[ 1231] Sacriledg, the heavy Iudgments of God depending thereon.
POmpey the Great,* 1.1 who is noted by Titus Livius, and Cicero, to be one of the most fortunate Souldiers in the World, yet after he had abused and rob∣bed the Temple of Ierusalem, he never prospered; but, velut unda s••pervenit un∣dam, as one wave followeth another, so ill successes succeeded to him, one on the neck of another, till at last he made an end of an unhappy life by a mise∣rable death; Many more Examples of the like nature are recorded to poste∣rity: To what purpose? To forewarn them of the heavy Iudgments that de∣pend upon all Sacrilegers, that as the A••k of God could find no resting place amongst the Philistines,* 1.2 but was removed from Asdod to Gath, from Gath to Ekron, and so from place to place, till it came to it's own proper place; so shall it be with the goods of Gods Church, of what nature soever, being wrung out of the Churche's hands by violence, Quae malignè contraxit Pater, pejori fluxu re∣fundet haeres,* 1.3 That which the Father hath so wickedly scraped together, the Sonne shall more wickedly scatter abroad, and so it shall passe and repasse from one to an∣other untill it be far enough from him and his, for whom it was collected, so t••at the out-side of all his goodly purchase will be the Iudgment of God against him∣self, and the curse of God to remain upon his Posterity.