Transubstantiation Exploded, Part 1 · Paragraph 2
PAR. 2.
Of the cold entertainement which Engli… and Irish Priests finde beyond the Sea, how well soever deserving of the See of Rome.
WHen Hanniball saw the hea… of his brother Asdrubal hel… upon a speare at the command of Cla… dius Nero, he said, video fatum Carth… ginis, I see the destinie of Carthage, … me thinkes I see in you fatum Angloru… & Hibernorum, the fate of our Engli… and Irish Papists, which is at this pre sent, and hath ever beene to yeeld mo… to the Romane See, and to receive lea… from her. Pope Urbane the third, fo… Ca…bden hist. ef…. Elizab. ad annum 40.all the gold which by one trick or othe… he got out of Ireland, sent in old time… Coronet of Peacocks feathers to Ioh… the sonne of Henry the second, wh… was designed Lord of Ireland: an… in our memorie, Clement the eight mo… bountifully rewarded the Earle of Tyrone, for exhausting his patrimonie upon the Irish rebels, with store of indulgences and a Phenix plume. Wh… ever deserved better of the Romis… faith and See, then Iohannes Roffensis, Allin, Stapleton, Sanders, W. Reynolds, Harding, and your selfe? yet what hath beene done to any of you for all that you have done and suffered in the Popes quarrell? To one of you a Cardinals hat was sent indeed, but never came on the party his head, which was cut off by Henry the eight, to an other a Cardinals hat was given, but with so thinne lining, (I meane, meanes to support his estate) that he was commonly called the starveling Cardinal. The third was made professour of a pettie University, scarce so good as one of our free Schooles in England. The fourth, whose tongue was so full of adders poyson against his Soveraigne and Countrey, before he died felt his tongue cleaving to the roofe of his mouth, being starved to death in Ireland. The fifth was nominated to a poore Vicaridge under vallew: on a sixt his Holinesse bestowed a prebend of Gaunt, or to speake more properly a gaunt prebend. And you for weighing so stedily both religions (the Reformed and the Romish) in a sA … printed by D. Smith, … th… prudentia…l ballance.prudentiall ballance, he hath placed in a pendulous Bishopricke adjoyning to tMartial epig. l. 1. aere pendē tia Mausolea.Mausolus his Sepulcher in the ayre. For your so accuratly and learnedly maintaining all the Romish tenets, hee hath at last made you uSo the Italians call in de…ision a titular Bishop.nullatenensem a hold. nought. When Saint xMat. 17. 4.Peter spake of making Tabernacles in the aire, the yLuke 9. 33Evangelist saith, hee knew not what hee said: and now when his pretended successour, Pope Urbane the eight foundeth Episcopall Sees, and Cathedrall Churches, and Ecclesiasticall Courts in the aire, may we not bee bold to say that hee doth hee knowes not what, and deserveth the title of sapientum octanus.
It is not for nothing that hee assumeth to himselfe the name of Urbane, or the facetious who requiteth his best servants and chiefest favourites with jests and riddles- For read my riddle what's this? the Supervisour of a See unseene a Bishoprick of Chalcedon in Brittanie, an extraordinary Ordinary, a Diocesan of particulars universals, Romish Catholikes, English Romanists, and Superiour t… all the irregular regulars in Engla… and Scotland.