is to be to be seene. cha, 18.MarginaliaLeuit. 18.Also how children ought not to marry without consent of their parents, by manifest examples of the Scriptures it is notorious.

Contrary to these ordinaunces of the Scripture, the new Catholikes of the Popes church, first doe repute and call mariage a state of imperfection, & preferre single lyfe, be it neuer so impure, before the same,MarginaliaSingle life be it neuer so impure preferred before Matrimony.pretending þ^t where the one replenisheth the earth, the other filleth Heauen. Further, as good as þ^e third part of Christendome, if it be not more both men and women, they keepe through coacted vowes from mariage, hauing no respect whethey they haue the gift or no.MarginaliaThe third part of christendome stopt by the Popes law to marryMinisters and Priestes, such as are found to haue wiues, not onely they remoue out of place, but also pronounce sentence of death vpon them & account their children for bastardes & illegitimate.Marginaliathe Popes doctrine agaynst Priestes maryage, and their Children.Againe, as good as the iij. part of the yeare they exempt & suspend from liberty of mariage.MarginaliaThe third part of the yeare exempted frō the mariage.Degres of copulation forbidden they extend farther then euer did the law of God, euen to the fift or sixt degree.MarginaliaMariage within the fift, or sixt degree, by the Popes law.Which degree notwithstanding they release againe when they list for money. Ouer and besides al this they haue added a new found prohibition of spiritual kindred; that is, that such as haue bene gossips,MarginaliaGossippes inhibited to marry by the Popes law.or godfathers and godmothers together in christening an other mans child, must not by their law mary together. Briefly and finally in this their doctrine and cases of Matrimony they gaine and rake to themselues much money from the people, they augment horrible Sodomitry, they nourish wicked adultery and much fornication. They fill the worlde with offensions, and bastardes, and giue great occasion of murdering infants.MarginaliaWhat inconueniences come by restrayning of mariage.

YE hard before what rules and lessons S. Paule gaue to the old Romanes concerning Magistrats, to whose authoritie he would all humaine creatures to be subiected and how they are the ministers of God, hauing the sworde giuen vnto them, wherewith they ought to represse false doctrine and idolatry, and maintaine that which is true & right. Rom. 13.MarginaliaThe corrupt doctrine of the Popes Churche concerning ciuile rulers and magistrates. Rom. 13.Now let vs suruey a litle the Popes proceedinges, and marke how farre he transgresseth in this, as he doth in al other points almost from true christianity.

1. First, the Pope with all his clergy exempt themselues from all obedience ciuill.

2. They arrogate to themselues authoritie to ordeine and constitute, without all leaue or knowledge of the ordinary Magistrage.

3. Yea, they take vpon them to depose, and set vp rulers and Magistrates whome they list.

MarginaliaThe Phantasies and Antiques of the popes Churche concerning Purgatory.THe Paradoxes, or rather the phantesies of the latter Church of Rome concerning purgatory, be monstruous, neither old nor Apostlicall.

1. First, (say they) there is a Purgatory, where soules do burne in fier after this life.

2. The paine of Purgatory differeth nothing from the paynes of hell, but onely that it hath an end, the paines of hell haue none.

3. The painefull suffering of this fier fretteth and scoureth away the sinnes before committed in the body.

4. The time of these paines indureth in some longer, in some lesse, according as their sinnes deserue.MarginaliaEx Thom. Mono & alijs.

5. After which time of their paines being expired, then the mercy of God doth translate them to heauenly blisse, which the body of Christ hath bought for them.

6. The paines of purgatory be so great, that if al the beggars of the world were seene on the one side, and but one soule of Purgatory on the other side, the whole worlde woulde pitie more that one, then all the other.

7. The whole time of punishment in this Purgatory must continue so long, till the fier haue cleane fretted and scoured away the rusty spots of euery sinnefull soule there burning, vnlesse there come some release.

8. Helpes and releases that may shorten the time of their purgation, be the Popes pardons and indulgences, sacrifice of the alter, dyrges, and trentals, prayer, fasting meritorious deedes out of the treasure house of the Church, almes, and charitable deedes of the liuing in satisfiyng gods Iustice for them, &c.

9. Lacke of beliefe of Purgatory, bringeth to hell.

Many other false errours and great deformities, heresies, absurdities, vanities, & follies, bisides their blasphe-mous raylinges and contumelies, may be noted in the said latter church of Rome, wherein they haue made manifest defection from the old faith of Rome,MarginaliaManifest defection of the Popes Church from the olde fayth of Rome.as in depriuing the Church of one kinde of the Sacrament, in taking from the people the knowledge and reading of Gods word, in praying and speaking to the people and administring sacramentes in a tongue vnknowne, in mistaking the authoritie of the keyes, in their vnwritten verites, in making þ^e authority of scripture insufficient, in vntrue iudgement of the Churche and the wrong notes of the same, in the supremacy of the sea of Rome, in their wrong opinion of Antichrist.

But because these with all other partes of doctryne are more copiously and at large comprehended in other bookes both in Latine and Englishe set foorth in these our dayes, I shall not need further herein to trauell, especially seeing the contrariety betweene the Popes Church, and the Church of Christ, betweene the doctrine of the one, and doctrine of the other, is so euident that he is blind that seeth it not, and hath no handes almost, that feeleth it not.

For (briefely in one note to comprehende, which may suffice for all)MarginaliaContrarietie betweene the Religion of Christ and of the Pope briefly noted.where as the doctrine of Christ is altogether spirituall, consisting wholy in spirite and veritie,MarginaliaChristes doctrine is wholly spirituall.and requireth no outwarde thing to make a true Christen man but onely Baptisme (which is the outwarde profession of fayth) and receauing the Lordes supper:MarginaliaNo outward thing is required in Christes doctrine to make a Christen man but onely Baptisme and the Lordes Supper.let vs now examine the whole religion of this latter Church of Rome, and we shall finde it wholy from toppe to toe, to consist in nothing els but altogether in outwarde and ceremoniall exercises, as outward confession, absolution at the Priests hand, outward sacrifice of the Masse, buying of pardons, purchasing of obites, externe worshipping of Images and reliques, pilgrimage of this place or that: building of Churches, founding of Monasteries, outward workes of the law, outwarde gestures, garments, colours, choise of meates, difference of times and places, peculiar rytes, and obseruauncies set prayers and number of prayers and number of prayers prescribed, fasting of vigiles, keeping of holidayes, comming to Church, hearing of seruice, externe succession of Bishops, and of Peters sea, externe forme and notes of the Church. &c.MarginaliaAll doctrine of the Pope standeth onely in outward things.so that by this religion to make a true Christian and a good Catholike, there is no working of the holy Ghost almost required: As by example to make this matter more demonstrable, let vs here define a Christen man after the Popes making: whereby we see the better what is to be iudged of the scope of his doctrine.

AFter the Popes Catholike Religion, a true Christen man is thus defined:MarginaliaA Christen man defined after the Popes doctrine.first to be baptised in the Latine tongue (where the Godfathers professe they can not tell what) then confirmed by the Byshop: the Mother of the childee to be purified. After he be growen in yeares, then to come to the Church, to keepe his fasting dayes, to fast the Lent, to come vnder benedicite. that is, to be confessed of the Priest, to doe his penance, at Easter to take his rites, to heare Masse, and diuine seruice, to set vppe candels before Images to creepe to þ^e Crosse, to take holy bread and holy water, to go on processiō, to cary his palmes & candle, and to take ashes, to fast the Ember daies, Rogation daies, & vigiles, to keepe the holy dayes, to pay his tithes and offeringe daies, to go on pilgrimage, to buy pardons, to worship his maker ouer the Priestes head, to receaue the Pope for his supreame head and to obey his lawes, to receaue S. Nicolas Clerks, to haue his beades, & to giue to the high altar, to take orders, if he will be Priest, to saye his Mattens, to sing his Masse, to lift vp fayre, to keepe his vow, and not to marry. When he is sicke to be anneeld and take the rites of holy Church, to be buried in þ^e churchyard, to be rong for, to be song for, to be buried in a Fryers coule, to finde a soule Priest. &c.Marginalia Corporall exercise serueth to small profite.

All which pointes being obserued, who can denie but this is a deuoute man and a perfecte Christian Catholike, and sure to be saued, as a true faithfull childe of the holye mother Church.

Now looke vpon this definition, and tell me (good reader) what faith or spirite, or what working of the holye Ghost in all this doctrine is to be required. The grace of our Lord Iesus giue the true light of his Gospell to shine in our hartes, Amen.

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Summary of Roman Catholic heresies

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John Wade, University of Sheffield

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