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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19589	The sermon preached at the Crosse, Feb. xiiii. 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 intended; that the religion of Rome, as now it stands established, is still as bad as euer it was	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1609 (1609)	STC 6028; ESTC S118191	115,004	191

Gods the other a Chancery a Court of Mercy 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 diuinity Can Gods iudgements be vniust or his proceedings erroneous and vnequall If they bee not then why do they talke of appealing to a higher Court For why doe Writs of error lie from one Court to another but that it is presupposed that they may erre and why is there a Chauncery but that the rigour and extremitie of the Lawe maie bee mitigated But if the Scripture saie true in the text Righteous art thou O Lord and iust in thy iudgements a Psal. 119 137 Then this is blasphemie of a high nature that there needes a Chancerie to rectifie his proceedings and mitigate his iudgements But as for this doctrine that the Chauncerie or Court of mercie is not Gods but his Mothers and that therefore Gods iudgements are to be mitigated by another and therefore that she and her Court are in this respect aboue God and his Court These blasphemies are so execrable and odious to Christian eares that I hope ther is not a papist in this kingdome that professeth to know and serue God but his heart hates them and all that hold them Against all this what can bee obiected but this that he being a priuate man spake wrot out of his priuate iudgement but this is not the generall doctrine of their teachers not their Church I answere If none in the world taught this but this one Frier yet how many soeuer knowing it do approue commend or defend it or if they do not reproue condemne it it is iustly to bee called their doctrine and by the lawe both of God man it is their sin as well as his For by the lawe of Accessaries he that anie waie approues or knowing it and hauing a calling to it reproues not a sinne makes himselfe guilty of the sinne but the Romish Church that is the Pope knoweth this hainous blasphemie and sayth that he hath authority to condemne all such therefore hauing not done so but contrariwise approuing it is guiltie of it Shewe me then that Pope Bishop or Inquisitour that hath condemned this blasphemie or this book for it I produce a Pope that allowed it namely Alexander the sixt who suffered it to passe vnder his name to the view and reading of the world let them bring one Pope since that hath condemned it or shewe one writer not reproued by them that euer reproued it or not condemned by them that euer condemned this blasphemie if they doe not this then it is apparant that in this wound Babylon is not yet healed But for better euidence that she lies rotting in this her filthinesse and incurable in this wound 6 The third wound not healed Posseuine the Iesuite their great and allowed Censor of al Authors giues his publike censure of this booke to bee Sermons of the excellency of the Queene of heauen and full of learning and godlinesse And this his censure no man that knoweth the present state of their religion can deny but that it is the censure of their Church and ought so to bee reputed for that worke of Posseuines was attempted continued and finished and printed and reprinted with as publick generall allowance as any thing can be And yet for better euidence that she is not healed nor reformed at all let it be obserued thaâ— this book is of so much estimation amongst them that it hath diuers times beene reprinted since Bernardine the Author set it out as namely in my knowledge once at Brixia in Italie almost twenty yeares agoe in three volumes corrected and amended as they pretende But that this impious doctrine is not amended I will make it euident for of late euen this present yeare this booke and all his other works were again printed at Colein in Germany in three volumes which when I perceiued out of the last Catalogue I could not rest till I had obtained this new impression from Coleine hoping that now at last they had for shame righted this cause of God and razed out that hainous blasphemie but hauing perused it I see to my griefe that they will not be healed for there the very same words and doctrine stand vnreprooued vncontrolled vnaltered nay not so much as hauing a Marginal note to explaine them but they are let to passe as good holy and Catholicke Romish doctrine And that this is true I here pawne my credit to this honorable assemblie and will be ready to iustifie it to anie desirous to be informed in the particulars by shewing the books themselues both new and old Which being so I hope no man wil denie but that it is apparant she is not healed And yet for the better satisfaction of all men that as she is not yet so shee purposeth neuer more to bee healed nor to reform any thing and that this is not the priuate opinion of that or any other one doctor I desire al that loue the truth to take knowledge that of late within these seuen yeeres an Italian doctor a Iesuite and an approoued writer writing a story of the miracles of our Lady of Loretto teacheth euen the same doctrine and makes no bones to bluster out almost the very same words which for better assurance I will put down The Virgin Mary both wil and can is both willing able to deliuer such as be compassed about with dangers on all sides and to heape vpon them all good blessings for Almighty God as farre as it is lawfull hath made his Mother fellow and partaker of his divine power and Maiesty c. See heere the new and refined diuinity of the Iesuites what is this but the same with that afore for if she be made partaker and fellow with God in his diuine power and Maiesty it is no maruell that God hath committed his mercy to her and if from these words we looke into the body of the booke we shall find hee ascribes such works and miracles to her as can belong to none but to him or her that is a fellow with God or rather God himselfe And as for this clause as far as it is lawfull is a strange word to be spoken of God for what can be vnlawful to God that is good whose will is the holiest law If therefore it be good to make a creature fellow with him in his deity it must needes bee lawfull and so the clause is idle If it be not good but impious and contrary to the nature of God then to think it any way lawfull or possible to be done is no losse then to think it any way lawful for God to lie or sin or denie himselfe so that take it any way this limitation of the Iesuite both grossely aâ—useth the Reader and containeth horrible impiety against God So far is it from

and his land to bee giuen to Papists to whom the Papes gift shall be good and effectuall This Church and Palace besides many of inferior note stands to this day on the hil Coelius and though now the Pope for his pleasure hath remoued himselfe â—uer the Riuer to the Vaticane yet in former times for many hundred yeares as Blondus himself confesseth it was the principall seate of the Popes which appeareth also by the verses written vp and down the Church especially those that are graueÌ„ ouer the marble chaire which is hard by the high altar where the Pope sitteth at masse Haec est Papalis sedes pontificalis Praesidet Christi de iure vicarius isti Et quia iure datur sedes Romana vocatur Nec debet verÃ¨ nisi solus Papa sedere Et quia sublimis alij subduntur in imis Thus its apparant his chief throne is vpoÌ„ one of the 7. hils And it is very obseruable that howsoeuer they make their succession froÌ„ Peter and that therfore in reasoÌ„ his Church should have bin chief yet that God may shew to the world that their Citie is the Whore that sitteth on 7. hils therfore by Gods iust iudgemeÌ„t they are so blinded that they haue made a Church Palace that is on one of the hils superior to that they cal S. Peters which is not on any of the hils and haue giuen it not only priority and precedence but euen priueledge preheminence aboue S. Peters Another vnanswerable reason out of the Text is That Citie sayth the Text is Babylon which reigneth ouer the kingdoms of the earth * Reu. 17. 18. but Rome no other City at that day long after reigned ouer the world Therfore Rome is that Babylon Seeing then the holy Text cleers it the Fathers approue it Bellarmine himselfe grants it and the Rhemists also vpon condition we will yeelde that Peter was at Rome doe willingly yeelde it * Rhemist in 1. Pet. cap. 5. therefore wee will not stand vppon further proofe And as for their distinction that Rome heathen is Babylon but not Rome Christian I answere briefly that if heathenish Rome bee Babylon in regard of her sinnefulnesse and persecution of the Saints then this Rome is Babylon also seeing in her sinnefull abhominations and cruell persecutions shee is nothing inferiour to olde heathenish Rome as may be easily proued and shewed at large if this time and place required it and as hath been alreadie shewed in diuers learned writers and in good part confessed by many of their owne Now then to goe forward touching this mysticall Babell I propound these foure points to bee considered 1. That we would haue healed her 2. That she will not be cured 3. That therefore we ought to forsake her 4. That God will take iust vengeance on her The 1. and 2. is past the 3. is in hand the fourth is sure to come its true we would haue healed her it s most true She is past cure I hope it shal be as true that we shall quite forsake her and the last hastens fast on Her destruction is at hand and sleeps not For the first That we would haue cured the Papists we dare call the world to witnesse and appeale euen to God himselfe and this not onely desired but endeuoured it by all good meanes both in the dayes of that renowned Q. Elizabeth of happie memorie and in the present gouernment of our Souereigne that now is The meanes we haue vsed for their healing be diuerse 1. By instructing and informing them in the truth and discouering their errours both by holy Scriptures and by the ancient Fathers of the best and purest times Iewel Fulk Whitakers Rainolds Perkins and manie other who now sleep in Christ haue left behinde them such testimonies of this truth as shall liue whilst the world lasteth and neuer can be confuted as appeares in that they haue not dared to answer most of their books to this day Secondly our continuall prayers for them both publick and priuate in performance of which duty both our Church in generall and all amongst vs that vse to pray for themselues haue the testimony of a good conscience 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 iiij yeares ago they published at Rome a forme of Litanie and publicke praier for the peruerting of the Realms of England and Scotland to Popery But by the way let it be obserued that as when Cain left his frowning at his brother and began to make shew of friendship with him entised him by fair words into the fields theÌ„ he harbored the heauiest malice in his heart and there slewe him * Gen. 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 and laughed both them and hell to scorn for that their deuise knoweth wee haue not dealt so with them Well if their Prayers hereafter come so attended let vs haue their curses and let their prayers turne into their owne bosomes Thirdly wee haue endeuoured to heale them by our example professing and practicing our owne religion daily in their sight and many of our Fathers professed it openly euen in the times when they preuailed gaue their liues in the fire for it And heerin the example of noble Q. Elizabeth is worthy of eternall memorie whose constant zeale to the truth was such as that al her daies they could not by their brags and treasons curses cause her once to fear theÌ„ nor by all their sleights could euer win the least estimation with her nor gain an inch of ground in her hart nay her last Proclamation not two moneths afore her death wounded them as deepely or rather more then euer any one before * See the ProclamatioÌ„ published in Feb. before hâ—â— death Fourthly and lastly we endeuoured their healing by deuising and enacting good and wholsome lawes against their errours superstitions impieties seditious courses sometime in iustice executing them oftentimes in great mercie suspending them thus trying all meanes that might possibly perswade or work 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 endeuour hir healing all the happie dayes of Q. Elizabeth But especially dare wee call the Lord to witnesse that we haue endeuoured hir healing since the happy 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 if I may

giue my iudgement of these daies the skirts of the Romish Whore were neuer better discouered her grossest absurdities and fowlest impieties neuer so cleerly 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 Church And beyond all meanes then vsed and now continued his Maiestie hath vsed one more namely admirable lenitie and extraordinarie patience towards them notwithstanding all their ill deseruings which as it was alwayes 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 Christendome that after such a treason would haue left one of that factioÌ„ in his kingdome but onely his Maiestie Oh mirror of mercy how famously in future ages shal this princely bounty be renowned and how fit is hee to bee the Lords anointed and to be the Lieutenant of that God whose mercy 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 euerie where ouer the world so wee in England for our parts would gladly haue healed Babylon and haue done our full indeuour to that ende But now alas see the effect of our labours all is lost for shee is Babylon and therfore past cure She wil not therfore cannot be healed Some will say this is harsh bitter but I say it is true and therfore is not to be coÌ„cealed let hir blame them that haue made her incurable and not them that dâ—scouer it and for me that affirme it I craue not to be belieued but rather to be reprooued if the euidence of the fact doe not fully prooue what I haue sayd To this end I will first lay downe a ground or two First that in former times there haue beene great coÌ„plaints of foul deformities in the Romish Church made by men of great learning and such as eyther are or at least whom they say are their owne and these deformities not only in priuate persons but in the publick body not in the members onely but in the head of their Church I will not stand to prooue this it being not the end of my purpose at this time they that look into the monuments of elder ages doe knowe this to be true and whosoeuer will but looke into the Reuelations of Saint Bridget Bernards Epistles Vicentius Ferrariensis and others of that age wil soone acknowledge it 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 confesseth it in the publick acts thereof more then once and for that of Trent howsoeuer they pretended it against Luther his doctrine yet it is confessed by a learned Bishop of their side * 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 owne Court wherein there raigned at that time many abhominable things as one of the better sort of Popes himself freely confessed * Adrian the 6 Vpon these grouÌ„ds I proceed to lay downe 3. propositions touching the incurablenesse of Romish Babel 1. That these Councels assembled to reforme and amend did contrariwise establish diuers impious errors neuer before decreed in the world 2. That those fowle deformities in the Romish Church both in the head and members and both for doctrine and manners that were in that Church before those Councells and for the redresse whereof those Councels were called did neuertheles and yet do continue vnreformed 3 That since then in steed of redresse and reformation of the euills then found there haue contrariwise growen vp in their Church more horrible and haynous practices and more erronious and impious doctrines then euer before and at this day stand vnreprooued and maintayned by their Church And these three propositions being proued I hope there is none but will confesse that the Romish Church for ought that man can see is past cure or at least not yet healed The first Proposition The last popish Councells decreed worse things then anie before them TOuching the first I proue it by a fewe particulars in steed of many and first for the Councell of Constance that Councel decreed 2. such decrees as tend rather to the ruinating of all religion and ouerthrowing all humane society then any whit to the curing of diseases either in the one or other For first whereas it is knowen and graunted that Christ at his last Supper ordaining the holy Comunion did consecrate and giue it both in bread and wine and commanded his Ministers after him Doe this * See all the Euangelists S. Paul 1. Cor. 11â— 23. c. and tho it cannot be denied but that the primitiue ancient Church did so receiue it as Christ left it yet for all that comes the Popish Councell of Constance and cals it a peruerse fashion and an ill order of those that giue their people the Sacrament in both kindes and do further decree that Notwithstanding Christ ordayned and the primitiue Church practiced it in both kinds yet now to say that it is necessary to receiue it in both shal be heresie and punished as heresie that is with death and losse of lands and goods c. And howsoeuer Bellarmine * Bellar. de SacraÌ„ Euch. lib. 4. cap. 2â— much ashamed of the matter will needs that the Non-obstante is not referd to the institution in both kindes but to the celebration after supper and therfore accuseth Luther others as lyers for so reporting of the Councell yet many others of his fellowes make no bones to grant it and if they all denyed it the very words themselues of the Canon are plaine inough Now thus to decree and make a Canon contrary to the direct institution comandement of Christ what is it but to controll Christ himselfe and to weaken the certainty of all truth and religion Secondly whereas there can be no firm society amongst men if othes couenants especially made by publick persons be of no force and therfore God himselfe would haue the Israelites oath to the Gibeonites performed though it was craftily extorted a Ios. 9. 19. and after seuerely punished Saul in his posteritie for the breach of it b 2. Sam. 21. 1. 2. yet the Romish Councell in this latter age hath decreed that c Concil Constant. sessione 19. Though the Emperour or King giue a safe coÌ„duct to one accused of heresie

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