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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B22568	The pope shut out of heaven gates, or, A dialogue between Pope Julius the 2d, his Genius, and Saint Peter wherein is most elegantly, learnedly, and wittily set forth how Pope Julius (after death) imperiously knocking at heaven gates, is absolutely denied entrance by Saint Peter, so that though having been alwayes stil'd His Holiness, and made famous by his warlike actions, whereby he hoped to become Lord of heaven, he is notwithstanding delivered over as a slave to Satan, and hurried away to the Devil's mansion / exactly from the original of the famous and learned Erasmus Roterodamus.	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.	1673 (1673)	Wing E3208B	31,750	50

Holy Scriptures it being apparent several Learned Men were set apart for that end whilst in the mean time they added fastings prayers and an admirable frugality of life that they might the better urge me with an opinion of their holiness St. Pet. On the other hand under what pretence didst thou summon a Council Jul. Under a much more splendid one I pretended that it was my desire first to Reform the Head of the Church that is my self then Kings and Princes and lastly the whole body of the People St. Pet. 'T is a fine Comedy this but I expect the issue pray let me hear what those Divines decreed in that Satanical Cabal Jul. Such unworthy and abominable things as my Soul detests the very memory of St. Pet. Were they so horrible wicked Jul. Altogether impious sacrilegious and worse then heretical which unless I had trampled on with hands and feet and opposed both with art and arms gone had been the glory and dignity of the Roman Church St. Pet. This makes me more desirous to know what those things were Jul. Oh! I abhor the relation of them These wretches attempted to reduce the Church now flourishing with so much riches and dominion to its old rags and miserable frugality That Cardinals who now with noise and splendor exceeded some Tyrants in their manner of living should be confined to a life of Poverty That Bishops would live after a more moderate rate with smaller trains equipage and horses They decreed That Cardinals should not in all places swallow up whole Bishopricks Abbies and Benefices and that none should have more then one Bishoprick and that those who right or wrong as they said heaped up to themselves if they could six hundred Benefices they thought fit should be compelled to be content with such allowance as was fit for a frugal Priest That none should be created Pope or Bishop or Priest by bribery or simony or through favour or base compliance but only for the merits and example of his life and that if it were found otherwise he should thence be removed That it should be lawful to degrade the Pope for open wickedness And that Bishops either Whoremasters or Drunkards should be deprived And Priests openly scandalous not only removed from the Priesthood but punished with mutilation of members With many other things of that kind for it troubles me to think of all which did wholly tend to this to load and burthen us with a demure Sanctity and rob and spoil us of riches and Empire St. Pet. Therefore what did you decree against these things in your most holy Roman Council Jul. you seem to have forgot what I told you That I had no other design in that Council but to drive out a nail with a nail The first Meeting was spent in certain solemn Ceremonies which for Authority sake we think fit yet to observe though not at all pertinent to the matter where two Sanctions were used one of the holy Gross and the other of the holy Spirit as if by his guidance all things were there to be done and then was recited an Oration full of my praises In the next Sessions with all the force I had I flung out my thunderbolts against those schismatical Cardinals pronouncing whatsoever they had or whatsoever they were about to decree more then impious more then sacrilegious and worse then heretical St. Pet. So that if by chance repenting they had declared you a good and excellent Pope that had been most impious and heretical Jul. Altogether as founded on no reason nor Authority Gen. Nothing truer Jul. For what did it concern them to decree what kind of Person the Pope of Rome should be But to proceed at the third Sessions with the like fulminations I terrified France removing the Marts from Lyons and some other places by name excepted thereby the more to alicnate the Subjects minds from the King and stir up sedition among them And that done that it might bear more Authority I sent authentick Bulls thereof to all Princes especially to those whom I perceived most inclined to our Faction St. Pet. And was this all was done Jul. All was done I desired I overcame since only my Decrees prevailed Those three Cardinals that persisted in their attempts with publick Ceremonies I deprived of their Cardinal dignity and conferr'd their Church-livings upon others so that they could hardly be restored delivering them over to Satan whom I would have rather delivered to the flames here could I have got them into my clutches St. Pet. And yet if thou tellest truth the Decrees of that schismatical Cabal seem to have much more Sanctity in them then those of thy most holy Council from whence as I can perceive nothing issued but tyrannical threats curses and cruelty mix'd with craft If Satan were the Author of that Cabal His Spirit seems nearer to approach Christ's then that strange one moderated in your Council Jul. I tell you again and again Have a care what you say for in all my Bulls I have cursed all those who shall but speak any thing in favour of that Cabal St. Pet. Wretch how thou yet breath'st forth the old Julius But what was the issue of this business Jul. I left it in the state you hear how it will come off Fortune must decide St. Pet. Then the Schism yet continues Jul. It continues and very dangerously St. Pet. And thou though Christ's Vicar had'st rather have a Schism then a true Council Jul. I had rather have three hundred Schisms then I be compelled in my Authority or forced to give an account of my whole life St. Pet. Thou art so conscious of thy self Jul. What 's that to thee St. Pet. I understand you It was not expedient to remove that Conclave but did you get the victory Jul. That 's in Fortunes hand Though we have the more Money for the French are Exhausted by continual Wars The English have yet Mountains of Gold untouch'd This I can undoubtedly Prophecy Should the French overcome which I abhor thinking of the very names of things would be changed and that most Holy Council be called Satan's Cabal I no Pope but the shadow of one and they be said onely to have acted by the Holy Spirit and we done all things by the Spirit of the Devil But I have great confidence that the Moneys I have left will prevent such disasters St. Pet. But what had you to say against the French and their King him whom your Predecessors graced with the Title of most Christian especially since under their protection you both confess to have lived and been raised to that more then Imperial Crown and lastly to have by their Aid gained Bononia and other Cities and overcome the Venetians till then unconquered How could so many fresh kindnesses be blotted out of your memory How so many Leagues dash'd in pieces Jul. That 's too long a story to explain but that I may do something briefly Nothing was innovated

of Grammar However this was not subscribed Ex Cathedra which I am heartily griev'd at for then none of any Order State or Dignity whatsoever though Kingly durst in any way correct or contradict it without being conscious to himself of incurring the indignation of Omnipotent God St. Pet. You advisedly omitted the indignation likewise of the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul which use to be brandished in those forms of writing for those more then brutish Thunder-bolts which for your Lust and beastly impulse of Spirit you used to cast abroad were never taught you by us But pray that we may return to the matter what place didst thou fancy Heaven to be Or how do'st imagine to pass thy time there if thou couldest which is impossible reach the Heavenly Quire Jul. Do'st ask concerning the place I thought Heaven as every place above is pervious to the Pope of Rome and I would not have thee be sollicitous about my passing my time there I never certainly lost more time then now talking with you but pray what are the cause of your doubts St. Pet. Very material ones for here at least thou wilt langnish in another Element not finding one of those things to do in which thou wert conversant on Earth Jul. How so I pray St. Pet. Do'st thou yet ask Here with the Spirtis of the Just made perfect not Saints of thy Kalendar a pure conversation is to be entred into here a holy commerce is held with the blessed Angels above all that ineffable Society with God and his Christ is to be sought after Here those that are purged from all Earthly pleastures come to the enjoyment of true joyes but those joyes here prepared and they are the most exquisite imaginable are fitted and accommodated to those which are endued with true Sanctity not at all for those any way tainted with wickedness though they may have born the empty Titles of Holiness Nay should they be granted to others that is to wicked wretches like to thee their Souls not being capable of entertaining spiritual gladness even those Heavenly joyes would be turned into worse then hellish torments when we perceive a similitude of love and delight and experience the very bottom of their contraries hate and anguish In this place are no Common-wealths to be overthrown no Kings and Princes to be trampled under feet no Hosts of Enemies to be destroyed no splendid Triumphs to be deck'd with spoils no faithful Confessors of Christ the dear Children of God under pretence of Heresie to be persecuted with stripes torments and death no Throne is here erected for the Pope of Rome to sit on nor no Purple Cardinals on all sides to encompass him no Canonists who made and worshipped thee as their Lord God in Heaven though thou wert a Devil incarnate and required others to give thee no less then Divine Worship no Papal Exchequers whither the ill-got Riches of the Church miserably flow no Stage-Playes no Theaters no Pompous Spectacles no Gluttony nor Drunkenness no Harlotry Sodomy nor Rioting no actor nor no procurer of Lust Finally none of these obscene pleasures in which thou like a Swine which art nothing but mire dirt didst wallow and in which thou knowst most of those who would call themselves Bishops of the Catholick Church are besmeared Gen. If it be so in my mind its best be gone quickly for thou knowst thou do'st not delight in those other things which thou hast not been accustomed to St. Pet. Peace Genius 't is not yet your turn to speak Gen. by and by it will St. Pet. But did not the Holy Scriptures foretel thee all this Jul. What Holy Scriptures do you talk of St. Pet. The Canonical Jul. I suppose you mean the Decrees and Decretals St. Pet. Away Trifler that written one dictated by the Holy Spirit Jul. O! that they call the Bible for I never knew the face of it certainly out of hate to me you will by and by turn Heretick for so the leonists love to talk and so now adays do all who are no good Catholicks I could never endure those Bible-readers as prejudicial both to the advantage which I wonder Peter should be ignorant of and Dignity of the Episcopal See but how long will you suffer me here to catch cold in my toes which even Kings have kissed St. Pet. Do you grow cold be gone then not to your Fictitious Kingdoms and painted Fires of Purgatory whence by I kno● not what fulness of feigned Power thou cheatedst other into a belief of fre●ing them and art now thy self deceived with vain hopes but to the true and Eternal Fire prepared for thee by the Devil and his Angels there thou wilt be warm enough Gen. 'T is decreed thou seest why do we lose any more time for my great Emperour the Prince of Darkness beckens me with his staff Now 't is my turn both to speak and do Jul. Wicked Treacherous Genins whither do you betray Julius Might I but return to Rome nay only to the Porphyr Seat how would I damn thee with Curses in despight of Peter under the Fisherman's Ring I would dictum factum stir up all Catholick Princes against thee Gen. 'T is well in this mad-humour you han't your Sword this is the first time 't was ever wanting Jul. Julius is assaulted Pope Julius the Second a hundred thousand years of Plenary Apostolick Indulgence to all and singular that Gen. Go wretch now you rave promising to deliver others from the feigned tortures of Purgatory for your own Redemption but d' ee see that black Crew coming hither Jul. Devils without doubt Help help Oh help Gen. Here Devils here take your own Pope Julius the Second To Julius Do'st see Great Julius Heav'n to thee deny'd Whilst Tiburs waves thy slighted Keys do's bide How would those Keys now more then Swords avail And a poor Fisher's Cloak then Coats of Maile FINIS