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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11828	A short information, but agreeable vnto Scripture: of idol-images· Made vnto the Christian congregation at Prague, when as, by his Royall Maiesties most gracious command, the Castle-church there, was clensed from all images, on Sonday the twelfth of December, in the yeare 1619. By Abraham Scultetus. Faithfully translated according to the high Dutch copie printed at Heidelberge, by Gotthard Vœgeliu, 1620.	Scultetus, Abraham, 1566-1624.	1620 (1620)	STC 22126; ESTC S121082	10,238	24

down vnto it or before it And therfore before Images we ought not to pray not to baptize not to administer the Lords Super. For whether a mā hood-winke himselfe or no whether a man see the Images or see them not yet it is all one and directly against the will of God that any should pray before Images If now it be not lawfull at all for vs to honour and worship the Lord Christ through and by Images then is it much lesse lawfull for vs to honour and worship the Saints deceassed as the Virgin Mary Peter Wenceslaus Rochus Sebastian others by and before the Images For besides that the Saints departed are not to be worshipped or prayed vnto neither in regard of themselues for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy Mat. 4. 10. God and him onely shalt thou serue nor yet in regard of their being Mediators and Intercessors For it is written For there is one God and one Mediator betweene God and Men euen the Man Christ 1. Tim. 2. 5. Iesus Wherefore If any man sinne wee haue an 1. Iohn 2. 1. Aduocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous And hee maketh intercession for the Saints according Rom. 8. 27. to the will of God For hee is entered into Heb. 9. 24. Heauen it selfe now to appeare in the presence of God for vs. And therefore they haue great need to looke well about them and consider how they will one day answere for it before God who now so much loue Images as that they honour them with the putting off of the Hat with kneeling and with other like Ceremonies For they belong vnto the number of those of whom the Prophet Isaiah speaketh in his second Chapter saying Their Isai 2. 8 9. Land is full of Idols they worship the worke of their owne hands that which their owne fingers haue made There the meane men bow downe the great men humble themselues This thou wilt not forgiue them Of the third Here hence now it is easie to conclude what 3. That Christian Magistrates ought to remoue all Images from the Churches they meane to worship God in then a Christian Magistrate is to doe when for his seruing of God he taketh in a Church which is replenished with Idol-Images The Lord himselfe determines the matter Exod. 34. 13. Thou shalt destroy their Altars breake downe their Images and cut downe their groues And Deut. 7. 5. Thus shall ye deale with them Ye shall destroy their Altars and breake downe their groues and burne their grauen Images with fire Againe Deut. 12. 3. You shall ouerthrow their Altars and breake their Pillars and burne their groues with fire and you shall hewe downe the grauen Images of their gods and destroy the names of them out of that place And 1. Sam. 7. 3. Samuel spake vnto all the house of Israel saying If ye doe returne vnto the Lord with all your hearts then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among The first supposed ground is That God speaketh in the ten Commandements Obiect 1 of the Idol-Images of the Heathen and vnbeleeuing people Therefore the Commandement of Images concerneth not at all the Images of Christians vnder the new Testament The Answere is It is false that God in the old Ans Testament spake onely of the Idols of the Heathen For the tenne Commandements are Gods euerlasting vnchangeable will and extend vnto all people and euery one in the whole World as also vnto all and euery age and time both of the olde and new Testament Now as a Thiefe or an Adulterer in the new Testament sinnes as well against the ten Cōmandements as did a Thiefe and an Adulterer in the old Testament euen so whosoeuer honoureth and worshippeth Images in the new Testament he sinneth as wel against the ten Commandements as hee who did honour and worship Idols in the old Testament The second supposed ground Yet God himselfe had in Salomons Temple all Obiect 2 manner of Images I answere It is very true indeed But there Ans were not there any Images at all of any of the Saints departed as of Abraham of Isaack and of Iacob there were not any Historicall commemoratiue Images of which it is here spoken The third supposed ground But yet the common lay people may by Images bee Obiect 3 put in mind of many good things especially by the Crucifix of the Death and Passion of our Lord Iesus Christ I answere It stands not in mans will and pleasure Ans that hee institute and ordayne vnto himselfe a publike remembrance and commemoration of the benefits of God but that belongs vnto the Lord God alone to doe as it is written Psal 111. 4 He hath made his wonderfull workes to be had in remembrance the Lord is gracious and full of compassion And euen for this purpose hath the Lord God ordayned the preaching of his Gospell that by the same the benefits of our Lord Christ might bee as it were together painted before mens eyes According as the Apostle Saint Paul witnesseth of himselfe Gal. 3. 1. 2. 5 6. c. That he had euidently set forth Iesus Christ before their eyes not by a Crucifix but as himselfe further acknowledgeth through and by the preaching and hearing of faith And euen to this end did our Lord Iesus institute his holy Supper that we should celebrate it in remembrance Luke 22. 19. of him For the bread that we breake 1. Cor. 11. 24 25 26. is it not a notable remembrance I beseech you that Iesus Christ endured and suffered for vs many bitter sorrowes and such as neuer man suffered Consider and behold if euer there were sorrow like Lam. 1. 12. my sorrow and at length death it selfe when body and soule were pulled asunder the one from the other vpon the Crosse The Cup of Blessing or Thanksgiuing is it not an excellent remembrance that the bloud of Christ Iesus ranne gently out of his body and was shed for our sinnes These Remembrancers hath our Lord Christ instituted and Saint Paul hath repeated them But the Idoll and Imagery Remembrancers hath Antichrist euen the Pope instituted Before whose being there was not any Image-remembrancer knowne of in the Church of God But this was well knowne that euery Image was falshood Ier. 10. 14. And that they be teachers of lyes Habac. 2. 18. The fourth supposed ground is an Obiection made by Protestants For the abuse of a thing a man must not therefore Obiect 4 cast away the thing it selfe As a man will not cast away good Wine because that some abuse it to drunkennesse Euen so we may still retayne Images in Protestant Churches if we doe but forbeare to worship them and pray vnto them I answere This rule A thing is not therefore presently to be cast away because it hath beene abused Ans hath not any place or being in those things which are not of themselues necessary and yet are