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A75922	Cheap-side crosse censured and condemned by a letter sent from the vicechancellour and other learned men of the famous Universitie of Oxford, in answer to a question propounded by the citizens of London, concerning the said crosse, in the yeere 1600, in which yeer it was beautified, as also some divine arguments taken out of a sermon against the crosse, a little after it was last repaired, by a learned and godly minister, M. Iohn Archer, sometimes preacher at Alhallows Lombardstreet about sixteen yeers past.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1641 (1641)	Wing A64; ESTC R232350	9,020	16

a Pyren or Temple dedicated to the fire the Persians god and refusing to build it again at Isdigerdes the Kings command Theodorets saying of him I doe admire him and thinke him worthy of a garland for in my opinion it is equall impiety to adore the fire and to build a Temple to it My advice therefore and judgement in the name of God is that the Crucifix should not be erected there but that upon this opportunitie advantage should be taken to give superstition a further blow which will be very joyous to all that are already sincerely affected and if there be any who truly love the Gospel and are not yet so fully perswaded in this point they also will in mildnesse yield to reason if the Superiour power shall be pleased to give countenance to this deed of the City But if it should be misliked of hollow-hearted Papists or maligned by professed Recusants it must be expected and not wondred at Now if it shall be demanded what should be set up insteed of the other Monument I thinke best to be some Pyramis or matter of meere beauty and not any Angell or such like whatsoever for although in truth that deserveth no reprehension yet by avoyding of that the moudies of the Adversaries may be stopped who would otherwise storme and say that the Creator is taken down and such a Creature is set up in the place where hee stood and whereas it is said that evermore it will be called the Crosse in Cheap side yet it may be possible that time may weare out the appellation or if it doe not the name shall hurt no more then the name of Christmas or Candlemas doth from which a godly man may make that use as to prayse the Lord that the matter of these Superstitions are removed and the name onely remaynes as a memoriall of Gods goodnesse who hath done so great good things for us And by reason of the sicknesse and weaknesse of him who more learnedly and judiciously might have resolved this point have I not after that hot and hasty humour of some men who are moved rather by fancie then reason but after Christian and setled looking into the cause and satisfying of my owne conscience fully therein set down my judgement upon the demand proposed unto me supposing that this shall also give accesse unto the honour of God her Majesty the Church of England and that noble Citie if it be so set up again as a matter of meere beauty or Pyramide But referring the direction execution and compleating of all to those honourable personages unto whom under our sacred Sovereigne the Lord hath committed the ordering of such affairs God Almighty blesse us that wee may still go forward in true Religion and his holy Spirit direct our thoughts words and actions to the honour of his holy Name AMEN George Abbot Vicechancellour An. 1600. The approbation of Master Vicechancellor's Letter by five other learned men then heads of the Vniversitie WE doe approve as sound and true the rather because hee followeth that which was done with the brazen Serpent after that it was superstitiously worshipped by the people and wish that the materiall Crosse now it hath been superstiously adored and is mayntained by Mart. in a Booke dedicated unto her Majesty and by all the Jesuits and Seminary Priests and all their Scholers this day in England to be worshipped and adored be not tumultuously taken away but in the same manner the brazen Serpent was by consent and authority of our gracious Hezekiahs them whom causes Ecclesiasticall have authorized under her Highnesse This only wee adde that as the example of Hezekiah be notably and sufficient to encourage her Majesty and such as be in authority under her zealously to remove such occasions of Idolatry and to remove them out of the peoples way for the example of Gideon is terrible if they be let alone and continued still Hee erected an Ephod in Ophra after his victory over the Madianites both to testifie his thankfulnesse unto the true God of Israel for his victory obtained and also to shew the Midianites that the God whose service in an Ephod without Idoll or Image they did refuse had given unto them the overthrow and thus farre Gideon is not reproved but when hee grew old and knew that the people did worship before the Ephod because he would not pull it downe nor take it away his posterity was grievously punished after him and the people became enthralled unto their enemies In 〈…〉 fact of 〈…〉 his victory over Moxentius in erecting the signe of the Cross in Rome was commendable because hee testified his thankfulnesse to Christ crucified for the victory atchieved and also it openly shewed unto the Heathen and Gentiles who fought against him that hee whom they so much despised because hee was crucified gave him victory But now this outward and materiall signe of the Crosse hath been and is abused to Idolatry and Superstition therefore if the chief Magistrates erect such things now when they be well taken away and if they pull them not downe when with peace and quietnesse they may be removed they leave unto the godly a fearfull expectation as of that which came to passe In Israel after the days of faithfull Gideon for so we call him notwithstanding his grievous fault for so hee is nanamed But the danger of such negligence is most carefully to be avoided From the Vniversitie of Oxenford January the 23. 1600. This Letter is in the hand of a Merchant of good credit in this Citie thus subscribed Thomas Thornton Iohn Reinolds Leonard Tailor Henry Ayray R. Kettley You have heard learnedly proved from Antiquity the unlawfulnesse of this Crosse Here follow some arguments from Scripture against Cheap-side Crosse as they were preached in Lombard Street THis 〈…〉 Minister preaching on Esay 10. Vers ● 6 Shews divers signes of Gods wrath against a Nation among others hee shews this to be one Plague token When God gives over a Land to hainous sins when hee suffers a Land that hath been delivered from Idolatry againe to bee given up unto Idols This is a certain signe of Gods wrath against a Land For this is a standing rule that when any Idoll is suffered to bee in a Land though it be not worshipped yet it is a remarkable signe that they are a people of his wrath See what the Lord saith Psal 81.8 9. Heare ô my people and J will testifie unto thee ô Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me there shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any strange god Marke he doth not only say thou shalt worship no strange god but there shall be no strange god in thee as the Lord commands them Exod. 34.12 saying Take heed to thy self that thou make no covenant with the inhabitants of the Land whether thou goest lest they be cause of ruine among you but yee shall overthrow their Alters and break their Images in pieces and

cut downe their groves for thou shalt bow downe to no other god because the Lord whose name is Jehovah is a jealous God For when ever Idols goe before then certainly warre will follow after and therefore to suffer an Idoll to be in a Land although unworshipped is no small sin as the Lord saith Hos 6.10 I have seen villany in the house of Israel there is whoredome in Ephraim Israel is joyned to Idols let her alone c. Thus we see how greatly we provoke God to anger when we suffer an Idoll to be among us And though the Lord had formerly freed this Land from Idolatry Are not the Images of Baal againe re-edified among us this never went before but a Plague came after it For by this if by any thing a Land breaks covenant nay goes about to breake their Marriage bond with God Therefore may I say to this Land nay to you of this Citie to goe no further into other places where the Word of God is most powerfullly preached among you that you are in an especially manner guilty of this lowd crying sin Witnesse the Crosse in Cheap-side that is lately beautified by you I am troubled to think how God expresly hath beene provoked and wrath I feare will be poured out upon you for this same golden Crosse For whereas the Lord saith Isaiah 30.22 23. Ye shall defile the coverings of your graven 〈◊〉 of silver and the ornaments 〈◊〉 your 〈◊〉 Images of gold 〈◊〉 cast them away as a menstruous cloth and then shall he give you a great blessing You on the other side have adorned the covering of your Images now all men know that 〈◊〉 Crosse is that which the Papists make an Idoll of and yet you have not stained the covering thereof but have beautified and adorned it So that as a blessing came on them that stained the covering of their Images so a curse will most certainly follow the beautifying of the covering of those Images of that Crosse For it is that which doth become a snare unto the ignorant people As Gideon made an Ephod of gold and put it in his City Judges ● 27. and all Israel went thither a whoring after it which thing became a snare unto Gideon and to his house And seeing Papists will worship a Crosse at Rome surely they will then worship it also in England and your selves know also what respect hath been she wed to this Crosse by Popishly affected amongst us Besides the beautifying of this Crosse was a lauishing of your gold And though you lavished it not on it as on an Idoll but as an ornament yet it being an Idoll your gold was lavished on it as on 〈◊〉 Idoll O this Crosse is one of the Jewels of the Whore of Rome its left and kept here as a Love-token And gives them hope one day that they shall enjoy it and us again Therefore this is one of the speciall plague tokens of Gods anger and it shews this Land in generall nay this City in particular to be a people God is angry with What this Reverend mian feared then and was much troubled at in his owne spirit as his often expressions yet in the memory of his familiar friends testified namely that the wrath and judgements of God shortly would fall down upon this Kingdom and City we have found and with sad hearts have cause to acknowlede having felt the smart of it not only in this the great decay of trade which hath occasioned the sinking of many chief Citizens amongst us but that which is more then either our trades or lives the great decay of the Gospel the faithfull Preachers thereof being hunted out from amongst us And this religious pious man a blessed light was enforced in the midst of his days to breath his last in a strange Land If more Arguments in this kind are desired you may read at large a new Treatise of Master Gurney against Images extracted out of the Homilies There is not such a superstitious Monument in Spain France no not in Rome nor in any part of the Christian World as this Crosse is as Travellers report that we should gild it Papists adore it on their knees as many witnesses testifie is abominable wee doubtnot but our Worthies in the Honorable Houses of Parliament will take away the memory of it FINIS