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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23572	Paganisme and papisme parallel'd and set forth in a sermon at the Temple-Church, vpon the feast day of All-Saints. 1623. By Thomas Ailesbury student of diuinitie.	Ailesbury, Thomas, fl. 1622-1659.	1624 (1624)	STC 998; ESTC S101511	12,709	24

PAGANISME AND PAPISME PARALLEL'D AND SET forth in a Sermon at the Temple-Church vpon the Feast day of All-Saints 1623. BY THOMAS AILESBVRY Student in Diuinitie LACTAN Primus sapientla gradus est falsa cognoscere LONDON Printed by George Eld for Leonard Becket 1624. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY EARLE OF Southampton Baron of Tichfield Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter Captaine of the I le of Weight and one of his Maiesties most honorable Priuy Councell I Present vnto your Lordships view the Modell of a Sermon vnworthy I confesse either of their publike life or of so transcendent a protection modestly framed for the Pulpit not curiously adorned for the Presse wherein your Lordship may behold Pagan and Papal Rome so mutually intertexed and folded vp into one Masse or Chaos that you may safely pronounce the Heathen City to liue in this they call Christian Yea such is the dependancy that if this Iezabel were stripped out of those Robes of Paganisme she would well-nigh goe naked Many nations were conuerted to Christ by the preaching of S. Paul Yet wee finde not such an honorable attribute giuen to any of his Auditors as to those who are said To haue receiued the Word with readinesse and to haue searched the Scriptures dayly to see whether the things preached by S. Paul were so or not For they are stiled by the best Record Noble men And nothing Sir hath added or can adde more true noblenesse to all your other great Titles of Honour then the like Zealous affections and actions in you to the Word of God deliuered by his Ministers The dayly enlargement whereof in your Lordship being Zealously coueted by my selfe who although I am the weakest Labourer in Gods Vineyard yet I haue presumed humbly to offer to your Lordship this little cluster of Grapes gathered from thence and which I did lately in a Sermon deliuer vnto the Auditory then present which if your Lordship will vouchsafe to take into your hands to bruise it a little more and to see and taste whether it sprung from the true Vine or not I shall haue good hope that yet a little iuyce may thereby flow from thence to refresh some weake ones in the Church of God Which being the onely businesse that God hath set mee about by any meanes to saue some And all I haue to say to your Lordship at this time With my humble acknowledgement of your Lordships great fauours and my hearty prayers to God to encrease dayly your Zeale to his true worship I rest Your Lordships most humbly deuoted THOMAS AILESBVRY PAGANISME AND PAPISME PARALLEL'D 1. COR. 10. 19 20. What say I then that the Idol is any thing Or that which is offered in sacrifice to Idols is any thing But I say the thing which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to Deuils and not to God and I would not that you should haue fellowship with deuils WHen the Apostle Lectured at Athens the Inscription of an Altar was his Theame the saying of a Poet was his explication The Altar was sacred vnto the vnknowne God whose influence to all his Creatures was made knowne by the Poet In him we liue moue and haue our being As God is the Efficient so is he the finall cause to all his Creatures not the least worke that passed his hands but he stampt perfection vpon it yet that perfection is finite and limited as hauing a being after a not being and a necessity of ceasing to be if the hand be withdrawne wherewith it is supported Perfectio ordinis is communicated to the Creatures but perfectio Essentiae resideth in the Almighty and of that the Creature falling infinitely short doth aspire reflect vpon the infinitely perfect Creator The issuing of the Creatures from the Creator is like to a right line drawne out in length which of all other is the weakest neither can it be strengthened but by redoubling and so becommeth in a manner Circular The creature feares to remoue too farre from the Creator therefore lookes backe and makes haste to returne to that first being for whose sake they are and haue beene created Man especially like Noahs Doue finds no resting but in this Arke doth center his restlesse motions vpon nothing but the Almighties fruition And thus by nature directed to the high Deity of Heauen doth prescribe to himselfe a meane called Religion to winne the fauour of that high perfection That speech of Tully prescribes against all Atheists There is no Nation so barbarous but takes notice of heauens Ruler The Indigitamenta stored with diuers Deities proclaime the Gentiles to bee no Atheists yet their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 error in the erection of many sheweth their Religion to be waste Deum vnum non vnice colunt branching out this one God into diuers fragments of Religious Deities Inexplicable I suppose is that which the Apostle relateth of the religious knowledge and practice of the Gentiles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they were not ignorant of that which may be knowne of God And the reason thereof was a celestiall illumination God hath manifested it vnto them For without a supernall Reuelation they could not vnderstand the Idiom of the Creatures when they spake of a Deity And Saint Augustine traceth in their writings some footsteps of the sacred Trinitie though with iudicious Viues Loquntos eos potius quam intellexisse existimo I suppose that high subiect to transcend humane capacity And for their practice The Gentiles doe the workes of the Law written in their hearts For I demand how they did those workes If as Gentiles 't is Pelagianisme and if as Christians why doth the Apostle say by nature I bury old Clemens who in 7º 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teacheth that sauing knowledge was couched in Philosophy or else let the great Casaubon candidly interpret him That so Explicit a knowledge of our Sauiour before the Incarnation was not so necessarily required as since his manifestation in the flesh Thus we see Religion inserted by Nature yet without Grace but an aberration Eadem spectamus astra Coelum nobis commune est idem nos involuit mundus as he spake in Ambrose we all stand vpon the same earth vnder one coelestiall Roofe imbroidered with Starres Our desires tend to the same heauen yet wee seeke not to mount by the same Ladder to the Gentiles Iewes and Christians heauen is the Goale though the race be diuers The Apostle censureth Gentilisme to be deuilish Iudaisme Superstitious but Christianitie Deuotion this truth to be imbraced those Deuiations to be shunned What say I then that the Idol is any thing c. Therefore I would not you should haue fellowship with Deuils The Apostle returneth to his dispute begunne Chap. 8. concerning things sacrificed to Idols wherof those Christians that did participate were a racke and Scandall to their consciences that out of tendernesse refused to eate of the Idol-sacrifices here both their reasons are produced First