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A18103	The originall of idolatries: or, The birth of heresies a true, sincere, and exact description of all such sacred signes, sacrifices, and sacraments as haue been instituted and ordained of God since Adam; with the true source and liuely anatomy of the sacrifice of the Masse. First faithfully gathered out of sundry Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuers learned fathers; by that famous and learned Isaac Casaubon, and by him published in French, for the good of Gods Church: and now translated into English for the benefit of this monarchy; by Abraham Darcie.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 4747; ESTC S107577	78,965	150

the holy Sacrament of Baptisme many Heresies were raised by the Catabaptists Anabaptists Antipedobaptists with other Heretikes and Schismatikes who were not satisfied with Gods pure and sincere Institution but regarded more exteriour signes then that which in them was spiritually represented Whosoeuer desires to vnderstand more particularly the abuses and corruptions inuented and deuised in diuers ages out of the variable humours of men let them read our Ecclesiasticall Commentaries Wee must now at this present descend to the corruptions in the other holy Sacrament of the Supper and Communion of the Body and Bloud of Iesus Christ CHAP. VIII Of the Corruption of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper WEe may euidently discerne by this succinct Discourse how weake and mutable man is euer abusing and alienating the graces of God For as the people of Israel from the beginning of the Law and Institution to them recommended corrupted the true vse of Sacrifices sacred signes and Sacraments ordained of God so hath it falne out to the Law of God by Iesus Christ hauing constituted a forme of communicating his Body ●and Bloud vnder the symboles and sacred signes of Bread and Wine Which holy Sacrament began to bee alienated euen in the very times of the Apostles by the Corinthians against whom Saint Paul wrote Epistles to reduce them to the sincere and true obseruation of this holy Sacrament Wherefore let no man hereafter thinke it strange if the Apostles successors haue from time to time adulterated the true Vse and Rite of this holy Sacrament and the further off they were in the present age of their liuing from the reigne of the Apostles of Iesus Christ the more easily they fell into corruptions yea such as were most abominable hauing conuerted the sincere Vse of this Sacrament into a Gulph and Precipice of all Idolatry First of all what an alteration happened in the Church next and immediatly succeeding the Apostles touching a Comprimission of dayes when this holy Sacrament was to be celebrated Sabatius the Heretike instituted the celebration of the Passeouer with vnleauened bread after the manner of the Iewes Some of his sect ordained that this holy Sacrament should bee solemnized the fourteenth Moneth as the Iewes did Policrates Bishop of the Ephesians was said to bee of this sect Philip Hiropolitan Policarpus Truscas Melitus and Narcissus Bishop of Ierusalem Victor Bishop of Rome Eleutherius his predecessor and Theophilus Bishop of Palestina were of a contrary opinion This difference continued for more then three hundred yeeres after the Apostles time Others celebrated the Passeouer after the Aequinoctiall season when the sunne entred into the signe of Aries and others obserued the Moneth Xanthicke called by the Romanes Aprill Some affirmed for example the Quartodocumans how they were informed by S. Iohn to celebrate it in the fourteenth Moneth The Romanes vaunted that they were taught by S. Peter and S. Paul whereof notwithstanding no manifest proofe appeared The Phrygian Montanists condemne the Quartodecumans which obserued the fourteenth Moneth and that they ought herein to bee gouerned by the course of the sunne and so to begin it at the springs Aequinoctiall And for this reason they celebrated it the eight of the Ides of Aprill which was the fourteenth of the said Moneth though it fell vpon a Sunday And there was not a contention onely touching the administration of this holy Sacrament on the seuerall dayes assigned for celebrating thereof but there was likewise a notable deuision among the Christians about the Ceremonies inuented whereby worthily to receyue the same For some as in particular the Romanes obserued the Fast or Euen three weekes before the day it selfe of Easter The Illyrians and all Greece as likewise the Alexandrians instituted a Quadragesima to fast for sixe weekes Some others ordained a seuen weekes abstinence with an Intermission from fiue to fiue dayes Then was another Iewish Ceremonie restored the more to corrupt the holy Sacrament of the Supper through diffrence and distinction of meats For some prohibited during the Feast the eating either of Fish or Flesh Others forbade the vse of Flesh onely permitting men to eate Fish or Fowle which they said according to Moses did participate of the substance of the Water Some in like manner ordained that men should only eate bread and Water Others fasted till noone without any distinction of meates And to resolue briefly there was in the beginning an infinite number of Corruptions and Customes in the Communion of the holy Sacrament of the Supper by meanes of the Ceremonies renewed about difference of daies and meates abrogated by the Grace and Law of Iesus Christ But was there any holy Apostle of God that euer left in writing any Law or Cōmandement for distinction of daies and meates in celebrating the holy Supper of Iesus Christ Their intention was not to institute a Religion of Feasts a distinction of dayes and meates Their Doctrine onely aimed to instruct men how to liue well and that one onely God was to be adored and worshipped Wherefore we must necessarily hereupon inferre that the Ceremony and Festiuity of the Pascha or Easter proceeded from a custome for none of the Apostles left any thing thereof in writing To qualifie such Dissentions and Corruptions many Councels were assembled one at Sangariae in Bithinia by which to auoid all contentions euery man was apermitted to celebrate the Passeouer when he would Another Councell was held in Cesarea by Theophilus Bishop of that place and by Narcissus Bishop of Ierusalem Another Councell there was in Achaia And another Councell was conuented at Rome by Victor Bishop of the same place After these petty corruptions there succeeded greater from time to time according to the humors and affections of the Bishops of Rome Alexander 1. of that name being raised to the superintendencie of the Romane Church one of the first successors to the Apostles of Iesus Christ and one of the first corruptors also of the holy Sacrament of the Supper inuented the mingling of water with Wine before the Communion wherein hee went about to reforme the holy Gospell of Iesus Christ which instituted the Communion of his Body and Bloud vnder the two kindes of Bread and Wine but Alexander added thereunto a third kind which was water He also renewed the Iewish ceremony of vnleauened bread wherewith to celebrate the Passeouer as the Iewes did following herein the opinion of the Ebionites who taught that the Ceremoniall Law of Moses was necessary for saluation as also Symmachus the Hereticke in Palestine taught the like If Iesus Christ was circumcised to fulfill the Lawe of Moses must it therefore be requisite to vse Circum●nmcision As also if it were His pleasure for accomplishing the Law of Ceremonies to vse one daies appointed vnleauened Bread must wee needs therefore returne to the rigour of this Ceremonie abrogated by the complete Sacrifice of Iesus Christ In what place of

the Missalian treasure all amercements and confiscations adiudged within the demeans of the Romane Pontife with other ordinances reuiued by new Romane Popes which haue descended from one to another To this purpose reade in the Romane Stories that during the reigne of the Emperour Valentinian the second of this name there hapned a dangerous sedition at Rome betweene the Christian and idolatrous Priests which stroue who should amasse or heape vp together most wealth in the Church by grants testamentary legacies oblations and other inuentions so as the Heathen and Infidell idolaters who retained yet a Temple to themselues called at this day the Church of Saint Peter ad Vincula fought with the Christians at Rome who would haue dedicated it to their deuotion After the Offertory Titlemans Alcoran sets downe how the Masse-priest should bee silent for a time to figure the flight of Christ or his Disciples feare to confesse him before the Iewes Then this being performed the Priest sings aloud per omnia secula seculorum because after Christ had hidden himselfe he publikely came forth in Lazarus house Then he sings Sanctus sanctus sanctus to allude to the Iewes song when Christ entred into Ierusalem When this Musicke ends the Priest must murmur in secret and betweene his teeth counterfeiting sorrow without any turne-abouts but then he must expresse a kind of mute mummery by the making of many reiterated croysadoes as shall hereafter be mentioned CHAP. XVII Of the round Host with the Consecration of the same NExt to the Offertory we must come to the ninth part of the Masse the most rich and most pleasing for the Missalians This is the Host or victime which comprehends the end of all this Missall Sacrifice In the dayes of Numa the Magician the Romanes were not yet accustomed to kill and immolate with the blood of beasts but men were appointed to eate and communicate within the Temple after the end of the Missall Sacrifice small round loaues consecrated to the honour of the gods in whose name the sacrifice was celebrated These little round hosts of fine meale were eaten by the Priest by the assistants standing vpright and not sitting The flower whereof they were made was called Mola and from thence came this word immolare There were diuers hosts that is to say little round loaues dedicated to diuers gods as there were likewise sundry Missall Sacrifices With the said round hosts they also offered wine the Altars seruing for Tables While the Priests the assistants in the sacrifice eate and communicated together of the said little round loaues consecrated to the honor of their gods hymnes and thanksgiuings were sung and some vsed the sound of the Organs and Cymbals Before the swallowing of this round host printed with imagery the Missalian Doctors ordained the Priest to vtter certaine exorcismes and coniurations with many signes of the crosse First hee must make three crosses vpon this round host to figure the trinall tradition of Christ that is to say by the Father by himselfe Christ and by the holy Ghost in pronouncing these words Haec dona haec munera haec sancta sacrificia illibata Some other Doctors Alcoranists and Missalians interpret the third crossing for Iudas treason who deliuered his Master into the hands of the Iewes Besides the aboue mentioned three Croisadoes fiue other follow to intimate the fiue dayes space from the day of Palmes to the day of the Passion or otherwise to represent the fiue wounds of Christ two in the hands two in the feet and one in the right side Of which fiue Croysadoes the three first must be made ouer the Chalice and the round host to figure the deliuery of Christ to the Priests Scribes and Pharisies or to signifie the price of Christs sale that is to say three times ten which import the thirty pence The two other crossi●gs are made distinctly on which is the fourth ouer the host and the other ouer the Chalice distinctly to manifest vnto vs the two persons of Christ and Iudas when this is done the Masse-Priest continuing in his fooleries and monckeries stretcheth out his armes to delineate Christ spred vpon the Crosse then he lifts the round host printed with imagery on high that it may be adored Afterwards he returnes to make three crosses one ouer the host another ouer the Chalice and a third ouer himselfe to play herein the part of three estates or conditions of those that are in Heauen in Purgatory and in the earth Then he thumps vpon his brest to play the penitent theefe that was hanged vpon the Crosse This thumping of his stomacke must bee performed with the three last fingers of his hand because the thumbe and the next finger are reserued to consecrate and transubstantiate the round host Moreouer he must beat his brest three times to figure a triple offence of the heart of the mouth and of reall act exalting his voice to represent the Theefe or the Centurion which confessed God in the Passion Sixe other Croisadoes are afterwards reiterated three ouer the cou●red Chalice to commemorate the three houres that Christ hung aliue vpon the Crosse and three other crosses are made ouer the open Chalice and the round host being once more eleuated to decypher the three houres that Christ hung dead vpon the Crosse Then does he adde two other crosses after the Masse-monger hath kist his Chalice to describe the mystery of blood and water issuing out of Christs sides Besides all the aboue mentioned mute mummeries the Priest must lift the vaile ouer the Chalice and release it from the Plataine to represent the rent vaile in the midst at Christs death This being done the round host is laid vpon the Chalice and couched in the corporall to figure the burial of Christ When the Masse priest hath plaia the part of the hang'd theefe of the traitor Iudas of Christ of the Publicanes hee afterwards comoediates the Centurion singing the Pater Noster But Durandus Alcoran by the seuen petitions in the Pater Noster expresseth the seuen teares of the Virgin Mary the seuen vertues or the seuen mortall sinnes When this song is ended the Priest remaines silent for a while to represent the silence and repose of Christ in the graue Another apery or monckery is plaid by the Masse-priest with the round host which he layes vpon the Pix to decypher the vnion of his diuinity with his humanity but when hee plaies the secret mystery the host is hidden out of sight CHAP. XVIII Of diuers parts and sundry Ceremonies belonging to the Masse WHen the sacrifice was ended the little round hosts eaten Numa appointed these words to be sung I licet or Ite Missa est which is to say go you are permitted the assembly is dismist to repaire home to their houses Are not these all the parts of the Missall sacrifice most of which were ordained by Numa the Magician aboue 700 years before

Scripture did Alexander learne to mingle water with Wine and to restraine Christians to vnleauened Bread as also his other inuention of driuing away Diuels with salt water exorcized As for the Purgatory Water by him ordained wee will hereafter deriue the originall thereof from Numa Pompilius that great Magician and Romane Idolater But touching the mixture of water with Wine he might peraduenture be instructed by the ancient Idolaters who in celebrating their sacrifices were wont in a Chalice to consecrate Water with Bread especially vpon the Festiuals dedicated to the Sunne which the Persians worshipped called by them Mythros And in the Feast of the Nephalies they also vsed Water for sacrifice With this comparison Iustine Martyr relates the custome obserued amongst Idolaters and by Christians in the consecration of Bread Wine and Water by the one which is to say by the Idolaters in the name of their Idols and by Christians in the Name of their True God And yet this first corruption in the administration of the holy Sacrament by the mixture of water with Wine perseuered not without contradiction For the Greekes were of a contrary opinion and that it was not requisite to brew water with Wine neither would they herein follow the Alexandrian corruptions Amarcanus was of the same opinion as Alexander affirming that the mixture of water with Wine was necessary Scotus the subtile Sophister absolutely denied that it was necessary to mingle the water with the Wine because saith he it cannot then be changed nor transubstantiated into Bloud except the same were first changed into Wine Some others more ingenious laboured to interpret this Institution of Alexander by alleadging that the wine was conuerted into blood but as for the water it was transubstantiated into the water that came out of Christs side This first corruption of Alexanders gaue occasion of many other succeeding abuses For some other more profound Impostors deuised to mingle with the wine bloud that was taken from yong Infants wherewith to besmeare the bread of the holy Supper of Iesus Christ as the Cataphrigians who brought in a kinde of transubstantiation of wine into bloud really and corporlly Some others added cheese thereunto called Artotirites which is to say Cheese-bread-mongers Certaine also abusing this holy Sacrament in stead of wine put in water vnder pretext of the greater abstinence Others had an Institution of steeping bread in the wine the which custome the Messalians also retained in their Missall sacrifices For another detestable corruption of this holy Sacrament some Popes of Rome forbade their Messalian sacrificers not to administer to Christian people whom they call Lay-men the Body of Iesus Christ in both kindes but onely vnder the sacred signe of Bread and not of Wine which they reserued for their Messalian sacrificing Priests Is not this corruption directly against the holy Gospel and Institution of the Supper of Iesus Christ ordained and commaunded that all faithfull men should eate his body and drinke of his blood When he tooke the Cup did he not vse these proper words Drinke all of this Wine in memoriall of my Bloud shed Vsed hee any other words for the eating of his Bodie in the symbole of Bread then hee did of his Blond vnder the signe of Wine For if wee compare the sacred signe ordained by God in the Church of the Israelites being a Figure of the Communion of the body of Iesus Christ which was the true Paschal Lambe whose flesh was ordained to bee eaten without exception of persons so they were circumcised was there euer any difference in the eating of the Paschall Lambe and the celebration of the Passeouer among the Iewes betweene the Leuites being of the race of sacrificing Priests and others of the common people To bring in another odious corruption the Messalians instituted in their Missall-Idolatries to sacrifice and offer the Body and Bloud of Iesus Christ reiterating by this means the Sacrifice fully consummated by Iesus Christ which cannot bee reiterated because it was not according to the forme of Aaron but of Melchizedec the Eternall Sacrifizer and Priest without leauing any successor As also when the Apostle admonished the Corinthians to celebrate sacredly the Supper of Iesus Christ were they commanded to sacrifice No but to eate and communicate together of the Body to drinke of the blood of Iesus Christ The beginning of the Supper was not to kill or immolate or to sacrifice any beast or oblation to God but onely to eate and drinke at his holy banquet prepared for vs by Iesus Christ the Eternall sacrifice and Sacrificer who reserued onely for himselfe this Eternall Priesthood yet neuerthelesse hee left vnto vs a sacred Institution of a banquet set before vs in the Bread and Wine which represent his Body and Bloud After these aboue-named corruptions Satan a diligent Babylonian Architect employed all his power and means to rayse an inexpugnable Fort of Idolatry to the end that hee might wholly demolish and subuert the kingdome of Iesus Christ when hee vndertooke to suborne the Masse in stead of the holy Sacrament of the Supper as wee will briefly produce and so clearely that the most hard-hearted Pharaohs inueterated in their ancient Idolatries shall by the trueth of Histories acknowledge their errours and abominable Heresies CHAP. IX The ancient Religion of the Romane Empire BEfore my deciphering of this labyrinth of Errour wherein the Messalians did so lose themselues I thinke it verie requisite succinctly to lay open the ancient Religion of the Romanes during the reigne of the Occidentall Empire and of the Emperours vsurping both the Temporall scepter and the dignitie of high Priests superintendents ouer the Romane Church and Religion All of them as well as my selfe will confesse that the ancient Romane Religion was either wholly or for the greatest part instituted by Numa Pompilius the second King of the Romanes about seuen hundred yeeres before the Incarnation of Iesus Christ Then were your high Priests inuested which afterwards were reduced to a certaine number euen to foure then the number was augmented to eight and afterwards by Silla to fifteene In the Colledge of Priests there was one Pontifex Maximus who was chosen by the other inferiour Priests of their Order and dignitie euen as the pettie Priest purple-Cardinals make the election of their great Romane Pope out of their place order and dignitie This Pompilian Religion was so religiously obserued by the Romanes from father to sonne as it was neuer possible to irradicate or supplant it but it continues euen to this day as euery one shall manifestly discerne by this succinct Narration To confirme this point no man can be ignorant if euer he read the Romane Histories but that before the Incarnation of Christ there was not so much as one King Consull Dictator or Romane Emperour instructed in the Law of God but all were Idolaters and Infidels obseruing the Religion of that Magician Numa Pompilius For