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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

Lords prayer for another place and purpose it is here euident that no Papist in the World can with a good conscience say the whole Lords prayer For if God haue now diuided his kingdome then how can hee say with Dauid in the olde testament i 1. Chr. 29. 11 and Christ in the newe k Math. 6. Thine O Lord is the kingdome for euer therefore hee must either alter the Lords prayer and say Thine is halfe the kingdome c. or neuer say it at all or else curse and detest his owne teachers that write and his Lord God the Pope that alloweth such doctrine Alas poore soules what should a simple honest hearted Papist do in this case See therefore in what pitifull state they liue who haue subiected themselues to such teachers Lastly let it bee obserued that here they teach that there bee in spiritual matters touching the soule 2. diuine Courts the one of Iustice and that is Gods the other a Chancerie a Court of Mercie and that is Maries these bee their verie wordes and further that if any man feele himselfe agrieued in Gods Court of Iustice let him appeale to the Court of mercie of his Mother Oh-strange diuinitie Canne Gods iudgements bee vniust or his proceedinges erroneous and vnequall If they bee not then why do they talke of appealing to a higher Court for why do writtes of error lye from one Court to another but that it is presupposed that they may erre and why is there a Chauncerie but that the rigour and extremitie of the Lawe may bee mitigated But if the Scripture say true in the text Righteous art thou O Lord and iust in thy iudgements l Psal 119. 137. then this is blasphemie of a high nature that there needes a Chancerie to rectifie his proceedinges and mitigate his Iudgements But as for this doctrine that the Chauncerie or Court of mercie is not Gods but his Mothers and that therfore Gods iudgmēts are to be mitigated by another and therefore that shee and her Court are in this respect rant shee is not healed And yet for the better satisfaction of all men that as shee is not yet so shee purposeth neuer to bee healed nor to reforme any thing and that this is not the priuate opinion of that or any other one doctor I desire all that loue the trueth to take knowledge that of late within these seauen yeares an Italian doctor a Iesuite and an approued writer writing a storie of the miracles of our Ladie of Loretto teacheth euen the same doctrin and makes no bones to bluster out almost the very same words which for better assurance I will put down s Horatiu● Tursellinus hist virginis lauretanae in Epistola dedic virgo Maria salutem vndique cinctam periculis expedire vitam veris salutaribus bonis cumulare vult potest Matrem quippe suam omnipotens deus diuinae potestatis Maiestatis sociam quatenus licuit asciuit The Virgin Marie both will and can is both willing and able to deliuer such as bee compassed about with daungers on all sides and to heape vpon them all good blessinges for Almightie GOD as farre as it is lawefull t This clause as farre as it is lawfull is a strange word to be spoken of God for what can be vnlawful to God that is good whose wil is the holiest law if therfore it be good to make a creature fellow with him in his deitie it must needes be lawful and so the clause is idle If it bee not good but impious and contrary to the nature of God then to thinke it any way lawful or possible to be done is no lesse then to think it any way lawfull for God to lie or sin or deny himselfe so that take it any way this limitation of the Iesuite both grossely abuseth the reader and containeth horrible impiety against God So far is it from being any shelter to the blasphemy that is deliuered in the whole passage hath made his Mother fellowe and partaker of his diuine Power and Maiestie c. See here the new and refined diuinity of the Iesuites what is this but the same with that afore for if shee bee made partaker fellow with God in his diuine power and Maiestie it is no maruel that God hath cōmitted his mercy to her if frō these words we look into the body of the book we shal find he ascribes such works miracles to her as can belong to none but him or her that is a fellow with God or rather God himself It cannot bee saide the booke wants authoritie for it is formally allowed dedicated to the Cardinall Aldobrandino printed at Rome and since often elsewhere and of late both the Authour and his booke highly commended by the greatest Romish censurers u Posseu in apparatu sacro to 2. litera H. Horat. Tursellinus Romanus è societate Iesu lauretanae historiae 5. libros latinos elegantes ad fidē historicae veritatis conscripsit Romae excu●os quos qui legerit vt miranda beatissimae Virginis opera suspiciet sic lauretanam illam domum percupidè curabit inuisere Vlterin● autem de eodem Tursellino vide C. Bonarscij Amphitheatrum honoris Libro 2. cap. 13. So that now I will end my euidence for this point and dare put the matter to a Iurie of any conscionable men whether this wound be healed yet or no. Now to go forward from the Person and Maiesty of God let vs proceede to his Holy SCRIPTVRES and see how the Romish Church held of olde and yet holdeth and teacheth of them I will not stand vppon those v●le and base speeches vttered and written of them by Eccius Pighius Hosius and manie other of that generation for that they haue beene both detected and with shame inough re●ected by many reuerend men of our nation both in Latine and English w Whitaker Fulke Iewel Reinolds and others but vppon some that often haue not bin touched by many nor euer can be sufficiently condemned by any In the Canon Lawe the Pope spareth not to disgrace the holy Scriptures in express tearmes sometimes equaling his own Constitutions with them somtimes preferring them In the Decree hee shameth not to affirme that 7 The fourth wound The Popes decrees be equall to the Canonicall Scriptures his decretall Epistles are numbred amongst the Canocall Scriptures x Vide decretū cum glossa Lugd. 1510. In fol. dist 19. cap 6. Inter Scripturas canonicas Epistolae decretales connume●antur and impudently alleadgeth Saint Augustine to proue it who neuer spake nor meant any such thing as in the later end of the decree they cannot but confess with shame inough this was his doctrine in the old impressions of the Canon lawe a hundreth yeares agoe But some will say this wounde is now healed No look in the new impression reuiewed at the Popes commandement and printed by his authoritie within these fewe

this day Secondly our continuall praiers for them both publick and priuate in performance of which dutie both our Church in generall and all amongst vs that vse to pray for themselues haue the testimony of a good cōscience that they haue not failed to indeuour their healing by this means This our diligence in this duty so shamed them for their negligence in the same for vs that 4. years ago they published at Rome a forme of Litanie and publick praier for the peruerting of the Realms of Eng. and Scotland to Poperie m Vide libellū inscriptū Litaniae pre●recitandae p● fide catholica Romana in reg nis Ang. Sco. restituenda propaganda eorundem vnitate cum eadē Ro. eccles Romae duaci 1603 But by the waie let it be obserued that as when Cain left his frowning at his brother and began to make shew of friendship with him and entised him by fair words into the fields then he harbored the heauiest malice in his hart there slew him n Genes 4. 7 So when these men had conceiued and hatcht at Rome the pouder treason then to make vs secure and beleeue they loued vs they framed prayers for vs as tho the worst thing they wisht vs were our conuersion when as indeede they plotted the subuersion of vs all Hee that sitteth in heauen laughed both them and hel to scorn for that their deuise knoweth we haue not dealt so with them Wel if their praiers herafter come so accōpanied let vs haue their curses and let their prayers turne into their owne bosomes Thirdly we haue indeuoured to heale them by our example professing and practicing our owne religion daily in their sight many of our fathers professed it openly euen in the times when they preuailed and gaue their liues in the fire for it And heerin the example of noble Queen ELIZABETH is worthie of eternall memorie whose constant zeale to the truth was such as that all her dayes they could not by their brags and treasons and curses cause her once to feare them nor by all their sleights could euer win the least estimation with her nor gaine an inch of ground in her heart nay her last Proclamation not two Moneths afore her death wounded them as deeply or rather more then euer any one before o See the proclamatiō published in Feb. before her death Fourthly and lastly wee endeuoured their healing by deuising and enacting good and wholesome lawes against their errours superstitions impyeties seditious courses somtime in iustice executing them oftentimes in great mercy suspending them thus trying all meanes that might possibly perswade or worke vpon them and in this course our State by wise foresight and discreete managing the lawes our Ministerie by instruction and confutation and all by their prayers and example did we continue to endeuor hir healing all the happie daies of Q. Elizabeth But especially dare wee call the Lord to witnesse that wee haue endeuoured her healing since the happie comming of his Maiestie to this crowne wherein all the forenamed meanes haue beene vsed and one more their errours haue beene most learnedly discouered and confuted their bookes and libells aunswered and if I may giue my iudgement of these daies the skirtes of the Romish Whore were neuer better discouered her grossest absurdities and fowlest impyeties neuer so cleerlie displayed as haue beene by the Diuines of this present age I spare their names in regarde they bee aliue and long may they liue to the happinesse of this CHVRCH And beyond all meanes then vsed and now continued his Maiestie hath vsed one more namely admirable lenitie and extraordinarie patience towardes them notwithstanding all their ill deseruings which as it was alwaies great so since the hellish powder-treason it is incredible for he whose patience is not prouoked and whose iust anger is not wakened by such an attempt sure there is somthing more then ordinarily humane in that man Neither do I think is there a King in Christendom that after such a treason would haue left one of that faction in his kingdome but onely his Maiestie Oh mirror of mercie how famously in future ages shall this princely bountie be renowned and how fit is he to be the Lords annointed and to be the Lieutenant of that God whose mercie is ouer all his workes seeing his mercie is so largely extended euen ouer his worst deseruing subiects Thus Heauen hath seene it euen the Lord himselfe will witnesse with vs that as all his Church euery where ouer the world so wee in England for our parts would gladly haue healed Babylon and haue done our full endeuour to that ende But now alas see the effect of our labours all is lost for she is Babylon and therfore past cure She wil not therfore cannot be healed Som wil say this is harsh bitter but I say it is true and therfore is not to be cōcealed let her blame them that haue made her incurable and not them that discouer it and for me that affirme it I craue not to be belieued but rather to be reprooued if the euidence of the fact do not fully proue what I haue sayd To this end I will first lay downe a ground or two First that in former times there haue been great cōplaints of foule deformities in the Romish Church made by men of great learning and such as either are or at least whom they say are their owne and these deformities not onely in priuate persons but in the publicke bodie not in the members only but in the heade of their Church I wil not stand to proue this it being c 48. 56. lib. 3. cap. 27. lib. 4. cap. 33 Et Bonauent in Apologet. pro Franciscanis in reg Frācisci quaest 2. 27. Et Bernardum ●● diuersis Epistolis E● Vincentium Ferrar in suo prognostico cum mult al. not the end of my purpose at this time they that look into the monuments of elder ages do knowe this to be true and whosoeuer will but looke into the Authors here in the margent named will soone acknowledge it q Reuelat. Brigittae passim maxime lib. 1. Another ground these deformities were so fowle and so apparant that the Councels of Constance and Basil and of later times that of Trent were called to this principall end for the reformation of the Church both in the head and in the members For that of Constance the Councell it selfe confesteth it in the publicke acts thereof more then once r Concil Constant ses 1 and ●●r that of Trent howsoeuer they pretended it against E●ther his doctrine yet it is confessed by a learned Bishop of their side ſ Espencaeus in Titum cap. 1. that it was wrought out and brought to passe at last and after much resistance for the reformation of the Romish Church euen of the Popes own Court wherin there reigned at that time many abhominable