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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

it is heere apparant that it is not alwaies the sauour of life to life but often of death to death in whose mouth soeuer it is spoken Wee must heere learne not to bee discouraged in our courses of seeking mens conuersions Priuate men to practice the duties of admonition exhortation c. vnto their neighbours that bee out of the waie Nor Ministers to preach the word with all diligence For howsoeuer thy labour may be lost to some yet knowe thy labour is neuer lost before God for be it the sa●●our of life or of death it is a sweete sauour to God sayth the Apostle e 2. Cor. 2. 14. 15. 16. and tho in regarde of men that will not be cured thou hast laboured in vain and spent thy strength in vaine yet sayth the Prophet My iudgement is with the Lord and my worke with my God f Esay 49. 4 And let not the good man of God be too much cast down tho he see little fruite of his great labours remembring that IESVS CHRIST and God himselfe haue lost their labour vppon manie men and heere the Church haue manie yeares endeuoured to cure Babel and all is in vaine For shee will not bee healed And will shee not what then remaines but this that followeth Let vs forsake her c. The. 3. point FOr after all meanes vsed and all in vaine then what should we doe but forsake them that needs will be forsaken of God and haue nothing to doe with them who will haue no fellowship with the Lord This is the third point and touching it there be three points examinable namely 1. how Babel is to be forsaken 2. why 3. whē For the first how is Babel to be forsaken when there is no more hope of curing her the answere is not in loue and affectionate desire to do her good but still the wicked man is to bee pittied still to be loued still to be mourned for still must the godly man wish well to him tho he care not for it but scoffe at all Thus when the Prophet had called vpon the people g Ier. 13. 16. 17 Heare and giue eare be not proud but yeelde and turne and repent and giue glory to God before he send darkeness c. Hee then addeth But if you will not heare and obaye my soule shall weepe in secret for your pride and mine eyes shall drop downe teares c. Thus the good man sends vp many a sigh and sheads many a teare for the wicked that neuer gaue one groane for themselues Nor must we forsake them in prayer but tho they seeme to vs neuer so incurable wee must still pray without ceasing to GOD for them for that that is impossible to vs is possible inough with the Lord h God forbid sayth Samuel that I should cease to praie for you i 1. Sam. 12 and so must we say of all euen the greatest sinners saue only them that sinne against the holy Ghost which no priuate men but only the whole Church can discerne and iudge of God forbid that I should cease to pray for them Neither must wee forsake them by a final separatiō neuer to come at them nor to assist them any more but still we must be willing to go againe and do our endeuour if euer there be hope that they wil be healed Forgiue saith Christ not seuen onely but 70. times 7. times When a sicke man is froward and impatient then the good Physition must be the Patient and tho hee haue come oft to no purpose yet if at last he wil be healed he must not forsake him so must Gods children reioyce if after neuer so many repulses the wicked will be content at the last to heare and to be healed Thus wee must still loue and pittie them stil pray for them and still be readie to doe them good and in these three respectes we must not forsake them But we must forsake Babel First in regard of conuersation wee must separate our selues from the wicked mans companie and societie as far as lawfully conueniently we may after we see him obstinate and incurable it is Gods commandement Flee from the midst of Babel depart out of the land of the Chaldeans k Ierem. 50. 8 and do not this slackly slowly like Lots wife l Gen. 19. ●6 but be as the hee Goates before the flock Secondly in regard of the meanes for after that by her often and obstinate refusall ioyned with spightfull contempt both of the means and the men that brings them she hath shewed her selfe to be a filthy swine then pearles are no longer to bee cast before her holy things must no more bee giuen to such Dogges but they are to bee left to their vomit and mire till God shew either his mercy or iustice vpon them either in their conuersion or confusion Thus must shee be forsaken and the reason why which is the second point is double First in regarde of our selues wee must forsake the wicked when they are incurable least in steede of dooing good to them wee take hurt our selues by beeing polluted by her contagion or made partaker of her sinnes and consequently of her punishment God giueth this reason himselfe Flee out of the middest of Babel and deliuer euerie man his soule be not destroyed in her iniquitie m Ierem. 51. 6 Therfore after that a christian man perceiues there is more danger to get hurt from them then hope to do good to them he is bound no longer to stay nay hee is bound to leaue them and look to the safety of his owne soule and body Secondly in regard of the means vsed to heal them which because they be the holy ordinances of God pretious pearls therfore are they not to be exposed to the contempt of wicked men nor to be trodden vnder the foule feete of their peruerse and scornefull spirits Both these reasons doth Christ couple together Giue not that saith hee that is holy to dogs neither cast your pearles before swine least they treade them vnder their feet and turning again all to rent you n Mat. 7. 6. Christ would neither haue his ordinances abused nor his children hurt by the wicked men Thus wee see the maner how and the reasons why Now let vs see the time when Babel must be forsaken when she is incurable but not til then first long time is to be spent all meanes to be vsed all waies to be tried all patience to be practiced and all wisdome to be exercised all occasions to bee taken that probably may preuaile to doe them good But if after all this they be incurable and out of hope then must we forsake them but not till then not till there bee no hope at all he that forsakes Babel till then is wanting in his dutie and hath much to answere for before God For if the Physician may not forsake this vile body o Phil. 3. 21 as long as

confuted or but as much as reprooued this blasphemie or shewe any that hath reprooued it whom they haue not blamed or condemned But that shee is not cured in this point I can make it apparant For looke in the Canon lawe reuiued and as they pretende c Vide Corpus iuris Canonici iussu Gregorij 13. emendatum editum anno 91. dist 96. cap. 7. reformed and reprinted of late b by the authoritie and with the approbation of the Pope vnder his bull where though many things be altered or taken out that made against the Popes primacie yet this that makes so much against Gods holy Maiestie is not in one point helped nor in one word altered but still this is good and Catholicke Diuinitie in the popes lawe that The Pope is God and therefore may not bee iudged of men But wil you haue yet better euidence that She is not cured Hearken a little A great Italian Doctor no lesse then a Bishop writes thus to the Pope himselfe for to the Pope either the Authour or his Nephew dooth dedicate it some three or foure yeares agoe c Vide Adoardum Gualādum Episcopū Caesenatem de morali ciuili facultate lib. 14 cap. 3. A Papa tanquā a Capite in vniuersum Eccle siae corpus hoc est in omnem Christianā Remp. spiritus influunt caelestium gratiarum sensum fructumque praestantes efficicem mo●● ad sempiternam ●eatitudinem Merito igitur sanctissimus beatissimus appellatur 〈◊〉 Christianam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi quidam Deusad oratur coli●●t Liber impressus est Romae 1604. Clementi 8. Papae dicatus From the Pope as from the Head there doe flowe into the whole bodie of the Church that is into the whole Christian world spirits or spirituall life yeelding the feeling and fruite of heauenly graces and effectuall motion to eternall happinesse therfore hee is worthily called as God is most holy most blessed and is worshipped and adored as a God of all christian men Loe heere as bad or worse then the former the Pope is such a Head of the church as infuseth spiritual life and heauenly grace into the body of the Church Doth Christ himself anie more and he is worthily worshipped as a God And this dooth Pope Clement the 8. suffer to be spoken and written of him and not 4. yeares agoe to be printed vnder his nose at Rome and thence to bee sent ouer the world now iudge is not Romish Babylon well healed nay rather alasse doth not her wound fester and rankle more and more Well then seeing this is the Romish doctrine and practise both olde and newe both long agoe and now present let vs make a little vse of it First wee see heere good reason why a Papist should holde the Pope aboue a Councell and euen the holy scripture it selfe for the Pope is God and wee knowe that GOD is aboue the scripture Secondly why also the Pope holdes himselfe aboue kings for hee is God and GOD is King of kinges in a word no maruell why hee should take appeals from all the world we are a triple Crowne bee caried on mens shoulders giue his foote to be kissed dispose of kingdomes and kings at his pleasure for hee that is God may do more then all these And surely we Protestants must needes grant that as truely as he is a God so lawfully may hee do all these All these vses are as good as that is the Pope himselfe makes when hee sayth God may not be iudged by men but I am God and therefore may not bee iudged by man these bee his arguments but now hee shall giue mee leaue to make but one for him and his fellowes The God that admitteth another Lord God and to bee worshipped as God is not the Lord Iehouah the true God for the true God is God alone d Deut. 6. 4. but the Papists God admittes of another Lord God and to be worshipped as God therefore hee is not the true God If they denie the Maior they denie scripture if the Mi●●r they denie their doctrine and their owne bookes if they graunt both they are worthy of the conclusion I would end this but I cannot omit to make one vse more of this their doctrine It hath been made a question amongst them whether the Pope might no● emptie all Purgatorie if he see cause and no maruell● for he being God surely if there be a purgatorie God can emptie it Now to conclude all these doe but equalize the Pope with God but what if hee haue made himselfe greater then God 3 The secōd wound The pope hath done more then God I will be but the relatour let the Reader iudge Almost two hundred yeeres agoe hee did with publicke authoritie and after long examination by a great Cardinall e This Cardinal was Iohānes de turre cremata as appears in the prefaces before the book of the Reuelations of Saint Brigit and other Commissioners approue e Posseuinus in apparatu sacro lit B. to 1. Brig Reuelationes diligēter examinatae approbatae à viris doctis fuerunt after suffered to be published to the World a booke in latine called The Reuelations of Saint B●IGITE Where it is dogmatically deliuered and as a matter without question That Pope Gregory by his prayers lifted the heathen Emperour Traiane out of hell f Reuelationes Brigittae lib. 4. cap. 13. Bonus Gregorius oratione sua etiam infidelem Caesarem eleuauit ad altiorem gradum and another long afore whome they pretend also to bee theirs deliuereth it more amplie adding further that God answered the Pope thus I haue heard thy prayers and I grant mercy and pardon to Traiane but see that thou hereafter offer me no sacrifice for an vngodly man g Damascenus in ser de mortuis adiuuandis Cum enixè Deum precaretur Gregorius pro salute Traiani annis ante sua tempora fere 500. defuncti audiuit vocem diuinitùs allatam dicentem preces tuas audiui veniam Traiano do tu vero deinceps pro impio hostiam mihi ne offeras From hence I offer them this argument to thinke on The true God neuer deliuered a damned soule out of hell but the Pope hath deliuered a soule out of hell therefore he hath done that that GOD neuer did nor for ought that is reuealed euer will doe Heer is a soule wound but is this healed vp No 4 The second wound not healed this booke stands allowed by the Pope and in his Catalogue of the bookes which hee forbiddes to bee read h Vide Indicē lib prohib per Clem. 8. where many a learned and godly booke is condemned this is not toucht and therefore as Posseuine himselfe a Iesuite grants i Posseuinus loco citato not 2. yeares agoe not onely the booke stands vncondemned but this foule blalphemy vncontrolled and to shewe that the head of Babylon namely the Pope