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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

as the whole Kingdome of Bohemia was through means of their Preaching and Doctrine reduced from obedience to the Pope and the Ceremonies of the Romish Church the Council of Constance required King Wenceslaus to send the said Huss thither to whom the Emperour Sigismond gave very ample Letters of safe-conduct to the end that he might not scruple to surrender himself yet notwithstanding without any regard had thereunto he was within twenty six dayes after his arrival committed to Prison and after an hard and tedious incarceration most unjustly condemned to be burnt alive as an Heretick howbeit he had clearly demonstrated to them the truth of his Doctrine by the Word of God and the pregnant Testimonies of Christian Antiquity in pursuance whereof he maintained that the Church of Rome had departed from the Doctrine of the Apostles in pursuit of the riches and delights of the world hunting after Dominion and Primacy embezeling Church-goods which did of proper right belong t● the Poor in pomps and filthy and infamous expences confounding herewith the Ordinances of God or at leastwise guilty of a voluntary and deliberate contempt of the same That the Pope hath no such Authority as he challengeth over the Church and that Indulgences are null That the Bread and the Wine remain untransubstantiated in the Supper and that the Communion should be equally distributed to all under both kinds That there is no such thing as Purgatory That Saints departed ought not to be invoked nor Images worshipped and that all those things with their like appendants have no other foundation than that of the corruption and vanity of a humane spirit But forasmuch as the Truth doth ever purchase hatred from the Wicked as being naturally averse and adverse thereunto this was the cause of that cruel usage which he met withall from his Enemies which he endured with a truly Christian-Constancy rehearsing as he was going to the place of Execution or rather of Triumph diverse verses of the Psalms especially of the 31st and 51st and oftentimes these words taken partly out of the 31st I recommend my spirit into thy hands for thou hast redeemed me Lord Jesus thou God of Truth and as the Executioner was setting fire to the Faggots he said three times with a strong and loud voice Jesus Christ thou Son of the living God have mercy upon me Thus did this holy Martyr finish all his labours resigning his soul to God upon the 6th of July 1415. That other faithful Witness of the Truth Jerome of Prague did likewise seal the same with his blood upon the 30th of May 1416 after many sharp conflicts with his Adversaries whom he confounded and struck dumb with the same weapons namely the Word of God and the Testimonies of the ancient Doctors of the Church being endued with an admirable eloquence and vigour of spirit He encountred death with such an extasie of joy that when-as they began to kindle the Faggots he began to sing Divine Praises with a holy hymn which by the very relation of Aeneas Sylvius who was afterwards Pope called Pius II and of Pogius of Florence who was one of the Spectators he continued in the midst of the flames till that his blisfull soul took wing for Heaven there to bear a part in the harmonious new Song in the presence of its Saviour and the company of Angels and all the Saints and faithfull ones whose tears are all for ever wip'd away in that beatisick Sabbatism of Glory and eternal bliss But what shall we say more for the time would fail us should we instance in all who after those two saithful Witnesses espoused the defence of the same Truth which the greatest part of them have as they before them sealed with their blood We behoved to make mention of that great Assembly of persons at Doway in the year 1421 who held the Doctrine of the Waldenses of whom a great number as is reported by Monstrelet was sacrificed to the flames of William White and Alexander Fabrice English-men who in the year 1429 wrote in the defence of Wickliff's Doctrine which Reynauld Peacock Bishop of Chichester in like manner maintained in the year 1457. We behoved likewise to shew that George Poggebrach King of Bohemia together with his Subjects owned to the day of his death the profession of the Truth against the Determinations of Rome and that the King of Poland stood inclined to its defence Likewise that in the year 1480 John of Vessalia Basil of Groningue Stephen Bralfer and Paul Notary of Tubinge Doctors in Divinity did in like manner in Germany withstand the Doctrine of the Romish-Church for controlling of whose vanity and many corruptions Jerome Savonarole was burnt at Florence in the year 1498 notwithstanding which John Francis Picus Count of Mirandula failed not to write in his behalf and in like manner to reprehend the very same abuses That in the year 1505 Paul Scriptoris did in his Lectures in the University of Tubinge publickly declaim against Transubstantiation And that in the year 1507 Thomas More of Brockford an English-man was burnt at Norwich for preaching against the then prevailing Superstitions of the Church We behoved moreover to produce that goodly Confession presented in the year 1508 to King Vladislaus by the persecuted Waldenses in Hungary which was exactly conformable to that of the Protestant and Reformed Churches And likewise observe all that is recorded by that great Lawyer Charles du Moulin in his History of the French Monarchy on purpose to give the World to understand what reception the Doctrine and Life of those of Cabrieres and Merindol found with King Lewis XII which gave such ample satisfaction to that great Prince as that upon the report therein made to him of the same he swore that they had more goodness and worth in them than himself and all his subjects besides Finally we behov'd in like manner for the honour of that incomparable Monarch to add how that after the example of Philip the Fair one of his Predecessors he quell'd the sauciness and petulancy of Julius II who had excommunicated him having assembled a Council at Pisa in order to the reforming of the Church both in its Head and Members and caused batter the Golden Species with this Inscription PERDAM BABYLONIS NOMEN C A D. I will utterly destroy the name of Babylon and had not injurious Death suddenly snatch'd him away he had undoubtedly put an happy essay to a thorow Reformation But enough of that we being now arrived at Anno 1517. MArtin Luther together with those his Contemporaries whom God raised up for the same work did in this year strike that great blow which did so mightily shake the Papal Power and restore to Soveraign Princes who heretofore trembled under the Censures of Rome that lawful though controll'd Authority which they hold of none but God himself and this was so marvellous that after that time the greatest part of Germany the

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