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citeth, and the doctrine which he saith is the doctrine of Gods Church, such is the faith and unity of the Papists.

But they will say still that though all these worship the very Cross and Images themselves, and that with Divine worship, yet there be some of a better mind, that do but worship God by the Image, such as H. T. &c. Answ. And do you think that rational Pagans did not know as well as you that their Images were not Gods themselves, and so worshipped them not as Gods, but as the representers and instruments of some Deity? Lactantius Instit. lib. 2. cap. 2. brings them in saying thus [Non ipsa, &c. We fear not them, but those whom they represent, and to whose names they are consecrated [And Arnobius thus [Deos per simulachra veneramur: It is the Gods that we worship by Images] And Augustine thus reporteth the Pagans sayings [in Psal. 96. Non ego lapidem, &c. I do not worship that stone, nor that Image, which is without sense] And in Psal. Psal. 113. cono. 2. [Nec simulachrum, nec daemonium colo, &c. 1 worship neither the Image, nor a Spirit in it; but by the bodily likeness I behold the sign of that which I ought to worship.] Yea that many of them renounced the worshipping of Devils, appeareth by Augustine's report of their words, in Psal. 96. [Non colimus mala daemonia, &c. We worship not evil spirits: It is those that you call Angels, that we worship, who are the powers of the great God, and the Ministers of the great God] To whom Austin answers [Would you would worship them (that is, honour them aright,) then you would easily learn of them not to worship them] And doubtless few could be so silly as to think there were as many Jupiters or Apollos as there were Images of them in the world. So that you see here that some of the Pagans as to Image-worship disclaimed that which the Papists ascribe to them, viz. Divine worship.

But they will say still that though all these worship the very Cross and Images themselves, and that with Divine worship, yet there be some of a better mind, that do but worship God by the Image, such as H. T. &c. Answ. And do you think that rational Pagans did not know as well as you that their Images were not Gods themselves, and so worshipped them not as Gods, but as the representers and instruments of some Diety? Lactantius Instit. lib. 2. cap. 2. brings them in saying thus [Non ipsa, &c. We fear not them, but those whom they represent, and to whose names they are consecrated [And Arnobius thus [Deos per simulachra veneramur: It is the Gods that we worship by Images] And Augustine thus reporteth the Pagans sayings [in