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A42751	A treatise against superstitious Jesv-worship wherein the true sense of Phil. 2, 9-10 is opened, and from thence is plainly shewed and by sundry arguments proved, that corporall bowing at the name Jesus, is neither commanded, grounded, or warranted thereupon ... / written especially for the benefit of weake seduced persons that have a zeale towards God, though not according to knowledge by Mascall Giles.	Giles, Mascall, 1595 or 6-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing G738; ESTC R28636	55,934	65

to expresse outward reverence at all times when the same Name is mentioned but onely there Secondly I reply If we are not bound to performe the dutie of the Text but by direction and command from the Church By what authoritie shall the damned in hell doe it who must yet fulfill the Text as well as we there is no Church-government in hell or will they have them doe it by direction from the Canon into what unspeakeable snares doe these men run into by this opinion * Againe they make the Church a perpetuall Person and the dutie never to be ended by this their exposition For these two clauses of bowing the knee and confession with the tongue that Jesus Christ is the Lord are coupled together by a conjunction copulative as duties to be done together both must be done in the Name of Jesus Therefore as they understand at the Name Jesus and understanding bowing the knee plainly and properly they must of necessitie understand confession with the tongue that Jesus Christ is Lord plainly also and literally See then what worke they will make of it The Naming of Jesus will call for a bowing of the knee at the sound of it also at that time a vocall confession with the tongue that Jesus is the Lord In which confession Jesus being againe named will call for a new bowing confession and so it will come over and over againe never to be ended this snare they cannot possibly avoyd by their so expounding the Text SECTION XII VVHatsoever Exposition of a Text shall diminish weaken and Eclipse the Glory and Majesty of Christs Kingdome is false blasphemous and abominable But the aforesaid Exposition doth so I will prove that it doth in sundry respects First When we understand Name above every Name for the Power and Dominion of Christ over all creatures and things by this Exposition the high Dignitie of Christ specified in these words God highly exalted him is amplified and enlarged and thus it answers other Scriptures as Ephes. 1. 20 21. where in the twentie verse the high honour of Christ is set downe in these words He raised him from the dead and set him at his right hand in heavenly places which words answers to these words in Phil. 2. 9. God highly exalted him Then it follows vers. 21. Far above all principalities and powers and every name that is named which is a farther amplification of Christs Honour and fitly answers this phrase in Eph. 1. 21. God gave him a Name above every Name Againe This answers patly to Daniels advancement who was a type of Christ Dan. 2. 48. Where it is said that the King made Daniel a great Man and gave him great gifts which is as much as if he had said according to the words of Phil. 2. 9. He highly exalted him Then it follows that he made him Ruler over the whole Province of Babylon and chiefe of the Governours of all the wise men in Babylon which is an amplification of Daniels honour and it is as much as if it had been said he gave him a Name above all the Names of the wise men in Babylon On the other side By understanding Name above every Name for the title Jesus the honour of Christ is rather diminished for they give him in effect no Dominion and Power at all for his proper Name Iesus which others had as well as he doth not properly denote Power and Authoritie but his Power consists in his command and dominion over all as he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 19. 16. Secondly The Text according to the true meaning thereof makes Christ Lord of every creature from whose government and dominion none can be exempted The other Exposition robs Christ of the honour and dutie of the most of his creatures which cannot possibly performe their dutie to Christ as they understand it as I have proved so that it makes Christ Lord but of a few of the Creatures who is Lord of all Thirdly The Text truly understood gives to Christ the honour of every knee Christ will have all the abilities of every part and parcell of every creature to bow to him every knee of every faculty of the soule and part of the body must bow he will be honoured with all our strength Now whereas Christ will have all knees they give him onely by this exposition the knee of the body properly so called or a low curtesie and no more * Fourthly The Text in the true meaning thereof injoynes the bowing therein at all times and places every creature will they nill they are subject to Christ and we are bound to bow continually all our strength all our gifts and endowments all our naturall and spirituall abilities as faithfull servants to the will dominion and pleasure of Christ our highest Lord The other exposition tyes this dutie not to every place but to one place viz. The Temple and not at all times but onely one day in a weeke ordinarily The Lords day and not at all times in the said day but onely then when Iesus is named which amounts in all but to a few minutes in a weeke So that they will make Christ Lord but for a few minutes in one day of a weeke It is a poore honour that they will allow to Christ from this Text and indeed it is all that the most of them can afford him or are willing to give him allow him two or three curtefies once in a weeke and all their time else dishonour him by their scandalous lives Fifthly Whereas Christ is Lord and King especially of his Church which amongst men are onely his true and faithfull subjects for whose sake he will bring downe all adversary Power this their exposition robs Christ of his true Subjects and thrusteth upon him for the most part the members of Antichrist For the most famous Divines of all times and of all Churches are against the said exposition The best Churches and Christians because they understand Gods Word practise it not and who doe practise it as a dutie of the Text a few simply mislead onely excepted but a sort of ignorant superstitious lewd scandalous persons or meere men-pleasers and servers of the times which are enemies to Christ yet this opinion forceth these on Christ to be his true subjects and thrusteth going his owne people purchased with his blood and what an unspeakeable indignitie is this to Christ * Sixthly and lastly The opinion of these men deprives Christ of his honour and glory at the great day of Judgement For. 1. It puts no difference between his kingdome now begun and his kingdome made perfect for by their exposition of the Text they cannot avoyd it but that they must make the bowing at the Name Iesus to be the true bowing at the great day of Judgement as I shewed before And 2. What an abasement will this be of Christs honour at that great day For whereas he shall then appeare in

ancient and moderne Confessed also by the Champions for bowing at the Name Jesus as * Bishop Andrewes and * Mr Page who in his Treatise of Justification of Bowing understands the Text of the generall subjection of all Creatures to Christ at the great day of Judgement and is forward to alledge many Authors for it as Theophilact Anselme Aquinas Illyricus Hunnius and Hyperius Salmeron Zanchius and Estius and tels us that he could cite twice as many more if he pleased The Major therefore is undeniable For the Minor I never read any yet in Print to affirme that we shall all bow at the Name Jesus at the day of Judgement Master Page indeed coasteth towards it but speaks not out plainly For thus he answereth the Argument taken from the day of Judgement * Though all shall be subject to Christ then yet shall not we be subject before we needs must and declare our subjection by our bowing at the Name of Jesus for subjection doth not exclude but include bowing It shall be true of all knees then but it must be verified of some knees now I agree with him in this that there is a present equitie of the Text I consent to Mr Calvin who saith that though the Kingdome of Christ be not prefect till the day of Judgement yet it is begun already and encreaseth daily * Christ hath now all things under his feete and all Creatures are at his Rule and becke and must and shall fulfill not their owne will but the will of Christ though they shall not be perfectly subdued till the last day But yet Master Pages inference is not to the purpose for to affirme that because we must be all subject to Christ at the day of Judgement therefore we must declare our subjection by bowing at the Name Jesus is all one as to affirme because servants must be subject to their Masters that they must shew their subjection by bowing at their Masters Name or because wives must be subject to their husbands therefore they must make a cursie at the Name of their Husbands But if Master Page will speake to the purpose he must say thus Because all creatures shall declare their subjection by bowing at the Name Jesus at the last day accordingly we must now witnes our subjection This inference is right if he can prove his ground but that lyes upon the proofe Of necessitie our present bowing must be according to the future the parts must be according to the whole the prefect bowing must regulate the imperfect therefore if bowing at the Name Jesus shall not be performed at that day it concernes none so to bow now Some to whom I have put this Argument and finding it too hot for them stand to it to affirme that bowing at the Name Jesus shall be fulfilled at the day of Judgement but they cannot prove it otherwise than by seeking shelter at this Text If any such assertion shall ever come in Print I am confident that every judicious Reader will smile at it if not grieve to see the wilfulnes of such men that rather than they will yeeld to the truth will justifie such dangerous Paradoxes I will therefore by Gods assistance encounter with it and I thinke I shall upon better reasons disprove it than they can ever prove it First There is no Scripture for it and it is in no wise to be imagined that so many cleere Scriptures speaking so fully and plainly of the Judgement-day and of the deportment of those that shall then appeare should say nothing of this ceremony of bowing at the name Jesus if it were then to be done Secondly To what end shall the Name Jesus be sounded out at that day that all shall bow at the sound of it When he shall then appeare in his most glorious Name of Power and Glory when he shall not come as a Jesus to the most that shall then bow but a Lord to all and so shall all call him Mat. 25. 37. 44. Thirdly It is absurd to imagine that the Holy Ghost would describe the perfection of Christs Kingdome onely by such a gesture as a childe can performe at the mention of his Father Fourthly Bishop Andrewes the late Father of the corporall bowing at the Name Jesus will confute it by a saying of his He is exalted to whose Person knees doe bow His Person is taken out of our sight all that we can doe will not reach to it but his Name he hath left behinde him to us that we may shew by our reverence and respect to it how much we esteeme him If then we must now bow to the Name because the Person of Christ is out of our sight then it followes that when Christ shall manifest his Person there will be no time or place for bowing at the Name But by the Bishops reason seeing he acknowledgeth the fulfilling of the Text at the day of Judgement it will follow that Christ shall send out his Name at that day to have it sounded out that all should bow at it and not come himselfe in Person or else if then he come in Person he must leave his Name behinde him and so the duty of the Text shall not be fulfilled Againe It is very absurd to affirme that our worship will reach to the Name but not to the Person of Christ for shall veneration and honour reach to a bare Name as it is sounded out by the breath of man who is lesse than nothing Isa. 40. 17. And can no worship reach to the Person who besides that he is in the glory of the Father in the heavens as man also is every where present by his infinite Deitie and especially present in and among his Saints by his Spirit Names be signes and a kinde of images of things or Persons represented by them An Idolater bowes to an image which he doth see because he deemes that it represents unto him the Person whom he adores which he cannot see whereas if the Person were present before him he would never bow to the Image The Name Jesus is as it were the signe or image of our Saviour it would be therefore worse than Idolatry it selfe to bow to Christs image efore his owne face If any shall yet inferre that though all other Scriptures say nothing for the bowing at the Name Jesus at the Judgement day yet it is enough that it be specified in one Text as viz. in this present Text of Phil. 2. 9 10. I answer It is utterly against reason to imagine that if bowing at the Name Jesus were to be done at the Judgement day that the Holy Ghost would omit to specifie it in so many cleere places treating of the Judgement day and would set it downe in an obscure Text that treats not plainly of the Judgement day but as it must be enlightned by other cleere Scriptures and that in such words and phrases that are different in sense to all those words and phrases

that by his judgement none ought to be compelled to it But the Governours of the Church have constrained Ministers all along for the most part to use the rest of the Ceremonies but the other was generally neglected and not urged till the dayes of this late Archbishop Therefore if this be a dutie of the Text it will accuse the Church of England of grosse hypocrisie in urging meere Ceremonies and neglecting to urge a necessary dutie It would be a preferring of her own traditions above Gods Commandements It would make then that the Church failed in sinceritie till this late Archbishop came SECTION XVIII LAst of all I may bring this as a reason against them the most of them and some also of the chiefest of them that ground it on the Text yet hold their opinion very uncertainly they passe to and fro betwixt the Text and the Canon When they thinke that the Authoritie of the Canon is not altogether sufficient to make the people to practise it they flee to the Text and when they are afraid that the Text will not beare it they flee to the Canon And if this be not halting between two opinions for my part I know not what is I will instance but in one Master Page in his Treatise of justification of bowing at the Name Jesus doth confesse that when he first went about that Treatise he did not thinke that it could be so directly proved from the Text a plaine evidence that he went about it doubtfully for he was to encounter with an Antagonist that held it no dutie of the Text and would he goe about to contradict him when himselfe was fearfull that the Text would not beare it but he affirmes that when he had read Bishop Andrewes on Phil. 2. he could not but condescend to his * opinion yea though he brings many Arguments such as they are to prove it a dutie yet thus he closeth with his Antagonist Though I am not so peremptory saith he that it is a dutie of the Text as you are it is not Neverthelesse if the Text faile me I will ground it upon the Authoritie of the Church Yea throughout the whole Treatise he is content with any testimony or proofe from any Authour that may give the least signification that it is but a thing indifferent yea which is to be noted that those Authors that are evidently against him and vnderstand bowing the knee in the Text of subjection because they say that this subjection is signified by bowing the knee he takes to be for him he may as well affirme that because Kings and Rulers are commanded to be subject to Christ Psal. 2. 12. which subjection is signified by the word Kisse therefore they are bidden in an expresse and literall way directly and plainly to kisse Christ A strange thing that a man should write so largely as he doth and yet not be sure of his owne grounds what is this but to ensnare the Consciences of his Readers to make them practise a duty yet they shall not know upon what ground they practise it they shall not know whether they obey Gods Commandement or Mans onely To state and preach this opinion so uncertainly as many Ministers have done what is this but to bring upon the consciences of their people a necessitie of sinning and so great perill of damnation for whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14. 23. I say to all these men as Eliah said to the worshippers of Baal 1 Kings 18. 21. Why doe yee halt between two opinions If God be God follow him but if Baal be he follow him So I say If you will ground this bowing upon the Text follow that or if upon the Canon follow * that you cannot ground it upon both and yet make it a thing indifferent for if you ground it on the Text you must make it necessary and alwayes and at all times and places continually to binde PART II. Wherein are Answers to Reasons pretended for bowing at the Name Jesus from Phil. 2. 9 10. SECTION I. OF all the Reasons that I have hither to met with I professe I have not found any one that is truly grounded upon the Text or any other correspondent Scriptures but meerely upon the fantasie of the braine Onely there is a shew of a proofe by reason that In the Name is translated at the Name which they presse upon their People in this wise The Text say they is as cleere as the Sunne for this practise doth it not say expressely At the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow Can there be any thing more plaine * I have already answered this therefore I will be silent now onely here I seriously admonish these men to unteach such vaine doctrines I answer them there is nothing more obscure and sensles than such an Interpretation making In the name of Jesus to be meant at the mention of the Name Jesus for I have proved before no Scripture can warrant this Exposition But if they will needs have it so meant here I will produce a Text that may make as much for adoration at Gods Name as this Text for the Name Jesus Psal. 63. 4. Thee will I blesse while I live I will lift up my hands in thy Name What Name this is the first Verse shews it is Gods Name If then In the name of Jesus be meant at the naming of Jesus what reason can be given why In the name of God may not as well be meant At the naming of God If then by this exposition we be bound in the one place to bow the knee at the naming of Iesus we are as well bound by the other place to lift up our hands at the naming of God But if it be not meet so to understand the Psalmist in the one place it is not meet so to understand the Apostle in the other place For the translation though I doe not question it yet in my poore judgement if it had been translated In the Name as it is in the Originall the same phrase being never translated at the Name in any other place of Scripture but in this place onely though in as hard places as this it would have prevented that great offenc which ignorant men have taken by it for the practise of this will-worship and much restrained superstitious Teachers from pressing it upon the consciences of their people by reason of this translation But certainly such Teachers have much to answer for for teaching such doctrine when they cannot but know that no Scripture will beare them out in such an Exposition SECTION II. Another Reason is this THe Name Jesus say they was the most despised and contemptible Name Therefore God will have it honoured when it is mentioned above other Names I answer Jesus Christ the great Rabbi and Doctor of his Church hath no where taught them to reason so The Text cannot with any sense beare this Reason for as I have shewed before the