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A17017	The first part of the resolution of religion devided into two bookes, contayning a demonstration of the necessity of a diuine and supernaturall worshippe. In the first, against all atheists, and epicures: in the second, that Christian Catholic religion is the same in particuler, and more certaine in euery article thereof, then any humane or experimented knowledge, against Iewes, Mahumetans, Pagans, and other external enemies of Christ. Manifestly convincing all their sects and professions, of intollerable errors, and irreligious abuses.	Broughton, Richard.	1603 (1603)	STC 3897; ESTC S114320	118,360	300

supernaturall Worship OF THE NAME AND NAture of Religion ¶ CHAP. I. RELIGION amonge other names is so tearmed of the Latines either a Relegendo of often reading repeating and rumynating thinges appertayning to diuine Reuerence or a Reeligendo of chusing to please God againe by submission whome by want thereof we had forsaken or lastlie of Religando in that we are bounde vnto him by many Obligations both in respecte of excellencies conteyned in himselfe as benefits bestowed vpon vs And after the same proportion is tearmed of the Greekes Thresthia or Eusebia a pleasing o● God pietie and dutie vnto him And was charactered of the Hieroglyphycall Egiptyans in the same sence and of the true Religious Hebrewes named Zebach a Sacrifice which is the supreame worship of God or Chucath bolam an eternall and euer during statute or Chucath hatorah a statute of the lawe ordeyned by the lawe of God and euer due to him And by generall consent and conceit of all men of whatsoever profession and estate Infidels or true beleeuers Heretickes or Catholickes vnlearned or Philosophers alwaies vsed for that honour and reuerence we owe to God our maker and preseruer OF THE ABSOLVTE NECESsitie of God and a first cause most excellent and deseruing Worship and Religion ¶ CHAP. II. WHerefore vsing this worde Religion in the same sence and acceptance there neuer was or can be any nation people or particuler person so impious in gratefull or irreligious but if they acknowledged or confessed a God supreame gouernour and cause of thinges from whome they had their being and preseruation as both Lactantius and other learned Authors witnesse and experience prooueth all Atheists haue done when they come to die and see their owne defects but they yelded vnto him ●●e religion or other For although many or most by their owne demerits and wickednesse were ignorant of the true felicitie of man what it was humane reason not able to clime so high yet knowing which by no possibility they coulde not but knowe themselues to be creatures and so dependant must of necessitie acknowledge all their perfections how many and excellent soeuer to be communicated and deriued vnto them from a former and independing cause so that for gifts and benefits already rece●ued thankes and gratuity for those that shoulde afterwardes want submission prayer and obsecration and in regarde of his exceeding dignity and prehemmence all worshippe and reuerence were due and to be rendred For seeing he from whome all these thinges were imparted vnto man must needes be the first originall greatest most perfecte and without dependance of any other and all graces dignities and perfections that be or coulde be produced in all creatures that are haue beene or by possibility could be created for such also shoulde be his workes were to bee obtayned of him in him also they were to be sounde in a far more eminent and excellent degree for nothing can giue thay vnto an other which it hath not in it self either in the same or a better manner which must needes be most true in the first and principall cause for if this shoulde want the perfections and excellencies which be and were to be made by it it coulde neither giue them to others because it selfe should want them neither obtaine them for it selfe of any other because it is the first and can haue no former cause from whome to receaue them Then seing all those dignities and prerogatiues of wisdome bonity iustice mercy knowledge prouidence immutability eternity and the rest for which faith hope loue reuerence feare obedience sacrifice adoration or any kinde of honour and worship is required are connected vnited togither in that one eternal vnchangeable essence not after that limited and participated manner as they be in creatures but in such an infinite and incomprehensible sort that the least perfection we can imagine and conceaue in him is infinitely greater then all creatures and their perfections for euery thing in God that is but one most simple and vndeuided essence is also God infinite and vnmeasurable all true reuerence and religion muste needes be due and belonging vnto him though any man or creature of vnderstanding coulde be so mad to thinke him selfe a creature not to be dependant of that most perfect and infinite diuine nature For excellency of it selfe is cause worthy of honour though there be no farther obligation or band of reuerence But let no man thinke that I intende in this place to make a formall dispute to prooue that there is a God of which my confidence is no reasonable creature can be doubtfull For all Argumentes will be testimony and the meanest of so many millions of creatures as bee in the worlde giue demonstration in this case and that was euer so vndoubted and euident to all kingdomes countries and particuler persons in all places times and generations from the first creation that neuer any nation neuer any priuate man except mad or franticke with passions and beastlie pleasures to excuse his filthinesse in so many thousandes of yeares hitherto made it a question and whereof euery Argument of this worke will be a witnesse But I chieflie contende at this time to vpbrayde the Irreligious people of these daies how vnnaturall a thinge it is for anie reasonable creature such as euery man by nature is to neglect this dutie to his soueraigne King and maker which is not onely to proclaime himselfe an irreligious and disobedient traytor and rebbell vnto his Creator but by the least deniall thereof falsely to affirme there were neyther Creature or Creator God man or any thing else in the worlde For since nothing can be made but of some cause and in causes an infinite number maie not be graunted either this first cause of thinges and religious dutie to him must be confessed or else wee must say that nothing is or can be made when wee thinke we see the heauens elements and so many glorious creatures in this world we are deceaued because no such thing is or can be framed that we our selues which conceaue such variety are not neither doe wee imagine any such thing at all For if we take that reuerentiall originall and absolutely independing cause away nothing either alreadie is or by possibility can be hereafter For although some haue defended that the power of creation and producing some thinge of nothing may be communicated of God to a secondary cause yet they say that in such case this second agent shoulde onely be an instrumentall cause which euer remayneth a principall worker and they alwaies suppose such an one to be communicating that property to the other for where a principall and communicating cause is wanting an instrumentall cause to which such power is deligated cannot bee neither by anie power is imaginable For euery receauer receaueth of some and there cannot be any thing produced where there is no power deligate or indeligate instrumentall or principall

graces and inheritaunce And this may bee a title of such Infidels to their worldly prosperitie by the religion of their auncestors for their owne impietie neither meriteth spirituall or temporall fauour THE TEMPORALL HONOVR and dignity of Religious Catholike Christians most commonly greatest and their afflictions least ¶ CHAP. XIIII AND touching true beleeuing and Religious Catholicke Christians how much they are blessed of God both in heauenly and earthly benedictions as also to let the glorye of our Religion alone which only shineth in all the world howe miraculouslie haue we from the beginning beene raysed maintayned and aduaunced maugre the might and malice of all enemies persecutors though neuer so many malicious and mightie howe haue they beene conquered and their pride and puissance depressed how haue we preuayled howe longe howe large howe great and wonderfull haue our honours titles prosperities preeminences reigned ruled in the world What Empire of the Assirians Persians Grecians Pagan Romanes Turkes Tartars or any other hath so endured which of them all was to be compared vnto it in power And to omitte no time although God hath afflicted Christians in these latter daies for their want of dutie in Religion yet when Infidell and Irreligious Princes at this day are so mightie and potent as that great Christian of Iude Emperour ouer threescore and twelue kingdomes And the Georgians so called of S. George their patrone in warres a people so potent that they are a terror to the Turkish Empire and admitted to performe their pilgrimage to the holy Sepulchre in Hierusalem in the dition of the Mahumetans with their banners displayed and free from tribute Or who will compare with the Catholicke Religious King of Spaine whose regall reuenewes much exceede all the vniust and tyrannicall Taxes Tributes and Impositions of the Turkish Emperour his Countries and Kingdomes are greater and exceeding the others his subiects more honourable his proceedings more noble What high Priest euer either amonge the Iewes Gentiles Mahumetanes or any professors of Religion so reuerenced renouned honored and potent as our Catholique Christian Popes of Rome so many hundred yeares exalted aboue the Emperors themselues and exercising Iurisdiction and authority further then euer any other Prince spiritual or temporal did euen ouer al Countries in the worlde How miraculouslie haue all enemies that in any time or place opposed themselues againste that sacred Iurisdiction of Rome been ouerthrown The Iewes so pitifullie dispersed the pagan Emperours all that persecuted it liuinge and diynge in miseryes and dishonors as the histories of all to Constantine are witnes Howe did those insolent and proude conqerours of the worlde that killed and conquered whome they woulde giue place to the poore Religious Successors of Saint Peeter a Fisher as theyr Prophetesse Sibilla had foretoulde them Howe were they that were conqueroures of the mightyste vanquished of the meaneste Howe haue all Aduersaryes and persecutors spirituall or corporall internall or externall that euer opposed them selues against it been subdued and ouerthrowen as I haue cyted before almoste an hundred true or reputed Emperours before Constantine What hereticall Emperours of the Arrians Eutichians Iconoclaustes or Image breakers Monotholites Manichees Armenians as Constantius Valens zeno Anastatius Heraclius Constance Instiman 2. Philipicus Dardanes Leo Isauricus Constantinus Cropronimus Leo Cropronimus Leo Armenius Michael Dalbus Theophilus How haue the Gothes Visegothes Ostrogothes Vandals Frankes Angles Mahumetanes Turkes Tartars inuaded and persecuted it Howe manye Irrelygeous Chrystyane Kinges suche as I haue recoumpted in Englande and other places Howe manye Arche-heretickes Seauen Hundred in number as I recited in the same place and yet as I haue shewed before notwithstanding all these enemyes and afflictiones the Catholike Temporall Prynces thereof are the Mightyeste and moste Honourable in the worde and the Popes spiritual iurisdiction three times greater more noble and ample then euer any was either among Heretickes Infidels or the Iewes themselues when they obserued true Religion Contrariwise let any man peruse the state conditions of those countries of Christendome that are fallen to Heresie and become irreligious and he shall perceaue them to be in most dishonourable tearmes both for temporall and spirituall rule the iurisdiction of none knowne or acknowledged out of one little Countrie or Prouince and those which be the greatest aduersaries of our Religion to be in the most pittifull poore and vncertain case of the rest And least anie Atheist Epicure or wicked Politicke shoulde say that although the state of the Religious is such and so honourable as I haue described in the time of peace and prosperitie yet in the winter stormes of aduersitie and persecution vvhen those Popes that bee nowe so glorious were so often and many in number put to death when the whole Clergie vvas persecuted when euery Religious Christian was odious when so many thousands of Martyrs were put to torments when we were depriued of honours riches liberties liues and all preferments as we haue beene both by Iewes Pagans and Heretickes our glory was nothing at all but we were wholy oppressed with miseries I haue already shewed that euen in such times the honour and glory of the Religious which were persecuted was farre greater then of their persecutors and that euer in the ende the victory and triumph was ours And to giue examples in this case neuer any thinge amonge the enemies of Christ was so famous and renowned in the worlde as the Empire of Rome and their Emperours before Constantine the christian Emperour Yet let vs but compare the most persecuted Religious people which were the Popes of Rome with the gallant flowers of fortune and my sentence will be true The Popes of Rome were then esteemed of impious Polytickes to bee the most vnfortunate and depressed people no friend no humane force to defende them the lawes againste them their enemies and persecutors vvith whose felicitie I compare them were the absolute commanders of the worlde and contended with all force policy and tyranny they coulde to abandon the name of Christ and his Religion and all professors thereof principally the Popes of Rome and put them to death And yet doe what they coulde the true glorye of the Romane Popes at that time was greater then the glorye of those Romane Emperours all Histories Martyrologies Calenders and Recordes will beare perpetuall witnesse their liues and honour were thrise as longe and yet they were olde before their election and consecration and though the life of them all was sought and moste of them dyed actually in Martyrdome yet the number of their enemies and persecuting Emperours that dyed miserably and with reproach in the same time did three to one exceede them for from S. Peter to Saint Syluester honoured by Constantine there were 31. Popes and those those aged men and yet of them not aboue 25. or 26. actually put to death And of the Emperours the lustie Gallants of the worlde

liuinge as wantynge lyfe all remayninge in that order in whiche they were created and effecting those offices to which they were ordayned and neuer varying frō that dutie which is the greatest homage and religion such things can shewe and that which the Prophets Dauid and Daniell call the worship and reuerence of God because in this dutifull obedience their dependancy is witnessed and the glory and honour of God proposed to be remembred reuerēced of intellectuall and reasonable mē And Daniel making a recapitulation of the dutie of all creatures to their Creator expressing that to which they are obliged by nature after he had recounted the celestiall and intellectuall spirits and the dutie of Israell the chosen of God his Priests seruants spirits and soules of the iust religions men and parriculer persons deuoted to him how they must worship and reuerence their Creator he inciteth all inferior creatures to the same or rather man so perfect and excellent a worke of God by the exemplar obedience of inferior things Where he numbreth the Heauens Sun Moone Stars and all celestiall bodies benedicerie laudare superexaltare eum in secula to blesse praise and exalte him for euer And not onely those celestiall and more perfecte bodies but inferiour creatures as the Elements Fire Aire Water Earth Mountaynes Hilles Seas Riuers Fishes Foules Beastes and other meane and meteorologicall thinges Rayne Dewe Frostes Yse Snowe Lightnings Thunders Clowdes Day Night Light Heate Colde that which is nothing but only a priuation as Darknes the like which blesse praise and exalte him without intermission rendring reuerence and honour vnto him as euerie man daylie expecienceth they doe and shoulde be as violent and portentious a thing for the meanest of them not to performe as the Sunne to loose his light the Earth to bee vnstable or any other deformity that can be in nature Then howe much more rebellious and traiterous is the neglecte of dooing that duty in man by so many titles more ●●debted to his Creator then any of those creatures which were all prouided for his vse and necessity to shew this religious obedience 〈…〉 God 〈…〉 if he should not onlie 〈◊〉 to doe it but denie it to be done as Atheists and impious Nullifidians doe THE EXTRAORDINARY AND strange punishements inflicted vpon the Irreligious and rebellion of all creatures againste them for that cause ¶ CHAP. X. YEa the Irreligion and dutilesse behauior of man is so vnnaturallie that all those creatures which were ordayned to be his seruants and so vnuariable reuerence theyr maker that it were a prodigeous thinge for them not to doe it yet to shewe the greatnes of Mans obligation more then theirs how often haue they forsaken theyr naturall institution at the disobedie●●e of Irreligious men to testifie the g●●atnes of their iniquities vngratfulnes to their Creator prouing thereby it is more monstrous for man to deny worship religion vnto God then for the earth not to suport vs the aire to refresh vs the fire to comfort vs and all other creatures to deny their naturall operations So in the first creatiō for the Irreligiō of Adam our progenitor the earth all creatures ouer which God had giuen him full dominiō in his state of obediēce rebelled against him In the daies of Noe when the irreligeous world would not be obedient vnto God the Element of water miraculouslie ascēded ouer the whole globe of the earth 15. cubites higher thē the highest mountaine least any thinge should be preserued from destruction only the religious family of Noe and such creatures as hee had gathered together were miraculouslie preserued witnessed not only in holy Scriptures but in diuers Pagan and other authors Hieronimus Aegiptius Mnaseas Damascenus Iosephus Alexāder Polihistor Melon Eupolemus others proued by diuers effectes which coulde proceed of no other cause How stranglie did God punish the irreligious builders of the tower of Babel confoūded thē so that no mā vnderstod what was spokē by others which besides the holy Scriptures Iosephus Sibils and other witnesse and the diuersities of tongues to this day otherwise without originall are euidence At which time and in punishment of which irreligious offence so many monsters in humane nature were produced a great scandal to this Epicurish schoole when it is manifest they were broughte forth to be a memoriall and euerduring penance to mankinde for the same iniquitie and Irreligion they defende this was the beginning of the Monoclists Hermophrodites Acephalists Pigmes Giants Sciopedes Cinocephalists and others whose shapes punnishments of Irreligion are rather to be concealed then vttered onely heareby is euident howe monstrous Irreligion is which is repayed with so monstrous penalties Howe did God in the time of Abraham miraculouslie cause the fire against the naturall propensitie to descende destroy all the irreligious people of Sodome and those Cities preseruing the house and familie of religious Loth as both Scriptures other writers the Piller of Salt into which the incredulous wife of Loth was turned which Iosephus had seene and other monuments are recorde In the daies of Moyses when Pharao and his irreligious Egiptians woulde not permit the Israelites to worship God and exercise Religion the same water which miraculouslie before had giuen passage to the Religious people drowned King Pharao and his huge army of prophane Infidels The base and meane creatures of Frogs Ciniphes Flies Locustes and such as are engendred of vile corruption and the verie Meteors themselues that haue no life as Haile Thunder and Lightnings yea Darknesse which of it selfe is nothing and onlie a priuation of an accident and qualitie of light so fought against him that hee and all Egipt were enforced to yeelde and acknowledge their Irreligion and disobedience In the schismaticall and irreligious Rebellion of Chore Dathan and Abiron and thier confederates the Earth the most firme and stable Element prouided of God for mans supportation was opened and deuoured them S. Augustine Orosius are witnesses that in the irreligious times of the idolatrous Italians about 70. yeares before Christ the very domesticall and tamest creatures vsed for the seruice of men rebelled against them and affirme that their verie Dogges Horses Oxen Asses and other creatures moste at the commaunde of man sodainely became wilde ranne from their owners wandring vppe and downe vvith such fiercenesse and contempt to their former Masters and all men that no man durst or coulde approach them without daunger Such prodigious euents appeared against irreligious people at other times What supernaturall eclipse of the Sunne trembling of the Earth and renting of moste harde and solide Rockes cryed out againste the inhumane and barbarous irreligion of the Iewes and Gentiles at the death of Christ The earth quaked at such extraordinarye motion that as the Pagan wrighters affirme in Asia so farre distant twelue Cities were ouerthrowne in such order that Tiberius

Patriarches and Prophets accompaning the soule to heauen as S. Anthony the great did see and witnesse whose sanctity and Religion likewise were such that the verye Diuelles themselues troubled at his verie name What visions of Angels lights from heauen and miraculous apparitions recorded in irreprooueable Authors chauncing in the sight of whole Townes and Countries haue approoued the Religion and pietie of S. Benedect the Abbot Geruasius Protasius S. Dominicke and thousands in sorreigne Countries S. Cuthbert S. Dunston S. Oswalde S. Suitbert Edithe Ethelderd and others in England The Religion of S. Leo Pope of Rome violented Attila that outragious Infidell sirnamed the Whip of God in his greatest furie to recall his armie from inuading Italy to the wonder of all his souldiours A vessell of boyling Lead Rosin and Pitch woulde not hurt the bodies of S. Vitus Modestus and Crescentia and the Lyon prepared to consume them fell downe and licked their feete wherupon Diocletian the Emperor causing them to be torne in peeces the verye insensible creatures wrought reuengement for thundrings lightnings and earthquakes oppressed their ennemies and ouerthrewe their idolatrous Temples At the comming of Christ besides those homages offices of al creatures both in heauen earth done vnto him and recorded by the holy Euangelists the Pagans themselues and other writers are witnesses that a miraculous circle compassed the Sun in the viewe of all the Romanes and after the same appeared in 3. circles one being enuironed with a fiery Garland Three Suns were seene to shine at one time in the firmament and to vnite themselues togither in one The high and great trees as hee trauailed from place to place miraculouslie burned themselues to the ground and reuerenced him And at Rome a spring flowed with oile a whole day togither when Christ our annoynted vvas borne And infinite more myracles of the submission and obedience of his creatures vnto him are recorded both in ecclesiastacall and prophane Authors where we may reade the like allegeance and dutie performed to his holy Saints and religious seruants but these are sufficient for this purpose and able to giue answere to the carnall imagination of any irreligious Politicke or Epicure which like beasts only mooued with corporall and sensible delights are often scandalized to see the impious and wicked sometimes exalted to honour and religious innocents oppressed with miseries For that honourable testimonie which God hath so often and strangely giuen for the glorie of his Saints and religious friends at such times as they were most oppressed in reproofe and condemnation of the impious their persecutors so much exalteth the glory and honor of the religious oppressed aboue the deceitfull happinesse of the other by howe much the testemonie and glory which is giuen of God is greater then the witnesse which is brought and honour that is desired of a carnall beastly man And although this extraordinary glory and honour is not sensiblie bestowed vpon euery religious Saint and oppressed seruant of his in this life for so he shoulde bee onely serued for honour and temporall rewardes yet in that he hath giuen it to so many and for the same cause for which the others bee oppressed no man can call into question but honour is due and belongeth vnto all and to be rendred vnto them either in this life or after death as experience sheweth all such religious innocents are glorious honourable euen with men when they are dead and their persecutors either forgotten or remembred with dishonour And yet of al temporall dignities glory is the greatest and that which euery man most desireth THE AFFLICTIONS AND ADuersities of the Religious and godlie for which the Epicures denie Religion are a manifest proofe thereof ¶ CHAP. XII AND to preuent the carnall obiectious of this sensuall people if aduersities tribulations and crosses had not chanced to the most renowmed and temporally honoured Princes Alexanders Cesars Hannibals Scipioes and others their honour had neuer beene so great for vvhat hath nobled them so much in glorie as their patience fortitude constancie and magnanimity in suffering distresses and performing difficulte and heroicall attemptes And if their sufferinges and valiant enterprises in temporall causes vvhen they vvere probable to bee broughte to passe haue made them noble vvith men vvhat shall inuincible fortitude and vnconquerable mindes of holye Saintes in causes appertayning to God and his greatest honour and in performance whereof they were assured to loose both life and other temporall dignities deserue If this bee not the meritte of honour nothing can be named honourable or called glorious And if these sufferinges shoulde be vtterly taken away from the friendes of God in this worlde the greatest honour that is due to vertue shoulde bee wanting For take this awaie and the vertues of patience fortitude magnanimitie and others which be the deseruing causes of glory cannot be excused because they principally consist in vndergoinge aduersities and effectinge difficult thinges And the excellency of this vertue of fortitude in patiently enduring aduersities and vndergoing harde and vneasie businesse is so greate that in auncient times amonge Phylosophers it was euer accounted one of the foure cardinall vertues And it is conuenient for true Relion not to wante this tryall and state of aduersitie euen in the greateste and moste perfect men So that the moste relgious men and such as haue beene in the greatest honor and account both with God man for that cause haue tasted of both estates Iob sometimes moste vnfortunate sometimes in highest aduancementes of prosperitie S. Paul that was rapt into heauen often depressed to the gteatest miseryes and so of others and not onlie priuate men but religious Commonweales Kingedomes and Empires the examples are manifest in histories And yet no Epicure or Machauell can say that this is an obiection against Religion or disgrace to the religious friends of God which be so visited with affliction but the contrarie because those vertues be then exercised which otherwise would not And that which is the chiefe act of Religion God reuerenced honored by them in such sort as they perhaps being in prosperitie would not so well haue performed And if honor and glorie bee the greate dignities of this life the religious sufferers of affliction are so farre from miserie by enduringe callamities or afflictions that they are rather made trereby more honourable and glorious THE TEMPORALL HONOVRS and delights of the Religious were often greater and their miseries lesse then of the Irreligious ¶ CHAP. XIII BVT to satisfie the carnall and sensuall appetites and conceiptes of Irreligeous voluptuous men to whom nothing is good but Bonum delectabile that which is delightfull vnto sense lett vs passe ouer all demonstrations before alleaged and for this time esteeme nothing of so many vnspeakeable ioyes which chaunce to the religious euen at those times when these men adiudge them most vnfortunate in their state of affliction the