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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93560	A treatise against images and pictures in churches. And an answer to those who object that the times are changed. Written by George Salteren, Esquire.	Salteren, George.	1641 (1641)	Wing S468; Thomason E163_8; ESTC R431	18,372	39

the trueth when it is expedient so to doe Augustine again and out of him the Decree Ecce inquiunt ut dicit Propheta Recedite exite indo immundum ne tetegeritis Quid est immundum tangere nisi peccatis consentire Quid est exire inde nisi facere quod pertinet ad correctionem quantum pro unius cujusque gradu atque persona salvâ pace fieri potest Behold say they as sayes the Prophet depart and come out from thence touch not the unclean thing What is meant by touching the unclean thing but consenting to sinne what by comming out from thence but doing what appertaines to its reformation as much as without breach of peace may bee done according to every mans degree and person Hereupon our Church in Hom. 3. against Idol p. 75. thus concludeth Ye have heard it evidently proved in these Homilies against Idolatry by Gods word the Doctors of the Church Ecclesiasticall Historyes Reason experience that Images have bin be worshipped and so Idolatry committed to them by infinite multitudes to the greater offence of Gods Majesty and infinite danger of soules and that Idolatry cannot possibly be separated from Images set up in Churches and Temples gilded and decked gloriously and that therefore our Images be indeed very Idols and so all the prohibitions Lawes Curses threatnings of horrible plagues aswell Temporall as Eternall contained in the Scriptures concerning Idols and the makers mainteyners and worshippers of them appertaine also to our Images set up in Churches and Temples and to the makers mainteyners and worshippers of them And all those names of Abomination which Gods word giveth to the Idols of the Gentiles appertaine also to our Images set up in Churches and Temples being Idols like to them and having like Idolatry committed to them And Gods owne mouth in the Holy Scripture calleth them vanities lies Deceits uncleannesse filthinesse dung mischiefe and abomination before the Lord. Wherefore Gods most horrible wrath and our most dreadfull danger cannot be avoyded without the destruction and abolishing of all such Images and Idols out of the Church and Temple of God Which to accomplish God put into the mindes of all Christian Princes And in the meane time let us take heede and be wise O yee beloved of the Lord and let us have no strange Gods c. So the Homily of our Church Bishop Iewels Reply pa. 517. The best remedy in this behalfe and most agreeable with Gods word is utterly to abolish the cause of the ill So the godly King Ezekias took downe and brake in peeces the brazen Serpent notwithstanding Moses himselfe by Gods speciall commandement had erected it notwithstanding it were an expresse figure of Christ hanging upon the Crosse notwithstanding it had continued so many yeares notwithstanding God by it had wrought so many miracles So the godly Bishop Epiphanius rent in sunder an Image painted in a cloth and said it was against Gods Commandement a thing superstitious and unmeet for the Church and people of God notwithstanding it were the Image of Christ So the godly Emperour Theodosius made his Proclamation over all his Dominions in this sort Signum Servatoris nostri quocunque loco reperitur tolli jubemus We straightly command that the Image of our Saviour be taken downe in what place soever it shall bee found notwithstanding it were the Image of our Saviour So it is decreed in the late Councell of Mogunce that when Images happen to bee abused by the people they bee either notably altered or utterly abolished Neither doth God through all his holy Scriptures any where condemne Image-breakers but expresly and every where hee condemneth Image-worshippers and Image-makers yea he saith they are snares to catch the ignorant Hee knoweth the inclination of the heart of man and therefore he saith Accursed be he that leadeth the blinde out of the way and accursed be he that layeth a stumbling block to overthrow the blinde So concludeth the reverend and learned Bishop Iewell and all our Church with him So all the holy Prophets Apostles Martyrs Doctors and Saints of God now triumphant in heaven who shall sit upon Thrones as Assessors with our Saviour Christ and judge the world as the Scriptures speak in their books and monuments which they have left behinde them to testifie their mindes doe unanimously pronounce the like sentences unto us And if wee could heare them speaking in heaven wee should heare their voyces as loud as Thunders or Trumpets proclaime that wee must not imagine that they will speak otherwise in heaven than they did upon earth Let me therefore conclude with that holy Doctor S. Augustine and that most blessed Apostle S. Paul in the name of all the rest Ergo fratres mei quot quot habetis inter vos qui adhuc amore saeculi praegravantur avaros perjuros adulteros inspectores nugarum c. quicquid inter vos malorum esse nostis quantum potestis improbate ut corde recedatis redarguite ut exeatis inde nolite consentire ut immundum ne tangatis Therefore my brethren as many as you have amongst you who are overcharged with the love of this world coverous persons perjurers adulterers beholders of vanity c. whatsoever evills you know amongst you reject them as much as you can depart from them in your hearts reprove them that you may come out from amongst them and consent not unto them that you may not touch the uncleane thing Come out from among them saith the Lord and touch not the uncleane thing I will receive you and yee shall bee my sonnes and my daughters saith the Lord God Almighty Christo Gloria FINIS

Agent but many times the consequent of the Act as in that of our Saviour Christ Matth. 5. He that looketh on a woman to lust c. The meaning is not only with an intention to lust but to look so as lust doth follow Whereupon our Saviour addeth If thine eye cause thee to offend pluck it out c. And Saint Paul putteth the case that some may bee provoked to offend by seeing a man eat a thing offered to an Idoll and although he granteth that meat is a thing indifferent yet hee addeth If meat make my brother to offend I will eat no meat while the world standeth 1 Cor. 8. So here the consequent is to be avoyded The second ex consequentia suppositi For where the second Commandement is Thou shalt make no Image c. Hee that will adde this clause to the intent to worship it doth utterly evacuate and overthrow the judiciall part of the Commandement For it is manifest by Deut. 12. and 13. and many other places of Scripture that God ordained this Law to bee a Judiciall Law and the offenders to bee punished by the Magistrate which is not possible if it be restrained to the intent for de occultis cordium Indicabit Christus sayth the Apostle 1 Cor. 4. cogitationis poenam nemo patitur sayth the Law As if a man should stab another and yet say he meant not to kill him or as if one should lie with another mans wife and yet say he did it not to the intent to commit Adultery will this excuse him Is it not an absurd thing to conster a Law according to the conceit of an offender and not according to the sentence of the Judge or Judiciall Interpreters So we have seene before that the learned Divines both of the Primitive Church and of our own present Church doe agree in this that colit qui facit colit qui locat in honorabili sublimitate hee worshippeth them who maketh them he worshippeth them who setteth them in an high place of honour Never regarding the intent and that to set up an Image aloft in the Church with what intent soever is not onely against this precept Thou shalt not make any Image but against this also Thou shalt not bow downe nor worship it The third ex sensu mandati for it is answered also by our Learned Catechismes that in the commandements one sinne is put commonly for all of the same ranke yea for all instruments occasions per Synechdochen speciei And this prohibition of making Images was as Tertull. sayth ad eradicandam materiam Idololatriae to subvert the causes of Idolatry Also commonly the greatest sinne is named to make all the rest more odious Therefore this word to worship it is not put to restraine but to aggravate Let us now therefore come to another point of Tertullians exposition and see how that also is confirmed both by the Ancient Fathers of the Primitive Church and by the now reverend Fathers of our Church Colit qui patitur quaedam patientia est Idololatria he worships them that permits them some kinde of permission is Idolatry sayth he Hom. 2. against Idol pa. 22. Epiphanius Bishop of Salanim in Cyprus a very holy and learned man who lived in Theodosius the Emperours time vriteth thus to Iohn Patriarch of Jerusalem I entred sayth Epiphanius into a certaine Church to pray I found there in it a linnen-cloth hanging in the Church doore painted and having in it the Image of Christ as it were or of some other Saint for I remember not well whose Image it was Therefore when I did see the Image of a man hanging in the Church of Christ contrary to the authority of the Scriptures I did teare it and gave counsell to the Keepers of the Church that they should winde a poore man that was dead in the sayd cloth and so bury him And afterwards the sayd Epiphanius sending another cloth unpainted for that painted one which he had torne to the said Patriarch writeth thus I pray you will the Elders of that place to receive this cloth which I have sent by this bearer and command them that from henceforth no such painted clothes contrary to our Religion be hanged up in the Church of Christ And this Epistle as worthy to be read of many did Saint Hierom himselfe translate into the Latin tongue sayth our Church in the Homily adding further certain proofes that S. Hierom had this holy and learned Bishop Epiphanius in most high estimation and therefore did translate this Epistle as a writing of Authority And thereupon observeth these speciall points First that Epiphanius judged it contrary to Christian Religion and to the Authority of the Scriptures to have any Images in Christs Church Secondly that he rejected not onely carved graven and moulten Images but also painted Images out of Christs Church Thirdly that he regarded not whether it were the Image of Christ or of any other Saint but being an Image would not suffer it in the Church Fourthly that he did not only remove it out of the Church but with a vehement zeale tare it in sunder and exhorted that a Corse should be wrapped and buried in it judging it meet for nothing but to rot in the Earth Thus doth our Church and all our Reverend Bishops not only allow the judgement but commend the fact and zeale of Epiphanius And the same points were observed upon this Epistle of Epiphanius by our godly and learned Bishops in the time of King Edward in their reasons exhibited to the said King to shew why they would not agree to suffer Images in Churches as appeareth in the book of Martyrs pag. 1929. a book allowed by all our Bishops and Church and lately new Printed and set forth this last yeere and appointed by our Canons to to be set up in all our Cathedrall Churches for every man to read that Will. Hom. 3. against Idols pag. 61. Suffer Images to bee set up in the Churches and Temples yee shall in vaine bid them beware of Images as S. Iohn doth and flee Idolatry as all the Scripture warne us yee shall in vaine preach and teach them against Idolatry for a number will notwithstanding fall headlong into it what by the nature of Images what by the inclination of their owne corrupt nature Wherefore as a man given to lust to sit downe by a strumpet is to tempt God so it is likewise to erect an Idoll in this pronenesse of mans nature to Idolatry nothing else but a tempting c. What S. Augustines opinion is appeareth before Quis adorat vel orat intuens simulacrum c. Who worshippeth or prayeth looking upon an Image and is not perswaded in minde that the Image heareth him Hom. 3. against Idols pag. 49. What meaneth it that Christian men after the use of the Gentile Idolaters cap and kneele before Images infra is not this stooping and kneeling before them adoration of them Chemnic in exam Deus usum