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A53750	A true and lively representation of popery shewing that popery is only new-modell'd paganism, and perfectly destructive of the great ends and purposes of God in the Gospel.	Owen, Thankfull, 1620-1681.	1679 (1679)	Wing O830; ESTC R18583	46,596	82

religious worship to any Creature whether to Saints and Angels or Demons and Heroes is a making or having other Gods before the true and everliving God and this being so expresly forbidden by the God of Israel it is most certain that all erecting Images to be bowed to or worshipped in reference to these is forbidden also But I am fallen upon the second Branch of the Parallel afore I was aware that is that as the Images of the Pagans so likewise of the Papists are Symbolical Representations of the Gods they worship That the Image of Christ or of the Virgin Mary or of this or that Saint should be like the carnal Figure of those Persons while they lived on Earth is extremely uncertain suppose now a devout Papist bowing down and worshipping the Image of the Blessed Virgin if this worship be given with respect to the Personal Similitude the Image hath with the Party it represents it will certainly fall upon some other perhaps wicked Person and not upon the holy Virgin The Picture of the beautiful Curtizan Phryne was placed upon a high Pillar at Delphos and according to the Features and Lineaments of this as of the most exquisite Beauty was drawn the Picture of the Goddess Venus and therefore 't is certain that the Strumpet Phryne and not the Goddess will be the ultimate object of the religious worship given to the supposed Picture of Venus This I say will follow upon account of Personal Similitude But that they account them symbolical Representations and worship Images as the Israelites worshipped the Golden Calf with reference to Jehovah and intended it as the Symbol of his presence is manifest from the Images they make of God wickedly representing the sacred and ever-to-be-adored Trinity under the Figure of an old Man in sacerdotal Vestments with a tripple Crown and a young Man and a Dove and this is proposed not only to be gazed upon but to be worshipped So Cajetan Images of the Trinity are painted in the Roman Church In 3. p. Tho. 9.25 ar 3. not only that they may be shewed or looked on as the Cherubims of old time were in the Temple but that they may be adored 3. The Papists agreeably to the Pagans affirm that they use Images in their religious worship as sensible helps to excite and stir up their Devotion and fix their Imaginations upon When the Council of Nice had established the worship of the Images of Christ the Virgin Mary and all the Saints according to the Excellency and Venerability of their Prototypes they add this Reason as Photius says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. For even by these are we carried up into a certain Unitive and Conjunctive Vision and thereby are vouchsafed that divine and supernatural Conjunction or Contact with the highest of all desirables As if by the worshipping of Images the Souls of Men were transported beyond themselves and carried up in Ecstatical Raptures to an Union with God himself Which is no more than what Pope Adrian who influenced that Council writes to the Empress Irene and her Son Constantine In the whole Christian World says he the holy Images are honoured or worshipped by Believers Ut per visibilem vultum ad invisibilem Divinitatis Majestatem mens nostra spirituali affectu rapiatur i. e. That by that sensible Figure our Mind may be carried by a spiritual affection to the invisible Majesty of the Divinity By which Testimonies it is clear as the Meridian Light that the Romanists worship Images as helps to quicken and draw up their affections in a more inflamed and vigorous manner to the Deity they adore And though the great Sticklers for Image-worship use many Niceties and raise a Cloud of Dust by their subtil Distinctions to blind the Eyes of the People that they may not see to the bottom of this their gross Idolatry yet can they never clear themselves from that foul and detestable Crime For though the Council of Trent express no particular but only with great caution define that due honour and worship be given to Images yet by referring us to the second Council of Nice it is plain that the Council of Trent decreed the same that the Nicene Council had done before and the Nicene Synod decreed such worship to be due to Images as the Council of Franefort said was not due but condemned by the Scriptures and the constant Practice of the Primitive Church To this purpose there is a Story in Roger Hoveden P. 1. Annal An. 792. a Native Historian of the Affairs of Britain Charles the French King says he sent a Synodal into Britain directed unto him from Constantinople in the which Book many things out alas inconvenient and repugnant to right Faith were found especially it was confirmed almost by the unanimous consent of all the Eastern Doctors no less than three hundred or more That Images ought to be worshipped which thing the Church of God doth altogether detest and abhor Against which Synodal Book Albinus wrote an Epistle marvellously confirmed by Authority of Divine Scripture and carried the same to the French King together with the foresaid Book in the name of our Bishops and Princes And not only in Britain but in other places this abominable Practice of Image-worship was condemned by the best and wisest Men of the best times and ages The Council of Eliberis in Spain forbad the use of Pictures in Churches for this reason Eliber Can. 36. Lest that which is worshipped or adored be painted upon the Walls To the same purpose the fourth Council at Constantinople cites the same words of Epiphanius against placing Images in Churches Thus another Synod at Constantinople consisting of 338 Bishops under Constantius Copronymus An. Dom. 753. forbad all religious use of Images in Churches or out of them And so much of their Decree as prohibited the worship of Images was again confirm'd by the Council of Francfort where the Bishops of Italy France and Germany were assembled by the command of the Emperour Charles the Great to that purpose To these we may add the Council of Mentz and the second Council of Sens in which Image-worship was opposed and cautioned against And a Greek Historian informs us that when Frederick 1. the Emperour who led his Army to the Conquest of the Holy Land Njcetas Chron. l. 2. An. Dom. 1180. entered into Armenia the Christians of those Parts did lovingly receive them because the worship of Images was not admitted amongst them as amongst other Northern People And lastly for the Doctrine and Practice of the first and best ages of the Church it was very remarkable what is told by Aelius Lampridius in the Life of Alexander Severus That when Adrian the Emperour had commanded Churches to be built without Images it was supposed he intended them for the service of Christ Than which saith that learned Bishop Dr. Taylor there needs no greater Ductor dubit l. 2. c. 2. or clearer Instance of the