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An answer to a challenge madeAn ansvver to a challenge made
An answer to a challenge made by a Jesuit in Ireland Wherein the judgement of antiquity in the points questioned is truly delivered, and the novelty of the now romish doctrine plainly discovered. By James Usher Bishop of Meath.An ansvver to a challenge made by a Iesuite in Ireland Wherein the iudgement of antiquity in the points questioned is truely delivered, and the noveltie of the now romish doctrine plainly discovered. By Iames Vssher Bishop of Meath.
Dublin: printed by the Society of Stationers and Eliot's Court Press, 1624Dublin: printed by the Societie of Stationers and Eliot's Court Press, 1624
AN ANSWER TO THE FORMER CHALLENGE. › OF IMAGES.AN ANSVVER TO THE FORMER CHALLENGE. › OF IMAGES.
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Now who is there that understandeth not, that it is unfit for an upright creature to be bowed down, that he may worship the earth? which for this cause is put under our feet, that it may be trodden upon, not worshipped by us. iWherefore ⟨p. 455⟩there is no doubt, that there is no religion, wheresoever there is an Image. For seeing Religion consisteth of divine things; and nothing divine is to be found but in heavenly things: Images therefore are void of religion; because nothing that is heavenly can be in that thing, which is made of earth.
Now who is there that understandeth not, that it is unfit for an upright creature to be bowed downe, that he may worship the earth? which for this cause is put under our feete, that it may be troden upon, not worshiped by us. iWherefore ⟨p. 455⟩there is no doubt, that there is no religion, wheresoever there is an Image. For seeing Religion consisteth of divine things; and nothing divine is to be found but in heavenly things: Images therefore are voyde of religion; because nothing that is heavenly can be in that thing, which is made of earth.
- iQuare non est dubiū, quin religio nulla sit, ubicunque simulacrum est. Nam si religio ex divinis rebus est; divini autē nihil est nisi in coelestibus rebus: carent ergo religione simulacra; quia nihil potest esse coeleste in eâ re, quae fit ex terrâ. Ib. cap. 18.Quare non est dubiū, quin religio nulla sit, ubicunque simulacrum est. Nam si religio ex divinis rebus est; divini autē nihil est nisi in coelestibus rebus: carent ergo religione simulacra; quia nihil potest esse coeleste in eâ re, quae fit ex terrâ. Ib. cap. 18.