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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19595	The declaration of Mr. Patrik Crawfurd his returne from poperie to the true religion, which is according to the Word of God, in holie Scripture	Crawfurd, Patrick.	1627 (1627)	STC 6032; ESTC S117118	36,279	66

men take direct courses that the common-People should never vnderstand what they or themselues were doing for their Masses and publick services all was done in an vnknown language to the People and for their ordinare Prayers they inioyned for the most part to say them in Latine though they vnderstood not the same Indeed heere in Scotland because such proceeding hath giuen distaste to sundrie by appearance libertie is giuen to those who please to haue them in the vulgare language else where J haue not seene this so ordinarly practised Next by all meanes they laboured that the common-People either had not the Bible in their vulgare language or else that they red it not or if any read it that they should not presume to take any part of it in any sense contrare to the doctrine and practise of the Roman Church but instead thereof J saw they filled their heads and hands with Jmages and Beads Agnus Deis meddals and reliques and bookes of Prayer to this Saint and to that Saint and the office of our Lady as they call the Virgine Mary and the legends of such and such miracles done by Saints departed as they alledge Such stuffe as these a man trauelling will finde in mens houses but seldome or neuer the Bible and oftner mention will he heare of the Virgine Mary than of our Lord and Sauiour and the fairest Churches and Chappels you shall finde dedicate to the Virgine Mary and to Saint Peter and Saint Paul others some hee some shee Saints to whose Chapells and Churches you shall finde dayly numbers going in Pilgrimage or visitation and offering their offerings and Prayers before such an Altar to one Saint to keepe them from the Pest to another to keepe them from the Ague to this Saint for their Kyne to that Saint for their Horses in such varietie as I cannot number for there are particulare Saintes for all diseases whom to at seuerall times by Prayers and offerings ordinarly they haue their recourse to bee helped Yet I thought all well thinking the Romish Church could not erre At Rome it selfe I remarked a Church whose Patrone if I remember is commonly called in vulgare speach Saint Aloy and hath power as they say to heale Horses or keep them from their diseases To this Church once in the yeere all the Horses of Rome the Popes horses and Cardinals Counsellours and Citizens horses are brought and when they come to the Fount where the holy water stands I saw one of the Priests sprinkle holy water on the horse forehead and another Priest receiue the offering that vseth to be giuen at that time by which meanes that Church and all these that waite vpon it are vpholden and thus it is done in other places and for seuerall diseases of men and beastes All this J approued supposing the Church of Rome could not erre Neither doe I speake these things without pittie of the estate of the poore Soules so abused for J my selfe who had seene better thinges and should haue had better vnderstanding as a scholler by tying my selfe without further warrand to beleeue as the Church beleeues and beleeuing the Church of Rome could not erre for that time allowed or forced my minde to allow of all these abominable Idolatries and multitude of false Gods and was as busie to pray to all the Saints as any man and said my Prayers Pater noster Ave Marie and Confiteor vpon my beids as carefully as the most ignorant old Wife among them J keeped constantly the Matines and Vespers and Salute said the office of the dead my long letanies and my 〈◊〉 I approued their making of holy water consecrating of meddals beads Agnus Deis c. Also that there was some divine vertue in making the signe of the Crosse before my breast for expelling the Deuill for the time from me I beleeued I was as cleane as glasse when the Priest did shrive and absolve mee I haue come with others to meete a procession of sundrie sorts of Church men carying a consecrated hostie which they did relate was Christ himselfe carried throughout the streetes J haue fallen downe before it worshiped and adored it with many others supposing it was Christ bodilie present when I was present at Masse I did the same vpon the same presumption J beheld the bread of the hostie before it was consecrate as they call it I beheld it when it was consecrated and when it was lifted vp I saw bread as clearly as J saw the Priests hand that held it vp J opened my mouth and the Priest put it in my mouth I saw btead with my eyes I smelled it J felt it I tasted and discerned it as sensiblie as ever I did bread in my life yet I beleeued that it was not bread but Iesus Christ corporally present put in my mouth and going downe my bellie though all senses which God hath euer made the faithfull witnesses of all miraculous changes whereof we read in Scripture did testifie the contrare I gaue them all the lye because I beleeued as the Church beleeued and belieued that the Church of Rome could not erre Thus I who would not beleeue the Trueth was giuen ouer to such fearefull superstition and strong delusion that J might beleeue lyes CHAP. 4. No end in erring except the Lord reclaime THese things were common to mee and all others of the Romish Religion but J went yet further than the common course and was yet more besotted by this delusion for I haue beene clark to the masse helped the Preist to the saying of it lifting the masse Booke now from the right hand to the left now from the left to the right backe againe Now kneeling now standing now bowing and bending the body now knocking on my breast now making the signe of the crosse at the eleuation I haue born vp the Priests taile with the one hand hauing a burning torch in the other hand sometimes giuing him Wine and water in a Chalice sometimes one thing sometimes another as such like service did require I entred my self yet further in their snare and became one of the sodalitie of our Lady This sodalitie tyes none to any Ecclesiasticall order for therein with their approbation all Rankes of Persons may be so they use their particular devotion to our Lady which is an ordour wherein especiallie all devout students in Colledges by a solemne oath and invocation of the Virgine Mary are tyed to vse speciall deuotion all their dayes to her and to defend her name where euer they come and to depend vpon her as their Lady Patronesse and lady aduocate with God for them O fearefull Idolatrie and yet I swalowed it then beleeuing as the Church beleeued and that she could not erre and obeying as diuine truth what their Church commanded Last of all J was in tearmes with the Iesuits to haue rendred my self of that order and to haue taken on their threefold vow the third whereof which is of a blind

which means they not only bring peoples mindes in a seruile subjection to themselues for none can haue more Commandement ouer one than their Father confessour but also by their intelligencing this way make the Pope their Monarch dreadfull to all Kings of the Earth for he will doe more by a syde Cloake and a sharp knife in one houre than the mightiest Prince in the Earth will doe by fourtie thousand armed men in a long time yet hee should doe lesse harme if hee were lesse dred for when men are more feared to grieue the Pope than God what wonder the Lord let him bee a scourge to them This their strong sort of Gouernement more wittilie deuised than euer the old Senate disposed the ruling of the conquered Prouinces or conquering of new they second with the extreame show and externall luster of holinesse and Religion For the multitude of Religious Orders with houses and Closters and persons in them with the pretense of their single and chast life the multitude of Religious exercises Canonicke houres fastes Feastes holy dayes the multitude of Altars Jmages and rich Ornaments of their Churches the multitude of all sort of Ceremonies that may carry appearance of Diuinitie The multitude of poore people enduring pennance going in Pilgrimage the wonderfull mercilesnesse of poore tormented consciences scourging themselues openlie in their streetes with their faces couered at the direction sometimes of their confessour sometimes voluntarlie supposing this way to doe away their sinnes and pacifie Gods wrath and their owne perplexed conscience together with the profession of the common grounds of Christianitie which Papists makes show of so astonishes the mindes of the simple people so rauishes and amazes ignorant on-lookers so inchants and so bewitches the multitude that they cannot thinke but God will be as well pleased with such follies as they are themselves not knowing what is pleasant to him by his own Word or that will-worship though neuer so specious is abominable to him Then to back and beamfill all comes in their seminarie Priests and preaching Friers and the late ordour of the Jesuits by all their powerfull persuasion to presse the receauing of the grounds of Roman Religion vpon men and by a shew of Philosophy and the Wisedome of this Worlde that comes to nought and the opposition of science falsly so called the instruments whereby Sathan opposed the Apostles of old they striue to make all seeme good that the Roman Church doeth and that all is euill that they doe not But where shall all the riches bee gotten to vphold such a statelie Monarchie as this and so many seruants of that state for answere they haue so many points of gain full doctrine as first of the merit of good works supererogation of the merites of Saints which furnisheth the treasure of the Church of Rome among which goode workes especiallie Almes this must be held for a principle that those who haue wealth cannot doe a more meritorious worke to purchase heauen by than by largelie bestowing vpon religious men and their maintainance Secondly the Doctrine of pennance and of indulgence and satisfaction which sometime rendred the Sea of Rome a great deale more than now it doeth and yet brings hudge moneyes to that Sea Thirdly the doctrine of purgatorie nothing inferiour to any of the former for these who could not be enduced to giue thē any thing largely in the time of their life at the time of their death for feare of Purgatory to the end that they may win out of Purgatorie fire soone by the vertue of Soul masses religious mens devotiō will be willing to mortify or leaue in Legacie what their Fatherconfessor thinks expedient and that of the readiest Fourthlie the straite vrging the thre-fold vow of single life povertie Canonicall obedience vpon all them whom they can persuade to rander themselfe religious For by this meanes the seuerall Religious ordours but especially the Jesuites if they can by any meanes persuade a man of wealth or a rich burges heire a Noble mans son or an heritour of Lands as they persuade too too many to bee of their ordours then hee renounces all his means to bee disposed vpon by the superiour of the ordour and hee himselfe with the rest professes pouertie and liues vpon the common Purse or his purchase if hee be sent out or imployed in seruice These and many moe means vnsearchable they haue of drawing in Rents moyons to themself beside offrings to Altars extraordinary masse Casualitie at burials and such lik In al which things and sindrie other poynts both of practise and doctrine they will bee sparing in any part where they are seeking to make conquest as in Scotland or England or Ireland for feare to lose their prey but when and where they are settled any man that trauells if he please may try the trueth whether it bee not as J say and more for I will bee sparing to speake all lest I should see me to taxe particular persons rather than to seeke the furtherance of the true and disgrace of counterfeit Religion CHAP. 8. That the Scriptures imperfection and obscuritie is wrongfully alledged by Papists THus hauing at length discouered the main pillar of Popedome with some of their humane policies for vpholding the same I wil speake shortly a worde or two against the imperfection obscuritie which they alledge of the Scripture This saying is so blasphen ous against God the author of the Scripture Let the Lord 2 Tim. 3. 15. 16. 17. Ioh 5. 39. answere for himself By his Apostle All Scripture is giuen by diuine inspiration c. That the man of God may be made perfect throughly furnished vnto all good works And by his sonne who hath giuen Commandement to those who thinks to haue eternall life to search the Scriptures Jf thou will obey this command constantly praying to God for knowledge dayly the Lord shall show thee in reading of it that they are his enemies who haue so disgraced his writings wherefore I would persuade young Schollers and others of young yeeres to drink in the knowledge of the Scriptures and neuer to quite the light thereof which the Lord hath appointed to direct vs. Wee haue also a more sure Word of Prophesie whereunto yee doe 2 Pet. 1. 19. well that yee take heede as vnto a light that shineth in a dark place c. Next when doubts of Religion are casten in their minde the not running to God by Prayer as the fountaine of Religion and to such Godly and truelie learned men who are content that all they say bee examined according to the Scripture is a speciall cause of provocation of God to giue them ouer to belieue lyes who thus despysing the right meanes and loue of the trueth will not goe to law and testimonies Isaiah 8. 20 1. Tim. 4. 1. Rom. 1. 21. as God directeth them But giues eare to seducing Spirites and doctrine of Deuills as the Apostle calles them