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A60223 The reasons of the conversion of Mr. John Sidway from the Romish to the Protestant religion together with what usage he hath since received in the Church of England : as also a brief account of his travails / humbly communicated to the high court of Parliament. Sidway, John. 1681 (1681) Wing S3770A; ESTC R25150 50,639 86

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the true Religion chap. 55. if they have lived God●ily they have no such property as to seek such honors but they will worship him by whose illumination their deserts are Praised by us that we be their Fellow-servants therefore they are to be honored for imitations sake not for Religions sake but if they have lived all wheresoever they are they are not so to be honored Augustine also in his first Tomb in his Book of the Manners of the Catholick Church chap. 30. Cyril of Alexandria in his second Book of Treasure in his first chapter against Eunomius Ambros in his first Book of Faith to Gratianus Augustus chap. 7. and many others do say the like Fifthly Against the Adoration of Images IT pleaseth The Councel of Eliber celebrated in the time of Constantine the great Can. 36. Tertullian in his Book of the Crown of a Warrier c. 10. that Pictures ought not to be in the Church nor that any thing should be Painted upon the Walls least the same should be Worshipped and Adored John the less hath said keep you from Idols not now from Idolatry as from a duty but from Idols that is from the very Effigies of them for it is an unworthy thing that there should be an Image of the Living God an Image of an Idol and dead thing there may be It is not to be doubted Lactantius in his second Book of Divine Institutions c. 19. but there is no Religion where there is an Image for if Religion be of Divine things there is nothing Divine unless in Celestial things Images therefore want Religion because that nothing Celestial can be in that thing which is made of the Earth which truly may appear to a Wise-man by the very name for whatsoever is feigned must needs be false neither may that ever receive the name of a true thing which feigneth the truth like a Drone and for imitation but if there be any imitation it is not chiefly a serious thing but is as it were a Play and a Jest Religion is not in Images but in Images is the least of Religion The true one therefore is to be preferred before the false and we must tread under foot Earthly things that we may follow Heavenly Take heed to your selves that you observe the Traditions which you have received Epiphanius Cyprius as he is Cited by Gregory Neocaesariensi in the sixt action of the second Nicen Councel that you do not decline either to the right hand or to the left for the doing of which bear away these things Be you mindful my beloved Children that you do not carry Images into the Church nor set them in the Burial places of the Saints but perpetually carry about you God in your Hearts Moreover do not suffer them in your common house for it is not a Christian right to he held suspended by the Eyes but by the Cogitation of the Mind God forbiddeth an Idol as well to be made as to be worshipped and by how much it goeth before that it may be that which may be worshipped Tertullian in his Book of Idolatry ch 4. by so much it is before that it may not be if it be not lawful to be worshipped For this cause the Divine Law Proclaimeth the very matter to wit of Idolatry to be rooted out you shall not make saith the same an Idol adjoyning neither the likeness of them which are in Heaven and which are in Earth and which are in the Sea and strictly forbiddeth the Servants of God the Arts of this sort throughout the whole world Enoch also had gone before foretelling this that all the Elements and every Sense of the World which are contained in Heaven which are contained in the Sea and which are contained in the Earth should be turned Devils unto Idolatry and that the Spirits of Desert Angels should be Consecrated for God against the Lord. Every thing therefore that a humane worshippeth besides him who is the Maker and Creator of all things is an error their Images are Idols and the Consecration of Images is Idolatry whatsoever a worshipper of Images committeth without doubt it shall be deputed to whatsoever Artificer and of whatsoever Idol Lastly the said Enoch precondemneth in Commination both the makers and worshippers of an Idol I swear to you Sinners Tertullian again in the same place that in the day of the Blood of Perdition there is prepared a Penance for you you which serve stones and which make Golden Silver Wooden and Stony Images and Fictils and serve Phantasmes and Devils and infamous Spirits and every error not according to knowledge shall find no help from them Isaiah truly saith be you witnesses if there be a God besides me And there were not then which do counterfeit and carve out every vain thing which they make at their pleasure which cannot profit them And afterward that whole saying detesteth as well against the makers as the worshippers whose clause it is Know you that the heart of them is Ashes and they erre and not one of them can deliver his own Soul When David also saith the like and such are they become which make them but what do I a Man of a mean Memory shew beyond what I can reckon up or what I can recollect of the Scriptures as though a word of the Holy Ghost may not be sufficient or beyond what may be deliberated whether the Lord will Curse and Condemn them in the first place the makers of them the Worshippers of whom he Curseth and Condemneth Justin Martyr in his Dialogue with Tryphon a Jew pag. 251. Clement of Alexandria in his Oration adhortory to the Gentils pag. 25. of the Latin florentine Edition Tertullian in his Scorpiaco against the Gnosticks chap. 2. And many others also say the like 6ly Against the Adoration of Holy Reliques Hierome in the Epistle to Riparius against Vigilantius in his second Tomb folio 119. and following Vigilantius called by Hierome a Holy Priest in his 1st Tomb in the Epistle to Paulinus follo 106. which also Caesar Baronius confesseth A● Eccl. Tomb 5. in the year of our Lord 406. thus writeth as it is quoted by Hierome himself in the second Tomb in his Epistle against vigilantius fol. 123. I do not say that we may not Worship and Adore the Reliques of Martyrs but also that we may not Worship and Adore the Sun and Moon not Angels not Archangels not Cherubim not Seraphim nor any Name which is Named both in this World and the World to come for we may not serve Creatures rather than the Creator which is Blessed in the World What need is there that thou with so much honor not only dost Honor but also Adore that which is I know not what which bearing about in a little Vessel thou Worshippest * in the same Book also What Dust inclosed in Linnen Adoring doest thou Kiss † And afterwards We seem near to the custome of the Gentils