XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing…

Sixthly, The Bread in the Sacrament, the Papists give it Cultum Latriae, that worship which is due to God; those Heathens worshipped living Animals, but these ador• a piece of Bread, kneel to it in their Chapels and Oratories; yea, in the midst of the Streets, when it is carried in Procession; these are the ⟨p. 239⟩Idols whom they worship; and what hope of Salvation is there in a Religion where the heart is turned so much from God to the Creature? 2. That they are more culpable than the Heathens. 1. As to their Hypocrisy, by distinctions and veil of Piety, wherewith they disguise all this: For this delight in unrighteousness was called before the deceivableness of unrighteousness. They profess to abhor Idols, and yet worship Images, and make that a point of Christianity, which is directly contrary to the drift of it, which is to teach us to worship God in the Spirit. 2. As to their helps against it, the Pagans were never taught to do better, though they sinned against the light of nature, in worshipping God by Images, yet they had no Scripture, no such express prohibitions to caution them, as we have from God. They pretend to believe the Scriptures, yet how do they seek to evade the force of them by crafty distinctions, that will never satisfy Conscience; though they help to blind the mind, and harden the heart. That which I urge is this, they were never interdicted this kind of worship by their Gods, but these know that it is severely forbidden by our God, and the second Commandment so stareth in their Faces, that it is expunged out of their Catechisms; and Vasquez is bold to affirm, that the second Commandment is Ceremonial. Lactantius of old said, Non est ⟨p. 240⟩dubium, religio nulla est ubi cujusque simulac•rum est. 3. The Pagans did adore their Gods in their Images, but never was any so sottish among them to imagine that an Image was to be adored with the same degree of worship as God himself; but this is the corrupt Doctrine of the Papists, that an Image is to be worshipped with the same worship, wherewith God himself is worshipped. Imagini Christi Latria debetur. Aquinas. That is the proper worship of God.

Sixthly, The Bread in the Sacrament, the Papists give it Cultum Latriae, that worship which is due to God; those Heathens worshipped living Animals, but these ador a piece of Bread, kneel to it in their Chapels and Oratories; yea, in the midst of the Streets, when it is carried in Procession; these are the