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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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