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A01924	England and Scotlands happinesse in being reduced to vnitie of religion, vnder our invincible monarke King Iames. Written by I: Gordon.; Panegyrique of congratulation for the concord of the realmes of Great Britaine in unitie of religion, and under one king	Gordon, John, 1544-1619.; Grimeston, Edward.	1604 (1604)	STC 12062.3; ESTC S117967	22,135	50

him to persist in the seruice of god not to deuide his worship but to cleaue onely vnto God Thou shalt not saith he haue any other Gods but me The which doth teach vs that those of the Romish corruptiō haue brought in strange Gods for that they haue deuided the adoration and veneration betwixt God and his creatures making three degrees The first they call Latria which they attribute to God and to the Host in the Masse equally The second Hyperdeulia which they yeelde to the blessed virgin And the third Dulia attributed to their other Saints and to their images and reliques abusing with too grosse an ignorance the signification of these Greeke wordes for Deulia signifies a greater seruice then Latria And we learne that in this place Theodoret calles the seruice and adoration of God by the name of Deulia and so doe Athanasius and Chrisostome And Saint Augustine who hath brought in this distinction attributes both vnto God onely In his 84. Question vpon Exod. Iustin Martir who liued vnder Antonius Pius in the second age of this period of Christianity shewes plainely that the Christians did not alow of the worship of any thing inferiour to the Deity and saieth that Iesus Christ had so taught them for speaking to the Emperour in his Apologie for the Christians of his time hee writes thus That God onely is to be worshipped for so Christ doth teach the greatest commandement is thou shalt worshippe the Lorde thy God and him onely shalt thou honour with all thy heart and all thy strength the Lorde God which hath created thee And a little after he saith we worship God onely in other things we willingly serue you for that we do acknowledge you for Kings and Princes of men and we pray vnto God that he will giue you wisedome equall to your royall power So as the Christians in matters of religion did not yeeld any worship to things created neither did they deuide the worship betwixt God his creatures as the Romish Church doth Many Christians of the same time were so exact obseruers of the onely worshippe of God as they would not reuerence the Roman Emperors as the souldiers did in ciuil causes for Theophilus to Apostolicus the sixt Bishop of Antioche who liued in the yeare of our Lord 173. when as Lucius was King of great Brittaine saith I shall honor the Emperour more in praying for him then in worshipping him for it is not lawfull to worship any but God onely The Christians of these three first ages had no Alters no Images nor any materiall crosses of golde siluer wood or stone for Clemens Alexandrinus who was neere the Apostles time saith Wee Christians are expreslye forbidden to vse any arte of deceite for so hee calleth painting and making of Images Thou shalt not saith the Prophet Moses make the likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue or on the earth beneath And the same author Strom. Lib. 5. Pythagoras saith he forbids the wearing of rings nor to ingraue in them the images and figures of Gods as Moses had long before forbidden and that we must not make any Image be it grauen molten counterfeite or painted that wee should not bee carryed away with sensible things but should passe vnto those thinges which are comprehended by vnderstanding And soone after he saith To honour the essence by the knowledge of a materiall thing is to contemne it The Doctrine of the Romish Church dooth heerein directly oppugne the Doctrine of Christian antiquitye making a new God of the host of the new Masse giuing it the name of God worshipping it as God and yet their doctors confesse that it is made and created by the wordes of consecration It is therefore euident that they haue brought into the Church a God created which is not contayned in the definition of God before mentioned by Saint Athanasius for the hoast of the Masse is not euerye where which is the property of God onelye neither dooth it containe all things vnder his power but contrarywise the Counsell of Trent saith in expresse wordes that Iesus Christ God and man is contained vnder the visible signes of Breade of Wine which is quite contrarye to the diuine nature which contaynes all things in it and is not contained in anye thing The God therefore of the Romish Masse is a God created which hath a beginning and ending and is contained in the visible forme of Breade and Wine and containes not in it all things created so as the worshippers of this God of the Masse doe worshippe a newe and strange God contrarye to the first commaundement If the Arrians as Theodoret saith haue broken this first commaundement for that they taught that Iesus Christ according to his deity was a creature and yet he was God with greater reason the Romaines transgresse the same commaundement confessing that the pretended deitie of the hoast of the Masse is a deitie purchased by the consecration and not by the eternall deity without beginning and without ending And the same Theodoret writing against the Greekes in the foresaide passage teacheth vs that by the commaundement which saith Thou shalt haue no other Gods but mee that Moses forbiddes to make anye deuision of the deuine worshippe but to giue all to God onelye The Romaines who haue made three degrees of worshipping cannot denie but they haue broken this first commaundement and brought in a multitude of Gods making as manye Gods as they saye Masses So as their pluralitie of Gods becomes infinite and surpasseth the multitude of the Paynims Gods Minutius Foelix Tertulian Origen and Arnobius vvho liued in the third age of this first Periode of Christianisme testifie that the Gentiles accused the Christians for that they had neither Temples Altars Images nor visible or Materiall Sacrifices and that they did hide from sight that which they did worshippe Cecilius a Pagan Oratour disputing against Octauius a Christian as Minutius doth reporte obiected to the Christians Why haue they no Alters no Temples no knowne Images They did blazon our Christians in the vvorshiping of the Crosse vvhich they sayd they deserued taking the Crosse for a punishment To whom Octauius aunsweres for the Christians We neither worshippe nor desire Crosses but you who haue consecrated Gods of Wood worshiping Crosses of Wood as peeces of your Gods Whereby it appeares that the auncient Christians in the purenesse of Christian religion did neither worship crosses of Gold Siluer Stone or Wood as these doe of the Romish religion How should they I pray you worshippe them seing they had them not which is more would not haue them But the Church of Rome doth quite contrarie running after Gods of Gold and Siluer made as the Psalme● saieth by mans hand In regarde of that which the Gentiles did obiect vnto the Christians that they did hide and not shew forth what they did worship Octauius aunsweres for the Christians Doe you thinke that we doe hide what we do worship although

Schooles begun by him about the same periode resisted the Romish idolatry planted in all the West We will likewise obserue an especiall grace which God powred vpon your Ilands realmes during these ages of ignorance idolatry for euē as the great men of the former periode disciples to the English Beda who maintained the onely worship of God went out of the Iland euen so God during this fourth periode preserued the same realmes defended them against the tyranny of Rome for Peter of Clugny writing to Bernard saith that the Scotishmen in his time did celebrate their Easter after the Greeke manner which is a testimony they were not yet subiect to the church of Rome which held thē heretickes that followwed the cerimonies of the Greekes who in the time of the said Bernard had their Lyturgie and seruice of the Church as they haue at this day which is a communion like vnto that of the reformed Church of these times neither did the Greeke Church euer allow of that heathenish worshippe of the Sacrament of the Lordes supper as in the Romish Church which caused Marcus Ephesius who was Orator for the Greekes at the counsell of Florence in a sermon printed at Paris in Greeke and Latine at the ende of the volume of Lyturgies to confute the Masse of the Latines as directly contrary to the institution of Iesus Christ So as the Scottishmen who maintained the ceremonies of the Greeke Churches had not yet receiued the new Romish Masse nor the heathen adoration of the hoast whereby we see that the people of your realmes were the first that made publike profession of Christ and abolished Gentilisme during the cruell persecutions of Romish Emperours and when as the tyranny of the Bishops of Rome brought into the Church about 400. yeares since the worship of the hoast as God the Creator the same British people were also the last of the West part of Europe which receiued the abominable worship of things created insteede of the Creator This heathenish worship began vnder Pope Honorius 3 about the yeare 1225. who commanded all Priestes and Curats to teach the people to kneele at the Eleuation of the hoast in the Masse or when it should be carried to sicke persons yet this idolatry was not long after receiued in the Churches of Germanie and France For Ralfe de Riuo printed a booke at Rome de Can obser propos 22. witnessing that Nicholas 3. about the yeare 1277. tooke the olde missalles out of all Churches of Rome bringing in a new forme of Masse inuented by the Fryers minors or Franciscans At this day saith hee all the bookes at Rome are new after the manner of Saint Francis and meaning to discribe the forme of Masse obserued in those dayes in Germany France other nations hee saith Leauing the manner of the Fryers mino●s let vs follow the holy Canons the ancient Scriptures and the generall customes of places and in doubtfull things the most auncient bookes And in the twenty three proposition he describes particularly all the ceremonies of the Masse as it was vsed in his time who liued in the beginning of the foreteenth age of Christianisme at what time it is found that the coniunction of the Bread and Wine was obserued according to the institution of our Sauiour and that both the Priest and people did eate and drinke togeather standing without adoration or inuocation of the Sacramentes and in the ende of the saide proposition hee saithe It is sacriledge to vse bread onely dipt in wine in the Sacrament of the Communion So as there was no difference betwixt the Communion of the reformed Church and the Communion of the Masle in those daies except the signe of the Crosse and some other ceremonies vestaments and incense The Masse therfore of our age is a new fiction of Cordiliers or Franciscan Friars the worship of a pretended God and the priuation of the cup is a plaine sacriledge for if they abuse to vse bread steept in wine instead of following the ful institutiō of our Sauiour was as they said Rodolphus de Riuo writeth cōdemned as sacriledge with greater reason is it a more horrible sacriledge to haue quite taken away the vse of the wine from the people The Romish Church of our age cannot bee called the true Church seeing they haue no Communion of the Cuppe and are fallen from the true Priesthoode as the Arrians and Nestorians by their errours lost the outward markes of Priesthoode During the fift Period of the ages of Christianisme which contains the thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth ages the Westerne Church was deuided into two parts for in the time of Bernard Peter de Valdo a rich Bourgesse of Lions hauing beene instructed in the onely worshippe of God by the reading of the holy Scriptures had the Romish Idolatrie in such horror as he sould all his goods and caused the Bible and many writings of the auncient fathers to be translated into French he made assemblies at Lions and appointed pensions for religious learned men to set vp Schooles of diuinitie who beeing since persecuted by the Popes and their adherents the said Schooles were dispersed ouer all France and a good part of Spaine Germanie and Bohemia who haue euer since maintained the same articles of the faith which are professed at this day in the Churches of your realmes whereof some were called Albigeois and others Taborites which haue florished and raigned vnto this day notwithstanding all the persecutions fires flames and cruell torments vsed against them by the supporters and fauourers of Rome Out of this Schoole also came Iohn Hus and Ierosme of Prage Wickliffe an Englishman Paul Crau a Scottish man who maintained the true and onely worshippe of one onely God and other articles of the faith confessed by the reformed Churches of Europe the which is seene by the articles recited by Aeneas Siluius beeing since Pope which shewes a notable correspondencie betwixt the first Period of Christianisme and the fift for euen as in the first three hundred yeeres the true Christians who worshipped one onely God without mingling the adoration of Creatures had beene persecuted by Pagan Rome euen so the worshippers of this true adoration haue beene cruelly persecuted during the three hundred yeres of the fift Period by Roome disguised with a Christian maske There is an other admirable correspondencie betwixt these and the second Period for euen as in the end of the first Period the God of armies did raise vp that great Constantine to plant his Church by force throughout all the Romaine Empire beeing then Pagan abolishing Idolatrie in the worship of men of Images and of visible and material formes euen so after the end of this fift Period God suffered the restoring of the said true auncient Christian religion to be done by armes We read in the Bohemian Historie of the said Aeneas Siluius that Zisca a great Captaine assēbled in the yeere 1501. a mightie armie beating downe all