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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97089	A brief answer to the many calumnies of Dr. Henry More, in his pretended Antidote against idolatry. Shewing that no prudent person can, upon any rational ground, be deterr'd from returning to the communion of St. Peter's chair, by any of the doctors best and strongest evidences to the contrary.	Walton, John, 1624-1677.	1672 (1672)	Wing W675A; ESTC R225655	39,521	109

with the same kind of incurvation of Body did adore God Gen. 17. worship Angels Gen. 18. and Men Gen. 23. Where we evidently find that the same posture of bowing the Body only as intentionally directed by a different application of the heart is a divine worship in respect of God an inferior kind of worship in respect of Angels and a civil worship as referr'd to Men. Wherefore he who will speak distinctly to the Catholick Tenet must distinguish these several modes of worship one from another or else shew cause why he ranks them all under one and the same species of Religious worship Otherwise he will make it appear that he loves darkness more than light and seeks not to cope with his Adversary like a Scholar Haveing premised this Observation The Doctor 's Seventh Conclusion which speaks thus That to sacrifice or burn Incense or make any Religious obeysance or incurvation to an Image in any wise as to an object of this worship is idolatry by divine declaration This conclusion I say will appear to have as much pertinent sense in it as if a Junto of Civilians being requested to declare by a common vote what Murther is should give-in their learned answer with a Resolved upon the question That to take away a Man's life wilfully and without cause or to cut off a limb or draw blood is Murther Just such a wild medley of truth and falshood is the Doctor 's Conclusion Sacrificing to an Image and bowing to an Image suit not well together The first is Idolatry and the very crime which the Catholick Church condemns in Carpocrates and his Adherents But that bowing to an Image of Christ or his Saints should be idolatry rather then bowing to the Ark of the Covenant or that honouring the Picture of Jesus rather than the Name of Jesus should be liable to the like exception this I say should have been more strongly proved than by meerly alledging a broken Text of Scripture Thou shalt not bow to them nor worship them which yet is all the Doctor does save only an old thred-bare gloss upon it which shall presently be answered Only first I observe that when Protestants read this their Second Commandment Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image or any likeness that is in Heaven above or that is in the water under the earth Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them and withall are informed that Papists make Pictures and Images of Christ place them in their Churches put off their Hats and bow the Knee before them presently they endite the practise within their brests as guilty of idolatry most inconsiderately no less than uncharitably charging Idolatry upon the practice of the Church for doing those self-same things which God himself commanded the Jews to do to whom he gave this very Precept Did not God command Moses to make two Cherubims of gold in the two ends of the Mercy-Seat Were there not graven Cherubims on the Walls of the Temple Were not the two Cherubims in the most Holy Place of Image-Work Were not the People to pray in the Temple and commanded to worship at the Foot-stool of our Lord that is the Ark of the Covenant over which were the Cherubims of Image-Work and could this possibly be done without bowing before Images Behold now what an irrefragable consequence is drawn from hence God himself commanded the making of Images even after he had given the Second Commandment of the Decalogue Ergo Papists can make no Images but they are Idolaters Images were placed in God's own Temple Ergo Papists are Idolaters in placing Images in their Churches God's People were commanded to bow down and prostrate themselves where it could not be done without bowing before Images Ergo Papists who kneel before an Image are Idolaters If Protestants did but reflect how much this mistake of theirs is against Scripture as well as against Charity they would be more sparing of their censures Now to the Objection Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them Of which undoubtedly the sense is says the Doctor They shall not be in any wise the Object of that worship which thou performest in a religious way For the Second Commandement certainly is a declaration of the mind of God touching religious worship Let us understand one another that we may not have any cavil about words The Catholick Church no where commands us to call the honour exhibited to Saints and their Images a religious honour or worship But with the Doctor 's good leave Why may there not be some intermediate kinds of worship between a divine and a meer civil worship Why may we not say that such was the worship which was given to the Ark which Abraham gave to the Angels and which we are all commanded to give to the Name of Jesus Nay why may we not add that the honour and respect of the Knee which is given to God-fathers and God-mothers is such as being not founded upon any bare relation of blood or any meer natural or civil excellency but given wholly upon a spiritual account And how is it proved that such an intermediate honour as this may not securely be given to Saints and their Images Let the Doctor find out a suitable name for it besides that of Religious and we shall not stand upon terms with him but freely speak his language But if nothing will serve his turn but that religious and divine worship must be all one Then we utterly deny that we are in any wise concerned in his Objection for we give no such religious worship to the Saints themselves much less to their Images And I shall show in my Answer to his Eighth Chapter how weakly and disingenuously he makes use of the Second Council of Nice to make out his charge against us The Eighth Conclusion scorning to be behind the Seventh in point of Scholarship loudly proclaims That to erect Temples Altars Images or to burn incense to Saints and Angels to invoke them or make vows to them and the like is plain Idolatry This Conclusion for its proof appeals to the testimony of four false witnesses to wit the Third Fourth Fifth and Sixth Conclusions and as such I justly except against them The Ninth Religious incurvation towards a Crucifix or the Host or any Image as to an object and not a meer unconsidered accidental circumstance is Idolatry This Conclusion having thus coldly drawn up an enditement against us pleads its evidence out of the Seventh and Eighth Conclusions And so leaning upon two broken Reeds falls to the ground where I am sure neither Reason or Authority wil ever stoop to take it up We are now arrived at the Tenth Conclusion where we are told That to use on set purpose in religious worship any figure or image only circumstantially not objectively but so as to bow towards it or to be upon a Man's knees before it with eyes and hands devoutly lifted up