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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33124	An account of Dr. Still.'s late book against the Church of Rome together with a short postil upon his text.	J. V. C. (John Vincent Canes), d. 1672.	1672 (1672)	Wing C426; ESTC R18260	35,205	79

unto our good if Moses should have made any law against them which indeed he did not but onely against heathen Idols And if any one should endeavour to have our Christian representations to be abolished because he thinks and believes that Moses forbad them then is that man say I bound to observe all the whole Law of Moses as it is literally expressed by him even to the least apex or iota thereof For the authority of a Legislator being the same in all h●s whole law must oblige equally in all its parts and the distinction then between judicial moral and ceremonial law signifies nothing seeing that Moses his commands are equally peremptory and press as strongly in the one as in the other This is no imaginary opinion of mine own but what reason and the Spirit of God moved St. Paul to aver as stoutly in the case of circumcision which is another of Moses Laws as I do here I testifie to every man saith he who is circumcised that he is bound to keep the whole law And this must needs be true most certainly true for by observing circumcision because it was commanded by Moses he subjects himself to the law and authority of Moses as his Prince and Legislator and consequently is bound to observe him equally in all things which he commands with the same authority and will to be obeyed which is no less then all his whole law And cursed is every one saith the same Apostle who is under the law and continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to fulfil them Although then it should be granted that Moses by his law prohibited all kind of figures and representations even those used by Christians which he did not yet if our Lord ratified it not it does not touch us at all And that he did not renew or ratifie it is sufficiently clear to Protestants because no such law of his is found among the Evangelists and unto Catholicks no less because there is neither Gospel nor Tradition for it And if all men would separate themselves from prejudice which blinds and hardens them in their conceits they might easily believe that neither Christs immediate Disciples nor any Christians that succeeded them after our Lords departure would have either feared or hated the figure of our Lords countenance if by chance they would have met with it But if any one notwithstanding fully perswaded that Moses made a law against all sort of images and representations should upon that authority of his abolish ours he is bound also upon the same authority to sacrifice an Ox and observe all the whole law in all and every particular under the penalty of sin Since therefore by the order of God and Moses many graven things were made representations and similitudes both in Heaven and Earth notwithstanding the said law as the Serpent of brass which must either be made by melting or graving pomegranates lilies and various such-like things both graven in stone and interwoven in silks Cherubins or Angels in the Propitiatory even in Moses time and afterwards more fully and plentifully in Solomon's Temple it is not rationally to be doubted but that this law of his was intended onely to keep those people close and constant to their own God and to their own Religion which was inconsistent with the idols of the Nations and not for any purpose of keeping Abraham Isaac and Jacob either out of their chamber hangings or ours I know the Jews do urge this Precept of Moses very eagerly against Christians ever since Jesus Christ our Lord was rejected by them whose image and figure they cannot abide to see But we must have patience with all men § 9. Moses saith he grounded this law of his upon a reason unchangable namely that Gods infinite and incomprehensible Deity cannot be represented O profound invention This is such a law and ground of a law as was never before thought of The ground and reason of making a law must be this an impossibility of breaking it They must not make any representations of God because God cannot be represented And the same motive or reason will be equally proper for all the rest of the Commandments They must keep the seventh day of the week a holy day The reason and motive because there is not an eighth day to keep holy and sanctifie They must honour their Parents The ground and reason of this because none of the whole Camp had any Fathers or Mothers alive to dishonour They must not kill The motive and reason is because they were all shot-free and so firmly inchanted that none could hurt them They must not commit adultery The ground and reason is because there was never a woman in the camp which any man though provok'd with the highest lust could pessibly come near or touch with a pair of tongues They must not steal The great cause thereof is that there is noth●ng at all in the Camp for any man to take away Thus the Doctor imagi●es Moses to forbid any representations of God because God cannot be represented And such another discreet mounsieur was he who solemnly commanded his bowyer not to make him any shafts at all of a piggs ta●le and he gravel● gave him the reason for it because quoth he of a piggs tail no shaft can be made Truth is Moses never thought of any such law nor any such reason of it much less but provided for the security of the Hebrews religion that it might remain unchangable and firm in the mids of those many Nations round about them who worshiped false Gods and idols as Moses very frequently interprets himself and all the Prophets after him Therefore saith God by Moses thou sh●lt have no other Gods but me thou shalt not make to thy self any figures as the Gentills do nor worship them For I am a jealous God and will have no intermingling of devillish idolatry with my service And all the reason given by Moses is gods jealousie not induring any divine worship but his own This is the very truth and all the truth of this business which this Doctor would turn another way thereby to make Moses seem as simple a ma● as himself And those idols forbidden by Moses did so involve an opposition to the true God and his divine worship that people could not possibly betake themselves to one but they must leave the other Therefore did Moses forbid both other Gods besides their own one God and all idols together which was by antient Christians very rationally and wisely reckoned all one and the same commandement whereof no less a man then St. Austin himself is witness But the memories of Abraham Isaac and J●cob could bring no such danger with them And that is our care for we are not in danger of loosing the faith of Jesus Christ by keeping the image of him our crucified Lord among us or forsaking the communion of Saints by retaining their portraictures before our eyes