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A18104	The originall of popish idolatrie, or The birth of heresies Published under the name of Causabon [sic], and called-in the same yeare, upon misinformation. But now upon better consideration reprinted with alowance. Being a true and exacte description of such sacred signes, sacrifices and sacraments as have bene instituted and ordained of God since Adam. With a newe source and anatomie of the Masse, first gathered out of sundrie Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuerse learned fathers. Published by S.O.; Originall of idolatries.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Ofwod, Stephen.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614.	1630 (1630)	STC 4748; ESTC S107605	102,805	138

down uppon the earth out of the clouds and that by meanes of your false doctrine your wickednes lies slanders and detestable facts Then the people shall say unto them Out uppon you get ye packing hence you Captaines of mischiefe overturners of truth ye shunamitish brethren fathers of heresies false Apostles that counterfaited the life of the Apostles whereof ye have been imitators by no meanes You sonnes of iniquity we will not follow the manner of your wayes For pride and arrogancy have seduced you and insatiable covetousnes hath entangled your erring minds And seeing that you would needs ascend up higher then was meete and equall ye are fallen backe headlong into everlasting shame and reproch by Gods just judgment These things wrote Hildegard about the yeare 1146. It is recorded that the people were so opprest with them that they make suite that their number might be lesse for they were not able no maintain them all for they kept the people in feare of them so that they durst not displease thē for if they did they would excommunicate them or els accuse them to be hereticks those that did obey them they would flatter tell them they would pray and prevaile with the Saincts that they should not be tormented in Purgatory And if they were rich lay sick on their death-bed then they would perswade them to give to their order and house at least a childs portion that they might not be tormented in purgatory yea if they gave liberally they would promise them their soules should goe presently into Paradice and thus they did beguile the simple people and defrand their posterity of their inheritance so that in lesse then 400. years they had gott the third part of the wealth in the world To the like effect also prophecyed Catharine whom they have canonized for a Sainct She affirmed that all their Clergy were deceivers of the people and perverters of the truth And holy Bridget did affirme that most of the Popes were in Hell torments for their deceaving the people and perverting the truth of the Gospell This Pope sent his Legate into France with 12. Abbotts to suppresse the Waldenses which taught the Church of Rome was the Whore of Babylon and his ordinances wicked and their Masse full of abhomination contrary to Christ and his Gospell and never known to the Apostles And this Pope did first institute an inquisition which did condemn the poore lambs for hereticks the like they did in Spaine appointed Diedicus a Bishop there who did persecute them with all cruelty See the Cronicle of Paulus Merium Anno 1206. The Cronicle of Munster Anno 1210. written by Harmannia Mutye doth say that at Strausborow there was an hundreth putt to death in one day and 80. at another time and 39. at Ments These were burned for that they maintained the same doctrine against the Pope which the Waldenses did and in other countryes there suffred many as in Alvia and Langwedoc and Narbon Casan Record at the Tolehouse many suffered Mascias saith there suffred in the Provinces 140. and at Narborn they suffred great torments in the fire and at Paris suffred 24. And the year following as Masays testifieth there was 400. putt to death 80. beheaded Prince Americus hanged the Lady-of the Castle stoned to death I doe finde by those who doe record this some difference of the time that this was See Fox 420. fol. The Bishop of Narbon put in a Castle near the Tolhouse 224. of these Martyrs and burned them to death Anno 124 See the Creniele illius Temporis I have formerly shewed that these Locusts sting like Scorpions and those which live in countryes where Scorpions are doe say they are so bould that they will set upon a man and sting him and for the present he shall feele but litle paine but if hee have not cure within one houre it will so infect his flesh that with great anguish hee dieth whithin 2. dayes of it therefore the holy Ghost hath made a fit comparison Rev. 9. for these Locusts doe make shew their abominable Doctrine is not hurteful but those which doe receive it it doth so infect their soules that except they be cured in a short time they become worse then madde for it doth torment them unto eternall wo for evermore Or if wee doe understand it of the sting they gave of the faithful witnesses of the Gospell when they could not pervert them from the truth they would give out their stings that they held sundry grosse heresyes to make them odious to all indifferent men as doth appeare in their writings Rerum Francarum in scriptorum writeth Anno 128 there was of the Waldenses hereticks in all Christendom and that they were in all Cittyes and although they were slaundered to hold sundry heresyes yet I have formerly shewed that a bloody Inquisitour did confesse they beleeved all things well and their evill hee charged them with is they blaspheme the Church of Rome THE DOCTRINE Of the Church of Christ for one thousand years after his Ascention IRENEVS saith Anno 180. Ieven lib. 5. lib. 4. cap. 34. that the bread is broken and the cup next after the vocation or calling upon God ceasse to be common bread any more but are the Eucharist of the body and blood of Christ and he manifesteth how for faith hee the Eucharist consisteth of two things one being earthly which is bread and wine the other heavenly which is the body and blood of our Lord. And herunto Tertullian doth teach the Sacrament Anno 200. Tertul. lib. 4 to be a figure signe and memoriall of the Lords body And elswere he saith against Marcion He gave his body that is to say a figure of his body Dionisius calleth the Sacrament of Christs body Dionisius no otherwise then bread as Eusebius doth relate Ciprian saith Epist 6. lib. 1 3. lib. 2 in his last Supper hee gave bread wine and his body upon the Crosse He saith Christ drunk wine at his last Supper because hee would root out the heresy of certain who used water in administration Chrisostom saith Anno 350. Hom. 13. on Matth. that onely bread remaineth And Theodoretus in his first Dialogue bread remaineth still its former nature At a Counsell holden at Leadium Anno 364. in the 25. Article they decreed what they should doe with that remained in the celebration of the Lords Supper there they call them by the same names they were called before the consecration bread and how they should dispose it Hesichius Anno 500. Hesechius lib. 20. in Lev cap. 8. who was 500. years after our Lords passion saith of the mystery It is both flesh and bread that is the true beleever receiveth Christ and bread Emissenus compareth a man converted to Christ Emissen ●e Consee dist 2. quia corpus by regeneration unto the holy mysteries consecrated to the body and blood of Christ

Steven was put to death saith That the faith of Christ did spread over all the world by the multitude of them which fled And St. Paul wrote to the Church at Rome about 21. years after hee saith The faith of Christ was published throughout all the world which was before Peter came at Rome Act. 28.22 Rom. 1.8 16.26 And it doth appeare that those which planted the Gospell in Brittaine came not from the Romaine Church because they did so much dissent in ceremonies for the observation of Easter day which is one of the ancientest traditions they did dissent from Rome 700. yeares and although Austine the Monk did corrupt the Church with the Romane superstitions yet hee was opposed by many learned Brittaines and they sent unto Augustine to confer with him concerning their differences they did agree to have a meeting where Austine came with his learned men and the Brittaine Churches sent thither one Donatus with 7. Bishops where they met at a place called Austines oake there it doth appeare that they could not agree on which Austine did threaten them with warre if they would not receive his superstitions And as Segebertus saith Beda Baleus Galfridus and others Beda lib. 2. Austine would have them to receive Altars and Gregorius Masse-bookē and the Crucifix and Procession observation of Easter-day as the Romanes did which they did oppose that they did so contend and strive in this contention that there was blood-shed in this assembly upon which Austine did threaten to stirre up warres against them the which wee find hee did and caused many to be murthered and although hee prevailed against them Fox in folio 131. Anno 798. yet Mr. Fox doth shew that when Charles the Great did send into England to the King Bishops and Nobility for to receive the Romane ceremonies Images in the Churches they appointed Albinus to answer it which hee did when he had answered it they did well approve of it sent it with the booke to Charles King of France and appointed this Albinus to go to him with it And howsoever it hath since prevailed See the Chronicle of Panlus Meriall Anno 794. yet there was the same yeare a Counsell houlden at Franckford of 205. Bishops which did condemne the worshipping of Images and the second Counsell of Nice for establishing of them But it is objected Foxes booke is a booke of lyes therefore not to be credited I know the Papists doe so charge it but wee say how comes it then that they have wrote two Bookes against it and instanced sundry of those stories affirming them to be lyes unto which hee hath made answer in great modesty and so cleared their objections that all men of indifferent judgment may see they are meere calumniations He being a Noble Man and suffered so many arraignments and imprisonments and at last death itself and false charges one I will instance by reason it is allmost as rare as a black Swan and that is of the Lord Cobham whom these blasphemous men say was a rebell and that hee came against the King with an army of men to St. Gyles feildes the which doth very evidently appeare to be false as all may see in his answer imprinted in both his last impressions and yet for all this they have wrote a third booke after his death and never answered any thing unto his shewing them their false accusations Tit. 3.10.11 2. Thes 2.12 1. Tim. 4.2 but scoffing and wondering at his number of sheetes written yet a great part of his booke is in answer to their slanders Therefore I conclude they are such as the Apostle speakes of which have their conscience seared with an hot iron Anno 600. And thereto Galfridus Monumentisis in his center 6. Epistle saith That before Anstine the Monk came to Brittaine they had the profession of Christ more purely then he brought from Rome And Dagonus Bishop in London cōming as he travelled to an Inne where Austine was when hee understood that hee was in the house refused to stay there or so much as to drinke in the house by reason hee had so corrupted the worship of Christ And like as the Popes champions dealt in our land Anno 752. so we doe finde they did in other countries as here in the country now under the States Boniface Bishop of Vtrecht accompanied with 52. of which one was a Bishop and ten Priests and Monks travailed to Doekum in Friesland about 60. miles and there sent for the Officers of the Churches of Lewarden and thereabouts and they would compell them to receive the Romane ceremonies which they refused to doe and thereupon they fell at so great contention that the Bishops with all their train were killed Thus they were rewarded for their paines Looke Joan. Baka Lupus Frerariensis epist. 5. on Carolus Magnus Many Preachers or Bishops in Bavaria did much dislike the Bishop of Ments Anno 735. because hee brought in the Romane Ceremonies and they told him it was contrary to all truth equity for to stand with the Pope in disinheriting the right heire of the Crown of France and that hee did great evill in bringing-in Images teaching purgatory praying for the dead forbidding marriage to the Ministers and that hee himself had an evill report in that hee had women come in such manner to his house upon which this Bishop Boniface was very angry and he went to Gregory the Pope and complained of them the Pope sent for them and condemned them for hereticks for 14. years before hee banished fowr Preachers the land for refusing to observ his traditions Look Aventanus lib. 3 Kilinus Bishop of Whitzburgh a Schotsman travailled thorow France England and Dutchland Anno 687. for to perswade the Clergy to observe the Romane ceremonies which hee could not accomplish then hee caused to be sent unto him two other Messengers from the Pope Look Otthe Frisingenses lib. 5. cap. 13. and then they theatened them that they should bee forced to receive them for which the people sett upon them and beat them so sore that those three died of it And their Histories doe shew thus they dealt in moste parts of Christendom between the years 610. and 800. And then they doe write they were converted to the faith of the Roman Church whereas it is certain they perverted the faith for by the testimonie of Histories the faith of Christ was professed in those Countryes long before as I have partly related I have alledged some Fathers here to shew how it doth appeare that they have given testimony unto the truth we cōfesse not that I doe build my faith upon their writings or upon any man on earth I doe reverence the graces of God I find in them but my faith I build upon the word of God as the Apostle saith 2. Pet. 1.19 Wee have a sure word of the Prophets to