A
Calm
Answer
to
the
Violent
Discourse
of
N.
N.
a
Seminary
Priest
,
for
the
Invocation
of
Saints
.
THE
Gentleman
undertaketh
to
prove
,
That
the
Protestants
have
calumniated
his
Church
in
this
point
;
And
that
therefore
they
are
a
company
of
Cheats
,
Calumniators
,
and
false-Teachers
,
and
consequently
not
the
Church
of
Christ
.
Before
he
hath
done
,
he
will
put
Rebellion
and
Villany
to
their
charge
.
This
is
the
civility
of
a
Party
subsisting
in
England
by
the
forbearance
of
those
whom
they
thus
insult
upon
.
We
shall
find
him
as
short
in
his
Intellectual
performances
,
as
in
his
Moral
duties
.
He
promiseth
to
prove
,
That
it
is
good
and
lawful
to
pray
to
Saints
reigning
in
Heaven
with
Christ
.
And
that
,
by
authority
of
Holy
Scriptures
,
Councils
,
and
the
most
ancient
and
learned
Fathers
.
His
first
erroneous
dealing
,
is
the
wrong-stating
of
the
Question
between
our
Church
and
the
Roman
.
We
acknowledg
the
intercession
of
Saints
to
God
for
us
.
We
acknowledg
also
,
that
if
there
were
any
possibility
of
communication
between
the
glorified
Saints
and
us
,
we
might
lawfully
use
it
,
and
desire
their
praying
for
us
to
God
,
so
that
such
addresses
to
them
were
made
without
adoration
,
or
any
religious
worship
,
which
cannot
without
Idolatry
and
horrible
Sacriledg
be
deferred
to
any
but
God
.
Had
N.
N.
considered
so
much
,
he
might
have
saved
great
part
of
his
pains
.
In
the
front
of
his
proofs
out
of
Scripture
,
he
brings
the
blessing
which
Jacob
bestowed
upon
Joseph's
Sons
,
Ephraim
and
Manasseh
:
Of
which
Text
,
this
is
the
true
version
;
The
Angel
which
redeemed
me
from
all
evil
,
bless
the
Lads
,
and
let
my
name
be
named
on
them
,
and
the
name
of
my
fathers
Abraham
and
Isaac
.
Hence
N.
N.
inferreth
that
we
may
pray
to
Angels
,
and
if
to
Angels
,
to
Saints
also
.
In
this
passage
he
hath
omitted
the
first
half-period
,
The
God
that
hath
fed
me
all
my
life
long
unto
this
day
;
lest
it
should
be
made
plain
,
that
the
Angel
whose
blessing
he
craved
for
the
Lads
,
was
God
himself
,
who
had
fed
him
,
and
redeemed
him
from
all
evil
;
else
Jacobs
sense
must
be
lame
.
Neither
ought
we
to
acknowledg
our
redemption
from
any
but
God
,
or
crave
blessing
from
any
but
him
.
But
it
is
no
new
custom
with
Romish
disputants
to
clip
the
words
,
and
the
sense
of
the
Scripture
,
and
of
the
Fathers
,
to
make
them
speak
their
sense
.
This
Angel
is
the
same
who
is
called
by
Malachi
the
Angel
or
the
Messenger
of
the
Covenant
,
whom
all
Interpreters
take
to
be
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
.
And
this
is
the
Angel
which
had
wrestled
before
with
Jacob
,
and
had
blessed
him
after
;
for
it
was
more
than
any
Angel
could
have
done
with
effect
.
The
ancient
Fathers
and
Rabbins
,
understand
this
passage
in
that
sense
,
Cyril
.
lib
.
3.
Thesauri
Athanas
.
Orat
.
contra
Arianos
.
Procopius
,
in
hunc
tuum
.
Rabbi
Menahem
.
in
eundem
.
Cyrillus
,
Athanasius
,
Procopius
,
and
Rabbi
Menahem
.
Accordingly
the
Septuagint
,
Eccles
.
5.5
,
translate
lyphmaleak
,
{αβγδ}
,
before
the
face
of
God
,
not
of
the
Angel
.
Upon
the
following
words
of
that
Text
,
Let
my
name
,
and
the
name
of
my
Fathers
,
Abraham
and
Isaac
be
named
on
them
,
or
(
as
he
will
have
it
)
be
invocated
on
them
,
he
makes
this
comment
;
When
I
am
dead
,
let
me
be
invocated
in
their
behalfs
,
as
also
my
father
Isaac
,
and
my
grandfather
Abraham
.
This
indeed
is
unparallel'd
in
all
ages
,
that
a
man
should
bespeak
himself
to
be
invocated
after
his
death
:
A
superlative
pride
,
very
far
from
that
good
mans
holy
simplicity
.
The
drift
of
the
whole
Chapter
sheweth
,
that
Jacob
would
be
named
,
not
the
grandfather
,
but
the
father
of
Ephraim
and
Manasseh
,
as
himself
was
named
the
son
of
Isaac
,
and
Isaac
of
Abraham
.
Had
N.
N.
had
a
design
to
make
the
Reader
merry
by
laughing
at
him
,
he
could
not
have
devised
a
wilder
conceit
,
than
to
make
Jacob
to
bespeak
himself
to
be
prayed
to
after
his
death
.
But
what
if
he
hath
found
to
his
thinking
,
a
practise
of
that
invocation
,
Exod
.
32.13
.
when
Moses
invocated
the
names
of
Abraham
,
Isaac
and
Jacob
,
over
the
people
:
if
he
hath
found
it
,
he
hath
better
eyes
than
we
that
cannot
see
things
that
are
not
.
Moses
said
there
to
God
,
Remember
Abraham
,
Isaac
and
Jacob
thy
servants
.
To
make
good
N.
N's
exposition
,
Moses
should
have
prayed
to
Abraham
,
Isaac
and
Israel
:
But
Moses
was
better
taught
than
so
.
Then
followeth
a
proof
of
the
like
pregnancy
:
The
prayer
of
the
three
Hebrew
children
in
the
furnace
(
We
may
for
this
time
let
it
pass
as
Canonical
,
for
any
harm
it
can
do
us
)
.
Take
not
away
from
us
,
O
Lord
,
thy
mercy
,
for
Abraham
thy
beloveds
,
and
Isaac
thy
servants
,
and
thy
holy
Israels
sake
.
Here
is
,
(
saith
N.N.
)
plain
invocation
of
holy
men
not
living
upon
earth
.
But
I
say
,
here
is
plain
want
of
brains
in
N.
N.
to
use
the
two
last
allegations
for
that
purpose
.
Is
it
invocation
of
Saints
to
pray
to
God
to
have
mercy
upon
the
Children
for
their
good
Fathers
sake
?
and
to
remember
his
Covenant
made
with
those
Fathers
,
and
with
their
posterity
after
them
?
What
more
?
God
commanded
Jobs
friends
to
desire
Job
to
pray
and
offer
sacrifices
for
them
.
A
good
proof
(
saith
he
)
that
it
is
Gods
will
and
pleasure
,
that
we
should
apply
our selves
to
his
Saints
to
obtain
favour
for
us
.
Yea
,
but
the
difference
between
the
Romanists
and
us
,
and
the
question
stated
by
N.N.
is
about
praying
to
Saints
reigning
with
Christ
in
Heaven
;
which
without
an
especial
warrant
from
God
we
may
not
,
we
dare
not
attempt
.
And
herein
we
are
confirmed
by
N.
N's
verdict
,
worthy
to
be
remembred
,
We
do
not
think
(
saith
he
)
that
we
are
commanded
to
pray
to
Saints
.
A
great
Romanist
saith
no
less
,
even
Cardinal
Perron
,
p.
981.
who
in
his
book
against
the
most
Excellent
King
James
,
acknowledgeth
,
that
for
the
Invocation
of
Saints
there
is
neither
precept
nor
formal
example
in
Holy
Scripture
.
We
shall
hear
Cardinal
Bellarmin
saying
as
much
before
we
have
done
.
Is
it
so
?
Why
then
are
we
defamed
as
Hereticks
,
and
burnt
by
the
Inquisition
for
refusing
that
Invocation
for
which
there
is
neither
precept
nor
formal
example
in
Scripture
?
Take
with
these
,
Father
Cottons
perplexity
about
that
point
,
and
withal
a
remarkable
passage
of
that
mans
life
,
who
was
a
famous
Jesuite
,
Confessor
to
Henry
the
IV
of
France
.
There
was
a
Demoniack
woman
in
Paris
,
admired
for
footh-saying
,
and
solving
hard
questions
;
with
her
Father
Cotton
would
converse
under
pretence
of
exorcizing
the
evil
Spirit
.
To
that
evil
Spirit
he
had
formed
questions
,
which
being
written
in
a
single
paper
,
he
layd
in
a
book
which
he
had
borrowed
of
Monsieur
L'Abbe
,
Councellor
in
the
Court
of
Parliament
of
Paris
.
It
happened
that
when
he
returned
that
book
to
the
owner
,
he
forgot
to
take
out
of
it
his
paper
of
questions
.
Monsieur
L'Abbe
,
having
a
little
turned
over
his
book
,
found
that
criminous
paper
,
and
out
of
indignation
publish'd
it
in
print
.
Among
many
questions
about
State-matters
(
one
of
which
was
about
the
life
of
the
King
his
Master
)
,
there
were
Theological
questions
,
This
among
the
rest
,
to
find
a
Text
of
Scripture
for
the
Invocation
of
Saints
:
A
fit
task
for
the
Devil
,
after
all
the
labour-in-vain
of
School-men
about
it
.
So
much
being
granted
by
N.
N.
and
his
whole
party
,
that
there
is
no
command
of
God
to
pray
to
Saints
;
Let
them
take
for
themselves
Christs
rebuke
to
the
Pharisees
;
In
vain
do
they
worship
me
,
Mark
.
7.7
,
8.
teaching
for
Doctrines
the
commandments
of
men
.
For
laying
aside
the
commandments
of
God
,
you
hold
the
tradition
of
men
.
And
what
are
the
devotions
of
the
Rosary
to
the
Holy
Virgin
,
styled
the
Mother
of
Grace
,
confirmed
by
so
many
Indulgences
,
but
meer
commandments
of
men
,
without
the
least
ground
of
Gods
commandments
and
promises
?
So
because
God
hath
not
commanded
Invocation
of
Saints
,
and
much
less
promis'd
any
reward
for
it
;
some
men
judging
it
nevertheless
to
be
wanting
in
the
Church
,
have
commanded
it
.
That
of
the
Holy
Virgin
especially
,
to
whom
the
Roman
Church
giveth
ten
Aves
for
one
Pater
to
God
.
Her
they
have
created
Queen
of
Heaven
and
of
all
the
world
,
and
leaving
unto
God
the
Throne
of
Justice
,
they
have
bestowed
upon
her
the
Throne
of
Grace
,
to
which
sinners
may
appeal
from
the
sentence
of
the
Throne
of
Justice
.
Whence
these
two
effects
naturally
follow
,
The
one
that
the
Creature
is
exalted
above
the
Creator
in
the
opinion
of
the
people
,
for
all
appeals
are
made
from
an
inferiour
Court
to
a
superiour
.
The
other
,
that
thereby
men
are
estranged
from
God
;
for
sinners
that
are
of
their
Communion
,
needing
Grace
,
will
be
sure
to
go
to
the
Throne
of
Grace
,
that
of
the
Virgin
,
and
to
let
God
alone
in
his
Throne
of
Justice
.
These
are
no
fictions
of
ours
;
the
famous
Doctors
of
the
Roman
Church
,
and
directors
of
Consciences
,
are
full
of
these
.
These
are
the
words
of
the
Jesuit
Viegas
:
Serm
.
17.
fol.
10
,
&
11.
This
is
the
Virgin
Mary
with
whom
God
hath
divided
his
Kingdom
;
for
where
as
God
hath
Justice
and
Mercy
,
he
hath
reserved
Justice
for
himself
,
and
hath
given
Mercy
to
his
Mother
.
Wherefore
if
any
find
himself
aggrieved
by
the
Court
of
Justice
,
let
him
appeal
to
the
Throne
of
Mercy
of
the
Mother
of
God
,
the
Lady
and
Augusta
.
This
is
repeated
in
so
many
words
by
Bernardinus
de
Bustis
Marialis
Serm
.
3.
de
nominatione
Mariae
.
To
the
same
purpose
Gabriel
Biel
de
Can
.
Missa
Sect
.
30.
Gabriel
Biel
calls
the
Holy
Virgin
the
Queen
of
Heaven
,
to
whom
the
King
of
Kings
,
the
Heavenly
Father
,
hath
given
the
half
of
his
Kingdom
.
What
more
?
Stellavil
Coronae
lib
.
12.
part
1.
cap
.
6
,
&
7.
Psalterium
.
Bonaventurae
.
Pelbart
alledgeth
this
out
of
St.
Bernardin
.
of
Senes
,
All
serve
to
the
Empire
of
the
Virgin
,
and
God
himself
.
—
Then
most
great
is
the
dominion
of
the
Holy
Virgin
,
for
she
doth
not
only
command
the
Creatures
,
but
God
himself
,
as
a
Mother
her
Son
.
But
of
all
the
Roman
Saints
,
give
me
Saint
Bonaventura
,
who
hath
transported
to
our
Lady
all
the
addresses
made
to
God
in
the
Psalms
:
Let
our
Lady
arise
,
let
her
enemies
be
scattered
.
I
will
sing
of
the
mercies
of
our
Lady
.
Save
me
,
O
Lady
,
for
thy
names
sake
.
In
thee
,
O
Lady
,
have
I
put
my
trust
,
I
shall
never
be
confounded
.
Our
Lady
is
our
refuge
and
strength
,
our
very
present
help
in
trouble
.
And
that
nothing
be
wanting
to
the
height
of
impiety
,
that
blasphemous
Saint
hath
expelled
the
Son
of
God
from
the
right
hand
of
God
his
Father
,
to
give
place
to
his
Mother
,
The
Lord
said
unto
my
Lady
,
Sit
thou
on
my
right
hand
,
till
I
have
made
thine
enemies
thy
footstool
.
Let
all
Christians
that
are
in
their
right
sense
judg
whether
these
blasphemies
ought
to
pass
for
holy
Doctrines
,
because
they
are
pronounced
by
Saints
of
the
Roman
Church
,
and
owned
by
the
unerring
Roman
Church
;
or
whether
by
these
enormities
of
foul
Doctrine
the
Church
of
Rome
shew
her self
to
be
the
Mother
of
abominations
,
and
the
Synagogue
of
Satan
.
This
I
recommend
to
the
sober
consideration
of
N.
N.
who
stands
so
stiff
upon
the
authority
of
the
Roman
Church
as
the
pillar
and
ground
of
Truth
,
the
infallible
interpreter
of
Scripture
,
and
the
only
director
of
Religion
and
Conscience
.
If
he
have
any
ingenuity
he
will
acknowledg
by
the
alledged
passages
,
that
when
the
Governours
of
the
Church
once
presume
to
go
beyond
Gods
Ordinance
,
their
will-worship
knoweth
no
bounds
,
and
will
extravagate
even
into
blasphemy
and
non-sense
.
N.
N.
is
very
copious
in
proving
that
the
Saints
pray
for
us
,
which
he
needs
not
.
We
make
no
doubt
but
that
the
Saints
in
Heaven
are
sensible
of
the
sufferings
of
the
Church
on
Earth
,
and
pray
to
God
to
hear
their
cries
,
and
shorten
their
combats
.
We
are
willing
to
take
in
that
sense
,
those
golden
vials
full
of
odors
,
Rev.
5.8
.
which
are
the
prayers
of
the
Saints
.
But
that
they
have
a
particular
knowledg
of
the
several
addresses
made
unto
them
by
men
on
earth
:
Or
that
they
have
a
commission
from
God
to
be
Masters
of
Requests
in
the
Court
of
Heaven
,
or
that
we
ought
to
present
our
requests
unto
God
by
them
,
it
is
that
which
never
was
,
and
never
shall
be
proved
.
To
prove
that
they
hear
our
prayers
,
N.
N.
alledgeth
,
that
there
is
joy
in
heaven
among
the
Angels
of
God
for
the
conversion
of
one
sinner
;
whence
he
inferreth
,
that
the
Angels
know
mens
hearts
,
and
why
not
the
Saints
?
But
were
all
this
granted
,
it
would
not
follow
that
we
must
pray
to
them
.
Truly
neither
the
Angels
nor
the
Saints
know
mens
hearts
;
the
Angels
cannot
know
them
otherwise
than
by
their
lives
and
behaviour
.
But
there
is
a
particular
reason
of
the
Angels
rejoycing
at
the
conversion
of
sinners
:
The
Angels
are
employed
about
Gods
service
on
earth
,
and
no
doubt
but
that
a
great
part
of
that
service
is
to
labour
for
the
conversion
of
sinners
:
No
wonder
if
they
rejoice
when
they
have
good
success
in
that
holy
labour
.
They
conversing
both
in
Heaven
and
on
Earth
can
give
,
and
do
give
an
account
in
Heaven
of
the
conversion
of
sinners
on
Earth
,
and
thereby
cause
joy
in
Heaven
both
among
the
Angels
and
the
Saints
.
But
we
read
in
no
place
of
Holy
Writ
,
that
ever
any
Saint
was
sent
for
that
or
any
other
errand
from
Heaven
to
Earth
.
Rather
we
are
taught
,
that
the
dead
know
nothing
,
Eccl.
9.5
,
6.
and
have
no
portion
in
the
things
that
are
done
under
the
Sun.
God
may
reveal
to
them
what
he
pleaseth
,
not
what
we
are
pleased
to
imagin
without
a
good
warrant
from
him
.
N.
N.
alledgeth
Christs
command
,
Luk
.
16.9
.
that
we
make
to
our selves
friends
that
may
receive
us
into
the
eternal
Tabernacles
.
I
know
no
friends
that
can
receive
us
into
the
eternal
Tabernacles
,
but
the
three
Persons
,
and
one
God
:
And
the
way
to
make
them
our
friends
,
intimated
in
that
Text
,
is
to
give
alms
out
of
our
Mammon
.
But
what
is
that
to
our
praying
to
Saints
?
N.
N.
might
as
pertinently
have
brought
in
the
head
of
Holofernes
,
to
prove
the
lawfulness
of
the
Invocation
of
Saints
,
as
that
Text
.
He
citeth
Saint
Peters
promise
to
pray
for
the
Church
after
his
decease
.
2
Pet
.
1.25
.
But
Saint
Peter
saith
no
such
thing
:
And
though
he
did
,
it
is
nothing
to
us
who
deny
not
that
the
Saints
pray
for
us
:
But
that
therefore
we
must
pray
to
them
,
it
is
a
wrong
consequence
.
And
though
we
are
willing
to
acknowledg
that
they
pray
for
us
,
we
dare
not
call
them
our
Meditators
,
as
N.
N.
doth
;
which
is
a
blasphemy
,
and
giving
the
lye
to
the
Holy-Ghost
:
who
teacheth
us
that
there
is
one
Mediator
between
God
and
man
,
1
Tim
.
2.6
.
the
man
Christ
Jesus
.
And
mark
that
which
followeth
,
Who
gave
himself
a
ransom
for
us
.
The
Apostle
will
not
have
us
to
acknowledg
any
person
to
be
our
Mediator
,
but
that
one
person
who
gave
himself
a
ransom
for
us
,
and
thereby
giveth
vertue
to
his
mediation
.
But
it
is
the
Genius
of
Popery
to
transfer
the
honour
due
to
God
,
unto
the
Creature
.
N.
N.
hath
undertaken
to
prove
that
it
is
lawful
and
good
to
pray
to
Saints
,
and
that
by
authority
of
Holy
Scriptures
,
Councels
,
and
the
most
ancient
learned
Fathers
.
A
gallant
flanting
undertaking
:
How
he
hath
proved
it
by
Scripture
,
we
have
seen
.
Enough
he
hath
done
to
betray
his
Cause
,
and
shew
that
there
is
not
one
tittle
for
it
in
all
the
Word
of
God
.
Which
I
speak
not
for
his
disparagement
,
but
that
of
his
Cause
.
For
all
that
could
be
devised
out
of
Scripture
he
hath
brought
in
.
I
cannot
say
for
him
,
that
he
hath
used
the
like
diligence
about
Councils
and
Fathers
.
Out
of
Councils
he
doth
not
bring
the
least
proof
:
He
is
pleased
only
to
say
,
That
the
Councils
of
Ephesus
and
Chalcedon
prayed
to
Saints
:
so
I
need
only
to
say
that
they
did
not
,
till
he
make
them
speak
for
themselves
.
As
for
the
most
ancient
and
learned
Fathers
,
he
alledgeth
Saint
Austin
,
who
deserveth
a
better
praise
,
than
to
be
the
most
ancient
and
learned
Father
.
He
makes
him
say
,
That
if
the
shadow
of
Saint
Peter
in
his
life
time
did
cure
diseases
,
he
will
do
much
more
now
that
he
is
in
the
fulness
of
power
.
He
quoteth
not
the
place
,
yet
I
durst
pass
my
word
for
Saint
Austin
,
that
he
never
ascribed
fulness
of
power
to
Saint
Peter
.
But
the
Romanists
,
who
derive
the
Popes
Power
from
Saint
Peter
,
will
be
sure
to
ascribe
to
that
Apostle
as
much
sulness
of
power
as
they
can
,
that
from
Saint
Peter
it
may
pass
to
the
Pope
.
Be
the
passage
of
Saint
Austin
true
or
false
,
it
is
nothing
to
us
,
for
it
toucheth
not
the
point
in
question
,
which
is
,
the
lawfulness
of
praying
to
Saints
.
Very
boldly
,
and
very
untruly
N.
N.
affirmeth
,
that
there
is
none
of
the
ancient
Fathers
,
but
shewed
and
practised
prayers
to
the
Saints
.
Let
him
in
375
years
of
the
first
Christian
Antiquity
find
,
if
he
can
,
any
one
instance
of
that
practice
.
The
first
that
began
it
was
Gregory
Nazianzen
,
who
in
his
eloquent
Orations
,
hath
rhetorical
addresses
to
his
deceased
friends
;
yet
modified
with
doubtful
reservations
.
In
his
funeral
Oration
for
his
sister
Gorgonia
,
he
speaks
thus
to
her
soul
,
If
thou
hast
any
respect
of
the
honour
we
do
thee
,
and
if
that
reward
be
given
to
holy
souls
to
have
a
resenting
of
these
things
,
receive
this
speech
of
mine
;
shewing
himself
doubtful
whether
his
deceased
sister
heard
him
.
The
like
doubting
expression
he
useth
in
his
Oration
against
Julian
the
Apostate
,
Hear
thou
excellent
soul
of
Constantine
,
if
thou
have
any
feeling
left
.
These
were
the
infant-trembling
beginnings
of
the
Invocation
of
Saints
.
N.
N.
would
have
us
to
believe
upon
his
honest
word
,
that
several
Fathers
whom
he
nameth
,
taught
the
Invocation
of
Saints
.
Eusebius
Greg
.
Naz
.
Greg
.
Nyss
.
Cyril
.
Teros
.
Chrysost
.
But
to
make
us
believe
that
they
taught
so
,
their
own
words
would
have
been
to
better
purpose
than
his
.
Having
done
nothing
to
the
purpose
,
yet
he
makes
a
high
boast
of
his
atchievements
:
I
have
(
saith
he
)
proved
the
lawfulness
of
praying
to
Saints
,
by
the
testimony
of
the
most
learned
and
ancient
Fathers
and
Doctors
of
the
Church
,
and
by
the
authority
of
General
Councils
.
Have
you
done
so
,
Sir
?
Not
in
any
paper
of
yours
that
came
to
my
hands
.
If
naming
only
Fathers
and
Councils
be
proving
by
them
,
in
his
Logick
,
I
am
sure
it
is
not
in
that
of
the
Schools
,
nor
in
common
sense
,
nor
in
honesty
.
Let
any
ingenious
person
peruse
his
paper
,
and
judg
whether
he
hath
given
the
least
ground
for
that
boasting
.
With
the
like
ostentation
,
without
any
proof
,
he
sets
forth
the
constant
custom
of
the
whole
Church
to
pray
to
the
Saints
,
from
the
time
of
the
Apostles
;
and
he
hath
never
done
insisting
upon
that
.
But
we
must
believe
him
upon
his
bare
word
.
We
build
not
our
faith
upon
humane
testimonies
:
Yet
to
shew
the
vanity
of
that
boast
,
I
will
bring
some
testimonies
of
the
best
and
first
Antiquity
.
In
the
fourth
book
of
the
Ecclesiastical
History
of
Eusebius
,
cap
.
15.
we
have
the
relation
of
the
Martyrdom
of
Policarp
,
Bishop
of
Smyrna
,
a
Disciple
of
Saint
John
.
That
holy
Martyr
being
dead
,
some
by
the
suggestion
of
the
Jews
,
desired
the
Governour
of
Smyrna
that
his
body
should
not
be
delivered
to
the
Christians
,
lest
they
should
worship
him
.
The
Christians
of
Smyrna
,
(
who
have
recorded
this
History
)
,
thereupon
spake
thus
for
themselves
,
They
know
not
that
we
cannot
leave
Christ
,
who
hath
suffered
for
the
salvation
of
all
them
that
are
saved
in
the
world
,
nor
serve
any
other
but
him
.
For
as
for
Jesus
Christ
,
who
is
the
Son
of
God
,
we
worship
him
.
But
as
for
the
Martyrs
,
we
love
them
worthily
,
as
Disciples
and
imitators
of
the
Lord
.
This
is
a
precious
jewel
of
the
purest
Antiquity
.
A
relick
which
deserveth
more
veneration
than
all
the
relicks
idolized
in
the
Roman
Church
.
Ignatius
who
lived
in
the
year
of
Christ
140
,
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Philadelphians
,
speaks
thus
to
the
Virgins
,
You
Virgins
,
have
Jesus
Christ
alone
before
your
eyes
,
and
the
Father
in
your
prayers
.
Clemens
Alexandrinus
,
Stromat
.
Lib
.
7.
a
little
later
than
Ignatius
,
reasoneth
thus
,
There
being
but
one
truly
good
,
which
is
God
,
both
we
and
the
Angels
pray
to
him
alone
.
Irenaeus
who
lived
about
the
year
of
Christ
220
,
speaks
thus
:
The
Church
doth
nothing
by
the
invocation
of
Angels
,
Lib
.
2.
but
purely
and
simply
addresseth
her
prayers
unto
God
,
and
calls
upon
the
name
of
the
Lord
Jesus
.
The
Council
of
Laodicea
pronounceth
Anathema
to
those
that
called
upon
Angels
,
Can
.
35.
and
declareth
them
idolaters
.
In
those
days
,
in
the
year
of
Christ
368
,
the
invocation
of
Saints
was
not
yet
in
fashion
,
but
that
of
the
Angels
was
,
and
had
begun
even
in
the
Apostles
time
:
Col.
2.18
.
Thus
reproved
by
Saint
Paul
,
Let
no
man
beguile
you
of
your
reward
in
a
voluntary
humility
,
and
worshipping
of
Angels
,
intruding
into
those
things
which
he
hath
not
seen
,
vainly
puffed
up
by
a
fleshly
mind
.
Origines
,
Contra
Cels
lib
.
8.
We
must
pray
to
God
alone
,
who
is
above
all
things
.
We
must
pray
also
to
his
only
Son
.
Lanctantius
:
Lib
.
2.
Instit
.
divin
.
cap
.
17.
Let
us
worship
none
,
and
serve
none
but
only
the
Godhead
of
our
Maker
and
Father
.
Saint
Ambrose
,
or
whosoever
is
the
Author
of
the
Commentary
upon
the
Epistle
to
the
Romans
put
among
Ambroses
works
,
disputing
against
the
Pagans
,
who
by
the
Stars
(
which
they
took
to
be
intelligent
Creatures
)
pretended
to
go
to
God
,
as
suitors
go
to
the
King
by
Colonels
and
Governors
,
styleth
that
a
miserable
excuse
.
Then
he
addeth
,
Suitors
go
to
the
King
by
Colonels
and
Governors
,
because
the
King
is
a
man
,
uncertain
to
whom
he
shall
trust
the
Government
of
the
State
.
But
to
get
the
favour
of
God
,
to
whom
nothing
is
unknown
,
(
for
he
knoweth
what
men
deserve
)
,
there
is
no
need
of
any
to
help
you
with
his
good
word
,
but
only
of
a
devout
spirit
.
For
whensoever
a
man
so
disposed
shall
speak
to
him
,
he
will
answer
him
.
A
notable
Authority
,
not
so
much
because
the
Papi●ts
themselves
have
put
it
among
Ambroses
works
,
as
for
the
soundness
of
the
reasoning
;
which
to
any
reasonable
person
is
most
convincing
,
and
confounding
the
practice
of
the
Invocation
of
Saints
.
Since
N.
N.
takes
upon
him
to
alledg
Saint
Austin
,
I
will
serve
him
with
a
Text
or
two
of
that
excellent
Father
,
to
better
purpose
than
that
which
he
citeth
,
but
knoweth
not
where
to
find
it
,
and
which
concerneth
not
the
matter
in
Question
,
the
Invocation
of
Saints
.
De
civit
Dei
.
l.
22.
c
.
10.
In
the
22
book
of
the
City
of
God
,
Chap.
10.
Saint
Austin
compareth
thus
the
service
which
the
Pagans
did
to
their
Deified
men
,
Hercules
and
Romulus
,
with
the
celebration
which
the
Christians
made
of
their
Martyrs
memory
.
They
(
meaning
the
Pagans
)
,
have
erected
Temples
and
Altars
to
such
gods
,
and
have
instituted
for
them
Priests
and
Sacrifices
.
But
to
our
Martyrs
we
build
no
Temples
as
to
gods
,
but
Monuments
as
unto
dead
men
.
Neither
do
we
erect
Altars
to
sacrifice
unto
the
Martyrs
:
But
to
that
one
God
both
of
the
Martyrs
and
ours
,
we
offer
our
Sacrifice
.
And
at
that
Sacrifice
,
those
men
of
God
that
have
overcome
the
world
in
confessing
him
,
are
named
in
their
place
and
order
.
Yet
they
are
not
Invocated
by
the
Priest
that
makes
the
Sacrifice
.
The
same
Father
,
in
the
eighth
Book
of
the
City
of
God
,
Chap.
27.
De
civit
.
Dei
.
lib
.
8.
cap
.
27.
speaks
much
to
the
same
purpose
.
Nec
tamen
nos
iisdem
Martyribus
templa
,
facerdotia
,
sacra
,
&
Sacrificia
constituimus
,
quia
non
ipse
sed
Deus
eorum
est
nobis
Deus
.
We
do
not
(
saith
he
)
appoint
to
the
Martyrs
,
Temples
,
Priests
,
Religious
Service
,
and
Sacrifices
,
because
they
are
not
our
gods
;
but
their
God
is
our
God
.
Upon
which
,
Ludovicus
Vives
,
the
Learned
Commentator
on
St.
Austin
,
makes
this
sad
observation
,
Many
Christians
in
a
good
thing
commonly
offend
,
that
they
venerate
Saints
of
both
sexes
no
otherwise
than
God
.
And
in
many
of
them
I
see
no
difference
between
their
opinion
of
their
Saints
,
and
that
which
the
Gentiles
had
of
their
gods
.
How
different
is
that
Holy
Antiquity
of
the
Church
from
the
present
practise
of
the
Roman
Church
,
which
erecteth
Altars
to
Saints
,
and
over
the
Altars
the
Saints
Images
,
and
burn
Tapers
to
their
honour
:
And
before
the
Altar
there
is
kneeling
,
and
Invocating
of
the
Saint
?
As
for
the
Temples
bearing
the
names
of
Saints
,
they
will
say
that
the
Temple
is
built
especially
to
the
Honour
of
God
,
and
next
of
the
Saint
.
But
by
changing
the
name
of
Christs
Church
of
Canterbury
to
that
of
Saint
Thomas
(
as
they
had
begun
to
do
,
a
little
before
the
Reformation
)
,
they
shewed
that
they
had
more
devotion
to
Thomas
Becket
than
to
Jesus
Christ
.
Whereas
then
N.
N.
presseth
us
with
the
Authority
of
the
whole
Church
;
we
have
excepted
the
ancient
Church
out
of
that
Universality
:
And
we
could
descend
to
lower
Ages
if
need
were
.
But
how
shall
we
defend
our selves
against
that
terrible
croud
which
N.
N.
raiseth
against
us
,
the
Universal
Church
in
our
Age
?
By
the
Church
he
meaneth
the
Roman
,
conceiving
no
other
Church
in
the
World
but
such
as
worshippeth
the
Pope
.
Whereas
it
is
not
the
fourth
part
of
the
Christian
Provinces
.
For
the
Greek
,
the
Armenian
,
the
Persian
,
the
Indian
,
the
Ethiopick
;
besides
a
considerable
part
of
Europe
,
which
hath
shaken
off
the
Popes
tyranny
,
and
all
the
oppressed
souls
that
groan
under
it
.
These
I
say
,
do
five
or
six
times
exceed
the
true
Romanists
in
number
,
as
much
as
the
Romanists
exceed
them
in
pride
:
Such
a
pride
,
that
with
N.
N.
and
his
Cronies
,
it
is
the
highest
Rebellion
to
believe
and
obey
the
word
of
God
without
the
interpretation
and
leave
of
their
Church
;
which
craving
superiority
over
the
Word
of
God
,
will
allow
of
no
Doctrine
,
and
no
Interpretation
of
Scripture
,
but
such
as
serveth
to
advance
the
Grandeur
and
the
Wealth
of
their
Temporal
Monarchy
.
Now
of
all
those
Doctrines
,
none
(
next
to
that
of
Purgatory
)
worketh
more
their
greatness
and
lucre
than
that
of
the
Invocation
of
Saints
,
whose
merits
have
founded
so
many
Convents
,
and
inrich'd
so
many
Abbeys
,
and
of
whose
Saintship
the
Pope
is
the
Creator
.
If
in
the
Roman
Church
none
but
God
were
worshipped
and
prayed
to
,
as
it
was
in
the
Primitive
Church
,
the
Roman
Regular
Clergy
would
be
a
poor
Clergy
,
and
the
Secular
little
better
.
We
are
summoned
by
N.
N.
to
find
that
praying
to
Saints
is
forbidden
in
Scripture
.
They
cannot
find
(
saith
he
)
one
Text
in
Scripture
,
that
saith
in
plain
terms
that
prayer
to
Saints
is
unlawful
,
or
that
it
is
a
fond
thing
.
We
can
find
Texts
that
say
so
much
in
plain
terms
,
though
not
perhaps
in
the
very
terms
of
his
desising
.
For
this
is
one
of
the
quillets
of
his
party
,
to
frame
terms
of
our
Doctrine
for
us
,
and
then
Challenge
us
to
find
them
expressy
in
Scripture
.
If
I
say
after
Christ
,
Matt
.
4.10
.
Thou
shalt
worship
the
Lord
thy
God
,
and
him
only
shalt
thou
serve
;
are
not
these
plain
terms
to
prove
that
prayer
to
Saints
is
unlawful
?
And
if
I
find
God
deriding
those
that
pray
to
others
than
him
,
and
that
pray
even
to
the
dead
for
the
living
,
saying
,
Should
not
a
people
seek
unto
their
God
?
Isa
.
8.19
.
for
the
living
to
the
dead
?
is
it
not
saying
in
plain
terms
,
That
for
one
to
pray
to
another
than
his
God
,
and
to
pray
to
the
dead
for
the
living
,
is
a
fond
thing
?
All
the
prayers
in
the
book
of
Moses
,
and
in
the
Psalms
,
and
in
the
Prophets
,
and
in
the
New
Testament
,
are
addrest
unto
God
alone
.
Which
Cardinal
Bellarmin
considering
,
saith
with
a
pleasant
ingenuity
,
Bellar
.
de
cultu
Sanctorum
.
cap
.
9.
That
when
the
Holy
Scriptures
were
written
,
the
custom
was
not
yet
to
make
vows
unto
the
Saints
.
For
that
round-dealing
the
Protestants
are
much
obliged
to
his
Eminence
.
Let
this
be
taken
into
serious
consideration
;
The
Doctrine
,
and
the
attaining
of
Salvation
,
was
in
the
Church
so
many
thousands
of
years
without
any
Invocation
of
Saints
;
how
is
it
become
the
main
part
of
Religion
in
these
last
Ages
of
the
World
?
If
they
made
their
addresses
to
God
successfully
,
without
the
help
of
Saints
,
may
we
not
enjoy
the
like
priviledg
;
now
especially
,
that
we
have
the
Son
of
God
manifested
and
given
unto
us
in
the
Gospel
,
for
our
Mediator
between
God
and
men
;
whereas
the
Church
before
him
had
him
but
under
a
vail
?
Certainly
,
neither
under
the
Law
,
nor
under
the
Gospel
,
have
we
any
Mediator
appointed
by
God
to
present
the
Churchers
prayers
to
him
,
but
Christ
alone
.
Whereas
then
N.
N.
tells
us
,
Find
me
a
Text
of
Scripture
,
saying
,
that
prayer
to
Saints
is
unlawful
:
we
say
to
him
,
Find
us
a
Text
of
Scripture
where
Prayer
to
Saints
,
and
worship
of
Saints
,
be
commanded
,
or
allowed
,
or
practiced
.
We
find
Saint
John
worshipping
an
Angel
,
but
we
find
him
also
rebuked
for
it
by
the
Angel
.
See
that
thou
do
it
not
,
Rev.
19.10
.
for
I
am
thy
fellow
servant
,
and
of
thy
brethren
the
Prophets
,
and
of
them
that
keep
the
sayings
of
this
book
:
Worship
God
.
Saint
James
bids
us
to
ask
in
Faith
.
Asking
in
Faith
,
Jam
.
1.6
.
is
praying
with
assurance
,
that
we
pray
according
to
the
Will
and
Word
of
God
:
for
Faith
is
by
the
Word
of
God
.
Rom.
10.17
.
If
then
the
Word
of
God
giveth
no
allowance
to
your
praying
to
a
Saint
,
How
can
you
pray
to
him
in
Faith
?
Do
you
believe
on
that
Saint
?
No
doubt
but
N.
N.
will
say
,
No.
Why
then
do
you
pray
to
him
?
It
is
the
very
Question
of
Saint
Paul
,
Rom.
10.14
.
How
shall
they
call
on
him
in
whom
they
have
not
believed
?
The
Apostle
(
you
see
)
admits
not
that
gradation
,
I
call
on
the
Saint
,
that
the
Saint
may
call
for
me
on
him
in
whom
I
believe
.
To
that
wheeling
about
by
a
Saint
to
God
,
if
you
joyn
praying
before
the
Saints
Image
,
and
that
in
a
Tongue
which
the
person
that
prayeth
understands
not
,
and
turning
and
telling
beads
withall
;
a
wise
Christian
cannot
but
perceive
the
Devils
design
,
to
puzzle
the
people
Devotion
,
and
bewilder
their
very
senses
with
out-sides
,
that
amuze
the
eyes
,
and
buzy
the
fingers
,
and
imploy
the
memory
about
the
number
of
Beads
,
and
leave
the
soul
empty
.
This
you
may
see
every
day
in
their
Churches
and
Oratories
:
A
woman
on
her
knees
,
saying
her
Pater
Noster
before
an
Image
of
Saint
Margaret
,
a
Saint
which
hardly
is
in
Heaven
,
for
she
never
lived
on
Earth
.
The
object
of
the
good
Womans
Devotion
being
that
of
her
eyes
,
it
is
ten
to
one
that
she
calls
Father
the
Image
of
that
Female
,
no
Saint
,
and
no
where
.
The
Saint
and
the
Image
understand
her
not
,
and
she
understands
not
her
own
self
,
her
prayer
being
in
Latin
.
Upon
what
bottom
doth
that
poor
soul
fix
the
Anchor
of
her
Faith
in
her
prayer
?
All
these
prodigies
of
absurdity
and
irreligion
had
been
avoided
,
if
she
had
been
taught
to
call
plainly
upon
God
through
Jesus
Christ
,
in
her
Mothers
Tongue
.
But
can
the
Patron-Saint
of
N.
N.
hear
his
prayers
better
than
Saint
Margaret
and
her
Image
?
He
tells
us
,
that
the
Angels
know
mens
hearts
,
and
why
not
the
Saints
?
I
have
shewed
how
the
Angels
may
have
joy
in
Heaven
at
the
Conversion
of
sinners
,
and
make
the
Saints
rejoyce
with
them
,
without
need
of
that
impious
supposition
,
that
they
know
mens
hearts
.
The
Papists
have
much
contention
among
themselves
,
about
the
manner
how
the
Saints
come
to
know
mens
prayers
made
unto
them
.
Their
old
supposition
was
the
Gregogorian
glass
,
God
himself
,
in
which
the
Saints
by
beholding
God
,
behold
also
all
that
God
beholdeth
.
A
supposition
grounded
upon
this
Maxim
,
That
whoso
seeth
him
that
seeth
all
,
seeth
all
himself
.
But
that
this
Maxim
is
rejected
as
false
by
their
own
Occam
and
Aquinas
,
Greg
.
de
Val
.
de
modo
quo
Deus
cognoscit
.
Disp
.
1.
qu
.
12.
Puncto
.
6.
Sect
.
Concesso
igitur
.
we
learn
of
Gregorius
de
Valentia
,
who
saith
,
That
it
is
well
for
the
Saints
,
if
they
see
in
God
the
things
that
are
proper
for
their
happiness
.
That
Glass
being
broken
,
they
devise
a
second
way
,
which
is
a
Revelation
from
God
to
the
Saints
,
of
all
the
requests
made
to
them
on
earth
,
that
they
may
present
them
unto
him
.
So
they
put
that
drudgery
upon
God
,
to
tell
to
Saint
Margaret
,
the
Patroness
of
Midwifery
,
So
many
thousands
of
Women
in
Labour
pray
to
thee
,
that
thou
wouldst
pray
to
me
for
their
happy
deliverance
;
so
much
I
let
thee
know
,
that
thou
mayst
do
what
they
desire
of
thee
:
and
when
thou
hast
prayed
to
me
for
them
,
I
shall
advise
how
far
I
shall
grant
it
.
The
like
Revelations
must
be
imagined
to
be
made
to
the
Saints
,
Protectors
of
the
several
Provinces
and
Professions
.
Indeed
as
for
the
Holy
Virgin
,
who
is
made
the
Plenipotentiary
Mother
of
Grace
,
and
hath
ten
times
more
worship
than
God
(
a
proportion
observed
in
the
Rosary
)
,
it
may
be
thought
,
that
without
such
Revelations
she
may
out
of
the
brightness
of
her
radiant
light
know
,
and
out
of
the
plenitude
of
her
Motherly
power
(
to
which
appeal
is
made
even
from
God
)
grant
or
deny
all
the
suits
addrest
to
her
,
and
no
need
to
go
further
.
But
howsoever
,
she
hath
need
to
have
an
unwearied
headpiece
,
Bell
.
de
beat
.
Sanct
l.
1.
c
.
20.
Sect
.
Alii
dicunt
.
to
go
through
such
an
infinite
croud
of
business
.
Bellarmin
seeing
what
Task
this
Doctrine
puts
upon
Sai●●s
,
and
upon
God
himself
,
saith
,
That
to
help
men
in
the
point
of
need
at
the
same
time
,
and
in
so
many
distant
Countries
,
no
nimbleness
can
serve
the
turn
,
nor
any
less
than
true
Omnipresence
,
which
is
an
attribute
proper
to
God
.
The
Holy
Virgin
having
so
many
businesses
in
the
Court
of
Heaven
,
for
which
the
brains
of
a
hundred
Lord
Chancellors
,
and
all
their
Officers
,
would
not
serve
;
it
is
to
be
wondred
at
,
how
she
may
find
leasure
for
journeys
abroad
,
and
sometimes
long
absence
.
As
when
to
save
the
credit
of
Beatrin
a
Nun
,
Caesarius
.
7.
lib
.
miracul
cap
.
35.
especially
devout
to
her
,
she
went
to
her
Convent
,
put
on
her
shape
,
and
filled
her
place
whole
fifteen
years
,
while
the
devout
Nun
solaced
her
body
in
bawdyhouses
.
It
were
worth
knowing
who
in
those
fifteen
years
filled
the
Holy
Virgins
place
in
Heaven
,
to
answer
the
infinity
of
Suits
daily
sent
up
unto
her
Court
:
for
how
many
might
call
upon
her
in
that
long
time
that
she
was
not
at
home
?
N.
N.
hath
found
a
way
which
easeth
much
the
dispatch
of
Suits
addressed
to
Saints
;
for
he
will
have
the
Saints
to
know
the
hearts
of
men
.
Contrary
to
that
most
express
Declaration
in
Solomons
prayer
in
the
Consecration
of
the
Temple
,
an
occasion
in
which
he
was
especially
guided
by
God's
Spirit
,
Thou
,
1
Kings
8.39
.
even
thou
only
knowest
the
hearts
of
the
children
of
men
.
Hath
God
ceased
to
be
the
only
knower
of
hearts
,
since
praying
to
Saints
is
come
in
fashion
?
Hath
God
given
them
the
Key
of
the
Locks
of
mens
hearts
?
May
the
Saints
with
that
Key
unlock
a
mans
heart
at
any
time
,
and
read
his
mental
prayers
in
his
Closet
,
and
in
his
Bed
?
What
warrant
have
we
from
the
Word
of
God
,
or
what
ground
in
reason
that
God
imparts
the
gift
of
knowing
mens
hearts
,
(
which
is
his
most
proper
and
incommunicable
attribute
)
to
those
whom
it
pleaseth
the
Pope
to
Canonize
?
It
is
such
a
Note
above
Ela
,
such
a
monstrous
conceit
,
as
can
win
no
mans
belief
,
that
hath
not
enslaved
his
conscience
,
and
his
very
common
sense
to
the
Popes
and
his
Clergys
worldly
interest
.
To
reconcile
such
extravagancies
with
reason
,
they
run
into
such
fictions
and
wild
suppositions
,
as
turn
Religion
to
a
Chimera
,
and
open
a
wide
gap
to
Atheism
.
No
better
was
to
be
expected
of
men
intruding
themselves
into
things
they
have
not
seen
,
Col.
2.8
.
vainly
puffed
up
with
their
fleshly
mind
.
That
way
men
came
to
Worship
Angels
,
as
we
learn
of
Saint
Paul
;
The
same
way
also
they
came
to
Worship
Saints
.
Let
every
Christian
that
finds
himself
bound
by
the
first
and
great
Commandment
,
Thou
shalt
have
no
other
Gods
before
me
,
beware
of
making
religious
addresses
to
others
than
God
.
Whosoever
prayeth
to
any
other
,
and
makes
a
Sacrifice
of
his
heart
to
a
Saint
or
an
Angel
,
makes
another
god
to
himself
than
God
,
and
before
his
face
,
who
is
jealous
of
his
glory
.
It
is
the
worst
imprudence
to
provoke
his
jealousie
.
And
those
shall
feel
it
in
this
world
,
or
in
the
next
,
that
bestow
upon
another
the
homage
and
honour
due
to
God
alone
.
Say
not
,
I
worship
the
Saints
with
an
inferior
worship
:
So
did
the
Idolatrous
Jews
worship
the
Baalim
,
who
were
the
Saints
of
those
days
,
men
Deified
(
as
bad
as
Canonized
)
after
their
death
.
And
they
worshipped
the
Lord
too
.
But
the
Lord
scorned
then
,
and
so
doth
now
,
to
have
any
partner
in
the
Devotions
of
his
Creatures
.
He
will
have
all
their
worship
,
all
to
himself
alone
.
No
doubt
but
that
Saint
John
intended
not
the
highest
worship
to
the
Angel
when
he
fell
down
before
him
,
Yet
the
Angel
rebuked
him
for
it
,
and
bad
him
Worship
God
.
When
all
is
said
in
all
consultations
,
every
wise
man
will
take
that
course
which
is
without
exception
:
Such
is
the
address
unto
God
by
the
Mediation
of
his
Son
.
The
contending-parties
agree
upon
that
.
Let
us
stand
to
that
,
and
do
it
sincerely
and
carefully
,
we
shall
never
be
confounded
.
And
whereas
it
is
the
Devils
perpetual
design
to
diminish
the
Service
and
Glory
of
God
,
every
wise
Christian
will
avoid
those
new
Channels
cut
for
mens
Devotion
,
the
services
to
the
several
Saints
,
seeing
how
thereby
the
Service
and
Glory
due
to
God
is
shared
between
God
and
the
Creature
;
and
that
the
Creature
hath
got
the
greater
share
in
all
places
where
Popery
reigneth
.
N.N.
alledgeth
out
of
Saint
Ambrose
,
that
miracles
were
wrought
by
the
Relicks
of
Geroase
and
Protase
Martyrs
.
But
Ambrose
saith
not
that
they
were
worshipped
and
prayed
to
.
The
miracles
were
done
at
,
not
by
the
Relicks
,
but
by
God
who
would
grace
the
memory
of
those
that
had
suffered
for
his
truth
.
He
,
not
the
Saints
,
not
their
Relicks
,
must
be
glorified
for
that
mercy
.
He
acknowledgeth
that
the
Protestants
follow
the
authority
of
the
Universal
Church
in
many
things
,
and
why
not
in
the
Invocation
of
Saints
?
taking
it
for
granted
,
That
the
Invocation
of
Saints
hath
the
warrant
of
the
authority
of
the
ancient
Universal
Church
,
which
we
deny
:
And
I
have
shewed
that
the
Universal
Church
in
her
primitive
purity
was
against
it
.
For
the
Church
of
Rome
to
bear
her self
now
for
Universal
,
it
is
a
senseless
pride
,
she
being
none
of
the
greatest
limbs
of
it
,
and
the
impurest
of
all
.
But
though
she
were
what
she
styleth
her self
,
Universal
;
In
points
of
Religion
,
it
is
not
the
multitude
of
the
professors
,
but
the
truth
of
the
Doctrine
,
Exod
.
23.2
.
that
must
have
the
casting-voice
.
Thou
shalt
not
follow
the
multitude
to
do
evil
.
I
will
not
forgive
to
N.
N.
his
excursions
out
of
his
subject
.
He
falls
foul
upon
poor
John
Calvin
,
whom
he
sets
forth
as
stigmatized
for
a
Villain
.
Those
that
have
more
interest
in
him
than
we
,
have
sufficiently
confuted
that
slander
against
his
morals
.
And
as
for
his
Doctrinals
,
the
Jesuit
Sanctius
hath
been
his
Champion
,
for
he
hath
faithfully
translated
his
Comment
upon
Isaiah
,
out
of
that
of
Calvin
.
But
N.
N.
slandereth
us
with
saying
that
the
truth
which
we
maintain
,
was
unknown
to
the
world
till
it
was
discovered
by
Calvin
:
Whereas
the
Church
of
England
had
Martyrs
for
the
truth
which
we
profess
,
in
Henry
the
VIII
his
time
,
ten
years
before
the
name
of
Calvin
was
known
in
England
:
yea
,
two
hundred
years
before
.
Neither
was
our
Church
reformed
upon
Calvins
form
.
Nay
,
he
was
much
posteriour
to
the
Reformation
in
France
.
Of
which
,
they
that
have
sought
the
beginning
,
are
come
short
of
it
,
if
they
have
taken
no
notice
that
those
which
embraced
that
Profession
in
the
large
Provinces
,
between
the
Pyrenees
and
the
Alps
,
as
soon
as
they
heard
it
countenanced
in
Germany
,
were
the
posterity
of
the
Albigenses
,
of
whom
Saint
Dominick
and
his
Zealots
had
butchered
twelve
hundred
thousand
,
three
hundred
years
before
,
for
the
same
Holy
Truth
.
A
Truth
,
which
being
supprest
by
the
sword
,
had
left
such
roots
in
the
posterity
,
that
it
filled
the
land
with
its
sprigs
as
soon
as
it
met
with
encouragement
.
The
Albigenses
were
called
,
in
contempt
by
their
enemies
,
Pauperis
de
Lugduno
,
the
poor
men
of
Lyons
,
or
the
Leonists
,
though
they
were
a
powerful
party
,
maintained
by
Raymond
Count
of
Toulouse
,
a
potent
Prince
,
and
even
by
the
King
of
Arragon
.
Let
the
enemies
of
their
memory
take
this
account
of
them
from
that
sworn
enemy
Rainerius
,
their
cruel
Inquisitor
,
Rainerius
contra
Valdenses
,
cap
.
4.
who
made
bonefires
of
them
;
who
yet
had
been
one
of
them
,
and
therefore
had
an
experimental
knowledg
of
the
men
and
their
communication
.
The
Leonists
(
saith
he
)
are
the
most
pernicious
Sect
of
all
Sects
,
that
are
or
ever
have
been
;
and
that
for
three
causes
:
The
first
,
because
they
are
of
the
longest
standing
;
for
some
say
that
they
have
continued
ever
since
Pope
Sylvester
;
Others
say
,
from
the
time
of
the
Apostles
.
The
second
,
because
it
is
more
general
than
any
Sect
,
for
there
is
no
land
in
which
they
are
not
.
The
third
cause
is
,
that
whereas
all
other
Sects
,
by
the
horridness
of
their
blasphemies
against
God
,
strike
horror
into
those
that
hear
them
,
This
Sect
of
the
Leonists
hath
the
face
of
piety
,
in
that
they
lead
a
righteous
life
,
and
believe
all
things
well
of
God
:
Only
they
blaspheme
the
Church
of
Rome
.
Antonius
Sonensis
,
cited
by
Gretserus
in
his
Prolegomena
to
the
Bibliotheca
Patrum
,
saith
,
That
this
Rainerius
lived
A.
D.
1254
,
a
man
of
great
Learning
,
and
formerly
a
Bishop
among
the
Hereticks
;
but
afterwards
he
le●t
them
,
and
became
a
severe
Inquisitor
in
Lombardy
.
If
then
above
400
years
ago
they
were
of
great
Antiquity
,
their
Doctrine
ought
not
to
be
taxed
of
Novelty
in
our
days
,
now
their
Doctrine
is
ours
,
in
the
main
points
,
as
we
may
justifie
by
their
Confessions
,
which
we
have
.
Sigonius
finds
them
in
Milan
,
Anno
1056
,
under
the
name
of
Patavini
.
He
might
have
found
them
in
Jerusalem
,
in
the
Apostles
time
,
under
the
name
of
Christians
.
This
will
seem
a
strange
Narrative
to
N.
N.
who
in
his
Seminary
was
bred
in
that
ignorant
belief
,
that
the
whole
Church
of
God
,
and
the
whole
Christian
world
,
for
sixteen
hundred
years
,
held
immutably
the
same
tenets
as
the
Roman
Church
holdeth
now
.
Let
him
learn
of
his
Bishop
Fisher
,
that
many
Doctrines
,
now
of
principal
importance
in
the
Roman
Church
,
Roffens
.
Luther
Consut
.
Art.
18.
are
of
no
very
old
date
.
Of
Purgatory
(
saith
he
)
in
the
ancient
Fathers
there
is
no
mention
at
all
,
or
very
rare
.
The
Latins
did
not
at
once
,
but
by
little
and
little
receive
it
.
The
Grecians
believe
it
not
to
this
day
.
And
Purgatory
being
so
long
unknown
,
it
is
not
to
be
marvelled
,
that
in
the
first
times
of
the
Church
there
was
no
use
of
Indulgences
;
for
they
had
their
beginning
after
that
men
had
a
while
been
scarred
with
the
torments
of
Purgatory
.
For
our
part
we
joyn
with
the
Roman
Church
in
all
the
primitive
Doctrine
;
And
dissent
in
nothing
from
them
,
but
where
we
must
need
say
,
In
the
beginning
it
was
not
so
.
N.
N.
is
very
bitter
against
our
Reformers
,
and
brands
them
with
Villany
and
Rebellion
against
their
Superiors
and
lawful
Pastors
.
I
will
not
counterscold
his
scolding
,
but
pass
by
these
Romish
civilities
which
he
learned
in
the
Seminary
.
I
will
but
tell
him
,
that
before
he
indite
us
of
Rebellion
for
shaking
off
the
Popes
heavy
voke
from
our
neck
,
he
must
prove
that
the
Pope
is
our
lawful
Pastor
and
Superior
:
And
when
he
hath
proved
that
,
he
must
proceed
to
prove
that
Christ
by
saying
to
Saint
Peter
,
feed
my
sheep
,
gave
power
to
the
Pope
to
tread
upon
the
necks
of
Kings
,
and
exercise
over
their
sacred
persons
,
their
revenues
,
and
the
purses
and
consciences
of
their
Subjects
,
that
horrible
Tyranny
under
which
poor
England
hath
groaned
so
many
ages
.
Blessed
be
God
who
hath
given
to
the
Kings
and
Kingdom
of
England
that
wisdom
and
courage
to
come
out
of
spiritual
and
secular
bondage
,
and
to
enjoy
the
benefit
of
Christs
promise
,
You
shall
know
the
truth
,
and
the
truth
shall
make
you
free
.
But
I
will
not
part
with
N.
N.
till
I
have
payed
him
his
fees
for
calling
our
Doctors
cheaters
,
and
our
Religion
a
cheat
.
Whereas
it
will
be
found
upon
sober
consideration
,
that
he
and
his
mates
have
been
our
Godfathers
,
by
giving
us
their
own
names
.
And
that
since
the
world
was
created
,
never
was
such
a
mystery
of
cheating
as
the
Papal
Monarchy
,
and
the
Romish
Religion
.
Look
over
the
whole
body
,
and
all
the
parts
of
Christian
Religion
,
and
see
whether
any
parcel
of
it
was
by
them
left
sound
,
that
could
be
screwed
to
feed
the
ambition
and
the
Covetousness
of
the
Clergy
.
It
goeth
well
with
the
points
of
the
Trinity
,
and
of
the
two
Natures
in
the
Person
of
Christ
,
that
there
is
nothing
to
be
got
by
all
the
Pro's
and
Con's
of
those
Controversies
which
have
distracted
the
ancient
Church
so
many
hundreds
of
years
.
Pope
Julius
got
once
much
credit
to
his
person
and
See
,
by
standing
firm
for
Saint
Athanasius
,
and
the
Nicene
Creed
.
But
it
is
now
above
900
years
since
the
Roman
See
hath
turned
them
out
of
doors
.
Let
Protestants
confute
Arians
and
Pelagians
if
they
will
;
The
Roman
Doctors
look
upon
those
debates
unconcernedly
.
Something
they
have
said
of
them
in
their
Common
places
;
but
in
the
emergent
Contradictions
,
they
are
silent
.
Why
?
they
are
{αβγδ}
,
They
bring
no
grist
to
their
Mill
.
They
are
not
so
demure
in
the
points
of
Justification
,
and
the
vertue
of
Christs
merit
.
We
learn
of
Saint
Paul
,
Rom.
5.1
.
that
being
justified
by
Faith
,
we
have
peace
with
God
through
Jesus
Christ
our
Lord
.
That
power
of
Faith
is
the
great
comfort
of
the
Christian
,
but
the
great
discomfort
of
the
Roman
Merchants
,
of
the
remission
of
sins
;
for
if
by
Faith
we
be
justified
,
and
have
peace
with
God
,
we
need
not
go
to
the
Jubilee
,
nor
give
money
for
human
satisfactions
to
buy
that
peace
.
That
Text
doth
so
gravel
the
Jesuit
Cornelius
a
Lapide
,
that
he
makes
upon
it
this
gloss
,
Lapide
Com
.
in
hunc
locum
.
which
contradicteth
the
Text
.
This
peace
(
saith
he
)
is
the
tranquility
,
serenity
and
confidence
of
a
righteous
and
good
conscience
,
not
out
of
a
certainty
of
divine
Faith
,
by
which
a
man
most
certainly
believeth
that
his
sins
are
remitted
,
as
the
Novellists
(
meaning
the
Protestants
)
will
have
it
;
but
out
of
conjectures
and
signs
,
which
breed
a
kind
of
moral
certainty
.
We
say
not
that
there
is
no
Faith
,
when
there
is
not
in
a
man
a
most
certain
confidence
of
the
remission
of
his
sins
.
But
every
Christian
ought
to
have
a
most
certain
confidence
,
that
there
is
no
way
for
him
to
have
remission
of
sins
,
and
peace
with
God
,
but
through
Christ
.
Such
a
Divine
Confidence
doth
not
please
this
Jesuit
.
He
alloweth
not
to
his
Disciples
a
Divine
Faith
,
grounded
upon
the
Love
of
God
,
and
the
Merit
of
Christ
,
but
a
kind
of
moral
certainty
upon
signs
and
conjectures
.
Is
it
not
plain
,
that
his
end
is
to
send
men
unsatisfied
from
Christ
,
of
whom
,
by
their
private
Faith
,
they
may
get
a
comfort
but
of
a
kind
of
moral
certainty
;
and
to
make
them
go
to
the
Pope
,
who
hath
the
plenitude
of
the
Merits
both
of
Christ
,
and
of
the
Saints
and
Monks
,
in
his
disposition
;
and
to
the
Shops
of
Indulgences
,
where
every
man
may
get
Paradice
for
his
money
?
To
the
same
purpose
is
the
Doctrine
,
that
Christ
by
his
Death
and
Merit
hath
taken
away
the
guilt
of
sin
,
but
not
the
punishment
:
That
God
hath
forgiven
sinners
the
sin
,
but
they
must
suffer
for
it
,
unless
they
compound
for
it
with
the
Church
.
Rare
nonsense
!
yet
such
as
perswadeth
men
,
cunning
enough
for
the
World
,
but
frighted
out
of
their
wits
by
the
pangs
of
an
evil
Conscience
,
to
part
with
real
money
and
land
to
avoid
the
imaginary
fire
of
Purgatory
;
running
at
the
same
time
into
the
real
torments
of
hell
by
their
wicked
life
.
But
because
now
a-days
fewer
will
be
cheated
out
of
their
Land
than
in
old
time
;
and
persons
of
quality
are
often
short
of
money
,
the
Pardon-mongers
will
compound
with
such
Customers
at
easy
rates
,
rather
than
lose
their
Custom
.
The
English
,
and
Irish
especially
,
are
courted
with
large
Pardons
,
and
easy
Penances
,
to
buy
their
firm
adherence
to
the
Holy
See
.
Whereas
,
if
we
look
up
to
the
dark
Ages
of
our
Fore-fathers
,
in
which
the
Church
grew
rich
,
you
will
wonder
what
incredible
wealth
was
got
by
that
gross
cheat
of
Purgatory
.
How
dull
sinners
,
terrified
with
their
crimes
,
founded
so
many
rich
Monasteries
,
and
gave
so
much
Land
to
the
Abbeys
to
pray
for
their
Souls
,
that
the
Clergy
is
become
formidable
to
Princes
by
their
wealth
and
power
;
and
by
that
numerous
and
rich
Clergy
,
who
all
acknowledg
the
Pope
for
their
head
,
the
Pope
hath
a
mighty
party
in
all
States
,
kept
at
the
charges
of
the
Princes
and
people
whom
they
tyrannize
over
.
A
party
ready
to
assist
him
at
all
occasions
of
need
,
so
that
he
needs
not
to
pay
Armies
or
Garisons
.
In
all
Countries
,
where
Popery
hath
the
upper-hand
,
doth
not
the
Pope
cheat
the
Soveraigns
of
great
part
of
their
Native
Subjects
,
who
being
entred
into
the
Clergy
,
claim
exemption
from
the
Secular
powers
,
depend
on
the
Popes
Courts
,
and
pay
him
Annates
and
Tributes
?
The
greatest
cheat
of
all
,
and
which
hath
raised
the
greatest
storms
in
Europe
,
is
the
abuse
of
the
power
of
the
Keys
.
Not
so
much
by
teaching
those
Keys
to
open
Chests
(
which
they
have
done
to
some
purpose
)
,
as
by
justling
with
those
Keys
against
the
Imperial
Swords
.
With
those
Keys
the
Popes
have
knocked
down
the
Crown
of
the
Kings
of
Italy
of
the
Race
of
Charlemagne
.
With
those
Keys
they
have
so
battered
the
Emperors
Crown
,
that
they
made
him
loose
his
large
.
Territories
in
Italy
;
and
so
broke
to
pieces
his
German
Crown
,
that
there
is
scarce
one
left
which
he
may
call
absolutely
his
own
.
And
yet
(
O
the
cheating
witchcraft
of
the
Roman
See
)
no
Prince
hath
more
Devotion
to
it
than
the
Emperor
,
who
is
a
main
prop
of
the
Empire
of
the
destroyer
of
his
!
Of
the
horrible
Cheats
and
Tyranny
of
the
Popes
in
England
,
whereby
they
have
unking'd
our
Kings
,
and
fetched
many
times
more
money
out
of
England
than
they
left
in
it
,
two
Monks
,
Matthew
Paris
,
and
Matthew
of
Westminster
,
have
left
a
large
account
to
the
World
.
The
Popes
Revenue
at
home
,
being
about
two
Millions
yearly
;
it
were
easy
,
but
too
long
,
to
prove
by
the
Histories
now
extant
,
that
he
got
his
principalities
by
fraud
and
oppression
.
His
Revenue
out
of
the
Clergy
depends
much
upon
that
his
Clergy
gets
.
The
Pope
furnisheth
them
with
the
Nets
of
Indulgences
to
catch
the
prey
,
and
those
,
are
various
,
and
often
change
garb
;
for
as
the
peoples
Devotion
to
old
Saints
is
cooling
,
he
reneweth
Indulgences
for
new
ones
;
for
which
,
he
never
wanteth
the
Warrant
of
Revelations
,
Miracles
,
and
Visions
of
Holy
Votaries
.
Great
sums
are
got
by
those
new
Indulgences
.
At
the
publishing
of
one
of
them
,
the
Cordeliers
of
Orleans
caught
four
thousand
Crowns
at
one
draught
.
They
have
bowed
Gods
Commandments
to
their
own
profit
and
conveniency
.
Finding
it
less
gainful
for
their
Trade
,
to
make
the
people
to
worship
God
alone
,
than
to
make
them
worship
others
with
him
;
because
the
people
love
variety
,
and
multitude
of
Saints
giveth
occasion
for
multitude
of
Indulgences
,
they
have
fitted
the
publick
Devotions
to
the
peoples
humour
,
and
their
own
gain
.
For
their
own
gain
,
they
have
left
out
the
second
precept
against
Images
out
of
their
Catechism
:
Finding
that
men
(
such
is
their
weakness
)
love
to
see
what
they
worship
,
and
are
apt
to
say
,
Exod
.
32.2
.
Make
us
Gods
that
may
go
before
us
:
they
have
humoured
them
,
and
amused
their
eyes
with
Images
,
Relicks
,
Beads
,
Agnus
Dei's
,
and
multitude
of
holy
Trinkets
.
They
have
strengthened
the
adoration
of
Images
,
with
miracles
and
Indulgences
.
What
treasures
they
have
got
by
the
Images
of
greater
credit
,
is
past
reckoning
.
Some
Kingdoms
yield
a
less
revenue
to
their
King
than
the
Image
of
Lauretta
brings
to
the
Monks
,
and
to
the
Pope
at
the
secondhand
.
Now
,
because
the
people
would
be
saved
,
but
are
loath
to
leave
their
sins
to
get
Paradice
,
and
to
sadden
their
jollity
with
Devotion
and
Austerity
,
several
Orders
of
Fryers
,
which
multiply
daily
,
have
taken
upon
themselves
to
be
Holy
,
Strict
,
Devout
and
Austere
for
the
Gallants
,
who
cannot
in
thankfulness
but
give
them
good
Fees
for
it
;
whereby
Mendicant
Fryars
are
become
rich
Societies
.
Their
great
Harvest
is
,
when
a
great
Noble-man
,
or
a
rich
Widow
lye
on
their
death-bed
.
Then
the
hatred
of
the
Regular
Clergy
against
the
Secular
,
and
the
envy
of
the
several
Orders
of
Fryars
among
themselves
,
and
the
cheating
and
griping
of
them
all
,
is
most
odiously
evident
.
The
Parish-Priest
,
as
the
Pastor
,
will
have
the
governing
of
his
Parishioners
conscience
.
But
while
he
is
about
it
,
Fryars
of
several
Orders
,
all
richly
gifted
with
impudence
,
will
croud
in
,
and
thrust
out
both
him
and
one
another
with
violence
.
Some
have
singular
indulgences
for
departing
souls
.
Others
have
yet
a
more
compendious
way
to
Heaven
.
All
provided
with
some
toys
of
Relicks
for
the
Patient
to
kiss
.
If
one
have
a
piece
of
the
wood
of
the
Virgin
Mary's
Cradle
,
another
will
bring
forth
a
rag
dipt
in
Saint
Francis
his
blood
,
when
he
received
the
stigmats
;
another
a
great
Tooth
of
Saint
Apollonia
.
And
in
stead
of
preparing
the
dying
Patient
to
a
better
world
,
they
will
thwart
one
another
with
high
and
foul
words
,
and
the
sick
party
in
that
extremity
is
torn
by
Vultures
,
miserable
comforters
.
The
way
of
Salvation
offered
to
him
by
each
Order
,
is
to
endow
their
Convent
bountifully
,
that
his
Soul
may
be
prayed
for
.
But
the
Jesuits
commonly
will
out-wit
them
all
,
applying
themselves
to
great
persons
before
they
be
sick
,
sticking
to
them
,
and
keeping
out
all
others
in
their
last
sickness
;
whereby
they
have
hooked
in
great
inheritances
,
to
the
exclusion
of
the
right
heirs
.
Then
the
Obits
or
Services
for
the
dead
yield
to
them
,
and
to
the
Parish
Priest
,
a
considerable
revenue
.
He
that
dying
leaveth
nothing
to
the
Church
,
is
cryed
down
by
them
as
damned
.
The
History
is
known
of
the
Prevosts
of
Orleans
Wife
;
at
whose
death
,
her
Husband
allowed
no
Legacy
to
the
Church
,
which
was
so
ill
resented
by
the
Cordeliers
,
that
they
appointed
one
of
their
Convent
to
creep
between
the
Cieling
and
the
Roof
of
their
Church
,
and
there
to
bustle
,
and
skreek
,
and
howl
.
At
which
all
the
City
being
frighted
,
as
if
the
Church
were
haunted
by
the
Devil
,
and
flocking
to
the
place
,
the
Spirit
was
conjured
,
by
an
Exorcist
,
to
speak
what
he
was
,
and
what
he
would
have
.
Then
the
Spirit
spake
,
She
was
the
soul
of
the
Prevosts
wife
,
for
whose
health
nothing
was
given
to
the
Church
;
and
that
for
want
of
the
prayers
of
the
Church
she
was
in
horrible
Torment
.
But
the
Prevost
,
a
stout
man
,
got
the
matter
so
well
searched
,
that
the
Imposture
was
found
out
,
and
the
Impostors
whipt
and
stigmatized
,
without
respect
to
their
Cowles
,
and
the
indempnities
of
their
Order
.
The
like
Imposture
was
acted
,
and
discovered
at
Bearn
,
by
the
Dominicans
,
An.
1507
,
and
that
discovery
made
way
for
the
Reformation
,
which
followed
soon
after
in
that
Canton
.
But
they
have
learned
since
to
cheat
more
cautiously
.
As
the
Clergy
thriveth
by
the
simpleness
of
the
people
,
so
the
Pope
thriveth
by
the
cheats
of
the
Clergy
,
and
by
their
errors
in
it
.
He
useth
those
Religious
Houses
as
Sponges
to
drink
what
juice
they
can
from
the
people
,
that
afterwards
he
may
wring
them
out
.
The
multiplication
of
Holy
days
,
is
one
of
the
great
cheats
of
the
Papal
Clergy
to
increase
their
wealth
.
For
upon
those
days
the
Shops
of
the
Laity
are
shut
up
,
and
those
of
the
Clergy
open
;
and
in
all
those
days
Pardons
may
be
had
in
some
Church
or
Convent
.
But
these
Arts
do
not
speed
alike
in
all
places
.
They
have
not
been
lucky
to
the
King
of
Spains
Dominions
in
the
Low-Countries
.
For
it
is
observed
that
his
Cities
that
joyn
upon
the
United
Provinces
,
are
thin
of
inhabitants
,
because
the
Holy-days
,
upon
which
Shop-keepers
must
not
sell
,
and
handicrafts-men
must
not
work
,
being
now
well-nigh
as
many
as
the
worky-days
;
those
men
that
live
by
their
daily
Labour
and
Trading
,
were
easily
perswaded
to
remove
to
the
Neighbouring-Towns
,
where
they
may
Trade
and
work
all
the
days
of
the
week
but
Sundays
;
and
withal
,
be
freed
of
the
pinching
of
Fryers
and
Priests
upon
the
living
and
the
dead
;
for
they
have
infinite
tricks
to
hook
in
the
money
of
the
Laity
.
A
place
that
hath
multitude
of
that
Clergy
,
shall
never
grow
rich
.
In
our
memory
,
Charles
Gonzaga
,
Duke
of
Nevers
,
built
a
City
,
which
by
his
Name
he
called
Charleville
,
in
a
little
Soveraignty
of
his
,
near
the
Frontiers
of
Lorrain
.
His
first
buildings
in
it
were
a
House
for
the
Jesuits
,
and
a
Convent
of
Capucins
.
This
made
some
judicious
men
to
foretel
,
that
the
Town
was
no
more
like
to
grow
rich
,
than
a
Fish-pond
to
be
well
stored
with
Fish
,
when
Pykes
are
put
into
it
before
the
Carps
.
And
the
Prognostication
hath
proved
true
.
Where
the
Clergy
is
rich
,
the
Pope
gets
great
booties
by
visiting
them
.
Pius
the
V.
under
pretence
of
visiting
and
reforming
the
Clergy
,
drew
fourteen
Millions
from
the
Clergy
of
Spain
;
for
which
,
he
was
complained
of
to
the
Council
of
that
Kingdom
.
Of
later
date
,
Memorial
de
Magest
.
Catholica
.
the
King
of
Spain
himself
publish'd
a
Book
of
Expostulations
against
the
Court
of
Rome
,
for
their
cruel
exactions
upon
the
Spanish
Clergy
.
He
representeth
that
the
Pope
imposed
Pensions
upon
Benefices
,
even
those
that
had
cure
of
souls
,
in
favour
of
strangers
,
in
an
excessive
proportion
,
even
to
the
third
part
of
the
full
value
.
That
the
Fees
of
his
Court
were
so
great
,
that
they
were
a
sufficient
punishment
for
a
grievous
crime
.
That
a
rich
Clergy-man
could
no
sooner
fall
sick
,
but
the
Popes
Collectors
were
gaping
about
him
for
his
goods
,
and
set
guards
about
his
house
,
because
the
Pope
did
challenge
and
usurp
for
himself
,
at
the
death
of
Clergy-men
,
all
their
estates
that
were
raised
out
of
the
revenues
of
the
Church
.
That
by
this
means
,
Bishops
had
not
left
,
before
they
were
dead
,
a
Candlestick
,
or
a
Cup
to
drink
in
:
yea
,
that
they
have
been
disserted
upon
their
death-beds
,
and
famished
for
want
of
meat
to
eat
.
So
they
deserved
to
be
used
,
that
had
bound
themselves
slaves
to
such
an
ill
Master
.
To
these
joyn
the
account
which
the
excellent
Convert
,
True
Catholick
Apostolick
faith
,
l.
1.
p.
85.
Dr.
Andrew
Sall
,
giveth
of
the
monstrous
exactions
of
the
Datory
Office
,
by
which
Paul
the
V
had
scraped
up
from
the
Clergy
twenty
hundred
thousand
scutes
,
taking
for
the
sale
of
Benefices
five
years
Pension
before-hand
;
which
is
selling
at
the
rate
of
30
in
the
100
,
besides
the
Clergy-mans
personal
service
.
And
selling
for
those
Benefices
Coadjutorships
,
with
assurance
of
future
succession
after
his
death
,
to
whom
the
purchaser
was
made
Coadjutor
;
making
him
pay
one
years
profit
for
the
expediting
and
Fees
of
the
Bull
.
Add
to
these
,
Item
,
For
the
Pall
of
an
Archbishop
,
20000
Ducats
.
Item
,
For
a
Licence
to
Marry
in
a
degree
allowed
by
God
,
but
disallowed
by
the
Church
,
14000
Ducats
.
Item
,
For
a
Prince
to
Marry
his
Aunt
;
A
sum
not
to
be
told
.
Item
,
So
much
for
another
to
Marry
two
Sisters
.
Item
,
So
much
for
Legitimating
a
Bastard-issue
.
Item
,
So
much
for
Dispensing
a
Prince
from
keeping
his
Oaths
.
O
that
bottomless
gulf
of
iniquity
,
covetousness
,
and
fraud
!
those
depths
of
Satan
!
I
presume
not
to
dive
to
the
bottom
of
them
.
But
some
of
them
are
so
evident
,
Tit
.
9.
de
elect
.
in
Secto
.
cap
.
Fundamenta
.
Theodoric
.
a
Nihem
.
Tract
.
6.
cap
37.
Miram
est
quantum
ista
de
Christo
fabula
nobis
affuleritemolument
.
that
even
the
Glossaries
of
the
Decretals
made
bold
to
say
,
Roma
a
praedonibus
fundata
ad
huc
de
primordiis
retinet
.
Rome
founded
by
thieves
,
still
retaineth
the
genius
of
her
Origine
.
And
even
a
Secretary
of
the
Popes
,
saith
,
That
the
Apostolick
Chamber
is
like
the
Sea
,
into
which
all
Rivers
flow
,
and
never
make
it
overflow
:
for
streams
of
Gold
from
all
parts
ran
into
it
by
thousands
,
yet
it
is
never
full
.
There
is
in
it
a
Generation
whose
teeth
are
swords
.
Sure
those
Italian
Gentlemen
,
being
much
of
Leo
the
X's
Religion
,
declared
by
him
to
Cardinal
Bembo
,
laugh
among
themselves
,
seeing
the
Wealth
of
Nations
streaming
amain
into
their
lap
,
by
the
brutish
zeal
of
the
people
,
Tributary
to
their
craft
.
And
I
presume
,
that
from
thence
the
Italians
have
got
that
pride
,
to
call
all
nations
but
their
own
,
bestias
,
because
they
have
gulled
them
,
to
work
the
wealth
and
grandeur
of
Italy
by
their
brutality
.
That
the
Election
of
Popes
may
be
suitable
to
their
behaviour
;
there
is
not
one
Pope
in
twenty
that
comes
not
in
by
Cheat
and
Simony
;
and
scarce
one
Cardinal
that
sells
not
his
voice
.
Of
that
,
the
Histories
are
full
,
and
the
ordinary
practice
justifieth
it
.
These
foul
practices
,
making
(
by
their
own
Laws
)
the
Election
void
;
An
Exact
and
Learned
pen
of
a
Roman
Catholick
,
hath
proved
by
clear
evidences
,
that
none
of
the
Bishops
or
Popes
,
who
usurped
that
See
since
Gregory
the
XIII
,
was
a
lawful
Bishop
.
The
Treatise
written
upon
this
Subject
in
Latin
,
was
addrest
to
the
Emperor
,
and
all
the
Kings
and
Princes
of
the
Christian
world
,
and
presented
to
the
most
Excellent
King
James
,
who
caused
it
to
be
printed
.
Nine
years
after
,
it
was
printed
in
English
,
A.
D.
1622.
It
was
a
supplication
to
all
those
Princes
,
to
call
a
General
Council
against
him
that
usurped
the
Papal
Chair
,
Paul
the
V.
Unto
this
day
the
book
was
not
answered
by
any
that
we
know
.
A
clear
proof
that
they
wanted
means
to
gain-say
the
truth
of
it
.
Of
that
Treatise
,
the
Learned
and
faithful
Convert
,
Dr.
Sall
,
giveth
a
full
account
in
his
late
Book
of
the
Catholick
and
Apostolick
Faith
maintained
in
England
;
1.
Book
.
cap
.
9.
in
which
he
fully
discovereth
the
horrible
collusions
and
foul
practices
in
those
Elections
;
and
proveth
that
Sixtus
the
V
,
Clement
the
VIII
,
and
Paul
the
V
,
were
no
Popes
,
and
the
Cardinals
made
by
them
no
Cardinals
,
and
had
no
power
to
Elect
Popes
.
And
what
are
now
the
Popes
Elected
by
such
Cardinals
?
What
shall
the
Popes
be
that
are
to
come
,
having
no
warrant
for
their
Authority
but
that
succession
?
Upon
that
rotten
thred
hangs
the
Headship
of
the
pretended
Vicar
of
Christ
,
and
the
Infallibility
of
the
Roman
Chair
.
Blessed
be
God
,
that
our
Faith
stands
upon
a
better
pillar
and
ground
of
truth
than
that
See
,
in
which
Satan
can
claim
so
much
right
,
both
because
it
is
obtained
,
and
because
it
is
maintained
by
his
Arts.
Leaving
the
Grandees
alone
;
what
are
you
,
Sir
,
N.
N.
who
take
upon
you
to
upbraid
our
Divines
with
Cheating
,
but
an
arrant
Cheater
?
This
I
will
prove
by
yours
,
and
your
fellow-Priests
practice
.
If
two
bring
Jewels
to
sell
to
a
Lady
,
and
the
one
desire
her
Ladiship
to
get
her
Jewels
seen
and
tryed
by
Jewellers
before
she
buy
them
;
and
the
other
will
not
part
with
them
,
unless
the
Lady
bind
her self
by
a
strict
Covenant
with
him
to
keep
them
close
,
and
let
none
of
them
that
deal
in
Jewels
see
any
of
them
:
I
pray
,
which
of
the
two
is
the
likelier
to
prove
a
Cheater
?
This
is
the
case
between
you
and
me
.
I
desire
to
have
the
Doctrine
which
I
set
forth
,
tryed
by
friends
and
foes
,
by
the
light
of
Gods
word
,
and
in
the
sight
of
the
World
.
But
you
forbid
those
whose
conscience
you
take
upon
you
to
govern
,
to
let
any
but
your self
and
your
confederates
to
know
what
Doctrine
and
what
Devotions
you
impose
upon
them
.
To
all
books
but
yours
,
you
make
them
blind
.
To
all
discourses
but
yours
you
make
them
deaf
.
Is
it
not
because
you
fear
that
the
light
of
Gods
word
should
open
their
eyes
,
and
let
them
see
the
unsoundness
of
your
wares
?
Well
,
when
you
have
brought
them
to
subjection
,
what
food
do
you
give
to
their
souls
?
Not
the
holy
Scripture
,
a
dangerous
,
a
forbidden
book
,
because
it
hath
made
many
Hereticks
,
or
at
least
hath
alienated
many
from
your
Church
:
Dr.
Sall
p.
86.
of
the
first
book
of
the
Catholick
Faith
,
&c.
And
(
as
he
telleth
you
,
that
was
lately
one
of
yours
)
you
permit
them
not
to
know
more
than
their
beads
,
or
some
small
prayer-book
,
with
the
Letanies
of
the
conception
,
or
Saint
Josephs
Sarata
Teresa
,
&c.
and
a
list
of
great
Indulgences
for
very
small
Devotions
.
You
admit
them
to
the
fraternity
of
the
Rosary
,
and
perhaps
of
other
Societies
,
whereby
they
get
a
share
in
all
their
merits
,
though
they
will
have
no
share
in
their
Austerities
:
but
they
must
pay
for
it
;
for
that
partnership
in
the
merits
of
holy
Votaries
,
is
only
manus
porrigentibus
adjutrices
,
for
those
that
help
the
Catholick
party
with
money
,
either
to
send
to
Convents
beyond
the
Sea
,
or
to
maintain
Priests
and
Fryars
at
home
,
or
to
keep
in
a
common
stock
for
emergent
occasions
,
of
setting
up
the
Pope
in
England
again
,
though
by
the
ruin
of
King
and
Kingdom
.
You
give
to
your
Disciples
false
notions
of
our
Religion
:
That
it
began
by
Luther
,
and
never
was
heard
of
before
.
That
all
the
Primitive
Church
,
and
the
whole
Christian
world
in
our
days
,
are
against
it
.
That
we
are
all
for
faith
,
and
reject
good
works
.
That
we
despise
the
Fathers
of
the
Church
,
hate
Saints
,
and
revile
the
Virgin
Mary
.
For
points
of
Doctrine
you
require
no
more
of
your
Disciples
,
but
to
believe
what
the
Church
believeth
,
never
inquiring
what
the
Church
believeth
;
and
to
repose
themselves
absolutely
upon
their
Pastors
faith
,
who
must
believe
for
them
what
they
should
believe
.
By
that
way
a
man
is
a
believer
in
the
great
,
but
an
unbeliever
in
retail
;
and
blindness
and
ignorance
is
pretended
to
be
a
Christian
profession
.
Hear
the
example
recommended
by
that
great
pillar
of
Popery
,
Gregorius
de
Valentia
,
for
all
Christians
to
follow
.
He
highly
praiseth
a
Merchant
of
Placentia
,
Analisi
de
Ecclesia
,
p
205.
reasoning
in
this
manner
:
I
am
resolved
to
embrace
,
rather
the
Papal
than
the
Lutheran
Religion
;
especially
,
because
in
the
Papal
I
may
learn
the
truth
with
little
ado
;
what
the
Pope
affirmeth
,
I
will
affirm
;
what
the
Pope
denyeth
,
I
will
deny
;
if
he
will
say
more
,
I
will
assent
to
more
.
Whereas
,
if
I
will
turn
Lutheran
,
I
must
learn
a
Catechism
,
and
search
the
Scripture
,
which
I
cannot
do
;
when
I
should
rather
look
to
my
Italian
Ships
,
and
take
care
to
get
forreign
wares
.
And
he
addeth
again
,
Pag
.
207.
That
God
in
his
terrible
judgment
shall
have
nothing
at
all
to
say
against
that
man
.
Such
is
the
Roman
faith
,
thus
described
by
Cardinal
Bellarmin
,
Fides
melius
per
ignorantiam
quam
per
notitiam
definitur
.
Lib
.
1.
de
Justificave
,
cap
.
7.
The
definition
of
faith
is
better
made
by
ignorance
than
by
knowledg
.
Ignorance
is
the
strong
and
main
Bulwark
of
the
Roman
Religion
,
which
therefore
is
defended
with
the
utmost
care
and
obstinacy
.
For
if
all
that
bear
the
name
of
Christians
,
did
but
know
and
believe
,
That
God
will
be
alone
worshipped
and
prayed
to
;
that
the
blood
of
Christ
doth
cleanse
us
from
all
sin
;
that
there
is
no
salvation
in
any
other
,
and
none
other
name
under
Heaven
given
among
men
,
whereby
we
must
be
saved
:
down
would
fall
the
lucrative
Invocation
of
Saints
,
the
foul
Merchandize
of
Indulgences
,
and
the
treasure
of
human
satisfactions
.
The
fire
of
Purgatory
would
go
out
:
No
more
Pilgrimage
and
Jubilees
;
for
who
would
travel
a
thousand
miles
to
fetch
the
remission
of
sins
,
if
he
may
find
it
at
home
in
Gods
word
,
and
obtain
it
by
a
lively
saith
,
upon
an
humble
repentance
,
and
a
serious
Conversion
?
Then
also
Capucins
would
give
over
whipping
themselves
for
the
sins
of
others
;
and
their
Chapmen
would
leave
buying
that
which
the
sellers
cannot
deliver
.
Then
also
Christians
,
finding
no
help
in
the
Invocation
of
Saints
,
much
less
would
seek
it
in
the
service
of
their
Images
,
but
would
cast
away
their
Images
to
the
Moles
and
to
the
Bats
.
Isa
.
2.20
.
But
then
,
what
would
be
left
to
feed
the
pride
of
the
Pope
,
and
the
belly
of
the
Monks
?
These
being
fed
by
the
ignorance
of
the
people
,
and
the
cheating
of
the
Clergy
,
it
belongs
to
your
Trade
,
Sir
,
diligently
to
cheat
your
Disciples
to
ignorance
,
Saint
Ignorance
,
precious
Ignorance
,
your
bountiful
Nurse
.
And
you
do
it
with
your
most
earnest
endeavour
,
keeping
out
very
far
from
your
Disciples
those
truths
which
are
so
ruinous
to
your
cause
.
But
there
is
one
point
,
(
you
wish
it
were
a
truth
)
in
which
you
ground
your
Disciples
with
great
care
;
That
the
Pope
is
the
Soveraign
of
England
and
Ireland
,
both
for
the
Spiritual
and
the
Temporal
.
This
is
the
main
point
of
Religion
with
the
English
Roman-Catholicks
;
this
is
the
point
for
which
Thomas
Becket
suffered
Martyrdom
;
this
is
the
point
for
which
the
powder-Traitors
plotted
that
Treason
,
and
for
which
they
suffered
;
this
is
the
point
for
which
the
Irish
Massacred
two
hundred
thousand
Protestants
,
to
begin
a
War
,
in
which
the
Popes
Standard
was
set
up
;
this
is
the
point
for
which
Cardinal
Barbarini
was
so
severe
against
those
English
and
Irish
Lords
,
who
had
so
much
forgotten
their
first
faith
,
as
to
swear
Fidelity
to
their
King
.
What
more
?
this
is
the
point
which
the
formidable
faculty
of
the
Lovain
Divines
,
asserted
by
an
express
Declaration
sent
abroad
to
shew
their
zeal
and
folly
.
Certainly
,
this
is
the
only
point
of
which
his
Holiness
is
sensible
.
Two
Popes
have
made
this
good
,
having
offered
to
Queen
Elizabeth
to
confirm
the
Reformation
of
England
,
and
our
book
of
publick
service
,
if
her
Majesty
would
but
have
taken
it
from
them
,
and
acknowledged
the
Popes
power
.
And
this
is
the
point
for
which
so
many
Emissaries
are
sent
from
Rome
into
England
,
N.
N.
one
of
them
,
who
cannot
in
conscience
deny
that
this
was
the
chief
point
of
his
instructions
from
his
Superiors
,
to
labour
most
earnestly
to
reduce
the
English
to
the
Obedience
of
the
See
of
Rome
.
I
summon
him
to
Obedience
to
a
greater
Superior
,
and
Exhort
him
,
both
by
the
Compassions
of
God
,
which
I
heartily
wish
to
him
,
and
by
the
terror
of
his
Judgments
to
obdurate
sinners
in
their
willful
blindness
;
That
he
weigh
with
impartiality
the
truths
contained
in
this
discourse
,
the
untruths
which
he
is
employed
to
maintain
,
and
the
foul
dealings
of
his
pary
,
which
likely
he
knew
not
before
.
Let
him
open
his
eyes
,
and
behold
,
How
from
the
sole
of
the
foot
,
even
unto
the
head
,
there
is
no
soundness
in
it
,
but
wounds
,
Isa
.
1.6
.
and
bruises
,
and
putrifying
sores
.
Under
the
name
of
the
Church
of
Christ
,
the
Synagogue
of
Satan
,
and
the
pride
of
Babylon
,
maintained
by
all
the
wicked
arts
of
griping
,
and
Imposture
of
her
Agents
,
and
by
the
stupidity
and
ignorance
of
the
World
,
now
so
tamed
to
be
cheated
,
that
they
take
them
for
their
enemies
that
lay
open
the
truth
of
God
before
them
,
that
they
may
not
run
blindfolded
into
perdition
.
Christ
who
hath
purchased
a
Church
to
himself
by
his
blood
,
preserve
the
oppressed
remains
of
Christianity
,
which
we
still
acknowledg
among
the
general
Corruption
.
FINIS