monks Nunns Canons and the Gloisters In the year 817 Pope Leo the third ordained Sencing and a Council held at Rothemage commanded that the Altar should be Senced after the Gospel Lib. Conc. Durand Beo. fol. 338. The same Pope in the same year decreed That all Sundays should be kept holy Volat. Pantal. Sabel Pope Leo the third appointed That when the child is either Christned or Bishopped he should have but one Godfather be it a Man-child or a Woman-child De Consect dist cap. 4. Guil Durand Joan. Stell c. These things are all contrary to the Scriptures In the year 827 there was a Council held in the time of Pope Paschalis at Aquisgranum who ordained that no Ecclesiastical persons should wear any sumptuous Garments or Rings nor Ouches on their fingers but Bishops only when they were saying Mass in their High-Priests Robes Christian Massaeus lib. Concil Becon fol. 303. In the year 834 the Feast of Holy Trinity instituted by Gregory In the year 848 Pope Sergius the second his Name being Osporci that is Swines-snout or Hogs-mouth he changed his Name to Sergius And after that the Popes of Rome took it fo●● special priviledg to change their Names So that if he had been a Malefactor before he was a Pope he called himself Boniface which signifies Goodness And if he had been a Coward then he termed himself Leo a Lyon And if he had been a defamed person then he called himself Benedictus which signifies good Name and Fame Chron. Polichron c. Lib. 4. cap. 10. de Inventor Cerum In the year 850 Pope Leo the fourth he ordained that no Lay-man should come near to the Priest in the time of the Mass nor Into the Quire Seg. Plat. Becon fol. 343. This Pope was the first that had the Golden Cross carried before him Which is contrary to the Apostles In the same year in the same Popes time the Monkish Religion of the Camaldinenses was devised their Cowle and Cloak and all that ever they wear from top to toe was white They were to go bare-footed and lye on the ground He also instituted the Heart of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary that it should be kept holy eight dayes Pol. Chron. Lib Germ. Bec. fol. 313. Lib. Concil Seg. ● ●oan Functius In the year 858. this Pope Leo was the first that offered his ●eet to kiss to Princes Volat. Plat. rant Becon fol. 298. In the year 870 Pope Nichelas about this time was the first that decreed That the Popes Laws and Letters should be of equal Authority with the Scriptures He a so decreed that the Service should he in Latin and that Priests should not marry He also decreed that Gloria in Excelsis that is Glory in the Highest should be sung on Maurday Thursday in Lent De Consist dist 1. glor Becon fol. 343. In the year 863 Pope Bennet the third commanded that Priests should wear Apparel meet for their degree He also ordained that the Priests should be present at the Burial of the Bishops and sing prayers for their souls and that Bishops should do the like for them Fascit temp Chron. Becon fol. 304. Chron. Rlat In the year 871 Pope Nicholas made a Law That no Wife should be held lawful except she was first blest with a Priest The same year the same Pope first decreed That no Marriage ought to be in the time of Lent Gret Chron. Bec. fol 331. Which is now observed and is contrary to the Apostles There was also a Decree made in the Council at Illerdonse That from Septuagessima unto the Octaves of Easter and three weeks before John Baptist and again that from Advent to Twelftide after Christmas Marriages was forbidden to be solemnized and if any did marry in those forbidden times they should be separated Quest 23. Chap. 4. non oporte In the year 891 was the University of Oxford sounded by King Alf●ed which was before a place Dedicated to the Muses Isaackson Chron. In the year 913 In Pope Sergius the thirds time the Order of Clunasences Monks came up and their clothing

kept the faith from hencef●●th there is laid up for me a C●own of Righteousness and I know and I am su●e said he That be in whom I have trusted is able to keep me till that day Antichrist saith No man in this wo●ld can be wholly free from sin nor certain and sure of his salvation and therefore he ought to doubt and stand in fear whether he shall be saved or not CHAP. XXX A Discourse betwixt a Quaker and a Papist QVake● Why did you forsake your Religion in Queen Elizabeths time seeing you had burned to ashes and persecuted to death the Martyrs for not joining to your Religion in Queen Maries time and in Queen Elizabeths time the most of your Priests and People turned to Queen Elizabeth Papist Why our Masse-Book was but turned into English which was in Latin before and now we hear it in English only there is Purgatory and praying to Saints and Angels and some few odd things lest out and Sacrament and Altar But Tythes and Organs and most of our old Ceremonies is held up still which we first decreed and our Priests in the days of Queen Mary might not marry and if there was one hundred or two hundred a year belonging to him he was to have but forty pound a year of it and the rest went to maintain the poor and the Popes Revenue was the Peters-pence that is Smoak-penny and when the Priests turned to Queen Elizabeth then they might marry and had all the Tythes and Smoak-penny too and the poor were from that time turned to a Sessions business Quaker What had the Pope a penny for every Chimney in England that smoakt Papist Yes Quake Then there was never a Freeholder but all were the Popes Tenants Sure this time the smoak and darkness went overall Papist Your Scripture is a false Scripture which you have minced and clipt for in our Scripture it 's said all the Fathers and the Patriarchs went down into Purgatory and there they lay all in Purgatory till Christ came and he went into Purgatory and was three days and three nights in Purgatory and when Christ went into Purgatory the Devn said What dost thou come hither for to break open our strong holds and when Christ came out of Purgatory he brought all the Fathers and the Patriarchs out of Purgatory with him Quaker This is neither in your Scripture nor our Scripture for I think I have read your Scripture more then thou hast done I know your Scripture there is no such thing in it as that the Patriarchs went into Purgatory nor the Fathers nor Christ so it is a whimsey and a phantasie of your own brain and as for Christs being crucisied and lying three days and three nights in the heart of the earth the Scripture doth not call it a Purgatory and when Christ was crucified there was two thieves crucisied and one of the thieves reviled Christ when he saw the chief Priests and the Pharisees revile him and the other thief reproved him saying Why dost thee do so seeing thou art in the like condition for this man meaning Christ has done nothing worthy of death but we suffer for our deserts and therefore he desired Christ to remember him when he came into his Kingdom Saith Christ This day shalt thou be with me in Paradice mark the same day that he suffered and what Papists is Paradice become a Purgatory with you and so how could he be three days and three nights in Purgatory when he said that day he should be in Paradice Quaker What Religion art thou Papist A Catholick Quaker Catholick signisies Universal Papist Yes it doth Quaker I deny you Papists to be Catholick in the Universal power of God and I deny you Papists to be in the Catholick Faith which works by love to love one another and Enemies which is the Faith of the Son of God and the Apostles And I deny you Papists to be in a Catholick Wisdom that is pure from above but in an earthly sensual devillish bel●●● ●●d I deny you to be in the Catholick Fellowship and unity in the ●●●it of God the fruits of which is Love and I deny you 〈…〉 be in the Catholick Church which is the pillar a●● ground of truth but of the Whore and Beast that drunk the blood of the Marty●● and Saints I deny all your Popes Minister Bishops ●o be made by the Catholick Universal power as the Prophets and Apostles 〈◊〉 made and I know you to be our of the Catholick Univer●●●●pir● and power and life of Christ the Prophets and the Apostles Papist What Religion are you Quakers of 〈◊〉 Quaker We are of the Religion the Apostles were of which was before you Papists was Papist I deny that for you don't own a Visible Head to be your Church Quaker Prove a Visible Head Papist Christ says to Peter Vpon this Rock will I build my Church and this was Peter a Visible Head and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it Quaker VVhat will Christ build his Church upon Peter av sibleman of flesh and blood Papist Yes how could it be a Visible Head else and there has been a Visible Head ever since Peter which to him was given the Keys and he was Head of all the Apostles and so the Popes sate in Peters chair ever since and are infallible and cannot err and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against this Church Quaker Christ says to his Disciples Who do men say that I am His Disciples said Some say thou art Elias one of the Prophets and some say thou art John Baptist risen from the dead Christ said But whom do you say tha● I am Peter said Thou art the Christ the Son of tho living God Christ said to him Thou ●●t Peter flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto th●e but my Father which is in Heaven signifying that flesh and blood may reveal but flesh and blood had not revealed that unto Peter but his Father which was in Heaven So the Church was not built upon Peter as a visible man nor flesh and blood but upon that which is revealed and what was the Revelation to Peter but Christ the Son of the living God who destroys the Devil and his works and upon this his Church is built who is the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles The next Pope after Paul the Papit●s say was Clement that is false for Paul commends Lynus The next thing is thou sayest the Popes are infallible and cannot err and neve● erred since Peter Three hundred years after Christ the Bishop of Rome denied Christ and sacrificed to Heathenish gods whether was this an error yea or no and then 〈◊〉 made a noise in French and Latin and did conclude that the Bishop of Rome did err And it was six hundred years after Christ before Boniface the third got up to be first Universal Bishop who was set up by Pho●●● the Murtherer for all the Churches before had been ruled

by Council Papist Those Councils was gathered by Popes Quaker The Councils was gathered some by the Christian Emperors were them Emperors Popes Dost thee believe the Chronicle six hundred years after Christ Papist I do then there was no Universal Bishop until six hundred years after Christ Quaker And one Council was gathered by the Emperess and was she a Pope Nay this was before the Universal Pope was and Christ said to the Apostles that the Gentiles exercise Lordship one over another but it should not be so amongst them for they are all Brethren and the Gentiles were called gracious Lords which titlethe Bishop of Rome and other Bishops had from the Heathen and not from the Apostles for they was not be called of men Master And so Peter was not set over the rest of the Apostles as Head over them and what was said to Peter concerning having the Keys and binding and loosing was said to the rest of the Apostles as you may read in Scriptures And as concerning the Church that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church of the Papists when Phocas got up to be Emperor did not the Emperor lose most part of his Empire and the Pope most part of Turky and Egypt and Jerusalem and the Land of Canaan Has he not lost England Ireland and Scotland and part of Germany Holland Denma●k and Swerden 〈◊〉 and yet the old man the Pope tells people that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against his Church Let him look about him and see what he has lest and what he would have had left if he had not set up his Inquisitions to torture Christians in the time of the Council of Trent and when that the Princes of Germany in the time of Luther when they defired that for every tristing businesse they might not be summoned down to Rome was it not the Popes answer If it should not be so their Courts would be made or no authority but would go down And did not the German Princes desire that the Concubinary priests might marry For though by the Law they had Concubines yet they desiled other mens wives did not the ope say If I should suffer the priests to marry then they would not go where I would have them but would sit down with their wives And when the German Princes and others desired a free General Council such a Council as was in the time of Constantine mark that was before the Pope was three hundred years See Council of Trent p. 2. did not the Pope chuse a Council of his own Legates and people contrary to the mind of the Germans and others and then did not many of them fall from the Pope and many in France who got the victory over he Pope and yet he says the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church Consider people see what he has lest And after the Pope got up and had lost most of Christendom and the Emperor had lost most of his Empire for the Emperor's seat was at Constantinople before the Turk got up which was after the Pope and then after a time the Emperors came to be thrust up into Germany and called the Emperors of Germany So here see whether the Pope is not he that loveth and maketh a lye Rev. 22. Papist You speak as if you could tell our principles if you know them what is our principles Quaker I 'le tell thee I 'le begin with one There was a woman in Kent one of your Religion and by her Wisdom and Books she had brought many into your way and upon a time it pleased the Lord to convince this woman to see your way was false and Christ was to be her Way her Teacher and Salvation and so she went and declared this among the Papists And upon a time a Taylor that she had brought to be a Papist came to work at her house and she declared to him how Christ was her Way her Teacher and Salvation and he got betwixt her and the door and drew his knife at her it was askt her why did he draw his Knife she said he would have stabb'd me why would he have stabb'd thee why it is their principle What is it their principle to stab people Yes said she if they turn away from their Religion and the woman said Put up thy Knife I know thy principles Papist VVhat do you declare this abroad Quaker It is declared abroad and the women since dyed in the belief of the truth of God and forsook your way and so the Papist went away and never denyed but that it was his principle Papist The Papists say the Quakers are Antichrist and false Prophets Quaker VVhy are they Antichrist and false Prophets Papist Because they say they do prophesie and say Christ is in you c. Quaker Then thou may say the Apostles were false Prophets which shews thy ignorance for they said Christ is in you except you be Rep obates and we preach Christ in you and I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh and my sons and my daughters shall prophesie Read Cor. Col. and Acts. POSTSCRIPT AND you Papists that say there hath been a Head of the church and therefore the Pope must be Head of the Church for Aaron was Head and Moses was Head To which I say Moses was a married man and Aaron was a married man and Eleazer and Ithamer and Aaron was a Priest and Eleazer and Eli the Priest was a married man and Samuel was a Priest and was a married man and had Sons 1 Sam. 8. And by the Law of God the Priests were to marry as you may read in the Books of Moses But your Pope whom ye say is Head of the Church makes a Law contrary to Law and Gospel That Priests must not marry and Popes must not marry but the Popes have bastards and by the Law the priests may have Concubines and this is contrary to the Law to have Bastards and contrary to the Gospel to have Concubines for every man must have his own Wife And you Popes and Papists who say that you brought over the Bible first in England and you preserved the Bible think you not that all people sees you in this For you have been them that have kept the Bible from people in an unknown Tongue and though all profess to be believers in Christ yet they must not have the Scriptures in their own Language in this you are contrary to the Apostles shewing you are degenerate from them who judged them that spoke in an unknown Tongue And Christianity was planted many hundred years in England by Joseph of Aramathea before Austin the Monk brought over his trifling Traditions and Ceremonies And whereas you Papists call some Lay-people and some Spiritual which was not the way of the Apostles to do so and such that be under some Oaths Vows or Orders or has the natural Languages which began at Babel these you call spiritual which be in swearing