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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68868	A treatise of the foure degenerate sonnes viz. the atheist the magician the idolater· and the Iew. VVherein are handled many profitable questions concerning atheisme, witchcraft, idolatry, and Iudaisme: and sundry places of Scripture, cleared out of the originall tongues. Being the fourth volume, of the Workes of Mr. Ioh. Weemse of Lathocker in Scotland, and Prebend of Dunelm.; Works. Vol. 4	Weemes, John, 1579?-1636.	1636 (1636)	STC 25218; ESTC S119529	289,084	416

they fell from Christianitie to Gentilisme Some fell from Iewish religion to Paganisme as Rabsakeh did whom the Iewes generally holds to have beene an apostate Iew for he could speake the Hebrew language 2 Kin. 18.26 and he names the name Iehovah which the heathen knew not vers 25. and the Iewes used not to rent their clothes when they heard any blaspheme unlesse hee were an Hebrew therefore they rent their clothes when they heard Rabsakeh blaspheme Iosephus de bello Iudaico l. 2. c. 19. 20. Such was the apostacie of the Gergasites who fell from the Iewish profession to the heathen Greeks When the Proselytes entred within the Covenant of God they were circumcised as the rest of the Iewes were and it was the seale of the covenant to them but these apostates who fell away caused to uncircumcise themselves and draw their prepuce which was a signe of renouncing of the Covenant and the Greekes called them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this uncircumcision they called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they uncircumcised themselves in the dayes of Antiochus Epiphanes Celsus lib. 7. cap. 25. Epiphanius li. de ponderibus mensuris for feare they should have beene knowne to be Iewes 1 Mach. 1.16 and the Apostle alludes to this forme 1 Cor. 7.17 Art thou circumcised uncircumcise not thy selfe These apostates the Hebrewes called Meshumadim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Kophar beguickar Negantes fundamentum and they opposed to these Gentiles fundamentales that is the Proselytes converted who held the grounds of the Iewish religion To fall from the Iewish religion to the Samaritan Vide Masium in Ioshuam 5.2 pag. 82. So when they fell from the Iewish religion to the Samaritan Such a one was Symmachus who translated the old Testament into Greke under the Emperor Severus and caused him to uncircumcise himselfe and then was circumcised of new againe which was called Parang denudatio pelliculae and this stood in place of a new circumcision to him These who fell from the Iewish religion to the Samaritans were most of all apostates hated by the Iewes Quia hi miscebant non miscenda because they mixed the true Religion and the false together and they hated them more than any other apostates They would not eate with the Samaritans Ioh. 4. they reckoned bread as if it had beene swines flesh and when the Samaritans blessed they said not Amen to it Eccles 50.26 27. My soule abhorreth two nations and the third is no people These who dwell in the mountaines of Samaria those who dwell amongst the Philistines and the foolish people who dwell in Sechem that is there are two sorts of people whom I abhorre most the people who mixeth the true religion and the false together as the Samaritans and secondly those who are onely Pagans the Samaritan he abhorred most for the Iewes so held the Samaritans that they thought them possessed with a devill as Iohn saith Say we not truth that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devill So when they fell from Iudaisme to Saducisme Iosephus l. 13. antiquitatum cap. 18. such a one was Johannes Hircanus who through hatred became a Saducee and commanded Saducisme to be received through all his bounds So when men fall from Christianitie to Iudaisme To fall from Christianitie to Iudaisme we have a miserable example of it in one Peffercorie who was a Iew borne but afterward became a Christian and was baptized Hee went to the Emperour to procure that all the bookes of the Iewes should be burnt except onely the bible This Iew made great sturres in Germanie especially against one Capnio who was a restorer of the Hebrew language then the story is set downe at length by Sleidan and after that hee had troubled the Church a long time at length he returned to Iudaisme like a dogge to his vomite and was burnt at Hall in Saxonie The Iewes have a saying amongst them That Iudaeo baptizato lupo domestico non est credendum that is we are not to trust a baptized Iew nor a tame Wolfe for he will slip the coller and runne to the hills againe and so it fareth with this miserable Iew. To fall from Christianitie to Turcisme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So when men fall from Christianitie to Turcisme and these were called Mamluhim from Malach emptus vel mancipatus fuit Such are those who were begotten of Christian parents and being bought by the Turkes are circumcised To fall from Christianitie to Paganisme The last are those who fall from Christianity to Paganisme Such a one was Iulian the apostate Those miserable wretches who fell from the Iewish religion to Paganisme as from light to darkenesse were in a miserable condition but the miserable Iewes now are in a worse condition who calls light darkenesse and darkenesse light The fugitive who flees away from the prince to the enemie is not so badde as hee who keepe their strength and stands out against the prince Those miscreants now oppose themselves in all things against Christ SECT 3. Of a threefold error concerning Christ Three sorts of error concerning Christ THere is triplex error circa Christum The first is error temporis the second is error personae and the third is error conditionis The first is error temporis The first is error temporis when they denie that Christ is yet come The Pharisees said to Christ Tell us plainely if thou be the Christ Ioh. 10.24 Iesus answered I told you and you beleeved not The Lord instructed his people sundry wayes by base and sylly creatures as by the Pismire by the Conie by the Locust and by the Spider Prov. 30.25 26 27 28. By the Pismire he teacheth them industrie to teach them industrie to labour Pro. 6. he teaches them to have a care of their houshold and children By the Conies a feeble flocke they have a care to make their holls in the rockes for their safetie and the safetie of their young ones Thirdly he teacheth them to joyne themselves together for the defence of their countrie as the Locust doe who goe out to battell although they have not a head Fourthly hee teacheth them to be wise that they may stand in Princes courts By the example of the Spider which although it be a sillie creature yet it takes hold in Kings Palaces Ioseph learned this lesson when he stood before Pharaoh and Mordecai before Ashuerus So the Lord reproves his people by sillie and base creatures as by the Turtle the Crane and the Iwallow Jer. 8.7 hee objects to them that these poore creatures observed the time of their comming but his people know not the time of their visitation Luke 19.44 Man being in honour became like the beasts that perish Psal 49. yea worse than the beasts Chrysostome hath an excellent saying Pejus est comparari jumento quam esse Iumentum It is worse to be compared