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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

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built he made the tree to be cut downe but it could neuer be made to serue to any vse wherefore it was reiected and made a Bridge of ouer a certaine Lake When the Queene of Saba came to see Salomon shee would not goe ouer the Bridge became shee had been before aduertised in a vision that on that wood should one bee hanged who should destroy the Kingdome of the Iewes Which when Salomon heard of hee caused it to be buried very deepe in the earth in the place where a Poole was afterwarde made which Poole had the vertue of healing sickenesse by reason of the wood for it came foorth of the earth and floated aboue vpon the water at the houre when Iesus Christ was to bee crucified and therefore the Iewes made the crosse thereof Beholde what hath beene inuented and preached to poore people onely to make the crosse bee honoured as it is to be read in the 21. Sermon of the booke called The Sermons of the Disciple But let such consider that the auncient Christians vsing of the crosse in whatsoeuer matters by them mannaged was but the simple practise of Saint Paules meaning when he said J am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ For because euery one as well Iewes as Paganes mocked at Christ and his Crosse was become a scandall to some and folly to others the more they stroue to defame it the more the christians endeuoured to adorne it Heereup on they opposed the Crosse to all thinges and in all places as a moste honourable marke whereby they sufficiently declared that they would haue part of Christes opprobry to the ende hee might impart to them some of his glory And therefore said Chrisostome That Ensigne should bee more honoured then all the Crownes and Diademes could be For this cause the Emperours and Kings made applycation therof to their Crownes and Scepters so much the more to shame confound the Iewes Pagans whom S. Ambrose bringeth in thus speaking Wehaue crucified Jesus to the end the Christians may rise after death and that the dead may raigne We haue crucified him whome Kings shall honour Whence happened that the Princes which persecuted Christ became Preachers and their Vestiments serued to repaire the crosse that faith might shine foorth the more gloriously Vpon the same occasion it is said that the crosse should be a tree faire and splendant adorned with the purple of kings and more brightsome then the starres And Theodoret in the third booke of his historie chap. 27. writeth That by all the crosse should bee borne to testifie the triumph of Christ But all this while they attributed nothing to the crosse onely or the bare figure therof for Constantine gaue acknowledgement that the victoric which happened to him was through Christ and not the crosse and so he caused to be written on the crosses by him erected these three words Iesus Christ ouercame after that manner made his prayers of the crosse Helena likewise worshipped the king and not the crosse For else it had bin a Pagan errour vilde vanitie faith Saint Ambrose In this forte may christians honour the crosse for who makes any question but in our wars against the Iews or Mahumetists we may beare our Ensignes orarmes crossed for publicke testifying to the Infidels that wee are Christians and our aduersaries are miscreants andvoyd of faith So may the crosse be engrauē on money to shew that it is the coyne or stampe of a christian Prince So may the crosse be placed on the gates of Citties Castles or houses to deliuer apparantly that the Inhabitants in such places do make profession of christianitie So was it long since ordained that the instruments of contractes or bargaining made by publike notaries should be sealed and signed with the crosse as it is read in lib. de Cod. And in such like polliticke considerations we reiect not the vse of the material crosse As Constantine in the very same respect forbad to punish malefactours any more with the death of the crosse To the ende saith Saint Augustine in his 36. Treatise on Saint Iohn They should not be honoured by such a punishment For the same reason was it forbidden by the Emperor Theodosuts to engraue the crosse in earth and a paine decreed against all such as despised or cast the crosse at their heeles Now withall is to be remembred that then the crosse was but two peeces of woode thwarte one another hauing no shape of a crucifixe much lesse of the blessed virgine Marie as since then in diuers crosses the image of the crucifixe is on one side and that of the mother on the other as if she had borne companie with our Sauiour in his sufferings and she in some sort had wrought the redemption of mankinde Then they had not read the goodly disputation betweene the Cordeliers and the Jacobines in the time of Pope John the 22. of that name the Cordeliers maintaining that the crucifixe ought to be naked onely with a crowne of thornes the Jacobines iustified that hee was to weare a crowne on his head and a royall robe with all As for the honour done by some in this case they of olde crowned him simplye with flowers but it was for speciall instruction to the beholders for thus they intended that whosoeuer would haue the crowne and pertake in the reward he must first of all beare his crosse for so hath the Poet Prudentius written To beare the crosse must be thy paine If thou desire the crowne to gaine But in the end these matters grew so forward that the crosse was broght into the temples and saluted in these woordes O Crux aue Al haile O crosse which are but fond speeches Then inuocation was made to it saying Auge pits iustitiam reisque dona veniam Encrease the iustice of the good and pardon the offendors Likewise Crucem tuam adoramus Domine Lord we adore and worship thy crosse Which are indeede blasphemous speeches For to Iesus Christ onely shuld such a praier be made It is Iesus Christ who is the son he ought to be kissed and not the crosse of wood So that albeit wee may honour one another ciuilly following no more then is commaunded the inferiour to honor their superiours yet when question is made of religious or deuoute honor they are matters not according to giue all honour to one onely God and his sonne and yet to diuide a portion thereof to any man or a materiall crosse or any creature whateuer Yet are not these questionaries them selues fully agreed hereabout for one hath demaunded with what kinde of honour it is to be worshiped Some say that the verie crosse which touched the bodie of Iesus Christ oght to be honored with Latria seruice or by the means of Hyperdulia humble dutie but others beleue that it shuld be serucd with the honour of Dulia bond-seruice as much to say that the true crosse ought to bee reuerenced with the honour due to Christ and
when the woord of God marcheth not before vs. Nor need we demaund who hath done or said this heere or there but what hath Christ Iesus instituted what hath his Apostles saide and doone nor ought we so much seeke what is done as what is to be done Againe it is to be noted that our elders speaking of the death and passion of our redeemer haue most spoken of his Crosse and of the signe therof together neuer meaning what at this day is vnderstood by the woord signe but they likewise called it the Standard or Ensigne of the great King and Captaine who ouercame the deuill and hell in bringing thence the spoiles drinking of the torrent by the way and lifting vp his head as is said in the 110. Psalme So did Fortunatus take it in his Himne beginning thus Pange lingua gloriosi Praelium certaminis Et super Crucis trophaeum Dic triumphum nobilem That is to say Tongue declare the combate of a glorious fight And tell the noble tryumphes on the Crosse And Theodulphus Vexilla Regis prodeunt Fulget Crucis misterium That is The Standards of the King march foorth Shining with the misteries of the Crosse So that the Crosse then vsed was made in forme of a Standard or Banner By the signe then those reuerend predecessours of ours vnderstood the Crosse and passion it selfe but since ignoraunce hath deuised that that should be seperate which ought to bee conioyned setting the passion of Christ apart and the signe of the Crosse apart making small account of the one speaking the litle of the passion but enough of the signe witnesse the passion death and woundes of Christ which are dayly and hourely in the mouthes of blasphemers who thinke neuerthelesse to be warranted from all euill when they doe but make the signe of the Crosse Thus hath bin declared what our elders vnderstood by the signe of the Crosse to wit the exteriour testimony of the christian faith which euidently appeared in them who were conuerted from dumbe Idols to true seruice of the liuing God This may be discerned more clearely by the saiing of S. Cirill answerering the obiections of the Emperour Iulian sirnamed the Apostata in his sixt booke For Iulian magnifying the antiquity of the Pagane religion said that the Oracles were giuen by Jupiter as the escutchions or bucklers fell from heauen and Jupiters saddle which was giuen or sent to Numa and made this comparison that the Pagans kept the Armour which great Iupiter the Father of Mars had giuen them as a warranted gaege that he would alwaies haue a care of the Citty of Roome All this notwithstanding the Christians desisted from honouring and worshipping these thinges whereupon Iulian said that they honoured the wood of the Crosse and painted the Crosse on their foreheades and before their houses Whereto Cirill answered thus Albeit the Lord and Sauiour of all was not in shewe yet equall in all with his father and seated on the throne of his diuinitie neuerthelesse he was abased and tooke on himselfe the shape of a seruant despising allignomie bare the crosse to abolish the power of corruption and one onely dyed for all to the end that being raised againe from the dead he might deliuer all mankinde from the snares of death destroye the tyrannie of sinne ruling in vs appease the lawe which exercised his tyrannie in our members making vs spirituall woorshippers killing in vs the feelings of the fleshe that they might be made the sonnes of God which beleeued in him and were sanctified by his spirit so to despoile Sathan of his tyrannie the author of euils the mort all beast those wicked powers which our calumniator called the Prince of nations and Gods defenders The wholsome wood made vs remember all these things and aduised vs to thinke that as S. Paule saith Euen as one is dead for all so ought they to knowe that the liuing could liue no more by them selues but by him who dyed and rose againe Which answer shewes that the Christians painted the crosse not as attributing any vertue to the visible signe but to let the Pagans see how they hauing forsaken theyr Idolatries wherewith they hadbin before enchaunted imbraced Iesus Christ of whome the crosse which they placed before their houses was the true marke and publique ensigne And the same Cyrill expoundeth himselfe in his third booke of adoration made in spirit and trueth manifesting the vnbelecuers by this marke that they would neuer receiue the crosse that is to saye acknowledge Iesus Christ They saith he that haue no will to receiue the Crosse are vanquished and ouercome by the deuill and they are such as Christ spake to saying Verily verily J say vnto you if you will not beleeue that I am he you shall dye in your sinnes So that to receiue the Crosse is nothing else but to beleeue in Iesus Christ For so likewise Saint Cyril speaking of the comming of Christ shewes it by these wordes the comming of the Crosse vnderstanding by the word Crosse all that which the sonne of God did and suffered in the worlde for our saluation These things thus breefely touched may suffice to answer the allegations contained in the first placard Come we now to the second which is entituled How the Crosse ought to be honoured which likewise at this present wee must consider on How the Crosse ought to be honoured FIrst of al it is a matter most manifest that the punishment of the Crosse was not onely one of the cruellest but likewise the most ignominious of all them which was practised by any nation For it was called a death most infamous and accursed and for this reason our Lord Iesus Christ was put to the Crosse that he being made accursed we might bee deliuered from the cursse of the law Yet for all this it was not without great reason that himselfe speaking of this kinde of death calleth it his exaltation Iohn 8. verse 28. and 12. ver 32. for his Crosse is the great victory the trophee and glory which hee obtained against Sathan against death See now why we can neuer sufficiently honor the crosse death and passion of our Lorde Iesus Christ For it is the meanes whereby the Sonne of God drawes all men to him as himselfe saith in Saint Iohn 12. verse 32. But the manner how to honor it ought likwise to be learned from our Lord and maister himselfe He plainly expressed it when he taught vs that whosoeuer would be his disciple ought to take vp his crosse follow him for by this means being conformed to his sufferings we shall likewise be semblable to his glorie When he instituted his holye Supper saying Doe these things in remembrance of me how often so euer you doo them you shall shew the death of the Lorde euen vntill his comming This S. Paule sawe when hee writ to Timothe his 2. Epistle Chapter 2. ver 8. 12. Remember that Iesus Christ was raised from the dead
the cause being taken away there remaines no more of the effect Last of all because it seemes that wee would haue no Images of the crucifixe nor the Cross we declare that we desire all our dayes Iesus Christ should be painted before oureyes in the same manner as S. Paule Gal. 3. ver 1. painted Iesus Christ before their eyes for the pensill wherwith God ought to be paīred is his word which himself calleth the word of truth where cōtrariwise all the doctrine of Images is but the doctrine of lying and vanity So then the Crosse of Iesus Christ is as the chaire wherout we purpose to preach on the one side the multitude and ennormity of our sinnes on the other the seuerity of Gods iustice and depth of his mercy The greatnesse of our sinnes is shewen vs in that they could not be borne nor abolished by any other then he who was very God and very man His iustice in that God who hateth iniquity did punish it with all extreamity His mercy in that himselfe gaue vs the price to acquit vs withall euen vs that were his vtter enemies for this is to vs a most certaine gaege of the merciful affection of our God discerned thorow the woundes of his onely Sonne And the liuely contemplating of those wounds is the balme to heale the hurts of our soules His feete and handes were pierced his side opened and thence issued the price of our redemption as also the washing away of our filthynesse bloud I say and water alwaies streaming to deface our sinnes past present and to come to the ende that hauing our harts washed from an euil conscience wee should goe by the fresh and liuing pathes towardesour God with certainty of faith and keep ing the confession of our hope Heb. 10. ver 22. 23. that is to say in following after Iesus Christ Which is nothing else saith S. Carill but renouncing the world for the loue of Christ preferring the goodes which we hope for by faith before all other in this bodily life In like manner saith S. Bernard The ioyfull hope and assuraunce is that which is affirmed by application to the death and passion of Christ For since the Father hath giuen vs his Sonne how shall he not with him giue vs all thinges also Rom. 8. ver 32. And bee is giu en vs of the Father to be our iustice wisedome redemption and sanctification 1 Cor. 1. v. 30. It is Iesus that iustifies the faulty it is Iesus that paies for the indepted that strengthens the weake illuminates the blinde bindes vp the hurtes of the wounded recalles home by-wanderers giues life to the dead in a word it is Iesus that destroies the workes of the deuill beateth downe Sathan vnder our feete Such is the memory which wee continually obserue of the perfect obedience which the Sonne of GOD deliuered vpon the Crosse to God his Father for vs poore miserable wretches and not the ridiculous and I dolatrous deuotion which the ignoraunt so gladly would make vs beleeue that they honour the death and passion of Iesus Christ in saying during their great weekes space before the crosse and beholding the face of the Crucifixe with handes eleuated and knees bended to wit On Palme Sunday thirty three Paters Aues the Munday the beades of our Lady the Tewsday forty Peters Aues the Wednesday thirty Paters and Aues the Thursday twelue Paters and Aues the Fryday sixty Paters and Aues the Satturday forty Paters and Aues on Easterday twelue Paters and Aues Likewise during their twelue white Fridayes the first three Paters and Aues the second seauen Paters and Aues the third sixty times Paters Aues in honor of the sixty thornes in the crowne the fourth forty Paters and Aues the fift forty Paters and Aues the sixt twelue Paters and Aues the seauenth thirty Paters and Aues in honour of Iudas his thirty pence the eight thirty Paters Aues the ninth fiue Paters and Aues the tenth three Paters and Aues in honor of the three nayles the eleuenth fiue Paters and Aues the twelft fifteene Paters Aues in honour of the fifteene horrible signes which shall come before the day of iudgement Such is the summary of the stile obserued in the booke by them called Houres But true worshippers indeed entreate of God that it may please him to make them feele the efficacy of the death and passion of Iesus Christ and desire to beare the Image of him to the end that as wee haue borne the Image of the earthlie Adam so we may carry the Image of the celestiall Adam in our hearts that the holy Ghost would be the Temple therof and so by this meanes we shall bee knowne by the same Iesus Christ at his great and last comming Truely it is thou Lord Iesus whome wee honour whome wee blesse and thanke because thou dying on thy Crosse hast thereby giuen vs assurance of life To thee be all honour and glory with the Father and the holy spirit Amen Jt is sweete to beare the Crosse with Christ and for Christ FINIS A Sonnet annexed to the former Treatise in French WE are vndone Sathan hath vs destroyde Sinne death and hell is our due portion Ah wretch recant for Christ his passion Sinne death and hell hath vtterly made voyde Thereby our first rights are to vs regainde Thereby health victory and life we holde Thereby we see the light so manifolde Thereby heauens highest secrets are attainde It is the death of death the hell of hell The steele that hath rebated Sathans steele Opening the gate where blessednes doth dwell Happy is he this death by faith doth fellc But he that worships wood or stone procures Those paines on him which euer more endures There is no de●eipt nor subtilty which Sathan hath not ad●●sedly studied thereby to make men commit Idolatry whereby his power is no way ruynated but established