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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46951	Julian the apostate being a short account of his life, the sense of the primitive Christians about his succession and their behaviour towards him : together with a comparison of popery and paganism.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1682 (1682)	Wing J829; ESTC R30475	76,426	144

seen Now who but a Sot has the same reverence and pangs of Love for these dead Pictures as he has for the person of his Prince or for his Relations themselves Let that be as it will I am sure the modern Pagans will never be able to acquit themselves of ten times more stupid Idolatry when they worship a contemptible Wafer which is hardly fit to seal a Letter with a full persuasion that it is not only a perfect and compleat man but likewise the great God of Heaven An Heathen Idol look'd like some Body and being placed as St. Austin says in an honourable sublimity having the very likeness of Limbs and Organs of Sense though it really were without Life and Sense yet it might affect weak minds and seem to them to live and breathe But never was there such a blunder before in the World as to mistake a despicable patch of Bread yea though it have a Crucifix printed upon it to help the Imagination for the Living God who made Heaven and Earth No man can forbear scorning and speaking contemptuously of this despicable and detestable Idol For though a small piece of Bread has an honourable place in the Creation and a much more honourable place in the Sacrament where we remember our Saviour by it yet when it comes to be made a God it is vilely degraded and becomes an Object of nothing but Scorn and Derision of Hatred and Detestation As St. Gregory's words are speaking of the Reign of Jovian when Paganism expired The Creature says he is no longer vilified with pretended honour in being worshipped instead of God And so the Wisdom of Solomon counts the Gibbet a more honourable piece of Wood and pronounces it a happy Tree in 〈◊〉 of that cursed one which is debased and framed into an Idol 2dly That this sorry Wafer this contemptible Idol is likewise to be worshipped with the same adoration which is due to the true God is the express determination of the Council of Trent with a Curse to all them that shall say the 〈◊〉 And accordingly they make those Addresses to the Host which are enough to astonish a man and fill him with the greatest horror and amazement In the middle of the Prayer Deus Pater 〈◊〉 origo totius bonitatis c. is this Rubrick Here let the Priest bow himself to the Host saying I adore thee I glorifie thee I praise thee with all the power of my Mind and Heart and pray thee not to forsake thy Servants but forgive us our Sins If this were not directed to the Host the Rubrick should have come in before 〈◊〉 words Quam ego indignus hic in manibus meis teneo And Bishop Coverdale who translated the Canon of the Mass affirms That the Priest here speaks in this manner to the Host and asks why not if it be his Maker according to the usual saying of Papists who have been at Mass I thank God I have seen my Maker to day And for certain that Noble Confessor understood the sense of the Papists and their Worship but too well to his cost To conclude this whole matter with that which would have startled and amazed the old Pagans themselves after they have thus hailed their God and bowed the Knee before him and worshipped him with all their Heart and Soul and Strength they very fairly eat him up 2. The next instance of Idolatry is this If any Divinity or Vertue be believed to be in Idols or Images for the sake of which they are to be worshipped By Divinity here must be meant a divine Power and Efficacy to supernatural Effects for otherwise it will be the very same with the former Instance And that the Papists are likewise guilty of Idolatry in this particular I shall make as clear as any Demonstration in Euclide with the help only of this one reasonable postulatum That there is all that Divinity and Virtue in a thing which is put into it Now let any one read the Consecration of a New Cross or a Picture of the Crucifix and he will be satisfied that there is Divinity and Virtue enough put in them to justifie the worshipping of them We beseech thee O Lord Holy Father Almighty Everlasting God that it may please thee to bless this Sign of the Cross that it may be a Saving Remedy to mankind Let it be solidity of Faith proficiency of good Works Redemption of Souls Let it be a Comfort and Protection and safeguard against the cruel Darts of the Enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord c. And after the Bishop has said this and another such Prayer and used several powerful Ceremonies and endued the Wood with so many Divine Vertues he may well do as the Rubrick directs at the end of the Office Then the Bishop kneeling before the Cross does devoutly adore it and kiss it the same do all others that have a mind There is no man living can make an estimate of that infinite Divine Virtue which is in the Paschal Taper that very tall Idol being thirty six foot long For in the Consecration of the New Fire very well worth the reading which is to light this Paschal Taper They pray that whosoever shall carry away Light from it may be illuminated with the Light of Spiritual Grace Now this Light well husbanded may convey Grace to all the World But I shall never be reconciled to that scurvy Rubrick which directs to sprinkle this New Fire with Holy Water with which if it were never so little too lavishly blest the World is in danger of being left graceless and in the dark And yet for ought I know there is a little Idol in a String which may have as much Divinity and Virtue in it as any of them and that is a Pectoral Cross over which they say this Prayer Almighty God we humbly beseech thee that it may please thee to bless this Cross with thy fa herly Goodness and impart Heavenly Vertue and Grace to it That whosoever shall wear it as a sign of the Passion and Cross of thy only begotten Son for the safeguard of his Body and Soul may receive the Fulness of thy Heavenly Grace in it and the defence of thy Blessing As for the other little Wax-work Idol called an Agnus Dei he is so well known to be accounted by them the Saviour of the World and the Prince of the Air and every thing that is great that I need say nothing of him If any Unbeliever after all does secretly imagine that these Charms which we have repeated do not work and that these Crosses and Trade are not really endued with all this Divine Virtue which is here be spoken for them To cure him of his Infidelity let him only read the form of delivering a Banner after it is consecrated 〈◊〉 Vexillum Coelesti Benedictione Sanctificatum 〈◊〉 this Banner which is sanctified with Heavenly Benediction You see

shall destroy it VVhen a Man is condemned by God and his Country in a due course of Law it is time for him to die and he ought willingly to submit to the Laws of the Land for every Man enjoys the benefit and protection of them upon those terms and Job lays down a great Rule of Equity when he asks Shall we receive Good things at the Hand of God and not likewise Evil But if a Man be illegally assaulted in the way of Violence and Assassination he may use all lawful Remedies to defend himself It is a currant Notion among the Fathers that we ought to spare our Persecutors and not suffer them to be guilty of Murder Gregory gives that as a very good reason of Marcus's flight from Arethusa And St. Chrysostom introduces David speaking after thisis manner when he fled from Saul and as the Scripture tells us had Goliah's great Sword with him and put himself into a posture of Defence It is better for me to be miserable and to suffer more hardships than that Saul should be condemned by God for the Murder of an Innocent Person And that he meant no more than only to prevent the effusion of Innocent Blood appears by the several Opportunities he had to have cut off Saul but the sense of his Duty made him abhor the least thought of it He only sought his own safety and preservation which he could not abandon without being accessary to Saul's murdering of him There is no question but it is every Man's Duty to prevent the murder of any Innocent Person and especially of himself by all the ways and means which the Laws of God and of his Country do allows and if he do not he is a kind of Felo de se and guilty of his own Murder VVe are to suffer Persecution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if need be as St. Peter's words are and not else Now I humbly conceive being the VVrit de Haeretico Comburendo is taken away in time and the Laws protect us in our Religion that it will be a very needless thing to go to Smithfield and there be burnt for an Heretick And so far it is fit to inform the Popish Crew for we have no apprehensions of Persecution from any other Quarter lest they should be mistaken in the good Protestant Religion of our good Church as Coleman calls it in his Declaration No doubt they would bestow more good words upon us if we would be all Passive Protestants for then the fewer active Papists would serve to dispatch us But most men are satisfied that Archbishop Abbot's Doctrine was much more the good Protestant Religion of our good Church than Dr. Sibthorp's and that Dr. Manwaring was Orthodox when he Recanted but by no means when he preached his Pulpit Law For that name the Great and Loyal Lord Faulkland long before the War broke out was pleased to bestow upon such mischievous flattery which he then complained had almost ruined the Nation and it can never be good for any thing else in any Age. And yet the Arbitrary Doctrine of those Times did not bring any great terror along with it it was then but a Rake and served only to scrape up a little paltry Passive Money from the Subject but now it is become a Murdering piece loaden with no body knows how many Bullets And that the Patrons of it may not complain that it is an exploded Doctrine as if Men only hooted at it but could not answer it I shall stay to speak a little more to it 'T is true this Doctrine cannot discover its malignity under his Majesty's Gracious Reign which God prolong and prosper who has been pleased to give the Nation the security of his Coronation Oath which we know all Protestant Princes value and look upon as Sacred and likewise of many Gracious Promises that He will govern according to Law But in case we should be so sharply punished for our Sins as to fall under a Popish Successor then this Bloody Doctrine will have the opportunity to shew it self in its own Colours and we may then see and it may be feel the sting of it For first I suppose these Men will allow a Popish Successor when he is in possession to be a Lawful Magistrate because according to them it is not lawful no not for the King and Parliament to exclude him 2. I suppose that this Lawful Magistrate will persecute Protestants for by so doing he does God and the Church good Service he merits Heaven he cannot better testifie the truth and reality of his Conversion Nay if he does not persecute Hereticks with Fire and Sword he lies at the Pope's Mercy to have his Kingdom taken from him and further he is in danger to be so served as the two Henries of France were However because some Persons are so happy as to believe that he will not persecute no he will protect the Church of England as it is now established by Law and be a Mighty Defender of the Faith I shall be contented with what every Body must grant that he may persecute that the thing is possible 3. In this case all Protestants cannot fly they will not be all in travelling case and if they were the Ports may be 〈◊〉 the Writ ne exeas Regnum may be serv'd upon them and besides many may be persuaded that they ought not to fly and leave their Native Country naked and defenceless and expose it to a Conquest they may likewise believe it a thing of very ill Consequence perdere Patriam which no Man in England is bound to do 4. Now we are taught in this Case That if Men do not over-run their Country there is nothing but Death or Damnation at home or as it is in their own words Neither doth the Gospel prescribe any Remedy but flight against the Persecutions of the lawful Magistrate allowing of no other mean when we cannot escape betwixt denying and dying for the Faith What the Gospel prescribes is one thing what it allows is another there are ten thousand things allowed by the Gospel not one of which is prescribed by it inditements Appeals suing for Tythes in a word all humane Constitutions which are not morally Evil. But it seems the Gospel does not so much as allow any mean when we cannot escape by flight betwixt denying and dying for the Faith As for denying the Faith that is down-right Destruction both of Body and Soul and therefore is not to be thought of as being the far greater extremity of the two And so welcome Death But by what Law must we die Not by any Law of God surely for being of that Religion which he approves and would have all the World to embrace and to hold fast to the end Nor by the Laws of our Country where Protestancy is so far from being Criminal that it is Death to desert it and to turn Papist By what Law then By none that I know of but Parasites