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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

there is any hope of life then how may anie man forsake the soule that is pretious and that cost so pretious bloud p 1. Pet. 1. 19 Surely the spirituall Physician must neuer forsake a Church a people or a man as long as there is anie hope of curing and conuerting him Heere is condemned the practice of two sorts of men amongst vs. First such as be now tearmed of the separation formerly and vsually called Brownists who forsake our Church and cut off themselues from our congregations and separate themselues to a faction and fashion or as they call it into a couenant and communion of their owne deuising these men haue made a grieuous rent and giuen a deepe wounde into the peace of our Church they vse this place and others like against vs say We would haue healed you but you will not bee healed therefore we forsake you but they abuse the place therefore I will turne the point of this their weapon against themselues I meane against their errors and this their bitter and schismaticall separation To this end I would aske these men but 4. questions whereunto if they can giue me satisfaction I will be one of them First therefore whereas you say that Wee are wounded incurably and will not be healed I aske Wherein are wee deadly or incurably wounded what fundamentall wound is in our doctrine what deadly corruption is in our discipline such as eats out the heart and life and being of a Church what book of Canonicall scripture receiue we not what holde wee for Canonicall that is not what sacrament that Christ ordained do we want and what haue we more then Christ ordained what article of faith deny wee or what holde we for an article of faith that is not what fundamentall heresie doth our doctrine maintaine what haue wee in our Church that ouerthrowes the being of a Church what is necessarily required to make a Church that we do want Do not say These be many questions for if you wil haue them all in one generall I will end it as I began Wherein are wee deadly incurably wounded If I should walk a while on your owne grounds grant you that which you can neuer proue yet will it not follow that we are incurably or deadly wounded A man may want a finger or haue some blemishes in his face and yet bee a strong and perfect man sound and heart-whole and able to ouerthrowe his enemies so tho there were in our Church those wounds you speake of yet do they not come neere the heart they bee not deadly they may blemish the beauty but endanger not the life of our Church The Churches of Corinth and Galatia had other kind of blemishes then ours hath blessed be God Corinth doubted or erred in the great article of the Resurrection 1. Cor. 15. The Galathians erred fouly in the high and maine point of Iustification and yet Corinth a Church of God sanctified in Christ Iesus 1. Corinth 1. 2. And Galatia though almost remooued to another Gospell Galathians 1. 6. yet not withstanding a Church for all that Galat. 1. 2. And if you will adde to these fundamentall errours in doctrine corruptions in manners and disorders in Gods seruice you can with no shewe of truth lay such to the charge of our Church as is apparant were rife in the Church of Corinth and then shall Corinth bee a Church and not England Let the Lord bee Iudge betwixt you and vs. Therefore if wee should grant vnto you that our Church were blemished or wounded yet not beeing deadly wounded your separation from vs is schismaticall and vniust and more cruell and vnchristianlie deale you with our Church then did Gods Church with Babell who forsooke her not til she was deadly wounded and past life To conclude if Israel might not forsake Babel til then then what are you that dare forsake a Church of God wherin they haue found God if euer they haue found him yet wherein the diuell himselfe cannot shewe one deadly wound Blessed be the Lord that hath so healed vs. Secondly seeing they say that we are wounded but as for themselues they be healed therfore they must separate and so keep the sound from the sicke I aske them this question Are they healed then where were they healed where were they called where were they regenerat begotten to Christ was it not in the wombe of this our Church by means of the immortall seede of Gods word that is daily sowen in our Church by the ministry of those men that were called by our Church and yet cleaue to our Church and mourn for their separatiō and by the dewe of that blessing from aboue which is dayly poured vpon our assemblies from Gods merciful right hand Then how can they deny that to be a true Church a holy church a Church of God wherein ordinarily men are called and brought to God And how vnthankfull and vndutifull are they to their spirituall mother to forsake hir and cast the dust of contempt in her face that bore them in her wombe and brought them foorth the sonnes of God To auoid this what can they say but one of these two things either that there is indeed a true Ministery of the word amongst vs but it is not powerfull to anie but themselues that wee haue the word truly preached and so as it may conuert a man but it is not the sauour of life to anie but such as come into their couenant but from this horrible and hellish pride good Lord deliuer them or els let them be assured such a height of pride is sure to haue a fearful fal Or if not this then must they say that they were not called in our Church but since they left vs But they haue bard thēselues already from that plea. For it being obiected to them that they haue left our church not out of conscience but out of carnal discontents and vpon fleshly reasons worldly grounds they all stoutly answer and stifly stand to it that they do it not vpon any such grounds nor for anie reasons of flesh and bloud but meerely and onely out of conscience and for their saluation and that gladly they would haue staied but with a good conscience they could not If this be true then they had conscience before they left vs then where came they to that conscience and care of their saluation but in our Church Now a good cōscience cannot be seuered from regeneration and an effectual calling therefore they cannot deny but they were regenerate and called in our Church vnlesse they wil say they had no conscience when they forsooke vs which if they doe then I will yeelde that my question is answered If they grant they were called a fore they went and that stil they who fall from vs to them are called then how can that be but a true Church wherein by their own cōfession men are ordinarily begotten to God how

not to haue anie warrant but meerelie to bee a state Ceremonie and done to amaze the poore people c. then it appeares they bee Cozeners and Atheists that make Religion a pretence to all their purposes But if it be in earnest and they knowe it to bee a prayer of faith and haue warrant from Gods word for it then it were possible to driue awaie the diuell and all his temptations out of a kingdome for so manie Belles might bee hallowed and washed as might hang one within the reach of anothers sound and so if the wordes of this prayer be true a Diuell might not stay in the realme and that Realme were very worthie to haue the Diuells companie that would not willinglie be at the cost to haue so manie bels though they were of siluer and to haue them baptized though it were in costly water To conclude Bellarmine pleaseth to sport himselfe a little with vs and sayth The Heretickes obiect to vs that wee baptize Belles but its maruell sayth hee that they doe not also say wee catechize and instruct them that so they may sound out the Articles of Fayth k Obijciunt nobis haeretici quod baptizamus Campanas Mirum vero est quod non etiam dicunt campanas a nobis antea catechizari et instrui vt possint fidei symbolum resonare Bellar. ibid. 24. 4 But it is verie likelie the Iesuite had not seene or not well perused the Pontificale for if he had hee might haue found that they pray to GOD to giue the HOLIE GHOST to the Bell to blesse it to sanctifie it to puri●●e it to poure heauenlie blessings vppon it and the dewe of Gods grace Certainelie if this bee a lawfull an apt and fit prayer for the bell they may also catechise it for it is doubtless as capable of instructiō from man as of anie spirituall and heauenly blessing from God Thus it is proued I hope that the Romish Church in some sort for the name but especially for the matter doth baptize Bells It remains but to see 24 The twelfth wound not healed for the Romish Church still baptizeth belles if this wound be healed or no. But I answere this was not the superstition of the olde and ignorant times onely but is euen the present impietie of that Church for of late Clement the eight pretending to haue the Pontificall reuiued and reformed caused it to be printed at Rome before his face l Vide Pontificale Romanum Clementis 8. Pont. Max. iussu resti tutum atque editum Romae 1895. et legatur eiusdem Clementis Constitutio ibid. praefixa pro eiusdem libri autoritate approbatione by his authoritie in a faire letter and with most goodly pictures and indeede many things are left that might make against the Pope and many added that may make for him But as for this blasphemie and abuse of Gods holy Sacrament it stands vntouched vnaltered and allowed for a good and Catholicke practice in euerie particular as I haue afore set it downe and in manie more Oh BABYLON BABYLON when wilt thou be healed The other sore of this wounde is touching the Lords Supper 25 The other sore of the 12. wound That though Christ ordained the contrary yet it is not necessary for Christiās of the Laitie to haue the sacrament in both kinds but onely the bread not the Cup. which they maime and mangle sacrilegiously taking the Cuppe from the whole Laitie This wound is not very deepe for it is not olde but it is wide for it is generall and it is a foule one for it maymeth the Sacrament and crosseth Christ● owne Institution They were a hatching it sometime before but at last the monster was brought foorth in the Councell of Constance when they decreed thus m Concil Cōstant sess 13. Synodus declarat decernit definit quod licet Christꝰ instituerit et suis discipulis administrauerit sub vtraque specie panis et vini et similiter quod licet in primitiua ecclesia hoc sacramentum reciperetur a fidelibus sub vtraque specie tamen haec consuetudo est rationabiliter introducta quod a conficientibus sub vtraque à laicis tantummodo sub specie panis suscipiatur Et habenda est pro lege haec consuetudo c. et pertinaciter asserentes oppositum tanquā haeretici arcendi et puniendi sunt et quod nullus Presbiter sub poena excomunicationis cōmunicet populum sub vtraque specie panis et vini c. That notwithstāding Christ or dained the Sacramēt in both kinds and tho the eldest Church did so receiue it yet for al that this custom is lawfully and laudably brought into the Church that the laitie shal receiue but in one kinde onely and that whosoeuer shall holde the contrary shall be proceeded against as heretickes and all Priests are commanded vnder paine of excommunication that they giue not the Cuppe to the laitie and they that do and recant not shall be punished as heretickes This wound hath Bellarmine and other of the craftier sort of them sought to couer but not to cure and it would satisfie a man in this point tho he wauered before to see how slily superficially he deals in this questiō n Bellar. de sacram Euchar. lib. 4. cap. 26. tom 3. This abuse is so horrible the iniury to the sacrament the wrong to the laitie so notorious the absurdity impiety of the practice so without all colour of defence that if they were not without grace and past hope of recouery such as haue resolued to amend nothing they would haue reformed this long agoe But heerby it is apparant they are plain States-men Politicians who haue nothing els in their head but to maintaine the height of their hierarchie and Maiestie of their Monarchy Euen this one particular is sufficient to make demōstration hereof seeing they will not amend that which they see and know to be contrary to Christs Institution and wherof many of the better sort of themselues are vtterly ashamed But it is so farre from being healed at all that it is rather worse and worse 26 The latter sore of the 12. wound not yet healed but spreades further Look in their newe edition of the Councells this last yeare and there is no reformation of this euill o Vide postre●am edit Cōcil per Bininum Colon. 1606. Concil Constant sess 13. in 2. parte tomi tertij p. 1589. no plaister laid vpon this sore not so much as a marginall note to qualifie the Non-obstante to Christs Institution but rather all is made worse then it was afore in the former and elder impressions Nay it is so farre from being healed that contrariwise it is made daily a wider and deeper wound For now it is made in that Church a sinne against the first Commandement of the morall lawe for a man to receiue the Sacrament in both kindes p