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A16161	The Protestants evidence taken out of good records; shewing that for fifteene hundred yeares next after Christ, divers worthy guides of Gods Church, have in sundry weightie poynts of religion, taught as the Church of England now doth: distributed into severall centuries, and opened, by Simon Birckbek ...	Birckbek, Simon, 1584-1656.	1635 (1635)	STC 3083; ESTC S102067	458,065	496

in the Court of Rome any Translations of Bishoprickes processes and sentences of excommunication Bulles instruments or other things they shall be out of the Kings protection and their lands and tenements goods and chattels forfeit to the King and processe to be made against them by Praemunire facias It was also enacted in the Reigne of King Henry the fourth that all elections of all Archbishoprickes Abbeyes Priories Deanries and other dignities should be free without being in any wise interrupted by the Pope And indeede it was high time to curbe the Popes bestowing of Benefices on forrainers for upon an Inquisition taken by Simon Langham Archbishop of Canterbnry it was found that some had above twenty Churches and dignities by the Popes authority and were thereby further priviledged to hold so many more as they could get without measure or number Yea the Romans and Italians were so multiplied within a few yeares in English Church-livings that when King Henry the third caused a view thereof to be taken throughout the whole Realme the summe of their revenewes was found to be yeerely as Mathew Paris sai●h Sexaginta millia marcarum threescore thousand markes to the which summe the yeerely revenues of the Crowne of England did not amount By this that hath beene said it appeares to be an untruth which the Papists in their Supplication and the Authour of the treatise called the Prudentiall Ballance have given out to wit● That all the Kings of England unto King Henry the eight were papists for divers of them dyed before the grossenes of Popery began othe●s of thē as namely King Henry the first and secōd King Iohn King Richard the second and Edward the third opposed the Papacy Now the very being essence of a Papist consists in acknowledging the Popes supremacy which since these did not acknowledge but withstood it they cannot properly be tearmed Papists though they were carried away with the errours of those times In this age lived those famous Florentine Poets Dante and Petrarch as also our English Laureat Chaucer as also Ioannes de Rupe scissâ or Rocke-cliffe and S. Bridget And these found fault with the Romish faith as well as with her manners Dante in his Poeme of Paradise written in Italian complaines that the Pope of a shepheard was become a wolfe diverted Christs sheepe out of the true way that the Gospell was forsaken the writings of the Fathers neglected and the Decretals onely studied That in times past warre was made upon the Church by the sword but now by a famine and dearth of the Word which was allotted for the food of the soule not wont to be denied to any that desired it that men applauded thēselves in their owne conceits but the Gospell was silenced that the poore sheepe were fed with the puffes of winde and were pined and consumed away Dante his words are these Produce et spande il maladetto fi●r● Cha desu●ate le pecore et gli agni Però che fatto ha lupo del pastore Per quest● l' evangelio i d●ttor magni Son derelitti et solo à i decretali Si studia si che pare à i lor viuagni A questo intende ' l papae Cardinali which may be thus Englished She did produce and forth hath spread The cursed flower which hath misled The sheepe and lambes because that then Shepheards became fierce wolves not men Hereupon the Gospell cleare And the ancient Fathers were Forsaken then the Decretals By the Pope and Cardinals Were onely read as may appeare By th' salvage of the gownes they weare Againe Già solea con le spade far guerra Ma hor si fa togliondo hor qui hor quivi Lo pan ch' el pio padre a nessun serra I' th' dayes of old with sword they fought But now a new way they have sought By taking away now h●re there then The bread of life from starved men Which our pious fathers ne're denyed To any one that for it cryed Againe Per apparer ciaf●un in gl●gn● et face Sue inventioni quelle sontrascorse Da predicanti e● l vangilio sitace Non disse Chris●o al su primo convento Andate predicate al mondo ciance Ma d●ed e l●r verace fondamento Et quel tanto sond ne le sue guance Si cli à pugnar par accender la fede Del ' evangelio fero scudi lance Hora si va con motti et coniscede A predicar pur che ben si rida Gonfi● a' l cappuccio più non si richiede Matal vcel nel ' bechetto S' annida Che se'l vulg il vedesse vederebbe La perdonanza di che si confida Per cui tanta stultitia in terra crebbe Che sanza prova d' alcun testimonio Ad ogni promession si conuerebbe Di questo n grassa l' porco Sant Antonio Et altri auch●r che son assai più porci Pagando di moneta sanza conio Christ sayd not to th' Apostles goe And preach vaine toyes the world unto But he did give them a true ground Which onely did in their eares sound So providing for to fight And to kindle faith●s true light Out of the Gospell they did bring Their sheild and speares t' effect the thing Now the way of preaching is with toyes To stuffe a sermon and herein joy's Their teachers if the people doe but smile At their conceits the Frier i'th'meane while Huff'es up his Cowle and is much admir'd For that 's his aime there 's nothing else requir'd ●ut in this hood there is a nest Of birds which could the vulgar ●ee They might spie pardons and the rest How worthy of their trust they bee By these their Indulgences and pardons And by their Friers absolutions Such follies on the earth abound That without proofe or other ground Of testimony men agree To any promise that made can be By this St. Anthony piggs grow fat And such like Pardoners so that Hereby they feede the belly and the groine Paying their people with counterfeit coine Here we see how the Poet taxeth papall Indulgences which the Friers vented enriching themselves by marting such pardons or Bulles signed or sealed with Lead for which the people paid currant money he also taxeth such as vainely trusted to such pardons as also the fond conceite they had of being shriven and absolved in a Monkes cowle as if some rare vertue had layd in that Cuculla or Capuccio alluding belike to the Monkes hood or Friers cowle as if the fashion thereof had resembled the Cuckowe The same Dante in covert termes calleth Rome the whore of Babylon mentioned in the Apocalyps his words are these Di voi pastor s' accorse ' l' vangelista quando colei che siede soura l' acque putaneggiar co i regi à lui fù vista Quella che con le sette teste nacque et da le diece corna hebb

answere God forbid it should be so God forbid it should bee so you have judged well once said the Roode and to change that againe is not good Now this Oracle made for Saint Dunstan and against the Priests who said this was but a subtile tricke of the Monks in placing behind the wall a man of their owne who through ● T●unke uttered those words in the mouth of the Roode the matter therefore came againe to s●anning the Prelats and the States met at Cleve in Wiltshire where after hot and sharpe Disputation on either side a heavie mischance fell out for whether through the weakenesse of the Foundation or the overpresse of weight or both The upper L●ft where the Councell sate fell downe and many of the People were hurt and some slaine outright But Dunstan the Monkes Prolocutor remained unhurt For the Post whereon his Chaire stood remained safe By this fall fell the cause of the Secular Priests and they of Dunstans side thought these rotten joysts foundation enough whreon to build their Prohibition of Marriage But Henrie Archdeacon of Huntington interprets this casualtie more probably To be a signe from God that by their Treason and murder of their King who was slaine the yeare after they should fall from Gods favour and be crushed by other Nations as in the event it prooved And thus did Dunstan by his fayned Miracles seduce King Edgar to drive out the Secular Priests wh●re yet Dunstan haply thought not to thrust married men out of the Clergie but to thrust married Clergie men out of Cathedrall Churches because they ●equired a daily attendance as the Learned bishop Doctor Hall hath observed Howsoever it fell out it is worth the observing that the Clergy pleaded Praescription for themselves for so their owne Monke of Malmesbury hath recorded their plea they alleadged saith he That it was a great sh●me that these upstart Monks should thrust o●t the ancient possessors of those places that this was neither pleasing to God who gave them that long continued habitation nor yet to any good man who might justly feare the same hard m●asure which was offered to them Mathew of Westminster speaking of Pope Gregorie the seaventh saith that He r●moved married Priests from their function a new example and as many thought inconsiderately prejudicial● against the judgement of the holy Fathers And Henrie of Huntington saith Archbishop Anselme held a Synod at London wherein hee forbad wives to the Priests of England before not forbidden Was not this now an Innovation Besides we find that in King Edmunds reigne a West Saxon Prince before the dayes of Edgar or Dun●tan bishop Osulphus with Athelme and Vlricke Laicks thrust out the Monks of Evesham and placed Canons married Priests in their roome And afte●wards when not onely the meaner sort but the Nobles and great ones ●ided even then also Alferus a Mercian Duke favouring the cause of married Priests cast out the Monks and restored againe the ancient revenewes to the Clerks and it seemes they were the ancient owners and others but incommers inasmuch as divers Cathedrall Churches originally were founded in married Cleargy-men and afterwards translated from them to Monks as appeares by that which the Monks of Worcester wrote under their Oswald Archbishop of Yorke Per me fundatus Fuit ex Clericis Monachatus That is By me were Monks first founded out of Cle●ks So that the Monks were not the first possessors but came in by such as Dunstan who wrought with that good King Edgar by dreames visions and miracles mostly tending to Monkery as namely that When the Devill in the likenesse of a faire woman tempted Dunstan to l●st he caught him by the nose with an hot paire of tongs and made him roare out for mercie that Eastward● That Dunstans harpe hanging upon the wall played by 〈◊〉 selfe the tune of the Anthem Gaudent in coelis animae Sanctorum By the meanes of this Dunstan and his Cousins Athelwold and Oswald King Edgar was set on worke for the building of religious houses wherein he surpas●ed Charles the Great for whereas he built as many as there be letters in the Alphabet or A. B. C. King Edgar as app●ares by the Chart●r of the foundation of Worcester Church he built almost as many as there be Sundayes in the yeare I have made saith he 47 Monasteries and I intend if God grant life to make them up fiftie which seemes to be the number that Dunstan set him for his penance THE ELEVENTH CENTVRIE From the yeare of Grace 1000. to 1100. PAPIST YOu said of the last Age that Satan was let loose was he bound in this PROTESTANT Hee that brake loose in the former tyrann●zed in this for now those two great Enemies of the Church the Pope and the Turke the one in the East and the other in the West began to rise to their greatnesse about the y●are 1075 lived Pope Hildebrand who forbad marriage and deposed Kings from their l●wfull thrones so that for his doctrine the Churches did ring of him for an Antichrist In their Sermons saith Aventine bo●n about the yeare 1466 they declared him to be Antich●ist that under the title of Christ he playd the part of Antichrist That he sits in Babylon in the Temple of God and is advanced above all that is called God as if he were God he glorifieth that he cannot erre This fine man denyes those Priests which have lawfull wives to be Priests at all in the meane time he admits to the Altar Whoremongers Adulterers Incestuous persons and afterwards Everard Bishop of Saltzburg in Germanie in an assembly at Regenspurge spake thus of the Pope Hildebrand under colour of Religion layd the foundation of Antichrist's kingdome thus doth that child of perdition whom they use to call Antichrist in whose forehead is written the name of blasphemie Revel 13.2 I am God I cannot erre he sits in the Temple of God and beareth rule far and neere Now began the Croisier staffe to beate downe Crownes and Scepters when Hildebrand deposed the Emperour Henry the fourth and yet this fact of his was opposed and condemned by divers worthy Councels Bishops and Historians both in France and Germany and the like Papall Vsurpations Appeales and Investitures were also resisted in England Hubert your Legate saith William the Conquerour in his letter to Gregory the seventh came unto me warning me from your Holinesse that I should doe fealty to you and your successors as for fealty I neither would doe it to you neither will I because I neither promised it my selfe nor doe I find that my predecessors have done that to your predecessors When Anselme an Italian was chosen Archbishop of Canterbury he craved leave of king William the second to goe to Rome to receive his Pall of Pope Vrban wherewith the King greatly offended answered That no Archbishop nor bishop in

in a Friers cowle and be buried among you from his Parish-church and and to such rich men give letters of Brother-hood confirmed by your generall seale and thereby to beare him in hand that he shall have part of all your Masses Mattens Fastings wakings and all other good deeds done by you and your brethren both whiles he lives and after his death Why graunt yee them the merit of your good deeds and yet weeten never whether God be apayd with your deeds ne whether the party that hath that letter be in state to be saved or damned Fre●re why heare yee not poore folkes shrift but are Confessors to the rich to Lords and Ladyes whom yee mend not but they be bolder to pill their poore tennants and to live in lechery In this Age Iohn de Rupe scissa was famous for prophecies and predictions The Chronicler reports of him as followeth Pope Innocent about that time caused a Cordelier whose name was Iohn de Rupe scissa accused of sorcery to be burned in Avignion because he was too sharpe in his Sermons against the Sea of Rome and because he had prophesied many things to come concerning the Popes and amongst others said in plaine termes that the Pope would be one day like unto that Bird which being naked was fledged and feathered by borrowing a feather of every bird and then seeing herselfe so furnished fat and faire she began to flutter and strike at others with her beake and clawes the other birds that had made her so gay seeing her pride and insolency redemanded their owne feathers and so left the poore bird naked and starved with cold The like sayth he will one day befall the Pope and for this he was taken and pronounced an Heretique hee began to proph●si● from the yeare 1345. in the dayes of Pope Clement the Sixt and divers of those things came to passe which he for●told Thus farre the Chronicle Froissart the Historian saith Vnder Innocent the Sixt there was at Avignion a c●rtaine Franciscan Frier ●ndued with singular wit and learning called Ioannes à Rupe-scissa whom the Pope kept in prison in the Castle of Baignoux for wonderfull things which hee affirmed should come to passe especially upon Ecclesiasticall Pr●lats This Iohn offered to prove all his assentions out of the Apocalyps and the ancient bookes of the holy Prophets and indeed this Parable or similitude of the Bi●d may very well seeme to be taken out of the Apocalyps for there it is said that The Kings of the earth gave up their power and strength to the Beast Apocalyps 17.13 but at length they shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat● her flesh and burne her with fire v. 16. And this was it that he meant by the Parable of the Bird namely that Christian Princes which had endowed the Sea of Rome with large priviledges and possessions would in time spoile her and leave her desolate accordingly as St. Iohn foretold In like sort Br●dg●t a Canonized Saint foretold as heavy a doome to the Papacy She calls the Pope a Murderer of soules the disperser and devourer of Christs sheepe more abbominable than the Iewes more despightfull than Iudas more unjust than Pilat worse than Lucifer and that his seate should sinke like a weighty stone alluding belike to the fall of Babylon set foorth in the Revelation Apocalyps 18.21 by the Parable of a Mill-stone cast into the Sea so shall Babylon be throwne downe and found no more Alv●rus Pelagius wrote a booke of the Lamentation of the Church wherein he notably taxed Monasticall vowes for speaking of the Monkes and Cloysterers of his Age he saith They professed poverty and yet expected other mens states and inheritances And speaing of Priests and Votaries which had vowed chastity he saith of them That the Celles of Anchorites were dayly visited by women and in another place Priests for many yeeres together doe arise every day from their Concubines sides and without going to Confession say Masse And againe There be few Priests in these dayes in Spaine and Apulia which doe not openly foster Concubines He saith that now adayes The Law is perished from among the Priests and vision among the Prophets and that is fullfilled which is written 1 Kings Chap. 22. v. 22. I will goe out and be a false spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets In this age the Church and State of England was much burthened with the order of Franciscan Friers● insomuch as Richard Fitz-Ralph an Irishman Chancelour of Oxford Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland a learned Divine as Trithemius saith wrote and preached against the begging Friers In his Sermons at Pauls Crosse in London in the yeere 1356. he taught That Christ did not undertake any such voluntary poverty as the Friers vow he held it an unchristian course to be a willfull beggar as being condemned in the fifteenth Chaper of Deuteronomy Hee discovered the Friers hypocrisie in that though they pretended poverty yet they had houses like the stately Pallaces of Princes Churches more costly than any Cathedrall Churches more and richer ornaments than all the Princes of the world more and better bookes than all the Doctours of the world cloysters and walking places so sumptuous stately and large that men of Armes might fight on horse-backe and encounter one another with their speares in them and their Apparrell richer than the greatest Prelats The contentions betweene Armachanus and the Friers grew so hot that Armachanus went in person to Avignion where Pope Innocent the sixt kept his Residence and there in the presence of the Pope and the foure orders of Friers he declared his opinion and maintained such propositions as he had formerly held and publiquely taught the issue was this the Pope had such use of these Friers and the Friers had such store of money as Walsingham saith that they procured favour in the Popes Court so that Armachanus could not prevaile though as the same Walsingham saith He proved the cause stoutly and manifestly against them To speake yet a little more of our home-bred witnesses now lived Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham borne at S. Edmundsbury in Suffolke and sonne to Sir Richard Angervile Knight he wrote Philobiblon and had alwayes in his house many Chapleines that were great Schollers Of which number were Thomas Bradwardine Confessour to King Edward the third and consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury but never inthronized Richard Fitz-Ralph Walter Burley and Robert Holcot the Dominican Bradwardine was sometime fellow of Merton Coll●dge in Oxford and commonly called The profound Doctour He taught the Article of free Iustification through Faith in Christ the principall foundation of Christian Religion He complaines that the same had hapned to him in this cause which sometime fell out with Elias the Prophet Behold saith he I speake it with griefe of heart as in