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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

was tearmed by the ancient Romane Idolaters Labarum which was reputed a sacred ensigne so much revered by the Dictators Emperours as also by the souldiers that went to the wars Antenor first pictured in that Banner a Sow by reason of the name Troja which in the vulgar Italian tongue signifies a Sow which ensigne Antenor vowed and dedicated in the Temple of Iuno Ex libris Messalae ad Octavianum Augustum Apul. lib. 2 de Asm aur Queen of the heavens because the Sow was the consecrated Victime to the same Goddesse The old Roman afterwards caused a Mercuries Caduce to be drawn upon the Banner whereon was painted the picture of two Serpents coupled together then was an Eagle portrated for the Ensigne of the Romain Empire See on this subject Philo in his Treat of Contempla Ioseph de bello Iudaic lib. 10 cap. 7. Et Euseb lib. 8. praepar Euang cap. 4. A litle before the comming of Iesus Christ into the world ' there arose vp in the Iewish church a certaine sort of people whome they called Esseniens that is to say Saints forasmuch as they affected a perticular austeritie and holines of life They liued a part by confraternities they receiued no Infants into theire order but only men of yeares and old men and they were not receiued but after certaine yeares of probation whosoeuer made himselfe of theire body he ought to bring in all his goods for they liued all in common and no man posessed any thing in propper they had theire repast common and theire particular chambers whereinto no man entred that was not of theire Sect. And there the most part voluntarily absteined from mariage Deinvent rerum lil 7. Cap. Polydore Virgil holdeth that this is the originall and liuely image of the monastick life saueing that he obseruet that the Monkes of the church of Rome come not neere the holines of the Esseniens seing that saith he they haue for the most part theire tables royallie couered they plunge themselues in delights purchase honours and haue an insatiable desire of the riches of the world He might haue added that the Esseniens liued not in idlenes as the Monkes for euerie one of them had theire trade and got his liueing by the labour of his hands Before the rising of the Sunne they gaue themselues to meditation but after the Sunne beganne to shew forth his beames they appliced themselues to labour In steade of eating the goods of the poore they excercised themselues in almes giueing Also they were true and theire word was as good as an oath Also they did not binde themselues by vow neuer to marrie neither feared that m●riage was sacrileidge and a defiling the abstinence from it was volluntarie But to prosecute these differences further would be to depart from the subiect The Iudaicall Church had a holy oyle with the which were anointed the Tabernacle and all the vessels thereof they also anointed theire Kings and theire Preists So the Church of Rome would also haue diuers sorts of oyles which she consecrateth with prayers and horrible coniurations The same serueth her to anoint the Temples the Alters and the Chalices therewith she anointeth the liueing and the dead Princes Popes Bishops Preists and Deacons c. It is a drugge which she vseth in Baptisme Confirmation and Extreme Unction Whereon see Durand Ration divin offic lib. 1. cap. 8. and Polydore Virgil. de invent rerum lib. 5. cap. 3. The Judaicall Church had also certaine waters for the Legal purification So the Church of Rome would haue her holy water to put away veniall sinnes De Consecrat dist 3. and driue away ill spirits On which reade the Canon Aqua and the Bishop of Mande Ration divin offic lib. 4. cap. 4. and Polydore Virgil de invent rerum lib. 5. cap 8. And euen as the Iewish Preists washed themselues before they applied themselues to the Sacrifices So the washing of Preists is one of the Ceremonies which goeth before the Masle See Polydor Virg. de invent rerum lib. 5. cap. 11. Out of the same springe proceedeth the custome of burning incense on the Altar as the same Polydor obserueth De invent rerum lib. 5. cap. 16. If I did not feare that my pen would swell to high I could represent an infinite number of superstitions which the church of Rome hath borrowed of the Iewes So because the Iewes celebrated Easter with vnleauened bread the Church of Rome will not celebrate the Eucharist with leauened bread As the Iewes had their lampes which enlightened the night in the Tabernacle so the Church of Rome lighteth Candals and Torehes which enlighten the night and the day As in the Judaicall Church there was a vaile which couered the most holy place where was the Propitiotorie and the Cherubins so the Church of Rome in the time of Lent couereth her Images with white linnen As the high Preist had his litle bels fastened to the hem of his garment whereof he made the sound to be heard when he entred before God into the holy place and when he departed thence so the Preists haue theire litle belles which they cause to sound when they lift vp that which they call God also when they carrie it to sick persons and as they returne To be short by litle and litle they haue surcharged the poore Church with the yoake of Judicall Ceremonies contrarie to the expresse commandement of the Apostle Why tempt ye God to put a yoake on the neck of the Disciples Act. 15.10 which neither wee nor our fathers were able to beare Our Sauior Jesus Christ who is the body and truth of all the shaddowes and figures of the Mosaicall Law hath put away by his owne propper blood all those ordinances and hath fixed them to his crosse according to the saying of the Apostle Col. 2.14 He hath blotted out the hand-writing of ordinances which was against vs and tooke it away nailing it to his crosse The Church of Rome hath not been content to repatch the vaile of Ceremonies which Christ Iesus hath torne by his death but which is more she hath thereto sowed all sorts of peeces and patches which she hath borrowed of ancient Paganisme And indeede it is of the ancient Pagans that she hath learned to ioyne the spirituall power with the temporall for Iesus Christ did not exercise on earth any power or iurisdiction temporall insomuch as he refused to deuide the inheritance betweene two brothers But the heathen Emperours did ioyne both the powers together qualifying themselues for the most part Emperours and Soueraigne Pontifes So the Popes boast of * both the swords holding that Iesus Christ hath giuen them both the earthly and the heauenly Empire * To manifest that this is the Beast to which the Dragon viz. the Ethnick Empire gaue his throone Rev. 13. It is of the ancient Pagans that the Popes haue learned to make themselues to be adored after theire election

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