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

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

And as these called Christians have sollowed the Heathens Examples in naming their Days so they followed them in naming their Months for the Heathen they called Mars the God of Battel and from thence they calleed the first Month March. And Venus they called the Goddess of Love and Beauty and from thence they called they called the second Month April And Maja a Heathen Goddess called Flora Flora and Cloris were called the Goddesses of Flowers unto Maja the Heathen Idolaters use to sacrifice from thence was the third Month called May. And upon the first day of the same Month they used to keep Floralia Feasts to the two Goddesses of Flowers viz. Flora and Cloris and Flora was a Strumpet in Rome that used on the first day of that Month to set up a May-pole before her door to entice her Lovers From whence came May-poles and May-day to be since observed by these called Christians And Juno whom the Heathen called the Goddess of Kingdoms and Wealth from this Juno the fourth Month was called June And Julius Caesar a Roman Emperor in honour to him was the fifth Month called July And in honour to Augustus Caesar an Emperor was the sixth Month called August And four of the other Months are called after the Latin Names as September for the seventh Month October for the eighth November for the ninth December for the tenth And one J●nus a King of Italy was for his wisdom pictured with two faces whom they honoured as God and from this Name J●●●● was the eleventh Month called January And Saturnus Pluto Februs were called the Gods of Hell wh●● the Heathen said had the Rule of evil Spirits there and from 〈◊〉 Februs was the the twelfth Month called February And by all there Idolatrous Names do these called Christians call their D●ys to this any which is contrary to the Scriptures the Prophets and the Apostles The Saxons also had a Goddess whom they sacrificed to m●●●● Month of April called E●ster Hence they called April E●●●● Month and hence in process of time came Easter Page 135. Ca●●● 〈◊〉 Brit. CHAP. XIX Concerning Burying-places IN the year 1198 Gaudentius de Mor See Justin Part 1. Ch. 26. proves that they did of old bury privately their dead in their Grounds which custom was taken away by Pope Innocent the third who decreed that none should be buryed in unconsecrated places and then after people began to desire to be buryed within the Church out of a Superstitious respect to the Saint whose Name that Church did bear and because their Kindred and Relations did pray for them there besides they hoped to be benefited by the merits of the Martyrs And it may be read in Austin de cura pro Mortuis chap. 5. That the believing Mother did desire that the body of her believing Son might be buryed in the Church of the Martyrs for so much as she did believe that his soul did reap benefit through the Merits of the said Martyrs And about this time the Clergy began to appropriate to themselves the prerogative of taking money to let people be buryed in Churches and is at this day used in England It was one of the Articles of the W●ldenses That the use of Church-yards is supersluous and invented only for lucres sake and that it was no matter in what ground any one was laid or buryed Bish Vsher de Succes Eccles Chr. c. 6. CHAP. XX. Concerning Ministers VVHen Christ bid them go into all Nations he bid them wait at Jerusalem until they were endued with power from on high and they was not to go to be seven years at Colledges as they are now like an Apprentice but some of them were Tradesmen as Moses was a keeper of Sheep and Jacob was a keeper of Sheep and David was a keeper of Sheep and Elisha a Plough-man and Amos a Herdsman and Peter and John Fisher-men and unlearned men and Paul a Tent-maker And the Teachers of the Waldenses were said to be Weavers and Coblers of which when they were told of it they replied they were not ashamed of their Priests because they laboured with their hands according to the Example of the Apostles CHAP. XXI Concerning Marriage with the King IT was the Romans that first brought up marrying with a Ring it being their practice and custom that the man should give in token of good-will a Ring unto the woman Alex. Gen. Lib. 2. Antique Romani p. 72. And before they would bsgin the Ceremonies of their Contract the man procured a Southsayer and the woman another to cast their Fortune and the token or sign that these Southsayers accounted most fortunate was a Crow And this practice of ma●rying with a Ring do these called Christians retain to this day amongst many other of the Heathen Idolatrous practices And this practice is contrary to the practice of the holy men of God in the Scriptures for Boaz took Ruth to Wife before the Elder of the people and said Ye are witnesses this day that I take Ruth to Wife and the people said We are witnesses this day and the Lord m●ke the woman in thy house like the house of Rachel c. and tha● thou mayest do worthily in Ephr●ta and be famous in Bethlem And of the stock of Boaz came Christ Ruth 4. And Isaiah was to take Witnesses and write in a R●ll when he went to the Prophetess So here you may see was no Southsayers nor Rings used CHAP. XXII Concerning Churches and Vniversities so called AND the Names that the Papists gave the Steeplehouses are still used by Protestants they called their Churches Cathedral Churches and Kings Chappel and Queens Chappel And Pope Faelix the third he decreed that Churches should be dedicated to the Saints and so they came to be called one Christs Church and another they called Saint Peters Church and another Saint Pauls Church and another they called Saint Jame's Church and another Saint George's Church and Saint Bennets Church c. And them called Protestants calls them so still And the Protestants still call the Colledges by the same Names the Papists gave them who first set them up The Papists called them Christ Church Colledg Emanuel Colledg Trinity Colledg Corpus Christi Colledg that is the Body of Christ Colledg Jesus Colledg Brazen nose Colledg Magdalen Colledg All-Souls Colledg Saint Johns Colledg The two Universities as they are called were founded by Popish Saxon Kings and other Kings Bishops and other men and women Tindal who was a Martyr said concerning Universities that whosoever ordained Universities be it Alexander at Halis Saint Thomas or any other he was a Starr that fell from Heaven to Earth for there are brought in said he moral virtues for Faith and Opinions for Truth and said they were a confused Cloud Tindal in his Book of the Revelation of Antichrist CHAP. XXIII How the Bishops and Clergy heretofore have been the cause of cruel Laws against those that differed from them whom they called Hereticks

ERasmus testified that for above Four hundred years after C●●●● the Bishops did not seek the help of the Emperors again●● 〈◊〉 Hereticks and when they did seek it against the insufferable wickedness of the Donatists it did not please the good people that they should then seek the help of the Civil Powers for they then judged that it became not the Bishops to use any other Weapons or to have any other help then the Sword of the Spirit the Word of God although the evil was incurable yet would they have excluded it by Excommunication which is said to be the greatest Judgment or Punishment that then the Church had The Histories also sheweth how that some of the Clergy have said That the Princes ought to kiss the Son and to use their power for to preserve and defend Religion against all their Enemies though their Lands should therefore be spoiled In the year 553 Pelagius Bishop of Rome instituted first of all That Hereticks and Apostates should be forced by external compulsion And Clement the fifr made Laws that Hereticks should be burned Gerandus Naviomagns sheweth how that the Laws for putting Hereticks to death came not by the free-will of the Emperors but through the earnest importuning of blood-thirsty Bishops whose constant recourse was a burden to the Emperors so that finally they obtained what they desired but when the Clergy could not preva●l with one Emperor they excluded him out of Italy and excommunicated him and brought him in suspension and freed the Subjects from the Oath and stirred them up against the Power And thus have the Clergy handled when they could not have their wills And it might be plentifully manifested how that it hath been blood-thirsty Bishops with others of the Clergy that have provoked Kings and Potentates of the Earth to cruelty and who have counselled them to make bloody Laws like the Bishop Nestorius who in his Sermon spake unto the Emperor and said Oh Emperor give me a Land cleansed of Herticks and I will give thee Heaven help me against ●he Hereticks and I will help thee O subdue the Persians thy Enemies In the years 1538 and 1546 In like manner the Inquisitors and Clergy stirred up the Emperor the Kings of Spain and France to terrible persecution laying it upon their consciences to quit themselves severely against Hereticks if they would escape the Lords rep●o●● In the year 1545 Pope Paul the third counselled and entreated the Emperor Charles and King Ferdinandus to compel the Protestants to forsake their error CHAP. XXIV How since the Apostacy from the Truth the Pope Kings and Rulers makes Ministers and none must preach except they have a Licence from them IN the days of King Henry the Fourth it was agreed upon by the King and the Bishops with other Lords that no man within this Realm or other of the Kings Majesties Dominions presume to take upon him to preach privily or otherwise without special Licence of the Ordinary of the same place Statute Ex Officio R●g Hen. 4. And in the dayes of the same King Henry the Fourth Constitutions were made by Tho Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and others That no person being authorized to preach shall take upon him to preach in English to the Clergy and Laity except he first present himself and be examined of the Ordinary of the place For first the King he nominated who should be Bishop of such a Diocess and then being presented to the Pope he was to approve of him and being approved he was consecrated by the Arch-Bishop in England But when King Henry the Eighth cast off the Pope then it was enacted by King and Parliament that no Bishop should be commended to the Pope but that the King should both nominate them and approve of them to be sufficient Ministers In the year 1547 in Edward the Sixth's time Injunctions were set forth That none should preach except sufficiently Licensed In the Reign of King James Injunctions were made That none should preach except they were lawfully Licensed thereunto by the King or the Bishop Fox Acts and Mon. Vol 2. And likewise in the dayes of Queen Mary none was to preach but such as should be licensed or allowed by her Authority or by the Arch Bishop c. or by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg● Anno 1. Mary 1 Pat C. 1. In the year 1559 Injunctions were likewise made in the first year of Queen Elizabeth that none should appear to preach not be admitted thereto but such as should be Licensed thereto by the Queen or the Arch Bishops or Bishops And thus she followed the Papists who were the first that set up this O●der In the year 1644 the Parliament made an Ordinance to give power to the Presbyter-Assembly of Divines for the Ordination of Ministers according to the Directory for Ordination and they gave the Ass●mbly of Divines Rules for Examination of them they ordained He that was to be ordained was to bring a testimony that he had sworn and taken the Covenant of the three Kingdoms and how long he had been in the University and what Degrees he had taken and whether he was twenty f●ur years old c. Note This was up●olding Popery still notwithstanding there was a pretence of Reformation And an Ordinance was made by Oliver Cromwel and his Council for Approbation of publick Preachers and for this end Commisioners were appointed and were authorized to judg of the Ability and Fitness of any man before he was admitted to any publick place to preach O. C. 1653 Can. 39. and Can. 57. CHAP. XXV Concerning the Priests turning as the Rulers turned to every Power that came up rather then they would lose their Benefices and how they petitioned several Parliaments and Rulers That they might have their Tythes paid them and that they would suppress the People called QVAKERS IN the year 1531 Pope Julius being angry with the King of France sent King Henry the Eighth the Cap of Maintenance and the Sword and gave him the title of Christianssimo that is The most Christian King And because King Henry wrote a Book against Luther the Pope ●ave him the title of Defender of the Faith In the year 1531 being the twenty second year of Henry the Eighth Tyndal did translate the New-Testament into English for reading of which many were sharply punished and the reading of it was forbidden by the Chancellor of England and the Papist-Bishops then in power caused all the Books to be brought into Pauls-yeard and there to be burned and the said Tyndal was shortly after burned beyond Sea for translating the same In the same year one Camphjus being sent Legate from the Pope in to England was at first in great request with King Henry the Eighth and had many honours conferred on him and great Benefices but the King taking dislike of the Popes proceedings with him concerning a Divorce the said Legate brought from the Pope to Divorce the King from his Wife who was the

of the coming and suffering of Christ he was of Jerusalem where he also lost his life being most cruelly sawed asunder in the Reign of King Manasses and when his breath near failed him he called for a little water to drink which was given to him out of the Brook therefore is the place called Siloam as much as to say Sent. Joel prophesied of Christ and that God would pour out of his Spirit upon all flesh and his Sons and Daughters should prophesie He dwelt near unto the City Bethomeron in Rubim where he dyed and was buried in peace Jonas the Prophet shewed the Mystery of Christ and his resurrection being three days and three nights in the belly of the whale who cast up Jonas uncorrupted Even so the Son of man was three dayes and nights in the bowels of the Earth uncorrupted and rose again Jonas was of Cariathmaus nigh Azotus on the Sea-coast towards the Gentiles But he went out of the Land because 〈…〉 Infamy that was come upon him by prophesying against he dyed and God raised him to life again by Elias then he went into the Land of Judah and there dyed and was buried in the Cave Cenzenm Baruch lived in the time of Jeremy and was his Scribe He wrote from Jeremy his mouth and he read the Book to Joacim the Son of Josia King of Judah and after he had read it to him he was fain to flye and hide himself And when Jeremy went down into Egypt he wrote that Book that beareth his Name which was sent from thence to Jerusalem to be read in the Temple V●ias was of Cariathjarim the Son of Semei he prophesied against Jerusalem and the whole La●d of Judah as Jeremiah did and Joachim King of Judah sought to kill him but he fled into Egypt from whence the King sent for him and killed him with the Sword and laid his body where the common sort of people were buried Aggaus prophesied of Christ in the time of Zorababel he being a young man came from Babylon to Jerusalem and prophesied of the return of the people and of the building the Temple and he saw it built again He dyed and was buried nigh the Sepulchres of the Priests Zacharias prophesied of Christs coming and riding upon the Foal of an Asse and of Christs wounds in the house of his own Friends He being very aged came out of Chalde to Jerusalem where he executed the Priestly Function He blessed Salathiel his Son and called his Name Zorababel The Land where he lieth is called Betharia from Jerusalem One hundred and fifty Furlongs Malachi prophesied of Christ he saith From the rising of the Sun unto the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place they shall offer a pure offering to my Name and the Son of righteousness shall a●ise with healing in his wings He was born after the return of the people out of Babylon He dyed very young in the prime of his years and was laid with his Fathers in his own field Before the Birth of Christ Four hundred and twelve years John Baptist the Son of Zachary and Elizabeth was of the Tribe of Levi he was the greatest Prophet born of a woman he 〈…〉 the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world He was beheaded of Herod the Tyrant And these Prophets shewed how that all Nations are blessed in the Seed of Abraham and so the Seed of Abraham to be the Saviour of the world Now when the Lord would take up Elija into Heaven by a Whirlwind Elija went to Gilgal and from thence the Lord sent him to Bethel and from thence to Jericho and the Lord sent him to Jordan and he went over Jordan for is a River dan is Judgment and so he went over and through the River of Judgment and then he was taken up into Heaven by the Lord in a Chariot of Fire And the Lord commanded Abraham to go out of his Native Country and his Father's House which was in Caldea and he departed from Haran and passed through Sechem and Moreia and went to Canaan and at Bethel he built an Altar Bethel which signifies the House of God and then he went into Egypt which is anguish and tribulation How to resist the Devil WHen Christ had fasted forty days and forty nights the Devil came to him and tempted him when he was hungry to make the stones bread but Christ said to him Man doth not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God that is it on which whomsoever liveth that is able to resist the Devil the Word of God dwelling in the heart by which Christ spake is that which gives power to resist the Devil which word refresheth those that dwell in the Counsel of God and not bread only Then the Devil tempted Christ to destroy himself under a pretence that the Angels had charge over him and this the Devil in presumption would have had Christ to try whether he had been the Stu● of God But Christ answered him It was written 〈…〉 not tempt the Lord his God And when the Devil could not prevall with him in these things then he tempted him with the glory of the world and took Christ into an exceeding high Mountain and shewed him all the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and said to him All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me But Christ said Get thee behind me Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Then the Devil left him when he saw there was no room for him there was nothing of him in Christ therefore his temptations could not prevail for where the Word of God rules in the heart the Devil hath no power Therefore every one live in the Power of God that you may be able to resist the Devil The Form of Christs Words when he did MIRCLES CHrist said Daughter thy Faith hath made thee whole go in peace and be whole of thy Plague and he said to the dead Maiden Arise And he said Come out of the man thou untlean spiris And he said Son thy sins are forgiven thee arise take up thy bed and walk And he rebuked the unclean spirit saying Come out of him hold thy peace and he took her by the hand and lift her up He said to the blind man Co thy way thy faith hath saved thee Jesus put forth his hand saying I will be thou clean And said to the woman Great is thy faith be it unto thee as thou desireth He said co d●●● blind man Receive thy sight thy faith hath saved thee And to another Go thy way thy Son liveth Jesus said As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world And as soon as be had spo●●pus be spit on the ground and made Clay of the spittle and ann●●● the