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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26740	Sacriledge arraigned and condemned by Saint Paul, Rom. II, 22 prosecuted by Isaac Basire ; published first in the year 1646 by special command of His Late Majesty of glorious memory.	Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676.	1668 (1668)	Wing B1036; ESTC R25267	185,611	310

of Christ my Dear Husband the Saviour of your souls Eph. iv 3 4 5 6. By all the Seven Unities of the Holy Ghost one Body one Spirit one Hope of your Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all By the Holy Blessed and Glorious Trinity three Persons and one God Ah my Sons I adjure you by all these most Holy Tyes and Interests Reverence my gray hairs Do not by one for ever fatal Bargain sell away for nothing Isa ix 5. but Garments rolled in Blood all that Sacred Truth all that Solemn Devotion Ancient Dignity and Religious Decency all that Beauty of Holiness all that Christian Glory which I through so great Opposition of whole Legions of Hereticks and Schismaticks through so much Persecution by the old and new Tyrants through so many Martyrdomes have been laying up for your these full sixteen r That 't is so long since Christian Religion as it here now stands by Law Established both for Matter of Doctrine and for Form of Government also was first planted here in Britain there need● no witness more authentical then old Gildas de Excidio Britanniae who there expresly affirms that he knows it so to be true placing the age of it Summo Tibe●ii Caesaris tempore about the xxxv year of Christ as Baronius reckons it For Tiberius dyed in the 37. year of our Lord So Eusebius Pamphili in Chronico hundred years Betray not now at last your Old Mother to the scorn and spoil of Sacrilegious and seditious men your own Consciences know they were at their best estate no better then FORTUNATE REBELS that will lay yours and the whole Nations and all your Mothers Honour in the dust Is this all your thanks to me for my Religious care and holy cost in your gracious Education Is this all the Respect you shew to the Memory of your pious ANCESTORS Is this all the Regard you have of the eternal welfare of your tender POSTERITY will you now in a manner Unchristen your selves and them all will you wilfully venture your selves and your Successors upon the sharp Swords-point of so many Ancient Execrations Authentick Curses not causless nor powerless as Sacrilegious Purchasers blinded with their great god Mammon may prophanely fancy but Curses deserved curses effectual also just Imprecations zealously denounced against all unjust Violators of the Wills and Testaments of the Religious Donors Ah rather turn again my Sons and save the blazing Candlestick that is even now upon going out from Utter Removal Except you will leave all your Successors after you for ever in utter darkness Vindicate the Ancient glory of your slaunder-beaten ſ Tollite hoc Ingens Scandalum toti Orbi Christiano objectum Eluite illam maculam aspersam Professioni purloris Evangelii adversari illam arcano quodam odio Regnis Potestalibus V. D. Deodati Genevens Responsum ad Conventum Ecclesiasticum Londini Religion never till now guilty of such Doctrines of Devils Redeem the Credit of your Justly Defamed-Nation for the dire Parracides of a Rebellious party yet reaking with the Sacred Blood of your own King the Holy Blood of your own Patriarch Oh shew your selves once more Christians indeed and Right Englishmen like true Patriots rescue your turmoyled Country from Ingruent Captivity for else in the ordinary course of Gods Judgements that must be the next To foretel which fatal and final destiny needs no new Spirit of Prophecy the great Prophet so long before pointed at by Moses t Deut. xviii 18. hath told it you long ago u Mat. xii 25. Regnum divisum desolabitur a Kingdom divided against it self as yours is now so many wayes both in Church and State must needs come to Desolation open your eyes therefore and behold if yet you can the usual and infallible prognostick of it DEMENTATION Quos vult perdere Jupiter hos DEMENTAT 17. If you wish to see once more within this once so fortunate Island Christs Religion in its purity the Church your Mother at Unity the King your Father in his Beauty the People your Brethren in their Duty O do not you any of you whom it may concerns through Impatiency or Unbelief do that one Act that at once may undo all these and your selves eternally 18. If you be wise u Acts 5.38 39 Refrain from these men for they are the men of God lest you be found in the end really to fight even against God Refrain from those means they are the Demesnes of God 'T is a clear case 't will be no sin to let them alone but it may be a sin nay it must be a sin sure enough to meddle with them for they are the Means hallowed to maintain his Service and his Servants and indeed to preserve your own souls in Christs true Religion But if in despight of Father and Mother King and Church and God and all you should go on desperately and touch either the men or the means know that it will prove an Achan an accursed thing unto you and to the whole Nation and make you fall worse and worse before your Enemies till you fall quite down never to rise up again according to the Curse of Moses Deut. xxxiii 11. how will you answer one day for you must one day answer for all these the Dead and the Living the Church and the State the present and future age God and your own Consciences For to all your other National Sins and those not a few new and old and those no Moats or Gnats can you adde a greater sin than this to fill up the full measure of your sins What will ye in earnest put God Almighty to it will you try Masteries with your God who shall carry it Did ever any Person or Nation contend with God and prosper saith Holy Job will you thus requite God to take away his own Job ix 34. who hath hitherto so freely given you all that you can call your own yea who hath made you all yea who hath with his own precious Blood bought you all yea as you regard or dis-regard his Cause even this Cause the Cause of his Service and Servants who except such of you as are concerned speedily prevent it by Repentance and Restitution also to some Satisfaction hath absolute Power indeed Eternally to destroy you all Body and Soul 19. From such Total Final and Eternal Destruction that God Almighty may deliver this so lately desolate Church King and Kingdom may we all now at last turn our fierce Disputes of all sides into fervent Devotions each for other for * Nunc nil nisi vota supersunt Praesidiis omnibus terrestribus cessantibus divina sunt aggredienda quae nunquam incassum cessere Haec ratio efficere posset quod à bello Civili utcunqueres cadat neutiquam sperari possit ut voluntariâ animorum flexione plenè

Demonic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Xenoph. Paed. 1. Greek word bears it And if so then what strong obligation lies upon us Christians (o) 1 Thes 4.4 To possess our Vessels in holiness and honour that have the addition of such a solemn positive Dedication Doubtless to abuse a Nature so many ways sacred and so highly exalted as is our Humane Nature by its intimate conjunction with the Divine Nature of Christ our Head by its sacred unction with the Holy Ghost at our Baptisme must needs be fearful Apostasie and in a manner with Julian to wash off again our Christendom The onely consideration whereof how should it sublimate our minds our manners and raise up our Spirits to an holy Dedignation of all base Actions Should such a man as I flee said Noble (p) Neh. 6.11 Nehemiah So should every gallant Christian stand upon his spiritual Point of Honour and holily scorn to do acts undercoming so sacred a Person If not he shall one day finde it to amount to more than a Metaphorical Sacriledge This by the way may concern every Christian in general 4. But secondly in particular every King what ever he be is holy too by vertue of his Vnction yea though he were a meer Heathen yea though he want the Ceremony yet Cyrus mine Anointed (q) Isa 45.1 is God's own style Jus Regnandi that is God's Power from above is for the Reality Vnction sufficient to make the King's Person sacred and therefore the (r) Cod. de Crim. Sacril Civilians both Greek and Roman do extend the Attaindor of Sacriledge even to them also that do but violate the Imperial Constitutions of the Prince Ubi nunc lex Julia dormis Every Rebel then that dares lift up but a (s) Eccles 10.20 thought against God's Anointed violates a Person sacred and adds to his Rebellion Sacriledge when either of these sins by it self is enough to damn a Soul for when all Rebels and Traytors with all their specious pretences shall be dead and rotten still for all their Machavellian distinctions the Thirteenth of the (t) Verse 2. Romans will be Scripture Whosoever resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall RECEIVE TO THEMSELVES DAMNATION Acquirent sibi as the Vulgar reads it shall purchase to themselves That will prove the onely purchase in the upshot of all their Projects nay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as (u) Bezae major Not. in loc renders it not sibi ipsis damnationem acquirent as are the ordinary versions but ipsi sibi damnationem acquirent Beza well observes it they shall not only be damned simply so in a passive sense but they shall damn themselves in the active signification become spiritual Felo's de se in a spiritual sense wilfully accessary to their own Damnation whether by their wilful perjury express or implicite in the breach of their Allegiance natural or positive the dismal Prologue of all Rebellions or whether by their wilful Impenitency the fatal Epilogue or Conclusion of all Rebels at their end Rebellion of all other sins being a sin of (x) 1 Sam. 15.23 This Text is absolutely the onely best reason of the usual Devillish obstinacy of Rebels who are in this also Machiavel's true Disciples who bids him that hath once presumed to draw out his Sword against his Superiour fling away the Scabberd and never think of putting up again Witchcraft either way will serve one day to convince Rebels that they of all others would needs damn themselves and therefore they of all others must needs be damned a sad Criticisme this the ground whereof in God's own heavy sentence I pray God the Rebels may yet have the grace to lay to their hearts that they may escape so great a Damnation the express Doom of this second kind of Sacriledge against the sacred Person of the Prince 5. Thirdly every Priest in his degree is by his Vocation a Person sacred too and therefore in some sense inviolable by the Law of Nations as well as by the Law of God or of Holy Church whose ancient Canons were therefore so strict to preserve the respect due to the Priest that if a man did but in disdain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the word in one of them look big or scornfully upon the Priest he was for the affront severely punishable as an Offender sacrilegious in this sense And for the same reason because the Priest is a Person sacred therefore on the other side as strict and as great was the Primitive severity of the known Ecclesiastical Canons to regulate and to (y) Quid prodest si Canonicè eligantur non Canonicè vivant Bern. confine the Priest in his manner of Life and Conversation as one that all over ought to carry and deport himself more holily than other ordinary Christians for that which in things sacred is their use in Persons sacred is their Conversation 'T was figurative that under the Law in the curious frame of God's Tabernacle The nearer things were unto God in relation of service the more precious they were to be both for * Exod. 26. and 28. stuff and workmanship Gold and imbroydered work so much more under the Gospel ought those Persons that belong to God be precious for holy life and sacred conversation Every Priest therefore that instead of teaching the People knowledge opens his lips wide to folly or vanity is linguâ Sacrilegus pollutes his Priesthood and if a Paire of holy (z) Nugae in ore Sacerdotis sunt Blasphemiae Hieron In aliis vitia in Sacerdotibus sunt Sacrilegia Chrysol de Ebrietate Consecrâsti os tuum Evangelio nugis igitur aperire illicitum assuescere sacrilegium Bern. Fathers may be his Judges is guilty both at once of Blasphemy and Sacriledge a fearful sin this more or less for you all know what became of the Sons of Eli for their personal Sacriledge in polluting their Priesthood since that Omne peccatum personae sacrae est Sacrilegium materialiter at least according to the Determination of the (a) Aquin. 22 ae q. 99. 3. 3 m. School because the Person is sacred 6. And as thus many ways Sacriledge may be committed against Persons sacred so against sacred Things or Actions too which are the Circumstances of God's service wherein to abuse or not devoutly to use (b) Psal 119.8 old Translation God's Ceremonies hath by the Ancients been tearmed Sacriledge whose full Definition (c) ●quin quo suprá Aquinas extends to any Irreverence in Sacris about which under the Law even those that did sin through Ignorance in the holy things of the Lord were yet to (d) Levit. 5.15 offer for their Trespass and under the Gospel the Christian Church was no less precise in all points of Reverence witness their frequent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so strictly injoyned and reiterated in their sacred (e) Chrysost Liturg.