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A18104	The originall of popish idolatrie, or The birth of heresies Published under the name of Causabon [sic], and called-in the same yeare, upon misinformation. But now upon better consideration reprinted with alowance. Being a true and exacte description of such sacred signes, sacrifices and sacraments as have bene instituted and ordained of God since Adam. With a newe source and anatomie of the Masse, first gathered out of sundrie Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuerse learned fathers. Published by S.O.; Originall of idolatries.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Ofwod, Stephen.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614.	1630 (1630)	STC 4748; ESTC S107605	102,805	138

that is outwardly nothing is changed but all the change is inwardly Augustin saith The bread doth not loose his first nature after the consecration but it receiveth another quality wherby it differeth from common bread And against Maximinus hee saith Sacraments are figures Anno 400. August lib. 3 cont Maxins being one thing indeed yet shewing forth another thing And in another place he saith There are no other sacrifices then prayer praises and thanksgiving Gelasius saith The Sacraments which we receive Anno 492. are divine things yet ceasse they not to be bread and wine in nature Beda writing on the 21 th Psalme hath these words Anno 730. Poore men despisers of the world shall eate indeed really if it be referred to the Sacraments and shal be filled eternally because they shall understand in bread in wine being visible before him a thing invisible to wit the true body blood of Christ are true meat and true drink which filleth not the belly but the minde is nourished Haymo about 850. taught the same Doctrine Now to observe the Article of our Faith He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God Augustin saith Aug. supper lean tract 30. tract 50. The Lord is above even to the end of the world and yet the verity of the Lord is here also for this body wherin he rose againe must needs bee in one place but his verity is spread abroad every where Elsewhere he saith Let the godly receive also that Sacrament but let them not be carefull for the presence of his body for as concerning his Majesty his providence is invisible unspeakable graces for these words are fullfilled which hee spake I am with you to the end of the world But according to the flesh which he took upon him when hee was born of the Virgin and was apprehended of the Iewes and was fastened to a tree taken down again from the Crosse lapped in linnen clothes was buried rose again appeared after his resurrection so ye shall not have me alwaies with you why Because as concerning his flesh The conclusion of Doctor Ridlye He was couversant with his Disciples 40. daies and they accompanied him seeing him but not following him for he went up to Heaven and is not here for he sitteth at the right hand of God his Father yet hee is here Math. 28. because hee is not departed hence as concerning the presence of his Diuine Majesty Mark well what Augustine saith he is aseended into heaven and is not here saith hee therefore beleeve not them which say hee is here still upon the earth Also hee saith doubt not but that Iesus Christ as concerning the nature of his manhood is there from whence hee shall come remember well beleeve the profession of a Christian man Aug. Ep. 57 that he rose from the dead and ascended into Heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God his Father and from that place and none other not from the altars shall hee come to judge the quick and and the dead and he shall come as the Angell said as he was seen to goe up into heaven that is to say in the same form and substance unto which hee gave immortality but changed not nature after this form meaning his humane nature wee may not think that it is every where And in the same Epistle he saith take away frō the bodyes the limitation of places and they shal be no where and because they are no where they shall not be at all Vigilius saith Vigil contra Vryche lib. 4 If the word the flesh be both of one nature seeing that the word is every where why then is not the flesh also euery where for when it was on earth then verely it was not in heaven And now when it is in heaven it is not surely in earth and it is so certaine that it is not on earth that as concerning the same wee looke for him from heaven whom as concerning the word wee beleeve to be with us in earth These few testimonies I have produced to shew that in the maine differences of our Religion betwixt the Pap●sts and us we have proofs not onely from the Scriptures and authentick Fathers but also frō the confession of the Popish writers themselves and that for one thousand yeares since the Ascention of our Lord. And for these points I have related I could produce as many more but I hasten to be breefe In the next place I will shew the Fathers Iudgment concerning our Iustification by the free grace of God That we are justified freely by tho grace of God apprehended by Faith is a Doctrine taught by the Apostles testified by the ancient Fathers And now this Doctrine was opposed by the Pelagians Anno 420. against which Augustine wrote snndry large volumes And twelue yeares after his death Comentary on the Proverbs of Salomen wrote Salomus Bishop of Viennen who used these words No man is chosen to Salvavation of God for any foreseene goodnes hee did see in him nor any man is chosen of God for his good works but onely by his grace and mercy and of his meere love See of him Sidonius in an Epistle on Salloman lib. 7. and Providentia Prosper his Cronicle And the yeare following there was a councell houlden in the City Arragon against the Pelagians which denied this doctrine and maintained freewill and it was condemned in this Synode Venerable Beda departed this life when he was 72. Anno 734. yeares ould in his time he wrote much And on the 21. Psalm hee affirmeth Wee are justified by the grace of God and not by works He dissalowed Images praying to Saints He translated the Gospell of S. Iohn into English This Doctrine was maintained by sundry other Fathers Anno 776. as Falcanus a man of great learning Anno 780. the Patriarcke of Aquilla and Haymo Anno 850. At a Councell houlden at Ments against Godsaeldius Anno 848. a Priest of Belgica where he was charged by the Bishop of that place Rabinus to hould Erroneous doctrine in that hee affirmed That no man is chosen of God for any foreseene goodnes hee saw in man but wee are saved freely by the grace of God Which doctrine hee did maintaine very learnedly there did dispute against him fowr and because they could not pervert him for to give over they did banish him See the Counsell of Anelaus Apetheajedict frodurdes lib. 3. cap. 13. And it doth appeare this Doctrine was not yet established For there was a Counsell houlden at Valence in France Anno 855. concerning this Doctrine Which certaine Scottishmen did defend this Doctrine in the said Counsell the whith Godsaldun had defended before and was banished Yet wee find not there was any proceeding against them neither did they conclude any thing there against this Doctrine but there they decreed that none should be

Countrey to mee to celebrate sacrifices that are not pleasing to mee Who incited you O Israelies to erect Images to the god Moloch and to the starre of Remphan during the time you were in the desarts A●●● 5. where I fed you with heavenly Manna Your Feastes are odious to mee your Holocausts Oblations and Sacrifices for safetie I will reject your Offerings displease mee By what meanes therefore must wee present our selves before God Must it bee by oblations of Heifers of a yeere old Doth God take pleasure in the great number of sheepe sacrificed to him or in the abundance of consecrated oyles Shall I offer unto him saith the Prophet the first born for remission of sinnes Our good God herein clearely expresseth what he would have us to follow which is equity to love mercie Psal 51. to humble themselves before him with a contrite heart Obedience is better then sacrifice or the fat of sacrificed sheepe What mooved God to refuse the Sacraments and Sacrifices by himselfe ordayned but onely the abuses and corruptions the Israelites had committed understanding too carnally the signes ceremonies therein concurring to drawe them onely to true feare and obedience For instead of comprehending what was figured in the signes and corporall sacrifices they relyed on the flesh of immolated beasts whereas they should have circumcized the prepuce of their hearts they depended meerely in carnall circumcision and in the meane while strayed from the true adoration of God in repairing to the Creatures as to the Starres the Queene of Heaven and to other strange gods offering Incense to them building of Temples instituting of Priests Chaplaines and Sacrificers making Oblations and celebrating sacrifices to them And then further to heape up all corruptions they offered sacrifice with the bloud of Innocents offering and causing them to passe thorow the Purgatory fire in the valley of Tophet For the abuses also committed in the holy Sacrifices sacred signes and Oblations constituted for God it was said to the people of Israel by Prophets 4 Esdras 7 that God would have no more of their Feasts of their New Moones nor of their celebrated sacrifices by bloudy and idolatrous people CHAP. IV. Corruptions punished AFter that the inscrutable Wisedome of God knew the obstinacie and infidelity of the Israelitish people which persevered still in committing Idolatrie by corrupting the sacred signes sacraments sacrifices and in stead of acknowledging Gods infinite goodnesse that had freed them from the tyranny of Pharaoh and fedde them in the Desart who had brought them into a promised fertile Land and had so many times assisted them in the warres against their neighbours the Canaanites Moabites Madianites Philistines Ammonites Syrians Sydomans and other envious people and enemies This rude and ingratefull people continued still in their Idolatry instructed by their Priests sacrificers Princes Kings without returning to the true adoration of one onely God For this cause after great mercies shewed and long expectation of a Iust and rigorous Iudge who by all courses of correction was desirous to reduce his people by divine particular inflictions which was by excited wars by captivities servitudes by divisions of the Kingdom distributed between Roboam and Ieroboam successours to Salomon who fell to extreme Idolatry by intestine and civill warres growing betweene the same people divided in themselves and by other usuall scourges to chastize those whom God meant to favour for the reducing of them under his feare and obedience At last this people beeing too much obdurate and inveterated in their Idolatries were brought into miserable servitude under the Tyranny of the unbeleeving Assyrians 4. Kings 15.24 the Idolatrous Babylonians and their Kingdomes wholly extirpated But some pretty while after when the same people by the speciall mercy of God were delivered out of the hands of these infidell Tyrants restored to their liberty and Countrey of promise they againe fell from God more then before under the government of their sacrificers high Priests which confounded the Spirituall and Temporall together so farre as to invest themselves with the Royall Scepter and Diadem Then came in the Heresies of the Pharisees the Sadducees Ioseph lib. 13 cap. 16. de Aut. Iud. the Esseans Galileans Masbutheans Hermerobaptists and Samaritanes corrupted through the diversity of strange Nations having subdued and inhabited the Countrey of Samaria next to Iudea For the Babylonians worshipped Succobenoth for their god The Cutheans of Persia had for their god Ioseph lib. de Antiq. Iud. Nergal or Nergel The Hamathensians called upon their god Asima The Ananoys worshipped Nebahaze Thartace The Sepharvamensians held for their gods Adramelech and Anamelech to which gods they sacrificed their children causing them to passe through the fire Wherefore when all kind of Idolatry was thus spred among the Israelites when the sacrifices were absolutely corrupted the sacrificers became mercenary avaricious tyrants Idolatrous The people made tributary to the Tyrants of Rome the Countrey of Iudea reduced to a Province Ioseph lib 15 cap. 3. next to that of Syria under the subjection power of the Romanes as also the Order and Law of electing high Priests adulterated and their dignity quite bastardized Ioseph lib. 8 cap. 8. so as without any respect made of the race Leviticall the sacrificers were constituted by the Consuls and Deputies of Rome at their pleasure Entros 1. cap. 12. and whereas before they were permanent during life they now became Annuall When the Royall Scepter was alienated from the Progenie of Iudea their Kingdome wholly subverted Gen. 49. as before was prophecied the incomprehensible power of God was revealed by his Sonne begotten before all ages who humbled himselfe to take upon him humane flesh in the wombe of the Virgin to redeeme his people and to restore them to grace and favour with God CHAP. V. The Ceremoniall Law accomplished by Jesus Christ NOw Comparison between Adam and Iesus Christ as in Adam through his prevarication and sinne in abusing the sacred signes committed to his guard and custodie as the whole masse of humane flesh was tainted with the leaven of sinne so by the second Adam Iesus Christ wee were againe by grace purged from all our offences To our first and generall Father Adam was given the sacred signe for an exercise of obedience and other sacred signes to his successors Sacrifices and Sacraments instituted by God the Tree of Life the Fruits of the knowledge of Good and Ill the Rainbowe Circumcision the unspotted Lambe the unleavened bread the Cloude the Pillar of Fire the Red sea divided Heavenly Manna Water out of the Rocke the Oblations and Holocausts of beasts for sacrifice the Arke of Covenant the Brazen Serpent the Temple edified in the holy Citie All which sacred signes sacrifices and Sacraments were figures of that which was accomplished in Iesus Christ For first he was the true Tree of Life Iesus Christ the