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A52809	The Devils patriarck, or, A full and impartial account of the notorious life of this present Pope of Rome Innocent the 11th wherein is newly discovered his rise and reign, the time and manner of his being chosen Pope, his prime procession, consecration and coronation, the splendour and grandeur of his Court, his most eminent and gainful cheats, by which he gulls the silly people, his secret and open transactions with the papists in England, Scotland, France and Ireland, and other Protestant countreys to this very day : together with the rest of the hellish policies and infamous actions of his wicked life / written by an eminent pen to revive the remembrance of the almost forgotten plot against the life of his Sacred Majesty and the Protestant religion.	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.; Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1683 (1683)	Wing N452; ESTC R18567	63,170	152

the Scarlet Whore as also that the Beast should be a Seller of Beasts and above all I wonder what price He sets upon the Souls of Men seeing our Lord Christ who best knew the worth of Souls because He onely went to the price of Souls Valued one Soul worth the whole World Matth. 16.26 Surely He must be the Antichrist who selleth Souls for Trifles In a Word surely This Pope is Jack of all Trades Here he is a Goldsmith with his Gold and Silver and it may be a Banker I wish him to become a Bankrupt Here he is a Jeweller with his Pearls and Precious Stones Here he is a Linnen-Draper with his Fine Linnen and Purple I doubt He wants the Scotch-Cloth Here you have him a Silk-Man with his Silks of all sorts and fear not but he has Satten or Satan enough Here he is a Turner that Sells all sorts of Vessels wherewith he Turns the World Upside Down this He effects by Vessels of Wrath but He Sells for Slaves the Vessels of Mercy Here you have him one while a Brazer with his Brass another while an Iron-Monger with his Iron yea sometimes a Stone-Cutter with his Marble and why not a Tinker too being a Kin to him that instead of mending some Holes made many more yet was well paid for his pains Here he is a Druggist with his Cinnamon Odours and Ointment c. not one Sophisticated Drug amongst them all Here he comes as a Vintner with his Bottles of Wine to comfort the Heart and his Cruises of Oil to Chear and Clear the Countenance 't is well if there be not a Tincture of the Wine of Sodom among Hands Yea rather than fail He becomes a Corn-Chandler affording you Wheat either broken into Flour with Bran enough in it or in the whole Grain but a little Musty by laying in a bad Granary or Garner the Apostolical Chamber Yet lower nay rather than sit Idle he will come as a Rustick Drover to Sell Beasts and Sheep and Horses well Mouth'd and Man'd all and made as Tame as Asses And at last he comes as a Coach-Maker who has his Charots to Sell but have a care they carry you not to Purgatory instead of Abrahams Bosom But to Crown up the Catalogue of all his Commodities Note that which we Read Slaves doth fignifit Bodies which he Sels for Slaves and the Souls of Men too And so Lastly he becomes a Body-seller and to make a thorough-whole-sale Trade a Soul-seller also Let us all with Moses turn aside to see this great Wonder sure I am never did Proteus turn himself into so many Shapes never did any Jesuit this Popes Creature Convert himself into so many Callings as His Master is here Represented in The Pope hath made a Monopoly of all Employs to himself both in City and Country And the greatest Merchants Shop whose Riches lay not there but in the Warehouse cannot though taken both together be compared to the Apostolical Chamber One coming into a Merchants Shop I knew the Man a Rustick Carrier and seeing no Goods therein Bluntly Asks the Apprentice sitting alone in the Shop what was Sold there the Malapert Youth Answered We Sell Loggerheads say you so saith the Rustick Then you have a Quick Market for them seeing I see but One left in the Shop There is no Danger of any Citizen or Countryman either Missing what Wares he would be at or Mistakings of that Nature for here 's all things Exposed to View There is yet One Mischief mention'd Revel 18.11 where this Rich Shop is Inventory'd that No Man Buyeth His Merchandise any more This will break him at last But let my Countrymen take these Two Cautions First Have a care of a Cheat in his corrupt Commodities for he sells them all in a very dark Shop not suffering you to exercise your own Reason you must take all upon his crack'd Credit and comply with His price in an Implicit Faith and in a blind Obedience you must believe what the Pope believes and he is no such Fool as to discommend his own Wares He best Embraces Blindfold Buyers Ignorance is the Mother of his Merchandize The Second Caution is 'T is dangerous venturing into this Apostolical Chamber least this Grand Cheat pick your pockets for though his Wares be naught being all for Impositions He will impose them upon you and he will not trust you to the door for fear you give him the slip He must have Ready Money paid down upon the nail Have a care you be not cox'd out of good Gold for bad Ware And before you Saddle your Ass to Ride down to this Arch Huxter in Mystical Aegypt let me beseech you to consider a little in your considering Cap whither it were not far better for you to make your Buying Bargains with Christ than with Antichrist for the former Invites Chapmen to buy his true Treasure unsearchable Riches Gold Tryed in the Fire Royal Robes of his own Righteousness the choicest Opthalmicks or Eye-Salve the Waters of Life the Wine of the Spirit the Milk of Cousolation c. And all these without Money and without Price Isa 55.1 Rev. 3.18 Eph. 3.8 Isa 66.11 c. but the latter Wheadles simple ones as above to buy his Trash and Trumpery yet credulous Fools must part with much Money and a prodigious price for them c. But some may say these Commodities of the Pope as set down in the Catalogue under such Glittering Titles Rev. 18.12 13. Gold Silver c. look nothing like to Trash and Trumpery To this I answer the Book of the Revelation is so Abstruse and Mysterious that it requires another Revelation to unfold its Mystery I confess I have consulted some Learned Interpreters upon the place But that which is Instar Omnium and gives a None-Such Interpretation is the chief Auditor of the Apostolick Chamber in his Infallible Account Book Never did the profoundest Interpreter no not the Accutest of their own Popish Postillers make a plainer Explanation of any Dark Scripture than this Popes Auditor General hath made of Rev. 18.12.13 All the Voluminous Quirks of the most Mercurial Jesuits Cajetan Mendoza Salmeron c. are comparatively but Insiped Stuff and dull Descants to that one Auditors Record of the Romish Merchandise in this Popes Apostolical Chamber Yea the Chaldee Paraphrase or Onkeles so much cry'd up in the World is but a Jejune Piece to it This is the Master Piece of all wherein what be the Romish Pearls and precious Stones c. are made so Legible and Intelligible that every common Capacity may both Apprehend and Comprehend the right Notion of them In that known Court-Rolls and Rate-Book is Registred and made publick the common and current Price of a many choice and curious Commodities as Pardons Indulgences Licenses Absolutions c. whatever you have a mind to buy Indeed the Crys of Vendible Wares in the Streets of London will you buy this c. and will you buy that

Babylon My Work at present is to give him his due Character of an Insatiable Beast in both the other Respects with a little Transposition of the Third as coming next to Hand into the Seconds place to wit both as a Greedy and as a Bloudy Insatiable Beast This Prophet Malachi the Irish Monk hath Divine Warrant to call this Pope an Insatiable Beast seeing the Prophet Isaiah calls such Priests ejusdem Farinae of the same Brann with this High Priest Greedy Dogs which can never have enough Isa 56.10 11. and though they were dumb Dogs and could not bark yet could they bite well enough perverting the House of God for Prayer into a Den of Cut-Throat Thieves How far this Pope hath been the Jewish Prophets Greedy Dog and the Irish Prophets Insatiable Beast falls first in Order to Demonstrate so His most Eminent and Gainful Cheats whereby he Gulls the silly People do here follow He is in the General the Grand Impostor of the World so the Pope was call'd by Doctor Morton Bishop of Durelm many Years ago whose Elaborate Book Discourseth the many Legerdemain Tricks wherewith He deceiveth Nations and all and only to pick their Pockets May we but be let in a little to behold the Bowels of this Grand Cheat and View but a while his Guts and Garbage 't will soon be Discerned that he is the Devils Patriark bearing upon his Bannet the Abomination of Desolation The time would fail to tell How many Families this Abominable Beast hath made Desolate what else is the whole Cento and Fardle of Popery but a Concatenation of Wiles to compass a purse What is the chief Design of this Balaam of Rome but a continual conjuration for an House-full of Gold and Silver Witness his lying Legends His Mock-Miracles Praying for the Dead and a Thousand more nimble Tricks too tedious to enumerate but above all His Doctrine of Purgatory The Fire whereof doth more effectually warm tke Popes Kitchin than Torture any Soul He Damns into it 'T is a Cheat of Cheats Methinks the Apostle Peter points at this Pope who pretends to be his Successor while he speaks of such as through Covetousness with feigned Words do make Merchandise of Men and when He names Balaam the Son of Bosor who loved the wages of Iniquity so far until the Dumb Ass forbad the madness of the profane Prophet yet He cannot pass off without passing a Divine Doom saying whose Judgment now of a long time lingreth and yet their Damnation slumbreth not 2 Pet. 2.3.15 16. How can it slumber long when the cry of his cheating Tricks together with that of Bloud is gone up to Heaven to fletch down Gods Vengeance upon this Popes Head and upon his whole Popedom Let the Apostle Paul also Joyn Issue in this matter with his beloved Peter both which are represented Blushing as before at such pittiful pretended Successors who saith likewise as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these the Messias Men of corrupt Minds and Reprobate concerning the Faith But they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest to all Men as theirs also was 2 Tim. 3.8 9. Now what were Jannes and Jambres but a couple of Gipsy or Aegyptian Coujurers that cheated the People with their lying Miracles c. And such have some of the Popes of Rome that Mystical Aegypt Rev. 11.8 been c. Habemus Reos Confitentes Popish Authors do acknowledg it and did Moses muzzle the Mouths and made their Cheats manifest to all Men How much more will the Messias who is greater than Moses Heb. 3.3 confound in due time this Grand Impostor 'T is impossible for any Man of a Sober Mind to think otherwise especially If he cast but a seeing Eye upon Taxa Comerae Apostolicae the Apostolical Chamber in the Vatican at Rome where this Pope hath opend his Pedlars Pack exposed all his Vendible Commodities for Romae Omnia Venalia to the best Advantage of commending them to his Chapmans Eye no Shop so well furnished or affords such a Tempting Prospect in any of the Walks of the Royal Exchange Chambers and that which gives the most Splendid and Decoying Lustre is there you have the Pope himself in his Grandeur Courting in Customers good Man He dare not trust his Vassals a pack of Knaves He hath found them long wou'd go Snips with their Master He ha's now Learnt by His Loss Keep the Shop Robin and it will keep thee There himself stands crying in the very Language of Folly not of Wisdom who so is simple let him turn in Hither Prov. 9.16 He Cants in his Proselytes with Pedlars Pedantick Oratory Coying them in with come along my Cronies my Soft Pates for you must suppose He is of the same Sentiments with that Crafty Shop-Keeper who once Boasted He would not sell all his Children and Fools his Customers for some Hundreds of Pounds in the Year come along my Corculums look about you Gentlemen what lack you Lo here 's a Goose-Giblet Pye wherein every Palate may please it self what will ye buy I am just now upon my last Legs my long Lease of 1260 Years is now at its last Gasp and Expiration what never a packing-penny among you all for a poor packing-off Pope But are you Desirous to know his Wares all very Vendible to the Credulous that never think of the Cheat what are his Commodities in particular I will tell you where you have them all named and we are not a little obliged to the Infallible Holy Ghost that will take all the pains in giving us a Distinct Catalogue of all this Infallible Ghostly Fathers Commodities He tells you Rev. 18.12 13. in Antichrists Stately Shop you may have for Ready Money the Merchandise of Gold and Silver precious Stones and Pearls fine Lennen and Purple all Silk and Scarlet all Thyne or Sweet Wood all manner of Vessels of Ivory all manner of Vessels of precious Wood of Brass of Iron and of Marble yet more yea and Cinnamon Odours and Ointments yea Frankincense Wine and Oyl yea fine Flower and Wheat yet more there be Beasts and Sheep and Horses I wonder Asses are left out and Chariots and Slaves no doubt on 't but the greatest Ware is behind the Souls of Men. Who will not say here God bless us what a Shop is this So Capacious and so Accommodated with all the choicest and chiefest Commodities that this lower World can afford Here 's the Riches of both the Indies Gold Silver and precious Stones thereof Here 's the Riches of all Countrys and Kingdoms betwixt East and West North and South Here 's the very Quintessence and Compendium of Europe of Asia of Africk and of America is not this the Grand Impostor that even call'd for a packing-penny to a poor Pope who hath so much of Treasure enough to serve himself and enough to sell to others But I wonder He exposeth his Scarlet to Sale Having so much use for it to Array