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A07760	The anatomie of popish tyrannie wherein is conteyned a plaine declaration and Christian censure, of all the principall parts, of the libels, letters, edictes, pamphlets, and bookes, lately published by the secular-priests and English hispanized Iesuties, with their Iesuited arch-priest; both pleasant and profitable to all well affected readers.	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1603 (1603)	STC 1814; ESTC S101424	145,503	220

Pope their popish faction From which and all treasonable practises good Lord deliuer vs Amen A profitable and compendious appendice for the better confirmation of the Reader VVHosoeuer can and will seriously peruse the printed volumes of many famous writers of great account and high estéeme euen in the Church of Rome cannot but behold as in a glasse of Christall that the late Romish religion commonly called of the people the olde religion is but a newly coyned religion and by piece-meale crept into the Church I say the late Romish religion because the ancient Roman religion was in déed sincere and agréeable to the holy scripture but the late Romish religion is quite contrary to the same This I proue by two means first by late practicall experience for that the institution or papall Bull by which an Arch-priest is designed the gouernour ouer the Cleargie and laitie ouer all England is a thing neuer hard of before in the Church of God as the priests themselues do willingly truly grant this is confirmed by the late order of the Capuchenes who affirme thēselues to be nothing else but only reformed Franciscans as the secular priests doe know and can it not denie For as the Francans did by little and little neglect and abolish the ancient rules of their order and brought into their societie nouelties and new deuises in stead therof and therefore were reformed by the Capuchenes and called home again to their old setled rules euen so the late bishops of Rome haue neglected and swarued from the ancient doctrine of the primitiue Church and brought into the Church nouelties new deuises of their owne inuention in stead thereof and therfore godly and zealous princes endeuour to reforme the Church and to abolish such superstitious nouelties after the examples of Iosaphat Ezechias and other godly kings of Iuda Wherof I haue discoursed more at large in my booke intituled the golden ballance Secondly by the flat testimonies of best approued popish writers The great learned popish scholeman Spanish fryer Victoria writetth in this maner paulatim ad hanc c. By little little we are brought to these inordinate dispensations to this so miserable state where we are neither able to endure our owne griefs nor remedie assigned for the same And therefore must we perforce inuent some other way for conseruation of the lawes Giue me Clements Lines Siluesters and I will commit all things to their charge But to speake nothing grieuously against these latter Popes they are doubtles inferiour to Popes of old time by many degrées Loe heere gentle reader the Popes owne renowned doctor and professed frier telleth vs plainly that the bishops of Rome in his time were not like the bishops of ●o●●er ages but did degenerate from the ancient doctrine and discipline of the Church He telleth vs in like manner that this deflection from the truth was not done all at once but was brought by little and little into the Church Thus you see or may see that the doctrine I teach is the selfesame which I receiued from the best learned papists The Popes famous Canonist Covaruvias writeth to the same effect in these words ne● me latet c. neither am I ignorant that S. Thomas affirmeth after great deliberation that the bishop of Rome cannot with his dispensation take away from monks their solemne vow of chastitie This notwithstanding we must defend the first opinion least those things which are practised euery where be turned vp side downe Thus writeth Coueruvias out of whose doctrine many godly profitable lessons may be learned First that the papists cannot agree about the Popes authority Secondly that great learned papists among whom Thomas Aquinas is one whose doctrine sundry Popes haue confirmed to be sound do denie the Popes authoritie in the premisses Thirdly that the contrarie opiniō must be defended for the honesty safegard of the Popes pretensed soueraigntie Fourthly that most miserable is the Popes religion which stand in need of such poore and beggerly shifts for the vpholding maintenance therof Fiftly that the papists haue no cause to exclaime against the mariage of priests seeing the Pope dispenseth with his owne munks to marry at their pleasure Sixtly that the doctrine of Aquinas which the Pope himselfe hath approued doth vtterly ruinate and batter to the ground the lately inuested religion of the Church of Rome Now for the better satisfaction of the ignorant I will heere briefely recount the originall of the chiefest points and articles in the late Romish religion First the Church-seruice was made in the vulgar tongue euery where in the old ancient and primitiue Church Secondly popish primacie began in the yeare 607. and that by the tyrannie of the Emperour Phocas at the earnest suit of Boniface then bishop of Rome third of that name Thirdly the Popes pardons were neuer heard of vntill the yeare 1300. Fourthly the mariage of priests was not prohibited till the yeare 385. at which time Siritius then bishop of Rome made a wicked law in that behalfe Fiftly popish ●urgatory tooke not root in the Romish Church till the yeare 250. Sixtly popish pilgrimage began in the yeare 420. Seuēthly the merit of works de condigno was disputable about the yeare 1081. Eightly the popish inuocation of Saints adoration was not known or heard of til the yeare 350. Ninthly the communion vnder both kinds was neuer thought vnlawful till the yere 1414. Tenthly the Popes Buls were not authenticall till the yeare 772. Eleuenthly auricular confessiō was not established till the yeare 1215. Twelftly generall co●ncels were euer summoned by the Emperours Thirteenthly the popish English Archpriest began his new no religion in the yeare 1006. and that by the tyranny treasons of the Iesuites All these important points are soundly proued in my booke of Suruey whither I referre the gentle reader for better satisfaction in that behalfe God grant that these my painfull studies may tend to his glory and the common good of his Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Table Alphabeticall conteyning the principall matters handled in this worke The letter P. signifieth the Page and the letter V. noteth the verse A ALlen the Cardinall was a traytour Page 93. Vers. 7. p. 92 vers 28. Allen set forth a trayterous booke pag. 108. vers 5. Allen iustified Sir William Stanleyes treason pag. 13. vers 19. pag. 166. p. 167. Arch-priest setteth vp a new religion pag. 89. v. 8. p. 179. v. 30. Arch-priest a traytor pag. 89. vers 8. Arch-priest is an Idoll pag. 104. vers 2. Arden and Someruile See treason Authors true dealing in this discourse pag. 1. vers 7. B BLackwell raigneth as a prince Page 104. vers 7. Bookes written by Parsons are traytorous pag. 173. ve 7. pag. 80. vers 7. pag. 106. vers 9. Bishop of Cassana prayed for by the Iesuites pag. 20. ver 21. Bellarmine against the messengers pag. 152.

of Constance and one of the best account in the same councell Out of whose words I gather many verie excellent documents well worthie to be written in golden letters First that no Christian is bound to beléeue the decrée definition determination or resolution of the Pope as he is barely and precisely Pope or Bishoppe of Rome without the assistance of a generall councell Secondly that the Pope may erre both priuately and publikely in resolutions of faith aswell as other bishops and ministers of the Church Thirdly that the Pope is subiect to a generall councell and may be controlled by the same Fourthly that the contrarie opinion is a flat heresie condemned in the councell of Constance Fiftly that an inordinate affection to the bishoppe of Rome withdraweth many men from the truth of Christs Gospell Sixtly that a generall councell is so aboue the Pope that it hath power and lawful authoritie to depose the Pope for any notorious crime whatsoeuer Which authoritie saith this great papist was practised and de facto put in execution both in Pope Iohn the 12. and in Pope Iohn the 23. of that name Seuenthly that a generall councell hath full power to compell a Pope lawfully elected to the place to renounce and forsake the popedome and to giue place to him whom the councell shall appoint Eightly that if the pope shall withstand the councell and refuse to obey the decrées and constitutions thereof he must be excommunicated and reputed as an Ethnicke and publican Ninthly that a generall councell may be summoned and kept without consent of the pope that is both lawfully elected and then liuing Tenthly that the Church or a generall councell is a rule set downe by the holy Ghost and giuen vs by Christ to which all people aswell the pope as others must yeeld obedience or else be as the ethnicks and publicans Eleuenthly that neither the pope nor any one man vpon earth is or can be an infallible iudge in matters of faith Twelftly that the iudgement which we must rest vpon in all controuersies of faith and religion is eyther the vniuersall Church or a lawful generall councell This is sound and most Catholike doctrine though procéeding from the penne of a great papist Which doctrine as the councell of Constance did approue so do I embrace the same with all my heart humbly thanking God that by the mightie power of his truth our aduersaries are enforced to deliuer vs the truth against themselues This doctrine is proued more at large in my my booke of Motiues and in my Suruey in many places also of this present volume euen by the confession of the priests vnawares and shall be confirmed God willing in my Golden ballance of triall now readie to the presse Aduiso XII Of the tolleration expected by the Seculars TOuching the toleration which the secular priests ayme at I will only put downe the reasons which perswade me that it cannot stand with the peaceable gouerment of this land referring the decision thereof as appertayneth to the graue consideration of higher powers The same toleration is no lesse daungerous in the kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland a poynt that would not be forgotten The first reason In the booke which Cardinall Allen published in his owne name when the inuasion of England was chiefely intended with the cruell massacre of her Maiesties sacred person in the yeare 1588. which booke the Iesuites partly framed to his hands they first make their entrance into their discourse with a most odious and shamefull declaration against her Maiestie thereby to stirre vp her subiects hearts to contempt of her highnes and to make her beholden euerie where for odious both to God to the world and to all good men Secondly in that booke the Cardinall and the Iesuites threaten the nobilitie gen●rie and all the rest of the inhabitants of this kingdome with losse of all their goods their lands their liues and with damnation besides except that presently vpon the landing of the Spaniards they ioyned themselues and all their forces men munition victuals and whatsoeuer else they could make with that Catholike armie The words of that booke be these if you will auoid say they the popes the kings and other princes high indignation let no man of what degree soeuer obey abet aide defend or acknowledge her c. adding that otherwise they should incurre the Angels curse malediction be as déeply excōmunicated as any because y● in taking her maiesties part they should fight against God against their lawful king against their country Ergo the Iesuites are vnfit men to enioy any toleration in a well managed commonweale And whatsoeuer I say of Iesuites cōcerning this toleratiō I vnderstand y● same indifferently of the secular priests My reasons mouing me therunto are manifold First because Cardinal Allen with whose opiniō all the seculars did euer iumpe put his owne hand to this shamelesse abhominable libell Secondly because many of the secular priests were in the campe as is said in the same article which is quoted in the margent Thirdly Because Ballard the secular priest did at his comming ouer about the yeare 1586. deliuer a like message to al reconciled persons buzzing into their eares to acknowledge the quéen of Scotland for their soueraigne Fourthly because all the seculars professe their obedience to the Pope and are still deuoted to him euen as they were before Fiftly because the seculars iumpe with the Iesuites in all things concerning the Popes authoritie as is alreadie proued The second reason Many nobles and others in high esteeme and authoritie vnder her maiesties are secretly entered into league on the behalfe of the Spaniard and that by procurement of the Iesuites as I haue proued in the eight aduiso Ergo the Iesuits and seculars are vnfit men to enioy and toleration in a well managed common weale The third Reason All papists must imploy their persons and forces by the Popes direction how farre when and where either at home or abroade as men bound in conscience to further all warres for religion and to breake with their temporall soueraigne at the Popes appointmēt This is proued preamble 18. Ergo Iesuites and Seculars c. The fourth Reason The King of Spaine plotteth and by Iesuiticall faction resolueth to proceede where his father left against England And for this ende sundry persons are sent into England to be agents in that behalfe This is proued preamb. 19. Ergo. The fift Reason The seculars confesse in plaine termes that the penall statutes are iustly made against them this is proued in the seuenth aduiso Ergo vnfit men to haue a toleration The sixt Reason The seculars commend the pope for taking the English diademe from the king and highly approue the dissoyal fact of Cardinall Pandulphus in kéeping the said English crowne three dayes vpon his heade in the Popes right Ergo. c. This is proued in the first aduiso in the second reason The seuenth

court of Rome And yet vnwitingly they condemne themselues in an other place graunting that they may not by worde or writing impugne the parliamentall Lawes of this land Thirdly by not appealing they should haue beene preiudiciall to prince Church and all estates as is in the second obseruation but not to the prince Church or State of England ergo to the prince Church and State of Rome for of force they must so meane the force of trueth hath inforced their penne Fourthly they appealed for her Maiesties securitie as is in the third obseruation where I cannot enough admire the impudent insolencie of these disloyall Seculars who make a treacherous flowrish as if the securitie of their dread Soueraigne did depend vpon their Popes good pleasure and their treacherous appeale vnto him Herein they make hauocke other Maiesties statute-lawes which els where by popish statization and equinocation they say they may not offend A note worthy to be remembred Fifthly they appealed for the quiet of the state which is as disloyally spoken as the former for God auert that the peace of her Maiesties state and her Realmes do at any time stand in neede of the Popes fauour the intreatie of the sedicious Seculars Sixtly they appealed for the auoydance of inuasions and conspiracies as is in the fi●th obseruation out of which confession I inferre these two important corollaries First that conspiracies and inuasions are still intended against her sacred person her royall throne her crowne her state and dominions Secondly that the Pope is the principall actor in all plots conspiracies treacheries inuasions and conquests intended against the Queen her realms and faithfull subiects I therefore conclude that the Seculars are this day as dangerous in al treasonable plots bloody practizes and disloyall conspiracies as they haue beene heretofore For albeit they belabour themselues seriously to hide and bolster out all their cursed intendements against their dread soueraigne and natiue Countrey especially when they are occasioned to speake of matters of state as they doe or may concerne their owne persons yet doe they but equiuocate and temporize in so doing and that as scornefully and treacherously as euer did the Iesuites Of which point none can be ignorant that shall seriously peruse and ponder this discourse Wherefore as the Seculars say of the Iesuites so say I of them that though they sweare can yet we not safely beleeue them in state-affairs the reason is euident because they doe not acknowledge any magistrate vnder her Maiestie to be their lawfull and competent iudge If they say write or sweare the contrary yet giue no credite to them therein for euen then doe they seeke to delude the Magistate by their hypocriticall and execrable equiuocations No no it neither doth nor can stand with popish religion to thinke and beleeue that Queen Elizabeth whom God long preserue ouer vs can ordeine any competent iudge ouer them And consequently vntill the Seculars renounce the Pope and his damnable procéedings against Christian kings their royal diademes and sacred regalities they will doubtlesse delude the maiestrates with their fondely inuented equiuocationes This is a graue aduiso which may not beforgotten Aduiso V. Of the opinion affection and true meaning of the seculars in all the treasonable practises bloudie conspiracies and other disloyall intendmentes against their dread soueraigne and natiue countrie THe seculars conspire concurre and iumpe with the Iesuites in opinion affection and inward meaninge touching the Popes authoritie the bloudie conspiracies inuasions conquest other disloyall intendments against most noble Queene Elizabeth and our natiue country this I proue by manie strong weightie and irrefragable reasons The first reason The pretenses of such practises were generall and common to all Catholikes alike all maintaining one the same opinion concerning what might be done by Apostolical power authoritie neuer talking of what was necessarie Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. but the seculars are papists aswell as the Iesuites Ergo of the same opinion with the Iesuites Heere the reader may see plainely that the seculars iumpe with the opinion of the Iesuits touching the popes authoritie For by apostolicall power they vnderstand the power and authoritie of the Pope To which must be added which is alreadie proued that the Pope hath excommunicated her Maiesty de facta and hath beene the chiefest agent in all treasonable practises bloodie conspiracies inuasions conquests and other execrable intendments against her Maiesties person honour state and dominions To this must likewise be added which is also proued that the Iesuites affirme malepeartly damnablie and disloyally that the Pope hath done nothing in the premisses but that he lawfully might doe The second Reason Among many examples of the deare loue and compassion of the Popes holines towards the inhabitants and princes of this land in times of imminent commonwealths dangers the chiefe since the Norman conquest was shewed in the daies and raignes of king Henrie the second surnamed Fitzempresse and of his sonne king Iohn the third Monarke of England of a Plantagenets royall race Against whom hauing vsed his fatherly correction as pastor vnivniuersall ouer the whole flocke of Christ for their great crueltie and tyrannie vsed towards their naturall subiects yet vpon their repentance mercifully receiuing them into grace and fauour of Gods Church againe his holines on the behalfe of the second did not onely accurse and excommunicate prince Lewis of France with all his adherents forcing him to yeeld vp all the interest right and title that he or his posteritie had or euer should haue to the English crowne but also surrendred vp the said crowne of England franke and free to king Iohn and his heires and successours from of the head of Cardinall Pandulphus hauing sit inthronized three daies therewith in the Popes right And thousands there are in England that desire as much Thus is it written quodl 8. art 9. page 327. Out of these words it is euidently deduced that the Pope taketh vpon him though most iniuriously and tyrannically to translate kingdomes to depose kings Emperours and Monarkes and to bestow their princely Diademes and royall regalities as seemeth best to his good pleasure Yea which is more to be admired the seculars who in outward shew of words by often and earnest protestations affirme themselues to be most loyall subiects approue the Pope in so doing For first where the Pope had excommunicated and deposed king Henry they terme it his fatherly correction Secondly they say he did it by his vniuersall authority ouer the whole Church Thirdly they terme the deposing of prince Lewis and the restoring of king Iohn to the crowne the chiefest fatherly compassion since the Norman cōquest Fourthly they tell vs that Cardinall Pandulphus was three daies enthronized with the crowne of England vpon his head in the right of the Pope which forraine tyrannicall fact they commend approue Fiftly they tell vs that