3. That the way and errors of Popery are damnable, and it is very unsafe living in that Society and Combination. I prove it. 1. Because they live in wilful disobedience to God: They violate the manifest Commandments of God, while they hold it lawful to worship Pictures and Images, to make Pictures of the Trinity, to invocate Saints and Angels, to deny Lay-men the Cup in the Sacrament, to adore the Sacrament, to prohibit certain Orders of Men and Women to marry, to Celebrate the public service in a language which ordinarily men and women that assist understand not: In all these things they offer apparent violence to Gods Precepts. And that their whole worship is polluted with a gross Superstition; as for instance, to worship Images is expressly against Gods word, Psal. 97.7. Confounded be all they that worship graven Images, that boast themselves of Idols. Worship him all ye Gods. The Scripture you see denounceth ⟨p. 233⟩confusion to all Worshippers of Images, and they are reckoned as Enemies of Christs Kingdom: for it is applied to Christ, Heb. 1.6. And let all the Angels of God worship him. That would set up the worship and service of them in his Church, in the exercise of their Religion, especially those who glory in them, and boast of them, and set them forth as the glory of their way and worship. No, he disdaineth all this relative worship, at or before Images, which men would give unto him, and showeth, that all the Powers of this World, and the other, Angels and Potentates should immediately worship Christ. For the second point, picturing the Trinity. God hath not only forbidden it, but argued against it. Deut. 4.15, 16. Take therefore good heed unto your selves, for ye saw no similitude, when the Lord spake to you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire: lest ye corrupt your selves, and make you a graven Image, the similitude of any thing, Male or Female. See how cautelous God is, to prevent this abuse, and yet how boldly men practise it. For the third instance, the Invocation of Saints and Angels. Our Lord hath taught us how to repel that temptation, Matth. 4.10. It is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. That religious service and worship is due only to God: no Creature can claim it without Sacrilege, nor can we give it to them without ⟨p. 234⟩Idolatry.
3. That the way and errors of Popery are damnable, and it is very unsafe living in that Society and Combination. I prove it. 1. Because they live in wilful disobedience to God: They violate the manifest Commandments of God, while they hold it lawful to worship Pictures and Images, to make Pictures of the Trinity, to invocate Saints and Angels, to deny Lay-men the Cup in the Sacrament, to adore the Sacrament, to prohibit certain Orders of Men and Women to marry, to Celebrate the publick service in a language which ordinarily men and women that assist understand not: In all these things they offer apparent violence to Gods Precepts. And that their whole worship is polluted with a gross Superstition; as for instance, to worship Images is expresly against Gods word, Psal. 97.7. Confounded be all they that worship graven Images, that boast themselves of Idols. Worship him all ye Gods. The Scripture you see denounceth ⟨p. 233⟩confusion to all Worshippers of Images, and they are reckoned as Enemies of Christs Kingdom: for it is applied to Christ, Heb. 1.6. And let all the Angels of God worship him. That would set up the worship and service of them in his Church, in the exercise of their Religion, especially those who glory in them, and boast of them, and set them forth as the glory of their way and worship. No, he disdaineth all this relative worship, at or before Images, which men would give unto him, and sheweth, that all the Powers of this World, and the other, Angels and Potentates should immediately worship Christ. For the second point, picturing the Trinity. God hath not only forbidden it, but argued against it. Deut. 4.15, 16. Take therefore good heed unto your selves, for ye saw no similitude, when the Lord spake to you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire: lest ye corrupt your selves, and make you a graven Image, the similitude of any thing, Male or Female. See how cautelous God is, to prevent this abuse, and yet how boldly men practise it. For the third instance, the Invocation of Saints and Angels. Our Lord hath taught us how to repel that temptation, Matth. 4.10. It is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. That religious service and worship is due only to God: no Creature can claim it without Sacriledge, nor can we give it to them without ⟨p. 234⟩Idolatry.
