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A gagge for the Pope, and the Iesuits: or The arraignement, and execution of Antichrist Shevving plainely, that Antichrist shall be discouered, and punished in this vvorld: to the amasement of all obstinate papists.
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of Queene Maries raigne after three yeares burâ—all and God knowes whether their bones or no. Such things are written of Bonners crueltie besides the Stories in the Acts and Monuments that the inhumanitie exceedeth all the extrauagancies of Heathenish Tyrants The other day when Fryer Paul of Venice could not bee caught in person they burnt him in Rome by pourtraiture and sent twise to murther him in priuate Shall I name the mischiefes against Queene Katherine Parre in the latter end of Henry the eight by the workings of the Bishops especially Gardiner Shall I recite the murthers of the two Kinges of France the Prince of Orange and divers others who seemed to oppose their disorâ—ered proceedings It were a wonder to tell you how Queene Elizabeth the wonder of all times escaped their malice but to end with the Powder plot it must make an end of this Controuersie that the Pope of Rome is a meere Tyrant in earth and the Doctrine of Rome most opposite to the Gospell of Iesus Christ Humilitie last of all is such a marke of the true Church Humilitie of God that in diuers places you haue the very garments of a Prophet named Elias vesture Isaiahs nakednesse Ieremies duâ—geon Amos frocke Christs seameles coat Iohn Baptists Cammells hayre and such like But the Pope must be a God on earth and the Cardinalls take place of all Princes that are not absolute Monarkes Their Carosses are so sumptirous and stately that they haue foure veluet chayres within and sixe stately Moiles without and how they ride with publicke Curtezans to the Conclaue is well knowne Baptista Fulgosus recordeth Pride of Rome that Peter Riarus first a Fryer Minorite afterward Cardinall to Sixtus the fourth had Gownes of cloth of Gold Couerings and Tikes of Beds sutable and all other Furniture of the best Silke There was a Feast made at Rome by a Cardinall to Elenor of Aragon as shee went to marry Hercules de Est Duke of Ferrara which lasted seauen houres with all varietie of Musicke and delicate Acates which had also playes and dances Another Cardinall had a Concubine called Tiresia whose Chappinos were embroydred with Pearle and precious Stones to an inestimable value But what neede I goe so farre as Rome to instance this Inditement of opposing the Word of God against them when I can name you such Prelates in England that for pride and wealth exceed any Cardinalls of Rome and liued as if they would tell vs plainely Antichrist was discouered and there was neither heauen nor hell to bee thought vpon but the present brauery of the world and the magnificence of a Courtly and maiesticke life In the time of William Rufus you had an Otho Bishop of Baieux and Earle of Kent In the time of Henry the second you had a Thomas of Canterbury that affrighted the King with Excommunication In the time of Richard the first you had a Bishop of Durham who gaue ten thousand pound for an Earledome In the dayes of King Iohn Stephen Langhton opposed the Maiestie of England In the time of Henry the fift the Bishop of Winchester lent the King twentie thousand pound In the time of Henry the sixt Cardinall Beuford was infamed for pride and wealth In the time of Henry the eight Woolsey writ Ego rex meus and so exceeded in magnificence and greatnesse that all Europe wondered at the prosperitie of our countrey and yet repined that such a Prince would endure the ambition and impietie of a Prelate To conclude Cardinall Poole was cosen to Queene Mary and therefore endured for his magnificence and pompe but yet all these belonged to the Church and should haue beene Preachers of the Word of God but they proued Wolues in Sheepes clothing and the humbled soule made this Vse of their liues that Antichrist was discouered and so beng the mayne Aduersary must needes oppose the Word of God and doe contrary things to truth and Christianitie And thus much of his first Inditement The second Inditement of Antichrist for teaching The second inditement mens traditions and foisting into the doctrine of the Church both Heresies errors and absurdities BEfore I goe any further let mee answere certaine obiections which I should haue done in my former Inditement namely what greater humillity can there bee then for the Capuchines and Friers Mendicants to refuse and despise the vanities of the world and bee contented with pouertie disgrace scornes and neuer-heard of humiliation insomuch that Princes haue euen pricked their proud swelling hearts and let out the corrupt blood bringing them downe to prostitution and contentment in Vnsauerie pouertie as you saw Duke Iogenx became father Angelo Faelix of Sauoy thrust himselfe into a Monasterie Charles the fift forsooke the world and left amongst all his â—ewells as principall his whippe of small cordes wherewith hee lashed his sides and many other Princes finished their dayes in Religious houses I answer with the Prophet who required these things at your hands and when it is the best humiliation it is contaminated and defiled with wrong circumstances and though it tend to the worshipping of Angels it is but diuelish and Colos 2. 23. vnprofitable Againe concerning outward garments coules weedes haire or hempen girdells penance whipping fasting Kings and such like tormenting the flesh is it any other then the priests of Baall cutting and lashing themselues then â—dolatrous sacrifices wherein the Heathen practised the shedding of blood and continued with Monstrous murthers and Diuelish shapes to the people Rent your Ioel. hearts and not your garments saith the Prophet and when you fast or mourne hang not downe your heades like Bulrusshes or doe as Hipocrites doe sayth Christ Last of all concerning good workes and releeuing the poore which they tearme Charity What profit can Math. 6. such things doe where is presumption of merit what good can they procure when they are full of corruption why doe you plead for pouerty when you grow so rich your selues and fill your treasuries with all manner of gifts from liuing and dying men what talke you of religion When you minde nothing but pollicies of State and to trouble all Christendome with deuises as for the outward forme of good deedes I will bee bold to say wee haue had amongst our selues more Colledges builded Almes-houses erected Chappels edified Churches repaired Poore relecued Prisons visited and Lands giuen to pious vses and that within these fiftie yeeres then in two hundreth yeeres before let them name what Countrie they please and thus much for the Obiections now to my purpose in hand To make you a Collection of all the deuises and trâ—â— peries in Poperie were to make a rope of sand and begin a worke which could haue no end For this wodden wheele hath beene so often turned that the Coggs are worne asunder and either they must erect a new frame or inuent a new superstition For all the old is discouered and in a Booke called the
and that by sound of Trumpet in S. Marks Piazzo Haue I not heard my selfe the Women in the strectes tell the Religious men and boyes of their Monasteries that they begged Escmofina per comperare To buy Apples poma and so denied them their accustomed releefe Haue I not seene in some places of Italy their Columns and Pillers of Stone pasted all ouer with inuectiues against Indulgences and pardons to be bought out for so much money as if our Sauiours wordes to the Iewes were now verified that if the people did not cry Hosanna in the sâ—â—â—â—â—es the very stones would declare themselues From whence came the opposition of Thomas of Canterbury against Henry the second and the many discontents of the Nobilitie the Popes chiefest Champions against so dangerous a vsurpation What say you to the Statute of Mortmaine the stopping of Peter-pence and the interdicting of diuerse Bâ—ls euen when England lay in the Cimerian mountaine of superstition and was drowsie in the darkesome caue of â—dâ—latry Oh what a feare was the Pope in when King Iohn threatned the clergy destroyed the order of Cisteux and banished Stephen Langhton the kingdom What thinke you of the bill put vp in Parliament the 11 of Henry 4. that if the king would take into his hands the lands disordinately consumed by the Clergy not intermedling with tithes or Bishops liuings it would maintain 15. Earles 1500. knights 6000. Esquiers 40. Almeshouses and bring 30000. pounds a yeere into the exchequer so that you see by this many more that the Papists themselues were not alwares pliant to the Popes behests but broken out into disordered raptures against the ambition couetuousnes vsurpation tyranny of Rome And could all these things be done without the finger of God to point at Romes wickednes or the resolution of heauen that Babilon must fall answer a Gods name you that must answer before the iudgement throne of the Lambe and thus of the Papists and effectuall contingents Probable Coniectures COncerning Probable coniectures I raise them Probable coniectures from the description of Antichrist in the word of God and the comparing of the Popes doctrine life and actions to the same as shall be made apparant in the next section when I come to arraigne this deliâ—quent against the Maiesty of God the Prince of Christendome the quietnes of mens consciences and the glorious progression Isaiah of the Gospell Doth not Isaiah tell a story of Lucifer and his fall and Prophesieth of the destruction of Babilon Isaiah 46. Isaiah 47. and her Idols whereby I make no doubt but the abominations of Rome are personated and all the wickednes of corrupt prelacy discouered Nay why should I not apply what Ezechiell speakes of Tirus and compare the Ezech. 26. wealth pride and presumption of Rome to her ripening sinnes and at last rotten putrifaction For wherein did euer any of the nations offend the most high God but Popes haue exceeded as by their owne authors is most apparant but if you come to Daniels Prophesie hee will tell Daniel 7. 8. you of a litle horne amongst the ten hornes that had eies like a man and a mouth speaking great things yea in the 11. verse because of the voice of the great wordes which the horne spake the beast was slaine his body destroyed and giuen to the burning flame but the punishment belongs to a more proper place I now goe forward to the description 7. For the ministery of iniquity doth already worke only hee 2 Thessal 2. 7 which now with holdeth shall let till hee be taken out of the way 8. And then shall the wicked man be reuealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall abolish with the brightnes of his comming 9. Euen him whose comming is by working of Sathan with all power and signes and lying wonders 10. And in all deceiueablenes of vnrighteousnes amongst them that perish because they receiued not the loue of truth that they might be saued 11. And therefore God shall send them strong illusions that they shall beleeue lies c. And a litle before He shall sit as God in the Temple of God And a little before He is called the man of sinne And in another place There is the doctrine of Dinells forbidding meates and 1 Tim. 4. mariages c. And in another place There is named the Whore of Babilon the Cup of abomination Apoc. the beast with 7. heads and 10. hornes Roma septicollis And in many other places such effectual descriptions that I may well cry out O God What plainer words what easier discouery what would men desire to know more concerning the Popes of Rome the life of Rome the doctrine of Rome the impieties of Rome Oh then answere a gods name you that must answere before the iudgment throne of the Lambe how comes this about how could all these things be done without the finger of God to point at Rome wickednes or the resolution of heauen that Babilon must fall and thus much of Antichrists discouery his arraignment followes with seuerall inditements Section 2. Antichrist Arraigned IN this second section or part of my discourse you shall haue the arraignment of Antichrist vpon three seueral inditements The inditing of Popery The first for absolutely contradicting the word of God whereby he may truly be called the Antichrist 2. The second for false doctrine and foisting in deuices of his owne and trumperies of mens inuentions 3. The third for abusing the world with lying miracles which the tempoâ—â—sers of this world and lukewarme Gospellers doe mannerly call Piaefraudes and orders of the Church The first inditement against Antichrist for contradicting Gods Word COncerning the first Though the author to the Hebrewes Contradicting the Scriptures Heb. 6. 1. aduise vs to goe more forward in our building of Christianity then laying a foundation of truth yet he assureth vs tht without a good foundation there is neither building nor meanes to avoide dirision what shall wee say then to the despiser of both whose Math. 7. 26. impiâ—ty and presumption haue not onely cast corrupt handes on the sacred word of truth but inconsiderate Armes to tearein peeces the holy structures yea with violence to pull the infants from the sucking brests of their sweete mothers To begin therefore with a strong position of Cursed be he that doth either adde to my law or Deut. 12. 3. 4. 2. Iosh 1. 7. Prou. 30. 6. Reu. 11. 1â— dimiuish from ir c. What hellish furie durst lay hold vpon the second Commandement so that neither in their Ladies nor Iesus Psalter is it to be found And come to the reprehension of their Idolatry or prophanatioÌ„ of God by pourtraitures Idolatry Images pictures in priuat and publicke in the Church and the streetes in the house in the closet in the garments and Vtensills they are so farre from Apology distinction or nicely