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A01924	England and Scotlands happinesse in being reduced to vnitie of religion, vnder our invincible monarke King Iames. Written by I: Gordon.; Panegyrique of congratulation for the concord of the realmes of Great Britaine in unitie of religion, and under one king	Gordon, John, 1544-1619.; Grimeston, Edward.	1604 (1604)	STC 12062.3; ESTC S117967	22,135	50

him to persist in the seruice of god not to deuide his worship but to cleaue onely vnto God Thou shalt not saith he haue any other Gods but me The which doth teach vs that those of the Romish corruptiō haue brought in strange Gods for that they haue deuided the adoration and veneration betwixt God and his creatures making three degrees The first they call Latria which they attribute to God and to the Host in the Masse equally The second Hyperdeulia which they yeelde to the blessed virgin And the third Dulia attributed to their other Saints and to their images and reliques abusing with too grosse an ignorance the signification of these Greeke wordes for Deulia signifies a greater seruice then Latria And we learne that in this place Theodoret calles the seruice and adoration of God by the name of Deulia and so doe Athanasius and Chrisostome And Saint Augustine who hath brought in this distinction attributes both vnto God onely In his 84. Question vpon Exod. Iustin Martir who liued vnder Antonius Pius in the second age of this period of Christianity shewes plainely that the Christians did not alow of the worship of any thing inferiour to the Deity and saieth that Iesus Christ had so taught them for speaking to the Emperour in his Apologie for the Christians of his time hee writes thus That God onely is to be worshipped for so Christ doth teach the greatest commandement is thou shalt worshippe the Lorde thy God and him onely shalt thou honour with all thy heart and all thy strength the Lorde God which hath created thee And a little after he saith we worship God onely in other things we willingly serue you for that we do acknowledge you for Kings and Princes of men and we pray vnto God that he will giue you wisedome equall to your royall power So as the Christians in matters of religion did not yeeld any worship to things created neither did they deuide the worship betwixt God his creatures as the Romish Church doth Many Christians of the same time were so exact obseruers of the onely worshippe of God as they would not reuerence the Roman Emperors as the souldiers did in ciuil causes for Theophilus to Apostolicus the sixt Bishop of Antioche who liued in the yeare of our Lord 173. when as Lucius was King of great Brittaine saith I shall honor the Emperour more in praying for him then in worshipping him for it is not lawfull to worship any but God onely The Christians of these three first ages had no Alters no Images nor any materiall crosses of golde siluer wood or stone for Clemens Alexandrinus who was neere the Apostles time saith Wee Christians are expreslye forbidden to vse any arte of deceite for so hee calleth painting and making of Images Thou shalt not saith the Prophet Moses make the likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue or on the earth beneath And the same author Strom. Lib. 5. Pythagoras saith he forbids the wearing of rings nor to ingraue in them the images and figures of Gods as Moses had long before forbidden and that we must not make any Image be it grauen molten counterfeite or painted that wee should not bee carryed away with sensible things but should passe vnto those thinges which are comprehended by vnderstanding And soone after he saith To honour the essence by the knowledge of a materiall thing is to contemne it The Doctrine of the Romish Church dooth heerein directly oppugne the Doctrine of Christian antiquitye making a new God of the host of the new Masse giuing it the name of God worshipping it as God and yet their doctors confesse that it is made and created by the wordes of consecration It is therefore euident that they haue brought into the Church a God created which is not contayned in the definition of God before mentioned by Saint Athanasius for the hoast of the Masse is not euerye where which is the property of God onelye neither dooth it containe all things vnder his power but contrarywise the Counsell of Trent saith in expresse wordes that Iesus Christ God and man is contained vnder the visible signes of Breade of Wine which is quite contrarye to the diuine nature which contaynes all things in it and is not contained in anye thing The God therefore of the Romish Masse is a God created which hath a beginning and ending and is contained in the visible forme of Breade and Wine and containes not in it all things created so as the worshippers of this God of the Masse doe worshippe a newe and strange God contrarye to the first commaundement If the Arrians as Theodoret saith haue broken this first commaundement for that they taught that Iesus Christ according to his deity was a creature and yet he was God with greater reason the Romaines transgresse the same commaundement confessing that the pretended deitie of the hoast of the Masse is a deitie purchased by the consecration and not by the eternall deity without beginning and without ending And the same Theodoret writing against the Greekes in the foresaide passage teacheth vs that by the commaundement which saith Thou shalt haue no other Gods but mee that Moses forbiddes to make anye deuision of the deuine worshippe but to giue all to God onelye The Romaines who haue made three degrees of worshipping cannot denie but they haue broken this first commaundement and brought in a multitude of Gods making as manye Gods as they saye Masses So as their pluralitie of Gods becomes infinite and surpasseth the multitude of the Paynims Gods Minutius Foelix Tertulian Origen and Arnobius vvho liued in the third age of this first Periode of Christianisme testifie that the Gentiles accused the Christians for that they had neither Temples Altars Images nor visible or Materiall Sacrifices and that they did hide from sight that which they did worshippe Cecilius a Pagan Oratour disputing against Octauius a Christian as Minutius doth reporte obiected to the Christians Why haue they no Alters no Temples no knowne Images They did blazon our Christians in the vvorshiping of the Crosse vvhich they sayd they deserued taking the Crosse for a punishment To whom Octauius aunsweres for the Christians We neither worshippe nor desire Crosses but you who haue consecrated Gods of Wood worshiping Crosses of Wood as peeces of your Gods Whereby it appeares that the auncient Christians in the purenesse of Christian religion did neither worship crosses of Gold Siluer Stone or Wood as these doe of the Romish religion How should they I pray you worshippe them seing they had them not which is more would not haue them But the Church of Rome doth quite contrarie running after Gods of Gold and Siluer made as the Psalme● saieth by mans hand In regarde of that which the Gentiles did obiect vnto the Christians that they did hide and not shew forth what they did worship Octauius aunsweres for the Christians Doe you thinke that we doe hide what we do worship although

formes wee will therefore conclude our discourse of the proofe of the true and onely adoration of God obserued throughout all the habitable world during the first periode of three hundred yeares with the testimonye of Arnobius writing against the Gentiles obiecting to the Christians that they would not worshippe any but the first and the greatest of all the Gods and not the inferiour Gods according to the manner in those dayes to whome hee aunswereth saying And wee may say in that which concernes the worshippe and honour of the diuinity that it sufficeth vs to haue one onelye God God I saye the father of all things who hath created and gouerneth all things In worshipping of him wee worshippe all that we ought to worshippe when wee honour him wee honour in him that which hee requires at our handes what the duety of worshippe dooth exact that we performe by our worshippe For seeing wee holde the chiefe of all diuinitye of whome all diuine thinges depend wee thinke it superfluous to seeke to priuate persons And a little after hee saithe As in earthlye kingdomes wee are not constrained to worshippe and honour euerye priuate man of the Kings house but in the honour wee doe vnto Kings those which belong vnto them are sceretly honored with them So the Christians of that perfect age did not worshippe nor call vpon any thing vnder God as the Romanistes of our age doe which worship the blessed virgin the Angelles Michael and Gabriel Saint Iohn Baptist the Apostles and Martyrs their reliques Sepulchers and Images So as it is most apparent that the Religion planted at this present in the Ilandes of great Brittaine is the true auncient Religion and the only worship of one God incōmunicable to the Creatures the which hath continued during the first periode of the three hundred yeares of Christianity So as it is a meere slander what the aduersaries of the trueth saye that your Maiestye hath banished the true auncient Christian Religion out of your Realmes to plant a newe Religion pretended to bee begunne by Martin Luther Iohn Caluin and other great Personages in the puritye of the true Christian Doctrine But contrarywise it is an immortall glorye which shall increase in your raigne and continue to posterity seeing that your Maiesty is the author of the restoring of the true Christian religion in your realmes hauing restored it I saye to that beauty and sincerity as it was in oulde time planted by Lucius your fore-runner the first Christian King of great Brittayne who became so affectionate and zealous of the aduancement and propagation of the trueth and so great an enemie to Idolatrie and the worship of Creatures and visible formes that of a King he became a Preacher as some Histories say And as during the persecutiō of the Christians vnder Dioclesian and Maxentius which were the most bloudie of all God vsed your Ilands and kingdomes as a refuge for the true Christians which fled from the saide persecutions Euen so the same God hath made your most happie raigne to be a safe harbour for the Christians of our age who haue been forced to abandon houses goods and inheritances rather then to bow to the Romish worship God the protector of his true Church hath continued his admirable graces ouer your Ilands in the second Period of Christianisme the which begun with the most happie Empire of Constantius Chlorus for during the last persecution God raysed vp this wise and warlike Emperour in the westerne parts of Europe in the which England Scotland and Ireland are conteyned where the saide Emperor tooke to wife Hellen borne in your said realmes who receiued into his protection all the Christians which fled from other prouinces to auoyde the cruell persecution which was made against them by his other associates in the Empire SIRE we must here obserue a notable pollicie of this wise Emperour to trie the fidelitie of his seruants and ministers in the gouernment of his Empire which will much auaile for the preseruation of your royall estate He did publish a fayned edict commaunding all the subiects of his Empire to sacrifice to the false Gods and whosoeuer should refuse so to doe to departe out of his armies and Empire This proclamation beeing made a great number of Christians did sacrifice vnto the false Gods to preserue their estates dignities and goods but the true Christians desired rather to leaue all then to serue them wherevpon the Emperour discouered himselfe presently and discharged all such as had worshiped these false Gods saying How can they be faithful vnto the Emperour that are faithlesse vnto God And as for the true Christians which had left all hee called them home and made them guardiens both of his person and estate as Eusebius saith I desire not your Maiestie should make such counterfeite proclamations but that the same God which hath made you successor to Constantius Chlorus will giue you the grace to make such an election of your subiects as in your most important affaires you admit not any but such as are knowne to be well grounded in the true Christian religion For euen as a modest woman ought not onely to be chast but free from all suspition euen so those which are imployed in the affaires of true Christian Princes as your Maiestie is should be free from all suspition of false religion The said Constantius died at Yorke in England after that hee had instituted Constantine the great his sonne the which was an other especiall grace which God hath poured vppon your realmes And euen as vnder King Lucius It was the first part of the world which did banish the Pagan Idolatrie euen so God hath raised out of the same Iland the said Constantine the great who expelled the same Romish Idolatry out of all the other Prouinces of the habitable world whereof your Maiestie hath a familiar example to imitate in this restorer of the Christian religion This great Constantine your predecessor and countrieman in the beginning of his Empire Hee studied what God he should choose as the same Eusebius saith that his Father had condemned the Error of Idolatrie and al his life had worshiped one onely God the protector guardien of the Empire the free giuer of all good Vppon this resolution he made choise of the true God to serue beleeuing that the onely cause of Kings and Emperours felicitie proceeded from him alone as the same Authour saith He worshiped the same God that is aboue all things And in his ordinarie praiers beeing alone he spake to God alone Whereby it appeareth that the religion which your Maiestie hath established in your realmes is conformable to that of your predecessour Constantine who worshiped as I haue saide but one onely God the Creator of all things and not the Crosse and Images of Iesus Christ In his ordinarie praiers hee did not call vppon the blessed Virgin Saint Peter Saint Paul nor the other Apostles and Martires neyther haue we