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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12273	The harmonie of the lawe and the gospel Wherin is plainly shewed, that howsoeuer they differ in time and some other circumstances, yet in substance they are one & the same. And by waie of application, the pretended antiquitie of Poperie is discouered, and found to be a meere nouelty: deliuered in a sermon at Pauls-crosse, the 9. of Aug. 1607. by George Cresvvell, minister of Gods word.	Creswell, George.	1607 (1607)	STC 6038; ESTC S117450	22,951	66

all men for his crueltie seemes to giue consent to the ambition of this Boniface to the end he might haue the Romans obedient vnto him But how vnluckily and vnfortunatly this happened to the Church not onely the euent and profaning of the holy thinges and of all religion which then followed did declare but also many sad and sorrowfull prodigies terrifying the minds and harts of men did demonstrate all which are recorded in ancient histories For a burning Comet appeared a childe was borne at Bizantium hauing foure Annal. Palmer feete another without eyes and hands whose inferiour parts from the loynes downeward were like a fish bloodie speares appeared all the night God witnessing thereby that the fatall time was now at hand wherein the Popes or Bishops of Rome who ought to follow celestiall things and teach all men to lift vp their hearts and mindes vnto God were now degenerated into four footed beasts and the Church depriued of her lights and of her hands that is to say destitute of faithfull Seers trustie guides and vigilant watchmen should now as a fishe swimme and floate amongst the waues of the world and vnstable alterations of superstitions For such Bishops followed as troubled the whole world with greate warres and cruell murders and vsurped to themselues an authoririe or power ouer Emperours and Kings Let the Popes of Rome then by their flatterers Iesuites and Seminaries boast spread abroad the antiquitie of their supremacie which all histories being considered had no being before the dayes of Boniface the thirde neither can they bring forth any other author of the same but onely Phocas then whome amongst the Emperours that professed the name of Christ none liued that was more wicked nor more cruelly minded I so speake of him because to make himselfe Emperour as he did he murdered Mauritius his Lord and Christian Emperour Is then the supremacie of the Pope so newe but newer are those things whereby superstitious men doe measure religiō in poperie amongst which the worshipping of Images is chiefest Euerie Images one knoweth that God in the olde Testament forbade Images and Christ teacheth vs that the same was ratified in the newe Testament when hee saith that hee came not to abolish the Lawe or to Mat. 5. 17 1. Io. 5. 21 breake the commandements of the Lawe but to fulfill them to whom consenteth the Apostle Iohn saying Babes keepe your selues from Idols It is manifest in the Primitiue Church there were no Images at all tolerated no not so much as of Christ Ierenaeus an auncient writer about Ire lib. 1. cap. 24. the yeare of Christ 185. maketh mention of the Gnostickes that they had the Imamages of Christ which they proposed to be worshipped with the Images of Pithagoras Plato and other Philosophers but this father condemnes and reproues the same in them Knowen is the action of Epiphanius Bishoppe of Salamina in Cipres which in an Epistle written to Iohn the Bishoppe of Ierusalem Saint Ierome being the Latin Translater thereof is thus cited When I came sayth he to a Village that was called Anablatlia and there passed-by seeing a candle burning demaunding what place it was and vnderstanding that it was a Church I went in to pray Now there I found hanging behinde the doores of the Church a vayle washed and painted and hauing an Image as it were of Christ or some other Saint for I doe not well remember whose Image it was Therefore when I sawe in the Church of Christ contrarie to the Authoritie of the scriptures the Image of a man hanging I cut it downe and gaue commaundement to the keepers of the same place that therewith they should burie some poore man And a little after in the same Epistle Precor vt iubeas presbyteros eiusdem loci deinceps praecipere in ecclesiae Christi istiusmodi vela quae contra religionem nostram veniunt non appendi These things then doe demonstrate and declare how the Fathers of auntient time vnderstood the commaundement of God concerning Images when as Epiphanius doth affirme the Images of Christ to bee against the authoritie of the scriptures and enemies to Christian religion But after the supremacie of the Popes before spoken of was confirmed Images also crept into the Church about the yeare of Christ 707 by Constantine the first for hate of the Emperour Philip. By which action grewe greate contention in the whole Empire and at the last was the occasion that the Greeke fell from the Latine Church In which schisme the Turkish Empire encreased which GOD euer from that daye hath vsed as his roddes and scourges to purge the filthinesse of Idolatrie And yet for all this foolish and superstitious men doe recken the worshipping of Images amongst the exercises of ancient and Catholicke religion oppressing and burdening vs with the name of noueltie because wee condemne this worshippe and would rid it away by the authoritie of the worde of God But now let vs come to their Masse the supporter and piller of their popish kingdome Masse inuented and encreased The author hereof they fayne Iesus Christ to be constantly affirming that all the Apostles but especially Peter and Iames celebrated the Masse Now how friuolous this is euerie man may easily knowe that doth but consider the Euanglicall history and the writings of the Apostles Christ instituted his supper in remembraunce of his death in that forme 1. Cor. 11. 23. and manner that the Apostles after deliuered it to the Church But what communion can this mysticall supper haue with the Masse wherein the sacrificing Priest doth all alone eates alone drinkes alone speakes alone behaues himselfe like a foole in a playe all the rest behoulding him as an idle spectacle Or hath Christ made any mention of a sacrifice for the quicke and the dead in the which notwithstanding they fixe the chiefest vse of their masse Christ instituted his supper in remembrance of his death hee neuer commaunded to apply it to the dead much lesse to offer his bodie and bloud dayly for their sinnes The Masse then is a newe Inuention the authors whereof are superstitious men that haue patcht it and pieced it vp at diuers times which that we may omitte other histories we wil declare out of Platina the Popes secretarie For he vpon the life of Sixtus the first thus writes In celebratione de coena domini loquitur mandauit vt sanctus sanctus sanctus dominus Deus Sabaoth cantaretur These wordes were at the first euident and did saith he touch all things as it had beene instituted by Christ Peter when hee consecrated vsed the Lords prayer Saint Iames the Bishoppe of Ierusalem encreased these mysteries Basill encreased thē others encreased them First he saith that Peter consecrated a newe worde whereof in the newe Testament vvhen there is any speech of the Supper the Apostles make no mention at all neither by it can any other thing be vnderstood but onely the reciting of the