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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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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
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.