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A57667	Pansebeia, or, A view of all religions in the world with the severall church-governments from the creation, to these times : also, a discovery of all known heresies in all ages and places, and choice observations and reflections throughout the whole / by Alexander Ross.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.; Haestens, Henrick van.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1972_pt1; Wing R1944_pt2; ESTC R216906	502,923	690

brazen face was called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by Pindarus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 carried in a brazen Chariot Homer calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the swiftest of all the gods Yet was over-reached by Vulcan the slowest to let us see that strength is overcome many times by policy he was married to Venus for souldiery and venery are seldom separate He is by Homer joyned with Minerva Arts and Armes doe meet together he was a great god among the Grecians but greater among the Romans to whom they dedicated Priests Feasts and divers Temples not onely for being their tutelar god but also because he was Romulus his Father this mad god for so he is called by Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was wounded by Diomedes and he is termed their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 constant mutable false and treacherous A brave god miserable is that Country where this god domineers whose greatest enemies are Iupiter and Minerva that is peaceable Princes and wise Councellours Q. What were Minerva Diana and Venus A. These were also Grecian deities Minerva was the Athenian chief goddesse from whom they were named Athenians Her Festivals were called Panathenaea and her chiefe Temple Parthenium for she from her perpetual coelibate was stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 She hath the next place in heaven among the gods to Iupiter and wears his armes and target called Aegis to shew that Kings should never be without wise and learned men next to them When she came out of Iupiters brain she made a noise brandishing with her Speare at which mortals were affrighted therefore she is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Pallas the wisdom of a Governour being expressed either by his words or actions keeps the people in awe she had her Palladium at Athens as well as at Troy and at Rome had divers Temples called Minervia Diana the sister of Apollo was worshipped by the Greeks in the habit of a woman armed with a Bow and arrows So she was afterward by the Romans to whom they erected divers Temples the chiefest whereof was upon hill Aventine She is called by Pindarus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a horse-driver for by her they understood the Moon to which they assigned horses to signifie her motion and antiently a golden Chariot drawn by white hindes from her delight she took in arrows she is called by the same Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which are meant her beams she was painted also with a Torch in her hand as Hecate is always to shew that she and Hecate was all one and by this Torch was meant her light she was also the same with Proserpine and is called Triformis from the Moons three different shapes but she was a cruel goddess who would not be satisfied without humane sacrifices in Arcadia she was worshipped in the form of a Virgin covered with a Hindes skin having a Torch in one hand two Serpents in the other and on her shoulders her Bow and quiver Of these mysteries I have written sufficiently in Myst. Poet. Venus was worshipped in armour by the Lacedemonians because she overcame Mars her worship cousisted in Flowers and Frankincense She was somtimes placed upon the same Altar with Mercury to shew how well Beauty and Eloquence agree She was had in honour more in Rome then in Greece because from her as being the mother of Aenaeas the Romans deduced their Original therefore she was honoured with many Temples at Rome she was the chief deity that was worshipped by the women Harlots honoured her for gain honest Virgins for Beauty Matrons for concord with their husbands Widdows for new Husbands and all for Fecundity she being held the author of all these She was painted in a Chariot drawn sometimes with Doves sometimes with white Swans she was crowned with Mirtle and Roses she was begot of the Sea froth All which expresse to us the qualities of love Q. How were Juno Ceres and Vulcan worshipped by the Greeks A. At Corinth Iuno was worshipped in the habit of a Queen with a Crown on her head on which were carved the Graces and the hours sitting in a throne of gold and white Ivory having in one hand a Pomgranate and in the other a Scepter with an Owle on the top thereof By Iuno they mean the Moon therefore her Statue and Throne were of white materials Hence Homer calls her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having white armes The Moon is Queen of the night therefore she hath her Crown Throne and Scepter the Owle being a night bird was fitly dedicated to her that was Lady of the night She was the goddess of riches and Fecundity and the same with Lucina therefore she hath the Pomegranate a Symbol of plenty as she is the Moon the hours attend her as the giver of riches the Graces for bounty and good turns require thanks In some Graecian Temples her Image is drawn by Peacocks to shew that pride and wealth go together and that rich people delight in gaudy and glorious apparel At Argos she was worshipped with Vine branches about her treading on a Lions skin in contempt of Bacchus and Hercules Iupiters two bastards the one glorying for finding the use of Wine the other for killing the Lion Iuno was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perfection because she had the charge of marriage in which mans perfection consisteth and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as being Iupiters wife and sister her sacrifices in Greece were Hecatombaea ● 100 beasts at Rome she was honoured with divers names Temples and Sacrifices the Calends of every moneth were dedicated to her and her solemnities were kept in February Ceres was worshipped in a Chariot drawn by two Dragons with Poppy heads in one hand and a burning Torch in the other with a sheaf of Corn on her head What all these meant we have shewed elsewhere The secret or mystical sacrifices of Ceres Eleusina were not to be divulged for no prosane person was to be admitted to them for the Priest going before uttered these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Roman Priests proclaiming the same in their tongue Procul procul este profani The Arcadians did so honour Ceres and Proserpina that in their Temples they kept fires perpetually burning In her sacrifices Hogs were offered but no Wine The Priests of Ceres were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Bees to shew both their diligence purity and chastity she was worshipped also at Rome where she had her Priests and Temples and great solemnities in April called Ludi Cereales In Vulcanes Sacrifices a Torch was lighted and delivered from one to another to signifie that the Torch of our life is imparted from the father to the son by generation He was worshipped in the forme of a lame man with a blew cap to shew us the nature of the fire whereof he was god At Rome he was also worshipped but his Temple was built by Romulus without the City because Mars his

Some of them deny the souls immortality and doubt whether there be any other Deity except Heaven and Earth 21. The Family of Love whose author was one Henry Nicolas a Hollander They reject all Sacraments and the three last petitions of the Lords prayer They say that Christ is onely the image of God the Fathers right hand and that mans soule is a part of the divine essence 22. Effro●tes so called from shaving their foreheads till they bleed and then anoint them with oyle using no other baptisme but this they say the holy Ghost is but a bare motion inspired by God into the mind and that he is not to be adored all which is directly repugnant to Gods word which proves that the holy Ghost is true God Thou hast not lyed saith Saint Peter unto man but unto God meaning the holy Ghost This Sect took up their station in Transylvania 23. Hosmanists these teach that God took flesh of himself whereas the Scripture saith that Christ was made of a Woman They deny pardon to those tha● relapse into sin and so they abridge the grace of God who wills us to repent and thereupon receives us into ●avour 24. 〈◊〉 so called from one Gasp●● Schewenkfeld a Silesian he taught that the Scripture was needlesse to Salvation and with the old M●nichees and Valentinians that Christ was not conceived by the holy Ghost in the Virgins Womb but that God created a man to redeem us and joyned him to himselfe and that this man became God after he ascended into Heaven they confound the Persons of Father and Son and say that God did not speak these words This is my beloved Son That faith is the very essence and nature of God That all Christians are the Sons of God by nature procreated of the divine essence That the Sacraments are uselesse that Christs body is every where Of these Sects and many more of lesse note see Florimundus Raymund●s hence we may see what a dangerous Gap hath been made since Luther began to oppose the Church of Rome for the little Fo●●es to destroy Christs Vineyard what multitudes of Ta●es have grown up 〈◊〉 the good Corn in the Lords field what troublesome Frogs worse then those of Egypt have crawled into m●st mens houses what swarmes of Locusts have darkened th● Sun of righteousnesse whilst ●e was ●●ining in the Firmament of his Church Q 13. What other opinions in religion were maintained this age A. Carolostadius Arch Deacon of Wit●ber● and Oecol●●padius Monk of the Order of S. Bridges opposed Luthers Doctrin in the point of the real presence shewing that Christ was in the bread onely sacramentally or significatively The Libertius whose author was one Quintious a Taylor of Pi●cardy taught that whatsoever good or evil we did was not done by us but by Gods Spirit in us that sin was nothing but an opinion that in reproving of sinners we reproved God himself that he onely was regenerate who had no remorse of conscience that he onely re●euted who confessed he had committed no evil that man in this life may be perfect and innocent that the knowledge we have of Christ and of our Resurrection is but opinion that we may dissemble in Religion which is now the opinion of Master Hobbs and lastly they slight the Scriptures relying on their own inspirations and they slight the Pen men of the Holy Ghost calling Saint Iohn a foolish young man Saint Matthew a Publican Saint Paul a broken vessel and Saint Peter a denyer of his Master Zuinglius Canon of Constance held the Doctrine of C●rolostadius against Luther concerning the real presence David George a Glasier in Gaunt taught that he was God Almighties Nephew born of the Spirit not of the flesh the true Messiah and third David that was to reign on Earth that Heaven was void of inhabitants and that therefore he was sent to adopt Sons for that heavenly Kingdom He denied Spirites the Resurrection and the last judgement and life eternal He held promiscuous copulation with the Adamits and with the Manichees that the soul was not polluted with sin that the souls of Infidels shall be saved and the bodies of the Apostles as well as those of Infidels shall be burned in Hell fire and that it was no sin to deny Christ before men therefore they condemned the Martyrs of folly for shedding their blood for Christ. Mela●●ct●on was a Lutheran but not altogether so rigid so was Bucer except in the point of Christs real presence Westphalus also but he denied original sin and the Holy Ghosts procession from the Son and that Christs did not institute the Lent Fast nor was any man tied to keep it Q. 14. What were the chief Heads of Calvins Doctrine A. That in this life our ●aith is not without some doubtings and incredulity that the Scriptures are sufficient without traditions that an implicite faith is no faith that the Books of Tobias Iudith a part of Hester The Wisedome of Solomon Ecclesiasticus Baruch The History of Bell and the Dragon and the books of Macchabees are not parts of the Canonical Scripture that the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament is only authentical and so the Grek of the New Testament that the Scripture in Fundamentals is clear of it selfe and is a sufficient judge of controversies that the Elect have saving faith onely which can never totally and finally be lost that predestination to life or death dependeth not on mans foreseen merits or demerits but on Gods free will and pleasure that no sin comes to passe without the will of God that the Son of God received not his Essence of the Father nor is he God of God but God of himselfe that Christ in respect of his humani●y was ignorant of some things that the Virgin Mary was obnoxious to divers sins and infirmities that Christ is our Media●or in respect of both natures that Christ was in the state of damnation when he suffered for us but did not continue in it that Christ by his suffering merited nothing for himselfe that he descended not truly into Hell but by suffering the pains of Hell on the Crosse that there is no Limbus Patrum nor Purgatory that our prayers avail not to the dead that the torments of the evil Angels were deferred till the day of judgement that Christ came not out of the grave whilest it was shut that the true Church of God consisteth onely of the Elect and that it is not visible to men that the Church may erre that Saint Peter was not Bishop of Rome nor the Pope his successor but that he is Antichrist that the Church and Magistrate cannot make Laws to bind the conscience that caelibat and the monastical life is unlawful consequently the vows of chastity poverty and obedience that man hath not free will to goodnesse that concupiscence or the first motions before the will consents are sins that all sins are mortal and none in themselves venial that in

Alciatus Simanus Casanovius Menno and divers other Anabaptistical Vipers who extreamly increased the restlesse waves of sects and opinions We recommending the rest to their proper place Hell will take a more particular survey of one Religion and by the horridnesse of that guesse at the others This Servetus was a Spaniard born in the kingdom of Arragon most unworthy both of his Name and Nation Being rapt into a most incredible enthusiasme he boldly laye● his unwash'd hands upon holy divinity and at 〈◊〉 four and twentieth year of his age boasted himselfe 〈◊〉 be the only Teacher and Seer of the world making 〈…〉 main design and that by his impious and worthlesse ●●●●tings to inveigh against the Deity of the Son of God 〈◊〉 which writings being sufficiently furnished and with● enflamed with hopes of raising no ordinary tumults 〈◊〉 bestirres himself winde and tyde for Basill but Oec●lampadius an Ecclesiastical Doctor learnedly before a full Senate confuted the blasphemies of this man and by the publick Authority he had caused him as a poisonous blasphemer to be thrust out of the Church of Basil. From thence he went to Venice where in regard the Venetians had been timely forewarned of him by the wise and learned Melancthon he made no harvest of his incredible blasphemies nor indeed was he permitted ●eed-time for them Religion is nowhere safe But having consulted with the Arch-hereticks his Predecessors and being bird-lim'd he held that there was but one person in the Godhead to be worshipped and acknowledged which was revealed to mankind sometimes under one notion sometimes under another and that it was thus that those notions of Father Son and Holy Ghost were to be understood in the Scriptures Nay with the same line of his blasphemous mouth he affirmed that our Saviour Iesus Christ according to his humane nature was not the Sonne of God nor coeternal with the Father The Holy Ghost he granted to be nothing but that influence by which all things are moved which is called nature He most impiously Ironical affirmed that to understand the word Person we must referre our sesves to Comedies But the most horrid blasphemy of all was when by the suggestion of Satan he imagined that the most glorious and ever to be worshipped and adored Trinity who doth not tremble at it was most fitly-compared to Cerberus the Porter of Hell-gate But he stayed not here no he thought it should be accounted nothing but a diabolical phantasme the laughing-stock of Satan and the monstrous Geryon whom the Poets by some strange mystery of Philosophy feigned to have three bodies O incredible and unheard of subtily of blasphemy The most glorious name of the most blessed Trinity is grown so odious to this man that he would personate being the greatest that ever was all the Atheists that have quarrelled with that name Moreover he maintained that taking but away the only Article of the Trinity the Turkish Alcoran might be easily reconciled to the Christian Religion and that by the joyning together of these two a great impediment would be removed yea that the pertin●cious asserting of that Article had enraged to madnesse whole Countries and Provinces This abomination of God and men held that the Prophet Moses that great servant of God and faithful steward of the Lords house that Prince and Captain Generall of the people of Israel one so much in favour with God that he was admitted to speak to him face to face was to be accounted no other than an Impostor He accounted the Patriarch Abraham and his seed too much given to Revenge and that he was most unjust and most malicious to his enemy The most glorious Church of Israel 't is the swine that loves the mi●e he esteemed no better than a Hogge-S●y and declared himself a sworn Prince of the Anabaptistical generation But keep off and approach not O all ye other Heresies and Hydra's of opinions of this one man furies not capable of expiation Being arrived at Geneva and being forbidden to spue out and spatter his pestiferous blasphemies he continued in hostility against all sharp but wholesome admonitions which Calvin that famous Minister of the Church perceiving being desirous to discharge the duty of a soul-saving Pastor went friendly to Servetus in hopes to deliver him out of his most impious errours and horrible Heresie and so to redeem him out of the jawes of Hell and faithfully reproved him But he being dazled with the brightnesse of Truth and overcome returned nothing to Calvin so well deserving of him but an intolerable obstinacy and inconvincible recapitulation of his blasphemies whence it came to passe that by the just and prudent Decree of the Senates of Bernen Zuring Basil and Scaffuse and by the righteous condemnation of the eternal God in the moneth of December in the year one thousand five hundred fifty and three or as Sleidan hath it in October he was How great is the obstinacy of blasphemy being at that time ecstatically hardened and intoxicated consecrated to the avenging flames ARRIuS Divisit Trini qui formam numinis ecce Dividitur membris Visceribusque suis. THE CONTENTS Arrianisme it 's increase ANNO 323. THe General Councill at Nice Anno 325. called as a Remedy against it but without successe The Arrians misinterpret that place John 10. 30. concerning the Father and the Sunne They acknowledged one onely God in a Iudaical sense They deny the Trinity Arrius his wretched death Anno 336. ABout the year of the Incarnation of the Son of God three hundred twenty and three Hell was deliver'd of a certain Priest at Alexandria named Arrius a man subtle beyond expression the trumpet of eloquence one thee 〈…〉 have been cut out for all honesty and elegance 〈◊〉 with the poison of his Heresie and the 〈…〉 of his destructive doctrine did in the time of Silvester Bishop of Rome and the Emperour consta●●● draw in a manner all Christendome to his opinion and so corrupted some even great nations in the East● that except a few Bishops who stood to the true doctrine none appeared against him To remedy this disease at Nice in Bithynia in the year three hundred twenty 〈◊〉 a generall Council was called but to 〈…〉 the contagious stocks of Arrianisme were deeply 〈◊〉 so that they were become such ravening wolves among the flock of Christ that all that would not embrace their belief were to expect banishment or death These imagined that the Sonne was not of an equall nature and coeternall with the Father but that he was onely agreeing and concurring with his Father to confirm which they alledged that place of Iohn 10. 30 which sayes I and the Father are one and though they called the Sonne a great God yet they denied that he was a living and true God and coessential with the Father They boasted that they were ready to answer all objections and acknowledged

will the house stand immovable Though the rain descend and the windes flow and the hloods come and beat upon that house yet it shall n●t fall because it is founded upon a Rock M●t. 7. But if blinde Sampson if people void of understanding trusting to their strength shake once this pillar of Religion down falls the whole Fabrick of Government Law and Discipline Of this examples in all ages may be brought to shew how States and Religion like Hippocrates Twins do live and die together so long as Religion flourished in Iude● so long did that State flourish but when the one failed the other fell Iudah and Israel were not carried away into Captivity till they had Captivated Religion As Sampsons strength consisted in his Hair so doth the strength of a Common●wealth in Religion if this be cut off the Philistions will insult over the strongest State that ever was and bring it to destruction This is the ●alladiu●● which if once removed will expose the strongest City in the world to the enemy The Greek Empire had not fallen from the Pal●●●gi to the Turk had the Christian Religion stood firm in Constantinople The Poet could acknowledge that so long as Rome stood religious so long the continued Victorious Diis de 〈…〉 And Tullie confesseth that the instruments by which the Romans subdued the world were not strength and policy but Religion and Piety Non calliditate r●bore sed pietate ac Religione omnes gentes nationsque super astis Orat. de 〈◊〉 resp For this cause the Senat and people of Rome were careful to send their prime youth to 〈◊〉 the University then of the 〈◊〉 Religion to be instructed in the grounds of all their sacr●d and mysterious learning Therefore 〈◊〉 in Dion Cassius ● 3. adviseth Augustus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by all means and at all times to advance the worship of God and to cause others to do the same and not 〈…〉 innovations in Religion whence proceed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conspiracies sediti●●● and conventicles or combinations Religion is the Bulwark as plato faith of Laws and Authority it is the band of all humane society the fountain of justice and fidelity beat down this Bulwark break this band stop this fountain and bid Adieu to all Laws Authority Unity Justice and Fidelity Q. 2. How doth it appear that Religion is the foundation of Common-we●li●e● human societies A. 1. Because Religion teacheth the fear of God without which men should live more securely among Lyons and Beares then among men therefore Abraham Gen. 20. knew that at Ger●● he should both lose his Wife and his life too because he thought surely the fear of God was not in that 〈◊〉 't is not the fear of temporal punishment or of corporal death that keeps men in awe but of eternal torments and spiritual death therefore when men will not fear th●se that can destroy the body they will stand in awe of him who can cast body and soul into Hell fire Mat. 10. It was this fear that begot Religion in the world Primus in 〈◊〉 Deos fecit timor and it is Religion that cherisheth increaseth and quickneth this fear the end then of Common-wealthes and of all societies is that men may live more comfortably and securely then they can do alone but without Religion there can be no security nor comfort no more then there can be fo● Lambs among Wolves for 〈…〉 2. There can be no durable Common-wealth where the people do not obey the Magistrate but there can be no obedience or submission of Inferiours to their Superiours without Religion which teacheth that Princes and Magistrates are Gods Vice 〈◊〉 here on Earth whom if we do not 〈◊〉 and obey we cannot fear and obey God who commands Rom. 13. That every soul be subject to the higher Powers for there is no power but of God 3. There is in all men naturally a desire of happinesse and immortality which cannot be attained without the knowledge and worship of God whom we can neither know nor worship without Religion which prescribeth the rules and way of worshipping him and likewise sheweth us that there is a God that he is one invisible eternal omnipotent the maker of all things c. 4. The Essence and life of a Common-wealth consisteth in Love Unity and Concord but it is by Religion that these are obtained for there is no band or tie so strict and durable as that of Religion by which all the living stones of the great buildings of Kingdoms and States are cemented and like the planks of N●ahs Ark are pitched and glewed together 5. As each particular man is subject to death and corruption so are whole States Corporations and K●ngdoms but the means to retard and keep off destruction and ruin from them is Religion hence those States continue longest where Religion is most esteemed and advanced whereas on the contrary the contempt of Religion is the fore-runner of destruction this we see that when the whole world was united into one corporation and society for slighting Religion were all overthrown in the General Cataclysme except eight religious persons saved in the Ark. The Poet acknowledgeth that all the miseries which befel Italy proceeded from the neglecting of Religion Dii multa neglecti dede●unt Hesperiae mala luctuosae Horat. 6. As all Common-wealths and States know and are assured that they cannot subsist without the protection of Almighty God who is the Author of all humane societies so likewise they know that God will not owne and protect them who either cannot or will not serve worship and honour him which without Religion is impossible to be done by man for as all Nations know even by the comely order and harmony the strange operations of Nature and the beauty of the world that there is a Divinity which is also plain by the actions of Providence so likewise they know that this Divine power must be honoured and obeyed except they will shew ingratitude in the highest degree to him whence they have their living moving being and all they enjoy but without Religion they can neither know how nor where nor when to worship him 7. Every man knows he hath a spiritual reasonable and heavenly soul which naturally delights in the knowledge and contemplation of heavenly things which shew that he cannot reject all Religion except he will shake off nature and humanity 8. The veriest Atheists in the world who denyed God at least in his providence though they could not in his essence yet affirmed that Religion was necessary in all societies without which they cannot subsist as is already said 9. As subjects will not obey their Princes but fall into rebellions so Princes will not protect their Subjects but become Wolves and Tyrants if it were not for Religion that keeps them in awe and assures them that there is over them a King of Kings and Lord of Lords to whom they must give an account of their actions