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A30643 Jesu-vvorship confuted, or, Certain arguments against bowing at the name Jesus proving it to be idolatrous and superstitious and so utterly unlawful : with objections to the contrary fully answered / by H.B. Burton, Henry, 1578-1648. 1660 (1660) Wing B6166; ESTC R4361 4,861 10

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Jesu-VVorship CONFUTED OR CERTAIN ARGUMENTS Against bowing at the Name JESUS Proving it to be Idolatrous and Superstitious and so utterly unlawfull WITH Objections to the contrary fully Answered By H. B. ISAIAH 2. 9. The mean man boweth down and the great man humbleth himself therefore pardon them not LONDON Printed for H. C. in Popes-head-Alley in the Year 1660. ARGUMENTS AGAINST JESU-WORSHIP OR Bowing at the Name JESUS Argument 1. ALL Idolatry is utterly to be abhorred But Adoration or Bowing at the name IESUS is Idolatry Therefore such adoration is altogether to be abhorred First That all idolatry is to be abhorred the Apostle sheweth 1 Cor. 10. 14. And all men confesse it Secondly That adotation at the name or naming the name JESUS is idolatry is thus proved That name that is adored before or above the name JEHOVAH is made an Idol and so the adoration of it is idolatry But adoration at the name JESUS is to adote that name above the name JEHOVAH Therefore the name JESUS so adored is an idol and it's adoration is idolatry The reason of this act is taken from the practice of the IESU-Worshippers who never use any adoration or signe of reverence when JEHOVAH is named but only when JESUS is named they give both outward and inward adoration to the name JESUS but not to the name JEHOVAH So that they adore the name JeSUS above the name JEHOVAH If they say their adoration of the name JESUS is not terminated not bounded in the word or syllables JESUS but passet● to the person of JESUS I answer It is but a frivolous absurd and rediculous shift which Dr. Fulk on Phil. 2. 10. against the Rhemists confuteth in the Jesuits saying That this their evasion is too short a Cloak to cover their Idolatry As also in the case of Image-worship the Papists use the very same shift namely that their worship rests not in the Image but passes through it to the thing represented by it * And the ancient idolatrous Gentiles could plead the same for their worshipping of Images which the ancient Fathers shewed the vanity of And again It is as clear that this IESU-Worship is terminated in the very name JESUS by the common and singular Worshippers of it as Image-worship is by ordinary Papists at least terminated in the very Image as Augustine ibidem Quis saith he adorat velorat Who adoreth or prayeth looking upon an Image is not so affected that he thinks he is not heard of it which he prayeth to ducit enim saith he c. for the similitude of a form and the apt frame of the members in a Picture or Image doth draw carry along with it the weak hearts of mortal men by a kind of base affection and so this use of bowing at the name JESUS intimates unto the peoples minds an opinion of some excellency in this name above JEHOVAH And if they do by this name JESUS worship the person JESUS yet this teacheth the people a most grosse and impious error in preferring JESUS before God the Father And Chrysostom reciting those words of the Apostle 1 Cor. 8. 2. To us there is but one God the Father and one Lord Jesus Christ think not saith he that one of these names is greater then another in their signification or more excellent and to prefer one before another argues a contentious disposition to introduce into the orthodox doctrine mens own inventions yea its plain that they prefer the name JESUS before the person of Christ seeing when JESUS is named they worship with Cap and Knee but none at all when Christ is named so as they shew hereby that this their wor●hip appropriated unto and terminated in the very name and syllables of JESUS as Bishop Andrews blusheth not to affirm in his Court Sermon on Phil 2. 10. Argument 2. A Second Argument proving JESU-worship or bowing and capping at the name JESUS when it is mentioned or sounded in the ear to be idolatry is If the adoration of the name JESUS when it is painted on a Wall be idolatry then the adoration of the name when it is heard or pronounced with the mouth is also idolatry but the first is true therefore also the second namely that the worshipping of the name JESUS when it is heard pronounced with the mouth is idolatry That the first is true to wit that the worshipping of the name JESUS painted on a Wall is idolatry no good and sound Protestant will deny for there is this same reason thereof as of all other Image-worship names being a kind of the things they represent or intend That the second is as true as the first I prove thus Because it skils not by which of the sences idolatry is committed for it may be indifferently and alike committed by all the sences For example the Scripture shews idolatry to be committed somtimes by the sence of tasting as eating and drinking 1 Cor. 10. 17. Neither be ye Idolaters as were some of them as it is written the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play Sometimes by the sence of touching as kissing of Baals mouth 1 Kings 19. 18. Sometimes by the sence of smelling as burning of Incense to Idols was idolatry committed Jer. 11. 12. And as in Julians time offering of incense and sweet perfumes Frequently also by the sence of seeing is idolatry committed And lastly idolatry is made and now adayes no lesse frequently committed by pressing this JESU-worship by the sence of hearing as when the Papists at the very sound of the Bell that goes tinkling before their Breaden-god or Hoast carried to the sick or in procession wheresoever they be or whatsoever they are doing though they see nothing yet they must slap down on their Marrow-bones Thus by the sence of Hearing their God in the Hoast being presented or conveyed to their minds they commit idolatry as if it were presented to their eye And therefore the provincial Synod of Leno in France resolved in the behalf of their Image-worship that there was the same reason of adoration when the Image of Christ is represented to the eye as when the name JESUS is sounded in the ear for that which the one insinuates into the mind by the ear the other insinuates the same by the eye If therefore it be idolatry to worship the name JESUS written on a Wall then it is no lesse idolatry to give adoration when it is uttered with the mouth Argument 3. THat which is not the name above every name is not to be adored or reverenced above of before other names But the name JESUS is not the name above every name therefore it is not to be reverenced or adored before or above all other names The Major is cleer for that which is honoured above others hath some excellency above others either really in it selfe or else in the opinion of honour And that the name JESUS is the name above other names what Divine
is so doltish as to imagine it so bold as to avow it Even the JESU-worshippers themselves have been much beaten off from their false glosse of a late devising and by one of their greatest Patrones hereof falsely fathered upon all the Fathers whereas not one of them did ever so interpret that place Phil. 2. 10. For as they dare not affirm it so its clear that the Text is clean otherwise interpreted by two other places as Isa. 45. 23. Rom. 14. 10. As they are conferred in the Margents of our Bibles which at least are far more ancient and authentick then any authority which can produce the contrary whatsoever as I suppose and believe Argument 4. A Fourth Argument may be framed thus All will-worship devised prescribed and imposed by the will commandements and doctrines of men whatsoever pretence and specious shew it hath of wisdom or piety is condemned by the Apostle and so is damnable for Christians to conform and yeeld unto it But such is the adoration or worshipping of the name JESUS I say it is a meer will worship of mans devising prescribing and imposing For proof Pope Gregory a superstitious Pope as all of them write and very zealous in setting up new guids of worship was the first that under a Canon for this Jesu-worship to be used especially in the Masse and in the reading of the Gospel And another Pope John 21. granted indulgence and pardon of sins to all such worshippers of the name JESUS such a high esteem have men of these things which themselves have devised as part of Gods worship but indeed will-worship as the Crow thinks her own birds fairest that they therefore prefer them before Gods Ordinances and Commandements and will favour and encourage such as conform to them and more severely punish those that out of tendernesse and truth of conscience refuse so to doe Yea the Papists have a Holy-day dedicated to the name of Jesu and Jesu-worshippers have even thrust it into our Kalenders but in black letters mourning that it is not in scarlet as their hope is it wil shortly be if it can find worshippers enough And our Jesu-worshippers confesse that they are bound in conscience to bow at the name JESUS because the * Church commands it that is because men do command it Ergo by their own confession being devised by man and having no ground in Scripture it is a will-worship and so damnable and surely they condemned in their own consciences But where I pray doth the Church command this Jesu-worshipping in the Canons say they I deny it for the Canon sayes when the Lord Jesus is mentioned due reverence shall be given now the Lord Jesus is not the name Jesus nor the name Jesus the Lord Jesus and to confound the name Jesus with the Lord Jesus deserves a hissing but they are at a Non-plus-ultra but if they will force the letter of the Canon to serve their corrupt sence they are together to be exploded seeing they fight against a canonical Scripture the only Canon and right rule of the worship of God Objections answered Object 1. Some say this adoration is a thing indifferent therefore it may be used or not used Answer If it be a thing indifferent why is it then so rigidly imposed as a thing of absolute necessity to be observed This destroyes the nature of a thing indifferent which the Scripture condemneth this being a will-worship of humane invention Object 2. But it is a pious Ceremony and conducing much to the honour of God Answer Seem it never so pious and specious to mans carnall fancie yet being idolatrous as hath been proved it is but pious idolatry or idolatrous piety and God abhorreth that piety and pretended honour as vain which is taught by the precepts of men Matth 15. 9. Object 3. But bowing at the name of Jesus is a slighter a lesser matter then that a man should suffer himself to be deprived of the use of his Ministry for refusal of it Answer A mans Ministry is precious indeed and the calling high and honourable and to be preferred before all the world but it is not so precious as to be valued above a good conscience and the Kingdom of Heaven but to do the least evil wilfully for the greatest good makes damnation just Nor is the least idolatry or superstitious act to be counted light for having but an appearance of idolatry and being of no good report it ought to be avoided for the least kind or degree of idolatry being once committed and given way unto it is an inducement to that which is most grosse and doth naturally enfeeble a mans spirit making it lesse able to resist and repulse greater abominations and commonly God gives over such to grosser sins of impietyes who make not conscience of the least and such as seem but light It is the saying of a Divine Qui modicas spernit paulatim decidit He that makes light account of small sins falls by little and little sins that seem less are so much the more perilous because they are the more easily committed and securely retained and lesse carefully repented As for this Jesu-worship why should any Minister think it a small matter when the Imposers themselves set such a penalty upon it as the losse of a mans Ministry for not conforming to it Object 4. But it is imposed onely for unity and peace sake Answer It is no good peace that breaks the peace of a good conscience and a mans peace with God That is no good unity which devides a man from the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Object 5. But if one Ceremony be yeelded to we shall then quickly enjoy our Ministry and the Gospel without any more impositions Answer And how know you that but suppose it were so were not your peace bought at too dear a rate But why should any deceive himselfe of so vain a hope when he sees the contrary before his eyes who sees not that those are but the beginnings and inducements to greater matters and he that is catcht in the snare is easily brought to yeeld to more hard conditions Object 6. But to yeeld to this world not be offensive to the people who generally can digest it well enough and therefore lesse danger in it Answer Though it would not offend the ignorant sort which are the greatest number yet it would scandalize and wound the weake brother grieving his soul to see thee fall and giving examples to others to follow thee in a way that is not warrantable but sinfull For whatsoever is not of faith as this is not is sin FINIS Propositi Assumption Conclusion * Agustinie in Ps. 113. Serm. 2. Origen contra celsum lib 7. Lactàn fixtus Seneca li 1. Biblioth. 247. others * By the Church is meant the Bishops