A Golden Chain

II. Differ. They teach and maintain, that images of God and of Saints may be worshipped with religious worship, specially the crucifix. For^a Thomas of Watering saith, Seeing the cross doth represent Christ, who died upon a cross, and is to be worshipped with divine honour: it followeth that the cross is to be worshipped so too. We on the contrary, hold they may not. Our principal ground is the second commandment, which containeth two parts: the first forbiddeth the making of images to resemble the true God: the second forbids the worshipping of them, or God in them: in these words, Thou shalt not bow down to them. Now, there can be no worship done to any thing less then the bending of the knee. Again the brazen serpent was a type or image of Christ crucified, Joh. 3.14. appointed by God himself: yet when the people burned incense to it, 2. King. 18.4. Hezekias brake it in pieces, and is therefore ⟨p. 965⟩commended. And when the devil bad our Saviour Christ, but to bow down the knee unto him, and he would give him the whole world: Christ rejects his offer, saying, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Math. 4. 10. Again it is lawful for one man to worship another with civill worship, but to worship man with religious honour is unlawful. For all religious worship is prescribed in the first table: and the honour due to man is only prescribed in the second table and the first commandment thereof, Honour thy father: which honour is therefore civill and not religious. Now the meanest man that can be, is a more excellent image of God, then all the images of God or of Saints that are devised by men. Augustine, and long after him Gregory, in plain terms denieth images to be adored.

II. Differ. They teach and maintaine, that images of God and of Saints may be worshipped with religious worship, specially the crucifix. For^a Thomas of Watering saith, Seeing the crosse doth represent Christ, who died vpon a crosse, and is to be worshipped with diuine honour: it followeth that the crosse is to be worshipped so too. We on the contrarie, holde they may not. Our principall ground is the second commaundement, which containeth two parts: the first forbiddeth the making of images to resemble the true God: the second forbids the worshipping of them, or God in them: in these words, Thou shalt not bow downe to them. Now, there can be no worship done to any thing lesse then the bending of the knee. Againe the brasen serpent was a type or image of Christ crucified,