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A61500	Three sermons preached by the Reverend and learned Dr. Richard Stuart ... to which is added, a fourth sermon, preached by the Right Reverend Father in God, Samuel Harsnett ...; Sermons. Selections	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.; Harsnett, Samuel, 1561-1631.	1658 (1658)	Wing S5527; ESTC R20152	74,369	194

similitude In this Truth the Fathers are all peremptory that God must not be portrayed So Clem. Alexandrinus Athanasius Hierom Augustin Theodoret and others nay Rome's own Doctors Durand Abulensis and the Iesuits acknowledge it only with a nice fixion which they learne from Trent they can avoid both all these Authors and the strict Law in Deuteronomy You must make no similitude True of the Nature of God or of his Essence but you may of his Attributes as by an old man you may represent his Eternity A meer Invention But yet some Jew may say Old age is rather an Emblem of Mortality If such distinctions may be suffered Christ died in vain to take away the curse of the Law for these mens wits could abrogate it Admit but this Art and say what Law can hold us we may then sin confidently and instead of Repentant teares laugh at some new distinction You may not use Sorcery True not with that Witch at Endor to get some poor reward but you may perhaps with Sylvester the second that you may gain a Popedome 'T were good they would learne from the Civilians Non est distinguendum ubi non distinguit Lex To distinguish without warrant from the Law it self is not Art but presumption Yet I would they did but make them the Scandall is intollerable when they adore an Image And yet see they grow more offensive by desending it The di●tinction between Service and Worship between an Idoll and an Image what Jew doth not deride and when they say they worship not the Pictures themselves but that which they represent this doth increase their laughter For what Iew will think his ●ore-Fathers whom yet the Prophets called Idolaters could so far doat as to terminate their Worship upon Gold and Stones They worshipped God in an Image and what is it else that he forbids in our second Commandement for to think that he there prohibits either the worship of an Image it self or of a false Deity under an Image were to accuse the Law-giver of vaine repetitions for they we●e both forbidden in the precedent words Thou sh●lt have none other Gods before me In th●● therefore his meaning is not to forbid the worship of a False God but the false worship of a Tru● not the Adoration of Images themselves but of God in Images There is no Iesuit so ●mpudent as to deny Aarons Calfe to have been an Idol and yet that in this similitude the p●ople did worship to the God of Israel besides the Circumstance of the Text it appears by the confession of their own Divines The Text I quote from N●hemiah in the ninth of his Historie at the 18. verse where he relates this passage yea when they had made them a molten Calfe and said Iste est De●s Tuus This is thy God which brought thee up out of Egypt Thy God that is the similitude of thy God For Israel could not think the Image brought them up that were to make the power of the Calfe older then the Calf it self and as much as to say the Idol brought them up out of Egypt fourty dayes before it was made To say That in this Image they did worship to the Egyp●ian gods is a conceit fit for none but a Iesuit For what colour hath it The Iewes well knew that it was Abraham● God who had destroyed their Land and slain their first-born children who had made the same Sea a W●lke to ●h●●n and a Gulph to Pharo●h They knew too tha● while they lived by the Egyptians gods they felt nothing but slavish bond●ge and yet more bloudy cruelty Is it probable then they could imagine that they owed their deliver●nce to ●hose savage Deities Could they thinke that Egypts gods would preserve strangers and drown their own known Votaries What shall Pharoah die who sacr●ficed to them and yet they triumph who d●d neglect them I know the Scripture speaks it of●en the Iewes by this molten Calfe did forget God that redeemed t●em but who knowes not the meaning of this common Phrase To offe●●d God is not to remember him our sins are our Forge●fulness To serve God contrary to his express commands is both to worship and forget him The Text I quoted is yet more forcible They sayd before the Molten Calf This is thy God which brought thee forth and if they 'l believe their own Burgensis 't is a sure Rule in Scripture when ever Elohim is taken either for Great men as Iudges or the like or else for false gods t is stil joyn'd with an Adjective or a Verb of the plurall number t is in his Additions to Lyra upon the first of Genesis But in this Text the Verb is singular Iste Deus Tuus quifecit te ascendere It followes then they worshipped not an Egyptian God but the God of Heaven in an Egyptian manner they adored not the Idoll it self but God in the Idoll To make all sure Hear Aarons Proclamation He built an Altar before it and cryed saying To morrow shal be a Feast to Iehovah To Iehovah Gods own proper Name and not communicable to any as all Learned men acknowledge a Name held by the Iewes so superstitiously peculiar that they 'l now a daies scarce sound it So that he who affirmes Aaron called his Calfe Iehovah but yet sure he meant it was some Egyptian Deity might as well say too were it for his purpose that when the Priest called for Moses ●e sure did still meane Pharaoh I end his words To morrow shall be a feast to the Lord to the Lord then though under an Idoll Rome's own Doctors do confess this Truth Abulensis in 7 Quaest. upon Exod. 22. Ferus upon the 7. of the Acts Peres de Tradit part 3. and which they must stand to the new Catechisme put out by Pius Quintus cap. 14. upon the first Commandement Bellarmine too though he calls it a flat lye in Calvin 2. de Eccles. Triumph cap. 13. he strait saith it is probable in the same place F. alterum I might further instance in Ieroboam's Calves Idolls as all acknowledge and yet that in them they did worship to the God of Iacob appeares by Iosephus a polite learned Iew who lived much about the time of our Saviour and therefore in this point rather to be heard for his Persons sake then these men for their Art In the 8. of his Antiquities a● the 38. Chapter he makes Ieroboam●hus speak to the People Behold as Solomon bu●lt God a Temple so have I honoured him by these Golden Calves Worship now that God at Dan and Bethel which yee once did at Jerusalem And Iehu a Prince of Ieroboams faith for the Text saith From hi● sins he went not with what courage did he massacre the Priest● of B●al and crie● unto Iehonadab Come see my zeal for the Lord of Hosts 2 Reg. ●0 16. He could not indure that Baal should be God but still he had his Calves too he worshipped it seems the