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A19675	The three conformities. Or The harmony and agreement of the Romish Church with gentilisme, Iudaisme and auncient heresies. VVritten in French by Francis de Croy G. Arth. and newly translated into English. Seene, perused and allowed; Trois conformités. English	Cro, François de.; Hart, William, fl. 1620.	1620 (1620)	STC 6098; ESTC S121926	188,823	318

appertaineth vnto the blood of Christ Iesus and not to any other to wit the remission of sinnes And finally the doctrine of the Iubilee importeth as much as if the blood of Christ were of smaller worth at one time then another CHAP. XXV Of the conception of the virgin Mary YOu keepe holy the feast of the conception of the virgin Mary and beleeue that shee was conceiued without originall sinne an opinion grounded vpon the Thalmud of the Rabbins and principally of Rabbi Iuda the sonne of Simon who saith that the matter whereof the mother of the Messias was to be engendred was created before Adam had sinned and was thus preserued in a little boxe from generation to generation without any spot or corruption and gathereth these misteries out of the words of the Psalme O Lord looke downe from heauen and beholde and visite the plant that thy right hand hath planted And why haue you not learned of S. Bernard that shee taketh no delight in those counterfeit honours Which hee speaketh of purpose of the feast of the Conception and of Origene That her chiefe honour is to bee saued iustified and redeemed through the blood of her sonne And your idolatrie by the contrary hath mounted vnto such blasphemies as to attribute vnto the virgin Mary and to transferre vnto her in all your Offices all whatsoeuer the Prophets and the Psalmist spake of God and of Iesus Christ. O Lord how long CHAP. XXVI Of the Lymbus EVen to the Lymbus the antichamber of hell haue you stretched forth your armes that you may draw from thence the tradition of those master Carpenters the Cabalists or the Thalmudists And such as are versed in the reading of their bookes know how that they beleeue that the Patriarches and others the first Fathers are still lodging there and looking for the comming of their Messias And doe you know where they haue found the Godmothers of this building Euen at hand in the booke of Ecclesiastes which saith That there are some iust men who perish in their iustice Is not this to ground the borders and suburbs of hell vpon a place which neither farre nor neere approcheth any waies vnto this Thalmudicall exposition We are not ignorant what your proofes are concerning the Lymbus and chiefly how you haue caused wrest that place of S. Peters which is so much chatted among you toward that side Howsoeuer the matter goeth yet it is wonderfull that you haue thus stumbled and that so long agoe sith it appeareth manifestly that the Apostle speaketh not there of the old faithfull Fathers but contrariwise of the vnfaithfull for example whereof hee bringeth forth those that perished in the flood because they would not hearken vnto Christ Iesus that preached vnto them spiritually by the mouth of Noah CHAP. XXVII Of the Law YOu haue that also common with the Iewes who were euill taught and thinke that the doctrine of the Gospell abolisheth the Law For to what end tendeth the calumny of your Sorbonique Doctors and Iesuites against the Christian Church in accusing her that shee hath abolished good workes and made way vnto all manner of disorder Indeede we say after S. Paul that we are iustified by faith in Iesus Christ and not by the workes of the Law and concerning the morrall law as it killeth vs in regard of vs that are transgressors thereof for whose instruction it was giuen so also wee are iustified through the same in Iesus Christ as in him that hath payed the debt which the law required of vs and hauing fully accomplished and ratified all the promises thereof in all those that beleeue And what is to be seene there that is not Apostolicke And when you say that you are able to fulfill Gods law are you not like him that vaunted himselfe that hee had fulfilled all the commandements euen from his youth head Is there not a fine harmony betweene you and that proud bragging Pharisie We beleeue better to wit that the regenerate man cannot fulfill the law of God the same notwithstanding being iustly required at his hands because it is iust in it selfe and because it was giuen vnto the first man while hee was yet in the estate of innocency and fell afterwards through his owne fault from all abilitie to fulfill the same and we all in him From thence it is that S. Austin saith to vs Who is he that is able to accomplish the Law in all points but he by whom all the commandements of God are fulfilled that is to say Christ Iesus And a little after But all the commandements are thought to be fulfilled when that which is not fulfilled is pardoned And so speaketh hee in more then a hundred places And S. Ambrose Prosper Aquitannus S. Bernard and all the Fathers To what purpose then your Pharisaicall pride and disdaine here to disanull the effect of the Crosse CHAP. XXVIII Of Iustification ANd concerning Iustification like as the Iews being euill aduised did teach that man was iustified by the workes of the Law so likewise you attribute iustification before God vnto the merits of good workes And that which you acknowledge touching the merits of the death of Christ Iesus is by you so restrained and tyed to that which precedeth Baptisme that the satisfactions of men are much esteemed and valued at an high rate as all your bookes doe testifie And if some of you doe at any time presse to speake of of Christ Iesus and of his vertue it is done with so much ignorance and sophistry that it is perceiued incontinent that as yet you haue not learned to renounce your false and counterfeit righteousnes to the end that you may destroy that which is in Iesus Christ. CHAP. XXIX Of opus Operatum FVrthermore like as the Iewes who were Iewes onely in name were contented with the letter without the spirit that is to say they thought that they had deserued much if with their bodies and lips they had drawne neere to the temple to the sacrifices the sacraments without faith or any true repentance for which cause they were bitterly checked by the Prophets In like manner your Doctors haue made the poore superstitious people beleeue that to bee present at diuine seruice to rehearse certaine words without vnderstanding or deuotion in the minde to be present and behold their sacrifices and sacramentall signes were as many meritorious workes although they had beene without all deuotion and inward feeling euen like to a stone or a logge of wood So grosse an errour and so preiudiciall vnto spirituall and euerlasting life as if one should teach such persons as are diseased of any bodily and mortall disease that it should be sufficient for them to trust to the Physicians skill and to the Apothecaries boxes not knowing what they were or taking any receipt or as if one should say to a poore hungry man that if he would be filled it should be sufficient for

law was strictly obserued among the Romanes that none was inserted in the Catalogue of the Gods without expresse licence from the Senate no more then it is lawfull for any to assume vnto themselues the title of Saints vnlesse the authoritie of the Sea of Rome hath giuen way thereto through the benefit of Canonisation as it befell of late to a Saint newly start vp in Poland named Hiacinthus about three hundreth yeares after his decease There are whole bookes containing the ceremonies that are to be obserued in the Canonization The Idolaters held those to be Gods who were dead men but neuerthelesse had the prerogatiue of this honour from Kings Princes Senates and through the common errour of the people The office of the inferiour and Collegiall Pontifes was to canonise Emperours to consecrate temples and to appoint fit places for the same The Popes haue reserued for themselues all others being excluded the right of canonizing and haue committed the rest vnto your Bishops Herodote describeth amply enough the manner of canonizing Emperours and Kings And Cicero sheweth the reason why in old times men of rare vertues obtained this priuiledge to be accounted among the Gods The Turkes haue in like manner their Saints canonised by their Caliphes You ought to call to minde that bitter iest which the Emperour Vespatian broke against that foolish manner of doing alreadie embraced of the flatteries of his time to make the Emperours Gods for being taken with that disease whereof he died he sayd in a scoffing manner that shortly he would become a God CHAP. XLII Of free Will ALL the holy Scripture and the Councels that are of sound iudgement haue ouerthrowne the doctrine of free will and iustification by workes and haue decreed that our whole strength dependeth of the onely meere mercie of God which is freely giuen and that it is not in our power or naturall facultie to prepare our selues for grace but that all must be receiued from the liberalitie and gift of the holy Ghost You by the contrary doe nothing else but proclaime what power you haue in spirituall affayres and your maximes tend to this that the grace of God hath the smallest part in leading of the will It is without all doubt that you haue learned this lesson in the schoole of the heathenish Philosophers of whom as Seneca reporteth some haue beene bold to say That this life indeed is a gift of God but to liue well and religiously dependeth of vs. Cicero goeth on a little farther for speaking in the person of Cotta he thinketh not that hee is bound to thanke God because he was vertuous sith euery one of himselfe might attaine to vertue Euery one is the maker of his owne fortune sayd Salust Make an vnion betweene you and the Turkes for they maintaine free will as you doe saying that man hath free will and power either to loose himselfe or to merit paradise through good works This is the cause why they build many Monasteries Hospitals Mosquees and other buildings for the remission of their sinnes CHAP. XLIII Of Morall and Veniall Sinnes WE doe acknowledge the inequalitie of sinnes and that some are more grieuous then others as we haue learned in the Gospell We name those veniall for which we are able to obtaine mercy from God and they are all of this nature saue that onely which is committed against the holy Ghost That which your Master of the Sentences teacheth is directly opposite to the word of God as I could easily prooue if I did not labour to be briefe And from whence then haue you drawne this difference betweene veniall and mortall sins but from the doctrine of Plato the one sort being termed by him curable and the other incurable CHAP. XLIIII Of hiding the Images in Lent THere is no Doctor how meane so euer he be that doth not shew a reason of this ceremonie that is obserued in couering your Images both great and small male and female in Lent Truth it is indeed that they doe not please me and I am amased that the poore idiots spit not on your faces seeing in the time which is dedicated to repentance you close their Bookes and remoue them from their sight I haue not found this manner of doing either in the one or the other Testament and haue taken great paines to heare some newes thereof It is true that after I had searched the Bookes of the heathenish Diuines I learned that you had borrowed of them those couerings to hide your Saints with whom in like manner you haue debarred for that time onely from the vse of sweete incense CHAP. XLV Of Barbarous and Unknowne language EVery language is named barbarous and chiefly that as sayth venerable Beda wherein we cannot praise God The whole world knoweth that you haue banished from your diuine seruice all such languages as could be vnderstood in such sort that the people vnderstandeth nothing An introduction truly which is contrarie to the word of God and against nature And when the Councels ordaine that the Canonicall Scripture onely shall be read to the people ought not this to be vnderstood of a knowne language You thinke that it carrieth some great force to adde a greater shew and maiestie vnto your seruice So did the Pagans thinke their seruice to be the more honourable if the hearers could vnderstand nothing thereof The enchanters at the inuocation of their Demons Furies Erynnes Hecate and Proserpina did they not take delight in those barbarous formes of speech vnknown both to them and their followers The Iesuites haue found out of late a way to coniure all manner of armour which they haue sold to the souldiers for a Ducate the piece to the end that they might goe free from all danger of wounding the tenor thereof was this Barnasa leucias bucella agla agla tetragrammaton Adonai Darre you deny that these preseruatiues haue proceeded of the enchanters To conclude sith you take such delight to speake Greeke and Hebrew learne to pronounce them well namely these words Kyrie eleyson Oschianna Sebaoth Allelu-iah CHAP. XLVI Of Salt and Spittle AMong the additions which you haue added to Baptisme you haue added salt and spittle This imitation is not from Christ but smelleth altogether of the Gentiles who termed the salt diuine and celestiall because as sayth Plato it is fit and agreeth well with heauenly things and chiefly with purifications And I know not how you can apply vnto little children that are newly borne that which was not practised in old times but toward madd and drunken persons whom they anointed with oile and salt And concerning this spittle what If you did vse the same to illuminate the blind with the like successe that Iesus Christ did no man might abide or come neare to you so farre aloft would you be mounted vpon your ergoes