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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19589	The sermon preached at the Crosse, Feb. xiiii. 1607. By W. Crashawe, Batchelour of Diuinitie, and preacher at the temple; iustified by the authour, both against Papist, and Brownist, to be the truth: wherein, this point is principally intended; that the religion of Rome, as now it stands established, is still as bad as euer it was	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1609 (1609)	STC 6028; ESTC S118191	115,004	191

when you can scarce shewe three poore housholdes in all the earth of your Religion as namelie in the daies of ABRAHAM and long both before and after then can we prooue that all the Kingdomes and Nations of the whole earth were of ours Neuer brag that Abraham was of your religion and therefore you are antient for his Father and his Grand-father were ours and therfore we are elder Againe during all the time you haue had your Kings and Priests shewe one nation by you conuerted or one that came and ioyned with you of all that time and tho God suffered you for a time yet see how at the last he hath brought you downe and as you forsooke vs and the ancient religion which we will keepe and maintaine so he hath now giuen vs power ouer you to conquer your kingdome and deface your religion as it hath deserued therefore neuer labour to bring vs to your noueltie and new fangled religion but rather come home to vs and to the auntient religion of our forefathers neuer endeuour to seduce vs into your secret and schismaticall and inuisible Church but rather come you into the light and sun-shine of our glorious vniuersall and catholike Church neuer speake of healing vs heale your selues seely fooles for you haue neede as for vs we are well we are farre better then Israel can make vs. Thus did Babell cast away the good counsell that the Israelites gaue them and pleased themselues in the like carnall arguments fleshly conceits as Papists in their poperie and other profane men in their carnalitie do at this day setting these and many more faire glosses on their religion and thinke themselues in farre better case then the Israelites yet when God comes to giue the verdite they are sick and which is worse are past healing Here we may learne 1 First the pittifull estate of wicked men They are wounded nay they will be wounded but will not be healed they will wound themselues but neither can heale themselues not will let others heale theÌ„ are not they worthy to perish they are in the fire neither will come out nor let others pull them out are they not worthy to burne being in prison the doore set open to them and they will not stir to come out are they not worthy to bee slaues for euer they are deadly sick the Physition comes to them that is able to heale them and they will not heare them are they not worthy to die O deafe adders that stop their eares against the voice of the best and wisest charmers and yet these men are the mockers and scorners of them that be godly and the discouragers of many a man in the waies of God Some seeing their worldly prosperity stand amazed and enuy their estate but alas why should any man do so for if their estate be rightly considered they deserue rather to be pittied then either enuied or any way regarded Further heere we may see how it fares with Gods children in this world oft times they must lose their labour when they haue sincerely and zealously endeuoured the conuersion of sinners Israel would haue heale Babel but when all is done she will not be healed So saith Salomon Rebuke a scorner and he will hate thee y Prou. 9. 8 No maruell if this be so with priuate men when the Ministers and Prophets of the Lord find oftentimes so little profit of their great labours that they cry out I haue laboured in vaine and spent my strength in vaine z Esay 49. 4 And Ministers may not thinke much hereat for the Prophet makes that coÌ„plaint not in his owne person onely and his fellow Prophets but euen in the person of Christ himselfe whose labour was much of it lost in this respect For it is apparant in the Gospell how little hee preuailed with many of his owne nation yea with the learned Rabbines the Scribes and Pharisies a Luâ—e 7. 30. And after all the excellent sermons made all the time before went not Iudas away fuller of Sathan then hee came b Ioh. 13. 27 And to conclude did not God himselfe preach from heauen a notable sermon to Cain and was hee not worse for it being hellishly inraged instantly after the Sermon ran out and slewe his brother c Gan. 4. 7. Thus howsoeuer Gods word neuer returns in vaine but prospers in the work whereabout the Lord dooth send it d Esay 55. 11 Yet it is here apparant that it is not alwaies the sauour of life to life but often of death to death in whose mouth soeuer it is spoken Wee must heare learne not to bee discouraged in our courses of seeking mens conuersions Priuate men to practice the dueties of admonition exhortation c. vnto their neighbours that bee out of the way Nor Ministers to preach the word with all diligence For howsoeuer thy labor may be lost to som yet know thy labour is neuer lost before God for be it the sauour of life or of death it is a sweet sauour to God sayth the Apostle e 2. Cor. 2. 14 15. 16. and tho in regarde of men that wil not be cured thou hast laboured in vain and spent thy strength in vaine yet saith the Prophet My iudgement is with the Lord and my work with my God f Esa. 49. 4. And let not the good man of God be too much cast downe tho he see little fruit of his great labours remembring that IESVS CHRIST and God himselfe haue lost their labour vpon many men and heere the Church hath many yeares endeuoured to cure Babel and all is in vaine For she will not be healed And will shee not what then remaines but this that followeth Let vs forsake her c. The 3. point FOr after all meanes vsed and all in vain then what should we do but forsake them that needs will bee forsaken of God and haue nothing to do with them who will haue no fellowship with the Lord This is the third generall point and touching it there bee three particulars examinable namely 1. how Babel is to be forsaken 2 why 3. wheÌ„ For the first how is Babel to be forsaken when there is no more hope of curing her the answere is not in loue and affectionate desire to do her good but still the wicked man is to be pittied still to be loued still to be mourned for still must the godly man wish wel to him tho he care not for it but scoffe at all Thus when the Prophet had called vppon the people g Ier. 13. 16. 17 Heare and giue eare be not proud but yeelde turne and repent and giue glory to God before he send darkenesse c. He then addeth But if you will not heare and obay my soule shall weepe in secret for your pride and mine eyes shall drop downe teares c. Thus the good man sends vp many a sigh and sheads many a teare for the

you speake of yet do they not come neere the heart they be not deadly they may blemish the beautie but indanger not the life of our Church The Churches of Corinth and Galatia had other kind of blemishes then ours hath blessed be God Corinth doubted or erred in the great article of the Resurrection 1. Cor. 15. The Galathians erred fouly in the high and maine point of Iustification and yet Corinth a Church of God sanctified in Christ Iesus 1. Corinth â— 2. And Galatia though almost remoued to another Gospell Galathians 1. 6. yet not withstanding a Church for all that Galat. 1. 2. And if you will adde to these fundamentall errours in doctrine corruptions in manners and disorders in Gods seruice you can with no shewe of truth lay such to the charge of our Church as is apparant were rise in the Church of Corinth and then shall Corinth bee a Church and not England Let the Lord bee Iudge betwixt you and vs. Therefore if wee should grant vnto you that our Church were blemished or wounded yet not beeing deadly wounded your separation from vs is schismaticall and vniust and more hardly deale you with our Church then did Gods Church euen with Babell who forsooke her not till she was deadly wounded and past life To conclude if Israel might not forsake Babel till then then what are you that dare forsake a Church of God wherein yee haue found God if euer ye found him yet and wherin the diuell himselfe cannot shew one deadly wound Blessed be the Lord that hath so healed vs. Secondly seeing they say that we are wounded but as for theÌ„selues they be healed therefore they must separate and so keep the sound from the sicke I aske them this question Are they healed then where were they healed where were they called where were they regenerat begotten to Christ was it not in the wombe of this our Church by meanes of the immortall seede of Gods word that is daily sowen in our Church and by the ministry of those men that were called by our Church and yet cleaue to our Church mourn for their separatioÌ„ by the deaw of that blessing froÌ„ aboue which is dayly poured vppon our assemblies from Gods merciful right hand Then how can they deny that to bee a true Church a holy Church a Church of God wherein ordinarily men are called and brought to God And how vnthankfull and vndutifull are they to their spirituall mother to forsake her and cast the dust of contempt in her face that bore them in her womb and brought them forth the sons of God To auoid this what can they say but one of these two things either that there is indeed a true ministery of the word amongst vs but it is not powerfull to any but theÌ„selues that we haue the word truly preached and so as it may conuert a man but it is not the sauour of life to anie but such as come into their couenant but from this horrible and hellish pride good Lord deliuer them or els let them bee assured such a height of pride is sure to haue a feareful fall Or if not this then must they say that they were not called in our Church but since they left vs But they haue bard themselues already from that plea. For it beeing obiected to them that they haue left our Church not out of conscience but out of carnall discontents and vpon fleshly reasons and worldly grounds they all stoutly answer and stifly stand to it that they do it not vpoÌ„ any such grouÌ„ds not for any reasons of flesh bloud but meerly and only out of conscience and for their saluation and that gladly they would haue staied but with a good conscience they could not If this be true then they had conscience before they left vs then where came they to that conscience and care of their saluation but in our Church Now a good conscience cannot bee seuered from regeneration and an effectuall calling therefore they cannot deny but they were regenerate and called in our Church vnless they wil say they had no conscience when they forsooke vs which if they doe then I will yeeld that my question is answered If they grant they were called afore they went and that stil they who fall from vs to them are called then how can that be but a true Church wherin by their own confessioÌ„ men are ordinarily begotteÌ„ to God how can that be but a lawful holy ministery which brings men to saluation therefore vpon their own grounds they haue no iust cause to leaue vs. For that Church and Ministry that brings a man to grace and to faith is able to bring him to glory saluation and that which is able effectually to begin is able effectually to finish the good work of God in any man Thirdly if they be healed and we still deadly wouÌ„ded then I ask them How haue they sought and sufficiently endeuoured our healing and till they haue done al that possibly can be done for our healing how dare they forsake vs For if the Israelites might not forsake Babel til then shall they forsake vs afore they haue put all meanes to the farthest if they be healed already why doe they not more seriously labour the healing of others They cannot but knowe there be many in our Church curable inough if they coulde shew them to need their healing why then doe not they stay amongst vs to heale and helpe vs He is no good Physician that flies and forsakes his Patient they therefore if they be healers and would heale vs as they pretend why do they not stay with vs shew vs our wounds and apply the meanes to heale vs But contrariwise they forsake vs and runne into corners and raile on vs and call vs Babylon Antichristian and the synagogue of the wicked that we are no church and Christ is not amongst vs. Are these the plaisters with which you wil heale vs is this the way to heale to make wounds wider and deeper then indeede they be Hee is a pittifull Physician that makes his Patient worse then he findes him but he is not tolerable that makes him worse then indeed he is or wil make him belieue he is heart sicke and deadly when his finger aketh They alledge persecution and that therefore they cannot stay with vs but are constrained to leaue vs but assuredly were it true that they say that wee were deadly wounded and they able to heale vs then seeing they cannot say that all amongst vs are incurable they would care for no danger that could befall their bodies so that they might heale our soules and gaine them to God Therfore I conclude that if we would grant them their owne grounds that they are as good as they pretend to be and wee as ill as they would make vs yet notwithstanding their separation is vnchristian because its certaine none of them can haue assured testimony to his

c. shall say ouer the Rosarie being confessed or hauing a purpose to confesse once a month shall for euery time hee doth so obtaine v. yeares of pardon 2. But if hee doe euery day after examination of his Conscience say three Pater nosters and three Aue Maries c. shall haue ten yeeres 3. But if hee vse euerie daie to saie ouer the Psalter of our Lady shall for euerie Saturday weekelie obtaine a hundred yeeres 4. Hee that shal thrice in a weeke say ouer the Rosary of our Lady and confesse and communicate and pray shall obtaine a plenarie that is a ful remission of all all sins 5. And whosoeuer in the houre and point of death shall but say in his heart when hee cannot speake with his tongue the name Iesus shall haue a plenarie and full forgiuenes of all his sins prouided that he haue one of these blessed holy Beads Medals Crucifixes or Pictures * All these Indulgences may bee procured and obtained by hauing either about a man or lying before him one or more of these holy Medalles Crosses Beades or Images and obseruing what is afore appointed and his Holinesses will is that they shall be of force to all kinde of men and in euery place Printed at Rome by the Printer of his Holinesses priuie Chamber Paulus Bladus 1592. Lo here how Babylon is healed If a man at the point of death canne in his minde but thinke of Iesus hee shall haue full forgiuenesse of all his sinnes if hee haue one of these holy Crosses or Beades about him And is this the Diuinitie of the Romish Church is this procured by a Cardinall graunted by the Pope then answere mee but one worde Shall the thinking or naming of Iesus without true faith and repentance saue him tho hee haue a hundreth of these holie Graines about him or if he doo truely repent and beleeue in CHRIST though he haue not one of these shall hee not bee saued If those both be true as who dare denie them then phie vpon these Impostors and deceiuers who by these their Atheisticall mockeries expose religion to all contempt and these thinges beeing so common notorious no maruell tho Italie where these are riâ—est be so full of Atheists Concerning France Of late yeeres Peroun the French Cardinall hauing made a costly Iorney to Rome comming home procured of the Pope for the bearing of his charges to bee the bearer of certaine hallowed holy matters consecrated and blessed by the Pope in such a fashion as if that were true the Pope saith he were more then madde that would not as the wise Merchant sell all he hath to buie one of them d Indulgences graunted by the Holinesse of our most Holy Father Pope Clement the eight Vnto Holy Beades Rosaries Crosses Crucifixes Medals and Images being hallowed and blessed by his owne holie hands At the Instance of the Reuerende Father and Lord Iames Dauie Bishop of Eureux Counsellor to the King in his Councell of Estate and also of his priuate Counsell and principall Almoner to his Maiestie 1. 1. A hundreth yeares of pardon at an easie rate * Whosoeuer hauing one of these beades c. shall do any worke of mercy corporall or spiritual or heare a Masse or a Sermon or shall but doe reuerence to the Sacrament or to a Crosse or to a holy Image shall obtaine a hundreth yeares of pardon See what a bountiful father the Pope is Who would offer lesse for a hundreth yeares surelie hee that wil not do thus much he is worthy to lye and fry in purgatorie 2. Whosoeuer shall confesse communicate or being a Priest shall besides his masse say deuoutely one Pater noster or one Aue Mary for the Catholick Church or for the holy Father or for the King of France or for the peace of France or for the conuersion of Heretikes or other sinners shal haue for euery time he doth this a plenarie indulgence and remission of al his sins so as he haue about him one of these holy beades grains or Crucifixes And what if one want all these trumperies shal he not haue forgiuenesse if he do truly beleeue and repent Oh when wil Babylon be ashamed of such abhomination 3. Whosoeuer shall kisse one of these beads c. with deuotion shal haue for euery time he doth so ten yeares of pardon 4. Whosoeuer hath one of them about him and praieth for the successe of the Catholick Romish religion or for the K. of France shall be so oft as he doth so partaker of al the Sacrifices Prayers Fasts and other good workes done in any Abby as well as if he were a particular member of the same society 5. Hee that hath one of these about him if hee bee in danger of death or in the battel or in any place where he cannot go to confession and shall with contritioÌ„ but repeate these words Lord Iesus receiue my spirit or name the holy name Iesus shal haue forgiuenesse of all his sinnes and be discharged both Ã poena Ã culpa * His holinesse graunts that these indulgences shall be good for all men and in all places but conditionally that those that be not French-men shal pray for the King and Realme of France Except alwaies the holie Beades for those are limited to belong onely to France and to bee good to none but onely French men Imprinted at Rome with licence c. I haue named some but not all look for the rest in the book but in them all let it be obserued that there is not the least mention of faith in Christ nor once so much as the name of it nor any relation to Christ nor his holy merits No these are well if they may be vnderstood and yet these men if they be not Atheists doe knowe that all these their large promises are but winde and their Indulgences but fome and froth if there be not liuely faith and true repentance and if these bee in a man then let vs see that Pope Cardinall or other Papist who dare say that hee shal not haue full remission that neuer saw nor touched one of their blessed beades nor hallowed Graines Thus we see how farre Babylon is from being healed in this point The twelfth and last wound concerning the first Table shal be coÌ„cerning the Sacraments both which are horribly peruerted profaned by Romish doctrine and practice The twelfth wound FIrst 23 The 13. wound The popish Church baptizeth Belles Baptisme is profanely applied not to reasonable creatures onelie men and women according to the Institution e Mat. 28. 19. but euen to an vnreasonable dead creature For example they vse to baptize bels in most points so as Christians do children in som points with much more ceremony and solemnity Bellarmin is ashamed of it would willingly hide and couer it tho he cannot cure it but if hee were not a Cardinal a Iesuite he would be

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