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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13916	A breefe treatise of the vertue of the crosse and the true manner hovv to honour it. Translated out of French into English.; Brief traicté de la vertu de la croix et de la manière de l'honnorer. English.	La Faye, Antoine de, 1540-1615.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1599 (1599)	STC 24216; ESTC S103275	31,239	94

those that were marked who elsewhere are called the elect of God or those whom the Lord knowes and graunts to be his because hee hath signed them with his seale and as the scripture saith Written their names in the booke of life For as saith S Paul 2. Cor. 1. verse 21. 22 Jt is he that hath annoynted vs sealed vs and hath giuen the earnest of his holyspirit in our hearts God then declared to Ezechiell that Jerusalem should be destroyed by the Babylonians but yet notwithstanding that hee would spare some small number of them which feared him and mourned for the iniquities of their fellow Cittizens In contrarie sence is that spoken in the Apocalips 16. verse 2. The Angell powred foorth his vyall and there f●liagreeuous and noysome soare vppon the mer which had the marke of the beast as much to say as the seruants of Antechriste Such in the liuely sence of this place as it is most manifest to them who read it with iudgement and without partialitie yet is it badly wrested and so phistically applied by these fellowes who would hereon build the signe of the crosse whereof the Prophet neuer thought in all the passage The second foundation is a gathering of places from some of olde times confusedly recited and for the most part chaunged and altered as it may appeare by that allcaged of Saint Athanasius for Saint Athanasius magnifying the vertue of our Lord Iesus Christ said Jt appeared heerem That although the Pagans mocked at his death and passion yet the signe of the crosse and inuocation on the name of Christ should chase away deuils and make their diuinations to cease But that which the placarde auoucheth neuer was spoken by Saint Athanasus to wit that God made great account of this Signe and he caused it to be forctold by the Prophet Ezechiell Notwithstanding we denie not that to authorize the preaching of the Gospell reiected as then by the Pagans who stretched then almost through the world that God did many miracles by the name of Chirst Iesus crucified And that is it which the same Athanasius declareth in the beginning of his booke against Idols After the comming of the Crosse all adoration to Images was to be taken away and by that marke all deuillish deceites should be shased away and the only Christ worshipped and his Father knowns and those which blasphemed him dayly eonfounded By which woordes is witnessed the vertue of Christ acknowledged in his crosse and not any naked signe it is then Sophistrie to take seperately that which was spoken ioyntlytogither The second testimonie is of Epipbanius who speaking of one Joseph of Tiberias saith he was made a Christian in the time of Constantine vncharmed from the furnace and chopping of chalke to build a Christian temple in the Cittie of Tiberias Now we must not so slightly part from this testimonie because the placarde intends to proue hereby and in this example of Joseph that the Christians enemies haue themselues submitted to the signe of the crosse As for this Ioseph of whome hee speaketh he was not an enemie to the christians because he was a Christian and builded a temple vnto Christ now then it is very likely that whatsoeuer was done here in must needs be for the reasō before named to wit if the charme were discharged by the power of Christ Iesus it was then through inuocation vpon his mightie name and not by any sillie naked signe If it happened by bad meanes one charme to be expelled by a counter charme as one venom or poyson is expulsed by another then God gaue efficacie to error to the end such as would bee deceiued so might be through their owne wilfulnesse The third is of Saint Gregorie in the third booke of his Dialogues and seuenth Chapter concerning a Iewe who beeing one night in the temple of Apollo where faith hee many deuils held their counsell hee made but the signe of the crosse and so was warranted from any harme Hee that in one word would vnwinde himselfe out of this place will say that such Dialogues are but filled with verie friuolous toyes But we e must bring in a more sound answere which is as hath been lately said that God did giue the strength of errour to Sathan whereby to deceiue men and Sathan seeing himselfe driuen from his Forte by Iesus Christ erected another Forte against the same Iesus Christ employing to such purpose the simplicitie of Christians in those times whose eyes he beganne in such sort to hood-winke that they might no more clearly see into the pure seruice of God Then afterward when Pagan-idolatrie began to decline day by day by the bright splendoure of true christian doctrine then the deuill steps in with idolatrie as greate or more daungerous in the midst of Christianitie so that the auncient Idols names were changed but the things themselues still continued and in flying before from the crosse hee hath done like them that draw backe to get more ground For if euer he inuented a strange kind of idolatry it was this which he brought in about the crosse Sathan finding an instrument in Christs owne house wherewith to chase the same Christ out of it if it were possible for him The fourth is of Nazeanzen who reciteth that Julian the Aposta●a figured himselfe with the crosse when he saw himselfe lost in an obscure place by euill spirits whereto one might answere as before but I heare one tel me that the example of such a miserable wretch ought not be alleaged for establishing any doctrin in the church for this were as if one wold proue Christ to be the son of the liuing God alleage the words spokē by the deuil saying Thou art Christ the son of the liuing God Math. 8. verse 29. Mark 5. verse 7 To whō our Lord imposed silence not willing to haue him a Preacher of truth who was the very father of lies In like manner they who by this deed of Julian the Apostata wold authorize the signe of the crosse mistak thēselues too much ought to know that such an example is no way allowable As likewise is not their imitatiō who not beleeuing in God nor in the blessed Trinitie place before these names of God the trinitie the Angels Prophets the beginning of the gospel according to S. Iohn make mightie signes of the crosse for furthering their enchantmēts Herehence it appeareth seeing such wicked enchanters charmes serue their own turn with euil means which simply are things no waies receiueable hereby we may wel set down this cōclusion Since Julian the Apostasta and such like made the sigue of the crosse therby was succored as is said it is apparant that this proceeded not of god but only came frō Sathan who would more more fold him into such deceits as euē so appointed by the iust iudgement of god For this case hapning extraordinarily serued so much the more for confoūding the abhominable wretch as