unto all the faithfull charging all S. Francis wounds to credit and not call Them into doubt on paine of Heresie And Benedict the twelfth lest this grosse lye Should be forgotten did enjoyne all men Yearely to keepe that day as Holy when S. Francis these forg'd wounds receiv'd After The Hill Averna by Pope Alexander The fourth his Bull was tooke into the See Of Romes protection because these scar's he Thereon receiv'd which sundry deeme a ly And damne for a notorious Blasphemie Not to relate how Francis oft times preacht Vnto the very Birds who their neckes reacht Out to receive his Blessing and did stay Their singing whiles that he his Masse did say Or how his haire did suddenly cement A great new house from top to bottome rent And like to fall so that they could not get The haire out thence Or how his Cord but wet In water and that drunke did instantly Cure divers sicke men of their maladie I shall but one thing more of him relate Recorded as a truth past all debate To wit that at Assize in Italy About the yeare twelve hundred thirty three An Angell to S. Francis did appeare And told him that in Maries great Church there Cal'd Angels Jesus Christ the Virgin Mary With sundry Angels did for him tarry Where being come Christ Jesus to him spake Thus Francis for saving Soules one suite make For thou are sent to be a light unto The Gentiles Francis answered thereunto I crave that thou the Pardon of all sinne Wilt grant to every one who enters in To this Church and I likewise supplicate The Virgin Mary mankindes Advocate To ayde me in this suite then Jesus sayd Freer Francis that which thou of me hasâ—pray'd Is a great matter but thou art worthy Of greater things I doe accord to thy Request and grant it but yet goe to Rome Vnto the Pope my Vicar unto whom I have given power to binde and to unty In Earth and Heav'n and of him aske in my Behalfe this indulgence On which he goes To Pope Honorius and doth this disclose Demanding of him for these plenary Indulgence without offrings or money The Pope reply'd that this could not be done Because he that would gaine such full pardon Must merit it by putting helping hands To Peters Treasure and this suite withstands By this we see Popes can doe will deny Those suites which Christ hath granted formerly The Pope demanded next for how many Yeares he desired pardon His reply Was I not for yeares but for soules did crave Pardon and will no Bulls for this grace have Adding the Virgin should unto him be Insteed of paper Christ his Scribe and the Angels his witnesses The Pope at last This indulgence at his intreaty past That whosoever this Church visited Each first of August and therein entred During that whole dayes and nights space should gaine Perfect remission from the guilt and paine Of all his sinnes from baptisme till that day An easie rate to purge all sinnes away Now least S. Francis merits wounds and fame Should quite eclipse S. Dominickes great Name I shall from Antonine one of his Sect A Romish Saint him cleare from disrespect Who writes as much of Dominicke well nigh As others doe of Francis dignity Comparing him with Christ in such a sort Which makes Christ of him oft times to fall short For Christ writes he but three dead men in all Rays'd up when Dominickâ— within Romes wall Did raise up three and forty that were dead And drowned neere Tolouse he restored To Life Christ when immortall the doores shut Entred in to his sad Disciples but S. Dominicke which is far more whiles yet A mortall man into the Church did get At night the Gates fast shut least he should wake His Brethren Christ after his death thus spake All power in Heaven and Earth is given to me And this power to S. Dominicke writes he Was not communicated sparingly Whiles here 'ore all things in the Heavens high On Earth and underneath the Earth For he Had the blest Angels at his Service the Foure Elements did unto him obey The Devils trembled at his sight and they Vnable were to dis-obey him as He doth by Legends prove That ere he was Borne or brought forth into the world there were In Venice two Statues In Markes Church there The one of Paul as they use him to paint Over the which was this Inscription Saint Paul but under the Image feete was writ By this man we come unto Christ Neare it The other of S. Dominicke was plac'd In a poore preaching Fryers habit grac'd With this Motto S. Dominicke above But underfoote with By this man we move And goe more easie unto Christ For why The doctrine of St Paul writes Anthony And other Apostles did but onely lead To Faith and keeping of Gods Lawes we reade But Dominickes did teach men to obey Counsells which is the shorter easier way To goe to Christ Oh horrid blasphemy S. Dominicke thus to advance so high Above S. Paul all the Apostles and To make his Doctrines take the upper hand Of the Apostles as the shortest best Way unto Christ He addes yet to the rest That he was aptly named Dominike Because he was to Christ himselfe most like For Dominicke was that principally And by possession what absolutely And by authority Christ was marke ye His proofe For the Lord saith thus I am the Light of the world and the Church doth thus sing Of Dominick Thou art the Light Day-spring Of the world yea as the Prophets of old Of the Lord Christ bore witnesse and foretold In divers wayes So Prophet Zachary Of Dominicke and his Order saith I Have taken unto me two staves â—ne I Did call Beauty the other Cords Beauty Is the Sect of Saint Dominicke for the Beautifull habits of their Prelates we Behold the Cords are nought but Minor Fryers Girt with a Cord and thence cald Cordeliers A worthy Glosse on this Text thus they play With Sacred Scripture Furthermore they say Christ was borne on the bare earth but Mary For feare of cold did him swath presently And put into a Manger Dominicke Whiles yet an Infant oft times off did kicke His clothes and getting from his cratch was found By his Nurse lying naked on hare ground Detesting as it were all the delights Of the flesh Anthony yet farther writes That at our Lords birth there appear'd a starre Which guided the wise men who came from farre Vnto him which did intimate that the Whole world by him should then inlightned be So in the forehead of Dominicke when He was Baptiz'd his God-mother did 〈◊〉 A shining starre which signifi'd that he A new light come into the world should be He addes The prayer of Christ was heard alway When ere he would but yet when he did pray Within the Garden that the cup might passe Fâ—om him this suite of his denyed was Because he
the Popes not erring and falling from Grace 66. On the Popes pardons and mortall sins p. 75 67. On the Popes being Christs Vicar generall upon earth 68. On Popes pardons of sinnes p. 76 69. On the Popes being head of the Church 70. On Romes sins curses and pardons 71. On the Pope and his Cardinals 72. On the Popes being Christs Vicar p. 77 73. On the Popes Vicarship and Vicars 74. On the Popes Porpherie chaire wherein they are groped and tryed to be men p. 78 75. On Christs Crowne of Thornes and the Popes triple crowne of gold 76 On Peters poverty and the Popes great wealth and being Peters successors 77. On Popes prohibiting Priests from marriage p. 79 78. On Protestants damnation by Papists and the reason of it p. 82 79. On Romes Saviours and Jesuites 80. On no Salvation out of the Church of Rome p. 83 81. On Papists making Apocrypha Canoninicall and Canonicall Scripture lesse than Apocryphall with their blasphemies against it and Popes power over it p. 84 82. On the two Arch-Patriarches of Popish Fryers Saint Francis and Saint Dominick and their blasphemies concerning them p. 85 83. On the strange Popish Miracles attributed to and forged of Saint Vincent Ferryer and Saint Anthony of Padua p. 93 84. On the Popish blasphemous Legends of their Saint Katherine of Sennes p. 95 85. On a Popish Miracle of their deified Hostia p. 98 86. On Papists Prayers to those for Saints who neither were Saints nor men p. 99 87. On Popish blinde obedience p. 100 88. On Romes making perpetuall visibility a note of the true Church p. 101 89. On Romes making Multitude and Roman another note thereof p. 102 90. On Romes engrossing the name of the true Church of Christ to her selfe alone 91. On Romes Religion turned to policy p. 103 92. On Popes Right to interpret Scripture and their strange Glosses on sundry Texts to prove their supremacy and the lawfulnesse of deposing and killing Kings who disobey them p. 104 93. On the Popes Supremacy and Soveraignty over Kings Emperours and Kingdomes p. 109 94. On Popish Images p. 111 95. On Romes Doctrine and practise of Equivocation 96. On Papists blasphemous assertions touching the Virgin Mary to the dishonour of God the Father and Christ his Sonne p. 112 97. On Romes Novelties notwithstanding her pretence of Antiquity p. 114 98. On and against Romes halfe-Communion and Sacrilegious depriving of the people of the Sacramentall Cup. p. 217 99. On and against Popish and superstitious bowing to Altars and rayling in the Lords Table Altarwise p. 140 100. On and against Popish bowing to Altars and adoration of the Host p. 181 Errata PAge 9. l. 3. for you read your l. 10 the four p. 13. l. 35. hers his p. 27. l. 5. it is p. 28. l. 1. Nazarene p. 55. l. 25. ascend p. 72. l. 16. eternity extremity p. 88. l. 18. there tarry p. 95 l. 18. the Baker p. 99 l. 12 you Saint p. 113. l. 16. advocate p. 117 l. 17. Constans p. 120. l. 11. for to p. 121. l. 33 great feast l. 34. guest p. 124. l. 17. received l. 21. no Nay l. 27. whom when received p. 126. l 25. makes p. 129 l. 16. that as p. 131. l. 8. Dranke l. 35. Sacraments of Sacramentall p. 134 l. 4. yet it p. 135. l. 8. and some l. 23. publike vulgar p. 138. Nor Not p. 139. l. 9 they thâ—are In the Margin p. 12. l. 40. dele and p. 13. l. 17. Novae l. 27. Capreolus p. 28. l. 34. Molanus p. 66. l. 40. Rosella p. 109. l. 24. Eutropius p. 138. l. 5. Eucharistia l. 11. Carnotensis l. 17. Speâ—â—â— p. 174 l. 39 Sam. Sacr. A PLEASANT PVRGE FOR A ROMAN CATHOLICK TO EVACVATE HIS EVILL HVMORS Consisting of sundry Epigrams wherin divers Errors and grosse Corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered censured refuted in a Facetious yet serious Manner On and against Popish Ave-Maries NO Ave-Marie now No Salutation Of the blest Virgin since her Exaltation The Angell sayd it whilst shee here did Live Must we not then this honour now her give In state of Glory mounted up on High To Gods right hand above the Starrie skie No. Why because it is A Salutation And so Casheer'd by this Her Elevation Friends Neighbours use none to salute or greete By speech whilst absent but when as they meete If Men in England should salute with Ave Their friends in Spaine cry to them God save yee All Haile good sirs and with them Complement Whiles absent there as if they were present Or should they Aves to their Pictures say And them Salute as you doe hers each day All would them deeme mad foolish are not ye Then Mad Craz'd Sottish thus to cry Ave Hayle Mary full of Grace to Mary here And to her Pictures as if still she were Here present with you when you all grant know She 's now in heav'n above not here below Ten Millions more remote from you all then Those now in Spaine are from us English Men. No doubt your wits are fled you quite erre dote Thus to salute her from you so Remote Since Fooles yea little Children still deny To aske their Parents blessing if not by Go to Salute them with Cap Congie Knee Except they see them and they present be The Angell Courted her not till he came Into her Presence pray doe ye the same Stay till you meete her Person then salute The Angell else your folly will confute Who in her absence us'd no Complement Nor Ave but when where she was present Nor did he her Salute nor Ave cry Till he was sent by God in Embassie To Her from Heav'n Above and to her came With speciall tydings doe you than the same Stay till God sends you to her then salute The Angell else your Dotage will refute When you come to her with an Embassie From God then Her salute and Aue cry But not before since t is Presumption Her to salute without commission None but An Angell not one Mortall Man Saluted her with Ave here how can You then no Angels but meere men presume The Angels Salutation to Assume And this great Queene of Heav'n greet thus I feare You are too bold with Him and Mary here First to Vsurpe his words and then to cry Ave to this grand Queene Familiarly Without their leave or God's as if you were Their equals till you be so pray forbeare Your Aves It s not Manners nor Decent For you with this grand Queene to Complement It stands not with a Princesse Royalty That all should her salute Familiarly The Angle sayd his Ave once no more Then ceast and did not oft repeate it o're How then can you your Aves every Day Repeate oft times together when you pray And never cease the Angle certainely Did never teach you such Battologie Your Legends write of great S t Marguerite That
say your Beades and Pater To Mary and her Image as your Father And then say Aves at your Paters end To God the Father this for shame amend Since t is the height of Madnesse Blasphemy To God to Saints to say Ave Mary And to say Paters to Saints and to her As if they were God your heav'nly Father He never sayd an Ave too before The Crosse which you now pray to and adore With Ave Lignum Triumphale nay With Ave Maries which you to it say Or Ave Crux spes unica All Haile O Crosse our onely hope doe thou availe In Godly men to Judgement Righteousnesse And pardon to the guilty to adresse He never sayd an Ave to the speare That did Christs blessed side both pierce and teare When you sing Ave Lignum triumphale Felix Hasta All Haile or God save thee Triumphant Iron happy speare these you Salute adore with Latry as their due And the Crosse Nayles Speare worship deifie Because they did Christs Body Crucifie As you salute adore Mary for that She bore preserved nurst Christ and did flat Contrary to them these your Aves be Quite Crosse to hers and cannot well agree The Virgin cannot take it well that these Should be ador'd with Latry and Aves As well as she and equaliz'd to her For killing Christ who did him Nurse and beare Yea you say Ave Chrisma to that Oyle And Chrisme wherwith you children grease soile And to S. Anne Roch others Aves say In all these you quite from the Angell stray He never said his Ave at no one day By sound of bell as you it use to say By Pope Calixtus precept to the end That these Aves might those aide and defend Who did against the Turkes fight usually A goodly charme no doubt to make Turkes fly Nor did he ever chaunt Ave Mary To rescue searcht sovles out of Purgatory Or rather Hell as you doe when you say Your Ave Mary prayers at Nooneday And in your Offices for the dead where You Ave Maries say and pray God there To free the dead from Satans Power Gods Ire Endlesse Damnation bells torments and fire Without one word at all of Purgatorie Whose name in Missals Houres appeares rarely Good proofe there is no Purgatory you Must than this kinde of Aves bid adue The Angells Ave was but arbitrary Not sayd of duty but of curtesie You deeme your Aves Maries right and due Though neither God Christ She them crave from you The Angell greeted Mary with Ave Onely before Christs birth you since when ye Cannot produce one Text proofe that any Thus greeted her since Christs Nativitie Whereas we reade the Wise men from the East Who came to worship Christ and did not rest Vntill they found him when they came into The house and saw him with his Mother too Fell prostrate worshipt him onely not her And to him offred Gold Incense and Myrrhe But offered naught we reade to her at all Nor her saluted you quite Crosse downe fall Worship Salute Present Invoke onely Her and the Babe Christ in her Armes passe by Uncourted uninvoked No Ave Is said to him knee bow'd thing offered she A Crowned Queene hath all the Ceremonie Prayers Worship Off'rings whiles he a Babie In her Armes is Neglected O fooles see How opposite to the wise Men you be Who did Salute Adore Present onely The sucking Babe but past the Mother by No doubt the Angell would have done likewise Had he seene Christ with her before his eyes Or in her armes you must not Ave cry Then or her greet henceforth if Christ be by As he is still in Picture when you say Your Aves to her Image as you pray He never did his Ave Mary say To purge all Mortall Veniall sinnes away As you your Aves and your Rosary Vse for to say a new found Purgatory To Purge Men from all sinnes without Christs blood Which the Apostles never Understood He did establish no Fraternity Of our Ladies Chapter or Rosary As you have done to cry Ave each day An hundred and fifty times without stay To all of which Order Pope Innocent The Eight by his hand voyce and full consent Gave two plenary Indulgences In Life one in death the to'ther of all sinne And five yeares after gave an hundred yeares And Quarantines of Pardons to each beares The Chaplet but about him and many Popes since to those who say the Rosary And Ave have granted them seven five two Yeares indulgence with Quarantines thereto Nay Alexander the sixth gave Pardon For thirty thousand yeares to every one Who before the Altar of our Lady With Christ and her Mother should say onely A speciall Ave importing that she Was without sinne conceiv'd such Pardons he Did neither give nor grant to any here For saying his Ave Popes may well forbeare Then for to grant them till God Christ Mary This Angell give them such Authority The Angel which appear'd to Gideon Did use to him this Salutation The Lord is with thee O thou Man of Might Yet none this greete to Gideon will recite An Angell unto Manoahs Wife also Brought downe from God these happie tidings Lo Thou shalt conceive and beare a Sonne the same In substance with those he to Mary came Yet none to her this greeting Message use You must then both repeate or both refuse An Angell to the Shepheards Zachary Brought tydings of Johns Christs Nativity And sayd to them as unto Mary here Feare not and so forth yet it is most cleare That none to them these greets or Aves say You must your Ave Maries cast away Then by the selfesame reason since that ye Can shew no Precept Ground to say Ave To Mary onely and to pretermit The Angels words to all these as unfit To use each day alone or joyn'd to the Lords prayer as your Ave Maries be The Angell never dreamp't that his Ave Could Reprobates and damned Soules set free From hell it selfe when as your Rosary Of Ave Maries If Alanus lye Not but devoutly used will obtaine Eternall life for Reprobates and gaine Damn'd tortur'd Soules out of hell fire whence ye Record that Abbot Odilo did free The soules of Reprobates and damn'd men by His Prayers and his Covents of Clary From Hell or Vuleans Pots in whose flames they By Devils were tormented night and day All which the Devills did oft times Lament In hearing of an Anchorite who sent This newes to Odilo who then ordaines All-soules day hereupon damn'd soules from paines Of hell to free and not from Purgatory As most now write against the sirst pend story If Ave Maries Rosaries can free Damn'd Soules from hell Few then shall damned be In fine his Ave was esteem'd no part Of Maries or Gods worship by what art Have you then made
moneths space each yeare When they their Cuckoo-Paters night and day All the yeare long repeate and never stay Yea whereas Cuckooes never keepe account How oft they Cuckoo cry they them surmount In this that they cry Cuckoo and keepe score How oft they doe it on Beades made therefore So that they are more sottish foolish vaine Than Cuckoos Children Fooles and so remaine Whose severall follies all conjoyned be In them and linkt in one as now we see If they on Beades to pray will still proceede They are Fooles Children and the Cuckooes seede On and against Popish Crucifixes and Images of Christ NO Pictures can so lively represent Christs Death and Passion as the Sacrament And Word the onely Crucifixes he Hath left his Church his death to minde and see What neede of Pictures Crucifixes then To shew Christs death or Person unto men Had they beene usefull he had instituted Them too like these sith not they are refuted If we Christs Person or humanitie At any time would set before our eye Let us behold our selves No Image can So lively set forth Christ to us as Man Gods and Christs perfect Image whose likenesse And Nature Christ assum'd if Man expresse Not Christ sufficiently unto our view No pictures can they false are He the true And perfect living Image of Christ why Neglect they truth then and behold a lye The Scripture no description of Christs face Forme feature person makes but of his grace That none should dare presume to undertake His unknowne Image Vnseene shape to make Which cannot but be false and a meere lye Because no ground shape 's left to draw them by And none now know Christs true forme portraiture How can the Papists others then be sure Those Crucifixes they adore keepe see Are Christs true Pictures and not one of the Two Theeves that were with him then Crucifi'd Since both alike upon their Crosses dy'd And those who made them for ought they can tell Intended to present by them as well These Theeves as Christ sith nothing doth appeare From the bare Picture this great doubt to cleare You must then know the Painters thoughts ere ye Them for Christs Pictures can once take to be Which nought can make them but your fantasie And theirs that made them but by guesse onely But grant them true what fruites good can accrue To men by Christs meere outward shape they view Since all our comfort rests in this that He Mans Nature tooke not that shape which we see His Incarnation not his Countenance Was that which did our Natures States advance Which men alone not Pictures can expresse Unto the Life they then are vaine uselesse Christ was unlike to most or all in face His visage saves none but his Nature grace We must strive to be like him inwardly In Graces but not paint him outwardly Gods Word forbids such Images to make Or use at all we must them then forsake The holy noynting Oyle which Sanctifi'd The Arke Priests Tabernacle all beside Which did thereto belong with that perfume Which God prescrib'd of old none might presume On paine of death to make the like sith they Were holy and in type did Christ display Who doth us sanctifie and quite consume The stinke of all our prayers with his perfume If then it were so grand a crime for men To make the like to these types of Christ then To make Christs Image likenesse for a use Civill or Sacred is a great abuse It s Civill use walls windowes Roomes to grace Doth Christ prophane abuse and much debase Christ is an holy and most sacred thing Ordaind for holy uses the making Then of him common for a civill use Is prophanation and more grand abuse Than to turne Churches Lords Bords Chalices To prophane uses damn'd by Popes Decrees For prophanation grosse impiety It s civill use you then must needs denie T is sinne prophanenesse by all mens consents For to translate the sacred Elements Of bread and wine which Christs death typifie And paint his Body blood-shed to our eye Unto a vulgar use then by the same Reason it must deserve as great a blame To make Christs Image for a civill end Since both alike to prophanation tend It s Sacred use to worship or adore Makes it a sinnefull Idoll and therefore Be it for Common or for Sacred use To make Christs Image is a grosse abuse Nay Sacriledge falshood and blasphemy Sith it presents Christs bare humanity Unto mens eyes thoughts fancies separate Quite from his Godhead and Divine estate Which hypostatically is joyn'd to His humane Nature in such sort that no Man must behold view his humanity But as conjoyn'd still to his Deity Which no picture can possibly expresse Vnto the eye since voyd of all likenesse And visibility Christ as meere man Unto us no Christ Jesus Saviour can Be Therefore 't is both falshood blasphemie To picture Christ as a dead man onely Hanging upon his Crosse quite severed From what made him a Saviour his Godhead What comfort profit can it be to eye Christ hanging on his Crosse as man onely Ah none at all Thus you him alwayes view In Crucifixes Therefore bid adieu Unto them and the rather because they Mis-represent Christ to you day by day Not onely as meere man but as hanging Yet actually upon his Crosse a thing Both false and dangerous which doth quite confound Our faith hope joy and cast them to the ground Christs hanging on the Crosse was transient Past in few houres which done he rose and went Vp into Heav'n where he now reignes onely And lives free from his Crosse no more to dye To paint him then still hanging on his Crosse Or as a sucking infant it most grosse Abuse controuling sacred History And representing nothing but a lye O than with indignation cast away These Idoll Pictures and aside them lay Which at the best are Lies and different From Christs forme which the Scriptures represent The Papists paint Christ very lovely faire And like a Nazarite with long compt haire And somewhat fleshy when the Text saith he Should like a roote which springs in dry ground be And that he had no forme nor comelinesse Of Person in him as they him expresse So that when men should see him no beauty Him to desire they should in him espie Whence they should him reject despise despite And hide their faces from his gastly sight He was no Nazarite nor long haire wore As some yet dreame and many heretofore For he dranke wine oft toucht nay rais'd the dead Which Nazarites might not nor shav'd he his head When he came neare dead Corps as Nazarites Were bound to doe nor us'd ought of their rites He was not could not be defil'd at all Like them no sinne in him was nor could fall Into him He no sinne-peace-burnt-offring
Saints heare her cry On Popish Monkes Players Prayers and Merits OUr Church hath some who worke not but still play Romes more who worke not but yet always pray Prayer's no worke with Rome to merit by Vnlesse with gold you will her prayers still buy Her Prayers therefore are Players and doe play Not worke but when men wage them for to pray How can they merit then by workes who play Still and no worke doe for which God can pay Men over-pay them for their prayers still here God than cannot owe pay them any arreare They should be double payd if God and men Should both reward them wher 's their merit then On Romes taking away the Scripture Cup and Second Commandement from the People LAickes reade Scripture fie it is not fit Rich Rome might soone lose all her wealth by it Her Popes Canons then must both dismount Her Faith Workes Pardons be of no account Her Monks Nunnes Fryers Abbots Prelates then Would soone be banisht and cast out by men Better the people lose their soule heaven all Than Romes Popes Prelates Monkes catch such a fall Christ oft commands all Scripture day and night To search reade meditate that so they might Obtaine Eternall Life The Pope saith nay And from Lay-men the Scripture takes away He is not here true vicar unto Christ But Anti-christian and true Antichrist The Second Commandement Cup and Scripture Popes steale from people too Theeves are they sure Of highest ranke in that they stollen have What Father Some and holy Ghost men gave For robbing Men and the whole Trinity They then deserve Lawes deaths eternity I wonder Papists dare their soules once trust With these Arch-theeves to God men so unjust They will not trust theeves with their coine I feare Their Soules than Money are to them lesse deare On the Romish Masse MAsse is a wonder it s a Sacrifice For quicke and dead and for all maladies In Man or Beast a rare receit and cure A sicke Man Beast Asse Oxe Cow Hog is sure To be releast from any Malady If you a Masse for them of Priests will buy Physitians Farriers will be now undone All sickemen beasts to Priests for cure will run They neede no other Physicke but a Masse Which you may buy for Oxe Cow Horse Hog Asse Or any Creature else all which must pay Priests well for Gratis they will no Masse say On the Popes two Swords POpes have two swords to smite one hooke to keepe No wonder they more slay than feede Christs sheepe On the Popes two Keyes POpes hold they keepe the Keyes of Heav'n and Hell Some doe oppose I like it very well Sith they locke Heavens straite gate fast up to all Their flocke but ope Hells wide wherein they fall On kissing the Popes feete OTher folkes Lips are kist onely Popes feete Their breath is Poyson but their Shooe is sweete Vnder their lips doth Addars poyson lye They therefore will have none their lippes come nigh On the Pope being Peters Successour SOme say that Popes succeed to Peter I Confesse it both their Master Christ deny Peter but thrice They oft and so preceed In sinne Him they in Place not Grace Succeed But are they Peters Successors alone Th' are Judas Simons too it s ten to one On the Popes Non erring whilst he sits in Peters Chaire POpes cannot Erre in Peters chaire whilst set T is true for sure They nere once sate there yet No wonder then if they nought else but Erre Sith they in his un-erring chaire sat ne're On the Popes not Erring ALL Error is from Rule Popes will have none To judge doe live by but themselves alone They cannot then once erre because not stray Quite from themselves unto Gods Rules and way On the Popes not sinning and Erring as Popes but as Men. THe Pope as man not Pope may sinne and Erre Why doth not then the Pope the Man deterre From sinne and Errour Can he not this doe The Man the Pope may make sinne and erre too And if the Man for sinne and Error goe To Hell I feare the Pope too must doe so On the Popes not Erring and on falling from Grace POpes cannot erre yet they may totally Away from Grace fall yea and finally By Romes owne Doctrine which they oft times doe To prove her Doctrine by their practise true It is no errour thus to fall from grace Since Popes herein Romes doctrines footsteps trace I wonder not at Romes Apostasie Her practise else her Doctrine would belye Now both accord and she falls quite away From faith grace truth that none once question may Or doubt her Doctrine which was questionable But thus confirm'd it must be true and stable On the Popes Pardons and mortall sinnes MAy men buy Pardons and for mortall sins Pardons are truely veniall then not sinnes But yet at Rome alone for God Kings all But Popes hold Pardons free not veniall On the Popes being Christs Vicar Generall upon Earth THe Pope on Earth's Christs Vicar Generall He 's nothing then Christ here had nought at all But be he something t is in Earth or Hell Not Heav'n Christ lets no Vicar ne're him dwell Who being still present both in Heav'n and here Popes are his Vicars but in Hell I feare On Popes Pardons of Sinnes THe Popes doe Pardon sinnes I thinke so too All which men for them None they against them doe All against God against themselves not one What can is not what cannot they is done On the Popes being head of the Church POpes are Supreame heads of the Church by due But of the false Church onely not the True The true Church hath but one head Jesus Christ The false but one the Pope true Anti-Christ On Romes Sinnes Curses and Pardons AT Rome all 's Veniall some say I say no Her Sinnes and Curses doubtlesse are not so The first are mortall last not sold but free Bestow'd all is not veniall Rome in thee On the Pope and his Cardinals CArdinalls hinges are the Church the dore Which hanges on them O Pope thy fate deplore If the Church on them onely hanged be Nought but an Halter 's left by them for thee Thou mayst goe bang thy selfe therewith for they Not thou the Church uphold support and stay On the Popes being Christs Vicar IF Popes Christs Vicars be his flocke to teach Why do they not like him than feed and preach They are his Vicars but to sheare his sheepe When they should feed them they are fast asleepe Christ but one Vicar can have here He many To doe his Office he then is not any Either the Pope must doe his worke alone Or if by Vicar he must make but one Else Christ may chance to make more Vicars too By his example and so him undoe Unlesse he tye Christs hands from making any
Romes flocke as grosse Idolatry Commits as Pagans with theirs anciently On Romes Doctrine and Practise of Equivocation ALL Rome for a false Church should damne flye hate Because she teacheth to equivocate The worst of all Lies cheates that is no truth Can be in Rome who this defends pursu'th How can men pin their faith on Romes Church sleeve Whose doubling faith words oathes none can beleeve They may more faith truth finde in Devills then In most of Romes Popes Jesuites Clergie-men Whose strange Equivocations Lyes should make All them and their false Church quite to forsake On Papists blasphemous Assertions touching the Virgin Mary to the dishonour of God the Father and Christ his Sonne BErnard de Busti and some Romanists Since him record that Gods Kingdome consists Chiefely in these two Iustice and Mercy That God this last hath resignâ—d to Mary As his Kingdomes best halfe whence all who by Gods Justice griev'd are may appeale and flye From God to her as men here commonly From Courts of Law appeâ—le to Chancery Who by her Mercy will them ayde releeve Against Gods Justice when ere it them grieve So that if God in justice men condemne Her Mercy mauger God will absolve them And free from condemnation if this be True God's but halfe a God no God but she God hath nought left but Justice which damnes all Not one for Justice all for Mercy call Mary hath all Gods Mercy is all grace Nay Mercies Fountaine all then will embrace Her for their onely Goddesse all will flye Sue pray to her not one to God will cry Nor yet to Christ who being just as well As mercifull doth oft delay repell Poore sinners suites writes Anselme when Mary Compos'd of nought but mercy clemency Heares and grants all mens suites without delay As soone as they unto her seeke or pray So as all those who their suites would obtaine With speede must unto her resort complaine Which if true Doctrine all to her will run And Christ as Mediator be undone Since all will sue to her who doth first grant And ne're demand of God one thing they want For Christ his Intercession but seeke all From her whom they their ADVGCATE oft If these write truth the Virgin hath undone Un-Godded both the Father and Sonne Ingrost their Mercy Office Diâ—ty And made herselfe Romes onely god Truely Then well might Bonaventure in his Psalter Our Lord unto our Lady change and alter Throughout the Psalmes and the Lord sayd to my Lord sit thou at my right hand untill I Thine enemies make thy footestoole translate The Lord sayd to our Lady sit thou at My right hand untill I thine enemies Thy footestoole make And in like sort disguise O Lord in thee have I put my trust let Me never be confounded and to set It thus O Lady I my trust in thee Have put O never suffer me to be Put to confusion in thy righteousnesse Deliver me for thou art my fortresse With sundry such like This grosse Blasphemy Which Romes Popes Church approve use justifie To Gods and Christs dishonour should now make All them quite to abandon and forsake On Romes Novelties notwithstanding her pretence of Antiquity ROme is still vaunting of Antiquity Though all or most in her be Novelty Her Popes Arch-prelates Prelates Cardinals Arch-Deacons Prebends Deanes Officialls Subdeacons Readers Clerkes Acolythists Abbots Abbesses Priors Massing-Priests Monkeâ— Friers Nunnes of all sorts Anchorites Conâ—essors â—egats Pard'ners Jesuites Chancellours Vicars Proctors Commissaries Dataries Chaplaines are all Novelties Not found in Scripture mens late forgery Now since Rome these her Church cals deemes only Her Chuch is but a Novelty built on Mens fancies not on Christ the Corneâ— stone Her blotting out the second Commandement And doubling of the tenth to give content Her monstrous Transubstanâ—â—â—tion Masse Ladies Psalters hâ—lfe Communion Her drinking of Christs blood within the bread She eates and that 〈◊〉 in the veines not shed Making adoâ—â—â—g gods Saints Images 〈…〉 Crosses Pixes Crucifixes Prayâ—â—s to God in unknowne Tongues to Saints Departed who cannot heare their complaints Auricular confession exempting Delinquent clerkes from justice of their King Election for mens fore-seene workes freewill Falling from Grace new Miracles wrought still Her markes of a true Church the Priests intent Essentiall to make a true Sacrament Adoring of the host conditionally If it in truth be turn'd to Christs body Saints seeing Prayers in the Looking-glasse O' th' Trinity to which mens prayers still passe Her worshipping of all things with Latry As Crosse speare Nayles Thornes which toucht Christs body Her Pictures of our Lady on a throne Crown'd Queen of Heav'n with Christ a little one Held in her Armes Her praying unto her Command thy Sonne shew thy selfe a Mother Reliques of her milk haire combs Gowns smocks all Still fresh sweete sinnes in nature veniall Prayer to Angels Limbus Purgatory Popes Indulgences Pardons sold for money For any sinne five new coyn'd Sacraments Her publicke stewes allow'd to raise Popes rents Her Merits workes of supererogation Doubt no certaine assurance of Salvation Popes right to both swords their supremacy Over all Persons Clergie Laity Their excommunicating deposing Iudging nay killing Kings interdicting Whole Kingdomes absolving from loyalty And solemne oathes of that fidelity Which subjects make unto their kings arming Exciting subjects ' gainst their lawfull King Processions Pilgrimages reservations Of Hosts in Pixes with their elevations And Adorations Lay men not to read Gods Word that it must be interpreted Confirm'd by Popes that Romes Popes may dispense Against Gods word controll the text and sense That Popes are above Councels generall And must confirme nay over-rule and call Them of due right that Councels cannot erre Nor Popes in Peters chaire where they sit ne're Saints canonizing Romes rich Treasaury Of Merit whereof Popes must keepe the key Cases reserved to his Sanctity Buls Masses to free Soules from Purgatory Justification not by faith alone But workes more Mediators besides one That Mary is the Churches Advocate Damning Priests marriage vowing Celibate Saints Legends Holi-dayes strict abstinence From meates at set dayes out of conscience Bowing at Altars shaving Priests Nuns Crowns Great difference in habits Coules Frocks Gowns Beades Pater Nosters Aves sayd by score Yea Ave Mary Bels not known afore Time Holy-water Holy-bred Candels Burning at Noon-day Christning hallowing Bells Palmes Churches Church-yards Altars Chalices Salt Spittle Chrisme Swords Pals Roâ—bets Abbees Copes Altar-Cloathes Organs strange Duckes Bowings Nods Gestures Ceremonies and Crossings Chaunting of Masses praying toward the East Chusing of some Saints more than all the rest For certaine Kingdomes Countries diseases Cities Professions like the Pagans these With sundry other things are Novelties Not found in Scripture but mens Forgeries Cease then thy Bragges Rome thy Religion 's new Vaine false ours onely is old saving true On and against Romes halfe Communion and Sacrilegious depriving the people of