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A04378	The height of Israels heathenish idolatrie, in sacrificing their children to the Deuill diuided into three sections: where is shewed in the first, the growth and degrees of this, and generally of other sinnes and idolatries. In the second, that the Deuill was the god of the heathen; with the meanes by which he obtayned that honour. With a large application to our times, against popery, shewing the pride thereof, and malice both against soule and body; together with the meanes, sleights, and policies by which it seduceth, killeth, and in the person of the Pope, raiseth it selfe to its present height. In the third, the blinde zeale of idolaters. Deliuered generally in two sermons preached at S. Maries in Cambridge: the first whereof is much inlarged: by Robert Ienison Bachelor of Diuinitie, and late Fellow of S. Johns Colledge in Cambridge.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1621 (1621)	STC 14491; ESTC S107702	160,311	208

seede and blood yet saith our Sauiour to them Iohn 3.39 ●● You are of your father the Deuill So Papists now who but they they only must be the true Catholikes the true Church for vs we are Lutherans Caluinists Schismatikes Heretikes with such swelling words of vanitie they bewitch and corrupt the mindes of the simpler sort from the simplicitie which is in Christ Iesus euen as the Serpent beguiled Eue through his suttletie 2 Cor. 1● 3 2 Pet. 2.17 18 19. Of these we reade in the 2. Pet. 2. who though indeed they be but Wels without water promising refreshing to the thirstie but leauing their soules emptie promising to others liberty but are themselues the seruants of corruption yet in speaking great swelling words of vanitie they beguile or allure and catch like fishes them that were cleane escaped from them which are wrapped in errour Hitherto referre we their great brags and vauntings whereby they astonish men and dazle their eyes with the name and report of the Church of Rome with Antiquitie of her doctrine with her Vniuersalitie Succession of Bishops Miracles Authorities of Fathers and lastly with the great rumour and report they giue of the learning of Papists Who doubts but many are bewitched with these sorceries who haue not the spirit of discerning to put difference betweene the emptie name of a Church and the Faith professed in a Church betweene Antiquitie and Nouelitie of Doctrine betweene true Vniuersalitie and a number of men giuen ouer to belieue lies betweene Succession of Bishops and Succession of Doctrine betweene true Miracles and lying wonders such as is said Antichrist should worke betweene Authorities of Fathers and Scripture truly alledged and the same wrested if not falsified and forged lastly betweene true and sauing Knowledge and a generall and swimming knowledge in the braine without obedience or without sufficient warrant and ground from Scripture for seeing they speake not alwayes according to this word Isa 8.20 It is because there is no light in them 5. With shewes of Holinesse Besides the aduantage from their vaunting and shewes of truth we may obserue how they can daube on artificiall colours of a holy profession and life thus Iesabel-and harlot-like to draw the eyes of men to looke vpon them loue and like them vnder which colour doubtlesse they beguile the simple and preuaile much Doe we not see how the Pope insinuates himselfe through deceit and vnder the shew of sanctitie In the Pope He is therefore called abstractiuely His Holinesse but how farre from communicating therein later Popes haue bin might easily and plentifully be shewed if I thought fit to rake in that dunghil He stiles himselfe in a shew of greatest humility With Canaan Gen. 9.25 Seruus seruorum Dei the Seruant of the Seruants of God yet indeed takes vpon him as Dominus Dominorum Lord of Lords suffering himselfe to be called and honoured by the name of God in the singular number We read of Pope Martin the fourth that hauing excommunicated the Sicilians Morn Myster Progress 53. Of this Pope was this Epitaph made Hîc iacet ante chorum submersor Toutonicorum Pastor Martinus extrà qui totus ouinus Et lupus introrsus c. and Peter of Arragon in fauour of Charles King of Sicilie they in the midst of their troubles had recourse vnto him and so prostrate vpon the earth they were inioyned to cry out aloud farre off from him Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi dona nobis pacem O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world graunt vnto vs peace Which blasphemie he no waies put back Thus while hee shewed the hornes of the meeke Lambe Christ a Dragon spake out of his mouth for euen so he is described Reuel 13.11 Of this ranke generally are all false Prophets who come to vs in sheepes cloathing perhaps with the name of Iesus who is the Lambe of God vpon them but inwardly are rauening Wolues Mat. 7.15 who vnder colour of long Prayers and more then ordinary holinesse Mat. 23.14 deuoure Widowes houses Such are our Iesuites In Iesuites who deceiue not moe eyes through their dissembled apparell whereby they iet vp and downe vnknowne in the habit of Gentlemen Noblemen c. then they doe hearts and minds of the simple through their seeming deuotion whom you may behold now folding their hands now looking vp towards heauen now sighing now leauing the high-way when they meete women from whom they turne their eyes yet these men in secret doe such things as is not meete to name painted Tombes c. inwardly full of faction hatred of the truth cruelty c. Such also is the holinesse of their Monkes In Monkes who brag so of singular perfection good Workes Prayers Fastings voluntary Pouerty contempt of the World forbearing the very touch of Money Virginitie c. The outward austeritie in the habits and outward shew of some of them preuailes much in this kind with well-meaning soules which being simple and plaine dealing themselues conceiue of others by themselues who yet with the false prophets of old doe weare a rough garment to deceiue Zach. 13.4 Iustin Hist lib. 1. fine I cannot fitlier compare these then to Zopyrus who caused himselfe to be whipped and filthily mangled his nose cares and lips to be cut away yet all in hypocrisie to the end he might betray the Babylonians to whom he fled into the hands of his Master King Darius as he also did So these whip and scourge themselues c. that so by seeming to auoid hypocrisie and to meane sincerely they might become guides to the people which they no sooner obtaine but presently they betray them into the hands of their god Pope Herein also they resemble the Scribes of old who adorned themselues with large and broad Phylacteries that is Mat. 23.5 ex Deut. 6.8 as S Ierome noteth with parchments in which the Law of God was written namely the Decalogue which folding vp they bound to their foreheads in fashion of a coronet that they might be still before their eyes Now they that would seeme more zealously obseruant of Gods Lawes then others made their Phylacteries broder then ordinary that they might therein write moe sentences of the Law These that they might be knowne to differ from the common sort carried Gods Lawes more beautifully decyphered on their garments Thus they seemed to be clad with holinesse hauing it written in their foreheads as had Aaron Holinesse to the Lord. Thus certainly they got what they looked for estimation in the world and won credit in the hearts and thoughts of the people But what were they in our Sauiours account Matth. 23.3.5 what were they in truth Hypocrites doing all to be seene of men none greater transgressors of the Law then they Thus were they and thus are the Scribes of our times like to our Alehouses which on the wall haue some goodly sentences of

whose whole number may not well bee thought lesse then a Million of men might perhaps be thought not vnfit to be imployed in warlike seruice As these things are wisely obserued and more largely handled by the worthy Author of the Relation of Religion c. whose booke being not so commonly in euery ones hand I thought good here and there generally to touch some of his obseruations and by my pen to communicate them to the more Iesuits Lastly in a mysterious policy the order of Iesuites in these last dayes haue beene inuented to shoulder vp the tottering Tower of Babel These are bound to the Generall of their order and so to the Pope in a speciall vow of blind obedience to be ready to doe and execute whatsoeuer shall be inioined them without inquiring and asking why or wherefore These haue speciall commissions and are licenced as the Popes Apostles to trauerse Sea and Land to runne ouer the whole earth euen to the farthest Indies to gather new Subiects for the Pope hauing also speciall faculties granted vnto them and permission to goe in lay-mens apparell to equiuocate to hatch and conceale treasons and the like 2. Now secondly where faire 2. By Feare hopefull and contentfull meanes will not serue there they goe about to hold men bound to them by Feare And for this purpose the deuice of auricular Confession is made to serue Scire volunt secreta domus atque inde timeri for by this they come to know mens counsels and designes mens sinnes and secrets and so to be feared The like feare they strike into the hearts of Christians by the thunderclaps of Excommunication and Church censures and also by the power of deposition of Princes pretending authoritie to excommunicate and depose Princes and to discharge their subiects of all oathes and bonds of obedience and to bind them in paine of damnation to rise against them So especially by the terror of the Inquisition which is the greatest slauery that euer the Christian world endured The tyranny whereof is such as would require a large booke to describe it The care of it being committed to the most zealous painefull and rigorous Friers that can be found the least suspition of heresie affinity or any commerce with Heretikes as they call vs yea the bare reprouing the liues of their owne Clergy is enough to bring men within the compasse of it which if once it seize on them and they in the least manner be taken tardy they had better suffer the most cruell death in any reasonable time then to endure so many deaths before they can be suffered to dye for death shall be accounted a fauour By this as also by their other cruelties and butcheries on the bodies of their enemies where and when it is in their power they bind their owne most strongly though slauishly to them Euen thus hath the beast of Rome ingaged all sorts of men Reuel ●3 16 by making them receiue a marke from it And euen thus also got the Deuill among the Heathen to be worshipped and adored as God partly by more faire louing and plausible meanes partly also by feare and by doing hurt as is proued What other politique fetches are vsed by them to aduance the seat of Antichrist were infinite to recite nay they passe the ordinary reach of men Satan the contriuer and author of them best vnder God knowes the depth and number of them Of him they haue learned by all manner of wickednesse to aduance themselues and as we see in the former instances neuer to inquire what is honest what is holy what agreeing to charity and religion what is honorable or dishonorable to God but to consider what may any wayes make for the furthering of their owne designes and to put that presently in practise Swering forswearing lying dissembling equiuocating forging and such like are the Pillars of Popery It is a firme maxime with them * Qui nescit dissi●●late nescit regnare Ad annu● 1572. He that knowes not how to dissemble is no fit man to be a King This was the saying of one Lewes King of France commended by Thuanus where he writes of Charles 9. by whose authority saith he the massacring of Protestants was performed contrary to that which he had in his Letters signified to other Princes So that the hands of all that are with aspiring Absolom may be strong Ahithophels wicked counsell shall be followed and Absolom will goe in to his fathers concubines in the sight of all Israel so rather then Rome shall be left empty of Cardinals I had almost said Carnals which may strengthen the hand of the Pope the Curtezans which in an honest zeale were banished out of Rome shall be restored and the publike Stewes againe permitted CHAP. XII Popish imitation of Satan in Miracles and Visions for the furthering and effecting the forenamed three ends THus now at the length wee haue found the Court remoued and the god of the Heathen to beare rule The former three ends furthered by Miracles and Apparitions though more couertly in the person of the late Popes each of whom we may finde sitting in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that he is God Wee haue discouered him by his pride against God by his seducing the soules and killing the bodies of men euen of the Saints and wee haue traced him in part by his footsteps Yet see how to effect the former three ends and to win authoritie and credit to his person to his practises to his doctrine the Pope and popish Church hath also made vse of or rather abused such diuine Miracles and Reuelations as were in vse in the primitiue times of the Church abused I say by an apish imitation euen of Satan Sup. Chap 2 sine Chap. 3. 4. whom we haue shewed to haue especially preuailed with the Heathen by his imitation of God in his workes of power and prescience Not to speake any thing in speciall of the heresies of the Mirabiliarij and Enthousiastae wee say See Danaeus on August de●aeres cap 94. that the popish Church would aduance it selfe and also hath by Miracles and Apparitions which yet all of them are not true as done by the power of God for the confirmation of the truth of God but false Vel à fals● ve● ad falsiam as being either from a false worker or to a false end We say not that all popish miracles are fained by themselues but that as many of them are fained to delude others so many also haue the deuill who is false and a lier for the chiefe author of them by which the supposed miracle-workers his instruments doe not only delude others but are deluded themselues And so we say of Apparitions For thus it is foretold of Antichrist that his comming is after the working of Satan 2 Thes 2.9.10.11 with all power and signes and lying wonders and with all deceiueablenesse of vnrighteousnesse in them that

vpon as knowing the peoples braines must and will be busied about some thing or other like to women which hauing no children are much delighted to play and sport themselues with little dogs and puppets By this meanes they would auoid danger from the written word with which we vrge them and which would shew them the vanity of their traditionall doctrine as that the worshipping of images is expresly forbidden with the rest and that their Church is strangely infected Seeing thus they deale with Scripture 2. By prohibiting the reading or hauing of our bookes wee may not hope that our bookes should ordinarily be read of the vulgar Papist for which they haue taken order by a general condemning of them and prohibition which if it were onely to the vulgar it had some shew of fitnesse but they are denied euen to the learned both young and old In the Colledges of Iesuites are diuers of our bookes though in a mourning weed of blacke leather which if any younger Student desire to see Lib. de studiis Iesuit abstrus he must first in some Satyricall verse raile on the author he desires to read Neither must their auncients and Fathers vse any of them without the priuity of their Regent Nay their learnedest and greatest Bishops may not be suffered to see the naked face of their aduersary as witnesseth that most reuerend Archbishop Marcus Antonius who in his owne experience so found it Who also tels vs that no Auditour vnder paine of excommunication must read the treatises out of which their professors of diuinity in their publike reading alleadge the opinion of the aduersaries but must take all on their word Nay See Doct. Iames corruption of Fathers fourth part Bellarmine and Baronius are faine to become suiters to the Inquisitours to read any strange booke whether manuscript or other yea these very writers last named as also Gregory de Valentia who haue imployed themselues wholly in refuting from point to point the Protestants doctrine and arguments are so rare in Italy as that by ordinary inquiry Relation Sect. 35. they are not to be found in any shop but in stead of them an infinite number of inuectiues c. so loath are they it seemes our positions should be knowne and our arguments though related and confuted to their power by themselues But wee may not maruaile that our bookes and arguments should be prohibited to be read seeing their owne writers are also forbidden to be read in the old Editions before they be corrected as some parts of Ferus Stella Espensaeus Thus the inquisition hath effaced that excellent digression out of the fourth booke of Guicciardine which worthy historian yet was a Catholicke as they call themselues no man more The reason is it shewes by good record how the gouernment of the Church of Rome was at first meerely spirituall and withall layes open her ambitious purchase of greatnesse and the meanes how she got it Thus ashamed of her pedigree as one noteth she razeth the memory of her ancestors out of history and would haue none to looke into the vnlawfulnesse of her vsurpation To conclude the same Pope Paulus 4. suffered his owne booke in the writing of which his owne hand was before he was Pope See their Index ●ibrorum prohibit in lit C. 2. By deluding it to be prohibited and damned namely the booke called Consilium delectorum Cardinalium But for all this curious spirits will bee inquisitiue and mans nature is to couet what is forbidden these impostors therefore seeing they cannot wholly blind the iudgement they goe about to delude it Many wayes and this they doe many waies 1. With false Fathers and Authorities Their first tricke is to abuse the names and authorities of such as for holinesse and learning are highly respected and accounted of and vnder their names to sow errour and to disperse the corrupt leauen of their owne doctrine And herein they vse Iacobs deceit in counterfetting the voice and habite of Esau and yet they delude none thus but the blind 1. King 3.19.20 as Isaac then was and the Harlots deceit thrusting a dead child in place of the liuing yet wise Salomon could giue the true mother her owne child This is an old fetch of hereticks Thus the Manichees would seeme to bring to light bookes neuer heard of before the Ascension of Moses the Reuelation of Elias the Gospels of Thomas Philip Bartholomew the Acts of Peter Andrew c. So the Macedonian hereticks put forth a little booke smelling of their heresie vnder the blessed man and martyr Saint Cyprians name The like fraud is now vsed by the Impostours of this later age Monkes Friars Iesuites from whose shops we haue not onely new sects broached vnder the names of Saint Augustine Bernard c. but new authours also as Dionysius Areopagita new Policarpes new Ignatius c. yea new Gospels Euangelia imò Proteuangelia new Apostolicall constitutions new Letanies also and Church Seruice new fathers but yet bastard and false fathers some whereof to the number of 187. some Papists themselues not onely suspect but plainely conuict of forgerie there being twise as many besides which our best Protestants haue challenged of corruption yet these books are still vrged to the people by Priests and Iesuits for sound proofes of the chiefe points of popery as Doctor Iames in his booke of that argument shewes at large who names the bookes and shewes what Papists censure them and what Papists againe alleadge them And thus are the simpler sort most strongly deluded receiuing bitter pils vnder gold and poyson vnder shew of hony These yet their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and false inscriptions they call their Pias fraudes godly deceits agreeably whereunto they allow the faining of tales fables miracles and legends to prouoke the people to deuotion Of like nature and to like end 2. With corrupting of true Fathers is their corrupting of true fathers and of the best learned of all ages not sparing their owne Authors as is noted no not altogether the Bible it selfe All which they corrupt by leauing out adding altering what they please as may be most for their purpose and aduantage And this they most shamelesly practise vnder shew and pretence of purging the world from the infection of corrupt bookes and of correcting the faults of the print For this purpose they haue their Indices Expurgatorii that is Indices expurgatorii tables and Registers of such places and passages as they meane to purge the bookes of which they vse as deletory Sponges to wipe out of such bookes all such things as make any waies against them Diuers whereof are now come to light and are in our hands to their eternall reproach The first which was printed at Antwarpe Anno 1571. by the command and direction of Ferdinand Duke D'Alua vnder Philip 2. of Spaine lay hid in the hands of a few Censors appointed to view and correct

Peter or if he will send so many Souldiers to such or such a Country for the seruice of his Holinesse 6. Now lastly 6. The Popes oblige others vnto them as these were aduantages politiquely taken and deuised for the raising of the Popedome to the height of Papall dignity and soueraignty so hath not the Papacy wanted art and cunning for the perpetuating of its Greatnesse and for the further strenghtning of it selfe And this hath beene and is practised especially by obliging and binding others vnto them partly through loue partly through feare 1 By Offices of loue and kindnesse 1. In loue Popes haue obliged to themselues and to the Papacy men of all sorts both of the Laity and of the Clergy and of meaner ranke And that both of the Temporality as well as great ones 1. First Kings and great personages and that diuers wayes First for their owne aduantage they haue ayded and helped them yea not spared sometimes to countenance euen Rebels and Traytors Thus Boniface the third hauing an eye to his owne aduancement gratified that perfidious and trayterous murtherer Phocas who being odious to all was yet by the fauour and furtherance of the said Bonifaco acknowledged as lawfull Emperour In requitall of which kindnesse he got what he looked for to wit to be called and accounted Bishop of Bishops So to aduance his temporalities the like was practised by Pope Clemens 4. a Frenchman who called into Italy Charles Earle of Aniou against Manfred King of Cicilia which Manfred being vanquished and slaine the said Charles was made King of Sicilia and Ierusalem but with condition to pay the Pope yearely fortie thousand du●kats by way of tribute Thus againe Michael Pale logus Emperour of Greece vpon hope to be succoured by Gregory 10. promised in the Councell of Lion in France to make the Patriarke of Constantinople consent to the primary of the Bishop of Rome and that whosoeuer would might appeale thither Againe by their Dispensations with Oathes of Princes they haue laboured to strengthen themselues with the fauour and support of the said Princes whiles such popish Princes as for their owne securitie for the present haue by solemne Oathes entred into Leagues of friendship with Protestant Princes shall by dispensation from the Pope or from popish doctrine be allowed to breake Oathes when it may be either for the disaduantage of the Popes enemies or aduantage of themselues his friends and fauorites Thus is a Religious Oath made a snare to intrap the Innocent and conscionable whiles the other are warranted either by the Popes speciall dispensation or by the authority of his example they assuming to themselues by imitation what hee hath done to others by his authority to breake their leagues which liberty of dispensing with their owne oathes without any speciall dispensation from the Pope they the more readily take because it is not only the popish practise but also doctrine that faith giuen to Hereticks as they account vs is not to be kept And is not this faire aduantage against vs whiles they will haue vs tied and themselues left free while they can play Fast or Loose at their owne pleasure But they haue more deuices then these for the binding of great ones vnto them for they can bee content to let great Families share with them in their honours and dignities so that espying some great Princes house ouercharged with children or some other noble and potent Familie they will labour to binde the whole familie and kindred to themselues by bestowing a Cardinals Hat on some of the familie thus placing him in the next step to the top of their glory or otherwise by making a younger brother an Abbat or a Prior or receiuing the daughters of such into some religious order Thus moreouer to strengthen their state they make ciuill Magistrates capable of holding benefices bestowing Church-liuings on the Laity or else assigne to them yearely pensions out of their reuenues which must needs proue a strong prop to the Papacy whiles so many mens wits tongues swords shall be ready to maintaine them by whom they are mnintained 2. Now secondly And also the Clergy they want not their meanes to bind and tye their Clergy vnto them which they doe partly through the multitude of exemptions and prerogatiues which these inioy securely vnder the Popes protection for they haue obtained of Princes that the Clergy should be exempt from all temporall Iurisdiction vnder pretence that they are the Lords lot and inheritance by which pretence they haue lessened the number of Princes Subiects partly through abundance of maintenance and multitude of Church-liuings whereby the Pope is able to gratifie the Clergy more then any Prince in Europe More particularly they haue got the Archbishops to their side Archbishops partly by alluring the ambitious with Commissions and Offices partly by an artificiall binding of them to the Pope by a Pall which at the first were sent freely as a token of loue and good will but afterwards by ordinance were made necessary for each to haue a badge of subiection and now at the length they cannot be had but at an exceeding high price and with great summes of mony They haue had aduantage also in regard of that multitude of religious Orders Religious Orders which are made as receptacles of all sorts of men such especially as wanting better meanes betake themselues to these orders where is competent and good prouision for them thus being put off by their parents at an easier and lower rate then they could haue beene maintained at home they serue also for such as hauing some naturall blemish in their bodies staine of some heinous offence in their soules disgrace attending their persons crosse in their estate in their loue or otherwaies who weary of their liues or vnwilling to bee seene of the world consecrate themselues to some religious order or other The ease and benefite they hence find in their estates must needs bind them fast to the Papacy which maintaines both these orders and them But the swarming and excessiue multitude of Friars is otherwayes thought seruiceable to the Sea of Rome first in regard that being dispersed in most Countries they are able to deale with the multitude not onely in publike assemblies but also in priuate at single hand with men women and children by particular perswasions instructions and exhortations the Art whereof many of them haue which together with their hypocriticall shewes of holinesse or austerity of life preuaile much to the peruerting and seducing of many a simple soule Secondly in regard they are found to bee most ready instruments of all bloody executions as daily experience approueth especially in those attempts and also murthers practised by them and effected in the persons of the two last Kings and Henries of France Thirdly in case of warre and that the Pope should be driuen to it as to his last refuge and sacred anchor the halfe of them