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A14265	An ansvvere or admonition to those of the Church of Rome, touching the iubile, proclaimed by the bull, made and set foorth by Pope Clement the eyght, for the yeare of our Lord. 1600. Translated out of French; Aviso a los de la iglesia romana, sobre la indiccion de jubiléo, por la bulla del papa Clemente octavo. English	Valera, Cipriano de, 1532?-1625.	1600 (1600)	STC 24578.5; ESTC S116178	21,562	32

ambitiō he so deceiued that holy man hauing perswaded him to leaue this dignitie hauing taken and put him into the tower of Fumon constrayned him to dye therein before his time And we must not omit by silence that which Nauclerus saith which is that in Anno 1295. the seat being vacant as the Florentine historye declareth Cardinall Benet was in great care for the Papacie not staying till he was called therunto Note like Aaron wherevpon it hapned that one night he went not with any great traine to the Pallace of King Charles promising him all ayde that the Church could giue if by his meanes he might be made Pope whereupon the King perswaded by this hope found the meanes that the Cardinals his friendes elected him Pope Behold the holy man of whome Clement the eight is successor so the supposts and vpholders of the Papacie haue a most firme argument to maintaine and defend their vocation which is the succession of such men To make an end of this matter I will adde that which Platina setteth downe of the gouernment and end of this Boniface or rather Maliface this man saith he dyed when that is like a dogge he sought to procure terror and feare among Emperors Kings Princes nations and people rather then to plant true Religion that vsed all meanes he could to giue and take away kingdomes to banish and after that to recall men againe when it pleased him being without all measure puffed vp with the great treasure by him gotten from all places Let vs now returne vnto our Iubile which the Pope commaundeth at the end of 100. yeeres although saith he some others haue restrained it vnto a shorter number of yeares as Clement the sixt that caused it to be celebrated 50. yeares after but hee did it the easilyer to fill his Coffers And it is to be noted that this said Pope the better to make himselfe to be knowne to bee Antichrist in the Bull by him sent foorth for the same effecte commaunded the Angels to draw out of Purgatory the soules of all those that dyed in the way to Rome But howe can Clement the eyght prooue that this custome at the end of euery 100. yeares to celebrate this holy Iubile is Diuine and that rather in the Citty of Rome then else where What vertue hath this number of 100. more then any other What charity is there so long a time to deferre so great a benefit as this Iubile bringeth Clement the sixt had more reason in appearance in abreuiating the time from 50. to 50. yeares according to that of the Iewes The number of 7. multiplyed in it selfe inclusiuely comprehending 49 signifiyng perfection in the holy Scriptures But yet neuerthelesse the vse of that Iubile of the Iewes did wholy cease at the comming of Iesus Christ and we finde not that any other hath been established for the Christians in a certaine number of yeeres As wee read that Baptisme succeeded Circumeision the holy Sacrament the Paschal Lambe And as this holy Father can not prooue that but onely because it is his pleasure and that his will ought be holden for a decree of the Celestiall Court So can he much lesse prooue that such a thing ought to bee done in Rome by him called the Fortresse and house of christian religion As many words as in that place he setteth down are so many blasphemies that the towne most giuen ouer vnto all the villanies that euer were which also by S. Ierom in his time In the pref vpon Didimus is called the seate of the whore apparelled in purple vestures the Citty wherein al things are permitted where vertue is banished the towne wherin all sacred things yea God himselfe if it were possible are to be solde But what speake I of sacred thinges All things prophane defiled and vncleane are to be bought by him that offereth most money The Citty wherin the Cardinals by the Pope termed his reuerend bretheren leade a life more then Sardanapalike for that they are not ashamed to walke with their Concubines throughout the Citty in the open view and sight of all the people Sodomy is therein tollerable approoued and maintained that such a towne I say ought to be called the Fortresse and house of religion but according to the saying of Petrarke the house of dolour the Schoole of error and the temple of herresie But to what end is this Iubile ordained to reiterate and renue saith Clement the eyght the memory of so great a benefit that is that Iesus Christ the Son of Iustice he that brought saluation to all the world is borne of the Virgin Mary c. Now you shall see how this is done if we ought to referre it to any certaine place of celebration it were fitter to bee done in Bethlehem where Iesus Christ according to the flesh was borne then in Rome but wee haue not any commandement neyther for this place nor for any other But as expresse commandement was giuen vnto the Apostles to Preach the Gospell throughout all the world so is it that throughout all the world wee must celebrate the memory of the Sonne of God without distinction of this or that place The Lord is with those that are assembled in his name according to his will The holy Sacrament was ordained by him to the end that wee should celebrate it in memory of him not onely because that hee was borne but also that he suffered death and passion for the remission of our sinnes and rose againe for our iustification And we must not attend a 100. 50. or 25. yeares but we must doe it as often as we may not at Rome from whence the Gospell yea and Iesus Christ himselfe is banished but in all places where the Doctrine of the Gospell is purely Preached the holy Sacraments administred according to the ordinance of our Soueraigne Pastor and Master our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ The Pope calleth himselfe the successor of the Apostles where doe wee finde that the Apostles did establish any certaine seate whereunto they haue enioyned vs to resort as to the stone of faith But to the contrary they themselues went Preached throughout all the world they themselues went to seeke the sheep and stayed not till the sheep came to finde them S. Peter himselfe preached vnto the Iewes and S. Paul vnto the Gentils Now that S. Peter erected his seate in Rome there is no apparance thereof the booke of the Actes of the Apostles and the Epistles of S. Paul both that which hee wrote vnto the Romaines and that which he sent out of prison in Rome doe sufficiently ouerthrow and disprooue all these impostures that would affirme the contrary for in any of them there is not any mention made of S. Peter And as touching that which the Munke Onuphrius saith that S. Peter did first erect his seate in Rome for the space of nine yeares and that he was driuen away among other Iewes by the

Emperour Claudius whereby it fell out that he was present in Jerusalem at the assembly of the Apostles recited by Saint Luke Act. 15. which is but a meere iest and a notable lye Act. 15.16.17 deuised in his Monkish cap For he can by no meanes shew nor by any approoued Author verifie it besides that that Saint Luke alleageth touching this matter prooueth him a lyer Where he sayth that S. Paul hauing stayed for a time in Antiochia after his returne from Ierusalem went to visit the Churches where he and Barnabas had Preached and hauing past by Siria and Cilicia came to Iconia and from thence went for Phrigia and Galatia and then to Macedonia where he stayed long time Preaching in many places thereof at the last he came to Athens and from thence to Corinthus where he met with Aquilla and Priscila who not long before or lately came thither out of Italy because Claudius had commaunded the Iewes to depart out of Rome Now this word lately sheweth that Onuphrius deceiueth himselfe or else would deceiue other men affirming that S. Peter was driuen out of Rome by Claudius For S. Paul hauing stayed from the time of the Sinode at Ierusalem in Antiohia could not haue made so long a voyage Preaching the Gospell almost in euery place where he past in so short a time And touching the rest if it were so that S. Peter had been at Rome doth it follow that hee was the head of the Church There is but one onely Iesus Christ who is also the true stone of the Fayth whereupon the Church of God is erected and not Saint Peter Which hath been so often prooued by the Authorities and witnesses of the most auncient Doctors that it would be but meere labour lost to reiterate it onely I wil alleadge one witnes taken out of their own Authors which by consequent they cannot reprooue Petra dedit Petro Petrus diadema Rodulpho The stone that is Christ gaue the Diadem to Peter and Peter gaue it to Redulphus Now although this is false as it shall heereafter be prooued so is it notwithstanding that God by a iust iudgement admirable wisedom hath drawne from this lye that the stone gaue Peter the Diadem this true confession that Christ is the stone as also the glose Et Super hanc Petram in the distinction 19. C. ita Dominus sayth I beleeue that the Lord by this indiction hath declared no other thing then only the words which S. Peter answered vnto the Lord when he said thou art the Christ the Son of the lyuing God For the Church is erected vpon this article of the faith Then God hath built his Church vpon himselfe Also behold what is added in the margent Where he saith vpon this stone c. That is the same which thou hast confessed that is to say my selfe for the stone was Christ De consecrat dist 2. C●re vera Vpon which foundation Peter was edified It is then by a false tytle that the Pope saith that he sitteth in S. Peters chayre that he is the Father of those that call themselues Catholiques soueraigne Pastor of the sheepe For without making any long discourse touching the disloyalties disorders couetousnes ambition intollerable tyrannie and pride more then diabolical where with the most part of those that haue mounted vp into this abhominable seate haue bin adorned and inriched or rather spotted and defiled seeing the hystories of their liues are filled therewith What duety of a Father or Pastor I beseech you doe they shew Is it in setting Iesus Christ and al his benefits to sale Is it in sucking the substance of Kingdomes by theyr pardons and indulgences And further by meanes of the Annates and such like diabolicall inuentions and all to draw money into their purses Haue we any one example of the Apostles which in any thing doth resemble these things Sueto in Tiberio The Emperor Tiberius although an Infidel and a tyrant did neuerthelesse say that it is the ducty of a good Pastor to sheare the sheep but not to flea them If wee looke into the trafique and pollicies of the Citty of Rome we shal find it to be but a right fleaing how much wors I omit That which this holy father addeth is no truer then the rest that went before for how is it possible for saith to shine where it is not Will you say that there is the fayth where mans traditions and inuentions are preferred before the expresse commandements of God This onely example shall suffice God often times sayth and that in most plaine and cuident wordes Thou shalt not make any Image nor the likenesse thereof neyther shalt thou worshippe them The Pope saith thou shalt erect Images and the likenesse of God and of his Saints and shalt worship them with the same worship that belongeth vnto the thinges which they represent Can there bee any faith there where the simple people are taught to haue recourse vnto creatures to inuoke and call vpon them and to make vowes and seruices to them that belong to God alone Likewise can there bee faith where men teach that we must doubt the promises of God there where the soueraigne Bishop with his supporters openly boldly and shamelesly maintaine that the holy Scriptures although diuinely inspired and profitable Doctrine to reprehend correct and reprooue that the man of God may bee perfect and instructed in all good workes are neuerthelesse imperfect and vncertaine and that wee must haue recourse vnto traditions which they terme the vnwritten word Where he saith that this truth hath neuer bin changed by any course of times That shal be found to be most vntrue by such as will but conferre the Doctrine which the holy Prophets and Apostles haue left vs in writing with their inuentions and traditions for that the one resembleth the other as much as light and darknesse and truth and vntruth But beholde a most sufficient witnes of the vnion that the celebration of this Iubile where the name of God is outragiously blasphemed the bloud of the Sonne of God villanously abused and troden vnder foote and his death and passion exposed for a mockery and pastime This notwithstanding this holy Father the better to couer his subtilty and mallice full of deceipt will ground his Iubile vpon that which is Prophesied of our Lord Iesus Christ in Esay 61. As our Lord himselfe expoundeth it in Luk. 4. But beholde vnaduisedly not thinking thereof he discouereth his deceipts and impostures being cleane contrary to that he saith hee will doe following our Sauiour Christ It is said in Luke 4. that Iesus Christ according to his manner being entred into the Sinagogue of Nazareth vpon a Saboath day stood vp to read and that the booke of the Prophet Esay was layd before him hauing opened it he turned to the parcell of Scripture where it is witten the Spirit of God is vpon me because he hath annointed me He hath sent me to the

peice of sealed paper or parchment Is it not in the sincere Preaching of the word of God the ryght administration of the holy Sacramentes Where doth the Pope this It should be a wonder to heare him Preach So it is neuerthelesse that in that sort the Apostles did dispence the Treasors of the grace mercy of God as wee may read in the booke of theyr Actes and in theyr Epistles But behold I pray you a right iest pure mockery to say that the gates of the most auncient Churches of Rome are opened with solemne ceremonies and that the faithfull are purged from the spots of sin to the end that the soules redeemed by the bloud of Iesus Christ by the Diuine vertues of the Sacramentes should be absolued and deliuered from the yoake of Iron and the tyranny of the deuill c. Is it possible in more manifest termes to mocke with God and to expose and bring in reproach the precious bloud of his most deare Sonne then in speaking in this manner From whence hath the Pope drawn this goodly yea rather damnable deuotion but onely from the pit of Hell The auncient Iubile was established among the Iewes by the expresse commandement of God Where will the Pope find that Iesus Christ hath or dained this which is the inuention of Boniface the eight and that first they must giue a blow with a small hammer wher with hauing stricken then with great blowes of leauers and staues open the gates of his Basiliskes to obaine all the benefits whereof hee speaketh This manner of action is not to bee found in any place of the holy Scriptures neither yet in the bookes of the most pure and first Doctors But that it hath bin reuealed to his predicessors if it were it was by the spirit of Sathan that transsigureth himselfe into an Angell of light that he might induce the simple people to commit two euils the one to sorsake God which is the spring of waters that continually without ceasing run into life eternall Ier. 2 the other to dig broken cesternes and such as holde no water But touching the true spirituall Iubile the Apostles declared it euery where and in all places as occasion serued according to their charge As S. Peter first in Jerusalem that all the house of Israell sayth he may know that this Iesus whom you haue crucified was by God made our Lord Christ Therfore be you repentant be you euery man baptised in the name of Iesus Christ Act. 2. to the remission of sins And in the Chap. following repent you saith he conuert to the end your sins may be defaced And in the 10. God cōmanded vs to preach vnto the people to witnes that Iesus is ordained of God to be iudge both of the quick the dead also al the Prophets beare him witnes that all those that beleeue in him shal receiue remission of their sins Now faith cōmeth not by going a long iourny ouer the mountains vnto Rome or els where but by hearing the word of God which is the word of faith Which S Pa. also saith that he Preacheth that is that if we confesse the Lord Iesus with our lips beleeue with our harts that God raised him frō the dead wee shal be saued Harken to that which S. Paul saith in the Act. 13 Brethren I would haue you know that the remission of sins by this Iesus is announced vnto you that euery one of you by this man is absolued of all the things wherof by the law of Moses you could not be absolued Now this was not at Rome that he spake this but at Antiochia in Pesidia Hee sent them not to Rome where according to Onuphrius allegation Saint Peter as then was resident but assured them if they there beleeued of the remission and intyre absolution of the paine and culpe of theyr sinnes For conclusion we wil ad that which S. Paul saith to Agrippa whereof the Pope hath inferred certaine words in his Bull. That Iesus Christ had appeared vnto him Act. 26. to establish him a minister and witnes as well of the thinges that he had seene as of the thinges that he would shewe vnto him deliuering him from the people of the Iewes and the Gentils to whome he sent him to the end saith Iesus Christ that thou maist open their eyes and that they might conuert from darkenes to light and from the power of Sathan to God to the end that they receyue remission of sinnes and part in the inheritaunce among the sanctified by the faith that is in me Wherupon saith S. Paul I was not disobedient to the celestiall vision But first I declared to them that are in Damas and in Jerusalem throughout all Iudea after that to the Gentils that they should repent and conuert vnto God doing workes worthy of those that repent Doth it not many sestly appeare by all these passages that it is not at Rome nor in the Baselisques that we must seeke these great benefits which the Pope promiseth vs by his Bull but in all places where the word of God is Preached and at all times such as by true faith doe receiue them are partakers of those benefits Wherefore what pretence soeuer Clement the eyght taketh as touching the actions of his predecessors whom he termeth Soueraigne Bishops and of the consent of the Cardinals it cannot be by Gods authority which neuer commaunded it much lesse by the Apostles who neuer practised the like but taught the contrary that he hath published his Iubile but rather by the authority of Sathan the father of lyes who by subtiltie and accustomed mallice hath in such fort prophaned this authority to remit and retayne sinnes as God hath giuen it to his church in the persons of true and faithfull pastors in causing it to be attributed vnto such as haue not any vocation in the Church if it be well considered neyther in matter nor forme and that make trassique and Marchandize of the grace mercy yea and of the iustice of God And which is more make certaine Stirrops to lengthen or shorten them as their accursed ambition auarice fauours and wicked wils leadeth them If therefore poore Romaine Catholiques you will be well assured to participate and haue part of the Treasors which Iesus Christ hath brought and dayly presenteth vnto vs and by consequent haue peace in your consciences It is not in any sort necessary that you should so much trauell your bodies to goe to Rome there to stay 15. daies or a month to goe visit the Basiliskes and Temples euery day during that time to haue a signe of the hand of a mortall man which you terme the signe of the Crosse and a blessing supposing by this meanes to haue full intyre remission of all your sinnes as well mortall as veniall The holy Ghost she weth you a way much more assured and a great deale shorter Rom. 10. when by his