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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

present Master Master Robert Fowbery is not behind many at the least in the land such yearely maintenance allowed so many young students of your owne Towne whose need may require it for the ease of their charge in the Vniuersities till seuen yeares study haue inabled them to prouide and care for themselues so that you haue at this houre by the helpe of this and other incouragements now liuing of such as are bred and borne in this your Towne eight Preachers of gifts competent at the least all whom you well approue of Besides your other yearely pensions allowed as to diuers officers both chiefe and subordinate so to other Masters in their seuerall kinds as for the securing your estates by the counsell and direction of Law for the curing of your bodies by the helpe and meanes of Physicke for the trayning of youth to handle the pen by faire writing and the Pyke and Peece for the seruice of your Prince and Country not to speake of such yearely reparations as proue most necessary all which together keepe the waters of your cisterne though it haue a good feeder lowe and neare the bottome Well then and truely is Money said to be one of the sinewes of the Common-wealth Sure it with Gods blessing is so here as also in part of the Church too Long then may that flourish by which both our Church here and Common-wealth flourisheth Pray yee with me then for the Peace yea also plenty of this our Ierusalem Psalm 122.6.7.8.9 they shall prosper that loue thee peace be within thy walles and prosperity within thy Palaces for my brethren and companions sake I will now say peace be within thee because of the house of the Lord our God I will seeke thy good This care Right Worshipfull of seeking the prosperous estate of this Towne lies chiefely vpon you into whose hands God hath subordinately put the sword of Iustice for the due equall and vnpartiall execution both of his owne and also of those many good Lawes of this Land which most wisely and respectiuely haue beene made for the aduancement of religion and all vertue and godlinesse both in Church and Common-weale as also for the extirpating of whatsoeuer is contrary thereunto Each Kingdome Common-wealth Citie Towne Corporation is onely and so farre safe and setled as it rests it selfe by weldoing vpon God by a continuall reliance and dependance on him Otherwise sinne where it raignes and is suffered in any kind whatsoeuer is that onely thing which weakens and at the length ruines both Church and Common-weale howsoeuer in outward respects Prou. 28.2 seemingly most strong and flourishing For the transgressions of a land many are the Princes thereof Sinne makes both priuate men of strong weake as Sampson and Cain Iudges 16.19.20 Gen. 14.14 So Dauid cals him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Sam. 22.19 Isa 2.7.8 and also weakens whole Common-weales Cities and Townes whilest it makes God who onely is our strength and stay depart from vs and giue vs ouer to our selues and the will of others Israel was many waies strong in Isaiahs time their Land was full of siluer and gold c. but it was also full of Idols Israel was well furnished of all things needfull for an established state both of Church and Common-wealth they had stayes of all kinds As 1. Plenty of food and yearely prouision of all things needfull for life as also abundance of wealth 2. Military strength prouision and munition 3. Magistrates and wise Senatours and the knowledge how to rule the people with all other parts of Politicall regiment 4. Prophets Gal. 2.9 2. Kings 2.12 who were not onely as Pillars next to Christ in the Church but as the horsemen and charets of Israel Who were stayes to them as godly Ministers are now not onely by establishing them in grace and goodnes which they did by soundnesse of Doctrine sharpenesse of reproofe example of life liuing and dying in and for the truth but also by their prayers by which they stayed Gods hand as did Moses and often stood in the gappe 5. Mechanicall Arts which also are necessary 6. But aboue all God himselfe was their strength so called 1. Sam. 15.29 The strength of Israel Yet because they trusted in the other more then in God therefore see how they are threatned Behold the Lord Isa 3.1.2.3 the Lord of hosts doth take away from Ierusalem and from Iudah the stay and the staffe the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water The mighty man the man of warre the Iudge and the Prophet and the prudent and the Auncient the Captaine of fiftie and the honorable man the Counseller the cunning Artificer and the eloquent Orator And this God hath now accordingly brought to passe Euen thus must we perswade our selues God hath blessed this our Towne in a competency with most of these stayes Now it is not any of these neither yet our strong walles or our mines of coale by which our Towne hath hitherto beene as the Hearth to warme most places of this our Iland nor all these together that can afford vs any security Vt munitum muro tibi visum est oppidum Si Incolae benè sint morati pulchrè munitum arbitror Perfidia peculatus ex vrbe auaritia si exulant quarta inuidia quinta Ambitio sexta Obtrectatio septima Periurium Octaua indiligentia Nona iniuria Decima quod pessimum aggressu Scelus Haec nisi indè aberunt centuplex murus rebus seruandis parum est Plaut in Pers if at any time vice superstition profanesse c. be suffered to take root and spread among vs. For each City saith one is better fenced with the good maners of the * Ciuitas non tāmuris quàm moribus munitur Citizens then with the walles of the Citie To which purpose Plautus though an heathen giues this fit answere to a tempting question which he propounds in the person of Sagaristio to a virgin concerning Athens How thinke you is not the Towne well fenced with a wall If the Inhabitants be well nurtured sayd the wise maide I esteeme it excellently fenced If perfidiousnesse and Interuerting or stealing from the Prince and common treasury together with Auarice be banished the Citie if fourthly Ambition fiftly Enuy sixtly Detraction seuenthly Periurie eightly Idlenesse ninthly Iniuries and wrongs tenthly which worst is mischiefe and villanie These vnlesse they be abandoned and expelled the City a hundred walles are nothing to the safety of it In like maner Psm 125.1.2 As the mountaines are about Ierusalem so the Lord is round about his people namely such as trust in him so that in stead of other walles he himselfe will be vnto Ierusalem a wall of fire round about Zachar. 2.4.5 and will be the glory in the midst of her But this is meant whilest they rest onely on him otherwise if the Vineyard which euen Gods right

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