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saint_n	adoration_n	image_n	worship_v	1,188	5	8.7129	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37390	A Declaration of the principall pointes of Christian doctrine gathered out of diuerse catechismes and set forth by the English priests dwelling in Tournay Colledge.		1647 (1647)	Wing D742; ESTC R17718	151,131	593

hath my Commandements and obserueth them he it is that loueth me sayth our Blessed Sauiour himselfe whereas he who sayth that he loueth God and doth not doe what he commandeth is an Hypocrite and a deceiuer as his Disciple assureth vs. 2. Tell me the reason of this Because loue maketh the hearts of those that loue one an other conformable in so much that they haue the same affections and the same will he then who loueth God truly willeth all that which God willeth and doth not goe against his commands 3. How manie be the Commandements of God They be ten to wit these I am the Lord thy God who haue brought thee out of the land of Aegypt out of the house of bondage 1. Thou shalt not haue any other God but me before my face Thou shalt not make to thy selfe an Idoll nor an ingrauened image nor any figure to adore them 2. Thou shalt not take the name of God in vaine 3. Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabaoth day 4. Honour thy Father and mother that thy life may be long in the land which the Lord thy God shall giue thee 5. Thou shalt not kill 6. Thou shalt not commit adulterie 7. Thou shalt not steale 8. Thou shalt not beare false witnesse 9. Thou shalt not desire thy neighbours wife 10. Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours goods 4. What do these ten Commandements containe All that which we must doe or forbeare to doe to loue God and our neighbour The first table in which were written the three first Commandements containeth that which we owe to God The second table in which were written the other seuen containeth that which we owe to our neighbour Now charitie doth consist in giuing to God and our neighbour their due for to do this for God his sake is to loue him so that the keeping of the Commandements is an assured marke of Charitie 5. But what do you say to those Sectaries who teach it to be impossible for vs to keepe Gods holy commandements First they contradict our Blessed Sauiour who most plainly sayeth that his yoke is sweet and his burden light and S. Iohn who telleth vs that Gods Commandements are not heauie Secondly they make hime most cruell by obliging vs vnder the paine of eternall damnation to do that which is impossible for vs to performe And finally they denie a most manifest experience euen in manie thousands of Gods blessed Saints who assisted by the grace of God haue obserued his Commandements without committing any mortall sinne after their first conuersion 6. What is meant by those first words I am the Lord thy God who haue brought thee out of the land of Aegypt out of the house of bondage By these words which serue but as a Preface to the Commandements we are giuen to vnderstand that God can giue vs a law which we are bound to obserue he being our Soueraine Master and Lord who hauing first made vs of nothing did also redeeme vs from the thraldome of the Diuell and finally by innumerable benefits hath obliged vs in gratitude to loue him aboue all and to obserue his holy law 7. What do we owe to God We owe to God all that which a seruant oweth to his master which are three thinges The first is fidelitie which consisteth in not giuing away to anie other that which belongeth to his master and also in forbearing to keepe intelligence with his enemies and this is contained in the first Commandement The second is reuerence which consisteth in forbearing to speake iniuriously of him and in speaking worthily of him when occasion is offered and this is contained in the second The third is actuall seruice and this is contained in the third Commandement COMMANDEMENT I. 8 EXplicate the first Commandement Thou shalt not haue any other Gods before me We are commanded by it to acknowledge one only God and not to giue the honour and adoration either inward or outward which we owe to him to anie creature or to the image of any creature 9. Must we not then honour the Saints and the images of God and his Saints Yes but we must not honour them as Gods as some Pagans did who gaue diuine honour to images as to Gods and so made Idols of them 10. What is the diuine honour which we render to God It is a worship which Diuines call Latria because it is the soueraine worship of all and it consists in this that it is an act whereby we testifie that God is our absolute and soueraine Lord from whose goodnesse and power we haue both our being and conseruation Now this honour cannot be giuen without Idolatrie to anie but to him yet it doth not hinder but that we may giue an inferirour kinde of honour to Saints to Reliques to Images and to the Crosse which may appeare euidently by this example If a king should forbid vs to giue to any bodie the honour which is due to his owne person no man willimagine that he doth forbid vs to render to his Magistrates vnited to his person in seuerall offices vnder him some other kinde of honour inferiour to that which is due to himselfe but euery bodie will perceiue that he forbids vs only to acknowledge his Magistrates for our Soueraine Lord and king And the same is in our case for the Catholike Church will not haue vs to acknowledge the Saints for our soueraine Lords or to honour them vpon that consideration but teacheth expressely the contrary that such honour is due only to God yet it declareth that we may honour them as persons vnited by loue to our Soueraine Master and cherished by him 11. Is the worship which we render to Saints only a ciuill worship No it is a holy and religious worship and it is called holy because it is rendred to Saints in regard that they are holy and blessed in heauen and it is called religious because it is cōmanded by the Christian religion and also because it is vsed for a religious end and finally because it is an act of that vertue which Diuines properly call Religion for Saints are honoured with relation to God by whom they are glorifyed with eternall blisse And well may this honour be called religious when S. Augustine auoweth that the honour which we render to our Parents may be called such 12. How must we worship the reliques of Saints We must worship them also with a religious worship as representing to vs the vertues and good workes which were done by the Saints themselues in doing whereof these reliques were instruments for the bodie is the instrument whereby our soule doth performe all our outward actions Wherefore we do reuerence in reliques the sanctitie zeale and purety of those to whom they did belong 13. May we also giue reuerence and worship to Images Yes but we must not worship them as Gods as the Pagans did for that is forbidden in this commandement Neither must we worship the images that is the wood