A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

Quod, say they, si aliquando historias & narrations […] Scripturae cum id indoctae plebi expediet exprimi & figurari contigerit, doceatur populus, non […] divinitatem figurari quasi corporeis oculis consp•i, vel coloribus aut figuris exprimi possit. The words are as most of the rest in this particular, as an big•ous as the Oracles of Delphos. This cannot be denied to be in them however, That the unlearned people are to be taught, that the Deity is not painted or figured, as though it could be seen or expressed by colours, but for some other end, as it seems for their instruction; which indeed is honest and fair dealing; for they plainly tell them that by their pictures they teach them lies; the language of the Picture being, that God may be so pictured, whereby all your pictures and Images of God the Father as an old man, of the Trinity as one person with three faces, and the Holy Ghost as a Dove, are approved. 2. Religious Worship of Images is confirmed, due honour and veneration or worship is to be given unto them, saith the Council. Now it is not mutual complement they are discoursing about. There is no such intercourse between their Images and them ordinarily, though sometimes civil salutations have passed between them; Nor is it any token of Civil Subjection, for Images have no eminency or authority of that kind; but it is divine or religious veneration, and worship which they affirm is to be assigned unto them. 3. They say that due honour and veneration that is religious, is to be assigned unto them; but what in especial that honour and worship is, they do not determine; whither it be the same that is ⟨p. 481⟩due to the sampler as some, the most of your Divines think, or whether it be an honour of some inferior nature as others contend, pugnant ipsi ne potesq, the Synod leaves them where it found them, sufficiently at variance among themselves. 4. They further assert the worship that is given by them to Images to be religious or divine; in that they affirm the honour done to the Image, is refer•ed un•• •he Prototype which it doth represent. Now suppose this be Jesus Christ himself; I suppose that they will grant that all the honour we yield to him by any way or means is divine or religious, and therefore so consequently that which they would have to be given unto his Image, (that is a stock or stone which they fancy so to be) must be so also.