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A13155	An abridgement or suruey of poperie conteining a compendious declaration of the grounds, doctrines, beginnings, proceedings, impieties, falsities, contradictions, absurdities, fooleries, and other manifold abuses of that religion, which the Pope and his complices doe now mainteine, and vvherewith they haue corrupted and deformed the true Christian faith, opposed vnto Matthew Kellisons Suruey of the new religion, as he calleth it, and all his malicious inuectiues and lies, by Matthevv Sutcliffe.	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.	1606 (1606)	STC 23448; ESTC S117929	224,206	342

clergie there was neither religion nor good life nor shame afterward he taxeth the luxuriousnesse of all estates but especially the furiousnesse of lusts the ambition couetousnesse and superstition of the Romish Clergie Marcellus Palingenius in virgine complaineth of a generall corruption of manners throughout the world imo libenter saith he Destituam hunc mundum innumerisque refertum Fraudibus atque dolis incestibus atque rapinis Est vbi nulla fides piet as est nulla nec vlla Iustitia pax requies vbi crimina regnant Omnia He saith that all vices reigned and that there was neither faith nor piety nor iustice in the world viz. among the Papists Matthew Paris in Henrico tertio complaineth that religion was trodden vnder foote and that vsury and simony reigned Erasmus de amicab concord saith that if a man looke neerely he shall find all filled with fraudes iniuries rapines si quis propiùs inspiciat inueniet fraudibus iniurijs rapini●referta omnia Hereupon Petrus de Aliaco lib. de reformat ecclesiae complaineth that certaine barators had destroied the church which the fathers had formerly built primitius theologi ecclesiam aedificauerunt quam nunc baritatores destruxerunt Simony and Vsury among the Romanists is so common that as Matth. Paris saith they accompt the first no sinne the second a small sinne Felin in c. ex parte de offic potest iudic delegat saith that without the rent of Simony the popes sea would grow contemptible heu Simon regnat per munera quaeque reguntur saith one in hist Citizensi Theodoric à Niem lib. 2. de schism c. 7. saith that vsury did then so much preuaile that it was accompted no fault Paul the 4. and Pius the 4. in their times were great banquiers and vsurers as we may see in their liues written by a Parasite of the Popes called Onuphrius If we should speake of particular men we should find no end of their villanies Wernerus speaking of Iohn the 12. saith he was wholy giuen to lust totus lubricus Beno Platina and others testifie that Siluester the 2. and Benedict the ninth were Magicians and the Diuels sworne sernantes Gregory the 7. was deposed by the councell of Brixia as a notorious necromancer possessed with a diabolicall spirit Iohn the 23. was conuicted in the councell of Constance to be an incestuous person a Sodomit and an atheist denying the immortality of the soule as we reade in the actes thereof Clement the 5. as Hermannus testifieth was a publike fornicator the same is also testified by Mattheo Villani hist l. 3. c. 39. against Clement the sixt Sixtus the 4. passed Nero in cruelty and all villany Gaude prisce Nero saith one vincit te crimine Sixtus Hic scelus omne clauditur vitium Marullus and others testifie against Innocent the 8. that he had sixteene bastards and was a dull fellow giuen to carnall pleasures Of Alexander the 6. we reade that he wasted the world ouerthrew law and religion neither could Onuphrius dissemble his vices He that listeth to see the like testimonies against Masse-priests Monkes Friers and their complices let him reade the second booke of my answere to Rob. Parsons his warne-word But what should proofes neede in so plaine matters if the Popes whom they call most holy be such we must not imagine that their base slaues and dependants are better The practise of this sect doth iustifie this charge most fullie of late time they haue murdred millions of Gods Saints In England of late they attempted to destroy the King and his house to blow vp the Lords Commons in Parliament assembled and to cut the throtes of all good men they neither respect King nor friend old nor yoong oath nor promise Among themselues there is neither iustice nor honesty poore people are abused with superstitious shewes and dissembled grauity through the practises of Popes Christendome is diuided and the kingdome of Turkes enlarged Can those therefore bee good men that doe such leud acts and haue they reason to boast of works whose liues are so defiled with all vices CHAP. XXXI That in Popery a base accompt is made of Princes and all lay-men HOly scriptures doe giue honorable titles not only to Kings and Princes but also to all the people of God Princes Rom. 13. are called superior powers and Gods ministers for our good and in diuers places they are dignified as Gods anoynted Christians are also called Saints and Gods heritage and his sonnes and children and heires of Gods kingdome annexed together with Christ but the Masse-priests and polshorne crew make but a base reckoning of them for first they appropriat to themselues the title of Gods inheritance calling themselues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and clericos as if the Popes greasie shauelings were only Gods inheritance and the rest were profane and common persons Secondly in the church they diuide themselues from lay-men as if lay-men were not holy inough to communicate with them in Gods seruice or else as if they were vnworthy to come neere the Popes poleshorne and greasie complices Thirdly they call themselues only spirituall men as if the lay-people were grosse and carnall and without sense and feeling of piety they doe call themselues also Gods annointed interpreting these words touch not mine anointed of their owne greasie company Fourthly the state of matried folkes is termed a damned state of life as appeareth by their decretales de conuersione coniugatorum where they talke of married folks entring into monasteries no otherwise then as if they should talke of the conuersion of sinners Syricius c. plurimos dist 82. doth talke of maried folkes as of men profane and vnholy and Innocentius in the same distinction c. proposuisti doth interpret these words of the Apostle those that are in the flesh cannot please God of married folkes as if they were in the flesh and could not please God for otherwise his conclusion is of no valew Fiftlie they call lay-people imperfect for that is a worde vsed by Faber contra anatomen missae the state of perfection they ascribe commonly to Monkes and Friers some call them doggs and hoggs and proue that scriptures are not to be permitted to be read in vulgar tongues because holie things are not to bee giuen to dogs nor pearles cast before swine Thomas Aquinas 2.2 q. 2. art 6. compareth Gods people to asses holding that it is sufficient for them to adhere to their superiors in matters of saith because we read Ioh 1. that the oxen were at plow and the Asses fedde by them Summa Rosella and Siluester in his summe in verb. fides doth take lay-men and simple people to be all one and commonly they call them idiots and rude fellowes 6 Pops Alexander trod vpon the Emperors necke calling him a lion basiliske and Boniface the 8. indeuoreth to make Kings his subiects 7 They make Kings and Princes their hang-men exequutioners forcing them to put Gods Saints to death whom the

church of late time by the Popish faction in England France Flanders Italy and else-where we reade that diuers haue beene betraied by their owne kinsfolks brethren and friends and finde that fulfilled which our Sauior Christ foretold vs Luc. 21. how Christians should be betraied of their parents brethren kinsmen and friends In Spayne they force parents to bring woode to burne their children and children to set fire to their parents Alphonsus Dias came poste from Rome and caused his owne brother to be murdred for that he had embraced true religion it is reported that in England Queene Marie if she had liued any longer would haue caused the bones of her owne father to haue beene digged vp and burned It is also a common practise of children in places where Popery reigneth to abandon their parents and to professe monkerie Airault of Angiers in France a man of good note lost his onely sonne by the entisement of the Iebusites perswaded to enter into their superstitious order neither could the father euer after heare what was become of him and so haue many parents beene depriued of their sonnes and daughters vnder colour of religion oftentimes drawen away to serue the Masse-priests abominable lustes this among Papists is counted religion but the example sauoureth rather of Turkish then Christian religion for as the children of Christians are taken from their parents and friends and made Ianizars and so emploied in the warres against Christians so these nouices are by fraud and wilie deuises stollen from their Christian parents and friends and afterward emploied in the defence of antichristian doctrine against truth and the professors thereof Finally they that professe Popery zealously doe forget oftentimes all lawes of common ciuility lately the pouder-men Papists had thought to cut all their countrimens throtes the Masle-priests esteeme lay-men no otherwise then dogges and hogges commonly when they appeare before magistrates that are not of their owne religion they giue them no reuerence Alexander the third trode vpon the Emperor Fredericke Barbarossaes necke Adrian the 4. suffered him to hold his stirrop other Popes haue vsed Kings and Princes as their stassiers and for their hands they giue Christians their feete to kisse Neither is this a fault of the practise but also of the doctrine of Popery for these facts they commonly defend and forbid al speech communication dealing with excommunicate persons os orare vale communio mensa negatur saith Nauarrus in enchirid c. 27. these words spoken of Leui Deuter. 33. which said to his father and mother I know you not are applied to all that enter into any order of monkish religion as we may perceiue by the doctrine of Bellarmine lib. de monach c. 36. Whosoeuer therefore looketh for filiall obedience at the hands of his children had neede ●o looke that they be not nouzled in Popery whoso expecteth for kind and frindly vsage must not consort himselfe with Papists who towards Christians vse neither respect of kinred nor of friendship vpon euery warrant of the Pope take themselues absolued from their obedience to their superiors whether they rule in church or common welth and by all meanes suppose themselues bound to cut Christian mens throts CHAP. XXXVI That Popish religion either disannulleth or greatly preiudiceth the authoritie of Kings and Princes CHristian religion doth giue an eminent authority and prerogatiue to Kings S. Peter 1. epist 2. exosteth all Christians to subinit themselues vnto them and S. Paul Rom. 13. teacheth euery soule to be subiect to the higher powers Tertullian in his treatise ad Scapulam sheweth that the Emperor was next vnder God supreme gouernor colimus imperatorem saith he sic quomodo nobis licet ipsi expedit vt hominem a deo secundum we honour the Emperour c. as a man that hath the next place to God can we then with any reason suppose Popery to sauour of Christian religion that either maketh the Emperour and other Kings subiect to the Pope or else taketh awaie a great part of his authoritie That the Papists hold all temporall Princes to bee inferiour and subiect to the Pope it cannot be denied Innocentius the third in c. solitae de maior obed disputing this matter compareth the Pope to the Sunne and the Emperour to the Moone as if the Emperour were as many degrees inferior to the Pope as the Moone is to the Sunne quanta est inter solem lunam tanta inter pontifices reges differentia cognoscitur Clement the sift in the chapter Romani principes de iureiurando declareth that the Emperors of Rome haue submitted their heads to the bishop of Rome sua submittere capita non reputarunt indignum againe he sheweth how they ought to take an oath of fealtie and obedience to the Pope The author of the Glosse in c. Romani clem de iureiurando assigneth all this subiection of Princes to Christ his institution Iesus voluit saith he In the chapter Pastoralis clem de sent reiudicat the Pope determineth that by right of the Papacie he hath superioritie ouer the Empire and that in the vacancie of the empire himselfe hath the right of the Emperour Bonisace the 8. writing to the French king gaue him to vnderstand that he was the Popes subiect both in spirituall and temporall matters scire to volumus saith he quod in spiritualibus temporalibus nobis subes in the chapter vnam sanctam extr de maior obed hee determineth that the Pope hath both the swords and that he hath power both to make kings and to depose them spiritualis potestas potestatem terrenam instituere habet iudicare si bona non fuerit that is the spirituall power hath right to ordeine the earthly power and to iudge the same if it be not good Iosephus Vestanus lib. de osculat pedum Pontisicis p. 137. among the dictates of Gregory the 7. setteth downe this for one that it is lawfull for the Pope to depose the Emperour Pius the fist in his blundring bull against Queene Elizabeth our late dread soueraigne blusheth not to affirme that the Pope alone is made a Prince and set ouer all nations and kingdomes to pull vp to destroy to dissipate and spaile to plant and to build hunc vnum saith he super omnes gentes ommae regna principē constituit qui cuellat destruat dissipet disperdat plantet aedisicet This also is the doctrine of modern Iebusites and their complices Bellarm. lib. 5. de Pontis Rom. c. 6. speaking of the Pope teacheth that he hath power to change kingdomes and to take from one and to giue to another if it be necessary for saning soules and this he offreth to prooue Potest mutare regna saith he vni auferre atque altericonserre si id necessarium sit ad animarum salutem vt probabimus The Iebusites of France in a discourse intitled la veritè defendue blush not to defend the Popes vsurped power in

both draw their swords and put them vp at his command and suffer him to taxe their subiects and run to him for faculties and dispensations and finally can neither dispose of the possessions of the church nor of the persons of church-men we may boldly say that Poperie either maketh kings no kings or but halfe kings CHAP. XXXVIII That Kings liue not in any securitie of their liues where Popery is professed by their subiects DAuid the man of God would not suffer any of his followers to lay his hands vpon Saul although God had appointed him to succeed in the kingdome and reiected Saul and great respect alwaies haue Christians had to their soueraigne Lords and Princes In the canons attributed to the Apostles c. 83. euery contumelious spech against the Emperour or magistrat is iudged worthy of punishment what are we then to thinke of the Popes of Rome and their complices that not only curse and raile against princes and magistrates but also stirre vp all the world against them if they will not yeeld to their Lordly will and pleasure such certes are the children of Belial and not the seruants of God I hope therefore Christian Princes will open their eies and euery day grow more wary in their dealings with the popes of Rome and their agents which are no lesse dangerous in respect of their liues and persons then their roiall estats and kingdomes For first they hold that is lawfull for the Pope to change kingdomes and to take from one and to giue to another as Bellarmine in expresse termes determineth l. 5. de pont Rom. c. 6. And this is declared by the continuall practise of Popes who these many yeares haue gone about to take from one and to giue to another now giuing the kingdome of Sicily and Naples to the French now to the Spanish now challenging it themselues the kingdome of Nauarre is holden from the French king by no better warrant then the Popes grant by the same also the Spaniards and Portingals haue diuided the Indians betwixt them Boniface the eight by his bull made Philip and the kingdome of France subiect to Albert. Philippum ciusque regnum Alberto regi subijcit saith Platina in Bonifacio 8. but what king doth not with his sword defend his state and chooseth not rather to loose his life then his kingdome Secondly they teach that the Pope is to iudge of Kings as is defined by the extranagant vnams inctam de maiorit obed they giue the Pope also power to depose kings and to take away their crownes but it were great simplicity to thinke that any magnanimous Prince will either lose his crowne or submit himselfe to be iudged by a pole-shorne Pope without force nay sooner will he hazard his life then either loose his crowne or submit himselfe to the Popes iudgement Finally both by their doctrine and practise it appeareth that the Popes and their agents haue sought to murder empoison and destroy such kings and princes as either were excommunicat by them or else were opposite vnto them Gregory the 7. watching the Emperor that was wont to pray in the church of S. Mary as Beno testifieth hired a fellow to place great stones vpon the beames or vault of the church right ouer the place where he praied which being throwne downe might kill him his words are these imperator solitus erat frequenter ire ad oration mad ecclesiam S. Mariae quae est in mente Auentino Hildebrandus autem cum per exploratores omma eius opera solicitè inquircret locum in quo frequentius imperator velstans vel prostratus orabat notari secit quendam promissa pecunia ad hoc induxit vt supra trabes ecclesiae occultè lapides magnos collocaret ita aplaret vt de alto super caput imperatoris demitteret ipsum contereret againe the same Beno saith that the Pope went about by secret traitors to destroy the emperor eisdem diebus parauit imperatorem perdere per occultos proditores and when by secret trechery he could effect nothing by publike force and armes he sought to subdue him Innocent the second hauing raised an armie fought with Roger King of Sicilia in a pitcht field thinking to destroie him Philip the Emperour and his successor Otho were both brought to their destructiō by the practises of Innocent the 3 about this time also Iohn king of England was poisoned by a Monke of Swinsted-abby for that he was supposed to be aduerse to the Popish faction his empoisonment is particularly set downe in Caxtons chronicle Henry of Lucemburg the emperour was poisoned in the Sacrament by a Dominican frier about the yeare of our Lord 1313. quidam religiosus saith Vrspergensis porrexit imperatori intoxicatam eucharistiam the same is also testified by baptista Igantius supplementum Chronicorum Textor in officina c. veneno extincti and diuers others Sleidanus saith the Frier was moued thereunto by Clement the fifth and the reason was for that the Emperour grew too strong in Italy this act committed by a Dominican Frier was the cause of the death of manie Friers of that order slaine by the Emperors souldiers Matthew Paris in Henrico 3. testifieth that Pope Innocent the 4. was charged with the empoisonment of Fridericke the Emperor by the meanes of Peter de Vinea and that the fame of the Pope was not a little stained by this foule fact obsorduit domini Papae fama saith he per hoc non mediocriter in the end he was murdred by Mansrede as is said not without the secret practise of the Pope Ioan the Queene of Naples being taken by her enemies was murdered with the priuitie and consent of Vrbane the sixth Charles the king of Naples by the bloody councell of Clement the 4. caused Conradmus and Frederike duke of Austria to be put to death vita Conradim mors Caroli said Clement which cost that yoong Prince his life Sixtus the fourth was the principall contriuer of that treason whereby Iulian de medic●s was slaine and his brother Laurence hurt in the church of Reparata at Florence at the elcuation of the sacrament conscio adinuante pontifice saith Volateran Geograph lib. 5. Alexander the 6. caused Gemes the Turkes brother to bee empoisoned being hired thereto by promises and mony by the great Turke so little conscience doe Popes make of murdring princes Paul the 3. in his bull against Henry the 8. King of England exhorted the Nobles and principall men of England to oppose themselues against him with force and armes and sent Cardinall Poole to forraine princes to stirre them vp against the king giuing him and his people as a pray to his enemies and by all meanes seeking to destroy him Pius the fifth excommunicated all that would not take armes against Queene Elizabeth our late dread Soueraign and by secret practise stirred her subiects against her Sixtus Quintus anno 1588. in his declaration against the foresaide Lady exhorteth her people to lay

Pontif. Rom. foisteth in the same words into the sixt canon of the Nicene councell but he may be conuinced of falsitie by the testimony of all ancient copies and of Russine and all that record the canons of Nice in their histories Pius the fist in certaine letters of his to the emperor Maximilian recorded in his life written by Hierome Catena alledgeth a false canon of the councell of Nice to prooue that the Pope is gouernor of all Christian Princes Bellarmine lib. 1. de cult sanct c. 19. doth falsifie the 7. canon of the sixth synod to prooue the inuocation of saintes and this falsification is also committed by those that haue lately published the actes of councels but they may bee conuinced by the originall copies in Greeke and by all ancient editions of that councell in Latin In the 35. canon of the councell of Laodisea Surius and Carrauza in their editions of the decrees and acts of councels for angelos write angulos least it should appeare that the worship of angels is condemned by that councel as idolatrous but this grosse falshood is discouered by Theodoret in Coloss 2. and Chrysostomes homilies vpon the same epistle and confessed by Bellarmine lib. 1. de cultu sanct c. 20. In the chapter renouantes dist 22. the 36. canon of the 6. synod is notoriously falsified for there it is ordred that the church of Constantinople shall not be magnified as Rome directly contrary to the sixth synodes meaning and contrary to the actes of the councel of Constantinople and Chalcedon Gratian hath corrupted the 22. canon of the councell of Mileuis adding these wordes nisi forte sedem Romanam appellauerit whereas expresly that councel forbad priests and deacons to appeale beyond the seas this appeareth by the chap. placuit 2. q. 6. The donation of Constantine is confessed to be counterfet by Cusanus Valla and diuers papists yet still mainteined by Gregory the 13. in his new correction and edition of the canon law The constitution also of Ludouicus dist 63. c. ego Ludouicus is manifestly forged as may appeare by the contradiction of the copies of Gratian and Volaterran Geograph l. 3. and for that it contradicteth the histories of those times The Popes agents haue also counterfeited two epistles vnder the name of Iustinian and Iohn bishop of Rome and thrust them into the code C. de sum trin fid cath l. inter claras Alciat parerg lib. 5. c. 23. testifieth they are not found in ancient copies and the contradictions and notorious falsities declare them to haue beene deuised of purpose for the aduancement of the church of Rome Alexander the 3. vpon colour of some counterfet grants doth in his registre affirme that the kingdome of England from the first time the same was conuerted to Christianitie was vnder the defence and subiection of the prince of the Apostles and that which belonged to him the Popes do now challenge as their owne proper right Boniface the 9. as Theodoric à Niem lib. 2. de schism c. 6. doth testifie would antedate any grant of his for money vendidit prioritates datarum plus offerentibus which is a notorious tricke of falshood Bellarmine lib. 3. de bonis operib in part c. 11. doth confesse that the epistle of Clement to Iames is counterfet and did he not confesse it yet may the same be prooued by most euident arguments The decretall epistles set out vnder the names of ancient bishops of Rome before Syluester are most shamefully forged the stile and repugnancie which they carie with the state of things in those times doe plainly conuince them to be such Contius also in his annotations in c. septuagint dist 16. doth confesse it and saith he hath prooued it Bellarmine lib. de monach c. 40. acknowledgeth that the epistle of Anicetus concerning shauing of crownes is not vndoubtedly authenticall he might as well haue said plainly forged Melchiades 12. q. 1. c. futuram telleth how Constantine was Christened and gaue his seate and other great possessions to the church of Rome yet it cannot be denied but that Melchiades was dead before the time of Constantines Christening Vnder the name of Clement they haue published certeine constitutions which they call Apostolicall yet Gelasius doth account them apocryphal vnder his name also passe certeine counterfet recognitions The bookes of Tertullian and Origen are often cited yet doth Gelasius note them as corrupted the commentaries vpon Iob set out vnder the name of Origan were written by an Arian heretike Diuers treatises set out vnder the names of Abdias Prochorus Martialis Africanus Egesippus Amphilochius and other ancient fathers were neuer written by the authors whose names they beare yet are they commonly alledged by our aduersaries Vnder the names of Cyprian Hierome Ambrose Chrysostome Basill Nazianzen Augustine and other fathers the Papists haue published diuers commentaries treatises sermons epistles praiers and fragments most vnworthy their piety and learning Bellarmine de bonis operib in partie lib. 2. c. 15. confesseth that the sermons d● tempore that goe vnder S. Augustines name were collected by a later author the sermons ad Eromitas are taxed by Paulus Langius in Chronico Citizensi and by Hilgerius his Manuall sauoreth of Pelagianisme his meditations in some editions are ascribed to Anselmus Bellarmine lib. 2. de missa c. 16. reiecteth certaine epistles that goe vnder the name of Hierome and Damasus as foolish and certes very foolish he must needes be that alloweth all the bookes set out vnder the names of these fathers as authenticall In their expurgatory indexes they put out and put in what they please in the bookes of diuers authors Sixtus Senensis in epist ad Pium 5. ante biblioth sanct saith he caused the writings of fathers to be purged Bertram is shamefully mangled and visibiliter changed into inuisibiliter Posseuin in his booke entitled selecta bibliotheca sheweth how Hermes Melito Cabasilas Anastasius and other authors are to bee corrupted for so we must say rather then corrected The writings of the fathers they alledge most falsely Bellarm lib. 1. de sanct beat c. 13. corrupteth a place out of Eusebius de praeparat euangel lib. 13. and another out of Eusebius de praeparat euangel lib. 13. and another out of Euscbius his history lib. 4. c. 14. and infinit places out of Origen Tertullian Hilary Hierome Augustine Chrysostome and other fathers as I haue particularly declared in my answers to his most corrupt allegations Adrian the Pope in his epistle alledged in the 2. synode of Nice citeth these words as out of Basil deiparam virginem sanctos Prophetas Apostolos martyres suscipio qui pro me apud deū supplicant c. which words are no where found in Basil Nay the terme of Deipara was first by act of the Ephesine Councell deuised to meet with the heresie of Nestorius which was celebrated long after Basils time To prooue that the Popes decretale epistles are to bee reckoned among canonicall scriptures Gratian

vassals as with the gouernement of the Turke we may assure our selues that it is lesse greeuous for Christians to liue vnder the Turke then vnder the Pope or his vassals and this also may be prooued by assured demonstrations For first the Turke forceth none to imbrace his religion nor punisheth any for professing other religions but the Pope and his faction in France Flanders and other countries vseth all manner of enforcement to drawe men to Popish religion and punisheth with all seuerity such as be contrary to him Secondly Mahomet commanded his disciples to be reconciled to Christians if they desired it as Zigabenus saith in Saracenicis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the Papists admitte no leagues or treatie or pacification with the true professors of religion but seeke their destruction whensoeuer they can preuaile against them Thirdly Turkes haue no inquisitors nor rackes or torments for such as hold Christian religion but suffer them quietly if they be not tumultuous and troublesome to the state but the Pope his complices search out poore Christians by their inquisitors that haue as good sent as bloud hounds and suffer them not to hide themselues either in woods holes or deserts and such as they finde they racke and torment and some they poison some they famish some they burne by all meanes purposing to destroy the race of their aduersaries Fourthly Turkes doe not vse to massacre Christians or to murder them without sentence of Law and lawfull proceeding but the barbarous and bloody executioners of the Pope in France at diuers times haue massacred many thousands of harmelesse and disarmed Christians killing them neither by lawfull warre nor by any forme of iustice 5. Commonly the Turkes hauing vanquished Christians doe spare such as yeeld and take them captiues and seldome is it seene that they kill women and children but the Papists in France massacred men women and children like fierce woolues haue sought the blood of all manner of Christians opposite to them 6. In the Turkes dominions Christians are burdened with tribute but paying the same they are quit but that is nothing to the oppressions of Christians vnder the Pope and his vassals for there they pay both to the Prince and to the Pope and neither are they free aliue or dead from payments to Masse-priests but if any Christian differ from them in matters of faith no tribute can acquite him so but his goods are confiscate and his person seased and this is euident both by the chap. vergentis de haereticis and by their common practise 7. The Turkes deale not so perfidiously with Christians as doe the Papists they empoison not men by trechery nor commonly breake solemne oathes and promises but the Popes and their complices teach their followers to keepe no faith with such Christians as they cal heretikes nay whether they bee excommunicate or no they respect not but murder all that are opposite to them if they can as appeared by their late bloody practise against the King and parliament Lastly the Papists doe prohibite buriall to Christians as appeareth by the chapter sicut de baereticis they iudge them also being dead and digge them out of their graues and burne their bodies and so they dealt with Wickleffe Bucer and Phagius in England and with Almaricus and others in other places but this inhumanity the Turkes will be ashamed to practise against their greatest enemies What Christian then that is not past all feeling will not abhor this inhumanity more then Turkish crueltie of papists that neither dead nor aliue can endure true Christians CHAP. XLIX That the ambition couetousnesse contention and practise of Popes is the principall cause of the decay of the Christian empire and a great occasion of the good successe of the Turkes AS the strength of the Roman empire was the bulwarke that kept off the Turke and other barbarous nations from the inuasion of Christendome and the most potent meanes to vnite Christians in the common defence of Catholike religion and to defend those countries that professed it so it is apparent that those that haue weakened the Emperours and caused dinision among Christian princes haue also giuen way to the conquests of Turkes and decaied the strength of Christians but no man needeth to doubt but that the Popes aboue al men in the world haue through their ambition contention and tumultuous practises both ruinated the Empire and set Christians at contention among themselues For first the spirit of God Apocalyp 13. sheweth that antichrist figured by a lamberising out of the earth and speaking like a dragon should succeed the Emperour and after a sort repaire the empire figured by the beast like a leopard that rose out of the sea S. Iohn saith he did all the first beast could doe he also caused the earth to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed all which is perfectly fulfilled in the Pope for he possesseth Rome and although he calleth himselfe the successor of Peter yet taketh he vpon him to manage both the swords he also healed the wound that Rome receiued by the decay of the Empire making all Christians to worship the Roman See and calling his followers Roman catholikes Further the Apostle 2. Thess 2. declareth that one thing did withhold the comming of Antichrist which through the working of the mystery of iniquity was then approching and that Ambrose Hierome and other fathers doe interpret of the Romane empire so we see still an opposition betwixt the Roman Empire and the kingdome of Antichrist and that the decay of the one should be the rising of the other Thirdly we see by practise that the Popes by all meanes haue gone about to diuide and to weaken the Roman Empire for first vnder colour of the contention about the worship of Images they caused Rome and Italy to rebell against the Emperors of the East as we may read in the histories concerning Leo Isauricus diuers that succeeded him next they brought the Gaules into Italy and diminished the empire diuiding as much as in them lay the West frō the East and confirming the right of Charles the great and his successors but alwaies keeping Rome and a good part of Italy to thēselues Afterward hauing preuailed against the Easterne Emperors they set vpon the Emperors of the West and by setting the subiects against their kings and the sonnes against the fathers by their anathematismes and excommunications they haue brought the Emperors to that passe that they receiue their crownes from the Pope and are not able to defend themselues and their subiects from the common enemy without the aide of other Christian princes further if at any time the Emperors warred aganst the Saracens and Turkes abroad then did the Popes by all meanes endeuor to take from them and their agents their townes and castles at home they did also withdraw their supplies and employ those that had vowed to serue against the Saracens to serue against the Emperor as