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A01958	The anatomie of Ananias: or, Gods censure against sacriledge With a breife scholie vpon Psalm. 83. concerning the same subiect. By Roger Gostvvyke Batchelour of Diuinitie, and minister of Sampford Courtnie in the countie of Deuonsh.	Gostwick, Roger, b. 1567 or 8.	1616 (1616)	STC 12100; ESTC S103327	99,971	192

or roote them out And this S. Paul had respect vnto when he said I would to God they were cut off that trouble you and where bee would haue the incestuous Corinthian committed to Sathan 3. The last was that which the Iewes call Sammatha or Sammatizatio of Shamam that signifies desolare ad stuporem vastare atta tu q. d. let such a curse fall vpon thee as is vltima execratio or maledictio the vttermost execration or accursednesse Or as some thinke of shem for hashem which is the name of God and atha venit or to come to expresse the euerlasting curse ●il the comming of the Lord which Paul elswhere alludeth to This word we finde in Ieremie his lamentations Sion is laid desolate which lamentable estate of the Church in that booke is fully deplored Ier. 12. 11. This S. Paul as I said before did expresse in that imprecation or denuntiation of a most zealous heart Who so loues not that is hateth and persecuteth the Lord Iesus let him be anathema maranatha euerlastingly accursed q. d. till the comming of the Lord to iudgement and a day after And these were the Church censures Now are we to examine for as much as it is vndeniable but this of Ananias is such which of all these three it is that is here inflicted First of a certaine not the first for that was but a depriuation of the spirituall estate for a time concerning the companie and comforts of the Church with condition annexed of reconciliation and repentance now this here was corporall as well as spirituall and eternall with a barre against repentance therefore not that Secondly nor the second which as some thinke either was not corporall such as the ciuill sword could inflict but a permission or emancipation onelie to the power and regiment of Satan who hath his kingdom out of the Church to whō such sinners were deliuered ouer to the end that the flesh that is the old man might be mortified and the new renewed or as Augustine speaketh vt moriatur error viuat homo that the sinne might be killed and the sinner saued Or if a corporall also as we must confesse of Achan the Cananites and other vpon whom that curse was corporally executed on earth vpon their bodies which was pronounced and enacted in heauen yet but corporall hauing time and meanes of grace offered for repentance Therefore it must be the last partaking of both but exceeding both so far as extreame doth goe beyond partiall and eternall sutmounts temporall 1. a temporall and extemporall cutting off the bodie from the grace of life and a spirituall and eternall cutting off the soule from the life of grace the sorest seuerest extreamest vengeance that can be afflicted on a man in this world forsaking and forsaken of God A sudden and vnrepentant dissolution of bodie and soule a present and immediate manumission from God and grace to the place and torments of the damned a iust guerdon for him that gaue himselfe ouer to the full sway of the Prince of death to mocke that God of heauen defeat his spouse on earth blaspheme the spirit of sanctification I tremble to thinke that any child of man specially a child of the Church an auditor of the Apostles a professor of Christ a benefactor of the Church no apparant professed enemy or atheist or persecutor or apostata should be liable to so execrable a sentence to be excommunicated anathematized sammatized for grudging a few pence or pownds to God and his Church But leauing secret iudgements vnto God wee must needs acknowledge that God seeth not as man seeth for that which mans eie could not perceiue the eies of God that peirce the heart did see in his carriage a mal●tio us and obstinate a presumptuous and desperate hypocriticall persecutor and enuious Apostata the essentiall marks of a certaine reprobate and forlorne sinner If any yet beside the exigence of the fault will needes require more reason for so great seueritie for their further satisfaction may lift off their eies from looking vpon S. Peter as if he either of his owne power or his priuate humour had slaine the partie and remember it was the holy spirit that in defect of temporall magistracie not yet Christian did moderate the whole matter whose wisedome so far as we either may or can looke into might commend these reasons 1. the Church was to be kept in awe and feare of God 2. as in a newe established polity or gouernement as there must bee examples of reward for the righteous so also of punishments for delinquents 3. that vnder the colour of religion and new conuersion one should not defeat or defraud another 4. it was requisite that the authoritie of the Church should be wrought among them without and they prepared by such exemplarie iustice to like and loue her gouernement These and such like which Calvin and expositors doe alleadge may serue to stoppe any curious mouth that will haue God to giue account of his iudgements Here then are we taught first of all of the wonderfull effect and supereminent power of the word of God in the mouth of his holy Apostles and faithfull ministers not onely and alwaies seruing in cases of edification but sometimes also for destruction albeit that very destruction also of his enemies tends to the edification of his children And these are those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 works of power mentioned by the Apostle and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sword of the spirit to hack and hewe the vngodly in peices and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 weapons not carnall but mightie in operation and as Dauid cherev pipijoth two mouthed or edged sword with this did Moses strike Corah and his complices God himselfe Nadab and Abihu Er and Onan Iezabel and Athalia Iosua Achan and them of Canaan Elizeus the 42. children and this did Peter drawe out here against Ananias and Sapphira Whereby we see the Church censures are no bruta fulmina little childrens pot-guns beadles and boltles artilleries but tearing and roaring Cannons nor left to the swaying of Peter alone much lesse to that man of Rome to brandish not so much against sinnes as Soueraignes but left in trust to all the true Ministers of the Gospel Neither is it without neede that there should be such rods and swords in the Church of God for such as are so audaciously insolent bad by selfe impietie but much worse by our impunitie To the end therfore that the wicked may be corrected the exorbitant ●euoked the timerous affrighted the sound secured and the iudgements of God that hang ouer our heads and the land auerted let Moses and Aaron the Cherubios of the Lord that are set to keepe the way to the forbidden tree waue their fierie blade against all blasphemous disturbers pertinacious resisters impious atheists perfidious heretikes wayward schismatikes erroneous idolaters and incroaching sacrilegers It is true we haue a

a halter to hang himselfe withall now he was accursed that hanged on a tree for first in token of fearefull malediction such an one seemed reiected of both elements both resting places both receptacles heauen and earth secondly he burst in sunder in the midst as if his impure spirit was not deighned to be let out at the doore that other mens do because hee had kissed with those lippes his Masters mouth Lastly hee went to his owne place as if sacrilegious persons had a peculiar in hell exempted from the common pit where according to their transcendent impieties they should receiue transcendent penalties What Antiochus did and suffered in this kinde presuming to rush into the holy Temple of all the world and taking away the holy vessels with polluted hands plucking down the holy donatiues that had been dedicated by other Kings to the augmentation of the honour of that place and carying thence the sacred treasure 1800. talents we may read in the sacred volume but God smote him with an incurable and invisible plague convulsions in his bellie imposthumations in his bowels till hee concluded a hatefull life with an abhorred death The Ecclesiasticall storie mentioneth Iulian Vncle and steward to the Apostata with Felix his companion like impurest spaniels pissing against the Communion Table and giuing the bastinado to the Minister that did reprooue them and scorning at Christ that the sonne of Marie should be serued in siluer plate and carrying the Church treasure into the Emperours Exchequer with a number more of contemptuous prophanations at the last were thus rewarded the one had his mouth conuerted into a iakes that way avoiding the superfluities of nature the other the same way evaporating his soule together with all his blood I might here alleadge Cesar the Dictator of whom the Poet thus in a true Epithite Tristi spoliauit templaruina and Marcus Crassus who going to the Parthian warre first at Rome robbed the sacred treasurie and for that cause of his owne Tribunes was omnibus diris deuotus cursed with bell booke and candle as the Papists call it Then taking Ierusalem in his way tooke out of the holy Temple 10000. talents at one time beside a great beame of gold waighing 300. pound which Eliazarus the treasurer vpon Crassus oath to redeme the rest deliuered vnto him In that voyage he was occisione occisus hee and his army slaine euery mothers sonne and by that losse his country fell into most miserable slauery Arnulfus successor to Carolus Crassus in the Westerne Empire at the beginning was verie fortunate but once comming to enioy peace and falling to rob and rifle the Churches his former felicitie did vtterly abandon him and God punished his greedie hunger with the lowzy euill of which in great despaire within a short time he ended his life I might annex hereunto along bead-role of the heathen indignities both of the Grecians as Euemerus Messenius Hippo Diagoras Sosius Epicurus and Dionysius and Latines as Q. Scipio L. Crassus Fulvius Flaccus Plemmenius Pyrrhus Bremus and other that dishallowed their owne dieties and came to great miseries for although they were but verie deuils or meere idols vsurping the honours of the true God and therefore may be said to be but worthily serued hauing neither merit to deserue nor might to reuenge those grosse indignities yet I say not it was they that inflicted those executions vpon their dishonourers but our God as Lactantius hath noted not because they abused his corriuals and those that were not Gods for illumined Princes haue vsed them farre worse but partly for contemning the things which themselues in erroneous iudgement did esteeme for Gods and partly for profaning those well intended donations which in intention of deuourer minds were meant to the true God and so becomming first impious robbers and then scurrilous deriders which were not sufferable of those gods which themselues professed and the good things which other had hallowed And this doth mightily confute the audacious pillages of our prophane people for if they were so reuenged that wronged the false gods how much sorer punishment doe we deserue that worshipping the true yet practise so high contempt so contrarie to the principles of our true religion Examples in this kinde are infinite but I reserue the rest for another place where we shall be occasioned to see further of this matter these for the present shall suffice to set forth the horrour of this crime and the heauinesse of the curses that God for the most part vseth to inflict vpon those people that lay vnhallowed hands vpon his houses or such chattels as are sacred to holy seruice And so much for the first part of this Treatise which stood in Explication of the sinne and Censure of Ananias I hasten to the second in Application THE SECOND PART of this Treatise which stands in confutation of sundry Sacrilegers CHAP. I. Against Papall alienation of holy demeanes allotted to holy Worship PLato and those vertuous Sages the first founders of all Philosophy where euer they obserued either weakenes or wickednes in other men were wont to call themselues home to priuate scrutinie and say Num ego sum talis am I such Christians then whose learning and Philosophie is much more high and happie and requireth more heart then head more doing then knowing must much more call themselues to account whether as their bookes are better so their hearts are cleaner then other men Now for as much as all scripture beeing diuinely inspired is profitable for doctrine and reproofe for correction and instruction in righteousnesse it is necessarie as we haue laid downe the doctrine that we now proceede to the disclosing of errour that we may encounter such offenders as are eminently faultie that way The first and cheise whereof are they of the Church of Rome the verie heads whereof the Popes themselues haue done most harme to the Church of God First by taking and making away much or most of that which the deuotion of Christians had bequeathed to God then set on their champions I meane their Chaplaines to mainetaine with reason that which they had done without reason Thus haue the heires and successors of S. Peter as they call themselues made hauocke of the patrimonie of S. Peter like young striplings newly come to their lands make good penniworths of that they neuer purchast and then their Friers like hungrie parasites must reckon vp their discommodities of Tythes as if it were the church-mens best husbandry to haue nothing And this hath beene perpetrated manie waies I will reckon but foure 1. Lauish profusions 2. Lewd incorporations 3. Heathenish alienations 4. Sacrilegious compilations It would aske much time and wast much paper to prosecute all these points as they doe deserue I will touch but the cheife heads and make my assertion good 1. For their sumptuous prodigalitie and immodest and immoderate abuse of church goods all stories are full