The Jesuits Gospel, Title page – Preface
THE IESVITES GOSPEL BY W. Craſhawe, B. of Diuinity and Preacher at the Temple.
LONDON, Printed by E, A. for Leonard Becket, and are to be ſolde at his Shop in the TEMPLE nere the Church. 1610.
THE POINTS OF NEW DIVINITIE CONTAINED IN this Goſpell.
1 THat the Milke of Marye may come into compariſon with the blood of Chriſte.
2 That the Chriſtian mans faith may lawfully take holde of both as well as one.
3 That the beſt compounde for a ſicke ſoule, is to mixe together her milke and Chriſts blood:
4 That the ſinnes & ſpirituall deſeaſes of the ſoule are cured as well by her milke as his blood.
5 That Chriſt is ſtill a little childe in his Mothers armes, and ſo may be prayed vntounto.
6 That her milke and the merit and vertue of it, is more pretious and excellent then Chriſts blood.
JN THE APPENDIX.
1 THat no man, but a woman did helpe God in the worke of our redemption.
2 That God hath made Marye partaker and fellow with him of his diuine Maieſtie and power.
3 That God hath deuided his Kingdome with Marye, keeping Iuſtice to himſelfe, and yelding Mercy to Her.
4 That a man may appeale from God to Her.
5 That a man ſhall oftentimes be ſooner heard at Gods hands in the mediation of Marie, then of Ieſus Chriſt.
THE OCCASION OF THIS IESVITICALL BLASPHEMYE.
IVSTVS LIPSIVS, a man of learning enough but too much levitye, hauing runne ouer all religions; and at laſt ſet vp his reſt in Poperye: fell in his declining and doting dayes to open Idolatrye: And as he neuer troubled himſelfe much with Chriſt in his life (whoſe very name a man ſhall ſeldome finde in his bookes) ſo at his end, wanting matter (it ſeemes) to magnifye Chriſt, he writes 2. books in praiſe and honour of 2. Idols: namely 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 Ladye: Wherein the prophane wretch bluſheth not to write, that at theſe 2. Images, there are more and greater miracles wrought, then the ſcriptures ſpeake of to be done by Chriſt himſelfe. A learned lowe-Countrye Diuine wondring that ſuch Owles durſt flye abroade at Noone light, and ſuch tromperye be ſet to ſale in theſe daies of knowledge, Wrote a ſhort reproofe of the impietyes, vttered in the firſt of theſe bookes, which is:
De Ʋirgine Hallenſi.
Wherein, becauſe the Ieſuits were alſo touched, as being the Fathers of ſuch fooleryes, and the makers of thoſe bolts which ſuch fooles as Lipſius do ſhoote: Therevpon a Ieſuite of Antwerpe calling himſelfe Clarus Bonarſcius, (but his true name being, Carolus Scribanius) taking vponupon him in a Ieſuiticall pride the generall quarell of the whole order of Ieſuits, vndertakes to defend their Innocencie, and their Honour (forſooth) againſt all the world: and to that end writes a booke, and cals it
The great Theater of the Jeſuits Honour.
Amphitheatrum Honoris.
In quo Caluiniſtarum in Societatem criminationes iugulatae.
Wherein, after many blaſphemies againſt Chriſt: calumnies & ſclanders againſt Princes: all kinde of lyes againſt our Miniſters, and Profeſſors: he comes at laſt to defend their freind Lipſius, and his legend of our Ladye of Hall: And after he hath abuſed him that wrote againſt it, with all deſpightfull termes, and rayld moſt artificially, wherein he excels all other Ieſuits, (Parſons excepted) as far as they, all other Papiſts: He makes a tranſition from 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 own devotion, he makes a Poeme, not to the honour of God, or of Chriſt the Mediator, But to our Ladye of Hall and the Childe Ieſus. Wherein, whether the verſe be better or the matter worſe is hard to tell: But whether his deuotion therein is greater to a Creature, or his blaſphemie againſt the blood of the Mediator, let the Chriſtian Reader Iudge, by the Poeme it ſelfe, which hereafter followeth.