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A66548	A history of antient ceremonies containing an account of their rise and growth, their first entrance into the Church, and their gradual advancement to superstition therein.	Porrée, Jonas.; Douglas, Thomas, fl. 1661.; Wilson, John, fl. 1676-1678.	1669 (1669)	Wing W2895A; ESTC R27674	84,845	221

Cardinal Prenestine to Pope Hadrian lest having confessed her Errour and Deviation in one point occasion might happily be from thence administred of examining of the rest and of resolving the same into a reference or Com-promise This is thereason why the Council of Trent instead of redressing Abuses hath indeed confirm'd them all being therein carried-on according to the Popes will and pleasure who was in that Convention both Judge and Party whereupon Monsieur de Lansack one of the French Ambassadours in that Council said very facetiously in a Letter to Monfieur de Lisle Embassadour at Rome that the Pope had sent the Holy-Ghost from Rome to Trent in a Cloakbag the Legats and Council acting or enacting nothing but what he appointed them and albeit several Bishops inclin'd to make some opposition in defence of the Authority of their Character yet this proved ineffectual they having in fine submitted their necks under the Papal-Yoke Though all this succeeded very luckily according to the hearts desire of the Popes of Rome yet notwithstanding from that time forwards they conceived such a disgust and aversion to Councils that they never cared more to propound the assembling of another fearing lest they might set about that happy Reformation which as hath been said was with such importunity desired and so absolutely necessary both in head and members All that they busied themselves about after that was what yet well became them the regulating of the Hoods Hosen and Shooes of Monks the number of whom instead of reducing they contrariwise augmented under the Badges of their Saints Francis Dominicus Ignatius Loyola and some other modern ones insomuch that the whole far from reforming misusages tended only to foment Scandal in such as were acquainted with true Piety those Reverend Fathers having well nigh resolv'd all the Christian Religion and Divine Worship into the practice of numerous Ceremonies and superstitious observances for therein consisteth all their business scrupulously annexing their professed Sanctity to ridiculous Mystical Vestments and foppish fantastical gesticulations and whereas God will be worshiped in Spirit and in Truth they pretend to satisfie him with instead of a true a superficial and instead of a Spiritual a bodily service which the Apostle informs us profiteth little Howbeit to be sure they cloak under their counterfeit humility and devotion an extream and indeed unsufferable pride and vanity as may sufficiently appear by the continual attempts made upon the Ordinaries namely Archbishops Bishops and Curates who undergoe all imaginable difficulties in stoping the currant of the Seraphicks and other Regulars more especially of such as have devoted themselves to the See of Rome and their General or Superiour by so strict a vow that when ever they believe their own Interests to be under debate they ought to acknowledge no other person in the world May the Lord commiserate his Church and put it into the hearts of Christian Kings and Princes to call as the above-named great Emperours Constantine Theodosius and Charles the Great have done before them a religious and free Council wherein all parties abandoning prejudices and animosities might in good earnest give themselves to an enquiry after the Truth in the Word of God which should be hearkened to as the only decisive Oracle whose right it is to determine all Controversies depending between the Church of Rome and those who protest against her Doctrine and that the more obscure passages of the holy Scripture might be expounded by others more clear so as that we might attain to the right understanding of the Scripture by the very Scripture it self according to the practice of the Levits when they instructed the People of God after their return from the Babylonish Captivity that the Ancient Fathers and Doctors of the Church and Writers of Ecclesiastical History by whose means we might be informed of the various revolutions and interchanges which have there●n occurred might be likewise received as a subsidiary help for satisfaction to the more obstinate and opiniative and that Kings called of God unto this great work might in concurrence with a privy Council consisting of some of the more Learned and more sober of both parties prudentially weigh the validity of Reasons urged the sincerity of Procedure and the merit of the Cause We should quickly make it to appear that we have a veneration for Episcopal Government and that we are no enemies to order ornanment or decency nor yet to Ceremonies provided the whole be reduced to ancient usage and there be nothing therein derogatory to that Honour and Religious Worship which we owe to God only And as touching the Sacraments if the Word of God may be umpire as without all peradventure it ought to be we should soon likewise condescend upon their number And in conformity to that sacred directory observing our Saviour's practice and that which St. Paul by virtue of his Commandment hath enjoyned us to do in like manner we should take the Bread we should all drink of the Cup of blessing in commemoration of the inestimable Death of our dear Redeemer whose Flesh and Blood is meat and drink indeed whereby we are nourished unto an eternal life We should know without further debate that this Union is wrought by the mediation of his Spirit who uniteth and conjoyneth us to himself after an ineffable but a true and real manner Christ dwelling in our hearts by Faith which is the mouth of our souls by which we feed upon him whereunto the conversion of Bread into Flesh is not at all necessary but the Elevation of Faith unto Heaven its genuine and proper act for as our Lord hath taught us it is the Spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing The words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life that is to say they are of a spiritual and vivifick vertue as well in the publication of the Gospel as in the participation of the holy Supper wherein the Bread and the Wine are Signes Gages and Memorials of that which is therein represented to us whose Name they bear as is usual in all Sacraments as also because they are not only significative but likewise exhibitive of the thing signified to the Faithful and worthy Communicant so as shall be shewed streight And certainly this same Real-Presence and Participation may be easily enough conceived without the necessary admission of a Local and gross one for if it must be acknowledged that the Sun whilst bounded within its sphear doth yet communicate warinth life and nourishment and that truly really substantially to Vegetables can any one doubt without Blasphemy that the glorious Body of our Lord and Saviour the true Sun of Righteousness who carrieth health and life in his Divine Rayes is furnished with less vertue than that Globe of fire and light which himself hath enlightned Or that his Humane Nature which he hath united personally to his Divinity cannot by its means mystically unite

shall therein preside and exercise a Soveraign and Absolute Dominion demeaning himself as if he were God But let us see how the great and famous Lights of Antiquity have expressed themselves in reference hereunto behold how S. Chrysostom speaks in the Temple of God not that which is in Jerusalem but in the Temple of the Churches And Theodoret more particularly The Apostle calls the Temple of God the Churches wherein Antichrist shall possess himself of the first and chief place commanding that he be therein acknowledged for a God But S. Augustin instrusts us herein yet farther Shall his seat be saith he upon the ruines of the Temple of Solomon or rather shall it not be in the Church for the Apostle would never have called the Temple of God the Temple of a Devil and therfore some conceive Antichrist to be a Prince with a great company of attendants and judge that it were more proper to pronounce in the Latin as it is in the Greek into the Temple of God and not in the Temple of God in that he shal be seated as if himself were the Temple of God himself the Church What will this be other then to expel our Lord Jesus Christ his Chair and to deny that he is come in the flesh to be King and Head of the Church to vilify his Priesthood and to deride his sacred Doctrine with a no less then Diabolical Impudency This moreover should be a sign of his coming namely that ten Kings shall begin to reign at the same time having all one and the same Counsel and shall give their Power and Authority to the Apocalyptick Beast which is represented to us drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and in all probability it is not without some special import that the Holy Ghost doth so plainly distinguish the Witnesses of the Truth into two Bands but that we are to understand by the one those whose blood was shed under the Pagan Emperours by the other those whose blood should be in like manner spilt and poured out under the Tyranical Reign of the grand Enemy of Jesus Christ. His Residence is also noted to be in the great City scituated upon seven Mountains which in St. John's time reigned over the Kings of the Earth which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified in the person of his members and spiritual Babylon which God exhorts his People to come out of lest being partakers of her sins they might likewise receive of her plagues We are informed also that that great Whore should be arrayed with Purple and Scarlet and deck'd with Gold and precious stones having upon her head a name written MYSTERY whereby is insinuated to us that there should be nothing in her but what is altogether secret and mysterious or at least pretended to be such The number of his name 666. is another Riddle in the Mystery of Iniquity which we leave to be read by any that list to undertake it whatever the interpretation of it be whether what Irenaeus others gather from the numeral value and signification of the Greek Characters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Latine or somewhat else Finally This Mother of Fornications is represented to us having in her hand a Golden Cup full of Abominations and filthiness of her Fornication for our further instruction namely that she should propound and obtrude such Doctrines as carried with them some outward decorum a gilded and specious outside and of such an enchanting quality and influence as that all the Kings and People in the Earth shall run after her to drink of this her envenomed Cup And that which obliegeth us to stand more strictly upon our guard is Jesus Christ's prediction that many should come in his Name and say Lo here is Christ or lo there is Christ but that we should not believe it that those Impostors should aspire to teach in his Name and make ostentation of their extraordinary gifts mock-miracles and Exorcisms in casting out of Devils by his Authority to whom notwithstanding he should infallibly say to their everlasting confusion in that great day whereon he is to judg the quick and the dead I never knew you depart from me ye workers of iniquity But behold an Advertisement well-worthy of our most serious consideration which the Spirit of God hath given us in these terms Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the Faith giving themselves up to seducing Spirits and doctrines of Devils speaking lies in hypocrisie having their consciences cauterized forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created for them which believe and know the Truth to be received with thanksgiving Henceforth a Believer should be greatly deficient to his duty should he not narrowly examine all those Circumstances and Marks of that grand Apostacy and Defection whereof God hath given so accurate and exact an enumeration and arm himself with matter both of Caution ●nd Confidence where-ever he shall chance to meet with them resolving to shun the company of all that bear those Marks in their foreheads or bear any cursed conformity thereunto Christians as many of you as embrace the Faith of a stranger if ye belong indeed to the Flock of the Lord Jesus hearken to the Voice of that good Shepherd and know that his Prophetick Spirit hath not declared those things unto us in vain take occasion from hence to glorifie God who hath made known unto us his Counsels in his Word wherein whatsoever is contained was written for our instruction that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope There be who conceal the truth of those Oracles of God fomenting in you malicious prejudices against such as do in strictness adhere thereunto They tell you that the Word of the living God is no more than a dead letter whereas it is no less than the very Power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth that it is obscure notwithstanding what the Royal Prophet hath taught us namely that it is a lamp to our feet and a light unto our paths and that Man after God's own heart hath employed the greatest part of his Divine Hymns in magnifying of those Celestial Rayes and that Admirable Splendour which is universally refulgent in all its parts They presume moreover to taxit of Imperfection and Insufficiency notwithstanding those glorious surpassing Elogies given it by the great Apostle of the Gentiles S. Paul namely that it is inspired of God and is profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction and for Instruction in Righteousness that the man of God may be perfect and thorowly furnished to every good work● They alledge that it is not the common peoples part to reade it albeit our Lord Jesus Christ hath said in express terms Search diligently the Scriptures

for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they that testifie of me whence the Jews of Berea are commended for giving of themselves to conference and reading of the Scriptures as Timothy likewise whom the Apostle gives this advantagious Testimony to that from a Child he had known the holy Scriptures They forestall you with a disrelishing prejudice and aversation to such as profess a sequacious obedience to the Word of Truth espousing the same for their only Canon and Rule both of Faith and manners as if they were the very filth and off-scouring of the world not considering that God hath chosen weak things yea things contemptible and despised to confound the things that are mighty They tell you that the Company of such Professours is but small and inconsiderable but yet be it known unto them they are those to whom Jesus Christ hath said Fear not little Flock for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom and how little reckoning soever they make of them yet are they nevertheless the Children of that Woman of Wonder who is represented to us in the Revelation having the Sun for a garment the Stars for a Crown and the Moon for a footstool whereby is given us to understand that she is priviledged and exalted above the inconstancy and volubility of things here below against whom the Devil hath vomited out Floods of Water that is to say in a Prophetick stile hath stirr'd up the People and Nations of the Earth to wage War with her and to devour her but God hath given her Wings that she might flee into the place which himself hath prepared for her to be there fed during the thousand two hundred and threescore prophetick dayes wherein the Truth of God shall be declared by the Witnesses cloathed in Sackcloth by which dayes according to the usual signification of such terms in holy Writing is notified to us the time that the Persecution of the Church under the Reign of Antichrist should continue as by that forelorn Apparel the slight Entertainment which the Word of God and the Publishers thereof should meet withal in and from the World If then there be in you any good inclination take heed that ye stifle it not to your own misery and confusion abandon your Errors and come rank your selves amongst the Children of the Kingdom come and embody with them into the Communion of the King of Glory his Spouse whose beauty is internal borrowing nothing from earthly pomp or ornament Come but not by stealth as Joseph of Arimathea nor yet by night only as Nicodemus but rather after their example ashamed of such reproachful pufillanimity and cowardise Come even then when he is persecuted to the very Cross to remand and rescue his Body Mystical may your heart which before possibly resembled that Rock out of which our Lord's Tomb was hewen become a heart of flesh and a fitting-Repository for the same that from rest and repose as yet afforded it therein it might appear to the World that ye have so far interessed your selves in its defence as that none can henceforth doubt but that your selves are a part of that sacred Corporation Let the example of those two goodly personages animate you unto the like generous resolutions and see that ye prefer or over-rate not your wordly advantages which ye fear ye shall lose by the means for are ye Counsellours men rich and honourable such was Joseph of Arimathea or principal Doctors in your Community very Masters in your Israel such was Nicodemus yet did those count all things but loss and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus all the hatred and contempt of those of their own Nation the scorn and mockery of Infidels the rage and fury both of the one and the other could not restrain them from glorifying of God nor associating themselves with his persecuted Church even then when she seem'd destitute of all succour and refuge Shall earthly advantages be dearer to you than Heavenly ones Know ye not that terrible threat of our Lord that he will spue the Luke-warm out of his sacred mouth and that the fearful and unbelievers c. shall be expell'd the holy Jerusalem and thrown headlong into the Lake burning with fire and brimstone For whosoever saith he shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinfull generation of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy Angels and Whosoever shall confess me before men him will I confess also before my Father which is in Heaven but whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my Father which is in Heaven It is not sufficient then that we believe with the heart unto Righteousness ●ut we must likewise confess with the mouth unto Salvation Think not that the example of David in retiring to the ●ouse of the Philistines for shelter from Persecution will bear you excused he having his own private reasons for justification of himself in that particular And as touching his counterfeiting himself a mad-man amongst them that was ●ure expence of reputation so that instead of any warrant from thence ye should take pattern by the extravagancies of Superstition and Errour to the miserable jeopardy and hazard of your eternal interest which one consideration o●ght to strike you with horrour and dread and deter you from the commission of such an heinous and prejudicial piece of cowardise Slight not then the wholsome Admonitions which are here given you henceforth reject spiritual Delilah who having once shaved off your hair quite emasculating and overpouring of you and by degrees reducing you into a miserable slavery hath also pluckt out the eyes of your understanding and in fine led you in triumph into the Temple of Superstition Cut all those Philistine-cords assunder with the sacred Sword of the Spirit the Word of God anoint your Eyes with that admirable Eye-salve and then shall ye be more happy than Sampson who lost his Life where many have lost their Inocency in the Temple of Idols ye shall depart out of that of Error with glory and triumph and be translated into the Liberty of the Children of God What an happy exchange will ye find it when in stead of Wood and Stone which they present you with together with I know not what numerous Reliques of Saints Cords of St. Francis Scapularies hallowed Grains and Tatters of Moncks and many things more of no better value ye shall feed upon the living Bread of the Word of God and suck of the sacred Breasts of his Consolations When ye shall seek no longer for the Living to the Dead as ye have done hitherto with those of whom God complains by the mouth of one of his Prophets but to the Law and to the Testimony to the Urim and to the