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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13103	A motiue to good workes Or rather, to true Christianitie indeede. Wherein by the waie is shewed, how farre wee are behinde, not onely our fore-fathers in good workes, but also many other creatures in the endes of our creation: with the difference betwixt the pretenced [sic] good workes of the Antichristian Papist, and the good workes of the Christian Protestant. By Phillip Stubbes, Gentleman.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1593 (1593)	STC 23397; ESTC S111359	64,680	234

shall iudge But this winde shakes no corne as the Papists say for the Pope cā easily wipe away al this a thousād times more with a word What am not I Christs viccar generall and Peters successor Haue not I claues regni caelorum the keyes of the kingdome of heauen haue not I potestatem soluendi ligandi power to bind loose In a word am not I God can not I forgiue sinne at my pleasure Oh blasphemous mouth God shall destroy thee with the breath of his mouth The very Iewes shal rise vp in iudgemēt against thee cōdemne thee who sayd Can any mā forgiue sin 〈◊〉 God alone They thinke it also a good worke and of great merite to gad vp and down the cuntreys on Pilgrimage to this place and that place to this hee Saint and that shee Saint yea although it be as farre off as Rome Constantinople or Ierusalem is hence the further the more merite to visite Bethleem where Christ was borne the holie Sepulchre where he was buried the holy Crosse wherevpon he suffered the nayles that were driuen into his handes and feete the speare that was thrust into his side his bloud that was shed when he hanged vppon the Crosse the milke of Maries brests or else they lye the cratch or manger wherein Christ lay with infinite the like supersticious reliques too long to be recited heere To all which must be attributed a diuine worship with kneeling before them praying vnto them belieuing and trusting in them and aboue all for this is the chiefest work they shoote at offering vnto them as it were a sacrifice to Baal gould siluer iewels and precious stones of infinite varietie These things although they doe the idolls no good for so I will not feare to call them yet doe they serue to inritch these ambicious and greedie Priests who dayly gape for such prayes And truely but that the iudgements of God are a deapth without bottome hys counsayles vnsearchable and hys wayes past finding out I would wonder that any man could be so blinded or besotted as to trauayle so many hundred myles nay so many thousand myles sometymes in the meane tyme not regarding hys or theyr poore wyfe and children at home how miserably so euer they lyued to thys Saint and that Saint to thys Idoll and that idoll as though one were better than an other or that one could helpe better or more than an other Therefore it is true which the Apostle by the holy Ghost vttereth of such men where he sayth when men will not belieue the truth then God geueth them ouer to a reprobate sence to belieue lyes Alas did they or doe they thinke that these idolls can doe them any good eyther heare theyr prayers relieue theyr necessities or graunt theyr petitions No no this was but the subtiltie or rather playne knauerie of the couetous Priests to get money withall although to the destruction of theyr owne and infinite millions of Christian soules besides Full well was it sayde therefore of the heathen Poete Oh auri sacra fames quid non mortalia pectora cogis Oh cursed loue of money what wickednes is there in all the worlde which thou wilt not cause a man to doe for the loue of thee This caused the holy Ghost to denounce that couetousnes is the roote of all euill Oh remember what the Apostle sayth Godlynes is great riches if a man be content with that that hee hath Forget not what hee telleth you in an other place those that studie to be rich in thys world fall into diuers temptations and snares of the Deuill Seeke therefore to be ritch in God and not in the transitorie vanities of thys lyfe whiche vanishe away lyke a scumme or bubble before a man haue any vse or fruition of them Deceyue the world no longer with your bableries for filthy lucre sake repent and turne to God for hee is mercifull and would not your destruction Agayne the Papists accoumpt it a wonderfull good worke to make and erect Images and Idols in Churches and crosses in high wayes to creepe to them bare foote and bare legged to kneele before them to adore and worship them to pray to them to trust and belieue in them to aske and looke for all good thyngs at theyr handes to offer to them and in summe to attribute all diuine honor and worship to them being notwithstanding stocks and stones dead and insensible creatures and which as the Prophet sayth can neyther heare see smell taste nor vnderstande no nor so much as stirre out of theyr places If they be ouerwhelmed with dust they can not so much as make themselues cleane or if they be throwne into the fyre they can not ryse vp agayne and therefore not without cause doth the Lord pronounce accursed both the image and the image maker And as for crosses I see neyther reason nor scripture for them why they should be set vp eyther in Churches Churchyards high wayes or any place else Oh but say the Papists it doth a man good to looke vppon that engine whereupon Christ dyed But if they wyll needes haue crosses to gaze vppon let them looke vppon euery Christian man and woman who theyr armes being spread abroade doe resemble most liuely both the crosse and also Christ himselfe a thousand tymes more truely than these idolatrous counterfeite crosses of wood and stone And because they shall see the small or rather the no necessitie at all of these crosses amongst vs Christians I will shew the originall of them how and vppon what grounds and for what causes they fyrst came vp The heathen people and infidels denegers of the faith professed enemies to Christ Iesus reproched the Christians and cast in their teeth that their Sauiour and theyr Messias in whome they trusted was hanged vppon a crosse betweene two theeues as the most notorioust malefactor of all to his and theyr perpetuall approbrie ignominie and shame for euer as they most blasphemously affyrmed The Christians heerevpon to shewe that they were not ashamed neyther of Christ Iesus nor yet of his crosse caused to be set vp as well in Churches and Churchyards as also in high wayes streetes and lanes diuers and sundry crosses which custome hath continued and descended as it were by succession from them vnto vs at this day Now who seeth not heereby the small necessity of them amongst Christians For at this day there be none that doe vpbrayd vs that our Sauiour in whom we belieue was hanged vppon a crosse and therefore the cause of the erection or setting vp of crosses being ceased let the crosses themselues be remoued also For certainly the continuance of them in high wayes or elsewhere doth mayntayne a notable branch of Popish idolatrie and superstition amongst vs whilest some when they passe by them will geue them the right hand put off theyr caps make obeysance and worship them as that archtraytor seducer of Gods Saints Campion did passing along