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A04378	The height of Israels heathenish idolatrie, in sacrificing their children to the Deuill diuided into three sections: where is shewed in the first, the growth and degrees of this, and generally of other sinnes and idolatries. In the second, that the Deuill was the god of the heathen; with the meanes by which he obtayned that honour. With a large application to our times, against popery, shewing the pride thereof, and malice both against soule and body; together with the meanes, sleights, and policies by which it seduceth, killeth, and in the person of the Pope, raiseth it selfe to its present height. In the third, the blinde zeale of idolaters. Deliuered generally in two sermons preached at S. Maries in Cambridge: the first whereof is much inlarged: by Robert Ienison Bachelor of Diuinitie, and late Fellow of S. Johns Colledge in Cambridge.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1621 (1621)	STC 14491; ESTC S107702	160,311	208

vnderstand the feare of the Lord and find the knowledge of God The meanes then are first a diligent searching and digging in the mines of the Scriptures But this must be done with humilitie and prayer without curiosity and with desire of sauing knowledge and with purpose of reformation of life according to that word 2. Prayer by which we obtaine the Holy Ghost as is promised Luk. 11.13 Iohn 16.13 Reuel 3.18 1 Iohn 2 27. which is the Spirit of truth and will lead vs into all truth This is that eye-salue by which our blind eies receiue sight Which annointing if once we receiue then need we not that any man teach vs for it teacheth vs all things If then Psalm 143.10 with Dauid we can pray Let thy good Spirit lead me vnto the Land of righteousnesse wee shall heare the still voice of Gods Spirit behind vs Isa 30.21 saying as is promised This is the way walke ye in it which way by the way is not Popery 22. which reserues and worships Reliques for it followeth ye shall defile also the couering of thy grauen images of siluer and the ornament of thy molten images of gold Lastly to name no other Obedience to Gods will and a care to liue according to the measure of knowledge receiued hath a promise to be guided by true knowledge for as sayth our Sauiour Iohn 7.17 If any man will doe his that is the Fathers will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speake of my selfe And thus saith Dauid I vnderstand more then the ancients because I keepe thy precepts Knowledge is a talent and where any talent is rightly vsed and imploied it hath a promise Mat. 25.29 to him that hath it shall be giuen Looke then how good huswiues deale with their seruants they giue their maids their pensa towe on their rockes and set them other taskes which when they be performed more is giuen vnto them so God reueales himselfe to vs by degrees and where he sees any to indeauour himselfe according to his knowledge vsing it well God will not let him want a greater measure of further knowledge whereby himselfe is so much honoured And thus much of these idoll gods in my text who were Deuils and of the meanes how Satan became the god of the Heathen and of the Application thereof FINIS SECTION III. IDOLATERS BLINDE ZEALE In sacrificing their Children to the Deuill As also in many other particulars To the prouoking or else shaming of CHRISTIANS Deliuered in a Sermon preached at Saint Maries in CAMBRIDGE March 5. 1614. Newly published By R. I. Bachelour of Diuinity and late Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge LONDON Printed by G. Eld for Robert Mylbourne 1621. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL AND Reuerend Mr. Doctor Ward Archdeacon of Taunton and Vice-chancelor of the Vniuersity of Cambridge and Master of Sidney-Sussex Colledge R.I. wisheth all attainable happinesse in this life and hereafter Right Worshipfull Sir and Euer-honored Tutor WHEN I looke backe and consider as duty bindes mee in what age of the world in what ripenesse of the Gospell in what Climate and Region I was brought forth together with the means of my education and trayning Then doe I finde my selfe for euer bound in soule and body to the mercy and goodnesse of the Almighty Lord God who thus gaue me my life being and motion and all other my abilities with the blessed opportunity of place time and meanes of the Gospel with a call to the preaching of it for the eternall saluation of mine owne poore soule and others Yet so that my Parents Friends Kindred and Countrey as also my Instructors and Tutors may iustly vnder God and according to his will claime a share and interest in mee My desire is in some acceptable measure to bee answerable to my duty in all the parts of it Now my whole life and strength is and euer shall be consecrated to the Honour and Seruice of my Lord and Master IESVS CHRIST to whose glory I haue by his grace spared time from mine ordinary ministeriall paines to publish this present Treatise for the behoofe information and inciting of my Christian Brethren to glorifie God by a zealous walking with him And for my kindred and Countrey among other parts of my dutie daily performed on their behalfe I thought good to expresse my thankfulnesse to the whole State of the Towne and County of Newcastle by dedicating to them the two former Sections of this Treatise in respect not onely of my breeding among them but chiefly of that encouragement which from their bounty my studies and Ministeriall labours doe finde Now good Sir I should much forget my duty and respect to you who vnder God were the onely Tutor and formor of my studies in the Vniuersity if remembring my thankfulnesse to others I should passe by your selfe Though I forget not my mother the Vniuersity nor the Colledges Saint Iohns and Immanuel the latter whereof gaue me entertainment and lodged me with you sixe yeares the other nourished and helped to maintaine mee twelue yeares Other requitall then this thankfull acknowledgement for them I haue not at this present Giue me leaue then thus publiquely to expresse my dutifull respect and thankfulnesse to you also by dedicating to your name this third Section contayning a Sermon preached in your hearing March 5. 1614. at a solemne Assembly in Saint Maries in Cambridge Your right to it as to all other my abilities in this kinde is the greatest of any mans I spare to speake what further right you haue in mee and how much I am beholding in my particular to the example of your integrity and conscionable course of life of your great and continuall paines humility and modesty euery way you being as eminent in and for humilitie as humble in eminency of gifts But I dare not presume to presse these while I praise them I know you had rather so bee then be knowne to bee further then Gods glory and the necessity of the Church requires and so you neither are nor can be vnknowne I will conclude propounding the example of your wonderfull diligence and constant paines as also modesty to such as in the Ministery seeke their owne ease and follow their pleasures and by the Ministery seeke dignities and preferments to themselues Doubtlesse labouring with like singlenesse of heart and modesty of minde they should finde little cause to doubt so much of Gods Prouidence as to despaire of Prouision proportionable to their gifts You haue found it vnsought for but shall finde the fruit and reward much more hereafter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will not presume to stirre vp you but my selfe and other sluggards in and with the words of Ignatius Ignat. epist 1. to one Mary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And thus I end Newcastle vpon Tine April 19. 1621. Yours euer in the Lord ROBERT IENISON IDOLATERS BLINDE ZEALE PSAL. 106.37 Yea they

towards his chosen people and to shew that none can curse them whom he will blesse Thus he did put his spirit of prophecie vpon the wicked Sorcerer and Witch Balaam and spake vnto him to blesse his people being indeed hired to curse them Numb 23.16.19 and 24 2. Otherwhiles we know that the Sibyls the prophetesses of the Gentiles did foretell and prophecie many true things concerning Christ Of whom worthy Zanchie saith Ea non nisi ex asslatu diuino praedixerunt They foretold such things only by diuine inspiration And S. Ambrose his speech is knowne Omne verum à quocunque dicatur à spiritu sancto est All truth whosoeuer be the speaker of it is from the holy Ghost The reason why God spake by them is diuersly rendred Thomas Aquinas saith he did it the more to illustrate and make credible his truth which should receiue testimony euen from the enemies thereof Or secondly by this meanes to instruct and teach the Heathen who would giue eare and credence to their owne Prophets which they would deny vnto Gods true Prophets But I approue rather their iudgement that say the end of such true prophesies by these heathenish Prophetesses was that the Gentiles afterwards who should not beleeue Christ nor our Scriptures testifying and prophesying of him might by their owne Prophets be conuinced of the truth and made the more inexcusable in the day of iudgement And to this end many verses and oracles of the Sibyls are alledged against the Heathen by Iustin Martyr Clemens Alexandrinus Lactantius Eusebius and others as appeareth by their bookes But secondly 2. Or by means of the Scriptures the Deuill knowes many things out of Scripture which in diuers things he better vnderstands then we men by reason of his quicke sight and also because he can in regard of his long experience lay the state of all things together which we cannot doe neither is this in him so strange seeing that as Porphyry relates Porphyry as he is cited by Monaeus de v●rit Christianae relig cap. 25. fine the religious sect of the Essens among the Iewes by reason that they occupied themselues in the prophesies of Scripture made a profession of prophesying and seldome missed which I thinke Master Caluin aymes at when he saith writing on Esa 41.23 and hauing spoken of Gods goodnesse to the Iewes out of Amos 3.7 who hid nothing from them which was behoouefull to be knowne Hâc praerogativâ ind●g●● ●ccles●●al● si sunt Iudai qui ex friuolis suis praedictionibus quaestum passim inter gentes s●cerunt The Iewes intolera●ly and s●●l●rously abused this prerogatiue who from their ●●iuolo●● predictions picked out a liuing among the Gentiles as doe now many running rogues with vs by telling of for●unes But if the Essens or Iewes were so cunning Satan is much more cunning and therefore his Oracle being demanded by King Alexander the great before he warred with Darius King of Persia what should be the euent and issue of his enterprise might well answere him as it did Inuictus er●s Alexander Thou shalt bee vnconquerable ô Alexander and indeed the successe was answerable which was yet f●rther signified by an Eagle which in the conflict with Darius houered and fluttered ouer Alexanders head gliding and glauncing and darting it selfe towards his enemies This knowledge the Deuill had out of the prophesies of Isai● and Daniel who doe expressely point at Alexander In the 11. chapter of Daniel verse ● it is sayd A mighty King shall stand vp and shall rule with great dominion and doe according to his pleasure The circumstances of the ●ext are plaine and cleare for Alexander and so taken by Iaddus the high-Priest of Ierusalem who when Alexander had subdued the Persians and was now come to Ierusalem ●et him in his priestly attire as Iosephus records carried him vp to the Temple and shewed him the booke of Daniel wherein it was prophesied certaine hundred yeares before that a certaine Greeke should come and conquer the Persians which now fell out to be himselfe Thus he knew the destruction also of Tyre by Alexander out of Isay 23.1 where by the land of Cethim or Cittim is plainely vnderstood Macedonia whereof Alexander was King 〈◊〉 many doe interprete it and accordingly did foretell that he Satan vnder the name of Apollo would leaue the City as we read in Quintus Curtius And thus might hee know the translation of the Assyrian Monarchy vnto the Medes and Persians and that by Cyrus whose name long before his birth is expressely recorded Isa 45.1 and so many the like as Tortullian reckons them Now concerning Christs natiuity life and death the Sibyls haue foretold in ve●s● many things and a Virgil from them In their bookes wee finde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and being smitten he shall be silent out of Esay chap. 53.7 where it is said he was oppressed and afflicted yet opened he not his mouth and this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he shall weare a crowne of thornes And againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most plainly out of Psal 69.21 They gaue me gall in my meate and in my thirst they gaue me vinegar to drinke With many the like Now lastly see how the gods of the Heathen Deuile indeed foresaw and foretold the ceasing or Oracles and their owne silencing as out of many other place ●●●●cially out of Zacharie 13.2 where In 〈…〉 Lord of Hosts I will cut off the names of the 〈◊〉 out of the land and they shall no more be remembred and I will 〈◊〉 the Prophets and the vncleane spirit to 〈…〉 So that when Christ was at hand to whom they knew they must needs yeeld yet that they might still keepe their credit seeme to be ignorant of nothing they foretold the same Hence that prophesie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 foreteling that the place where Apollo gaue his answers should be made obscure and hence to adde no moe examples when Augustus C●sa● in whose reigne our Sauiour was borne did demand of T●●chia Prophece●●e to Apollo who after him should succeed and be Monarch of the whole world he had his answer in diuers Greeke verses which in sence sound thus much that an E●●●w child greater then the gods of the Heathen had commanded him to leaue that place and to betake him to his infernall den●● therefore saith he be gone and from henceforth aske me no moe questions The verses runne thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But to conclude this point Satans ayme in giuing forth such true Oracles which accord with our Scriptures is not the same with Gods ends of which formerly but first that by the truth of these Oracles he might winne credit to his lies and deuillish doctrines concerning the worshipping of idols Secondly that thus he might get to himselfe the name and estimation of God himselfe whose propertie alone it is to speake truth And thus saith Tertullian

him the partie-coloured coat of Ioseph all besmeared with blood and torne From such probabilities and little grounds simple men conclude what others would and not what the premises well sifted and examined afford These deluders creepe into men also by Rhetoricall insinuations and deceiue by Sophisticall quirkes not teaching and shewing the fundamentall points of Religion to instruct men And perswasions but vsing probable perswasions to induce and seduce to errour Thus the Friars euen in France but more in Italy Relation of Religion Sect. 35. saith the Relator in their indeauours to conuert others will say it is lawfull to perswade them but not to dispute with them Tertul. adu Valent But what saith Tertullian Veritas docendo persuadet non suadendo docet the truth perswadeth by teaching and doth nor teach by perswading It seemes heathenish idolatours followed this art of perswading and left the true art and methode of teaching as appeares by * Procedant in medium pontifices conuocent nos ad conscionem distringant aciem ingeniorum suorum si ratio eorum vera est afferatur Parati sumus audire si doceant imitentur nos nos enim non illicimus sed docemus probamus ostendimus Lact. lib. 5. de Iustitia cap. 20. Lactantius But certainly the popish doctrine and practise sute well together as tending to the same end They teach that an implicite faith is as much as is required in ordinary Christians who therefore must not try the spirits by which men speake hereupon they are taught to beleeue without vnderstanding and what lies then may they not belieue they are told that the grounds of Christianity and the proofes that the Scriptures are the word of God are onely credible and probable but cannot be demonstrated that the chiefe proofe is the testimony of the Church which is further guided by the spirit of God the worke whereof is faith which faith searcheth not the particular necessitie of the truth of things deliuered but relieth in generall vpon the approued wisdome truth and vertue of him that doth deliuer it that therefore he that will haue necessary proofe of the seuerall articles of Religion doth but wittily deceiue himselfe that the high vertue of Christianity is in the humility of vnderstanding and the merit in the readinesse of obedience to embrace it What madnesse then were it for any man to waste his spirits in tracing the controuersies of these dayes and not rather to betake himselfe to the true Church whereunto the custody of heauenly truth hath beene committed and to receiue faithfully and obediently without question making whatsoeuer it deliuereth c. This methode being as well plausible as probable This methode and art of perswading may be seene more largely in the wise-obseruer himselfe in his Relation of Religion Sect. 12. is vsed as the chiefe meanes and course of their perswading at this day whereby finding themselues not able to keepe the laity-wholly and grossely ignorant as informer times they cunningly indeauour so to lead them out of the briars as to enter them withall into a second kind of ignorance that being not content to see vtterly nothing at leastwise they may be perswaded to resigne vp their owne eye-sight and to looke through such spectacles as they temper for them For they finde by certaine experience that the ignorance of the Laity was euer the greatest and surest sinew of their greatnesse and glory But we are taught and must teach otherwise first to know and then to beleeue at the least faith must not bee without knowledge Christs sheepe follow him Iohn 10.4 for they know his voice Wherein all other sheepe are herein sheepe indeed which blindly follow their guide though it be to breake their bones by falling and following from some high rocke or other downefall Our Sauiour saith of his Iohn 17.8 they haue knowne surely that I came out from thee and they haue beleeued that thou didst send me And as if the Lord meant purposely to meet with Papists in this point and to let vs know that error in iudgement and practise depended on an ignorant beleefe he instanceth in a point of popery namely abstaining from meats which is also a doctrine of Deuils and tels vs 1 Tim. 4.3 that God hath created meats to be receiued with thanksgiuing of them which beleeue and know the truth Which from hence we may conclude Papists doe not And thus much for the vnderstanding as by other meanes so also by Paralogismes but this to speake with the Apostle Coloss 2.4 I say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and haue said lest any man should beguile you with entising words CHAP. IX Deuillish and Popish Policies for the corrupting of the will affections and outward senses 2. Popish policies for the corrupting the affections of men BVt now see further how this aduantage is followed by Hereticall and Popish Seducers which they haue from the corruption of our nature For as formerly they more directly set vpon the vnderstanding with Paralogismes and other delusions so they would also wooe the Mistris by the Maid they would deceiue Adam by his wife Eue and with the Philistims politickely get and hire Dalilah to lull Sampson asleepe that he might be taken captiue that is by the affections and outward senses of the body they seeke to corrupt and blind yea to captiuate and bind the iudgement This was the Deuils policy when he indeed bewitched the first Adam by his wife Eue whose eyes he first pleased Gen. 3.5.6 whose affections he first tickled before he either by himselfe preuailed ouer her or by her ouer her husband And this was his deuillish and politique attempt when he set vpon the second Adam our blessed Sauiour Iesus Christ First he speakes to our Sauiours eies Matth. 4.8.9 for he taking him vp into an exceeding high mountain shewed him all the kingdomes of the world and the glory of them And by this sight presented to the eye hee would tickle his affections saying All these will I giue thee thus doth he flatter him with faire promises before he tels him what he desires of him for his fetch was thus to get our Sauiour to fall downe and worship him Which is done But particularly the popish practise herein and imitation of their father appeares in their first abusing secondly polluting thirdly pleasing the affections and senses of men 1. By abusing them First how do they abuse mens affections when in their perswasions to popery they lay the ground-worke thereof on that naturall loue and affection which men beare to their kindred fathers and forefathers for hereon they ground a most pestilent perswasion to entertaine the loue of their errors for and with the loue of their persons What say they do you thinke that all your forefathers who liued and died in popery are damned haue ye not more charitable conceits of them then so if then you haue why doe you not

perish because they receiued not the loue of the truth that they might be saued and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should beleeue a lie So that whereas Papists require of vs such things now and challenge vs to be no true Church because we worke no miracles but from miracles would approue themselues for the only true Church of God vpon earth we contenting our selues with that establishment of our doctrine which we haue from the Miracles and Reuelation of Christ and his Apostles whose doctrine wee hold and professe doe rest herein secure assuring our selues wee are thus farre no part of the Church of Antichrist whose propertie it must be in the latter dayes to worke miracles wishing them of the Church of Rome seriously to consider whether they or we or yet any other Church in the world be liker to be the Church of Antichrist seeing they bragge and stand so much on Miracles and Visions as to iustifie their Church thereby especially considering that the consciences of many among them are conuinced of the falsehood and forgerie of many of their Miracles and that some of themselues allow the faining of tales fables and Legends and Miracles of Saints for the prouoking of the common people to deuotion towards their Saints which therefore they call their pias fraudes godly and holy deceits We heare and read of many strange Miracles and Visions in Popery on which it is for many if not most chiefe points founded and by which it stands Wee had once here in England a holy maid of Kent Elizabeth Barton a Nunne which by the deuice of certaine Monks and Friers could seeme only to be fed by Angels strangely to alter her countenance and other parts of her body and so lying in a traunce to speake many things in commendation of Poperie and particularly in disallowance of King Henries diuorce from the Lady Catharine But the knauerie being found it cost them all their liues A like holy Nunne wee reade of Mary de la Visitation in Spaine about the yeere 1588 Prioresse of a Monasterie in Lisbon of whose Miracles Wounds Visions a Dominican Frier wrote in French dedicating his booke to the Queene of France This Mary saith he our Lord Iesus tooke to wife often appearing to her granting her many particular graces and fauours conuersing and speaking as familiarly with her as euer God did with Moses he oftentimes being accompanied with He and She Saints The Instructions drawne by that Frier from her Miracles and Visions were That it is needfull to honour Images That Saints in Paradise are Intercessours for vs That it is needfull to acknowledge the truth of the Sacrament of the Altar The like fountaines of Miracles are opened in the houses of our Lady of Lauretto of which there is a speciall booke written and translated into English of Hales of which Lipsius makes relation But we may obserue that all of them tend either to seduce from truth to falsehood or to giue allowance to treacherie and murther or lastly to exalt the Pope For the first it might easily be shewed how that the end of all popish miracles and visions is to confirme if not to teach establish such popish doctrines as haue no ground in the holy Scriptures Purgatory a maine prop of Popery for which our aduersaries themselues confesse they haue no expresse Scripture hath no better ground then visions and apparitions of the dead So is the Masse confirmed by many Miracles which the consecrated Host hath done So Garnet a traitor is now made a canonized Saint by an artificiall face vpon a straw taken vp being first cast downe at the place of his execution Thus their aduancing of Images their making the blessed Virgin to haue beene wholly without sinne and so the Feast of her Immaculate Conception the making of her also more mercifull then Christ many the like points of Popery receiue strength from visions and dreames of their owne the which might with ease very plentifully be shewed but that I take none of themselues can or will deny it I will content my selfe hauing already exceeded the bounds which at the first I set to my selfe to instance in their doctrine of Inuocation of Saints which hauing no expresse testimony of Scripture by their owne confession hath no better ground then apparitions of Satan in and vnder the likenesse and names of deceased Saints a thing wherein they may be very easily deluded For if Satan can take vpon him the person of an Angell of light if hee also among the Heathen could take vpon him the names of Iupiter Iuno and the like who we ●●en and get himselfe worshipped vnder their names how may he not also by Gods iust permission vsurpe the names of deceased men or women whether indeed Saints or no and shew himselfe vnder the names of Valentinus or Anasta●ius or Barbara c. And doth he not so especially when hee meetes with the credulous Euseb 〈…〉 Eusebius tels vs that one Potamiaena some three dayes after her martyrdome by night stood by Basilides her tormenter put a crowne vpon his head and told him she made request to God for him Bonfin 〈…〉 So Bonfinius tels vs that one Conrade a Germane was enioyned this penance by Hildebrand the Pope that carrying with him a catalogue of his sinnes sealed vp in letters he should seeke remission of them by going a Pilgrimage to all holy places of the world and that praying at the graue of Emmericke sonne to Stephen King of Hungary his letters were open and his sinnes quite blotted out of the paper Hereupon to this Chappell concourse was made from the remotest countries Now here to this purpose one fetch of the Papists is remarkable To confirme the doctrine and practise of Inuocation they take the aduantage of soueraigne baths and waters and where they espie any fountaine good against the stone or other diseases presently there is the Statue of Image of some Saint or other sent and erected by it by whose vertue the cure and miracle must seeme to be done or some Chappell is erected to this or that Saint vnto whom prayers before and thankes after washing must be offered 2 For the next points I will giue but one instance for each of them When in the yeare 1588. Philip the 2. King of Spaine intended the conquest and subuersion of England the forenamed Prioresse gaue incouragement to the enterprise blessed his Standard Royall and deliuering it to the chiefe Generall the Duke of Medina Sedonia openly pronounced and promised good successe and victory to him This Standard was after carryed in solemne Procession For all this the euent proued her a false Prophetesse 3 See one tricke of legerdemaine in this kind vsed by an ambitious spirit aspiring to the Popedome When Celestine the 5. poped it and had made himselfe odious and hated for his humility in riding on an Asse by our Sauiours example especially for beginning reformation of