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A19589	The sermon preached at the Crosse, Feb. xiiii. 1607. By W. Crashawe, Batchelour of Diuinitie, and preacher at the temple; iustified by the authour, both against Papist, and Brownist, to be the truth: wherein, this point is principally intended; that the religion of Rome, as now it stands established, is still as bad as euer it was	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1609 (1609)	STC 6028; ESTC S118191	115,004	191

out Whilst Lot was in Sodom it perished not Nay sayth the Angell to him Haste thee away for I can do nothing til thou be safe from amongst them u Gen. 19. 22. See God the good King is more carefull to saue one of his owne seruants then to destroy a thousand enemies but see their madnesse they mocked and flowted this Lot scorned him as a stranger and many wayes grieued his righteous soule were weary of him and his company and tryed euery waie to make him weary of the Towne for they held it worse as long as hee was in it at last they haue their wills and he forsakes them but with him their protection is gone now fire and brimstone falls from heauen on them So at this day doe the wicked and worldly men whom hate they whom accuse they whom abuse they whō lie they in waite for whome persecute they whome would they destroie whom banish they whome are they weary of but of the godly men When they dy they bid them be gone and wish that all were gone after them not knowing poore fooles that if these men stood not in the gap the fire of Gods wrath had long since broken out vpon them and when they are gone then they are wel apayed and are glad But alas what haue they gained euen as much as Sodom did when they had cast out Lot Secondly we may heere learne what a fearful and daungerous thing it is not to bee healed by spirituall Physicke that is not to profit by the word of God nor to be conuerted from sin when God giues means● For what is this but an euident testimonie of Gods heauie wrath and a certaine forerunner of damnation Will not Babylon be healed then what followes but destruction So in the new Testament If our Gospell be hid saith Paul it is hid to them that perish w 1. Cor. 4. 3 For as if at noon day any man say the sun shines not it is because he is blinde and cannot see So if in the sun-shine of the Gospell some see it not but in the midst of that light liue in darknesse its certaine they are blinded by Sathan if they continue so are marked vp for iust damnation A fearful example we haue hereof in the sonnes of Eli of whom the Text saith their Father hearing of all the euil they did called thē and reproued them and gaue them good ghostly counsell able a man would haue thought to haue turned their hearts especially comming from a Father and from him that was the Iudge and Prophet of the Church But all in vaine for notwithstanding they obayed not the voice of their father 1. Sam. 2. 25. and mark the reason because the Lord would s●ay them Wherby its apparant there is not ordinarily a surer signe of a reprobate then not to obey the voice word of God nor to profit by those meanes that God giues a man for his conuersion A matter of speciall vse to our Church which hath so long enioyed the Gospell but to you of this Citie especially who haue long and liberally beene fed from heauen with abundance variety of spiritual food Therfore euery one looke to thy selfe how thou profitest by these good means For be assured if any congregation or particular man haue vse of the meanes and profiteth not but runneth on hardned in his sinnes it is because hee is a vessel of Gods wrath and prepared for damnation but contrariwise hee that heareth and yeeldeth and obeieth and repenteth it is an vndoubted pledge to him of his saluation layed vp in heauen assuredly for him Therefore let euery one take heed for otherwise his lot will be like Babylons of whom we here finde that because all meanes vsed to conuert her were in vaine therfore she is now iustly destroyed and remaines a monument of misery and a spectacle of Gods iustice to all posterities x Read for this end the 50. and 51. Chapt. of Ieremie and other places of the Prophets Thus concerning the literall Babylon wee haue heard 1. How Israel would haue cured her 2. How she will not be healed 3. How therefore she is forsaken of the Church And 4. How beeing past cure she is therefore destroyed And hauing thus performed the first part of my taske namely touching the old and literall Babel it now remaines that we come to the Mysticall Babylon in and concerning whom all these 4. are as true as in the former The Second Part touching mysticall Babylon THat which wee haue heard of the literall is also true in the mysticall Babylon Mysticall Babylon is the spirituall kingdome of darkenesse the kingdome of Satan And this kingdome is partly temporarie which is the kingdome of Antichrist and partly permanent and perpetuall that is the kingdome of Sinne. That the kingdom of Antichrist namely the Church of Rome is mysticall Babylon I will not stand to proue seeing it is as good as granted by Bellarmine a Bellar. de Romano pontif lib. 3. cap. 13. In resp ad arg● and other Papists compelled thereunto by the cleere authorities of some Fathers but especially by the euidence of the holy Text in the Reuelation where by two notable arguments it is ineuitably concluded For first if the mysticall Babylon be the Citie seated on 7. hills b Reuel 17. 9 as the Text saith then Rome is Babylon which aboue all or any Cittie in the world is so and that not on seauen obscure or little hillocks but seauen hills famously and notoriously knowne by name c Mo●is Coelius Exquilinus Palatinus Nor is it any thing worth to say that old Rome was indeed so seated but that now it is shrunk into the plain of Campo Martio Viminalis Quirinalis Auentinus Capitolinus For notwithstanding that it be true for the body of the town yet diuers publicke places where Antichrist exerciseth his authority and tyrannicall iurisdiction are yet to this day on those hils as namely especially the Lateran Church and Palace which Church one of their Popes hath by Bull and Charter made the head of all the Churches of the world to wit Gregory the eleuenth almost 250. yeares agoe and after him Pius the fourth and of late Pius quintus haue by publick constitution confirmed the same and in which Church or Palace there haue bin held by seuerall Popes some 33. prouinciall or nationall and 5. general Councels all or most of them for the raising vp establishing of Antichrists Throne and in which the most horrible and hainous canons were concluded against God and his Church that euer were before as to name but two 1. That monster of transubstantiation that the substance of bread and wine in the sacrament ceaseth and is turned into the substance of Christs bodie bloud 2. That a King an hereticke not reforming himselfe and his land meaning to popery is to be deposed by the Pope his subiects to be discharged from his obedience

wicked that neuer giue one groane for themselues Nor must we forsake them in prayer but though they seeme to vs neuer so incurable wee must still praie vvithout ceasing to GOD for them for that that is impossible to vs is possible inough with the Lord h God forbid sayth Samuel that I should cease to pray for you i 1. Sam. 12. and so must we say of all euen the greatest sinners saue onely them that sinne against the holy Ghost which no priuate man but onely the whole Church can discerne and iudge of God forbid that I should cease to pray for them Neither must we forsake them by a finall separation neuer to come at them nor to assist them any more but still we must be willing to go againe and do our endeuour if euer there be hope that they will be healed Forgiue saith Christ not seuen onely but 70. times 7. times When a sicke man is froward and impatient then the good Physition must be the patient tho he haue come oft to no purpose yet if at last he will be healed he must not forsake him so must Gods children reioice if after neuer so many repulses the wicked will be content at the last to heare and to be healed Thus wee must still loue and pittie them still pray for them and still be ready to do them good and in these three respects we must not forsake them But wee must forsake Babel First in regard of conuersation we must separate our selues from the wicked mans company and societie as far as lawfully conueniently we may after we see him obstinate and incurable it is Gods commandement Flee from the midst of Babel depart out of the land of the Chaldeans k Ierem. 50. 8. and do not this slackly and slowly like Lots wife l Gen. 19. 26 but be as the hee Gootes before the flock Secondly in regard of the meanes for after that by her often and obstinate refusall ioyned with spightfull contempt both of the meane● and the men that brings them she hath shewed her selfe to be a filthy swine then pearles are no longer to bee cast before her holy things must no more bee giuen to such Dogges but they are to bee left to their vomit and mire till God shew either his mercie or iustice vpon them either in their conuersion or confusion Thus must she be forsaken and the reason why which is the second point is double First in regarde of our selues wee must forsake the wicked when they are incurable lest in steede of dooing good to them wee take hurt our selues by beeing polluted by her contagion or made partakers of her sinnes and consequently of her punishment God giueth this reason himselfe Flee out of the middest of Babel and deliuer euerie man his soule be not destroyed in her iniquitie m Ierem. 51. 6 Therfore after that a christian man perceiues there is more dāger to get hurt from them then hope to do good to them he is bound no longer to stay nay he is bound to leaue them looke to the safety of his owne soule and body Secondly in regard of the meanes vsed to heale them which because they be the holy ordinances of God pretious pearles therefore are they not to be exposed to the contempt of wicked men not to bee troden vnder the foule feete of their peruerse and scornefull spirits Both these reasons doth Christ cople together Giue not that saith he that is holy to dogs neither cast your pearles before swine least they treade them vnder their feete and turning againe all to rent you n Mat. 7. 6 Christ would neither haue his ordinances abused nor his children hurt by the wicked men Thus we see the maner how and the reasons why Now let vs see the time when Babel must be forsaken when she is incurable but not til then first long time is to be spent all meanes to be vsed all waies to be tried all patience to be practiced all wisedome to be exercised all occasions to bee taken that probably may preuaile to doe them good But if after all this they be incurable and out of hope then must we forsake them● but not till then not till there bee no hope at all he that forsakes Babel till then is wanting in his duetie and hath much to answere for before God For if the Physician may not forsake this vile body o Phil. 3. 21. as lōg as there is any hope of life then how may any man forsake the soule that is pretious that cost so pretious bloud p 1. Pet. 1. 19 Surely the spirituall Physician must neuer forsake a Church a people or a man as long as there is any hope of curing and conuerting him Heere is condemned the practise of two sorts of men amongst vs. First such as be now tearmed of the separation formerly vsually called Brownists who forsake our Church and cut off themselues from our congregations and separate themselues to a faction and fashion or as they call it into a co●enant communion of their owne deuising these men haue made a grieuous rent and giuen a deepe wound into the peace of our Church they vse this place and others like against vs say Wee would haue healed you but you will not bee healed therefore we forsake you but they abuse the place therefore I will turne the point of this their weapon against themselues I meane against their errors and this their bitter and schismaticall separation To this end I would aske these men but 4. questions whereunto if they can giue me satisfaction I will be one of them First therefore whereas you say that Wee are wounded incurably and will not be healed I aske Wherein are wee deadly or incurably wounded what fundamentall wound is in our doctrine what deadly corruption is in our discipline such as eats out the heart and life being of a Church what booke of Canonicall scripture receiue we not what holde we for Canonicall that is not what sacrament that Christ ordained do we want and what haue we more then Christ ordained what article of faith deny wee or what holde we for an article of faith that is not what fundamentall heresie doth our doctrine maintaine what haue we in our Church that ouerthrowes the beeing of a Church what is necessarily required to make a Church that we do want Do not say These be many questions for if you will haue thē all in one generall I will end it as I began Wherein are wee deadly incurably wounded if I should walk a while on your owne grounds grant you that which you can neuer proue yet wil it not follow that we are incurably or deadly wounded A man may want a finger or haue some blemishes in his face and yet be a strong and perfect man sound and heart-whole and able to ouerthrow his enemies so tho there were in our Church those wounds

to bee worshipped with the same worship as his diuinity 2. Whether Christs humane flesh be to be worshipped with latria 3. Whether the adoration or worship of latria bee to be giuen to the Image of Christ. 4. Whether to the crosse of Christ. 5. Whether to the Mother of Christ. 6. Howe the Relickes of Saints are to be worshipped So that we see heere is Christ and his Crosse and his Image and his Mother are made 4. seuerall matters of seueral distinct consideration then falling into the particulars for the 2. first questions he argueth them negatiuely but concludes them affirmatiuely touching which two we haue no controuersie with them at this time then comming to the 3. 4. which be these in question touching the Image of Christ whether it be to be worshipped with latria or no he answereth that it seemes no giues such reasons as he nor the world is able to answere but concludes affirmatiuely that it is as I haue set downe namely that Seeing Christ himselfe is to be worshipped with the worship of latria therefore his Image is also to be worshipped with latria So comming to the fourth question which is of the Crosse demaunding whether it be to bee worshipped with latria or no He answereth that it seemes no but concludes affirmatiuely that it is and then giues his reason as I haue aforeset it down ●rom thence drawes his conclusion in these words The crosse of Christ namely that whereon Christ was crucified is to be worshipped with latria for two causes both for the representation or resemblance it hath to Christ as also for that it touched the bodie of Christ But the signe of that Crosse or a crucifixe of what matter soeuer is to be worshipped with latria onely in the former respect These be his very words And heere by the way obserue how ridiculous and absurd poperie is in this point for it giues greater worship to the dead Image and wodden crosse then to the blessed Virgin Mary the mother of Christ of whom he concludes in the next article that shee is by no meanes to be worshipped with latria but onely with an inferiour worship called hyperdulia and marke what wodden arguments are giuen for it One Shee is a reasonable creature therefore must not be worshipped with latria Lo shee must not because she is a reasonable creature and yet the crosse shal which is vnreasonable dead Another A crucifixe is like to Christ therefore it shall bee worshipped with latria But is not she liker to Christ then anie crosse can be A third the crosse did beare CHRIST and did touch his bodie therfore it must bee worshipped with latria But did not she beare him and touch him and his blessed Bodie in a farre more excellent manner then the Crosse either did or could See what pittiful arguments be here brought to fortifie this damnable Idolatry Who could think that so great learned doctors should thus childishlie dally with holie thing and be so blinded in their vndestandings But this it is to bee drunke with the wine of the spirituall Babylons abhominations But to returne to the matter by these wordes of his Aquinas hath cleared that doubt and aunswered that obiection made afore that these wordes are not spoken to the crosse or image but to Christ No saith Aquinas they are spoken to the cross What can bee saide to all this but one thing more that in the time of Aquinas it may be this was holden but since then it is reformed now it is not so But I answere this wound is not healed for as it is thus as I haue reported in the olde copies of Aquinas both Manuscript and printed so is it also without the least alteration in the new and later editions reformed and purged as they pretend and printed within these fewe yeares And which is more euill whereas some thirty yeares agoe all Aquinas was reuiewed at Rome by commandement of Pope Pius Q●intus and purged and altered as they thought good and so printed yet had not the Pope so much grace in him nor so much zeale of Christs glory as to amend this horrible impietie but to the perpetuall blemish of Aquinas and euerlasting shame of their Romish synagogue lets it stand for good currant Catholicke doctrine euen at this daie that A Crosse is to be worshipped with the same worship as Christ himselfe Yet if any will stand vpon it that this wound is healed then let him shew vs what Pope hath cōdemned this doctrine nay what popish Doctor approued by their Church hath reproued this doctrine or taught and written the contrary Which wher they or anie other that take their part shal not be able to shew I contrariwise to make it manifest to all the world that this wound is not healed but ra●kles deeper spreds further will shew out of their latest and 〈◊〉 writers that this their doctrine is rather made worse then any way reformed To this end let the Reader bee pleased to marke the words of a great Doctor of theirs well approued amongst them a spanish professor of diuinitie for the order of the Cistercians who not 7. yeares agoe writing 2. volumes of Commentaries which he entitles de verbis Dominae Of the words of our Lady and dedicating his booke vnto the Pope himselfe CLEMENT the viii hath these words But what do wee speake so much of the Crosse Ioh. Chryso●t a visitatione de verbis dominae tom 1. lib. 6. cap. ● seeing there is nothing vsed in the passion of Christ that is without honour the na●iles the speare the coate the crowne and all such other things are honoured so much as that in regard they touched Christ men doe therefore worship them yet not with the same worship with which we worship the Crosse it selfe which inasmuch as it represents vnto vs the figure of Christ extended vpon it and inasmuch as it touched the seuerall parts of his bodie and inasmuch as it was died with a good part of his most pretious bloud Wee doe therefore worship it with the same worship with which wee adore Christ himselfe namely with the worship of latria For which cause it is that we speake to the verie Crosse it selfe and pray vnto it as vnto him that was crucified on it and do repose the hope of our saluation vpon it heereupon the Church singeth in the liturgie 〈◊〉 words of the Crosse All haile ô Crosse our onely hope in this time of ●ent do thou increase righteousnes in good men and grant pardon to sinners c. Lo● heere is a peece of refined popery indeed we worship the Crosse saith he as Christ wee speake to the Crosse it selfe we pray to the Crosse it selfe as well as to him that died on it and hee confesseth freelie that the prayer in the liturgie or masse booke is not made to Christ but to the Crosse it selfe From hence I gather these two conclusions