THE Arraignment OF POPERY BEING A Short COLLECTION taken oâ—â— of the CHRONICLES and other Books of the State of the CHURCH in the Primitive Times Also The State of the Papists and how long It waâ— before the Universal POPE and MASS was set up and tâ—â— time of bringing in all their Rudiments and Traditions Beacâ—â—â—â— and Images Purgatory Tythes and Inquisitions Also A Relation of their Cruelties they acted after the Pope got up being worse then the Heathen and Turk New Rome having proved like Old Also What the People of England worshipped before they were Christians With several other things which may be profitable for people to read over wherein they may see the Worship of the Beast and Whore where all that fear God may see read try and give judgment by the Spirit of Truth â—o which is added The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the CHVRCH By G. F. and E. H. LONDON Printed in the Year 1667. The Contents Rulers makes Ministers and none must preach exâ—â—â—â— have a Licence from them Chap. 24. Pagâ—â— Concerning the Priests turning as the Rulers turned to 〈◊〉 Power that came up rather then they would lose their â—â—â—fices and how they petitioned several Parliaments and Fâ—â—lers that they might have their Tythes paid them and that they would suppress the People called Quakers Ch. 2â— Pag. 73. A Relation of some of the Cruelties insticted on the Christians by the Heathen Chap. 26. Pag. 81. An Abstract of the Bloody Massacre in Ireland by the Instigation of the Jesuits Priests and Fryars c. in the year 1642. Chap. 27. Pag. 84. In the History of the Churches of Piedmont collected and compiled by Samuel Morland in the year 1658. Chap. 27. Pag. 96. List of some of the Accusations for which the aforesaid people suffered in the Valleys of Piedmont by the Papists Chap. 28. Pag. 99. Te Doctrines of Christ and Antichrist distinguished Chap. 29. Pag. 103. A Discourse betwixt a Quaker and a Papist Ch. 30. P. 106. THE ARRAIGNMENT OF POPERY CHAP. I. The State of the Church in the Primitive Times and tho Time when the Apostacy from the Truth began Also a Relation of those few that were raised up from time to time to testisie against the Idolatry brought in and set up in every Age since the Apostles dayes From the Year Sixty four to the Year One Hundred and Fifty CHristianity was first brought into England in the Year 64 by Joseph of Aramathea and twelve Disciples sent by the Apostle Philip so that Christianity came into England long before the Universal Pope was Euseb lib. 3. John for preaching the Gospel was banished by Domitian into the Isle of Pathmos about the Year 97 and after the death of the aforesaid Domitian was released again under Peruâ—â— the Emperor and came to Ephesus Anno 100 where he continued until the time of Trajan and lived until he was ninety nine yâ—â—â— of age Between the Years One hundred and One hundred and fifty Ignatius in the Persecution of Trajan the Emperor was for the Christian Faith delivered to wild Beasts to be devoured Euseb lib. 3. chap 35 36. It is written of him That as he passed through Asia being under the most strict Custody of his Guarders he strengthned and confirmed the people every where as he went and admonished them especially and before other things to beware and shun Heresies and vain Superstitions newly risen up and that they should cleave only to the Apostles Doctrine Ex Hierom in Calassanct Eccles The Church at Jerusalem in or about One hundred and ten years after Christ writeth That until that time she was as an uncorrupt Virgin there was no false Doctrine sown there From the Years One hundred and fifty to Two hundred Polycarpus Bishop of Smyrna resisted Annasetus Bishop of Rome â—nd withstood divers Ceremonies then beginning to be set on foot Iraneus Bishop of Lyons in France wrote in the name of his Brethren in France unto Victor Bishop of Rome reproving him for offering to excommunicate the Churches of Asia who withstood his Traditions touching the time of the Celebration of Easter he was reprehended of divers Bishops but sharply of Iraeneus About this time there was six Synods held in Asia touching the Celebration of Easter where the Bishop of Rome had no more Authority then the other Bishops and when he challenged Authority Iraeneus reproved him From the Year two hundred to the Year two hundred and fifty Polycrates Bishop of Antioch was a married Bishop he together with divers other Bishops of Asia withstood Victor Bishop of Rome and opposed certain Constitutions by him urged about observation of Dayes Meats Drinks and Vestures Euseb lib. 5. chap. 26. From the Year Two hundred and fifty to Three hundred Fabian Chanimon of Nilus and Fructuosus of Tarracona were married Bishops Asclepiades a Bishop of Antiochia of whom Alexander Biâ—â—â— Jerusalem being the Prisoner of Christ in Caesaria wroâ—â— the people in Antiochia That it was a comfort unto him 〈◊〉 made his imprisonment the more easie that he heard of the 〈◊〉 constancy of Asclepiades Euseb lib. 6. chap. 11. Note in thâ—â— the true Bishops were no Persecutors but persecuted Narcissus Bishop of Jerusalem was a great Enemy to Super on Euseb lib. 5. cap. 6. From the Year Three hundred to Three hundred and fifty Silvester Bishop of Rome Three hundred and fourteen years 〈◊〉 Christ when Constantine offered him a Golden Scepter he refâ—â— it as a thing not fit for a Priests Function Sabel Euseb Chron And you may see there was a great difference between this Bishop and Popes when they got up And do you think that a Protestant Bishop Priest would refuse to take a Golden Scepter if it were offered him The same Bishop also ordained in the year following That â—â—ry Priest should be the Husband of one Wife according to thâ—â— postles Doctrine This was before the Popes Laws were made agâ—â—â— Marrying The Councils of Ancyra Nice Tyrus Gangra in which condemned the Heresie of Eustatius speaking against Marriâ—â— and eating of flesh c. Eliberis Carthage where the Bishoâ— Rome was stoutly withstood Antioch and Sardica were all suâ—â—ed at the Commandment of the Emperors not of the Pope 〈◊〉 Concil Basilius Magnus Bishop of Caesaria in Cappadocia in his â—â—â—tings he complaineth of the pride of the Western Churches and â—â—â—demneth their seeking of Supremacy Basil Transmarin Epist 〈◊〉 and Epist 10. ad Eusamos Gregorius Nazianzenus testified against the pride of Preâ—â—â— seeking Supremacy over others Zozam lib. 7. cap. 5. Gregorius Nyssenus was a married Bishop Niceph. Chalist Iâ—â—â— cap. 19. Eusebius Caesariensis wrote against the Bishop of Romes â—â—â—â—cy Lib. 2. de vit Const 3 37. He wrote against Images Lib 3. de presp Evang. And 〈◊〉 against Popish Injunctions of Fasting Lib. 5. Eccles Hist cap. 23. Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria whose Name was famous in the Church wrote much against Traditions Epist de Synod Nicen. Decr.
called and ask him by what Name he is called Then the Senior of the Cardinal-Deacons opening a little Window by which the people there waiting may see and be seen faith with a loud voice holding out the cross I show you glad tydings we have a Pope and he chuses his Name to be Innocent the Eighth c. or what Name he liketh Then the Cardinal-Deacons do put off the Popes common Apparel and put him in a white Woolen Gown and in red Hose and red Shooes embroidered with a Golden â—â—oss in a red Girdle with Golden Bucklers in a red cowle also upon his head and above all in a fair white Rochet then they put upon him his upper Garments viz. A long Albe a Girdle and a Stool set full of Pearls hanging down from about his Neck but if he were but a Deacon before he was elected then the Stool must lye on his lest shoulder only and come down with both ends fasâ—ned under his right arm Then after they put upon the Pope a red Cope called a Pluvial and Mitre set and deckâ— with precious stones and they make him sit upon the Altar and then they kiss his feet and then he is consecrated and the Consecrator blesseth a precious Ring to be put on his singer saying O Lord God Creator and Conservator of Mankind giver of spiritual Gifts and Graces and greater of 〈◊〉 health and 〈◊〉 thou O Lord send down thy blessing upon this Ring c. and while this Prayer is said the Pope stands up and in the mean time one of the Colliters holdeth the Ring in his right hand kneeling down at the beginning of the blessing thereof and the Consecrator the Prayer being ended sprinkleth it over with holy Water and then puts it on the Popes singer saying Take this Ring as a sign and token of Faith c. and Oyle being poured upon his Head by the Consecrator the Cardinal-Deacon dryeth it up again with crumbs of Bread and then setteth on the Mitre and then he gives the Cardinals his feet and hands to Rite and so the Consecrator saith forth the Mass and before he is crowned the Cardinals Deacons Sub deacons and Colliters apparel him in a white Amise and long Girdle a Stool and a red Pluvial and a Mitre and being thus decked he goeth down to the place called St. Peters the Cross being carried before him the Cardinals and Deacons on either side bearing up the skirts of his Pluvial and the noblest of the Laity being present though it be the Emperor or a King must bear up the train of the same and next before the Pope goeth the Minister of the Ceremonies with Reeds in his hand upon the one tow and upon the other a burning candle and when the Pope is past the Châ—ppel of St. Gregory so called the aforesaid Minister turning him to the Pope setteth fire on the tow kneeling down and saying with a loud Voice Holy Father so passeth away the glory of the world which he doth three times and then the Gospel-book is laid upon the Popes shoulders and afterwards he goeth up the Altar and the Prior of the Cardinal-Deacons taketh the Robe called Pollium from the Altar and putteth it upon the Pope saying Receive the Pall which is the sacred Plenitude and holy perfection of the Pontificial Office to the honour of Almighty God of the blessed Virgin Mary his Mother of the holy Apostle Peter and Paul and of the holy Church of Rome and then maketh it fast about the Pope with Buckles and Pins And when the Pope first receiveth this Robe he goeth to the Altar and kisseth it and then kisseth the gospel-Gospel-Book and then putteth Incense into the Censers Then they proceed to crown him after this sort The Pope receiving the Gloves and Rings with the other Implements goeth upon a high Stage made for the purpose and when all the Laâ— people are gone out of the Church so called and the Prâ—â—â—â— are câ—me together the Deacon on the left hand taketh off the Popes Miâ—â—◠〈◊〉 Deacon on the right hand taketh the Tiare or Croâ—â— called a Triple Crown and setteth 〈◊〉 on the Popes bead and thâ—n going to the Church of Latte an so called he goeth up into the Gallery or Cloister of the same where the Prior of the Cannons holdeth him the cross to kiss and the triple Crown is taken off and the Mitre put on and then he is had to a place or seat without the Gate on the left hand called Stercoraria which signifies a Dunghil and setting down on the said seat and leanning down so low that he seemeth rather lying then sitting the Cardinals come to him and lift him up saying He lifteth up the needy from the dust and from the dunghil exalteth the poor that he may sit among the Princes and possesss the Throne of Glory Then the Pope rising up taketh so much money in his hand out of the bosome of his Chamberlain as he can griâ—e and casteth among the people saying Argeâ—â—um Aurum non est mihi quod autem habeo hoc tibi do I have neither Gold nor Silver but that that I have that I give thee and at the Popes Feast after he is crowned when he drinketh all the Assistants and Servitors kneel down So great is the pride of this Prelate These things are truly extracted out of the First and Second Sections of the First Book of Ceremonies aforesaid written by a Papist CHAP. XIII The time when the Tythes were first given in England by whom and by whose Authority a Law for payment of Tythes was first established First Whereas it is alledged that Abraham paid the tenth of the spoil that he got by the Sword to Melchisedeck and Melchisedeck made him and his Soldiers a Feast this was not by the command of God nor an example that all Kings and Princes should pay tythes of all their spoil nor the tenth of their Estates For you never read that Abraâ—am paid it afterwards as you may read in Josephus and Genests the twenty third and Jacob saying to the Lord when he went from Esau at his return he would surely give him the tenth of all that he gave unto him when he vowed a vow This is no example for Christians to pay Tythes no more then it is to offer Sacrifice for he ffored Sacrifices And again Whâ—reas it is alledged that Levi took â—ythes and Aaron which was called a Heave-offering or a Shake-offering which tythes was for the Priest Levi and the Widow and the Fatherless and the Stranger that there might not be a Beggar in Isâ—â—ael So you that hold up tythes must hold up the first Priesthood which ordâ—ined to offer Sacrifices and hold up the Shake-offering and the Heave-offering and so deny Christ come in the flesh and to be offered up one Offering once for all For if the Levitical Priesthood be standing which came after the Order of Aaron then your tythes and Offerings is standing for Levi
Prince of the Priests or Highest Priest but only the Bishop of the chief See that is Seat A Council held at Hippo Decreed That Bishops and Priests should look well to their Children That the Head-Bishop of the Head See should not be called the chief Priest and that no Scripture should be read in the Church but Canonical that is such as they approved by exact Rule The Council held at Taurinum was for the Reformation of the Clergy which then was corrupted but now much more The Council of Malta condemned the Pelagians and Dâ—â—â—â— and concluded that Infants were to be baptized The Council of Agatha decreed that none should be made Prieâ—â— before they were thirty years old and that the Clergy should 〈…〉 such attire as became their Profession with many other Conâ—â—â—tions The first and second Council held at Vasio decreed that in such Churches where Preachers were not the Deacons should read â—â—milies A Council held at Carpentoracte decreed that the Bishop shâ—â—â—â— not poll the Parishes A Council held at Venice decreed that no Clergy-man should 〈◊〉 at Wedding-Dinners Dancing and hearing of wanton Sonnets 〈◊〉 vain Songs All the Bishops of Africk came together by the commandment of Hororicus the Arrian where his Heresie was confirmed and Four hundred forty four Bishops exiled or banished Anno 490 A Synod of Seventy Bishops were called together at Rome where the Canonical Scriptures were severed from such as rhey counted Apocrypha A Synod met at Epaunis decreed that no Clergy-man should either Hunt or Hawk and that throughout the Province such Divine Service at the Metropolitan or chief City liked of should be retained Euseb Note the Apostles decreed no such things as this that we read of 〈◊〉 Scripture A Council held at Aurelia decreed that Lent should be solemnly kept before Easter the Rogation with the Ember-Dayes about the Ascention A Council held in Gerundia in Spain decreed that every Province should observe one Order of Divine Service that Baptism should be Ministred only at Easter and Whitsuntide and at other times is necessity so required and that the Lords Prayer should be said at Evening and Morning-Prayer Euseb A Council held at Caesar Augusta accursed such as received the Sacrament and eat it not in the Church A General Council was held at Constantinople which decreed that Mary should be called the Mother of God The First and Second Synods were called at Lyons for the removing of Schism raised in the Church Six Synods were held at Rome touching the Election of a Bishop and the Preservation of Church-Goods CHAP. V. Concerning the state and condition of the Church as it was before there was a Vniversal Pope Also what Decrees and Institutions were made by Bishops for the first six hundred years after Christ and how the Apostacy begun to overspread the Church NOvatius a Priest of Rome two hundred fifty four years after Christ abhorred second Marriage he was condemned as an Heretick at a Synod held at Rome the same year Eusâ—b lib. 6. cap. 48. Apostalici were Hereticks in Pisidia who two hundred and fifty five years after Christ condemned Marriage and said the Apostles were unmarried men Which is a lye for several of the Apostles were married men Aug. lib. de Haeres Ephip Haer. 61. Originiani were Hereticks Anno 273 they prohibited Marriage but committed Fornications and all uncleanness and filthiness and rejected some Books of the Old and New-testament which made against them Ephip Haeres 63. About three hundred and ten years after Christ one Lucina a holy Maid of Rome dying made Maâ—cellus Bishop of Rome her heir and gave him all her great Substance From that time forth saith Pollidore Lib. 6. the Bishops of Rome were greatly enrâ—ched and then came to be pust up in pride Which riches the Apostles denyed Pol. lib. de Invent. cap. ult In the year three hundred and ten Macarius was Bishop of Jerusalem he was the means with Helena that the Cross of Christ was found So there was no Cross before among the Apostles Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 6.9 In the year 308 Dioclesian the Empetor of Rome was so puffed up with pride that he would needs be worshipped as God saying 〈◊〉 brother to the Sun and Moon and adorned his shoes with 〈◊〉 and precious stones he commanded the people to kiss his 〈◊〉 which practice the Popes afterwards followed And this Eâ—â—â—â—â—â— caused the Christians to be persecuted in the Tenth Persecution Euseb lib. 7. c. 29. lib. 8. c. 2 3 14 19. Soc. lib. 1. c. 2. In Three hundred and eighty years after Christ the Name Catholick beginneth being instituted by Damacius a Bishop of Rome In the year 391 Set-hours to Prayers instituted by St. Jerome In the year 394 in Bishop Ciricius time the word Massâ—â— was brought first into the Church In the year 398 Anastatius Bishop of Rome decreed That men should stand up at hearing the Gospel read In the year 412 Cirilius succeeded Theophilus in the See of Alexdâ—ia and withall he challenged to himself more Authority than ever any other Bishop before him From that time forth he took to himself also the Government of Temporal Matters and banished all the Jews And this Bishop went contrary to Christs command which saith You are Brethren Foelix Bishop of Rome appointed the Feast of Michael the Arch-Angel called Michaelmas In the year 528 Justinian instituted swearing by the Gospel Hore swearing came in In the year 533 Agapetus Bishop of Rome first commanded the people to go a Procellioning and to follow the Cross Plat. Polid. Deborus c. This is contrary to Christ and the Apostles Philosophy was not taught in Christian Schools before nor in the time of Justinian the Emperor who began to reign in the year of Christ 527. Part. 2. Chap. 26. Pag. 89 90. In the year 560 Gregory Bishop of Rome commanded That neither flesh nor any thing that hath affinity with flesh as Cheese Butter Milk Eggs c. should be eaten on such dayes as are appointed to be fasted on In the year 569 King Conwall had alwayes a silver Cross carried before him and caused Crosses to be first set upon every Steeple in England In the year 578 Pelagâ—us Bishop of Rome decreed That Sub. Deacons should either leave their Wives or else their Offices All this is contrary to the Apostles In the year 590 Gregory Bishop of Rome approved and allowed the Feast of Trinâ—ty Gulielm Durand In the same year he set up Prayers for Saints Sacrifices for the Dead and Purgatory in the Church In the year 595 a certain wicked woman an Emperess requested of Theodore Bishop of Rome that Images might be set up in their Churches and it was agreed that it should be by the said Theodore and his â—ouncil This is contrary to the Primitive Church In the year 600 Benedictus was the first Founder of the Order commonly called St. Benedicts He presumed to invent new wayes which all the godly Fathers
on Earth and Saint Peter's lawful Successor Anselmus Rid. Achilles Rerminius Sebastianus Franc. c. Bec. fol. 295. This Pope also brought it to pass that the Bishop of Rome only should be called Pope that is to say the Father of Fathers for before that time all Bishops generally were called Popes In the year 684 Pope Sergius the first invented the Agnies Dei and commanded that it should be sung of the Clergy and People together at the Communion Flat Durand de Barns Bec. fol 341. The same Pope in the same year devâ—sed first the Clothes of the Saints to be kept for Relâ—ques and confirmed the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary Segeb. Pant. Bec. fol. 356. In the year 714 a Council of Pope Gregory the second was against Marriages of Priests and was for the worshipping of Images in England In the year 729 the same Pope confirmed the having of Images in Churches and excommunicated the Emperor for abolishing them and stirred up his Subjects to rebel against him Blondus Chron Bec. fol. 324. In the year 752 Pope Zachary devised Oyl for the Lamps and invented the Priests Apparel Chron. Achil Bee fol. 304. In the year 768 Pope Paul the first devised the Service for Lent The same Pope also commanded that in the time of Lâ—nt the Divine Service should be done before the sixth hour in the Morning Pope Constantine the second decreed That no Lay-man should be Pope Also he condemned the seventh Council of Constantinople as Heretical for condemning the worshipping of Images and wrote a Book of worshipping Images calling them Lay-mens Calendars In the year 769 Pope Constantine he condemned the Emperor for destroying Images and made a Decree to establish them in their Churches Plat. Pol. Bec. fol. 324. In the year 740 Gregory the third commanded Oblations and Sacrifices to be offered by the Priests at their Mass for the dead and made a Law that Images should not only be had in Churches as Lay-mens Books but that they should be worshipped and had in greater Reverence then ever they were and whoever was of the contrary Opinion should be condemned for a Heretick Seg. Bland Plat. Sabel Becon fol. 324. In the year 772 Pope Stephen the third decreed That Images should not only be had in Churches but that they also should be senced Seg. Plat. volat Bee fol. 324. In the year 796 Pope Adrian the first in his time there was a Council held at Frankford in the which it was decreed That whosoever did any Service in the Church he should wear a Surplice upon his back in Service time and no man to go in his common Apparel without a Surplice no not so much as the Sexton Christ Massaeus Becon fol. 323. These things are all contrary to Christ and the Apostles The same Pope about the same time ordained the Impropriation of Benefices and granted Priviledges to Monks Nunns Canons and the Gloisters In the year 817 Pope Leo the third ordained Sencing and a Council held at Rothemage commanded that the Altar should be Senced after the Gospel Lib. Conc. Durand Beo. fol. 338. The same Pope in the same year decreed That all Sundays should be kept holy Volat. Pantal. Sabel Pope Leo the third appointed That when the child is either Christned or Bishopped he should have but one Godfather be it a Man-child or a Woman-child De Consect dist cap. 4. Guil Durand Joan. Stell c. These things are all contrary to the Scriptures In the year 827 there was a Council held in the time of Pope Paschalis at Aquisgranum who ordained that no Ecclesiastical persons should wear any sumptuous Garments or Rings nor Ouches on their fingers but Bishops only when they were saying Mass in their High-Priests Robes Christian Massaeus lib. Concil Becon fol. 303. In the year 834 the Feast of Holy Trinity instituted by Gregory In the year 848 Pope Sergius the second his Name being Osporci that is Swines-snout or Hogs-mouth he changed his Name to Sergius And after that the Popes of Rome took it foâ—â— special priviledg to change their Names So that if he had been a Malefactor before he was a Pope he called himself Boniface which signifies Goodness And if he had been a Coward then he termed himself Leo a Lyon And if he had been a defamed person then he called himself Benedictus which signifies good Name and Fame Chron. Polichron c. Lib. 4. cap. 10. de Inventor Cerum In the year 850 Pope Leo the fourth he ordained that no Lay-man should come near to the Priest in the time of the Mass nor Into the Quire Seg. Plat. Becon fol. 343. This Pope was the first that had the Golden Cross carried before him Which is contrary to the Apostles In the same year in the same Popes time the Monkish Religion of the Camaldinenses was devised their Cowle and Cloak and all that ever they wear from top to toe was white They were to go bare-footed and lye on the ground He also instituted the Heart of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary that it should be kept holy eight dayes Pol. Chron. Lib Germ. Bec. fol. 313. Lib. Concil Seg. â— â—oan Functius In the year 858. this Pope Leo was the first that offered his â—eet to kiss to Princes Volat. Plat. rant Becon fol. 298. In the year 870 Pope Nichelas about this time was the first that decreed That the Popes Laws and Letters should be of equal Authority with the Scriptures He a so decreed that the Service should he in Latin and that Priests should not marry He also decreed that Gloria in Excelsis that is Glory in the Highest should be sung on Maurday Thursday in Lent De Consist dist 1. glor Becon fol. 343. In the year 863 Pope Bennet the third commanded that Priests should wear Apparel meet for their degree He also ordained that the Priests should be present at the Burial of the Bishops and sing prayers for their souls and that Bishops should do the like for them Fascit temp Chron. Becon fol. 304. Chron. Rlat In the year 871 Pope Nicholas made a Law That no Wife should be held lawful except she was first blest with a Priest The same year the same Pope first decreed That no Marriage ought to be in the time of Lent Gret Chron. Bec. fol 331. Which is now observed and is contrary to the Apostles There was also a Decree made in the Council at Illerdonse That from Septuagessima unto the Octaves of Easter and three weeks before John Baptist and again that from Advent to Twelftide after Christmas Marriages was forbidden to be solemnized and if any did marry in those forbidden times they should be separated Quest 23. Chap. 4. non oporte In the year 891 was the University of Oxford sounded by King Alfâ—ed which was before a place Dedicated to the Muses Isaackson Chron. In the year 913 In Pope Sergius the thirds time the Order of Clunasences Monks came up and their clothing
and grow and was 〈◊〉 in thy love and be multiplied into the length of dayes and 〈…〉 sprinkles holy Water on the Ring The Papists pray for Souls departed The Priest while he sayes his Prayer stands with his face Eastward and looks unto the high Altar and then turns him to the people and sayes Ye shall pray for all Christian souls for all Bishops Clerks Curates and for the souls of all Christian Kings and Queens and especially for the Kings of England and for all souls that to this Church have given Book Bell Chalice or Vestment or any other thing by which the Service of God is the better done Did you ever hear such Trumpery CHAP. X. Concenning Hallowing the Church VVHen any Church is to be hallowed first all the people must depart out of the Church and the Deacon must remain there only having all the Doors shut fast to him the Bishop with the Clergy stand at the door and make holy Water mingled with Salt In the mean season twelve Candles must be set up within the Church burning before twelve Crosses that are appointed upon the Church 〈◊〉 After the Bishop accompanied with the Clergy and people go 〈◊〉 times about the Church without the Bishop having in his hand a 〈◊〉 with a bunch of Hysop on the end with which he casts Holy Water upon the Church-Walls and as the Bishop goes round every time he comes at the door he strikes the Threshold with his Staff and sayes in Latin Lift up your Gates O ye Princes and be ye lift up O ye â—â—â—lusting Gates and the King of Glory shall enter in Then the Deacon rayes who is this King of Glory Then the Bishop answers 〈…〉 Lord 〈◊〉 and Mighty even the Lord Mighty in Battel 〈…〉 the Bishop and the Everlasting Gates 〈…〉 The third time the Deacon opens the door to him and he and the Clergy enters but the people stand without still and then the Bishop sayes the Letany and then a Cross of Ashes and Sand is made on the Pavement whereon the Alphabet or Christ-cros â—ow is written in Greek and Latin and then the Bishop with Salt Ashes and Wine consecrates the Altar and then annoints the aforesaid twelve Crosses on the Wall with Cream and then the people may come in and ring the Bells for joy This is to be noted That if the Wine be frozen in the Chalice thâ— Priest must so long breathe upon it till it be molten and the Ice dissoâ—â—ed and if it cannot be dane so he mâ—y put fine to it CHAP. XI Concerning Hallowing of Beads IN their Prayer to their God they say We beseech thee that thou wilt vouchsafe from the Seat of thy Majesty with thy blessing to sanctifie replenish and fulfil these Bead 〈◊〉 pray on which are apt and meet for devotion of thy Servants to honour that most glorious Virgin Mary Mother of God You read none of this in Scripture Concerning Christining and Hallowing of Bells The Bishop puts upon him a Surplice and having a Cross born before him and accompanied with the Clergy and people they go to the place where the Metal shall be shed which the Bell is made of and while the Bell is casting that it may have right shape The Bishop begins to sing and all the Clergy sings forth aloud and so continue till the Bell is cast and then they sing six Psalms and in the mean time the Bishop washes the. Bell with holy Water and then he goes to prayer and then he wipes it with a Towel People did you ever hear such deceit which is contrary to Scriptures and then sayes a Psalm and then annoints the Bell seven times without and four times within with Oyl and Cream then the Bishop prayes again saying to his God Vouchsafe to replenish this Bell with thy Heavenly 〈…〉 before the mâ—â—â— and sound thereof the fiery darts of the 〈◊〉 the Lightnin's and Tempests may be chased away And then he sprinkles the Bell with Holy Water then the God-fathers and God-mothers draw nigh and lay their hands on the Bell to whom the Bishop sayes Name the Bell who gave the Bell what name they thought good and then the Bishop and the God-fathers and God-mothers put upon the Bell a Linnen Vesture white and large These be the works of the Pope and the Papists who are gotten up since Christ and the Apostles and are not the wâ—rks of Christ as you may read in the Scriptures That the Primitive Christians had no Bells is proved by Vosius in his Commentary upon the two Epistles of Pliny and Trajan and Bernardinus de riâ—u concionandi Guido Pâ—ncirolus saith they were invented by one Paulinus Bishop of Nola and that they were called Nolae in Latin from Nola the place where they were first made and Campanie because invented in Campaniae Hospinian de Orig. temp saith they were not used for certain in the first five Centuries almost of Christianity And who were the first that caused them to be set up in Churches as things appertaining to the Worship of God is before related CHAP. XII A short Relation of some of the Ceremonies of the Pope and his Followers taken out of the Works of Christopher Marcellus Bishop of Corcira Dedicated to Pope Leâ— the Tenth AND first as to the Popes Election All people are shut out of the Election-house saving the Fathers and the Ministers the Senior of the Cardinals exhorteth the other Fathers that they 〈◊〉 mind and consider the highness of the matter whereof theâ— must pâ—â—senâ—ly 〈…〉 then which matter and business nothing 〈…〉 or more excellent for he saith They are about to provide 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 of Christ the Successor of Peter the Pastor 〈…〉 Leader of Christ Flock the Key bearer Pottet and 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 the Prince of the Apostolick 〈…〉 and the chief Preâ—â—◠〈…〉 Christendom There is four kinds of Election but to make the Work short I will only relate one of them though they are all Wayes which Christ never instituted neither did his Apostles ever practice such things viz. First all the Colledg of the Cardinals agree upon Three Upon one of the Cardinal-Bishops on one of the Cardinal-Priests and upon one of the Cardinal-Deacons Mark people we never read in the Scriptures of Cardinal-Bishops and Cardinal Priests and Deacons to which three they give Pover and Authority to chuse the High Bishop after this sort They let up and light a candle of a certain appointed quantity that it may burn a certain space and their power to chuse lasteth no longer then the piece of candle lasteth for they must chuse him before it be burnt out and the same being so chosen is right Pope Then the Senior of the Cardinals and Colledg do shew their joy and do their duty of reverence to him and putting off his Senate-Robe called Caprea and his little Hood called Capuâ—ium they cause him to set down in his Rochet where the Seniors do put upon his singer the Fisher's Ring so
the Church but that the same so remain and that there be a modest and distinct Song so used in all parts of the Common-Prayers in the Church that the same may be as plainly understood as if it were read without singing And yet nevertheless for the comforting of such as delight in Musick it may be permitted that in the beginning or end of Common-prayers either at Morning or Evening there may be sung an Humn of such like Song to the praise of Almighty God in the best sort of Melody or Musick that may be conveniently devised CHAP. XVI Concerning Swearing THE Form of words which Christ hath laid down in Mat. 5 and the Apostle James taught in his general Epistle Chap. 5 is as followeth Christ said Ye have heard that it hath been said â—f old time Thou shalt not forswear thy self which was the false Oath but perform thy Oaths to the Lord which was the true Oath which were to be taken before the Judges Officers and Magistrates to end Controversies and be performed to the Lord. Put Christ said Now I say unto you Swear not at all but let your yea be yea and nay nay for whatso ver is more then this cometh of evil Therefore this yea yea and nay nay wherein Christ doubles his words to make them of force sets them over and above an Oath And also in James 5.12 the Apostle taught and said Above all things my brethren swear not at all neither by Heaven nor by Earth mark nor by any other Oath but he also sets up that which is above an Oath which is Christs words Let your yea be yea and nay nay which form of sound words the Apostle doubles as Christ did when he said in his repeating over Christs words Ye shall swear no Oath lost ye fall into condemnation These are the Commands of Christ and the Apostle which we are to stand by to wit yea yea and nay nay Some Ex â—â—ples of the Primitiv Christians and Holy Martyrs that kâ—pt the Commands of Christ and the Apostles which spoke the truth an both denied and gave their Testimony against Sâ—earing Folycarpus a Martyr who was as it is said John's Disciple and Bishop of Smyrâ—a being Eighty nine years of Age when he was required by the Proconsul to swear he denied it and said he was a Christian So it appears a that tâ—me Christians did not swear Acts and Mon. fol. 55. Vol. 2. And also Basillides Martyr who was an Officer among the Soldiers being required to swear before a Judg said plainly That it was not lawful to swear Lib. 6. Chap. 6. tage 98. So it appears plainly That it was the mark of a Christian no to swear And the Waldenses whose Names are so famous amongst the Reformed Churches and who are said immediately to succeed the Apostles and were the most ancient and true Protestants professed it to be no wayes lawful for a Christian to swear And Bishop Vsher late of Armagh Primate of Ireland pleaded their Cause against the Jesuits in his Book De Successione chap. 6. The Ploughman in his Complaint saith Lord thou gavest us a Command of truth in bidding us to say yea yea and nay nay and swear nothing but Lord he that calls himself thy Vicar on Earih hath broken thy Commandment for he maketh a Law and compelleth men to swear Book of Martyrs Vol. 1. p. 527 528. And John Wickliff whose Works are so much esteemed by the Protestants his judgment was That all Oaths which be made for any Contract or Civil Bargain betwixt man and man be unlawful and John Hus and Jerom of Prague were burnt for holding his Opinion by the Papists Fol. 653. And Walter Brute who was a Teacher of Gods people saith concerning Swearing I believe and obey the Doctrine of Almighty God and my Master Christ Jesus which teacheth that Christian men in affirming the truth should pass the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees of the Old Testament or else he excludes them from the Kingdom of Heaven for he saith Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharises you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and as concerning Oaths he saith It hath been said by them of old time thou shalt of forswear thy self but peâ—form thy Oaths to the Lord but I say to you now Swear not at all bâ—t let your yea be yea and nay nay for whatsoever is moâ—e then thesâ— cometh of avl. And merefore as the perfection of the ancient men in the Old Testament was not to forswear themselves so the perfection of Christian men is not to swear at all because they are so commanded of Christ whose command in no case must be broken Origen saith It behoves a man who lives according to the Gospel not to swear at all And Jerome an ancient Father and Teacher of the Church which the Protestants own saith That the great Evangelical sincerity and truth admits not of an Oath since every true saying is equivolent thereunto Theophilact an ancient Father of the Church whom the Protestants own saith Mat. 5. concerning Oaths Learn hence that under the Law it was no evil for one to swear but since the coming of Christ it is evil as is Circumcision And was it not the principal solution given by Ambrose That a Christian should not swear at all And Bishop Gauden saith A true Christians Oath is needless and an evil mans Oath is worthy of no more credit then a lyar p. 17 41. of his Book concerning Swearing Otho Bishop of Banbergenses in Germany and Basilius of Calcedon refused to swear and afterwards there was an Act granted to tender Christians that their yea and nay might be taken to testifie the truth instead of an Oath and the Essaeans amongst the Jews refused to swear as Josephus witnesseth Likewise Basil commends Chinas a famous Greek who suffered a Fine of three talents rather then he would save it by swearing to the loss of his honour And also in Queen Maries dayes many that suffered Martyrdom refused to swear And in Mat. 18.17 Christ saith in the Gospel-times to the Church that by the mouth of two or three Witnesses every word may be established and not in the mouth of two or three Swearers and this Christ spoke in matter of differences that might happen among Christians but said nothing of an Oath for Oaths he forbad before The Examination of William Thorpe Martyr in the days of King Henry the Fourth Anno Dom. 1407 concerning Swearing The Arch-Bishop said Lo it is certified against thee that thou preachedst openly at Shrewsberry that it is not lawful to Swear in any case Book of Martyrs p. 701. Vol. 11. Thorpe said I preached openly that it is not lawful in any case to swear by any Creature and that by the Authority of the Epistle of St. James Then the Clerk asked me if it were not lawful to a Subject at the bidding of his Prelate to kneel down and touch the Holy
Gospel-Book and kiss it saying So help me God and this Holy Doom And I said to them Sirs ye speak here full generally and largely What if a Prelate commandeth his Subject to do an unlawful thing should he obey thereto The Arch-Bishop said That a Subject ought not to suppose that a Prelate will bid him do an unlawful thing Thorpe said But to our Purpose And I related that a Master of Divinity had said That it was not lawful either to give or take any charge upon a Book for every Book is nothing else but divers Creatures of which it is made Therefore to swear upon a Book is to swear by Creatures and this swearing is ever unlawful This sentence witnesseth Chrysostome plainly blaming them greatly that bring forth a Book to swear upon charging Clerks that in no wise they constrain any body to swear whether they think a man swear true or false And the Arch-Bishop and his Clerks scorned me and blamed me greatly for this saying and threatned me with great punishment except I left this opinion of not swearing And then I said this is not my opinion only but it is the opinion of Christ and St. James and of Chrysostome and of other Saints And the Clerk said to me Wilt thou submit thee here meekly to the Ordinance of holy Church and lay thy hand upon the Book touching the Holy Gospel of God And I said have I not told you here how that I heard a Master of Divinity fay that in such a Case it is all one to touch a Book and to swear by a Book And the Arch-Bishop said There is no Master of Divinity in England so great but if he hold this opinion before me I shall punish him as I shall do thee except thou swear And I said Was not Chrysostome an Eâ—â—eâ—tive Doctor The Aâ—ca-bishop â—aâ—d Yea. And I said If Chrysostome proveth him â—orthy of great blame that bringeth forth a Book to swear upon it must needs sollow that he is more too blame that sweareth upon that Book The Clesk said Lay thine hand upon the Book touching the Holy Gospel of God Here the ignorance of the Papists may be cen who be ieved the Leâ—ter was the Gospel And these â—lind Protestants and Frofessors in our age still hold the ame I said I understand that the Holy Gospel of God may not be touched with mans hand The Clerk said I said not truth c. I said By Authority of Saint Hierome the reading of the Letter is not the Gospel but the belief that men have in the Word of God that is the Gospel that we believe and that is the virtue of Gods Word and David saith Through the Word of God the Heavens were formed In the year 4â—7 King Hunderâ—ck in the time of the ten Persecutions put an Oath to the Christians and they refused it but some amongst them being simple men was willing to take it and the King said unto them which would have taken the Oath Because that you contrary to the Rule of the Gospel which saith Snear not at all would have sworn the Kings will is that you shall never see your Churches more but shall be banished into the Wilderness and never perform any Ministerial Office more and there you shall till the ground and the King saâ—d to them that refused the Oath You shall be immediately sent away to the Isle of Cross to hew timber for Ships E seb p. 80. The Christians that were put to cruel tortures by the Papists in the Valley of Piedmont about the year 1655 of which a particular Relation is herein following one of the Articles against these Christians was that they could not swear at all Pontius of the age of fifteen years was cruelly tormented and martyred by the Heathen in the primitive times because he could not swear And many now in these dayes suffer much for the like cause The false Christians would have people swear like the Heâ—then CHAP. XVII Concerning the Title of Doctors and concerning their Habits A Bout three hundred years ago then the Name and Title of Doctor began to be conferred solemnly It was an Article of John Wickliffs condemned at Constance that Graduations and Doctorships in Universities and Colledges as they were in use then did conduce nothing to the Church The Genevians in their Annotations upon Rev. 9. ver 3. where the Locusts came out of the smoak say they were and are false Teachers Hereticks and worldly-subtile Prelates with Monks Fryars Cardinals Patriarchs Arch-Bishops Doctors Batchellors and Masters Didoclavius in his Book called Altare Damascenum p. 891 saith that Hoods Tippets and square Caps were introduced by Antichrist to promote his splendor Philpot chose rather to be secluded the Convocation of the Clergy then to wear a Hood and Tippet Stat. Arad Oxon. Tit. 14. Parag. 1. The words of the Statutes are in English thus It is ordered that all Heads of Colledges all Fellows and Scholars wear black or sad-coloured Clothes and all that are initiated into holy Orders as it becomes those of the Clergy to do There were of old a certain sort of people among the Jews called Chemarims or Black-coats as it may be read in Hosea the 5th But our Translators have rendred them Priests instead of Chemarims which Priests were smutted by the Heathens black Sacrifices CHAP. XVIII Concerning the Heathen Idolaters naming their Dayes and Months THE old Pagan Saxons in their Idolatry were the first that brought in the Names of the Dayes which those called Christians have retained to this day for they adored Idols and unto them offered Sacrisices and worshipped the Planets See Vestigans Antiquities and Cambdens Brit. As touching the Idols which these Saxons adored they were divers and though they had many yet seven among the rest they especially appropriated unto the seven dayes of the week That day which is the first day of the week they worshipped the Idol of the Sun which was placed in a Temple and there acrificed unto and to the special adoration of which Idol they gave the Name of Sunday The second day of the week they dedicated to the Idol of the Moon and from whence these called Christians retain the Name of Monday instead of Moonday The next was the the Idol of the Planets was the Idol of Tuisco who was the first and chiefest man of Name among the Germans unto whom the Name of Tuesday was especially Dedicated The next was the Idol Woden whom the Saxons honoured for their God of Battel And after this Idol these called Christians do yet call the fourth day of the week Wednesday instead of Woddensday The next was the Idol Thor from whence the Name Thursday is retained instead of the fifth day of the week The next Idol was the Goddess Friga to which Idol they dedicated the sixth day of the Week and called it Friday which is retained to this day The last day was the Idol Seater from whence is called the seventh day Saturday
Relict of his Brother made an Act that no more Annal should be paid for Bulls or Pardons to the Pope nor no Appeals be made to him but that all should appeal to the King for pardon Abâ—ut this time the whole Clergy of Englaâ—d was charged by the Kings Council to be in a Praemunire for supporting and maintaining the Popes power and were called to answer in the Kings Bench but before their day of appearance came they in their Convocation concluded an Humble Submission in Writing and offered the King One hundred thousand pounds to pardon them which after some labour the King promised them pardon in which Submission the Clergy called the King Supream Head of the Church Bakers Chron. This Pardon was signed by the Kings hand Mark The King turning and denying the Popes Supremacy the Priests turn and deny their old Head of the Church called Peter's Successor And in the year 1535 the Popes Authority in England was abolished by Parliament and about two years after an Act was made which gave the King all Religious Houses and all their Lands and Goods And then an Oath was ministred to the Clergy which they took That they should renounce the Popes Authority and swear to be true and faithful to the King his Heirs and Successors of life and limb and to live and dye with him against all people and to acknowledg their holding their Bishopricks of the King only beseeching him to make restitution of the temporalities of the said Bishoprick So God me help and aell Saints said they About this time the Bible was first permitted to be read in English and Injunctions were set forth by the Lord Cromwel That the Creed Lords Prayer ten Commandments and Articles of the Christian Faith should be read in English which caused twenty thousand people to rise in arms in Lincolnshire being headed by a Monk and others and they were scarcely appeased but there arose forty thousand in the North where on one side of thâ—ir Ensigns they had Christ hanging on the Cross and on the other side the Cup and Bread of the Sacrament but they were suppressed In September 1537 by the special motion of the aforesaid Cromwâ—l all the Images unto which were made any special Pilgrimages and Offerings were taken down and burnt and forthwith by the means of the said Cromwell all the Orders of Fryars and Nunns with their Cloisters and Houses were suppressed and put down After all this and notwithstanding this Reformation Popery had so much power in the hearts both of King and people that one Nicholson alias Lambert being accused for denying the presence in the Sacrament he appealed to the King and the King heard him openly but all would not do neither would the King pardon him and shortly after he was drawn to Smithfiâ—ld and there burnt and this was done about the thirteenth year of his Reign And in the thirty seventh year of his Reign the Parliament gave him all the Colledges and Chantries And one John Smith was burnt in Smithfield and one Andrew Howet a Taylor for denying the Real presence in the Sacrament And further in the thirteenth year of his Reign was set forth by the Bishops the Book of the six Articles condemning all for Hereticks and to be burnt that should hold 1. That the Body of Christ was not really present in the Sacrament after Consecration 2. That the Sacrament might not truly be administred under one kind 3. That priests entred into holy Orders might maâ—ry 4. That vows of Châ—stity entred into upon mature deliberation were not to be kept 5. That private Masses were not to be used 6. That Auricular Confession was not necessary in the Church These Articles and the Penalty annexed to them were called a whip with six strings which penalty was they were to be burned to death and forfeit their Estates real and personal to the King After King Henry the Eighth succeeded Edward the Sixth Son to King Henry the Eighth in whose time new injunctions were set forth for pulling down and removing all Images out of Churches also Homilies wee appointed to be read for peoples instruction and that the Sacrament should be ministred to lay-people in both kinds Also Marriage was allowed to the Clergy Auricular Confession was forbidden and prayer for the dead and in his fifth year the Book of Common prayer was established After King Edward succeeded Queen Mary about whose coming to the Crown there was some combustion to whom first the Suffolk men resorted who being always forward in promoting the proceedings of the Gospel and promised her their aid and to help her so that she would not attempt the alteration of the Religion which her brother King Edward had before established To make the matter short unto this condition she agreed and made promise to them that no alteration should be of Religion being a Papist and setting Popery up the people and priests generally turned that way and all Bishops that had been deprived in the time of Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks and all Beneficed men that were married and would not forsake their opinion and turn were turned out of their Livings and in her time the Mass was again sung in Latin and the Popes authority was by Act of Parliament restored in England and the Mass commanded in all Churches to be used In her second year the Realm was absolved and reconciled to the Church of Rome by Cardinal Pool and the first Fruits and tenths were restored to the Clergy but this was soon revoked the Council finding the necessity of it for the Queens support In her fourth year Monastaries were begun to be re-edified the number of those that dyed for Religion in her time which was but six years was two hundred fourscore and thirteen men and women Now see the Oath which the Clergy took to the Pope They swore to be true to Saint Peter the holy Church of Rome and to the Pope the holy Father and to defend it against all men and to acknowledg the Rules of the holy Fathers Decrees which to my power say they I shall keep and cause to be kept and all Hereâ—icks and Schismaticks to our Holy Father I will persecute to my power So help me God and the holy Evangelists In the year 1559 Queen Mary being dead Queen Elizabeth began to reign and she with the advice of the Parliament soon made an Act for Uniformity of prayer and administration of the Sâ—craments And the title of Supream Head of the Church was confirmed to Queen Elizabâ—th by the Parliament and they gave first fruits and tenths to her The Supremacy thus confirmed to the Queen the Oath was tendred to the Bishops and others who had been Papists in Queen Maries dayes and as many as refused to take it were deprived of their Livings and of the number of above Nine thousand Priests Bishops Deans Prebends Masters of Colledges Arch-Deacons Abbots who had then been in place in Queen Maries
singing of Psalms sometimes brandishing naked Swords sometimes shreeking in a most hâ—decus and fearful manner So that many of the Popish Irish which dwelt near thereabouts being affrighted therewith were forced to remove their Habitations further off into the Country Divers Protestants were thrown into the River of Belterbert and when any of them offered to swim to the Land they were knocked on the head with Poles after which their Bodies were not seen of six weeks but after the end thereof the murtherers coming again that way the Bodies came floating up to the very Bridge where they were Sir Con Mac Gennis so caâ—led with his Company slew one Turge Minister of the Newry with divers other Protestants after which the said Mac Geâ—nis was so affrighted with the Apprehension of the said Turge's his being continually in his presence that he commanded his Soldiers not to slay any more of them but such a should be slain in Battel A young Woman being stript almost naked there came a Rogue to her bidding her Give him her mony or he would run her thâ—ough with his Sword Her answer was You cannot kill me except God give you leave Whereupon he ran three times at her naked body with his drawn Sword and yet never pierced her skin whereat he being confounded went his way and left her This was attested by divers Women that were present and saw it As for the Protestant Ministers whom they surprized their manner was first to strip them and after bind them to a Tree or post where they pleased and then to ravish their Wives and Daughters before their faces in sight of all their merciless rabble with the basest Villains they could pick out after they hanged up their husbands and parents before their faces and then cut them down before they were half dead then quarter'd them after dismember'd them and stopped their mouths therewith They basely abused one Mr. Trafford a Minister in the North of Ireland who being assaulted by these bloody Wolves of Romes brood that know not God nor any bowels of mercy This distressed Minister desired but so much time as to call upon God before he went out of the World but these merciless wretches would admit no time but instantly fell upon him hackt and hewed him to pieces Sir Patrick Dunstan so called his Wife ravished before him slew his Servants spurned his Children till they dyed bound him with Match to a board that his eyes burst out cut off his ears and nose teared off both his cheeks after cut off his arms and legs cut out his tongue and after run a red hot Iron into him These particulars with many more were attested before the Commissioners appointed for that purpose CHAP. XXVII In the History of the Churches of Piedmont collectâ—d and compiled by Samuel Morland in the year 1658. WHerein you may see the cruel Massacre and Murthering of several Christians both men and women by the bloody Antichristian Papists who cut off the heads of men and boiled them and eat their brains until they vomited again as in page 336 in the year 16 5. And also in page 339 you may read the bloodiness and cruelty of the persecuting Papists who ript up a womans belly from the bottom to the navel with a Sickle because she would not say the Papists Prayers and this woman had bid her self in the snow for two days having no nourishment and when they had ript up her belly they barbarously cut off her head And yet they say in the Book called Fiat Lux being a Relation between-Papists and Protestants that they do no hurt to no one but their actions do declare both in this and in the days of Queen Mary and at other times what they have done And in page 640 The Papists cut off a womans breast and part of her â—rivities and carryed the same to Maes in Piedmont and fried them and eat them and other people thought they had been Tripes Yet these Papists say they do no harm But soon after they had eaten some of them fell sick and some died and afterwards they put this woman to a cruel death having ravished her before they cut off her tetts And in page 341. These bloody Papists cut off a mans privy-members and afterwards put a lighted-candle to the wound which man had received of them divers stabs in the soles of his feet and ears then they hanged him up by the hands tearing off his nails with hot pinchers Yet for all this they could not cause him to forsake his Religion and then they tyed him by one of his legs and drew him wiâ—h cords draging him about the streets until his eyes and brains dropt out and then cast him into a River And also in page 342 they tyed a man with his neck and heels together being about eighty years old and cast him down a hill and there he hung in a Tree several dayes in a lameatable state to the beholders And in the same page An old man about Ninety years old and a woman they hackt their bodies and chopt them to small pieces and strewed them along the High-wayes and hanged it upon hedges when they had cut it so small Page 343 They took two poor old women and ript up their bellies and left them upon the Snow And also four women the Papists cut off their Noses their Fingers and their Hands and many Infants they threw down steep places And one women they tyed her head between her legs And another woman her flesh was taken from her bones and chopt as small as Herbs to the pot And another old blind woman they cut in pieces in a certain Cave as you may see in page 344. And in page 345 they set a woman upon a stake putting her upon a pole through her privities and carried her upon their shoulders And these are the Papists which carry their Hoast upon their shoulders And then they stuck the stick down and let her hang in the air And page 646 Another woman had three children torn in pieces tearing them by the legs one from another And one of six weeks old they took from the Mother dashing the brains out against the Rocks And also they took a man out of his bed plucking the skin off his Arms and Legs and then starved him to death in prison And a man they dragged by one Leg with a Mule through the streets and stoned him after they had cut off his privy members and afterwards they stopt his mouth and crambed things down his throat and cut off his head and called themselves Catholicks against the Protestants And page 348 There was a beautiful young Maid about ten years old whom these wicked Papists held and did such horrid things to her even out of the bounds of humanity to speak so that after she was found half dead wallowing in her blood And p. 349 A Woman carrying her Child in a Cradle being pursued by the Papists she left her Child whom
they took and 〈◊〉 into four quarters and afterwards finding the Mother they 〈…〉 and cut off her head leaving her in the Snow And in page 350 A young woman about eighteen years old was taken as she was flying upon the Snow and they thrust a Pike through her alive and roasted her and brought a piece to make a meal of but she not being roasted enough stopt their stomacks And thus the Papists are Beasts And the Papists took a Protestant and tyed his hands to his privy-members hanging him upon a Gate by his hands to make him renounce his Religion And also they tyed two more in the same manner only they after they had tyed their hands to their privy-parts they tyed their hands behind them until their very bowels were torn out and so they dyed Besides other cruel barbarous usage to prisoners And in page 352 a man about fourscore years old they cut off his Nose his Ears and other parts of his body and left him in the Snow who dyed there And page 353 the cruel Papists put Gunpowder into many men and womens mouths and cramb'd it down their throats and set it on sire and tore their heads to pieces Fol. 354 They stript one naked and tore off his Nose with Pinchers and made holes in his hands and dragged him with a Cord by the middle and they cut off his flesh as they dragged him and struck him saying Wilt not thou go to Mass and then they cut off his head and threw him into a River And page 355 these bloody Papists pluckt out another mans eyes and cut off his privy-members putting them into his mouth and then they cut off his skin and hung it up in four Windows of their principal houses And page 356 they took a man and cut off his head and fryed his brains and eat them up and took out his heart frying it and took it and eat it also And page 357 several aged people they burnt alive Page 358 they dragged a woman and her daughter with Horses through the streets stabbing them with Pitch-forks and threw them into a River throwing Batts at them And page 359 Others as they were passing from the bloody perrecating Papists they shot one in the neck and after they slit his Chin and Nose throwing of him to the Dogs And page 360 and 361 Eleven men they forced to throw one another into the Flery Furnace and forced them to carry one another on their backs and the Papists themselves carried the last man And these bloody Papists hunted the Protestants up and down the Rocks upon their bare feet when were cut with Ice and Flinty-Rocks until they bled grievously And yâ—t these bloody Papists like one that Solomon speak 〈…〉 their mouths and say they have done no hurt but they that desire to reaâ— more of their Cruelty and Wickedness let them look in the said Book And as for the Papists Powder-Plot in King James 's time and their Massacring of many thousands in Ireland it is not out of memory yet At Guttenburg in Bohemia where were deep Metal-Mynes the Papists threw into one of them 1700 persons and into another 1038 in the year 1420. The Papists killed of the Waldenses about a thousand men women and children in one place and robbed and spoised the poor Christians and when that the Christians would not receive their Hoast they gagged them and thrust it down their mouths The King of Nordan Humbers slew twelve hundred Christians because they prayed to Christ for assistance CHAP. XXVIII A List of some of the Accusutions for which the aforesaid People suffered in the Valleys of Piedmont by the Papists FOr that they believed the Church of God was without spot or wrinkle Also they believed that it was not lawful for the Prelates of the Roman Church to have temporal Jurisdiction in the world and that none hath a greater degree of Power and Authority in the Church then he hath of Holiness Also that they believed that the Sacraments administred by the Priests of the Romish Church are of no Efficacy Also they believed that tythes ought not to be paid to the said Priests Also they believed that the Romish Church is a House of Confusion and the Synagogue of Satan Also they believed that it was not lawful to swear any thing be it true or false Also they believed that it was as prositable to pray to God in a Stable as in a place called a Church Also they believed that rain-water â—ad as greant virtue as holy water in the Church Also for that they believed that no man ought to observe the Festival-days of Saints but that it was lawful to do work upon them Also for that they believed that it was lawful to eat flesh every where and at all times and that Lent was not to be kept See page 217 and 218. And for these causes and some other Decrees which are contrary to Scriptures did the Papists murther them in the year 1655. Here followeth a List of some of the Article for which the Martyrs suffered in Queen Maryes Reign in the year 1556 and by other Papists 1. First For confessing that an evil man doth rot receive Christs body 2. That it is Idolatry to creep to the Cross John for bids it and saith Beware of Images For confessing that they should not pray to Mary and other Saints For these things and denying the Papist Principles were five men and women burnt in the year 1558. The Article against Margaâ—et Marringe Martyr was That she had refused to come to Church that she had not come to the Parish-Church for the space of one year neither did she mean to come any more unto the same in those Idolatrous dayes Articles exhibited against R Lusse Martyr 1. For refusing to call the Lords Supper by the Name of the Sacrament of the Altar 2. For denying Purgatory Prayers and Alms and saying they did not profit the dead bodies 3. For holding that Images are noâ— to be suffered in the Church and that all that kneel to Images are Idolaters 4. That they which are burn'd of late for denying these things are Gods Servants and Martyrs 5. For denying the Church of Bome to be Universal Articles against other Martyrs Henry Crimses for marrying his Wife on Palm-Sunday in Lent was punished as some are now Also that they would not follow the Cross or confess to a Priest Also that they did not believe the Pope to be the Supream Head of the Church Also that they did not believe that Bread Water Ashes and Palms were Holy Ceremonies in the Papists Church Also the Martyrs confessed that the Popish Mass was Blasphemy Some of the Papists Canons or Decrees which the Martyrs suffered for and which those called Church-Wandens and Priests weâ—e by the Command of the Bishops to make Enquiry into in their several Parishes 1. Whether they see the Font be comely kept and have Holy-water always ready for Children to be Chrisâ—ned 2.
by Council Papist Those Councils was gathered by Popes Quaker The Councils was gathered some by the Christian Emperors were them Emperors Popes Dost thee believe the Chronicle six hundred years after Christ Papist I do then there was no Universal Bishop until six hundred years after Christ Quaker And one Council was gathered by the Emperess and was she a Pope Nay this was before the Universal Pope was and Christ said to the Apostles that the Gentiles exercise Lordship one over another but it should not be so amongst them for they are all Brethren and the Gentiles were called gracious Lords which titlethe Bishop of Rome and other Bishops had from the Heathen and not from the Apostles for they was not be called of men Master And so Peter was not set over the rest of the Apostles as Head over them and what was said to Peter concerning having the Keys and binding and loosing was said to the rest of the Apostles as you may read in Scriptures And as concerning the Church that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church of the Papists when Phocas got up to be Emperor did not the Emperor lose most part of his Empire and the Pope most part of Turky and Egypt and Jerusalem and the Land of Canaan Has he not lost England Ireland and Scotland and part of Germany Holland Denmaâ—k and Swerden 〈◊〉 and yet the old man the Pope tells people that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against his Church Let him look about him and see what he has lest and what he would have had left if he had not set up his Inquisitions to torture Christians in the time of the Council of Trent and when that the Princes of Germany in the time of Luther when they defired that for every tristing businesse they might not be summoned down to Rome was it not the Popes answer If it should not be so their Courts would be made or no authority but would go down And did not the German Princes desire that the Concubinary priests might marry For though by the Law they had Concubines yet they desiled other mens wives did not the ope say If I should suffer the priests to marry then they would not go where I would have them but would sit down with their wives And when the German Princes and others desired a free General Council such a Council as was in the time of Constantine mark that was before the Pope was three hundred years See Council of Trent p. 2. did not the Pope chuse a Council of his own Legates and people contrary to the mind of the Germans and others and then did not many of them fall from the Pope and many in France who got the victory over he Pope and yet he says the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church Consider people see what he has lest And after the Pope got up and had lost most of Christendom and the Emperor had lost most of his Empire for the Emperor's seat was at Constantinople before the Turk got up which was after the Pope and then after a time the Emperors came to be thrust up into Germany and called the Emperors of Germany So here see whether the Pope is not he that loveth and maketh a lye Rev. 22. Papist You speak as if you could tell our principles if you know them what is our principles Quaker I 'le tell thee I 'le begin with one There was a woman in Kent one of your Religion and by her Wisdom and Books she had brought many into your way and upon a time it pleased the Lord to convince this woman to see your way was false and Christ was to be her Way her Teacher and Salvation and so she went and declared this among the Papists And upon a time a Taylor that she had brought to be a Papist came to work at her house and she declared to him how Christ was her Way her Teacher and Salvation and he got betwixt her and the door and drew his knife at her it was askt her why did he draw his Knife she said he would have stabb'd me why would he have stabb'd thee why it is their principle What is it their principle to stab people Yes said she if they turn away from their Religion and the woman said Put up thy Knife I know thy principles Papist VVhat do you declare this abroad Quaker It is declared abroad and the women since dyed in the belief of the truth of God and forsook your way and so the Papist went away and never denyed but that it was his principle Papist The Papists say the Quakers are Antichrist and false Prophets Quaker VVhy are they Antichrist and false Prophets Papist Because they say they do prophesie and say Christ is in you c. Quaker Then thou may say the Apostles were false Prophets which shews thy ignorance for they said Christ is in you except you be Rep obates and we preach Christ in you and I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh and my sons and my daughters shall prophesie Read Cor. Col. and Acts. POSTSCRIPT AND you Papists that say there hath been a Head of the church and therefore the Pope must be Head of the Church for Aaron was Head and Moses was Head To which I say Moses was a married man and Aaron was a married man and Eleazer and Ithamer and Aaron was a Priest and Eleazer and Eli the Priest was a married man and Samuel was a Priest and was a married man and had Sons 1 Sam. 8. And by the Law of God the Priests were to marry as you may read in the Books of Moses But your Pope whom ye say is Head of the Church makes a Law contrary to Law and Gospel That Priests must not marry and Popes must not marry but the Popes have bastards and by the Law the priests may have Concubines and this is contrary to the Law to have Bastards and contrary to the Gospel to have Concubines for every man must have his own Wife And you Popes and Papists who say that you brought over the Bible first in England and you preserved the Bible think you not that all people sees you in this For you have been them that have kept the Bible from people in an unknown Tongue and though all profess to be believers in Christ yet they must not have the Scriptures in their own Language in this you are contrary to the Apostles shewing you are degenerate from them who judged them that spoke in an unknown Tongue And Christianity was planted many hundred years in England by Joseph of Aramathea before Austin the Monk brought over his trifling Traditions and Ceremonies And whereas you Papists call some Lay-people and some Spiritual which was not the way of the Apostles to do so and such that be under some Oaths Vows or Orders or has the natural Languages which began at Babel these you call spiritual which be in swearing