againft peril of Idolatry. 135 beip,ge. Except T beep the City,in vainnsth hewateh that Keeneth it, jou Legd thatt fave both menandbeats, ‘But we have lett bim net- ther heaven, no earth, no water, no2 country, noz city, peace no2 far, Ttorule and govern, neither men, noz beats, 193 thelr difeates ta cures that.a gopiy man might jultly Coz zealous toignatton cry out, D hea: ben, ® earth, and teas, what madnefs anv wickeonels again Govare ten fallen into! Chat dihonour do the Creatures ta thei Creatoz and Baker! And f€ we remember Gov fametimes, pet becaute we Boubt o€ his ability op will to belp, we jopnto him another Helper,asie Hewerea Noun Adjective, uting thefe fayings; tuch as learn, Son and Saint Nicholas temp tpeen: fuch as neete, God Delp and Saint John: tothe Hore, Sov and Saint Loy fave thee, Thus are we ber Lome lke Popes and ules, which havens unverttanding. £03, (¢ there not one God ontp,tobo by bis power anu wisnom made all things, and bp bis yovidence governeth the fame? and bp bis gooonets maintatneth and faveth them ? Be not all things of Him, bp bim, ana through bime? Capp vott thou turn from the Creatoz to the Creatures? This ts themannet of the Gentiles tolaters: but thou art a Chpittt- Gn, and therefoye bp Chyitt alone batt accels ta God the Father, and beip ofhim ontp. schete things are not weittenta anpreppoach of the Saints themlelves, who were the true Servants of God, anv viv give All honour tobim, taking none unto themlelves, and are bleffen fouls With Son; hut again our footignets anv wickeonels, making of the true Servants of God, faile gong, by attetbuting to them the power and bonouc which is Gods, ann due to bim only, And foz that we have fuch opintons of the power anv reavp Help of Saints, all our Le- Sends, Hymns, Sequences, and Watkes, niocontain Stortes, Laung, ano Pzatles of them, and Pzapers to them ; pea, and Sermons alta altogether of them, anu to thelr peaifes, Gods won hetng clean tain aide. Gnd this we do altogether ancecable ta the Saints, as div the Gentites tdolaters to-thete faite Gods. Foz thele opinfons which men Have had of moztal perfons, were they never fo holy, the old moft cone ip and fearned Chyittians have wyitten agatnt the feignen Gave of the Gentiles, and Chittian Perfans have dettropen thete images, wha tC inere now living, would Doubtiets tthewile both welte agatnt our faile options of Saints, anv alto deftroy theit images. so it fs ent Dent, that our image-maintainers pave the Came opinion of Saints lwhich the Gentiles had of thetic falle gong, andtherebp ace moved to make them fmages asthe Dentites dio, TE anlwer be mave, that thep Make Saints but intercetfos to God,anvd means toz (uch things ag thep {ould obtain of Godsthat {g,even atter the Gentiles tolatrous utage, tomake them of Saints, gods, called Dii Medioximi, ta be mean tn- Medioninis terceflozs and Helpers to God, as though he Did not bear, 02 ould be Di, Wwearpit he ninall alone, So dinthe Gentiles teach, that there was ‘one chfe€ potner topking by other,as meang,and fathep made all Gorg Sub jew to fate 02 vetting; ag Lucian in bis Dialogues feigneth that Nep- tune made {uit ta Mercury, that He might fpeak with Jupicer, Anu theres fore in this allo, itis ntoft evivent that our image-maintatners be all one in opinton with the Gentiles tolaters. Plow remaineth the third part, that their Rites and Ceremantes fn Honouring and wophipping o€ the Images 02 Saints be all one with + the Rites which the Gentiles inolaters nlen Honouring their tose. 2 iE,Amos 5. John 4. Roma. Horatius, ‘Adsrare. Gen. 23+ and 33+ 3 Regt As 10. and 14. ‘Apocstge Matth. 4+ The Third pare of the Sermon Fictt, what meaneth it, that Chyitiang, after the example of the Ser: Liles polaters, Ho on piigtimage tovifit images, where they habe the {ike at home,but that they have a greater opinion of holinets and bettue infome fmages, than other Come, ithe as the Gentites ioolaters hav? Which {6 the readiett way to ‘bying them to {ootatry by worthipping of them, and directly againt Gods word, tha faith, Seek me,and pe Malt ibe, ano Da not (eek Bethel,enter not into Gilgal,neithet goto Beerfheba, And agatutt fich as bap any Superftitton tn Holinels of the place , ag though they thoutd be heard for the places fake, Gaping, Our Fatheus ‘moghipped tu this Bountain, and petay, thatat Jerufalem is the place fwhere men (hauld worhips our Saviour Cheitt pronounceth, Believe me,the hour cometh fwhenpou att wopthip the Father, neither tr this Bountain, 19 at Jerufalem, but true wozthippers hall worthip the Fae ther fir fpicit and teuth. Butt is tooWwell knotn.that by fuch pilstimage going, Lady Venus and ‘Hee fon Cupid, were rather fwozthipped wanton: Ip in the Heth, than Gov the Fi ather, andour Saviour Cheitt bis Son, truly wopkhipped in the tpicit. ; qua ft wag derp agreeable (as Saint Paul teacheth) that they which fell to, inofatrp, which is (piritual fognicatton, tatta alto fall into care ‘nal fognication, and all uncleannets,bp the jutt judgments of Doo, ve- {bering them ober to abominable concupiitences. {CEibat meaneth itthat Chyittian men, after the ule of the Gentiles Dolaters,cap ann krieel Hefoxe Images ? whieh {€ they had anp fenfe anv sreatitune, would kneel befoze mer, Carpenters, Wafons, Pattterers, Founders, ana Soldiniths, thete makers aud framers, by whole Means thep have attained this ponour, which elfe ould have been evil- fabaneen and rude lumps of clay, 02 plaitter, pieces of timber, flane, oz Metal, without ape 92 Eaton, and (o without all eftimation ano po- nour, ag that idol in the Pagan Joet confefleth, faping, J was once abile block, but now J am becomed Son, ec. Cebata fond thing is, ft fo. man, who bath life awd teaton, to bow hinfelé to a Deadand tite fenfible Image, the work of Bis oon hand? is not this fooping ana Hneeling beEoxe them, anozation of them, which ts fogbinden fo earnett. Ip bp Gods word? Let uch ap fo Catt Down befoye images of Saints, noi ano confets that thep erbtbtt that Honout to Dead tecks ano ftones, which the Saints themfetbes, Peter, Pau!, ant Rarnabas wouln not to be given them being alive ; which the Angel af Gad fobtodetty tobegiventobim. Andie thep fap, theperbibit Cuch Honour not to the tmage, but to the Saint whomitreprefenteth, thep are conbicten of follp, to beliebe that they pleate Saints with that honour, which thep aAbho2 ag a {poll of Sous Honour: foz they be no changlings: but now Hoth having greater underftanding, and more Fervent tove of Ood,t0 moze avhoz te Depaive him ‘of hig Due honours ana being now Ike ut to the Angels of Sov, Dawith Angels fice to take unto them bp Saccte lengethe honour due to Hon: Ano herewithal is confuted their ews Dittinarion of Lacria and Dulia, tobere it is ebinent, that the Satnts of Godtannot qhive, that as much as any outward worhipping be Done sperbibitentathem. Wut Satan, Gods encmp, dvefiring torob Sov of bis Honour , defireth exceedingly that fuch honour might be giver to hin. Clberefore thole thich wive the honour bue to the Crea- *f02, to anp Creature, do ferbiee acceptable to no Saints, who be the friends of Gop, but unto Satan, God and mans mate and : 08:4againft peril of Idolatry. 137 fioorn enemp, And toattrtbute fuch oefire of Divine honour ta Saints, ig to blot them with a mot adious and Devilith tateR and vitlany, and Indeed of Saints to make them Satans and very Devils, whale property ip to cyalienge to themletbes the Honaut which is Ducts Gop only, dnd furthermoze, in that they fap that they do not worthip the images, asthe Gentiles viv their (vols, but God and the Saints whom the images Dorepretent, aintherefoye that their Dotngs befoze_ima- Bea, be not like the tolatcy of the Gentiles before their fools, Saint Auguftine, LaGantius, ant Clemens, 06 probe ebidently, that by this augue. antiner, they beallane with the Sentiles Footaters. Che Gentiles yah. s35. (faith Saint Avgofine) which teem ta be of the purer Religion, fap, Ge worwhip not the images, but by the. Coppozeal tmage,we bo behoin the figus of the things which we Ought to wozfhip. And Lagantins x faith, The Gentiles fay, we Fear natthe images, but them after whate Lacan iikenettes the images be mave,ann to whofe names they be conteccaten., ‘Thus ar Lactantivs. Gnd Clemens faith, ChatSerpent the Devil, Uttereth thele words by the mouth o€ certain men, Ce to the bonour of the inifible Sad, worhip vitible images: which fucelp is mof fatle, ‘See How inuting the tame ercutes which the Gentiles iDolaters pre. tenved,thep them themletves to jopn with them {nfvolatry. $02 nat- Withtanding this excule, Saint Auguftine , Clemens and: Laétantius Prove them idolaters, And Clemens taith, Chat the Serpent, the Dee ‘Dll, putteth (uch excutes tn the mouth of tolaters. Quo the Scriptures fay, they wozthip the ftocks and tones (notwithtanding: this ercute ) eben as ouc fmage-maintatners Do. And Ezekiel therefope catteth the Gods of the Affyrians, frocks and ftones, Although thep were but trae Hes of thele Gods, So are our fmages of Gov anv the Saints namep by the names of God and his Satits, after the ule of the Gentiles, Ann the fame Clemens Caith thusin the fame Wook, Chey pace not give the name of the Emperourto any other, Foz he punttheth bis of Fender and traptour byandbp: but they dare give the hame of Gap to others, becaule be fop repentance Cuffereth Dis offenmers, Guo e- Ben fo do our (mage-woythippers give bot) names of Goo’ ano the Saints, and alfo the honour due ta Gon, to theit images, even ag bid the Gentiles tuolaters to theit foals. CClhat Could it mean that they, according as dtd the Gentiles ivataters, light candies at noon tine, opat midnight, befoze them, but therewith to honour them? £02 other ule fs there none in fo Doing, Foy in the Dap tt neeveth not; but was ever a proverd of foolitynels, to light acandie at noon time. 4 nd in the night, it avaiteth not to light a canole befoze the blinn,aun : Gon hath neither wle nox Honour thereof Gnu concecningthis canoles lighting, itis notable that La@ancius above a thoutand pears ago bath rip, 6.rypit, Wwaltten, after thismanner, TE they would behoto the Heavenly light eap.2, of the Sun, then thoulu thep perceive that Govbath no need of thee Candles, who fo2 the ule of man hath mave fo Goovlpa Light. ann Whereas in fo little a ciecie of the Sun, twhich fo2 the great dittance, femeth to be no greater than a mang Head, theretg fo great bright: nels, that the fightof mins Cyc isnot ableto bebata tt, Hut ( one » Mledfattip took upon ita while, bis Epes will be dulled any blinven Wwity vatknets. Pow great light, how great Clearnels map we think to be with Gov, with whom is no night no Darknels? ann fo Forth. And by and bp be ait, Seemeth he theretoze ta be fr bis tight mind.a en as Colere, Cultus. The Third Part of the Sermon mind, who offereth up to the giver of light, the Light of a war candle fou a gift? De requiceth another tiphto€ us, twbich is not fmokp, ‘but dyghtandclear, even the light of the mind and underfanding. Ano fhortly after belaith, But their gods, becaule thep be earthy, have need Of light, {eft they remain in darknets, whole woxthippers, becaute they underitand na heaventp thing,da Daw: religion,which thep ule,doton to the carth, inthe which,being dark of nature, is need Of light. Teiberes foze thep giveto their gods no heapenty, but} the earthlpundverttanding Of mogtal men, Ano therefore thep beliebe tholethings tobe neceffarp and pleafant unto them, tobich acc fotous , who have need either of Meat inhen we be bungep, opdzink toben we be thictty, 02 clothing toben Wwe be acalD, oz then the unis fet, candle tight, that we map tee. Thus far Lacantins, andmuch moze, toa long Here to weite,of candle Ughting in Cemples befoze images and tools for Religion: whecebp Appeareth both the footithnets thereof, andal{o, that in opinion anv ad, we do agree altogether fn our Candle Religion, with the Gentiles iolaters. TAhat meaneth it that they, aéter the example of the Gene tiles foolaters, burn incente, offer up gold toimages, bang up crutch. es, chains, and Mips, legs, acims, and whole men and women of thar, defoze images, asthough by them, 02 Saints (ag thep fap) they tweed Delivered from lamene®, ficknets,captioity, 03 thipwuzack ? Fs not this Colere imagines, to woythip tmages, fo earnettly fopbidden in Sons Clow? Wthepdenptt, lectbem read the xf, Chapter af Daniel the Prophet, who faith af Antichettt, De thall twonhip Gov thom bis sa thers knew not, with gold, filver, and with precious fone, and other things of pleatuce + in which place the Latin woyo ts Cole, quo int the fecond of Paralipomenon the rrit. Chapter, all the outward Rites and Ceremonies, ag burning of incenfe, and fuch other, wherewith Godin the Temple was honoured, is callen Culeus (to fap) woethip- ping, which is fogbinden ttrialp bp Govs mod to be given to tma: gee, Do not all Stories Ecclefiatical dectare,that our Holy Bartyzs, rather than they toould bow and kneel, 02 offer up one crunt of incenfe before an image 02 {vot, have fuffeced a thoufand kinds af mot hozrible and daeadtul death? And what ercules foever thep make, pet that all this cunning on pligcimage, burning: of incenfe ann candies, hanging up of crutches, chains, (hips, arm, legs, and thole men and women OF war, kneeling and Holding up of bands, fs Done to theimagcs, ay peareth by this, that where no fmages be, 2 fubere they have been, and he taken away, thep Done fuch things at atl, ‘But all the places fre- quented when the images were there, now they betakenatvay, he for. fakenand eft vefart, nap, not thep hate and abhor the place Deadly, tbich is ancbivent proct, that that which they DID befoxe, was Done in velpedt of theimages, Cciberefoye, when we fee ment and womert _ gh beaps go on pilgrimage toimages, kneel befoe them, bold up thetr Hands before them, (et upcandie, burn incente befoze them, offer up sgolo and filer unto them, bang up Hips, crutches, chains, menand omen of wag before them, attributing health and Cafeguard,the gifts nf Son, tothe, o2the Saints whom they reprelent, as they rather Would Have it; who,T fay, whacan Doubt, but that our image-maine tatnersageceing inall tvolatcous opinions, outtoarn Rites anv Ceres “monies with the Gentiles tvolaters, agree alfa with them fn commit- ting mof abominable toolatrp ¢ And to increale this madnels, Wwicken ' anoagainft peril of Idolacry. men which have the keeping of fuch {mages, foz their greater Iucre and abbantage, after the erample of the Gentiles foolaters, have repopten and fpread abpaad, ag well tp Tptng tales, ag inpitten fables, divers mf: racles of images. Gs that fuch an image mivaculoutly was tent trom ‘Deaven,cvert (ike thePalladium,oy wagnaDiana Ephefiorum, Such another. Was ag miraculoufly found tn the earth,ag the mans head wag inthe Ca Pitol.o7 the horle headin Capua. Such an (mage was ought wyangels, ‘Such an one came tt (ele fac from the Eat to the Wett,ag vame For- tunefiecDtoRome. Such an image of aur Lavy wag painted by Saint Loke, whom of a jPbpacian they babe made a Pathter fop that purpate, Such an one an hundzen pokes of oxen couts not tote, ifke Bona Dea, whom the thip could not carey, 03 Jupiter Olympius, which laught the Ge tificers to {copn that went about to remote him taRome, Some fmages, though thep were hard and ftonp, pet fox tender heart and pity, tept, Some itke Caftor and Poliox, helping thete Eetends tn battel, fweat, ag machic pillars do {1 Dampith weather. Some {peak more monttrouts than eber df8 Balzam’s Qife who bad life and breath fn bim. Such a Crips ple came and faluten this Saint of Dak, and by andby he was made iohaleand Loe,bere bangeth bis crutch. @uch an one ina tempet women. to Saint Chriftopher, and (caped, anv behold here fs bis hip of war. Such an one dp Saint Leonards help byake out of pritan, and fee where Dis fetters bang. Gnd fnfinite thoufandgs moe ticacles, by like 02 moze ‘thamelefs ites tere repozted. hus Do our fmage-maintainers, tu eave hed apply to their images, all (uch miracles as the Gentiies have feign. £0 of thelr tdols, An if itwere to be admitted, that Come miraculous faults ‘bp illufion of the Devil done where fmages bet ( Foy tise. lent that the mott part were feigned lieg,ann crattp seeing a ten) det followeth it nat therefoze,that fuch fmages are e(ther to be honour. €D, 03 fuffered ta remain, ne moze than Kzechias lett the beaten Serpent undeftroped, when it was worthipped, although tt were both fet up bp Gods Commandment, and allo approwen ‘bya great and true miracie, fo2 a8 manp ag beheld it, were bp anv bp heated ¢ neither ought mfra- Sieg to pertwabe us todo contrary ts Gods woyw. Foz the Scriptures babe fora warning hereok fopetyewed, that the Einnoom of Antichgitt fhallbe mighty tn miivactes and wonders , to the frong illufion of all the Reprobate. But in eh{s they pals the folly and wickennets of the Gentiles, that thep honour and Wowthip the retiques anu bones of our Saints, which prove that they be mogtal men ano Dead, and therefoxe no gods to be wonhipped, twbich the Sentiles wouln neber confels of theit gods for verp Mame. But the reliques te mulE Kile and offer unto, fpeciatly on telique-Sunday. And white we offer C that we fhould not be weary 02 repent bs of aur cote) the mufick ano iminttrelfie goth merrily all the offertogp time, with prapfing and cal. ling upon thole Saints, whole reliques Be then in: prelence. Pea, anv the water alfo wherein thole reliques have been Dipped s mutt with Homitis de Steat reberence be eeferven,ag berp Holy and efferual. Ts this ageee.‘—prrs Mitt ableto Saint Chryfortoye, wha wyteth thus of Reliques? Do notre. gard the athes of the Saints bodies, noz the reliques of thete flety and Bones, conlumen tofth times out open the epes of thp Faith, ano beboru them clothen with beavenip vectue, anv the grace of the Poly Shott, AND thining with the byightucts of the beavenip itebt. ‘But our Mola: ters found too much vantage of teliques and retique water , to ‘aula 139 #10 ‘The Third part of the Sermon aint Chryfoltome’s: countel. dno becaule Reliques tere fo gaintut 5 feta places there were ‘but they bad Reliques provided fox themt.and for moze plenty of Reliques, forme ane Saint av manp beads, one inone placeand another in artather place: Some Hav de arms, and revi. fine gers. And tobere out ‘Low bare bis Crofs alone, {all thepieces of the Beliques thercot were gathered tomether, the greatett tip in England would (carcely bear them, and pet the gteatett part of ft, thep fap, doth pot remain inthe bands DE the Insivels, fo the which they pap on thetic Headg binding, that they map get ft alto in their bands, fo2 {uch ponlp fe anv purpote-And not nip the bones of the Saints, but every thing appectaintng to them twag an boly Relique. qn Come piace they offer a fwwo2d,in Come the fcabbard,tn fame a thoc,t fome a fandie that han bert fet upon fome holy ‘oxle, in Come the coals wherewith Saint Laurence, wag tatten, in Come places the tapl of the Atle which our Lord Telus Chit (ate on, to be ‘wiffen and effered unto fora Relique. Foz rather thanthep would {ack a Relique,thep would offer poua Dozle-bone; in- flean of a Girgins acm, 02 the tapl of the Atle to be Kite and offered unto for Reliques. D wicked,tmpudent, and moft thamelets men,the pebifers of thelethings! O filly, foolith, and’ Daardly Datos and m0ze beattly than the Atte tobole tapl they kifen, that believe fuch things. Pow Gov be merciful to tuch ‘milerable and Gilly Chidians,who by the Feaud and falthaod of thate which Moutn Habe taught them the tay of truth and lite, bave been ‘mabe not onip moze wicked than the Gentiles: foolaters, but alfo na twiler than Afles, Portes, anv Buleg, which have nna unverttanding. Bran DE thele things alveany rebeacten, it is ebivent, that our image: 4 ~ matntatners pave not only mabe images, and fet them up in Cemples, j ag did the Gentiles iBolaters thei Maigsbut alfo that thep babe bau the fame fvolatrous opintons of the Saints,to whom they bave made ima seg, twbich the Sentites tvolaters ‘pad o€ thei falle gods, and have not nip woyhipped theit mages: wwith the fame Mites, Ceremonies, Su- perftition, and alt Cireumttances, a8 dip the Gentiles inolaters theit fools: but in many points alfo habe far exceeveD them in all wicken- nefe, footignets, and mannels, Quo if this be not {ufficient to probe them fmage-woyhippers, thatig to fap, Toolaters + Loe, pou fall beac thetic own openconteliion, mean, notanly, the Decrees of the feconm Nicene Councilunver Trene, the Roman€ouncil under Gregory the thivo, : in thich,as thep teach that Images areto be honoured and worthipped, ie as ig befoye Declared 3 fo pet do they it iwarily and fearfully, in compa: > rifon to the blatpbemous: porn blazing of mantfett toolatry to ‘be Done to tmages, fet fozth of tate, even inthele our dated, the lisbt of Gods truth fo Hining, that ‘above other abomfnable Doings and ‘writings, a man would marvel mott at thelt impudent,amelets, and mott (ames ful bluttering bolonels, tbo would not at the leatt have chofen them a time of moze Dackne(s, as mecter to utter theit horible blatpbemics fn: but habe now taken an. Yarlots face, not purpoted to biuth, in tet ting abyoats the furniture of the Spiritual Whexedant, Guo hear the plait blatpbemp of the reverend Father tn God, ames Naclantus Bihap ‘nf Clogium , twzitten tn Dis Expofition of Saint Pauls Epiftle to the Romans, and the fiett Chapter , and put in pgint note of tate at Ve- nice, map ftand inftead of all, whole words of fmage-wozthipping: be thefe in Latin ag be DED Wyte them 5 not one fpllable aiterea goagainft peril of Idolatry. 141 Ergo non fo iim fatendum eft, fideles in Ecclefia adorare coram imagine (ut nonnulliad cautelain forte loquuntur) fed & adorare imaginem, fine quo volueris ferupulo, quin & eo illamvenerantur cultu, quo & prototypon e- jus propter quod fi illud habet adorare latria, & illa latvia: fi dulia, vel hy- perdulia, & illa pariter ejufmodi cultuadoranda eft. Che Cenk whereok in Cplith (Sthis: Theretoze it fg not only tobe confefled, that the faithful in the Church do woyhip befoze an image 3 (as Come peradventure Do warily (peak) butaifo de wortip the image IRIE, without any (ccuple 02 Doubt at all: Bea, and they woothip the image With the fame kind of woxthip, wherewith they worhip the copp of the image, 02 the thing whereatter theimage is mane, TH heretore ‘ f€ the copy it (elf is to be worhipped with Divine Honsur (ag fs Sov » the Father, Chiff, and the oly Shot) the tmage of them is alfo ta we be Woripped with divine honour. FJE the copp ought to be twozthip- ped with inferfour honour, oz higher wowhips the image allo is to be ! Wwonthipped with the Came honour and woyhip. Thus far bath Naclan- ; tus, tohate blalphemtes let Pope Gregorius the firft confute, and bp hfs Gregor. s Authority Damn them to hell,as his Succetloys hade worthily thundzed. ¥Fo2 although Gregory permitteth images ta be had, pet he foybindeth Epi. ad Se- them bp anp means to be tozthipped, and praifeth much Withop Serenus revnm Mal: fox the foybioving the woxhipping of them, and “toilleth bim to teach the people to avoid by all means towoxtip aup (mage. But; Naclane tus blowweth fozth bis blatphemous fnolatry, tilling images to be woe- hipped with the higher kind of adozation and woyhip: and iett fuch Whollome Doctrine thauln lack authority, be groundeth it upon Ariftotle tu big Book de fomno & vigilia, that ts, af Aeeping anv waking, as bp Dis printed Wook noted inthe margin, istobe teen: whole impudent .: Wickednefs and iDolatrous judgment, J have therefoxe moze largely fet foxth, that pe map Cas Virgil fpeaket) of Sinon ) of one know all ne thee tmage-tworhippers and (Dolaters, and underftann to that point "PPM tn conciufion the publick having of tmages in Cempies and Churches hath oughtus;s comparing the times and wxtings of Gregory the fict, with our Dates, the blalpbemies of fuch toolaters as this inftru- ‘ment of Belial, named Naclancus,ig, Ca herefope, now itis by the teftima- np of the oid godly Fathers and Docozs,by the open conteffion of Bt hops affembied fi Councils, by mot evident figne and arguments,opt- nibng, (Dolatrous ads, Deeds, andworhipping Done to thete images, ‘aud bp theiv own open conteffion and Doctrine fet foth in their Books, Declaredand Hhewed, that theic images have been, and be commonip Wophippen, pea, and that they ought fo to be: J will out of Sovs wow make this reneral argument againg all {uch makers, fetters up, and maintainers of images in publick places, Gnd firft of all J will begin with the woyds of our Davlour Chit. ~o be to that man bp Mach, 18, ~ Whom an offence is given, wa be ta him that offendeth one of thele little Ones, 02 Weak ones: better were it Foz Him,that a milftone were hanged About his neck, and he cat into thernindle of the Dea, and dpowned, than be ould offend one o€ thete little anes, 02 weak ones. And in Deut. God himlelé Denounceth bimaccurfen that maketh the blind ta peut. wander in bis way. Andin Levir, Chou Malt not tap a tumbling block Lev.10. , ‘92 Mone befoe the blind. Wut Fmages in Churches and Cemples have been; andbe, and(asatterward Mall be proved) cher will be offences , a and142 Sap. 13.14. The Third pare of the Sermon and fumbling blocks, (pecially to the weak, fimple, and blind common People, Veccibing thelr hearts bp the cunning of the Actificer Cas the Scripture expretly in fundey places doth teftifie) and to Leinging them tofnotatty. Cherefoze wo be tothe erecter, letter up,and maintatner of images in Churches and Temples, foz a. greater penalty remaineth £o2 bim than the Death of the body. ‘JC antwer be pet mave,that this offence might be taken away by dilt- gent and fincereDocne and preaching of Gads Tov, as by other means: and that images in Churches and Cemiples therefoye be noc things abfotutety evil to all men, although nangerougs to fome: ano therefore that it were to be holden, that the publick having of them in Churches and Lemples, isnot expedient, as a thing pertilous,cather than unlawful, andathingutterlytwicked. Chen followeth the ehirn article to beproved, which fs this: Chat it ig not poflible, (images be fuffered in Churches and Cemples, either by preaching of Govs fwozd, 02 by any other means, to keep the people from wozhipping of them, and fo to.avold idolatry. And fir concerning preaching. FE ff hould be admitted, that although images were futferedin Churches, pet might tolatry by Diligentand fincere preaching of Gods tod be avoided: Ft thould follow of neceflity , that fincere Dortine might alwaies be hav and continue,as well ag images, and (o that tobecefoes ‘er,to offence,were erected an image, there alfa, of reafon, agodip ann Gincere JPpeacher Hout anv might be continually maintained. Foz it is reafont, that the watning be as common ag the tumbling block, the re- mmebp as large as is the offence, the medicine as general as the poplon s ‘but that fs not potlible, as both reafonand experience teacheth.ccipere- fone preaching cannot fap {dolatry, images being publickip fuffered. Foran image, which will tat fox manp-pundzed pears, map foz a little be bought: buta good Preacher cannot without much be continuallp Maintained. Item, f€ the JPyince will futfer it, there will be bp anv bp many, pea,tnfinite images : but fiucere JPzeachers were, and ever Mall be buta fetv in vefpeet of the multituae tobe taught. oz our Saviour Chet faith, The harvettis plentiful, but the workmen be but few > hich hath been hithertocontinually true, and will be to the Holos end t And in our time,and here in our Country (o true,thateverp Shire Mout Ccarcelp have one good Preacher, if thep were divine, Pow mages will continually tothe behatvers preach thetr doctrine, that is, the wonhipping of tmages and idolatry, tothe which Preach- Ing mankind is exceeding prone, and inclined to give ear and credit: Gg experience of all nations and ages Doth too much probe. Buta true Preacher to ttay this milchie€ , is tn very manv places (carcelp beara ance in atobole pear, and fometwhere not oncein {ever pears, asis evi. Dentto be proved. Andthat evil opinion which bath been tong rooten ‘in mens hearts, cannot fuddainlp bp one Sermon be rooted out clean: ‘Gnd as few are tuclined to crenit Cound Dodcine ; as many, andalmott all, be pone to fuperttition and idolatry. So that herein appeareth not onlp a Difficulty, but alta an impoftibility of the cemep. Further, it ap- peareth not bp any foxy of crenit, that truc and fincere Preaching bath endured in any one place above one hundzed pears z Wut ft is evident that images, fuperitition, and woplhipping of images and foolatep ‘Have continued many hundzen pears, Foz all writings anderperience Da teltifie, that good things vo bp little and tele ever Decay, until thep ue_— i ee > againft peril of Idolatry. becleanbanithen: andconteartwile, evil things Do moze ant moge ft- treale, tilithep come to a full perfection and wickednels, Meither need Wwe to-feek eramples far off fo2 a proof hereof, our pyefent matter fg an example, £02 pueaching of Gods wozn mot fincere (in the begining) ip procels oF time warcd lefs and lefs pure, and after corrupt, and-afe of all, altogether laid Down and fete off, and other inventions of men Crept in place of ft. Andonthe other-part, ‘images among Cheittian ‘Men Were firit painted, and that in whole ttozies together , which han fome fignification in them: Atterwards,thep were embotten,ana made ct timber, fone, plaiftec, and metal. Gnd firtt thep tore onlp kept prt Datelp in private mens houtes: Anothen attrstiey cept intoCourches and Lemples,but fick bp painting,and after bp embofling; and pet were thep no where at the fivtt wozthipped. But thortlp atter thep began tobe ieNbippee of the fgnozant fozt of men, ag appeareth bp the Epittle that Gregory the fittt of that name, Githop of Rome, din welte ta Serenus Bf Wop of Marfelles, OF the which twa Bithops, Serenus fo2 foolatey com- mitted to (mages, beake them,and burned them, Gregory, although he thought tt tolerable to tet them and, pet he judged it abominable that fosaont be eae i SaeUe (as . net Coe the wo ig Of them might be taped,bp teaching of Gods: I ALCOPD« ing ag be erbortetl Serenusta teach the people, as in the fame Epitie Appeareth, Wut whether Gregories opinion, o2 Serenus judgment were better herein, confider pe, J pay pou, top erpertence bp and by confuteth Gregories opinion. Foz natiithfanding Gregories wetting, and the prea- ching of others, tmages being once publicklp fet up ft Semples ana Churches, Ample mien anv women thoztly after fell on heaps to woy- Shipping of themsAnd at the 1att,the iearned allo were carried away wity Shepublick error, as witha violentétream op food. An at the fecond Council Nicene,the Bithops and Clergy decceed,that images Houta be Awopthipped t and fo by occafion of thele ttumbling blacks, not ontp the unlearned and fimple, butthe learned and wile, not the people anty,but the Bithops,not the Heep, but allo the thepberds themlelves (the Moun Have heen guides in the right wap and tight to thine fn Darknefs) being blinned bp the bewitching of images, ag blind guides of the biinn, felt both into the pit cEvamnable idolatry, Inthe which all the wortv, ag it Weve Rotwned, continued until our age, by the {pace of above efghe Dundzed pears,un(poken againt inamanner. Guo this {uccets had Gre- gories order, tobich mifcbiet hav never come to pats, av WBithop Sereaus ‘bis way been taken, and all idols and images been Utterly Beftroped and abolithed : fo no man woxsippeth that thatis not. Ano thus pou fee, how from having of fmages palvately, it came to publick (etting of thom up in Courehes anv Cemples, although without harmat the firtt, as was then of fone wile and learned men judged: and from fimple ha- bing them there, itcame at the atk to morhipping af them. Firi, bp the rude people, wha (pecially (as the Scripture teacheth) are in Danger of Quperttition ann idolatry, and afterwards by the Bithops, the learned, and by the whole Clergp.So that Laity and Clergy, earned ard une iearned, all ages, fects, anu Degrees of men, Women, and childgen, of fohole Chritendom(an horrible and mot dpeadful thing ta think bave been at once drowned Grabominabie iuolatrp, of all other Bices mom Detefted of Sod, and mot danmabiete man, and that by the (race of eight bundzen-pears and moze.ano to this eno i comethat Srna of : 2 ft 143 Sap. igage144 The Third Part of the Sermon fetting up of images in Churches then judged harmlels, in expertense proved not only harmeUl, but exittous aud pettftent, and te the Deftry» dion and fubbverfion of all good Religton univertailp, Bo that J con- clude, ag tt may be poffible infome one City op little Country, ta pave images (ct upin Cemples and Churches, and pet toolatey bp earneg and continual preaching of Hads teuc C02, and the fincere Oolpel o€ out Saviour Chitt, map be Reptaway Coz a thoyt times So itis impoke fidle, that (‘Fmages once fet up and fuifered in Cemples ano Churchega any great Countries much tele the whole {Aogid,can any tony time be Kept from iholatey. And the godiy will retpee, not only their own Cf tp,Countep,and time,and the bealth of men of theit ages but be cares ful fo2 all places and times,and the faivation of menof allages.dt the leaft,thep will not lap fuch tumbling blocks and {nares fo2 the feet of other Countep-men and Ages, which erpertence hath already propedsta habe been the ruine of thewarln, Tliperetore J make a general cons Clufion of all that 3 have Hitherto (ato s Jere Humbling blocks, ano popfons of meng fouls, by (etting up of tmages,will be many, pea; tr finite ie thep be fuffered.and the warnings of the fame tumbling blocks, any gementes (02 the {ald popfons bp peaching but felv,as is alceany Des Claveas i€ the fumbling blocks be eafie to be laid, the popfon is toon probided,and the warnings and remedies bard to know oz come bp? if the humbling blocks Ite continually inthe way, and popfon be ready at Hand every there, and warnings and cemedies but (elvom viben: ana if all menbe moge veady of themlelves to fumble and he offended, then tg be tuarned, all men moze ready te Dzik of the poplon, than to taffe 0€ the remedy (ag ig befoze partly,and thall hereafter moze fully be decay red) and fo in fine,the poplon continually and deeply Dunk oF many,the vemiedy (elvom and faintip tatted of bya few s Dow can it be but thatine finite of the weak and infirm Hall be offended, infinite bp cuine thallbpeak their necks, infinite by Deadly Henom be popConed in theit (outs ? ana Dow fs the charity of God, 02 love o€ our neighbours tn our Hearts then, i€when we may remove (uch dangeraus fumbling blocks, Ciuc) petti- lent poplons, we Will not remove thems Chat halt F fay of them Which will tap tumbling blocks, where before there wag none, and Cet faves fo2 the feet, nap,foz the fouls of tweak and fimple oncs,aud work the danger of thett cvcriating Defrucion,foz whom our SavourC hue {hen his mott precious blood. ‘where better tt were that the Acts of paint. ing, plaiftering, carving, grabing, and founding, bad never been found No? ufed, than one of them, whole fouls in the fight uf Gov are lo pyeci- ‘OU9, houto by accafion of tmage 2 picture perity and be toff, And thus ig it Declared that preaching cannot poflibly fap tdotatcp , ic images be fet up publichiy in Cempics and Churches. Gn ag true isit, that na other remedp,as writing agatut idolatry, Councils atfembled, Decrees made again it, fevere Laws likewile aud {Dzoclamations of jzinces and Emperoys, neither extream punihments and penalties, oz anp other remenp couly 02 can be poflibty aevitcd fo the avofDing oF tbola- trp, iftmages be publickly (et up and fugered. Foz concerning wpi- Ting againt images, anvivolatry to them committer, there bath bec aliedged unto pou in the fecond part of this Creatile a great many pia- £eg ott Of Tertullian; Origen, Laétantius, S. Augyltine, Epiphanius, S. Ambrofe,Clemens,and divers other tearned and holp Sithops any Da- ozs of the Church. And befives thele, all ittories Apeetraaeseas, a , Books ’ 7 .a he soy me . sapsindt peril of Idolatry: ‘Books of otherigadly and warned Bisyops and Decoy are Cull of rd. table cramples and fentences againt images and -the Wwoxhipping of thm. Andas they have mok carnetttywytten, fo div they fincerely And mot diligently in thew time teach and preach , Accopding to theit AwUtings and examples. Foz they were then preaching ‘Bithaps, and move often fecninjSulpits,than in}Dzinces palaces,moze often occupten in bis legacp,mpo fatv,Ga pe into the whale woz 1D; € preach the Golpet to ail men, than in embatlages and affairs of Dynces in this {o21D.ano ag they were moze zealous and diligent,te were thep of excellent leart- Ang and godlinets of life, and by both of great, authority and credit with He peopie,and fo of moze Eogce and ltkelphoon to perfvade the peopte, and people moze like ta beleve and follow theft Doctrine, uti thetc Preachings could not help, much tels could their initings, twhich ro but come to the knowlenge of a few that be learned, in compaction Sacon- tinual preaching,whereot the whote multitude ts pattaker, Neither din theald Fathers, Bithaps, and Doctoys, (everally only bp meaching ann Anuting, butalia altogether, great numbers of them affembled in Sy. Hobs and Counctis, make Decrees and Ccclefiattical Laws agatnit t- Mages, and the twoyhipping o€ them, neither Did they fo ance o tinice, but divers times, and or Divers Ages and Countries, affembien Syp- hadsand Counciis,and made febere Decrees againt images ann twoz- ‘Chipping of them,as hath been at large in the fecond part of this: ‘Donitly Before declared. But all thete writing, Preaching; affembling in Coun. iis, decrectng and making of Latus Eccletiattical, Could nothing beip, either to pull Dotun images to thom ivolatrpwas Committed, oz again fdolatey whilt images ttoon, Fo2 thole blind-books and Dumb Schoole matters,J mean images and tools (foptbep call them Lap-meng books and Schoolmaticrs) bp their carved aud painten writings, teiching And meaching (Dolatey, pevatted againt ali their weltten Books, anu Peaching with tively voice, as they call it. Gell, if peaching ana writing could not keep men Eom Worh:pping of fmages and tdolatrp,. {pen and wopds could not do it, pou would think that penalty and Eyogd might do it, J mean, that eines by {evere Laws anv punt: Ments,might tay this unbgloted affection of all men to: iDolatry,though images were {et upand fuffered. ‘But experience proveth, that this can no moze Help againt Molatry, than wziting ard preaching. Foy Chnittian Emperors (whole authority ought of reafon, and bp. org Law, to begreatetty above eightin number, anv Cr of thent fuccet- Hocip reigning onc after another (as ig tn the Hiffortes before reveart- £0) making mot (evere Laws and Proclamations againt iwols and idolatep, imagesand the weathipping of tmages, ano erecuting moft Sticbous punitments, pea, the enaitp of Death, upon the matrtatn- £t9 oF images, and upon idolaters and Image-woxhippers? couid not Laing to pats, that either images once fet up, might theougbip be ve- feoped, oz that men thould cefvain from the wo2fhipping of them, fe ing fetup, Gnd what think pou then will come to pate,tf men of teacn- ing thoutd teach the peopie to make them, and Mouta matntain the fet- ting up of them,as things neceffarp in Religtonsito conclude, (tappeare eth ettnently bp ail toxtes and mitings, and ecperience in times patt, that neither preaching, neither writing, neither the confent of the tearn- £D, Noz authority of the godly, nog the decrees of C1 ouncis, netther the Laws of Jainces, oz extceam puntthments of the offenders fy a ebalt, 145146 The Third Part of the Sermon hebalé noz any other remedy oz meang, can belp againt tvolatry’; 4 images be fuifered publickiy. And itis teulp fatp, that times pattare SHchooimatters of wisdom to ug that follow and tive after. Theretoye Ain times pat,the moft vertuaus and beft Learned, the mot diligent al- -fG,and in number almatt infinite, ancient Fathers, Bitops, anv Do- Mops with theic wziting, preaching,tnduttcy.carnettnels,authority,attem: . Hiles and Councils could vo nothing agatné images and idolatry, to images once fetup: what can we, neither triearning, nor Dolinets of lie, neither in diligence, neither authority, ta be compared with them, but men fn contempt, and of no eflimation (as the 021d goeth now) fev alfa in number, in fo great a multitune and malice of men. That ‘Ean toe do, Fay, 02 being to pals to the ttay of tdolatey 02 woxthipping of images, tf thep be allowed to ftanv publicklp in Cempies ano Chur. thes 2 Gud ie fo many, (o mighty Emperours, by fo (edere Laws and Proclamations, fo rigorous and ertream punityments and erecutions Could not fay the people from (etting up and woyhipping of images + what fill entue, think pou,wben men gall commend them as neceflarp ‘Books af the LaysmenLet us therefoze of thete latter Dales learn thig Teflon of the experience of ancient antiquity, that idolatry. cannot pote Gibly be Ceparaten from images any long time s but that ag an unfepa: able accident,oz ag a hanow fallotveth the boop when the Sun MHineth, fo iDolatry followeth anv cleaveth to the publick babing. of imaged tn Cemplesand Churches. Td finally, as toolatry is to be abhozred and aboioed, fo ave images (which cannot be long without folatry)ta be put away anddeticoyed, Belives the which experiments and poof sf imes before, the berp nature and szigin of images themlelves atueth to (bolatyy mot wiolently, and mens nature and inclination Allo fs bent to idotatcp{o vehemently, that itis not pofible to fever op pact images, yo, to keep men from tbolatrp, if images be (uffered pub. Uckip, . That F teak of the nature and opigin of tmages,ts this : e- Den as the fir invention o€ theys.is naught, andno good can come of Mat which had an edit beginning, forthey be altogether naught, ax Atbanafius in big ack againk the Gentiles oeclareth, and Saint Je- rome a}fo upon thezopbet Jeremy the firth Chapter,and Eofebius in the Seventh Wook o€ his Ecclefiagical Mittory the rviit, Chapter tesitieth, that as they fictt came from the Gentiles, which were toalaters ano Worlhippers of images, unto us, and as the indention of them tas the beginnirig of (pivitual foxntcation, as the woyd of Gov tettifiety z Sap.r4. So will thep naturally(as it were of neceffity) turn to theis’ origin trom whence thep came, and daw us with them mot violently to Holatry, abominable to Gov anvall godly men. Fozie the o2igtn of {mages, aud worhipping o€ ther, as itis recopded fn the eighth Chap- teak the Book of Wifdom, beganof a bitnd tove of a fond Father , Erarntitg £02 bis comfort an image of His Son,betng Dead, and fo at the Jat men fell to the worhipping of the image of Him whom they dip know tobe dead: How much moze will men and women fall ta the woyhipping of the images of God, ove Saviour Chyit, anv his Paints, (€ they be fudieren to ftand in Churches. any Cemples publicke ip? £02 the geeater the opinton fs of the majetty and holinets of the perfon to hom animageig made, the fooner will the people fatl ta the worhipping of the fatd image. Therefore the images of Gon, out Saviour Chit, the bietlen Ciitgin Mary, the Apottles, Bartys, anu aiezF ; a8 ; dsc ‘ againft peril of Idolatry, 147 and others of notable holincts, ate of alt other images moft Dangerous fo2 the perit of idolatry, and therefoze greatert Heed to be taken that none of then be fuffered to fland publickty in Churches and Lempieg. Foy there is no Great dead eft anp thouln fail to the Moathipping of the images of Annas, Caiaphas, Pilate, o2 Judas the traptoz, i€thep were “fetup. Butta the other, itis Alveady at full proven, that foolatrp bath been, is, andig mott like Continually to be committer, ow as twas before touched, andts bere moftlargely ta be Declared, the na ture of manis none otherwile bent to Wworhipping of tmages Cie be May Habe them,and (eethem) than itis bent to twhozedom and aduite- Tpinthe company of bariots. And ag unta a man given to the us of the fleth, (eetng a wanton harlot, fitting bp ber, and embacing ber, it profitteth ittic fo one ta fay, Beware of fornication, Gov will con. 1 Cor. 6. Demn Eomnicatozs and adulterers : £02 neither twill He, being overcome! Cor.4. With greater inticementg of the ‘ftcumpet, piue ear 02 take been ta fuch Hebe 13- godly admonitions, anv tohen he fs left afterwards alone With the Hatlat, nothing can follow but wickennets + evento, Cuffer images to be let in the Churches ann Temples, pe Hall in vain bio them: beware of images, as Saint John Doth, anv fice idolatry, as all the Sevipe x John 5. tures toarn us, pe thall in bain preach ann teach them againtt foolatrp. Fora number will notwithranding. fall beadiong untott, what by the Natuve of {mages, and wpat bp the inclination of theie on cozrupt nae tur e, : TAberefore as fora man given tatu, to Nt down by a deumpet, is to tempt God; fo tg tt Wkewile to exe an fol in this pronenets of mang nature to inolatry, nothing but atempting. Row if any will fay that this fimilitude prowety nothing , pet J pray them tet the tod of God, outol the which the Gmilituve ts token >» Mobe fometbing, Doth not the worn of Gov cali tbolatrp , {piritual foxnication? Doth rev.r7.and it not call a gilt 02 painten ibal oz image, a fttumpet with a patnted 20. face? We not the (pititual wickenefies of an fools intictng ike the Numb. 25, flatterics of a wanton bariot 2 Be not men and women 48 prone tg Deut.31. Spiritual foznicatton (% mean fdolatrp) as to carnal fozntcation > (f Baruc- 6. thig be Dented, tet ali atfous upon the Earth which have been foola- ters (as bp all tozies appeareth). poove it true, Let the Jews anv the people of God, which were (o often and fo eatneftly warned, fo Deeatullp theeatned concerning tmages and iolatep, and Co extceme- ippunithed thecefoxe (and pet fell into tt) paobeitto be true; ag inal moft allthe Books of the Dy Cettament, namelp the Kings anothe Chronicies, anv the Prophets, it Appeareth mo ebiventlp.Let all ages and tiics,qud men ofallagesand times, of all Degrees and conditions wife men, learned men, patices, tototg, unlearned, and communaity, Pove it to be true. JE pou requice eramples + Fo2 wile men. pe have the Egyptians, and the Indian Gymnofophilts, the witert men of the wogin, Pou have Solomon the tilett af ‘all other. so2 earned men, the Greeks, and namely the Athenians, egceeded all other IRattons in fuperttition ant fholatry, ag nthe bittopp of the AGs of the Mpottles S.Paul charg- Aas 17. eth them, — Foz Wzinces anv Governoys, pou have the Romans,the tu: Rom. lets of, the tott (as thep fap) pou pave the fame fopenamed £8. Solomon, and all the Hinges of Ifrael and Judah atter him, faving David,Ezechias, and Jofias, and one oxtws moze, Ali thete (J fap) and infinite atherg, tuffe, learned, princes, and Bobernioys, betng ail tvolaters, pave Pott ® : fogas 148 PAal32 The Third Part of the Sermon foz examples anda proof of mens | {nclination to ivolatey. That J map pats ober twith filence in the mean time, infinite multitudes and millt- ong of iviots and’ unlearned, the ignozant and grofs people, itke unto Doyles and ules in whom is no ‘underitanding , twbote peril and Dane Ber to fall on heaps to {Dolatry by occafion of images, the Scriptures Sep. 13-14-Epectatly Fopethets and give warning of, And {indeed how Could the un Deutige Jearned, fimple, and foolity (cape the nets ‘and {nates of tvols, and ima- shes, in the mbich the tifett and the pett learned have been fo entangled, trapped, and wapped > Cdiberefore the argument bolbeth this ground fure, Chat men de as inclined sf thelr copupt nature to fpivitual for nication, ag to cactial, whicd the wigom of God foveteeing, to the general provibition, that none should ‘make to themleives anp image 2 fimilitude, andeth a caute, Depending ‘Of mans coyupt nature. Let (aith Gov) thou Deing Deceived with errour » ponour and wozhip them, Gnd of this ground ‘of mang copupt inclination,as well to {pt- ritual foznication, as to carnal, ft mutt needs follow, That as it ig the Duty of the gooly Pagittcate, tovins honetty, and hating whoedom,ta vemoneall ftrumpets and haclots,(pectally ‘out of places notoztouflp {- fpeden, op retorted unto ofnaughty packs, or the avoiding of carnal fomication: (oft is the Duty of the fame gonly gpanitteate, after the eramples of the sonly $ings, Ezechias and Jofias, to Dyibe away alt fpivitual parlots CA mean tools and images) efpectally out of fufpecten places, ‘Churches and Temples, Dangerous for ipolatry to be com: mitten to images placed there, ag tt tere in the appainted place and “Augettin. in eight of Honour and wworthip (as Saint -Avguftine faith) there the ¥fal.36. & {gaing God only Cand not Dead ftones and ffocks) is to de wophippeds 113.6ibg. Wt fe (Jflay) the office ‘of govly Pagittrates {ihewwife to avoID Images capp. de of and tools outot Churches ad sCemples, as tpitituel Paclots out of vitat. Dei. Dent.27- fufpecten places foz the abotbing of ipolatcy, which is {piritual For nication. Gnd as be were theenempot au ponetty, that mouls bing Strumpets and Parlors ‘out of thet fecret comers fnto the publick Market-place, there freely to Dwell and practice theit filthy Werchan- Dile : Sa is the enemy o€ the true worthipping of Sod, that baingeth {Hols and images inte the TCeniple anv Church, the Doule of Sod, there spentp te be fwanthipped, and to rob the zealous God of bis. ‘Dor nour, who will not give tt to ‘any other, n02 bis logy tocarbenimages whois ag much foylaken, and the bond of tebe between man and bint ag much ‘poken bp ivolatry, which ts (pivitual ‘Fownication, as is the not ano howd of marriage foken bp carnal Fonication, Let all this be taken as a fe, ff the foo70 of God enforce it not to be true. Curlen be the man, faith God in Deuceronomyy that maketh a carbed gpmolten image, and placeth itin a fectet coftier : and ail the people fhall fay, Amen. Thus faith Gov, toy at that time no manDurft babe my worthip images apenty, put fircoznerg only: and the whole Cto2ln being the great semple of Sod, pe that tr any comer thereof rab. beth Godot pis glo, and giveth it to rocks and tones, fg pronoun: cep bp ‘Gong word accucted. Pow be that will bing thele fpicituat parlots out of their tucking comets, {nto publics Churches and sem: ples, that {pivitual Fomication may there openty of alt men anv Woe ‘men titbout hame ‘Decommitted with them, No poubt that perton is cucfen of God, anp twice cucfeD , AND alt good and gouly ment ana women wilLtay, Amen, and their Amnen will take effet alfo, we ae jucther-againft peril of Idolatry. 149 | furthermore the madnels of ali men protetfing the Religion of Chit, now bp the face of a fozt of bundyed pears, and pet eben in our time info great tight of the Golpel, ery many running on beaps by Sea and Land, tothe great lols of theic time, expence and Wwafte of their Hoods, deftitution of theit ives, Childjen, and Families,and danger of theit oton bodics and fives, to Coinpoftella, Rome, Jerufalem, and o- ther far Counteies, te vit numb and Dead flocks and ftones, Doth Lut- i ficientlp prove the pronenels of mang coyrupt nature to the (eeking of tholg once fet up, and the worhipping of them. And thug ag weil bp q the opigine and nature of idols and images themieloes, as bp the ponenefs and inctination of mans coyrupt nature to idolatry, ft ig ebf- Dent, that neither images, if thep be publickly (et up, can be f&pacated, noz men, {they tee imagesin Cemples and Churches, can be ttato and kept fromidolatrp. IQotw whereas thep pet alledge, that pee foeber the People, Princes, Learned, (Hite, and of Din time. 1c failen into tholatep bp occafion of images, that pet in our time the mot part, {pecially the learned and wile , of any autbozity, take no uct 29} offence by idols and fmages, neither do runitte far Countries ta them, and worthip them: And that thep know well what an (dol og t Magets, and bot to be ufed,' and that therefoge tt followeth, (mages in Churchegand Temples to be an indifferent thing , as the which of ' fome ig not tobe ufed: and that therefore they map,julllp bold (as was t inthe beginning of this pact op them alleogeD) that tt is not unlaweul 4 02 wicked abloiutely to have images in Churches and Cemples, though z it map fo the Danser of the firnple fort feemto be not altogether expe- : bient, ‘TAbereunto may be tell reptyed, that Solomon allo, the wilett of alt amen, DID well know what an {ol oz image wag, neither took anp harm therest a gceat while himfelf, and alfa with pis sovip witings armed others againt the danger of them. But pet afterward the Sap.iz. 74. fame Solomon {uffering bis wanton Paramours to bing thete tools in- to big Court anv Watace, wag bp carnal Hariots pecivaden , and ‘hyought at the iat to the committing of Spiritual Fomication with t- Dolg, and of the wilett and goditet Jzince, became the moft foolith and wicked allo. CAbercfoze ft fs better even Foz the wilet taregarD this warning, He that lovech danger Mhall perith therein: and Let him Kec, 3.and that ftandeth beware left he fall, rather than wittinglp and willingly to 13. Jay Cuch a tumbling block foz bis oton feet anv others, that map pers 3 Cor.r0, aps bying Him at lag to beak neck, Che good king Ezechias Did knot 4 Reg, 18 J Wwellenoush , that the brafen Serpent was but a dead (mage, ano therefore he took no burt bimfelf thereby though tdolatrp to it: Dio He therefore let ittann, vecaule himbeif took no burt thereof? Io, not fo: but being a good King, anv therefore regarding thebealth of Dis filly Subjecs, veceiben bp that fmage, and committing (oolatry q thereto, He DID not only take tt Down, but allo byake it to pieces, and j this be did to that image that wag fet up by the Commandment of 4 Gon, fin the pretence whereof great Biracles were wrought, ag that Which waga figure of our Saviour Cozitt to come , wha thouls de- Iver ug from the moytal fing of the ol0 Serpent, Satan. ets ther vi he (pare it in velpea of the ancientnels 02 antiquity of it, iwhich bad continued above feven Hundzed pears , noz fox that it hav been fuffered, and ppelerbed bp fo many goBlp ines before big time. Dow »