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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11890	An arrovv against idolatrie Taken out of the quiver of the Lord of hosts. By H.A.	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?	1624 (1624)	STC 222; ESTC S115945	56,377	128

Witchcrafts 17 For by these and innumerable moe inchantments of Idolatrie which the day would not be enough to recken up this Circe the Ladie of the pseudocatholicks hath intoxicate the earth that the inhabitants p Rev. 17.2 are drunken with the wine of her fornication doting upon her reverend clergie her devout service her sacred ceremonies her hallowed Churches her Saints reliques and other like amatory potions wherin Christianism Iudaism and Paganism are tempered and mixt together in the golden Babylonish cup of her abominations 18 Hence is it that the reliques of this Romish idolatry are so fast retained among some which yet Rev. 17. ●6 hate the whore and eat her flesh and burn her with fire Of her haue they received their Diocesan Provinciall and Nationall Churches Of her haue they learned to make portesses or Leitourgies reading and singing their prayers upon a book with organs and melodie Of her institution haue they their solemn festivities of Christs Angels and Saints daies with their fasting Eves Of her hand haue they taken their Archbishops Lordbishops Suffragans Arch-deacons Parsons Vicars and a great many moe of her royall retinue From her haue they had their Churches Chappels Minsters baptized bells hallowed fonts and holy Churchyards though some of those high places are of more antiquity as having been built and dedicated to the Heathen Divils Finally from her haue been received lands livings tithes offrings garments signes gestures ceremonies courts canons customs and many moe abominations wherewith haue been inriched the r Rev. 18.15 merchants of the whore and all that sail s vers 19 with ships in her sea Thus with all the evils before mentioned and others moe then can be told which are very Gillulim the loathsome idols and execrements of the Queen of Sodom and the filthinesse of her fornication hath shee dishonoured and blasphemed the God of heaven and all that therin dwell with them she defileth the consciences of men with them she delighteth and solaces her selfe in fleshly ease and pleasure till in t Rev. 18.8 19. one houre she and all her riches pleasures wares merchandise shall perish and that be again fulfilled which was said by the Prophet Ezek. 23.43 Now shal she and her fornications come to an end CHAP. VI. A Conclusion Dehortary from this sin THE wares of idolatry being so common and universally spread by the merchants of the whore and conveighed into all nations it commeth to passe that many are interessed in this Mart buy and sell partake and communicate with these evils not being aware of the danger they come into hereby To warn them therefore of the mischiefe ere they fall into it or to help them out if they be fallen haue I penned this Treatise and add to the things fore written these few advertisements 2 This sin is direct against the Majesty of God whose honour is to be regarded aboue our own liues aboue the peace or tranquility of nations The sin provoketh the anger of God as adultery provoketh the rage of a man injured in his private bed As he a Pro. 6.34 will not spare in the day of vengeance and can not bear the sight of any ransom so the Lord is a b Ex. 20 5 gealous God and visiteth the sin of the fathers upon the children even to the third and fourth generation of those that hate him 3 Idolaters as they are shut c Rev. 22.14.15 out of the citie of the Lord the Church of Christ the heavenly Ierusalem so haue they further this doom against them they d 1 Cor. 6. ● 10 shall not inherit the kingdom of God The cōmunicating with idols depriveth men of cōmunion with God for there is e 2 Cor. ● 14.16 no fellowship of righteousnes with unrightousnes no agreement betwixt the Temple of God and idols The partakers therfore in this evill though perhaps not authors inventors nor open maintainers of the same shall come unto shame and confusion before God for f Isa. 44.1 all that are of the fellowship thereof shall be confounded 4 Folly is a blot and shame unto men which they fayn would shun but wisedom is mans honour and g Eccl. 8. ● maketh his face to shine Of all foolishnesse idolatry is the greatest depriving men of sound judgement in the best heavenly things and possessing their minds with habituall vanity Therefore is this vice resembled by a h Pro. 9.1 foolish woman ignorant knowing nothing yet troublesome and talkatiue i Pro. 7.1 lowd in her babling of a smooth and k Pro. 2.1 5.3.8.9 flattering tongue and her mouth more soft then oil yet cruel also and malicious l Pro. 6 2● 9.18 hunting for the precious life of a man bringing him to beggery death and hell But true religion or the fear of the Lord is resembled by m Prov. 8 1.4.6 wisedom which uttereth her voice to the children of men speaketh of excellent things the words 〈◊〉 8.9 ●1 of her mouth are all righteous plain her instructions better then fine gold and all her pleasures are not to be compared unto her Blessed ●ers 33.35 is the man that heareth her watching daily at her gates and giving attendance at the posts of her dores for he that findeth her findeth life and shall obtain favour of the Lord but he that sinneth against her hateth his own soule all that hate her loue death 5 To worship and serv the Divill is a thing horrible in religion and even in nature worthy of vengeance from the hand of God Though all manner sin pertaineth to the Divils service yet idolatry aboue all is counted and called the worship of Divils and so shall be punished The Heathens albeit they Rom. 1. ●0 21 had some knowledge of the true God and worshipped Act. 17. ●3 him ignorantly yet their worship is reckoned to Satan for 1 Cor. 10 ●0 the things which they sacrificed they sacrificed to Divils and not unto God Ieroboam made account he served the true God 1 King 2.28 even the God that had brought Israel out of Aegipt land notwithstanding the Lord hath thus testified of him that they were 2 Chron. ●1 15 Divils which he made when he made his calues for to worship God by And Israel before him made u Exod. 3● 1 c. a calfe for like use but Moses doth blame them as having offered unto x Lev. 17. ● Divils and gone a whoring after them and prophesyeth that their children y Deut. 32 17. would also run into like blot Antichristians would seem to bee worshippers of God yet the Holy Ghost chargeth them to z Rev. 9 2● worship the Divils when they think to serv God by idols Forasmuch then as all idols are Divils though fools count them Saints to partake with them is to forsake God and to bring our selues into satans damnation for the Spirit

hath protested that wee a 1 Cor. 1● 21. cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of Divils we cannot be partakers of the Lords Table and of the table of divils 6 Many fearful judgements are threatned of God against this sort of sinners and haue come upon them By Moses he b Lev. 26.16 Deut. 28 3● 59 c. denounced hastie fearfull and consuming plagues aches and botches and incurable sicknesses sore diseases and of long durance which punishment hee brought even upon the c 2 Chr. 2● 18.19 Kings for their idolatry Hee threatned famine and drought d Lev. 26. ●9 20. making heaven as yron and earth as brasse that the land should not giue her increase nor trees their fruit as came to passe in the e 1 Kin. 17 Luk. 4.25 daies of wicked Achab when heaven was shut three years and six moneths that it sent down neither rain nor dew wherby great famine was throughout all the land because they had forsaken the Lord and 1 King 18.18 followed Baalim Wilde g Lev. 26.22 beasts he menaced to send upon them which should spoil them and their cattell and make their high waies desolate of which plague they tasted in Samaria when the Lord whom they feared not h 2 King 17 25.26 sent Lions among them which slew them Hee said Levit. 26 25. hee would send the sword upon them which should avenge the quarrell of his covenant and this plague k 2 Chr. 12 ● 28.5 6 c. the Israelites often felt because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers Hunger and misery was prophesyed unto them that Lev. 26.26 Deut. 28. ●3 57. Ier. 19.9 Ezek. 5.10 they should eat and not be satisfied that men and women should eat their own children and after births and every man eat the flesh of his friend fathers should eat their sonns and sons their fathers when all things should lack in the seige and streightnes wherein their enemies should inclose them which extremities God m 2 Kin● 6.29 brought upon Israel in K. I●r●ms daies and after when n Lam. ● 11.12 children sucklings swooned in the streets gaue up the ghost in their mothers bosome for want of bread and drink and o Lam. 4. the hands of the pittifull women sod their own children for their meat and did eat their fruit even p Lam. 2. children of a span long The Lord threatned q Lev. 2● 30.31 destruction of their high places and images and to cast their carkesses on the bodies of their idols that his soul should abhor them hee would make their cities desolate and bring their sanctuary to naught would not smel the savour of their sweet odours but scattred them among the Hethens draw the sword out after them all which with other like calamities came upon the idolaters whose r 2 King 23 16.2● dead bones were taken out of their graues burned upon their polluted altars and the idolatrous Priests sacrificed upon them Ierusalem the holy citie s Ier. 52.13.10 was broken up and all the men of war fled the house of the Lord al great houses burnt with fire Kings captived in chains Princes nobles killed the Lord trode ●am 1.15 under foot all the valiant men Sion mourned and there was none to comfort her the ●am 2.1 ● beauty of Israel was cast down from heaven to earth God cut off all the horn thereof in his fierce wrath which he powred out like fire vers 6.7 causing the feasts and Sabbaths to bee forgotten in Sion and despising in the indignation of his wrath both King and Priest forsaking his Altar and abhorring his Sanctuary so that peoples eyes vers 11. failed with tears their bowels swelled their liver was powred upon the earth for vers 17. the Lord performed that which hee had purposed and fulfilled his word determined of old doing that to Ierusalem Ezek. 5.6 which hee never did before neither would doe any more the like because of all their abominations and Ier. 8.3 7.29 death was desired rather then life of all the residue of that wicked family for the Lord had rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath 7 All these and Rom. 15.4 Cor. 10.11 whatsoever else God threatned unto or brought upon Israel for their idolatries are examples written for us upon whom the ends of the world are come that we should not sin like them lest we be partakers of like punishments It is d Heb. 1● 31. a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God For e ver 26.2 if we sin willingly after that we haue received the knowledge of the truth there is left no more sacrifice for sins but a fearfull looking for of judgement and a violent-heat of fire which shall devour the adversaries 8 Wherefore unto the children of men thus saith the wisedom of God f Pro. 1.22 23. O yee foolish how long will yee loue foolishnesse and scorners take pleasure in scorning and fooles hate knowledge Turn you at my correction loe I powr out my minde unto you g Prov. 2.2 4.5.12 cause your eares to hearken unto Wisedom incline your hearts to understanding seek her as silver and search for her as for treasures then shall you understand the fear of the Lord and finde the knowledge of God which will deliver you from the evill way h Pro. 6.24 25. from the flattery of the tongue of the strange woman Desire not her beauty in your heart neither let her take you with her ey-lids i Prov. 5.8 9.11 keep your way far from her and come not neer the dore of house least you giue your honour unto others and your years to the cruel and mourn at your end when you haue consumed your flesh and your body For k Prov. 2.18.19 surely her house tendeth to death her pathes unto the dead all they that goe unto her return not again neither take they hold of the waies of life Children keep l 1 Io● 5.21 your selvs from Idols Amen FINIS