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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15104	A godlye and fruitefull sermon against idolatrie vvherein the foolishe distinctions and false interpretations of the seconde commandement, and other scriptures pretended by the Papists, are plainly and fully confuted: preached the .xv. daye of Ianuarie. 1581. in the parrishe church of Eaton Sooken, within the countie of Bedforde, by P.W. minister and preacher in that place.	White, Peter, Vicar of Eaton Socon.	1581 (1581)	STC 25402; ESTC S106308	12,644	48

A Godlye and fruitefull Sermon against Idolatrie VVherein the foolishe distinctions and false interpretations of the seconde commandement and other scriptures pretended by the Papists are plainly and fully confuted Preached the .xv. daye of Ianuarie 1581. in the Parrishe Church of Eaton Sooken within the Countie of Bedforde by P. W. Minister and Preacher in that place Tertullian Jdolum tam fieri quam coli Deus prohibet Lactantius Non est dubium quin religio nulla sit vbicunque simulachrum est AT LONDON Imprinted by Frauncis Coldocke 1581. To the Reader SVCHE HATH been the rash and vndiscreet deling of the defendours of the Popishe errours and abuses reprooued in this little treatise that after the preaching of this Sermō diuers slanderous reports were giuen forth of me whereby I am enforced in the defence of my Ministery to bring to the view of many that thing which at the firste I deliuered to a fewe rather yeelding my selfe vnto the iudgement of euery indifferent reader then to hazard wyth silence the credit of my function to the mouthes of slanderous reporters And herein I am to desire the reader to beare with me for that I haue not so strictly folowed my text in this place as the nature of reading preaching requireth but taking occasiō therof to enter the handling of a common place remember I pray you that extraordinary occasion did leade yea rather drawe me thervnto For where I had begun to read and interprete the reuelation of S. John and had in my last Lecture handled some part of this Text here recited by reason of a contention begun amongst vs about a remnaunt of a Roodelofte then standing in the Churche where this Sermon vvas preached which Roodelofte indeed wanteth nothing of his former state but only the images and vppermost front The loft being nine foote in bredth yet standeth with the beame where the Roode or Idoll did stande hauing the Tabernacles that sometimes stoode vpon the Alters placed from the beame aforesayde downewarde vnto the loft for a Diuision and all the neither front downeward remaining as it did In the time of popery A monument with small charge and lesse laboure quicklye repayred for the idolatrie that it was firste appointed vnto Vpon this occasion I say after a shorte recitall of thinges touched in my lecture last before I tooke matter of the Candlesticks mencioned in the Text to handle the Question then in contention among vs following the same at large as I haue layde it foorth to the view of all that shall reade it Wherein I haue neither as I thinke shewed malice rashnesse or yet plaid the part of a mad man as it hath pleased some to report of me but simply and truelye to the conuincing of popish errors and idolatrie and to the quieting and strengthning of the weake consciences of the simple of mine owne charge layed foorth the truth for some discharge of my dutie and function in this behalfe But such is the difficultie of the reedifying building vp of the Lordes house as well appeareth both by the building of the materiall Temple in the dayes of Zorobabell Iosedech Nehemias 1. Esdra 4. Agg. 1. Nehem. 4. Ioh. 2. and Esdras where not only the forraine enemies but also counterfeite Israëlites did so disturbe and hinder the Builders that in fortie and sixe yeares they with much difficultie did hardlye finish the same And the building of the spirituall house or Temple of the Lorde but cheefely now in these euill last and daungerous dayes wherein the Deuil and Antichrist rageth extremely because their time is but shorte yea euen amongst vs where the freedom in building of this House vnder a most godly and gracious Prince whome the Lord euer preserue is freelye graunted by outward enemies as the professed Papistes Harding Saunders Dorman Heskins Allen. c. with the rable of Jebusites no Ihesuits subuerters no sauers doe together with domesticall enemies as Atheists Newters counterfeit Gospellers and dissembling Papistes seruing the time and seeking the ouerthrow of our common Weale busily let and hinder this heauenlye building Wherein they do and will preuaile vntill such time as al filthie rubbish of popish religion be vtterly remoued and cast forth as well from the hartes of all such as builde and are to be builded as from churches and all other places which the Lord Iesus spedily accomplish that we his people of Englande may be framed an holye and acceptable building vnto him selfe that his glorye maye euer shine among vs and we continuallye preserued thorow the power of the same Finis The Text. And I turned me and saw seuen golden Candlesticks and in the middest of the seuen Candlesticks one like vnto the sonne of man WHere heeretofore Derelye beloued we haue by occasiō of this learned that Christe Iesus our Sauiour is alwais presēt vnto al those which at the hearing of his voyce turne vnto him the figure of this Angel testifying the presence of Christ sheweth how vnpossible a thing it is to laye foorth and expresse the glorye and properties of the person office of Christ by an Image made grauen and paynted by man whereby not onely the madnesse of the Heathen that in grauen Images pretended the representation and worship of god but also of the Papistes who in their Imagery pretended the like is euidently conuinced It now remaineth that we examine why in this place the church of God is resembled or represented by Candlesticks why it may not be lawfull to haue the vse of Candlesticks and other such ceremoniall figures now in the church of God And this the rather because in this place the questions of these such like hath broke in amōg vs. For the deciding whereof the right reuerend learned father my L. of L. was determined this day to haue occupied this place who being letted with weightie matters otherwise cannot now answere your expectations wherefore as it shall please God to make me able for the time I will speake to the conuincing of error and satisfying the consciences of the troubled First that the holye spirite of God may alwayes appeare to bee constante and vnuariable hee vseth not any one similitude in this reuelation or in the whole newe Testament but he hath eyther the same or the like in the olde as the figures of Candlestickes from Exodus the xxv Other causes maye bee giuen Exod. 2● which when the Angels interpetation shall of these Candlestickes be handled you shall heare Then that it is not only vnlawfull but also manifestly wicked to bring ceremoniall fygures and Images into the Churche because that all ceremoniall fygures at the death of Christ were remooued and cleane taken awaye And to bring them agayn Galat. were as Saint Paule sayth to denye Christe Exod. 20. And images by the law and word of god are forbidden But if any do pretend the Cherubs ouer the Ark and the brasen serpent to colour Imagery they do