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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44952	The triumphs of Rome over despised Protestancie	Hall, George, 1612?-1668.	1655 (1655)	Wing H337; ESTC R17440	89,326	154

they are soundly purged corrected and taught to speak true Roman yea though it be one of the antient Fathers though Augustine himselfe if his pen have lasht out in the opinion of a solicitous supervisor he shall be fetch't in with a dicet Haereticus as for the careful courses that are taken for the safety of all reimpressions the wit of man can rather admire then sample them And lest conference conversation should infect any sou le it is enacted by Pope Gregory 15. Anno 1622. that no hereticall person whatsoever on what ever pretext shall hire an house or dwell within the territories of Jtaly and the Jsles adjoyning As also that no Jtalian shall dare to dwell in any region of the hereticks where there is not a Catholique Priest to support him that he shall not make use of an heretical Physician except in the utter want of a Catholique Doctor That no man shall be sent to the places of hereticks upon the businefs of Merchandise except he be 25 years old That it shall not satisfie the Inquisition that he who hath hereticall books do burn them privately there may be fraud in that pretence unless he bring them to the superiour As for due caution for avoiding of scandall how singular and exemplary it is No tall trees may be suffered near to a Monasterie of holy Sisters No chimney may be allowed to their private Cells The Regulars may not buy or procure any closes or gardens near to the Nunnerie The window which looks into the Quire must be but two Cubits and twelve inches high the probationers may not go forth to visit their parents None of them may walk forth but by couples Their nearest cousins may not be admitted to visit them when they are sick no not in the case of death Their Confessary may not go in to hallow the house on holy Saturday nor may accompany the physitians or workmen Lastly they may not have Licence to go abroad unless it be for almes and onely those which are fourty years old and not faire Though for this last clause I take care how it will be construed whether in relation to their own opinion or others If to their own I doubt they must all keep house perpetually For extreme unction and the sacred viaticum which is to be delivered to dying persons how wisely is it instituted that these sacramentall acts shall not be performed to any one by him that is the Confessarie of the sick person lest there may have been unmeet secrecies smothered between them and each of them be unjustly indulgent to other in the parting For exorcisations in the practice whereof there hath been of old a just suspition of jugling what can be better advised then that they shall be done in the church openly neither before the Sun-rising nor after the Sun setting and that when very few are allowed to be present The like curiosities of heedfulnesse may be easily observed in all the comportments of these prudent governours which some uncharitable censurers will perhaps interpret the wrong way and be apt to say Self-guiltinesse is causer of suspition For my part I cannot but praise their wit as in this warinesse so in their winning plausibility and fine waies to hook in and gratifie the great ones Besides the Golden Roses and hallowed swords and Banner wherewith they please more Boyes they can ennoble them with high Titles France hath The most Christian King Spaine the Catholique King England the Defender of the Faith Scotland had the Defender of the Church the Helvetian Defenders of the liberties of the Church Sunt hic Priamo sua praemia laudi Neither is the care to please more then the tender feare to offend the mighty Was it not wisely turnd off when the Bulla caenae had excommunicated a●● that lay new imposts and gavels upon their subjects which the learned Casuist shrugs at as Casus difficilis principibus periculosus scribentibus to resolve That this hard censure is only for those great persons that acknowledge to have superiours over them as Dukes Marquesses Earles Barons but as for those temporall Lords that have no superiours in Temporalities as the Emperour King of Spain and King of France it concerns not them at all They may crush their Subjects with what load of Taxes they please And what shall we say to that bold plea which is connived at for the King of France that the said king cannot be Excommunicated by any man Yea so farre is it from that as that the same king hath power to excommunicate others especially Lay persons as Degrassalius shames not to professe adding withall that the king of France hath two Angels whereas other men have but one And though it seem to sound harsh that where the Lord is declared an heretick there the Vassals are bound to deny him any obedience yet the matter is so well qualified with temperate and safe exceptions that there is no great cause of fear in that scarrecrow For matters of profit what a wary hand doth his Holinesse hold over his Subjects How wisely hath he enacted that no forrain Salt shal be b●●ught within all the Territories pertaining to the Church How prudently hath he provided for the free and safe traffique in his own Harbours by his Bulla coenae excommunicating all Pirates that shall presume to infest his own Seas especially from the mount Argentarius to Terracina and all the favourers and receivers of them as for his neighbour Princes let them look to themselves Non omnibus dormit Innocentius How justly and discreetly doth he excommunicate all those which shall any way hinder the bringing of provision and victuals for the use of the Court of Rome And if he doe on Holy-Thursday pronounce that deadly sentence against all those that withhold the Isle of Sicily and other Dominions being the Patrimony of the Church from the hands of the owner let the guilty Potentates of the earth look how whiles this Capitolin Jupiter thunders and lightens so fearfully they can shrowd their heads under some safe Laurell to escape blasting What a laudably thrifty law is that which ordaines that no Bishop towards his end shall be too liberall of his Almes for fear of cheating his Holinesse of his hopes That the goods of a Titular Bishop shall come clear in to his Holiness his coffers without diminution Indeed whither should they goe else His wife and children lie all in a little compasse being all covered under one purple gown of his Holinesse which is given out as one main reason to enforce a Celibate upon their Ecclesiastiques lest this streame should be diverted into other channels Lastly what advantagious rules of holy frugality doe we meet with in their wise constitutions As that an Archbishop must be buried with his Pall either upon his body if he be interred

excellencies for which she is conspicuous to all the World She and her Religion is 1 more gay and glorius 2ly More pleasant and joviall 3ly More pure and holy 4ly More powerfull and mighty 5ly More pious and devout 6ly More easie and plausible 7ly more sure and certain 8ly More free and bountifull 9ly More gainfull and commodious 10ly More wise and witty 11ly More mercyfull and 12ly More unanimous then any rivall under heaven Can you have the patience to goe along with me through all these notorius priviledges I shall promise you a full conviction CHAPTER I. The triumph of Glorie AND first whiles you see other Churches either naked or like some sorry drudges either sluttishly or raggedly clad in their homespun russet and at their best without welt or gard behold her like a Queen mounted on her gawdy choppines curiously dressed all to be jewelled be spangled powdred painted perfumed What talk you of the simplicitie of the Gospel and whisper that the Kings Daughter is all glorious within so let her be but give me a Church that is all glorious without too such is she such is none but she Other Churches have but one head and that is in heaven but the Church of Rome and she alone thanks to the good Emperor Phocas hath two heads one in heaven the other on earth both glorious If fools talk of monstrosity let them learn that this point is de fide and matters of faith must not be scanned by reason See what an head she hath here below as much above Kings as Kings are above their Subjects as much bigger then the Emperors as the Sun is bigger then the Earth For howsoever the honest Abbot a Bernard good soul could tell his old friend Pope Eugenius that he could nor be capable at once of Sovereignty and Apostolicisme yet he was quite out upon the matter and must know and learn from our later Doctors Antonius b Sanctarellus for one that the Pope hath full power over all temporals and as Alvares roundly in all through all above all that his sublimity is such as c Casseneus that it cannot be comprehended who can doubt of this when Pope d Boniface the eight himself that could not erre tells us that he is no less then Lord of the World and not without reason how can he goe less as Vicar general to the great King of heaven by vertue whereof both his Jurisdiction is boundless as universal e Bishop of the Church on earth in spight of Pope Gregorie himself who unwisely cryed down that stile as insolent and pompaticall professing that it had been tendred to himself by the Councel of f Chalcedon but he had refused it as utterly unlawfull proud injurious and precursorie to Antichrist himself and his Dominion also is paramount to all Kingly and Imperial power Time was indeed when the Popes flew a lower pitch dating their letters by the reign of their Lords the Emperors when Pope Gregory the Great could come with his cap in his hand to Emperor Mauritius with g Vobis obedientiam praebere desidero I desire to yeild you obedience and were so farre from claiming to have a finger in the Emperors Crown that they were content the Emperor should have an hand in their Mitre so Pope Adrian anno 796 gave with all due submission power to Charles the Great to choose the Popes his Successors and Pope Gregorie the fourth confirmed the same anno 830 and Pope Leo the ninth yeelded the same to Emperor Otho anno 961 after whom Pope Alexander the second being chosen without the Emperors consent repenting him of that wrong was as he was well served deposed by busie Pope Hildebrand At and after which time their h Holiness hath been better advised strongly wrestling with and giving sound falls to their contesting Caesars Gregorie the seventh to Henry the fourth Pashcall the second to Henry the fifth Innocent the third to Philip Innocent the fourth to Frederick and Conrade John the two and twentie●h and Benedict the eighth to i Lewis of Bavaria although this last gave a Cornish hugge to his unequall match making a Law that the Pope should not be absent above three moneths in a year and not above twenty miles from Rome satis pro k Imperio But the winde stood not long in that doore the case is altered quoth Ployden Now of a long time the Emperour l knows his duty that is to hold his Holinesse his stirrup and to lead his horse by the bridle the ignorance or forgetfulnesse of which point of his office had like to have cost m Frederik the second his Crown which he might justly have forfeited for taking hold of the wrong side at least a tedious delay till he had learnt better manners well done brave Country-man this was our English Adrian Or if his Holinesse be rather pleased to be carried in his n chair it shall be the Emperours office with three other Kings or Princes to put their shoulders to his happy load Or perhaps upon further favour Caesars mightinesse may be prefer'd from a Groom or Escuier of the stable to be his Holinesse his Chaplain for though o Emperours or Kings be not admitted to holy Orders yet nothing hinders but that they may be allowed when his Holinesse officiates to supply the place of his p Deacons or Subdeacons as King Sigismund in the City of Constantine when the Pope said his first Masse being formally attired in the habit of a Deacon did with a a loud voice read the Gospel of the day out of Luke 3. Exiit edictum Yet further if the Emperour will be a white boy and please his Holinesse well he may be advanced to be a Canon in the Church of Lateran q. whiles his great Patron the Pope sits stately in his Pontificalibus to be adored by the Grandees of the Earth with the kisse of his toe An homage which I confesse Lipsius himself spits at as base and more then servile and such as if a Caius Caesar or Dioclesian who affected divine honour required of their vassals yet the elder Maximinus abhorred with a Dii prohibeant The gods forbid that any ingenuous man should kisse a foot of mine How well methinks it becomes the house that this odious guise which practised by the proudest Heathen drew from Seneca the exclamation of O superbias magnae fortunae Oh the pride of a great fortune should be taken up by a Christian prelate the professed successor of an humble fisherman If a faire Ladies kisse of Pope Leo his hand over erecting him suddainly in a lustful passion out of a revenge whereof he is said to have cut off that guilty hand which yet they say was mercifully restored by the blessed Virgin were the occasion of this hateful change from the hand to the foot the World hath reason to beshrew her lips But let that passe and