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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56191	A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1642 (1642)	Wing P4038; ESTC R5059	135,316	198

it both who thinke that she And God too by your Aves worshipt be Yet Mary more than God since that you all Your Offices Houres Psalters Masse-bookes call Not Gods but Maries so that you adore Serve her onely now at least-wise her more By farre than God Christ since your bookes thus beare Her name and title not theirs as is cleare By your new Printed Masse-bookes which stil'd be In all their Titles Fronts as you may see Our Ladies Psalters Primers Offices Houres Rosaries and such like This Aves Use hath in time produced you to Make Her Servants and Devoti who forsake God Christ the Holy Ghost and Trinity Adoring none for God but her onely She is Romes Goddesse God Father Son Sp'rite Trinity Mother and none else of Right The Stateliest Churches Altars Images Most Monkes Nunnes Orders all Houres Offices Bookes of Devotion are hers beare her Name And all Grace Pardon comes from this blest Dame As Rome Avers now This Aves have wrought Beyond contrary to the Angels thought And Maries too who by them hath undone Ungodded both the Father and the Sonne On and against Popish Beades and Pater-Nosters oft Repetition on them I Wonder much why Papists on Bedes pray And all their Pater-Nosters by them say Is it because they set them out to sale And none will buy them by their weight but Tale As they doe wodden Billets and therefore They must have Beades to keepe true Count and score If so it seemes a just and Lawfull Act Though to sell Prayers be no Christian Fact Or is it because they contract each day With God how many Paters they will say To him and so their Bedes serve to keepe true Account that God from them may have his due So many Pater-Nosters just as they By Contract vow or pennance ought to pay This seemes an honest Practise and most just To render God his due yet then they must First prove that God takes all their prayers by Tale Not weight but this would marre their price and sale Their Paters are so light that God must take Them all by Tale sith they no weight will make For should he ballance them their endlesse tale Of Paters would not Poyse nor turne the Scale Bedes then keepe equall Scores 'twixt God and them God would forget else what they pay to him He is oblivious if not false therefore They dare not trust him they must keepe the score Or else they deeme he mindes no more than they Their mumbled Paters else they would not pray By Count I doubt they cheate God in the Score Sometimes to make him minde their Paters more Or doe they use their Bedes alone to finde That tale of Paters which they seldome minde Their thoughts being else-where when their Pater's sayd The Bedes must tell them still how oft they pray'd Their Paters sure are sayd with great devotion They doe not know their summe but by Bedes Motion Should God them take by weight than not by Count So many feathers would their poyse surmount I doubt their Beades though light will overweigh All Paters Aves which they on them say And are far more worth were they to be sold Than all the Paters Aves on them told But why must Paters thus be said by score Did Christs Apostles Prophets Saints before Time use it No reade Scripture new or old You finde no Paters Prayers on Beades told Some thinke our Bede these Beads did first invent From whom they tooke their Name if I consent Though false yet for sev'n hundred yeares or more Next after Christ none Paters by Beades score Said now the Case is alt'red few can say Their Paters unlesse they on Beades them pray Pray on them No let him marke who this reads They never use to pray but say their Beads This is their Proper language so as they Confesse their Beades helpe make them not to pray To say indeede nay use vaine Repetition Against the Paters and Christs Prohibition Who first ordain'd the Pater purposely Vaine Babling and your Bedes quite to put by Which Christ condemnes as Heathnish and defends All his to use because it God offends But Chaplets now this remedie hath mar'd And made it the disease it should discard Some scores of Pater Nosters must be said On Beades ere God can heare minde what they praide He 's growne now deafe belike and cannot heare Their first next third fourth Pater or they feare He is asleepe or dreaming so that he With peales of Paters must awaked be Or with their Beads great ratling sound and noise Ere he can heare or listen to their voyce If he heares the first dozen Paters all The next are Idle Bootelesse Prodigall Yea a grosse taking of Gods Name in vaine Which if it merits ought it s nought but paine Such Idle Babble and Battologie God doth condemne reject hate and defie Especially when they kneele downe before Saints Images and say their Paters o're To them as if they God the Father were And did their Beades and babled Paters heare Which damned common practise Rome allow's In her Trent Catechisme not disavou's Yea Hubberdin with others long agoe Maintain'd that they might Pater Nosters to S. Peter say and other Saints full well Without offence and George Douly doth tell Us now of late in his Instruction Of the chiefe points of your Religion That doubtlesse men may say the Pater or The Ave Marie unto the honour Or Invocation of any other Saint or Angell with this intent either To pray to God that he would have mercy Vpon their soules for this Saints Angels Cry Or to craze of the Saints themselves that they Will offer to God for them what they pray A new point of faith and devotion Not knowne to Christ but to Romes Priests alone Had Papists sense or Reason they might see How oft repeated Pater Nosters be Most irkesome loathsome to God not pleasing For if men here should to a Judge Lord King Ten twenty thirty Forty times or more Together the same words requests say o're As they to God say Paters all would thinke Them mad or foolish yea their suites would stinke And be denide for this their Clam'rous cry Thougst Just since mar'd by such Battologie If it be folly frenzie babling then Oft to repeate our suites and plaints to men Yea the next way to make them us deny Is it not just the same to God to cry Thus Pater Pater for an houre or more Untill your Beades be fully numbred ore Doubtlesse it is nay a meere mockery Of God who turnes his eares from this vaine cry All deeme the Cuckoos which doe oft times sing Nought else but Cuckoo Cuckoo in the spring For three Moneths space most foolish birds because They oft repeate their Cuckoo without pause And we thinke children fooles the Cuckooes play In counting then how oft they Cuckoo say Papists are worse than Cuckooes which forbeare Their Cuckooes song for nine

in Romes Church if any Sith she besides Christ Saviours hath full many If few be saved as the Scriptures say One Saviour is enough to whom to pray Who seldome us'd in Romes Church which him wants Not may finde leasure to save Protestants Lest this prove true Romes Church may now doe well All Saviours but Christ onely to expell On Romes Saviours and Jesuites NO wonder if all Romes flock saved be They have ten thousand Saviours more than we So many that to keepe them from disorder She marshalls some into a distinct Order Grac'd with the saving name of Jesuites They are such active good sweete saving Sprits Saviours no doubt to Romes Church Popes and Crowne Which their plots wits pens keepe from tumbling downe T is not their goodnesse vertue grace or merits That make them Saviours but their treasons wits Saviours to Popes could Kings and States say so They Jesuites were in Name and Nature too But whilst their Treasons plots ' gainst these them shame They are not such in truth deed but in name Nay meere Antipodes to this name they It into Judasites now alter may Or Jebusites since they disturbe annoy Al States Kings Churches would them destroy On no Salvation out of the Church of Rome ROme saith Out of her Church none saved be And that no Church is Catholicke but she It 's pride and gaine that make her thus to boast Since she faith and Salvation both hath lost The Patriarchs Prophets holy Jewes of old Christ his Apostles were not of Romes fold Yet were all saved Greekes with sundry more Since them were and are sav'd without the whore Of Romes precincts whose whoredomes vices are Now Catholicke her faith grace none or rare She then had neede prevent her owne damnation Not others doubt her owne not our Salvation On Papists making Apocrypha Canonicall and Canonicall Scripture lesse than Apocryphall and their blasphemies against it and Popes power over it PApists against the joynt consent of all Fathers Apocrypha Canonicall Make and all Protestants revile condemne For not consenting in this point with them Meane time ô wonder that which both confesse To be true Scripture Canon they farre lesse Esteeme than what is meere Apocryphall And deeme no Scripture Text Canonicall Stiling Gods sacred booke a leaden sword A nose of waxe a dead letter or word A leaden Parchment Rule no Judge rule guide Of faith by which all doctrines must be try'd They write it hath its force authority Sense exposition from the Pope onely Who can may doth it change controule annuall Repeale dispence against it by his Bull. If this be true Rome no Canonicall Text grants but makes all meere Apocryphall And so unchurcheth yea quite overturnes Her self whilst she against Gods Word thus spurnes On which all Christian Churches built must fall If Scripture cease to be Canonicall O Rome recant thy fearefull blasphemie Against Gods Word which doth for vengeance cry Against thee and shall judge thee at the last And into Hell without repentance cast On the two Arch-Patriarchs of Popish Fryers S. Francis and S. Dominicke I Hope I may without offence recite What Papists of their great S. Francis write The father of their Fryers Minorites In Printed Bookes made by his favorites They write that he John Baptist did surpasse In foure respects For first John Baptist was But Christs fore-runner Francis as they say Both his fore-runner to prepare his way And standard-bearer too John received The Word of Penance but from Christ our head Francis from Christ and the Pope which is more John but the Bridegroomes friend was heretofore Francis was like the Bridegroome John on high Is but exalted to the Company Of Seraphins where Francis on the throne Whence Lucifer was cast downe sits alone They write that Francis in worth farre excels All the Apostles and that now he dwels In Heav'n in Christs owne bosome More That he Was here a Jesus typically yea A figurative Saviour who upon His body receiv'd in a Vision The selfe-same wounds that Christ did yea suffred The selfe-same paines and thereby renewed Christs passion in him for to save man-kinde Of which the Prophet David doth men minde Who saith Thou hast with glory and honor Him Crown'd and thou hast him also set o're The workes of thine owne hands of whom did write The Prophet thus Thou gavest him a light Unto the Gentiles whose day Abraham Saw and rejoyced for to see the same All meant of Christ alone Besides they write That what the Gospell saith of Christ of right May be sung of him All things unto me Are given of my Father whence we see The Scripture of him faith A Father I Will be to him and he againe shall my Son be both meant of Christ They adde that all The vertues of the Saints both great and small In the Old and New Testament doe rest Vnited and conjoyned in his brest That by his merits he deserv'd to be The Sonne of God and that Leo did see A roll descend from heav'n which rested on His head containing this Inscription This man is the grace of God conformable Wholly to Christ in all things the Example Of all perfection deified in The Glory of God the Father and now in The glory of the Saints united to God whereby he precedes and doth out-goe All living Creatures is made one and the Same spirit with God Nay they averre that he Deserves with God to be the Advocate Of the who●e Militant Church on earth that Christs Passion is in him renu'd for the Salvation of all Mankind So as he By one Masse onely hath God pacifi'd For all the world This must not be deny'd They adde that all are saved certainely Who in S. Francis Order Rule shall dye For Francis prayed and obtain'd likewise From God that none who in his Order dyes Should dye an evill death which is far more Than Christ obtained from God heretofore For all who him professe That the same grace Descendeth on him who shall but embrace His Order of Religion as doth fall On him that is baptized Is this all No they say further the meere putting on Of Francis hood gives full remission Of sinnes and frees from their guilt punishment That the bare resolution and intent To take his Order though not put inure Is a new Baptisme doth pardon procure They teach that Christ hath but prayed but Francis Hath impetrated or obtained All this With sundry such like fearefull Blasphemies Appeares in the Booke of Conformities Presented to the Chapter Generall Of Cordiliers and there approv'd by all With this expresse clause We have carefully Searched perused examin'd throughly This booke and we have nothing in it found Worthy Correction all there is so sound That they it terme a Golden booke So prise They their S. Francis and these Blasphemies Which Gregory the ninth Pope Alexander The fift Nichlas the third a whoremaster Sent