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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51287	An appendix to the late antidote against idolatry Wherein the true and adequate notion or definition of idolatry is proposed. Most instances of idolatry in the Roman Church thereby examined. Sundry uses in the Church of England cleared. With some serious monitions touching spiritual idolatry thereunto annexed.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.	1673 (1673)	Wing M2642; ESTC R223783	31,890	68

unto the fabrick they are under but because this place is set apart for holy uses and is of a different nature from ordinary places that have no such relation to God and his Divine worship out of an habitual deep devoutness toward God they also express this more inferiour affection and reverence to the place of his worship by way of distinction and preference of it before other common places be they never so magnificently built Which is not to give it a reverence any thing equal or of the same kind with that we give to God but only a greater and another sort of reverence than we would give to any place that is not related to him And this is no more Idolatry than Moses his putting off his shooes because the ground was hallowed by the special presence of God there And therefore it was not unfit to show some reverence thereto in those circumstances and not to prophane it and soyl it by his dirty shooes Nay indeed necessary having that express command of God for it Or if one should do so of himself in such a meaning of reverence as I have intimated though it might be superstitious under Christianity yet it could not be Idolatrous no peculiarities of the Godhead being violated thereby XXXVIII As also kissing the Bible in the administration of Oathes Kissing the Bible also in the administration of Oathes which is in use amongst us and might according to the proper Notation of the Latine word be called Adoration that word signifying properly either the a motion of our mouth to the thing kissed or the admotion of our own hand to our mouth and so by kissing it signifying chiefly our kindness and affection but withal our respect to the Person or thing we in this manner salute this Ceremony here is only an expression of our love and value we have even for the material word of God as I may so speak by reading whereof we find such Divine comforts and refreshments and which gives us to know the will of God and that salvation which is through Jesus Christ revealed in this book And if a man after the serious reading of a Chapter therein his heart being full of joy and holy consolation should at the close of all kiss the Bible as he layes it down out of a pious affection unto the very instrument of communicating such grace and comfort unto him what more Idolatry were there in this than in such an ones hugging his Bible in the Pulpit before the People to signify how dear it was to himself and should be to them all XXXIX That bowing towards the Altar or Communion-table does not fall within the verge of the true Notion or Definition of Idolatry And as for bowing towards the Altar they that so do questionless intend by that action adoration to God properly or in the highest sense so called so that it is one species of Latria Which can be no Idolatry in it self to be directed towards a place sith it cannot be done at all but it will be directed toward some place or other And if the Church for uniformity sake appoint one place rather than another so long as it is but towards it only it can be no Idolatry For it is no more Idolatry to worship God towards a place than in a place for both these are but Circumstances not Objects of Divine worship But now it being concluded fitting to use adoration when we first come into Gods house as also for uniformity sake towards one certain place or part thereof and all the place being in some sort holy but yet a preference of one part before another because of the more than ordinary devotion used there in celebrating the most endearing Mysteries of our Religion the death and passion of our blessed Saviour and our union with him by participation of his Flesh and Blood that place where the symbols of this are exhibited and these great and endearing mysteries celebrated it is no wonder if it have the preference in our Religious affection and respect before all the places in the Church to be as it were the direct● Eve instrument toward what part of the Church we should do our adorations namely that the Altar or Communion Table should be this instrument of direction and that this should be the peculiar Honour done to it to be so In which sense it is bowed towards as the Mercy seat of old was by the Jews and the Book of their Law under a Canopee in their Synagogues now is without the least shew or suspicion of Idolatry For Divine worship is not at all done to that in any of those cases towards which it is directed but only to God himself There being no Animal Figures exposed to receive the worship as in the case of the Heathen and the Eucharistick bread being in no sense at all a Symbolical presence as well as having no Imagery on it but both Bread and Wine mere Tokens of the Body of Christ slaine crucified or sacrificed and of his blood shed for us Which therefore are not the Person of Christ nor Hypostatically united to his Person in this condition and consequently the symbols thereof cannot be any symbolical presence as I have also noted in my Reply The Altar therefore has the honour of being a directive instrument whither as the Church has where to do divine worship But the worship is no more done to the Altar by being done towards it than it is done to the Church by being done in it Forasmuch as there is no Animal Figure thereon as the Ancient Pagans conceived their Gods to appear in several such shapes and therefore worshipped them in them For this would be a personal representative and so receptive of the worship done towards it according to the manifest sense of Scripture and natural interpretation of reason but here being no such Statue or Image there erected all is safe Wherefore all the honour the Altar receives in these adorations made towards it is this that it is used as a directive instrument for people to show which way they are to set their faces when they make these adorations to God which is far from giving any Divine worship to the Table or Altar and therefore is far out of the reach of our definition of Idolatry LX. Nor bowing to the name of Iesus And so whereas all the names and attributes of God are holy and we have a greater reverence for them than for any words or names that do not relate to God though we do not owe Divine worship or reverence to them for as much as they are not God but words that pass away as other sounds do whereas I say all the names of God are holy yet because the name Jesus exhibits to us the manifestation of God in the most endearing circumstances therefore as the Mysteries celebrated on the Altar caused that preference of it before all other parts of the Church for to do our worship towards so