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A35599	The Case of all crucifixes, images, &c. made with hands, and for religious use, in the case of Cheapside-crosse is discussed whether their militia, the setting of them in a posture of defence, be according to law ...		1643 (1643)	Wing C875A; ESTC R35468	62,475	81

pitty at all to these who resemble the children of a King who are their Brethren even the Sons of their Mother As the Lord liveth they have done and spoken all this for and behalfe of the Crosse against their owne soules VVhat so carefull to maintaine the honour of their Crosse and so carelesse of their brethren Zech. 11.9 That that dyeth let it die and that that is to be cut off let it be cut off VVhat care they I allude to these words which are indeed the words of the Lord shewing Himselfe carelesse of a stubborne people who would be carelesse of Him and of His words what so carelesse of their Brethren David was not so towards his enemies Psal 35.13.14 But as for me when they were sicke my cloathing was sackcloath I humbled my soule with fasting I behaved my selfe as though he had beene my friend or Brother I bowed downe heavily as one that mourncth for his Mother It is a point of humanitie to pitty men in their adversitie it may be our owne case being our selves also in the body Heb. 13.13 I aske againe what so carelesse of their Brethren why not as carelesse of stockes and stones The Lord smote Jonahs Gourd and it withered He prepared also a vehement wind which with the Sunne beate upon the head of Ionah that he fainted and then he spake like a distempered Man unadvisedly with his lippes VVee must observe how the Lord questions him Ionah 4.8 Dost thou well to be angry for the Gourd Ionah Yes Then said the Lord Vers 10. Thou hast had pitty on the Gourd for the which thou hast not loboured neither madest it grow why then is thy eye evill wherefore art thou displeased that I should spare so great a Citty where are so many persons and so much Cattle This reproofe would fall heavy upon these men for they have pittied a more base vile and contemptible thing then was the Gourd but they have not pittied their Brethren nor that place where are so many persons and so much Cattle I doe present it onely to their saddest and most retired thoughts and conclude it with a yet sharper reproofe from the Lords owne Mouth in a very like case for then they did lavish gold out of a bag to beautifie an Image here they have done as much and more for they lavish words also to defend the same The reproofe is and it is a sharpe one Isa 46.8 Remember this and shew your selves Men bring it againe to mind O ye transgressours SECT VI. They justifie themselves with a little Reason and as little Law which tells them That their brethren were defaced by power from lawfull au thoritie the Crosse not so but in an unwarranted way The contrary is maintained and the person cleared by the best reason and Law both and in the Highest Court the Law and Court of Heaven VVE must heare now what these wise Men have to say for themselves for they will not be mad without Reason They have a twofold Reason and the latter hath some shew of Law why they were so carelesse of their Brethren and have enveighed so much against the defilement of and injurious dealing as they call it against their Crosse First they doe acknowledge as Men Prov. 17.17 that a friend indeed loveth at all times and a brother is borne for adversitie Nay they yeeld too Prov. 18 24. That there is a friend that sticketh closer then a Brother But yet in that they shewed themselves neither as friends nor as Brothers to their Brethren in adversitie they have this onely to say Prov. 21.10 That better is a neighbour that is neare then a Brother that is afar off Therein is the pith of their Reason The Crosse is their Neighbour neere unto them daily in their eye which falling into the hands of a theefe who wounded it commands their pitty their Brethren are afar off some beyond the Seas all out of sight and then out of mind and not regarded So they say or if they say not so yet their actions make their thoughts and words legible I would onely advise here that they would turne to the parable Luk. 10.29 and resolve themselves at this point Who is their Neighbour The Crosse they say The fore-quoated place tells them no their Brother is their neighbour and their neighbour their brother all the world over He that is fallen into the hands of spoylers He that needs my hand or my heart my purse or my prayers he is my neighbour though a thousand miles off from me I say againe he is neighbour and brother too VVho Not that which is nearest to me in place for so stockes and stones may be as in this case But he who pertakes of the same common nature with me and so chalengeth a nearenesse with my affections and place in my heart hee is my neighbour The neighbour-hood then for so we may call it of the Crosse should not have taken up any roome in their thoughts living Images were spoyled and left wounded they stood bound to shew themselves neighbours to shew mercy what they could But cleane contrary they neglected their brethren and shewed themselves neighbours unto dead Images for there they shewed mercy and would not be accounted uncharitable men for all that for they have now a second Reason which they call Law 2. What was done to these living Images was done by the hand of lawfull power So they say Answ I cannot yeeld that A power it was permitted by God but maintayn'd against God and His lawes and the undoubted Right of His subjects and people but that dispute is needlesse here let it passe Grant them their saying let the Authority be whose it will be the Devills I thinke for hee doth cast the Righteous into prison Revel 2.10 yet will it not follow that they should not shew pitty and compassion to their Brethren children of a King and sonnes of the same Mother they goe on reasoning and object Obj. This insolent fellow committed a Riot and made a Battery upon a venerable Image against all Reason and in affront to Authoritie Answ VVe will examine that and must reply The man did not act against Reason knowledge and understanding guided his steps carrying him to that worke the defiling of those Images For it was concluded long since from the Chayre at Oxford That it was expedient the Crosse should be taken away surely there was Reason and reading both and this the Man might know being so publikely knowne Obj. They reply It was not concluded from the Chaire that Common hands should remove or defile it Answ VVhy may not common hands serve to remove an uncleane thing It is an uncleane thing and common and uncleane will stand together But this is to begge the Question which we are to resolve anon Obj. Their meaning is It is not concluded that a man should doe this without or against the command of

Asse ●e writ at the bottome of the Table This is a Lyon Well then because those Images stand upright like the Palme wee will take them to be as they are called neither Beares nor Lions but as in vulgar opinion and common speech the first I dare not Name the second the Pope the third his Cardinall the fourth the Virgin Mary the fift I know not who old Saint George perhaps Doctor Heylins Saint or Saint Innocent for it stands like an harmelesse fellow more like to take a wrong then to doe any but if it be hee he has beene a brave fellow a Pope in his dayes some say a Bishop now or Saint Faux he had that honour conferred upon him ever since his Fire-worke Reader let us understand our owne freedome that wee have as great a libertie of conceit in these cases as the Carver hath and may use the same libertie in giving a Name to this Saint now its Nose is off as the Carver did when hee first put the Nose on And we will give it a true Name the same which all its Ancestors have had before it As the plaine fellow said hee would call a Spade a Spade that hee would and so we are resolved to doe or which more instucteth as the good King called the Brazen Serpent in those dayes when they would burne incense to it not the Brazen Serpent then but Nehushtan a 2 King 18.4 plaine brasse and no more nor of any more use then so wee must call it and there is much more reason for it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Stone some more cost and paines bestowed upon it and its fellowes by the Carver then what they had when they lay together in the same Quarrey and yet but a Stone And it is the Name by which the Lord calls them She defiled the land and committed Adultery with what with Stones and with Stockes b Jer. 3.9 The cunning Carver should well observe this who as bold now as ever dares give different Names to Similar or like parts as that this Stone is I must adde c. for I feare to speake forth but this I will say a lie is in his mouth as it is in his hand and blasphemy also All his Art and Cost can make it no other thing but what it is Wood and Stone therefore the part of the wood and stone Must have the same Name with the whole * Pars similaris est quae idem cum toto Nomen habet But it cannot be expected that the cunning workeman will heare and feare and doe no more presumptuously because it hath beene a question long since whether the Carver or his stocke bee more senselesse r Psal 135.18 Having now given this Saint its true Name which belongs to all its fellowes being descended from the same common stocke and having reproved the Carvers blasphemy I goe on in my story to enquire the time when this Sacriledge as they call it was committed VVhen was it done VVe cannot tell the precise time it was a Night worke that is certaine for as was said touching the defiling of such another Image And so it was because he feared his fathers househould and the Men of the Citie that hee could not doe it by day that he did it by Night Judg. 6.27 So here the Man for I will take him single feared the Men of the Citie and did it by Night what time of the night whether in the third or fourth watch is uncertaine too But certaine it is he watcht his time and tooke it whilst the Watch was fast asleepe So we have the story now heare what followed SECT II. The next morning opened the case more clearely and the thoughts of men about it Next night they made their watch strong but had they thought on it sooner they had made a wiser choyce Ancient Records assure us that Geese are the most approved watch and choisest guard about Images NExt morning the battery made upon the Crosse was in to make supplication and beholding what was done in stead of supplication they put up a rayling accusation against him that had done them no hurt And the wise Citizens neighbours there abouts were troubled about it they chattered and little better then railed too Then they resolved upon the question for they saw they had to doe with a sleeping watch to watch it better for after times so to keepe their Crosse in a posture of defence for that purpose they had Souldiers keeping watch about it and a Captaine a good friend to the same Had they but one night sooner taken their time for so grave a consultation and beene pleased to have admitted me into their councell I thinke I should have over-ruled them by a ruled case and so have diswaded from making choyce of Souldiers to watch their Crosse for they for the most part and as their supply is will eate and drinke to the full and then as experience tells us are fast asleepe when the spoyler comes The Children of darkenesse were wiser at this point then are they who professe themselves children of light They committed the safeguard of their Images to those Creatures which are very wakefull being fed with dry meate and their drinke is as small as water It is a Booke-Case registred in the Romane Antiquities and thereon depends a very bloody story I will passe that over and briefely set downe so much as relates to the case because it may stand us in stead if not to watch the Crosse yet to safeguard our houses The Romans had a plurality of Images as wee have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I must not yet call them Gods nor Idols neither I shall anon by very good warrant their Houshold and their Closset Images some standing more open other some more reserved But these suffered many indignities and very scornefull usage not onely from Mice Rats and Spiders but from the hands of violent Men who have tumbled them about the house and trod them like mire in the street as if the Carver had bestowed no cost nor worth upon them They had also their Tutelar Images such wherein they placed the safeguard of their Citie and whereto they gave the same Veneration I must not say Adoration as the Papists to their Crosse these they committed to their strongest hold their Capitoll and for their safeguard and surest watch there they appointed a most wakefull Guard over them a guard of Geese which did discharge their cure very well and like themselves and so quitted the place in a time of great extremity and most eminent danger as wee may reade if we would draw out the story a little longer I will record no more of the story here but what honour and dignitie was done by the Romans to their Geese for their good service done to them and their Images in memory whereof and in returne of thankefulnesse for such a deliverance c Luc Fl. lib. 1. cap. 14. 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