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Author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
Title: A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ...
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Print source: A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ...
Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
Printed at London: By R.C. for Michael Sparke, Senior ..., 1642.
Subject terms:
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
Epigrams, English.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56191.0001.001
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TO The Most Illustrious CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES, AND Heire Apparant to the Crowne of GREAT BRITAINE.
To the Courteous Reader.
A Table of the Epigrams herein comprised.
Errata.
A PLEASANT PVRGE FOR A ROMAN CATHOLICK, TO EVACVATE HIS EVILL HVMORS. Consisting of sundry Epigrams; wher∣in divers Errors, and grosse Corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a Facetious, yet serious Manner.
On, and against Popish Ave-Maries.
On, and against Popish Beades, and Pater-Nosters oft Repetition on them.
On, and against Popish Crucifixes, and Images of Christ.
On, and against Popish Crucifixes, and ado∣ring them with Latria.
On, and against, Popish Pictures of the Vir∣gin Mary as a Queene, sitting on a Throne with a Triple Crowne on her head, and holding Christ, painted like a sucking Infant, in her Armes; and on the Reliques of her milke, which they keepe and shew.
On, and against Papists painting the Vir∣gin Mary, and other Saints in new fa∣shions, with frizled, poudred haire, and rich dresses.
On Saint Dominicks vision of Fryers of his Order hid in heaven under the Vir∣gin Maries Peticote; and on the Re∣liques of her Garments which Papists keepe and shew in sundry places.
On, and against Papists reserving the Host and carryning it in Procession.
On Popish Tapers.
On S. Michaels Buckler and Poynard, kept for a Relique in the Chapple of S. Michaels Mount in Normandy.
On the Reliques of Iosephs Han, and the Asses tayle.
On the Popish Sacrifice of the Masse.
On Romes seven Sacraments.
On Romes seven deadly Sinnes.
On Romes Latine prayers.
On Popish Miracles.
On Popish whippings and Satisfactions.
On Papists abstaining from flesh on fasting dayes.
On Papists making marriage a Sacrament, and forbidding Priests to marry, yet per∣mitting them to keepe Whores.
On Romes extreame unction, and its being a Sacrament.
On Papists implicit Faith, and Images.
On Popish blind obedience.
On Popish Pilgrimages, Offerings, Knee∣lings Prayers to the Images of the Vir∣gin Mary; and their Worshipping of her and them.
On Romes Worshipping the Crosse, Nayles and what ever touched Christs Body, with Latria or Divine Worship.
On Romes Prayers to dead Saints, and for the dead.
On Romes Divine adoration of her pain∣ted Crosses.
On the Papists supposed Looking-glasse of the Trinity, for their Saints to see Prayers in.
On Prayers in an unknowne Tongue.
On Romes Idoll and Idle Worship.
On Transubstantiation.
On Popish Transubstantiation and Anni∣hilation.
On Transubstantiation and the Popes Vi∣carship.
On the Reall Presence, Pix and Crucifixe.
On Transubstantiation and Popes Leaders Bulls.
On Popish Priests taking away the Cup from the People.
On Popish Concomitancy and the Sacred Cup.
On Popish Concomitancy and halfe Com∣munion.
On Praying to, and representing of God and Saints by Pictures.
On Worshipping Images.
On Popish Confessers and Pardons.
On Popish Altars and Masse Priests.
On Popish Purgatory, and its fire.
On Popish Judulgencies.
On Popish Merits and Prayers to Saints.
On Papists praying to Christ to save them by Thomas Beckets blood, an Arch-Traytor and Rebell.
On Romes Freewill.
On Popish Priests shaven beards, and Shorne Nunnes.
On Popes Bulls and doubting of Sal∣vation.
On Popish Saints and Patrons for particu∣lar Countries, Professions, Diseases, and kindes of Cattle, and their Ma∣ladies.
On Workes of Supererogation.
On Papists good Workes to Merit Salva∣tion.
On Popish Merits.
On Auricular Confession.
On Romes Prayers to Saints.
On Popish Monkes, Players, Prayers, and Merits.
On Romes taking away the Scripture, Cup, and Second Commandement from the People.
On the Romish Masse.
On the Popes two Swords.
On the Popes two Keyes.
On kissing the Popes feete.
On the Pope being Peters Successour.
On the Popes Non erring whilst he sits in Peters Chaire.
On the Popes not Erring.
On the Popes not sinning and Erring as Popes, but as Men.
On the Popes not Erring, and on falling from Grace.
On the Popes Pardons, and mortall sinnes.
On the Popes being Christs Vicar Generall upon Earth.
On Popes Pardons of Sinnes.
On the Popes being head of the Church.
On Romes Sinnes, Curses and Pardons.
On the Pope and his Cardinals.
On the Popes being Christs Vicar.
On the Popes Vicarship and Vicars.
On the Popes porphiry Chaire, wherein they are groped and tryed to be men.
On Christs crowne of Thornes and the Popes triple Crowne of gold.
On Peters poverty and the Popes great wealth and on the Popes being Peters Successors.
On Popes Prohibiting Priests from mar∣riage.
On Protestants damnation by Papists, and the Reason of it.
On Romes Saviours and Jesuites.
On no Salvation out of the Church of Rome.
On Papists making Apocrypha Canoni∣call, and Canonicall Scripture lesse than Apocryphall, and their blasphe∣mies against it, and Popes power o∣ver it.
On the two Arch-Patriarchs of Popish Fryers S. Francis and S. Domi∣nicke.
On the strange Popish Miracles, attributed to, and forged of S. Vincent Ferrier, and S. Anthony of Padua.
On the Popish Blasphemous Legends of their S. Catherine of Sennes.
On a Popish Miracle of their Deifide Hostia.
On Papists prayers to those for Saints who neither were Saints nor Men.
On Popish blinde Obedience.
On Romes making perpetuall visibility a note of the true Church.
On Romes making Multitude and Roman a note of the true Church.
On Romes engrossing the name of the true Church of Christ to her selfe onely.
On Romes Religion turn'd to Policy.
On Popes right to interpret Scripture, and their strange Glosses on sundry Texts, to prove their Supremacy, and the Law∣fulnesse of deposing and killing Kings, who disobey them.
On the Popes Supremacy, and Soveraignety Over Kings, Emperours, and King∣domes.
On Popish mages.
On Romes Doctrine and Practise of E∣quivocation.
On Papists blasphemous Assertions tou∣ching the Virgin Mary, to the disho∣nour of God the Father, and Christ his Sonne.
On Romes Novelties, notwithstanding her pretence of Antiquity.
On, and against Romes halfe Communion, and Sacrilegious depriving the people of the Sacramentall Cup.
On, and against, Popish and Superstitious Bowing to Altars, and rayling in the Lord Tables Altarwise.
On, and against Popish bowing to Altars, and adoration of the Host.