CAP418. .4 TTe elat ton of Apocalypfe. 755 prefent life, as we may fee in Pope Alexander, as upon whom thefe verfes were made, and were chanted in every mansmouth : Alex underfelleth his Keyes, his Altars, his CbriFt.He may veryWellfell them, for'hr bought themformerly. But BaptiffMantuanhathverft- fled more fully and plainely not of Alexander alone , but of all the crue, and the dayly cuffome of the Court of Rome; we have all things f t to Paleat Rome, the Temple,the Priefhs, the Altars, the Set- criftces,CroWnes,Fire,Incenfe, Prayers, yea Heavenand Godhimfdfe are made manyof. Who can delire a market better furnifhed ? And you may not think that the ili totagued,attd look tongued Poets one- ly fpeak thus lavifhly, but it is the jut complant of fìtch cenfurers as be moreofnote for Religionand piety,Bernardiaith,that holyorders Weregiven to be an occa ionoffilthy lucre,and that gaine Was efteemed godlines,Serm. r.of Paulsconverfion. Budeue in his Pandeas faith ; That the Popithdecrees and Canons are ofno ufe at allfor thegovern- ingof mens lives, andfarprefervinQofgoodmannersfaith he, but I might Well neefay,rhat theyfeeme to lend their pozner,andauthoritie to the faring. up of a Banke of money changing and many-making. Ludouicua Viues writing upon Augui.de Civit.Dei,Booki (?.Chap. a a. faith ; Though every thing almof befet tofale,andbe tobe bought for many at Rome,yet a man can doe nothingWithout "laW, and inftru- ments of laW,yea and of the muff holy LaW that can be. But it were an endlcffe labour to launch into this Sea, as wháreiti'a man can fee no (pure, though he fhould bile in it many dayestogether, and that withwinde atwill. Such therefore be there Merchants, and fetch is their merchandize. And yet I would not deny,*hat there islikewife tobe feen at Rome, an exceffive fuperfluityof thole things that be- long to the body byconveying ofwhich thither , many men have grown exceeding rich. But the Merchandizingof Soulss feemeth to beunderifood in thisplace efpecially,aswhichbath been the moll gainfull Trade there of all others for thefe many ages. Though Auflen the Monke wasperhaps at home fome bafc fellowof no ac- count, yet for his paines he tooke inbringing the Britaniles under the Romilbyoke, hewas made Arch- Bithop of Canterbury, Pïcne- fride the EnglifL-man whole name was cha :god in Bonifaceby the figure of' givinggood names to bad things, got tobe Archbif op of Ments, and fttperintenent alfo of the Church of Colen by treading inAuftcns ffeppes. Who can reckonup all thole who have made a way for themfelves to afcead to the higheff dignities that are, and that by playing the crafty Merchants of Souls ? - That wicked flip of
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