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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Copy of a Letter &s;ent by <HI>E. B.</HI> an eminent Quaker in <HI>London,</HI> to the Pope at <HI>Rome,</HI> tran&s;mitted thence by Cardinal <HI>Bromio</HI> to a Per&s;on of Quality in <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">With a Copy of the Faculties granted to <HI>John Locet,</HI> Engli&s;hman and Prie&s;t at <HI>Rome,</HI> 1678. for <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and all the Kings Domi|nions, <HI>Ireland</HI> excepted.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Friend,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am moved at this time by the Spirit, to &s;peak to thee a few words, which plainly proceed from the Light within, and may prove for thy Edification and Conver&s;ion, I will not revile thee, nor call thee Antichri&s;t, the Whore of <HI>Babylon,</HI> the Scarlet Whore, nor the Bea&s;t, the Dragon or the Serpent, Titles frequently be&s;towed on thee, and which if thou de&s;erve&s;t thou be&s;t knowe&s;t: But I come to thee in the Meakne&s;s, and the werds of Truth and Light, to &s;peak to thy Soul, as thou art a Man and pretende&s;t to have Lord&s;hip and Dominion over both the Souls and Bodies of Men. But by what Authority do&s;t thou u&s;urpe the Title of <HI>Papa,</HI> Father of the whole Church of Chri&s;t? Who fir&s;t conferred that Title on thee? Was it from above or from Men? Je|&s;us when he was on Earth commanded <HI>Peter</HI> to feed his Sheep, and as a Servant to admini&s;ter to them, he gave him no Authority to Slaughter them, or to Flcece them, or to u&s;e any Tyranny to|wards them. Thou pretende&s;t to &s;it in <HI>Peters</HI> Seat, have a care, I warn thee, that it be not Satan's Chair, for it is very doubtful if the Man <HI>Peter</HI> was ever at <HI>Rome,</HI> and it is for certain never had any Authority there, and was neither Lord, Ma&s;ter or Pope, but a Servant to the Servants of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, which Title thou al&s;o owne&s;t in Words, when in Deeds thou art proud as <HI>Lucifer,</HI> and woulde&s;t &s;et thy Feet on the Necks of Kings and Princes, and proudly trample on the People of God. Thou pretende&s;t to the Spirit, &s;how it by thy Works; to Infallibility, but thou ha&s;t failed in thy Doctrine and in thy Practices. I hold with thee that the Spirit is to be the guide of the Saints, and that the Spirit is infallible and can never be mi&s;taken, but it is not to be confined to thee, and to thy Cardinals, for I tell thee, our Pope <HI>George Fox,</HI> hath as much of the Spirit as thou ha&s;t, and it is as infallible, and therefore thou oughte&s;t not to ingro&s;s it to thy &s;elf, &s;ince it is communicated to all the Children of God, and to all the Saints that ob&s;erve and hearken to the Light within. But thou ha&s;t done wickedly; thou and all thy Predece&s;&s;ors, for &s;everal hundreds of years, have been building a very <HI>Babel</HI> of Confu&s;ion, thou ha&s;t made Religion the Devils &s;talking Hor&s;e, to drive Souls into his Snares, thou ha&s;t &s;et up the Calves at <HI>Dan,</HI> and in the Mount, thou ha&s;t polluted Religion with Idolatry, and made of it a meer piece of Art, Pollicy, and Legerdemain, I tell thee plainly thou ha&s;t &s;et up a Pompous outward Religion, only full of Gaudy out-&s;ides, without any Truth or Sincerity, and without the Spirit, the Light, or the Life of God. Look therefore, I advi&s;e thee as a Friend, and Brother, to the Light within thee, which &s;hineth in thy darkne&s;s, that will teach thee better things, thou can&s;t not but &s;ee and know the vanity of thy Religion, which thy Sons and thy Daugh|ters follow; and thou thy &s;elf laughe&s;t at the Ignorance and Folly of mo&s;t of thy Adherents and Fol|lowers, who zealou&s;ly follow thy Dictates without &s;ight or knowledge. Thou acte&s;t again&s;t thy own Con&s;cience, and again&s;t Knowledge, and again&s;t Light, which is the Sin again&s;t the Holy Spi|rit, and for this thou &s;halt be condemned, unle&s;s thou timely repent thee of, and reform thy Errors. It is to maintain thy Pride, thy Lu&s;t, and thy Covetou&s;ne&s;s, that thou &s;trive&s;t to kick again&s;t the Pricks, and to e&s;tabli&s;h thy Abominations in the &s;ight of the <HI>I&s;rael</HI> of God; but the day will come, and is even at hand, that thou and thy <HI>I&s;maelites,</HI> which are become the Sons of the Bond-woman of Sin, that he ca&s;t out into utter Perdition. Thou and thy gor-bellied Cardinals, that live like Princes, and fatten them&s;elves up in their abominable Lu&s;ts, again&s;t the day of Slaughter, are very unlike the Apo&s;tles and Di&s;ciples of Chri&s;t, who taught and preach'd the Word with Pains Care and Travel, in meekne&s;s and Poverty from the true Light and Spirit &s;hining within their Souls; and were the Primi|tive Chri&s;tians on Earth again, to &s;ee the Shop of confu&s;ion, thou and thy Hierarchy have made out of their &s;imple &s;pun thred, they would not be able to know or believe this to be any part of the Religion they taught or begun, with &s;o great Labour, Travel, Pains, and Martyrdom. Thus ha&s;t thou made all their Labours of little or no effect; and &s;till take&s;t care to keep poor Souls in the Snares of &s;in, and in the bonds of Ignorance. I tell thee plainly, thy Con&s;cience does witne&s;s again&s;t thee, and thou do&s;t fee the&s;e Truths, but it is thy Pride that makes thee Tyrant like to exerci&s;e Lord&s;hip and Dominion over others, and to maintain this Lord&s;hip and Tyranny, thou art fain to exerci&s;e cunning Arts and pollicies of the Carnal man, and even to fly to the &s;ubtilties of the Serpent, and the wicked one, lea|ving no &s;tone unturned to maintain thy Vanity and to fulfil thy Lu&s;ts. Thou knowe&s;t well enough there is no Purgatory, &s;uch as thou ha&s;t invented to affright and delude poor ignorant people out of their mony, but the execrable gain which thou make&s;t by Indulgencies will not let thee Reform that wicked and abominable Error. Thou al&s;o knowe&s;t the Vanity of praying to Saints, and to carved Idols, expre&s;s again&s;t the Word of God.</P>
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<P>Yet becau&s;e of the Gain and Reputation the&s;e bring to thee, and the means to delude the ignorant, by fal&s;e Miracles, and pretended Reliques, thou &s;till keepe&s;t it a Foot with all thy ridiculous Shews, Procc&s;&s;ions, Jubilies, Holy-water, Exorci&s;ms, Altars, Copes, Miters, Cro&s;iers, Surplices and other Trinkets, invented by the Devil and his In&s;trument, the vain mind of &s;ubtle Man, to draw the Eyes and Ears, but not the Hearts of the Calvi&s;h Multitude, who bleat after the&s;e things, and under&s;tand them not. Thou knowe&s;t the unnaturalne&s;s and impo&s;&s;ibility of thy breaden Gods real Pre&s;ence, and yet for the great re&s;pect it begets to thee and thy Prie&s;ts, with the Rabble of Moncks, Friers, Nuns, Ere|mits and &s;uch like; thou &s;till mo&s;t &s;tifly again&s;t Religion, Sence and Rea&s;on, maintaine&s;t that idle Opinion. Think therefore before it be too late, of Repentance and Reformation: do the work thorowly. The Light hath formerly &s;hined, with &s;ome glimmering in the times of the <HI>Albingen&s;es</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> and of <HI>Wickliff</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> and of <HI>Jerom</HI> and <HI>Huff</HI> in <HI>Pragne,</HI> and afterwards of <HI>Luther</HI> in <HI>Germany;</HI> they cau&s;ed &s;ome Reformaiion from the gro&s;e&s;t of thy &s;uper&s;tition and filthine&s;s of Idolatry: but yet too much of the Dregs remains, and the Carnal minded man yet retains much of thy Pride, Vanity, Pomp and Shew in their outward Wor&s;hip; and much of thy ambitious Lord&s;hip and Domi|nion; but we the &s;imple and harmle&s;s Sheep of Gods Fold, called by the People in &s;corn, Quakers and Shakers, from the &s;trong actuating of the Spirit within, have reformed our &s;elves to the Pattern of the Apo&s;tles and Primitive Teachers and Preachers, and being filled with the Spirit, &s;peak from the Light thereof. And from this Light I now plainly write to thee, being &s;tirred up to warn thee of the VVrath to come, and to tell thee, that unle&s;s thou make&s;t a thorow Reformation, according to our Holy Pattern, and come into the Community of the Saints on Earth, thou &s;halt never have Communi|on with tho&s;e in Heaven. I am to denounce Judgment again&s;t thee, and thou &s;halt be overthrown, and thou &s;halt be &s;courged for thy abominable Practi&s;es again&s;t the People of <HI>England,</HI> in the Plotings, underminings, Murthers and wicked Contrivances of thy Ban-Dogs that call them&s;elves Je&s;uites, but are Juda&s;&s;es, that betray Kingdoms and wurry the People. Thy time is but &s;hort, and thy Reign of a few days; for either the King of <HI>France</HI> if ever he gets the Monarchy of the We&s;t, will unne&s;t thee, and remove thy Sea to <HI>Paris,</HI> and have a Pope of his own, or el&s;e God will let loo&s;e the Rage of the Turk again&s;t thee, and &s;uffer him to plant his Half-moons in <HI>Rome</HI> as well as in <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> for a &s;courge and Vengeance of all the filthine&s;s and Abominations acted in that ploce. Look to it, I give thee this friendly warning, take it to heart, for I tell it thee in plainne&s;s and &s;incerity and from the Light, which &s;hineth in</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thy Friend in the Love and in the Truth. <HI>E. B.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From <HI>London,</HI> <DATE>the 7th day of the 4th Month, in the year 1679.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Faculties granted at <HI>Rome, 1678.</HI> to <HI>John Locet</HI> Engli&s;hman and Prie&s;t for <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> and for all the Kings Dominions excepting <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
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<ITEM>1. Power to ab&s;olve from Here&s;ie and Apo&s;tacy, all both Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks and Laicks.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. To ab&s;olve in all Ca&s;es of the <HI>Bulla Caenae.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Power of di&s;pen&s;ing Marriages within the 3d and 4th Degree of Con&s;anguinity and Affinity, and to declare them Lawful, and &s;uch I&s;&s;ue Legitimate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Power of admini&s;tring all the Sacraments.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Power of re&s;toring the ju&s;t Right of asking being lo&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. Power of Celebrating Ma&s;s in all decent places above or under Ground, on Portable Altars twice a day if nece&s;&s;ary&punc; and if it cannot be otherways Celebrated for fear of Hereticks.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. Of laying up of Holy things in &s;ecret, without Lights if there be danger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. Power of reciting the Ro&s;ary or other Prayers if they cannot have a Brevary or other Office.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. Power of keeping and reading any Prohibited Books be&s;ides tho&s;e contained in the <HI>Bulla Coena,</HI> be&s;ides tho&s;e of <HI>Charles Moline, Nicholas Machivel,</HI> and Books of Judicial A&s;trology. Al&s;o of gi|ving Licence to others to read the Scriptures faithfully tranflated into Engli&s;h, and to the Laicks En|gli&s;h Books ogain&s;t Heretick, as need &s;hall be.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. Power of di&s;pen&s;ing and communicating &s;imple Vows for a rea&s;onable cau&s;e, that of Cha&s;tity and of Religion being excepted.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. Power of ble&s;&s;ing the Sacraments and other Holy Uten&s;ils nece&s;&s;ary for the Ma&s;s where there is not Unction.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. Power of Di&s;pen&s;ing the eating of Fle&s;h, Eggs' white-meats al&s;o in the time of Lent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13. Power of granting a Plenary Indulgence for tho&s;e Converted from Herefie, and to tho&s;e who cannot be confe&s;&s;ed in the Article of Death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>14. Power of granting every Lords day, and on Holy days an Indulgence for 10 years to tho&s;e that a&s;&s;i&s;t at tho&s;e Meetings, and a plenary Indulgence to tho&s;e that confe&s;s and receive the Sacrament on certain Fea&s;t-days.</ITEM>
<ITEM>15. Power of having the Benefit of the&s;e Indulgencies them&s;elves.</ITEM>
<ITEM>16. Power of Celebrating the Ma&s;s <HI>de Requiem</HI> for any one on a portable Altar for the freeing a Soul out of Purgatory.</ITEM>
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<P>They were granted for 7 years only, and rever&s;able without &s;hewing Cau&s;e, at the will of the Pope.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>&s;igned,
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<ITEM><HI>Barbarine</HI> Proctor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chr. <HI>Abbas Blancus</HI> Secretary.</ITEM>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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