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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

vessel of election S. Paul hee saith Now the iustice which is by faith that is the remission of sinnes as S. Paul himselfe expoundeth it in the 4. chap. precedent saith thus say not in thy heart who shall goe vp into heauen that is to bring Iesus Christ againe from aboue Or who shall goe downe into hell that is to recall Iesus Christ from the dead But what saith the Scripture the word of God is neere thee in thy mouth and in thy heart It is the word of faith which we Preach for if thou confessest the Lord Iesus with thy mouth and beleeuest with thy heart that God raised him from the dead thou shalt be saued Then to beleeue we must heare this sacred word of God as the said S. Paul sheweth afterward For by the same the remission of al our sins by the precious bloud of Iesus Christ is declared vnto vs in his name authority if we beleeue This word like wise teacheth vs in all places to pray vnto our onely God 1. Tim. 2. in the name of Iesus Christ exhorteth vs all the dayes of our life to walke worthily Luk. 1. and with a good conscience in the vocation whereunto we are called to liue holily and righteously to labour in good workes Ephe. 4. and not to do vnto another but as we would be done vnto our selues Now for a conclusion the holy Father addeth most goodly demonstrations and exhortations First to the Patriarches Primates c. whom he saith are called to haue part of this ioy And what not to feed the troupe of the celestiall pasture which is the Gospell and bring men to Iesus Christ the soueraigne Pastor of our soules But to incite them to goe to Rome there to finde his holines to visit the Basiliskes of the Princes of the earth S. Peter and S. Paul beholde the word which he will haue them teach and the better to incourage them hee calleth them the lights of the world We must not then be abashed if the world be holden in so great darkenes seeing that such lights are darke full of obscurity Also the salt of the earth yea a salt that is not good but hath lost the sauour corrupteth al the meate that is salted therewith For what example of good doe those kinde of people shew Where shall you finde more riots and dissolutions then in the Courts and houses of these Prelates Read what S. Barnard saith touching those of his time who neuerthelesse were not halfe so corrupt as these in our dayes For that the world is dayly worse and worse how doth this holy Father speake to Pope Eugenius that had bin his Desciple and how doth he paint out these kinde of people in their colours Is this fellow saith he a seruant for the Pope nameth himselfe the seruant of seruantes to whome continually out of all places there repaireth Simoniastes Sacrilegiers whore-mongers incestious persons and such like monsters eyther to obtaine or retaine Ecclesiasticall dignityes Also vpon the Canticles Sermon 77. There are very few saith he that seeke not their owne what so euer it cost them They loue presents and cannot likewise loue Iesus Christ for they haue made a league with Mammon Behold how they walk in proude array apparelled in diuers vestures or of diuers colours like a Bride that issueth out of her chamber c. And after in the same Sermon Whom wilt thou finde me among the Prelates that desireth not rather to empty the purses of those that are their subiectes then to extirpe vices Also in the Epistle 152. the insolency of the Clergy whereof the negligence of the Bishops is the principall occasion doth in all places trouble the Church But you will say that the holy Father admonisheth them of their duties according as he doth his owne yea that which tendeth more to practise that which S. Barnard saith touching the emptying of purses then to represse vices whereof proceedeth the olde prouerbe neuer horse nor man got any thing by going to Rome I would gladly demaund if that be the preaching of the word of God if it bee to beget faithful to the Gospel which is to bring them to Iesus Christ to inuite all the world to goe to Rome there to visit the temples of S. Peter S. Paul the which Saints this holy Father the better to set foorth his Marchandize and to make it of great value calleth the Princes of the earth and saith that they declare the word of God throughout all the world These holy persons neuer once dreamed of such impostures and much lesse did they require them Their holy Epistles are sufficient testimonies to the contrary but hee will adorne them with this goodly tytle to the end that we should vnderstand that he as their successor is the Prince of the earth Also we read of Boniface the eyght that at the first Iubile hauing the first day shewed himselfe in his Pontificall habits the next day he appeared before an infinite number of people armed from the head to the feete by one of his Cryers caused to be proclaimed I am Caesar But who had giuen him this dignity was it Iesus Christ when he saith the Kings of the earth exercise rule and dominion ouer the people but it shal not be so among you Let vs heare what S. Barnard saith in the 2. booke de consideratione to Pope Eugenius Thou hast no need saith hee of Septer but of a Mantle after the manner of the Prophets The name of a Bishop signifieth an office and not Dominion But if thou challenge these things vnto thy selfe by any extraordinary meanes it is nor by any Apostolicall right It is most true that dominion and rule is forbidden vnto the Apostles Goe thou then and be so bolde to vsurpe or rule the Apostles office or being an Apostle the dominion c. This tytle then doth not in any sort belong vnto the Apostles much lesse to theyr successors It is a false pretence which this holy Father would lay holde vpon But if hee would speake the truth hee should rather deriue these titles from sathan as from his leige Signior and Lord from whom he holdeth authority and rule according to the wordes vsed by Sathan to our Lord Iesus Christ if in falling downe vpon the earth thou wilt worship me I will giue thee all the King dowes of the earth For dyuers Popes haue attained to this dignity which they haue left vnto their successors by hauing done homage vnto Sathan the prince of this world And further where doe wee finde that the Apostles haue obtained this dignity that for because they preached the law of God through all the world therefore their Temples must be visited Did not they teach euery one according to that which they had learned of their Master that all those that beleeue in Iesus Christ shal be saued Iesus christ himselfe Ioh. 5. did not he teach that whosoeuer beleeueth in him is passed

AN ANSWERE 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 LONDON Printed by E. Allde for Iohn VVolfe An aduertisement 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 yeere of our Lord. 1600. YOu of the Church of Rome that beare the name of Christians and vaunt your selues to be Catholike members of the Catholike and Apostolike Church adding thervnto the name of Romaine Now it is time that you awake from the profound sleepe wherein long time you haue continued and open your eies in a manner blinded with the obscurity of errors where with you haue continually bin nourished and fed by the traditions of worldly men vnder the beautifull tytles which by vsurpation they attribute vnto themselues for if euer you had matter or occasion to acknowledge that the sonne of perdition of whome Saint Paul speaketh in the 2. to the Thess 2. is reuealed and that he sitteth in the Temple of God making himselfe God and vsurping the power and authority that appertaineth onely vnto God yea and lifting vp himselfe aboue that which is called God in that he taketh vpon him to controwle the ordinaunces and decrees of God certainly it is now or else neuer And againe if you will looke narrowly into and examine the contents of the Bull rightly to bee termed a bubble or bottle of water touching the Iubile you shal most manifestly perceiue it God grant you the grace that in truth this yeere may be vnto you the agreeable and peaceable yeere of your saluation and remission of your sinnes in one only Iesus Christ 1. Cor. 1. Act. 4. our wisedome Iustice Sanctification and redemption who is onely giuen vs by the Father to this effect Pope Clement the eyght following the good and commendable custome of his Predecessors as he saith therby the better to strengthen and increase the Kingdome of Antichrist and more and more to bring in subiection the consciences of men vnder his tiranny hath pronounced the Iubile for the yeere of our Lord 1600. adorning and inriching the same with most beautifull tytles the better to cause his Marchandize to be esteemed But as being placed in this seate he is the eldest Sonne of Sathan that he hath rather succeeded Simon Magus then Simon Peter in this pretended authority therfore he beginneth his goodly Bull with a most manifest and open lye And to speake truth he could not otherwise maintaine his trumpery and abhominable errors He saith that the Iubile ought to be celebrated according to the custome within the Citty of Rome because it is found to be so by the auncient traditions c. But he cannot shew that this custome hath bin ordained and appointed by Iesus Christ our great Doctor and onely Master Neither yet that it was euer practised nor put in vse by the Apostles For as the auncient Doctor S. Tertullian saith Iesus Christ saith not I am the custome Against Hermogenes but I am the truth And Saint Ciprian conformable thereunto custome without the truth is the antiquity of error And if wee must onely heare Iesus Christ we must not stay nor lay holde vpon that which any one before vs shall haue esteemed lawfull to be done but vpon that which Christ who is before all men hath first done for wee must not follow the customes of men but the truth of God And althought Clement the eyght saith that this institution hath not proceeded from a vaine superstition but of a pure and religious worshipping Yet can it not be true but cleane contrary for that all whatsoeuer is done without faith is sinne and faith is not grounded vpon the institution and traditions of men but onely vpon the pure word of God So that then it appeareth that the superstition grounded vpon insatiable auarice and immoderate ambition of such as haue attained vnto this Seate haue forged this Iubile after the manner of the secular yeere of the Romaines That is of a certaine Feast and playes which was celebrated euery hundred yeeres within the Citty of Rome among the Pagans as in like manner Candlemas day hath been established by them in place of the Feast which the Pagans vsed to celebrate vpon the same day and with the like ceremonies of Candles and Lights in the honor of their Goddesse Proserpin Marke then how these good Prelates and heades of the Church haue transfigured the feastes of the Pagans into their Papistical Feastes onely changing the names But let vs see the antiquity of the institution of this Bul Platine vpon Boniface 8. Naucler we finde by writing that in Anno 1300. Pope Boniface the eight caused the first Iubile to bee published to the same ende aforesaid as hee said according to the institution mentioned in the olde Testament Gen. 44. and commaunded it to be celebrated euery hundred yeares Beholde the originall of the Iubile edified vpon a good foundation beholde a good successor of the Apostles that taught vs a ful deliueraunce and discharge from the yoake of the cerimonies of the Law and this Pope will inclose and holde vs in a much more straiter seruitude The Iewish Iubile ordained by the expresse commaundement of God was indifferently obserued throughout all Iudea Leuit. 25. not any man for that cause beeing bound to goe vnto Ierusalem And this Pope incloseth it within his Citty of Rome but of that we will speake more heereafter There are then but three hundred yeares fully accomplished since that this inuention hath been established and so by consequence it was not at any time vsed within the precedent 1300. yeares Beholde the great antiquity wherewith these Holy Fathers seeme to fight against vs and by the meanes thereof abuse so many poore people But what is this Boniface of happy memory of whome Clement the eyght is successor If wee may beleeue certaine Historiographers as in truth his entrye into the Papacie all the course of his life and his death manifestly declare he was one that entred like a foxe raigned like a lyō and dyed like a dogge Is he not then a Pope of happye memorye Notwithstanding it is no meruayle though Clement saith so for that the memorie of the most parte of the rest of the Popes is not much better and diuers of them much more abhominable The Historians aforesaid speaking of the wicked acte he had played with this Pope Clement his predecessor which was that after he had perswaded him like a craftie foxe to leaue the Papacie whē this poore Celestine went againe vnto his Hermitage he like a furious lyon caused him to be cast in prison where with griefe he dyed Adde further that this man appeared to be a personage ful of great ingratitude and deceit in this that being prouoked by

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