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soul_n	body_n	eternal_a	good_a	3,595	5	3.1999	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20854	The roote of Romish rites and ceremonies shevving that the Church of Rome hath borrowed most part of her ceremonies of the Iewes & ancient pagans, and that from this spring proceeded the Iubile. First written in French by M. Charles Drelincourt, Minister of Gods word in the Reformed Church of Paris; and now translated into English by M.T.; Du jubilé des églises reformées; avec l'examen du jubilé de l'église romaine. English. Selections	Drelincourt, Charles, 1595-1669.; M. T., fl. 1630.	1630 (1630)	STC 7233; ESTC S114699	26,905	36

were permitted to marrie Wherefore the Pagans will rise in iudgment with the Church of Rome and will condemne her of the tyrannie which she excerciseth toward poore maides who beeing rashly cast into a Couent or beeing trained there by force and constraint can neuer goe out againe no more then the fish which is folishly catched in the net It is after the Pagan immitation that the Monkes Discipline themselues and that there are confraternities of Whippers for God hath forbidden his seruants to make incision in theire flesh Lev. 19. 1. King 18. but the Preists of Bahal cut themselues with kniues till the blood came And the Preists of the Goddesse Cybell whipped and lacerated themselues till the blood run downe and after haueing heaped vp Gold and silver which good people gaue them they made good cheere in secret and loosed the bridle to all kinde of filth and dissolutnes whereof reade Apulee in his golden Asse It is out of the same shop that the Preists and Monkes haue learned to shaue themselues and weare crownes against Gods expresse commandement to his people See G. du Choul pag. 299. Levit. 19. Polydor. l. 5 cap. 9. G. du Choul pag. 305. See the Hist of Euseb continued by Rufin l. 12. cap. 26. It is out of the same Schoole that the Church of Rome hath learned to build her Altars to the East and that theire Preists turne themselues that way when they offer theire Sacrifices The goodly custome of carrying God in procession and in a iourney is also deriued of the ancient heathen for the Romans carred in procession theire greate God Jubiter And the Chaldeans caried here and there the fire which they adored for theire God Aboue all I finde it wonderfull that the Pagans haue giuen to theire God Iubiter the surname of Pistor as appeareth by that verse of Ouid. Apulée his Golden Asse lib. 3. Candida Pistori ponitur ara Ioui for nothing could better succeede to Jubiter Pistor then a God of bread The Pagans had also certaine hostes which they called hostias circumforaueas and it seemeth this word was expresly inuented to represent the hosts which the Church of Rome carries from place to place Looke into the writings of the ancient Pagans Lib. 11. and G. du Choul pag. 271. and namely into Apulee in the description of the feasts of theire greate Gods and see the Preists crowned with flowers carrying them in solemne pompe on theire shoulders with vessels of gold and silver the men and womē of what sort and condition soevergoeing in procession the streetes were adorned and strewed with flowers the aire resounded with the wise of the trompets and they sunge the musick before the idoll Breifely they obserued almost all the same ceremonies which are now obserued on the day which they call the feast of God As to this that the Pope Or Corpus Christi day on the day of the most solemne procession makes his God to be carried on a white Hackney while he is proudly carried on the shoulders of the most honourablemen in the citie and as to that also that he makes the same God to be carried amongst his baggage This is found in the booke of the Ceremonies of the Romish church when he takes a iourney with his Cardinals this hath noe example in all antiquitie for there neuer was so wretiched a Pagan that did not render more honour to his God them the Pope yaeldeth to that which he makes shew to acknowledge for his God and Sauiour The Church of Rome worshippeth certaine litle Jmages of waxt which they commonly call the Agnus Dei. The Pope doth consecrate and baptise them This also is found in the same booke and giues them power against haile lightenings and tempestes and that which is most horrible he persuades them that this will doe away theire sines noe lesse them the blood of Christ it selfe This abhominable idollatrie hath his foundation in the ancient paganisme for the greate Pontife did likewise consecrate certaine figures of the lightening of Iubiter The poore Idollaters worshipped theese litle Images and beleeued that there was in them a certaine virtue against lightenings and tempests But it is better to set out this comparison by the words of the Lord of Choul In his Discourse of the Relig. of the anciēt Rom. p. 285. As wee adore marke the words wee adore for theese men are offended when wee accuse them of adoring Images the figure of the litle Lambe of God because it represents Jesus Christ and in like manner the figure of the Doue because it denoteth the holy Ghost iust euen so the Gentils had in singular reuerence the lightening of Iubiter by the which they declared the figure of theire greate God thinking that it guarded them from Tempest and that it had a certaine virtue after it was consecrated by theire greate Pontife And that which the Gentiles did in theire rediculous superstitions wee haue transferred into our Christian Religion causing our litle Agnus Dei and our bells to be consecrated and blessed which by this meanes take a virtue to chase away Tempest and foule wether And iust so the salt and the water by theire benidictions and exorcismes take a force and virtue to driue away deuils Plato l. 24. Plutarc touching the face which appeared in the round of the Moone The ancient Pagans thought that the Soules of all good and verteous persons departed out of the body to a place of repose and felicity that those who were altogether wicked and vngodly were cast headlong into eternall fires and torments But that those who beeing good and honest were neuertheles defiled with remediable sinnes such as at this day they call venial sinnes were purged in a fire and tormented for a time in the aire or in prisons vnder the earth whence they were deliuered after they had by theire owne propper torment expiated theire sinnes De purgato l. 1. c. 11. They are these doting Pagans who haue kindled the fire of the Roman Purgatoire And indeede Cardinal Bellarmine proues that there is a Purgatoire by the testimonie of Plato Cicero and Virgil. Moreouer there are in the Church of Rome famous Doctors Bellar. de purgatorio l. 2. cap. 7. who teach that besides Hell Purgatorie Limbus Patruum and the Limbus of the younge Infants who die without baptisme there is a fift place which is as an odiferous medow and sprinkled with flowers where the Soules reioyce themselues before they enter into Paradis Compare but this with those Elisian feilds taught by Plato and you shall see that one and the same spirit of errour hath inuented both the one and the other fables The ancient Pagans prayed for theire dead and offered sacrifices and by many other ceremonies thought to lighten theire torments Thence is come the prayers for the dead in the Church of Rome and that by singing of Masses ringing of Bells c. they