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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04347	A manuduction, or introduction vnto diuinitie containing a confutation of papists by papists, throughout the important articles of our religion; their testimonies taken either out of the Indices expurgatorii, or out of the Fathers, and ancient records; but especially the parchments. By Tho. Iames, Doctor of Diuinitie, late fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, and Sub-Deane of the cathedrall church of Welles. This marke noteth the places that are taken out of the Indices expurgatorij: and this [pointing hand], a note of the places in the manuscripts.	James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.	1625 (1625)	STC 14460; ESTC S107696	146,396	156

is rather disputable then decided take it at the worst that it bringeth with it many abuses more then I haue mentioned noted by Iohn Gerson and Nic. Clemangis and Io. Collet of England knowne by the detestable gaine by Indulgences the people especially of Germany enthralled and robbed of their mony had not Martin Luther of Wittemberge and Friderick Duke of Saxony iust cause to reclaime and declaime against the sundry abuses of them being now growne into the generall hatred of all men and to banish them out of all Germany and we here in England not to admit them vntill they bee better warranted vnto vs. Things that are good as the brazen Serpent out of your owne Gascoigne may be taken away and so much of Indulgences and Pardons Pardon mee if I haue insisted the longer on this point occasioned through plenty of matter I will contract my selfe in all the rest leauing you to imagine what large volumes may bee written of controuersies out of their owne Indices if either I had all of them or all were written out of them but I may with thankefulnesse to the Almighty say vnto them that meane to spend houres well in this kind Principium dedi vobis I onely intend and propose vnto my self an Introduction vnto the Controuersies in this first Edition Of Prayers for the Dead OF prayers for the dead what shall I say Seeing that in our prayers whether publike or priuate there must bee no assuments or additaments of men or women but all must be taken out of the holy Scriptures although I cannot deny but the Graecians which to this day doe deny Purgatorie doe grant the vse of prayers for the dead yet because I am taught that in the next life there is present condemnation or remunertation and that they will profit vs little or nothing and that we are to be accountable at the last day of Iudgement for euery idle word they were better forborne then vsed and that I may conclude all in the marginall note vpon Greg. Neocaesariensis word verè sentiunt qui sublat as volunt preces pro defunctis they thinke aright which would haue prayers for the dead abolished according to the plaine doctrine of the Church of England Of Reliques and Pilgrimages FIrst of Reliques seeing they sprung both from one roote couetousnesse and gaine which is the roote of all euill We will inquire whether there be any true Reliques or no proceeding in right method first to proue the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and then to talke of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 afterwards Let it be first agreed vpon of all hands that if Reliques be to be worshipped of any then much more of Christ the blessed Virgins and his Apostles but all these are either vncertaine or vnknowne of Christ what haue wee remaining but some few cart loades of his Crosse or Nailes wherewith he was fastened to the Crosse which hee that will beleeue must haue faith more then a graine of Mustardseed so incredible are they if the relation bee true which I find recorded in an ancient Parchment booke The historie is somewhat long but withall strange and therfore we will heare it and it be but for its noueltie to you and incredibiliti● both to you and me I reade saith my Author that Helena was the daughter of Choel King of the Brittaines whom Constantine at his comming into Brittaine married being the onely daughter of her father After whose death the whole Iland deuolued vnto him So much wemay reade in the Brittish Stories but some there bee that fetch her pedigree and descent as farre as Treuers Thus much a man may beleeue although that he haue but some few graines or scruples of faith But that which followeth can hardly be beleeued without some scruple of conscience though hee had whole mountaines of faith or as much faith as would remooue Mountaines into the Sea yet I say it will hardly be belieued The said Helena being desirous to find out Christs Crosse and nayles a most excellent inuention whosoeuer put it into her head sent for all the Iewes the I was supposing it was for some such businesse feared and resolued that they would neuer confesse where it was One Iudas mistake him not for Iudas Iscariot yet it was one almost as ancient as he perhaps some men will wonder how this should come to passe when it is knowne that Helena called this assembly of Iewes more then 270. yeares after Christ I answere out of the same Author that perhaps men liued longer then then they doe now Zachaeus was his Grandfather and Saint Stephen that was stoned to death was this Iudas brother this Iudas I say when Queene Helena threatned to burne them all aliue if they would not tell her for all their solemne vow was discouered to her to be the onely man that knew where the Crosse was hidden so she set them aside and tooke Iudas along with her and told him in plaine termes that if he would not tell her where Golgotha was that the Crosse might be found eft soones she would throw him into a pit and there he should lie as sure as Christ died for her till hee were famished to death which was instantly done and there hee lay poore soule sixe dayes and sixe nights but on the seuenth day he made signes to come foorth and made show that he would tell them where the pretious Relique of the Crosse was As soone as hee came forth downe falleth he to his prayers which that it might bee the more auaileable was ioyned with much fasting straight wayes whilest he prayed the ground shooke and yeelded forth a sent of most pleasant smelles Whereat Iudas lift vp both his hands and said Now doe I know of a truth that Christ is the Sauiour of the world Now in that place as we reade in the Ecclesiasticall Historie for this is not a Legend-storie there was whilome a Temple of Venus the Goddesse of lust built by Adrian the Emperour wherein whosoeuer prayed might bee thought to pray to her Deitie therfore it was vnfrequented and ready to fall but Queene Helena razed it to the ground and plowed it vp After this Iudas begins to settle himself to his busines and hauing digged not passing 20. yards in the ground he found three Crosses which with great ioy hee carried vnto Queene Helena But loe here a doubt that did much perplex them all it could not be known which was Christs Crosse from the thiefes nor of the two thieues Crosses which was the good thiefes which was the bads but that mattered not But as God would haue it there was a young man carried forth to be buried Iudas staied the Beare with his band and layed the first crosse vpon the body and it stirred not and then he layed the second crosse vpon it and it stirred not but when he touched the body with the third Crosse