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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61802	A discourse concerning the necessity of reformation with respect to the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome : the first part.	Stratford, Nicholas, 1633-1707.	1685 (1685)	Wing S5930; ESTC R10160	55,727	60

about the time of the Reformation when the World was now grown weary of the burden of Vice and groan'd to be delivered from it when if ever their worldly Interest ingaged them to put on the shew how much soever they abhorred the Reality of Virtue When after the death of Innocent VIII Lionel Bishop of Concordia in an Oration to the Cardinals pressed them with the most rowsing Arguments to chuse a good man whose Life was without Scandal a Raynald an 1492. What was the effect Alexander VI. was chosen a man if he may be so called who was the Reproach of humane Nature who before he was chosen Pope was a Prodigy of Lust and other Vices and continued so to the last when by the just Judgment of God he was poisoned by a mistake in drinking that Cup himself which he had prepared to dispatch others b Quos gemitus Christianorum vita prodigiosa spurcissima gesta Alexand. VI. abundantius ita quidem excivit c. Richer l. 4. part 1. c. 2. S. 1. Cum Alexand. VI. PP anno 1503. Veneno quod aliis paraverat de improviso extinctus Id. S. 3. Pius III. liv'd not long enough to let the World know what he would prove for he died within six and twenty days after his Election Julius II. who succeeded him his Crimes as Lewis XII King of France tells us were notorious and such as scandaliz'd the whole Church c Vide Edict Reg. Gall. pro Convocat Concil Pisani 'T is certain he filled Italy with Rapines War and Blood to which he was so addicted that contrary to the Laws of Nations he commanded the Procurator of the Duke of Savoy to be tortured because he endeavoured to perswade him to Peace d Richer Hist Conc. general l. 4. par 1. p. 151. So monstrous were his Acts that Richerius says he must be wholly made of Steel who can read them without horror e Nisi ob gesta Julii obstupueris totus quidem eris ferreus p. 150. Sup. l. Pope Leo X. in whose time the Reformation began was a civil debonair Gentleman but so little concerned for Religion that he cared not to know what it meant f History of the Council of Trent l. 1. When he admitted Discourses of that nature it was for diversion sake and to make himself sport His Soul he thought was no longer-liv'd than his Body and therefore he gave himself up to sensual Gratifications and 't was indeed but reason that he who supposed he should die like a Beast should live like an Epicure Adrian VI. promised fair but God alone knows in case he had liv'd whether his performances would have answered his Promises Clem●nt VII as he got the Popedom by Simony i History of the Council of Trent l. 1. so he administer'd it by as ill Arts as he got it His prime Virtue was Dissimulation he made no conscience of his Word or Oath but brake his Covenants as oft as he made them Paul III. and Julius III. who followed next the Characters given of them by many of the Romish Writers are so foul and loathsome that if I had the face to write them no modest man could read them without blushing 4. I should now proceed to the last general Head of Corruptions viz. Corruptions in Discipline But because that is so large a Subject that 't is better to say nothing than a little concerning it and because this Discourse is already swell'd beyond the bounds prescrib'd and because what hath been said upon the foregoing Heads is more than enough to evince the necessity of Reformation I shall therefore refer the Reader for satisfaction in this Matter to the History of the Council of Trent written by Father Paul the Review of the Council of Trent Mr. Gerson's Sermon before Pope Alexander V. and his Declarat Defect viror Ecclesiast Clemangis's Tracts de Corrupto Statu Eccles and de Reparat Ruina Eccles the hundred Grievances of the German Nation Espencaeus's Comment on the first Chapter of the Epistle to Titus the Appeal of the University of Paris from Pope Leo X. the Articles of Reformation proposed by the select Council to Pope Paul III. The twenty Points of Reformation proposed by the Emperors Ambassadors to the Council of Trent and the four and thirty proposed by the Ambassadors of the King of France Richerius his History of General Councils c. ERRATA PAge 16. l. 4. dele or less p. 24. l. 35. for Eleutherius read Anicetus p. 41. l. 2. after to conclude this put a Colon and l. 3. after Considerations a Comma Margin for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 56. l. 11. after shame put a Semicolon after Canons a Comma FINIS