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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90212	Speedy advice to all Roman Catholicks; especially, those concerned in Scotland and Ireland	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1689 (1689)	Wing O56aA; ESTC R230350	17,548	24

Constantinople insinuated himself in the Emperour's savour and obtained at his hands that the Church of Rome should be called the Supream Head of all other Churches and himself Supream and Universal Bishop of all Bishops Then Boniface as Platina writeth proud of his Vain Glorious New Title which he had snatch'd from the hand of an Usurper called a Council at Rome consisting of seventy two Bishops thirty Presbyters and three Deacons wherein the priviledge of Supremacy given by Phocas to the Roman Church was published Thus he who had murdered an Emperour could make a Bishop and add lustre to his ambitious Holiness and against the Nature both of Reason and Philosophy give that which in himself he had not Thus was this proud swelling Title Midwif'd to the World by a Tyrant who had Murdered his Master the good Emperour Mauritius with his Brother Wife and Children And as Bibliander observeth the Eagles three Heads with their bloody Bills awaked all at once viz. Boniface Phocas and Mahumet the Arabian Now considering these things and that the Bishop of Rome oweth his Greatness and Supremacy to the Emperour what Master of Ingratitude is he to Curse Excommunicate Depose and tread him under his Feet Cause him to hold his Stirrup Crown him with his Feet force him to stand bare-foot begging at his Gates Poison him and make him lye rotting above ground without a Grave to lye in Neither can the Pope deduce his Infallibility from Peter's constancy and stedfastness of Faith for he after he had received the Keys both could and did fall and was by our Saviour Matth. 16.23 not called His Holiness but Satan whence I might after the manner of Popish Argumentation infer that the Church of Rome is built upon Satan who denyed his Saviour and was ignorant Gal. 2.13 14 whether it was lawful to eat with the Gentiles till Paul informed and confirmed him in the true Faith. Yea all Papists foolishly conclude and affirm that during the time of Christ's Crucifixion none upon Earth no not the Apostles themselves had true Faith or believed in the Son of God but only the B. Virgin whence it will follow according to the Principles of Popery that the Church was built upon an Unbeliever and that the Devils the Gates of Hell did prevail against it Now then if Peter was neither Supream nor Infallible why doth the Pope of Rome father his Fopperies of Supremacy and infallibility on him as by a Gospel Line and Spiritual ● could prove his Right to the Holy Chair and throw down all his Brats of Abomination at the Blessed Apostle's Door But if I can by demonstration prove the Pope of Rome his pretended Holiness an Infidel in Faith and an Atheist in Life and Conversation I hope all ingenious Papists will acknowledge him Fallible for ab actu ad potentiam bene valet consequentia The first proof I shall bring is a short History taken out of the best Popish Writers which is this Formosus the first Reigned six Years and died anno 896. after he had made many Decretals Acts and Church-Canons which Steven the 6th spitefully annulled and cancelled as wicked and abominable because he had prevented him in the Popedom and would not allow him Concubines to his mind Yea to revenge his undeserved quarrel against him summoning a Council he caused his dead rotten Carcass to be digg'd out of the Grave and deckt with Gorgeous Pontificals and pulling off all again to be array'd in Lay-mens habit Thus the dead Body being degraded and devested of all Ecclesiastick Dignity like a superstitious Fool he cut off the two Fingers of his right hand wherewith he us'd to hold the Sacrament and threw them in the River Tyber and afterwards commanded his Body to be buried among Lay-men But Romanus the first succeeding Steven allowed and confirmed the Acts and Decrees of Formosus annulling and condemning the Canons Acts and Decretals of Steven as wicked and abominable Then after the Death of Romanus Pope John the tenth being a Favourite of Formosus made a General Collection of all the Writs and Processes against the dead Body of Formosus and condemned the Pope Steven his Council and all their Writings Till Sergius the third who had before by the Roman Clergy been elected Pope with Formosus but suppressed by Faction digg'd up the dead rotten Body of Formosus the second time which had been in the Grave about ten Years set it in St. Peter's Chair drew it thence by the Heels to a block and strook off its head And chopping off the three fingers which Steven had lest he caused the rotten stinking Massacred Body to be thrown into the River Tyber And lastly defaced anulled and condemned all his Acts and Decrees which before had been allowed denyed confirmed and condemned by several thwarting and contradicting Popes Till in the Reign of Pope Anastatius the third about the year 913 some Fishermen found the Body of Formosus in the River Tyber which was by his Holiness buryed sumptuously the very Images if you can believe the famous Popish Writers welcoming nodding and saluting the dead Body when it was brought into the Church Now of necessity some of these contradicting Popes were erroneous in their Judgments yea both faulty and Heretical and did fall in their Faith and sacrifice their Conscience to their spleen For contradicting one another they could not all be in the right nor affirm that whicn was true and Orthodox For it is an undeniable maxim that Duo contradictoria nequiunt esse simul vera But whatever was their Faith I am sure their Charity was thred-bare and their Holinesses destitute of all mercy vindictively pursuing their holy Father beyond the Gates of Death and revenging their quarrel in the very Grave Neither was this all for it is observed by Popish Writers and all others since that after the Death of Formosus the Popes of Rome poison'd and dispatch'd one another so fast that there were eleven Popes within nine years space The next proof of the Pope's Fallibility in Faith is that John the 23d was proved an Heretick in the Council of Constance by these words Pope John said and stubbornly believed that the Soul of Man dyeth together with the Body and is consumed to nothing like the Souls of Bruit Beasts And because Thomas Walleis an English-man was Imprisoned by the Pope for reproving his Heresie the King of France summoned a Council into his Palace in Viciana Sylva where the whole Assembly subscribed against the Pope's Heresie And the King wrote to John to reform it and set the Prisoner at liberty The last he did to prevent threatning dangers but of his Heresie he never would purge himself My third proof shall be from Pope Gregory the VII This man was an Adulterer a great Sorcerer and Necromancer and as Beno the Cardinal writeth when he was in his merry Fits would cast off his Sleeves and skip and dance like a Bear in form of sparkles and flames of fire