An antidote agaynst poperie: most necessarie for all in this back-slyding age. Wherein 1. The trueth is confirmed, by authoritie of scriptures, witnessing of antiquitie, and confession of the popish partie. 2. Popish scripturall arguments are answered, by the exposition both of father and of their own doctours / by William Guild.

1. Authoritie of Scripture.

[ 1] DEVT. 34.6. And h•…•… buried him (to wit, M•…•…¦SES) in a valley in the land Moab, over agaynst Be•…•… Peor: but no man knoweth of〈…〉〈…〉 sepulchre vnto this day.

Loe heere the greatest hon•…•… that the LORD thought fit〈…〉〈…〉 bee given to the bodie of His d•…•…¦rest and faythfull servant Mo•…•… to wit, BVRIALL, which the LO•…•… would haue, for the place there to bee vnknowne, as sayeth Chrysostome,* 1.1 that all occasion Idolatrie might bee cut off:〈…〉〈…〉 as Lyra sayeth, which was d•…•… by GOD, lest the people〈…〉〈…〉 worshipped him, whose mor•…•…¦tie as it showed him, not to〈…〉〈…〉 God, so if it had beene lawfull〈…〉〈…〉 laudable to haue adored his•…•…¦liques,

as the deare servāt of GOD, the LORD had not withdrawne and obscured so this his bodie from His owne people.

2. KING. 23.17.18. Then hee sayde, (to wit, IOSIAH) What title is that which I see? And the men of the Citie tolde [ 2] him, It is the Sepulchre of the man of GOD, which came from Judah, and proclaymed these thinges that thou hast done a∣gaynst the Altar of Bethell. And hee sayd, Let him alone, let no man moue his bones.

Beholde heere agayne the ho∣nour that this Godlie King IO∣SIAH giveth to the bones or re∣liques of the true Prophet of GOD; to wit, no exhumation, nor anie adoration; but onlie that hee will not haue his Sepulchre touched, nor his bones moved out of their place.

2. KING. 13.21. And it [ 3]

came to passe, as they were b•…•…∣rying a man, that beholde, th•…•… spyed a band of men, and th•…•… cast the man into the Sepulch•…•… of Elisha: and when the man w•…•… let downe, and touched the bon•…•… of Elisha, hee revived, and stoo•…•… vp vpon his feet:

Remarke heere, lykewyse, th•…•… greatest honour that was done t•…•… the Prophet ELISHA his body, wa•…•… Buriall. And that tho at the touc•…•… of his bones, for authorizing th•…•… trueth of his prophesies, a mira¦cle was wrought, by the powe•…•… of GOD, (for which cause it〈…〉〈…〉 sayd in ECCLESIASTICV•…•… 48.14. that the bodie of ELISEV•…•… did prophesie in the graue) yet h•…•… bones are not sayde therefore〈…〉〈…〉 haue beene taken vp, inshryned nor worshipped.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Chry∣sost. Hom. 5. in Math Lyra in Deut. 34, So Rhem pref. before the bookes of Ge∣nesis.