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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08826	Christianographie, or The description of the multitude and sundry sorts of Christians in the vvorld not subiect to the Pope VVith their vnitie, and hovv they agree with us in the principall points of difference betweene us and the Church of Rome.	Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.	1635 (1635)	STC 19110; ESTC S113912	116,175	260

killing but by dying not by crueltie but by patience not by wickednes but by faith c. For their Chastitie among the Russes adulterie is severely punished and the Aethiopians punish all fornication and lust and none of the Patriarches of these Churches allow brothel-houses or Stewes that I reade of Whereas the Pope of Rome howsoever they pretend Chastity yet they onely of all Christians Patriarches allow stewes brothelhouses where a father Sixtus ponti●ex maximus Romae nobile admodunlupanar extruxi● Agrippa de van ta●e scientiarum cap. 64. Atque utrique sexui assignavit Zeg spec ponti pag. 79. Dici nequit qua● incredibili Christianorum tum p●dore tum etiam ●orum qui vere tales sunt cordolio ut Iudae filiae scortari non licea● Dei filiae liceat his sonne and his brother may commit uncleannesse with one whore yea Sixtus the fourth built a famous Stewes in Rome for both Sexes This wickednes is not unpunished among the Iewes themselves Bishop Espensous reporteth to the great shame of Roman Christians of a Iew maide who renounced her Religion and turned Romish Christians that she might freely exercise the art of Ribandie not permitted by herown Religion his words are It cannot bee spoken but with incredible shame of Christians with the great heart griese of them that are the like that it is not lawfull for a daughter of Judah to commit fornication but lawfull for the daughter of God Imo Israe is filia meretricari non aliter ante possit quam facta per Baptismū sanctū Christi soror filia yea the daughter of Jsrael may not otherwise play the whore before shee bee made by holy baptisme sister and daughter of Christ c. Moreover he writeth that we cannot but be offended to see so many Stewes in one Citie and that it may be almost said of Rome Christian as of Rome Ethnick that the whole Citie is one stewes Againe these Patriarches and Bishops sell no pardons to deliver soules out of Purgatorie nor allow the sale of any Sacrament that I reade wheras the Roman Church maketh infinite gaine of their Masses Romana scorta in singulas hebdemadas juliū poudent Pontifici Agrippa loco citat Zeg loco Citat Taxa Cancell Apostolicae Parisiis 1613. Pardons and Dispensations yea the Popes themselves have a rent out of the brothell houses every whore paying weekely a Iulie to his holines which rent is more some yeeres then 40000. Duckets In the booke of taxes of the Apostolike Chancerie and sacred penitentiaries you may see the prises and rates of all dispensations and absolutions as for murthers of all kindes as of Clergie men Lay men of Father Mother Sonne Brother Sister Wife c. For impoisoning inchantment witchcraft sacriledge simony c. for fornication adultery incest without any exceptiō or distinction c. Also for dispensations for oathes vowes and many things more although there be many sinnes raigning amongst these Christians and us yet they are not allowed by them and us and so they are not the sinnes of the Churches as fornication is one of the sinnes of the Roman Church as before To put an end to this some of their sinnes are not only personall but Cathedrall from whence they seeme to have a liberty of sinning to use their own distinctiō their veniall sins are easily done away with a short shrift as for mortal sins a man may have for money a warrant dormant Anton. sum par 3 tit 1. cap. 11. Crantzius saxon lib. 5. cap. 8. Quid enim hodie per dispensationem Apostolicam non obtinetur Quinta causa dissidij Graecorum credipotest species austerioris vitae quaein eorum Hiere monachis Metropolitis Archiepiscopis at que episcopis frequenter cernitur Haec igitur austerioris vitae ratio Latines contemnendi praebuit occasionem c. Tho. a Iesis de convers p. 284. or dispensation to commit sinnes against nature as to marie his Aunt his brothers wife his neece his own daughter for which Pope Martin the fift gave a dispensation as Antonius reporteth and what saith Crantzius their own writer cannot be gotten by dispensation To conclude Thomas the Iesuite confesseth that the fift cause of difference betweene the Greekes and Latins may bee thought to be the shew of a more austere life which is often seene in their holy Monkes Metropolites Archbishops and Bishops this their more austere life causeth the Greeks to contemne the Latins c. But the Greekes are to know that Christian righteousnes doth not consist chiefly in macerating the body but in Charity Faith Hope Humility and Patience and other vertues WHereas there is come to my hands a booke of Possevins the Iesuit written against Chytraeus in which he challengeth these Churches for agreeing with them In praying for the Dead invocating Saints worshipping Images having of Monkes c. I answer that I finde these Churches in these things also to differ from the Papists 1. As in praying for the dead they pray not to deliver Soules out of Purgatorie nor from any temporall punishment as the Papists do but for their generall resurrectiō Field of the Ch. pag. 59. publicke acquital c. 2. For their invocating of Saints some doe it not at all pag. 109. of this booke as the Aethiopians as before but I will not justifie all these Churches in their invocations 3. For Imageworship Nullas habent sanctorum imagines Iosephus Indus cap. 133. some have none at all as the Indians others have Pictures onely to which they give no undue reverence as the Aethiopians yet will I not justifie some of them in this point 4. For their Monks Singuli pro sui Monasterij oeconemia sustinenda laborant alij vineas fodientes c. Bellon obser lib. 1. cap. 35. they are not idle bellygods or beggers but live on their labour as before For other things mentioned the Iesuit hath a streame of witnesses against him And last of all if these Churches agree with the Roman Church why doe most of them excōmunicate the Pope and his clergie as before And more especially to shew their disagreement with the Aethiopian Church Godign de Abass rebus pag. 225. the Bishop of Sydonia gave new orders to Tecla Maria an Aethiopian Priest in the Chapell of the Cardinall of Saint Severin by the cōmandement of the Pope and advice of the Cardinals Of the Antiquitie CHAP. IIII. WHereas the Church of Rome boasteth of her Antiquity I purpose to set downe in this Chapter three things 1. That some of these Churches are Churches more ancient then the Church of Rome and that the ancient Church of Rome received Christianitie from them or some of them 2. That the now Church of Rome and the ancient before Boniface the third are not one and the same Church but different 3. As the now Church of Rome is a new Church and a different from the old so