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A04378	The height of Israels heathenish idolatrie, in sacrificing their children to the Deuill diuided into three sections: where is shewed in the first, the growth and degrees of this, and generally of other sinnes and idolatries. In the second, that the Deuill was the god of the heathen; with the meanes by which he obtayned that honour. With a large application to our times, against popery, shewing the pride thereof, and malice both against soule and body; together with the meanes, sleights, and policies by which it seduceth, killeth, and in the person of the Pope, raiseth it selfe to its present height. In the third, the blinde zeale of idolaters. Deliuered generally in two sermons preached at S. Maries in Cambridge: the first whereof is much inlarged: by Robert Ienison Bachelor of Diuinitie, and late Fellow of S. Johns Colledge in Cambridge.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1621 (1621)	STC 14491; ESTC S107702	160,311	208

bookes for 15. yeares together and after came to light and was by Iunius left as a gift and monument of their shame in the study of the Count Palatine of Rheine The Spanish Index was found first and discouered by our English in the taking of Cales Now by the direction of these Indices the ancient Fathers and first Authours are made to speake not their owne words and meaning but what the late Councell of Trent hath deliuered The bookes thus purged or rather polluted are often reprinted and these latter Editions onely authorized all other are disallowed called in consumed with threats added against all such as shall presume to keepe them And as thus they deale with the printed bookes so in likelihood they haue an Index for the purging of the manuscripts also for in the Vatican library at Rome Iames appendix to the aduertisement prefixed to his booke of the Corruption c. certaine men being maintained onely to transcribe the Acts of Councels or Copies of the Fathers workes they haue beene seene in transcribing to imitate the letters of the ancient Copies as neere as can be expressed In which copying out of books it is to be feared they adde alter and take away at the pleasure of their Lord the Pope The euent may proue it so herein dealing with and deluding the world as the Gibeonites did Ioshua with old sacks old bottles old shooes and garments wherein they are said to worke wilily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in●statia I●sh 9.4.5 Now by all these meanes the triall of a questionable point in religion is like that triall of a Nisi prius at the common law where for witnesses are brought not good Free-holders Probi legales homines but base wanderers burnt in the eare for Rogues who know neither father nor mother ● With corrupting euen the Bible at selfe Corruption of Fathers part 3. or at the best bribed and corrupted But what if these bold bauds goe about to corrupt the Bible it selfe by adding detracting altering To make a little further vse of Doctor Iames this easily appeares by the infinite varieties contradictions oppositions which may be seene of any that shall compare two Bibles set forth by two Popes Sixt. 5. Clem. 8. and that within 2. yeares 1590. 1592. The second Commandement is also quite discarded out of their vulgar Catechismes which they communicate with the people and to keepe the number of ten the last is made two Now whereas both the shame of the world and also the power of God keepes them from daring to attempt vpon the text of the Bible it selfe yet see how neare they come it by corrupting the glosse and marginall note In the Bible of Robert Stephens vpon Genes 15.6 where the words are And he Abraham beleeued in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousnesse the note in the margent is Abraham fide iustus Abraham is iustified by faith yet these words which are all one with the words of the text euen as the Dowists read and translate them namely Abraham beleeued God and it was reputed to him vnto Iustice yet I say these words are commanded to be put our deleatur illud Abraham fide iustus Index Rom. pag 48. Rom. 4.3 Galat. 3.6 Iames 2.23 Index Rom. ibid And yet the authority of that place is vrged thrice in the new Testament So on Leuit. 26.1 they haue expunged the glosse or marginall note deleatur illud sculptilia prohibet fieri let this be put out say they God forbids the making of grauen images and yet God in the text forbids the making of them Lastly 1. Sam. 7.3 Samuel saith Prepare your hearts vnto the Lord and serue him onely the glosse saith in the margent Seruiendum soli Deo God only must be serued now saith the Romane Index deleantur illa verba Seruiendū soli Deo Index Rom. pag. 50. let these words be blotted out God only must be serued Hence iudge what they would doe to the Scriptures if they durst And thus we haue seene how by prohibiting and corrupting these diuine and ancient monuments they corrupt mens vnderstandings Yet this is not all To plant their errours they furthe● delude mens minds they haue other tricks of deceit and delusion whereby they not only supplant the truth but also plant their owne errours and make them passable Their next tricke then is to dazle the eyes of the simpler 4. With protestations of truth sort with Protestations of truth and swelling words of vanitie so that vnder pretence of preaching the Truth they supplant the truth Hilarie Antichrist saith a Father vnder colour 〈◊〉 preaching the Gospell shall be contrarie to Christ Euen so S Ambrose describes false teachers to be such as vnder the name of Christ Qu● 〈◊〉 nonum 〈…〉 preach against Christ so that the Lord Iesus is denied whilst men thinke he is preached And as the Deuils prophets of old tooke vpon them the glorious name of Prophets of God so seducers will be prophets of God and prophecie in the name of God though they so prophecie a lie and can with the true Prophets of God say Thus saith the Lord. Thus Nestorius though he were an Heretike yet could he couer himselfe vnder the vaile and shew of the Orthodoxe faith as said Theodoret of him and generally false prophets can vse the name of Christ to deceiue others thereby Ma● 〈…〉 concerning whom our Sauiour hath giuen vs a caueat saying Take heed that no man deceiue you for many shall come in my name and shall deceiue many In my name Some making themselues Christs and Sauiours some bearing my name not only of Christ but of Iesus some presuming to be my Vicars on earth some teaching lies and falsehoods in my Name and as my Doctrine Thus Iesuites yea the Pope himselfe shroud themselues vnder the name of the Lambe Mat 〈…〉 1 Ti● 〈…〉 but inwardly are rauening Wolues and speare ●i● the Dragon teaching indeed doctrines of Deuils This Whore of Rome giues out her false doctrines in a cup of gold Re●● 〈…〉 she hath in her hand Poculum Aureum Plenum Abominationum a cup of Gold full of Abominations where behold a Mysterie the initiall or capitall letters of these words written in the language of the Church of Rome whether casually or by speciall prouidence being put together are obserued to make vp the word Papa or Pope We may well compare the Deuill and all his instruments to craftie Pyrats who will hang out the same colours they will seeme to be what indeed they are not Thus the Arrian Heretikes of old bragd they only were Catholikes as for all the rest they called them sometime Ambrosianos sometime Athanasianos sometime Ioannitas So the Mahumetanes now though they deriue their pedegree from Agar the bond-woman yet will be called not Agarens but Saracens from Sara the free-woman Euen so the Iewes bragd they were Abrahams sonnes

him in the wildernesse and grieue him in the desert yea they turned backe and tempted God 2. Measure Secondly for quality manner degree and measure of sinne thus Hebr. 11.36 Others haue beene tried by mockings and scourgings of wicked men yea moreouer by bonds and prisonment For this is such a sin for height Luke 3.20 3. Impudency as Herod added aboue all his sinnes when hee shut vp Iohn in prison Thirdly for impudency Esay 3.9 Yea they declare their sinnes as Sodome they hide them not Fourthly for defence and iustification of them 4. Defence whereby in a manner merit is ascribed to them Iohn 16 2. Yea the time commeth that whosoeuer killeth you shall thinke he doth God seruice Fifthly for delight in sinne Isay 66.3 Yea 5. Delight they haue chosen their owne wayes and their soule delighteth in their abominations Lastly for resolution Zach. 7.12 Yea 3. Of resolution they made their hearts as an Adamant stone lest they should heare the law Now surely if such was the generall ouer-flowing of sinne when these things were written what may wee thinke is it now in these last dayes of the world wherein Saint Paul hath told vs Perillous times shall come 2 Tim. 3.1.2.3.4.5 for men shall be louers of themselues couetous boasters proud blasphemers c. We need not seeke farre to finde many amongst vs on whom we might instance all the former complaints of God and his Prophets which we might iustly take vp against the prophane miscreants of our times But leauing this generall consideration who feeles not in himselfe and sees not in others each sinne without timely resistance made growing to an height by the same degrees that man himselfe from nothing growes to his perfection This resemblance I follow the rather because it is vsed by S. Iames ch 1. v. 14.15 and Saint Paul Rom. 7.4.5 For sinne is a bastardly brood hauing the Deuill to its father and our corruption to the mother which is the Deuils concubine First Lust Eleuen degrees by which each sinne growes to its height concupiscence and the corruption of our nature is as the prostitution of the soule by which it lyeth open to the Deuils suggestions Secondly wicked thoughts whether steaming vp thence or cast in by Satan are as the seed in the wombe Then sudden delight is as the retention of the seed in the wombe Fourthly Consent is the conception of sinne Fifthly a more permanent and enduring delight vpon consent is as the fashioning and articulation of it Then Sixtly purpose to commit sinne is as the springing of the child in the wombe hastning the birth and egresse Then seuenthly followes the act it selfe as the birth of sinne These are the degrees about the breeding and hatching of sinne Yet foure more there are about the growth of it to be gathered out of Hebr. 3.8.12 which are as the increase perfect stature decaying and death of man First by iteration of the act of sinning the heart is hardened Secondly it becomes an euill heart then an vnfaithfull heart And Lastly it departs from the liuing God by vtter falling away from God grace and goodnesse Now that which will follow vpon all these is that one sinne perfited will draw on and make way for other greater sinnes so that without repentance men shall proceed from euill to worse till at the length they be tied and bound in infinite chaines and therein kept for the day of destruction Oh therefore that men out of the former considerations would but lay to heart this mysticall working of sinne that with feare they might either watch against the first motions of sinne or with speedy repentance but winde themselues out of the snares of the Deuill as knowing that otherwise God will one day wound the hairy scalpe of him that goeth on in his sinne We must resist sinne at the beginning What is then to be done Surely this should cause vs earnestly to intreat by daily and vnfained praier that we be not lead into tentation seeing there is no sinne so great into which we may not in time fall especially if God leaue vs to our owne corruption and Satans politique stratagems or otherwise in his iustice giue vs ouer from one degree of sinne to another This we may iustly feare when we are not carefull to resist sinne at the first If we giue entertainment to euill thoughts and lodge them 〈◊〉 our hearts Satan seeing how kindly we receiue and intreat his harbingers will come himselfe attended with legions and take vp the best roome in our hearts out of which he will not be dislodged till we seeke to and giue welcome to Christ and his spirit a stronger then Satan Here then is vse and need of our diligence watchfulnesse and wisdome Oh that we could be but as wise in this kinde as others are wicked Harlots which prostitute their bodies to filthy lusts labour by all meanes they can either to hinder the conception or to kill the childe in the wombe or to drowne it or otherwise to make away with it afterwards that so they may auoid the shame of the world and charge of bringing it vp When Pharaoh would hinder the multiplying of the children of Israel in Aegypt Come on Exod. 1.10.16.22 saith he to his people let vs deale wisely with them lest they multiplie Hereupon as he set hard Taske-masters ouer them so he commanded the Hebrew Midwiues when they did the office of a Midwife to the Hebrew women to kill all the males Which when it tooke not effect he then charged all his people saying Euery sonne that is borne ye shall cast into the riuer Happy we if we were so wise in dealing thus with the children and fruit of our concupiscence either to hinder the conception of them by not consenting or the birth by not committing sinne or being borne to dash these little ones the children of confusion against the stones Psal 137.9 or rocke Christ Iesus But alas sinne and Satan are too wily for vs and our owne hearts too treacherous and our nature weake so that in this state of mortalitie we cannot possibly hope to be free of sinne Humanum est labi errare decipi we must cease to be men before we can hope to cease from sinning To sinne is inseparable from mans nature and that man doth sinne it must be ascribed to humane frailtie as it s said of Ephraim and Iudah Hos 6.7 But they like men haue transgressed the couenant What then Seeing we cannot but sinne shall wee delight in sinne God forbid Thus of men we should become beasts namely filthy dogges and swine 2 Pet. 2.22 whose propertie it is to returne to the vomit and to wallow in the mire Much lesse then must we become deuils by defending knowne sinne or being enemies of righteousnesse or resisting the good motions of Gods Spirit or the truth for which Elymas deserued the name of childe of

towards his chosen people and to shew that none can curse them whom he will blesse Thus he did put his spirit of prophecie vpon the wicked Sorcerer and Witch Balaam and spake vnto him to blesse his people being indeed hired to curse them Numb 23.16.19 and 24 2. Otherwhiles we know that the Sibyls the prophetesses of the Gentiles did foretell and prophecie many true things concerning Christ Of whom worthy Zanchie saith Ea non nisi ex asslatu diuino praedixerunt They foretold such things only by diuine inspiration And S. Ambrose his speech is knowne Omne verum à quocunque dicatur à spiritu sancto est All truth whosoeuer be the speaker of it is from the holy Ghost The reason why God spake by them is diuersly rendred Thomas Aquinas saith he did it the more to illustrate and make credible his truth which should receiue testimony euen from the enemies thereof Or secondly by this meanes to instruct and teach the Heathen who would giue eare and credence to their owne Prophets which they would deny vnto Gods true Prophets But I approue rather their iudgement that say the end of such true prophesies by these heathenish Prophetesses was that the Gentiles afterwards who should not beleeue Christ nor our Scriptures testifying and prophesying of him might by their owne Prophets be conuinced of the truth and made the more inexcusable in the day of iudgement And to this end many verses and oracles of the Sibyls are alledged against the Heathen by Iustin Martyr Clemens Alexandrinus Lactantius Eusebius and others as appeareth by their bookes But secondly 2. Or by means of the Scriptures the Deuill knowes many things out of Scripture which in diuers things he better vnderstands then we men by reason of his quicke sight and also because he can in regard of his long experience lay the state of all things together which we cannot doe neither is this in him so strange seeing that as Porphyry relates Porphyry as he is cited by Monaeus de v●rit Christianae relig cap. 25. fine the religious sect of the Essens among the Iewes by reason that they occupied themselues in the prophesies of Scripture made a profession of prophesying and seldome missed which I thinke Master Caluin aymes at when he saith writing on Esa 41.23 and hauing spoken of Gods goodnesse to the Iewes out of Amos 3.7 who hid nothing from them which was behoouefull to be knowne Hâc praerogativâ ind●g●● ●ccles●●al● si sunt Iudai qui ex friuolis suis praedictionibus quaestum passim inter gentes s●cerunt The Iewes intolera●ly and s●●l●rously abused this prerogatiue who from their ●●iuolo●● predictions picked out a liuing among the Gentiles as doe now many running rogues with vs by telling of for●unes But if the Essens or Iewes were so cunning Satan is much more cunning and therefore his Oracle being demanded by King Alexander the great before he warred with Darius King of Persia what should be the euent and issue of his enterprise might well answere him as it did Inuictus er●s Alexander Thou shalt bee vnconquerable ô Alexander and indeed the successe was answerable which was yet f●rther signified by an Eagle which in the conflict with Darius houered and fluttered ouer Alexanders head gliding and glauncing and darting it selfe towards his enemies This knowledge the Deuill had out of the prophesies of Isai● and Daniel who doe expressely point at Alexander In the 11. chapter of Daniel verse ● it is sayd A mighty King shall stand vp and shall rule with great dominion and doe according to his pleasure The circumstances of the ●ext are plaine and cleare for Alexander and so taken by Iaddus the high-Priest of Ierusalem who when Alexander had subdued the Persians and was now come to Ierusalem ●et him in his priestly attire as Iosephus records carried him vp to the Temple and shewed him the booke of Daniel wherein it was prophesied certaine hundred yeares before that a certaine Greeke should come and conquer the Persians which now fell out to be himselfe Thus he knew the destruction also of Tyre by Alexander out of Isay 23.1 where by the land of Cethim or Cittim is plainely vnderstood Macedonia whereof Alexander was King 〈◊〉 many doe interprete it and accordingly did foretell that he Satan vnder the name of Apollo would leaue the City as we read in Quintus Curtius And thus might hee know the translation of the Assyrian Monarchy vnto the Medes and Persians and that by Cyrus whose name long before his birth is expressely recorded Isa 45.1 and so many the like as Tortullian reckons them Now concerning Christs natiuity life and death the Sibyls haue foretold in ve●s● many things and a Virgil from them In their bookes wee finde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and being smitten he shall be silent out of Esay chap. 53.7 where it is said he was oppressed and afflicted yet opened he not his mouth and this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he shall weare a crowne of thornes And againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most plainly out of Psal 69.21 They gaue me gall in my meate and in my thirst they gaue me vinegar to drinke With many the like Now lastly see how the gods of the Heathen Deuile indeed foresaw and foretold the ceasing or Oracles and their owne silencing as out of many other place ●●●●cially out of Zacharie 13.2 where In 〈…〉 Lord of Hosts I will cut off the names of the 〈◊〉 out of the land and they shall no more be remembred and I will 〈◊〉 the Prophets and the vncleane spirit to 〈…〉 So that when Christ was at hand to whom they knew they must needs yeeld yet that they might still keepe their credit seeme to be ignorant of nothing they foretold the same Hence that prophesie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 foreteling that the place where Apollo gaue his answers should be made obscure and hence to adde no moe examples when Augustus C●sa● in whose reigne our Sauiour was borne did demand of T●●chia Prophece●●e to Apollo who after him should succeed and be Monarch of the whole world he had his answer in diuers Greeke verses which in sence sound thus much that an E●●●w child greater then the gods of the Heathen had commanded him to leaue that place and to betake him to his infernall den●● therefore saith he be gone and from henceforth aske me no moe questions The verses runne thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But to conclude this point Satans ayme in giuing forth such true Oracles which accord with our Scriptures is not the same with Gods ends of which formerly but first that by the truth of these Oracles he might winne credit to his lies and deuillish doctrines concerning the worshipping of idols Secondly that thus he might get to himselfe the name and estimation of God himselfe whose propertie alone it is to speake truth And thus saith Tertullian

But so doe not such among vs as hauing eies full of adultery and hypocrisie can with the proud Pharisie looke God in the face in his Temple See Ier. 7.9.10 and yet spare to pull out the right eye or to mortifie their darling sinnes The Aegyptians who giue diuine worship to Cats Crocodiles and Dogges To Dogges saith he that saw it Diodorus Siculus in a concourse of people when their King Ptolomie was by the Senate pronounced a friend and consederate And Catts yet euen then did they teare into a thousand pieces with their hands a Romane Souldier Diodorus Siculus lib. 1. pag. 53. A. ●●pf vt supra exe 1. onely for killing a Cat and that by chance Giue me an example of like zeale in Christian Magistrates in vindicating the dishonours done to God when Christ by abominable oathes is againe crucified and rent in pieces by the wicked Some heretikes in the Church can swallow the Bread in the Sacrament though it be mixed with mans blood To the bread in 〈◊〉 Sacrament as though the Cataphriges and Pepuziani yea with mans seed and sperme 〈◊〉 ●●●d Aug. 〈…〉 as the Gnosticks and Manichees who as also the Nicolaitans Semen menstrua mulierum excipiunt lingunt And Godarenus a Papist can with great courage and zeale swallow downe the host or wafer which a filthy Leper had vomited and cast vp And the popish Councell of Colen hath taken order for such chances that the whole pieces be giuen to some faithfull man to eate and all this in reuerence to the Sacrament What dainty and queazy stomacks then haue many Protestants who if once a yeare they eate this holy bread it is more against stomacke in them then in the forenamed heretikes to licke vp the vomit Yet doe not all Papists shew like reuerence to this Sacrament Not that Subdeacon who poysoned Pope Victor the third in the Chalice Nor that Frier Dominicke who in like manner poysoned the Emperor Henry 7. Not Pope Sixtus the fourth his Legate who gaue the eleuation of the host for a signe of murther Nor lastly that Pope himselfe Gregory 7. who did cast saith Cardinall Benon the consecrated host into the fire and burnt it because demanding of it a reuelation against the Emperor it answered him not It is further considerable at what Cost blinded zeale can be The Heathen and Idolaters spare for no cost Yea also heathenisme about the things which they effect Some Emperors and they not alwayes of the best to countenance euen humane learning haue largely contributed Vespasian made the Poet Saleius Bassus with one gift in reuenue equall to their Knights Antoninus Caracalla delighted with Oppians elegant verses dedicated to him and which now we may both read and reckon caused to be giuen him for euery verse a crowne in gold each of which was double to ours The number of verses makes the gift almost stupendious At this day the Turkes at Constantinople Lips vt supr though they worship not dogges cats and birds yet so farre doe they respect them that at set houres they constantly feed them not with the offals but with the best both rost and boyed And so did the Aegyptians who as Diodorus Siculus relates extremely pinched with famine fell to eate one another and yet spared the foresaid creatures Spared said I yea fed them and that with mans flesh Some Christians also haue beene so lauish in this kind both in building and indowing of Churches that a restraint was thought necessary Euen now also may bee seene some Popish images on high dayes as sumptuously bedecked with precious ornaments as is almost any Queen of Europe no cost is spared In vaine then shall Aaron thinke to turne the people from Idolatry Exod. 32.1 2 3. by requiring their earings of Gold and dearest ornaments they will nor sticke with him for them though thus hee was said to rob the people And 25 and to haue made them naked to their shame among their enemies which yet they suffered Yet in our dayes Aaron himselfe is robbed by the people and his golden beard and garments by sacrilegious hands are taken from him out of their wisdomes and charity hee hath his linsie-woolsie cloaths fitted for him as warmer for Winter then those of Gold and lighter for Summer This is farre from the charitie of former times and zeale euen of Idolaters when sacrilegious Appropriators shall turne their Patronage to pillage and through their sacrilegious affections occasion Simonie and sharing betweene the Patron and Presented Yea make modest mindes hide their talents vnwillingly waxe old and dye euen at their mothers breasts in the Vniuersities who yet themselues haue breasts full fraught with milke to feede many hunger-starued soules Let such take this caueat with them Prou. 20.25 It is a snare if not destruction to the man who deuoureth that which is holy And so they will finde it to themselues seede or both If with the Eagle in the Embleme they will needes be snatching from Gods Altar any part of the Sacrifice which there burnes sweetly to God and carry it to feed their young let them beware lest some vnseene coale or sparke at vnwares taken with them set nest and all on fi●e For whom so doe they spoyle but God and Our God is euen a consuming fire Wee may wish then that authority would see Tobias dislodged out of his Chamber where formerly lay meat-offerings Tithes and Incense and that our zeale to Gods House Concil Trident. less 22. de reformat cap. 11. came not short of Antichristian zeale for Popery which in the Councell of Trent tooke order for the remouing of idle Monkes from those Liuings and Tithes whereby Pastors formerly were maintained Sess 24. de reformat c. 18 sess 5. c. 1. 23 c. 18 for the restoring of the goods of Benefices setting learned Priests in them for erecting Lectures and maintayning Teachers I might further stirre vp loose Protestants to put their neckes into Christs easie yoake by instancing on Papists the truth of what Saint Paul vpbraides the Corinthians withall They suffer if a man bring them into bondage 2 Cor. 11. ●0 if a man deuoure them if a man exalt himselfe if a man smite them on the face as witnesse those two heauy yoakes to name no moe Papists blinde obedience The first of blinde and absolute Obedience whereby men make themselues slaues their Superiours gods to whom this properly belongs whom they simply obey without consulting with God whether hee will giue them leaue or no. The yoke of Confession The other of Confession imposed vpon the neckes euen of Kings whereby they are brought vpon their knees to confesse Concil Trident. sess 4. c. 5. can 6.7 Omnia singula peccata etiam turpia etiam occulta etiam circumstantias all and singular their sinnes how filthy or close soeuer yea all delinquences euen against the last Commandement But