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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.
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Owen, Thankfull, 1620-1681.
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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
reason but because they could not bow the knee to Baal and joyn with an Idolatrous Church against the express Command of the Living God The barbarous Murders of the Albigenses and Waldenses remain a lasting Monument of unparallell'd Popish Cruelty of whom Reinerius an Inquisitor of the Church of Rome thus writes Contr. Haret c. 4. Among all the Sects which have formerly been none is more pernicious to the Church than that of the Leonists and that for these three Reasons 1. Because it is of longer continuance than any other for same say it hath lasted ever since Pope Sylvester others say ever since the Apostles 2. Because no Sect is more general than this for there is scarce any Country in which it is not found 3. That whereas other Sects deter and affright men with the horridness of their blasphemies against God this Sect of the Leonists makes a great shew of godliness because they live righteously before men and believe all things rightly touching God and concerning all other Articles of the Creed only they speak evil of the Roman Church and Clergy in which thing the Laity is very forward to credit and believe them Which Testimony being of one of their own Party is a clear Evidence against this Bloody Church that the only Crime of these Persons was their so freely declaring against the Idolatry and Corruptions of the Romish Church and therefore that the inhumane Butcheries of them was a gross and heynous Murder in the sight of God The Parisian Massaore comes next to be considered of which Thuanus says Nullum similis saevitae exemplum in tota Antiquitate reperiri i. e. the most Ancient Records cannot furnish us with an Example of the like cruelty Hist l. 52 53. it was cloaked over with shews of the greatest Amity in the World namely of a Marriage between the Houses of Valois and Bourbon to which all the chief of the Protestants were most lovingly invited There after the jollity of Mirth and Caresses of Entertainment in the dead time of the Night the whole City was in Arms about them they fell upon all the Protestants Houses and Lodgings they butcher'd them without distinction Men Women and Children till the Channels ran down with blood into the River thirty thousand persons were there murdered says Thuanus and as many more about that time in divers places of France says Natales Comes This Cruelty was celebrated by the Romanists in France Hist l. 25. Circiter Sexaginta millia hominum variis in locis per illud tempus trucidata fuisse dicta sunt in Gallia as one of the most glorious Actions the World hath been acquainted with great rejoycings at Court for it and Publick Thanks given unto God But the greatest joy was at Rome an account of which take from Thuanus a Roman Catholick and a most Authemick Historian He tells us the Pope had an account of the Massacre from his Legate at Paris that he read his Letter in the Consistoby of Cardinals that there it was decreed that they should go directly to S. Mark 's L. 53. and there solemnly give Thanks to Almighty God for so great a Blessing conferred upon the Roman See and the Christian World That soon after a Jubilee should be publish through the whole Christian World and these Causes were exprest for it To give thanks to God for destroying in France the Enemies of the Truth and of the Church In the Evening the Guns were fired at S. Angeto and Bonefires were made and nothing was omitted of all those things that use to be performed in the greatest Victories of the Church Some days after there was a Procession to S. Lewis with the greatest resort of Nobility and People First went the Bishops and Cardinals then the Switzers then the Ambassadors of Kings and Princes then under a Canopy went his Holiness himsell with the Emperour's Ambassador bearing up his Train for him c. Over the Church-door was an Inscription set up in which the Cardinal of Lorrain in the name of the King of France congratulated his Holiness and the College of Cardinals c. for the plainly stupendious effects and altogether incredible events of their Counsels given him and of their Assistances sent him and of their twelve years Wishes and Prayers And the better to perpetuate the memory of this Massacre the Pope caused it to be painted about his great Hall in the Lateran and there recorded in Marble To these bloody Catalogues a considerable Accession has been made since by the Papists in Ireland who in times of as great peace and liberty as ever that Nation enjoyed and in the name of that blessed and gracious King The Lord Orory's Answer to Welsh p. 29. saith within few Months about two hundred thousand under whom they enjoyed these like inhumane Butchers cut the throats of above a hundred thousand of his Protestant Subjects of all Sexes and Ages an action of so horrid an aspect as will make the names of all that had to do in it look black and detestable to mankind throughout all Generations That Sea of Blood which hath there been cruelly and barbarously shed is enough to drown any man in Eternal both infamy and misery whom God shall find the malicious Author or Instigator of its Effusion Icon Basil c. 12. And how far his Holiness was concerned in it appears by his Nuncio whom he sent to promote and bless the Cause I have now finished what I intended to say in this short Discourse with no other design than that of doing Honour to God and vindicating the abused Glory of our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus by shewing how far the Romish Church is degenerated from his Gospel who is indeed the Prince and Head of the Catholick Church whom I humbly beseech to open the Eyes of all deluded Persons that they may come to the knowledge of the Truth and be saved Amen FINIS Book 's Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard H. Mori Opera Theologica Fol. His Reply to a late Answer to his Antidote against Idolatry with an Appendix in Octavo His Remarks in answer to the Lord Hales of Gravitation and Non-gravitation of Fluids in Oct. Mr. Falkner's Libertas Ecolesiastica in Oct. His Christian Loyalty in Oct. Mr. Sherlock's Discourse of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ and our Union and Communion with him c. To which is annexed a Defence and Continuation with a particular respect to the Doctrine of the Church of England and the Charge of Socinianism and Relagianism in Oct. Mr. Hotchkis's Discourse concerning the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness to us and our Sins to him c. in two Parts in Oct. Mr. Allen's Answer to Mr. Fergusson about Justification in Oct. His Mystery of Iniquity unfolded c. in Oct. His Christians Justification stated in Oct. His Friendly Advice to the Non-Conformists beginning with the Anabaptists in Oct. Mr. Hallywel's Account of Familism against the Quakers in Oct. His Discourse of the Excellency of Christianity in Oct. His Sacred Method of saving Humane Souls by Jesus Christ in Oct. Dr. Goodall's Vindication of the College of Physitians against a Pamphlet called The Corner-stone in Oct. Dr. Grew's Anatomy of Trunks with 19 Figures in Oct.