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A18103	The originall of idolatries: or, The birth of heresies a true, sincere, and exact description of all such sacred signes, sacrifices, and sacraments as haue been instituted and ordained of God since Adam; with the true source and liuely anatomy of the sacrifice of the Masse. First faithfully gathered out of sundry Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuers learned fathers; by that famous and learned Isaac Casaubon, and by him published in French, for the good of Gods Church: and now translated into English for the benefit of this monarchy; by Abraham Darcie.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 4747; ESTC S107577	78,965	150

constituted for the Purification of a woman suspected of Adulterie there was neither Incense nor Oyle as in other Sacrifices but it was offered with water mingled with the dust or ashes gathered vp from the floore of the Temple There was also another Sacrifice celebrated for those that had made some great Vow called Nazareans when the time of their Deuotion was expired wherein they were appointed to offer three Victimes a Lambe of a yeere old a Sheepe and a Ramme the one that is the Lambe to serue for a Holocaust the other of a female Sheepe for Saluation and the third oblation for Health Furthermore his haires that made the oblation were to be cast into the fire to be burned together with the Holocaust I was willing particularly to discourse of the diuersitie of sacrifices that hereby I might make knowne the great goodnesse and bounty of our God who in the Law of sacrifices publisht by Moses meant to curbe and reyne in the rude people of Israel as it were with a Bridle who could not forget the Aegyptian Idolatries wherein they had beene nourished and bred for foure hundred and thirty yeeres vnder the tyranny of the Pharaohs But what rigorous Lawes soeuer enacted what Ceremonies or Sacrifices soeuer he did ordaine them this people euer made a relapse into their Idolatry abusing the Law of God and corrupting the holy Sacraments and sacrifices as hereafter shall be expressed But if any man desire to know more at large the multitude and varietie of sacrifices let him reade the bookes of Philo the Iew ● and of Iosephus in his Antiquities of the Iewes according as Moses hath expressely written in the bookes of Leuiticus and Numbers There was another signe and Sacrament instituted of God by the Arke of Couenant described in Exodus being a sacred signe and dedicated to receiue celestiall diuine Oracles to the end to induce the people to a remembrance feare and obedience of God To accompany and honour the Arke of Couenant many other externall signes were constituted by God as the ornaments and consecrations of the Priests especially that ornament called the Ephod both which and the Sacrifices the Israelites abused and prophaned with their Idolatries Another sacred signe there was of cleansing water or Water of expiation instituted by God for Moses and Aaron the High Priest This cleansing or purifying Water was consecrated with ashes taken vp by an vnpolluted man of the oblation offered in the Holocaust that is to say of the whole Red Cow without spot not hauing euer bin exposed to labour The Fire for the burnt-offering was ordained to be of Cedar-wood Hysop and of Purple-Crymosine Polluted men were sprinkled ouer with this Water for an expiation and purgation of their corporall blemishes At the entry of the Tabernacle or Temple there was a kinde of Lauer like a Font of Brasse forged at first of seeing Glasses of the Israelitish Women In this Lauer or Holy-water Font was put this Water of Purification where with the Priests besprinkled themselues before they celebrated their sacrifices to the end they might be purified and obtaine grace and remission of sinnes After the death of the High Priest Aaron the Israelitish people ingratefull towards God for the benefit he sent them murmuring when they were wearie of the heauenly Manna which hee gaue them bountifully for their sustentation they were punished with the stingings of venemous Serpents But God being mercifull gaue them a sacred signe to bee preserued and restored to health that is to say the signe of the Brazen Serpent erected vp on high which was a Figure of Iesus Christ crucified This in briefe is the greatest part of the Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments instituted by God in the first Church of the Israelites being figures of the true and perfect sacrifice accomplished and immolated by Iesus Christ the true Messias the Eternall Priest who sits at the right hand of God his Father CHAP. III. Of Corruptions NOW wee must succinctly produce how Man by his owne fault falling into obliuion and disobedience against GOD his Creator abused herein diuine fauour and grace and corrupted the sacred signes sacrifices Sacraments by him ordain'd and instituted For else what perswaded our first Father and his Wife Eue to hide themselues when they heard and were set in the way of God but that they had abused his sacred signes and violated the Law of those Fruits prohibited and forbidden them This holy signe which our first Parents so alienated and abused was the originall of other Vices and corruptions hereafter described wherein two men are falne hauing a rellish of the corrupt masse in Adam Omitting the particular corruptions of signes sacrifices and Sacraments before the Law written by Moses we will begin in setting downe briefely the most notable errors committed by the greatest Sacrificers Kings and Priests with others that had the gouernment and charge of the people When Moses remained in Mount Sinai to receiue the Commandements from God his brother Aaron the High Priest caused a golden Calfe to be framed of the earings deliuered vnto him by the people of Israel hee built an Altar offered Incense and celebrated Sacrifice causing the common people to adore this Image Was not this an abusing of the sacrifices ordained by God and a corrupting of their true vse procuring the same to be ador'd which before was it selfe offered and immolated according as the custome was His sonnes also Nadab and Abihu were they not consum'd with fire because they adulterated the true vse of sacrifices and tooke vnconsecrated wood by corrupting the instituted Law The people of Israel ingratefull for the benefit receiued in being deliuered from Pharaohs captiuitie did they not murmure against the holy Sacrament of celestiall Manna when they contemned and despised this Bread of Life crying out for flesh to eate Achan the sonne of Charmes did not hee violate the Law of sacred signes when hee committed sacriledge by detaining the spoiles of Iericho which were vowed and consecrated for sacrifices to God If any man more curious desires to see the abuses and corruptions continued by the same people let him reade the Histories of the Iudges of Israel and he shall perceiue that in all ages men haue neuer been content with the true adoration instituted by God but in stead of externall signes constituted by God to drawe the people to his feare and obedience they haue forged and brought in their owne inuentions and in stead of reuerencing the Altars and the Arke of Couenant in the name of the lonely one God which were externall sacred signes the Israelites mis-led by the Idolatries of their neighbours the Syrians Sidonians Moabites Ammonites and Palestines erected Altars to strange gods to Baal and Astaroth Iephta Iudge and Conductor of the Israelites did not he corrupt the Law of Sacrifices when he offered vp his owne

then all the Commentaries of the ancient Idolatrous Romane Pontifes CHAP. XIX Against the Idolaters Antiquity and long Possession of the Masse IS not this long Possession to confirme the Mahumetan Alcoran which the Turks at this day haue enioyed for aboue nine hundred yeares hauing conquered Countries Kingdomes and Empires prospered in their enterprizes and alwaies obserued that abominable law prescribed in their Alcoran Was the people of Israel excusable before God when they offered sacrifice of the blood of Innocents in the valley of Tophet to Moloch by alledging the long possession thereof and inueterate vse for aboue 1200 years before this idolatry was wholly abolished by good King Iosias Did the Israelites murmure aginst the vertuous King Ezechias when he demolished the brazen Serpent which was instituted by Gods expresse commandement aboue 900 yeares before Were the people themselues excused of their idolatry committed in the two Temples erected in Dan and Bethel wherein were the images of two young Heifers of gold vnder the pretext and allegation of long possession for they had continued this idolatry for the space of three or foure hundred yeares The Iewes that are at this day vagabonds shall they be excused before the Maiestie of God by presenting the long possession of their ceremoniall Law instituted euen by God himselfe aboue three thousand yeares agoe As likewise your selues O Missalians can you alledge against God a long possession and prescription of hauing celebrated Pompilian Masses for a long time that you and your predecessors vsed it sold and set to sale your missall sacrifices Is long possession a sufficient and well grounded reason as your predecessors the Romane Senators alledged to the Emperour Theodosius that their Pompilian Religion had beene obserued for aboue a thousand yeares The inducing of long possession and vse obserued of long time will not be a sufficient reason to approue your idolatries For if God out of his vnspeakable mercy and patience hath tolerated the Iewes in their infidelity the Turkes in their Alcoran law and Christians in their Missalian idolatries we must not argue nor dispute of Gods incomprehensible secrets But in humility re-enter the way of verity when he is pleased to point it out vnto vs after long and palpable darknesse whereinto people in all ages haue fallen by straying from Gods true institution and worship as wee briefly before declared of the Israelites an elect people of God who though they had Moses and the Prophets which admonished them by many miracles and comminations how they ought to honour God and obserue his law yet would they neuer cease idolatrizing with their owne fond and humane inuentions If therefore during the reignes of Princes Iudges of Israel when this people was gouerned as in an Aristocracy then yeelding to the yoake of Kings as by a Monarchy and at last reduced vnder the gouernment of Priests embracing the spirituall and temporall the law of God was corrupted the sacrifices and sacraments adulterated and violated and idolatry erected and propagated for more then sixteeene hundred years from the written law publisht by Moses till the Incarnation of Iesus Christ what may be hoped of the people of Rome instructed and nourished in all idolatry like a withered tree like a bastard and heathen people Notwithstanding that the Missalian heretikes may not vaunt of long possession in their missall sacrifices except it be by the restauration of the nine parts formerly described borrowed from Numa Pompilius the other members of the Masse were inuented at diuers times by sundry Antichrists corrupters of the holy Sacraments ordained by God And to vnderstand the peculiar times and ages of these famous Architects Agapit Romane Pope reigning in the yeare of Christ 577 added to the Procession instituted after the prescript forme of Numa the Confiteor restored by Damasus reigning in the yeare 377 the Kyrie-eleyson was annexed by Gregory reigning in the yeare 593 the Collects and Tracts by Gelasius reigning in the yeare 493 and the Sequences by Gotherus Abbot of Sandale the Gloria in excelsis by Symmachus reigning in the yeare 508 the Incense and Offertory renewed out of the ancient Pompilian doctrine by Leo the third of that name in the yeare 800 the Kisse-pix by Innocent the first of that name reigning in the yeare 408 the Agnus dei instituted by Sergius in the yeare 697 Dirges for the dead were inuented by Pelagius in the yeare 558 the Canon forged by Gelasius Syricius Leo and Pelagius reigning in the yeare 800 Transubstantiation was instituted by the Romane Pontifes about the yeare of Christ 1062. And therefore what an impudency is it in the Messalian Alcoranist Doctors falsely to auerre that the holy Apostles of Iesus Christ celebrated the missall sacrifice considering that this sacrifice was not restored to its integrity since the dayes of Numa Pompilius but aboue 800 yeares after Iesus Christ What approued History makes mention that such an idolatry was committed by the holy Apostles of God How can we possibly beleeue or imagine it when this great Babylonish Whore was not restored to her maske and vizard of sanctity but long time after the Incarnation of Iesus Christ CHAP. XX. Against the Idolatry of the round Host BVt we must returne to our Romane History that wee may more and more discouer the true originall of the Masse In discoursing of the parts and principal members of the missall sacrifice wee related how the ancient Romanes before they were accustomed to sacrifice with the blood of beasts vsed little round loaues consecrated to the honor of their gods which they eate standing within the Temples at the end of the sacrifice These little round Hosts of wheat floure were taken by the Missalian sacrificers but they haue augmented the magicke and idolatry of Numa Pompilius in that they beautify their little round Hosts with pictures and images printed within the rotundity of the said Hosts to make them the more sacred yea that they may bee adored out of Honorius inuention a Romane Antichrist reigning in the yeare of Christs incarnation 1226 which Numa the Magician neuer practised before neither grew to this abominable idolatry what more detestable heresie can be laid open then to paint the Maiestie of God in the forme of humane similitude as the Anthropomorphites did Who taught you O Missalians to corrupt the holy sacrament of the Supper of Iesus Christ in deuising these little round loaues and Hosts but the Magician Numa When Iesus Christ celebrated the holy Supper with the Apostles did he appoint them to haue little loaues or round Hosts to print them with humane characters and effigies to coniure and exorcise them with crosses and croysadoes in equall or vnequall numbers and cause them to bee adored Confesse therefore O Missalians that the principall part of your Masse that is your little round hosts to be originall from the ancient Pompilian Religion more then seuen hundred years before the

discussion and Argument But the Scripture being a Test quadrant by which they are not willing to trie or square their proceedings Learned CASAVBON hath made a diligent search Inquisition of their owne Registers and Records and chiefly out of the Volumes of the Commentaries of ELASOPOLITAN whereas by the direction of a Diuine hand may bee found out the Birth and Originall of all adulterous and strange Adoration from the first ADAM to these our later times but especially the Sacrifice of the ROMANE MASSE is here most learnedly delineated to true life from the cradle and infancie thereof till now that it hath made so great and perillous a progression The AVTHORS are nominated the seuerall parcels set downe as they were in seuerall AGES annexed the perspicuous difference betwixt it and the infallible forme of the Apostolicall and Primitiue CHRISTIAN worship is explained with whatsoeuer else that meere HVMANE TRADITION INVENTION hath vniustly vsurped ouer Orthodoxall and vnspoated true seruice in the CHVRCH OF GOD. So as clearely discerning the Scandals the Scandalizers likewise are as plainely reuealed and this Christian Domus deuisa in se Out of my humble and dutifull affection I could not but commend this excellent Treatise to your Honourable viewes and learned censure the which I haue studiously expressed in the English Tongue principally to manifest vnto all your Lorships my seruiceable and grateful heart both to euery one of your Honours in particular as also to this happy Kingdome in generall to whose bounties and protection I stand deepely oblieged and as he whose thoughts haue no higher scopes nor ayme then iustly to bee reputed YOVR GRACE YOVR HONORS and YOVR WORTHINES Most faithfull and humbly deuoted ABRAHAM DARCIE THE AVTHORS EPISTLE TO THE READER Most courteous Reader COnsidering the Controuersies and bloudy hatred grown betwixt those who professe themselues Christians about Religion for they aspiring to retaine these vaine superstitions proceeding from their predecessors and many also not contented do inuent new Sects Schismes and Heresies Others least in number diuinely inspired and of God elocted desire to extirpate the Darknesse of Ignorance thereby to cause resplendently to shine the Light and claritie of Truth But it seemes that the most dangerous Poyson that Satan vseth to entoxicate men with the Venym of sedition and cruell contention and hatred deriues chiefly from the Masse desguised with some good meaning masked and couered peraduenture with a good intention And although that many heretofore haue by sundry faithfull descriptions endeueured to discouer to the world the deceitfulnes error and blindnesse thereof yet could they not preuailc nor giue light to their duskish and heauy sight Therefore now without any passion I haue faithfully extracted and liuely drawne out from the Volumes of ELASOPOLITAN'S COMMENT ARIES It is a large faithfull description whereof the second Volume treates of the Constitutions of great Pontiss Soueraigne Priests and Sacrificers as haue been ordained since the beginning of the World and their true Number Power Riches and Authority all for thy only benefit this sincere Summary of the Sacrifice called The Masse In this Treatise though little in appearance are designed and set downe all such Sacred Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments ordained of GOD from time to time As also the Corruptions that haue grown successiuely in the Church of GOD whereby I doe euidently shew the birth of all Heresies and Idolatries and especially the true Originall of the Masse for the which the world is in great strifes bloudy Contentions cruell Diuisions Hatred and lamentable Ciuile Warres for some do Inuectiuate Inueigh against it alleaging that it is newly deuised and inueuted others defend it by prescription and long possession and thus by such like altercations the Christian Church is sore afflicted with the yoke and Terror of Sedition But if thou art a Christian beloued Reader of what Sect soeuer Papist or Euangelicall I pray thee heartily for thy owne good to haue patience to reade this Worke for by it thou mayest euidently know and plainely discouer the very trueth of what soeuer thou standest in doubt of what Sacrifices Sacraments and Sacred Signes haue beene instituted of GOD since Adam what is the Masse and Originall thereof who were her Founders Augmenters and Inuenters and to the end thou mayest firmely beleeue with assurance all the Contents herein mentioned haue recourse to those Authors out of whose Bookes and Workes I haue drawne and deriued it their Names and Bookes are quoted in the Margent So ayming at GODS glory and thy owne Benefit I rest with my prayers to GOD. to inspire thee with his Holy Spirit by the intercession of our onely Sauiour Redeemer and Mediatour IESVS CHRIST Amen THE TRANSLATOR TO the Courteous Reader wisheth all Sauing health in IESVS CHRIST WIse Politicians fauourable Reader in their Institutions and Gouernnement of Common-wealths doe hold for an infallible maxime that to reforme Corruptions and abuses in States better course cannot be taken then often to reduce things to their primitiue Original Because Lawes at first enacted with good and profitable intention in the Reuolution of few yeeres by mens instability and inconstancie of minde or the peculiar interest of Auarice by Iniustice are abrogated and neglected The Venetians beeing a people at this day celebrous and famous for their Gouernement have a supreame Magistracie which they call A Syndicate that once in a few yeeres suruey all the Offices and Dignities in their Common-wealth the Duke himselfe not there excepted to looke into abuses and preuent their deepe roo●e and plantation that so all things may continue and stand entire according to the rules and precepts of their first Constitutions and ordinances Also a Garden-plot though neuer so curiously drawne or distinguished into borders and set with all manner of odoriferous flowers and wholesome herbes yet euery showre of raine brings foorth new weedes the which if they be not carefully and dayly supplanted will soone ouergrow the good plants and bring the same to a wilde and sauage plot of ground And though the ineuitable deprauation and corruption of mans nature carry so strong a hand in things transitory and mutable yet one would thinke they should be more stable and prouident in those courses tending to eternall saluation and soules reprobation in obseruing those Lawes and Commandements vttered by GOD himselfe and recommended to all Posterities for a square Rule whereby to measure our faith and actions Notwithstanding men are more prone to Declination and Corruption in that from the very beginning and first institution of the Law Mosaicall till these present times that for many ages haue receiued the cleere and manifest Truth and doctrine Euangelicall Heresies haue euer crept in and caried too powerful an hand as Verity it selfe like gold in the bowels and entrals of the earth is encombred with a wonderfull deale of oare and drosse which is not like to be separated till the last fire of tryall which shall prooue euery mans