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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60722	Sodom fair: or, The market of the man of sin Containing, a true account of the prices of the Pope's pardons and dispensations; being a treatise very useful and necessary for all young English papists who intend to take Holy Orders, or travel through Italy; and all such as intend to be cheated both out of their souls and money. To which is added, the history of adultery, as it is now at Rome by law established; with the life of Clement the Sixth, and blasphamous bull which he published for the year of jubele, 1350.		1688 (1688)	Wing S4417AD; ESTC R221570	18,300	35

that whereing formerly she gloried My design is to speak the truth freely without dissimulation that none may justifie themselves But that all Flesh from his pretended Holiness the great Pope to his reputed Wickedness the poor Begger may be sensible of their own unworthiness that every Mouth may be stopped and all the World may become Guilty before God and that these who have escaped the Poyson Snares and Contradictions of Popery may not be intangled again with the Pollutions of the Romish Harlot nor with the Dog turn again to their own Vomit lest being given over to their own obstinacy and delusion their latter end be worse than their first The History of Fornication and Adultery NEver was any Ordinance recommended to Man with more absolute and ample commendation and less occasi of mistake or error than the Ordinance of Marriage GOD himself recommended it to Adam in Paradise as a thing so necessary that he could not well live without it Gen. 2. 18. and so Holy that it could consist with Innocency it self Christ countenanced it and the Apostle in praise of it Heb. 13. 3. said Marriage is honorable among ALL men without exception Now if it be Honourable among all MEN What Creatures are the Romish Clargy to whom it is an unlawful dihonorable and an unclean thing But in short he that calleth it an unclean thing in any respect exalteth his own folly above the wisdom of God and may as well prove the lawfulness of Adultery and Murder from the Sixth and Seventh Commandments as bring any thing like an Argument from Scripture Reason or Convenience for the Doctrine of the Clargy's single Life He that denyeth the Doctrine of the Father and the Son denyeth both the Father and the Son and he is ANTICHRIST saith Iohn that denyeth the Father and the Son. God appointed marriage as a Remedy for our corrupt Nature and an Antidote against Uncleanness But the Roman Baud to enhauce her spiritual Trade of Fornications telleth us that the Remedy is worse than the Disease and giveth the God of truth the Lie For many Romish Clargy-men have been deposed being under suspision of marriage but restored again to their Benefices when they have prov'd their escape only the venial Sin of Fornication Yet was there never any error or Doctrine of Devils as the Apostle who by the Spirit of God foretold of it 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. termeth it established by the Pope of Rome with greater opposition crossing thwarting contest and contradiction than this Act of Vncleanness or the Clargy's single Life one Councel making another marring one Pope doing another undoing the Clargy threatening the Pope and the Pope Cur●ing the Clargy who would not be separate from their Wiv●● and Children nor heartily give over their Benefices Indeed this Mystery of Iniquity is of an old date it began to work about the year 583. For Pelagius then Bisho● of Rome commanded all the Sub-deacons either to 〈◊〉 away their Wives or give over their Ecclesiastical Funct●ons But before he could accomplish his wicked desig● God sent forth such Floods occasioned by violent storms Rain that a great part of Italy was drowned and a Pest●lence called Pestis inguinaria whereof Pelagius with man thousands died to the great joy and rejoycing of the Clargy But his Successour Gregory commonly Sirnamed the Gre●● being a Superstitious Monk who over burthened th● Church with a heavier Yoak of Ceremonies than the Iew were ever able to bear pursued the Doctrine of Adulter with greater violence commanding the Priests to live single or turn out off all they here poslessed Now th● Monk among many doting Decrees ordain'd it lawful for man to eat small but not great Fishes as sayeth Mantua Fast. 2. Yet was it not against the Law To feed on Fishes small For GREGORY forbade the great But time misorder'd all And stately Tables combred are With Fish of larger sort So GREGORY's Laws are kept where need Doth bear a simple port That in the shallow Brooks and Floods c. But on a certain time as Huldericus Bishop of August a wri●eth in a letter to Nicolas the first Gregory sent a Woman catch little Fishes in a Pond where she found six thousan● Heads of Infants which had been therein drowned Whic● Gregory perceiving to be the effect of the Clargy's forc'd singl● Life with sighing and sorrowing he revoked the Canon saying It is better to Marry than to give occasion to Murder or as Huldericus writeth They accompanied not only with Maids Married Women and their own Kindred but with Mankind and the very Bruit Beasts in the Fields This Gregory dyed Anno 604. and the Decree of Adultery was Buried with him till Nicolas the First about the year ●66 rais'd it out off it 's Grave and set it on Foot to chase ●he World to Destruction He no sooner came to the Pope●om than he deposed Iohn Arch-bishop of Ravenna for ●antaining the Antient Liberties of his Bishoprick and ●rought that church in perpetual bondage to the Romish ●yranny Amongst many Acts of Pride Error Ignorance and Superstition he excluded all secular Princes from his Councel commanded the Laity not to judge the Clargy tho' of never so Debauch'd a Life nor dispute the Pope's Power and Aothority and ordain'd that no Christian Magistrate ●hould have power over a Prelate or bring any Clargy-man to Judgment because said he The Pope is called GOD He ●ikewise ordain'd that Divine Service should be said in La●ine but granted by dispensation to the Sclavonians and Polonians to have it in their own Tongue he allowed the Sactaments to be received of wicked Ministers and bound the Clargy to a single life This last decree of Adultery was much opposed by the Clargy and especially the foresaid Huldericus Bishop of Augusta who in the fore mentioned Letter gave him an Account of the six thousand Heads Another told him a Dilemma which I propose now to the Romish Clargy The Marriage of the Clargy whether is it of God or of Man Now if he had said of God then it might have been answered Why then do you abrogate God's Ordinance If he had said of Men Then he had been in danger to be knock'd in the Head both by the Rabble and Clargy for all men looked upon Marriage as Honourable save the Pope ●nd some of his Creatures But whilst these things were in ●gitation His Holiness no sooner had brought forth this Brat of Filthiness than he died Anno 867. from which time till Pope Leo the Ninth who came to the Popedom Anno 1049. ●his Decree of Adultery lay betwixt hot and cold This Leo was the old Serpent that by the Advice of Cardinal Hildebrand whom some term Hell-Brand hatch'd the Coca trice to Perfection or rather Defection For calling a Councel at Maguntia he utterly condemned the Marriage of the Clargy But immediately after this Councel Brazutus the Famous Poisoner who is reported to have poisoned Seven Popes in 13 Years space by