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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61365	The Roman horseleech, or An impartial account of the intolerable charge of popery to this nation ... to which is annexed an essay of the supremacy of the King of England.	Stanley, William, 1647-1731.; Staveley, Thomas, 1626-1684.	1674 (1674)	Wing S5346; ESTC R12101	149,512	318

to Indulgences Pardons Dispensations Jubiles Regular Foundations Shrines Masses Confessions c. I must confess I have sometimes endeavour'd to understand the nature and import of this Popish Purgatory but could never yet meet with any satisfaction therein And to say truth the differences amongst the Papists are so many and irreconcileable in all the points and circumstances which concern this Doctrine that they serve sufficiently in stead of all other reasons and arguments to confute it E●kius in Enchei●id First for the place Eckius will have it to be in the bottom of the Sea Some will have it in mount Aetna Vesuvius Hecla Ande or some such other ignivomous Montgibels and Bernard de Bustis in an Hill of Ireland In Rosa● par● 3. Ca. 2. Next for the torments Sir Thomas More will have them to be only by fire but Fisher his fellow-sufferer by fire and by water Lorichius neither by fire Lorich Instit Cathol nor water but by the violent convulsions of Hope and Fear Then Vid. B. Jewels Defence part 2. cap. 16. for the Executioners or Tormentors these differ no less again for Bishop Fisher will have them to be the Holy Angels but Sir Thomas More to be the very Devils Then for the sins to be there expiated some will have them to be the Venial only and others say the Mortal too And for the time of Souls continuance in that State Dionys Carthus de 4. Noviss Dennis the Carthusian extends it to the end of the world when Dominicus à Soto limits it to ten years and others make it depend on the number of the Masses and Offices that shall be done on their behalf or if the Pope do but speak the word Lastly for the extremity of the pains Aquinas makes them as violent as those of Hell But the Rhemists say Rhem. Annot. in Apoc. 14.13 Durand de Offic. mortuor cap. 7. Beda Eccles Hist lib. 5. cap. 13. that the Souls there are in a very fine condition And Durandus between these extremes gives them some intermission from those terrible pains upon Sundayes and Holy-dayes Beda tells a long story of a Northumberland man that after he dyed returned to life again and gave a relation of the condition of those piteous Souls viz. that he passed through the middle of a long and large valley that had two lakes in it on either side one all along both top-ful of Souls constantly leaping out of one into the other in the one of these lakes the Souls were tormented with Fire and in the other with freezing cold and when a Soul had bin so long in the hot lake that it could endure no longer it would skip out into the cold lake and when it had layn so long there as that became intolerable it would leap back again into the fiery apartment and so they continued continually tormented with that alternation of heat and cold But by all this uncertainty or contrariety rather of opinions it may clearly be seen upon what weak foundations they have raised this building which certainly would have fallen to the ground long ago if it had not bin for the profit which the Popes Priests and Fryers have raised by the fiction And upon this one point of Popish Doctrine viz. Purgatory as I noted before their Masses Requiems Dirges Trentals Prayers for the dead the Doctrine of merits works of Supererogation Indulgences Pardons Jubiles c. do depend all tending to bring into the heavenly Exchequer at Rome where by inversion of the Holy Scripture Gain is great Godliness and though St. Peter said Silver and Gold have I none yet those which pretend to be his Successors ingross to themselves the Treasures of the world for to the support of that usurped Hierarchy all Kings with the People were by these Arts forced to contribute and to make surrendry of their Temporal Power and Temporal Riches And though the Pope as the Head thereof glutted himself with the cream of the Kingdom 's wealth yet all the other members down to the very petty-toes of that Romish Body would be continually raking and scraping for themselves being as spunges to suck from the People that they might afford sometimes to be squeezed by the Pope CHAP. XXV The Frier's Case ONe way specified before of carrying great summs out of the Kingdom to Rome was Appeals and drawing a multitude of Causes to be heard and determined in the Court of Rome and though those were not always the most weighty or difficult yet whatever the suggestion was if introduced with money the cause was receiv'd and treated accordingly And now for a Conclusion and that my Reader may as well be a little recreated as informed what kind of causes were brought sometimes before his Holiness and his Courts I will give him a Report or Relation of a certain case transmitted thither as it receiv'd a hearing re-hearing and re-re-hearing before it had its final Resolution in the Court of Rome as depending there near upon Fifty years before it was dismist St. Francis Anti-mach fo 86 c. the Founder of the Order of Franciscan Friers about the year 1198. amongst other Articles of his Rule Ordained thus That all that were of his Order for Apparel should cloath themselves with the basest vilest and of the lowest price that could be That they should only have one Coat with a Hood and another without a Hood That they should wear no shoos nor ride on Horseback Now amongst the Friers of this Order there grew great differences and disputations about the Interpretation of this one Article To compose which a General Chapter or Convention was held that the true meaning of the Article might be understood and declared and that all might sort themselves to one Habit for some wore habits of one colour and some of another and some wore short and others long insomuch as they seemed not to be all of the same Rule and Order In this Chapter or Convention there were notable disputes and arguments upon all the points or branches of this Article But about the two last points they came to agreement without much difficulty for seeing they were forbidden to ride on Horseback they resolv'd to ride but on Asses and Mules or to go on foot as now commonly they do wherein they considered also the convenience of Asses in regard they could keep them in their Covents at an easier charge than Horses for they would live very well without Provender And for Shoos they resolved that they would take away the uper leather leaving a sole only with a thong to go over the foot to make the sole fast to the foot and so they should not be Shoos but Soles But the great difficulty was about the Coat and Hood And there were some cunning Friers good at division who divided the first branch of the Article into three principal Points or Questions The First about the Colour The Second about the Quantity And the