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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

of Fasting and parted married souls asunder he abhorred the Offering of the Married Priests he was condemned by three Council● for his cursed Doctrine And ho● cometh this Doctrine now to be blessed after the six hundred years when the Po●e got up which before was cursed but it seems the Pope doth bless th● Doctrine of the Hereticks now which formerly the Councils cursed In the year 351 Liberius Bishop of Rome yeilded to the Arria●s as J●rom saith in his Chron. and C talog c. and subscribed ●nto their Heresie to save his place It seems he was not infallible In the year 383 Collydrians were Hereticks which worshipped the Virgin Mary as the Papists do now like them Hereticks which 〈◊〉 condemned In the year 401 The Monks of the Deserts of Egypt in their 〈◊〉 Imagination thought that God had a Carnal Body from whom 〈◊〉 crose that invention of painting God the Father like an old man with a grey beard which is still used to this day by the swage-worshippers In the year 404 Pelagius a Heretick said that the Grace of God was given to us according to our merits the Hereticks corrupted the Works of the Ancient Writers A Sect of Hereticks went always bare-foot In the year 47 And Simon Magus the Sorcerer was honoured it Rome with a Picture And wherein do the Papists differ who are worshippers of Images from those that worship the Image of Simon Magus are not they likewise Idolaters CHAP. VIII Something concerning Indulgences Pardons Priviledges and Stations of Rome truly Copied out of two old Books one in Latin the other in English See Becons Works out of which all these things are extracted IN Rome seven of the Steeple-houses called by the Papists Churches are priviledged above all others with great Holiness and Pardons The first is called Saint Peters Church which has twenty nine steps up to it and as oft as a man goeth up and down them stairs he is released of the seventh part of Penance enjoyned This was granted by Pope Alexander And above the door is an Image of Christ and between his feet standeth one of the Pence that God was sold for and as oft as any looks upon that Peny they have fourteen hundred years of pardon and in the same Steeple-house are eleven Altars and at every Altar is forty eight years of Pardon Also the Priests say that as many times as a man goeth through the Crowds at the same Steeple-house he hath four hundred years of Pardon At one of the Altars in the said Steeple-house is five hundred years of Pardon and every high Feast a Soul out of Purgatory And as oft as a man followeth that they call their Sacrament to sick bodies he hath one thousand four hundred years of Pardon for his sins Pope Sylvester granted to all them that daily go to the said Steoplehouse the third part of all his sins relealed And upon the one side of the said Steeple-house lyeth a Yard called Gods Field and there they bury none but poor-Pilgrims In the Chappel at Rome called Jerusalem Women do not enter but only once in the year at which time they have a full Remission granted of their sins none excepted In the Church of Saint Cater is two hundred years of Pardon In the Church of Saint Foelix is forty years of Pardon Unto every one of them called Churches have they ordained a certain number of Pardons to all that come to them and in Lent the Pardons are double Part of their Stations are as followeth In the Circumcision of Christ the Stations are to the Church of their Lady so called On the Epiphany the Stations are to St. Peters On the Sunday called Septuagessima the Stations are to Saint Lawrence without the Walls On the Sunday called Sexagissima the Stations are to Saint Paul the Apostle On Ash-Wednesday the Stations are to Saint Sabine On the first Sunday in Lent the Stations are to Saint John Latrint On Christmas-day the Stations are at the first Mass unto Saint Mary Major in the Chappel in the Manger of their Lord as they call him into the which Women do not enter And for every day called Holy-day they have Stations appointed to what place to go which Stations Pope Gregory Pope Cornelius and divers other Popes of Rome from time to time have invented and devised and that all that come to them and give any thing towards the maintenance of them they have ordained that they shall have Remission and Pardon of sins Also certain did grant Indulgences and Pardons to all such as de●●●● said certain Prayers or Ave-Maries which is contrary to Christ and the Apostles Pope Six us granted to all them that should say this Prayer 〈◊〉 the image of our Lady as they called her and her Son one the 〈◊〉 one hundred years of pardon Ave-Sanctissina Maria c. The Bishop of York and Bishop of Canterbury and nine other Bishops in he days of King Henry the seventh granted forty days of pardon for every Ave-Maria and for Gratia Plen● one hundred days The Hallowing of Candles Upon Candlemas-day the Priest turning himself to the South desireth his God that his Candles which he had there in his hand might receive such a strength and blessing through the token of the Holy Cross that being lighted the Devil might sly away and tremble for fear and after Even-Song the Priests distributed to the people their portion of Candles which they esteemed highly of and if any Thunder Lightning or Tempest arose then their Candle was lighted with faith that that would quiet the Tempest and drive away bad spirits They also Hallowed Fire and Bowes and Hallowed ashes on Ash-Wednesday and Hallowed Incense Myrthe and other Perfumes and many other things The priests also hallowed Cheese and Butter CHAP IX The manner of the Priests Hallowing the Font. FIrst he makes two Crosses in the Water with his right hand and then says a short Prayer saying Wherefore I bless Cross thee thou Creature of Water by Cross the living God c. And then he makes a Cross in the Water again and says another short prayer as before and then takes a burning Candle and drops it into the Water after the manner of a Cross and then crys'aloud a few words over it That the Holy Ghost would descend into it to make it fruitful that it might have power to regenerate and beget a new This being done he breathes thrice into the Font and then he puts Oyl into the VVater and then Cream and says some few words over them crossing them c. People you read none of this in Scripture in the Primitive Church Of the Papists Hallowing the Marrying Ring For Hallowing of the Womans Ring at her Wedding this Prayer following is appointed to be said by the Priest Hallow thou Cross Lord this Ring which we bless Cross in thy holy Name that what Woman soever shall wear it may stand ●all in thy peace and continue in thy will and live