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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97089	A brief answer to the many calumnies of Dr. Henry More, in his pretended Antidote against idolatry. Shewing that no prudent person can, upon any rational ground, be deterr'd from returning to the communion of St. Peter's chair, by any of the doctors best and strongest evidences to the contrary.	Walton, John, 1624-1677.	1672 (1672)	Wing W675A; ESTC R225655	39,521	109

and pouring out their Prayers before their statues or symbolical presence Thus far is the Doctor 's charge who might have done well to have lent us his Opticks or else to have set down in Capital Letters that sentence word or single syllable in the aforesaid Prayer which yet differs from that in the Roman Rituall whereby he pretends to infer his triple consequence For there is no such expression in the whole Prayer as Grant O Virgin or Grant O Saint but Grant O God How then do we here make the Virgin and other Saints fellow-distributers of grace and glory with Christ himself Much less do we make them fellow-distributers of grace and glory with Christ upon their own merits who have no merits of their own but such as flow from and have their absolute dependance of the merits of Christ And lest of all are they here made fellow-distributers of grace for the service done to them in kneeling and praying before their statues there being no such causall as that for specified at all in the Prayer Fifthly His weak Eye-sight cannot endure the light of Wax-candles no more than his head the smoke of incense burning before the images of Saints both which he pretends to be idolatrous This he confidently affirms but never offers to prove and thereby proves himself guilty of a Fifth Calumny As for Temples and Altars I have already told him we erect Temples and Altars to God alone reserving only a secondary honour or remembrance for the Saints I shall not foul my Paper with taking notice of such unseemly brothel-language as fills up his next Page It is enough to say it is more than becomes a modest Doctor Sixthly He touches at some more gross extravagancies which says he Though they have connived at yet they would be loth to own upon publick authority such as the making images to sweat their eyes to move the making them to smile to loure look sad to feel heavy or light and the like The Doctor 's Book would give me the lie if I should term this any thing less than a Calumny for he brings not so much as any one single instance to back his accusation charging our Church with connivance at such unchristian impostures which have ever been the object of her sharpest censures and most exemplar severities when-ever detected Lastly He quotes a Rhyme to the face of Christ called the Veronica But because this was no part of any Ecclesiastical Office for which the Church might be justly thought responsible he teares a piece of a Hymn out of the Breviary which he presents under the Title of a blind devotion O crux ave spes unica hoc passionis tempore auge piis justitiam reisque dona veniam Then he runs division upon this Text in this sort This says he must sound very wildly and extravagantly to any sensible Ear. And yet the invoking any Saint before his image for aid and succour the image bearing the name and representation of the Saint with eyes and hands lift up to it is as arrant talking with a sensless stock or a stone as this and as gross a piece of Idolatry If you had but added one clause more Mr. Doctor which is every whit as well grounded as your own you had done your deed and changed your calumny against us into blasphemy against God for as you say The invoking any Saint before his Image for aid and succour the Image bearing the name and representation of the Saint with eyes and hands lift up to it is as arrant talking with a sensless stock or stone as this So might you have added with no less colour of truth That invoking Almighty God before the Ark of the Covenant the Ark being but a figure or symbolical presence and of Wood and had in it the Rod of Aaron and the Tables of the Covenant with eyes and hands lift up to it was as arrant talking with a sensless stock or stone as this which you object against the Worship of Images As for the Churches Hymn O crux ave spes unica I recommend to the Doctor this following Text of the Apostle 1 Cor. 1. 18. For the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness but unto us which are saved it is the power of God Where the Cross is figuratively taken for the Person crucified which is Christ the Power of God expresly so called v. 24. of the same Chapter Wherefore as those who preach the Cross may by an easy trope be said to Preach Christ crucified So allow but charity for Interpreter and those who speak to the cross may without scruple be supposed to speak figuratively to Christ crucified So that the same interpretation which clears the Apostle will absolve the Church and her apostrophe to Christ crucified under the Title of the Cross shall pass for canonical as long as this and such like Texts shall continue in being to pattern and patronize the expression And therefore I end with this parallel of the Apostle's Text that as the preaching of the Cross so an address to the Cross is to them that perish foolishness but to us it is the power of God and wisdome of God The Last Section Concluding with an Answer to the Doctor 's last Chapter THe Doctor concludes his Treatise with a hearty and vehement Exhortation to all Men that have any serious regard to their salvation to beware how they be drawn into the communion of the Church of Rome So that this Chapter may be fitly entitled Doctor Taylour Revived or a second Dissuasive from Popery But after a different Method for Doctor Taylour is a Person of a more refined and plausible insinuation a smooth tongue and oyly expression cloaking his many and great disingenuities with fair glozing words and an affectate strain of Scripture-phrase pretending to the power of godliness But Dr. More is a Polemical man of a quite different temper His fiery zeal wears no mask His disputing is open railing and his Arguments blustring words not always too much concerned whether true or false Witness the Contents of this Chapter whereof I shall give my Reader a brief Extract drawn up in form of a Homily yet in the Doctor 's own words and charitable Dialect Thus then begins the Dissuasive Dearly beloved It is demonstrated as clear as noon-light in this present discourse that the Church of Rome are Idolaters And therefore come out of her my People that ye be not partakers of her sins and receive not of her plagues Be not deceived says the Apostle 1 Cor. 6. 9. neither Fornicators nor Idolaters shall inherit the Kingdom of God And those of the Church of Rome are bound to continue Idolaters as long as they live or else to renounce their Church and therefore they are bound to be damned by adhearing to the Roman Church unless they could live in it for ever But because some Protestants have declared for the possibility of salvation in the Romish Church this