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A11890 An arrovv against idolatrie Taken out of the quiver of the Lord of hosts. By H.A. Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622? 1624 (1624) STC 222; ESTC S115945 56,377 128

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Witchcrafts 17 For by these and innumerable moe inchantments of Idolatrie which the day would not be enough to recken up this Circe the Ladie of the pseudocatholicks hath intoxicate the earth that the inhabitants p Rev. 17.2 are drunken with the wine of her fornication doting upon her reverend clergie her devout service her sacred ceremonies her hallowed Churches her Saints reliques and other like amatory potions wherin Christianism Iudaism and Paganism are tempered and mixt together in the golden Babylonish cup of her abominations 18 Hence is it that the reliques of this Romish idolatry are so fast retained among some which yet Rev. 17. ●6 hate the whore and eat her flesh and burn her with fire Of her haue they received their Diocesan Provinciall and Nationall Churches Of her haue they learned to make portesses or Leitourgies reading and singing their prayers upon a book with organs and melodie Of her institution haue they their solemn festivities of Christs Angels and Saints daies with their fasting Eves Of her hand haue they taken their Archbishops Lordbishops Suffragans Arch-deacons Parsons Vicars and a great many moe of her royall retinue From her haue they had their Churches Chappels Minsters baptized bells hallowed fonts and holy Churchyards though some of those high places are of more antiquity as having been built and dedicated to the Heathen Divils Finally from her haue been received lands livings tithes offrings garments signes gestures ceremonies courts canons customs and many moe abominations wherewith haue been inriched the r Rev. 18.15 merchants of the whore and all that sail s vers 19 with ships in her sea Thus with all the evils before mentioned and others moe then can be told which are very Gillulim the loathsome idols and execrements of the Queen of Sodom and the filthinesse of her fornication hath shee dishonoured and blasphemed the God of heaven and all that therin dwell with them she defileth the consciences of men with them she delighteth and solaces her selfe in fleshly ease and pleasure till in t Rev. 18.8 19. one houre she and all her riches pleasures wares merchandise shall perish and that be again fulfilled which was said by the Prophet Ezek. 23.43 Now shal she and her fornications come to an end CHAP. VI. A Conclusion Dehortary from this sin THE wares of idolatry being so common and universally spread by the merchants of the whore and conveighed into all nations it commeth to passe that many are interessed in this Mart buy and sell partake and communicate with these evils not being aware of the danger they come into hereby To warn them therefore of the mischiefe ere they fall into it or to help them out if they be fallen haue I penned this Treatise and add to the things fore written these few advertisements 2 This sin is direct against the Majesty of God whose honour is to be regarded aboue our own liues aboue the peace or tranquility of nations The sin provoketh the anger of God as adultery provoketh the rage of a man injured in his private bed As he a Pro. 6.34 will not spare in the day of vengeance and can not bear the sight of any ransom so the Lord is a b Ex. 20 5 gealous God and visiteth the sin of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generation of those that hate him 3 Idolaters as they are shut c Rev. 22.14.15 out of the citie of the Lord the Church of Christ the heavenly Ierusalem so haue they further this doom against them they d 1 Cor. 6. ● 10 shall not inherit the kingdom of God The cōmunicating with idols depriveth men of cōmunion with God for there is e 2 Cor. ● 14.16 no fellowship of righteousnes with unrightousnes no agreement betwixt the Temple of God and idols The partakers therfore in this evill though perhaps not authors inventors nor open maintainers of the same shall come unto shame and confusion before God for f Isa. 44.1 all that are of the fellowship thereof shall be confounded 4 Folly is a blot and shame unto men which they fayn would shun but wisedom is mans honour and g Eccl. 8. ● maketh his face to shine Of all foolishnesse idolatry is the greatest depriving men of sound judgement in the best heavenly things and possessing their minds with habituall vanity Therefore is this vice resembled by a h Pro. 9.1 foolish woman ignorant knowing nothing yet troublesome and talkatiue i Pro. 7.1 lowd in her babling of a smooth and k Pro. 2.1 5.3.8.9 flattering tongue and her mouth more soft then oil yet cruel also and malicious l Pro. 6 2● 9.18 hunting for the precious life of a man bringing him to beggery death and hell But true religion or the fear of the Lord is resembled by m Prov. 8 1.4.6 wisedom which uttereth her voice to the children of men speaketh of excellent things the words 〈◊〉 8.9 ●1 of her mouth are all righteous plain her instructions better then fine gold and all her pleasures are not to be compared unto her Blessed ●ers 33.35 is the man that heareth her watching daily at her gates and giving attendance at the posts of her dores for he that findeth her findeth life and shall obtain favour of the Lord but he that sinneth against her hateth his own soule all that hate her loue death 5 To worship and serv the Divill is a thing horrible in religion and even in nature worthy of vengeance from the hand of God Though all manner sin pertaineth to the Divils service yet idolatry aboue all is counted and called the worship of Divils and so shall be punished The Heathens albeit they Rom. 1. ●0 21 had some knowledge of the true God and worshipped Act. 17. ●3 him ignorantly yet their worship is reckoned to Satan for 1 Cor. 10 ●0 the things which they sacrificed they sacrificed to Divils and not unto God Ieroboam made account he served the true God 1 King 2.28 even the God that had brought Israel out of Aegipt land notwithstanding the Lord hath thus testified of him that they were 2 Chron. ●1 15 Divils which he made when he made his calues for to worship God by And Israel before him made u Exod. 3● 1 c. a calfe for like use but Moses doth blame them as having offered unto x Lev. 17. ● Divils and gone a whoring after them and prophesyeth that their children y Deut. 32 17. would also run into like blot Antichristians would seem to bee worshippers of God yet the Holy Ghost chargeth them to z Rev. 9 2● worship the Divils when they think to serv God by idols Forasmuch then as all idols are Divils though fools count them Saints to partake with them is to forsake God and to bring our selues into satans damnation for the Spirit
p vers 12. frozen in their dregs and shewed themselvs to be q Zeph. 2. a Nation not worthy to be loved So when Iosiah was dead Iehoahaz his son r 2 King 2● 31.32 did as evill as all his fathers for the time which he raigned which was but 3 moneths and Iehojakim his successor s ver 36.3 dealt as badly and t Ier. 26 2● 23. killed the Prophets which called them to repentance and u Jer. 36.2 25. burned their writings And after him x 2 King 24.8 Iehojachim proved no better though in these daies death came up into their windows and Gods wrath was in powring out upon Ierusalem And Zedekiah the last King did y 2 King 24.18.19 still evill in the Lords eyes a Jer. 37.1 ● neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land would obey the words of the Lord b 2 King ●4 20 therefore the wrath of the Lord was against Ierusalem and Iudah untill he cast them out of his sight For it was not the Kings onely that did all these evils but also c Ier. 44.9 their wiues d Ier. 32.32 and the Princes of the land the Priests and the Prophets and the men of Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem even the e 2 Chron. ●6 14 chief of the people trespassed wonderfully according to all the abominations of the Heathen and polluted the house of the Lord which he had sanctified in Ierusalem and f vers 16. mocked the messengers of God despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people and till there was no remedy For that Citie Ierusalem had g Ier. 32.31 been unto him a provocation of his anger and of his wrath from the day they built it even unto the day that he should remoue it out of his sight they had h Eze. 6.9 whorish hearts and their eyes went a whoring after their idols and with them i Ezek. 23. ●7 they committed adultery till being wexen old in adulteries God said k vers 43. Now shall she and her fornications come to an end 14 And as it was with Iudah so was it also with the ten tribes of Israel who sucked the milk of Idol superstition in the daies of l 1 King 12.28 30. Ieroboam sonne of Nebat whereunto they were addicted m 2 King 10.28.29 15.27.28 c. alwaies after so long as their Common-wealth did stand even throughout the raign of nineteene Kings who added unto their fore-fathers sinnes and drew the people to most horrible impieties for which the land did spew them out n 2 Kin. 17 and Heathens came to dwell in their sted As these are o 1 Cor. 1● 6.7 ensamples to us to the intent that wee should not be idolaters like them are written p vers 11. to admonish us upon whom the ends of the world are come so doe they plainly manifest the strength of this bewitching sin of idolatry which as a harlot stealeth away the heart of man and the pronenesse of all flesh not of such onely as are aliants from the Church but even of Gods own called people to fall into this vice if God restrain them not by his speciall grace 15 Now for the pleasure that men take in this sin it may be conjectured by the readines of all sorts of people as we haue seen to fall thereinto and by the cause of the same which is the flesh one of the Gal. 5.19 ●0 works wherof it is and therefore must needs delight the fleshly and that so much the more as it proceedeth from the chiefest part of the flesh namely conscience Rom. 1.22 c. ● Cor. 1.20 ●1 c. wisedom reason knowledge judgement prudence policie and whatsoever is most excellent in the naturall man It may also further be shewed by examples similitudes which the Scripture setteth down 16 The Prophet Esaias calleth mens idols their b Esa. 44.9 delectable things because of their desire that is towards them their pleasure in them Ezekiel compareth the idolaters of Israel to c Ezek. 23.2 3.5 c. a woman inflamed with loue towards some goodly yong man on whom she hath cast her eies and fixt her affections and forgetting all modesty she d vers 16. sendeth messengers for him and bringeth him to her e vers 17. into the bed of loue so f vers 18. discovering her fornication and disclosing her shame Teaching us by this similitude that idolatry is as sweet to the corrupted conscience and mind of man as lust and fornication is to any wanton body 17 The objects also of this vice are very pleasurefull and alluring for the doctrines rites ceremonies and observances of false religion with the gifts and learning of the Teachers therof are like unto the goodly proportion comely stature and glorious apparel which set forth and adorn the persons of men making them seem like g Eze. 23.6 Captains and Princes and pleasant choise-youths clothed in silks and h ver 12.15 all kind of Gentleman-like apparell whereby the womans heart i vers 16. as soon as she sees them becomes enamoured The externall pomp and shew that idolatry carryeth with it in temples and altars and images of gold in copes and vestiments in organs melodie in peaceable k Ezek. 13.16 7. visions sweet prophesies and lying divinations in diligent l Amos 4.4 5. sacrificing tithing thanksgiving and proclaiming free offrings with other like devotions these giue content to the worshippers conscience and please the minde no lesse then m Pro. 7.14 16.17 c. a feast with peace offrings and after it a sweet perfumed bed decked with quilts curtains most fine and costly n vers 13.15.18 courteous intertainment of a paramour with fill of loue and pleasure of dalliance all the night is to a loose and lustfull yong man given over to the fleshly and sensuall sin of whoredom 18 Agreeable to these similitudes are the things foretold of the idolatry of Antichrist whose false Church is resembled o Rev. 17.1 by a whore the doctrines superstitions rites ceremonies of the same as the wine of her fornication vers 2. making drunk the kings inhabitants of the earth And the more to allure them thereunto her cup wherin are the abominations and filthines of her fornication vers 4. is of gold her selfe is arayed with purple and skarlet and guilded with gold and precious stones and pearles counterfeiting hereby the habite ornaments of the true Church the p Rev. 21.2 Spowse of Christ whose q ver 11.18 shining is like to gold and stones most cleer and precious her lips r Song 4 3.10 like scarlet and her loue much better then wine The pleasantnesse of that false religion enamouring so many s Prov. 7.7 fooles is noted by t