A37049:349
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. If they say, It was not lawful then, but is lawful now; this were to say, that the Gospel admitteth of more Carnal Ordinances than the Law, whereas its Service is more spiritual without all doubt.
From all which, we may clearly conclude, that in such Service there is a two-fold Idolatry committed: 1. In that, because of some holiness and venerability that is supposed to be in such Images, relics, &c. Religious worship (though inferior to what is attributed to God) as given to them for themselves, according to the Decrees of that second Counsel of Nice: 2. In that they pretend by such Service to worship the true God, though in an Idolatrous manner forbidden by him, besides what Aquinas and his followers maintain, who give to the Images of God, Christ, Mary, and the Cross, [Greek or Hebrew] it self, part 13. q. 25. a. 1, 2, 3. And Reason sayeth, it is a snare unto them that worship them, and • scandal to others; for, as Augustine (speaking against the expressions used by Heathens from Psal. •13. and from that of the Apostle, Rom. 1. (after he hath rejected their Images, and their interpretation, and excuses also) sayeth, he who worshippeth and prayeth towards an Image is an Idolater; for, who saith he, worshippeth and prayeth towards an Image, who is not affected with it as if it heard him?
From all which, we may clearly conclude, that in such Service there is a two-fold Idolatry committed: 1. In that, because of some holiness and venerability that is supposed to be in such Images, reliques, &c. Religious worship (though inferiour to what is attributed to God) as given to them for themselves, according to the Decrees of that second Counsel of Nice: 2. In that they pretend by such Service to worship the true God, though in an Idolatrous manner forbidden by him, besides what Aquinas and his followers maintain, who give to the Images of God, Christ, Mary, and the Cross, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 it self, part 13. q. 25. a. 1, 2, 3. And Reason sayeth, it is a snare unto them that worship them, and scandal to others; for, as Augustine (speaking against the expressions used by Heathens from Psal. 13. and from that of the Apostle,