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A30059 The contrariety of popery to the blessed word of God wherein may be seen that the doctrine and practice of the Church of Rome are not consistent with the sacred oracles of the Old and New Testament ... / written by Digby Bull ... Bull, Digby. 1695 (1695) Wing B5410; ESTC R8749 67,944 72

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the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest Here the Apostle plainly sheweth that such as understand not the Language cannot join in the Prayers and Thanksgivings that are made therein and say Amen to them when they understand not what is said And ver 17. For thou verily givest thanks well but the other is not edified Such Service we see is altogether unedifying And saith he again ver 27.28 If any man speak in an unknown tongue let it be by two or at the most by three and that by course and let one interpret But if there be no Interpreter let him keep silence in the Church and let him speak to himself and to God All we see here is to be so done in the Church that all may understand it And he that could speak a Tongue which the Congregation understood not was to be silent in the Church except there were some Interpreter and not to speak what could not be understood by the Congregation By this Chapter it is clear that the Practice of the Romish Church in performing their publick Worship in an unknown Tongue which the common People understand not is directly contrary to the Word of God And our Saviour forbiddeth all vain Babblings and vain Repetitions Matt. 6.7 But when ye pray saith he use not vain repetitions as the Heathen do for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking And yet such vain repetitions do the Popish repetitions seem to be V. Their worshipping of Images is directly contrary to the sacred Scriptures This God hath expresly and strictly forbidden in the second Commandment of the Decalogue and given positive Command That no Image nor Likeness of any thing whatsoever should be made for Worship and that men should not bow down to any such Image or Likeness or any ways else worship and serve them Exod. 20.4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image or any likeness of any thing that is 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 nor serve them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God And so Deut. 5.8 The Command we see is very full and clear against the making of any Image or Similitude for Religious use and against the performing of any kind of Religious Worship and Service to any such Image or Likeness of any thing whatsoever But for Ornament where they were not to be worshipped this Command doth not forbid the making of Cherubims as we may see Exod. 25.18 and 26.1 But these are no Plea for the Idolatrous uses of them The making of Images or any Similitudes for Religious Worship and the performing of any Religious Worship and Service unto them either as the mediate or ultimate Object thereof is flatly and clearly here forbidden And this we may see is confirmed by a multitude of places more in the sacred Scriptures Exod. 20.23 Ye shall not make with me Gods of silver neither shall ye make unto you Gods of Gold And all kinds of Images and Figures for a Religious use are forbidden of what matter or fashion soever they were made as the Law of Moses sufficiently sheweth Lev. 19.4 Turn ye not unto Idols nor make to your selves molten Gods I am the Lord your God And Lev. 26.1 Ye shall make you no Idols nor graven Image neither rear you up a standing Image neither shall ye set up any Image of stone in your land to bow down unto it for I am the Lord your God And Deut. 16.22 Neither shalt thou set up any Image which the Lord thy God hateth The setting up any Image whatsoever for Religious Worship is strictly forbidden and declared to be hateful to Almighty God And we are not to think that the Idols and Images and Statues and Pictures of the Heathens only are here forbidden For there is no such restriction and limitation in any of these places to shew that they were solely designed against them and that the modern Image-worship of the Papists is not forbidden hereby but the Images that the Papists use are as strictly forbidden as the other and there is no exception to shew that Images may be used in Religious Worship when they are for the Worship of Almighty God or his blessed Son or the Saints and blessed Angels The Idolatrous Israelites and the very Heathens did pretend as much as this as we may gather from several places in the sacred Scriptures and yet they are condemned as very grievous Idolaters It doth appear that the Israelites made their golden Calf for the Worshipping of the true God thereby because the People said These by thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt And when Aaron proclaimed a feast for this Idol he said To morrow is a Feast to the Lord. Exod. 32.4 5. And he received them at their hand viz. the golden ear-rings and fashioned it with a graving tool after he had made it a molten calf and they said These be thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt And when Aaron saw it he built an Altar before it and Aaron made proclamation and said To morrow is a feast to the Lord. This Calf and Idol that they had made we see was to represent and personate the great God that brought them out of the Land of Egypt and the feast of this Idol was to be a feast to the Lord. And saith the Psalmist Psal 106.19 20 They made a Calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten Image Thus they changed their Glory into the similitude of an Ox that eateth grass Their Glory that is their glorious God did they thus change into this similitude of a Calf By these places it is clear that they intended to worship the true and great God by this molten Image of theirs And yet they are condemned as notorious Transgressors of the sacred Commands of Almighty God and as Corrupters of themselves for what they did herein Exod. 32.7 And the Lord said unto Moses Go get thee down For thy People which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them they have made them a molten Calf and have worshipped it and have sacrificed thereunto and said These be thy Gods O Israel which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt And the Lord said unto Moses I have seen this People and behold it is a stiff-necked People Now therefore let me alone that my Wrath may wax bot against them and that I may consume them They pretended as the Papists now do to worship Almighty God by this Calf but notwithstanding this God abhorred them for it and his Wrath was ready to break forth against them and consume them It appeareth that Micah's Images were for the service of the true God Judg.
Bishops of Rome do succeed St. Peter in such a Supreme Power and Authority and are now the Head of all the Christian Church is not consistent with the sacred Scriptures but directly contrary to them This is proved by what hath been said already For if St. Peter had no such Universal Power and Authority over the Apostles and all the Church as it is clear that he had not then the Roman Bishops have no ground to pretend to succeed him in such a supreme Power and Authority This is altogether vain seeing there is no truth in the former And there is no proof at all that they should be St. Peter's Heirs and Successors and be the only Masters of that Power and Authority which he had in the Church And how then can they assume such an Universal Power and Authority which he had not Heb. 5.4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself saith the Apostle but he that is called of God as was Aaron And how then can the Bishops of Rome justly assume to themselves such a supreme and universal Power over all the Church till they can shew some Divine Commission for it And for such Authority they have no Plea nor Colour from the sacred Word of God There is no clear place in the sacred Scriptures to prove that ever St. Peter was at Rome and he wrote no Epistle to them to confer any Power upon them and in those Epistles that he wrote he makes no mention of any such Power and supreme Authority that they were to have St. Peter was chiefly the Apostle of the Jews as St. Paul sheweth Gal. 2.7 And how then can the Roman Gentiles pretend that all his Power is devolved upon them St. Peter was much at Jerusalem and the Bishops of that place might have had a better Title to be his Successors in a higher manner than others if any were to have been so than the Bishops of Rome can have because he was chiefly and primarily the Apostle of the Jews St. Peter was also at Antioch some time Gal. 2.11 And the Bishops of that place may alledg as good a Plea to be his Successors as the Bishops of Rome can Again St. Paul writes an Epistle to the Romans and several Epistles from Rome but no intimation in them that the Bishops of that place only were to be St. Peters Successors and to have an universal Power and Authority over the whole Church And from hence we may see that St. Paul knew nothing of any such universal Power that the Roman Bishops were to have For if he had known that our blessed Lord had designed them to be the Universal Pastors over all the Church we may be sure that he would not have been wanting to have instructed the Churches to which he wrote in this great Point of Duty and to have let them know where the Supreme Power of the Church was lodged that they might have had recourse to it in all weighty Concerns The Apostle commandeth Christians Heb. 13.17 To obey them that have the Rule over them and to submit themselves but not a word of obeying the Roman Bishop nor any regard that is to be had to him more than to another Again if any place should have been Invested with such a Supreme Power over all the Christian Church we may well conclude that Jerusalem should have been the place For more is said of that place tending this way than of any place in the whole World besides This is the place that is renowned above all others in the sacred Word of God and the Bishops of this place might have pleaded the most of all for a Divine Right of Governing the Universal Church of Christ For this was the Holy City as St. Matthew calls it Matt. 4.5 This was the City of the Great King as our Saviour himself calls it Matt. 5.35 Neither by Jerusalem saith he for it is the City of the Great King This was the City of the Lord of Hosts the Great King of all Kings This was the place where Christ the Great Shepherd of all did exercise the Power that God the Father gave him over all the Church and for whose sacred Temple he shewed so much Zeal and was so much concerned Mar. 11.15 Within the jurisdiction of this City and among the Jews who had a dependence upon this City as their great Metropolis did our Lord do all his Miracles and exercised his Pastoral Office This was the great Metropolis of the whole World and here had Almighty God recorded his Holy Name Psal 87.2 3 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob Glorious things are spoken of thee O City of God Great Matters were spoken and predicted of this City This was to be the City of Truth Zac. 8.3 Thus saith the Lord I am returned unto Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth and the Mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy Mountain This was the place from whence the Law was to go forth according to the predictions of the Prophets Isa 2.3 And many people shall go and say Come ye and let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord to the House of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths For out of Zion shall go forth the Law and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem And Micah 4.2 For the Law shall go forth of Zion and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem From this place was the Law and Word of God to go forth This is the place where God is said to dwell for ever and he promiseth to cloath her Priests with Salvation Psal 132.13 14. For the Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation This is my Rest for ever And ver 16. I will also cloath her Priests with Salvation This is said of this place and the Priests thereof Here the Holy Ghost came down upon the Apostles on the day of Pentecost Acts 2. Here was held the first Council Act. 15. And St. James that was Bishop of Jerusalem was President of this Council of Apostles and Elders And if all this and much more be said of this place in the Word of God we may be sure that Jerusalem should have been the place of Supremacy and Power over all the Church if any place should have been so We may be sure that the Bishops of this place should have been the Universal Head of the Church if there should have been any such Head For more may be said for a Divine Right of Ruling over all the Church for Jerusalem than for any place in the whole World besides But seeing Jerusalem has no such Superiority and doth not exalt it self over all other places we may be sure that no other place ought to do so For Rome or any other place cannot stand in Competition with it for Superiority or urge