The Jesuits Gospel 2, Title page – Account
THE IESVITES GOSPELL: VVritten by themſelues. Diſcouered and publiſhed by W. Craſhaw, B. of Diuinity, and preacher at White-chappell. The ſecond Impreſſion Corrected and enlarged by the Author.
LONDON, Printed by Bernard Alſop, and are to be ſold at his houſe, being the next houſe to Saint Annes Church 1621.
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR William Cockaine, the now Lord Maior, and Sir Francis Iones, Lord Maior Elect; of the ancient and honorable City of London, and to the reuerend and renowned aſſembly, the Court of Aldermen.
The ſpirit of Wiſdome, Truth Zeale, and vnity, be multipied.
IT is well knowne to the learned, and many your ſelues right Honorable, & Worſhipful, that the Ieſuits (the Popes beſt and deareſt ſonnes) hauehave not yet troubled the world a hundred yeeres: for the Pope that to his owne hurt excommunicated Henry the 8. & againſt his will called the conuentikle of Trent, eſtabliſhed alſo the order of the Ieſuits aPaul the 3. in the yeare 1540. allowed and eſtabliſhed the order of the Ieſuits, being begun by theſe 10. named in the Bull. Ignatius Loyal… Petrus Faber, Iaco… Laynes, Claudius Iai… Paſcha… Broet, Franciſ… Xauie…, Alphon. Salmeron Simon Rodericus, Ioanne… Coduis. Nich. Bobadilla. & reſtrained their number to 60. but 30. yeare after in another Bull h… inlarged thē, to as m… ny as they could get.what their order is, what their vowes be, and what their Religion, you may know out of the booke called the Ieſuites Rule. What ſeruice they hauehave done their Maſter the Pope, all men gueſſe, wiſe men know, and all Nations in Chriſtendome feele to their paine, more or leſſe. And how ſenſible the Pope is of their ſeruice, apeares in that the firſt 5. Popes in their time, in recompence therof, hauehave beſtowed no leſſe then 36 bSee the book calle… Regula Ieſuitica• print… at Rome, 1580. and ſine… at Lyons, and obſeru… wiſely ſome of the… rules, and you ſhall find that the preſent ſtate, of a great part of Chriſtendome is a large coment vponupon the Ieſuites rule.Buls or Charters of Priuiledges vponupon the ſociety (beſides ſome which we ſhal neuer know of) eueryevery one cōfirming or inlarging another, and the later yeelding more ample graces and fauours then the former: Now if in their firſt 40. yeres, (being the time… of their infancy) they were able to deſerue ſo well, what ſeruice may we thinke hauehave they performed, and how great thanks hauehave they receiued of the latter popes in theſe laſt 30. yeeres. of their age, when they are come to ſtrength and ripeneſſe: for tho Sixtus 5. cSee the book called Literae Apoſtolicae, quibus Inſtitutio confirmatio & priuilegia. ſoc, Ieſu continentur: printed at Rome 1587.(being as wicked & wily as themſelues) perceiuing their plots, and diſcouering their deepeſt drifts; vſed them accordingly, and not only gaue them nothing he could keep from them, but intended alſo dWatſon in his quodlibers, confeſſeth as much, but this matter▪ hath better proofe then Watſon.the reſtrayning or ruinating of their order (had not they done as much for him, as he entended thē) yet he and Paul the 4. only excepted (for it was ill halting before 2. ſuch criples) they can hardly name a Pope that liued a yeere of whom they receiued not ſuch fauours, as may well teſtifie to the world the great account the Pope makes of them. And will you know the reaſon? their deuotion, their doctrine, &. their deedes, do merrit it at his hands: what their particular deuotion to the Pope is, appeares by the vow which they (aboue all other: Regulars) make to the Pope of preſent and abſolute obedience eSee the book called Conſtitutiones Romanorum Pontif. per Petrum Matthaeum, …ugduni 1588, amongſt the Conſtitutions of Paul the 3. in the third conſti…ution, pag. 305. there be the words of this vowto do whatſoeuer he ſhould command them, to goe whetherſoeuer he ſhould ſend them, to Turkes, Inſidels, Heretickes, without excuſe, denyall or delay. Their deedes for the Pope are anſwerable to their deuotion towards him, for theſe 50. yeeres hauehave they vpheld Popery fSol…aue diuers Popes confeſſed in the preambles of the Buls granted to the Ieſuits, eſpecially Paul the 3. in his third Bul anno 45. & in his 5. an. 49. & Iulius the 3. in his firſt, and Pius the 4. in his firſt, and others.as far as wit and learning, nay as farre as craft and cruelty can vphold it, which without them had vtterly r…inated (as notwithſtanding it ſhortly will, and they with it, doe what they can) They hauehave pickt out the fineſt yong wits of the world, gtheſe be their words in the regula Ieſuitica, cap. 3. reg. …4. Inepta turba ad inſtitutum noſtrú admitti non poteſt.and ſo trained them vp, that the Pope ſhal neuer want inſtruments to kill Kings, to ſubuert ſtates, to patch vp a peace, or to breake leagues as he thinks good: let but the Diuel deuiſe it, & the Pope command it, and forthwith the Ieſuits will find him ſhall execute it.
Moreouer what they hauehave attempted for the Pope, in England, Scotland, Hungary, Bohemia, Venice, and the Low-Countries: what they hauehave performed for him in France and Poland: how they rule & raigne in Spaine & Italy, who ſo blind as ſees not? Bu… …s this all they hauehave done? Nay they ſcatter themſelues like Locuſts ouer all the world; and with the Frogs of Hgypt creepe into great mens houſes, and firſt ſeduce the ſilly women, and not ſo content, worke themſelues into the fauours, at leaſt into the Courts, Coaches, & counſels of Princes; & diuing into mens conſciences & counſels, by the ſtratagems of their confeſſion, and after into their purſes & eſtates, by benefit of their abſolution, hmany orders of Friers & many popiſh nations hauehave complained of the Ieſuites, in theſe eſpects.& laſtly into the conceits of the Vulgar, by an hypocriticall auſterity and diſſembled deuotion, they hauehave hereby gained more to the Pope their Lord and Maſter, then all the Romiſh Clergie in the world beſides: But is this yet all? nay, that the Pope may ſeeme to hauehave a good cauſe, and not to do all things by a ſtrong hand, they hauehave taken a courſe to make all writers in the world ſpeake for him: (an attempt which the former ages ſuſpected not, and the future will ſcarce beleeue) for ſome bookes they prohibite and extinguiſh and make it damnable to open them: the reſt be they old or new, printed or manuſcript, they alter adde and take away iFor the firſt ſee their …ook called, Index li…rorum prohibitorum, …et out by authority of ſeuerall Popes. And for the ſecond, ſee the books called, Indices librorum expurgandorum, printed in Belgia, Italy, and ſpaine, as alſo Gregorij. Capuccini, Enchiridion Eccleſiaſ…icum, and Poſſeuine the Ieſuit his apparatus ſacer.till they hauehave ſuckt out the ſweeteneſſe, and purged out all the goodneſſe, and taken out all teſtimonies of the truth: inſomuch as if they had not been warily watcht, followed by the footeſteps, and taken euen in the manner, they had not left one booke allowed in the world, that had not ſpoken for the Pope: Such worthy workemen are the Ieſuits, that thoſe good & worthy men which preached and wrote againſt the Pope, whilſt they liued, their Sermons & writings ſhall teſtifie for him, long after they are dead: But why doe I offer to diſcerne or or diſcouer Ieſuites practiſes? alas, I am too ſilly and too ſhallow, I confeſſe I know them not, and yet I am ſorry I know ſo much: my hope is that their beginning, their breeding, their feeding, their growth, their greatneſſe, their rules and religion, their plots and practiſes, their murders and maſſacres (being ſuch as makes England baniſh them, Denmarke deteſts them, Venice wil none of them, Italy, is weary, & France is ſick of them, and Spaine it ſelfe is iuſtly iealous of thē) My hope I ſay is, that a perfect diſcouery of all theſe will be attēpted by ſome that may make perfect that ſmall beginning & foundation, which in 2. little bookes is already laid in that kind kAphoriſmi doct. Ieſuitie. De abſtruſioribus ſtudijs Ieſuitarummeane time for the better vncaſing of this Foxe, and vnmasking this Hypocrite, let me come to that which is neerer to my Element, & conſider a little of their doctrines, which is the third meanes by which they hauehave deſerued ſo well of the Papall ſtate: concerning which, I will ſay nothing but what I know, and what I dare referre and do ſubmit to your iuſt and iuditious cenſures, I ſay therefore that whereas the Romiſh Church is that ſcarlet whore, lReu. 17. 1, 2. &c.and her Idolatries and ſuperſtitions the ſpirituall abominations with which ſhe makes drunk the inhabitants of the earth and that in this latter age her cup of abominations was almoſt drunke vp, and emptied euen to the dreggs: in this exigent and extremity theſe like Locuſts flye out of the bottomleſſe pit, to repaire the ruines of the Romiſh ſtate, and to fill her Reuel. 9. 2.golden Cup with a new ſupply of ſpirituall fornications: to which end they hauehave firſt reuiued many diuelliſh doctrines, halfe dead and damned in the former ages, and what in former times were ſcarce muttered in corners by the worſt of their Predeceſſors, is now by them preached on the houſe tops: And ſecondly, not ſo content, the better to fill her cup with the very quinteſſence of moſt refined abominations: they hauehave hatched many horrible doctrines and helliſh opinions neuer heard of in the elder ages; which are ſuch excellent and exquiſite infections to a mans ſoule, that the purple Whoore hath willingly throwne away mPopery is much altred ſince the Ieſuites both in their ſeruice, as may bee ſeene in their Miſſals & breuiaries: & in their ceremonies, as appeares in their pontificale and ceremoniale comparing the old and new together.a great part of her older druggs, to make roome for the new and more precious poyſons confected by the Ieſuites.
Of the firſt ſort, and ſo of the ſecond, I dare be bold to giuegive you a taſte, though they bee mortall poyſons, becauſe I know you are armed with Antidotes and precious preſeruatiues againſt them.
Of the firſt ſort are theſe.
1 That an Image of God or Chriſt is to be worſhiped with foreign, that is, with the ſame ſame worſhip as God himſelfe:nSo teach Gretſer & Gregory de Valent, and ſay it is the common & receiued opinion,
2 That God hath deuided his Kingdome with the Virgin Mary, keeping iuſtice to himſelfe but committing mercy to her.
3 That a man may appeale from Gods iuſtice to the mercy of the Virgin Mary.oTheſe two Biel and Bernardine de Buſt doe teach and Poſſeuine the Ieſuit, highly cōmends thoſe very bookes.
4. That the Pope is ſuperior to the Emperor, not only in ſpiritual but euen in temporall things, & ought to hauehave place and predence afore himp…o teacheth liber ſacrarum ceremoniarum, Romane Eccleſie, which is highly commended by Bellarmine as Poſſeuinus alſo confeſſeth.
Theſe and many others which ſcarce durſt peepe out in former times, are now by the Ieſuits made publike and plauſible doctrines, and being almoſt bur…ed and forgotten, are by them againe reuiued.
Of the ſecond ſort.
1 That God hath made the Virgin Mary partaker of his diuine power and maieſty, qSo teacheth Horaſius Turſellinus a Ieſuit.as farre as he may.
2 That a man ſhall oft time bee ſooner heard at Gods hand in the mediation of the Virgin Mary, then of Ieſus Chriſt.rSo teacheth Chriſoſtomus a Viſit. a Ciſtertian, and is allowed by Poſſeuinus.
3 That a man may equiuocate before a Magiſtrate.ſSo teach Azorius & Tollet and all Ieſuits.
4 That Hereſie makes a man vncapable of a Kingdome, and makes him an Vſurper, that is otherwiſe a lawfull KingtSo teach Marianus Simancha, Bozius and others allowed by the Ieſuits.
5 That the Pope hath power not only to pronounce what is hereſie, but after that to depriue him of his Kingdome, and to diſpoſe of it as he thinkes beſt.uSo teacheth Roſſeus and others allowed by the Ieſuits.
With many other, not conuenient heere to bee perticularized which the former times neuer heard of, at leaſt in ſuch manner as now they be holden,
But ſeeing they be all of two ſorts, either touching the crowne of Chriſt himſelfe, or the crownes of Kings his deputies on earth, I will deſire you to be contented with one example of both ſorts. Concerning not ſuch Kings as make not themſelues ſlaues and harlots to the purple whore: thus teacheth a Ieſuit too well knowne in Eglnand.
xSee the book called Andrea Philopatris reſponſio ad Edictum Elizabethae ann. 91. ſect. 2 artic. 157. pag. 109. editionis aug. 1592. This man is Arthur Creſwell the Ieſuite.It is the iudgement of all Catholike Diuines and Lawyers, and it is certaine, and de fide: that what Chriſtian Prince ſoeuer, doth apparantly fall from the Catholike Religion, and would alſo draw others with him, doth Ipſo facto forthwith fall from all right, title, place and power of their Kingdomes or Dominions, by force both of Gods and mans law, and this before any ſentence be pronouced againſt him by the Pope: and that all his Subiects are free from the Oathes they hauehave made to him. And they may. nay they ought (if they be able) to put him downe and caſt him out from all gouernment, as an Heretike, an Apoſtate, and an enemy of God and the commonwealth &c. And this doctrine is certaine, vndoubted and reſined &c.
Alas that we ſhould liue to heare ſuch doctrine taught, eſpecially by an Engliſhman I but whereas he ſtiles himſelfe a Diuine and a Prieſt of Rome, wee thence conclude that he carried no ſuch learning with him out of England, but found it at Rome.
Concerning Chriſt, that which I hauehave afore ſet downe is vile and wicked and ſuch as the elper world and miſty times of Popery would hauehave abhorred. But there is one impiety of late broched by one Ieſuit, and approoued by all, ſo horrible and hainous, as I want words to expreſſe it. yClarus Bonarſeius a Ieſuit, writes it: Poſſeuine the Ieſuit in the name of all other approues it.But this I can ſay, it is ſuch as the world yet neuer heard of, ſuch as the ages paſt feared not, and the future will not beleeue: nay ſuch as we in theſe dayes would not beleeue of our very enemies, if the euidence of the fact made it not paſt all denyall and excuſe: for would a man imagine that thoſe who profeſſe themſelues the ſeruants of Ieſus Chriſt aboue other men, ſhould conceiue of him, ſpeake to him, and play with him, as with a ſucking child in his mothers armes? Nay that is nothing, they make him an vnderling to a woman, and not his Perſon only but his bloud and merits, & compare together his bloud and her milke, and vponupon compariſon finds them ſo equall, that they mixe them together, and in the mixture finds the milke ſo excellent, that they preferre it afore the bloud, as a thing more precious, and with which, they may not be ſo bold as with the bloud of Chriſt, and feare not to affirme that the corruptions of our nature, and ſinnes of our ſoule are healed and holpen as well by her milke as Chriſts bloud. A blaſphemy whereat the Angels will ſhrinke, and the very diuels tremble, and yet no doubt wee ſhall finde Ieſuites will defend it.
Hauing obſerued this blaſphemy 2. or 3. yeeres agoe, I held my tongue, expecting it would bee diſcouered and reproued by ſome that could doe it with more authority, but fayling of my hope, I long conceal'd my labours till now, that the neceſſities of theſe euill times doth force it from mee: I therefore do heere diſcouer it, and am bold to ſend it abroad vnderunder the protection of your honorable names, that ſo all the world may know the ſtate and gouernment of this honorable Citty, to be no approouers, but Cenſors and condemners of ſo horrible and hideous Atheiſme.
I am therefore a ſuter to you all, in mine owne and the name of all my brethren the Clergy of this City, that you looke well to the execution of the lawes, and yet rather againſt Popery then Papiſts: For it is the wicked Popery that makes our men Papiſts, and ill ſubiects to God and the King: The men would be good enough if the grounds of their religion were not wicked. Therfore we beſeech you hauehave care, that Iuſtice be ſo executed as rather the wickedneſſe of the Religion may bee rooted out, then the perſons puniſhed as in his ſtile, to be The defender and propogatur of the true Chriſtian Faith.
Honourable and worſhipfull, vouchſafe to heare vsus in this iuſt & neceſſary requeſt, being no leſſe then your Religion craueth at your hands: The Clergy and Miniſtry of England are ſlandered by the Papiſts, that wee ſeeke their bloud, & exaſperate the ſtate againſt them: but they do vsus wrong it is the extirpating of Popery, not the bloud of Papiſts, that we ſeeke and ſue for: we pitty their perſons, and wiſh them rather all baniſhed then any executed, but we hate their hereſies, and wiſh them cenſured, condemned, and extinguiſhed as as they deſerue: This is the way fully to diſcouer Antechriſt, and to haſten his confuſion, for almoſt all Churches of Chriſtendome hauehave pronounced him Antchriſt, and his Religion Hereſie: And this is the ſure way to be free from treaſons, conſpiracies inuations, murders and maſſacres, from which (as you ſee) Denmarke by this meanes is defended, and many countries well freed as ſoone as they get free of Ieſuits: and by the contrary we ſee the miſerable accidents in France, to the amazement of the Chri…tian world: for when all the truth is known, & the whole account caſt vp, the charge of thoſe foule facts the murders of 2. Kings, & many more vnnaturall diſaſters, will lye vponupon the vngodly poſitions of Popery: As Dauid ſaid of Abner when he mourned for him, ſo may we much more of their laſt King, Know you not that a great man is fallen in Chriſtendome? Surely one of the greateſt many wayes that Chriſtendome hath yeelded: It is full time to looke about you, when your neighbours houſe is on fire, and the rather when Ieſuites teach this doctrine to be defined, and to be de fide, that ſubiects not only may but ought to take away ſuch Kings as he was, and ou…s (much more) is, and long may he ſo be: Nay long ſhall he be ſo if you take this and other courſes for exti…pating Popery: When you and other the Magiſtrates Eccleſiaſticall and ciuell ſhall begin ſeriouſly and effectually to do this, then Rome trembles, Popery ſhrinkes, Antichriſt frets, and the Ieſuits his darlings begin to looke pale, and hang downe their heads for their confuſion is at hand: for though they hauehave continued but iuſt. 70. yeares (not the halfe of many other orders) yet they muſt know that bloud-thirſty and deceitfull men ſhall not liue out halfe their dayes. And if they be not guilty of theſe 2. faults bloud and deceit, wee will free them from all How bloudy the Ieſu…tes be appeares in that this is their maxime imprinted. Niſi religio Lutherana, ferro & igne tollatur, Eccleſia Rom. …acem & trāquilitatem habere non poterit See the booke called Epiſtolarum Ieſuiticar. Libellus agab. Bariaco 99. in Epiſt. art 11. pag. 66. A great Image, whoſe glory was excellent) & fourme terrible, whoſe head was of fine gold, his breſt and armes of …uer, his belly & thighs of braſſe, his leggs of y…on, his feete part of y…on, and part of clay. Daniel. 2. 31. 32. …inc dubium non eſt …ocietatem noſtram vt …ubito caepit, it a ſubito …territuram qui quoti…em peius ruit.faults: but if they bee, and that aboue all men, then take heede you Ieſuites, that this your 70. yeare, be not a diſmall and fatall yeare vntounto you, and that our Dauid and Moſes do not pronounce of you, the yeeres of your continuance are threeſcore and ten, and th… y… be ſo mighty and ſo crafty, you may hold out till foureſcore, yet ſhall your life be nothing but ſorrow and miſery (as you hauehave deſerued) and quickly ſhall ye be cut off and vaniſh away: and if this Prophecy like you not, take one of your owne. In the yeere 83. … Ieſuite preached at Auſpurg, and his text being, we are made a ſpectacle to God, Angels, and the world: in his Sermon he compared the Ieſuites order to the Image, which Nabuchadnezzar ſaw in his …aulo. Our Father Ig…atius (ſaith hee) is the golden head, together …ith thoſe that liued with him: but when the firſt 10. fathers were dead, others followed, nothing ſo good as the firſt, and theſe were the breſts and armes of ſiluer. Then our ſociety being inlarged from 60. to many hundreds, it grew in greatneſſe, but decayed in goodneſſe, and then moſt of them were idle bellies; and ſuch whoſe God was their belly, and theſe are the bellies and thighes of braſſe: and then ſtill growing line number, and falling into more voluptuousneſſe and carnalty, they were ſo drowned in pleaſures, that their hearts were hardned againſt all good counſell and admonitions, theſe were the legs of Iron: and laſtly many of vsus are ſuch as tho they liue in our golden ſociety, yet they are altogether earthly minded men: and theſe be the feete of Clay. Hereupon (ſaith he) It is out of all doubt that as our ſociety ſuddenly begun, ſo ſhall it ſuddenly come to nought, ſeeing it dayly falls from ill to worſe: O my brethren ſaith he, ſuch a ſpectacle are wee made! Now therfore leaſt this Image of ours be broken in pieces (as that other was) we muſt goe to our father Ignatius, that good Alchimiſt, and learne of him how we may be transformed frō clay and yron into gold againe: let vsus therefor… goe into the furnace and purge our ſelues: Thus farre the Ieſuites Sermon: But if their liues be lookt at for the 30. yeares ſince he ſpake, wee ſhall find that either they could not yet ſpeake with Ignatius, or if they did, he was no true Alchimiſt, but a quackſaluer, and could not direct them, or if hee did, the furnace is to hot, for all the world can witneſſe they are not purged from their ambitions, couetouſneſſe, treacheries, bloud, cruelty, deceitfulnes, & all carnalties, but hauehave grown on riper in all rottennes, and more fit to be driuen and daſht in pieces: but if the Ieſuits wil follow their Allegory ſtil, and aske vsus how they can be broken, for that Image was broken with a ſtone cut out without hands, I anſwere, ſeeing they hauehave found the Image, I can find the ſtone. (a) Chriſt is the great and chiefe corner ſtone who can and will grind to powder all that exalt themſelues againſt him. And was cut out without hands, euen made man without the helpe of man.
But by and vnderunder him, his holy religion ſetled in this Iland: in England, vnderunder a woman, in Scotlād, vnderunder a child, is a ſtone cut out without hands; for it was the Lords doing, & was maruelous in the eyes of all the world: Morouer, his Maieſties comming to vsus, and ſetling with vsus, and vniting of vsus, with our ancient Brethren and neighbours of Scotland, who but God could hauehave done it in that peaceable and bleſſed manner as it was: Sure it was a ſtone cut out without hands of man: It was the Lords owne worke, all the world excepting the mā of ſin, the Ieſuits, & their wicked adherents reioyced to ſee it. Know therfore you Ieſuits, that this ſtone cut out by God, euen this true faith profeſſed and ſetled in this Iland, and this gracious King whom God hath ſent vsus to be the zealous defēder of that faith, ſhal caſt down the great excellent and terrible Ieſuiticall Image. ſmiting him vponupon the feete of yron and clay, and breaking them to pieces, till your yron and clay, and braſſe and ſiluer, & gold, (if you hauehave any left) be broken altogether, and become like chaffe of the ſommer flowers, and the winde ſhall carry you away till there be no place found for you. And then the ſtone that ſmote the Image, euen this holy Religion now profeſſed & maintained in England, ſhall become a great mountaine, that is, ſhal be enlarged, and fill the whole earth which as we are aſſured will be true of our Religion (which is the glory of our land, and that which vnites vsus to Chriſt the true corner ſtone) ſo we doubt not, it ſhall be alſo true of our Soueraigne and his ſeede, that they after they hauehave broken the Ieſuiticall Image, ſhal againſt Gog and Magog, and Antechriſt, and all his Adherents, become a great and ſtrong mountaine, and fill the whole earth with the glory of their renowned deedes: and let earth and heauen ſay Amen, with the honorable religious and loyall Citty of London, and all good Chriſtians: and with
Your humbly deuoted ſeruant in Ieſus Chriſt. W. Craſhawe.
THE POINTS OF NEW DIuinity contayned in this Goſpell.
THat the milke of Mary may come into compariſon with the bloud of Chriſt.
2 That the Chriſtian mans faith may lawfully take hold of both as well as one.
3 That the beſt compound for a ſick ſoule, is to mixe together her milke and and Chriſt bloud:
4 That the ſinnes and ſpirituall diſeaſes of the ſoule are cured as well by her milke as his bloud.
5 That Chriſt is ſtill a little child in his Mothers armes, and ſo may be prayed vntounto.
6 That her milke and the merit and vertue of it, is more precious and excellent then Chriſt bloud.
IN THE APPENDIX.
THat no man, but a woman did helpe God in the worke of our redemption.
2 That God hath made Mary partaker and fellow with him of his diuine Maieſty and power.
3 That God hath diuided his Kingdome with Mary, keeping Iuſtice to himſelfe, and yeelding mercy to her.
4 That a man may appeale from God to her.
5 That a man ſhall oftentimes bee ſooner heard at Gods hands in the meditation of Mary, then of Ieſus Chriſt.
THE OCCASION OF THIS IESVITICALL Blaſphemy.
IVSTVS LIPSIVS, a man of learning enough, but too much leuity, hauing run ouer all religions; & at laſt ſet vp his reſt in Popery: fell in his declining and doting daies to open Idolatry: And as he neuer troubled himſelfe much with Chriſt in his life (whoſe very name a man ſhal ſeldom find in his books) ſo at his end, wanting matter (it ſeemes) to magnifie Chriſt, he writes 2 books in praiſe and honor of 2 Idols: namly 2 old rotten, or 2 new forged pictures of a woman with a child in her armes. Which muſt needs be taken for pictures of our Lady: Wherin the prophane wrerch bluſheth not to write, that at theſe 2 Images, there are more & greater miracles wrought, then the ſcriptures ſpeake of to bee done by Chriſt himſelfe. A learned low-Country Diuine wondring that ſuch Owles durſt flie abroad at Noone light, and ſuch trompery be ſet to ſale in theſe dayes of knowledge, wrote a ſhort reproofe of the impieties vttered in the firſt of theſ… bookes, which is:
De Virgine Hallenſi.
Wherein becauſe the Ieſuits were alſo touched, as being the fathers of ſuch fooleries, and the makers of thoſe bolts which ſuch fooles as Lipſius doe ſhoote: Thereupon a Ieſuit of Antwerpe calling himſelfe Clarus Bonarſcius, (but his true name being Carolus Scribanius) taking vponupon him in a Ieſuiticall pride, the generall quarrell of the whole order of Ieſuits, vndertakes to defend their innocency, and their honor (forſooth) againſt all the world: and to that end writes a book, and calls it, The great Theater of the Ieſuits honor.
Amphitheatrum Honoris. In quo Caluiniſtarum in Societatem criminationes iugulatae.
Wherein, after many blaſphemies againſt Chriſt: calumnies & ſlanders againſt princes: all kind of lyes againſt our miniſters & profeſſors: he comes at laſt to defend their friend Lipſius, and his legend of our Lady of Hall: And after he hath abuſed him that wrote againſt it, with all deſpightful tearmes, and rayl'd moſt artificially, wherein he excels all other Ieſuits, (Parſons excepted) as far as they, all other Papiſts: Hee makes a tranſition frō rayling on men to playing with God: and from diſgracing Princes to dallying with Ieſus Chriſt: and not onelyonly defends the legend of Hall, written by Lypſius, but further to ſhew his owne deuotion, he makes a Poeme, not to the honour of God, or of Chriſt the Mediator: but to our Lady of Hall and the child Ieſus. Wherein, whether the verſe be better or the matter worſe is hard to tel: But whether his deuotion therin is greater to a creature, or his blaſphemy againſt the blood of the Mediator, let the Chriſtian Reader Iudge, by the Poeme it ſelfe, which hereafter followeth.