Albions England A Continued Historie of the same Kingdome, from the Originals of the first Inhabitants thereof: With most the chiefe Alterations and Accidents theare hapning, vnto, and in the happie Raigne of our now most gracious Soueraigne, Queene Elizabeth: Not barren in varietie of inuentiue and historicall Intermixtures: First penned and published by William Warner: and now reuised, and newly inlarged by the same Author: Whereunto is also newly added an Epitome of the whole Historie of England |
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CHAP. LXXVII.
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CHAP. LXXVII.
By now, perhaps, thou sauorests some Godhead: yeat, is ods.
With paste and present times doest dreame Pluralitie of Gods.
So did in deed the Monarchies, so Miscreants now not few:
But listen here what Gods they were, and learne them to eschew.
Th' AEgyptians cowes, calues, cats, dogs, diuels, trees, herbs, & like let pas,
With other Ethnicks mē-made Gods, whēce man corrupted was,
(For as now-Romists haue their Saints for euery Turne, so thay
Had houshold and peculiar Gods sans count for ech assay)
And let our Iurie fill of twelue those He-Gods, and those Shees,
Hild of the greater Nations for their Arch-Gods: which are thees.
First Iupiter, that did vsurpe his father Saturns Throne,
Of whom euen his Adorers write euill Taches many an one.
The like of all these other Gods and Goddesses they do:
Of Neptune, Mars, of Mercurie, Vulcan, Apollo to,
Of Vesta, Ceres, Dian, Ops, of Venus, and Minerue:
How all these Deities than Men more brutishly did swerue.
So that an heathen Poet said that, had those Gods their righte,
From heauen & Temples for their faults they should be banish't quite.
Sybil, assoiling Oracles in Caue where she did dwell,
Did terme their Shrines but Graues of men, them Ghosts & Feends of hell.
Their best Reporters say, these Gods were made by men, to make
Posterities, for honors like, like acts to vndertake.
For, whosoever profetted by Prowes or Policie,
The old Idolaters were wont the same to deifie.
How many Pennes Genealogize their Godheads from their bearthes?
All which implie them mearly Men, both by their liues and deathes.
Which knowledge of the Pettigrees of Gods, so easely made,
What moe did Alexander to be deified perswade.
With paste and present times doest dreame Pluralitie of Gods.
So did in deed the Monarchies, so Miscreants now not few:
But listen here what Gods they were, and learne them to eschew.
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With other Ethnicks mē-made Gods, whēce man corrupted was,
(For as now-Romists haue their Saints for euery Turne, so thay
Had houshold and peculiar Gods sans count for ech assay)
And let our Iurie fill of twelue those He-Gods, and those Shees,
Hild of the greater Nations for their Arch-Gods: which are thees.
First Iupiter, that did vsurpe his father Saturns Throne,
Of whom euen his Adorers write euill Taches many an one.
The like of all these other Gods and Goddesses they do:
Of Neptune, Mars, of Mercurie, Vulcan, Apollo to,
Of Vesta, Ceres, Dian, Ops, of Venus, and Minerue:
How all these Deities than Men more brutishly did swerue.
So that an heathen Poet said that, had those Gods their righte,
From heauen & Temples for their faults they should be banish't quite.
Sybil, assoiling Oracles in Caue where she did dwell,
Did terme their Shrines but Graues of men, them Ghosts & Feends of hell.
Their best Reporters say, these Gods were made by men, to make
Posterities, for honors like, like acts to vndertake.
For, whosoever profetted by Prowes or Policie,
The old Idolaters were wont the same to deifie.
How many Pennes Genealogize their Godheads from their bearthes?
All which implie them mearly Men, both by their liues and deathes.
Which knowledge of the Pettigrees of Gods, so easely made,
What moe did Alexander to be deified perswade.
Thus blinded men, that would be Gods, by verie God were brought
To worship meare Inuentions, yea inferior Things of nought.
Wherin permitted Sathan plaid, & plaies his kindly parte,
And fewels Superstitions fier with hels malitious Arte.
How Nembroth, Belus, Ninus, by the names of Saturne then,
Of Iupiter, and Hercules (for so were cald of men
The Father, Sonne, and grand-Childe of ech Nation-founder) were
Esteemed in their Images, to Sathan did appeare:
Obseruing which of Images, he hous'd himselfe them in,
And, star-skil'd, opportunely there did Oracles begin.
Nor wonder we hereat, for why? euen still Discoueries finde
Great Nations, by Elusions like, in all alike soule-blinde.
Of such like Stocks branch't such like Gods: Neptune, Apollo, and
The either Sexts Genealogie, for Turnes on Sea or Land.
And wicked Spirts did possesse their Images: whereby
Eb'd true Religion in that Flood of Mans Idolatry.
Hence that at Delphos, Cuma, and the Dodan Okes did speake:
Howbeit hit-I-misse-I, when was Speculation weake.
Yeat, howsoere those Oracles of men were vnderstood,
Double Construction euer made their Prothean Problemes good.
But, should yee heare what worshipping these goodly Gods exact,
Euen horror would from Tyrants, shame from harlots flow vnrack't.
To worship meare Inuentions, yea inferior Things of nought.
Wherin permitted Sathan plaid, & plaies his kindly parte,
And fewels Superstitions fier with hels malitious Arte.
How Nembroth, Belus, Ninus, by the names of Saturne then,
Of Iupiter, and Hercules (for so were cald of men
The Father, Sonne, and grand-Childe of ech Nation-founder) were
Esteemed in their Images, to Sathan did appeare:
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And, star-skil'd, opportunely there did Oracles begin.
Nor wonder we hereat, for why? euen still Discoueries finde
Great Nations, by Elusions like, in all alike soule-blinde.
Of such like Stocks branch't such like Gods: Neptune, Apollo, and
The either Sexts Genealogie, for Turnes on Sea or Land.
And wicked Spirts did possesse their Images: whereby
Eb'd true Religion in that Flood of Mans Idolatry.
Hence that at Delphos, Cuma, and the Dodan Okes did speake:
Howbeit hit-I-misse-I, when was Speculation weake.
Yeat, howsoere those Oracles of men were vnderstood,
Double Construction euer made their Prothean Problemes good.
But, should yee heare what worshipping these goodly Gods exact,
Euen horror would from Tyrants, shame from harlots flow vnrack't.
When first they did in humaine hearts themselues insinuate,
Not tedious Suffrages they ask't, nor Sacrifices strate:
Desirous rather to be ask't, than dangerous to assoile:
For meane Oblations, euen for flowers, for white-meats, meale, or oile.
But, superstitiously, when they seduced had, by skill
Obserued from the Stars (whereby they arted mens good-will)
They asked golden Deckings, and most gorgious Temples had,
And he that most their Treasuries inriched most was glad.
Whole droues of Cattle washed then their bloody Altars, and
Peculiar Gods, with proper Rites, were wow'de of euerie land.
From pettite Bribes, and slaughtred Beasts, to humaine blood it grew:
We read, that one to Iupiter at once three hundred slew,
Of Children tyth'de to them, yoongmen and Virgens sacrifiz'd,
Of diuers blooddy Tributes for some Crymes by them surmiz'd.
What Expedition (if were they consulted) but be gonne,
And ended in some guiltlesse bloood of daughter, or of Sonne.
Were neuer Tyrants but for Deaths some collour would pretend:
But to be guiltlesse did vnto these Altars soules commend:
Yea, not to slaie the choisests did those diuelish Gods offend.
What did their sword-play Feasts but to their hacksters slaughter tend?
The baffling of those Gods themselues, in those ribaldious Plaies
To them erected, worthy of their Godheads worthlesse praies:
Their most incestious, lecrerous, & routious Drinke-mad Feasts,
(Wherein were acted ouglier things than to be found mong'st Beasts)
As Berecyntales, Venbrales, their Bacunales, and like
Would into meanely modest Eares, if told, abhorring strike.
Porphyrus, Ploten, Hermes-selfe, Pythagoras and moe
Best learned Heathens thus of this, and worser write than so.
Obserue we then, than thus to serue those Gods what fitter Rites,
Or meanes for to appropriate Men to such soule-slaying Sprites?
So infinitly far in all from being godly as
From something nothing, Being from what nather is nor was.
Nor Myracles, but wonders, they to passe by Physicks brought:
Whear holy men, by very God, euen Myracles haue wrought:
Which onely-God to Atheists next, in Natures Booke, be taught.
For, though indifferencie it were our Scriptures they should trust,
As would they we their Bookes, yeat thence shall not be here discust.
Not tedious Suffrages they ask't, nor Sacrifices strate:
Desirous rather to be ask't, than dangerous to assoile:
For meane Oblations, euen for flowers, for white-meats, meale, or oile.
But, superstitiously, when they seduced had, by skill
Obserued from the Stars (whereby they arted mens good-will)
They asked golden Deckings, and most gorgious Temples had,
And he that most their Treasuries inriched most was glad.
Whole droues of Cattle washed then their bloody Altars, and
Peculiar Gods, with proper Rites, were wow'de of euerie land.
From pettite Bribes, and slaughtred Beasts, to humaine blood it grew:
We read, that one to Iupiter at once three hundred slew,
Of Children tyth'de to them, yoongmen and Virgens sacrifiz'd,
Of diuers blooddy Tributes for some Crymes by them surmiz'd.
What Expedition (if were they consulted) but be gonne,
And ended in some guiltlesse bloood of daughter, or of Sonne.
Were neuer Tyrants but for Deaths some collour would pretend:
But to be guiltlesse did vnto these Altars soules commend:
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What did their sword-play Feasts but to their hacksters slaughter tend?
The baffling of those Gods themselues, in those ribaldious Plaies
To them erected, worthy of their Godheads worthlesse praies:
Their most incestious, lecrerous, & routious Drinke-mad Feasts,
(Wherein were acted ouglier things than to be found mong'st Beasts)
As Berecyntales, Venbrales, their Bacunales, and like
Would into meanely modest Eares, if told, abhorring strike.
Porphyrus, Ploten, Hermes-selfe, Pythagoras and moe
Best learned Heathens thus of this, and worser write than so.
Obserue we then, than thus to serue those Gods what fitter Rites,
Or meanes for to appropriate Men to such soule-slaying Sprites?
So infinitly far in all from being godly as
From something nothing, Being from what nather is nor was.
Nor Myracles, but wonders, they to passe by Physicks brought:
Whear holy men, by very God, euen Myracles haue wrought:
Which onely-God to Atheists next, in Natures Booke, be taught.
For, though indifferencie it were our Scriptures they should trust,
As would they we their Bookes, yeat thence shall not be here discust.
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