I Do Appoint Thomas Parkhurst Dorman Newman Thomas Cockerill and Thomas Simmons to Print this Book Entituled The POPES WARE-HOUSE or the MERCHANDISE of the WHORE of ROME July 24. 1679. TITUS OATES THE Popes Ware-house OR THE MERCHANDISE OF THE WHORE OF ROME Published for Common Good By TITVS OATES D. D. LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst Dorman Newman Thomas Cockerill and Tho. Simmons 1679. To the Right Honourable ANTHONY EARL of SHAFTSBURY Baron Ashly of Wimbourne St. Gyles Lord Cooper of Pawlet Lord President of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council The Publishers affectionate good Friend and singular good Lord. My Lord THE greatness of Your Lordships favours conferred on me since the first of your Honours acquaintance with my poor self hath obliged me from time to time to consider of some return and upon due consideration I find that it is next to an impossibility for me to perform that to Your Lordship to which the Laws of Duty and Respect oblige me yet My Lord I thought it my Duty although my Returns will appear inconsiderable not to omit any opportunity of making my Just acknowledgments All good men have highly resented Your Lordships Favour to me in this Great Affair And the whole Kingdom judgeth it self engaged to Your Lordship for standing by its Evidence and Cause to the great Confusion of the Romish Beast and those that wonder after it from all which I conclude that it becomes me to make to your good Lordship some Expression of my Gratitude And although My Lord it be in me a great boldness to make this Address to your good Lordship yet for all that since I have Your Lordships Countenance I pray your Favour and your Patronage for this poor Piece In the Publication of which by many Reviews and Remarks I have been at some pains and now My Lord it is upon the Travel Your Lordships Countenance may beget the Countenances of many more Persons of Honour so that I may not to all intents and purposes be discouraged in this War that I have vowed to make against the Whore and Dragon of Rome and all her Votaries as long as I have a day to live and will to the utmost of my power discover her Cheats and Villanies My Lord this Tract is a Catalogue of the Romish Lies and Cheats many of which are to mine own knowledge maintained and practised to this day in the Romish Synagogue to the great Dishonour of God and Contempt of Christian Religion great occasion being given by such inordinate practices to the Enemies both Jews and Turks of Jesus Christ to Blaspheme our Holy Profession so that if Your Lordship shall persevere in this good work of opposing this Devilish Interest of Rome to its ruine you may be an happy Instrument under God to preserve this Kingdom from its Superstition Idolatry and Tyranny And Your Lordship may remember what pains Your Honour hath taken whilst in place to suppress it and the growing Greatness of that French Tyrant for the which Your Lordship hath abundantly drank of the Cup of Afflictions which you may assure your self hath redounded highly to your Honour in this your Countrey Therefore may it please Your Lordship to continue your Care and Zeal for the securing of the Protestant and English Interest to the Honour of God the Safety Welfare and Advantage of our King and His Kingdoms then Your Lordship may assure your self of a lasting Repute in this Life and of Peace at your Death and a joyful Resurrection to the World to come As for Apostates and Traytors though they flatter themselves and for their own Applause suffer Parasites and Hypocrites to do the like yet they are the Objects of good mens Scorn and Contempt and will certainly without true Repentance of which God knows there is but little hope suffer the Vengeance of God upon them and their Posterities in this Life and Eternal Vengeance in the next and though Your Lordship hath not had one Popish Mass said for the preservation either of your Body or your Soul or both yet it is not to be questioned but that Your Lordship will grow as great in the Esteem of your Country and in the Favour of your God and greater than he who for the Safety of his Person hath had above One Hundred Thousand And though Your Lordship I believe never bestowed one Farthing for a small quantity of Romish Reliques I question not but your Name and Fame will endure to the end of the World when his that gave 600 l. to Endow and Adorn an Altar with stores of such stuff shall Perish Yet this fowl Monster goeth for a Protestant and I suppose and verily believe he is permitted so to do by a ' Dispensation from those Dogs whom he hath suffered to devour the Childrens bread My Lord I crave Your Lordships Pardon for this my boldness which I protest is out of the sincerity of my heart to Your Lordship and it is because I do earnestly desire your Honours welfare and in order to this I will not cease my humble Addresses to Heaven in the behalf of Your Lordship and Family and so concluding I humbly take leave to subscribe my self My Lord Your Lordships very humble Servant TITVS OATES To all that profess the Protestant Religion within this Kingdom of England Grace Mercy and Peace Dearly beloved brethren ALthough the Impieties of this Kingdom have caused many Judgments to fall upon it and its Inhabitants yet there hath not been any one like unto that of â—â—e want of the knowledg of God and his Word or if I may presume to use the expression of the Holy Ghost the removing of the Candlestick For although rumours of Wars Pestilence and Civil Commotions be very unpleasant to the sense of Mankind yet as they are punishments which only affect the body and its senses they are the effects many times of Gods Fatherly love to a Kingdom and people and are so received and judged by good â—en But when God dealeth with a people as he dealt with the Seven Churches of Asia and depriveth a Kingdom and people of his Word and Ordinances and delivers it up to strange Diabolical deluders and delusions then nothing can be judged to be the cause of all this but the fierce anger and wrath of God and its effects and consequents to be eternal vengeance and ruin and as the soul exceeds the body and is much to be valued above it and preferred before it in respect of its worth and quality so it is certain and admits of no debate in any consideration whatever That those Judgments which are spiritual and the very Harbingers of an Eternal ruin must needs surmount those which are only corporal and perhaps sent in order to prevent this fiery wrath and indignation of the Most High God Afflictions that are temporal may well be compared to whips but this Judgment of removing the Candlestick deserveth to be compared to a fiery Scorpion Under this dismal burthen
means methods and stratagems shall be by them used and contrived for the rooting out and overthrowing of the established Government of the Protestant Church and Churches seeing their Ministry is by them believed and asserted to be false and intruded III. They say That Protestants have not the preaching of the word of God This they have asserted to render the Reformed Churches vile and contemptible and the Worship of God amongst us and our Brethren in the Gospel of no value by which means many of our Religion have been seduced to follow their fopperies and to worship their trash and to wonder after this foul Dragon of Rome Therefore we may easily conclude That they who thus revile us and our Religion and especially in this material part to wit the Ministry of Gods Word which they have villanously denied us to have and enjoy would soon destroy us and that with their hands could they find opportunity since their impudence hath been such as to revile us and it with their tongues IV. That Protestants want the due Administration of Sacraments If the Ministry of the Protestant Churches be false intruded and usurped this then I confess will undoubtedly follow But in this we may my dear Brethren easily see what Calumnies they lay upon that holy Faith for the profession of which many of our Forefathers lost their dear Lives by these cursed Locusts and this they would continue to this day if they were again Lords over us for if the Religion which we profess upon which most of the good Laws under which we live are founded and established lyes under such notorious Censures then there is no man living that will exercise the reason God hath given him but will judge that these Vipers will endeavour and contrive the Subversion of such Laws and consequently the Government of our Prince will be also attempted and struck at V. That the Protestant Church is not the true Church of God This being Preached many of the more ignorant Protestants have been wounded in their Consciences perverted in their Principles corrupted in their Judgments and are brought to Question and at last to oppose the Jurisdiction of the King in things Ecclesiastical by which dismal change the more excellent part of the Government is by them endeavoured to be made and declared to be null and void And by means of this strange perversion those who before were quiet in their several Stations and subject to Laws are become heady and high-minded Traytors without the least spark of Obedience and Love to their Prince and Countrey to the great damage of our Countrey in which we live VI. That the Protestants are notorious Hereticks Upon which position and principle they establish those wicked and diabolical practises of Fires Rapes Thefts Murders Felonies Treasons to the great confusion of our Countrey and disquiet of professors of Religion Have they not I say burnt the Bodies of our Forefathers because they would not debauch their Souls and Consciences in their Idolatrous Communion and all because they judged them Hereticks Upon which principle they depose Kings and then say it is no Treason to Murther them because they are Hereticks if they do only countenance and not practise their Religion Yet we find them very brisk in the denial of all their wicked Attempts upon this Nation even to their deaths as appears by the Five Speeches of the Five Jesuits Traytors lately Executed for Conspiring the Death of the King and Subversion of the Protestant Religion and Government Who indeed would not deny all those things that were in their circumstances For should they have confessed What would have become of their zealous Votaries the conduct of whose souls they had been entrusted withall who would not have continued this trust in such hands if they had known their inclinations to such Treasons What would become of the Plot which certainly goerh on still against us and our Liberties as fast and as fierce as ever The conscious of whom we have not yet a certain intelligence would much abate in their courage and would not be in that capacity to serve the Interest of the Romish Dragon if that these Martyrs or indeed Malefactors had confessed How those considerable Traytors now in hold would have been damnified should they have confessed I leave to you my Brethren to judg and how the whole Interest of the Romish Synagogue must have sunk and perished to all intents and purposes had they spoken that which their Consciences knew to be true Moreover they had an Oath of Secrecy a branch of which was to enjoin them if discovered to deny the design to the last breath and not only a dispensation but also a command from the Pope to do the same and damnation threatned if they had not denied the fact to the last But that which is above all their cunning way of absolving one another just before the Cart was drawn from under them So that had not these considerations been inducements nor the dispensation of the Pope judged by them to be authentick nor his command safe yet behold a Plaister of Absolution is applied to this disease of theirs which certainly must be owned by them to be very effectual for the cure of a Lye and what if the Hangman had debarred them of this opportunity it would have been cured by a few Twelve-penny Masses and after a little frying in Purgatory they would have had Heaven for their pains and who would not endure a little heating in Purgatory for the advantage of their Mother the Church which lay at stake upon the discovery of their Villany plotted and contrived against our Prince Religion Lives and Liberties And now Brethren let this short reflection suffice from me seeing it is done to all intents and purposes by far better hands and it being not to the purpose here I say no more to that Yet I shall bless the Most High God before whose Judgment-seat I must one day stand That though they have made a pretended denial yet my comfort is I have that within me which teacheth me to laugh the Censorious and Malicious to scorn and it further obligeth me to go on with Courage in my Evidence against these obstinate and lying Cut-throats and I hope the Charity of my Brethrens credit will be sooner extended to their Friends that are living than to those implacable and forsworn Enemies that by the just hand of vengeance are now dead and God knowing that I speak the truth I am sure will justifie me in this management of his own Cause and my Countreys But now Brethren I commend you to God and the Word of his Grace which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified So my Brethren I bid you heartily farewell in the Lord and remain for ever Whitehall July 12. 1679. Your affectionate Brother in the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ TITUS OATES The Monstrous and Abominable CHEATS OF THE Romish-PEDLARS
of the Pope's Canonizing ever deserved more from the Pope than this brave Prince did Of the third principal Church and of the Reliques contained in the same THE third principal Church is at St. Pauls in the which are these Reliques 1. The Arm of St. Ann our Lady's Mother Arm of St. Ann. 2. One of the chains wherewith St. Paul was bound and many other more without number That our Lady's Mothers name was St. Ann is unknown but this I know that all these are inventions of them who are his followers that is the Father of Lyes for the good Saint is returned to her dust long before this Lye was invented But be it so if they have St. Pauls chain I pray the next time they open shop let us see the virtue of the holy Relique Item Half the bodies of Peter and Paul The Popish party are wonderful exact in dividing Saints bodies Under the high Altar is the other half of the bodies of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul Also the body of St. Timothy who was St. Paul's Disciple And infinite number of the Reliques of Saints whose souls are merry and joyful in Heaven But the wonder is where they found the body of St. Timothy But what need that since they have the happy opportunity of having so many bodies at one time of him in several places and certain it is that they may turn any body into the body of St. Timothy when they can turn a piece of bread into the body of God In this Church also is a devout Image of the Cross That the Cross spake which spake to Saint Briget because she prayed so many times and so devoutly before it That a Wooden Cross should speak none but a brazen-fac'd Popish Priest dare affirm I am certain that the best of St. Brigets revelations are very suspicious and never yet is there the least mention of this story I confess in her Lise the Papists take notice of such a passage but never any Church receiv'd it but the Whore of Rome Of the fourth principal Church and of the Reliques contained in the same THE fourth principal Church is at St. Maries the greater in which are these Reliques following 1. Body of St. Mathew and others The body of St. Mathew the Apostle lyeth under the high Altar Also the head of the said St. Mathew resteth in the said Church Item The Body of St. Jerome who is one of the Doctors of holy Church Item The Bodies of St. Ramula and St. Redempta Here is a crowd of Saints pretended by such a crew of Impostors as are not found amongst the heathen In the same Church is 2. A little clout in which Mary the Virgin wrapped her Son Christ when he lay in the Manger at Bethlem being newly born O horrid and great lye that a little clout should last such a great while as 1600 years and be brought from Bethlem to Rome which is I believe nigh 2000 miles 3. St. Jerome's Stole St. Jerom's stole The arm of St. Mathew the Apostle and Evangelist The arm of St. Luke the Evangelist The arm of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury The hand and arm of St. Vibian Virgin and Martyr Certainly these Saints had wonderful effects shewn upon their bodies after they were dead for eight of St. Mathews arms are to be seen in Flanders Spain and France I have seen three of St. Lukes but of Beckets there is no end 4. Manger The Popish Shavelings tell us the virtue of this Manger and how many of them ye have The Manger wherein Christ lay at Bethlem when the shepherds came unto him That a Wooden Manger should be brought from Bethlem to Rome which is nigh 2000 miles and last to be seen there 1600 years after Christs birth can be credited by none but them that love to make lyes whose doom you may read Rev. 21.27 cap. 21.15 Besides these there are many other Reliques both of he-Saints and she-Saints whose souls rejoyce in heaven and these Reliques are shewed to the people upon Easter-day about Even-song time That so holy a time should be prophaned by such shows sheweth the unholiness of Popish Priests Of the Fifth Principal Church and of the Reliques comained in the same THE Fifth Principal Church is at St. Laurences without the Walls The Stone on which Laurence laid in which besides other is this Relique viz. the Stone upon which blessed Laurence was laid after that he was roasted and dead I think it would almost make a Stone bleed to hear of the horrid forgery of the Church of Rome This Stone hath an excellent faculty at casting out Devils as Father Anderton wrote when he sent a piece of it to St. Omers in a Letter dated March 10 1678. And the Dog at St. Omers being not well this piecee of Stone was hanged about his neck in a Bag to cure him of madness what effects it wrought I cannot tell but this Stone and a good breakfast filled the Curs Belly Of the Sixth Principal Church and of the Reliques contained in the same THE Sixth Principal Church is at St. Fabian and St. Sebastian in the which besides other innumerable are these Reliques that is to say the body of blessed Sebastian the Martyr The body of Fabian Pope and Martyr The body of blessed Stephen Pope and Martyr The body of St. Lucy the Virgin c. It 's a grievous thing that the bodies of the good Saints may not rest in their Graves but must be dragged out to be made a Market on by a company of covetous Paplings But it is Money that makes the Mare to go And if we consider the vast treasures that the Clergy of the Church of Rome have acquired we shall not need much to wonder But I hope that the Princes of Christendom will be wiser than to believe them for time to come Of the seventh principal Church and of the Reliques contained in the same THE seventh principal Church is of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem in which are these Reliques following 1. Two Cups of which one is full of the blood of Christ Blood of Christ Milk of Mary and the other is full of the Milk of the blessed Virgin Mary She gives a jolly deal of that we had a Glass full before and now we have got a Cup full But I pray how came they by a Cup full of Christs blood Sure the Jews saved it not and the Disciples were all fled Mat. 26.56 And that this Milk and Blood should not be dryed up all this time looks like one of their lying wonders 2. The Sponge which being full of Vinegar and Gall the Jews reached unto Christ hanging on the Cross a little before his death This is like the rest as if the Jews had reserved that Spunge it is a wonder they do not lye and say they have the Reed also 3. A good large piece of the Holy-Cross Some-time they have the whole Cross as in