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A65422	Popery anatomized, or, A learned, pious, and elaborat treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of controversie, between us and papists, are handled, and the truth of our doctrine clearly proved : and the falshood of their religion and doctrine anatomized, and laid open, and most evidently convicted and confuted by Scripture, fathers, and also by some of their own popes, doctors, cardinals, and of their own writers : in answer to M. Gilbert Brown, priest / by that learned, singularly pious, and eminently faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. John Welsch ...; Reply against Mr. Gilbert Browne, priest	Welch, John, 1568?-1622.; Craford, Matthew. Brief discovery of the bloody, rebellious and treasonable principles and practises of papists.	1672 (1672)	Wing W1312; ESTC R38526	397,536	586

make them Intercessors but Mediators at whom and for whose merits they seek salvation And upon this ground came that Paganism which they have brought in the Church of God whereby every Nation Village Family every Estat and every malady or affliction have their own Saint to be a Patron for them Upon the which also hath proceeded this canonizing of Saints that is to make men Gods For they say that this canonizing of them is to let men understand that they should be adored and called upon as one of their own Archbishops Antonius saith part 5. summa tit 12. For he saith that seven things appertain to the canonizing of Saints 1. To be reputed publickly to be a Saint 2. To be prayed to by the Church 3. To have Temples and Altars 4. To have offerings and sacrifices offered to their honor 5. To have a festival day 6. To have an Image with a candle in sign of their glory 7. To have their relicks And they say That they may be directly prayed unto with the Lords Prayer which our Savior formed only to be said to God the Father Now how shal they be excused from vile idolatry in this Pope Innocent saith That to the worship which is only proper to God appertains Temples Altars sacrifices feasts And Durandus a Papist saith the same lib. 5. cap. 4. If this then be true which this Pope and this Papist say how then can they be cleared from idolatry that give unto Saints that service which by their own confession is only proper to God as Temples Altars Festival dayes c. And what shal we say to Franciscus and Dominicus two of their canonized Saints in whose persons they have done that lay in them to have abolished the merit the Name of Christ Of this Franciscus they say in their Book of Conformities That he is greater then John the Baptist And preferring him in many things to him they say That John received the word of repentance of Christ but Franciscus say they received it of Christ and of the Pope quod plus est which is more Of John it was revealed by an Angel to his father what he should be but of Franciscus it was revealed to his mother and his servants by Jesus Christ John was like the friend of the bridegroom but Franciscus was like the bridegroom himself They say He is better then all the Apostles for they left but their boats but he left all to his very hose They call him Typicus Jesus a typical Savior a singular crucified one who received in vision the same wounds which Christ hath suffered the same dolors who is the way of life who is the image of Christ as Christ is the image of the Father Yea which is more they prefer him to Christ Jesus They say Christ did but pray but Franciscus by prayer obtained They say The Baptism of Christ forgives original sin but Franciscus hood much more It is written also upon the port of the Cordeliers of Bloys of this Franciscus That his sin shal be sought for but it shal not be found which is only proper to Christ Now these are not particular opinions but approved by the Church of Rome For Pope Gregory the 9. Alexander the 4. and Nicolas the 3. ordained all the faithful under the pain of heresie to believe all Franciscus marks And their Books are set forth by their priviledges As for Dominicus Antoninus who was of that Order compares him with Christ and in a manner prefers him to him Hist. 3. pars tit 23. cap. 1. part 1. 3. Christ saith he did raise in all but three from the dead Dominicus raised three in Rome and by his prayer restored forty to life Christ after the resurrection being immortal went twise to his disciples the doors being shut but Dominicus saith he having as yet but a mortal body which saith he is more marvellous went into the Church in the night the doors being shut that he should not waken his brethren c. And such like of the rest of the miracles wherein he not only compares but in a māner prefers him to Christ Christ saith he said after his death all power is given to me in heaven earth This power saith he is not in a little cōmunicat to Dominicus above all heavenly earthly infernal things that in this same life for he had the Angels to serve him the elements obeyed him And in the end he applyes that which is only spoken of Christ in the 45. Psalm He is more beautiful then the sons of men Also he saith That there was two Images the one of Paul the other of Dominicus At the foot of Pauls Image it was written Per istumitur ad Christum By this man is the way to Christ At the foot of the Image of Dominicus it was written By this man the way is made easie to Christ And marvel not saith he at this for the doctrine of Paul and the rest of the Apostles induceth men to believe and to obey the precepts of Christ but the doctrine of Dominicus induceth men to keep the counsels of Christ and therefore the way to Christ by him is easier So he prefers him to Christ in miracles and to the Apostles But what shal we say to that that follows He is called saith he Dominicus because he is like our Lord and he hath possessive and in possession that which Christ hath absolutly and by authority Christ saith I am the light of the world The Church saith he sings of Dominicus Ye are the light of the world The Prophets testified of Christ and so did they also saith he of Dominicus and of his Order as in the 11. chapter of Zachary where it is spoken of Christ I have taken unto me two rods and I called one the staff of beauty and the other the staff of bands The staff of beauty saith he is the Order of Dominicus the staff of bands is the Order of Franciscus So they abuse the Scripture He compares him also with Christ and in a manner prefers him to him Christ saith he was born upon the bare earth but lest he had been over much hurt by cold he was put into the crib by his mother But Dominicus saith he being in the custody of his nurse even then abhorring the pleasures of the flesh was found oft-times lying upon the bare earth When Christ was born a star appeared signifying that he should illuminat the whole world But saith he when Dominicus was born his Godmother saw a star in his fore-head a prognostication of a new light of the world The prayer of the Lord was ever heard when it pleased him but yet did not ever obtain that which he prayed for as when in the garden he prayed that the cup might be transferred from him But saith he Dominicus desired nothing of God but that which he obtained perfectly according to his desire Christ loved us and washed us from our sins in his

WE come now to the fourth thing proposed to wit that the Pope hath been the grand Author of warrs combustions and confusions in the Christian world always both before and since the Reformation This is so evident that he is very unseen in Histories that will deny it therefore I shal give only a passing taste of what is recorded at large by Historians I. I shal begin with Gregory the first who approved Phocas in murdering his Soveraign Mauritius who killed his children before his eyes and usurped the Empire for he writes a gratulatory Epistle to him in which he thus speaketh Benignitatem pietatis vestrae c. We are glad that the benignity of your piety hath attained to the Imperial dignity Let the heavens rejoyce and let the earth be glad and let the people of the whole Republick be joyful for your gracious deeds II. Gregory the 2. rebelled against his Soveraign Leo Isaurus and made Rome and the Roman Dutchy do the same because he prohibited the adoration of Images and pulled them down every where and being sore afflicted with the warrs of the Saracens in the East the Pope seased on Rome and made himself Lord of that part of the Emperors dominions in Italy which was the beginning of his temporal Principality and is the title whereby he holds Rome and the Territory of it to this day even rebellion and tyrannical invasion of the Emperor his Soveraigns Estat and Dominion III. Gregory the 3. his successor came yet a further length for Platina writeth of him Hic statim c. That so soon as he attained to the Papal dignity by the consent of the Roman Clergy he deprived Leo the 3. Emperor of Constantinople hoth of his Empire and the communion of the faithful because he had razed Images out of the Churches IV. The next instance I shal mention is of Pope Stephen the 2. who stirred up Pepin King of France to expell the Exarchs out of Italy and when he had done he obtained the Exarchat for himself though belonging to the Emperor of Constantinople his lawful Soveraign in which action there was both rebellion and robbery V. But Gregory the 7. aliàs Hildebrand surpassed all the rest for he was wholly compounded of blood shed treason and rebellion for he excommunicated the Emperor Henry the 4. and deposed him and gave his Empire to Rodolph Duke of Suevia But the Emperor vanquished Rodolph in battel who dying acknowledged that his right hand was deservedly cut off in battel because he had sworn with it lifted up allegiance to the Emperor Rome was taken by the Emperor and Pope Gregory died for grief VI. But Urban the 2. his successor was nothing afraid of what had hapned to Gregory his predecessor but did also excommunicat and persecute him This is that Urban that made that famous Decree That an oath made to an excommunicat person must not be kept VII But the Emperor was most of all afflicted by Pope Paschal the 2. who succeeded Urban for he made his own son to take up arms against him where he was overcome in battel and deposed in a Synod held at Mentz by the Popes command and the Crown and other Imperial ornaments were violently taken from him by the Bishops of Mentz Colen and Worms and given to his son and for grief he died soon after But although we say Livor post fata quiescit yet the Popes wrath did not cease against him after he was dead for he would not suffer his son to bury him so that he lay five years unburied Cardinal Baronius commends this fact saying Quis negare potest summum fuisse hoc pietatis genus c. Who can deny that it was the highest kind of piety to have shewed himself cruel in this case And again Nihil habes in quo damnes filium magis quam si insanienti furientique pius filius vincula injiciat patri You can no more condemn the son then if a pious son should bind his father who is fallen mad VIII But the son felt the Popes no better friends to him then they were to his father for although Pope Paschal granted to him the collation of Benefices and confirmed it with an oath yet he brake the oath although when he sware he divided the consecrated host betwixt him and the Emperor saying Sicut pars c. As this part of the vivifying body is divided so let him be divided from the Kingdom of Christ who will go about to break this compact And Calixtus the 2. his successor excommunicated him and forced him to compound Pope Adrian the 4. caused Frederick the 1. to hold his stirrop and quarrelled him for taking the left in stead of the right But the next Pope Alexander the 3. trod upon his neck when he stooped to kiss his Holiness foot using these words of the Psalm 91. Thou shalt tread upon the Lyon and Add●r the young Lyon and Dragon shalt thou trample under foot And when the Emperor said Not to thee but to Peter do I this submission The Pope treading on him again said Both to me and Peter IX I spare to speak at large of Pope C●lestin the 3. who crowned the Emperor Henry the 6. with his foot and after he had crowned him cast down the Crown to the ground thereby signifying that he had power to cast him down from the Empire if he deserved it which Baronius highly commendeth But his successor Innocent the 3. is not to be forgotten for he excommunicated John King of England deposed him absolved his subjects from their allegiance to him and did cast an interdict upon the Kingdom which lasted six years and gave it to Philip August the French King if he could take it which made the subjects to despise him the Clergy to revile him the Barons to rise in warr against him and the French King to fall upon him so that he was brought to such extremity that to purchase his peace he gave the Kingdom to the Pope and in end a Monk poisoned him It would fill a volume to speak at large how Henry the 3 King of England was abused and tyrannized over by the Pope and how Pope Innocent the 3. excommunicated the Emperor Otho and deprived him of the title of the Empire and how Honorius and Pope Gregory the 9. and Pope Innocent the 4. excommunicated and deposed the Emperor Frederick the 2. and sent an army into Appulia and seized upon his lands and of the contest betwixt Philip the Fair King of France and Pope Boniface the 8. who excommunicated Philip and deposeth him of his Kingdom and giveth it to the Emperor Albert and laboreth to arm Germany and the Netherlands against France But the King took him prisoner brought him to Rome where he died shortly through grief X. It would also be tedious if I should relate how John the 23. and Benedict the 12. and Clement the 6 excommunicated deprived Ludovicus Bavarus and elected Charles son of the King

burnt in flames like Seraphims and was ravished in the spirit and heard wonders which mortal man could not utter In this she was made another S. Paul that she was lifted up in the air and the Sacrament went visibly out of the hand of the Priest that said Mass through the air entred into her mouth And when the Sacramēt went by she being in a garden the wall of the garden opened its self and then she worshipped it Such was the opinion of her holiness that many Ladies of Spain and the Empress seeing themselves at point of child birth sent their mantles wherein the creature should be wrapped that she should bless them She gave to her beloved friends drops of her monstrous blood made them believe it was the blood of Christ she was condemned as a Witch by the Inquisitors of Spain about the year of God 1540. The other of a Dominican Nun Prioress de la Anunciada of Lisbon in Portugal about the 1586. year of God that she had deserved to have Christ visible for her husband that he appeared to her often times and talked with her as one friend would talk with another that she had the impression of Christs five wounds upon her And as the history recordeth other infinit miracles did she So that many became Nuns through the opinion which was conceived of her holiness and miracles This story is written in French by one Steven de Lusignan a Dominican Frier and dedicated to the Queen of France with this title The great miracles and most holy wonders which this present year 1586. hath happened to the right reverend Mother Prioress of the Monastery c. in Lisbon approved by Frier Lewes of Granada and by other persons worthy of credit in Paris printed by John Bessant 1586. He alledgeth three letters sent from persons of great credit for his warrant But she was discovered and confessed her hypocrisie and that she painted the wounds on her hands drew blood on her side fained all the rest that she might be esteemed holy and therefore was condemned by the Archbishops of Lisbon and Brage the Bishop of Guardia the Inquisitors and sundry others in the end of the 1588. year as it is to be seen in a book printed at Sevil in Spain 1589. Let these examples suffice to prove this mark that by lying wonders they have established their damnable doctrine So that certainly there is not one thing that doth more confirm this that their Popes is the Antichrist and their Kingdom Antichristian then the effectual working of Satan by lying wonders whereby their devilish doctrine hath been promoved and established And what seek we further Is it not manifest by their own Histories that their own Popes to the number of 20. or mo have wrought by the effectual working of Satan So then to conclud this point If the Apostle Paul be a true Prophet which I trust no man will call in question and if he be the true Antichrist to whom all these marks do agree that is who is the man of sin and son of perdition who hath lifted up himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped c. which cannot be denyed then of necessity it must follow that the Popes of Rome are the self-same Antichrist which was fore-told to come because they bear all these marks of that Antichrist whom the Apostle describes and no other And if we will come to the Revelation where the Antichrist is most clearly fore-told What is there in that Revelation spoken of the Antichrist which is not fulfilled in the Popes of Rome In the 13 of the Revelation mention is made of two beasts by the first is signified the Roman Empire by the which the Saints of God were persecuted the first 300. years by the other is signified the Kingdom of the Antichrist which rose up immediatly after the diminishing and destruction of the Roman Empire the which John calls another beast distinguishing it from the former which he describes first from his outward form and shape that he hath two horns like the Lamb but speaks like the Dragon which hath been accomplished in the Popes of Rome as I have shewed before The second from his works that he doth First that he did all that the first beast could do before him Secondly that he shal cause all to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed Thirdly that he should deceive them which dwel upon the earth by the wonders and signes which was permitted to him to do Fourthly that he should restore the image of the first beast Fifthly that he should suffer none to buy or sell but such as received his mark on their fore-head and hands And the last thing from the which that Antichristian Kingdō which is represented by the second beast is described is the number of his name All the which are so clearly accomplished in that Papistical Kingdom these many hundred years that he must be blinded of God that sees not that the Popes are the Antichrist and their Kingdom Antichristian As to the first Who have exercised all the power of the former Emperors of Rome but they Have not they claimed to themselves the Monarchy of the whole world The authority of both the swords Have not Emperors and Kings sworn their oath of alleageance and fidelity unto them taking their unction consecration and Crowns of them and payed tribut unto them Have they not kissed their feet holden the stirrops led their bridles set them on their horse Have not the Popes of Rome excommunicated Emperors and Kings deposed them from their Kingdoms stirred up their subjects against them set up others in their places And finally what outward power or tyranny did ever the Roman Emperors exercise over Kingdoms and Nations yea what cruelty tyranny avarice blasphemy against God and his Saints did they ever exercise which the Popes of Rome have not done yea and have overcome them in all these things The which are so clear and manifest and that by their owne practises that they cannot be denyed Doth he not affirm in the Canon Law Dist 96. cap. Constantinus c. Venerabilem de electio That Constantin gave the Pope all the Kingdoms in the earth And that all Kings reign by the Pope And that he transferrs the Empire from Nation to Nation and gives them to whom he will And that all Kings are but the Popes vassals Steuchus de donat Constant And therefore saith Blondus lib. 3. instau Romae Now the Princes of the world adore worship the Pope as perpetual Dictator not Cesars successor but Peters successor and the foresaid Emperors Vicar Yea saith he All Europe sends greater or at the least as great tribut to Rome as they did in the former times to wit to the Roman Empire And Bernard saith serm de convers They are the first in the persecution speaking to the Church which appear to love the primacy in the Church to be Princes thereof