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A14268	Two treatises the first, of the liues of the popes, and their doctrine. The second, of the masse: the one and the other collected of that, which the doctors, and ancient councels, and the sacred Scripture do teach. Also, a swarme of false miracles, wherewith Marie de la Visitacion, prioresse de la Annuntiada of Lisbon, deceiued very many: and how she was discouered, and condemned. The second edition in Spanish augmented by the author himselfe, M. Cyprian Valera, and translated into English by Iohn Golburne. 1600.; Dos tratados. English	Valera, Cipriano de, 1532?-1625.; Golburne, John.	1600 (1600)	STC 24581; ESTC S119016	391,061	458

of our Saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord. No other willeth God for all his benefites but that we be thankfull and call vpon his name Thus shall the number of those whom God hath elected to life eternall encrease and so the kingdome of sinne death the diuell which is the kingdome of lies of false new doctrine confirmed with dreames false miracles and illusions of the diuell shal be destroied and that of grace life and of Christ which is the kingdome of truth the true and old doctrin confirmed with the word of God shal abide for euer To whom which is one God Father Sonne and holy Spirit who liueth and raigneth be perpetuall hon●● and glory Amen An Addition I In the moneth of Aprill 1588. Philip the second of that name king of Spaine pretending to send his inuincible fleet for the Conquest of England made choise by the aduise of the Prioresse of the monastery of the Anunciada whose name was Mary of the Visitacion as most worthie for her holinesse to blesse his Standard royall the which she did with vsing diuers other c●remonies in the deliuery thereof to the Duke of Medina Sedonia who was appointed chiefe Generall she did pronounce openlie good successe and victory to the Duke in saying he should return a victorious Prince This standard was carried in procession by Don Francisco de Cordoua who was a Spaniard the tallest Gentl. that could be found he being on horse backe to the end it might be the better seen at the solemnzing wherof there was such a number of people assembled that diuers of them perished with the throng There was present the Archduke Albertus which then was Cardinall and Gouernor of the kingdom of Portugal the Popes Nuncio the Archbishop who was head inquisitor with diuers other Nobles Prelates Gentlemen This solemnization dured so long that Albertus fainted with fasting and this holy Nunne to comfort him caused a messe of the broth which was for her owne diet to be brought presenting it to him which he accepted most willingly cōming from the handes of so holy a Nun as then she was holden to be but about the beginning of Decēber next after all her holines false miracles and great dissimulations was then found out and she condemned punished for the same according as is r●bersed in this booke About the end of this yeare 1588 that this holy Nun was discouered in Lisbon there was also discouered in Seuil one father ●yon who was counted to be a most deuour and religious man but by his owne fellowes of his profession he was discouered to be a great hypocrite and a most vicious 〈◊〉 giuen to carnall lustes and for this and diuers other causes he was committed to the prison which is in the Cardinals house of 〈◊〉 A Table wherein by certaine Antitheses is declared the difference and contrarietie which is betweene the ancient doctrine of God contained in the holy scripture and taught in the reformed Churches and the new doctrine of men ●aught and maintained in the Roman or Popish Church Ierem. 6. 16. Thus saith the Lord stand in the wayes and behold and aske for the old way which is the good way and walke therein ye shall find rest for your soules THe ancient doctrine of God doth teach that the holy Scripture being the word of God diuinely inspired hath most sufficient authority of it selfe containeth all necessary doctrin to pietie and our saluation as S. Paul clearly teacheth 2. Tim. 3. 15. 16. 17. The new doctrin of me● teacheth that the holy Scripture although it be the word of God should haue no authority were it not for the approbation of the Church and that it is an vnperfect and maimed doctrine which containeth not doctrine sufficient to pietie nor our saluation but that this defect must be supplied by vnwrittē traditions Belar de verb. De● nō scrip l. 4. The ancient doctrin of God doth teach that ignorance of the holy scriptures is the cause and mother of errors as Iesus Christ our Lord doth witnesse Mat 22. 19. saying to the Sadduces Ye erre because yee know not the Scriptures nor the power of God and therefore the duty of euerie faithfull Christian is to reade meditate and search the holy scripture as God commandeth his people Deut. 6. 7. chap. 12. 32. chap. 17. 19. Iosua 18. Esa 8. 20. And Christ our Lord in the new Testament Ioh. 5. 39. And as did the faithfull in the time of the Apostles Act 17. 11. 2 Tim. 3. 15. The new doctrin of men doth teach that ignorance is the mother of deuotion and that to keepe religion safe it is needful to forbid the lay or secular men the reading of the holy scriptures seeing it is the cause of many heresies Bellarm. de verbo Dei lib. 2 cap. 15 16. cens col f. 19. The ancient doctrin of God doth teach that many deceiuers and false Prophets are gone out into the world and that the faithfull therfore are to proue the spirits whether they be of God 1. Io. 4. 1. And that the holy scripture is the touch whereby this proofe and examination ought to be made Ioh. 5. 39. Act 17. 11. So that all doctrine contrary and repugnant to holy Scripture be it of Councels Fathers Doctors old or new and that as saith the Apostle of himselfe or of an Angel from heauen ought not to be receiued nor taught in the Christian Church Gal. 1. 8. 1. Tim. 1. 3. chap. 6. 3. 1. Pet. 4. 11. 2. Ioh. 10. The new doctrin of men doth teach that whosoeuer cōtradict the Pope his decrees human traditions be false teachers that the Pope hath authority to iudge of all controuersies and of the true sense of holy Scriptures and that from his iudgment it is not lawfull to appeale Bellar. de verbo D●● interp lib. 3. cap. 3. c. The ancient doctrine of God doth teach that we ought to serue God alone which is the Creator and gouernour of all the world following the doctrin of Christ which saith Matt. 4. 10. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God him only shalt thou serue The new doctrine of men doth teach that we ought not to serue God alone but also the Saints that they hold them for patrons of kingdoms people cities societies and infirmities Bellarm. de Sanct. beat lib. 1. cap 12. Cens Col. fol. 230. The ancient doctrine of God doth teach that the lawful worship of God is to be founded vpon the holy Scripture that God will be serued according to his will and word in spirit and truth Ioh. 4. 24. and not after the opinion nor by the traditions nor customes of men as God by his prophet Eze. 20. 18. doth very expresly teach vs saying Walk not in the ordinances of your fathers nor obserue their lawes nor defile your selues with their idols I am the Lord your God Walke in mine ordinances and

that he was poysoned with yoyson which Alexander caused to be giuen him This is he that to mainetaine his tyranny called the great Turke aforenamed against the king of France wherein he gaue example to Frauncis of Fraunce to call afterwardes the Turke against our king Don Charles the Emperour This is he which commaunded both the handes and tongue of Antonius Mancinellus a most learned man to be cut off for an elegāt oratiō which he made against his abhominable customes most filthie life and not heard of villanies But God who is iust gaue him his hire And thus it was that being at a banket which he made to certaine Cardinals and Senatos of Rome of purpose to poyson them with the selfe same poyson that he poysoned Geme the Turkes brother withall the seruitors ill aduised mistaking one flaggon for another vnwillingly gaue drinke to the Pope of that flaggon wherein was the poyson and so after he had 11 yeares Poped he and some of the seruants and Cardinals in the 1503. yeare died In the time of this Pope and the 1499. yeare Ieronymus Sauanarola a Dominican that excellent preacher a man admirable in life and doctrin with other his companions was burned in Florence He maintained the communion in both kindes condemned Indulgences sharply reproued the wicked life and great carlesenesse of the Pope Cardinals and moreouer of all the Clergie in their office denyed the Popes supremacie taught that the keyes were not giuen to Peter onely but to the whole Church He said that the Pope followed neither the life nor doctrin of Christ seeing he attributed more to his indulgence trifling traditions then to the merit of Christ He affirmed that the Popes excommunications were not to be feared foretold some things which were to happen namely the destruction of Florencr Rome the restoring of the Church which in our time haue come to passe For this cause the Count Franciscus Picus Mirandula called him an holy Prophet and defended him by writing against the Pope Marcillius in a certaine Epistle and Philippus Comineus in his French Historie say that he had a propheticall spirit and many other learned men defended his Innocencie D. Illescas in the life of Alexander 6. speaking of Sauanarola saith these wordes Many opinions there were and yet wantes there not some which iudge of the iustification of this fact This onely resteth to referre the same to the Iudgement of God who knoweth the secret of all things I heard the most learned father and maister Friar Mancius of the order of Saint Dominicke say that he heard it affirmed of a faithfull witnesse and familiar of Bishop Remolinus which afterwardes was Cardinall that it repented the Bishop all his life time to haue pronounced this sentence And that for satisfaction thereof before God he fasted three daies in the weeke And verily who so readeth some spirituall things which he left vs in writing would not deeme them to proceede from an hypocriticall but a true religious man Hitherto Illescas In the time of this Alexander Don Fernando and Dona Isabella reigned in Spaine In whose time about the yeare of the Lord 1492. somwhat more or lesse sixe notable things hapned in Spaine The 1. the Pope was a Spaniar dthe 2. Grananda was won The 3. the discouerie of the Indies The 4. The inquisitiō of Spaine The 5. the holy brotherhood And the 6. the disease called Bubo Abhominable as we haue seene was the Spanish Pope Alexander neuer good but great mischiefe did he to Spaine or any land of the world The taking of Granada wrought great good vnto Spaine in freeing it from continuall wars slaughters betweene the Christians the Moores and in banishing out of all Spaine the false sect of Mahomet The discouerie of the Indies that being well considered hath done more hurt then good to the soules of the Spaniards that went thither Casaos the bishop who was an eie witnes a natural Spaniards wrote a booke of the cruelties of the Spaniards towards the poore Indians would God those which went thither had had more zeale to teach augment the holy catholike faith conteyned in holy scripture then to enrich thē selues and for the enriching of themselues to murther and on all sides robbe as they say that simple people which had reasonable soules aswell as we and for whom Christ also dyed The Indians as Augustine de çarate complayning reporteth in his Historie of Peru said that the Spaniardes tooke from them their Idols and gaue them the Idols or Images of Spaine crosses the Virgin Marie c. to worship They said that the Spaniardes had taken from them their many wiues telling them that the lawe of Iesus Christ permitted but one onely wife and tooke them for themselues Had they taught them to worship God in spirit and truth as he saith that he will be worshiped no mention at all had beene made of Idols or Images seeing that God in the second commaundement of his holy law forbideth them And chiefly the Indians being so addicted to Idolatrie If the law of Christ permit but one only wife according to the first institution of mariage wherefore kept our Spaniardes many whores and concubines What manner of Doctrine was this If the blind leade the blind both fall into the ditch The which to our Spaniards and their Indians hath hapned God send them better teachers Of good zeale and intention was the Inquisition ordeyned and after some it was ordeyned before the warres of Granada by the same Don Fernando whiles Sistus Poped But be it as it was In the time of Alexander the fixt and after the wiuing of Granada was it trulie executed Then commanded king Don Fernando that all the Iewes should be Baptised which would liue in Spaine or otherwise depart and so as saith Sabellicus departed a hundred and twentie thousand The Inquisition then was instituted to teach the Christian religion to Iewes and Moores which were turned Christians and yet secretly returned to their olde customes But hauing now almost ceased with the Iewes and Moores from day to day hath it done more and more tiranny against the faithfull Catholique and true Christians who detesting Popish Idolatrie and vaine supersticions confesse that only God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost is in spirit and trueth to be worshipped Their manner or teaching them whome they suppose to erre is iniuries disgraces tortures whippinges and euill life Sanbenitos galleies perpetuall imprisonmentes and in the end Fier wherewith they burne those whom God by his mercie maketh constant in the confession of his sonne Christ Iesus Who so listeth to see the craftes deceites stratagemes and cruelties which the Lord Inquisitors or to speake better Inquinators of the faith vse with the poore sheepe of Iesus Christ appointed to the slaughter or furnace let him reade the booke intituled Inquisitio Hispanica translated into

Christ waxed olde and lost it collour it being and worth Thus commeth one and casteth a peece vnto it afterwards commeth another and casteth vnto it c. So that now it is not the Supper of the Lord but the Masse of the Pope now it is not the robe of an honourable man but a cloake of a shamelesse begger By that which is said haue we answered to the second and third reasons wherewith our aduersaries doe confirme their Masse The fourth reason with which our aduersaries suppose to mainetaine their Masse is That all the Church Catholique from the death of Christ vntill this day with most great reuerence hath celebrated the Masse This their reason they confirme saying that God who loueth his Church as his spouse would neuer suffer it so long time to be deceaued especially with so great superstition and idolatrie as the Masse wee say is This fourth reason of our aduersaries in two thinges consisteth In antiquitie And in that God who loueth his Church as his spouse would not suffer c. concer-cerning the first of the Antiquitie of the Masse In answering to the second and third reasons of our aduersaries wee shewed that Iesus Christ neuer instituted the masse nor his Apostles euer said it and that the Church Catholique for the space of a thousand yeares neuer celebrated the Masse which our aduersaries now celebrate But the holy supper was celebrated with some humaine traditions and ceremonies inuented by man Notwithstanding all this the holie supper as touching it substaunce was euer in it beeing conferued by the space of a thousand yeares For fiue hundred yeares space hitherto the supper hath ceassed to bee a supper and hath euery day more and more bene conuerted into the Masse such as nowe wee see and chiefly since transubstantiation and the Communion in one kind were commaunded to be beleeued as an Article of faith Then fell wholy the holy supper not in name onely calling it the masse but also in substaunce as before we haue said Concerning the second part which they bring for confirmation of the first namely That God who loueth his Church would not permit that his Church so long time should liue deceaued To this I answere praying them to read the Histories of the olde and newe Testament Wherein they shall finde if they well consider that the Church faulted and mainteined errours and that no meane ones The people of Israel was the people of God the Church of God and the spouse of God and dearly beloued but for all this the same people fell into many errours superstitions heresies and Idolatries and not once by chaunce but oftentimes and of deliberate purpose Read that notable song which Moses the man of God made written in Deuteronomy There I say shall yee find that that people and that Church of God fell into idolatrie verse ninth Hee saith For the Lordes portion is his people Iaakob is the line or lot of his Inheritaunce And in the tenth verse hee saith that God kept this people as the apple of his eye And in the eleuenth God carried this people vppon his back like the Eagle c. But behould what hee saith in the same chapter and verse fifteene of this people so deare and so beloued Behould if they fell to idolatrie And hee forsooke saith hee God that made him and regarded not the strong God of his saluation They prouoked him with their straunge Gods and made him angry with their abhominations They sacrified to diuels and not to God But to Gods whom they knewe not new Gods newly come vpp whome their fathers feared not c. And in the two and thirtith chapter of Exodus it is said that the people of Israell pluct of their golden Earnings c. And that Aaron tooke them and made of them a moulten calfe And when the calfe was seene Israel sayd These be thy Gods which brought thee out of the land of Egypt And when Aron sawe that Hee built an altar before it c. As wee haue sayd in the beginning of the first Treatise Here may yee fee How all the people of Israel and Aaron their chiefe Priest committed idolatrie Let vs proceede fur●her When the people of Israel were entred into the land of promise How behaued they themselues they also committed Idolatrie Read in the booke of Iudges and chiefly the second chapter and the eleuenth verse And the children of Israel saith hee did wickedly in the sight of the Lord and serued Baal And verse nineteenth But when the Iudge was dead they turned and corrupted themselues more then their fathers following other Gods seruing them and bowing downe before them They ceased not from their owne inuentions Nor from their rebellious way All this booke is full of examples hereof The Iudges ended and this people of God gouerned by kinges How was it then As ill or worse then before Let them read the Prophets which they call great and small This people of God their Priestes and Princes condemned the good Doctrine and persecuted the holie Prophets that preached the same So obstinate was this people in turning away from God That God in indignation commaunded Esaie to say these wordes vnto the people in hearing heare and not vnderstand In seeing see and not perceaue The heart of this people is waxed fatte and their hearing dull and their eyes are blinded least they should see with their eyes and heare with their eares c. The prophet Ieremy protesteth to all the people of Iuda and to all the Inhabitantes of Ierusalem the diligent care which the Lord had vsed to conuert them from Idolatrie to himselfe and the small profect they receaued thereby Hee had this said hee preached vnto them by the space of twentie and three yeares and they heard him not Note what the Prophet saith in the second verse that hee spake this to all the people of Iuda and to all the inhabitantes of Ierusalem And note that onely this Hebrewe people and no other in all the world was then the Church of God And behould if the Church erred Who wounded and imprisoned Ieremy for his sermons Pashur the chiefe Priest of the people of God What was the state of the people of Israel when Elias supposed that there was none but hee that worshipped the true God of Israel S. Paul alleageth this place Rom. 11. 13. Let this suffice concerning the Church of the old Testament Come wee nowe to the newe When the diuine word taking flesh came into the world How found he his spouse the Church All to be smeared with dirt and sootte The Scribes and Pharisies priests and high priests with their traditions had wholely corrupted her As nowe doe the Priestes and Fryars Bishoppes and Popes So great then was the corrupption in Doctrine among the people of God that there was their principall sects of the Pharifies sadduces Essees The Pharises great hypochrits corrupted the scripture with their traditions The