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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66578	Nehushtan, or, A sober and peaceable discourse, concerning the abolishing of things abused to superstition and idolatry which may serve as one intire, and sufficient argument, to evince that the liturgy, ceremonies, and other things used at this day in the Church of England, ought neither to be imposed, nor retained, but utterly extirpated and laid aside : and to vindicate the non-conformists in their refusal to close with them.	Wilson, Joseph, d. 1678.	1668 (1668)	Wing W2927; ESTC R38669	118,485	216

displeas'd with them and punishes them Though Solomon was a man greatly respected by him as his name Jedidiah imports 2. Sam. 12.25 yet in regard he exercised not that severity against Idols he should but in complyance with his strange VVives built high places to them he was so incens'd against him that he interrupts his peaceable and flourishing reign stirs up Hadad Rezon and other adversaries against him 2 Kings 11.4 c. nay rends the Kingdom it self from him 8. From the concurrent judgements of the most holy learned orthodox VVriters the Church of God hath had since the Apostles times Though the best of men not secur'd against it by divine inspiration and direction are as all ages witness fallible and subject to mistake yet it is a considerable inducement to us to believe that what is held forth is the truth when it is witnessed and that upon probable and fair grounds by the unanimous testimony of such eminent persons And thus it is in the present case the ablest and choicest men the Church hath afforded have given their express and full suffrage in behalf of the point in hand August Calvin Martyr Wolphius See Lincoln Abridg p. 24. Lavater Sadeel Fulk Rainolds Perkins do all teach that such things as have been abused in superstitious and idolatrous services ought to be abolished and laid aside and for confirmation thereof urge the very Text I am now upon which they judg'd to hold forth so much These great names Dr. Morton found in the Abridgement he had to deal with but choose what was the matter thought it not convenient to return any answer Dr. Burgess his second Rejoynd ch 4 sect 6. p. 453. saith it would have been unreasonable then to have done it But why so was not this instance of Hezekiah alledged seasonably enough in the Abridgement and was it not seasonable to give the judgements of such learned men upon it and was it not as seasonable for the Defendant if he could to make some answer But in case the Defendant thought it unseasonable how as the Rejoyner did not undertake it especially seeing the Replyer charges the Defendant with the neglect of it Ames Fresh Suit part 2. p. 400. Some concern'd in the business expected it from him but in vain Now this would shrewdly tempt an indifferent person to think there was more in these testimonies than either the Defendant or Rejoyner could well tell how to answer To these I might by way of supply add divers others but shall at present offer you only two or three Haec autem non sic dico ut patrociner Papisticis superstitionibus c De Trad. p. 696. and give you their own words Musculus having shew'd what ttraditions are to be kept and what not adds I speak not these things so as to patronize Popish Traditions Rites and Worships God forbid and I call them Popish Traditions which either of their own Nature or by abuse are serviceable to Popish impiety superstition and blindness And a little after speaking of the Israelites abusing the brazen Serpent to idolatry shews how Hezekiah abolish'd it And Farell writing to Calvin about a Popish fellow whose name was Carolus saith Cumque Sanctus Rex Hezekias c. Ep. Calv. 49. Regula est illa a diaphora non necessaria c. vol. 1 Expl. Decal p. 1346. Princes may learn from Hezekiahs abolishiug the brazen Serpent what they are to do with those rites which idle men have set up and added significations to according to their own pleasure Nay Rivet to mention no more saith it is a rule that things indifferent not being necessary when they are polluted with gross idolatry are to be abolished VVhat authority then these men are of it is wholly ours in this business They are clear and peremptory that such things as are not of necessary use and be or have been made serviceable to corrupt ends and purposes are not only to be detested but abolished 9. From the Doctrine of our own Church which hath openly declared that such things as have been abused are to be laid aside Def. part 1. ch 20. Serm. in Phil. 2.20 p. 316. Def. of Perk. part 1. p. 165. Appeal l. 1. c. 2. sect 25. Eccl. Pol. l. 5. sect 65. as being thereby rendred unfit for further use Bishop Jewell in the common defence which he wrote in her behalf speaking to the Papists of certain of their ceremonies saith These ceremonies ye have so abused that unless we will greatly offend we cannot any longer retain them To the same purpose speaks Bishop Andrews whatsoever saith he is taken up at the injunction of man when it is drawn to superstition cometh under the compass of the brazen Serpent and is to be abolished Hereunto I might add what is delivered by Abbot Morton Hooker to the same purpose but waving such private though very considerable testimonies I shall offer you one or two of a more publick and authentick nature The Church of England in one of her Homilies Against the peril of Idolatry Serm. 2. discourses at large both from Scripture and Antiquity against the Monuments and occasions of idolatry and amongst other passages she alledges that of Epiphanius Bishop of Salamine in Cyprus who entring into a Church and finding an Image on the door took it and tore it in pieces willing the Keepers of the Church to give it to a poor man who was lately dead and wind him in it This she do's not only alledge but approve of telling us that what Epiphanius did he did it in imitation of good King Hezekiah who brake the brazen Serpent to pieces and burn'd it to ashes And as if this were not sufficient she do's in the discourse prefix'd to the present Liturgy render this as the weightiest cause of abolishing certain of the ceremonies that they have been so far abused partly by the superstitious blindness of the rude and unlearned and partly by the unsatiable avarice of such as sought more their own lucre than the glory of God Now if abuse either already committed or likely to be committed be a sufficient reason as she here contends it is wherefore Images and certain ceremonies should be abolished it must needs be a sufficient reason wherefore other things of the like nature in case they either have or are in danger to fall under it should also be abolished 10. From the determinations of our own Kings and Parliaments who among the standing Laws of the Nation have made provision that the reliques of Idolatry should be destroyed Amongst other Injunctions of Qu. Eliz. this was one Injunct 23. that all monuments of Idolatry and superstition should be so utterly extinguished and destroyed that there should remain no memory of them either in our Churches or houses with which the succeeding Laws so far complyed that the Stat. 3 Jac c. 5. impowers Justices of Peace Mayors Bailiffs and chief Officers of Cities and Towns corporate