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A07344	An antidote against popery confected out of scriptures, fathers, councels, and histories. Wherein dialogue-wise are shewed, the points, grounds, and antiquitie of the Protestant religion; and the first springing vp of the points of popery: together with the Antichristianisme thereof. Being alone sufficient to inable any Protestant of meane capacitie, to vnderstand and yeeld a reason of his religion, and to incounter with and foyle the aduersary. By Iohn Mayer, B.D. and pastor of the Church of little Wratting in Suffolke.	Mayer, John, 1583-1664.	1625 (1625)	STC 17729; ESTC S102861	69,172	94

Betweene Anno 1200 Hist Magd. Cent. 13. c. 2. and 1300 Gulielm de Sancto amers was banished for an heretike and had his bookes burnt and Robert Grosted Bishop of Lincolne greatly opposed the Pope Between An. 1300 and 1400 was Iohn Wickliffe professor of diuinitie in Oxford who opposed the Pope in sundry points Hist Magd. Cent. 14. And out of Greece came diuers by reason of the Turkish tyranny amongst whom Marsilius Patauinus was of most note he maintained that the Pope had no power ouer other Bishops much lesse ouer Kings Armachanus an Archb. in Ireland and Iohannes de Rupeseissa were of the same opinion also And after this Iohn Husse and Ierome of Prague with almost all the country of Bohemia were famous for standing for the truth Serg. Paul But these were but a few in an age neither could they make a Church how hapned it that there were no more till Wickliffes time Paul Where Bishops and learned teachers haue been stirred vp to stand for the truth there is no doubt but as lights of the world they did inlighten many more though they be to vs vnknowne Neither was the mysterie of iniquity growne to that height till about Wickliffes time and the dayes of the succeeding Worthies so that the Romane religion was not altogether so dangerous but now they being almost quite gone from Christ their superstitious deuotion increasing towards the Virgin Mary and the rest of the Saints satisfying for a mans owne sins in part being taught and the merit of workes and freedome of will set vp and the assurance of faith condemned and such horrible idolatry with the Masse more then euer committed they which had the Spirit of God in any measure within them could no longer forbeare but in great companies vtterly separate from the Church of Rome lest whilst they would bee worshippers of Christ they should become limmes of Antichrist to the destruction of their soules Elymas Nay rather are ye now become limmes of Antichrist by following Martin Luther a Monke that brake his Vow and maried a Nunne was of a notorious wicked life and had consultation with the Deuill and so went to the Deuill at the last and by following King Henry 8 a man so sensuall and tyranicall for these and such like were your leaders to this Schisme and not any good Spirit as yee pretend Paul In seeking to wound the truth through the sides of these men you doe but according to your accustomed manner it being one of the Pillars of your Religion to lay slanderous imputations vpon your Aduersaries as a late Writer of ours hath notably shewed Willet Tetrastul Papismi But as for Martin Luther it is well knowne that he was a man of great zeale for the truth and succeeded accordingly your Pope and all your power not being able to lay violent hands vpon him but that hee was preserued to dye in peace If there were any thing taxable in him in what holy man hath there not beene likewise it is no preiudice to the truth which hee stood for no more then Saint Pauls forepassed persecuting and blaspheming was to the Gospel And for King Henry 8 God can vse any instrument to beat down the pride of such an enemy as the Pope as be vsed Nebuchadnezzar to chastice idolatrous Iudah and the Syrian Presidents and Romane Emperours to destroy Christs enemies and to abrogate the legall seruice by burning vp the Temple and yet this made nothing the more for the credit of the Iewes Religion or discredit of the Christian thus aduanced But because you haue giuen mee so iust occasion I say that if the wickednesse and miscrable ends of chiefe erectors of any Religion be an argument of a bad religion as vndoubtedly it is the Religion of the Church of Rome is abundantly conuinced to bee such seeing so many Poper haue beene so notoriously wicked and perished so miserably and such apparant iudgements haue beene executed vpon others that hath holpen to aduance it Gregory the third who drew vp the Popedome to such a high pin was a most wicked man for when Phocas who had murthered Mauricius Platina and was therefore greatly taxed by the Patriarke of Constantinople for which hee was much offended with him hee sent his image to Rome and Gregory receiued it honourably and flattereth with this parricide but inioyed not long the honour of vniuersall Bishop thus attained for he dyed within nine moneths after And Phocas the founder of the primacy proued soone after a slothfull beast Pompon Latus Paul Diacon cruelly murthering many of the Nobles rauishing many Matrons and Virgins wallowing in dayly drunkennesse and acocrdingly was rewarded For hee was taken by Priscus and Heracleon and his hands being fast cut off then his priuy member he was beheaded and his body burnt in a brazen Bull R. Barus supplem Chron. Nancl. and all his posterity destroyed with him Siluester the second was a Coniurer and was slaine by the Deuil Iob. Marius when he was saying Masse in the Chappell of the Crosse of Ierusalem Iohn the 13 committed Incest with two of his Sifters and was slaine at the last in the act of Adultery Gregory the seuenth put out the eyes of Iohn the 15 and killed him with famine in the Castle of Saint Angelo that he might reigne in his stead and hauing laboured mightily to aduance the papall Sea he was shortly cut off by a sudden death and his body was drawne by the feet through the streets Fascic Temp. Otho 1. and pierced with speares by the Romanes Whereupon the History called Fosciculus tempor●● noreth that the Bishops of Rome were now adayes slaine as in the Primitiue Church but were not made Martyrs as they there was the like death but not the like cause thy suffered as wailde lambes following the Lambr Christ Plat. vit pontif these as ran●●ing Wolues an empting a new Empire Gregory the ninth dyed in despaise Boniface the eighth dyed of madnesse Paul the second hauing yoted as much as euer did Hesiegabalus dyed of an Apoplexy Alexander the sixt committed Incest with his owne daughter whom also he maried to his sonue Pasquil Natal comes Hist l. 4. and was at the last poysoned by him Pius the fourth dyed in the very bosome of his Concubine Paul the third when he had waxed old in a filthy course of life dyed crying out my sinne is alwayes against mee And what should I reckon vp more whoso desireth to read further of them let him looke into Pelanus Dan. part 2. p. 467 and Parker of the Grosse who sheweth what whores and Ganimedes by name seuerall Popes haue had Sergius had Marozia Gregory the seuenth Matildis Alexander the sixt Lucretia all their daughters or Sisters Sextus the fourth had for his Ganimede Riarius Iulius the second Germanus Leo the tenth Hypolitus Iulius the third Innocentius c. And Napier who in his exposition vpon the Rouelation

reckoneth vp the number of most notorious wicked Popes Napier Reuel p. 138. There haue beene thirteene adulterers Three common Stewes-haunters foure incestuous persons eleuen Sodomiticall persons seuen erectors of Stewes and two and twenty Necromancers And Henricus Echartus who in his booke called Papa Pharisaizans reckoneth vp the vilest heresies wherwith Popes haue been tainted Some Sadduces some Montanists Arrians Nestorians Eutychians and Epicures and patrons of wickednesse Innocent 4 defended for gold any luxury in the Clergie Sixtus 4 gaue liberty of Sodometry to the Cardinals Alexander 4 sent into England for money absolution to all periured and wicked persons Serg Paul Are these things true is it possible that so many monsters should sit in the Apostolike chaire yet it is true the office doth not priuiledge from sinne alse Iudas being an Apostle should not haue been a Deuill As Iudas therefore was no preiudice to the Apostolicall office no more it may bee are some wicked Popes to the religion by them maintained Else by the like reason the wickednesse of some of your Bishops Ministers would be an argument against your religion Paul For the truth of these things I haue alledged my authors who in these sifting times would not haue written thus if they could haue been disproued And howsoeuer the wickednesse of ordinary persons of the Clergy or Laity cannot minister an argument against their religion yet when one that is aboue all as an Oracle giueth Edicts to all and guideth the ship as he pleaseth is noto●iously wicked there needs no greater argument of a wicked religion Because the religion professed by vs is not founded vpon the Bishop or Minister but vpon Gods Word but the religion of the Church of Rome is founded vpon the Pope seeing it is their common Plea that their Church is founded vpon S. Peter and his successors Such then as the Pope is such must the religion built vpon him needs bee for so much as the building alwayes standeth and falleth with the foundation It is a silly shift to say he may erre as he is a man in manners but not as Pope in doctrine For what ground can there be that the holy Ghost will dwell to direct in the truth vpon all occasions in a nasty sty of vncleane spirits For how is the holy Spirit if not by abominable sinnes quenched and chaced away It is a priuiledge of such as feare God Psal 25.12 to be directed in the right and not of Balaam or Caiaphas though they might ex●raordinarily prophesie as Balaams Asse spake Elywas You must not thinke yet to beare vs down thus as Antichristian and abominable in our religion no no although all were as you haue said yet wee want not the strongest argument of all which must stop all mouths the very finger of God which hath often manifested it selfe miracles wrought at Saints sepulchres and images by exorcising of Priests to the casting out of Deuils by Crosses and Holy Water vvhich haue often put the Deuill to flight and almost all points of our religion haue beene confirmed by miraculous reuelations to some holy persons of vnsuspected credit who haue vpon their faith affirmed the same Paul These miracles make much on your side indeed to proue your religion Antichristian Thes Reuel and your Pope Antichrist seeing it is said that he should come with lying wonders and should cause fire to come downe from heauen to these ducing of many Miracles indeed had their vse in the first propagating of the Gospell 1 Cor. 14. but they were for vnbeleeuers smce they haue ceased as needlesse euen as to vse the similitude of Gregory the husbandman hauing newly planted an Orchard watereth it But when it is well rooted hee watereth it no more Deut. 23. If any giue a signe amongst the people of God to proue any new matter in religion not propounded in the vvritten Word of God hee is pronounced a false Prophet Moreouer many of your miracles haue been proued coosenages by which we may ghesse what the rest are and for reuelations they may well bee counted rather delusions of Satan who is ready to tempt men according to their humours and superstitious Monkes to more superstitions Serg. Paul Are miracles then of so little force now What meaneth our Saniour Christ when hee maketh this a signe of the true faith Mark 16.17 He that beleeueth these signes shall follow he shall cast out Deuils lay his hands vpon the sicke and heale them c. Paul Miracles were very frequent indeed then as was needfull but it was not to bee expected that these signes should follow alwayes when al countreys and Nations being conuerted the truth had gotten other sufficient testimonie vvithout signes Onely God doth something miraculously oftentimes for the credit of his Gospell in all ages as by punishing extraordinarily the enemies of his truth and blessing such as fauour it Thus the persecuting Emperors vvere extraordinarily iudged and the first Christian Emperor extraordinarily blessed in that they all for the space of three hundred yeares liued most turbulent liues had most vnquiet estates and almost all of them suffered by violent deaths after a short raigne but Constantine the first Christian Emperour liued long was euery where victorious and then reigned in peace and dyed in peace And of these miracles blessed be God we are full in this kingdome for Queene Mary that stood for Poperie had but a short time was extraordinarily disappointed of the hoped for successor of her owne body to the amazement of all and so was cut off in the prime of her age But Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory had a long time and the diuine protection did compasse her about as a shield against all treasons and conspiracies so that they were miraculously disappointed and hauing reigned in peace inticht her kingdom more then euer abated the pride of her enemies and mightily succoured other distressed Protestants in a good old age she departed in peace And since that time our gracious King that now raigneth whom God long preserue how miraculously both he and we all vnder him haue beene deliuered and in what peace he hath and doth still gouerne such mighty Nations like another Salomon in such tumultuous times it is so well knowne that I shall not need to speake And that blow which your Religion had at Blacke-Friers October 26 of this yeare by the onely hand of God both Teacher and people to the number of about an hundred persons being suddenly cut off at one of your Sermons and the first that hath beene publike to our Country-men since the suppression of Pope y and that vpon your Nouember 5 at vvhat time our ouerthrow thankes bee to God was in another yeare in vaine attempted that I say the like whereof was neuer heard was a very miracle to the confounding of your superstitions which you thought by degrees to bring in here againe and to crowde out the truth For howsoeuer we are all