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A19588	The sermon preached at the Crosse, Feb. xiiij. 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 followed; namely, that the religion of Rome, as now it stands established, is worse then euer it was.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1608 (1608)	STC 6027; ESTC S115090	135,721	196

THE SERMON PREACHED AT the Crosse Feb. xiiij 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 followed namely that the religion of Rome as now it stands established is worse then euer it was 2. TIM 3. 13. The euill men and deceiuers shall waxe worse and worse deceiuing and being deceiued Imprinted at London by H. L. for Edmond Weauer and are to be solde at the great North-gate of S. Paules Church 1608. Academiae Cantabrigionsis Liber TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD ROBERT Earle of Salsburie Vicount Cramborne Lord High Treasorer of England principall Secretarie of Estate Master of his Maiesties Court of Wards Liueries Knight of the noble order of the Garter and most worthi● Chauncellour of the Vniuersitie of Cambridge GRACE PEACE RIGHT HONORABLE THe controuersies betwixt G●●s Church and the Romish haue been on both sides sufficiently debated heeretofore on our side with that plainness pourefulness that beseemes the truth on the other with such cunning and shiftes of wit as falsehood needes but on both sides with learning inough a On our side by Luther Zuinglius Oecolampadius Caluine P. Martir especially in these later times By this meanes the particular points in question are now either opened sufficiently or neuer will bee for when two men goe to lawe as we and the Papists doe for our freehold and title to the truth if one declare the other answer he again replie and the other reioin it is not possible but the matter will bee brought to a cleare issue if it can haue a full hearing and an indifferent Iudge Who should be the Iudge herein but Gods Church by the holy Scriptures but Bucer Melanct hon Iewell Fulke Whitaker Reinolds Zanchius Beza Iunius Sadeel c. those the Pope refuseth And then how the Church rather then in a free generall councel but that the pope feares as a theefe the Assises b See his Bulla coenae which the Pope himselfe denounceth in his own person on the euening before good-Friday where he excommunicates first all hereticks as Caluinists Lutherans c. Next all such as appeal from the Pope to a general Councel vid. Cōstit pont Rom. per Pet. Mathaeum pag. 883. Til then it is reason that euery man as far as it cōcerns his saluation be a iudge herein according to the measure of his knowledge for man is a reasonable creature can iudge of reason when he hears it so that vndoubtedly if the particular points debated as they haue been had but a full hearing and an equall Iudge the differences betwixt vs would soon receiue an end But our english papists are too blame in both for first they wil On theirs by Eccius Pighius Clictoueus Hosius Harding Bellarmine Greg. de Valentia Genebrarde Stapleton Heskins c. not heare both parties nor reade our bookes but onely theirs Here wants the full hearing Secondly if they do it is with a preiudicate conceit that whatsoeuer we saie the other are in the right and here wants an indifferent Iudge W●ilst it is thus there will be no end of controuersies Hereupon wise and godly learnedmen haue vpon great and mature deliberation thought it fit to spare the labour so often formerly spent in vaine and to supersede for a time from arguing any more the matters so sufficiently already debated but so insufficiently heard and iudged and haue held it a better course both for their conuersion and setling of our owne to discouer the fouleness manifold abhominations of poperie both for doctrine practice which if many that be seduced did but see in the true colors surely they would strike themselues on the brest be ashamed hating this darkness would long look for light At this end haue I aimed in the course of my poor studies and that I might be furnished with their own records I haue spared no cost to get them nor time to peruse them and do protest vnto your Ho. the world the reading of their owne books especially the latest of all hath driuē me into a deeper detestation of popery then any thing that euer I heard or read of it out of our writers wherof whether ther be cause or no I dare refer my self to be iudged by your Lp. or any of indifferency vpon sight of these exceptions I here make against them which were for the most part deliuered at the Crosse before a reuerend honorable audiēce where hauing first discouered in the body of that religion xx woundes wide and deep deadly euen such as strike at the hart life of a Church the end I then droue at was to proue that the Romish Babylon is not healed of these wounds to this day This being done it is strange to see how they spurned at it and me for it affirming openly it was nothing but a heape of lyes and slaunders that I am not able to proue what I sayd nor dare stand to it that wee are set vp to raile on them and haue licences to lie on them and make them odious before our people and in the countrie they dispersed I was call'd before authoritie for it and censured and silenced for slandering rayling on the catholicks and that I was stricken by Gods hand with a strange hoarcenesse after I began to raile on them and could not speak c. Therfore to honour the truth and to cleer my selfe but much more to shewe that it is no trick nor policy of our State as it is in poperie c A book was printed in english in the colledge at Rome wherin it is affirmed that wee take Catholicks and drawe vppon their legs bootes ful of hot boiling liquor and vpon their feet hot burning shooes and do put them into beares skins and cast them to the dogs to be pulld in peeces all this and many such other set down in pictures to set vp men with authority to raile and lie therby to make our enemies odious I haue bin induced to publish what was said so to iustifie out of their own records what was affirmed of them I ask them no fauor I seek no corners I refuse no triall but let me be heard and then iudged and spare not If the particulars Feuardent a learned Frier yet liuing at Par wrot in latine 7. yeares agoe that we reuile reiect that praier to the holy Trinitie Sancta Trinitas vnus Deus miscrere nobis Thus writes he in his Comment on 1. Pet. cap. 1. What will not he say that dare say this for all our common prayer-books now and those in Q. ELIZABETHS and K. EDWARDS times doe testifie the contrarie I lay to their charge be true then how can they be the true Church if they be false I refuse no censure and wil further say that if these 20. woūds be yet heal'd or if they can