A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

2. That you may the better also discern what is incumbent on you, and expected from you the next time you talk of figures, I shall make bold to mind you of what is the Doctrine of the chief Masters and Instructors of your Church, from whence certainly we may better learn what the Doctrine and practice of it is, then from one who discovers enough in what he says and writes, to keep us from laying any great weight on his authority. Now I confess that you do in this, as in sundry other points of your Religion, give us an egregious specimen of that consent and unity among your selves which you so frequently boast of. Raphael de Torre in his Sum. Relig. Quaest. 94. Artic. •. disput. 6. dub. 5. gives us an account of five several opinions maintained by your Doctor in this matter, of all which he rejects that only of Durand and some others, affirming that images are not worshipped properly but only improperly ⟨p. 497⟩and abusively, as rash and savouring of heresy The same doth Bellarmine also; and the Truth is that that opinion of Durand, Gerson, and same others is plainly condemned by the Tridentine Decree, as hath been already declared. The Authors of the other four opinions, though they differ among themselves and have several digladiations about s•me expressions and distinctions framed merely in the•r own imaginations, agree well enough, that Images are religiously to be worshipped. Worshipped religiously they are to be, but whither per se and absolutely, directly and ultimately, whither with the same kind of worship wherewith that is to be worshipped which they represent, they are not so fully agreed as might be desired in a matter of this importance. For it is justly to be feared that whilst your Doctors are wrangling, your people are committing as gross Idolatry as any of the Heathen were guilty of. In the mean time, the most prevalent Opinion of your Doctors is that of Thomas and his followers, that images are to be adored with the same kind of worship wherewith that which they represent is to be worshipped. And therefore whereas the Lord Christ is to be worshipped with Latria, that which is peculiar in your judgement to God alone, it follows saith he, that his image is to be worshipped with the same worship also. And as some of your learned men do boast, that this indeed is the only approved opinion in this matter in your Church;