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A40122	The arraignment of popery being a short collection, taken out of the chronicles, and other books, of the state of the church in the primitive times : also, the state of the Papists, and how long it was before the universal pope and mass was set up, and the time of bringing in all their rudiments and traditions, beads and images, purgatory, tythes and inquisitions : also, a relation of their cruelties they acted after the Pope got up, being worse then the heathen and Turk, New Rome having proved like Old : also, what the people of England worshipped before they were Christians : with several other things, which may be profitable for people to read over, where all that fear God may see, read, try, and give judgment by the spirit of truth : to which is added, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church / by G.F. and E.H.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1750A; ESTC R15884	93,976	138

time not above One hundred and twenty of them refused to take the Oath but turned from their Religion to Protestantism because the Queen set it up notwithstanding they in Queen Maries days had burned some hundreds because they would not bow to Popery And in the first year of her Reign a Book of Injunctions to the Clergy was published some of which are as followeth That every Holy-day throughout the year when the people had no Sermon the Priest should recite the Pater-noster the Creed and ten Commandments to the intent the people might learn the same by heart c. Item That they should keep Holy-dayes Item That the Church-Wardens at the common charge of the parishioners shall provide a comely and honest pulpit to be set in a convenient place and to be there seemly kept Some of the Articles published in the y●ar 1610 by the Arch-D●acon of Rochester Whether is your Minister a Preacher Licensed if yea then by whom Whether doth he bid Holy-days and Fasting-days Item Whether have you in your Church or Chappel a seemly Pulpit a decent Communion table with meet Clothes to cover it a Font of Stone set in the old usual place a Communion-Cup of silver with a Cover a large Surplice with Sleeves c. Some of the Articles published in t●e year 1636. 1. Whether is your Church or Chappel sufficiently repaired the Walls and Covering thereof strong and close Are the Bells unbroken and their Frames strong and safe and fit for use Are the Windows well glazed and Floors well paved and seats decent without dust in such decent manner as becomes the House of God 2. Have you a Font of stone in the ancient usual place and a decent Pulpit with a decent Cushion and a decent comely Surplice with wide sleeves for your Ministers use 3. Have you a decent Communion-table and a Carpet of silk or other decent stuff for this Table also a fair Linen Cloth And is the said Table covered therewith c. And after Queen Elizabeth in King James his time the Book of Common Prayer was confirmed by the King and then the Bishops and Clergy in England by the Kings Licence set forth Canons and Constitutions in the Church some of which are as followeth That there should be a Font of stone in every Church and Chappel according to former Constitutions Also that in all Churches there should be decent tables and covered in time of Divine Service with a Carpet of silk or other decent stuff and in the time of administration a fair linnen cloth on it and that the ten Commandments should be set up on the East end of every Church and Chappel Also that a comely and decent Pulpit should be provided in every Church and Chappel Also they set forth a Form of Prayer that they should say be●ore Sermon And that in Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches he that administred the Communion on principal Feast-dayes should wear a decent Cope And when there was no Communion in Cathedral Churches they should wear Surplices and Hoods Also that the Letany should be said or sung on Wednesdays and Fridayes weekly and that Sundays and all holy-dayes should be observed Also that Ministers according to their degrees should wear decent and comely apparel to have them known to the people thereby to receive honour c. Gowns with standing-Collars and sleeves strait at hands or wide sleeves with Hoods or Tippets of Silk or Sarsenit and square Caps also some Ministers were to wear the like apparel but no tippets Also that they should wear in their Journeys Cloaks with sleeves commonly called Priests cloaks with sleeves welts long buttons or cuts Also that no Ecclesiastical person should wear any Coif or wrought Night-Cap but only plain Caps of black Silk Satin or Velvet Also that in publick they go not in their Doublet and Hose without Coats or Cassocks also that they wear not any light-coloured stockins likewise that poor-beneficed Curates that could not provide themselves long Gowns may go in short Gowns And in the time of the Long-Parliament which was ended in the year 1652. they having denied the Common-Prayer and a Directory for the publick Worship of God being set out in the year 1644 by a Synod of Priests sitting at Westminster the generality of the Prie is rather then they would leave their Benefices conformed to that power likewise and the truth being then broke forth in the people called Quakers the Priests rage was so hot against them that they joyned together and petitioned the Parliament against the spreading of the t●uth in the aforesaid people and c●lled the truth heresie and bl●sphemy In the year 1653 a Council of State was called by Oliver Cromwell unto whom the Priests cemonstrated their great willingness to conform to and in the same year a Parliament was chosen which was called the Little Pa●li●ment unto whom the Priests in several Counties presented several Petitions against the people called Quakers In the same year was Oliver Cromwell made Protector to whom the Priests were read● also to join the Priests of Cumberland e●●tioned that some present course might be prescribed for the enforcing the payment of tythes and other D●es to Munisters to which the people in these parts said they are extre●mly averse And Oliver Cromwe● upheld their interest and made an Order how they might she the people called Quakers for tythes there being no Ecclesiastical Courts to ●efor them in as it had been formerly ordained they should be sued for in no other Courts In the year 1658 Richard Cromwell was made Protector whom the priests fl●ckt to as their Rock of Defence that he whom they called in their petition their Joshua might lead them into their promised Land which indeed was but a Benefice of tythes or augmentations and they told him that the Gospel was bound up in him and so cleaved to him by flatteries as they did in all ages And on the twelfth of the eighth month 1658 the Independents made a Form of Faith in the Savoy and published it In which Form of Faith they laid down in chap. 13. that they that are united to Christ effectually called and regenerated having a new heart and a new spirit created in them through the virtue of Christs death and resurrection are also further sanctified really and personally through the same virtue by his Word and Spirit dwelling in them the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed and the several lusts thereof are more and more weakned and mortified and that this sanctification is throughout in the whole man Yet in the conclusion of the same article they say That it is imperfect in this life and that there abideth still some remnants of corruption in every part Note sure these peoples Faith is one with the Papists who hold a Pu●gat●ry that is a place to purge from sins after this life for the Scriptures say As the Tree falls so it lyes and as death leaves us so judgment shall

by Council Papist Those Councils was gathered by Popes Quaker The Councils was gathered some by the Christian Emperors were them Emperors Popes Dost thee believe the Chronicle six hundred years after Christ Papist I do then there was no Universal Bishop until six hundred years after Christ Quaker And one Council was gathered by the Emperess and was she a Pope Nay this was before the Universal Pope was and Christ said to the Apostles that the Gentiles exercise Lordship one over another but it should not be so amongst them for they are all Brethren and the Gentiles were called gracious Lords which titlethe Bishop of Rome and other Bishops had from the Heathen and not from the Apostles for they was not be called of men Master And so Peter was not set over the rest of the Apostles as Head over them and what was said to Peter concerning having the Keys and binding and loosing was said to the rest of the Apostles as you may read in Scriptures And as concerning the Church that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church of the Papists when Phocas got up to be Emperor did not the Emperor lose most part of his Empire and the Pope most part of Turky and Egypt and Jerusalem and the Land of Canaan Has he not lost England Ireland and Scotland and part of Germany Holland Denma●k and Swerden 〈◊〉 and yet the old man the Pope tells people that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against his Church Let him look about him and see what he has lest and what he would have had left if he had not set up his Inquisitions to torture Christians in the time of the Council of Trent and when that the Princes of Germany in the time of Luther when they defired that for every tristing businesse they might not be summoned down to Rome was it not the Popes answer If it should not be so their Courts would be made or no authority but would go down And did not the German Princes desire that the Concubinary priests might marry For though by the Law they had Concubines yet they desiled other mens wives did not the ope say If I should suffer the priests to marry then they would not go where I would have them but would sit down with their wives And when the German Princes and others desired a free General Council such a Council as was in the time of Constantine mark that was before the Pope was three hundred years See Council of Trent p. 2. did not the Pope chuse a Council of his own Legates and people contrary to the mind of the Germans and others and then did not many of them fall from the Pope and many in France who got the victory over he Pope and yet he says the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church Consider people see what he has lest And after the Pope got up and had lost most of Christendom and the Emperor had lost most of his Empire for the Emperor's seat was at Constantinople before the Turk got up which was after the Pope and then after a time the Emperors came to be thrust up into Germany and called the Emperors of Germany So here see whether the Pope is not he that loveth and maketh a lye Rev. 22. Papist You speak as if you could tell our principles if you know them what is our principles Quaker I 'le tell thee I 'le begin with one There was a woman in Kent one of your Religion and by her Wisdom and Books she had brought many into your way and upon a time it pleased the Lord to convince this woman to see your way was false and Christ was to be her Way her Teacher and Salvation and so she went and declared this among the Papists And upon a time a Taylor that she had brought to be a Papist came to work at her house and she declared to him how Christ was her Way her Teacher and Salvation and he got betwixt her and the door and drew his knife at her it was askt her why did he draw his Knife she said he would have stabb'd me why would he have stabb'd thee why it is their principle What is it their principle to stab people Yes said she if they turn away from their Religion and the woman said Put up thy Knife I know thy principles Papist VVhat do you declare this abroad Quaker It is declared abroad and the women since dyed in the belief of the truth of God and forsook your way and so the Papist went away and never denyed but that it was his principle Papist The Papists say the Quakers are Antichrist and false Prophets Quaker VVhy are they Antichrist and false Prophets Papist Because they say they do prophesie and say Christ is in you c. Quaker Then thou may say the Apostles were false Prophets which shews thy ignorance for they said Christ is in you except you be Rep obates and we preach Christ in you and I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh and my sons and my daughters shall prophesie Read Cor. Col. and Acts. POSTSCRIPT AND you Papists that say there hath been a Head of the church and therefore the Pope must be Head of the Church for Aaron was Head and Moses was Head To which I say Moses was a married man and Aaron was a married man and Eleazer and Ithamer and Aaron was a Priest and Eleazer and Eli the Priest was a married man and Samuel was a Priest and was a married man and had Sons 1 Sam. 8. And by the Law of God the Priests were to marry as you may read in the Books of Moses But your Pope whom ye say is Head of the Church makes a Law contrary to Law and Gospel That Priests must not marry and Popes must not marry but the Popes have bastards and by the Law the priests may have Concubines and this is contrary to the Law to have Bastards and contrary to the Gospel to have Concubines for every man must have his own Wife And you Popes and Papists who say that you brought over the Bible first in England and you preserved the Bible think you not that all people sees you in this For you have been them that have kept the Bible from people in an unknown Tongue and though all profess to be believers in Christ yet they must not have the Scriptures in their own Language in this you are contrary to the Apostles shewing you are degenerate from them who judged them that spoke in an unknown Tongue And Christianity was planted many hundred years in England by Joseph of Aramathea before Austin the Monk brought over his trifling Traditions and Ceremonies And whereas you Papists call some Lay-people and some Spiritual which was not the way of the Apostles to do so and such that be under some Oaths Vows or Orders or has the natural Languages which began at Babel these you call spiritual which be in swearing

find us And in chap. 23 they laid it down as part of their Faith That it was a sin to refuse an Oath being lawfully imposed by authority So are in the same path as the Papists and other apostates from the Truth are in for Christ said Swear not at all Mat. 5. And the Apostle James sad Above all things my Brethren swear not c. Jam. 5. And then after Richard Cromwell the Long-Parliament sate again under whose time the Priests were in great fear they should have lost their Tythes and Maintenance that they some of them got in Arms but being routed they petitioned the Parliament for pardon and by their subtilty got them to establish their Tythes and then they were quiet And when the King came in and the Common-Prayer Book was again set up how many of these Priests turned in the Nation is well known in the Countrys and some of them cryed They would preach in a Surplice or a Fools Coat rather then the Gospel should not be preached Here you may see the Turn-Coat Priests which minded more their Benefice then the Gospel CHAP. XXVI A Relation of some of the Cruelties inflicted on the Christians by the Heathen AND these called Papists have acted their Cruelties upon Christians like unto their Fathers the old persecuting Roman Heathens who acted many such Cruelties as follow though they profess Christianity in words yet the actions of the young Romans are like the old who have in their actions denied Christ who saith Love 〈◊〉 ●ther One was wrackt upon a Wheel and beat with a Bulls-p●●●●● One hanged and her skin fleyed off One bound about a Globe and her skin fleyed off her head and face One had his tongue cut out One broken in a Mortar One bound to a Pillar his head downward and 〈…〉 One fryed 〈…〉 The Mother 〈…〉 Some 〈…〉 Some bound to Axel-trees and so burned Some thrown to Lyons Beasts and Tygers One put into a Caldron of boyling Oyl Some Christians crucified with their heads downwards Some gored upon stakes one end fastned in the ground the other end coming out of their mouths Some tossed upon the horns of wild Bulls Some Women stript and hung by the hair of the head and scourged Some Christians brains beaten out with Clubs Some broiled upon Gridirons some beheaded with the sword Some burned at Stakes Some thrown down from Rocks and broken to pieces Some prest to death with great weights of Lead Some stoned to death some hanged upon Gibbets Some Christians hung up by the heels and choaked with smoak Some had sharp Reeds thrust under their nails and other parts of their bodies Some hung upon trees by the middle until they dyed of hunger Some hung up by one hand with Weights of Lead at their heals Some roasted upon Spits by a soft fire Some naked women hung up by one Legg upon Trees till they dyed Some had all their flesh torn with claws of wild Beasts Some were hewn in pieces with swords Some were sawn asunder in the middle Some hid their naked bodies annointed with Honey and then hung up in Baskers to be devoured of Wasps and Flyes Some Ministers loaden with great burdens and prickt forward with swords and spears Some tyed by the feet and haled thorough rough places till they were torn in pieces Womens bellies ript open and Barley put into them and so devoured by Swine A Ship set on fire with fourscore Ministers in it Some Christians cut in pieces from the Fundament Some had stinking Water Vinegar and Grease poured down their hroats Some smothered in Caves on the Mountains some racked until their bowels brake out Some Womens bellies ript up and their children trodden underfoot Two and two tyed together and slain Some had their bowels pulled out and put into a Bason Fourscore slain and their Quarters set on stakes thirty miles together Some murthered at the time and place of their Worship Some had Boots of Oyl put on their legs over a small fire This was invented by a Monk Some had their heads miserably torn with Gunpowder put into their mouths and fired Some thrown out at windows upon spears Some their bellies burnt till their bowels fell out Some their ears and cheeks cut off and holes burnt in divers p●●ts of their bodies Some had their mouths slit up to their Ears Some had their Eyes bored out A Minister had Hens and Geese tyed about his body and was torn with Dogs Some were tormented in a Trough A Minister tormented by a Cat on his belly Somehad their Faces plained Some had their Arms cut off Some had Noses and Ears cut off to make Hatbands Some had their Eyes twisted out with Cords Some had Corns drawn through their Arms and Legs Some cast into Dungeons amongst Frogs and Toads Some were let down with a Pulley into the fire by degrees Some had their hearts pulled out which the Papists 〈…〉 〈◊〉 teeth 〈◊〉 had their their throats cut with Butchers Knives other 〈…〉 〈…〉 with Axes Some had their Breasts and Noses pluckt off with red hot Pincher●● A Smith had his brains beat out on an Anvil with a Hammer Some had their right hands and feet crushed between red hot Irons Some were hanged up by one foot and their heads and breasts in the water Some were torn in pieces by Horses Some hung upon Tenterhooks Some had their Infants cut out of their Wombs and thrown to dogs and swine Some were set in the ground up to the Chin to be starved to death Some were pistolled to death Some thrown down from Bridges into Rivers Some burned with straw tyed about them to cover their nakednesse Some buryed alive A woman and her daughter hanged in their hair CHAP. XXVII An Abstract of the Bloody Massacre in IRELAND by the Instigation of the Jesuits Priests and Fryars c. in the Year 1642. VVHen their Plots were ripe for Execution we find their first proceedings against the English various some of the Irish only stripping and expelling them others murdering men women and children without mercy all resolving universally to root out all the Protestants out of Ireland so deeply malicious were they against the English Protestants that they would not so much as endure the found of their language The Irish when the Massacre began perswaded many of their Protestant Neighbours to bring their Goods to them and they would secure them and hereby they got abundance peaceably into their 〈◊〉 whereof they cheated the Protestants refusing to restore them again yet so confident were the Protestants at first of them that they gave them Inventories of all they had and d●gged up their best things that were hidden in the ground and deposited them in their custody They also got much into their hands by fair promises deep Oaths and Engagments That if they would deliver them their Goods they would suffer them with their Wives and Children quietly to depart the Country and when they had got all they could