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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02461	A sermon principally entreating of the crosse in Baptisme wherein also it is proued, against the vnaduised reprouers, that it is no popish error, to say; that Austine sent from Gregorie the Great, was the conuerter of the English in this iland: and further that the Britaines did not receiue their first faith from the Church of Rome. By R. H. D.	Hacket, Roger, 1559-1621.	1606 (1606)	STC 12591; ESTC S117906	24,790	63

rites vse fruits and effects of Baptisme which it should worke in the regenerate of God saith Not only that Baptisme is called the Crosse but the Crosse is called Baptisme With the former accordeth learned Hierome who in his Commentaries vpon Ezechiel saith In the auncient letters of the Hebrewes the which the Samaritans do vse vnto this day the last letter called Tau hath the likenes of the Crosse which is made on the forheads of Christians and with which Christians often signe themselues In which we may obserue first that this Crosse is made by other the Minister that baptiseth secondly that it was made in the foreheads of Christians Next vnto Hierome and which liued with him in those daies is Austin who speaking to those which were to be baptised saith with the sign of whose Passion and Crosse thou art now to bee signed yea and all Christians are signed And in his tract that he maketh vpon Iohn he further saith The which signe of the Crosse except it bee made either vpon the foreheads of them that beleeue or vpon the water in which they are regenerated nothing is orderly done Where note that they that came to bee baptised were signed with the sign of the crosse secondly on their foreheads thirdly that Austine did thinke that if this signe were wholy omitted that all was not well done The last of the twelue latest in yeares is Gregory the Great who briefely thus In the vpper dorepost of the house we sprinckle the blood of the Lambe because we carry the Crosse of his Passion in our foreheads Thus then by the verdict of these twelue most reuerend and renowned Fathers you haue it found that in their times and before they that were baptised were also at the same time signed in their foreheads with the signe of the Crosse this was then the practise of the Church and this without the known contradiction and gain-saying of any was then vsed Now let vs in the third place consider by what reasons these Fathers were moued to signe with the signe of the Crosse them that came to be baptised Was it because the Fathers thought that the Apostles either by their ensample shewed or word of mouth deliuered that the baptised were so to be crossed Surely Basil said that it came from the traditiō of the Apostles Cyprian that it was the Lords signe Augustine that it was Christs Crosse which he would haue set in our foreheads and those reuerend Fathers by their verdict before giuen shew that in their seuerall Churches and therefore by some probability of reason generally in the whole Church of God for it is vnlikly that that which was vsed by them was disused by other that the baptised were signed with the sign of the crosse Now those rites which are not expressely remembred in Scripture and yet are in all the world obserued either were by the Apostles themselues commended to the Church or in some generall Councell concluded But yet I dare not deliuer for a word of truth that this was the mouing reason which carried the Fathers to signe their baptised with the signe of the Crosse What then was it because that in the Apostles times first and after in the daies of these Fathers many both of the Iewes and Gentiles for amongst many such the small nūber of Christiās were enforced to liue reproachfully vpbrayding that they put their trust in him which was hanged on the Crosse that the Fathers to shew to those scorners that that which they reproached as their shame they reputed their glory they signed their baptised with the signe of the Crosse So Austine speaking to those reproachers of the faith of Christians We haue an heart but not such as yours is neither are we ashamed of him that was crucified but in the part where the sign of shame is there we haue his signe of the Crosse And the same Austine in another place the Iewes disdained that that title hee was King of the Iewes was written ouer his head they were ashamed to haue him their King whom they could crucifie for they did not yet see that that Crosse on which they should fasten him should bee in the foreheads of Kings And in another place the same Austine shewing vnto Christians how they should behaue themselues towards such reproachers of their crucified Christ Frontosus esto bee not ashamed when thou hearest thy Christ reproached prorsus esto frontosus be of a bold and vnshamed forehead why dost thou feare thy forehead which is armed with the Crosse of Crist And againe speaking of himselfe he saith So farre am I from being ashamed of the Crosse of Christ that I haue Christs Crosse not in an hidden place but I carry it in my forehead And generally in another place speaking of that which is done of all Christians Wee do carry his signe in our foreheads of which wee need not bee ashamed if we carry it also in our hearts His sign is the lowest step of his humility The wise men knew him by a Star yet he would not haue the Star but his Crosse to be his sign in the foreheads of the faithfull Thus then you see the reason why principally the Fathers were moued to signe their baptised with the signe of the Crosse and that in their foreheads the very seat of shame that the Iew Gentile the vnfaithfull might vnderstand that Christians were not ashamed of their Christ that was crucified but rather reputed his Crosse the very toppe and crowne of all their glory Another reason there is that whereas these Fathers saw how hard a matter it was to make the meane of the people to vnderstād this mystery of their saluation and how prone the nature of mā is not only to ascribe to other that which is only due to Christ but euen also not to know or knowing to forget that which Christ had suffered for them the Fathers signed their baptised with the signe of the Crosse that by this signe they might bee remembred to ascribe the whole and summe of their saluation not to the water in which they were baptised nor vnto any other thing that they should do or is done to them but vnto the only merit worth of Christs death and passion This may appeare by Austin who saith not without cause wee carry the signe of Christ● Crosse in our foreheads euē that by it we might remember that Christ was crucified for vs. This by Ambrose who speaking of the question ministred to the baptised and there answereth saith Thou wast asked dost thou beleeue in God the Father almighty thou saidst I beleeue and thou wast dipped vnder the water that is thou wast buried Againe thou wast asked dost thou beleeue in our Lord Iesus Christ and in his Crosse thou saidst I beleeue and thou wast dipped vnder the water c. Thus the baptised at his Baptisme was not only asked whether hee did