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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	image_n	worship_n	worship_v	5,699	5	9.5098	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56393	Reasons for abrogating the test imposed upon all members of Parliament, anno 1678, Octob. 30 in these words, I A.B. do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testifie, and declare, that I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at, or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous : first written for the author's own satisfaction, and now published for the benefit of all others whom it may concern.	Parker, Samuel, 1640-1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing P467; ESTC R5001	62,716	138

upon because of that great preheminence that they hold above all other Orders of Creatures A Man for Understanding an Eagle for Swiftness a Lyon and a Bull for Strength But what ever they were they were sacred Images set up by God himself in the place of his own Worship and he was so far from forbidding the use of Images in it that he would not be worshiped without them This is the true Account of Idolatry as it is stated in the Scripture from the grand Design of the Mosaick Law to restore the Worship of the true invisible God the Creator of Heaven and Earth in opposition to the Idols or created Deities of the Heathen World and by all wise Arts and Methods to keep them loyal to himself And this gives us the true Rationale of the Mosaick Law in which every particular Rite had some regard to Idolatry So that the Breach of any one ceremonial Law was a degree of it and to boil a Kid in its Mothers Milk was Idolatry as well as to offer Sacrifice to the Sun because the Heathens used that form of Ceremony in the Worship of that God. God did not think it sufficient for their security to forbid them the Worship of this false God but every minute Circumstance that belonged to it lest by degrees they might be reconciled to it And therefore God calls himself upon all occasions a jealous God and oftentimes a jealous Husband to let them know that they must not only avoid Idolatry it self but all the least appearances and suspicions of it by Heathen Compliances Now if we compare this antient Idolatry of the Jews with that of late charged by some men upon all Christians of the Roman Communion I know not which will appear greatest the Malice or the Folly of the Charge It consists of these three Heads I. The Worship of Images II. Adoration of the Host. III. Invocation of Saints All which are represented to the People as Crimes of the same Nature with the old Egyptian Idolatry But as to the first the Use of Images in the Worship of God I cannot but admire at the Confidence of these Men to make so bold a Charge against them in general when the Images of the Cherubim were commanded by God himself They were the most solemn and sacred part of the Jewish Religion and therefore tho Images so far from Idolatry that God made them the Seat of his Presence and from between them delivered his Oracles so that something more is required to make Idolatry than the use of Images This Instance is so plain and obvious to every Reader there being nothing more remarkable in all the old Testament than the Honour done to the Cherubim that 't is a much greater Wonder to me that those Men who advance the Objection of Idolatry so groundlesly can so slightly rid themselves of so pregnant a Proof against it It is objected I remember by a learned Adversary to the great Founder of this and all other Anticatholique and Antichristian and uncharitable Principles among us but he turns it off so carelesly as if it were not worth his Notice First That they only directed their Worship towards the Images Yea they did so as the Symbols of God's Presence and that is to Worship God by Images or to give the same Signs of Reverence to his Representations as to Himself And therefore when David exhorts the People to give Honour to the Ark he says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bow down to or worship his Footstool for It or He is holy And if so much outward Worship may be given to Images as Symbols of the Divine presence it is enough to justifie it But however the thing stands the case of all Images is the same and a Roman Catholique may make the same Plea for his Church as this Author does for the Jews and if he accept it in one Case he cannot refuse it in another or if he does he will give but little proof of his Integrity At least God was not so nice and metaphysical in enacting his Laws by distinguishing between bowing to and towards or if these Gentlemen say he was they must shew us where But what Authority do these Men assume to themselves when by the precarious use of these two little Particles they think to make the same Act the Whitest and the Blackest thing in the World towards an Image 't is innocent to it Idolatry But let them take which they please for they are their own Carvers in all their own Controversies If it be no Idolatry to Worship towards an Image after all their Frights they fairly give up the Cause to the Church of Rome that requires no more But the second Reply is much more curious and metaphysical That the Cherubims were not seen by the People and adored but once a year by the High Priest Here then we distinguish between the Idolatry of the Sight and the Mind an Image seen is Idolatry but if covered 't is none So that to adore the Host exposed is Idolatry but in a Pix 't is none What Rubbish is here to stuff out so weighty an Argument But if they did not see their Images in the Ark they knew them to be there and of what Form they were being described to them by God himself in their Law. Upon these Terms it seems a Blind Man can never be an Idolater and if all the Romanists would shut their Eyes at convenient Times they would quit themselves of this black Accusation But the High Priest used this Solemnity only once a year If it were Idolatry it was as unlawful once a year as if done every day and if lawfully done but once a year it was no Idolatry It s being seldom or frequent makes no difference it is either always Idolatry or it is never so And yet these little Pretences are the last Result of this great Argument and when we have loaded the greatest part of Christendom with the foulest Crime in the World we think to make good the Accusation by such shameless Shifts and Pretences as these for in these Trifles the Dispute as to the Cherubim Images ended and yet the Clamour of Idolatry is kept up as high as ever to this very day But what Images do the Roman Catholiques worship Do they worship any Image or Symbols of False Gods as the Supreuse Deities If they do not then they are innocent of the worst part of Idolatry Or do they attempt to make a Similitude of the true God or uncreated Divine Nature That is the other part of Idolatry and the Scripture knows no more therefore however superstitious they may be in their use of Images yet they cannot be guilty of Idolatry but upon one of these two Accounts which no Man was ever yet so hardy as to charge upon that Church Till therefore it be proved that they worship Images of false Gods as the Supreme Deities or that they worship the true God by Corporeal