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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

And the Prophet Isaiah having set forth the great Majesty of Almighty God in a high and lofty manner asketh to whom he may be compared and sheweth that Images cannot represent him Isa 40.15 Behold the Nations are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the ballances behold he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering All Nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity To whom then will ye liken God Or what likeness will ye compare unto him The workman melteth a graven Image and the Goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold But saith he ver 21 Have ye not known It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth and the Inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers that stretcheth out the Heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in That bringeth the Princes to nothing he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity To whom then will ye liken me or shall I be equal saith the holy One God is cloathed with Honor and Majesty and covered with inaccessible Light and is an invisible Being that cannot be beheld with mortal eyes Psal 104.1 1 Tim. 6.16 And how then shall he be represented by sordid Images that are much more base and vile than our selves These we see would be a great reproach to Almighty God and highly injurious to him and therefore are by no means to be used And our blessed Saviour is to be worshipped as he is God and therefore no Image can be made to represent him And his body too is now glorified and spiritualized and not to be represented by an earthly Image And the Saints departed are either separated Spirits or else have their bodies glorified and made incorruptible and therefore cannot in any meet manner be represented by a dead and senseless Image and they are not to be worshipped themselves and much less their Images We are strictly commanded not to bow down to any Images or Similitudes whatsoever nor to perform any other Religious Worship and Service to them such as the building of Temples and rearing up of Altars to them the lighting of candles or lamps before them in a Religious way the making of Prayers or Religious Addresses to them and returning them Praise the offering of Sacrifices and burning of Incense to them the making of Vows to them or swearing by them the shewing of any reverential fear towards them and placing any trust and confidence in them the performing of any such Religious Service towards them or joyning with those that do so is clearly forbidden by the sacred Word of God And the worshipping of Images and all such Idolatry is as well forbidden by the New Testament as the Old Our blessed Saviour hath taught us in his answer to the Devil that God alone is to be worshipped and served Matt. 4.10 For it is written saith he Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve And saith St. James concerning the Gentiles Act. 15.20 But that we write unto them that they abstain from Pollutions of Idols And ver 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to Idols And saith St. Paul 1 Cor. 10.7 Neither be ye Idolaters as were some of them And ver 14. Wherefore my dearly beloved flee from Idolatry St. Peter also shews Idolatry to be a grievous Crime 1 Pet. 4.3 And saith St. John 1 Joh. 5.21 Little Children keep your selves from Idols Amen Idolatry we see is strictly forbidden by the New Testament as well as the Old And it is plain by the sacred Scriptures all along that Images that are made for worship are Idols and that the worshipping of them is Idolatry Psal 115.4 saith the Psalmist Their Idols are silver and gold the work of mens hands They have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not We may plainly see that these Idols were Images And so again Psal 135.15 And saith St. John Rev. 9.20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship Devils and Idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and of wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk And this place as Dr. More sheweth respecteth the Romish Church it self It is evident from all these places and many more that the worshipping of Images and such Idols is a very sinful thing Again we may see that God commanded that the Worshippers of other Gods should be put to death as not fit to live any longer and to deter all others from the committing of such gross and notorious Impiety And such Gods were for the most part Images and such Idols That man or woman that had gone and served other Gods was to be stoned to death Deut. 17.2 And that Prophet or Friend or Relation that went about to draw them to serve other Gods was to be put to death Deut. 13 1-5 And that Prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God And ver 6 If thy brother the son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend which is as thine own soul entice thee secretly saying Let us go and serve other Gods which thou hast not known Thou shalt not consent unto him nor hearken unto him neither shall thine eye pity him neither shalt thou spare neither shalt thou conceal him But thou shalt surely kill him Thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterwards the hand of all the people And thou shalt stone him with stones that he dye And the City that fell to Idolatry was to be destroyed ver 12. If thou shalt hear say in one of thy Cities saying Certain men the Children of Belial are gone out from among you and have withdrawn the Inhabitants of their City saying Let us go and serve other Gods which ye have not known Thou shalt surely smite the Inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof and shalt burn with fire the city and all the spoil thereof Idolaters are here called the Children of Belial and were all to be put to death for committing such abominable wickedness and to deter and fright others from committing the like and their City and Goods were to be burnt as accursed things so detestable is this sin to Almighty God And such as we may plainly see is all Image-worship Again we may see that God commanded that all Images as well as all other Idolatrous worship should be destroyed And the Jews were strictly commanded to do this Exod. 23.24 But thou shalt utterly overthrow them and quite break down their Images

of our Saviour and the Apostle XI The Practice of the Romish Church in respect of Marriages is not agreeable to the Word of God First The prohibiting the Marriage of Clergy-men is not agreeable to the Word of God The Word of God alloweth them to marry as well as other men if they see good cause for it and it is great Tyranny and an evil thing to deny them this Liberty The Law of God allowed the Priests and even the High Priests to marry as we may see Lev. 21.7 and in several other places They shall not take a wife that is a whore or profane neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband for he is holy unto his God And ver 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity The Priests might marry notwithstanding God accounted them holy to himself and would not suffer them to profane themselves in many other respects wherein the Common People might profane themselves And we see that Aaron and his Sons were married men and yet were the High Priests of the Jews and that they married as they saw good observing only the limitations of the Law of God And the Gospel doth allow all men liberty to marry that see good cause for it And it doth require that those should marry that have not the gift of continency and cannot well otherwise keep themselves chast but it tolerates no whoredom at all 1 Cor. 7.2 saith St. Paul Nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband Here is no exception but all may marry that see need for it And saith the Apostle Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge And St. Paul doth plainly shew that Bishops and Deacons might be married men 1 Tim. 3.2 A Bishop then said he must be blameless the husband of one wife He that had not married one Wife and put her away and married another as the Jews sometimes did but had married but one Wife he might be a Bishop And so might the Deacons be married men as we may see ver 8 And St. Paul alloweth Bishops and Elders to be married men in his Instructions to Tit. 1.5 And it doth appear that St. Peter the Apostle was a married man mention being made of his Wives Mother Matt. 8.14 Mar. 1.30 1 Cor. 9.5 And the Apostle tells us that it is better to marry than to burn 1 Cor. 7.9 But if they cannot contain let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn Such as are in danger to be tempted to wickedness are not only allowed but advised to marry and keep themselves pure and not to fall to Whoredom And the Apostle sheweth that the forbidding of Marriage is a sinful and evil thing 1 Tim. 4.1 Now the Spirit speaketh expresly saith he that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils Forbidding to marry This is one thing that these sinful men would do And hereby we see that it is an unlawful thing to prohibit marriage and to keep any Order of men from their liberty herein which God hath granted to all The Practice of the Romish Church is not agreeable to the sacred Scriptures in not suffering the Clergy to marry To prohibit Marriage and to tolerate Whoredom is flat contrary to the sacred Word of God Secondly The Romish Church doth tolerate Incestuous Marriages and the Popes do grant Dispensations for such Marriages as are forbidden by the Word of God God hath forbidden all Incestuous Marriages in the Book of Leviticus and told us what persons we are to marry Lev. 18.5 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him to uncover their nakedness I am the Lord. And the several degrees of persons that we are not to approach to are mentioned in this Chapter and in the twentieth Chapter of this Book And here we may see that the marrying a Brother's Wife is unlawful Lev. 18.16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife it is thy brother's nakedness And Lev. 20.21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife it shall be an unclean thing And John Baptist told Herod that it was not lawful for him to have his Brother's Wife Matt. 14.3 For Herod saith St. Matthew had laid hold on John and bound him and put him in prison for Herodias sake his brother Philip's wife For John said unto him It is not lawful for thee to have her But notwithstanding these plain and positive Commands of God the Popes at their pleasure will grant Dispensations for the marrying of such persons as are here forbidden and for marrying a Brother's Wife Thirdly The Practice of the Romish Church in dissolving of lawful Marriages is not agreeable to the Word of God When a Marriage is lawfully contracted and duely solemnized it is not to be dissolved but only upon the account of Fornication This is our Saviour's determination in this Matter Matt. 5.31 It hath been said whosoever shall put away his wife let him give her a writing of divorcement But I say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of fornication causeth her to commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery And Matt. 19.3 The Pharisees came unto him tempting him and saying unto him Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause And he answered and said unto them Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female And said for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder And again Mar. 10.8 And they twain shall be one flesh so then they are no more twain but one flesh What therefore God hath joined together let no man put asunder This we see is a sacred Knot and a work that God hath done when it is lawfully done according to his order and not to be dissolved by man except in the case of Fornication And saith St. Paul 1 Cor. 7.10 11. And unto the married I command yet not I but the Lord Let not the wife be separated from her husband But and if she be separated let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband and let not the husband put away his wife Christians are not to put away their Wives but were even to keep their Heathen Wives if they would live with them and not leave their Husbands because they were Christians But notwithstanding Marriage is so sacred a thing and we are commanded not to dissolve it yet the Church of Rome doth dissolve the Marriage of all Priests and we see that the Marriage of the Clergy is as lawful as the Marriage of other men This we