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A63841	A discourse concerning the worship of images preached before the University of Oxford, on the 24th of May, 1686 / by George Tullie Sub-Dean of Tork, &c for which he was suspended.	Tullie, George, 1652?-1695.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3237; ESTC R6237	23,894	41

to give that and not rather the great Object design'd to be worshipped by 't the incommunicable Name of Jehovah as he does in the Proclamation of the Feast upon this occasion Or did they take the Man Moses for their God For for ought I see they only desired one in his Capacity upon the occasion of his Absence Vp make us gods or as Nehemiah has it a God which shall go before us for as for this Moses who went before us out of the land of Egypt we wot not what is become of him So that they either before took Moses that living Symbol of the Divine Presence amongst them for a God or did not now take the Calf for one but only for a Symbolical Representation and Presence of him agreeable to the Worship of Egypt Or must we lastly to shew that these Jews were worse than other People suppose them indeed so compleatly Sottish as to have really taken the Calf for the God that brought them out of the Land of Egypt even before it was made whilest the divine stupid thing lay yet scatter'd in the Ear-rings of its future Votaries If from this Calf in the Wilderness we pass on to those at Dan and Bethel we find them likewise design'd for no other end than visible Symbols of the true God of Israel Jeroboam who set them up never pretending an alteration in the Object but only in the place of the Peoples worship as is evident from hence that the Sin of Ahab who actually introduc'd the worship of a false God is loaded with much greater Aggravations than this of Jeroboam that the Worshippers of Ahab's God Baal are mention'd in Contradistinction to those who worship'd the Lord 1 Kings 18. 21. The generality whereof did at that time worship him by Jeroboam's Calves That Jehu stiles his Zeal against the Worshippers of Baal a zeal for the Lord i. e. the establish'd Worship of the Kingdom at Dan and Bethel by the two Calves to which he adhered 2 Kings 10. 16. And indeed Jeroboam must have been as much out of his Policticks of which he was perfectly Master as some Men are out of their Divinity had he gone about to have secured the Revolt made to him the only end he design'd in the Change made of their Worship by the Introduction of strange Gods into it that being the very cause for which as Ahijah had but just lately told him the Divine Vengeance rent the Kingdom from Solomon and gave it to him his Servant 1 Kings 11. 11 31 33. and yet for all Jeroboam's good Intentions of directing his Worship to a right ultimate Object the God of Israel by the Calves we know what that God thought of him for it Thus lastly were the Graven and the Molten Images of Micha in the 17th of Judges dedicated unto the Lord says the Text to the worship of the only true God. As is farther evident from the Opinion he had that the Lord would do him good for what he had done especially since he had got a Levite to Officiate in his little private Oratory which he had little reason to expect if he worshipp'd them either beside or in Opposition to that Lord from whom he expected the Blessing I should now come to make out the same Sense of this Commandment from the third Medium I propos'd The Sentiments of the Church in its purest Ages showing that the Fathers utterly condemn'd all manner of Images set up for Religious Worship such as respected God particularly and not meerly those of the Heathen World on considerations peculiar to them and this upon the strength of the Prohibition in the Text or other Places of the same import with it But what I have said being sufficient to give light to the true meaning of the Law and the evincing of this Truth consequent upon it That in the Scripture-notion a man may be guilty of Idolatry who Worships a right ultimate Object by an Image I must be content to dismiss this last Argument because it would require so just a Discourse of it self that it cannot possibly be comprised within the limits allotted to this I proceed to the second thing I propos'd The consideration of the Doctrine and Practice of the Church of Rome in relation to the Worship here prohibited and because an Image being made a Medium of Worship becomes likewise an intermediate Object of it the Original being worshipped in and by that Worship which is relatively given to the Images and because this will appear in the Sequel of this Discourse to be the true intent and meaning of the Church I shall consider their Doctrine and Practice under the term of Image-worship But cannot but justly complain before I go any further of the great insincerity that has of late been us'd in representing their Doctrines to the World. If we 'l believe the modern Palliators and Expositors we have been upon a false Scent all this while our Forefathers poor Men either fondly or wilfully pursued the mistaken Ideas of their own Imagination instead of attending to the Intention of the Church and there needs now no more than an innocent turn to the State of any Controversy betwixt us finally to decide it So that in truth we have more ado now to know what their Doctrines are than to refute them as if they too as well as their secret Disciples were for a time to go in disguise amongst us Now of all the Points in dispute betwixt us and them there has certainly none been more artificially dress'd up than this concerning the Worship of Babies as if Paint and Varnish were as requisite to the Doctrine as the Subject of it Our Eyes every day inform us if indeed we may trust the Testimony of our Eyes that they solemnly consecrate them carry them in Pomp and Procession set them up in their Churches over their very Altars places most proper for Religious Worship kiss them prostrate themselves to 'em burn Lights and Incense to their Honour and yet they worship them no not they honest Men God forbid They are only Incentives to their Devotion Remembrancers of their great Prototypes and serve to fix their otherwise distracted Thoughts upon their right Objects So that to speak precisely and according to the Ecclesiastical Stile when they honour the Image of an Apostle or Martyr their intention is not so much to honour the Image as to honour the Apostle or Martyr in presence of or before the Image says the Bishop of Meaux in his Palliation of the Doctrine of Image-worship and from him the Representer To wipe of which Fucus I shall prove in the first place That that which is given before or in the presence of Images call it here what you will has relation or is given to Images not only before them And secondly because the same Learned Prelate and his unhappy Imitator the Representer would again qualify the matter by the softer terms of Honour Reverence Respect such a decent Regard as