compliance with the times c. do resort thereunto and this we averr they cannot do without great and dangerous sin For 1. Though God by the wise Preacher saith to every man My Son give me thy heart and that without the inward affection all external Postures of Devotion are vain yet it is also true that God requires the whole Man and we must serve him with our Bodies as well as with our Spirits for which he himself in his Holy Word Assigns the Reason viz. Because the one as well as the other is his since our Bodies are Redeemed with the Blood of a Crucified Jesus of infinite value shall we dare to prostitute the same before an Idol since they ought to be Temples of the Holy Ghost will you pollute them with abominable Sacriledge since they are designed for a blessed Immortality and to be partakers of Divine Glory How vile a thing is it to sully them with assisting at loathsome Superstitions St. Paul envying against Vncleanness uses this very Argument Your Bodies are Members of Christ how monstrously wicked then is it to make them Members of an Harlot when the Lord speaks of his faithful Servants he Characterizeth them by this special note They have not bow'd the Knee to Baal nor have kissed his Hand He might have said they are not corrupted with Superstition or they do not own Baal for God but to express that the same was not enough the Holy Spirit by name declares that they have not so much as by outward gesture exhibited any worship to the Idol and does he not by this Description admonish us also to abstain from all such Pollution if we would be accounted of the number of his people But you will say you keep your hearts right to God and whatever others do you fix your Devotion on him and know that 't is abomination to direct your prayers unto or to expect help from an Idol and therefore you address your prayers only to God though with your Face directed towards an Image With this very pretence the Corinthians of old endeavoured to excuse themselves when Paul reprehended this Crime in them 1 Cor. 8. They went to the Feasts which were kept in honour of Idols and with others were partakers of those solemn Banquets But did they do this superstitiously No for Paul as in their person brings in this excuse We know that an Idol is nothing whatever men esteem it and that there is but one God But the Apostle does not take this for a sufficient Plea but tells them that for all that a weak Brother that sees them may conclude that they do it in honour to the Idol and so by your example may be tempted to Idolatry When the wicked Sacrifice to the Devil whoever in such an action mixes himself with them adjoyns himself to the Devil you cannot at once be partakers of the Lords Table and of the Table of Devils whoever chuses the one must of necessity renounce the other Were such evasions of a good Intention to be allow'd how rashly and foolishly did Daniel's Companions expose themselves Could not they thus have concluded amongst themselves others indeed will Worship the Image which the King hath set up but we though we bow before it will still Worship the living God In the mean time to avoid danger we will go with the Crowd and pretend to do as they do would such a Cavil have excused them before God sure none will dare to say it What then shall we â—ame them for an inconsiderate Zeal that they would rather be cast into a fiery Furnace than by dissembling derogate from the Honour of God This we cannot do because the Holy Ghost expresly commends them for this noble Resolution and Constancy and Heaven gave Testimony to it by a Miracle and what is written is for Example and Instruction But how witty is man to find out Glosses and Colours to palliate his Crimes some fancy to eyade all this by saying These things are true of Heathen superstitions who sinned not only in using ill Ceremonies but also by Worshipping false Gods and therefore 't is no wonder if the Lord did so abominate their Rites but this is nothing to the Papists for though the Worship of God be corrupted amongst them yet they have no other intention but to Worship the true God But to this I answer whenever the World goes about to Worship God in a perverse and unlawful manner at the same Instant it Adores an Idol with whatsoever varnish it may colour its impiety In vain do those that set up Superstitions Condemned by God alleadge that they mean thereby to Worship God for since that the Lord neither hath instituted nor will accept thereof such Worship is exhibited to the Devil rather than to him For which cause the Apostle Paul speaking of those who turn ' 〈…〉 Corruptible Image says they served the 〈…〉 Brazen Serpent was not made by the Capricio of men but by the Command of God nor was it only a Symbol of a Divine Benefit but also a Type of Christ In after-times this was abused to Idolatry nor did that abuse want a specious pretext of the name of God Now suppose any one had feigned to Worship that Serpent to accommodate himself to the Superstition of the Rabble would any say he were guiltless The Golden Calf was made by Aaron to represent the true God but being against God's Command and contrary to Truth the Lord pronounc'd it Idolatry The like may be said of Jeroboam's Calves for he did not pretend to Introduce any new God only set up those Figures to prevent his people's going up to Jerusalem to pay their Devotion whereby he thought the State of his Kingdom would be endangered yet still it was gross Idolatry because he instituted a Rite without warrant from the Word of God and contrary to the Divine Command Now if any one had offered Sacrifice there not cordially but only in Complement to the King would he have been innocent or do we read of any of the Servants of God paying their Devotions there or rather on the contrary do not we find that God by his Prophets continually did forbid and condemn the same Was the Temple at Samaria Dedicated to Jove or Mars to Baal or Ashdod No no 't was Consecrated to the God of Israel but was it ever the more lawful to Worship there Secret Idolatry though varnish't with the name of God is prohibited as well as that which is open as was that of the Gentiles But the better to understand wherein and how far it may be lawful for a Christian to whom God hath made known the Abominations which abound in the Popish Church to Communicate with them we must note that of those things wherein they place the Worship of God some are inventions directly contrary to God's Word some other are depraved and corrupted by latter use though originally not evil 2. Some of their Ceremonies are in no sort to
conceit 4. There is always and will be a Proportion between the worship of God and our perswasion of him and men in giveing unto God any worship have respect to his nature that both may be suitable and he be well pleased Let us therefore now turn our Eyes and behold with horror and detestation what manner of Worship the Roman Religion affordeth It is for the greatest part meer Will-worship without any allowance or command from God as is in effect acknowledged by their own Durandus in his Rationale wherein he pretends to give an Account of the Original Reasons and Mystery of those Devises and as we in several parts of this Work have particularly proved It is a fulsome Carnal Service consisting of Innumerable bodily Rites and Ceremonies borrowed partly from the Jews and partly from the Heathen it is divided between God and some of his Creatures in that they are Worshipt both with one kind of Worship let them paint and dissemble it how they can with nice and unintelligible distinctions Thus then if by their manner of worshipping we may judge how they conceive as most rationally we may it will appear they have plainly abandon'd the true God and have set up to themselves a Phantasie of their own For God is no otherwise to be Conceived than he hath Revealed himself in his Creatures and word and specially in Christ who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Image of God 2 Cor. 4. 4. And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Character or lively figure of his person Heb. 1. 3. I proceed to another Argument If the Church of Rome which was once the Spouse of Christ have Committed Adultery and the Bill of Divorce be long since sued out she is no longer to be called or counted a Spouse or Church of Christ But she hath plaid the Adulteress and the Divorce is pass'd Ergo. That the Church of Rome hath long since and still doth commit Idolatry which is Spiritual Adultery Jer. 3. 9. Ezek. 23. 37. is notorious I shall at present only Instance in three particulars 1. Because they worship Saints and Angels with Religious Worship which without exception is proper and only due to God yea they transform some of them into detestable Idols making them Mediators of Redemption especially the Virgin Mary whom they call not only Lady but Goddess and Queen whom Christ her Son Obeyeth in Heaven a Mediatress our Life our Hope the Medicine of the Diseased c. And pray unto her thus Prepare thou Glory for us Defend us from our Enemies and in the hour of Death receive us Loose the Bands of the Guilty bring Light to the Blind drive away all Devils shew thy self a Mother by thy Maternal Right Command thy Son to receive our Prayers See for this the Roman Missal and Breviary and Bellarm. L. 2. De Sanctis Ca. 1. 6. 2. Their Idolatry is manifest in that they Worship Images or at least to give them their Excuse and Evasion into the Bargain Worship in at and before Images having no Commandment so to do but the contrary They alledge that they use and worship Images only in Remembrance of God but this it all one as if an unchaste Wife should receive many Gallants into her House in the absence of her Husband and being caught in Bed with them should answer That they were friends of her Husband and that she was so kind to them only in remembrance of him Would any man accept of such an Excuse much less will the great Jehovah who is a Jealous God and hath sworn that he will not have his Glory given to another 3. They are Guilty of Idolatry and that too more absurd than the Heathens themselves For they Worship a Breaden God For if our Blessed Saviour according to his Humanity be absent from the Earth 〈◊〉 undoubtedly he is For the Heavens must receive him until the times of the Restitution of all things Acts. 3. 21. Then the Popish Host is as abominable an Idol as ever was But you will say a known Harlot may afterwards remain a Wife and be so termed if she be not actually Divorc'd But as to that in the second place I answer the Bill of Divorce is long since Sued out her Sins have separated her and her God We have it expresly in the Word of God 2 Thes 2. You have her Apostacy exactly foretold and described Deceivableness of unrighteousness strong delusion that they should believe a Lie and what follows That they all might be damn'd v. 12. So in the 13. of the Revelation The Roman Apostatiz'd Church is set forth by the name of the Beast And Ca. 14. 9. It is said If any man Worship the Beast and his Image and receive his Mark in his Forehead or in his Hand he shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the Cup of his Indignation and he shall be tormented with Fire and Brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the Smoak of their torment Ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no Rest Day nor Night who Worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the Mark of his Name And therefore Ca. 18. 3. It is said I heard a Voice from Heaven saying Go out of her my people c. Since God hath Commanded us to come out of Her we may conclude her utterly Divorc'd from God for we may not wholly forsake any people till they forsake Christ And therefore though an Adultress till publickly detected and cast off may pass for a Wife yet after she is Convicted and the Divorcement solemnly declared she ceaseth to be a Wife though she boast never so much of her Marriage in her youth and though she can shew her Wedding Ring yet all this will not prove her in any sort a Lawful Wife nor intitle her to any pretence of Claim to the Affections or Estates of the Husband But the Truth is though the Church of Rome have thus proved Disloyal to her Lord and committed Whoredome on every high Hill and under every Green Tree yet with the Strumpet mentioned by the Royal Preacher She wipeth her mouth and saith I have done no wickedness For it hath of late continually been her cunning to make the Adorable Jesus under pretence of being still his Spouse a Cover and Cloak of all her Abominations as a Subtle and Unreclaimable Adultress deals with her too long suffering and patient Husband That so she may seem to be an honest Matron though indeed she be a notable Strumpet And this indeed is the highest point of the Mystery of Iniquity The COURANT. Truem. WEll and how proceeds the worthy Mr. L'Estrange with his Translation of the French Jesuit Tory. What! do you mean The History of Calvinism I have not feen it yet but am told 't is Dedicated to the most Christian King and that the honest Author tells him he doubts not but
nothing remains but the Ordinance or Decree of God to appoint Damnation as a punishment of this sin according to the desert thereof But that was passed long since by the Lord himself You shall put nothing to the word which I command you Deut. 4. 2 11. 30. There 's the Precept and the Penalty is express'd Rev. 21. 18. If any man shall add to these things God shall add to him the Plagues that are written in this Book But more plainly 2 Thes 2. 11 12. The Lord shall send them strong delusions that they should believe lies that all they might be damned which believe not thâ— truth Here we see the Lord wrappeth them up in Damnation by his Sentence that believe Lies that is false and erroneous Doctrin nor agreeable to the Truth which they ought to believe What then is wanting to them to make the Faith of the Church of Rome damnable and the Professors thereof liable to Damnation when both the thing it self deserveth it and the Lord hath decreed that they which believe it should have according to their desert Since therefore it thus plainly appears that every man is bound upon pain of Salvation to refuse the Faith of the Church of Rome in what a desperate case are those that continue in it 'T is not for nothing that the Almighty God of Love and Compassion makes Proclamation by his Sacred Herauld Rev. 18. 4. Come out of her people lest ye perish with her and partake of her Plagues We have a famous example in that depravation of the true Religion and setting up of Idolatry under Jeroboam 2 Chron. 11. 14. The Levites that dwelt amongst those Revolted 10 Tribes left their Suburbs and their Possessions that belonged unto them a great Act of self-denial and came to Judah and Jerusalem to do the Service of the Lord in the Temple there And after their example many people out of all the Tribes of Israel that abhorred Jeroboam's Idolatry came thither also for the true worship of God They knew to abide amongst Idolaters would bring them to destruction But if such wrath attend those that continue in that Communion wherein perhaps they were Born and Educated and to which sinkt by so many Chains of prepossession and hardned against truth with a thousand prejudices what Indignation may those expect who were born in Goshen within the daily sound of the Gospel and free tenders of the word of Life in a Land of Bibles baptized into a Reformed Church engaged for by Protestant Sponsors Educated by Religious Parents and under the sweet distillations of Divine Manna from the Lipps of sound and able Preachers If such as these I say will be trudging back to the Garlick and Onyons of Egypt if these Apostatize after so much light and embrace Popish darkness What remains But a certain fearful looking for of Judgment and fiery Indignation which shall devour the Adversary He that despised Moses Law died without Mercy under two or three witnesses of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under Foot the Son of God in his Soveraignty Laws and Ordinances and hath counted the Blood of the Covenant wherewith he was Sanctified an unholy thing imperfect without the Virgins Milk and Saints Intercessions and hath done despite unto the spirit of Grace As the Apostle argues in the same Case Hebr. 10. 27. It is reported by Ireneus cont Haeres L 3. Ca. 3. And by Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History L. 3. Ca. 25. That Holy and Beloved Apostle St. John when he spied Cerinthus the Heretick in the Bath where he was made all the haste he could possible to be gone apprehending it dangerous to be under the same Roof with him Yea the very Heathen as Tully de natura deorum L 3. witnesses being at Sea in a violent storm were much afraid of being Ship-wrackt because they had Diagoras the Atheist abord amongst them I would to God some Protestants were but as careful for their Souls as I say not the Apostle but the Heathen were for their Bodies and used the same discreet caution to provide for their Eternal Salvation as they had to procure their Temporal safety Neither was the Apostle any thing concern'd in the Impiety of Cerinthus or these Heathens with that of Diagoras and yet both He and They doubted some evil might befall them because they were in the Company of such profane wretches And can any Protestant Imagine that he may be free from danger though he joyn in Faith with the Pope that great Anti-christ though he harbour those Locusts Priests and Jesuites and converse daily with them and hearken to their Syren Musick and Imbibe their gilded poyson out of that Cup of Fornication wherewith they have Intoxicated the Kings of the Earth No No touching of Pitch always defileth It cost Jehosaphat dear though he were otherwise a good King for going to War with Idolatrous Ahab against a common enemy For what said Hanani the Seer 2 Chron. 19. 2. Wouldst thou help the wicked and love them that hate the Lord Therefore for this thing the wrath of the Lord is upon thee What then may they look for who like the Laodiceans are lukewarm neither hot nor cold altogether indifferent whether they be Papists or Protestants prepared to shift their Religion as the humour of the Successor shall happen such as are not asham'd to declare beforehand that they had rather be Papists than joyn with any of the Reformed Protestant Churches beyond the Seas that scoff at the very name Protestant and make it the best part of their Religion to swear and damn and rail against and persecute all those pious peaceable Protestants that cannot suppose it be through the error or weakness of their Conscience come up to the usage of some insignificant Ceremonies acknowledged to be indifferent though otherwise sound in their Faith Loyal to their King readily paying all Taxes useful to the publick and peaceable to their Neighbors whilst at the same time these high soaring Nominal Sons of the Church of England as they love to stile themselves though there is scarce one in forty of them but either is ignorant of or does not believe her Articles shall speak well of applaud and caress Papists and argue for their Principles and extenuate for their Treasons c. what shall we say of such people The Lord Rebuke them But least we should seem Fanatical in this assertion that the Faith of Rome is to be refused on pain of Damnation we shall here add some Testimonies of the Reverend Fathers and Divines of the Church of England 1. The famous Jewel in the defence of his Apology part 6. Ca. 22. Div. 2. We have departed saith he speaking of the Church of Rome from them who have utterly forsaken the Catholick Faith 2. Dr. Reynolds Conclus 5. The Church of Rome is not distemper'd with a little-Ague such as hindreth not greatly the functions of life
Rebellion promoting a general good of the King and Kingdome Faction and endeavouring the safety of the Nation against Popish Conspiracies a Presbyterian Plot. But if by Faction may be understood a few boysterus Troublesome people with as little sense as honesty that contrary to the rightful customes of the place they live in bandy against and disturb the Majority as suppose out-number'd above one Thousanâ—d in three and by persons of as good or better Quality every way than themselves and struggle to overthrow the Right Laws and Priviledges of the whole Community and when with Innovations Noise Shamms and shamefull foul practises they themselves have first industriously rais'd Feuds and Cumbustions do then think to file them to the account of such as justly and innocently oppose their lewd designs if this I say may pass for a true description of Faction then on my Conscience Popery and Torism are as errant Factions as ever pester'd a State Tory. Thou art always harping upon Popery I tell thee once again that party is not worth minding where shall you meet a man that now adays will own himself a Roman Catholick now quoth Roger we have taken the Oaths c. There 's Sing and Nevil shall talk as zealously for the Church by Law as any Country Curate and is not this a happy Reformation Truem. A Wolf is never the less a Wolf but the more dangerous for wearing the Lambs-skin that he lately worried I tell you there are still Papists in England and Bloody Traiterous Papists and a damnable Company of them too when was St. Omers and Doway more empty and yet I 'le warrant you all the Jesuits are not gone to Convert the Great Mogul Do not their raskally hedge-Priests flutter up and down as thick as Filfares who may not any day meet at 'tother end of the Town with Father Mathew's my Lord Peters's Ghostly Tool Father Fincham Brother to the Right Worshipful in Cromwel-shire Father Witherington Who once in doleful dumps Being drunk said Mass upon his Stumps Cum multis aliis quos cum proscribere Nolo strutting up and down streets as briskly as if they hoped to sing te Deum in Pauls and what business think you have these reverend Blades here Tory. Nay how do I know perhaps they only come over to turn Informers against Protestant Conventicles Do any of them Lodge in the Savoy Printed for Langley Curtis 1682 The Weekly Pacquet OF Advice from Rome OR The History of POPERY The Fourth Volume FRIDAY June 7. 1682. Crudeles Impiorum Misericordiae The Debates of the Bohemians at the Council of Basil The Story of Zisca his wonderful success and Epitaph The use of the Cup permitted to the Bohemians c. AMongst other Occurrences that happened at the Council of Basil which began to be Assembled Anno 1431. and continued sitting almost 12 years very remarkable were their proceedings with the Bohemians How God had been pleased to enlighten that Nation with the knowledge of his Truth and to discover to them the errors and wickedness of the Church of Rome by the spreading of Wickliffs Books amongst them we have heretofore acquainted you As also how those good seeds were cultivated by the pains of those laborious Husbandmen in the Lords Vineyard John Huss and Jerome of Prague who were both cruelly martyr'd contrary to the safe conduct granted them by the Council of Constance about the year 1415. Whereby the Gospel had taken such Root amongst the Bohemians that all the powers of darkness could not pluck it up yet of those of them that refused the Church of Rome there were two sorts some that only contended to have the use of the Cup in the Sacrament restored to the Laity but in other Doctrines agreed with the Romanists and these for that reason were commonly called Calixstines from Calix a Cup the other not only complained of the Sacriledge of the Papists in that respect but also pressed for the purity and simplicity of Religion in all Articles and Ceremonies and these were sometimes call'd Piccardines and sometimes Tabâ—ritâ—s for the cause herein after mentioned You must note after the burning of Huss and Jerome the Nobles of Hungary to the number of 50 and upwards in the name of themselves and the whole Commonalty sent Letters under their Seals Dated 2 Sept. 1416 to Constance complaining thereof as likewise did the Nobles of Moravia But that Bloody Conventicle vouchfased them no answer but on the contrary stirred up great persecution against them so that the Hussites were not only Excommunicated but their Churches broke open and their persons and goods every where exposed to violence which occasion'd such a tumult on the 13 th of July 1419 at Prague that the common people being enraged threw 12 Senators of Old Prague with the chief City Majestrate out of the Windows of the Senate House who fell upon the points of Spears Pope Martin the 5th Anno 1420 publickly excommunicates the Bohemians Exciting the Emperor and all Kings Prince Dukes c. to take up Arms against them Intreating them by the Wounds of Christ and their own Salvation unanimously to fall upon them and quite Extirpate that Sacrilegious and cursed Nation and withal promises so zealous and bountiful was his Holiness an universal remission of sins to the most wicked person that should kill one Bohemian Heretick History of the Bohemian Persecution p. 27. But some small time before this some thousands of those that profess'd the true Religion finding they could not live peaceably in Prague retired from thence to a stony Mountain about 10 Miles distant which they named Tabor and encompassed it round with a Wall and other fortifications constituting there a kind of Common-wealth and resolv'd to defend themselves by Arms and hence they were call'd Taborites The Emperour Sigismund spur'd on by these Incentives and large promises from the Pope of gairing Heaven gathers a most puissant Army from all parts of the Empire and resolves utterly to extirpate these poor Bohemian Hussites Who being in this sore distress one John de Trosnovie call'd Ziska because he had but one Eye of a Noble house but mean fortune yet great valour and conduct undertakes to gather together the scatter'd people and to head them against their Enemies which he perform'd with such success that Aeneas Sylvius afterwards Pope and no friend to be sure to the Bohemians who wrote the Story of those Wars affirms his Atchievements will rather be admir'd than believed by posterity for with handfuls of those poor unfurnisht people he fought eleven several Battels with Sigismund's numerous well provided and fresh recruited Armies and in all of them came off victorious nay though in one of them he lost his other Eye and so was blind yet afterwards he continued no less fortunate a Leader so that at last Sigismund despairing to vanquish him but by a Treaty consents to declare him his Lieutenant and allow him a Pension on condition he and his followers would
quâ sine maculâ peccato processisti c. Blessed be St. Anne thy mother of whom without spot or sin thou didst proceed c. Where are now the Dominicans who Preached the contrary Doctrine the most Holy most infallible Monster you see has concluded the point against them Next came Pius the 3 d in the year 1503. he was an Old decripite fellow and lived not above a month then upstarts that Hector Julius the second for before ever the Cardinals met he had made his Party by Bribes and fair promises and so without ever shutting the doors of the Consistory was declared Pope his first business was to Marry a Bastard Girle he had named Felix to one of the Vrsini and his next was to drive the French out of Italy he took Cesena and Forolivio from Caesar Borgia the Son of Pope Alexander the 6 th Expell'd the Family of Bentivogli with their Wives and Children out of Bononia Excommunicated the Venetians and gave their Lands to the first that could take them Interdicted Alphonso Duke of Ferrara and made open War against him because he took part with the French and went in person to the seige of Mirandula And passing once over the Bridge of Tyber with a naked sword in his hand he flung the Keys into the River which gave occasion to that Epigram Hic Gladius Pauli nos nunc defendit ab Hoste Quandoquidem Clavis nil suvat ista Petri. Since Peter's Keys with Foes can not prevail This sword of Paul to save us shall not fail And Monstrelet the Historian thus describes him He left the Chair of St. Peter and took upon him the Title of Mars the God of War displaying in the field his Triple Crown and spending his Nights in the Watch. What a goodly sight was it to see the Mitres Crosses and Crosier staves Flying up and down the Field sure no Divels could be there where Benedictions were sold so cheap Upon this Lewis of France and Maximilian the Emperour resolve to call a Council at Pisa and to summon this Pope thither as being notoriously scandalous incorrigible a Fomenter of Wars and altogether unfit for the Popedome and though the Pope used means to take off the Emperour yet Lewis persisted and caused certain Medals to be Coyned upon which was Inscribed these words Perdam Babylonem I will destroy Babylon and on some of them perdam Babylonis nomen I will destroy the Name of Babylon By which 't is evident he meant Rome so that the notion of its being Babylon is neither new nor set on foot by Protestants though 't is true his Holiness was herewith so much offended that by his Bull he took away from the French King the Title of Most Christian and offer'd the same to Henry the 8 th of England then one of the Popes white Boy 's on whom afterward was bestow'd that of defender of the Faith but God be thanked our Protestant Brittish Monarchs as they yet usually retain the one so they may justly when they shall think fit assume the other without being beholding to a raskally Divels Priest for either of them In opposition to the Council of Pisa Pope Julius sets up a Conventicle under that name in the Lateran at Rome who Excommunicate the other folks and damn all their proceedings but â—n the heat of their Carier Julius dies on whom those that knew him bestow'd these Epigrams Fraude capit totum Mercator Julius Orbem Vendit enim Caelos non habet Ipse tamen By fraud that Huckster Julius scrapes up pelf For Heaven he sells yet hath it not himself And again Genui tui Patrem Genitricem Graecia Partum Pontus unda dedit nunc Bonus esse potest Fallaces Ligures mendax est Grecia Ponto Nulla fides in te haec singula Jule tenes From Genua and Greece his Parents blood At Sea he had his Birth can he be good The Genoe's alway false Greeks Liars be Faithless the Sea all Julius meet in thee In a word the Popedome of Julius was so imperious and barbarous that the Cardinals were upon the point of â—â—â—ding the next that should sucâ—eed in that See to the good behaviour and prescribing certain Râ—les whereby â—e should Act but what a pretty Torisme is it to hedge in a Cuckow guide Infallibility and bound the perrogative of the Chair which according to modern Casuists is unliâ—iâ—table he dyed in the year 1513 in the 10 th year of his pontificate and the greatest Enology that Ouuphrius himself can bestow on him is that he was Bellicâ Gloriâ plusquam pontificem deceret Clarus More famous for war like Glory than became a Pope The next was John de Medicis a very pretty forward Child for he got to be an Archbishop almost before he had left his Go-Cart and at Thirteen years of age was made a Cardinal and at 37 arriv'd at the Popedome by the name of Leo the 1â— th On his Coronation day he spent an Hundred Thousand Dâ—â—â—tes and in one morning the Colledge of Cardinals câ—nsenting say our Author for fear not of free will he Created one and Thirty Cardinals amongst whom were two of his Nephews He continu'd the Council of Lateran conven'd by his Predecessor and extinguisht that of Pisa he exacted great summs of mony throughout all Europe by his Legates under pretence of making War against the Turks and his Prodigality causing continual want he used saith Guiccardine very licentiously the Authority of the Holy See and spread abroad throughout all the World without any difference of times and places most ample Indullgences not only to succour the Living but also to deliver the Souls of the departed out of the pains of Purgatory And it being notorious that such Indulgences were granted only to rook people of their mony there arose thereby many scandals especially in Germany where his Ministers for a very small price sold these braided Wares and in Taverns play'd away at Dice the power of delivering Souls out of Purgatory and the money thus raised he gave to his Sister Magdalene who appointed the Bishop of Arembauld her Commissary for that business which place he executed with exceeding great Covetousness and Extortion so that Preachers were not asham'd to publish in their Pulpits that at the sound of the mony as it was cast into their Bason the Souls skipp'd for joy amidst the flames and presently flew out of Purgatory and that whoever gave 10 Soulz might deliver thence what Soul he pleased but if there was but one farthing less they would do nothing These horrible abuseâ—s being thus daily without all shame committed it pleased God to raise up Martin Luther who first began to inveigh only against such exorbitant Indnlgences about the year 1516. but afterwards the Pope instead of Reformation sending forth his Thunderbolts against him he grew more wearily to scan the Doctrines of the Roman Church and so open'd a way for the Reformation which hence may properly bare date and therefore here as an happy and very proper period we shall give a Conclusion to this 4 th Volume SOLI GLORIA SOLA DEO The COURANT. Tory. THe truth is 't was a great disappointment and has utterly spoil'd the wit of an Health to Blewcap but are not your Whiggs at Chichester most abominable Varlets to Massacre our Reverend Father's Jades at this rate Truem. Yes indeed Nat Thomson and L'Estrange I see resolve to make Martyrs of the poor Beasts one of the Roman Emperours made his Horse Lord Mayor and an Ass you know tutor'd the Prophet why then may not an Episcopal Steed be Sainted We men of Kent I remember got long-tails by being uncivil to Bishop Beckets Nag and who knows what heavy Judgments may befall these Clowns of Sussex for such a damnable Plot against Old Roan or sorrell Ecclesiastick but the truth is all the whole story is a Ly the Phanaticks kill'd my Lord the Bishops Horses no more than they burnt London and yet Roger L'Estrange has charg'd them with both Tory. Well! let the Horses go to the Dogs oâ—ly as long unburied as the fellow did a few years ago but in the mean time what can you say touching the man that was slain there the other day Truem. There was a fellow fit for the Imployment that took upon him to be an Informer but staying too long after the Brandy bottle the Meeting it seems was broke up this loss of a Jobb and the Liquor together enrag'd him to that degree that he must needs break a worthy Gentleman's Windows whose Coachman going out to enquire the cause of that Burglary the Informer not only abus'd his Master with vile Language but assaulted the Coachman who in his own defence laid him in the Kennell but no sooner had he recover'd his Leggs but away he runs to the Man 's you wot on to make his sad Complaint how he had suffer'd by the Whigs for serving the Church Into the Celler he is carryed for a Cup of Benediction and Consolation and being Drunk before adds to the debauch and so good Night Now this accident is to be fill'd to the Dissenters account and you must needs believe that he dyed by means of the scuffle between him and the Coachman But pray tell us what makes Squire Hodge so desparately mad with the Parliaments and fall so foul on their priviledges at this juncture I hope we are not like to have one this Winter Tory. No no Hang 'um we all hate the very name the Popes Holiness himself would be as well pleas'd to hear of a General Council as we of a Parliament You see Roger aforesaid makes it Rebellion and half seas over to Forty one to expect an annual Parliament though there are a Brace or two of as fair laws for it as any in the Statute Book Truem. I never wonder to hear naughty Boys rail against Birch no doubt the Gentleman's Journey to Holland cost him Mony and he may be allow'd now to swagger don't you remember how the Collier huffâ— against the Mayor when he was got out of the Liberties Tory. Yes but his saying 'tother day that Rebellion always attended the Reformation was a little to broad I left a note last Night at Sam 's to caution him to more prudence for if he go on at this rate the people will conclude him a Papist though Prance should never make a word on 't Printed for Langley Curtis 1682.