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A07802	The dovvnefall of poperie proposed by way of a new challenge to all English Iesuits and Iesuited or Italianized papists: daring them all iointly, and euery one of them seuerally, to make answere thereunto if they can, or haue any truth on their side; knowing for a truth that otherwise all the world will crie with open mouths, fie vpon them, and their patched hotch-potch religion.	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 1818; ESTC S113800	116,542	172

priuiledge graunted from this emperour wrested their neckes from the emperours subiection Let these words of Platina be well remembred because he being a famous papist must needs be of good credit against them I let passe the petite step when the emperor Phocas made Rome the head of all churches which for all that is of some moment The fourth step was the great amitie betweene Zacharie then Bishop of Rome and Pipine gouernour of France vnder Childerich the king for Pipine purposing to defeat his lord and soueraigne of the kingdome and to inuest himselfe therein sent his embassadours to Zacharie then Bishop of Rome and his bounden friend to demaund this question of him viz. VVhether he were more worthy to be king which was king only by name and naturall succession or els he who bare the whole burthen of the kingdome alone yet lacked the dignitie of a king The Pope vnderstanding the parable right well and respecting his owne future aduancement likely to ensue thereupon answered roundly I will not say clerkely but like a right doctor of the Romish rout that it was more rightfull forsooth that he which tooke the charge of all things should be called king Vpon this iudgement so clerkely yeelded Pipine forthwith presumed to depose Childerich and made himselfe king that done saintlesse not sackles Zacharie the Bishop of Rome that antichrists forerunner might be known assoiled Pipine and the other Frenchmen of their oath of allegeance and fealtie made to Childerich and confirmed Pipine the traitor in the kingdome of France This was indeed a step not of Iacobs ladder nor of Scala coeli but of Scala inferni Scala Antichristi and of the ladder of the master deuill of hell Yet is not our Iesuit and Cardinall Bellarmine the mouth of all papists and of the Pope himselfe ashamed to publish the same as a ground of the popish religion For these are his owne words Childericum deposuit Zacharias in eius locum Pipinum Caroli magni patrem creari iussit Cuius causa fuit quia propter socordiam Childerici religioni regno in Gallia extrema ruina imminere videbatur Pope Zacharie deposed Childericke and commaunded to place and inuest Pipine father to Charles the great in his throne the cause whereof was this because forsooth through the slouthfull and negligent gouernment of Childericus the kingdome and religion in Fraunce seemed to be in great danger This is the deepe diuinitie of the Pope and his clergie by which we may learne many worthie lessons 1 First that the Pope may set vp and pull downe kings at his pleasure by Iesuiticall doctrine and late Romish religion 2 Secondly that the Pope and Iesuites are the grand-masters and architects of seditions rebellions and most bloudie treasons 3 Thirdly that it is very true which the secular priests haue written concerning the traiterous proceedings of Iesuits and Iesuited papists 4 Fourthly that the Pope commaunded to depose the Soueraigne and to inthronize the subiect in his place 5 Fiftly that all this was done because forsooth the king did not rule after the Popes fansie and pleasure Hereupon I inferre this necessarie correlarie viz. that it behooueth Christian kings to be vigilant and in due time to expell all traiterous papists out of their dominions And if the Bishop of Rome shall send any seditious popeling into their kingdomes and territories with his thunderbolts buls and excommunications then to deale with the messengers as king Philip the faire dealt with pope Boniface his nuncioes in France whom he committed to prison and caused the Popes buls to be burnt in the fire And as Charles the sixt when Bennet the 13. did interdict his realme sitting in the throne of iustice in his high court of parliament the 21 of May in the yeere 1408. gaue sentence that the bull should be rent in pieces and that Gonsalue and Conseleux the bearer thereof should be set vpon a pillorie and publickely traduced in the pulpit The storie is set downe at large by the French papists in their booke intituled the Iesuites catechisme and the same is recorded in my anatomie of Popish tyrannie The fift step was the decay of the empire in the East about the yeere 756. For when Aistulphus or as some write Aristulphus king of the Lombards besieged the citie of Rome for the space of three whole moneths exacting an huge tribute of the Romanes then Pope Stephanus the second made suite to Pipinus king of France to stand their good master and to defend the citie from the furie of the Lombards King Pipine willing to gratifie his good friend the Bishop of Rome came with a mightie armie against Aistulphus and besieged him in Pauie and then and there constrained him to appeale to his mercie and to yeeld vp the exerchate of Rauenna and Pentapolis into his hands This being effected king Pipine whom Pope Zacharie of a traitour had made king as is alreadie prooued gave vp the gouernment of Italie into the Popes hands And the king had reason so to doe for as we know one good turne requires another So now the lieutenants of the emperours of Constantinople ended their whole power in Italie who aforetime had their seats at Rauenna and now was he taken out of the way who as the Apostle telleth vs did hinder the comming of Antichrist for Pope Stephen in way of gratitude confirmed the inheritance royall of the kingdome of France to the said Pipine and to his posteritie for euer Here began a new progenie of the kings of France for Childericus was the last king of the stocke of Meroneus who was the first king Christian of France This truth is apparant by the testimonie of many renowned Chronographers it cannot be denied The sixt step was the translation of the Romane empire from the Greeks to the Frenchmen or Germans in the person of magnificall Charles as the Iesuit Bellarmine tearmeth him The truth is this as popish Chronographers doe record and testifie to the world viz. That when the Romanes had driuen from among them Pope Leo the third he appealed to Charles then king of France who came to Rome and examined the matter and in the end appeased the Romanes and restored the Pope to his place and dignitie againe For this good worke and kind fauour of the king the Pope and people of Rome hauing now a long time in mind and affection reuolted from the emperour of Constantinople and seeing a fit opportunitie offered to accomplish their long wished desires did with vniforme consent and ioyfull acclamation proclaime Charles the great the emperour of Rome giuing him the imperiall names of Caesar and Augustus and setting the royall diademe vpon his head by the hands of Pope Leo. And for the better credit of mine assertion I will here recount the very words of Sigebertus a famous Chronographer and popish monke who therefore must needs be of credit with

please the Pope and by reason of their ignorance they set abroach many things which they did not vnderstand Iohannes Gerson a famous papist likewise and sometime chancelour of Paris reporteth much like stuffe and more lordly titles ascribed to the Pope by his popish parasites These are his expresse words Sicut Christo collata estomnis potestas in coelo in terra sic eam Christus omnem Petro suisque successoribus dereliquit Sequitur sicut non est potestas nisi à deo sic nec aliqua temporalis vel ecclesiastica imperialis vel regalis nisi à Papa in cuius foemore scripsit Christus rex regum dominus dominantium de cuius potestate disputare instar sacrilegij est cui neque quisquam dicere potest cur ita facis As all power was giuen to Christ in heauen and on earth so Christ left all the same power to Peter and to his successours the Bishops of Rome As there is no power but of God so is there neither any temporall or ecclesiasticall neither imperiall nor regall but of the Pope in whose thigh Christ hath written the king of kings and lord of lords of whose power to dispute is as it were sacriledge to whome no man may say VVhy doest thou so These are the words of this great learned doctor who though he were a zealous papist yet could he not conceale these Antichristian blasphemies within his breast Neuerthelesse Pope Boniface or if ye will Pope maliface did not only acknowledge them but with great pleasure practised the same as witnesseth the said Gerson in these words Hanc existimationem habuisse visus est Bonifacius octauus in quadam decretali putatur ab alijs depositio vnius regis franciae per papam Zachariam hic esse fundata tanquam papa sit qui transferre possit reges regna Pope Boniface the eight seemeth in a certaine decretall to haue had this opinion of his owne authoritie Others thinke that the deposition of Childericus the French king by Pope Zacharie was grounded in this Antichristian and godlesse conceit as if forsooth the Pope were he that could depose princes and translate their kingdomes By these authorities it is cleare that the late Bishops of Rome haue taken vpon them not onely to depose kings and to translate their kingdomes but withall haue challenged more than humane and royall power euen that power which is due and proper to God alone So as we haue not so much to consider what hath beene done as what ought of right to be done I will therefore for perspicuitie sake proceed by way of gradation and set downe the very steps of the ladder by which the late bishops of Rome did climbe vp to their vsurped tyrannicall primacie 1 The first step was the departure of the emperour Constantinus from Rome to Constantinople at what time as the Popes parasites tell vs the emperour gaue large gifts to the Pope euen his whole power dominion and territories both in Rome Italie and all the VVest parts for thus is it written by Gratian in the Popes own decrees Constantinus imperator coronam omnem regiam dignitatem in vrbe Romana in Italia in partibus occidentalibus Apostolico concessit Sequitur decreuimus itaque hoc vt ipse successores eius diademate viz. corona quam ex capite nostro illi concessimus ex auro purissime gemmis pretiosis vti debeat pro honore B. Petri. Constantine the emperour gaue the Pope his crowne and all royall dignitie in the citie of Rome and in Italie and in all the VVest parts It followeth a little after in the next Cannon VVe therefore haue made also this decree that the Pope and his successours shall for the honour of S. Peter weare the crown of pure gold and pretious stones which we haue giuen him from off our owne head Thus saith the decree But Laurentius Valla Raphael Voluteranus Paulus Catthalanus Nicolaus Cusanus and many other popish writers repute the same as a fable Yea our Iesuit Bellarmine seemeth to doubt thereof and of other like supposed donations and therefore hath he inuented a soueraign remedie for the same These are his expresse words Extant Romae authentica instrumenta harum similium donationum Sed etiamsi nihil horum extaret abunde sufficeret prescriptio 800. annorum Nam etiam regna imperia per latrocinium acquisita tandem longo tempore flunt legitima There be extant at Rome authenticall instruments of these and the like gifts But if there were no such thing yet would prescription of 800 yeares be sufficient for euen kingdomes empires gotten by robberie through continuance of time become lawfull Thus writeth our Iesuit who hath left nothing vnsaid that can be said for poperie The second step was the fall of the empire in the VVest For after the diuision of the empire it begun daily to decline and was vtterly dissolued in Augustulus in the yeare 471. of whom was made this epigram Augustus romanum imperium condidit Augustulus labefactauit Augustus set vp the empire but Augustulus pulled it downe For after Orestes his father was slaine who was neuer emperour but a captain vnder Nepos the said Augustulus gaue vp the diademe and betooke himselfe to a priuat life From this time the empire in the VVest was vacant about 330 yeares By meanes whereof the Popes power did daily increase by little and little and from step to step The Vissigothes ruled in Spaine the Abienes in Guian and Gascoyn the Frenchmen in the residue of France the Vandales in Affricke the Saxones in Brittaine the Ostrogothes in Hungarie the Herules and Turdilings in Italie and in the citie of Rome onely the name of the empire remained with Zenon in the East About the yeare 536. Totilas king of the Gothes by force of armes and famine subdued well neere all Italie and after long siege tooke the citie of Rome and spoyled it with sword and fire ouerthrowing the wals and towers euen to the ground and vntill Carolus magnus the Abiens and Barbarians possessed all Italie The third step was the voluntarie charter which Constantine the emperour of Constantinople made to Pope Benedict the second viz. that whomsoeuer the clergie people and the Romane souldiours should chuse to be Bishop all men should beleeue him to be the true vicar of Christ without any tarrying for any authoritie of the emperour of Constantinople or the deputie of Italie as the custome and maner was euer before that day Thus writeth Platina who was the Popes owne deere vassale This was a very gallant step for as you see here the Popes for the space almost of seuen hundred yeares viz. vntill this Bennet in the yeare 684. acknowledged the emperours for their superiours and lords without whose letters pattents they could haue no iurisdiction nor be reputed the true Bishops of Rome but now the Bishops of Rome by