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A18103	The originall of idolatries: or, The birth of heresies a true, sincere, and exact description of all such sacred signes, sacrifices, and sacraments as haue been instituted and ordained of God since Adam; with the true source and liuely anatomy of the sacrifice of the Masse. First faithfully gathered out of sundry Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuers learned fathers; by that famous and learned Isaac Casaubon, and by him published in French, for the good of Gods Church: and now translated into English for the benefit of this monarchy; by Abraham Darcie.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 4747; ESTC S107577	78,965	150

worke and cast out the drosse to be trampled and troden vnder foote wherefore Christian Reader for the better satisfaction and generall good of all Gods Church I haue laboured to translate this curious and admirable Master peece most worthy and necessary to be obserued and read for thou mayest as in a Miner cleerely see and discouer the Birth and the Originall of this soule Monster Heresie in the Church euen from the first ages before the written Law as also during the force and efficacie of the Mosoicall Sacrifices and now in these later times more pertinent vnder the Law and precepts of Christs holy Gospel wherein are deduced the Authors and Founders of the Romane Masse And what conformity it holds with the Ethnicke-Rites and Ceremonies and how farre a digression it hath made from the doctrine life and practise Apostolicall and the ages of the Primitiue Church wherein the Author euer hath abandoned all passion partiality and in ful proofes cited none but either approued and authentike Authors as the ancient Doctors and writers of the Church that liued before the present Inundations of superstitious Traditions Bring them to the Text of Gods Word compare them with the example of the Prophets and Apostles obserue the Customes of the Primitiue Churches and thus by reducing them to their beginnings it will be easie to iudge whether they stand still in that v● spotted integrit●e or haue not adulterously prophaned the sincere worship of GOD with many and meere humane int●emions If thou doest but vouchsafe the diligent and carefull reading hereof I make no doubt but it will yeeld great comfort to thy Conscience confirmation to thy Faith as that which will cleerely delucidate many hidden passages that haue not hitherto been reuealed and if it may take this happy effect I shall thinke my paines sufficiently requited and recompen●ed in all things ayming at GODS glory and not mine owne And thus I rest Thine affectionate and humbly deuoted ABR DARCIE A TABLE OF THE Contents of this Booke CHAP. 1. Of Sacred Signes Fol. 1. CHAP. 2. Of Sacrifices 2. CHAP. 3. Of Corruptions 10 CHAP. 4. Corruptions punished 18 CHAP. 5. The Ceremoniall Law accomplished by IESVS CHRIST 21 CHAP. 6. Of Sacraments ordained by IESVS CHRIST himselfe 23 CHAP. 7. Of the Corruption of the Sacrament of Baptisme 27 CHAP. 8. Of the Corruption of the Sacrament of the LORDS Supper 30 CHAP. 9. The ancient Religion of the Romane Empire 37 CHAP. 10. How the Bishops of Rome began their Corruptions 40 CHAP. 11. The first greatnesse of Popes proouing Antichrists and bringing in the Sacrifice of the Masse 44 CHAP. 12. Of the Masse in particular with her true Original 48 CHAP. 13. The Masse diuided with the true nature of Holy Water Fol. 54 CHAP. 14. The Procession of the Masse 57 CHAP. 15. The third part of the Masse that is the Altars and Candles lighted 61 CHAP. 16. Of Incense and Offertories with other parts of the Masse 65 CHAP. 17. Of the round Hoste with the consecration of the same 69 CHAP. 18. Of diuers parts and sundry Ceremonies belonging to the Masse 72 CHAP. 19. Against Idolaters Antiquity and long possession of the Masse 76 CHAP. 20. Against the Idolatry of the round Hoste 80 CHAP. 21. The inuention of Transubstantiation with confutation of that labyrinth of Idolatry 83 CHAP. 22. Comparison betweene the two holy Sacraments 99 THE BIRTH OF HERESIES OR A true and faithfull description of all such SACRED SIGNES SACRIFICES and SACRAMENTS as haue been instituted of God since the Worlds Creation Together with the Originall and true Anatomie of the Masse As also the corruptions and abuses of all those holy things from the beginning CHAP. I. Of Sacred Signes IN the time preordained of GOD by his inscrutable and incomprehensible Wisedome when hee had created man to his true Image and likenesse the better to moue and incite him to feare and obedience as also to make him partaker of his blessings he gaue him some exercise of vertue whereby hee might acknowledge him his Almighty GOD and omnipotent Creatour were ordained many Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments First to our first Father Adam to whom with his Successors corporall men God allotted corporall signes to approue the better of their obedience to wit trees planted in the middest of the Orchard and earthly Paradise which although they were not of any other qualitie then the other plants yet notwithstanding being dedicated and consecrated of God for Sacraments or Sacred Signes their qualitie was then for to serue as Seales for the Testimonie and approbation of his diuine wil and pleasure which was effected by the infinite goodnesse and 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 serue for an assurance pledge and hostage of the Diuine Couenant These Trees and substantiall Fruits ordained for our first and common Father were committed and giuen vnto him to keepe without diminishing eating or wasting of them vpon paine of eternal death Wherefore wee must in faith beleeue that they were not vaine Signes and Sacraments or as a meere and 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 and obey him And therefore they were called the Fruits of the knowledge of good and ill the Trees of life For in the careful keeping of these sacred fruits and obeying God there was promised etetnall life whereas on the contrary by abusing the Sacrraments and opposing the will of God there was intimated to vs by exteriour signes that eternall death and damnation was purchased For other exercises required of man towards God concerning the reuerence honor adoration of him many and diuers Sacrifices were celebrated euen before the Law written by Moses And though God Almighty Creatour of Heauen and Earth needs not any humane workes or to bee nourished with the bloud of beasts or with terrestriall fruits yet hee had alwayes a desire to draw man vnto him in an externall obedience and feare by Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments so as the Sacrifice of Lambes offered by Abel were agreeable 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 immolated an offered sacrifices of vnspotted sheepe and 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 After the rigor iustice of the deluge

discussion and Argument But the Scripture being a Test quadrant by which they are not willing to trie or square their proceedings Learned CASAVBON hath made a diligent search Inquisition of their owne Registers and Records and chiefly out of the Volumes of the Commentaries of ELASOPOLITAN whereas by the direction of a Diuine hand may bee found out the Birth and Originall of all adulterous and strange Adoration from the first ADAM to these our later times but especially the Sacrifice of the ROMANE MASSE is here most learnedly delineated to true life from the cradle and infancie thereof till now that it hath made so great and perillous a progression The AVTHORS are nominated the seuerall parcels set downe as they were in seuerall AGES annexed the perspicuous difference betwixt it and the infallible forme of the Apostolicall and Primitiue CHRISTIAN worship is explained with whatsoeuer else that meere HVMANE TRADITION INVENTION hath vniustly vsurped ouer Orthodoxall and vnspoated true seruice in the CHVRCH OF GOD. So as clearely discerning the Scandals the Scandalizers likewise are as plainely reuealed and this Christian Domus deuisa in se Out of my humble and dutifull affection I could not but commend this excellent Treatise to your Honourable viewes and learned censure the which I haue studiously expressed in the English Tongue principally to manifest vnto all your Lorships my seruiceable and grateful heart both to euery one of your Honours in particular as also to this happy Kingdome in generall to whose bounties and protection I stand deepely oblieged and as he whose thoughts haue no higher scopes nor ayme then iustly to bee reputed YOVR GRACE YOVR HONORS and YOVR WORTHINES Most faithfull and humbly deuoted ABRAHAM DARCIE THE AVTHORS EPISTLE TO THE READER Most courteous Reader COnsidering the Controuersies and bloudy hatred grown betwixt those who professe themselues Christians about Religion for they aspiring to retaine these vaine superstitions proceeding from their predecessors and many also not contented do inuent new Sects Schismes and Heresies Others least in number diuinely inspired and of God elocted desire to extirpate the Darknesse of Ignorance thereby to cause resplendently to shine the Light and claritie of Truth But it seemes that the most dangerous Poyson that Satan vseth to entoxicate men with the Venym of sedition and cruell contention and hatred deriues chiefly from the Masse desguised with some good meaning masked and couered peraduenture with a good intention And although that many heretofore haue by sundry faithfull descriptions endeueured to discouer to the world the deceitfulnes error and blindnesse thereof yet could they not preuailc nor giue light to their duskish and heauy sight Therefore now without any passion I haue faithfully extracted and liuely drawne out from the Volumes of ELASOPOLITAN'S COMMENT ARIES It is a large faithfull description whereof the second Volume treates of the Constitutions of great Pontiss Soueraigne Priests and Sacrificers as haue been ordained since the beginning of the World and their true Number Power Riches and Authority all for thy only benefit this sincere Summary of the Sacrifice called The Masse In this Treatise though little in appearance are designed and set downe all such Sacred Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments ordained of GOD from time to time As also the Corruptions that haue grown successiuely in the Church of GOD whereby I doe euidently shew the birth of all Heresies and Idolatries and especially the true Originall of the Masse for the which the world is in great strifes bloudy Contentions cruell Diuisions Hatred and lamentable Ciuile Warres for some do Inuectiuate Inueigh against it alleaging that it is newly deuised and inueuted others defend it by prescription and long possession and thus by such like altercations the Christian Church is sore afflicted with the yoke and Terror of Sedition But if thou art a Christian beloued Reader of what Sect soeuer Papist or Euangelicall I pray thee heartily for thy owne good to haue patience to reade this Worke for by it thou mayest euidently know and plainely discouer the very trueth of what soeuer thou standest in doubt of what Sacrifices Sacraments and Sacred Signes haue beene instituted of GOD since Adam what is the Masse and Originall thereof who were her Founders Augmenters and Inuenters and to the end thou mayest firmely beleeue with assurance all the Contents herein mentioned haue recourse to those Authors out of whose Bookes and Workes I haue drawne and deriued it their Names and Bookes are quoted in the Margent So ayming at GODS glory and thy owne Benefit I rest with my prayers to GOD. to inspire thee with his Holy Spirit by the intercession of our onely Sauiour Redeemer and Mediatour IESVS CHRIST Amen THE TRANSLATOR TO the Courteous Reader wisheth all Sauing health in IESVS CHRIST WIse Politicians fauourable Reader in their Institutions and Gouernnement of Common-wealths doe hold for an infallible maxime that to reforme Corruptions and abuses in States better course cannot be taken then often to reduce things to their primitiue Original Because Lawes at first enacted with good and profitable intention in the Reuolution of few yeeres by mens instability and inconstancie of minde or the peculiar interest of Auarice by Iniustice are abrogated and neglected The Venetians beeing a people at this day celebrous and famous for their Gouernement have a supreame Magistracie which they call A Syndicate that once in a few yeeres suruey all the Offices and Dignities in their Common-wealth the Duke himselfe not there excepted to looke into abuses and preuent their deepe roo●e and plantation that so all things may continue and stand entire according to the rules and precepts of their first Constitutions and ordinances Also a Garden-plot though neuer so curiously drawne or distinguished into borders and set with all manner of odoriferous flowers and wholesome herbes yet euery showre of raine brings foorth new weedes the which if they be not carefully and dayly supplanted will soone ouergrow the good plants and bring the same to a wilde and sauage plot of ground And though the ineuitable deprauation and corruption of mans nature carry so strong a hand in things transitory and mutable yet one would thinke they should be more stable and prouident in those courses tending to eternall saluation and soules reprobation in obseruing those Lawes and Commandements vttered by GOD himselfe and recommended to all Posterities for a square Rule whereby to measure our faith and actions Notwithstanding men are more prone to Declination and Corruption in that from the very beginning and first institution of the Law Mosaicall till these present times that for many ages haue receiued the cleere and manifest Truth and doctrine Euangelicall Heresies haue euer crept in and caried too powerful an hand as Verity it selfe like gold in the bowels and entrals of the earth is encombred with a wonderfull deale of oare and drosse which is not like to be separated till the last fire of tryall which shall prooue euery mans