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A57552	A renunciation of several popish doctrines because contrary to the doctrine of faith of the Church of England / by R.R.	R. R. (Robert Rogers)	1680 (1680)	Wing R1827; ESTC R32409	324,829	348

through the Calf or Calves And this is the judgment of not only * Divine right of Church-government cap. 1. q. 5. S. 2. Con. 2. pag. 150 151 152. Perkin's Order of causes on 2d Command p. 30. Cases of Conscience l. 2. c. 11. p. 206. Usher ' s Sum of Chr. Relig. p. 332. Andrew ' s upon 2d Com. p. 279. Prideaux Serm. upon 1 Cor. 10. 7. p. 7. Willet Synopsis Papis of Images q 5. a. 3. p. 462. Elton upon 2d Com. p. 30 31. Downham ' s Divinity l. 1. c. 6 pap 161. Bishop Ridley saith That it is against the second Commandement to bow down or do worship unto any Image of God or of any other thing Fox Acts Mon. in one Vo p. 1675. learned Rutherford but also of reverend Mr. William Perkins A. B. Vsher Bishop Andrews Bishop Prideaux Dr. Willet and other of our learned Divines that the Israelites did not intentionally worship th● Golden Calf or Calves so as to terminate their worship in it or them b●● the true God Jehovah represented by it an● them for which they give many goo● reasons Perkins saith the Israelite● worshipped not the Calf itself but God i● the Calf And so say A. B. Vsher an● Bishop Andrews Bishop Prideaux quotes 1 King 16. 31. where Ahab is chronicled to have outstript in Idolatry his Predecessors for that he made it but a ligh● thing to retain Jeroboam's Calves wherein they worshipped the true God after a● Idolatrous manner Mr. Hildersham saith Aaron and the Israelites intended to worship the true God in the similitud● of the Golden Calf as is plain Psal 106. 20. They changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass A. B. Vsher to this question But though we do not reverence the Images themselves may we not worship A. B. Vsher condemns as a breach of the second Commandment men● and women● making courtesie to the Chancel where the High Altar stood Sum of Christ Relig. p 232. God in or by the Image gives this answer No we may not for the Israelites are condemned not for worshipping the Golden Calf as a god but for worshipping God in the Calf which appears 1. In that they said Let us make a feast to morrow to Jehovah Exod. 32. 5. 2. In tbat Moses otherwise might seem not to have done wel●●● to drink that against their conscience which they judged to be God Exod. 32. 20. To which I add 3. That we cannot in reason or charity think that the Jews were so mad as to think that that Calf which they knew to be made of their own golden Ear-rings was essentially that God that brought them so miraculously out of the land of Egypt 4. Aaron who fashioned the Calf made Proclamation and said To morrow is a feast unto the Lord that is unto Jehovah which is a name they gave only to the true God as Dr. Willet observes And 5. Rutherford gives this reason more They believed not the Calf to be really and essentially Jehovah because they believed not Moses to be essentially God but their guide and leader under God for this Calf they made to supply Moses absence Exod. 32. 1 The people gathered themselves together against Aaron and said unto him Vp make us gods which shall go before us for as for this Moses the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt we know not what is become of him They made then a Calf only a visible god under Jehovah to lead them in Moses his place 6. They knew that Jehovah brought them out of Egypt before this Calf was framed and yet notwithstanding these Israelites are charged with corruption with Idolatry Exod. 32. 7 8. and sin v. 21. yea 't is called a great sin v. 30. and they are said notwithstanding their intention to worship the molten Calf Psal 106. 19. which is called an Idol Act. 7. 40● for it they are called Idolaters 1 Cor. 10. 7. and about three thousand of them lost their lives for it Exod. 32. 28. And moreover let me tell you that learned Ainsworth proves upon Exod. 20. 5. That to worship God before an Image that is put in a religious state o● state of worship before a man is to worship an Image in sacred Scripture sense hence Amaziah who bowed down before the gods of the Edomites is judged to have committed Idolatry for which the Lord was angry with him 2 Chr. 25. 14 15. Mark it that which is called falling down before the gods of the Edomites in the 14 vers is in the 15 vers called seeking that is serving the gods of the people Idem est adorant coram Domino Domino as Mr. Pool hath it out of Ainsworth upon Exod. 20. 5. 't is the same thing to pray before God and to pray to God to pray before God in 1 Chron. 17. 25. is 2 Sam. 7. 27. called praying to God And idem●est procumbere coram diabolo diabolo 't is the same thing to pray before the Devil and to pray to the Devil For that which in Mat. 49. is called falling down before the Devil is in Luk. 4. 7. called worshipping of the Devil How you that pretend to worship God with the highest reverence towards the holy altar that is by corporal bowing to or towards it can escape from guilt and punishment except ye repent I know not Dr. Henry More saith plainly Dr. More his Mystery of Iniquity c 10 p. 33. thus Idolatry is committed when we perform some ri●e or ceremony that is to● some external religious action appropriate to the signifying our acknowledgment of the divine eminency before or rather unto that which is not God where by before I understand an intended direction by our selves or others or at least of custom of the religious action as to an object we would honour thereby And a little before he saith thus To give the appropriate signs significative of our agnition Dr. More Mystery of Iniquity c. 10. p 32. of divine excellency to any thing that is not God is Idolatry Yea the using the appropriate signes of the acknowledgment of divine excellency to that which is not God though the assent go not along is notwithstanding the acknowledgment of that to be God which is not and therefore cannot chuse but be flat Idolatry and if Idolatry be committed without the parties devotion toward the undue object then let a man fancy this external religious worship accompanied with as small degrees of devotion or inward intention as h● pleases it will not fail to be Idolatry still Yea he saith further Tha● Incurvation towards an Image erected to any creature especially in a Temple or on an Altar yea though removed from both were a sign of religiou● worship or service by infallible definition Thou shalt not bow down to them nor serve them that is to say thou shalt not do the service of Incurvation nor any other religio is service to them For service

one Hence Amaziah who bowed down before the gods of the Edomites is judged to have committed Idolatry for the Lord was angry with him 2 Chron. 25. 14 15. Mark it that which is called bowing down before the gods of the Edomites in the 14th verse is in the 15th verse called seeking after that is serving of the gods of the people And to put it out of doubt learned Ainsworth upon Exod. 20. 5. saith the very same as Mr. Pool quotes him upon the place Idem est adorare coram Domino Domino to pray before God in 1 Chron. 17. 16. is in 2 Sam. 7. 27. called praying unto God idem est procumbere coram Diabolo Diabolo for that which is in Mat. 4. 9. called falling down before the Devil is in Luk. 4. 7. called worshipping of him And to bow down to images Non animi actum sed corporis designat imaginibus ullum signum honoris quocunque tandem animo id fieret exhibere prohibeatur say Grotixs and Rivet as Mr. Pool there quotes them To fall down before an image doth note not the act of the mind but of the body It 's forbidden to give to images any sign of honour with what mind or intention soever it be done In 1 King 12. 30. the people are said to worship before the Calf as they in Exod. 32. did which God who is the best interpreter of mens actions expounds to be worshipping of the Calf Exod. 32. 8. Psal 106. 19. for 't is called a sin v. 30. yea a great sin 2 King 17. 21. yea they are for it expresly called Idolaters 1 Cor. 10. 7. Neither be ye Idolaters as some of them were as it is written the people sate down to eat and rose up to play Which place where 't is so written is Exod. 32. 6. Where the story of their Idolatry is recorded Though I have but touched at these things yet I may seem to some men to dwell upon them therefore to proceed Who but Papists brought into the Church worshipping of Relicks as the tayl of the ass on which Christ rode into Jerusalem the clouts in which our Saviour was wrapped when he was a child one of which the Emperour * Vide Sleiden's Commentaries Charles the Fifth worshipped when he was made Emperour The Whighs of Joseph and our Saviour like Carpenters used when they made yokes kept close in a box if you will believe them The coals on which St. Laurence was broiled a feather of the Angel Gabriels wings alias of a Peacocks tayl Much more might be said of the superstition and Idolatry of the Pope and Church of Rome as his five superadded Sacraments Invocation of Saints decking and worshipping of Images but I forbear for brevities sake 2. That the Pope hath been the setter up of Pharisaical Sects against the word of God for besides the word is in Scripture sense against the word might be illustrated by his making more orders of Church-Officers than Christ or his Apostles appointed in his Nos maximè in eo a Pontificiis dissentimus quod illi inter Ecclesiae ministros numerant creaturas humanas nos autem nullos ministros Ecclesiasticos agnoscimus praeter illos quos Christus instituit Ecclesiae in Scrip●●ris commendavit Dr. Ames Bellar. Enervat T. 2. l. 3. c. 3. p. 108. Church as Ostiarius the Door keeper Lector the Reader Exorcista the Exorcist or Conjurer Acoly●kus a Clerk or Waiter upon the Bishop or Priest or Subdiaconus a Subdeacon Diaconus a Deacon Sacerdos a Priest Of which orders as they call them only two the Canons as the Master of the Sentences saith Sent. 4. Dist 24. think are sacred Orders because the Primitive Church so far as they can read had only these two viz. the order of Deaconship and Priesthood and of these only we have the Apostles precept And because all the Schoolmen that write upon Peter Lombard hold that Bishops are not an order Bonavent in Sen. 4. Dist 24. q. 3. a. 2. Aureolus in Sen. 4. d. 24 q. 1. a. 2. Omnis forma ex quo est in actu c. Every form in as much as it is in act hath power to communicate it self in the same kind therefore every Priest hath power to celebrate orders why then do they not celebrate them because their power is hindred by the Decree of the Church whereupon when a Bishop is made there is not given unto him any new power but the former power being hindred is set at liberty as a man when the act of reason is hindred and the impediment is removed there 's not given unto him a new soul And there he saith that Episcopatus is not a superior order is plain because it hath no superior act as it is distinguished against Priesthood which is apparent because the act of a Bishop as it differeth from Priesthood 〈◊〉 to or dain and the act of a Priest is to consecrate the Body of Christ i. e. to consecrate and administer the Sacrament distinct from preaching Presbyters and that the order of Priesthood is the highest and perfectest order and that a preaching Presbyter may by virtue of his order do all that a Bishop can do in the Church were he not restrained by the Bishop or Church And none that I find among the Papists but Jesuits and the Spaniards in the Council of Trent held or hold that Bishops are by divine right ●n order of Church-officers distinct from and superior to preaching Presbyters but only that they are a degree or dignity of Presbyters and that by humane institution if any way I shall not lay that to their charge though the Jesuitical party endeavoured what they could at the Council of Trent to carry it in those very terms as may be seen in the History of the Council of Trent B. 7. Yet Festus Hommius saith that the Apostolick and truly Primitive Church was altogether ignorant both of the names and functions of Popes Patriarchs Archbishops Metropolitans Arch-presbyters Arch-deacons Suffragans A. B. Vsher saith That new Ministeries are forbidden in the second Commandment Sum of Christ Religion p. 222. And Mr. Perkins in his order of Causes c. 21. p. 62. saith That in the second Commandment is forbidden the Romish Hierarchy from the Parrator to the Pope Abbots Priors Monks Canons Deans Prebends Vicars Sacrificers Priests and the like as they are now used in the Papacy Disp 2● T. 5. p. 122. What are those Sects of Monks and Friers of which there are many Orders as Carmelites Franciscans so called from St. Francis Dominicans so called from St. Dominick Augustines so called from St. Augustine and Jesuits which Order Ignatius Loyola the founder got confirmed by the Popes of Rome whose creatures and vassals now they are in the Church of Rome but Pharisaical Sects all studious of the Popes Decrees and observant of his commands though never so superstitious idolatrous abominable and wicked and contrary to Gods