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A18104	The originall of popish idolatrie, or The birth of heresies Published under the name of Causabon [sic], and called-in the same yeare, upon misinformation. But now upon better consideration reprinted with alowance. Being a true and exacte description of such sacred signes, sacrifices and sacraments as have bene instituted and ordained of God since Adam. With a newe source and anatomie of the Masse, first gathered out of sundrie Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuerse learned fathers. Published by S.O.; Originall of idolatries.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Ofwod, Stephen.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614.	1630 (1630)	STC 4748; ESTC S107605	102,805	138

Tree of Life Apoc. 2. Rom. 12. planted in the middest of the Paradise of God in and by whom wee that were bastard slips have been engraffed to obtaine eternall life Hee committed to our keeping his holy Gospel commanding us to preserve it entirely without adulterating or corrupting the same without adding or dimishing there-from upon pain of eternall death Hee was as the Rain-bow The Rainbow extended all over the Aire to assure us of the League and Covenant contracted between God and us that we should no more be drowned in the deluge of sinne He was circumcised that the Law in him might be accomplished that so the prepuce of our hearts might be circumcised and to make us cast off our ould corrupted skinne in Adam Circumcision Galat 4. The flaming Bush Hee was like the flaming Bush incarnate in the wombe of the Virgin conceived by the Holy Ghost without the seed of Man the sacred Virgin like the Bush remaining notwithstanding entire and not consumed He was sacrificed like the just Innocent Lambe Pascall Lambe Iohn 1. Heb. 13. and his Blood shed to preserve us from the Tyranny of Satan and to open unto us a passage whereby we may enter into the Land of Promise the Heavenly Kingdome Hee is that true unleavened Bread which came downe from Heaven incorrupt and unspotted The bread of Life 1. Cor 5. of whom we must cate for our spirituall nourishment that we may celebrate the Feast of that miraculous passage from Pharach in the Land of true Liberty Hee was the Cloud the firie Pillar the divided Red Sea The cloud the Pillar of Fire the Red Sea 1. Cor. 10. Ioh. 19. Heavenly Manna The flowing Rocke Living Water 1. Cor. 10. Sacrifice Heb. 1.8.9.10 Heb. 9. Arke of Covenant which conducted and delivered us out of the hands of our enemies out of whose opened Side came Water and Bloud for our Salvation He was the heavenly Manna sent from Heaven to feed us for ever the true Rocke out of which issued Water to quench their thirst for ever which beleeve in him It was He that onely offered up the saving Sacrifice for the expiation of our sinnes both Priest and Sacrifice both the Offerer and the Oblation remaining an Eternall High-Priest at the Right Hand of God his Father beeing entred into the Holy and Heavenly Sanctuarie not built with mens hands but by the Hand of God He was the true Arke of Alliance and Covenant by which God revealed and manifested his Oracles and in him he did reside to accomplish his divine and incomprehensible Mysteries He was like to the Brazen Serpent fastened to the Crosse Brazen Serpent Ioh. 3. Temple of God Ioh. 2. to give health unto the sicke which returne to him and contemplate on him by Faith He was the true Temple of God wherein the Holy Ghost dwels one God in Trinity in and by whom God is onely adored He was the true and sacred Oblation Holocaust and water Purgatorie of whom the reall water purgatorie was made for the purgatiō of every blemish Himselfe with his owne Ashes that is with his immolated Body besprinkled and wet with water issuing out of his Side all People and Nations that beleeve in Him Iohn 15. CHAP. VI. Of Sacraments ordained by Iesus Christ himselfe THe Law Ceremoniall beeing by this meanes accōplished not in Figures but really executed by the Incarnation Death and Resurrection of Iesus Christ our Saviour our Mediator our Eternall Priest and Propitiator the infinite goodnesse of God was yet further revealed by the new Covenant new Alliance and new comming of the Sonne of God Incarnate For Heb. 9. by his New Testament ratified and confirmed in the death of the Testator He hath constituted us as heires and coheires to God in his heavenly Kingdome For assurance of this celestiall succession Rom. 8. purchased for us by grace after the Consummation of the Law Ceremoniall the same abolished as we have formerly declared through that perfect Sacrifice of the Priest Eternall there were left unto us two sacred signes or Sacraments wherein God bestowed greater favour and more speciall grace then he had done before his Incarnation St. Augustin lib 3 de doct Christ cap. 9 For hee hath freed us from the servile Law of Circumcision from the difference of meates and divers sacrifices ordained in the first Church of the Israelites And by easing us of this waighty burthen Hee further conferred upon us a greater comfort in constituting for a memoriall and remembrance of our regeneration and eternall life two holy Sacraments under two sacred signes which are the water of Baptisme and the Bread and Wine in the Communion of his Body Now that his Grace might be extended to all Nations Sacraments of the New Testament God thought good to make choice of the most familiar and ordinary signes and Symboles For Circumcision was a speciall marke for Abraham and his Posterity to which Circumcision Distributiō of the Sacraments to all Converts Herod lib. 2 other Nations were not accustomed though Hereditus a Grecian borne in an History he wrote of the Aegyptian manners specifies their manner and custome of beeing circumcised but especially the Priests and we may easily conjecture that he had heard of the time when the Iewes dwelt in Aegypt which was about 400. yeeres observed Circumcision Moreover Circumcision was appointed only for the Males and not for Females there was a limited time appointed for Circumcision which was within ●ight dayes after the Nativity and the cutting of the fore-skin was with griefe and paine But the Grace of God by his Incarnation and plenary Sacrifice Gen. 17. having abolished the rigor of the Law Ceremoniall as well for difference of meates as of dayes He left unto us by his New Testament and new Alliance the sacred signe of Water common to all both Male and Female without any distinction of dayes and the Infant by the Sacrament of Baptisme feeling no paine as it did by the Circumcision of the fore-skinne This signe of Water intimating unto us the purgation and expiation of our sinnes through the Bloud of Iesus Christ was common not onely among the Iewes who used ordinarily Water purgatorie and of expiation but the Gentiles also and all other Nations Numb 19. were accustomed to a Lotion and purgation of cleansing and purgatorie Water as we may perceive in reading Ancient Histories Wherefore to the end that Gods Grace in Iesus Christ might generally bee spred over all the Earth to all Nations Regions and Provinces both to the circumcised uncircumcised to the Iewes and to the Gentiles God made election of the most common signe of Water the more freely to expose himselfe unto Man and to win him to His feate and obedience By which Signe he hath instituted his holy Sacrament of Baptisme for an assured note and marke of our regeneration and purification which is really conferred by the

signes to approve the better of their obedience to wit trees planted in the middest of the Orchard earthly Paradise which although they were not of any other qualitie then the other plants yet notwithstanding being dedicated cōsecrated of God for Sacraments or Sacred Signes their qualitie was then for to serve as Seales for the Testimonie and approbation of his divine will and pleasure which was effected by the infinite goodnesse bounty of God to make appeare and knowne that the Association Confederation and alliance contracted with man his Creature was ordained from time to time yea from the beginning of all times Thus I say were exteriour and Corporall Signes which man could see and contemplate with his Corporall Eyes constituted to serve for an assurance pledge and hostage of the Divine Covenant These Trees and substantiall Fruits ordained for our first and common Father were committed and given unto him to keepe without wasting either or eating of the one upon paine of eternall death Wherefore wee must in faith beleeve that they were not vaine Signes and Sacraments or as a meere simple Picture but whereas life or death depended on them they comprehended both the signes and thing signified wherein consisted the knowledge and wisedom to feare God Prov. 7.2.3 and obey him And therefore they were called the Fruits of the knowledge of good and ill the Trees of life For in the carefull keeping of these sacred fruits and obeying God there was promised eternall life whereas on the contrary by abusing the Sacraments and opposing the will of God there was intimated to us by exteriour signes that eternall death and damnation was purchased For other exercises required of man towards God Sacrifices before the written Law concerning the reverence honor and adoration of him many divers Sacrifices were celebrated even before the Law written by Moses And though God Almighty Creatour of Heaven and Earth needs not any humane workes or to bee nourished with the bloud of beasts or with terrestriall fruits Psal 50. yet hee had allwayes a desire to draw man unto him in an externall obedience and feare by Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments so as the Sacrifice of Lambes offered by Abel were agreable and pleasing to God Noah in like manner after the inundation of waters past in signe of his recognition and obedience towards God erected an Altar Genes 4. Hebr. 11. Gen. 6.7.5 immolated and offered sacrifices of unspotted sheepe birds whereof hee made a reall Holocaust acceptable to the Lord. By which examples we may easily discerne that Sacrifices tooke not their beginning in Moses time but that Innocent and Iust Lambe was prefigured in Abels Sacrifice as a type of Iesus Christ slaine and offered from the beginning of the world Apoc. 13. After the rigor and justice of the deluge was appeased The Rainbow that hapned for a punishment of Tyrants offences on earth in signe of a reconciliation and Covenant renewed our God ordained the signe of the Rainbow for a pledge assurance of his Divine mercie This signe and celestiall Bowe Genes 9. though it formerly appeared in thicke cloudes being a notice of raine to ensue notwithstanding it was not as yet constituted nor appointed to serve man for a signe or Sacrament untill the time that it was by God ordained for an assurance of the Covenant contracted with the good Father Noah and his successors After this with the faithfull Patriarch Abraham Circumcision in the yeere of the world 2048. there was another confederation alliance contracted by the wisedome of God who for a pledge and assurance to him and his posterity constituted the externall signe of Circumcision to serve him for a Sacrament a perpetuall notice of Gods holy will and pleasure and so he was enjoyned to circumcise the male infants within the eighth day of their nativitie upon paine of being rejected from the number of those people whom God had adopted Gen. 17. Then followed to his posterity afterward called the people of Israel the sacrifice of the immaculate Lambe which was ordain'd by the shedding of bloud to preserve them from the appointed slaughter in Egypt Exod. 12. As also the flesh thereof was appointed to bee eaten and celebrated festivally every yeere on the day called The Pascha or Easter for a signe commemoration of their Deliverance from Pharaohs servitude and to the participation of the flesh of this Paschall Lambe was annexed the unleavened bread for seven dayes on paine of Death Exod. 22. Other sacred signes were sent by God to his Elect people to winne them continually to his feare and obedience as the signe of the Cloud The Cloud The Pillar of fire Exod. 13. to conduct the people by day and the flaming and fierie Pillar for their guide direction by night and all to deliver them out of the hands of the Tyrant Pharaoh Then followed the signe of the division of the Arabicke Red Sea The division of the Arabick red sea in the yeere of the world 2403. over which the elect people of God passed By all which admirable signes it pleased God to institute Sacraments having an analogie to the holy Sacrament of Baptisme instituted afterwards by the elementall signe of water which is the washing of Regeneration and the renovation of the Holy Ghost Now during the time that this elect people of God were detained in the Arabian Desarts 1. Cor. 10. Titus 3. and barren Wildernes they had provision of heavenly bread wherewith they were nourished for fortie yeeres which was also an holy Sacrament instituted by the power and will of God Heavenly Manna Exod. 16. 1. Cor. 10. and held in so high an admiration that each one amongst the people said Man-hu what a wonderfull thing is this They saw celestiall Manna exhibited to them without travell a Figure of the Bread of Life which came downe from Heaven giving life to all the faithfull Another wonderfull signe there was ordained by God of the Rocke gushing out with cleere water in Mount Horeb Iohn 6. to quench the peoples thirst who were very dry and almost stifled with heat This was a signe and figure of the true Rocke Iesus Christ out of whom came bloud water to quench perpetually the thirst of sinners and refresh our soules CHAP. II. Of Sacrifices BEsides these signes and Sacraments above-mentioned Divers sacrifices ordained by God in the yeere of the world 2455 Holocausts which were onely by God ordain'd there was also a Law enacted and published for sacrificers by Moses as Signes Figures and Shadowes of that absolute Sacrifice consummated by Iesus Christ so that Sacrifices were either publike or private generall or particular Some were Holocausts being Sacrifices that were wholly consumed with fire Others consisted of beasts slaine and immolated to eate there were earthly and ayerie Creatures Amongst those terrestriall Division of sacrifices extracted out of Exedus

sodaine death This example may make them tremble Against the corruption of sacred signes that presume to profane the signes and Sacraments instituted by God Vzza also for abusing the same sacred signe though it were with a good intention to ease the Arke of the Covenant that leaned too much of one side was he not punished with death For other prophanations committed by the Israelites there are examples of Osias punished with Leprosie 2 Sam. 6. O●as for adulterating the sacrifices and assuming the Ministerie of incensing allotted onely to the Priests Saul the first elected King of the Israelites 2. Chron. 26 Saul was put to the Sword and his Kingdom succeeded to another as was foretold him by Samuel in that he prophaned the sacrifices and permitted his subjects to commit the like abuses 1. Sam. 13. Ioseph lib. 7 cap 4. de Antiq Iudae His successors to the Kingdomes of the Iewes and Israelites did they not persever in their abuses and corruptions of the sacrifices and Sacraments ordained by God when they celebrated sacrifices to the gods 1. Kings 11. Astaroth the god of the Sidonians Chamos of the Moabites and Melcom or Moloch of the Ammonites building Temples Oratories for them offering incense and solemnizing sacrifices to them Jeroboam King of the Israelites Ieroboam 1. Kings 12. did not onely erect a golden Calfe as the high Priest Aaron formerly did but hee set up two golden Cowes in the two Temples of Bethel of Dan he instituted strange Priests corrupted the Law of God and caused sacrifices to be celebrated after the manner and forme of Aarons This Idolatrie and corruption of sacrifices was continued by the Israelites for more then foure hundred yeeres 1. Kings 14. during the reignes of their Kings who had taught them to adulterate the true manner and forme of sacrifices in particular Chappels Oratories edified on the tops of hilles consecrated in shadie forrests violating the law of sacrifices ordained for the holy Temple in the sacred Citie of God for particular examples of abuses committed against the true use of sacrifices we reade an historie of Maacha 2. Kings 16. the mother of King Asa who caused an Image to bee erected to god Pan she consecrated dedicated unto him a shaddie Forrest celebrated to him sacrifices Achab another King of the Israelites erected an Altar Achab. 1 Kings 16. and procured sacrifices to bee solemnized to god Mars otherwise called Baal to whom he dedicated an umbragious Grove Ioseph lib. 8. cap. 10. to please herein his wicked wife Jezabel Hee also built another Temple and Altar to the god of the Tyrians ordained sacrificing Priest and instituted about 40. false prophets His sonne successor Ochosias Ochosias inst●ucted by his father in corrupting the true use of the sacrifices caused men not onely to immolate to Baal who signified Mars but persevering still in farre greater corrupt on s he built another Temple to the god of the Acaronites 2. Kings 1. Ioseph lib. 9. cap. 1. called by Josephus Myos and by the Grecians Priapus to which god hee offered sacrifice And to bee sho●t what more abominable corruption can bee imagin●d then the invention of Purgatory fire Purgatory fire 2. Kings 16. which the Israelites abused causing their children to passe through the middest of the fire in Tophet a valley belonging to the sonnes of Ennon sacrificing to god Moloch This corruption of sacrifice In the book Alcoran Asoar 29. li. 46. Asoar 5. Ignem gehounae non nisi numero dierum praeterminato Animas sentire docet Alc●van liber ad diem Veritatis omnis accedere ●perum suorum mercedem accepturos A●oar 5. The cause of corruption in Sacraments Ap●● 1. ● though it had been practised since Moses time notwithstanding the idole of Moloch in the valley of Ennon was not demolished till the reigne of good King Iosias more then nine hundred yeeres after Moses Neverthelesse this abuse hath been continued by the Arabians and Africans even to this present day for the Alcaronists and Mahumetans are of this beliefe that the soules of the dead shall passe through fire to bee purged purified of their offences By this briefe collection wee may cleerely discerne how from the beginning of the world man hath fallen by his owne defect into this gulph of the error and corruption of sacred signes sacrifices and Sacraments instituted for him by God But the most capitall abuses from whence the originall of all Idolatry derives have proceeded from this in that carnall and fleshly men have bin alwayes more addicted to visible signes and externall ceremonies then to things signified and intimated in Sacraments for in stead of circumcising their hearts casting off the old skinne of sinne to bee regenerated and purified by the bloud of the heavenly oblation offered up before all ages they have taken understood the circumcision carnally for nothing but the corporall foreskin circumcised Dent. 10.50 For did they follow the interpretation of God hereof by Moses which was to circumcise the prepuce of their hearts Did the people of Israel give credit to the good Prophet Ieremias who admonished them of the spiritual Circumcision and to circumcise the foreskin of their hearts Ierem. 4. in casting off the old skinne of their corrupt nature The like hath hapned in sacrifices and sacred signes instituted by God for signes of that sacrifice consummated in the sacred person of Iesus Christ for carnall man had reference to the corporall bloud of the terrestriall beasts whereas man should have raised up his spirit to heaven to have apprehended what was prefigured signified by the Immolation Oblation of beasts And therefore divine Iustice is denounced by the Prophets Esar 7. What neede have I saith the Lord God of your sacrifices I am angry with the oblation of your sheep I take no more delight in the bloud of Oxen nor of Lambes and sacrificed goats Why labour you to erect Altars to mee I le none of your vaine Offerings and Oblations I abhorre your Incenses I cannot endure your New Moones your Sabbaths your assemblies nor your feasts all this is but vanity I have conceived an hatred against your Feasts of New Moones O you Israelites and your solemne celebrations I am weary with having endured so much Psal 41. you are ready to addresse unto mee your prayers but I will no more heare you for the abuses you have committed by your hands full of blood I will accept of no Bull hereafter from the house of Israel because sacrifices are not pleasing to mee Esay 65. I take as much delight in the sacrifice of an immolated Oxe as in the murder of a man slaine in the Oblation of Incense Ierem. 6. as the adoration of an Idoll Wherefore then saith God take you so much paines to hunt after Incense frō Saba and for odours out of a farre

Glasses of the Israelitish Women In this Laver or Holy-water Font was put this Water of Purification wherewith the Priests besprinkled themselves before they celebrated their sacrifices to the end they might be purified and obtaine grace and remission of sinnes After the death of the High Priest Aaron the Israelitish people ingratefull towards God for the benefit he sent them murmuring when they were wearie of the heavenly Manna which hee gave them bountifully for their sustentation they were punished with the stingings of venemous Serpents Brazen Serpent Numb 27. But God being mercifull gave them a sacred signe to bee preserved and restored to health that is to say the signe of the Brazen Serpent erected up on high which was a Figure of Iesus Christ crucified Iohn 3.7 This in briefe is the greatest part of the Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments instituted by God in the first Church of the Israelites being figures of the true and perfect sacrifice accomplished and immolated by Iesus Christ the true Messias the Eternall Priest who sits at the right hand of God his Father CHAP. III. Of Corruptions NOw wee must succinctly produce how Man by his owne fault falling into oblivion and disobedience against God his Creator Corruption began first in Adam abused herein divine favour and grace and corrupted the sacred signes sacrifices and Sacraments by him ordain'd and instituted For else what perswaded our first Father and his Wife Eve to hide themselves when they heard and were set in the way of God but that they had abused his sacred signes and violated the Law of those Fruits prohibited forbidden them This holy signe which our first Parents so alienated abused was the originall of other Vices and corruptions hereafter described whereinto men are falne having a rellish of the corrupt masse in Adam Omitting the particular corruptions of signes sacrifices Corruption of the sacrifices by Aaron Exod. 32. Deut. 9. Sacraments before the Law written by Moses we will begin in setting downe briefely the most notable errors committed by the greatest sacrificers Kings and Priests with others that had the government and charge of the people When Moses remained in Mount Sinai to receive the Commandements from God his brother Aaron the High Priest caused a golden Calfe to be framed of the earings delivered unto him by the people of Israel hee built an Altar offered Incense and celebrated sacrifice causing the cōmon people to adore this Image Was not this an abusing of the sacrifices ordained by God a corrupting of their true use procuring the same to be ado●'d which before was it selfe offered and immolated according as the custome was His sonnes also Corruption of sacrifices by Nadab Abihu Levit. 10. Numb 11. Nadab and Abihu were they not consum'd with fire because they adulterated the true use of sacrifices and tooke unconsecrated wood by corrupting the instituted Law The people of Israel ingratefull for the benefit received in being delivered from Pharaohs captivitie did they not murmure against the holy Sacrament of celestiall Manna when they contemned and despised this Bread of Life crying out for flesh to eate Achan the sonne of Charmes did not hee violate the Law of sacred signes when hee committed sacriledge by detaining the spoiles of Jericho which were vowed consecrated for sacrifices to God Iosh 7. If any man more curious Observe this desires to see the abuses and corruptions continued by the same people let him reade the Histories of the Iudges of Israel and he shall perceive Iud. 6.3.6.8.9 that in all ages men have never been content with the true adoration instituted by God but in stead of externall signes constituted by God to drawe the people to his feare and obedience they have forged and brought-in their owne inventions and in stead of reverencing the Altars Iud. 10. and the Arke of Covenant in the name of the onely one God which were externall sacred signes the Israelites misled by the Idolatries of their neighbours Iudg. the Syrians Sidonians Moabites Ammonites and Palestines erected Altars to strange gods to Baal Astaroth Jephta Iudge Inhumane sacrifice of Iephta Iudg. 11. and Conductor of the Israelites did not he corrupt the Law of sacrifices when he offered up his owne daughter excusing himselfe by a Vow he made which was not so enjoyned him by God The sacred signe ordain'd for the High Priest Sacrificer in celebrating of sacrifice Iudg. 8. called the Ephod serving for an externall ornament was it-not abused by Gideon Captaine of Israel when of the spoiles of the Madianites and their eare-rings hee forged an Ephod of gold by meanes whereof the people fell to great Idolatrie How long was this externall signe of the Ephod abused Idolatry by the golden Ephod when an Image was thereof erected in Siloe by the Mother of Michas so that Priests were expressely instituted to sacrifice thereunto and an Altar edified and thus was the true use of holy sacrifices corrupted While the Temple continued in Siloe into what depraved and adulterate Rites did the Priests and sacrificers fall who were appointed and ordained for the celebration and Ministerie of holy sacrifices and Sacraments when by long custome they usurped this priviledge over the people that when the sacrifice was solemnized and the flesh of the oblations was a boiling their sonne or servant having a trident or iron hooke in his hand he had the libertie to rake out of the pot or Cauldron whatsoeuet he could bring up with his hooke Moreover 1. Sam. 2. with more extreme Leviticall Tyrannie this servant of the Priests had the priviledge to demand of the Celebrater some flesh to roast for the Priest or else he might violently take whatsoever he listed Were not these wonderfull abuses and detestable corruptions practised by the sacrificers and High Priests under the pretext and colour of sacrifice What grosser corruption can be mentioned then that of the children of Eli the High Priest nam'd Ophni and Phinees who Ophni and Phinees corrupters of sacrifices 1. Sam. 2. under the colour of devotion committed infamous Whoredoms with the women that watcht neere to the holy Oraculous signe instituted by God For which sinne they were lamentably slaine and the Arke of Covenant violently taken away by the Philistims who erected it in the Temple of their Idol Dagon 1. Sam. 4. But God not permitting this sacred signe to be thus prophaned he caused the Image of Dagon to fall downe 1. Sam. 5.6 and sent grievous punishments upon the Philistims so as they were constrained to re-deliver up againe the Arke of Gods Covenant This sacred signe was so precious and estimable Arke of sacred Covenant that being but abused and prophaned by the Bethsamites that were not of the Order of the Levites fiftie thousand of the common people and seventy of the most apparant and remarkable amongst them were by divine revenge cut off by