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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13916	A breefe treatise of the vertue of the crosse and the true manner hovv to honour it. Translated out of French into English.; Brief traicté de la vertu de la croix et de la manière de l'honnorer. English.	La Faye, Antoine de, 1540-1615.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1599 (1599)	STC 24216; ESTC S103275	31,239	94

A breefe Treatise Of the vertue of the Crosse And the true manner hovv to honour it Translated out of French into English 1. Cor. 1. ver 23. We preache Christ crucified St. Chrisostome The Crosse of Christ is to vs the Sunne of Iustice that beeing lightened by the mercie thereof wee may glorific the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghoste AT LONDON Printed for Edward VVhite and are to be solde at the little North doore of S. Paules Church at the signe of the Gun 1599. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE S r STEPHEN SOAME Knight Lord Maior of the Cittie of London And to the vertuous Ladie his wife all happinesse and hearts content vnfainedly wished MY good Lord in respect of some fauors from you receiued as also in regard of the dutious affection I beare you I am bolde to present you and your Ladie with this little remembrance though simple and small in shew yet of inestimable valew in substance Ingratitude is the most abiect sinne in the worlde and caniustly challenge no excuse for it selfe bee it in how great or meane persons soeuer And therefore least my selfe should therewith bee tainted hauing found such extraordinarie gentlenesse both in you and my good Ladie your wife I haue made a learned and diuine French man my intercessour to tell you in rude English that I forget not such fauours And the rather made I choice of his furtherance heerin because on good Fryday last your Honour with the rest of your Brethrē heard at Paules Crosse a verie learned Sermon tending to this purpose I meane the crosse death passion of Christ Iesus which iumping so neere with this Argument and well worthie to be continued in remembrance I could finde no fitter meanes for the same then this most excellent and learned French Treatise which handles both the sacred vertue of the crosse and also what worshippe ought to be giuen thereto I beseech you my good Lord and Lady when leisure from weightie occasions vvill so permit it that you would but vouchsafe this Treatise the reading happily you shall finde somewhat therein well worthie noting and I hope vvithall the true sinceritie of my affection toward you which being but so found and by you as kindly accepted I shall remaine alvvaies yours for any further imployement be it euen to the vttermost of all my endeuours Since in this world nothing can perfect bee Pardon I pray if you these faults do see B. pag. 1. lin 13. for haue plunged read hauing plunged Pag 7. lin 21. for 1. Cor 1 verse 23 read 1. Cor. 2. verse 2. Pag 9 lin 20 for ones aith read one saith Pag 13. lin 5. for Colosl 5. verse 15. read Phil. 3. verse 3. C. Pag. 14. lin 1 for so phistically read sophistically and lin 26 for Chirst read Christ D. Pag. 2. lin 24. for Apostasta read Apostata Pag. 3 lin 15 for begit read beg it Pag 4. lin 21. for 2. Cor. 7. read 1. Cor 7. Pag. 7. lin 20 and 21. for was in honour c. read is in honor and at his end at his end in respect of punishment but remaineth in glorie E. Pag. 13. lin 24. for others beleeue it should read but that other crosses should F. Pag. 9. lin 27. for Constiantne read Constantine A briefe Treatise of the vertue of the Crosse and the manner how to worship it WHen I consider the differences which at this daye are in the Christian church the conference which our Sauiour Iesus Christ had with the woman Samaritaine in the 4. of S. Iohn ver 22. may very well be called to remembrance You said he to the Samaritaine worship yee know not what we Iewes worship that which we know So that seeing on the one side the iustice of God discouers it selfe in such as loue shaddowes better then trueth haue plunged themselues of long time and yet wade further more and more in ignorance and on the cōtrarie part his mercie shines on such whose eyes it pleaseth him to vnseale that they may behold the strength of truth made manifest we may be good reason reioyce in our selues and say that being of this latter number we worship what we know because God himselfe speaking to vs in his word makes vs therby to haue knowledge of him Nowe on the contrarie side whereas they of the Romish Church erroniously led or perhaps by simplicitie confirmed therin through ignorance and carried onely with self-wild obstinacie worshippe that wherof they but presume and haue indeed no knowledge of at all For seeing that in the most part of their seruice there is nothing else contained but humaine traditions it is most euident that there can likewise bee nothing beside but opinion that is to say wauering and doubtfull thoughts tending either to good or euill vnconsonant or disagreeable to God And since it is so that where there is no faith there can be no certainetie it must needes follow that in whatsoeuer they introduce there can be no assurance considering therein is no faith contained But let vs go a litle further those things which haue nether faith nor certaintie must needs bee matters much displeasing to God because what soeuer is done without faith is sinne Yet notwithstanding seeing it hath pleased God to giue vs such grace as to hold his worde in price and estymation addicting our selues wholly to the seruice thereof as neither speaking or thinking any thing but what is therein vttered and prescribed to vs that wee might embrace the verie least particle therin contained wee may say and speake it by good right that we knowe namely by a knoweledge more firme then are all the sciences and demonstrations induced by humaine sence or discourse For our saith beeing grounded on the woorde of God holdeth more strictly thē all else in the world beside can do it is firme and stable subiect to no kinde of alteration whatsoeuer Following then the contents of this word we beleeue in our hearts confesle with our mouths that God only is to be serued honored that the seruice due to his Maiestie ought to be giuen according to his good pleasure ordenance Now the manifest will of God concerning this point is that wee should worship and serue him in spirit and trueth according to S. Iohn the 4. ver 24. and therefore not onelie ought we to reiect the auncient iudaicall ceremonies but all other beside that offer themselues ouer and aboue the worde of God in the Christian Church for it were no point of reason to forsake those ceremonies instituted by God neuerthelesse in regarde they were to endure but for a certaine time onely and then afterward grew fastened to the manners of men and were accepted or neglected after their opinions Such for the most parte are those which the Romaine Church practiseth in inuocation on deceased Saintes the Images of God and of those Saintes the adoration of the Crosse and such like which haue no other foundation but onely