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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51287	An appendix to the late antidote against idolatry Wherein the true and adequate notion or definition of idolatry is proposed. Most instances of idolatry in the Roman Church thereby examined. Sundry uses in the Church of England cleared. With some serious monitions touching spiritual idolatry thereunto annexed.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.	1673 (1673)	Wing M2642; ESTC R223783	31,890	68

Godhead which is plainly Idolatry XLVI The harbouring a false Idea of God horrid and affrightful another kind of Spiritual Idolatry As is also to raise a false Idea of God more horrid and affrightful than the most terrible Idols of the Heathen and to flatter this and our selves as special favourites of it because we believe it to be such as we have falsly imagined it of adamantine severity or rather cruelty to infinitely the greatest part of mankind inevitably to be damned to everlasting ineffable torments and our selves fatally and necessarily to be made happy out of a partial fondness to our Persons before the rest of the world live as we list meerly because he will have it so and that this shall be the bottom of our faith and trust this certainly would be spiritual Idolatry also and an egregious violating that pretious Divine Attribute if not the very Nature of God whom Saint John has declared to be love God is love and he that abideth in love abideth in God and God in him Iohn 4.16 XLVII That those Christians that persecute and kill one another for conscientious difference in Religion turn the God of the Christians into a foul Heathen Idol In the law of Moses it is forbidden to offer strange incense or strange fire and it is as strictly forbidden in the Gospel of Christ. For when his Disciples would have had him fetch fire down from Heaven as Elias did for an affront done to their Lord and Master he rebuked them saying You know not of what spirit you are Luk. 9.54 Bitter and destructive zeal the Apostle calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the strange fire or Incense not to be offered to the Lord under the Gospel For nothing is more estranged from the Spirit of the Gospel than it John 16.2 The time comes saith our Saviour when any one that kills you will think he does 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he does God an acceptable piece of Divine worship or service as if he offered an Oblation or Sacrifice to him And this is indeed that strange Incense fire and sacrifice that all Religionists offer to God be they of what perswasion they will Pontifician or Protestant that persecute and kill the one the other for conscientious difference in Religion as if they were the weapons of Christs warfare Who yet has so expresly said By this shall all men know that you are my Disciples if you love one another But in persecuting killing and sacrificing one another thus in a barbarous zeal thinking they do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make an oblation of Divine worship to God thereby they turn the living God of the Christians which is Love it self into the foulest Idols of the Heathen who used to be worshipped with the bloody sacrificing of men and therefore plainly commit spiritual Idolatry violating and defacing the peculiar character of the God of the Christians while they thus pretend to worship Him XLVIII The laying out all the strength of our Bodies and Souls for the satisfaction of our own will another instance of this Idolatry Saint Paul exhorts the Romans Chap. 12. to present their bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which he calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our reasonable Latria viz. that Divine worship which is most fit and reasonable to give to God namely that we dedicate and devote all the powers and faculties of our souls and bodies for in that it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a living sacrifice the soul is manifestly implyed unto his service This is our reasonable and fitting Latria we owe to God and therefore if we imploy all the powers of our mind and strength of our body to serve our selves and our own carnal and worldly desires it is evident we make an Idol of our selves and give that worship to our selves that is reasonable to give to God only XLIX The letting out the fulness and entireness of our affection to any Creature another instance thereof And whenas it is written Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and all thy Soul that is to say the greatest strength and fulness of thy affection shall be entirely carryed out towards him and other things be loved only for his sake God challenging this as his peculiar due if we let this height and entireness of affection go to any other person or thing friend wife child repute pleasure or whatever else this peculiarity of God is violated and it is most certainly a kind of spiritual Idolatry Which makes it less to be wondred at that people are so frequently crossed in those things or persons that they so excessively love And therefore it is our safety as well as our duty to have our affections moderate to all things saving to God alone where there can be no danger of excess L. The making our selves the ultimate end of our actions and services of God an egregious instance of this spiritual Idolatry And lastly for this is an argument so copious that a man may easily lose himself in it It is well known and cannot be denied but that God is the ultimate end of all He is so in himself and ought to be acknowledged so by us both in our words and actions Wherefore if we make our selves the ultimate end of our actions and our own Happiness as our own and not as according to the will and nature of God so that we serve and worship God for our own sakes making as it were a crafty bargain with the all-wise God and performing it too which is worst of all no further than it stands with our own present ease security and interest preferring these before his will and command this also is manifest Spiritual Idolatry and we again make an Idol of our selves in making our selves the ultimate end of our Actions For there can be but one ultimate end which is the will of the Father the light of the knowledg of God in the face of Jesus Christ manifested in us who is the brightness of his glory and express Image of his person Who declared in the flesh he came not to doe his own will but the will of him that sent him This therefore is the supreme Law and will of God touching the purity of his worship that we have no will nor end of our own For as we are to have but one God Hear O Israel the Lord thy God is one God Deut. 6.4 so we are to have but one will even the will of the God whom we worship Which we have not if we have any self-will or self-ends unsubordinate to the will of God Whose Will and Law is the Law of an unself-interested Love that is ready to act and content to suffer any thing for the Good of the Creation of God be it never so bitter and painful as was most exemplarily conspicuous in our blessed Saviour And of this it is that that bosome friend of our Lord Jesus witnesses in the close of his Epistle John 5.20 And we know that the Son of God is come and has given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ. Little Children keep your selves from Idols Amen The End Chaitable constructions of some private Doctours expressions