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A54780	The nurse of pious thoughts wherein is briefly shewed that the use which Roman Catholikes do make of sacred pictures, signes, and images is not idolatry or any other misdemeanour (as some imagine), but the nurse of pious thoughts and healthfull meditations / written by F.P. Philopater.	Philopater, F. P.	1652 (1652)	Wing P21; ESTC R25515	84,169	280

or painted cloaths nor graven nor carved nor painted things as they are such or as they are things absolute but as they have relation to the things of heaven and the mysteries of our faith and stir up in their minds pious thoughts And this is sufficient to shew unto any indifferent Reader how free Roman Catholiques are from committing either idolatry or any superstition in the honor and worship which they give unto sacred artificiall pictures signs and images and how their adversaries do calumniate them herein unjustly not only to the breach of the peace concord and charity which should be amongst the natives of this Island of Great Britain but also to the great hinderance of the elevation of mens minds to heavenly things and pious thoughts for the which God forgive them CHAP. XVI By the second Commandement God commanded all men to honor and worship his Name which is but a sacred signe picture or image of himself with a relative religious worship thereby to beget pious thoughts of him in our souls AS I have said heretofore no Artificer Carver Printer or Writer can make an essence substance or person or creature because these things are reserved to God the Author and Creator of all things but all that these men can do is to produce an accidentall form figure sign picture or image and all letters words characters hierogliphicks Tabernacles Altars c. as they are such are but artificiall signes pictures and images of the things which they represent made by artificers yet God not onely commanded that a relative religious respect and honor and reverence should be used towards the Tabernacle and propitiatory of the people of Israel as is often specified in the Scriptures but also so straitly bound all men to give a relative religious honor and worship unto his name as that he made it the second Commandement of the first Table saying Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for our Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vain Exod 20. and our Saviour taught us to pray unto God saying hallowed be thy name which name is but an artificiall thing sometimes pronounced sometimes painted written or ingraven other sometimes expressed in pictures and images as witnesseth Pierius in the thirteenth chapter of his seventeenth book and fifth of his thirty third book of the sacred Egyptian letters where he affirmeth that for these graven printed or written letters or word God which we use they had the picture or image of an eye as a God seeing all things according to the words of S. Paul saying There is no creature invisible in his sight Heb. 4.3 or a God father of lights as the Scriptures call him James 1.17 other sometimes they expresse this word God or the name of God by the picture of a Crocodile or of a Stork which have no tongues as of a thing unspeakable whereby it appeareth that men were alwayes bound to honor and worship sacred signes pictures and images with some kind of religious worship to the ingrafting in their hearts pious thoughts seeing that the Commandements of God bind all men in all ages and times as our Adversaries do confesse and we cannot give a relative religious honor unto any sacred thing as it is such but it will put in our minds pious thoughts According to this second Commandement the children of Israel had this name of God Iehova which was esteemed most proper unto him in such honor and reverence as for the respect they bore unto it the common people abstained from pronouncing it and the Priests forbore to speak it unlesse it were in their sacrifices and solemn blessings of the people or in entering into the holy of holies as witnesseth Philo in his book of the life of Moyses and when in reading the Scriptures this name occurred in place thereof they pronounced another as Adonai or Elohim in such sort as that ●●t onely the seventy Interpreters who translated the Old Testament into Greek and our old translation in Latin and Origen in his Tetr●plis or Hexaplis but also our Saviour and the Apostles as often as the word Jehova doth occur they put in place thereof Adonai And not only the name of God was worshipped by the people of Israel with a relative religious honor and worship but also the plate wherein the name of God was ingraven and hung in the miter of the High Priest before his forehead as witnesseth the Scriptures saying They made also the plate of sacred veneration of most pure gold and they wrote in it with the work of a Lapadario or Ieweller the holy of our Lord or the holy name of our Lord and they tyed it to the Miter with a lace of Hiacinth as our Lord had commanded Moyses Exod. 39.29 whereupon Iosephus in the eighth chapter of his eleventh book of Antiquities relateth that Alexander the Great seeing Iaddus the High Priest bearing this venerable plate on his forehead with great reverence went unto him and adored the name of God written in the plate Moreover an oath being an act of Religion to bind all men to use a relative religious worship towards his name which is but a sign character or Hierogliphick commanded them that when just occasion was offered of swearing that they should swear by his name saying By my name thou shalt swear Exod. 6.13 Again He that sweareth in the earth shall swear by God Isay 65.16 and divers Nations as the Egyptians and Chinois using pictures and images in place of words they must of necessity according to this command use a relative religious honor and worship to pictures and images neither may our Adversaries say that this reverence and honor to the name of God is only civill seeing that all Divines grant an oath to be an act of Religion and that the Commandements are religious things whereby it is manifest that by the second Commandement we are bound to use a relative religious honor and worship to some kind of signs pictures and images as unto those which represent unto us the living God and that this relative religious worship to these sacred signs do nourish in us pious thoughts otherwise God would not have commanded it CHAP. XVII The third Commandement commandeth all men to honor and reverence the Sabbath day which is but a sacred sign THe third Commandement saith Remember that thou sanctifie the Sabbath day or as Protestants translate Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy Exod. 20.3 Again observe the day of the Sabbath to sanctifie it or as Protestants translate keep the Sabbath to sanctifie it Dout. 5.12 now that dayes are but signes and not God or Gods the same Scriptures do witnesse saying Let lights be made in the firmament of heaven to divide the day and night and let them be for signes and seasons and daies and years Gen. 1.14 to manifest unto us that daies and years and so likewise the Sabbath or Sunday is but an

hereupon it followeth in the same text Thou shalt not adore them which thou hast made to thy self and not to the honor of God nor serve them for this is Idolatry but faithfull Roman Catholiques never make any such pictures to themselves only much lesse do they worship them or serve them or adore them God created all things in heaven and upon earth for man and man for himself so that man may not use any of the creatures of God or himself for himselfe or to himselfe onely or do any thing to himselfe or for himself only without offence to God much lesse may he make pictures signs and images to himself only or to bow down to them or worship them or serve them for himself only This is self-love or Philantia not onely forbidden by the first Commandement and condemned by S. Paul saying In the last dayes shall approach perillous times and men shall be lovers of themselves 1 Tim. 3.1 but also by the moral Philosophers as by Aristotle in the third chapter of his second book of Politiques and in the eighth chapter of his nineth book of Moralls ad Nichomachum saying They use to call those who love themselves filthy people whereupon Suidas reporteth of Narcissus as beautifull young man who was enamored of himselfe that the Nymphs upbraided him saying Many hate thee because thou too much lovest thy selfe wherefore seeing that Almighty God bindeth all men by the obligation of their creation to love and serve him with all their hearts no marvell that he hath tyed man from making or doing any thing for himself as for himself and from adoring or serving such things after they be made especially pictures and images seeing there is nothing so hurtfull to the love and service of God as selfe-love and the working or doing any thing for our selves or the worshiping or serving it whereupon the Antients compared self-love to the love of the Ape unto her Cub which she killeth with imbracing as they do who make to themselves and not to God graven things or images or pictures and after fall down to them and worship them without any reference or order to God Our Saviour to keep all Christians from this self-love or from making any graven thing or image for themselves and not with reference order or relation to God taught them saying If any will come after me to heaven let him deny himself Mat. 16.24 that is saith S. Basil in his answer to the sixth Interrogation of his large disputation upon Rules forsake all his own pleasures and do or make nothing for himself much lesse to make a graven thing or image for himself and after to bow down unto it and serve it This to be the sense of these words the Scripture doth witnesse saying in the same chapter You shall not make gods of silver nor gods of gold shall you make to you ver 23. Again mine Angell shall bring thee unto the Amorrheite and Hetheite and Pherezeit and Canaanite and H●veit and Iebuzite whom I will destroy you shall not adore their gods nor serve them Exod. 23.23 Again He hath cut down cedars taken the elm tree and the oak c. he took of them and was warmed and kindled them and baked bread but of the rest he wrought a God and adored he made a graven thing and bowed down before it halfe he burnt with fire c. but the rest thereof he made a god and a graven thing to himself he howeth down before it and beseeching saying Deliver me because thou art my god Isa 44.14 whereupon when the children of Israel in the desert fell into Idolatry whilest Moyses was in the Mount with God about these Commandements God said to Moyses Thy people have made to themselves a molten calfe and have adored and immolating hosts unto it have said these are thy gods Israel Exod. 32.8 whereby it is manifest that this text onely forbiddeth the making of Idols and of vain and idle pictures or images which have no reference or relation to God but to men only and the affection or service done to them which is by all Roman Catholikes accompted sinfull and wicked and therefore if any Roman Catholique make to himself any such image sign or picture their Adversaries shall doe well to punish him That these words a graven thing or as it is in the Hebrew text Pesel signifieth an idol or vaine image made to a mans selfe and not to the honor of God the seventy Interpreters of the Scriptures who were assigned for that purpose by the Jews to translate the Old Testament into Greek do witnesse for they translate for the Hebrew word Pesel which our Adversaries erroneously call a graven image Idolum an Idol In like manner Origen in his eighth Homily upon Exodus and S. Augustine twice in his 71. question upon Exodus readeth this text Thou shalt not make to thy self an Idol And Calvin himself in his Commentaries upon the second of Exodus put forth in French saith upon this text Moyses only speaketh of Jdols And a little after That which some foolishly have thought here to be condemned all graving and images needeth no confutation seeing that Moyses hath no other intent but to exempt the glory of God from all fictions which tend to corrupt it whereby it appeareth that this text maketh nothing either against the making of sacred pictures signs or images or the adoring or worshiping them with a relative religious worship which conducteth us to God and heavenly things In like manner this first Commandement or the second as our Adversaries will have it is again set down in the fifth of Deuteronomy where it is also said Thou shalt not make to thee a thing graven nor the similitude of any thing that is in heaven above c. thou shalt not adore them nor serve them where Almighty God prohibiteth the making of graven things pictures signs or images to our selves and not to his honor and glory and likewise prohibiteth the adoring or worshipping of such pictures signes and images as are made to our selves and not to his honor neither in all the Bible is there found any prohibition either to make any sacred artificiall picture sign or image or to adore or worship them being made with a relative religious worship for the holy things they doe represent where upon I may conclude that Almighty G●● neither prohibited the making of sacred artificiall pictures signs and images nor yet their worship after the manner abovesaid as I shall yet further shew in the ensuing chapters CHAP. XII That it is lawfull to make holy artificiall Pictures Signes and Images which may immediately or mediately bring us to think upon God and heavenly things and place them in Churches or Temples FIrst the arts of painting carveing printing and writing were never prohibited and if it be lawfull to exercise these arts in naturall and morall things it cannot be denied but that they may be used to assist our minds