BLindfolded Gen­tilisme coulde espie Atheisme in Diagoras, Cicero de nat. deor. lib. 1. Damas. lib. 1. orthodox fid. cap. 3. and Theodorus, be­cause they deni­ed there was a God, the knowledge of whome is [...] ingrafted and bred in vs by nature.Rescius Wright &c. But quick-sighted Papis­me, can discrie Atheisme in the true Christian, because he defies the Popes whome Christ and his Apostles haue taught vs to be An­tichrist. O that the Papist could as well discerne his Lady Enuy, that [Page]quickens his sight, and his Lorde Sathan that lends him light, then would he blame the Iewes sight, and his owne eyes,7. Iohn. 20. the one for see­ing a deuill in Christ the head, and the other for beholding diuelish Atheisme in the Christian his member. Yea then would they see that Satan is the master builder of their Church,Tuscul. quaest. 1. Cicero et de Nat. deor. lib. 1. 1. Rom. Act. 14 Acts. 17. Ioh. 5. Ephes. 2. and Atheisme the chiefe foundation of their king­dome. For what is Papisme? a de­nying there is a God? No, seeing no Barbarian (excepting some fewe) was so barbarous, howbeit, not exempted from Atheisme. What then doth Papisme acknow­ledge a Godhead, but deny the persons? Not so neither, for they confesse Moses and the Prophets, and crye templum domini, templum domini, we, and none but we are the Church. How then can they [Page]confesse God, and yet deny God? Yea, why not, as well as Anti­christ,2. Thessal. 2. Aug. Ciu. 23, & 19. that sits in the Temple and Church of God, and yet the grea­test enemy of his Christ? For the profession of the Church serues him but for a vaile to couer his pa­pisme, and for a visard to colour his Atheisme: seeing he both de­nies and defies Christ, his Gospell, and the Godhead, by his doctrine, worship, and liuing, so erronious, supersticious, and vngodly: for what is the kingdome of Popery, but heresie, seeing heretiques are armies of Antichrist? And what is the sea of Rome,Chrysost. hom. 49. in Math. but an huge Ocean of heresies? wherein Si­mon, and all heretiques doe take their pleasure and repast. Here is Monkish poperie in imitation of Simonian Idolatry, worshiping the Images of Francis and Clara. [Page]Here in domo Dei presbyteri et Epis­copi vendentes sunt. Roiard hom. Ser. 2. post dom. Latare. Both Priests and Praelates make the house of God an house of Marchandies. Heere are Cardinals buying the Popedome, and Popes selling Christ and Christendome.Gyrolan Ca­tena. Yea, here are the paines of Purgatorie to be bought off for money, and the pleasures of Paradise to be pur­chased for coine. Howbeit the Pope challengeth place authoritate Dei, by Gods authority. Fie fowle­mouthd Florinian to vsu [...]pe the kingdome of the sonne,Bulla [...]i quinti in Eliz. and yet to challenge it as from the Father. Here may yee see Midwiues bap­tizing,Aug. haeres. 66. and a woman executing the office of the Popedome, and are not they most fearefull foes to the Pepucians?Rom. char. part 2. s [...]ct. 18. But will you know their warres against Nouatius? They debarre Ministers from ho­norable marriages,Bellar. de bapt. lib 1. cap. 7. and compell [Page]them to perish in dishonourable lust: which was one among the greeuances that the Germans exhi­bited to Cardinall Campeius, Epiphan haeres. 79. that their Bishops and Officials did not onely suffer Priests for their mony to haue concubines,Theod. fab. hae­res. lib. 3. but compel­led chaste Priests to pay their tri­bute, that so it might be lawfull for them to liue as they list.Rhem. Acts. 21. sect. 1. O say not so, this is a chaste generation. For those that were their wiues be­fore orders,Aug. haeres. 87. shall be their wiues stil, but their husbands shall not haue accesse vnto them: a crue of faith­full Abellians. Oecolamp. Fox pag. 861. And call you this a chaste generation that condemne men for marriage? witnesse Petrus Sponglerus in the yeare 1525.Rhen. Anor. 1. Cor. 7. sect. 8. that call marriage the worst sort of in­continencie: that say Priesthood is prophaned by it: that dare af­firme that those that are in carne, Greg. mar. discou [...] [...]. sect 1 [Page] deo placere non possunt: that married persons cannot please God,Siricius. Epist. ad Him: Tarac. that forbid priests marriages, least they should defile the sacrament: and because it is written sancti estote: be yee holy.Aqui. add 3. part. q. 53. art. 3 As if that were no holy thing, that was instituted by an holy author,Innocent. dist. 81. cap. propos. blessed by an holy God, ordained at an holy time, ce­lebrated in an holy place, and per­formed vnto holy persons, as were Adam and Euah before their fall.2. Gen. 74. 13 Heb. 4. which the holy scripture calleth honorable vnto all men: and the sacred Paphnutius, Zozem. lib. 1. c. 23. Enemies 10 mariage were Tatian, Marti­onists, Eustachi­ans, Montanists, Priscilia [...]s [...]s, Iustin, Peneus, Eusebius, Epi­phanius, Al­phonsus de castro, &c. Ang. haeres. 25. with all the Ni­cen councell in the yeare 315. con­fessed and acknowledged concubi­tum cum propria vxore caslitatem esse, Copulation with a mans owne wife to be chastitie. Why then O you Tatian Papists and Eucratites exclude you coniugio vtentem mar­ried persons from your order? why embrase you Cainisme for­bidding [Page]him to bee consecrated Bishop,Hierom ad Oceanurr. that marrieth another af­ter his first wife be dead? quam hae­resin sequitur Romana ecclesia. Erasmus. Why then yee sacred Fryars, and chaste Carthusians, do you contemne that honorable calling? as if a married woman do come within your cloi­ster, it must be washed and cleansed after her with holy water.Euseb. lib. 5. c. 18. Alex. pope. 3. ad Epis Exon. de spont. c. Com. And why clap you hands rather with Montanus teaching the dissolution of marriage: then with God, that forbids to seperate that, which he hath conioyned? yea and with the Nicolaitans, 2. Apoc. 6. had rather vse promis­cua venere, vagis libidinibus, Sodo­mia, quàm legitima vxore: whore­dome,Epiphan. rom. 7. lib. 1. haere. 25. fornication, Sodomie, then lawfull wedlocke,1. Timot. 4 albeit the one be commanded, and the other for­bidden: but that yee preferre the doctrine of diuels, before the word of God, Antichrist before Christ, [Page]and false Atheisme before true re­ligion. For did not Christ make marriage the Image of his holy coniunction with his church, and gaue Peter the primacie of order among the Apostles that was a married man?Aug. quaesli. 27. ex vtre­que mixtu. Bellar. lib. 1. de cler. c. 18. And Bellarmine con­fesseth ther is no scripture that for­biddeth Ministers marriage.Epist. ad Phi­ladelph. Yea reuerend Ignatius wished to be found worthy to walke in the steps of the saints, namely of Abraham, Isaac, Iacob, Ioseph, Isaias, Peter, Paul and others [...] that liued in holy marriage. And protesteth that if any professor do call lawfull wedlocke and procrea­tion of children [...]: a defiling distaining or filthinesse,Can. 12. & 13. dist. 3. quoni [...]m. that he hath dwelling in him the dragon that fowle Apostate.Vliricus Epis. Aeneas. Siluius in sua Germania. The lawfulnesse of which calling was proued out of the word of God in the councell of Nice, and con­firmed [Page]by the Synod of Con­stantinople. Yea Gregorie him­selfe,1. Rom. 23. 1. Ioh. 5.25. beholding more then 600. childrens heads drawne out of a Fishpond, with blubbered cheekes condemned his decree of single life,Aug. doct. Christ. 3. cap. 7. Hierom ad Ripar. pres­byt. saying: melius est nubere quàm vrere: and melius est nubere, quam mortis occasionem praebere: It is better to marry then to buine, yea it is better to marry then to giue occasion of murder and destruc­tion.

Go now yee Papists to schoole vnto the Prophets, where hauing learden to discerne betweene the spirite of Christ and the Dragon, tell me how farre you are from Atheisme. Doe you not pray vnto reliques, and say vnto the crosse salue sancta crux: all haile holye crosse, and vnto the Napkin Sancte sudari or apro nobis, et sudarium Chri­sti [Page]libert nos a pesti et morte tristi, ô holy Napkin pray for vs, deliuer vs from the pestilence and euil death. If Atheisme had not possessed you,Sutliu us de eccl. Cath. Their silken garments kept at Rome are of the Italian fashion. how dare you call your cousning trash, sacred & holy reliques? Else must Peter & the sanits be mōsters, Iosepth & Mary be Italians, & Christ borne out of Bethleem. Howbeit the Valentinians were heretiques that worshipped the crosse: and do not the papists so? the Carpo­cratians were heretiques,Irenaeus lib. 1 Aug. heres. 7. &c. so was Marceline too, they for worshiping the Images of Iesus, and she of Iesus and Paule: and do not the Papists so?Bell [...]r. lib. 1. c. 13. de sanct. beat. The Collyridians were here­tiques for worshipping the Virgin Mary: and do not the papists so? yea must not euery country, citie, towne,Epiphan. li. 3. haerel. 79. Lactant. de vero cult. cap. 17. village, company, trade, occupation, and person, haue their Saint to worship by popish institu­tion? And were not the Angelici [Page]heretiques, because they worship­ped the Angels?Iraeneus lib. 2 c. 59. Aug. haer. 39 Rhē. Annot. Apoc. 3 yet the papists de­fend and maintaine the selfe same adoration against the scripture. Would you know where to finde Pelagianisme? then haue recourse to popery. That will teach you a man may be perfect in this life,Aug. haer. 88. and keepe all the commandements, as was Franciscus that kept the Gospell at an inch,Rhem. 5. Ioh. 5 sect. 1. lib. Cō [...]ormitat. non transgressus vnā apicem aut iotam: and failed not in any title: in whome were all the vertues of all the Saints in all the Bible vnitiuè et coniunctiuè, Con. Trid. ses. 6. cap. 18. Conc. Trid. ses. 5. cap. 1. de pecc. orig. gathe­red together and abiding. That wil tell you there remaines no origi­nall sinne in the faithfull,Rhē. Annot. Rom. 6.8.12 Sixius 4.ccc. Trid. cate­ches. Rom. that con­cupiscence in the regenerate is no sinne, nor against the commande­ment.Rhē. Annot. Luk. 5.1. 2. Cor. 5.10. That the Virgin Mary was conceiued without sinne; that righteousnesse may be obtained by the law. And that some are so iust [Page]in this life,Lyranns li. 3 cap. 19. Hiero [...]. ad­ueri. Pelag. lib. 2. Ephes. 2.3. as they need no repen­tance: let Hierom, Augustine, yea Christ and his Apostles affirme, and proue the contrary neuer so soundly. But it may be that these Catharists will lend some eare vnto their popish pillars.4. Heb. 3. Galat. Aug. haeres. 38. If so, who ac­cused the scholemen your famous founders of Pellagiànisme, as men opposite to the constant currant of the Fathers? euen your faithfull Roffensis, who conuicted Pighius your gallant Champion of Pella­gianisme? euen your valiant Domi­nicus Soto: yet Ruardus Tapperu [...] leaning vpon that broken staffe the Tridentine councell, [...]. Rom. Soto de nar. & grat. lib. 1. cap. 9. Tom. 2. art. 8. Con [...]. Trid. sess. 5. c 7. Lusitan Liri­ens. de quad. iust. lib. 1. c. 7. et cap. 25. Protoc. Fran [...]. art. [...]. Conc. Trid sess. 5. [...]ct. 5. doth all be­smeare and mudde himselfe in this heresie: But for all his Louinian Deaneship, Lirensis, a man of his owne stampe, is bolde to brand both him, and confessor Soto with Pellagianisme. Which infectiō hath so festred in the intrals of papistry, [Page]as sometime it breaths out Anabap­tisme,Aug. haer. 69. & cont. lit. Petil. sometimes leslenning the crime of originall sinne, and some­times denying it to be sinne at all. Now including the Church with­in the bounds of papistry;Theod. hist. lib. 1. cap. 19. & then excluding all that follow not the Pope. Sometimes flying,6. Math. 1. Tim. 4. Aug. haer. 46 Euscb. hist. 15. cap. 16. & 17. &c. & resisting the authoritie of the Magistrate, and sometimes denying him any medling or dealing with Church affaires: yea sometimes hauing their stabbers, poysoners, & priuie murderers: as they had of the Prince of Condy, the Duke of Sax­onie, Ioanna of Nauarre, and many other. O returne yee Prince mur­dering, & people killing Atheists, consider your teaching, which Christ calles hypocrisie, and Saint Paule the doctrine of diuels. You think to merit heauē by abstaining with the Manichie frō flesh, milke,Blondus. Plo­tinà. Eckius. Aug. cont. Faust. Man. lib. 19. ca. 22. cheese & egges, & feare you not to [Page]merite hell by soothing men in murder and adultery? If Montanus made lawes in compelling men to fast, you will maintaine with fire Theolesphorus Lent, Calixtus Em­bring dayes, Leos Friday, and Gre­gories Saturday.Philip Co­minaeus. Let the Maniches sweare neuer so fast per creatur as by the creatures: you will not be wanting to the Saints. Yea no oath must be so deare and holy as that, which is vsed by the bones and rē ­liques of the dead. Notwithstand­ing if you in very truth defie that masked Atheisme,Aug. haer. 50. Rhem. Anot. Acies. 17.29. Theo. baeret. fab. lib. 4. why defend you the heresie of the Anthropomorphi­tes, painting God in your churches like an aged man? But indeed Ne­storius his practise is your best Apo­logie, Qui magis christianus videba­tur quàm erat: you will make shew of that you neuer meane.Aug. haeres. 68. Euen your Iesuites that carry the name of Iesus, will sildome practise the [Page]workes of Christ. It may be you affect with Nestorius a kinde of gra­uitie, and dissemble continencie with a wan countenance, and a pale looke, but the more closely to insi­nuate your selues into Ladies com­panies, and womens clossets. For you are deuoted men: barefoote [...]lagellants and Franciscants, your [...]ownes shauen, cowles graye,Biel. sup. 4. dist. 16. q. 4. prop. 1. Aug. haeres. 57. and girdels must be full of knots: you wil obserue your canonical houres but not labour in any case, least you should transgresse the precepts of the Euchites. To eate flesh and be married an horrible thing among Carthusians: to touch money were to defile the Minorits: and to haue possessions were to transgresse the constitutions of Benedictus and Do­minicus: yea and not to follow the Apostate Iulian, Oreg. Nazin. orat. 1. cor. Agrip. de van. scient. albeit they carry the bag with Iudas. If they vow,Epiphan. haeres. 61. it must not be broken be it neuer so [Page]vngodly, and vnlawfull: put case they vowe virginitie,Thom. 1. quod liber. q. 15. Isi­d [...]r. Holco [...]. [...]n sap. cap. 2. lcct. 24. Rhem. Amot. 1. Cor. 7.28. and cannot keepe it, to marry were to dissent from the Apostolicke hereticke, without a dispensation from the Pope, for he onely may dispence with marriage.M [...]yr. in. cron. Fland. It is no sinne to make stewes of their Nunneries, and dennes for Sodomie of their Monasteries.Sabell. volater Polydor. And although they reueale it in confession, yet iura periura secretum prodere noli: they haue learnde a trick or two of Pris­cilianisme, Arno [...]d. Bri [...]i­ens. Grunth. lib. 3. Stibilius. be it murder or treason, yea against the Pope himselfe, they must not disclose it. But if it come to passe,Aug. haeres. 70. Caictam tom. 1. [...]act. 2. we confute these Athei­sticall conceits from the worde of God, they can appeale to counter­feite traditions,Aug. haeres. 70. and call them vn­written verities,Rhem. Annot. 1 chef. 2. [...]cct. 2. and with the Pris­clianist equall Apocrypha with scripture: and for a shift make more wordes of God then the Bi­ble. [Page]For if the Pastors teach it,Deut. 4.2. & 1 [...].32. Prou. 30.6. Apoc. 22.18. be it [...]euer so beside the scripture, yet it is to be taken for the word of God, and if Christ the sonne of God his Prophets & Apostles interdict & forbid such scripture coyning, and seale it with a searefull curese: then can the Pope create a new Christ, saying: qui creauit me dedit mihi cre­are se: & he that made me without my selfe,Gal. Biel. lcct. 4. in expol. can. missae. is made of me be my self. Wherfore if they destroy his natu­rall body,6. Iohn. borne of the Virgin Ma­ry, they can make him another bo­die created by the Priest, else you might esteeme them as blockish as the grosse Capernaites, that suppo­sed the flesh, bone, and blood of Christ, as he was borne of the Vir­gin should be torne in peeces with their teeth. And why not (saith their Angelicall Master) is not hoc, Aquin. part. 3. q. 75. art. 5. quod conficimus, corpus ex virgine: which is made in the consecration [Page]the body that was borne of the virgin Mary? No saith Harding, it is no visible and mortall body, but a glorified, immortall, impassible, & spirituall body. It is Corpus (saith Biell) tale non tantum, Biel. lib. 4. dist. 11. q. 1. quia non est in sacramente quantum: a body but without quantitie: Not so (saith Gardiner) the parts be distinct one from another.Gard. lib. 3. Yea saith Bellarmine, Bellar. lib. 3. de Eucharist. cap. 7. the body of Christ is in the sacra­ment, with all his parts and dimen­sions.Alex. Halespert. 4. q. 25. mēb. 1 Glost. can. qui bene non custo­diunt de concep. dist. 2. Bellar. lib. 3. cap. 24. For (saith Hales) if a Dog or Hog chance to eate it, traijcitur in ventrem, it passeth into their belly. Not so saith Bellarmine, but if a Mouse do chance to eate it, it cea­seth to be Christ his body. And good reason saith Caietan, Caiet. tom. 2. tract. 2. cap. 3. for spiri­tualiter, et non percipiendo, sed cre­dendo sumitur corpus Christi: Christ his body is eaten spiritually by faith, not carnally with the mouth. What then is it which nourisheth [Page]he body?Harding. apoll. The accidents saith Har­ling. For the accidents saith Bel­larmine, are eaten with the teeth: But where then is Christ his body? In heauen saith Bellarmine, Bellar. 3. de Eu­char. cap. 22. and at the same time on earth. Fie, fie, what a stirre is here contradicti­ons, impossibilities, vntrothes,Bellar. lib. 3. cap. 4. a­gainst reason, religion, & the scrip­ture, without any smacke of A­theisme. Very like that Atheisme must be packing frō Rome, where Antichrist swayes the scepter, be­ing opposite to Christ, an enemie to the Gospell and an aduersary to true religion. What?Apoc. 17. Aug. ciuit. 18. cap. 22 is the king­dome of Antichrist without a God? why, is the sonne without the father, the wife without an hus­band, a lining body without an head,2. Thessal. 2. and christianitie without Christ? but is Popery the king­dome of Antichrist, Rome the Me­tropolis or chiefe city of his king­dome, [Page]and the Pope the captain generall of this armie?2. Thessal. 2. yea if this be that Apostate kingdome, whose Prince is without controulement exalting himselfe aboue all that is God, and not regarding the God of his fathers.11. Dan. But the Pope maketh lawes to binde the conscience, and executeth with more seuerity the breaking of his popish precepts,Dist. 40. si papa. then the transgression of the Lords commandement: He can make new gods: set up Idols, and deny Iesus to be Christ. He can counter­feit the Lambe, yet speake like the Dragon: set in the temple, but to vndermine Christ: professe reli­gion, but to [...]uerthrow the gospell compute the time, describe the place, note the workemen, marke the building, & consider the whole proceeding of his kingdome, and you wil say the Pope is Antichrist.17. Apoc. The place which Iohn calleth Baby­lon, Tertul. ant. Iudae Hieror. Esa. 47. Aug. ciuit. 18. Orol. lib. 18. 3. Blondus. [Page]is by the Fathers construed to be Rome, for her situation, her go­ [...]erment, her type, her resort, her behauiour, and her citizens: who say, they are the ministers of Christ out serue Antichrist, euen the sub­jects of Romish Babylō, that purple coulo [...]ed whore. The time: when the imped [...]ments are remoued,Hieron Esa. 21. Decret. 6. Bar. [...]omil. 33. in cant. the Emperors [...]eate translated, and the R [...]maine Empire ouerthrowne: at what time the Pope must sit in the Emperors place,Hieron. prolog. de spiritu. sanct. free frō subi [...]ctiō, vniues fall Bishop, Christ his vicar, [...]ruling with two swords,Apoc. 13. can. nemini. 17. q. 3. can. ne [...]. 0. q. [...]. Greg. Epist. 7.3.8.78.79. Concil. Car­thag. sess. 1. dist. 21. Gratian. can. si [...]mpera­tor dist. 96. comman­ding Emperors to kisse his feete, boasting himselfe to be God, wor­shipped of men; subiecting pow­ers, disposing kingdomes, superior to generall councels, & free gouer­nour of all Christ his church. And now hee may dispence with the lawes of Christ, alter the Sacra­ments, and supplant all religion: [Page]for neminis est de sedis Apostolicae iu­dicio iudicare: his worde must go before the Gospell.Dam. 4.2. c. ex­trau. de maior. & obed. His worke­men, Massemongers,Can. cunct. 9. q. 3. Can. sunt qui­dam. 25. Q. can. si papa. dist. 4. Iuglers, ma­king wonders, faining miracles, se­ducers, Iesuites, Fryers, Monkes, Dominicks, Franciscans, Bene­dictans, &c. whome thou mai­est knowe saith Hierom, Can. n [...]minis [...] Q. [...]. Math. 24.2. Thessal. 2.2. Timo [...]. [...]. by their names and titles non ecclesiam Chri­sti sed Antichristi esse synagogam: to be the seruants of Antichrist. And for their calling (saith Procopius) si neque Moses, Hieron. aduers. Lu [...]an. neque ante eum Patri­archae, neque post eum prophetae, neque in noua lege Christus, Abba [...]. vrsper. in paral [...]. of Pro­copiu. that thus s [...]ke to luli [...]n the popes legate in Bohemia. neque Apostol [...] mendic antium ordinem instituerint, quis dubitet opus esse tenebrarune [...] Diaboli? If neither Moses, the Pa­triarkes, the Prophets in the olde lawe,Epist. ad Iustin coad. Iustin. in Nouel. antent. 131. de quaruor [...]anct. concil. neither Christ nor his Apo­stles in the new, ordained and ap­pointed these orders of begging Fryars: who can doubt but it is the [Page]worke of darkenesse, and of the diuel. Yea indeed the whole build­ing is nothing else but the worke of Satan: begun by heresie, con­tinued by discord, finished by su­perstition, and maintained by pol­ [...]icie, as false apparitions of saints, Angels, and diuels: wonders, re­liques, motions of Images, and in­finite other forgeries wherof their legend maketh mention. Where now is Antichrist, if this be not his kingdome? In the yeare 1074.Nauclerus. when Hildebrand was Pope, the Priests pronounced him to be An­tichrist: qui titulo Christi ageret ne­gotium Antichristi in Babylone: who vnder the title of Christ wrought the workes of Antichrist in Baby­lon: At this time terrible commo­tions, schismes, lightnings, tem­pests, earthquakes, &c. and among the rest was seene a fearful Comet,Naucl. Gen. 36 ex Iohan. Cap­grauo Anglo. whereof Elmerius a Monke of [Page]Malmesbury gaue this iudgments art thou come, art thou come? vnto many mothers hast thou brought woe and sorrow.Iacob. Mayor in Chron. I sawe thee long before, but now I be­hold thee more terrible, euen the very ruine of this land. And about this time was newes brought from Turway to the Emperor at Coleine, of a woman prophesing that Anti­christ was then in his full course: which woman suddenly vanished away, and was no more seene. Munster applies the Prophesie of Saint Paul concerning Antichrist vnto Rome: Greg. lib. 16. Epist. 30. lib. 4. Epist. 36. & 38. & li. 11. Epist. 3. Barnard. Cant. serm. 33. Petrarch resembleth Rome vnto Babylon: and Gregories notes of Antichrist are verified of the Pope. Bernard called the Pre­lates Pilates: the Ministers the ser­uants of Antichrist: and Archbi­shop Euerard decyphering by the scripture this man of sinne, con­cludes at the last, the Pope to be [Page]that Antichrist: to omit the coun­cell of Wormes, Sanonarola, Auentine annal. Boior lib. 7. and others. And shall Antichrist bring Apostacie into the church, oppose himselfe to Christ,Arnoldus Hay­balus. Wesselus. boast himselfe to be God, counterfeit the Lambe, but speake like the Dragon, & yet remaine without Atheisme? Tell me then what is Atheisme. O sir, to be a protestant is to be an Atheist: for he defies the Pope, preferres Christ before Antichrist, truth a­boue falshood, the worde before traditions, and God before Satan. Thus you make Atheists as you make heretiques: If a man resist the vanitie, idolatrie, and supersti­tion of your church,Platina in Paulo; 2. presently he is an heretique: to eate flesh on fasting dayes is heresie: yea to say there bee Antipodes, or to speake the worde Academia: vel serio, Auentine vbi prius. vel ioco: in sadnesse or in iest, is heresie.

But if thou wilt a very little open thine eyes,Rhem. Annot. Acts. 4. sect. 2. and not be obstinate with the wicked, qui impie agent, nec intelligent: that will do wicked-lie, and will not vnderstand,Aug. de corrup. & grat. cap. 14. thou shalt plainly perceiue who is both the heretique and the Atheist.Hieron. in Ha­buc. 2. The Atheist denies Gods prouidence: and the Papist denies him to haue a stroake in all our actions: both against scripture,Lumb. lib. 1. dist. 35. sect. 1. Specul. Pontif. Fathers, and their maister Lumbard. The Atheist de­nics God, heauen, hell, and the im­mortalitie of the soule: so did not Paulus the third, who being greedy to depart to is world,P. Acsquillu [...]. Popes. Atheist [...]. Lco 10 Alexan [...]. 6. Sil­trest. [...]. Paul. 3. Benedict. 9. Iohn. 13. Clemens. 8. Greg. 7. Specula. pontif. said: se iam tria, de quibus in omni vita multum dubitasset experiundo cogniturum: primo an esset Deus; deinde an essent inferni aliqua supplicia, et deni (que) an animae essent immortales: that he should now be assured of three things by experience, of which in all his life he stood in doubt: First [Page]whether there were a God: then whether there were any torments in hell: and lastly whether the soules were immortall. Neither was Iohn the 23. an Atheist, whom the Synode of Constance depriued of his Popedome, for denying the immortality of the soule: yet both these were Bishops of Rome. Christoph. Marcel. Concil. Later. sect. 4. The Atheist sets vp other Gods besides the maker of heauen and earth: and the Papists will haue the saints to heare our prayers, and know our thoughts.Extrau. Iohn. 22. cum inter in Gloss. But the Pope must be alter Deus: yea Dominus noster Deus. our Lord God. He may iudge the scriptures, make Saints, forgiue sinnes. He hath all power giuen him both in heauen and earth: He cannot erre,Lib. ceren. pontif. lib. 1. fol. 735. Luitprand, albeit he calleth for aide vnto the diuell when he playes at Dice, as did Pope Iohn the 13.Baleus. The Atheist makes Christ an Impostor: and [Page]Pope Leo the tenth called the Gos­pell Fabulam Christi: Trid. concil. sess. 4. c. 8. Flosc. bear. Franc. conform. vinea. &c. Bern. in Rosar. a tale, and a fa­ble. Yea the Papists make him but a Christ for fashion, when as they set vp other mediators, and hu­maine merits.Garat de inuoc. sanct. For wherefore came Clara with Francis into the world, but to saue all those, Quae eam inuo­caturae essent: that should pray vn­to her? doe they not call the virgin Mary Commune propitiatorium: the common propitiatory for the whole world, and wrest the scrip­ture from Christ vnto the Virgine saying: In te domina sper aui: mise­rere mei domina: dixit dominus domi­nae meae: I haue hoped in thee O Lady: haue mercie vpon me O Lady: the Lord said vnto my La­dy set thou on my right hand?Ladies psalter. &c. And no meruell, for when the di­uell in a certaine maide would not be moued with prayers made vnto the Father,I [...]engrious. Sonne, and holy [Page]Ghost,Bonauentura Ladies psalter. Psal. 41.10. Canisius laying the image of Mary vpō the head of the possessed, forthwith the diuell cryed out: O mulier quid me calcas, & caput me­um conteris; ô womā why dost thou spurne me and breake my head? Wherfore they sing vnto her Aue maris stella, Hym. Eccles. post psalmos Dauidis a G. Genebrardo ex­ornatos. & so forth as followeth in that blasphemous himne. These are they that cā shew vs a new way to heauen withoùt Christ, and yet be voide of Atheisme: as by Nico­las, Horae. ad vsum Sarum. In pontifical. lib. 1. sect. 7. Vincentius, Gregory, Petronella, Thomas Becket, Agnus dei, Angels, Images, workes & indulgences. Who affirmed the Philosophers might be saued without Christ?Andrat. lib. 3. Papists.Scotus prolog. sent. c. vnum extr. de maior & obed. Who depriues Christ of his man­hood? papists. Yea who disgrades him of all his offices? papists. Who makes new articles of saluation?C. 1. de consue­tudi. Gloss. in c. sect. dist. 34. &. c. pres [...]yt. dist. 82.16. Q. 1. quo­cunque in gloss. papists. Who can dispence against the Apostles, the new testamēt, the law of nature, and the law of God? Papists. Yea who denies Christ, [Page]his Church, and the Church her Christ? Papists.

The Atheist will play of all sides: with Elias worship Iehouah, 1. Kings. 18. and and with Iezabel offer sacrifice to Baal: with Sidrac, 3. Dan. Meshach, and Abednego honor the God of hea­uen, & with Nabuchadnezar wor­ship the golden Image.2. Math. Seeke Christ with the wise men, goe to worship the childe with Herod. In shew a Protestant, but in truth a Papist. For who indeauor to re­concile religions, to be mediators betweene God and Mammon, truth and falsehoods, protestants and papists? false surnamed Ca­tholickes.Philast, Brir. Episc. in cant. haeres. Who are those that with Rhetorius affirme all hereticks rectè ambulare, et rectè dicere: walke a­right, and speake the truth?The treatise made in Paris tending to pa­cification. That make treatises tending to Pacifica­tion, and say, the Popish religion is true as they take the word: and [Page]the Hugonites true as they vnder­stand the scripture? euen professed members of the Romaine Church. Is not this to make a felowship of righteousnesse, with vnrighteous­nesse: a communion of light and darkenesse;1. Cor. 6.14. a concorde betweene Christ and Beliall: and religion a composition of heresies? whereas Clemens reports thus of heretickes, that Magis impij sunt quàm Indaei, Clemens in Constitution. et magis sine Deo quàm Gentiles: more wicked then the Iewes, and more without God then the Gentiles. And God speakes thus of the La­ [...]dicean Church; because thou art luke-warme, and neither colde nor hotte, it will come to passe that I shall spew thee out of my mouth.3. Apoc 16. Take heed then of Themistius the Philosopher, that would perswade Valens the Emperor Deo gratam esse sectarum varietatem, vt it a pluri­bus modis colatur: that God was [Page]well pleased with varieties of sects, because by that meanes he may haue more sundry and diuerse wayes of his worship and seruice.Homer Odyss. And beware of those changelings,Plin. lib. 8. cap. 30. Aristo [...]. hist. 9.6 and Camelions: that can [...] dissemble very profoundly: vse the shepheards voice with the Hiena, but to destroy the dog, and cast forth sweet sauoures with the Panther, but to deuoure the beasts. For they are like the Remora hinde­ring the course of religion; and like those [...] false bretheren, [...]. Galat. that entered the church of Galatia: yea rather do as the Lord your God commaunded you,5. Deut. 32. and turne not aside to the right hand, nor to the lest.

The Atheist to destroy religion,Apolog. c. 1. sect. 3. will mainteine and establish all re­ligions: and the Pope for money will dispence with all religions: yea many religions must be pro­fessed [Page]in one commonwealth, that conscience may be free, and Eng­lish catholiques may haue liberty;32. Exod. 3. King. 18. yet Moses could not suffer the gol­den Calfe in Israel, nor Elias Baal, and God to be worshipped in one common-wealth;16. Psal. Dauid would not offer the offrings of blood;2. Macab. 6.24 nor Eleazarus dissemble to eate Swines flesh against the law; The Israelites must haue continuall war with the Amalekites; 25. Numb. and Phinees was highly commended for killing the Israelite, 21. Genes. that was coupled with a woman of Madian: For there is but one faith,1. Sam. 5.10. Leu [...]t. one baptisme, one God, one Christ, one Church,Tertul. de carō militis. and she no strumpet to receiue all commers: the Lyon and the Lambe cannot hoorde in one fowlde: Isaack and Ismael in one house;1. Cor. 10.2. Chron. 16.2. Chron. 18.1. Cor. 1.13.2. Timot. 4.5 the Arke, and Dagon, in one church; holy and prophane fire in one censer; Christ and [Page]Antichrist in one temple.Euseb. lib. 3. cap. 62. Socrat. lib. 5. cap. 2. Non bene connénit signo Christi et signo diaboli, castris lucis, et castris tenebrarum: non potest vna anima duobus deberi: and yee cannot drinke the cuppe of Christ and of Diuels. What pro­uoked Gods anger against Salo­mon, Asa, Amasia, and Iohosaphat? the permission of more religions in one kingdome: Christ must not be deuided, and Timothy must be­ware of Alexander: Constantine ouerthrew the temples of the he­retiques; and Iouinian denied to be their Emperor, that were disciples vnto Iulian. 3. Kings. 21. Amb. Epist. 5. Orat. cont. Auxent. Naboth defended his Vine with his blood; and Ambrose chose rather to dye, then to yeelde one of his churches to the Arrians. But to set vp more religions in a kingdome, is to bring peace vnto the countrie? very like, such peace as Simons Horse brought vnto Troy: Aeneas sword vnto Dido, [Page]and Deianira her shirt vnto Hercu­ [...]s. Brought not the suffering of [...]he Arrian great peace vnto the world, that had almost euerted Christ and christendome?Hiero. Epist. 62 Nihil [...]rande est pacem voce pretendere, et [...]pere desiruere, verbis somniare con­ [...]ordiam, Euseb. hist. 4. cap. 14. re exigere seruitutem: Iohn [...]he Apostle fled from Cerinthus, Ne balneae ipsae corruant: supposing the place could not long endure, [...]hat contained an enemie vnto the [...]ruth; And Polycarpus would not companie with Marrian that was [...]rimogenitum diaboli, the childe of Satan. May a man carry fire in his [...]osome, & not burne his clothes? and walke vpon hoat coales, and not scorch his feete? may a man suffer the plague in his house, and not infect his family? a Woolfe a­mong his Lambes; and not hurt his fowld? and a serpent in the cradle, and not spoile his childe? [Page]But such is heresie,Cyprian. Epist. 20. and false religion to the church and common [...] wealth: euen a plague that pierce [...] the hart: an ague that brings deat [...] eternall: a fire that burnes to destruction: and a serpent that sting [...] to perdition: and do not thes [...] men deserue better of religion then the Atheist,Tertul. deprae­script. that wish suc [...] losse vnto Christ,Hieron. Osc 2.7. and hurt vnto the Church?Ambrose. Epist. 80.

The Atheist pretends religion [...] but for pollicie: sometimes with [...] Herod the more easily to destroye [...] the infant, he also will go and wor­ship Christ: sometimes with Simon Magus, 2. Math. the better to win credit and profit, [...]. Actes. he also must be the great [...] power of God: sometimes [...]with [...] Ananias and Saphyra to conceak [...] his hypocrisie: and in a worde.5. Actes. with this vizard to couer rebelli­ons, murders, adulteries, & all sorts of villanies. And dooth this also [Page] [...]ouch the Papists? witnesse their Spanish Inquisition, their holy [...]eague; the Parliament of Prouince; [...]he court in France, Actes and Mo­numents. called the bur­ [...]ing chamber; and the blood of holy Martyrs, with the which om­ [...]is sere orbis infectus est: almost the whole world hath beene lately be­stained & besmeared. Here might you see dead mens bones brought to the barre, and there condemned to the fire for heresie; here might you see the mother burning at the stake, the childe from her wombe flying the firie flames,At the massacre in Antwerpe. yet throwne againe into the middest thereof for an hereticke. Now might you heare a hideous noyce crying occi­de, trucida, occide trucida, viuat missa, viuat missa, murder, kill, slay, let the Masse liue,Faelix Earle o [...] Wattenbr. and let all slide. And now might you heare men sweare, that they would ride vp to the spurs in the blood of the Lutherans. Illyricus. [Page]If this be not sufficient to open vn­to thee their Satanicall natures,Apoe. 12. in persecuting the seede of the wo­man: then attend a little, and tho [...] shalt apparantly behold their wol [...] ­uish corpes masking in sheepe [...] cloathing: perswading falshood for christian truth,Math. [...]. Math. 19. Math. 10. and prescribing deadly poyson, in lewe of whole­some potions to the slaughter o [...] many a silly soule. For wherevnto belongeth the withholding of the facred scripture from the hungry people, which are the blessed food and nourishments of their soules, commaunded and practised by Christ, the Apostles, and the Pri­mitiue church?5. Iohn. because for sooth the people being kept in ignorance (which they say is the mother of Piety) should not espye their workes,Christ. [...]om. 9. Epist. ad colloss. thereby to detest their knaueries: wherevnto appertaines their seruice in an vnknowne-toung,Concil. Trid. fect. 22. cap. 8. [Page]and hiding from the peo­ple the onely way vnto saluation,Bellar. lib. 2. de verb. c. 16. which is by Christ? but to shew their Iewish mindes vnto Christ,1. Cor. 14. and their Atheisticall conceits vn­to Christianitie. When a Iew of Ratisbone conuerted to the saith, was demanded, why the Iewes thirsted after the blood of Christi­ans, answered, it was a mysterie onely knowne vnto the Rabbins, and men of highest place [...] not­withstanding this was their cu­stome, if any of them were ready to make an end of this present life. a Rabbin annoynted him with blood, vsing these or such like wordes vnto him, saying: If he that was promised in the lawe, and in the Prophets hath truly appeared,Fincelius. lib. 3. de mirac. and if this Iesus crucified be the very Messias, then let the blood of that innocent mā that died, cleanse thee from thy sinnes, & helpe thee [Page]to eternall life. And Epiphanius re­ports thus of the Iewes of Tiberias, that they would whisper after this sort in a dying mans eare: Beleeue in Iesus of Nazareth, whome ou [...] Princes crucified, for he shal come to iudge thee in the latter day: were the Iewes adu [...]rsaries to Christ, and enemies to their cons­cience, and doe not our Papists se­cond them in their Atheisme? who teach a man must put his con­fidence in good workes, for they merit eternall life.Acts and Mo­numents, of the Bishop of Win­chester. Howbeit whe [...] Stephen Gardiner lying on his death bed heard the Bishop of Chichester telling him of Gods promises and free iustification by the blood of Christ, he said: what my Lorde will yee open that gap now? then farewell altogether: to me and such other in my case you may speake it, but open this window to the people, and then farewell alto­gether. [Page]And sir Christopher Blunt had these wordes at the time of his execution: Beare witnesse I dye a Catholicke,Anno. 1600. March. 18. yet so as I hope to be saued onely by the death and pas­sion of Christ, and by his merits, not ascribing any thing to my owne workes: yea and Bellarmine their great Goliah after much with­standing of the truth, at the last giues vp his verdit,Bellar. lib. 5. de iustifi [...]at. c. 7. saying: propter periculum maius gloriae tutissimum est fiduciam totam in sola Dei miseri­cordia et benignitate reponere: for the more assurance of future glo­rie, it is the safest way to put our whole trust and confidence, in the mercy and louing kindnesse of Almighty God.17. Luke. 9. Dan. For when wee haue done all that wee can, wee are but vnprofitable seruants, wherefore wee pray not in our owne righteousnesse, but in thy manifolde mercies.

Now let the Papist then speake whether he be that blood desiring or soule-deuouring Atheist: Pope Hildebrand, Benno Cardi­nal. in vita. & gest. Hilde­brand. quia diebus per paganos Christum publice persequi non pote­rat, per falsum Monachum sub habitu Monastico, sub habitu religionis nomen Christi fradulenter subuertere dispo­nebat: because he could not in publicke conueniently persecute Christ, he sought in secret vnde [...] the pretence of religion, deceitful­lie to subuert the name of the an­nointed.Seneca. The old Romaines profes­sed religion magis admorem, quam adrem: rather for fashion then for truth: and more to satissie the law, then to be pleasing vnto God. Wherefore Pontifex Sheuola said, expedit falli in religione ciuitates, Ang. ciuitat. 6. c. 10. & lib. 4. cap. 26. quia non nisi homines in metu quodam et officio continendos eandem proponi censendum est: It is expedient that cities should be deceiued concer­ning [Page]religion, because it serues to [...]o other end, but to keepe them in feare, and in their dutie. And to what other end belongs the Romish Indulgences and Popish Purgato­rie, but to keepe men in feare, and picke their purses? For who doe they place in Purgatorie but the rich and wealthy men, by whome they may haue proffit and aduan­tage by helping them out of pry­son,Bellar. de purg. lib. 2. cap. 15. & 18. and praying for them that they might haue ease?Platina. Yet Harding som­times called it purgatorij pictas flam­mas: and Papyraceos parietes: pain­ted flames and paper wals. And Platina recorded, that Pope Bone-face and 8. populis et regibus terrorem potius quàm religionem incutere co­nabatur: indeauoured rather to feare, and terrifie kings and people, then to instruct them in religion.Ioh. Dubrau. hist. Bohem. lib. 13.1. Did not the Popes Indulgences to the Bohemians, promise plenam [Page]condonationem delictorum: full par­don of all their sinnes, which made Iohn Hussius depart from the sea o [...] Rome? Huss. And Tetzelius that impu­dent publisher of that trash, per­swaded the people animam in coe­lum euolare quam primum iactu [...] nummulus in cista tinuerit: the soule should flye to heauen, so soone as the money gingled in the box, which made Luther forsake the Pope. And good reason, for what is his religion, but the high way to Atheisme, seeing no man will feare to sinne, that can buy it off with a little money?Taxa cancel. Apost. printed at Paris. 1520. Hath not per­iury, fratricide, theft, whoredome, murder, sacriledge, patricide, and euery sinne his price to be sould in the Popes shop?Lib. Tax. publi­shed at Rome 1475. An absolution for them that carnally know their mo­ther, sister, kinswoman: tantū quin (que) 13. Rom. Bar­nard Epist. 42. grossis est taxata: yea any sinne may haue his pardon for his price. Thus [Page]may the Pope not only breake the laws of God himselfe,Chrysest. in Rom. hom. 23. but likewise dispence with others for the same. He will not be subiect to Kings & Princes, nor permit his Priests,Theod. The­oph. Oecumen in Rom. lib. 4. sent. dist. 34. and Monkes to obey the word. Yea illa praecepta quaein [...]ege Dei de gradibus matrimonialibus lata sunt, Papa iure positiuo siue ecclesiastico immutare po­test. He may change the lawe of God, touching degrees of matri­monie: and now Emanuell king of Portugall may marry two sisters: and if the king of Naples marry his fathers sister,C. acsi Clerici. deiudiei [...]s. Vu [...]sleius Gronninges. [...]act. de indul­gent. Alexander the sixt can grant a dispensation: if the Priest & cleargie men be adulterers Episco­pis datur à pontifice dispensandi fa­cultas: the Pope will giue the Bi­shops power to grant them dispen­sations: yea Sixtus the 4. gaue the whole familie of the Cardinall of Saint Luce a dispensation to vse Sodomie in Iune, Iuly, & August. [Page]It may be you beholde a peece of their Atheisticall physnomie, but will you see it wholely vnmasked? Matchiauell that politique Atheist sets it downe for a principle: that Princeps, Mach. de prin­cip. cap. 17. quum morte adficere ali­quem cup [...]t, speciosum aliquem pra [...] textum adhibere debet: The Prince must haue alwayes some probable pretence sor his practise, and then he may proceed vnto his murders.Dion. in Ne­rone. Dion. in Cara­calla. As had Nero, when he put his Mo­ther to death, and Caracalla, when he killed his brother Seta: The Iewes making stirres and commo­tions in Indea and Samaria, Iosephus lib. 4. de bello Iudaic. about the time of Neroes Empery preten­ded religio, and ins [...]uta maiorum, religion and statutes of their aun­cienters to be the cause of their rebellion, whereas indeed they ca­red for nothing lesse then for reli­gion. Templum enim, pro cuius gloria pugnarese dicebant, igne consumpse­runt, [Page]et pertinacia sua vrbem et eccle­siam extrema clade deuastarunt: for they burned the temple for which they said they tooke vp armes, and by their obstinacie vtterly destroy­ed the citie, and the temple. And is not the Popes pretence religion, when he would achieue any mat­ter, or performe any mischife? for who so fulfils not the Popes mind, must by and by be an hereticke.Volatcran. What translated the Empire of Constantinople? heresie, as the Popes did please to call it.Philip. haeret. Auno. 713. And why was Philip the Emperor denounced to be an hereticke? quod ex mandato Dei Idola ex templis sustulisset: be­cause he tooke Idols out of the Temples, and from the Chur­ches, according to Gods comman­dement. Why was Fredericke the second an heretick? for holding the wrong stirrop of the Pope; why was Philip of France an hereticke?4. Philip. [Page]because hee would not take v [...] armes against forraine nations,Betrand. hist. Thol. Guido. Perpin. lib. de haeres. a [...] the commandement of Pope B [...] ­niface the eight. How was Raim [...] handled by his holinesse,Egiliard. for n [...] burning the Albigenses? And w [...] not religion his pretence,Palmerius. when [...] exiled Desiderius king of Italy, with wife and children into Lions, there to end his dayes in misery, and his kingdome made S. Peters patrim [...] ny?Yet it was cuident Guisi­es non religio­nem sed regio­nem affectare. Was not religion the pretence of that infamous Masacre of Frāce, of the poysoning of Iohn king of England by a Monke, albeit the king had farmed his crowne of the Pope? And is it not a Popish acti­on haeriticis non esse fidem seruandam a man may breake his oath, troath, and faith, that is plighted to an he­retick? Religion was the pretence, wherefore Henry the third of France was killed by a dissembling Monke Religion was the pretence [Page]why an hypocriticall Papist shot the Prince of Auris with a Gunne, after he had humbly saluted his [...]aiestie. And is not this a Popish Theorem, principi protestanti qui si­ [...]em non seruat, qui prodit, qui perdit, [...]m non delinquere? It is no sinne to forsweare, deceiue, betray, and murder, a Prince, that is a prote­stant. Vnder this pretence two Ia­ [...]bins, with a crosse in their handes procured the murdering of more then 4000. Christians in Lisbon, but were publickely burned for it in Ebora, Anno. 1600. at the commandement of Emanuell the king. Vnder this pretence a Gray Frier named bro­ther Ferdinand dela place perswa­ded the king of Castile, to put sundry Christians to death cal­ling them Apostates.

Vnder this pretence of religion did Phocas kill Mauritius the Em­peror and his children, and was [Page]absolued both from murder and treason by Pope Boniface, vpon this conditiō, that as Phocas should be Emperor,Platina in vi [...] Bonifac. [...]. so the Pope should be Episcoporum princeps and caput ecclesiae: the prince of the Bishops, and head of the Church: and can a Church whose head is the Pope, & not Christ, be without Atheisme,Specul. Pontis. A church that hath many heads at one time? Yea and vnder this pre­tence did Boniface the eight Dart regna et auferre bestow & take away kingdomes,Platina. and gather, aurum plus­quam dici potest, gold without mea­sure: vnder this pretence the Pope sent Parry, Ianuary 3. 1584. to kill our blessed Queene Elizabeth, promising him for his labor pardon of all his sins: and calles it an holy act. Yea vnder this pretence they sent forth ex­communications both against Prince and subiect, debarring the one from his dignitie, and the o­ther [Page]from his dutie. Thus Sixtus the 5. excommunicated Henry of Burbon king of France, the fourth of that name, calling him the pre­tenced king of Nauarre: and Henry Prince of Condy, saying: Nos illos illorun que posteros priuamus in per­petuum, &c. We depriue them,Datum Romae apud 5. Marcū. Anno. 1584. 5. idus Septemb. Anno primo nostri pontifi­catus. & offices &c, and then absolues all their nobles, vassailes & subiects of their oathes, allegeance, and duties in paine of excōmunication: And siquis hoc attenuare praesumpserit, indignatiouem omnipotentis Dei, et beatorum Petri, ac Pauli Apostolo­rum eius se nouerit incursurum: If a­ny shall presume to diminish any whit hereof, he vndergoes the wrath and indignation of almigh­ty God, and of his blessed Apostles Peter and Paule. Yet Pope Clemens the 5. abrogated the decree of Bo­niface [Page]the eight, and freed Phil [...] king of France from the curs [...] thereof. And S. Augustine was o [...] the contrary minde, in his Epistl [...] to Auxilium, Lib. 5. cap. 7. Ernan. con. c. 7. Aug. Epist. 75. how be it not subiect to his Popish penalty. Thus Boni­face the 8. Martin the 5. Iulius th [...] 2. sent many thundering excom­munications into France, but the [...] were all disabled by the Counse [...] and court of Paris in France. Gratian. c. siha­bes 24. q. 3. Thu [...] delt Gregory the 9. with Frederick [...] sending three Bulles to tormen [...] him: In the first accusing him of sacriledge, periury, lying, cruelty, patricide, and all vngodlinesse. In the second freeing all people, Ci­ties,Extat. apud Auentinum. in Anal. cont. brid. 2. Imperat. Townes iure iurandi religione from their oathes, & commandes it to be preached vnto the people. In the third, he calles him here­ticke, beast, with other vilde tearmes, commanding all Christi­an people, if they will haue God [Page] [...]o tender them, and to haue mercy [...]pon their soules, not to fauour the Emperor, in deede, worde, or thought. Yet saith God, thou shalt not speake euill of the ruler of the people.2. Leuit. 22. Exod. Thus delt Gregory the 7. with Henry the 4. most miserably [...]yranizing ouer the silly Emperor, stirring vp trayterous Rodolph a­gainst his Lord and Maister,Antoninus part. 2. & sen­ding him a golden crowne with this inscription. Petra dedit Petro, Benno Cardi­nal. Petrus Diadama Rodolpho the rocke gaue the diadem to Peter, and Pe­ter bestowed it vpon Rodolph: but it was the ouerthrow both of the Pope & Rodolph For Zedechias per­iury shall not go vnpunished,Ezechi. 17.17.18. be­cause he dispised the oath. Thus delt Paulus the 3. with Henry the 8. king of England a prince of happy memory. And his Popish Poole perswaded with Charles the 5. trans­ported his army prepared against [Page]the Turke into England against Henry the 8. because the Pope be­ing banished from hence,Cardiral Poole lib. 3. ad Hen. 8. here wa [...] sparsum semen Turcicum. Turcism [...] was sowed in the land. Thus de [...] Clemens the 5. with Franciscus De [...] ­dalus Duke of Venice: But it were a world to rip vp all their Bulle [...] and cruell treasons. Religiosulos, pe­regrinationum et votorum praetext [...] obambulantes prouincias, Cornel. Agrip. de vanit scient. explorae [...] secreta, ad omnium proditionum ge­nera extractos esse: their Fryars, and walking mates, vnder pretence of vowes and pilgrimages, are fitte companions for all treacheries & treasons. And no maruell seeing it is a principle of Papistry: that eue­rie oathe and vowe must be holy vnto the Pope; but neither vowe, nor oath vnto the Prince, but what shall please his Popedome. Neither are these Bulles and Bull­men hurtfull onely vnto Princes, [Page] [...]ut also full of blasphemies against almighty God: as is euident in the Bull of Pius Sixtus vpon the cele­bration of the Iubily,Ex promonstrē Ioh. Bal. H. Bul­ling. Cornel. Agrip. and in the Bull of Gregorie the 9. directed to Albert Beham of Bath. Notwith­standing least I seeme to dwell o­ [...]uer-long vpon this demonstrati­on: I come vnto the thundring Bull of Pius Quintus, roaring and breathing out his beastly threats against our gracious Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth, thus popishly inscribed. Sententiam declaratoriam contra serenissimam Reginam Anglia [...]es ei adhaerentes haereticos. Qua etiam declar antur absoluti omnes sabditi à [...]iuramento fidelitatis, Datum. Romae a pud sanctum Potium 5. kalēd Mart. Anno. 1569. et quocun (que) alio [...]debito, et deinceps obedientes anathe­mate illaqueantur. A sentence de­claratory against the most renow­ned Queene of England, and all her hereticall adherents, absoluing all her subiects from their oath of [Page]trustinesse [...]loyaltie, and whatso­euer other duty, accursing with a fearefull execration all those, that shall yeeld vnto her any seruice or obedience. Beholde the fruites of Romish religion, periury, treason, disobedience, and vilde reuiling of the Lords annointed, calling her serua vitiorum: the woman seruant of vice and wickednesse. And why? because she yoaked not her selfe vnto his Popeship: held not his stirrup with Ludouicke. yeelded not her necke with Fredericke: nor gaue him homage paying a hun­dred markes a yeare with Richard: therfore she is a pretēced Queene,Anno. 1569. and must be excōmunicated, cur­sed, disherited, and what not. Now must D. Morton stir vp the English Catholicks to rebellion, and raise cōmotions in the Noth now must auriculer confession cast the anker of conspiracy: and the traterous [Page] Iesuites lay their bloody handes vp­on the Lordes anoynted a faith­full progeny issuing from a mur­dering spanish souldier Ignatius de Laiola. Concil. Chal­ceden. Niceph. 13. c. 34. Yet thus delt not the primi­tiue Church with Constantius, and Anastasius, albeit both atached of heresie, the one with Eutichisme, and the other with Arrianisme. But what thinke our moderne Pa­pists, of this Antichristian Bull? First they demaund An catholici non teneantur virtute Bullae con­tra eam arma sumere, These & many more Articles of the same sort were found and taken in the search for Dauid Engle field in York eshire [...] & recorded there in the memo­ries of the coū [...] cell: intituled Ad consolatio­nem & instructi­onem Anglorū catholicorum & confessariorum. eam depo­nere, incarcerare, vel occidere da­ta opertun [...]ate et victoriae conse­quendae probabilitate, &c. Whether the Catholickes are not bound by the ver [...]ue of that Bull to take vp armes against her Maiesty, to depose, imprison or kilher, if opor­tunity serue, or if there be any pro­bability of the victory: vnto which is answered: non teneri nisi, &c. [Page]They are not simply bound there­vnto by the vertue of the Bull, ex­cept the matter be so handled, as they may be assured of the victory: and in that case, all are bound to doe their vttermost for the com­mon good of faith and religion. Secondly they demaund An stante Bulla in virtute priuatus possit eam [...] occidere: whether it be lawfull for a priuate man to kill her by the vertue of the Bull: To which it is answered: It is lawfull out of doubt,Papists are no traytors. if he be sure by that meanes to deliuer the kingdome from op­pression. Thirdly An Catholici, &c. whether the Catholicke may take an oath that Elizabeth is the true Queene of England. To this after some demurre is answered, albei [...] they must not sweare falsely: yet they may hide, and couer the truth with any kinde of aequiuocation or doubling, especially if the de­mandes [Page]be not according to lawe,Bulla quatenus spectat ad fauo­rem religionis & catholicorum efficax & inte­grum man [...]. or before a lawfull Iudge: As if it be demanded whether she be the true Queene, it is enough for their oath if they vnderstand it, that so indeed the common people take her, or her adherents or after any other sort. Fourthly An Catholici, &c. Whether the Catholickes for all their oath may by the vertue of the Bull take vp armes against her Maiestie vpon any oportunitie: wherevnto they answer,Basil. Yet God accepts of the oath according to his meaning that giues the oath, or as he vnderstands it to whome we sweare. they may do it in the case of religion: yea although there were no Bull, yet it is lawfull to ouerthrow & thrust a tyrant from the throne. Lastly (to omit the rest) An princeps ant regina ipsa excommunicata, &c. Whether the Queene being excommunica­ted and denounced an heretick, she be also depriued of the right & ti­tle of the kingdome, & the people freed from their oath & allegiance [...] [Page]To which is answered affirmatiue­ly,Yet all the Pa­pists in the world are not able to con­uince her Grace of any heresie or tyrannie. adding moreouer, that the Queene of England not onely be­cause she is a heretick and a tyrant, but also because she rules with the hurt, losse, dammage, and distur­bance of the whole Church of England, may be lawfully thrown from her kingdome, had there bin no bull published against her. Beholde how they make the lawes of God of none effect: Per­iurare, fallere, dissimulare: to for­sweare,Mach. com. 2. cap. 13. dissemble, and deceaue is a commaundement of their good Lord Machiauell: If they be sum­moned before heretickes, sophisticè iurare et sophisticè respondere: to sweare deceitfully and to answere Sophistically is authorized by their Canons.Int. qu [...]st. ad tri­bunal. iudicis pertinentes Q. 2. quomodo respond. in tri­bunali haeret. Indeede the heretickes called Henriciani and Apostolici, Iu­ramenta nec licita probarunt, nec pe­ier are dubitarunt, neither allowed [Page]bathes as lawfull, nor made any question to breake them, or to be forsworne.2. Luke. Christ bids vs indure with patience: the Pope cōmandes to resist with violence.1. pet. 3.2. 3. Colo [...]. 2. Titus. Iude. S. Peter saith honor the king: be subiect saith S. Paule, and speake not euill of those that are in authority is the concord of the scripture: curse not the king saith the wiseman: pray for kings saith the Apostle,10. Eccles. 1. Timoth. 1. 1. Tim. 2. 2. Math. and giue to Caesar that which is Caesars saith Christ. Colimus imperatorem vt ho­minem à Deo secundum, we reue­rence the Emperor as one next vn­to God saith Tertullian. Tertul. ad Scap. Tertul. Apol. Christians prayed for the Emperor in the primitiue Church, and were no rebells: yea it was the poesie of the Elder Church malumus occidi quàm occidere, we had rather be killed, then kil.Aug. de morib. eccles. catho. lib. 1. c. 30. Catholica ecclesia docet popu­los vt se subdāt regibus: the catholick Church teacheth the people to be [Page]subiect vnto Kings: and [...].Can. Apost. 83. If any re­uile the King, or dishonor the Maiestrate, if hee be a Clergy­man, he must be deposed, or if a lay man, excommunicated. Con­stantinus, Valens, Valentinian the younger, Anastasius, Iustinian, Her aclius, Iustinian the fourth were hereticall Princes, & Iulian was an Apostate, yet the church of Christ indured,Aug. in Psal. 124. serued and obeyed them: milites Christiani, seruierunt Imper a­tori infideli. Dauid would neither kill Saule, nor suffer any of his soul­diers to lay their handes vpon the Lords anoynted.1 Sam. 16. 1. Sam. 22. 1. Sam. 24. 1. Sam. 26. Aug. cont. lit. Perili. lib. 2. cap. 48. Ecce Saul non ha­bebat innocentiam, et tamen habebat sanctitatem non vitae fed vnctionis: Yet Dauid was a man of God. A­t [...]naricus king of Gothes, when he came to visite Theodosius the Em­peror said: sine dubio Deus terre­nus [Page]est Imperator, Baul us Diacon de gest. Rom. lib. 1. contra quem qui­cunque manus leuare missus fuerit ip­se sui sanguinis reus extitit: out of doubt the Emperor is another God on earth, against whome who so shall seeme to list vp his hands, is guilty of his owne bloud and destruction. Yet Athanaricus was an heathen.D. Allen lib. of the defence of Catholickes 8. Iohn. Walden Cont. Wicleu [...]stas lib. 2. 5. Prou. 17. Deut. 1. Sam. 9. 1. King. 12. 1. King. 17. But the Iesuites both against the scripture, nature, religion, and all antiquity allow the murdering of Princes: an eui­dent signe who is their father. The Papists say kings raigne by the Pope: but the scripture saith they rule by God. And he that resistes the king withstādes the ordinance of God. Ieroboham was an Idolater, yet none of the Prophe [...] perswa­ded any of the people to kill him. Ahab was an Idolater, yet Elias seekes no insurrection. Ieremy vn­der Zedechias, Daniel vnder Nabu­chodonoser, Christ vnder Pilate, Iohn [Page]vnder Herod, Paule vnder Faelix, and Peter vnder Nero line, yet moue not the people to rebellion. But the Papists haue beene the au­thors almost of all the warres euer­sions, and dissentions, that haue happened for the space of 700. yeares in disturbed Christendom. Gregory the second, Gregory the third, and Leo the third made Italy decline from their soueraigne Em­peror. Adrian the first set the Frenchmen against the Lombardes, and maintained Pippins rebellions against king Childerick. Were they not Popes that set the Frēch & Ger­mans at oddes, that held war them­selues against Henry the 4. & the 5. Fredericke the first, and the second Ludouick Bauarus: and suggested o­thers to do the like? Were they not Popes that disturbed Naples & A­ragon? sowed discorde betweene France and Spaine, the Greekes and [Page] Normans: England & Frāce: France and Germany: Prince and peo­ple?Hist. Flor. lib. 1. Guiccard. lib. 1. Machi. hist. Flor. lib. 1. Insomuch as Machauell could note the Romaine Church to bee the cause of all the calamities of I­taly. What should I here relate the hurliburlies raysed and increased by Iulius the second? the slaugh­ters caused by Innocentius the third,Of Nice, and Go [...]stantinopl. Synod. Carthag. can. 6.2 q. 2. c. placuit. c. 36. Gratian. [...]st. 22. [...]renouintes. Tonstal burned English testa­ments at Paules crosse. and Nicholas the third? these may giue vs a tast, that their whole reli­gion is but politique Atheisme. It were worth the noting to marke how they corrupt the scriptures: suppresse the trueth, depraue the auncient counsels: falsifie Synods, change the Canons, set vp fictions, displace antiquities; forge nouel­ties; falsifie laws; faine authors; per­uert tables; burne bills; set some of the fathers vpon the racke, & thrust the rest into purgatory. Witnes one for many: Bellarmine their chiefe champion, whose pollicy is [Page]sometime to change the state of the cause at his pleasure: sometime to trouble the whole order with new distinctions on the wordes: Now to giue one and the same au­thor yea one and the same booke both the liking and the lie,Index expur­gatorius. as it shall be for him, or against him: then to turne the affirmatiue sentences of the fathers into Negatiues,Abraham. Sculteti. Epist. nucupator. and their negatiues into affirmatiues: otherwhiles to quote halfe a speach and period for the whole: and then againe to bring in coun­terfeites among the fathers coine: yea and to preferre the barbarous translations of the Latins (if they serue his turne) before the purity of the Grecian coppies, that make not for him. And it is no pollicie to keepe their nouices frō reading the booke of protestants?Concil. Trid. or was it not foxlike cruelty to condemne William Tolwin for an heretick, be­ing [Page]maister of artes, because he had bookes of Frith, and Ridley, Melan­thon, and the confession of the Ger­mans, Anno. 1541. compelling him to recant it at Paules crosse?Bellar. lib. de Rom. pontific. 2. & 3. And now men must build their faith vpon the Popes mouth, for he cānot err. Yet Liberius was an Arrian: Acasias 2 Nouatian: Honorius 2 Monothelite. Siluester the 2. Iohn the 18.Gratian. 2. dist. 19. Platina. Luitprand. Iohn the 19. Iohn the 20. Bennet the 8. Bennet the 9. Gregory the 7. were Negro­mancers. Iohn the 13. maintained o­pen stewes. Boniface the 8. was foūd guilty of heresie, murder,Fascie. tempo Theod. a Nieen lib 3. cap. 9. Abbas Vrsperg. Simo­ny: and Iohn the 14. was conuicted of heresie by the counsell of Constance. Howbeit the Papists would not beleeue the scriptures, no not Christum natum, passum &c.Benno Cardi­nal. that Chrst was borne, suffred, rose, neither the resurrection, life euer­lasting, the trinity, no nor that there was a God, Nisipropter ecclesiae au­thoritatem, [Page]but for the authority of their Church: and yet the church depends vpon the Pope,Stapleton lib. 1. 10. sect. 3. &c. 2 sect. 6. &c 2.13. sect. 12. qui plerū (que) tantū in se fidei habet, quantum Tur­carum imperator, who for the most part hath as much faith and religiō in him,Whittach. cont. Staplet. oc au­thor. sact. script. lib. 1. cap. 2. as their great Turke. And I pray you what more high way can there be vnto Atheisme, then to build faith scriptures, church, and all vpon the Pope, in whome is no­thing but a masse of heresie, and infidelity? No maruell now, if the canon of the scripture be so vn­certaine among the Papists, seeing the Pope may detract, & adde vnto it what he list. If the third councell of Carthage decree vpon a canon,Trid. concil. sess. 4. cap. 2. yet may the councell of Trident adde vnto it Baruch and Ecclesiasti­cus: by the priuiledge of his Pope­ship Rhenatus Bcnedictus vpon com­mission may adde the 3.Lib. 1. cap. 8. stromar. & 4. books of Esdras to the Canon. And his [Page]papacie may put in more into the canon, then either the Fathers,Concil. Laod. c. 84. Origin. Gelasius. Nazianz. Hieron in pro­log. Galiato. Athanas. in synops. sacr. script. or the Laodicean councell: and for the interpretations of the scriptures, if the Romists interpret it, it must stand for the word of God, be it meuer so false and ridiculous. But can the Papists deride their religi­on? How thinke you? what did Hildebrand the Pope whē he asked councell of the diuell?Hosius de ex­pres. verbo Dei. or the Bi­shops & the sacrifising Priests, de­manding Satans iudgement & po­licie touching the ruine of the Flo­rentines, signo dato hostiam, Benno Cardi­nal. id est de­um suum igni inijciunt: when they receiued a discōtented signe,Volater. lib. 5. Georg. they threw their host, that is their God into the fire. Boniface the 8. because Procherus tooke part with the Gibel­lines, Harding. Confut. Apol. Anglic. which were his aduersaries, said vnto him vpō Ashwednesday the solemne day of ashes: memento homo quod Gibellinus es, Concil. Later sess. 10. sub. Leone. 10. et cū Gibelli­nis in terrā reuerteris. Remēber mā [Page](not that thou art ashes) but that thou art of the stocke, and facti­on of the Gibellines, Nauclerus Ann. 677 Agathon in the first gene­rall Councell at Constantinople. and that with the Gibellines thou shalt returne vnto the earth, and forthwith he threw ashes in his face. Do they not defend whoredome, taking tri­bute à meretricibus of stewes and harlots? do they not defend vsury, and call them montes pietatis rockes and mountaines of piety and de­uotion? And was not Iohannes de Casa an arche Prelate, that wrote a Booke in the commendation of Sodomy?Sinon caste tamen caute. To omit their baptizing of Bels, and their other fopperies: are not these sufficiēt to shew, what house they come of?Agrippa [...]duers. Louani [...]ns. did not Ec­chius call marriage beastlinesse, and yet himselfe had three bastards, the same yeare he disputed thereof at Lipsia? But these chaste patrons do not forsweare fornication, adulte­rie and vncleanenesse, but onely [Page]lawful wedlocke, and honest mar­riage.Ross. lib. de [...]ust. reip Christ. Imp. eap 5. If I should tell you what smal conscience these Papists make of rayling, slaundering,Hard. in defens. Apol. lying & blas­pheming, their Atheisme would be ouer plaine and palpable. Who so shall read Alanus: Bristow: Staple­ton: Rishton: Hamilton, Bellar. praefat. 2 [...] controu. de Christ. Bozius, Vlen­berge, Verstergan, Ecchius, Cocleus: Stapilus: Bolsecus: Bellarmine, Rhēmist. vbiq [...]. Hard­ing, and the Rhemish testament: where they call the protestants, Turkes, Pagans, Monsters, miracles, Gerions, Briareans, Minotaurs, Cen­taures, lyers, impudent, foolish, shameles, ignorant, witles, iewish,Staple. in Whit­tak. & de Iewello [...]u [...]e. 9. heathenish, blasphemous, villaines, harlots, madmen, theues, coblers, cananites, apostates, heretickes, di­uells, letchers, tinkers, tapsters, fid­lers, pipers, that they make no ac­count of the articles of their faith,Bellar. denotis Eccles. lib. 4. cap. 8. and such like, may easily discerne in them the spirit of the dragon and of Atheisme. They make no bones [Page]to bely religious and good men (so they might colour their religion) as you may see by these two ex­amples in steede of many.

They write that Caluin calling vp­on the diuel, blaspheming & swea­ring gaue vp the ghost, cursing the day when he began to apply him­selfe to study and writing: yea that in his life time he had forsaken the Church of God,Cyprian. and betaken him­selfe to papisme: but mendacia di [...] non fallunt: lyes last not long: For Caluin answering for himselfe saith: fallitur Diabolus cum tota su [...] caterua, Calu. in Epist. instit. Christi [...]. si me putidis suis mendacijs obruendo, hacindignitate fractiorem ve [...] magis lentum fore putat: quia De­um prosua immensa bonitate daturum mthicōsido, vt in cursu sanctae suae vo­cationis aequabili tolerantia perseue­rem: the diuell is deceiued with all his army, if ouercharging me with their stinking lies he thinks by this indignitie to weaken and discou­rage [Page]me: because I trust that God of his goodnes will so inable me as I shall perseuere in the course of his holy calling, with the same paines, and patience. And of Beza they set out many copies in print, that him­selfe at his death did turne Papist & with him the whole church of Ge­neua in this sort.Theod Reza. a [...]oan Gui [...]. Stuck [...]u [...] Sac. The [...]log. in [...]c­cles. Tiguri [...]. profess. Epist. & pastorum ac profess. Gene­uens responsio­on put [...]diss. & impudentiss. Commentum Monachorum sacr. nomen Iesu ementium de The [...]dori Bez [...] obi [...]u ci [...]dem ac totius Eccle­si [...] Genauen [...]ad p [...]o [...]uum de­fectionem. Theodorus Beza vt semortivicinū sensit, corā pleno senatu Geneuensi palinodiam cecinit, hortans et per dei amorē eundē senatū totum (que) populū Gen [...]uensem rogans, vt si cohae­redes Christi in aeterna vita esse velint relicto errore Caluinismi, ad catholicae s [...]dis obseruanti [...]m et religionem toto pectore sese conuerterent, &c. which Beza himselfe suruiuing conuicted of falshood, & the whole Church of Geneua writing in their owne & his behalfe proued to be a detesta­ble slander & sham [...]les lying fictiō. And are they lesse liberall of their blasphemies that say we are able to do more thē we ought, yea plusquā [Page]reuer a facere teneamur, Bellar. lib. 2. de Monach. cap. 13 more then we are bound to doe by the law of God. And if we cannot keepe the law of God Deus esset omni tyran­no ini quior et crudelior: then were God more cruell and vniust then any tyrant.Naziacez. Notwithstanding [...]: not to sinne is aboue the reach of man.Rhē. 1. Tim. [...]. Aquin. supple. 25. q. art. 1. And what Papist cā loue the Lord with all his hart, minde, soule, and strength, that make the Pope equal to God and his Christ? Papa et Christus faciunt vnū consistorium the Pope and Christ make one con­sistory. That say Francis did as much as Christ imo plura fecit quam Christus: yea he did more then Christ.Pomormitan. lib. confirmitat. That call the scriptures dumbe,Defens. Apol. Iewell. dead, and Inckhorne diui­nity, yea & deny there is any iot of diuinity in them, que nos ad credē ­dum: that can bind vs by religion to beleeue them.Pigh. 3. de eccl. Eckius. Is not this the ve­ry top of Atheisme, to deny the [Page]scriptures to be the word of God?Andrad. lib. 3. defens. concil. Trid. For this cause they haue printed bookes of the insufficiency of the scriptures, & the vncertainty of the same.Ecchius. Enchir. de author. eccle. resp. 3. de ob­iect. haeret. And now they must not bee Authenticke nisi ecclesiae authoritate vnlesse the Church authorize thē. For omnis quae nunc est scriptura­rum authoritas, ab ecclesiae authorita­te dependet necessario: all the autho­rity, which now the scripture hath, depends necessarily vpon the au­thority of the church.Pighsus lib. 1. de H [...] rarch. Eccles. cap. 2. No neither should they be cannonicall, nor be of any force among the Papists ni­si nos ecclesiae doceret authoritas: but for the authority of their Church: yea tantum valent, Hossius. lib. 3. de author. scrip. quantum Aesopi fabulae: but for the testimony of their Church, they would esteeme no more of the scriptures, thē they doe of Aesops fables.Hossius. lib. 2. cont. Bren [...]n. No maruell then if they make Dauid a Ballad maker, and equall fables, Canons, Epistles, Extrauagants, Constitu­tions, [Page]and traditions with the scrip­ture or if they make new scriptures as Nouum Euangelium, Hosius lib. de verbo Le [...]. the new gospell,Andrad lib. 2. Lindan lib. 1. c. 4. & 5. dist. 15. Sancta Roma. our Ladies Psalter, the le­gends of Martirs: new sacraments, prefer traditiōs aboue the scripture and make traditions the foundati­on of the scriptures. Scripturae au­thoritas euanescit penitus, nisieam tra­ditio in sundamentū stabiliat, wheras no Turke, Ioh. Cuspian de Saracenis. or Saracē dare change one iot of Mahomets lawe: the Papists dare change the law of God: take the cup frō the people, decreed by Pope Iohn the 23,Baptista. Pane. c [...]us. in the counsel of Constāce: mingle water with wine, & ad salt, spittle, oyle, exorcismes, & what not vnto baptisme. Yet the scripture permits none to know a­boue that which is written,Bellar. lib. 1. de baptism. c. 2. & 27. 1. Corinth. 4. 1. Galathians. 3. Romans. no not an Angel from heauen: for euery man is a lyer, but God is true. And so is the Pope (saith the Papist) for he is a God. What now remaines, if God sent vs the scriptures for a [Page]rule for our saluatiō, but to bel [...]eue they be both true & sufficiēt for vs, or else to imagine that God in thē either could not, wold not o [...] durst not reueale the truth vnto vs, which is grose Atheisme once to suppose. Indeed the old hereticks indeuou­ring to deface womākinde, & con­demne wedlock,Clemens. Alex. lib. 3. strom. alledged testimo­nies ex quodā euangelio Apocripho se­cundū Aegiptios: out of a certaine A­pocriphal gospel, according to the Aegiptians: & from the gospel of S. Iames. The Manickes held the scrip­tures to be corrupt: Heluidius was perswaded that the Greeke copies were false,Aug. lib. 1. de mor. cap. 29. yea the heretickes, not daring to stand to the Canonicall scriptures, vsed Apocrypha as the gospell of the Hebrewes: the gos­pell of Euah: the gospell of Phi­lip, the gospell of Nicodemus; the gospell of perfection: the questi­ons of our Ladye the more and the lesse: the reuelation of Adam [Page]and so forth: many of these had the disciples of Marrion: And Tatian from the foure Euangelists com­pounded a diatesseron as a ouites­ssēce for his followers.Concil. Trid. sess. 4. decr. 2. Bellar. lib. 2. descript. cap. 2. & de verbo De lib. 2. cap. 10. The Papists not behind with any, hold the he­brew text to be corrupt, and there­fore a athorize only the latin: how be it Isodorus Clarius saith: that in the latin,Isid. Epist. ad lector ante ver fionē bibliorū. and common interpreta­tion there be inumerable faultes, whereof he amended 8 thousand in his translation: notwithstanding for all his paines, his translatiō was condemned by the Spanish inquisi­tion. For Apocrypha they haue pro­teuangelium Iacobi [...] the Gospell of Iames, the lyturgy of Iames: the Gospell of Nicodemus Prochorus his history of Iohn the Euangelist: the Epistles of Martialis: Abdias of the liues of the Apostles, and (to omit all the rest) nouum euangeliū Cyrilli cuiusdam monachi Carmelitae a new gospel of a certaine Camelite Monk [Page]named Cyrillus, the sum whereof is deum patrem sub lege, &c. Lib. de Poe [...]ir. cap. 8. Math. God the [...]ather raigned in the time of the law: God the sonne in the time of grace, but now the 4. begging or­ders being erected, the holy Ghost is authorized in his kingdome,Parisiens. Thom. Cranti­prat. and shall so continue to the end of the world, & who so wil be [...]ued, must of necessity beleeue this gospell & yet many withstood as Gulielme de sācto amore: Guid. Bonatus who writ a booke against it: But Māfred king of Cicily was excommunicated by the Pope,Fasci [...]. tempor [...]. Ioh. Hu [...]. tom. 2. because he detested this gospell: Gerardus Saragellus was burned at Parma for refusing it. Thus they disable the word of God to set vp their owne inuentions: which how it may be without A­theisme I rest to be instructed by the pollitick Papist.Greg. Epist. 3. lib. 11. Seculius 2. Tuessal. 2. Gregory and Se­dulius pointing out vnto vs Anti­christ, affirme Antichristum Iudacias ceremonias reuocaturū that antichrist [Page]should call againe the Iewish cere­monies. But the Papists haue reple­nished the church both with Iu­daisme and Gentilisme,Euscb. lib. 5. cap. 14.15.19. &c. yet Blastus was counted an heretick, quod latē ­ter vult Iudaismum introducere: be­cause he laboured vnder-hand to bring Iudaisme into the Church of Rome. Tertul. lib. de praescript. haeret. And saith Thomas of Aquin, Gentilitatis ritus repudiabatur tanquā omnino illicitus, et a Deo sēper prohi­bitus. Ritus autē legis cessabat tanquā impletus per Christi passionem, Tho. Aqui. 1.2. Q. 103. Art. 4. vtpote a Deo in figur am Christi constitutus: the rites & ceremonies of the Gen­tiles were reiected & refused, as al­together vnlawfull,Boemus. Aubanus de gent. mor. & for euer for­biddē of God: but the ceremonies of the law did cease, as being fulfil­led by the passion of Christ,Guicciard. funerall 1. Blondus [...]ium. Mantuan. fast. Belethus. Aug. de confess. Euang. 1. [...].1 [...]. being ordained of God to be a figure of Christ. Notwithstanding the Pa­pists haue borrowed of both, wor­shipping God after another man­ner then he had prescribed: & not seruing Christ according to the [Page]knowledge of the truth.Lactan. lib. 5. cap.10. 1. Sam. 5. 22. Numb. 1. King. 11. 1. King. 13. 2. King. 5. 5. Iohn. 23.15. Math. 9. The Aegip­tians serued God vnder the shapes of beasts: the Philistins vnder the shape of Dagon a Fish; the Graecians of a man; the Caldeans had their Baal; the Sidonians had their Ashte­roth; Amonites, Moloch; Syrians, Rim­non, and so forth: yea thus did the Iewes, Arrians, Mahometists worship God otherwise then he had reuea­led in his word. For they honored not the Sonne, as they did the Fa­ther; but serued him,Lactan. de fall. relig. lib. 2. c. 20 teaching for doctrines the commandements of men. Yet the Papist serues & repre­sents God in an Idoll, and many wayes like the Iewes & Heathens doth dishonor him.Aug. in Psa. 113. 1. Romanes. Pla [...]o m [...]haed. Virgil. Aeneid. 1 For the Gentile could say, nōipsa timemus, sed eos ad quorū imaginē ficta, et quorū nomini­bus consecrata sunt: we neither feare nor worship the Image,Plu [...]arch. de s [...]ra viudict. but the thing represented by the Image: And yet S. Paul saith, that the Gen­tile turned the trueth of God in­to a lye: namely the glorie of the [Page]incorruptible God, into the simili­tude of a corruptible man.Boemus de Gent. mor. lib. 1. [...].5. The Heathens praied to the dead, as Ae­neas to Anchises: so do the Papists. The heathēs made a Purgatory so do the Papists.Bellar. de cleria. lib. 1. cap. 19. dist. 82. The Heathens had shauen crownes, turnings in the al­tars, sacrifisings, pompous solem­nities, adorations, musicall mea­sures,Pol. Virg. lib. 5. cap. 4. &c. and so haue the Papists: their Priests must be single because the legall Priests did seperate thē ­selues from their wiues in their course of sacrifice: wherefore Siri­cius will forbid Priests marriages: and Gregory the 9. wil take it cleane away.Clemens. Alex. lib. 3. strom. Howbeit (saith Clemens) the hereticks tooke occasion to forbid priests mariages ex Ethnicorum ex­emplis, from the exāple of the Hea­thens. Thus they tooke examples ab Hieraophntis Atheniensibus from the Athenian expounders,Hi [...]on. lib. 2. cont. Iouiman. who lost their strength with drinking Hem­lock: & vnder pretence of puritie, [Page]excluded lawfull wedlocke from their idolatrous sacrifices, saying:

Of this heresie were sometime the Essens, borrowing their kinde of life from Pythagoras rules, the first chapter whereof was [...],Adamites. the contemot of marriage. Some thinke their prohibitions came frō the gospell of S. Iames, others from the exāple of Adam, Guido per [...]iū. lib. de Haeresib. that knew not his wife before his fall: other from Abdias the Babyloniā writing of the Acts of the Apostles: but howsoe­uer Mantuā sets this brand vpō thē.

That those Romish lawes are full of impiety and vngodlinesse.Belsar. de Mo­nach. lib. 1. c. 5. If the Nazurites and Rechabites had their vowes, the Papists will runne in debt vnto them for their Monkes, & votaries: If Moses and Elias fast fortie dayes,Rhem. in Math. 4. sect. 2. they must needes af­foord the Papists the time of Lent [Page]from their examples: Paule the first will lend vnto it a lenten seruice: and Gregory vpō his Popish libera­lity will ad 4. dayes vnto it: yet he will take away Milke,Polyd. Virg. lib. 6. cap. 6. 5. Numb. 19. Numb. Cheese, But­ter, Egges; And if the papists haue neede of consecrated oyle,Bellar. de cultu. sanct. 3. lib. ca. [...]. salt, wa­ter, ashes, they must come a beg­ging to the Iewes.Sigebert. Volater. Polyd. lib. 5. cap. 9. Innocentius, and Foelix the fourth will bestowe it kindely vpon the sick. But Siluester will haue the Bishops anoynted after the manner of the Leuiticall Priests.Bellar. de sacra. confir. lib. 2. c. 8. And if the lawe prescribe anoyntings, the Papists wil be bold to borrow it.Leuit. 4. & Damasus will haue the crossing with Chrisme vpon the brow at baptisme: yea if the Iewes had their sacrifices for sinne, the Popes will haue their Masse,Bellar. de missa lib. 2. cap. 2. Platina. lib. 8. & 9. or els they will runne vpon the score: yea here the Pope will shew his libera­lity: Gregory will giue vnto it the Antiphonae and 9. times Kyrieleison. Yea if needes be, whatsoeuer Cele­stine, Sixtus, Innocentius the first, Ser­gius [Page]the first, Gelasius, Leo and o­thers haue begunne, he will alter, and change, saying: sancti Patres nō statim omnia ad decorum officij per­tinentia videre potuerunt, H [...]st. Lornbard, de tribus varie [...] tatibus missa. sed diuer­si diuersa ordinauerunt: the holy fathers could not see all that was needefull for so high a seruice as the Masse, whence grew a contro­uersie, whether the Ambrosian, or the Gregorian seruice were to be preferred. But downe went the Ambrosian in the time of Charles the great, with fire and faggot both for it, and the vpholders thereof. And the first Lattin Masse was sung at the sixt Synod of Constanti­nople in the yeare 656. the true nūber of antichrist.Sanguine miss [...]. Cr [...]uit. Bale in Centuar. cap. 8 [...]. Apo [...]. 1. Sergius besto­wed vpon it agnus dei [...] others the worshiping of the host at Eleuatiō as also the carriage of it with lightes and other superstitions vnto the sick others borrowed massing gar­ments frō the attrying of the priests [Page]in the old law: Stephanus ordained altars after the maner of the Iewes: Siluester bestowed both linnē Albes and corporals,Rellar. de Missa lib. 2. cap. 15. Poly. lib. 6. c. 12 Platina. yet Sixtus will not haue the Priest to weare his robes but in an holy place. If Salomons Temple be all gorgious, they will adorne their Churches, with ima­ges,Bellar. de missa. lib. 2 cap. 6. Polyd. li. 6. c. 13. Crosses, Golde &c, because of his example. If Constantine in the yeare 707. giue leaue for Images to be painted in S. Peters porch at Rome: Gregory the third in the yeare 731. will haue thē to be worshiped.Lenit. 13. And because the Leuiticall Priests had the discerning of the leprous persons: the Popish Priests must haue auricular confession,Bellar. de paeni [...]. lib. 3. c. 3. yea it must be a sacrament, et sine hac non patere viam ad caelum and without this,Lombard lib. 4 dist. 17. there must be no way where­by to enter into heauen: yet Gratiā doubted of it: Augustine wrought against it: & in the church [...],Innocent. 3. in com. lat. c. 21. defending the vnity of essence, it [Page]was altogether abrogated.Gratian. dist 1. de paenit. But least the Papist should be lesse su­perstitious, thē either Iew or Gen­tile: Leo the third appointed the burning of Frankincense,Aug. confess. 10 cap. 3. after the manner both of Iewes and Gētiles: Siluester ordained the feast of Petri ad Vincula; Hist. Tripart. lib. 9. cap. 35. Polyd. li. 5. c. 10 Poly. lib. 6. c. 8. Sigebert volat. Extrau [...]gan. Vigilius the feast of Candlemas: Honorius the feast of the exaltation of the crosse: Vr­banus the 4. Corpus Christi day. Sixtus the fourth the dayes of the presentation,Poly. de In. lib. 6. cap. 8. Platina. Sabell. and conception of our Lady, of Saint Anne, and of Ioseph. Iohn the eighteenth the feast of all soules. And Grego­ry the 4. the feast of all Saints, Boniface bestowed vpon the Saints fasting euens.Polydor. 6. c. 4. Sergius shrines. Gregory veneration. Leo hymnes,Iacob. Bergo. mens. Iohn the 22. a saints bell to be tol­led thrise euery day,Platina. Naucler. whereat the hearers should streight wayes crowch downe and say the Auae [Page]Maria. Polyd. 6. ca. 12. Platina. Polyd. li. 6. c. 11 Gratian. Isidor. Volat. Platina. Sauel. Sigebret. Polyd. lib. 6. cap. 2. Foelix cōsecrated altars, and Boniface bestowed both church & altars on theeues for sanctuaries. Innocentius must haue the Pax car­ried about on festiuall dayes to be kissed: Vrbanus the cōmunion cup to be of gold. Zozimus the Pascall taper on Easter eeuen to be hallow­ed Vitellian organs, and instrumēts in the church. Celestine the Psalmes to be sung after the order of Anti­phones. Leo Masse for the dead. Pe­lagius & Vrbanus canonical houres. Gregory large processions: Leo pet­tie processions;Greg. 4. Epist. cap. 88. and Agapetus must haue those processions to go round about the church euery Sunday.Polyd. li. 6. c. 11. Greg. 4. Epist. cap. [...]8. Polyd. 6. cap. 11. Volat. Platina. Martin. Carsu. Ian. Hugo. Flo­ria cens. Ptolom Lucēs. Godfrid. Behold how they worship God af­ter their owne fantacies, putting therevnto canonicall houres, Mat­tins, Masse, Procession, Sensing, Saints, holydayes, compleine, Li­tanies, Inuocations, Images, Dir­ges for the dead, Ladies Psalters, [Page]Baptized Bels, Beads, Altars,Viterbius. Anronius Plor [...]t Iohn Ru [...]us. Guliel. Durand. in rat. diuino [...]. Or­gans, Songs, Wax, lights, Banners, reliques, crosses, holy water, and forraine toungs. Yea oyle, creame, spittle, vnctions, shauings, ashes, watchings, pageants, vowes, pil­grimages, fastings, and a world of fencelesse ceremonies. Is not this to change the worship of God into idolatry, superstition, humaine in­uentions, mens commandements, and vtterly to abolish it? Bethen e­nim quae prius vocabatur domus Dei, Hieron in Osea lib. 1. cap. 4. postquam vittuli in ea positi sunt, Be­thauen er at, id est domus inutilis, et domus Idoli: For Bethel that before was called the house of God, after the Calues were placed in it, was Bethauen the house of Idols; then what can the church of Rome be, but Bethauen, that sets vp the wor­shipping of Angels; Inuocation of the dead, adoration of the crosse, of Images, of reliques, of the bread in the sacrament, with all [Page]those superstitious ceremonies,Guliel. Whita. aduers. Staplet. praefat. ad lecto­rem. & many more before recounted. But let the whole religion of Pa­pistry be a profession of a coloured Atheisme, a good life wil mend all: modo habeant bonos motus rationi na­tur ali conuenientes, Scotus prolog. sent. q. 12. caueantque eaquae ratio natur alis mala et fugienda esse docet: If they neither be baptised, not haue any Church, or teaching, yet they may be saued, if they car­ry a good minde, haue an honest intent, and walke according to the lawes of nature, and reason, as the Papists do. For they,Barnard de. consid. ad Eugē. lib. 4. Barnard. in serm. 33. ante omnia sa­pientes sunt vt faciant mala, bonum autem facere nesciunt, blandissimi a­simplicissimi dissimulatores, et malig­dulatores, mordacissimi detractores, nissimi proditores: are wise to do e­uil, but know not how to do good, most fawning flatterers, biting slā ­derers,Holcot. in Sap. Lect. 183. deepe dissemblers, & mali­cious traitors: Priests of Baal, Da­gon, [Page]Priapus, Hieron. praefat. Didym. de spiri. tu sancto. Bernard. in cant. 33. & in conuer [...]. sancti Paul. serm. 1. Angels of hell. Sena­tus pharisaeorum, Coloni purpuratae meretricis: Babylonians, Pharises, inhabitants of the purple colou­red whore, seruantes of Antichrist: persecutors of Christ and his Church: sicke from the soale of the foote, to the crowne of the head: roaring Lyons, and deuou­ring Wolues. Many goe vnto Rome some what good, but re­turne very bad. Eugenius ascendit Iericho, incidit in latrones: Eugenius was fetcht to Rome to be Pope,Hieron. in Soph. 5. he went vp to Iericho, but he fell a­mong theeues.Grego. hom. 17 in Ezechi. Hieron. in Ier. 2.

O shame, can any Church stil suf­fer Papistry,Bernard. Epist. 147.

That nought regardes but belly, sleepe and venery?

When Nertarius began to set a­broach auricular confession at Con­stantinople, Palinge [...]. lib. 9. in Sagittario. a certaine Gentlewomā being confessed of a Priest, and en­ioyned to fast,Zoz [...]n. hist. trip. lib. 9.c [...].35 pray in the Church, was in the time of her penance ra­uished by an holy Deacon, which tooke great paines in the sanctuary to obserue the vow of chastity: wherupō at the peoples exclama­tions it was there again dissolued.Cyprian. Epist. 11. Pope Iohn the 13. was begotten by Iohn the 12. of an arrant strūpet;Luitprand. lib. 2 cap. 13. & Iohn the 10. was borne of fornicati­on, begottē by Pope Sergius, Iohan. Textot. Henricus Agrip. vpon an whore called Marozia: yea Pe­ter Lombard Maister of sentences: Peter Comester Maister of histories & the Monke Gratian compiler o [...] the lawes,Volate. were borne betwixt an holy Nun & a Priest.Iohan Textor in offic. Philip the holy Abbot of Vallisolet, and archbishop of His [...]alis in Spaine, kept Christian his brother Alphonsus wife himself: still liuing. Petrus Mendosa Cardi­nall [Page]of Valens had two bastards by Elizabeth wife to Ferdinand. Boccace. Pogghius. Some one ghostly father hath corrupted in his time a 100. Nunnes & Mai­dens: some 200. some more, some lesse. Agrippa reporteth of a Bishop,Agrip. de incer­titud. scient. cap. 64. that boasted at his table, that he had in his diocesse eleauen thousand priests, which paind yearely a French crowne for whores keeping, be­sides occupying with other mens wiues. Hildebrand, that withstrai­ned the marriage of Priests, was himselfe a Necromancer, a murthe­rer, a suppresser of princes, & kept Maude the Duches of Lothary both in the daies of her husbād Gozilon, Lambard Shaf­fan. in Cronicis& also after his death, leading her about with him in his Coach.Ranulph in po­lycron. lib. 7. cap. 13. At what time Iohannes de Cremona the Popes Legate à latere came from Rome vnto England to forbidde priests wiues,Guliel. Maul­mesbuty. Flo [...]. hist. he was taken himselfe with a whore the night following.

Benno Cardinalis saith, that the [Page]finishing of the thousand yeares,Henry Hun­tington. lib. 7. Benno Card. in vita Hildebrand. when the Dragon should be loo­sed, was in Pontificatu Sergij secundi in the Popedome of Sergius the se­cond, whom a diuell strangled vpon a compact betweene him, and the Pope, as he was saying Masse in the open sight of all men.Au [...]ntinc. pag. 584. Neither was it without cause, that the Germans called Hildebrand Hellebr and a fire brand of hell. But why do I insist in these petty mat­ters?Agripp. de Le­nocin. & crat. ad Louaniens. did not Pope Sixtus builde a stewes at Rome, which bring in yearely twenty thousand Duck­ates? yea what should Boniface the 7. Syluester the 2. Bennet the 9. Gre­gory the 7. Gregory the 9. Innocenti­us the eight?Luitprand. li. 6. cap. 6. and. 7. did not Sixtus the fourth make a stewes at Rome, ap­pointing it both for Masculine and Faeminine: & Iohn the twelfe made a stewes of his pallace,Platina in vita Marcel. and dranke a carouse to the diuell. He [Page]that will know more let him search Platina, Mantuan and others,Mantuan Eclog. 5. Fastor. 2. Sil [...]. 1. and he shall finde enough to make his eares to tingle. Budaeus speaking of the French Bishops saith,Budaeus Annot. prior. i [...]lege [...]. de leg. pag. 121. they were more like hogs then men prae morum turpitudine et inscitia: Pe­trarch calleth the church of Rome scholam errorum: the temple of he­resies, deflecting from the worship of God,Petrach. cant. 106.107.108. vnto the worship of Bac­chus and Venus: yea he calleth it Babylonia, and impudent harlot where verit as is dementia, abstinen­tia rusticitas, pudicitia probrū, bono­rum hostis, malorum hospes: truth is madenes, abstinence clownery, shamefastnes dishonesty, it is an host for the wicked, an enemy to the godly. And from thence comes all the mischiefe in the world.Vinon. Labyt. tract. 5. cap. 3 [...]. Theodorus a Niem recording the Schisme betweene Vrban the 6. and Clement, relates of nothing but [Page]warres, seditions, murders, con­tentions, lustes and ambitions: and speaking of the Nunnes & Monkes from the testimony fo Gregory the 12. he calleth them ebrios, con­cubinarios, homicidas, Gualter Mape­fius in Rhyth­nius. drunkardes, letchers, murderers, with many other tearmes befitting rather di­uells then men. Some call their prelates Haeredes Luciferi, heires of Lucifer: others say their monaste­ries praeter Penelopes sponsos, Nebu­lones, Stiblinus in Cornupedia. Alcinoosque neminem h [...]die e­ducunt: nourish none but wan­tons,Briden brach. in [...]uae peregr. histor. knaues, whores, & ribbaldes. Some compare their officers to Pilates sleeping on the sea: to dogs that cannot barke, to watchmen without their trumpets. O tempor a, O mores: Gaude mater Roma et quia per malitiam hominum, non per tu­am religionem orbem vicisti: reioyce Ô Rome, Abbas Vrsper­gens. de Inno­cens. 3. & Boni­fac. 8. because thou hast van­quished the world, not by thy re­ligion, [Page]but by the wickednesse of thy people.Brigit Anno. 1370. Thy Priests haue tur­ned Gods ten commaun [...]ements into one precept, dap [...]cuniam giue,Onuphrlus. giue, Paulus the 4. set vp vs [...]ry: luli­us the 3. was an extortioner, and Pius the 4. prayed vpō the church,Fascic. tempot Luitprand. Flatina. Vigilius, Iohn the 11. Constantius the 2. Iohn the 12. Benedict the 5. Iohn the 19. Benedict the 9. Siluester the 3. Gregory the 6. Iohn the 18. Dama­sus the 2. Gregory the 7. Boniface the eight,Guicciard. lib. 1 and who not eyther by the diuell, deceite, fauour, force, or money attayned the Popedome. Here bawaes, cookes, horskee­pers, children, and all for money, were preferred to Eccle [...]iasticall dignities.Aureum spccul. in Antilogia. Here Paradise and Pur­gatory, Iustice, & iudgement, & all for mony.Theod. a Nien, lib. 1. cap. 68. [...] lib. 2. cap. 3. Boniface the 9. in a short time got for pardons out of one kingdome an 100. thousand Flo­rens. O Roma, laetare super iniquitates [Page]filiorum hominum: ô Rome reioyce ouer iniquitie,Abbas Vr­sperges. Th. Beck. epist. ad Archi [...]p. Mogunt. for it is thy haruest. Yea their holy Saint and seruant Becket could thus report of Rome, factam essem meretricem et prostitutā esse pro mercede, that she made her selfe a common harlot for money. How long might I dwell vpō their surfetting and drunkennesse.Guicciard. lib. 1. & lib. 5. Inno­centius the 8. totum se voluptatibus et otio tradidit, betooke himselfe to pleasure and idlenesse. But Alex­ander the 6. was much more bru­tish: for nullum habuit religionis sen­sum: he had no sence of religion.Onuphrius. Sanazarius. Authour are all to bepestered with the gluttonie,Guicciard lib. 7. & lib. 14. Platina. lecherie, Sodomie, and incest of Iulius the 2. Leo the 10. Paulus the 3. Sixtus the 4. Paulus the 2. Pius the 4. Iohn the 12. Gre­gorie the 7. Sergius the 3. & other: in such sort as Luiprand calleth the Lateran pallace prostibulum mere­tricum, Agrip. de Leno­cin, & de va­nit. scient. a common stewes: famous [Page]are the murders and discordes of Gregorie the 7. Iohn the 11. in poy­soning their predecessors,Onuphrius Epi. Othō. imperat. ad Iohan. papā Luitprand. lib. 6. cap. 6. Stepha­ous, Formosus, Romanus, Sergius and the rest. Not to rip vp their crueltie euen vnto the dead: as to Wickleffe, Bucer, Paulus Phagius, Henry the fourth, the Admirall of France, Benno Cardin. Cornel. Agrip. Platina. Popes vnto Popes, and many o­thers. The whole world is wit­nesse of their pride, in their triple crowne, Ganimedes, Musicians,Bernard. lib. 4. de consid. & in cant. serm. 33. stately Pallaces, purple, golde, scar­let, scepters, coronations & pompe, Rings, Bracelets, Chaines, Iewels, Smaragdes, Adamantes, Saphyres,Lib. 1. ceremō. ponufic. sect. 3. c. p. 3. Chrysolites, Iaspers, and Vnions, toes kissed, stirrops held by Empe­tors, yea and if they list, they must ride vpon the shoulders of the Em­perors: O tempus pessimum in quo defecit sanctus, Vita Clemēt. 9. et diminuta sunt ve­ritates, à filijs hominum: ô time,Guicciard. li. 11. Platina in Paul. 2. the worst of all times, wherein the [Page]good man is perished,Paseis. temporū I [...] Mar. 2. Adrian 3. Stephan. 5. Platina in vita Dyonisii primi. and truth is departed from the sonnes of mens vnto which times nil vel superbiae Luxuriae, pompae addi potest: neither pride, pompe, or riotousnesse, can more be added. (Begin saith one of the Fathers Tidentine) à sanctu [...] ario Dei si vllus iam pudor, &c. at the sanctuarie of God, if there be any shame, honestie,In Svnod. Trid. sess. [...]. or vertue to be found: vt merito possit mundus spe­lunca latronum dicior: so that the world may be well called a den of theeues,Palingen. lib. 6. wherein men with brasen faces, & impure mouthes say, non est Deus, In Synod. Trid. fess. 1. there is no God. Whose beastly maners are so ill, & conuer­sation so brutish, as they haue for­saken God,Apoc. 18. & betaken themselues vnto the Epicuir; ô then come out of her my people viuere qui recte cupitis discedite Roma omnia cū licet non licet esse bonum; [...]. Silu. 1. for blessed is the man that delights in the law of the Lord,Psal. 1.1. [...]. & walkes not in the counsell [Page]of the wicked, nor leads his life like he sinners & vngodly. Wherefore seeing that papistry is a religion cō ­mixed & compounded of error & heresies: seeing it is an Apostate church, and the kingdom of Anti­christ: seeing it refuseth Christ to be the head therof, & accepteth the Pope in his place & roome: seeing it is a monster hauing somtimes 2. somtimes 3. somtimes 4. heads at once: seeing it denies the auncient & true God, & sets vp new & false god, in his stead: seeing it diuesteth Chirst of all his offices, & bestowes them vpō fancies, & vsurping flatte­ries; seeing it remooues Christ the true foundation, and builds it selfe vpon Sodomits, Magitians, Atheists and the diuels seruants: seeing it is an vsing, a Newter, and a tem­porising church; seeing it is corrupt and too too rotten in the ground­worke of religion: seeing it makes religion an arte of subtill pollicie: [Page]seeing it makes Christ a deepe de­ceiuer, and impostor: seeing it vn­dermines the simple; and con­demnes the soule: seeing it makes a iest and playe of her Papisticall profession and religion: seeing it denies the holy seriptures to be the word of God, and coines new scriptures to her popish fancie and deuise: seeing it teacheth villanie and all vngodlinesse: seeing it is an enemie to the good and mon­strous murderer of the Saints: see­ing it sets vp Iudaisme, Ethnicis­me, and foule Idolatry: seeing it makes no account of God him­selfe, nor of his worship, and holy [...]eruice: seeing both heads and members are vnsound, vnsanorie, and most impure, both in doctrine, manners, and in all good liuing, we conclude that Papisme is a masked Atheisme.