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A67421	Rome for good news, or, Good news from Rome in a dialogue between seminary priest, and a supposed Protestant, at large. An exhortation to bishops. Whereunto is also annexed a discourse between a poor man, and his wife.	Wallis, Ralph, d. 1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing W618; ESTC R236681	18,605	32

and present them with reverence be it spoken he will assoon accept of a pair of Bag-pipes for its all but Wind-Musick Neither do I think that the Boy who in Pauls lately got near unto the Organs with an instrument of Horn in his fist called a Cats-call with which he tuned Mew Mow was much to be blamed who being observed by some would now and then duck down his head and toot again I conceive there was no reason why they should be angry with him for they pretended to religious worship which the boy did not therefore less sinful Secondly he made some as merry as the Organs made others And whereas they say that some things are for decency I 'le tell thee Wife there are a sort of the female sex who are Mercenary as I have heard and they are called Hackney Whores but in some Countries are called Curtizans and they are known by their habits as they walk in the street If I should see thee in the habit of a Curtizan be it as decent as may be it would make my crooked Nose warp on the other side in my old age and for all thy profession of love to me take thee but for a Concubine To see that goodly Matron the Church of England professing love to the Lord Christ and him to be her Head and Husband and yet to put on the habit of an old Whore an old Whore an old Whore I can account her but for a Concubine at the best and she makes many of her Sons this day almost ashamed to call her Mother The Apostles care was to present the Church a pure Virgin Sure I am that those botches in her face are no beauty spots Nay she is now going to persecute a visible Mark of Antichrist And the Divel is now turn'd Scullian and is now going to skowring to make some Souls brighter and better for that end he hath put himself into a White Surplice and in a pair of Lawn Sleeves but by that time he hath done his work he will make his White Surplice and his Lawn Sleeves as black as himself as old as I am I may live to see it Husband I would ask thee but one question about the sin of wearing Hats which they so much condemn Wife I 'le tell thee Gestures and Vestures have antiently been the work of the Convocation-house next unto the Trade of Net-making which holds good to this day for now they make the Meshes of the Net so narrow that a man cannot get through with a good Conscience unlesse he leave that behind him but the Divel will be ready to help him first by telling him that it were better to yield than that the Benefit which others might have by his Ministry should be lost secondly that in regard of his relations his Wife and Children that have dependance on him or thirdly that it may be he hath gotten a little money or means 't will quickly be gone True it is Prelacy may be down but yet it may stand long enough to see him spend all he hath and thus he will pull him by the ears especially if it be ever a whit a good living but he will have him through A Boy was seen to offer a Candle to the Picture of the Divel which was drawn behind the door one demanded wherefore he did it he answered I do not know what need I may have of him friends if you have need to use him he will be very ready to serve you without a Candle he can doe his work in the dark for nothing but meerly for your Souls sake and he will be as curteous to you as he hath been to Br. he will make such a Gapp in your Conscience that a bush of Thorns may be drawn through forward and backward and never prick it The worst of it is that two bushes will hardly stop it again Look you to that But good Wife I am an old Man and we have two little boys if I die and you survive me prithee put neither of them two an Apprentice to that Trade of Ne●-making if ●ou should before they have served half their time their Masters will break or give over and then they mus● be turned over to Rome to serve the rest of their time into which they have made such a fair progress here but that 's not all I have no mind to that Trade I had much rather you would put them Apprentices to a Sweep-Chimney that 's a Trade newly come in fashion and its like to hold as long as they live I do not know whether it may out-live its sisters Contribution and Excise But that 's not all yet neither Wife I am now very serious with you it entrencheth and encroacheth very much upon that incomparable Magna Charta that was made by the greatest Monarch that ever sway'd Scepter Sealed with his own most pretious blood and who accounted it great dignity to be stiled King of Saints and is aprointed thereunto of his Father Psal 2. and whose Father is God over all blessed for ever in this Magna Charta are Recorded his Prerogatives Royal one of them is to make Lawes for his Subjects and those Lawes are as absolutely perfect as himself and his Subjects for their Souls have but that one onely Law-giver and his Laws for duration of time hold until he make a new Magna Charta never to be Repealed by any Act or Acts of men In this Magna Charta are Recorded likewise his Subjects Priviledges their Immunities and Freedoms being not confined to any circumscript place to Worship him in so that they Worship him in Spirit and in Truth It s their Priviledge to meet as occasion may serve to hear his Word to Pray to Communicate and participate of his Ordinances according to the Dictates and Commands of the said Magna Charta he hath also his Officers Recorded in this Magna Charta Pastors Teachers Elders Here come now a sort of fellowes whence I know not some say from Rome some say they are Chips of Jeroboams Block others say they are of those Angels that stand at the four corners of the earth to hold the winds that they blow not some say that they are of those Locusts that come out of the bottomlesse pit indeed they smell pitifully of the smoak of ignorance well Wife let them come from whence they will come sure I am they are a company of mad fellowes of them for the first thing they doe they pick a quarrel with the King concerning the Government that is upon his shoulders and his Kingdome that shall have no end and as Whores when they fall together by the ears the first thing they do they make at the head and off goes the Coyf or Head-geer so do these the first blow they give is at the head and off goes his Crown and Dignity it s but a trick of the old Whore and un King him by taking away his prerogative-Royal annihilating and making of no validity his

brought in Godfathers and Godmothers in the year 143. Pope Adrian brought in the white linnen Surplice in the year 769. Pope Zacharias brought in Priests Garments Copes and Vestments horned Caps and that none but hallowed Garments should be used Pope Telesphorus ordained Lent to be kept seven weeks before Easter Pope Higinus hallowed Churches or Temples Pope Calistus Church-yards Pope Honorius in the year 1214. brought in kneeling at the Sacrament Pope Nicholas forbid Marriage in Lent and other set times Pope Calistus the Imbring daies for Fasts four times in the year Pope Silvester the first added Wednesdaies Fridaies and Saturdaies weekly Pope Innocent put unto the former the Apostles Eves The Saints and Angels were beholding to those Reverend Fathers for hallowing their daies For generally all the Saints and Angels found such favour with Pope Boniface that they had not only a Catholick holy day called Alhallows but a famous Temple in Rome once dedicated to all the Devils called Pantheon was turned by this Holy Father into the name of Maria Rotunda and consecrated to the B. Virgine and all Martyrs Boniface the eighth shewed like honour to the four Evangelists Pope Sabinian ordained bells to call the people together to Divine Service vertue attributed to bells first to preserve the Fruits of the Earth secondly to drive away the evil will of our enemies thirdly to expel storms Tempests Thundrings Lightnings fourthly to drive away Spirits and Devils and therefore it is that the Custom is continued in many places as yet to ring as they call it the passing bell when a man or woman is dying Pope Felix the third made holy the day of the Arch-angel Michael Pope Damasus as Writers say added to the Psalms Glory be to the Father c. and to be sung in turn as the Church of England yet useth Pope Witalianus brought in the Organs to make up the Musick in the year 653. Pope Gelasius brought in prick-song Pope Gregory plain song Pope Vitalianus descant Pope Clement the first brought in Confirmation of Children by Bishops Anno 310. Melciades succeeding him said it was a more worthy Sacrament than the Sacrament of Baptism Pope Anasiasius brought in as VVriters say standing at the Gospel i● the year 404. Pope Damasus enjoyned Hierome to make an Order of Service for Churches and how many Psalmes and prayers should be said on every day c. which being done the Pope commanded all Churches should use that Order and no other And a much like exploit was performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and his brethren as Master Fox reports in King Edwards daies and coninues still by the Convocation-house I shall omit some things one Pope put the Pater noster into the Masse and commanded it to be sung Pope Marcus would have the Nicene to be sung after the Gospell Pope Anacletus would have the priest and the people to salute one another in Service time and therefore appointed the one to say The Lord be with you and the other to say And with thy Spirit Pope Sergius put in at the Sacrament O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the World have mercy upon us Pope Symachus added the Hymne Glory be to God on high The other Popes brought in their parts and patched together the Lethany or Lithurgy out of which the Service-b●ok is taken Pope Leo as some affirm brought in Infant-baptism about 300. years after Christ Pope Pase halus decreed Tythes in the year 827. Pope Vrbanus ordained Canterbury to be the chief patriarchal Seat Many things of this nature I shall omit at present as also the names of the several Authors who writ of them but I hope Wife you will believe me Husband if these things came from Rome tell me what the Reverend Dean and Doctor W. meant when he said We bless thee Lord for the solemnities of the Church Truly Wife as far as I conceive the Formalities and Ceremonies of the Church now in use but I can tell you what an old Non conformist would express in his prayer Lord purge thy Church of all the Remnants Reliques of Popery Idolatry Superstition which do but adulterate thy worship cause the sacrifice and oblation to be abominable in thy sight and take away those things which do but contaminate the Consciences of thy people are but as botches and blains in the face of thy Spouse This man was a sufferer necessitated sometimes to leave the Nation never changing his Judgement But this Doctor being sometimes a Clark in the Convocation-house made a handsome well-pen'd Speech against some formalities and was accounted a young Puritan and was called to the Bar and to his knees too but had a Friend But now his narrow silken throat is grown wider he can sup Ceremonies yea and swallow a fat Parsonage a Prebendship and a Deanry and never keck at it I have seen him in his formalities that if he had worn bells on his Legs you would rather have taken him for a Maide-marrian in a Morrice dance than a Minister and with us much contempt cast upon him as ever I saw upon a man in a Pulpit indeed he saith he doth it to come as near Rome as he can under pretence of drawing them to his religion for that end he hath now put himself into the Suburbs and it is supposed by many that he wil be as easily perswaded to come to live in the City as he shal perswade What that is I know not he puts so many simples in the consection the Romanists to come to live in the Suburbs One thing I took from the mouth of an honest Countrey man of his which was the Doctors Speech thus That it was a lesser sin for a man to kil his father than for a man in regard of the ceremonies to refrain coming to Divine service established in the Church of England the one was the killing of a particular person the other made a breach in the mystical body of Christ but this I shall only say O Doctor Doctor quae te dementia cepit what madness hath possest thee remember from whence thou art fallen Husband I would be satisfied in one thing concerning this Divine service how it came to be imposed how came it up at first The first that ever I read of was Pope Damasus who enjoined Hierom to mak an Order or service for Churches and appoint Guliel Durandus what prayers should be said on every day c. and how many Psalmes c. which being done the Pope commanded all Churches should use that service and none other and the like was performed by the Archbishop and his brethren in King Edwards dayes as Mr. Fox reports and stil continued by the Convocation-house as at this day Object But did not the Lord give forms of blessings prayers and Psalms c. therefore why may not the prelates do the like I tel thee what I shal say Dost think Ieroboham had so slender a