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A14268	Two treatises the first, of the liues of the popes, and their doctrine. The second, of the masse: the one and the other collected of that, which the doctors, and ancient councels, and the sacred Scripture do teach. Also, a swarme of false miracles, wherewith Marie de la Visitacion, prioresse de la Annuntiada of Lisbon, deceiued very many: and how she was discouered, and condemned. The second edition in Spanish augmented by the author himselfe, M. Cyprian Valera, and translated into English by Iohn Golburne. 1600.; Dos tratados. English	Valera, Cipriano de, 1532?-1625.; Golburne, John.	1600 (1600)	STC 24581; ESTC S119016	391,061	458

murred the gate fall wholl●y downe and so the people which will purchase the Iubile enter by that gate for if they enter by another gate they shall not obteine it The matter that murreth the gate is so within vndermined and prepared that when the Pope striketh then falleth it downe And so great is the presse of the people to enter that ther is no Iubile wherin some or more persons be not stiffled And such is the superstition of the common people and foolish and ignorant deuotion that it leaueth neither small stone nor morter nor earth nor dust of that broken wall Each one striuing endeuoreth to take some thing which they reserue for relikes carrie with them to their coūtries This gate call they the holy gate Clement 6. as in his life we haue said commanded the Angell of Paradice to carry into heauen the soule of the pilgrime which going to Rome to obteyne the Iubile should die by the way What a grement hath this Iubile instituted by the Pope with that Iubile which Iehoua who is the true Almightie God in the 25. chap. of Leuiticus did institute From 50 yeares to 50 yeares did God institute the yeare of Iubile that therein euery seruant of the Iewish nation should depart out of bondage and haue freedome as the rest and that the gaged possessions should returne to their first owners So that the yeare of Iubile was a yeare of freedome generally to al the children of Israel The papistes are very apes which imitate and follow either the Iewes or gentiles But returne we to our Alexander 6. who inuented allwayes possible to gather money and so made a new Colledge of notaries of writing which were So in nomber euery of which offices he sold for 750 duckets He created 36 Cardinals or as saith Panuinus 43 18 Whereof were Spaniards And of these 18 three were his alyes verie neerekinne and of his name Boria Much inclined he was to building Comedies and enterludes he heard with great pleasures neuer in Rome had sword players fencers and baudes more libertie then in his time and neuer the people of Rome had lesse freedome A great multitude of promoters were in his time and for the least matter or word the punishment was death All this the diuellish father permitted for the foolish loue that he bare to his children For he imitating his predecessor Innocent put all his felicitie in aduancing and without all shame enriching his bastards The least of his sonnes he made prince in Sicilia the second called Caesar he made Cardinall the greatest of all made he Duke of Gaudia This Duke as saith Panuinus after both brothers had supped that night together in the house of their mother Zanochia Caesar his owne brother murthered and cast him into Tyber All this the Pope his father vnderstood and knew yet dissembled the same For this Caesar which was the worst of all did the Pope his father loue more then all for through ambition and auarice he slew him The brother beeing dead Caesar esteemed not the hat but gaue himselfe wholly to milytary excercises and carrying with him great treasure he went into France where he married with a neere kinswoman of the King and was made Duke of Valence This Caesar by meanes of the king of France and the Pope his father came to doe what he would in Italie So much did king Lewes 12. in regard of his bond to the Pope for the sonne of the Pope who had dispensed with him to forsake his lawfull wife sister of Charles his predecessor and to marry with the Duches of Brittaine Charles his widdow as Pineda in his 26. booke 38 chap. ¶ 1. and 2 declareth Who lists to know the abhominations and villanies that this Popes sonne committed let him reade Panuinus When Alexander 6. was dead Caesar his sonne fell from the Maiestie and power wherein he had liued For by commaundement of the king Don Fernando was he taken and caried into Spaine where he remained prisoner 2 yeares in the Castile of medina from which prison he escaped fled to the king of Nauare whom in some wars he serued whereof an harguebush as saith Carion he died or as saith Pineda lib. 27. cap. 4. ¶ 4 a young gentlemen of the Garceses of Agreda with a flew him in Nauare The daughter of this Alexander 6. called Lucrceia whom like a wicked irreligious man he carnally knewe was 3 times married the first with Iohn Efforcia Duke of Epidauro the 2 hauing forsaken the Duke her first husband with Don Lewes of Aragon bastard sonne of king Don Alonso the second husband being dead the third time she married with Don Alonso Duke of Ferrara At whose nuptialls as declareth Panuinus the father made great mirth and feasting Note here the small shame of Pope Alexauder By an Epitaph made Iohannes Iouianus Pontanus how holy and chast was the single life of this Pope and what was his religion manifestly appeareth Then speaking of Lucretia he saith Hic iacet in tumulo Lucretia nomine sedre Thais Alexandri filia sponsa nurus As much to say as here in this tombe lieth in name Lucretia but in deede Thais the daughter Spouse and nourse of Alexander Zanazaro a famous man of that time and excellent port of Alexander saith Policitus caelum Romanus astra Sacerdos Per scelera caedes adstyga pandit iter The Roman Bishop who heauens and stars did promise by his villanies and murders is gone the way to hel the fame also Ergo te semper cupiet Lucretia sextus O Fatum diri numinis hic pater est How then Lucrrtia will sextus euer desire thee Gvnluckie fate he is thy father Of Alexander 6. they say that he sould the crosses the Alter Christ himselfe All this he had bought before and therefore might sell the same So Alexander committed Simonte in buying it and sacriledge in selling it This Alexander is he that caused Geme or as others cal him Zazimo brother of the great Turke Baiazet whom he held prisoner in Rome to be poysoned and this did Alexander for 200000 duckets which the great Turke sent him what good example was this to worke the Turkes conuersion Of this Geme began we to speake in the life of Innocent 8. here with him will we make an end Charles 8. K. of Frāce made war with Pope Alex. in Rome the pope seing himself vnable to resist the Frenchman made peace with him amōg other acords this was one that the Pope should deliuer ouer to the king Geme the Turkes brother This put the Pope into great pēsiuenes because he should loose 40000. duckets which the Turke yearely gaue him that he should not let Geme goe The Turke in the end promised 200000 Duckets to cause Geme to die as with poyson hee performed In Naples Geme died to the great griefe of the king as saith Guiciardine others or after Iouius in Goeta but all agree

of the Lord 1557. another memorable thing hapned also in the same citie of Seuill And this it was that one called Iulian Hernandez whom the French by reason of his small stature called Iulian le petit with the great desire and zeale that he had to doe some seruice to God and his countrie drewe out of Geneua two great drifattes full of Spanish bookes of those which before we haue said Doctour Iohn Peres to haue printed in Geneua Which bookes and moreouer all those that taught true Doctrine and Godlinesse had the Inquisitors forbidden because the ignorance and darkenes of Antichrist loueth not the wisedome and brightnesse of the Gospell of Christ for feare that their workes should be conuinced and reproued Iulian by Gods great miracle carried all these bookes and put and dispersed them in Seuill Yet so secretly could he not doe it but by meanes of a fearefull man an hypocrite which sould himselfe for a brother and was in deede a Iudas it came in the end to the Inquisitors eares and so they tooke Iulian and many others more So great was the takeing that they filled the prisons and some particular houses also There was eight hundred then taken for the Religion in Seuill a thing which astonished the Inquisitors themselues Among these prisoners and them also which were afterwardes taken were found many men excellent in life and doctrine As were Doctor Constantine maister White the licenciate Iohn Gon●ales the licenciate Christopher de Losada Phisitiō minister of the priuate Church in Seuil Christopher de Arellano Friar of S. Isidor a most learned man euen by report of the Inquisitors themselues maister Ieronimo Caro a Friar dominik Olmedo a man learned the beneficed çafra There were also people both men women rich of qualitie among whom was that truely illustrious in pietie and goodnes Don Iohn Ponce de Lyons brother to the Countie of Baylen and eldest sonne of the Duke of Arcos and Lady Iane wife of the Lord de la Higura to whom newly deliuered of childe the Inquisitors gaue the torment called del Borro in the Castle of Triana and such was the torment that thereof she dyed For the cordes pearced the very bones and marrow pipes of the armes of the muscles and of the legges And so tormented they caried her to her prison as dead casting out of her mouth bloud in great aboundance by reason that her intralles were broken in her bodie Eight dayes after this cruel torment without company or any assistance saue onely a young maide which a few dayes before was likewise tormented in the end she died Oh Inquisitors more cruell then wilde beastes how long shall the Lord suffer your tyrannies and cruelties O yee Spaniardes that so much loue your wiues and so zealously keepe them how long will ye suffer that these cursed Elders of Susanna should see your wiues and daughters in their smocks yea in a manner naked taking pleasure to behold them and after giuing them torments hauing sometimes formerly made loue vnto them ô that all that were knowne which in the Inquisition passeth A certaine Inquisitor there was which in merriment and iest said of his companion that he contented not himselfe to beate a cutle but also to eate it This said hee because the Inquisitor had whipped a faire young maid that was taken for a Iewe thē lay with her burned her afterwards By this subtillty may the rest be vnderstood which the Lords Inquisitors vse with the women which they hold prisoners Of this great number of prisoners where many burned by twēties or fewe lesse it chaunced that they burned them The rest were vnhappily handled The house of Isabella de Vaena where the faithfull assembled to heare Gods word was plucked downe and sowne with salt that it should neuer be built againe and fot a perpetuall memorie that the faithfull Christians whom they called Lutheran heretiques there assembled In the middest thereof they placed a marble pillar The Licenciat Losada minister of Gods word was burned many deceassed were vntombed and burned namely Doctour Vargas and Doctour yeares was this Egidius in the Inquisition prisoner part of them in the castle of Triana and the rest in other places where they shut him vp D. Constantine who by infirmitie and ill intreatie was not long before dead in the castle of Triana and so knewe by such as were present at his death and ayded him in his sicknes was also vntombed which notwithstanding the sonnes of falshood bruted it abroad that Constantine murdred himselfe This so great a lie they inuented that the vulgar sort which neither know nor beleeue but that onely which the Inquisitors command them to know and beleeue should abhorre the religion and the preachers thereof sith being desperate like Iudas they killed themselues This D. Constantine was one of the most learned and eloquent men that of long time our country of Spaine yeelded confessor preacher he was to Don Charles the Emperor K. of Spaine thereby might if he had would haue attained to great dignities but as one that nought esteemed the vaine honors of this world he dispised them al and returned to Seuill where of the Inquisition he was taken therin died and by the same was afterwards burned About this same time or a little after began the great persecution in Vallodalid where Doctour Caçalla preacher to the Emperour the most eloquent as saith D. Illescas in the pulpit of any that preached in Spaine his mother brethren and sisters Don Charles a knight qualified aud many others were burned The sonne of the marques of Poza and others were disgraced and the house where they assembled was pulled downe and in like sort vsed as was that of Isabell de varna in Seuill The vulgar sort beleeued that they met by night in these houses and that the sermon ended they put out the candles and abused themselues together without respect of kindred or other of many other abhominations were they slaundred These lies be not newly stamped many yeares are since passed that to defame the Gospel and professors there of Sathan did innent them as by the apologies made by the fathers of the Church that then liued to Iustifie their cause doth appeare Read Iustine Martir lib 1. of his questions and the answeres to the 126 question Tertulian in his Appologie S. Ciprian against Demetrianus Origen against Celsus Arnobius in seuen bookes and chiefly in the first against the Gentiles Saint Ambrose Prudencius against Symachus much to the purpose S. Augustin in the 5 first bookes de Ciuitate Dei and Orosius lib. 7. Of the selfe same things that were the Christians in old time slaundered of the very same thinges are we now falsely slaundered About the sixty fiue yeare Nero caused Rome to be fired which burned nine dayes and the tyrant gaue it out that the Christians had done it About

as thē could it not be for Leo 6. was chosen who liued but 7. moneths and dyed as they say of poyson giuen him by Marozia to make her bastard to be Pope Yet fayled he at this time also and Stephen the 7. or the 8. was elected who many yeares enioyed not his bishopdom In the 930. yeere not without suspition of poyson he dyed And D. Sancho 1. then reigned in Spaine Iohn 12. or 11. was the bastard son of Sergius 3. and of Marozia that shameles whore as Luithprandus calleth her Platina supposeth that this Iohn and Iohn 11. were brothers the sonnes of Sergius 3. Marozia the mother of this Pope in her sonnes time also as before both in the temporalty and spiritualty as noteth Luithprandus gouerned the Roman Church In the 935. yeare he dyed And Ra●iro 3. then reigned in Spaine After Iohn Leo 7. Stephen 9. Martin 3. Agapetus Iohn 13. succeeded Iohn 13. or 11. of all the Popes before his time was the greatest villaine Fryar Iohn de Peneda in his ecclesiasticall monarchie pag. 3. lib. 19 calleth him Iohn the sinner and in the ¶ 1. he saith An infernall monster in his liuing the sonne of Alberto a mightie Roman succeeded Agapeto who with requests money and threates caused his sonne called Octauian to be chosen and after being Pope he was called Iohn And a little lower he was of cursed life in cruelties and huntings most vnhonest lustes c. who listeth to know his villanies let him read Luithprandus from the 6. ch of the 6. book vnto the 11. In a Synod at Rome presence of the Emperour Otho 4 he was accused for not recititing his howers that saying Masse he did not communicate that he ordained Deacons in a stable that he had committed incest with two sisters to make him win at dice-play that he had inuocated diuels that for money he made younglings Bishops defloured maidens turned his sacred palace to a stewes lyen with Stephana his fathers concubi●e and with the widdow Reynera and with another widdow called Anna and with his neece that he had made his Confessor blind that he went publikely a hunting that he went armed that he had caused fire to be kindled that he had broken downe doores and windowes in the night season that in wine he had drunke to the diuel c. for these and other like abhominatious he was deposed in the Romane Councell and Leo 8. chosen But when the Emperour was departed those wicked women with whom he accompanied incited the Nobility of Rome by promising thē the treasures of Rome to receiue Iohn for Pope which they did to thrust out Le● This Pope Iohn ordeined that the Emperor thēce forth should be crowned by the Pope in Rome The end of this cursed Pope was this In the yeare 964. 10. yere of his bishopdom he was stabbed to death by the husband of one with whō he was taken in adulterie The diuel saith Luithprandus in his 6. booke 11. ch did so wound him in the verie act of adultery that within 8 dayes after he died It may be that the husbād was arrayed in figure of a diuell to kill the Pope Read this historie ô ye Spaniards behold what a one is the Pope for whom ye wontedly hazard your goods honors liues God for his mercies sake the honor of his son Christ Iesus giue you the grace to know him In the time of this dissolute carnall Pope the married Priests in England were cast out of the Cathedrall Churches Don Bermudo reigned in Spaine In the yeare 963. betweene Leo and Benedict was the 16. Sisme Iohn 13. being dead through partiality Benedict 5. was elected but Otho the Emperor came to Rome cōpelled the Romans to deliuer vp Benedict 5. receiue againe Leo whom they had cast frō the Popedome Which benefit receiued of the Emperour Leo eftsoones Pope acknowledging made a synodall decree wherin he tooke away from the Clergie and people of Rome the authority to make the Pope giuen thē as saith Gracian by Charles the great gaue it to the Emperour adnulled the Law made by Adrian against him This did Leo to auoyd seditions that wontedly hapned in the elections of the Popes the Emperor restored vnto him that which Constantine they say had giuen to the Pope or rather that which Pipin Charles taking it frō the Lombards gaue thē In the 965. yeare died Leo. At what time in Spaine reigned Alonso 5. who woūded with an arrow which was shot by a Moore at thesiege of Viseo died Iohn 14. or 13. son of Pope Iohn 12. was against his enemies extremely cruel as by one Peter a chiefe Magistrate in Rome appeareth Frier Ioh. de Pin. par 3. lib. 19. cap. 11. ¶ 1. concerning him saith The Pope caused a certaine gouernor to be hanged one day by the haires set naked vpō a horse of the Emp. Constastantine afterwards set him to tide vpon an asse with his face backward a beasts skin vpō his head to be whipped through the citie afterwards to be put in prison and lastly banished into Almaine He more resembled Phalaris Dionysius Nero other such tyrants thē Christ who cōmands vs to loue do good to our enemies He it was that baptised the great bell of S. Iohn de Lateran gaue it his name frō whence sprang the custome to baptize and giue names vnto bels In the 972 yeare he died Donus 2. succeeded Iohn 14. he was Pope onely 3 moneths whō Benedict 6. or 5. not counting the 5. which was made in the Sisme succeeded For his villanies was he cast into prison where he was strangled or as say his friends at cōmandement of his successor Boniface he died of hunger Alonso 5. then reigning in Spaine Between Boniface Benedict 6 or 7. was the 17. Sisme Boniface 7. through wicked artes made himselfe Pope but a smal time cōtinued for the Romans cōspired against him who seing himself vnable to preuaile robbed al the treasure found in the church of S. Peter therwithal went to Constantinople wherof making sale after some moneths with much siluer he returned to Rome whiles he was absent from Rome the Romanes made pope Iohn 15. or 14. but Boniface with his money corrupted the Romans so they turned to receiue him for Pope who eftsoons being Pope imprisoned Iohn the fifteenth pulled out his eyes and famished him to death In the 976. yeare died Boniface after he had bene Pope 9 yeares and more Of him saith Friar Iohn de Pineda part 3. lib. 19. cap. 15. ¶ 1. Boniface but a while liued after that he returned to the seate and sodainely died towards whom the Romanes shewed the loue which they bare him taking his dead body and giuing it a thousand blowes and

the soules in Purgatorie But who eateth and drinketh the same not the soules but the Preists and Friars their concubines and children A poore old woman watched early and late to spinne and ad farthing to farthing for a Masse to be said for the soule of her husband brother or son she forbare to eate and gaue it vnto knaues All these visions or apparitions they made by the Arte of the deuill Iudge Lord thine owne cause deliuer the poore people from the handes of these Inchaunters false prophets and deceiuers Open thine eies ô Spaine and see beleeue him that with great loue doth aduise thee Behold whether this that I say be true or no Iohn 20. of poyson as some say in the 1009. yeare died Don Fernando 1. then reigned in Castile Leons Sergius 4. a Roman by the accustomed waies in his time had the Bishopdome albeit Platina and Estella the Popes parasites affirme him to haue bene a holy man The Sun in his time was darkened the Moone in shew like bloud famin pestilence were in Italy the water of a certaine fountaine in Lorena was turned into bloud All these were prognostications most certain signs of Gods wrath for the idolatry which then reigned Sergius died in the 1012. yeare Benedict 7. or 8. son of Gregorie Bishop of Porta a lay man by the aid of his nephew Theophilact a great inchanter and disciple of Syluester 2. which learned his nigromancy in Seuill as in his life before we haue declared was made Pope This Theophilact proued very expert in his art so that sacrificing to the diuel in woods moūtaines he caused by his sorcery saith Cardinal Benon that women enamored of him left their houses followed him such a one as he was he was afterwad Pope Whilest Henrie Banare the Emperour liued this Benedict was Pope quietly but the Emperour once dead the Cardinals dispoped him placed another in his room but afterward appeased with mony which Benedict gaue them they inthronized him againe cast out the Antipope This was the 19 Sisme Of this Benedict reporteth Pet. Damianus the same also reciteth Antoninus Frier Iohn de Pinedapar 3. lib. 19. cap. 17. ¶ 3. others that a horseman on a blacke●horse after his death appeared to a Bishop his verie friend The Bishop appalled with the vision demaunded saying What art not thou Pope Benedict that lately died I am the same that thou sayest sayd Benedict The Bishop demanded Father how doest thou Grieuously tormēted answered the pope but I may well be holpen Go then tell my brother the now pope that he giue to the poore the treasure in such a place hidden Moreouer he appeared to the pope his brother saying I hope I shall be deliuered Oh wold God Odilus Cluniacensis wold pray for me See here how the diuel dalied with men to confirm their Masse purgatory Benedict in the 1024. yeare died and Fernando 1. reigned in Castile and Lyons Iohn 21. or 19. was pope by the same means that his brother was to wit by the means of Theophilact his nephue the great inchanter This Iohn being a lay man without any orders receiued was made pope In the 1032. yeare he died And Don Fernando 1. in Castile and Lyons reigned Theophilact the great inchanter of whō we haue made mention after the death of his two vncles Benedict 8. Iohn 21. by his wicked arts was made Pope called himselfe Benedict 9. or 8. The Cardinals Laurentius Ioh. Gracianus his disciples and great nigromancers he made great account So skilful wer they in Nigromancie that they knew what passed in the East West North South Many thought thēselues happy to be their disciples Out of this cursed schoole issued that cursed Hildebrand who being Pope called himselfe Gregory 7. and as saith Cardinal Benon wrought so great mischief This Benedict 9. fearing Henry the Emperor for 1500. ● sold his Popedome to l. Gracian his companion who called himself Gregory 6. For this sale saith Platina was Benedict of all accused by diuine iudgement cōdemned And why was he not so for his fornications adulteries idolatries nigromancies inchantmēts exorcismes inuocations of diuels other abominations Thus was his end he was strāgled by a diuel Histories report namely Martiniana Iohn de Col. S. Anthonin Ioh. de Pineda others that this Theophilact or Benedict appeared after his death to a certain Hermit in a very fearful figure for in his body was he like a beare his taile head like an asse being demanded of the Hermit how he became so fearful he answered say they because in my popedō I liued without law without God for defiling the Romā seat with al kind of filthinesse The name of Cardinal in his time very highly climbed In the 1034. or after others 1032. died Benedict 9. of whom note more vpon Syluester 3. Don Fernando 1. then reigned in Spaine After that Benedict 9. had sold his Popedome Syluester 3. by bribes was made Pope albeit others labored for Iohannes Gracianus vnto whō for mony Benedict had renounced the Popedome in the end was Syluester Pope albeit no more but 49. dayes For to such a state saith Platina the Bishopdome then came that who so could do most with money and ambition I say not with holinesse of life and doctrine the good being suppressed and cast aside he only obtained the Popedome Would God such customs were not in our time vsed But this is nothing worse things then those shal we see if God put not to his hand Hitherto Platina Otho Frinsingensis Godfridus Viterbiensis and other Anthours report three Popes to haue bene in the time of Benedict 9. and all of them in Rome Benedict 9. Syluester 3. Gregorie 6. Benedict held his seat in the Pallace of Lateran the other held his in S. Peters and the third held his in S. Maries the great Henry the Emperour hearing of these seditions came to Rome and held a Councell wherein the said three Popes were condemned and a fourth chosen whom they called Clement the second These three great villaines did not the Emperour punish as he ought but only as saith Bennon chased Theophilact from Rome cast Gregorie into prison whom iointly with Hildebrand he banished into Germanie and caused Syluester to returne to his Bishopricke of Sabina Note that this Bendict 9. was three times Pope the first he cast out Syluester and was depriued the second Clement 2. being dead and was depriued the third after the death of Damasus the second he was Pope by times as writeth Platina the space often years foure moneths and nine dayes The like happened to Sergius 3. who in the yeare 897. was three times Pope In the 1045. yeare was Syluester depriued and Don Fernando 1. reigned in Spaine In the

dominican Friar whose wordes be these In the time of Leo 1● Martin Luther an arch heretique arose vp in Germany who first preached and wrote against the Indulgences of the Pope afterwards against the Primacy of the Roman Church then against constraned single life and other rites and customes of the ancient Church Carança our aduersarie doth herein witnesse what was the cause that moued Luther to speak against the Church of Rome Who listeth to know this let him read Sleidons Historie Eckius tooke part with the Pope and Luther and Eckius in the pulpits preached the one against the other When Leo 10. heard of these rufflings he condemned Luther for an heretike which condemnation vnderstood by Luther he apealed to the first General Coūcel wherin he did imitate the vniuersitie of Paris which a few moneths before had appealed frō the same Leo to the Coūcel In Rome Leo caused Luthers bookes to be burned which when Luther vnderstood he burned in Wittenberg the Cannon Law which is the decretals and Popish decrees saying as they haue done vnto mee So haue I also done vnto them VVho will not wonder and be astonished at so great a courage and daring boldnesse that a poore begging Augustine Friar should dare to doe such a disgrace and to giue such a blowe and to whom thinkest thou to the Pope Was not the Pope he whom in times past the potentates Princes kinges and Emperours fell prostrate vnto and worshiped How commeth it then to passe that a meane man of no esteme gaue him such a blow that hee left him for dead Not Luther but God it was that chooseth the low thinges to confound the most high T●e stinke of the villainies and abhominations of the Popes Clergie was gone vp to heauen now were the iniquities of the Amorites come to their height And God cast downe the pride of the Pope a second Lucyfer God gaue vs the grace that acknowledging such a benifit we may be thankfull and in holines and righteousnes serue him all the dayes of our life By this meanes hath God brought vs out of darkenesse into light and out of thralldome into libertie And Luther not content here with came to Wormes or Wormacia where Charles the Emperour held his first Dyet presenting himself before the Emperour so many Papists as were with him he disputed mainteined his cause and in the end departed the Emperour better keeping promise with him then it had formerly bene kept with Iohn Hus and Ierom of Prage in the Councell of Constance One thing here I cannot leaue to speake of that Luther going to wormes his friend aduised him in the way before they came at wormes to beware of going thither because they would doe to him as they had done to his bookes which they had burned Whereunto Luther with great courage answered that albeit he knew there were so many diuels against him in Wormes as there were tyles vppon the houses yet for all that would he not let to appeare there and giue account of his faith in so solemne an assembly And so he dyed In the 1522. yeare Leo 10 hearing that the Frenchmen by the Imperialls were vanquished slaine taken and cast out of Italy and that through his assistance died by his excessiue ioy and laughter his soule departed from him but of poyson that they gaue him as Panuinus supposeth An Atheist he was thought there was after this life neither heauen nor hell And so he died without receiuing the sacraments He could not saith Sanazaro receiued them because he had sold them And so almost no chiefe bishop as noteth Panuinus vpon the life of Pius 4 receiued them His Atheisme plainely appeared by an answere which he made to Cardinall Bembus who had alleaged vnto him a passage of the Gospell Whereunto in these wordes he dissolutly āswered what profit this fable of Christ hath brought to vs and our company All the world knoweth Leo by this answere well shewed himselfe to be Antichrist Obey him then Spaine and hold him for Chists vicar Paulus Iouius wrote the life of Leo 10. where among other thinges he saith these words Leo had also an euill report because it apeared that he affected vnhonestly some of his chamberlaines which were of the greatest nobles of all Italic hartely and freely played with them It is not Luther his enemie that saith this against him but his friend an Italian and Bishop Paulus Iouius Albeit that such a one was Leo as the historians of his time doe paint him yet so great is the flattery of D. Illescas that vpon his life ¶ 12. these words of him he saith After that he came to the Bishopdome his care was alwaies to eate litle of meats but meanely hot because they should not prouoke him to dishonesty Hither to Illescas In the time of this Leo Charles the Emprour reigned in Spaine Adrian 6. a Hollander was tutor to Don Charles the Emperonr and by his meanes came to be bishop of Tortosa Cardinall and ioyntly with Don Francisco Zimenes Archbishop of Toledo gouernour of Spaine being resident in Spaine after the death of Pope Leo was in his absence elected when he was Pope he promised to the princes by his letter to cause the court of Rome which had giuen occasion of commiting great wickednesse to be first of all reformed amended to the end that that which had giuen cause of the malady should giue also the beginning of the medicine health but all was but words For Adrian following the steps of his predecessor the Antichrist of Rome gaue himselfe to persecute Luther Ecolampadius other godly ministers of the word of God He changed not his name nor yet in customes life was so wicked as the other Popes for not being so wicked many say he was dispatched with poyson in the 1523. yeare dyed In whose time Don Charles the Emperour reigned in Spaine Clement 7. or as after some others 8. or 9. for the cause we haue spoken of in the life of the other Clement 7. Florentine was nephew or as others say the sonne of Pope Leo 10. Panuinus saith he was the sonne of Iulianus de medices and of another not certenly or manifestly his lawfull wife D. Illescas vpon the life of this Clement ¶ 5. saith It is a thing much to be noted that Clement hauing all his life time bene most liberall and a spender here with al affable and well spoken exceeding discreet and a great Negociator when he came to be Pope he was not knowne for he wholly changed his conditions and became most sparing and remisse So great is the change which dignities honours doe often make c. In the time of this Clement was great war betweene the Spaniards and French which this Clement did much kindle to his owne shame and Infamie And this by his vnconstancie for now

the Pope that against their owne conscience affirme Panl 3. to haue bene married And so D. Illescas vpon the life of this Paul 3. ¶ 17 saith Paul 3. was married and after he had put away his wife of whom he had Poro luys he was made Priest obteyned the hat c. ¶ 23. he saith the vnthought of death of Pero luis lawfull son of this Pope c. But Illescas telleth not who was the mother of Peroluys nor how lōg time he was married nor wher he was married nor yet where he liued married This Paul poysoned Fulgosius and Contarenus Cardinals Iohannes Baptista Vergerius Bishop of Pole because they tasted how sweete and good was Christ and how bitter and euill was Antichrist Paulus Vergerius Bishop of Iustinopole brother of the abouesaid Iohn escaped and fled into Germany and from thence with his writings made warre against him In his time with fire and blood c. Suffered the Church great persecution In the 1546. yeare Alexander Farnesius Cardinall and Octauius his brother Duke of Parma sonnes of the cursed Poro luys and nephews of the Pope going to make war in Almaigne bruted it a broad they there purposed to shed so much blood of the Lutherans that the horses might swimme therin This Paul enioyed the rent of aboue 40000. whores or as they call thē Curtesanes which were in Rome The rent as before we haue said is a Iulio or Spanish royal euery weeke Multiply the same thou shalt see if the Pope may make a mighty birthright of his whorish rents This Paul 3. did excommuncate an anathemise Henry 8. king of England and gaue his kingdome for a praie to them that could take it Al which this Magnanimious king nought esteemed but so valliantly defended his kingdome that they whom the Pope had incited against him themselues sought peace with him In the biginning of his Popedome the 1534. yeare hapned one notable villany done by the Franciscan Friars in Orleans The tale is this that in that yeare died the wife of the Corregidor or maior of Orleās who commanded that she should simply without any pomp at al be buried With her father and grandfather did they bury her in S. Frauncis Church of Orleans The Friars the person being qualified and rich supposed they should haue a rich reward commanded many masses to be said c. but they were deceiued For they had but only six crownes which the widdower Corregidor sent thē whereat the Friars were highly offended and for reuenge with deui●lish minds they suborned one of their nouices whom they placed aboue in the feeling of the Temple that he might make a great noise frō thēce at the time whē they said their mattens which the Nouice persormed and said he was a soule as they cal it sinful damned By some that knew the mistery of Iniquitie was this soule coniured being demāded of the cōiurers whō he was he answered that he was the soule of the wife of the Crrregidor which a little before was deceased that she was for euer cōdemned being demanded whereof answered for Lutheranisme Whē the Friars hard this they made great exclamations heald their Church for excommunicate drue thēce the sacramēt wold not there say masse but went within the monastary The fame hereof ran throughout all the citie when the Corregidon vnderstood his villany he called the Friars before the Chauncellor of Paris where the cause being examined before the Chauncellor Antonias praetentis the villanie was proued and so Colimanus and Stephen of Arras both preachers and chiefe authors of this tragedie were by publique sentence condemned But to what To shame the villanies deseruing a 1000. deathes for mocking at God his religrō defaming of men So gentle was the punishmēt because they seemed not to faourthe Lutherans In the time of this Paul 3. arose vp frō the depth bottōe of hell the new sect called of the fellowship of Iesus or Iesuites Whom with greater reason may we call Iebusites or Iebuseans Their first author inuentor and founder was Inigo Layola whom the more to authorize his name they called father Ignacius This Inigo was a Guipuscuan borne who being a simple and ignorant man applyed himselfe to the the warres and so in the yeare las Comunidades as they call it in Spaine which was about eyeare 1520. or 1521. he was a souldiour in the castle of Pamphona which Castle was then beleagred by the king of Nauarre and the Frenchmen And vpon a day as the enemies shot at the Castle one of the bullets stroke a stone of the Castle and brake it some of the peeces of the stones stroke into the feet of this souldiour Inigo so that vnable to stand he fell to the earth Inigo finding himselfe vnfit for the war changed his purpose and so of a souldiour became a holy hypocrite yet recouered he his feete and so gaue himselfe to foolish deuotion and superstition which men of themselues without the word of God haue inuented and so deceaue all those whose names are not written in the booke of life Inigo then hauing bene a souldiour and anignorant man gaue himselfe to study and when he vnderstood somewhat of the Grammer to prosecute his study he came to Alcala de Henares where to gaine the greater credit reputation of a holy man he went barefooted which maner ofliuing when the students of Alcala laughed and Iested at Inigo confounded and ashamed that they nought esteemed his course of life leauing Alcala he went to Salamanca where the Students much more mocked him then before For which cause Inigo leauing Salamanca went to Paris where he was made maister and gayned the opinion of an holy man with whom in the 1537. yeare there ioyned ten companions and so went they into Italie Whiles Panle 3. Poped the Iesuits began to be knowne in Italie but not without great gainesaying and contradiction They were permitted in the end to heare confessions and by this meanes they obteyned great reputation of holy chiefely among Ignorant people These ten companions in the 1538. yeare were all together in Rome whereof they obteyned of Pope Paul 3. confirmation of their sect and were receiued vnder the protection of the Romane seate but this holy viua vocis oraculo remitting them in asmuch as touched the dispatch of the perpetuitie of their sect to Cardinall Guidiccion Luques And being ayded by him they were approued and confirmed by Letters and Bulles of the first of October in the 1540. yeare geuen at Tiuoli vnder the name and title of the fellowship of Iesus with licence and power to receiue into their companie which then was onely ten to the nomber of of sixttie per●ons In the 1543. yeare of the said Paul 3. they obteyned license to receiue into their companie so many as they would which Paul in the 1545. yeare did graunt them all the priuilledges faculties and

forgiuen thee The Scripture in many other places maketh mention of this humiliation and deiection of Christ and then of his glorious triumph against his enemies But this which we haue sayd sufficeth This benefit of the death and passion of Christ proposed ingenerall to all men doeth Saint Paule by faith applye to him selfe saying I am crucified with Christ and liue not I now but Christ liueth in me and in that I now liue in the flesh I liue by faith in the sonne of God who hath loued me and giuen himselfe for mee Who so will enioy this benefite proposed in generall to all let him learne of Saint Paule to apply it by faith in particular to himself For whosoeuer shall not so doo Let him holde it for spoken he shall not enioy it They only be safe which beleue Christ to be giuen for their proper sinnes and risen againe for their iustification Hee which of himselfe shall not particularly beleeue this shall be condemned the death of Christ shall nothing auayle him But he which shall beleeue it shall be saued and being saued is assured that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor strength nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall bee able to separate him from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. His Maiestie increase this faith his gift it is A Christian then armed with such weapons of faith shall patiently and I say more ioyfully suffer for Christ tribulation sorrow persecution famine nakednesse danger sword fire and dishonour for to all these things the very day that wee truely beleeue in Christ are wee subiect For the disciple is not more to bee exempted from them then his maister was Hee increase faith in vs and make vs constant in aduersities for without him can we do nothing and with him can we do all things This verie well perceiued Saint Paule when he sayd I am able to do all things through the helpe of Christ which strengtheneth me God then with his exceeding loue so louing vs that he spared not his proper and only begotten Sonne but gaue him vp for vs and being bought not with gold nor siluer but with an inestimable treasure with the most precious bloud of Christ the Lambe without spot let vs not abase nor subiect our selues to sinne and wickednesse but seeing we are the friends sonnes and heires of God and brothers and coheires with Iesus Christ let vs highly esteeme our selues and apply our selues to vertue that God bee not angrie but ioyfull to haue such sonnes nor Christ ashamed but rather honored to call vs brethren friendes and companions In the sacred Scriptures are there very many places wherein the holy Spirit doth exhort vs to liue godly and holily but of all haue I chosē one which maketh much to the purpose because in it are mentioned both kindes of sacrifices to wit the propitiatory which only Christ one only time offered and the Eucharistcall which euery moment we offer or to speake better ought to offer the Spirit of God by the mouth of S. Paul doth thus exhort vs Be ye therefore followers of God as deare children walke in loue euen as Christ hath loued vs and hath giuen himselfe for vs to be an offring and sacrifice of a sweet smelling sauor to God But fornication and all vncleannesse let it not once be named among you as it be commeth Saints neither filthines neither foolish talking nor iestings which are things not comely but rather giuing of thanks c. For all the che chapter is an exhortation to well liuing Let not man thinke for being called a Christian for being baptised for saying that he beleeueth in God for being trayned vp in the Church where he frequenteth sermons and celebrateth with the rest the holy supper Let him not thinke for all this say I that hee shall be saued if hee keepe not together with this the commaundements of God If thou wilt saith Christ enter into life keepe the commandements thou shalt not kil thou shalt not cōmit adultery c. That hypocrits may doe and doe the same but not this For without a true and liuely faith which hypocrites and wicked Christians haue not this cannot be done The outward shew the dead faith imaginary and idle is not the faith which iustifieth but the liuely true and diligent faith which bringeth forth in time fruits of charitie For as true fire cannot be without heate and the greater that the fire is the greater heat it giueth So true faith cannot be without good works and the more the faith is so much the more it worketh And contrariwise as the painted fire warmeth not as little also the dead faith worketh for being dead how shall it worke Such a perfection doth the holy Spirit require in vs that we do not onely good and commit no euill but willeth also that we be not familiar nor conuersant with the wicked Whereas such calling themselues brothers bee hypocrites vniust and impious So commaundeth the Apostle 1. Cor. chap. 5. 1. If any man saith hee calling himselfe a brother shall be a fornicator a couetous person an idolater an euill speaker a drunkard a theefe with such a one eate not The cause why we ought not to bee familiar with such in the second epistle to the Thessal chap. 3. 14. he sheweth And conuerse not with him saith he that hee may bee ashamed And Rom. 16. 17. he commandeth vs to depart from them which make dissentions And 2. Ioh. vers 10. it is commanded we should not salute them To receiue then and enioy the benefit of Christs sacrifice such ought as we haue mentioned to be the life of a Christian Hee that shall not be so perfect for who shall hee bee seeing there is no man but finneth and sith the iust man falleth seuen times I would say many times a day if he fall seuen times a day what will hee doe all his life long fall and rise againe He that shall not then be so perfect let him desire so to be let him sigh and bewayle his imperfection before the Lord let him beseech him of grace to become perfect Let him beleeue the Lord to be so good that he will accept this good desire proceeding from so contrite and humble heart and so will he supply the faults of our imperfections and not impute them vnto vs. And thus shall we enioy the benefite of the sacrifice which Christ our high and onely Priest once offered to his Father We haue proued Christ onely to be our Priest and onelie his body bloud which he once offered vpon the crosse to be the only and vnreiterable sacrifice expiatorie whereby our sinnes are pardoned and we for euer sanctified Let vs now as we promised treat of the institution of the holy supper and so wil we conclude this Treatise The Lord knowing our carelesnesse