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A69022	The baiting of the Popes bull. Or an vnmasking of the mystery of iniquity, folded vp in a most pernitious breeue or bull, sent from the Pope lately into England, to cawse a rent therein, for his reentry With an advertisement to the Kings seduced subiects. By H.B.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.; Catholic Church. Pope (1623-1644 : Urban VIII)	1627 (1627)	STC 4137.3; ESTC S106960	93,251	154

yet against your hope the prayers of Christs Church are neuer wanting for the frustrating of your fairest hopes Our Church in particular publiquely prayeth That it may please God to bring into the way of truth all such as haue erred and are deceiued And in another prayer for the whole estate of Christs Church in the end of our Communion booke Wee beseech thee ô Lord to reduce all such as bee yet ignorant from the miserable captiuitie of blindnesse and errours to the pure vnderstanding and knowledge of thy truth that wee all with one consent and vnity of mind may worship thee our onely God and Sauiour And for our King blessed bee God his heart is established vpon firmer grounds then to be remoued from that true faith wherein hee was bred and brought vp so easily as you hoped yea that pietie which with your solemne Crosse you haue so crowned our hope is that his Maiesty may in time by Gods grace so purifie and persit as that royall Queene shall account it the most rich dowry of her wedlocke to be made partaker of the liberty of that faith which her Royall husband professeth that so they may long enioy a sweet sociall conjunction as in their affections so in their Religion If that noble Lady Anne Sister sometime to Wenceslaus King of Behemia being married heere to Richard the 2. King of England and that in a deplored time when the Kinges of England were ouer-awed by the Popes vsurped power being tyrannized ouer also with that spirituall Egyptian seruitude if shee I say by the meanes of this marriage comming and liuing in England became so happy as to be made acquainted with the Gospell of Christ which shee had written in the English tongue namely the foure Euangelists with the Doctours vpon them in the reading thereof shee was dayly exercised and so by this meanes also many Bohemians comming hither into England comming to the sight and knowledge of Wickliffes workes conveyed the same into Bohemia whereby a good foundation was laid of planting and so establishing the true religion there what hopes then may wee perceiue of this our noble Queene who beeing married to such a royall husband who is not onely in title but in realty Defender of the faith yea a Prince who is excellently able to worke vpon such a noble disposition by infusing into her the seedes of the true Christian faith that so not onely her selfe may become a sound Protestant but by the blessing of God this religion may from so noble a roote multiply and branch it selfe into those her fathers Countries also so that when they shall taste of the clusters of Chanaan growing by the meanes of this blessed vine hir fathers house may then blesse the time that euer she was transplauted into so happy asoyle The Lord bring these faire blossomes of our hope to a timely maturity as your Pontifician hope is heerein already blessed be God blasted in the bud And the same God that preuented that intended massacre of Religion in Bohemia by the death of the King Ladislaus at whose intended marriage with Magdalene the French Kings Daughter of Prague where and when the confluence of so many Pontifician States should haue beene the massacre should the more easily haue beene effected that God hath and will wee trust euer preserue this his true religion professed in England and that by preseruing the life of our gracious Soueraigne long amongst vs to his glory and his Churches good maugre all Pontifician hopes of the contrary But it should seeme the Popes hopes are turned into feares but now saith he the vowes and councells of your enemies are feared Whom doth he meane here by enemies Surely by coherence with the premisses he must needes meane the most Potent King of whom he spake in the former part of the sentence And certainely in nothing shall our noble King show himselfe more Posent then by rooting out of his Dominions all Popish Priests and Iesuites and by establishing in vnity of doctrine that Religion which for these many yeares hath beene so happily mayntained therein Herein herein stands the potency and securitie of our Most Potent King The establishing of true religion is the establishing of the Kinges Throne It were happy if other Kinges in Christendome had their eyes opened to see their miserable thraldome vnder the Popes yoake and vpon what a tottering foundation their Kindomesstand where Papall authoritie and Iesuiticall doctrines take place But here we may not passe ouer that he faith Your Enemies Who or whose enemies what the King an enemy to whom to the Popes Sonnes here in England what to the Priests and Iesuites in England There were some reason why the King should showe himselfe an enemy to these for who are more mortall enemies to the King and his Crowne then they But it is playne by the sequell that hee meaneth chiefely heere such Catholique sonnes of his as are or at least ought to bee true subiects to the King Loe here then Pontifician malice The Pope doth here most subtilly insinuate that the King is an enemy to all those his subiects who are Roman Catholikes Enough with such a brand to kindle the flames of hatred and rebellion in such subiects against their King while the Pope thus blowes the bellowes But wherein is the King an enemy to their persons no but to their religion which is enmity against God and the King But the Pope feareth the Kings Councells Now the good Lord so direct the King and blesse him in all his Councells that they may more and more be matter as of feare to the Pope so of ioy and comfort to himself and all his People But hee feares also his enemies vowes What vowes For tolleration forsooth of the Popes Orthodox religion Yf Orthodox then ought it not onely to bee tollerated but publikely imbraced professed avowed But if it bee as it is the Antichristian Babylonian Apostaticall idolatrous religion of Rome that Where of Babylon then no vowes ought either to bee made or much lesse kept for the tollerating of such a religion It is against our vowe in baptisme wherein we disavow the Deuill and all his works and therefore all doctrines of Devills A precontract with our spouse Christ disanulleth all after contracts with Antichrist with a harlot Yea vowes made against God and his word are ipso facto voyd and become a meere nullity And if the Pope at his pleasure can dissolue all lawfull vowes which being duely made obliege men inviolably to keepe them hath not God himselfe power to disanull all impious vowes which are made to maintaine the religion of Antichrist Therefore the Pope must giue vs leaue herein not to giue credit to his Holinesse complaint which howsoeuer wee knowe to bee most vniust And whereas the Pope calls his Religion orthodox let the contents of this Bull witnesse Wee need goe no further for proofe Ipse dixit Yet you complaine that notwithstanding your orthodox Religion a

tels vs plainly he will keepe no faith with heretickes neither will he make any faith with them Onely herein he is most vniust that not onely those who are the onely true and orthodox Catholikes he cals heretickes and those that are his sonnes and consequently the limmes of Antichrist Apostates from the faith of Christ he calleth Catholikes but more especially that hee goeth about to perswade subiects not to enter into couenant of fidelitie by oath to their rightfull and onely Soueraigne King ouer them vpon earth next vnder God which couenant they ought not onely to make being demanded but betweene God and their owne heart religiously to vow and before all the world faithfully auow He that shall perswade men from this naturall bond of dutie is a traitour and vsurper ouer God and man euen the great Antichrist Howsoeuer I am perswaded the Pope hath no one Catholike Sonne in England so impious if he haue but a true English heart in him vn-Iesuited that he will refuse but rather most willingly take the oath and be ready whensoeuer there shall be occasion to hazzard his person and all his power against any Romish Spanish Inuasion They cannot be so farre blinded and besotted with Popish spels and Iesuiticall charmes but that they will euer put an infinite difference betweene their English and a Spanish King But if any be otherwise minded hauing exchanged his English for a Spanish heart if he may not trust himselfe to take the oath for feare of periurie neither I trust will his bare promise be taken lest whensoeuer the great flye should hisse out of Babylon he should forget his promise turn hornet or waspe to set against the Master Bee of this hony-flowing hiue of England But I trust for all the Popes charge here to the contrary that no English Papist will so far preferre his breath before his life that rather then spend the one in taking the oath he will expire the other It followeth But that your vertue may be found more precious then gold which is tried in the fire teach that Kingdome that there is no such force in the crueltie of enemies that it is able to extinguish the eternall fire of charitie in your hearts Pray for them that persecute you humilitie patience concord fasting prayer are your weapons which in the cruell conflict ye ought to draw forth that the palmes of coelestiall triumph may flourish in your hands for seeing blessed Peter was forbidden to smite with the sword the cruell assailants of Christ wee exhort you hauing the present good of the Church before our eyes that in the meane time you thinke the thoughts of peace and that yee pray for eternall life euen for the King while he takes away your mortall life So must the souldiers of Christ make warre vnder the banner of the Crosse the mouth of them that speake wicked things shall be confounded seeing ye know not to hate those who torment you But the Lord who is able to turne your sorrow into ioy shall be at your right hand that yee be not moued and may not forget his testament wherein he had bequeathed the inheritance of the kingdome of heauen to his Imitatours Answer Wee may say of this whole clause in generall as the learned Bishop in his Tortura vpon the very like purpose where bringing in Tort● his obiection that the holy Fathers the Iesuites as Father Garnet c. sent a good exhortation from the Citie to the Catholikes in the Countrie here in England he speakes it about the powder treason that they should containe themselues from all tumults saith Vetus ea techna est saepe quidem detecta proin semper suspecta vt non alio magis tempore scribant inde Pontifices in eum finem quam cum maleficium maximè meditantur Mulcere hîs volunt Argos nostros vt sibi ipsis dicant Pax tuta omnia qua sic repentina clades irruat in eos nil tale suspicantes Nan erat certè cur monitionem illam nominares que nobis nuncia est procellae certò tum semper imminentis Quin alia tum erat monitionis huius ratio Tam enim placuit tam certe spes erat Negotium hoc de puluere vt nollent illud interturbari tumult●● vllo iuberent verò quiescere alios omnes vt huic vni locus esset in quo reposita illis spes omnis That is an old peece of craft often detected and therefore alwayes suspected that at no time more the Popes doe write to such a purpose then when most of all they intend mischiefe Here they would sweetly impose vpon our sharpest wits that they may say to themselues Peace and all safe that so sudden destruction may take them tardy while they suspect no such thing There was no cause why yee should mention that admonition which to vs is the messenger of a storme certainely then alwaies imminent But there was also another reason of this admonition for this businesse of the powder-plot was so pleasing so certainely hopefull that they would not haue it interrupted with any tumult but should command all others to bee quiet that this one businesse might take place wherein all their hope was lapped vp Thus by the iudgement of our graue and experienced Fathers wee may learne what interpretation to make what to expect when Romes holy Fathers in their Buls exhort their Sonnes to be quiet and to containe themselues from tumult as here the Pope doth If thus they did vpon the Gunpowder-plot all husht till the sudden blast doth not this extraordinary sun-gleame foretoken some such hideous storme ready to fall vpon vs Is not this a sprinkling of water vpon lime or with oyle to suppresse the flame The token which Iudas gaue to the apprehenders of Christ was a traiterous kisse and Romes signall to her treacherous attempts is Peace peace But as the French say in their Prouerbe When the Spaniard comes to parle of peace then double-bolt the doores so I hope England will be so wise as when they obserue the Popes morning sun-shine of peace from vnder a cloud they will prouide for a rainie day But to the words in more particular In the forefront of this clause here is twice mention of fire And how great matter a little fire kindleth This very word in the Lord Mounteagles letter of fire was that which through Gods prouidence kindled in King Iames his conceit a suspition of such a like plot as indeede it proued Vpon whose iudgements wee may the more boldly suspect by the Popes twice mention of fire that without doubt some fiery triall is now in hand euen fire and sword Here againe the Pope puts his Sonnes in minde of their vertue and prowesse as also of their enemies the King and State enough to blow the coales of their hatred and so to exercise the eternall fire of their vnquenchable charitie A fiery charitie indeede of the nature of wilde-fire or