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A12064	A looking-glasse for the Pope Wherein he may see his owne face, the expresse image of Antichrist. Together with the Popes new creede, containing 12. articles of superstition and treason, set out by Pius the 4. and Paul the 5. masked with the name of the Catholike faith: refuted in two dialogues. Set forth by Leonel Sharpe Doctor in Diuinitie, and translated by Edward Sharpe Bachelour in Diuinitie.; Speculum Papæ. English	Sharpe, Leonel, 1559-1631.; Sharpe, Edward, 1557 or 8-1631.	1616 (1616)	STC 22372; ESTC S114778	304,353	438

of Boniface the 8. Hee was loosed from the death of the Baptist almost 300 yeeres that he might rage in the Romane Emperours against the primitiue Church to the Empire of Constantine when hee was bound againe with the Angells chaine for a 1000. yeeres v 2. cap 20. He was againe let loose that hee might rage for a litle while v 3. as before almost three hundred yeeres in the Turkish Emperors and the Rom Bishops from Ottoman the first and from Boniface the 8 whereof he without this within 1300 yeeres from the death of Christ 1000 from the death of Constantine began cruelly to rage against the Church one in the East the other in the West There are who number the beginning of the 1000 yeeres from the yeere of Christ 73. wherein Ierusalem being defaced Satan cap 12. did endeuour to put out the Church dispersed among the Gentiles the seede of the woman which fled into the wildernes for a short time that is a time times and halfe a time which space doth well answer 42 monthes and 1260 daies as the learned teach which according to the supputation of Daniel doe make two hundred ninetie and foure yeeres In which time the Dragon as is said being angry with the woman did goe about to destroy the rest of the womans seed that remained Now in the 20. chapter where the same historie is thought to be continued the Angell is said to haue bound Sathan with a chaine for a thousand yeeres which was ended in the yeere 1703. at what time Satan is vnderstood to be loosed in Gregorie the 7. Gregor 7. in whom Antichrist as a strong man began to striue against the Empire Difference about the loosing of Satan But they seeme more rightly to interpret this place who thinke that Satan bound for a thousand yeeres was let loose at the riuer Euphrates in the outward enemie of the Church Ottoman the first Emperor of the Turkes and his posteritie the most barbarous enemies of the Christian name in whom the prophecie of Gog and Magog is thought to be fulfilled Vnlesse they be rather to be beleeued who vnderstand the place not of the Turke only nor of the Pope only but of them both counting as I said the second loosing of Satan from the raigne of Constantine wherein he was bound for a 1000 yeeres to the raigne of Ottoman and the Popedome of Boniface wherein hee was loosed after that bloody decree of the counsell of Laterane about the burning of Gods seruants termed by them Heretikes which hath most cruelly deuoured and consumed many millions of innocent men tormented with a lingring death who referre the place to Antichrist only doe shrewdly gale Bellarmines master who referre it to the Turke only doe take away Bellarmines demonstration They that referre it to them both Two sta●es erected for crueltie when both performe the same they erect two stages one at Constantinople thother at Rome wherein wee may see a blacke Diuell furiously raging in the one and a white Diuell in the other For whereas it is certaine that the Saracens without and Antichrist within did bring many plagues vpon the Church within the compasse of that 1000 yeeres and did stirre vp many mischiefes and many garboyles within the bowels of the Church Satan being the leader and the Pope the author First I say that the inuasion of the outward enemies neither was so generall nor so continuall nor the persecution of the inward enemies although it was raised vp often for the shew of religion not so often for the cause of religion as for a greedy humor to gouerne that the Church might feele rather the outward peace to be intermitted then quite omitted and that Satans chaine did seeme rather to be somewhat slackned by the Angell rather then altogether loosned For Satan did rather nourish and increase Antichrist his darling and sweet heart with outward peace then warre flattering the world rather then threatning it bound rather then loose so that in comparison of those continuall inuasions of Turkes and the perpetuall persecutions of Popes wherwith the whole East and West Churches haue bin most miserably torne in pieces these 300 yeers The outward peace may seeme to bee giuen to the Church as a breathing time for a thousand yeeres but yet such as the Church may cry out with Esay behold in peace my bitternesse is most bitter for by those meanes whereby Sathan did grant an outward peace to the Church by the same hee assayed to take away the inward being very carefull to yeeld to the Pope his gainfull merchandize of soules while hee solde sinnes Sathan did more hurt bound then loose as it were by the drumme in the Temple at the highest rate and did racke and gather together great treasures to his companion compast him with pleasures and got him all authority all which he could not haue effected without long peace Sathan therfore was bound ☜ not that hee should not at all stirre against the Church but that he might doe it more mildly and for his owne good that hee might seeme rather to play then rage in his chaine and to play not the cut-throat but the cozener and might rather infect men then kill them and might not massacre them with murthers but deceiue them with lies and shew himselfe more a Comedian then a Tragedian and deceiue the world more with sweete baites then mingle any sower vnlesse it were when he went about to get his eldest sonne the Empire then he is sayd to play the Tragicomedian So Sathan being bound did doe more good to Antichrist then if he had beene loose yea rather he lost that being loose that hee got being bound For whom Antichrist long held blinded with superstition and deceiued with the enticements of peace those he did after so stir vp worne out with warres and discontented with persecutions that they at last rebelled against him and did very valiantly defend the oppressed cause of the Gospell Now that I haue shortly expounded the place of Sathans loosing let vs returne to Bellarmines argument who prooues out of this place that the most greeuous persecution that euer was shall be vnder Antichrist which if it touch the Turke onely it taketh away the foundation of Bellarmines demonstration if it presse the Pope the argument is brought vpon the authors head For the most greeuous persecution whereof he speaketh is come already And therefore Antichrist is come Adde that this comes neerer the Pope then hee is aware For The inward most greeuous persecuter of the Church is Antichrist The Pope is the most greeuous inward persecuter of the Church The Pope therefore is Antichrist But Antichrists persecution must be most notorious saith he The Popes persecution is not most notorious why so because all the wicked would oppugne the Church with open warre and not onely infidels and knowen sinners but hypocrites and false brethren would ioyne themselues to the Pope and laying themselues open would

I heare of some I hope they bee but a few false brethren like to Ianus are wont to bee though lightly bitten and reprehended Who if they be not ours they might doe very well if they would more open themselues if they be ours as I rather desire let them fauour our holy labours vnlesse they desire to heare of some writer of ours which Lelius a certaine criticall reprehender heard out of Martiall When Lelius carpeth mine and keepeth in his verse Or let him hold his prate or else his owne rehearse For it is both greeuous and vnseemly that their writings should be closly bit with a Theonine tooth by false brethren whose throates are first assailed with a leonine crueltie by open enemies There is almost none of our writers who haue not written that the Pope is Antichrist But there be certaine men among vs very moderate forsooth and politicke who would not haue the Aduersarie so angered and stirred vp with so sharpe a conclusion and that thereby all hope of composition and peace betweene the parties should bee cut off betweene whom they thinke to bee a great difference of wordes but little or none at all of things that God is alike deare to each Church and that the liturgie of each is alike accepted of God that saluation is in both when each doth rest vpon Christ the foundation that a Papist may although halting come to heauen and that the hatred of Papists is not so great as we make it and that it is not conceiued by their owne accord but that it is encensed by such bitter disputations and that the quarrell had been ended if certaine hot spirited Theologians had not encreased the controuersie These luke-warme Christians that seeme to bee of no side and of both sides seeme to dispute soberly and politickly But your religious wisedome Christian Reader doth better vnderstand that the Romane Synagogue is full of idolatrie and that it doth therefore hate God and by Moses iudgement is againe hatefull to God neither was Caine prouoked with any iniurie of Abels but by his owne malice and hatred of godlines And though both of them were wont to sacrifice to God in Adames house yet Caines sacrifice was reiected Abels accepted and the worke pleased God for the person not the person for the worke that which Saint Gregorie gathereth out of Moses because the person was first made righteous by faith as the Apostle taught Heb. 11. and that therefore there is no lesse difference of worship and faith betweene a Protestant and a Papist then was betweene Caine and Abell And that the Synagogues anger against our Church is as implacable as Caines against Abell and Ismaels against Isaac and that before it was stirred vp with the blast of contention it was moued with hatred of the promise And as the hatred of Ismael against the promise which he derided being couered with a visard of circumcision brake out against the sonne of the promise so the hidden and secret hatred of the Synagogue of Rome against the holy scriptures the tables of the promise as I said being couered with a certaine shew of voluntarie religion did greiuously breake and burne out against our Church the heire of the promise so that Agar doth not leaue off to persecute Sara againe the Haidmayde her Mistris in the house of Abraham And when it can bee proued that Caines sacrifice was as well accepted of God as Abels then I will grant that the Papists Masse be as acceptable to God as the Liturgie of the Protestants and when it can be euicted that Christ alone apprehended by faith without our workes is not the foundation of the church I wil grant that the same is the foūdation of both Churches Lastly when it shall appeare that Ismael the sonne of the handmaide borne by the power of nature is coheyre of the house of Abraham with Isaac the sonne of the free woman borne by the force of the promise then I will grant that an obstinate Papist may come halting to heauen In the meane time I will warne these luke-warme and halting Protestant that they will giue sentence in Gods matters according to the certaine truth of God not out of their prevaricating charitie and that there be no middle counsell to be taken neither let them trust the Pope being more ioyntly and easily intreated by them will be the more easie and gentle to them Whom we by short conclusions out of holy Paul and Iohn excellently expounded by notable worthies of our Church although a little more bitterly and roughly then seemeth good to some we shew to be Antichrist I confesse that this is a weighty and darke prophecie whose importance doth reiect the vanitie of tales whose obscuritie requireth more cleare light of interpretation So it falleth out sometime that the exposition is larger the conclusion shorter For a short exposition and a long conclusion are faultie alike when hard and controuersies of importance are handled For a short exposition wants light and a long conclusion wants sharpenesse of wit The Aduersarie doth offend in both while hee is busied in the interpretation of the prophecie for it doth lessen things of weight neither doth it make plaine matters obscure For hee doth depresse the excellencie of the prophecy by stuffing it vp with the vanitie of many fables and being satisfied with vncertaine coniectures of Fathers and with their naked names hath not driuen away the obscuritie So it falleth out that from strange and vnkinde expositions of the prophecie they gather weake and idle conclusions In the vnfoulding of this mysterie the holy fathers haue stood vs in good steed and more had if they had beene Prophets But whenas they Daniel being the Authour doe teach that the vnderstanding of the prophesie is to be taken from the performance of it and grant that truth is the daughter of time we that are fallen vpon the endes of times conferring all the parts of the prophecie betweene themselues with great study and reuerence and bringing light to the text out of the context and to the context out of the euent because Christ hath opened the booke that was sealed vp nor called it an a A thing sealed hidden apocrypse but an b A thing opened and reuealed apocalypse we do from thence more confidently drawe a conclusion not as an Article of faith but as asure demonstration of the doctrine of Christ Although the popish Synagogue which without any testimonie of Scripture makes this the thirteenth Article of their faith I beleeue that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ may iustly pardon the reformed Church if being taught by so many testimonies of Scripture it make this to be an Article of their faith I beleeue that the Pope is Antichrist Now I did foresee that when I made a looking glasse for Paul the 5. it would come to passe that the Iesuites who do so often traduce the King of great Britaine with their slanderous and infamous libels

another whereof is mention to the Ephesians where he vnderstandeth not Peter only but all the Apostles as they be Doctors of the Church are the doctrinall or instructing foundations as it is in the Apocalypse where the Apostles are accounted the 12 foundations of the house of God § 158 Let Saturnine now come and himselfe be iudge whether he can call the person of Peter the rocke and the foundation of the Church If he affirme it still for I know his wrangling and neuer yeelding wit let him say likewise that Peter was borne for vs dyed for vs rose againe for vs and ascended into heauen for vs that Peter was made of God for vs wisdom iustice sanctification redemption satisfaction purging life glory that our faith and confidence is as well vpon Peter as vpon a foundation as vpon Christ For Christ in this sense is both the rocke and foundation of the Church Do you not see Calander these mens open blasphemie Popish blasphemie who haue called Peter and in him the Pope the second foundation of the Church to me truly there can be no more deadly plague than they who make a meere man the rocke of the Church But they make a holy man but a man as Marie a blessed woman but a woman when as shee is said to breake the Serpents head as Peter a holy man but a mortall man and a sinner And then hardly a man when fearing death he denied life as Gregorie saith yet they call him the rocke whom Christ afterward called Sathan Who put such a weake and slender foundation of Christ his Church what other thing do they offer to the world than that which the Atheist may scoffe at and the Iewes detest Let them leaue of therefore any more to be madd with the disgrace and hurt of the Church and let them confesse the only sonne of God to be the eternall foundation of the eternall Church But the names of King Lord Bishop Pastor and § 159 the like giuen to Christ are giuen to Kings and Priests We confesse and acknowledge that such names as expresse his ministerie giuen to Christ may be giuen to Magistrates either ecclesiasticall or ciuill after a certaine manner but that those names which do expresse the neerest coniunction of Christ and his Church Certaine names giuen to Christ not to be giuen to men by the power whereof life and saluation is deriued vnto vs as the names of Head Rocke Foundation that those should be giuen to any mortall man whatsoeuer in respect of the whole Church that we deny againe and againe But the Fathers call Peter the rocke wherevpon Christ hath founded his Church as Ierome and diuers other Fathers affirme Cusan lib 2. de cencord eccles cap. 13. But your Cardinall Cusan hath answered before out of Ierome although Peter by the rocke is to be vnderstood the stone of the foundation yet agreable to him the other Apostles were likewise the stones of the Church as Apoc 21. twelue stones The rest rocks as well as Peter therefore so many Apostles so many foundations which is spoken in respect of the Apostolicall doctrine as Paul before expounded it Other and that more iustly vpon this rocke I will build my Church expound it of Christ as Austin August ●e verb D m secund Mat S●m 13. Thou therefore saith he art Peter and vpon this rocke which thou hast confessed vpon this rocke which thou hast acknowledged saying Christ the only rocke Thou art the sonne of the liuing God I will build my Church that is I will build my Church vpon my selfe the sonne of the liuing God vpon my selfe I will build thee not my selfe vpon thee And Gregorie Christ saith he doth call himselfe the rocke Other call the faith and confession of Peter the rocke Chrysost serm de Pent Homil. 55. in Matth Hilar. de Trin lib 2. as Chrysostome Vpon this rocke saith hee not vpon this Peter for hee buildeth not his house vpon a man but vpon faith And Hilarie There is one immoueable foundation there is one blessed rocke of faith confessed by the mouth of Peter Thou art the sonne of the liuing God vpon this rock of confession is the Church builded this faith is the foundation of the Church Ambros in Ephes cap. 2. And Ambrose The Lord said to Peter vpon this rocke I will build my Church .i. vpon this catholike confession of faith Faith therefore is the foundation of the Church for there is nothing said of the flesh of Peter but of the faith of Peter because the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it § 160 Out of whose most weighty witnesses that I may reckon no more I gather this argument not to be excepted against That according to Scripture and Fathers which Peter confessed that wherein he beleeued was and is the rocke But Peter confessed Christ not himselfe Peter beleeued in Christ not in himselfe Therefore according to Scripture and Fathers not Peter but Christ was and is the rocke which argument may be gathered out of venerable Bede Beda in cap 21. Johan who writeth that Christ was the rocke vpon which foundation euen Peter himselfe was to be built The ground whereof agreable to the Scripture may be fetcht out of Peter de Alliaco Pet de Alliac● recommen scrip pag. 269. a reuerend Cardinall of Rome a very eager maintayner of the Popes supremacie who notwithstanding being ouercome with the light of that truth By the rocke saith he Peter doth not seeme to be vnderstood but Christ. For who can ground the strength of the Church vpon Peters weaknes whereof aske but the damosell that kept the dore and she will answer you that Peter being frighted at her word as Gregorie saith while he feared death denyed life Wherefore seing Peter did stagger and his Vicar hath no fast footing and seing Bishops them-selues doe so greatly differ about the chiefe Priesthood of Peter and Priests wrangle about their chiefe Priest who dare presume to say any man of what sanctitie or dignitie soeuer whether he be Priest or chiefe Bishop whether it be Peter or Peters Vicar or any other whosoeuer but Christ himselfe to be the foundation of the Christian Church Christ therefore hath founded his Church vpon himselfe as a most sure foundation against the synagogue of Satan and vpon this rocke hath surely grounded Peter himselfe of whom hee spake that former sentence vpon this Rocke These are the words of Peter de Alliaco You would thinke that Luther or Caluin were speaking And yet Cardinall Bellarmine was so saucie as to § 161 apply the prophecie of Esay of the chosen stone Blasphemie subscribed to by the popish pretious corner stone a sure foundation placed in Sion to the Pope sur reuerence This hath that base slaue of Antichrist deliuered against the most manifest exposition of Peter 1 Pet 2. to whom Tho Aquin. Cardinall Caictan and Maldonat and Fererius Iesuites and many