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A40122	The arraignment of popery being a short collection, taken out of the chronicles, and other books, of the state of the church in the primitive times : also, the state of the Papists, and how long it was before the universal pope and mass was set up, and the time of bringing in all their rudiments and traditions, beads and images, purgatory, tythes and inquisitions : also, a relation of their cruelties they acted after the Pope got up, being worse then the heathen and Turk, New Rome having proved like Old : also, what the people of England worshipped before they were Christians : with several other things, which may be profitable for people to read over, where all that fear God may see, read, try, and give judgment by the spirit of truth : to which is added, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church / by G.F. and E.H.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1750A; ESTC R15884	93,976	138

be accursed without the ground of Gods Word And the man said Sir our Priests say That they curse men thus by Authority of Gods Law And I said Sir I know not where this sentence of Cursing is Authorized now in the Bible and therefore Sir I pray you that you will ask the most cunning Clerk of this Town that ye may know where this sentence of cursing them that tythe not is now writ in Gods Law for if it were written there I would right gladly be learned where and I said to this man in this wise In the old Law which ended not fully till the time that Christ rose up again from death to life God commanded tythes to be given to the Levites for the great business and daily travel that pertained to their Office but Priests because their travel was mekil more easie and light then was the Office of the Levites God ordained the Priest should take for their livelihood to do their office the tenth part of those tythes that were given to the Levites But now I said in the new Law neither Christ nor any of his Apostles took Tythes of the people nor commanded the people to pay Tythes neither to Priests nor Deacons but Christ taught the people to do Alms that is Works of Mercy to poor needy men of surplus that is superfluous of their temporal Goods which they had more then them needed reasonably to their necessary livelihood and thus I said not of tythes but of pure alms to the people But as Cisterniensis telleth in the year 1274 one Pope Gregory the tenth ordained new Tythes first be given to the Priests Now in the new Law the words of the Law are these That it should not from thenceforth be lawful to give their Tythes as their own pleasure where they would as it had been before but pay all their Tythes to the Mother-Church The Judgment of David Pareus of Hidleburgh in the Palatinate concerning Tythes He saith that Tythes or Tenths were free and Arbitrary before the Law as appears by the Example of Abraham and Jacob a man might give them a man might now them or he might not as he pleased under the Law they were commanded by God to be given to the Priest Lev. 27. And the reasons thereof are clear First The tenths were a compensation unto the Levites for the twelfth part of the Land which ought to have fallen otherwise to their shares Moreover they were the Sallaries of Priests and Levites and maintenance of the poor for God instituted three tenths First the tenths of the Levites Lev. 27. Secondly the tenths of tenths or the hundredth to be paid by the Levites to the Priests Numb 18.26 Thirdly the poor mans tenths which was to be paid every three years after the Jubile unto the Poor Strangers Widows and Orphans Deut. 14.28 Therefore saith he when the Levitical Priesthood did cease then did the right of that Priesthood cease and the right of Tythes did revert to the giver of them Laws and Canons for Tythes among the Saxons In the year 786 in the time of Off●● which was in the time of Hepterchy in England there was a great Couned holden in Merci● by two Legats sent from Pope Adrian the first wherein as it is reported tythes were first established in England so that the first Law for payment of tythes came from the Pope and decreed by his Agents in Mercia being but a seventh part of England and afterwards as Popery encreased so tythes also were established in other parts of England by the several Kings thereof King Ethelbert King of Kent coming to the Court of Off● King of Mercia the said Offa murthered him in or about the year 793 and at length understanding the innocency of the said Ethelbert and to mitigate the hainousness of the Fact gave the tenth part of his Good to the holy Church and to the Church of Hereford in the remembrance of this Ethelbert and after wards went up to Rome for his Po●● 〈◊〉 where he gave to Peter's Church so called a penny through every House in his Dominion which is called Peter's pence or Romes shot and there was transformed from a King to a Monk and this was 794 years after Christ so was not set up by Christ and his Apostles See Seldens History of Tythes This Pope Adrian bestowed cost on Altars dead mens Tombs bones and Steeple-houses he attributed more Worship to Images then ever any did and wrote a Book of the honour and profit of them and appointed them instead of Scriptures to be Lay-mens Calenders He condemned in a Council those that detested Images This Adrian clothed the Image of Peter all in silver and covered the Altar of Paul with a Pall of Gold And this Pope set up Tythes 794 year after Christ In the year 797 after Christ Alchwin School-Master to Charles the Great in his Letter to the said Charles who was a Romish Emperor and had ordained Tythes to be paid wrote touching the Exaction of Tythes which he calls Jugum decimarum that is The Yoke of Tenths and Exaction of something from every house of the Huns and Saxons who were but then lately conquered by the said Charles and had newly made profession of the Christian Faith And the said Alchwin further advised in his Letter for the Christian Cause to omit it amongst them and not to put the yoke of Tythes as he said upon the people and not to exact something from every house but to shew that we are the Apostles sent of God and Christ into the world to preach and rather to give to them that ask or want then to exact Tythes for it is better to lose them then to destroy the peoples faith See Seldens History of Tythes King Athelstone King of the West-Saxons about the year 940. to pacifie the Ghost of his murthered Brother Edwin to whose death he is said to have consented did not only undergo seven years pennance but also built certain Monasteries and made a Law that people should pay Tythes viz. himself his Bishops and Officers hoping thereby to expiate his sins These following are the words of the Law Book of Martyrs p. 193. vol. 1. I Athelstone King Charge and Command all my Officers thorough my whole Realm to give Tythes unto God of my proper Goods as well in living Cattel as in Corn and fruits of the ground and that my Bishops likewise of their proper Goods and mine Aldermen and mine Officers and Head-men shall do the same Item This I will That my Bishops and other Head-men do declare the same to those that be in their Subjection and that to be accomplished at the Term of St. John the Baptist This was in the time of Popery Edmund King of England ordained Tythes to be paid for every Christian man in the year 941. Book of Martyrs vol. 1. p. 195. Edgar about the year 959 is said to have confirmed the payment of Tythes upon as bad a ground as Athelstone did See

Osburn 's Case of Tythes This Edgar was of a vicious life favourable to the Monks he displac'd the marryed Priests and brought in Monks of single life to possess their places he built and prepared several Monasteries and Nunneries He was cruel to Citizens and a deflowerer of Maidens he was joyned in the Act in shedding the blood of Earl Ethelwold that he might enjoy Elf●ida his Wife Canutus also the first Danish King who being guilty of the blood of Edward and Edmund Sons of Iron-side and Heirs to the Crown about the year 1016 confirmed Tythes and built the Abbey of St. Bennet so called in Norfolk● and in Suffolk he with great Devotion built the Monastery of St. Edmund so called which Saint he most dreadfully feared for the seeming Ghost of him often affrighted him for which cause as also to expiate the sins of his Fathers he confirmed Tythes See Osburn 's Case of Tythes Thus its plain that Tythes were given for the satisfaction of the sins of the Donor and to maintain the Popish Clergy to say and sing Mass to pray for the souls of the Donors Ethelwolfe King of England in the year 844 in his Devotion to holy Church and Religious Orders and for the remedy of their souls and that their sins might be remitted he gave the Tythe of all his Goods and Lands in West-Saxony with liberty and freedom from all servage and civil charge in the days of Pope Jone which Pope fell in labour as she was going a Procession and died being accompanied with Cardinals Patriarchs Arch-Bishops Bi-Deacons Monks Fryars and Nuns Pope Paschal about the year 1110 a Council being held in his time by his order it was decreed that it should be Heresie for any to deny obedience to the Pope and made a Canon for paying of Tenths to Priests concluding it sin against the Holy Ghost to sell the Tenths he renewed an Excommunication against the Emperor and thrust him from his Crown and Princely Title and provoked his Son Henry the Fifth and armed him to rebel against his Father The great Decree which speaks most plainly and till which nothing was given forth which did directly constitute them but rather still supposed them as due by some former right was made at the Council of Treat under Pope Plus the Fourth about the year 1560 and yet that great Council followed the Doctrine of their Fathers and said they were due to God and had no new Authority for their great Decree which they commanded to be obeyed under the penalty of Excommunication But notwithstanding the many Laws Canons and Decrees of Kings Popes and Councils and Bishops that every man ought to pay the tenth part of his encrease yet was it left to the Owners to ofter it where they pleased which made so many rich Abbeys and Monasteries And till the year 1200 or thereabouts every one gave their ●ythes as their own pleasure which made Pope Innocent the third send his Decretal Epistle to the Bishop of Canterbury commanding him to enjoin every man to pay his temporal goods to those that ministred spiritual things to them which was enforced by Ecclesiastical Censures And this was the first beginning of general Parochial payment of tythes in England and this Popes Decree is recorded by Cook in the second part of his Institutes who saith That because the Popes Decree seemed reasonable it was admitted and enjoyned by the Law of the Nation the King and People of England being then Papists Yet notwithstanding our English Parliaments not willing wholly to forget the poor for whose sakes tythes were chiefly given did make divers Laws that a convenient portion of the tythes should be set apart for the maintenance of the poor of the parish for ever 2 R. 15 16.4 H. 4 as the Statutes at large do witness The Pope having brought in tythes and made a pretended Title by prescription set up Courts to recover them which were called Ecclesiastical Courts where his own Creatures were Judges Afterwards Henry the Eighth King of England being a Papist and believing the Popes Doctrine as also did his Parliament That Tythes were due to God and holy Church made a Law that every one should set out and pay Tythes He made a second Law in his time to the like purpose in pursuance of the former and great reason he had and need there was for them for having dissolved many Monasteries after he denied the Pope to be the Supream Head of the Church and took it to himself which Monasteries had many Tythes and Rectories appropriated to them and either had them in his own hands or sold them to others to be held as Lay-possessions And they having no Law to recover them by the Popes Laws not reaching to Lay-persons so called he was nocessitated to make new Laws to enfore the payment of them but still restrained the Tryal of Tythes to Ecclesiastical Courts After him Edward the Sixth in pursuance of his Fathers Laws and upon the same grounds makes another Law for the payment of Predial and Personal Tythes uader penalty of double damages and cost who also restrains the Tryal of them to the Ecclesiastical Courts So here you may see the Papists were the first that set up Tythe and forced Maintenance and the Spiritual Courts contrary to Christ and the Apostles in the primitive times CHAP. XIV Concerning the Religion and Customs of the old Britans before they were Christians and after they were Christians VVHen they were Heathen in old time in England in their Worship they offered mens blood thinking that to be the most precious Sacrifice of all others and when the Priest by Lot cast who should dye they had all their brains knockt out at one 〈◊〉 and then they sought out the veins of the heart and drew 〈◊〉 blood and struck it upon the head of his friend then they ho●●●ed up the Sails And this they thought pleased their God The Danes and Normans in the Province of Selon every ninth year sacrificed and killed unto their gods ninety nine men and as many horses and dogs and cocks for Hawks which their gods sent them and said by the same they should please them And the blind ignorant people the Britans had Altars and they worshipped the Heads of great Rivers Camb. p. 698. Crysanthus was Bishop in B●itan and of all his Ecclesinstical Revenues and Prosits was wont to reserve for himself but two toaves of bread only on the Lords day Camb. p. 84. But u w-a-dayes neither Bishop nor Priest will think this sufficient but they would scorn it being grown so old in oppression In the River called Swale in Yorkshire Augustin baptized an innumerable multitude of Women and Children Camb. p. 136 137. Then they had no Fonts Augustin the bishop caused the people to enter into the Water and they were baptized And here was no talk of a Cross nor God-fathers Pauli us Bishop of York baptized the Inhabitants of Nottinghamshire in the River Irent Ca●●h

p 549. And not in a Font in the St●ple-house and they baptized men and women after they belived In the first plantation of Christianity among the Gentiles such only as were of full age after they were instructed in Christian Religion were admitted to Baptism and that but twice in the year at Easter and Whitsuntide except upon urgent necessity Cambd. pag. 768. In Northumberland Paulinus baptized many thousands at a River Here was no Font. King Sigebert proffered them in old time that preached the Gospel Worldly Wealth and riches descended by inheritance but they refused and contemred them saying It became not them to embrace other mens riches who for Christs sake had forsaken their own Cambd. Record of Ireland p. 67 68. And the Bishops of Britan seemed no less to have despised riches and was but poor and had nothing of their own But now they are altered from that who will take all they can lay their hands on and imprison and persecute them they do not preach to if they will not give them Goods and Money and so will have both their own and other mens but forsake neither for Christs sake King Agharus being grievously diseased in his body and incurable by the skill of man was cured by Thadeus one of Christs Disciples without Medicine for which King Agharus commanded Gold coined and uncoined to be given him but he received it not saying I so much that we have forsaken our own how can we receive other mens This is not like the Pope and the Bishops wit is their great Parsonages and Revenues And the Irish Bishops had no more nor no other Rents and Revenues then three Milch-kine which the Parishioners charged for three other K●ne when they were dry Camb. p. 1●6 But the Bishops of our age and t●e Priests are changed from them s●●h●● age One Patrick a Britan ●orn Saint Martin's Sisters Son he was sold into Ireland where he became a Hereiman to King Milne and he Catechised there in the Christian Faith ●nd about that time he cryed ●ut against the shaving of Friens and said it was Simon Magus his shaving and not Saint Peters Can b. p. 10 108. Paulinus aforesaid came into Northumberland with the King and ●u●●en and ab●de thirty six dayes there employed wholly in Catechsing Baptizing and Instructing the people from Morning to Evening and being instructed he baptized them to the forgiveness of their sins in the River of Glen which was hard by the Kings Mannor-House Camb Brit. page 815. Here was no Fonts used at this time One Malachy in Ireland was the first that denied ●riests should marry where Armachanas detested against such voluntary Begging-Fryars p. 109. Robert Abbot of Molisme in Bur●undy perswaded his own Disciples to live with their handy-labour and to forsake Tythes and Oblations p. 110. At ●ell the Steeple-houses in Ireland were built with Timber but when one Malachy caused them to be built with stone the people cryed out saying What mean you to bring into our Countrey this new fashion for we are not French The first Duke in England was made by Edward the third who made his Son Duke of Cornwall The title of Marquess came in by Richard the second of late years Earls came in by the Ge●m●ns who ordered the Earls should always give attendance to their Princes and be at band in matters of Council Afterwards came in the Viscounts new title not heard of with us till Henry the Sixth Barons signifeth in the Ge●man tongue Hard Soldiers Knights took their Names s●●e the No man Conquest by serving with Horses Esquire doth signifie Shield-bearer Yeoman signifies Free-born or Freeholder lawful men of Forty shillings a year of Free-land Gentlemen some are from great Famillies and some take the Name from being raised in Wealth The Normans began the first Sealing with Print and Wax But before men made Bargains of Lands and Houses without Script Chart or Deed and many Tenements were demised with a Spur or Horse-Curry-comb with a Bow and some with an Arrow being given as a token of the thing Camb. p. 444. And when the King made any free and granted liberty these were the words without writings As free make I thee As Heart may think or Eye may see The Heathen-Priests under pretence of Religion wasted the Britant Goods and Claudius had a Temple in Britan whom they prayed to as God Canutus King of England and of Denmark said All things in his Realm was at his Command and therefore commanded his Chair to be set on the Sea-shore and when the Sea began to flow in the presence of many he said to the Sea as it flowed Thou art part of my Dominion and the ground on which I set is mine neither was there ever any that durst disobey my Command and went away free and unpunished wherefore I charge thee that thou come not upon my Land neither wet the clothes or body of thy Lord. But the Sea according to its usual course flowing still without any reverence of his Person wet his feet Then he retiring back said L●t all the Inhabitants of the Earth know That vain and frivolous is the power of Kings and that none is worthy of the Name of a King but he to whose Command the Heaven Earth and Sea by bond of an Everlasting Law are subject and obedient And never after that time set he the Crown upon his Head Cambd. Brit. p. 262. CHAP. XV. Concerning Singing of Psalms IN the Year 383 Psalms begun to be sung brought in by Damasius Bishop though not turned into Meeter Benedictus an Abbot of the Monastery of Peter and Paul at Wirr brought with him from Rome one John the Arch-Chanter who first taught in England how to sing in the Quire after the manner of Ro●e Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. p. 164. Anno 724. Laews made by the Saxon Kings in England concerning singing Psalms In the year 747 at the beginning of King Edgberts Reign the Synod of Bishops disputed the profit of singing of Psalms in the Church and made a Decree that with a modest voice they should sing in the Church so called In the year Nine hundred twenty four King Ethelston alias Atelston made a Law That fifty Psalms should be daily sung in the Church as he called it for the King Beza being much diverted with Poetry made his pastime to become a part of the vulgar devotion Hence th●● have been stiled by some Geneva-Jigs These are the express words of the Injunction given to the Clergy and Laity by Queen Elizabeth Item Because in divers Collegiate and also some Parish Churches heretofore there hath been Livings appointed for the mainrenance of men and children to use singing in the Church by means whereof the Laudable Science of Musick hath been had in estimation and preserved in knowledg the Queen willeth and commandeth that first no alteration be made of such assignments of Living as heretofore hath been appointed to the use of Singing or Musick in

called and ask him by what Name he is called Then the Senior of the Cardinal-Deacons opening a little Window by which the people there waiting may see and be seen faith with a loud voice holding out the cross I show you glad tydings we have a Pope and he chuses his Name to be Innocent the Eighth c. or what Name he liketh Then the Cardinal-Deacons do put off the Popes common Apparel and put him in a white Woolen Gown and in red Hose and red Shooes embroidered with a Golden ●●oss in a red Girdle with Golden Bucklers in a red cowle also upon his head and above all in a fair white Rochet then they put upon him his upper Garments viz. A long Albe a Girdle and a Stool set full of Pearls hanging down from about his Neck but if he were but a Deacon before he was elected then the Stool must lye on his lest shoulder only and come down with both ends fas●ned under his right arm Then after they put upon the Pope a red Cope called a Pluvial and Mitre set and deck● with precious stones and they make him sit upon the Altar and then they kiss his feet and then he is consecrated and the Consecrator blesseth a precious Ring to be put on his singer saying O Lord God Creator and Conservator of Mankind giver of spiritual Gifts and Graces and greater of 〈◊〉 health and 〈◊〉 thou O Lord send down thy blessing upon this Ring c. and while this Prayer is said the Pope stands up and in the mean time one of the Colliters holdeth the Ring in his right hand kneeling down at the beginning of the blessing thereof and the Consecrator the Prayer being ended sprinkleth it over with holy Water and then puts it on the Popes singer saying Take this Ring as a sign and token of Faith c. and Oyle being poured upon his Head by the Consecrator the Cardinal-Deacon dryeth it up again with crumbs of Bread and then setteth on the Mitre and then he gives the Cardinals his feet and hands to Rite and so the Consecrator saith forth the Mass and before he is crowned the Cardinals Deacons Sub deacons and Colliters apparel him in a white Amise and long Girdle a Stool and a red Pluvial and a Mitre and being thus decked he goeth down to the place called St. Peters the Cross being carried before him the Cardinals and Deacons on either side bearing up the skirts of his Pluvial and the noblest of the Laity being present though it be the Emperor or a King must bear up the train of the same and next before the Pope goeth the Minister of the Ceremonies with Reeds in his hand upon the one tow and upon the other a burning candle and when the Pope is past the Ch●ppel of St. Gregory so called the aforesaid Minister turning him to the Pope setteth fire on the tow kneeling down and saying with a loud Voice Holy Father so passeth away the glory of the world which he doth three times and then the Gospel-book is laid upon the Popes shoulders and afterwards he goeth up the Altar and the Prior of the Cardinal-Deacons taketh the Robe called Pollium from the Altar and putteth it upon the Pope saying Receive the Pall which is the sacred Plenitude and holy perfection of the Pontificial Office to the honour of Almighty God of the blessed Virgin Mary his Mother of the holy Apostle Peter and Paul and of the holy Church of Rome and then maketh it fast about the Pope with Buckles and Pins And when the Pope first receiveth this Robe he goeth to the Altar and kisseth it and then kisseth the Gospel-Book and then putteth Incense into the Censers Then they proceed to crown him after this sort The Pope receiving the Gloves and Rings with the other Implements goeth upon a high Stage made for the purpose and when all the La● people are gone out of the Church so called and the Pr●●●● are c●me together the Deacon on the left hand taketh off the Popes Mi●●● 〈◊〉 Deacon on the right hand taketh the Tiare or Cro●● called a Triple Crown and setteth 〈◊〉 on the Popes bead and th●n going to the Church of Latte an so called he goeth up into the Gallery or Cloister of the same where the Prior of the Cannons holdeth him the cross to kiss and the triple Crown is taken off and the Mitre put on and then he is had to a place or seat without the Gate on the left hand called Stercoraria which signifies a Dunghil and setting down on the said seat and leanning down so low that he seemeth rather lying then sitting the Cardinals come to him and lift him up saying He lifteth up the needy from the dust and from the dunghil exalteth the poor that he may sit among the Princes and possesss the Throne of Glory Then the Pope rising up taketh so much money in his hand out of the bosome of his Chamberlain as he can gri●e and casteth among the people saying Arge●●um Aurum non est mihi quod autem habeo hoc tibi do I have neither Gold nor Silver but that that I have that I give thee and at the Popes Feast after he is crowned when he drinketh all the Assistants and Servitors kneel down So great is the pride of this Prelate These things are truly extracted out of the First and Second Sections of the First Book of Ceremonies aforesaid written by a Papist CHAP. XIII The time when the Tythes were first given in England by whom and by whose Authority a Law for payment of Tythes was first established First Whereas it is alledged that Abraham paid the tenth of the spoil that he got by the Sword to Melchisedeck and Melchisedeck made him and his Soldiers a Feast this was not by the command of God nor an example that all Kings and Princes should pay tythes of all their spoil nor the tenth of their Estates For you never read that Abra●am paid it afterwards as you may read in Josephus and Genests the twenty third and Jacob saying to the Lord when he went from Esau at his return he would surely give him the tenth of all that he gave unto him when he vowed a vow This is no example for Christians to pay Tythes no more then it is to offer Sacrifice for he ffored Sacrifices And again Wh●reas it is alledged that Levi took ●ythes and Aaron which was called a Heave-offering or a Shake-offering which tythes was for the Priest Levi and the Widow and the Fatherless and the Stranger that there might not be a Beggar in Is●●ael So you that hold up tythes must hold up the first Priesthood which ord●ined to offer Sacrifices and hold up the Shake-offering and the Heave-offering and so deny Christ come in the flesh and to be offered up one Offering once for all For if the Levitical Priesthood be standing which came after the Order of Aaron then your tythes and Offerings is standing for Levi

by Council Papist Those Councils was gathered by Popes Quaker The Councils was gathered some by the Christian Emperors were them Emperors Popes Dost thee believe the Chronicle six hundred years after Christ Papist I do then there was no Universal Bishop until six hundred years after Christ Quaker And one Council was gathered by the Emperess and was she a Pope Nay this was before the Universal Pope was and Christ said to the Apostles that the Gentiles exercise Lordship one over another but it should not be so amongst them for they are all Brethren and the Gentiles were called gracious Lords which titlethe Bishop of Rome and other Bishops had from the Heathen and not from the Apostles for they was not be called of men Master And so Peter was not set over the rest of the Apostles as Head over them and what was said to Peter concerning having the Keys and binding and loosing was said to the rest of the Apostles as you may read in Scriptures And as concerning the Church that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church of the Papists when Phocas got up to be Emperor did not the Emperor lose most part of his Empire and the Pope most part of Turky and Egypt and Jerusalem and the Land of Canaan Has he not lost England Ireland and Scotland and part of Germany Holland Denma●k and Swerden 〈◊〉 and yet the old man the Pope tells people that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against his Church Let him look about him and see what he has lest and what he would have had left if he had not set up his Inquisitions to torture Christians in the time of the Council of Trent and when that the Princes of Germany in the time of Luther when they defired that for every tristing businesse they might not be summoned down to Rome was it not the Popes answer If it should not be so their Courts would be made or no authority but would go down And did not the German Princes desire that the Concubinary priests might marry For though by the Law they had Concubines yet they desiled other mens wives did not the ope say If I should suffer the priests to marry then they would not go where I would have them but would sit down with their wives And when the German Princes and others desired a free General Council such a Council as was in the time of Constantine mark that was before the Pope was three hundred years See Council of Trent p. 2. did not the Pope chuse a Council of his own Legates and people contrary to the mind of the Germans and others and then did not many of them fall from the Pope and many in France who got the victory over he Pope and yet he says the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church Consider people see what he has lest And after the Pope got up and had lost most of Christendom and the Emperor had lost most of his Empire for the Emperor's seat was at Constantinople before the Turk got up which was after the Pope and then after a time the Emperors came to be thrust up into Germany and called the Emperors of Germany So here see whether the Pope is not he that loveth and maketh a lye Rev. 22. Papist You speak as if you could tell our principles if you know them what is our principles Quaker I 'le tell thee I 'le begin with one There was a woman in Kent one of your Religion and by her Wisdom and Books she had brought many into your way and upon a time it pleased the Lord to convince this woman to see your way was false and Christ was to be her Way her Teacher and Salvation and so she went and declared this among the Papists And upon a time a Taylor that she had brought to be a Papist came to work at her house and she declared to him how Christ was her Way her Teacher and Salvation and he got betwixt her and the door and drew his knife at her it was askt her why did he draw his Knife she said he would have stabb'd me why would he have stabb'd thee why it is their principle What is it their principle to stab people Yes said she if they turn away from their Religion and the woman said Put up thy Knife I know thy principles Papist VVhat do you declare this abroad Quaker It is declared abroad and the women since dyed in the belief of the truth of God and forsook your way and so the Papist went away and never denyed but that it was his principle Papist The Papists say the Quakers are Antichrist and false Prophets Quaker VVhy are they Antichrist and false Prophets Papist Because they say they do prophesie and say Christ is in you c. Quaker Then thou may say the Apostles were false Prophets which shews thy ignorance for they said Christ is in you except you be Rep obates and we preach Christ in you and I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh and my sons and my daughters shall prophesie Read Cor. Col. and Acts. POSTSCRIPT AND you Papists that say there hath been a Head of the church and therefore the Pope must be Head of the Church for Aaron was Head and Moses was Head To which I say Moses was a married man and Aaron was a married man and Eleazer and Ithamer and Aaron was a Priest and Eleazer and Eli the Priest was a married man and Samuel was a Priest and was a married man and had Sons 1 Sam. 8. And by the Law of God the Priests were to marry as you may read in the Books of Moses But your Pope whom ye say is Head of the Church makes a Law contrary to Law and Gospel That Priests must not marry and Popes must not marry but the Popes have bastards and by the Law the priests may have Concubines and this is contrary to the Law to have Bastards and contrary to the Gospel to have Concubines for every man must have his own Wife And you Popes and Papists who say that you brought over the Bible first in England and you preserved the Bible think you not that all people sees you in this For you have been them that have kept the Bible from people in an unknown Tongue and though all profess to be believers in Christ yet they must not have the Scriptures in their own Language in this you are contrary to the Apostles shewing you are degenerate from them who judged them that spoke in an unknown Tongue And Christianity was planted many hundred years in England by Joseph of Aramathea before Austin the Monk brought over his trifling Traditions and Ceremonies And whereas you Papists call some Lay-people and some Spiritual which was not the way of the Apostles to do so and such that be under some Oaths Vows or Orders or has the natural Languages which began at Babel these you call spiritual which be in swearing

vowing and natural Languages And others that be not in these things you call Lay-people Judge people of the Papists distinctions which is contrary to the Apostles and do not you think that Pilare that set Hebrew Greek and Latin a top of Christ when he crucified him would not have made the Pope a fine spiritual man For does not the Pope crucisie Christ afresh Has he not put him to open shame and persecuted Christ in his Members and set his spiritual mens Tongues over him to watch his Sepulchre from Christ arising with all his Guards and Inquifitions And is it not said in the Revelation The Beast has power over the Tongues and the Wohre she sits upon the Tongues which are waters So here all may see your spiritual men are waters and the Where and the Beast has power over your spiritual Function And doth not the Apostle say Tongues must cease Then your spiritual men must cease and the Lay-people will remain And none but such as they of your spiritual Function as you call it must meddle with Divine things and all the rest that be not of your Orders you call Lay-people and such must not meddlewith those things which you call Divine which indeed are nothing but your own Inventions and Traditions and pelting Ceremonies which you have not from the Apostles as your Canons manifesteth but in this your ignorance is seen of the mind of God Christ and the Scriptures So Jacob Moses and David were keepers of sheep and Amos a Herdsman and Elisha a Plough-man and Peter John and Andrew fishermen and Luke a Physician Matthew a Tole-gatherer Paul 4 Tent-makor Was not all these lookt on as Lay-people by the Priests of their Ages And would not they all be lookt o n as Lay-people by you had they been in your age because they were not bred up in your Schools which you have set up and there made your spiritual men since the Apostles days who are made of man and by man and not of God or Christ nor by him nor of him yea would not you have burnt these Tradesmen to ashes if they had been in your days Was not the Vniversities first set up by the Roman Emperor when he conquered this Nation of England to learn Philosophy where he brought the people to learn the Laws and manner of the Roman-Heathen And then after he did turn to make them Priests and serve seven years time like a Prentice Lad and so become a Company like other Company of Trades-men Did not the Papists make his Jesuits and Priests there And doth not the Protestants still make their Priests there Is it not the Philosophy that was set up there by the Roman Emperor the Heathen Whether or no did not the Heathen Romans there teach the Gramar the Logick and most of the seven Arts except it be the patcht-up Divinity The Cross of Christ it is the Power of God This was the Cross in the Primitive Times and was for about Three hundred years after Christ. And then after came up the Wooden Stone and Iron Cross and then the true Church went into the Wilderness which was persecuted by the Dragon and the woman was fed of God a Time and Times and half a Times a Time a Year Two Times Two Tears Half a Time Half a Year One thousand two hundred and threescore days Then the Prophets prophesied in sackeloth and ashes which is a mournful state One thousand two hundred and sixty Dayes the Dragon having given his power to the Beast and he persecuted the Saints and power was given to him over all Kindreds Tongues and People and all that dwelt upon the Earth should worship him and the Whore and false Church got on the Beast which had got two Horns like a Lamb and he should continue forty two Months which is One thousand two hundred and sixty days Then came up the Wood and the Stone Church when the true Church was sted into the Wilderness which wore the fine linnen going in white which is the righteousness of Christ and the righteousness of the Saints Then the false Church set up the Surplices as you may read what Pope he was And also you may see how the Popes and Papists who say they are infallible and cannot err how they contradicted one another and killed one another and many things might be mentioned which is out of the bounds of Civility and Modesty to mention which might be instanced out of Records of them But here you may read how all these things came up by the Papists and others and never set up by Christ and his Apostles as you may read in the Scriptures of the New-Testament These things which have been decreed by the Popes were not decreed by Christ and his Apostles which they have persecuted people for not observing which Christ and the Apostles did not persecute any for not observing that which they commanded Where is plainly seen that the Popish Church is a Schism rent from the True Church in the Apostles dayes and to be out of the Power and Spirit of Christ and the Apostles and their Faith And so their Sacrifices is not like Abels but Cains which God has no respect to and so with the Life Spirit and Power the Apostles were in they are seen over and comprehended Glory to the Lord God for ever whose Righteousness and Glory shines and spreads over all Glory be to God blessed for ever who is over all King of Saints the Beginning of all the Creator of all whose Omnipotent Power is seen by such that are on the Rock of Ages who was the First and the Last Beginning and Ending who hath revealed the knowledg of the Father to them who is the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah which slayes with the Sword and kills with the Sword the words of his mouth and the Lamb shall have the victory who destroys the Beast the Dragon the false Church the Devil and his works who reigns whose Right it is Ninus the Son of Bealus was the Third King of Babylon He set up his Fathers Image and proclaimed free pardon to all Offenders if they would fall down and worship it which they did and after that many simple people in plain Devotion did the like This Ninus was the first that began this gross Idolatry He began to Reign in the year of the world 1906 and before Christ 2056. He built Niniveh and after he was slain And by Ninus his ill president other Princes set up their Fathers Images and caused people to commit Idolatry with them and the Devil in his willingness to procure man unto wickedness would often times give answer by these Iaols and thereof came the Name of Bell Baal Bell-Phyor and Belzebub Read Jerom Austin Eusebuus Pliny and Berisus From Heber came the Jews which are called Hebrews after his Name at the Division or Confusion of Languages the Hebrew Tongue remained only in his House In this time the Hebrew Speech was called