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A60320 A sermon preached at Christ-Church in Dublin before the Lord Lieutenant and Council, the fifth day of July, 1674 by Mr. Andrew Sall ... Sall, Andrew, 1612-1682. 1674 (1674) Wing S392; ESTC R32075 51,081 162

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to whom they spake or is it impossible that the malice of the Jews would not or the simplicity of the Disciples could notunderstand the heighth and mysterious sense of the words of our Lord viz. that the Elements of Bread and Wine consecrated and taken in a Sacramental way in remembrance of his Death and Passion should feed to life everlasting the Faithful taking them with due preparation as Protestants do understand in conformity with the Fathers of the Primitive Church before related but that rather they understood them of a corporal and fleshy eating of his Body as Papists do and so represented Difficulties which reason dictated against the like expression such as we did in the beginning of this Discourse You say he did not correct such understanding but he did apparently replying to the Objection of his Disciples so 6.63 It is the spirit that quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing The words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life Wherewith he draweth them from an apprehension of a corporal eating to that of spiritual feeding conducing to the everlasting life of their souls His reply to the Jews signifies they understood him as we do of a spiritual eating and miraculous operation which they would not believe and so he repeateth the same doctrine to them with the commination annexed that if they did not eat his flesh they should not have life in them Worship of Images As to the third point of worshiping Images it is clearly prohibited by God in the second precept of the Decalogue Exod. 20.4.5 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image thou shalt not bow down thy self to them This Precept they have put out of their Catechism to give place to their own of worshipping of Images with the same honour due to the persons represented by them and consequently the Image of God and Christ with latria of the Virgin Mary with hyperdulia of Saints with dulia according to the graduation they express This to be the general Tenent with them Azor declareth in these words Constans est Theologorum sententia imagines eodem ●●nore 〈◊〉 honorari c●li quo colitu● id cujus est image Az●r instit mor. 〈◊〉 1. l 9 c. 6. It is the constant judgment of Divines that the Image is to be honoured and worshipped with the same honour and worship wherewith that is worshipped whereof it is an Image Nay they will have us believe that God did ordain so much in the first commandment and so contradicted himself prohibiting in the second commandment what he commanded in the first Lau Vaux in his Catechism to to this Question Who breaketh the first commandment of God by irreverence of God giveth this Answer they that do not give due reverence to God and his Saints or their reliques and Images What reverence they pretend due to Images Decissione casuum conscientiae p 1. l. 2. c. 2. sect t●nult Vet. d●gma Theto 5. l 15. c. 3. s 1● c. 14 s 8. Jacobus de Graffijs declares fully according to what has been said before But Dionysius Petavius one of their most warrantable Antiquaries telleth us that for the four first Centuries and farther there was little or no use of Images in the Temples or Oratories of Christians and such as was Pope Gregory declareth it was only for Historical use for information of the unlearned not to worship them and so writing to Serenus Bishop of Marsile who brake down the Images that were in his Church Gre. regist li 7. Ep●s 2●9 ad Serenum seeing the people worshipping them saith thus We commend you that you have that zeal that nothing made with hands should be worshipped but yet we judge that you should not have broken those Images for Painting is therefore used in Churches that they which are unlearned may yet by sight read these things upon the walls which they cannot read in books therefore your brotherhood ought both to preserve the Images and restrain the people from worshipping them This difference betwixt making an Image and worshipping of it is confirmed by the example of the brazen Serpent Num. 21.9 2 Kin. 18.4 which God himself ordered to be made which when onely made and looked upon was a Medicine but when worshipped it became Poison and was destroyed Learned Vasques acknowledgeth that the worship of God by an Image is clearly prohibited in the second Commandment and not only the worship of an Idol saying that it is plain in Scripture Vasq in 3. p. dis 94. c. 3 that God did not only forbid that in the second Commandment which was unlawful by the Law of Nature as the worship of an Image for God but the worshipping of the true God by any similitude Nic. ph l. 8. c 53 Nicephorus Calixtus relating the Heresie of the Armenians and Jacobits says they made Images of the Father Son and Holy Ghost which he censures as a most absurd thing quod perquam absurdum est yet they do it in the Roman Church But S. Clement of Alexandria of Images in general declareth thus Li. 7. Hom. in paraen We have no Images in the world it is apparently forbidden to us to exercise that deceitful art for it is written thou shalt not make any similitude of any thing in Heaven above c. They confess it is sinful to worship an Image terminativè or in it self but pretend it lawful to worship it relative or for God or the Saints sake who is represented A strange way of serving God! to transgress his Commandment to please him Saul was reprehended and severely punished for this kind of officiousness when being commanded to destroy all that Amalek had he spared sheep and oxen to sacrifice to the Lord. But that fair pretext could not excuse his disobedience and what he thought religious devotion was declared to be no better than Idolatry Samuel intimating to him this fearful Verdict 1 Sam. 15.22 23. Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams for Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubborness is as iniquity and Idolatry This being so when God is so clear and absolute in commanding not to bow down to Images adding to this Precept beyond others special expressions of jealousie and commination of severity against infringers of it how can bowing down to them be justified with colours of devotion or excused from rebellion or stubborness which is censured to be Idolatry Besides the worship of an Image terminativè and not relativè includes a contradiction the very essence of an Image including relation to another whereas nothing can be an Image of it self Wherefore the same precept that prohibits a terminative worship excludes a relative But whatsoever may be intended by these expressions how many of the commonalty take notice of that