of many vnto this his doctrine of the bottomlesse pit It may also be said to rise out of the bottomlesse pit d N.D. ans S. F.H. for the darke and deepe schoole-learning e cap. 2.24 or profoundnes of Sathan which it teacheth leauing the plaine and easie doctrine of the Scriptures the more easily to delude the world with difficulties and subtilties The name of this beast is f cap. 13.14 an image of the beast which was wounded with the sworde and did liue againe namely the image of the ciuill monarchie or Empire which was wounded with the sworde of the Gothes and other strangers but did liue by meanes of the Papacie Now because the sinnes of the Arian Princes Constantine Constantius Iulian and Valens were the cause why God in his iust iudgement did make the Empire in the West and especially in Rome of which they gloried to be abolished this beast is the image of the Empire as it was corrupted with heresie wherefore this is g Geneb 552. 553. a Monarchie not ciuill in the hands of Emperors but Ecclesiasticall vnder him who hath hornes like the Lambe For the gouernment of the Church of Rome is called an Ecclesiasticall Monarchie For a Hist an t ex Pom. laet p. 347 Rome the very goddesse of all landes and queene of all nations doth seeme to require the seates and Empire both of God and of mankinde And this is the b cap. 17.9.10.11 seuenth head or forme of kingdome or gouernment of Rome For in the time of Saint Iohn the Soueraigntie first of Kings second Consuls third Decemuiri fourth Dictators fifth Triumuiri were fallen one was namely the Emperors being the sixth and now the Empire being wounded to death steppeth vp this beast the seuenth Whereof the Pope standing a while as a Prince is an eight and is one of the seuen being a member of this beast As touching the forme of this beast he is said to haue c cap. 17.3 seuen heads and tenne hornes herein both like vnto the Dragon which represented the heathen Empire and also like the other monstrous beast which represented the pretended Christian Empire which was corrupted with heresie And because this is said to be the image of the latter beast as that was of the Dragon it is implied that this beast hath also mouthes as Lyons for force and maiestie body like the Pantheresse for swiftnes inamouring deceiuing and inchaunting such which are to be deluded by her and feete like vnto Beares feete for strong and sure marching and couetousnes c. And as into the description of the d cap. 17.1 other beast so into this is to be supplied out of e Dan. 7.1.7.19 Daniel that his teeth were of yron and his nayles of brasse which deuoured brake in peeces and stampeth the residue vnder feete euen f cap. 9.11 Abaddon and Apollyan and therefore is called by Saint Paul g 2. Thes 2.3 the sonne of perdition wherefore this beast doth beare the image of that which signified the corrupted Empire So that h See Ruff. Soc. Sozâ—m Theod. what shifting periurie dissimulation i Soc. 8. 13. spreading of false rumors crueltie c. to be found in the stories of the Arian Princes and Bishops the same is reuiued in this beast And whereas this beast by reason of the number of heads and hornes is likewise in a manner compared to the Dragon what superstition tyrannie and persecution is found in the stories of the heathen persecutors the same in his time is reuiued by this beast And this is the cause that this beast is called by the k name of the Gentiles Wherefore the Pope is the l Liui. det 1. l. 4. Pont. Max. of Numaes deuising vnto whom were committed the ceremonies of diuine seruices and of funerals with the order to pacifie the spirits in the behalfe of them which were dead And so at this time men a cap. 17.8 wondered at the beast that was in the time Numa and is not in the time of Saint Iohn and yet is and was in the time of Saint Iohn in title in the Emperors who called themselues Pontifices Maximi The rest of the Clergie represent the other magistrates and people which did in the time of the Gentiles gouerne the policie of Rome The beast of Rome Emperor Pont. Max. Prouinces Proconsuls Tribunes Centurions Garisons Ex Peucere de diuinations Geuffraeo de Turcorum moribus Voluntaries Tributarie gent. Trayned youth The image the papacie Pope Pont. Max. Forraine Churches Cardinals c. Legats c. Rectors Abbies Begging Fryers Orders of Souldiers Seminaries The Turkes policie Mahomet highest Bishop Prouinces Beglerbij Bassi Sangiaci Flamboler sobasir Timariota Akengi Spachi Saray In this table are compared the heathen and pretended Christian policie of Rome with the Mahumetanes Quis istorum chiron fuit In the papacie the honours and ceremonies both ciuill and Ecclesiasticall are altogether borrowed of the Gentiles Iewes Barbarians Arians c. b Lud. Viues teste Chemnicio in examine There can no difference be shewed but that onely the names of the things be changed His c cap. 17.9.10 seuen heads are those seuen policies by which Rome was gouerned and those seuen hilles vpon which it was built of which hath been spoken in the discription of the Dragon before Cap. 1. His d cap. 17.12 tenne hornes are tenne Kings or principalities which in Iohns time had not receiued the kingdome but did receiue power as Kings at one houre with the beast this Monarchicall dignitie of the Church of Rome that is those tenne kingdomes or common-wealths which arose out of the former inundation of strangers Furthermore this beast is said to e cap. 17.3 bee scarlet coloured herein differing from the other which was white spotted little eyes of blacke For this is red like the Panthers of Syria and Africa or rather like the red Dragon signifying that this beast hath more authoritie and is more bloody then were the Arians For a cap. 18.24 in her is found all the blood that is shed vpon the earth This b cap. 17.3 beast is full of names of blasphemies as a Pantheresse is full of spots For all manner of persons in this hierarchie from the greatest to the least doe open their mouthes to blaspheme curse slaunder lie scoffe c. And as they be euer blasphemous more or lesse so they spare no persons nor things For they blaspheme c cap. 13.6 God his name his tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen yet were the Arians not so bad for the beast representing them d cap. 13.1 had names of blasphemies on his heads onely the Princes and some chiefe persons being blasphemous the rest ignorantly religious or not so blasphemous The other enemie is e cap. 12.7 Michael with f cap. 6.2 his horsemen and as he is the g cap. 17.14 Lambe and they that
Inuen 5. 1. hanging vp of tapers came of an old Pagane fashion of sacrifices that the Pagans offered to Saturnus and Pluto c. The r Abb. Vrsp p. 153. D. 63. Agath Popes Legat said Masse at Constantinople in Latin that one Å¿ Gen. 11.7 vnderstand not anothers language When the Emperor had consented to worship the Dragon by setting vp idolatry the Bulgarians t Geneb p. 692. inuade Panonia and Thracia ouercame the Emperours armie and much rented the Empire This Pope u Fasc Temp. f. 61. dist 19. Sic. required the Popes decrees to bee receiued as confirmed by the diuine voyce of Peter vnto * Dist 63. Agatho him the Emperor sent backe the mony which he was wont to receiue of the Popes for their confirmatioÌ„ But vnder condition that there should bee a general decree that none should bee ordained Pope without the Emperors knowledge and commandement Anno 684. Leo the second a x Geneb p. 694. skilfull musition he instituted the kissing of the Pax and brought the a Platina Bishops of Raâ—â—â—â— into obedience and subiection which before held themselues equall with the Popes He gâ—â— such good opinion that at his death al men wept for him as for their father He b Gobetâ— 6. cap. 35. by twelue compurgators cleared himselfe of certaine crimes that were obiected against him Benedictus c Geneb the second is said to haue obtained of the Emperour that whom the armie and Clergie Anno â—â—6 and people of Rome did chuse should be esteemed the vicar of Christ as if it were in man to substitute a vicar for Christ Though he wanted the consent of the Emperour or his Exarch of Rauenna He d Fasc Temp. repaired many Churches with great charges In his time e VVolphg was a great pestilence The Saracens inuade Libia Iohn the fifth appointed f Geneb the Pope to be consecrated by three certaine Bishops which custome continueth Anno 687. g Bergâ—â— 10. He wrote a booke of the dignitie of the Pall. Conon was h Pantaleon created Pope by the Exarch where was then the graunt made to Benedict two yeeres before Anno 688. the i Platina armie and Clergie chusing others He was esteemed Angel-like for his vertue The k VVolphg Emperor Iustinian receiued much damage by the Saracens Sâ—rgius the first was l Carion f. 151. made Pope by sedition Anno 689. and in his time was a great schisme in the Church both for the election of the Pope and because two m Fasc Temp. generall Councels dissented Iustinian the n Abb. Vrsp p. 154. Emperor sent the Generall of his warres to take this Pope prisoner because he would not subscribe to the Councell for correcting the sixt Councell at Constantinople but the Pope was rescued by the souldiers of Rauenna and the places adioyning and his Generall beate from Rome with contumelies and iniuries He repaired o Platina Churches and conuerted the Saxons As it is reported the p Mass 14. p. 194. Lord reuealed vnto him a case of siluer in which he found a good peece of that he supposed to be the crosse of Christ which q Abb. Vrsp p. 155. was carried into Constantines Church and worshipped of all the people As the heardsman found the sword of Mars and gaue it to Attâ—las The Romans vpon this idolatrie r Wolph beeing ouerthrowne by the Saracens the name of the Saracens encreased and the dignitie of the Romans was exceedingly diminished Ann. 702. Iohn the sixt interposed Å¿ Platina himselfe betweene the souldiers of Italie the Exarch whom the souldiers would haue slaine for fauouring the Popes more than the Emperours Ann. 705. Iohn the seauenth in his t Blond Epit. time the Lombards gaue a great donation to S. Peter of the lands betweene Genna France u Geneb p. 703 Genebrard with some others saith that he restored it But * Platina f. 102. this hath no credible author but is palea that is chaffe without wheate The x Wolph Saracens againe possesse Affrica This Pope y Bergom 10. beautified Churches with pictures and histories of the Saints Ann. 707. Sisimus held z Fasc Temp. the seate by schisme In a Geneb his time the king of Spaine a flagitious man fearing the alienation of his subiects and a rebellion by meanes of the Bishops pulled down the fortifications of his land Egypt and Affrica are wasted by the Saracens Iustinianus a Abb. Vrsp p. 155. Frisin 5. 14. the Emperour restored to his Empire apprehended them that cast him out caused them to be drawne before him in the streetes and treading hard vpon their neckes the people cried thou hast walked on the lyon and the basiliske and trade vpon the lyon and the Dragon c. Ann. 707. Constantinus was b Plat. f. 103. b so fauoured by Iustinian the tyrant that because Felix the Archbishop of Rauenna would not giue the Pope money and obedience for his ordination the Emperour burned out the Archbishops eies by causing him to looke into a bright brasse panne in the sunne and so Felix drinketh of the wine of the wrath of her fornication He c Frisin 5. 14. Geneb p. 706. sent for the Pope to Constantinople and honourably entertained him confessed his sinnes vnto him craued and obtained absolution and first of any Emperour kissed the Popes feete e Frising and confirmed the Popes priuiledges and decree worshipping the beast But f Geneb when the Pope was gone hee reuoked that confirmation * Polyd. Jan. 4. 9. f. 97. The diuellish rite of kissing the feete of the Bishop of Rome tooke his originall of the manner of the Romanes who when they were Pagans vsed to kisse the feete of the Priests and other nobles c. Dioclesian made the commons stoope to kisse his feete This Pagan example our Christian Bishop and Gods Vicar full vngodly and vngoodly doth counterfeit g Frisin 5. 15. Philippicus the Emperour holdeth a Councell reiecteth the sixt Councel at Constantinople and pulled downe images But this Pope h Platin. f. 104. a. held a Councel at Rome for images against the Emperour and excommunicated him confirmed the decree of Agatha for images decreed i Abb. Vrsp p. 156. that no money should be currant which had the name of an hereticall Emperour vpon it nor his letters name or figure receiued nor his image carried into the Church nor his name remembred at Masse Thus doth the beast labour to establish the worshippe of the Dragon and the Emperour drinketh of the wine of the fornication of the great whore k Curiâ— Roderike king of Spaine defiled the daughter of his lieftenant Iulian who for his fornication called l cap. 9. â—â— the Saraceus who subdued and possessed the greatest part of all Spaine Gregorius the second
his possessions is sure and because these pillars be of fire he h Zach. 12.6 consumeth them as stubble that will offer to take any thing from vnder his feete Secondly he i cap. 10.3 cryed with a loud voyce as when a Lyon roareth that is indignation doth proclaime and decree seuere lawes to bring all both the people and the Popes into obedience and to keep them in subiection k Pro. 19 1â— 20.2 Hol. 11. 10. For the wrath of a King is as the roaring of a Lyon And in this phrase doth Fredericke the second expresse l Gebel aâ— 6â— cap. 64. his conceiued displeasure against the Pope that would not onely exempt himselfe from subiection to the Emperor but â—â—sult as Lord ouer the ciuill authoritie The opposition of Christ in his witnesses is as before to prophecie m cap. 11.4 in sackecloth like poore professors to accompanie the n cap. 14.1.3.4 Lambe on mount Sion following Iesus Christ in the true worship of God c. being bought from the earth not partaking with the ambitions of the beast c. Gregorius the fourth would not receiue o Plat. f. 127. the seate till he was confirmed by Ambassadors from the Emperor who in Christs stead had set his right foote on the sea and his left foote on the earth For the Emperor would not loose the right of the Empire This seemeth to prooue the graunt p Dist 63 Ego Ludouicus of Ludouicus to be a meete forgerie Now idolatry being established in Rome the q Wolph Saracens spoyled Asia Ierusalem Sicilia a great part of Italy euen the Churches of Peter and Paul and made r Epit. Blâ—â—d d. 2. l. 2. a stable of Saint Peters Church Å¿ Mass 15. Gebel â—t 6. c. 45. The Pope fortified the ruined city of Ostia against the Saracens and commaunded the name thereof to be Gregoriopolis but after the Popes death it lost this new name The Emperor Ludouicus held t Plat. f. 127. a Councell of many Bishops to the honor of God and profit of the Ecclesiasticall dignitie In which was decreed that neither the Bishop nor the Clergie of any degree should weare any precious and costly garments silkes scarlets or embroderies nor any golde or siluer on their girdles or slippers nor vse u Fox Marâ—y pag. 138. diceing nor keepe harlots nor great horses The Nobles especially the Bishops to reuenge themselues for the reformation which Ludouicus made by a * Peuce 4. pag. 99. Massae 15. p. 209. Councell had stirred vp the Emperor Ludouicus Pius his sonnes to depriue their father of his Empire c. Thus the beast blasphemeth the Prince whom the Scripture calleth God and that for his worship of God Anno 844. Swines snowte for a Carain f. 334. alij the deformitie of his name changed it to Sergius the second Hence the Popes began the custome to change their names As if he b Poly. Jri. 4. 7. be a malefactor he may call himselfe Bonifacius if a coward he may be called Leo for a carter Vrbanus for a cruell man Clemens This Pope was created c Gobel ae 6. cap. 45. p. 197. without the consent of the Emperor but the Emperor sending a mightie armie against Rome setting his fiery feete on the sea and land and roring as a Lyon compelled the Romanes to sweare alleagance vnto the Emperor And after vpon diuers conditions confirmed Pope Sergius In this Popes time the brother of this Pope vsurped Ecclesiasticall authoritie being a lay man Simonie was so common that euen Bishoprickes were solde to him that would giue most And because there was no Christian that would correct these euils God sent his whip the Paganes to reuenge the sinnes of the Christians The Saracens came and killed innumerable people and burned many cities A horrible d Fasc Temp. f. 66. a. plague is vpon Rome and all Italy For certaine perfidious Christians sent priuily and called in the Saracens Rome is taken and the Church of the Apostles is made a Swine flie Anno 847. Leo the fourth c Platina praying blasphemously through the merits of Peter and Paul fought in person against the Saracens and miraculously drowned them in the sea He decreed that a f 2 q. 5. Nullam Bishop should not be condemned vnder seauentie two witnesses He forbad g Geneb p. 776. the laytie to come into the quire while the Priest was at Masse In his time the Arabians raised three persecutions against the Christians in Spaine Theodora the Empresse of Constantinople commaunded images to be set vp againe The nauie of the Arabians ouercame the nauies of Venice and Constantinople inuaded Dalmatâ—a tooke the iland Lipara and doe much hurt to the Empire wasting the Cyclades c. Methodius gathering Churches among the Moraui Scla and Polonians inuented the Vandale letters and turned many holy writings into the vulgar tongue As yet the little booke is open After Leo h Mass 15. pag. 211. Plat. Sab. Fasc Temp. Volat Caranza Berg. Chro. Chro. c. succeeded Iohn the eight a woman Anno 854. who because she went alwayes in mans apparell and studied very diligently was thought a most learned man and held the seate almost two yeeres In the meane space she conceiued and was deliuered as she went in procession where she died Hereupon they say it was decreed that the Popes priuities should be handled Benedictus the third Anno 855. against i Geneb p. 781. Gobelinus him did sit Anastasius the third Nicholas k Platin. f. 136. the first was reuerenced as a God Anno 858. For now they that are called Christians doe to the Pope as * Strabo 7. p. 206. the barbarous Gothes did to their Priests who first were esteemed by them the Priests of that god whom they especially serued but after they got the reputation or appellation of gods This l Geneb p. 783. Pope is also called the Elias of the Popes he reigned ouer Princes as the Lord of the whole earth So now m Frising 6.3 the kingdome or Empire decreasing by much diuision the Church became of so great authoritie that it iudged euen Kings He openeth his mouth to blasphemie and absolueth n 15. q. 6. Authoritatem from their othes such as sweare by constraint and alloweth the Clergie with the spirituall and temporall sworde to recouer the Church goods by any meanes taken away He a D. 21. Nolite D. 28. Confulendum D. 96. fâ— script decreed that no lay man either Prince or people may iudge or lightly accuse a Bishop or Priest much lesse the Popes of Rome who are as gods in the world Hee b Caran f. 336 b. accurseth all that doe despise the commandements or interdictions of the Popes because their decrees as he exalteth himselfe are to be preferred before all writings whatsoeuer c 4. q. 2
the generall argument of these times we will passe ouer many things and onely insist vpon some particulars of the stories following Iohn the tenth Ann. 899. it e G.p. 802. 803 N.B. was concluded betweene the Bishops of Constantinople and Rome that he should be called vniuersall Patriarke because he was more worthy than the rest this was called vniuersall Pope because the name of Pope seemed to be more excellent and so was the question of the Primacie compounded that had long depended Benedict the fourth f Geneb p. 750 805. 806. 807. N B. The Greekes Hebrewes Ann. 900. and Arabians flourish in learning and discipline Latine lieth in obscurity Greece aboundeth with learned men because that Leo the Emperour gaue himselfe to philosophie c. But amongst the Latines it was a most vnhappy age without good wits or learning In a manner without any good Pope or famous Councel In this one thing vnhappie that for 150. yeares about 50. Popes from Iohn the 8. to Leo the 9. who was said to be another Aaron did altogether fall from the vertue of their ancestours beeing rather ciphers and Apostataes g Geneb p. 811 than Apostolicall h Plat. in Iob. 13. prodigious monsters Wherefore it is reported that there i Fasc Temp. f. 68. b. was found a monster with a dogs head and the rest of the bodie like a man liuely representing the times when as men without a head did wander vp and downe barking like dogges Yet in some k Ann. 949. Frith Hirs p. 38. 39. 40. Monasteries were the scriptures diligently and learnedly taught though in some other places the Monkes were of a most dissolute life Ann. 955. l Geneb p. 824 Iohn the thirteenth tooke to himselfe the Papacie trusting vpon the power of his father Here Genebrard sheweth that hee wilfully forgat himselfe when hee said that m p. 811. the Popes were prodigious because they were intruded by the Emperours This Pope liued in his Papacie worse than a priuate man He n Trith Hirs p. 42. Gobel aet 6. c. 48.51 p. 203. 207. openly and incestuously kept harlots and made the holy Palace a very filthy stues Hee sold spiritualities gaue orders in his stable made a boy of ten yeares olde a Bishop Hee opening his mouth to blasphemie in loue dranke wine to the diuell and called vpon Iupiter and Venus and other Gentile gods for lucke at dice and bestowed the crosses and other ornaments of the Church vpon his harlots c. The Cardinals and o Epit. Blond other Princes write to the Emperour Otho to deliuer the Church and people of Rome from the tyrannie of him and Berengarius The Emperour came to Rome and as some report was crowned by this Pope but some thinke otherwise to him the Pope voweth allegeance and as some say the Emperour a Dist 63. tibi Domino sware obedience to the Pope The Emperor departing the Pope breaketh his faith giuen to the Emperor waxeth euery day worse and gathereth forces against the Emperour VVas this the Vicar of Christ and Peters successor Otho returneth to Rome and crying as when a Lyon roareth in a great Synode by the consent of the Clergie Nobles and people of Rome deposeth the Pope as a monster and bondslaue of the diuell and placed Leo the eight in his stead causing the Romans to sweare that they would neuer depart from the obedience of Leo nor choose any Pope without the consent of the Emperour and his sonne The Emperour dischargeth his armie Iohn promiseth the Romanes that if they would kill the Emperour and the Pope Leo he would giue them all the Church treasurie The Romanes rise against the Emperour and are killed without mercie or number The Emperour taketh hostages of the rest which at the petition of the Pope Leo were restored againe When the Emperour was departed the women many in number and not altogether vnnoble who had bene harlots to this Pope Iohn perswade the Romanes to recall Iohn who vpon his returne committed many outrages While the Emperour returneth to reuenge his disorder Iohn taken in adulterie was wounded on the temples by the diuell and so died beeing taken b Mass 15. p. 216. by the diuell to hell When he was dead the Romans chose Benedict The Emperour returneth besiegeth Rome so straitly that a bushell of branne was worth 3. crownes The Romanes yield and receiue Leo c Dist 63. in Synodo who in a Councel at Rome together with the Clergie and people of Rome gaue authoritie to the Emperour and to his successors to choose the Popes accursing any that should attempt to alter that decree This decree was made because d Fasc Temp. f. 70. a. of the wickednesse of the Romanes who intruded their friends And euery mighty e Crantz M. 51. p. 301. person by ambition did striue to obtaine that dignitie Many Popes were soone murthered not without suspition of poyson Note that they were f Fasc Temp. ibid. killed as in the Primitiue Church but they bee not martyrs as they were the punishment was like but the cause farre vnlike The g histor omnes Saracens Hungarians c. doe exceedingly trouble the world especially Italie Holinesse h Fasc Temp. 691. left the Popes and very cleerely went to the Emperours Ann. 965. Iohn the foureteenth in recompence i Geneb p. 830 of a benefit bestowed on him by Otho the Emperour hee called his sonne Otho Augustus The Duke of Poland and king of Denmarke are baptized There was a great k Trith Hirs p. 44. Geneb p. 832. famine in Germanie at what time Hatto Archbishop of Ments burned in a barne a great multitude of poore men that begged willing hereby to prouide for their pouertie and the common good But hee was after killed and eaten with mice which neither by land or water could be beate from him Anno 985. Iohn the seauenteenth in l Geneb p. 838. 840. his time and his predecessors was fearefull pestilence and famine Odilo an Abbot vpon the report of a m Trith Hirs p. 51. Clicton Hom. omnium animarum Poly. Inuent 6. c. 7. monke which came from an Ermite in Sicilia supposing that he heard great lamentations of diuels at Aetna for the losse of the soules which were got from them by the praiers and oblations of their well disposed friends that liued perswaded his couent to make a general Obite of All soules our father 's receiued it as a godly institution Thus of this monkes supposition grew much superstition c. Ann. 995. Gregorius the fift a Geneb crowned Otho the third At b Fasc Temp. whose instance he was made Pope Crescentius c Crantz Met. 5. 1. a Romane set vp an Antipope but he and his Pope were taken by the Emperour and executed By d Geneb p. 840 the consent of Otho in a Synode at Rome he
Albegenses c. for heriticks And as g Câ—riâ— 1. p. â—â— Mahâ—met did of such as followed him he h Crant 7.3 tooke an oath of the Bishops of obedience to the Church of Rome and to the Pope there against all schismes with promise not for the losse of limmes to reueale any of his counsels c. Hee i 3. Dec. f. 46. de reliqutis first decreed that none should be counted a Saint but whom the Popes canonized The k Poly. Inu 6. 6. canonizing of Saints did the Pope learne by the example of the Gentiles who vsed with great pompe and circumstance to deifie such as had beene beneficiall to the common wealth l Gâ—bel 6. 60. So did the Pope canonize Carolâ—â— Magâ—â—â— He m Peuc 4 p. 183 184. instituted the vse of vnleauened bread and tooke one part of the sacrament from the laitie n Geneb p. 936 937. 938. He censured the king of England for the death of Tho. Becket The order of the knights of Saint Iames began in Spaine as also the order of Galatraue o Vâ—lat 2â— f. 244. whose vowe was to defend Spaine from the incursions of the Saracens p Gobel a. 6. c. 60. Ioachim an Abbot prophecied that the Church should loose the temporalties and that there should arise certaine wicked orders of religious persons which came to passe when the begging Friers were known in the world which was not long after q Trith p. 199 S. Elizabeth hath reuelations shewed her by an Angel that requireth to be worshipped more r Mat. 4.10 like the diuell than the Å¿ Reu. 19.10 22.8 holy Angel of God Presbyter Iohn king of Christians in a Westmon p. 253. India would haue vnited himselfe to the Church of Rome if the fame or rather the infamie of the Romane couetousnesse had not defiled the whole world in all the parts thereof Lucius the third b Volat. 22. f. 254. was driuen out of Rome because hee sought to extinguish the name of the Consuls c Trith p. 204. Friderike the Emperour came into Italie with a great armie and with fire and sword did many things against the Pope and Church of Rome This Pope gaue himselfe wholy to d cap. 13.7 make warre with the Saints as did also his successors For hee proceeded very bloodily c Theod. 4 21. like Lucius the bloodie Arian Bishop yea like the Dragon the heathen Empire and by as cruell lawes as euer Mahomet made to f 5. Dec. 5. f. 7. 2. haret Ad abolendum abolish all that the Church of Rome called heretickes and remitted them that did relapse into heresie or the suspition thereof to the secular power without any audience And required a corporal oath of all Earles Barones Gouernours and Consuls c. of cities and of other places to assist the Church to the vttermost of their power against such as the Church of Rome called heretiks Thus Princes bee vsed like beasts hornes to gore and kill the Saints g Geneb p. 941 942. By his Legate were many burned in Flanders which affirmed that Priests said Masse onely for couetousnesse c. Many blasphemies are obiected to them as vnto others h p. 940. Saladine with his Saracens sawed the Templars asunder and killed the Priests and preuailed much in the holy land Ann. 1185. Vrbanus the third i Geneb p. 944. excommunicated the Danes for suffering married Priests k 943. When he heard that Ierusalem was taken as he was labouring for aide hee died for sorrow l Trith 205. Ann. 1187. The Emperour preuaileth in Italie against his rebels Gregorie the eight m Geneb p. 944 wholy minded the warres for Ierusalem There was continuall discord for about fiftie yeares betweene the Romanes and Popes about the gouernment of the citie from Innocent the second to this Pope By this contention Innocent the second Calestine the second died for sorrow Lucius the second was almost killed Eugenius the third Alexander the third Lucius the third were driuen out of the citie Vrbanus the third and this Gregorie were banished till at length things were compounded by ClemenÌ„s the third By which we see that the state of Rome n cap. 13.1 is a monster compounded of diuers wilde beasts that cannot be tamed and doth not maintaine that vnitie and estimation of the Pope that they bragge of The remainder of the Christians in the East are ouerthrowne Clement the third o Geneb 946. preuailed to send aide to the holy land The Emperour and diuers Princes went signed with the crosse but the Emperour was drowned and nothing was done p Vrsp p. 299. This Emperour was most Christian triumphing in all his warres couragious gentle and forgetting wrongs euen a Lamb in the throne And thus ended the third Thunder Caelestinus 3. q Geneb p. 947 interdicted France Ann. 1191. sent aide into the holy land a Geneb p. 946 and confirmed the order or nuÌ„ber of the Teutonici whose colours were white a crosse blacke In a day night they say 200. times the Lords praier the Creed and Aue Marie He dispensed with Henricus the sixth the Emperour to marrie Constantia a Nunne of whom when shee seemed past childe-bearing was borne Fridericus the second The number or order of b p. 949. Trith p. 207. crosse-bearers beganne in Italie and the order of the Teutonici Marie these were to helpe pilgrimes and sicke persons In Denmarke the people are perswaded to allow of Priests marriage which is repressed very hardly In Asia all things are worse This c Fox Mart p. 247. Pope crowned Henricus the sixt and Constantia his wife with his feete and againe spurned off the crowne declaring thereby that hee had power to depose him againe d Trith p. 208. This Emperour recouered Sicilia and e 210. sent forces into Syria f Gob. 6.61 but returning into Italie against his enemies is poysoned g Peucer 4. p. 456. Linonia is conuerted The Fourth Thunder Ann. 1198. WHen h Beuchol the Princes of Germanie which were gone into Asia against the Turkes heard of the death of the Emperour they could by no meanes be made to stay but left the warres and came home to the election of a new Emperour By their departure all in a manner was lost in the holy land i Trith p. 210. 211. 213. When they returned some chose Philip the Emperours brother others Otho Whereupon were multiplied many euills warres fires destruction of cities and murthers of the poore Saint Dominicke instituteth the order of preaching Friers Ann. 1198. Innocentius the third k Vrsp p. 305. c. vpon the death of Caelestinus tooke part against Philip obiecting against him the cruelties which his parents and brother had done against the Church of Rome in which the Pope iudged not equally l Carion But Philip was strong and fortunate
Missae 17. p. 235. foure hundred of them were burned fourescore beheaded their chiefe Prince Aimericus was hanged and his Lady was cast in a pit and stones vpon her The o Trith p. 222. Pope bringeth forth Fridericus and opposeth him openly to Otho the Emperor because he labored not for absolution and peace commaunded the Princes to chuse Fridericus and to cleaue vnto him which they did The Pope also sent his a Abb. Vrsp p. 314. 315. letters to the Clergie and Princes for ayde against the Saracens in the holy land His chiefe argument to perswade by was this The Saracens from the time of Gregorius the first when they began haue continued 666. yeeres almost which time according to the b cap. 13. vlt. ReuelatioÌ„ they should certainly be rooted out So foolishly did this false Prophet vnderstand that place c Vrsp p. 319. Betweene Otho and Fridericus were warres and Otho because his friends forsooke him was constrained to giue ground awhile Fridericus pursued him and vexed his fauorites yet did Otho gather vp himselfe to fight both with Fridericus and the French King But by the French King he was put to the worse Anno 1214. d Trith Hirs p. 223. Conradus de Marpurge was by the Apostolike sea made Generall inquisitor for heresies This Dominican Frier continued nineteene yeeres and caused many to be burned as heretikes no man forbidding him For the beast hath power giuen vnto him to do what he list Aâ—no 1215. The e Geneb p. 955. Pope also held the Lateran Councell at Rome maketh the fiue bookes of Decretals consisting for the most part of the decrees of this Councell and epistles of this Pope In this volume are diuers things for the aduancement of the Church of Rome in authoritie and doctrine For the woman sitteth on the scarlet coloured beast As f 5. Decret tit 33. cap. 23. the Church of Rome hath the principalitie of ordinarie power aboue all other Churches as the Mother and Mistris of all faithfull people for she saith in her heart I sit a Queene and am no Widow g 1. Decr. tit 7. cap. 23. That the authoritie of the Pope is as the authoritie of God For he exalteth himselfe c. shewing himselfe that he is God h 3. Decr. tit 41. cap. 6. He brought transubstantiation into the Sacrament and decreed that the words in the Canon of the Masse are to bee beleeued as the holy euangelists Thus he blasphemeth the tabernacle of God i 1. Decr. tit 6. cap. 34. He decreeth that it is in the Popes power to approue that Emperour which he thinketh worthie and to reiect him whom he thinketh vnworthie They are there also made heretikes k 5. Decr. tit 7. de haresibus that teach or thinke any other thing then the Church of Rome doth teach and obserue and so maketh the Church of Rome a right Cataphrygian And generally whom so euer the Church of Rome or popish Clergie shall so iudge Such may not be suffered to haue house substance fauour reliefe counsell credit nor may buy or sell nor liue And when they be dead they deale with them l Eus 5. 1. Theod. 4. 22. 2. 14. Soc. 2. 23. as the heathen Emperors and bloody Arians did with the Christians and Catholikes for they will not suffer them to be put in graues or Monuments So that his tyrannie is worse then that of m Eus 10. Licinius Yea he also decreed n 3. Decr. tit 28. cap. 12. that the bones of excommunicated persons if they may be discerned should be cast out of their graues from Christian communion He also giueth the lands and goods of such as he calleth heretikes their fauorers or complices c. to such papists as can get them And that this beast might appeare to be the image of the Dragon the heathen Empire of whom it is said o cap. 12. 4. He stoode before the woman c. to deuoure her childe when she had brought it forth p 5. Decr. tit 7. it was decreed that the beleeuers receiuers defenders and fauorers of such whom they called heretikes should likewise be excommunicated This kinde of excommunication was taken from the q Caesar bell Gallico lib. 6. Druides For such as stoode not to their decree were interdicted from sacrifices and hereupon accounted amongst the wicked All flie their company and speech they receiue no benefit of law nor are admitted to honors r 5. Decr. tit 6. cap. 7. 8. But Saracens and Iewes may haue houses and synagogs and exercise marchandise by the Popes warrant In this Councell a 1. D.T. 31. c. 14. See N. D. Warneword was decreed that where were people of diuers rites and languages the Bishops should prouide them fit men which should celebrate diuine seruice and minister the Sacraments and preach vnto them according to the diuersitie of their rites tongues So that yet it was not concluded that the seruice of God should be in a strange tongue as the papists would perswade This Councell ended the Pope preacheth the crosse b Mat. Paris p. 263. Vrs 315. and pardon of all sinnes for aide of the holy land and c 5. D.T. 7. de haeresib against heretikes promising to those catholikes that take the crosse to roote out heretikes as large priuiledges as were graunted to them that fight against the infidels and now doe the Popes teach as d Curio 1. p. 28. Mahomet did that who died for his religion should goe to paradise Hereupon many tooke the crosse to goe against the Saracens And many orders of souldiers arose the crosse-bearing souldiers were aduanced In e Volat. 21. f. 244. Arragon were two orders of souldiers the first Saint Mary for the redemption of captiues whose colours were white a crosse blacke The other Monlesiae with a red crosse these were to defend the countrie from the irruptions of the Saracens There were also the Dominicans or preaching Friers aduanced In f Trith p. 224. those dayes were many called heretikes men and women which spread their opinions in Almania France and Italy In the citie of Argentine were more then fourescore apprehended whom Conrade the inquisitor thus examined He caused an iron to to be made red hot and whom the hot iron did hurt hee condemned for heretikes and deliuered them to be burned for the beast hath teeth of yron and nailes of brasse many beleeued he condemned many innocents In g Geneb p. 958. Alsatia many held against the Pope and the Grecians against transubstantiation So did Almericus a very learned man his bones and the bones of diuers that followed him were digged vp againe and burned at Paris for the beast suffereth not their carcasses to be put in graues h Fasc Temp. l. 80. As the Pope preached the crosse so did the diuell 20 000 boyes c. in Almania tooke the signe of the crosse to goe
to Ierusalem against the Turkes but at the shore they were either drowned or sold to the Saracens A huge company of heardesmen came from Spaine and likewise tooke the crosse and spoyled the Clergie about Paris Honorius the third i Vrsp p. 320. made such preachers as grew cold in perswading and such people as were slacke in obeying Anno 1216. to be more zealous to recouer the holy land prophecying but falsely that in his time Ierusalem should be recouered from the Saracens He k Geneb p. 961. Trith p. 225. confirmed the order of the Dominicans and Franciscans whom l Vrsp p. 318. 319. Innocentius the third approued because their vow was in all things to be obedient to the Apostolike seate and to stand for the defence of the mother Church They say m Pet. de Nat. Clictouens hom de Francisco the Pope was vnwilling to confirme their order till in a lying vision by night he saw Dominicke or as other say Francis with his onely shoulders bearing vp the Laterane Church that by mine was readie to fall They also fable that when Christ came armed with three darts to destroy the world at the instance of his Mother he was content to respite the world till she had made experience of her two champions sufficient to conuert the whole world viz. Dominicke and Francis and iudicially pronounced that if the world were not conuerted by them he would presently make an end of it Howbeit as a Prog. finis mundi parte 1. 2. Vincentius writeth Anno 1416. more then a hundred yeeres after the prefixed time that the world was worse these religious persons were abhominable rather snares and wolues then pastors And hereby the vision proueth a fable as is fitting in false Prophets b Trith 224. 225. Fridericus followeth his warres vpon Othe who being forsaken of all dieth for sorrow of a dysemerie and Fridericus alone enioyeth the Empire c Crant 7. 35. Gob. 6.63 and so was ended the fifth Thunder The sixth Thunder Anno 1217. FRidericus the second a Vrsp p. 321. 322. being elected Emperor disposeth his affaires and is crowned at Rome bestoweth many of the Imperiall lands vpon Saint Peter and taketh the crosse to fight for Ierusalem against the infidels committed his sonne to the uition of certaine Princes by whom he was crowned King of Romanes But whereas certaine Earles had taken some of his castles in Apulia he fighteth with them and doth ouercome them who flie to the Pope that protecteth them whereof the Emperor complaineth The crosse is preached in Almany whereupon the people commit many murthers and horrible facts vpon assurance of pardon for taking the crosse b Pag. 323. The Emperor subdueth the Saracens and also certaine rebels in Apulia The Christians who had taken the crosse and were come to Nilus by the great and continual confluence of new aydes tooke the impregnable citie of Damiata where they make a most miserable spectacle by the slaughter of the Paganes By the meanes of the Popes Legate c VVestmonast p. 278. who came rather to the desolation of the armie then for the consolation thereof and by meanes of Ludouicus Banarus they proudly refused a most honorable and profitable composition which the Soldan offered namely to haue restored Ierusalem and the countries about it for the citie Damiata But after by the stratagems of the Soldan they were driuen to accept of their owne liues d Trith p. 228. 230. Many Nunnes were thrust out of their cloysters for their naughtie and extreme filthie life There were at this time horrible earthquakes pestilence among cattell and such famine as hath not been heard of e Pag. 229. Then was the crosse preached againe and all appointed to follow the Emperor into the holyland f Vrsp p. 324. The Emperor calling an assembly of the Princes before his voyage is thought to be hindered by the court of Rome g Trith p. 230. And by the suggestion of the Pope the Lombards rebell against the Emperor and enterd into a league to the detriment of the Empire and hinderance of the recouery of the holy land h 3. Dec. tit 41. 10. This Pope ordaines that the Eucharist i Her Renech in Psal 1. p. 454. which as a cake made vp with dogges grease ought to be kept very cleanly and that at the eleuation and when it is caryed to the sicke the people should bow themselues and kneele It must be carried to the sicke in a decent mannerâ— with a light burning before it the people that meete it must kneele downe and say Salue lux mundi or Pater noster a Morsen 18. ex Alex. ab Alex. 5. 27. Almost in the same manner was Iupiter wont to be carried among the Gentiles b Geneb p. 963. Vpon this idolatry the dominion of the Christians was abolished in India and the Tartars there began their great kingdome of Cataia c Dec. tit 33. c. 28. Pantale This Pope did strictly forbid the reading of the ciuill law in Paris and the places adioyning He warred with the Emperor in Apulia Iohn the Emperor of Constantinople obtained of him to absolue the Emperor Fridericus the second that he might make an expedition against the Turkes who daily preuailed in Asia Gregorius the ninth d Vrsp p. 324. as a proud man in his first yeere Anno 1227. contrary to iustice began to excommunicate the Emperor Fridericus vpon friuolous and false occasions obiecting that hee went not into the holy land as he promised e Trith p. 231. which excommunication also the Pope sendeth abroad to Archbishops c. f Mat. Paris 332. 333. by his bulles in which he complaineth that the Church was indangered by the Pagans the Angels about Euphrates the Emperour the Angell that setteth his right foote on the sea and left vpon the earth heretikes the two witnesses of Christ and by false brethren godly men hid from the presence of the Serpent g Vrsp p. 324. The Emperour publisheth his Apologie and h Mat. Paris p. 335. writeth to Princes complaineth of the false imputations laid against him by the Pope shewing that the Church of Rome is so enflamed with the burning affection of couetousnesse that the goods of the Church are not sufficient to satisfie her thirst and that shee blusheth not to disinherit Emperours Kings and Princes and make them tributaries c. i Vrsp p. 325. Besides the Emperour maketh sure vnto him diuerse of the noblest Romans who while the Pope pursueth his excommunications by the assistance of the people expell the Pope out of Rome with shame and doe vexe his territories with warre The Pope stirreth vp the King of Ierusalem Mathew and Thomas Earles of Tuscia against the Emperor The Emperor resolueth to goe his voyage for the holy land and the Pope was a meanes to hinder the assemblie of the Princes with whom the
Emperor should take order for the affaires of the Empire in his absence When the Emperor was gone the Pope notwithstanding caused k Trith p. 231. him to be proclaimed excommunicate throughout all Germany which was done especially by the begging Friers l Vrsp Ibid. Besides his souldiers that tooke the crosse were spoyled by the Popes meanes In m Fox Marty Italy the Pope raised vp many rebellions against the Emperor and attempted the like against him in Asia writing to the Patriarch of Ierusalem the soldiers and the Saracens to destroy him n Vrsp p. 325. Wherefore the Emperor endured much danger by the treason of the Templars abroade and the Pope at home inhibited all ayde that would haue gone ouer to him but warred vpon and subdued many of his possessions Who is it that well considereth these things and doth not bewaile and detest them which seeme an euidence and prodigious portent of the ruine of the Church a Westmo p. 288. The Pope taking it ill that Fridericus as despising his excommunications did embrace the businesses of the Church in the holy land despayring that he would not returne to vnitie decreed to depriue him of his Empire and substitute another namely the General of his warres whom he ayded with all that the Church of Rome could doe with treasure armies pardons and solicitations of all Prelates abundantly Which when the Emperor vnderstoode he b Vrsp p. 325. Mat. Paris 344. 345. compoundeth the affaires of the holy land with the Seldan and thinking to make glad all Christendome with his good newes reporteth to them by letters what honorable composition he had made c Vrsp 325. The Pope reiecteth his letters and spreadeth rumours that he was dead by which rumor many Imperiall cities enclined to the Pope and resolue to kill the Germane souldiers which were in Italy or should returne that way from the holy land But when the returne of the Emperor was once knowen the furie slacked both Christians and Saracens cleaue vnto him and by d Trith p. 23. the valour of his Germane souldiers recouereth many of his cities againe From which time grew much enmitie betweene the Pope and Emperor e Vrsp p. 326. Yet the Emperor doth still craue absolution and by the mediation of Princes laboreth to be reconciled vnto the Pope f Trith p. 232. At last by the meanes of Lupoldus Duke of Austria c. he was receiued into communion g Paral. Vrsp p. 327. Platina when he had paid 120,000 ounces of gold to the Pope for his punishment and by his armie put the Pope in his possessions against the Romanes who labored to recouer their ancient manner of gouernment and liberties h Carion and was content to hold Sicilia of the Pope in fee. i Trith p. 232. About this time were a very great many discouered in Almany Italy especially in Lombardy and in France which held against the authoritie of the popish Church and prelates and against distinction of meates for the mariage of Priests then called the heresie of the Nicolaitanes c. against them are obiected many blasphemous things as the manner of the Church of Rome is Of these very many were burned k Pantaleon At Wormes also were many good men adiudged to the fire Now l Paral. Vrsp 327. when againe the Emperor sought to recouer Millaine and to subdue his rebels there m Trith p. 234. the Lombards did hinder Henry the Emperors sonne that he could not ioyne his armie with his father and the Pope by his bull depriueth him of his Empire The a Trith p. 235. yeere was extreame hot and dry The Emperor would pacifie seditions which were risen in his strong cities of Italy which he did with violence and burned his rebels At which time in Germany many nobles and meane persons Clerkes Monkes and Nunnes Citizens and countrie people by the giddie sentence of Conrade the Popes inquisitor were burned in the name of heretikes The same day that any one was accused whether iustly or vniustly no appeale nor defence did auaile but he was burned The b Paral. Vrsp p. 327. 328. Pope also the third time excommunicated the Emperor and did also proclaime him an heretike and stirred vp the Venetians against him The Emperour purgeth himselfe from the imputation of heresie by his letters publikely sent abroade to Princes c. and in Italy found aide of the faction of the Gibellines The c Trith p. 236. crosse is preached against the Stadingenses who stoode excommunicate for contemning the Popes authoritie many had fought against them a long time hitherto but all in vaine Now by the army of the crosse 2000. of them were slaine and so ceased the faction and confederacy against the Church of Rome d Paral. p. 328. The Pope also preacheth the crosse with pardons to all those that would fight against the Emperor Of which army as many as the Emperor tooke he crossed them with crosse woundes vpon the heads faces or bodies Then e Trith p. 236. 237. also did Henry King of Romanes rebell against the Emperor his father happily by the Popes instigation But he was subdued and taken and imprisoned by his father f Mat. Paris p. 401. who when he was somewhat enlarged seeketh meanes to poyson his father and therefore is restrained vnder the keeping of a Prince that hated him most g Trith p. 238. 239. The Emperor went into Lombardy and Italy with a puissant army subdued his rebels and caused his sonne Conrade to be elected King of Romans The Pope excommunicateth him againe and caused him so to be denounced euery where by the Minorites The h Mat. Paris p. 535. same time by the permission or procurement of Pope Gregory the insatiable couetousnes of the Church of Rome grew so mighty confounding right and wrong that all shame set apart as a common whore set on sale and lying open to all she esteemed vsury for a small inconuenience and Simonie for none at all c. i Fox Marty p. 285. About this time the East Church is deuided from the West k Mat. Paris p. 778. and from the subiection of the Church of Rome for diuers enormities of that Church especially in vsuries simonies sellings of iustice and other intolerable iniuries a Fox Marty p. 285. 286. and by name because the Pope would not admit an Archbishop there without a great summe of money The Pope sent forth his preaching Friers to moue all Christians to fight against the Grecians as it were against the Turkes and Saracens insomuch that in the Isle of Cyprus many martyres and good men were slaine for that onely cause b 5. Dec. tit 7. cap. 14. 15. This Pope forbad laie men to preach and excommunicated the Albingenses about Thelossa and the Waldenses c. c Geneb p. 964 Fasc Temp. p. 8. b. digested the fiue bookes of the decretals
whom afterwards the diuell killed in the arte of sodomie wringing his necke behind him f Moris papat He permitted the Cardinals to haue harlots g Platina in Greg. 4. Of this time Platina speaking of the lawe which Ludouicus the Emperour made to restraine the pride of the Clergie crieth out I would O Ludouicus thou didst liue in our daies For now the Church doth stand in neede of thy most holy censures The Ecclesiasticall order is giuen ouer to riot and luxurie like a harlot that thou mightest behold not onely men but horses and beasts in their scarlet and princely robes with which the harlot is arraied When they goe there waite before them great troupes of young men and of the Clergie Not on asses as Christ the author of our religion did ride who was the onely example of well liuing in the world but on great horses in their caparisons as if they triumphed ouer some enemies lately ouercome c. h In Ioan. 16. He further of this time faith that this pestilent custome was then that Priests desired the papacie c. not for religion but to fill the greedines of their sonnes nephewes and familiars c. i Poly. 8.1 Pardon 's also in this time were very rife k Geneb This Pope opened his mouth to blasphemie and condemned Georgius Podiebrachius king of Boemia for an hereticke and l cap. 13.7 as if power were giuen him ouer euery nation gaue his kingdome to Mathias king of Hungarie m Lanquet Fox But Mathias in seauen yeares warres could not put him out for his feete were as pillars of fire n Geneb p. 1080 The Turkes destroyed two Empires tooke from the Christians twelue kingdomes and 200. cities for fornication sorcerie c. of the remnant o Volat. 21. The order of the souldiers called the Minimes Iesus Maria began Anno 1471. Sixtus the fourth p Volat. 22. a man rather borne for the warres than for religion q Fox Mart. p. 701. For he stirred vp many warres and when he heard that the Princes made peace he died for sorrow He as the common baude or mother of fornications c erected stewes in Rome of double abhomination both males and females and kept multitudes of harlots for his friends and followers a Moris Pap. And as Caligula laid a tribute vpon harlots the common harlots paid to him in the yeare about 40,000 ducates b Strab. lib. 7. Geog. This coÌ„munity of women did the Church of Rome learne either of Plato the heathen Philosopher or else of the Scythians and Gothes where Plato had his example He c Ext. com de poeni remis c. 4. reduced the yeare of Iubile to 25. yeares and d ibid. cap. 1. ordained the feast of the conception of the virgin Marie giuing large indulgences to all those which should be deuoutly present at the solemnitie and yet e N.D. Warn-word the Doctors agree not among themselues whether the virgin Mary were conceiued without sinne vpon which ground the feast was instituted by the Pope f Fox He brought the vse of beades into prayer g Geneb pag. 1084. 1088. In his time the Spanish King expelleth the Mâ—â—es and Iewes out of Spaine and instituteth the Spanish inquisition whereunto he also subiecteth himselfe Of the cruell proceedings of the inquisition against the godly see h Fox p. 9â—â— Fox and other bookes of the Spanish inquisition c. For by this kinde of crueltie the woman is drunken with the bloud of the Saints Innocentius the eight i Volat 22. f. 160. b. of a slow wit Anno 1484. and farre from learning as Licinius the tyrant He first of any Pope brought in a new example of making ostentation of his bastards and violating all antient discipline he heaped riches vpon them He fawned on all but was friendly to none and passed his inbred couetousnes with iests and scoffes He as k 2. Tim. 3.4 a louer of pleasure more then of God l Crantz Met. 12. 1. p. 814. adorned the papacy with a pallace and strongly beautified the house of Solace called Bell-vedere He m Volat. 21. f 244. annexed the Knights of the order of Saint Sepulchre to the Knights of Saint Iohn with a red and double crosse n Geneb pag. 1089. 1087. The Turkes abolished the gouernment of the Paleologi and Venetians in Pelopâ—nesus Lesbos Eubuâ— and Lemnos The Spaniards finde the land of Guinnea and many other Iles. o Mass 20.268 Iohannes Langlois at Paris strooke the host and wine out of the Priests hand and stamped on them denying any reall presence to be in the Sacrament for which he was burned The diuels possessed the Monastery of the Nunnes Quersetensium in a most strange manner a See Fox Mâ—r. Very many Martyres suffer About this time died Laurentius Medicis Duke of Florence b Eucholcerus Anno 1492. who in Italy much holpe to restore tongues and arts from whence they spread into Germany By this instauration of learning the whole world in a manner began to be renewed as with a first resurrection and to be encreased and enriched with this kinde of wealth The Boemian Hussites in token that their glassie sea was mingled with fire doe rise and endanger Mathias the King their enemie and persecutor enforcing him to flie they kill the Senate and pull downe Monasteries Thus Kings begin to receiue the Gospell by whom d cap. 11.15.28.19 15.8 the kingdomes of this world are the Lords and his Christs And thus the temple the profession of the Gospell against Antichrist is open in heauen the Church notwithstanding the Gentiles the Papists be angrie CHAP. XIII Of the seuen last plagues by which the wrath of God is fulfilled vpon the inhabitants of the earth SO mightily hath the power of God appeared as that he hath kept the temple open and continued the preaching of the Gospell notwithstanding all oppositions of enemies And now that his iudgements might be made manifest according to the word of God he sendeth out his plagues to the a 2. Thes 2. consuming of the man of sinne in this third woe In the prophecie of powring out of b cap. 15.1 the plagues by which is fulfilled the wrath of God first is declared how they are prepared and secondly how they are executed Concerning the preparation it is said that the persons who are prouided to execute them are c 6. the seuen Angels the instruments of these punishments being mightie more then humane The place whence they came is out of the temple d Psal 76.23.8.9 whence the Lord doth send his blessings and plagues They are e cap. 15.6 clothed in pure and bright linnen in token of their a cap. 19.8 most righteous and holy proceedings And lastly they haue b cap. 15.6 their breasts girded with golden girdles to signifie their c Luk. 12.35
exhausted the King of Englands treasure k P. 882. 891. 895. 904. He also continued strange exactions of mony in England binding Monasteries c. to pay his creditors vpon paine of interdiction c. l P. 897. This exaction cooled mens affections towards the Pope m P. 910. In his time the preaching Friers had much dammaged the Christian saith by preaching Reade more hereof before Anno 1200. reading teaching certaine doctrines new dotings taken out of the book of Abbas Ioachim condēned by Gregorius the ninth They also had composed a booke which it pleased them to intitle The euerlasting or eternall Gospel which now they inforced to roote out the Gospell of Christ written by the foure Euangelists They also vrged many other things not to be spoken Hereupon grew so many and great scandales one preaching against the other that the vniuersitie of Paris with great counsaile and deliberation sent sixe men very excellent for learning and of noble blood to the Pope in commission for the repaire of the decay in faith The Friers sent speedy messengers to resist these great men to their faces before the Pope At length after much a doe their new Gospell is commaunded to be burned secretly without any scandall to the Friers And so was that Gospel abolished that by a false Prophecy threatned the cessation of the Gospell written by the foure Euangelists The n Geneb p. 978. Mass 17. pag. 238. Fo◠Marty 326. Speculum minorum tract 1. f. 10. b. Pope also commaunded that the booke which Gulielmus de sancto amore had written of pouertie against the Friers going vnder the name of the masters of Paris intituled a treatise of the perils of the latter times should be abolished publikely and banished him France For this Pope much fauored the Friers and o Spec. min. tract f. 7. b. wrote his bull requiring all that had disputed or preached against them to recant teach and preach the contrary vnder paine of suspension and excommunication For he esteemed the Friers as the a cap. 11.4 two golden candelstickes and two great lights that shined in the Church of God b Fox Marty 326. Yet did Laurentius a master of Paris strongly and stoutly teach preach and write in the defence of the said Gulielmus against the Popes and their Friers This Pope exceedingly encreased the bloudie lawes made against them which the Church of Rome calleth heretikes c Dec. 5. tit 2. cap. 2. He decreed that whosoeuer wittingly should bury heretikes or their beleeuers receiuers defenders or fauorers should bee excommunicate till with his owne hands openly he cast those dead bodies out of their graues againe Hee forbad lay men priuately or publikely to dispute of the Catholike faith vnder paine of excommunication as d Carion Mahomet did of his law vnder paine of death He also furnished the inquisition with many bloudy and vnmercifull lawes e 6. Dec. 5. tit 2. c. 4. denying mercy to the penitent and confiscating the goods of such as died before sentence f Par. Vrsp p. 332. One beyond the seas called himselfe Iesus by magicke he wrote prodigious miracles and many armies being vnited to him he subdued many kingdomes vnder him g Geneb p. 979 Ludouicus King of France instituted many things to the profit of the kingdome He would not haue offices and dignities sold and branded them in the forehead with a hot yron that blasphemed or sware by God in vaine he forbad stewes he thrust stage players out of his court Anno 1261. Vrbanus the fourth h Trith p. 249. Clemen 3. tit 16. de reliquijs ven instituted the feast of Corpus Christi day and to encourage the people to keepe it he gaue pardons to such as were present at the seruice a cup of abhominations i Geneb p. 982. c. The host was caryed about in a box as the arke in the time of the law and the booke of the law is among the Iewes or rather k Moris pap p. 58. as Iupiter and Isis were caryed among the Gentiles and it was worshipped l Geneb p. 982. Thomas Aquinas composed the office of this feast This m Part. 3. q. 25. an 31. Thomas wrote that images must be worshipped with the same worship as is due to them whose images they be n Trith p. 249. The Pope conferred the kingdome of Sicilia which Monfred held vpon Charles the French Kings brother and by Legates called him into Italy who draue out Monfred and possessed Sicilia not without much bloodshed The Pope also o 6. Dec. 5. tit 2. cap 9. decreed that the lawes of no place should hinder the proceedings of the inquisition In his time the p Curio Saracens draue the Christians cleane out of Syria yet q Geneb p. 985 granted the free preaching of Christ in Aphryca Anno 1265. Clemens the fourth r Trith 250. p. 251. in his time the monasteries of the order of Benedict in Germanie were filthily corrupted the Monkes and Abbots rushed violently into the very sinke of all vices Carolus the French kings brother whom Vrbane the fourth had made king and a Geneb 986. Clement annointed at Rome vnder condition to paie to the Pope yearely 42,000 crownes in name of a tribute cruelly killed Monfrede And when after him b Par. Vrsp p. 243. Conradine the next heire a very gallant gentleman went to take his inheritance in Apulia by Clement and Charles he was iniuriously repulsed taken by treason derided and by the commandement of the Pope was put to death miserably by c Carion a common executioner That as many as would not worship the beast should be killed Hee d Decr. 5. Tit. 2 c. 10. c. informeth the inquisitors to feare no man but to proceede rigorously to censure with the aide of the secular arme any preachers religious persons vniuersities or other priuiledged places that are impediment to their inquisitiō To cause all ciuill and militarie magistrates to sweare and cause all them that were vnder them to sweare to obserue the lawes made against heretickes their fauourers hearers defenders their sonnes and their nephewes Thus the beast with his hornes maketh warre with the Saints f Geneb p. 986. In his time Antioche was sacked by the Sultan And Ludouicus king of France signed with the crosse in the siege of Tunetum and one of his sonnes died of the pestilence and so the siege was raised Gregorius the tenth g Trith p. 252 worthy the honour Ann. 1271. if a mortal man can be worthy to be Christs vicar in earth who raigneth in heauen Hee h Westmon p. 403. held a Councell at Lugdunum for the holy land to which purpose he decreed that all Ecclesiasticall liuings for seauen yeares space should paie a tenth There i Geneb p. 989. was also handled the reconciliation of the Greeke Churches which was
concluded the thirteenth time Michael Paleologus the Emperour did diuersly punish the Greekes which would not receiue the faith and rites of the Church of Rome by confiscation banishment prisonment pulling out their eies whipping dismembring of them c. Thus they drinke of the wine of the wrath of the fornication of the great where The Pope k Trith p. 253. commanded the Germane Princes to elect a fit Emperour else he said himselfe would prouide for a gouernour of the Empire Hereupon Rudolphus is chosen who being admonished by the Princes at the instance of the Pope to goe to Rome to be crowned answered Italie hath consumed many Germane Emperors I wil not go to Rome I am king I am Emperour I trust I shall doe as well for the profit of the comon weath as if I were crowned at Rome Wherefore raigning neere nineteene yeares he receiued no crown of the Pope for the cause which he shewed a Geneb p. 988 This Pope instituted the vse of the conclaue whence the Cardinals may not come forth till they haue chosen a Pope b 990. The heresie of such as whipped themselues began Ann. 1276. Adrian the fifth c Geneb 990. reuoked the vse of the Conclaue appointed by Gregorie the tenth He d Trith p. 255. called Rodulph the Emperour into Italie against Charles king of Apulia who forgetting the benefit bestowed vpon him by Vrbane who tooke the kingdom from the right heires Conrade and Conradine and bestowed it vpon him did what him list at Rome thus God reuenging their wrong But the Emperour beeing otherwise let came not and the Pope died by the fall of a newe chamber vpon him A slouthfull age the Monkes cared not to write c. Ann. 1277. Nicolaus the third e Geneb p. 992 993. tooke away notaries and registers out of the court of Rome as pestilent The Sicilians impatient of the lust and pride of the French men communicating their counsell with Nicolaus the third which was displeased with Carolus with Paleologus and Petrus Aragoniae on Easter day when the bell rang to Euensong euery where killed the French aboue 8,000 in two houres with their wiues great with childe Whereupon arose a Prouerb the Sicilian vespers for suddaine slaughters The Turkes who before had beene worne by the Tartars recouer courage returne to their wonted spoile for murther among the remnant c. Martinus the fourth Ann. 1281. f Trith p. 258. by his Legate in a Councel exacted of the people the tenth pennie whereto though many Princes did condescend yet the Archbishops of Colen and Trouers did couragiously resist this new and grieuous exaction and dashed that businesse Many miracles are said to be wrought at the Popes graue Ann. 1288. Nicolaus the fourth g Fox Mart. p. 326. in his time Petrus Iohannes a Minorite maintained the Pope to be Antichrist the Synagogue of Rome to be Babylon Also Robertus Gallus a Dominican Frier declared the Pope an idol and prophecied of his destruction Iohannes was burned when he was dead by the inquisitors This h Geneb p. 996. c. Curie time the Sultan of the Saracens with lamentable slaughter by fire and sword draue the Christians cleane out of Tripolis Tyrus c. and all Syria Calestinus the fifth Ann. 1294. i Trith 263. was thought to be chosen by God himselfe and was called from his Eremitage to the Papacie to whose a Mass 17. p. 242. coronation came 200 000. people In his first consistorie while he desired strictly to reforme the Church of Rome that the Clergie thereof might be an example to others he incurred such displeasure that they whispered of him to dote and to be a foole Of whom one Benedict or blessed not indeed but in name caused one through a cane to speak like an Angel to Calestine aduising him to resigne because the burthen was too great * Bergo 23. in Bonifacio 8. when hee had resigned his successor Bonifacius the eight craftie and vngrateful shut him vp in a secret prison where he died miserably This b Geneb 998. Calestinus is reported to haue commanded that the Popes and Cardinals henceforth should not ride on horses and males but on Asses after Christs example O law prodigiously ouerthrowne Bonifacius the eight c Fasc Temp. an arrogant and craftie man Ann. 1294. d Gobel alii Of him it was said hee entred like a Foxe by deceiuing his predecessor ruled like a Lyon by crueltie died like a dogge in contempt He e Bergo 13. contemned all men f Geneb p. 1000 raised great warres in Italie g Epit. Blond persecuting and extinguishing despitefully the faction of the Gibellines h Mass 17.243 When Albertus the Emperour sent to him desiring to be confirmed by him in his Empire hee despised his request i Proemium sexti Curio He digested the Popes lawes into sixe bookes after the example of Mahomets Alcaron In his sixth booke he k 6. Dec. 5. tit 2. cap. 12. c. published many bloodie lawes and increased the inquisitors authoritie to cite arrest imprison examine and confiscate c. He l Geneb p. 1001 6. Dec. 3. tit 23 cap. 3. also excommunicated all the Clergie that paid the Prince any subsidie without the consent of the Apostolike seate But m Platina in B. 8. Buchol that you may not thinke that God was at peace with men suddainly in winter was so great an earthquake as neuer was before which ouerthrewe many houses castles c. whereby many of all sortes were slaine The Pope at Masse was frighted with the ruine of the place and beeing carried forth ranne away with the best and for feare of beeing killed with the fall of some buildings dwelt in a tent made of thin board which was set vp in a large medow There was also a comet an euill presage happily of the pride of the Pope and his superstition He n Trith 266. Mass 17. first instituted at Rome the yeare of Iubile for full remission and pardon of all sinnes from paine and guilt to bee kept from the Euen of Christs Natiuitie to that day twelue month and so to be againe kept euery hundred yeare A thing newe and neuer heard of before o Poly. Jnu. 8.1 This Iubile was made in imitation of the feasts of Apollo and Diana which the heathen kept euery hundred yeare And whereas in his decrees he had published p Extr. Com. la. cap. vnā sanct that vpon paine of damnation all must be subiect to the Pope of Rome in a Paral. Vrsp 344. his Iubile he came forth into sight one day like a Pope the next day like an Emperour with a sword carried before him and cried with a loud voice Behold here are two swords And this his triple crowne witnesseth which is called regnamundi the kingdomes of the world And b Mass 17.