indeed thou Mother if thy brests the rest exceed Ah when shall I with these be satisfide when shall I swim in ioyes of brest and side Pardon O God mine eager earnestnesse if I thy lawes and reasons bounds transgresse Where thirst ore swayes patience is thrust away stay but my thirst and then my cryes will stay I am better then thy nailes yet did a streame of thy deere blood wash both the lance and them More worthy I then clouts yet them a flood Moistned of Mothers Milke and of Sons blood THE APPROBATION OF THIS AVTHOR CLarus Bonarscius otherwise called Carolus Scribanius is a Iesuit now liuing at Antwerpe and of much account amongst them he wrote this booke and spewed this blasphemy out of his vncleane heart some foure or fiue yeeres agoe And whereas both the Author and his booke deserued the fire and halter it was so farre from being misliked in the Romish Sinagogue or any way censured that since then the booke hath bin reprinted and the Author and his booke stand enrolled approued and commended in their great volumes set out for that purpose for good and Catholike Glori Bornascij Amphitheatrum Honoris Iesuitici in quo Calunistarum in societatem Iesu criminationes iugulatae Prostant palaeopoli 1605 postea 1606. Haec Posseuinus Palaeopoli hâ—c est Antuerpiâ— Iesuitâ— in Appararâ—â— sacro Tom 1. l it G. pag. 3â—7 edition is vltimâ— And it is to be noted that these volumes of Posseuine containe only an inrolement and approbation of no writers at all saue such as are approued Romish Catholicks and are set out with great and publike allowance of the Romish State as may be seene at the beginning of the first Tome Besides let all men know the booke stands yet vncensured and the man liues still vnpunished nay vnreproued or rather commended and rewarded for it therefore this cannot be called an obscure or priuate fact but may properly be held the fact of the Romish Church or State A DISCOVRSE OF THE LADIES OF HALL AND SIchem in way of preface shewing particularly the occasion of this new Gospell THE blessed Mother of our Lord as the Church in all ages hath done so doth ours willingly honour as the most blessed of all Saints yet as a creature and as one saued by her sonne that Sauiour in whom her spirit reioyced a Luke 2. we know acknowledge that not she but the holy ghost hath said that all generations shall call her b Luke blessed Yet we must confesse we are of that fathers religion who said c August lib. de virginit her spiritual bearing of Christ was happier then her carnall and her selfe more blessed by conceiuing Christ in â—ellcior partus spiritualis quam carnalis beatior enim Maria suit concipiend Christum side quaÌ„ earne materna enim propinquitas nihil ei profuisset nisi felicius christum corde quaÌ„ earne gestasseâ— her heart then in her wombe and by beleeuing in him then by bearing him for her bearing him in her body would not haue saued her soule if she had not more happily borne him in her heart And in another place d Idem Inde felix quia verbum Dei custodiuit non quia in illa verbum caro factum est Papists themselues cannot deny but our men do out of this case speak and write most reuerently of the blessed Virgin as namely Luther Oecolampadius BreÌ„tius Spangenbergins vrb Rhegus Bucer Bullinger All this is confessed by Coccius the great papist in his The â—â—ure Caâ—helico To. 1 Li. 3 at 5. p. 300. she was happy and blessed not because in her the word was made flesh but because she heard the word of God and kept it This her blessednesse far be it from vs to impeach and who would not yeeld her all blessednesse and honour that a creature may haue of whom GOD vouchsafed to take the flesh of man And if any of our Religion hath giuen any words of her that may giue the least blemish to her blessed state it was not done in any the least contempt of her but in the zeale they bare to the honor of their Sauior whom they held dishonoured by the vnequall coÌ„paring of her with him for what will not a Christian mans zeale cause him to do when he seeth his God dishonoured who would haue thought that Moses would haue cast so carelesly out of his hands so precious a Iewell as were the two Tables written with the finger of God and yet when he heard the name of the Lord blasphemed he forgot himselfe and them and as though he remembed none but God he threw them away and brake them in pieces If Moses his zeale makes his hastines excusable then no reason to condemne them whose 〈◊〉 gaue passage to their passions and caused them for the honor of the Creator to forget the priuiledge of a Creature I dare say there was neuer learned man of our profession that presumed to touch the very skirt of the garment of her glory vnlesse they saw her set in comparison with God or Iesus Christ which seeing the Romish Church dare offer to doe thereby ecclipsing the glory of Gods mercie and the worthynesse of Christs satisfaction wee hold it our duties to bee zealous for the Bonauenture himselfe said that we must take heed least we so farre aduance the glory of the mother that we diminish the glory of the sonne glorie of our God and to preserue as farre as in vs lieth the prerogatiues of our Sauiour If it be said that they match her not with God or Christ I answer they doe and that in such a measure as wee dare pronounce her or any Angell accursed that should either arrogate or accept of that which the Romish religion ascribes vnto her Too good euidence hereof hath beene seene in all ages for these 200. yeares last past wherein they haue fallen from honoring her as a Saint to magnifie her as a Mediator to pray to her as to a God to trust in her as in a Sauiour Many perticulars haue beene specified by many of our writers which by the aduersaries could neuer be denyed they are so euident yet were they neither recanted nor remooued but contrary-wise Reinoldus de Idolatria Catalogus testium veritatis Perkins of the Idolatry of the last times they haue proceeded from euill to worse till their blasphemy haue euen pierced the heauens and touched the Crowne of the Almighty and confronted the wounds merrits and bloud of our Sauiour Perticular instances hereof are many which may be collected out of the Authors of late yeares part wherof shall if God permit be particularized in this Treatise But aboue all there is one which as it is the latest so is it the fowlest and wherein Popish Blaspemy is at that height as now it giues hope to all Christian men that their prayers are heard her end is at Reuel hand and that her iniquity is come
THE IESVITES GOSPELL VVritten by themselues Discouered and published by W. Crashaw B. of Diuinity and preacher at White-chappell The second Impression Corrected and enlarged by the Author LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop and are to be sold at his house being the next house to Saint Annes Church 1621. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR William Cockaine the now Lord Maior and Sir Francis Iones Lord Maior Elect of the ancient and honorable City of London and to the reuerend and renowned assembly the Court of Aldermen The spirit of Wisdome Truth Zeale and vnity be multipied IT is well knowne to the learned and many your selues right Honorable Worshipful that the Iesuits the Popes best and dearest sonnes haue not yet troubled the world a hundred yeeres for the Pope that to his owne hurt excommunicated Henry the 8. against his will called the conuentikle of Trent established also the order of the Iesuits a Paul the 3. in the yeare 1540. allowed and established the order of the Iesuits being begun by these 10. named in the Bull. Ignatius Loyalâ— Petrus Faber Iacoâ—â—â— Laynes Claudius Iaiâ—â— Paschaâ— Broet Francisâ— Xauieâ— Alphon. Salmeron Simon Rodericus Ioanneâ— Coduis Nich. Bobadilla restrained their number to 60. but 30. yeare after in another Bull hâ—â— inlarged theÌ„ to as mâ—ny as they could get what their order is what their vowes be and what their Religion you may know out of the booke called the Iesuites Rule What seruice they haue done their Master the Pope all men guesse wise men know and all Nations in Christendome feele to their paine more or lesse And how sensible the Pope is of their seruice apeares in that the first 5. Popes in their time in recompence therof haue bestowed no lesse then 36 b See the book calleâ— Regula Iesuitica â— printâ— at Rome 1580. and sineâ— at Lyons and obseruâ— wisely some of theâ— rules and you shall find that the present state of a great part of Christendome is a large coment vpon the Iesuites rule Buls or Charters of Priuiledges vpon the society besides some which we shal neuer know of euery one coÌ„firming or inlarging another and the later yeelding more ample graces and fauours then the former Now if in their first 40. yeres being the timeâ— of their infancy they were able to deserue so well what seruice may we thinke haue they performed and how great thanks haue they receiued of the latter popes in these last 30. yeeres of their age when they are come to strength and ripenesse for tho Sixtus 5. c See the book called Literae Apostolicae quibus Institutio confirmatio priuilegia soc Iesu continentur printed at Rome 1587. being as wicked wily as themselues perceiuing their plots and discouering their deepest drifts vsed them accordingly and not only gaue them nothing he could keep from them but intended also d Watson in his quodlibers confesseth as much but this matter hath better proofe then Watson the restrayning or ruinating of their order had not they done as much for him as he entended theÌ„ yet he and Paul the 4. only excepted for it was ill halting before 2. such criples they can hardly name a Pope that liued a yeere of whom they receiued not such fauours as may well testifie to the world the great account the Pope makes of them And will you know the reason their deuotion their doctrine their deedes do merrit it at his hands what their particular deuotion to the Pope is appeares by the vow which they aboue all other Regulars make to the Pope of present and absolute obedience e See the book called Constitutiones Romanorum Pontif. per Petrum Matthaeum â—ugduni 1588 amongst the Constitutions of Paul the 3. in the third constiâ—ution pag. 305. there be the words of this vow to do whatsoeuer he should command them to goe whethersoeuer he should send them to Turkes Insidels Heretickes without excuse denyall or delay Their deedes for the Pope are answerable to their deuotion towards him for these 50. yeeres haue they vpheld Popery f Solâ—aue diuers Popes confessed in the preambles of the Buls granted to the Iesuits especially Paul the 3. in his third Bul anno 45. in his 5. an 49. Iulius the 3. in his first and Pius the 4. in his first and others as far as wit and learning nay as farre as craft and cruelty can vphold it which without them had vtterly râ—inated as notwithstanding it shortly will and they with it doe what they can They haue pickt out the finest yong wits of the world g these be their words in the regula Iesuitica cap. 3. reg â—4 Inepta turba ad institutum nostrú admitti non potest and so trained them vp that the Pope shal neuer want instruments to kill Kings to subuert states to patch vp a peace or to breake leagues as he thinks good let but the Diuel deuise it the Pope command it and forthwith the Iesuits will find him shall execute it Moreouer what they haue attempted for the Pope in England Scotland Hungary Bohemia Venice and the Low-Countries what they haue performed for him in France and Poland how they rule raigne in Spaine Italy who so blind as sees not Buâ—â—s this all they haue done Nay they scatter themselues like Locusts ouer all the world and with the Frogs of Hgypt creepe into great mens houses and first seduce the silly women and not so content worke themselues into the fauours at least into the Courts Coaches counsels of Princes diuing into mens consciences counsels by the stratagems of their confession and after into their purses estates by benefit of their absolution h many orders of Friers many popish nations haue complained of the Iesuites in these espects lastly into the conceits of the Vulgar by an hypocriticall austerity and dissembled deuotion they haue hereby gained more to the Pope their Lord and Master then all the Romish Clergie in the world besides But is this yet all nay that the Pope may seeme to haue a good cause and not to do all things by a strong hand they haue taken a course to make all writers in the world speake for him an attempt which the former ages suspected not and the future will scarce beleeue for some bookes they prohibite and extinguish and make it damnable to open them the rest be they old or new printed or manuscript they alter adde and take away i For the first see their â—ook called Index liâ—rorum prohibitorum â—et out by authority of seuerall Popes And for the second see the books called Indices librorum expurgandorum printed in Belgia Italy and spaine as also Gregorij Capuccini Enchiridion Ecclesiasâ—icum and Posseuine the Iesuit his apparatus sacer till they haue suckt out the sweetenesse and purged out all the goodnesse and taken out all testimonies of the truth insomuch as if they had not
minds and terrifie not the consciences of weake Christians and assuredly could I bury it so that it might neuer liue and quench it so as it might neuer flame againe and if my Booke were the onely Copie in the world I would rather choose to couer this shame of the shamelesse whore of Babilon then by discouering it to cause good mens eares to tingle and their hearts to tremble But seeing the strumpet hath the whores forhead and glorieth in her owne shame and sounded out this blasphemy as with a trumpet in the eares of all Christendome by publishing it in a booke which he calls the great theater of the Iesuits honour euen bringing so fearefull blasphemy vpon the stage dare diuâ—lge it in a second impression least the world should want it Let vs therefore craue leaue of our Lord Iesus to discouer her shame wherein shee glorieth and that wee may without impeachment of his honour repeate so foule blasphemy that so the world may both perceiue what a Religion Popery is and that we for our parts haue no fellowship with such abhominable workes of Ephes â— darkenesse The Title he giues them is this Ad diuam Hallensem Puerum Iesum That is To our Lady of Hall and The Child Iesus See first the impiety lurking in this Title She is a Queene or Lady Iesus a Child or Infant compare this with holy Scriptures they indeede speake both of him and her but of him as God and a Sauiour of her as a creature the Mother only of his humanity although the Mother of him that was God and exercising power onely ouer his humanity and that onely during his infancy and priuatenesse but not after hee tooke vpon him the Propheticall Office of the Mediator for then he said in a certaine case woman what haue I to do with thee and againe being told shee was without to speake Iohn â— 4 with him hee answered that hee had more Mothers tho not in the same yet in a better sence for whosoeuer did the will of his father the same saith he is my mother Mat 12. vlt. thus the scripture proceedes to describe him in his propheticall and afterward in his Priestly Office and leaues him not till at last hee be ascended into heauen and haue taken possession of his kingdome and then the Scripture leaues him in his glory Is all this true and yet must he now after 1606 years be an Infant in his Mothers armes And for her the holy scriptures speake no more of her but as of a creature a woman a beleeuing Iewe a holy Saint saued by faith in her sauiour Iesus Christ and so leaues her with little mention after Christ was baptized and entred his propheticall Office her body to goe the way of all flesh and her soule to enter into that great glory which Christ had purchased for her and all that spirituall kindred of his whom with his owne mouth hee had pronounced more blessed for hearing his word keeping it then they could haue beene by being the mother of Luke 12. his flesh And yet now after 1600. yeeres she must still bee a commanding Mother and must shew her authority ouer him and he must receiue our prayers by her meanes and Monstra te esse Matrem sumat per te preces So are the missals Breuiaries Offices that are reformed still she must beare him in her armes or lead him in her hand and her Picture must worke all the miracles but his none and she must be salured as a Lady a Queene a Goddesse and he as a Child If this be not so let this Title iudge Ad Diuam Hallensem puerum Iesum But let vs leaue the Title and not stand long at the gates but enter this Citty of confusion And now all good Christians hearken with griefe of heart to that which I rather wish you might neuer haue heard but if your eares tingle your haire stand vp and your hearts tremble at the blasphemy following blame the heart that indighted it the hand that wrote it the Religion that allowes it and not the pen that discouers it THVS THEN BEGINS THE IESVITS Gospell Haereo lac inter meditans interque cruorem Inter delicias Vberis Lateris That is My thoughts are at a stand of Milke and bloud Delights of brest and side which yeelds most good HEarken thou blessed Apostle Paul if thou in heauen canst heare the blasphemy on earth thou that didst preach and 2. Cor. â— 2 write that thou desiredst to know nothing but Iesus Christ and him crucisied thou that didst teach the Churches onely to know and beleeue in Christ for saluation and almost 20. times in thy Epistles hast magnified his Bloud without once mentioning the Virgin or her Milke Heare and be astonisht at this that some who professe to be thy Disciples or thy fellowes rather cannot tell whether to choose that bloud of the Mediatour or the milke of a woman At least harken thou blessed spirit of truth thou that canst and wilt heare thou that didst inspire those holy truths into that holy Apostle behold a Religion risen vp in the world that dare compare the bloud of that God who was by thee conceiued with the milke of that Wâ—man who was the Mother of his humanity and was saued from hell and damnation by that bloud and that dare allow her professors to make doubt whether to esteeme the greater delight of their soules her milke or his bloud and we for reprouing this must bee accounted Heretikes heare from heauen we beseech thee and Iudge betwixt vs. The blasphemer proceedeth Et dico si forte oculos ad Vbera tendo Diua Parens Mammae gaudia posco tuae Sed dico si deinde oculos ad Vulnera verto O Iesu Lateris gaudia malo tuae That is And say aloud when I the Teates do see O Goddesse mother lend thy Brests to me But thus I beg when on the wounds I thinke O Iesu giue me from thy side to drinke What before hee deliuered more darkely now hee maketh plainer if any doubt what milke what bloud he meant he answereth our Ladyes Milke and Iesus Christ his bloud but what doth popery make question whether of these two is better Is this their holy Catholike Romaine faith If noâ— let their words be Iudge I stand musing saith he and cannot tell whether to take milke or bloud If I looke at her paps then I long for milke If to his sides then I would haue bloud Marke how indifferent a Papist is whether he receiue the one or the other is not this euill enough a man would thinke so yet hearken what followeth and wee shall heare worse but let vs do it with feare and reuerence of that glorious name and precious bloud which are blasphemed Rem scio prensabo si fas erit vbera dextra Laena prensabo vulnera si dabitur In English thus Long haue I mus'd now know I