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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61365	The Roman horseleech, or An impartial account of the intolerable charge of popery to this nation ... to which is annexed an essay of the supremacy of the King of England.	Stanley, William, 1647-1731.; Staveley, Thomas, 1626-1684.	1674 (1674)	Wing S5346; ESTC R12101	149,512	318

wend And do what ever thing he did intend His name was Talus made of yron mould Immoveable resistless without end Who in his hand an yron flail did hold With which he thresh'd out falshood and did truth unfold This Yron man when commanded and set on could rout seditious multitudes destroy tyrannick Giants quell hideous Monsters and knock down inchanted Castles Our Heroick Laws do no less when by their commanded Officers they dissipate superstitious concourses truss up the Gigantick Jesuite drag out the monstrous Plotters and batter down that second Babel of Confusion which the sons of the Earth would be rearing in our English plain What thoughts these Collections and Observations will raise in you or others I can but guess at I am sure they have sufficiently discover'd to me the drift of the Papal Policy That is to establish and uphold a Spiritual Dominion in the World to effect which it was necessary the Consciences of men should first be inslaved by superstition and ignorance and then by the Usurpation of Temporal Power and the ingrossing of Temporal Riches the work was done and the Papal interest so carryed all in the middle and dark Times when Kings durst not exercise their just authority nor the People call that which they had their own and in this despondency it was that the Laws were muffled up But when towards the latter Ages the revolution came of Learning and Knowledge with a reviviscence and improvement of all Arts and Sciences and men became tyred with groping so long in the dark and those great Lights began to dawn in the World then both Kings and People rouzed up themselves and their Spirits revived the shades vanished the Birds of darkness flew away and the Beasts of prey retired to their dens Every man then with alacrity addressed himself to his proper Office Princes took their Scepters in their hands and swayed them again without controul the People applyed themselves all to their honest callings and what they got by God's blessing and their own industry they injoyed whilest they liv'd and when they dyed left it to their posterity which formerly used to be snatch'd away before their faces by the Romish Harpyes The consideration of all which as it clearly manifests the great abuses poverty and slavery which this Nation once and for a long time suffered under the Pope's yoke so it cannot but make us reflect on that proportionable mischief which still lyes upon those that have not yet shak'd him off with this further observation how an entire subjection unto Popery corrupts and debases the spirits of men for nothing is more obvious than that in Italy Spain Flanders and other Countreys wholly the Popes as to his spiritual raign the Inhabitants are either the most Atheistical debauched and dissolute or those who with a blind zeal apply themselves to an observance of the Rites of that confused and absurd Religion presently become fond and stupid giving themselves up only to admire their Holy Father the Pope their Confessors and Priests fancying Rome to be the true model of the Heavenly Jerusalem and the Pope and his Cardinals ruling therein like Christ and his Apostles gazing upon the formality and gaudiness of their Church and intangled with a multitude of ridiculous Ceremonies and Observances all which tends to make them unactive and unfit for all those generous and ingenious courses that bring Honour and Riches to a People When on the contrary the Reformed part of the World being manumitted from such slavery and incumbrances beat out the Popish every where in Trading and generally excell them in all Arts and Sciences And this may be noted in our selves when presently after the Reformation the English grew potent at Sea sent forth great Colonies and Plantations maintained traffick and commerce over the World and brought home Honour Plenty and Riches to the Nation So the Netherlanders after they had freed themselves from the Romish briers presently got good fleeces on their backs grew rich and powerful eclipsing the glory of Venice that once famous Republick which hath ever since been in the wane Amsterdam supplanted Antwerp Flanders truckled under Holland and the Hanse Towns generally Protestant outstrip'd all their Popish Neighbours in wealth and strength Whilest the once great and dreadful Monarchy of Spain is fallen into a Consumption supported only with a little Indian Gold which they steal home sometimes The Austrian Eagle hath molted his Feathers Portugal losing both in their Plantations abroad and reputation at home And in those Countreys where Protestants and Papists are mingled as in F●ance Germany Poland c. the Protestants generally are the Traders and grow rich as all Travellers testifie For besides that an addicted zeal to the Romish Religion contracts and debaseth the spirits of men their Guides endeavour also by all possible means to contain them in a dull ignorant and formal way knowing Learning and knowledge to be their common Enemy as at once discovering and overthrowing all the superstructures reared upon their sandy foundation But then what Wealth what Honour and Riches do their Clergy and Orders enjoy How glorious the Popes How splendid the Cardinals How abounding in Riches and Titles all their Relations Kindred and Dependants all suck'd from the People Whilest to lull and gratifie the abused multitude they have infinite devices they have perpetual provisions for the dull souls in their Cells the austere may take their fill of Discipline and rigour the impure and voluptuous have their conveniences at hand the lawless who find themselves too strait lac'd may be eased by Dispensations the credulous shall never want Miracles the fantastical visions nor the superstitious Ceremonies with infinite baubles more to keep the uneasie Babes quiet Now when any person comes to claim or exercise any extraordinary power or authority in a place or shall levy and take up what moneys he please he must reasonably expect to have a Quo Warranto sued out against him to which he must plead his Title to his Priviledge and that I must confess hath been very fairly done by the Papal Attorneys in this cause on the behalf of their Holy Client and they have drawn their Plea from the written Text of the Divine Law in this manner God made two great Lights in the firmament Gen. 1.16 the greater Light to rule the day and the lesser Light to rule the night from which they inferr the infallible Dominion of the Church for Pope Innocent the Third wrote to the Emperour of Constantinople thus Epist ad Imp. Decret lib. 1. de major Obed. Tit. 33. You ought to know says he that God made two great lights in the Firmament of Heaven the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night both great but the one greater To the Firmament of Heaven that is the Catholick Church God made two great Lights that is instituted two Powers the Papal Authority and the Regal Dignity but

that which is to rule by day that is over spiritual things is the greater but that over carnal things the less that there may be known to be as much difference between Popes and Kings as there is to be between the Sun and Moon And then comes the Gloss upon the Canon Law which sayes Whilest the Earth is seven times bigger than the Moon and the Sun Eight times bigger than the Earth the Papal Power must consequently be fifty seven times bigger than the Regal Dignity Again that great Hebrew Prophet sets forth a most exact Image of the Royal Papacy in Melchisedeck Campanel de Mon. Hisp cap. 5. who did prefigure say they the Majesty of St. Peter and his Successours who had Melchisedeck for their Prototype and therefore the Pope must needs be invested with a Royal Priesthood and armed as well with the Civil as the spiritual Sword for if it were otherwise Christ and so his Vicegerent would be a diminutive Law-giver and not as Melchisedeck who was at once both King and Priest Further to fortifie this Plea to a Royal Jurssdiction in the World they alledge that Jacob and Esau were perfect Types of the Catholicks and the Hereticks signifying that the Catholicks should abound in Power and Riches but the Calvinists and Lutherans should be low and poor expressed fully in the Salutation of the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary Luke 1.33 That our Lord the Pope was to rule over the House of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end That is in a word The Pope is to govern the World Another Argument to prove this Plea is fetch'd out of the Eighth Psalm Psal 8.5 6. viz. Thou hast Crowned him with glory and honour Thou makest him to have Dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his feet All Sheep and Oxen yea and the beasts of the field The Fowl of the air Anton. Sum. Theol. p. 3. cap. 5. and the Fish of the Sea c. By this they say is clearly meant St. Peter and the power given to him and his Successors in the See of Rome to whom God hath subjected the Sheep that is the Christians the Oxen that is the Jews and Hereticks the Beasts of the Field that is the Pagans the Fishes of the Sea that is the Souls in Purgatory and the Fowls of the Heaven that is the blessed Spirits and Angels So much for Dominion and Command now for Wealth and Riches nothing is more plain say they than the Holy Prophet Isaiah speaking of the Roman Church The Gentiles shall come to thy light Isa 60. and Kings to the brightness of thy rising Then shalt thou see and wonder and rejoice when the riches of the Sea and all the substance of the Gentiles shall come unto thee they shall bring gold and incense The sons of Strangers shall build up thy Walls and their Kings shall minister unto thee Thy Gates shall be open day and night that they may bring unto thee the Riches of all Nations and their Kings shall be brought For the Nation and Kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish The sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow down at the soles of thy feet Thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles and shalt suck the breasts of Kings For Brass I will bring Gold and for Iron Silver and for Wood Brass and for Stones Iron A most plain description of the glory and splendor of the Roman Church but the dull Hereticks will not understand the meaning and St. John they say was surprised with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when he describes the Angel refusing the honour offered to him but now dutifully paid to Christs Vicar Then when Christ told St. Peter that he would make him a Fisher of men though possibly the innocent and meek Apostle not fully apprehending the full import of that right which thereby was conferred on him applyed himself to a kind of spiritual Fishing hunting after some mystical Fishes to inclose them in the net of some invisible Kingdom in the Heavens and Cardinal Pool interprets the donation thus Regin Pole in Ioc. Thou and thy Successors shall have dominion over all men ruling over Kings and commanding regulating and casting out Emperours yet the good Apostle's more illuminated successors have now hit upon the true import and meaning and conclude that Christ did not only give them a power to fish for men but for money also and for that purpose conferred on them a Right to Fish in all secular Ponds and Rivers For The Kings of the Earth says Christ to Peter from whom do they receive Tribute not certainly from us for we are free But go thou to the Sea and cast forth a hook and take up the first Fish that cometh up that take and when thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt find a piece of money that take And by this a great fishing right was established in him and from him derived to his Successors that is to fish in all waters now by Waters the Holy Scriptures intend People and Nations and Tongues and Languages And Christ commanded Peter to lanch out into the Deep and then they inclosed such a multitude of Fishes that the net brake and it was very well Serm. 2. in Fest Petri. and pertinently observed by Pope Innocent 3. that the meaning of that advice or command Lanch out into the deep was this Go up to Rome which had a vast dominion over all People and from whence they might spread their Nets over all the World to catch all Nations And so in pursuance of this Right this Fishing Trade for money hath been driven with all possible art and industry all the World over to the great profit of the Roman Merchants But in process of time so it fell out that several Kings and States looking upon these Romish Fishermen as Trespassers and Intruders after a due examination and consideration had of all the Pleas and allegations in this matter and canvassing the Pope's Title to a free Piscary in all Waters not only upon this Globe but in the Coelestial and Infernal Waters also his Title was adjudged and declared to be of no force or value and thereupon he was prohibited to fish any more in the Brittish Ocean the Baltick Sea the Lake Lemane and in many Rivers of Germany and he was in great danger of being prohibited fishing also in the Neighbouring Adriatick so that what prizes he gets now amongst us it is by stealth and now and then a few silly Fishes are drawn and enticed into his Nets But in many places still the Trace is freely driven with great returns and profit how formerly it was managed here the ensuing Pages will make some discovery as also how it came to be stop'd But certainly vast Riches are continually brought in by the Factors of Rome and thereby