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A49810	A mite into the treasury being a word to artists, especially to heptatechnists, the professors of the seven liberal arts ... shewing what we own herein, being according to God and Godliness, and of God and what we deny, proceeding from and favouring of those deceitful lips which seduced man from his primitive station, a state of blessedness / [by] Thomas Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1680 (1680)	Wing L726; ESTC R30492	34,955	52

we are led as by the Hand to the Monarch of Rome who hath long possessed the Kingdom of the Latines and Rome the Seat of the Latin Kingdom his Church is called the Latin Church his Letanies Masses Prayers Exorcisms Indulgences in a word his whole Service is in Latin set up in the Year 666. by Pope Vitalian Latin containing the Number of the Name of the Beast being also his Language yea and 't is judged unlawful to perform the same in any other Language 'T was the definitive Sentence of the Council of Trent If any shall say that the Mass ought to be Celebrated in the Vulgar Tongue let him be Accursed So doubtless Lattin and Roman is the Numeral Name of the Beast Object No Pope was called Latin and but one was called Roman How then can the Pope be intimated thereby Answ John speakes not so much of a Personal as of a National Name for he will have the Numeral Name to be the Character whereby it might be known where Antichrist should have his Rise and his principal Reign to wit in Italy at Rome Italy of Old was called Latinum the Inhabitants were called Latins from their first King Latin as 't is said being also the National Name and how that Church rings with the Tearm Roman who is ignorant As Roman Faith Roman Religion Roman Catholick Roman Church and that out of the same there is no Salvation and that Rome is the Mother Queen Lady and Mistriss of all Church and that all ought to return to her Lap. CAP. VII Of GEOMETRY GEometry is defined to be the Art or Science of measuring the Earth c. which in Concerns among Men is Useful and Serviceable in its place The Invention hereof Strabo Herodotus and Proclus ascribes to the Aegyptians on this occasion The River Nilus now and then by its over-flowing Confounded and Disordered their Land-marks upon this the Aegyptians found out the Use and Benefit of Geometry to the end that every one might be settled in the possession of proper and respective Rights Yet Josephus in the first Book of his Antiquities seems to ascribe the Invention thereof to the Hebrews Pol. Virg. lib. 1. cap. 18. A Natural Man through search may apprehend much of the Feats and Terms of this Art their Points Physical Optick and Mathematick their Lines Parralels Diameter Perimeter Triangle Rectangulous Obliquangulous Obtusangulous Acutangulous Multangulous their Rhombus Rhomboides Cone Cylinder Parallelogram Quadrat Quadrant Diagram Astrolabe c. Yet that hereby or by any other natural Acquisition or Attainment he can find out the knowledge of the Almighty or open the Seals of the Book that I deny For the things of the Spirit of God are Spiritually Discerned and such as live in the Spirit they come to be honoured with that Divine Understanding as to set every thing in its proper place CAP. VIII Astronomy Astrology THe Living God saith the Paraphrast on the Samaritan Pentatench formed Adam and filled him with the Spirit of Wisdom and Knowledge that from him as from Fountain useful Knowledge and Arts might flow unto his Prosterity For besides the secret Virtues of Living Creatures of Plants of Stones of Metals and Minerals he perfectly knew the Influences of Supernatural Bodies Theoph. Gale That Adam as he was the Workmanship of God was wise in the Book of the Creation 't is an undoubted Truth So many of the Holy Men of God as Moses David Solomon Job Daniel c. who grew up in that Image in which Adam was Created they grew up in the Wisdom of God became wise in the Book of Life and in the Book of the Creation yet I read not that they were called Astrologers or were stained with their Fooleries Dotages Imaginations Uncertainties Conjectures but were Witnesses in their respective Generations against such and that Spirit by the which they were acted what they saw of the Book of the Creation 't was in and through the Wisdom of God revealed in them and that we own The Sons of Seth who was the Son of the first Man Adam as Josephus saith in the first Book of his Antiquities understood the Doctrine of Heavenly Things who to the end that what they knew and apprehended might not be lost nor swallowed up in the Sea of Oblivion forasmuch as Adam had foretold a future Destruction of all things made two Pillars the one of Brick the other of Stone that if the Brick Pillar should be destroyed by the Rain Water or Flood the Stone Pillar remaining might shew the Writing fresh and entire to the Nations On these two Pillars saith Josephus they graved those things which appertained to the Observation of the Stars Pol. Virg. lib. 1. cap. 17. Josephus in his first Book of Antiquities clearly demonstrates that Abraham first taught Astrology unto the Aegyptians when he went down into Aegypt and that the Caldeans and Greeks received the same from the Aegyptians Pol. lib. 1. cap. 17. To this I say Abraham was perfect in his Generation the Father of the Faithful and the sum of his Doctrine unto his Children was That they might walk in the Way of the Lord and observe his Statutes and being wise in the Wisdom of the Lord. I do not deny but that he might take occasion among the Aegyptians to speak of the Wisdom and Power of the Lord in producing the wonderful Fabrick of the Creation of the Sun Moon Stars and their Influence over and upon Inferior Bodies all which bespeak the unutterable Power and Wisdom of the great Former To which Testimony of Abraham the Aegyptians adding the corrupt Ingredients of their own Inventions and Imaginations Fooleries and Mis apprehensions might patch up their Art of Astrology Corruptio optimi fit pessima Best things being Corrupted become Worst Job knew that his Redeemer Lived and in the Wisdom of his Redeemer he saw much into the Creation he spoke of Thunder of Vapours of Clouds of Rain of Snow of Hail of the Sea of Fountains of Metals as Gold Silver Iron Brass of Stones of Precious Stones of Subterraneo●s Fire of Stars of Living Creatures of Earth-Quakes of A●cturus Orion and the Pleides of the Sun of the Heavens c. Now from the Writings of Moses and of other Holy Men of God the Heathen desirous of Knowledge adding their Inventions and Imaginations thereto patcht up their Ethicks Physicks and Metaphysicks from the same Sourse or Spring came in the Art of Astronomy and Astrology which some will have to be one and the same others distinguish them calling him an Astronomer who Reasons or Treats of the motion of the Stars him an Astrologer who from the Course or Conjunction of the Stars take upon them to foretel what shall betide Men States Persons People c. The Spirit of the Lord in which the holy Men of God lived unto the Lord and saw much into the Creation being turned from by the Heathen they became Drunk with strange Conceits Inventions Whimsies Imaginations Divers

of Philosophy brought in the Method of School Divinity but where Wisdom from below prevails there is a sound a talk of Divinity but 't is cast out of the Region of their Hearts CAP. X. Of School-Titles as Doctor Batchelor of Arts Master of Arts Batchelor of Divinity Doctor of Divinity c. IN the Primitive Times Gospel Ministers were Called Qualified and Impowered of and by the Lord to fulfill the Charge committed to them they laboured together to beget others into the Life of Righteousness to erect a Spiritual Building a Heavenly Structure on the Rock of Ages they affected not Titles nor itched after the same to gain Reputation of the Children of this World they had Names suitable to the Work and Office they were concerned in as Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastors Teachers and laboured together for the Perfecting of the Saints Batchelors of Arts Master of Arts were not heard of among them Heathen Learning Arts the Wisdom of this World they bore lively Testimony against But the Divine Call being lost through the ingrest of the Apostacy then they entertained Heathen Learning and Heathen Arts to qualifie them for the Work of the Ministry then arose an Insatiable itch after Titles to gain Honour Reputation and Reverence among such as are under the Delusion of Antichrist Divers Degrees and Titles are conferred according to their standing Batchelor of Art in such a time Master of Arts in such a time c. When University Students have got a Degree in the Arts then they have a Gown and a Cap for the sign of it and the Name Batchelor of Arts in Latin Bacca●…urius which implies as much as Laurel Berries Why so The Pagan Romans accounted Heathen Apollo their Godd of Wisdom and they dedicated the Laurel-Tree to him and such as were judged deserving they became Laureati that is were Crowned with or did wear Garands of Laurel in token of Honour and Glory Po●… tell us much of these things Now the Romans through Consta●… the great received Christianity by the Lump and not knowing 〈◊〉 dying with Christ that his Life might be manifest in their mortal Bodies they continued much of their old Stuff and other Nations received the same from them as now in our Universities Students having got a taste of the Berries of the Laurel-Tree dedicated to the Heathen Godd of Wisdom Apollo as I may say that is having attained to such a Degree in the Knowledge of Natural Arts or such a Standing without much Proficiency then they have a Gown and a Cap to distinguish them and the Title of Batchelor of Arts derived as you see from the Heathen and this Title this Gown and Cap are as Signs and Liveries of that whereof they by their Natural Education are made Masters and such as are attained to such or such a Degree in Scotland are called Laureati Laureat from the Laurel-Tree Thus Heathenism crept in is continued Object The Title of Doctor was in the Apostles Days Answ True but this and other Titles there were Names of Office relating to the Work they were concern'd in and called of the Lord unto this might more properly be translated Teacher so a Name of Office Wickliff touching this thing said 'A Name of Office differs much from the Name of a School-Degree brought in by the Heathen ' He ascribes these School-Degrees to the Heathen Wickliff in Serm. Domini in Monte. Zuinglius on Mat. 23. said ' Thou hears here that the Titles of Masters and Doctors are not of God because Christ forbids this thing ' Wilson in his Christian-Dictionary saith ' Ambitious seeking after Titles ought to be eschewed ' John Wickliff Condemned at Constance who Suffered as a Martyr for his Testimony against the Apostatized Roman Church his Testimony was ' That Graduations and Doctorships in Universities and Colledges then in use conduced nothing to the Church of Christ ' So 't is apparant that Protestants yea such as were Pillars of the Protestant Religion saw an Evil in Heathenism and the Ambitious Titles thereof Object These spoke against the Fooleries and Abuses in Popist Vniversities True it is and their Fooleries and Abuses remain Fooleries and Abuses where-ever they are Practised the self-same Outward and Antichristian Forms Fashions and Follies remain in Universities as in the Darkest of Popery even unto the Hoods Caps Scarlet Robes Doctoral Rings Gloves their Doctoral Dinner and Musick Dell. CAP. XI Of the Rise of Distinct Habits used by the Clergy and by Students in the Universities IN the first Priesthood Aaron and his Sons had Garments assigned them in which they were to execute their Office and the denyal thereof in that Typical Dispensation had been a Transgression those their Garments were a Shadow of some-what to come Now Christ the End of the first Priesthood of its Appurtenances of the Law he put an End to the distinct Aaronical Robes as to the rest of the Typical and Transient Shadows of that Ministration When Christ sent out his Disciples Apostles he taught them not to have recourse to Aaron's Robes nor any Imitation thereof nor that their Garments should be of one Colour their Eye was heaven ward for the Garment of Salvation white Linnen What 's that The Righteousness of Saints and in this white Linnen Righteousness of Saints the Evangelical Royal Priestood was and is clothed without respect to Distinct Habits or to any but what is Common Ordinary Decent and Plain and who Minister without this white Linnen Righteousness of Saints and place Religion in Distinct Robes and Colours without such are false Witnesses made by the Will of Man Run Unsent Polidor Virgil seconds this Testimony saying ' In the Beginning of the Christian Religion Ministers being about their holy Performance unto the Lord put nothing on but as at other times They endeavoured rather to clothe themselves inwardly with the Virtues of the Mind and to put off the Vices of the Body then to put on new Garments ' Pol. Virg. Lib. 6. Cap. 12. And while the woman was clothed with the Sun while the Moon was under her Feet while the Christian Church was a Virgin to Christ and while her Ministers were Stars in Heaven the Care and Regard was for the Robe of Righteousness no Jangling about Robes without but the living Concern was to beget many to the Lord to know Establishment in the Word of his Grace Of such Ministers 't is truly said Even as the Heart hath not a Moments Rest But Night and Day moves in our panting Breast That by his Breathing it may still impart The lively Spirits about to every Part. So those to whom God doth his Flock Betake Ought always Study always Work and Wake To Breathe by Doctrine and good Conversation The quickning Spirit into their Congregation Now when this white Linnen Righteousness of Saints Sun's Clothing the inward Ornament and Garment of the Evangelical Ministry Pastors Teachers Prophets Deacons Elders Bishops through the steaming in of Apostatical Smoke Ignorance

Heaven lib. 2. De Somne Scrip. Noviss Pol. Ecclesiastical Histories mention many Testimonies which have dropped from the Mouthes of Men Eminent in their Day against dead formal Singing used in Churches professing Christianity Cassiodor a Learned Man of Ravenna about the Year 510. saith That the Fathers made no great account of Singing in Churches and that most of them knew nothing thereof for in the days of Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria about the Year 348. Flavian and Theodor first of all in the East brought in the Rite or Custom of Singing at Antioch Histor Tripart lib. 5. Nov. Pol. Augustin saith That it was received into the Church of Millain when Ambrose was Bishop thereof about the Year 373. Nov. Pol. Anastatius shuning all Vanities forbad the Custom of Singing in the Church Nov. Pol. CAP. V. Of the Rise of Musical Instruments in the Churches Professing Christianity THe House of Israel the outward Jew Praised the Lord on divers kinds of Instruments as Harps Psalteries Timbrels Cornets Cimbals Trumpets Organs Instruments of ten Strings 1 Chron. 15. 1 Chron. 25. And these saith Thomas Aquinas the great School-man figured forth something to come And what was that Even Jesus Christ say I the End Sum Substance of all the Jewist Types Shadows and Figures the Spiritual Israelite the Inward Jew the Gospel Church made up of Living Stones in and through Christ streamed out a Melody unto the Lord sweeter then all visible Musical Instruments Ephes 5.18 19. Col. 3.16 The Evangelical Church come to Christ whose Meat and Drink it was to do his Fathers Will in whom alone he was well pleased a bundle of Myrthe she was come to the end of the Jewish Worship of all its Appurtenances Musical Instruments used in the outward Jewish Church John saw as it were a Sea of Glass mingled with Fire and them that had gotten the Victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his Mark and over the Number of his Name stand on the Sea of Glass having the Harps of God Rev. 15.2 What are these Harps Not Jewish Harps not Visible Harps not made with Hands but Harps of God such as he gives to the Jew inward peculiar to the Evangelical Dispensation the End and Substance of the outward Jewish Harps And while the Primitive Church remained a Virgin in Christ knit and joyned to him through the pure Ligament of Heaven-bred Faith making Melody in Heart to the Lord there was no use of the Typical Jewish Musical Instruments in the Christian Church but the Star being fallen from Heaven to Earth Smoke arisen which darkned Sun and Air which stained the Beauty of the Primitive Church the Sum Substance the Heavenly Harp as I may say being lost within in and through the Smoke of the Pit then they turned to Musical Instruments without as Organs Dulcimers Cornets Sackbuts used in Cathedral Churches so called as in others And this is the ground of Musical Instruments the Type in the Churches professing Christianity even that which led them from Christ the Life the Substance I might produce a Cloud of Witnesses against the using of Musick in Churches professing Christianity Instruments of Musick were not heard of in the Latin Church till the days of Pope Vitalian who about the Year 660. invented and brought the Use of Organs into the Church of whom ●…ap Mant. Signius adjunxit molli conflata Metallo Organa quae festis resonant ad sacra diebus Vitalian the Organ he invented The which for use in Churches he intented Here is the Author of Organs in Churches Professing Christianity not Christ not the Apostles but the Pope Vitalian Balani Angliae Episcopus ●…ospin Leigh's Body of Divinity Ames Aquinus Rivet Zanchaeus Zepperus Altingius dislike the use of Organs and such like Musick in the Church Leigh's Body of Divinity Rivet speaking of the Organ saith ' It is much better to abstain therefrom then to introduce or continue the same because there is more Danger therein than Edification ' ' The use of Musical Instruments saith Dr Taylor are apt to turn Religion into Air and Fancies ' and to take off some of its Simplicity and are not so fitted for Edification ' The Apostles saith Hospinian had not the use of Organs or of other Musical Instruments in their Churches ' ' Organ-Musick saith one seems rather to become Children than the Church ' Hosp Marianus Scotus saith in his Chronicle ' That about the Year 757. the Organ first came into France being sent out of Greece from Constantine the Emperor unto King Pipin ' Hosp Lactantius sharply blames the Gentiles for placing the Worship of God in those things which the Foolishness of Men highly esteem lib. 2. Institut Hosp Erasmus speakes Learnedly and Gravely against the use of Organs in Churches saying ' People flock thereto as to a Theater or Stage that their Ears may be Tickled or Delighted What saith he at this day is more Burdensom than our Musick imitating the Notes of many Birds It were therefore better that these Organs should be taken away ' In Annot. ad 1 Cor. cap. 14. Hosp At the Princely Banquets of the Heathen they sung the Praises of their Godds and Heros upon the Harp Pol. lib. 1. cap. 14. From this Custom and Example 't is grown Customany yea among such as profess the honourable Name of Christ to have Musick at Feasts Banquets Dinners notwithstanding the Prohibition of the Prophet Learn not the way of the Heathen and of the Apostle Be not conformed to this World After the Apostles days through the Prevailing and Encroachment of Apostatical Delusion Singing in Spirit the Ingrafted Word the Harp of God being lost they not only entertained Formal Singing and Jewish Musical Instruments into the Church but also the Heathen Liberal Art Musick Vocal Instrumental into Schools a part whereof is Heathen Poetry which to the Depraving Spoyling and Corrupting of Christian Youth is yet continued and contended for and this we deny and bear our Testimony That Heathenism as Lascivious Poets Comedies Tragedies Frivolous Fables Spoyling Phylosophy are as the Dead Sea in which none can Live unto God and in the very Mid-night of Apostacy the Lord hath had his Witnesses against the teaching thereof in Christian Schools others have not been silent A certain Lacedemonian being asked What he thought of the Poet Tyrreus He answered He was apt to Deprave Corrupt the Minds of Young Men. Plutarch Some put Amethyst in their Cups against Drunkenness much more in the hearing of Poets a right Rule is to be minded lest they infect the Mind Plut. Plin. Eusebius brings in Plate sharply blaming the first Education of Youth as Destructive which was used by the Greeks in reading the feigned Comical and Tragical Inventions of Poets Cap. 49. Page 618. The Heathen Romans having Conquer'd this Nation and Inhabiting in it erected Schools to teach the British Youth and brought in their Lascivious Books Poets Comedies Tragedies which to the Corrupting of Youth