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A20148	No parliament powder But shot and powder for the Pope. And for all his Cardinalles, Bishops, Abbots, Fryers, Monkes; the maisters and great doctours of Sorbonne. Sent to his vn-holynesse, and them all, for a newe-yeares gift. 1609.; Sac & pieces pour le pape de Romme, ses cardinaux & evesques. English	Denakol.; Philagathus, fl. 1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 6582; ESTC S118652	52,903	98

hath taken such boldnesse vpon him as to dispense against the Gospels and destroy the holy commaundements of God and his worde which we beleeue notwithstanding shall endure for euer But he that fighteth against so strong a foundation declareth himselfe to be Gods enemie and Antechrist manifestly As after many testimonies of sacred Scriptures Saint Gregorie himselfe dooth giue vs a good aduertisement saying It is sacriledge and a foretelling of Antechrists cōming t● constitute an vniuersall Bishop of the whole Church For if he that nameth himselfe vniuersall doe fall the whole Church is ouerthrowne And proceeding on still to the same purpose he concludeth thus I boldly say that whosoeuer calleth himselfe vniuersall B●shop or desireth to be so named is the fore-runner of Antechrist in that he preferreth himselfe in his owne pride before and aboue all other Behold now how God hath suffered that these diuelish Cautelles of the man of sinne should be made manifest euen by themselues euen those that he thought to defend couer himself withal As we could much more amply discouer as well by the testimonie of the worde of God as by the expositions of many holy Fathers of the Church But the faithfull Reader making acceptaunce of this our slender trauell may if please him haue accesse to the Fathers themselues as for his more ease we haue quoated them in the Margent The Pope and his Church OVr holy Father the Pope is instituted of God to be head and vniuersall Prince of his holie Church hauing receiued the keyes thereof with intire full and incomprehensible power to binde and loose pardon and retaine all sinnes yea in such sort and manner as there is no one that dare say to him wherefore doest thou this or that For it is an indubitable veritie yea altogether inuincible that our holy father the Pope the great successor of Saint Peter hath such power and authoritie as he may iudge the whole world but hee is not to bee censured or iudged by any person And his power is so great and admirable that he can dispense against the Gospels against the word of God and consequently against all the Apostles doctrine yea and against the right of nature As it is most amplie written and recited in the holy Decretales and in the Canō Lector cum Glos 34. Dist Canon Presbiter cum Glos 82. Dist Apostolorum 17. Quaest 4. Canon Si quis Dist 40. Canon Si Papa Dist 26. Et eadem Canon satis cano simplici Can. Incipitis OF FREE-WILL Verely verely I say vnto you that whosoeuer committeth sinne he is the seruant of sinne Iohn 8. 34. It is God which worketh in you both the will and the deed euen of his owne good pleasure Phil. 2. 1● Not that wee are sufficient of our selues to thinke any good thing as of our selues but all our sufficiencie is of God 2. Cor. 3. 5. The Apostles and Gods Church IN this matter wee may iustly answere as S. Hierome did writhing against Pelagius saying thus The Philosophers the Patriarches of Heretiques by peruerse doctrine haue polluted the puritie of the Church Moreouer in regard of our purposed breuitie it shall suffise vs to alleadge S. Augustine with whom do many Fathers consent in detestation of the Pelagian heresie which our aduersaries doe so boldely maintaine These are his words We cannot consent with them who by ouer great pride do labor to exalt and aduaunce a freedom of will for in their so doing they are the cause of more euil then good and they but striue to ouerthrow men But we in humilitie doe consider that which the Apostle saith It is God which worketh in vs both the will and the deed according to his owne good pleasure And we render thanks to our Lord and redeemer who without any former merits in vs hath healed our woundes and vlcers and reconciled vs to God hauing redeemed vs from captiuitie and hath brought vs out of darknesse into light and called vs from death to life The Pope and his Church WE doe constantly mainetaine and confesse a liberall and Free-will not onely in the state of innocencie but likewise in the state of corruption with sinne For it is written That God made man right and left him in the hand of his councell to doe what he would So that man being richly furnished with this noble francke and Free-will might worke of himselfe good or euill euen by his owne motion and can merit the first grace of congruitie As more amply is written and declared by our Master of the Sentences and others in their seuerall Expositions OF MARIAGE AND OF VOVVES It were good for a man not to touch a woman Neuerthelesse to auoyd fornication let euery man haue his wife and let euery woman haue her husband 1. Cor. 7. 12. Mariage is honourable among all and the bed vndefiled but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will iudge Hebrewes 13. 4. My praise shall be of thee in the great Congregation my Vowes will I performe before them that feare thee Psalm 32. 25. The Apostles and Gods Church SAINT Paul beeing a vessell of Election doth assure vs that Mariage is honorable among all and the bed vndefiled But your holy Father telleth vs the contrary to wit that Mariage cannot bee without vncleanesse and carnall filthinesse Now which of these two shall we say to be the false witnesse As for S. Paul we are very certaine that his testimonie proceeded from the spirit of God in regard whereof we will rather giue faith to him then to your holy Father although hee bee seated in Gods Temple for God and shewes himselfe as if hee were God Of whō likewise the Apostle speaketh That in the latter times there shall some depart from the faith and shal giue heed vnto spirits of errour and doctrines of deuils Speaking lyes through hypocrisie and haue their consciences burned with an hot yron Forbidding to marry The Pope and his Church OVr Mother holy Church following our holy Father her vniuersall Head considering aduisedly that Mariage could not bee performed without vncleannesse pollution and carnall immundicitie For this cause hath iustly and holily prohibited and forbidden and so doth still forbidde Mariage to Priestes Deacons and Subdeacons for they are tyed and obliged to a vow of chastitie from which no man can free or deliuer them The Apostles and Gods Church THe Church of God did neuer learne of Iesus Christ nor of his Apostles to forbid holy and honourable Mariage to any person whatsoeuer except to such as are named in the 18. Chapter of Leuiticus Therefore we will not receiue any such doctrine of deuils For the holy Apostles were diuers of them maried and such as lawfully succeded after them according as Saint Clemens testifieth writing against them that contemned Mariage where he saith

breaking downe an infinite number of Idols and Images as very manfully in Gods cause hee did in the Cittie of Bethell According as himselfe writeth in an Epistle to Iohn Bishop of Ierusalem his words are these And when I entred to pray I found there a sayle or great cloth hanging at the doore figured and painted hauing an Image as of Iesus Christ or some other Saint for I could not bethinke me well whose Image it should bee But when I beheld in the Church of Iesus Christ an Image of a man hanging against the authoritie of the sacred Scriptures Trent it in pieces and gaue councell to the keepers of the place rather to bestow the same cloth on some poore dead body for buriall then to let it so offend the consciences of any What now can your pontificall high Priest of Rome alleadge against so many excellent persons as flourished in those dayes in the Church of God S. Augustine did not forbeare to affirme it constantly that it was an execrable herefie to giue any honour to the Images of Iesus Christ or of the Saints For as hee himselfe sayth In looking vppon Images no man can pray or worshippe as hee ought to doe but hee will bee touched as if his thoughts were carryed thence where his hope is to bee heard and his sute granted All these things beeing duely and religiously considered to the ouerture of your Romane Priests pride wee doe and will conclude with the whole Church of God That according to his commādement we ought to honour and worship him in spirit and trueth and not by any inuented visible things commanded without authoritie of his holy word the which wee know and beleeue shall remaine for euer And wee hope shortly to see that thereby the great man of sinne shall be smitten and ouerthrowne euen hee that exalteth himself against God in his Temple Which wee humbly desire for the honour and great glory of his name to the end it may be sanctified and his Kingdome come that so all men on earth may learne the way to life euerlasting which is by knowing and confessing one onely God and him whom hee hath sent his onely Sonne Iesus Christ our Lorde and Sauiour And concerning that false couerture alleadged by our aduersaries that Christ reuealed not all things needfull for our saluation to his Apostles This was true before they had receiued the sanctified Spirit on the day of Pentecost But after they were filled with the holy Ghost and instructed of him the promise of Iesus Christ was accomplished that the holy Spirite should reueale vnto them whatsoeuer hee had sayd and should leade them into all trueth This being done and accomplished they wrote the word of God and haue left the same vnto vs cleane holy and pure sufficient to guide and direct vs to euerlasting life We are not bound then to heare any other but the Apostles For all men else whatsoeuer bee they holy wise or very Angels of heauen they may not declare or command vs any other Gospell but that which is diuinely written in the authenticall Bookes of the holy Prophets and Apostles And no man how wise or learned soeuer he be hath any authoritie after the Apostles as Saint Hierome saith Moreouer albeit wee should bee vniustly reprooued persecuted condemned yea and murdered of men in the quarrell of God yet notwithstanding hauing our onely hope in him who hath called vs to that honour We are to reioyce and be glad when wee are persecuted and hated for his Names sake Not doubting but in his good time and when hee pleaseth his strong and powerfull arme shall free and deliuer vs from all seruitude of our aduersaries As alwayes hitherto hee hath done in fulfilling his promise to his holy Prophets and Apostles Therefore to that euerliuing Lord God bee giuen all honour and glory praise and power world without end Amen Si hoc consilium out opus ex hominibus est dissoluentur Si vero ex Deo est non poteritis dissoluere If this counsell or this worke be of men it will come to nought But if it be of God you cannot destroy it The Pope and his Church Now we haue good and great occasion to render thankes to God who hath made vs victorious ouer our aduersaries whom we doe excommunicate and curse as pernitious and damnable Heretiques because they will not be obedient to our holy ordinances but doe fondly cleaue to and stand vpon the Gospels and the doctrine of the Apostles who are not able to be vnderstood of any man without our holy Glosses and expositions For the rest let vs not forget to speake somewhat in the behalfe of our holy Masse That looke how much our hereticall aduersaries doe labour to confound and ouerthrowit So much the more powerfully will we striue to defend and maintaine it euen vnto blood and death For which cause we haue commanded to publish abroad the great graces vertues and properties of the most holy Masse According to the testimonie of that reuerende man Master Iaques of Spaine solemne Doctour in diuinitie The Copie whereof we will haue exhibited and giuen to euery one that shall continually haue good deuotion to the most holy Masse and shall liue and die in the true faith thereof Amen M. IAQVES OF SPAINE A Copie containing the great graces vertues and properties of the most holy Masse which being well contemplated and considered on are more worthie to be esteemed then an vnualuable treasure MAster Iaques of Spaine solemne doctor in Diuinitie recounteth in his workes that Saint Augustine and other Doctors doe hold this conclusion That if he which heareth Masse deuoutly hath either bought or taken money for so much land as may be walked on during the time a Masse is saying and shall giue that money to the poore yet hee shall not merit so much thereby as by his deuout hearing of that Masse Secondly he that as this day heareth Masse deuoutly and hopeth to heare another to morrow with the same deuotion looke what sinnes hee committeth betweene those two Masses are pardoned him by true confession which our Lord will graunt him before his death Thirdly after a man hath heard Masse his feeding yeeldeth the greater benefit to his bodie nor can he want ought all that whole day but shall be filled with all things needfull to nature Fourthly All veniall sinnes newly committed and false oathes sworne in haste or thorow ignorance hauing a purpose to confesse them they are blotted quite out by the merit of hearing a Masse deuoutly Fiftly euery pace or steppe a man takes in going to heare a Masse are counted and numbred by his good Angell to be rewarded before God Saint Bernard saith that our chiefest Christian vertue is to heare Masse deuoutly For it is of such great efficacie and dignitie as the verie hearing of a Masse is much more worth

together in my Name there am I in the midst of them Matth. 18. 20. And as they did eate Iesus tooke the bread and when hee had giuen thankes hee brake it and gaue it to his Disciples and sayd Take eate this is my body Also hee tooke the Cup and when hee had giuen thanks he gaue it them saying Drinke yee all of it For this is my blood of the New Testament that is shed for many for the remission of sinnes Matth. 26. Mark 14. Luke 22. The APOSTLES of our LORD IESVS CHRIST and his CHVRCH AS our Lord IESVS hath done so will we doe without altering any thing of his holy Institution For the Disciples are not wiser then their Master Wherefore as we haue receiued the holy Supper of our Lord euen so doe we beleeue and teach and in the selfe-same manner will wee receiue and administer the same As for your Masse it is vnknowne to vs because it is your Sacrament and sacrifice and not that which was instituted by our Lord. For wee are well assured that Iesus Christ hath consecrated for euer them that are sanctified by one sole sacrifice and onely oblation of his body The Pope and his Church Ovr holy Masse is the same Sacrament which is one Sacrifice for the redemption of the liuing and the dead For of all sacrifices this is the best and most excellent wherein at the voyce of the Priest heauen openeth and thence Iesus Christ with his Angels descendeth downe who are all there assistant The Apostles and Gods Church OVr Lord Iesus hath long since admonished vs not to listen vnto such as say Behold here is Christ and there is Christ And although an Angel from heauen should proclaime your newly forged Transubstantion to vs we would hold him for accursed For by faith truely and onely do we eate the bodie of Iesus Christ and drinke his blood in spirit which quickeneth for the flesh profiteth nothing Thus do we receiue these words of our Lord which hee hath said to be spirit and life The Pope and his Church IT ought to bee beleeued vpon paine of euerlasting damnation that very suddenly the bread and wine are transubstantiated and conuerted into the true body naturall and precious blood of Iesus Christ euen as great as grosse and as large as it was in the wombe of his mother and on the Crosse The holy Doctors and Fathers of Gods Church S. Augustine Ambrose Hierome Chrysostome Epiphanius Cyprian Ireneus Origen Hillarius Athanasius Tertulian and many others The Lords Signeurs and masters of the Popes Church Gratian with his Decretals Gregorie with his Decretals the graund master of the Sentences S. Thomas of Aquine Iohn Bonaduenture Raymondus Petrus Comestor Iohannes Scotus and many others The Apostles and Gods Church AS the holy Apostles did receiue it from our Lord Iesus Christ Euen so haue they deliuered it vnto vs. Wherefore we will not demolish or cast downe their building wee are ignorant of your Transubstantiation being certaine that ignorance thereof is knowledge agreeable vnto GOD. Nor haue wee any want of testimonie concerning the Apostles doctrine which the Doctours of the Church receiued from them as is easily discerned by that which they haue written Saint Augustine an ancient and faithfull Doctour both vnderstood beleeued this holy Sacrament as you may perceiue by his owne Exposition speaking thus I can interprete that this commandement consisteth in a signe for our Lord made no difficultie in his saying This is my body when he gaue the signe of his bodie He instructeth these things to be sayd euen as he spake by figure in signe by signification For the thing which is signified of Custome is to be called by the name of the thing signified Saint Ambrose also saith Thou receiuest the Sacrament for the similitude of the flesh and of the blood of Christ But thou obtainest the grace of his true nature and by receiuing the bread in this kinde thou doest participate of his diuine substance And euen as in Baptisme thou hast receaued the similitude of death in like manner doest thou drinke in the Sacrament the similitude of the precious blood of Christ Saint Hierome saith Like as Melchisedech the soueraigne Sacrificer of God performed in the figure hereof offering the bread and wine euen so Iesus Christ representeth the veritie of his body and of his blood The Pope and his Church ANd such is the alteration that the bread is no longer bread nor is the wine any longer wine or do containe any thing of their owne nature For they are really conuerted into the substance of the natural bodie of Iesus Christ As more amply and diuinely is written in our holy Decretals and Canons and specially by the venerable Father S. Thomas of Aquine In tertia parte summae in quarto sententiarum Toto titu de Celebrat Missar extra Et de concrat Distin 2. Et in Clement de reliq venerat Sanct. And in many other places I Thomas of Aquine am constrained to speake this trueth as I haue written in my Summe pars 3. in the 46. addition Article 6. in this maner Because that the Church is founded vpon Faith and the Sacraments it appertaineth not to the masters of the Church to make any newe Articles of Faith or create any new Sacraments or remooue or take away them that are made For therein is the excellencie and power which appertaineth onely to Iesus Christ who is the foundation of the Church The Apostles and Gods Church D OVR Lord Iesus Christ did neuer teach vs any such fables but flatly hath forbidden vs to giue any credite to them And S. Augustine well instructed in Gods owne Schoole Saith Vntill such time as the world shal be finished our Lord Iesus shall continually remaine aboue but his trueth abideth heere with vs. For it behoueth that the body wherewith he is risen should be in a certaine place but his trueth is euery where spread abroad For wee must not imagine that Iesus Christ is euery where dispersed according to the forme and substance of his body And wee ought in such sort to maintaine his diuinitie that we doe not destroy his humane nature It ensueth not therefore that all that is in God is God For to take and eate his very body may seem that he commanded a thing vnlawfull or an offence It is then by a figure commanded vs how to communicate in the Passion of our Lord and louingly and profitably to preserue in our memorie that his flesh was wounded and crucified for vs And the wordes of Iesus Christ are spirit and life as if he should say vnderstand spiritually what I haue said vnto you You shall not eate this bodie which you behold nor shall you drinke the blood which shall be shed by them that must crucifie me I haue commanded you a Sacrament

Tom. 1. haeres 69. sup Cantic S. Cyprian cont Demet. tract 1. S. Chrisost 2. serm de Lazar. Singing for dead is vaine idle and consequently grounded on sinne for of euery idle word we shall yeeld an account before God This man is like vnto Cayphas that spake well but not of himselfe Psalm 32. 5. Psalm 51. 4. James 5. 16. Coloss 4. 2. It is not aboue three hundred yeers since the Pope of Rome constrained his Popelings to confesse in the care For in the time of Pope Innocent the third or very little before none were obliged to confesse to Priests about the yere 1200. Hist tripart cap. 2. S. August in lib. 10. de confess cap. 2. S Chrysost Heb. cap. 12. hom 3. Tom. 4 supra Psa 52. Tom. 2. E. in Serm. de Poenitent Tom. 6. Et de incomprehen Nat. dei hom 5. Et in 4. Tom. de Lazar. Et in hom 12. de Cananit Ezech. 20. 16. Galat. ● 8. The Popes Priests are Lieutenants to him their God of whō S. Paul speaketh 2. Cor. chap. 4. 4. The Pope is more then his Bishops and his Bishops more then their Priests and all of thē shal be knowē by their fruits Mat. 7 16. It is not read that Christ did euer constraine any one to beleeue in him or to confesse before him or his Apostles nor did they euer any such act Contrarie to the 19. Psal vers 12. The Priests are not called one another as in S. Iam. they receiued no such name in Baptisme Jam. 5. 16. 1. Tim. 3. 15. Colos 1. 9. Ephes 1. 12. Dan. 7. 21. Esay 42 18. S. Greg. lib. 4 Epist 76. ad Man lib 7 Epist 194. lib. 6. Epist 188. S. Hilar. cont Auxentius S. Bern. super Ca●tic Serm. 33. in serm de cōuer S. Paul S. Aug. super Io●n hom 50. Or●g super Matth. hom 2 Can. Pudenda 24. quaest 1 Ca● St Papa Dist 1. S. Aug. lib. 3. de Baptism Cap. 3. c. The Pope making himselfe to bee vniuersall Bishop of the Church declareth himselfe to be Antechrist S. Augustine saith that if Christ gaue the keyes to Peter alone then the Church hath no keyes after him But as hee answered for all so hee receiued the keyes with all Hom. 11. 124. super Ioan. hom 50. The Pope hath in such sort dispensed against the Gospels as they are buried wholy abolished in his Church In which we may contemplate the great mercie of God according to Dan. 7. and 2. Thes 2. S. August 30. lib. de hom 41. Et de verb. Apost 13. serm Et in Enchirid ad Laurē Cap. 29. S. Hierm. in Com. sup Hier. cap. 23. S. Greg. sup Psal 7. S. Bern. in lib. de lib. arbit in hom de Annun Virg Ma. Phil. 2. 13. Tit. 3. 6. Eccles 15. 14. S. Augustine saith in many places that we haue a Free-will to doe euill lib. de verb. Apost Serm 13. Free-will is the heresie of Aristotle and of all them that vse it as a buckler for their faith Hebru 13. 4. Saint Paul can not but be a truer witnesse then the Pope 1. Tim. 4. 1. 2. 3 In 4. Sentent Dist 7. cap. 7. Can. Cum societas 27. Quaest 2. Euseb 1. 3. cap. 2. S. Clem lib. 7. Hist. tripart lib. 2 cap. 14. Can. Nicen. 31. Dist Can. Si quis Dist 28. Can. Si quis virorum Dist 30. Can. Quoniam Dist 31. Can. Qudam Dist 27. Can. Apost cap. 6. VVho so pleaseth to read the histories shall finde that in the time of king Lewes the second Priests were then maried in France Origen super Matth. hom 13. S. Ambr. Lib. 1. de Virg Cousins doe lawfully take their Cousins in mariage as well by permission of diuine right as ciuill Leuit. 18. Et Instit de Iustin de nup. filij duorum fratrum Rom. 10. 4. Acts. 15. 17. Galat. 5. 1. Rom. 14. 23. S. Ambr. sup 1. Cor. cap. 7. S. August Lib. 6. de Confess cap. 2. Et in Lib. de Virg. cap. 40. S. Cypr. Lib. 1. Epist 11. Concil Tolet. 8 Et Gangre in Galat. c. Papists binde themselues to God by these three vowes and one of them they will not obserue for riches makes them rebell against God This Pope spake as he meant and as he felt in his owne frailtie Luke 11. 39. Rom. 14. 9. 1. Pet. 4. 7. Gal. 5. 1. True fasting is approoued of God 1. Tim. 4. 1. 1. Cor. 10. 9. 15. S Athan lib. de exposit sup Hebr. cap. 13. Mat. 15. Hist tripart lib. 10. cap. 10. S. Hier. in Com. sup Malach 1. cap. Concil Brachar 2. Dist 10. Hist Eccles lib. 5. cap. 3. 11. S. Orige sup Leuit. cap. 6. hom 10. S. August de mor. Eccles ad Jesul Epist 86. S. August ad Jasulan Epist 86. By Fasting we cannot be euer the more righteous but thereby wee may prepare our selues onely for the seruice of God the more freely then when we are filled with meates beyond measure Montanus the Heretique was the first that compelled men to faste Wherein the Pope is his successour Histor Ecclesia lib. 5. cap. 11. Deu. 4. 23 24 Deut. 27. 15. Exod. 20. 4. 5. Psal 5● 5. 2. Thes 2. 7. Psal 97. 7. Psal 115. 8. Psal 135. 18. The law of God giueth wisdome to the simple and not dead Images Psal 19. 7. The word of God commandeth altogether the contrarie Exod. 20. 4. Hab. 2. 18. 19 Hier. 10. 8. Sathan was President in the second Nicene councell Rom. 1. 22. 23 25. The Bishop of Marseilles was reproued for doing the cōmandement of God VVherein appeareth that God hath euermore reserued some one or other to maintaine his faithfull seruice according to his word and not according to the liking of men Heere was an assembly of learned iudgements blinde leaders to the blinde It was meruaile that the very stones did not start vp at so horrible opinions contrary to the diuine trueth which they seeking to exterminate altogether laboured but in vaine For the Lord will preserue his trueth for euer Psalm 145. 18. We may well say that of this holy Assembly which S. Paul speaketh 2. Cor. 4. 4. The God of this world hath blinded the vnderstanding of infidels that the light of the Gospel should not shine vnto them Mahomet the false Prophet hath not so much blasphemed in his Alchoran as these Bishops did in this Nicene Councell ● Thess 2. 11. Prou. 21. 30. God for the space of 600. yeeres suffered no Images in Temples but because they haue since been permitted and adored it folioweth not therefore that the first Church was hereticall and this is now more illumined by God beeing altogether contrary to him The Councells of Constantinople Toledo 2. and Elibertine detested and forbad Images and whosoeuer accepted of thē were held as strangers to the Church of God The Apostles are lesse and inferiour to the great Rabines of Sorbo une O insupportable blasphemie God hath reuealed more to seducers then to his Apostles Euangelists Mahomet in his Alchoran saith the same therefore both these do bend themselues against Iesus Christ who with the spirit of his mouth shall consume them both Epiphanius a man of great renowne in the Primitiue Church defaced the Image of Jesus Christ S Hierome speaking of him sa●th That he was so respected in his time that euen Heretiques themselues did him bonour and reuerence It were better to doe the workes of charitie then hang vp images in Christian Churches S. August in Catalog de haeres Et in lib. 4. de Ciuit. Dei Cap. 9. 11. Et super Psal 113. Esay 40. 18. Dan. 7. 25. 2. Thess 2. 4. Matth. 9. 32. Iohn 17. 3. John 16. 13. Galat. 1. 12. S. Hierom. Tom. 8. Psal 86. Rom. 8. 18. Psalm 44. 3. 1. Pet. 3. 14. Matth. 5. 10. Acts. 5. 38. 39. The way of a foole is right in his owne eyes but the wise will heare the counsell of God who teacheth a quite contrary way Pro. 12. 15. This Copie is to be approued by Saint Paul Gal. 5. 2 and by Moses Deut. 18. 9. and by Justinian the Emperor lib. 1. de summa Tri. fide Cati. This dreamer of Spaine this doctor in all duncerie is a true imitatour of Zidkiah the prophet of the Idoll Baal For euen as with the two hornes of yron hee deceiued Achab that miserable king and his people In the like manner with the horn of the Pope that other horne of Sorbonne doth he labour to seduce and deceiue kings people nations making them to doat vpon his Idol Baal For preseruation and maintenance wherof there is nothing else taught but inuented dreames and lies of hypocrisie Idolatrie of diuels which blindeth the poore seducers and by them are others seduced euen by the meanes of greedinesse rooted in all euill in coueting of which they erre in faith 1. Tim. 4. 6. 1. King 22. 11. To such men appertaineth properly that which is written They are apt to auarice haue taken gifts and are peruerted in iudgement as is approued by Saint Luke 17. 1. Sam. 8. Ergo a man should sell all his goods and giue that mony to haue Masses said sung for him Which is the sole Butt they shoot at But S. Hierom was neuer of that mind to vtter such blasphemie The Spanish doctor doth be lie him and finds it in his owne Booke of dreames For both hee and S. Aug. haue said the contrarie as you haue read before The Masse is the cause to get women with childe and in hope of pardon thereby make shipwracke of their soules The lier alledgeth S. Luke who is flatly against him saying That of men vsed is abhomination before God No man be he neuer so learned and holy hath authoritie after the Apostles Much lesse Saint Gregorie being blind in Gods cause And Saint Jerome saith sup Prop. Mich. Cap. 7. Tom. 6. saith They that are blowen vp with pride against Gods worde doe make themselues sworne enemie to his eternall truth c. Eccles 3. 14. Dan. 7. 23. 2. Thes 2. 7. Luke 18. 12. Apoe 18. 9. 1. Cor. 7. 11. Apoc. 22. 5. Apoc. 21. 7. Dan 7. 2. Rom. 11. 7. These valuations and prices are set down according to the true estimate of our English money here currant