first before she him the Basiliske dyeth the man is preserued Thus such prodigious Comets may spend their malignant matter and bee frustrate of their force and influence where wise men make right vse of them Sapiens dominabitur astris for as the learned Zanchy obserueth well Comets cannot cause but may occasion onely State-ruines and changes as when they inflame the ayre the ayre mens bodies the bodies distempered worke vpon the minde and all this taking impression in the most delicate and tender bodies of Princes working vpon their spirits causeth oftentimes such combustions as hasten some fatall periods while in the meane time sage and moderate Princes can easily preuent such importent operations such and no other is the malignant influence of Papall Breeues which cannot possesse generous Princes with an imbellious feare of such bruta fulmina which cannot scare nor scratch any but Brutes The sword of good Lawes drawne forth well burnished and brandished to the cutting off but the maine pipes by which these poysoned waters of Marah of working dissention betweene the head and the members Prince and subiects are deriued from the Papall spring to his Cotholique sons will through Gods grace giue a speciall defeate to whatsoeuer Papall designe this Breeue clossely intendeth As followeth To his beloued Sonnes the Catholiques of England HAuing spoken of the father Papa now to his sons a father and sonne are of neerest relation and this relation a strong combiner of affections and ingager of mutuall offices Sonnes are either by naturall generation or by legall adoption or by common appellation or by spirituall generation such here in a spirituall meaning As for the Popes naturall sonnes those he calles his Nephewes Euphoniae gratiâ as it were a degree once remoued His spirituall sons we shall better discerne of their kinde not onely by their father but by their mother of whom they are begotten namely the Church of Rome which if it bee that great Whore described in the Reuelation as what more euident he that runnes may reade hence it appeareth how legitimate they be So that in a spirituall and mysticall sence he may as well call these also his Nephewes as his sons But in naming them sons it imposeth on them that filiall or rather baby blinde obedience which none but such a father as the Pope can or will exact of his children This father if they obey not aboue contrary to God they are none of the Popes true bred sons But to sweeten their rigid obedience he styleth them his beloued sonnes Yet rather louing then beloued for in naturall affection loue rather descends then ascend in this contrary therefore vnnaturall I dare sweare such babes more dote vpon their father in their blind affection then he vpon them all the world seeth what be the grounds and ends of the Popes loue to his sonnes But to passe by that he calles them the Catholiques of England all the rest then are Heretiques But Catholiques they are not simply but in the compound Romane-Catholiques a right Babylonish word And such are no true Catholiques as the learned Bishop hath proued in his Tortura for he is a true Catholique that holds the Catholique faith professed in all ages according to the Scriptures not hee that holds faith none otherwise but with limitation to the priuate sense and meaning of the Church of Rome such is a Romane-Catholique no true Catholike But to proceed Beloued Sonnes greeting and Apostolique benediction A Forme of salutation farre vnlike that of the Apostles farre from Apostolique The Apostles as Peter and Paul in all their Epistles write to Gods elect to his Saints by calling recommending vnto them grace and peace in Iesus Christ that is a right Apostolique salutation But in the Popes salutation nothing sounding to that of the Apostles but the bare word Apostolique which putteth the greater difference for Paul and Peter came in Christs name the Pope in his owne name they salute the Saints with the the Grace and Peace of Christ he with his owne Apostolique benediction An other note of Antichrist that commeth in his owne name As Christ said to the rebellious Iewes If another come in his owne name him will ye receiue Now he comes in his owne name that comes in his owne vsurped authority as here the Pope doth with his Apostolique benediction Yea although the Pope pretend and claime neuer so much to be Christ Vicar and so may seeme to come not in his owne but Christs name yet vsurping that power which Christ neuer vsed as contrary to the dispensation of his ministery The Popes power being to erect and support an earthly Monarchy whereof he may say as that proud King Is not this great Babylon which I haue built for the honour of the Kingdome by the might of my power and for the honour of my Maiestie he therefore commeth in his owne name So here His benediction is of himselfe who in this Breeue cals himselfe that Apostolique one such is his Apostolique benediction to wit Antichrists benediction Thus in stead of Christs grace he hath Apostolique greeting in stead of Christs peace Apostolique benediction and to whom not to the elect Saints in Christ Iesus but to the Popes sonnes not to the faithfull in Christ but to the Popes Catholiques in England such as his father-hood goes about to strip of all the cognizances of Christs faithfull ones who as they are truely faithfull towards God so they expresse the same towards man and as to Christ in the first place so in the next to the Lords annoynted their Leige Lord immediately vnder Christ It followeth Terrene felicity is not alwaies the benefit of heauen and the patrimony of piety for the Church seeing the peace of sinners hath often found by proofe that the power of mortals is the stipend of impiety Wherefore we preferre the chaines of Martyrs before the spoyles of the triumphant and the King eternall promiseth heauenly principalities not to them that trample the lawes vnder their prood foote but to those that suffer persecution for righteousnesse sake Answer NOt to insist vpon euery particular but noting by the way throughout the Popes egregious hypocrisie and prophanesse in peruerting and abusing the Scriptures and the sacred name of God wee will touch onely vpon the principals Onely by the way how doth the Pope come to put a difference betweene terrene felicity and the benefit of heauen seeing that all the benefit hee either hath or can hope for of heauen is his terrene felicity This is the Popes heauen vpon earth this is his Peters patrimonie which in his owne papall sense is farre from the patrimonie of piety Or what hath the Church of Rome to doe with peace what peace shee seeâ—h the peace of sinners A phrase borrowed from Ezechiel 13. 16. And it agrees well with the Pope For as those false Prophets saw visions of peace where there was none so the Pope Is he about to stirre vp
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 Tortâ— 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 tumultâ—â— 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
6. r. proceed p. 48. l. 18. r. ordine ad spititualia p. 49. in the margent correct the numbers pag. 52. l. 26. blot out men pag. 53. l. 19. r. Lateran p. 56. l. 3. for saith r. such pag. 61. l. 6. r. triumphs l. 23. r. Tortus l. 30. r. hic l. 35. r. certae spei p. 63. l. 1. r. iudgement p. 70. l. 12. r. it so putrifyed pag. 71. l. 25. for concerning r. couering pag. 72. l. 16. r. fish FINIS Chron. 16. 9. Prov. 6. * As a little before the Powder-plott the Iesuites published a booke intituled The seuen sparkâ— and it inciting the Romish Catholicks to pray for the good succes of the Catholicke enterprise Iames 5. 2 Kings 19. 2 Chron. 15. Cassianus lib. 5. cap. 31. Dialog lib. 2. cap. 1. * Molossus is a Mastiue dogg * Esai 58. 10 11. * The Hiena a most subtile Beast like a Wolfe with a Mane like a horse which by nightcommeth to the simple Shepherds Tents where counterfeiting mans voyce by listening learning the Shepherds name calls him forth so deuoures him Pliny A right Embleme of the Pope See Reu. 9. 8. Zeph. 2. 1. Reuel 17. 5. Reuel 13. 17. Math. 3. v. 9. * See Platina Annot. in Bonif 3. * French history See Tortura Torti pag. 281 Conspectis illis semel fundauit se statim Catisbeus atque super illis omnes intentiones suas exedificauit ibid. Anima sequitur temperaturam cortoris vt corpus aeris Pag. 303. Vincentius Lyrinensis Iohn 8. v. 43. Dan. 4. v. 30. 2 Thess 2. * Sâ—xti de electione cap. 17. lib. 1. vt vero circa regimen c. * Though Gaâ—net himselfe confessed vnder his hand to a priuate friend lamenting his wretched estate that not now for religion but for treason he must dye as a theife or malefactor Tortura Torti pag. 289. * Tesseram It signifieth also a token of Lead like that affixed to the Popes Bull giuen to such poore as are to receiue the dole But this suites not so wel with the Popes sense here vnlesse she meane his Leaden Tessera tyed to his Bull for else he should make heauens Diadems not a matter of Dole to be receiued of fauour for a leaden token but of debt as purchased with golden merits * From your Church treasure no doubt so well stored with workes of supererogation in this kind such as Gods law neuer commanded but contrarily hath expresly forbidden Reu. 8. 10. 11. * By this Tessera or Bill of exchange is clossely involued Romes merit ex condigno for as the Bill of exchange is reckoned of equall value with the summe or debt to be receiued or by the proportion of condignitie or equall worth on both sides So Romes merit of condignitie is such as whereby they claime heauen as due debt their merits being condigne or of equall worth to it as the price is to the purchase as the Pope here expresseth Gloss Ordin Council Trid. sess 6. cap. 15. can 28. * Triplici nodo pag. 34. * Culleus a leather sacke wherein the Parricide was sowed close vp and cast into the sea as vnworthy to touch any of the elements that sought to destroy him by whom he receiued his being so he deserues not to breath in the ayre that seeks to take away the breath of our nostrils the Annointed of the Lord. Lam. 4. v. 20. Reuel 9. * Like the Cardinals round red hatts giuen them to ride abroad in pompe to put them in mind to shed bloud for the defence of their Romane Catholique faith See Paeralcipomena to Vrspergensis his Chronicon * Like the Cardinals round red hatts giuen them to ride abroad in pompe to put them in mind to shed bloud for the defence of their Romane Catholique faith See Paeralcipomena to Vrspergensis his Chronicon See for his Monuments in Rich. 2. See for his Monuments in K. Edw. 4. p. 366. * 1 Cor. 4. v. 10 * The Trout Vt iugulent homines surgunt denocte lâ—trones Vt teipsum seruos non expergisceris See Morrisons Trauels in the suruay of Rome * The valley of Hell to which place a direct way leadeth froÌ„ the Popes Pallace neere vnto it Se Dr. Carieton Bp of Chichester his thankfull remembrance of Gods mercie worthy to be put in better practise Aug. Bonifacio viro militari Epist 50. Aug. * Sum p. 3. q. 25. 4. e. * Likely Crosses for poore Christ crucified * Likely Crosses for poore Christ crucified * Dominica in Passione Domini in hymno Aquin. ibid. Sed contra est * Part. 2 tit de benedictione nouae crucis Dr. Sheldon in his suruey of the miracles of Antichrist Heb. 1. Psal 2. * Hist Concil Trâ—d Latin editio pag. 9. * A house in the Black Fryers in London where the Papists were assembled to heare a popish Sermon by Gods iust iudgment wonderful in our eyes fell downe sodainly vpon them and slew many scores of them Papa est lex animata in terris Gloss lib. 1. tit 14. iura omnia in pectore censetur habere * See Fox his Mon. pag. 243. This was the Pope Innocent that first ordained that his Cardinals should weare red hats when they rode abroad not only for conspicuousnes but to put them in minde to bee ready to shed blood for the safety of their Roman Catholike faith and christians Synodus Lugdunensis Nic. Clemangis * Baronius * Causa 23. q. 8. Tributum in Gratian. Paulo V. vice Deo 5. V. 5. L. 5. V. 5. V. 100. C. 500. D. Luke 12. v. 14. De Concil author l. 2. cap. 17. Extrauag com vnam sanctam Sexti de electione ca. 17. fundamenta Luke 4. v. 6. Hadrian Epist apud Auentin lib. 6. 506. See also Fox his Mon. pag. 184. As Ier. 1. 10. Platina See Fox his Mon. p. 221. 1. Thes 2. Tortura Torti pag. 328. Tortura Torti pag 106. Origen in Mat. 24. Tract 27. Vn. Sanct. Decret Greg. de Transla Epist ca. 3. gloss Distinct 40. si Papa In Gratian Tortura Torti pag. 287. * Or at Rome the Pope and his Cardinals See Platina in Coelestine 5. Bonif. 8. Onuph in Marcell 2. See Fren. hist in Charles 7. Extrauag Comâ—n San. Non nimis esse sed satis Reuel 18. 7. Reu. 17. 18. Crantz in Saxon l. 8. cap. 6. Bellar. de Pontif. Rom. l. 3. c. 15. Reu. 18. 7. Hieron ad Algaâ— in qu. 11. b Grrgories own words cited Yea saith Platina importuned Phocas for it Magna conâ—entione Auentin l. 6. * Onuphr Annot. in vita Bonif. 3. Platina * Helmold in histor Scla c. 81. * See Bellar. de Pont. Rom. l. 1. c. 20. Seneca in Medea * Reuel 9. 11. * Remaines of wise speeches pag. 210. Ibid. in Epigr. * See Cicarillas in vita Sixti 5. where this Pope hauing canonized the Anchorite Didacus for a Saint makes his solemne prayer to God to be so fauourable to his humility as saith he by the pious prayers of thy Saint Didacus wee may merit to be exalted to eternall glory in heaâ—en Contra negâ—ntem Principia non est disputandum 2 Thess 2. 2 Thess 2. * See plantinâ— * Bead Benno Cardinalis of his life Also Abbas vrspergensis * 1 Tim. 4. Concil Trent Sess 6. Can. 12. ibid. Can. 28. Iames. 3. * Can. 14.