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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

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the cause being taken away there remaines no more of the effect Last of all because it seemes that wee would haue no Images of the crucifixe nor the Cross we declare that we desire all our dayes Iesus Christ should be painted before oureyes in the same manner as S. Paule Gal. 3. ver 1. painted Iesus Christ before their eyes for the pensill wherwith God ought to be paīred is his word which himself calleth the word of truth where cōtrariwise all the doctrine of Images is but the doctrine of lying and vanity So then the Crosse of Iesus Christ is as the chaire wherout we purpose to preach on the one side the multitude and ennormity of our sinnes on the other the seuerity of Gods iustice and depth of his mercy The greatnesse of our sinnes is shewen vs in that they could not be borne nor abolished by any other then he who was very God and very man His iustice in that God who hateth iniquity did punish it with all extreamity His mercy in that himselfe gaue vs the price to acquit vs withall euen vs that were his vtter enemies for this is to vs a most certaine gaege of the merciful affection of our God discerned thorow the woundes of his onely Sonne And the liuely contemplating of those wounds is the balme to heale the hurts of our soules His feete and handes were pierced his side opened and thence issued the price of our redemption as also the washing away of our filthynesse bloud I say and water alwaies streaming to deface our sinnes past present and to come to the ende that hauing our harts washed from an euil conscience wee should goe by the fresh and liuing pathes towardesour God with certainty of faith and keep ing the confession of our hope Heb. 10. ver 22. 23. that is to say in following after Iesus Christ Which is nothing else saith S. Carill but renouncing the world for the loue of Christ preferring the goodes which we hope for by faith before all other in this bodily life In like manner saith S. Bernard The ioyfull hope and assuraunce is that which is affirmed by application to the death and passion of Christ For since the Father hath giuen vs his Sonne how shall he not with him giue vs all thinges also Rom. 8. ver 32. And bee is giu en vs of the Father to be our iustice wisedome redemption and sanctification 1 Cor. 1. v. 30. It is Iesus that iustifies the faulty it is Iesus that paies for the indepted that strengthens the weake illuminates the blinde bindes vp the hurtes of the wounded recalles home by-wanderers giues life to the dead in a word it is Iesus that destroies the workes of the deuill beateth downe Sathan vnder our feete Such is the memory which wee continually obserue of the perfect obedience which the Sonne of GOD deliuered vpon the Crosse to God his Father for vs poore miserable wretches and not the ridiculous and I dolatrous deuotion which the ignoraunt so gladly would make vs beleeue that they honour the death and passion of Iesus Christ in saying during their great weekes space before the crosse and beholding the face of the Crucifixe with handes eleuated and knees bended to wit On Palme Sunday thirty three Paters Aues the Munday the beades of our Lady the Tewsday forty Peters Aues the Wednesday thirty Paters and Aues the Thursday twelue Paters and Aues the Fryday sixty Paters and Aues the Satturday forty Paters and Aues on Easterday twelue Paters and Aues Likewise during their twelue white Fridayes the first three Paters and Aues the second seauen Paters and Aues the third sixty times Paters Aues in honor of the sixty thornes in the crowne the fourth forty Paters and Aues the fift forty Paters and Aues the sixt twelue Paters and Aues the seauenth thirty Paters and Aues in honour of Iudas his thirty pence the eight thirty Paters Aues the ninth fiue Paters and Aues the tenth three Paters and Aues in honor of the three nayles the eleuenth fiue Paters and Aues the twelft fifteene Paters Aues in honour of the fifteene horrible signes which shall come before the day of iudgement Such is the summary of the stile obserued in the booke by them called Houres But true worshippers indeed entreate of God that it may please him to make them feele the efficacy of the death and passion of Iesus Christ and desire to beare the Image of him to the end that as wee haue borne the Image of the earthlie Adam so we may carry the Image of the celestiall Adam in our hearts that the holy Ghost would be the Temple therof and so by this meanes we shall bee knowne by the same Iesus Christ at his great and last comming Truely it is thou Lord Iesus whome wee honour whome wee blesse and thanke because thou dying on thy Crosse hast thereby giuen vs assurance of life To thee be all honour and glory with the Father and the holy spirit Amen Jt is sweete to beare the Crosse with Christ and for Christ FINIS A Sonnet annexed to the former Treatise in French WE are vndone Sathan hath vs destroyde Sinne death and hell is our due portion Ah wretch recant for Christ his passion Sinne death and hell hath vtterly made voyde Thereby our first rights are to vs regainde Thereby health victory and life we holde Thereby we see the light so manifolde Thereby heauens highest secrets are attainde It is the death of death the hell of hell The steele that hath rebated Sathans steele Opening the gate where blessednes doth dwell Happy is he this death by faith doth fellc But he that worships wood or stone procures Those paines on him which euer more endures There is no de●eipt nor subtilty which Sathan hath not ad●●sedly studied thereby to make men commit Idolatry whereby his power is no way ruynated but established
wel in his cōsciēce as before mē god himself The fift is of S. Augustine in his booke of 85 questions question 79. But this testimonie is falsly alleaged for it is not so read there as the placard sets it downe but rather in confirmation of that we haue deliuered in the two last witnesses yea that expresly the words are these Jf he wicked at any time obtaine somewhat by innocation on the highest God they begit for their bad desires and so this is not grace to them but the vengeance of God for the Apostle said not in vaine That God had giuen ouer such people to their owne hearts desires For that which our Lord said Sathan cannot cast out Sathan is not to bee esteemed false when any one hath cast out Sathan in vsing the names of some inferiour powers but it should bee vnderstoode that this was said to this ende albeit Sathan spare the bodie or the corporallsence he spares them but with intent to rule ouer the will and with greater glorie to triumph by the error of impietie These are the words of Saint Augustine which properly appertaine to the prodigious effects many times happening about the crosse For Sathan slies from the body to the ende hee may get entrance into the soule cares not for troubling the corporal sence because he would raigne altogither in the will or rather in the desire as faith the same S. Angustine The sixt is out of the first booke of S. Augustines confessions Chap. 11. yet impertmently alleaged For there S. Augustine declares nothing else but that beeing as yet in his mothers wombe he was marked with the marke of the crosse of Christ Iesus and seasoned with his salt That is to say that beeing the sonne of a good christian woman he was designed to be a Christian to receiue the outward signe therof agreeing with Saint Paul 2. Cor. 7 verse 14. That the children of the faithful are sanctified and the alliance with God is made to them and their posteritie after them The seuenth is out of the booke called The visitation of the sicke whereto one answeres that that booke is falsely attributed to S. Augustine as it hath verie well beene noted of long time by the learnedst Diuines and not long since by the doctors of Louaine in the impression of S. Augustines workes printed by Plantin at Antwerp the yere 1576. with priuiledge from the Emperor the kings of France Spaine The eight is out of 130. Sermon de tempore But that Sermon is likewise none of Saint Augustines but forged by some moderne writer as the same Doctors of Louaine haue also well noted in the self-same impression Yet notwithstanding in that sermon is no speech vsed of the signe of the crosse but there is said that the crosse sheweth the combat of Christ and the resurectiō declareth the triumph of him which we in like maner auouch and maintaine The ninth is out of the 12. booke against Faustus the Manichean Chap. 30 which place serues to confirme what wee haue alleadged in exposition of the words in Ezechiels 9. chapter For Saint Augustine makes an Antithesis of what was done vnder the law and what hath happened vnder the Gospell speaking thus As the doores and ports of the Israclites dwellings were marked with the bloud of the Paschal-Lambe to the end their perdition might bee auoyded so the people since are marked in the forehead with the signe of Christs passion to the same intent Which may as well be vnderstood of the bloudshed and all the sufferings endured by our Lord Jesus yea better and much rather then of the bare signe of the crosse The tenth is out of the booke entituled the difference betweene the Church the Sinagogue which alleadgeth the same place of Ezechiels 9. chapter before spoken of That booke is none of Saint Augustines neither carrieth testimonie of any good authour but rather it seemes the compiler thereof was some Courtier or Ciuillian so say the doctors of Louaine in the same impression The eleuenth is drawne from the nineteenth Sermon of the Saints but that Sermon is not as likewise these others Saint Augustines as appeares by the same Louaine Doctors the 9. Tom pag 700 2. C. The twelfth is out of the 22. of the citie of God chap. 8. where it is said A certain Ladie of Carthage was healed of a cankre in her brest hauing bin warned before in her sleep to be marked with the sign of the crosse by the first baptisd woman which should come before her But in the same place it is likewise saide that she before prepared her selfe for god onely in deuoute prayer to him to whom shee attributed her healing not vnto the signe the woman had made For it appeareth by the demaund made how shee was cured and the aunswere is returned by the heathen Phisition in these tearmes What a great matter hath Christ done in healing a cankre when he could raise vp Lazarus who had lien dead foure daies before It is then to God onely and not to the signe of the crosse that this healing is to be reputed The thirteenth is out of the exposition of 36. Psalme in these words In olde time offendours were crucified now no more is crucified the crosse was in honour and to his ende it was at his end inrespect of his punishment but now it remaineth with him in glory The aunswere is that hee speakes not of the signe of the crosse but shewes how Princes and Monarches hauing embraced Christ crucified did him honor in submitting to him their seepters crowns which they had especially prepared in honour of his crosse and passion wherof hereafter more shall be spoken The foureteenth is taken from the third treatise on S. Iohn in these words If we be Christians wee will haue some feeling of Iesus Christ We will beare in our foreheads the marke of him whereof wee will not blush a iote if we beare it likewise in our hearts the marke of him is the humilitie of him With this testimonie wee wil ioyne because of the breuitie al the other following which are about ten in number and because they very necrely iumpe all with this heere spoken that christians signed themselues on the forcheads we will then acknowledge that in times past this custome of signeing on the forchead hath bin brought in By whom or how it matters not for in things doubtful as this is it is best to followe the rule of Saint Athanasius If wee bee resolued saith hee let vs make our recourse to the Saints that is to the Apostles writings who had more exact knowledge of Euangelicall matters then we can haue Beside it is certain that neither Iesus Christ nor his Apostles haue made any mention at al therof if it had beene a thing either necessarie or expedient there is no doubt but they would haue done it Wherefore wee will say with S. Hierome That it is nothing else but prating