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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

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 Voegeliu 1620. M. D. C. XX. The Entrance I Doubt not but that there are many who will thinke it strange which either now do see and behold or shortly shall heare and vnderstand that the Altar and Images are remooued and put out of this Church For many men will perhaps thus thinke and say with themselues That God might euen as well haue bin serued and honored through the Images That also they were the common peoples Bookes and Bible And that the Altar and Images did much adorne and beautifie the Church which now being dispoyled of these Ornaments seemes to bee bare and naked like a Wildernesse Now therefore the better to meet with and satisfie such conceited thoughts I will for this time lay aside and pretermit the Text of the Gospell appointed for this day and briefly yet plainly and euidently declare vnto you what almighty Gods will and pleasure is concerning such Images and Altars Which will and pleasure of God when it shall be brought forth and made manifest out of the holy Scripture as cleere as the day light and bright Sun-shine then shall not any bee iustly offended at the clensing and purging of this Church from Images But all godly minded people that doe see it or shall heare of it will spiritually much reioyce thereat and be heartily thankefull for the same first vnto the most high God next vnto his royal Maiesty Wherefore that all may become profitable vnto vs we will first call vpon our Lord God for the grace and assistance of his holy Spirit with the same prayer which our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ himselfe hath taught vs saying Our Father c. The Text. Thus spake the strong and iealous God out of the fire vnto the people of Israel EXOD. 20. 4 5 6. Thou shalt not make vnto thee any grauen Image or any likenesse of any thing that is in Heauen aboue or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the water vnder the Earth Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe to them nor serue them For I the LORD thy God am a iealous God visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate mee And shewing mercy vnto thousands of them that loue mee and keepe my Commandements The Exposition ANd if Moses and Aaron stood here together yet could they not sufficiētly vtter with what a fiery zeale the Lord God hath forbidden to make worship Images For when the Lord gaue the ten Commandements he threatned not in any Commandement so hard and grieuous a punishment vnto the transgressors and promised not in any Commandement vnto the obedient performers so large a blessing as in the Commandement of Images For hee will punish those who transgresse this Commandement euen vnto the fourth generation but will richly and ouer-abundantly reward those with grace and mercy who obediently obserue and keepe this Commandement And the Lord God hath not repeated any Commandement so often as hee hath done euen this Commandement of Images For in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus when hee first gaue the ten Commandements he doth not therupon presently repeat any other Cōmandement then this and saith Ye haue seene that I haue talked with you Exod. 22. 22 23. from Heauen Therefore yee shall not make with me any thing Gods of Siluer neither shall ye make vnto you Gods of Gold And when Moses was ready to dye admonisheth the people of their dutie he presseth not any Inhibition so deeply into their hearts as euen that Inhibition of Images For in the fourth Chapter of Deuteronomie he thus speaketh vnto the people Take ye therefore Deut. 4. 15 16 17 18. good heed vnto your selues For ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake vnto you in Horeb out of the fire Lest ye corrupt your selues and cording to his Essence and being But yet he may bee grauen and pictured according to that forme wherein he appeared vnto diuers of the faithfull in the old Testament To which I answere God may at his pleasure Ans appeare in what forme or shape he will but yet it becommeth vs to follow his Commandement Thou shalt not make vnto thee any Image Againe Make not vnto you any Image the likenesse of any figure Besides the formes and shapes wherein the Lord God did at any time appeare vnto any of the Saints were not in any wise Gods Image and Picture For God onely tooke such formes shapes vpon him but for a time and did soone after lay them aside againe And thus did he also shew and reueale himselfe sometimes now presently after this forme then anon againe after another forme in so much that a man must needs stand in doubt which forme and shape was Gods true likenesse and similitude Therefore the Prophet Esay notwithstanding he had seene the Lord sit on the Circle Esay 40. 22 25. of the Earth euen aboue on high as vpon an eleuated seat whose clothing filled the Temple yet doth he reprooue all them who will make any Image likenesse or similitude of God and asketh as was heard saying To whom then will ye liken me 3. So also God should not nor ought to bee 3. God should not nor ought to be pictured grauen or pictured For such Imagery is both hurt full vnto men and dishonourable vnto God It is hurtfull vnto men for a man may soone thereby corrupt and vndoe himselfe yea and prouoke the Lord God vnto anger against him as it is written in the fore-alleaged fourth of Deuteronomy It is dishonorable and a disparagement vnto the Lord God as whose Glory and Maiesty cannot by any meanes be grauen or pictured with any manner of visible Image or Picture Whence it is that the holy Apostle Paul writes in the first Chapter to the Romanes That the Heathen became Fooles Ro. 1. 22 23. when they changed the glory of the vncorruptible God into an Image made like to corruptible man birds and to foure footed beasts creeping things This doctrine of ours concerning the forbidden Images and Pictures of God is so cleere and euident that it is also acknowledged of sundry principal Popish Diuines to be sound good and agreeable to the will of God For one of them called Gabriel Vasquetz acknowledgeth plainly speaking Lib. 2. de adorat disp 4. cap. 2. of adoration that all manner of picturing of God is directly forbidden in the second Commandement And the chiefe Sorbon Doctors at Paris Claudius Espencaeus Salignacus Picherellus as as also with them Bishop Monlucius haue long since