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A65706	The fallibility of the Roman Church demonstrated from the manifest error of the 2d Nicene & Trent Councils, which assert that the veneration and honorary worship of images is a tradition primitive and apostolical.	Whitby, Daniel, 1638-1726.	1687 (1687)	Wing W1728; ESTC R8848	85,812	92

Heathens (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hist Eccles l. 7. c. 18. It is no marvel saith Eusebius that those of the Heathens who of old were cured by our Saviour should do such things i.e. erect his Image as did the Woman cured of her bloody Issue since we have seen the Images of the Apostles Paul and Peter yea and of Christ himself kept painted with Colours on Tables for that of old they were wont imprudently by an Heathenish Custom thus to honour them whom they counted their Saviours or Benefactors This therefore was an Heathenish and not a Christian Custom For had Christians customarily had such Statues and Pictures why doth Eusebius make this a Badg of Heathenism Why doth he say It was no marvel that Heathens should do thus If the Images of Christ and his Apostles had been then common in all Christian Oratories why is it mention'd as so rare a thing that he had seen them Why lastly doth he say that this was done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is according to Valesius imprudently and inconsiderately Adamantius the Manichaean cites those words of the second Commandment Effigies Imagines Contra Adam cap. 13. See that you make no Effigies or Images for I am a jealous God to reprehend the Zeal of the God of the Old Testament to which St. Austin answers That (b) Vult ergo videri favere se simulacris quod propterea faciunt ut miserrim vesanae suae sectae etiam paganorum concilient benevolentiam Ibid. he only quarrels with God's Zeal because it forbad Images and so would seem to favour Images which saith he these Men do to conciliate the favour of the Heathens to their mad and miserable Sect where we learn not only that Simulacra and Imagines are with St. Austin the same thing but also that it was only Heathens who then favoured Images and those who had a kindness for them Agobardus in the 9th Century saith That (c) Ob religionis honorem aut aliquam venerationem more Gentilium De Imag. p. 248. to use the Images of the Apostles or our Lord himself for the Honour of Religion or any Veneration is to use them after the manner of the Heathens and that if Constantine did adore the Images of St. Peter and Paul (d) Ex consuetudine Idololatriae pestifera p. 252. he did it from the pestiferous Custom of Idolatry So generally and so lately was this esteemed an Heathenish and Idolatrous Custom by the Fathers of the Church § 5. 5. This thing was so notorious to the Heathens that they object it to the Christians as their Crime that they had no Images that they would not make would not endure much less venerate them and that they laugh'd at those who did Celsus objects saith Origen That (e) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 L. 8. p. 389 404. we avoid the making of Images And again (f) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 L. 7. p. 373. In this that they will not endure Images they are like unto the Scythians c. and other irreligious and lawless Nations who dedicate no Image to their Gods and count them Fools that do so And a third time thou laugh'st at our Images (g) Quod non deorum alicujus simulacrum constituamus aut formam L. 6. p. 189. For this cause you lay great Impiety to our charge saith Arnobius because we make no Images or shape of any of the Gods. In a word When Adrian the Emperor had commanded that (h) Christo Templum facere voluit Severus quod Adrianus cogitasse fertur qui Templa in omnibus civitatibus sine simulacris jusserat fieri Hist August c. 43. Qui consulentes sacra repererunt omnes Christianos fieri si id optato evenisset ibid. Temples should be made in all Cities without Images it was by them conjectured that he made them for Christ saith Lampridius who adds That he was forbidden to proceed in this Enterprise by those who consulting the Oracles found that all Men would turn Christians if this according to their wishes should fall out Whence evident it is that it was not the use of Christians then to have Images in Churches but that the contrary was according to their wishes 6ly If we consider what the Father 's answered to this Accusation of the Heathens we shall more fully be convinced that they did not venerate but did intirely reject the use of Images as vain ridiculous and inconsistent with the Christian Faith and the true worship of a Deity For Whereas the Heathens complain'd that Christians laughed at their Images That Origen replies (i) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 L. 8. p. 404. that they did not laugh at the insensate Statues but at those who worshipped them And he justifies this practice of the Christians by saying That (k) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. l. 7. p. 362. any Man of sound Reason could not but laugh at them who look'd upon Images and by the contemplation of them thought to ascend from what was seen and was a Symbol to what was understood 2ly They answer by distinguishing betwixt such Images as were the work of an Artificer saying That these they did reject and such as were spiritual consisting in the resemblance of the Vertues and Persections of their Lord and these they owned as acceptable to God and such as they regarded (l) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. L. 8. p. 389. The Images which are agreeable to God saith Origen are not such as are framed by servile Artists but those Vertues which are formed in us by the Word of God and are the Imitations of the First Born of the Creation in whom are the Examples of Justice Temperance Fortitude Prudence and Godliness and all other Vertues (m) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. In all therefore who are furnished with these Vertues are the Images with which we think it meet to honour the Prototype of all Images the Image of the Invisible God his only Son and (n) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. they who put off the old Man with his Works and put on the New which is renewed in Knowledg according to the Image of him that created him by receiving this Image of their Creator make such Images in themselves as God regards insinuating that God liked no other (o) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In sum saith he all Christians do attempt to make such Images as we have now related not such as have no Life or Sense nor such in which wicked Daemons may reside that is neither such Images as were in use amongst the Heathens nor such as are now used by the Church of Rome for theirs I suppose have neither Life nor Sense (p) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. p. 390 391. Let therefore any Man that will saith he compare the Images I have now mentioned framed in the Souls of pious Persons with the Images of Phidias and Polycletus and the