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A18104	The originall of popish idolatrie, or The birth of heresies Published under the name of Causabon [sic], and called-in the same yeare, upon misinformation. But now upon better consideration reprinted with alowance. Being a true and exacte description of such sacred signes, sacrifices and sacraments as have bene instituted and ordained of God since Adam. With a newe source and anatomie of the Masse, first gathered out of sundrie Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuerse learned fathers. Published by S.O.; Originall of idolatries.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Ofwod, Stephen.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614.	1630 (1630)	STC 4748; ESTC S107605	102,805	138

Tree of Life Apoc. 2. Rom. 12. planted in the middest of the Paradise of God in and by whom wee that were bastard slips have been engraffed to obtaine eternall life Hee committed to our keeping his holy Gospel commanding us to preserve it entirely without adulterating or corrupting the same without adding or dimishing there-from upon pain of eternall death Hee was as the Rain-bow The Rainbow extended all over the Aire to assure us of the League and Covenant contracted between God and us that we should no more be drowned in the deluge of sinne He was circumcised that the Law in him might be accomplished that so the prepuce of our hearts might be circumcised and to make us cast off our ould corrupted skinne in Adam Circumcision Galat 4. The flaming Bush Hee was like the flaming Bush incarnate in the wombe of the Virgin conceived by the Holy Ghost without the seed of Man the sacred Virgin like the Bush remaining notwithstanding entire and not consumed He was sacrificed like the just Innocent Lambe Pascall Lambe Iohn 1. Heb. 13. and his Blood shed to preserve us from the Tyranny of Satan and to open unto us a passage whereby we may enter into the Land of Promise the Heavenly Kingdome Hee is that true unleavened Bread which came downe from Heaven incorrupt and unspotted The bread of Life 1. Cor 5. of whom we must cate for our spirituall nourishment that we may celebrate the Feast of that miraculous passage from Pharach in the Land of true Liberty Hee was the Cloud the firie Pillar the divided Red Sea The cloud the Pillar of Fire the Red Sea 1. Cor. 10. Ioh. 19. Heavenly Manna The flowing Rocke Living Water 1. Cor. 10. Sacrifice Heb. 1.8.9.10 Heb. 9. Arke of Covenant which conducted and delivered us out of the hands of our enemies out of whose opened Side came Water and Bloud for our Salvation He was the heavenly Manna sent from Heaven to feed us for ever the true Rocke out of which issued Water to quench their thirst for ever which beleeve in him It was He that onely offered up the saving Sacrifice for the expiation of our sinnes both Priest and Sacrifice both the Offerer and the Oblation remaining an Eternall High-Priest at the Right Hand of God his Father beeing entred into the Holy and Heavenly Sanctuarie not built with mens hands but by the Hand of God He was the true Arke of Alliance and Covenant by which God revealed and manifested his Oracles and in him he did reside to accomplish his divine and incomprehensible Mysteries He was like to the Brazen Serpent fastened to the Crosse Brazen Serpent Ioh. 3. Temple of God Ioh. 2. to give health unto the sicke which returne to him and contemplate on him by Faith He was the true Temple of God wherein the Holy Ghost dwels one God in Trinity in and by whom God is onely adored He was the true and sacred Oblation Holocaust and water Purgatorie of whom the reall water purgatorie was made for the purgatiō of every blemish Himselfe with his owne Ashes that is with his immolated Body besprinkled and wet with water issuing out of his Side all People and Nations that beleeve in Him Iohn 15. CHAP. VI. Of Sacraments ordained by Iesus Christ himselfe THe Law Ceremoniall beeing by this meanes accōplished not in Figures but really executed by the Incarnation Death and Resurrection of Iesus Christ our Saviour our Mediator our Eternall Priest and Propitiator the infinite goodnesse of God was yet further revealed by the new Covenant new Alliance and new comming of the Sonne of God Incarnate For Heb. 9. by his New Testament ratified and confirmed in the death of the Testator He hath constituted us as heires and coheires to God in his heavenly Kingdome For assurance of this celestiall succession Rom. 8. purchased for us by grace after the Consummation of the Law Ceremoniall the same abolished as we have formerly declared through that perfect Sacrifice of the Priest Eternall there were left unto us two sacred signes or Sacraments wherein God bestowed greater favour and more speciall grace then he had done before his Incarnation St. Augustin lib 3 de doct Christ cap. 9 For hee hath freed us from the servile Law of Circumcision from the difference of meates and divers sacrifices ordained in the first Church of the Israelites And by easing us of this waighty burthen Hee further conferred upon us a greater comfort in constituting for a memoriall and remembrance of our regeneration and eternall life two holy Sacraments under two sacred signes which are the water of Baptisme and the Bread and Wine in the Communion of his Body Now that his Grace might be extended to all Nations Sacraments of the New Testament God thought good to make choice of the most familiar and ordinary signes and Symboles For Circumcision was a speciall marke for Abraham and his Posterity to which Circumcision Distributiō of the Sacraments to all Converts Herod lib. 2 other Nations were not accustomed though Hereditus a Grecian borne in an History he wrote of the Aegyptian manners specifies their manner and custome of beeing circumcised but especially the Priests and we may easily conjecture that he had heard of the time when the Iewes dwelt in Aegypt which was about 400. yeeres observed Circumcision Moreover Circumcision was appointed only for the Males and not for Females there was a limited time appointed for Circumcision which was within ●ight dayes after the Nativity and the cutting of the fore-skin was with griefe and paine But the Grace of God by his Incarnation and plenary Sacrifice Gen. 17. having abolished the rigor of the Law Ceremoniall as well for difference of meates as of dayes He left unto us by his New Testament and new Alliance the sacred signe of Water common to all both Male and Female without any distinction of dayes and the Infant by the Sacrament of Baptisme feeling no paine as it did by the Circumcision of the fore-skinne This signe of Water intimating unto us the purgation and expiation of our sinnes through the Bloud of Iesus Christ was common not onely among the Iewes who used ordinarily Water purgatorie and of expiation but the Gentiles also and all other Nations Numb 19. were accustomed to a Lotion and purgation of cleansing and purgatorie Water as we may perceive in reading Ancient Histories Wherefore to the end that Gods Grace in Iesus Christ might generally bee spred over all the Earth to all Nations Regions and Provinces both to the circumcised uncircumcised to the Iewes and to the Gentiles God made election of the most common signe of Water the more freely to expose himselfe unto Man and to win him to His feate and obedience By which Signe he hath instituted his holy Sacrament of Baptisme for an assured note and marke of our regeneration and purification which is really conferred by the

that the Bread is his body and the Wine is his blood he also said that himselfe was the Bread of Life the living Bread that hee was the living Bread come down from Heaven Further hee sayes That hee who eates of that bread shall live eternally Doth this inferre by the word Est that Iesus Christ is converted and transubstantiated into bread and that hee is no more Christ but an accident without substance O abominable heresies have you any more reason O you Missalians to interpret these words carnally This is my Body to transubstantiate the bread into the body then when hee testifies that himselfe was the bread to transubstantiate him into bread cōsidering that it is written how the communion of this bread gives eternall life Iesus Christ said Hoc est Corpus meum hee also sayes of himself Math. 15. Iohn 6. Hic est Panis qui de Coelo descendit in both these places is not this word est used And yet must we needs hereupon inferre a transubstantiation in stead of orthodoxally interpreting the same by a Metonimy and familiar comparison of bread to Iesus Christ that we might apprehend how eternall life was given us by him and likewise by him our spirituall food is ministred even as by bread a nourishment corporall Howsoever wee must alwayes have recourse to the true expression of Iesus Christ the absolute Law-giver and Author of this holy Sacrament who expounding his owne institution saith in the first place that hee is the Bread of Life then afterwards hee sayes that this bread is his flesh his body Iohn 6 which 〈…〉 offered for the salvation of the world Hee said His 〈…〉 meate his blood true drinke he sayes that whosoever eat●s of his flesh and drinks of his blood hee will remaine in him How doth hee himselfe expound this Manducation Iesus Christ by his owne words expresseth himselfe Whosoever comes to me shall never hunger and hee that beleves in me Iohn 6. shall never thirst Is not this a true eating and a true drinking never again to be hungry nor never to thirst Must wee not in this have faith which consists in spirit To addresse our selves to Iesus Christ our celestiall bread our spirituall drinke wherewith to bee satisfied for ever to quench our thirst of sinne perpetually must we runne to the Magicke of transubstantiation and forge an accident without substance Wherefore O Missalians doe you presume to invent any other interpretatiō then that of Iesus Christ who witnesseth that the flesh profits nothing but the spirit quickens and that his words are not carnall but spirituall giving spirit and life by faith and confidence that hee is the Saviour of the world incarnate dead and crucified to purchase for us eternall life Iohn 15. and then raised up againe hec ascended into heaven sits at the right hand of God his Father remaining an eternall Priest Propitiator Mediator and Redeemer To returne to this terme est that does so molest the Missalians braines that they dreame out of it a transubstantiation If Iesus Christ uttered how hee was the true Vine Iohn 4. that God his Father was the Keeper that we are the Branches Can wee hereupon conclude by this word est a Magick of the transubstantiation of God into the keeper of a Vine of Iesus Christ into a Vine and of our selves into branches If Iesus Christ was said to be the immaculate Lambe that wipes out the sinnes of the word Iohn 16. can wee hereupon induce a transubstantiation If Iesus Christ said that hee was the doore of the sheepefold by whom wee must enter to be saved And that hee is the good Pastor and wee his sheepe Must wee needs so straine wrest these places of the holy Scripture as to thinke it necessary because the word est is mentioned to beleeve a transubstantiation When Iesus Christ admonished his Apostles Math. 5. saying that they were the salt of the earth did hee therefore transubstantiate or convert them into Statues of pillars of salt as hee did Lots Wife Genes 19. If Iesus Christ said by his Apostles that we are the Temples of God 1. Cor. 5. 2. Cor. 6. in which the Holy Ghost inhabits must wee therefore imagine that we are transubstantiated into a masse of stone If the holy Apostle writt 1. Cor. 10. that Iesus Christ is the Rocke out of whom came living water to wash and purge us from our sinnes must wee wrest out of this a transmutation and transubstantiation of Iesus Christ into a Rocke or a materiall stone If the holy Apostle testifieth 1. Cor. 12. that we are the Bodie of Christ may wee by this inferre that we are translated now no more men but transubstantiated into an accident without substance I readily foresee O you obdurate Missalians that you will object all these pre-alleadged places wherein this word est is make no mention of the Sacrament which must the more exactly bee observed in that these be sacred mysteries ordained of God which is most true And this word est is not onely found in the holy Scriptures formerly cited but when wee speak of holy Sacraments first instituted by God for his people of Israel it is written Genes 17. that Circumsicion is Gods alliance and Covenant In the other holy Sacrament of the Communion of the Paschall Lambe was it said that the Lambe was the Passeover Exod. 10 13 which is to say the passage But shall wee induce hereupon a Magicke of transubstantiation Will you not confesse O Missalian transubstantiators that in these passages of the holy Scriptures speaking of holy Sacrament that this word est can not bee otherwise interpreted then to signifie some reall performance Genes 17. and that Circumsicion was a signe a marke of the Covenant and alliance contracted by God with Abraham The Paschall Lambe was also a sacred signe of the passage Num. 10. Psal 68.24 Mat. 21. Iohn 2. for a remembrance of their deliverie out of Egypt The Arke of alliance for another Sacrament of which it is writtē that it is the truth power of the Lord Must wee understand by this that it was transubstantiated into the reall Majestie of God Wee must wee must I say interpret the holy Scriptures with discretion and in humilitie without sophistication and without Magicke soundly to apprehend the conception of words and not sticke so close to the letter which kils but receive the Word of God in lively spirit If then the sacred Arke is called the Lord and nominated God because in it hee exercised his omnipotent power and declared his Oracles and mysteries by exteriour signes to draw the Israelitish people to bee mindfull of God and to feare and obey him If Iesus Christ also said that hee was bread which came downe from Heaven the bread of life the wine was his blood that the Cup is the New Testament by the externall signes of bread

signes to approve the better of their obedience to wit trees planted in the middest of the Orchard earthly Paradise which although they were not of any other qualitie then the other plants yet notwithstanding being dedicated cōsecrated of God for Sacraments or Sacred Signes their qualitie was then for to serve as Seales for the Testimonie and approbation of his divine will and pleasure which was effected by the infinite goodnesse bounty of God to make appeare and knowne that the Association Confederation and alliance contracted with man his Creature was ordained from time to time yea from the beginning of all times Thus I say were exteriour and Corporall Signes which man could see and contemplate with his Corporall Eyes constituted to serve for an assurance pledge and hostage of the Divine Covenant These Trees and substantiall Fruits ordained for our first and common Father were committed and given unto him to keepe without wasting either or eating of the one upon paine of eternall death Wherefore wee must in faith beleeve that they were not vaine Signes and Sacraments or as a meere simple Picture but whereas life or death depended on them they comprehended both the signes and thing signified wherein consisted the knowledge and wisedom to feare God Prov. 7.2.3 and obey him And therefore they were called the Fruits of the knowledge of good and ill the Trees of life For in the carefull keeping of these sacred fruits and obeying God there was promised eternall life whereas on the contrary by abusing the Sacraments and opposing the will of God there was intimated to us by exteriour signes that eternall death and damnation was purchased For other exercises required of man towards God Sacrifices before the written Law concerning the reverence honor and adoration of him many divers Sacrifices were celebrated even before the Law written by Moses And though God Almighty Creatour of Heaven and Earth needs not any humane workes or to bee nourished with the bloud of beasts or with terrestriall fruits Psal 50. yet hee had allwayes a desire to draw man unto him in an externall obedience and feare by Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments so as the Sacrifice of Lambes offered by Abel were agreable and pleasing to God Noah in like manner after the inundation of waters past in signe of his recognition and obedience towards God erected an Altar Genes 4. Hebr. 11. Gen. 6.7.5 immolated and offered sacrifices of unspotted sheepe birds whereof hee made a reall Holocaust acceptable to the Lord. By which examples we may easily discerne that Sacrifices tooke not their beginning in Moses time but that Innocent and Iust Lambe was prefigured in Abels Sacrifice as a type of Iesus Christ slaine and offered from the beginning of the world Apoc. 13. After the rigor and justice of the deluge was appeased The Rainbow that hapned for a punishment of Tyrants offences on earth in signe of a reconciliation and Covenant renewed our God ordained the signe of the Rainbow for a pledge assurance of his Divine mercie This signe and celestiall Bowe Genes 9. though it formerly appeared in thicke cloudes being a notice of raine to ensue notwithstanding it was not as yet constituted nor appointed to serve man for a signe or Sacrament untill the time that it was by God ordained for an assurance of the Covenant contracted with the good Father Noah and his successors After this with the faithfull Patriarch Abraham Circumcision in the yeere of the world 2048. there was another confederation alliance contracted by the wisedome of God who for a pledge and assurance to him and his posterity constituted the externall signe of Circumcision to serve him for a Sacrament a perpetuall notice of Gods holy will and pleasure and so he was enjoyned to circumcise the male infants within the eighth day of their nativitie upon paine of being rejected from the number of those people whom God had adopted Gen. 17. Then followed to his posterity afterward called the people of Israel the sacrifice of the immaculate Lambe which was ordain'd by the shedding of bloud to preserve them from the appointed slaughter in Egypt Exod. 12. As also the flesh thereof was appointed to bee eaten and celebrated festivally every yeere on the day called The Pascha or Easter for a signe commemoration of their Deliverance from Pharaohs servitude and to the participation of the flesh of this Paschall Lambe was annexed the unleavened bread for seven dayes on paine of Death Exod. 22. Other sacred signes were sent by God to his Elect people to winne them continually to his feare and obedience as the signe of the Cloud The Cloud The Pillar of fire Exod. 13. to conduct the people by day and the flaming and fierie Pillar for their guide direction by night and all to deliver them out of the hands of the Tyrant Pharaoh Then followed the signe of the division of the Arabicke Red Sea The division of the Arabick red sea in the yeere of the world 2403. over which the elect people of God passed By all which admirable signes it pleased God to institute Sacraments having an analogie to the holy Sacrament of Baptisme instituted afterwards by the elementall signe of water which is the washing of Regeneration and the renovation of the Holy Ghost Now during the time that this elect people of God were detained in the Arabian Desarts 1. Cor. 10. Titus 3. and barren Wildernes they had provision of heavenly bread wherewith they were nourished for fortie yeeres which was also an holy Sacrament instituted by the power and will of God Heavenly Manna Exod. 16. 1. Cor. 10. and held in so high an admiration that each one amongst the people said Man-hu what a wonderfull thing is this They saw celestiall Manna exhibited to them without travell a Figure of the Bread of Life which came downe from Heaven giving life to all the faithfull Another wonderfull signe there was ordained by God of the Rocke gushing out with cleere water in Mount Horeb Iohn 6. to quench the peoples thirst who were very dry and almost stifled with heat This was a signe and figure of the true Rocke Iesus Christ out of whom came bloud water to quench perpetually the thirst of sinners and refresh our soules CHAP. II. Of Sacrifices BEsides these signes and Sacraments above-mentioned Divers sacrifices ordained by God in the yeere of the world 2455 Holocausts which were onely by God ordain'd there was also a Law enacted and published for sacrificers by Moses as Signes Figures and Shadowes of that absolute Sacrifice consummated by Iesus Christ so that Sacrifices were either publike or private generall or particular Some were Holocausts being Sacrifices that were wholly consumed with fire Others consisted of beasts slaine and immolated to eate there were earthly and ayerie Creatures Amongst those terrestriall Division of sacrifices extracted out of Exedus

of three hundred yeeres or thereabouts there was not likewise any Emperour Euseb in his bookes of the Eccl. H●st Anno Dom 34 68. Anno Dom 34 68. Anno Dom 94.112 183 167.202.238.254.257.276.292 or Romane Consull that changed his Rel●giō to en brace the Law of Iesus Christ but on the contrary they strayn'd all their might power to put in practice what cruclties soever against the Church of Iesus Christ which may bee justified by the Ecclesiasticall Histories wherein are explained about eleven severall great persequutions under the Romane Pontifes which were Claudius Tiber. Nero Claud. Domitian Nero Flau. Domitian Traian Elia. Adrian Antonine the Philosopher Septimius Severus Iul. Maximin Mar Quint. Traian Decius Licinus Valerianus Valerius Aurelianus Dioclesian All which Emperours governed both the Empire and the superintendents over the Romane Religion for three hundred yeeres after the Incarnation of Iesus Christ and in their Coynes Sepulchres Monuments Titles Letters Patents they retained the stile of great Pontifes high Priests as is most diligently collected in a booke of the Antiquities of Rome wherein are specified the Medails Coynes and Monuments of the ancient Romane Emperours Pontifex Ma ximus In a booke intituled A discourse of the ancient Religion of the Romanes by William de Chove Bayly of Dolphsnois all which were enstil'd Pontifes under these Titles Iul. Caesar Pont. Max. Tiber. Nero Pont. Max. Vesp Caesar Pont. Max. Marc Aurel. Antonine Aug. Pont. Max. Heliogabalus high Priest Aug. Adrianus Jmp. Pontif. Max. Tit. Caes Pont. Max. Commod Imp. Pontif. Max. Galerius Maximianus Pont. Max. Flavianus Constantinus Aug. Pontif. Max. beeing therefore in this manner Emperours and Romane Pontifes they never would permit any other head above themselves in the Church and religion of Rome which in all ages was an enemie to Iesus Christ For when the Apostles preached Christ to bee the high and Soveraigne Priest the Eternall and Great sacrificer without successour after the order of Melchizedee the Romane Tyrants tooke occasion or at least their Lieutenants to condemne Iesus Christ for feare of impayring the authority of the Caesars high Romane Pontifes With what fury for the space of three hundred yeeres Catalogue of the Caesars at the end of Nicephorus Historie Anno Dom. 410. were they excited against Christians the Religion of Iesus Christ to maintaine their ancient Pompilian Religion What answere was given to the Emperour Theodosius by the Senate Senators of Rome when they were mooved to change their Religion and imbrace that of Iesus Christ They shewed how they had bin in possessiō of their Pompilian Religiō for more then a thousand yeeres and that the alteration of Religion was the ruine of Common-wealths For these reasons persisting in their old Romane Religion they forbare to receive the Law of Iesus Christ CHAP. X. How the Bishops of Rome began their Corruptions BY these Histories we may easily resolve that during foure hundred yeeres and more In the Canons collected by Clement Bishop of Rome 21.22.62 95. Anno Dom. 93. the Bishops of Rome who tearmed themselves Christians could never draw the Senate nor Senators of Rome to entertaine the holy Gospel As also they could hardly convert the Romane Idolaters from their old and inveterate Idolatries For the Bishops of Rome were too busie in restoring the Iewish and heathen Ceremonies about difference of meats touching ordinances not to fast on Sundayes or Thursdayes to invent Table clothes Vailes Alexander the first Bishop of Rome in the yeere of our Lord 110. Vessels of gold and silver on Hangings Tapistries and other ornaments of the Altar worne out with old age and to be burned and the ashes to be laid up in Fonts Some also were mightily busied to renew the Iewish Ceremonies of unleavened bread having their mindes greatly turmoyled to corrupt the true use of the holy Sacraments instituted by God by the mingling of water with wine and seasoning water with salt Sixtus Bishop of Rome in the yeere of our Lord 127. Sylvester Bishop of Rome Higinus Bishop of Rome in the yeere 140. Fabian Bishop of Rome in the yeare 240. to make it purgatory and exorciz'd for the repelling of devils Othersome in like manner tooke great paines to ordaine Ephods of fine linuen wherin to wrap the sacred Host also to constitute Aubes and other vestiments for the Priests in their sacrifices of white and no died colours Some had their braines troubled to devise Feasts of dedication and Consecration with Exorcismes to drive away devils with salt and othersome to invent Oyles and Vnctions wherewith to corrupt the holy Sacrament of Baptisme Then afterward during the time of these tyrant Emperours great Pontifes the Bishops of Rome desiring to perpetuate their names they wore out their braines in building of Temples not to the honour of God but to the names of men Pius Bishop of Rome in the yeere 144. Zephc ●in Bishop of Rome in the yeare 200 and women Saints by them cannonized at their owne pleasure Others were occupted in ordaining and decreeing that the consecrated Bread or Wine falling to the ground should be licked up by the Priests and the rest remaining to be burnd in the fire and the ashes to be reserved in a Reliquarie Some looke out for Chalices that they should be of Glasse Calixtus Bishop of Rome in the yeare 280. and not of Wood. Others instituted solemne ceremonies for the foure severall seasons of the yeare to bring Christians by this meanes under the servitude or distinction of dayes Others were studiously employed in ordaining the oblatiō Eutiches Bishop of Rome in the yeare 262 Red roabes of Cardinals and consecration of Beanes to solemnize Funeralls with Purple habites after the forme of a Vestment called Trabea which Idolaters used in their Triumphs celebrated to the honour of their Gods The like purple Ornament is in use at this day amongst the Cardinals Others were occupied in devising confirmation for little Infants to consecrate the Creame for Bishops only also to honour extraordinarily the Bishop of Hostia by whose hands the Bishop of Rome is to be consecrated Sylvester Bishop of Rome in the yeare 314. with a kinde of Mantle called Pallium to invent a number of other unnecessary Ceremonies yea such as were opposite to the Euangelicall libertie given unto us by Iesus Christ How was it possible therefore for the first Bishops of Rome to drawe the Princes and Romane Senators to the Law of the Gospell for three or foure hundred yeares after the Incarnation of Christ when they laboured so muche to corrupt the use of the holy Sacraments to restore the Iewish ceremonies the Idolatries of the ancient Heathen Romanes They may here object one Philip which some vaunt was cōverted to holy Baptism whose depraved manners gave occasiō to the most authentick Historiographers Cronic of Iohn Bapeista Ignatius to esteeme him unworthy