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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07963	The vvoefull crie of Rome Containing a defiance to popery. With Thomas Bells second challenge to all fauorites of that Romish faction. Succinctly comprehending much variety of matter ...	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1605 (1605)	STC 1833; ESTC S101554	53,995	85

many Lordly titles and more then royall power ascribed to the Pope addeth these expresse words Sed glossatores iuris hoc dominium dederunt Papae cum ipsi essent pauperes rebus doctrina Englished thus But the Glossers and Interpreters of the Popes lawe gaue this dominion and these royall titles vnto the Pope themselues being blind Bayards and beggerly fellowes Thus writeth the Popes learned Doctour and religious Fryer by whose verdict it is most apparant to the world that pouertie and ignorance two gallant Romish courtiers were the beginning of al royall Pope-dom And no maruaile for by reason of their pouertie they flattered and sought to please the Pope and by reason of their ignorance they desperately published many things which they did not vnderstand The vsual practise of Papists in their Commentaries Bookes and Glosses hath bin such so intollerable in wresting the holy Scriptures as their owne deare brethren and great Doctors can not for shame denie or conceale the same Polidorus Virgilius a famous papist hath these words Non secus isti iurisconsulti aliquoties detorquent sacras literas quò volunt ac sutores sordidas solent dentibus extendere pelles Englished thus These popish Legists and Canonists doe now and then so wrest and writhe the holy Scriptures to that sense which themselues like best euen as Coblers do gnaw with their teeth and stretch out their filthy skinnes 1 Out of these words I obserue first that this Polidore was a great Papist himselfe and consequently that his testimonie must needes be of great force against the Papists Secondly that he speaketh not of the meanest and worst sort of Papists but euē of their best renowmed Doctors viz. of Hostiensis their grand and famous Doctor Thirdly that their mangling and wresting of the holy Scriptures is most intollerable that without the same they cannot possibly maintaine their wicked doctrine This is that which Doctor Fisher the late Byshoppe of Rochester hath freely confessed in his answere to the Articles of M. Luther which hee could not in truth withstand or gainesay These are his expresse wordes Contendentibus itaque nobiscum haereticis nos alio subsidio nostram oportet tueri causam quam scriptura sacrae Englished thus Therefore when Heretiques contend with vs we must defend our cause by other meanes then by the holy Scripture These are the very expresse wordes I neither adde any thing nor take any thing away of their owne famous popish byshop of their owne holy Saint of their glorious martyr a learned man in deed who laboured with might and maine for the popes vsurped soueraigntie and defended the same in the best manner he was able and to the vttermost of his skill And yet for all that hee hath boulted out vnawares against his will such is the force of trueth which must needs in time preuaile so much in plaine tearmes as is sufficient to ouerthrow all poperie for euer and to cause all people that haue any care of their saluation to renounce the pope his abominable doctrine to their liues end For our popish Byshoppe being put to his best trumpe telleth vs plainely and without all dissimulation his mouth being now opened by him who caused Balaams Asse to speake that they must not because forsooth they cannot defend and mantaine their poperie by the authoritie of the Scripture but by some other way and meanes Viz. by mans forged inuentions and popish vnwritten vanities which they terme the Churches Traditions Now gentle Reader how can any papist who is not giuen vp in Reprobum sensum for his iust deserts read such testimonies against poperie freely confessed and plainely published to the world and that by the pennes of most learned and renowned papists euen while they bestirre themselues busily to defend their pope and his popish doctrine for all that continue papists stil and be carryed away headlong into perdition beleeuing obeying that doctrine which as themselues confesse cannot be defended by the holy Scripture Me-thinkes they should bee ashamed to hold and beleeue that doctrine in defence whereof they can yeeld no better reason Alas alas how hath the late Romish Church seduced vs CHAP. III. Of kissing the Popes feet TOuching the kissing of the Popes feet the truth is this that some Christian kings and Emperours vppon a blinde zeale not grounded in knowledge did humble themselues to the Byshops of Rome and did yeeld vp their soueraigne rights vnto them and thereby opened the windowe to all Antichristian tyrannie For in short time after the Romish Byshoppes became so Lordly and insolent that they tooke roundly vpon them to despose the Emperours to translate their Empires to dispose at their owne pleasures of their royal scepters regalties Yea to be reuerenced honored and adored as Gods for that end must al faithfull Christians kisse the Popes feete Here for the better credite of mine assertion I will put downe the flat testimonie of their Saint Antoninus their religious Fryer who was sometime the Arch-byshop of Florence These are his expresse words Nulli ergo angelo commissa iurisdictio cura totius orbis sed papae totius mundi iurisdictio cura commissa est cum solum vt nomine mundi importatur terza sed etiam vt nomine mundi importatur caelum que super calum terram iurisdictione accepit Sequitur vnde papae recipit a fidelibus adorationes prostrationes oscula pedum quod non permisit angelus a Iohanne Euangelista sibi fieri Englished thus Therefore the iurisdiction and charge of the whole world is committed to none of the Angels but the iurisdiction and care of the whole world is committed to the Pope not onely as the name of the world doth import the earth but euen as it doth also signifie Heauen because hee hath receiued iurisdiction both ouer Heauen and Earth Wherefore the Pope receiueth of the faithfull adorations prostrations and the kissing of his feete which thing the Angel would not suffer Iohn the Euangelist to doe vnto him Thus writeth this popish Doctor For the better vnderstanding of whose discourse I note First that this Antoninus was not a bare papist but a man of great authoritie and high esteeme among the papists Viz. a canonized Saint a religious Fryer a Dominican and a most reuerend Arch-bishop and consequently that whatsoeuer he hath deliuered either touching the pope or poperie must needes bee of good credite and great force against the papists Secondly that the popes power and authoritie doth farre exceed the power of Angels Thirdly that the pope hath iurisdiction not onely ouer the earth but also ouer heauen it selfe Fourthly that by the reason of this exceeding and surpassing power the pope doth admit and receiue that homage which the Angel refused and prohibited S. Iohn to doe vnto him Alas alas how hath the late Romish Church deceiued vs CHAP. IIII. Of power ascribed to the pope The

sonne as if he had said I neither dare say all I thinke neither all I know Alas alas how hath the late Romish Church deceiued vs. CHAP. IX Of Popish idolatrous vnwritten Traditions POpish vnwritten Traditions hath brought flat Idolatry into the Church teaching to adore them as saints and Gods friends who were known afterward to be Heretiques and professed enemies to God and his Church This to bee so their owne deare friend and brother Plaetina will tell them for hee affirmeth in plaine termes that the dead corps of one Hermannus was worshipped for a saints relique at Ferrara the space of 2. years together who for all that was an Heretique as the same Platina auoucheth Appendix fuldensis which is added to the chronicle of Martinus Polonus telleth vs that inquisitores haereticae prauitatis the maister of the popish Inquisition caused the corps of the said Hermannus to bee taken out of the graue and to bee burnt as the corpes of a damned Heretique where three speciall things are to be remembred and seriously obserued First that popish vnwritten traditions are most fallible and vncertaine Secondly that it is a thing very daungerous and too too preiudiciall to mans saluation to giue credit to the same Thirdly that the papists are most cruell and blood-thirstie fellowes who after many yeares death cannot suffer the dead corps to lye in the ground vnlesse they be taken vp and burnt in the fire He that requireth a larger discourse thereof may peruse the Downe-fall of Poperie Alas alas how hath the late Romish Church seduced vs. CHAP. X. Of the Popes manners POpe Christopher came naughtily to his pope-dome and lost it as naughtily For before the seuenth moneth expired fully he was depriued of his pontifical dignitie and inforced to become a monke the sole and onely refuge of al distressed persōs Thus writeth Platina and Carranza contesteth the same to be the truth Pope Boniface the 7. and pope Siluester the 2. did both aspire to their popedomes by Necromancie and diabolical meanes Siluester the 3. attained his pope-dome by sedition and Damasus the 2. was made pope by violent means without consent either of the Clergie or of the people This to be so both Platina Carranza two famous popish writers wil contest with me Yea Platina addeth that pope-dome was now brought to that passe that who so could be the chief in bribes ambition not in holy life and doctrine he only should haue the degree of honour and good men should be reiected Gregorie the first was by sedition thrust out of his throne and pope Iohn the 18. by tyrannie occupied the pope-dome So say both Platina and Carranza Yea Platina addeth that pope Iohn was a theife and a robber and entred not into his pope-dome lawfully Pope Stephanus the sixt persecuted the very name of Formosus disanulled and condemned all the orders which he had giuen Pope Romanus did abrogate all the acts of Pope Stephanus Pope Sergius the third did persecute the name of Formosus whose body after it was interred he commāded to be takē vp to be beheaded Pope Iohn the 13. was more addicted to hunting then hee was vnto prayer and many other vnworthy things are reported of that Pope This is the cēsure of Bartholomaeus Carranza a lear Thomst and a Dominican Fryer and therefore hath he not said more against the popes of Rome whose vassal he was then the very truth it selfe which must in time preuaile did enforce him to vtter and disclose Platina affirmeth no lesse against these Popes then his Brother Carranza hath done Hee saith plainly that they sought nothing but ambition and pleasure and to extinguish the dignitie of their auncestours The popes owne decrees tell vs that though the pope be neuer so wicked though he carry thousāds of soules with himselfe headlong into Hell yet may no man take vppon him to iudge the pope vnlesse he be an Heretick And what is the reason hereof I pray you It is alleaged already out of Gerson their owne deare Doctor who is ashamed of popish dealing in that behalfe viz. Because forsooth Christ hath written in his thigh the King of Kings and Lord of Lords to whom no man may say why doest thou so but how the pope may be iudged I haue else where disputed more at large To which treatise I referre the gentle reader as well for his better satisfaction how the pope may bee iudged as concerning his double person his errors personall and iudiciall and other things coincident Pope Iohn the twelfth was made pope by violent meanes For his father Albericus being a man of great power and might in the citie enforced the nobles to take an oath that after the death of pope Agapitus they would promote his sonne Octauianus to the popedome Which oath was accomplished and he was named Iohn He was a great hunter and a man of licentious life He kept women openly to the notorious scandall of the Church in so much that some of the Cardinals wrote to Otto king of the Saxons to come besiege Rome and so to redresse the licentious dealing of the pope Which the pope perceiuing commaunded that Cardinals nose to be cut off that gaue the counsell and the Cardinals hand to be cut off that wrote the letter Pope Syluester the second was first a Monke a Frenchman borne Gilbertus by name hee promised homage to the diuell so long as he performed and accomplished his desires and that in the end the diuell should haue both his body and soule This Syluester being very ambitious did so often expresse his desire to the diuell as hee made homage vnto him Hee was first made Arch-byshop of Rhemes then of Rauennas at the length pope of Rome for the diuell knowing his ambitious minde thought good to bring him to honour by degrees Being made pope hee must needes knowe of the diuell how long he should liue in his pontificall glorie the diuell answered that hee should liue l●ng if he said not masse in Hierusalem The pope receiuing this answere was a very ioyfull man hoping to be so farre from death as he was farre in minde and purpose from saying Masse in Hierusalem as who thought neuer to goe so farre a iourney much lesse to say Masse there Well it so chaunced that in Lent the pope saide Masse in the Church Sanctae crucis which they call in Hierusalem my selfe know the place It seemeth that the pope infatuated with pride and honour had quite forgot the name otherwise doubtlesse he would neuer haue celebrated there while the pope was at Masse he heard a great noyse of diuels and so both remembred the place and his death to bee at hand Wherefore hee wept although before most wicked disclosing his offence to all the company and nothing doubting of Gods mercy withall he commaunded to cut away from his body all the members with which he had done