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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

Idols and Images abolishing the new Masse or the worshiping of the Hoast Soone after many Princes did rise and many faithfull learned men by whose ministrie and valour the purenesse of the preaching of the Gospell was restored in the sinceritie of Christian truth as it was at the comming of Constantine in the West of Europe I may therefore iustly say that among all the Princes which haue laboured for the restoring and reformation of the auncient Church your predecessours King Edward and Queene Elizabeth of happle memories haue beene the first which haue built vpon this foundation after Constantine although long after and now SIRE these blessed soules behould from heauen the full perfection of their worke which must be finished by you whom they haue left the successour and heire of their most royall enterprises Your Maiestie hath a familiar example in the life of the disceased Queene of happie memorie who hath bene a true mother vnto you In whose gouernment we haue seene as in a looking glasse that God hath accompanied her with an admirable and extraordinarie prosperitie foelicitie and happie successe in all her affaires for hee hath drawne her from a prison to a kingdome he hath made her to raigne fortie and fiue yeeres in great peace and tranquilitie hauing discouered aboue twentie enterprises readie to bee put in execution against her life and state hee indued her with all kindes of perfections and vertues as prudence modestie and wisdome in all her actions beautified with a liuely and sound iudgement farre exceeding her sex And for a fulnesse of happinesse the same God did prolong her daies vnto threescore and ten yeares in the which she was alwayes victorious ouer her enemies both home bred and strangers What is then the cause SIRE I will attribute it wholy vnto God and to the puritie of his Gospell and to Christian religion the which she hath established in her kingdoms whereof this most Christian and generous Princesse made a sincere profession all her life Hauing therefore in this peaceable and Christianlike manner yeelded vp her blessed soule to her benefactor and Creatour the great God immortall she left those realmes aboūding in all riches in great peace and admirable vnion and concord And moreouer to seale vp her forepassed life and death with a greater benefit for the loue she bare vnto her subiectes which is a great proofe of the blessing of God we haue seene the wisdome she vsed euen at the last gaspe hauing so profitably and so effectually perswaded her subiects to imbrace acknowledge your Maiesty whom she knew to be the true lawfull vndoubted heire and successor of her goodly flourishing Realmes of England and Ireland by right of consanguinity and lawfull succession Who dooth not see the assistance of God in all this action In that he would haue your Maiesty established in this most high degree of honour not for any other respect but that in raigning happily and in peace you should finish the full deliuery and restoring of Israel and of the Churches of your realmes and to continue the pure preaching of the Gospel so happily begun by her Maiesty of blessed and happy memory against the Idolatry of Rome I doubt not SIRE but Sathan and his supporters will herein imploy their straragems to counsell your Maiesty to induce you to ioyne with that great whore of Babilon a whore which makes the kings princes of the earth drūk with the cup of her spiritual fornicatiō But I assure my selfe that your Maiesty like vnto wary nice Vlisses will stop your eares against al her charmes inchantments and all urements continuing inuiolable constant and resolute in your royall vertues the which God hath bountifully planted in you to maintaine and preserue his Church and Sacraments to his honor and glory in their purety against the poisons Romish inuensions of men Most humbly beseeching your Maiesty to remember that the Popes pretend to be the true kings of England and Ireland houlding the Kinges of the said kingdoms for their vassals and tributaries who now vnder colour to free you from their said pretensions would draw you vnto them and impose vpon you a most heauy and seruile yoake If your Maiesty should so forget your selfe as to cleaue vnto them who knoweth not that their successors are accustomed to disanull the deedes and promises of their predecessors and which is more to hould no faith with heretickes as they call you But SIRE this is nothing in respect of the hard slauery of soules whom they torture with their censures and excommunications So as you shal no sooner subiect your selfe vnto their lawes but vpon the first dislike they will absolue and free your subiects from their oath of obedience due vnto their true and lawfull King they will depose you at their pleasures and giue your crownes to whom they like wherof we haue too many late examples But when they shall see your Maiesty to oppose constantly against their tyranny they will not dare to attempt against you nor your realmes And moreouer is not your Maiesty at this present protector of the Church of all your realmes yea the greatest of the Soueraigne kings which professe the purenes of the Gospell shall not these lawfull titles of honour be sufficient to diuert your Maiesty from following the counsell of such Sirens of state They would gladly perswade you to acknowledge this furious beast who seekes but to deuour good Kings to chalenge to himselfe all power as he saith in heauen earth and hell An essentiall marke that he is the man of iniquity mētioned in the Scriptures which hath raised himselfe aboue all nations and aboue all religion If this monster held you at his deuotion the which I with all your good subiects thinke to be impossible how great a leuiathan soeuer he be doubt not SIRE but he would make you the most vile and most abiect of al his lifetenants treading you more proudly vnder his feete then euer he did the good Emperour Barbarosse And then let your Maiesty consider in what misery calamity and desolation of desolations both you my Lord the Prince whom you loue deerely and all your subiects who pray for you hourely should be reduced in these your flourishing realmes The Almighty God which gouerneth disposeth of Monarchies according to his will which giueth victories in battailes who is the spring and fountaine of all wisedome and knowledge giue your Maiesty a raigne like vnto the Queene of blessed happy memory Increase your Maiesty in wisedome and knowledge and in true piety and purenesse of his seruice giue you victory ouer all them that shall attempt against you or your estate and finish the worke in you begun for the restoring of the true Church banishing out of your Ilands and realmes all tyranny heresie and Romish Idolatry And for a happy ende the same eternall God giue you a full and perfect inioying of the Crowne of glory in the happinesse of eternall life through his sonne Iesus Christ our Lorde FINIS Baleus ex Gilda et alijs script Anglis Niceph l. 2. c 4 Plat. in vit The lesph Athanas Oret cont gentes tom 1. pag. 34. In Parenetico Euseb in vita Constan Idem in Constant Euseb ibid. Sedulius in cap. 1. epist ad Rom. Aug. epist 45. ad Max grammat tom 2. Athā cont Arr. orat 3 et epist ad Ephes Orat. 3. pro. pace Expositor ordin in Rom. Casand in Litur Honor. in Gemma anime Ado. in Chro. Aeneas Siluius in Hist Boem * Matth. Paris in Hist Angl. sub Henric. 3. pa. 660. Mat. vvestmon in Florib hist sub an 1216.

who knewe the spirite of man commonly inclined to Idolatrie would not leaue his representation in the figure of a man to take from him all subiect of Idolatrie but hee chose rather to institute the Simboles in the Elements of bread and wine wherewith his humaine nature was nourished as ours is now the which is nourished dayly when there is no reason to worship them seeing we doe eate them as Theodoret saith yet the spirit of darkenes hauing in the olde time induced men to eate the beasts and then to worshippe their Images hath since found meanes to pull from the Church the firme breade in the Communion bringing in a kinde of wafer which cannot properly bee called breade beeing so thinne on the which are printed the Images of Iesus Christ the which they haue since worshiped whereas it was instituted onely to be eaten in remembrance that Iesus Christ had a humane bodie nourished like vnto ours to continue betwixt him and vs the communication of this incarnation by the Elements wherewith we are all nourished This onely adoration of one God hauing continued the sixe first ages after our Sauiour Gregorie the first Bishoppe of Rome brought in the inuocation of deade men in the beginning of the seauenth age with many other superstitions yet did he neuer teach that we must worshippe the Images of Iesus Christ as Christ himselfe as Thomas Aquinas and other Romish Doctors do teach vs neither did he teach that we should worshippe the consecrated Host as God but contrariwise writing to Serenus Bishoppe of Marseilles he commandes him in expresse wordes that he restraine the people from the worship of Images and that the people should prostrate themselues with all humilitie in the worship of the onely Almightie and holy Trinitie So as the Romish doctrine of the last ages is directly contrarie to that of the first six ages after our Sauiour And yet this Pope commaunded them to hold Images in their Churches yet not to worshippe them but to serue as a commemoration vnto the people of the Histories of the Bible onely but to what end serued this It was as much as if they should forbid one to be drunke who is naturally inclined thereunto yet command him to lodge in a Tauerne and to consort himselfe with drunkards or like to him that should cōmaund a young man in the heate of his youth giuen to licentiousnesse to abstaine from it and yet to lodge in a brothell house Mans nature is as much or more inclined to Idolatrie then to drunkennesse or luxurie therefore the deuine prouidence knowing this imperfection in man would take from him all subiect of Idolatrie Theodoret Serm. 7 de cur Grec affect saith That the wicked spirit to deceiue ignorant men inuented the Arte of painting g●●uing and other workemen to forge Images and pictures to serue for matter of Idolatrie and that they haue not onely filled the Temple with Images but also the market places streetes and publique places yea euen rich mens houses the which we see practised at this day in the Temples markets streets and houses of our aduersaries Arnobius in the sixt booke against the Gentiles saith that they tooke the same pretext for the vse of Images in their Churches To serue the ignorant and vnruly people whom they made to worship them giuing them venerable formes to the end saith he they should beleeue there were some vertue in their brightnesse which did not onely dazle their eyes but stroke a terrour in their harts by the brightnesse of their resplendent light Wee are to obserue the speciall grace which God continuing his worke hath shewed to the Ilands of great Britaine in the beginning of this seauenth age for Gregorie the first hauing sent Augustine the young into the same Iland to plant many superstitions with the inuocation of Saints neither he nor his doctrine were receiued but the miserie was that soone after the death of Gregorie the worshipping of Images did so encrease as it was the cause of many troubles betwixt the West and the East as we shall shew hereafter In the seauenth eight and ninth ages making the third Period of Christianisme the Hebrewe Greeke Latine tongues were almost rooted out in the Westerne parts of Europe through the inundation of Barbarians which did teare in peeces the Romain Empire with the true diuinity wherby we obserue that euen as the true religion began with the said Empire and so encreased euen so the Empire decaying the sinceritie of Christian religion was almost abolished and declined so by their deuisions in the West that Sathan working the mistery of iniquitie in the harts of the Easterne Bishoppes made them to haue no respect to the purity of antiquity bringing in a new worship of the Creatures of the Crosse and of the Images of Iesus Christ the Apostles and Martires an Idolatrie meerely Pagan We reade in the actes of the second Councell of Nice printed both in Greeke Latine in Paris that the said Councell did decree that we must esteeme the image of Iesus Christ as Iesus Christ himselfe that as the person of Iesus Christ is distinguished from that of the father in hipostasis and vnited in substance euen so his image should differ from him in substance and be vnited in person the which is an intollerable blasphemy and as great as the heresies of Arrius and Nestorius for that were to make a God of a materiall thing or made by hand and to worshippe it as God as the Gentiles did worshippe the workemanshippe of man At that same time God raised vp in the Iland of great Brittaine that venerable Beda who taught the Hebrew Caldee Greeke and Latine tongues Diuinity and Philosophy out of whose Schoole came Iohannes Scotus and Alcuinus who planted learning and the sciences in the Citty of Paris was afterwards spread oueral Europe This Iohannes Scotus was Schoolemaister to the Emperor Charlemagne who withstood the idolatry of the Eastern Churches causing the second counsell of Nice to be declared hereticall and abusiue by that of Francfort as we reade in Ado viennensis The same Emperor became so learned as he writ a booke against the Pagan worship of images the which is found among the learned Out of the same schoole came one after another Rhabanus Maurus a Scotishman as many writers doe testifie Claudius Taurinensis Bertram a priest with other lights of the Church in the third period of Christianity which are the seauenth eight and ninth ages which haue fought against idolatry and the grosse errors of the sacrament as wee shall hereafter shew The fourth period of Christianisme which containes the tenth eleauenth and twelfe ages was so destitute of men adorned with true piety learning as the seedes of the Idolatry of former ages came to the accomplishment of the abhomination of dissolution at which time Berengarius Archdeacon of Anger 's with his disciples and Peter de Valdo with the