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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

them that believe and that unto all such as receive thee thou mayest be health of soul and body and that from out of the place thou shalt be sprinkled may flye away all Fancy Wickedness and Craftiness of the Devils subtilty and every foul spirit The Papists Conjurations of Water I conjure thee thou Creature of Water in the Name of Cross God the Father Almighty and in the Name of Cross Jesus Christ his Son our Lord and in the Vertue of Cross the Holy Ghost that thou become a Conjured Water to expel the power of the Enemy Here the Pope is smothered with his own smoak Pope Leo the thrid Pope John the seventh Pope Adrian the first with others made Decrees for establishing of Images Leo the third Emperor of Greece decreed that Images should be taken out of the Churches and burnt openly at Constantinople The said Emperor threw out of the Temple all the Images and burnt them in the open Market This was contrary to the Pope Pope Eugenius decreed that Children which were to be Christned should have a God-father and a God-mother A Council held at Rotomage decreed that their Sacrament the Priests should put it into the Lay-peoples mouths and that they should not touch it with their hands contrary to the use and practice of the primitive Christians many hundred years after Christ Lib. Concil Bec. fol. 329. In Pope Urban the First 's time was the Order of the Nunnes of Saint Briget invented by Brigeta and that the Nunnes should be closed above in a Closet and the men beneath Pop● Nicholas the first ordained that no temporal man whether King or Emperor● should have ought to do with those things that appertain to the Priest In the time of Pope Alexander the third there was one Vict●r a Pope so Alexander got his Popedom by money and force of Ships and Arms in the year One thousand one hundred sixty one And this Pope compelled Lewis King of France and Henry King of England to be his Lacquies and to run on foot by him holding his horse bridle one of the right hand and the other of the left leading him thorough the street in his pomp This is like the Glory of the world this is not like Peter In the year 757 Stephen the third he was the first Pope that was carried on mens shoulders Where was Christ or Peter so carried Pol. vit Pant. In the year 1075 the Emperor deposes the Pope and the Pope excommunicates the Emperor and ill requites the Emperor for his love who gave him power to be chosen Pope without his Election Pope Gregory the ninth ordained that the Sacring-Bell should be rung when the Priest lifteth up the Mystal-Bread and Chalice above his head to move the people to behold that new-found god which they worshipped in knocking kneeling and lifting up of hands to a piece of Bread Crates Malleotes a Heathen he brought the study of Gramar into Rome in the year of the World Three thousand seven hundred eighty nine Pope Boniface the seventh procured a company of men to take his part by whose means he took Pope John the fifteenth and put out his eyes and then threw him into prison Boniface dyed not many days after who after his death was drawn by the feet through the streets of Rome in the year Nine hundred seventy-six Pope Stephen the sixth so envied the Name of his predecessor For●●osus that he abrogated and dissolved his Decrees and taking up his body after it was buried he cut two of his fingers off his right hand and commanded them to be cast into the River Tyber Pope Sergius caused the body of Formosus where it was buryed to be taken up and afterwards sitting in the Papal See first degraded him then commanded his head to be smitten off with the other three fingers that were left as Sigeberius writeth which done he caused his body to be thrown into Tyber deposing all such as by the said Pormosus before had been consecrated and invested By this Murderer Pope Ser●ius first came up the use to bear about Candles on Candlemas-day for the purifying of the Virgin Mary Anno 684. Durand G. Achil. Becon fol. 351. It is recorded of Pope Hidlebrand tha● he enquired of the Sacrament a Divine answer against the Emperor and because it did not speak he threw it in the fire and burned it Sure the Papists will allow this Pope erred After the death of Pope Clement the fifth the Romish See stood vacant two years and three months Book of Mart. vol. 1 p. 487. Pope Gregory the third was the first that brought into the Masse the Canon or clause for Reliques also he brought into the Memorial the Offering and Sacrifice for the dead Pope Zachary brought in the Priests Vestures and Ornaments Constantius was the first that gave his feet to be kissed of the Emperors about the year Seven hundred Book of Mart. Volume 1. p. 176. Henricu the Emperor with his Wife and Child bare-footed and bare-legged waited on Pope Hidlebrand three days and three nights at the Gates of Conusium before he could be suffered to come in Pope Sylvester the second was accounted a great Sorcerer Pope Alexander the second was forced into a Chamber by Soldiers and there beaten by Pope Hidlebrand This is contrary to the Apostle who said A Bishop must be no striker King Ines ordained in England before the Conquest that Infants should be baptized within thirty days Pope Vrban the second amongst many other Enormities concluded that no Priests son should be capable of Orders And yet Priests must not marry Pag of Popes fol. 87. Bishop Bonner said If an Image be made a god it is no Idol Thus you may see the Papists are contrary to the Scriptures and God who forbiddeth to make Images of him or the likeness of any thing in He●●●● bo●● 〈◊〉 Earth be●●ath Fox Vol. 3. p. 262. CHAP. VII Concerning Hereticks Judas Iscariot was the first Apostate that fell from the truth who sold his Master to the covetous Priests for thirty pieces of silver and slew his Father married his Mother and in the end hanged himself Read Euseb Chr●n In the year 163 Demas which Paul spake of forsook the truth and became an Idol-priest at Thessalonica Pilate that gave sentence upon Christ afterward slew himself M●rcellina the Heretick worshipped and offered Incense unto the Images of Jesus and Paul c. In the year 81 Cerinthus the Heretick dreamed that the Kingdom of Christ should become Earthly and that Christ should reign on the Earth a thousand years Montanus the Heretick forbad Marriage and commanded abstinence from certain meats as unlawful In the year 287 Marcell●nas the Heretick Bishop of Rome denied Christ and offered sacrifice unto Idols for which he was condemned by a Council of three hundred Bishops called together at Sin 〈◊〉 Whereby it appears the Bishop of Rome erred and was fallible In the year 340 Eustathius the Heretick forbad Marriage 〈◊〉 Laws

And as these called Christians have sollowed the Heathens Examples in naming their Days so they followed them in naming their Months for the Heathen they called Mars the God of Battel and from thence they calleed the first Month March. And Venus they called the Goddess of Love and Beauty and from thence they called they called the second Month April And Maja a Heathen Goddess called Flora Flora and Cloris were called the Goddesses of Flowers unto Maja the Heathen Idolaters use to sacrifice from thence was the third Month called May. And upon the first day of the same Month they used to keep Floralia Feasts to the two Goddesses of Flowers viz. Flora and Cloris and Flora was a Strumpet in Rome that used on the first day of that Month to set up a May-pole before her door to entice her Lovers From whence came May-poles and May-day to be since observed by these called Christians And Juno whom the Heathen called the Goddess of Kingdoms and Wealth from this Juno the fourth Month was called June And Julius Caesar a Roman Emperor in honour to him was the fifth Month called July And in honour to Augustus Caesar an Emperor was the sixth Month called August And four of the other Months are called after the Latin Names as September for the seventh Month October for the eighth November for the ninth December for the tenth And one J●nus a King of Italy was for his wisdom pictured with two faces whom they honoured as God and from this Name J●●●● was the eleventh Month called January And Saturnus Pluto Februs were called the Gods of Hell wh●● the Heathen said had the Rule of evil Spirits there and from 〈◊〉 Februs was the the twelfth Month called February And by all there Idolatrous Names do these called Christians call their D●ys to this any which is contrary to the Scriptures the Prophets and the Apostles The Saxons also had a Goddess whom they sacrificed to m●●●● Month of April called E●ster Hence they called April E●●●● Month and hence in process of time came Easter Page 135. Ca●●● 〈◊〉 Brit. CHAP. XIX Concerning Burying-places IN the year 1198 Gaudentius de Mor See Justin Part 1. Ch. 26. proves that they did of old bury privately their dead in their Grounds which custom was taken away by Pope Innocent the third who decreed that none should be buryed in unconsecrated places and then after people began to desire to be buryed within the Church out of a Superstitious respect to the Saint whose Name that Church did bear and because their Kindred and Relations did pray for them there besides they hoped to be benefited by the merits of the Martyrs And it may be read in Austin de cura pro Mortuis chap. 5. That the believing Mother did desire that the body of her believing Son might be buryed in the Church of the Martyrs for so much as she did believe that his soul did reap benefit through the Merits of the said Martyrs And about this time the Clergy began to appropriate to themselves the prerogative of taking money to let people be buryed in Churches and is at this day used in England It was one of the Articles of the W●ldenses That the use of Church-yards is supersluous and invented only for lucres sake and that it was no matter in what ground any one was laid or buryed Bish Vsher de Succes Eccles Chr. c. 6. CHAP. XX. Concerning Ministers VVHen Christ bid them go into all Nations he bid them wait at Jerusalem until they were endued with power from on high and they was not to go to be seven years at Colledges as they are now like an Apprentice but some of them were Tradesmen as Moses was a keeper of Sheep and Jacob was a keeper of Sheep and David was a keeper of Sheep and Elisha a Plough-man and Amos a Herdsman and Peter and John Fisher-men and unlearned men and Paul a Tent-maker And the Teachers of the Waldenses were said to be Weavers and Coblers of which when they were told of it they replied they were not ashamed of their Priests because they laboured with their hands according to the Example of the Apostles CHAP. XXI Concerning Marriage with the King IT was the Romans that first brought up marrying with a Ring it being their practice and custom that the man should give in token of good-will a Ring unto the woman Alex. Gen. Lib. 2. Antique Romani p. 72. And before they would bsgin the Ceremonies of their Contract the man procured a Southsayer and the woman another to cast their Fortune and the token or sign that these Southsayers accounted most fortunate was a Crow And this practice of ma●rying with a Ring do these called Christians retain to this day amongst many other of the Heathen Idolatrous practices And this practice is contrary to the practice of the holy men of God in the Scriptures for Boaz took Ruth to Wife before the Elder of the people and said Ye are witnesses this day that I take Ruth to Wife and the people said We are witnesses this day and the Lord m●ke the woman in thy house like the house of Rachel c. and tha● thou mayest do worthily in Ephr●ta and be famous in Bethlem And of the stock of Boaz came Christ Ruth 4. And Isaiah was to take Witnesses and write in a R●ll when he went to the Prophetess So here you may see was no Southsayers nor Rings used CHAP. XXII Concerning Churches and Vniversities so called AND the Names that the Papists gave the Steeplehouses are still used by Protestants they called their Churches Cathedral Churches and Kings Chappel and Queens Chappel And Pope Faelix the third he decreed that Churches should be dedicated to the Saints and so they came to be called one Christs Church and another they called Saint Peters Church and another Saint Pauls Church and another they called Saint Jame's Church and another Saint George's Church and Saint Bennets Church c. And them called Protestants calls them so still And the Protestants still call the Colledges by the same Names the Papists gave them who first set them up The Papists called them Christ Church Colledg Emanuel Colledg Trinity Colledg Corpus Christi Colledg that is the Body of Christ Colledg Jesus Colledg Brazen nose Colledg Magdalen Colledg All-Souls Colledg Saint Johns Colledg The two Universities as they are called were founded by Popish Saxon Kings and other Kings Bishops and other men and women Tindal who was a Martyr said concerning Universities that whosoever ordained Universities be it Alexander at Halis Saint Thomas or any other he was a Starr that fell from Heaven to Earth for there are brought in said he moral virtues for Faith and Opinions for Truth and said they were a confused Cloud Tindal in his Book of the Revelation of Antichrist CHAP. XXIII How the Bishops and Clergy heretofore have been the cause of cruel Laws against those that differed from them whom they called Hereticks

Whether the Priests do go decently in their Apparel and have their Crowns and Beards shaven 3. Whether they do keep the Names of their God fathers and God mothers 4. Whether they refrain to come to Church to hear Divine Service on Sundays and Holy-days 5. Whether the Church be adorned and garnished with Ornaments and whether they have a Rood in it with Mary and John and an Image of the pattern of the same Church 6. Whether they do not keep Fasting in Ember-dayes 7. Whether the Sacrament be carried with a Candle to the sick with a little Bell. 8. Whether any Candle and Lamp do burn before the Sacrament 9. Whether Infants and Children are brought to be Bishopt 10. Whether any do labour on Holy-dayes 11. Whether any do contemn the authority of the Pope and See of Rome All these are coutrary to Scriptures Articles objected against Doctor Ferrer Bishop of St. Davids 1. That he ploughed a Pasture of ten dayes Work in Lent 1549. 2. That he had thirty two Ploughs in one day and the priest bid it in the Church Here followeth some of the Church-Wardens Accounts of Waltham-Abbey in Queen Maryes time Taken out of Fox's Acts and Monuments p. 1474. Imprimis For a stock of Brass for the Holy Water 7. s. Item For a Cloth for the Sacrament 7 s. 8 d. Item For Ma●y and John that stands in the Rood-Loft 1 l. 8. d. Item For the priests white Garment down to his feet and Girdle about his middle These are more like unto Players then Ministers of the Cospel Item For watching the Graves and Sepulchres 8 d. Item For a Vessel to put the Consecrated Oyl in used in their Baptism Confirmation and Extream Unction 3 s. 4 d. There was never such things found among the Apostles CHAP. XXIX The Doctrines of Christ and Antichrist distinguished Christ fought against Satan with Gods Word Antichrist fights against his Enemies with the Temporal Sword Christ chuseth the poor and meek and simple Antichrist chuses none but the subtile and crafty Christ compels no man against his will to believe his Gospel Antichrist with his Suspentions Excommunications Apprehensions Persecutions Fire Faggot Sword Halter enforces men to receive his Devillish Decrees and trifling Traditions Christ sayes he is the Head of the Church and sayes Give Caesar his due Antichrist sayes he is the Head of the Church over all Kings Princes and Emperors and they must all obey him Christ by his holy Apostles calls Marriage honourable and the Bed undefiled yea among all men none excepted Antichrist calls the Marriage of his Bishops Priests and himself filthy fleshly and unclean living yet Pope Innocent the third had three Bastards Anno 1493. Christ teacheth that we should not swear at all but that we should use in all our communications yea yea and nay nay and saith whatsoever is more comes of evil Antichrist teacheth that if any man will receive any Office under us he shall be sworn that he will be true and faithful to us If any man will have any thing to do in his Courts he must first of all swear by God and by the holy Gospel that this or that is true and again that he shall truly and fa●thfully answer to all such things as are required of him Cap. signif● Crasti de Elect. See Becons works fol. 403. Christ saith That no man can come unto him that is to say to believe in him except his holy Father by his holy Spirit draw him Antichrist saith If any will not believe Fire Faggot Sword and Prison shall make them believe Christ saith Blessed are the peace-makers Antichrist saith Blessed are they that fight and go together by the eare to defend the Pope and hold up the Pope and breaks Oaths to destroy Subjects and Princes to hold the Pope up for they shall be called the Children of the Mother-Church of Rome Christ saith My Kingdom is not of this world Antichrist will have a Triple Crown on his head and treads upon the necks of Emperors and lets Kings run like Lacquies by his Ho●se side The Brethren of the Lord had Wives and so had the Apostles and Peter and did not put away their VVives and Peter's VVife continued with him to his dying-day and went with him to his execution and he exhorted her and said Oh my Wife remember the Lord. But the Pope who sayes he is Peter's Successor he denies Marriage and calls it a fil●l●y thing and fleshly thing for the Clergy to marry and makes Laws against Marriage which is the Doctrine of Devils Christ and his Ministers took the Supper in their common daily apparel Antichrist has made a Law that they must have Garments like Players a Tippet a white C●at and a black Coat and decked with gorgeous Turniture and great Pomp wonderfully setting out his Merchandize to sell his Mass-mongers his stuff The Chu●ch of Christ honourech God in spirit and truch The Synagogue of Satan honoureth their God with the Surplice Copes Vestment Bells Organs Sencers Candles Candlesticks Fire Palms Ashes Bread VVater Oyl Cream Building of Monasteries and Chantries See Becons Preface Christ r●athed upon his Disciples and gave them the Holy Ghost Antichrist breatheth the Sp●rit of Satan into his Priests that they should be known to be his Priests by their long Gowns Horned Caps and flaring Tippets and he breaths into his Font and upon his VVine when it is ●ozen Christ sent forth his Disciples to preach the Gospel to all Nations Antichrist sends forth his Disciples to be Mass-Mongers Soul-carryers Purgatory-rakers God and Christ-makers of Bread and Wine and Conjurers of Water Bread and Fire and to gather the Tenth of all Estates to himself Christ in all his adversities fled to prayer Antichrist in his troubles flyes to his Armour Christ fought against Satan with Gods Word Ant christ sights against his Adversaries with a temporal Sword Christ by no means could abide that his Disciples should strive for Supremacy Antichrist challengeth Supremacy not onely over the Clergy but also over Kings and Emperors yea over the whole world Christ appointeth no certain days or times of fasting and that they should not eat flesh on but leaveth people to their freedom in such things Antichrist prescribeth certain dayes to be fasted on and not to eat flesh on as the time of Advent Lent Ember-dayes Saints Evenings c. Christ in his Doctrine taught That whosoever believed in him should have everlasting life as it is written He that believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life but he that believeth not shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth in him And he said I am the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth on me though he were dead yet shall he live and Whosoever liveth and believeth in me he shall neve● dye And Paul said I am now ●eady to be offered ●nd the time of my depa●ting is at hand I have sought a good fight I have fulfilled my course I have

the second ordained that the Pope should be chosen in three days lest the Church should lack a Head So it seems Christ is not the Head of their Church In the year 1272 at a Council held at Lyons the Conclave was set up and bowing the knee to the Name of Jesus instituted which practice the Protestants follow In the year 1276 Pope Innocentius the fift was crowned in Peter's Church This is contrary to Scriptures and contrary to the Apostles and Peter when Christ chose them or they chose others In the Primitive times they had not tripple Crowns set on their Heads no nor Christ himself who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords who testified against the World that their works were evil In the year 1286 Pope Boniface the eighth ordained the Feast of the sour Evangelists Matthew Mark Luke and John to be kept Holy Fasc tenus Christ Mass Joan. Stel. Bec. fol. 356. In the year 1290 Pope Boniface the eighth appointed the year of Jubile to be kept every hundretd year and granted that all them that would go to Rome in the year of Jub●le to visit the Temple of Faul and Peter he would pardon them all their si●s This Pope said he was Lord of all the World and all the Emperors Kings and Princes owed Obedience unto him Here is the Whore got on the Beast But this Pope reigned like a Lion and died like a Dog Here was the end of this Lucifer Ranulphus Cistren●is Follidor Bec. Fol. 358. In the year 1290 The same Pope Boniface was carryed on 〈◊〉 shoulders exalted Lucifer-like with a naked Sword before 〈◊〉 and he lived like a Lion and died like a Dog he called him●●●● Lord of the World both Temporal and Spiritual and this Pope Boniface spake through a Reed through a Wall to the Old Pope of Rome to leave his Popedom and the Old Pope thought it had been a Voice from Heaven and so left his Popedom and Boniface got it Now a●e these fellows fit for Peter ' s Chair or Sodom ' s Tower here 's the Beast with his two Horns like a Lamb spoken of in the Revelation Albe●tus Trantzius Fascic temp Pantelion Becon Fol. 298. In the year 1300 Pope Boniface the eighth made a Prayer to be said daily before the Image of the Cross and as many days pardon as there are gravel-stones in the Sea and grass on the Earth In the year 1297. Pope Celestinus the fifth in his time the Order of Monks came up that their cloak coule and cap should be blew In the year 1286 Pope Grego●y the eighth made a Decree That none should take a Nunne out of the Cloister to marry her In the year 1336 in Pope Clement the third's time sprung up a sort of Monks their manner was to go from place to place having a Banner upon a Crucifix born before them they did penance by scourging themselves with a great cord-whip Joan. Laz. Mat. Palm Christ Mass Bec. fol. 315. In the year 1368 Pope Vrban the fifth in his time the Order of Jesuits was invented and they were Lay-men addicted to prayer In the year 1390 Pope Vrban the sixth made the Visitation of Mary Holy day In the year 1309 Pope Iohn the twenty second ordained that Bells should be tolled every day thrice in the Evening and that every man should kneel down straitwayes and say three Ave-Maries Chron. Ioan. Stel. Bec. fol. 322. In the year 1410 Iohn Wickliff was excommunicated at Rome though he dyed in the year 1386. In the year 1425 Pope Callixtus the third invented the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ and commanded it to be kept with as large indulgences as the Feast of Corpus Christi Mat. Pol. Ioan. Stel. pant Bec. fol. 355. In the year 1438 Pope Alexander and Pope Eugenius granted that there is a Purgatory to purge Souls after this life and that they should confess the Bishop of Rome to be the Vicar of Christ the Successor of Peter and the Supreme Head of the Church throughout the world In the year 1455 Pope Callixtus the third made a Decree that every day at twelve a Clock the Sexton should toll Noon and so many as hear the Bells straightwayes should say an Ave-Mary Phil. Bergom Bec. fol. 322. Durandus saith That Bells be of such vertue that they stirred men to devotion and preserved the minds and bodies of the faithful from all danger and it was his opinion that they drove away all wicked spirits and devils Ralion di off Bec. fol. 322. This is a lying imaginatio a●d den●es Christ wh● destroyed the Devil and set up a Bell instead of Christ In the year 1469 Pope Sixtus the fourth ordained the Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to be kept holy and the Feast of Ann her Mother and Joseph her Husband to be kept holy Decrest Extravagant Joan. Liz Bec. fol. 356. In the year 1488 Brazen-Nose Colledg in Oxford was founded by William Smith Bishop of Lincoln In the year 1479 the cruel Inquisition first began in Spain by King Ferdinandus and Elizabeth his Wife The Papists hold that the Fathers the Inquisitors cannot erre In the year 1490 Pope Leo the ninth holding a Council at Vercellis was one the presumed to make Saints So he put Christ aside and denied him 1493 Pope Innocent was the first that preferred his Bastards to honour he made one of his Bastards a Prince of Cicilia and another a Cardinal and another the Duke of Spain He said Either the Pope shall spoil Philip of his Crown and Empire or else Phil●p shall take from the Pope his Apostolical Dignity Amongst many other Decrees made by him he decreed Marriage of the Clergy to be disannulled for ever Isaack Chron. p. 368. Note here Warrs arose from the lust●s as saith James and here 's the fruits of him that denied Marriage In the year 1513 in Pope Le● the tenth's time they curs● by Bell Book and Candle Book of Martyrs Volume the sword p. 312. And another Author sayes It was brought up by a Council held at London In the year 1537 the Concubines of the Priests are of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction by the Popes Law they might have Concubines Yet these Popes do deny Priests Ma●riage and yet allow them Concubi●es In the year 1003 the Opinion to think the Mass to help Souls in Purgatory was confirmed by Pope John the nineteenth by reason of a dream wherein he dreamed that he heard and saw the Voices of the Devils lamenting and bewailing that souls were delivered from them by saying of Masses and Digresses therefore he did approve the Feast of All-Soul● brought in by another Pope moreover he ordained the Feast of Allhallows in the year One thousand and three The Papists Conjurations of Salt I conjure thee thou Creature of Salt by the Cross living God and by the Cross true God and by the Cross Holy God c. that thou mayest be made a Conjured Salt to the salvation of