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A13823	The revvard of religion Deliuered in sundrie lectures vpon the booke of Ruth, wherein the godly may see their daily and outwarde tryals, with the presence of God to assist them, and his mercies to recompence them: verie profitable for this present time of dearth, wherein manye are most pittifully tormented with want; and also worthie to bee considered in this golden age of the preaching of the word, when some vomit vp the loathsomnes therof, and others fall away to damnable securitie.	Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?	1596 (1596)	STC 24127; ESTC S105980	250,925	363

obtained of Phocas the Emperour and murderer of Mauritius that the Bishoppe of Rome might bee the heade of all Churches to whose iudgement all the world in spirituall matters must be subiect by which in time it came to this that hee corrupted the whole Church of Christ that hee got both swords into his hand and made himselfe a triple Crowne after the manner of the late Roman Emperors who had three Crownes at their inauguration and as the triple lightning was the auncient of Iupiter so the triple Crowne is the badge of the Pope thourough the honour or terrour thereof he threatneth what thunder-bolts he pleaseth in the world The Cabalists imagined two Keyes whereby Paradise was opened and shutte from hence the Pope hath in his banner the crosse Keyes telling vs that he hath power to open and shut Paradise for against whō he pleaseth Being thus exalted into the highest place as it was reported the God Termines would not giue place to iupiter standing both in the Capitoll no more the Pope giueth place to Christ although hee stand in the middest of his Church and sit at the right hand of his Father in heauen For this cause as the Emperours had their senate so he hath his Cardinals as the Egyptians bound the Priests of Isis or Apis to liue in perpetuall virginitie so hee forceth the sacred shauelings of his vnholy seate with the vowe of perpetuall chastitie and that he might helpe their weaknesse in this behalfe as Caligula suffered the whoores of Rome in his daies so the Popes haue graunted the tolleration of a Stewes builded by a Pope Sixtus the fourth which in shorte time so preuailed that the Pope receiued for Rents thereof fourtie thousand Duccats by the yeare And Paule the thirde had the names of fourtie fiue thousand Tennants belonging to that most filthie and damnable kinde of life Furthermore hee furnished or rather poysoned the Church of Christ with Friers Munkes Nunnes The Friers and Munkes are the successors of the Essaean Dosithaean Nasachaean and Cynicall heretickes which like these take vpon them the vowes of wilfull pouertie and perpetuall chastitie placing their Religion in abstinence from meates in outward and hypocriticall fasting affirming that they are the successors and followers of the Apostles like the heretiques called by Augustine Apostoliques defending that the Apostles leade a single life and had no wiues so these Romish heretiques accompt Marriage but filthines like the Marcionites Tacians Adamites Platonists and Valesian heretiques and are not ashamed to make the holy Apostles of Christ breakers of wedlocke and wilfull departers from their own wiues contrarie to the writings of the Euangelists and Saint Paul The Nunnes or women-Munks are the naturall successors of the vestall Virgins instituted by Numa as these were Dedicated to Vesta Apollo Iuno Argiua Diana Minerua so are the Romish Nunns to Marie the mother of Christ and other holy women Then also did he begin to dresse and adorne the Temples with Images which he learned of the Gentiles as I haue already declared and herein hee ioyned with the Gnostickes and Basilidian heretiques who defended Images to be lawfull for Christian people and as the Gentiles had their sacrifices for the dead called Inferiae so he instituted praiers for the dead least he should seeme to want any thing which hee should not haue Then also hee tooke the Scriptures from the common people least they should espie his lewdnesse and as Lysis the Pythagorean blamed one of his fellowes for making knowne abroade their Masters precepts so hee blameth all those that shall open the misteries of the Gospell to the common people and as the Magicians of Persia were wont to sing to their Idols in a strange tongue so the Pope commanded all things to bee done in the Church in an vnknowne language wherein they also ioyne with the Basilidian heretiques who gaue this as a principle that their misteries must be concealed and reuealed onely to a few being worse then the Pythagoreans who commaunded but fiue yeares silence to their Disciples but the Papistes keepe men all their liues from reading speaking and conferring on the Scriptures By this meanes he deceiued the world with iugling like the heretiques called Mirabiliarii and affirmed that faith commeth by nature like the Basilidians and Gnosticks they taught that euerie one that would be saued must be annoyled in their sickenesse like the Heracleonite heretiques that it is lawfull for women to Baptise like the Marcionites that children vnbaptised are not vnder the couenant and that grace is giuen with the outward signe like the Arrians and Heracleonites that children must be annoynted with Oyle in Baptisme like the heretiques Marcus and Marcosus that Baptisme washeth away originall sinnes and such actuall as are committed before like the Nouatians and Messalian heretiques that the Sacrament of the Supper of the Lord after the words of Consecration spoken is the verie body and bloud of Christ so the heretiques called Marcites said they made by coniuration and for this cause the Pepuzian heretiques baked the bloud of man with the bread ordained for this supper that wine must bee mingled with water as the Artotyrites said they must offer Cheese with the bread in the Sacrament that good workes merite eternall life like the Pelagians Catharites and Mahumetistes that a man since the fall of Adam hath free will and that God hath Predestinated none like the Pelagians that it is lawfull for vs to sweare by creatures as the Virgine Marie Saints and Angels so doe the Manichaeans and Mahumetistes that some sinnes be mortall and some veniall so doth Mahomet affirme with a thousand like most vaine wicked wretched blasphemous and damnable assertions which were most easie to bee proued if there were any question of it By this your Ho. may perceiue that their Religion is but patched of many condemned heresies defended by vnwritten traditions and maintained by violent and forcible dealing like the Chamelaeon they haue often changed and poysoned the world but the scriptures are as a Baye lease to cure the contagion of such mortall confusion and thus in some sort I haue perfourmed my promise in deliuering the vanity of the world which hath refused the wisedome of the eternall word of God The end of this my speech is to shew the wonderfull and incomparable treasure of the holy Scriptures for as the Golde hath the brightest beames being laide to the Copper as the Adamante is of greatest force when the loade stone is beside it and the purest colour hath the best hiewe when the countersaite is compared with it so the blessing of God in his word doth most magnificently appeare when wee behold before our eyes the counterfaite colours of superstitious conceipts the crooked deuises and cursed opinions of the condemned Crue which haue refused the waye of life declared herein and chused the path of damnation for the hire of their superstition The Scriptures are not only a Castle to keepe

Boaz The words do easily deuide themselues into two parts the first respecteth Boaz the other Ruth The first parte concerning Boaz is that which he did after his worke and before his sleepe verse 7. that he eate and dranke and made his hearte merrye and laye downe beside his corne For that hee did after his sleepe verse 8. first hee feared when hee felte a woman at his feete and secondly hee asketh who shee was After he knewe her hee blessed her verse 10. Secondlye hee comforteth her verse 11. In these wordes feare not my daughter His comforte hath 2. partes first his confession that hee was her kinsman verse 12. Secondly the counsell hee giueth to her verse 13 to tarrie vntill the morning and then he would try her other kinsman if he refused Boaz promiseth by oath to the confirme hir right and do her kinsmans duety and therefore biddeth her to sleepe vntill the morning The second parte which concerneth Ruth is her behauiour after shee came to the place appointed and hath these two branches first that which shee did alone verse 7. That shee came and laye downe at his feete secondlye that which shee did with Boaz first she telleth him her name when shee perceaued the man was afraid secondly she sheweth him her petition desiring him to spreade the wing of his garmente ouer her verse 9. Of these partes let vs speake in order as they lye by the asistance of the spirit of God and permission of the time And when Boaz These wordes concerne Boaz and that which hee did after his worke the daye being ended and his bodye being wearied hee went to his meate eating and drinking refreshing his stomacke and cheering his hearte with those blessings of God which he had presente afterwardes getting him to his lodging at the ende of his corne in sted of a softer bed harboureth vppon the straw Out of the which we obserue these thinges First the blessing of God vppon his creatures that are moderatelye taken for it is saide that hee cheared his hearte after his eating and drinking his bodye was not onely nourished his hunger abated and his stomacke filled but also his hearte was cheered thereby as if the holye Ghost had saide Heere is my blessing vppon meate that is moderatelye receiued that the powers of the soule are refreshed by it therefore wee reade in the preacher that a whole lande is blessed by the moderate receiuing of these benefites in eating and drinking The experience whereof is plainelye proued euerye daye among vs. For what is the fruite of this immoderate deuouring the benefites of God but as Salomon sayth the eyes wounds without cause quarrels and contentions to the woe of manye wherein they that reioyce are voyd of all reason which ought to bee the grounde of all our mirthe but like beastes some from feedinge to sleeping conueye themselues other from eating to gaming turne their bodyes delighting in nought but vanitye being as farre from this cheerefullnes of hearte by their meate and nourishement as Nabal was after his feaste when one worde of Dauids anger stroke his hearte dead But this Boaz was heere alone and none beside him and yet you see that in his solitarye barne voide of companyons hee made himselfe merrye with the fellowshippe of the blessing of God vppon his meate Euen so assuredlye if the handes of many could guide their mouthes their mouthes rule their appetites and both were gouerned with the spirite of God that they receiued for strength to nourishe their weakenes not for gluttony to stuffe vp their stomackes they shoulde with greater comforte sit downe to their meales and exceeding ioyfullye rise vp againe But since our mindes haue as manye deuises as our stomackes receiue morsels wee eate and yet wee are not satisfied wee drinke and yet wee are not merrye but ouercome with the good creatures of God wee seeke after idle songes vaine iesting and vnprofitable fables of falsehood and forged conceiptes in vngodly bookes which drowneth our spiritual ioy and plungeth our mindes in the gulfe of worldly mirth and woefull misery Then let vs learne the wisdome of Christ and looke for ioye which standeth not in laughter but in the inward comfort of the assurance of the spirite being persuaded wee feed in y e presence of God we may haue Christ at our temporall and worldly meales that wee may eate and drinke with him in his euerlasting kingdome Secondly by this wee obserue that our meate after our labours is much more ioyfull to our harts and profitable to our bodyes then if it bee receiued in an idle life for Boaz had wrought hard all this daye and the reward of his labour is the worke of his meate which in the end of all maketh his hart merry In consideration whereof the Lord inflicted this as a punnishment vppon mankind that their meate shoulde be vnprofitable vnlesse it were eaten in the sweate of our browes for as sleepe to a man that hath long watched so is meate to a man that hath long laboured as the coursing of the Hart maketh him to breath for the water springs so labour causeth men to hunger more vehemently to eate more liberally and disgest more effectually their desired morsels We read of Ionothan the sonne of king Saul when he had wearied himselfe in the slaughter of y e Philistines being very hungry did but dippe the toppe of this batte in a hony combe and putting it to his mouth his eyes receiued sight so acceptable are the crummes and drops to them that labour that they restore the life power of the body and for this cause the greatest persons in the first and purest age when the life of man was many hundred years were not exempted from bodily labour On the other side as Salomon saith they which sit long at wine and seeke after strong drinke meanning those which with idlenes followe their bellyes are most noysome to the worlde vnwholesome to themselues and woful for euer for their end will bee as the byting of a serpente and the stinging of a cockatrice teaching vs that labouring mens morsels are most sweet if we should ioyfully recreate our selues in the benefites of God wee must diligentlye prepare our stomackes in some honest trauailes that the basest fare may be acceptable meate vnto vs for the health of the body is preserued by labour as the planted corne by the diligence of the husbandman for hee which tilleth the earth is satisfied with breade but idlenes is nearest kinsman to madens Against this wee haue often spoken heeretofore and let this suffise for this time Thirdly we must note what manner of mirth or cheerfulnes was this of Boaz it could not be in talking for hee was alone nor yet in iesting for the former reason nor yet was it outward in singing for it is saide his heart was cheerefull as if there were a mirth that were not outwarde And truely