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A02834	A vision of Balaams asse VVherein hee did perfectly see the present estate of the Church of Rome. Written by Peter Hay Gentleman of North-Britaine, for the reformation of his countrymen. Specially of that truly noble and sincere lord, Francis Earle of Errol, Lord Hay, and great Constable of Scotland.	Hay, Peter, gentleman of North-Britaine.	1616 (1616)	STC 12972; ESTC S103939	211,215	312

be could not be admitted to the sacred mysteries of his goddesse I●… if he had not changed himselfe out of a Phylosopher into an humble Asse further to let these fine fellowes know how in this a sinn●…●…ge of mine I haue been ●…urious 〈◊〉 ●…orneelie 〈◊〉 w●…th pertaineth to the Asse The People D●…d saith Nolita fieri sicus Equus Mulus q●…bus none 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but of the Asse the Prophet Esay wonderfully noting perhaps the particular circumstances of our Sauiour as somethinke in a Prophetica●…ision hath said Cog●…nit B●… p●…rem suunt 〈◊〉 pr●…sepe D●… It is manifestly seene that by naturall goodnesse the Asse hath those properties which euery Christiane is commanded to follow so patient of iniuties that being ●…ten of any other beast it taketh no offence so painefull and obedient that the greater burthen maketh it to trauell more willingly so simple that it requires no attendance as horses and other seruiceable beasts so temperate and soberat food that while it ●…eth the most percious fruits oyles coines spices it putteth downe the mouth to p●…re vpon th●…les as it were a figure of that simplicity and a●…ty which ●…ght to bee vnder the Crosse as some ●…o imagine it hath the marke of a Cross●…pon the backe Tertullian in his daies did glory in this That in the Pri●…e Churc●… the Pagans and prophane 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 did all the Christians Asina●… 〈◊〉 holding in the●… those A●…e qualities Finally that asse whospake to Bal●…m as hee carried him to curse Gods people 〈◊〉 and to impugnents Will So went I beyond Seas ●…ying my head●…ll of false and error ●…pinione and 〈◊〉 fraughted with desires to sed and 〈◊〉 super 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pleased God of his mercy to open my eyes 〈◊〉 old to that beast that I did see such odious 〈◊〉 of his worship the iudgements which 〈◊〉 the ●…tned against it it pleaseth him whole ●…ded 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 to loose me from the bands of ignorante The Prophet D●…d saith D●…mint ●…iamea ap●…es 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 anna●… laude●…●…uam do●… i●…iquos vi●… 〈◊〉 imp●… ad to connuertentur Since he who opened the mouth of the Asse hath also for his glorie opened my mouth I must not neither be silent although I ●…o Doctor nor doe not presume to instruct your L●… conscience yet must I remember that commandement of our Sauiour giuen to one whom he dis●…ssed of many Diuels ●…euertere in domum tuam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quanta tib●… fecer at Dominus Returne homeward and now become a simple Asse in Christian knowledge That which the Lord hath done to mee I shall preach it to others for his glorie and their edification and so I preceede to tell your L●… how I was tranformed into ●…his Asse of Balaam CHAP. II. A Discourse of our naturall light and diuine instinct of our Conscience A true definition of Idolatry for the better triall of superstitious worship and preuarication in Gods seruice THe Scripture records that the Asse of Balaam went on a pace before he did see the Angel and that the Angel was diuers times seene before obedience was done vnto him so was it with mee all the while of my being in France I did professe the Popish Religion and as sincerely obey the discipline of that Church as any man could doe of my weakenesse and that from vpright zeale and not from designe whereof I could my selfe giue many great proofes which be not pertment here onely this farre I say That many times I haue heard in one weeke more then twenty Masses and that for the greatest part there where I knew no man nor yet was knowne my selfe of any Whereof also your Lo selfe may beare witnesse by diuers of my Letters written to you in those times chiefly by one if it please you to remember from Paris immediatly before my going into Italy in the which I did play the Paranymphe to my selfe by praising the resolution of my comming foorth from the example of Abrahams calling who was comanded by God to goe forth of his owne Country that he might worship the Lord truely and he blessed of him in a strange land In such sort that for the time I could haue been content to remaine a Transfuga to my liues end In this Letter I did allude to the greater light of the Southerne Sunne and to the Aquilonar darkenesse founded vpon that Thalmudicall fable which we read in the writs of Rabbi Eleazer in his booke called Zoar that in the creation of the heauens God did leaue a hole in the Northerne parts thereof that in the beginning the Sunne had his first point of motion in the Southeast that about Damascus in the Southeast God tooke that Terra virgo that most perfect Earth whereof he formed Adam that the garden of Eden and mount Sion were planted in the South-east that God chose the Patriarckes and his peculiar people in the South-east remote significations of Gods truth to remaine for euer in the Climats of the Southeast according to that in the Canticles Vbi habitabit dilectus 〈◊〉 in meridie vbicubabit in meridie And that the Northerne parts of the earth were the seate naturally of darkenesse and iniquity as being subiect to the imperfect parts of the heauen and to the aforesaid hole whereout Lucifer and his companions did fall according to that vision of the Prophet who heard him saying Sedebo in montibus Aquilonis fimilis ero altissimo alleaging this Scripture Omne malum pandetur ab Aquilone and the text of Moses of the seuen Candlestickes of the Arke looking from the North towards the South as if the North were sinistra Mundi and the proper habitation of vncleane spirits like as we see the Aquilo to be a tempesteous and destroying winde whereas by the wholesome and nourishing Auster is meant the sweete and peaceable spirit of God incalled in the Canticles Ueni Auster perfla hortum meum And whereof Abacuc saith Deus ab Austro veniet So that the seuen Candlestickes looking to the South were signes of the perpetuity of the spirituall light there neuer to bee extinguished by any tempest of Northerne heresies These and such like fond fantasies which were then infused into mee and which haue beene inuented by curious braines to poyson simple wits did I introduce in that Letter And they were arguments good enough both of my zeale and of my ignorance as if the garden of Eden were not many thousands of yeeres agoe depriued of true light and consumed with the fire of Gods wrath as if that holy mount Sion and that mother City Ierusalem who had fairer promises of perpetultie made by God then Rome and all the Cities in the world because shee was like vnto Na●…h who preached to two worlds the mother not onely of Iewish but of Christian Religion as the Apostle saith The law went out of Sion euen the law Euangelicall the perfection of all lawes the Lord Iesus Christ declared to Moses obscurely in Sinai but

the Prophet to the Israelites during their captiuitie My children as it came into your minde to goe astray from your God so endeauour your selfe ten times more to seeke him saith the Prophet We haue all here forgotten our exemplar for the Church of Rome on the one side contrary to Daniel and the Iewish reformation she cryeth that neither she nor her Prelates nor her Priests haue transgressed and that they cannot etre and therefore they haue no need of reformation Vpon the other side againe we who doe see her abominations wherewith shee hath defiled the Sanctuary and corrupted Christian Religion in place to say with Daniel Lord turne thy wrath from Ierusalem thy holy Mountaine haue pittie on thy holy Citie wherethy name was once truely called on Ierusalem is a reproach to all that are about her wee doe cry because the Church who was sometimes chaste vnto thee O Lord is now become Fornicatrix therefore destroy her because shee hath polluted the Catholike saith therefore diuorce vs from her O Lord thus lying ouer into implacable paroxisme and strife while one sayes he ought not to be reformed because hee cannot erre and his aduersaries exclaime that he is so contagious as he is not capable of reformation one cryeth for a sole and soueraigne Bishoppe to commaund both Church and State both Prelates and Princes an other cryeth that he will haue no Bishop at all ctc. There is a sort of enchaunted Papists whom the waters of the Iesuiticall absynthyum haue so venummed that they will not remit one dramme weight of the superstitious worshippe of their great Idoll if it were for the peace of the whole Sanctuarie There be againe a Sect of extrauagant and heteroclite Puritans of the late stampe I speake not of any iudicious good man who doth discharge his function in Gods feare and the obedience of his Prince to Christian education but of these Anabaptisticall Clerks Quiout labouche sans bride as the French saith who carry no bridle in their mouthes being in opinion of Gouernments whatsoeuer meerely Republicanes against the Architype and order of God not onely despising Princely authoritie with the Iesuite but vilipending all Prelates in the Church in fauours of a fantasticall Anarchie or a seditious popular tribunat forged in their owne braynes obstinately refusing to accept for doctrine for manners for policie whatsoeuer almost haue beene in the Church of Rome if it were neuer so good these be most wretched and pernicious humours of men carrying factious and vehement spirits blowne vp with the vapours of Pandoras boxe and abhorring the peace of Israel with both which I must expostulate in this place and say vnto them as the Prophet commanded to cry in the eares of the rebellious Iewes of his time Confregistis iugum rupistis vincula you haue disolued the bands of Catholike loue and vnitie you haue broken the yoke of Christian societie you are obstinate against desires of reformation you doe Iudaise but Moses did Christianize who for the sake of that Idolatrous people would haue beene rased out of the Booke of life Saint Paul did the same who would haue beene anathema for the loue of his Christian folke but all your meditations your writtes your sermons be like vnto these inuolued Rolles brought by the Angell vnto Ezechiel wherein was written nothing within nor without but lamentations mournings and woe you haue no sparke of Christian charite left without which it is impossible to please God know you not that in the Scripture this charitie is properly said to be a fire we read in Leuiticus Vt ignis in altari semper ardeat That the fire should neuer goe out vpon the Altar which is a true mysterie and type of that Christian loue which should be vnder the Euangell for now there is no Altar leftvs but the Altars of pure hearts before the Lord nor no Sacrifice bur of contrition faithfull prayers and loue The lawe Euangelicall as I said before is the perfection of the naturall and Mosaicall and loue againe as the Spirit of God doth testifie is the end of this law finis legis est charitas in which words the Apostle doth attribute as much to loue in Theologie as in Philosophie is giuen to Iustice speaking of Cardinall vertues Iustitia in se virtutes continet omnes That Iustice hath in it all vertues euen so saith the Apostle if wee haue as much faith to cause Mountaines remooue and want loue it is all nothing This loue is euer commanded de proximo of our neighbour Thou blinde Papist canst thou haue a neerer brother then the Protestant And you precise Puritans can you but esteeme them your pitifull brethren who liue in Papall ignorance Dilige pro quo mortuus est Christus saith Paul Will you follow the example of Christ did he not both pardon and pray to God for those who slew him whose ignorance was aboue all ignorance their vnbeleefe aboue all vnbeleefe and fault aboue all faults without vnitie and loue there can be no perfect Church because that is the whole scope of the Euangel as I haue saide and of all true Religion vnanimitie is the bond which maketh the Church strong Ecce circundedi te vinculis saith God in Eze. Behold I haue hedged you about with bands This loue is the knot which bindeth together the members of Christ in one body therfore is so diligently recommended by him to his Apostles that they should remaine fast and conioyned among themselues by so many types in the old Testament is figured vnto vs this Christian concord and vnitie by the vestiments of the high Priest whereof euery portion was ioyned to another the wholebeing one peece By the Tabernacle whereof euery thing was ioyned into another the whole standing in coniunction for are we not so called in the Apocalips Ecce Tabernaculum Dei cum hominibus habitat cum ijs The Tabernacle of God which dwelleth among men By the vessels whereof so many as were not closed together but were opened and in diuers pieces they were said by the spirit of God to be vncleane as we see in the Booke of Numbers we are the vessels who bee made by the hand of our heauenly potter of whom S. Paul saith Alia quidem in honorem alia vero vasa in contumeliam some be vessels of honour and some of reproach you haue your mouth open to spewe out contumelies and malignitie one against another and therefore take heed you shew not your selues vessels of dishonour you haue not this Christian fire of charitie whereof the spirit of God saith Quod operit multitudinem peccatorum That it couereth multitude of sinnes The Altars of your hearts are kindled with the prophane fires of Nadab and Abihu the fires of pride arrogancie and contradiction fires of mutuall rayling and Philippicke Inuectiues where Pastors in place to perswade Christian loue vnity and mutuall compassion after the example of our Sauiour they

the Mountaine which shall neuer disappeare so liuely seene by that Prophet of the olde Law that other of the New Ezechiel and Saint Iohn being both in one extasie whereof Saint Iohn said in his vision in the Apocolyps Sustulit me Angelus in montem altissimum c. The Angell of God tooke me vp into a high Mountaine and shewed mee the holy City of Ierusalem comming downe from heauen couered with the beauty of God and whereof Esay saith Tu vocaberis quaesita Ciuitas non derelicta Thou shalt be called a Citie sought for and not abandoned And whereof the Prophet Dauid maketh a glorious description Gloriosa dicta sunt de te Ciuitas Dei c. But speaking of places what Christian Church or Towne may compare to Ierusalem who was the Mother Citie not onely of Iewish but of Christian Religion The Law went out from Sion saith the Apostle Et non peribit lex à Sacerdote saith the Prophet She was like vnto Noah who preached vnto two Worlds as I haue said And if Rome may bragge of Gods promise aboue Ierusalem why hath Dauid said in his Psalme to the derogation not onely to the Mountaines of Rome but of all others Why bragge yee thus yee Hilles most hie And leape for pride together This Hill of Sion God doth loue And there will dwell for euer Alwaies it is enough by way of comparison for the first they did both boast of Templum Domini for the second as it was long before prophesied that Ierusalem should fall away and become an Adultresse as the Lord said to Hosea Goe take vnto thee a Wife of Fornication and Children of Fornication Quia fornicando fornicabitur terra ne eat post Iehouam Because the whole Land shall be defiled that it should not follow the Lord. So do we finde in the Euangelicall prophesies of the Apoc a prediction of the falling away of Rome cleere enough thirdly as Ierusalem now fallen in her filthinesse was sayd of the Prophets to haue a Whores forehead who would not be ashamed And againe the faithfull Citie was become a Harlot shee who was full of Iustice was now full of Murthers her siluer was become drosse her wine mixed with water her Princes companions of Theeues euen so during all this fall of the Church of Rome there hath neuer beene wanting singular men whom God did stirre vp to rebuke her for her pollution And as Ierusalem did persecute her Prophets so hath Rome long since persecuted these euen with cruell martyrdome as Ierom Sauanarola and Iohn Husse in speciall with numbers moe thereafter in diuers Countries Fourthly Rome is now in that same condition which Ierusalem was in when the Prophet Ezechiel was carryed of the Angell by the hayre from Babilon and placed in the inner part of the Church of Ierusalem where saith he I was commaunded to looke vpon the great Idoll of indignation which was in the entrie whose abhomination saith the Lord causeth me to depart from my Sanctuarie What other thing I pray your Lordship is that Idolatrous worship of Rome which I haue related then a great Idoll of Gods indignation as it is conioyned with that scandalous impietie of manners Then further it was saide to Ezechiel Turne thee and thou shalt see greater abhominations enter at the gate of the inner Court and digge a hole through the wall where thou shalt behold similitudes of all abominable things and all the Idols of the house of Israel painted vpon the walles and thou shalt see the seuentie Ancients of the house of Israel standing with Censours in their hands and the vapours of their incense going vp like a Clowde and yet dost thou not see what they doe in the darke euery one in the chalmer of his images saying to himselfe The Lord hath left the earth and doth not see any more And I did see one saith the Prophet who stood mourning for Ierusalem Can any thing bee more like to the Colledge of their seuentie Cardinalls who haue their Palaces throughly adorned with idolatrous images of all sores and the Altars within them smoking with daily incense of ascending vapours and who can digge a hole through the wall that is to say who can see through the clowde of these externall shewes of pietie to behold the secret practises of their Consistorian Councell or to behold the works of darknesse which be in their secret Cabinets and sensuall solitudes hee would assuredly say that they did also thinke the Lord had left the earth and did no more see their actions But specially one shall perceiue and consider the likenesse of Ierusalem and Rome by foure points rehearsed by the Prophet in his sixteene Chapter First he doth introduce God obiecting to her the weakenesse and miserie of her youth saying O Ierusalem when thou wast borne thy nauell was not cut thou wast not washed in water to soften thee and when I saw thee polluted in thine owne blood I had pitie on thee and said thou shouldest liue I did sweare vnto thee and thou becamest mine A viue portract of the first age of the Church of Rome the first 300. yeeres of her being vnder the crosse from Christ to Constantine the great during all which time the citie of Rome did lie pitifully defiled with the blood of the Apostles Saints and Martyrs vnder the persecuting Emperours Secondly God doth obiect vnto her the Grandure and beautie whereunto hee had exalted her and made her the most conspicuous city in the world saying Ierusalem I entered a couenant with thee and thou becamest mine I washed the blood from thee I clothed thee with broydered worke I couered thee with silke I gaue vnto thee bracelets chaines and all kind of ornaments I put vpon thy head a beautifull crowne I made thee eate of fine flower hony and oyle and thou grewest vp vnto a kingdome and thy name was spread Which doth most competently figure the second age of the Church of Rome now washed from her blood and put in prosperitie from the dayes of Constantine to Pope Boniface the third who did vsurpe the vniuersall Popedome and began to erect in it a kingdome as no man can take exception against it Thirdly the Lord doth obiect against her by his Prophet her pride and declination saying Ierusalem thou didst trust in thy beauty and play the harlot because of thy renowne thou hast taken the faire Iewels of gold and siluer which I gaue thee and madest Images of them vnto thy selfe and diddest commit whoredome with them thou hast taken thy sons daughters which were borne vnto me sacrificed them to be deuoured of those thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth when thou wast naked and bare Thou hast builded thy high places vpon mounts and at euery corner of the way thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred The application whereof to the present condition of Rome is so conuenient Quod etiam