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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

c. Therefore not so much to cleere my selfe as to honor the trueth and to shew that it is no tricke nor policie of our State as it is in poperie h ●●ook was printed in english in the colledge at Rome wherein it is affirmed that wee take catholicks draw vpō their legs bootes full of hot boiling liquor vpō their feet hot burning ●hooes do put them into Bears skins cast thē to the dogs to be puld in peeces all this and many such other set down in pictures Feuardent a famous Frier yet liuing at Paris wrote in latine 7. yeares ago that we reuile and reiect that praier to the holy Trinitie Sancta Trinitias 〈◊〉 Deus● misercre nobis Thus writes hee in his Commēt on 1. Pet. cap. 1. What will not he say that daie say this● for all our common praier-books now and those in Q. Elizabeths K. Edwards times do test●fie● the contrary Gretserus a sesu●●e was suffered to write within these 2. yeares that we rackt and tortured Garnet euen neere to death to make him confesse himself guilty of the powder treason but hee did not so wee hauing no proof hāgd him onely for being a Priest and not for it And that Ouē his man was puld in peeces on the racke and when wee had so killed him then wee gaue out hee had killd himselfe with a knife But for the 1. wee appeale to publike records the worlds knowledge for the second there yet liue witnesses whose eies saw the woundes and bloudy knife and whose eares heard him freely and penitently confesse hee did it with that knife to escape the rac● which he said he feared but had neuer tasted to set vp men with authoritie to raile and licence to lie thereby to make our enemies odious I haue beene induced to publish what was said and to iustifie out of their owne records what was affirmed of them namely that the deadly wounds found to be in that diseased body of Poperie many ages agoe remaine rotting rankling and vnhealed euen to this day This I demonstrate in 20. or more particulars Concerning all which wounds if they be true as I haue laide them downe and being true if yet they bee not healed then I hope your Highness and al Christian Princes may cleerely see that seeing she is past hope of reformation there remains no more but that she is ripe for vengeāce destruction Which as that Whore of Babylon hath so long deserued So God will put power into the hand and zeale into the hearts of our mighty King noble Prince to reward her as she hath serued 〈◊〉 to giue her double for all her iniquities that so all the Kings Princes of the Christian world may rouze vp themselues take example at the King Prince of great Britaine to hate the whore and make her desolate ●are her flesh and burne her with fire and that a●l nations who haue stood amazed hitherto at the patience and long suffering may now reioice and admire to see the zeale courage constancy of our kingly Dauid and princely Salomon The King of Kings blesse this king and prince and the blessed Father for his blessed Sonnes sake double and trebble the graces and blessings of the blessed Spirit both vpon the father and the sonne whereunto I am sure all good subiects at home and all true Christians in the world will say Amen With Magna est veritas praeualet Your Highnesse humble and deuoted seruant WILLIAM CRASHAWE To the Christian Reader whosoeuer be he a true Catholicke or a Romish TO preuent all misconceits that might arise vpon the so late comming forth of this Sermon so many weekes expected I desire thee good Reader be satisfied that the cause thereof was a long vnlooked for iourney And now that you haue it let mee desire all men in the reading and iudging thereof to deale with that ingenuity and sincerity as I haue indeuoured in the writing of it My conscience speakes for me I haue forged no new Author I haue falsified none I haue corrupted none I haue to my knowledge misalledged none I haue taken no proofe vpon bare report nor haue I produced our men to proue what I lay against them nor is there one quotation of any Author of theirs which I haue not diligently perused afore-hand and the whole scope of the place If any should think of answere I desire him let passe all personall rayling and by-matters and come directly to the points in issue which be these 1 Whether the Church of Rome teach practice in these xx or xxi points as I haue charged her withall or no. 2 If she do whether they be healed of these wounds as yet or no. 3 If she be not then how she can be the true Church which is so wounded and will not be healed If they do not teach and practise so I will yeeld the Cause And hee that can shew mee that either she is healed since or beeing not healed how she can bee the true Church I shall willingly hear him thank him I desire al that professe thēselues papists or their fauourers not to be so wilfull as to condemne what they know not but only to giue it reading then iudge as they see cause Wright in his Articles layeth to our charge manie strange Paradoxes as that we are all Atheists and Infidels by our doctrine that wee are bound by our doctrine to doe no good workes many such And Kellison in his Survaie thrusts vpon vs that wee deny Christ to bee the only Sauiour and Iudge of quick dead and many such abhominations all which we renounce and detest yet do what we can wee must haue them laid vpon vs and our writers teachers haue their speeches wrung and wrested beyond their meaning to make thē sound that way I dare appeale to the iudgement of Gods Church and al iudicious Readers heereof that I haue not done so with them nor taken vantage of their words whē it 's apparant they meant otherwise but charged them only with such points of doctrine practice as thēselues cannot deny but to be their own that not of one or two but for the most part generally receiu'd Cōmēding it to thy reading my selfe to thy praiers I leaue vs all to Gods blessing At the Temple May 21. 1608. Thy brother in the Lord W. Crashawe The Names of the Popish Authors produced in this Treatise together with the impressions heere vsed A. AQuinatis summa Ven. 509 Idem Antuerp 85. Fr. Agricola de verbo dei c. Leod. 97. 8 Cor. Agrippa de vanitate scient B. BReuiariū Romanum vetust Idem 93. 4. Bernardini de Busto Manuale Lugd. 511 4. Idem Colon. 607. 4. Bellarmini opera Ingolst 601. fol. Bernardi Morlanensis poemata 607. 8 Brigittae reuelationes 517. Nuremb fol Bonauenturae opera Romae Cl. Bonarscij Amphitheatrum honoris c. 605. 4

all the means they could to bring Babel from her gentilisme and Idolatry and therfore here are bold to affirme whē she is at the point of her destructiō We for our parts are no way guilty of it nay if she wold haue beene ruled by vs she had neuer come to this for We would haue healed her But how would they haue healed her may some say what meanes vsed they it is soone sayde Wee would words are cheape But gaue they Babell nothing but sweete wordes Certainely they were carefull to vse all good meanes which especially are these 3. Instruction Example Prayer 1. By continuall instruction laying open their errors discouering their impieties and laying before them the excellencie of true religion 2. By their continuall example practicing their own religion euen before their very faces not fearing their scornes and rebukes no not the contrary lawes made purposely against thē as we may see in the example of Daniels thrise a day praying to his God towards Ierusalem a Dan. 6. 10. the people also in midst of their mirth would weepe when they remembred Syon b Psa. 137. 1. 2. would cast away their musicke and depriue themselues of all comforts when they remembred the desolation of their religion Which practices did no doubt amaze the Babylonians had bin sufficient to haue driuen them into deeper and better considerations had they not bin incurable and it is to be hoped that the sight hereof did good vpon some of them 3. They endeuoured to heale them by their prayers praying continually and desiring God to heale them for as the Parent is said to blesse his childe by praying to God to blesse him c Gen. 27. per ●o●um 48. 15 c. to 21. so one may be said to heale another by praying that GOD may heale him And that they did this dutie is no question for it was so commanded them by the Lord Seeke the prosperity of Babylō pray to the Lord for it a Iere. 29. 7. By these meanes they endeuoured the curing of Babylon tho they were no prophets and by these means may one priuate man further the saluatiō of another Thus euery good man is as it were a litle pastor to his neighbour happy were it for the Church of God if all priuate persons would performe these duties one to another The third and last circumstance is whom they would haue healed the Text answereth Babel where we obserue two points First that the Israelites aymed not at the conuersion of the great ones and men of State only but euen at all the people of Babell Whereby it is apparant they sought not themselues for then they would haue fisht for the great ones only or especially as doe the Iesuites craftier sort of Friers at this day b See Watson in his Quodlibets often but they sought the saluation of soules which they knew to be all alike before God For they had learned afore they came at Babel that euery soule is Gods the soule of the sonne as well as of the father c Exek 18. 4. and consequently of the subiect seruant as well as of the king and commaunder and the meanest mans as well as the mightiest and therefore they endeuoured the conuersion of all The godly and conscionable Minister must heere learne to haue care of the least poorest soule in his parish considering it is as deare and precious as the best For as good hands made it as the best d Pro. 22. 2. as precious blood was shed to saue it as for the greatest mans on earth a Gal. 3. 28. 14 Therefore let them not bee like those proud spirits carnal minded men that thinke ordinary parishes not worthy of them and therefore will preach no where but at the Court or in great solemne assemblies nor like those who in their parish will be acquainted with none conuerse with none conferre with none visit none but the rich and mighty but as for the poore they may liue and die as they can for them Such men might remember the blessed apostle who kept back nothing but taught not in Courts and Palaces and great houses only but through euery house b Act. 20. 20. vers 31. vers 26. and that he ceased not to warn euery one and stood vpon it boldly that he was cleere from the blood of all men see not some but all and in another place expounding himself saith his continuall course is to witnesse Gods will both to small and great c Act. 26. 22. He that lookes for Pauls reward at Gods hand must thus behaue himselfe to Gods people remembring his account is not for trifles but for soules and to that God who hath told vs afore hand Euery soule is mine d Ezek. 18. 4. The good father of the family must learne here not himselfe his wife onely but to see that his children seruants those not some of the chief but all euen the meanest may knowe and serue God Such a man was Abraham he was not carefull for Isaac alone his deere sonne the sonne of the beloued but oh sayth he to God that euen Ishmael might liue in thy sight e Gen 17. 18. therefore God becomes Abrahams surety he giues his word for him I know Abraham that he will not looke to some of his principall officers but command not this son or that daughter but his sons his family to keep the way of the Lord a Gen. 18. 19 yet in Abrahams house were 318. persons borne brought vp c. b Gen. 14. 14 More shame for the great men of this age both in City and country who though they bee great and daily plot to be greater yet keepe they not so great houses and families as Abraham did in whose families many of their inferiour officers and seruants doe scarce euer come to Church And much more shame to some parents who being blessed of God with many children do partially respect some of them and seeke their good of soule and body neglect others who it may bee are more worthy what would they do if they were profane and vndutifull Ishmaels whē they are so vnmindfull and respectlesse euen of such as be holy and dutifull Isaacs but let such children comfort themselues in this that God their better father and best friend is no respecter of persons These are the ordinary faults of fathers mothers in these daies but assuredly those that be heires of Abrahams faith c Gal. 3. 7. will distribute their loue to euery one care for the soule of their meanest seruāts take order in their families that al their officers euery day at lest in their course may go to church their very kitchin-boies hors-boyes may learne to know the God of their saluation d 1. Chr. 28. 9. that so he may be able to say with a good cōscience I found my

State honoured shall bee by these miser●ants thus dishonoured and that not on the stage ●nely but euen in print Oh what times are wee east into that such a wickednesse should passe vnpunished● I speake nothing of their continuall profanenesse in their phrases and sometime Atheisme and blasphemie no● of their continuall profaning of the Sabbath which generally in the country is their play day and oftentimes Gods diuine seruice hindred or cut shorter to make roome and giue time for the diuels seruice Are they thus incurable then happy hee that puts to his hand to pull downe this tower of Babell this daughter of confusion happy he that helpes to heale this wound in our State but most happy that Magistrate who like zealous Phin●hes takes some iust vengeance on that publike dishonor laid vpon our Churches But if wee bee negligent in this cause of God then he himselfe will take the matter into his owne hand whose Church whose religion whose holy ordinances and most holy name are dayly profaned by them for as their iniquities are hainous and their blasphemies against heauen so doubtlesse their iudgement is gone vp vnto heauen and lifted vp vnto the cloudes So wishing their repentance I proceed 3. The horrible abuse of the Sabbath day in this citie and ouer this kingdome in some places by Faires and Markets by May-games and Moricedancers by Wakes and Feasts in all places almost by buying and selling and bargaining in this citie by cariages in and out by selling betimes in the morning and after dinner by playing in the streetes and in the fields Oft hath this bin complained of and some haue endeuoured to heale it but it is an Impe of Babylon that will not be healed but rather it creepes as a canker thorow our whole State from the foote to the head But let vs take heed for it will eare out the heart and life of a State Ierem. 17. euen this one sinne Did not our Fathers thus saith noble Nehemiah and therfore God brought all this euill vpon vs Nehem. vlt. See captiuity destruction and desolation of a goodly and flourishing setled kingdome for the publike profaning of the Sabbath O therefore happy hee that puts to his helping hands to heale this wound which yet is cureable enough if wee would doe our duties for the Commandement is thou and all within thy gates The fourth Commandement Keepe my Sabbath Now who is there within this Realme but is within the gates of the Kings house who within this Citie but within the gates of the Lord Maior who any where but is of some mans family within some mans gates If then Fathers and Magistrates would looke to all within their gates this sinne could not bee so grieuous this wound not so wide and desperate as it is Therefore you my Lord Maior bee exhorted to attempt the healing of this wound in your yeare set before your eyes the noble example of worthy Nehemiah Nehem. vlt. it will excite you to this holy dutie and then at the end of your yeare you may with the comfort of a good conscience say with him Remember mee O my God in goodnesse Nehem. vlt. 1● according to all that I haue done for this people But if we still neglect this cause of God and suffer his Sabbath daily thus to bee profaned then let vs looke for nothing but continuance and increase of these grieuous plagues that haue so long lien vppon vs and let vs be assured God will take the matter into his owne hands and some way or other get himselfe glorie vpon vs. For hee will lose his honour at no mans hand but whosoeuer will not glorifie him in his conuersion hee will glorifie his owne name vpon him in his confusion Which heauie iudgement that God may turne from vs let vs turne to him c. FINIS