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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96443	A sermon, preached at Kingston upon Hull: upon the day of thankes-giving after the battell, and that marvailous victory at Hessam-Moore, neare Yorke. / By J.W. B.D.	J. W. (Joshua Whitton)	1644 (1644)	Wing W2049; Thomason E10_34; ESTC R979	27,341	40

particular nomination of all those abhominations defile not your selves in any of these things For not in one or two or three of them onely but in all these abhominations fore-named the nations are defiled which I cast out before you and surely if they were defiled with all the abhominations reckoned up in that place they might well be termed a people of abhominations indeed And shall wee againe breake thy Commandements and joyne in affinity with the people of these vbhominations With the people of these abhominations Whence wee may observe that Idolatry and sinnes done against the light of nature are abhominatious before God 1 Pet. 4.3 Idolatry is called abhominable abhominable Idolatries and here I say in abstracto abhomination and they render the people that practice them abhominable and to bee abhorred in the sight of God Levit. 26.39 And in the place of St. Peter fore alledged you may see what the rest of their sinnes were they walked in lasciviousnesse lusts you have the particulers in the eighteenth Chapter of Leviticus excesse of wine banquetings revellings c. which the dictate of right reason might have kept them from Such as these are an abhominable people or people of abhominations And hath not that noble County of Lancashire too lately seene and felt the like abhominations in this their last Allarme from that Country-plundering army did ever the Heathen in excesse of wine revelling banquetting in lasciviousnesse or lawlesse lusts exceed them have they not ravished women defiled Virgins and some of them made their boasts of the generallity of their intentions that way whereupon from credible report some poo●e innocent and well-affected women and virgins have become as distracted other drowned themselves upon it for griefe as ashamed ever after to looke their friends in the face or any longer to live other resisted to death and were pistolled so that we have cause to take up the Prophet Jeremiah's complaint Lamentations the last Chapter the eleventh verse They ravished the women in Zion and the maids in the Cities of Judah But God remembred them in his appoynted time and some of them will doe so no more Now concerning Idolatry it may be committed two wayes either when man worships somewhat for God which is not as the grossest and most corrupt amongst the Heathen did or else when a man worships the true God after a false manner and thus the Papists are grosse Idolaters First conception Secondly practice First conceptive The vulgar Papists which the more learned cause to erre they conceive of God so as he is represented unto them in Images and Pictures which helpe to frame their conceit like that of the Anthropomophites to conceive of God as of an old man sitting in heaven or sub humana speciae as Cicero saith the most of the nations conceived of the great God Thus in their mil conceiving of God they make an Idoll of him framing unto themselves such a God as there is not yea daring to paint the Trinity as subject to humane sence and resembling a spirituall and unbounded essence by an humane and corporeall shape In this sence it is truely said Hab. 2.18 that the Image is a teacher of lyes because it causeth another thing like unto its selfe to come into a mans minde when as that thing which it pretends to resemble is nothing like it but differs from it plusquam genere A Pidgeon may better resemble a Sheep than a finit corporeall organicall sheep can an infinite incomprehensible and spirituall essence Thus Jeremiah the tenth chapter and the eighth verse The stock is a doctrine of vanity it can resemble nothing but vaine and unprofitable things Yet thus be stocks images or corporeall representations are the vulgar Papists taught to conceive of God so that they are Idolaters conceptive Secondly they are so peactice they bow to graven Images and doe not worship God immediately in Christ but by Saints Angels Pictures or corporeall representations or the like trash of humane invention unwarrantable in the substance of Gods worship thus though they pretend to worshippe the true God yet it is in false manner To whom I say as the Pharisees to Christ By what authority doe they these things Nay and doe not divers of them sinne also against the light of nature in marrying within the degrees prohibited in sacred Writ and yet they Alter Deus in terris will not boggle to dispense with that too and so by consequence should be of greater power than that power that made the Law surely in these they are before God a people of abhominations And shall we againe breake thy Commandements and joyne in affinity with the people of those abhominations The reasons why so accounted before God may bee these the first may be drawne from the manner and nature of their worship and service it is of their owne invention shuffling out that which God in great mercy and wisedome from heaven hath manifested in his word as if that were not eminent enough Matthew 15.3 Christ said to the Pharisees Why doe yee transgresse the Commandements of God by your tradition Alas in the ninth Verse In vaine doe they worship mee teaching for doctrine the Commandements of men GOD did his people off●r Sacrifice but hee left not it not to the matter what or the manner how for man to prescribe If a man had sacrificed and offered a Dogs neck or Swines bloud as it is in the Prophet would not GOD have abhorred it Well is this so that Idolaters and sinnes against the light of nature or the Dictamen of right reason are abhominatious to God This then may be an use of instruction to teach us what to judge of them they are abhominable in GODS sight God loathes their sacrifices and abhorres their service and cannot away with their practices Let them vant whilst they will in their words varnish what they can in their works beautifie the works of their owne hands with gold silver and outward ornament to make them inamoured of them God seeth the workes of their hearts are naught and that this their way is their folly it may be plausible to carnall eyes but in Gods eyes no better than abhominations And shall we againe break thy Commandements and joyne in affinity with the people these abhominations Secondly if so then a Vse of reproofe to such ●hat affect this affinity and take delight in their needlesse familiarity and goe about to defend excuse or plead for them or the like seeing God himselfe hath passed sentence upon them and let God be true and every man a lyer Thirdly and lastly if so as you have heard then every people cannot be saved in their owne Religion practising according to their owne devised principles as some fondly have feigned For as there is but one God so but one Baptisme and one truth as saith the Apostle and whosoever shuffles out this truth and practiseth according to their owne principles shall be sure to come short of