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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42351	An appendix unto the homily against images in churches, by Edm: Gurnay Bachelour in Divinity, and minister of Gods Word at Harpley in Norfolk	Gurnay, Edmund, d. 1648.; Gurnay, Edmund, d. 1648. aut	1641 (1641)	Wing G2259A; ESTC R217436	19,756	97

them another manner of remembrance for thus saith the Prophet Malachie p A book of remembrance was written before him for thē that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name Finally it is the great decree● of God that the bodies of his servants though they be never so holy and worthy should be sowne in corruption though they shall rise in incorruption c. sown in dishonour though they shall rise in honour And there●ore to set forth those Bodies 〈◊〉 such pompous and glori●us manner while they are ●nder the doome of corrup●●on and dissolution in the ●rave is little lesse then a ●inde of resistance unto mor●ality and reluctation against ●hat great decree as also a ●inde of falsification unto the ● state of the dead besides ●hat provocation unto the di●●ine jelousie and stumbling ●nto posterity which generall experience hath found to in●sue thereupon And so without further adoe and left we goe beyond the scantling of an Appendix we will here make an end Only Christian Reader before I dismisse you I have a little request to make unto you and it shall be this that whereas I lately in a little booke did shew the insufficiencie of divers reasons which use to be made in the behalfe of Images and in the end therof did intimate that there were yet other allegations of that kinde which deserved likewise to bee excepted against my request is that if I once again and the third time shall publish something to that purpose you bee not unwilling to make some gentle construction of my so often comming about so common a point For it was not at the first nor yet is it my in●ent to handle the point ac●ording to all the dimensi●ns of a common place but ●nly to answere obiections ●nd obiections having no mu●uall dependance one upon ●nother but being apt to pro●ed from divers and distant ●nd even contrary quarters ●hough wee should make as ●any severall commings and ●eturns and books as we meet ●ith severall objections it might be without any inter●●ption unto our matter and ●ll one to the Reader and in ●ome respect also the better ●or both Writer and Reader For the lesse is written at onc● the more easily it is read an● the more thorowly perused whereas if much bee written at once the Readers leisur● perhaps also a Deske and a Chaire must be expected But for my part I plainly professe it that it is no such politike consideration which moves me to write so little at once but plaine and right downe necessity my reach and reading not serving mee to write much and my fidelity to the Truth not suffering mee to hold my peace And though like enough I may hap to go in but the brand of a bawling Curr by the means 〈◊〉 the barking shawlt which ●ble to discover a thief and ● not able to worrie a ●epe may bee as fit for the ●●●pherds purpose as the best ● so the little fingers are ● full unto the Body as well the greater Limbs and our ●iles manus may with that ●●norian Cripple depile the ●mish traine by a haire at ●●e when the strongest arm one single tugge shall never ● it Finally it is the Com●andement of God that eve●● soul should serve him with his might And therefore ●●ey that have but little abili●●●s must not bury them or ● ashamed to pr●sent them to the view and judgement o● the Master Builders wh● though perhaps they sometime find them not usefull fo● their purposes yet may they think good to pronounce tha● blessing upon the authors Thou hast bin faithful in litle Also the Lord himselfe shall be somewhat the more honored by the means the abundance of his gifts and graces the better appearing when some of them be judged to be redundant and to spare And so Christian Reader for the present I take my leave and untill our next meeting I commend you to the Grace of God FINIS a Esay 30.22 b Ezech. 7 20. c Matth. 6. d 〈…〉 e Ezech. 23.14 15. c 〈◊〉 6.7 Tim. 2 hom. 3. h Plotia En. 2.6 i Lacters 2. ● Esay 10 10. l Nah●m 3 4. m Tom. 2 ●●mil p. 3. n 1 Cor. 14. o Tom. 2. homi● 2. p. 3. Esay 2.16 q Ecclesiasticus 22. r Flacc ●re● lib. 2. Pers. Sat. 2. 2 Cor. 3. x Esay 52 7. a Psal. 96. b 13● c 1 Tim. 2.10 d Esay 49.18 〈◊〉 f Europ ●● ● Esay 49. Ioh. 15. Hosea 2.14 k Gen. 28.17 l Contra An●r●t quid in parietes insanitis c. m Deut. 20.5 n Nehem. 12.27 〈◊〉 4.5 p Deut. 6.7 ●uk 14.15 r Eliz. 23.1 ſ Psal. 1 39. ●●n hist. n. 36.14 u Herod l. 1. x Dio 〈◊〉 lib. 70. y Sen. de morte Claud. z Hilarious contra Au●ent a Gen. 28.22 b Mark 11.16 c 1 Cor. 11. d Exod. 31.14 e 1 Cor. 12 23. f Verse 25. g Tom. 2. Hom. 2. p. 3. h Revel. 21.22 i Parte prima k Mat. 19.8 〈◊〉 7.22 Esay 1.12 n 1 King 6.38 o 1 Chron. 17.6 ●●ea 13.11 q 1 Sam. 8 7. r Ier 7.4 ſ Ezech. 24.21 t Esay 66 u Acts 7 51. Sam. 6.7 〈◊〉 2.3 z Revel. 21 22. Amos 5.5 b August de Civit. Dei 18.45 Levit. 26 30. d Deut. 34.6 e Aug. f Flacc g Hieron. in Prol. super Iob. h Lact. 2.7 i Revel. 7.9 k Horace Carm. 3.30 l Valer. Mart. 7.84 Plutarch de Agiselao n Dio Cass. Lib. o Arrian lib. 8. p Mal. ● 16