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A13155	An abridgement or suruey of poperie conteining a compendious declaration of the grounds, doctrines, beginnings, proceedings, impieties, falsities, contradictions, absurdities, fooleries, and other manifold abuses of that religion, which the Pope and his complices doe now mainteine, and vvherewith they haue corrupted and deformed the true Christian faith, opposed vnto Matthew Kellisons Suruey of the new religion, as he calleth it, and all his malicious inuectiues and lies, by Matthevv Sutcliffe.	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.	1606 (1606)	STC 23448; ESTC S117929	224,206	342

image of S. Peter as euery one may see and their antiquaries dissemble not The Gentiles did deifie their Emperours and benefactors and erect temples altars in their honour And what doe Papists doe not they canonize their Popes and do not Popes canonize Saints and do they not erect temples and altars to Saints they will not deny it but S. Augustine lib. 22. de ciuit Dei c. 10. sheweth that Christians built no temples nor altars to martyrs as gods nos saith he martyribus nostris non templa sicut dys sed memorias sicut hominibus c. fabricamus nec ibi erigimus altaria Heathen nations as Tertullian sheweth vs did so dispose of God that they assigned the chiefe Empire to one and distributed his offices and duties to many diuinitatem sic disponebant vs imperium summ●● dominationis penes vnum offieia eius penes multos esse vellent so the Papists acknowledging one God in termes doe assigne the parts of his gouernment to manie Saints making our Lady chiefe of all as may appeare by their practise and by the expresse words of Horatius Tursellinus before rehearsed to S. George they assigne the charge for the warres to S. Antony the custody of swine to S. Apollonia the cure of the toothach to S. Roch and S. Sebastian the remedy against the plague to S. Fiacre the healing of quartan agues to S. Margaret the charge of women in trauell of childbirth to S. Lewes the gouernment of horses Eusebius hist eccles lib. 7. c. 17. sheweth that ancient Christians after the custome of the Gentiles kept the images of those with them of whom they had receiued benefites In the Masse also diuers trickes are borrowed from the Gentiles they did offer for the dead and so likewise do the Papists Polydore lib. 6. de inuentorib c. 9. proueth the yearely sacrifice for the dead out of Macrobius and Cato and c. 10. the 9. daies sacrifice out of Horace fichat sacrificium pro mortuis saith he nono die from thence also he fetcheth mourning and mourning blackes The vse of burning incense saith Polydore lib. 5. de inuentorib c. 10. came from the heathen apud nos Leo tertius idem fiers sanxit saith he quod etiam ab Ethnicis seruabatur then he bringeth Virgiles testimony for burning incense From the heathen the Priests also take their washing of hands at Masse ab Ethnicis sumptum est saith Polydore apud quos sacrificantes primùm omnium n● uius lausabant Likewise of them they borrow their skippings and turnings for as Apuleius saith the Priests turned about sprinkling the bloud of the sacrifice The clause of the masse as appeareth by the testimony of Apuleius lib. 11. of the golden asse cited by Polydore de inuentoribus lib. 5. c. 11. came from the Gentiles for as the Priest said there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the Priest saith heere ite missa est The consecrating of images Durand deriueth from the example of Nabuchodonosor that called all his Princes to the dedication of the golden image as wee read rational diuin lib. 1. c. 6. The gentiles did not sacrifice without fire and water no more doe Masse priests as appeareth by the chapter literas tuas de celebrat miss In their praiers the Masse-priests turne themselues to the East and this custome Polydore lib. 5. de inuent c. 9. doth prooue to haue beene borrowed from the gentiles for God forbad his people to pray toward the East The Masse-priests carrie about their corpus Domini vpon a hackney when the Pope goeth in progresse so likewise did the Priests of Isis carry the image of their goddesse about with them and the Chaldeans the fire which they worshipped as God Choul in his booke of the religion of the Romans confesseth that tunicles albes and the pompe and ceremonies of the Masse haue beene taken from the Aegyptians and Gentiles That Purgatory came from the Gentiles it cannot be denied Virgil Aenead 6. doth testifie so much ergo exercentur poenis veterumque malorum saith he supplicia expendunt So likewise the Papists suppose that soules are there purged for their sinnes likewise from them they borrow their purgation by holy water as is signified by Polydore de inuentoribus lib. 6. c. 1. As the Gentiles beleeued that euery one had his good and bad genius so the Papists assigne to euerie Christian a good and bad Angell The Gentiles allowed no married Priests as Hierome lib. 1. contra Iouin doth testifie the same practise haue Papists vsed concerning their Priests The 2. councell of Arles c. 23. sheweth it to be a custome of Pagans to worship trees or stones or founteines yet our English Papists cease not to go on pilgrimage to S. Winifrides well nor to worship stockes and stones How then can the Papists call themselues Christians that haue in fresh practise so many heathen customes CHAP. XXV That poperie borroweth also diuers fashions from the Iewes VVHat they haue not from the Gentiles that for the most part of their ceremonies is borrowed from the Iewes from them also I haue shewed how they haue borrowed diuers heresies with the Pharisies they boast in the law and are more curious in obseruing their owne traditions than the law of God With the Hemerobaptists they sprinkle themselues continually with holy water with the same they consecrate their clergie as the Leuites were consecrated Numbr 8. by the law of Moyses they doe also borrow their shauing at the time of their ordination from the law God speaking of the consecration of Leuites aspergantur aqua lustrationis saith he radant omnes pilos carnis suae Innocentius the third in the chapter per venerabilem proueth the supreme authority of the Pope and of his see out of the words of the law Deut. 17. thence also hee proueth his Cardinals nay to shew himselfe more Iewish hee tieth Christians to the obseruance of the ceremoniall lawes of Moyses contained in Deuteronomy In the chapt cleros dist 21. they endeuour to proue the seuen orders of their clergy their seuerall functions from the Leuiticall law The burning of incense at the altar Polydore lib. 5. de inuentorib c. 10. sheweth to haue beene borrowed from the example of Aaron quod thus adoletur ad altare id primus fecit Aaron saith he The Iewes began their feasts with washing of hands and from thence doth Polydore think that the washings of masse-priests at the altar are deriued As the Iewes adorned the tombes of the Prophets so doe Papists adorne the tombes of their martyrs hoping to bee relieued by them Durandus rational diuin lib. 1. c. 6. deriueth the consecration of Churches altars and vessels and the greasing of them from the law of Moyses and this is also proued by the chap. tabernaculum de consecrat dist 1. The apparrel of Priests is transsiumpted from the Iewish ceremoniall law as Durandus witnesseth lib. 3. rat diuin c. 1. sacrae vestes saith he à veteri lege videntur

to them and seruing them they shew themselues to haue a tacke of heathenish idolatrie It appeareth both by scriptures and practise of the church that to burne incense to grauen images hath beene reputed idolatrous the idolatrous Iewes 2. Paral p. 30. are noted as burning incense to their idols Marcellina burned incense to the images of Iesus Paul Homer and Pythagoras and is therefore taxed by S. Augustine de haeres neither did the heathen Emperours require more at the hands of Christians than that they should offer certaine graines of incense to their Gods but euery man knoweth how the Papists place images on their altars and continually offer incense vnto them they burne also incense in the honour of Angels and Saints and set vp lights before their images They that offer sacrifice to creatures are idolaters for sacrifice is the highest honour that is done to God and this the Papists themselues confesse but the Masse-priests offer the sacrifice of praiers and praises to Angels and Saints and incense to their images they offer also the body and bloud of Christ as they say in honour of them neither can they excuse themselues by saying that they offer not the sacrifice of the Masse to Angels or Saints for in the time of the law no sacrifices were offered in the honour of any creature neither is there any difference betwixt offering to God and in the honour of God Saint Ambrose teacheth vs that to worship the crosse or crucifixe is plaine idolatrie and paganisme Inuenit Helena crucem Domini saith he a De obitu Theodosij regem adorauit non lignum vitque quia hic gentilis error sed adorauit illum qui pependit in cruce Helena found the Lords crosse and adored her king not the wood for that is the error of the gentiles but she adored him that hung vpon the crosse the Papists therefore adoring the wooden crosse naie adoring euery sticke put a crosse are grosse idolaters and like the gentiles if Ambrose may sit iudge Epiphanius haeres 79. sheweth that the diabolicall inuention of images hath adulterated the seruice of God and brought in spirituall fornications The councell of Francford vnder Charles the great sheweth that images being worshipped in Churches are idols as may be gathered out of these words that are in his booke de imaginibus non nos imagines in basilicis positas idola nuncupamus sedne idola nuncupentur adorare colere eas recusamus we doe not call images placed in great Churches idols but wee refuse to worship and adore them least they should bee called idols Hierome in Abacuc 2. writeth that all peruerse opinions which of the inuenters thereof are adored are grauen images and by that he meaneth idols but I haue shewed that Papists maintaine many hereticall opinions Finally their owne confession doth testifie against them for Bellarmine doth confesse lib. 2. de imaginib c. 5. that an idol is a false similitude and representeth that which is not but Papists worshipping S. George that killed the dragon and S. Catherine that broke the wheele and the image of God the father worship false images for neither shall they proue that God is like an old man or that the images of George Catherin expresse any truth they say also that it is idolatry to giue diuine honour to creatures but they giue diuine honour to the sacrament to the crosses and to the images of the Trinity which I hope they will not deny to be creatures Neither doe they bring any better excuses then the heathen idolaters Bellarmine lib. 2. de imaginibus c. 24. saith that images are not worshipped by them per se propriè that is for themselues and properly but well could the gentiles say as much Againe he saith they worshippe not images as Gods so likewise did the gentiles answere as Lactantius sheweth instit lib. 2. c. 2. non ipsa inquit timemus c. we doe not feare them say the idolaters speaking of images but them to whose likenesse they were made and for whose sakes they were consecrated the same may be prooued by the testimonie of S. Augustine in psal 113. Lastly they say they put no trust in images but neuer did the gentiles trust so much in the images of Iupiter or Iuno as the Papists trust in the images of our Lady of Loreto Iames of Compostella the Rood of Mantua and such like CHAP. XI That Popish religion neuer came from Hierusalem TRue Christian religion was first preached in Hierusalem and from thence was deriued throughout all nations vnto the endes of the world ye shall be witnesses vnto me saith our sauior to his Apostles Act. 1. both in Hierusalem in all Iudaea and in Samaria and to the ends of the world and herein was the Prophesie of Isay c. 2. fulfilled that told vs long before how the law should goe foorth out of Zion and the word of the Lord out of Hierusalem neither neede we insist much vpon this point for Stapleton in his relection of doctrinal principles contr 1. q. 5. confesseth so much and euery odde Masse-priest that taketh vpon him to handle these matters is still talking of the beginning of religion at Hierusalem but little wot they poore soules how little aduantage this bringeth to their cause for if they be not either impudent or desperate they will neuer say that these grounds these doctrines these heresies and idolatries which before are mentioned came from Hierusalem but should they runne beside themselues with fury yet will they neuer be able to proue their assertion To giue them further particular instances gladly would I haue Kellison the surueior or because he is bu● a kettler newly come foorth with the droppings of Diuinity out of Stapletons tubs and Aquinas his water barrels the stoutest champion of the Pope to proue the principall pillars of Popery to haue come from Hierusalem Petrus Fontidonius in a Sermon of his in the conuenticle of Trent told his auditory that the two principal pillers of the Roman church were the Masse and the Pope let vs then see whether any of thē can shew that these two came from Hierusalem we haue inuincible reasons to the contrarie for first Missa is a Latine word as Bellarmine de missa and the lernedst of the aduersaries confesse but it is not likely that Latine Masses should come from Hierusalem secondly the Latine Masse doth differ much from that of S. Iames both in the canon and other parts thirdly Gregory saith the Apostles consecrated saying only the Lords praier fourthly the massemonger Priests confesse that Celestine made the introit and Gelasius Gregory other parts which were no bishops of Hierusalem but of Rome fifthly the Easterne church to this day defieth the Latin Masse which it is not like it would haue done if it had come from Hierusalem sixthly there is no probabilitie that in Hierusalem these words aeterni and mysterium fidei were added in the consecration of the cup.

and heauy death as if a sheete could pray for vs or deliuer from the plague doe they not deserue to be trussed in a cloke-bagge whose trust is in a counter fet winding-sheete They giue the same honor to the sacrament and to the crosse that is due to God very absurdly transferring the glorie of God to creatures are they not then absurd worshippers that cannot distinguish betwene God and creatures and doe they not very absurdly deny themselues to be idolaters Absurdly also they celebrate the feast of the crosse whereon our Sauiour was dishonored not celebrating the feast of the asse on which he was honored Durand rat diui 7. c. 11. disputing this matter is much pusseld about it They beleeue verily that images haue talked and walked and all this because it is said so in the legend but they shew themselues very foolish that beleeue legends and beleeue not the scriptures that say they haue mouthes and speake not feete and walke not The grounds of their religion are very absurd and foolish for they sound themselues vpon the Pope and his decretales the Pope being oftentimes soolish and ignorant and his decretales being rude false and oftentimes ridiculous Baldus in c. 1. de natur seud saith that Pope Celestine the sift was a simple fellow vnum pecus Innocent the 3. in the Chap. solitae demaior obed argueth that the Pope is aboue the Emperor because the sunne is bigger then the moone an argument meerely lunaticall in another place he gathereth that we are now to obserue the laws of Deuteronomy because Deuteronomium signifieth a second law Bonisace the eight in the chap. vnam sanctam extr de maior obed proueth the Pope to be aboue al Princes because we reade Genes 1. that God in the beginning made the world Clement the 6. in the chap. Vnigenitus extr de poenit remiss saith that vnlesse the ouerplus of the merits of Christ had beene bestowed in dispensing the treasure of indulgences that the same had beene void and superfluous and like treasure laid vp in a napkin that the decretales are full of lyes we shall declare when we come to speake of Popish-lies They say it is a point of faith to beleeue that the Pope is Saint Peters successor and head of the church yet if the Priest that baptised the Pope had no intention to baptize him then he is no member of the church if he that ordred the Pope had no intention to order him then is he no priest If he haue no intention to consecrate then doth he not consecrat so all dependeth vpon mens secret and vnknowen intentions They confesse also that Christs body is not in the sacrament if the priests haue no intention to consecrat of which it followeth that all Papists for ought they know are absurd idolaters Their ceremonies are full of foolerie first in the masse the Priest absolueth the clerke and then the clerke absolueth the Priest which is all like as if one mule should scratch another it is absurd also to put the keyes into a boies hand that is no Priest The Priest kisseth the altar and praieth for remission of sinnes by the merites of Saints whose reliques are there contained so a stocke kisseth a stone and forgetting Christ praieth for remission of sins by the merites of Saints whose reliques are said to be there where there is no reliques at all and percase the bones of dogs or apes or other beasts for ought the wise masse-priest knoweth In the Missale of Sarum after the priest hath consecrated he maketh a low legge worshipping the worke of his owne hand and saith aue which is as much as God saue you sir or you are welcome to towne The priest is apparrelled like a moriske-dancer and skippeth and danceth about the altar like an ape in a chaine his head is shauen and well greased his hands washed but his hart vncleane and this gallant taketh vpon him not only to offer Christ in sacrfice but also to swallow him downe like a pill without chawing The Friers for the most part are apparrelled like chimney-sweepers or burners of houses with a hood vpon their head like a bagge of hippocrace The Popes when they are first chosen doe cast mony abroad saying argentum aurum non est mihi as is prescribed lib. 1. caerem. but most vnlike they are to him whose words they abuse further absurdly they deny themselues to haue mony when they cast mony a broad and inioy so great riches When they take the Pope from the perced stoole where his humanitie is tried they say he hath raysed the poore out of the dust ex stercor ariae eleuantes dicunt suscitat de puluere egenum and yet absurdly this beggar as they say is lord of lords and King of Kings Their demands and answers in matters of religion are not very wise Austen asketh of Gregory as Bede reporteth lib. 1. hist Angl. c. 28. whether a woman with child were to be baptised as if not shee as well as others Boniface of Mentz asked the Pope if it were lawfull to eat Bacon and he answereth yea but prouided alwaie said he that it be dried with smoke or boyled Their legends are feriall Ruffine one of S. Francis his schollers disputing with the diuell told him he would doe Sir reuerence in his mouth Ruffinus dixit diabolo aperi os tuum ego stercorisabo in illud S. Francis in an award betwixt a wolfe See S. Francis his conformitie c. and the men of Eugubium condemned the townesmen in expenses and speaking to the wolfe he said brother wolfe it is reported also that he preached to swallowes and said sorores meae hirundines audite verbum dei S. Aidus as Capgraue telleth hauing compassion on 8. hungry wolues gaue them 8. of his lambes and after they were eaten got them out of the wolues belly by praier Austen the monke by praier obteined that the men of Dorset that had scorned him and all their posterity had tailes belike the race is now failed the whole legend is full of foolish fables but I shall haue occasion to speake thereof elsewhere The reasons of their religion are absurd Coemiterium saith Durand l. 1. c. 5. dicitur a cimen quod est dulce sterion quod est statio c. vel quia ibi sunt cimices vel vermes vltra modum foetentes and againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicitur quasi pollutū antrum in the same booke c. 4. he saith the bell-rope betokeneth the humility life of preachers and the measure of mans life it is great pity that the Iebusites and masse-priests are not haltred with this signe of humility and compassed with this measure Lib. 3. cap. 10. he saith the priests stole betokeneth the light yoke of the Lord. Stolalene domini iugum significat lib. 3. c. 11. speaking of the vestiment called dalmatica he saith it hath wide sleenes because charity ought to be stretched out to our