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A68868	A treatise of the foure degenerate sonnes viz. the atheist the magician the idolater· and the Iew. VVherein are handled many profitable questions concerning atheisme, witchcraft, idolatry, and Iudaisme: and sundry places of Scripture, cleared out of the originall tongues. Being the fourth volume, of the Workes of Mr. Ioh. Weemse of Lathocker in Scotland, and Prebend of Dunelm.; Works. Vol. 4	Weemes, John, 1579?-1636.	1636 (1636)	STC 25218; ESTC S119529	289,084	416

revived againe and the saints who would not take the marke of the beast neither in their hand nor in their forehead Rev. 13. This strife about religion will set the fathers against the children and the children against the parents Satan would have set up Moses his body to have made an Idoll of it The bodies of the saints may bee made Idols both living and dead The bodies of the saints may bee made Idoles both when they are dead as heere of the body of Moses when they are alive as when Cornelius fell downe at Peters feete and worshipped him Peter refused that worship Act. 10.26 27. and said stand up for I my selfe am a man Peter refused this worship because it was divine worship or inclining too farre to it So when the Priests would have sacrificed to the Apostles Act. 14. they rent their cloathes and ran in amongst the people crying and saying why doe ye these things we are men of like passions with you preaching to you that yee should turne from these vanities They would have made the Apostles to bee in the number of these Idoll vanities when they would have given him divine worship Satan goes from an exte●mitie to another Againe yee may observe heere how Satan goes from one extremitie to another when Moses was alive how often moved he the people to have stoned him but now when he is dead hee would have him to make an Idoll of his body so the Iewes in die Palmarum did sing Hosanna to Christ and the next day they cried Crucifige So when the viper lept on Pauls hand they said he was a murtherer but when he shooke it off and it hurt him not they said he was a God and those are unstable in all their waies Iam. 1.8 He would have set up Moses his body to have beene worshipped if the Lord had suffered this body to have remained in the Church how would the devill afterward have made up a ground for the continuance of Idolatrie in the Church then hee would have said If all sort of worship be denied to the bodies of the saints why would the Lord have suffered the body of Moses the man of God to stand this way in the Church as a stocke without all honour to be given to it would hee not rather have throwne it downe as hee did the Idoll Dagon The Lord forbad onely this divine worship to be given to the heathen gods as to Iupiter Mars Venus But it was never his minde that the divine worship should not bee given to the bodies of the saints departed and if Moses himselfe were redivivus hee would explaine himselfe in this point that it was forbidden onely to give this worship to heathen Idoles but not to saints which is forbidden in the Law for hee communicating so many dignities with the saints would not refuse to communicate with them a part of his honour Michael resisted the devill and would not suffer him to take the bodie of Moses and make an Idoll thereof The Apostle Iude 5. borrows from the Apocripha book called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Origenes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Libro 3. cap. 2. Pethirath moshe dimissio mosis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This strife which was betwixt Michael and the devill about the body of Moses What duties wee are bound to perfore to the dead Quest. What duties are wee bound to performe to the bodies of the Saints when they are dead Answ We are to use them with comlinesse Acts 9.37 they washed the bodie of Dorcas and layed her in an upper chamber and to wrap them in linnen as Christs bodie was and to bury them in an honest buriall place we ought to esteeme reverendly of their bodies because they are the members of Christs mysticall bodie and they waite for the blessed resurection and to suffer them to rest in peace in their graves 2 Kin. 22.20 But we are never to worship them or their reliques if we follow the example of Michael who would not suffer Moses his body to bee worshipped The decrease of this Idolatrie The decrease of this Idolatry was when Michaell buried the body of Moses where no man knew Great is the care which the Lord hath over his children in their infancie in their old age in their death and after they are dead and as the eyes of the Lord was upon Canaan from the beginning of the yeare to the end Deut. 11.12 so are the eyes of the Lord upon his children from their infancie to their old age from their old age to their death and after they are dead and first from their infancie to their old age Esay 46.3 Heare O house of Iacob and the remnant of the house of Israel which are borne by me from the wombe and brought up with me from the birth therefore untill thy old age I the same even I will carrie you to your hoarie heades the Prophet points at these two times of our life especially because these two periods are most weake in all our life our infancie and decrepit age then the death of his Saints is precious in the fight of the Lord Psal 116.18 and then after they are dead the Lord hath a singular care of them What a care had the Lord of Moses in his birth when hee was cast out to be drowned The Lord preserved him and drew him out of many waters therefore he was called Moshe from Masha extrahere and David alludes to this Psal 18.16 Thou hast drawne me out of many waters Hence the Poets from this faine that some were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 borne in the waters because Moses was drawne out of the waters and in his death the Lord shewes his singular love to * It is said of Moses D●ut 34.7 that he dyed ad osculum oris dei which Salomon Iarchi paraphraseth at a kisse of the mouth of God Death was a kisse of the mouth of God to him him and here after he is dead the Lord suffers not his body to be made an Idoll of Good King Iosias when hee was killed in the battell a man might have thought that the Lord had little respect unto him who made him fall before his enemies but see what respect the Lord carried unto him when he saith Thou shalt be gathered in peace to thy fathers 2 King 22.20 Who would have thought that the Lord had such a care of him and yet his soule was bound up in the bundell of life and he was gathered in peace to his fathers So he had a great care of the body of Iacob he promised to goe downe to Egypt with him and to bring him backe again Gen. 46.4 But how is it said that he brought him backe againe then seeing he died in Egypt The Lord attended his very corpes when he brought it backe and saw it buried in Machpelah in the place which Abraham bought for a buriall place Gen. 50.13 The Lord buried Moses his body It is

with Idols 2 Cor. 6.14 Gideon strove with the men of Sechem and his fathers house against Baal and therefore he was called Ierubbaal and Ierubasheth 2 Sam. 9.21 because hee put Baal to shame and disgrace When they fell from the Lord and worshipped Idols at this time they were sore oppressed by the Madianites then the Lord sendes Gideon to deliver them Gideon desired a signe of the Lord to confirme him when he was to goe against the Madianites Whether Gideon tempted the Lord when he asked a signe of him Quest Was not this a tempting of the Lord to aske a signe of him so often An. God is tempted two maner of waies by men first when they seeke not a signe directly of God but when they mistrust his power then they are said to tempt the Lord he tempted him ten times in the wildernes Num. 14.22 which Rabbi Salomon reckons up this way The Israelites tempted the Lord tenne times in the wildernesse through unbeliefe first they tempted him at the red sea Exo. 1● Secondly in Marah Exo. 15. Thirdly in the desert of Sin Enod 16. Fourthly when they left Manna while the morrow Exo. 16. Fiftly when they sought Manna upon the seventh day and found it not Sixtly at ●ap●dim at the waters of contradiction Nu. 21. Seventhly at Herob by the golden calfe Exo. 32. Eightly at Habara Num. 11. Ninthly at the graves of concupiscence Tenthly at Pharon which the spies made when they went to spiē the land Secondly God is tempted when we desire of him a signe for curiositie as doubting of his power so the devill desired Christ to turne stones into bread Wee tempt God when wee desire of him a signe for curiositie Matth. 4. And they of Nazaret would have had a signe of him when they said Whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum doe also here in thy owne countrie Luke 4.23 So the Pharisees and Saduces would have had a signe of him from heaven Matth. 16.1 But Gideon who had a singular warrant from the Lord to aske a signe tempted him not through doubting or curiositie neither Zacharie when he said whereby shall I know this Luke 1.18 Neither Marie when shee said how can this be Luke 1.34 when the Angell gave her a signe of her conception that shee should conceive This how in Marie was admirantes not dubitantes In Zacharie it was mixed with doubting but it was not of infidelitie as the doubting of the Pharisees and Saducees was The first increase of Idolatrie The first increase of Idolatrie was when the Sechemites tooke the Ephod which Gideon had made and set it up for an Idoll in the house of Baal berith in Sechem Iudg. 9.4 and 46. Quest Gideon made this Ephod not to be an Idoll but to be a remembrance of thanksgiving for their deliverance as the Reubenites set up an altar in the other side Iordan Whether did Gideon purpose to make an Idoll of this Ephod or not Answ Gideon caused not a new Ephod to be made neither minded he to have set it up as an Idoll but as a remembrance to the Lord when the Rubenites and Gadites erected and attar on the other side of Iordan Iosh 22.9 they did it not of that minde to sacrifice upon that altar but onely they set it up for a memoriall of thanksgiving to the Lord. And it is cleare that the Israelites went a whooring after this Ephod but after the death of Gideon verse 27. therefore they interpret not well this place who interpret it thus fornicatu● est omnis populus post eum all the people went a whoring after him as though they followed Gideon in this Idolatrie but Iunius translates it better fornicatus est post eum scilicet Ephodem seu in eo Ephode that is they went a whoring after the Ephod The reasons which proves that Gideon intended no such thing as to erect an Idoll in Ophrah are these First Iudg. 8.32 Gideon dyed in a good old age To die in a good old age comprehends foure things a good old age comprehends foure things in it first fulnesse of dayes secondly peace of conscience thirdly a good name fourthly when one dyes in the favour of God neither is this phrase found in the Scripture but of such who dyed the death of the righteous So Abraham is said to have died in a good old age Gen. 25.15 So David 1 Chror 29.28 The second Reason it is objected of the Israelites ver 35. that they shewed no kindnesse to the house of Gideon according to all the goodnesse which he had shewed to Israel But if Gideon had erected this Idoll of purpose that the people might goe a whoring after it how should they bee bound to have shewed any favour to him they should rather have hated him if he had set up any Idoll to have beene their ruine Ob. Burn this Idoll became a snare to Gideon and to his house Then it might seeme that Gideon himselfe was insnared by this Idoll Answ By Gideon heere is understood Gideons children and posterity as 1 King 12.16 what portion have we in David that is in the posterity of David so 2 Chron. 13.1 it is said that Ieroboam made warre against Rehoboam Rehoboam was dead Chap. 12. And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the City of David it was against his sonne Abija So Act. 7.16 Abraham bought a buriall from the father of Sechem it was not Abraham himselfe who bought it but the posterity of Abraham So this Idoll became a snare to Gideon that is to Gideons children and to his house that is to his friends Gideon his Ephod was afterward made an Idoll This Ephod which Gideon appointed for an holy use was afterward abused and turned to an Idoll as the best wine is turned into vinegar so the brasen serpent was erected in the wildernesse for an holy use yet the people afterward made an Idoll of it and burnt incense to it So the first institution of the love feasts of the Christians were commendable and for a good end but afterward they were turned into abuse so the comemoration of the saints departed was afterward turned to invocation Gideon his house was insnared by this ephod Salomon sayes Eccles 7.26 And I found more bitter then death the woman whose heart is fordres and ●ettes and her hands as bands Whose pleaseth God shall escape from her but the sinner shall be taken by her This leud woman had snares to insnare men as the not takes the Fowle and the Fish Shee leades the foolish men captive and none without the speciall grace of God is safe from her So the Idolls lay snares and ginnes to catch men and it is hard to escape the snares of the Idoll but he who pleaseth the Lord shall escape from them This Baal berith was the Idoll of the Sechemites and they bound themselves by a solemne stipulation to serve this Baal berith They made a

visitation 305. three sorts of Iewes differ concerning Christs comming 306. they deny Iohn the Baptist to bee Christs forerunner 313. they despise Mary our Lords mother ibid. they acknowledge not two natures in Christ 314. they mocke his officers ibid. they detest his name and surname 315. they mocke Christs crosse 318. they despise his imputed righteousnesse 318. his resurrection his sacraments and us Christians ib. what they hope their Messias will doe for them when he comes 321. Of the curses which befell them since the killing of Christ 328 the Lord gave thē sundry warnings of their rejection 335. whether they are to be suffered in a Christian common wealth or not 337. what benefits they may enjoy amongst us Christians 339. which are the lets of the Iewes conversion 344 The Iewes preferre Mishna and the Talmud to the Scriptures 349. Gods mercy to Paul a bloody persecutor sheweth that he may be mercifull to the Iewes 355. Reasons of their calling ibid. objections which seeme to deny the conversion of the Iewes 362. of the manner of their calling 363. their lamentation after their conversion will be great 364. who were the cause of Christs death 366. what hatred was betwixt them and the Gentiles of old 368. what joy there will be when they shall be gathered 369. the Iewes and Gentiles make up one Church 370. they hope their Temple shall be built 372. of the end of their calling 377. reasons why Christians should be earnest for their conversion 378. how thankefull they ought to bee for their conversion 381. Image the devill perswaded people that Images were sent downe from heaven 164. and that they had divine power ibid Iosias what care the Lord had of him though he was killed in battle 207. Ioaz in a better case than Abimelech 228 Ionathan the Grandchild of Moses 238. Israel in Israel there were sundry dialects 242 Israelites how they were charged for worshipping the Host of heaven in the wildernesse 196. their pilgrimage through the wildernesse resembles the estate of a Christian mans life 203. they tempted God ten times in the wildernesse 204 Ittariad what it signifieth 220 Iudah whether the Idolatry of Iudah or Israel bee greatest 254 Iulian fell from Christianitie to Paganisme 255 K Kings when the first increase of Idolatry under the Kings was 249 what things are to be observed when the Kings of Israel are set downe for examples 252. Kingly government the best government 236 three Kings of Iudah most excellent Kings 247 A collation betwixt the Kings of Egypt Israel and Iudah L Lamentation of the Iewes for the death of Christ 335. Leagues what leagues with Idolaters are unlawfull 278 Levite how there could bee a Levite in the Tribe of Iudah 236. the calling of Levits and Priests two distinct callings 237. a Levite sought to bee a Priest that he might eate bread ibid Life man hath a threefold life 144. in what respect a man is bound to lay downe his life for another 358 Lots the end why lots were institute 74. how many sorts of lots there were 75. what caveates are to be kept in a divisory lot 75. what is a consultary lot 76. whether the lot cast for Ionas was a divine lot or not 77. whether the lot which fell upon Ionathan was a Divine lot or not ibid. a lot for divination was diabolicall 80. why Matthias was chosen by lot 78. why the Apostles afterward were not chosen by lot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what 113 M. Magicke how many sorts of magicke there be 59. In what respect men are called magitians 40 Manasseh how the Hebrewes reade this name Manasseh and Moses 238. Of the increase of idolatry under Manasseh 287. Mamluchim who are called by the Turkes 303 Mamzer what it is 298 Markes imposed for foure ends 31 Maymorides rule of religious outward worship 264 Media are operantia or deferentia 35 Merlin not begotten of a devill 204 Michaes many irregularities in consecrating a Priest 233 Malefactor how he was a type of Christ Ministrie how base a thing it is to enter into the ministy for gaine 238 Miracles are of three sorts 91. what is a miracle within a miracle 47. the difference betwixt the miracles of the Apostles and the miracles of Satan 99. Molech what 199 Moses why hee caused beate the calfe to powder 195. his body signifieth not the ceremoniall law but his body indeed 24. whence he is called Moses 207. Moses body buried by the Angels 208. Musellanus mocked divination by fowles 87 N. Naaman how the Lord deales with him although there be many infirmities in him 274 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what 88 O Oath a representative oath bindes all people not a personall 77 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what 83 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what ibid. Ostracismus what 79 Oxe whether it was an Oxe or calfe which was worshipped 197. how the Oxe was marked 198. whether it was the whole Oxe or his head which they worshipped 197 P Paul how he wisheth to bee anathema for his brethren 361 Parang what 302 Parents can transmit nothing to their children but originall sinne 241 Petalismus what 79 Peace goe in peace what it signifieth 271. Pesulim who were 298 Peffercorne how many times he changed his religion 303 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what 71 Pollute what it is to pollute a place 289 Power two sorts of Power 89. what doth limitate Gods power and what the devils power 39 Prophets how the Prophets of God differed from the Prophets blasted by Satan 38. the Prophets understood things past present and to come 120. they are called Chozim ibid. Prophesie is not habitus sed actus transiens 121. two sorts of Prophesie 122 Philacteries institute as helpes to prayer 152. the Iewes used them as remedies against witchcraft 153 R. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what 83 Rabsakeh a comparison betwixt Rabsakeh and the Papist 185. Rabsakeh turned from judaisme to Paganisme 301. Religion the Devill hates Christian religion 150. Rempham what it signifieth 200 Rekim what 228 Reuben why the tribe of Reuben changed their idolatrous names of Nebo and Baalmeon 216 S Samuel whether he appeared to Saul or Samuel in shew onely 34. what the Iewes held concerning Samuels apparition 35. wherefore the scripture calls him Samuel 36 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what 34 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who 134 the difference betwixt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ibid. Shepheards why they are called Punctatores 31 Shields whereof they were made of old 157 Sichor what it signifieth 188 Sight is deceived by Satan three manner of wayes 138 Signes how many sorts of signes there be 48 Sinne foure things in every sinne to be considered 210 two sorts of sinnes 255. Salomons throne had sixe steps which were called admonitiones graduum 219. what blessings the Lord bestowed on him before his fall 249. hee wrote his booke of Ecclesiastes after his fall 250. he was not a reprobate 251 Sorodaemones what they were 133

they returned not to those bodyes as sinfull and impure bodyes as Moses when he was in the transfiguration and those who rose when Christ suffered their soules came not into impure bodyes againe Those bodyes were corpora non pura Soules not glorified comes to a sinfull body againe but they were not impura They were like to our bodyes when they lye in the grave Corpus purum impurum non purum They are not sinfull bodies any more but yet they lye under the consequents of sinne corruption and mortality and they were not to abide in those bodies but shortly to returne to glory againe But those soules that returned to their bodies againe and were to abide there were not glorifyed soules they entered againe into sinfull bodies Such as was the soule of Lazarus Eutichus Act. 20.9 and the soule of the widowes sonne of Naum These soules came againe into sinfull bodyes for that hypostaticall union betwixt the soule and the body was not perfectly dissolved as our soules and bodies are separate by death neither were the soules glorified then in heaven A diabolicall trance is that which Witches and Sorcerers falls into when they lie dead and senselesse for a time and their soules seemes for a time to be out of their bodies yet this union betwixt the soule and the body is not dissolved now as they beleeve but the act of vivification is onely suspended for a time Satan cannot bring a soule into a body againe as the Lord doth So Sorodemones or Larvae sepulchrales haunts about the graves to make men beleeve that their ghosts walkes here after they be dead SECT 9. Of Lots THe Lord who is the righteous judge of the world Gen. 18.25 and would every man to enjoy his owne amongst other meanes hee hath appointed lots to cause strife to cease amongst men Proverbes 16.33 Quest But lots are cast into the lappe and moderated by the Lord Prov. 16.33 then what needes any other meanes to decide controversies but lots A twofold providence of God a generall and a particular Answ There is a twofold providence of God first a generall providence and then a more particular providence Possessions and inheritance are from the parents but an understanding wife is from the Lord Prov. 19.14 A good wife is given by the speciall providence of God where we may see the ruling hand of God more than when he bestowes inheritance by his generall providence hath God regard of oxen 1 Cor. 9.9 that is he hath not this speciall care of them as he hath of men The lot was reckoned among the inferiour sort of manifestation of Gods will This distribution by lot was reckoned amongst the inferiour sorts of manifestation of Gods will Therefore when Ioshua divided the land by lot Iosh 19.51 he divided it in Shilo before the Lord at the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation where Eliazar the Priest was present They rested not here in a lot but they consulted also with the Lord by Eleazar the Priest concerning this division Sauls election was by lot but not Davids Matthias his election was by lot but not Saint Pauls the lot was but an inferiour degree of the manifestation of the will of God 1 Chro. 23.5 the Lord speake by lots Num. 26.56 secundum es sortis according to the mouth of the lot but this was but an inferiour determination by his mouth These lots were of three sorts either they served for division or consultation Lots were of three sorts or divination A divisorie lot This divisorie lot served for to divide possessions inheritances and goods amongst men by this divisorie lot the tribes got their possessions in the land of Canaan And others got their possessions by this sort of lot and therefore a lot is put for an inheritance Psal 16.5 Psal 125.3 In these divisorie lots these caveats must be looked unto first What caveats must be kept in a divisorie lot when lots are cast to divide controversies betwixt men then they must have equall right to the things that are to be divided In Israel if the question had beene amongst brethren for the dividing of their fathers goods this could not have beene divided by lot for the eldest should have had a double portion and the lot keepes medium rei non personae a lot might have beene cast for deciding amongst the rest of the brethren because they had all alike right to their fathers goods When the two Goates were presented before the Lord Lev. 16.8 they were just alike in all things which of them should be killed and which of them should escape here the Lord bids cast a lot for them So who should dwell in Ierusalem and who not Ezr. 2.11 and so the priests service was by a divisorie lot Secondly in these divisorie lots this caveat must be observed that the lots be not cast on things unlawfully gotten by robbery See Ioel 3.3 Naum. 3.10 Obadiah 11. or theft such was the lot that the souldiers did cast upon the coat of Christ Thirdly in these divisorie lots men must take heede that this be not their chiefe end to know the will o God for then they are not divisorie lots but consultory lots but their chie e end must be in casting the lots that stri e may cease amongst brethren Consultory lots The second sort of lots are consultorie lots when men consults with the Lord by lots what should be done in such and such cases This lot differeth much from a divisorie lot for a divisorie lot was onely about division of inheritances and deviding of goods but a consultory lot was used in higher matters as who shold live and who should die Such was the lot which was cast for the triall of him who had the excommunicate thing and it fell upon Achan Iosh 7.18 this was commanded by God himselfe This lot observes medium personae as the divisorie lot observes medium rei Quest Whether is it lawfull now to enquire for a guiltie man by lot or not Answ It is not lawfull for Iudges now are bound to judge per scrutinium per teste by confession and such and not by lot But if in a campe all the souldiers should transgresse the kings Edict and should commit a thing worthy of death yet the King willing to show mercy might he not cause a lot to be cast to trie who should live and who should die this the king may safely do because all are guilty alike here and so of old they used decimare exercitum when all were alike in the transgression that some might live and some might die When the mariners caused the lot to be cast to trie who was guilty in the ship this was an extraordinary triall which is not lawfull for Iudges to follow Quest Whether may wee call this a divine lot or a diabolicall lot which they did cast here for finding out the guilty man Whether the lot which was cast