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A69161 The Iesuites gospel: by W. Crashawe, B. of Diuinity and preacher at the Temple Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.; Scribanius, Carolus, 1561-1629. 1610 (1610) STC 6016; ESTC S113949 57,198 110

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sinnes of the soule are cleansed and taken away aswell by a creatures milke as by Christ his blood is this the catholike doctrine they brag so much of is this the catholike Church that teacheth such diuinity is this the chaire of S. Peter the seate that cannot erre If it be so then what didst thou meane thou St. Iohn Euangelist to teach that it was Iesus Christ that faithfull witnesse Reuel 1.5 that first begotten from the dead and that Prince of the Kings of the earth euen he and not any creature who hath loued vs and washed vs from our sinnes in his blood sure either must thou recant this doctrine els they that boast themselues to be successors of thy brother Peter may be ashamed of theirs who tell vs that our sins are washt away in her milke as well as by his blood and you that are the dutiful and deuoted children of that Romish sear be Iudges euen your selues in this case what can be said heereunto how can it stand with scripture or with the tenor of true catholike faith or how can it any way be defended that a creatures milke can quench the fire of sinne in the soule as well as Christ his blood Can ye say that heere is onely ascribed to her and her milke a deriued vertue from another and that the original and fundamentall power is onely and wholy in Christ and his blood if it were so it were lesse euill though Christ Iesus may not nor will not bestow the prerogatiues of his Mediatorship on any creature but looke and wade ouer the words againe and again expound them with any fauour that the wordes may beare and you shall not see the least difference Suffocare queo Sanguine Lacte queo Detergere queo Lacte Cruore queo If Lust burne Anger boyle Enuy fret Vaineglory swell I can helpe it with blood so can I with milke I can helpe it with milke so can I with bloud there can be no greater equalitie made betwixt any two thinges in the worlde then here they make betwixt this Bloud and Milke Can it be said that the Author is a Poet and said thus but to make vp the Verse which otherwise wold not haue falne so fitly surely no for a yong versifier can soone shew how the verses might haue run aswell as they do if he had not purposely laboured to sort his verse to his matter and not the matter to the verse For thus he might haue said Detergere queo sanguine Christe tuo with very little alteration And so of the rest but he as truly endeuoured to magnifie the milke as the bloud and therefore without any necessitie of the verse giues the same power place preheminence in euery respect to the milke as to the bloud but had he bene as sound and sincere a Christian as he is a good Poet he might in as good verses haue giuen all the honour to Christ as he deserueth Therefore my deere country-men be no longer seduced by a Religion so fraught with Atheisme blasphemy impyety doe but looke into the Scriptures Counsels or Fathers yea aske the honestest learnedst of your owne religiō or any except Iesuits or such other like them who frame a religiō to their owne purposes If this be tollerable Diuinitye that the Milke of the Virgin doth cleanse mans soule from sinne aswell as Christ his bloud If it be not diuinity but blasphemy no Christian doctrine but impiety and yet suffered yea approued in the Romane Church both by doctrine and practise then returne to that truth and holy religion which out of Gods word and according to the purest antiquity is established amongst vs with heart voice ioyne with vs to imbrace and say Amen to that holy doctrine of blessed St. Iohn who saith it is Iesus Christ that loued vs and washed vs from our sinnes by his blood to him be glory for euer and euer Amen This was his religion this is ours oh that it were yours also he sucked this diuinity out of that blessed brest of Gods sonne whereon he leaned and if he had sucked thence this diuinity of the Iesuits that the virgin Mary washed vs from our sinnes by her milke surely he would neuer haue concealed it from vs nor haue depriued her of the honour nor vs of the comfort that thereby might accrewe both to her and vs for he was her sonne by her owne adoption yea her sonne by the gift and nomination of her sonne and sauiour yea her sonne in loue duty and all respectiuenesse could he then or would he in any sort obscure her due glory would he giue too much to her sonne and too little to her would he giue all that to her sonne which in parte was hers can this may this or dare this be immagined by any Iesuit If not then how dare they extend their deuotion beyond his and ascribe that to her which he neuer did yea that to her which he appropriates to Iesus Christ If they thinke that Peter had more deuotion then Iohn 1. Pet 2.24 hearken then what he saith Iesus Christ his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the tree let the words be pondered Iesus Christ saith he bare our sinnes true say they but so did the virgin Mary also No saith Peter he himselfe his owne selfe bare them yea in his body he bare them in his body say they that is true but he beares them in his mysticall body in his members much more therefore in his mother which is more then many members of his body nay saith St Peter he bare our sinnes his owne selfe in his body but what body euen that body that was on the tree therefore if St Peter preach true diuinity then is this doctrine of your Teachers hainous blasphemy All that may be imagined for their defence at the best is this that all this is but poeticall hyperbolicall or proceedes from the passion height of deuotion but that in truth and earnest he ascribes all to Christ to his blood makes his prayer to him and puts the confidence of his heart in him alone but least any man should haue the least suspition of him this way or thinke so good a thought of him he deales yet more plainely and to preuent all such thoughts and obiections he makes his prayer both to the mother and the sonne without any difference in the world to the one for her milke to the other for his blood for thus he saith Ergo par ens et nate meis ad vertite votis Lac peto depereo sanguinem vtrūque volo That is Mother and Sonne giue eare to what I craue I begge this milke that blood both would haue Heere is plaine dealing it is not the Sonne and his blood that will serue his turne he must also haue the mother and her milke is not this good catholike doctrine and deuotion but further is it not strange to see how he
knowne after the flesh Popeay saith Christ is yet to be knowne and worshipped as a childe Heb. 1.3 The Scripture saith Christ bears vp all thinges by his mighty worde Popery saith christ is now borne in his mothers armes Heb. 9. The Scripture saith Christ sitteth for euer at the right hand of God Popery saith Christ is playing in his mothers armes Psal 110. The Scripture saith Christ tarieth at his Fathers right hand till his enemyes bee made his footstoole Popery soith Hee is in heauen till it please the Pope to allow a picture at Hal or Sichem 1. Tim. 3.16 The Scripture saith Without Controuersye great is the mystery of godlynesse that Iesus Christ is receiued vp into glory Popery saith Without controuersie that it is no such mystery for Christ is still in his mothers armes Luke 24. The Scripture saith Christ must suffer and so enter into his glory Popery saith Christ after all his sufferings must againe be subiect to the infirmyties of an infant Out of all this followeth a conclusion of good vse It hath bene often obiected to the Romish Church that they haue not true Christ left amongst thē but an Idoll of their owne rearing erected in their owne carnall fancies now that this is no slaunder no cauill no hybolicall nor figuratiue speech nor an accusation forced vpon them against their wills is apparant by their owne doctrine and practise in this place for the Christ of God and of his Church is God equall to the father and can do all things himselfe the Christ of the Romish church is a childe inferiour to his mother and may deny her nothing The true Christ being man grew in stature and wisedome and being growne a man so liued and dyed rose againe and was glorified and neuer decreased but theirs is now become a childe againe and a playing infant the true Christ sitteth at the right hand of God his father theirs is borne in the armes of Mary his mother Hence the conclusion is euident that therefore the Romish Christ is not the true christ of God and of the true christian church This conclusion I demonstrate thus the title of these verses is this To our Lady of Hall and the Childe Iesus this childe they speake of is either Iesus Christ indeed or it is not if not then they proclaime them selues lyers and impostors if it be then my conclusion stands good for this Iesus in all the forenamed respects and many more differeth from the true Iesus and sauiour of Christian men let them take whether they will the better is to bad But now let vs see what is that he saith to this childe Iesus Quid me respectas c. Why saith he doest thou frowne on me thou prety childe art thou angry with me for desiring thy milke doest thou chide me that I dare presume to aske the milke of thy mothers teates this is all the cause he layeth of Christ his anger what shold a man say to this what would a Iew say what will an Atheist thinke of it surely they will deride and laugh at that religion that allowes it if our Christ be such a one as is angry at such a cause But say I pray thee thou Romish Iesuit thou wantest neither wit nor learning to giue answer speakest thou in iest or earnest If in Iest then knowest thou with whome thou iestest considerest thou that it is Iesus of Nazareth the great one of God he of whose kingdome there shall be no end he that is the brightnes of Gods glory and the ingrauen forme of his person he at whose remembrance the diuels tremble to whome all knees bowe in heauen earth and hell ' and darest thou exercise thy wit and whet thy stile and practise thy poetical vaine vpon him and vnto him that now hauing conquered sinne death and hell sitteth now at the right hand of Maiesty in the highest places darest thou present such a petition as this O pretty childe doe not enuy me that I should touch thy mothers paps with which I perceiue thou wilt suffer none to play but thy selfe oh be not angry that I long for that which is thine namely for the milke of thy mothers teats didst thou euer finde in scriptures or sound antiquity that any holy man did euer conceiue of him or speake to him on this fashion no for its rather asporting speech fit to be spoken to a playing childe then a salutation fit to be tendered to the sonne of God Sauiour of the world But if thou say thou speakst in earnest according to the truth of religion and soundnesse of diuinity then tel me I pray thee in earnest is this any part of christian faith or is it catholike diuinity that Christ Iesus is offended with that man that shall desire to touch the Virgin Maries papps or to taste of her milke not in this regard that its a thing not possible and therefore indeede not to be wished by a Christian but because they be peculiarly propperly his paps his milke still as they were when he was an infant If this be Romish diuinity alas for the sheep that are fed in such pastures and filld with such doctrine for this is fundamētally both false impious false for if it be true that the holy scriptures teach 1. Cor. 5. that Iesus Christ is now no more to be knowne nor conceyued of according to the flesh that is as a meere and mortall man but as a glorified man a spirituall conquerour of his enemies and a spirituall head of his Church If this I say be true that he is no longer to be knowne as a man as he was vpon earth then it is false that he is still to be conceyued of and spoken vnto as a playing childe Besides it is impious and irreligious and a step to Atheisme to imagine that Christ our God and Sauiour is offended for such an imaginary toy as this is to touch his mothers paps or to desire her milke and what enemies of our religion would not loudly laugh at this our Christ whome we so magnifie that we make him the rest of our soules to be such a one as he is heere described namely one that chides him that dare touch his mothers paps for so saith the verse Tune meas Mammas improbe tune meas That is Darest thou desire the teates my food lyes in Alas how shall the mouthes of Turkes and Iewes be stopped from blaspheming and saying Is this your Christ is this the glory of christianitie is this he whome you make a God are these the sins he is offended withall Surely no wayes can such and fowler blasphemyes be preuented but that the Christian world publikely renounce condemne and curse this damned doctrine as being the priuate and impious blasphemye of the Machiuillian Iesuits but not the Catholike doctrine of christianity For we cannot deny but there is a generation of vipers bred of the corruption and putrifaction