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A18103	The originall of idolatries: or, The birth of heresies a true, sincere, and exact description of all such sacred signes, sacrifices, and sacraments as haue been instituted and ordained of God since Adam; with the true source and liuely anatomy of the sacrifice of the Masse. First faithfully gathered out of sundry Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuers learned fathers; by that famous and learned Isaac Casaubon, and by him published in French, for the good of Gods Church: and now translated into English for the benefit of this monarchy; by Abraham Darcie.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 4747; ESTC S107577	78,965	150

constituted for the Purification of a woman suspected of Adulterie there was neither Incense nor Oyle as in other Sacrifices but it was offered with water mingled with the dust or ashes gathered vp from the floore of the Temple There was also another Sacrifice celebrated for those that had made some great Vow called Nazareans when the time of their Deuotion was expired wherein they were appointed to offer three Victimes a Lambe of a yeere old a Sheepe and a Ramme the one that is the Lambe to serue for a Holocaust the other of a female Sheepe for Saluation and the third oblation for Health Furthermore his haires that made the oblation were to be cast into the fire to be burned together with the Holocaust I was willing particularly to discourse of the diuersitie of sacrifices that hereby I might make knowne the great goodnesse and bounty of our God who in the Law of sacrifices publisht by Moses meant to curbe and reyne in the rude people of Israel as it were with a Bridle who could not forget the Aegyptian Idolatries wherein they had beene nourished and bred for foure hundred and thirty yeeres vnder the tyranny of the Pharaohs But what rigorous Lawes soeuer enacted what Ceremonies or Sacrifices soeuer he did ordaine them this people euer made a relapse into their Idolatry abusing the Law of God and corrupting the holy Sacraments and sacrifices as hereafter shall be expressed But if any man desire to know more at large the multitude and varietie of sacrifices let him reade the bookes of Philo the Iew ● and of Iosephus in his Antiquities of the Iewes according as Moses hath expressely written in the bookes of Leuiticus and Numbers There was another signe and Sacrament instituted of God by the Arke of Couenant described in Exodus being a sacred signe and dedicated to receiue celestiall diuine Oracles to the end to induce the people to a remembrance feare and obedience of God To accompany and honour the Arke of Couenant many other externall signes were constituted by God as the ornaments and consecrations of the Priests especially that ornament called the Ephod both which and the Sacrifices the Israelites abused and prophaned with their Idolatries Another sacred signe there was of cleansing water or Water of expiation instituted by God for Moses and Aaron the High Priest This cleansing or purifying Water was consecrated with ashes taken vp by an vnpolluted man of the oblation offered in the Holocaust that is to say of the whole Red Cow without spot not hauing euer bin exposed to labour The Fire for the burnt-offering was ordained to be of Cedar-wood Hysop and of Purple-Crymosine Polluted men were sprinkled ouer with this Water for an expiation and purgation of their corporall blemishes At the entry of the Tabernacle or Temple there was a kinde of Lauer like a Font of Brasse forged at first of seeing Glasses of the Israelitish Women In this Lauer or Holy-water Font was put this Water of Purification where with the Priests besprinkled themselues before they celebrated their sacrifices to the end they might be purified and obtaine grace and remission of sinnes After the death of the High Priest Aaron the Israelitish people ingratefull towards God for the benefit he sent them murmuring when they were wearie of the heauenly Manna which hee gaue them bountifully for their sustentation they were punished with the stingings of venemous Serpents But God being mercifull gaue them a sacred signe to bee preserued and restored to health that is to say the signe of the Brazen Serpent erected vp on high which was a Figure of Iesus Christ crucified This in briefe is the greatest part of the Signes Sacrifices and Sacraments instituted by God in the first Church of the Israelites being figures of the true and perfect sacrifice accomplished and immolated by Iesus Christ the true Messias the Eternall Priest who sits at the right hand of God his Father CHAP. III. Of Corruptions NOW wee must succinctly produce how Man by his owne fault falling into obliuion and disobedience against GOD his Creator abused herein diuine fauour and grace and corrupted the sacred signes sacrifices Sacraments by him ordain'd and instituted For else what perswaded our first Father and his Wife Eue to hide themselues when they heard and were set in the way of God but that they had abused his sacred signes and violated the Law of those Fruits prohibited and forbidden them This holy signe which our first Parents so alienated and abused was the originall of other Vices and corruptions hereafter described wherein two men are falne hauing a rellish of the corrupt masse in Adam Omitting the particular corruptions of signes sacrifices and Sacraments before the Law written by Moses we will begin in setting downe briefely the most notable errors committed by the greatest Sacrificers Kings and Priests with others that had the gouernment and charge of the people When Moses remained in Mount Sinai to receiue the Commandements from God his brother Aaron the High Priest caused a golden Calfe to be framed of the earings deliuered vnto him by the people of Israel hee built an Altar offered Incense and celebrated Sacrifice causing the common people to adore this Image Was not this an abusing of the sacrifices ordained by God and a corrupting of their true vse procuring the same to be ador'd which before was it selfe offered and immolated according as the custome was His sonnes also Nadab and Abihu were they not consum'd with fire because they adulterated the true vse of sacrifices and tooke vnconsecrated wood by corrupting the instituted Law The people of Israel ingratefull for the benefit receiued in being deliuered from Pharaohs captiuitie did they not murmure against the holy Sacrament of celestiall Manna when they contemned and despised this Bread of Life crying out for flesh to eate Achan the sonne of Charmes did not hee violate the Law of sacred signes when hee committed sacriledge by detaining the spoiles of Iericho which were vowed and consecrated for sacrifices to God If any man more curious desires to see the abuses and corruptions continued by the same people let him reade the Histories of the Iudges of Israel and he shall perceiue that in all ages men haue neuer been content with the true adoration instituted by God but in stead of externall signes constituted by God to drawe the people to his feare and obedience they haue forged and brought in their owne inuentions and in stead of reuerencing the Altars and the Arke of Couenant in the name of the lonely one God which were externall sacred signes the Israelites mis-led by the Idolatries of their neighbours the Syrians Sidonians Moabites Ammonites and Palestines erected Altars to strange gods to Baal and Astaroth Iephta Iudge and Conductor of the Israelites did not he corrupt the Law of Sacrifices when he offered vp his owne

by forme of a recapitulation compare the institutions of the Sacraments ordained by God First of all the fruits of the knowledge of good and ill forbidden to our first father Adam as sacred signes and sacraments of feare and obedience whereon depended life or death were they transubstantiated or conuerted into knowledge or into death to leaue their nature of being trees or fruits reduced to an accident without substance The celestiall Manna and the Rocke gushing out liuely water Sacraments that had reference to the holy Sacrament of the supper were they transubstantiated into an accident without substance The vnspotted Lambs immolated by Abel in his acceptable sacrifice to God were they transubstantiated into any other nature The Fore-skinne circumcised for a note and marke of couenant to the good Patriarche Abraham and his posterity was it conuerted into an accident without substance The blood of the Paschall Lamb for an assurance of Israels saluation was that conuerted into any other substance The flesh of the immaculate Lambe to bee eaten on the day of the Passeouer a true figure of the holy Sacrament of the supper was it transubstantiated into an accident without substance The brazen Serpent which being only beheld health was granted to the sicke did it not continue a Serpent of brasse was that transubstantiated being ordained for a Sacrament and sacred signe to the people of Israel Victimes offered in sacrifice both of beasts of the earth and azimall loaues with other sacred signes ordained by God for holy signes and sacraments of expiation and saluation for the people of Israel were they euer transubstantiated into accidents without substance All sacred signes ordained by God in the Israelitish Church though they really and sacramently represented that which was by them figured and not as a simple picture without reall effect yet did there neuer liue so detestable an heretique which inuented or added thereunto this Magicke of transubstantiation And neuerthelesse O Missalians you must needs confesse that the good and holy Fathers of Israel were adopted engrafted and regenerated by faith in Iesus Christ begotten before all ages that they were nourished and purchased eternall life by Iesus Christ that they and we haue but one God and one onely Iesus Christ one Mediator and Redeeme● That by faith they sacramentally communicated and participated spiritually of the blood of Iesus Christ for their saluation and eternall life That there is no difference touching God betweene them who did precede the incarnation of Iesus Christ and vs that were since his incarnation but both they and wee are equally the Church of God redeemed by the blood of the iust and vnspotted Lambe Christ Iesus For the rest they had a faith of the future promise and obserued the holy Sacraments and sacred Symboles of the Sacrifice which should be consummated by Iesus Christ and wee in the new law celebrate the memoriall and remembrance of the sacrifice now finished by Iesus Christ hauing a fruition of the promise accomplished If then the Israelites eate the same celestiall bread and drunke the same sauing drinke which we doe by faith in one onely Iesus Christ If they had sacred signes to represent actually and really the future death of Iesus Christ euen as we retaine sacred signes of his present or past death they for the future and we for that which is past why did the Missalians inuent this new magicke to conuert an holy Sacrament ordained by God into a magicke of transubstantiation and into an accident without substance I God to approue his power and to manifest the hardnesse and obstinacy of Pharaoh was pleased to performe wonderfull things by Moses and Aaron by conuerting a Rod into a Serpent water of the riuer into blood and into frogs the dust of the earth into lice and then to make the nauigable sea d●y performing many other miracles can we by this infer a transubstantiation of the little round azimall host printed with images into an accident without a substance In what place of the holy Scriptures when mention is made of sacred signes and Sacraments or sacrifices ordained by God is it said that the signe or sacrament was transubstantiated But on the contrary Gods will accommodating it selfe to mans infirmity he ordained from time to time cōmon signes for notes marks of assurance of the thing signified wherein Gods power is the more renowned and exalted in really giuing vs what by the sacred signe is represented by the vertue of faith and of the holy Ghost as if the signe it selfe had beene really transubstantiated by some occular miracle For the Sacraments comprehend in them more spirituall then carnall sense For this reason God by his Prophets euer blamed his people of Israel for vnderstanding the sacraments too carnally as succinctly we haue before declared But tell me O Missalians when Iesus Christ made it knowne how himselfe was the true bread of life descended from heauen to conferre life eternall and how these sacramentall words of eating his flesh and drinking his blood were to be vnderstood wherewith the Capernaits your Predecessors were scandalized did he teach vs in this interpretation that to eate his flesh should be meant by a little round transubstantiated host that the round host of flower and the wine is no more bread or wine but accidents without substance Is this your abhominable magicke the doctrine of Iesus Christ Nothing lesse But Iesus Christ like a true and heauenly Lawgiuer who can onely sincerely interpret his owne law made answer to the Capernait Doctors how they were grosse and carnall minded minding onely the flesh as you Missalians doe though the flesh alone profits nothing alleaging how his sacramental words were spirituall The flesh saith he profits nothing but the spirit quickens As also O Missalians how can you religiously accord your transubstantiation with the doctrine of Iesus Christ which promiseth and assureth eternall life to those that shall eate his flesh and drinke his blood if you conceiue these words carnally For you cannot be ignorant but that your owne bodies when they haue deuoured these round transubstantiated hosts into flesh and bones drunke and taken downe the transubstantiated wine into blood notwithstanding liue are mortal through the necessity of the law Wherefore eternall life promised by this communion cannot be vnderstood by a mortall body or flesh And therefore of necessity you must needs acknowledge for the most sacred interpretation that to eate the body and drinke the blood of Iesus Christ must haue reference to a spirituall and heauenly life and that the flesh profits nothing but the spirituall words and the communion of the body and blood of Iesus Christ by faith and spirit giue eternall life This interpretation is many times recited by the holy Apost●e St. Iohn when Iesus Christ himselfe vseth these words Hee that comes to mee shall neuer hunger he that beleeues in

that wipes out the sinnes of the world can wee herevpon induce a transubstantiation If Iesus Christ said that he was the doore of the sheepe-fold by whom we must enter to be saued And that hee is the good Pastor and wee his sheepe must we needs so straine and wrest these places of the holy Scripture as to thinke it necessary because the word est is mentioned to beleeue a transubstantiation When Iesus Christ admonished his Apostles saying that they were the salt of the earth did hee therefore transubstantiate or conuert them into Statues of Pillars of salt as he did Lots Wife If Iesus Christ said by his Apostles that we are the Temples of God in which the holy Ghost inhabits must wee therefore imagine that we are transubstantiated into a masse of stone If the holy Apostle writ that Iesus Christ is the Rocke out of whom came liuing water to wash and purge vs from our sinnes Must we wrest out of this a transmutation and transubstantiation of Iesus Christ into a Rocke or a materiall stone If the holy Apostle testifieth that we are the bodie of Christ may wee by this inferre that we are translated and now no more men but transubstantiated into an accident without substance I readily foresee O you obdurate Missalians that you will obiect all these pre-alleadged places wherein this word est is and make no mention of the Sacraments which must the more exactly bee obserued in that these be sacred mysteries ordained of God which is most true And this word est is not onely found in the holy Scriptures formerly cited but when we speake of holy Sacraments first instituted by God for his people of Israel is it written that Circumcision is Gods alliance and Couenant In the other holy Sacrament of the Communion of the Paschall Lambe was it said that the Lambe was the Passeouer which is to say the passage But shall we induce hereupon a Magicke of transubstantiation Will you not confesse O Missalian transubstantiators that in these passages of the holy Scriptures speaking of holy Sacraments that this word est can not be otherwise interpreted then to signifie some reall performance and that Circumcision was a signe and a marke of the Couenant and alliance contracted by God with Abraham The Paschall Lambe was also a sacred signe of the passage for a remembrance of their deliuerie out of Egypt The Arke of alliance for another Sacrament of which it is written that it is the truth and power of the Lord Must wee vnderstand by this that it was transubstantiated into the reall Maiestie of God Wee must wee must I say interpret the holy Scriptures with discretion and in humilitie without sophistication and without Magicke soundly to apprehend the conception of words and not sticke so close to the letter which kils but receiue the Word of God in liuely spirit If then the sacred Arke is called the Lord and nominated God because in it he exercised his omnipotent power and declared his Oracles and mysteries by exteriour signes to draw the Israelitish people to bee mindfull of God and to feare and obey him If Iesus Christ also said that hee was bread which came downe from Heauen the Bread of Life and that the Wine was his bloud that the Cup is the New Testament by the externall signes of Bread and Wine to giue vs to vnderstand that our life and sauing nutriment depended onely on Iesus Christ and that by his death bloodshed we haue assurance of eternall life euen as bread and Wine serue for corporall nourishment and that he meant and ordained these sacred signes to bee to vs for Sacraments to approue and confirme our faith Did he determin we should hereby Capernize Nicodemize to enquire or make doubt of Gods power how it is possible to eate the body or drinke the blood of Iesus Christ how we can possibly be regenerated and borne anew Seeing the promise was made vnto vs by the Word wherefore haue you O Missalians conceiued a carnall transubstantiation distrusting in the incomprehensible power of God May it not suffice you simply to beleeue that the body and blood of Iesus Christ was really and sacramentally offered to communicate thereof for our spirituall nourishment and to grant vs eternall life through the Bread and Wine consecrated with giuing of thankes the bread being truely his bodie and the Wine his Blood which we must worthily receiue by faith and puritie of conscience as sacred signes and markes of the diuine Character without searching too subtilly after the meanes other then the plaine interpretation of Iesus Christ that the flesh profits not but the Spirit quickens and that his words are spirit and life Should wee doubt whether God hath power by the symboles of Bread and Wine consecrated to make vs communicate of the bodie and blood of Iesus Christ though the bread remaine bread and the wine wine If it were otherwise this could be no Sacrament but rather called a Miracle As when Iesus Christ conuerted the Water into Wine hee then vsed the miracle of transubstantiation changing the Water into Wine But hee ordained not this for a Sacrament as he did the communion of his body blood by the sacred figures of Bread and Wine Was it not also as easie for God to change the Wine into blood or the bread into flesh as for Moses and Aaron to change the water of the Riuer into blood to confirme the hardnes of Pharaohs heart or when the clouds were turned into the flesh of Quailes that rained vpon the people of Israel Neuerthelesse God did not ordaine that these miracles should serue for ordinarie Sacraments but herein he applyed himselfe to our infirmitie exhibiting to vs sacred but not transubstantiated signes and yet are not vaine nor fantasticall but signes externall that we may behold touch eate and taste remaining still in their substance and neuerthelesse they represent sacramentally what is by them comprehended and intimated wherein consists the approbation of our faith to manifest by a sacramentall worke and ministration that wee are in the number of the regenerate and sustained by the holy Sacraments of Baptisme and the Supper CHAP. XXII Comparison betweene the two holy Sacraments IF wee may presume to make comparison of the two holy Sacraments of Baptisme and of the Supper though there bee a difference betweene it and regeneration which is not reiterated For it sufficeth that we be once regenerate and begotten anew but this spirituall nutriment is often renued according to the course of nature and other differences very amply described by the holy Apostles and Ministers of Gods Word Notwithstanding the same end the same Iesus Christ is represented as well in Baptisme as in the Supper By the blood of Iesus Christ wee are regenerated and by the same blood nourished By the blood of Iesus Christ we are renued sett and