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A11890	An arrovv against idolatrie Taken out of the quiver of the Lord of hosts. By H.A.	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?	1624 (1624)	STC 222; ESTC S115945	56,377	128

Iupiter and Nebo and y 2 King 17.30 Succothben●th and other the like even so hath idolatrous Rome ordained to haue in her temples z Concil Trident. Sess. 25. images of Christ of the virgin Mary and of other Saints which idols must haue their due honour and worship because the honour which is given to them is referred to the prototypes whom they doe represent And these abominations she Concil ●id ibid. kisseth as idolaters of old were wont to Hos. 13.2 kisse the calues lighteth Tapers before them as the Babylonians did Baruch ●● candles before their images censeth them as the Heathen Romans were wont to doe Cicero ●ffic l. 3. their statues kneeleth falleth down and prayeth before them saying Catechis one Trid. ●act de O 〈◊〉 Tit. Our Father c. as idolaters of old Quis oran●us sit Jer. 2.27 said to a tree thou art my father and to a stone thou hast begotten mee Teaching her children further that these g Bellar. de ●mag l. 2. c. 21. images are to be worshipped not onely by accident or unproperly but also by themselvs and properly so as they doe terminate or end the worship as they are considered in themselvs and not onely as they bear the part of the examplar or person represented yea saying of an image h Synod Nicen. 11. Act. 4. This is Christ as paynims said of theirs i Isa. 44 17 Thou art my God But woe unto them k Hab. 2.19 from the Lord that say to the wood awake to the dumb stone rise up Herein this Catholike Church exceedeth the devotion of Jeroboam son of N●bat who worshipped by the Calues l 1 King 12.28 ●he God which had brought them out of Aegypt and not any other Saints much lesse the images themselvs Yea in this kind she passeth sundry of the Heathens and her own Predecessors for Licurgus the Lawgiver of Lacedemonia and institutor of many ceremonies m Alexand. ab Alexandr l. 2 c. 22. ordained no images in his Religion but forbad the forms of men or other living creatures to be given to the Gods Apollonius a Philosopher n Philostr de vita Apollon l. 6 c. 9. found fault with the foolish and absurd images in many places and thought it more honourable if the Gods had no images at all The Persians had o Herod Clio. no images for they thought it a madnesse to worship God by such The Germans in their paynisme p Corn. Tacit de mor. Germ. held it unlawfull to paint their Gods on walls or expresse them in any humane shape And Numa the King of the antique Romans q Plutarch in Numa forbad them to think that the image of God had the shape of a man or form of other living creature Yet Rome that now is alloweth r Bellar. de imag Sanct. l. 2 c. 8. the image of God the Father in form of an ●ld man and of the Holy Ghost in form of a doue Though the holy Prophet inveighing against this vanity demandeth Isa. 40.18 To whom will ye liken God or what similitude will ye set up unto him And though the learned Varro in August de ●ivit Dei l. 4. c. 31. Heathen by light of nature approved the practise of ancient Rome worshipping the Gods without any images almost two hundred yeares and blamed those that first brought in images as authors of errour and causes of impiety yet such is the loue of this whorish Church to these teachers u H●b 2.18 of lies the counterfeits of God as she adoreth thē or the divill in them to fulfill that which is written of her that men would x Rev. 9.20 not repent of the works of their hands and of the worship of divils and idols of gold and of silver and of brasse and of stone and of wood which neither can see neither hear nor goe 10 In another point also hath our Babylons zeal surpassed Jeroboams to weet in her Clergie and multitude of Church officers For Ieroboam had none but simple y 1 Kin. 12.31 Priests to say and doe the Divine service in his high places But our Iezebel hath founded Priests and Arch-priests Lord Bishops and Arch-bishops Deans and Arch-deacons Suffragans Cardinals Patriarch● and Popes Abbots Friars Monks Seminaries Iesuits and a number moe Chemarims her Ecclesiasticall senate to guard her throne to fight her battels to retail her wares and to satisfie by them her superstitious lust which hath been even insatiable as was z Ezek. 16 28.29 the whores of Israel And Priapus the Pope is a Bellar. de Pont. l. 2. c. 31. bridegroom of this spowse and hath preeminence over all to powr out his fornications upon her by his doctrines canons rites ceremonies decrees and decretals for he is b Bellar. d● head of this Church and Prince of the Priests Father and Doctor of all Christians and Bishop universall who c Bellar. d● Pont. l. 4. c. 3. when he teacheth the whole Church in things pertaining to faith cannot err by any hap or chance and d Ibid. c. 5 not onely in matters of faith but in precepts of manners also prescribed to the whole Church he cannot err and his wife the catholick church e Ibid. c. 1 hath alwaies beleeved that he is a true Ecclesiastical Prince in the whole Church who can of his own authority without consent of the people or counsel of the Priests make laws which binde the conscience can judg in causes ecclesiastical as other judges doe and punish also the disobedient And his lawyers haue born men in hand that this Pope may dispense against ● q. 1. ●icunq gloss the Law of God and against 5. q. 6. ●orit In 〈◊〉 the law of nature even with the Precepts of the old and new Testament Summ. Angel in dict Pap. that his bare will must Extra de ●sc epis● ●anto in ●ssa bee holden for a law and whatsoever he doth no man may Extra de ●ces Preb. oposuit gloss say to him why doe you this And whosoever obeyeth not his precepts Dist. 81. qui sunt ● gloss incurreth the sin of idolatry Finally to lift up their blasphemy to the highest they honour him with this title l Cum inter 〈◊〉 gloss our Lord God the Pope And although this Romish Synagogue hath received some of her jolly Church Prelats with their exorbitant power by imitation of her Heathenish Predecessors Romulus and Numa Pompilius 〈◊〉 Ioh. 22 〈◊〉 Livius 1. who made Flamins Arch-flamins and a Pontifex Maximus to sacrifice unto the Gods and some of their ceremonies from other Infidels as the shaving of Priests crowns like n Hieron ● Ezek. 44 ●0 the Priests of Isis Scrapis in Aegypt yet neither antique Rome nor Aegipt nor Babylon nor any nation in the world ever foūded such a pompous Hierarchie such store and varity of Divines

God 16 And the more to deceiv this serpent maketh man himself his instrument to frame and set up his religion and service which bringeth to perdition For the wisedom and prudence of the natural man which is very c 1 Cor. 1.2 Rom 8 7 foolishnesse and enmity unto God the Divil doth abuse to d 1 King 12.18 Dan. 3. devise and establish a carnal worship and politick religion which exceedingly e Act. 19 28.35 pleaseth the naturals for highly doe they esteem of themselvs and of all their own inventions And Satan to confirm them addeth lying f Rev. 1● 13.14 signes and wonders as fire from heaven to consume the sacrifices on the altar erected to his honour who is g Ioh. 12.3 Prince of this world whom worldly men adore Thus steppeth up Idolatry with her blind devotion a h Gal. 5.2 work of the flesh and of the Divill 17 And this sin so bewitcheth men given over therunto as through Gods just judgment it a Isa. 44. ● shutteth their eyes that they cannot see their hearts that they cannot understand They haue no knowledge or discretion to argue that if they can not giue life or sense or motion to a dead image nor any naturall power therunto to doe Ier. 10.5 good or evill how much lesse can they giue it spirituall life or any religious power vertue or operation For example a man maketh images of silver and gold and buildeth for them a court or pallace One image hee setteth on a throne and calleth it his King others he nameth Lords of the Councill Iudges and Iustices of the Common-wealth Vnto a Iudge he cometh and saith Good my Lord hear the cause of your suppliant and doe me right from the violence of my adversary an other while he supplicateth to the golden King falling down and saying deliver me for thou art my Le●ge Would not this man be derided of all for his folly and counted as witlesse as the image it selfe that he sueth unto No lesse is their madnesse that make images of Saints for religious use building for them Churches and Chappels One idol they name Christ an other S. Peter and the rest as they please to call them And though they bee altogether false representations as it the lot of images to be a Hab. 2 1● teachers of lies so that the picture of Christ be in deed like Caiphas and S. Peters like Iscariot resembling no more the true visage of Christ and of Peter then K. Henry the S his picture is like the image of Iulius Caesar neither is there any more holines in these statues by any relation or reference then the Divill can giue them for word of God to sanctifie them there is none yet fall the fools down before these their fictions and say O Christ help me S. Peter pray for me But these stony Saints b Psa. 115● 5 6.8 haue eyes and see not haue ears and hear not like them be they that make them and whosoever trusteth in them 18 Nor is there lesse impiety in idols of other nature and esteem For when among men one is set up as Head of the Church an other as Patriarch an other as Primate Arch-bishop Metropolitan c. all of them as very good Lords spirituall and these without calling and appointment from God these be c Zach. 11●17 idoll Shepheards not true Pastors of the flock and the indignity and dishonour which they doe unto Christ is more then if disloyall subjects should choose and set up from among themselvs without publick Authority one to be Lord President an other Lord Chief Iustice and others in their severall rooms and offices for to rule the realm and to judge all the causes and occurrents of the same 19 So is it in all other religious ordinances of humane invention as when Antichristians set forth new Sacraments to seal up Gods grace and remission of sins what is it but as if some falser should make conveyances of crown land seal them with a signet of his own counterfeit making and call it by the name of the Kings privie seal When they make a new form or frame of Churches as to be Provinciall Nationall Oecumenicall with Arch-preists and Prelates to over-awe them mought they not with as good right alter the form of the Common-wealth making new Ditions and Iurisdictions with Curions Decurions and other new Magistrates to controul them When they make solemn daies of assembly and call them holy when they make new books canons constitutions ceremonies and call them Ecclesiasticall sacred laudable constraining men to keep and doe them they deal with Christ and his Kingdom as they that in a civill State should take upon them without commission to appoint new Terms Sessions Assises to forge new Laws Statutes Court-rolls evidences c and compell men to credit and obey them Now therefore ô Kings be wise Ps. 2.10.11 be learned yee Iudges of the earth serue the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling and purge your Realms of all idolatries the humane ordinances of religion which are after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ. For you would none of you suffer such innovation or alteration in your Civill Polities lest your Honours should be impeached much lesse should ye suffer it in the Politie Ecclesiastick to provoke God to wrath For he is a gealous God Exod. 20.5 and will visit this iniquity on Princes and on Subjects on fathers and on children blessed are they that watch and keep their garments from pollution of the world herein CHAP. II. How fast the sin of Idolatrie cleaveth to all flesh THE service of idols or of God by them although it be a sin more reprehended in Gods word more punished in his works then other vices yet is it most common and familiar with the sons of Adam easily compassing them about and hanging fast upon them As may appear by three demonstrations first how the best men in the world doe easily fall into it secondly after what pleasure they take in it thirdly and then how hardly they are drawn from it Of all these the Scriptures giue testimonies many 2 When God had renewed the face of the world after the sin-floud and Noahs three sonnes Sem Gen. 10. Ham and Iapheth had multiplyed on the earth our father Abram with his father Terah were foul of this sin Ios. 24.2 and served strange Gods till the true God called him from that impiety In his daies idolatrie was spread over all but men would not be reclaimed from it either by Abrahams word or sword though “ Gen. 14.14 17. Kings were given as dust unto it and as scattred stubble unto his bow The Nations in deed saw this great work of God and were afraid a Isa. 41.2 5.6.7 yet turned they not unto him from Idols but strengthned one another in their false religion and made them moe images to saue them from destruction