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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

Oratories and that both without and within the Christian Church Thus haue Emperours and Kings erected their owne images that they might bee worshipped in their images both aliue and dead Dan. 3.1 as Nebuchadnezzar and Caius Caligula in whose Statue was this inscription Caius Caligula Caesar Deus Caius Caligula Emperour and God These and the like might be helped forward by feare in men or flattery or some conceit that these images were falne from heauen as men thought of the image of Diana Acts 19.35 So within the Church Thus about the yeare 705. Polydor. Virgil de Invent. lib. 6. cap. 13. the sixt Synode held at Constantinople ordained that images of Saints should bee in the Church the pretence was that they might be lay-mens bookes Well this once a foote was helped forward by the Deuils insinuating himselfe into them speaking and giuing answers by them and working Miracles at them So that the honor gained vnto them is by degrees growne so great that the images are worshipped and reuerenced with the same worship which is giuen to the Saints themselues yea with greater adoration then euer the Saints liuing durst haue arrogated to themselues or doe now assume So that I conclude this instance about images as the holy Ghost doth the like idolatrie who after a large description saith The workeman heweth himselfe downe Cedars he will take thereof and warme himselfe yea he kindleth it and maketh bread yea he maketh a god and worshippeth it he maketh it a grauen Image and falleth downe thereto Isay 44.15 2 Inuocation of Saints Secondly see this also in their Adoration Inuocation and honoring of the Saints themselues which from an anniuersary commemoration without inuocation is crept vp to a superstitious worship and inuocation which inuocation at the first was vsed onely oratorically by way of Apostrophe or turning the speech to the parties deceased after men vsed to commend themselues to the prayers of their friends being about to depart this life Thirdly after that to pray vnto them being dead Fourthly moreouer to honour them also with diuine titles yea to honour their very relicks and at length to inuocate not onely true Saints but damned spirits and such as haue iustly suffered for treason c. yea chimaeraes of their owne which of emblematicall pictures haue crept into the Popes Kallender as Saint George Saint Christopher c. ● Sacrifice of the Masse And is it not thus also in the pretended Sacrifice of the Masse First our forefathers the better to draw on the Heathen who were scandalized at the abolishing of externall sacrifices by Christ taught that the Christian Church wanted not her sacrifices but had the sacrifice of Christ the memory whereof was celebrated in the Eucharist Hence after many yeares superstition increasing this spirituall sacrifice began to be conceiued of grossely as an externall one hence transubstantiation without which the sacrifice could not be externall From thence Adoration and an opinion of meriting heauen euen by the work wrought Lastly 4 Supremacy of the Pope the like degrees and ascent we may obserue in the whole mystery of iniquity and rising of Antichrist First all Bishops at the first being ejusdem meriti ejusdem Sacerdotij of the same merit and of the same order of Priesthood the dignity that was in any one aboue another was either in regard of more excellent gifts or at the most in regard of place and seate so was Rome preferred in regard of the Emperours residence there Afterward to auoid Schisme one had superiority though no authority ouer the rest Then thirdly crept in Ambition from whence fourthly abuse of authority in Victor by vniust excommunication Then as a fruit of ambition and after the appointing of foure Metropolitane Bishops and the Emperours remouall to Constantinople flamed forth Contention the end and conclusion of which was that Boniface the third should bee called and so after him other Romane Bishops Oecumenicus caput Ecclesiae summus Pontifex that is Vniuersall Bishop head of the Church and chiefe Priest After this the Popes vsurped authority first ouer all other Churches then withdrawing the shoulder by little and little from the Emperour They are in this forme inuested I inuest thee in the Popedome Vt praesis V●bi Orbi and refusing to be created by him they vsurped authority ouer them also as did Gregory 7. and tooke all temporall authority from the Senate and Consuls of Rome whom Nicholas the third put downe At length they now challenge soueraignty and authority ouer and aboue the whole Church generall Councels yea the whole world CHAP. III. Containing further Application concerning the spreading and growth of sinne NOw as wee haue seene the growth and I hope the height of iniquity in the Romane Church so for all other kinds of sinne if wee looke ouer all mankind wee shall find sinne to be of the same spreading and ouerflowing nature and that this Serpentine and viperous brood and body of sinne winds it selfe by little and little first a finger then the head next the body and lastly the taile by which it stings to death So that where it is not resisted at the first like a flood it breakes the bankes ouerflowes and layes all wast as we may see it both generally and particularly also in regard of each man in whom without good heed taking sinne by degrees growes to an height For the generall ouerflowing and increase of sinne The spreading and growth of ●●n generally wee shall finde it in Scripture described all by extremities as if all iniquity were now ripe and the world ready to be reaped First by an extreame depth in regard of omissions Secondly by an extreame height in regard of commissions We shall finde a no of omission answering a yea of commission ● Of Omission ●n regard 〈◊〉 of persons ● sinnes and contrariwise First by way of Omission that whether we consider first the persons thus Ps 14.3 There is none that doth good no not one or secondly the iniquity of the person Ezek. 5.7 No ye haue not done saith the Lord according to the iudgement of the nations that are round about you No nor yet as the bruite creatures the Storke Turtle Crane Swallow which know their appointed times but my people saith God know not the iudgement of the Lord Ier. 8.7 Resolution Or thirdly the resolution of the person Ier. 2.25 But thou saidst desperately No for I haue loued strangers and them will I follow ● Of commission in regard 〈◊〉 of persons Secondly by way of commission and that also in regard first of the persons Dan. 9.11 Yea all Israel haue transgressed thy law in so much that death hath passed on all men for that all haue sinned ● Of their sins ● Number Rom. 5.12 Secondly the sinnes of the persons and that first for number and repetition not once but often committed Psal 78.40.41 How oft did they prouoke

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

and eating did otherwise conuict him or he by these did conuict his flatterers who would needs so perswade him But indeed such is the nature of mans ambitious desires that as one saith the whole round world cannot content and fill his heart for still the corners of it would remaine empty Others imitating their father the deuill being vsed of God either as his instruments only or as his stewards sacrifice all to their owne nets and therefore you shall haue them speaking of themselues in the first person vsing alwayes that pronounce Thus Esay 10. though the King of e●●●s●ur was only the rod of Gods wrath and his instrument to punish the Israelites yet thus he brags By the power of my hand haue I done it and by my wisdome for I am prudent and I haue remoued the bounds of the people and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people Thus Nebuchadnezzar crowes on the top of his royall Palace Is not this great Babel that I haue built for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power and for the honour of my Maiestie By which examples we see the nature of pride which is first to attribute the good things we haue receiued from God vnto our selues our owne wits power and policie and secondly to vse them for our owne credit estimation and glory But I would this pride were onely found among the Heathen whom it best beseemes But this horrible and deuillish pride hath beene found and may be seene in the visible Church of God both Iewish and Christian For first we reade that about the time when Christ our Messias was expected to come into the world many rose vp and made themselues Christ as Thewdas and Iudas of Galilee So a certaine Egyptian and one Barcozba in the ●●●e of Agrippa and another of that name about fortie yeares after the destruction of the Temple All these tooke vpon them to be the promised Messias which if truly they ●ad beene they must haue beene gods though they intended only to haue become temporall Princes according to the common errour of the Iewes Thus also Herod was made beleeue by some courtiour-Rabbines that hee was the promised Messias Ma●●●●6 Ma●●●3 6 and ●3 of whom proceeded as is thought the Herodians who so often came to intrap our Sauiour in his talke But of all other Simon Magus his example is notable of whom Saint Augustine writeth Aug●st 〈◊〉 that he affirmed of himselfe that he was Christ he would also haue men beleeue he was Iupiter Simon M●●●● and that he gaue the Law in mount Sina in the person of God the Father and that in the reigne of Tiberius he appeared in the person of the Sonne but putatiuè and after that he came vpon the Apostles in the person of the holy Ghost in fiery tongues This man had his queane and harlot with him whose name was Selene or Helena for whose sake he descended downe from heauen to seeke and finde her being a lost sheepe whom yet he called a goddesse and the holy Ghost of whom he begot Angels He caused both their images to be made and got them afterward by publike authority to be set vp and worshipped in Rome as the images of the gods Tertul ●n A●●● g●● cap. 13 Tertullian tels vs that this sorcerer liuing at Rome had an image dedicated to him with this inscription Simoni sancto deo to Simon the holy god After him succeeded his chiefe scholler Menander a Samaritane and baptized as was Simon Menand●● who after the death of Simon affirmed of himselfe whatsoeuer Simon had formerly affirmed concerning himselfe Hee gaue himselfe forth to be the Sauiour of the whole world and not of Helena onely affirming that none could be saued vnlesse they were baptized in his name which if they were their dignity and power was aboue that of the Angels and that they should liue immortally here on earth Thus we see no sooner came our Sauiour into the world but the Deuill stirred vp ambitious spirits to staine his glory in which regard it was necessary our Sauiour should so timely admonish his disciples not to beleeue such as should make themselues christs Matth ●●● and ●● c. But this height of pride hath also ouertaken such as in word at the least professe themselues seruants of Christ yea seruants of the seruants of Christ 2. Christian being indeed meere Antichrists and enemies vnto him I meane especially that man of sinne The Pope 〈…〉 who is an aduersary to God exalting himselfe against all that is called God so that he doth sit as God in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that he is God This Antichrist of Rome patien●ly heares and suffers his clawbackes to call him by the name of Semi god and of Vice god yea and of God himselfe Thus the glosse of the extrauagant Cum inter of Iohn the 22. hath these words To thinke that our Lord God the Pope the author of the foresaid Decretall and of this had no power to decree as he hath decreed would be iudged an heresie Which glosse remaines vntouched euen after the correction of many other glosses appointed by Pope Gregory the 13. One of the Secretaries of the Popes chamber in the last Councell of Lateran speakes thus to Leo the 10. The ●●kes of your diuine Maiesty c. The said Pope Leo after the said Councell was written out approued of it In Italy vpon the gate of Tolentum there is this inscription To Paul the 3 the most high and mighty God vpon earth Now it is a vaine excuse to say the Pope is no otherwise called God then the Scripture calleth Kings gods for the word gods being attributed to Princes in the plurall was neuer but in a blasphemous arrogancy by any in the singular ascribed to himselfe in which regard the Scripture cals Satan the god of this world Now the Pope vsurps the name of God exclusiuely from all other Princes vnto himselfe and out of this rule gathereth by consequence that he should be adored euen of Princes and that he therefore cannot bee iudged of men if any temporall King denye to be iudged by him because Kings are called gods the Pope will not take this well answerably hereunto he cals his Decrees and Canons by the name of Oracles and his decretall Epistles Canonicall Scriptures He vsurpes also vpon the titles and ●aines of our Sauiour Christ calling himselfe often in his Canons and Decrees the Spouse of the vniuersall Church ●●●m Christo se●luso euen Christ set apart saith Bellarmine though Saint Paul make the husband of the Church to be ou● one And Leo the 10. in the Councell of Lateran is called the Lyon of the tribe of Iudah the root of Dauid the Sauiour of Sion With like modesty and humility he takes vpon him to make a new Creed and to adde twelue more Articles to the Creed