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spirit_n	passion_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	50	3	9.7417	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01006	The ouerthrovv of the Protestants pulpit-Babels conuincing their preachers of lying & rayling, to make the Church of Rome seeme mysticall Babell. Particularly confuting VV. Crashawes Sermon at the Crosse, printed as the patterne to iustify the rest. VVith a preface to the gentlemen of the Innes of Court, shewing what vse may be made of this treatise. Togeather with a discouery of M. Crashawes spirit: and an answere to his Iesuites ghospell. By I.R. student in diuinity.	Floyd, John, 1572-1649.; Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652, attributed name.; Rhodes, John, minister of Enborne.	1612 (1612)	STC 11111; ESTC S102371	261,823	332

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 honour of their Sauiour whom they held dishonoured by the vnequall comparing of her with him For what will not a Christian mans zeale cause him to doe (2) Not to slander any man nor to blasphem any Saynt though hypocryticall zeale will giue aduantage to Atheists against God when he seeth his God dishonored Who would haue thought that Moyses would haue cast so carelesly out of his handes so precious a Iewel as were the two tables written with the finger of God And yet when he heard the name of the Lord blasphemed he forgot himself and them and as though he remembred none but God he threw them away and brake them in peeces If Moyses zeale makes his hastines excusable no reason to condemne them whose zeale gaue passage to their passions and caused them for the honour of their Creatour to forget the priuiledge of a creature Thus he In which words few Readers I thinke can be so simple or blind not to espy a wolfe whose teeth water with desire to teare in pieces the immaculate mother of the lamb of God though he would faigne couer himselfe and do it in a sheeps skin of zeale which wil not serue his turne the example of Moyses the meekest of men being too short little by much to hyde the least particle of such monstrous fury as is giuing passage to passions against Gods Mother specially so full of blaphemy and falshood as theirs are 20. And first to discouer his faygned zeale marke as I touched before how it is hoat or cold as he pleaseth sometimes dutifull to truth against Gods honour somtymes zealous of Gods honour against truth as the taking vpon him a shew of eyther of these zeales may best serue his turne to giue vnder pretence of piety a passage to his passions against the Pope Somtimes his zeale to Gods honour is so calme that he is content God be euen denyed not caring though his discourse may giue aduantage therunto At other times so hoat in the spirit and zealous of Gods honour that the least sound of a blasphemy though but in a poeme will put him into a traunce where forgetting the true priuiledge of a creature to honour the Creatour he will thinke it no sinne to speake vildely and irreuerently of his Mother vttering slaunders that may giue blemishes to her blessed state Is any man so blind that doth not see this zeale to be coūterfayt true neither towards truth nor God which he can make hoat and cold sweet and sower carefull carelesse of the same thing as he pleaseth Can any thing be in that hart sincere from which both hatred and neglect of blasphemy both reuerence and contempt of truth both zeale and carelesnesse of Gods honour doth flow Secondly heere you may discouer the impiety of Ministers and the true cause why they so curiously search into our writings to find some speaches concerning the Blessed Virgin that may seeme blasphemy which when they haue found wrapping their woluish intentiōs in a sheeps skin of zeale against it they straight fal into a traunce forgetting thēselues and giuing passage to their passions against her whom they hate the more because the Church of God doth highly honour her 21. In this zeale we cannot deny but Iohn Caluin the Moyses of their new Law did forget himselfe and the Virgin how he remembred God her Sonne let the Reader iudge whē he wrote that in the birth of Christ she was so broken and weakened that the fourty daies before her Purification were not sufficient for her to recouer her forces but God did yet spare her donec ex (3) Caluin Harmon in cap. 2. Matth. v. 3. puerperio conualesceret that she might gather vp her strength lost in the labour of child-birth In this zeale doe diuers Protestants giue passage to their passions accusing her to haue committed as great sinnes as Eue (4) Cētur l. 1. cēt 1. the Mother of mischiefe vnto all mankind making her the very type of Heretikes and Infidels carnall (5) Sarcerius in Euāgel de festo annunciat apud Canisium l. 4. de Deipar c. 7. and prophane men In which passion a Lutheran preaching vpon her answere to the Angell How can this be done called her Zuinglian and (6) Georg. Muller apud Hospin 2. p. fol. 390. Caluinist whom they hate no lesse if not more then (7) Insatanized supersatanized persatanized Luther apud Tigur in tract 3. cōt suprē confess Lutheri Diuels But no man more like Moyses in forgetting himselfe and breaking in pieces the tables of the Law then our English Minister (8) In his booke of Christian exercise p. 669. M. Buney who dareth to write that when that innocent sorrowfull LADY stood at the foot of the Crosse she brake foure commaundements of God at one clap the first the fifth the sixt the ninth by this blasphemous slaūder breaking into pieces both the tables of the Law in her Virginall hart where Christian antiquity did euer belieue they were (9) De Sācta Maria Virgine nullam habere volo cùm de peccatis agitur mentionē quae gratiā habuit ad vincendū omni ex parte peccatum Aug. de nat grat c. 36. inuiolably kept In this pretēded zeale M. Crashaw practising himselfe what he doth patronize in others thinking or making a shew to thinke that we compare her breasts and milke with the wounds and bloud of Christ doth likewise forget himselfe saying that no extraordinary (10) In his Iesuits Ghospell pag. 44. blessednesse doth belong to the wombe of the Virgin none to her breasts in this regard only that they did breed and feed the Sonne of God that she whome we do so exalt is no more then another (11) pag. 91. holy woman but a belieuing (12) pag. 36. Iew. And giuing further passage to his passions he doth not only beate her sacred wombe and breasts into dust wormes by scoffing at her assumption into heauen (13) pag 95. but also carelessely casteth them out of his hart into a lower place then wormes magots by a foule comparison of them her milke with other (14) pag. 92 womens not excepting the most impurest Strumpet What Seneca (15) L. 3. de ira c. 14. said of the arrowes which a barbarous (†) Cambyses Tyrant did fasten in the hart of a child making the same his marke praysed by the flattering (¶) Praexaspes Father of the child that stood by we may say of these blasphemies that do so deeply penetrate into the hart and honour of Christs Mother iustified by M. Crashaw that they are sceleratiùs laudata tela quàm missa not so barbarously discharged as commended that the tongue is more blasphemous that doth prayse such passions