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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

ERasmus testified that for above Four hundred years after C●●●● the Bishops did not seek the help of the Emperors again●● 〈◊〉 Hereticks and when they did seek it against the insufferable wickedness of the Donatists it did not please the good people that they should then seek the help of the Civil Powers for they then judged that it became not the Bishops to use any other Weapons or to have any other help then the Sword of the Spirit the Word of God although the evil was incurable yet would they have excluded it by Excommunication which is said to be the greatest Judgment or Punishment that then the Church had The Histories also sheweth how that some of the Clergy have said That the Princes ought to kiss the Son and to use their power for to preserve and defend Religion against all their Enemies though their Lands should therefore be spoiled In the year 553 Pelagius Bishop of Rome instituted first of all That Hereticks and Apostates should be forced by external compulsion And Clement the fifr made Laws that Hereticks should be burned Gerandus Naviomagns sheweth how that the Laws for putting Hereticks to death came not by the free-will of the Emperors but through the earnest importuning of blood-thirsty Bishops whose constant recourse was a burden to the Emperors so that finally they obtained what they desired but when the Clergy could not preva●l with one Emperor they excluded him out of Italy and excommunicated him and brought him in suspension and freed the Subjects from the Oath and stirred them up against the Power And thus have the Clergy handled when they could not have their wills And it might be plentifully manifested how that it hath been blood-thirsty Bishops with others of the Clergy that have provoked Kings and Potentates of the Earth to cruelty and who have counselled them to make bloody Laws like the Bishop Nestorius who in his Sermon spake unto the Emperor and said Oh Emperor give me a Land cleansed of Herticks and I will give thee Heaven help me against ●he Hereticks and I will help thee O subdue the Persians thy Enemies In the years 1538 and 1546 In like manner the Inquisitors and Clergy stirred up the Emperor the Kings of Spain and France to terrible persecution laying it upon their consciences to quit themselves severely against Hereticks if they would escape the Lords rep●o●● In the year 1545 Pope Paul the third counselled and entreated the Emperor Charles and King Ferdinandus to compel the Protestants to forsake their error CHAP. XXIV How since the Apostacy from the Truth the Pope Kings and Rulers makes Ministers and none must preach except they have a Licence from them IN the days of King Henry the Fourth it was agreed upon by the King and the Bishops with other Lords that no man within this Realm or other of the Kings Majesties Dominions presume to take upon him to preach privily or otherwise without special Licence of the Ordinary of the same place Statute Ex Officio R●g Hen. 4. And in the dayes of the same King Henry the Fourth Constitutions were made by Tho Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and others That no person being authorized to preach shall take upon him to preach in English to the Clergy and Laity except he first present himself and be examined of the Ordinary of the place For first the King he nominated who should be Bishop of such a Diocess and then being presented to the Pope he was to approve of him and being approved he was consecrated by the Arch-Bishop in England But when King Henry the Eighth cast off the Pope then it was enacted by King and Parliament that no Bishop should be commended to the Pope but that the King should both nominate them and approve of them to be sufficient Ministers In the year 1547 in Edward the Sixth's time Injunctions were set forth That none should preach except sufficiently Licensed In the Reign of King James Injunctions were made That none should preach except they were lawfully Licensed thereunto by the King or the Bishop Fox Acts and Mon. Vol 2. And likewise in the dayes of Queen Mary none was to preach but such as should be licensed or allowed by her Authority or by the Arch Bishop c. or by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg● Anno 1. Mary 1 Pat C. 1. In the year 1559 Injunctions were likewise made in the first year of Queen Elizabeth that none should appear to preach not be admitted thereto but such as should be Licensed thereto by the Queen or the Arch Bishops or Bishops And thus she followed the Papists who were the first that set up this O●der In the year 1644 the Parliament made an Ordinance to give power to the Presbyter-Assembly of Divines for the Ordination of Ministers according to the Directory for Ordination and they gave the Ass●mbly of Divines Rules for Examination of them they ordained He that was to be ordained was to bring a testimony that he had sworn and taken the Covenant of the three Kingdoms and how long he had been in the University and what Degrees he had taken and whether he was twenty f●ur years old c. Note This was up●olding Popery still notwithstanding there was a pretence of Reformation And an Ordinance was made by Oliver Cromwel and his Council for Approbation of publick Preachers and for this end Commisioners were appointed and were authorized to judg of the Ability and Fitness of any man before he was admitted to any publick place to preach O. C. 1653 Can. 39. and Can. 57. CHAP. XXV Concerning the Priests turning as the Rulers turned to every Power that came up rather then they would lose their Benefices and how they petitioned several Parliaments and Rulers That they might have their Tythes paid them and that they would suppress the People called QVAKERS IN the year 1531 Pope Julius being angry with the King of France sent King Henry the Eighth the Cap of Maintenance and the Sword and gave him the title of Christianssimo that is The most Christian King And because King Henry wrote a Book against Luther the Pope ●ave him the title of Defender of the Faith In the year 1531 being the twenty second year of Henry the Eighth Tyndal did translate the New-Testament into English for reading of which many were sharply punished and the reading of it was forbidden by the Chancellor of England and the Papist-Bishops then in power caused all the Books to be brought into Pauls-yeard and there to be burned and the said Tyndal was shortly after burned beyond Sea for translating the same In the same year one Camphjus being sent Legate from the Pope in to England was at first in great request with King Henry the Eighth and had many honours conferred on him and great Benefices but the King taking dislike of the Popes proceedings with him concerning a Divorce the said Legate brought from the Pope to Divorce the King from his Wife who was the

Relict of his Brother made an Act that no more Annal should be paid for Bulls or Pardons to the Pope nor no Appeals be made to him but that all should appeal to the King for pardon Ab●ut this time the whole Clergy of Engla●d was charged by the Kings Council to be in a Praemunire for supporting and maintaining the Popes power and were called to answer in the Kings Bench but before their day of appearance came they in their Convocation concluded an Humble Submission in Writing and offered the King One hundred thousand pounds to pardon them which after some labour the King promised them pardon in which Submission the Clergy called the King Supream Head of the Church Bakers Chron. This Pardon was signed by the Kings hand Mark The King turning and denying the Popes Supremacy the Priests turn and deny their old Head of the Church called Peter's Successor And in the year 1535 the Popes Authority in England was abolished by Parliament and about two years after an Act was made which gave the King all Religious Houses and all their Lands and Goods And then an Oath was ministred to the Clergy which they took That they should renounce the Popes Authority and swear to be true and faithful to the King his Heirs and Successors of life and limb and to live and dye with him against all people and to acknowledg their holding their Bishopricks of the King only beseeching him to make restitution of the temporalities of the said Bishoprick So God me help and aell Saints said they About this time the Bible was first permitted to be read in English and Injunctions were set forth by the Lord Cromwel That the Creed Lords Prayer ten Commandments and Articles of the Christian Faith should be read in English which caused twenty thousand people to rise in arms in Lincolnshire being headed by a Monk and others and they were scarcely appeased but there arose forty thousand in the North where on one side of th●ir Ensigns they had Christ hanging on the Cross and on the other side the Cup and Bread of the Sacrament but they were suppressed In September 1537 by the special motion of the aforesaid Cromw●l all the Images unto which were made any special Pilgrimages and Offerings were taken down and burnt and forthwith by the means of the said Cromwell all the Orders of Fryars and Nunns with their Cloisters and Houses were suppressed and put down After all this and notwithstanding this Reformation Popery had so much power in the hearts both of King and people that one Nicholson alias Lambert being accused for denying the presence in the Sacrament he appealed to the King and the King heard him openly but all would not do neither would the King pardon him and shortly after he was drawn to Smithfi●ld and there burnt and this was done about the thirteenth year of his Reign And in the thirty seventh year of his Reign the Parliament gave him all the Colledges and Chantries And one John Smith was burnt in Smithfield and one Andrew Howet a Taylor for denying the Real presence in the Sacrament And further in the thirteenth year of his Reign was set forth by the Bishops the Book of the six Articles condemning all for Hereticks and to be burnt that should hold 1. That the Body of Christ was not really present in the Sacrament after Consecration 2. That the Sacrament might not truly be administred under one kind 3. That priests entred into holy Orders might ma●ry 4. That vows of Ch●stity entred into upon mature deliberation were not to be kept 5. That private Masses were not to be used 6. That Auricular Confession was not necessary in the Church These Articles and the Penalty annexed to them were called a whip with six strings which penalty was they were to be burned to death and forfeit their Estates real and personal to the King After King Henry the Eighth succeeded Edward the Sixth Son to King Henry the Eighth in whose time new injunctions were set forth for pulling down and removing all Images out of Churches also Homilies wee appointed to be read for peoples instruction and that the Sacrament should be ministred to lay-people in both kinds Also Marriage was allowed to the Clergy Auricular Confession was forbidden and prayer for the dead and in his fifth year the Book of Common prayer was established After King Edward succeeded Queen Mary about whose coming to the Crown there was some combustion to whom first the Suffolk men resorted who being always forward in promoting the proceedings of the Gospel and promised her their aid and to help her so that she would not attempt the alteration of the Religion which her brother King Edward had before established To make the matter short unto this condition she agreed and made promise to them that no alteration should be of Religion being a Papist and setting Popery up the people and priests generally turned that way and all Bishops that had been deprived in the time of Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks and all Beneficed men that were married and would not forsake their opinion and turn were turned out of their Livings and in her time the Mass was again sung in Latin and the Popes authority was by Act of Parliament restored in England and the Mass commanded in all Churches to be used In her second year the Realm was absolved and reconciled to the Church of Rome by Cardinal Pool and the first Fruits and tenths were restored to the Clergy but this was soon revoked the Council finding the necessity of it for the Queens support In her fourth year Monastaries were begun to be re-edified the number of those that dyed for Religion in her time which was but six years was two hundred fourscore and thirteen men and women Now see the Oath which the Clergy took to the Pope They swore to be true to Saint Peter the holy Church of Rome and to the Pope the holy Father and to defend it against all men and to acknowledg the Rules of the holy Fathers Decrees which to my power say they I shall keep and cause to be kept and all Here●icks and Schismaticks to our Holy Father I will persecute to my power So help me God and the holy Evangelists In the year 1559 Queen Mary being dead Queen Elizabeth began to reign and she with the advice of the Parliament soon made an Act for Uniformity of prayer and administration of the S●craments And the title of Supream Head of the Church was confirmed to Queen Elizab●th by the Parliament and they gave first fruits and tenths to her The Supremacy thus confirmed to the Queen the Oath was tendred to the Bishops and others who had been Papists in Queen Maries dayes and as many as refused to take it were deprived of their Livings and of the number of above Nine thousand Priests Bishops Deans Prebends Masters of Colledges Arch-Deacons Abbots who had then been in place in Queen Maries