I
Would
faine
act
my
owne
Scean
,
and
with
a
modest
zeale
enter
into
a
Discourse
,
that
shall
show
you
the
hand
of
God
writing
on
the
wall
,
more
fearefull
and
terrible
to
hard-hearted
Papists
,
then
euer
Belshazzers
fatall
night
to
Daniel
.
5.
himselfe
and
his
people
.
I
beseech
you
then
,
if
you
can
discrectly
auoyd
,
or
charitably
confute
ignorant
Papists
,
and
penurious
Newes-mongers
,
vnderstand
,
what
I
purpose
in
my
following
Treatise
;
meerely
to
show
you
,
that
these
troubles
of
Europe
,
be
but
the
beginnings
of
Romes
desolation
,
and
the
Beast
with
seauen
heads
and
ten
hornes
must
Apoc.
12
be
discouered
,
as
she
walloweth
in
the
den
of
abomination
,
and
filthinesse
of
corruption
;
after
which
she
shall
be
rowsed
and
hunted
out
of
breath
,
●aken
and
lashed
with
stripes
,
bound
and
stripped
of
her
pompe
,
and
at
last
forsaken
and
consumed
with
fire
:
which
although
it
may
haue
relation
to
the
euerlasting
horror
of
hell
,
yet
in
the
iudgement
of
learned
Diuines
,
must
be
explicated
by
some
effectuall
humiliation
on
earth
.
Wherin
if
repentance
remorse
,
and
compunction
of
spirit
,
cannot
frame
the
master
peece
of
Conuersion
,
the
Catastrophe
shall
be
wrought
by
the
violence
of
a
stronger
arme
,
and
that
from
a
secular
Prince
.
And
if
in
this
the
Emperours
of
Germany
,
or
other
potent
Kings
haue
fayled
,
as
too-too
basely
prostrating
themselues
to
the
power
of
Antichrist
,
no
question
God
will
punish
them
for
vnder-valuing
his
glory
,
or
diuiding
and
participating
that
greatnes
,
which
he
hath
giuen
to
euery
King
intire
in
his
owne
Kingdome
.
Now
that
the
Pope
hath
,
vnder
sanctified
titles
,
both
abused
Religion
,
and
deceiued
the
world
,
and
that
God
is
incensed
against
such
pride
,
blasphemy
,
and
hypocrisie
;
yea
,
offended
with
such
Princes
,
as
still
adore
the
Beast
,
is
apparant
by
many
relations
:
Especially
a
large
Letter
written
,
and
printed
long
since
in
the
Spanish
tongue
to
King
Philip
the
second
,
in
the
dayes
of
Queene
Mary
,
wherein
is
not
onely
the
Genealogie
of
Antichrist
,
but
a
delicate
Picture
of
the
Pope
,
and
his
Cardinals
,
kneeling
before
the
Deuill
,
sitting
in
a
chayre
of
State
,
who
deliuers
him
an
Indenture
,
or
Commission
,
with
many
seales
,
allowing
him
to
be
Antichrist
,
and
so
to
execute
his
authoritie
:
this
was
composed
by
one
Alonso
de
Penna
Fuertes
,
an
Italian
,
and
out
of
this
,
with
many
other
Classick
Authors
,
this
Enchiridion
is
extracted
,
and
I
hope
to
make
all
I
proiect
apparant
,
as
farre
as
man
may
coniecture
,
or
fals
to
my
poore
proportion
of
discouery
.
The
Method
then
,
which
I
would
obserue
,
ariseth
from
the
1.
Discouery
,
2.
Arraignement
,
3.
and
execution
of
Antichrist
.
In
the
discouery
you
shall
haue
some
obseruations
taken
from
,
1.
effectuall
contingents
,
2.
and
probable
coniectures
.
In
the
Arraignement
the
indi●ements
are
framed
,
1.
from
contradicting
the
word
of
God
,
2.
from
dishonouring
the
truth
with
false
doctrines
,
3.
and
from
abusing
the
people
with
lying
miracles
.
In
the
sentence
of
condemnation
,
and
execution
,
the
Bonarges
is
deliuered
,
1.
from
the
mouth
of
God
,
2.
the
predictions
of
Sybels
,
3.
the
inuectiues
of
their
owne
canonized
Fathers
,
4.
and
reuelations
of
blessed
Women
;
of
all
which
in
order
,
or
as
orderly
as
I
can
.
The
discouery
of
Antichrist
.
COncerning
the
discouery
of
Antichrist
,
how
euer
I
need
goe
no
further
then
Daniels
weekes
and
times
,
or
his
foure
beasts
,
Ezekiels
visions
,
the
Epistles
of
S.
Paul
,
the
Reuelation
of
S.
Iohn
,
and
those
wonderfull
Expositions
of
learned
men
concerning
the
subiect
in
hand
:
yet
you
shall
haue
other
observations
,
namely
,
that
concerning
the
yeere
1666.
a
time
wherin
the
glory
of
Antichrist
year
1666
must
be
ecclipsed
,
or
at
least
so
darkened
,
that
it
shall
neuer
shine
with
outward
glory
,
nor
eminent
maiesty
:
many
haue
set
downe
,
that
the
numerall
letters
of
all
Alphabets
amount
to
this
number
,
and
denotate
the
same
,
as
if
it
were
a
thing
purposed
from
the
beginning
,
and
like
a
Propheticall
Hier●gliphicke
,
representing
the
name
,
and
marke
of
the
Beast
in
the
Apocalyps
:
for
example
,
c.
signifies
a
100
,
d.
500.
Alphab●ts
n●merall
letters
▪
i.
one
,
l.
50.
m.
a
1000.
v.
fiue
,
and
x.
10.
all
which
summed
together
make
a
1666.
Others
out
of
the
name
of
Paulus
vice
Deus
,
borrowing
a
little
libertie
to
make
the
first
v
a
double
,
collect
the
same
number
from
l.
v.
v.
i.
c.
d.
v.
which
Letters
likewise
amount
to
666.
Others
take
the
name
of
the
Beast
out
of
Papa
Vicarius
Dei
generalis
in
terris
,
where
there
are
six
Vnites
,
two
v.
which
make
10.
l.
50.
c.
a
100.
and
d.
500.
all
which
amount
to
666.
Others
des●ant
vpon
the
triple
Crowne
of
the
Pope
,
and
some
other
tearmes
more
significant
,
as
in
all
the
learned
Expositors
of
the
Reuelation
is
apparant
.
Last
of
all
they
haue
played
with
the
very
Character
of
Papa
,
as
if
there
were
a
mystery
in
the
Papa
.
Letters
,
and
that
Papa
did
signifie
Poculum
aurcum
plenum●
abominationis
,
the
golden
cup
full
of
abomination
:
and
such
is
the
will
of
God
,
that
as
Ahabs
little
Cloud
increased
to
a
great
storme
,
so
out
of
these
triuiall
animaduersions
,
sufficient
matter
might
be
gathered
for
the
discouery
of
Antichristian
Prelacy
.
Effectuall
Contingents
.
Protestants
.
NOw
let
vs
come
forward
to
Effectuall
Contingents
,
which
are
apparant
from
the
progression
of
the
Gospell
in
all
the
Countries
of
Europe
,
and
discontentments
of
Papists
themselues
in
their
owne
Papisticall
Prouinces
.
First
then
concerning
Religion
,
now
called
Reformed
,
Protestants
.
who
knowes
not
,
what
England
,
Scotland
,
Denmarke
,
Norway
,
Sweden
,
the
low
Countries
,
and
many
great
townes
and
Provinces
,
both
in
Germany
and
France
haue
done
?
and
that
with
resolution
neuer
to
returne
to
the
vomit
againe
?
Who
sees
not
the
prosperitie
of
Holland
,
Zealand
,
and
the
rest
,
who
for
Religions
sake
,
and
to
oppose
that
monstrous
Hydra
,
the
Inquisition
,
displayed
by
the
Duke
of
Al●a
,
haue
euer
since
maintained
such
Warres
,
that
the
world
is
at
a
gaze
at
their
Protector
?
Who
confesseth
not
,
what
France
bringeth
forth
,
such
Protestant
Armies
,
such
defensiue
townes
,
that
their
faith
is
as
strong
as
their
walls
,
such
glorious
troopes
,
worthy
Congregations
,
zealous
ministers
,
and
religious
people
,
that
for
all
the
State
allowes
them
not
publicke
exercise
of
Religion
,
yet
such
is
their
estate
,
that
many
thousands
are
resolued
to
maintaine
the
cause
of
the
Gospell
?
Who
vnderstands
not
,
how
Switzerland
is
diuided
,
and
for
the
most
part
affected
to
the
Reformed
Religion
?
Whose
heart
doth
not
leape
for
ioy
(
especially
if
his
name
be
written
in
the
booke
of
life
)
to
apprehend
,
how
the
spacious
Germany
hath
her
seuerall
Protestant
Prouinces
,
and
reformed
Citties
,
how-euer
the
Popes
aduocates
mistearme
them
Lutherans
,
or
Hereticks
?
O
Geneua
,
Geneua
,
I
blesse
thy
name
for
blessing
the
God
of
all
blessing
,
who
hath
washed
thee
cleane
from
the
filthinesse
of
superstition
,
and
thou
hast
kept
thy
white
garments
vnspotted
,
yea
by
demonstration
shewed
plainely
,
that
the
wings
of
the
Cherubines
haue
ouer-shadowed
thee
.
Shall
I
bring
into
this
number
the
Prouinces
of
Austria
,
Stiri●
,
Carmola
,
Carinthia
,
why
the
Emperor
himselfe
knowes
,
they
are
most
of
them
Protestants
,
and
within
three
myle
of
Vienna
,
Englishmen
haue
seene
fiftie
Carosses
at
a
Protestant
Sermon
,
yea
,
they
haue
told
the
Fryers
within
the
walles
to
their
faces
,
that
they
would
do
as
the
men
of
Berea
did
,
examine
their
doctrine
by
the
Word
of
God
.
As
for
the
terrible
affrightings
of
hostilitie
,
whereby
the
countenances
of
Bohemia
,
the
Palatinate
,
and
other
Prouinces
are
euen
sadded
againe
,
and
seeme
bloodles
with
impietie
of
soule
,
to
thinke
vpon
their
ruines
and
deuastation
,
although
the
Iesuits
runne
vp
and
downe
with
the
Popes
fulmination
in
their
mouthes
,
fire
and
sword
in
their
handes
,
malice
and
revenge
in
their
hearts
,
death
and
destruction
in
their
actions
;
and
that
the
voice
of
Rachel
is
euery
where
heard
mourning
for
her
children
,
Iere●s
.
yet
are
there
thousandes
that
haue
not
bowed
their
knees
to
Baal
,
and
are
humbled
with
Iob
to
cry
out
,
though
King●
.
Iob.
thou
kill
me
,
I
will
not
forsake
thee
:
and
could
all
this
be
done
without
the
speciall
providence
of
God
,
and
his
all-searching
eye
,
that
will
at
last
discouer
the
pollution
of
this
Antichristian
den
,
and
the
deceit
of
the
Strumpet
?
answere
a
Gods
name
,
you
that
must
answer
before
the
Iudgement
throne
of
the
Lambe
,
how
comes
this
about
,
if
the
Papac●
shall
not
come
to
ruine
?
and
thus
much
for
the
Protestant
.
Papists
.
COncerning
Papists
,
how
many
Statutes
in
France
,
England
,
Papists
and
other
places
,
haue
beene
enacted
diuers
hundred
yeeres
since
,
against
the
pride
,
aua●ice
,
and
vsurpation
of
the
Sea
of
Rome
?
What
pasquils
and
inuectiues
haue
beene
set
vp
euen
in
Rome
it selfe
?
traducing
the
Popes
and
Cardinalls
for
their
vicious
liues
,
and
abominable
impi●tie
?
What
outrages
haue
beene
committed
to
the
sacking
of
Rome
,
and
irreligious
prophanation
of
such
things
,
as
were
reputed
sacred
,
and
all
this
by
Catholick●
Souldiers
?
What
discontentments
beganne
betweene
Philip
the
2.
of
Spaine
,
and
the
Pope
,
not
long
after
the
death
of
Charles
the
fift
,
when
the
Duke
of
Alua
in
his
Masters
behalfe
exprobrated
the
Conclaue
of
Cardinals
,
for
proclaiming
the
King
an
enemy
to
the
Church
,
that
a
man
would
wonder
how
he
was
afterward
diuerted
to
bend
his
forces
against
them
in
the
low
Countries
?
How
often
haue
the
Grandes
of
Spaine
repined
at
the
welath
and
ambition
of
the
Clergie
?
With
what
fearefull
out
cryes
haue
the
people
murmured
at
the
tyranny
of
the
Inquisition
?
Are
not
the
Fryers
at
this
instant
I
meane
the
Dominicans
and
Franciscans
at
variance
about
the
originall
sinne
of
the
Virgin
Mary
?
Did
not
Sauoy
a
while
agoe
protest
against
the
tenths
of
the
Church
,
and
beganne
to
startle
at
some
peremptory
proceedings
of
the
Clergie
?
Was
not
Venice
resolued
to
moderate
the
bountie
of
men
defunct
,
who
enfeoffed
the
Church
with
extraordinary
donatiues
,
and
attempted
to
deny
the
Popes
secular
iurisdiction
,
when
they
proclaimed
Fryer
Paule
of
the
order
of
Serui
Theologo
disignato
,
and
that
by
sound
of
Trumpet
in
S.
Marks
Piazzo
?
Haue
I
not
heard
my selfe
the
Women
in
the
strectes
tell
the
Religious
men
and
boyes
of
their
Monasteries
,
that
they
begged
Escmofina
per
comperare
To
buy
Apples
.
poma
,
and
so
denied
them
their
accustomed
releefe
?
Haue
I
not
seene
in
some
places
of
Italy
,
their
Columns
and
Pillers
of
Stone
pasted
all
ouer
with
inuectiues
against
Indulgences
,
and
pardons
to
be
bought
out
for
so
much
money
,
as
if
our
Sauiours
wordes
to
the
Iewes
were
now
verified
,
that
if
the
people
did
not
cry
Hosanna
in
the
s●●●●●es
,
the
very
stones
would
declare
themselues
.
From
whence
came
the
opposition
of
Thomas
of
Canterbury
against
Henry
the
second
,
and
the
many
discontents
of
the
Nobilitie
,
the
Popes
chiefest
Champions
,
against
so
dangerous
a
vsurpation
?
What
say
you
to
the
Statute
of
Mortmaine
:
the
stopping
of
Peter-pence
,
and
the
interdicting
of
diuerse
B●ls
,
euen
when
England
lay
in
the
Cimerian
mountaine
of
superstition
,
and
was
drowsie
in
the
darkesome
caue
of
●d●latry
?
Oh
what
a
feare
was
the
Pope
in
,
when
King
Iohn
threatned
the
clergy
,
destroyed
the
order
of
Cisteux
,
and
banished
Stephen
Langhton
the
kingdom
.
What
thinke
you
of
the
bill
put
vp
in
Parliament
the
11
of
Henry
4.
that
if
the
king
would
take
into
his
hands
the
lands
disordinately
consumed
by
the
Clergy
,
not
intermedling
with
tithes
,
or
Bishops
liuings
it
would
maintain
15.
Earles
,
1500.
knights
6000.
Esquiers
,
40.
Almeshouses
and
bring
30000.
pounds
a
yeere
into
the
exchequer
,
so
that
you
see
by
this
,
&
many
more
that
the
Papists
themselues
were
not
alwares
pliant
to
the
Popes
behests
,
but
broken
out
into
disordered
raptures
against
the
ambition
,
couetuousnes
,
vsurpation
,
&
tyranny
of
Rome
.
And
could
all
these
things
be
done
without
the
finger
of
God
to
point
at
Romes
wickednes
,
or
the
resolution
of
heauen
,
that
Babilon
must
fall
?
answer
a
Gods
name
,
you
that
must
answer
before
the
iudgement
throne
of
the
Lambe
;
and
thus
of
the
Papists
and
effectuall
contingents
.
Probable
Coniectures
.
COncerning
Probable
coniectures
,
I
raise
them
Probable
coniectures
.
from
the
description
of
Antichrist
in
the
word
of
God
;
and
the
comparing
of
the
Popes
doctrine
,
life
,
and
actions
to
the
same
,
as
shall
be
made
apparant
in
the
next
section
,
when
I
come
to
arraigne
this
deli●quent
against
the
Maiesty
of
God
,
the
Prince
of
Christendome
;
the
quietnes
of
mens
consciences
,
and
the
glorious
progression
Isaiah
.
of
the
Gospell
.
Doth
not
Isaiah
tell
a
story
of
Lucifer
and
his
fall
,
and
Prophesieth
of
the
destruction
of
Babilon
,
Isaiah
46.
Isaiah
47.
and
her
Idols
?
whereby
I
make
no
doubt
,
but
the
abominations
of
Rome
are
personated
,
and
all
the
wickednes
of
corrupt
prelacy
discouered
:
Nay
?
why
should
I
not
apply
,
what
Ezechiell
speakes
of
Tirus
,
and
compare
,
the
Ezech.
26.
wealth
,
pride
,
and
presumption
of
Rome
to
her
ripening
sinnes
,
and
at
last
rotten
putrifaction
:
For
wherein
did
euer
any
of
the
nations
offend
the
most
high
God
,
but
Popes
haue
exceeded
,
as
by
their
owne
authors
is
most
apparant
:
but
if
you
come
to
Daniels
Prophesie
,
hee
will
tell
Daniel
7.
8.
you
of
a
litle
horne
amongst
the
ten
hornes
;
that
had
eies
like
a
man
,
and
a
mouth
speaking
great
things
;
yea
in
the
11.
verse
because
of
the
voice
of
the
great
wordes
,
which
the
horne
spake
,
the
beast
was
slaine
,
&
his
body
destroyed
,
and
giuen
to
the
burning
flame
:
but
the
punishment
belongs
to
a
more
proper
place
.
I
now
goe
forward
to
the
description
.
7.
For
the
ministery
of
iniquity
doth
already
worke
,
only
hee
2
Thessal.
2.
7
which
now
with
holdeth
shall
let
,
till
hee
be
taken
out
of
the
way
.
8.
And
then
shall
the
wicked
man
be
reuealed
,
whom
the
Lord
shall
consume
with
the
spirit
of
his
mouth
,
and
shall
abolish
with
the
brightnes
of
his
comming
.
9.
Euen
him
,
whose
comming
is
by
working
of
Sathan
,
with
all
power
,
and
signes
,
and
lying
wonders
.
10.
And
in
all
deceiueablenes
of
vnrighteousnes
amongst
them
that
perish
,
because
they
receiued
not
the
loue
of
truth
,
that
they
might
be
saued
.
11.
And
therefore
God
shall
send
them
strong
illusions
,
that
they
shall
beleeue
lies
,
&c.
And
a
litle
before
:
He
shall
sit
as
God
in
the
Temple
of
God
.
And
a
little
before
:
He
is
called
the
man
of
sinne
.
And
in
another
place
:
There
is
the
doctrine
of
Dinells
forbidding
meates
,
and
1
Tim.
4.
mariages
,
&c.
And
in
another
place
.
There
is
named
,
the
Whore
of
Babilon
,
the
Cup
of
abomination
,
Apoc.
the
beast
with
7.
heads
and
10.
hornes
:
Roma
,
septicollis
.
And
in
many
other
places
such
effectual
descriptions
,
that
I
may
well
cry
out
,
O
God
,
What
plainer
words
,
what
easier
discouery
,
what
would
men
desire
to
know
more
concerning
the
Popes
of
Rome
,
the
life
of
Rome
,
the
doctrine
of
Rome
,
the
impieties
of
Rome
?
Oh
then
answere
a
gods
name
,
you
that
must
answere
before
the
iudgment
throne
of
the
Lambe
,
how
comes
this
about
,
how
could
all
these
things
be
done
without
the
finger
of
God
to
point
at
Rome
,
wickednes
,
or
the
resolution
of
heauen
,
that
Babilon
must
fall
,
and
thus
much
of
Antichrists
discouery
:
his
arraignment
followes
with
seuerall
inditements
.
Section
2.
Antichrist
Arraigned
.
IN
this
second
section
,
or
part
of
my
discourse
;
you
shall
haue
the
arraignment
of
Antichrist
vpon
three
seueral
inditements
.
The
inditing
of
Popery
.
The
first
for
absolutely
contradicting
the
word
of
God
,
whereby
he
may
truly
be
called
the
Antichrist
.
2.
The
second
for
false
doctrine
,
and
foisting
in
deuices
of
his
owne
,
and
trumperies
of
mens
inuentions
.
3.
The
third
for
abusing
the
world
with
lying
miracles
,
which
the
tempo●●sers
of
this
world
,
and
lukewarme
Gospellers
doe
mannerly
call
Piaefraudes
,
and
orders
of
the
Church
.
The
first
inditement
against
Antichrist
for
contradicting
Gods
Word
.
COncerning
the
first
.
Though
the
author
to
the
Hebrewes
Contradicting
the
Scriptures
.
Heb.
6.
1.
aduise
vs
to
goe
more
forward
in
our
building
of
Christianity
,
then
laying
a
foundation
of
truth
,
yet
he
assureth
vs
,
tht
without
a
good
foundation
there
is
neither
building
,
nor
meanes
to
avoide
dirision
:
what
shall
wee
say
then
to
the
despiser
of
both
,
whose
Math.
7.
26.
impi●ty
and
presumption
haue
not
onely
cast
corrupt
handes
on
the
sacred
word
of
truth
,
but
inconsiderate
Armes
to
tearein
peeces
the
holy
structures
,
yea
with
violence
to
pull
the
infants
from
the
sucking
brests
of
their
sweete
mothers
.
To
begin
therefore
with
a
strong
position
of
,
Cursed
be
he
,
that
doth
either
adde
to
my
law
,
or
Deut.
12.
3.
&
4.
2.
Iosh.
1.
7.
Prou.
30.
6.
Reu.
11.
1●
.
dimiuish
from
ir
,
&c.
What
hellish
furie
durst
lay
hold
vpon
the
second
Commandement
,
so
that
neither
in
their
Ladies
nor
Iesus
Psalter
is
it
to
be
found
.
And
come
to
the
reprehension
of
their
Idolatry
,
or
prophanation
of
God
by
pourtraitures
,
Idolatry
.
Images
,
&
pictures
in
priuat
and
publicke
:
in
the
Church
and
the
streetes
:
in
the
house
in
the
closet
:
in
the
garments
and
Vtensills
:
they
are
so
farre
from
Apology
distinction
,
or
nicely
,
that
the
common
people
flie
to
their
bookes
shewing
there
is
no
mention
of
such
a
prohibition
,
nor
doe
they
any
other
,
then
the
mother
Church
commandes
.
O
vnheard-of
madnes
!
O
irreligious
Apostacy
.
In
the
first
to
the
Hebrewes
,
the
Originall
hath
it
thus
,
Heb.
13.
and
bearing
vp
all
things
by
his
mightie
word
hath
by
himselfe
(
or
onely
)
Purged
our
sinnes
.
Now
behold
what
dares
not
By
himselfe
put
out
.
Sathan
doe
?
deride
God
in
the
2
of
Genes.
and
tempt
God
in
the
4.
of
Math.
alleadging
Scripture
in
both
to
serue
his
turne
,
yea
drawing
the
bow
home
of
sacred
truth
to
hit
the
marke
of
his
aime
,
but
what
dares
not
the
Pope
doc
?
euen
more
then
the
diuell
himselfe
;
dash
away
or
quite
extinguish
such
places
of
Scripture
,
as
may
seeme
to
contradict
his
fictions
,
and
lay
his
filthines
to
ouerture
,
and
the
hissing
of
the
passengers
.
For
in
this
text
hee
hath
quite
put
out
by
himselfe
,
and
presumed
to
put
in
merits
,
by-workes
,
both
satisfactory
and
supererogatiue
,
trentalls
,
Masses
,
Dirges
,
and
other
trumperies
full
of
Leprous
steines
and
corruption
,
which
I
passe
ouer
because
they
rather
appertaine
to
the
second
inditement
.
In
the
1
of
Timothy
2.
5.
The
words
are
plaine
,
neither
1
Timoth.
2.
5.
one
Mediator
.
patible
of
other
construction
,
and
I
am
sure
vnsufferable
of
contradiction
.
For
there
is
one
God
,
and
one
mediator
betweene
God
and
man
,
which
is
the
man
Christ
Iesus
.
But
what
dares
not
the
Pope
doe
?
quite
reiect
this
,
and
with
conceited
elegancy
by
way
of
comparison
argue
thus
;
that
as
the
necke
is
betweene
the
head
,
and
the
body
,
so
the
Virgin
Mary
is
betweene
Christ
and
his
Church
,
no
graces
or
spirituall
●nfluences
are
granted
from
Christ
,
but
they
passe
by
the
hands
of
his
mothers
intercession
,
and
thus
there
is
an
Aue
mary
still
to
obtaine
present
and
future
blessings
:
miracles
are
done
indeed
in
the
Church
,
but
by
her
meanes
through
Christs
power
,
they
haue
afforded
her
attributes
of
redemption
,
sauing
,
protection
,
defence
,
ruling
,
commanding
:
for
which
purpose
Leoes
vision
is
a
fearefull
and
prodigious
Atheisme
,
wherein
such
as
ascended
the
red
ladder
vnder
Christ
fell
downe
from
diuers
steppes
but
,
such
as
went
vp
the
white
ladder
vnder
the
Virgin
entred
heauen
without
difficulty
.
If
I
should
proceede
with
Rom.
8.
Rom
8.
34.
Heb.
7.
25.
Math.
11.
28.
34.
Hebrewes
7.
25.
Math.
11.
28.
in
which
places
Christ
is
our
onely
Mediator
,
and
maketh
intercession
for
vs
,
I
must
needes
impute
arrogancy
,
nay
blasphemy
vnheard-of
to
the
Papacy
either
to
make
●er
a
Mediatrix
,
or
pray
to
Saints
for
their
assistance
:
but
harken
to
more
impietie
;
they
haue
deuised
her
to
bee
such
a
boundles
Ocean
of
goodnes
,
that
shee
many
times
entertaineth
such
whom
Christ
refuseth
,
yea
they
goe
further
in
the
glorifying
of
Saints
,
and
crying
to
the
Popes
themselues
to
make
intercession
for
them
.
O
vnlimitable
audaciousnes
,
and
ridiculous
foppery
!
yet
so
manifest
,
and
absurdly
entertained
,
that
whole
volumes
are
written
in
the
defence
,
and
as
many
about
the
discouery
of
the
falshood
.
In
the
5
of
Iohn
39.
It
is
plainely
sayd
:
Search
the
Scriptures
Iohn
5.
39.
Reading
the
Scriptures
.
Act.
17.
11.
for
in
them
you
thinke
to
haue
eternall
life
,
and
they
are
they
,
which
testifie
of
me
,
whereupon
it
is
recorded
.
Act.
17.
11.
that
the
noble
men
of
Thessalonia
,
and
Berea
receiued
the
word
with
all
readines
,
and
searched
the
scriptures
daily
;
to
which
purpose
the
holy
Ghost
yeeldeth
a
reason
,
2
Tim.
3.
2
Tim.
3.
16.
16.
For
the
whole
scripture
is
giuen
by
inspiration
,
and
is
profitable
to
improue
,
to
correct
,
and
to
instruct
in
righteousnes
.
Now
what
Barbarous
tyrany
is
this
of
the
Church
of
Rome
worse
then
Turkish
crueltie
,
not
onely
to
locke
vp
these
pretious
treasures
from
the
very
eyes
of
ouer-looking
,
with
a
supposition
of
pollution
by
ignorance
,
but
to
affright
the
people
with
death
,
as
by
their
bloody
Inquisition
is
apparant
,
if
any
daring
hand
,
or
hungry
soule
outreach
at
this
heauenly
Manna
,
and
looke
with
cheerfulnes
toward
mount
Sion
for
their
saluation
:
so
that
no
lay
man
may
presume
at
all
,
nor
others
to
read
the
word
of
God
in
the
vulgar
tongue
.
In
the
1
Corinth.
14.
the
inhibition
is
not
barely
set
1
Cor.
14.
Against
an
vnknowne
language
.
downe
for
vsing
an
vnknowne
language
in
the
Church
,
or
if
you
will
in
publike
congregations
,
but
illustrated
with
Similes
,
and
excellent
enforcements
to
diuert
vs
from
such
absurditie
,
and
irregular
abuses
in
edifying
.
But
alas
how
are
our
soules
entangled
,
how
is
an
insupportable
burthen
of
traditions
thrust
vpon
vs
,
how
are
we
inforcered
with
a
tedious
Catalogue
of
principles
and
Canons
of
the
mother
Church
?
And
although
the
Apostles
iustified
the
obeying
of
God
before
men
,
yet
now
.
Non
cuiuis
licitum
est
dicere
Papae
,
cur
hoc
faecis
,
Nay
we
must
not
aske
a
question
for
conscience
sake
,
nor
say
a
prayer
in
our
mother
tongue
for
seare
of
Lutherano
,
diauoto
,
Heretico
,
and
in
the
inquisition
to
be
clothed
with
the
Sambenito
,
a
punishment
as
vituperious
as
the
carting
of
Bawdes
in
England
.
Nay
if
a
modest
sinner
should
but
reueale
those
diurnall
liftings
vp
of
the
soule
,
which
Saint
Austin
and
other
fathers
call
ciaculationes
,
and
that
to
be
done
in
their
natiue
speech
,
it
were
sufficient
to
bring
them
within
the
griping
reaches
of
accusation
,
and
vnsatisfied
ielousie
of
alteration
in
religion
,
or
repugnancy
of
the
mother
Church
.
O
intollerable
mischiefe
!
and
neuer
heard
of
frency
to
runne
away
with
such
madnes
against
God
and
his
truth
!
In
the
20.
of
Mathew
,
ver.
20.
the
storie
of
the
mother
Math.
20.
20.
Against
ambition
in
the
C●ergy
.
of
Zebedcus
children
with
that
sweete
reprehension
of
ambitious
tumors
,
is
recorded
at
large
.
But
how
,
not
as
barely
exhortatory
by
way
of
defence
of
righteousnes
,
humillitie
,
loue
,
patience
,
and
other
spirituall
graces
,
but
with
forcible
interdiction
of
,
With
you
it
shall
not
bee
so
:
although
the
Lords
of
the
Gentiles
and
other
corrupt
worldlings
defiled
with
contaminating
pride
,
and
●nsatiable
affectings
of
authority
,
hunted
after
popular
estimation
and
eminency
before
others
,
yet
would
not
Christ
haue
so
much
as
elation
of
hart
among
his
disciples
,
nor
desire
of
superioritie
ouer
their
brethren
for
any
assumpted
gift
or
grace
whatsoeuer
.
Nay
though
it
were
true
,
that
God
had
made
their
faith
the
rocke
of
foundation
for
his
Church
,
and
themselues
the
Pillers
and
Lampes
of
his
temple
.
But
now
behold
the
error
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
the
error
said
I
,
the
intollerable
pride
,
and
Antichristian
impietie
,
vsurpation
,
and
insatiable
supremacy
;
hee
must
not
onely
exalt
himselfe
aboue
his
brethren
,
and
make
that
Conclauc
of
Cardinalls
an
vndeniable
Court
of
his
greatnes
and
authoritie
,
but
stand
like
a
Colossus
ouer
the
neckes
of
Princes
,
and
as
their
own
stories
haue
enlarged
,
presumed
to
ouerturne
the
Crownes
of
Emperors
with
his
feete
;
nay
more
then
so
?
the
Pope
is
carried
on
mens
shoulders
,
and
hath
reached
at
heauen
it selfe
,
and
as
the
commentaries
report
of
Prometheus
that
stole
Iupiters
fiers
,
they
haue
with
a
Luciferian
pride
arrogated
the
name
of
God
,
and
equalled
their
fictions
and
absurd
miracles
with
the
best
of
the
Prophets
,
and
the
mightiest
word
of
truth
.
In
the
1.
Tim.
4.
1.
2.
&c.
there
are
three
fearefull
attributes
1
Tim
4.
1.
2.
Forbidding
meates
and
marriages
.
set
downe
,
appropriate
to
such
as
forbid
marriages
,
and
the
eating
of
meat
,
which
God
hath
sanctified
,
namely
,
1.
Doctrine
of
Devills
:
2.
speaking
lyes
through
hypocrisie
:
3.
and
haue
their
Conscience
burned
with
an
hot
iron
;
So
that
reasonable
soules
are
almost
terrified
with
the
Iudgement
,
and
cannot
thinke
it
possible
to
avoyde
eternall
flames
,
if
they
should
once
attempt
to
crosse
the
true
meaning
of
the
holy
Ghost
.
Yet
see
,
what
man
dare
doe
?
the
Pope
hath
inuented
a
law
of
Celebacy
,
a
vow
of
chastitie
,
a
deuise
of
sequestration
for
Priests
,
and
a
manifest
opposition
to
this
veritie
,
denying
marriage
,
which
God
honoured
with
his
presence
,
and
branding
it
with
the
tearme
of
filthy
pollution
,
and
defiling
copulation
,
nay
,
though
that
Christ
esteemed
and
named
it
honourable
:
Yet
haue
these
Aduersaries
cast
a
defiance
in
the
face
of
the
Scriptures
.
But
withall
what
haue
they
done
by
way
of
conniuency
,
permitted
Whoredome
,
and
whereas
they
can
say
in
some
sort
;
Si
non
castè
,
tamen
cautè
,
they
haue
published
a
greater
audaciousnesse
in
defending
their
contaminated
hearts
,
and
adulterate
eyes
.
For
they
haue
not
spared
to
put
to
their
hands
and
seales
to
the
pattents
of
Abbots
,
and
other
religious
persons
,
wherein
is
this
Proviso
:
Licitum
erit
Domino
nostro
Abbatt
semel
in
mense
habere
mulierem
ad
purgandas
renes
.
Nay
,
if
I
should
search
them
further
,
I
am
affrayde
of
pretended
villany
to
march
arme
in
arme
with
their
adulteries
and
fornication
:
For
by
experience
I
alledge
it
,
that
in
the
Orchards
of
their
Frieries
and
Nunneries
,
amongst
other
exornations
and
furnitures
of
comelines
,
they
haue
whole
trees
of
Sauine
,
and
to
what
vse
that
serues
,
Physicians
Sauine
.
and
Mid-wiues
know
too
well
,
and
how
it
may
be
abused
,
an
honest
mother
cannot
relate
without
teares
and
wringing
of
handes
.
As
for
meates
they
haue
not
onely
limited
vs
in
their
vse
,
but
made
a
distinction
of
times
,
and
set
a
seale
vpon
dayes
,
as
if
it
were
high
treason
to
breake
open
the
inclosures
of
such
institutions
,
yea
,
an
vnanswerable
offence
to
steppe
aside
from
their
authoritie
and
limitation
.
Nay
,
though
God
sa●●
all
that
he
made
to
be
good
,
and
blessed
vs
in
the
fruition
of
his
blessings
,
though
the
Prophets
haue
cursed
the
obseruers
of
dayes
and
times
,
new
Moones
,
and
feasts
:
though
Christ
told
his
Apostles
,
that
whatsoeuer
went
into
the
man
did
not
defile
him
:
though
Peters
vision
cleared
that
scruple
of
vncleanenesse
in
all
meates
,
which
God
had
sanctified
:
yet
is
it
a
Pontificean
verdict
of
damnation
,
to
infringe
the
letter
of
their
Lithurgie
,
and
the
people
are
made
to
beleeue
,
that
the
eating
of
white
meats
in
Lent
,
will
open
the
iawes
of
Hell
so
much
the
wider
:
O
irrel●●ious
Religion
,
and
Satanicall
inuention
!
In
the
twentith
of
L●uiticus
,
God
hedged
in
the
Iewes
,
Levit.
20.
Marriage
.
touching
marriage
,
and
enacted
certaine
precepts
of
holinesse
,
as
binding
voyces
to
all
gouernments
,
kingdomes
,
and
posteritie
:
yet
haue
we
not
experience
of
the
Popes
repugnancie
in
this
kinde
?
And
that
many
vnlawfull
marriages
,
as
farre
as
Incest
,
haue
beene
borne
withall
,
and
had
Apostolicall
benediction
:
yea
,
from
their
very
Monasteries
,
both
Fryers
and
Nunnes
haue
beene
taken
out
,
to
circle
their
heads
with
C●ronets
,
and
fill
their
armes
with
bedfellowes
,
even
contrary
to
their
first
footing
in
Religion
,
and
p●mordiall
contract
with
professed
holinesse
.
How
plaine
are
those
words
,
2.
Thes.
2.
Matth.
24.
Apoc.
13.
That
that
man
of
sinne
should
be
reuealed
,
whose
comming
is
by
the
working
of
Sathan
,
with
all
power
and
signes
,
and
lying
wonders
:
Yet
you
see
in
despight
of
this
,
or
derision
of
the
Predict●on
,
the
Pope
of
Rome
dare
be
called
Vice-deus
,
as
in
the
Dictates
of
Gregory
the
seauenth
.
And
Miracles
.
the
Church
of
Italie
produce
so
many
Miracles
,
that
diuers
of
their
owne
Diuines
haue
made
a
stop
in
their
reading
,
but
I
referre
you
to
its
proper
place
,
that
is
,
the
third
Inditement
,
which
I
frame
in
this
accusation
;
onely
by
the
way
consider
,
how
aduerse
this
man
is
to
the
Scriptures
,
that
dare
iustifie
himselfe
to
be
Antichrist
in
this
one
poynt
,
as
it
were
in
despight
of
the
holy
Ghost
.
In
the
tenth
of
Iohn
,
Christ
saith
;
My
sheepe
heare
my
Iohn
10.
Hearing
the
Word
.
voyce
:
and
in
the
twentie-one
of
Iohn
,
the
15.
verse
.
he
biddeth
Peter
three
times
to
feed
his
sheepe
,
the
reason
is
,
because
it
is
apparant
,
that
without
Preaching
neither
can
faith
be
obtained
,
nor
God
himselfe
so
magnified
,
as
he
ought
:
but
how
poorely
the
Church
of
Rome
distributes
this
gift
,
and
in
what
broken
Pipes
the
water
runs
from
a
sparing
Spring
,
I
might
say
corrupted
Fountaine
,
if
not
infectious
streame
:
let
the
impartiall
Trauellers
report
,
who
haue
visited
the
Congregations
on
both
sides
.
For
I
dare
be
bold
to
say
,
that
except
some
speciall
Citties
,
wherein
Priests
and
Fryers
discourse
of
the
Legend
of
Saints
,
magnifie
the
Popes
supremacy
,
dilate
of
the
orders
of
the
C●urch
,
manifest
the
necessitie
of
Indulgences
and
pardons
,
and
talke
of
Purgatory
and
Charitie
to
Monasteries
,
the
Countrey
villages
know
not
what
a
Sermon
meaneth
,
onely
M●sse
and
Ma●tens
,
with
some
voraginous
deliuery
of
wonders
,
and
when
they
iesture
it
in
the
best
manner
,
not
a
place
of
Scripture
alledged
,
nor
a
poynt
of
Diuinitie
discussed
,
but
some
morall
Precepts
against
notorious
impreties
,
wherein
yet
the
Phylosophers
and
melancholly
Stoickes
went
beyonde
them
.
In
the
13.
of
Iohn
,
and
the
35.
verse
,
Christ
saith
plainly
;
Iohn
13.
35.
Louing
one
another
.
All
men
shall
know
,
that
you
are
my
Disciples
,
if
you
loue
one
another
.
But
how
well
this
Precept
is
obserued
amongst
the
Romanists
,
I
appeale
to
themselues
,
and
their
owne
writings
,
what
bitter
inuectiues
betweene
Scotists
and
Thomistes
?
What
fearefull
raylings
betweene
Popes
and
Cardinals
?
What
Calumniations
betweene
Fryers
and
Monkes
?
What
desperate
quarrels
betweene
Dominicans
and
Franciscans
?
What
scandalls
betweene
Iesuites
and
Seculars
?
before
euer
Watsons
Booke
of
Quodlibets
and
Quidlibets
excited
laughter
in
some
,
despight
in
many
,
and
dis●tastings
in
all
.
I
could
name
patience
and
meekenesse
as
a
marke
of
the
Church
of
God
,
but
to
looke
vpon
the
angry
face
of
Rome
,
and
the
affrightings
of
Clergie
Commissioners
,
when
their
Religion
is
opposed
,
and
fooleries
derided
,
is
more
tyrannous
,
then
the
ten
Persecutions
in
the
Primitiue
Church
;
and
the
murthering
the
brethren
in
Turkey
,
is
but
a
flea-biting
to
the
burning
and
torturing
of
Martyres
.
In
Portingall
they
brought
one
Gardner
to
death
an
Englishman
,
with
such
vnheard-of
crueltie
,
that
the
Clergie
put
a
Deuills-coat
vpon
him
,
full
of
horrible
shapes
,
gagd
his
mouth
,
hung
him
vp
in
chaynes
,
and
made
him
liue
in
torments
,
when
death
tooke
pittie
vpon
him
.
How
ridiculous
was
the
burning
of
Paulus
Fagius
and
Bucers
bones
in
the
beginning
of
Queene
Maries
raigne
,
after
three
yeares
bur●all
,
and
God
knowes
whether
their
bones
or
no.
Such
things
are
written
of
Bonners
crueltie
,
besides
the
Stories
in
the
Acts
and
Monuments
,
that
the
inhumanitie
exceedeth
all
the
extrauagancies
of
Heathenish
Tyrants
.
The
other
day
when
Fryer
Paul
of
Venice
could
not
bee
caught
in
person
,
they
burnt
him
in
Rome
by
pourtraiture
,
and
sent
twise
to
murther
him
in
priuate
.
Shall
I
name
the
mischiefes
against
Queene
Katherine
Parre
,
in
the
latter
end
of
Henry
the
eight
,
by
the
workings
of
the
Bishops
,
especially
Gardiner
?
Shall
I
recite
the
murthers
of
the
two
Kinges
of
France
,
the
Prince
of
Orange
,
and
divers
others
,
who
seemed
to
oppose
their
disor●ered
proceedings
?
It
were
a
wonder
to
tell
you
,
how
Queene
Elizabeth
,
the
wonder
of
all
times
,
escaped
their
malice
:
but
to
end
with
the
Powder
plot
,
it
must
make
an
end
of
this
Controuersie
,
that
the
Pope
of
Rome
is
a
meere
Tyrant
in
earth
,
and
the
Doctrine
of
Rome
most
opposite
to
the
Gospell
of
Iesus
Christ
.
Humilitie
,
last
of
all
is
such
a
marke
of
the
true
Church
Humilitie
.
of
God
,
that
in
diuers
places
,
you
haue
the
very
garments
of
a
Prophet
named
;
Elias
vesture
;
Isaiahs
nakednesse
;
Ieremies
du●geon
;
Amos
frocke
;
Christs
seameles
coat
;
Iohn
Baptists
Cammells
hayre
,
and
such
like
.
But
the
Pope
must
be
a
God
on
earth
,
and
the
Cardinalls
take
place
of
all
Princes
,
that
are
not
absolute
Monarkes
.
Their
Carosses
are
so
sumptirous
and
stately
,
that
they
haue
foure
veluet
chayres
within
,
and
sixe
stately
Moiles
without
,
and
how
they
ride
with
publicke
Curtezans
to
the
Conclaue
,
is
well
knowne
.
Baptista
Fulgosus
recordeth
,
Pride
of
Rome
.
that
Peter
Riarus
,
first
a
Fryer
Minorite
,
afterward
Cardinall
to
Sixtus
the
fourth
,
had
Gownes
of
cloth
of
Gold
,
Couerings
and
Tikes
of
Beds
sutable
,
and
all
other
Furniture
of
the
best
Silke
.
There
was
a
Feast
made
at
Rome
by
a
Cardinall
to
Elenor
of
Aragon
,
as
shee
went
to
marry
Hercules
de
Est
,
Duke
of
Ferrara
,
which
lasted
seauen
houres
,
with
all
varietie
of
Musicke
,
and
delicate
Acates
,
which
had
also
playes
and
dances
.
Another
Cardinall
had
a
Concubine
,
called
Tiresia
,
whose
Chappinos
were
embroydred
with
Pearle
and
precious
Stones
,
to
an
inestimable
value
.
But
what
neede
I
goe
so
farre
as
Rome
to
instance
this
Inditement
of
opposing
the
Word
of
God
against
them
,
when
I
can
name
you
such
Prelates
in
England
,
that
for
pride
,
and
wealth
exceed
any
Cardinalls
of
Rome
,
and
liued
,
as
if
they
would
tell
vs
plainely
,
Antichrist
was
discouered
,
and
there
was
neither
heauen
nor
hell
to
bee
thought
vpon
,
but
the
present
brauery
of
the
world
,
and
the
magnificence
of
a
Courtly
and
maiesticke
life
.
In
the
time
of
William
Rufus
,
you
had
an
Otho
,
Bishop
of
Baieux
,
and
Earle
of
Kent
.
In
the
time
of
Henry
the
second
,
you
had
a
Thomas
of
Canterbury
,
that
affrighted
the
King
with
Excommunication
.
In
the
time
of
Richard
the
first
,
you
had
a
Bishop
of
Durham
,
who
gaue
ten
thousand
pound
for
an
Earledome
.
In
the
dayes
of
King
Iohn
,
Stephen
Langhton
opposed
the
Maiestie
of
England
.
In
the
time
of
Henry
the
fift
,
the
Bishop
of
Winchester
lent
the
King
twentie
thousand
pound
.
In
the
time
of
Henry
the
sixt
,
Cardinall
Beuford
was
infamed
for
pride
,
and
wealth
.
In
the
time
of
Henry
the
eight
,
Woolsey
writ
,
Ego
&
rex
meus
,
and
so
exceeded
in
magnificence
and
greatnesse
,
that
all
Europe
wondered
at
the
prosperitie
of
our
countrey
,
and
yet
repined
,
that
such
a
Prince
would
endure
the
ambition
and
impietie
of
a
Prelate
.
To
conclude
,
Cardinall
Poole
was
cosen
to
Queene
Mary
,
and
therefore
endured
for
his
magnificence
and
pompe
:
but
yet
all
these
belonged
to
the
Church
,
and
should
haue
beene
Preachers
of
the
Word
of
God
,
but
they
proued
Wolues
in
Sheepes
clothing
,
and
the
humbled
soule
made
this
Vse
of
their
liues
,
that
Antichrist
was
discouered
,
and
so
beng
the
mayne
Aduersary
,
must
needes
oppose
the
Word
of
God
,
and
doe
contrary
things
to
truth
and
Christianitie
.
And
thus
much
of
his
first
Inditement
.
The
second
Inditement
of
Antichrist
for
teaching
The
second
inditement
.
mens
traditions
,
and
foisting
into
the
doctrine
of
the
Church
,
both
Heresies
,
errors
,
and
absurdities
.
BEfore
I
goe
any
further
,
let
mee
answere
certaine
obiections
,
which
I
should
haue
done
in
my
former
Inditement
;
namely
what
greater
humillity
can
there
bee
,
then
for
the
Capuchines
and
Friers
Mendicants
to
refuse
and
despise
the
vanities
of
the
world
,
and
bee
contented
with
pouertie
,
disgrace
,
scornes
,
and
neuer-heard
of
humiliation
;
insomuch
that
Princes
haue
euen
pricked
their
proud
swelling
hearts
,
and
let
out
the
corrupt
blood
,
bringing
them
downe
to
prostitution
and
contentment
in
Vnsauerie
pouertie
:
as
you
saw
,
Duke
Iogenx
became
father
Angelo
:
Faelix
of
Sauoy
thrust
himselfe
into
a
Monasterie
:
Charles
the
fift
forsooke
the
world
,
and
left
amongst
all
his
●ewells
,
as
principall
,
his
whippe
of
small
cordes
,
wherewith
hee
lashed
his
sides
:
and
many
other
Princes
finished
their
dayes
in
Religious
houses
.
I
answer
with
the
Prophet
,
who
required
these
things
at
your
hands
,
and
when
it
is
the
best
humiliation
it
is
contaminated
and
defiled
with
wrong
circumstances
,
and
though
it
tend
to
the
worshipping
of
Angels
,
it
is
but
diuelish
and
Colos.
2.
23.
vnprofitable
.
Againe
,
concerning
outward
garments
,
coules
,
weedes
haire
or
hempen
girdells
,
penance
,
whipping
,
fasting
,
Kings
.
and
such
like
tormenting
the
flesh
:
is
it
any
other
,
then
the
priests
of
Baall
cutting
and
lashing
themselues
?
then
●dolatrous
sacrifices
,
wherein
the
Heathen
practised
the
shedding
of
blood
,
and
continued
with
Monstrous
murthers
,
and
Diuelish
shapes
to
the
people
.
Rent
your
Ioel.
hearts
,
and
not
your
garments
,
saith
the
Prophet
,
and
when
you
fast
or
mourne
,
hang
not
downe
your
heades
like
Bulrusshes
,
or
doe
as
Hipocrites
doe
,
sayth
Christ
.
Last
of
all
concerning
good
workes
and
releeuing
the
poore
,
which
they
tearme
Charity
;
What
profit
can
Math.
6.
such
things
doe
,
where
is
presumption
of
merit
?
what
good
can
they
procure
,
when
they
are
full
of
corruption
?
why
doe
you
plead
for
pouerty
,
when
you
grow
so
rich
your selues
,
and
fill
your
treasuries
with
all
manner
of
gifts
from
liuing
and
dying
men
?
what
talke
you
of
religion
?
When
you
minde
nothing
but
pollicies
of
State
,
and
to
trouble
all
Christendome
with
deuises
:
as
for
the
outward
forme
of
good
deedes
I
will
bee
bold
to
say
wee
haue
had
amongst
our selues
more
Colledges
builded
,
Almes-houses
erected
,
Chappels
edified
,
Churches
repaired
,
Poore
relecued
,
Prisons
visited
,
and
Lands
giuen
to
pious
vses
,
and
that
within
these
fiftie
yeeres
;
then
in
two
hundreth
yeeres
before
,
let
them
name
what
Countrie
they
please
:
and
thus
much
for
the
Obiections
,
now
to
my
purpose
in
hand
.
To
make
you
a
Collection
of
all
the
deuises
and
tr●●
peries
in
Poperie
,
were
to
make
a
rope
of
sand
,
and
begin
a
worke
which
could
haue
no
end
:
For
this
wodden
wheele
hath
beene
so
often
turned
,
that
the
Coggs
are
worne
asunder
and
either
they
must
erect
a
new
frame
,
or
inuent
a
new
superstition
.
For
all
the
old
is
discouered
,
and
in
a
Booke
called
the
Bechine
of
the
Romish
Church
,
the
face
of
reuelation
,
like
your
face
in
a
glasse
,
will
reflect
vpon
you
.
O
that
I
neede
bring
you
no
further
then
that
pulling
hooke
to
shake
the
walls
of
Papistrie
to
rubbish
,
but
because
varietie
hath
a
passage
of
pleasure
among
Nouelists
,
I
am
contented
to
search
further
,
and
thus
expose
vnto
you
,
what
I
finde
in
other
treasuries
.
Nicholas
the
second
,
in
a
certaine
Sinod
at
Rome
decreed
year
1059
that
Christs
body
was
present
in
the
Eucharist
to
bee
handled
with
hand
,
and
torne
a
peeces
with
teeth
.
In
the
Conuenticle
of
Florence
the
doctrine
of
Purgatory
,
and
the
Popes
supremacie
was
ratefied
by
the
year
1439
authoritie
of
that
Sinode
,
and
the
doctrine
of
the
seuen
Sacraments
propounded
to
the
Arminians
was
confirmed
and
so
established
,
that
the
Councell
of
Trent
agreed
to
the
same
,
withall
the
other
errors
and
superstitions
of
year
1564
Popery
.
Irenaeus
saith
,
that
the
Apostles
did
first
Preach
the
Gospell
and
afterward
deliuered
the
same
in
Scriptures
,
Lib.
3.
cap.
1.
that
they
might
be
a
foundation
and
pillar
of
our
faith
;
Lib.
4.
de
.
verb.
cap.
4.
but
Bellarmine
sayth
,
they
are
neither
necessary
,
nor
sufficient
without
traditions
.
The
Scotists
and
most
Papists
maintaine
,
that
the
Virgin
Mary
was
neither
conceiued
in
sinne
,
nor
euer
committed
any
;
and
yet
the
Apostle
sayth
,
that
by
one
man
Rom.
5.
Galath.
3.
sinne
entred
into
the
world
,
and
death
by
sinne
went
ouer
all
,
yea
he
sheweth
,
that
the
Scripture
hath
concluded
all
vnder
sinne
.
It
is
well
knowne
and
publikely
printed
both
in
the
Iesuits
doctrine
of
Collen
,
the
workes
of
Thomas
Aquinas
,
Bellarmine
and
others
,
that
the
Papists
maintaine
iustifying
by
the
Law
,
Merit
by
Workes
,
no
necessity
of
confession
of
faith
,
when
yet
the
Scripture
saith
,
Christ
is
made
vnto
vs
iustice
,
wisedome
,
Sanctification
,
and
1
Cor.
1.
Redemption
,
and
that
Abraham
beleeuing
,
it
was
imputed
to
him
for
righteousnes
,
yea
Isaiah
hath
it
thus
Isayah
53.
in
plaine
tearmes
,
wee
are
healed
by
his
stripes
,
the
Apostle
speaketh
in
this
manner
.
It
is
manifest
,
that
no
Gal.
3.
Rom.
4.
man
is
iustified
by
the
Law
before
God
,
and
that
Abraham
was
not
iustified
by
the
workes
of
the
Law
.
Nauarrus
teacheth
,
that
lay
men
may
not
dispute
of
E●ch
.
cap.
11.
The
Ch.
ignorantia
de
●u●●a
trinit
.
matters
of
faith
vnder
penaltie
of
the
Popes
excommunication
,
and
Linwood
holdeth
it
sufficient
for
lay
men
to
beleeue
the
Articles
of
the
Creed
implicitely
without
publike
confession
,
or
other
Christianlike
yeelding
a
reason
of
their
Saluation
and
good
life
.
Whereas
our
Sauiour
saith
Math.
11.
My
yoke
is
easie
,
Math.
11.
and
my
burthen
light
.
Thomas
Aquinas
sets
it
downe
thus
,
that
the
Precepts
of
the
law
,
or
the
Gospell
,
are
more
Math.
11.
greeuous
and
combersome
then
the
law
of
Moses
:
and
the
censures
of
Collein
with
Bellarmine
himselfe
say
plainlie
,
2
quest.
107.
that
wee
cannot
bee
saued
,
vnlesse
in
our
owne
persons
wee
fulfill
the
Law
.
Mathew
Paris
in
his
collection
from
the
yeere
1256.
year
1256
aduertiseth
vs
,
that
the
Friers
determining
to
ouerthrow
the
Gospell
of
Iesus
Christ
,
published
another
new
one
by
the
name
of
Euangelium
aeternum
,
as
if
the
word
of
God
should
continue
but
for
a
time
;
to
which
they
added
certaine
fooleries
out
of
the
writings
of
Abbot
Ioachim
,
and
continued
in
such
blasphemie
,
as
if
their
deuises
should
out-last
the
Gospell
of
Saluation
.
The
Master
of
the
Sentences
determineth
,
that
the
father
and
the
holy
Ghost
might
haue
beene
made
man
,
Lib.
3.
dist.
1.
and
yet
may
,
the
maine
Heresie
of
the
Patripassians
;
who
held
that
the
father
suffered
death
for
vs
:
and
the
scoolemen
mainetaine
,
that
the
Sonne
of
God
,
might
haue
assumed
the
nature
of
a
woman
,
which
derogateth
from
the
Misterie
of
Christs
incarnation
.
Besides
,
they
affirme
,
that
Christ
was
neuer
troubled
in
soule
with
any
perturbation
or
affliction
,
contrary
to
the
plaine
Iohn
12.
Math.
26.
text
of
Scripture
,
Nam
anima
mea
perturbata
est
,
and
Ambrose
sayth
,
hee
hath
taken
our
will
and
our
sadnes
vpon
him
.
The
Master
of
the
Sentences
publisheth
,
that
all
that
Lib.
4.
distin.
1.
died
vnder
the
Law
,
and
not
Circumcised
,
were
damned
;
and
the
Sinod
of
Trent
pronounceth
them
Anathema
or
accursed
,
that
say
there
are
more
or
fewer
Sacraments
,
then
seuen
,
that
is
to
say
,
1.
Baptisme
,
2.
Confirmation
,
3.
the
Eucharist
,
4.
Penance
,
5.
Extream
Vnction
,
6.
Order
,
and
7.
Matrimony
:
and
yet
the
misterie
of
the
great
Apoc
17.
Whore
is
called
Sacramentum
mulieris
,
and
Saint
Austine
neuer
knew
any
more
,
then
two
,
Baptisme
and
the
Lords
Supper
,
that
is
out
of
Christs
sides
slowed
water
and
blood
,
to
which
agrees
Tertullian
,
Dionisius
,
Are●pagita
,
Chrisostom
,
Cyrill
,
Gregory
,
Cyprian
,
Rabanus
,
Pas●hasius
:
besides
,
it
is
absurde
to
thinke
,
that
Marriage
,
Pri●sthood
,
and
Penance
were
of
one
nature
vnder
the
Law
,
and
another
vnder
the
Gospell
.
Nauarrus
in
his
Enchiridion
,
and
Bellarmine
in
his
Discourses
Lib.
1.
de
Sacr●
.
14.
of
the
Sacraments
,
maintaine
,
that
the
Sacraments
of
the
new
Law
both
containe
grace
and
conferre
grace
,
Ex
opere
operato
,
which
also
may
appeare
by
the
Canons
of
the
seauenth
Session
of
Trent
.
But
Lord
,
what
absurdities
must
now
follow
?
First
,
to
attribute
as
much
to
Matrimony
,
Confirmation
,
and
extreame
Vnction
,
as
to
Baptisme
,
and
the
Lordes
Supper
.
Secondly
,
What
contrarietie
is
this
for
Priestes
to
forsweare
marriage
,
seeing
it
containeth
grace
,
and
worketh
it
.
Thirdly
,
If
grace
be
nothing
else
but
Charitie
,
or
a
habit
not
distinct
from
it
,
how
may
Charitie
be
contayned
in
Oyle
,
or
the
rites
of
Matrimony
,
or
externall
signes
.
Fourthly
,
Who
can
shew
,
or
dare
maintaine
,
that
such
as
receiue
their
Popish
Confirmation
,
orders
,
extreame
Vnction
,
or
are
married
,
are
more
iust
,
then
they
were
before
.
Fiftly
,
Last
of
all
God
hath
promised
to
worke
by
his
Sacraments
,
but
wee
doe
not
reade
,
that
euer
he
promised
Iustification
,
or
grace
to
married
folke
,
or
to
such
as
are
greased
by
extreame
Vnction
,
or
to
any
such
,
who
with
Bell●rmine
and
Canisius
say
,
that
Sacraments
are
onely
externall
signes
,
whereby
it
must
needes
follow
,
that
Christs
body
and
blood
in
the
Eucharist
are
no
Sacrament
,
because
they
appeare
not
to
the
eyes
nor
are
apprehended
by
other
sences
.
By
the
effects
of
holy
water
sprinkling
,
and
washing
,
the
Papists
hope
to
be
clensed
from
sinnes
,
but
the
Homerobaptists
among
the
Iewes
were
therefore
reputed
Heretiques
,
as
Epiphanius
affirmeth
;
and
the
Prophets
tell
vs
,
that
neither
Cal●mus
,
nor
thousands
of
riuers
of
Oyle
,
neither
riuers
,
nor
the
whole
Ocean
can
purge
or
purifie
vs
from
our
transgressions
.
In
those
dayes
,
the
Dositheans
were
reputed
Heretiques
,
for
affectation
of
Virginitie
,
and
punishing
their
bodies
.
yet
now
the
Papists
are
transported
with
another
Doctrine
,
yea
,
many
others
.
For
the
Councell
of
Constance
condemned
Iohn
the
23.
for
denying
the
immortalitie
of
the
soule
;
yet
such
is
the
corruption
of
nature
,
and
impietie
of
Popes
,
Epicurean
Phylosophers
.
Rome
,
that
Alexander
the
6.
Leo
the
10.
Clement
the
7.
and
diuers
other
Popes
borrowed
this
Heresie
from
the
Sadduces
,
or
rather
Epicurean
Philos●phers
,
and
blasphemed
God
in
their
repugnancy
:
yea
that
beastly
opinion
of
the
Capernaites
concerning
the
eating
of
the
flesh
of
Christ
really
,
was
maintained
by
Pope
Nicholas
,
in
a
certaine
Chapter
beginning
;
Ego
Berergarius
,
&c.
If
Simon
Magus
was
detested
by
the
Apostle
for
〈◊〉
money
to
buy
the
graces
of
the
Spirit
:
What
shall
become
of
Papists
in
their
Mart
of
Masses
,
Po●tsaile
of
Indulgences
,
chaffring
for
Benefices
,
and
selling
all
things
for
money
,
more
execrably
,
then
euer
Iudas
did
Christ
.
As
for
that
small
account
,
or
slighting
the
sinne
of
vsing
common
Women
,
hearken
I
pray
you
,
what
is
recorded
of
Saint
Austen
;
Docebat
detestandam
turpitudinem
indifferenter
vtendi
faminis
.
If
you
reade
Ecclesiasticall
Histories
,
you
shall
finde
many
Heretickes
condemned
for
doing
those
thinges
,
wherein
Heretickes
.
the
Papists
doe
now
transgresse
,
and
inueigh
against
true
Christians
,
for
reputing
their
Doctrine
loathsome
.
The
Basileans
by
Irenaus
were
esteemed
Heretickes
for
Images
,
Enchantments
,
and
diuers
superstiticus
exorcizations
.
Carpocrates
,
and
Marcellina
one
of
his
followers
,
adored
the
Images
of
Iesu
,
Paul
,
Homer
,
and
Pythagoras
:
and
who
doth
not
know
,
what
estimation
George
the
Dragon-killer
,
Saint
Katherine
,
aed
Papia
haue
in
Europe
?
And
the
Marcosians
were
condemned
for
Baptizing
in
an
vnknowne
Language
,
and
annointing
with
Chrisme
,
&c.
Witnesse
all
this
,
and
much
more
Ireneus
and
Epiphanius
,
&c.
The
Messalians
were
condemned
for
vsing
much
babling
,
and
multiplicitie
of
prayers
:
What
thinke
you
then
of
the
Papists
Rosary
,
and
certaine
numbers
of
Creedes
,
Ane●
,
and
Pater-nosters
.
The
Angelikes
and
Caians
inuocated
Angels
,
which
Heresie
proceeded
from
Simon
Magus
,
and
is
disallowed
of
by
Epiphanius
,
Tertullian
,
Austin
,
and
others
,
and
yet
the
Papists
haue
still
a
Masse
in
the
honour
of
Angels
.
The
Seuerians
are
traduced
for
forging
of
Miracles
,
and
one
Philumena
accused
for
drawing
a
loase
of
bread
out
of
a
narrow
mouthed
glasse
,
but
what
is
this
to
the
Papists
Legend
?
And
how
can
Bellarmine
make
miracles
Austin
.
c.
24.
Haeres
.
a
marke
of
the
Church
,
or
other
Iesuites
maintaine
the
notorious
absurdities
of
Popery
.
Now
if
it
be
thus
,
that
these
things
are
prooued
against
them
,
that
infinite
thousandes
of
errours
,
like
so
many
Locusts
in
a
filthy
standing
lake
,
increase
to
an
vnsufferable
fulsomnesse
in
the
Church
of
Rome
,
that
diuers
reformed
places
haue
yet
cleansed
themselues
from
their
pollution
,
and
that
the
true
seruants
of
God
doe
daily
rise
,
like
the
childe
Daniel
,
to
examine
the
hypocrisie
and
vnsauoury
lust
of
the
Iudges
.
O
let
no
i●dicious
men
for
any
worldly
respect
whatsoeuer
,
come
so
neere
the
Chariot
wheeles
of
this
Strumpet
,
as
to
be
dasht
with
the
filth
and
durt
,
which
it
casteth
vp
:
let
the
true
ser●an●●
of
God
come
out
of
Babell
.
For
questionles
it
will
fall
,
and
then
whosoeuer
shall
presume
of
her
strength
,
glory
,
and
mightinesse
,
will
bee
pressed
,
and
ouer-whelmed
with
her
rubbish
,
if
they
tarry
within
:
let
all
regenerate
soules
come
to
the
pure
streame
of
the
Scriptures
to
drinke
the
waters
of
life
,
and
not
seeke
the
pudled
filth
and
noysome
lake
of
mens
deuises
and
inuentions
,
which
must
needes
either
choake
with
the
mudde
of
superstition
,
or
poyson
with
the
venome
and
mixture
of
vnequall
impositions
.
As
for
pollicie
,
temporizing
,
making
leagues
,
ciuill
honestie
,
and
such
like
forbearances
,
with
so
great
an
aduersary
to
Christ
.
Why
should
not
the
Iewes
vse
the
language
of
Canaan
?
Why
did
Iosuah
tell
the
people
,
he
and
his
house
would
serue
God
?
Why
did
Iob
cry
out
,
though
thou
kill
me
,
I
will
not
forsake
thee
?
Why
did
Elias
and
Micha
proue
Antagonists
to
foure
hundred
false
Prophets
?
Why
did
Amos
oppose
Amasiah
?
Why
did
all
the
Prophets
stand
in
the
gappe
against
the
corruption
of
time
,
and
the
mayne
currant
of
the
world
?
Why
did
Christ
weepe
for
the
hardnesse
of
mens
hearts
,
and
call
the
Priestes
,
Pharises
,
Scribes
,
and
Lawyers
,
hypocrites
?
Why
did
Paul
confesse
,
that
after
the
way
they
called
Heresie
,
he
serued
the
God
of
his
fathers
?
Answere
a
Gods
name
,
you
that
must
answere
before
the
iudgement
throne
of
the
Lambe
:
How
comes
this
about
,
if
the
Papacy
shall
not
come
to
ruine
,
and
Rome
it selfe
at
last
be
destroyed
,
after
the
man
of
sinne
is
consumed
with
the
breath
of
Gods
nostrills
?
But
we
will
yet
goe
forward
.
For
there
are
more
mustred
Armies
readie
to
march
vpon
them
,
and
come
to
the
charge
,
to
their
vtter
ouer-throw
and
execution
.
Shall
I
now
name
certaine
blasphemies
,
and
nefarious
actions
committed
by
the
Popes
themselues
,
and
borne
withall
,
or
published
in
the
Church
of
Rome
;
by
which
you
may
see
,
how
this
Inditement
is
vnanswerable
,
and
there
must
needes
follow
a
Iudgement
of
condemnation
after
the
Arraignement
.
Beno
the
Cardinall
recites
a
story
,
that
Gregory
the
7.
consulted
Fearefull
actions
of
Popes
.
with
his
God
in
the
Host
,
or
the
Eucharist
;
and
because
he
could
receiue
no
answe
of
it
against
the
Emperor
,
he
threw
the
Sacrament
into
the
fire
:
and
Pius
the
fift
,
cast
an
Agnus
De●
into
Tyber
,
and
burnt
another
,
as
Hierome
Catena
affirmes
.
Clement
the
6.
would
haue
men
pray
and
cry
to
the
Pope
,
Lord
open
thy
treasure
the
fountaine
of
liuing
Ch:
Vnigenit
.
ext.
water
.
Horatius
Tursellinus
in
an
Epistle
to
Peter
Adobrandini
sayth
,
that
God
made
the
Virgin
Mary
as
much
as
could
be
the
companion
of
his
Matestie
,
And
Bernardine
with
Bonauenture
,
giue
her
power
ouer
her
sonne
,
Iure
matris
.
Virgin
Mary
.
In
the
Roman
breu●ary
,
shee
is
called
Dulcis
amica
Dei
:
and
in
the
Missall
of
Sarum
,
the
Sauiour
of
the
world
.
Bellarmine
alloweth
a
saying
of
the
Fryers
to
the
Crucifixe
,
thou
hast
redeemed
vs
,
thou
hast
reconciled
vs
to
the
Father
.
The
Turkes
and
Saracens
honor
the
bookes
of
the
Olde
The
Scriptures
.
Testament
,
but
the
Papists
prophane
the
Scriptures
.
The
Rhemists
call
it
,
a
killing
letter
.
Stapleton
endeuors
to
proue
,
that
all
Heresies
proceed
from
the
Scriptures
.
Kellison
sayth
,
that
the
Deuill
doth
wappe
himselfe
from
toppe
to
toe
in
Scriptures
.
Turrian
writing
against
Sadeel
,
calleth
the
Scriptures
Delphicum
gladium
,
an
Instrument
to
all
purposes
.
Bellarmine
accuseth
them
as
imperfect
and
insufficient
.
Piggius
and
Eckius
mis-termeth
them
a
dead
Letter
.
Cardinall
Poole
,
an
Incky
Gospell
.
Montanus
,
a
nose
of
Waxe
.
and
many
others
,
a
Ship
mans-hose
.
Steuchus
in
his
Treatise
for
the
defence
of
Constantines
donation
,
calleth
the
Pope
a
God
;
and
the
Abbot
Panormitanus
Blasphemies
.
expresly
sayth
,
that
Christ
and
the
Pope
haue
but
one
Consistory
.
Iulius
the
second
,
vpon
Easter
day
fought
with
the
French
at
Rauenna
.
Gregory
the
7.
mustred
his
Armie
against
Henry
the
4.
on
good
Fryday
,
and
thought
to
murther
the
Emperour
in
Saint
Maries
Church
,
by
throwing
a
stone
vpon
him
from
a
vault
.
Sixtus
the
4.
euen
at
the
eleuation
of
the
Sacrament
,
endeuoured
to
kill
Laurence
and
Iulian
Volater●●
.
de
medices
.
Although
Leo
the
10.
called
the
Gospell
a
Fable
,
and
the
wicked
and
monstrous
liues
of
the
Popes
were
euer
discouered
:
yet
did
the
people
fall
downe
like
beastes
before
them
,
worshipping
them
as
God
:
and
Paulus
Aemilius
telleth
,
Lib.
2.
how
the
Embassadors
of
Sicily
cryed
thus
to
the
Pope
;
Thou
that
takest
away
the
sinnes
of
the
world
haue
mercie
vpon
vs
.
To
which
purpose
,
Simon
Begnius
,
Bishop
of
Modrusa
,
calleth
Leo
the
10.
his
Sauiour
;
and
Stapleton
writing
to
Gregory
the
13.
tearmeth
him
Supremum
numen
in
terris
,
and
these
attributes
follow
;
The
vicar
of
Christ
,
the
Monarch
of
the
Church
,
the
head
,
the
spouse
,
the
foundation
of
the
Church
:
yea
Thomas
Waldenses
flattereth
Martin
the
5.
with
Salua
nos
Domine
,
perimus
;
and
Cornelius
,
Bishop
of
Befo●●o
in
the
conuenticle
of
Trent
,
calleth
the
Pope
the
light
which
came
into
the
world
.
But
now
if
you
would
demand
the
reason
of
all
these
blasphemies
,
and
filthy
wickednes
,
it
is
apparant
by
a
simile
of
bitter
streames
from
sower
springs
:
these
things
were
Authors
.
Beno
.
Platina
.
Nauclecus
.
Theoderick
.
deuised
and
maintained
by
such
men
,
as
were
branded
in
their
liues
for
notorious
and
infamous
liuers
.
Benet
the
9.
and
Syluester
the
2.
gaue
themselues
to
the
Deuill
.
Twentie
two
Popes
practised
Magicke
.
Gregory
the
seauenth
was
condemned
for
a
Negromantick
at
a
Councell
:
and
the
Councell
of
Pise
accused
Gregory
the
12.
and
Benet
the
13.
for
wicked
liuers
.
Alexander
the
6.
was
an
Atheist
,
that
is
,
beleeued
there
was
no
God
.
Iohn
the
22.
in
the
Councell
of
Constance
was
conuinced
for
making
question
of
the
Resurrection
.
Leo
the
10.
and
Clement
the
7.
were
also
reputed
Atheists
:
Paul
the
3.
consulted
with
the
Deuill
,
and
Iulius
the
3.
sayd
,
he
would
eat
,
〈◊〉
dispetto
di
Dio
:
yea
Boccace
in
his
second
Nouell
,
bringeth
in
a
Iew
wondring
how
the
Cittie
of
Rome
was
kept
from
sincking
to
Hell
,
considering
the
sinnes
and
abominations
both
of
the
Popes
,
the
gouernment
,
and
the
people
.
Here
might
properly
be
brought
in
certaine
proofes
and
enlargements
:
1.
That
Popery
is
a
sinke
of
Heathenish
Idolatry
:
2.
That
their
religion
neuer
came
from
true
Ierusalem
:
3.
That
it
was
neuer
taught
by
the
Prophets
,
or
Apostles
:
4.
That
it
was
not
knowne
to
auncient
professed
Emperours
,
and
Christian
Kinges
:
5.
That
the
auncient
Brittaines
were
not
conuerted
to
the
now
Popish
religion
.
6.
That
Popish
religion
is
falsely
called
Catholicke
:
7.
That
there
were
neuer
such
doctrine
,
and
principles
in
the
Primiti●e
Church
:
8.
That
it
is
repugnant
to
auncient
Councels
:
9.
That
it
is
contrary
to
the
Fathers
of
the
Church
:
10.
That
it
was
neuer
testified
by
the
blood
of
Christian
Martyres
,
&c.
But
it
would
proue
too
great
a
mountaine
of
amasement
,
and
be
extended
to
a
greater
volume
,
then
I
propose
,
therefore
I
referre
you
to
such
sufficient
authors
as
are
euery
where
extant
,
for
the
good
of
all
Christians
.
The
Masse
by
their
owne
confession
was
framed
at
s●uerall
Popery
a
humane
deuise
.
times
,
and
by
diuers
authors
.
For
how
euer
the
law
of
God
was
giuen
at
an
instant
,
and
the
Gospell
of
Iesus
Christ
,
with
the
doctrine
of
Christianitie
,
comprised
in
one
volume
,
called
the
Testament
,
yet
hath
this
sabricke
of
Popery
beene
many
hundred
yeares
a
framing
,
and
the
materialls
come
into
millions
of
handes
,
that
had
not
time
to
this
houre
to
dispatch
the
building
,
and
couer
the
structure
.
Thus
Walafridus
,
Platina
,
Nauclerus
,
and
others
report
:
that
Caelestine
made
the
introit
,
Iudica
me
Deus
:
Damasus
added
the
confession
:
Gregory
the
Antiphona
and
Kirie
eleeson
:
Telesphorus
,
gloria
in
excelsis
:
and
Gelasius
certaine
clauses
of
the
Orisons
:
Thomas
Aquinas
deuised
the
office
on
Corpus
Christi
day
:
but
who
contriued
the
Masses
for
S.
Francis
,
S.
Dominicke
,
and
other
late
Saints
,
the
Papists
themselues
cannot
tell
.
The
Psalter
of
our
Lady
was
inuented
by
Bonauenture
.
You
see
the
Priests
offer
Christ
for
the
sinnes
of
the
quicke
and
dead
,
for
sicke
horses
,
and
piggs
,
&c.
I
hope
you
all
thinke
this
a
deuise
of
man
,
and
in
no
Scripture
at
all
.
Oh
Iesus
,
didst
thou
spit
,
and
salt
,
or
light
Candles
in
Baptisme
?
Didst
thou
vse
any
mimicke
gestures
when
thou
institutedst
the
Sacrament
of
thy
Supper
?
Is
it
not
a
strange
deuise
,
that
no
Priest
may
say
Masse
without
water
and
fire
?
The
worship
of
the
Sacrament
and
the
custodie
thereof
in
a
Pixe
was
inuented
by
Honorius
.
What
thinke
you
of
Canonicall
houres
,
and
the
reliques
of
Martyres
,
who
deuised
them
I
pray
you
?
All
their
Letanies
and
Prayers
to
Saints
and
Angells
,
yea
,
peraduenture
to
such
as
are
gone
to
the
Deuill
,
as
the
Heathen
canonized
such
for
Gods
,
as
were
lecherous
and
incestuous
persons
,
were
framed
by
sundry
Popes
and
Fryers
.
The
Popes
triple
crowne
,
kneeling
to
the
Crosse
,
and
a
thousand
of
other
trumper●es
,
were
the
excrements
of
hot
braines
,
and
men
,
who
knew
no
better
,
or
at
least
would
not
,
then
to
increase
their
honor
,
and
ambition
,
and
wealth
.
The
feast
of
Iubile
was
ordained
by
Boniface
the
8.
Corpus
Christs
by
Clement
the
5.
Of
our
Ladies
conception
by
Sixtus
quartus
,
of
her
assumption
by
another
;
and
all
the
rest
of
the
ceremonies
and
superstitious
rites
by
one
wicked
Pope
or
lying
Priest
or
other
.
For
because
Paul
sayd
,
the
rest
I
will
set
in
order
when
I
come
,
these
men
haue
assumed
to
themselues
a
power
to
deuise
vnheard-of
impieties
,
and
yet
as
Physicians
guild
their
bitter
pills
with
some
flourishing
golden
vertue
;
they
stoppe
all
mens
mouthes
with
order
,
and
ordinances
of
the
Church
:
but
the
Saints
of
God
can
tell
them
,
that
Ieroboams
calues
were
erected
by
order
.
For
the
Text
saith
,
the
King
called
a
councell
:
and
the
Statutes
of
Omri
,
with
all
the
abominations
of
the
Priestes
,
and
Kinges
of
Israell
were
confirmed
,
and
maintained
by
order
;
therefore
order
disordred
may
turne
to
confusion
,
and
desolation
.
And
so
I
proceede
.
Bernard
of
Luzenburg
sheweth
,
how
the
Doctors
of
Popish
deuises
agree
with
Heathenish
customes
.
Collen
auerred
,
that
Aristotle
was
the
forerunner
of
Christ
in
naturalibus
,
as
Iohn
Baptist
in
diuinis
,
and
that
they
would
proue
the
distinction
of
the
three
persons
in
Trinitie
by
Philosophy
.
Gratian
talking
of
diuers
orders
,
and
degrees
in
D●cretis
dist.
21.
the
Roman
Hierarchy
,
confesseth
,
that
this
difference
was
deduced
from
the
Gentiles
:
Gregory
the
1.
writing
to
Melitus
,
permitted
the
English
to
build
boothes
in
the
day
of
the
dedication
of
their
Churches
,
and
to
kill
Oxen
for
the
Beda
lib
1.
cap.
30.
prayse
of
God
;
and
was
not
this
the
custome
of
the
Pagans
seruing
Idols
.
Boniface
the
4.
consecrated
the
Church
called
Pantheon
in
Rome
,
where
Cibele
and
all
the
Heathen
gods
were
adored
,
to
our
Lady
and
all
Saints
,
as
if
he
would
shew
,
that
the
worship
of
Saints
must
succeed
in
the
place
of
Idols
,
and
Heathen
gods
.
Who
knowes
not
,
that
the
Priestes
of
the
Gentiles
did
shaue
their
heades
and
beards
,
the
Priestes
of
Baal
launce
themselues
,
the
Priests
of
Cibele
whippe
themselues
,
and
the
Priests
of
Bell
and
the
Dragon
made
the
King
beleeue
,
the
Idoll
did
eat
vp
his
prouision
?
and
who
sees
not
the
Papists
to
i●stifie
the
imitation
,
and
yet
as
the
Lapwig
runneth
away
with
the
shell
on
her
head
,
they
carry
it
with
zeale
,
deuotion
,
and
austeritie
of
penance
.
Bellarmine
,
Thomas
Aquinas
,
and
others
,
proue
the
Popish
Monarchy
by
the
Gentiles
gouernment
:
the
seauen
Sacraments
by
Philosophicall
arguments
,
and
that
one
body
may
be
in
many
places
at
once
by
sophisticate
principles
.
Is
not
the
worship
of
Saints
and
Images
a
meere
tricke
of
the
Gentiles
,
and
are
not
all
the
de●ises
of
adoration
sprung
from
hellish
●dolatrie
?
The
temple
of
Romulus
and
Rhemus
is
now
the
Church
of
Saint
Cosmas
and
Damianus
,
the
temple
of
Faunus
is
conuerted
into
the
Church
of
S.
Steuen
,
The
temple
of
Iuno
Cupra
into
the
Chappel
of
our
Lady
of
Loretto
,
where
the
altar
stood
dedicated
to
Apollo
,
is
now
one
erected
to
Saint
Iohn
,
&
the
Image
of
Brasse
of
Iupiter
is
now
Saint
Peters
,
as
their
antiquaries
iustifie
.
There
was
one
supreme
God
among
the
Gentiles
,
and
many
inferiors
vnder
him
,
so
the
Papists
acknowledge
one
God
in
tearmes
,
but
haue
an
hundred
inferiors
for
euery
action
and
disease
:
the
burning
of
incense
commeth
from
the
Gentiles
,
and
they
assite
Virgils
testimony
with
other
prets
,
the
washing
of
hands
,
their
skippings
and
turnings
,
their
sacrifices
with
fire
and
water
,
their
tunickes
,
Albes
,
and
other
pompous
ceremonies
,
their
Purgatory
and
beliefe
of
good
and
bad
Genius
,
their
worship
,
of
trees
,
stones
,
and
fountaines
with
infinite
other
absurdities
&
abominations
,
are
all
the
deuises
of
Gentils
,
and
customes
of
Pagans
:
which
if
it
be
so
,
Answere
a
Gods
name
,
you
that
must
answer
before
the
iudgement
throne
of
the
Lambe
,
how
comes
this
about
;
if
the
Papacy
shall
not
come
to
ruine
,
and
Rome
it selfe
at
last
be
destroyed
,
after
Antichrist
is
discouered
,
and
the
man
of
sinne
consumed
with
the
breath
of
Gods
nostrills
?
I
must
beginne
with
a
smile
.
For
you
cannot
choose
,
Popery
keepeth
Christians
in
ignorance
.
but
laugh
when
you
heare
of
the
Colliers
faith
to
beleeue
,
as
the
Church
beleeues
,
though
it
was
not
knowne
,
what
that
beliefe
was
,
the
obscuring
of
the
Scriptures
,
the
inhibition
of
their
reading
,
their
praying
in
an
vnknowne
tongue
,
their
not
suffering
men
to
dispute
,
their
preaching
of
stories
and
tales
without
one
word
of
edifing
,
their
suppressing
of
religious
bookes
,
and
infinit
other
palpable
enormities
,
what
are
they
any
other
,
but
instrumentes
of
Sathan
to
keepe
vs
in
securitie
,
or
Synens
hands
to
rocke
the
Cradle
of
our
frailtie
,
till
wee
fall
a
sleepe
yea
snort
againe
in
the
Cimerian
caue
of
darkenes
,
ignorance
,
and
superstition
.
Oh
harken
for
Gods
sake
what
Historiographers
write
of
ignorance
,
dulnes
,
and
stupidity
in
spirituall
affaires
.
Alphonsus
a
Castro
lib.
1.
de
haeresi
.
sayth
that
diuers
Popes
were
vtterly
vnlearned
.
Lazierdus
Author
Pla●●●
.
speaking
of
Gregory
.
6.
reciteth
,
that
he
caused
another
to
be
consecrated
with
him
for
saying
Masse
,
because
hee
himselfe
scarce
knew
a
letter
,
but
this
matters
not
,
for
Ielium
approues
,
that
the
Pope
cannot
be
deposed
for
want
of
learning
.
Pope
Zachary
condemned
Virgilius
a
Bishop
of
Germany
as
an
heretike
for
saying
,
there
were
Antipodes
.
Paul
the
second
was
so
vnlearned
,
that
he
determined
them
to
bee
Heretikes
,
that
named
the
word
Academy
.
Iohn
Pecham
in
the
Prouinciall
constitution
supposeth
it
●uff●cient
for
Priests
either
by
themselues
or
substitutes
,
once
a
yeere
,
to
tractate
,
or
at
the
most
euery
quarter
,
of
the
ten
Commandements
,
of
the
law
,
the
twelue
Articles
,
the
two
commandements
of
the
Gospell
,
the
seuen
workes
of
mercy
,
the
seuen
deadly
sins
,
the
seuen
vertues
,
and
the
seuen
sacraments
without
curiositie
,
or
putting
it
home
to
edifying
&
vses
of
the
conscience
.
Durandus
teacheth
,
that
the
two
points
of
a
Bishops
Miter
signifies
the
old
and
new
Testament
,
but
Lewis
marcilius
an
Augustine
Frier
said
that
the
stropps
of
the
Miter
,
which
the
Bishop
hangs
at
his
backe
did
foreshew
,
that
they
neither
vnderstood
old
nor
new
Testament
.
Aluarus
Pelagius
complaines
,
that
the
Bishops
of
Spaine
committed
thousands
of
soules
to
yong
nouices
,
that
were
fitter
to
play
with
Apples
and
Peares
;
shall
I
name
the
Sermons
of
the
Frier
Menot
,
Maillard
,
Bromyard
,
and
their
fellowes
,
they
were
so
full
of
ridiculous
fables
that
the
people
went
to
Church
to
sport
themselues
in
the
hearing
.
The
Germans
of
late
complained
to
Adrian
6.
that
Bishops
aduanced
vnlearned
ideots
,
vnfit
,
vilde
,
and
ridiculous
.
It
is
well
known
,
that
many
Priests
and
Friers
could
not
say
Masse
,
nor
distinguish
of
dayes
,
but
by
the
great
letters
;
and
all
your
Schoolemen
and
Inquisitors
generally
fill
their
studies
with
bookes
of
Rhetorike
,
stories
,
legends
Decretalls
,
Canons
,
Ciuell
law
and
such
trash
.
For
is
not
stubble
trash
compared
to
the
come●
but
neither
Bible
nor
expositors
of
Scriptures
,
scarce
a
father
or
diuine
author
shall
bee
found
amongst
them
,
for
in
truth
how
euer
now
a
daies
they
swell
with
the
tumor
and
accent
of
great
Schollership
and
learning
,
they
are
still
for
the
most
part
illiterate
,
and
ignorant
,
and
that
reputation
they
haue
,
proceedeth
either
from
their
auditors
and
disciples
want
of
knowledge
,
or
their
Glosses
,
and
tedious
Cataloging
of
vncertaine
authors
,
who
handle
curious
questions
,
and
at
the
best
school-diuinitie
.
Nouation
cannot
stand
without
Christian
pollicie
,
nor
Popery
repugnant
to
the
lawes
of
nature
and
nations
.
pollicie
bee
maintained
without
obseruation
and
performance
of
othes
,
promises
,
compacts
,
leagues
and
treaties
of
trade
and
commerce
:
yet
you
shall
see
,
what
either
the
scorne
of
Papist
,
negligence
,
presumption
,
equinocation
,
or
one
tricke
or
other
hath
done
.
Formosus
being
deposed
for-swore
his
Bishopricke
,
yet
regarded
not
his
oath
,
but
resumed
the
same
.
In
the
life
of
Henry
4.
Emperour
,
Gregory
7.
was
inuested
Pope
contrarie
to
his
oath
.
Paschall
the
second
,
solemnly
swore
to
the
Emperour
being
his
prisoner
,
but
at
least
subiect
to
his
danger
,
that
hee
would
keepe
and
religiously
obserue
the
Articles
set
downe
betweene
them
,
bur
hee
proued
so
false
&
repugnant
that
after
he
had
escaped
,
he
rebelled
and
excommunicated
the
Emperour
.
Charles
the
French
Theodori●k
:
King
cha●geth
Gregory
12.
and
Benedicke
13.
of
violation
of
their
faith
,
and
Om●phrius
alleadgeth
against
Alexander
6.
that
hee
was
a
delinquent
in
more
then
punicke
perfidiousnes
,
Guicciardine
speaking
of
Climent
7.
sayth
plainely
●ra
di
poca
s●de
,
Iulius
,
2.
Leo
10.
and
diuers
others
endeuored
to
proue
,
that
the
Pope
was
not
bound
by
any
oath
,
but
he
might
both
infring
the
same
and
incite
others
to
dishonorable
practises
.
Henry
the
4.
as
Helmoldus
complaines
accuseth
the
Pope
for
the
rebellion
of
his
subiects
,
and
this
by
his
instigation
the
tumults
of
Germany
were
raised
,
and
the
people
set
all
in
combustion
vpon
the
Popes
warrant
and
pardon
,
In
the
Counsell
of
Constance
the
Pope
and
his
complices
perswaded
the
Emperour
to
violate
the
safe
conduct
of
Iohn
Husse
,
whereupon
that
damnable
position
of
fides
non
est
consernanda
cum
hereticis
,
was
ratified
,
and
concluded
;
which
if
it
bee
so
,
what
trust
can
bee
secured
of
any
contract
or
treatie
,
but
still
vpon
aduantage
the
aduersary
will
breake
out
,
and
imitate
the
Panther
who
sheweth
not
her
tallents
,
till
the
beasts
be
within
her
reach
?
Did
they
not
of
late
dayes
perswade
the
Emperour
Charles
5.
to
breake
with
Luther
▪
Paul
the
3.
in
a
Bull
against
Henry
8.
denounced
them
accursed
,
that
would
not
infringe
all
oathes
and
alleageance
either
couenanted
with
the
King
,
or
his
subiects
.
Eugen●us
4.
was
the
cause
or
motiue
that
Ladislaus
of
Poland
infringed
his
oth
with
the
Turke
.
Innocentius
the
3.
blew
vp
that
winde
of
rebellion
against
King
Iohn
.
And
Pius
the
first
cursed
heauen
and
earth
,
that
he
could
thriue
no
better
against
Queene
Elizabeth
.
Gregoey
7.
contrary
to
all
the
lawes
of
honor
and
nations
imprisoned
the
Emperors
Embassadors
,
and
another
killed
the
Emperor
Fredericks
Embassadors
,
who
brought
good
newes
of
the
successe
in
Palestina
.
I
will
not
name
the
Marquis
of
Montigni
and
Earle
of
Bergnes
sent
into
Hesmoldus
author
.
Spaine
,
who
were
put
to
death
by
the
Inquisitors
.
Paschall
2.
and
his
adherents
armed
the
sonne
against
the
father
.
Gregory
9.
performed
the
like
by
Henry
the
sonne
against
Frederick
2.
witnes
Auentinus
.
Innocentius
3.
confounded
whole
kinreds
with
intestine
warre
.
Marius
Belga
affirmeth
that
Gregory
4.
was
the
radical
cause
of
Ludouicus
Pius
warres
,
when
his
children
rebelled
.
But
what
say
you
to
Alphousus
Dias
,
that
came
post
from
Rome
to
haue
his
owne
brother
murthered
for
embracing
the
true
religion
.
If
I
should
goe
forward
in
the
discouery
of
all
the
errors
,
Heresies
,
and
absurdities
in
Popish
religion
,
I
should
loose
my selfe
in
a
labyrinth
,
wander
in
a
wildernes
,
and
though
I
were
a
good
swimmer
,
yet
proue
like
a
man
entangled
in
weedes
ready
to
sincke
without
some
charitable
supportation
:
therefore
I
will
cast
vp
no
more
earth
vpon
this
banke
,
but
referre
you
to
other
mens
groundes
,
where
you
shall
haue
minds
of
all
manner
of
mettalls
,
and
so
you
may
repaire
to
those
furnaces
,
that
trie
gold
from
drosse
,
and
s●ew
you
the
puritie
of
Scripture
from
the
durt
and
filth
of
Poperie
;
onely
one
word
concerning
the
authoritie
and
pretogatiue
of
Kings
which
the
Popes
haue
endeuored
to
impaire
and
by
all
meanes
to
disanull
.
Innocentius
the
3.
compareth
the
Pope
to
the
Sunne
and
Popery
prei●d●ceth
the
authoritie
of
Princes
.
the
Emperour
to
the
Moone
,
Cap.
de
maior
,
&
obed:
Clement
the
5.
in
the
Chap.
Romani
princip
.
auou●heth
,
that
the
Emperours
haue
submitted
their
●eades
to
the
Bishop
,
and
how
they
ought
to
take
an
oath
of
fealtie
and
obedience
to
the
Pope
.
In
the
Chap.
Pastoralis
,
the
Pope
determineth
that
by
right
of
the
papacy
hee
hath
superioritie
ouer
the
Empire
,
and
that
in
the
Vacancy
▪
hee
himselfe
is
Emperour
.
Boniface
the
8.
writing
to
the
French
King
gaue
him
to
vnderstand
,
that
hee
was
the
Popes
subiect
,
Scire
&
Volumus
&c.
and
therefore
hee
had
two
swordes
to
inuest
and
depose
Kings
,
as
well
as
the
Keies
to
open
and
locke
the
dores
of
heauen
.
Iosephus
V
stanus
,
lib.
de
osculat
.
pedum
Lib.
5.
cap
6.
de
pontif
Rom.
Pontif.
inferreth
,
that
the
Pope
may
depose
the
Emperour
.
In
the
Bull
of
Pius
the
5.
against
Queene
Elizabeth
,
the
Pope
dares
presumptuously
affirme
,
that
hee
is
made
a
Prince
and
set
ouer
all
nations
and
kingdomes
to
dissipate
and
spoile
,
to
plant
and
to
build
&c.
yea
in
the
Iesuits
new
year
1594
doctrine
Bella●mine
saith
,
that
the
Pope
hath
power
to
change
kingdomes
,
and
to
take
from
one
to
retribute
to
another
.
Chincard
a
Iesuite
was
hangd
in
Paris
for
writing
diuers
seditious
positions
concerning
the
Popes
authority
in
disposing
of
the
Crowne
of
France
and
transplanting
it
from
the
family
of
Burbon
.
William
Rainold
an
English
man
vnder
the
name
of
Rosse
doth
in
expresse
tearmes
defend
the
league
against
the
French
King
:
and
affirmeth
,
that
the
right
of
all
kingdomes
is
layed
vpon
the
Popes
foundation
,
wherevpon
as
in
some
sort
you
haue
heard
before
,
Gregory
the
7.
raised
the
wars
of
Germanie
against
Henry
Emperour
.
Paschall
2.
raised
the
son
to
rebell
against
the
father
,
whereby
hee
was
taken
prisoner
and
so
resigned
,
but
yet
the
Pope
prosecuted
the
sonne
with
as
great
hatred
,
as
the
father
.
Innocentius
2.
went
by
force
of
armes
to
conquer
Roger
of
Sicily
,
and
had
surely
done
it
,
if
the
sonne
had
not
succored
and
assisted
his
father
.
Adrian
4.
and
Alexander
3.
did
so
preuade
against
Frederick
1.
that
hee
held
the
stirrop
to
the
one
,
&
was
trod
vpon
by
the
other
.
Celes●in
the
3.
cast
the
crowne
from
the
head
of
Henry
the
6.
with
his
foote
.
Innocent
the
3.
brought
the
Emperour
●hilip
and
Otho
to
destruction
.
Gregory
the
9.
and
Innocent
the
4.
furiously
assaulted
Frederike
2.
with
such
soldiers
,
as
had
made
a
vow
to
fight
against
the
Saracens
.
Iohn
22.
Benet
.
12.
and
Clement
,
6.
with
implacable
hatred
prosecuted
Lewis
of
Bauaria
,
for
no
other
reason
,
but
because
hee
tooke
vpon
him
the
Imperiall
diadem
without
the
Popes
consent
.
thus
was
Harold
ouercome
by
the
conqueror
through
the
Popes
curses
,
and
King
Iohn
besides
his
other
troubles
lost
all
Normandy
.
How
did
Boniface
8.
infest
both
Italy
and
Spaine
,
attempting
to
subi●gate
Philip
of
France
,
&
the
house
of
Colonia
and
Italy
?
I
will
come
no
further
,
for
euery
man
knowes
our
moderne
stories
,
&
that
the
Maiesty
of
England
hath
written
a
discourse
against
this
Pontificeous
vs●rpation
;
is
it
not
high
time
then
to
bring
this
man
to
the
bar
of
Gods
iudgement
seate
,
&
indite
him
of
high
treason
against
the
glory
&
transcendent
power
of
heauen
,
and
for
this
intollerable
pride
against
the
Princes
of
the
earth
,
who
are
the
chiefe
and
absolute
substitutes
of
God
in
their
Kingdomes
,
and
must
answer
in
their
stewardship
for
vnfashionable
mixtures
,
&
vniustifiable
diuiding
their
greatnes
,
with
one
,
that
hath
nothing
to
doe
with
worldly
encombrances
,
or
distributing
inheritances
,
but
rather
should
be
an
humbled
minister
of
God
,
&
a
seruant
indeed
to
dispence
holy
things
to
the
people
?
therfore
I
wonder
how
the
Papists
in
England
seeing
,
hearing
,
and
knowing
this
Antichristian
opposition
to
Gods
truth
and
the
gouernment
of
all
Common
welths
can
haue
their
hearts
more
hardned
then
stone
(
for
the
stones
rent
asunder
at
the
Passion
of
Christ
,
when
the
lewes
laughed
their
saluation
to
scorne
)
and
their
eares
stopped
worse
then
the
adders
with
her
taile
,
&
will
not
hearken
to
this
Inditement
,
nor
allow
of
these
vnanswerable
proofes
,
&
vndeniable
inferences
.
Answer
a
Gods
name
,
yee
that
must
answer
before
the
iudgement
throne
of
the
Lambe
,
how
comes
this
blockishnes
and
stupiditie
,
how
,
comes
all
this
about
,
if
the
Papacy
shall
not
come
to
ruine
,
and
Rome
it selfe
be
destroyed
after
Antichrist
is
discouered
,
and
the
man
of
sin
reuealed
,
whom
God
will
consume
with
the
breath
of
his
nostrels
?
and
thus
much
for
my
second
Inditement
.
The
third
Inditement
of
Antichrist
for
abusing
the
people
with
lying
miracles
.
I
am
glad
I
haue
done
with
these
tedious
relations
,
and
wonderfull
proofes
against
the
vsurpation
of
Antichrist
,
because
I
would
make
you
glad
too
,
and
exh●lerate
your
sad
hearts
with
a
modest
mirth
,
which
must
needes
be
raysed
from
these
deuises
of
men
,
and
lying
miracles
.
But
be
not
too
forward
,
nor
preiudicate
against
me
in
casting
away
the
booke
,
as
vnderualewing
the
same
,
as
though
you
shall
be
acquainted
with
no
other
things
then
is
in
the
Legenda
aurea
,
or
Doctor
Sheldons
discouery
of
Popish
miracles
,
or
common
Relations
whereby
you
may
say
I
know
the
stories
already
,
for
I
hope
I
shall
not
name
one
of
them
,
yet
excite
laughter
by
relating
such
particulars
,
as
shall
enforce
your
meditation
,
how
the
Deuill
had
no
greater
cunning
,
nor
preuaileable
ar●e
then
to
support
the
Romish
religion
by
such
palpable
,
grosse
,
filthy
,
and
idle
inuentions
;
or
ma●●o
better
iudgment
or
if
you
will
infused
grace
,
then
to
be
seduced
with
absurditie
,
and
impossibilitie
,
for
what
is
there
in
this
doctrine
of
Papistry
more
then
in
the
poeticall
fiction
of
the
Gods
,
the
tales
of
Homer
,
Herodatus
,
Ouid
,
B●ocace
and
the
rest
,
the
cunning
of
crafty
women
,
and
false
Priests
and
Prophets
,
who
made
an
Art
of
morning
diuination
,
prophesying
,
&
calculating
natiuities
,
the
deceites
of
lying
tongues
,
the
presumption
and
bragging
of
inchanters
,
and
the
ceremonies
of
Augurers
,
Pithonists
,
and
Arts
masters
in
incantations
;
against
whom
the
Poets
themselues
had
many
inuectiues
,
and
condemned
the
Priests
of
that
time
,
as
we
doe
the
Friers
of
this
age
:
for
which
purpose
I
haue
cited
some
few
extracts
of
sufficient
authors
.
Heì
mihi
Versipelles
vt
homines
semper
odi
:
Euripides
Ion.
qui
componentes
tniusta
deinde
fraudes
adornant
.
In
another
place
.
Linguae
enim
nulla
fides
,
quae
externa
quidem
Eurip.
Hippolitus
Coronatus
.
concilia
hominum
corrigere
nouit
.
A
se
ipsa
vero
plurima
p●ssidet
mala
.
In
another
place
.
Lingua
enim
affectans
ca
,
quae
iniusta
,
scit
probe
obtegere
.
Nudet
fraude
agere
.
Enrip
.
medea
.
In
another
place
the
wicked
woman
takes
vpon
her
to
say
.
Metamorp
.
Flectere
sinequeam
superos
,
A●heronta
moucbo
.
In
another
place
.
Palluit
attonitus
sacris
seralibus
Aruns
,
atque
iram
superum
raptis
quaesiuit
in
extis
,
Lncun
.
lib.
1.
Phars
.
terruit
ipse
color
Vatem
&c.
And
in
another
place
.
—
perstat
rabies
,
nec
cunctalocuta
est
,
quem
non
emisit
super●st
deus
,
illa●eroces
torquet
adhuc
oculos
,
totoque
Vagantia
Caelo
Lumina
nunc
Vultu
pauido
.
Nunc
torua
minaci
stat
nunquam
facies
,
●ubor
igneus
inficit
ora
Lucen
lib.
5.
Phars
.
liuentesque
genas
,
nec
qui
solet
esse
timenti
terribilis
,
sed
pallor
inest
,
necfessa
qniescunt
Corda
,
sed
vt
tumidus
Boreae
post
flamina
pontus
rauca
gemit
,
sic
nulla
leuant
suspiria
vatem
.
And
in
many
other
places
the
selfe
same
things
are
obiected
against
imposturing
men
in
what
art
soeuer
,
as
now
the
true
Christian
imputes
to
coosening
Monkes
&
Friers
;
let
the
carnall
Gospeller
and
lukewarme
professor
come
out
with
piae
fraudes
neuer
so
much
.
But
to
the
purpose
in
hand
.
They
begin
with
Nero
,
whose
bodie
they
will
haue
the
Nero.
Deuills
to
keepe
after
he
had
kild
himselfe
,
whereby
great
harme
,
besides
nocturnall
terrours
was
done
to
the
people
;
till
by
a
Miracle
of
our
Lord
,
the
body
was
taken
away
,
found
farre
of
,
and
at
last
buried
,
whereby
the
firmament
was
quieted
,
and
the
fiendes
departed
.
They
follow
with
a
tale
concerning
Vespasian
:
they
will
Vespasian
.
haue
Waspes
to
breede
in
his
nose
,
but
as
soone
as
he
beleeued
the
history
of
Christ
,
or
at
least
made
them
beleeue
his
conuersion
,
he
was
cured
,
and
the
nest
fell
away
like
a
core
,
or
if
you
will
a
combe
full
of
holes
.
Traian
was
a
great
enemy
to
Christians
,
as
by
his
persecutions
Traian
.
appeared
:
yet
Saint
Grego●y
acquainted
with
many
excellent
things
in
his
gouernment
,
prayed
to
our
Lord
to
keepe
his
soule
out
of
Hell
;
but
receiuing
no
absolute
answere
,
more
then
a
tempest
,
he
left
it
disputable
amongst
the
Doctors
,
whether
he
be
saued
,
or
no
,
as
it
is
of
Sampson
,
Salomon
,
Origen
,
and
others
,
of
whom
the
Church
of
Rome
disputeth
Pro
&
Con
,
and
as
their
passion
leades
them
,
vnder-takes
to
deliuer
out
of
Hell
it selfe
.
They
tell
a
strange
tale
of
Fabianus
,
Bishop
of
Rome
,
Fabianus
.
and
a
martyr
,
who
was
chosen
by
the
descending
of
a
white
doue
vpon
him
,
and
saying
,
thou
shalt
be
Pope
:
wherein
there
is
some
probabilitie
:
For
in
the
life
of
Mahomet
,
it
is
recorded
,
that
he
made
the
people
beleeue
,
that
the
holy
Ghost
vsed
to
appeare
to
him
visibly
,
and
acquaint
him
with
the
secrets
of
heauen
,
to
countenance
which
imposture
,
he
had
taught
a
doue
indeede
to
come
and
take
pease
out
of
his
eare
,
which
he
many
times
performed
in
the
sight
of
the
people
.
They
confesse
,
that
Marcelinus
was
Pope
:
yet
he
offred
Marcelinus
.
incense
to
Idols
for
feare
of
death
:
but
at
last
he
repented
,
and
was
a
martyr
:
notwithstanding
,
for
his
offence
his
body
lay
three
dayes
v●buried
,
till
by
a
vision
of
S.
Peter
and
Marcelinus
,
it
was
allowed
for
sufficient
penance
,
so
at
last
it
had
the
ceremonies
of
a
mortyr
.
About
the
time
that
the
Saxons
entred
into
England
,
they
haue
a
miracle
of
the
seauen
sleepers
,
who
were
two
hundred
Seauen
sleepers
.
yeares
in
a
caue
,
and
then
came
abroad
with
strange
discoueries
;
the
Storie
is
much
enlarged
by
them
with
their
seuerall
names
,
and
we
haue
the
play
:
and
why
may
not
this
be
true
,
considering
Epimenides
going
to
seeke
his
Fathers
sheepe
,
tooke
vp
his
resting
place
through
the
heat
of
the
day
in
a
caue
,
and
there
slept
fiftie
yeares
without
alteration
of
his
bodie
,
either
in
constitution
,
or
complexion
.
Leo
Tuscus
was
a
Confessor
,
Martyr
,
and
Pope
,
in
which
Leo
Tuscus
.
time
he
was
tempted
by
a
woman
,
who
would
needs
kisse
him
,
but
the
holy
man
by
no
meanes
consented
to
such
immodestie
:
yet
with
much
strugling
shee
kissed
his
hand
,
whether
he
would
or
no
,
whereupon
he
commanded
it
to
be
cut
off
,
because
no
corrupt
flesh
should
remaine
about
him
;
which
when
the
people
perceiued
,
they
earnestly
intercessed
our
Lady
for
him
,
and
shee
most
mercifully
restored
it
againe
,
as
if
a
broken
peece
were
to
be
cemented
,
and
then
he
sayd
Masse
as
before
,
and
acknowledged
our
Lady
his
Sauiour
.
What
you
call
the
Stonendy
on
Salibury-plaine
(
being
indeed
Stonendy
and
Merlin
.
the
monument
of
Aurclius
Ambrose
,
from
whom
the
towne
of
Amsbury
tooke
originall
,
and
denomination
)
they
will
haue
a
deuise
of
Merlins
,
who
brought
them
by
miracle
out
of
Ireland
,
from
the
hill
Kian
,
called
Giants
Karrol
,
and
so
placed
with
wonderment
,
as
you
see
them
.
This
Merlin
liued
in
the
time
of
Vter
Pendragon
,
and
was
as
wonderfull
in
his
actions
,
as
his
birth
:
he
was
they
say
the
sonne
of
a
Succubus
,
and
Incubus
,
and
performed
strange
things
for
the
King
:
especially
in
imitation
of
the
story
of
Iupiter
and
Mercury
,
who
in
the
likenesse
of
Amphitrio
lay
with
Alcumena
,
and
so
begat
Hercules
:
he
transhapt
Vter
the
King
into
the
Earles
figure
of
Cornwall
,
and
Vlfrie
the
chamberlaine
into
Iordane
his
man
,
whereby
he
came
into
the
castle
of
Tintagill
,
and
accompanied
the
faire
Igrena
,
and
so
the
valiant
Arthur
was
borne
.
When
S.
Augustine
preached
at
Rochester
,
the
Saxons
S.
Austin
.
and
Panimes
derided
him
,
and
cast
ray
tailes
vpon
him
,
with
the
garbish
of
noysome
fish
:
whereupon
he
prayed
to
God
,
that
the
children
of
Kent
might
be
borne
with
tailes
:
and
so
to
the
terrour
of
the
Inhabitants
,
and
yet
conuersion
of
many
,
it
came
to
passe
,
as
they
foolishly
beleeue
.
When
Oswald
King
of
Northumberland
was
slaine
by
the
Oswald
.
Saxons
,
they
cut
off
his
head
,
which
they
buried
in
the
Abbey
of
Berdnay
,
whereupon
he
was
consecrated
a
martyr
,
and
our
Lord
for
the
confirmation
of
his
sanctitie
,
caused
many
miracles
to
be
done
,
both
by
him
,
and
for
him
:
which
wrought
so
effectually
in
the
hearts
of
the
people
,
that
they
were
soone
conuerted
to
Christ
;
and
beleeued
in
the
holy
Church
.
Because
Pasculus
the
Deacon
Cardinall
held
against
Simmachus
,
Pasculus
.
with
the
faction
of
Laurentius
to
his
death
,
therefore
he
was
put
to
the
paines
of
Purgatory
,
and
to
keepe
the
bathes
.
This
story
is
from
Gregory
in
Dialogis
,
who
addeth
,
tht
it
was
visibly
manifested
to
the
people
,
who
were
thereby
detayned
in
awe
and
obedience
,
and
euer
after
feared
to
offend
the
censure
of
the
Church
.
You
shall
reade
,
that
Iohn
the
second
Pope
of
Rome
,
had
Pope
Iohn
2.
a
great
contention
with
Iustinian
the
Emperour
,
about
the
two
natures
of
Christ
,
insomuch
that
the
Emperour
would
needes
enforce
him
to
be
of
his
opinion
:
but
the
valiant
Bishop
,
moued
with
zeale
and
piet●e
answered
thus
;
I
thought
I
had
come
to
Iustinian
a
Christian
Emperour
,
but
sure
I
haue
found
Dioclesian
a
persecuting
tyrant
:
at
which
wordes
the
Emperour
fell
downe
on
his
knees
,
as
Saul
from
his
horse
in
his
iourney
to
Damascus
,
acknowledging
the
power
of
the
Church
,
and
confessing
,
it
was
a
miracle
,
for
he
had
seene
a
strange
vision
.
Because
Mauritius
the
Emperour
in
the
latter
end
of
his
Mauritius
.
raigne
contested
with
Saint
Gregory
,
and
would
not
acknowledge
his
holinesse
for
superiour
:
there
appeared
a
man
of
Rome
vnto
him
,
clothed
in
a
religious
habit
,
yet
holding
a
naked
sword
in
his
hand
,
and
thus
menaced
him
;
Thou
shalt
be
destroyed
:
whereupon
Phocas
taking
aduantage
of
this
Vision
,
or
if
you
had
●ather
of
a
great
conspiracie
and
coniuration
against
him
,
opportunely
made
himselfe
head
of
the
Faction
,
and
so
bere●t
him
both
of
life
and
Empire
.
After
Gregory
the
great
,
succeeded
Samianus
,
who
presumptuously
Samianus
.
traduced
the
said
Gregory
for
pride
,
and
vain-glory
,
especially
that
his
almes
and
liberalitie
tended
to
ostentation
.
Wherevpon
followed
some
distemperature
,
and
oppression
of
his
best
faculties
,
with
a
continuall
supposition
,
that
Gregory
did
still
haunt
him
,
and
rebuke
him
:
which
ended
not
without
a
Vision
,
in
which
he
smote
him
on
the
head
.
This
proued
ominous
,
for
vpon
the
conceit
he
presently
sickned
,
and
dyed
;
and
so
the
Church
made
a
story
of
it
,
that
it
was
long
of
the
blow
,
which
Gregory
gaue
him
.
You
shall
reade
,
that
the
Emperour
and
other
Princes
Heraclius
.
of
Europe
prospered
in
the
recouery
of
Ierusalem
,
and
so
returned
the
holy
Crosse
thither
againe
,
which
when
Heraclius
of
Constantinople
vnderstood
,
he
would
needes
make
a
iourney
to
Ierusalem
,
which
must
bee
performed
with
great
pride
,
pompe
,
and
ostentation
.
But
see
the
miracle
;
When
he
came
to
Ierusalem
,
and
thought
to
make
his
entrance
into
the
Cittie
with
glorious
magnificence
,
the
gates
shut
themselues
against
him
of
their
owne
accord
,
and
the
more
violent
he
was
to
enter
,
the
more
stronger
and
closer
they
kept
themselues
:
till
he
bethought
himselfe
of
a
contrary
course
,
which
was
humiliation
,
and
acknowledging
of
mercy
,
then
did
they
open
againe
of
themselues
,
and
he
was
louingly
receiued
of
the
Bishops
.
Deodans
and
Agatho
were
Popes
,
who
healed
Lepers
with
Healing
of
Lepers
.
kissing
them
;
and
performed
many
Cures
without
Salue
,
or
Medicine
:
For
so
you
reade
,
that
the
Apostles
did
the
like
by
imposition
of
handes
,
&c.
In
the
daies
of
Martine
the
first
Pope
of
Rome
you
shall
Martine
1.
read
,
that
his
enemies
conspired
his
death
,
for
which
purpose
they
sent
one
Spartarius
of
Olympus
to
kill
him
,
which
in
the
time
of
his
saying
of
Masse
,
and
sacring
the
Host
was
reuealed
:
but
see
the
miracle
!
As
he
approached
neere
him
,
he
was
strucke
blind
,
whereby
the
Pope
auoided
the
danger
,
and
the
Church
increased
in
reputation
.
The
reuerend
Beda
became
blind
for
age
,
and
was
therfore
Beda
.
mocked
and
scoffed
of
the
people
,
as
the
children
called
Elias
bald
pate
:
in
which
time
of
his
contempt
,
and
despight
,
they
brought
him
to
preach
to
a
company
of
stones
;
he
supposing
they
had
beene
men
,
went
forward
in
his
exhortation
,
and
when
he
had
finished
,
the
stones
spake
vnto
him
,
thanked
him
,
and
said
,
Amen
venerabilis
Beda
.
Carolus
Martelius
to
supply
his
wants
in
the
warres
,
Carolus
Martellus
.
bereaued
many
Churches
of
their
Treasure
,
Chalices
,
and
so
impouerished
the
Clergy
,
by
reason
of
which
intrusion
and
exaction
,
when
hee
died
,
he
was
visibly
carried
into
Hell
,
as
they
faine
:
to
proue
the
truth
whereof
,
Eucharius
Bishop
of
Aurelian
,
as
he
was
at
his
praiers
saw
him
body
and
soule
tormented
in
a
locall
place
,
which
because
many
doubted
of
,
and
that
an
Angell
could
not
reueale
such
a
vision
,
the
Abbot
of
S.
Denis
would
needs
run
to
his
Sepulcher
,
and
opening
the
chest
found
a
huge
Dragon
in
it
,
which
leaped
in
his
face
,
and
made
him
a
little
afraid
.
They
also
write
of
Leo
the
fourth
,
a
Pope
of
Rome
,
Leo
4.
a
Pope
.
who
going
in
Procession
to
Saint
Peters
Church
,
was
surprised
by
his
enemies
,
and
in
reuenge
they
cut
out
both
tongue
and
eies
:
yet
was
our
Lady
so
gracious
vnto
him
,
that
though
he
wanted
the
instruments
,
he
had
the
f●culties
of
seeing
and
speaking
.
The
enmity
was
so
great
betweene
Sergius
and
Formosus
Sergius
&
●o●mosus
.
Popes
of
Rome
,
that
Sergius
cut
off
his
head
,
and
threw
the
body
into
Tiber
,
which
was
yet
taken
vp
by
certaine
Fisher-men
,
and
brought
solemnly
to
Christian
buriall
.
But
see
the
wonder
●
no
sooner
came
it
into
the
Church
,
but
all
the
Images
of
the
Saints
bowed
downe
,
and
made
it
reuerence
.
It
is
a
position
in
Papistry
,
neither
to
discouer
any
thing
Benedict
.
9.
which
may
tend
to
the
diminution
of
the
Pontifi●ian
glory
,
nor
to
reueale
any
thing
confessed
,
nor
practise
what
may
proue
schismaticall
against
the
Popes
holinesse
,
nor
in
a
word
,
neglect
the
superstitious
care
of
their
Church
ceremonies
:
yet
here
they
themselues
tell
a
story
of
Benedictus
the
ninth
,
that
hee
was
damned
for
his
vitious
life
,
and
visibly
seene
tormented
in
Hell
:
yea
such
was
the
efficacy
of
the
curse
against
him
,
that
after
death
he
appeared
to
the
terrour
of
many
in
a
most
horrible
shape
and
figure
,
his
head
and
taile
like
an
Asse
,
and
his
body
like
a
Lions
.
All
men
agree
to
the
history
of
Edward
surnamed
the
Ed.
Confessor
,
that
he
was
a
religious
Prince
,
and
replenished
with
those
excellent
gifts
of
wisedome
,
and
piety
;
but
few
men
can
iustifie
that
this
was
obserued
in
his
life
.
As
hee
kneeled
at
Masse
in
the
very
instant
of
the
eleuation
of
Christs
body
,
he
saw
Swaine
King
of
Denmarke
drowned
in
the
sea
with
all
his
army
,
at
which
hee
so
smiled
,
that
at
last
it
tended
to
a
laughter
;
whereat
the
company
wondred
,
and
were
bold
to
demand
,
what
the
matter
meant
:
wherupon
he
discouered
the
secret
,
&
called
certaine
Earles
to
participate
of
the
vision
,
amongst
whom
the
Earle
of
Glocester
saw
the
Bread
turne
apparantly
into
the
likenesse
of
a
young
child
.
But
to
adde
more
truth
to
this
miracle
,
the
hangings
in
the
Quier
a●
West
minster
consist
of
this
story
,
and
there
you
may
see
the
conceit
of
the
businesse
.
O
the
superstition
of
those
daies
,
and
palpable
grosnesse
of
the
Clergies
collusion
!
This
King
gaue
also
his
Signet
for
the
loue
of
St.
Iohn
to
a
poore
man
,
but
see
the
wonderfull
care
and
respect
of
the
Apostle
,
hee
sent
it
him
ba●●e
againe
in
the
belly
of
a
fish
,
for
when
a
goodly
fish
was
presented
to
the
King
,
as
the
Cooke
dressed
the
same
,
the
Kings
Seale
was
found
in
the
entrailes
:
others
tell
the
story
in
this
manner
,
that
Saint
Iohn
tooke
it
so
kindly
being
now
at
Ierusalem
,
that
he
returned
it
backe
againe
by
two
pilgrimes
,
whom
he
posted
into
England
in
one
night
for
the
same
purpose
,
so
the
ring
was
deliuered
,
and
Saint
Iohns
commendation
presented
to
the
king
.
Gregory
the
seuenth
was
Cardinall
,
and
Legat
in
France
Gregory
7.
before
he
was
Pope
,
where
he
so
religiously
proceeded
against
Simoniacks
,
that
he
called
diuers
to
account
(
as
we
say
)
in
foro
publico
:
amongst
whom
a
certaine
Bishop
by
bribing
and
corrupting
his
accusers
thought
to
escape
:
but
Gregory
knowing
by
reuelation
the
deceit
,
preuented
it
in
this
manner
;
he
commanded
him
to
say
Gloria
patri
,
if
he
had
not
abused
the
holy
Ghost
,
which
by
no
meanes
he
could
doe
,
whereupon
he
was
adiudged
guiltie
,
and
depriued
of
his
Bishopricke
.
But
see
the
mischiefe
:
afterwards
he
could
say
it
well
enough
,
and
made
them
all
wonder
at
the
alteration
.
I
beleeue
though
you
haue
read
many
Chronicles
,
you
William
R●fus
King
.
yet
haue
not
read
of
this
storie
concerning
the
death
of
William
Rufus
,
that
a
little
before
he
was
shot
by
Sir
Walter
Tirrell
,
he
dreamed
,
he
was
let
bloud
,
&
in
so
great
a
quantitie
,
that
a
streame
of
it
leapt
vp
on
high
toward
heauen
,
more
than
a
hundred
fathom
,
and
the
day
was
presently
darkened
as
the
night
.
Againe
,
a
Monke
of
his
house
dreamed
,
that
king
William
went
into
a
Church
with
a
great
company
of
people
,
and
amongst
them
all
he
tooke
the
Image
of
the
Crucifix
,
and
most
shamefully
rent
it
with
his
teeth
,
but
the
Crucifix
meekly
suffred
all
,
till
like
a
mad
man
he
pulled
the
armes
off
,
threw
it
vnder
feet
,
and
trampled
vpon
it
in
despight
,
had
not
a
great
fire
come
out
of
the
Cruc●fix
mouth
,
which
preuented
the
king
from
committing
further
outrage
,
and
awaked
the
Monke
.
This
dreame
was
with
much
adoe
declared
to
the
king
,
and
his
owne
dreame
with
more
adoe
disputed
vpon
,
and
both
the
dreames
made
a
matter
of
fearefull
prediction
,
so
that
the
conclusion
extended
to
caution
and
premonition
to
his
Maiestie
,
that
there
was
sure
some
misfortune
imminent
ouer
him
.
Thomas
Becket
was
one
of
the
Popes
champions
,
and
Englands
Thomas
Becket
.
traitors
,
of
whose
lies
and
miracles
I
am
ashamed
to
wrice
:
for
they
will
haue
him
turne
a
Capon
into
a
Carpe
,
as
he
was
at
dinner
in
Rome
on
Saint
Marks
day
,
and
when
he
was
martyred
,
to
heale
the
sicke
,
wounded
,
and
lunaticke
,
with
the
touch
of
his
tombe
and
relickes
:
my
author
recounts
two
and
twentie
miracles
done
for
his
sake
.
When
Saint
Bernard
was
canonized
a
Saint
,
and
Saint
ern●rd
.
consecrated
in
his
shrine
or
chappell
,
his
Abbot
forbad
him
to
doe
any
more
miracles
,
because
there
came
such
a
concourse
of
people
,
that
he
was
notable
to
entertaine
them
nor
willing
to
be
so
continually
imploied
:
the
like
or
much
more
is
fathered
vpon
Simon
de
Momford
Earle
of
Leicester
,
Momford
.
a
notorious
rebell
against
Henrie
the
third
,
but
because
he
went
vnder
the
vmbrela
of
a
good
Common-wealths
man
,
and
maintainer
of
the
liberties
of
Church
,
they
inuented
many
a
lie
for
him
,
that
he
might
preserue
his
reputation
after
death
,
&c.
When
Robert
Bruise
rebelled
against
Edward
the
first
,
he
was
proclaimed
a
traitor
,
and
after
taken
and
beheaded
,
yet
did
they
hang
vp
his
body
in
chaines
:
but
there
came
so
many
deuils
by
night
to
torment
it
with
hookes
,
that
they
were
faine
to
watch
it
,
guard
it
,
and
make
fires
about
the
place
.
I
cannot
but
enlage
the
storie
of
Thomas
the
good
Earle
Sir
Simond
Frizell
.
of
Lancaster
,
one
of
the
greatest
subiects
of
the
world
,
whom
Edward
the
second
most
vnkindly
put
to
death
,
and
wherein
they
went
along
with
his
worthines
,
allow
them
the
praises
of
their
good
report
,
but
when
they
come
to
deuices
and
superstitious
conceits
,
I
leaue
them
to
their
owne
fallacies
,
and
cannot
choose
but
laugh
at
their
fictions
:
for
they
not
onely
repute
him
a
Martyr
,
but
diuulge
that
many
a
miracle
was
shewne
by
him
,
or
done
for
him
.
A●
a
The
Earle
of
Lancaster
.
Priest
restored
to
his
sight
,
who
had
beene
long
blinde
,
by
wiping
his
eies
with
the
Altar
cloth
.
A
child
drowned
and
found
dead
the
third
day
in
a
well
,
was
brought
to
his
tombe
,
and
not
onely
recouered
by
touching
the
defunct
,
but
receiued
life
,
which
continued
many
yeeres
.
Diuers
mad
men
and
distracted
women
by
leaning
their
heads
only
vpon
his
tombe
,
were
restored
to
a
temperature
in
their
senses
.
A
rich
man
of
Gascoign
:
halfe
dead
and
rotten
on
the
one
side
,
so
that
you
might
see
his
liuer
,
was
blessed
by
his
Tombe
with
vnusuall
recouery
:
and
many
such
like
miracles
were
performed
by
him
,
whereupon
the
Spencers
both
prohibited
the
concourse
of
people
,
and
accesse
to
his
Chappell
.
I
could
name
the
rest
,
but
these
as
the
rest
are
the
durty
waters
from
a
corrupt
and
puddled
channell
,
and
must
both
discouer
the
impiety
of
such
a
profession
,
and
wickednesse
of
such
Priests
that
will
hang
gew
gawes
and
grosse
deuices
about
the
necke
of
religion
,
to
make
her
seeme
more
gawdy
,
and
a
very
puppet
in
the
world
:
yet
such
was
the
pleasure
of
diuine
Iustice
to
permit
the
Deuill
to
put
on
a
cloake
of
sanctity
to
deceiue
whole
multitudes
who
were
subiect
to
vanity
:
such
the
coherence
of
Scripture
,
that
Papistry
should
haue
her
Progresse
,
as
you
haue
heard
:
and
such
was
the
deceit
of
men
,
that
they
were
detained
in
ignorance
,
because
they
delighted
in
ceremonies
rather
than
substance
,
in
painted
deuices
and
outward
ornaments
,
rather
than
inward
or
spirituall
worshipping
of
God
,
in
fooleries
to
please
the
naturall
man
,
rather
than
senselesse
kneeling
in
vaine
to
the
aire
(
as
they
would
excuse
it
)
when
men
see
no
pourtraiture
nor
resemblance
,
and
yet
the
Scripture
saith
,
that
Moses
saw
no
image
.
Thus
was
sinne
not
onely
multiplied
in
the
world
,
but
men
for
the
hardnesse
of
their
hearts
detained
in
blindnesse
of
superstition
:
thus
these
miseries
fell
vpon
them
for
denying
and
abusing
that
purity
of
Christianity
,
which
the
Apostles
established
in
the
Primitiue
Church
,
and
thus
God
would
be
glorified
in
reseruing
still
a
Church
to
himselfe
,
and
opening
the
eies
of
humbled
soules
,
to
see
the
paths
of
their
saluation
according
to
the
praier
of
Christ
,
Father
I
thanke
thee
that
thou
hast
reuealed
thy
will
to
babes
and
silly
men
,
when
the
mighty
,
rich
,
and
full
were
sent
empty
away
,
and
the
proud
boasters
of
learning
and
knowledge
excluded
.
But
if
you
would
bee
acquainted
with
a
wonder
indeed
,
and
see
a
miracle
,
obserue
how
this
small
graine
of
mustard
seed
,
this
handfull
of
Gods
people
,
these
despised
creatures
,
this
poore
Church
,
this
derided
profession
did
in
the
end
proue
a
flourishing
tree
,
an
Vniuersall
Congregation
,
a
magnified
people
,
a
mighty
Monarchy
,
a
glorified
compan●
,
so
that
(
as
you
haue
heard
)
the
Kings
of
the
earth
haue
laid
downe
their
crownes
before
simple
Preachers
,
who
haue
but
come
with
the
eccho
of
Christs
voice
:
the
Angells
in
heauen
therefore
sing
Hal●luiahs
,
and
the
God
of
all
hath
a
stone
ready
in
his
hand
to
strike
Babel
to
confusion
.
Answer
then
a
Gods
name
,
you
that
must
answer
before
the
iudgment
Throne
of
the
Lambe
:
how
comes
this
about
,
if
the
Papacy
shall
not
come
to
ruine
,
and
Rome
it selfe
be
destroied
,
after
Antichrist
is
discouered
,
and
thus
arraigned
and
indited
,
and
the
man
of
sinne
reucaled
by
these
lying
miracles
,
whom
God
will
consume
with
the
breath
of
his
nostrils
.
But
before
I
doe
in
arenam
descendere
,
and
play
my
Masters
prise
indeed
,
that
is
,
strike
all
dead
with
the
vengeance
of
Gods
iudgement
against
those
that
will
not
returne
Isaiah
55.
to
the
pure
waters
of
life
,
and
hearken
to
the
Prophet
,
who
bids
them
come
and
buy
without
money
;
I
haue
a
little
more
to
say
,
and
some
remainder
of
the
former
account
to
make
vp
.
They
talke
of
a
great
battell
against
the
Turks
,
who
year
1457
were
ouercome
by
miracle
:
for
a●ter
some
exorcisme
of
holy
men
,
the
Turkes
fled
crying
,
that
a
great
army
of
Knights
followed
them
,
who
seemed
souldiers
,
but
were
indeed
Angels
.
And
why
might
not
this
bee
done
,
as
well
as
Elisha
to
shew
his
seruant
a
multitude
of
chario●s
,
2
Kings
.
and
horses
,
so
that
there
was
more
with
them
,
than
against
them
.
They
will
haue
a
stone
in
Anglesey
of
that
property
,
Anglesey
.
that
how
farre
soeuer
a
man
carries
it
in
the
day
,
it
will
returne
of
it selfe
at
night
into
the
Iland
:
for
triall
whereof
,
Hugh
of
Shrewsbury
in
the
time
of
Henry
the
first
,
bound
it
to
another
huge
stone
with
iron
chaines
,
and
threw
them
into
a
deepe
water
,
but
in
the
morning
the
stone
was
found
in
Anglesey
againe
:
afterward
a
Chu●le
fastened
it
to
his
owne
leg
,
but
his
thigh
rotted
,
and
the
stone
went
away
.
In
the
time
of
Theodosius
the
Emperor
,
V●gus
king
of
The
Picts
and
Sam.
Andrew
.
Picts
in
Scotland
,
infested
a
great
part
of
Brittanic
,
till
at
last
they
were
beset
with
a
formidable
armie
,
and
thought
verily
to
be
destroyed
:
but
Saint
Andrew
taking
pittie
vpon
him
,
comforted
him
,
and
assured
the
victorie
,
if
he
would
giue
the
third
part
of
the
land
to
the
Church
,
which
he
solemnly
ratified
:
so
a
crosse
was
aduanced
in
honour
of
Saint
Andrew
,
and
the
armie
marching
forward
with
the
Standard
,
the
Brittons
were
amazed
at
such
an
vnlooked
for
returne
and
recouerie
of
their
enemies
,
and
the
Picts
most
fortunatly
preuailed
.
I
will
not
tell
you
,
though
my
author
doth
,
that
Ireland
Saint
Patr●●t
and
Ireland
.
had
as
many
venomous
creatures
,
and
noysome
snakes
,
as
other
countries
,
vntill
sanctus
Patricius
chased
them
away
with
his
staffe
:
nor
of
their
witches
,
which
were
turned
into
Hares
,
because
they
be
common
tales
with
sot●ish
,
ignorant
,
and
superstitious
people
,
both
in
England
,
Thessaly
,
Norway
,
and
other
countries
:
yea
of
mine
owne
knowledge
in
the
Ilands
of
the
Arches
,
the
tale
of
Lucius
Appuleius
,
or
the
golden
Asse
,
is
beleeued
,
and
reputed
a
truth
.
But
this
I
will
be
bold
to
say
,
that
the
life
of
Saint
Patrike
is
wel
written
in
a
good
Latine
phrase
,
and
dedicated
to
that
euer
memorable
Earle
and
worthy
patterne
of
hospitalitie
and
honorable
behauiour
,
the
Earle
of
Clenricard
:
wherein
are
such
strange
things
,
and
of
that
varietie
,
that
neither
Moses
nor
Christ
came
neere
him
for
actiue
imployment
,
if
without
pietie
we
may
belecue
that
storie
.
As
for
S.
Patriks
Purgatorie
,
or
the
great
lake
of
Vlster
,
as
incredible
things
are
reported
of
them
,
as
of
Saint
Patrike
himselfe
.
The
storie
is
thus
enlarged
:
A
woman
drawing
or
taking
water
out
of
a
wel
,
and
hearing
her
child
crie
,
run
to
it
for
haste
,
and
forgat
to
couer
the
same
,
which
in
the
meane
while
swelled
ouer
so
immeasurably
,
that
it
drowned
all
the
countrey
,
but
the
maine
reason
was
,
because
the
people
were
Sodomites
,
and
God
thus
sent
his
vengeance
vpon
them
.
In
the
sixth
yeere
of
the
reigne
of
Henrie
the
fourth
,
S●roope
Arch●●shop
of
Yo●ke
.
Scroope
Archbishop
of
Yorke
was
executed
for
treason
.
He
desired
the
hangman
to
giue
him
fiue
strokes
in
remembrance
of
Christs
5.
wounds
,
which
he
performed
accordingly
:
whereupon
at
the
same
instant
,
the
king
sitting
at
dinner
had
fiue
strokes
on
the
necke
by
a
person
inuisible
,
after
which
he
proued
a
leper
,
for
recouery
whereof
he
determined
a
iourney
to
Icrusalem
,
but
was
preuented
by
sicknes
,
though
his
treasure
&
furniture
of
his
houses
were
shipped
,
and
so
he
died
in
the
Abbey
of
Westminster
in
a
chamber
called
Ierusalem
:
many
strange
miracles
were
performed
for
this
Bishop
.
Anno
36.
of
Henrie
the
eight
,
a
Priest
did
pronounce
at
Pauls
Crosse
,
and
there
confessed
in
publike
,
that
he
himselfe
saying
Masse
pricked
his
finger
and
be-bloudied
Alying
Priest
.
the
Corporas
with
the
Altar
clothes
,
purposing
to
make
the
people
beleeue
,
that
the
host
had
bled
miraculously
,
&c.
As
it
was
in
the
time
of
Henrie
the
6.
about
Ioan
la
puzil
de
dieu
at
Orleans
,
who
was
afterwards
burnt
for
an
imposturing
whore
,
by
the
Duke
of
Bedford
at
Roan
:
so
fell
it
out
with
Elizabeth
Barton
a
Nun
,
&
holy
Maid
of
Kent
,
whose
miraculous
lies
are
rather
fearefull
than
ridiculous
:
Holy
mai
of
Kent
.
for
she
not
onely
deceiued
the
Bishops
,
but
brought
her selfe
with
ten
other
to
a
lamentable
Catastrophe
.
Looke
Hall
,
Grafton
,
and
diuers
Chronicles
.
I
am
almost
wearie
with
wearying
you
in
the
discourse
of
these
fopperies
,
but
should
wearie
you
and
torment
my selfe
altogether
to
relate
the
like
of
other
countries
,
not
packed
vp
(
as
I
told
you
before
)
in
the
Legenda
Aurea
,
or
Nauclerus
,
or
Costerus
,
or
other
sufficient
authours
,
who
haue
for
the
same
purpose
●raduced
these
wonderfull
deceiuers
,
and
papisticall
cousening
Priests
,
or
if
you
will
,
incendiarie
Iesuites
,
who
still
run
at
randome
to
seduce
simple
people
,
and
confound
weake
and
easie
beleeuing
soules
.
Therefore
I
desist
from
further
disturbance
,
and
onely
request
thus
much
from
a
poore
afflicted
spirit
,
and
euery
way
vnfortunate
man
,
(
as
we
now
in
these
times
profanely
abuse
that
Character
)
to
tender
your
owne
saluation
by
considering
what
a
strange
religion
this
is
,
and
aboue
all
other
in
the
world
,
agreeing
and
concurring
with
the
reuelation
of
Antichrist
,
especially
in
this
point
of
signes
,
and
wonders
,
and
lying
miracles
,
so
that
if
this
fall
to
my
share
,
that
am
the
meanest
of
a
thousand
,
what
can
others
doe
,
that
haue
Beniamins
portion
fiue
times
doubled
:
both
concerning
Scripture
,
Historie
,
Fathers
,
Knowledge
,
Iudgement
,
Eloquution
,
and
other
faculties
.
As
for
such
as
are
yet
willing
to
be
deceiued
,
and
hauing
heard
of
that
great
dutie
of
perseuerance
in
holy
matters
,
peruert
it
to
obstinacie
and
pertinacitie
in
idolatrous
superstition
,
I
say
no
more
,
but
answer
a
Gods
name
you
that
must
answer
before
the
iudgement
throne
of
the
Lambe
;
How
comes
this
about
?
if
the
Papacy
shall
not
come
to
ruine
,
and
Rome
it selfe
be
destroyed
,
seeing
Antichrist
is
discouered
and
thus
arraigned
and
indited
,
the
man
of
sinne
reuealed
by
these
lying
miracles
,
whom
God
will
consume
with
the
breath
of
his
nostrils
.
And
thus
much
for
his
inditement
:
now
to
his
punishment
and
vtter
extirpation
.
Section
III.
Or
the
execution
of
Antichrist
according
to
the
sentence
of
condemnation
.
I
Might
haue
begun
this
discourse
with
that
which
followes
,
but
I
hope
it
comes
now
in
order
well
enough
.
Note
the
Comparison
.
Obserue
then
I
pray
you
the
Simile
.
Politicke
states
and
well
gouerned
Commonwealths
,
haue
either
commonly
secret
intelligencers
,
or
publicke
Ambassadors
in
forren
countries
to
acquaint
them
with
all
occurrences
,
and
so
let
nothing
passe
,
no
not
triuiall
accidents
,
which
may
concerne
the
good
of
their
countrie
,
without
reuealing
:
so
that
if
letters
or
certificat
of
credit
come
,
that
there
are
Iurking
amongst
vs
certaine
traitors
,
that
intend
the
ruine
of
the
kingdome
,
and
endanger
the
life
of
the
Prince
,
there
is
presently
search
in
euery
corner
,
and
warrants
sent
out
to
apprehend
them
:
afterward
vpon
happy
discouery
and
honest
attachment
,
they
are
imprisoned
and
kept
secure
,
till
they
may
be
further
examined
:
then
vpon
due
and
orderly
proceedings
they
are
to
be
arraigned
and
indited
of
high
treason
,
as
they
are
found
and
proued
delinquents
in
Crimino
lase
Maiestatis
:
Last
of
all
,
vpon
finding
Billa
vera
and
iustifiable
conuiction
,
the
sentence
of
condemnation
goes
out
,
and
they
are
executed
accordingly
:
so
hath
the
holy
Ghost
dealt
with
the
Church
of
God
concerning
the
traitors
of
mens
soules
,
and
discouery
of
Antichrist
,
the
instrument
of
Satan
to
bring
vs
to
damnation
:
he
hath
first
made
vs
acquainted
that
there
is
such
a
Viper
lurking
amongst
vs
.
Let
no
man
deceiue
you
by
any
meanes
:
For
that
day
shall
2.
T●ess
.
2.
3.
not
come
,
except
there
come
a
falling
away
first
,
and
that
man
of
sinne
be
reuealed
,
the
s●nne
of
perdition
.
Who
opposeth
and
exalteth
himselfe
aboue
all
,
that
is
called
year
4
God
,
or
that
is
worshipped
:
so
that
he
as
God
sitteth
in
the
temple
of
God
,
shewing
himselfe
,
that
he
is
God
.
Remember
ye
not
that
when
I
was
yet
with
you
I
told
you
●
.
these
things
?
I
haue
not
written
vnto
you
,
because
you
know
not
the
truth
:
1.
Epist.
Iohn
2.
21.
but
because
you
know
it
,
and
that
no
lie
is
of
the
truth
.
Who
is
a
lier
,
but
he
that
denieth
,
that
Iesus
is
the
Christ
:
year
22
he
is
Antichrist
,
that
denieth
the
Father
,
and
the
Sonne
.
And
euerie
spirit
that
confesseth
not
that
Iesus
Christ
is
Chap
4.
3.
come
in
the
flesh
,
is
not
of
God
,
and
that
is
that
spirit
of
Antichrist
,
whereof
you
haue
heard
,
that
it
should
come
,
and
euen
now
already
is
it
in
the
world
.
Here
you
see
what
a
noble
intelligencer
and
friend
from
heauen
we
haue
had
to
acquaint
the
Church
of
God
,
that
the
betraier
of
mens
soules
,
and
traiters
to
the
maiesty
of
God
are
euery
where
lurking
amongst
vs
,
vpon
which
certificate
I
,
though
vnworthy
,
and
the
meanest
of
Gods
seruants
,
haue
aduentured
to
search
and
find
him
out
,
and
vpon
the
search
haue
not
onely
discouered
,
and
reuealed
him
,
but
arraigned
and
indited
him
,
so
that
I
hope
no
man
can
mislike
or
traduce
this
iustifiable
proceeding
against
him
,
which
if
they
dare
doe
,
what
will
they
then
say
to
the
sentence
of
condemnation
,
which
is
now
to
be
denounced
from
God
himselfe
,
and
the
Scriptures
,
the
Sibylls
,
ancient
Fathers
,
and
their
women
Saints
:
sure
,
sure
,
the
Gentiles
will
fret
and
rage
,
imagining
vaine
Psal.
2.
Acts.
things
:
and
I
answer
with
Paul
,
after
the
way
you
call
heresie
,
I
serue
the
God
of
my
Fathers
:
and
with
Iob
,
though
thou
kill
me
(
O
Lord
)
I
will
not
forsake
thee
.
But
to
the
purpose
in
hand
.
Antichrists
punishment
from
Scripture
.
IF
you
search
the
Prophets
,
you
shall
finde
,
that
hee
that
drowned
the
world
,
burnt
Sodome
to
sinders
,
and
ouerwhelmed
Pharao
with
whole
mountaines
of
waters
,
confounded
Aegypt
,
destroied
Tirus
,
who
was
as
proud
and
Isaiah
19.
23.
34
46
Ezech.
25.
1.
Damel
and
the
rest
of
the
Pr●phets
.
exalted
as
euer
Rome
in
her
first
and
second
glory
,
reuenged
the
cause
of
his
Church
,
ouerthrew
the
idols
of
Babylon
,
a
meere
figure
of
Antichristian
Prelacy
:
threatned
and
dissipated
Ammon
,
Moab
,
Edom
,
the
Philistines
,
and
in
a
word
all
the
mighty
Monarchies
vnder
the
Sun
,
resembled
to
fierce
and
cruell
beasts
,
strange
images
and
figures
,
Eagles
,
Rams
,
Goats
and
such
like
Hierogliphicks
.
Why
then
should
any
question
be
made
of
the
Popes
establishment
,
or
Romes
perpetuity
?
considering
her
sinnes
cry
to
heauen
for
vengeance
,
and
her
abominations
are
spred
like
a
carpet
,
to
the
loathing
of
all
honest
beholders
,
and
godly
Christian
Spectators
:
but
to
put
all
out
of
doubt
,
harke
what
the
holy
Ghost
saith
in
the
Reuelation
,
and
that
the
Pope
and
city
of
Rome
in
Italy
,
is
personated
by
the
prediction
,
I
referre
you
to
all
the
ancient
Fathers
,
and
moderne
Writers
,
especially
Tremelius
,
Innius
,
Napier
,
and
diuers
others
.
And
the
rest
of
the
men
which
were
not
killed
by
these
Apo●
.
9.
20.
plagues
,
yet
repented
not
of
the
works
of
their
hands
,
that
they
should
not
worship
Deuills
,
and
idols
of
gold
,
and
siluer
,
and
brasse
,
and
stone
,
and
of
wood
,
which
neither
can
see
,
nor
heare
,
nor
walke
.
Neither
repe●ted
they
of
their
murders
,
nor
of
their
sorceri●s
,
verse
21.
nor
of
their
fornications
,
nor
of
their
thefts
.
And
when
they
shall
ha●e
finished
their
testimony
,
the
Apoc.
11.
7.
Beast
that
ascendeth
out
of
the
bottomlesse
pit
shall
make
warre
against
them
,
and
shall
ouercome
them
,
and
kill
them
.
And
the
great
Dragon
was
cast
out
,
that
old
Serpent
called
Apoc.
12.
9.
the
Deuill
,
and
Sathan
,
&c.
And
there
followed
another
Angell
saying
,
Babylon
is
Apoc.
14.
8.
fallen
,
is
fallen
,
that
great
city
,
because
shee
made
all
nations
drinke
of
the
wine
of
the
wrath
of
her
fornication
.
And
the
Angell
t●rust
in
his
sickle
into
the
earth
,
and
gathered
Apoc.
14.
19.
the
Vine
of
the
earth
,
and
cast
it
into
the
great
wine
presse
of
the
wrath
of
God
,
&c.
The
Beast
that
thou
sawest
,
was
,
and
is
not
,
and
shall
ascend
Apoc.
17.
8.
out
of
the
bottomlesse●pit
,
and
goe
into
perdition
,
and
they
that
dwell
on
the
earth
shall
wonder
(
whose
names
were
not
written
in
the
booke
of
life
from
the
foundation
of
the
world
)
when
they
behold
the
Beast
,
that
was
,
and
is
not
,
and
yet
is
.
And
he
cried
mightily
with
a
strong
voice
,
saying
,
Babylon
Apoc.
18.
2.
●
reade
the
whole
Chapter
.
the
great
is
fallen
,
is
fallen
,
and
is
become
the
habitation
of
Deuils
,
and
the
bold
of
euery
foule
spirit
,
and
a
cage
of
euery
vncleane
and
hatefull
bird
.
The
Merchants
of
these
things
,
which
were
made
rich
verse
15.
by
her
,
shall
stand
afarre
off
for
the
feare
of
her
torment
,
weeping
and
wailing
.
And
saying
,
alas
,
alas
,
that
great
city
,
that
was
clothed
Apoc.
18.
16.
in
fine
linnen
,
and
purple
,
and
scarlet
,
and
decked
with
gold
,
and
pretious
stones
,
and
pearles
.
For
in
one
houre
so
great
riches
is
come
to
nought
,
and
verse
17.
euery
Ship-master
,
and
all
the
company
in
ships
,
and
Sailers
,
and
as
many
as
trade
by
sea
stood
afarre
off
.
And
cried
,
when
they
saw
the
smoake
of
her
burning
,
verse
18.
what
city
is
like
vnto
this
great
city
,
&c.
Come
and
gather
your selues
together
vnto
the
Supper
Apoc.
19.
17.
of
the
great
God
.
That
●ee
may
eat
the
flesh
of
Kings
,
and
the
flesh
of
Captaines
,
verse
18.
and
the
flesh
of
mighty
men
,
&c.
Oh
read
more
,
read
more
,
read
all
for
Gods
sake
your selues
,
and
remember
,
that
hee
that
writ
this
prediction
and
Prophesie
,
did
not
liue
500.
yeeres
after
the
Assirians
Babylons
destruction
,
and
therefore
it
could
not
meane
that
which
was
past
,
but
must
questionlesse
haue
relation
to
something
to
come
,
so
that
these
seuerall
descriptions
,
and
other
fearefull
prophesies
can
aime
at
nothing
,
but
new
Rome
in
Italy
,
the
Antichristian
supremacy
of
the
Pope
,
and
the
filthy
abomination
of
such
an
absurd
religion
:
so
that
a
man
would
wonder
at
their
daring
confidence
to
continue
in
such
exorbitant
courses
of
falsity
,
and
filthines
,
when
the
end
will
be
the
trembling
of
Christian
hearts
at
the
terrour
of
the
iudgements
to
be
denounced
.
In
the
meane
while
who
can
be
so
infatuated
to
beleeue
,
that
true
Religion
will
suffer
her selfe
to
be
bespotted
,
bedurtied
,
and
deformed
with
the
filthy
corruptions
of
mens
inuentions
,
and
idle
,
foolish
,
and
ridiculous
trumperies
of
colluding
popish
Prelates
:
and
so
I
leaue
the
honest
Christian
to
that
Spirit
,
which
shall
be
operatiue
in
them
to
worke
their
conuersion
,
or
confirme
their
calling
,
seeing
they
see
one
way
a
stranger
warre
betweene
Christ
and
Antichrist
,
than
the
Gigantomachia
,
wherein
Typhaeus
and
his
brethren
tooke
vp
mountaines
in
their
hands
to
throw
against
Iupiter
,
and
another
way
haue
more
cause
of
laughter
,
than
euer
Democritus
had
at
Epictetus
deformation
of
the
world
,
when
he
couered
it
with
a
coxcombe
,
and
set
the
globe
on
the
table
to
be
derided
by
the
Philosophers
:
as
for
the
obstinate
Papists
,
I
say
no
more
,
but
answer
a
Gods
name
you
that
must
answer
before
the
iudgement
throne
of
the
Lambe
,
what
say
you
to
this
fearfull
sentence
of
terror
and
punishments
from
Gods
owne
mouth
?
or
what
euasion
can
there
be
to
auoid
the
condemnation
,
seeing
the
Apocalyps
was
written
of
purpose
to
denotate
the
state
of
the
Church
from
Christ
to
the
end
of
the
world
?
Antichrists
punishment
and
Romes
destruction
from
the
Sibyls
.
ALthough
the
Scriptures
were
sufficient
according
to
You
must
ouerlooke
the
whole
b●stn●ie
of
the
Sibyl●
both
●●
G●ecke
and
La●●ne
.
the
former
texts
in
the
Reuelation
,
and
many
others
in
the
Prophets
,
Apostles
,
and
bookes
of
God
,
to
declare
his
will
and
denounce
his
iudgements
,
and
so
there
were
no
more
disputing
on
the
authoritie
and
infallibilitie
of
the
same
:
yet
because
the
naturall
man
is
transported
with
shewes
and
ceremonies
rather
than
substance
,
and
that
affecting
humours
are
seldome
pacified
without
varietie
,
or
noueltie
:
I
claspe
once
againe
the
bookes
of
holy
Mysteries
,
and
seale
vp
the
Prophecies
of
Scripture
,
lest
some
call
for
an
interpreter
,
and
still
cry
out
,
the
mother
Church
must
be
the
interpreter
of
these
mysteries
;
and
spread
you
a
carpet
of
such
Prophecies
,
that
no
man
shall
traduce
their
credit
and
renowne
,
nor
the
obstinate
and
refractarie
Papist
oppose
their
valuation
:
for
though
he
could
with
the
prophane
Atheist
and
irreligious
foole
deny
there
Psal.
14.
were
a
God
,
yet
shall
he
confesse
,
that
former
times
haue
been
like
vberant
springs
to
send
forth
flowing
streams
of
truth
into
the
world
,
so
that
now
he
must
needs
be
afrighted
in
drawing
so
neere
the
time
,
wherein
these
predictions
are
likely
to
be
consummated
,
as
personating
Rome
that
citie
of
Rome
in
Italie
,
and
hunting
the
Pope
and
his
Cardinals
with
full
crie
into
the
desart
of
desolation
,
and
fatall
confusion
.
I
will
then
begin
with
the
Sibyls
,
but
both
my
beginning
and
ending
with
them
and
others
shal
be
but
a
kinde
of
Epitomising
,
referring
you
to
the
larger
volumes
,
with
whom
I
onely
play
,
as
the
dogs
with
the
water
of
N●lus
,
lap
as
they
run
,
and
dare
not
tarry
to
drinke
for
feare
of
the
Crocadiles
.
In
the
second
booke
of
the
Oracles
of
the
Sibyls
Lib.
2
Oraculor●●n
Sibyl
.
you
shall
finde
it
thus
:
H●minum
cum
denique
saeclum
,
&c.
In
the
tenth
age
of
the
world
,
the
imagerie
of
Rome
raised
on
her
seuen
hills
shall
extinguish
the
loue
of
true
religion
,
for
which
her
strength
shall
faile
,
and
the
people
tremble
,
when
they
shall
see
her
power
beaten
downe
,
and
her
riches
taken
away
,
yea
her
citie
consumed
with
fire
through
the
wrath
of
God
.
In
the
fifth
booke
it
beginneth
thus
:
De
coelo
v●niet
sydus
.
Lib
5.
As
a
great
starre
fell
from
heauen
into
the
sea
,
and
burnt
vp
the
third
part
of
the
same
with
the
creatures
,
so
shall
Babylon
of
Italie
be
destroyed
,
that
hath
murthered
the
Saints
,
and
troden
the
truth
of
Gods
word
vnder
feet
,
that
hath
delighted
in
poisoning
,
whoredome
,
and
adultery
;
that
hath
nourished
buggerie
against
nature
,
that
hath
beene
a
towne
of
ease
and
filthinesse
,
wicked
,
vniust
,
defamed
amongst
the
Latines
,
and
vnworthy
of
the
ti●le
she
assumed
,
she
shall
therefore
sit
as
a
widow
,
mourning
&
desolate
,
as
a
viper
fell
and
venomous
:
and
the
floud
Tiber
shall
weepe
for
his
spouse
,
because
of
her
destruction
,
that
was
so
mad
,
when
her
heart
burned
for
bloud
.
She
misinterpreted
Gods
minde
,
and
boasted
that
she
was
onely
of
the
earth
to
be
exalted
.
Therefore
shall
God
ruine
her
,
and
there
shall
be
no
memory
of
her
exaltation
,
yea
she
shall
be
throwne
downe
into
hell
,
and
consumed
with
euerlasting
fire
.
In
another
place
of
the
said
fifth
booke
it
beginneth
Italia
infoelix
.
thus
:
Italia
infoelix
.
O
cursed
and
vnhappy
Italie
!
thou
shalt
be
made
as
barren
as
a
wildernesse
,
and
no
man
shall
pittie
thy
desolation
:
for
thou
hast
beene
a
murtherer
of
mothers
,
and
hast
hands
and
hearts
polluted
with
fllthinesse
,
buggering
of
boies
,
and
lying
with
beasts
,
defiling
of
women
,
and
mingling
incestuous
bloud
:
yea
thou
hast
made
Kings
and
Emperours
prophane
God
by
taking
an
oath
to
destroy
the
Saints
,
with
a
great
deale
more
.
But
O
God!
that
this
should
be
so
long
told
before
hand
,
and
yet
all
the
world
imitated
the
lewes
in
the
Prophet
Ieremie
,
though
the
king
cut
the
rowle
which
Baruch
Ierem.
writ
,
in
peeces
,
and
burnt
it
in
the
fire
,
yet
no
man
trembled
,
nor
rent
his
clothes
for
feare
,
&c.
In
the
seuenth
booke
it
beginneth
thus
:
Roma
ferox
Lib.
7.
animi
.
Ambitious
Rome
shall
after
the
Grecian
manner
stellifie
her selfe
to
heauen
,
but
when
she
is
in
her
greatest
exaltation
,
God
shall
deiect
her
,
and
cast
her
vnder
his
feet
like
rubbish
:
for
there
shall
come
a
first
and
a
second
destruction
of
this
great
citie
.
The
first
you
know
is
past
by
the
Goths
and
Vandals
,
the
second
is
to
come
by
them
,
whom
God
hath
appointed
.
In
the
eight
booke
the
beginning
is
thus
:
Lib.
8.
Par
tibi
de
coelo
sublim●s
vertice
Roma
.
And
the
meaning
of
the
rest
is
thus
:
that
as
Rome
hath
aduanced
it selfe
aboue
the
world
to
heauen
:
so
shall
it
be
deiected
and
ruined
,
burnt
to
cinders
and
consumed
to
nothing
,
she
shall
be
banished
farre
off
,
and
be
bereaued
of
her
wealth
,
within
her
walls
shall
Wolues
and
Serpents
remaine
,
she
shall
lie
wasted
,
as
though
she
had
neuer
been
:
her
Oracles
shall
cease
,
and
her
golden
gods
be
put
to
silence
;
there
shall
be
no
more
consultation
with
her
idols
,
and
it
shall
profit
her
nothing
,
that
she
kept
correspondency
with
the
former
Senate
about
the
multiplicitie
of
gods
:
for
as
they
maintained
the
Oracles
,
and
Statuas
of
Saturne
,
Iupiter
,
Rhemus
,
Romulus
,
&c.
So
doe
they
continue
the
adoration
and
images
of
our
Ladie
,
Peter
,
Iohn
,
and
a
thousand
other
Saints
for
all
actions
,
occasions
,
and
infirmities
.
In
the
same
booke
followeth
immediatly
the
explanation
The
Pope
expounded
.
of
the
Popes
Character
,
and
deciphering
of
his
manners
,
and
conditions
tending
to
this
purpose
,
that
after
fifteene
Emperours
,
of
whom
the
last
was
Adrianus
,
should
arise
a
mighty
Potentate
with
many
crownes
,
whose
name
shall
come
neere
vnto
Ponti
:
which
although
they
interpret
by
the
same
Adrianus
and
Pontus
,
quasi
Adriaticus
Pontus
,
now
Golpho
Venetiano
:
yet
questionlesse
the
Sibyll
meant
,
as
in
other
Authors
imitating
her
is
enlarged
,
that
that
Ponti
had
reference
to
Pontifex
,
and
the
Pope
should
bee
that
Summus
Pontifex
,
whose
triple
crowne
is
called
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
hath
mystery
in
the
etymologie
.
For
thus
the
Sibyll
goes
on
and
expresseth
her selfe
;
That
he
shall
The
Popes
crow●e
and
pride
.
set
his
foot
on
the
world
,
and
the
necks
of
Emperours
and
Kings
:
he
shall
receiue
great
gifts
and
bribes
:
he
shall
heape
vp
treasures
of
gold
,
and
gather
together
exceeding
wealth
:
he
shall
pardon
sinnes
discouered
by
confession
:
he
shall
be
skilfull
in
Negromancy
,
and
scoffe
at
God
in
his
brauery
,
which
of
late
Platina
the
Popes
owne
Secretary
relateth
,
and
many
other
Authors
(
as
you
haue
read
in
the
former
Section
,
of
discouery
)
recite
as
many
strange
and
blasphemous
impieties
of
them
:
and
he
shall
iustifie
errours
and
impiety
against
true
Religion
,
and
righteousnesse
.
But
then
,
saith
our
Sibyll
,
approacheth
his
downefall
,
then
comes
a
time
of
mourning
and
heauinesse
,
lamenting
and
excruciation
of
soule
:
he
shall
hang
himselfe
for
desperation
.
Here
the
carnall
Gospeller
himselfe
makes
a
stop
at
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
if
it
onely
had
relation
to
one
man
,
or
the
last
Pope
of
all
,
which
shall
make
such
a
tragicall
end
,
perceiuing
his
people
,
seat
,
and
towne
vtterly
rased
and
demolished
,
and
not
to
meane
the
chaire
of
Peter
or
consistory
of
Cardinals
:
but
I
leaue
further
disceptation
,
and
will
tell
you
the
words
of
the
Prophecy
.
Alas
,
shall
the
people
say
,
wee
euer
feared
this
desolation
,
and
so
both
old
and
young
shall
mourne
for
the
dolorous
destiny
,
yea
sit
vpon
the
banke
of
Tybur
sadly
lamenting
the
extremity
of
the
misery
.
The
Sibyll
hath
not
yet
done
,
but
goeth
still
forward
.
You
shall
vex
and
torment
your selues
to
be
disrobed
of
purple
weeds
,
and
Imperiall
raiment
,
sitting
sorrowfull
and
deiected
in
sackcloth
,
and
ruminating
a
pittifull
ditty
to
this
purpose
:
O
Rome
!
that
wast
the
beauty
of
Latium
,
exalted
aboue
Princes
and
Peeres
,
thy
pompe
and
pride
shall
beruined
and
neuer
recouer
,
thou
shalt
bee
trod
downe
and
neuer
rise
againe
.
The
Eagle
that
marcheth
before
the
armies
,
shall
bee
vnplumed
,
and
no
countrey
shall
bee
able
to
releeue
thee
:
For
they
shall
all
cast
off
thy
yoke
,
and
be
no
more
affrighted
with
thy
seruitude
:
but
if
your
read
the
rest
,
you
shall
find
a
great
deale
more
against
Rome
.
Then
in
the
end
she
concludeth
thus
:
After
this
shall
follow
the
dissolution
of
the
world
,
and
God
shall
come
to
iudge
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth
:
But
first
shall
Rome
feele
the
vengeance
of
his
wrath
,
and
a
bloudy
time
shall
happen
to
the
rude
people
and
tyrannous
countrey
:
For
she
forgat
,
how
poore
and
bare
shee
began
,
and
therefore
must
needs
returne
to
the
same
pristinate
nakednesse
,
but
with
sorer
vengeance
,
and
before
a
more
dreadfull
Iudge
.
And
thus
much
for
the
Sibylls
.
Antichrists
punishment
and
Romes
destru
ction
,
from
certaine
Fathers
.
NOw
I
appeale
to
the
most
obstinate
Papist
,
if
these
things
are
so
long
agoe
written
,
and
authentically
approued
by
many
Classicke
Authors
,
who
haue
done
with
the
bookes
of
the
Sibylls
both
in
Greeke
and
Latine
,
as
Alexander
did
with
Homers
Iliads
,
lay
it
euery
night
vnder
his
pillow
:
What
can
they
say
but
to
discredit●
the
Authors
,
as
if
it
were
some
inuention
of
malice
,
when
yet
they
were
diuulged
long
before
Christ
;
or
some
tricke
of
obseruation
,
as
being
foisted
in
since
religion
was
variated
in
the
world
?
What
can
they
conceiue
,
but
there
needs
be
some
fire
where
there
is
so
great
a
smoake
?
What
can
they
imagine
,
but
that
these
Prophecies
tend
to
this
issue
;
Either
shall
the
Gospell
of
Iesus
Christ
thriue
in
Europe
,
as
the
reformation
is
begun
;
or
Papist●ie
must
needs
be
ouer
throwne
,
the
Pope
discredited
,
or
the
citie
of
Rome
destroied
,
and
then
he
may
flie
to
Auignion
in
France
,
as
he
did
once
for
60.
yeeres
together
.
But
because
I
will
haue
some
things
vnanswerable
,
I
haue
collected
also
some
few
predictions
out
of
other
Fathers
,
of
whose
sufficiencie
I
neither
meane
to
dispute
,
nor
draw
forth
their
writings
to
the
greatest
length
,
but
tie
my selfe
to
a
sober
beleefe
of
their
veritie
,
and
modest
extraction
of
their
principles
:
only
I
must
aduertise
you
that
are
readers
thus
farre
,
that
they
are
Saints
of
the
Popes
owne
canonizing
,
or
religious
men
Catalogued
for
soundnesse
of
iudgement
,
or
sanctimonie
of
life
,
so
that
our
Papists
may
be
quickly
put
off
from
their
common
speeches
of
,
It
is
a
deuice
of
some
Hereticke
,
a
conceit
of
some
hot
braine
,
an
inuention
of
discontented
and
penurious
men
,
or
some
foolish
tricke
or
other
foisted
in
to
diminish
the
glorie
of
the
Church
,
with
such
like
.
And
so
to
my
businesse
.
The
Visions
of
S.
Hermas
Bishop
of
Philippi
tend
all
to
Saint
Herma●
.
this
purpose
,
that
the
Catholike
Church
shall
by
degrees
fall
into
diuers
deformities
and
corruptions
,
farre
from
her
primitiue
integritie
and
virginall
puritie
,
for
which
she
should
vndergoe
great
vengeance
and
punishment
,
yea
suffer
a
pressure
that
shall
crush
her
to
peeces
,
and
lie
vnder
a
furie
that
shall
lash
her
sides
,
and
throw
fire
into
the
walls
of
that
citie
,
which
needeth
purging
,
and
was
so
ambitious
,
proud
,
and
prophane
.
Amongst
the
predictions
or
prophecies
of
S.
Methodius
St.
Methodius
.
Bishop
of
Tirus
,
he
foretelleth
,
that
the
Clergie
shall
in
a
manner
burne
vp
and
destroy
the
holy
things
of
God
,
yea
trample
the
sacred
Scriptures
vnder
feet
,
to
aduance
and
set
vp
their
owne
inuentions
,
not
leauing
vnnamed
ceremonies
,
customes
,
and
traditions
.
Yea
he
threatneth
a
neighbour
King
for
taking
part
with
the
whore
of
Babylon
,
which
also
a
Francesian
Frier
Philippus
Boskierus
alledgeth
,
and
Bartholomeus
de
la
Casas
a
Spanish
Bishop
remembreth
to
King
‛
Philip.
Yet
such
is
the
corruption
of
time
,
and
power
of
the
Inquisition
,
that
these
bookes
must
not
be
talkt
of
:
and
to
publish
them
for
Gods
glory
,
and
propagation
of
true
Religion
,
is
among
them
heresie
,
and
a
matter
of
difficulty
,
or
weakening
of
policy
.
In
the
library
of
Saint
Victor
at
Par●
some
600.
yeeres
Saint
Victor
.
since
there
was
a
prediction
beginning
thus
;
Vae
tibi
●iuitas
Septicollis
:
and
proceedeth
thus
,
that
the
letter
K.
shall
threaren
the
walles
of
Rome
,
and
then
shall
woe
bee
to
the
city
of
bloud
,
full
of
lying
,
falshood
,
and
violence
.
For
the
fall
and
destruction
of
the
mighty
men
is
at
hand
,
the
voice
of
scourges
,
wheeles
and
warres
shall
make
her
to
tremble
,
the
colour
of
the
gold
shall
be
darkned
,
and
changed
,
with
diuers
such
passages
of
wonderment
and
obseruation
.
If
you
looke
into
the
predictions
,
that
were
found
in
Palace
of
Wis●dome
.
the
palace
of
Wisedome
at
Rome
it selfe
,
you
shall
finde
it
thus
:
—
Caesar
regnabit
vbique
,
Sed
quo
tunc
vani
cessabit
gloria
cleri
.
With
a
strange
inuectiue
,
fearefull
,
effectuall
,
prodigious
,
and
full
of
matter
,
absolutely
against
the
present
gouernment
both
of
Church
and
Commonwealth
:
so
that
a
man
would
wonder
,
that
some
Herculean
Pontifician
arme
(
as
he
did
strangle
the
serpents
in
the
cradle
)
did
not
at
their
first
discouery
thrattle
and
suppresse
them
,
or
ouerthrow
their
authoritie
,
when
they
began
to
take
vp
roome
against
Rome
in
mens
hearts
and
apprehensions
:
but
such
is
the
will
of
God
,
and
wonderfulnesse
of
his
power
and
prouidence
,
that
both
the
Scriptures
themselues
,
and
other
writings
,
sauoring
the
sweetnesse
of
their
taste
,
haue
beene
preserued
in
despight
of
Tyrants
,
Iewes
,
Turkes
,
Infidels
,
Fire
,
Sword
,
and
the
Deuill
himselfe
,
and
prospered
the
more
,
when
the
attempts
of
corrupted
men
would
either
discredit
,
or
suppresse
the
truth
.
For
looke
as
in
persecutions
,
sanguis
martyrum
proued
semen
Ecclesia
,
so
in
these
prohibitions
,
according
to
the
Prouerbe
,
men
did
euez
repute
it
a
thing
worthy
their
endeuours
,
searches
,
and
knowledge
,
when
it
was
rare
to
be
gotten
,
or
perillous
to
be
disputed
vpon
.
If
you
reade
the
Prophecie
of
Saint
Scuerus
Archbishop
Saint
Scuerus
.
of
Rauenna
,
you
shall
finde
it
thus
:
Woe
vnto
thee
thou
citie
of
the
Gentiles
,
thou
citie
of
riches
,
thou
citie
of
Philosophers
.
Woe
vnto
thee
Lombardie
,
for
thy
towers
of
ioy
shall
be
broken
downe
,
&c.
Cataldus
Fimus
Bishop
of
Trent
hath
a
very
rare
Prophecie
Cataldus
Fimus
accord●ng
to
the
letter
.
When
Rome
beginneth
to
heare
the
loud
bellowing
of
the
fat
Cow
,
Italie
shall
languish
with
dissention
and
ciuill
warres
:
for
there
shall
be
great
emulation
and
hatred
betweene
the
winged
serpent
or
Dragon
,
and
the
lilly
bearing
Lion
,
with
much
other
such
stuffe
.
But
then
he
followes
:
Alas
,
Alas
,
weepe
thou
vnhappy
Babylon
,
for
the
daies
of
affliction
shall
come
vpon
thee
,
and
like
ripened
corne
thou
must
suffer
a
threshing
for
thine
in
quitie
.
Kings
from
the
foure
corners
of
the
earth
shall
rise
against
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
be
brought
downe
for
presuming
to
sit
so
high
,
&c.
In
a
Prophecie
of
Saint
Vincent
a
Dominican
Frier
,
the
Saint
Vincent
.
Church
of
God
is
compared
to
the
foure
ages
of
the
world
,
Gold
,
Siluer
,
Brasse
,
and
Iron
,
speaking
of
the
Romish
Church
and
Prelates
full
of
Pride
,
Vanitie
,
Pompe
,
Simonie
,
Auarice
,
and
Luxurie
,
concluding
with
that
monstrous
vice
of
Simonie
,
to
which
not
long
after
the
learned
Monke
Baptista
Mantuanus
alluded
in
many
inuectiues
,
especially
this
:
—
Venalianobis
Mantuan
.
Templa
,
sacerdotes
,
altaria
,
sacra
,
coronae
,
Ignis
,
thura
,
preces
,
calum
est
venale
,
Deusque
.
You
haue
likewise
Prophecies
of
Telesphorus
the
Hermit
,
Telesphorus
.
Cataldus
.
Amatus
.
Gamalio
.
Saint
Cataldus
,
Ioannes
Amatus
,
and
Gamalio
,
inserted
in
an
Epistle
to
Pope
Boniface
the
ninth
,
and
all
concerning
the
wicked
liues
of
the
Priests
,
the
enormities
of
the
Clergie
,
the
destruction
of
Rome
,
and
the
ouerthrow
of
the
Papacie
.
But
if
you
looke
into
the
exposition
of
the
17.
of
Ieremie
by
Ioaehimus
the
Abbot
,
you
shall
finde
there
that
The
Abbot
Ioa●him
.
the
Empire
of
Germanie
shall
depart
from
the
obedience
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
that
the
said
Church
with
the
Colledge
of
Cardinals
should
be
destroyed
:
yea
this
Ioaehim
out
of
the
Oracle
of
Sibyll
Erithea
foretelleth
,
that
God
will
stirre
vp
the
haughtie
Germans
against
the
Church
,
because
the
Roman
Clergie
trusted
more
to
the
Ierem.
17.
5.
power
of
man
,
than
of
God
,
therefore
shall
the
ship
of
Saint
Peter
be
tossed
and
troubled
with
hostile
incursions
and
terrible
assaults
,
&c.
If
you
ouer-looke
the
Prophecies
of
Ioannes
Lichtenberg
,
Germany
against
Rome
.
and
Reynardus
Lollerus
,
you
shall
finde
that
the
Germans
shall
make
a
league
with
France
,
by
vertue
whereof
the
Church
shall
be
brought
to
beare
the
Crosse
with
sorrow
and
tribulation
vpon
her
owne
backe
.
In
the
Oracle
of
Cassandra
the
Sibyll
Tiburtina
collected
Sibyll
Cassandra
.
by
Godfridus
Viterbiensis
,
and
Baptista
Nazarus
,
you
haue
a
prediction
,
that
by
the
valour
and
power
of
certaine
German
Princes
,
whose
names
should
begin
with
H.
and
P.
Rome
should
be
destroied
,
and
Iohannes
.
Wolphius
in
his
sixteenth
Centenary
alledgeth
,
that
Hydaspes
an
ancient
Hydaspes
.
King
of
the
Medes
did
foretell
the
lamentable
desolation
of
Rome
,
&
subuersion
both
of
their
greatnes
,
and
superstition
.
In
the
yeere
1593.
Petrus
Paulus
an
Abbot
of
Calabria
,
casting
downe
an
old
wall
in
his
Monastery
,
found
a
Sepulcher
of
stone
by
digging
deepe
to
lay
a
new
foundation
,
wherein
was
a
corps
almost
consumed
,
holding
in
his
hand
a
plate
of
siluer
with
this
inscription
;
This
is
the
body
of
the
Abbot
of
Werde
of
Hydrantum
buried
the
17.
Abbot
of
Werde
.
of
October
1279.
and
saying
thus
,
Cum
sancta
ciuitas
fulgebit
splendore
none
stellae
,
Sol
iter●m
me
videbit
:
and
vnder
the
head
was
a
little
marble
chest
,
wherein
a
leaden
box
contained
a
parchment
with
this
Prophecie
:
In
those
daies
many
famous
cities
shall
peris●
,
fearefull
and
terrible
things
shall
come
to
passe
and
in
Italy
,
Rome
,
Naples
,
and
Tuskany
,
with
my
countrey
of
Hydrantum
shall
bee
shaken
in
notable
manner
,
and
so
shall
Florence
be
affrighted
,
as
expecting
a
reuenge
,
because
of
her
Apostate
Duke
,
with
a
great
deale
more
.
The
formerly
recited
Saint
Vincent
in
most
of
his
writings
maketh
as
it
were
an
agreement
with
the
predictions
,
which
were
sound
in
the
Abbot
of
Clunies
Library
Abbot
of
Cluny
.
written
some
500.
yeeres
agoe
against
certaine
Popes
,
that
shall
follow
the
steps
of
Simon
Magus
,
and
so
drinke
of
the
cup
of
the
wrath
of
God
,
and
whereas
there
are
many
and
large
prophecies
attributed
to
Abbot
Ioachim
,
yet
they
all
tend
to
presage
the
reformation
of
the
Church
,
or
confusion
of
her
obstacles
and
enemies
,
that
is
,
the
Pope
and
his
Colledge
of
Cardinals
,
or
the
obsession
and
demolition
of
Rome
.
There
is
a
Prophecy
of
Iohannes
de
rupe
Scissa
a
Francesian
Diu●●●
pr●p●ecies
.
Friar
:
another
of
Theodoricus
Bishop
of
Croatia
:
another
in
a
booke
intitled
Stimulus
diuinae
contemplationis
:
another
out
of
the
Bishops
of
Limoges
Library
in
France
:
another
of
Laurenti●●s
Miniatensis
,
an
Astrologian
of
Naples
,
and
many
others
from
as
many
seuerall
Authours
,
and
countreys
,
and
all
tending
to
this
end
and
purpose
,
that
Religion
must
be
reformed
,
according
to
the
Prophet
Zachary
,
where
the
filthy
garments
are
to
bee
taken
Zachary
3.
away
,
and
a
crowne
of
pure
gold
to
bee
set
vpon
the
Priests
head
.
That
Sathan
shall
be
rebuked
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
hindrances
of
this
good
worke
shall
bee
remoued
:
that
this
strange
exaltation
of
the
Popes
of
Rome
must
bee
abated
,
that
their
pompe
and
supremacy
must
bee
dissolued
,
and
that
the
very
city
shall
be
subiect
to
fire
,
and
the
countrey
to
inuasion
of
enemies
,
&c.
Shall
tell
you
,
how
Hieronymus
Sauanarola
expounded
Sauanarola
.
the
reuelation
of
Saint
Iohn
to
the
people
of
Florence
?
He
assured
them
,
that
religion
must
be
reformed
,
that
God
would
accuse
the
Churches
that
were
faultie
,
their
trumperies
must
be
abolished
,
their
inuentions
annihilated
,
&
that
God
would
bring
a
great
scourge
vpon
all
Italie
,
especially
Rome
:
nor
desisteth
he
so
,
but
alledgeth
the
cause
,
and
certaine
motiues
,
why
God
was
so
extraordinarily
offended
,
namely
,
the
pollution
of
the
Sanctuarie
,
the
corruption
of
the
Clergie
,
the
ill
gouernment
of
Prelates
and
Priests
,
the
abuses
of
Officers
,
and
the
pride
of
Bishops
and
Cardinals
,
who
will
neither
enter
into
heauen
themselues
(
as
Christ
exprobrated
the
Pharises
)
nor
suffer
others
:
which
sinnes
must
needs
cry
from
the
earth
vnto
heauen
for
vengeance
,
&c.
It
is
wonderfull
to
relate
that
Panlus
secundus
Grebnerus
Grebnerus
.
the
German
Astrologian
should
so
long
agoe
for
the
generall
foretell
the
vtter
destruction
of
the
Pope
of
Rome
,
enlarging
his
inuectiues
against
idols
,
temples
,
and
Churches
,
defiled
with
mens
inuentions
,
authorised
by
humane
fancies
,
and
adorned
with
gewgaw
deuices
,
as
if
they
were
afraid
to
break
the
necke
of
policy
by
letting
her
looke
vp
to
heauen
,
and
therefore
she
should
be
troubled
no
further
,
than
the
hangings
,
images
,
or
painted
walls
of
some
melancholy
Chappell
.
For
the
particular
,
hee
prognosticated
the
destruction
and
dissipation
of
the
fleet
in
88.
the
murther
of
Henry
the
third
of
France
,
the
troubles
of
the
King
of
Nauarre
,
Henry
of
Burbon
,
the
preuailing
of
his
armies
,
and
the
winning
of
the
strong
towne
of
Groyning
in
Free
sland
.
But
amongst
others
,
which
I
named
before
,
you
must
Abbot
Ioachim
.
needs
harken
vnto
that
famous
and
well
reputed
man
Ioachimus
the
Italian
Abbot
of
Flore
in
Calabria
,
who
foresheweth
,
that
at
last
both
Germans
and
the
French
shall
sorsake
the
Pope
of
Rome
,
and
deny
the
supremacie
,
because
of
their
monstrous
corruptions
and
iniquities
.
He
also
alledgeth
,
that
as
Salomon
in
his
age
fell
to
idolatrie
,
so
should
Rome
be
most
contaminated
,
when
she
declined
,
and
extend
the
violence
of
her
filthinesse
,
as
the
last
act
of
her
tragedie
approached
.
He
proceedeth
yet
further
,
that
all
Christian
Princes
shall
not
onely
forsake
,
but
afflict
her
,
yea
a
Prince
smally
reputed
of
shall
correct
the
Babylon
of
Rome
.
Harken
I
pray
you
to
a
little
more
:
he
resembleth
the
Pope
to
Pharo
and
Pilate
,
and
maketh
a
further
comparison
with
her
by
the
Babylonish
whore
,
and
so
concludeath
,
that
they
shall
all
be
laid
in
a
bed
of
affliction
,
and
scourged
againe
and
againe
with
bleeding
wounds
for
their
wickednesse
and
abominations
.
I
could
proceed
with
many
others
,
but
I
did
purpose
onely
an
●nchiridion
,
and
therefore
I
will
desist
from
raising
it
to
a
volume
:
yet
I
cannot
ouerpasse
those
bitter
inuectiues
,
and
terrible
presages
against
Rome
,
by
Robertus
a
Dominican
Friar
,
who
in
diuers
sermons
likens
the
Pope
Friar
Robert
.
to
an
Idoll
for
adoration
:
to
an
Hidropick
for
presumption
:
to
a
Beare
for
cruelty
:
to
a
serpent
which
in
a
vision
he
saw
in
the
palace
of
Laterane
:
to
a
blacke
,
dry
,
and
blasted
body
:
to
an
head
of
wood
,
which
was
to
bee
cut
or
broken
off
,
and
many
other
resembiances
tending
all
to
this
purpose
,
that
in
the
end
according
to
the
time
,
which
God
hath
kept
secret
in
his
owne
bosome
,
Rome
and
the
Popes
of
Rome
shall
not
onely
bee
discouered
to
bee
that
man
of
sinne
,
and
Antichrist
in
the
Scriptures
,
but
receiue
the
reward
of
adultery
euen
the
diuorce
from
Iesus
Christ
:
If
it
bee
so
then
,
answer
a
Gods
name
you
that
must
answer
before
the
iudgement
Throne
of
the
Lambe
,
how
comes
this
about
,
if
the
Papacy
shall
not
come
to
ruine
,
and
Rome
it selfe
be
destroied
,
sceing
Antichrist
is
thus
reuealed
,
and
that
sonne
of
perdition
manifested
,
whom
God
will
consume
with
the
breath
of
his
nostrils
.
If
not
so
,
shew
,
wherein
either
I
haue
gone
beyond
limitation
,
or
my
Authors
haue
failed
in
their
computation
,
and
I
will
answer
both
for
them
and
my selfe
,
what
is
befitting
to
satisfaction
,
if
God
haue
made
your
hearts
pliable
to
a
modest
and
humble
impression
.
Antichrists
punishment
,
and
Romes
destruction
from
holy
women
.
I
Perceiue
,
For
as
in
Peters
vision
the
sheet
was
let
downe
,
and
proposed
vnto
him
full
of
cleane
and
vncleane
beasts
:
so
in
the
Church
of
God
,
the
women
as
well
as
the
men
haue
not
onely
beene
admitted
,
but
admired
for
their
sanctity
;
yea
as
ftom
the
examples
of
Scripture
,
the
Idolatrous
nations
assumed
a
patterne
of
imitation
,
falsifying
Abrahams
offering
his
sonne
Isaac
,
to
the
inuention
of
slaughtering
men
to
the
Deuill
:
out
of
Samsons
story
they
haue
iustified
the
life
of
Hercules
:
from
Moses
and
Aarons
Priesthood
,
and
Salomons
Temple
,
they
haue
raised
their
superstitious
adoration
of
idols
,
and
Hecatombs
of
beasts
,
with
such
like
:
so
hath
the
Church
of
Rome
in
resemblance
of
Miriam
,
Debora
,
Hulda
,
Anna
,
and
many
others
named
Prophetesses
,
and
holy
women
in
Scripture
,
canonized
Saints
,
of
Nuns
,
and
other
deuotresses
,
whom
they
haue
not
onely
reuerenced
for
their
liues
,
but
adored
for
their
vertues
,
doctrine
,
and
piety
:
amongst
whom
I
will
only
name
you
fiue
,
eternized
to
memory
by
the
Papists
themselues
,
who
shall
furnish
this
our
present
banquet
of
predictions
with
the
dainties
and
accates
of
the
best
taste
to
Gods
true
children
,
but
of
dangerous
receit
to
the
superstitious
deuourer
of
nouelty
,
and
new fangled
deuices
of
men
.
In
the
Propheticall
visions
of
Saint
Hildegard
a
Nunne
,
St.
Hildegard
.
the
second
booke
of
her
Sciuias
,
there
are
diuers
particulrs
touching
the
desolation
of
Rome
,
and
destruction
of
the
Pope
,
with
intimation
of
the
cause
,
as
not
onely
for
throwing
the
durt
and
filth
of
mens
inuentions
into
the
pure
waters
of
the
riuers
of
Gods
Church
,
but
for
continuing
their
liues
in
all
abominations
of
impiety
,
and
rowling
vp
together
into
some
stupendious
heape
the
scattered
snow
of
superstition
,
Relicks
,
Altar
clothes
,
Pardons
,
Indulgences
,
and
such
like
trumperies
,
which
will
vanish
and
melt
away
as
the
snow
,
when
the
sunny
splendor
of
Gods
word
shineth
hotly
vpon
them
:
for
the
Prophet
tells
vs
,
their
best
hypocrisie
is
but
like
the
morning
dew
,
Hoshea
6.
which
is
not
seene
within
an
houre
or
so
after
the
Sunnes
rising
.
There
is
another
Prophecy
of
Mathilda
,
or
as
some
St.
Mathilda
.
haue
it
,
Magdalena
,
a
holy
Saint
,
and
religious
woman
,
against
Rome
for
her
apostasie
,
and
the
Cardinals
for
their
assumpted
greatnesse
and
dangerous
impietie
:
for
which
cause
there
shall
be
diuisions
in
Germanie
,
and
the
Prouinces
shall
neuer
be
accorded
in
religion
,
till
either
the
destruction
or
reformation
of
Rome
be
brought
to
passe
.
If
you
did
reade
the
Originals
,
and
would
aduise
vpon
the
congruent
gradations
of
their
writings
,
following
as
it
were
the
order
of
Ecclesiasticall
Historie
,
you
would
either
wonder
how
such
a
spirit
was
infused
in
them
,
or
that
the
Church
of
Rome
hath
not
since
suppressed
or
abolished
their
inuectiues
.
But
(
as
I
said
)
God
doth
worke
by
secret
meanes
and
strange
instruments
,
and
when
he
hath
either
a
mercy
or
a
iudgement
to
execute
,
Cyrus
shall
be
his
anointed
,
Nabuchadnezzar
his
seruant
,
and
very
wicked
tyrants
and
infidels
his
hammer
to
bruise
the
stones
in
peeces
.
S.
Elizabeth
was
also
a
Nunne
and
Prophetesse
,
and
S.
Elizabeth
.
hath
her
Visions
too
:
so
that
in
the
second
booke
you
shall
finde
how
she
expostulateth
the
matter
with
the
corrupt
Clergie
,
why
they
should
preach
erronious
doctrine
,
peruert
the
sacred
Scriptures
,
continue
in
abomination
of
life
,
maintaine
the
absurdities
of
Traditions
,
&c.
Then
she
exprobrateth
the
Bishops
for
their
schismaticall
filthinesse
,
chargeth
the
Church
of
Rome
with
deadnesse
and
errour
,
reproueth
the
Popes
of
simonie
and
vnheard
of
vitiousnesse
,
and
last
of
all
she
commeth
vnto
iudgement
,
and
threatneth
them
all
with
vtter
deuastation
and
ruine
.
S.
Bridget
had
also
her
reuelations
;
she
was
a
holy
woman
,
S.
Bridget
.
religious
widow
,
and
princesse
of
N●rice
in
Swethland
:
they
are
wonderfull
both
for
the
number
and
the
large
approbation
of
many
learned
and
iudicious
Papists
,
who
all
commend
her
sanctimonious
life
,
and
confirme
he●
spirituall
raptures
.
In
one
place
she
challengeth
the
Pope
and
corrupt
Clergie
of
Rome
,
of
many
enormities
,
denouncing
Gods
iudgement
against
them
.
In
another
she
would
haue
the
Scriptures
to
be
read
in
the
mother
tongue
.
In
a
third
she
curseth
the
selling
of
spirituall
liuings
,
and
threatneth
a
woe
,
if
the
custome
be
not
abrogated
and
abolished
.
In
a
fourth
she
is
much
exafperated
against
Rome
for
many
aberrations
,
especially
●weruing
from
her
primitiue
excellencie
.
In
a
fift
she
enlarging
her selfe
,
maketh
a
Catalogue
of
infinite
number
of
vices
and
errors
to
which
Rome
was
subiected
.
In
a
sixth
she
inciteth
the
Princes
of
Europe
to
the
calling
of
a
Generall
Councell
,
and
bringing
Rome
into
Foro
publico
by
accusation
.
In
a
seuenth
shee
inueigheth
against
the
fornication
of
Priests
,
protesting
it
were
better
to
marry
,
nay
warranting
that
the
prohibition
of
marriage
was
vtterly
vnlawfull
.
In
another
she
thus
presageth
,
and
ratifies
it
with
a
forcible
oath
,
that
the
reformation
of
Rome
must
begin
with
the
sword
,
and
so
seuen
plagues
shall
fall
vpon
her
,
as
it
was
spoken
vnto
Israel
.
In
a
ninth
she
sheweth
the
difference
betweene
Christs
and
the
Popes
Church
,
or
if
you
will
,
the
Popes
Court
,
enlarging
the
particulars
by
diuers
circumstances
,
and
demonstratiue
reasons
.
In
a
tenth
she
contesteth
against
that
impious
opinion
of
mens
merits
in
matter
of
saluation
,
as
a
very
poison
to
infect
the
heart
of
true
religion
,
and
open
a
gap
to
let
in
a
world
of
absurdities
.
In
another
she
wonders
how
that
Purgatorie
came
into
mens
minds
,
more
than
that
it
was
a
deuice
of
the
deuill
to
make
a
mint
for
the
selling
of
soules
,
or
at
the
best
to
coine
money
to
fill
the
Popes
treasurie
.
In
the
last
place
she
assureth
them
that
God
will
raise
vp
better
vine-dressers
in
his
vineyard
,
than
were
in
her
time
,
or
else
leaue
it
desolate
to
the
foxes
,
who
shall
destroy
it
for
euer
.
What
would
she
say
then
if
she
liued
in
these
dayes
,
and
were
acquainted
with
the
new
sect
of
Iesuites
,
the
Popes
Ianisaries
,
and
the
worlds
Incendiaries
;
with
the
doctrine
of
equiuocation
and
mentall
reseruation
;
with
that
atheisticall
position
of
Fidesnon
est
seruanda
haereticis
and
all
those
damnable
dispensations
with
murders
,
depositions
of
Princes
,
incests
,
whoredomes
,
and
such
like
?
There
is
neuer
a
Papist
in
the
world
but
honoureth
Katherine
of
Sienna
for
a
Saint
,
and
religious
woman
.
S.
Katherine
.
Now
,
if
he
will
but
beleeue
her
writings
,
as
he
reuerenceth
her
person
,
and
exalteth
her
memorie
,
let
him
giue
eare
to
her
Prophecies
.
She
beginneth
very
sanctimoniously
with
a
praier
for
the
reformation
of
the
Church
of
Rome
:
she
proceedeth
effectually
to
lay
open
the
enormities
of
the
same
:
she
continueth
most
seriously
in
discouering
the
mischiefes
they
haue
done
to
the
poore
afflicted
soules
of
Christendome
;
and
she
concludeth
very
perempto●ily
,
that
Rome
shall
incurre
tribulation
,
and
be
vtterly
destroied
for
her
abominable
life
and
imposturing
deceit
:
That
the
Pope
shall
be
disrobed
,
and
lose
his
triple
Crowne
,
yea
be
bereaued
of
all
his
pompe
and
glory
,
and
that
the
Cardinals
shall
cast
off
their
scarlet
gownes
,
and
run
to
hide
themselues
,
if
they
knew
where
:
but
death
and
desolation
shall
follow
them
into
their
closets
,
and
their
very
Idols
and
Images
shall
make
a
fire
to
consume
them
,
so
that
their
louers
and
friends
shall
crie
out
,
Heu
cadit
in
quenquam
tantum
scelus
,
tanta
iniquitas
!
yea
their
very
enemies
shall
clap
their
hands
for
joy
to
see
their
filthinesse
laied
open
to
the
hissing
of
the
passengers
.
If
this
be
thus
,
then
answer
a
Gods
name
,
you
that
must
answer
before
the
iudgement
throne
of
the
Lambe
,
how
comes
this
about
,
if
the
Papacie
shall
not
come
to
ruine
,
and
Rome
it selfe
be
d●stroied
,
seeing
Antichrist
is
reuealed
,
and
that
sonne
of
perdition
manifested
,
whom
God
will
consume
with
the
breath
of
his
nostrils
.
If
not
so
,
shew
wherein
I
haue
gone
beyond
limitation
,
or
my
Authors
failed
in
their
account
,
and
I
will
answer
both
for
them
and
my selfe
,
what
is
befitting
satisfaction
,
if
God
haue
made
your
hearts
pliable
to
an
humble
and
modest
impression
.
And
thus
much
for
Antichrists
punishment
.
Because
I
finde
the
substance
of
all
that
hath
beene
said
in
one
continued
discourse
vpon
the
eleuenth
Chap.
of
the
fourth
booke
of
Esdras
,
I
will
enlarge
the
same
.
For
the
Papists
themselues
allow
the
Apocrypha
,
as
authenticall
,
as
Canonicall
Scripture
,
wee
onely
maintaine
,
that
though
it
be
not
Canonicall
Scripture
,
yet
our
learned
Diuines
attribute
to
these
Apocryphall
writings
the
next
place
to
the
Canonicall
Scripture
:
and
so
you
shall
not
only
haue
the
Originall
verbatim
,
but
a
true
and
strange
Paraphrase
,
or
illustration
approued
by
the
best
authoritie
.
ESDRAS
2.
Chap.
11.
1
THen
saw
I
a
dreame
,
and
behold
there
came
vp
from
the
sea
an
Eagle
which
had
twelue
feathered
wings
and
three
heads
.
2
And
I
saw
,
and
behold
shee
spred
her
wings
ouer
all
the
earth
,
and
all
the
windes
of
the
aire
blew
on
her
,
and
were
gathered
together
.
3
And
I
beheld
,
and
out
of
her
feathers
there
grew
other
contrarie
feathers
,
and
they
became
little
feathers
and
small
.
4
But
her
heads
were
at
rest
,
the
head
in
the
midst
was
greater
than
the
other
;
yet
rested
it
with
the
residue
.
5
Moreouer
,
I
beheld
,
and
loe
,
the
Eagle
flew
with
her
feathers
,
and
reigned
vpon
the
earth
,
and
ouer
them
that
dwelt
therein
.
6
And
I
saw
,
that
all
things
vnder
Heauen
were
subiect
vnto
her
,
and
no
man
spake
against
her
,
no
not
one
creature
vpon
earth
.
7
And
I
beheld
,
and
loe
the
Eagle
rose
vpon
her
tallons
,
and
spake
to
her
feathers
saying
,
8
Watch
not
all
at
once
,
sleepe
euerie
one
in
his
owne
place
,
and
watch
by
course
.
9
But
let
the
heads
be
preserued
for
the
last
.
10
And
I
beheld
,
and
loe
the
voice
went
not
out
of
her
heads
,
but
from
the
midst
of
her
bodie
.
11
And
I
numbred
her
contrarie
feathers
,
and
behold
,
there
were
eight
of
them
.
12
And
I
looked
,
and
behold
on
the
right
side
there
arose
one
feather
and
reigned
ouer
all
the
earth
.
13
And
so
it
was
that
when
it
reigned
,
the
end
of
it
came
,
and
the
place
thereof
appeared
no
more
,
so
the
next
following
stood
vp
,
and
reigned
,
and
had
a
great
time
.
14
And
it
happened
that
when
it
reigned
,
the
end
of
it
came
also
,
like
as
the
first
,
so
that
it
appeared
no
more
.
15
Then
came
there
a
vcice
vnto
it
and
said
,
16
Heare
thou
that
hast
borne
rule
ouer
the
earth
so
long
,
this
I
say
vnto
thee
,
before
thou
beginnest
to
appeare
no
more
.
17
There
shall
none
after
thee
attaine
vnto
thy
time
,
neither
vnto
the
halfe
thereof
.
18
Then
arose
the
third
,
and
reigned
as
the
others
before
,
and
appeared
no
more
also
.
19
So
went
it
with
all
the
residue
one
after
another
,
as
that
euery
one
reigned
,
and
then
appeared
no
more
.
20
Then
I
beheld
and
loe
in
processe
of
time
the
feathers
,
that
followed
,
stood
vp
on
the
right
side
,
that
they
might
rule
also
,
and
some
of
them
ruled
,
but
within
a
while
they
appeared
no
more
.
21
For
some
of
them
were
set
vp
,
but
ruled
not
.
22
After
this
I
looked
,
and
behold
the
12.
feathers
appeared
no
more
,
nor
the
two
little
feathers
.
23
And
there
was
no
more
vpon
the
Eagles
body
but
three
heads
that
rested
and
six
little
wings
.
24
Then
saw
I
also
,
that
two
little
feathers
diuided
themselues
from
the
six
,
and
remained
vnder
the
head
,
that
was
vpon
the
right
side
,
for
the
foure
continued
in
their
place
.
25
And
I
beheld
and
loe
,
the
feathers
,
that
were
vnder
the
wing
,
thought
to
set
vp
themselues
,
and
to
haue
the
rule
.
26
And
I
beheld
,
and
loe
,
there
was
one
set
vp
,
and
shortly
it
appeared
no
more
.
27
And
the
second
was
sooner
away
than
the
first
.
28
And
I
beheld
,
and
loe
the
two
that
remained
thought
also
in
themselues
to
reigne
.
29
And
when
they
so
thought
,
behold
there
awaked
one
of
the
heads
that
were
at
rest
,
namely
it
that
was
in
the
midst
,
for
that
was
greater
than
the
two
other
heads
.
30
And
then
I
saw
that
the
two
other
heads
were
ioyned
with
it
,
31
And
behold
the
head
was
turned
with
them
,
that
were
with
it
,
and
did
eat
vp
the
two
feathers
vnder
the
wing
,
that
would
haue
reigned
.
32
But
this
head
put
the
whole
earth
in
feare
,
and
bare
rule
in
it
ouer
all
those
that
dwelt
vpon
the
earth
,
with
much
oppression
,
and
it
had
the
gouernance
of
the
world
,
more
than
all
the
wings
that
had
beene
.
33
And
after
this
I
beheld
,
and
loe
,
the
head
that
was
in
the
midst
suddenly
appeared
no
more
,
like
as
the
wings
.
34
But
there
remained
the
two
heads
,
which
also
in
like
sort
ruled
vpon
the
earth
,
and
ouer
those
that
dwelt
therein
.
35
And
I
beheld
,
and
loe
,
the
head
vpon
the
right
side
deuoured
it
that
was
vpon
the
left
side
.
36
Then
I
heard
a
voice
which
said
vnto
me
,
looke
before
thee
,
and
consider
the
thing
that
thou
seest
.
37
And
I
beheld
,
and
loe
as
it
were
a
roaring
Lion
chased
out
of
the
wood
,
and
I
saw
that
he
sent
out
a
mans
voice
vnto
the
Eagle
and
said
,
38
Heare
thou
:
I
will
talke
with
thee
,
and
the
highest
shall
say
vnto
thee
,
39
Art
not
thou
it
that
remainest
of
the
foure
beasts
,
whom
I
made
to
reigne
in
my
world
,
that
the
end
of
their
times
might
come
through
them
?
40
And
the
fourth
came
,
and
ouercame
all
the
beasts
that
were
past
,
and
had
power
ouer
the
world
with
great
fearefulnesse
,
and
ouer
the
whole
compasse
of
the
earth
with
much
wicked
oppression
,
and
so
long
time
dwelt
he
vpon
the
earth
with
deceit
.
41
For
the
earth
hast
thou
not
iudged
with
truth
.
42
For
thou
hast
afflicted
the
meeke
,
thou
hast
hurt
the
peaceable
,
thou
hast
loued
liers
,
and
destroied
the
dwellings
of
them
that
brought
forth
fruit
,
and
hast
cast
downe
the
walls
of
such
as
did
thee
no
harme
.
43
Therefore
is
thy
wrongfull
dealing
come
vp
vnto
the
highest
,
and
thy
pride
vnto
the
mighty
.
44
The
highest
also
hath
looked
vpon
the
proud
times
,
and
behold
they
are
ended
,
and
his
abominations
are
fulfilled
.
45
And
therefere
appeare
no
more
thou
Eagle
,
nor
thy
horrible
wings
,
nor
thy
wicked
feathers
,
nor
thy
malicious
heads
,
nor
thy
hurtfull
clawes
,
nor
all
thy
vaine
body
.
46
That
all
the
earth
may
be
refreshed
,
and
may
returne
being
deliuer●d
from
thy
violence
,
and
that
she
may
hope
for
the
iudgement
and
mercy
of
him
that
made
her
.
If
you
reade
also
the
next
chapter
,
you
may
finde
how
Esdras
expounded
this
vision
:
but
because
I
haue
promised
a
more
plenary
satisfaction
,
I
apply
my selfe
to
the
same
purpose
,
and
thus
continue
the
discourse
.
In
the
daies
of
Darius
king
of
Persia
,
some
400.
yeeres
before
lulins
Caesar
aduanced
the
standard
of
the
Roman
Empire
,
vnder
the
presentation
of
a
sable
Eagle
displaied
in
a
golden
field
,
as
the
first
Emperor
after
Kings
,
Consuls
and
Dictators
this
vision
came
to
Esdras
,
and
containeth
the
beginning
,
continuance
,
and
dissolution
of
the
Empire
and
supremacy
of
Rome
,
seene
by
the
Prophe●
Daniel
some
few
yeeres
before
:
wherein
twelue
only
Emperors
are
personated
for
their
extended
power
like
wings
ouer
the
world
,
and
for
their
greatnesse
and
celsitude
of
birth
,
like
beasts
with
iron
teeth
&
nailes
of
brasse
,
the
number
as
a
full
iury
to
include
the
rest
,
and
their
noblenesse
farre
exceeding
other
inferiors
,
as
descended
from
the
families
of
I●lij
,
Seruij
,
Saluij
,
Flauij
,
&c.
Wheras
all
others
were
but
composed
of
meane
originalls
,
or
contrary
nations
,
and
no
natiue
Romans
.
By
her
three
heads
are
meant
three
kingdomes
,
which
must
behold
the
pride
of
Rome
,
when
her
wings
and
feathers
shall
faile
.
By
the
winds
are
vnderstood
her
prosperity
,
and
large
extension
of
dominion
,
as
limiting
her
territories
from
Ganges
to
Gades
,
and
from
the
Scythian
sea
to
Cape
bona
esperanza
.
By
the
contrary
feathers
you
must
vnderstand
certaine
Kings
and
Princes
that
opposed
this
transcendent
mightinesse
of
Rome
:
but
their
purposes
were
frustrated
,
and
for
the
time
they
preuailed
not
,
till
at
last
one
was
mightier
than
the
rest
,
yet
all
rested
for
a
time
:
for
they
were
as
embrions
vnbroughtforth
till
this
great
city
in
her
vnlimited
pompe
and
pride
,
with
her
Armies
and
Legions
might
subiugate
the
neighbour
nations
,
and
insult
ouer
the
best
of
the
earth
.
By
the
standing
vpon
her
clawes
,
&c.
the
Priests
obserued
,
that
Rome
in
her
transcendency
did
nothing
without
counsell
and
good
aduice
,
wherby
her
Emperors
kept
the
soueraignty
with
great
caution
,
and
policy
,
and
obtained
a
renoune
beyond
all
ciries
and
kings
in
the
Vniuerse
.
Now
you
must
consider
,
that
what
Esdras
personateth
by
an
Eagle
,
the
Prophet
Daniel
designeth
vnder
the
forme
of
a
ten-horned
beast
,
Daniel
7.
berokening
diuers
Emperors
&
Kings
,
whose
vnresistable
●orces
should
affright
the
world
with
ambition
,
tyranny
,
and
couetousnesse
,
and
whereas
he
proceedeth
with
a
race
and
succession
of
gouernors
differing
in
shape
and
forme
from
their
predecessors
,
but
gouerning
with
blaspheming
the
most
High
,
sitting
in
the
Temple
,
●yrannizing
ouer
the
third
part
of
the
world
,
and
continuingin
greater
rages
and
cruelty
against
the
inhabitants
of
the
Prouinces
,
than
the
rest
;
what
is
it
any
other
than
after
the
Emperors
that
&
gouernment
,
the
Popes
shall
challenge
a
supremacy
and
prerogatiue
power
ouer
inferiour
kings
,
and
by
wonderfull
subtilty
,
that
is
,
the
shadow
of
piety
,
religion
,
and
sanctimonious
life
,
preuaile
in
elation
of
heart
,
and
power
of
soueraignty
,
and
therefore
Daniel
saith
,
and
he
shall
bee
vnlike
to
the
first
:
yet
still
must
Rome
be
called
Triumphanta
and
Santa
:
so
that
when
the
Eagle
saw
her
feathers
plucked
,
and
that
Senat
us
populusque
Romanus
could
doe
no
good
,
nor
Imperium
Romanum
preuaile
by
forcible
intrusion
,
she
fearing
some
incurable
disease
to
grow
vpon
her
,
and
that
shee
must
needs
saint
in
her
weaknesse
and
distresse
,
set
a
new
Loome
on
worke
of
policy
,
lies
,
and
deuices
,
yea
Magicke
,
and
Witchcraft
,
and
so
vnder
the
sacred
name
of
Ecclesia
Dei
Romae
,
once
againe
aduanced
her
standard
of
honour
and
reputation
,
and
became
as
predominant
in
her
spirituall
gouernment
,
as
euer
shee
was
in
the
warlike
dilacerations
of
her
Prouinces
.
But
the
story
followes
in
the
numbring
the
Eagles
contrary
Verse
11.
feathers
,
that
is
to
say
,
that
after
Rome
had
ouerswaid
the
world
,
and
her
glorious
Emperors
with
Luciferian
pride
,
aduanced
themselu●s
as
high
as
the
Sunne
:
there
should
diuers
attempts
be
made
by
forraine
nations
,
and
dangerous
Princes
to
dismantell
her
of
her
Imperiall
robes
,
and
vnplume
her
of
her
diuersity
of
colours
,
and
these
were
comprised
vnder
the
m●mber
of
eight
.
1.
The
West
Gothes
commanded
by
Alaricus
.
2.
the
Huns
by
Attala
.
3.
the
Vandals
by
Genscricus
.
4.
the
remainder
of
them
by
Odoacer
.
5.
the
East
Gothes
by
Thecdorick
.
6.
the
rest
by
Totila
.
7.
The
Lombards
or
Longobardi
by
Albonius
.
8.
and
the
last
by
an
intestine
sedition
and
domesticke
conspiracy
,
which
infested
as
much
or
more
,
than
all
the
rest
:
I
could
adde
as
enemies
,
the
Radaguise
,
Alani
or
Almans
,
Burgonians
vnder
Gundibald
,
Hungars
,
Saracens
,
and
diuers
other
,
but
the
former
were
those
principall
incendiaries
,
that
set
Rome
on
fire
indeed
,
and
by
manifest
repugnancy
pulled
her
walles
to
rubbish
,
which
lasted
all
the
time
of
her
ostentation
with
the
tearme
of
Imperium
crbis
terrae
,
but
when
it
came
to
the
counterchange
of
Mater
Ecclesia
,
then
did
these
Princes
likewise
inuest
her
with
new
robes
of
state
and
magnificence
,
and
were
content
to
take
the
golden
cup
from
the
Strumpets
hands
,
and
carowse
the
dregs
of
abomination
,
&
thus
is
the
story
of
Rome
epitomised
euen
to
this
houre
;
but
because
the
Prophecie
goes
forward
,
I
will
follow
in
the
strength
I
haue
,
&
begin
againe
.
One
feather
arose
on
the
right
side
,
and
reigned
,
saith
the
verse
12.
text
.
In
those
daies
the
great
ones
repined
at
the
gouernment
of
Consuls
,
and
the
inscription
of
Senatus
populusque
Romanus
,
whereupon
diuers
families
attempted
the
sole
iurisdiction
:
as
the
Cor●ehj
,
Marius
,
Scilla
,
Cateline
,
all
as
noble
and
as
well
borne
as
Iulins
;
but
none
rose
on
the
right
side
but
he
,
and
although
it
cost
him
his
life
in
the
enterprise
,
as
betraied
by
his
dearest
friends
,
who
ouerp●sing
the
liberty
of
their
countrey
before
the
ambition
of
an
intruder
,
taught
him
a
new
lesson
,
that
in
trust
was
treason
,
and
there
is
no
confidence
in
worldly
prosperity
,
but
time
will
haue
her
vicissitude
:
but
for
all
this
,
out
of
death
sprung
the
life
of
imperiousnesse
,
for
after
Octauius
,
Anthony
,
and
Lepidus
had
reuenged
his
death
,
and
plaied
the
wanton
Triumuiri
with
the
greatnesse
and
potency
of
gouernment
,
Octauius
shouldred
away
the
rest
,
and
for
his
happy
determination
of
businesse
,
and
prosperous
successe
in
all
affaires
,
reigned
forty
foure
yeeres
alone
as
Augustus
:
then
followed
Tiber●us
,
Caius
,
Caligula
,
Claudius
,
Nero
,
Galba
,
Otho
,
Vitellius
,
Vespasian
,
Titus
,
Domitian
,
and
these
are
the
feathers
and
wings
of
the
Eagle
principally
named
in
this
prophecie
.
Now
saith
the
Text
,
there
were
other
feathers
,
but
they
Vers.
20.
put
not
themselues
forth
with
that
strength
,
nor
made
so
glorious
a
shew
as
the
former
:
that
is
,
there
were
other
Emperours
and
Gouernours
,
but
they
were
neither
so
mighty
in
gouernment
nor
so
illustred
in
birth
:
such
as
Nerua
,
Adrian
,
Anthonius
,
Marius
,
Comm●dus
,
Pertinax
,
Iulian
,
Seuerus
,
Caracalla
,
Macrinus
,
Heliogabalus
,
Alexander
,
Maximinus
,
with
others
to
the
3.
Valentinian
,
and
so
by
degrees
as
it
is
in
Philosophie
,
corrupti●
vnius
generatio
alterius
,
the
Empire
decaying
,
the
papacy
had
roome
in
Rome
for
a
new
progression
.
All
this
while
you
must
consider
,
there
were
others
which
were
opposi●es
and
innouators
,
but
no
gouernors
,
and
these
,
saith
the
text
,
were
set
vp
,
but
not
ruled
:
such
as
Vindex
,
Piscenius
niger
,
Albinus
,
Diadumenas
,
Maximus
,
Balbinus
,
30.
Tyranni
,
Firmus
,
Saturninus
,
Bonosus
,
Proculus
,
Aper
,
Eugenius
,
Quintillus
,
Ruffinus
,
Constantinus
,
not
surnamed
Magnus
,
Heraclianus
,
and
others
,
who
all
serued
to
no
other
end
,
but
as
instruments
for
the
Almighty
to
hew
downe
the
marble
pillers
of
this
Imperiall
Rome
,
and
afterward
to
raise
a
new
fabricke
of
stupendious
admiration
,
by
a
farre
more
vnnaturall
gouernment
of
Church-men
,
I
call
it
vnnaturall
,
because
the
Popes
of
Rome
,
vnder
the
sanctified
titles
of
Peters
successor
,
Vcars
to
the
Lambe
,
and
fathers
of
the
Church
of
God
,
not
onely
deceiued
the
world
,
but
excelled
the
proudest
Emperors
,
when
their
sinnes
came
to
ouerflowing
,
in
State
,
Maiestie
,
Pompe
,
couetousnesse
,
tyranny
,
and
all
other
impieties
discouered
in
Scripture
.
But
the
Prophet
goes
forward
with
the
Empires
dissolution
,
that
is
to
say
,
with
the
whole
narration
of
the
story
of
the
Nations
that
infested
Italy
,
beginning
with
Alaricus
,
who
set
himselfe
vp
in
the
19.
yeere
of
Honorius
,
conquering
Latium
,
Campania
,
Apulia
,
Lucania
,
Cal●bria
,
proceeding
with
Attila
,
who
in
the
27.
of
the
3.
year
410
Valentinian
destroi●d
Aquileia
,
Verona
,
Mantu●
,
Cremona
,
Brixia
,
Coneordia
,
with
the
new
territory
of
Venice
,
and
ending
with
Genserick
,
Od●acer
,
Totila
,
the
Lombards
,
and
the
intestine
faction
:
and
these
are
the
two
heads
and
Vers.
23.
six
wings
:
now
you
must
consider
,
that
in
this
fearefull
time
,
the
proud
Attila
did
fell
the
city
of
Rome
to
Bishop
Leo
,
as
some
report
,
and
so
was
contented
to
forsake
Italy
,
by
which
occasion
the
Popes
became
Masters
of
this
great
City
,
and
in
processe
of
time
wrought
out
their
supremacy
,
not
onely
ouer
Italy
,
but
ouer
Europe
:
For
as
these
Tyrants
vexed
one
another
,
and
the
successors
which
followed
were
subiect
to
extirpation
,
namely
Valentinian
,
Maximus
,
Anitus
,
Maiorianus
,
Seuerus
,
Anthemias
,
Olibrius
,
Glycerius
,
lxlius
,
N●pos
,
Momil●us
,
otherwise
Augustulus
,
the
Popes
raised
their
structures
out
of
their
ruines
,
and
the
rubbish
of
the
Empire
serued
to
aduance
the
fabricke
of
the
Papacy
:
Thus
the
Eagles
displaid
wings
were
spread
in
the
time
of
Augustus
and
broken
and
spoiled
in
the
daies
of
Augustulus
,
who
was
that
Momil●us
the
last
named
,
and
so
the
prophecy
followeth
to
the
29.
verse
,
with
the
varietie
of
the
warres
,
troubles
,
and
gouernment
,
of
all
the
contrary
feathers
named
before
,
to
the
time
of
the
intestine
sedition
,
which
had
pretence
of
renuing
the
stile
of
Senatus
populusque
Romanus
:
but
now
the
Bishop
of
Rome
tampers
for
his
supremacy
,
and
inuesteth
Charles
King
of
France
,
Emperor
,
and
this
is
that
which
Esdras
meaneth
,
by
the
awaking
of
one
of
the
three
heads
,
that
were
at
rest
:
for
the
Vers.
29.
801
three
heads
personate
Germany
,
France
,
and
Spaine
,
who
shall
according
to
the
interpretation
of
this
Vision
,
still
by
one
meanes
or
other
maintaine
the
dignity
of
the
Popedome
,
though
all
the
rest
of
the
Kings
and
Princes
of
Europe
forsake
it
,
till
vtter
destruction
come
indeed
,
and
they
manifestly
behold
,
that
God
will
c●st
this
strumpet
in
a
bed
of
affliction
,
that
is
to
say
,
that
although
Papistry
and
the
profession
of
the
Romish
Religion
shall
not
be
vtterly
extinguished
,
till
the
Church
be
triumphant
in
heauen
,
yet
shall
the
glory
of
Rome
,
yea
of
the
Pope
and
his
Cardinalls
suffer
diminution
,
if
not
vtter
d●solation
,
as
shall
be
manifested
in
due
place
,
and
orderly
demonstration
.
But
first
you
must
note
,
how
the
Prophet
proceeds
:
the
verse
31.
middle
head
did
eat
vp
the
wings
,
which
is
meant
by
the
sword
of
Carclus
magnus
,
who
at
the
Popes
command
came
into
Italy
and
tooke
De●●derius
prisoner
,
leading
him
captiue
into
France
;
after
this
Cono
the
Emperour
falls
out
with
Gregory
the
second
,
and
p●oiected
to
dislocate
the
Popes
of
Rome
,
as
intimating
,
that
their
pride
and
tyranny
would
grow
vlcerous
,
and
to
a
Gangren
in
the
body
of
Europes
gouernment
:
whereupon
the
people
were
not
only
incensed
against
their
Bishop
,
but
attempted
a
new
alteration
,
by
Senators
and
Consuls
,
had
not
the
French
laid
a
cooling
card
for
this
proceeding
,
and
established
the
Pope
in
his
supreme
eminency
:
yet
all
is
not
quiet
;
for
some
150.
yeeres
after
Alberick
and
Octauian
his
sonne
contested
anew
with
the
ambitious
Prelates
,
and
once
againe
aduanced
another
gouernment
in
Rome
:
but
see
how
the
Pope
thriues
according
to
the
prophecie
:
Otho
the
great
comes
in
his
assistance
,
banisheth
the
Consull
,
hangeth
the
Tribunes
,
and
mounteth
the
Praefectus
Vrbis
naked
on
an
Asse
,
and
so
hee
is
crowned
,
and
with
great
derision
thrust
into
prison
,
and
●ormented
to
death
:
but
within
seuen
yeeres
new
vproares
began
by
the
tumul●uary
incitation
of
Lancius
,
had
not
Otho
the
second
at
a
supper
in
the
Vatican
strucke
off
all
their
heads
.
Last
of
all
,
Fredericke
the
first
,
with
the
year
1136
bloud
and
wounds
of
2000.
men
established
the
Bishop
of
Rome
in
greater
glory
,
and
euer
since
according
to
this
Prophesie
and
discouery
,
they
haue
continued
secure
by
the
meanes
of
these
heads
in
all
impiety
and
abomination
:
but
the
Prophecy
leaues
them
not
so
,
for
after
all
this
exemplification
of
glory
and
greatnesse
,
with
the
manner
of
their
rising
,
and
insolent
tumors
,
he
falles
to
their
punishment
and
vtter
confusion
.
This
lasteth
from
the
36
,
verse
to
the
end
,
wherein
you
may
obserue
,
that
the
breath
of
God
like
a
Lion
of
the
Forrest
shall
teare
this
Eagle
in
peeces
,
and
as
you
haue
heard
in
the
execution
of
Antichrist
,
whole
armies
of
Prophecies
,
and
denunciations
of
vengeance
shall
be
further
mustred
against
Rome
from
so
supreme
a
iudicature
,
that
no
humane
potency
shall
reuerse
the
doome
,
or
be
able
to
repeale
the
sentence
.