Chap .4. according to St M A r rri E vv. is it on firebefore him, and one appointed to fay, Sic tranlitgloa riumundi, The glory of this world is but a blaze. This is only matter of form and Ceremony As is alfo that, that one day in the year the Popes Almonerrideth before him, eating abroad to the poor certain peeces ofbrafle and lead, fayine, Silverandgold have I none, but [itch as I have 1 giveyore, Whereas` that' fcarlet. Whore holds a ,golden cup in her hand, and her merchants that tilde withher, are the Grandees ofthe earth, Revel.18. and are made rich by her, verf, rg . The Cardinall of Toledo batha hurl. dred thoutandpound a year comming in ; The Arch-bifhops of Germany are free - Princes ( many of them) and have revenues accordingly. Petrarch reporteth, that in the treafury of Pope nhn the 22. were found after his death 25o. tuns of gold. And of Bon/face the eighth it is storied, that when he was taken by 4'hilip the fair, King of France, and his palace rifled, therewas more treafure found, then all the Kings of.the earth were able to fhew again. Otto, one of. the Popes Mice- catchers (as the (to- ry calleth them) ,fent.hither by Gregory9. after three years raking together of.money by moth deteftable arts,at laft departing hence, he left not to much money in the whole Kingdom, as he either carriedwithhim, or Lent before him. Judge by this, what they . did thorowout all Chrifiendom. The Pope, faith one, could never want money fo long as he could hold apen inhis band..Thus it was then; but hownow?Bellarmine complains, that fence by us the Pope was cried down for Antichrift, his Kingdom fath not onlynot encreafed, but every day more and more decreafed. And. Cotton the Jefuite confeffeth , That the authority of the Pope of Rome is incomparably leffe then it was : And that now theChri- ffian Church is but a : diminutive. Hereupon alto the Cardinals (.whowere wont to meet oftener) meet but once a week, - because the bufineffes of the Court of Nonne grow fewer. And albeit the Popes good, andhis bloud, his honours- and manners role toge- ther; yet abates he aslittle of his former pomp and pride, as the devilBoth lance his fall, in taking upon him here to difpole of all theKingdoms of the earth, as his and requiring our Saviour (the 73 Varetas in Apo, 18. Petrartb. Spliinx. Philof. p.bo;. Mafciputatores. It was r uiy and trimly lard by Pape lnnocent 4. Veréboriru de. liclàrum Papis- fuit turn Ang- liaQYpuaee in exbauflrc,; Nonmoda, non crevit e/sa imy peraum,fedfem. per magia ac magia'decrevit, lib. 3. de-Pap. Rom e is. ignatÿ ,Concta. ex synra rhò. lo/a1..15.O .4. i0e1S d?aatxrá. Bail; O's Pape true Lord ofall) to fall down and icorfbip .hire. The Cardinals culua Diabolí, he (till createth with tilde words, Eftotèfratres nofEri & princi in eodeoa lung pesmundi. Ands another Diocletian (who was the firft that præd'c4aner,t°' Spiairrx Pbth . aff,Aed that honour) heholdeth forthhis feet tobe killed, having boa. the tige of: the crofte thiningwit i tiéarls and precious ftones upon his .
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