THis present Pope of Rome was Car­dinal Odeschalchi of Come in the Dutchy of Millaine, when called to the Roman-Chair, whether we wrong him in reckoning him among the Base Brambles of the Cursed Earth, is the [ [...]] Postulatum, or Grand Enqui­ry. In the General let Dr. Prideaux give the Answer for me, who Writes a Compendious History of the Lives of all the Popes, and after he hath past the Patriarchs, (and the tollerable Popes) He begins at Anno Dom. 606. with Usurping Nimrods, (a worse Name than Brambles) and Reckons Thirty Eighth Popes (Cruel Hunters all,) from that Year, to 847.

[Page 2]The First of which Black Bed-Roll, was Boniface the Third, and Leo the Fourth was the Last.

His next Rank were (as he Stiles them) Rank Luxurions Sodomites, whereof He Rec­kons Forty, from the Year 855. to 996. the First of them was Pope John the Eighth (in plain English, Pope Joan, the Rank Whore, which God would have, to Declare to all the World, That the Church of Rome is the Apocalyptick Whore,) and the Last of that Number was Gregory the Fifth.

His Third sort of Popes, from the Year 999. to 1240. that He presents to our View, are another Bundle of Forty Popes a­gain, whom He Dignifies with that Ho­nourable Title of Aegyptian Magicians; the First of this Black Regiment was Syl­vester the Second, and the Last was Caelestine the Fourth.

His Fourth Prospect of Popes He giveth, is another lovely Cluster of Sower Grapes, consisting of Eight and Thirty Popes, from the Year 1243. to 1503. The Captain where­of is Innocent the Fourth, and the Lieutenant (that brings up the Rear) is Pius the Third, All which he Brandeth for a Company of Devouring Abaddons, All Bad-ones beyond Bounds.

[Page 3]Yet still there be worse behind, [Occupat extremum Scabies,] which as some do Eng­lish, not only the Scab, but the Devil com­eth hindermost. 'Tis the Divine Doom in­flicted upon the Church of Rome, as an Apo­state, to be waxing worse and worse, there­fore it may the less be wondred at, that the last Classis of Popes, (which are the very Dregs of Time,) must be the worst, and thereupon are worthily Stigmatiz'd with the worst Appellation. The Words of the Reverend Author aforesaid, Run thus, [after the Devouring Abaddons,] To fill up the Mystery and Measure of Iniquity, the In­curable Babylonians do next step upon the Stage, [Curavimus Babylona, & non est Sanata, Jerem. 51.6.] We would have Cu­red Babylon, but she could not be Cured, for the rest of the Men that were not Killed by those Plagues, Repented not of their (1.) Murthers, (2.) Sorceries, (3.) Fornications, (4.) Thefts, Revel. 9.20, 21. This last and worst Rank reaches from the Year 1503. to this present 1683. betwixt which Two Periods the Number of Popes are Twenty-Five, (the fewest Number of all the Five Classes, yet have the Foulest, both Name and Nature.) whereof Julius the Se­cond leads the Van, and this present Pope, (the subject of our Discourse,) brings up the Rear.

[Page 4]I would have given some short Remarks upon these several Classes, (thus dignified and distinguished with those Five aforesaid Honourable Titles,) and upon the several Popes, as they stand in Rank and File, un­der their several Banners in every Classis, had it not been beside my present purpose, and would it not have swoln this Discourse too much. I shall therefore satisfie my self, and the Reader with Two Remarks on­ly.

The First Remark is, That the Leader of the Van in the Second Rank, is a Virago ra­ther than a Virgo, a Pope of the Faeminine Gender, that Taught Gramarians to De­cline Papa with Haec not Hic: The name of this Female Pope, (John or Joan) both in a Literal and Mystical Sense, sheweth that Rome may well be called the Whore of Ba­bylon, Romish Chronologers have not Insert­ed her Name in the Catalogue of Popes, which Marianus Scotus Renders this Reason for, [Propter Turpituidinem Rei, & Sexum Muliebrem,] because the wrong Gender would be a Reproach to them. Wherefore to avoid the like Disgrace, the Porphiry Chair, (or Groping-stool) was Ordained, Ubi ab Ultimo Diacono, &c. Where the lowest Deacon must make the Experiment, &c. Hence it is, That these Popes who [Page 5] have called themselves [Johns] are so ill ordered in their common Catalogues, some making that John which Succeeded [Adrian the Second] in the Year 872. to be John the Eighth, and others John the Ninth: In­genious Platina forequoted, doth only (of all the Romanists) Recken Pope Joan as the Eighth of the Johns, and so farward: And 'tis proboble enough (saith Dr. Heylin, a Man Fair and Favourable enough) that God suffer'd that Proud See of Rome to fall into such a profound Reproach, the more to cut the Coxcombs of the Succeeding Popes in their Highest Ruff and Riotings, and the better to beat down their Big Brags of a continued Succession, whereof they are frequently Boasting. As [Remember Lots Wife] is a due Caution to us, so I see not why [Remember Pope Joan] should not be likewise a true Check to them: The Truth of this Story, as to matter of Fact, Mr. Alexander Cook (my quondam Prede­cessour) in his Book of Pope Joan hath pro­ved it by Irrefragable Arguments, and hath most Industruously batter'd down all the Objections which the most Mercurial Wits of Rome could raise against it. See his Book, and Dr. Heylins Cosmography in Folio the last Edition, pag. 107. &c. The Bastard Abime­leck aforementioned did Desperately grudg, [Page 6] that it should be said [a Woman had Braind him] Judg. 9.54. Sure I am, this base born Brat of Rome (the Head of the Church) hath Received (were He sensible) a Deadly Wound by the hands of a Woman likewise, with this difference only, the former was Active, and Designing, the latter was Pas­sive, and never purposed the Wounding: 'Tis such a Reproach to the Roman Chair as will never be wiped off; this is the Semira­mis, the Amazoman Queen, the She-Captain, that stands in the Front of the Second Rank, to wit, of the Luxurious Sodomits.

The Second Remark is, concerning Julio the Second, who stands as a stout Generalissi­mo of the last Rank, to wit, of Incurable Babylonians, and He is most fitly placed in that Station, as having far more of the Souldier, than of the Prelate in Him, keep­ing Italy, all his Popedom, in continual Wars, and for a pregnant proof, that this Romish God, was a Man of Mettal, This is the Pope, who passing over Tyber-Bridg, first Brandish'd his Sword, and then threw his Keys into the River, saying, If Peters Keys would not serve his Turn, then Pauls Sword should do it Home.

Such a Thrasonick Bravado would bet­ter become Julius Caesar the Emperour of Rome, than Julius Secundus the Bishop of [Page 7] Rome. But I have been thinking, that 'tis a Thousand pities, Famous Pope Joan had not her Lot in this Last Rank too, yea, and (were it not to Dethrone and Disposses this Heroick Hector) She might have stood in the Captains place there, as She doth in the Second Rank, [Detur digniori] is the Rule, She best deserving it: for where could that Whore of Babylon (as above) be bet­ter placed? than among the Incurable Ba­bylonians, and where could that Incurable Whore have been better order'd? than in the Front of that File of Defiled and Defile­ing Beasts.

However, this present Pope, Cardinal O­deschalcho, (who hath chang'd his Name into Innocent the Eleventh,) is Represented to our View as standing upon the Tail and Fag-end of those Incurable Babylonians: We use to say, Such a person as Labors under a Mortal Incurable Disease, hath a [Mise­rere Mei Deus,] writ upon his Door: who it is, that Writes the Continuation of Dr. Pri­deaux's Introduction, I know not, yet he Writes an Epitome of this our Cardinal Odes­chalcho's publick Actions and Transactions, since his coming to be Groped in the Por­phyry Chair: and we are much obliged to that Author (who ever he is) for fixing this present Pope under the Head of Incurable [Page 8] Babylonians, but I know not (in all the World) how to Reconcile the White Chara­cter that Author giveth him, and the Black Title be seteth over him. The Description of his Life there, seems to carry no Congruity with an Incurable Babylonian. 'Tis great pi­ty, that any mistaking Candour should make such a Disparity: but to let that pass, come we now to give a more full and Impartial Account of his Rise and Begining, &c. So far as Historians lends any light hereunto.

I find that this Person (so soon as any Fame found him) had his first noticed Ca­pacity at Come, a place of note in the Dukedom of Millain in Italy, a Town, made the more Famous by being the Birth-place of the two Famous Plinys, and situated on the South-side of the Lacus La [...]ius, which from this Town hath now the name of Lago di Como, through this Lake the Ri­ver Addua runs; yet (as Geographers say) their two Waters do not mingle: Which two Remarks hath occasion'd in Me two Wishes in this mans behalf. The first is, that as Pliny became the more Famous for stop­ping Trajan the Emperour from persecuting the poor Christians in the Empire, by wri­ting elegantly to Him, that He found no greater fault laid to the charge of the per­secuted, [Page 9] save this, that they did (Cantas Ante-lucanos canere) sing Psalms before day; upon which Letter the persecution ceased: So would to God this present Pope might write such an effectual Letter to the French King in the behalf of the poor persecuted Protestants in France, (sure I am, he can find no worse faults in them) so stop the persecution there, this would make him more Famous, than ever the Recovery of his Regalitys (he hath been so long contend­ing for) can Render Him: whereas, to be outvy'd by a blind Heathen (such was Pliny) in such a good Work of Piety and Charity (which are Works highly cryed up at Rome) may Render Him for ever Infa­mous. Especially if He be found to push it on and promote it, instead of putting a stop to it. The second Wish is, Oh that this pretended Vicar of Christ may learn some Divine Lesson, even from the very Nature of his own Country-River, which will not mingle its pure Streams with the puddle wa­ter of a corrupted standing Lake: not to play the Huxter in Sophisticating, and Adultera­ting the truth of the Gospel, by mingling it with corrupt Traditions. There is certain­ly most Evangelical Doctrine in that Leviti­cal Law, thou shalt not let thy Cattle Gender with a diverse Kind, thou shalt not Sow thy [Page 10] Field with a mingled Seed, neither shall a Garment mingled of Linnen and Wollen come upon thee] Levit. 19.19. to shew, that Mis­celanees in Religious Worship are both hate­ful to God, and hurtful to Men: and not onely the nature of His River, but also naturalists do teach Him not to mingle the Inventions of Men, with the Institutions of God, for they say, that though Gold be so Ductile, as to be willing to mix and incor­porate it self with other Mettals, save onely with Latten, notwithstanding, as to its out­ward Lustre, it be so like it self: so the true Church (which is call'd a golden Candlestick) will not mix or embody her self with the false (commonly called the Latin) Church, which stagnateth like a stinking Lake, though she resembleth the Spouse, and sits in the Temple of God, 2 Thes. 2.4. but indeed is the Apocalyptick Whore, and the most Ca­pital Enemy to the Flock of Christ, in all the last Ages: This present Pope, while he was in his publick Capacity (omitting his pri­vate, as not worth Recording) at this Town of Come, went under the name of Benedict Odeschalci, of the Title of Saint Onuphrius and was created a Cardinal under Pope In­nocent the 10th. March the 6th. in the year 1645. Upon which take these Remarks.

[Page 11] First, 'Tis not easie to Assign the Reason why his proper praenomen (that of Benedict) should become so disgustful to Him as to change it into Innocent (the Name of his Predecessours in the Chair) seeing it was (as it signifies) a blessed Name, and also the Name of some Popes before him, but more of that change of Names afterwards, when we come to his Popedom.

Secondly, There may a more probable conjecture be given for the change of his Sir-Name, to wit, Odeschalcho, more especi­ally when it is Allowable to give an Italick Name an Attick Etymology, and so [nomen quasi notamen] that Name hath an evil sound, sent, and sense, signifying (not a Golden) but a Brazen Song. That which sents and savours of Brass (we usually say) is un­pleasant to the Palate, and 'tis the more likely this Name might be disgustful to his Palate, seeing his Predecessour Sergius the Second, even quarelled with his own Name, which (before he was Pope) was [Bocca di Porco] signifying Swine-Mouth, or Hog-Face, and thinking that ill-sounding Name not suitable to his Dignity, he therefore chang­ed it. And upon such an Honourable Pre­sident, if Hog-Face was so odious a Name to the former, why might not also Brass-Face or Brazen-Face (as a Face of Brass is an [Page 12] approbrious Phrase amongst us) be odious to this latter.

Thirdly, As to the Title of Saint Onu­phrius he was dignified with at Come, I shall onely say at this time (though much more might be added) what Tradition tells us of this Onuphrius, that he was a monkish Man, who lived a solitary Life for sixty years, in which space he saw no Man: had our Odes. chalcho Imitated this monkish Patroon, and trode in this Pattern's Steps, he had never be­come a Cardinal, much less a Pope, unto which conversing with Men, and conveying Kindnesses to them (to oblige their Votes at Election) are necessary Ingredients, and which he to the utmost improved.

Fourthly, As to his being made a Cardinal while at Come: this is one of the highest pitches and pinacles of Pride (the very next to the loftyest Spire of the Pope himself) that the Romish Clergy Aspire to, for the Cardi­nals are the Popes Senatours or Privy Councel­lors, and are called Cardinals, which is de­rived from Cardo, the Hinge of a Door, be­cause upon them (as the Door hangs upon the Hinge, and turns which way we will, either for opening or shutting) all the im­portant Affairs of the Roman Church hang and are turned which way they please: thus the word [Cardinal] is usually used [Page 13] thus, that whereupon any thing most turn­eth and dependeth, as to East, West, North, and South, are call'd Cardinal Points of the Compass. Thus also those four principal Ver­tues, [Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Tem­perance] are call'd the Cardinal Vertues. And thus the Word is generally taken to denote something that is Chief and Principle: So these Cardinals are: But the Hinge, upon which these Cardinals did themselves at the first Hang, was very Low, and their Ori­ginal Extract very Contemptible: For this great Office did creep into the Roman Church thus, Pope Marcellus in the Third Century divided the City of Rome into 25 Parishes (some Authors call them Diocesses) over each of which He appointed a Presbyter, whose work was Assigned to Baptize Hea­thens Converted, and to Bury the Dead within their several Precincts: These were afterward called Cardinals, or Principal Priests, or Deacons, because they had [Cu­ram Animarum] the Cure of Souls com­mitted to them, and had others (in Sacred Orders also) under them: There be Three sorts of Holy Orders, so called, to distin­guish them from their Four other Orders, (Door-Keeper, Readers, Exorcists, Acolyths, or Taper-bearers,) These are, First, The Sub-Deacons, (whose Office is the Grope­ing [Page 14] Work, &c.) Secondly, The Deacon (who, with the former, hath the Honour only to kiss the Bishops Hand at the Ordi­nation,) See Rosses View, &c. pag. 451. The Third, Is the Priest, whom the Bishop Kisseth to shew his Parity in Respect of Or­der, Idem Ibidem. These same 25 Priests of so many Parishes in the City, being always so nigh the Pope, the more that he grew up gradually into his Grandeur, the higher did he draw up these Priests (his Appurte­nances) their posture all along keeping pace with the Popes Pomp, Adeò ut quod in principio Oneri fuit, Tandem Aliquandò Hono­ri esse Caepit. So, that which at first was but a Poor and Burdensom Office, became at length an Employ of Dignity and Honour: Thus Dr. Heylin Testifieth, That Pope Paschal the First caused the Priests of the several Parishes in Rome, by reason of their nearness to his Person, their presence at his Election, to be Honoured with a more Venerable Title, that is, to be called Cardinals, See Cosmogr. pag. 107. at the Top. Thus from a company of pitiful Parish Priests, they account themselves not only Check-Mates to Princes, but also Compeers with Kings themselves; but indeed they ought to be esteemed the principal Limbs of the Beast Antichrist; yea, they are so far Incorpo­rated [Page 15] with the Pope himself, that they must not (forsooth) so much as be let Bloud without his special License; 'tis (no doubt) for fear least the Head should be so concern'd in these his Special Members, as to Die with them by Sympathy: The Number of them at their first Roman Constitution (for want of a Divine Institution) were, as is aforesaid, Twenty Five, which Dr. Potter worthily Observes to be the exact Root Number of Six Hunndred Sixty Six, the Namber of the Beast; but now they are Multiplied like a Numerous Spawn, into much more than Double the Number; that depends wholy and solely at the Popes pleasure, who can Blow them out of his Mouth as many as he pleaseth; he can Breath out a Cardinal with as much ease, as he Breaths out the Holy Ghost; yea, for Doing some Notable Jobb in Hand, he can Breath out, or rather Spit out of his Palat or Pallace, a matter of Sixteen Car­dinals at one Spit, as this present Pope hath lately done; Oh what an Improving Leap & Advance hath he now made, whereas while he was but a Cardinal, he is then but a Cre­ated Creature of the Pope, but now that he is become a God Almighty the Pope, he can be a Creator of his Creatures: Monstrum Horrendum, &c. Prodigious were his Pri­viledges, [Page 16] (which not Christ, but Antichrist, bestowed upon him while a Cardinal,

As First, When ever he Rode abroad to take Fresh Air, His (Sir) Reverence was so Glorified (yet not so much as Christ was at his Transfiguration) with his Right Re­verend Red Hat, and Rich Robes, that the Splendor of Beth these Dazel'd all Specta­tors Eyes, yea, the very Blast of his Body but passing by, Blew off all their Hats, and Bore so hard upon them, as to Blow them over, and made them fall down to Worship Him, and to ask of Him his Patriarchal Blessing, which He rarely bestowed with that Ingenuity, as He in the Story did, who in so doing, said, [Si Populus Vult De­cipi, Decipiatur.] Light cheap Words make Fools fain. No doubt but His Shadow, (as he is now Pope, and Peters Successor) can cure as many Diseases, as that of Peters did. Pope Innocent the Fourth, Graced the Cardi­nals with a Red (Fools Cap, or) Hat, by his Ordinance in the Twelfth Century; and in the Fourteenth, Pope Pius the Second Ad­vanced their Splendor yet Higher, with most Stately Scarlet Gowns, (Dr. Heylins Cosmogr. pag. 108. at the bottom.) Thus were they Attired in such Antick, Gawdy and Pedantick Dresses, as neither Christ nor his Apostles ever Strutted about in, which [Page 17] must Declare to all the World, that this is the Antichrist, and none need say of Him, as John Baptist said often to Christ, [Art thou He that should come, or may we look for another?] No, this is the Red Letter-Man, in his Red Hat and Scarlet Gown. This is the Bloudy and Scarlet Coloured Beast.

The Second eminent priviledge this Car­dinal was dignified with by his Creator the Pope, is, that whatever condemned Male­factor (just going to the place of Execu­tion) could but be so happy as to meet this Man in his Ponticalibus in the way of his Progress, He was immediatly to be Acquit­ted, and his Life spared, that He might evermore Admire and Adore this his Romish Saviour. 'Tis pitty his clemency is not more exercised out of design in this Life-Saving Work: Oh what a choice Act of Mercy might He sometimes do here in but crossing the way at a right Juncture, betwixt Newgate and Tyburn, when his Pontifical Presence is blest with such an excellent Ver­tue as both to satisfie the Nations Law, (which is mortally broken) and Save also the Life and Soul of the condemned.

A Third Immunity He had also in that Cardinal Capacity, was, that no Cardinal can be Condemned for the most Capital Crime, except He can first be Convicted by [Page 18] the Testimony of Seventy Two Witnesses. By this means, a Cardinal may safely venture to be the greatest Villain in the World, not onely because the Canon-Law saith [Ecclesia sit libera] let Church-Men be free from secular Censures, but also (though the aforesaid may fail) if they do but observe their own Jesuitical Rule [si non castè, ta­men cautè] He may without hazard perpe­trate Whoredom, Treason, the worst of wick­edness, so he do it with caution, and he deserves to be hang'd seventy two times over, that will act his Villany in the pre­sence of seventy two persons, that may all come in as joynt Witnesses against Him: The Law of the true and onely wise God (supposing the Testimony of two or three Witnesses sufficient) is but comparatively an Insipid Sentence: but the Law of their Lord God the Pope is far more profound, saying, two or three and twenty are not enough of Witnesses, even against the Inferiour Clergy. There must (say they) be twenty seven a­gainst a Deacon, sixty four against a Priest, and seventy two against a Bishop-Cardinal. Dianae compendium, pag. 85. No wonder if the Romish Clergy be the greatest Rogues, and vilest Villains in the World: No won­der if they carry so deep, and so Epidemick [Page 19] a Tincture as the only and unparallel'd Tools to be employed by Belzebub; for Murdering of Kings, Blowing up of Parlia­ments, managing not only Privat and Perso­nal Assasinations, but also Publick and Na­tional Massacres, to Astonishment; to say nothing of Burning down Cities and Mar­ket-Towns, and many more Matchless Mis­chiefs, whereof how far this their Holy Fa­ther (both while Cardinal, and when Pope) in Conjunction with his Unholy Sons have been guilty, the Sequel will Demonstrate; and that Ex abundanti.

A Fourth Priviledg (or rather a Prero­gative) this Cardinal had, while so, was, That whosoever would dare to Offend or Injure (in any kind) his Worship or Cardi­nalship, though the Offence were only an opprobrious Word, and though the Offen­der were so Lofty as a King or an Emperor (who apprehend themselves above the comprehensions of the Law) yet the Po­pish Canon-Law Runs thus severely against them, [Laesae Majestatis Rei Sunt, cujus cun (que) sint Ordinis, Imò Imperator ipse, &c. Et In paenas Bullae Caenae Incurrent.] Such Offenders against a Cardinal (yea though it be the Emperor himself) shall be Judged Guilty of High-Treason, and shall Incur the Pains and Penalties of Excommunication, De­position, [Page 20] &c. Was not this a Lofty Beast then? Exalting himself above all that is call­ed God, or Magistrates, even of the very highest Form, 2 Thes. 4.4. He might, while in that Capacity only, challenge the Stoutest King or Emperor, to affront his Cardinalship, while he stood thus strongly Guarded by his Canon-Law, to Batter them down with its Horrible and Terrible Canon-Bullets; nay, That Canon-Law did not only thus secure his Person, but it also ex­tends to protect his very House, and all his Hang-bys, or Menial Servants, to all his Creatures and Favourites in his Presence; even all these his Appertinances are trou­bled with that Disease called [Noli me Tan­gere] They must not (forsooth) be touch­ed, though never so Criminal, 'tis an Af­front of the highest Nature, even High-Treason it self, and therefore (with my consent) should any of his Clerks be affli­cted with the Kings-Evil (as they are over­run with the Popes-Evil) a Caveat shall be Entred to Debar them of the Royal-Touch, least by a Male-Improvement thereof, they turn their Canon-Mouth against the King: How, neither the Cardinal, nor any of his Attendants (every one bearing for his Mot­to, the same with the Base Thistle, [Nemo me Impunè lacessit,] none can touch me [Page 21] without Pricking their own Fingers) stand Fortified with the Grand Diabolo's, or Great Canons of that Canon-Law. See Dianoe Compendium, pag. 93.

The Fifth Prerogative this Cardinal had, above all Kings and Emperors, is, That whereas They, Poor Low Shrubs (in compa­rison of such a Tall Cedar as a Cardinal is) must humble themselves to the very Foot of the Pope, must Honour the very Sha­dow of his Shoe-strings, or rather Adore the Sparkling Diamonds, wherewith the Buckles of his Pantofle is most Richly E­nambled, and the Highest Honour that those Kings and Emperours must have vouch­safed to them, (a Glorious Vouchsafement and Low Condescention in his Unholiness indeed) is only to Kiss the Stinking Toe of his Gowty Gulls: but when this Cardinal came to pay his Visits, and do his Homage, unto his Mighty God Pope Clement the Tenth, (his immediate Predecessor) he had the Honour (without any prostrating posture, save only a slight Congee) to Kiss his Ho­linesses Hands, with a Mental Reservation too, (Right Romanist like) wishing him well in his Grave, that he might (upon such an Irresistible Resignation) yeild up his Pontifical Chair to him: Nay, the Royal Complement of Kissing the Popes Hand only, [Page 22] was not all the Honour he had from him, but he is allowed to Kiss the Popes Mouth too. Lorinus the Jesuit, in Act. 6. doth ac­knowledg this Ceremony (as to matter of Fact) to be the Cardinals Prerogative above Kings and Emperours: If the Kissing of the Bishop by the Priest at his Ordination, do declare a Parity, as above: So this like­wise must be an Indication, that a Cardinal is a Popes Fellow, yet Advanced above Kings and Emperours, (contemptible Ti­tles and Offices to his) by this mutual Em­bracement. The Hebrew Rabbins do Read these words, [Gnal Pi Jehovah] Deut. 34.5. which we Translate [According to the Word of the Lord] in this Sense, That Mo­ses Died at the Mouth of Jehovah, (which indeed the Hebrew Words do Genuinely and Gramatically signifie,) as if God had ta­ken away Moses his Soul out of his Body with a Kiss in a most friendly manner: could this Lord God the Pope (Clement the Tenth) have done so to Cardinal Odeschal­cho, when he Kiss'd him, it had been no bet­ter than Osculum Iscarioticum. rather a Trea­cherous, than an Amicable Kiss, in spoil­ing his Market, of designing to become his Successor upon the Papal Throne, and then had the World wanted him for Pope Innocent the Eleventh, though both the Place and the [Page 23] Title might have been supplied by some o­ther Person: Had this happen'd so, That Pope might have cry'd Quits for his wishing (in his Mental Reservation afore mention­ed) the Pontifical Chair before the Time: what loss this might have been to the Roman Church, I know not, but this I know upon more Infallible proofs than his own Infallibi­lity, that had he Died at the Mouth of his Lord God the Pope, when that Complemental Kiss pass'd betwixt him and his Predecessor, he had undoubtedly pass'd off the Stage with less Guilt, the Horrid Popish Plot, the Mur­der of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, and a Thou­sand more Diabolical Intriegues since that, will lay with weight upon some Bodies Consci­ence sooner or later. Veniet, Veniet, qui malè Judicata Rejudicabit Dies: There is a Day coming, which shall Judg Righte­ously all Matters over again, (though at present they be Hush'd up in Judg­ment) and this may be done even in this World.

I add to all the former the Sixth Privi­ledg, For so many must be the Number, that it may the better Symbolize, and carry a Correspondency with the Number of the Beasts Name, which consists of Three Sixes, [666.] and therefore several Popes bore the Number of Sixtus, and had I been [Page 24] of the Conclave (an Honour I am no way Ambitious of) I would have advised the Cabal, that this Pope Elect should have taken upon him no other Name, save that former Name of Sixtus, and I would have press'd this Cogent Argument, That seeing there had been before, Sixtus the First, the Second, the Third, the Fourth, and the Fifth, now One that will be Stiled Sixtus the Sixth, not only makes the Odd Number Even, but also the very Name will carry along with it a most Grateful Sound and Symphony: This only would have been the mischief thereof, that it might have Bordered a little too near the Number of the Name of the Apocalyptick Beast, for this Name would have consisted of Two Sixes, (Sixtus the Sixth) but that Name consists of Three: notwithstanding this little difference (in an Unit) it might have Sounded some Alarm to the World: This so much necessary Sixth Priviledg which this Cardinal Odeschalcho had, was, That his Cardinalship did Constitute him an Ecclesiastick Prince, whereby he became a fit Mate and Side-Fellow (standing upon equal and even Ground) with the most Potent Secular Prince in Europe, and there­fore to Comport with this Princely Great­ness, the Canon Law allows him a propor­tionable [Page 25] Grandeur, Sumptuous Furniture, and all manner of Pompous Splendor for Supporting the Honour of that Dignity, for to be one of the College of Cardinals is the Penultimate Promotion in the Roman Church, it being the very Highest and Uppermost Step, from which one or other of these Crafty Climbers, Lands at last into Peters Chair. And seeing Wealth is an In­dispensible Perquisite, as it is commonly call'd the Sinews of War, so 'tis no less the Nurse to Honour, yea, oft times more than Vertue, upon this account, Their Canon Law allows them most Rich Revenues, most Rapacious Offices and Employs, wherein (as if they had got the Philosophers Stone) they turn all they touch into Gold and Guineys: The Italian Author of the Just weight of the Scarlet Gown, gives a Candid and Ingenuous Account, (keeping the Scales even) of those Crafty Intrigues, and many Subtle Tricks, that those Arch-Politicians do put in Practice to Enrich themselves, to fill their Coffers by Sale of Offices that are Vacant, by Pensions from the Court of Foreign Princes, (both France, Spain, and Germany) who all strive, not only to Counterballance one another, but also, by a pretty Greaso-Fisto, with Yellow Ointment to Tilt the Ballance, and so some­times [Page 26] Advance their own Faction upper­most, through the prevailing Interest of those their closely obliged Creatures the Cardinals, who have such a mighty Influence upon all Debates and Resolves in that Pragmatick and Superintendent Court, which Lords it, and Laws it, (or at least would willingly do so) not only over Gods Herritage the Church, but also over the whole Habitable World.

The Scarlet Gown Author, in his Epist. Dedic. speaks of the several Applications that are made to this Consistory of Cardi­nals, from all Popish Princes and States, especially from the Two Mighty Kings of France and Spain, by their Ambassadors, who ever lay Ledger at that Court, and who always Address themselves to the most Politick and Powerful of these Cardinals, striving to Outvie each other in their proffer of Fat Penssons to them, giving them the best Spiritual Dignities and Promotions their Two Kingdoms can afford them, (which in either of them are plentiful enough) provided always, they will be engaged thereby to Espouse (as much as ever they may) the Interests of their Be­nefactors Crown, to which they are thus obliged. Herein these Court-Pensioners do Try the Trick of a Treacherous Judas, [Page 27] (who with his [Quid Dabitis?] What will ye give me? and I will betray my Innocent Master, &c.) rather than play the part of Faithful Peter, (whose Successors, though unlike him, save only in Denying his Lord, they would be reputed) in Defending his Innocent Master from those that Assaulted him: for notwithstanding never so strong Engagements and Assurances; Oh what a slippery Hold either or both those great Princes have of these their Cardinal En­gines, who frequently (and upon very slight occasions) are found to warp into the contrary Faction, which Verifies the Vulgat Proverb, 'Tis Hard to make a Fast Bargain with a Loose Chapman: They how­ever, in playing thus at Fast and Loose can notably serve their own Ends, and like Bad Lawyers can take a Bribe upon both Sides, when they are Courted by both the Kings. Especially those Cardinals that sit nearest the Papal Chair, and are in the fairest Capacity to Climb next into it, as was the Happy Case of this our Cardinal, and therefore must be Highly Courted by Foreign Agents in the Name of their Ma­sters; The Height of whose Ambition it was to oblige him. Thus we see this Bene­detto Odeschalcho had fair opportunities for gaining Wealth enough to maintain his [Page 28] Grandeur, the Canon-Law doth Com­mand these Cardinals, that, besides their Living upon the Churches Revenues, to catch what they can for themselves, (may we Add, Per Fas & Nefas, Vel Vi, Vel Clam, Vel Precariò, either by Hook or Crook, to wit, the Crosier Staff,) upon the Account of Aggrandizing the Roman Cler­gy, which Poverty would render Contemp­tible, Dianae Compendium, pag. 88.

How far this Cardinal comply'd (as who of that Catholick Faith would not) with that Canon-command, we shall have an Account By and By: But before we can come to that, Here are Two mischievous Stumbling-stones lays in our Way like a Cou­ple of Blockado's, which who ever were able to Roll away out of our Way, would do us a very great Kindness; when set fast.

The First is this, Suppose this Cardinal had been a Monk, 'tis not to suppose what ought not to be supposed; for some Bene­dicts (as his Fore-Name and some Popes Name were) had been Benedictine Monks, and at their entrance into their Monasteries had solemnly vowed perpetual Poverty; how could this Monkish Man with a good Con­science Relinquish his vowed Poverty? Ga­ther Riches so fast that he got the Devil and all, (as will appear afterwards) became an [Page 29] Ecclesiastick Prince, Ride his Progress in all Prince-like Equipage, never proud Haman more Highly Honoured, and never any Triumphant Caesar or Conquerour better Arrayed than He in his Richest Robes for Splendour and Glory: Let any Man come forth and tell me the Consistency of these two Contraries, & erit mihi magnus Apollo. He that can rightly Reconcile them, shall be my Oracle.

Tush (saith the Romish Casuists, one of the New Quacks the Jesuits) I can with a wet Finger make these two Contraries Jump friendly into one, two odds make even (as Two odd Threes make even Six, still he will harp upon the Number Six, as above) and why may not two at odds meet in even also. This is the Learned Gloss of the Popish Casuists upon this Case of Con­science in the General, but more particular­ly (he saith) this Vow of Poverty was taken with a mental Reservation, that he resolved to be poor, no longer, than while he could not possibly be Rich, and so the word [Per­petual] in the Vow must be vox aequivoca, and to be taken with equivocation, &c.

Such Dirt-Dawbers (that Dawb with un­temper'd Morter) are the Jesuitical Casuists, yea, many Monks can play the pranks of a Monkey (there is not much difference be­twixt [Page 30] their Names) who can slip his Col­lar on for his Masters Pleasure, and with as much ease, can slip it off again for his own, The Monk can play at fast and loose with his strict Vow as well as the Monkey with his strait Collar. But above all Casuists that speak home to this Case, hear what an In­fallible Pope (papa in Cathedrà non potest er­rare) and that Innocent the 10th, (one of the last before this) speaketh; He surely, can­not speak but like a most profound Oracle: I have heard some Judicious Clients say, when I want Councel, I will go to the Head, and not to the Tail, meaning, to the pro­foundest Councellors at Law, and not to the mean, pittiful, underling Lawyers: let us do so here, omitting all other scribling puny Casuists in Popish Schools, and hear what this great Oracle saith out of Peters unerring Chair: This Pope Innocent the Tenth, when he was but Cardinal Pamphilio, made a promise in the Conclave to Marry his onely Nephew into the Family of the Bar­berinos (one of the three grand pontifical Factions, Paulino and Pamphilian being the other two, in that Sacred Colledge or Con­sistory) the same Promise he privatly made to his Nephew also; howbeit, he soon chang'd his mind (being then not in the Papal Chair and so, nor Infallible) and pro­moted [Page 31] Him to a Scarlet Gown (instead of a Wife) which was far better, and which (he thought) would best prevent divers Emergent Differencies that were likely to arise by Marrying one of the Pamphilian Family to a Wife of the Barberinos, a con­trary Faction, which yet had been whead­led into a Beleif of this great Match for their She-Cozen, because it was so solemn­ly and publickly promised by the Cardinal (the Unkle of the Gentleman, or in plain­er Terms, the Father of the Bastard) in their Sacred Colledge of Cardinals, where there was a dead weight of Living Witnesses thereof. Notwithstanding this Promise, a Sacred thing in it self, made in a Sacred place, and before so many sacred Persons (according to Popish Sentiments) he made a shift to cozen both them and their She-Co­zen: whereupon, not long after His As­sumption into the Papal Chair (no doubt but his Nephew in his new Scarlet Gown, gave his Uncle an heaty lift thither) Cardi­nal Antonio Barberinos; having still the grum­bling of his Gizzard for the late cheating affront, makes his Address to his New-Cre­ated and Now-Crowned Holiness (expect­ing nothing but what was Holy Redresses suitable to his new Title, to sweeten unto all his new Crown and Dignity) He therefore [Page 32] brake out into those words to this new Pope Innocent the 10th. (into which he had chan­ged his Name Pamphylio) saying, Most Bles­sed Father, your Transactions about your Ne­phew (in Marrying him to a Scarlet Gown, and not to our Cozen) doth not well correspond with your promises made to us in the Conclave, when you was but Cardinal: Hereupon his new Un-Holiness (with a great deal of Gra­vity, as became his Place) as Un-Holily An­swered, thus saying, Tell me my Lord, who was He, that made such promises to you? Was it not Cardinal Pamphilio? Yes, saith Anto­nio, upon which the Pope turns short upon him, and bids him go challeng his Promise of Pamphilio, for he was not the Man of that Name now, His Name was Innocent the Tenth, and not that Man you Imagine me to be: At this, Antonio Raged, and like a new Mongi Bello, Fire started out of his Eyes, and like Old Orlando, stamps with his Feet upon the Ground, when he heard the Infallible Chair speak more Fallibly and Fallaciously, than ever the Devil did at his Delphos-Oracle: In this Transport his Voice also Vomited out some severe Inve­ctives against his Lord God the Pope, and in an High Disgust, Uncivilly turns his Tail upon his Blasphemed, as well as Blas­pheming Idol, Excommunicates himself [Page 33] from the Sacred Consistory, and from the Metrapolitan City of Rome (the very place of his own Nativity) flies into France to be Protected by the French King, at whose Devotion he had all along been in the Fa­ction, leaving all his Riches (he had Vastly scraped together) and Revenues behind him: See the Substance of this whole Sto­ry in the Author of the Just Weight of the Scarlet Gown, his own Preface to his Book; who tells us likewise, pag. 68. That this Don Antonio Barberino (who thus Dis-resent­ed this profound, more than Jesuitical, the Diabolical Salvo of his Holy Father) was none of the Best, who kept for his Miss or Whore, La Checa Bufona, upon whom he wasted most Vast Sums of Money, &c. pag. 69.

Mark here, This Papal Distinction with­out a Difference (to wit, it was not Inno­cent the Pope, but Pamphilio the Cardinal, that made the Promise, and therefore not at all obliging, &c.) is the Best Bramble-Bush, that the Infallible Chair it self can find out, wherewith to stop the Gap in a Romish Conscience; and if this will serve as a sufficient Salvo for the Supreme Pope himself, much more for his Underling, a Cardinal; and so our Odeschalcho is brought off with flying Colours; It was not Odes­chalcho [Page 34] the Cardinal that Vowed perpetual Po­verty, it was only Odeschalcho the Monk that did so, I am not He that made that Vow, 'tis not obliging to me, as a Cardinal, but least of all, as now I am Pope.

Such slippery Tricks of the Monkey, we find the Jesuits can play, as well as the Monks; for Casimer the Jesuit could (by his Fervent Prayers to his Founder Ignatius Loyola) obtain an effectual Dispensation for his Acquitment from his Holy Orders to Em­brace a Crown, the Jewels whereof had a Sovereign Vertue to Salve all Wounds of Conscience, and to give him a Quietus Est: Hereupon he became the King of Poland: but while I think of it, Take this pleasant Story, I have sometimes Read with com­placency, 'tis this, The Bishop of Triers (I think, but am sure it was one of those Bi­shops that are the Electoral Princes of the Emperour of Germany) was found fault with for some Notorious Extravagances in his Publick Ministrations, by a very Grave Senator, Who told him, Such Gross Actings were a Scandal to his Lawn Sleeves and Mitre; all the Apology that Proud Prelate could make for himself, was this, He An­swered, That he did not those things as he was a Bishop, but as he was a Prince: But the Senator Replies in a cutting Reprimend, [Page 35] saying, If the Devil get the Prince for such Crimes, I pray you; what will become of the Bishop. This Non-plus did not admit of a Rejoinder; and is there not par Ratio in both these Cases of Conscience aforemen­tioned, If the Devil get Pamphilio the Car­dinal for breaking his Promise, (contrary to Psal. 15.) what will become of Innocent the Pope; it may be, he hath got them Both together at one Mouthful (being but one Individual Man) already, seeing Pope In­nocent the Tenth, who was before, Cardinal Pamphilio, is now Trip'd off the Stage, and out Odeschalcho is got into the Chair in his Room: So likewise, If the Devil get the Monk for breaking his Vow of perpetual Po­verty, what will become of the Rich Cardi­nal, sure I am, Though the Devil hath not already made one Mouthful of them both, yet, the Pope (the Devils Eldest Son) hath done it, for both Odeschalcho the Monk (as some say) and Odeschalcho the Cardinal are at once Swallowed up by this present Pope, Innocent the Eleventh.

The Upshot of the whole in a word is this, I Refer to the Judicious Reader, whe­ther this Grave Senator, or the Jesuits (Azorius, Navar, &c.) yea the Infallible Chair it self, be the better Casuist; and whe­ther Don Antonio Barberino, the Crock-Back [Page 36] Nephew to Pope Urban the Eighth, were not a Straighter Man of the Two, that Ab­hord those wicked Evasions of Pope Inno­cent the Tenth, as above.

But having well wearied both my Self and my Reader, with lifting at this great Stone that lay in our Way, and yet cannot get it Removed out of the Way half so well as was Amasa's Stab'd Body, that stop'd the March of the Army, 2 Sam. 20.12. 'Tis high time to leave it, and to try our Strength in a Lift or Two at the Second, which in like manner obstructs our passage, in giving a particular Character of this pre­sent Pope.

The Second Objection is, Whether these pretended Governors of the Church, the Popish Prelates and Cardinals, abounding in all manner of Pride, Pomp and Luxury, can by any sober Mind be Deemed the Rightful Successors of Christ and his Apostles, who all did so oft Recommend Self-Denyal and Humility, &c.

To this, in short, I shall Answer, with a Story that I have Read many Years ago, and which I have lately met with in the Hi­story of Cardinals, pag. 46. The Author of Nipotismo di Roma, (wherein he shews how Sedulous every Pope is to promote his Ne­phews or Bastards) Relates the Matter of [Page 37] Fact thus, being both an Eye and an Ear-Witness thereof in Person himself, saying, I Remember a certain Sermon I heard in a Covent in Rome, and in the presence of Two Cardinals, (it may be our Odeschalcho was one of them) and Cardinal Sacchetti was the other; The Preacher was a Bare Footed Franciscan, who seem'd a poor pitiful Creature to look upon, yet geting into the Pulpit (on the first Sunday in Lent) in a very great Auditory, after an Ave-Maria, and Two or Three Cringes (as is usual) with his Knee, rising up again upon his Feet, and pulling his Cappuce or Cowle upon his Head, down almost over his Eyes, he paused a while (in this posture) with­out speaking a word, and fixing his Eyes stedfastly upon the Cardinals that stood be­fore him, without Naming any Text at all, he breaks out abruptly into these words, [St. Peter was a Fool, St. Paul was a Fool, all the Apostles were Fools, all the Holy Mar­tyrs, all the Primitive Saints of the Church of Jesus Christ our Redeemer, were Fools.]

The Cardinals were strangely Stun'd with these words, and stood as Insensible as Two Statues, the People also, and I among the rest, Admiring this unusual Freak, were content enough to Attend the Attendency of it: The Fryar, after some small silence [Page 38] (which he purposely did, to observe the Resentments of his Auditory) began his Discourse as followeth, [You that are Pre­lates, do not you believe, you shall be Saved? I know your Answer, Yes, Father Fryar, we do. And you People, you are certain of Pa­radise? without Doubt, you will say, Yes too. Yes, saith the Fryar, What, will Turning Night into Day, by Feasting, Sporting and Luxury? Will Frequenting Play-Houses, Whore-Houses, and a Living in all manner of Debauchery, bring you [People] to Heaven?

As for you [Prelates,] Will your Wear­ing Purple aad Scarlet, Will your Glittering in Gold and Silver, Will your Riding a­broad, and Carreeceing about in Gawdy Coaches, and when you come out of them, Will the having your Silken Trains carry'd after you in the Street, bring you to Hea­ven? Will your Spoiling the Walls of the Church, to Adorn the Walls of your Cham­bers, and will your Subtracting from Christ, to bestow upon the World, bring you thi­thither? Would you Oh Romanists, be Saved in this manner? Is this the way to Salvation? which we are told is not a Broad but a Narrow Way.

Then certainly all the Apostles, and all the Saints of the Primitive Church might [Page 39] have been Saved in the same Way, as well as you; and then as certainly they were all Mad Men and Fools, to Wander up and down in Sheep Skins, and Goat Skins, being Desti­tute, and Afflicted, to Undergo the Hard Tryals of Cruel Mockings and Scourgings, yea, moreover of Bonds and Imprisonments, yet higher, they were Mad Men and Fools to be Stoned, to be Sawn Asunder, to be Slain with the Sword, and to be Tortured and Tor­mented, not Accepting Deliverance, &c. Heb. 11.35, 36, 37, 38. If your Way be the Way to Heaven.

But the mistake is on your part, Oh Ro­manists, They were all prudent and pious Men,, 'Tis You that are the Madmen and Fools, and not They. 'Tis You that propose a new way of Salvation to your Selves; which will best comport with your own Vanity and Villany, even such a way, as is not onely contrary to the Holy Gospel, but to the very light of Right Reason also.

This single story is sufficient of it self, to Demonstrate what kind of Successours these Cardinals (and amongst the rest our Odes­chalcho) are to the Apostles, The pattern and the portraiture do correspond like Harp and Harrow, which made the Italian Painter Draw the Pictures of Peter and Paul, with a very deep Tincture of a Red Vermilion [Page 40] Colour in both their Complexions, and when some Cardinals blamed him for putting an Abuse upon their holy Predecessours (to Limn them more like Good Fellows, who had been taking a Cup of Nims, a little too much of the comforting Creature) He Smartly yet Modestly Answered, No, Gen­tlemen, you mistake my Genuine meaning, for there you may behold those two Holy Apostles no other than Blushing at you their such Unholy Successours.

I shall conclude this Paragraph with that strange Prayer of a Protestant Divine upon his Reading a Gazet, who there found, how in the Vacancy of the Roman See, some Cardinals were consulting, that the next Pope when Created, should be bound to discard his Nephews, those Suckers of the Churches Treasure. He Zealously Ejaculated this shor, but pithy, Petition, saying, [God Almighty Remove these good Thoughts out of the Minds of these Cardinals, for the Scandal of their Church, are the Edification of ours, and Disturbances amongst them, gives a Sweet Repose to us: History of Cardinals, pag. 132.

Suitable to that before, is this, that which followeth after. Another Divine Discoursing with Cardinal Odeschalcho's Chaplain, and asking him what he was, he Answered, I [Page 41] am a Priest, and pray you, saith the Mini­ster, what is your Master whom you Serve, Oh Sir (quoth he) 'tis my Lord Cardinal: Go to then, said the Enquirer, pray what is your Work? Oh Sir (saith he) I Say Service in my Lords Chappel; Say Service, (saith the other) then you are not so good as an Horse or an Asse, for both these dumb Creatures doe Service, and doing Service is better than Saying Service: but the Discourse ended not here, the Opponent, a little too Pragmatical, must ask some more Questi­ons, being too much Question-sick, fur­ther, saying, I pray you Sir, who gave to you the Name of Priest, and to your Ma­ster the Name of Lord Cardinal, seeing St. Paul Names no such Offices among the Officers of the True Church? Ephes. 4.11. The Respondent Replys, Oh Sir, Our Holy Mother the Church gave to me the Name of Priest, and to my Master the Name of Car­dinal. Upon this, the Questionist makes this brisk Repartee, saying, [God Almighty Bless me with my Fathers Name, for all that Bear only their Mothers Name, (as you say, You and your Lord do) be no better than Bastards, or if you will have it in a cleaner Dress, that is to say, the Popes Ne­phews: But enough of this Facetious Dis­course.

[Page 42]Now 'tis High time to take a more par­ticular View of our Odeschalcho, whom we have Characteriz'd but little as a Cardinal hitherto, seeing our main Design is, to give him a more Ample Character as Pope, where the Mystery of Iniquity must be more fully opened in a large Field of Dis­course.

As John the Divine gives a Graphical Description of the Picture of his Double Beast in general; how He gradually Rose, both out of the Earth, and out of the Sea, Revel. 13.1, 11. So my present Task is to Limn to the Life the very Person of this present Scarlet Colour'd Beast, the Pope in par­ticular, shewing, First, How he rose up Step by Step to the Pontifical Chair, into which this our Cardinal Odeschalcho was Usher'd with abundance of Pompous and Solemn Ceremonies: 'Tis indeed an usual Saying, That Ceremonies are but Indifferent things; yet this is a most certain and Try­ed Truth, (to the great Detriment of ma­ny, much Damnified hereby) that though Ceremonies be in truth but things Indifferent to Salvation, yet Experience (the best School-Mistress) Teacheth, they are things Necessary to Preferment. None can Climb up (not Jacob's, but) Antichrist's Ladder, save such as have the Cheveril Conscience of [Page 43] a Latitudinarian, who can stretch out and Gape wide as the Greedy-gut once did, (in his Eating a Fish Dinner) who swal­lowed down Bones and all, till he had like to have been Choaked: We must suppose our Odeschalcho had a Throat wide enough, he was not at all so Scrupulous as the precise Ones among us, but could Gulp down any Romish Ceremony (though never so Corrupt and Unscriptural) provided it might but give him an Hearty Lift into the Seat of In­fallibility: 'Tis as much beyond Question­ing, as the most Received Maxim in Phylo­sophy, That such as are most Defective in their Morals, are most Zealous to supply it with abundance of Ceremonials: How far this our Odeschalcho was Deficient in Mora­lity, let the Author of the Scarlet Gown (his own Countrey-man, the Italian) be heard to speak, His Relation Runs thus, Benedetto Odeschalcho was a very Rich Pre­late, who a long time Courted Don Baerbe­rino for preferring him to be Clerk of the Chamber, which place he was Ambitious of, (that he might be the better Acquainted with all the Grand Intrigues of the Consi­story) and which the Don had promised him upon his paying down upon the Nail a Round Sum of Money for it: But find­ing that his Purchase proved nothing, save [Page 44] only a company of Court Complements, and that this Crooked-back Don Antonio dealt but Crookedly with him, in making the Fool fain with Fair Words without Deeds, he (being weary'd with a little sprinkling of Court Holy Water only,) began to think of the Proverb too late, That a Fool and his Money is soon parted: He hereupon Re­solves to take new Measures, and to try whether (against, and to Confute all Gramer Rules,) the Faeminine Gender might not prove more Worthy than the Masculine, and whether the Gray-Mare might not prove the better Horse; so makes he his Applica­tion to that Famous Strumpet, that Impe­rious Jezabel, Sister in Law, &c. to Pope Innocent the Tenth, Don Olympia, wherein 'tis Remarkable, that he deals in both with the Dons, and with the Greatest Dons too, the one an Ambitious, and (as to the Court Faction in Rome) a very Potent Cardinal; but the other (when he shifts his Sails unto, and makes his Second shift) was no less than an Omnipotent Creatress; for she could Create what Cardinals and what Popes she pleased, with her Irresistible Charms: No wonder then, if, when at a loss, he falls upon this new Expedient, and Turns Don Antonio into Don Olympia, yea Turns from the former to the latter, as being better [Page 45] furnished with Conveniences for him: he now thought it nothing so Commodious to Court a Lord, as to Court a Lady, especially One so Accomplished both with an Al­mighty Power, and with a Bewitching Beauty.

Was not this a Brisk Madam, and well worth a Prelate, yea a Cardinals Court­ing: The Substance of this Account, (though here dress'd up in other Lan­guage) may be seen in the Scarlet Gown Author, pag. 21. who says further, That this Benedetto Presented this Lady with Rich Love-Tokens, wherewith at length he Got into Her—Favor: But above all (saith the said Italian) with One Amourous Bribe more than Ordinary, and most to be Re­marked; which matter (as that Author Relates it) was manag'd after this manner, Our Odeschalcho, going one Day (as he did often) to pay his Respects to this his Lady Don Olympia, about the Coronation of her Brother in Law Pope Innocent the Tenth, a Goldsmith came at that very time, and shewed Her a very fair Cupboard of Rich and Modish Plate to Sell, and perhaps prompting the Lady to Buy it, as con­ducing [Page 46] much to the Grace and Honour of that Great Days Solemnity: Olympia Vieweth it thorough and thorough in the presence of this Odeschalcho (Her Para­mour) and other Lords, and no doubt had more than a Months Mind to it, but how to compass it without her own Cost and Coin, was her present Project, in or­der to this, She first highly commends eve­ry Vessel by it self, both Mettal, Workman­ship and Lustre, and then all in the whole, saying, It was a goodly and curious Cup­board of the New Fashion'd Plate, but she was a Poor Widow (she should have said, a Rich Harlot) so pretending she was not able to Purchase it; lastly, upon this she withdraws immediately to her Chamber, leaving the By-stander Odeschalcho (who admired all for her sake) to make out some better proof (than yet he had done in all his former Gifts) of his Cordial Affections to Her. This Prelate, being but (as the same Author calls him) a Man of mean Undestanding, was the more easily Insnared with the wily Wit of a Woman, which, at a pinch, doth usually exceed that of a Man (who Requires more Deliberation) even of such as have deeper Reaches and Capacities than our shallow Odeschalcho: Hereupon, under this suddain Surprize, he [Page 47] calls the Goldsmith to him, Asks the Price of the Plate, 'twas below his Honour in his Amorous Expectations to bid him lower than was Asked, he paid down Eight Thou­sand Crowns for it, and without more Adoe, sent it in to the Lady, as a Present from Him, to her in her Chamber, that this Gift (as Solomon saith) might make Room for himself thither also: Don Olympia was so Transported (both with the Success of her Craft, and with the Possession of so much Plate, all costing her Nothing, save only Casting a Figure about a Credulous Fool,) that Immediately she went to the Pope where she was Domina, Faec totum, and whe­ther she had free Access Night and Day, See Scarlet Gown, pag. 81. at the bottom,) Begs of him for Odeschalcho, not only the Clerkship in the Chamber, but soon after a Scarlet Gown also. How far this She-Don Help'd him with her Hand (if not in Per­son, yet by Proxy) into Peters Chair, I know not, 'tis enough to know here that Odeschalcho's Familiar Converse with this Famous Woman, but Infamous Whore, gives Ground enough to beleive, that He was Defective in Morals, and therefore was under a Necessity to Eeek that out with Ce­remonials: No wonder then, if such a Man of Immorality should become (as it were) a [Page 48] very Compound of Ceremony: His Election to the Chair consisted of Ceremony; his Coro­nation in the Chair consisted of Ceremony; but above all, his whole Worship and De­votion in the matters of Religion consisteth of Ceremony; only a Word or Two as a By­blow upon this last, it being beside the Scope of our present Design. This present Popes Worship is drawn forth in such an Antick and Pedantick Dress, so far from the Simplicity of the Gospel, that no thinking Mind can look upon Popery to be any better than Foppery, sure I am, the Romish Church is far past her Meridian, seeing she can scarce be now seen for the length of her own Shadow, the Shadows of her Evening are stretched out, in turning Doctrine into Sophistry, and Discipline into Ceremony, and though the Hedg of her Ceremonies may fa­vourably protect Carrion-Crows, yet is it pricking and Vexatious enough to harmless Doves.

But to Wave that in this place, and come to that Compound of Ceremonies, manag'd by a Master of Ceremonies, at the Election of this present Pope: No sooner was his Predecessor, Pope Clement the Tenth Dead, (for though the Keys of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, hang at the Popes Girdle, yet there's the Mischief, the Key of the Grave [Page 49] was by some Mishap or other drop'd from it, otherwise the Pope had been equally as Immortal as Infallible,) but the Congregati­on of Cardinals (having Nine Mornings after his Death Sung Dirges for the Repose of his Soul, and preparing themselves with Holy Water, Incense, &c.) did all Repair to the Conclave, and with them Two Ma­sters of Ceremonies, and the Secratary of the College, &c. were all close shut up to­gether, in order to Elect a New Pope: Then Processions came Thick and Three­fold from all Churches and Monasteries, Singing, [Veni Creator, &c. Come Holy Ghost, &c.] Round about the Consistory, Imploring the Inspirations of the Spirit to come upon the Cardinals: The first Step or Ceremony, was, The Three chief Cardi­nals of the several Orders, with the Cardi­nal-Chamberlain, took an Exact Survey of all the parts of the Conclave to see that all be close, and shut up on all sides, as if they would shut out the Holy Ghost from coming among them; for upon the Death of Pope Clement the Fourth, when the Con­clave could not agree (being divided and Rent in pieces by the Feuds and Factions of the French and Spanish Interest) about the Election of a Successor, one of the Cardi­nals (perhaps supposing that they were [Page 50] too close shut up in the Conclave,) Cryed, You must Order the Uncovering of the Roof of the Consistory, to make way for the Holy Ghost to come down upon us: The Conclave puts so much stress upon this same Ceremony, that not strictly to observe it, is a Nullity of the Election.

The Second Ceremony at the Election of this Pope, was, The Master of the Cere­monies, (after a Recital of the Cardi­nals Priviledges, which each Swore to Ob­serve, in case he were chosen Pope,) Rings a Bell and calls them all to Mass, at which they Sang the Hymn, [Veni Creator Spiri­tus,] and the Prayer of the Holy Ghost, to Implore His Illumination upon them: But I am afraid they could not find one Promise to ground their Prayer upon, for the promise of the Spirits coming is only to those that Seek him in Spirit and in Truth, and that are found in Due Order, and not in such Disorders as Usually attend the Con­clave, which once gave occasion to an Old Cardinal of Sicily, (who, after long Ab­sence, coming to a Popes Election, and finding nothing but Animosities, Factions and Fractions among them,) to complain, saying, Num ad Hunc Modum fiunt pontifices Ro [...]a [...]s? &c. I expected that fervent Prayers, as in Times of Old, should have [Page 51] procured some fit Man to be pointed out by the Holy Ghost to us for a Vicar of Christ, but (saith he) If promising Re­wards for Pensionary Votes, If Cajoling, Cursing and Threatning Revenge be your way of Canvasing your Elections, then farwel for me, and so the good Old Man Returned Home to his Countrey, and could never be perswaded to see Rome any more.

The Third Ceremony, was, To Elect a Pope by Scrutiny, (waving the Two other ways of Inspiration or Compromise,) which they thus managed, Each Cardinal hath a List of all the Cardinals Names given to him, he Wrote down in a peice of Paper, whom he would have chosen, went to the Altar, puts his Scroll into the Golden Cha­lice standing thereupon, and so Return'd to his place, when all had so done, the Prims Bishop took out all the Papers, delivered them to the Prime Deacon, who unfolded them all, and without mentioning the Ele­ctor, Read aloud the Names of the Elected: The Prime Priest Reckoning the Voices, pronounced the Majority of Votes to fall upon Cardinal Odeschalcho: Hereupon he Rang a Silver Bell, and a Pan of Coals was brought in, and all the Paper Billets, where­in the Names of all the Cardinals were Written, were Burnt.

[Page 52] Good God, How far the Ancient Church of Rome is now Run from the Primitive Pattern? How far is that Church at this Day Run a Whoring? more like Babylons Whore, than Sions Spouse, who both Ask'd and Received Directions from the Blessed Bridegroom, how she might follow the Footsteps of Christs (not Antichrists) Flock: I would gladly Ask of any Man, how ma­ny of these (and many more, for Brevity, omitted) silly Apish as well as Popish Tricks and Trinkets, were put into practice at the Election of St. Matthias into Traiterous Ju­das's Bishoprick and Apostleship, Act. 1.20. to 26. The pure Simplicity of that Primitive Ordination makes our Pope Innocent the Eleventh look more like an Unholy Apostate, than any Holy Apostle, whose Successor he yet presumes to be Reckoned, who in Truth is rather a Successor of Judas in betraying Christ, as he is the Antichrist, than any of the Holy Apostles, who were fervent follow­ers of the Sacred Footsteps of their Sweet Saviour, and who Commands us to follow them no farther, than they follow Christ, 1 Cor. 11.1. They make that Holy Child Jesus the Regula Regulans, or Rule Ruling, and themselves only the Regula Regulata, the Rule Ruled, they would not have us to follow the Dark Side of the Cloud of Wit­nesses, [Page 53] as the Aegyptians did, and were Drowned, but the White-side thereof, as the Israelites did, and were Saved. Nei­ther do we ever find that St. Peter pass'd under those Comick and Theatrical Cere­monies when called to his Apostleship, or ever so Prefer'd or Enrich'd any of his Ne­phews or Bastards, as the Pope (his pre­tended Successor) doth now.

The Fourth Ceremony wherewith this pre­sent Pope had his Pompous Inauguration at his Election, was, Still more like Apostati­cal, than Apostolical, to wit, No sooner was the Majority of Votes (even Two parts of Three) acknowledged to fall upon our Cardinal Odeschalcho, through the Almighty Influence of his Old Grateful as well as Humble Servant, Don Olympia, who could not, with either Honour or Advantage, so soon forget her Stately Cupboard of curi­ous Silver Plate, well knowing, her lasting Gratitude to Him would be an Encourage­ment to others in that Court, to make their Addresses in the same manner to Her. No sooner (I say) was this Odeschalcho owned to be the Pope Elect Duely, though never so Factiously and Surreptitiously; but pre­sently the Wicket, or rather Wicked Hole (well call'd the Golden Door, through which the Hungry Cardinals Receive all their [Page 54] Meat, as well as Air, during their, some­times, long Confinement,) was then bro­ken open, at which stood an Infinite Num­ber of Poor People, on whom this New Pope bestowed his Papal Benediction, and to whom He Remitted all their Sins. The Formality of opening this Golden Door, was thus Observed, This New Pope came with a Golden Mallet in his Hand (all He med­dles now with must be Gold,) His Silver Age is now turned into a Golden One, his Silver Cupboard of Plate before purchased, is now turned into a Golden Door, and into a Golden Mallet, yea, better than all this. Here was, by Vertue of the Philosophers Stone, a Silver, or rather a Leaden, or Cop­per Cardinal (as Odeschalcho signifies) into a more Illustrious and Golden Pope. With this Golden Mallet he strikes at the Golden Door, which while He was in Doing, there were Workmen Ordered without to Break it open, which done, all the Chips, Stones, Dust and Dirt, (that fell from this Golden Gate, while it was in opening,) are gather­ed up, and preserved as the choicest and most Inestimable Relicks; and as to the Golden Mallet which this New Pope held in his Hand, He Nobly gave to Cardinal Sfor­za (according to Custom) who was his great Crony and Correspondent, oftenest [Page 55] in his Company, and especially in most Grace and Favour with him, for Lending him such an effectual Lift into Peters Chair. Now let any Man of a Sober Mind Judg, what kind of Successor this present Pope is to Poor Peter in his Chair; the Apostle Peter saith of himself, [Silver and Gold have I none,] Act. 3.6. But this Pope (his pre­tended Successor) hath Silver for himself, and for his Olympia too, yea, and a Golden Mallet to give away, &c. Simon Peter Re­jected Simon Magus, when he would have Hired of him the Gift of Miracles, Asts 8.19, 20, 23. whereas this Pope will do no­thing without Ready Money. St. Peter paid his Tribute to Temporal Princes, even at his Lord Christs Command, both for himself and for his Master, Matth. 17.24. to the last; But this Pope (being Antichrist) Scorns any such Disgraceful Motion, No, 'tis below his Unholy Highness to pay One Penny; he Received not Peters Patrimony upon any such Ignoble Terms: The Law of the Land, saith, That a Mans Heir is Ob­liged to pay the Debts, and to perform the Du­ties of the Inheritance, otherwise the Heir is Disinherited, and the Inheritance Divided among the Creditors: But the Popes Ca­non-Law saith, Peters Keys of Authority, with all the Profits and Emoluments, belong [Page 56] to the Pope, who holds them fast in his Hand; but as to his Key of Doctrine, where­in He Taught Universal Subjection to Secu­lar Governours, is a Duty no way Incum­bent upon Him; these are great Incum­brances to Popes, and would be unsuppor­table Burdens to our Sacred Inheritance▪ Yet in this the Pope likes well enough to Imitate his Predecessor Peter in, He dearly loves to Catch with his Angling Rod such Fishes in his Sea or See, as have a peice of Silver in their Mouths, Matth. 17.27. and it will do no Harm, if now and then a peice of Gold be found there also, for then will he be furnish'd with Materials, not only for a Silver Cupboard of Plate, but likewise for making his Golden Doors, and his Golden Mallets.

The Fifth Ceremony should have been, When the Golden Door was opened, He should have proceeded to the Porphiry Chair, the Chair of Exploration, where the Youngest Cardinal-Deacon should have Ex­amined Things and Things. But this Cu­stomary Ceremony is now a Days Anti­quated as Superfluous and Unnecessary, since commonly those Popes that have been lately Elected, had given sufficient proof by their Bastards of their Virility, and that they were known beforehand to be of the Right Masculin Gender, and indeed I think [Page 57] it need not be much Doubted, but rather than fail, rather than this Pope should have this trouble given him, Don Olympia her self might have come in with her Testimo­ny, and have assured them Viva Voce, they might undoubtedly spare the Labor of Ex­ploration, for she hath had some Experi­mental Knowledg (which is the Best) of his Manhood and Gallantry. And now, when I think of it, I cannot but Imagine this Groping Chair a very ill advised Injun­ction, however upon this Account, That whereas the Romanists do usually Stile their Head, The Lord God their Pope, now if as they say, He be indeed a God, they do but Debase him (if not Ungod him) in Trying whether be be a Man: Methinks the Words of Christ, with but a little Vari­ation, might serve the pretended Vicar of Christ: as the Lord did Evidence the Truth of his Resurrection, by saving, [If I be a Spirit, I should not have Flesh and Bones,] Luke 24.39. So this Vicar might give a Repulse to his Gropers, by saying, [If I be a God, I should not have Manly Members.] There is only this Diffe­rence, Christ was willing to be Handled, but his Vicar is unwilling, unless by Olympia, there­fore this Rude Ceremony was Omitted.

But the Sixth Ceremony (and so many there must be to comport still with the number [Page 58] of the name of the Beast, 666.) is a Cere­mony of Ceremonies, So it supplies the late omission of the fifth by way of Redundancy: for this introduceth all the Splendour and Grandeur of his prime Procession, Consecra­tion, Coronation, &c. (1) His first Procession after his Election was thus pompously managed: this great Man, or rather, this great God was mounted upon Mens shoulders in the most splended Equipage imaginable, such as Solo­mon in all his Glory was never Arayed with (for you must suppose this Pope to be the goodly Lilly, or rather the glorious and gawdy Tulip, that our Lord speaks of Matt. 6.28, 29.) However such as neither Christ himself (who was greater than Solomon, Matt. 12.42.) nor much less his Apostle Peter (whose Successour this Pope pretends to be) ever took upon them the like pro­digal and pompious Grandeur. This Pope was now Arayed in Scarlet Robes, Furr'd with Ermines quite through, and Adorned with the Richest Gold and Silver Laces, there was pla­ced upon his Head a most glittering and glori­ous Tripple Crown of Gold, and a most Rich Collor of Gold all curiously Enameld with the choicest Jewels and chiefest precious Stones: there were put into his Hands two Golden Keys (pretended to be the same, that Christ gave to Peter, and that Peter at his Death be­queathed [Page 59] to the Popes successively) which are for opening and shatting the Gates of Heaven (a place where Himself is never like to come) for whom he pleaseth: and over his Head was carried a most stately Canopy with lofty, flying, and most gawdy Streamers, and He Himself under it most Trim, with his Artificial Locks finely curl'd and powder'd with a Vast Tower or Fruz upon his Fore­head (in the very Dress of the Mystical Whore) and in all this Antick Dress and Pe­dantick Pageantry, this Pope was presented to the people, who (together with his Page) made thereupon loud Acclamations: [Vive le Papa, Vive le Papa] all along as He made his Progress to Peters Chair: mark here, while this Apocalyptick Beast was thus moun­ted upon Mens shoulders, He was then car­ried like a Conquerour, who had now made a compleat Conquest over the whole Con­clave of his Fellow-Cardinals, and now had stoutly Stormed (in despight of all fraud and force, yea, of Fate it self) the ponti­fical Chair, and in this posture He was not onely like King Saul, who was higher by the Head and shoulders than all the People, but also as a mighty Nimrod, who was to Trample them all under Foot, His Feet standing as high as their Heads: but the most signifi­cant Ceremony in his passage from the Gol­den [Page 60] Hatch or Wicket, to his Chair of State, was this, a lump of Flax was carried before Him Burning, whereat these words were proclaimed.

'Tis the Prayer of prudent and pious Pro­testants, that an happy Blast may descend from Heaven to blow out for ever all this Antichristian Glory. Even so Amen & Amen.

Thus was he brought to his Chair of State, which was likewise covered with Scarlet, all richly Embroidered, Fringed round about with a Gold and Silver Silk Fringe, and gloriously bedeckt with Golden Balls and Crosses, and which was placed upon as Lofty and as Costly a Throne as was that of Solo­mons, 1 Kings 10.18. Thither was he brougt upon Mens shoulders, and when gently taken down (for fear of hurting the good old Man) there was He seated, there was He consecrated, and there was He crown­ed, &c. when all this solemnity is accom­plished, then His Herald (dressed up in a Garb comporting with the Pomp) pro­claims by sound of Trumpet, His great Lord and Master, to be now [the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords] and as if that were not sufficient, He had his Parasites [Page 61] prepared to cry loud [God Bless our Lord God the Pope] Thus He, who trode under foot onely the People before, must now trample upon the Necks of Kings and Em­perours, Instance onely in poor Emperour Frederick, who was constrained to lay sprawling under the proud Popes Feet, on whose Neck He insolently trampled at Ve­nice: 'Tis therefore one part of this Pompi­ous Magnificency, that this Magnifico hath two Swords standing erect by his Chair of State at his right Hand, to denote, that not onely the Sword of Excommunication, but also the Sword of Civil Dominion belongs to him also: To say nothing of the number of Gawdy Beads, Agnus Deis: and abundant more Romish Trumpery exposed to publick View, for the better setting off the Solem­nity of his Inauguration: I think 'twas about well, that, together with his Title aforementioned, this also [God of Gods.] was not superadded, so exalted Him above the most High God, as well as over all Lords, Kings, and Emperours. The Roman Canon and Ceremonial Law commands the People to say at the Popes Instalment [thou art our God the Pope] and Pope Martin could calm­ly and complaisantly receive the Comple­ment of the Sicilian Embassadour saying [thou art the Lamb of God, that takest away [Page 62] the sins of the World] so was this, but to de­clare to all the World, that it is He who sits in the Temple of God, exalting Himself above all that is called God, if not above the true God Himself, the Pope dare dispence with, if not disanul or contradict the Law of God: Sure I am, never did any mortal Man look more like proud Lucifer (who said ero ficut Altissimus, I will be like, If not a­bove, the most High, Isa. 14.14.) than this present proud Pope in his pontificalibus ex­posed to View with all those Additional For­malities did go, all which, yet one more must still be added, to wit, the change of his Name, his old Name [Odeschalco the Cardi­nal must be turned into Innocent the 11th. How Nocent this Innocent was, the sequel will demonstrate. Yet follows he the Pat­tern of Bocea di Porco or Hog-face, who was the first Pope that changed his Name, thus when his Successours were Cowards, they must be called Leo, if he were a Tyrant, cal­led Clement, if a Rustick, Urbanus though never such a Turbanus, or trouble World: If an Athiest then Pious. So if never so ob­noxious, or Nocent then it must be Innocent. The Popes of these later Years have been ge­nerally short lived, to Instance onely in a few of the last Edition, Cardinal Chigi was Elected Pope, in the year 55. April the [Page 63] 7th., call'd himself Alexander the 7th, one troublesome enough to the Church, &c. He soon trips off (Whether from the good­ness of God or his own good Nature, I shall not say) gave up the Ghost, and Resigned up the Chair to Cardinal Rospiglioss, who succeeds him June 20th. by the Name of Clement the 9th, in the Year 67. The loss of Candia afflicted him much more, than the burntng of London, and hastened his Death in the Year 70. The Conclave being shut up above Four Months (a long time to be in the Dark, where they made day of Wax Candle, Having neither Windows nor Holes to let in light) at last had so much light as to Elect Cardinal Altieri, which was the doating Pope that Created our Cardinal Howard (who is after to be mentioned) and then Dyeth in the Year 76. having born the Name of Clement the Tenth. So gives place to our Cardinal Odeschalco, &c. what a black Character they all bear in the Histo­ry of Cardinals, I must rather request the Reader to observe it there than to expect it here; especially of this present Pope Don Olympias grand Favourite: but above all, I wonder at that Irish Prophet Malachi (which Dr. Heylin mentioneth in his Cosmog. last Edition p. 106.) who lived in the 11th, Century, contemporary with Bernard, yet [Page 64] undertook to give an account of all the Popes from that time to this day, and this He doth by Symbols and Hierogliphicks, and omitting all others, as beside our purpose that which is most remarkable, is the cha­racter, He so prophetically Imposeth upon this present Pope Symbolically, and in an Hieroglyphick way plainly Stiles Him, Bellus In [...]atiabilis, an Insatiable Beast, I have been thinking since I found it that this Mala­chi the Irish Prophet (not to meddle with his other predictions, &c.) hath Accommoda­ted this character so congruously to this Odeschalco, as if he had been the Jewish Prophet Malachi, who infallibly had the In­fallible Spirit, what kind of Spirit (this Po­pish Saint, a Cestertian Monk, Arch-Bishop of Dublin in Ireland) was endued with, is not easie to Determine, yet is there found such an Admirable Harmony inter signum & signatum, the Person and the things do Symbolize to Astonishment, as Messingham, Bussier, &c. do observe.

That this present Pope should be pointed out (as by the Finger) to be an Insatiable Beast, above Five Hundred Years before He was Born, must be acknowledg'd Mira­bile [Page 65] Dictu. If several of the true Prophets of God did so Truly Foretel of Nebuchadnez­zar, that He would Arise, and become Gods Battle-Axe to Hew down the Degenerate Ge­neration of the Jews, bring them to literal Ba­bylon, keep them Captive there for Seventy long Years, &c. And if several of the True Apostles of Christ did so Truly Foretel of An­tichrist, that he would Arise out of the Earth and out of the Sea, and become the Devils Patriarch to tread down the outward Court of formal Professours, carry them Captive to Mystical Babylon, keep them in Captivity for one thousand two Hundred and sixty long Years, &c. And both these, Some Hundred of Years before they both came to pass: Why may we not call this strange Prophet, (that thus long before foretold of this Indi­vidual present Pope, that he would Arise, and become an Insatiable Beast) The Pro­phet Malachi the Second, notwithstanding he was one of the Monkish Order, I cannot but Judg His Testimony is therefore so much the stronger, for 'tis a received Maxim [firmum est probandi Genus quod etiam ab Adversario Sumisur, quum Veritas etiam ab Inimicis Veri­tatis probari possit] 'tis the strongest kind of proof, when the very Enemies of the Truth are constrained to bear Witness to it. Here­upon Ludovicus Vives de probabilitatis Instru­mentis [Page 66] saith thus [Amici contra Amicum, & Inimici pro Inimico Invincibile Testimonium erit] which in plain English must thus be ex­plained. The Testemony of a Papist against a Papist, and of a Papist for a Protestant is a Testimony without exception, and more In­fallible than this Infallible Pope, against whom this Popish Monk, Malachi, beareth such an undeniable Testimony, though his Friend as of the same Religion, yet Ho­nours He Him with no better a Title, than that of an Insatiable Beast.

The whole Scope of all the following Discourse is no other than a Descent and Comment upon that Black and Beastly Brand, wherewith this Irish Prophet (Monk Mala­chi) Stigmatiz'd him with, so many Hun­dred Years before He was in Rerum Natu­rà, or had any Existence: Now that He hath been so long in his present Being, and hath been Acting (like the Devils Patri­arch) his Devilish part in the Tragedy up­on the Theatre of the World, ever since September the Twenty-First, in the Year Se­venty Six, whereon He was Consecrated and Crowned, &c. as above. Time is always the best Expositor of the most Abstruce and Obscure Prophecies; and what a full and perfect Exposition Time it self hath already made (and may hereafter make more) [Page 67] upon this very Text and Title of this Irish Prophet Malachi, concerning this Pope, is my Task I have before me to Demon­strate.

First, In General, That this present Pope is a Beast, is as plain, as if Writ with a Beam of the Sun upon a Wall of Marble. Seeing both the Prophet Daniel, and the Apostle John, do Unanimously call the whole Se­ries of those Roman Popes no better than Beasts, yea, such Beasts as are beyond and above all Names, as in the Preface.

'Tis manifest enough even out of their own Authors (such as Wrote the Lives of the Popes) How that many, if not most of them, were Men of Sin with an Accent; yea, Beasts rather than Men; yea, even Mon­sters in Iniquity: See Dr. Heylin's Cosmog. pag. 106, 107, 108. of the last Edition, where you have a Black-Bed Roll of their State and Story, to the number of Thirty one, which is a lucky Number, call'd an even Hitter, and is said, a Knave and One and Twenty, (or in plainer English, a Knave, that stands for ten [Knaves] and One and Twenty more (of the same litter, or letter) wins all at the Game of Noddy this Christmass time, wherein The Knave [...] is turned up Trump with a wit­ness: See also Ness's Discovery of Antichrist, [Page 68] pag. 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62. where you have a Compendious Landskip of but a few of the Popes Lives (all gather'd out of their own Roman Writers) to shew in short, what Beasts, what Monsters of Men they have been: And that this great Truth may be Compleatly Confirmed by the Mouth of even Three Witnesses, See also Dr. Scalter in his Comment upon the Second of Thessalon. pag. 115. where he saith, [If a Man may be so bold with the Pope, as John Baptist was with our Saviour (and why should Christ be more Rudely Handel'd than Antichrist) Asking, [Art thou He that should come, or do we look for another?] The like Answer may most properly be Returned, [Go and Tell what you heard and seen, to wit, God is Con­temn'd, the Devils are Worship'd, Religion is Prophan'd, Superstition is Hallow'd, Beastly Lust is Practic'd, and Parricide is not only Per­petrated, but Patroniz'd,] with much more Horrid Hellishness those [Parùm probi Ho­mines] or Wicked Popes have done: Is not this the Man of Sin, the Apocalyptick Beast, the Matchless Monster, Prophecy'd of in the Word, that should come into the World and play Rex, and his Pranks in it: Now 'tis below this present Pope to be better than his Predecessors, He Scorns to Degenerate from the Worst of them, chusing rather to [Page 69] Imitate them, than Holy Peter. The Irish Prophet Stiles him a Beast, and Time hath proved him so. Our next Work is to shew him the Insatiable One, for Craft and Cru­elty.

The Epithet Insatiable hath Variety of Ac­ceptions, according to the Variety both of its Subject and Object. There be various Passions of the Mind of Man, that are Headstrong, Extravagant and Insatiable, whereby Man is turned into a Beast, as Thus,

First, The Passion of Lust, when it grows Unruly and Ungovernable, Transporting the Monk out of his Monastery into the Nun­nery among the Nuns, or suppose the Man a Cardinal, or a Pope, when he is Exported out of all Bonds and Bounds of Tempe­rance and Continency, his Unruly Lust causeth him Rudely to break His Vow of Chastity, and He hereupon Applys himself to his common Curtezans, or Don Olympia's, then is the Beast truly Stiled Insatiable. Or

Secondly, When that Passion of Bloud-Thirstiness hath the like prevalency over the Mind of Man, makes him as Savage, and as Bloudy-Minded as a Butcher or Beast, insomuch, that He Delights to Wallow in the Bloud of others, yea, to be Drunk with [Page 70] the Bloud of the Saints (which is the Trick of the Beast,) then is the Beast Rightly Branded with being Insatiable, and then 'tis High Time for good Protestants to put up this good Prayer, Lord, let this Drunken In­satiable Beast, Spue and Fall, and never Rise up any more. or

Lastly, (To Omit other Exorbitant Pas­sions and Affections of Mankind,) the Third Case is, When the Connatural Passion of Covetousness hath got such a Predominancy over the Mans Mind, that it Metamorpho­ses him into a Muck-worm, yea, into a Mole, that Subterraneal Blind Creature, which lives altogether within the Earth (be­ing Restless, as out of its Center, while out of it) and hath nothing to do with Heaven: Must Evermore have his Mouth and Claws full of Earth, when the Man will Extract Gain out of a very Dunghil, a Vast Revenue for Indulging Stews, and that as a Necessary Convenience, [Ad purgandos Renes] especially in the Three Hot Months of the Year, when the Man doth practical­ly approve of that Motto, [Lucri bonus est odor ex re quâlibet,] and that other too, [Lucrum ò Lotio est Optabile,] These were the Old Symbols of some Great Men of Rome, who thought all Gain Sweet, though Got out of the Piss-Pot, &c. And this [Page 71] Great Man of Rome is no Changling from them, He is for getting the Devil and all, with his Gain from all Quarters, Isa. 56.11. and Micah 3.3. per Totum. Then also is the Beast Insatiable, and upon this Third Ac­count it is, that the Prophet Malachi the Se­cond, aforesaid, calleth in His Characters, this very Odeschalcho (the present Pope) Bellua Insatiabilis, as a late Learned Writer doth well Interpret it: Though this Beast of Rome hath been Insatiable enough as is supposed, in the First Case and Account of Insatiability, when he look'd upon Carnal Concupiscence with Romish Spectacles, and according to the Popish Doctrine, but a Peccadillo, a Trick of Youth, a Venial Sin; He had that Flesh-pleasing Circular saying, [Confess after Sin, Sin and Confess, in Infini­tum,] in great Veneration, as a Sovereign Cure for a Popish Conscience, and indeed, 'tis a wonder that all the World (which lays in Wickedness, 1 John 5.19.) will not easily turn Papists, that they may Sin, in Sins of all sorts, with Peace, wherein they can Bless themselves with Pardons prepared and to be Purchased: But to let that pass, seeing the Jesuits Rule, [Si non castè, tamen cautè] Anticipates Intelligence of such Deeds of Darkness, till the Pond come to be Scowred again, wherein were found Thousands of [Page 72] Infants Skulls, which, as it promoted the Destruction of Abbeys here, so in Time eve­ry where, yea, of Rome it self, that Bro­thel-House of Babylon. My Work at present is, to give him his due Character of an Insa­tiable Beast in both the other Respects, with a little Transposition of the Third, (as coming next to Hand into the Seconds place) to wit, both as a Greedy and as a Bloudy Insatiable Beast.

This Prophet Malachi (the Irish Monk) hath Divine Warrant to call this Pope an Insatiable Beast, seeing the Prophet Isaiah calls such Priests (ejusdem Farinae of the same Brann with this High Priest) Greedy Dogs, which can never have enough, Isa. 56.10, 11. and though they were dumb Dogs and could not bark, yet could they bite well enough, perverting the House of God for Prayer into a Den of Cut-Throat Thieves: How far this Pope hath been the Jewish Prophets Greedy Dog, and the Irish Prophets Insatiable Beast, falls first in Order to De­monstrate: so His most Eminent and Gain­ful Cheats, whereby he Gulls the silly People, do here follow.

He is (in the General) the Grand Impo­stor of the World, so the Pope was call'd by Doctor Morton Bishop of Durelm many Years ago, whose Elaborate Book Discours­eth [Page 73] the many Legerdemain Tricks where­with He deceiveth Nations, and all and only to pick their Pockets.

May we but be let in a little to behold the Bowels of this Grand Cheat, and View but a while his Guts and Garbage, 'twill soon be Discerned that he is the Devils Pa­triark, bearing upon his Bannet the Abomi­nation of Desolation: The time would fail to tell, How many Families this Abominable Beast hath made Desolate: what else is the whole Cento and Fardle of Popery, but a Concatenation of Wiles to compass a purse? What is the chief Design of this Balaam of Rome, but a continual conjuration for an House-full of Gold and Silver? Witness his lying Legends, His Mock-Miracles, Praying for the Dead, and a Thousand more nimble Tricks too tedious to enumerate, but above all, His Doctrine of Purgatory, The Fire whereof doth more effectually warm tke Popes Kitchin, than Torture any Soul He Damns into it. 'Tis a Cheat of Cheats: Me­thinks the Apostle Peter points at this Pope, (who pretends to be his Successor) while he speaks of such, as through Covetousness with feigned Words, do make Merchandise of Men, and when He names Balaam the Son of Bosor, who loved the wages of Iniquity so far, until the Dumb Ass forbad the mad­ness [Page 74] of the profane Prophet, yet He cannot pass off without passing a Divine Doom, saying, whose Judgment now of a long time lingreth, and yet their Damnation slumbreth not, 2 Pet. 2.3.15, 16. How can it slumber long, when the cry of his cheating Tricks (together with that of Bloud) is gone up to Heaven to fletch down Gods Vengeance upon this Popes Head, and upon his whole Popedom: Let the Apostle Paul also Joyn Issue in this matter with his beloved Peter, (both which are represented Blushing, as before, at such pittiful pretended Succes­sors) who saith likewise [as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these the Mes­sias, Men of corrupt Minds, and Reprobate concerning the Faith: But they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be made manifest to all Men, as theirs also was, 2 Tim. 3.8, 9. Now what were Jannes and Jambres, but a couple of Gipsy or Aegyptian Coujurers, that cheated the People with their lying Miracles, &c. And such have some of the Popes of Rome (that Mystical Aegypt, Rev. 11.8.) been, &c. [Habemus Reos Confitentes] Popish Authors do acknowledg it, and did Moses muzzle the Mouths, and made their Cheats manifest to all Men? How much more will the Messias (who is greater than Moses, Heb. 3.3.) confound in due time [Page 75] this Grand Impostor. 'Tis impossible for any Man of a Sober Mind to think otherwise, especially, If he cast but a seeing Eye up­on [Taxa Comerae Apostolicae] the Apostoli­cal Chamber in the Vatican at Rome, where this Pope hath opend his Pedlars Pack, expo­sed all his Vendible Commodities (for Ro­mae Omnia Venalia) to the best Advantage of commending them to his Chapmans Eye, no Shop so well furnished, or affords such a Tempting Prospect in any of the Walks of the Royal Exchange Chambers, and that which gives the most Splendid and Decoy­ing Lustre is, there you have the Pope himself in his Grandeur, Courting in Custo­mers, good Man, He dare not trust his Vas­sals, a pack of Knaves, He hath found them long, wou'd go Snips with their Master, He ha's now Learnt by His Loss. Keep the Shop Robin, and it will keep thee. There himself stands crying in the very Language of Folly (not of Wisdom) who so is simple, let him turn in Hither, Prov. 9.16. He Cants in his Proselytes with Pedlars Pedantick Oratory, Coying them in with come along my Cro­nies, my Soft Pates (for you must suppose He is of the same Sentiments with that Crafty Shop-Keeper, who once Boasted, He would not sell all his Children and Fools, his Customers, for some Hundreds of Pounds [Page 76] in the Year) come along my Corculums, look about you, Gentlemen, what lack you? Lo, here's a Goose-Giblet Pye, wherein every Palate may please it self, what will ye buy? I am just now upon my last Legs, my long Lease of 1260 Years is now at its last Gasp and Expiration, what, never a packing-penny among you all for a poor packing-off Pope: But are you Desirous to know his Wares (all very Vendible to the Credulous, that never think of the Cheat) what are his Commodities in particular? I will tell you, where you have them all named, and we are not a little obliged to the Infallible Holy Ghost, that will take all the pains in giving us a Distinct Catalogue of all this Infallible Ghostly Fathers Commo­dities: He tells you, Rev. 18.12, 13. in Antichrists Stately Shop, you may have for Ready Money [the Merchandise of Gold and Silver, precious Stones and Pearls, fine Lennen and Purple, all Silk and Scarlet, all Thyne or Sweet Wood, all manner of Vessels of Ivory, all manner of Vessels of precious Wood, of Brass, of Iron, and of Marble; yet more, yea, and Cinnamon, Odours, and Ointments, yea, Frankincense, Wine and Oyl, yea, fine Flower and Wheat, yet more, there be Beasts, and Sheep, and Horses, (I wonder Asses are left out) and Chariots, and Slaves, (no doubt [Page 77] on't, but the greatest Ware is behind) the Souls of Men.

Who will not say here [God bless us] what a Shop is this? So Capacious, and so Accommodated with all the choicest and chiefest Commodities, that this lower World can afford: Here's the Riches of both the Indies (Gold, Silver, and precious Stones there­of) Here's the Riches of all Countrys and Kingdoms, betwixt East and West, North and South: Here's the very Quintessence and Compendium of Europe, of Asia, of Africk, and of America: is not this the Grand Impostor, that even call'd for a pack­ing-penny to a poor Pope, who hath so much of Treasure, enough to serve himself and enough to sell to others. But I wonder He exposeth his Scarlet to Sale, Having so much use for it to Array the Scarlet Whore: as also that the Beast should be a Seller of Beasts, and above all, I wonder what price He sets upon the Souls of Men: seeing our Lord Christ (who best knew the worth of Souls, because He onely went to the price of Souls) Valued one Soul worth the whole World, Matth. 16.26. Surely He must be the Antichrist, who selleth Souls for Trifles: In a Word, surely, This Pope is Jack of all Trades: Here he is a Goldsmith, with his Gold and Silver, and it may be a Banker, [Page 78] I wish him to become a Bankrupt. Here he is a Jeweller, with his Pearls and Precious Stones. Here he is a Linnen-Draper, with his Fine Linnen and Purple, (I doubt He wants the Scotch-Cloth.) Here you have him a Silk-Man with his Silks of all sorts, and fear not, but he has Satten (or Sa­tan) enough. Here he is a Turner, that Sells all sorts of Vessels, wherewith he Turns, the World Upside Down; this He effects by Vessels of Wrath, but He Sells for Slaves the Vessels of Mercy. Here you have him one while a Brazer with his Brass; another while an Iron-Monger with his Iron; yea, sometimes a Stone-Cutter, with his Marble, and why not a Tinker too, being a Kin to him, that instead of mending some Holes, made many more, yet was well paid for his pains. Here he is a Druggist, with his Cinnamon, Odours and Ointment, &c. not one Sophisticated Drug amongst them all. Here he comes as a Vintner with his Bottles of Wine to comfort the Heart, and his Cruises of Oil to Chear and Clear the Countenance; 'tis well if there be not a Tincture of the Wine of Sodom among Hands. Yea, ra­ther than fail, He becomes a Corn-Chand­ler, affording you Wheat, either broken in­to Flour (with Bran enough in it) or in the whole Grain, but a little Musty by lay­ing [Page 79] in a bad Granary or Garner, the A­postolical Chamber. Yet lower, nay rather than sit Idle, he will come as a Rustick Drover to Sell Beasts, and Sheep, and Hor­ses, (well Mouth'd and Man'd all, and made as Tame as Asses.) And at last he comes as a Coach-Maker, who has his Charots to Sell, but have a care they carry you not to Pur­gatory instead of Abrahams Bosom. But to Crown up the Catalogue of all his Commo­dities, Note, that which we Read Slaves, doth fignifit [Bodies,] which he Sels for Slaves, and the Souls of Men too. And so Lastly, he becomes a Body-seller, and (to make a thorough-whole-sale Trade, a Soul-seller also. Let us all (with Moses) turn aside to see this great Wonder, sure I am, ne­ver did Proteus turn himself into so many Shapes, never did any Jesuit (this Popes Creature) Convert himself into so many Callings, as His Master is here Represent­ed in. The Pope hath made a Monopoly of all Employs to himself, both in City and Country. And the greatest Merchants Shop (whose Riches lay not there, but in the Warehouse) cannot, though taken both together, be compared to the Apostolical Chamber. One coming into a Merchants Shop (I knew the Man, a Rustick Carri­er) and seeing no Goods therein, Bluntly [Page 80] Asks the Apprentice (sitting alone in the Shop) what was Sold there? the Malapert Youth Answered; We Sell Loggerheads, say you so, saith the Rustick, Then you have a Quick Market for them, seeing I see but One left in the Shop. There is no Danger of any Citizen or Countryman either Missing (what Wares he would be at) or Mistakings of that Nature, for here's all things Exposed to View. There is yet One Mischief men­tion'd, Revel. 18.11. where (this Rich Shop is Inventory'd) that No Man Buyeth. His Merchandise any more: This will break him at last.

But let my Countrymen take these Two Cautions,

First, Have a care of a Cheat in his cor­rupt Commodities: for he sells them all in a very dark Shop, not suffering you to ex­ercise your own Reason, you must take all upon his crack'd Credit, and comply with His price in an Implicit Faith, and in a blind Obedience you must believe what the Pope believes, and he is no such Fool as to discommend his own Wares, He best Em­braces Blindfold Buyers, Ignorance is the Mo­ther of his Merchandize.

The Second Caution is, 'Tis dangerous venturing into this Apostolical Chamber, least this Grand Cheat pick your pockets, for [Page 81] though his Wares be naught, being all for Impositions, He will impose them upon you, and he will not trust you to the door for fear you give him the slip, He must have Ready Money paid down upon the nail.

Have a care you be not cox'd out of good Gold for bad Ware: And before you Saddle your Ass to Ride down to this Arch Hux­ter in Mystical Aegypt, let me beseech you to consider a little in your considering Cap, whither it were not far better for you, to make your Buying Bargains with Christ than with Antichrist, for the former Invites Chapmen to buy his true Treasure, unsearch­able Riches, Gold Tryed in the Fire, Royal Robes of his own Righteousness, the choicest Opthalmicks or Eye-Salve, the Waters of Life, the Wine of the Spirit, the Milk of Cousolation, &c. And all these without Money and without Price, Isa. 55.1. Rev. 3.18. Eph. 3.8. Isa. 66.11, &c. but the latter Wheadles simple ones (as above) to buy his Trash and Trumpery, yet credulous Fools must part with much Money, and a prodi­gious price for them, &c.

But some may say, these Commodities of the Pope, as set down in the Catalogue under such Glittering Titles, Rev. 18.12, 13. Gold, Silver, &c. look nothing like to Trash and Trumpery: To this I answer, the Book [Page 82] of the Revelation is so Abstruse and Myste­rious, that it requires another Revelation to unfold its Mystery: I confess, I have con­sulted some Learned Interpreters upon the place: But that which is Instar Omnium, and gives a None-Such Interpretation is the chief Auditor of the Apostolick Chamber in his Infallible Account Book.

Never did the profoundest Interpreter (no not the Accutest of their own Popish Postillers) make a plainer Explanation of any Dark Scripture, than this Popes Auditor Gene­ral hath made of Rev. 18.12.13. All the Voluminous Quirks of the most Mercurial Jesuits [Cajetan, Mendoza, Salmeron, &c.] are comparatively but Insiped Stuff, and dull Descants to that one Auditors Record of the Romish Merchandise in this Popes Apo­stolical Chamber. Yea, the Chaldee Paraphrase, or Onkeles (so much cry'd up in the World) is but a Jejune Piece to it. This is the Master Piece of all, wherein what be the Romish Pearls and precious Stones, &c. are made so Legible and Intelligible, that every common Capacity may both Apprehend and Compre­hend the right Notion of them.

In that known Court-Rolls and Rate-Book, is Registred, and made publick the common and current Price of a many choice and curious Commodities, as Pardons, In­dulgences, [Page 83] Licenses, Absolutions, &c. what­ever you have a mind to buy: Indeed the Crys of Vendible Wares in the Streets of London [will you buy this, &c. and will you buy that, &c.] are both [ [...] and [...]] manifold and somewhat hard to be understood, especially in some of the cryes: but the cryes and outcryes in the Streets of Rome, do far exceed the best of ours, yea that of Dainty Trotters, Curious Trotters: But they that have a mind to Trot to Rome, may There hear far better Crys, as this for one [will ye buy any Bodies, will ye buy any Souls of Men?] This is a Raree-Show In­deed, and such a Tickling, Tempting-Cry, as will cause empty Houses, who would not Run out (though the Pot be boiling upon the Fire, and the Spit turning at it) to see the Wonders of the Beast? Revel. 13.3, 13, 14. Who would not but desire to be a Chapman for (at least to Cheap) his Rare Commodities?

But because it may seem a little below His Highness and Holiness, to become a com­mon Cryer, He hath learnt the Trick of our Nimble Quacks and Don Quick-Sots; as every common Quack and Mountebank, Prints now his Bills, Hands them out Gratis with much Generosity, yet catches Children and Fools enough to pay for them; there [Page 84] you have set down, Elixir Vitae at so much, Elixir Salutis at so much, the Golden Spirit at so much, the Scurvy Spirit at so much, Sovereign Powder for so much, the Plaister, call'd All-Heal, for so much, and Twenty Rarities more (all Arcanums) none At­tains to such a Secret as himself; every thing Exposed is good for all things, if but a Thumb-Bottle of his Liquor be Bought, 'twill Cure all Diseases; if but a little of his Balsom be Applied, 'twill Heal all Wounds. What Madmen be these to be ei­ther Slain or Die in the midst of so many Antidotes, &c. Yea, the Mountebank goes a little further, He comes forth Cum Regis Privilegio, makes Experiments upon him­self, both in Stabbings and Poisonings, Builds his Theatre, whereon he Exposeth all his Cheating Tricks to Publick View, and when the Credulous come not in fast enough to make their Markets there, his Merry-An­drew must Dance upon a Rope, play Twen­ty pretty Pranks (yet all the while more Knave than Fool) to Decoy them, and yet when all is done, few more than the Rabble are Caught in the Snare.

So this Grand Quack the Pope, and Ma­ster-Mountebank, Prints his Bills Cum Privi­legio, commends to the Life his Cursed Wares, Acts all the parts of the former to [Page 85] a Threed, yet Advances upon an Higher Stage. And indeed, His Wares have a strange Operation. If but a Thumb-Bottle of his Wine of Fornication be Drunk, it will strangely Intoxicate even the Kings of the Earth. And his Jesuits Powder will work Wonders.

But not to detain you in the Dark any longer, If you have a mind to be Cheated, or only to see his Cheats, you'l find his Printed Bills, Publish'd to the whole World with Antichrists Arms stamp'd upon them, in his Taxa Camerae Apostolicae, where you have the Scarlet Whore's Adulterated Wares particularly Represented, both in their Spe­cies, Properties, Profits and Prices, yea, and there is Morsus Diaboli, the Herb call'd De­vil-bit, to wrap them up in, cast into the Bargain.

Take only an Antipharmacon, a Divine Allay and Preservative, along with you, least your Nostrils be offended, and your Vital and Animal Spirits contract any Tin­cture of Contagion, while I am (to satisfie your Curiosity) but a little way Digging into this stinking Dunghil. I have good War­rant for this my good Work, in laying open the Cheating Abominations of this Scarlet Coloured Beast. As that Man of God, great Elijah could not tell how to Ridicule enough [Page 86] the Prophane Priests of Baal, 1 Kings 18.27. Much more may I Ridicule the Grand Master of them, and this cannot be better done, than by giving you but a brief Land­skip of the Roman Merchandize, a bare Recitatim whereof is a sufficient Refutation to any Sober and Right Thinking Mind.

The Apostolical Chamber Posts up its [Si Quis, &c.] If any one want this or that Popish Trumpery, they may come and be welcome at this present Popes Ware-house, pro­vided always they come with Money in their Hands, and come up to the current Price (by Canon-Law) of each Vendible Commodity: come along my Hearts, My Son, Give me thy Heart. You shall have Robin Hood Penniworths, enough for your Money in all Conscience: because you are all Friends, you shall all be very Kindly Used, and so Farewel.

A Schedule or List of the Romish Wares, this Pope (the Lord of the Manour) Ex­poseth to Sale by Inch of Candle, take as followeth,

Imprimis, He Exposeth his Pick-pocketing Pardons of all sorts and sizes, and the Prices thereof (in some of them) are set down in Black and White upon the Popes Tables hung out to Publick View, or something Equivalent. As▪

[Page 87]First, A Pardon for the Third part of your Sins, equally Divided by Indifferent Per­sons, for Seven Pound Ten Shillings, and if you would Buy off the other Two parts, 'twill Cost you Two and Twenty Pound Ten Shillings, and a very Rich Penniworth.

Secondly, A Pardon for Forty Eight Years Sins, as you can Agree with this In­nocent Pope; He is a very Innocent, you may possibly Wheadle him to your own Terms with Nuts and Apples, &c.

Thirdly, A Pardon for Two Thousand Eight Hundred Years, confirm'd by Pope Paschal the First, by Boniface the Eighth, and by Gregory the Ninth, and now under a New Ratification by this Pope Innocent the Eleventh; this may be had Dog-cheap, only for saying a few very short Prayers in the right Critical Hour, betwixt the Ele­vation of the Host and Three Agnus Dei's, This would keep you out of Purgatory for a long time upon easie Terms.

Fourthly, A Pardon for Thirty Three Thousand Years at a very low Rate, only for once going up a pair of Stairs, which, you must suppose, were the very same that Christ Ascended, when he appeard before Pontius Pilate. Here's great Wages for a lit­tle Work; and he's a Fool in Grain, that will not Purchase such a cheap Pardon for [Page 88] so long a Time, provided he may have general Warranty for securing his Bargain till that Time be Expir'd; and much more of this Trash, &c.

Item, Absolutions of various Prices, ac­cording the Crime committed. As

First, For Sacriledge, Ten Shillings and Six Pence.

Secondly, For Symony in a Priest the same Price, but in a Lay-Man the odd Eighteen Pence shall be Baited. Kindly done.

Thirdly, For Perjury, 'tis a Rich Penny-worth at Nine Shillings.

Fourthly, For Murder, If it be a Priest that is Kill'd, it cannot be Dear at one [Two Pence] more than a Mark, I would never be a Priest there, where my Life is no higher Valued. But you may Kill your Father, Mother, Wife or Sister, &c. upon easier Terms, That shall but cost you Ten Shillings and Six Pence.

Fifthly, For Adultery, Deflouring a Vir­gin goes at Nine Shillings, but Incest with Mother, Sister, &c. is cheaper, passing at Seven Shillings and Six Pence. And the Whore that Destroys her Bastard Child ei­ther before or after Birth, hath the self same Sum to pay.

Sixthly, For Burning a Neighbours House is Dog-cheap at Twelve Shillings; but for [Page 89] Burning Heretical Cities, 'tis severely Pu­nish'd with being Canoniz'd for Saints, &c.

Item, Licenses for what you List.

First, If you be a Priest you may keep a Whore, paying only Ten Shillings and Six Pence; and if a Lay-Man it will cost you no more; that the one may not De­ride the other.

Secondly, A License to be Lazy, and to become an Abby-Lubber, and so to be Inutile pondus Terrae, Living there like Hogs in the Stie, unuseful to Mankind, unless to the Wanton Nuns.

Thirdly, A License to be Licentious, and to have the liberty of the Stews the Three Hot Months of the Year, there is the Ro­man Recipe prescrib'd (with Dr. Pope's probatum est) ad purgandos Renes. This Grand Quack, or great Mountebank, is Tender of his Proselytes Health, Allows this Remedy (which God never thought of, when he said, 'Tis not good for Man to be alone, Gen. 3.18.) to prevent his Pope­lings (under the Vow of Chastity) from falling into Acute Fevers, and to shew how good Natured he will be to them (Re­membering it had been his own needful Pri­viledg and Practice) you may have these Two last Licenses (both to be Lazy and to [Page 90] be Licenticus) Gratis. Gra-Mercy up­on his Kind Heart, they shall not cost you a Penny.

Fourthly, Yet a License to Eat Flesh in Lent, will cost you much more, for his Un-Holiness Infallibly Judgeth this to be a far greater Sin than to keep a Whore. Yea, and many more Indulgences.

Item, Here you may have Holy Water Chymically prepared, Secundum Artem Di­abolicam, for driving away the Devil, hence comes that Popish Proverb, to express something that is Hateful, [A Man loves it as well as the Devil loves Holy Water.] You must suppose, that Water which the Pope Conjures into the like Holiness with his own, is able to Conjure away the strongest Devil in Hell.

Item, You may have Holy Oil, com­pounded according to the same Art, only 'tis an Arcanum and Magisterial. The Pope hath been so kind to let the World know how he makes his Holy Water, Pissing it out by Conjuration; but he hath a mind to be private in Consecrating his Holy Oil, and when he hath done his best to it, have a care you eat it not with a Romish Sallet, least it be mix'd with Jesuits Powder; how­ever, 'tis good enough to Liquor your Boots after your long Journey to Rome.

[Page 91]No doubt but it serves notably as an Un­guent for (far better than for anointing the Sick to make them well) the Popes Charet Wheels, makes them run glib in all Trans­marine Countreys, and is now calling for a wast over into ours; do not you hear Him at Callice, Crying, have over for Dover, have over for England: God grant Him contrary Winds, but if the Prince of the Air must be permitted to lend Him a lift with a Favonian or Favourable Wind, God grant, this proud Mystical Pharaoh of Spi­ritual Aegypt, Rev. 11.8. May meet with no better a Fate and Fare, than that Litteral King of Aegypt did; who, though for ought we know to the contrary, had as fair way and weather into the midst of the Red Sea, as Israel had, yet when Irrecoverably brought into an unavoidable Noose (which He could not Slip nor Retreat from) then God looked out of the black side of the Cloud (which was towards His Host, as the bright side was toward Israel) with an angry Coun­tenance, took off His Charet Wheels, made them (though never so well Oyled with His Priests Holy Oyl) drive Heavily, then dows'd Him with a Witness, and drown'd Him (too) with a Vengeance, Exod. 14.7.20. 22, 23, 24, 25, &c. I cannot but be confi­dent, that the Lord will look through this [Page 92] black cloudy Dispensation, with a look of Love upon his own People (as he did upon poor perplexed Peter, Luke 22.61.) and with a look of Wrath upon this great Leviathan, His Holy Oyl shall fall His Chariot Wheels, and they shall never become as the Chariots of Aminadab, England cannot ever be a willing People to Receive Him:

Item, Here you may have His Holy Salt also, this is soundly Conjur'd likewise into as good an Holiness as that of His Holy Water, or as that of His own Holiness: and with this Holy Stuff the Beast works His Mighty Mi­racles and Wonders: What place soever hath this Holy Salt scattered upon it, nei­ther the Devil nor any of his evil Spirits have any power against it: 'Tis a wonder there should be so many Houses, Haunted with Hobgoblins all over His Holinesses Do­minions, Surely, either His Holy Salt hath lost its efficatious Vertue, or Himself hath lost the Right Art to Consecrate it, or more likely, the Devil is in His Priests that they Improve it not. 'Tis a wonder this old Sc­phister doth not dash whole handfuls of this Holy Salt in the Eyes of those Raw Freshmen (those Novicet as he calls the Protestants) and so to blind them for ever. But though this will not do (His Holy Salt having lost its Efficacy) He hath a better Trick behind [Page 93] far more Bloudy, He would Bleed and Burn those He cannot Blind: If His Holy Salt have lost its Savour (as indeed it hath,) otherwise there could never have been so much Car­rion, for want of Seasoning, both among Popes and His Popelings) what is it good to, but to be cast to the Dunghil, and to be Troden Underfoot? Matth. 5.13. England is as the Garden of Eden, never any Pope that passed through the Porphury Chair (ever since the Writ of Ejectment was by an Al­mighty Hand Served upon Him to dispossess that Devil in the Reformation) but He hath lick'd his Lips, and longed after some sweet Lettuces, that Grow in this English Garden, God grant it may be, as the Law calls that Writ, an Ejectione Firmae: that this evil Spi­rit (once cast out) may not find the House of our Land (which, God knows is now neither Swept of Moral Vices, nor Garnished, with Moral Vertues, but too much over­spread with Epidemical-Immortality) empty also of all Grace, and so Return with Seven worse Spirits than the forwer, Matth. 12.43, 44, 45. I would to God, England were not so much like Jericho, whose Situation was pleasant, but the Waters were naughty: Our fresh River of Thames seems to Run so near the salt Waters of Tybur (ever since the Beast fouled our Fountains with his Feet, [Page 94] Ezek. 34, 18.) that they tast a little Brackish and somewhat Imbib'd with the Salt-Sea of Rome, 'Tis too much Tinged with the Tincture of its Holy Salt, Oh where is that Elisha, that will take a Cruse of better Salt (than this Popes Holy Salt is) happily to hand in, that our Waters may be Healed, &c. 2 Kings 2.19, 20, 21.

Item, Here is exposed to Sale the Holy Milk of the Virgin Mary, which, some of the Popes Doctours affirm, is as Sovereign and Salvi­fical as the Bloud of her Son our Saviour. However, 'Tis commended most Highly for never-failing to cure Consumptions, far ex­ceeding the Milk of an Asse, or that of the Red-Cow. What Fools are the Consump­tive and Phtisical Popelings, that have such a Ready Cure by them, yet so many dye of a Consumption, which is so Ranting and Regnant a Disease in those Hot Climates: Nay, What a Fool is the Consumptive Pope or Antichrist himself, who doth not by this trusty trick disapoint the Divine Doom pas­sed upon him, what need he Fear [that the Lord shall CONSUME Him with the Spirit of his Mouth.] 2 Thess. 2.8. Seeing an Hearty Draught of this Holy Milk will cure the Con­sumption: This Pope might then say as one of his Holy Predecessours once said, I will have my Will [Al despito di dio] in De­spight [Page 95] of God; But the mischeif is, neither the Pope nor his Popelings dare take a suffi­cient Dose of this Salutiferous Antidote, for fear of marring the General Market hereof, 'tis a long time since the Blessed Virgin gave her Milk, and they can expect none in her Glorified Breasts, the old Stock (suppose eve­ry one take but a little sup, though that is not enough) must needs be far spent in above Sixteen Hundred Years, and where or how these Traders make their old Store bring in new, I know not, unless that Image of the Virgin (which bid Bernard Good Mor­row at his entrance into the Church, and whom that Father Rebuked, because She a Woman, took upon her (contrary to the Truly Apostolical Canon) to speak in the Church, might supply, for that Idol of Stone might equally and as Probably have Milk in its Breast as well as a Voice in its Mouth: But that which spoil'd the expecta­tion of this fresh supply of Holy Milk, was the Discovery of a crafty Priest that was crept into the Hollow Belly of this Holy Image, and that gave Holy Bernard the Hearty Salutation, and sure I am, there could not be much Holy Milk in such a Pro­fligate Priests Breast, who durst put such an affronting Cheat upon so Holy a Father. But suppose there were supply then, 'tis [Page 96] above 500 Years ago, and this cry [will ye have any holy Milk, &c.] that Milk-street Market must needs be down ere now, see­ing all their Milk-Maids (whereof they cannot have many, while the Indulged Stews afford his Unholiness such a vast Revenue) are now surely sitting upon their Empty Pales: But I had forgot my self that the Beast can work Wonders, and can multi­ply that Holy Milk (though but little from the Blessed Virgin) as well as Christ did the Barly Leaves; Yea, He hath done it to such an overflow, that the Priests (all the Pope­dom over) do expose this Holy Milk to Sale, all pretending that theirs is the very Milk of the Virgin Mary, which, were all they have in their Consecrated Dairy's gathered together into one place, Solomons prodigious Molten Sea could not possibly contain it. Nay, hereby they put the greatest Disho­nour upon the Holy Mother of our Lord (whom they pretend to Adore) in making Her such a Milk-Beast, as Ten of the best Cows in Holland cannot give the like quan­tity in Ten Years.

Item, Holy-Bread is here to be had: The Pope (good Man) takes care for your Table, and to furnish it so far as Holy Water, Holy Oyl, Holy Salt, Holy Milk, and Holy Bread will go: But surely all these do but [Page 97] look like a Lent Dinner, I hope his Holiness keeps a better Table for Himself: If you be a Water Drinker, here's the best of the Kind, Holy Water for you, of the Popes own making, I should have said, Consecrating: If you be a Milk-Sop, Here's the best of the Kind, Holy Milk, the self same your Saviour Sucked out of the self-same Breasts, when he was a Child, and who will not be content with the same Fare that Bred the Blessed Babe of Bethlehem, the Holy Child Jesus, and because the Master of this Lent-Feast, will not undervalue you as a sort of sorry Sucklings, He is so Kind-hearted as to allow you Bread to your Milk, that you may sup it and not suck it, is not biting and supping good Fare? especially, of Holy Bread and Holy Milk. You must not expect a Glass of Wine, for I find not any Holy Wine in the Popes Ware-shop. Perhaps he and his Priests Monopolizes it wholly to them­selves, for in the Eucharist, the Cup is for­bid to you of the Laity, you must suck Wine out of the Bread, If you would have it, and can catch it.

Neither must you grudge that you have onely Bread (though it be but course Bar­ley Bread, such as you were never possibly brought up with) 'tis however Holy Bread, and the Holier, and so more satisfactory, [Page 98] because (as this Mart-Master tells you) 'tis a Fragment of those same Five Loaves wherewith Christ fed the Multitude, and picked out of the Twelve Baskets (that were taken away) by some of the Popes nimblest Snips, but I wonder how they have kept it from Moulding ever since, The Moulded Bread wherewith the Gibeonites cheated Joshua, was not so many Hours old, as this Holy Bread is Years, at this Day. If it be Sound Bread that is shewn you, take heed you be not cheated with it, as Joshua was with the Mouldy: But you will say, why is Holy Salt prepared for the Table, when the forementioned Fare needs it not? Answer, You must know 'tis not set there for Fashion-sake onely, as ordinarily, for

Item, Here you may have Holy Fish too, and of the self-same two Fishes wherewith Christ Fed the Multitude also, the Bread and the Fish were taken out of the same Baskets; and if you suppose it Fresh Fish, then there is use for your Salt, but to pre­vent your Second Objection about the use of your Oyl, you must rather suppose it Holy Fish Salted with that Holy Salt, (it could never have otherwise kept so long sweet for this Sixteen Centuries) and then your Holy Oyl will make your Holy Fish (so called) slip down the better, and be mo­dish [Page 99] enough, and what would you have more, is not here enough for a Four Penny Ordinary.

Item, Besides this Belly-Timber, here you are Treated with a Numberless Number of Rarieties. As

First, The Asses Tail upon which Christ Rode; not a word of his Ears.

Secondly, Josephs Breeches both Thread­bare and out of Fashion, they will do you neither Credit nor Service.

Thirdly, A Feather from the Cock that Crew, and awaken'd Peters Conscience; yet this Startles not Peters Successor for his Apostacy; as also a Feather from Grabriels Wing, taken up at such a time when as An­gels cast their Feathers.

Fourthly, Choice Hair Cloth, the same as Elijah and John Baptist wore, good e­nough for the Pope to do Penance in, for forcing the Witnesses into Sack-Cloth.

Sixthly, Whole Cart Loads of Apostles Bones, sometimes those of a Thief (as once) drops in among them; good for I know not what.

Item, Sold at a very Reasonable Rate,

First, An Holy Rag clip'd off from Christs Seamless Coat; 'tis a wonder how the Pope got it from the Soldier to whom it fell by casting Lots, and 'tis a wonder they [Page 100] have not clip'd it all away by, this time.

Secondly, The Holy Relick of the very Slippers Christ wore, when He, being wea­ry with walking about doing Good, put off his Shoes, for the ease of his Feet, surely they were made of well Tan'd Leather, that lasts still, and are not Rotten to Dirt ere this Day, and I wonder the Pope doth expose them, and not Monopolize them to himseif, for they cannot want a Vertue to Cure his Gouty Golls: 'Tis strange we hear nothing of his Shooes (in the Popes Warehouse) the Latchets whereof, John Baptist (though the Greatest Born of Wo­men) thought himself Unworthy to Un­loose, Matth 11.11. Luke 3.16.

Thirdly, The very Linnen Cloth with which Christ was wrap'd in the Sepulchre, as likewise that wherewith Christ wiped his Disciples Feet. I am thinking the Man that Cries in our Streets, [Here's your strong last­ing Linnen Cloth,] might do good Service in this Romish Market.

Fourthly, The very Needles, Thread, Work-Basket and Scissers, of the Virgin Mary, which would be excellently useful for an Exchange-shop, and could not sail to bring in a whole shoal of Chapmen, &c. How the Pope comes by all these Rich Commo­dities [Page 101] for all kind of Customers, is the Que­stion? But the Infallible Tradition of the Church must be the Satisfactory and Si­lencing Answer.

Item, Lastly, Here you may have, what­ever your Heart wishes, or Need doth Re­quire. Is it any of those many things men­tioned in Revel. 18.12, 13. Rich all, here they are to be had. Want you Holy Bells (Baptized with God-Fathers and God-Mo­thers) God Bless our Empty New Erected Steeples, &c. Or want you Holy Beads, made of Glass, Wood, Stone, Coral or Am­ber; Holy Wax for your Candles; Holy Knives for Cutting Hereticks Throats; or Holy Roses, this Christmas time, a Rare Pre­sent for Princes; or what else soever, all is Holy that comes from his Unholiness; and all have a Power to drive away the Devil, yet the Devil takes most of those that are taken with these [Piae Fraudes] Holy Cheats. None of their Names are Writ in the Lambs Book, Revel. 13.8. God Bless every good Englishman from the Beast and his Cheating Tricks.

Having taken a short prospect of the Craft of this Insatiable Beast (to keep close still unto the Irish Malachi's Character of this present Pope) let us now take a brief View of his Cruelty. He is a most Accom­plish'd [Page 102] Beast, his Infallible Unholiness is De­scribed by an Infallible Hand (the Spirit of Truth himself) in his most Horrible Accou­trements, no less than Seven Heads to Plot. with, for the more crafty carrying on of all his Gainful Cheats, and no less than Ten Horns to push his Plots endway with, and to push all down (that stand in his way) with Unparrallel'd Cruelty. To pretermit all former Bloudy Plots in foregoing Ages of this present Popes Predecessors, against all Protestant Countries, ever since the Refor­mation, and against England in particular, both in Queen Elizabeth's, King James's, and in King Charles's the First's Time. I shall confine my self to Characterize this Insatia­ble Beast, the Devils Patriarch, that now Possesseth the Roman Omnipotency.

His Name is Innocent the Eleventh, who after his Instalment, was Arrayed with a White Surplice, wherein he Worship'd that God which had now Constituted him the Universal Monarch; in this White Gar­ment he seem'd as pure as Innocence it self, there was nothing surely under it, but Meekness, Gentleness, and Lamb-like Inno­cency. You might then stroke the Beast, He would not spurn you, you might put your Hand into his very Mouth, He by no means would Bite you. No, He had newly put [Page 103] on the Name of Innocent, and He was (what ever he had been while a Cardinal) now become an Innocent Pope, a Toothless Innocent Milk-Sop, that would neither Kick, nor Fling, nor Scratch, nor Bite; but the mischief was, He soon after going to his Court-Office, De propagandi Fide to a Con­sult there, coming thither without his White Garment (that Reach'd down to his Foot) His Red Shoes, and Red Stockins, were there Unhappily Discovered. At that Consult He Declar'd his Determinations, That he Re­solv'd (Adjuvante Diabolo) to Reduce all the Heretical Countreys in Europe into the Subjection of His Roman See, and He said (for a flying Argument) 'twas below both his Higness and his Holiness to prove such a poor Puny, as his Predecessors, in playing such small Games as they had done; He would (for his part) Take New Measures, and Make such Methods, as neither God nor Devil could be able to Disapoint him of his Design. Whereupon for the better Propoga­tion of his Popish Faith, He proposeth these following Expedients, and not only so, but Imposeth them also upon that his Privy-Coun­cil, who dare not gain-say their God.

The First Proposal Imposed, was this, Go forth you my Emissaries, and Debauch the Heretical Countreys, Foist your Loose Prin­ciples, [Page 104] (Calculated for, and Accomodated to, the Depraved Natures of Mankind in general) this will soon bring Men to Loose Practices; 'Tis found by Experience (saith He in great Gravity, comporting with his Grandeur) a Prosperous Bait to Catch, and a Powerful Hook to Hold whole Shoals of Proselites. I am a Fisher of Men, as my Predecessor Peter was, yet I have a Trick, which He (simple Fisher-man) never thought of, or Practic'd; I can make Men Atheists in their Lives, and then they will turn Papists the sooner, for stopping the Mouths of their Natural Consciences (which will be Barking) the better with my precious Pardons, whereby I can make the worst of Sins Venial, &c.

The Second Expedient propounded by this Pope there was this, You Jesuits must be my Locusts, my Beutefeaus to go into the Courts of all these Kingdomes, and set them all on a light Fire (in Warring one against another) that my Religion (which hath grown very cold ever since Unhappy Luther call'd the Pope, Antichrist) may be warmed again with those very Flames that I (by you my Engines) have kindled. You know, Christ hath made me a Fisher of Men, as before, and I find it best Fishing in Troubled Waters. Nay, I am the true Salamander, that can best [Page 105] live in the Flames, of Foreign and Secular Princes Contentions, &c.

The Third Proposal was, to Depose those Kings that will not Truckle, and to Expose their Kingdomes, primo occupaturo, the first that can win it, let them wear it, I will warrant the Assault of the Aggressor, &c.

The Fourth nimble Trick he Proposed was, saying, Though I have a Thausand more Reaching and Effectual Knacks to of­fer, yet seeing you know them all so well, 'tis superfluous to mention more, save onely this, which is, Instar Omnium. You must in Reducing all others, Begin with that Stubborn Kingdome of England, which hath been more fatal to my Tripple Crown than all other Kingdomes, and when you have made a Breakfast of that, then make your Dinner of this, &c. and your Supper of that, &c. and so go on and my Blessing go with you.

Thus ended the Seraphical or rather Dia­bolical Oration of this Innocent Grave old Gentleman that never did, nor ever will do Harm to any.

This done, the Damnable Popish Plot was in all its Parts and Paragraphs contrived, &c. The Romish Fry of Priests and Jesuits, (who were soon Hatch'd and grew Fledge under his Holiness's Wing) came Flying over in [Page 106] great Wild-goose Flocks into England, we may suppose they came fully furnished with their Pick-Iccks of Pardons, with their Pad­locks of Auricular Confession, and all other useful Engines to promote their Hellish Project, the Sum whereof in the general was, to Subvert the Establish'd Government and Religion of this Kingdom, and to Re­duce the same to the Foppery of Popery, yea, and 'twas concluded at the Consult (which these Romish Emissaries came to Accom­plish) that no manner of Tolleration should be granted to any sort of Protestants, but all such should be Extirpated Root & Branch, and if all other means failed, it should be effected by Fire and Sword.

The cheif Conspirators, who designed, and were engaged to carry on this Bloudy project, must be thus Ranked in a lasting Record.

☞ First, The Fountain of these Bitter Waters, and Original of all, was this Present Pope Innocent the 11th, who in the Congrega­tion [de propaganda Fide] consisting of a­bout 350 Persons, (all fit Tools for the De­vils Work) and held about December 1677. as soon as he was well warm in Peter's Chair, He Plots (even in that cold Season) work Hot enough for poor England: Then was it He belchd out that nocent rather than Inno­cent [Page 107] Oration aforementioned, Declaring fur­ther, that this Kingdome was a part of St. Peters Patrimony, and was forfeited to the Holy See, by the Heresy both of Prince and People, and so must be disposed of as he thought meet: though this Pope was the primus motor, the primum mobile, or great Wheel that moved all the lower Orbs, and set all the lesser Wheels on Work, yet let us take a short view of his Under-Engines, before we more fully give him his due Cha­racter, upon this last (which at the last day will be a great) Account also, to wit, his Plots, as before, his Cheats, in the one a crafty Fox, in the other a cruel Tyger, and surely whoever were the Instruments, the Members, the Hands and the Feet for Acting this Bloudy Plot, to Reduce England to the Roman Rotten Religion, we shall find Him the Head and Principal Agent. My Design is here to set the Saddle upon the Right Horse: 'Tis a Thousand pitties, that the petty larceners should be Hang'd and Beheaded, (though that be no more than what both Distributive and Commutative Justice most Justly Required) and the grand Thief (that set them all on work) escape Scot-free. How many did pity those poor mercenary Rogues that were Executed for that Inhu­mane and Cowardly Murther of that Emi­nent [Page 108] Patriot Esquire Thinn, when they saw Count Connismark, the great Rogue, (that set his silly Vassals on Work) to be acquit­ted. but there is a [ [...]] a Vengeance (even in the Judgment of no better than Barbarians, Act. 28.4.) which will not suffer either the one or the other long to live; be­cause the God of Justice hath peremptorily said, that the Bloudy and Deceitful Men shall not live out half their days, Psal. 55.23.

Take here a Distinct List and Catalogue of the chief Plotters in this Late and Dam­nable Plot, and View them from Head to Foot, from Top to Toe, as they stand Ranked in our English Records, and Orderly Re­gistred for everlasting Remembrance.

First, This Present Pope Innocent the Ele­venth, the Master of all the Misrule and Matchless Mischief: as the Philosopher saith of Finis, 'tis primus Intentione, but ultimus Executione; So must I say of this Fino Filth, He is the first in Intention, (his Cursed Cha­racter being the principal end proposed in this present Discourse) yet must He come last in Execution, not onely in the Method of this Platform, but also (for ought I yet see) in the Measures of Gods Providence: For the Law of Justice (compared to the Cobweb that catches the lesser Flyes, but cannot keep the great ones, &c.) is too [Page 109] Low and Short Handed (as to Man) to Reach so High and so Far as the Great Goff of Rome, Yet surely in due Season His Sin shall find him out by the great God, Numb. 32.23. unto whom we must leave Him, for He is the God of Vengeance, Justice is His, and He will Repay, Deut. 32.35.43. Rom. 12.19.

Secondly, Cardinal Howard, by Birth both an English Man, and Brother to the Great Duke of Norfolk; So one of the Popes first and fittest Engines to Betray England into His Holinesses Hands, that thereby this Car­dinal might the more Merit Saint Peters Chair upon this Popes Departure from it, and then this Sweet Bit (our Land) would prove a Sowceing Augmentation to Peters Patrimony: Therefore, as the Pope was Lord High Admiral in the whole See of Rome; So, it was concluded by the Cabal in the Colledg de propaganda fide, that this same English Cardinal, should be his Vice Admiral, and hereupon He was dispatch'd away from Rome to be the Popes Legatus a Latere, or a None Such Nuncio into England, upon such an unparalleld Errand, as never any Embassadour durst undertake, which was to take possession of it in this Popes Name, as if it had been elaps'd into his Hands for want of either Heir or Possessour, though, [Page 110] Blessed be God it hath both, and needs none of the Popes false Claims, or foul usurpations: and to make this Cardinal more brisk in his exploit, the Pope Creates Him Arch-Bishop of Canterbury (as if there had been a Va­cancy too) and, that Sees Vast Revenue be­ing look'd upon as too little a Bribe for so Heroick an undertaker, the Pope ordains Him Forty Thousand Crowns per Annum out of His own Coffers (where there is Gold and Silver enough, &c. Rev. 18.12, 13.) as a necessary supplement to that pittiful Arch-Bishoprick (the Best and Richest in England) that He might be had in more Veneration, and the better Support His Authoritative Grandieur: And as if this alone were below this Innocent Harmless Pope (like another proud Haman) to lay His Violent Hands onely upon our Mordecai (the Bishop of Canterbury, as well as King Charles the Second) to Dispossess them both of their Crown and Miter, but He daringly Dispossesseth (so far as the good will of the evil Beast would stretch) most of our other Bishops, promoting His own Popelings as so many Interlopers in their places, as Father Perrot to York, Corker to London, Whitebread to Winchester, Strange to Durham: Godder to Salisbury, Napper to Norwich, &c. I ap­peal to all those Bishops (whom this Pope [Page 111] would have turned out to Grazing, unless they could have turned in to Him) whether His Name and His Nature do correspond well herein, and whether they would not have had hereupon far greater Reason to brand Him (as in Scripture, this is King Ahaz) saying likewise, this is Pope Nocent, rather than Pope Innocent the Eleventh: All must Truckle to Cardinal Howard His Nuncio.

Thirdly, Johannes Paulus de Oliva, comes in next to play his pranks, and as He had been the Father General of the Jesuits in all Lands, so this Pope Constitutes Him his Rere-Admiral, to Mann and to Mannage a right Romes Great Man of War, the Provincial of the Jesuits in London, in so noble an Attack: but is Attacking in a Military manner, proper Work for an Olivas, whose Name carries an Olive Leaf (that Badg of Peace) in its Mouth, but it seems, He will be like his Great Master, Pope Nocent-Innocent, there is War in his Heart. Which minds me of a Story concerning the foregoing Pope Inno­cent the Tenth, who bare for part of his Arms [a Dove with an Olive Branch in her Mouth] Whereupon our Turn Coat and Runagate Doctor Baily wittily Quibbles up­on Oliva vera, profoundly perverting it to Oliverus, and highly Courted that Protector [Page 112] with his Seraphick Comparison of the Olive and Oliver. See his Life of Fisher, p. 260, 261. 'Tis the genuine Character of a Jesuit to have Honey (or the Olive of Peace) in his Mouth, and to have designed (yea Conse­crated) Swords and Daggers in his Heart. Oh brave Olive, Oh brave Oliver, the han­dle of the Sword that should have been Sheath'd in our Bowels, Reached to Rome, and was held in this Brave Olivas Hand.

Fourthly, Pedro Jeronimo de Corduba, Pro­vincial of the Jesuits in New-Castle in Spain, the Pope must have here a Paul (as His Third Engine) and a Peter (as this Fourth) engaged with Himself herein, though both Jesuits (without whom no Mischief in all Europe can be managed, the Hand of Joab or Jesuite is in all) to make this Damnable and Diabolical Plot more like Apostolical: That Work which this Pope cut out for him, was to be a Grand Pilot in his Countrey, and to give the Plot a lift endways, both with Money and Men, under the notion of Pil­grims: and where this Popish Pedro or Pe­ter plaid his pranks like a right Beautifeu to Sow his Seed of Contention betwixt that Crown and this, thereby the more to facili­tate the further Progress of the Plot.

Fifthly, La Chese a Jesuit too, and Con­fessor to the French King (and so must be [Page 113] Privy to all his Royal Designs) He was also a Grand Pilot in that Countrey, whose hands were directed to Steer a right Course here­in by that conceited Coxcomb, our Cole­man, who was hang'd for his pains in Be­traying his own Native Countrey.

Sixthly, Another Jesuite (I have not his Name, and indeed 'tis not worth enquiry) who is Confessour to the Emperour of Ger­many, must Create Fends betwixt Him and our King: That, with all these pretty Di­versions, we might be wheadled into a Ga­zing abroad, while they by their English Jesuits, &c. could cut our Throats at Home: Mark here, what a Sacred Num­ber is Six, with them there must be Six of Forreign Assistants (the Number of the Beast is Three Sixes as before) and still Jesuits every where must be the Instru­ments of Cruelty, though the Pope be the hand to Improve them: I the less wonder at this, since I Read that passage in the Jesuit Muffeius, writing the Life of Igna­tius Loyala their Founder, He there Inge­niously confesseth, that their Father Imitated the Devil in using Tricks to Convert (or rather Pervert) Disciples, &c. You may Swear, that all the Jesuits do Patrizare and will Try the Devils Tricks with the best of Juglers, &c.

[Page 114]But are our Jesuits in England asleep all this while? No, the Pope hath Domestick Tools as well as Forreign.

This Popes Domestick Engines employed here, were These

First, The Provincial of the Jesuits, for the Time being in England, who was White-Bread, who would have made Brownbread and Brann of us, but he fell into his own Pit, &c.

Secondly, The Benedictine Monks at the Savoy. The Duke of Savoys Country was call'd Malvoy, because it was pesterd so notoriously with Theeves as made it Mala Via or Malvoy, that is, a Dangerous Passage, but when the Thieves were Rooted out, its Name was changed into Salvoy or Savoy, the way thence to Somerset-house, makes the Application more easie.

Thirdly, The Jesuits and Seminary Priests, who were Sowing their Tares among the Wheat (like the Envious one their Father) all over the Land, they being about the Number of Eighteen Hundred, a large black Regiment under Roman Colours.

Fourthly, Many Lay-Papists both of the Nobility and Gentry (too well known to need naming) who had all Commissions Sealed by Brave Oliva aforementioned, both for Civil and Military Employ, and sent them [Page 115] by this Pope, as the Highest Marks of his Favour.

Fifthly, Multitudes, Multitudes of the Lay-Papists among the Commonalty. Even all the Papists in England could not chuse but be Engaged in so Glorious and Merito­rious a Matter; and this is the more pro­bable, If not only their General Principles Imbibed with their Religion, but also the Popes particular Test (for Anathematizing us Hereticks) Imposed Universally on them, be but well considered.

Sixthly, For still we must have the Six in Adoration of Six Hundred Sixty Six, &c. All the English Covents beyond Sea, (as St. Omors, &c.) must be almost drain'd Dry, and Transported Incognito's hither, to Cor­roberate the better carrying on of the Ca­tholick Cause, which was now become as Catholick as their Religion, having likewise all the most Eminent of the Popish Clergy in Europe Engaged to help at a Dead Lift, and to Lift England to Rome. Hereby this Plot became the Unanimous Act of the whole Romish Church, whose Infallible and Innocent Head (this Pope) Adjur'd them to it, upon the forfeiture of their Fathers Blessing. Though we may not Imagine every Individual Popeling could know the whole Intrigue (for there might be a [Page 116] Wheel within a Wheel) yet in the Lump they pay to this Pope their Blind Obedience, however the Guilt both of the parts, and of the whole, falls upon the Innocent Con­science of this Pope, which all his Holy Wa­ter cannot wash off, and make him as Inno­cent as his Name, should he Conjure Tibur it self.

Now when His Holiness had thus well furnished his Holy Cause with Men (a dou­ble Set of Sixes, a Jury of Twelve, I can­not say, All Good Men and True, No, not so much as the Foreman himself) His next Care is to be supply'd with Money, the Si­news of His Holy War, and though his own private Exchequer be Puteus In exhaustus (as he once said of England, when it was his Ass to Ride on, and therefore would fain bestride her soft Back again,) an Inexhau­stible Fountain, yet the Old Crafty Fox liked better to get some Bearers, well knowing that many Hands make lighter Work. Here­upon by his Apostolical Command, as well as Example. A Vast and Prodigious Fund was quickly Erected for so Great and Pious a Work.

First, The Pope himself, to be a good Pat­tern to others, conveys into his Sacred Trea­sury by Paulus de Oliva, or Paul Olive, Ele­ven Thousand Crowns, I wonder He made it [Page 117] not even Twelve, and the Crown's, Pounds; His own full Coffers Revel. 18.12. might well enough have born it besides; the Re­gaining of England to His Revenue would well enough have Countervail'd that Cost.

Secondly, The Catholick King (His Eldest Son) of Spain shames his Holy Father, in Advancing Ten Thousand Pounds by Peter Jeronimus; thus his Indian Gold was Expend­ed.

Thirdly, His Most Christian Son of France (to shew himself the better Christian, or rather Antichristian,) Advanceth Ten Thou­sand Pound more by Father Le Cheese, what a shame it is, that His Holiness should be out done by both his Sons, when it was pe­culiarly His Cause, and He would have Run away with the Profit.

Fourthly, I wonder we hear nothing of the Emperors Charity, was it because he was too Nigardly, or because the Male-Contents of Hungary kept his Coffers Empty; how­ever, divers considerable Sums were trans­mitted to Coleman by Foreign Ministers, among whom, He from Germany might be one.

Fifthly, But the English Jesuits (suppo­sing the Emperor to be too Narrow Soul'd,) Ex Abundanti, supply'd all Defects, they [Page 118] having Threescore Thousand Pound per An­num, Estate in Land here, and an Hundred Thousand Pound Ready Cash, a constant Running Stock in the way of their Trade, which (you know) is the Mystery of Ini­quity.

Sixthly, The Benedictine Monks (not to be thrust out as Rotten) contribute out of their Blessed Treasure, Six Thousand Pound to purchase the Popes Benediction, whom they also exceeded in their Benevolence, &c.

Seventhly, God Bless us, here's the Third Six again, and so we have got the exact Number of the Beast, Six, and Six, and Six, or Six Hundred Sixty Six, and to make up this Number compleat, the English Catholick (as well as Romon) Grandees were free Contributors of most Ample Benevolencies to this so Great and so Glorious a Work.

No sooner had this Innocent Pope thus provided Himself (though He as to his part, comes off but Stingily) with quantum suf­ficit (or rather suffocat, as to Justice God­frey) both of Men and Money: He then sends forth His hungry Beagles to Hunt the harmless Hare, that never gave them the least provocation: but He must do it, 'tis the nature of the Beast to worry the Harm­less, and 'tis the custome (which is a second nature) of this Innocent Pope to be notori­ously Nocent to the Innocent.

[Page 119]The First Innocent, He Assaults with his greedy Hounds, is no less than our King (God Bless Him) Grove and Tickering are hired to shoot Him, Conyers and Anderton to stab Him, four Irish Ruffians to Godfrey Him, Sir George Wakeman to poyson Him: Out of the way with Him, any way (they cry) since He will not comply with our Plot.

Secondly, The Duke of York shall fare no better, unless He will turn Tenant to this Innocent Pope for his Kingdom, as well as for his Religion, and pardon the Murtherers of his Brother, the Burners of the City, &c. and the Massacrers of the People, &c.

Thirdly, Because their Horrid and Hellish Plot had taken Wind by Doctor Oats's Depo­sitions given in to Justice Godfrey (where­by their Bloudy Designs, both of Murder­ing the King and the Duke of York too, If he would not comply, and upon His Ma­jesties Murther, of Firing Westminster, Wap­ping, Rotherith and Southwark, as they had done London, and to lay all upon the Presby­terians, &c. as likewise of making a General Massacre at the same time by a secret listed Army of Five Hundred Thousand Cut-Throats, whereof the Lord Bellasis was to be General, &c. were all Discovered) this good Magistrate must have his Mouth stoped from telling Tales, &c. wherein the Pope [Page 120] succeeded so far as to make this Man the First Martyr of our Religion, and a fair Ran­som of our Realm.

The like was Attempted upon Justice Arnold, though no other Crime was found in either, save a faithful Discharge of their Oath and Duty. Nor against Justice Pye neither, yet Bodnam the Papist prevail'd to knock down his Clay-Crust with his Bill, whereby this good Pye (a serviceable Dish in Hereford-shire) was Destroyed.

Fourthly, The Popes Agents (being now Flesh'd in Protestants Bloud, yet unable to stifle the Plot, when it once was Declared by both Houses of Parliament that there was a Traiterous Design of the Pope to Subject this Kingdom to his Tyrannical Govern­ment, by these Five pernicious Lords in the Tower, whereof Stafford lately Execu­ted was, &c.) do then club their Wits, not onely with this Pope (the Devils Eldest Son) but even with the Devil himself, how they might handsomly Sham it, and this they la­bour in the very Fire to Accomplish.

Fifthly, Then began they to play their Popish pranks in Blasting the Kings Evidence, Sir Dennis Ashburnham, the Saint Oniers Boys, are brought in to Accuse Doctor Oats of Perjury, as Lane and Osborn did of Sodomy, the like pranks against France, Bedloe, Dug­dale, [Page 121] &c. but their Bowl Runs not here without a Rub for their Design of Subborn­ing Alderman Brook and Captain Bury, be­ing Discovered, this Discover'd also that all the aforesaid Tools were but the Popes or the Devils Trunks through which he spake, as he used to do in his Dumb Images, which the Father of Lyes taught to say what he listed, yet must be his Oracles.

Sixthly, They, being Non-plus'd herein also by the Over-ruling Hand of God, be­gin new Methods by the Popes Advice (and indeed, what should direct Hands and Feet but the Head) then thought of shift­ing the Plot from their own shoulders by Forging several Sham-Plots, all to be Fa­thered upon the Protestants: thus at a pinch they are Ingeniose nequam, wickedly witty.

Yet this was but to new Vamp a pair of their old Boots, for that Impious Pope Pius the Fifth, taught his Popish Priests, that when they had by the Powder Plot blown up the King (James) Lords and Com­mons, to Father that filthy Fact upon the Puritans: the Father of Lyes is put hard to his Trumps, when he is so low Run, [Page 122] that he hath no new Tricks in his Tinkers Budget to stop holes with, but is forced to bring forth his old Baffoold Stratagems. However He is Resolved to drive this Tin­kers nail (new pointed) so far as it would go with his Hammer.

In Order to this, They start many Sham­plots, wherewith they indeed began betimes, even in 1661 (as Captain Yarranton Demon­strates, when the Crown was scarce warm upon our King Charles his Head: but that and all other Successively, were but low Games compared to this, for then they had not such a Damnable Plot Discovered to Palliate as now, even this Plot of Plots that was Hatched at Rome as soon as this Innocent Pope storm'd Peter's Chair, his Miter was scarce warm upon his Head (put upon him in the Year 1676.) but presently the Devil enters into him (as if he had taken Judas's Sop) and sets both his Head and his Heart to contrive this Bloudy Design, which for two full Years (like that strange River Re­lated in History) Ran underground, before it brake forth and was Discovered in the Year 1678. Now when that Devil and his Deeds of Darkness was brought to Light (though long wrap'd up in Samuels Mantle) by the Father of Lights, who always over­shoots Satan in in his own Bow, these white [Page 123] Witches would fain Conjure him down with multiplyd Sham-plots: Indeed, one begetting another Corruptio Unius was Generatio Alterius.

The First was, The Clapping up of Mr. Clapool into the Tower, before their plot was Discovered, that they might have him at Hand to Father the Kings Murder upon, so soon as he should fall by their Hands, whereas all the Treason that can be charg'd upon this modest Gentleman, is, that he hath led a Retired Life for many Years, and onely seekt to betray the Secrets of Nature by hard Study, as also that he Marryed Olivers Jewel, which render'd him more fit to Fasten their Designs upon.

The Second was, A Raising of the Report, that Justice Godfrey was a Papist (one of their Creatures said so much to my self) and that he was Murdered by the Protestants, &c. This, by Nevils means, was made the common Discourse in every Coffehouse, to amuse the Nation, and to give them a Diversion from the Papists. The now Ho­nest Mr. Dangerfield knows it to be true.

Of the same Bran was a later Report that Justice Godfrey Hangd himself, for which N. T. was Pillory'd, both could not be true, if the one, then not the other, whereas nei­ther is true, for he neither Hangd himself, nor dyed he by Protestants but by Papists [Page 124] Hands: still the Death of one Sham-plot gave Life to another, and one Bafled begat another to the end of the Chapter.

The time would fail (as Room I am sure doth) to Reckon all Romes Plots.

The Third was (to omit Netervils endea­vouring to Suborn Captain Bury and Alder­man Brooks, &c.) The Duke of Buck. was an Eye-sore for saying (I suppose) he would never turn Papist, till they can eat up the Devil, as, they say, they do God in their Host.

For this they first Accuse him of Treason, and this failing, of Sodomy.

The Fourth was, The Earl of Shaftsbury was their greatest stumbling Block, because His Sagacity had so oft Countermined their Devilish Designs, Hereupon, Plots upon Plots were laid against his Life: both by Men and Women, in City and Country.

The Fifth was, Sir William Waller had (while in Commission) been a Thorn in their Sides, for daily Ferreting the Foxes out of their Holes, where they had Earth'd them­selves, and openly Condemning their Trum­peries to the Flames of a Purgatory-fire above ground: no wonder then, if they at that time sought to blast his Reputation, as they (to wit, Monson, whom he had committed to Newgate) and Nevil, aforementioned, [Page 125] (alias Paine) do now seek to Destroy his Life, the Preservation whereof the whole Nation, yea, the whole Protestant Interest are obliged to Pray for, He being an Active Instrument in Gods Hand for the Preserva­tion of both.

But the Sixth (and still this Mistery of Ini­quity Runs all in Sixes both in the Real and in the Sham-plots, in the former and in the latter Distribution.) was a Plot of Plots, a Wickedness with a Witness indeed: which (in some sense) was worse than either the Irish or Parisian Massacre, wherein good Men onely lost their lives, but herein they must lose their Reputations too, as Branded with Rebellion to Posterity. 'Twas worse than the Cruelty of Nero, who only wish'd all the People had but one Neck, that He might cut them all off at one Blow: but here was more than a bare wish, a crafty en­deavour to blow up all the Protestant Lords (the Duke of Monmouth, &c.) All the Pro­testant Gentry and Yeamonry in City and Country at one Blast, by fixing High Trea­son upon them all Universally: and when the Knife was at our Throats, God sent Sir William Waller to turn up the botton of Mad-dame Celliers Meal-Tab, where all the Bran of this Brutish Intreague was Disco­vered, Cum multis aliis quae nunc perscribere longum est.

[Page 126]These and a Thousand more pretty Inno­cent Pranks hath this Pope Innocent the Ele­venth plaid in poor England, though not in his Person, yet by his Proxy, whatever His Slaves and Vassals have Acted here, even Matchless Villanies, All have been by an Implicit Faith, and by a Blind Obedience to his Apostolical (or rather Apostatical) Com­mands; but surely that Servant who will be Hang'd for his Master, or for his Ma­sters Fault more than his own, must needs have more of Blind Charity, than of a Solid Judgment.

☞ One would Admire, that any Hu­mane Breast could be so Capacious as to contain in it so much Villanous Venom as this Innocent Pope hath poured out upon England; but is here all? No, Scotland, France, Ireland and Holland, yea, and all other Protestant Countries, must likewise be Wounded with the Poisonful Sting of this Fiery Flying Serpent, this Great Red Dragon, Mounted aloft upon the Highest Theatre in the Christian World, hath his prospect into all these places, and, as if He True Basi­lisk, Kills down-right with his very Looks, His Looks are Top-full of Fascination. To tell distinctly how he hath Bewitched with his bare Looks all those Lands aforenamed, would Require another Volum. Take here [Page 127] only a very Brief Landskip hereof, which yet may serve to satisfie, that this pretend­ed Head is Top-full of Poison, and this Ca­tholick Head of the Church Transfuseth a Fatal Poison into all the parts of the Body; his Venom is as Universal as his Headship.

As First, For Scotland, He sent several Jesuits to Preach there under the Notion of Presbyterians, who Industriously Blew up the Coals of Discontent among that People, knowing that Oppression maketh Wise Men Mad, Aggravating to them their Unbeara­ble Burdens under Episcopal Tyranny, ex­citeing them to Vindicate their Religion and Liberty with the Sword, and promising them in the Popes Name, That they should be Assisted with Eight Thousand Catholicks to overturn the Government.

Oh how did this Pope Laugh in his Lawn Sleeves, to see himself so Successful. See Dr. Oats Narrative, Art. 1, 74, 11.

Secondly, As to France, How far this In­nocene Pope hath been Nocent there, How far his Tincture of Lucifer hath turn'd his Chri­stian Son into Antichristian, may be Legibly Read, even in Capital Letters, in the Bloudy Whales upon the Backs of the Hugonots, but most of all in that Detestable Test, which wounds not their Bodies only, but their Souls also, unless they will Abjure the Prote­stant [Page 128] Religion, Anathematize all Protestants, this hath Turn'd out of France many Thou­sands of the Tenderest part of that People into Foreign Countries, though it be so Dia­metrically contrary to the Sacred Edicts of Nauts, so solemnly Sworn to by the French King. Yet this Pope, by his Om­nipotency, dare Absolve him from this Oath, and Undertakes to make Sin a Duty. See Sir William Waller's Account of the present State of the Protestants there. And see also, The Politicks of France. And whether all this Contest betwixt the Father and the Son, about the Regalia's, be not all a Juggle, (seeing the poor Protestants are among hands so sevearly Persecuted, and pestilent Jesuits so Cordially Embraced,) Time will Declare.

Thirdly, As to Ireland, Dr. Oats De­poseth, Narrat. pag. 65, 66. That this Innocent Pope sent his Bloudy Irish Hounds, Commissions, Arms, and Eight Hundred Thousand Crowns, that they might cut the Throats of the Protestants again, as they had done by ano­ther Innocent Popes Order in One Thousand Six Hundred Forty One. The Death of the Duke of Ormond should lead this Po­pish Dance, the Pope looses of his Bloud-Hounds (Four Jesuits) who Undertook to Dispatch the Duke, Twenty Five Thou­sand [Page 129] Irish were to Rise, and play their Old Bloudy Game, wherein they were Experi­enced, and Artificial Gamesters. These were to Join with a French Army to be Landed there, and as good Gamesters of that Kind as they, so fall on to their Old Trade of Massacring, &c. Yea, some of those Irish Cattel had a Dispensation from this Pope to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, provided they promise to Betray their Garrisons, and other Trusts. So that when you see a Papist swallow those Oaths, you may Swear 'tis with such a proviso, He hath some Trust or other to Be­tray.

Fourthly, Holland, There this Innocent Pope hath set his Foul Foot (of the Beast) to purpose, in sending his Most Christian Son, most Unchristianly to Scourge them for their Heresie, and to over-run their Coun­trey with his Rapacious Army; and had not God Almighty put an Hook into the Jaw of that Proud Leviathan at Utrech, He had laid their Land under an Absolute Desolation. To say nothing of His Intrigue­ing Influences to plunge them and us into a War to Wast and Weaken each other that He might the easier worry us both: To say nothing of Hungary and other parts of Germany, nor of the Three Northern [Page 130] Crowns; in all which he hath throughly, tryed the same Trusty Tricks of Divide, and Command, &c.

Yet while this Pope is thus Malevolent; and Mischievous abroad (embroiling all Countries with his Contagious Evomitions) He is all this while Mighty Magnificent and Magisterial at Home, strutting about in that Splendour and Grandeur, as if He were more than a Mortal Man on Earth, one of the Immortal Angels of Heaven, Resembling the Angelical Nature, not onely in Innocency, in his Name Innocent, but also in Lustre and Glory, as to his Garb and Deportment. Grant Him to be one of the Angels Order, yet undervalue him not, by reckoning him among the Inferior Rank. No, let him be Reputed no less than proud Lucifer, a Prince or Principality among them, &c. Isa. 14 14 As to his Innocency, Angel like, I can say, little of it, and sure I am nor no body else (unless some of his Sycophants who can be content to lick up his Slaver, as once one Parafite did a Tyrants) no further than his Name [Innocent] will be the Guarranty: To be Nocent in Nature (as the premisies have proved him) and to be Innocent in Name, is to make himself a compleat lump of Contradiction: However this Whore of Babylon can exactly Imitate Solomons Whore [Page 131] in wiping her Mouth, and saying I have not done those mischiefs in all those Lands afore­mentioned: But as to this Splendour and Glory, Angel-like, I have more to say than I have room for, as to his Roman Grandeur, never was Jaddus (the High Priest of the Jews) so Richly Arrayed for Glory and Beauty, when Great Alexander met him and fell down to Worship him for a god, as this Roman Pontifex in all his pompious pontifi­calibus is, either sitting in his Chair of State, or standing upright, or strutting about. The Prophet Ezekiel most graphically Describes this Anointed Cherub, that Seats himself in the Holy Mountain of God, & sits as God (that is a de­gree above an Angel) covering himself with every pretious Stone, the Rubys, the Diamonds, the Jasper, the Saphire and Emerauld, &c. Ezek. 28.2.13, 14, 15, to 20. Oh what a glit­tering and glorious Scarlet coloured Beast is this, thus bedeckt with Radiant Jewels. No wonder if they give him this Canting Courtship [Thou art the prime of all Bishops, the Heir of the Apostles, an Abel for primacy (sure I am, not for Religion) a Noah for Government (not for Righteousness) an A­braham for Patriarkship (not for Piety) a Melchisedeck for Order, an Aaron for Dignity, a Moses for Authority, a Samuel for Judica­ture, a Peter for Power, yea, a Christ for [Page 132] Unction, but none of them for Holiness, though that be his Title: No wonder if his pickthanks go yet higher, in calling him their Lord God, their Creator in whom they must Believe, and whom they must Obey upon pain of Damnation] no wonder if they say to this their God three times [Oh Thou that takest away the Sins of the World, have Mercy on us. Thou canst make a Sin to be no Sin, & contra] No wonder if Pope­lings Kiss the great Toe of their Great God, in a Country where God hath Toes, which Moses (who came nearest him) could not Discern, and much less Kiss, Deut. 4.12, 15. No wonder if Kings and Emperours hold the Stirrop, to this God, when weary with walking, and would Ride, one Beast upon the back of another, no wonder if Odeschal­cho thought his Name too base for a God, as Octavian did, when chosen Pope at Eighteen Years old, cast off his Name because Heath­nish, and calls himself John the Thir­teenth, but he proved such a God as used to drink Healths to the Devil, and in his Diceing would Pray, that Jupiter, Venus, and all the Devils would help him.

This was a Mad Jack indeed, and as Bad a God, who should be All good.

[Page 133]To conclude, come my Country-men, how can you like to Worship such a God, (who is rather a Devil Incarnate, or the Devils Patriarch) can you stoop to kiss his stinking Toe, can you hold his Stirrup (as too many are doing) till he get upon your own Backs and Ride you to the Devil, Grave Bishop Ushar feard a Massacre approach­ing, and that this very Pope would be the chief Agent in it? Can you Court in a blou­dy Villain, who will certainly cut your Throats? Can you like to Trade with such a Cheat (that is as Crafty as Cruel, having as much of the Fox as of the Lyon) in his Trash and Trumpery afore mentioned? This Pope had great hopes of Reentry into Eng­land by his hopeful Plot, hereupon Cotting­tons Bones were brought to be Buried here, to take possession of it as Jacob did in like matner of Canaan: Indeed, the late Comet frighted him into such a cold Sweat, as no­thing but a Dutch Stove could bring warmth into him again, and the Cockatrice laid by the Prophetick Hen in Campideglis Garden stun'd him a little; But now he Recovered with warm Cloaths and hot Cordials again, yet I hope 'tis but a lightning before his fall: God forbid, that the Imperial Crown of England should again Truckle to the Miter [Page 134] and Tripple Crown of this Pope: Erasmus Satyrical Drollery prevailed against the Pope, as well as Luthers Argumentative Gravity, I wish the like Efficacy to this Dis­course, and let all good People say, Amen.