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A68609	Certaine sermons preached by Iohn Prideaux, rector of Exeter Colledge, his Maiestie's professor in divinity in Oxford, and chaplaine in ordinary; Sermons. Selected sermons	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.	1636 (1636)	STC 20345; ESTC S115233	325,201	634

19. 1. Wee are not so simple learned Gregory But wee can tell you out of your owne Schoolemen that Idolatry is superstition and superstition Aq. 22. q. 22. art 1. is a fault opposed to religion for these 2 reasons Quia exhibet cultum divinum vel cui non debet vel eo modo quo non debet because it exhibits Divine worship not only to that which it ought not but also in another manner then it ought Idolaters therefore they are to bee accounted as one aptly saies on this place Qui colunt falsum Deum aut verum falso cultu first those who worship a false God Paocus and then those that worship the true God falsely The first is the most grosse and stupid Idolatry But the second the more dangerous and infectiue by reason of it's affinity and commerce with earnest devotion for which it is often mistaken 4 For further Illustration hereof two notable instances amongst the rest the Scripture it selfe affords vs. The one 1. Kings 16.31 Where Achab is Chronicled to haue out-strip't in Idolatry all his Predecessors for that hee made it but a light matter to retaine Ieroboams Calues wherein they worshipped the true God after an Idolatrous manner but brought in Baal of the Sydonians and built him an Altar and house to worship that ridiculous Blocke insteed of the living God The other is as manifest here in the twofold Idolatry practised by the Israelites in the wildernesse which the Prophet David thus expresseth Psal 106. In the first they turned the glory of God into the similitude of a Calfe that eateth hay In the second they ioyned themselues to Baal-Peor which S. Hierome and most Interpreters hold to bee the Heathenish Priapus and ate the offerings of the dead Now wee know Beloued that all turning is dangerous especially where the glory of God is any way intrenched vpon but to turne that glory which was their only glory not into a living creature but into a bare similitude not of the chiefest of the Beasts of the field or a labouring Oxe that treadeth out the corne but into the similitude of an idle Calfe that is good for nothing but to eat hay and so to come to the shambles this turning must needs bee an overturning of all their former happinesse and could not chuse but turne from them all Gods gratious favours that so compassed them about Yet in this wee haue not but the worship of the true God in a false manner whereas in the ioyning afterward to Baal-Peor Vers 28. the true God was wholly excluded and Priapus had all the devotion There is one Philip Monceus a French man that hath written not long since a booke which hee intitles Aaron purgatus and hath the picture of this golden Calfe set in the Frontispice his purpose is therein to make good these fiue points amongst others which I touch not First that Aaron was no way in fault but the people only Secondly that this Calfe was but the resemblance of that Angel which was promised by Moses should be their conductour into the land of Canaan Thirdly that it was but an vnseasonable anticipation or doing before hand by Aaron which was presently after done by Moses himselfe when he descended from the Mount and made the Arke and Cherubims which came to all one with this Calfe Fourthly that the peoples folly abused it afterwards to Idolatry much against Aarons will And last of all that Ieroboams Calues erected also in Dan and Bethel were not Idolatrous but only schismaticall This booke is dedicated to Paul the 5. not long since Pope and allowed by the chiefest Doctors of Paris and all because it cleareth Aaron the first high Priest from the blot of Idolatry which makes for the Popes infallibility 2. And then maintaines that worshipping the true God in a Calfe much lesse in other representations is no Idolatry which iustifies Romes practise against all those that mislike her doings To such shifts these great Schollers are brought who having once grosly overshot themselues refuse to reforme any thing One Visorius a Sorbon Doctor of purpose writes against this fancy and takes the learned and subtill Cardinal Perrone for his Patron as Monceus did Paul the 5. Monceus seemes to bee cryed downe but the opinion still is vpheld that to worship the true God in an Image or other representation is no Idolatry against which the Apostles prohibition lyes here in force 5 Neither be yee Idolaters For is it to bee imagined B. that this people of Israel so miraculously deliuered from the bondage of Egypt so passed through the red sea so fed from heaven in the wildernesse so lead by a guiding pillar of the Lords appointment and at that instant too so summoned in a terrible manner to receiue iniunctions from Gods owne mouth could bee so perverse and stupid as to attribute Divine worship vnto the similitude of a Calfe whose materials they had but newly contributed out of their wiues and childrens earerings whose forme they saw how cast how graven whose motion they found none or station any but as they erected it Had their acclamations thinke wee no further aime These are thy Gods O Israel that brought thee out of the land of Egypt then to a dumbe Idole not in being when they were so delivered and now being stood to convince them of a grosse contradiction if by Elohim thy Gods they meant not that Deitie which they made this to represent And what should we hold of Aaron soe wise a man and so highly honoured of God would he thinke you haue offered to build an Altar and then offer vpō it would he haue proclaimed a feast to Iehovah afforded the Incommunicable name of Iehouah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to a blockish representation of a contemptible beast so lately of his own hammering I shall never belieue they were so farre ingaged in this behalfe Laines Hist Concil Trident l. 8. Bellar. de Imagin l. 2.21 as the Iesuites bee to hold that any Divine worship is terminated in an image by reason of the reference it hath to the Deity or Saint it represents Out of doubt they come no further on then the wisest amongst the Heathens as wee haue from Lactantius Institution lib. 2. Arnob. Clemens Alexand August c. and other ancients who protested they worshipped not the dumbe resemblance erected in their Temples but before them and in them the Deityes represented by them They can then bee charged here with no greater abomination then that they represented and worshipped their Elohim and Iehouah in the forme of a golden Calfe and yet their golden invention and good intention and zealous contention to haue all things well is branded as you see with no other stampe then that of Idolatry 6 Now to them that hold some Idolatry to bee lawfull Neque absurdè profeclò putaveris B. Petrum insinuauisse cultum aliquem simulachrorum nempe sacrarum Imaginum rectum