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A04112	A iudicious and painefull exposition vpon the ten Commandements wherein the text is opened, questions and doubts are resolued, errours confuted, and sundry instructions effectually applied. First deliuered in seuerall sermons, and now published to the glory of God, and for the further benefit of his church. By Peter Barker, preacher of Gods word, at Stowre Paine, in Dorsetshire.	Barker, Peter, preacher of Gods word.	1624 (1624)	STC 1425; ESTC S114093	290,635	463

out of thy Country and from thy kindred and from thy fathers house and Ioshua n Iosh 24 2 reckoneth this among the great blessings of God that God brought him from thence and o Gen. 11. 31. Terah his father an old man weake and broken hauing no commandement from God to goe with his son which might haue seemed tollerable excuses if he had abode behind yet when he knowes the place accursed for idolatry from which his sonmust depart he beares him company the contagion of spirituall diseases being as the lepers sore dangerous to them that dwell neere it and therefore the holy Ghost p Ier. 51 6. wisheth vs to goe out of Babylon and looking behinde vs see whether wee haue left it vpon our backes Bee not seperated from the company of good men thou maiest participate of their goodnesse as an impe grafted into a stocke participates of the influence and vertue of the roote so that it withers not but waxeth green and greater if there bee Moses and Elias good company good doctrine good example good report make choice of those places and say with Peter q Mat. 17. 4 It is good to bee heere but bee not like the Swine who had rather bee tumbling in the mire then laid in the cleanest places come not neere stinking carrion except thou haue the winde of it But let vs take a little further view of this peoples idolatry and then come to our selues The Egyptians were such as Saint Paul speaketh of r Rō 1 23. They 1 turned the glory of the incorruptible God to the similitude of the image of a corruptible man and 2. of birds and 3. foure-footed beasts and 4. of creeping things 1 Of a corruptible man they deified their King Axis 2 Of birds they worshipped the Hawke and Ebi● for that he destroyed the serpents which came out of Libia into Egypt very hurtfull to their Country 3 Of foure-footed beasts they worshipped an Oxe a Dogge a Cat and a Swine for the inuention of tillage which he shewed them by rooting vp the ground with his groine 4 Of creeping things they worshipped the Crocodyll and some Ichneumon now called a mouse of Indie who killeth the Crocodyll for when the Crocodyll gapeth he creepeth into his body and eating his bowels slaieth him they had so many gods that a man had need to haue made a Catalogue of them as Vano did of the Romish gods for feare as he said they should stray away It may be this land had not the like variety of images but that here were canonized many new gods both he Saints and she Saints none can deny men thought God could not attend to so many things at once and therefore seuerall offices were committed to seuerall Saints and they dealt out the vertues belonged to God Saint Cornelis was an excellent Saint to keepe men from the falling sicknesse Saint Apolline as excellent to helpe men of the toothach these were not so good for men but other were as good for beasts as Saint Antony for Swine If men did heare that some blocke-idoll did sweate did speake did weepe did smile did shift it selfe from place to place would not their bare feet carry them thither with an offering what repaire was there to our Lady of Walsingam our Lady of Wilsdon the same Lady but distinguished by the place as Baal was a common name to many Idols but distinguished ſ Num. 22. 41. 25. 3. by the high places and hilles wherein it was worshipped but did God bring vs out of this land when it was infected with superstition surely he shewed this fauour to many of our predecessors who counted themselues happy if while those Mariana tempora continued they might goe to Geneua to Strasbourg and other religious places whereas many many which kept their station did sticke ad ignem inclusiue the father with the sonne the husband with the wife the mother with the new borne no not borne infant for in the I le of Garnesye the belly of Perotine Massey bursting asunder by vehemency of the flame the child with which shee was great fell into the fire and eft soone being taken out by one W. House was againe by the censure of the Prouost and Bailiffe cast into the fire so that this child baptized in his owne bloud both at once began and ended a Martyr but God hath shewed a farre greater fauour to vs then to those which auoided the land for many of them might say as Paul of himselfe Night and day t 2 Cor. 11 25. 26. 27. haue I been in the deepe sea in iorneying often in perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils of mine owne nation in perils among the Gentiles in perils in the citty in perils in the wildernesse in perils in the sea in perils among false brethren in wearinesse and painfulnesse in watching often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and nakednesse But we without this trauaile without this trouble without this danger are freed from superstition God hath not brought vs out of an idolatrous land but hath taken idolatry out of the land and we continuing still in our natiue Country he hath cleansed it hauing swept idolatry and superstition from it he cast that Dagon of Rome downe to the ground when in the daies of King Henry the eight the Pope lost his supremacy when that King would sit no longer as in the distinguishing at Paris to pay the minstrels wages when England which before that time was counted the Popes Asse did now cast his rider he cut off his head and his hands when in the daies of King Edward the sixt men might not prostrate themselues before Saints seuerall shrines nor prouoke God with high places nor sacrifice vnto Baalim and burne incense to images but must take away their fornications out of their sight and their adulteries from betweene their breasts onely the stumpe of Dagon is left a few recusants which our mighty King Iames by the helpe of God will sooner cast out then it shall recouer it first wounds those disordered members the Papists are now but as parts of an adder cut asunder which may retaine some life for a time but neuer by the grace of God shall in this land grow into a body againe Now if the Prophet Ieremy blameth the Iewes for that they said not u Ier. 2. 6. Where is the Lord that brought vs vp out of the land of Egypt much more will he condemne our silence if we doe not open our lips and shew forth the praises of God who hath taken the superstition of Egypt out of our land If this was a blessing of God vpon Israell to bee brought out of Egypt because there the Egyptians entitle ● creatures to the honour of the creator and gaue God for companions not men alone but fowles of the ayre and beasts of the field they then are much to be blamed who being bred and borne and

limmes in the body which are infectious ne pars sincera trahatur if bad members come from other places as Seminaries and Iesuites doe from Rome they be like the bird Ibis which destroyeth the serpents which come out of Libia into Aegypt very hurtfull to their Country Aaron and his sonnes doe consecrate their hands to God in the holy slaughter of sinne but when Aarons vrim and Thummim will doe no good then comes Moses with his rodde and staffe when the tongue cannot perswade the rodde doth compell and when the sword of the spirit meetes with such yron harts that it enters not but is rebated then doth the arme of the Magistrates bruise them with a rodde of yron and breake them in peeces like a potters vessell As the Magistrate is the Comet of the guilty so is he the refuge of the innocent his seate is a shelter to such as are oppressed and a sanctuary to all that are distressed his breast is an Ocean whereinto the cares of priuate men doe empty themselues which when he hath receiued he presently seeketh to ease them by repressing the violence of such as doe vexe them and as though there were a writ directed to him from God much like a fieri facias he goes about to right those that are wronged Neither doth a good King alwaies this by Deputies alone but as though he had receiued an Impresse from God much like the Rowle of a Eze. 2. 9. Ezechiell with this motto of Moses b Num. 11 12. carry them in thy bosome he himselfe is a guarde vnto his subiects against catterpillers and cormorants and bastards fawcons It is written to the commendation of Marcus Aurelius that diuiding the houres of the day for the businesse of his Empire hee allotted one houre to heare the complaints of the grieued the suits of poore men and widdowes wanting iustice and that two daies in the weeke hee would walke abroad to see if any person would speake with him or make complaint vnto him On the other side it is written to the discommendation of other persons that they admitted not those c Est 4. 2. which by their apparell did testifie their mourning Thus you see the good milke which Kings as nurces send forth in the streames of iustice pitty and compassion Saint Paul setting out the blessings which we reape by meanes of good Kings mentioneth especially these three d 1 Tim. 2. 2 Peace Godlines and honesty each of these is a great blessing peace whither wee respect deliuerance from enemies abroad for therefore was Arabia called faelix because the people liuing in continuall peace had their townes vnwalled or whither we respect quiet from discorde at home it is well with Bees when they make a noyse in their hiues but it is well with men when they be at quiet in the cōmon wealth happy is this land of ours which hath receiued this benefit by good Princes happy be the remembrance of King Henry the 7. who ioyned the Roses the Houses of Yorke and Lancaster together and so freed it from ciuill dissention and before that time happy bee the remembrance of King Henry the 2. in subduing Wales vnto England though this was done Armorum strepit● but since that time still twice happy be the remembrance of our gracious King Iames who with quietnes hath pulled downe the wall of partition betwixt England and Scotland and hauing come ouer on this side Iorden hath planted the Tribes of his Israell and people on both sides the Riuers thus the Riuers goe againe vnto the Sea and the doue is returned with an Olyue branch in her mouth to the Arke from whence she came forth and we hope that all three peoples shall long and long yea for euer dwell in the Tabernacle of peace and in sure dwellings and in safe resting places for their peace sing Te Deum in the highest note when many other Nations cry Miserere in a mournefull voyce since the same continent containes them all the same Kingdome and gouernement rules them all the same Religion instructs them all since these three most sure bonds naturall ciuill and religious knits them all togither which hath been twisted by our mighty Monarch and therefore surely like to hold out for euer e E● 4. 12. a three fold corde is not easily broken The second benefit mentioned by the Apostle is Godlines A good Prince like Canutus before the conquest makes lawes by counsell of his sages binding his subiects one rule of Christian Religion well and aduisedly to hold not giuing countenance either to Iewish Turkish Greekish or Popish Religion though all these stand for competition of truth but onely to the Reformed driuing his subiects as a good sheepheard his sheepe altogither to greene pastures not dispencing with any since none are exempted by God denying a tolleration either to the cause of Papists lest it should infect the persons or to the persons lest it should credit the cause The third benefit is Honesty A good Prince hath a care that there be iust and honest dealing betwixt man and man that he which hath much setting honesty aside doth not tyrannize ouer him that hath little that the fat cow doth not deuoure the leane and the full eare eate vp the poorer corne that one doth not by fraude take away anothers land or by violence hold that which is none of his or conuert other mens goods to his vse in a word that men doe not liue like beasts but honestly and vprightly one with another these three I say are great blessings which we enioy vnder good Princes and the want of any one of them is a great blemish in a common wealth peace without godlines is but security godlines without honesty is but hypocrisie honestie without godlines is but paganisme and a glistering sinne neither godlines nor honesty without peace can well bee maintained Godlines is the summe of the first Table honesty the Summe of the second peace an happy manner of enioying them both Lastly honour the King for God himselfe honoureth him in stiling him by his name for as Patriarch and Prince haue interchangeable names for the Hitites called Abraham the Patriarch a Prince thou art a Prince of God among vs and f Gen. 23. 6 to make euen Peter calleth Dauid the Prince Patriarke g Act. 2. 29 I may boldly speake vnto you of the Patriarke Dauid so God and the King haue interchangeably borrowed names a Ps 20. 9. God is a King in heauen the King is a God on earth herein honouring the King in giuing him his owne name as Iacob honoured Iosephs b Ps 82. 6. sonnes when he said c Gen. 48. 16. Let my name be named vpon them now as the people honour him whom the King doth honour in token whereof they cryed before Ioseph d Gē 41. 43 Abrech that is tender father in token whereof Haman brought Mordocai on horsebacke after he had arayed him

the Gospell come short in zeale of those which had but the dim candle-light of Nature let vs not who haue the law of God in our mother tongue pointing more directy to the true God then any finger to the dyall haue our motions kindled with lesse true zeale then theirs were igne fatuo which had the booke of God but clasped vp in an vnknowne language let vs not who haue knowledge and can speake diuers tongues bee to seeke in the language of Canaan be to seeke to sing the songs of Sion diuine notes of Halleluiah and glory to God in the highest Knowledge without zeale is a lame sacrifice zeale without knowledge is a blind sacrifice ſ Mal. 1. 8. Malachy will haue neither offred to God therefore let them not like t Ioh. 20. 4 the two Disciples Peter and Iohn or u 2 Sam. 18 21. the two Messengers which Ioab sent to carry Dauid tidings of his deliuerance one out-run the other but as the two x Luc. 24. 13. Disciples when they went to Emmaus goe together arme in arme like man and wife cheeke by ioul as Hippocrates twines if one be lacking there will want a ronge of Iacobs ladder it will be too short to reach vnto heauen Or the likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath or in the water vnder the earth Ex malis moribus bona'leges natae sunt bad diseases haue giuen occasion of good remedies in that therefore God forbids not onely images in generall but so many sorts in particular some in heauen as birds that flie in the firmament of heauen the Sun and Moone and Sarres the whole hoast of heauen some in earth as the similitude of men and beasts and creeping things some in the sea as the likenesse of fishes I note that to be true which the Lord speaketh according to the number of thy Cities were thy Gods O Iudah y Ier. 11. 13 and according to the number of the streets of Ierusalem haue yee set vp altars of confusion The minde of man is a glasse so long as a glasse remaineth whole there is but one face of him which looketh in it represented backe againe but if it bee once crackt or broken let but one man looke in it there appeares so many faces as there be crases so is it with the minde of man as long as it continued sound and whole there shined in it but the image of one true God but when by a fall it once lost this integrity then it receiued sundry images and Gods maiesty was disguised by variety of Idols But yet I doe not reade of any open idolatry before the floud but after the floud it entred euen into the posterity of Sem for Ioshua said vnto all the Tribes of Israell that their fathers z Ios 24. 2 euen Terah the father of Abraham serued other gods the threds of this sinne did thy draw so bigge and so long that they made them cords of vanity they did wreath these cords till they became cart-rops of iniquity busying themselues in their owne dreames and doting fancies till God caused them to be carried away captiue vnto Babilon But after the captiuity Israel said a Hos 14. 9. what haue I to doe any more with Idols b Hos 2. 7. I will goe and returne to my first husband I will not play the harlot and be to any other neither did they change the house of God into a shop of Idolatry no when the Roman● Emperours would haue thrust images vpon them they chose rather to die a thousand times then lay Gods honour open to the spoile of creatures neither could they euer bee brought to admit into their Temple the Standard of the Romans neither was there found any pensill relike or image in their temple * 1 Mac. 1. 23. neither when Antiochus Epiphanes sackt it for couetousnesse or when Pompey spared it for reuerence nay they were so farre from worshipping the worke of mens hands that they would not admit painter or caruer into their City But all this while among the Gentiles Idolatry did lift vp her head till the Apostles came who cryed out vpon it down with it downe with it euen to the ground then such as God had added to his Church that they might bee saued put away the strange Gods that were among them ouerthrew their altars broake their images in peeces cut downe their groues destroyed all their pictures pluckt downe all their high places broake downe their pillers and burnt their images with fire But in processe of time for if the diuell bee cast out he is discontented and saith c Mat. 12. 44. I will returne into mine house from whence I came God was againe put out of doores and his house changed into an idolatrous shop For about the yeere of our Lord 490. Gregory the first the worst of all the 63. Bishops of Rome that went before him and the best of all the 175. that followed since him though he vtterly condemned the worshipping of images yet thought it not amisse to haue them in Churches as necessary Alphabets for lay men and good shepheards Kalenders The diuell now hauing gotten an inch would take an ell and hauing gotten in his head like a subtile serpent made his whole body follow after for when the Emperours of the East and the Popes of Rome were at daggers drawing they to put downe images these to vpholde them so mightily grew the power of the Popes that they preuailed then mens hearts were not perfit with the Lord they went a whoring after their owne eyes looking to other gods they said to the wood awake and to the dumbe stone stand vp they asked counsell of their stocks and their staffe taught them they had many altars to sinne and villany was seen in their houses I would spend no further pilgrimage in this walke but that so many seuerall gods present themselues vnto my view which if I should goe about to number they should bee more then I am able to expresse To omit therefore the Persians which had as many gods as there were Starres in the sky and fires on the earth the Greekes which had as many gods as they had fancies the Romanes which canonized so many new gods as their Senate would alow to omit this infinite variety there were twelue principall gods Iuno Vesta Minerua Ceres Diana Venus Mars Mercurius Iupiter Neptune Vulcanus Apollo To these were added Saturne lest he might seeme to be wronged since his sonne Iupiter was a god and his mother Vesta was a goddesse and also Bacchus because being a hot fellow hee might make some fray seeing C●res was one goddesse and Venus was another herein Europ were gods for particular Countreys S. Iames for Spaine S. Dennis for Fraunce S. Patricke for Ireland S. George for England in England were gods for particular Citties S. William of Yorke S. Thomas of Caunterbury and Bonauenture but it

is a venture if you find any good in it in his Ladyes Psalter makes the Virgin Mary as good a Goddesse as Iehouah is a God in Dauids Psalter he Lord she Lady he our Patron she our Patronesse he the King she the Queene of heauen there were gods for particular Parishes S. Stephen for one S. Nicholas for another S. Eustan c. yea particular houses for how low will not this sinne creepe had their Lares and Penates their Houshold gods gods which were thought to belong to euery seuerall person thus did they giue God as many companions as there were Saints sometimes sainted those which neuer were but had only a fancyed being The reliques of Saints being as it were feathers of these same birdes were birdes of the same feather and as much abused to idolatry as were the Saints themselues commanded to be worshipped in Germany in the time of Pope Gregory the second There was anciently in the time of Popery a relique sunday solemnely kept in diuers places of this land in which this was acustome in some Church where were many Ministers for I know not how generall the custome was they did beare in their hands about a procession on that day euery one a relique as Bishop Beckets Ratchet S. Georges his dagger or the like trash Which the Sexten was wont to deliuer to them and to be sure none should be without his relique after the Sexten came the Verger downe from the high Altar with a relique in his hand asking this question who lackes a relique I will not speake heere of our Ladyes milke of the bloud at Hayles of good King Henry his spurre nor of the nayles which nayled Christ to the Crosse which I maruaile they should be so idolatrously worshipped being instruments in the death of Christ I let passe lic●re sundry other creatures as Wax Water Oyle Salt Incense Pilgrimstaues and I know not how many beside which after exo●cismes hallowingrs consecrations and blessings ouer them were made Idoles and thought to be of more 〈◊〉 power then they were by their owne proper nature though 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alteration and change in them but a word or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Crosses and then I proceed The publicke the priuate the trentall and dirge Masses forged in the Popes shop and as they are now but some of his youngest daughters are whelpes of the same hare in which they worshipped an Idoll Cake as Israell did an Idoll Calfe they first worshipped the sacrament and then offred it vp as a sacrifice for remission of sinnes they carryed it about in Gold and Siluer to be worshipped shewed it to the people attributing great vertue to it for it deliuered as they taught ex opere operato by the deed once done quick and dead a pana et culpa from the punishment and the fault By vertue thereof they did apply the merits and passion of Christ to whom they pleased them what could be more derogatory to this Commandement or more preiudiciall to the bloud of Christ to his bloud I say which euery man must apply to himselfe by his owne beleeuing not the Priest or any other Parson apply to an other by any worke doing What disease was there in man or beast against which this as they would perswade the people was not a remedy By this if any man went beyond sea they promised to him prosperous Nauigation if he kept home it would safely keepe him from dangers and sufficiently defend him from all bugs And therefore when danger was towards Becket for his misdeameanors against the King his friends counsayled him to haue a Masse in the honor of S. Stephen to keepe him frō the hands of his enemies who accordingly addressed himselfe to his Masse with all solemnity thinking thereby to charme away all euils In a word they would haue this idolatrous perswasion confirmed that it did merit release of all calamities it merited gayne and lucre in common trafficke it merited wharsoeuer the carefull heart of man could desire Concerning the Crosse Popery made it as great an Idoll as the Masse and attributed no lesse vertue to it by this if any went to warre they hoped for protection and expected victory What creeping to Crosses vpon bare feete was then vsed in the time of Popery too long it were to number vp their particular superstition in this kinde These our forefathers liued in a thick mist in the darknes of Egypt g Ex. 10 21 a darkenes that might be felt and as h Gen. 29. 23. Laban deceiued Iacob in the night bringing him Leah which was bleare-eyed in stead of Rahell who was beautifull and faire so Satan in the time of ignorance presented vnto them many fowle false gods in stead of the true God which is beautifull out of his holy places S. Paul maketh ignorance the mother and superstition the daughter when he saith to the men of Athenes i Act. 17. 22 23. In all things yee are too superstitious for in your Altar was written vnto the vnknowne God but to our vnderstanding which was deafe and dumbe God hath sayd Ephata be thou opened k 1. Sam. 14 27. with Ionathan we haue tasted a little hony our eyes are opened God hath taken from our eyes the skales of ignorance by the finger of the holy Ghost l Act. 9. 17. as hee did from Pauls eyes by the hands of Ananiaes and therefore wee must thanke God who as he commanded m 2. Cor. 4. 6. light to shine out of darkenesse n 1. Pet. 2. 9 so hath called vs out of darkenesse into his maruailous light Secondly take heede we doe not as it is in Iob o Iob. 5. 14. meete with darkenesse in the day time and grope at noone day as in the night It is a plague not to see Gods will but to see and yet willingly winke brings a plague without all remedy or compassion Thou shalt not bow downe to them nor worship them It seldome times falleth out but where there are Images in a land there is also the worshiping of those images therefore in the Prophet Esay one followeth in the necke of the other p Esay 2. 8. their land was full of Idolls then they worshipped the worke of their owne handes which their owne fingers had made our nature is as ready to superstition as wood to take fire and therefore God hauing mentioned the making of Images and their variety presently mentioneth the bowing downe vnto them and worshipping them Pope Stephen the 3. maintaining Idolatry of Images in Christian temples aduanced their veneration commanding them to be incensed here in England were they not wont to wipe their handes vpon the images and then to stroke them ouer their faces as though there had been great vertue in touching the pictures did they not rub their beades hand-ketchers vpon them light candles to them aske pardon and helpe of them did not a company of Pilgrimes licke and kisse