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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

Idols and Images abolishing the new Masse or the worshiping of the Hoast Soone after many Princes did rise and many faithfull learned men by whose ministrie and valour the purenesse of the preaching of the Gospell was restored in the sinceritie of Christian truth as it was at the comming of Constantine in the West of Europe I may therefore iustly say that among all the Princes which haue laboured for the restoring and reformation of the auncient Church your predecessours King Edward and Queene Elizabeth of happle memories haue beene the first which haue built vpon this foundation after Constantine although long after and now SIRE these blessed soules behould from heauen the full perfection of their worke which must be finished by you whom they haue left the successour and heire of their most royall enterprises Your Maiestie hath a familiar example in the life of the disceased Queene of happie memorie who hath bene a true mother vnto you In whose gouernment we haue seene as in a looking glasse that God hath accompanied her with an admirable and extraordinarie prosperitie foelicitie and happie successe in all her affaires for hee hath drawne her from a prison to a kingdome he hath made her to raigne fortie and fiue yeeres in great peace and tranquilitie hauing discouered aboue twentie enterprises readie to bee put in execution against her life and state hee indued her with all kindes of perfections and vertues as prudence modestie and wisdome in all her actions beautified with a liuely and sound iudgement farre exceeding her sex And for a fulnesse of happinesse the same God did prolong her daies vnto threescore and ten yeares in the which she was alwayes victorious ouer her enemies both home bred and strangers What is then the cause SIRE I will attribute it wholy vnto God and to the puritie of his Gospell and to Christian religion the which she hath established in her kingdoms whereof this most Christian and generous Princesse made a sincere profession all her life Hauing therefore in this peaceable and Christianlike manner yeelded vp her blessed soule to her benefactor and Creatour the great God immortall she left those realmes abouÌ„ding in all riches in great peace and admirable vnion and concord And moreouer to seale vp her forepassed life and death with a greater benefit for the loue she bare vnto her subiectes which is a great proofe of the blessing of God we haue seene the wisdome she vsed euen at the last gaspe hauing so profitably and so effectually perswaded her subiects to imbrace acknowledge your Maiesty whom she knew to be the true lawfull vndoubted heire and successor of her goodly flourishing Realmes of England and Ireland by right of consanguinity and lawfull succession Who dooth not see the assistance of God in all this action In that he would haue your Maiesty established in this most high degree of honour not for any other respect but that in raigning happily and in peace you should finish the full deliuery and restoring of Israel and of the Churches of your realmes and to continue the pure preaching of the Gospel so happily begun by her Maiesty of blessed and happy memory against the Idolatry of Rome I doubt not SIRE but Sathan and his supporters will herein imploy their straragems to counsell your Maiesty to induce you to ioyne with that great whore of Babilon a whore which makes the kings princes of the earth druÌ„k with the cup of her spiritual fornicatioÌ„ But I assure my selfe that your Maiesty like vnto wary nice Vlisses will stop your eares against al her charmes inchantments and all urements continuing inuiolable constant and resolute in your royall vertues the which God hath bountifully planted in you to maintaine and preserue his Church and Sacraments to his honor and glory in their purety against the poisons Romish inuensions of men Most humbly beseeching your Maiesty to remember that the Popes pretend to be the true kings of England and Ireland houlding the Kinges of the said kingdoms for their vassals and tributaries who now vnder colour to free you from their said pretensions would draw you vnto them and impose vpon you a most heauy and seruile yoake If your Maiesty should so forget your selfe as to cleaue vnto them who knoweth not that their successors are accustomed to disanull the deedes and promises of their predecessors and which is more to hould no faith with heretickes as they call you But SIRE this is nothing in respect of the hard slauery of soules whom they torture with their censures and excommunications So as you shal no sooner subiect your selfe vnto their lawes but vpon the first dislike they will absolue and free your subiects from their oath of obedience due vnto their true and lawfull King they will depose you at their pleasures and giue your crownes to whom they like wherof we haue too many late examples But when they shall see your Maiesty to oppose constantly against their tyranny they will not dare to attempt against you nor your realmes And moreouer is not your Maiesty at this present protector of the Church of all your realmes yea the greatest of the Soueraigne kings which professe the purenes of the Gospell shall not these lawfull titles of honour be sufficient to diuert your Maiesty from following the counsell of such Sirens of state They would gladly perswade you to acknowledge this furious beast who seekes but to deuour good Kings to chalenge to himselfe all power as he saith in heauen earth and hell An essentiall marke that he is the man of iniquity meÌ„tioned in the Scriptures which hath raised himselfe aboue all nations and aboue all religion If this monster held you at his deuotion the which I with all your good subiects thinke to be impossible how great a leuiathan soeuer he be doubt not SIRE but he would make you the most vile and most abiect of al his lifetenants treading you more proudly vnder his feete then euer he did the good Emperour Barbarosse And then let your Maiesty consider in what misery calamity and desolation of desolations both you my Lord the Prince whom you loue deerely and all your subiects who pray for you hourely should be reduced in these your flourishing realmes The Almighty God which gouerneth disposeth of Monarchies according to his will which giueth victories in battailes who is the spring and fountaine of all wisedome and knowledge giue your Maiesty a raigne like vnto the Queene of blessed happy memory Increase your Maiesty in wisedome and knowledge and in true piety and purenesse of his seruice giue you victory ouer all them that shall attempt against you or your estate and finish the worke in you begun for the restoring of the true Church banishing out of your Ilands and realmes all tyranny heresie and Romish Idolatry And for a happy ende the same eternall God giue you a full and perfect inioying of the Crowne of glory in the happinesse of eternall life through his sonne Iesus Christ our Lorde FINIS Baleus ex Gilda et alijs script Anglis Niceph l. 2. c 4 Plat. in vit The lesph Athanas Oret cont gentes tom 1. pag. 34. In Parenetico Euseb in vita Constan Idem in Constant Euseb ibid. Sedulius in cap. 1. epist ad Rom. Aug. epist 45. ad Max grammat tom 2. AthaÌ„ cont Arr. orat 3 et epist ad Ephes Orat. 3. pro. pace Expositor ordin in Rom. Casand in Litur Honor. in Gemma anime Ado. in Chro. Aeneas Siluius in Hist Boem * Matth. Paris in Hist Angl. sub Henric. 3. pa. 660. Mat. vvestmon in Florib hist sub an 1216.

we haue neither Temples nor Aulters for what Image shall I make of God If thou hast thy right sences thou shalt finde that man is the true Image of God And a little after he saith But the God whom we worship we neither shewe nor see If the auncient Christians had beene like vnto the Romish Christians of this age the Gentiles could not haue obiected that they had neither Aultars nor Images for in truth they haue more Aulters and Images then the Gentiles had Neither should they haue obiected vnto the ChristiaÌ„s that they concealed what they worshipped for the Romains shew in the eleuation of the Host the God which they worship cause the people to worship it the which they not onely shewe in Temples but also in the streetes and in generall processions and other solemnities they shew forth what they worship against the vse of the first Christians Tertulian in his booke of Idolatrie confutes with many reasons the making of all sortes of Images to roote out all matter of Idolatrie and after he had cited the second commaundement whereby it is defended to make the likenesse of anie thing that is in heauen or earth hee saith It is forbidden throughout all the worlde for the seruants of God to vse such making of Images seeing that Enoch had foretoulde that the Diuell or the Angels of darkenesse should turne all the Elements into Idolatrie and all that is conteyned in Heauen and Earth that all these things might bee consecrated for God against God himselfe And so mans errour doth worshippe all things except the Creator of all things Their Images were Idols and the consecration of Images is Idolatrie And whatsoeuer Idolatrie commits must necessarily be attributed to the maker of the Idol That which Origen speaketh vpon the Epistle to the Romaines is to be considered to make Christians wholy to reiect Idolatrie For after that he hath refuted the Errours of the Gentiles in that they might know God by the visible Ellementes yet they had fallen to the worshippe of the visible Images of Creatures concluding thus To the ende that in fewe wordes wee may speake the truth wee houlde it an abhominable impietie to worshippe any thing except the Father Sonne and holy Ghost And a little after hee saith They wrong themselues that serue Images and worshippe the Creature leauing the Creator But we Christians which worship and adore the Father Sonne and holy Ghost onely and no other Creature as we doe not erre in the diuine worshippe so doe wee not offend in our actions and conuersation It is most certaine that the Host offred vp in the Romaine Lyturgie is not consubstantiall with the Father Son holy Ghost much lesse vnited in consubstantialitie with the Trinitie as it is well noted in the sermon de Caena Domini inserted among the workes of Cyprian who liued in the third age where it is saide That the diuine essence is infused in the visible Sacrament after an vnspeakable manner that there might bee more deuotion and reuerence giuen to the Sacraments and a more holy accesse to the truth of him of whose bodie they bee Sacraments and to the participating of the spirite not to the consubstantialitie of Christ but to this brotherly and indiuisible vnitie for the Sonne onely is consubstantiall with the Father the substance of the Trinitie may not bee deuided our coniunction and that of Christ doth not confounde the persons nor vnite the substances but doth onely consociate the affections and binde the willes If in the person of Iesus Christ consisting of three natures in one person worshiped with one onely worshippe the deuine nature had beene onely infused in the humanitie of Iesus Christ after his birth as Nestorius did teach and not vnited personally in the virgins wombe Cyrillus and the other Orthodoxes did rightly mainetaine agaynst him that to worshippe one Christ carrying God in him had beene an Antropolatrie or Pagan Idolatrie With greater reason the infusion of the Diuinitie in the Sacrament and in the elements of Breade and Wine cannot attribute vnto it the dignity to bee worshipped as God himselfe for as that text doth teach vs this infusion which is made in the sacrament is not consubstantiall with the deity of the Sonne of God the which is onely consubstantiall with the father and the holy spirite for that it dooth affect a most straight and mutuall coniunction betwixt God and vs. Saint Iohn in his seuenteenth Chapter speaketh of this coniunction and vnion where our Sauiour prayes to his father for all those that shall beleeue in him That all may be one as thou O father art in me and I in thee that they may be one in vs. If this vnion should make that sacrament of the Lords supper to be worshipped then those which are vnited in Christ and by him in God the father should worship one another for our Sauiour saith in the sixt of Saint Iohn Hee that eates my flesh and drinks my bloud remaines in me I in him That we might know saith CypriaÌ„ that our abiding in him is a true eating and the drinking an incorporation with a duty of obedience ioyning of willes and vnitie of affections The eating therefore is a certaine greedinesse in vs and a desire to remaine for euer in Christ We learne by these authorities that euen as Christs abyding in vs by our eating of the sacrament makes vs not capable of worship for that by this coniunction wee are not personally vnited with the deity of Iesus Christ In like sort the infusion of the deuine essence in the sacramentes whereof Saint Cyprian speakes makes not the sacrament to be worshipped if it were so the said adoration were in idolatrye like that of Nestorius who worshipped man carrying God in him as is said before We may therfore say with good reason against those that worship the creatures and the images of Iesus Christ his sepulcher and the wood of the crosse that which Origen speaketh against the Gentiles of his time God is the vertue which gouernes all things and the diuinitye which filleth all things making themselues thereby inexcusable that whereas God hath giuen them the grace to know him yet haue they not honoured him as they ought neither haue they giuen him due thankes but haue sought in the vanity of their owne imaginations the images of God As those of the Romish Church doe in the Masse for in their hoast they make figures and images They haue lost in themselues the Image of God they which vanted to haue the spirite of wisedome are fallen into the obscure darkenesse of ignorance For what is there more abhominable theÌ„ to turne the glory of God to the corporall and corruptible image of mans nature the which is done at this present throughout all the Romish Church as it is saide So as they haue conuerted God the Creatour of all things into a corporall and corruptible forme whome they thought to worship vnder those visible

read that he did consecrate his Empire to Saint Andrew or Saint George as some of your predecessors in the time of Error and blindenesse But did dedicate his house and familie to one King that is God onely God was his onely patron who recompensed him with all good things and made him Lord and Conquerour ouer all other Princes He commaunded all his armie to call vppon one God as the giuer of victories he appointed that in their praiers they should lift vp their handes to heauen and the eyes of their vnderstanding to the most high king of Heauen Hee also taught them the forme of praying to God as followeth Wee confesse thee to be the onely God wee acknowledge thee to be the onely King wee call vppon thee to aide vs they did not inuoke the virgin Marie by thee wee obtayne victorie ouer our enemies wee giue thee thankes for the benefites wee receiue in this present life hoping for future things by thy meanes wee crye vnto thee with all humilitie that it would please thee to make our Emperour Constantine victorious and preserue his Godly Children in long life and happie health They did not call vpon the Angelles Michael and Gabriel to giue them victory Hereby we see that it is a false and slaundrous thing which the aduersaries of the trueth impute to your Maiesty to haue left the auncient profession of your predecessors and to haue planted a new religion begunne by Martin Luther Iohn Caluin and other most learned men whom God hath stirred vp in our age to abolish the false Romish worshippe as hath beene sufficiently prooued to your Maiesty in the discources of the first periode of the first three hundred yeeres And to shew that the onelye worshippe of the Creatour without mingling the adoration of the Creatures continued vnto this second periode of three hundred yeares in your Iland I will content my selfe with the saying of Sedulius Scotus Hibernensis who lyued in the fift age in these wordes which hee hath drawne out of Origen which I haue before cited It is a sinne of impietye to worshippe anye other but the Father Sonne and holye Ghost Whereunto Saint Augustine speakes very fitly saying Know that the Christians whereof there is a Church in your Towne Worshippe not anye dead thing neyther anye thing that hath beene made by God but God onelye is worshipped who hath made and created all things Our aduersaries dare not affirme that the hoast in the Masse is one of the three parsons of the Trinity as we haue saide which were a greater heresie then that of Arrius who sayde that the Sonne of God was a Creature hauing a beginning beeing not the Sonne of God from all eternitye All their Doctors teach that it is made and created by the pronountiation of the wordes of Iesus Christ taking his beginning by the consecration whereby we inferre that they are worshippers of visible formes and therfore Idolaters in worshipping it seeing it is no eternall creature nor consubstantiall with God the Father For Athanasius Theodoret Cyrillus and all the ancient Fathers booth Greeke and Latine of the second periode of three hundred yeares of Christianity teach that if the Sonne of God had beene created or had had any beginning that he had not beene worshipped for that the Creature dooth not worshippe the Creature God onely is to be worshipped if the Sonne had beene a creature he had not beene worshipped God forbidde we should worshippe the Creature this madnesse fittes best with the Pagans and Arrians And in another place hee saithe that the Christians worshippe not the body of Iesus Christ deuided from the deity Neither when wee worshippe the worde saith hee doe we seperate the worde from the flesh but knowing that the worde hath beene made flesh acknowledge that which is in the flesh to bee God And a little after speaking of the Leaper he saith Hee worshipped the Lord in his body and did acknowledge him for God And the same Athanasius teacheth vs that the bodye of our Lorde is not consubstantiall with the Father and therefore not to bee worshipped alone with greater reason the hoast which cannot bee saide consubstantiall with the Father is not to bee worshipped For if the deitye of Iesus Christ had not beene consubstantiall with the Father and without beginning as the Father is it had not beene lawfull to worshippe him And this SIRE hath beene represented vnto you in the first periode the which I repeate heere to shew the continuance of the worship of one onely God It is therefore manyfest that the Christians of this second periode ending in the sixe hundred yeare of Christianity did beleeue that it was a Pagan Idolatry to worshippe any Creature which had a beginning restraining all adoration but to the Trinitye alone worshipping nothing vnderneath it the which is comprehended by Gregorys Nazianzene in few words where he saith that we must worshippe nothing aboue or beneath the Trinity For saith hee it is impossible to worshippe any thing aboue God and to worshippe anye thing vnderneath God is meere impietye Let vs adde heere unto what Theodoret saith who liued in the fift age touching the adoration of the Sacrament of the Lordes supper for that the Romains corrupting his writings attribute vnto him the worship of the Simbols of the body bloud of our Lord Iesus Christ which he neuer dreampt of for besides that which wee haue before alledged that hee condemned the Arrians for that they worshipped the deity which they say de was created Hee saith in the fifty fiue question vppon Genesis that God did allowe to eate the flesh of beastes to restraine the people from worshipping of them foreseeing that men should fall into that blindenesse and superstition as they should worshippe beastes as wee reade of the worshippe of the Golden Calfe like vnto the Egyptians where Theodoret concludes that it is a meere madnesse to worshippe that which wee eate So as according vnto Theodoret the priests should bee madde to worshippe that which they eate Athanasius against the Arrians teacheth that the deity is not to be eaten and yet the Romaines maintaine that their hoast is God himselfe and they sinne that they eate that which is present in the hoast which in effect is to make the deity edible Our Sauiour before he left this world would leaue vnto all men that should beleeue in him a perpetual comemoration of his true incarnation and passion to the end this memoriall should bee as it were a Simbole of the presence of his humaine nature hereon earth He might as well after the manner of the Greekes and Romaines haue left his portraite liuely drawne to serue for a representation and commemoration vnto such as should beleeue in him yea they should make infinite numbers of pictures like vnto the starres of heauen to be in all assemblies of Christians and to shewe that he had put on a bodie like vnto those pictures but he

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