against the hole land against the Preistes Kinges people and the mighty Princes of Iuda and such Tyrauntes Ieremy intreateth of in the end of his fystenth chapter If euery good man bée a lyuely stone as Peter him self writeth and all the congregation a Spirituall howse and the howse of God the piller and ground of truthe and lykewyse Christes own body and the fulnesse of him that filleth all thinges Than is not the Pope Cardinalles and Clergie the church and pillers in whom dwelleth no vertue Neyther Peter had any other keys than Adam Seth Noe Melchisedeck Abraam Iob Moses and all the faythfull had from the beginning The keys of the Kingdome of heauen are the opening and interpretacion of the Scripture What keye sayeth Tertullian in the .iiii. booke against Mar. had the Doctours of the Lawe saue interpretation Tertullian inuehing ageinst the Eustix affirmeth the keys to bée gyuen generally to all the which euery man whan hée departeth hence carieth with him Wherfore who so euer confesseth his sinnes repenteth and beléeueth in Christ hath these keyes wherwith hée openeth the locke and entereth intoo heauenly felicitie Euery man may bynde and loase him self Augustinus de doctrina lib. 1. cap. 8. sayeth Too binde is too perseuer in errour too procede in vyce too louse too repente him of his sinne beléeue that here in earth his sinnes shall bée forgiuen him And this is too bynd and louse The second Obiection Hée that giueth authoritie too the Church is supreme head But the Pope giueth authoritie to the church ergo hée is supreme head I deny your assumption called otherwyse the Minor. Wée proue it say they by S. Augustine who sayeth I wold not beléeue the Scriptures if the catholique church should not moue mée I answer This church that Augustine speaketh of is not the church of Rome and therfore the Pope giueth no authoritie to the church If Augustine had meaned the church of Rome then their argumeÌ„t myght haue semed to haue had a good ground But Augustine meaned the church of Christ as the Crede it self expoundeth it What is the Catholique Church The Crede answereth and interpreteth in these words A communion societie or companie of all Saincts and Godly men Nowe if Rome bée all the world and a communion of Saincts only then is it the only Church but it is neyther all the world neyther a communion of Saincts therfore it is not the Church Are shamefull synners Saincts horrible offenders Holy Augustine meaned by the Catholique Church Christ and his Disciples and the consent of all them which sawe Christ which heard him and his Disciples and therfore is it called in the common Crede of Nice the Apostolique church If Augustine did imagine that the Scriptures should take authoritie of the church it had bin an absurditie considering that there is no congregation so perfect no company so holy no men so pure which do not dayly desire God too forgyue them their offences as they forgyue them that offend against them If wée saye wée sinne not wée are lyers and there is no truth in vs. Let vs proue both by Reason which is the Lawe of Nature infixed in man Naturally and by Scripture that the Church doth take her authoritie of the Woord and not the Woord of the Church If Cleantes and other Philosophers as Tullie testifieth affirme partly by the Naturall motions of their myndes no doubt moued by inspiration that there is a GOD partly by the presciencie and foreknowledge of the thinges to comme partly by the commodities which proceede of the temperature of the ayer the plenty abundance of all thinges necessary for mans vse partly by tempestes thunder inundacions hayle lightening earthquakes stormes wonders miracles blasing starres eclipses of Sonne and Moone of the reuolution of the heauens of the constant and certein course of the fixed Starres and Planettes Than must wée confirme with Dauid and Paule that Gods power nature and diuinitie is knowen by visible thinges subiected to our senses If Dauid and Paule proue by the naturall courses of the heauens that there is a God neyther any people to bée so ignorant any Natiâ—n so rude any country so Barbarous which haue not heard their voyces for Dauid sayeth Their sound are gone through all the world Or as it is in the Hebrew Their rule course is knoweÌ„ through all the world By a figure the sound voyce is attributed in the .19 Psal. to the heauens bycause they declare vntoo vs with their constant course mouing and other meruelous dispositions constellations and influences that there is a god And by this meanes Paule proueth the Gentyles to bée without excuse bycause they might haue knowen God by his creatures and dyd knowe but dyd not glorifye him as god By these it is euident that the heauens and Gods woounderous workes are not the causes why there is a God but God is the cause of them and they are as witnesses and testimonies that there must néedes bée a god And bycause al the Scriptures teache nothing else but God to bée the maker defender and gouerner of all wée are assured that they are the true scriptures bycause they agrée with this lawe of Nature wyth this Heauenly description and celestiall disposition wherby there is vnderstand to bée a god If Dauid and Paule prooue the diuinitie power and prouidence of God by his creatures so must wée allowe the scriptures by the same meanes bycause they differ not from the discourse Wherefore the church taketh no authoritie of it selfe but of God nor the scriptures any power of men whiche are full of erroures Wée knowe Moses Danyels Salomons Iobs woorkes and the rest of the scriptures to bée of force bycause they agrée with the rule of nature They are witnesses but no authours If a Lawyer aunswere by the Lawe hée dooth his dutie but if hée aunswere of his own brayne it is nought neyther will any man beléeue him Hée is a wicked Iudge that attributeth more to hys owne witte and will than to the lawe This doth the Pope contrarie to all the auncient Doctours and vertuous writers who affirme no man to bée beléeued onlesse hée alleadge the scriptures If an Ambassadour goe from one Prince to an other and be commaunded neyther to adde to his commission nor diminishe hée is a traytour if hée doo How much more the Pope who by his false embassage dooth not onely adde and diminishe where hee lusteth but also chaungeth peruerteth correcteth depraueth and abolissheth the Scriptures setting vppe hys owne constitutions and braynelesse Decréees The Prince to whome this Embassadour is sent cannot tell whether his commission is true or no but by conferring of the other Princes letters out of the which he must haue the truthe So must wée runne to the scriptures and trye by them whether the Pope and other impure spirits doo well in vsurping such authoritie The Church may bée a
For where it is in Iohn that Christ by his death should ouercom death hell and all the world hée applieth it to the Pope of whom Iohn did not once dreame onlesse hée prophecied of him amongs other Antechristes in his Epistles whom hée there describâ—th And as for the place of Luke it is to be vnderstanded of Ciuill and temporall Magistrates and not of Spirituall and Mysticall inuâ—ntoures of Iniquities and so vnderstandeth Chrysostom Origen and Theodoret vpoÌ„ the .xiij. chapter of S. Paule to the Romanes prouing that all Bishopes such as wée call Spirituall men must needes bée vnder the Iurisdiction of Ciuill Magistrates obey them and paye them Tribute Besides this this Iames proueth as Augustinus de Ancona did .lxxx. yeares before him that the Pope had not only authoritie ouer all Kinges and Emperours that were Christend but also ouer Turkes Paymins bycause that Christ gaue his full authoritie too the Pope when hée ascended that Iuditiary power for these are his termes ouer euery creature because that hée left the Pope both the keyes Temporall and Spirituall The sixth Obiection Hée is the head of the Church that hath twoo keyes the one too open Heauen gates to his friendes the other to shutte out his ennemies And hée hath thrée Crownes bycause that hée is a Kinge a Cesar and a Bishoppe or rather bycause bée hath authoritie in Heauen Hell and Purgatorie or els as Gregorius Doctor Hispanus did preache in Cambredge hée sayd that the Pope was counted in Spayne the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost that was signified by his thrée crownes Moreouer in euery yeare of Iubile hée hath a golden hamer wherwith hée knocketh at the gates of Paradise Is this no preeminence is not hée the head that hath this authoritie I graunte that the flattering Glosers of the Canon lawe wryte such thinges but they are too foolish too bée credited too false and absurd too bée approued too ridiculous too bée aduouched and to detestable to bée admitted The 7. Obiection Hée that hath both the temporall and spirituall swoorde must néedes bée the head of the church but the Pope hath bothe Ergo hée is the head of the church I denie the Minor wée proue it thus Doo you not reade that Boniface the eight Pope of that name came out in a solemne feast daye in the apparel of a Bishop as gloriously as euer was Aaron with the spirituall swoord to frame the Spiritualtie withall And on an other feast day hée came out in the apparel of the Emperour with great pompe and glorie with a naked swoord shaking it and saying This is my swoord to correct the Temporall withall yea euen Kinges Princes and the Emperour I aunswere that this hée dooth by this rule Sic volo sic iubio stat pro ratione voluntas For that hée dyd without reason or authoritie The 8. Obiection Is not hée the head of the church that is aboue Kings Cesars and Councelles and aboue the whole world Innocent 9. quest 3. gloss ibi vlt. ext de elect significasti The 9. Obiection And though all the worlde should gyue sentence ageynst the Pope notwithstanding his sentence must stand bycause that hée maye dispense with all thinges Iud. Glossat de Capell Papa si vult c. The 10. Obiection The Pope is aboue all Councelles and Statutes de elect cap. signif I aunswâ—re If his authorities bée aboue councels then councelles bée vayne and néede not when as wée may goe to the head and spring who is aboue eyther councelles or Lawes For you say that all the lawes are in the chest of the Popes brest But wée credit not these sayinges bycause they are made by Popes without authoritie eyther of Gods woorde or of olde Doctors Wherefore this is that Antichrist that is described in the Reuelation cap. 13. cap. 17. cap. 18. The 11. Obiection Hée that hath the same authoritie that Peter had is the heade of the church But the Pope hath the same authoritie that Peter had Ergo the Pope is the head of the church I denie the Maior for Peter was not the head of the church nor any better then the other of the Apostles Moreouer Peter was a meere man and a meere man was not the head of a spirituall church The 12. Obiection Is not hée aboue all that can dispence with the law of nature with Moses with the olde Testament with the new TestameÌ„t with Christ Peter Paule and the rest of the Apostles I aunswere that none doth so but â–ª Antichrist For of Antichrist Paule writeth so in the second epistle to the Thessalonians the second chapter ver 4. But you say the Pope doth so Ergo the Pope is Antichrist The 13 Obiection There may no man Iudge of the the Popes dooinges neyther the Clergie neyther Kinges neyther Emperours â–ª Shal the Iudge of all bée iudged of any Is it not knowen through all the world that the church of Rome doth iudge all the worlde and it may bée iudged of none who dare dispute of the Popes dooinges who doubteth of the Popes holynesse who is in such authoritie If hée lacke goods déedes or any other thing it is ynough for him to trust in the predecessours of that place These blasphemies answereth Paule in the second to the Thessalonians second chapter ver 4. where hée writeth that this Antichrist maketh hym selfe God. The xiiii Obiection Remundus rufus a noble defendor of the holy Sea of Rome reasoneth thus the Pope is the cheife because he is the first in tyme reuerence and power In time for Peter was at Rome the fyrste Pope in reuerence for who is too be reuerenced more then he in power what Bishop what Prelate what Monarche is to be compared to him I answere to the firste that Peter was neuer at Rome and therefore was neither firste Pope nor last at Rome moreouer Paule was at Rome before him by the testimoni of their owne wryters And Peter was no bishop ergo no bishop of Rome Peter was an Apostle and no bishop A bishop kept in a certain place an Apostle went aboue euery where As for his reuerence what reuerence should the Pope haue aboue others if he wil be first hée must be last as Christ writeth As concerning his power what is it Who gaue it to him He is or ought to be a seruaunt no lorde a minister no maister a member of the body and not the head What if Rome were vtterly destroyed by the Turke as it may be and the Popes name glory dignitie and memory cleane extinguished where should the Romish church be where should bée all hir decrées should not all bée vtterly abolished shall not Christ destroy him with the sprite of his mouth The .xv. Obiection Do you not remember what Nicolaus the first Pope of that name did wryte He sayed and also determined that no christian magistrats should haue any
probable but at the first there was no supremacie Ergo there should bée none The 24. Obiection Hée is the head of the church that giueth authoritie and licence to all the other Apostles to preache to bée priestes and to minister the seuen Sacramentes But Peter gyueth all these Ergo Peter is the head of the church Peter Palude is the authour of this argument a man of great woorship The 25. Obiection Hée is the head of the church whom the Chayre doothe blesse although hée were Iudas or a murtherer But the chayre blesseth the Pope ergo the Pope if hée were Iudas or a murtherer is the head of the church The 26. Obiection Hée that is God is the head of the church But the Pope is God ergo the pope is the head of the church The second proposition is proued by the authoritie in the margine The 27. Obiection Hée that is head of Angelles and Archaungelles is the head of the church But the Pope is the head of Aungelles and Archaungelles Ergo the Pope is the head of the church The Minor is proued in the margine The 28. Obiection Hée that is aboue the scripture is the head of the church But the Pope is aboue the scriptures ergo the Pope is the head of the church The assumption is proued by Siluester Prierias The 29. Obiection Hée is the head of the church that is the light of the world which illuminateth euery man that commeth into the world But the Pope is that light which illuminateth euery man that commeth into the world Ergo the Pope is the head of the Church The xxx Obiection He that hath aucthoritie to breake lawes is of more force then he that came not to breake lawes but the Pope came to breake the lawes and Christ came to fulfyll the lawes and not to breake them Ergo the Pope is the head of the Church The xxxi Obiection If there were nothing to proue the Pope to be head of the churche sauing his apparell and ornamentes yet surely they might perswade any man too beleue to maintaine and to glorifie our holie father the Pope dothe not Buechingerus and Inocentius Libro 3 de Altaris mysterio ca. 1. et 10. affirme that there are .9 special ornamentes his hose his shoes or sandalles his succynctory or girdell his Tunicle his Dalmatica or longe sleued Gowne his Metre his Gloues his Ring and Staffe In these consisteth the speciall power of the Pope euen to geue orders to blesse Maides to consecrate Bishopes to laye on handes to make grese or Chrisma to consecrate clothes and vessales to call Sinodes to dedicate Temples and to depose them that are disgraded and do many other merytorious workes What shall I speake of his two horned mitre of the hemmes of his garment of his crosse and staffe of his chimer and other vestements His shoes pardoned venyall sinnes his staffe hathe many vertues the crooked horne fetcheth in them that go astray the ende knocketh the obstinate refourmeth the disobedient What shall I speak of his breches and handkirchef Of his kniues and twoedged Swerds of his goulden hamer I haue spoken before I answer that theise more comend the Pope and set forth his prayse then his vertues do He glorieth in his apparell Paule in Christ his crosse he in outward things Paule in inward he in pompe Paule in pouertie he in vayne glory of the world Paule in the ioyes of Heauen Is not all this apparell corruptible will it not consume will not his crowne in tyme weare away and decay But the immortall crowne which Peter speaketh of will neuer You are not ashamed to put your trust in worldly things but in scriptures you put no trust them you cannot abyde Dooth not Iames Hocstrate in his booke intytuled Of praying to saints pronounce him to bée an heretique that flieth to the scriptures and that custome ought to bée followed before the scriptures bycause a common errour maketh a lawe We haue hitherto proued our holy father to be the head of the Militant Church here in earth though the Lutherians say that hée is head of the Malignant Church Now will wée proue that hée is the head of the Triumphant Church which is in Heauen The first Obiection HE is the head of the Triumphant Church that Canonizeth Sainctes and hath authoritie ouer Aungels that maketh of the triumphant church whom he listeth But the Pope dothe this Ergo he is the head I denie the Minor wée proue it Let vs sée if you find any day in the yeare dedicated to any Saincte which the Pope did not dedicate and consecrate Hée made the Apostles dayes the foure Ladye dayes made Corpus Christi a Sainct S. Peters cheynes S. Graue or S. Sepulchre S. seuen Sléepers s. Sonday s. Grimbold S. Chrisogon s. Gorgon s. Rooke s. Dunstone s. Thomas Becket whom King Henry dyd vnsainte and disgrade holy Iohn Shorne holy King Henry many a Prelate Bishop and Pope and in fine al his benefactours for whom he commaundeth euery Priest to pray for in his Canon of the blessed masse which we trust he will make a Sainct one day for surely she is our good Mistres she prospereth Prelats exalteth Hermits aydeth Hunters purgeth Pigs helpeth Hogs causeth raine and faire weather deliuereth out of Purgatorie and directeth generall councelles Finally she were as worthy to be a Sainct as any of them all I aunswere that the Pope taketh vpon him to doo and saye so But thinke you that hée can doo so Surely hée hath made some saincts that are deuilles and some that there were neuer none such What manner of Sainct is sainct Sondaye or Rymon or s. Gyners or s. Redygons or s. Apellinare for tootheache Ualentine for Louers Loe for Smithes Crispine Martine and Chrispinian for Shoemakers Nicolas and Cletus for Clarkes and yit many write ther was neuer none such as Cletus George for warriers Andrew for Scotlande Denis for Fraunce Iames or Iaques for Spayn about Louane Urbane whom they Crowne and cary about with great pompe to Tauernes if thei haue plentie of frutes if no they spitte vpon him they reuyle him throw him into the kennelles They painte with Iohn and Bernard the deuill with George like to the Egyptians a Crocodile with Rooke a dogge with Antony a sowe The Hollanders vse Paulyne as Louanians Urbane although that there bée no parte in mannes body so honest vnto the which the Pope hath not appointed a sainct and none so vncomely which hath not his saincte Neyther any absurditie that you can name but they haue a sainct for it yet say they the Pope cannot erre although it is euident that he Canonizeth as they saye these Sainctes booth contrarie to Scriptures Councelles and Doctoures It is in sainct Paule that if God onely iustifyeth who can condempne can the Pope Thus I reason Hée that cannot iustifye a man hée cannot Canonize But the Pope cannot iustifye Ergo hée
in the yeare of Christ 1255. that Christes Gospell should then haue an end and the Popes should take place called sempiternum Euangelium and Christes they compared to the shell theirs to the kernel theirs to the sun Christs to the moone theirs to light Christs to darknes 24 With the Donatistes and circumcellions they burn bookes yea they burne sacred Bibles and persecute the readers thereof with fier and sweard 25 The Pope like Gensericus Honorius and Transmundus being Arians and Kings of the Vandales persecuted the Christians The Church of Christe neuer persecuteth but is persecuted the Popes church persecuteth and was neuer persecuted Ergo it is not the church of christ Hillary 26 With Seuerus bishop of Antioch he curseth al his aduersares 27 With Anastasius the Emperour hée worshippeth a Quaternitie the father the sonne and the holy ghost and Christes bodie in the Sacrament 28 Iohn of Constantinople desiring to bée called the vniuersall Bishop is condemned for an heretique what then shall we cal the Pope who will not only to be called the vniuersall Bishop but also will be the head of the milittant and triumphant church to haue rule in heauen ouer the Aungels and archaungels in hel ouer the damned soules and ouer the sely soules in purgatory 29 The Pope Marcellinus was an Idolater 30 Pope Anastatius was a Nestorian 31 Pope Liberius an Arian 32 Many of of the Popes were murtherers ruffians desperates coniurers necromancers warriers perricides blasphemers Atheistes Antichristes c. Fredericus Imperator Innocentio Papae FAta monent stellaeque docent auiumque volatus totius subito malleus orbis ero Roma diu titubans longis erroribus acta corruet et mundi desinet esse caput ¶ Innocentius Frederico Fata silent stellaeque tacent nil praedicat ales solius proprium nosce futura Dei. Niteris in cassum nauem submergere Petri fluctuat at nunquam mergitur illa Ratis Fama refert scriptura docet peccata loquuntur quod tibi vita breuis paena perennis erit Quod diuina manus potuit sensit Iulianus tu succedis ei te te net ira dei Fre fremit in mundo de deprimit alta profundo ri mala rimatur cus cuspide cuncta minatur Fredericus Innocentio Fata monent stellaeque docent auiumque volatus lapsurum te mox ad stygis antra nigrae Non ratis est Petri sed Christi quae natat vndis fluctuat at nusque mergitur illa ratis Fama refert tua scripta docent peccata nefanda interitum ostendunt exitiumque tuum trangulat Adrian um muscâ— annon ira tonantis cogitat et de te sumere supplicium Carcere suspendit sese Benedictus et alter in stupro captus saucius ense perit Siluestrum extinguit sathan sceleratior ipse ergo tuis factis praemia digna feras Innocuum te voce notas cùm sis nociturus orbi terrarum christianoque gregi ¶ Fredericus de integro Esses si membrum non te caput orbis et vrbis iactares cum sis orbis et vrbis onâ—is Nune membruÌ„ non es sed putre cadauer et vlcus ense recidendum ridiculumque caput A Deniele bdelygma nefaâ—que caputque malorum diceris a Paulo filius exitij Nos solum Christum nostruÌ„ caput esse fatemur totius mundi te caput esse facis Si caput est vnum quod Paulus dicit vbique tu veors balatro dic mihi quale caput Corporis vnius caput vnum si duo monstrum monstra paris monachos scorta nefanda foues Est tua religio stuprum ira superbia caedes error deliciae fulmina turpe lucrum Ex his ergo liquet ChristuÌ„ te spernere Christo hostem esse inuisum dedecorique deo Rex tandem veniet coelo delapsus ab alto tum non defendent te sacra missa cruces Non in sublimi surgentes vertice criâ—tae Non diploma ponens non tua sacra cohors Nec diadema triplex nec sedes sanguine parta nullus honos solii purpura nulla tui Triginta nummis Christum vendebat Iudas tu Christi vendis corpora plura tui Corpora tu vendis Christi paruo aere polumque caelestis genios sydera iura deos ¶ Innocentius Frederico Semper honos nomenque meum laudesque manebuÌ„t quae Christus condit condere iura queo Illi succedo sed plus me posse fatebor pellere te possum sede quod ille nequit Ille nequit quoniam Pilatum sede nequiuit pellere solus ego solus in orbe deus Est nostrum genus eximijs spectabile factis Gregorius magnus carmina mira canit Christo pulsanti patuit vix ianua ditis sed mihi pulsanti mox patuere fores Namque ego Traianum tetri de faucibus orci extraxi et matrem dite fremente meam ¶ Fredericus Innocentio Papa quid insanis toties quid sanguine gaudes quid geris imbelli spicula tanta manu Quo vesane ruis non te decet ira nec arma sed pietatis opus relligionis amor Tu similis colubro quoties grauis ira venenum suscitat et mota lumina bile rubent Sic furis vt spumis ex ore cadentibus atrox fulmineo quoties dente minatur aper Sic fremis vt frendens cum ferrea vincula mandit Cerberus et stygias murmure turbat aquas Tu fratres in bella vocas in pignora patres arma mihi extorques oppida tecta domos Fas et iura negas homines et numina fallis nec Iouis imperium nec phlegetonta times ¶ Innocentius Frederico Quid metuaÌ„ phlegitonta deuÌ„uè aut numina coeli nec ditis noceat nec Iouis ira mihi Est mihi tum barathri tum coeli facta potestas caelestes genios tartareosque voco Christus non potuit mentes deducere caelo nec excire animas ex acheronte nigro Orci equidem possum cunctas lustrare cauernas Eruere ex herebi monstra nefanda specu Quod Deus est ego sum nec non mihi vendico plura nam hinil ex nihilofas fabricare mihi Iusticia ex iniusticia faceoqueâ—â—eoque te possum solio pellere caesareo Omnia transformo muto quadrata rotundis reges pello creo transfero regna duces Nunc quis sum ô medius fidius te sede mouebo ad barathrum trudam praecipitemque dabo Absit si ratio stat pro ratione â—â—â—ido quale meum numen lingua docere nequit Sum dominus caeli terrae rex rectorauerni prodidit et Paulus me â—uperare â—eum Nec diuus nec homo sum neuter at inter vtrumque Ens sum consistens ex homine atque 〈◊〉 At quid plura meum numen formidaâ— olympus me saenus Pluto tartarieque canes Quos placet efficio diuos quos displicet odi atque ad tartareos precipitabo lacus Nemo mihi in terris agnatus nemo propinquus prae me omnes sperno ducoque pro
to defend christ outwardly and yit peruerteth all his lawes detracteth them to serue his fantasy abrogateth â—hem which hée likech not and maketh new of his own and dispenseth with the law of nature with Peter Paul Christ and his gospell ¶ The Pope holdeth some part of euery Heretique that hath bin since the world began WIth satan the subtile serpent he perswadeth Eue to eat of the fruit forbidden I mean he compelleth his church to eat the raw flesh and carnall body bones and soule of Christ in the sacrament which is forbidden to receiue his pardons bulles decrées and constitucions 2 With the Adamians they denied and condemed mariages in priests this did Leo the .9 pope of that name in the yere of christ 1050. Crantius lib. 4. ca. 43. And pope Pascalis in the yere of Christ 1100. Iohn Til. 3 With the Adamites they vse women and curtesans in common which is declared by their stuehouses which are lawfull for all men For the diuines of Louane defend them as good lawfull and necessary Quoniam polluitur sacerdotium matrimonio non meritricibus For priesthode is polluted with matrimony but not with harlots Minus est malum scortari quam nubere It is lesser euill to go on whorehunting then to marry Agrip. art 22. et art 16 vt habetur in c. si concubina de sent excom et grat 34. d. dicentes homini Christiano qui non habet vxorem loco vxoris liceat habere coÌ„cubinam A christian man that hath not a wife it is lawful for him to haue a concubine Neither say they do priests and Monkes abiure or forsweare incontinencie but mariage Non abiuram incontinentiam sed matrimonium Sixtus the fourth pope of that name builded stuehouses of both the kindes in the yere of Christ .1474 O horrible Sodomie Paul the third pope of that name had registred fiue and forty thousand whores that payed euery moneth a pension or tribute to the pope which did rise yerely to fortie thousand ducates Mant. 2. fast Si pudor in villas si non patiantur easdem Et villae vomicas vrbs est iam tota lupanar 4 With the Ophites who sayd that the serpent which supplanted Eue inuented the knowledge of good and euill With Caim that killed his brother Abel With Iudas that betrayed Christ whom their adherents worship bicause that Iudas did wel in betraying Christ or els we could not haue bin saued no more say the papists we could be saued without the crosse and therfore we worship it and make it a saint and dedicate a day to it and worship it with the adoration of latria lutz cortes in lib. 3. sent dist 3. Th. aqui 5 With the Pharisies who seperated themselues in apparell and religion from others And they obserued the Sabboth day supersticiously as the papists do S. Sonday They gaue leaue to a man to put away his wife for any cause and the Pope likewise for money will dispense and allegeth at the least twelue causes and Iohannes de turre creuata many mo They gaue to the temple rather then too their parents and so do the Papists 6 The Saduces denied the immortalitie of the soule and so did Pope Leo the tenth of that name and the life to come Bembus b. The Saduces sayd that it was in our owne wil to do wel or euil the papists that it cannot bée proued by scripture that a man néedeth the grace of God to do good Occam writeth this Agrip. art 2. 7 The Esses Manaches Abelonians and Agapetes refuse mariage and to bée saued by their owne woorks so do the Popes 8 Thewdas was a rebel Act. 5. vers 36. so were the most part of the Popes to their Emperours 9 Simon Magus was a coniurer and a nicromancer so was Siluester the second Anno Do. 1002. Iohn 19. 1004. Iohn 20. 1008. Sergius 4. 1010. Benedict 8. 1013. Iohn 21. 1024. Benedict 9. 1040. Siluester 3. 1046. Gregory 6. 1048. Gregory 7. c. Simon sold the holy ghost these the holy ghost Christ Heauen Hell Purgatory Mantuan lib. cal Venalia Romae Templa sacerdotis altara sacra coronae Ignis thura preces Coelum est venale deusque 10 The Ebionites deny that Christ was before the virgin Marie the Papists do the like for they say that there were none saued no not Adam as did the Tatians but that all went to hell till Christ came and haried hell Panth. Thomas Iohn de tur â—re c. 11 The Nicolaites would haue mens wiues and adultery and fornication to be a thing indifferent so do the popes who say that single fornication is no sinne and licet habere feminam semel in mense ad expurgandas renes si non caste tamen caute and Sodomiâ— too bée diuinum opus Ioh. a casa cardinal Petrus Aratinus 12 The Gnostiques had images of Homer of Plato of Aristotle of Pythagoras and such others of Paul and Marcellina and placed these images besides Christs image and worshipped them and do not the papists worship the images of Christ Mary Iohn cense them kisse them reuerence them offer to them knéele to them say the Lordes prayer enioyned by their ghostly fathers which I haue séene and done 13 With the Tatians they say that matrimonie is as euill as whoredom 14 Marcus and Psichicus a folower of Ualentinus tooke vpon him to forgiue sinnes to giue grace and the holy ghost and dooth not the Pope the same 15 The Montanistes and Pristilians gaue libertie for men to forsake their wiues and so do the Popes 16 They say with Hiâ—rax that chastitie filleth heauen and mariage hell 17 They hold with the Audeans and Anthropomorphites that God is of like shape with men and doo not the Papists paint the father an old man with a long white beard and the holy ghost like a Doue 18 The Donatistes said that the Church was no where but in Afrike the Papists at Rome and onely there where the Pope ruleth 19 They defend frée will with the Donatists Pelagians and Anabaptists 20 With the Collyridians they woorship the virgin Mary they offer to hir they call hir the quéene of heauen 21 They say with Montanus Apelles and Cataphriges that Christ ascended without a body for they say that he is inclosed in a litle round cake inuisibly and with Montanus they appoint fasting dayes 22 Seuerus sayd that a woman was the woork of the diuell and the vpper part of man of God but from the nauell down of satan and therefore they that mary to fulfill the workes of the deuil Pope Innocent 8. aduouched the lyke saying that they that were maried could not please god Qui in carne sunt Deo placere non possunt 23 Marcellus the Bishop of Ancira affirmed that the kingdome of Christ should haue an ende Friers in Paris Preached