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A43256	The touch-stone of the reformed gospel wherein the principal heads and tenents of the Protestant doctrine (objected against Catholicks) are briefly refuted. By the express texts of the Protestants own Bible, set forth and approved by the Church of England. With the ancient fathers judgements thereon, in confirmation of the Catholick doctrine.	Heigham, John, fl. 1639.; Kellison, Matthew, attributed name.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1370E; ESTC R216621	50,365	158

are to be noted which clearly make for the proof of Purgatory The one that in this place where Christ was there were certain sorrows and pains The other that some there were inflicted for sin upon whom he bestowed that gracious benefit as to discharge and free them of those pains For as the Rhemes testament very well notes Christ was not in pains himself but losed other men out of their pains 1 Cor. 15.29 Otherwise what shall they do that are baptized for the dead From this place an evident proof is drawn touching the help which the souls departed out of this world may receive by the Church on earth and consequently proveth Purgatory understanding the pains and afflictions which voluntarily we do inflict upon our selves to exempt those that are therein for to baptize signifieth to afflict ones self to do pennance to suffer death c. as is evident in S. Luke 12.30 But I have a baptism to be baptized with and Mark 10.38 Luke 16.9 And I say unto you make to your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousnesse that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitation S. Ambrose upon this place and S. Aug. lib. 21. de Civit Dei cap. 27. say that it is to receive succour after death according as the word fail enforceth Luke 23.42 Lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdome S. August saith in his fifth Book against Julian about the middest that the good Thief in this prayer presupposed that according to the common opinion souls might be holpen after death 2 Mac. 12.44 45. For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should have risen again it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the dead And in the next verse he concludeth That it was an holy and good thought c. This place of holy Scripture is most clear for prayer for the dead for had it not been the continual doctrine and practise of the Church to pray for the dead neither could Judas Macchabaeus who was himself a Priest have ever thought of any such remedy as to gather twelve thousand drachms of silver to send to Hierusalem to have prayers made for the relief of the souls slain in the wars neither would the multitude of people have either contributed or the Priests of the Temple received the same and they thought as these men do that it had been superstition to pray for the departed or that there had been no other place than the hell of the damned or the heaven of the saved See more 2 Tim. 1.18 1. John 5.16 Isa 4.4 Isa 9.18 Acts 24. Mat. 3.11 Mat. 12.32 Mat. 5.26 Micheas 7.8 Psal 66.12 Toby 4.18 Philip. 2.10 Zach. 9.11 ¶ As also the Fathers that affirm the same S. Ambr. upon the 1 Cor. 3. serm 20. in Psal 118. S. Hier. lib. 2. cap. 13. advers Jovin S. Greg. li● 4. Dialog cap. 39. Origen hom 6. in cap. 15. Exod. with many others XLVIII That it is not lawfull to make or have Images COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible Exod. 25.18 And thou shalt make two Cherubims of God of beaten work shalt thou make them in the two ends of the Mercy seat These graven Angels were Images of the highest order of Angels one excepted which is in heaven and were made with faces of beautifull young men and commanded to be set up by God himself in the Holy of Holies which S. Hierom witnesseth the Jews to have worshipped epist ad Marcellam Therefore it is lawfull to make Images 1 Kings 6.35 And he carved thereon Cherubims and Palm-ir●es and open Flowers and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work Hence is to be gathered that the precept of not making graven Idols doth nothing at all concern Images that is to say the true representation of things mecrly imaginary and not subsisting for as S. Paul saith 1 Cor. 8. An Idol is nothing So that the Idol representeth that which is not the Image that which is a most remarkable difference Again seeing an Idol is that properly which being nothing as S. Paul saith is represented to be something or that which represents the thing that is not if our Reformers believe the images of Christ crucified to be an idol they then believe that Christ was never crucified for it would follow necessarily that the image of Christ crucified being an idol therefore Chri●t was never crucified Heb. 9 1.5 Then verily the first Covenant had also ordinances of Divine service and a worldly sanctuary c. and over it the Cherubi●ns of glorie shadowing the Mercy-seat Here S. Paul calls the images of the Cherubims which Solomon made an ordinance of divine service which our Reformers call the making of idols whom shall we sooner believe Blessed S. Paul or a Reformed brother To conclude an image is of such Divine and natural right that all understanding imagination and sense as well interiour as exteriour is made by way of images called species sensib●les insensibiles The body cannot be in light without its shadow the Moon and the Stars imprint their image in the water a man cannot look in a glasse without making his Image Therefore either God and nature it self doth breake this Commandement as well as we or else it is absurd to say that we break it in making of Images See more 1 Kings 7.36.42.44 Numb 21.8 Mat. 22.20 Exod. 31.2 Exod. 35.30 where painting and engraving of Images is so far from being counted Idolatry that it is proved to be a science Divinely insused into Bezaleel by God himself and so the invention of good Images came first from God ¶ The Fathers that affirm the same are Tert. lib. 2. de pudicitia S. Greg. Naz. ep 49. ad Olymp. S. Basil orat in S. Barlaam S. Aug. lib. 1. de consens avang cap. 10. witnesseth that in his time Christ was to be seen painted in many places between S. Peter and S. Paul XLIX That it is not lawfull to reverence Images nor to give any honour to insensible things COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible Exod. 3.5 And he said Draw not nigh hither put off thy shooes from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground How clear a place is here produced against our Reformers wherein an insensible Creature was commanded by God himself to be honoured for the refraining to tread upon it was the doing of honour to it Therefore all dead Images representing unto us a holy thing may be honoured Psal 99.5 Adore ye the footstool of his feet Which place is spoken literally of the Ark of the Testament according to that of 1 Chron. 28.2 I had in my heart to build a house of the rest for the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord and for the foot-stool of our God Now the principal reason why the Ark was worshipped was in regard of the images that were set upon it which the Jews did worship as S. Hierom