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death_n	body_n	sorrow_n	soul_n	4,452	5	5.0998	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13916	A breefe treatise of the vertue of the crosse and the true manner hovv to honour it. Translated out of French into English.; Brief traicté de la vertu de la croix et de la manière de l'honnorer. English.	La Faye, Antoine de, 1540-1615.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1599 (1599)	STC 24216; ESTC S103275	31,239	94

burne the crosse it is altogither vncertaine Another maintaines they threw it into the sea how can that hold whō Jerusalem was not a sea-bordering cittie Perhappes then saith he they tooke paines to bring it to the porte of Japhet which is distant from the said Cittie about two daies iourney but heerein it is to be doubted likewise And concerning what others haue saide that the selfe same enemies of Christ after al these other trials to destroy the crosse did lastly yet cunningly burie it verie deep in the earth and with it the images of Venus and Adonis who would not vtterly reiect this fable ifhe but cōsider what hatred the Iewes bare to al kinde of Images Can it any way seeme likely that they which resisted the Romaine Gouernors yea the Emperour of Rome himself not permitting the Eagle which was the Romaines Ensigne should be receiued into the cittie of Jerusalem offering themselues to all daungers whatsoeuer ratherthen to suffer such a banner be displaide among them that they of so stearne nature would make or search for the images of Venus and Adems to make in serue them for such a purpose Such reckonings do indeed seeme no otherwise but onely to annihilate the vertue of the crosse of Christ The holy Historie enstructs vs in far better manner what was to be vnderstood by the enemies to the crosse of Christ as their reiecting the preaching of the Gospell and persecuting thē that said they were Christs Disciples not suffering him to be named among them Acts. 4. and 5. And as for vs we say that the passion and vertue of Iesus Christ ought to be sought for in himselfe and not in a tree of wood If yee obiect the linnen cloaths and handkercheifes of Saint Paul Acts. 19. verse 12. the answere is easie that god was willing by those miracles to honour the Apostleship of Saint Paul to the end that such as neuer sawe his face might yet be perswaded of him and that God had authorized such miracles by him as beeing the true seruaunt of Iesus Christ But heere is the poynt whereon wee stand to wit that those miracles are testified by the word of God which cannot so be said of the woode of the crosse of Christ the scripture not making any mention thereof For it is most certaine that if God had pleased to work by such an instrumēt or means the spirit of God would not haue beene silent therein the rather making mention of things concerning the seruant doubtlesse he would neuer haue forgotten the maister It seemes most euident if it were for no other reason but that God would not limit men to such earthly thinges as likewise S. Paul hath taught vs by his example 2. Cor. 5. verse 16. That we ought not to know Christ Jesus after the flesh And to the Colossians 5. verse 15. We serue God in spirit glorifying vs in Christ Jesus not beleeuing at all in the flesh Now before wee passe any further it is necessarie to declare in this place what is to be vnderstood by the signe of the crosse If by the word crosse wee vnderstande the sufferings which the sonne of God endured both in soule and bodie as Esaye 55. verse 3. Being filled with sorrowes and full of heauinesse in soule euen to the death as hauing drunke the cup of Gods anger wheron he cried My God my god why hast thou forsaken me it is most certaine that such sufferings exceede representation For our sence cannot comprehend thē but by faith we vnderstand that they were infinite and vnspeakable Therfore we say in our Creed that wee beleeue Christ Iesus did suffer that he was crucified dead and buired that he descended into hell all these then beeing vnspeakable must needes be likewise irrepresentable But if by the worde Crosse wee vnderstand the wood wheron the sonne of God oftered himselfe a sacrifice to his Father for the propitiation of our sinnes it is casie then to be painted or figured yet such a figure can be but the portraite of those instruments wherewith the hangmen were furnished to torment our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ if then those instruments can haue no vertue in them that which is but the image thereof must needes haue much lesse Nowe it is most apparent that the wood had no vertue in it but what was naturall neither could the Iewes giue it any for themselues had none but a readines to cuill dooing why then it remaines that if it can haue any at all it must be by touching the body of our Lorde Iesus Christ But how such touching could confer any grace to the wood we are not able to saye because as hath beene declared it is not expressed in the worde of God why then we may likewise affirme that those lippes of Iudas which kissed Iesus the hands of them that layde holde on him led buffeted nailed and crucified him receiued likewise some vertue from him Which being most absurde much more is it then to say that wood hauing no life by a meere touch only should bee susceptible of holinesse and vertue for if such vertue had been giuen to the Crosse of wood because Christ suffered thereon like vertue would haue beene bestowed on them by whome he suffered For they were those which should performe what the defined Counsell of God had before determined Actes 4. ver 28. Nor are such allegations worthy receiuing in nothing some difference in dissemblable instrumentes to wit that Iudas and the Iewes could be bad and yet the Crosse not For euermore this is to be graunted that if the touching drew vertue and sanctity to it cheefely because it was as the Alter for sacrifising the Sauiour of the worlde it standeth not with reason that the Crosse being a life-lesse thing could bee endued with vertue and sanctity sooner then men liuing and moouing Hence then easily may bee deriued that if the Crosse of wood could not receiue any vertue or holinesse the signe or Image therof doubtlesse was farre lesse capable of such grace And this is the reason why Saint Paule attributed all the power of the Crosse to the word and not vnto the signe thereof when he said 1. Corinth 1. ver 18. The preaching of the Crosse is the power of God to vs which are saued For God enstructed his Church by his worde and the signes and Sacraments instituted by him which Sacraments could not bee Sacraments except the worde of God were vnited with them according as S. Augustin saith The worde is conioyned to the Element and then it is made a Sacrament Seeing then the signe of the Crosse neuer was ordayned by God and that neither the worde of God nor the historie of the Passion Crosse of Christ haue made any mention of such vertue in the signe wee ought not stretch our wit beyond the wisdome of God for to outstep the limittes prescribed by God is to eate the fruite forbidden by God and to tempt God by bold presumption Likewise it