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A11828	A short information, but agreeable vnto Scripture: of idol-images· Made vnto the Christian congregation at Prague, when as, by his Royall Maiesties most gracious command, the Castle-church there, was clensed from all images, on Sonday the twelfth of December, in the yeare 1619. By Abraham Scultetus. Faithfully translated according to the high Dutch copie printed at Heidelberge, by Gotthard Vœgeliu, 1620.	Scultetus, Abraham, 1566-1624.	1620 (1620)	STC 22126; ESTC S121082	10,238	24

withall dangerous Now all Protestants doe acknowledge and confesse that Images are not of themselues at all necessary And that they are dangerous wee haue here seene and beheld with our eyes in this very Church Therefore Images may not by the foresaid Rule bee at all defended or excused Besides who knoweth not that the brazen Serpent commanded by God to bee set vp 2. Kin. 18. 4. and looked vpon was againe broken downe when it came to be worshipped by the people The fift supposed ground Why may some say thou standest now thy selfe Obiect 5 in that Pulpit from whence much Idolatrous matter hath bin preached Thou doest celebrate the Lords Supper in that Church wherein the Papists haue held their Masse Wherefore then is not both Pulpit and Church broken downe together I answere We teach not that all that should be Ans broken downe which men haue abused or might abuse vnto Idolatry For so should Heauen and all created things bee destroyed But wee teach thus That all those things which a man may well spare and which are dangerous and may lightly giue vnto this or that body an occasion to Idolatry bee in time remoued and cast away agreeably vnto the cleere and plaine Word of God 1. Tim. 5. 22. Be not partaker of other mens sins keepe thy selfe pure Againe Thou shalt not tempt the LORD thy God According to this Rule did the godly Priests in the time of magnanimous heroicall Champion Iudas Maccabeus reforme all when as the holy Place had bin grieuously prophaned by that wicked Antiochus They brake not down the Temple in which there had beene shamefull Idolatry commited but they clensed and bare the defiled stones into an vncleane place as it is written 1. Mac. 4. 42. 43. According to this Rule our Lord Mat. 21. 12 13. made reformation at Hierusalem For he neither brake downe the Temple nor yet the Pharisies Pulpit from whence they taught meerely mens traditions and inuentions But he cast out all them that bought and sold in the Temple and ouerthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold Doues wherby they had made his House of Prayer a Den of theeues The What Will ye be wiser then the Ancients Our Obiect 8 fore-fathers had for many hundred yeares agoe the Images in worth and honour in this place I answere Whether in this respect wee will bee Ans wiser then the Ancients I therunto let King Dauid answere in his 119. Psalme 100. v. where he saith I vnderstand more then the Ancients because I keep thy Precepts But if a man will enquire of the age of Images amongst Christians then it will appeare that afore twelue hundred yeares afore thirteene hundred yeares afore fourteene hundred yeares afore fifteene hundred yeares afore sixteene hundred yeares there was not any Image of God the Father any Image of God the Sonne any Image of God the Holy Ghost any Image of any Saint departed found at all in any of the Christians Churches and Houses of Prayer Yea looke how many Images how many Altars how many Challices how many Massing Vestments are yet found amongst vs so many present witnesses are there that wee are stept aside from the ancient simplicitie when as they knew not of any Image of any Altar of any Challice of any Massing Vestments As the same is as cleere as the Sun-shine to be shewed out of Iustin Martyrs second Apologie out of Irenaeus Tertullian Origen Cyprian and other much esteemed worthy ancient Fathers The ninth supposed ground And if we will haue the Images put downe then Obiect 9 ought they first to be put out of mens hearts and afterwards from before their eyes I answere Thus say men here on Earth and it Ans is all earthly humane reason But God that is in Heauen saith farre otherwise Breake them downe destroy them burne them that is put them away from before your eyes and out of your sight And that not without great reason For euen like as a man will not see a Thiefe that hee steale and will not see an Adulterer that hee breake Wedlocke with an opinion that Theft and Adultery must be first shewed vnto him out of Gods Word to bee vnlawfull Euen so should not nor can a Christian Magistrate see and behold that men rob the Lord of his honour and vse alliance with Images seeing the Commandement Thou shalt not make vnto thy selfe any Image thou shalt not bow downe vnto it nor worship it is euen as cleere and euident as the Commandements Thou shalt not steale Thou shalt not commit Adultery The tenth supposed ground The people are offended at the taking downe remouing and putting away of Images 10. Obiect I answere They tooke offence also at our Lord Christs preching Ioh. 6. Should not Christ therfore haue preached Whosoeuer doth the will of God he hath not any need to feare any offence at all to be by him occasioned and giuen But whosoeuer is offended at the full doing of the will of God hee sinneth both against God against his Neighbor Out of all which euery one may well perceiue and vnderstand what a number of weighty and perswasiue reasons did together inforce his Royall Maiestie is not at all any way purposed to compell or grieue any mans conscience as also hee hath neuer yet done in his own hereditary Countries For in this respect he holds with the Emperor Maximilian the second who was wont to say That Kings commanded and bare Rule ouer their Subiects bodies but not ouer their Consciences But yet for all this his Royall Maiestie will not as it were not sitting he should haue his owne Conscience insnared and therefore desireth to serue the Lord God according to that cleere knowledge wherewith God hath enlightned him and according to that his will which he hath reuealed vnto him And what that reuealed will of God is yee haue now alreadie sufficiently vnderstood Namely that He will not be pictured as also hee ought not nor yet can be pictured He wil not be honored by through or before Images He will that men breake downe all Images and wholy depend on him alone with all the heart Whosoeuer therefore now in the feare of God truly thinkes on all these things hee will not at all be offended at the remouing and casting away of all Images herehence But hee will much rather greatly thanke the Lord God that the publique abhomination and great offence is in time remooued and taken away And if yet there should perhaps be any who hath notwithstanding still some doubt and scruple in his minde let him but please confidently to come vnto vs and he shall with all loue mildnes and well befitting good resolution bee answered and haue more full information and satisfaction giuen vnto him by vs out of Gods Word For it is our very intent and purpose wholly so to labour and indeauour to bring much people vnto sauing knowledge as that therby they may rightly come to know and gladly acknowledge the true Will of God and according to such knowledge zealously and faithfully to serue him Whereunto the Lord vouchsafe both vnto vs to you the holy Spirit who hath promised and bound himselfe to giue it vs if we call faithfully vpon him for it euen Iesus Christ the righteous blessed and praysed with the Father and the Holy Ghost now for euer Amen The Prayer after the Sermon ALmighty most mercifull most gracious louing God and Father we giue thee most humble prayse and thankes for all thy mercies and benefits which wee vncessantly haue receiued and stil do of thy rich goodnesse that thou hast so graciously gouerned vs all the whole time of our life long protected and preserued vs and euen hitherunto hast kept vs. But especially and aboue all wee thanke thee deare Father that thou hast suffered vs to liue to see the good day wherin this Church is clensed and purged from all Idolatry Images Wee beseech thee O eternall Lord God graciously to enlighten their eyes who yet sit in the dark●