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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19583	Manuale catholicorum A manuall for true Catholickes.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1611 (1611)	STC 6018; ESTC S118546	19,964	137

MANVALE Catholicorum A Manuall FOR True Catholickes LONDON Printed for Leonard Becket and are to be sold at his Shop in the Temple neere the Church 1611. ENCHIRIDION PIARVM PRECVM ET Meditationum Ex vetustiffimis Manuscript pergamenis descripta Ex Bibliotheca W. Crashavi Theol Bacchal verbi Div. Mnistir apud Temp. Lond. A HANDFVL OR Rather a Heartfull of holy meditations and Prayers Gathered out of certaine ancient Manuscripts written 300 yeares ago or more By WILLIAM CRASHAW Batchelour of Diuinity and Preacher at the Temple TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE LORD HENRY THE Noble Earle of NORTHHAMPTON Lord priuy Seale Lord Warden of the Cincque Ports and one of his Maiesties Honourable priuy Counsell RIGHT Honourable our Aduersaries amongst their many obiections against vs and our Religion vse this for one that if wee refuse their Church and condemne their faith wee condemne to hell all our forefathers But it followeth not for in such fundamental points as necessarily concerne saluation as matter of merit and meanes of Iustification c. our fathers in former times were not of the Romish faith but of our Religion excluding disclayming renouncing all their owne merits and cleauing only to Gods mercy and the merits of Iesus Christ for their saluation This was the faith of the ancient Church c. Saint Basillius in homel in Psal 114. Basil saith Eternall rest remaines for them which haue fought a good fight in this world yet not for the merit of their workes but through the rich mercies of God in whom they trust Saint Hillary saith our Hillarius in Psal 51. workes suffice not to merit eternall life but our hope is in the mercy of God for euer and euer Saint Augustine saith Augustinus concione 1 in Psal 70. Tua peccata sunt merita Dei sunt supplicium tibi debetur et cum praemium venerit sua dona coronabit non tua merita Sin is ours Merit is Gods Punishments are our due but if rewardes come God crownes his owne gifts not our merites Gregory moral lib. 9. ca. 14. Saint Gregory a Pope saith If I doe well I shall haue eternall life not by my merits but Gods mercy And long after euen in Bernardus sermone 15. in Psal 90. the darkest times deuote Bernard saith A mans whole merit is to put the whole affiance of his heart in him that hath saued the whole man and therfore in another place he concludes My merit is the mercy of the Lord. All these Bellarmine cannot Sermone 61. in Cant. meritum meum miseratio domini deny and himselfe produceth some of them or all but shapes such answeres to them as it would satisfye an indifferent man euen to read him in that pont And this was not the faith Bellar. to 4. lib. 5. de lust cap. 6. of the principall Fathers only but by the mercy of God it was deriued euen vnto the inferiour and vulgar sort not of the Cleargy alone but euen of the Laity also If the monuments of elder ages were extant vncorrupted it is more thē maruailous how cleerly this truth would shine that our forefathers were not damned though they beleeued not as doth the present Romish Church Nay further that they were saued by the same faith by which wee are at this day though they were misled by some errours and nusled in some superstitions for which being sinnes of infirmity or rather of ignorance we hope the Lord was mercifull vnto them knowing that euen Dauid himselfe cried to God to clense Psal 19. him from his secret sinnes But such hath beene the craft and malice of Popish policy that partly the oldest bookes are embezilled and extinguished and those that remaine are so altered corrupted and depraued from that they were that there now remaines not one of many of the testimonies which the former ages yeelded to this truth Notwithstanding the prouidence of God hath not failed his Church for do what they could yet he who said the gates of hell Math. 16. should not preuaile against the true faith hath taken order in spight of all plots to the contrary that so many testimonies shall be preserued as shall sufficiently witnesse to the world that our faith flourished in former ages My purpose is if the Lord will to gather vp such Antiquities though they be scattered and almost lost in these old worme eaten Manuscripts wherein they lye buried which as Gods prouidence hath deliuered from the force and fury of the inquisitors fire so it is al Christians duties to preserue them to posterity I haue here begun with a Handfull or rather a Hartfull of holy prayers meditations worthy to be worne in the hand and borne in the heart of euery Christian by which it may euidently appeare that the faith and Religion of the former ages foure fiue hundred yeares ago was euen the same by which we looke to bee saued at this day Let this haue leaue right Honorable to come abroad out of the corners of obscurity into publicke view in the light lustre of your renowned name who are knowne to bee a reuerencer of Antiquity a Mecaenas of learning a practiser of piety an enemy to the idolatry superstitions ambitious practises traiterous deuices and Machiauellian plots of Iesuites and a detester of such especially who vnder a pretence of Religion doe cloake and conuey impieties against God and against his annointed The God of heauen confirme that blessed worke of his in your Lordship more more to the glory of his name the benefite of this Realme and to your owne saluation in Christ Iesus So praieth Your Lordships deuoted in Christ W. CRASHAW The Contents 1 A Holy and orthodox Confession of the Trinity the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost 2 A godly confession of sinnes and prayer for pardon and for eternall life 3 A godly meditation of mans misery and Gods mercy together with a deuout prayer 4 The manner of preparing sicke persons to death in the ancient times euen in Popery De Deo Patre pia orthodoxa Confessio A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus Hely Hely Deus meus Cuius virtus totum posse Cuius sensus totum nosse Cuius esse summum bonum Cuius opus quicquid bonum Super cuncta subter cuncta Extra cuncta intra cuncta Super cuncta nec elatus Subter cuncta nec substratus Extra cuncta nec exculsus Intra cuncta nec inclusus Super totus presidendo Subter totus stustinendo Extra totus complectendo Intra totus es implendo Super nullo sustentaris Subter nullo fatigaris Extra nusquam dilataris Intra nunquam coarctaris Mundum mouens non moueris Locum tenens non teneris Tempus mutans non mutaris Vaga firmans non vagaris Vis externa vel necesse Non alternat tuum esse Heri nostrum cras pridem Semper tibi nunc idem Tuum decus