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A11890 An arrovv against idolatrie Taken out of the quiver of the Lord of hosts. By H.A. Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622? 1624 (1624) STC 222; ESTC S115945 56,377 128

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sores and repented not of their works All k Rev. 13.3 the world wondreth and followeth the beast admireth the glory and magnificence of the l Rev. 17. whore and without Gods speciall grace none can keep himselfe from her for she sitteth m Prov. 9.14.15 in the high places of the citie calling them that passe by the way and her lips a Prov. 5.3 drop the honey comb liquor and her mouth is softer then oile though her end be bitter as wormwood sharp as a two-edged sword She taketh her b Ezek. 16.17.18 fair jewels of Gods gold and silver the holy Scripture and treasures therein and with them she maketh her images and heresies and covereth them with broydered garments as wrought by Gods own spirit and setteth his oil and perfume before them She c Ezek. 23.40.41 washeth her self as if she were clean from all iniquity and painteth her eyes as if she had the very visage of true faith and decketh her with ornaments as wanting no gifts of knowledg or utterance or other furniture of the spirit and she sitteth upon a costly bed as being seated and constituted in the best perfection Her table is furnisht with Gods incense and oil for the word prayers sacraments are the diet of devotion wherewith she feedeth her lovers and d vers 42. a voyce of a multitude being at ease is with her for many fools follow her because of her worldly prosperity she allureth and intertaineth all comers Thus with Pro. 7.21 her great craft she causeth men to yeeld and felleth down many wounded f vers 26. great is the number of all that are k●ll●d by her for her heart is g Eccles. 7.28 nets and sna●es and her hands bands he that is good before God shall be delivered from her but the sinner shall be taken by her CHAP. III. Of Jeroboams Jdolatry that infected Jsrael and of the pretenses that he mought make for his sin THat the allurements of this whore Idolatry with her deceits and snares may be further manifested and people be warned to avoyd her destruction I will yet prosecute this argument against her to uncover her skirts and disclose her iniquity hunting her steps as they are traced in the Scriptures and left to be seen as a perpetuall type in Israel 2 The common-wealth of Israel did never enjoy such peace and happinesse as in the daies of Salomon son of David who reigned fortie yeares Him a 2 Sam. 1 24.25 the Lord loved whereupon he was named Jedidjah and chose b 1 Chron 28.5 him from among many sonns to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel and c vers 6. to build his house and courts and to be his son and he would be his father He gaue d 2 Chron. 1.12 unto him wisedom and knowledg and riches and treasures and honour so as there was no King like him before or after But Solomon e 1 King 11.1 4. loved many strange women who withdrew him from the loue of God that he f vers 5. followed the abominations and idolatries of the Hea●hen Then God g vers 9.10 was angry because he had turned his heart from him who had appeared unto him twise and given him a charge concerning this thing that hee should not follow other Gods but hee kept not that which the Lord had commanded him Therefore God h vers 11. rent the Kingdom from him and gaue it to his servant i ver 26.29 Ieroboam son of Nebat a man of the tribe of Ephraim with this certification that if k vers 38. he would hearken to all that God commanded him and walk in his waies and doe the right in his eyes he would be with him and build him a sure house and giue Israel unto him Now when Solomon was dead all this came to passe for Rehoboam his son l 1 Kin. 12. lost the most part of his realm and ten Tribes declined after Ieroboam and chose him their King 3 But he though otherwise a man wise and politick wanting heavenly wisedom relyed not in faith on the promise of God but went and consulted with flesh and bloud how he mought confirm the Kingdom to himselfe And thinking m 1 King 12.26 c. in his heart that if the people should as they were wont goe up to Ierusalem to worship God there their hearts would turn from him to Solomons son who reigned in that place and so they would kill him Being fraught with this fear and void of faith he thought to prevent these evils by setting up a place of Gods publick worship in his own dominions And knowing that the people would not easily be drawn to a new religion he retained a shew still of the old not altering any article of the faith nor yet many of the externall rites but as in Ierusalem there was a Temple and Altar and other outward signes of Gods habitation with his Church so would Ieroboam in Israel make Temples and Altars and signes of Gods presence that his people mought serv him there Then n 1 King ● 28 c. made he two calues or oxen of gold and set one at Bethel another at Dan with houses and altars and other like furniture and said to the people o vers 28. It is too much for you to goe up to Ierusalem behold thy Gods ô Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Aegypt 4 The changes and corruptions which he brought into Gods worship were cheifly these First of the place which God had p 2 Chro. 7.6 chosen to be at Ierusalem but Ieroboam would haue q 1 King 12.29 at Dan and Bethel Secondly of the signes or testimonies of the divine presence which at Ierusalem was by Gods own ordinance r Exod. 25 10 22. Num. 7.89 Psal. 80.1 the ark of the covenant with the glorious golden Cherubims whereon hee ●ate and from which his voyce had been heard but at Bethel and Dan by Ieroboams device s 1 King 12.28 were bullocks or calues of gold Thirdly of the time for the feast of Tabernacles appointed of God t Lev. 23.34 to be kept the 15 day of the seventh month Ieroboam put off untill u 1 King 12.32 the 15 day of the eighth moneth Fourthly of the persons administring the holy things which by Gods authority x Num. 18 1.7 Deut. 10.8 were Aarons sonns and their brethren the Levits but by Ieroboams dispensation y 1 King 12.31 were of other parts and lowest of the people These things being ‘ vers 31. consulted of and agreed upon by the King and State the people of Israel yeelded unto and practised accordingly shewing their prompt obedience and devotion in going z vers 30. because of the one even to Dan a citie in the utmost part of all the land Thus sinned Ieroboam made Israel to sin
AN ARROVV AGAINST IDOLATRIE TAKEN OVT OF THE Quiver of the Lord of HOSTS By H. A. PSALM 119.31 I cleave to thy Testimonies Lord let me not be ashamed Printed 1624. THE PRINCIPALL things here handled OF the Beginning and Nature of idolatry Chap. 1. How fast the sin of idolatrie cleaveth to all flesh Chap. 2. Of Ieroboams idolatrie that infected Israel and of the pretenses that he mought make for his sin Chap. 3. A conviction of Ieroboams impiety Chap. 4. Of the idolatrie of these times far exceeding Ieroboams Chap. 5. A Conclusion Dehortatorie from this sin Chap. 6. AN ARROW AGAINST IDOLATRIE CHAPTER I. Of the Beginning and Nature of Idolatry THE old Serpent called the Divell and Satan Rev. 12.9 hath frō the beginning sought to draw men a Gen. 3. from the service of God to the service of himselfe and this hee hath done as by other sinnes so chiefly by idolatry which therefore aboue all other is b 1 Cor. 10 19.20 Rev. 9.20 called and counted the worship and service of Divils 2 To bring men hereunto he hath first laboured to separate them from the true Church For that being the house of the living God 1 Tim. 3.15 Psal. 26.8 the place where his honour dwelleth the pillar and ground of truth it is a mean c 1 Sam. 26 19. to conserv men in the true service of God and preserv them from Idolatry And from the Church Satan hath separated men either by causing thē to be cast out for sin as Cain was and his seed Gen. 4. or to with-draw and schism themselvs for some pretended cause or quarrell as did the d 1 King 12.27.28.29 Israelites and e Iude 19. Heb. 10.25 others after them or to forsake the fellowship of the Saints for loue of the world fear of affliction or the like as f Gen. 11 3● 12.1 2.3.4 24 10 28.2 31.30 ●3 Nahor and his house accompanied Abram from Vr of the Chaldees unto Charran and no further but dwelling there gaue himselfe to idolatry from which Abram and all that would goe with him were g Jos. 24.2 called 3 Again the divill takes a contrary course to draw men to this sin by commingling and uniting his children and synagogue with the Church and People of God whereby even they also h Gen. 6.2.3 may be made flesh drawn by examples and allurements to partake with idolatrous worship as i Ps. 106.28 35.36 Israel and others were mixt with the Heathens 1 Cor. 8.10 10.14 ad 21. and learned their works and served their idols which were their ruin 4 Idolatry is performed either by mixing mens k Mat. 15.8 Ier. 7.31 Ezek. 43.8 own inventions with the ordinances of God in the service of him or by using and applying the rites and services of the Lord or other humane devices unto the honour and service of some l Rom. 1.23.25 creature in heaven earth or under the earth which is is with neglect and dishonour of the Creator who is blessed for ever Amen 5 Again as the service of God is outward and inward outward by observing and doing the externall things commanded of assembling together m Lev. 22.2 c. n Psal. 95.6 bowing down vocall o Act. 4.24 20.7 1 Cor. 10.16.18 praying and preaching administring and partaking of the sacrifices sacraments and other holy things inward p Ps. 2.11 5.7 Heb. 11.5.6.39 1 Cor. 13. by fear faith hope and loue so is the service of idols or Divils outward and inward performed with body or with spirit or with both for whatsoever is due unto God Satan seeketh to defrawd him of and apply unto q Mat. 4. ● himself by idolatry 6 Idolatrie is a Greek word compounded of Idol which signifieth any similitude image likenesse form shape or representation exhibited either to the body or minde and latrie which signifieth service Wherupon Idol-latrie or Service-of-similitudes is the performance of any religious dutie to that which hath a supposed similitude of God but is not God indeed or the performance of that unto the true God which hath a similitude shew and resemblance of his service but is not so in deed because a Deut. 12.32 he requireth it not at our hands and therefore is but a b Col. 2.23 will-worship or voluntary Religion a thing devised and done according to c Hos. 13.2 our own understanding And these two sorts of Idolatrie God hath forbidden d Exod. 20. in the first and second commandments 7 The first commandement bindeth us e Deut. 6.4.5 to haue Iehovah the living and true God for our God and none other and forbiddeth generally these foure things 1 The having of strange gods and not the true as f Act. 14.11 12.15 had the heathens 2 The having of strange Gods with the true as g 2 King 17.33 had the Samaritans 3 The having of no God at all as h Psal. 14 1 foolish Atheists 4 The not i Isa. 29.1 Tit. 1.16 having of the true God aright but in hypocrisie onely not in truth and sincerity These with a Deut. 13.1.2 3.6.7.13 c. and 7.25.26 al causes occasions provocations c. that any way moue draw or perswade unto these or any of them yea every b 1 Thes. ● 22. appearance of them are to be shunned and abhorred 8 The second commandement bindeth c Ioh. 4.20 ad 24. to the true worship of the true God which is onely d Deut. 12.32 4.1 2 5 6 c. as himselfe commandeth and by the means rites and services that hee ordaineth and it forbiddeth 1 Al e Psal. 119.113 Is● 29.13 Col. 2.23.22 inventions of our own to worship God by voluntary religion opinions and doctrins of men 2 All imitations f Lev. 18.2 3. Deut. 12 30 31. Rev. 17.2 of Heathens or Antichristians in their God-services to doe the like unto the Lord our God 3 All imitation or counterfeiting g 1 Kin. 12 28 32. Amos 4.4 5 5.21 22.23 Hos 8.14 of Gods own ordinances and institutions as to make Temples like his Temple Feasts like his Feasts Altars like his Ministers like his which was the sin of Israel 4 All h Gen 17.14 Num 9.13 Ier. 3.10 4.14 12.2 neglect of Gods services or of the means and instruments by him ordained all irreligious profanenes or hypocrisie Together with all i Hos. 4 1● 17. Amos 5.5 communion with such kind of idolatry all causes occasions and provocations therunto 9 And that Idols are not onely false resemblances of things which are not and Idol-latrie not onely the giving of divine honour to a creature as unto God as Antichrists a Bellarm. de Imag. sanct c. 5 Greg. de Valent l. 2. de Idol c. 1. champions do pretend but that all religious images or similitudes made by man himself are Idols
her p vers 19. and returned not again neither took hold of the waies of life but q Pro. 5.23 dying without instruction and going astray through his great folly when r 2 Chron. 13.20 the Lord plagued him and he was dead Nadab his son was soon s 1 King 15 25.27 kild in conspiracy and after him t vers 29. all Ieroboams house the remnant whereof u 1 King 14.10 was swept away as doung till all was gone the x vers 11. dogs eating him that dyed in the citie and the fowls of the aier him that dyed in the field for the Lord had said it CHAP. V. Of the Idolatry of these times far exceeding Ieroboams IT is the manner of men to bee more equall and indifferent judges of other times then of their own the sins sinners that are past and gone we readily blame but though the like or worse be in our daies we haue not either skill to discern or courage to condemn them We can easily say as did the Pharisees a Math. 23 ●0 If we had been in the daies of our fathers wee would not haue been partners with them in the bloud of the Prophets and yet upon every occcasion we also are ready to fulfil b vers 32. ●4 35 the mesure of our fathers walking in their sinnes resisting blaspheming persecuting all that speak against us for so doing Example hereof see in the Christian Church after the idolatry and overthrow of Israel for so far haue we been frō taking heed by their evils as we haue added unto all their sins and it was but a little which they then did in respect of the huge masse of abominations that hath since been heaped up even c Rev. 18.4 unto heaven 2 And first the frame and constitution of the Church hath quite been changed from the pattern given of God confirfirmed by Christs bloud and erected by his Apostles in all Nations For loe the man of sin hath joyned together many Parishes into one Diocese and many Diocecess into a Provincional and many Provincionall into one Nationall and many national into one Oecumenical or Catholike Church of which he himselfe will be the most holy Father the Bridegroom Lord Pastor Rector and Rock Of which Catholike society so combined we finde no record in the holy Apostles Writ where every Congregation of the Saints is d See Epistles to th● Churches i● Rome Corinth Ephesus and th● rest shewed in every Citie to be compleat in it selfe a Church and e 1 Cor. 1● 27. body of Christ furnished with his f 1 Cor. 5. ● power and g Math. 1● 20. presence every one under the guidance of h Act. 2● 17.28 Phil. ● 1 Act. 14.2 many Bishops and not all under the government of one joyned altogether i 1 Pet. 5. in brotherhood through k Eph. 4. ● Ioh. 17.21 faith loue and obedience of the spirit but not in one visible catholike Church with a visible Head or Vicar Lord Papa Patriarch or Archpastor but onely Christ himselfe l Rev. 2 3 chap. walking among them overseeing their waies and works and approving or reprooving them 3 This pseudocatholike Church or false Ecclesiasticall Monarchy is an idol or beast bred in the bottomlesse pit surpassing all the abominations that ever stood up in the land of the living and had for the parent of it the Dragon or Divill m Rev. 1 ● that old Serpent who used his most utmost skil cuning craft to beget and bring forth this his foulest child It had also of the gravest and learnedst Divines in their ages to nourse it with the milk of humane superstition and the Princes of the earth to endow and adorn it with the riches and jewels of all worldly glory that when this Iezebel shewed her selfe on the stage of the world shee made all men astonied at her majestie enamoured the Nations with her beauty bewitched them with her sorceries and made them drunken with the wine of her fornications The forrest of Rome was the high place where this n 1 King ● 13 Miphletseth or idol of horrour should haue her seat for there grew many fair trees whose shadow o Hos. 4.13 was good to burn incense under and there before time had other beasts been hatched and honoured whose p Rev. 13. ● image in this place must haue reverence still 4 And here the mysterie of iniquitie wrought contrary to Ieroboams prevailed more and continued longer For he in policie to settle his Kingdom schismed or rent the Church in twain which God had conjoyned in one King 12. but Abaddon the king and patron of this our idol will haue his false Church resemble q Bellar. d● Rom. Pont. lib. 1 cap. 7 the politie of Israel in monarchicall unity to allure and gather all people hereunto But as Ieroboams counsell was divelish to divide without God so is Romes doctrine Satanean to conjoyn without Christ. The Church then was confined r Psal. 76. within one little land whose assembly was annuall s Psal. 122 132. in the earthly Ierusalem where the high Priest remained to reconcile them to God but now the Church Catholick is dispread t Math. 2● 19. over all Ierusalem our mother u Gal. 4.26 is aboue and Christ our high Priest is x Heb. 8.1.2 9.24 in the very heaven there interceding for us unto God And for any one Citie to be as Ierusalem the place of resort for all Saints on earth or for any Arch-priest or Vicar of Christ to be his vicegerent and rule in his sted hee never appointed neither entred it into his heart but it is the excrements of the Popes wit whereby in policy he would maintain the pomp and magnificence of his Diana and in her his own pontificality 5 And that this Ladie might be made of y Ezek. 27 4. perfect beauty her friends haue devised to paint her face with this vermilion that the goddesse the z B●llar de Eccl. mi●i● l. 3 c. 14. CHRCH absolutely cannot erre either in things absolutely necessary or in other things which she proposeth to be beleeved or done of us whether they be found expresly in Scriptures or not Hereupon she trusting a Ezek 16 15. in her own beauty takes a pride and power to b Bellar. de Rom. Pont. l. 4. c. 16. make Lawes Ecclesiasticall to binde and constrain mens consciences charging and obliging us to c Rhe. Test. 1 Tim. 3 sect 9. beleev and trust her in all things So this Idol of indignation being crept into d Esa. 33.22 Iam. 4.12 Gods throne to be Iudg and Law-giver surmounteth far Ieroboams dumb calues which had mouthes and spake not for this image can speak because she e Rev. 13.15 hath a spirit and exacteth worship of the inhabitants of the earth that all should f Conc. Trident Sess. 22.
c. 8. adore her as mother and mistresse of all the Churches receiv beleev and obey her word constitutions canons commandements doctrines and decrees without contradiction because the truth of the faith as touching us relyeth upon the g Bellar. de Eccles milit l. 3. c. 14 Churches authority and whatsoever the Church alloweth is true whatsoever she disallowe●● is false and her word h Bellar. de ●erb Dei l. ● c. 10. is not altogether mans word that is to say subject to errour but after a sort the word of God Out of this smoky furnace haue come the many heresies and whoorish doctrines of Free will merit of works limbus purgatorie pardons indulgences vowes prayer to and for the dead penance pilgrimages auricular confession and extreme unction with sundry other like which by this Churches supreme authority haue been concluded Catholike Orthodox and Authenticall Who seeth not now that Ieroboams Church was but a Babe to this Beldam for she had no such soveraignty over mens soules taught no such doctrines neither made she any decrees till Omri was King whose praise in the Scripture is this that he did i 1 King ● 16.25 worse then all that were before him and he indeed made k Mic. 6 1● statutes which were observed in Israel though nothing so many or so imperious as the mistresse of Rome hath made 6 This l Rev. 18.7 Qeen being thus set aloft on the high places of the earth is far taller then the golden image m Dan. 3. ● that Nebuchadnezar set up in the plain of Dura for her hand and scepter reacheth up unto heaven where she ruleth among the canonized Saints and the very tail of her n Rev. 17. 12.4 beast whereon she rideth can draw down the starrs unto the earth This is the woman whom Rev. 17.3 Iohn saw in the wildernesse arayed in purple and scarlet and guilded with gold and precious stones and pearls with a golden cup in her hand full of the filthinesse of her fornication even the vers 18. great citie Rome then reigning over the Kings of the earth From this common mother as her Concil ●ident ●ss 18. children doe entitle her came all the bastard idols into the Christian world for she being Rev. 17.1 a whore sitting upon many waters that is vers 15. peoples multituds nations and tongues she was Eze. 23.5 set on fire with her lovers the neighbour nations that vers 17. came to her into the bed of loue and defiled her with their fornication for they went in unto her vers 44. as they goe to a common harlot and she Psal. 106. ● 36 learned their works and served their idols which will be her ruin 7 Of the Iews she hath received Bellar. de ●om Pont. ●1 c 9. one high Priest not Iesus Christ the true High Priest entred into the heavens but a supposed vicar of his having Rev. 13. ● two horns like the Lamb to be the chiefe Governour and Monarch Ecclesiasticall and he entreth Durand ●tio●al l. 6 75. once a year into the most holy of the Popish Church as the other did into the most holy of the Iewish Tabernacle From the glorious attire a Ex. 2● 2.4.40 of Aaron and his sons as Ephod Robes Girdles c. she hath learned to deck her b Durand ra● l. 3. c. ● Priests with cops surplices stoles girdles amices al●s and other like ornaments She imitateth their Ark which had the Tables of the covenant with c Durand l. 1. c. 2. her ark or tabernacle the Pix which hath the Sacrament of the Eucharist their candlestick and seven burning lamps with d Durand l. 1. c. 1. her candles torches tapers their e Num. 1● 9 c. sprinkling water of purification with her f Durand l. 1 c. 7. holy water and in many other particulars of Temple Altar Oil Laver Fire c. g As th● same Durand sheweth in that book she followeth her footsteps and Iudaizeth more then did the false Teachers in the h Galat. 4 9.10 Col. 2.16 Apostles daies Which things in Israel had their holy use and end untill Christ came in the flesh but since are dead and abolished as i Gal. 4.9 Col. 2.20 beggarly worldly rudiments though this whore-mother of Rome reviveth them by her Art and for her fleshly pleasure whiles her self and her friends goe a whoring after these Iewish ceremonies 8 But she had not her fill by defiling her selfe with Iews therefore she sought to take her pleasure of the Gentiles round about her far and neer and decked her bed with all their abominations And first she fell in loue with Aegipt where Israel of old committed fornication and had the Eze. 23.8 brests of her virginity bruised For whereas the Aegiptians commingled the Kingdom and Priesthood the Civill Magistracie and the Ecclesiasticall Ministery in one person and would haue all their Kings to be also Priests as Plato in Politic. Writers doe record with this goodly invention the whore of Rome is enamoured and joyneth or confoundeth the Magistracy and Ministery Princedom and Priesthood in the persons of her Popes Cardinals Bishops and other Church Princes And although God in the Law distinguished the office of the King and Priest constituting one in m Gen. 49.10 1 Chr. 5.2 the Tribe of Iudah the other n Num. 18 1 7. in Levi so as one mought o 2 Chr. 27 16.17.18.19 not intermeddle with that which belonged to another and Christ in the Gospel hath plainly p Mat. 20.25 26. Luk. 22.25.26 forbidden his Ministers to haue the authority or titles of pol●tick Princes yet pleadeth this Babylonish Queen that it is not against Gods word q Bellar. de Rom. Pont. l. 5. c. 9. for one man to be a Prince Ecclesiasticall and Politicall together and so she and her daughters practise to this day In which point she is more abominable and polluted now professing Christianity then shee was of old when she professed Paganism for the hethen Priests or Flamins in Rome were not permitted to haue any Migistracie because as the r Plutarch Quest. Rō Philosopher by light of reason reasoneth it could not be the actions of these offices being so divers and different that one man should perform both at one time but needs it must fall out when both duties were to be done together that one should be omitted and so sometimes God not to be duly served sometimes the Civill state should suffer damage 9 Again this Romish Babylon doreth on the ordinances of Babel in Chaldea for as there they s Ier. 10 3 9. had images of silver and gold wood and stone to which t Isa. 44.15 they bowed and worshipped and which were representations of the Gods and Saints whom they adored to weet of u Isa. 4● 1 Bel which was x Herod●t Clio.