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A56144	Canterburies doome, or, The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusation therein, till his tryall : together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar ... : wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world / by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing P3917; ESTC R19620	792,548	593

Justice of peace within that City and an inhabitant of S. Edmonds Parish there took just offence at some pictures in one of the glasse-windows in that Church near unto his seat and ever in his eye in which window was contained in old rude rusty painted glasse the History of the Creation not as it is related by Moses in the first Chapter of Genesis but after the Painters fancy who in this window consisting only of four panes had made no lesse then seven picturs of God the Father in form of a little old man clad in a blew and red coat with a pouch by his side about the bignesse of a Puppet and preposterously placed the fourth daies work of creation before the third and made that to be done on the fifth day which was created on the sixth and in one place he had represented God the Father creating the Sunne and Moon and squaring them out with a pair of compasses in his hand as if he had formed them by some Geometricall rules and the help of a Compasse To these pictures M. Sherfield and others had seen Ema Browne and other old women make low curtesies who being demanded why they made such curtesies answered that they made them to their Lord God and to God the Father in the Glasse-window which was proved by divers witnesses upon oath Wherupon M. Sherfield being perswaded in point of conscience that these Idolatrous Pictures were directly forbidden by the second Commandement and many expresse Texts of Scripture prohibiting any representations of God the Father condemned thus by the Homilies of our Church against the Perill of idolatry Part. 3. ● 40. which determine that The Image of God the Father the Sonne and Holy Ghost either severally or the images of the Trinity be by the Scriptures expresly forbidden and condemned as appears by these places Deut. 4. Isay 40. Acts 17. Rom. 1. there cited at large By these and many other places of Scripture it is evident that no Image either ought or can be made to God For how can God a most pure spirit whom man never saw he expressed by a grosse body or visible similitude or how can the infinite Majesty and greatnesse of God incomprehensible to mans minde much more not able to be compassed with the sense be expressed in a SMAL and LITTLE IMAGE as this of God the Father was How can a dead and dumbe Image expresse the living God c. Wherefore an Image of God is not only a lye but a double lye also But the Devill is a lyar and the Father of lyes Wherefore the lying Images which he made of God to his great dishonour and horrible danger of his people came from the Devill Wherefore they be convict of foolishnesse and wickednesse in making of Images of God or the Trinity for no Image of God ought or can be made yea and once to desire an Image of God commeth of infidelity thinking not God here present except they see some signe or Image of him And to be abolished out of Churches by the resolution of Queen Elizabethe Injunctions the Canons and Oxthodox Writers of our Church the Statutes of our Realme and King James his own resolution in sundry of his Works moved the Parish at a Vestry where were six Justices of Peace present that he might have liberty to take down this offensive scandalous Window being a burthen to his conscience an occasion of much superstition and idolatry to ignorant people and the Church it self a Donative as they conceived belonging to the parishioners and to set up a new window of white glasse in its place whereupon it was unanimously ordered by the Vestry about January 1629. and the Order entred that if M. Sherfield thought fit he might take downe the painted old glasse of this Window and set up new Whereupon not long after he did with his staffe breake or picke out some of those peeces of glasse representing God the Father which amounted not to above the value of six pence the whole glasse window not being worth forty shillings when it was new intending to new glaze the same Whereupon by the Archbishops means and instigation an Information was exhibited against him in the Star-chamber by the Kings Attorney Generall for breaking these idolatrous pictures and that in opposition of the Church-government established by law among us This cause was prosecuted with all rigour and at last brought to a hearing on the 8 of February 1632. where this Archbishop then Bishop of London as was proved by the Oathes of Master Tomlins a Barrister of the Temple M. Joseph Caryll Lecturer at Lincolnes Inne and the testimony of M. Robert Nicholas a Member of the Commons House a Commissioner in that cause shewed himselfe very violent against M. Sherfield made a long speech in defence of Images in Churches contrary to our Homilies justified the picturing of God the Father in forme of an old man out of that place of Daniel where God is called The ancient of dayes which the Earl of Dorset refuted being an expression only of Gods eternity declaring him to be before all times and notwitstanding it was proved by four witnesses that those pictures were adored by divers persons yet the Archbishop was so violent against Mr. Sherfield that for breaking of these idolatrous pictures according to the doctrine of our Church in the Homilies against the perill of Idolatry Queen Elizabeth Injunctions and the statute of 3 4 E. 6. ca. 10. which were pleaded for his justification he agravated his offence to the utmost from his Office his Age his profession and divers other circumstances instead of mittigating it fined him a thousand pound to the King sentenced him to be removed from his Recordership in that City to make a publick acknowledgement of his great fault in the Parish-church where this was done and in the Cathedrall at Salisbury and to be bound to his good behaviour some of the Temporall Lords excused his fact spake much against Images and thought it fit to impose no fine upon him This Archbishop then concluded his speech against M. Sherfield in justification of Images with these words I have been the willinger to render this ancount at this time because some are ready to slander Vs as maintainers of POPISH SVPERSTITION and I know not what This sentence gave great incouragement to the setting up of superstitious idolatrous Pictures Images and Crucifixes in our Churches and discouraged most men from opposing the intended introducing of them which followed thereupon in sundry places To this we shall adde the Archbishops tyrannicall sentence and proceedings against M. John Workeman a godly painfull Minister Lecturer in the City of Glocester for preaching against Images in Churches This pious Minister being Lecturer in S. Stephens Church in that City was prosecuted for preaching publickly in a Sermon there That Pictures or Images were no more ornaments to a Church then Stewes to a Common wealth That for a man to