A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…

but the blessed Sacrament being instituted by Christ, to call to our remembrance his death, &c. gives us, so oft as we receive it, a most powerful and pregnant occasion of thanksgiving and praise. ^lDr. Burgess intermeddling with the same difference making, will not have the Sacraments, which are Images of Gods making and institution, to be compared with Images made by the lust of men. Two differences then are given us. 1. That the Sacramental Elements have their institution from God, Images not so. 2. That the Sacrament is an occasion of worship, an Image not so. The first difference makes them no help; for though the ordinance and institution of God, makes the use of Sacramental Images ⟨p. 56⟩to be no will-worship, yet doeth it not any whit avail to show, that adoration before them is no Idolatry. May I not commit Idolatry with Images of Gods institution, no less then with those invented by men, when (Caeteris paribus) there is no other difference betwixt them, considered as objects of adoration, but that of the ordinance and institution which they have? What if I fall down at the hearing of a Sermon, and religiously adore before the Pastor, as the Vicarius sign of Christ himself, who stands there ^min Christs stead, referring my adoration to Christ only, yet in or by that Ambassad out who stands in Christs stead? If this my adoration should be called so great Idolatry, as if I should fall down before a graven Image, to worship God in or by it, (for it is indeed as great every way,) our kneelers I perceive would permit me to answer for my self, that my worshipping of God by the minister, can not be called Idolatrous, by this reason, (because the worshipping of God by a graven Image, is such, therefore also the worshipping of him by a living Image, is no other,) since Images of Gods institution must not be paralleled with those of mens invention. As to the second difference, I answer, 1. Though the B. muttereth here, that no true worship can be occasioned by an Image, yet belike he and his fellows will not stand to it, for many of them allow the historical use of Images, and the B. hath not denied this though his Antagonist, objecteth it. ⁿDr. Morton plainly alloweth of Images for historical commemoration. And herein he is followed by