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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

Archdeacon Anno 1167 he wrote a book very learnedly in which he proved Rome was that Babylon St. Iohn wrote of in the Apocalypse and that all their clergy were adversaries to the Gospell of Iesus Christ and the very Calvs of Bethell and Dan and Baals Priests and Egyptian Idolaters they selling all things for monie S e Trethinius Gesnerus Peter Conster a Priest at Troyes a man of great learning Anno 1182. and an eloquent Oratour he wrote 20. books and sundry Sermons in which he doth prove the clergy neglect the Word of God and feed the people with their own inventions and that the Church goods which belong to the poore they consume wickedly he affirmeth them to be false brethren for which the wrath of God shall fall on them See Trethemius Vens●nttus I will now sett down some testimonies of some of those Of those which were banished suffered death Anno 1105. which did testify the Lords truth the time this idolatry was in hatching Before there was any generall Lawe to maintain this Transubstantiation I finde under the Bishop of Trare four persons banished and accompted hereticks for that they affirmed the bread and wine doe remain in their former substance at the Lords Supper after the words of consecration They denyed the Pope to have authority over other Churches See the Catologue of the Bishop of Trare Doctour Fulck in his answere to the Rhemish Testament See Reve 17.4 doth say that the church of Leedium before this was under great persecution under Pope Pascus for affirming him Antichrist Two Preachers in France one named Peter Breves Anno 1135. the other is called Hendrick van de Tollhouse they were well known in France and of good estimation for their great learning and they did much bewaile the Apostacy of the church and they spared no man of any degree whatsoever they were affirming that they were fallen from the estate of grace and from Christ and they affirmed the Pope to be the Prince of Sodom and the Citty of Rome to be the Mother of all abhomination that all the Bishops were cruel Wolves they detested the doctrine of Transubstantiation and affirmed the Masse prayer for the dead was Idolatrie before God and that Images the Crosse might not be prayed unto nor suffred in the Churches That the Priests manner of singing was mockery before God that praying to Saincts and vowing of Chastity and their manner of building Temples and observing of Holydayes were superstitious and wicked and all humane inventions in Gods worship wicked Idolatrie These men continued in their preaching twenty years and having great refort coming to their preaching of all sorts and estates at last they were apprehended by the Popes commaund by a Legate of his and Peter Brise was burned a St. Ioyls the other was apprehended committed to prison but what came of him we finde not but the followed great persecution many of their Disciples went to their death joyfully Look the 65. and 66. Letters of Barnod to the Earle of St. Ioylls There wrote against them Peter Abbott of Clugnam which Barnod did record and in likelyhood with envy See the Cronicle of Paulus Meriam Ilyricus in his boock Detesbus Anno 1158. speaketh of two called Gurhardus and Dulcinus who did preach diligently against the Church of Rome affirming that prayer was no better in one place then another and that the Pope was Antichrist and the Prelates and Clergy of Rome were rejected and the very whore of Babylon prefigured in the Apocalyps These two Preachers came into England and brougt with them thirty in the raigne of King Henry the Second and by means of the Prelats they were imprisoned and branded in the cheeck and banished the land and after putt to death by the Pope This yeare was Peter Waldus called in question Anno 1160. for that hee taught the truth of the Gospel against the Popes superstition The meanes of his conversion was this He being a rich merchant of Lions some say he was a Magistrate sundry of the Merchants being together merry suddenly one of them was strucken dead and so the rest being strucken with great feare he gave himselfe to prayer and reading the Scriptures good bookes and instructed his Familie in the grounds of Christian Religion shewing them the great superstition of the Romish Church so that they had forsaken the Heavenly Truth which the Apostles planted in steade thereof they did burdē their consciences with superstition And hee being very rich gave much goods weekely to the poore instructed them well in the grounds of religion so that many came to his godly exhortations and to conferre with him concerning the truth of the Gospell He kept sundry learned men in his house he caused good bookes to be translated in the French language He himselfe was learned as doth appeare by a parchment writing of his owne hand in which he had collected the Fathers into a good forme as that writing sheweth First the Bishops and Priests sent unto him and forbad him to have any mo such meetings in his house upon payne of excommunication to which he gave this answer That it was his dutie to teach his houshould the grounds of religion wheras his neighbours came to heare him he did not find wher that he ought to forbid them but he was assured it was his dutye to teach his houshould he would obey the voice of Christ when he was called into question that which they layd to his charge was that hee affirmed that the Masse was abominable before God and that hee denyed any more Sacraments then Baptisme and the Lords Supper and that it was an abomination to offer for the dead and that Purgatory was the invention of men that there was no ground in the Scripture for it for the Faithfull go presently to joy after this life that honouring of Images praying to Saincts was idolatrie that the Church of Rome was the Whore of Babylon that Christians ought not to obey the Pope or the Bishops because they were no better then Wolves to destroy the Church and that they ought not to meddle with the temporall sword and that their additions of mo Sacraments then two was wicked Item that the Vowe of chastity was found to be Sodomitrie that the many orders of the Monks was the marke of the Beast abominable against Christ For friers were not then hatched that celebrated dayes for dead men all inventions of men in Gods worship were ungodly And because the Popes champion Bernard who is saincted for his worke Peter of Clumin write so spightfully of them charging them with sundry heresies and that they denie childrens baptisme I will set downe the testimonie of one who was a bloody persecutor of them as it is in a little booke that he wrote against the Waldenses about the yeare 1270. wherein when hee hath spoken all

COMMENTARIES It is a large and faithfull description whereof the second Volume treates of the Constitutions of great Pontiss Soveraigne Priests and Sacrificers as have been ordained since the beginning of the World and their true Number Power Riches and Authority all for thy only benefit this sincere Summary of the Sacrifice called the Masse In this Treatise though little in appearance are designed set downe all such Sacred Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments ordained of GOD from time to time As also the Corruptions that have grown successively in the Church of GOD whereby I doe evidently shew the Birth of all Heresies and Jdolatries and especially the true Originall of the Masse for the which the world is in great strifes bloody Contentions cruell Divisions Hatred and lamentable Civile Warres for some do Invectivate and Inveigh against it alledging that it is newly divised and invented others defend it by prescription and long possession and thus by such like altercations the Christian Church is sore afflicted with the yoke and Terror of Sedition But if thou art a Christian beloved Reader of what Sect soever Papist or Euangelicall I pray thee heartily for thine owne good to have patience to read this Worke for by it thou mayest evidently know and plainly discover the very truth of whatsoever thou standest in doubt of what Sacrifices Sacraments and Sacred Signes have beene instituted of GOD since ADAM what is the Masse and Originall thereof who were her Founders Augmenters Inventers to the end thou mayest firmely beleeve with assurance all the Contents herein mentioned have recourse to those Authors out of whose Bookes workes I have drawne end derived it their Names and Bookes are quoted in the Margent So ayming at GODS glory and thy owne Benefit I rest with my prayers to GOD to inspire thee with his Holy Spirit by the intercession of our onely Saviour Redeemer and Mediatour Iesus Christ AMEN THE TRANSLATOR TO THE COVRTEOVS READER wisheth all Saving health in Iesus Christ. WIse Politicians favourable Reader in their Jnstitutions and Government of Common-wealths do hold for an infallible maxime that to reforme Corruptions and abuses in States better course cannot be taken then often to reduce things to their primitive Originall Because Lawes at first enacted with good and profitable intention in the Revolution of few yeeres by mens instability and inconstancie of minde or the peculiar interest of Avarice by Injustice are abrogated and neglected The Venetians beeing a people at this day celebrous and famous for their Governement have a supreame Magistracie which they call A Syndicate that once in a few yeeres survey all the Offices and Dignities in their Common-wealth the Duke himselfe not there excepted to looke in the abuses and preuent their deepe roote and plantation that so all things may continue and stand entire according to the rules and precepts of their first Constitutions and ordinances Also a Garden-plot though never so curiously drawne or distinguished into borders and set with all manner of odoriferous flowers and wholesome herbes yet every showre of raine brings foorth new weedes the which if they be not carefully and dayly supplanted will soone overgrow the good plants and bring the same to a wilde and savage plot of ground And though the inevitable depravation and corruption of mans nature carry so strong a hand in things transitory and mutable yet one would thinke they should be more stable and provident in those courses tending to eternall salvation and soules reprobation in observing those Lawes and Cōmandments uttered by GOD himselfe commanded to all Posteries for a square Rule whereby to measure our faith actions Notwithstanding men are more prone to Declination Corruption in that from the very beginning and first institution of the Law Mosaicall till the present times that for many ages have received the cleere and manifest Truth and doctrine Euangelicall Heresies have ever crept in and caried too powerfull a hand as Verity it selfe like gold in the bowels and entralls of the earth is encombred with a wonderfull deale of oare drosse which is not like to be s●parated till the last sire of tryall which shall prove every mans worke and cast out the drosse to be trampled troden under foote Wherefore Christian Reader for the better satisfaction and generall good of all Gods Church I have laboured to translate this curious and admirable Master peece most worthy and necessary to be observed and read for thou mayest as in a Mirror cleerely see and discover the Birth and the Originall of this foule Monster Heresie in the Church even from the first ages before the written Law as also during the force and efficacie of the Mosaicall Sacrifices and now in these later times more pertinent under the Law and precepts of Christs holy Gospel wherein are deduced the Authors and Founders of the Romane Masse And what conformity it holds with the Ethnicke-Rites and ceremonies and how farr a digression it hath made from the doctrine life and practise Apostolicall and the ages of the Primitive Church wherein the Author ever hath abandoned all passion and partiality and in full proofes cited none but either approved and authentike Authors as the ancient Doctors and Writers of the Church that lived before the present Inundations of superstitions Traditions Bring them to the Text of Gods Word compare them with the example of the Prophets and Apostles observe the customes of the Primitive churches thus by reducing thē to their beginnings it will be easie to judge whether they stand still in that unspotted integritie or have not adulterously prophaned the sincere worship of GOD with many and meere humane inventions If thou doest but vouchsafe the diligent and carefull reading hereof I make no doubt but it will yeeld great comfort to thy Conscience confirmation to thy Faith as that which will cleerely delucidate many hidden passages that have not hitherto been revealed and if it may take this happy effect I shall thinke my paines sufficiently requited and recompensed in all things ayming at Gods glory and not mine owne And thus I rest ABR DARCIE THE ORIGINALL OF POPISH IDOLATRIES c. Published under the name of Casaubon Anno Domini 1624. Called in the same yeer upon misinformation But now upon better consideration reprinted with allowance Together with the Originall and true Anatomie of the Masse As also the corruptions and abuses of all these holy things from the beginning CHAP. I. Of Sacred Signes IN the time preordained of God by his inscrutable and incomprehensible Wisedome when hee had created man to his true Image and likenesse the better to move and incite him to feare and obedience as also to make him partaker of his blessings he gave him sme exercise of vertue whereby hee might acknowledge him his Almighty God and omnipotent Creatour were ordained many Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments First to our first Father Adam to whom with his Successors corporall men God allotted corporall