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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

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

Countrey to mee to celebrate sacrifices that are not pleasing to mee Who incited you O Israelies to erect Images to the god Moloch and to the starre of Remphan during the time you were in the desarts A●●● 5. where I fed you with heavenly Manna Your Feastes are odious to mee your Holocausts Oblations and Sacrifices for safetie I will reject your Offerings displease mee By what meanes therefore must wee present our selves before God Must it bee by oblations of Heifers of a yeere old Doth God take pleasure in the great number of sheepe sacrificed to him or in the abundance of consecrated oyles Shall I offer unto him saith the Prophet the first born for remission of sinnes Our good God herein clearely expresseth what he would have us to follow which is equity to love mercie Psal 51. to humble themselves before him with a contrite heart Obedience is better then sacrifice or the fat of sacrificed sheepe What mooved God to refuse the Sacraments and Sacrifices by himselfe ordayned but onely the abuses and corruptions the Israelites had committed understanding too carnally the signes ceremonies therein concurring to drawe them onely to true feare and obedience For instead of comprehending what was figured in the signes and corporall sacrifices they relyed on the flesh of immolated beasts whereas they should have circumcized the prepuce of their hearts they depended meerely in carnall circumcision and in the meane while strayed from the true adoration of God in repairing to the Creatures as to the Starres the Queene of Heaven and to other strange gods offering Incense to them building of Temples instituting of Priests Chaplaines and Sacrificers making Oblations and celebrating sacrifices to them And then further to heape up all corruptions they offered sacrifice with the bloud of Innocents offering and causing them to passe thorow the Purgatory fire in the valley of Tophet For the abuses also committed in the holy Sacrifices sacred signes and Oblations constituted for God it was said to the people of Israel by Prophets 4 Esdras 7 that God would have no more of their Feasts of their New Moones nor of their celebrated sacrifices by bloudy and idolatrous people CHAP. IV. Corruptions punished AFter that the inscrutable Wisedome of God knew the obstinacie and infidelity of the Israelitish people which persevered still in committing Idolatrie by corrupting the sacred signes sacraments sacrifices and in stead of acknowledging Gods infinite goodnesse that had freed them from the tyranny of Pharaoh and fedde them in the Desart who had brought them into a promised fertile Land and had so many times assisted them in the warres against their neighbours the Canaanites Moabites Madianites Philistines Ammonites Syrians Sydomans and other envious people and enemies This rude and ingratefull people continued still in their Idolatry instructed by their Priests sacrificers Princes Kings without returning to the true adoration of one onely God For this cause after great mercies shewed and long expectation of a Iust and rigorous Iudge who by all courses of correction was desirous to reduce his people by divine particular inflictions which was by excited wars by captivities servitudes by divisions of the Kingdom distributed between Roboam and Ieroboam successours to Salomon who fell to extreme Idolatry by intestine and civill warres growing betweene the same people divided in themselves and by other usuall scourges to chastize those whom God meant to favour for the reducing of them under his feare and obedience At last this people beeing too much obdurate and inveterated in their Idolatries were brought into miserable servitude under the Tyranny of the unbeleeving Assyrians 4. Kings 15.24 the Idolatrous Babylonians and their Kingdomes wholly extirpated But some pretty while after when the same people by the speciall mercy of God were delivered out of the hands of these infidell Tyrants restored to their liberty and Countrey of promise they againe fell from God more then before under the government of their sacrificers high Priests which confounded the Spirituall and Temporall together so farre as to invest themselves with the Royall Scepter and Diadem Then came in the Heresies of the Pharisees the Sadducees Ioseph lib. 13 cap. 16. de Aut. Iud. the Esseans Galileans Masbutheans Hermerobaptists and Samaritanes corrupted through the diversity of strange Nations having subdued and inhabited the Countrey of Samaria next to Iudea For the Babylonians worshipped Succobenoth for their god The Cutheans of Persia had for their god Ioseph lib. de Antiq. Iud. Nergal or Nergel The Hamathensians called upon their god Asima The Ananoys worshipped Nebahaze Thartace The Sepharvamensians held for their gods Adramelech and Anamelech to which gods they sacrificed their children causing them to passe through the fire Wherefore when all kind of Idolatry was thus spred among the Israelites when the sacrifices were absolutely corrupted the sacrificers became mercenary avaricious tyrants Idolatrous The people made tributary to the Tyrants of Rome the Countrey of Iudea reduced to a Province Ioseph lib 15 cap. 3. next to that of Syria under the subjection power of the Romanes as also the Order and Law of electing high Priests adulterated and their dignity quite bastardized Ioseph lib. 8 cap. 8. so as without any respect made of the race Leviticall the sacrificers were constituted by the Consuls and Deputies of Rome at their pleasure Entros 1. cap. 12. and whereas before they were permanent during life they now became Annuall When the Royall Scepter was alienated from the Progenie of Iudea their Kingdome wholly subverted Gen. 49. as before was prophecied the incomprehensible power of God was revealed by his Sonne begotten before all ages who humbled himselfe to take upon him humane flesh in the wombe of the Virgin to redeeme his people and to restore them to grace and favour with God CHAP. V. The Ceremoniall Law accomplished by Jesus Christ NOw Comparison between Adam and Iesus Christ as in Adam through his prevarication and sinne in abusing the sacred signes committed to his guard and custodie as the whole masse of humane flesh was tainted with the leaven of sinne so by the second Adam Iesus Christ wee were againe by grace purged from all our offences To our first and generall Father Adam was given the sacred signe for an exercise of obedience and other sacred signes to his successors Sacrifices and Sacraments instituted by God the Tree of Life the Fruits of the knowledge of Good and Ill the Rainbowe Circumcision the unspotted Lambe the unleavened bread the Cloude the Pillar of Fire the Red sea divided Heavenly Manna Water out of the Rocke the Oblations and Holocausts of beasts for sacrifice the Arke of Covenant the Brazen Serpent the Temple edified in the holy Citie All which sacred signes sacrifices and Sacraments were figures of that which was accomplished in Iesus Christ For first he was the true Tree of Life Iesus Christ the

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