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A04378	The height of Israels heathenish idolatrie, in sacrificing their children to the Deuill diuided into three sections: where is shewed in the first, the growth and degrees of this, and generally of other sinnes and idolatries. In the second, that the Deuill was the god of the heathen; with the meanes by which he obtayned that honour. With a large application to our times, against popery, shewing the pride thereof, and malice both against soule and body; together with the meanes, sleights, and policies by which it seduceth, killeth, and in the person of the Pope, raiseth it selfe to its present height. In the third, the blinde zeale of idolaters. Deliuered generally in two sermons preached at S. Maries in Cambridge: the first whereof is much inlarged: by Robert Ienison Bachelor of Diuinitie, and late Fellow of S. Johns Colledge in Cambridge.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1621 (1621)	STC 14491; ESTC S107702	160,311	208

them out by c●ntinuall mulcts leuied diligently constantly on them according to statute for each absence if not bring them to Church and with Gods blessing saue their soules they want but rousing 2. There are also enemies of holinesse and goodnesse such as being wicked themselues by their wickednesse daily giuing euill example to others hate all goodnes in others Isa 59.15 so that he that departeth from euill makes himselfe a prey vnto them Now good Magistrates whose office is to be keepers of both Tables should by their office and place bee zealous on Gods behalfe both to defend the oppressed and also to vse seuerity in punishing offendors They must therefore first maintaine the innocency of the righteous else it is a thing highly displeasing vnto God when in this kind there is no iudgement Isa 59.14.15 Secondly they must execute iudgement with seuerity not only on the forenamed but on all sorts of offendors whatsoeuer so far as Gods lawes and the Kings command or will permit whether it be to death or to banishment Esra 7. ●● or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment Thus by Gods law witches must die inchanters wizards Deut. 18 11. c. necromancers must not be suffered Others according to their faults must receiue forty stripes And 25.1 2 3. And 19.18 19 20 21. Psal 106.30 Psal 101.8 False-witnesses must be dealt with as they intended to deale with others This zeale in Phinees was commēded Dauid professes so zealous he would be Thus to doe is an acceptable Sacrifice to God which Magistrates should make Rom. 13.6 for they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods Ministers and their faithfull seruice in this kinde is to God an acceptable sacrifice Kings haue beene Priests in former times and so must now be in this kinde as also inferiour Magistrates this is a worke of their calling and not against the Law which saith Thou shalt not kill which binds only priuate men and publike in their priuate occasions So that they killing doe not kill but sacrifice Aug de ciuit Dei lib. 1. c. 2● Non enim ille occidit qui ministerium debet iubenti He kils not who in slaying obeys Gods command This seueritie so farre as your authoritie stretcheth you must vse else foolish pitty marrs the city and will lay it open to Gods iudgements No priuate or sinister respects must withhold you from doing your duty in this or in any of the forenamed parts of it Which if you doe you may expect the continuance of Gods blessed protection and fauour to this your Towne And that you may so doe consider how wonderfully zealous Idolaters in all times haue beene and are when in any kind they thinke they doe seruice to God This ensuing Treatise will tell you they spared not their owne bowels but sacrificed their sonnes and daughters to the deuill their supposed god Thus commending it to your diligent view and reading my selfe to your loue and your Worships all with the state of the whole Towne to Gods blessed and mercifull protection I here end and humbly take my leaue From my Study in Newcastle vpon Tine this 30. of Ian. 1620. Your Worships in all bonds and offices of Christian loue and duty ROBERT IENISON THE HEIGHT of ISRAELS Heathenish Jdolatrie PSAL. 106.37 Yea they sacrificed their sonnes and their daughters vnto Deuils SECTION I. CHAP. I. Containing the degrees of ISRAELS Idolatrie THe Iewes either vnder Antiochus his tyrannie as some thinke or rather in the captiuitie of Babylon had this Psalme of praise The contents of the Psalme prayer and acknowledgement of sinne penned for them as appeares by verse 47. Saue vs O Lord our God and gather vs from among the Heathen Wherein looking backe to their first deliuerance out of Aegypt they first acknowledge Gods wonderfull mercies and goodnesse in preuenting them with his fauour desiring a taste and experiment of the like fauour in this their greatest need verse 4. acknowledging also thankfully throughout this Psalme his continued and renued mercies in their many deliuerances Secondly they yeeld him the praise of his Iustice acknowledging the effects of it from time to time in their manifold afflictions and scourgings but especially in this their last and greatest which was their dispersion among the heathen Thirdly here is also an humble confession of their sins with the sins of their forefathers which daily increasing more and more caused these iudgements of God and now being growne to an height haue brought vpon them this great captiuity All which three Mercies Iudgements Sinnes are in this Psalme interchangeably and intermixedly mentioned to signifie the inseparable connexion betweene sinne and punishment and yet the sweet mixture of Gods mercy with his iustice Each againe either amplifying aggrauating or iustifying another and all of them conspiring to set forth the glory of God First their sinnes iustifie his iudgements and amplifie his mercies so that he must needs be acknowledged both iust in punishing and mercifull in remitting Secondly his iudgements doe condemne their sinnes and commend his mercies for God neuer strikes without iust cause in vs and therefore neuer remoues the Rod but of meere mercy in himselfe Thirdly Gods mercies and many deliuerances doe aggrauate their sinnes and iustifie his iudgements for to sinne againe after mercy is once shewed doubles the fault and stops the mouth of the faulty for complaining of after iudgements To leaue the rest let vs take a view and consideration of their sinnes as my Text occasions vs. And first the first word Yea bids vs looke backe or rather downe to number the steps and stayres by which sinne hath mounted to this height The steps and growth of Israels sinnes and ascended this Tower of Babell Secondly the following words will occasion a consideration of this particular sinne it selfe This growth of sinne and of men in sinne must be conceiued to be not so much personall in regard of the same men as nationall in regard of men of the same Country whereby the Children exceed the Fathers in wickednesse till their sinnes come to an height fulnesse and ripenesse as did the sins of the Amorites after more then 400. Gen. 15.16 yeares growth and of these Israelites from the time of their bondage in Aegypt till their bondage in Babylon Whence it is said of the wicked Kings of Israel 1 King 16.25.30 c. that they did euill aboue all and worse then all that were before them And of the Iewes generally That they did worse then their Fathers Ier. 7.26 Here wee may see it by their owne confession in this Psalme where we haue their sinnes first of Omission set downe negatiuely Secondly of Commission affirmatiuely First of omission where we may obserue these degrees 1. Of omission verse 7. First They vnderstood not his Wonders This may be humane frailty and blindnesse Secondly They remembred not his mercies but forgat his Workes verse

against the Iewes who daily went about to kill him thinking and alledging that otherwise their kingdome could not stand thus seeking by his ruine to establish their owne kingdome saying If we let him thus alone all men will be e●n● in him and the Romanes will come and take away both our place and the Nation Hereupon they sought to kill him both they and the Deuill by them But our Sauiour concludes that euen in this regard they were the sonnes and children of the Deuill saying If ye were Abrahams childr●n as yee pretend y●…●oul● doe the workes of Abraham But now yee seeke to kill me ●a man that hath told you the truth which I haue heard of God this did not Abraham ye doe the ●eed of your father ye are of your father the Deuill and the lusts of your father ye will doe he was a murtherer from the beginning c. And surely we may as firmely conclude against all such as vpon like grounds goe about to establish and vphold their kingdome of Antichrist by shedding the innocent blood of harmelesse Protestants and especially of religious Kings thinking that both Kingdomes cannot stand together theirs and Christs Practising 〈◊〉 Hereupon they most deuilishly practise and most shamelessely by writing excuse yea warrant and giue allowance to the murthering of Christian Kings and Princes witnesse that bloody butchery not long since practised vpon the persons of two Kings of France successiuely Henry the third and Henry the fourth who both being popish were not thought popish enough and their Apologies written in excuse of Iohn Chastel who attempted to kill Henry the fourth which after villanous Rauiliac performed Instances of Popish practises cruelties and attempts in this kind there might be giuen many not onely in forraigne nations but euen in our owne witnesse their Spanish nauy which in the yeare 1588. was sent to subdue the whole nation and came prouided of all cruell instruments of death and dolour which could be imagined Witnesse also their many attempts vpon the person of the late Queene Elizabeth of happy memory as also of our gracious Soueraigne King Iames. But that which swallowes vp the mention and remembrance of al the rest was the Pouder-plot such a strange and malicious plot as for strangenesse could neuer haue by any Poets faigned inuention beene imagined and for maliciousnesse neuer haue proceeded from any mans soft harmelesse and relenting heart From whence then but from that subtile Serpent and deuouring Lyon great Beelzebub our vtter enemy their great god for so we may conclude against them as our Sauiour before against the Iewes in like case that herein they doe not the workes of Iesus whose name they take vpon them but the workes of their father that is of him whose lusts they do and who hath bin a murtherer of the Saints from the beginning that is the Deuill whose instruments herein they were in which regard I may say and conclude of the first inuenter of that plot which was Catesby in regard of his designe and attempt that which Socrates writes of Nestorius that he was Socrat. lib. 7. cap. 29. totius diabolicae nequitiae capax instrumentum vereque totius Ecclesiae Anglicanae incendium a large receptacle and instrument of all deuilish wickednesse and the very firebrand of the whole English Church And thus haue we seene how Satan is still himselfe and cannot forget to be cruell and that now he reignes as god also in this regard as well as in former times Heretofore indeed he by Oracle publikely commanded the killing of men and was obeyed but God be thanked our Sauiour Christ by his comming hath put him to silence in his person yet now he teacheth the same lesson and is also obeyed in this as in many things else For we know there are doctrines of deuils whereof these last times are in danger and there are Doctors of deuils which say they are Christians and Iesus his disciples calling themselues Iesuites yet are they not but the Synagogue of Satan These are they by whom especially Satan exerciseth his malice both against mens soules by seducing and their bodies by killing them by both Satan goes about seeking whom he may deuoure and that not only in his owne person but in the person of his instruments especially Iesuites and generally the popish faction These seeke first to seduce and where they speed not so they proceed to the second They first compasse sea and land to make proselytes to withdraw men from their obedience and loyaltie to God and their lawfull Kings if they preuaile not thus then presently they proceed either to fire and fagot if power and authoritie be in themselues or else to secret practises tending to no lesse then death and destruction And here we may obserue the rage and zeale of the wicked which is not zealous enough vnlesse it end in blood Thus the Iewes dealt with our Sauiour Christ who not content that he should be whipped by Pilate and mocked by themselues they must needs crye Away with him and againe away with him Iohn 19 1-6-15 crucifie him and againe crucifie him So they dealt with Saint Paul Philip 3 6. Acts 21.4 who himselfe while he was a blind Pharisie persecuted the Church yea vnto the death but being once a true conuert he was persecuted himselfe and oftentimes whipt Yet this being not enough see the rage of the Iewes against him Acts 22 ● for more then forty men bound themselues with a solemne oath that they would neither eat nor drinke till they killed Paul So now adaies cursing with Bell Booke and Candle disgraces wrongs iniuries and excommunications are not enough our enemies crie still for fire and faggot This our Sauiour hath foretold vs of Iohn 16.2 They call presently with the rashly zealous disciples of Christ for fire from heauen to consume vs at once and when our Sauiour denies them this they will fetch it from the vaults of hell it selfe but they will haue it Herein plainely manifesting whose children they are for euen so doth their father and master for whom he hath any hand ouer he labours to serue as he did that Lunatick whom he possessed whom oft times he cast into the fire Ma●●●●● and into the water to destroy him And as he did with the Heathen and Israelites in my text nothing could please him vnlesse they made away with and sacrificed themselues and children to him From this raging and furious malice of the Deuill in his owne person and in his instruments we may yet make further vse And first if the Deuill bee now so maliciously bent against mankind 〈…〉 Satan 〈…〉 and with such sauage crueltie vse them now that euen professe his seruice as did the Heathen and these Iewes what shall we then thinke will be his furious rage when in hell he shall haue full power ouer the damned when his fury shall be exasperated with the present sence of Gods

gaine and draw others whom we truely loue to God therefore good Angels truely louing vs will accept d Nolunt nos sibi sacrificare sed ei cuius ipsi nobiscum sacrificium esse noverunt no sacrifice from vs to themselues as knowing it is to be offered to him onely to whom both they and we ioyntly doe owe our selues in sacrifice Therefore I conclude Daemonum est haec arrogantia superborū c. It is onely the Deuils pride against God and malice against man which dares presume to require or accept any sacrifice to it selfe from man If this be not proofe enough 3. From their inioyning and accepting sacrifices of men we need no better argument to discouer the nature of these gods then this very seruice in my text accepted of them for both by the record of sacred writ and relation of heathen Authors and other writers wee know that nothing was so vsually commanded nor gratefully accepted by these heathenish gods as was the shedding of mans blood Orosius lib. 4. cap. 6. Trogus Lactantius lib. 1. c. and the sacrificing of men maids and children vnto them as appeares by the vsuall practise of men in former times To the testimonies of Scripture mentioned formerly I adde onely the example of the King of Moab Sacrifices of men mentioned 2. Kings 3.27 where it is said that being in some straits he tooke his eldest sonne that should haue raigned in his stead Among the Heathen and offered him for a burnt offering vpon the wall The stories likewise of the Heathen are full of like examples when the Oracle of Apollo was asked by the Athenians how they might make amends for their killing of Androgeus it willed them to send yearely to King Minos seuen bodies of each sexe to appease the wrath of god Now this kind of yearely sacrifice continued still in Athens in the time of Socrates Thus the Carthagineans being vanquished by Agathocles King of Sicilie and supposing their god to be displeased to appease him did sacrifice two hundred noble mens children This custome was ancient euen before the Troyan war for then was Iphigenia sacrificed Thus we reade that the Latines sacrificed the tenth of their owne children to Iupiter that men and children were vsually sacrificed to Saturne in many places in Candy Rhodomene Phenice Africke and those commonly the choice and dearest of their children and most nobly descended The manner of sacrificing their children to Saturne Diodorus Bibliothec lib. 20. Ludouicus Vi●es ad August de ciuit Dei lib. 7. cap. 19. Diodorus relates to bee this Bringing their children to the statue or image of Saturne which was of huge greatnesse they gaue them into his hands which were made so hollow and winding that the children offered slipped and fell downe through into a caue and fornace of fire These sacrifices continued in vse till the birth and death of our Sauiour Christ who came to destroy the workes of the Deuill for such sacrifices were first forbidden by Augustus Caesar after more generally by Tiberius in whose raigne our Sauiour suffered who as Tertullian writes so straitely forbade them that hee crucified the Priests who offered them howbeit euen in Tertullians time and after in Eusebius and Lactantius times such sacrifices were offered but closely to Iupiter Latialis Who can now doubt seeing such exceeding superstitious crueltie but that the gods commanding such sacrifices were very Deuils and enemies to mankind God commands no such thing but forbids it and threatens plagues to his people Ier. 19.5 because they had forsaken him and built the high places of Baal to burnt their sonnes with fire for burnt offerings vnto Baal which saith God I commanded not neither spake it neither came it into my mind Most infallibly then wee may conclude that none but Satan that Arch-deuill with his Angels were the commanders of such seruice for this agrees right well with his nature who hath beene a murderer from the beginning Iohn 8. ●4 Nothing delights him more then the shedding and spilling of a Quia omnium sem●●●m optimum est genus h●manum Aug. de Ciuit. ●ei lib. 7 c●● 19. mans blood in so much that if but a bond be to be sealed to him by his deuoted slaue his bondslaue it must be written with his blood If it please some French b R●sort I. bauiu●si●●g lartum p●rte ●ecunda c●sser at 5. Lord to write a booke of Magicke it must be done with the blood of some twenty children It is ordinary with our late Iewes for and in their ex●●tions to vse the c Vide Crusium lib. 7. partis 3. annalium Langium lib. 7. ep 71. blood of christian Infanes which hath cost many of them their lines Thus we read that d Nicephorus Socrates Iulian the Aposta●e Emperour did celebrate with manslaughter his magicke-sacrifices who also in imitation of as good a master Heli gabalus sacrificed many men onely for the inspection of their intralls thereby to make coniecture of future euents From which premises wee may further conclude that the gods Sacrifices of men among the Americans whom the poore Americans of the West Indies haue and in part doe yet serue with such bloody sacrifices of men are no other then the same deuils who there especially beare sway where Christ and the Gospell is not heard of Ioseph Acosta his naturall and morall history of the Indies lib. 5. cap. 19.20 We read in their histories of infinite sacrifices of this kind of a certaine number sacrificed in their feasts which were monthly yearely and euery 52. yeare where in some 5. in some 10. in some 100. and in some 1000. were sacrificed Other set times for such sacrifices were at the sprouting and increase of their corne in the beginning and in their vndertaking of warre at the Coronation of their Kings at the death of their Kings and great men when sometimes 200. sometimes 1000. of all sorts died in sacrifice with them according to the custome of the ancient Romanes whose seruants vsed to bee slaine at their masters funerall in stead whereof Of which Infrâ Sword players were appointed from among such as were guilty and condemned persons who were also set to fight with wild beasts especially with buls which custome is stil in vse in Spain as witnesseth their owne Mariana The number of men thus sacrificed by these barbarous nations must needs be exceeding great Mariana lib. de spectaculis fine as appeares by what we read of the practise of Moteçuma last Emperour of Mexico who sending one of his Nobles to entertaine Ferdinando Cortez the first conquerour of these parts and to relate vnto him his greatnesse his greatest argument thereof was that he sacrificed yearely to his gods 20000. men yea some yeares 50000. For which cause he reserued the Prouince of Tlascalla vnsubdued that from thence as occasion serued he might haue captiues for the

see Baals priests to moue their god to heare them vsually to cut themselues with kniues and launcers till the bloud gush out vpon them some popish penitentiaries also in great austerity and seuerity to lash and whip themselues of a like stampe to that sect of penitentiary whippers who like Pans priests naked from the nauill vpwards went to and fro through Saxony and Bohemia yea at the length walked London streets with whips in their hands whereby they bloudyed one another on the backe thus thinking they purged themselues by a baptisme of bloud And if wee hearken to the Relators among whom Lipsius is one our King Henry the second is reported Lips Monit Exemp polit Anno 1174. of meere conscience to get him to Canterbury to the sepulchre of Saint Thomas whom hee caused to be put to death whence after pardon asked with teares going full penitently to a Couent of Monkes with much entreaty he obtained of each seuerally to be lashed and whipped with rods This was much in a King but it was as hee thought for a better kingdome for the obtayning of which wee reade that the Valesian Heretiques vsually gelded themselues and their disciples August de haeres cap. 37. herein perhaps following Saint Origens example who allegorizing almost all other Scripture Matth. 19.12 yet literally misinterpreted the place in Saint Mathew concerning voluntary Eunuches to the gelding of himselfe The misconstruing of which place mislead also diuers Christians of primitiue times to the same practise whom therefore the first Nicene Councell thought good to condemne Danaeus ad Aug. de haeres cap. 37. What blinded zeale caused them to doe desire of selling themselues dearer to merchants moued some Ethnickes to as the People Abasgi Euagrius lib. 4. c. 21. who as saith Euagrius to that end generally gelt themselues Vlysses is said to teare his owne flesh with whip-coard to deceiue his enemies and Zopyrus in Iustine could filthily mangle and deface himselfe Iustin hist lib. 1. fine by cutting off his owne nose eares and lips that so with lesse suspition he might betray Babylon into the hands of King Darius But religious respects haue carryed men yet further euen to the voluntary killing of themselues as may be instanced with variety of examples fetched especially from the East Indies These few shall supply the roome of many Purchas his Pilgrimage Asia In the Easterne Ilands of Iapon men cast themselues from rockes put themselues into strait holes of the earth receiuing breath by a reede and so continue fasting and praying till death and all in honour to their Idols In the Kingdome of Narsinga where is the Citie Maliapur where Saint Thomas the Apostle is voyced to be martyred pilgrims by troopes doe put themselues vnder the Chariot-wheeles of their golden Idoll which yearely is carryed in Procession and so are chrushed to death Others are brought forth by their parents each with fiue sharpe kniues about his necke where cutting his flesh he cryes Linschot lib. 1. cap. 44. cited by M. Purchas For the worship of my God doe I this And so proceeding saith Now doe I yeeld my life to death in the behalfe of my God This selfe-sacrificing is witnessed by diuers and as Linschoten affirmeth is still in vse Lips In the Regions of Malabar in their feasts tela inter se spargunt they throw darts one at another and who so dyes is thought presently to flit to a place of happinesse Neare thereabout in the Citie Quilacare in the King of Coulams Dominion euery twelfth yeare the King himselfe ascending a scaffold cuts his owne throat in sacrifice to his Idols his Successor standing by who after his twelue yeares Iubilee must doe the like Where are now our voluptuous liuers who for the kingdome of God will not mortifie any one of their earthly members nor withdraw their bodies from hurtfull pleasures If these examples now shame them not they will confound them at the day of Iudgement And so shall that Reuerence Reuerence of Idolaters honor and religious respect giuen by the blindly zealous to the things they reuerence condemne the want thereof in Professors At this day the Turkes so much respect Paper Giuen to Paper Lips Monit exe polit lib. 1. c. 3. exe 5. that they hold it wickednesse in any to cast it away trample it vnder foot or otherwise to imploy it to base vses And why Because their Alcoran that is their law and rules of Religion is written in Paper Surely then a piece of that Paper is much more respected Where was this reuerence when the French Bishop of Aix and other Bishops condemned a Bookeseller to be burnt with two Bibles about his necke Acts and Monum In the Merindolian persecution Ibid. in sine Hen. 8. yea when one Stile an English martyr was burnt in Smithfield with the Reuelation of S. Iohn about his necke whereon he vsed to read which yet he then reuerenced counting himselfe happy and honoured by it Thus doe Papists reuerence Scripture who yet out of an vngrounded and pretended reuerence to it debarre the Lay sort of the vse thereof threatning terribly such as shall dare to haue or read the Scriptures forsooth lest such holy things should be cast to and polluted by dogges They further call vs scornefully Scripturarios Scripture-men Bible-men and our Diuinity which we build only on Scripture Theologiam atramentariam Inkie diuinity But among our selues it may be feared there are too many who reuerence and respect more the goodnesse of the Paper or Print the washing ruling gilding of their Bibles then the sence and Scripture it selfe which they seldome peruse King Alexanders example shall condemne such who so much respected * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch in Alexand. Homers verses that laying them vnder his pillow he slept on them And when among the spoiles of King Darius there was found a most pretious casket for Iewels and doubt made to what speciall vse it should be imploied Imò saith he Homeri carminibus reseruetur Let it be kept for Homers verses And all this he did that hauing them ready at hand he might at all times read them at home and abroad What respect wee owe to Scripture by day and by night What respect then is iustly due to the Scriptures of God how are they to bee treasured vp in our best caskets namely in the sure closets of our hearts and as it were to be transcribed by often reading and remembring from the tables of the Law and Gospel into our hearts that so we may approue our selues such as to whom God hath promised to put his Law in their inward parts and to write it in their hearts Againe the Peruuian Priests comming to their gods lift not vp their eyes Respect giuen to Idoll gods Lips vt supr l. 1. c. 3. but often either bind them vp or quite plucke them out which is thought more holy