protestations or you want faith to beleeue her or else that loue that good Children should beare their Mother CHAP. IX Murder or the killing of ones Father or Mother or any other Lay-person The Romish Text. An Absolution for a Lay-man for murdering of a Lay-man is rated at 5. Grosses But if hee be a Clergy-man in any the lowest Orders that is slaine 7. Grosses And if he bee a Priest that is one that is promoted to all the holy Orders then he must pay 8. Grosses Also an Absolution for him that hath kild his Father Mother Wife Sister or any other Kinsman or Kins-woman so they bee of the Laity is rated at no more but 5. or 7. Grosses And his Letters of Absolution will cost him 1. Duc. 5. Carlens But if the partie so slaine bee a Clerke a Priest or Clergy-man then the Murderer is bound by the Law to go to Rome or to visit the Sea Apostolicke English Obseruations SOlon an ancient Law-giuer made no Law against such as should kill their Fathers for said hee in his honest simplicity Doubtlesse there bee none such But the Officers of the Romane Custome-house bee wiser in their Generation and know well they liue in such times as there will bee such Monsters Murderers euen of their Parents At least if there were or would bee none yet they hope to make some and to worke or winne them so to bee by the basenesse of the price they set on him that shall murder his Father Let the World wonder at this wickednesse Exod 21.14 for Gods Law allowes no Sanctuary for a wilfull Murderer of any man and values not all the Gold a Nabal hath a sufficient price or ransome for a Murderer Yet this Babylonish Strumpet dare set a price of a few Grosses euen vpon him that kils his owne Father Oh what grosse impiety and hellish abomination is this And yet this is shee forsooth that will bee the Mother Church and onely Spouse of Christ But it appeares heere that she is no Mother but the cruell Step-dame that cares so little for the liues of her Children And not the Spouse but the spirituall Harlot that dare vndertake to bee wiser then her Husband and to make Lawes contrary to his and to discharge for a little money those whom her Husbands Iustice had condemned to death CHAP. X. Striking or wounding of a Clergy-man The Romish Text. An Absolution for laying violent hands vpon a Clergy-man or a Religious man if it be with effusion of blood is rated at the price of 9. Grosses But if it bee without blood then it costs but 7. Grosses But note heere that if many haue their hands in this striking laming maiming or killing then if the Letters of Absolution be for particulars for euery Offendor there must be added 2. Grosses a peece English Obseruations TOuch not mine Anointed 1 Chro. 18.22 and doe my Prophets no harme saith God He will not haue his so much as toucht to their hurt It is therefore likely that the Popes Clergie are none of Gods whose blood may bee sold at so cheape a rate or else that the Pope is not the Vicar of Christ who sells the blood of his Brethren to enrich himselfe with the price thereof whose Persons God will haue not so much as touched But heere let all reasonable men consider how vnreasonable and partiall the Romane Church is betwixt their Clergie and Laity and how impious in their estimation of Gods Lawes and their own who dare make the price and penalty for killing a mans Father being a Lay-man lesse then the bare striking of a Clergy-man Arise O Lord and maintaine thine owne Lawes against such insolent enemies of thy Crowne and deliuer thy Church from those euill and vnreasonable men But will some say Amongst all those many kinds of Murders and Absolutions for the same how chance wee heare not of any Absolution for him that kils a King Courteous Catholikes of England aske the gentle Iesuites your kind Confessors and they will resolue you that those Absolutions are for sinnes and foule offences not for such Heroicall feates and meritorious acts as to kill any Heretique King And to proue it to bee most meritorious in Heauen and therefore most commendable vpon earth they will doe it by no lesse authority then the Pope himselfe who though he make but few Orations and fewer Sermons yet his ioy compel'd him to put himselfe to the trouble to make an Oration in the Consistory of Cardinals in praise of the Frier that stab'd Henry the third of France though hee were no Heretique himselfe but only a suspected fauourer of them Now if hee bee praised by the Pope who kils a King that is but a fauourer of Heretiques no marueil if hee be held no Offendor but rather one of an Heroicall spirit that kils that King his Holinesse shall pronounce an Heretique CHAP. XI Ouerlaying of an Infant The Romish Text. An Absolution for the Husband and Wife who find in the Morning or when they awake the Infant lying by them to be dead is rated for either of them at 6. Grosses English Obseruations ONe exception against the Romish Religion is that the grounds and practice of it are not only against Religion and Holinesse but also against the rules of Reason and grounds of Iustice for example set aside all Religion and Gods Word doth not Nature it selfe and naturall Reason euen amongst the Heathen make wilfull Murder a greater sinne then accidentall and vnwilling How shamefull and vnreasonable then is the Romish Church to make the punishment more nay twice as much for the casuall death of an Infant then for the wilfull Murder of ones Father or Mother Yet withall marke good Reader how this so vnreasonable Romish Stepdame neuer wants a priuate reason tending to her owne ends for shee knowes well that where one Villaine is found so wicked as to kill his Father 20. nay 100. the whole world ouer may be taken tardy in this vnwilling mischiefe of ouer-laying a Child the greater part of the World being so poore that their Children lye with them in the same beds It had therefore beene thought she but a silly peece of policie to impose a large and high rate vpon a fault that is seldome committed but rather on such as fall out dayly indeed that is the way to worke in wealth and so she may fill her Purse with money the World may see shee little cares though she empty her head of all wit and her heart of all honestie What shall the Christian World say to her but as Simon Peter said to his ancient friend Simon Magus Act. 8.20 Thy money perish with thee CHAP. XII Destroying of Infants in the Mothers Wombe The Romish Text. An Absolution for the Husband who beates or strikes his Wife being with Child so as that thereupon shee comes before her time and loseth her Child is rated at 6. Grosses An Absolution for a Woman who being with
Christs passion are granted 32755. yeeres of pardon And lest any should thinke this too little seeing there bee many prayers put in one it is said Pope Sixtus the fourth hath doubled this aforesaid Pardon which amounts to 65410. And of another Prayer the Booke saith that Pope Iohn at the request of the Queene of England granted to all them that deuoutly say this Prayer before the Image of our Lord crucified as many dayes of pardon as there were wounds in the body of our Lord in the time of his bitter Passion which were 5465. And in another place thus of the Aue Maria Our holy Father Pope Sixtus the fourth at the instance of Queene Elizabeth wife to Henry the 7. granted out of the spirituall treasure of holy Church that who so shall say at the 3. tollings of the Aue-Bell 3. Aue Maria's that is at sixe a clocke in the morning three and at noone three and at sixe a clocke at night three shall haue for euery Aue 860. dayes of pardon which amounts in one day to about 8000. daies and in a yeere to diuers hundreths of thousands of yeeres And the Booke saith That this grant of the Popes was strengthened and augmented by the two Metropolitans of England and nine Bishops with them At which we maruell not for certainly our Bishops might as well confirme it as he grant it and to as good purpose adde more as he gaue so much And of another Prayer the Booke saith This Prayer ye shall say in the worship of all the blessed members of Christ deuoutly and yee shall haue 300. daies of pardon for euery Salue Now there be 13. Salue's in that Prayer And of another Prayer containing 5. short petitions the Booke saith These 5. Petitions and Prayers made Saint Gregory and hath granted vnto all them that deuoutly say these 5. Prayers with 5. Pater nosters 5. Aue Maria's and a Credo 500. yeeres of pardon And of another Prayer the same Booke saith This Prayer is made by our holy Father Pope Iohn the 22. and hee hath granted to all them that deuoutly say it beholding the glorious visage of our Lord 10000. dayes of pardon and they that cannot say this Prayer for it is in Latine let them say 5. Pater nosters 5. Aue's and 5. Credo's And of another short Prayer little longer then an Aue Thus Alexander the 6. Pope of Rome hath granted to all them that say this Prayer deuoutly in the worship of Saint Anna and our Lady her Sonne Jesus 10000. yeeres of pardon for deadly sinnes and 20. for veniall totiens quotiens And of another Prayer to bee said as one goes thorow a Church-yard the same Booke saith Iohannes Papa 12. concessit omnibus dicentibus orationem sequentem transeundo per Cemilerium to◠antes Indulgentiarum quot fuerunt ibi corpora inhumata à constitutione ipsius Cemiterij Pope Iohn the 12. granted to all that shall say the Prayer following as they passe by any Churchyard as many yeeres of Indulgences as there haue beene bodies there buried since the Consecration of the said Churchyard And no matter though this Iohn the 12. was a most wicked monstrous man as all Stories testifie for no doubt he had for all that as good power to grant these Indulgences as any other of his fellowes And to draw to an end of these endlesse Indulgences take one more good Reader which is an endlesse one indeed namely one that holds hundreds and thousands of yeeres nothing but giues a whole million at once for my part I should not hold my selfe worthy of beliefe in so transcendent a relation if the Booke it selfe and the very words were not extant to all the worlds view for I am sure the Booke was once as common amongst the Papists as is now the office of our Lady and if their later policies haue supprest it it will but redound the more to their shame for it is yet faire and perfect to be seene Ibid. fol. 73. Sacellum sanctae Crucis septem Romanorum The very words are these These 3. Prayers bee written in the Chappell of the holy Crosse in Rome otherwise called the Chappell of the holy Crosse of the 7. Romanes who that deuoutly say them they shall obtaine X.C.M. yeeres of pardon for deadly sinnes Marke good Reader ten hundred thousand yeeres granted by our holy Father John 22. Pope of Rome See you Romish Children the bounty of your great Father you that beleeue this wee maruell not that many goe so fast but that any of you can be kept from going to Rome to enioy the embracements of so bountifull and tender a Father that hath his hundreds and thousand nay a million of yeers ready at hand for them that follow him and whose Exchequer is not like other Kings sometime open and sometime shut sometime full and sometime empty but euer open and neuer empty being Treasurer of such a treasure as is neuer spent Neither stayes his bounty heere but because hee knowes that some are not onely vnlettred and cannot read but dull of vnderstanding and vnfit to learne therefore out of his tender compassion to his Children he hath deuised meanes to helpe their infirmities and supply their defects to which end hee hath deuised and appointed certaine holy Pictures to the very sight and contemplation wherof he hath granted as much grace as to the saying of the forenamed Prayer As namely to one Picture of the Crucifixe in that Booke and to the beholding of the same are annexed no fewer then many thousand yeeres of Pardon the words themselues are these Who that deuoutly beholdeth this Armes of the Lord Iesu Christ Ibid. fol. 75. shall obtaine sixe thousand yeeres of pardon of our holy Father Saint Peters first Pope of Rome and of 30. other Popes of the Church of Rome successors after him And our holy Father Pope John the 22. hath granted vnto all them very contrite and truly confessed that say these deuout Prayers following in commemoration of the bitter Passion of our Lord Iesus Christ three thousand yeeres of pardon for deadly sinnes and other three thousand for veniall sinnes and say first a Pater noster and Aue Maria. Surely heere is an Indulgence cheape enough 6000. yeeres only beholding deuoutly the Picture of a Crucifixe Verily all the Hereticks and Huguenots in the world cannot bragge of such bounties in their Churches Nor are these Jndulgences onely giuen which as they say free them onely from Penance inioyned but they haue others which free them also from their sins and purchase them pardon and remission of them For example the same Booke tels vs that to the saying of 3. Prayers there specified the Pope granted remission of all sinne the words are these Fol. 70. Our holy Father Pope Jnnocentius the 3. hath granted to all them that say these 3. Prayers following deuoutly remission of all their sinnes confessed and contrite Fol. 69. And of another Prayer the
there was neuer set out in Germany Switzerland nor among any of our enemies that bee fallen from vs any Booke that euer bred more scandall or did more hurt to the Romane Church And yet so farre is it from being supprest at Rome by our great States-men there as contrariwise the Licenses and impunities for these abominations are for the most part daily renewed and confirmed in the Commissions and faculties of those Nuncious or Legats that be sent from thence to vs who haue power not onely to legitimate all kinde of Bastards of neuer so damnable copulations and to giue leaue euen for Adulterers to marry but to dispence euen with Forgery Symony Periury Robbery Schisme Heresie and not onely to absolue them from the Sinne but to enable them to be capable of benefices dignities honours nay to absolue Murderers one book excepts not so much as the villaine that shall wilfully kill his owne Father or Mother Wife or Childe nay keepers of Whores violaters of Virgins Adulterers Incestuous euen in the neerest bloud nay sinnes against Nature and not to be named euen with beasts c. O Rome blush at these abominations and cease for shame to prostitute thy selfe thus in the sight of friends and enemies c. And thus writes not Luther nor Caluin those Arch-heretiques nor male-contented Erasmus for so they stile them nor any of ours but Espencaeus a Sorbonist a Papist and euery way their owne saue onely for his honesty Of whom not onely Thuanus Bechellius and other indifferent and moderate But euen Posseuine the Iesuite and Genebrard that rough and bitter Papist giues most honourable testimony And lest it might be obiected that this Espencaeus being a Frenchman spake partially as one infected with the old iealousie or emulation that hath bin betwixt France and Rome That therefore the indifferent Reader who desires to sway on no side but to be informed in the truth may see our faire dealing and sincere intention to doe right take another testimony touching this booke out of Guicciardine an Jtalian nay a Florentine euen the Country-man of that Pope in whose time this Booke was written A learned and iudicious Writer and one held on all sides as indifferent and free from passion or partiality as any Writer of these later ages whose words are as followeth Guicciard hist lib. 14. LEo Papa x. à natura ocio voluptatibus deditus tunc verò etiam ob nimiam Licentiam potentiamque supra modum à negotijs alienus musicis ac scurris totum diem audiendis immersus praeter decorū voluptatibus deditus à bellis penitus alienus esse debere videbatur huc accedebat quod cum in eius animo tanta magnificentia splendor inesset vt vel in quonis qui longissima successione à potentissimis Regibus oriundus esset summa admiratione digna fuisset Neque in sumptibus muneribusue dandis modum delectumue seruaret non modo breuissimo temporis spatio gazam ab Iulio cumulatam incredibili profusione exhauserat verum etiam cum ex ijs quae in curia expediuntur multisque nouis ad pecuniam emungendam excogitatis ingentem auri copiam cumulâsset adeo profuisse sumptus fecerat vt subinde nouas rationes quibus immanes illos sumptus quos non modo continenter faciebat verum etiam augebat sustinere posset excogitare cogeretur c. The same in English POpe Leo the x. beeing giuen by nature to ease and pleasure and much more by the great licentiousnesse that beares sway in the Papacy would trouble himselfe with no businesse but spend the whole day in musicke mirth sports and pastimes amongst witty fellowes and ieasters and beyond all decorum was drencht and drowned in voluptuousnesse And moreouer was of so stately a minde and carriage and so magnificent in all things as though hee had descended by many degrees from the greatest and most illustrious Kings of Europe Neyther kept hee any measure nor practized any discretion in his gifts and bounties so as in short time hee had not onely foolishly exhausted and shamefully wasted the great treasures his Predecessour Iulius left him but also gathered great summes by all the businesses expedited in the Court of Rome Nor contented with the old hee had them who dayly deuized him new trickes and wayes to bring in money Insomuch as in his time an incredible masse of Gold was gathered or rather scraped vp yet was all this too little for money came not in so fast as hee found vents and meanes to spend it so as to maintaine his charge and satisfie his new pleasures and occasions of expence which hee also daily deuised hee was euen forced still to excogitate and by fit instruments to finde out new wayes and meanes to bring in money into his alwayes filling and yet alwayes empty Coffers Now consider good Reader who these two witnesses were consider their Nations and Reliligion consider their places and professions and weigh well their words and then wee dare put this issue to tryall to a Iury of any indifferent men in the World whether this Booke be counterfeit by vs or rather the Popes owne brood euen the true and vndoubted childe if not of the Church yet of the Court of Rome And if eyther trauellers may be trusted or bookes beleeued that speake and write of the Pope and Court of Rome it so kindely shewes the House it came of as they cannot for shame deny it or so much as doubt it to bee their owne for neuer was Bastard more like the father than this resembles the manners disposition custome and complection of the Court of Rome And this good Reader is the first thing I desire to cleare to thy vnderstanding before thou take in hand the reading of this Booke Another matter whereof I would informe the Reader is touching the meaning of those offices or Courts at Rome which are so often mentioned in this Booke Namely the Chauncery the Chamber the Penitentiary and the Datary The Chauncery is the highest office in the Popes Court The Popes Vice-Chancellor and his Vice-chancellor is the first and immediate officer next himself and is called Vice-chancellor not Chācellor because by the Popes presumptuous Law God and hee haue but one and the same Consistory or Chancery whereof say they only the Pope himselfe is Chancellor And because they make him Gods Chancellor therefore the other is but his Vice-chancellor This office as it is of supreme authority so it is of mighty reuenewes but was of much more when England and other Nations were vnder the Popes command for his Writ for matters Ecclesiasticall went as familiarly into euery Nation as our Chancery of England sends into euery Shire Vnder him are many great officers vnder them an incredible number of inferiour officers who are all fed and maintayned by the multitude of suites and Suitors from all parts of the Popish world who come thither like foolish wandring Sheepe and
stand not in feare of any creature to controll them and seldome haue any great measure of feare of God before their face as they will easily pretend such inconueniences or else will make them if they bee not rather than want their will in that kinde Now if such men may be dispenced withall to take their Brothers wife sisters daughter nay the sister her selfe wee maruell not if so many of the great Ones of the world affect so much to haue the Pope their Father and their god seeing hee goes so farre beyond God in pleasing his Children for God with-holds no good thing from his Children But the Pope denyes nothing at all to his deare Children no not that which is most foule and abominable in the Law of God and nature And if any be so scrupulous to thinke it euill or feare it to be foule hee can make it good and faire by his Dispensation prouided that it be well payed for and my Lord the Datary foundly satisfied with a round composition for as grosse as these be yet bee they no Grosse matters but Duckets must drop fast and Angels must flye apace to purchase these Dispensations Be assured it cost Henry the Seuenth the setting on and Philip payde well for it in one kinde or other And no maruell if Kings be rated high when inferiours pay somtime six hundred Grosses that is forty fiue pounds which in those dayes was no small matter In the conclusion marke how plainely this wicked Antichrist shewes himselfe and how boldly hee blusters out his owne shame These Dispensations saith hee are not for poore men because they cannot reach the price Thou mayest be sure good Reader the Iesuites were not bred when this booke of Rates was set out for they would haue beene ashamed of such shallownesse thus to lay their intentions open to their captious enemies For they though they deale much lesse honestly yet much more closely But now their close conueyances will doe no good seeing already the Pope hath here and elsewhere in those elder and plainer times discouered those plots of pollicies which are the pillars of their Kingdomes so as now though the Iesuites with their refined wits doe neuer so cunningly carry their businesse and couch their secret intentions vnder counterfeit vayles yet the iniquity of that Romish Religion is now manifest to all that will open their eyes to see it For let them now cast twenty colours vpon the matter why the poorer sort are not as well partakers of these priuiledges as the great Ones wee know by this booke the true cause is onely for that they want wherewith to pay Nay the greatest haue them not vnlesse they pay full sweetly for them Henry the Seuenth was willing to haue canonized Henry the Sixth for a Saint but the Dispensation for his sonnes marriage cost him so deare as he had no stomacke to rise so high for his Predecessors Canonization as hee must doe if he had got it and so honest holy Henry though happily a Saint in heauen wanted his Romish Saintship and came short of being a Saint in the Popes Kalender To conclude wee haue heard our Fathers say it was a common phrase in their dayes No money no Masse No Penny no Pater-Noster Now wee maruell not the Romish Clergy held that rule seeing they here learned it of their holy Father who openly professeth he grants no Dispensations at all to them that are not able to pay for them nor any of this nature but at an high and exorbitant price And see how louingly hee giues the Proctors and Sollicitors warning of it who bring him in his Reuenew and bids them take heed lest they being Amici Curiae should damnifie themselues by such fruitlesse vndertakings And marke how this mercilesse man the Pope will not suffer the poore to bee partaker of his fauours they haue no money for him therefore hath hee no mercy for them Hereby declaring himselfe no friend nor follower of that God with whom is no respect of persons and of whom the Scripture saith The rich and the poore meet together Prou. 22.2 the Lord is the maker of them both Nor is it lastly to be omitted how prophanely the Pope heere abuseth the phrase of holy Scripture for these words Non sunt ideo non possunt consolari are the words of the Holy Ghost both in the Old and New Testament speaking literally of Rachel mourning for her Children and would not be comforted because they were not and are here prophanely peruerted to their couetous and carnall intention Neyther is this an vnusuall thing with them for like hereunto is that in their Canon Law where affirming the difference and distinction betwixt two Metropolitanes they say the one shall not intermeddle within the others Prouince quia Iudaei non conuersantum cum Samaritanis And too many more like examples their Schoole-men and Canonists doe afford all which declare the base conceit they hold of Gods holy Word in that they dare thus turne and tosse it vp and downe as children doe a ball or a shuttle-cocke from hand to hand But let these fooles play with this Candle till it burne them for when they haue done all that man or diuell can doe to vphold Popery it is This Word of God This breath of the Almighty This Spirit of his mouth that shall consume and confound it CHAP. V. Dispensations The Romish Text. A Dispensation that one excommunicate or that is a Murtherer or for a man or woman that are found hanged that they may be buryed in Christian buriall comes to 1. Duc. 9. Carl. 6. Grosses English Obseruations THe ancient Lawes and Canons not onely Ecclesiasticall but Ciuill forbid Christian buriall to all these three sorts of malefactors and Christian Religion well allowes such prohibition though not to hurt their soules yet to feare men from these foule offences But see to what little purpose for here the great Bumble-Bee or rather the Romish Hornet breakes thorow them all as thorow a Spiders webbe to increase his reuenue and fill his coffers And this is much the fouler in respect that in Jtaly there be so many murders where the least quarrell suspition or iealousie will cost a man his life Againe will not this make the peruerse the longer to persist excommunicate the malicious care lesse for murder and desperate fellons lesse for their owne liues when notwithstanding these great offences they may for money be buried with the best We appeale to God and his holy Angels if this bee not a full euidence of a most vnholy Church an vnsound religion and a loose licentious gracelesse gouernement CHAP. VI. The Romish Text. A Dispensation for one that entred into his Benefice by Simony that hee may notwithstanding still retaine the same his Dispensation will cost him 6. Ducats But if he haue receiued any profits of the liuing he must for them compound with the Datarie English Obseruations SImony hath beene the perpetuall shame of the Romane Church
and holy workes and which are of a publike and vniuersall goodnesse one cannot haue power to doe them but must pay for it we then maruell not if they pay for their liberty in priuate personall things as to choose his Confessor to marry in forbidden times to eate flesh in Lent to be freed from fasting daies and the like Yet it may seeme a hard and strange case that when a man may freely choose his Lawyer for his businesse and his Physicion for his body who he will yet he may not choose his Confessor for his soule without a round Composition But one question riseth here of so strange a nature that if our Quodlibeticall Masters of Cullen and Louane will not determine it I then wish that some of our deuout Catholicks who intend to trudge to Rome to the holy holy ioyfull Iubilee to gaine the glorious Indulgences of that happy yeere would carry this question with them propoūd it either to the Auditors of the Wheele or to the Fathers of the holy Society or if they will to the Colledge of Cardinals to know what holy Roman mysterie may be in the matter that a man cannot build a Church a Hospitall a Vniuersity but pay so deare for his Licence but may build a Stewe freely or twenty if he will Wee should be glad to know how his Holinesse will resolue this question But it 's yet more strange to vs that he dare impose so huge a fine as a thousand Grosses for making a Citie of a Towne and therein erecting a Bishops See for Bishoprickes are neuer barely erected but endowed also with faire Lands and large Possessions and those Lands come generally from the Laity but the Bishopricke which receiues those Lands belongs euer to the Clergy and yet must the Laity be it Prince Lord Citie or Towne that will thus fleece themselues to feede and fat the Popes Clergy giue a thousand Grosses to haue leaue to doe it so cunningly can the Pope play his game or rather into such a blinde obedience and sottish obsequiousnesse had they captiuated the World that he can make them glad to pay deare for weakning themselues and strengthning him to impouerish themselues and enriching him But we hope that England and Germany haue taught the world to be a little wiser hereafter Another point seemes also strange namely that he is content to grant a City Licence to coine their owne mony seeing that is alwayes Insigne Maiestatis a signe of Soueraignty and a prerogatiue which we haue seldome seene any King in the World would part withall on any tearmes yet fiue hundred Grosses will compasse it at Rome By which it appeares most of the Popes though they be aduanced to royall dignity and aduance themselues euen aboue the greatest Kings yet as they were born and bred basely so that basenesse will not easily bee worne or wrought out for otherwise they would shame to part with so faire a piece of their Prerogatiue Royall for a little money As for those other two particulars that during the Interdict of a Towne certaine great men or Officers may haue Seruice and Sacraments in a Chappell for 50. Grosses and that a Towne may haue power to take out of the Churches such as take Sanctuary therin for 60. Both which are absolutely against two ancient and fundamentall Rules of their owne Religion these afford vs an ample euidence how truly and iustly not only the Pasquils and Poets but euen the grauest sort of men complained and cryed out of her that Omnia venalia Romae All Lawes diuine and humane Gods their owne are daily bought and sold made and vnmade for money But here is one particular plungeth vs plaine people and puts vs all to Schoole namely that for money one may haue leaue to diuide a dead body in two to be buried in two places What meaning or Mystery may be in this we confesse will not enter into our grosse conceits seeing it is lawfull for euery man to dispose his body in buriall to one or moe places at his pleasure But thus it pleaseth the Pope euen thus vnreasonably to load the Laity that louing Asse which like old Isachar hath many yeers crouched groned betwixt the 2. burthens of the Secular Regular Romish Clergie But let no man trouble himself to inquire what Henry the 4. of France paid for diuiding his heart to the Iesuits and leauing his heartlesse carcasse to lie amongst the former French Kings for I dare say the Iesuits so loued both his head and his heart that to haue one of them off and the other out of his body they would not spare both to pay the price themselues and to bestow great cost vpon the buriall CHAP. XI Licences for the Clergie The Romish Text. A Licence for a Priest to say Masse in any place is rated at 27. Grosses A Licence for a Bishop to visit 40. Grosses To take to himselfe a yeeres proffits of euery vacant Benefice for 3. yeeres 50. Gross To exercise Episcopall Iurisdiction out of his Diocesse 30. or 40. Grosses To haue leaue to exact a Subsidie or a Beneuolence of his Clergie 20. Gross A Faculty to absolue all Delinquents and to dispence for Irregularity 40. Gross English Obseruations ANd heere good Reader vpon consideration of the generall nature of all these appeares more plainly the truth of that the obseruation vpon the former Chapter doth affirme if thou wilt but obserue and compare these Rates the Clergie payes for these extraordinary fauors with the price the Laity payes for those ordinary and common commodities of which also some doe serue the Clergies turne more then the Laities For to instance in a particular or two for a Bishop to haue a Licence to take a yeeres profit of euery vacant Benefice in his Diocesse or to haue leaue to exact a Subsidie or a beneuolence of all his Clergie how much the lesse of these may amount vnto I will not take vpon mee to set downe and if I would I cannot yet the Licence for the better of these ariseth but to 50. Grosses which is but some 4. pounds whereas for a Queene to haue Licence to adopt a Child must cost her 4000. which comes to 300 pound and when she hath it she thereby doth good to others but none to her selfe And for any of the Laity to haue leaue to erect an Vniuersity which is as much for the benefit of the Clergie as of the Laity must cost him 150. which is triple as much And to erect a Bishopricke which must be a huge charge to the Laity but the benefit redounds only to the Clergie must cost 1000. Grosses that is almost fourescore pounds such vnequall Iudges are they betwixt themselues and the poore Laity And is it not strange presumption to make a King both aske leaue and pay deare for a Licence that he may take a Contribution of his Clergy that be his owne Subiects and so lightly to giue leaue to the
Bishops to exact it of the Clergie who bee but their Brethren Thus these men do boldly shew themselues the true Successors of the Jewish Clergie for as we see heere they corporally as well as spiritually lay heauy burthens vpon others but make them most light and easie to themselues Now touching these particulars that a Priest may haue a power or a Licence to say Masses in all places for 27. Grosses is euen cheape enough and yet it had not beene so much but that they well know hee is able to bring that in againe in a weeke nay in a day and happly in halfe an houre But will some say What may it cost him to haue a Licence to preach in all places The Answer is easie There 's no such Licence at all to bee obtain'd on any conditions for preaching of Gods Word is no pillar of the Popes Kingdome but contrariwise for diuers hundreth yeeres hath beene either persecuted or prohibited or at least so limited altered and ordered that the Iesuits and some few such haue a Monopoly of it to themselues so as not one Priest of a thousand gets any Licence at all and they that doe haue their times their matter their Method and order and almost all other circumstances prescribed vnto them and they are all directed to sing this one song that howsoeuer preaching may be of some vse in Lent and now then vpon occasions yet it 's nothing so excellent in it selfe nor so profitable to the people though it be neuer so plaine and powerfull as is the hearing of a Masse though in an vnknowne tongue and if any bee so bold as to make comparison and to say otherwise as Father Lobo did once before Pope Gregory the 13. Vide Recantationem Martini 〈◊〉 he is sure to be silenced for his labour all the dayes of his life as was the foresaid Fryer As to the next point that a Bishop should pay 40. Grosses for a Licence to visit is nothing so strange to vs as that he should pay any thing at all for what 's a Bishop if he haue not power of himselfe to visit euen by his Consecration and admission to bee Bishop But this shewes that to be true we haue often heard and read euen that the Bishops in Popery are indeed and truth no better then slaues to the Pope who as at the first they haue by Romish Rules their very being from him as his Creatures and the worke of his hands so he expects that they should serue him his turns in all things to which end he will not so much as haue them to moue or stirre no not to keepe their Visitation which is their owne proper motion and in their own Orbe vntill first they haue their licence and authority from him It seemes this wicked Antichrist who dare call himselfe a Vice-God vpon earth doth labour herein to be like vnto God of whom Religion teacheth that In him we l ue and moue and haue our being Act. 17.28 But for the third Branch wherein hee giues them leaue for money to take a yeeres profit of euery vacant Benefice therein he shewes his shamefull iniustice and partiality not caring it seemes how so he may enrich himselfe and his Clergye for not to stand vpon the quantity how great a matter this must needs amount vnto that which most amazeth vs is the foulnesse of the meanes and manner by which it is gotten for to keepe a Benefice vacant for a yeere and take the profits to himselfe as it first must needs bee a piece of personall iniustice to the next Incumbent to whom of right they doe belong so can it not but be a farre fouler and more generall iniustice to make the people for his base lucre sake to want a Pastor for so long a time Is this to be a Bishop a feeder a Pastor of Soules yea a Pastor of them that are the Pastors of Soules Alas for that miserable people who are fed w th such Pastors And here we may obserue 1. good reason of that bitter word of learned Espencaeus who speaking of this Book affirmes that it will teach a man to be naught though he were not or would not be of himselfe for verily not one Bishop of ten could be so basely couetous or so presumptuously wicked of himselfe as once to dreame of taking to himselfe a yeeres profit of euery vacant Benefice in his Diocesse But lest hee should want either wickednes or wit to entertain so base a thought his spirituall Master Extra Io. 22. cap. cam â—â—â—â—â—m gâ—â— his Lord god the Pope heere takes order to instruct him in it not onely telling him that he may haue a Licence to doe it for money but also lest he should be discouraged by the greatnesse of the price for so great a fauor he tels him aforehand it shall cost him but 50. Grosses though happly he may get by it 50000. in some one yeere Alas what a lamentable case it is to see the Christian World blinded and mis-led by such wicked rauenous Wolues vnder the name and faire title of Pastors of the Church for if this tricke and practice of the Pope and his Clergie be not an euident signe of men giuen ouer to their own lusts and slaues to filthy lucre and such as care not to sell the very soules of men to feede themselues and fill their owne purses wee appeale to the iudgement of all reasonable men yea euen of all honest Papists in the world and so we leaue them to the iudgement of the high and iust God and were it not that we hold them to be the publique enemies of God our soules would grieue to thinke of the confusion which we are sure and the surer by this one practice of theirs doth infallibly wait for them And for the next Branch that for a Bishop to exercise Episcopall Iurisdiction out of his Diocesse must cost him 30. or 40. Grosses we also say the quality of the fauor considered its cheape enough nor doe wee maruell if the Pope deale so tenderly and kindly with them whom hee holds members of his owne body But that which would trouble any honest heart is to consider how hee that pretends to bee and makes the poore Papist beleeue he is the Vicar of Christ the Father of the Church and the great Shepheard of Soules and consequently vnder God the great establisher of all good Order the keeper of all men in compasse and good order should thus in stead of Order make way to all confusion by confounding of Iurisdictions and giuing leaue for one to encroach vpon another which appeares by this that is to be done euery day at Rome for money though in all well gouerned Churches it is neuer done at all but vpon very speciall consideration and neuer at all for money But for the last that a Bishop may haue a faculty to absolue all Delinquents yea and to dispense in the case of irregularity for
Indulgences which is Whether they profit the Soules in Purgatory hee raiseth sixe Questions of which the fourth saith hee is the most difficult of all namely Whether if they doe releiue them is it of Iustice or onely of Gods mercy Wherein hee saith there bee two opinions one iust contrary to another and produceth great Authors for them both and hauing argued them at large at last coÌ„ming to determine the Question satisfie the Reader heere is his resolution in these very wordes Bellarm. lib. â— cap. 14. Of these two opinions J dare reproue neither for the former seemes very godly the latter very reasonable Is not here a learned determination and well beseeming a Doctor of the Chayre and a resolution of a most difficult Question fit to proceed from a Reader of Romish Diuinity Marke good Reader these three passages and iudge whether the good man was not confounded and amazed when hee wrote this Booke and dïned so deep into this troubled Ocean of Indulgences In a word when a iudicious Reader hath aduisedly gone ouer that Booke and obserued how the Romish Doctors disagree in euery point of Doctrine touching Indulgences hee will then bee of his minde that said Bellarmine in that Booke had rais'd vp more Spirits then he and many Iesuits to helpe him shall euer be able to coniure downe againe But leauing them wandering in the wildernesse and wallowing in the Sea of their miserable vncertainties I will goe forward somthing further to informe my Countrey-men in the vanity inualidity and impiety of Romish Indulgences And first obserue good Reader that they make fiue sorts of Indulgences The first is when certaine dayes or yeeres of Indulgences are granted The second is the Jndulgence of a Lent which they sometime call a Quarantaine The third is when a man hath an Indulgence for a halfe or a third or a fourth part of his sinnes The fourth is called a Plenary The fifth is called a plenary a more plenary and a most plenary in forme of a Iubilee To shape out and describe the true natures of these fiue and to set down true and reall differences betwixt them it 's both sport and pitty to see how Bellarmine sweats and struggles and yet when hee hath done hee is so farre from satisfying the Reader as he may see hee satisfieth not himselfe Obserue againe how strangely Indulgences are granted for vpon the very same cause saith hee sometime larger and sometime lesser Jndulgences are giuen and sometime the largest euen a Plenary vpon a most slight and little occasion as for example When the Pope giues a Plenary to all persons present at the dores of Saint Peters in the Vatican when he giues his solemne Blessing vpon Easter day Now doubtlesse heere is a great reward for a little seruice or else Indulgences are toyes not worth taking vp Moreouer the Iesuit cannot deny but that Soto a late learned Spaniard and famous Gerson before him to couer the Popes shame were content to beleeue that the huge Indulgences of 10. and 20000. yeeres were neuer indeed granted by the Pope but forged by those base fellowes that follow those Suits called his Quaestores or Quaestuarii and in his owne conscience it seemes hee could be of the same opinion yet that he also may cry with the greater company Great is Diana of the Romanes hee will not giue way to these two more honest then himselfe but refusing them straines his wit to proue that the Popes themselues not onely doe but with good reason may grant Jndulgences for 10. and 20000. yeeres Nay so farre is hee besotted with the loue or inated with feare of offending this Romish Strumpet as hee will needs defend these foule exorbitances although he cannot but confesse that the eldest and holiest Popes of all gaue no Indulgences at all Veteres parcissimos fuisse in Indulgentiis conferendis notissimum est Bellar. l b. 1. cap. 12. and those of the after-Ages and middle time since Christ granted them very rarely and for very little time as Paschalis the second gaue but one Indulgence and that was but for forty dayes and Sergius the second was held very bountifull who granted one for three yeeres And in the more corrupt and audacious dayes of Innocent the third hee himselfe confesseth that his Predecessors did not extend their Jndulgences aboue the space of forty dayes or one yeere at most therefore hee himselfe as bold and busie as hee was would reach no further And after him Nicolas the fourth though he gaue diuers to the new Church of Saint Praxede in Rome yet exceeded he not in any of them the foresaid compasse of one yeere or 40. daies What meanes this man to make knowne these things and yet to defend them that doe the contrary for what is it to approue these but to reproue the other And seeing the Iesuite defends the granting of Indulgences for 10. 15. and 20000. yeeres wee now desire some of those zealous Romish Catholickes whose either deuotion or curiosity carries them to the Jubilee that seeing Bellarmine is dead The Booke is intituled Horoe beatâ—ssimae Virginis Mariae ad legitimum Sarisburiensis Ecclesiae ritam cum 15. orationibus beatae Brigittae ac multis alias orationibus pulcherriâ—is Indulgentiis c. Parisiis 1529. they would inquire of their holy Fathers and Confessors whether they may not as well beleeue that they shall as well inioy the Jndulgence of 32000. yeeres for creeping vp the 32. steps of Pilats staires which they say are now in Rome and are the same by which Christ was carried to his tryall and farther whether they may not as well beleeue that Prayer-Booke which a little before the reformation of Religion was printed for them by the Popes authority in Latine and English wherein it is affirmed of a little short Prayer there set downe that Our holy Father Sixtus the fourth Pope hath granted to all them that deuoutly say this Prayer before the Image of our Lady the summe of eleuen thousand yeeres of Pardon Then followes the Prayer which is scarce halfe eleuen lines in length and therfore doubtlesse is very well worth saying seeing euery halfe line is paid with 1000. yeeres of pardon And the same Booke affirmes of another Prayer thus Our holy Father Pope Iohn the 22. hath granted to all them that deuoutly say this Prayer after the eleuation 3000. dayes of Pardon for deadly sinnes This Pope though more sparing for the time yet is hee more bountifull for the matter seeing his Pardon extends euen to deadly sinnes And of another Prayer Our holy Father Pope Boniface the 6. hath granted to all them that say deuoutly this Prayer at large betweene the eleuation of our Lord and the three Agnus Dei's tenne thousand yeeres of pardon And touching an Image of Christ on the Crosse that Booke saith To all them that before this Image of pitty deuoutly say 5. Pater nosters 5. Aues and one Credo pitteously beholding these armes of
neuer let rest but vexed them with their viperous Vsurie whilst they liued Now marke the mockery of the Romane Church for what Priest will not aduenture vpon it for a great summe of money to bury him in the Church or Church-yard when he can haue his Absolution for so doing at so cheape a rate as 8. Grosses that is for 12. shillings sterling CHAP. VI. 6. SIMONIE The Romish Text. An Absolution for a Lay-man for the vice of Simonie is rated at 6. Grosses But if hee be a Priest 7. Grosses But if a Monke bee guilty of that vice then his Absolution is rated at 8. Grosses English Obseruations THe better sort of Papisticall Writers haue euer complain'd of the enormities abounding in the Romane Church by reason of this reigning and swelling sin of Simony And they haue continually cryed for reformation lest it bring a deformation of all And herein again the ancient Canon Law is very commēdable for inflicting so great Penalties both spirituall and corporal vpon that sin But see here to what little purpose any good Lawes or Canons be made amongst them seeing not onely Lay-men and secular Priests but euen their Regulars or Religious men for all their holy Vowes to the contrary may be absolued frō it on so easie conditions which are set by the Popes who for the most part creep into the Chayre by Simonie and other indirect meanes yet see withall how they cannot what euer they be doing but still they faile not they forget not to keep their grounds to make good and maintaine the Principles of their Policie whereof this is one That their Clergie is aboue their Laity and their Regular Clergie aboue their Secular Againe That those who bee greater in place and honour if they doe well are also to bee deeper in punishment if they offend accordingly heere the Laity offending in this kinde payes 6. Grosses the Secular Clergie 7 the Regulars 8. Herein for my part I commend their care the wisdome of their Gouernment and do wish that the Children of Light were as wise in their Generation for the gouernment of Gods true Church as bee these children of this World in the vpholding of their Synagogue CHAP. VII 7. SIMONIE The Romish Text. An Absolution for him that Symoniacally enters into holy Orders is rated at 4. Duc. 4. Carlens And his Letters of Absolution from the Simonie at 16. Grosses English Obseruations IT is well that this which is most properly and truly Simonie and indeed the foulest Simonie of all is rated a little higher then the rest yet it is horrible that so shamefull and scandalous a thing as to enter into holy Orders by Simonie should be past ouer with any Pecuniary punishment at all whereas such a one rather deserues to be depriued of his vnholy Orders and to be exposed as vnsauory salt to be trodden vnder the foote of all contempt But the while where is the punishment of the vngodly Bishop that thus wickedly giues holy Orders for money whose fault must needs bee farre the greater seeing hee is in the higher place and by his learning wisedome and Authority should teach and guide the Inferiors who neuer can Simoniacally enter into holy Orders if hee were not as ready so to giue them as they to get them But these greater Flyes or bumble Bees the Romish Bishops must not bee catcht in the Spiders webbes of the Popes Lawes but must in all loosenes and liberty flie abroad to bring home good store of honey to the Popes Hiue Now wee nothing doubt but this their partiality to themselues will hasten the hand of Heauen the sooner vpon them and the more heauily when it comes For as no base fellow could enter into holy Orders for money if there were not mercinary Ordainers ready to giue them seeing no man can ordaine himselfe so no Popish Bishop durst attempt so vnlawfull a thing knew hee not that the Pope their Bishop of Bishops will bee as ready to absolue him as was the Foxe in the old Fable to absolue the Wolfe CHAP. VIII 8. MVRDER The Romish Text. An Absolution for a Lay-man who kils any Clergy-man or Priest Regular or Secular Abbot or Pryer or any vnder a Bishop is taxed at the price of 7. 8. or 9 Grosses This is if the Offender bee present for if hee be absent it is not so easily granted For such must visit the Sea Apostolicke that is they must personally appeare at Rome vnlesse he haue an vnconquerable impediment But if that impediment be at any time remoued then he must go thither where euer he dwels yea though he be a Monke Nay the same Law holds for women But if the impediment be perpetuall then the rate is allowed euen for the absent English Obseruations BVt why will some say must the absent goe to Rome why doe they not rather take the money and spare them their Iourneyes The Pope and his Factors are cunning Marchants and know how to make the best of their Marchandize No Pilgrime no Penitent no Offender no Suter comes at Rome but he goes away well fleec'd There bee many Churches to visit many Reliques to look at and adore many goodly Images to worship many Offices to passe through and euery one of these like a Bush of thornes will haue a peece of this sleece before hee can come to kisse the Popes holy holy foote or get out his Letters of Absolution So although the price thereof bee very small yet the Tole will cost more then the Griest and so a large amends is made for that defect in the monstrous charge and expences which otherwise his iourny costs him All which either falls into the Popes or his Officers Purses or at least helpes to maintaine the state of the City which if by these weekly Markets and by certaine yeerely Faires and by secular Iubilees and such like deuices were not maintained this new Rome would bee externally as base as old Rome was glorious But by this meanes and these spirituall Markets they draw thousands and in time millions of men to Rome and make them trudge many a weary mile and spend many a penny to come for that which is of as much value at home and the Sellers wel know is not worth a farthing And as thus they will improue their commodities to such as are able to come so on the other side for such as cannot come to Rome like wise Gamesters that had rather play small play then sit out and like wise Marchants that know Light gaines make a heauy Purse rather then they will lose good customers they will louingly send them their Absolutions at the same rates See what a carefull tender louing Mother you haue of your Romane Church O that this her loue would inuite you all to leaue this cursed Hereticall earth of England and goe to the holy hands and sweet embracements of your Romish Mother But surely either you thinke that shee wants truth in these her offers and
Booke saith Our holy Father Sixtus the fourth hath granted to all them that be in the state of grace saying this Prayer immediatly after the eleuation cleane remission of all their sinnes perpetually induring Nor doe these Indulgences onely deliuer those that purchase them but also others euen the soule of the deceased out of Purgatory for thus saith the same Booke of certaine Prayers called Saint Bridgets Oo's Ibid. fol. 59. There be the 15. Oo's the which the holy Virgin Saint Bridget was wont to say dayly before the holy Rood in Saint Pauls Church at Rome who so say this a whole yeere he shall deliuer 15. soules out of Purgatory of his next Kindred and conuert other 15 sinners to good life and other 15. fifteene righteous men of his kind shall perseuere in good life And whatsoeuer ye desire of God ye shall haue it if it bee to the saluation of your soule Nor is this all but they haue Indulgences annexed to certaine Prayers which shall deliuer them also from bodily dangers for thus saith the Booke of another Prayer Ibid. fol. 69. This Prayer was shewed to Saint Augustine by reuelation of the holy Ghost and who that deuoutly say this Prayer or heare read or beareth about them shall not perish in fire nor water neither in battell nor in iudgement and he shall not die of sodaine death no venim shall poyson him that day Nor is this yet all but they haue other Prayers whereunto are annexed such powerfull Indulgences as hee that saith them cannot be damned nor goe to Purgatory but must needs goe to Heauen immediately when hee dyes let the Reader iudge for these bee the words This Prayer made Saint Augustine affirming Ibid. fol. 65. who that say it daily kneeling shall not dye in sinne and after this life shall goe to the euerlasting ioy and blisse And the Conclusion of the former Prayer is this VVhatsoeuer he who saith this Prayer asketh of God Fol. 69. hee shall obtaine if it bee to the saluation of his soule and when thy soule shall depart thy body it shall not enter to Hell Nay they haue one Prayer which shall do more then all these witnesse the words for saith the Booke This Prayer is written in a Table that hanged at Rome in Saint Peters Church neere to the high Altar Ibid. fol. 78. there as our holy father the Pope is wont to say Masse and who that deuoutly with a contrite heart dayly say this Orizon if hee bee that day in the state of eternall damnation then this eternall paine shall bee changed him into temporall paine of Purgatory and if he haue deserued the paine of Purgatory it shall bee forgotten and forgiuen through the infinite mercy of God Of the infinitnesse of Gods mercy we are well assured and doubt not but by that mercy all sinne may bee forgiuen and this we know to be good Diuinity but that God forgiues sinnes by that meanes as by the saying of that Prayer is new Diuinity coynd in Rome but shall neuer be currant in Gods Church And yet this is not all but as the former Prayer makes a man happy when he dies so they haue also a Prayer that shall make a man happy all his life long and prosper in what hee goes about for thus saith the Booke The Prayer of Lot Iacob and Moses Ibid. fol. 10â— for them that haue taken any new great thing vpon them that the would haue brought to good end VVe neuer knew till now that Lot Iacob and Moses did vse the same Prayer but when they made this Booke they might say any thing for they knew not one of a thousand had a Bible and so there was none that but either would not or could not controll them And that our English Papists may know the better what a Iewell they haue of this Booke and for that there bee diuers if I mistake not which beare this same title therefore that they may the better know it when they haue it and make account of it as it deserues I will let them know that there bee other precious Romish Iewels in this Cabinet there is a Prayer bearing this title Ibid. fol. 101. Ista nomina Regum videlicet Jasper Melchior Balthasar 12. Apostoli quorum nomina sunt haec Petrus Paulus c. Mihi assistant in omnibus necessitatibus meis ac me defendent liberent ab omnibus periculis tentationibus angustijs corporis animae ab vniuersis malis praesentibus praeteritis futuris me custodiant nunc in aeternum Amen Ibid. fo 101. Prou. 18.10 A deuout Inuocation and Prayer of all the blessed names of our Lord Jesu Christ as wee find them written in holy Scripture then followes a Prayer beginning thus and thus adorned OMNIPOTENS DOMINVS ✚ CHRIST VS ✚ MESSIAS ✚ SOTHER ✚ EMANVEL ✚ c. And so it goes on with 43. names and as many red Crosses and betwixt euery name a Crosse after all which the Prayer is that those names may defend and blesse him that saith it Nay not onely these names of Christ but euen the same Prayer is made of the VVise-men that came from the East to worship Christ whom they call Kings and the Prayer is this These names of the three Kings Jasper Melchior and Balthasar and the 12. Apostles whose names are Peter Paul c. Assist me in all my necessities defend me and free me from all dangers temptations and extremities of soule and body and keepe me from all euil past present and to come now and for euermore Amen Salomon told vs that The name of the Lord is a strong Tower and the Righteous flying to it are helped But it seemes Salomon was short in his Diuinity for heere bee names of men not one but many that can doe it as well Moreouer you Romish Catholickes know to your speciall edification This is the Booke wherein you haue that rare piece of Deuotion which I dare say Gods Church neuer had namely a Prayer which the Diuell taught Saint Bernard for saith the Booke VVhen Saint Bernard was at his Prayers Ibid. fol. 125. the Diuell said to him I know certaine Verses in the Psalter who that say them dayly shall not perish and shall haue knowledge of the day that hee shall die but the Fiend would not shew them to him who then said I shall say dayly the whole Psalter and so I shall be sure to say those verses but rather then hee should doe so the Fiend shewed him those Verses And so follow 12. Verses of the Psalmes taken for the most part our of the 119. Psalmes and there is a Title ouer them in these words Precor te 〈◊〉 Princeps egregiâ— Gabriel fortissimè agonista certantium exurge mihi in adiutoriuâ— aduersus malignantes Esto mecum contra aduersarios meos omnes operantes iniquitatem delegâ— versuros busies â—â—â—na violentes omnes aduersantes mihi