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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

manners in the Clergy at Rome see a pretty politique deceit practised by Benedict a Cardinall by which hee attained the Popedome vnder the name of Boniface the eight He suborned diuers who priuily in the night by a reed or trunke conueyed to the eare of Celestine admonished him saying Celestine Celestine renounce the Papacy giue it ouer if thou meanest to be saued the burthen is beyond thy strength Hereupon the simple deluded man taking it for the voice of God which many nights thus spake vnto him by no intreaty could be perswaded to retaine the Popedome Thus an Angell of Satan transforming himselfe into an Angell of light and of God seated himselfe in the Papacy who as he entred like a Foxe so hee ruled like a Lyon and at the length died like a Dog CHAP. XIII The Conclusion of the former Discourse and Vse concerning Satans Sleights ALL our former discourse giues vs easily to iudge of Popery and shewes vs also Conclusion contrary to Popish doctrine the necessity of Saint Iohns admonition 1 Iohn 4.1 not to beleeue euery spirit but to trie the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world This was the iust commendation which our Sauiour gaue to the Chuch of Ephesus Reuel 2.2 that she had tried them which say they are Apostles and are not and had found them liars Necessity of trying the Spirits And doe not we now see cause why we should doe so likewise surely if wee bee so wise as not to receiue into our bodies an vnknowne dainty before wee haue approued it by smell or taste why should wee be so foolish as hand ouer head to entertaine into our soules any strange or yet questioned doctrine which without triall may proue the bane of our soules especially considering we haue an aduersary that laboures to put poyson into our drinke and offers delightsome baits but sliely couers a deceitfull and pernicious hooke We are also wise enough to trie suspected coyne by the touchstone and ballance before wee receiue it for good or currant and waight The like wisedome should appeare in our triall of doctrine 1 Thess 5.21 to trie all things but to keepe that which is good and like good mony-changers to reiect all adulterate coyne if it haue not Caesars image on it if it be not circled about with Caesars posie But if once we spy the face of Christ shining in it then to purse it vp in the close receptacles of our heart The Scriptures the onely rule of triall Isa 8.20 Act. 17.11 Now Gods word written is our onely Touchstone the one true ballance the onely true Light so that If any speake not according to this word it is because there is no light in them By this those noble Beraeans tried what they heard receiuing the word with all readinesse of mind and searching the Scriptures daily whether those things were so Mat. 4. By Scripture our Sauiour repelled all Satans suggestions and this is a sound way of triall seeing this is that onely truth which is from Heauen all other doctrines being either of men or of the deuill 1 Tim. 3.16 The Spirit by which the Scriptures were inspired is but one and therfore called the Spirit of Truth Iohn 16.13 whereas for spirits of errour there are many And because the truth of Christ is but one and alwaies like it selfe ● Tim. 4.1 we make this a firme kind of reasoning against all Seducers This doctrine is not according to Christ not according to his doctrine but such as drawes vs from him therefore wee will none of it Thus the Apostle himselfe teacheth vs to reason Coloss 2.8 Wee therefore reiect all triall of doctrine by Miracles and Visions now in these dayes and we will now iudge of Miracles by doctrine Luk. 16.29.30.31 not of doctrine by Miracles We must heare Moses and the Prophets and not hearken after any that shall rise from the dead We are taught to iudge of Signes and Miracles Dreames and Visions by their end which if it be to withdraw vs to false deities or doctrines we reiect and renounce for so we are warned Deut. 13. Vers 1.2.3 And we are assured that howsoeuer thus Seducers preuaile with others yet with Gods children so long as they hold them to Gods onely word they shall not preuaile though perhaps they thinke with the false prophets of old Ierem. 23.27 To cause Gods people to forget his name by their Dreames which they tell euery man to his neighbour Therefore as by this note of triall we reiect the Miracles of the Heathen because they tended either to establish false gods for thus some were made gods for their driuing away of Grassehoppers for killing of Frogs Crickets and Flies whence it came that the Canaanites called their Beelzebub by the name of Scar●●ly and the Greekes their Iupiter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or to iustifie the wicked in their wickednesse thus the iustly suspected ●●s●all Virgin carried water in a Sieue and another with her only Girdle hailed that Ship which formerly the strength of men and oxen could not moue So by this word of God we reiect all Popish Miracles as being brought to confirm such points of doctrine as the Scriptures allow not of and as we formerly instanced in yea all such doctrine howsoeuer confirmed by Popish Miracles as tends to exalt the Pope against God or yet into the seat of God I read in Maximus Tyrius of one Psapho in Lybia who desirous to be worshipped as God taught a sort of prating Birds to sing Magnus deus Psapho Psapho is a great god and so let them flye into the woods where other birds learned the same lesson by which fraud the country people began to worship him Iust so the Pope of Rome desirous to withdraw the people of this Land from their allegiance due to his Maiesty their lawfull Soueraigne and to get himselfe acknowledged as their head and God maintaines a sort of discontented fugitiues in his Seminaries as in so many cages where he easily teacheth them what tune he pleaseth These being sent home againe teach other birds which are * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the same feather the same ditty But we being taught the former lesson and note will not admit of any such strange god or doctrine Galat. 1.8.9 but with the Apostle Saint Paul If any man though an Angell from heauen should preach any other Gospel vnto vs then that we haue receiued we hold him accursed Meanes to come to the knowledge of the truth Prouer. 2. vers 3.4.5 To conclude If any be desirous in the midst of such varietie of doctrine to know what doctrine is true let him vse but diligence and let him not despaire For if thou cryest after knowledge and liftest vp thy voice for vnderstanding if thou seekest her as siluer and searchest for her as for hid treasures then shalt thou

follow their steps Thus haue some Popish parents vpon their death-bed charged their childrens loue with an obedience to their last command which was that they should also liue and die in the same religion and this is the chiefe reason which some of them can giue of their faith as in experience I haue found Thus also he is no Gentleman that is no Papist whereas God knowes men how noble soeuer neuer cease to bee Gentlemen in Gods account till then for then indeed doe they cease also to be men * See Lactant. Instit lib. 2. de Orig. erroris cap. 1. fine Ipsi ergo sibi renunciant seque hominum nomine abdicant qui non sursum aspiciant sed deorsum cap. 2. fine when they beginne so slauishly to subiect themselues to man yea to cast themselues downe before and vnder Images of earth and mettall whereas God and Nature hath giuen vnto man an erected face and countenance to looke in his deuotions to heauen the place and seat of Gods glory Vpon the like ground when they finde any vntractable through too much prejudice they labour to temper him with their plausible conuersation winding themselues into credit reputation loue c. thus to gaine some interest and possession in the hearts and affections of such as they would seduce All this while not a word must be spoken of Religion as if that were no part of the errand Euen thus saith a worthy Obseruer D. Hall in his Quo vadis Sect. 16. haue wee seene an Hawke cast off at an Heron-shaw to looke and flye a quite other way and after many carelesse and ouerly fetches to towre vp vnto the prey intended All this is that at least for loue of their persons the poyson of their after-perswasions may be loued taken and digested For now hauing got themselues the reputation of a sweet ingenuitie and delightfull sociablenesse opportunitie is found to bestow some witty scoffes vpon those parts of our Religion which lye most open to aduantage and so from them with many protestations of loue warily and by degrees to other points Thus especially are our English Gentlemen who crosse the seas wooed and dealt withall by their insinuating countrimen smooth Papists who vpon notice formerly giuen them expect and waite their comming Now contrariwise especially among their owne and with others also the Teachers and Louers of the Truth are both secretly and also openly and impudently traduced calumniated and euill spoken of that so the truth they preach and professe may be distasted by reason of that prejudice which mens naughty affections haue conceiued against their persons Euen thus did the false apostles of old deale ● Cor. 10.10.12 who vainly vaunting and commending themselues did withall vilifie S. Paul and speake of him to the people as of a bragging fellow who seemed terrible a farre off by his letters but yet being present was but weake and his speech contemptible It were infinite to relate particularly what slaunders and vile imputations are laid vpon Protestants and true professors so that calumniations lies slanders falshood are now one chiefe pillar of Popery on which it stands It is the Popish practise if not doctrine Calumniare audacter semper aliquid haerebit lay on load wound them in their good names calumniate and charge them falsly for what though the wound be closed and cured yet some scarre will euer remaine there will bee some or other to beleeue it Relation of Religion Sect. 30. Thus as is obserued they suborne post-men to write the Legends of Protestants that afterwards they might cite them as approued authors and histories as is euident in the liues of Caluin and Beza written by their sworne enemy Bolseck the twice banished and thrice runnagate Friar and Physitian who being by their side requested to write thus is in their writings alledged as Canonicall Now this they gaine by such slaunders they put the party slaundered to iustifie and proue the negatiue which in Logicke is made alwayes very difficult and often impossible which yet if he be notable directly to doe the other triumphs as in a matter of infallible truth and victory But as bare deniall doth not alwayes cleare a man so should not a bare accusation especially of an enemy bee taken as sufficient to condemne him for then as Iulian answered Delphidius who shall be found guiltlesse Surely few that haue enemies as all good men haue Againe whereas corrupt affections and manners 2 By polluting the affections partly of their owne nature partly by Gods iust iudgement cause error in minde and vnderstanding so that where the will is inclined to euill there the minde is bent to falshood behold how Satans bawds goe about to bewitch mens affections and pollute them by corrupting and inclining them to sinne that so the iudgement may conceiue of things not as they are in themselues but as they appeare through the false glasse of affections which not onely raise vp fogges and mists to blinde the iudgement but also plead mightily for what they affect It is obserued by some that so many bookes of bawdry and ribaldry as are by Popish factors of purpose translated out of Italian into English doe turne more from the truth at home then their contentious bookes abroad For our English becomming once Italionated are by that meanes effeminated and consequently Satanized Such bookes in what language soeuer must needs proue exceeding prejudiciall to the chastitie both of body and of minde and of the minde because of the body I wonder what sound iudgement in religion could that Archbishop of Beneuentum Bartholomaeus de la Casa and the Popes Nuncio at Venice be of who wrote published that booke which he entitles De arte diuina Of the diuine Art yet being indeed De arte Sodomitica of the art of Sodomie being written in the commendation of that most vnnaturall sinne And what sound mindes can they haue that delight eyther in that booke or in that sinne or any other of like nature Rom. 1.27.28 Surely we cannot imagine but God giues such ouer to a reprobate minde so that it is no hard conquest to make myriads of such to be Romish prosylites and conuerts and such indeed are the greatest part of their conuerts none or few of very good affections but such as eyther take or from that religion seeke liberty to the flesh Howsoeuer if they finde them not such there shall not sometimes want their endeuour to make them such by the meanes aforesaid or otherwise Wee reade our owne times prophecied of and wee see the truth of the Prophecie with our eyes whereby wee are told of a sort of men which creepe into houses 2 Tim. 3.6.7 and lead captiue silly women laded with sinnes and led away with diuers lusts euer learning and neuer able to come to the knowledge of the truth Out of which words for our purpose we note first that corrupt and sinfull affections are enemies and

the deuill Act. 13.8.10 Our onely way then is to be as zealous in good We must shew a proportionable zeale against sinne as euer wee haue beene forward in euill and whereas perfection in this life is to be measured rather by our desires affections resolutions and indeauours then by performance to shew our zeale first by our hatred of euill 1 By our confession and our confessing and bewailing of sinne aggrauating it against our selues by the same degrees by which we trespassed against God Dan. ●5 and 7. saying with Daniel for himselfe and the people in captiuitie We haue sinned and haue committed iniquitie and haue done wickedly yea we haue rebelled and departed from thy precepts c. 2 In our new obedience and willingnesse Secondly by being ready and willing to our power yea beyond our power to yeeld obedience to Gods Commandements that so for our readinesse and resolution to obey we may say with Dauid Psal 40.8 Psal 11● 34 I delight to doe thy will O my God yea thy law is within my heart and pray with him Giue me vnderstanding and I shall keepe thy law yea I shall obserue it with my whole heart that so it may be said of vs generally in respect of all good duties what Paul said of the Macedonians in the matter of almes 2 Cor. ● 2 To their power I beare record yea beyond their power they were willing This resolution to obey God euen in his hardest commands whether by obedience actiue or passiue our Sauiour Christ would haue to be in vs all Luke 14 20. saying If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his owne life also he cannot be my disciple This affection was in S. Paul and should be in vs when for Christs sake and the Gospels he said to the Philippians Yea Philip. 2. ●● and if I be offered vpon the sacrifice and seruice of your faith I ioy and reioyce with you all 3. In our sorrow for sinne Thirdly by our sorrow for sinne committed and by the fruits thereof that so also it may be said of vs as S. Paul said of the Corinthians 2 Cor. ●●● Behold this selfe-same thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort what carefulnesse it wrought in you yea what clearing of your selues yea what indignation yea what feare yea what vehement desire yea what zeale yea what reuenge Such Yeaes as these would eccho well to this Yea in my text where it is said Yea they sacrificed their sonnes and their daughters vnto Deuils THE HEIGHT of ISRAELS Heathenish Jdolatrie PSAL. 106.37 Yea they sacrificed their sonnes and their daughters vnto Deuils SECTION II. CHAP. I. Wherein is proued that the gods of the Heathen were Deuils NOw let vs consider this sinne in particular and because it is a sinne of this nature belonging to Idolatrie and false worship Of the Idoll gods of the Iewes and Heathen let vs first take a view of these Idoll gods Secondly of the sacrifices and seruice done vnto them It s here said They sacrificed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to deuils or to destroyers and spoilers so called from the effect not to any Platonicall or good Daemon but to the deuill himselfe our malicious aduersarie If wee compare this place with Deut. 12.31 we shall see that these deuils were the gods of the Heathen There the Lord forbids his people to doe vnto him as the Heathen did to their gods for they saith the text haue euen burnt in the fire their Sonnes and Daughters to their gods and Deut. 32.17 Moses in his Song complaines of the Israelites that they sacrificed vnto deuils not to God to gods whom they knew not to new gods that came newly vp These gods were the Idols of Canaan verse 38. of this Psalme and the Idoll Moloch whereof in particular God gaue his people caueat Leuit. 18 21. which Idoll was the Image of a Calfe vast and hollow hauing seuen chambers or roomes in it according to the variety of seuerall gifts and sacrifices which were to be consumed in it whereof one was appointed for a sheepe another for a lambe a third for a calfe but the last was for children who by their parents were cast in and burnt quicke ●hat they were Deuils ●●oued ● From Scrip●●●● Here wee will shew first that the gods of the Heathen were indeed Deuils Secondly How Deuils came to bee acknowledged and worshipped for gods That they were Deuils will plainly appeare if first we consult with the Oracles of God Saint Paul tels vs 1. Cor. 10.20 that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to Deuils and not to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies euill spirits and the very Deuils according to the vse of Scripture which by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vnderstands diabolos Deuils as 1. Tim. 4.1 where mention is made of doctrines of Deuils 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus Leuit. 17.17 God chargeth his people that they shall no more offer their offerings vnto Deuils after whom they that is the Gentiles haue gone a whoring And so is Rehoboam said 2 Chron 11.15 to haue ordained him Priests for the high places and for the Deuils and for the Calues which he made and my text is plaine which saith They sacrificed their Sonnes and Daughters vnto Deuils ● From their accepting of sacrifice See Baruch chap. 6. A further proofe hereof is that they were neither the true God for Saint Paul tels the Galathians ch 4.8 that when they knew not God they did seruice to them which by nature are no gods neither good Angels for they both require and accept sacrifices which good Angels know to be due to the true God onely and so indeed they are for saith Saint Augustine a August de Civit. Dei lib. 10. cap. 19. As when we pray to or praise God we direct our words to him onely to whom we offer in our hearts the thing signified by our words so in our sacrifices we offer not any visible sacrifice but to him b Non altere quam illi cuius in cordibus nostris invisibile sacrificium nosipsi●sse debemus onely to whom we owe the inuisible sacrifice of our owne hearts and selues Therefore the good Angels being perfect in charity both towards God and man will neither by accepting any sacrifice dishonour God which euen good men Paul and Barnabas Acts 14.14.15 refused to doe nor seeing they loue vs as themselues will they haue vs to attaine happinesse by other meanes then they themselues doe so that seeing as the same Father saith August ut supr lib. 10. cap. b. 4.7.19.25.26 The summe of both Tables is fulfilled in this that we should c Et a quibus diligimur duci quos diligimus ducere both be gained to God our selues by such as loue vs and

bookes for 15. yeares together and after came to light and was by Iunius left as a gift and monument of their shame in the study of the Count Palatine of Rheine The Spanish Index was found first and discouered by our English in the taking of Cales Now by the direction of these Indices the ancient Fathers and first Authours are made to speake not their owne words and meaning but what the late Councell of Trent hath deliuered The bookes thus purged or rather polluted are often reprinted and these latter Editions onely authorized all other are disallowed called in consumed with threats added against all such as shall presume to keepe them And as thus they deale with the printed bookes so in likelihood they haue an Index for the purging of the manuscripts also for in the Vatican library at Rome Iames appendix to the aduertisement prefixed to his booke of the Corruption c. certaine men being maintained onely to transcribe the Acts of Councels or Copies of the Fathers workes they haue beene seene in transcribing to imitate the letters of the ancient Copies as neere as can be expressed In which copying out of books it is to be feared they adde alter and take away at the pleasure of their Lord the Pope The euent may proue it so herein dealing with and deluding the world as the Gibeonites did Ioshua with old sacks old bottles old shooes and garments wherein they are said to worke wilily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in●statia I●sh 9.4.5 Now by all these meanes the triall of a questionable point in religion is like that triall of a Nisi prius at the common law where for witnesses are brought not good Free-holders Probi legales homines but base wanderers burnt in the eare for Rogues who know neither father nor mother ● With corrupting euen the Bible at selfe Corruption of Fathers part 3. or at the best bribed and corrupted But what if these bold bauds goe about to corrupt the Bible it selfe by adding detracting altering To make a little further vse of Doctor Iames this easily appeares by the infinite varieties contradictions oppositions which may be seene of any that shall compare two Bibles set forth by two Popes Sixt. 5. Clem. 8. and that within 2. yeares 1590. 1592. The second Commandement is also quite discarded out of their vulgar Catechismes which they communicate with the people and to keepe the number of ten the last is made two Now whereas both the shame of the world and also the power of God keepes them from daring to attempt vpon the text of the Bible it selfe yet see how neare they come it by corrupting the glosse and marginall note In the Bible of Robert Stephens vpon Genes 15.6 where the words are And he Abraham beleeued in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousnesse the note in the margent is Abraham fide iustus Abraham is iustified by faith yet these words which are all one with the words of the text euen as the Dowists read and translate them namely Abraham beleeued God and it was reputed to him vnto Iustice yet I say these words are commanded to be put our deleatur illud Abraham fide iustus Index Rom. pag 48. Rom. 4.3 Galat. 3.6 Iames 2.23 Index Rom. ibid And yet the authority of that place is vrged thrice in the new Testament So on Leuit. 26.1 they haue expunged the glosse or marginall note deleatur illud sculptilia prohibet fieri let this be put out say they God forbids the making of grauen images and yet God in the text forbids the making of them Lastly 1. Sam. 7.3 Samuel saith Prepare your hearts vnto the Lord and serue him onely the glosse saith in the margent Seruiendum soli Deo God only must be serued now saith the Romane Index deleantur illa verba Seruiendū soli Deo Index Rom. pag. 50. let these words be blotted out God only must be serued Hence iudge what they would doe to the Scriptures if they durst And thus we haue seene how by prohibiting and corrupting these diuine and ancient monuments they corrupt mens vnderstandings Yet this is not all To plant their errours they furthe● delude mens minds they haue other tricks of deceit and delusion whereby they not only supplant the truth but also plant their owne errours and make them passable Their next tricke then is to dazle the eyes of the simpler 4. With protestations of truth sort with Protestations of truth and swelling words of vanitie so that vnder pretence of preaching the Truth they supplant the truth Hilarie Antichrist saith a Father vnder colour 〈◊〉 preaching the Gospell shall be contrarie to Christ Euen so S Ambrose describes false teachers to be such as vnder the name of Christ Qu● 〈◊〉 nonum 〈…〉 preach against Christ so that the Lord Iesus is denied whilst men thinke he is preached And as the Deuils prophets of old tooke vpon them the glorious name of Prophets of God so seducers will be prophets of God and prophecie in the name of God though they so prophecie a lie and can with the true Prophets of God say Thus saith the Lord. Thus Nestorius though he were an Heretike yet could he couer himselfe vnder the vaile and shew of the Orthodoxe faith as said Theodoret of him and generally false prophets can vse the name of Christ to deceiue others thereby Ma● 〈…〉 concerning whom our Sauiour hath giuen vs a caueat saying Take heed that no man deceiue you for many shall come in my name and shall deceiue many In my name Some making themselues Christs and Sauiours some bearing my name not only of Christ but of Iesus some presuming to be my Vicars on earth some teaching lies and falsehoods in my Name and as my Doctrine Thus Iesuites yea the Pope himselfe shroud themselues vnder the name of the Lambe Mat 〈…〉 1 Ti● 〈…〉 but inwardly are rauening Wolues and speare ●i● the Dragon teaching indeed doctrines of Deuils This Whore of Rome giues out her false doctrines in a cup of gold Re●● 〈…〉 she hath in her hand Poculum Aureum Plenum Abominationum a cup of Gold full of Abominations where behold a Mysterie the initiall or capitall letters of these words written in the language of the Church of Rome whether casually or by speciall prouidence being put together are obserued to make vp the word Papa or Pope We may well compare the Deuill and all his instruments to craftie Pyrats who will hang out the same colours they will seeme to be what indeed they are not Thus the Arrian Heretikes of old bragd they only were Catholikes as for all the rest they called them sometime Ambrosianos sometime Athanasianos sometime Ioannitas So the Mahumetanes now though they deriue their pedegree from Agar the bond-woman yet will be called not Agarens but Saracens from Sara the free-woman Euen so the Iewes bragd they were Abrahams sonnes