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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

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

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