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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62994	Atheismus vapulans, or, A treatise against atheism, rationally confuting the atheists of these times by Will. Towers ... Polytheismus vapulans, or, There is but one God.	Towers, William, 1617?-1666.; Towers, William, 1617?-1666. Polytheismus vapulans.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1959; ESTC R23437	141,181	385

there is One God that there is but One God that nothing else is Really God with a Note upon Deut. 6.4 and proceed in one word openly against the Romanist who now more than ever laies Snares to draw us off from the True Worship of the One God and though he does not make somewhat else his God in Terminis yet in effect he does whil'st he applyes that Worship which is onely Proper to the Onely True God to somewhat else that is not God though he is not got into the Inner Rooms of the Polytheists yet I am sure he treads upon their Threshold and in another word against the Opinionist and Ill Liver of our own the one being a Recusant though not a Romanist and the other robbing God of his honour as much as he though not the same way as he 11. But before I proceed to these hear this one Word of God which it self calls upon you to hear it Hear Deut. 6.4 O Israel whatever sounds contrary to this it must not be listned to the Lord our God is ONE Lord we should wear this Verse written in our Heads and Hearts we should read and peruse it there for it is already there written and engraven by the Finger of God as it is Recorded of the Jews Fagius in Exod. 13. that they writ it out in Parchment and wore it within their Hair and upon their Brow and upon their Left Arm. 12. And yet does not Rome at Rome and Rome in England sin against the Unity of the Godhead which she confesses to Believe whilst on this side and on yonder side the Sea she bows down to Images and invokes Saints and at this instant labours though in a Mine and fights against our Religion though under the Cloke of it both in Church and State to make Proselytes not onely to more Spirits than one but to less than Spirit to less than Un-canoniz'd nay to less than Breathing Man to Stocks and Stones Psal 115.135.17 Quibus non est Spiritus in Ore Ipsorum I could wish but that they are too cunning not onely for me but a while for the State too to discover that some Man's Buff was taken off and sent to his Holy Father with that Question graven upon it Haeccine Tunica Filit Tui Would the Pope himself trow ye as his Emissary Counterfeit Protestant that he might be a Successfull Fisher of Men though the very Success in Errour is the greatest Dammage and draw all of us as Fish to his Net I fear me he would rather draw with the Binding of a Fagot 13. He that worships Images on Earth and Saints in Heaven nay that undoubted Saint the Virgin Mary although even we also justly acknowledge that she is Quantò splendidior Ovid. Met. lib. 2. quàm caetera sidera fulget Lucifer quantò quàm Lucifer Aurea Phoebe Tantò Virginibus Praestantior omnibus More than or as much as or besides the Holy Of-spring of that Virgin Mary gives that Honour of God to another either Thing or Person which God himself faies he will give to neither I am the Lord that is my Name Is 42.8 and my Glory will I not give to another neither my Praise to Graven Images What greater Glory than Invocation what greater Praise than Prayer of which in its Distinction Praise is part I will worship towards thy holy Temple and Praise thy Name Psal 38.2 What harm has the Blessed Virgin done us that we should afflict that Modesty and Humility of hers which no doubt she retains in Heaven and is even there also the Handmaid of her God though the very Best and Best-beloved that he has with an undue Praise and an unheard Prayer Not onely the Holy Ghost tels us that when she heard those great Eulogies and Wellspeakings Luk. 1.28 Hail O thou highly Favour'd the Lord is with thee V. 29. In Lib. cui Tit. Meditationis Vitae Christi Lat. Dar. à Michaele ab Isselt c. 2. Blessed art thou among Women though from the Mouth of an Angel who knew better what he said than either they or we She was troubled at his saying but their own Ludovicus Granatensis adds a Timuit to the Turbata est and gives this reason for it Nihil enim Humili adiosius est quàm proprias audire Laudes Nothing is more Hatefull to an Humble Mind than to hear it self Commended why then do they to the very Spirit of her whom they so much love that thing which she so much hates unless they will conceive she hath put off her Humility with her Cloaths of Flesh and will not afford her as many Virtues in Heaven as she had on Earth He goes on Nihil magis timet quam hujusmod● Gratulationes She fears nothing more than a Mess of Praises and why will they diet her with that she is afraid to tast of why are they not more Civil than to put so excellent a Lady whom they can never enough esteem onely bating her the honour of her God into a Fright She is indeed Angelical whatever they will below God she has the Passion of Hope that they will Convert the Passion of Joy when they do Convert not to her but God and the Passions of Fear and Grief when they do Convert not to God but her and he goes on still and still wondrously and Pathetically well Quemadmodum Avarus metuit Latrones as a covetous Man when he rides with his Master behind him a Portmantieu of gold at his back fears a high-way Theef sic verus humilis metuit laudes hominum quae sunt fures humilitatis so one that is truly humble fears an over-praise which is an enemy pessimum inimicorum genus laudantes and a Theef too Tacitus to steal away her humility and why then will they put her into so great and so dangerous a fear as if they suspected either she is not truly humble or else would not have her be so hereafter Let them take heed lest by such Adulatory complements themselves be those Theeves of whom our Saviour the Son of our Virgin Mary and of their Goddess Marry hath said that they shall not come to Heaven to break through Mat. 6.20 and steal there Let them if they will bow in their Churches as our late † In his Speech in the Star-Chamber June 14.1637 Arch-Bishop hath observed Moses and Aaron fell down upon their faces at the door of the Tabernacle Numb 20.6 as Hezekiah the King and all with him did they bowed and worshipped 2 Chron. 29.29 as David calls upon all to do Ps 95.6 O come let us worship and b●w down nay let me without offence for I hope none at home will be angry at the very and express words of Scripture adde one example more of this kind of veneration because the reason of it is involv'd in it Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bow my self before the high God Micah 6.6

who do it not from whom by such a Continu'd Omission she may hope that in time they may forget they ever were Commanded to call upon God onely for by this as God is in himself so we acknowledge him to be our God our God in that we pray to him and our God in that we pray as he hath commanded us and is not this Treason against the Divine Majestie when by our Disloyal Prayers we give those Acknowledgements to another whereby he that did make and should rule us is testify'd to be our God and our King does not this seem to make him either a Nescient God that cannot understand our Requests unless they are convey'd to him through the Intercession of others or else a Proud God that will not admit of an Immediate Access unto himself as if he that humbleth himself to behold the things that are in Heaven and in Earth Ps 113.6 would for all that take so much State upon him as not to take notice of the Best things that are in Earth and Heaven besides those things which are in God himself and which are God himself Humble and Faithfull Prayer God hath never told us that Saimt or Angel does hear the words of our Lips if any of them do this at any time yet who can tell that this or that Saint or Angel does hear at this time when that Letany is pray'd Holy Mary Manual pag. 422. Pray for us St. Michael Pray St. Gabriel Pray St. Raphael Pray And not onely St. John and St. Peter and St. Paul Pray but St. Agnes and St. Cecily and St. Anastasia Pray nay when some pray to this or that Forged Saint which are so far from being now in Heaven that we have no assurance they ever were on Earth Yet for those Real and Un-doubted Saints far be it from me to fasten a Shame upon any of them whom God hath Glorify'd I onely wish they may not Rival their God in Honour and I am sure themselves wish the same with me nor be over-charg'd with Reverence more than themselves Desire or God Appoints who can tell that their Present Employment when Busy Man invokes them is not design'd to them by their God elswhere and then take we heed that we do not apply that Ubiquitariness to be Everywhere at once which is properly attributed to God to Saint or Angel but then for the especial part of Prayer that of the Heart without which the Lips do onely Mutter they do not Pray and that of the Heart onely if the Heart prays to Saint or Angel does not that Heart make Saint or Angel God though unmeaningly whose Property alone it is to search the Heart Rom. 8.27 and the Reins Deos qui Colit Ille Facit Martial He that worships Religiously makes that a God which he Ignorantly Worships and Prayer is an Especial part of Worship and that of the Heart an Especial part of Prayer And if Any thing else but God must be Religiously Invok'd if any thing else but God can pry into the Hearts notwithstanding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 does acknowledge that he can do it and 〈◊〉 Act. 1.24 that he onely Thou Lord which knowest the Hearts how little Honour is there of which we leave God the Sole Proprietary though the Angels and Saints in Heaven know themselves cannot honour him enough much less we if as From us and To us we may invoke others besides God others besides God may search into our Hearts and what though they of Rome often say and often in a day and in that Variation throughout those three Creeds the Apostolical as Text the Nicene and Athanasian as Commentary and perhaps in one more and larger than all these the Tridentine all the Deliberations and Conclusions of that Councel being sworn to as if they were all one Creed that they Believe in God Almighty the Maker of Heaven and Earth of all things Visible and Invisible that they worship God in Trinity and Trinity in Vnity yet whil'st they worship Saints and Angels too and imbase the Honour of God down to them in their several Confessions of Faith they do not what they say they do but rather acknowledge what they ought to do entirely to worship God which it is the whole purpose of this Discourse to Argue and Perswade and upon the Knees of my Soul to Beseech them to do I shall conclude with that Advice of holy David Give unto the Lord 1 Chron. 16.28 29. ye Kinreds of the People give unto the Lord Glory and Strength Give unto the Lord the Glory due unto his Name even this Come before him Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness To worship any else Religiously is to Rob God of his due it is unbeauteous altogether deformed in his Eyes and in the Eyes of all his Saints and Angels Therefore onely To him who is the Blessed 1 Tim. 6.16 Rev. 15.4 and onely Potentate To him who is Onely Holy To God Onely Wise Be Honour and Power Everlasting Rom. 16.25 Be Glory through Jesus Christ for ever Amen APOSTROPHE To my Honour'd Patron The LORD TRACY My good Lord HOW your Noble self and my other dear Lord Newport will excuse me to both of whom I have not perform'd all that I have promis'd to either though as to me the Performances of both your Lordships have exceeded the Reality of your own and the Vanity of other mens Promises which were spoke into the Air and writ upon the Water I cannot tell and I have but these two empty Reliefs that my Breach is but a Delay Et mea sit solo Tempore lapsa Fides And that there is less of Affliction to either of your Honours whil'st such Trifles as these do less swell and perhaps a little more consideration may make amends in the Substantialness of the rest for the Froth of these Give me leave I beseech you to acquaint your Lordship why I insist so much against Doway-Rome and why in that particular against their Worshipping of Saints and why too I intermit my Advertisements to the English Opinionist and ill Liver I have done the first because in a late Disputation held at Winchcombe some of my Brethren Nov. 9. and my self have been accus'd for Romishly-affected in the Good Will we are thought to bear to Holy-dayes how unjust this Imputation was did then appear how Rash and Unadvised G. Goodman Bishop late of Gloucester I collect out of my Ordinarie's Dedication to the Lord General and by the way the Civil Supremacy was asserted by us whom some will traduce as guilty of Dis-affection against the Allowance of those who though by a new kind of Popery would be accounted the main Pulpit-Champions for it to whom he intimates some holy Thanks for the expected Reviviscency of Festivals I have done this against Doway-Rome because I have Rational Presumptions some of them may be my Early Readers and