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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19582	The Iesuites gospell: vvritten by themselues. Discouered and published by W. Crashaw, B. of Diuinity, and preacher at White-chappell	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.; Sribanius, Carolus, 1561-1629.	1621 (1621)	STC 6017; ESTC S109062	67,429	118

though there were no saluation but by bloud and as though blessed Maries milke had no merit at all It seemes that as thou wert a persecutor and delighted in bloud afore thy conuersion so thou beares still a bloudy mind but now behold these meeke milde and mercifull men the Iesuits a generation that loues no cruelty nor seekes to shed no bloud as most nations Witnesse in England the Powder treasō In France the last Kings death the present wars in Sweden and broyles in Poland c. of the world can well beare witnesse these sweete and gracious fathers being possessed with a better spirit are weary of bloud and do rather choose and desire milke to quench the spirituall thirst of their soules If they would vtter what their prophane harts think or discouer openly what they mutter amongst themselues we should here them publish euen such diuinity as this is a taste whereof besides the present poems you shall read anon But now for his conclusion this blaspheming Iesuite dare proceede and turne his speech to God and not fearing the commaundement that forbids him to take Gods Name in vaine vnder paine of standing guilty at the barre of Gods iustice hee dare offer to abuse the name of God with such a prayer as this O Lord thou must pardon mee though I cry aloud for it is not bloud will serue my soule I long for milke and am so a thirst that I may not keepe silence and why Lord shouldest thou so long keepe me a Pe●ioner in this case I am better then the nayles yet they had bloud inough I am not so vile as clouts yet they wanted neither milke nor bloud What kind of men are these Iesuits or what a God is their God to whom they dare present such a prayer as this surely they thinke as basely of him as they doe highly of themselues or else they neuer durst thus insult ouer him thus abuse him as after he hath told them plainely that his bloud is drinke indeed and commanded them that are a thirst to come and drinke of that well of water Iohn 6. 55 Iohn 7. of life to come and tell him to his face that their soules thirst for milke they must haue it belike these crawling frogs thinke that they haue such a God as they may leape and play vpon at pleasure But O thou that dwellest in heauen langh them to scorne haue them and their wickednesse in derision and either worke them to repentance and visible conuersion or bring them to vengeance and iust confusion The Iesuite concludes with a comparison of himselfe to body and the cloaths that toucht him in his infancy and death indeed the first comparison is not much vnequall for the Iesuits are most like to nayles launces in Christs body for seeing the holy Ghost tells vs that wicked men by their sinnes did and doe pierce Christ then the Iesuites who by their Atheismes cruelties periuries equiuocations treasons and manifold impieties haue beene sharper nayles and launces in Christs body and greater dishonorers of his Religion then any other sort of men if the voyce of all Christendome the testimony of their owne brethren be true thē the Iesuits I say are not vnfitly resembled to nayles launces and indeed they are thornes in the eyes and pricks in the side of all princes and states where they come lesse maruell though they be like the nailes and speare in Christs body therefore let the Iesuit please himselfe in this comparison as long as he will we enuy it not But for the second that hee is better then the clothes that were about these two blessed bodies I say but this that either the Iesuits are farre more holy then the Prophet Esay or els he farre more humble in his owne eyes then they for he professeth in his owne the churches name that they were no better then the filthiest clout that euer was euen a menstruous cloth But saith the Iesuit I am better then the best cloth that euer was for though wee hold that God hath giuen lasting vertue to his Word and Sacraments but none that we know to rags or clouts yet we acknowledge that as farre as clothes may one excell mother those that touched the bodies of our Loid and his mother are the most precious and if we could be sure wee had them we would esteeme them aboue cloth of gold we therefore wonder how a man comming before the Lord his God dare in his prayer make himselfe better then those clothes especially hearing the Prophet cry before him O Lord all our righteousnesse is like a menstruous clout If our best be so filthy what is our nature what is our sin if he answer that this is but a cauill for he meanes that he being a man he is therefore capable of grace and saluation which the cloathes are not I thinke so also But why then doth hee enuy that milke and bloud should touch them If he meane the materiall and reall milke and bloud that were in the bodies of Christ and his mother then he is more then mad to enuy the nayles the launce the clouts for that they did touch them and yet he cannot and if he complaine that he may not we aske him why then did not the Apostles take more carefull order to gather vp and preserue that milke and bloud or if they did not at least why did they not complaine of the want of them as he doth heere surely either they had too little deuotion or the Icluirs too much superstition But if he meane the vertue merit and efficacy of the bloud and milke then let him answere vs two short questions First what spirituall vertue and power had that milke what did it worke in our saluation more then the milke of another woman could what did it merrit for vs what the bloud did we know and most willingly do acknowledge but what the milk did or can do if the Iesuites can tell and teach vs wee will not refuse to learne But supposing that it had as much vertue as the bloud as the Iesuite affirmes but farre be it from vs once so to thinke then secondly wee aske him whether he thinke the Nayles Launce and Clouts were partakers of the vertue and merrit of that bloud if he do let him shew where he receiued such diuinity if not then to what end complaines he to God in such a fashion Lord I am better then the Nayles and Clouts and yet they had Bloud and Milke inough but I dye for thirst If this be not to take Gods name in vaine and that in a high measure we appeale to all Christian men of reasonable iudgement And thus at last are we come to an end of this Iesuiticall Gospell the impiety whereof I now remit to the censure of the Christian world And for my conclusion least any should say that this is but one priuate Iesuits deede and therefore may not preindice the