Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	bishop_n	church_n	see_v	3,056	5	3.9474	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11828	A short information, but agreeable vnto Scripture: of idol-images· Made vnto the Christian congregation at Prague, when as, by his Royall Maiesties most gracious command, the Castle-church there, was clensed from all images, on Sonday the twelfth of December, in the yeare 1619. By Abraham Scultetus. Faithfully translated according to the high Dutch copie printed at Heidelberge, by Gotthard Vœgeliu, 1620.	Scultetus, Abraham, 1566-1624.	1620 (1620)	STC 22126; ESTC S121082	10,238	24

shewed as is to bee seene in the History of the Reformed Churches in France the fourth Booke that they therefore wished that all Images and Pictures of the holy Trinitie were cleane remoued and wholly put out of Churches and Houses seeing the same are plainly forbidden by the Holy Scripture by Councels and by many godly learned and much praysed worthy men But yet here mee thinkes I heare some man obiect Obiect againe and demand Seeing that the Sonne of God is become man whether he may not be pictured according to his humanity To which I answere Christ came not therefore Ans into the World that men might take his Picture but that men should beleeue in him and conuert themselues vnto him And therefore is it that we haue not any Commandement at all to make any such Image or Picture nor yet haue any example thereof in all the whole new Testament As also he cannot possibly at this day be truly pictured no not according to his humanitie seeing there liues not now any man on the Earth that hath seene him And heere hence it is that one doth paint him with a yellowish another with a flaxen a third with a black the fourth with a brown beard And so then a man must take that for Christ his Picture which the Painter holds in his opinion to be the best Not to say any thing that seeing Christ being true God and man is in one person they who boast to haue his Image and Picture haue thereof notwithstanding but a false Christ Now as concerning the Images and Pictures of Of the Images of Saints the Virgin Mary of Elizabeth and of other holy Saints If a man knew of what forme and fashion they properly were indeed their Pictures might well be had in priuate houses But they are not by any meanes to be there set vp in those places where men performe Gods publique seruice and worship neither to bee prayed vnto no nor yet for ornament sake Not to bee prayed vnto that being a chiefe part of Gods worship For it is written Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe vnto Exod. 20. 5. them nor serue them And againe Thou shalt worship Mat. 4. 10. the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue which is taken from the Law in Deuteronomie Deut. 6. 3. 10. 20. where the word onely is wanting and supplyed by Christ as being Gods true meaning Not for ornament sake for it is written Abstaine 1. Thes 5. 22 from all appearance of euill Now the Images set vpin holy places haue the appearance of being prayed vnto and worshipped For there are many people who thinke and are perswaded they are set vp there for that very end purpose And if they had not that appearance yet there is great danger therein that they may be prayed vnto and worshipped of superstitious people as we haue hitherunto seene that it hath beene but too much practised in this place And we ought as much as in vs lyeth indeuour to auoyd and preuent such danger For it is written Thou shalt not put a stumbling Leuit. 19. 14 block before the blind but thou shalt feare thy God saith the Lord in Leuiticus And againe Christ Mat. 4. 7. saith out of Deut. 6. 16. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Wherefore the consequent followeth not nor is of any value It is lawfull to haue the Pictures of the Apostles and of other holy Saints of God in priuate houses Therefore it is also lawfull to haue and set them vp publikely in Churches For in a priuate house where the Inhabitants bee not superstitious there is no appearance of praying vnto them and worshipping of them nor yet of any danger that they might bee prayed vnto and worshipped of other superstitious people and therefore are not there vnlawfull And so much shall suffice to haue spoken of the first maine point namely that God should not nor ought not that God cannot bee grauen or pictured Of the second But yet there are people here found who giue 2. God will not be called vpon or honoured by Images out that it is true indeed men should not pray nor giue reuerence or worship vnto the Images Pictures yea and that they themselues also doe it not But yet say that men may honour and worship God by and through the Pictures according as these wordes following stood written here on the beame vnder the great Crucifix Effigiem Christi cùm transis semper honora Non tamen effigiem sed quem designat adora That is When ere thou do'st before Christs Image stand Or passe it by giue honour out of hand Yet not to th' Image which thine eyes doe see But to the Lord it represents to thee Whereunto we giue this answere That it were much to be desired that Images were not indeed prayed vnto and worshipped at all But the practice and experience teacheth far otherwise whilst it is daily seene how the people doe come and bow themselues before the Altars Images and Crucifixes how they put off their Hats vnto them how they kindle Lamps and Tapers vnto them And should many of them see that a Crucisix should bee hewed in pieces or burned into ashes oh how would euen their very heart then bleed for giefe This is indeed truly to doe reuerence and honour vnto Images and make Idols of them But goe too Say they pray not vnto the Images say they giue no reuerence nor doe honour and worship vnto them Yet will not God haue nor can endure that we pray vnto him that we worship him and that we giue him honour in by or through Images For hee saith at once roundly and expresly out They shall not bee bowed downe vnto nor serued In which words he forbids all manner of seruice honour or worship that may any way whatsoeuer be giuen vnto Images As also it is written Iohn 14. 6. that No man can come to the Father but by the Sonne not by Images sencelesse dumbe Idols Besides it excuseth not their Idolatry at all that they pretend say that through and by the Image they pray vnto and call vpon the Sauiour For the Israelites would not be taken or thought to pray vnto and worship the golden Calfe as they themselues also say To morrow is a Feast not vnto the Calf but Exod. 32. 5 8 10. vnto the Lord. And yet neuerthelesse the Lord saith vnto Moses They haue worshipped the Calfe and haue sacrificed thereunto and therefore his wrath was waxen hot against the people to haue consumed them Yea it faileth so farre that God will be worshipped by Imagēs as that he will not at all be so much as serued BEFORE IMAGES For thus sound forth aloud his owne words Yee Leuit. 26. 1. shall make you no Idols nor grauen Image neither reare you vp a standing Image or Pillar neither shall yee set vp any Image of stone in your Land to bow

A Short Information but agreeable vnto Scripture OF IDOL-IMAGES Made vnto the Christian Congregation at Prague when as by his Royall Maiesties most gracious Command the Castle-Church there was clensed from all Images on Sonday the twelfth of December in the yeare 1619. By Abraham Scultetus Faithfully translated according to the high Dutch Copie printed at Heidelberge by Gotthard Voegeliu 1620. M. D. C. XX. The Entrance I Doubt not but that there are many who will thinke it strange which either now do see and behold or shortly shall heare and vnderstand that the Altar and Images are remooued and put out of this Church For many men will perhaps thus thinke and say with themselues That God might euen as well haue bin serued and honored through the Images That also they were the common peoples Bookes and Bible And that the Altar and Images did much adorne and beautifie the Church which now being dispoyled of these Ornaments seemes to bee bare and naked like a Wildernesse Now therefore the better to meet with and satisfie such conceited thoughts I will for this time lay aside and pretermit the Text of the Gospell appointed for this day and briefly yet plainly and euidently declare vnto you what almighty Gods will and pleasure is concerning such Images and Altars Which will and pleasure of God when it shall be brought forth and made manifest out of the holy Scripture as cleere as the day light and bright Sun-shine then shall not any bee iustly offended at the clensing and purging of this Church from Images But all godly minded people that doe see it or shall heare of it will spiritually much reioyce thereat and be heartily thankefull for the same first vnto the most high God next vnto his royal Maiesty Wherefore that all may become profitable vnto vs we will first call vpon our Lord God for the grace and assistance of his holy Spirit with the same prayer which our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ himselfe hath taught vs saying Our Father c. The Text. Thus spake the strong and iealous God out of the fire vnto the people of Israel EXOD. 20. 4 5 6. Thou shalt not make vnto thee any grauen Image or any likenesse of any thing that is in Heauen aboue or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the water vnder the Earth Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe to them nor serue them For I the LORD thy God am a iealous God visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate mee And shewing mercy vnto thousands of them that loue mee and keepe my Commandements The Exposition ANd if Moses and Aaron stood here together yet could they not sufficiētly vtter with what a fiery zeale the Lord God hath forbidden to make worship Images For when the Lord gaue the ten Commandements he threatned not in any Commandement so hard and grieuous a punishment vnto the transgressors and promised not in any Commandement vnto the obedient performers so large a blessing as in the Commandement of Images For hee will punish those who transgresse this Commandement euen vnto the fourth generation but will richly and ouer-abundantly reward those with grace and mercy who obediently obserue and keepe this Commandement And the Lord God hath not repeated any Commandement so often as hee hath done euen this Commandement of Images For in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus when hee first gaue the ten Commandements he doth not therupon presently repeat any other Cōmandement then this and saith Ye haue seene that I haue talked with you Exod. 22. 22 23. from Heauen Therefore yee shall not make with me any thing Gods of Siluer neither shall ye make vnto you Gods of Gold And when Moses was ready to dye admonisheth the people of their dutie he presseth not any Inhibition so deeply into their hearts as euen that Inhibition of Images For in the fourth Chapter of Deuteronomie he thus speaketh vnto the people Take ye therefore Deut. 4. 15 16 17 18. good heed vnto your selues For ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake vnto you in Horeb out of the fire Lest ye corrupt your selues and cording to his Essence and being But yet he may bee grauen and pictured according to that forme wherein he appeared vnto diuers of the faithfull in the old Testament To which I answere God may at his pleasure Ans appeare in what forme or shape he will but yet it becommeth vs to follow his Commandement Thou shalt not make vnto thee any Image Againe Make not vnto you any Image the likenesse of any figure Besides the formes and shapes wherein the Lord God did at any time appeare vnto any of the Saints were not in any wise Gods Image and Picture For God onely tooke such formes shapes vpon him but for a time and did soone after lay them aside againe And thus did he also shew and reueale himselfe sometimes now presently after this forme then anon againe after another forme in so much that a man must needs stand in doubt which forme and shape was Gods true likenesse and similitude Therefore the Prophet Esay notwithstanding he had seene the Lord sit on the Circle Esay 40. 22 25. of the Earth euen aboue on high as vpon an eleuated seat whose clothing filled the Temple yet doth he reprooue all them who will make any Image likenesse or similitude of God and asketh as was heard saying To whom then will ye liken me 3. So also God should not nor ought to bee 3. God should not nor ought to be pictured grauen or pictured For such Imagery is both hurt full vnto men and dishonourable vnto God It is hurtfull vnto men for a man may soone thereby corrupt and vndoe himselfe yea and prouoke the Lord God vnto anger against him as it is written in the fore-alleaged fourth of Deuteronomy It is dishonorable and a disparagement vnto the Lord God as whose Glory and Maiesty cannot by any meanes be grauen or pictured with any manner of visible Image or Picture Whence it is that the holy Apostle Paul writes in the first Chapter to the Romanes That the Heathen became Fooles Ro. 1. 22 23. when they changed the glory of the vncorruptible God into an Image made like to corruptible man birds and to foure footed beasts creeping things This doctrine of ours concerning the forbidden Images and Pictures of God is so cleere and euident that it is also acknowledged of sundry principal Popish Diuines to be sound good and agreeable to the will of God For one of them called Gabriel Vasquetz acknowledgeth plainly speaking Lib. 2. de adorat disp 4. cap. 2. of adoration that all manner of picturing of God is directly forbidden in the second Commandement And the chiefe Sorbon Doctors at Paris Claudius Espencaeus Salignacus Picherellus as as also with them Bishop Monlucius haue long since