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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53984	A third letter to A person of quality being a vindication of the former, in answer to a late pamphlet intituled A discourse of the use of images, &c.	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1687 (1687)	Wing P1105; ESTC R1303	22,843	37

sense of our Church so he doth rest in this that it contains a godly and wholesome Doctrine necessary for those times meaning the times in which and for which this Homily against Images and the peril of Idolatry was specially made And if He thought it godly wholesome and necessary he could not but think it True. 5. Therefore I shall conclude that this Homily ought to be appealed to in this Controversie with the Discourser as the Homily that contains the deliberate and setled judgment of our Church and such Doctrines as are necessary for these our times as well as for those when it was first written Now in the beginning of the First part of this Homily our Church roundly tells us that the bringing in of Images into the Church in those latter days hath nothing at all profited such as were wise and of understanding but hath greatly hurt the simple and unwise occasioning them thereby to commit most horrible Idolatry Then having noted that the words Idol and Image are of the the same signification in the Scriptures she proves by several Texts out of the Old Testament and the New that Images are neither to be Worshipped nor so much as used or had in Churches for fear and occasion of worshipping them though they be of themselves things indifferent for so she desires to be always understood to speak not only against Idolatry and Worshipping of Images but also against Idols and Images themselves in case men be stirred and provoked by them to Worship them and not as though they were simply forbidden without such occasion and danger as you may see in the beginning of the Third Part of that Homily In the Second part she gives an Historical relation of the rise and progress of Image-Worship in the Christian Church the sum whereof is this That Images and Image-worshipping were in the Primitive Church which was most pure and uncorrupt abhorred and detested as abominable and contrary to true Christian Religion And that when Images began to creep into the Church they were not only spoken and written against by godly and Learned Bishops Doctors and Clerks but also condemned by whole Councils of Bishops and Learned men assembled together yea the said Images by many Christian Emperours and Bishops were defaced broken and destroyed c. And I freely leave to all men of knowledge and integrity to judge whether in that Historical account I sent you there be any thing which is inconsistent either with the Doctrine of our Church as to Images and Image-worship or with the Historical account which our Church her self gives us I think indeed there is an observation which our Church there makes but I did not That the Bishops of Rome being no ordinary Magistrates appointed of God out of their Diocess but Usurpers of Princes Authority contrary to Gods word were the maintainers of Images against Gods word and stirrers up of Sedition and Rebellion and workers of continual Treason against their Soveraign Lords contrary to Gods Law and the ordinances of all humane Laws being not only Enemies to God but also Rebels and Traitors against their Princes These were the first bringers in of Images openly into Churches These were the maintainers of them in the Churches and these were the means whereby they maintain'd them to wit Conspiracy Treason and Rebellion against God and their Princes As I remember I did not observe this at least not so fully but if that be a fault I suppose this Discourser will readily forgive it If not 't is an even lay but some other time I may make him amends In the Third Part of this Homily our Church doth purposely answer those allegations and pleas which are commonly used by the Romanists to excuse and justifie their practice in this point as that their Images are not of any Heathen Idols but of God of Christ and his Saints that the making of Images is a thing in it self indifferent that they exhibit Honour not to the Image but to exemplar represented by it and that Images are lay-mens Books And throughout this long Sermon our Church declares her sense 1. That the Images of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost are unlawful to be made 2. That though the Art of painting and Image making be not wicked of it self and such Images may be suffered as are used for no Religion or Superstition rather she means of none Worshipped nor in danger to be Worshipped of any yet considering the great danger of Idolatry and the strong inclinations of people to it Images are not to be publickly had and suffered in Churches Which danger she shews at large because all Images publickly set up have been worshipped not by the simple sort only but in conclusion by the Learned also and because she conceived it impossible that Images of God Christ or his Saints can be suffered especially any considerable time or space without Worshipping of them 3. She shews that the Saints neither desire nor ought to be Honoured by Images that the distinction of Latria and Dulia is a lewd distinction that the pretence of honouring the Prototype by the Image is an old Heathen shift and that though it be said that the Honour is given to the Prototype yet this is only to palliate the matter for our Church evidently proves that the Papists did Worship the Images themselves not only by shewing their gross and Pagan-like Idolatry in that respect but also by producing the Authority of Jacobus Naclantus an Eminent Divine in the Council of Trent that it is not only to be confest that the faithful in the Church do worship before an Image as some peradventure do warily speak but also do Worship the Image it self without any scruple or doubt at all yea and they Worship the Image with the same kind of Worship wherewith they worship the Prototype wherefore if the Prototype be to be worshipped with Divine Worship the Image is also to be worshipped with the same 4. Having abundantly shew'd the Snares and dangers which Images draw people into and the vast mischiefs and wickednesses they occasion instead of instructing men like Books our Church at last plainly resolves the point That true Religion and pleasing of God standeth not in making setting up painting guilding cloathing and decking of dumb and dead Images nor in kissing of them capping kneeling offering to them incensing of them setting up of Candles hanging up of legs arms or whole bodies of Wax before them or praying and asking of of them or of Saints things belonging only to God to give but that all these things be vain and abominable and most damnable before God. Had my Adversary consider'd all this we might wonder how he could harden his forehead and Conscience so as to pretend to the World that there is an agreement between the Church of Rome and Oijrs as to this point he might as well have pretended to reconcile the most palpable falsehood to the clearest Truth such a