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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61684	Pagano-papismvs, or, An exact parallel between Rome-pagan, and Rome-Christian, in their doctrines and ceremonies by Joshua Stopford ...	Stopford, Joshua, 1636-1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing S5744; ESTC R20561	127,566	354

shall pass over for brevity sake Their conformity herein with the old Pagans is acknowledged by Polydor Virgil. As often as any part of the body is hurt or diseased as for example the head foot breast c. we presently make vows to God and his Saints to whom when health is restored we immediately offer that hand foot or breast that is the Image of it made of gold silver and sometimes of baser metal and matter Concerning which practice any one that is but modestly scrupulous perhaps will say that he knows not whether we emulate the Religion of the ancient Pagans or their Superstition De Invent. Rer. lib. 5. cap. 1. CHAP. IX TEMPLES 1. THE Heathen dedicated Temples to their gods 1 King 16. 32. 2 King 5. 18. They commonly boasted of Seven stately Structures that were called The Seven Wonders of the World The first was the Wall of Babylon and the pleasant Gardens which Queen Semiramis planted About this Work Three hundred thousand men were continually employed for many years The second was the Labyrinth of Egypt in which Sixteen sumptuous Palaces were built The third was the Pyramids of Egypt which were of a prodigious height The fourth was the Mausolaeum of Caria which Queen Artemisia built as a Sepulcher for her deceased Husband Mausolus The fifth was the Colossus of Rhodes which was before mention'd The sixth was the Statue of Jupiter Olympus made by Phidias an hundred and fifty Cubits high But the greatest Wonder and most incomparable Work was the Temple of Ephesus dedicated to Diana It was 425 foot long and 220 broad and 127 stately Pillars were in it Every one of them had been the sole enterprise and work of a King And many other Temples very rich and magnificent were dedicated to the Heathen gods the Temple of Athens to Minerva and another in the same City to Mars where the Judges did meet to examine Causes of Life and Death The Temples also dedicated to Neptune Vulcan Saturn Aesculapius Hercules Vesta Janus c. are noted by Authors to have been stately Structures worthy of the Roman Grandeur As also the Pantheon consecrated to all the gods And the Temples all over the World were very magnificent I shall not stand to name them It 's sufficient to know that Princes and Nations did employ their Riches and ingenious Inventions of Architecture only in the building of Temples to their gods That our Romanists herein agree with the old Pagans is most evident and confessed by their great Baronius In dedicatione Templorum multa fuisse Gentilibus cum verae pietatis Cultoribus similia ex Suetonio intelliges That in the dedication of Temples many things were alike to the Gentiles and Christians thou mayest learn out of Suetonius Annal. Tom. 1. ad annum To build Temples to their gods was the greatest part of Gentile superstition in imitation of whom Christians begun to build Temples to their Saints Cornel. Agrippa de Vanit Scientiar cap. 54. Our Romanists dedicate Churches to their Saints as to the Virgin Mary S. Peter S. Paul S. John S. Denis S. Martin S. Nicholas c. And as the Pagans dedicated their Pantheon to all their Gods so do Papists dedicate Churches to all their Saints Durantus speaking of the Pantheon in Rome saith That Temple dedicated to Devils was by Boniface 4. with the consent of the Emperor Phocas consecrated to the honour of the B. Virgin and all Saints De Ritib Eccles Cathol Lib. 1. cap. 4. Bellarmin not only saith that Temples are built to God in Honour of the Saints or that they are called by their Names though dedicated and consecrated to God but affirms That these sacred Places are rightly built and dedicated not only to God but also to the Saints De Cultu Sanctor Lib. 3. cap. 4. I grant afterwards he makes a distinction inter Templa Basilicas and saith That they are dedicated to God quâ Templa and to Saints quâ Basilicae But 't is clear from the Fathers even those cited by him that these Names are Synonymous so that this Jesuitical distinction is a vain subterfuge and meer delusion as if diverse Names could change the nature of a thing as if an Adulteress prostituting her self under several Names could purge her self from that foul sin 2. The Heathen consecrated these Temples with certain Prayers and superstitious Ceremonies First Some Ceremonies were observed before the Temple was built of which Brissonius hath given us an account De Formul Lib. 1. p. 113. Rosinus Antiquit. Roman Lib. 2. cap. 2. Alexander ab Alexandro in Genial dier Lib. 6. cap. 14. But most fully the Learned Dr. Godwin in these words most of which we find in Tacitus Histor Lib. 4. cap. 20. When the Place where the Temple should be built had been appointed by the Augurs which appointing or determining of the Place the called Effari Templa sistere Fana then did the Party which formerly in time of need upon condition of help from the Gods had vow'd a Temple call together they Aruspices which should direct him in what form the Temple should be built which being known certain Ribbands and Fillets were drawn about the Area or plat of ground with Flowers and Garlands strewed underneath as it was probable to distinguish the limits of this ground now to be hallowed Then certain Souldiers marched in with boughs in their hands and after them followed Vestal Nuns leading young Boys and Maids in their hands who sprinkled the Place with holy Water After this followed the Praetor some Pontife going before who after the Area had been purged by leading round about a Sow a Ram and a Bull sacrificed them and their entrails being laid upon a turf the Praetor offered up Prayers unto the gods that they would bless those holy Places which good Men intended to dedicate unto them This being done the Praetor touched certain ropes wherewith a great stone being the first of the foundation was tyed together with that other chief Magistrates Priests and all sorts of people did help to pluck that stone let it down into its place casting in wedges of Gold and Silver which had never been purified or tried in the fire These Ceremonies being ended the Aruspex pronounced with a loud voice saying Let not this work be unhallowed by converting this stone or gold into any other use Histor. Rom. Lib. 1. cap. 20. Secondly Other Ceremonies were observed after the Temple was built Fanum a Temple comes from fando because the Pontife when he consecrates a Temple speaketh certain words Brisson de Form Lib. 1. p. 113. And a little after he sets down the form of words used and other ceremonies observed in the consecration of their Temples And that they were consecrated only by Pontifes Durantus produceth several testimonies out of Livius Vopiscus c. Lib. 1. cap. 24. num 9. Thus our Romanists consecrate the Churches dedicated to their Saints wherein they are not less superstitious than the old