Mirrovr of new reformation wherein reformers, by their owne acknowledgement, are represented ad viuum. The beauty also of their handy-worke is displayed |
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XXIII. VPON REFORMERS DOCTRINE of Predestination.
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XXIII. VPON REFORMERS DOCTRINE of Predestination.
E're Rome, the words then Empresse, did embraceThat sacred truth, whose path she now doth trace,
Mettal and stone, her owne workes, she ador'd,
And help, of what requir'd her help, implor'd.
The ioyful reapers of the fruits of Nile
Worship't a Cat, Dog, Bul and Crocodile,
Ibis and Hawkes; yea offered vp their groanes
To Beetles, Aspes, Garlick, and Onyons.
Snakes, Adders, Tygers, Skrich-owles, Bats, and Trees,
Hearbs, Beasts, and Birds are Congo's Deities.
To the Diuel Calicute doth prayer assigne,
Yea to an Ape, Elephants, and Kine.
In sacrifice she feeds the Diuel wel,
And giues him musike: spacious Tartary
And fayre Cathaga much deuoted be
To a God of Felt, in whose conceit Earth, Fire,
Sunne, W*ter, Starres, the like respect require.
The Philippina's doe adore an Oxe
Peru a mount of sand, a Cocke, and Foxe,
An Emerald and Thunder: Mexico
Before a liuing Slaue as God doth bow;
Yea to a masse of Paste which long hath stood
Tempred in Childrens and in virgins blood.
The lands betwixt Cambaia and Malabar
Th'first thing they meet, after the morning starre
Hath told the Sunn's approach, be't Bul or Boare
Or any Creature els, they low adore.
Rude mishap't Stones industrious China makes
Her Gods, with heauen and Hel-hags wound with snakes.
To a Flint Narsinga; th'farthest Moschifal
To an old wiue's shape; Lithuania to a Mal.
And in this sottish manner diuers more,
For their Creatour, creatures doe adore:
Al foolishly, I grant; yet al hope
The Calicutians adore the Diuel, who is appointed (say they) by God to reward euery man according to their workes. Lodou. Patrich. Rom. nauig. l. 5. c. 2. The Virginians likewise hold that the soule is rewarded after this life according to her works. Purch. pilgrim l. 8. c. 6. the like may be also seen in the rest, whosoeuer shal peruse their histories.
Some good by this their superstitious paine;
And think, that in reward each God proceeds
With euery one according to his deeds.
But Protestants serue such a Tyrant God
Let not any of the Tyrant-worshippers accuse me heer of blasphemy, for I doe not in this place speake of the God of Catholikes, Iesus Christ: for he wil (as himself saith) render vnto euery one according to his works. Math. 16. v. 27. Luc. 6. vers. 38. Rom. 2. Cor. 1. 3. Gal. 6. Apoc. vlt. Psal. 65.
As doth (say they)
The God of Reformers doth ordaine by his counsel and decree, that among men some be borne destined to certaine damnation from their mothers womb, who by their destruction may glorify him (Caluin, Instit. l. 3. c. 23. sect. 6.) & this without any respect had to their works either good or euil. M. will. let. Synop. p. 554. See also for this opinion Calu. Instit. print. Argentorat. p. 253. Luther lib. de ser. arbitr. Beza respons. ad acta colloqu. Montisberg. part. 2. p. 233. 165. Pet. Mart. comm. places, part. 3. p. 12. and many more.
Of his eternal wrath, no care once had
Of any of their actions good or bad:
Yea though they be the chiefe in Vertue's schoole,
They must be damn'd: Which is the greatest foole?
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