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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

extr de Baptismo eius effectu Et in C. Sicut Iudaei Item extr de Iudaeis Saracenis D. Th. 22. q. 10. a. 8. ad 2. Val. tom 3 d. 1. q. 10. punct 6. lawes nor their yong children christened against both the parents will as Deuines teach How then may Ministers seeke to compell Catholikes from their Religion ●n which their Ancestours successiuely for many ages did both gloriously liue and religiously dye especially ours being a Religion which the more learned Protestants do confesse to be truly Christian and sufficient (s) See Protestāts Apology tra 2. sect 6. subd 1. to saluation 24. Were we Idolaters which in Ministers mouthes is our ordinay reproach or Heretikes with which title they please sometymes to disgrace vs what need they deuise new lawes seeing lawes haue bene enacted long since by God against the one by the Church against the other What is the reason they proceed not against vs by these lawes The cause is that when they call vs Idolaters and Heretikes their conscience doth secretly check their tōgue that these crimes are more stoutly pronounced by them then indeed practised by vs rather vttered by way of reproach then of truth Neither can iudicious Princes who measure others worthines by their owne be easily perswaded that their noble Ancestors whose valour and wisdome the admire were indeed drowned in such brutish Idolatry more then Cymerian darknesse For in truth should they proceed against vs as Idolaters and stone vs to death their harts might seeme harder then the very stones which they should force to fly at vs pursuing the faith of so many Kings Queenes Princes and famous Worthyes whose persons also they neyther would nor without exception of persons could spare being guilty with vs of the same faith were not these blessed and euerliuing stones now eternally placed in the glorious Pallace of Gods Kindgdome which the stones of malice can neither ouerthrow nor reach vnto who haue left behind them so many Monuments of their Christianity and piety which yet stand and may stand to the worlds end except Ministers destroying them imploy the stones to beat out of the world that faith and Religion that built them which should they doe the very stones if men were silent would cry vnto heauen for vengeance against them 25. And for burning vs as Hereticks such fire would giue a cleare light to make the shame of their new Ghospell apparant to all Christians should they which this their fury supposed we might expect at their handes make the fire of all Christian bookes which euen themselues doe confesse to teach the same doctrine for which Catholicks should burne For into such a flame not only so many thousand of bookes of the learned Deuines of this present age should enter but also the rest of all learned Christian Authors for these thousand (t) Protestants haue written saith M. Fulke that the Pope hath blinded the world these many hundred yeares some say a 1000. some 1200. some 900. Fulke in his treatise against Stapleton Martial pag. 25. yeares without any question and all the rest of all ancient Fathers some for one point some for another would by the Protestant Censure be cast on the same heape to serue for fewell from which their priuate spirits interpreting Scripture as they please would neuer be able to keep eyther the blessed Apostles or Christ himselfe who hath giuen his word neuer to part from the mouth and doctrine of his Church in any age to the (u) Matt. 28. v. 20. worlds end A fire made of so sacred fewell would yield rather flames of diuine loue to comfort the hart then corporall flames to consume the body neyther might that fire be thought so much to turne the sacred members of the Martyr into ashes as embalming his holy Reliques with the myrh of immortall memory commend them as pledges of Christiā cōstancy to the custody of future ages Such a death-bed how comfortable might it be to a Martyr where the flagrant sent of holy Scriptures by which Fathers proue their doctrine and as with flowers adorne their writings might make him with the glorious (*) S. Laurence Deacon in the middest of flames seeme to lye vpon roses where their sweet and diuine eloquence declaring the ioyes of heauen and miseryes of this life would yield a more pleasing gale of ●ynd to coole his burning heat then that which bedewed ●e Babylonian furnace where finally the rarest spices of all manner of learning conteyning within them the fiery per●me of Christian piety laid on a heape and set on fire ●ight make them neuer enuy the odoriferous death-bed of ●●e Arabian byrd And should they stay their fury against ●●ese bookes not to make our death more glorious and ●●eir cruelty more barbarous in the eye of the world yet ●●e bookes themselues full of spirit and zeale of their Au●●ors would be ready to leape into such a fire and to dye ●ith them in whose hartes they kindled the fire of that vi●orious fayth From which kept by force they would ●●mayne as so many fiery tongues to torment the conscienes of them that set such a glorious faith on fire togeather ●ith which had all Christian bookes that teach it beene ●urnt no ancient writer for Christianity had bene left So ●●at Catholicke Religion is indeed so glorious and so full of Maiesty euen in the eyes of her enemyes that they deuise ●●d enact new lawes to proceed against her disgraced with ●gly tearmes of treason or sedition against the State trem●ling to behould her stand at the bar in her natiue beauty ●nd Princely robes which lawes are the good and Godly ●eanes or salues to heale vs which M. Crashaw doth so much ●ag of 26. Now let vs looke into the lawes wherewith the Catholicke Church hath sought to heale The cause why Protestants are punished by Catholicks and reforme ●rotestants whose proceeding therin will appeare to haue ●eene both iust and mercifull and efficacious to worke ●hat effect if you consider eyther the cause for which or ●he lawes by which they were punished or the manner of ●he execution of them The cause of their punishment hath ●uer beene their leauing the Church whereof they were ●hildren their forsaking the faith whereof they were pro●essours their reuolting from the army whereof they ●ere souldiers their rebelling against the Kingdome wher●f they were subiects a thing punishable by the law of all Nations as by the law of all Cōmon-wealths doth appeare and among Christians the very brand of heresie set on he● forhead to make her knowne therby euen by Gods own● word they went out from vs (x) 1. Ioan. 2. v. 19. 2. Iud. v. 19. these are they which segregate themselues and that Protestants haue thus reuolted the world ca● witnesse Caluin (z) Discessionem à toto mundo facere coacti sumus ep 141. pag. 273. confesseth Now how great inexcusable this sinne is