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A89813 The plain mans defence against popery: or, A discourse, shewing the flat opposition of popery to the Scripture. By J.N. chaplain to a person of honour J. N. 1675 (1675) Wing N22; ESTC R9788 31,034 79

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body the Church A. What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols Come out from among them and be ye separate touch not the unclean thing 2 Cor. 6.16 17. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels c. not holding the head Col. 2.18 Come out of her my people that ye be not partaker of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Rev. 18. ver 4. Note The Church of Rome is guilty of Idolatry many wayes 1. In giving Divine and Religious worship to the Sacrament as their God 2. In worshipping and praying to Angels and Saints especially the Blessed Virgin Mary whom they honour above Christ 3. In worshipping of Images Images of the Trinity of Christ upon the Cross of the Saints 4. In ascribing a Divine and supernatural efficacy to the reliques of Saints the sign of the Cross holy water c. to cure diseases restore health cast out and drive away Devils 15. Q. Doth the second Commandement expresly forbid any Religious Adoration and worship either outward or inward to be given to any Images of God of the Saints or any other Creature A. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image or any likeness of any thing in Heaven above or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the water under the Earth thou shalt not bow down thy self to them c. Command II. Exod. 20.4 Note The second Commandement forbids all Images referring to Divine worship and religious use The first Commandement forbids false Gods this in its primary sense the worshipping of the true God by false means as Images c. Note The second Commandment forbids not only the higher but also the lowest degree of religious worship to Images the very bowing down to them thou shalt not bow down thy self to them it forbids all religious worship and honour of Images whether absolutely or relatively mediately or ultimately for it saith Thou shalt not serve them Note The Hebrew word Pesel signifies any Image whatsoever and the following words plainly shew the meaning of it Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image or any likeness of any thing in that is thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor any other of what kind so ever for religious worship Note The Papists are sorely put to it to shift off the force of this Commandement that doth so clearly and evidently condemn their Idolatry in giving religious worship to Images Therefore some of them would make people believe that only Idols or Images of false Gods are here forbidden others say that this Commandement is Ceremonial and proper to the Jews only now though they cannot agree about the exposition yet they agree to leave the second Commandement out of their Books and craftily conceal it from the people least by the light thereof the mystery of their iniquity should be discovered Note The second Commandement can not be Ceremonial or binding the Jews only for 1. It is not repealed in the Gospel 2. It is ratified in the Gospel 3. It is a Commandement of the Decalogue equally ranked amongst the Morals which are alwayes binding 4. The reason of it is immutable therefore this law is so 16. Q. How doth Moses expound the second Commandement A. The Lord spake unto you ye heard the voice but saw no similitude only heard the voice Take ye therefore good heed for ye saw no manner of similitude least you corrupt your selves and make you a graven Image the similitude of any figure c. Deu. 4.12 c. Note ●he second Commandement forbids the worshipping of the true God by Images as is plain by Moses his interpretation of it God did forbear to shew himself in any visible shape at the delivery of the law to the end that it might be the better made known that the worshipping of Images not only as they have reference to the Creatures or false Gods but also as they have relation to himself did come within the compass of Idolatry 17. Q. Doth the Scripture in sundry places condemn the worshipping of the true God by Images for abominable Idolatry A. Aaron after he had made a Golden Calf he built an Altar before it and made Proclamation and said to morrow is a feast to the Lord Jehovah Exod. 32.5 I had wholly dedicated the Silver unto the Lord Jehovah Now I know that the Lord Jehovah will do me good because I have a Levite to my Priest Judg. 17.3.13 Behold thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt 1 King 12.28 One of the Priests whom they carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the Lord 2 King 17.28 Note The Scripture manifestly attests that those who erect Images to God and in and by them worship God do commit Idolatry thus the Israelites by making a Golden Calf committed Idolatry they could not be so silly as to think that the Calf that they made was God that brought them up out of Egypt but because the Egyptians worshipped their false Gods by Hieroglyphick signs in the shape of an Oxe they would worship Jehovah in like manner So Micha made an Image in honour of Jehovah So also Jeroboams Calves were made to represent not false Gods but Jehovah as it is evident by the fore-mentioned Scriptures The Jews are now so sensible of the evil of Idolatry that they say there is no punishment which befalls them but there is a drachme weight of the Golden Calf in it and when they see any Church in which there are Images they call it Beth Hatturpha the house of filthiness 18. Q. Doth the Scripture affirm that they who worship God by Images are indeed worshippers of Devils and Idols whatever they intend A. They provoked him to jealousie with strangé Gods they Sacrificed unto Devils Deut. 32.17 They made a Calf in those dayes and Sacrificed to the Idol Act. 7.41 Note The Golden Calves are called Idols and the Jews are said to Sacrifice to Devils Now this is not to be understood of the judgment and intention of the men worshipping them as if they did design to worship Devils and false Gods by them but of the truth of the thing and of the judgment of God testifying that such worship being contrary to his command did displease him and had the Devil for its Authour and so whatever they intended was indeed the worshipping of Devils and false Gods By all this it appears that the Papists are as vile Idolaters as were the Jews of old or the Heathens 19. Q. Did the Heathens hold the Images themselves to be Gods or when their blocks were so old that they placed new in their stead did they think that by this change of their Images that they made a change also of their Gods what saith the Scripture of this A. Consider diligently and see if there be such a thing hath a Nation changed their