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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●

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