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A01006	The ouerthrovv of the Protestants pulpit-Babels conuincing their preachers of lying & rayling, to make the Church of Rome seeme mysticall Babell. Particularly confuting VV. Crashawes Sermon at the Crosse, printed as the patterne to iustify the rest. VVith a preface to the gentlemen of the Innes of Court, shewing what vse may be made of this treatise. Togeather with a discouery of M. Crashawes spirit: and an answere to his Iesuites ghospell. By I.R. student in diuinity.	Floyd, John, 1572-1649.; Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652, attributed name.; Rhodes, John, minister of Enborne.	1612 (1612)	STC 11111; ESTC S102371	261,823	332

shal be exalted and placed on the top of moūtaynes and Nations shall flow vnto it and many people shall come saying Let vs ascend vnto the mountaine of our Lord and vnto the house of our God These markes the Prophets assigne of the Church of Christ which M. Crashaw shooting wide of his marke would haue to be the markes of the Sea of Antichrist and vpon this ruinous foundation without further proofe beginneth to build and turne the wordes of his text against the Church of Rome VVe would haue cured Babel 20. VVhich he doth particulerly apply as spoken of he great charity of English Protestants towards Catholicks here whom these godly Israelites being forsooth banished ●heir country led captyue kept in prison who mourne vpon he bankes of Babylon The Bachelours ridiculous applicatiō of his text sighing out Geneua psalmes by the Thames side who hauing hung their harpes and lutes and instruments of mirth on willow bowes can neyther sing nor ●augh nor banquet nor daunce nor be merry these he ●aith seeke to heale the Babylonians that is Catholicks which ●n England rule the sterne of the state liue in mirth ioy and ●oyllity doe wonderfully afflict and prosecute the righteous soules of these good Isräelites that they are euen weary of their liues this I say is the ridiculous application of his text which being most absurd without any proofe of congruity therein he makes the foundation of his long and bitter inuectiue against vs. 21. You see he doth omit to proue which is the hardest most controuersed and important point in his text Whether Protestāts be mystical Israel that his Church is mysticall Isräel that can heale the woūds of the Roman by which she must be healed if she be woūded For if she commit her self to euery sect that cryeth they will cure her insteed of healing her woundes she shall rend her self into more peeces then are countryes in Europe the different sects sprong from the roote of Luthers reuolt being more then euer were the deuided tongues at Babell She must become a Lutheran in VVittemberge a Zwinglian at Zurich a Presbyterian at Geneua a Parlamentarian in England an Anabaptist in Holland an Arian in Poland a Trinitarian in Transiluania to omit diuers other lesser and petty sects which cry as stoutly as their Syres we would cure Babel who if they get her into their care will neuer cease to mynce her into more partes and sects till her religion and piety vanish into Tobacco smoake or she proue an Atheist in the end Now what is the seauen-headed monster if this their multitude of Sects be not it What shall we do to be ryd of this crying crew of this barking Babel and tumult of tongues What counsell would M. Crashaw and his fellowes giue vs Perchance he will bid vs follow S. Iohns aduise Try (i) 1. Ioan. c. 4. spirit● whether they be of God and S. Pauls examine all (k) 1. Thes c. 5. v. 21. and choose what i● good This the Church of * In the Councell of Trent Rome hath done she hath tryed their spirits and findeth them to be spirits of errour pride contention which cannot be of God She hath examined what new faith they bring findeth whatsoeuer is differe●● from hers is opposite eyther to Scripture or the practise of the Primitiue Church or the doctrine of ancient Fathers or the receaued custome of many ages in Gods Church 22. You will say she hath not examined the matter wel but how can she amend it Or what greater care or diligē●● could she vse She gathered togeather all her Bishops and the most learned Phisitians she had she fasted prayed and shed many teares and to preuent complaints and cauills that your phisick was sleightly reiected she caused her learned Doctours to examine (†) The Councell of Trent continued 27. yeares from the year 1545. to 1563 many yeares togeather conferring with the holy Ghost that receipt You cannot deny but the Fryer Author of your reuolt did learne by one excep● you can assure vs of more nights (l) See Luther de missa angulari tom 7. VVittemberg fol. 443. cōference with the Diuell Moreouer she made her Phisitians meet vpon the borders of those Countreys where you did most cry out of charity you say that you would heale her presuming you would performe in deed what you had promised in words She inuited you by louing letters earnest entreaties promising if you brought any thing worth the hearing to intertaine you with honour if otherwise yet to dismisse you without (m) See the safe conduct grāted vnto Protestants by the Coūcell omnibus charitatis officiis Sancta synodus vt inuitat ita complectetur sess 13.15.18 harme Could any proceeding be more Christian or lesse obstinate or more reasonable then this Can you with any truth say you would haue cured her but she would not be cured Seeing she inuited you to confer with her learned Phisitians wherin she was wounded and y●● refused to come You pretend danger that you durst not venture You had the Emperours the Popes the Councell warrant What greater security could she graunt or you desire You say we teach that faith giuen vnto heretikes may be broken by them that gaue it Heerin you mistake or else wilfully misconster our doctrine as you may see proued in this Treatise afterward That the Fathers of the Coūcell of Constance brake their word to Iohn Husse is a cauill they gaue him not their word whose safe conduct he scorned trusting ●o the Emperours Warrant Wherfore it is apparent these are but idle feares of a slouthfull man that saith a Lion is in the (n) Prou. 22. n. 15. way or else excuses of your cowardize who knowing the weaknes of your cause durst not appeare before that assembly of the learned of our Church But suppose that your feare had bene iust that you had reason to suspect the Coūcell would breake their word yet was there so little charity in your Church that not one would vēture his life to heale vs or at least to make the world see the Councell was trea●herous and our Church incurable Doe you remember what you say to the Brownists that for feare of persecution fly from you that had they true loue pag. 31. and charity they would care for no danger that might befall their body so they might heale your soules and gayne them to God Thus you speake of charity and ●each Brownists their duty and yet among so many cryers of your Church that they would cure the Church of Rome when she made offer to heare their counsell not one durst openly shew his face nor to saue our soules venture his body into an imaginary danger Why then doe you brag of your great charity and longing desires to heale vs Why do you make great boasts of little loue 23. And yet to stop your mouthes and take away all cause of complaint if