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A65422	Popery anatomized, or, A learned, pious, and elaborat treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of controversie, between us and papists, are handled, and the truth of our doctrine clearly proved : and the falshood of their religion and doctrine anatomized, and laid open, and most evidently convicted and confuted by Scripture, fathers, and also by some of their own popes, doctors, cardinals, and of their own writers : in answer to M. Gilbert Brown, priest / by that learned, singularly pious, and eminently faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. John Welsch ...; Reply against Mr. Gilbert Browne, priest	Welch, John, 1568?-1622.; Craford, Matthew. Brief discovery of the bloody, rebellious and treasonable principles and practises of papists.	1672 (1672)	Wing W1312; ESTC R38526	397,536	586

of Bohemia in his slead Hence ensued a great and bloody war and the Emperor Ludovicus Bavarus was poysoned by Pope Clement as some Authors write And how Benedict the 13. excommunicat Charles the 6. of France and how Pope Julius the 2. excommunicat Lewis the 12. King of France and puts the Kingdom to interdict excommunicats the Venetians giveth their Dominions to any that will take them driveth the Bentivogli out of Bononia excommunicats the Duke of Ferrara and invades his Countrey by arms going to war in his own person makes the English Spaniards and Switzers to fall upon the French takes many Imperial Cities excommunicats the King of Navarre and giveth his Kingdom to the King of Arragon who upon that invades and takes it and possesseth it to this day It is thought that this Pope was the death of 200000. Christians in seven years XI But passing these I shal come to the time of the Reformation happily begun by Luther at which time we find Clement the 7. the great fomenter of the war between the Emperor and the French King joyning sometimes with the one and sometimes with the other and playing false with both He thundered out his excōmunications against King Henry the 8. the which his successor Paul the 3. confirmed but it did him no harm XII I shal show more particularly afterward how Pope Pius the 5. excommunicated Queen Elizabeth and stirred up not only her own subjects but also the King of Spain against her who prepared a great Navy to invade England anno 1588. yea this Pope was so active in raising war against Queen Elizabeth that when he published the Bull he laid down an hundred thousand crowns to raise war and promised fifty thousand more yea and to bear the whole charge of the war He also used all means to stir Spain France and the Netherlands against England XIII Gregory the 13. who succeeded to Pius the 5. was no less active in plotting and stirring up war against Queen Elizabeth for he gave to Thomas Stukly a commission to help the Irish rebells and get the Kingdom of Ireland for James Boncompagnon his own bastard son and gave him the command of eight hundred Italians to joyn with Sebastian King of Portugal who had engaged to the Pope to serve him with his whole forces against Queen Elizabeth and had raised a great army for that expedition But when Stukly came to the King of Portugal he was upon a new design to wit to help a Moor King of Fez against another Moor King who kept him out of possession and to get the Kingdom from them both to which war he invited Stukly promising immediatly after that work was done which he held forth as most easie they should accomplish the Popes desire So they sailed over to Africa where the King of Portugal and his whole army were destroyed and with him Stukly and the Popes Italian souldiers XIV The Pope had a great hand in the unparalelled massacre of Paris anno 1572. for neither his predecessor Pius the 5. nor himself would consent to the marriage by reason of their difference in Religion while the Cardinal of Lorain told him that it was intended as a trap to destroy the Protestants then presently he granted a dispensation for celebrating of it and gave all encouragement to the design and when the news of the massacre came to Rome there was nothing but triumphing and joy and Cardinal Ursin was sent to France to cōmend extol the Kings piety and wisdom in that great action and to bestow blessings and spiritual graces upon the King the Duke of Guise and the rest of the Actors of this horrid Tragedy Not long after this Pope sent to Henry the 3. the French King and to his people Indulgences for millions of yea●s if they would be diligent and zealous in extirpation of Protestants XV. This Pope laid a claim to the Kingdom of Portugal all the males being extinct as depending from the See of Rome and would have the Kingdom rising in arms for him against the heir from the females but his claim was rejected XVI In the year 1580. he made a new assay upon Ireland for he sent an Italian called San Josepho with some Italian troups there to joyn with the Iris● Rebels for gaining the Kingdom to his Bastard or else to the King of Spain XVII About the year 1588. Pope Sixtus the 5. to favor the enterprise of Philip the 2. King of Spain renewed the excommunication of Queen Elizabeth pronounced by Pope Pius the 5. deprived her of her Kingdom absolved her subjects from all allegiance to her and gave plenary Indulgence to all that would make war against her whereupon followed that great Armado of Spain which the Lord in mercy did wonderfully discomfit XVIII This Pope did also excommunicat King Henry the 3. of France and absolved his subjects from their allegiance although he was a Papist and was a plotter of the Massacre of Paris yet because he did not zealously enough prosecute the Popes design in rooting out Protestants and was no friend to the holy League he was excommunicat whereupon many of his subjects rebelled against him especially the City of Paris and he was slain upon that account by a Dominican Frier which action was highly commended by the Pope as we told you before in a full Consistory at Rome and forbade that any should pray for his soul for the Pope was not content that he had slain the King by his Bull but would also damn his soul XIX His successor Gregory the 14. excommunicated King Henry the 4 of France forbidding all Peers Noblemen Cities and Commons to yeeld him obedience and declaring him incapable of the Crown as an heretick and a relaps Pope Clement the 8. did the same over again and although many of the French did adhere to him yet the City of Paris and the Guisian faction did violently oppose him and would not acknowledge him for King and several attempts were made to take away his life first by a woman next by Peter Barriere and thirdly by John Chastel all denying him to be King because excommunicat by the Pope And although he turned Papist and procured absolution from the Pope yet it was his death for Ravillac who killed him alledged at his examination that the King was an heretick in his heart and deserved to be slain as an enemy of the Church XX. Pope Paul the 5. was as turbulent as his predecessors as witnesseth his quarrels with the State of Venice which he excommunicated and put their State in interdict because they had stopt by Edict the giving of lands to the Church About the beginning of this Popes reign was that hellish Gun-powder plot hatched at Rome and should have been effectuat in England by blowing up the King Prince Nobles and Commons all at one blow This horrid treason was the fruit and effect of the Popes Bulls for not only was Queen Elizabeth excommunicat once and again

as we said before and the Kingdom interdicted but also King James was by a Bull sent unto England a little before Queen Elizabeths death excluded from the Crown and all that were not Roman Catholicks were declared incapable of and excluded from the succession whereof his Majesty complaineth in his Apologie For B●llarmin tells King James Tort pag. 19 That the Pope claims a d●uble right to England one by reason o● his Apostolick power which he extends over all men according to that Charter Psal 44. Thou shalt establish them Princes over all the earth The other proper by a right of Dominion for saith he England and Ireland are the Churches Dominions the Pope is direct Lord and the King his vassal XXI Neither were they less active in stirring up wars and combustions in other Kingdoms for a Priest of their own named John Brown aged seventy two in his voluntary confession to a Committee of Parliament set down by M. Prin in his introductiō to Canterburies doom p 202. saith That the Jesuits who are the Popes agents were the only cause of the troubles which fell out in Muscovia when under pretence to reduce the Latin Church and plant themselves and destroy the Greek Church the poor King Demetrius and his Queen and these that followed him from Polonia were all in one night murdered by the usurper of the Crown and the true progeny rooted out That they were the only cause that moved the Sweds to take arms against their lawful King Sigismund and chased him to Poland and neither he nor his successors were ever able to take possession of Sweden for the J●suits intention was to bring in the Romish Religion and root out the Protestants They were the only cause that moved the Polonians to take arms against the said Sigismund because they had perswaded him to marry two sisters c. They were the sole cause of the war in Germany and Bohemia which began anno 1619. which caused the death of many thousands They have been the cause of the civil wars in France moving the King to take arms against his own subjects the Protestants where innumerable people have lost their lives for the Jesuits intentions were to set their Society in all Cities and Towns conquered by the King and quite to abolish the Protestants They were the cause of the murder of the last King of France They were the only projectors of the Gun-powder treason and their penitents the actors there●f XXII M. Baxter in his key for Catholicks chap. 45. 46 47 48 49 proveth at large by good evidence that the Jesuits had a special hand in the late Civil War that burnt in the bowels of these three Nations till it had near consumed them Whose evidence I intreat that the Reader would read and seriously ponder From all which I hope it is evident enough that the Pope and Church of Rome have been the continual Authors and instigators to wars and combustions in Christian Churches and Kingdoms SECTION IV. That the continual practise of Papists ever since the Reformation hath been to plot and practise bloody and treasonable Conspiracies Assassinations and Murders both of Princes and People who profess the Reformed Religion IN the former Section we have proven that the Pope and Synagogue of Rome have been the grand Authors of warrs confusions and combustions in Christian Churches and Kingdoms In this Section we are to prove that not only have they been the Authors and instigators to bloody wars and confusions in Christian Churches and Kingdoms but that in all Protestant or Reformed Churches Kingdoms or States they have been secretly and under-hand always plotting and practising bloody and treasonable conspiracies assassinations and murders both of Princes and people who profess the Reformed Religion It would be too tedious to declare at large what plots and conspiracies the Pope and his dependers and vassals have had in all the Reformed Churches ever since Luthers Reformation we only shal instance some few not our near hand in France Ireland and in Britain I. I told in the former Section how the Pope and his sworn vassals were the Authors of the massacre of Paris anno 1572. which was surely hatched in hell and carried on with all the subtilty of that old Serpent for when the Pope and Court of Rome and Queen Catharin de Medicis and Charles the 9. her son saw that fire and fagot and force of war could not undo the Protestants they said come and let us deal subtily with them and ensnare them by pretences of friendship and flatteries therefore they not only concluded a peace with them but gave the sister of the King of France to the King of Navarre in marriage that so they might massacre the Protestants at the marriage and they suspecting no treachery came to the City of Paris where the Queen of Navarre was poysoned by a pair of perfumed gloves and the Admiral and the greatest part of the Protestant Nobility were all massacred in a morning the massacre was so cruel that it made the river run with blood and there were thirty thousand Protestants killed in one moneths time of which more afterward II. We also hinted before how King Henry the 3. of France although he lived and died a Papist and while he was Duke of Anjou had foughten several battels against the Protestants and was one of the plotters in the massacre of Paris yet because he did not joyn with the holy League and obey the Popes will in all things the Pope excommunicated him and stirred up James Clement a Jacobin Monk to commit that horrible parricide upon his Royal person III. We did also a little touch how his successor King Henry the 4. was opposed and molested by the Pope and the holy League his sworn servants and excommunicat and the Spaniards brought in the Kingdom to joyn with the holy League to his ruine But God so blessed his enterprises that he foyled them often but he being weary of war and consulting with flesh and blood for peace and ease to himself and quyet to his Kingdom turned Papist and sought absolution from the Pope and at length obtained it But because they thought him not a heart Papist and cordial for them in all things they plot his death by secret assassination and after several attempts one whereof wounded him in the mouth R●villac stroke him through the very heart although to please the Pope he caused recall the Jesuits which for their bloody principles and practises were banished the Kingdom So this is the Pope and his Jesuits method when they cannot overcome any Prince that they think no cordial favorer of theirs by open hostility they excite and stimulat some scholer or other of theirs secretly to assassinat him For John Chastel a scholer of the Jesuits who stroke King Henry the fourth of France in the mouth and broke out one of his teeth intending to have cut his throat when he was examined confessed that he being guilty of

some of them might come out Oppede made them to be beaten back to the fire with picks and halberts some of them that came forth he slew with his own hands ripping open their bellies so that their children came forth whom he trod with his feet It is too tedious to tell the hellish and unparalleled cruelties that he used upon that people See Sleydans Commentaries and M. Clerks Martyrology pag. 133. Another instance of their inhumane cruelty was in Italy anno 1560. in Calabria where 88. Protestants being shut up in a prison the executioner cometh in taketh out one and blind-foldeth him and so leads him forth to a large place adjoyning where commanding him to kneel down he cuts his throat and leaving him half dead he takes his butchers knife all bloody and goeth back to the rest so leading one after another he dispatched them all This was such a sad spectacle that he that writes of it could not repeat it without tears See Clerks Matyr pag. 238. The next instance of their inhumane and bloody c●uelty shal be the Massacre of Paris anno 1572. where when the Papists could not get the Protestants subdued by warr they conclud a peace And for security of it the King gives his own sister to the King of Navarre and all the Protestants are invited to the marriage But in the mean time the Queen of Navarre is poysoned and dies and upon Bartholomews day anno 1672. the gates were shut under pretence of searching for one that shot the Admiral but really to keep all the Protestants within the Citie and they came in first and killed the Admiral and threw his dead body into the streets and sent his head as a present to the Pope And then to work they went and slew that night and the two dayes following to the number of ten thousand in Paris In this massacre their cruelty was so great that they spared not young children in the cradle nor infants in their mothers wombs so that the streets were covered with mangled bodies gates and doors filled with blood shoutings and howlings of the murderers mixed with the cryes and groans of the dying the breaking open of doors and windows with the noise of guns and pistols all which made an hellish noise multitudes of dead bodies were thrown into the river which was dyed red with their blood presently after the King sending letters to Meaux Troys Orleans Angiers Roan Tholouse Bourdeaux and other places where they murdered all the Protestants most barbarously and inhumanely and cast out their dead bodies naked without the honor of burial or threw them in the water so that the rivers were dyed with their blood The number that were massacred in France in a few weeks amounted to thirty thousand and above Whosoever desires to hear a more full Relation of the mischievous and horrid cruelty used in this Massacre let them read Fox his Acts and Monuments Vol. III. and Clerks Martyrology p. 310. c. The next instance I shal give shal be of their persecution in the Valtoline anno 1620. where setting upon the people as they were at Sermon not dreading any such thing they murdered them all not regarding sex nor age After which they marched to Sanders where the Papists in that place hearing of their coming went to the Justice protesting that they should guard him from danger and that they would not permit such villanies to be committed among them then did they arm themselves under pretence of defending and securing the Protestants who trusting to their promises mixed themselves among them to stand to their own defence But they treacherously betrayed them and joyned with the other Papists in murdering them all whereever they met with them Their cruelty was monstrous for they put a gag in the mouth of some and then filled their mouth with powder and put fire to it which tore their head miserably Some had their mouthes slit up to their ears others had the flesh cut from their faces others were slashed in other parts of their body till they died and others were often put to the strapado and then hewen in pieces The next instance is more recent and fresh in memory in the late warrs in Germany since anno 1630. where the Sweds possessed of a town called Pasewalk the Imperialists took it by storm beat killed and drave out the Sweds and not content therewith they fell to torturing of the Towns men ravishing women and girles in the open streets and Church-yard yea women in child bed where they killed the men fired their houses and burnt many in them Thurst straw into cellars where children were hidden and so burnt and smothered them Then they burnt the Churches and massacred the Ministers and at last burnt down the whole Town The like cruelty was used against the city of Magdeburg famous for Religion which being taken by Tilly anno 1631. was in twelve hours space wholly turned into ashes except 139 houses No mercy was shown to any age sex or condition about twenty thousand persons were slain burnt and smothered to death six thousand were drowned in the river Ladies and Gentle-women like beasts were yoked together and led about the Countrey and driven into woods to be ravished and such as resisted were stript stark naked whipt had their ears cropt and so were turned off The Popish army having taken the town of Hoxter anno 1634. they spared neither man woman nor child most inhumanely butchering and hewing in pieces all without respect of age sex or condition and what the sword could not spoil they caused the fire to consume and the dead corps they cast into the river Weser Their rage was so great against the professors of the Gospel that neither Turks nor Heathens did ever exceed them In Saxony Tillies souldiers tortured the Protestants by half strangling them and pressing their thumbs with wheels In Pomeran they forced the people to eat their own excrements and if they refused they thrust them down their throat whereby some of them were choked They tyed about the heads of some strong matches or cords and with short truncheons twisted them while blood came out of their eyes ears and noses yea sometimes till their eyes started out of their heads to others they tyed burning matches between their fingers yea to their eyes ears noses tongues cheeks breasts leggs and secret parts yea such parts as nature hideth they either stuffed with gun-powder or hung bags of powder to them and so giving fire to it in an horrible manner they burst their bellies and killed them with bodkins they made holes or with knives they cut the skin and flesh of many They drew strings and cords through the fleshie parts of some and through the muscles of their thighs leggs arms c. or through their noses ears lips c. Some they hung up in the smoke drying them with smal fires and sometimes refreshing them with smal drink or water taking care lest in their torments

POPERY ANATOMIZED OR A LEARNED PIOUS AND ELABORAT Treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of Controversie between us and Papists are handled and the truth of our Doctrine clearly proved And the falshood of their Religion and Doctrine anatomized and laid open and most evidently convicted and confuted by Scripture Fathers and also by some of their own Popes Doctors Cardinals and of their own Writers In answer to M. Gilbert Brown Priest By that learned singularly pious and eminently faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. John Welsch Minister of the Gospel first at Kirkubright next at Air in Scotland and last at S. John d'Angely in France The second Edition revised corrected and divided into Sections To which is annexed A Discovery of the bloody rebellious and treasonable principles and practises of Papists in dissolving Oaths committing Treasons raising Warrs and Commotions and using imparalleled cruelties toward Protestants By MATTHEW CRAFORD GLASGOW By ROBERT SANDERS Printer to the City and University 1●72 In hanc pij docti Auctoris Diatriben pij docti viri M. Matth. Crafordij additamentum decastichon Latino-Scoticum ROmulidum qui sacra oupis cognoscere sacra Et fugere haec sancti perlege scripta viri Perspicuè solidè Babylonia scita refedit Queîs miseras animas turba dolosa capit Quae nunc heu passim nullo prohibente vagatur Pro sapidis dapibus toxica tetra ferens Non minimas CRAFORDI etiam vir docte mereris Grates addideris quòd bona multa libro Vulnera quò capiat meretrix Romana nefandi Propinans stupri pocula plena sui The same in English WHo cursed Rome and Romish rites would know And them eschew this Book will clearly show It Babels doctrine truly doth declare Wherewith poor souls false Papists do ensnare Who now alace run freely as they will For wholsome food with poyson them to kill Great thanks also should learned CRAFORD get For these good things he to the Book hath set Which may help much to give Romes Whoor a wound Whose whoordoms so doth in the Land abound J. A. THE PREFACE TO THE LOVERS OF THE REformed Religion in Britain and Ireland DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD The name and memory of that Apostolick and singularly godly and faithful servant of JESUS CHRIST M. John Welsch who now is attending his Masters work in the Upper-House without wearying night and day is so precious in the Church of CHRIST that the revising republishing of any of his works who praise him in the gate will I hope be very acceptable to all the learned and godly especially this subsequent Treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of Controversie betwixt us and Papists are learnedly and solidly debated and the truth of our Doctrine evidently demonstrated and the error superstition and idolatry of the Church of Rome excellently anatomized and solidly refuted especially in such a time as this when Popery so much every where prevaileth and the Pope and his Agents are most active and diligent using all-means to get their deadly wound cured sending over to these Nations dayly swarms of Priests and Jesuits with books beads medals and the like Romish trash thereby to seduce the poor people who are in great hazard partly through their ignorance of the Controversies betwixt us and Papists partly through the lamentable decay of zeal against Antichrist and love to the truth partly through the sad divisions and distractions that are among our selves whereby the poor people are sorely brangled and tempted to Scepteiism and is made use of by Priests and Jesuits as a strong motive to perswade them to Popery although there be far greater divisions among Papists then among us as I have elsewhere demonstrated We shal not detain you long in the entry but only speak a little of the Author and of this Treatise and the causes that moved the reviving and republishing thereof at this time The now triumphing and glorified Author needeth none of our commendation he being among the spirits of just men before the throne and his memory being deservedly very precious in the Church of Christ But because the lives of godly men are useful for imitation we shal give a short description of his life He was descended of an ancient and respective family being a son of an ancient house of the name of Welsch in Nithsdale He was born a little after that blessed work of Reformation began in Scotland and being trained up at Schools he profited very much so that he was excellently accomplished in all kind of literature and eminent for piety and zeal for the Kingdom of Christ And being called to the Ministery of the Gospel about the year 1588. at the town of Kirkubright he was most diligent and laborious in preaching catechising visiting the sick and disputing and convincing of Papists which that Countrey abounded with And his labors were singularly blessed of God for many were brought by his Ministery to see the error superstition and idolatry of Popery and to embrace the truth and many were really converted to God and others were edified and built up confirmed comforted and strenthened so that he as a shining and burning light did inlighten that whole Countrey who at that time was in many places destitut of Pastors After he had remained there several years the General Assembly thought fit to transport him to Air as a Town of greater note and more populous where he was most assiduous and diligent in the work of the Ministery for he preached not only twise on the Lords day but also twise on every day of the week from nine to ten in the morning and from four to five at night where the Lord wonderfully blessed his labors for both in Air and in the Countrey about many were converted by him some of whom were as eminent and lively Christians as readily have been known of latter times After he had continued in the work of the Ministery several years at Air he was commissioned by the Presbytery with some other of his brethren to keep the Assembly indicted at Aberdene anno 1605. for which he with M. John Forbes M. Andrew Duncan M. John Sharp M. Robert Dury and M. Alexander Strachan were arraigned imprisoned and at length banished anno 1606. whereupon he went to France and in a very short time learned the French tongue and acquired such a facility therein as was thought strange by these who knew it He was called to the Ministery in S. John d' Angely a Protestant town in France where his Ministery was much blessed with success But the Civil Warrs arising while he was there that City was besieged on the Protestant interest M. Welsch did much encourage the people and told them that their adversaries should not prevail But in process of time the town was sore straitned and ready to be taken the enemy having raised a battery and by a close approach had made a great breach in the wall M. Welsch hearing

wickedness who was all wickedness and vice together Alexander the 6. he made a covenant with the Devil and gave himself over to the Devil that by his help he might obtain the Popedom the which when he had obtained he so holily led his life that he preased to do nothing without first he had asked the advise of the Devil A Simoniack an Atheist also of whom it is written Vendit Alexander cruces altaria Christum Emerat ille prius vendere jure potest That is He sold the Cross Altars and Christ himself he bought them first and therefore he might sell them again A traytor also for two hundred thousand Ducats which he received from the Turk he poysons the Turks brother Gemen Bajazets being then captive in Rome Who also called for the Turks to assist him against the French King He committed vile incest with his own daughter Lucretia of whom it is written in her Epitaph Alexandri filia sponsa nurus He made one of his sons Prince of Sicile and another a Cardinal He gave liberty to Petrus Mendoza a Spaniard a Cardinal whose lust could not be satisfied neither with a troup of harlots neither with the Queen her self to commit Sodomitry with his own bastard son Zanathensis O horrible impiety He commanded to poyson some of the Senators of Rome and of his own Cardinals who were at a banket together with himself But in the righteous judgement of God the flagon being changed at unawares by him that filled the cups he himself was poysoned and so perisheth His Epitaph saith Famae contemptor honestae c. Contemner of honesty and all wickedness it self And in another of his Epitaphs it is written That he destroyed Cities and Kingdoms and wasted the world with sword fire and robbery to enrich his bastard children and that he took away the laws both of God and men and the Gods themselves that he might more licentiously sin Julius the 2. committed Sodomitry with two youths of an honorable linage which the Queen of France sent to a Cardinal to be informed He was such a cruel Tyrant that by his tyranny in the space of seven years there was two hundred thousand Christian men slain Of whom it is written that when he went to the warrs he cast Peters keys in Tybris with this voyce Saint Peters keys help not let Pauls sword defend us Of whose pardons it is written Vendit enim coelos non habet ipse tamen He selleth heaven but hath not heaven himself Leo the 10. a beastly man born to all licentiousness a drunkard and Atheist without God when one of his Cardinals Petrus Rembus was repeating a sentence out of the Gospel he answered blasphemously What profit that fable of Christ hath brought to us and our Church it is sufficiently known to all ages Whereby though all the world should deny it this horrible monster sufficiently declares that he is that man of sin and son of perdition Clemens the 8. and after some the 7. it is written of him that he was a bastard a venefician a Sodomit a murderer a bawd a simoniack an harlot perjured a sacrilegious man a diviner and a crafts-man of all wickedness Of whom Pasquillus writes in his Epitaph Hic est per quem tot prostant in urbe puellae c. That is A defiler of maidens a banisher of honesty and chastity a honorer of all unclean persons the infamy of the world the decay of the Empire a contemner of God a man of wickedness a publick enemy a false and ungrate man a Tyrant and such a man as there was never a worse in the world Paul the 3. a vile beastly monster as ever the earth did bear he sold his sister to be an harlot to Pope Alexander the sixth that he might be made a Cardinal He deceived a certain maid of honorable parentage and deflored her under the hope of marriage of whom he begat Petrus Aloysius that vile Sodomit He poysoned his mother and sister that he might enjoy all the heritage himself He committed incest with another of his sisters and afterward poysoned her because she loved others more then him He committed vile incest and adultery both with his niece Nicolaus Quercaeus his wife who being deprehended in the very act by her husband was so wounded by him that he kept the mark thereof to his very end He committed also incest and adultery with his own daughter Constantia And that he might the more licentiously enjoy his beastly lust with her he poysoned her husband named Bosius Sforsia He exceeded Heliogabalus and Commodus in filthiness defiling his own sister niece and daughter He had 45. thousand harlots on a row of whom he received tribut and toll every moneth who were familiar with him day and night Julius the third what better was he who against the will of all his Cardinals made one Innocent with whom he had done villany Cardinal and admitted him to his domestick familiarity Vergerius writes he abstained not from his own Cardinals and that he used such horrible blasphemies as the most vile bawds and the most filthy villains use in the contempt of God When he missed his dish of bacon which was not set at the table at the command of his Physician he brast forth in this blasphemy Bring me my dish al dispetto de Dio that is In despite of God Again when he missed a dish of a cold peacock which he had commanded to keep to him having other new rosted peacocks he vomit out most horrible blasphemy against God And when one of his Cardinals answered Let not your Holiness be offended at so light a matter He replyed If God was so angry for the eating of one apple that he cast out our first parents out of Paradise wherefore shal it not be lawful to me who is his Vicar to be angry for a peacock seeing it is far greater then an apple Now let men judge whether the Popes of Rome bear this mark of the Antichrist or not that is whether they be men of sin and sons of perdition or not Much more might I have brought for the manifesting of this point as the thirty Schismes among their Church which never Church had so many their mutual contentions strifes cruelties exercised one towards another But I hope this will suffice to satisfie the conscience of all men that the Popes are that man of sin and son of perdition And certainly if others had written their abominations then men of their own Religion their own flatterers and friends it would have seemed incredible But their own Writers have by Gods providence so discovered their abominations that I think the consciences of all men may be at a point in this This for the first mark The second property of the Antichrist as he is described in that same place is to be an adversary to God 2. Thess 2.4 For as the Devil is called Satan that is an adversary to God so his chief Lieutenant