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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09847	A gagge for the Pope, and the Iesuits: or The arraignement, and execution of Antichrist Shevving plainely, that Antichrist shall be discouered, and punished in this vvorld: to the amasement of all obstinate papists.		1624 (1624)	STC 20111; ESTC S120961	58,414	88

carry it with zeale deuotion and austeritie of penance Bellarmine Thomas Aquinas and others proue the Popish Monarchy by the Gentiles gouernment the seauen Sacraments by Philosophicall arguments and that one body may be in many places at once by sophisticate principles Is not the worship of Saints and Images a meere tricke of the Gentiles and are not all the de●ises of adoration sprung from hellish ●dolatrie The temple of Romulus and Rhemus is now the Church of Saint Cosmas and Damianus the temple of Faunus is conuerted into the Church of S. Steuen The temple of Iuno Cupra into the Chappel of our Lady of Loretto where the altar stood dedicated to Apollo is now one erected to Saint Iohn the Image of Brasse of Iupiter is now Saint Peters as their antiquaries iustifie There was one supreme God among the Gentiles and many inferiors vnder him so the Papists acknowledge one God in tearmes but haue an hundred inferiors for euery action and disease the burning of incense commeth from the Gentiles and they assite Virgils testimony with other prets the washing of hands their skippings and turnings their sacrifices with fire and water their tunickes Albes and other pompous ceremonies their Purgatory and beliefe of good and bad Genius their worship of trees stones and fountaines with infinite other absurdities abominations are all the deuises of Gentils and customes of Pagans which if it be so Answere a Gods name you that must answer before the iudgement throne of the Lambe how comes this about if the Papacy shall not come to ruine and Rome it selfe at last be destroyed after Antichrist is discouered and the man of sinne consumed with the breath of Gods nostrills I must beginne with a smile For you cannot choose Popery keepeth Christians in ignorance but laugh when you heare of the Colliers faith to beleeue as the Church beleeues though it was not knowne what that beliefe was the obscuring of the Scriptures the inhibition of their reading their praying in an vnknowne tongue their not suffering men to dispute their preaching of stories and tales without one word of edifing their suppressing of religious bookes and infinit other palpable enormities what are they any other but instrumentes of Sathan to keepe vs in securitie or Synens hands to rocke the Cradle of our frailtie till wee fall a sleepe yea snort againe in the Cimerian caue of darkenes ignorance and superstition Oh harken for Gods sake what Historiographers write of ignorance dulnes and stupidity in spirituall affaires Alphonsus a Castro lib. 1. de haeresi sayth that diuers Popes were vtterly vnlearned Lazierdus Author Pla●●● speaking of Gregory 6. reciteth that he caused another to be consecrated with him for saying Masse because hee himselfe scarce knew a letter but this matters not for Ielium approues that the Pope cannot be deposed for want of learning Pope Zachary condemned Virgilius a Bishop of Germany as an heretike for saying there were Antipodes Paul the second was so vnlearned that he determined them to bee Heretikes that named the word Academy Iohn Pecham in the Prouinciall constitution supposeth it ●uff●cient for Priests either by themselues or substitutes once a yeere to tractate or at the most euery quarter of the ten Commandements of the law the twelue Articles the two commandements of the Gospell the seuen workes of mercy the seuen deadly sins the seuen vertues and the seuen sacraments without curiositie or putting it home to edifying vses of the conscience Durandus teacheth that the two points of a Bishops Miter signifies the old and new Testament but Lewis marcilius an Augustine Frier said that the stropps of the Miter which the Bishop hangs at his backe did foreshew that they neither vnderstood old nor new Testament Aluarus Pelagius complaines that the Bishops of Spaine committed thousands of soules to yong nouices that were fitter to play with Apples and Peares shall I name the Sermons of the Frier Menot Maillard Bromyard and their fellowes they were so full of ridiculous fables that the people went to Church to sport themselues in the hearing The Germans of late complained to Adrian 6. that Bishops aduanced vnlearned ideots vnfit vilde and ridiculous It is well known that many Priests and Friers could not say Masse nor distinguish of dayes but by the great letters and all your Schoolemen and Inquisitors generally fill their studies with bookes of Rhetorike stories legends Decretalls Canons Ciuell law and such trash For is not stubble trash compared to the come● but neither Bible nor expositors of Scriptures scarce a father or diuine author shall bee found amongst them for in truth how euer now a daies they swell with the tumor and accent of great Schollership and learning they are still for the most part illiterate and ignorant and that reputation they haue proceedeth either from their auditors and disciples want of knowledge or their Glosses and tedious Cataloging of vncertaine authors who handle curious questions and at the best school-diuinitie Nouation cannot stand without Christian pollicie nor Popery repugnant to the lawes of nature and nations pollicie bee maintained without obseruation and performance of othes promises compacts leagues and treaties of trade and commerce yet you shall see what either the scorne of Papist negligence presumption equinocation or one tricke or other hath done Formosus being deposed for-swore his Bishopricke yet regarded not his oath but resumed the same In the life of Henry 4. Emperour Gregory 7. was inuested Pope contrarie to his oath Paschall the second solemnly swore to the Emperour being his prisoner but at least subiect to his danger that hee would keepe and religiously obserue the Articles set downe betweene them bur hee proued so false repugnant that after he had escaped he rebelled and excommunicated the Emperour Charles the French Theodori●k King cha●geth Gregory 12. and Benedicke 13. of violation of their faith and Om●phrius alleadgeth against Alexander 6. that hee was a delinquent in more then punicke perfidiousnes Guicciardine speaking of Climent 7. sayth plainely ●ra di poca s●de Iulius 2. Leo 10. and diuers others endeuored to proue that the Pope was not bound by any oath but he might both infring the same and incite others to dishonorable practises Henry the 4. as Helmoldus complaines accuseth the Pope for the rebellion of his subiects and this by his instigation the tumults of Germany were raised and the people set all in combustion vpon the Popes warrant and pardon In the Counsell of Constance the Pope and his complices perswaded the Emperour to violate the safe conduct of Iohn Husse whereupon that damnable position of fides non est consernanda cum hereticis was ratified and concluded which if it bee so what trust can bee secured of any contract or treatie but still vpon aduantage the aduersary will breake out and imitate the Panther who sheweth not her tallents till the beasts be within her reach Did they not of late dayes perswade