a lambe taken out of the fold flock onely dedicated by Gods institution and shall not the blood of our passeouer the Lambe of God God and man Iesus Christ whose Godhead is consubstantiall and coequall with the father and his humanity personally and indiuisibly vnited to the deity being sprinckled on our hearts soules suffice to preserue them from the infernall stroake of hell and damnation vnlesse it be mingled with the milke of a creature pardon this blasphemy O blessed Iesus Christ if it be not a blasphemy against the holy Ghost and a despighting of the spirit of grace pardon it in as many of them as do not sinne vnpardonably for thy mercies sake Amen But say I pray thee tell vs in good earnest If so we may presume to call a Iesuites proctor to his answere is there not a more soueraigne Antidote for a sinful soule then a mixture cōpound of Maries milk and Christ his blood then tel vs who can make this mixture who hath the skill sufficient for this confection who giues the true dosse who apointes the quantities Mithridats and triacles for the body are not compositions for euery conceit nor matters for euery hand to make but rather beseeming the skilfullest and require the ouerviewing eye of the whole Colledge of Phisitions shall then the heauenly Antidote of the soule be compounded without a heauenly Phisition say then Man if thou dare stand to thy deedes who was the Phisition that prescribed and gaue thee this receipt was it God the father the fountaine of holinesse and happinesse himselfe saith no for thus proclaimed he twise from heauen of Iesus Christ This is my welbeloued sonne in whome I am well pleased In none as in him Math. 3. At his baptisme c. Math. 17 At his transfiguration nay in none no not in his mother but in for and by him Thus the father of heauen hath testified that the blood of his sonne is one sufficient soueraigne simple for a heauenly Methridate Now shew thou and take the Pope to helpe thee where euer he testified so much of her milke but if no such thing nay nothing at all then he was not the Phisition that prescribed this mixture Who then was it Christ himselfe the sonne of God and the sonne of this woman No for of himselfe he saith My flesh is spirituall meate indeede Iohn 6. and my blood is heauenly drinke indeede but of her he saith that euery true beleeuing Christian Matb 12.4.6 is his mother as well as she in the best sence and much more then she had shee beene no more but the mother of his flesh surely then if this be a lawfull mixture which this papist makes the sonne was much to blame to say so much of his owne blood that it is drinke indeed and that it giues the drinkers eternall life c. and not one word of his mothers milke Not a word sayd I I recall that for when once a certain woman hearing him preach not for any thing she saw in her but for the powerfull and gratious words that came from him would haue had her wombe blessed that bare him Luke 11.27.28 and her paps that gaue him sucke the worst whereof is better then her milke he instantly answered her that much more blessed was euery man that heard Gods word and kept it If no extraordinary blessednes belong to the wombe that bare him in that respect onely because it bare him carnally If none to the wombe nor paps which shal endure for euer then how much lesse to the milke that fed him which is vanished shall be no more If Christ would not match her wombe or paps with a man that feared God what will he say to them that make her milke a match for his owne blood the milke being a matter farre inferiour either to wombe or paps Thus they may see that Christ is not a fit Phisition to make this mixture What then was the holy Ghost the Phisition that framed this receipt No for he by his deuine power conceiued Christ in that holy and miraculous maner that Christ was fully without originall sin and therefore his blood might well be a pure and perfect simple to make the Aqua Caelestis that must quicken dead soules let them approue as much of her if they can they speake and write that she was conceiued without sinne originall and haue a holy day for it but they can not prooue it it is an Article of our faith and grounded on plaine wordes of Scipture Learned Papists hold that the Popes Buls and the decree of the counsell of Basil do not conclude it as an article of faith that Christ was conceiued without sinne and though the whore of Babilon affirme as much of her yet was she yet neuer so impudent as to conclude it an article of the faith Thus God the father the sonne and the holy Ghost doe all disclaime the composition of this Antidote as neither prescribed nor allowed by them Who then may be imagined to be this Phisition was it Moses no Exodus 12. for he allowed nothing to be mingled with the blood of the pascall Lambe was it Esaias no for he auoucheth that with his stripes Esay 53 are wee healed and his stripes were not without blood Was it Zacharia Zacha. 9.11 no for he teacheth that the Church is saued by the blood of her couenant which is grounded onely on the Messias If any other Prophet let them shew him was it Iohn Baptist no for he testified that not the mother of his Lord but his Lord Iesus Christ was that Lambe of God that takes away the sinnes of the Worlde Iohn 1.29 Was it St. Paul no for he teacheth the Romaines that we are iustified freely by his blood beholde yee Romanists Ro. 3.24.25 there 's no milke and the Ephesians that we haue redemption through his blood yet there is no milke Ephes 2 13. Coloss 1.14 and the Collossians that he set vs at peace through the blood of his crosse not the milke of her paps Hebrews 9.12 and the Hebrewes that not with any milke but with his owne blood he obtained eternall redemption for vs to conclude 13. times at least in his Epistles doth he mention the blood of Christ to the same purpose and with the same honour as afore not once did he so much as name our Ladies milke surely either this was an intollerable omission in Saint Paul not once to name it else presumptuous impiety in the Papists to match it with blood of the sonne of God Then who is it was it St. Peter whome you bragge to be the founder nay the foundation of your Church and head of your herarchie No that blessed Apostle renounceth it for he proclaymeth to all the worlde 1 Pet. 1.2 that we are elect through the sprinkling of the blood of Iesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.81 heere is no milke and
deceiuer proclayming great and soueraigne power in that which is nothing worth for I say againe if it be true that to him that ioyneth circumsision to Christ Christ is no Sauiour then we dare boldly say to him that ioyneth a creatures milke in equallity with Christs blood Galath 5. that blood of Christ is of no vertue for circumsision is of the fathers nay it was Gods owne ordination Genes 17 But her milke is meerely apart and no essentiall part of her body which is a creature and as for the mixture of it with his blood it is an impious deuice of prophane pollititians not derogating from the dignity but euē quite abollishing the glory of the mediator then if his passion may not be ioyned with circumsision may his blood be mixed with her milke But what is it that he proclaymeth vulnera restituent c. Christs wounds will restore heale the spirituall sores of a sinfull Lazar we beleeue it wil they wil do so much more yet not for his sake that saith so for we knowe that deuills thēselues for a vantage would beare witnes to Christ But for his sake that said Math. 8.29 He was wounded for our transgressions He was broken for our iniquities Esay 53. the chastisement of our peace was vpon Him with His Stripes are we healed and for his owne sake especially who said it and did it I lay downe my life for my Sheep Thus he hath said well and truly of the wounds Iohn 10. but the wounds of Christ will not serue his turne He therefore addeth Vbera reficient c. The Pappes will quench refresh thirstie soules And will they so who taught you that Diuinitie will a creatures paps quench and satisfie that soule that hungreth and thirsteth after righteousnesse Say ye children of iniquitie haue you not read Esay the Prophet who tels vs He was despised He was afflicted Esay 53. He was broken He was plagued and all for vs His stripes healed vs and not a worde of her nor her Milke but al of him his stripes and his wounds what will ye say wanted he knowledge of her worthinesse or deuotiō to her deserts Can ye say the first without blasphemye to God or the second without iniurie to the Prophet could it be he knew not her who knew her sonne * Indeed the Papists haue taught so in former times so saith their maraile could he foresee him and not her or could any such mistery be kept frō him who spake and wrote as he was inspired by Gods spirit and to conclude was it not he that saith Beholde a virgin shall conceiue and bring forth a sonne euen Emanuell Iesus Christ so that it 's plaine as the Prophet knew a Messias should come and should saue his people by dying for them so also he foresaw and knew he should be borne of a virgin If thē the prophet had knowledge of her dare ye say he wanted due deuotion and yet one of these you must say and for want of one of these you must condemne him who names none but Christ or else your selues who dare mixe her milke with his blood But is this all No Illa mihi ad pestem Ista mihi ad febres One can heale spirtuall pestilence the other spirituall feuers see what difference there is by their religion betwixt her milke and his blood are not these men great and deuout honorers of Christ and his suffering that can finde other helpes to heale their soules besides his blood But if it be thus that both can heale so wel how comes it to passe they haue so many sicke soules in popery euen sicke of all spirituall diseases espetially seeing by their owne doctrine and daily practise it is apparant they can neither want the one nor the other of these 2. simples for first they say they make Christs blood euery day then they haue blood at hand continually If they say that the laytye may not haue that but onely their Preists who indeede drinke it vp all yet then they may take their Ladies milke whereof if themselues say true they haue so much in seuerall places as some that liued 100. yeares agoe do write Erasmus and others haue spoken more plainely and fully then I d◠that in those dayes it was more then a woman vpon one childe can giue out though the childe sucked none at all If that that is kept and shewed and worshipped in so many Citties of Italy France Spaine Germany be not her milke then where is the truth and honesty of that religion so to deceiue the world if it be then why are their soules so full of spirituall diseases why are they not healed seeing this Iesuit teacheth that it will heale as well as Christs blood as wel as Christs blood will some say why do you them that wrong they are neuer so wicked to speak such blasphemy No then iudge by that which followeth Ira vomit flāmas fumatque libidinis Aetna Suffocare queo Sanguine Lacte queo Liuor inexpleta rubigine saeuit in artus Detergere queo Lacte cruore queo Vanus honos me perpetua prurigene tētat Exaturare queo Sanguine lacte queo That is Let Ire belch fire and lust like Etna flame Choose either milke or bloud both quench the same Let Enuies rust canker my heart about This milke that bloud either will fetch it out Or do vainglorious passions stuffe me still Either with milke or Bloud the same I le kill Heere iudge and spare not without all partiallity whether that I said be not true that her milke wil heale as wel as Christs blood and this they affirme not in generall tearmes but in plaine perticulers if saith he Anger swell if Lust inflame me blood will quench them so wil milke are there two stronger passions two more conquering corruptions two more raging and raigning sinnes then Anger and lust yet euen these two are quenched conquered by her milke as well as Christs blood hearken ye Children of the Romish Sinagogue hearken I say what instruction your father giues you heare I pray but learne it not a creatures milke will cleanse your soules from sinne as wel as your sauiours blood O spirit of error and blasphemy whither wilt thou goe O Romish impiety when wilt thou make an end wilt thou not cease till thou hast puld downe the fire of Gods fury from heauen vpon thee O Babylon we would haue healed thee but thou wilt not be healed for who can heale him that will needes kill himselfe so who can heale thee Ierem. 51.9 whose blasphemy hath wounded and yet benūmed thy heart gone ouer thy head is ascended vp to heauen in the presence of God crieth vengeance vpon thee as for you seduced soules my deere coūtrymen you who are deceiued with shewes of holynesse and deuotion behold heere a peece of popish holynesse and of the doctrine of their deuotion that the
desired which be his blood her milke he saith to Christ Say to thy mother see my brothers thirst Mother your milke will help him at the first And to her he saith Say to thy sonne behold thy brothers bands Sweete sonne thou hast his ransome in thy hands Thus Popery makes of Christ and Mary one no greater a person then the other and of his blood and her milke one no greater a matter then the other Christ with no more reuerence to be implored then Mary his blood with no more vehemency to be desired with no more difficulty to be obtayned then her milke If this doctrine may be defended vnder pretence of deuotion then will not there want a cullour for any blasphemy But the Iesuit goeth forward and saith to Christ Ergo redemptorem monstra c. Shew thy redeeming power to soules opprest Thou sonne of that thy bloud excells the rest And shewe thy selfe iustly so stilde indeede Thou mother if thy brests the rest exceede It may be doubted in whose name he speaketh these words whether in his owne to both Christ his mother or in Christs name to his mother and in hers to him if in the first they containe blasphemy if in the second absurdity for if he suppose the virgin Mary saith thus to Christ Shew thy redeeming power to soules opprest Thou sonne if that thy blood excell the rest It is fouly absurd to imagine that she being so dignified as she is yea rather as they hold Horatius Tâ— sellinus Iesuâ— in histor lautanae in prafâ— almost deified should make an if or a question whether Christs blood excell the rest or no and much more absurd is it to make Christ seeme to be ignoraÌ„t of his mothers power and state how great it is be it more or lesse But if so be he speak these words himselfe to theÌ„ both then behold the haynous iniury done to the pretious blood of the mediator CoÌ„cerning which this wicked papist makes as much equall doubt whether it excell the blood of other creatures as he doth whether the milke of the Vrgin Mary excel the milke of all other women let all christian men shrinke and tremble at so great a blasphemy for al the learned Papists in the world may be challeÌ„dged to proue if they can out of Gods word the grounds of ReligioÌ„ that she was any more then another holy woman sauing this prerogatiue that she was his mother acording to the flesh or any more then a Saint of God sanctified by the spirit and saued by the blood of Iesus christ whose mother she was in regard of his flesh or that her milke had any vertue in the world but to nourish his body as doth the milke of other women their children for was not he a man like vnto vs in all things sinne excepted and if Christ take it no preiudice to himselfe to be like vnto men shall it be a wrong to her to be like to other women Nay we dare goe further and aske them if God haue vouchsafed once in the whole new testament so much as to name the milke of the virgin Mary whereas altogether and almost in euery chapter he extolleth the blood of Christ and is euer magnifying the vertue merrits and efficacy of the same if this be so then what shall we say to that religion and to those men who make it as questionable whether Christ Iesus his blood excell the blood of other men as whether the virgin Maries milke exceed the milke of other women is this Romish religion is this popish diuinity then see what followeth But it cannot be proued either to reason or to faith that her milke excelleth other womens in any spirituall or corporall vertue or operation therefore it is not to be proued that Christs blood is more pretious then other mens see here my deere countrymen how you are misled see what doctrine you are fed withall by your teachers open your eyes and be no longer deceiued offer not this iniury to him that gaue his life for you to make this vnequall comparison If they wil not teach you holy and found diuinity then leaue them and learne from vs or rather with vs from the holy scriptures that his blood is the price of our redemptioÌ„ but as for her milke we know no such thing since she liued on the earth acknowledge with vs that it is a fundamentall ground of Christian faith that his blood is more worth then ten worlds but that her milke is now of any vallue can neither be perswaded to reason nor belieued by faith and yet darâ— this malignant sinagogue make that as likely as probable as certaine as the other If enemies of Religion take hold heere and say that therefore the grounds of our Christianity are vncertaine and so blaspheme the blessed blood of our Sauiour we can say no more but our Church is innocent our hearts are free our hands are cleere of it woe be to them by whome the offence commeth But now let vs see how the Iesuit concludes and whether his end be any better then his beginning O quando lactabor ab vbere vulnere pascar delitiisque fruar maÌ„ma latusque tuis Parce Deus magno si te clamore fatigem non potis imperio non poti arte regi Exagitante siti Patientia perdit habenas clamores si vis tollere tolle sitim Pluris ego clauis saturasti sanguine clauos lanceaque erubuâ—t sanguine tincta tuo pluris ego pannis madueruÌ„t vndique panni nati a vulneribus Matris ab vberibus In English thus Ah when shall I with these be satisfied when shall I swimme in ioyes of brest and side Pardon O God mine eager earnestnesse if I thy lawes and reasons bounds transgresse Where thirst ore-swaies Patience is thrust away stay but my thirst and then my cries will stay Better am I then nailes yet did a streame of thy deere bloud wash both the Launce them More worthy I then clouts yet them a floude moystned of Mothers milke of Sonnes blood Now comes to his conclusion but alas his iniquity is as much at the last as at the first for still he persists in his impiety without repentance without remorce without sorrow or sence of the euill he hath done for still he sings his olde song O when shall I sucke the milke of these brests when shall I drinke the blood of these wounds His soule thirsteth but for what for milke and for blood but first for milke and then for blood If this be tollerable diuinity nay if this be holy deuotion then what did our blessed Sauiour meane to cry out to all weary and thirsty soules If any man thirst let him come vnto me and drinke I wish the Iesuits would tell vs what they thinke whether he did well or no to leaue out the Virgin Mary for if this diuinity of theirs be good then he ought to haue said If any man thirst let