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A13141	A Sum or a brief collection of holy signes, sacrifices and sacraments, euen since the beginning of the worlde and the true originall of the sacrifice of the masse / translated out of French into Englishe by N. Lynge.	Ling, Nicholas, fl. 1563.	1563 (1563)	STC 23433; ESTC S123835	72,836	196

not suffringe this holye signe thus to be prophaned threwe downe the image dagon sent greuous punshiments to the Philistines in such sort that they were constrayned to restore the Arke of the couenaunt of god This holye signe was so precious that for as muche as the Bethsamites which were not of the order of the Leuites had abused it 50000. of the common people and 70. of the chiefe rulers were rooted out slayne by the vengeaunce of god Against corruption of holy signes This example mighte make all those to tremble whyche enterpryse to abuse the holy sygnes and sacramentes ordayned of god 2. Samuel 6. Osa Osa also for that he abused the same sacred sygne notwithstandinge that he did it of a good intention for to lift vp the Arke of witnes hanging to much on thonside was he not punished with death Of others abuses committed by the Isralites Osias 2. Chron 26. there is many examples Osias was punished with liprosie for abusing the sacrifices Saule 1. Samuel 13. Ioseph lib. 7. cap. 4. of the Iewes antiquities in takyng vpon hym the ministery of encensing appointed to the priestes onely Saule he first elected king of the Isralits was slaine his kingdome geuen vnto another as was declared before of Samuell for abusyng the sacrifices and suffering his people to commit the lyke abuses His successours in the kingdomes of Iuda Israell haue not they alwayes continued in abusing corrupting the sacrifices sacraments ordeyned of God when they did offer sacrifices to the gods 1. Kyngs 8.11 Astaroth of the Sidonions to Chanios of the Moabites to Melcom or Moloch of the Ammonites in so much that they buylded temples oratories euen to offerencens to do sacrifices vnto them Hieroboam king of the Israelites Hieroboam 1. Kyngs 12. did not onely cause a Golden calfe to be erected as the high priest Aaron had abused before but also did ordeyne two Golden Kyne in the two Temples of Bethell Dan and ordeyned straunge priests corrupting the lawe of God and causing them to do sacrifice after the fashion of Aaron 1. Kyngs 14. This idolatrie corruption of sacrifices did continue amonge the Israelites more than .400 yeres during the raigne of their kyngs who had taught them to corrupt the true vse of the sacrifices in chapels perticuler oratories buylded in the tops of hils thick forests consecrated inviolating the law of sacrifices ordeyned by God in the holy temple 1. Kyngs 15. within the holy citie For particuler examples of the abuses committed agaynst the trew vse of sacrifices the historie of Maacha mother of kyng Asa is manifest who erected an image of the god Pan did consecrate dedicate vnto him a thicke forest offeryng sacrifices vnto it Achab. 1. Kyngs 16. Achab another kyng of the Israelites did erecte an aulter made sacrifices to the God Mars otherwyse called Baal vnto whom he dedicated a Groue to satisfie hys wycked wyfe Iesabell Ioseph lib. 8. chap. 10. He caused also another aulter temple to be erected to the God of the Tyrians he ordeyned Priests Sacrificers and instituted foure hundred false Prophetes Hys sonne successour Ochosias taught of his father to corrupt the vse of the sacrifices Ochosias dyd not onely offer to Baal otherwyse called Mars but went forwarde in greater abuse 2. Kyngs 1. Ioseph lib. 9. chap. 1. he buylded a temple vnto the god of Accoronites called by Iosephus Myos and by the Gréekes Priapus vnto the which god he did sacrifice To be short what more abhominable corruption can be described Purgatorye than the inuention of the fyer Purgatorie 2. Kyngs 16. 2. Kings 16.23 in the booke Alcoran Asoar 29.46 Asoar 5. wher with the Israelites did transgres causing their children to passe through the fier in Tophet a valley of the sons of Ennon sacrificing vnto the God Moloch This corruption of sacrifices not withstanding that it was in the tyme of Moyses ignē gehēnae non nisi numero dierum preterminato animas sentire docet Acorani liber ad diem veritatis omnes accedere operum suorum mercedem accepturas Asoar yet the Idoll Moloch in the valley of Ennon was not caste downe tyll the raygne of good Kyng Iosias more then nyne hundred yeres after Moyses Neuerthelesse this abuse doth continue among the Arabians Affricans to this present so that the Alcoramists Mahometists haue this beliefe that the soules of the departed muste passe thorowe the fyer to be purged and purified from theyr offences By this briefe gathering a man may clearely perceyue that from the beginning of the world man by his own fault hath fallen into the bottome of errour corruption of holy signes sacrifices sacraments ordened to him of god But the principall abuse Cause of the corruption of sacraments whereof is sprong the originall of all idolatrie entred by this meanes that fleshly and carnal men did stick more to the visible signes outward ceremonies then to the things signified by the Sacraments Apo. 13. for in place of circumcising their harts cutting awaye the old skinne of synne to be regenerated and purified by the bloud of the heauenly sacrifice offered before all worlds Deut. 10.30 they haue taken circumcision carnally for the cutting of the carnall skynne Wherefore did they not folowe the interpretation of god by Moyses to circumcise the foreskynne of their hearts Wherefore did not the children of Israell geue credit to the good prophet Ieremie Ierem. 4. whiche admonished them of the spirituall circumcision to circumcise the foreskynne of their hearts in puttinge awaye the foreskynne of their naturall corruption The lyke is come to passe of the sacrifices holye sygnes ordeyned of god for figures of the sacrifice fulfilled by Iesus Christ For the carnall man resteth in the corporall bloud of earthly beasts where he ought to lyft vp his spirite to heauen to comprehend conceyue that which is figured signified by the sacrifices of beasts offered vp For this therefore the iustice of God is declared by the Prophetes What nede haue I sayth the Lord god of your sacrifices Esay 1. I am werye of your offerings of shepe Moreouer I take no pleasure in the blood of beasts lambes goates offered Wherefore trauell you to addresse aulters vnto me I wyll non of your offerynges vayne sacrifices I abhorre your incens I can not suffer your newe Moones your Sabothes your assembles your feasts all is but vanitie I hate your feasts of new Moones O Israelites your solemne feasts I am wery in suffering so much You haue goodly directed your prayers vnto me I wil not heare you any more for the abuses which you haue cōmitted with your handes embrued with bloud Moreouer I wil not receiue of the house of Israell any bull Psalm 51. Esay 66. Ierem. 6. because your

sacrifices are not pleasing vnto me I am as well pleased with thoffring of a beast as with the murderyng of a man Eccle. 7. with the offering of Incens as with the worshipping of an Idoll Wherefore then sayth god do ye take so much paynes to seeke Incens vnto Sabba odours from far countreys to offer make sacrifices vnto me wherein I delyte not Who hath moued you O Israelites to erect images vnto the Gods Moloch and the sterre Rompham duryng the tyme that you were in the Wildernesse where I dyd nouryshe you wyth my heauenlye Manna Your feastes be odious vnto me your offerynges Amos. 5. oblations sacrifices for the healthe I wyll reiect your offeryngs do displease me Mich. 6. After what maner shoulde one prepare him selfe to god Shall it be by sacrifices of Bullocks of one yere Doth God take pleasure in a great number of shepe offered vnto him Or in a great quantitie of holye oyles To him sayth the Prophet shall I offer of the first borne for the remission of synnes Our good God hath verye clearelye declared that seruyce whiche he commaundeth followe equitie loue Psalm 51. mercye and of an humble and contrite hearte fall downe before hym for obedience is more worthe then sacrifice or the fatte of offered Rammes 1. Samuel 15. What gaue an occasion to God to put awaye those sacrifices and sacramentes whyche he hym selfe had ordeyned but the abuse and corruption whyche the Israelites had committed takynge ouer grosselye the Signes and Ceremonies ordeyned to drawe them to feare and obedience For in place of conceyuing that whiche was figured by the signes corporall sacrifices they did rest in the fleshe of the beasts offered And in stead of cutting away the foreskynne of theyr heartes they rested in the carnall circumcision in the meane tyme tourned away from the true worshipping of god addressing them selues to creatures As to starres to the queene of heauen other straunge Gods offeringe to them incens buyldyng for them temples preparing for them priests chaplaynes sacrificers to offer vnto them oblations and sacrifices Moreouer to accomplishe this corruption they did sacrifice with the blood of innocents offering of them causing them to passe thorowe the fyer of purgatorie in the valley of Tophet Wherfore for the abuse committed by the children of Israell against the holy sacraments 4. Esdr 1. sacred signes sacrifices ordeyned of God it was sayde vnto them by the prophetes that god woulde no more of their feasts of their newe Moones of their circumcision 4. Esdr 1. nor of their sacrifices celebrated by people idolatrous and full of blood When the vnserchable wisedome of god did perceyue the hardnesse infidelitie of the people of Israell which did euer continue to commit idolatrie by corrupting the holy signes sacramentes sacrifices in place of acknowledging the infinite goodnes of god which had delyuered them from the Pharaonicall tyrranny whiche had nourished them in the Wildernesse whiche had brought them into the fruitfull lande promised vnto them And which so many tymes had succoured them in the warres against their neighbours the Cananites Moabites Madianites Philistines Ammonites Sirians Sidonians Sicyonians other enuious people Neuerthelesse this rude people did continue in their idolatries taught them by their priests sacrificers kings princes without tourning to the trew worshipping of one onely God Wherefore after the great mercye and longe tarying of the iuste Iudge whiche by all maner corrections would haue brought agayne his people by diuine vengeaunce particulerly as by reasyng vp of warres by captiuitie and bondage by diuidyng of the kyngdome parted betwene Roboam and Hieroboam the successours of Salamon plounged in the depth of Idolatrye by inwarde warres amonge the people diuided and by other scourges accustomed to correcte those whome God doth fauour to the ende to bryng them to hys feare and obedience In the end thys people to muche hardened and waxed olde in theyr Idolatries were taken into miserable bondage vnder the tyrannye of Infidels Assirians 4. King 15 24 and Idolatrous Babilonians theyr realmes quyte ouerthrowen But wythin a lytle whyle after that thys selfe same people by the great mercye of God was delyuered from the handes of vnfaythfull tyrauntes was set agayne at lybertye and was restored to theyr lande of promyse they fell agayne to theyr Idolatries more then euer before Iosephus lib. 13. cap. 18. of the Iewes antiquities vnder the gouernement of theyr Sacrificers hygh Priestes whiche ioyned the temporaltye the spiritualtie so together that they were clad wyth Scepter Royall and Crowne Then succeded the heresyes of the Phariseis of the Saduces Esseens Gallileens Masbutheens Iosephus in the boke of the antiquities of the iewes Hemerobaptists Samaritans corrupted by the diuersitie of straunge nations whiche had inhabited subdued the countrey of Samaria neare vnto Iudea For the Babilonians did worshyp for theyr god Soccobenoth the Cutheens Persians hauing for theyr God Mergal or Mergel the Hematenses called vppon theyr god Asima the Ananoys dyd worshyppe theyr god Nebahaze Thartace the Sepharuainenses dyd holde vppon theyr gods Adramelech and Anamelech Vnto the whiche gods they sacrificed their children causyng them to passe thorowe the fyer Thus then when all kynde of idolatrie was spred among the Israelites the sacrifices were altogether corrupted the priests became byers sellers couetous tyrants Idolaters the people payed tribute to the tyrantes of Rome theyr countrey of Iudea made one with the Prouince ioyning vnto Siria vnder the power of the Romains Iosephus lib. 15. cap. 3. Iosephus lib. 18. cap. 3. Eurrop lib. 1. cap. 12. The order also the law election of the high priests was corrupted their dignitie abastarded altogether in so much that without regard of the Leuiticall race the high priests were appoynted by Consulls or Lieutenants of Rome as pleased them Genes 49. And where as before they continued during their lyues now they chaunged yerely And when as the Scepter was taken from the stocke of Iuda her kyngdome quyte ouerthrowen as before it was prophecied The incomprehensible greatnes of God did manifest it selfe by his sonne begotten before all worlds which did so humble himselfe that he tooke humaine fleshe of the Virgins wombe to redeme his people and restore them to grace before God For as in Adam by his breaking and abusing of the holy signe geuen vnto hym to keepe A conferryng of Adam with Iesus christ all the lumpe of mankynde was corrupted with the leuaine of synne Euen so by the seconde Adam Iesus Christ we are by grace purged from our offences To our first vniuersall father Adam was geuen a holy signe to exercise his obedience and to his successors was geuen other holy signes sacrifices sacraments instituted of God as the tree of lyfe the fruits of the tree of knowledge of good euyll the rainebowe circumcision the lambe