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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04528	The Catholique iudge: or A moderator of the Catholique moderator Where in forme or manner of a plea or suite at law, the differences betweene those of the Reformed Church, and them of the Romish Church are decided; and without partialitie is shewed which is the true religion and catholique Church, for the instruction of either partie. Together with eight strong arguments or reasons, why the Popes cannot be competent iudges in these controversies. Written in the Dutch and French tongue, by Iohn of the Crosse, a Catholique gentleman. Translated out of French into English, by the right worshipfull and learned Knight Sir A.A.	John of the Crosse, a Catholique gentleman.; A. A., Sir.	1623 (1623)	STC 14651; ESTC S107831	50,836	96

called God sitting as God in the Temple of God The whore that is drunke with the blood of the Saints being seated vpon the Beast with seven heads who committeth fornication with the Kings of the earth and fighteth against the Lambe by whom shee shall be ouercome and finally shall bee forsaken by seven hornes or seven Kings For since that the Popes attribute to themselues more honour then to Iesus Christ and to the Magistrate and so advance and lift vp themselues aboue God Behold the reason why they dispence against the commandements of the Apostles against right and the law of Nature Ten arguments that the Pope is Antichrist that they place their acts aboue the iudgement of man that they equall their ordinances to divine institutions That they attribute to themselues the power of transferring and changing of kingdomes That they name themselues head spouse and high soueraigne Priest or Bishop of the Church The Heralds cry before the Pope Abasso Abasso that is all downe on your knees Dist 19. 11. 96. Bald. vlt. cap. Decius 1. de constit Felin c. eg 1. de iure Eber. Hardin Anna. Iron yea verily they terme themselues the cause of causes and the Lord of Lords That they are seated in the Temple of God being drunken with the blood of the Saints possessing the Citie set vpon seven hils which hath had soveraignty and rule ouer all the Kings of the earth In briefe seeing that all the things which haue beene foretold of Antichrist in the holy Scripture agree fitly sort rightly and are proper to the Pope we need expect no other Antichrist from Babylon Beholde wherefore the Reformed conclude from all the reasons before going that the Popes of Rome are the true Antichrist The villanies of the Popes the eight cause of refusall The eight reason In the eight place the Reformed Christians will not admit the Popes for their Iudges for these their filthy vices and villanies ensuing First they haue beene whoremongers 2. Tyrants 3. Possessed by Divels 4. Atheists without any sence or feeling of God 5. Tormentors or bloody persecuters 6. Traytors 7. Poysoners 8. Bastards All the which things the Reformed say they can sufficiently proue true by the testimonies of such Writers and Authors being Papists as in diverse ages past haue written bookes thereof which are at this day every where printed and set out and consequently may be read by every man And first of all the Reformed prooue That the Popes haue been whoremongers and Sodomites that diuerse Popes haue beene Brokers or Bawds whoremongers incestuous and Sodomites For Sergius the third committed filthinesse with diverse Harlots but especially with Marozia that famous strumpet of whom hee begat Pope Iohn the twelfth Landus the first begat Iohn the eleventh in beastly whoredome Iohn the eleuenth being heire to Landus the first came also by right of whoredome to the Papall dignity by the meanes of the Romane Courtezan Theodora Luitpran Firm. lib. 3. cap. 12. De gest imper Patr. praem Platin. Firm. l. 2.13 Luitp lib. the which being often enflamed with the fire of lust I would spare or favour chaste eares if I were not to expresse the very wordes of Luitprands did not onely allure and provoke the Pope to vse carnality with her but did also sometimes importune and compel him Iohn the thirteenth Mantuan was conuinced at a Sinode in the presence of the Emperour Otho the first of diverse notorious vices among which the principall was his horrible incontinency which was that hee committed incest with both his sisters that hee had made a brothell-house of the Laterane Palace that hee had forced Stephana his fathers concubine as also the widow Paniete and Anne together with his Neece And being convinced of all these villanous acts hee was deposed from the Papall throne but the whores restored him againe by a sedition and mutiny that they raised among the Nobility of Rome Alexander the sixt suffered Peter Mendoza Cardinall of Valence to abuse his bastard sonne the Marquis of Zanete Vates Volater as if he had beene his wife And how much the said Pope was tainted and polluted with lustfulnesse sufficiently appeareth by this Epitaph of his daughter Lucrece Hac iacet in tumba Lucrecia nomine sed re Thais Alexandri filia sponsa nurus That is to say Here lies entomb'd Lucrece by name but in her life Alexanders daughter daughter in law and wife Ioan or Ione Pont. Iohn the eight before called Gilberta being gotten with childe by a Cardinall was delivered in a publike Procession going towards the Church of Laterane betweene the Collosse or Statue and the Temple of Saint Clement Actus Sanara and that in the presence of all the people in the open street in which place also she died in labour vpon which occasion Baptist Mantuan composed these verses ensuing In Alphon. l. 3. Platin. Funct Hic pendebat adhuc sexum mentita virilem Foemina cui triplici Phrigiam diademate mitram Extollebat apax pontificalis adulter Non poterat quisquis deferrantes athere claues Non exploratis sumere testiculis Curigitur nostro mus hic cum tempore cessat Anne probat sese quilibet esse marem That is to say Here was a Wench disguis'd in mans attire to Popish triple Crowne that did aspire Shee was with child a Cardinall was the fire none afterwards might vse heauens opening keyes Vnlesse his markes of manhood were espied why ceaseth then the custome in our dayes Because each Pope himselfe a man hath tried We reade that Iulius the second besides diuers others did principally spoyle by Sodomie two very yong noble Gentlemen which Anne queene of France Ian. Panop Epist Quin qua ecclesia Commenta Mag Paris Greuel George Iuil had recommended and giuen in charge to Robert Cardinall of Nauetia to traine them vp in good instructions Innocent the third was so villanous a leacher that he abstained not euen from the Cardinals whose Sodomie hauing beene followed by Grouanni Delacasa a Florentine Archbishop of Beneuent The Booke was imprinted at Venice by Troy anq Xanius he wrote a a booke in Italian verses in prayse of Sodomie which hee termeth diuinum opus affirming that hee merited there by Sixtus the fourth set vp at Rome publike stewes and appointed them for fleshly villaines allowing to the Cardinal of Saint Lucie the act of Sodomie during the three hottest months of Summer adding for the conclusion or shutting vp Fiat quod petitur Iron Qucis Ioan Rauis Bap. Man lib. 4. Alphons Volat in declam ad Leo. that is be it done that is required or I grant thy request Iohn the fourth was deposed from his papall seate at the Councell of Constance because of his Sodomie rauishing of women and such other enormious and haynous acts and afterwards detayned prisoner at Hedelberge for the space of three yeeres Valer. Anctin Vergarius Agrippa Clement the eight was