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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

c. shall say ouer the Rosarie being confessed or hauing a purpose to confesse once a month shall for euery time hee doth so obtaine v. yeares of pardon 2. But if hee doe euery day after examination of his Conscience say three Pater nosters and three Aue Maries c. shall haue ten yeeres 3. But if hee vse euerie daie to saie ouer the Psalter of our Lady shall for euerie Saturday weekelie obtaine a hundred yeeres 4. Hee that shal thrice in a weeke say ouer the Rosary of our Lady and confesse and communicate and pray shall obtaine a plenarie that is a ful remission of all all sins 5. And whosoeuer in the houre and point of death shall but say in his heart when hee cannot speake with his tongue the name Iesus shall haue a plenarie and full forgiuenes of all his sins prouided that he haue one of these blessed holy Beads Medals Crucifixes or Pictures * All these Indulgences may bee procured and obtained by hauing either about a man or lying before him one or more of these holy Medalles Crosses Beades or Images and obseruing what is afore appointed and his Holinesses will is that they shall be of force to all kinde of men and in euery place Printed at Rome by the Printer of his Holinesses priuie Chamber Paulus Bladus 1592. Lo here how Babylon is healed If a man at the point of death canne in his minde but thinke of Iesus hee shall haue full forgiuenesse of all his sinnes if hee haue one of these holy Crosses or Beades about him And is this the Diuinitie of the Romish Church is this procured by a Cardinall graunted by the Pope then answere mee but one worde Shall the thinking or naming of Iesus without true faith and repentance saue him tho hee haue a hundreth of these holie Graines about him or if he doo truely repent and beleeue in CHRIST though he haue not one of these shall hee not bee saued If those both be true as who dare denie them then phie vpon these Impostors and deceiuers who by these their Atheisticall mockeries expose religion to all contempt and these thinges beeing so common notorious no maruell tho Italie where these are ri●est be so full of Atheists Concerning France Of late yeeres Peroun the French Cardinall hauing made a costly Iorney to Rome comming home procured of the Pope for the bearing of his charges to bee the bearer of certaine hallowed holy matters consecrated and blessed by the Pope in such a fashion as if that were true the Pope saith he were more then madde that would not as the wise Merchant sell all he hath to buie one of them d Indulgences graunted by the Holinesse of our most Holy Father Pope Clement the eight Vnto Holy Beades Rosaries Crosses Crucifixes Medals and Images being hallowed and blessed by his owne holie hands At the Instance of the Reuerende Father and Lord Iames Dauie Bishop of Eureux Counsellor to the King in his Councell of Estate and also of his priuate Counsell and principall Almoner to his Maiestie 1. 1. A hundreth yeares of pardon at an easie rate * Whosoeuer hauing one of these beades c. shall do any worke of mercy corporall or spiritual or heare a Masse or a Sermon or shall but doe reuerence to the Sacrament or to a Crosse or to a holy Image shall obtaine a hundreth yeares of pardon See what a bountiful father the Pope is Who would offer lesse for a hundreth yeares surelie hee that wil not do thus much he is worthy to lye and fry in purgatorie 2. Whosoeuer shall confesse communicate or being a Priest shall besides his masse say deuoutely one Pater noster or one Aue Mary for the Catholick Church or for the holy Father or for the King of France or for the peace of France or for the conuersion of Heretikes or other sinners shal haue for euery time he doth this a plenarie indulgence and remission of al his sins so as he haue about him one of these holy beades grains or Crucifixes And what if one want all these trumperies shal he not haue forgiuenesse if he do truly beleeue and repent Oh when wil Babylon be ashamed of such abhomination 3. Whosoeuer shall kisse one of these beads c. with deuotion shal haue for euery time he doth so ten yeares of pardon 4. Whosoeuer hath one of them about him and praieth for the successe of the Catholick Romish religion or for the K. of France shall be so oft as he doth so partaker of al the Sacrifices Prayers Fasts and other good workes done in any Abby as well as if he were a particular member of the same society 5. Hee that hath one of these about him if hee bee in danger of death or in the battel or in any place where he cannot go to confession and shall with contritiō but repeate these words Lord Iesus receiue my spirit or name the holy name Iesus shal haue forgiuenesse of all his sinnes and be discharged both à poena à culpa * His holinesse graunts that these indulgences shall be good for all men and in all places but conditionally that those that be not French-men shal pray for the King and Realme of France Except alwaies the holie Beades for those are limited to belong onely to France and to bee good to none but onely French men Imprinted at Rome with licence c. I haue named some but not all look for the rest in the book but in them all let it be obserued that there is not the least mention of faith in Christ nor once so much as the name of it nor any relation to Christ nor his holy merits No these are well if they may be vnderstood and yet these men if they be not Atheists doe knowe that all these their large promises are but winde and their Indulgences but fome and froth if there be not liuely faith and true repentance and if these bee in a man then let vs see that Pope Cardinall or other Papist who dare say that hee shal not haue full remission that neuer saw nor touched one of their blessed beades nor hallowed Graines Thus we see how farre Babylon is from being healed in this point The twelfth and last wound concerning the first Table shal be cōcerning the Sacraments both which are horribly peruerted profaned by Romish doctrine and practice The twelfth wound FIrst 23 The 13. wound The popish Church baptizeth Belles Baptisme is profanely applied not to reasonable creatures onelie men and women according to the Institution e Mat. 28. 19. but euen to an vnreasonable dead creature For example they vse to baptize bels in most points so as Christians do children in som points with much more ceremony and solemnity Bellarmin is ashamed of it would willingly hide and couer it tho he cannot cure it but if hee were not a Cardinal a Iesuite he would be

Church for of late Clement the eight pretending to haue the Pontificall reuiewed reformed caused it to be printed at Rome before his face l Vide Pontificale Roma●um Clementis 8. Pont. Max. ius●u restitutum atque ed tum Romae 1895. et legatur eiusdem Clementis Constitutio ibid. praefixa pro eiusdem libri authoritate approbatione by his authority in a faire letter with most goodly pictures and indeed many things are left that might make against the Pope and many added that may make for him But as for this blasphemie and abuse of Gods holy Sacrament it stands vntouched vnaltered and allowed for a good and Catholicke practice in euerie particular as I haue afore set it downe and in manie more Oh BABYLON BABYLON when wilt thou be healed The other sore of this wounde is touching the Lords Supper 25 The other sore of the 12. wound That though Christ ordained the contrary yet it is not necessary for Christiās of the Laitie to haue the sacrament in both kinds but onely the bread not the Cup. which they maime and mangle sacrilegiously taking the Cuppe from the whole Laitie This wound is not very deepe for it is not olde but it is wide for it is generall and it is a foule one for it maimeth the Sacrament and crosseth Christs owne Institution They were a hatching it somtime before but at last the monster was brought foorth in the Councell of Constance when they decreed thus m Concil Cōstant sess 13. That notwithstanding Christ ordained the Sacramēt in both kinds and tho the eldest Church did so receiue it yet for all that this custom is lawfully laudably brought into the Church that the laitie shal receiue but in one kinde onely that whosoeuer shal hold the contrary shal be proceeded against as heretikes all Priests are commanded vnder paine of excommunication that they giue not the Cuppe to the laitie and they that do and recant not shall be punished as heretikes This wound hath Bellarmine and other of the craftier sort of them sought to couer but not to cure it would satisfie a man in this point tho he wauered before to see how slily and superficially he deales in this questiō n Bellar. de sacrā Euchar. lib. 4. cap. 26. tom 3. This abuse is so horrible the iniurie to the Sacrament the wrong to the laitie so notorious the absurditie and impiety of the practise so without all colour of defence that if they were not without grace and past hope of recouery such as haue resolued to amend nothing they wold haue reformed this long agoe But heerby it is apparant they are plain States-men Politicians who haue nothing els in their head but to maintain the height of their hierarchie Maiesty of their Monarchy Euen this one particular is sufficient to make demonstration hereof seeing they wil not amend that which they see know to be cōtrary to Christs Institution and whereof many of the better sort of themselues are vtterly ashamed But it is so farre from being healed at all that it is rather worse worse 26 The latter sore of the 12 wound not yet healed hut spreades further Looke in their newe edition of the Councells this last yeere and there is no reformation of this euil o Vide postremam edit Cōcil per Bininū Colon. 1●06 Concil Constant sess 13. in 2. parte tomi ter●ii p. 1589. no plaister laid vpon this sore not so much as a marginall note to qualifie the Non-obstante to Christs Institution but rather all is made worse then it was afore in the former and elder impressions Nay it is so farre from being healed that contrariwise it is made dayly a wider deeper wound For now it is made in that Church a sinne against the first Commandement of the morall law for a man to receiue the Sacrament in both kindes p Vide librū inscriptū Excercitiū pietatis in gratiam studiosorum aut●ritate Cardinalis Radzivilii scriptum editum Colon 92. in cap. de methodo rectè confitendi So then seeing we know Christ appointed it in both kindes and now the Romish Church prohibites it vnder paine of mortall sin alas what hope is there that this Church will euer bee reformed that condemnes the obedience to Christs institution and commandement as a deadly sinne Let vs now proceed to such wounds as may bee more properly referred to the second Table of the morall lawe The thirteenth Wound TOuching wilfull murder it hath beene their doctrine and practice since the misty times of ignorance that 27 The 13. wound That it is lawfull to haue sanctuaries for wilfull murder Churches Churchyards and Bishops houses some such other places be sanctuaries that is places for refuge for the offender vnto which if he do flie and settle himselfe he cannot nor may not be prosecuted by course of lawe and iustice but is there safe as long as it pleaseth the Cleargie to retaine him Thus writeth Pope Innocent the 3. in his Decretalls to the King of Scotland who in those euil daies poore man held himselfe not of power to punish malefactors of his owne kingdome that had taken sanctuarie vntill he had sent to the Pope for his aduise q Corp. Iuris Canonici Decretal li. 3. tit 49. cap. 6. To your question Sir saith the Pope I answere thus If he that hath taken sanctuarie be a freeman then is he not to be takē violently out of the Church not tho he haue committed neuer so grieuous crimes neither may he be condemned thereupon either to death or other●punishment but the Clergi● and gouernours of that Church are to obtaine for him libertie and safety of life limme c. Some may here obiect that afterward in the decretall he makes exception of some crimes true of night robbers but not of murderers Neither was this proper to Italie or to Scotland but the generall sore of al nations In England we had manie but especially 3. most famous sanctuaries One at Beuerley in Yorke-shire erected by K Athelstane where in the Church was set a chaire of stone and this inscription written ouer it This stone chaire is called Freedstoole that is the chaire r Vide Britāniā Camdeni in Com. Ebor. of peace whereunto if one that is guilty doe fly and sit in it he shall haue all-sufficient security Another at Battel Abbie in Sussex where the Conquerer wonne the victorie and in memory thereof building that Abby hee endowed it with the popes consent amongst others with this priuiledge s Vide eundē Camdenum in com Sussex If any theefe or Murderer or any other malefactour whatsoeuer his fault bee for feare of death doe flie and come to this Church he shal not be hurt by any meanes but shall bee dismissed and let goe againe with safety and freedome And further it shal be lawful for the

Abbot of the saide Church in all places wheresoeuer he shall hap to com● to saue one theefe from the gallowes These bee the very words of the Charter The third not the least was at Westminster wherof there is often and famous mention in our Chronicles as being a place of frequent ordinary refuge for great Malefactors and the name remains there to this day And these were not so much the facts of ignorant and superstitious Kings as the generall receiued doctrine of the Romish teachers the publick deed of their Popes them selues t Vide decretal Sext. Clement in tit de ecclesiarum coemeteriorū immunitatibus c. This was so in the olde time will some say but now it is otherwise I answere Nay this is not healed but rather is much worse To this end let vs consider a little of some of their latest principall writers in this case 28 The 13. woūd not healed for Poperie alloweth sanctuaries for wilful murder still A greate Clarke of Rome a fauourite of Pope Gregories the xiiii and one of his principall Secretaries some 12. yeares agoe writes a great volume of this and other Immunities which he saith by their religion belong to holy persons and places let vs obserue a fewe of his words u Vide Anaslasium Germoniū de sacrorum immunitatibus lib. 3. cap. 16. art 1. c. Not Clergie men onely but euen the very Churches themselues haue their priuiledge for Malefactors flying to them are in a sort made sacred or holy thereby insomuch as they may not be taken awaie thence nor be cast into prison nor be toucht in life nor lim but shal there be safe from all pursuers as in a Castle or most strong holde c. And not onely puts he downe this for Catholicke doctrine but hee wil also needs haue it to bee ex iure diuino and whereas Couarruvias as learned as himselfe at least disproues it very sufficiently w Didac Couarruvias variarum resolut lib. 2. cap. 20. Num. 2. v. 2 3. concludes it to bee but de iure positivo this dearling of the Popes wil not suffer so much amendment as this but condemnes Couarruvias tho he cannot confute his reasons and concludes it to bee de iure diuino x Idem Germonius ibid. art 7. And whereas one Iohannes Ferrariensis a famous and learned Lawyer argueth soundly and truly that Churches should not receiue murtherers not be sāctuaries for theeues seeing Christ cast out euen buyers and sellers which are not so ill y Ioh. Pet. de Ferrar. practica Papiensis cap de forma inquisi vers ex his potest The Popes Secretarie scornfully casteth away both his opinion his reason z Germonius ibid. art 15. yet is he neuer able to ouerthrow eyther the trueth of his opinion or strength of his reason but so vnwilling are they to bee healed in any thing that if any one of them doe begin to see the trueth do but glaunce at it or incline to it presently hee is nipt in the head condemned as heere the old Lawyer is reproued by the later and when he would haue had this wound healed this fauorite of the popes will not suffer him but answeres that his reason is naught and not worth a rush And yet not content he goeth further and faith that not onely Churches consecrated but tho they be not as yet consecrated a Idem ibid. art 23. 24. yet they be sanctuaries and not the Church onely but euen the Churchyard yea tho it be disioyned from the Church b Idem ibid. art 30. 34. Nay further that euen hospitalls c Idem ibid. art 27. yea priuate Chappels in mens houses if they were built by the Bishops authority d Idē ibid. art 29. haue priuiledge of sanctuary to receiue a murderer flying vnto them And least murder should not finde sufficient shelter in Romish religion he tells vs further that euen the Bishops Palace is a sanctuary if a murderer fly vnto it if it bee within 40. pases of the Church or tho it bee more then 40. pases off if it haue a Chappell in it e ldē ibid. art● 43 c. And yet further if a murtherer going to execution after a iust sentence or afore triall being pursued doe meete a Priest carying his breaden God and doe fly to him he is priuiledged from the power of the lawe f Idē ibid. art 52. And least we should thinke it strange to giue this honor to the Church that is Gods house or to the bread which they say is their God he goeth yet one steppe further and tells vs that g Idē Germonius ibid. lib. 3. cap. 6. art 51. c. A Cardinall of Rome not onely is so holy a person in himselfe that he may not bee touched without sacriledge but if a murderer or malefactor that is carying to executiou haue the good happe to meete a Cardinall and can touch either his hat or his robes hee is discharged from the sentence of the law Loe heere is a holy person indeede a Cardinalls coate or hat shal haue more priuiledge then had eyther the coate or the flesh it selfe of Christ Iesus hee would not deliuer any murderers from death onelie one he deliuered namely Barrabas but he himselfe died in his roome h See the storie of the passion and if my Lords the Cardinals should do so surely they would meete no murderers in the streete But to goe forward the lawe saith the Murderer shall die i Gen. 9. 6. and Christ saith hee came not to dissolue the law● but to fulfill it k Math. 5. ●8 but the Cardinalls will not fulfill the law but dissolue it The Murderer shall die saith God true saith the Pope vnlesse hee happe to touch the hem of one of my Cardinalls coats for thē he is acquitted But is this healed and reformed nay alas one Antonius Corsetus a learned Lawyer misliking this because as he saith truely l this being so there will be an occasion giuen of much euil bloudy men wil hereby take liberty to offend He is not suffered to make anie motion for reforming of anything but is cōtrariwise turned away with this censure that his reasons are slender and nothing worth And thus when hee is dasht out of countenance who would haue healed this wound then comes the Popes Secretarie a true childe of Babylon that will not be healed and to make the wound wider deeper brings a reason for this power of Cardinalls worthy of himselfe m Idem Germonius ibid. cap. 6. art 51. If saith he the Virgin-vestals in Rome heathenish had this power that if a person condemned met one of them in his way to execution could get to touch them hee was thereby deliuered from death as he proueth out of Aul. Gellius n Aul. Gellius noct Att. lib. 10 cap● 15. Then much

more ought the Cardinalls to haue this honour in Rome being now Christian. Yea but is there not danger to multiply murders defeate the law by this meanes for may nor a Cardinall come for fauour on set purpose may he not be intreated may he not be corrupt and bee hired to come There bee now also many Cardinalls about 60. or 70. if any of all these be in the● streetes murderers may escape and there bee fewe daies wherein some of these stirre not abroad To all these materiall obiections what doth he answere surely an easie answer hath he for all This priuiledge belongeth o Germonius Ibid. art 52. without all question to the Cardinalls person if he come by chance and not on set purpose for so it was also in the case of the Virgins vestall But how shall it appeare that hee comes not purposely In that case the vestall Virgins that neuer might sweare were put to their oath p Aul. Gellius ibid. But for al that saith this Popes dearling my Lords the Cardinalls may not sweare they may not be so disparaged as to be put to their oathes How shall it then appear he must saith he q Germonius ibid. art 53. be beleeued vpon his bare word So then if a Cardinall haue but the conscience to tell a lie which how small a thing it is in poperie and how many excuses it hath who knoweth not thē it is here apparant that the vilest thief and murderer in a countrie may easily escape the halter at Rome Now to conclude see how many helps there bee for a Murderer in Romish religion first by places then by persons priuiledged Were this so in London how should any murderer be brought to the bar or to executiō for no streete could he passe through but he shal finde one of these fiue places Places priuiledged be 1. a Church 2. a Churchyard 3. an Hospital 4. a Bishops house 5. a priuate Chappell all these shall deliuer a man from triall Persons priuiledged be first a Cardinall riding by which because it is but in fewe places therfore the second is a Priest carying the Sacrament and that is in euery town To touch either of these dooth deliuer from death a murtherer condemned by law Thus we see a bloudy Church is a defender of bloud and murther for let any wise man consider how many thousand murders in a yeere may be sheltred and shuffled ouer by these meanes And yet sanctuaries are but one meanes to cloak murther they haue many more not so fit to be stood vpon at this time but the end and effect of them all is this that poisoning stabbing killing and all kind of bloud-shedding is so rife in popish States that the better sort of thēselues do bitterly complaine of it Oleaster a spanish Inquisitor and therfore not partiall on our side hath these words r Vide Hieronimū ab Oleastro inquisitorem vlissiponens in suis Cōment in Pentat ●n cap. 4. Genes pag. 17. I see daily saith he murders are committed but I doe not see the murderers are punished for wee haue at this day a thousand waies to excuse murderers whereof one is to appeale to the Church to say he is a Cleargie man presently to get from the Pope such Iudges or Commissioners as thēselues will who by by discharge absolue them vpon a little punishment or none at all and thus murders are multiplied euery day c. Let these words be wel obserued and what he was that spake them if this be so so farre from Rome as Portingale is thē we may easily iudge how the world goeth at Rome and neere vnto it Against al this what can be said that this Anastasius is an author suborned by vs Nay Posseuine the Iesuite will for that answere for vs hauing canonized him in his catologue of catholick Doctors s Possev Ies. appar sac tom lit A. what then that he is but a triuiall fellow and of no credit nor authority Nor so for he was publicke professor of the Popes law at Turin in great office authoritie both with Gregory the 14. Clement the 8. t idem Posseu ibid. and his bookes be dedicated to the Popes and Cardinals printed at Rome with soueraigne authority special commendation Nay the pope himself with his owne mouth commended the book to the Cardinalls and said that the whole Clergie and the Councell of Cardinals by name were greatly beholden to the Author for it u Vide eiusdem Anastasij Epistolam dedicat ad Gregorium 14. Pont. Max. So that it is more then impudency for anie papist to make question of the authoritie of his doctrine What then can be said that these sanctuaries stand indeed allowed for some faults but not for murder Indeed if it were so the fault were lesse but the truth is otherwise For tho it be certain and confessed by themselues that by the ciuile law Murderers and Rauishers and Adulterers are excepted x In § Quod fi delinquentes Authent demand princip Yet Germonius shameth not to answere that the Ciuile law is corrected in this point by the popes law and that therefore wee are to stand to it y Germonius de sacrorū immunitatibus lib 3. cap. 16●7 c. and not to the Ciuile law Now who are excepted by the popes law onelie night robbers and setters of high wayes z Germonius ibid. art 56 ex lure Canonico communi sententia but as for murderers adulterers and rauishers these finde fauor in the popes law for they be Amici Curiae but theeues robbers are not so and therefore this Germonius concludes that tho the Scripture be plaine and many Doctors yet a murderer is not to bee taken out of sanctuarie vnlesse there be more then murder as deceit and trechery What then may be said that this Germonius is but one Doctor and his opinion is not to bee taken for a doctrine I answer his iudgement is allowed by the Pope himselfe his opinions are fortified with consent of other popish Doctors But that wee may see he walks not alone in this way one Stephanus Durantus writing also of late of the rites of the Romish Church deliuereth the same for a general doctrine of that church tho he being a French-man is therefore the bolder saith that neither in France nor in England they haue beene permitted by the kings with such absolute allowance as elswhere a Stephanus Durantus de ritibus ecclesiae catholic Rom● 〈◊〉 ad Gregor ●4 vid li. 1. ●a art 10. Such saith he is the honor immunity of Churches that malefactors flying to them may not bee taken out nor haue any violence offred them This book also is of speciall authoritie dedicated to P. Gregorie the ●4 and by him accepted with special allowance and in a Bull or constitution of his he affirmeth it is a worke seruing greatly for Gods glorie