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A54780 The nurse of pious thoughts wherein is briefly shewed that the use which Roman Catholikes do make of sacred pictures, signes, and images is not idolatry or any other misdemeanour (as some imagine), but the nurse of pious thoughts and healthfull meditations / written by F.P. Philopater. Philopater, F. P. 1652 (1652) Wing P21; ESTC R25515 84,169 280

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divers ingravings and carving and he made in them Cherubins and palm trees and divers pictures as it were standing out of the wall and coming forth 3 Kings 6. S. Paul also calleth Christian Churches the house of God 1 Cor. 11.22 and our Saviour divers times calleth his Church upon earth the Kingdome of heaven as Mat. 13.24 and again verse 47. and the Temple and Churches his Fathers house Ioh. 2.16 where not onely God dwelleth but also Angels and Saints according to the words of S. Paul saying to the Christians You are come to Mount Sion and the City of the living God heavenly Hierusalem and the assembly of many thousand of Angels and the Church of the first-born which are written in heaven Heb. 12.22 whereupon it cometh to passe that there was never in the world any Church which did belong unto Catholique Christians which had not in it an Altar as a picture sign or image of the Altar in heaven and some sacred pictures signes or images either to represent unto those who should enter into it the society of heaven or the mysteries of our faith or both otherwise it could not represent the Temple of God or house of God in heaven from whence it hath his denomination S. John saying that he saw a great multitude in heaven which no man could number of all Nations Tribes and peoples clothed in white robes and palms in their hands c. these saith he are they which are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the bloud of the Lamb therefore they are before the Throne of God and they serve him day and night in his Temple Revel 7. Again he saith I saw an Angel come forth from the Temple which is in heaven Revel 14.17 whereby it appeareth that as we have sacred Temples Altars and Churches which represent the Temple Altar and house of God in heaven so also we ought to have sacred images or pictures of Angells and Saints to represent unto us the Inhabitants in the Temple of heaven or the mysteries of our faith and that our adversaries who disgrace deface and beat down these things are enemies to pious thoughts and to the elevation of mens minds to heaven and heavenly things CHAP. XIII That in time of peace when there is no persecution the pictures and images of Angels and Saints ought to be placed in Christian Churches and there honored with a relative religious worship AS I have proved in the last chapter Christian Churches Temples and Chappels ought to resemble unto them heaven and the house of God in heaven wherein do dwell Angels and Saints and therefore it is as manifest that Christians ought to have some sacred pictures of Angels and Saints in their churches temples and chappels and there to honor them with a relative religious worship to represent unto them heaven as is manifest that they ought to have churches unlesse it be in time of persecution when sacred pictures are more subject to be prophaned then the churches themselves by Pagans and Infidels who do more hate sacred images then they do material churches and therefore doe sooner deface and abuse them then they doe the churches themselves In the Old Testament because the gates of heaven were not open before the Ascension of our Lord as the Scriptures witnesse Colos 1.18 therefore in the Tabernacle and Temple of the Old Law were onely the pictures of Angels and not of Saints but now in the New Law that the Saints have passage into heaven and the Inhabitants of heaven doe consist of Angels and Saints as witnesse the Scriptures Heb. 13.22 Revel 7.9 it is as requisite that the pictures and images of Saints should be placed in Christian churches and chappels and there respected and honored with a relative religious worship as that it was necessary in the old Law the pictures of Angels should be in the Tabernacle and Temple and there respected and adored after the manner aforesaid the same reason serving equally for both The Inhabitants of the Temple and house of God in heaven consisting of an innumerable multitude of Angels and Saints he should be but an unskilfull workman who would undertake to make a description of it unto our corporall eyes and not paint or carve any image or picture of any Saint seeing that heaven is the house of Saints as further witnesseth S. Paul 2 Cor. 5.1 unlesse he should excuse himself by reason of persecution that he omitted these things least they should be prophaned by Pagans and Infidels or administer occasion unto them of greater wrath or indignation against Christians whereupon it came to passe that though the Primitive Christians alwayes used pictures and images of Saints in their churches chappels and places of meeting and respected and reverenced them with a relative religious worship as they did their churches thereby to nourish in themselves pious thoughts yet in the time of persecution they used them not carved or painted upon the walls or so fixed as that they could not easily remove them as doth witnesse the Councell of Jliberis held in the time of of persecution and before the church had peace in the thirty sixth Canon saying It hath pleased the Councell that pictures should not be in the Churches that is to say fixed or fastened to the walls least that which is worshipped and adored should be painted upon walls where the Pagan and Infidels coming might easily abuse them But after that persecution ceased and the church had peace for the statues pictures and images of false gods and prophane men which the Pagan and Infidells used in their Temples and the honor which they bestowed upon them the Christians brought in the pictures images and memories of the Saints with a relative religious respect and honor unto them as witnesseth Theodoret in the end of the eighth book of the cure of Greek affections or of Martyrs saying The Temples of those false gods and prophane men together with their groves are now so destroyed that there doth not remain any of their footsteps neither can we know after what manner their Attars were built for the very matter of those things is purged out by the erected Temples and Altars of the Martyrs for our Lord God hath brought in his dead into the Temples in place of your gods he hath made their glory void and vain and hath given their honor to his Martyrs and for the solemnities of all your gods and goddesses are brought in the common feasts of Peter Paul Thomas Sergius Marcellus Leontius Antonius Moritius and other holy Martyrs Thus Theodoret who florished in the year 430. to shew unto us that as soon as the church had peace the faithful kept the feasts of the Saints placed their pictures in the churches and gave unto them all the exteriour visible honor which the Pagans did unto their false gods except Sacrifice and their relation to their Idols as to the true and living God Untill