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A18104	The originall of popish idolatrie, or The birth of heresies Published under the name of Causabon [sic], and called-in the same yeare, upon misinformation. But now upon better consideration reprinted with alowance. Being a true and exacte description of such sacred signes, sacrifices and sacraments as have bene instituted and ordained of God since Adam. With a newe source and anatomie of the Masse, first gathered out of sundrie Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuerse learned fathers. Published by S.O.; Originall of idolatries.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Ofwod, Stephen.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614.	1630 (1630)	STC 4748; ESTC S107605	102,805	138

house palace when he was banished were cōfiscated to the Colledge pontificall and specially alloted for sacrifices to be celebrated in the Temple consecrated to the goddesse Liberty I was desirous by the way briefly to recite the revennues and supportations of the ancient Romane sacrificers to the end that men might more and more discerne that all abuses and idolatries succeeding in the Church of Iesus Christ are not new but originally derived or revived from the ancient Romane idolaters as the foundation of Masses Obits Anniversaries Dispensations for holding sundry benefices pensions vacancies first-fruits offerings and the Missalian treasure all amercements and confiscations adjudged within the demeans of the Romane Pontife with other ordinances revived by new Romane Popes which have discended from one to another To this purpose wee reade in the Romane Stories that during the reigne of the Emperour Valentinian the second of this name there hapned a dangerous sedition at Rome betweene the Christian idolatrous Priests which strove who should amasse or heape up together most wealth in the Church by grants testamentary legacies oblations and other inventions so as the Heathen and Infidell idolaters who retained yet a Temple to themselves called at this day the Church of Saint Peter ad Vincula fought with the Christians at Rome who would have dedicated it to their devotion After the Offertory Titelmans Alcoran sets downe how the Masse Priest should bee silent for a time to figure the flight of Christ or his disciples feare to confesse him before the Iewes Then this being performed the Priest sings aloud per omnia secula seculorum because after Christ had hidden himselfe he publikely came forth in Lazarus house Then hee sings Sanctus sanctus sanctus to allude to the Iewes song when Christ entred unto Ierusalem When this Musicke ends the Priest must murmur in secret and betweene his teeth counterfeiting sorrow without any turne-abouts but then he must expresse a k nd of mure mummerie by the making of many reiterated croysadoes as shall hereafter be mentioned CHAP. XVII Of the round Host with the Consecration of the same NExt to the Offertory Ninth part of the Masse Round host of flower Plut. in Numa we must come to the ninth part of the Masse the most rich and most pleasing for the Missalians This is the Host or victime which comprehends the end of all this Missall Sacrifice In the dayes of Numa the Magician the Romanes were not yet accustomed to kill and immolate with the blood of beasts Pollux in onom lib 6. Mysterijs peractis qui sacris intererant rotundis panibus quos in honorem De●rum adnibebant stantes vesceb intur nec nisi facri ficio perfectovesci licebat Alex ab Alex li. 4. cap. 17. but men were appointed to eate and communicate within the Temple after the end of the Missall Sacrifice small round loaves consecrated to the honour of the gods in whose name the sacrifice was celebrated These little round hosts of fine meale were earen by the Priest and by the assistants standing upright and not sitting The flower wherof they were made was called Mola and from thence came this word immolare There were divers hosts that is to say little round loaves dedicated to divers gods as there were likewise sundry Missall Sacrifices With the said round hosts they also offered Wine the Altars serving for Tables While the Priests and the assistants in the sacrifice eate communicated together of the said little round loaves consecrated to the honor of their gods hymnes and thanksgivings were sung and some used the sound of the Organs and Cymbals Before the swallowing of this round host printed with imagery the Missalian Doctors ordained the Priest to utter certaine exorcismes and conjurations with many signes of the crosse First hee must make three crosses upon this round host to figure the trinall tradition of Christ that is to say by the Father by himselfe Christ and by the holy Ghost in pronouncing these words Haec dona haec munera haec sancta sacrificia illibata Some other Doctors Alcoranists and Missalians interpret the third crossing for Iudas treason who delivered his Master into the hands of the Iewes Besides the above mentioned three Croisadoes five other follow to intimate the five dayes space from the day of Palmes to the day of the Passion or otherwise to represent the five wounds of Christ two in the hands two in the feet and one in the right side Of which five Croysadoes the three first must be made over the Chalice and the round host to figure the delivery of Christ to the Priests Scribes and Pharisies or to signifie the price of Christs sale that is to say three times ten which import the thirty pence The two other crossings are made distinctly on which is the fourth over the host the other over the Chalice distinctly to manifest unto us the two persons of Christ Iudas when this is done the Masse-Priest continuing in his fooleries monckeries stretcheth out his armes to delineate Christ spred upon the Crosse then he lifts the round host printed with imagery on high that it may be adored Afterwards he returnes to make three crosses one over the host another over the Chalice and third over himselfe to play herein the part of three estates or conditions of those that are in Heaven in Purgatory and in the earth Then he thumps upon his brest to play the penitent theefe that was hanged upon the Crosse This thumping of his stomacke must bee performed with the three last fingers of his hand because the thumbe and the next finger are reserved to consecrate and transubstantiate the round host Moreover he must beat his breast three times to figure a triple offence of the heart of the mouth and of reall act exalting his voice to represent the Theefe or the Centurion which confessed God in the Passion Sixe other Croisadoes are afterwards reiterated three over the covered Chalice to commemorate the three houres that Christ hung alive upon the Crosse and three other crosses are made over the open Chalice and the round host being once more elevated to decypher the three houres that Christ hung dead upon the Crosse Then does he adde two other crosses after the Masse-monger hath kist his Chalice to describe the mystery of blood and water issuing out of Christs sides Besides all the above mentioned mute mummeries the Priest must lift the vaile over the Chalice and release it from Plataine to represent the rent vaile in the midst at Christs death This being done the round host is laid upon the Chalice and couched in the corporall to figure the burial of Christ When the Masse Priest hath plaid the part of the hang'd theefe of the traitor Iudas of Christ of the Publicanes hee afterwards comoediates the Centurion singing the Pater Noster But Durandus Alcoran by the petitions in the Pater Noster expresseth the seven teares of the Virgin Mary the

Archdeacon Anno 1167 he wrote a book very learnedly in which he proved Rome was that Babylon St. Iohn wrote of in the Apocalypse and that all their clergy were adversaries to the Gospell of Iesus Christ and the very Calvs of Bethell and Dan and Baals Priests and Egyptian Idolaters they selling all things for monie S e Trethinius Gesnerus Peter Conster a Priest at Troyes a man of great learning Anno 1182. and an eloquent Oratour he wrote 20. books and sundry Sermons in which he doth prove the clergy neglect the Word of God and feed the people with their own inventions and that the Church goods which belong to the poore they consume wickedly he affirmeth them to be false brethren for which the wrath of God shall fall on them See Trethemius Vens●nttus I will now sett down some testimonies of some of those Of those which were banished suffered death Anno 1105. which did testify the Lords truth the time this idolatry was in hatching Before there was any generall Lawe to maintain this Transubstantiation I finde under the Bishop of Trare four persons banished and accompted hereticks for that they affirmed the bread and wine doe remain in their former substance at the Lords Supper after the words of consecration They denyed the Pope to have authority over other Churches See the Catologue of the Bishop of Trare Doctour Fulck in his answere to the Rhemish Testament See Reve 17.4 doth say that the church of Leedium before this was under great persecution under Pope Pascus for affirming him Antichrist Two Preachers in France one named Peter Breves Anno 1135. the other is called Hendrick van de Tollhouse they were well known in France and of good estimation for their great learning and they did much bewaile the Apostacy of the church and they spared no man of any degree whatsoever they were affirming that they were fallen from the estate of grace and from Christ and they affirmed the Pope to be the Prince of Sodom and the Citty of Rome to be the Mother of all abhomination that all the Bishops were cruel Wolves they detested the doctrine of Transubstantiation and affirmed the Masse prayer for the dead was Idolatrie before God and that Images the Crosse might not be prayed unto nor suffred in the Churches That the Priests manner of singing was mockery before God that praying to Saincts and vowing of Chastity and their manner of building Temples and observing of Holydayes were superstitious and wicked and all humane inventions in Gods worship wicked Idolatrie These men continued in their preaching twenty years and having great refort coming to their preaching of all sorts and estates at last they were apprehended by the Popes commaund by a Legate of his and Peter Brise was burned a St. Ioyls the other was apprehended committed to prison but what came of him we finde not but the followed great persecution many of their Disciples went to their death joyfully Look the 65. and 66. Letters of Barnod to the Earle of St. Ioylls There wrote against them Peter Abbott of Clugnam which Barnod did record and in likelyhood with envy See the Cronicle of Paulus Meriam Ilyricus in his boock Detesbus Anno 1158. speaketh of two called Gurhardus and Dulcinus who did preach diligently against the Church of Rome affirming that prayer was no better in one place then another and that the Pope was Antichrist and the Prelates and Clergy of Rome were rejected and the very whore of Babylon prefigured in the Apocalyps These two Preachers came into England and brougt with them thirty in the raigne of King Henry the Second and by means of the Prelats they were imprisoned and branded in the cheeck and banished the land and after putt to death by the Pope This yeare was Peter Waldus called in question Anno 1160. for that hee taught the truth of the Gospel against the Popes superstition The meanes of his conversion was this He being a rich merchant of Lions some say he was a Magistrate sundry of the Merchants being together merry suddenly one of them was strucken dead and so the rest being strucken with great feare he gave himselfe to prayer and reading the Scriptures good bookes and instructed his Familie in the grounds of Christian Religion shewing them the great superstition of the Romish Church so that they had forsaken the Heavenly Truth which the Apostles planted in steade thereof they did burdē their consciences with superstition And hee being very rich gave much goods weekely to the poore instructed them well in the grounds of religion so that many came to his godly exhortations and to conferre with him concerning the truth of the Gospell He kept sundry learned men in his house he caused good bookes to be translated in the French language He himselfe was learned as doth appeare by a parchment writing of his owne hand in which he had collected the Fathers into a good forme as that writing sheweth First the Bishops and Priests sent unto him and forbad him to have any mo such meetings in his house upon payne of excommunication to which he gave this answer That it was his dutie to teach his houshould the grounds of religion wheras his neighbours came to heare him he did not find wher that he ought to forbid them but he was assured it was his dutye to teach his houshould he would obey the voice of Christ when he was called into question that which they layd to his charge was that hee affirmed that the Masse was abominable before God and that hee denyed any more Sacraments then Baptisme and the Lords Supper and that it was an abomination to offer for the dead and that Purgatory was the invention of men that there was no ground in the Scripture for it for the Faithfull go presently to joy after this life that honouring of Images praying to Saincts was idolatrie that the Church of Rome was the Whore of Babylon that Christians ought not to obey the Pope or the Bishops because they were no better then Wolves to destroy the Church and that they ought not to meddle with the temporall sword and that their additions of mo Sacraments then two was wicked Item that the Vowe of chastity was found to be Sodomitrie that the many orders of the Monks was the marke of the Beast abominable against Christ For friers were not then hatched that celebrated dayes for dead men all inventions of men in Gods worship were ungodly And because the Popes champion Bernard who is saincted for his worke Peter of Clumin write so spightfully of them charging them with sundry heresies and that they denie childrens baptisme I will set downe the testimonie of one who was a bloody persecutor of them as it is in a little booke that he wrote against the Waldenses about the yeare 1270. wherein when hee hath spoken all