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A72940	A declaration of the recantation of Iohn Nichols (for the space almost of two yeeres the Popes scholer in the English Seminarie or Colledge at Rome) which desireth to be reconciled and receiued as a member into the true Church of Christ in England.	Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?	1581 (1581)	STC 18533; STC 18533.5; ESTC S113205	57,669	199

father to kill his sonne Exod. 11.2 and he willeth the Hebrues to take with thē the goods of the Egyptians which thinges if men should doe or commaund they could not cleare themselues of a great offence committed against God The Lorde hath deliuered a law to men and to himselfe hath hee giuen no lawe for seeing that hee is the Authour of the lawe hee may thereof except what he lyst Wherefore it is to be graunted that hee hath done nothing without consideration and infinite iudgement I woulde gladly bee briefe therefore I refer you to the chapters which speake against Images Reade Exod. 20.4 Leui. 9.4 Num. 33.52 Deut. 4.15 Psal 115.4 Psal 135. Esa 40.18 Ierem. 10.5 Ezech. 6.6 Heb. 2.18 Wis 13.10 Baruc. 6. Act. 17.42 Rom. 14.3 1. Cor. 5.11 1. Cor. 6.6 Gal. 5.19 Iohn 4.5 21. You see my brethren in howe many places the scripture doeth forbid vs to haue images yet you will haue them though God say nay if your holy father the Pope doth allow them Let vs see now what the auncient Doctors and graue fathers haue sayd by your images Tertul. in lib. de Idololatria Tertulliā in his booke of Idolatrie sayeth God hath forbidden an image as well to bee made as to be worshipped As far as making goeth before worshipping so farre is it before that the thing be not made that may not be worshipped Some man will saye I make it but I worship it not as though hee durst not worshippe it for any other cause but onely for that same cause for which he ought not to make it I meane both wayes procure Gods displeasure Nay rather thou worshippest the image thou giuest the cause to other to worshippe it Some one or other that maintaine idolatrie wil say And why then did Moses make the image of the brasen Serpent in the wildernesse Num. 21.8 The olde idolaters founde out and vsed the same aboue fourteene hundreth yeres agoe One the same God hath by his generall Lawe both forbidden any image to be made and also by his extraordinarie speciall commandement he hath bidden an image of the serpent to be made If thou be obedient to the same God thou hast his Lawe Make thou no image but if thou haue a regard to the image of the Serpent that was made afterwarde by Moses then doe thou as Moses did Make not any image against the law vnlesse God commaunde thee as hee did Moses Origen libr. 7. contra Celsum Origen sayth We make no image of God as knowing him to be inuisible wtout bodie Againe he sayeth Ibid. lib. 4. contra Celsum The minde of the Lawe was this that they shoulde in all thinges so behaue themselues as the trueth required and that they shoulde beside the trueth counterfeite nothing representing the shape of a man or woman Cyprian in lib. de Idolorum vanitate Cyprian sayth Images were first drawen thereby to keepe the countenance of the dead in remembrance vpon occasion whereof thinges grewe at length vnto holinesse that at the first were taken onely for solace Againe Ibid. tract 1. in Demetrian what doest thou bowe thy captiue bodie before foolish images earthly counterfaites God hath made thee vpright and whereas all the beasts of the earth are depressed in shape bending downe to the groundward thou hast a loftie state towardes heauen and to God thy countenance is erected Then looke vp thither thither cast vp thine eies seeke God aboue that thou maist want hell belowe lift vp thy doubtfull heart to hygh and heauenly thinges What doest thou throwe thy selfe with the deuill whome thou seruest into the pit of death Clement sayth Clement to Iames the supposed brother of our Lord. The deuill by the mouth of other is wōt to bring forth such words We to the worship of the inuisible God worship the visible images And this is most certeinly false For if you will truely worship Gods Image you should by being beneficial vnto man worship the true image of God in him What honour of God is this to runne about the counterfeites of timber and of stone and to worship the shapes that are without soule despise man in whom is the true shape of God Arnobius in his eight bookes against the Gētiles We neither worship nor wish for crosses you that consecrate wodden gods peraduenture worship your wodden crosses as partes of your gods If you had not this image should Christ be ignorant that he were serued of you Will you thinke that there is no honor done him Then doeth he receyue your seruings and worshippines by certaine traynes by other put in trust before he to whome the worship is due haue any feeling of the matter you doe your sacrifice vnto the image and send him but the scrappes from another mans boorde And what can be deuised more iniurious slaunderous vncourteous then to acknowledge one God and make thy sute to any other thing to hope for helpe of God and powre out thy prayers to a senselesse image Is not this as the Prouerbe sayth to haue a quarrell to Alfonsus fight with Ferdinando and where thou seekest for aduise of men to aske the sentence first of porkelings and of asses Is not this an errour Is it not properly a madnes in trembling wise to make thy humble sute to a thing that thou madest thy self And whereas thou doest knowe and art assured that it is thine owne workemanship the fruites of thine owne fingers to fall groueling vpon thy face before it Very children knowe that your images haue eyes and see not mouthes and speake not Wherefore then doeth the holy Ghost so often teach vs and admonish vs the same thing in the Scriptures as if we knewe it not For that the very shape and proportion of a man set aloft after it once beginneth to bee adored and honoured of the multitude it breedeth in euery man that most vile affection of error that although he find there no naturall mouing or token of life yet he thinketh some god or godly thing is within it and so being deceyued partly by the forme that he seeth and partly by the waye of authoritie and credite of the authors makers of it whome they take to be wise and partly also by the example and deuotion of the people whome they see obedient to the same he thinketh that the image being so like a liuing bodie cā not be without some liuing thing vnderneath it Lact. sayeth in plaine wordes Non est dubium quin religio nulla sit vbicunque simulachrū est Out of all doubt there is no religion wheresoeuer there is an Image S. Aug. speaking of the image of God the Father sayeth thus Tale simulachrum Deo fingere nefarium est To deuise such an Image of God it is abominable Theodorus the Bishop of Ancyra saith Sanctorum imagines species ex materialibus coloribus formari minimè decorū putamus manifestum

Isaac and the bastardise by Ismael Who were the elders If antiquitie were a marke of the trueth how woulde you haue answered vnto the Iewes who tolde Christ that they were the children of Abraham Iohn 8.33 who was the first father of the beleeuers They had their Genealogie from the creation of the fyrst man they did alledge the couenants that were made betweene God them Notwithstanding Christe being sent vnto them according to these promises vnder the shadowe of this antiquitie they maliciously called hym the carpenters sonne a Samaritane Matth. 13.55 Iohn 8.48 Marke 1.27 one that had the deuil a preacher of Noueltie And there is great likelyhood that if some of you Papists had bene thē there seeing at that time they vsed the selfe same arguments you would haue holpen to haue crucified him Furthermore what wil you answere vnto the Greeke Churches the Armenians Ethiopiās c. founded by the Apostles and as olde as the church of Rome yea and elder too seeing that the Church of Christ as we knowe tooke her beginning from the East to the West If antiquitie be a marke of holines and puritie they are holy and pure and if they bee holy and pure then the latin Church in comparison of them is moste vnholy and impure If they bee Heretiques and impure then it followeth that antiquitie is not a marke to proue the holines or veritie of the Church Howe then shall we reiect antiquitie nay rather we imbrace it with all our hearts so that it bee agreeable to Gods worde Tertullian de Virginibus velandis saith Consuetudo initium ab aliqua ignorantia vel simplicitate sortita in vsum per successionem corroboratur ita aduersus veritatem vendicatur Sed Dominus noster Christus veritatē se non consuetudinem cognominauit Viderint ergò quibus nouum est quod sibi vetus est Haereses non tam nouitas quàm veritas reuincit Quodcūque aduersus veritatem sapit hoc erit haeresis etiam vetus cōsuetudo Custome either of simplicitie or of ignorance getting once an entrie is inured strengthened by succession and then is defended against the trueth But Christ our Lorde calleth himselfe trueth and not custome Ioh. 14.6 Let them take heede therefore vnto whome the thing seemeth newe that in it selfe is olde It is not so much the noueltie of the matter as the trueth that reproueth an heresy Whatsoeuer sauoreth against the trueth is an heresie be the custome thereof neuer so olde Victi ratione opponunt consuetudinem quasi consuetudo sit maior veritate Beyng ouercome with reason they defende themselues with custome as though custome were better thē the trueth We may not prescribe of custome but wee must ouercome with reasō Custome without trueth is the mother of error Istud non est curandum quod aliquis ante nostrū tempus fecit sed id precipue nobis curae debet esse ꝙ a Christo factum est Non est imitanda nobis hominum consuetudo sed dei veritas expectanda That is We must not regard that which any other hath done before vs but we must regarde that which Christ hath done which is before all For we must not followe the custome of men but the trueth of God Againe he saith De seipso ad Pompeian epist 9. Mos sine veritate est vetustas erroris Et dixit dominus Ego sum veritas nō loquutus est Dominus Ego sum consuetudo Custome without trueth is an old error And the Lord hath said I am the trueth and not I am custome Ignatius sayeth Ignatius ad Philadelph Canon consuetud dist 11. Quem non audire est manifesta perditio Whome not to heare is manifest perdition See then howe the most auncient sende vs alwayes to learne the trueth of him which is most ancient of all Thus much briefely touching antiquitie or custome Nowe let vs come to multitude It is sayde expressely Exod. 23.2 Exodus 23. Ne insistito vestigiis potentiorum ad mala Thou shalt not folowe a multitude to do euil Also Mat. 7. Lata est porta spatiosa via quae ducit in exitium multique sunt qui ambulāt per mediū eius Wide is the gate and broade is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat Cōtrariwise Luke 12. Ne time ô parue grex nam visum est patri meo dare vobis regnum Feare not my litle flocke for it is my fathers will to giue you a kingdome Moreouer wee see how that all the worlde was brought to one Noah and afterwardes came to Abraham then God chose one people of Israel the least as it is sayd of all peoples and finally of all peoples the least parte that is to wit Christendome which for this cause he calleth a litle flocke so farre forth that S. Augustine saith That the Church was sometime in one Abel in one Enoch August super Psalm 128. Wherefore multitude ought rather to be presumption then a marke of the true Church Forasmuch also as man by nature is alwayes more prone to euill then to any goodnes if multitude shoulde take place then Paynims should be happier then we be for that they surpasse in nomber For whereas there is one that beleeueth in Christ our Sauiour you haue a thousande that beleeue him not What a multitude is there of Turkes of Iewes and other infidels Also in Noah his tyme what a multitude there was that would not acknowledge God nor folow his commandements nor giue credit to Noah his preaching but with one consent conspired against him mocked him his religion Gen. chap. 6. The Samaritanes were more in nōber then they of the tribe of Iuda And in Iuda and Israel the multitude of the idolaters was the greater For the Prophet Elias made his complaint that he was left alone that all the rest had forsaken their liuing Lorde and giuen them selues to idolatrie and as you may reade in Ieremie 4. 1. King 22.6 13 24. There arose vp 400. false Prophets who swarued from Gods lawe and folowed their owne imaginations against one good Prophet Micheas And the Prophets crie Ierem. 18.18 Omnem populum seductum fuisse a regibus vsque ad Sacerdotes Prophetas That all the people were deceiued euen from the Kings to the Priestes and Prophets In the Church of Christ also nomber multitude shall haue as small roume for euen at the beginning thereof Esa 53.1 Ioh. 12.38 Rom. 10.16 it was sayde Who hath beleeued our word and to whom hath the Arme of the Lorde bene reueiled Anon after the death of our Sauiour the Scholemen hold that for one instant the church stood in the Virgin Mary alone In the time of Arrius almost the world throughout was of the Arrian heresie and fewe besides Athanasius with fiue of his company professed the true fayth Theod. lib. 2. cap. 16. Wherefore the Emperour