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A55810	A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle, on Wednesday in Easter weeke Aprill 13th, 1642 before the Right Honovrable the Lord Maior, the aldermen and sherifs of this famous city of London / by William Price...	Price, William, 1597-1646.	1642 (1642)	Wing P3402; ESTC R18549	33,074	54

Harlot with many Lovers i. Ier. 3.1 Hos 1.2 The Land hath committed great Whoredome departing from the Lord. She is not my wife Hos 2.2.5 neither am I her husband for she hath playd the Harlot Ephraim is joynd to Idols let her alone Hos 4.17.18 they have committed Whoredome The one verse is exegeticall to the other Apoc. 17.2 and 18.2 Moechia affinis Idololatriae Tertull De pudici Wisd 14.11 In this sense Babylon is call'd a great Whore with whom the Princes of the earth commit fornication Adultery is a kin to Idolatry saith Tertullian They are of a house Prima scortatio excogitatio simulachrorum saith Epiphanius borrowing it from the Booke of Wisedome which in this is no Apocrypha The inventing of Idols was the beginning of Whoredome According to this interpretation The City the Church of Rome that was once faithfull Application is become an Harlot According to the multitude of her houses are her Gods her Saints her Idols to which she daily pays that homage that is due to God alone for the bed and the throne brooke no rivals The Carpenter ●t Faber pistor mille dedere Deos. Non ipsa timemus sed cos ad quorum imaginem●cta et quorum no. and the Baker yeeld them a thousand Gods When they reply that they worship not Idols but God in them It is no more then the grossest heathenish Idolaters have pleaded for themselves as wee find in Lactantius wee say they feare not the images themselves but those that are resembled by them and to whose names we consecrate them And in Arnobius we worship the Gods by images Besides shall an adulteresse alledge for her selfe minibus consecrata sunt Lactan Deos per simulachra veneramur Arnob that she honours her husband in her paramour And if they say they worship the true not a false God in their images as the heathen doe I reply with the Apostle that many of the heathen knew the corruptible God and changed his glory into an image as the Papists at this day doe Besides Micha is branded with Idolatry for erecting an image though in memory of the God of Israel And Rom. 1.21.23 Iudg. 17.3.13 if it be urged that they worship none but the holy Saints of God I answer I much doubt of that Had I time I could prove that many of their Saints are fictious such as never were in nature And their owne learned men feare that some of them are now in hell However it be this will no more excuse them then it would an adulteresse to say that she lyes with none but her husbands friends All the water in Tiber cannot wash Rome from Idolatry Especially when we find and who would thinke they could be so infatuated and besotted that they worship Authonies Swine Annaes Comb Crispins paring-knife Francis Cowle Georges Scabbard Josephs Breeches Martins Boots Thoma's Shooes Roches Dogs These Romans sacrifice to God and to Mary Deo Mariae Deo Mario as the ancient Ethnicke Romans did to God and to Marius for their victory over the Cimbri And these deeds answer their Lawes Constitutions and Language It was promised at Rome that what good man soever would say afore a Crucifix seven Paternosters and seaven Avemaries should obtaine 56000. yeeres of pardon 14000. granted by Gregory 14000. by Nicholas and 28000. by Sixtus the fourth Nay heare how they bespeake the Virgin Maries girdle Oh blest girdle make us inheritors of everlasting life keepe us from destruction Flippoman Iewell Replic pag. 398. Gen. 20.6 Oh pure girdle preserve thine heritage be our strength ayd wall defence To rake no longer in this dunghill Not long agee we our selves did fairely trot toward Idolatry had not our course been checkt and countermanded by Divine Providence Our innovators might with Abimelech pretend they did all in the integrity of their hearts but we may answer them as God there doth him I withheld thee from sinning against me Let us now looke to our footing Though Israel have plaid the harlot Hos 4.15 Hos 2.7 1 Ioh. 5.21 2 Cor 6.16 Ezek 16.15 to 37. Principale crimen gencris human Summus seculi reatus Lo●uples substantia criminis Tertul. Ado●ant insensibilia qui sentiunt Irrationalia qui s●piunt exanima qui vivunt terrena qui otiunturè coelo Lactan. Instit L. 1. Rom. 1.23 Divina Majestas in simulachronū stoliditate facile cōremnitnur An. Civit. yet let not Iudahsinne Let us returne to our first Husband as the Church resolves Let us keep our selves from Idols as Saint Iohn counsels us Say unto them get thee hence as it is Isay 30.21 22. What agreement hath the Temple of God with idols saith Saint Paul Saint Peter calls them abominable idolatries 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 4.3 Idolatry is the worst kind of adultery as the Metaphor is elegantly followd and continued in Ezekiel It is the principall crime of mankind the highest guilt of any age a hainous comprehensive mother sinne It is a braine-sicke ridiculous sinne as it is delineated to the life Isay 44.9 to 21. As good blocks as Images have layne at the fire-back and have boyl'd Diagoras his turneps In a time of danger they are not able to keepe themselves much lesse their keepers Aeneas at the conflagration of Trey was faine to save his gods What more then madnesse is it that the sensible should adore the insensible they that have the use of reason the irrationall the living the livelesse they that are heaven-bred earthly stocks To make images much more to worship them is contumelious to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Clemens ad Corinthios what more stolid and insufferable then to turne the glory of the incorruptible God into the image of a man a bird a beast as Saint Paul aggravates it It frets God tha't 's the word Ezek. 16.43 It is unfaithfulnesse that I may have my Text in my eye It is breaking of covenant and oath Ezek. 16.59 It is suing out a divorce betweene God and us Hos 2.2 It gives away Gods honour and glory Isay 42.8 Act. 15.20 It brings Divine Majesty into contempt It is a hatred of God as is implyed in the second Commandement It pollutes the soule It provokes God to give us up to a reprobate sense It is threatned with impunity which is the worst of punishments Let me have none of such mercy saith Aug. Nolo hane misericordiam Aug. Ezek. 16.42 Hos 4.17 I will be quiet saith God I will be no more angry Ephraim is given to idols let him alone He is a privileg'd person he may runne to hell without interruption It is fatall to any Nation Most of the miseries transportations captivities of Israel sprung from idolatry For other crimes God Ezek 16.23 Iud. 10.6.8 2 Chro. 28.23 Ezek. 16 40.48 Idololatres homicida estquaeris quem occiderit scipsum quot Plagit quo●● quot idololatriis Tertul. Castius dii