a good Poet hee might in as good verses haue giuen all the honour to Christ as he deserueth Therefore my deare country-men bee no longer seduced by a Religion so fraught with Atheisme blasphemie impiety doe but looke into the Scriptures Counsels or Fathers yea aske the honestest learnedst of your owne Religion or any except Iesuits or such other like them who frame a religion to their owne purposes If this be tollerable Diuinity that the milke of the Virgin doth clense mans soule from sin as well as Christ his bloud If it bee not Diuinity but Blasphemy no Christian Doctrine but impiety and yet suffered yet approued in the Romane Church both by doctrine and practice then returne to that truth and holy Religion which out of Gods word and according to the purest antiquity is established amongst vs and with heart and voice ioyne with vs to imbrace and say Amen to that holy doctrine of blessed St. Iohn who saith it is Iesus Christ Reuel 1 56. that loued vs and washed vs from our sins in his own bloud to him be glory for euer and euer Amen This was his Religion this is ours oh that it were yours also he sucked this diuinity out of that blessed brest of Gods Sonne whereon he leaned and if hee had Iâ—h 13. 23. sucked thence this diuinity of the Iesuites that the virgin Mary washed vs from our sinnes by her milke surely he would neuer haue concealed it from vs nor haue depriued her of the honour nor vs of the comfort that thereby might accrew both to her and vs for he was her sonne by her owne adoption yea her Sonne by the gift and nomination of her sonne and Sauiour yea her Sonne in loue duty and all respectiuenesse could hee then or would he in any sort obscure her due glory would he giue too much to her sonne and too little to her would he giue all that to her sonne which in part was hers can this may this or dare this be immagined by any Iesuit If not then how dare they extend their deuotion beyond his ascribe that to her which he neuer did yea that to her which he appropriates to Iesus Christ If they thinke that Peter had more deuotion then Iohn hearken then what he saith Iesus Christ his owne 1. Pet. 2. 24. selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the tree let the words be Pondered Iesus Christ saith hee bare our sinnes true say they but so did the Virgin Mary also No saith Peter he himselfe his owne selfe bare them yea in his body he bare them in his body say they that is true but hee beares them in his mysticall body in his members much more therefore in his mother which is more then many members of his body nay saith St. Peter hee bare our sinnes his owne selfe in his body but what body euen that body that was on the Tree therefore if St. Peter preach true diuinity then is this doctrine of your teacher hainous blasphemy All that may bee imagined for their defence at the best is this that all this is but poeticall hyperbolicall or proceedes from the passion height of deuotion but that in truth and earnest he ascribes all to Christ to his bloud makes his prayers to him and puts the confidence of his heart in him alone but least any man should haue the least suspition of him this way or thinke so good a thought of him he deales yet more plainely and to preuenr all such thoughts and obiections he makes his prayer both to the Mothâ—r and the Sonne without any difference in the world to the one for her milke to the other for his bloud for thus hee saith Ergo parens et nati meis advertiâ—e votis Lac peto depereo sanguinem vt rumque volo That is Mother and Sonne giue eare to what I craue I beg this milke that bloud and both would haue Heere is plaine dealing it is not the Sonne and his bloud that will serue his turne hee must also haue the Mother and her milke is not this good catholike doctrine and deuotion but further is not this strange to see how he marshalls them in the order of his iudgement and affection he prayeth to the mother and the sonne but first to the mother hee will haue both milke and bloud but first milke thus Mary hath the precedence of Christ and her milke of his bloud But you will say it is not that hee so esteemes them in his iudgement but only for the necessity of of the verse the answere is that a grammer scholler can soone shew how the verse is as good and giue Christ his precedence as it is doing him this wrong Ergo Nate parensque meis aduertite votis But he still keeping Christ in wardship and vnder age held it not fit that he should haue the place before his Mother onely and therefore without all necessity euen wittingly and wilfully he puts Christ in the second place But now let vs hasten to an end of this if it be not endlesse and bottomlesse impiety Vpon these fearefull premises thus he proceedes Paruule maternis medius qui ludis in vluis Et tua iam comples vbera iam vacuas Quid me respectas obliqua tuentibus hirquis Roboris in Coelum pilhabet inuidia Saepe quidem dixti noxis offensus iniquis Tune me as mammas Improbe tune me as Nolo tuas ô nolo tuas puer auree mammas Non sunt tam duri tam grauis or is homo Sed tantum lateris pluat vnica vnica stilla Et saltem a dextrae vulnere gutta pluat Se nihil è dextra vis impluere implue laeuâ— Si nihil è laeua de pede sanguis eat Si tibi non placio vulnus mihi vulnera danto Mercedem danto vulnera si placeo That is Youngling that in thy mothers armes art playing Sucking her brests sometimes and sometimes staying Why dost thou view me with that looke of scorne It s forcelesse Enuy that gainst thee is borne Oft hast thou said being angry at my sinne Darest thou desire the teates my foode lies in I will not oh I dare not Noble child Duty from me is not so far exild But one euen one poore drop I doe implore From thy right hand or side I aske no more If neither from thy left hand let one fall Nay from thy foote rather then none at all Dost thou dislike me let thy wounds me wound But pay my due if I in grace be found Now from blasphemy he proceedes to plaine Atheisme not fearing to expose the greatest mysteries of Christian faith and euen our blessed Sauiour himselfe to the rediculous scornefull contempt of prophane men Speaking vnto Christ God câ—aequall with the father and whose very humanity raineth now in glory at Gods right hand as to a seely Infant in his mothers armes and to him whose very humanity is fedde with the glorious presence and
which I haue afore set downe is vile and wicked and such as the elper world and misty times of Popery would haue abhorred But there is one impiety of late broched by one Iesuit and approoued by all so horrible and hainous as I want words to expresse it y Clarus Bonarseius a Iesuit writes it Posseuine the Iesuit in the name of all other approues it But this I can say it is such as the world yet neuer heard of such as the ages past feared not and the future will not beleeue nay such as we in these dayes would not beleeue of our very enemies if the euidence of the fact made it not past all denyall and excuse for would a man imagine that those who professe themselues the seruants of Iesus Christ aboue other men should conceiue of him speake to him and play with him as with a sucking child in his mothers armes Nay that is nothing they make him an vnderling to a woman and not his Person only but his bloud and merits compare together his bloud and her milke and vpon comparison finds them so equall that they mixe them together and in the mixture finds the milke so excellent that they preferre it afore the bloud as a thing more precious and with which they may not be so bold as with the bloud of Christ and feare not to affirme that the corruptions of our nature and sinnes of our soule are healed and holpen as well by her milke as Christs bloud A blasphemy whereat the Angels will shrinke and the very diuels tremble and yet no doubt wee shall finde Iesuites will defend it Hauing obserued this blasphemy 2. or 3. yeeres agoe I held my tongue expecting it would bee discouered and reproued by some that could doe it with more authority but fayling of my hope I long conceal'd my labours till now that the necessities of these euill times doth force it from mee I therefore do heere discouer it and am bold to send it abroad vnder the protection of your honorable names that so all the world may know the state and gouernment of this honorable Citty to be no approouers but Censors and condemners of so horrible and hideous Atheisme I am therefore a suter to you all in mine owne and the name of all my brethren the Clergy of this City that you looke well to the execution of the lawes and yet rather against Popery then Papists For it is the wicked Popery that makes our men Papists and ill subiects to God and the King The men would be good enough if the grounds of their religion were not wicked Therfore we beseech you haue care that Iustice be so executed as rather the wickednesse of the Religion may bee rooted out then the persons punished as in his stile to be The defender and propogatur of the true Christian Faith Honourable and worshipfull vouchsafe to heare vs in this iust necessary request being no lesse then your Religion craueth at your hands The Clergy and Ministry of England are slandered by the Papists that wee seeke their bloud exasperate the state against them but they do vs wrong it is the extirpating of Popery not the bloud of Papists that we seeke and sue for we pitty their persons and wish them rather all banished then any executed but we hate their heresies and wish them censured condemned and extinguished as as they deserue This is the way fully to discouer Antechrist and to hasten his confusion for almost all Churches of Christendome haue pronounced him Antchrist and his Religion Heresie And this is the sure way to be free from treasons conspiracies inuations murders and massacres from which as you see Denmarke by this meanes is defended and many countries well freed as soone as they get free of Iesuits and by the contrary we see the miserable accidents in France to the amazement of the Chriâ—tian world for when all the truth is known the whole account cast vp the charge of those foule facts the murders of 2. Kings many more vnnaturall disasters will lye vpon the vngodly positions of Popery As Dauid said of Abner when he mourned for him so may we much more of their last King Know you not that a great man is fallen in Christendome Surely one of the greatest many wayes that Christendome hath yeelded It is full time to looke about you when your neighbours house is on fire and the rather when Iesuites teach this doctrine to be defined and to be de fide that subiects not only may but ought to take away such Kings as he was and ouâ—s much more is and long may he so be Nay long shall he be so if you take this and other courses for extiâ—pating Popery When you and other the Magistrates Ecclesiasticall and ciuell shall begin seriously and effectually to do this then Rome trembles Popery shrinkes Antichrist frets and the Iesuits his darlings begin to looke pale and hang downe their heads for their confusion is at hand for though they haue continued but iust 70. yeares not the halfe of many other orders yet they must know that bloud-thirsty and deceitfull men shall not liue out halfe their dayes And if they be not guilty of these 2. faults bloud and deceit wee will free them from all How bloudy the Iesuâ—tes be appeares in that this is their maxime imprinted Nisi religio Lutherana ferro igne tollatur Ecclesia Rom. â—acem traÌ„quilitatem habere non poterit See the booke called Epistolarum Iesuiticar Libellus agab Bariaco 99. in Epist art 11. pag. 66. A great Image whose glory was excellent fourme terrible whose head was of fine gold his brest and armes of â—â—uer his belly thighs of brasse his leggs of yâ—on his feete part of yâ—on and part of clay Daniel 2. 31. 32. â—â—inc dubium non est â—ocietatem nostram vt â—ubito caepit it a subito â—â—territuram qui quotiâ—â—em peius ruit faults but if they bee and that aboue all men then take heede you Iesuites that this your 70. yeare be not a dismall and fatall yeare vnto you and that our Dauid and Moses do not pronounce of you the yeeres of your continuance are threescore and ten and thâ— yâ—â— be so mighty and so crafty you may hold out till fourescore yet shall your life be nothing but sorrow and misery as you haue deserued and quickly shall ye be cut off and vanish away and if this Prophecy like you not take one of your owne In the yeere 83. â—â— Iesuite preached at Auspurg and his text being we are made a spectacle to God Angels and the world in his Sermon he compared the Iesuites order to the Image which Nabuchadnezzar saw in his â—â—â—aulo Our Father Igâ—atius saith hee is the golden head together â—ith those that liued with him but when the first 10. fathers were dead others followed nothing so good as the first and these were the brests and armes of siluer Then
thou wilt haue many Faulkners turn Papists and did but call to mind the Lady of Hall forthwith the Hawke came flying home againe and lighted vpon the Faulconers shoulder and so saued his life for this is not Lipsius ashamed to report Which if it be true then we shall lesse wonder heereafter at that in the Legend where it is reported how a Parrat hauing got abroad out of her Cage and sporting her selfe in the aire was by and by espyed by a Hawke who being ready to See the old English legend in folio of the life of S. Thomas of Canterbury seaze vpon her instantly the Parrat seeing her selfe in danger to be surprized cryed out S. Thomas a Becket saue me and presently the Hawke fell downe dead and the Parrat was deliuered As also those miracles of S. Francis so far beyond Christs or his Apostles that he tamed wild beasts that See the booke called liber conformitatum S. Francisci of any impression he preacht vnto a Wolfe and conuerted him from his cruelty and calling him by the name of his brother Wolfe made the towne of Engubium him friends who of long time had beene at contention and for the assurance of the peace he made his brother Wolfe to giue him his faith in the Market place before the Magistrates and afterward the Wolfe went vp and downe the City and tooke his meate from dore to dore Loe here you Heretikes here is a Miracle worth something and if they will not beleeue me looke in the holy Booke of Conformities and there you shall find all See the conformity of the old impression and his life in English this and much more as namely how the Birds would come flying and the Beasts flocking about him to heare him preach and how the Nightingales and other Birds would come and helpe him to say Masse and sing his office and would answere him Verse for Verse Come out ye Heretikes Caluinists and Lutherans Saint Francis and his followers challenge you all to bring Sedulius a Popish writer hath this last yeare defended all these out one miracle like these to approue your Religion surely they may and for ought I see Christ and his Apostles also for they neuer wrought such a Miracle to confirme the Gospell Is it not then apparant that S. Francis hath done more then Christ did Oh my deare country-men you that name your selues the Catholikes of England if you would but open your eyes and consider of this I durst make your selues Iudges what diuinity this is if you suspect mee beleeue me not looke into the bookes themselues and beleeue your owne eyes If you say vnto me that some such impieties and follies might creepe into the old Bookes 100. or 200. yeares agoe when the times were not so wary nor suspicious but the Church hath since reformed such abuses I answere I alledge most of this out of the Booke of conformities lately corrected and printed in Italy within these 20. yeares but if you looke into the old one printed 100. yeares agoe wherewith your forefathers were abused you shall there find such matter as for reuerence of the Reader I shame and for the honour of God I feare to write And as for these miracles at our Ladies Picture at Hall they were neuer offred to the worlds view nor euer came to light till within these 3. yeares that Lipsius a man who durst doe any thing but honour Christ presumed to publish them and with foule impiety to write that in these dayes Christ and his doctrine seruice and Religion needes no miracles but the Saints and their seruice and worship do stand in neede thereof and as in the infancy of the Church Christ had his so in the perfect state of it Saints and their Images must haue their miracles but obserue withall that if See the conformity of the old impression or his life in English they say true more strange and as I may so say more Miraculous Miracles are done by the honour of Saints and approouing the worshipping of them and their Images then were for the establishing of the Gospell the abrogating of the Ceremoniall Law and for prouing Christ to be the Sonne of God If Lipsius were liuing I would not spare to tell him Lipsius dyed a relapsed papist at Louoin Ano that this his Doctrine smels strongly of that whereof he hath beene it seemes not without cause suspected which because he is dead I will forbeare to name But some of our English Papists which are not learned may doubt whether there bee such a Booke or no or if it be not deuised by vs and fathered on them for so do their Priests often suggest vnto them of such Bookes as they feare the people will mislike but if any of their misleaders doe so mis-informe them let them know the Booke hath beene twice printed at Antwerpe and once at Paris with allowance of authority in both places not onely of the Censors of Books and the Archbishop of the place but the matter and miracles in the Booke are confirmed These bulls of 2. Popes are in the end of the booke with the Bulls of a Popes one of Pope Nicholas in the yeare 1451. the other of Pope Clement the 8. within these 8. yeares and if any should bee so vnreesonable as to thinke that wee haue forged all this Posseuine the Iesuite may giue him full satisfaction who in his Apparatus sacer hath published to the world that Iustâ—â— Lipsius vir vere Catholicus inter complures eruditissimos lâ—broâ— anno 604. edidit librum hâ—c praenetatiâ—ne Iusti Liptij diua virgo Hâ—stensâ—s eiusque beneficia miracula bona fide atque ordine descripta Antuerpia apud moretâ—m Posse Appaâ—sa To. 2. in litera I page 318. Iusti Lipsij diua Aspricâ—llis Lipsius in the yeare and at the place aforenamed did put out such a worke and giues him speciall commendation for his labours in that and the like for the Catholike cause But hath not Lipsius recanted or the Romish Church reformed this since then Alas Lipsius was so farre from that that the yeare after very neere vnto his death as though he intended nothing but to heape vp wrath against the day of wrath he added drunkennesse to thirst as the Prophet saith for heaping sin vpon sin instead of reuoking recanting his former collusion he published another pamphlet a more ridiculous Legend and fraught with more improbabilities and impossibilities then the former It beares this Title Iustus Lipsius his History of our Lady of Sichem or of our Ladies Picture of the craggy-rocke or sharpe hill and of her new miracles and benefits at Antwerpe 1605. At this Image saith he are wrought miracles of al sorts Apoplexis Epilepsies gouts and all kind of diseases are healed lame are restored to limbes blinde to sight deafe to their hearing and all by these heapes not sildome or extraordinarily but yearely monthly dayly almost 60.
whole society of Iesuits and much lesse the Religion of Popery To these I answere 1. the booke is allowed and hath beene twise printed and stands approued by Posseuine Posseu in appar see lit C amongst good and catholike authors 2. Let them shew what Iesuite or other popish doctor hath reprooued or what Inquisitor or other popish Magistrate hath censured this wickednesse 3. Which is worst of all it is no more in effect then others of them haue taught or approued though not in so open apparant and foule a fashion for let any Christian man iudge what diuinity is laid downe in these points that follow 1 The papists haue a book called the Mariale It hath beene obiected vnto them that in this booke it is thus This hath beene long agoe laid to their charge in Catalogo testium veritatis editionis 1609. said Salomon saith the name of the Lord is a strong tower Pro. 18. 10. But Salomon knew little of the Virgin Mary let vs therefore say the name of our Lady is a strong tower let the sinner flye vnto her and he shall be saued and againe thou art a sinner flye then to the name of Mary that alone shall serue to heale thee and againe The Lord was with Mary and Mary with the Lord in the same labour and same worke of our redemption for the Mother of mercy helped the Father of mercy in the worke of our saluation and thereupon was it spoken of the first woman It is not good for man to be alone let vs make him a helper But why then saith God Esay 63. I haue troden the wine presse alone and of all people there was no man with me the booke answereth it is true Lord that thou sayest there was no man with thee but there was a woman with thee which bore all the wounds in her heart that thou didst beare in thy body Loe heere a peece of rare diuinitie Salomon is blamed for ignorance that he knew but little of the Virgin in a sort is rebuked for saying the name of our Lord and not rather the name of our Lady is a strong tower and though no man did yet a woman namely Mary did helpe Christ to treade the winepresse of Gods wrath and was fellow worker with God in the worke of our redemption This booke stands vnconfuted vncondemned vnreproued by the Iesuits or the Romish Church till this day for ought that I can yet find yet hath it beene many yeeres laid to their charge 2 Againe the Papists haue a booke they call it the Ladies Psalter printed at Paris in the yeere 1520. or therabouts Vide Psalterium beate Virginiâ— Maria â— impressum cum Psalterio Cisterciensi Par. circa anno 1520. Extat etiam idem Psal ad verbum apud Chem in examine concil Trident in parte 3. P. 149 editionis franco furt 1996. wherein euery one of the 150. Psalmes are in whole or in part turned from dominus to domina that is from God our Christ to our Lady as In the first Psalme Blessed is the man that loueth thy name O Virgin Mary c. In the 19. Psalme The Heauens declare thy glory O Virgin Mary c. In the 29 Psalme Bring vnto our Lady O you mighty bring vnto our Lady worship and honour c. Ine 51 Psalme Haue mercy vpon me O Lady thou that art called the Mother of mercy and according to the bowels of thy mercies clense me from all my sinnes poure out thy grace vpon me and take not thy wonted mercy from me c. In the 57 Psalme Haue mercy vpon me O Lady haue mercy vpon me for my heart ie ready to search out thy will and in the shadow of thy wings will I rest In the 68 Psalme Let our Lady arise and her enemies shall be scattered c. In the 72. Psalme Lord giue thy iudgement to the King and thy mercy to our Lady his mother In the 94 Psalme God is the God of reuenge but thou O Lady the mother of mercy doest bow him to take pitty c. In the 96. Psalme O sing vnto our Lady a new long for shee hath done maruailous things c. In the 110. Psalme The Lord said vnto our Lady sit thou mother at my right hand c Thus I might go ouer all the Psalmes but as he began he ends in the last words of the last Psalme Let euery thing that hath breath prayse our Lady Now this booke stands not onely vncontrolled but Greg. de val in vol. de rebus â—idei controuersis sect 5. lib de Idolatria 5. cap. 10. Bernar. de Bustis in Mariali parte 3. ser 3 rather euen defended by the Iesuits and those of the principall 3 Againe a famous Fryer well approued amongst them preacht this doctrine in the pulpit amongst many other little better A man may appeale from God himselfe to the Vitgin Mary if any man feele himselfe grieued at the iustice of God seeing God hath deuided his kingdome with her for whereas God hath iustice and mercy he hath reserued iustice to himselfe to bee exercised in this world as it pleased him but mercy hee hath committed to his mother If therefore any man find himselfe agrieued in the court of Gods iustice let him appeale to the court of mercy of his mother This Diuinity was so well relisht in the Romish Church that after hee had preacht it he publisht it vnder the Popes owne Patronage and the booke was Alexan. the 6. againe printed within these three yeeres but what say the Iesuits to it they testifie that this booke is a learned and godly book full of goodnesse and piety Fourthly Horatius Turcellinus himselfe a Iesuit of Horatius Tursellinus in Hist virg lauretanâ— in prâ—fat good esteeme among them writes thus Almighty God hath made the Virgin his mother as far as he may lawfully partaker of his diuine power and Maiesty Now surely if God haue made her fellow with him of his diuine maiesty lesse maruell if Christ haue made her fellow in the worke of redemption And this booke Posseu in lit 11. written by a Iesuit hath publike allowance and is dedicated to Cardinall Aldobrandino Fiftly a great Spanish Doctor and professor of diuinity of his order writes thus We haue often seene and heard of very many who in Iohn Chrysost a visitatione de verbis dominae to 2. lib. 2. cap. 2 their extreame dangers haue called vpon Mary and presently were deliuered for oft times safety is sooner obtained by calling vpon the name of Mary then by calling vpon the name of Iesus Christ the sonne of God And this booke is both dedicated to Pope Clement the Posseu in apperatu sacro lit l. 8. receiues publike allowaÌ„ce by the Iesuits his name is Chrysostome as tho hee were a golden mouthed speaker but if thiâ—â—e his doctrine that her mediation is as powerfull or rather more then is her sonnes it is pitty but he should be call'd and accounted a leaden mouthed wretch By all these many more that as the learned know might easily be produced it may appeare that this blaspheming Iesuit Bonarscius in this his detestable comparison of her milke with Christs bloud saith no more in effect then others both of this Religion and perticular sect and therefore it may be iustly concluded this is the doctrine and diuinity not of him alone but of the Iesuits and of the popish Church it selfe as long as it stands approued or not condemned by them Now then if this be the diuinity of the Romish Church 1 That a Creatures milke may bee mingled with Christs bloud in the matter merit of our saluation 2 That it helps and heales spirituall sores of the soule as well as the bloud 3 That though no man did yet a woman did help Christ in the worke of our saluation 4 That the Psalmes may bee turned from Lord to Lady 5 That a man may appeale from God to the Virgin Mary 6 That God hath deuided his kingdome with her keeping Iustice to himselfe and surrendring Mercy to her 7. That God hath made her pertaker with himselfe of his diuine power and Maiesty 8. That a mans prayers are often heard rather by and through her then Christ Iesus If these I say be the doctrines of the present Church of Rome then let the Christian world be pleased to obserue 1. How far the present Romish Church is degenerate from the ancient 2. How great cause we and all Churches of God haue to seperate from such a sinagogue 3. How iustly they may be pronounced Antichristian who thus hainously disparage the Person and office of the Mediator 4. How vntrue is it that by any suggestion that the present Religion of Rome is much reformed and refined at this day for it is most certaine in the former times these would haue beene condemned as blasphemies euen in the Romish Church it selfe And lastly you of this most honorable City especially you the Lord Maior and your brethren being one most worthy renowned Benches of the world one of the greatest glories of this land may here see what cause there is to hold the true Papists Hereticks considering the present Church holds not only these but many other fundamentall errors both for matter of faith and of gouernment which shewes them not only enemies to all true religion but the subuerters or at least the vnderminers of all ciuill states in the world wherein they were euer suffered And considering that all meanes hath beene vsed to reclaime and reforme her but all is in vaine for she is that Babilon that will not be healed wherefore it is our duty to forsake her leaue her to the iust hand of God Thus shall wee follow the counsell of the Prophet in like case who saith We would haue healed Babilon but she would not be healed let vs forsake her and goe euery man to his owne Country for heâ— Iudgement is come vp to Heauen and lifted vp to the Clouds FINIS