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truth_n	aaron_n	bring_v	rod_n	50	3	9.1183	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01576	The foot out of the snare with a detection of sundry late practices and impostures of the priests and Iesuits in England. VVhereunto is added a catalogue of such bookes as in this authors knowledge haue been vented within two yeeres last past in London, by the priests and their agents. By Iohn Gee, Master of Arts, of Exon-Colledge in Oxford.	Gee, John, 1596-1639.	1624 (1624)	STC 11701; ESTC S103001	57,356	118

I sometime light my candle at the Torch of Elias when he sindged and smoaked out Baals Priests from the nest of the Sanctuary I iest but at their iesting that haue made a iest of God and of his blessed Saints in heauen by casting vpon their most pure and glorious faces the cloud nay the dirt and dung of vgly vnsauory ridiculous Fables whereat the sounder Christians are scandalized wherewith the weaker are deluded captiuated in superstition and the very Iewes Heathen are driuen further off from listning vnto the true sacred Mysteries of Christian Religion For surely no small mischiefe or danger is it vnto Truth to haue her precious garment eeked out with patches of falsehood and vpon pretence of imbellishment to bee dawbed ouer with the copper-embrodery of cogging Impostures In regard of my own particular hereby I hope I shall regaine that good opinion which I haue lost and no longer bee censured by my friends and others as at all wauering inclining and warping toward their side yet withall you haue the Character of mine hart toward the publicke good of our Church and Common-wealth I say no more but God giue you vnderstanding in all things Ride on with your honours and because of the Word of Truth bee courageous and stout Nehemiahs Such a man as I flee Nehem. 6.11 The deaw of Gods grace bee vpon you and your children And thus with my vncessant prayers for you I rest The most humble seruant of you all to bee commanded in the Lord IOHN GEE THE FOOT OVT OF THE SNARE SAint Augustine reports Aug. Ciuit. de Dei l. 1. that euen in the Primitiue Church and in those better times the Diuell was become both Leo apertè saeuiens Draco occultè insidians by open and outrageous cruelty hee shewed himselfe a Lion and by his secret poisoning of Religion a Dragon Yet his malicious power was curbed and himself bound in chains for a thousand yeers so that notwithstanding all his subtilty Truth like a Palme-tree flourished and Christ's Crosse like Aarons Rod did blossom and bring forth much fruit But now the old Serpent is let loose and of late yeers hath acted both the Lion and the Dragon without restraint both by policy and puisance studying to extinguish the light of the Truth Neither haue his attempts been effectlesse for what by Magogs sword in the East and Gogs vsurped Keyes in the West hee hath driuen Truth like a Doue into the holes of the rocks and banished Faith in many places from among men In Reformed Churches especially in our Church of England Gods Mercy hath supported his Truth euen amidst the slacknes and carelesnes of the Professors themselues whil'st yet some like Dinah the daughter of Iacob Gen. 34.2 haue lost their Virginity I mean primam et puram fidem their first faith by going abroad and haue returned home impure Some like Salomons outlandish women 1 Kings 11.4 haue brought-in outlandish Religion Many at home in stead of the voice of the Faithfull Come let vs go vp into the House of the Lord Psal 122.1 say among themselues Let vs go vp to Bethel and trangresse to Gilgal and multiply transgressions So that our Countrey which ought to bee euen and vniforme is now made like a piece of Arras full of strange formes and colours But what is the reason Besides the drowzinesse of many Luke-warm Gospellers there is a vigilant Tribe I mean the Emissaries of Rome and Factors for the Papacy who are like vnto Dan and are as an Adder in the path which bites the horse and makes the Rider to fall backward Gen. 49 They make them whom they can get to work vpon by their perswasions to become retrograde with the Church of Ephesus to leaue their first loue Apoc. 2 and become Apostates in matters of orthodox Christianity Easily can they steale away the hearts of the weaker sort 2 Sam. 15.6 and secretly do they creep into houses leading captiue simple women loaden with sinnes and led away with diuerse lusts 2 Tim 3.6 Strange indeed it is to consider how That Wolf-bred and Wolf-breeding Romulus doth daily send-ouer his rauening brood of Iesuites Priests to make hauock spoil to conclude a bloudy Catastrophe to a direfull Tragedy Astant instant vt Hannibal ad portas nay like Brennus and his Gaules Plut. vid. de Bren. they haue not onely surprized our Suburbs but almost taken our Capitol Virgil. Galli per dumos aderant arcemque tenebant Defensi tenebris dono noct is opacae The Gaules came stealing-in by night through the Thickets so these Bats in the twi-light of our security creep vpon vs defensi tenebris They finde perhaps among vs a still night of negligence and drowzinesse but they bring-on a greater night by the thick cloud and fogge of superstitions and forgeries wherein they enwrap themselues and would ensnare vs who if they should go on to the height of their hopes what may wee expect but vt notent designent oculis ad caedem vnumquemque nostrum c Cic. orat 2. con Catelin Did they not long since like the sonnes of Belial not onely cast off the yoke of obedience with a Nolumus hunc regnare Luke 19.14 but euen clothe themselues in the robes of rebellion with a Venite occidamus Luke 20.14 Gun-powder Treason Witnesse one intention of theirs which must neuer be forgotten And therefore not without iust cause haue they been of late put in minde of a second reflecting Tragedy which met so right with them that well were it if they could apply it to themselues according to the sense of our Sauiour's words which haue been by diuerse of my friends rung in mine ears and I trust I shall still ponder of and remember them Vade nè pecca ampliùs nè deterius contingat tibi Sinne no more lest a worse thing happen vnto thee And sure for my owne particular I make such application and will euer consider that I had a faire warning Ictus Piscator sapit to come out from among them non tam pede quàm pectore non tam gradibus quàm affectibus not so much in motion as in affection leauing them to their superstitious deuotions and neuer more partaking with them in any their abominations But omne beneficium petit officium as in morality euery benefit is obligatory and bindes to some thankfull duty so more especially in Diuinity the wonderfull works of God extended to all in general or to any one man in particular in regard of speciall protection doo binde to a duty of Thanksgiuing Though I haue long runne vpon the score and hitherto yeelded to Ingratitude that crafty Sinon to keep the doore of my lips so that I haue neither discharged my conscience toward God or man yet will I at last with the alone Lepe● return to giue praise And surely of those that escaped the