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spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	work_v	5,318	5	7.5792	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14265	An ansvvere or admonition to those of the Church of Rome, touching the iubile, proclaimed by the bull, made and set foorth by Pope Clement the eyght, for the yeare of our Lord. 1600. Translated out of French; Aviso a los de la iglesia romana, sobre la indiccion de jubiléo, por la bulla del papa Clemente octavo. English	Valera, Cipriano de, 1532?-1625.	1600 (1600)	STC 24578.5; ESTC S116178	21,562	32

from death to life and that hee shall not enter into condemnation Did he send vs to Rome or any other place Doth he not say if wee cate his fleshe and drinke his bloud which he had preposed before in these termes if we come to him and if we beleeue in him he dwelleth in vs and wee in him Can there be any charity to expose so many persons to infinite paines trauailes and daungers to put them in great charges to leaue their houses and vocations to goe a long iourney to seeke that which they may haue at home at their own dores if they haue a true faith working by charity But I pray you doth not the holy Father and his supports shew a manifest contradiction in their opinions and by consequent what spirit of error lying speaketh by their mouths and not the spirit of truth They proclaime with hewe and crye that in their Masse the Sacramentall wordes being pronounced the substance of bread is transubstantiated into the body of Christ and the wine into the bloud Now Iesus Christ ordaining the holy Supper would there by assure vs that if wee communicate worthily and examine our owne consciences we communicate his body which was deliuered for vs and his bloud which was shed for the remission of our sins To be short wee are participants of the efficacy vertue of his death and passion If then it be so that Iesus Christ very God and very man is there as they pretend yea in corporall presence Is it not a great folly and indiscretion to goe so far to seeke that which they may haue among themselues Wherefore should Iesus Christ present himselfe there vnto vs and should not haue so much power in his corporall presence as men are made beleeue that the bones sepulchers Temples and Images of S. Peter and S. Paul haue Is it not to make lesse account without comparison of the Master then of the seruaunts Yea is it not a despising of the Lord who is alwaies liuing to adore and worship the putrified carkasses of his seruantes If then it bee true that they are his seruants who will deny it to be a manifest blasphemy Wherefore all these goodly exhortations by the Pope made both to the Prelates and to Kings and Princes are like to Suger and other Spices wherewith he seeketh to sweeten his venomous drinke thereby the easier to impoyson all the world We must not stay nor attend the 100. yeare of the Romaine Iubile to amend our liues correct our vices to dispose our selues to doe good and to be intentiue to the word of God to read the holy Scriptures to exercise charity to giue honor to whome honor belongeth and tribute to those that ought to haue tribute and to pray to God one for an other and namely for Kings Princes and such as are in authority Such holy exercises are necessary for all the faithfull and at all times and seasons And also such as are called to feede the Lords flocke ought not to attend vntil that time to teach and instruct the people committed to their charge Act. 20. but they are alwaies to doe it as S. Paul writeth to the Bishop of Ephes yea in time and out of time according to the instruction by him giuen to his Disciple Timothy For that following their Masters example they must trauel in his Vineyard the 12. houres in the day without staying till euening comes Wherfore you my maisters of the church of Rome if you desire to be participants of saluation harken rather to the voyce of the great Pastor of al Pastors our only Sauiour redeemet Iesus christ Math. 11. who so sweetly inuiteth you vnto his word Come vnto me all you that are laden and I will comfort you Also If any man haue thirst let him come vnto mee and I will refresh him Ioh. 7. Then vnto these false Prophets which make you runne from place to place binding your consciences cause you to doubt of your saluation And the better to empty your purses set before your eyes a fire of purgatory wherein after you haue bin tormented in this world by fastings abstinences pilgrimages and other corporall exercises you must as they make you beleeue passe through and therein remaine to be as it were new boyled and refined before you enter into Paradice But the Sonne of God maketh one selfe same promise vnto all those who by a true faith shall seeke their saluation in him as he did vnto the poore theefe when hee said vnto him this day shalt thou be with me in Paradice that is to say if we commit our soules into his hands he will receiue them and place them in ease and rest attending the moste happy resurrection by meanes whereof he will leade vs all both in body and soule into his Paradice which is the heritage prepared for vs before the foundation of the world This great eternall and vniuersall Iubile whereunto God calleth and summoneth vs euery day hath bin written by the precious bloud and signed by the death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ the eternall Sonne of the eternall God our great King and onely soueraigne Sanctifier Vnder written by the holy Apostle that Preached and declared it vnto all the world to be indifferently receiued and celebrated in all places where the name of God is called vpon and sealed with two great seales of his Maiesty Baptisme and the holy Supper Ga. 1. Whosoeuer Preacheth any other Gospel let him be accursed 1. Cor. 16. If there be any man that loueth not the Lord Iesus Christ let him be accursed Maranatha FINIS

Forly holding the Lady thereof inclosed therein Was not this a fayre celebrating the Iubile and getting of pardons to oppresse poore Widowes and fatherlesse children Guichardin saith also Guicciar Lib. 5. in his fift booke And to the end saith he that he might not omit any kinde of gaine he sent pardons into Italy and all other nations which are called Iubile celebrated in Rome with a great assembly of people inhabiting beyond the mountaines and gaue to those that could not come meanes to obtaine the sayd pardons so they payde for them which money so gotten with all the treasure that hee could by any meanes drawe from the Treasors and Landes of the Church he gaue it to his Sonne that dyed at Forly In the fixt booke he addeth that he being poysoned all the Citty ran in great troupes vnto the Church of S. Peter to see his body and none of them could satisfie theyr eyes to beholde this Dragon dead who by his immoderate ambition pestiferous dissimulation and all sortes of examples of horrible crueltyes monstrous couetousnesse and vnspeakeable greedinesse hauing solde without distinction both sacred and profaine things had poysoned all the world He saith that Rome is the place which God hath chosen Rome I say that hath been in horrour and execration to all the world since the Popes haue vsurped this tiranny ouer the bodies and soules of men Mounsier de Januille that hath written the life of S. Loys among other thinges saith that the King returning from Palestina and passing thorough Italy would not goe to salute the Pope fearing to beholde the vices and euill examples of the Court of Rome Petrarke in his Epistles saith thus heere saith he dwelleth Namroth the fearfull builder of the great Tower Heere is resident Simiramis with her quiuer monstrous Minos guideth the processe Rhadamanthus Cerberus dwell there To be short all monstrous execrations haue their nestes therein all confusions obscurites and horrors raygne therein most puisantly The Cannonists themselues cease not to speake of the corruptions that are in this court of Rome As among the rest Iohn Andre in his glose vpō these words Gens sancta wherupon the Pope will ordaine his church of Rome In cap fundamenta de electione et electi potest In the sixt saith thus touching the mallice of the Romaines John the Monke refereth vs heerein to the first Chapter of the Epistle to the Romaines and saith that Saint Barnard hath written of them to Pope Eugenius Which we likewise read in the mirrour of Histories Lib. 29. cap. 27. The said Iohn the Monke sayd that Rome was Founded by rouers theeues other such like persons that it yet sauoreth of the beginning that it was called Rome as gnawing the handes alleadging a verse to the same purpose Roma Manus rodit quos rodere non valet odit This Pope addeth that it is the spirituall Sion the holy Jerusalem not according to the letter but by antephrase Spiritually from whence the law of God and the light of the Euangelicall truth from the first birth of the Church hath been distributed and spread throughout all the world c. We must not wonder why this holy Father and his Coherents so straightly prohibit to the laytye the reading of the holy Scriptures vnlesse they be permitted by their Prelate Bycause it is the onely meanes to license them to preferre all what pleaseth them and to make men beleeue that blacke is white and falshood truth It is certaine that the Church assembled of the faithfull is the true celestiall Jerusalem But what resemblaunce hath it with the Church of Rome the which much more sauoureth of Agar the seruant then of Sara the free woman Gal. 4. For euen as the childe of the seruaunt which was ingendred after the flesh persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit So is it now And to prooue it read S. Paul Gal. 5. Continue sayth he in the liberty by the which Christ hath deliuered vs. After that he addeth all ye are voyde of Christ that are iustified by the law are destitute of the grace for wee stay for the hope of iustice by the spirit which is of faith For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision nor vncircumcisiō do preuaile but faith which worketh by charity Now to tye mans saluation to good works to induce an infinite number of ceremonies contrary to the liberty freedom which Christ hath obtained for vs to entertaine a great part of those obserued in the old law which were al abolished at the comming of Iesus Christ is it not an imposition of a most insuportable yoake vpon the shoulders of the faithfull Is it not to reduce a more hard straight seruitude then that from the which Iesus Christ hath deliuered vs And the P. would make vs beleeue that the church of Rome which is this Agar Apoc. 7. yea two-folde more slaue then Agar is the celestiall Ierusalem the spirituall Sion but he should rather say that it is the great Citty which spiritually signifieth Sodoma But when he saith that from Rome the law of God is deriued the truth of the Euangelical faith frō the beginning of the church hath bin distributed throughout all the world Esay 2. Is not this a manifest contradiction to the holy ghost which teacheth the contrary The Prophesie of Esay was it not manifestly accomplished in the citty of Ierusalem when the Apostles other holy men hauing there receiued the holy ghost preached therin went from thence to goe preach the Gospell throughout all the world as Iesus Christ had commanded them Doth not S. Mar. about the end of his gospel say that Iesus Christ after he had spoken with his Apostles was taken vp into heauen there sitteth on the right hand of God And they being gone forth preached the gospel in all places Now this issuing or going foorth ought to be vnderstood of Jerusalem not of Rome Clement speaking so after his predecessors doth he not wrong to the rest of the Apostles as if they were Ciphers or that they were idle persons contenting themselues with the names titles of Apostles as in truth the Popes other Prelates of their tyrannical dignities do for that only excepted they haue nothing but the bare name But is it not euident and manifest vnto vs by the Actes of the Apostles Rom. 15. that when S. Paul wrote that Epistle he had preached the gospell from Ierusalem and all about it vnto Jlltrica Esclauoma that is to say in diuerse places of Asia Europe Beholde now yee Romaines how that because you neither wold nor wil receiue the loue of the truth therby to be saued God sendeth you the efficacy of deceipt Thes 1. that you should beleeue lyes c. This holy father addeth that it is that happy Citty wherof the faith being cōmended by the mouth of the Apostle is preached throughout the world c. Alas where do