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Sacriledge arraigned and condemned by Saint Paul, Rom. II, 22 prosecuted by Isaac Basire ; published first in the year 1646 by special command of His Late Majesty of glorious memory.
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Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676.
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more dangerous than can be a Papist's material Sword whilest under Command because this can only wound the body but that t'other Sword a poysoned Weapon may kill the Soul it self Those that know me know I am no friend to Popery I was bred and born in a Religion opposite unto it I thank God for it and in this Religion as it is established and professed in the Church of England for which 25 years at home and 15 years abroad I have both done and suffered my share I hope and my trust in God is that I shall live and die I do hate real Popery as much as any I mean what Doctrine is by that Church Canonized as de fide contrary to the old Catholick Faith for the first five hundred years after Christ But I must needs confess I cannot without just indignation think of the deep hypocrisie of the men of our Generation that under the odious false imputation of Popery spit at the face of all sound and venerable Antiquity yea and that under pretence of Zeal against Popery maintain and do the same things that the hottest Papists do and that in such points as of all others for destructiveness are the very Gunpowder to blow up Church and State 10. But you see 't is just so as we told you rather than two such old Acquaintances as Sacriledge and Rebellion should part opposites in shew will shake hands indeed and as the Zodiack that in some places seems further distant they 'l cross the line and meet at both ends when standing the Terms as now they do Papists and we that to some pore-blind Brains may seem nearer yet like Parallel-lines can never meet but must still keep out Aequal-distance And this discourse may suffice to make up the full Description of the sin of Sacriledge according to the Apostle's own method considering it first absolutely in its own Nature next comparatively by way of parallel with the sins of Adultery and Idolatry we might have added and of Theft too in the fore-going Verse all which sins of Theft Adultery and Idolatry remaining sins under the Gospel as much as under the Law it must needs follow Vi Inductionis that this Text and Indictment in it concerns us Christians as much as it did the Jews Sacriledge and those other sins being res ejusdem generis as Calvin hath plainly told you before sins of the same kind Pass we now from the Description to the Distribution of the Sin of Sacriledge in its full extent according to the several parts and degrees thereof CHAP. III. The Distribution of Sacriledge 1. ANd they are just as many as there be subjects capable of holiness inherent or relative all which at the most the Schoole reduces to these five 1. Times 2. Places 3. Persons 4. Actions And 5. Things which may be said to be holy as being set apart and belonging unto God in a more peculiar and appropriate manner and therefore to be used cum discrimine that is with a choice and singular respect from other common things of the same kind If otherwise used then they are really prophaned And that they may be so abused 〈◊〉 facto our owne woful Experience in all these particulars saves me a labour oâ—â— Eyes and Ears are passionate Witnesses oâ— a suddain stupendious National Confusioâ— of all that is called Divine and but thaâ— this sad Truth will from us descend to oâ—â— Posterity sealed up with the constancy oâ— our sufferings for it after Ages might mistrust our Report As the good old Father so may we â—oâ— truly cry out Bone Deus in quae nos tempora reservasti We live to see generally (g) Yet in the most cruel Wars of the most barbarous Nations Gothes c. The Temples and the Priests were by the Law of Nations always held Sacred and therefore secured from the general violence St. Augustine l. 1. de civit Dei See at large divers memorable examples of Religious Civility in this kind in Grotius de Jure Belli l. 3. cap. 6. Sect. 6. 7. first God's own Feasts unhallowed God's Houses demolished God's Servants degraded God's Service disgraced God's Portion invaded And to plain the Highway to this horrid Chaos Sacred Majesty it self violated for by all the Laws of Nations Divine and Humane the Persons of Kings as well as their Offices were ever held sacred No doubt all this through God's just anger against this Nation in general because of their former unthankefulness for and wilful Abuse of all those eminent Blessings so in particular because too too many of our side have been and are still too grosly guilty of a manifold prophanation and visible abuse of all those sacred Favours even among our selves unto this day 2. To point at and if it may be to cut of some of the heads of this Hydra this â—any-headed Monster of sins Sacriledge is a sin of a large extent for to instance in personal Sacriledge as I may tearm it First of all every Christian by solemn Dedication at his Baptisme is or should be morally holy suo gradu not in Korah's (g) Num. 6.3 rebellious sense holy all alike in Grace and Office and all hand over head but in the Apostle's sober sense secundùm mensuram (h) Rom. 12.3 holy in all manner of (i) 2 Pet. 3.11 conversation else (l) Quaelibet species luxuriae secundùm quod violat aliquid pertinens ad cultum Dei est Sacrilegium Aquin. 22 ae q. 154. 10. o. Luxury is and any wilful sin committed by a Christian may be in a large sense tearmed Sacriledge because every Christian he or she that in this or any other sin abuses his body directly prophanes a Temple of the Holy Ghost and if any man (m) 1 Cor. 3.17 Ambr. ad virginem lapsam defile the Temple of God material or moral nay this of the two may in some respects appear the greater sin him will God destroy look to it Wantons and Epicures fear and amend for 't is no less than spiritual Sacriledge this and a perfidious violation of your great Vow in Baptisme whereby you have really dedicated your selves Body and Soule unto God in the face of Holy Church that may one day bear witness pro or con for or against you as you stand to or fall away from your Vow and by it condemn you at Dooms-day 3. Thus every Christian is a sacred person and ought thus far to reverence himself as not by committing acts contrary to or unworthy of his Consecrated condition to unhallow himself Meer Pagans out of a natural self-respect to a reasonable Nature and no more could give this excellent Reason why men ought neither in company nor alone to commit any Turpitude because of all others next to God every man ought to reverence himself so the (n) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carm. 11. 12. Pythag. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 possim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iscr ad
se egli conoscerebbe c. That is to make a prophane Trial or assay whether God could know their fraud or knowing it would or could punish it Peccata aggregata For instance Idolaters as bad as they are yet they will suffer Bishops and so far the Papists are right but the late Patrons of Sacriledge in flat opposition to Christ and his Apostles ever begin their work with the bloody Persecution of God's chief Servants the Bisheps and Pastors of Christ's Flock because they are and ever were the men down from the Apostle's days intrusted by the Catholick Church as Feoffees and Guardians of the sacred Patrimony 'T is the Devil's stale Stratagem this still to begin at the (z) Matth. 26.31 Shepheards that the Sheep may the easier be scattered The Devil in this dealing with the Church as Aelian reports Anytus one of the thirty Tyrants to have done with Athens The Persecutor intending usurpation upon the State of Athens and finding good honest Socrates to stand in his way as being able to confute his Conclusions never left till first by under-hand traducing and then by open false Accusation he through the hands of the Hair-brained multitude forced the good man to drink off the Cup of Hemlock Thus Socrates once voted out of the way Anytus soon after became the Head-Master of the Athenian Crew State and all 8. Add to all this that some Idolaters may be Loyal but as for Sacriledge you may observe that the most usual Medium to compass it is Rebellion and Treason still As Anytus dealt with Socrates so they will deal still with the Prince if he prove a Constantine to God and his own Soul and therefore refuse his consent because it is not in his own power for the King's (a) Prov. 21.1 heart is and should he still in the hand of the Lord as I may say under God's own Lock and Key but then rather than miss of their sacrilegious ends they will burst or force open the Wards the more need hath He then again of all good Subjects Prayers Lord (b) Psal 51.12 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SPIRITU PRINCIPIS fulcito velut manibus stablish him with thy free spirit For I know not how but still these two Sacriledge and Rebellion do usually meet in eodem subjecto witness Judas as a sacrilegious Thief so a base Traytor set down therefore in the old Forms of the (c) Quisquis autem hujus meae munificentiae Testamentum quovis deinceps tempore aliquâ occasione cujus libet etiam dignitatis vel professionis vel gradus pervertere vel in irritum deducere tentaverit sciat se cum proditore Juda aeternâ confusione edacibus ineffabilium tormentorum flammis periturum K. Ina Anno Dom. 725. Sir Henry Spelman Concil tom 1. passim Curses against Sacriledge as the fittest precedent to curse by and I would be very loath to have my part with Judas where he is now for all the Church-Lands in Christendom And so Charles Martell of France another arrand Traytor against his Leige Lord upon pretence of meer necessity to pay his Army for the Holy War against the Turk did under the Title of borrowing seize upon the Church Revenues with promise as some (d) So they say that above a hundred years ago a King of this Land did pretend and promise too to restore c. but once gone aye gone for that good work is to do yet and who knows but this is it we all smart for now The Parallels are strange for Time Place and Person but that we keep within the Rule Parcere Personis c. others of Restitution for lack of which Charles Martell is in good History branded with the Imputation of being the first Founder of Sacriledge in Christendom and for it reported also by the †Du Tillet Fauchet and other French Historians Historians of those times to be damned Body and Soul more than in a bare Vision Fides penes Authores esto But what need we cross over-Seas for examples of this kind since to our woe he that runs may in Capitals read this sad Truth in the Rubrick of this Island where those that were deepest in the Sacriledge were deepest in the Rebellion 9. Let none therefore think that this Discourse doth nothing at all concern the men of our Generation for no doubt it doth full as much as it did those in St. Paul's days for is not this the very Plea of our Zelots now adays that to avoid Idolatry they must needs do as they do commit Sacriledge They abhor Popery forsooth and the Church-lands and Revenues smell rank of that Weed and yet this only in the Clergie's hands therefore they must be converted into their own Lay-hands there to be sweetned yea sanctified though their hands be full of blood But as the Apostle so may we justly bespeak these Religious men Thou that abhorrest Popery wilt thou commit Sacriledge a sin for the Original of it no less Popish than the other for search and examine who first began the sacrilegious Invention of Appropriations did not the Pope to gratifie the Monky so that one of your own (e) Camden Historians bears Record that in this one Country alone of 9284 Parishes the Pope hath Impropriated no less than 3845 that is almost t 'one half and you may well suppose for 't is true that the fattest Benefices might be the first that went to the Pot yet these sound Protestants thus directly treading in the Pope's sacrilegious steps would make you and all the blind World believe they do it all this while to avoid the Pope's Company But indeed to say truth the Pope was in comparison but a Novice in the gainful Trade of Sacriledge Antichrist as he is in their own opinion he never as these had either the wit to think of or the boldness then to strike at Root and Branch from the higest Prelate to the meanest Chorister But in this case the Servant may not be greater than his Master the Priest may not fare better than the King for do not the self same men too Rebel against the King for mark it again still Sacriledge and Rebellion are Twins still to prevent Popery Yea and blame the King very much if when they themselves force him to it he do presume to use a Sword of his own if it chance to be found in a Popish hand whilest themselves good men are blameless though for Rebellion against their own Protestant-King point blank to the Doctrine of Christ * Lex nova non se vindi ultore gladio Tertul. and the constant practice of the old Catholick Church for the compass of almost a thousand years they out of a zeal against Popery for Rebellion (f) Bucha nan Junius Brutus compared with Bellarm. Suarez c. use all the chief Popish spiritual Swords I am able to make good the charge the Popish Arguments I mean Swords so much the