Sacrilegious persons, condemned. [ 1986]
THe antient Romans by the light of Nature disliked and checked Quint. Ful∣vius Flaccus,* 1.1 because he had uncovered a great part of Iuno's Temple, to cover another Temple of Fortune with the same tiles; they told him that Pyr∣rhus and Hannibal would not have done the like, and that it had been too much to have done to a private dwelling house, being a place far inferiour to a Temple; and in conclusion forced and compelled him by a publique decree in Senate, to send home those tiles again: What a shame then is it for Christians such as pretend to be knowing Christians to come behind the Heathen,* 1.2 who did more for their Idols, then they will do for the honour of the true God, such sacrilegious wretches as rob the Church and enrich themselves with the spoils thereof, such as take the houses of God into their own possession,* 1.3 and with that Whore in the Proverbs, wipe their mouths as if they had done no hurt at all; but let all such know, that their wealth so gotten shall melt as Snow before the Sun; and their Fields of bloud purchased by the spoil of Christ, shall prove as