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A01580	Hold fast a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse vpon Sunday being the xxxi. of October, Anno Domini 1624. By Iohn Gee, Master of Arts, late of Exon Colledge in Oxford.	Gee, John, 1596-1639.	1624 (1624)	STC 11705; ESTC S115878	32,349	76

profaning of Gods Ordinance to magnifie the power of Excommunication by such ridiculous inuentions as this to wit in their Booke of Miracles called Pratum spirituale I find one of these iolly Tales that Once vpon a time there was a Crow or Iacke-daw had stollen a gold ring and therevpon incurring the Sentence of Excommunication refused to eate and pined away till an Abbot absolued the Crow and then hee was in good liking and iocund as before I say nothing but in the Greeke prouerbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such vnsauory food is fit for nothing but to be thrown out to the carrion Crowes Another kinde of their engines may bee Indulgences Crusadoes and Iubilees These are a kinde of Handmaids and attendants vpon Romish auricular Confession they being indeed little else but Absolutions of the largest size and dyed in the deepest graine These are very fruitfull hookes ad habendum for the Papacie which seldome come home vnladen But this engine worketh another way then the former They vpon the Iudgement Conscience and Person of those whom they take and hold this vpon the Purse The Popes grand Staple Faire Iubilee-Faire which was wont to bee once in an hundred yeares in imitation of the Gentiles and after once in fiftie yeares in imitation of the Iewes Iubilee which was meerly proper to those people Now by degrees for the better aduancing of the reuenewes of the Papall Exchequer is multiplied to euery fiue and twentieth yeare And now at next Christmas will the wheele be come about which grindeth good griste for the Romane Batch The most grosse and palpable Invention for the squeesing out money from the people vnder the pretence of Deuotion and acquitall from sinnes that euer was put vpon the Christian nay Heathen world As if there should come out againe a Decree from Augustus Caesar That all the world should bee taxed Luke 2. so packe they vp their money for Rome from all quarters Nay and many cannot bee content to send but they will needs bee their owne Carriers so sicke are they of their money so weary of resting in quiet at home that they are aestro perciti driuen with a gad-flie to sally ouer the Alpes or to plough the backe of diuers Seas to visit the holy Fathers Iubilean pompe to see him portatum humeris to ride on Cockhorse on mens shoulders and with a golden hammer to beat open the gates of a typicall Paradise where a parjet wall being to bee broken downe by the Pope I haue heard of one who hauing gotten a piece of morter sold it by the way home for a good round summe of money to beare his charges happy is hee that can get but one crumme of the holy morter that is scattered Their money they are sure to leaue behind them and in stead of it what bring they home A few Boxen beads sanctified by the Popes Benediction or Copper Meddals Brouches c. A worthy bargaine for men to repuerascere like children to crie to goe to Bartholmew Faire that they may bring from thence Babies and Rattles and Hobbie-horses I thinke God hath set England in a faire large distance from the head Citie that beareth dominion ouer the Nations to keepe vs from gadding so farre vpon trifling cause but Horat. Necquicquam Deus abscidit Prudens Oceano dissociabili Terras In vaine hath God by his wisedome diuided kingdomes by the Sea It seemes Sea nor Land cannot fetter some of our Nation from chafering in person at that Money-Mart which openeth shortly I know some who lodged in the Suburbs of this Citie of late gone thitherward and are like to returne home purged more certainly of Siluer then of Sin A certaine Iesuite whom I could name was within these few dayes preparing to packe forward and because he was loth to go emptie or vnladen out of England eagerly inticed a yong youth being a Scholar at a famous Schoole within the circuit of this Citie to goe with him telling him that now during the time of Iubilee Rome was open and free for any that would come thither I cannot omit to speak something of their Fantasticke trickes vsed to allure admiration and credulitie of miraculous exployts Of which cogging stampe 6. The Story of Father Lawrence is that Tale which one Father Laurence a Iesuite now or of late about London reporteth of himselfe That he in his minoritie was by Miracle transported to a Monasterie in Spaine where he continued diuers yeares and neither himselfe nor any other knew his name till there appeared vnto him as hee was at his Deuotions Saint Lawrence who spake vnto him and said Thy name shall bee called for euer heereafter Father Lawrence And so the Saint hauing spoken thus with other words vnto him departed Afterwards one of his fellow-Iesuites who liued in the Monastery with him came to his chamber and by very instinct saluted him by the new name of Father Lawrence Whereat this beauen christned Father was much astonished and marueiled how this other Iesuite knew his name But hee presently spake thus vnto F. Lawrence The same Saint hath appeared vnto me also and bade me goe to your chamber and salute you by this name This Father Lawrence was shortly after by the Superiour of his Order sent into England where in the Person of Saint Lawrence hee doth giue Benedictions and pretends to cure diseases and doe strange miracles Another like triffing tricke is that which of late hath been vsed by some Iesuites whose names I know better then the Monks of Spaine knew Father Lawrences They vpon S. Priests Valentines Valentines day chusing some female Saint for their Valentine one takes Saint Agatha another S. Clare another S. Lucie another S. Catherine another S. Cicely c. I asked them what they meant to chuse such Vālentines They answered mee that in respect of their Vow they could haue no Valentine that liued here vpon earth and in regard of their Angelicall life they were to chuse Valentines in heauen I asked them whether they thought those Saints knew that they had chosen them for their Valentines Oh yes say they we shall be honoured all this yeare by that Valentine wee make choice off she will intercede for vs and to some of vs our Valentine doth appeare in visible bodily shape telling vs what to doe all the yeare after And for my part I thinke as truly for seauen yeares after Surely I was not very nimble of beleefe when they told me this but since I haue thought that those great Fathers the Iesuites are not alwaies so well aduised as they may when they will thrust vpon Vniuersitie Schollers and Ecclesiastickes this and the like palpable fictions which me thinkes were grosse enough to put vpon silly women and ignorant Rustickes To say nothing of the Maid with the glittering or flaming Apron The Maid with the flaming Apron who diuers yeares since was adored rather then admired by some in this