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A19588	The sermon preached at the Crosse, Feb. xiiij. 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 followed; namely, that the religion of Rome, as now it stands established, is worse then euer it was.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1608 (1608)	STC 6027; ESTC S115090	135,721	196

be the voyce of the true Oecolampadius Tremel Iunius Calu. et fere omnes ex Pap. Andr. Capella in suis Comment plerisque ex doctoribus Church shewing their loue to Babell and their longing desire to haue done good to their soules Bring balme sayth the former verse if she may be healed Heereunto the Church aunswereth For our parts Wee woulde haue cured Babell but shee could not bee healed wee did our indeuours but found her incurable therefore now seeing we can doe her no good let vs looke to our owne safetie let vs forsake her goe euery man to his owne Country For now wee see God will take the matter into his owne hands seeing man cannot heale her hee will destroie her Her iudgement is come vp into Heauen and lifted vp to the cloudes The particulars considerable in this Text be 4. 1. The Churches loue to her very enemies manifested in her desire to haue healed them We woulde haue cured Babylon 2. The malitious nature and incurable state of Babell causing a comfortless issue of the Churches labours Shee cannot be healed 3. The Churches dutie vpon consideratiō of her obstinacie and incurablenesse namely to lose no more labour vpon her but to abandon her and looke to herselfe Forsake her and let vs goe euery man to his owne countrie 4. What becomes of Babylon being incurable and forsaken of the Church what further remaines for her vengeance and destruction from God her iudgement is come vp into Heauen c. All these are true in a double sense namely both in the literall Babylon and in the mysticall There is a Babell spoken of and literally vnderstood in the old Testament there is a spiritual Babylon mystically meant in the Olde literally spoken of in the New Testament Both are spoken of in this place the one historically and literally the other allegorically and in a mysterie and this interpretation is not without warrant for it is ordinarie with the Prophets in the old Testament when they speake of matters literally true at that time in vnder them to point at further matters of a more spirituall and higher nature For howsoeuer to destroy the literall and historical sense of the olde Testament with some old and many late writers that be Papists is worthily condemned by the Church as iniurious to Gods word Yet the literall sense once layd we may then warrantably extend the text to the allegoricall sense as far as we see the holy Ghost in the New Testament to go before vs or to giue vs leaue Thus Peter makes an allegory of Noahs Ark and makes that business a type of Baptisme f Pet. 3. 20. 21 g Gal. 4. 24. c. Paul of Sarah Agar saith by them another thing is meant and ●o less saith S. Iohn of Babylon as we shall see heereafter Touching the olde and literall Babylon all those points haue beene long agoe verified vpon her since the Prophet vttred them The Church of the old Testament 1 would haue cured her But she 2 could not be healed therefore shee 3 forsooke her and God 4 hath destroied her And touching the mysticall Babylon the kingdome of Sathan and Anti-christ partlie they are and partly shall bee made good vppon her The Church of the new Testament 1 would haue healed her But 2 she is found incurable therefore when Christendome 3 forsakes her God 4 will destroy her the two first are already performed the third is a doing and the fourth is sure to be fulfilled in Gods good time Of all these in their order Of the olde and literall BABYLON Touching the olde and literall Babylon the The first Point first point is the Churches loue and care of her good in these words Wee would haue cured Babylon COncerning which point all the rest we will not pursue the particular historical maters cōsidering that the history of Babylons carying Israel captiue of their vsage in their captiuitie of their forsaking Babylon and returning home againe and lastly of Gods iust vengeance and destruction of Babylon are so notoriously know●n Therefore we will passe by the story and stand rather vpon matter of doctrine First therfore let vs obserue this generall doctrine namely that a good man loues his very enemies and not desireth onely but euen seeketh their good this did the Church of Israel to their enemies persecutors For these Babylonians had done the greatest hurt to the Church and kingdome of Israel that euer one nation did to another for first they inuaded their land vniustly then they besieged and took Ierusalem the seate of the kingdome tooke and slew their kings ouerthrew their Kingdom ruinated their State burnt their Temple defaced their Religion killed whome they would caryed captiue whom they would and so left their land a heape of desolation g Read for this purpose the last chapt of this prophecy together with the ends of the books of kings and Chronicles And yet worse then all this being their Captiues at Babylon there they mockt them in their miserie and scoft at their Religion Come say they you that are these singers and haue had your Kings to bee singers h 2. Sam. 23. 1 Dauid c. you that are these great Psalme-men and haue had your Kings such base fooles as some of them to bee Prophets some Preachers i Salomon ●● 1. 1. 2. 12. some song-makers k Dauid Salomon Hezekia● c. Come make vs mery with one of your Psalmes let vs haue part of your Hebrewe musicke Sing vs one of your songes of Syon l Psal 137. 3 Psalme 137. The least of these wrongs is heauie to be borne but all put together and especially for a Christian after all these miseries to be mockt for his religion and to see his God dishonored oh how bitter is it to the spirit of a man Yet after all this what do Gods people not only pardon it and put it vp but further doe both wish and seeke their good We would haue healed Thus to doe is a mark of Gods childe and a signe of a true Church For to doe euill for euill and good for good is no more then nature euen the publicans sayth Christ doe so much m Mat. 5. 46 to recompence euill for good is worse then nature it is malice peruerse corruption and therefore sayth Salomon Hee that dooth so euill shall neuer depart from his house n Pro. 17. 13 But to doe good against euill that is aboue nature it is grace and a god euidence of Gods spirit thus doing saith Christ you are the children of your heauenly father o Mat. 5 44. 45 Heereupon for the vse of this doctrine we may see a comfortable euidence that our Church is the true Church of God seeing that wee pray dayly for the Church of Rome which curseth vs and it is very obseruable that whereas the Pope with all solemnity excommunicates and curseth vs