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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53528	Sound advice to Roman Catholics, especially the residue of poor, seduced and deluded Papists in England who obstinately shut both eyes and ears against the clearest light of the Gospel of Christ and surest evidences of Scripture and reason to which is added a Word to the people called Quakers / by T.O.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1689 (1689)	Wing O56; ESTC R15543	17,650	24

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. 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 Th●ve 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