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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19953	Gods mercies and Ierusalems miseries A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Iune. 1609. By Lancelot Dawes, Master of Arts and fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford.	Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653.	1609 (1609)	STC 6388; ESTC S109409	43,755	146

at this day Which when she hath done she is no better thē those degenerous spirits of Nobilitie and Gentrie who when they haue nothing in themselues worthy the least commendation will digge vp the old roote whence they sprang But Si vita labat perit omnis in illa Gentis honos cuius Ouid. laus est in origine sola Hee leaneth vpon a rotten staffe which hath nothing to speake for him saue his dead Progenitors vertues If any man thinke I doe her wrong may it please him to compare her with the state of Ierusalem in the time when Ieremie prophesied the sinnes of Ierusalem were eyther in doctrine and matters of Religion or in conuersation and manner of liuing for the former it is as much if not more corrupted at this day in the Romish Church then it was then amongst the Iewes The Prophets there c Ier 5.31 Prophesied lies d Cap. 23.24 God sent them not and yet they ranne he spoke not vnto them and yet they prophesied e Cap. 14.14 euen a false vision and the dreames and deuises of their owne hearts whether the Romanists doe this or no those impious assertions which they maintaine against the reformed Churches for oppugning whereof f Vid. Lind li. 4. Cap. 100. et petrum a Soto contra Brentium many holy Martyrs haue with their best bloud dyed the skirts of the purple hoare may sufficiently witnesse What shall I tell you of their prayers for the Deade their Sacrifice of the Masse their communicating vnder one kinde their vowes their forbidding of Mariages their Indulgences their Purgatorie their workes of Supererogation and a number moe by which like g Act. 14.25 the Siluer Smithes of Diana they haue gotten their goods all which make a goodly show of holinesse to such as are blinded with the mistes of ignorance by reason that the candle of the word is couered vnder a Bushell and locked vp in the closet of an vnknowne tongue but bring h Psal 105. Dauids Lanthorn to trie them and you shall finde that when they are viewed in the light they wil proue like Gloe-wormes and Toade-stooles more like to any thing then that which they were taken for or like i Solimus the Apples of Sodome which make a goodly show a farre off but if they be once touched they will presently fall into dust or like those k D. D. in his preface vpon Euclid Mathematicall Showers which in the twilight seeme to bee golde or precious stones yet where the light comes proue nothing but lime sand then their prayers vnto Saints wil proue but much babling their Images teachers of lies their forbidding of mariages doctrines of Deuils their Purgatorie fire borrowed from the superstitious Ethnicks to keepe their Kitchins hoat their Masses massacres of Soules their Holy-water Crucifixes Reliques and Ragges of Saints c. beggarly rudiments base Marchandise not worth the cheapning this they themselues know full well and therefore if yee aske these Luci●ugae scripturarum Tertul. de resurrectione Carnis Persius Eckius Pighius contro 3. de scriptura Ludov. Canonicus quat in orat hab in Concil Trid. vide Chem. in exam Concil Trid et Iuellum in defen apol Cap. 19. et 20. Si quis habēt interpretationem Romanae Eccl. deal q●o l●co scripturae etiamsi nec sciat nec intelligat an aut quomodo eum scripturis Conueniat habet tamen ipsissimum dei verbum Hosius de expresso dei verbo what warrant they haue from the Oracles of God Romulidae Satyri quid diâ Poemata narrant They will tell you they haue it by tradition or the Church hath ordayned it or it is not needefull to bring Scripture for a ground of their Positions which it pleaseth some of them to call a Lesbian rule and a nose of waxe and a blacke Gospell and inkie Diuinitie and a dumbe Teacher and a dead and killing Letter Indeede if they can wrest any place of Scripture though it be contrary to the meaning of the holy Ghost yet it must bee taken for sound Diuinity because as a great Cardinall speakes If any man haue the interpretation of the Romish Church of any place of Scripture although hee know not whether it agree with the word of God or no yet it is not to be doubted but hee hath the very word of God Thus must these expositions goe for sound Diuinitie marke them and compare them with Iewish glosses Drinke yee all of this that is not all but some to wit the Cleargie Mariage is honourable amongst all men not all but some the Laietie Cast not pear es before swine that is suffer not the people to reade the Scriptures in a known tongue Psal 8. Thou hast put all things in subiection vnder his feete that is vnder the Popes feet The fishes of the Sea that is the Soules in Purgatorie The beasts of the land that is the men of this world Antoni in Sum. part 3. tit 2 2. c. 5. The fowles of the heauen that is the soules of the blessed which the Pope hath canonized Here are two swords that is the Pope hath the managing of both swordes Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall an exposition not altogether so harsh as that which n In his aduertisement to Pope Paul the Fift touching the Venetians Baronius brought of late to proue that the Pope had authority not onely to feede Christs Sheepe but also to punish with death such as resist his Papal dignitie because hee which said o Ioh. 21. Peter feede my sheepe said also p Act. 10.13 Arise Peter and kill if he had pressed the text a little further hee might by the same Argument haue proued his holy Father to bee an Anthropophagus or Caniball because it is not simply sayde Arise Peter and kill but Arise Peter kill and eate vnlesse hee had Bellarmines wit Bellar. de Rom. Pont. lib. 1. cap. 12. who proueth the Popes Supremacy not from the first word kill but from the second word Eate But the maine fault in Religion which hastened Gods iudgements vpon Ierusalem was her idolatrie Shee changed her God r Ier. 2.13 She forsooke the fountaine of liuing waters and digged vnto her selfe euen broken pits which would hold no water shee played the harlot vpon euery high mountaine and vnder euerie greene tree Verse 17. Shee sayde vnto a tree thou art my Father and to a stone thou hast begotten me Whether Rome goe not beyond her in this particular he that hath but halfe an eye may plainely see Virgill Aene. 1. Cur natos toties crudelis tu quoque falsis Ludis imaginibus Wee doe not reade of many Idols that were famous amongst the Iewes there was Ashtereth the God of the Sidonians Milcome the abhomination of the Moabites and Chemosh the abhomination of the children of Ammon and Baal and a few more but the Idols which Papists haue inuented are so many that