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A72264 The touch-stone of the reformed Ghospell. Wherin sundry chiefe heads and tenets of the protestants doctrine (obiected by them commonly against the Catholicks) are briefly refuted. By the expresse texts of the protestants owne Bible, set forth and approued by the Church of England. With the ancient fathers Iudgments thereon, in confirmation of the Catholike Doctrine; Gagge of the new gospel Heigham, John, fl. 1639. 1634 (1634) STC 13033.8; ESTC S125239 50,830 222

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house of rest for the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord and for the footstoole of our God Now the principall reason why the Arke was worshipped was in regard of the Images that were set vpon it which the Iewes did worship as S. Hierom witnesseth in his Epistle ad Marcellam Philip. 2.10 That at the Name of Iesus euery knee should bow of thinges in heauen and thinges in earth and thinges vnder the earth Now that is the Name of Iesus which either is pronounced by anothers mouth printed in a booke or painted and engrauen in a image but at any of these we are commanded to bow the knee Againe if Images ought not to be worshipped we may not whatsoeuer the Apostle saith bow our knee at the Name of Iesus seeing wordes as Aristole saith and as the truth is are signes representatiue of the thinges they signifie and are the images of the eares as the others are of the eyes Num. 21.8 And the Lord said vnto Moyses Make thee a fiery Serpent and set it vp vpon a pole and it shall come to passe that euery one that is bit when he looketh vpon it shall liue Hence are euidently proued diuers thinges against our Reformers 1. That God commanded the making of this Image 2. The setting of it vp for a signe 3. He promised that the lookers theron should assuredly receiue succour and help 4. He warranted the making the setting vp the behoulding and the reuerencing thereof to be exempted from breach of the first Commandement by working so many and so manifest miracles at and before the presence thereof Therfore an Image may be made may be set vp may be looked on and be reuerenced as Doctor Sanders most learnedly concludeth in his Treatise of Images ¶ See Fathers that affirme the same S. Amb. serm 1. in Psal 118. S. Aug. lib. 3. de Trinit S. Greg. lib. 7. epist 5. ad Ian. Finally S. Basill saith in Iulian. citat in 7. Sinod I honour the histories of Images and do publickly worship them for this being deliuered vs from the holy Apostles is not to be forbidden S. Chrysostom in his Masse turned into Latin by Erasmus sayth The Priest boweth his head to the Image of Christ. S. Damascen lib. 4. cap. 17. saith The worshipping of the Crosse and of Images is a Tradition of the Apostles But before I cōclude this Point I desire to solue a few obiections which vsually our Reformers bring against the Honour of holy Images Their 1. Obiection Is taken out of 2. Kings we 4.18 where King Ezechias broke downe the brasen serpent wherof we last made mention seing it to be the cause of Idolatry Answere This indeed is a common place from whence our Aduersaries collect sundry false and sophisticall arguments to wit from the abuse of any good thing to destroy it vtterly together with the right vse thereof But by the same argument they may as well collect that the Sunne and the Moone should be taken out of the Firmament because they were worshipped by the Gentils for Gods Likewise that the holy Bible should be burnt because many a one draweth damnable heresies forth of the same to his owne perdition Yea this silly argument borrowed from the abuse of thinges serues very fitly to proue the quite contrary thus Images haue byn sometimes abused therfore they were good in themselues for those thinges which are euill by abuse only must needes be good being well vsed Their 2. Obiection You giue that honour to Images which is due to God alone worshipping adoring and creeping to them as to God Answere We say the contrary which thus we proue The difference of honour proceedeth principally from the minde and not from the exteriour bowing or demeanour of the body For if I prostrate my selfe before an Image or kisse the same well knowing the while that it is no God nor reasonable Creature but only a rememhrance of God towards whome I desire to shew myne affection God knoweth how far off mine honour is from that honour which is due to him alone As contrary wise if I lay prostrate at Christes feet indeed kissed them knocked my breast held vp my hands vnto him called him the Sonne of God yet all this while thinke him not to be so in my hart myne honour truly should be no honour at all but a very contumely and affront vnto Christ Adde heereunto that the wordes which betoken honour adoration worship and the like are in a maner confounded in all languages but the hart from whence the honour proceedeth knoweth well the difference of euery thing D. Sanders de Imag. pag. 10. Their 3. Obiection It is expresly forbidden by God himselfe to fall downe before any Image or to worship it Answere Our Reformers themselues confesse to honour the Sacrament of Christs Supper which they teach to be an Image or representation of Christs body and bloud And seeing they belieue no other substance to be in the Sacrament besides bread and wine nor will not giue the honour of latria as we call it thereunto hence it followeth inuincibly that they do worship or honour some Image Now as they would not for all this haue vs to iudge or call them Idolaters euen so let it please them for their owne sakes to spare vs. For as they do not place or stay this honour in the bread and wine but from thence refer it to Christ himselfe euen so do we transfer all our honour from all Images vnto the first forme or patterne not suffering the same to rest or end in the Image which we honor Sander ibid. pag. 52. Their 4. Obiection An Image is a Creature and no God and to set vp a Creature to be worshipped or adored is flat Idolatry Answere Images are set vp in Churches not specially to the intent that the people should worship or adore them but partly to instruct the simple and partly to stir vp our mindes to follow the example of those holy men whose Images we do there behold So that the worship and reuerence which is there giuen to Images is giuen as it were by a consequence and rather because it may be lawfully giuen then because it is principally sought to be giuen As for the Idolatry which is obiected we are to vnderstand that the word is compounded of Latria and Idolum and is as much to say as the giuing of Latria or of Gods honour vnto an Idol But our Images are no Idols nor the honor we giue vnto them is that of Latria how then can it be said that Images are set vp to be vsed to Idolatry ¶ Thus much haue I thought good to adde in this place for the instruction of the ignorant and vnlearned people who vse to stumble at the doctrine Of the worship of Images because indeed they vnderstand it not And what is said for the worship of them may also serue for the lawfulnes of making them since the one supposeth the proofe of the other L.