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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12808	A sermon on the Second Commandement preached in Saint Pauls Church, Ianuarie 6. 1623. By Iohn Squire vicar of Saint Leonard in Shorditch by London.	Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653.	1624 (1624)	STC 23115; ESTC S121755	30,399	59

Heauen aboue or in the Earth beneath or in the water vnder the Earth thou shalt not bow downe to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God visiting the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth Generation in them that hate mee but shew mercie vnto thousands in them that loue mee and keepe my Commandements When the Sicilians accused Verres of Briberie Tully being entertained their Lawier omitted his vsuall Oratorie and Rhetoricall Oration onely putting the Case in plaine tearmes produced the witnesses and said This is his crime and our accusation Let who can gainsay this euident transgression Hortensius the others Aduocate considering the cleerenesse of the Case and manifest euiction refused to plead one syllable in the defence thereof and Verres yeelded himselfe vnto a voluntarie banishment Had the Patrons of Images but the honest bashfulnesse of Heathen Hortensius and were the consciences of those we challenge for worshipping them no more confident then Verres himselfe I should make no question but that onely the reading of this plaine Precept against Images would make the Learned blush to plead for so plaine Idolatrie and cause the common people the common worshipper of Images to recant and make a voluntarie submission But alas wee contest with men resolued to hold the conclusion who shame not to support a shamefull sinne against the very Letter of the Law I am inforced therefore to inforce my accusation wherein I must act two persons first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 first I will shew what they can say for Images and next what wee can say against Images both truly painly impartially euen as I hope to plead my owne selfe for my owne soule before our great God at his dreadfull Day of judgement Our Aduersaries are like the Thebans Quot sunt Thebarum portae they haue seuen Bulwarkes whence they propugne their Images the materialls whereof they pretend all to be fetched from this Commandement All their Arguments and Answeres are raised from these seuen Heads from the consideration of the Agent of the Action of the Instrument of the Worke of the Obiect of a Commandement propounded and of this Commandement expounded First Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image We doe not say they God doth giue vs patternes and is our Patron God himselfe did make them Secondly Neither doe we make them to our Selues we haue a Warrant from Heauen both ordinarie and extraordinarie he hath granted leaue by the Scriptures and graced Images with many glorious Miracles Thirdly That Instrument of our adoring God is an Image not an Idoll as the Heretickes mistake it and miscall it no Idoll therefore no Idolatrie Fourthly We doe not Worship them it is not godly honour we giue them but Reuerence or Veneration Fiftly For our Religious Worship resteth not in them but reflecteth on him it is God wee worship and not the Image Sixtly Wee haue a Commandement equall to this Commandement Pari pietatis affictu veneramur The Tradition of an vn-erring Church to iustifie our action Seuenthly Concil Trident sub Paul● 3. Sess 4. and lastly this very Commandement so much vrged against vs it is either included and but a part of the first Commandement or excluded and no part of the perpetuall Morall Law it being onely Positiue for that Place and People They dispute then from Examples from Scriptures and Miracles from the name of an Idoll from the nature of Adoration from the Person adored from Tradition and from the Exposition of this second Commandement Thus haue wee viewed the Heads of their Troupes I will now discouer their seuerall Files and Rankes that you may see the Armie of our Aduersaries which defend their Diana dropped from Heauen their Crusadoes which fight for their Crosses and worshipping of Images Their Examples giue the on-set of the Cherubins Consilium sui redit sect 20. in Gods House Exod. 25. 18. and of the Lions in the Kings house 1. Reg. 10. 19. alleaged by the De Imag. lib. 2. Bishop of Spalato of the Brazen Serpent Numb 21. 8. by Bellarmine and a whole Colledge of Iesuites haue concluded out of Daniel 3. 1. that as Rhemists in Reu. 9. 14. that Image was for the honour of the King so their Images were for the honour of Christ Nay the Image of Saint Stephen was made by an Angell and the Image of Edissa by Christ himselfe saith Bellarmine These Examples I say gaue the De Imagin lib. 2. cap. 18. on-set and indeed they are like the forlorne Hopes quickly cut in pieces or rather like honest Subiects forced to the fight against their Souereigne they turne their Weapons vpon the Rebels which bring them to the Battell Consider the Author and the end of all these Images For the first when the Image-worshippers are as wise as Solomon and as pure as Angels hauing the same authoritie with Christ from God then may they doe what they say these did erect Images to religious vses Notwithstanding these were neuer made for Adoration The two last the Image of Saint Stephen and of Edissa were not made I meane by those Artists the other were made but not worshipped The Lions were in the Kings Palace whither the people did come but not to worship the Cherubins were in the Sanctum Sanctorum whither the people did not come But the Serpent is an vnanswerable instance againe Image Adoration for so soone as it was adored it was damned for an Idoll 2. Chron. 31. 1. All these Examples therefore are impertinent that one only excepted of Nebuchadnezzer which was worshipped at Babell as an Idoll and therein I confesse their Images doe answere that Example In the second place they instance in the second phrase we doe not say they make any Images to our selues wee haue a warrant from God to worship them Wee haue his warrant ordinarie his Word and Oracle and his warrant extraordinarie his Workes and Miracles The ordinarie warrant they seeme to repute but an ordinarie Argument they vrge the Scriptures very sparingly Suarez Apol. lib. 2. c. 11 12 13 14. Learned Suarez in his large Discourse of Images alleadgeth not one Scripture to auouch the Adoration of them Seuen indeed are cited by Bellar. de Imag. lib. 2. c. 22. Bellarmine but so as that I cannot tell which to admire most either the first that the Scriptures are not quoted or the last that they are so ill quoted by two of our learnedst Aduersaries in the greatest point in Controuersie they accusing vs for Heresie because wee oppugne and wee them for Idolatry because they propugne the worshipping of Images Suarez his Scriptures are soone assailed because neuer cited Take Bellarmines testimonies according to his owne corrupt Translation and make the best of them Adorate scabellum Worship his foot stoole Psal 95. Nolite iurare per Coelum Matth. 5. Sweare not by Heanen Locus in quo stas