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A84776 A declaration against all poperie, and popish points and is renounced from them and by them whom the scorners in scorn call Quakers : and likewise some queries to the Pope and his priests that are guarded with his law : to be answered in writing or print; and to be sent them called Quakers at London in England. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1655 (1655) Wing F1783; Thomason E844_10; ESTC R202129 13,879 13

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this World that doth blind the eye whether the gospel be a visible thing and whether the God of the world doth not keep open the visible ey which leads into temptations and what is the ey which the true God hath blinded lest they should see and be converted 33. Whether the Act of Philip and Mary was not made by the authority of the Church of Rome and had not authority to rule over the Church of Rome and to guard the Jesuits and Priests which law now guards many of the Priests of England and whether that be not a branch which comes from the root which they make use of and whether that be not to be renounced as well as other the points of Popery which was the guard of their Church And whether the Priests of England will renounce Popery in words and have that law to guard their Churches as guarded the Jesuites and if so whether this be not hypocrisie yea or nay These Queries are to all the Priests in England that are guarded with a Popish Law which guarded the Jesuites and to be sent to the Popish Priests the Jesuits and to the Pope at Rome to be answered by them in writing and the answer to be returned to those people who are de●pised with all Sects who are scornfully called Quakers in England at London And we do deny the making the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven or in the earth or in the waters for the Lord our God forbids it and furthermore he saith Thou shalt not bow down to them God saith Deut. 4. That thou shalt not make the likeness of any beast that is on the earth nor the likeness of any feathered fowl that flyes in the aire and God saith thou shall not make the likeness of any thing that creeps upon the earth least thou liftest up thy eyes to Heaven and thou seest the Sun Moon and Stars the Hoast of Heaven thou be driven to worship them and God saith corrupt not your selves with making any graven Image or representation of any figure whether it be the likeness of male and female and the Lord God saith rake heed to your selves lest you forget the Covenant of the Lord your God which he hath made with you least you make any graven Image or the likens of any thing as the Lord thy God hath charged thee and if ye corrupt your selves and make any graven image I call Heaven and earth to record against you this day that ye shall shortly perish from the land v. 26. And the Lord God saith in Deut. 5. Thou shalt not make any graven image of any thing in Heaven above or in the earth beneath or that is in the waters for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God For thus saith the Lord ye shall deal with them ye shall overthrow their altars and break down their pillars cut down their groves and burn their images with fire for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people to himself above all people that be upon the face of the earth The graven images was to be burnt with fire for they was the cursed thing from God and God drave out the nations from before his people which made images which his people was not for the Heathen did so make likenesses whom the Lord spewed forth of the Land which defiled it with their liknesses and images Baal had images 2 Kin. 3. And the Lord said put away the images and break down the images of Baal and in 2 Chron. there you may read of the image work and the graved image the idoll 2 Chron. 33.7 and Psal 73. When thou wakest O Lord and raisest us up thou shalt make their images despised and the Lord hath awaked and hath raised us up and their images are despised and so confounded be all they that worship graven images and in the Psalms you may read how they worshipped molten images Psal 106. And Nebuchadnezzar made a great image and them that would not worship his image was to be thrown into the fiery furnace and the worshipers of God would not worship his golden image Dan. 3. and in the Revel ye may see that they that do worship the Beast and his image shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone before the holy Angels and before the holy Lamb. And the servants of God song which had got the victory over the image and the beast Rev. 15. and the children of Israel shall remain without an image and they shall seek David their King Hos 3. And Rom. 1. ye may see how they turned the glory of the incorruptible God into the similitude of the image of a corrupt man and of birds and of four footed beasts and creeping things such God gave up to hardness of heart and they turned the truth of God into a lye such their minds was reprobated and fil'd with unrighteouss and deceit taking all things in the evil and these were and are the image-makers and ye may read in the Acts they of Ephesus were worshipers of images which the Apostle witnessed against Act. 18. And though the Lord did command the children of Israel they should not make an image yet they made a molten image which Moses stampt to peeces and burnt with fire and the Lord was angry with them they turned from his counsel Deut. 9. And in Judg. 17. there ye may read and see the molten images and in Judg. 18. ye may read of Michaels image and the molten image and how they set up Idolatry and the Lord sent Jeremiah to tell them the founder of the graven image is confounded for his melting is but falshood for there is no breath in them they are vanity the works of errors in the time of visitation they shall perish and Jacobs portion is not like unto them he is the maker of all things Israel is the rod of his inheritance the Lord of Hoasts is his name Laban had images who would have wronged Jacob Gen. 31. The Lord saith Exod. 23. thou shalt utterly overthrow and break down their images And in Exodus The Lord saith they shall break in peeces their images And the Lord saith I will destroy your high places and cut away your images and cast your carcasses upon the bodies of your idols and my soul abhors you Levit. 26.30 Num. 39. The Lord saith ye shall destroy all their pictures and break asunder all their images of mettal and pluck down all their high places and in 1 Sam. 6. there ye may read the Philistines Priests and South-sayers and their images and simiitudes of Mice which destroyed the land vers 11. And ye may read how David burnt the Philistines Images 2 Psal and Jeroboam which was not as the servant of God as David was but he did evil in the sight of God and made molten immages to provoke God and