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A16909	A briefe treatise of diuers plaine and sure waies to finde out the truth in this doubtfull and dangerous time of heresie Conteyning sundrie worthy motiues vnto the Catholike faith, or considerations to moue a man to beleeue the Catholikes, and not the heretikes. Set out by Richard Bristow priest, licentiat in diuinitie.	Bristow, Richard, 1538-1581.	1599 (1599)	STC 3800; ESTC S106653	144,155	432

seede and Doctrine of Christ himself euery mā may easily by that which hath bene said conceaue But to make it yet more sensible euē to the blind eyes of our Aduersaries themselues such as it shall please God mercifullie to lighten forgiuing both their ignoraunce and their malice I propose this to their said earnest quiet consideration whether that all these foresaid Nations of Christendome were not before their Christening vvorshippers of Idoles as of Iupiter Mars Saturne Venus Priapus and ten thousand more Whether that vpon their Christening they haue not bene so fully turned from those Idoles that the multitude hath forgotten their very names also such only knowing some-what of them but that very litle as are conuersant in the old writings of Grekes and Romains that were Heathens whether againe that this so generall destruction an obliuion of those Idoles be not that which God by his prophet Zacharie Zac. 18. did foretell in these wordes In die illa erit sons patens Domui Dauid habitantibus Hierusalem in ablutionem peccatoris menstruatae erit in die illa dicit Dominus exercituum disperdam nomina Idolorum de terra nō memorabuntur vltra In that day there shall be a font standing open for the house of Dauid and the inhabitants of Ierusalem for to wash or baptise him that is a sinner and her that is in flowers And be it shal in that day saieth the Lord of ostes I will destroy the names of Idoles from of the earth and they shall no longer be remembred Being then of God this such conuersion of these Nations their Idoles with their names and memories destroyed by God and the Font of Baptisme opened vnto them by God and they in it washed by God from their sinne and filth and so brought into the howse of Christ our Dauid made free Citizens of his new Ierusalem all this foretold by the Prophet all this euen so fulfilled by God are the Heretikes yet so blind not to see vpon whom they cast theyr blasphemie He that turned them from their Idoles did not the same God turne them at once to our Religion Did hee turne them from seruing of Idoles to serue Idoles againe Was that so worthy a promise to be made so long afore by his prophet Yea or can his Prophets word and his owne promyse be possiblie iustified if the Heretikes saying may be iustified Let them therefore blaspheme if they list and blaspheme againe euen vntill they fall into the pit of euerlasting blasphemie other men whom the Diuell and sinne hath not so blinded do see by this that the conuersion of al Chhristian Nations hath bene none other 1. Thes 1. then as S. Paule sayeth to the Thessalonians of theyr conuersion Conuersi estis ad Deum a simulachris seruire Deo viuo vero Your conuersion was to God from Idoles to serue God the liuing and the true But yet farther vtterly to confound them or the Diuell rather that speaketh those blasphemies out of them and to set open a full window to the blasing light of God and truth you shall consider that euen the very same poyntes of our Religion which they call Idolatrie are so farre from Idolatrie yea so contrarie and so directy opposite to Idolatrye that they haue byn the meanes whereby God hath destroyed all Idolatrie and so fulfilled the foresayed Prophecie The Blessed Sacrament I saie Saintes Relikes Crosse and other Images with such like neuer could the Diuels better abide them vvhen they were within those Idoles then they can doe now within these Heretikes as Saint Hierome straight vpō the rising of their Fathers the Vigilantians vvitnessed Lib. 28. in Isaiae c. 65. Vide eundem con Vigil Haeretici nuper in Gallia sub magistro cerebroso pullularunt qui Basilicas Martyrum declinātes nos qui ibi orationes ex more celebramus quasi immundos fugiunt Hoc autem non tam illi faciunt quam habitantes in eis Daemones fortitudinem flagella Sancti Cineris non ferentes Heretikes of late in France are buded out vnder a braynsicke Maister vvho shunning the Martyrs Churches doe flee from vs as from vncleane persons that there do celebrate prayers after the maner But this doe not they so much as the Diuelles that dwell in them not being able to abide the might and whips of the holy Ashes Let our men therefore looke vvell to themselues and consider depely of what spirit they are inhabited and suggested Neither bycause Saint Hierome is so plaine let them therefore thinke him a lyer or his admon●tion bycause it is so sharpe therefore to be vnwholsome For he is not singular in this point nor for it of any Father controlled yea the same thing of them all likewise most plainlie testified so many examples of Diuels by such things put to silence and tormented and expelled out of Idoles and out of mens bodies being in auncient Histories and other writers as vvould fill whole bookes My purpose and study is here and in all this Treatise rather how to make short then how to make long not to heape togeather so much as may be saied but to take out so much as is sufficient To descend there-fore from Zacharies generall Prophecie of the whole earth vnto one special Country they that read either the diuine Scriptures or also prophane Authors doe know that of al Countries Aegypt passed for Idolatrie And yet of it did Ezechiel leaue this prophecie Ezech. 10. Haec dicit Dominus Deus disperdam simulachra cessare faciam Idola de Memphis c. Thus saith our Lord God I will both destroy abominations and make an end of Idols out of Memphis and other places of Egypt And as much had learned one Hermes Trismegistus a false Aegyptian Prophet of those Idoles there himselfe also after his death an Idol and a false God of theirs and the meanes also had hee learned by which it should be so accomplished which he vttered in a booke of his written to Aesculapius quasi futura praenunciando deplorans August de Ciu. Dei li. 8. ca. 26. as it were bewayling things to come in foretelling them as S. Augustine saith Hermes wordes are these Tunc terra ista sanctissima sedes delubrorum atque templorum sepulchrorum erit mortuorumque plenissima Than shal this most holy land of Aegypt the seat of the Godds of their temples be filled al with sepulchres and dead men His meaning therein doth S. Augustin thus interprete Dolor daemonum per eum loquebatur qui suas futuras poenas apud sanctorum Martyrum Memorias imminere moerebant In multis enim talibus locis torquentur confitentur de possessis corporibus hominum eijciuntur The sorow of Diuels by whose instinct he saied this did speake by hym who lamented for the drawing nigh of their paynes that they should suffer at the Memories or Relikes of the Holy Martyrs For in many such places