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Show s\\\ d...' 364 ("1410,45"OF THE KINGDOM}? lama; Image of any of them, maketh not an Image of God, but of his own Phantafm,which is, making ofan Idol. 1 fay not, that to draw a Picture after a fancy, is a Sin; but when it is drawn, to hold it for a Reprefentation of God , is againfi the fecond Commandement; and can be of no ufe, but to worfliip. And the fame may be {aid of the Images of Angels, and of men dead; unleife as Monuments of friends, or of men worthy remembrance: For fuch ufe of an Image, is not Worihip of the Image, but acivtll honoring of the Perfon, notthat is, but that was : But when it is done to the Image which we make of a Saint, for no other reafon, but that we think he heareth our prayers, and is pleafed With the honour wee doe him, when dead, and without fenfe, wee attribute to him more than humane _ . power; and therefore it IS, Idolatry; . Seeing therefore there is no authority, neither in the Law of Mofes, nor in the Gofpel, for the religious Worihip oflmages,or other Reprefentations of God, which men fet up to themfelves, or for the i? \ perors after him, had the like te/hmony, that is, were Caiionized for Saints, for by fuch teftimony is CANON I 1ATION,I10W defined- and is the fame with the 'Am-i‘t'ms ofthe Heathen. ) It is alfo from the Roman Heathen, that the Popes have received The name the name, and power of PON i- r r E x MAX 1 nus. This was the Pontifex. name of him thatin the ancient Common-wealth of Rome, had the Supreme Authority under the Senate and People , of regulating all Ceremonies, and Doctrines concerning their Religion: And when Augttfiw Cit/Jr changed the State intoa Monarchy, he took to himfelfe no more but this office, and that ofTribune of the People,(that is to fay, the Supreme Power both in State, and Religion; ) andthe fucceeding Emperors enjoyed the flame. But when the Emperour Confiantine lived, who was the firfithat profeflcd and authorized Chrifiian Religion, it was corifonant to his profeiiion, to caufe evidently fecnbythat, thatthe Bilhop ofConilantinople, when the Emperour made that City the Seat ofthe Empire, pretended to bee traileft inibc upon the workmanfliip'of them, which made the owners, (though Climb. converted, from woriliipping them as they had done Religiouily tor tion, the Pope carryed it, and became the l'011!.:féxll.1xllllu1-7 Daemons )to retain them Hill in their houi‘es, upon pretence ot do. ing it in the honor of Cbnfl, ofthe Virgin M/iry,and oi the Apofl/tr, andother the Paftors of the Primitive Church, as being eafie, by giving them new names, to make that an‘Im-age ofthe Virgin Mary, and other Some our Saviour, which before perhaps was called the i; i t Though it doe not appear they had f0 foon the name ofl'ant/fex, but rather, thatthc fuccecding Biihopstoolt it ofthemfelves, to counte- nance the power they exeicifed over the Biihops ofthe Roman Provincts. For it is not any Privilcdge ofSt. Peter, but the Priviledge oi the City of Rome, which the Emperors were alwaies willing to equall tothe Billiop of Rome-Y though at lafl, not without conten- but in right onely oftlie Eiiiperour; and not without the bounds of the Empire; nor any where, after the Iiiiiperout had loll his power in Rome; though it were the Pope himielf that took his power from him. From whence weemay bythe way obi‘eri'e, that there is no place for the iizperiority otthe Pope over other Billlt)})s)C.\'LCP[ in the Image ofl'ri/m, and Clipid, and fo ofa IflPIICV to make aliamahugnd territories wht not he is himi‘elt‘the ClVlll Soveraign; and where the Emperour haying Soyeraign l'ow'chiVill , hath expreilely cholen the Pope {orthe chiefl'aiior under liimlelte , ofhis Chriltiaii Sub- l. which they alfo might hope for after their deceafe, as well as thole that had already gained itzio the worihipping oi the Images or Chriil l and his Apoiiles, grew more and more Idolatroiis, lave that tomewhat after the time ofConiiantine,divers Emperorxand Biihop‘finfil general] Councells obl‘erved, and oppol‘ed the unlawfulneile thereof; ut too late, or too weakly. _ ~ , i C‘anti °f "W" Religion to be regulatedi'under his autliorityjiby the Biihop of Rome: of Mercury a Paul, and the like.And as worldly ambition‘creeping by degrees intothe Paflors, drew them to an endeavour oi pleating the new made Chriilians; and alto to a liking of this kind oi honour, The Cnizom'img of Saints, is another Rtlique ofGentiliime :‘lt is neither a mifunderflanding ofScripture, nor a new invention or the Roman Churchbut a cuifome as ancient as the Common-wealth of Ram: it felf.The firfl that ever was canonized at ROHIL',\\';1R Emu/m, jec‘is. The carrying about of linges in Proc‘eflzon; is another Reliqiie ()t'riotcyi‘imf the Religion oi the (JICCls), and Romans : For they .ilii) turned their 1min. Idols from place to place, in a kind oi'Chariot, which is peculiarly dedicated to that uie, which the Latint-s called 'Y'ZIe/i/.i,aiitl l'r/ucu/iim Dwrum, and the Image was placed in a frame, or Shrine, which they called Farm/um : And that which they called rumpus the lilmC that now is named Pratt/[rant According whereiinto , :iiiiongit the Divine Honors which \\ ere gii'in to III/in: (,le/Lirliy the Senate, this was one,tliat in the Pompe t or Proceflion) at the (Lirca‘an games, he ilioiild have Then/rim c" Ferrulum,;t facrtd Chariot, and a Shrine; and ‘11:" "pm the narration ot‘Ialmr Prom/m, that {wore before the which was as much, as to be carried up and down as a (rod: juit as at Senate, he {palm with him after his death, and was allured by lllr‘i'ldlyf this day the Popes are carried by Sw'itztrs under a Canopie. L‘,\VC1{ 36S pitiousto the State of their new City: And thereupon the Senate gave pztblique tcflzmony of his Sanaity. Iii/11m C441, and other Em- _ tiles that woriliipped them. fet prices and , ate eiteem immoder the was whereof, caufe The Haw mm" ii " Aug-1‘ 55%,". uphold, that gave them their authority over other Billiops‘; as may be i tr. or DARKNESSE. Worihip of the Image of any Creature in Heaven, or Earth, or under the Earth : And whereas Chrifiian Kings, who are living Reprefentants of God, are not to be worihipped by their Subiefts, by any. aét, that fignifieth a greater ei'teem of his power, than the nature or mortall man is capable of.7 It cannot be imagined,that the Religious Worihip now in uie, was broughtinto the Church, by miiunderflanding ofthe Scripture.It refieth therefore, that it was left in it, by not deflroying the Images themfelves, in the converfion oi the (Jen- E li, E i PM 4. dwelt in Heaven, and was there called flaring/1, and would be pro- A a 1 To 0 |