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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11918	Foure sermons preached at the court vpon seuerall occasions, by the late reuerend and learned diuine, Doctor Senhouse, L. Bishop of Carlile	Senhouse, Richard, d. 1626.; Blechynden, Thomas.	1627 (1627)	STC 22230; ESTC S117131	57,196	148

more of that pitch their Ordo meritricum founded by Tisceranus the Minorit their new set up Iesuitrices c. without raveling of the worst wind I it up with Erasmus Blandientes sexui foemineo c. Whether it be as they pretend in praying to the Virgin Mary that they conceiue of Christ as a strict and seuere Iudge but of the Virgin as a milde and gentle advocat As if some other could bee more tender over us than hee that dy'd for us Or which I rather beleeue purposely to insinuat with the credulous sex so to devour widowes houses to leade captive simple women or serpent-like to vent tentations by the woman to read many riddles by plowing with those heiffers or to worke their sinister ends by the weaker vessell or whatsoever the Romish meaning be that which Iustin Martyr mislik'd in Homers Poetry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being exemplified in their practice verie womanish are they verie free and forward have they long time bin thus to magnifie yea for a need thus to deifie their Diana's That as he once bid his hearers take heed of the Zuinglians heaven seeing there they had set Hercules with his club a man has reason to bee shy both of the Ethnicall and Pontificiall heaven wherein the distaff bears such sway That whereas their Martinus said Se non optare sibi coelum in quo Lutherus esset that Martin would not wish for that Heaven wherein Luther was so I never wish to bee of that religion here nor goe to that heaven hereafter wherein such Diana's goddesses are In the kingdome of God I shall see Abraham Isaac Iacob the glorious company of the Apostles the goodly fellowship of the Prophets the noble army of Martyrs but shall see no goddesses none of these Diana's there Then let others thus wander after their owne inventions imaginary goddesses but as David spake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let us adhere hold fast unto our iealous God for bee the gods of the Heathen good-fellowes as he said the true God is a iealous God will not share his glory with another In the Booke of Kings the Seventy for Dea reade 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for goddesse abomination let that mother of harlots have in her hand a cup full of abominations and fornication as in the Revelation but take wee the cup of salvation with David and call upon the Name of the Lord knowing we cannot drinke the cup of the Lord and the cup of Divells as Paul speaketh Let us tremble before the Maiesty of that glorious God that hath his way in the whirlwinde at whose reproofe the pillars of heaven tremble and quake whilst others trifle thus with their devised Deities Let us say with David Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised whilst others cry thus Great Diana Great is Diana of the Ephesians As a femall so a woman this Diana was but what manner of woman might shee be It were not worth the beating of the bush to range through all the woods and groves of the Heathen to bolt out all their Diana's upon every high hill and under every green tree Dianae plures saies Tully Diana's divers there were A man may wink and choose of them it matters not which of them it was all of them were nought He that has little to doe let him but turne Pausanias hee shall finde there a litter a whole kennell of them Diana the huntresse Diana the midwife and the rest of that multitude there But among the whole beavie of their Diana's Vna notissima one famous one above all the rest of whom Ierom and others interpret this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 multimammiam they call her a kind of nurse of things Ephesia mammis multis verubus exstructa wrote Foelix vberibus exstructa as Lypsius happily help'd it Well and what was the same goodly one The Sampsaei in Epiphanius worshipt two women as goddesses because they were of the blessed seed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but was Diana so no by their own records come of a cursed race a bastard daughter between Iupiter the adulterer as themselves stile him and Latona the drab Pellex as I finde her stiled the seed so of the adulterer and the whore an honest genealogy sure At the best hand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Clemens spake of all their gods serva vitiorum shee was some chambermaide to vice some light huswife or so or else lighter than so in naked truth sine veste Diana strip her but of fond fables and for all the image comming downe from Iupiter as they fable here in the 35. verse wee shall then finde her non Iovis sed Phydiae as one said of Minerva Diana not so of Latona but some Lapidary some stone or stock as good blocks as she lying on the back of the fire warming a man or roasting meat as in Esay or boyling Diagoras his turneps inutile lignum maluit esse deum or els som vain stone made by the hand of antiquitie as Wisdome mentions happely as good stone trampled and troden under feet nay yet lower to bee even nothing Idolum nihil est an Idoll being nothing in the world as Paul speaketh Great Diana come downe to this a block or a blank nothing Such a birth of the mountaines prove a mouse Such a clamour about a Diana of clouts Such a deale of doo about nothing All this bruit and no fruit All this crying and no wool I deny not but as Ignatius mentions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mysteria clamoris misteries there be to be cry'd aloud and spare not the voyce to be lifted up like a trumpet as in Esay to bee preached upon the house tops as in the Gospell and we that are the Lords Remembrancers not to keep silence for Sions sake not to hold our tongues and for Ierusalems sake not to rest Et vae mihi quia tacui as Esay Wo unto me because I have held my peace alas will one day come to be the cry of many men for not crying now when not crying out in sly discretion now shall make many howle in deepe damnation then when in bitterness of soule they shall wish too late they had beene borne dumb rather than in Gods cause not to have cryed out Yet were it but for this one instance about Diana here alone I shall hardly ever credit popular out-cryes As soone shall I measure wisedome by the acre as worth by noise or piety by passion or holinesse by eagernesse or religion by multitude or truth by crying This I perceive being customary with men conscious of defects to betake themselves to clamor as the lame man to his horse This the custome of pleasure concupiscence and the like with intensive clamours to importune their desires as Philo saies yea even in religious affaires 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as hee said This the custome thus to make out-cryes their greatest defences as the Margeant there well noteth Were such exclamation demonstration