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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B22568	The pope shut out of heaven gates, or, A dialogue between Pope Julius the 2d, his Genius, and Saint Peter wherein is most elegantly, learnedly, and wittily set forth how Pope Julius (after death) imperiously knocking at heaven gates, is absolutely denied entrance by Saint Peter, so that though having been alwayes stil'd His Holiness, and made famous by his warlike actions, whereby he hoped to become Lord of heaven, he is notwithstanding delivered over as a slave to Satan, and hurried away to the Devil's mansion / exactly from the original of the famous and learned Erasmus Roterodamus.	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.	1673 (1673)	Wing E3208B	31,750	50

common way of coming to the Popedom which you have now set forth Jul. For some Ages past there hath been no other unless he that is to succeed me do possibly create a new one For I was no sooner got into the Chair but I streight published a formidable ●●ll forbidding all attempts of arriving at that Seat by those means which Bull a little before my death I renewed Of what force it proves others will see St. Pet. I believe none could better describe that mischief then your self but I wonder there should be any would accept the gift of it since it is obnoxious to such cares and with such difficulty to be strugled for I should rather think Pontifical power should scarce compel any to undertake the office of Presbyter or Deacon Jul. I wonder not at you for in your times the Reveuue and Reward of Bishops was nothing but labours watchings fastings preaching and oftentimes death Now 't is Empire and Tyranny and who for a Kingdom when there was hopes of it would not venture to die St. Pet. Well said But for Bononia was it departed from the Faith that it was to be restored to the Roman Church Jul. No no there was no such thing in it St. Pet. Perhaps the Bentivolii by their ill administration ruined the Commonwealth Jul. Rather that City flourished and increased under them with large and stately Buildings which made it the more greedily thirsted after St. Pet. I understand you they had then wrongfully invaded it Jul. Not so neither they possessed it by Covenant St. Pet. The Citizens then endured not him for their Prince Jul. Rather they doted on him and universally hated me St. Pet. What could then be the cause Jul. Because he so governed that out of the vast sums he gathered from the Citizens scarce a few thousands returned to our Treasury Besides it was convenient for advance of other matters I had then plotted therefore the French labouring in the business and others affrighted with my thunder-bolts Bentivolio driven out I placed Cardinals and Bishops over the City that the whole benefit might accrue to the Roman Church Besides whereas whilst in their Possession there was to be seen nothing but the Imperial Titles and Arms Now our Statues were every where to be seen our Titles read and our Trophies adored Everywhere now stands a Brass or Marble Julius Lastly had you beheld with what Royal Triump● I entred into Bononia you would perhaps have contemned all the triumphs of the Scipio's and Octavius and have thought it was not without cause I fought so sturdily for Bononia nay then would you have seen at the same time the Church Militant and Triumphant St. Pet. 'T was then in your dayes I perceive that happened which Christ has commanded us to pray Thy Kingdom come But the Venetians what had they done Jul. They began to follow the Gre k's example making only a laughing-stock of me and casting on me all reproaches imaginable St. Pet. Were they true or false Jul. What 's that to the purpose 'T is Sacriledge to whisper any thing of the Pope of Rome unless in his praise Then they disposed Benefices as they pleased no Centroversies were transferred to me no Dispensations traffick●d for what need I say more They afflicted the See of Rome with intolerable damage by usurping no small part of thy Patrimony St. Pet. My Patrimony Prithee what do'st talk of my Patrimony who forsaking all naked followed naked Christ. Jul. I mean certain Towns belonging to the See of Rome for so it pleased the Holy Fathers to call a peculiar part of their Possessions St. Pet. You consulted my infamy with your own gain but is it this you call intolerable damage Jul. What else St. Pet. But were their Manners corrupt or was Piety grown cold Jul. Pish thou talk'st of trifles I 'le tell you they cheated us of an infinite thousands of Duckets which would have maintained some legions of Souldiers St. Pet. A dreadful damage indeed to an Usurer But what was Ferrara's fault Jul. His He was the most ungrateful of all mankind Pope Alexander the Vicar of Christ had so much respect for him that he gave him his younger Daughter in marriage adding by way of Dower a rich and plentiful Jurisdiction to a false-hearted man who forgetful of so much humanity and kindness was continually barking against me for Simony and Buggery some Subsidies and Tolls likewise he laid claim to but that was not much but yet too much to be neglected by a careful Pastor Gen. Ay that was such a trader Jul. But to make short the story It was very necessary to the business I had in hand to joyn this Dominion to ours by reason of the conveniency of its scituation therefore I endeavoured by raising this disturbance to confer this Government on my Kinsman a stout Man and ready to dare any thing for the Churches sake as who lately with his own hand had for my sake slain Cardinal Papeias For as for my Daughters Husband he was content with his fortune St. Pet. What 's this I hear Have Popes Wives and Children Jul. Wives of their own indeed they have not but what a mighty wonder is it if they have Children since they are Men and not Eunuchs St. Pet. But that Schismatical Cabal what were they doing Jul. It would be too long to repeat that story from the beginning I 'le mak 't as short as I can The Court of Rome began to be scandalous to many they reported it every where defiled with Markets and Fairs of filthy lucre prodigious and abominable lusts witchcrafts sacriledges murders and simony me they declared a Simoniac drunkard swine covetous wretch and every way unworthy of that place which I held to the dammage of the whole Christian Religion therefore a generall Council was to be called to redress these grievances they alledged that I had sworn upon my taking on me this honour that within two years I would call a Council upon which condition only I was created Pope St. Pet. And was not that true Jul. Yes very true but as soon as I saw fitting I absolved my self of that Oath or if I had not who would have stuck at alittle perjury when a Crown was at stake In other things indeed Piety may be regarded as another Julius my second self elegantly said But see the impudence of these men and whither it arrived N●ne Cardinals revolt from me summon a Council invite and intreat me to Praeside it which when they could not obtain they declare Maximilian as Emperour Histories testifying that Councils of old used to be summoned by the Roman Emperours and Lewis the 12th of France Heads of it I tremble in the repeating it Thus they rend in pieces the seamless Coat of Christ which even his Crucifiers left whole St. Pet. But wert thou such a one as they represented thee Jul. What 's that to the purpose Paint me more wicked then the Cyclops more foolish

they made against themselves to wit that the Roman Prelate might afterwards disturb the Kingdom if he disliked the Prince And that King being young went fiercer on then I desired or commanded and yet I was better pleased he should sin on that side but it would be too long to declare particularly by what arts I stirr'd up all these Princes to so dreadful a War against Christians which never any Pope could Excite them to against Turks St. Pet. But it may happen that this firebrand of War thrown about by thee may set the whole World in a flame Jul. Let it flame so the See of Rome preserve its dignity and possessions for I have endeavoured to remove all the weight of the War out of Italy and throw it upon the Barbarians let them fight as long as they please we will look on and perhaps enjoy the fruits of their madness St. Pet. Is this what becomes the Pastor and Holy Father and Vicar of Christ Jul. Why do they raise Schisms St. Pet. But distempers are sometimes to be born with when there is more evil in the cure then disease and then had you admitted a Council there had been no occasion of Sehism Jul. Soft and fair I had rather six thousand Wars then one Council what if they should remove me from the Papacy what if they should rip up my whole life and lay it open to the vulgar St. Pet. Yet wert thou a true Bishop thou wouldst rather be content to relinquish this Honour then defend thy dignity with so much mischief to the Christian World but thus it will be when the Bishoprick is committed to one unworthy that Dignity and not indeed committed but bought or stole whereupon it comes in my mind that thou by divine approbation didst become a plague to the French who first made thee a plague to the Church Jul. By my triple Crown and my most renowned Triumphs I swear that if thou movest my auger thou shalt feel too the power of Julius St. Pet. Oh madman But to go on hitherto I have heard nothing but of a great Captain not of an Ecclesiastick of a Worldly man and not of a Worldly man only but of a Heathen even the most wicked of Heathens Thy greatest boasts are that thou canst break Leagues and Truces inflame men to War and excite them to Slaughters this is the power of Satan not of a Bishop He that makes himself the Vicar of Christ ought as near as he can to follow his Example there is in him height of power but joyn'd with height of gooduess there is in him the highest wisdom but most pure and simple In thee I see the image of power link'd with a depth of malice and height of folly so that if the Prince of the wicked the Devil would surrogate his Vicar whom could he better pitch upon then one like thee Tell me what didst thou ever do like an Apostolical man Jul. What can be more Apostolical then to augment the Church of Christ. St. Pet. But if the ●hurch are the Christian-People compacted together by the Spirit of Christ thou seem'st to me to be the subverter of this Church whilst thou thus provokest the World to horrid War that only thou mayst go unpunished in thy wickedness Jul. We call the Church the Holy Houses the Priests and especially the Court of Rome my self in the first place who am head of the Church St. Pet. But Christ made us Ministers and himself the Head unless a second Head be since grown but with what pray is the Church increased Jul. Now you come to the matter that Church formerly hunger-starv'd and poor now flourishes with all Ornaments St. Pet. With what with fervency of Faith Jul. Thou' rt idle St. Pet. With contempt of the World Jul. pray let me tell you it 's true ornaments for these are but words St. Pet. With what then Jul. With Regal Palaces with beautiful Horses and mules with a noble Train and Attendants with abundant Riches with honorable Guards Gen. With beautiful Whores with ready and obedient Pandors Jul. With Gold Purple Revenues so that no King but would seem poor and humble were his compared with the riches and splendor of the Roman Prelates none so Ambitious but would confess himself out-done none so magnificent and stately but would condemn his frugality none so stored with Money nor no Vsurer but would envy our Riches these are the Ornaments which I have both preserved and increased St. Pet. But tell me who first of all loaded and defiled the Church which Christ would have light and pure with such Ornaments as these Jul. What 's that to the purpose that we are certainly Head we hold possess and enjoy though they say a certain Constantine conveyed over to Sylvester Pope of Rome all and universal his Imperial Majesty Trappings Horses Chariots Helmets Belts Coats of Mail Sergeants Swords golden Crowns pure Gold Armies Warlick Engines Cities and Kingdoms St. Pet. Remain there any Monuments of this Manificence Jul. Nothing but a * By Straw is meant onely a Comment added to the Decrees of Gratianus Straw mixt with the Decrees St. Pet. Perhaps 't is a fable Jul. I think so my self for who in his right wits would surrender so magnificent an Empire though it were to his Father but however it ought mightily to be believed and on all that endeavour to refute it we impose a deep strict silence St. Pet. But I hear nothing yet but of the World Jul. Perhaps thou dreamest still of that same Church in which thou with a few hunger-starved Bishops didst enjoy a cold Popedom obnoxious to poverty labours sweatings dangers and a thousand other inconveniencies Time now has changed all things for the better and the Pope of Rome is much another thing For thou wert only chief Bishop in Name and Title But if now thou shouldst behold so many Holy Houses built with the Riches of Kings so many thousands of Priests everywhere and most with large Benefices So many Bishops equal with Princes in Power and Riches so many sumptuous Palaces of the Clergy Especially saw you but at Rome so many searlet Cardinals with whole Legions of hired Servants so many Kingly Horses so many Mules adorned with Tissue Gold and Gems and some of them shod with Gold and Silver Then if you saw the Pope aloft in his Golden Seat carried upon Souldiers shoulders and at the wag of his hand all People adoring him If you heard the noise of the Guns the sound of the Trumpets the melody of the Flutes and the flashes of the Fire-works the Peoples Acclamations and Applauses and the whole City shining with Torches whilst Sovereign Princes are scarce admitted to kiss his feet If you saw that Roman Prelate with his Foot putting the Crown upon the Head of the Roman Emperour who is King of all Kings if ancient Records are of any value or can intitle to any right though now he gains nothing but the