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A66578	Nehushtan, or, A sober and peaceable discourse, concerning the abolishing of things abused to superstition and idolatry which may serve as one intire, and sufficient argument, to evince that the liturgy, ceremonies, and other things used at this day in the Church of England, ought neither to be imposed, nor retained, but utterly extirpated and laid aside : and to vindicate the non-conformists in their refusal to close with them.	Wilson, Joseph, d. 1678.	1668 (1668)	Wing W2927; ESTC R38669	118,485	216

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Gentilium imagines adoramus c. in Thom. t. 1. disp 54. sect 7 Instit chap. 57. nay labour to vindicate them against such as find fault Whereas they should as Paul and Barnabas dealt with the men of Lystra rent their cloaths and run in amongst them crying out and saying Sirs why do ye these things they stand up and plead for them and thereby encourage and settle them in their way Thus Baronius It was ordered saith he on purpose that the offices of Heathenish superstition should be imployed in the service of true Religion Thus Suarez We worship saith he the Images which the Gentiles worship not in a way of imitation but correction Thus likewise Cotton As the Temples saith he dedicated unto Idols were turned into Churches dedicated unto God so the Ceremonies which of themselves are indifferent have been with good reason transported to Gods service Now if this be justifiable what meant the Council of A●●●●ra Can. 7. approved by the General Council of Nice to decree against it Can. 10. Omnem afflatum ejus vice pestis etiam de longinquo devitemus de Idol c. 13. O melior fidei Nationum in sectam suam c c. 14. Ep. 11 44 119. Orat. 1. Cont. Jud Cont. Haeres l. 3. Orat. de Sanct. Epiph. luminib t. 3. q. 65. Disp 15. sect 2. Or what meant the 〈◊〉 Council of Toledo celebrated divers years after to do the like Or what meant Tert●●●●an to appear with so much heat and indignation against it Speaking of the Gentiles he saith We must neither in habit food nor any other practise comply with them but avoid and that at the greatest distance all their pomp as the very plague it self And afterwards speaking of some in his time that complyed with them in their solemnities and observations he thus exclaims and cryes out against them Oh the far greater faithfulness of the Nations about us to their own way not medling with any of our Christian solemnities neither the Lords day nor Pentecost Though they had known of them they would not have communicated with us lest they should seem to be Christians but we fear not lest we be accounted Heathens Or what meant Augustine Chrysostome Epiphanius Nazianzen to discourse after the same manner Nay and Suarez tells us that the antient Church diligently avoided omne consortium apparentem similitudinem all fellowship and appearing likeness with Jews or other Infidels Now either such testimonies as these are of weight or not If not what a miserable condition are the Papists in who build their religion upon the reports of the antients If they are then what a world of sin have they committed in taking up so many customs of Heathens and complying with them in the use of them Let them turn 〈◊〉 whether hand they please they 'll find themselves like Abrahams Ram caught in the bryars Of many amongst our selves who though they would be thought to have separated from the Papists and cry out against them as Superstitious Idolatrous Antichristian yet think they may take up such things as they have abused bring them into the house of God and there imploy them in his service As the Papists imploy such things as the Heathens have abused in their proceedings so These imploy such things as the Papists have ab●●'d in theirs Looking upon Jerusalem as insufficient to furnish them with convenient and proper utensils for the service of God they go to Babilon and supply themselves there In how many particulars they agree in their Worship Discipline Ceremonies and other things with the Church of Rome was shewed in a Treatise published above twenty years ago Intituled A Parallel betwixt the Mass-book and the book of Common-Prayer This is unwarrantable dealing yet when their Brethren who would see the Service of God manag'd in a more pure and holy way complain to them and urge them to wave the use of such scandalous and offensive things they are so far from yielding them just satisfaction that they answer them with scorn and disdain nay inveigh against them and persecute them as a company of precise schismatical factious persons 〈…〉 of any thing but the fulminations of their provok'd authority Now what is this but to hender themselves guilty of abominable and ●●thy complyance What is this but to lick up the vomit of Antichrist and feed on his very excrements What is this but to imitate encourage and settle him in his way See Mr. Cartw. Eccl. discip l. 1. p. 132. l. 3. p. 178 180. whereas they should stand at the utmost distance from him and do all they can to convince him of his abominable departure from God and his truth What is this but to give him occasion to beast that the Protestants are his Apes and know not how to manage the business of Religion but by his direction than which what can be more to their reproach What is this but with those impious ones the Scripture cryes out against to make the heart of the righteous sad Ezek. 13.22 and strengthen the hands of the wicked that he should not raturn from his wicked way Whether 〈◊〉 kind of dealing be justifiable let all sober 〈◊〉 indifferent men judge 2. It serves for exhortation Vse 2 to advise and perswade us all in our respective places to perform the several duties that such a truth calls for And 1. Let this ingage our hearts against such things amongst us as have been abused in superstitious and idolatrous services They are detestable and abominable and as such we are to esteem them and carry our selves towards them Though in themselves they be never so innocent and lawfull yet having in such kind of services been abused they are no less than hateful and loathsome Such creatures as Oxen Calves and the like are in themselves good and use full yet inasmuch as the Egyptians adored them and made Idols of them the Holy Ghost as many think who take the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a passive senfe represents them as abominable nay as adomination it self Exod. 8.26 Passivam significationem multi amplectantur Rivet in loc When Pharaoh would have had Moses and Aaron to have contented themselves with the land of Egypt and Sacrifice there Moses answers It is not meet so to do for we shall Sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God Lo shall we Sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes and will they not stone us His answer is by way of Dilemma implying as much as if he had said if we should follow thy advice and Sacrifice in his 〈◊〉 we must do it either after the manner of the Egyptians or the Israelites if after their manner it would be displeasing to God if after our own it would be displeasing to them inasmuch as we must Sacrifice those very creatures which they adore as deities But you 'l say how could Moses pretend to Pharaoh that the

in former and latter times Abused rites must be abolished Grotius his opinion about the abolishing of the Mosaical Ceremonies Of washing of hands before meat Of Trin-immersion in Baptism The judgement of Pelican Calvin Beza Lyra. Sect. 7. p. 83. The removing of abused things do's in an eminent manner belong to the Civil Magistrate His power in matters of Religion Some give him too little others too much Distinctions about authority That it belongs to the Civil Magistrate to remove offensive things proved in six particulars Why the Israelites were to bring Idolaters to the gates of the City The want of a good Magistrate the occasion of Micahs Idolatry Two exceptions against the Magistrates power answer'd The judgement of divers Churches and Persons in the case What is to be done in case the Magistrate refuse or neglect to perform is Office in this particular Augustines judgement Pope Sylvesters decree censured What we are to think of Marcus Bishop of Arethusa Nicolaus Theodorus and others who without any order from the Civil Power took upon them the demolishing of abused things The judgement of Zanchy Beza Voetius Sect. 8. p. 98. How abused things must be removed shewed in six particulars The readiness of Jacobs family to part with their Ear-rings The willingness of the Jewish Exorcists to deliver up their Conjuring books The value of them Our ends in such undertakings must be right Superstitious Idolatrous things must be handled with scorn and indignation What disgraceful terms the Scripture gives Idols We must be impartial The work must be managed in a way proportionable to the sin and scandal committed We must do it throughly Why Jacob hid the Idols of his Relations under an Oak The integrity of Moses Asah Josiah Hezekiah herein Sect. 9. p. 109. When abused things must be abolished It concerns us to make haste in the business The eminent forwardness of David Hezekiah Josiah Sect. 10. p. 111. Why abused things must be laid aside shewed in six particulars They are abominable Mr. Hooker confesses that Communion with Idolaters is to be avoided The opinion of Maimonides Calvin Dr. Stillingfleet touching the reason of Gods forbidding several things to the Israelites that were used by the Canaanites The distance the antient-Christians stood at from the Heathens Maccovius peremptory against communion with Idolaters in indifferent things Aquinas his reasons to the contrary without weight Mr. Hooker and Paybody answered by Gillespy The holiness and honour of Gods worship to be maintained We must labour to prevent abuses for the future Manasses his error Constantine guilty of the like Grotius his opinion in case the abuse become customary Abused things must be removed lest they intice Images why called strange Gods Idols why called Lovers They are apt to intice What Calvin and Zanchy thought of the reliques of Popish Idolatry Sect. 11. p. 123. The Point limited and bounded Necessary things notwithstanding abuse are to be maintained Of Gods own Ordinances Of his good creatures Of meat offered to Idols Scandal must be avoided Of the profitable devices of men Of the Vessels of the Temple defiled by Nebuchadnezzar Of the Temple it self Of the Jewish water pots Of our Churches and Chappels Of things slightly abused Of things more grosly abused in case there be no danger for the future Sect. 12. p. 131. Objections made by several Authors answered 1. Ob. insisted by Mr. Hooker concerning the nature of the precepts given to the Israelites about the extirpating of Idolatry answered 2. Obj. insisted on by Saravia answered It s not sufficient that retaining the use of abused things we separate them from the abuse 3. Obj. urged by Dr. John Burgess answered Things that for the present have no bad use made of them may in time have Whether Solomon did abolish the Idols he suffered to be set up in his life time or whether Hezekiah did it or whether it were done by Josiah Salianus his judgement 4. Obj. made use of likewise by Dr. Burgess answered Preaching against the abuse of things not sufficient to prevent it 5. Obj. offered by Bishop Lindsey answered Though the abuse proceed not from the nature of the things themselves yet being abused they are to be laid aside 6. Obj. insisted on by Bellarmine and Dr. Hammond answered It does not follow from what hath been said that necessary things being abused are to be abolished 7. Obj. urged by Bishop Morton answered The Scripture does not either directly or indirectly hold forth to us a liberty of retaining abused unnecessary things 8. Obj. made use of by Dr. Burgess answered The Scripture does not afford us any approved instances of the use of abused unnecessary things 9. Obj. answered The abrogation of the Ceremonial Law does not yield us any liberty to use such things What liberty we have thereby 10. Obj. answered The abused things amongst us do offend both Papists and Protestants 11. Obj. insisted on by Bishop Andrews Dr. Burgess Dr. Prideaux answered What hath been alledged obliges us to lay aside not only the same individual numerical things that have been abused but those of the same kind Sect. 13. p. 153. The first Vse for confutation and conviction 1 Of the Papists Why the Holy Ghost calls them Gentiles Several Writers mentioned who have set down their agreement in many things of their Religion with Heathens Their Leaders encourage them therein Their practice herein against the judgement of the Antients 2. Of many amongst our selves As the Papists symbolize in many things with Heathens so we symbolize with the Papists The 2. Vse for exhortation What hath been said should engage our hearts against such things amongst us as have been abused Things abused to Idolatry abominable Upon what grounds Moses pretended to Pharaoh that they were to Sacrifice such creatures to the Lord as the Egyptians worshipped when as the Law about Sacrifices was not yet delivered We must decline the use of abused things Wherefore the Israelites would not Sacrifice to the Lord in the Land of Egypt nor the Jews in Babylon The case of Naamans bowing in the house of Rimmon discussed and he evinced to be a true Convert In what cases we may appear before an Idol shewed in 7. particulars Of Daniels abstinence The change Ephraims conversion wrought on him Tertullians judgement about keeping at a distance from Idols The hatred of modern Jews to Idols We must do our endeavour to root out abused things What things amongst us we are upon the account of their abuse to endeavour the extirpation of Of the present Liturgy What King Edw. 6. said of it King James his opinion of it What the late Assembly of Divines alledged against it A comparison betwixt it and the brazen serpent Of the sign of the Cross How Voetius and Mr. Bradshaw disputed against it Of the Surplice Zanchy thought the abuse a sufficient reason wherefore it should be laid aside Of Kneeling at the Sacrament The principal reason Voetius alledges against it Worshipping