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A12807	A plaine exposition vpon the first part of the second chapter of Saint Paul his second epistle to the Thessalonians Wherein it is plainly proved, that the Pope is the Antichrist. Being lectures, in Saint Pauls, by Iohn Squire priest, and vicar of Saint Leonards Shordich: sometime fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge.	Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653.	1630 (1630)	STC 23114; ESTC S100545	402,069	811

wearing of the Sambenit or Devills coat and a perpetuall ignominy to their whole kindred But before their fearfull execution they 4 are assayed by frequent examination First they reade unto them a long inditement charging them with infinite crimes which they never did nor thought which putteth the prisoner into such a maze that he knoweth not what to answer Next they take his confession by mouth and suddenly they command him to give another in writing without deliberation to the end they may intrap him with some contradiction in two confessions If hee confesseth any thing that is hereticall from thence they draw other consequences charge him with them although the person himselfe did never speake them will never grant them nay doth not greatly understand them And finally if they confesse any point of the Protestants profession which they call heresie they ●●f● them then where they read it of whom they heard it who were their instructers and whom they instructed and whether they did speake of those things in any mans house and who stood by when they talked Bee it friend or father or childe or servant they are sure to smart for it because they did not informe the Inquisitors thereof immediately After a long and loathsome imprisonment when they suppose that those poore soules are brought so low that they will confesse all and more also though it cost them their lives then are they brought to a more solemne examination where they name to the party two or three of their most famous men towards the Law and wish the prisoner to chuse any of them to be his Advocate and yet this learned Lawyer notwithstanding shall not dare to informe this perplexed Client in any one point of the Law for feare of displeasing the Lords Inquisitours Nay the Inquisitours themselves take order Gonsalvius de Inquisit cap. 3. for that that the Advocate and his Client may never speak one word together without witnesse And when they come to the confutation Cap. 5. of their witnesses he may neither conferre with his Client nor draw his answer nor informe him concerning the depositions but the miserable man is left to himselfe and none to help him but God onely At the publication of the Cap. 4. witnesses the names of the witnesses are suppressed both because the prisoners labouring to finde out all may give occasion to the Inquisitors to call others into question As also because the prisoners enemies Lyars Drunkards and Villaines might passe for witnesses to destroy this innocent Christian Nay the very Alcayde or Keeper of the prison shall goe current for two witnesses whensoever he please to accuse any prisoner And when the Depositions are read all those things which make for the poore prisoner are rejected as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things supersluous but if any tittle doe make against him that is sure to bee observed and to be insisted upon And this is the Holy examination of the holy Inquisition The next point the Torture followeth fitly for their examination is a torture and their Cap. 7. torture is an examination When the Inquisitors intend to extort a full and further confession by torments the prisoner is brought into audience on the suddaine where all or the most of the Inquisitors sit in their majesty Who tell him that they have deeply considered his case and they finde that he hath not made a full confession and therefore they have resolved that he must to the Racke advising him to confesse before he come to the torture But confesse or confesse not he must to the Racke Gonsalvius de Inquisit cap. 7. which is in a deepe darke dungeon with many a doore to keepe their shrickes from hearing The Tormentor is clad from top to toe in black like a stage devill The Inquisitors being mounted on their scaffold and the prisoner stript the token is given to the Tormentor and then beginnes the businesse Sometime with a pully and great weight of iron hanged at the heeles of the party to bee tormented which rendeth every joynt of his body one from another Sometime with the Burri or Aselli which is an hollow trough with a crosse barre that his backe may not touch the bottome his heeles being placed higher than his head into his legs thighes and armes they twist little cords with great truncheons till they cut to the bone be cleane out of sight Sometimes they lay a piece of Lawnd upon the parties mouth and nostrills also whereby they stop his breath Then they poure downe water so that both their Nose and Mouth being stopped at once the tortured wretch lyeth like a dying man struggling for breath Or at other times they place a panne of hot coales at the soles of his feet and that the fire may have the more force they baste them with Larde and Bacon In these tortures which indeed are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 intolerable if any desire to be let down from the pully with promise to confesse instantly after his confession they hoyse him up againe and treble his tortures to extort more than all from this more than miserable man And if in any of those agonies pangs enforce the tortured to call to Christ for patience and assistance they fall to mocke him saying Iesu Chr●st Iesu Christ what adoe is here with Iesu Christ Confesse the truth and let Iesus Christ alone At length these sorrowfull creatures come to the joyfull end of their wof●ll tragedy and Gonsalvius cap. 12. ● 13. the condemned prisoners are brought in great solemnity on the Inquisitors solemne festivall Then are they led forth being clad in Sambenites a linnen garment all painted with Devills and a long hat like a turret where is pictured a Man burning in fire and many Devills plying him with saggots On their tongues they fasten a cleft piece of wood which they call Mordazo that they may not speake to the people When their sentences are pronounced they charge them with a world of silthy shamefull abominable and blasphemous crimes and opinions never confessed nor acted by those innocents but to advance the Iustice of the Inquisitors and to make those standred Martyrs to stinke in the nostrills of the people by their forged calumniation Afterwards they are led to the fire and burned Onely some of them which continue constant in their confession to the end they breake their neckes with a trice and then they tell the people that such did repentantly recant their heresies at the very last houre and were reconciled to the Church of Rome And therefore the mercy of the Lords Inquisitours would not let them feele the force of the fire Oh more than Turkish cruelty to kill both the body and the name at one time Thus have I plucked off the hood of holinesse from the face of the Holy House And thus much concerning the Inquisition Onely I will conclude with the words of the Psalmist The Ps 79. 3 10 12.

Bellarmine Yea the Pope hath such heavenly Bell. de Sanct. Beat. cap. 8. Troilus Malvitius de Sanct. Canoniz dub 3. power saith Malvitius Vt quem velit defunctum canonizare possit etiam invit is Episcopis Cardinalibus omnibus that he can canonize whom he l●st although all the Bishops and Cardinalls through the world should withstand him The Pope thus doth make Saints Divos therefore he is greater than divus than a Saint Deus even God He doth shew that he is God by that action Fourthly the Pope hath Ius creandi Apostolos as Baronius is quoted and confuted by Casaubonus the Pope hath power to create Casaub Exerc. 14. Sect. 14. Apostles which I conceive to be Christs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Saviours soveraignty And therefore whosoever doth usurpe it doth shew himselfe to be more than a man by that action Fiftly the Pope doth terme his Decrees his Oracles but Oracula according to Tully his derivation are so termed Quasi inest his Deorum oratio because they are the Dictates of God And thus againe doth he shew that he is God for his speech doth bewray him And finally the Pope doth arrogate to himselfe that prerogative of not erring at all whereby he doth advance M. Mountagues Appeale part 2. pag. 3. himselfe into his Makers seat Not altogether within the Spheare of humane activity Non vox hominem sonat O Dea certè It is the voice of God and not of man Acts 12. 22. He sheweth that he is God by this action also But these are Papall actions by way of proposition what they can doe I will adde others by way of imposition what they command that others should doe viz. prostrations and adorations which St. Peter would not permit Acts 10. 25. nor the Angell Revel 9. 10. Hetherefore who doth permit them the world must conceive him at least conceit him to be greater than Peter greater than an Angell and therefore by S. Pauls owne argument Heb. 1. 4 5. God himselfe a petty god at the least Now the Pope doth not only permit prostration but doth injoyn that which is more greater that all Princes and people shall kisse his foot In the yeare 828 Pope Valentine made Pless Myst Progress 28. all the Senate of Rome come kisse his foot He was the first who imposed that impious insolence saith Honourable Plessie the Honour of Learning About the yeare 1227 Gregory 9 Pless progres 51. persecuted the Emperour Fredericke with implacable hatred because he did onely kisse his knee when he should have kissed his foot And not long since there was a Pamphlet put in Whitaker in Bel. Contr. 4. quaest 5. Aug. de Ancon quaest 9. art 4. Antonin part 3. tit 22. cap. 5. sect 4. Bellarm. Apol. pag. 160. print by Ioseph Steven De adoratione pedum Pontificis concerning the adoration of the Popes feet dedicated to Pope Gregory 13. His personall adoration is acknowledged and avouched though somewhat excused by Bellarmine But let mee put this Quaere into their eares which our most learned Bishop hath put into my mouth Eccuinam mortalium adhibetur jam Andrewes ad Apol. cap. 12. adorandi vox praeterquam Pontifici soli Is this word of adoration now applyed to any mortall man but to the Pope alone Therefore this word alone doth exalt him above all men And thus from his owne actions doe I conclude my first argument The Pope doth shew himselfe that hee is God therefore The Pope is Antichrist Yet for a man to vaunt his owne greatnesse this were great insolence indeed impudence also It seemeth therefore expedient that some Brokers should breach such a businesse Alexander when he attempted to purchase Iust hist lib. 1● and publish his Deity he did not proclaime it himselfe that he was a God but suborned the Priests of Ammon to preach it to the world that in sooth Alexander was the son of Iupiter Psapho was that witty fellow who tamed his Malvenda lib. 7. cap. 11. Pies and having taught them their lesson he turned them abroad and then in every corner they cryed nothing but Psapho est Deus that is Psapho is a God So the Pope doth suborne his Priests and hath taught his Parasites to chatter this lesson through the world Papa est Deus that is the Pope is a God say they or the Pope is Antichrist say we Marcellus Archbishop of Corcira in his book Sacrar Cerem lib. 2. Sect. 1. cap. 4. of holy Ceremonies gave the Pope a substantiall title when he termed him Sanctissimus Dominus noster Our most holy Lord a Christian could not have given a much greater epithete to Christ himselfe A Trent Bishop supposed Mol●● Consil de Trid. Concil nu 22. this to be somewhat superlative and therefore he advised the Fathers of the Synod because that in the Scripture God is called sanctus holy therefore it might suffice to call the Pope also sanctus holy and not terme him sanctissimus most holy lest they should invest him with an attribute beyond God himselfe But this Bishop was summoned from Trent to Rome where he was better informed what became him to talke concerning the Popes Holinesse Others therefore that they might not incurre the like displeasure would be sure to give him attributes enough The Florentine Antonin Hist to 3. Embassadors told Pope Pius the second that their City sanctitatem illius Hyperdulia adorat did adore his Holinesse with Hyperdulie which is a kind of worship they ascribe onely to the Virgin Mary This is somewhat contiguous to a Deity Proportionably therefore his parasites preach the Pope non esse purum hominem Gloss in Prooem Clem. in verbo Papa Moscon de Potest Milit Ecclesiae lib. 1. part 1. c. 4 not to be a meere man In reverence wherof it is defined to bee a prophane sacriledge if any should date to put on Papae indumenta the Popes Apparell To ascend a little higher let us heare a little touch of Scripture proper to our God Christ which they apply to their God the Pope The Sicilian Embassadors asking pardon of Pope Martine 4 delivered their Embassage in no other termes but three times saying that of Saint Iohn 1 29. Agnus Dei qui tollis peccatum mundi miserere nobis O thou Lambe of God which takest away the sinnes of the world have mercy upon us It is a decree of a Councill held at Rome under Gregory 7 Anno 1057. That there is but one name in the world to wit of the Pope and that this name ought onely to bee named in the Churches Is not this to appropriate to him our Saviours Prerogative mentioned Act. 4. 12. That of Saint Iohn 3. 31. concerning Christ Qui de coelo ve●it super omnes Capistranus de Pa●ae E●●les●● a●●●o●●a●e ●ol 13O Francis White pag. 126. est He that commeth from above is above all may be understood of the Pope saith Capistranus A

first he intended to wound the haughtie neck of the proud with the second to let out the hungry guts of the covetous and with the third to thrust through the bodies of Fornicators and Adulterers Whose ire when none durst oppose his mercifull mother Mary undertaketh to appease falling at his feet she besought him to spare those whom he had redeemed to mingle mercy with justice To whom her Son replyed see you not saith he how infinite iniquity is multiplyed against me and my justice cannot suffer impiety unpunished Then quoth his mother thou who knowest all things doest know this also that this must be the way to recall them to thy service I have a faithfull servant him shalt thou send into the world by him shall the world be converted unto thee their Saviour also I have another servanr whom I will assigne to be his helper Her son then said I am appeased and do accept thy intreaty but shew me the person whō thou hast destinated to this great worke Then our Lady brought S. Dominick to Iesu Christ our Lord said unto his mother this man indeed will faithfully and effectually performe all that thou hast promised The Lady likewise shewed him S. Francis whom the Lord likewise lauded therefore S. Dominicke in his dream taking good notice of S. Francis whom he had not knowne before Next day seeing him at church he remembred him and hugging him with many holy kisses he said to him thou art my Companion thou must travell with me let us stand to it and no adversary shall be able to oppose us And relating unto him his Revelation from thenceforth they became one heart and one soule in the Lord saith Antonine the Italian credat Iudaeus Apellat every good Catholike hath good cause to beleeve it Fiftly they establish by miracles the adoration of Images in generall but of the Crosse Crucisix and Image of Christ in especiall Bellarmine aboundeth with arguments of this Bellar. de R. P. lib. 3. cap. 15. Euseb lib. 7. cap. 14. nature Eusebius saith saith hee that a golden statue of our Saviour was erected to our Saviour by that woman whom our Saviour did cure of her bloody issue and that a certaine hearbe did usually grow under it which when it sprang so high as to the hemme of the garment of that Image it cured all diseases whatsoever The same Author doth alleadge Bell. de Sanctor Imag. lib. 2. c. 12 another example to the same purpose that the Iewes having stabbed an Image of Christ that Image did issue out much blood which cured many sicke people Baronius backeth Bellarmine with a brave Baronius anno 975. num 12. English story There was a Synode at Wilton to condemne the mariage of the Clergy where the crucifixe cryed out non fiet non fiet ye shall not yeeld yee shall not yeeld to grant that Ministers should marry Costerus commendeth the Crosse from the Coster Enchir. cap. 13. like comment in the yeare 590 the Turkes being ready to starve a Christian taught them to make but the signe of the Crosse and so not one perished by that famine All which serious Malvenda doth shut up with this Malvenda de Antich lib 3. cap. 12. solemne Historie Anno 1546 at Meliapore in India the Portugalls erecting a Chappell on an hill in the suburbs where Saint Thomas was killed by those barbarous people digging to lay the foundation there they found a square stone in it a bloody Crosse and an inscription recording that in that place that Saint was slaine in the very act of kissing and adoring the Crosse Hence did they finish the Chappell with more ardent devotion and the Chappell being finished at the very beginning of the Gospell in the sight of the whole multitude the Crosse did sweat abundantly the sweat being wiped off droppes of blood appeared in the Linnen with which they did wipe it The Crosse it selfe in the meane time changed colour from white to pale from pale to black● till in conclusion it came againe to the lustre of his owne native colour And ever since every yeare in the same place and on the same day there is the same miracle the intermission whereof they apprehend as a presage of some fearfull disaster which that yeare will fall upon them Thus much for the Crosse and Images of Christ next follow the Miracles of the Images of our Lady For as their devotion uttereth more Ave Maries than Pater nosters so they alleadge more mircacles wrought by the Images of the Virgin then by the Images of Christ The Image of Saint Mary of Cracovia walking on the water from the Sermon on the second Comand Baron 728. num 5 6 7. fury of the Souldiers c. I have elsewhere mentioned Baronius telleth us when Damascene a stout champion for Images had his hand chopt off at the command of the Emperor and hanged up in the market he praying before the Image of the Virgin for his hand had it restored intire unto him at the conclusion of his devotions Bellarmine annexed Bell. de Sanctor Imag. lib. 2. c. 12 another A foolish fellow Iconomachus an Image-hating Hereticke threw stones at the Statue of the blessed Virgin and thereby brake the head thereof At night the Virgin in a vision did rattle him soundly saying in caput tuum hoc fecisti Sirrah your Pate shall pay for this and accordingly within a few dayes after the fellowes owne head was broken with a huge stone in the same manner as hee hath cracked the crown of her Image I must not balke Bartholmaeus Hisp Convers pag. 19. de Bellaro of Valence in Spaine who testified bef●re a publike Notary that one night he saw an Image invironed with a world of Tapers walking through the Ayre directly towards the Altar of Saint Mary del Pueg which he credibly did beleeve to be her Image which returned from v●siting some sicke person who called to her for succour To these strange wonders I will adde one yet more wonderfull A certain Gentleman called Theophilus being Promp Discip de mirac B. Mari● exemp 42. fallen into great poverty and therby brought into despaire gave himselfe unto the Devill with abjuration of his Baptisme of God and of the Virgin Mary which abjuration he wrote with his owne blood it was sealed with the devills signet But a while after this poore Theophilus repenting himselfe of that he had done prostrated himselfe most devoutly before the Image of the V. Mary imploring her helpe with teares who as alwaies merciful and gracious tooke pity on him and pardoned him But the Image of Christ which was in the armes of the Virgin as being offended would not heare but turned his face backward Which the Image of the blessed Virgin perceiving layd the Image of her Son upon the altar and went to find out the Devill with Theophilus whō she restored to the favor of God againe