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A42751	A treatise against superstitious Jesv-worship wherein the true sense of Phil. 2, 9-10 is opened, and from thence is plainly shewed and by sundry arguments proved, that corporall bowing at the name Jesus, is neither commanded, grounded, or warranted thereupon ... / written especially for the benefit of weake seduced persons that have a zeale towards God, though not according to knowledge by Mascall Giles.	Giles, Mascall, 1595 or 6-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing G738; ESTC R28636	55,934	65

the creatures together at once But bowing at the Name Jesus cannot be done by all at once suppose we understand it onely of rationall creatures For how can the Angels and glorified Saints understand when Jesus is named on Earth How can we on Earth heare when Jesus is named in Heaven How can those under the Earth know when Jesus is named in Heaven or Earth How can those in Heaven and Earth know when Jesus is named in Hell or could it be known were it fit then to bow Yea how can we heare when Jesus is named in another Congregation But grant it be referred to one particular place how can it be done How shall things in Heaven bow at the Name Jesus when they have the Person of Christ with them which by Bishop Andrewes assertion before specified would be unseasonable to be then performed How shall deafe men bow at the Name Jesus who cannot heare it pronounced What shall not they fulfill the Text as well as others Seeing no creature is excepted Is not Christ Lord of them as well as of others How shall young Infants bow at the Name Jesus to whom Gods Kingdome belongs as to others How shall things in hell bow at the Name Jesus To speake first of Devils which come into our Congregations how if they had knees shall they bow at the Name Jesus These Devils tremble say some because of Jesus but trembling is not bowing 2. Shall they tremble more at the Name Jesus than Christ or Jehovah It were sensles to imagine it How shall the damned Soules in Hell bow at the Name Jesus After what manner shall Jesus be named in hell There is no Church there no divine service there which is the place and season these men say of this bowing There is nothing in hell but blaspheming what shall they blaspheme and then bow if they had bodies most ridiculous What shall they not fulfill the Text in hell and be under Christs power untill Jesus be named then they might ease their torment by forbearing the mention of that Name Seeing in hell they can doe nothing but blaspheme how shall they Bow The Bowers at the Name Jesus doe maintaine that when men sweare by Jesus it is no time and place for bowing yet the worst manner of naming Jesus on earth is better than the best in hell therefore there is no time and place for it in hell yet must things in hell fulfill the Text therefore it cannot be the meaning of the Text to bow at the Name Jesus SECTION XI THe aforesaid exposition of the said Text will make us serve God in bondage Therefore it is an untrue and false Exposition The Consequent is plaine for Christ hath brought us to libertie and made us free Gal. 5. 1. in which freedome we are commanded to stand fast That it will bring us againe into bondage it is plaine for it will tye the service of God to every mans will be they never so vile for whensoever Jesus is named by whomsoever if this exposition be true we must bow yea therefore it will bring guilt of sin upon the soules of every one that shall at any time heare this Name Jesus named and not bow By this meanes Christ shall bring us into greater bondage than the bondage of the Ceremoniall Law from which he delivered his Church To this I will subjoyne another Argument It will bring the Spirt of God into bondage Therefore it is a wicked opinion I prove it from John 3. 8. The winde bloweth where it listeth i. e. The Spirit of God worketh when and where he pleaseth and not at our pleasure All the holy actions of a Christian are wrought by the Holy Ghost therefore by this exposition the worke of the Holy Ghost will be enthralled to the will of every man yea of vile men also The answer which they give to this hath no weight in it they make use here of this Rule Praecepta affirmativa c. Affirmative Precepts doe alwayes binde but not to all times Therefore say they we are not bound to doe it but when the Church orders it viz. In time of Divine Service and Sermons I reply this rule holds in those Precepts the time of performance whereof is not determined in the Word but it cannot hold in this place For as these men expound the Text the time is appointed when this bowing shall be performed viz. At the mention of the Name Jesus Therefore it is a sinne at any time to name it or heare it named and not to bow Gods unlimited Commands cannot be limited therefore the Church limiting it to a time could not ground it on Gods Command The Name Jesus is the same Name at one time or place as at another It cannot be proved in the whole booke of God but when God determined a time of doing any thing but that it bound ordinarily at that time When a Master shall say to his servant At my calls you shall answer and give attendance When his Master shall call and he give no attendance is not he disobedient Would it be a good excuse for him to tell his Master That he is not bound to waite upon him but onely at the Table So if God shall say At the sound of the Name Jesus you shall bow when they heare it often mentioned and will not bow doe they not breake Gods command Will it be a tolerable excuse to plead that they are not bound to doe it but onely at Church When Nebuchadnezzar made a Decree Dan. 3 that at the sound of the Cornet Sackbutt c. all should fall downe and worship did not he intend that this command should binde at all times when these Instruments should be sounded out And did not the people of the Land judge Shadrach Meshach and Abednego to be transgressours of the Kings Commandement when having heard the sound they did not bow So if God should say At the sound of the Name Jesus you shall all bow It is a manifest breach of the Commandement when at any time it is heard and no bowing performed Therefore when Gods commandement is plaine and unlimited and they say the Church must limit it they give the Church authoritie over Gods Word They cannot deny but they must be alwayes internally reverent at the Name Jesus according to the third Commandement which injoynes inward reverence at all times when we mention any of Gods Titles or else Gods Name shall be taken in vaine If then expression of outward reverence at the Name Jesus be also Gods command it must be performed at all times when it is mentioned or else the Name Jesus will be profaned unlesse they will have the Precepts of the Gospell lesse obligatory and binding than the Precepts of the Law They may therefore with as good reason affirme that we are not bound to be internally reverent at all times when we mention the Name Jesus or any other divine Titles but onely in the Church as not

ancient and moderne Confessed also by the Champions for bowing at the Name Jesus as * Bishop Andrewes and * Mr Page who in his Treatise of Justification of Bowing understands the Text of the generall subjection of all Creatures to Christ at the great day of Judgement and is forward to alledge many Authors for it as Theophilact Anselme Aquinas Illyricus Hunnius and Hyperius Salmeron Zanchius and Estius and tels us that he could cite twice as many more if he pleased The Major therefore is undeniable For the Minor I never read any yet in Print to affirme that we shall all bow at the Name Jesus at the day of Judgement Master Page indeed coasteth towards it but speaks not out plainly For thus he answereth the Argument taken from the day of Judgement * Though all shall be subject to Christ then yet shall not we be subject before we needs must and declare our subjection by our bowing at the Name of Jesus for subjection doth not exclude but include bowing It shall be true of all knees then but it must be verified of some knees now I agree with him in this that there is a present equitie of the Text I consent to Mr Calvin who saith that though the Kingdome of Christ be not prefect till the day of Judgement yet it is begun already and encreaseth daily * Christ hath now all things under his feete and all Creatures are at his Rule and becke and must and shall fulfill not their owne will but the will of Christ though they shall not be perfectly subdued till the last day But yet Master Pages inference is not to the purpose for to affirme that because we must be all subject to Christ at the day of Judgement therefore we must declare our subjection by bowing at the Name Jesus is all one as to affirme because servants must be subject to their Masters that they must shew their subjection by bowing at their Masters Name or because wives must be subject to their husbands therefore they must make a cursie at the Name of their Husbands But if Master Page will speake to the purpose he must say thus Because all creatures shall declare their subjection by bowing at the Name Jesus at the last day accordingly we must now witnes our subjection This inference is right if he can prove his ground but that lyes upon the proofe Of necessitie our present bowing must be according to the future the parts must be according to the whole the prefect bowing must regulate the imperfect therefore if bowing at the Name Jesus shall not be performed at that day it concernes none so to bow now Some to whom I have put this Argument and finding it too hot for them stand to it to affirme that bowing at the Name Jesus shall be fulfilled at the day of Judgement but they cannot prove it otherwise than by seeking shelter at this Text If any such assertion shall ever come in Print I am confident that every judicious Reader will smile at it if not grieve to see the wilfulnes of such men that rather than they will yeeld to the truth will justifie such dangerous Paradoxes I will therefore by Gods assistance encounter with it and I thinke I shall upon better reasons disprove it than they can ever prove it First There is no Scripture for it and it is in no wise to be imagined that so many cleere Scriptures speaking so fully and plainly of the Judgement-day and of the deportment of those that shall then appeare should say nothing of this ceremony of bowing at the name Jesus if it were then to be done Secondly To what end shall the Name Jesus be sounded out at that day that all shall bow at the sound of it When he shall then appeare in his most glorious Name of Power and Glory when he shall not come as a Jesus to the most that shall then bow but a Lord to all and so shall all call him Mat. 25. 37. 44. Thirdly It is absurd to imagine that the Holy Ghost would describe the perfection of Christs Kingdome onely by such a gesture as a childe can performe at the mention of his Father Fourthly Bishop Andrewes the late Father of the corporall bowing at the Name Jesus will confute it by a saying of his He is exalted to whose Person knees doe bow His Person is taken out of our sight all that we can doe will not reach to it but his Name he hath left behinde him to us that we may shew by our reverence and respect to it how much we esteeme him If then we must now bow to the Name because the Person of Christ is out of our sight then it followes that when Christ shall manifest his Person there will be no time or place for bowing at the Name But by the Bishops reason seeing he acknowledgeth the fulfilling of the Text at the day of Judgement it will follow that Christ shall send out his Name at that day to have it sounded out that all should bow at it and not come himselfe in Person or else if then he come in Person he must leave his Name behinde him and so the duty of the Text shall not be fulfilled Againe It is very absurd to affirme that our worship will reach to the Name but not to the Person of Christ for shall veneration and honour reach to a bare Name as it is sounded out by the breath of man who is lesse than nothing Isa. 40. 17. And can no worship reach to the Person who besides that he is in the glory of the Father in the heavens as man also is every where present by his infinite Deitie and especially present in and among his Saints by his Spirit Names be signes and a kinde of images of things or Persons represented by them An Idolater bowes to an image which he doth see because he deemes that it represents unto him the Person whom he adores which he cannot see whereas if the Person were present before him he would never bow to the Image The Name Jesus is as it were the signe or image of our Saviour it would be therefore worse than Idolatry it selfe to bow to Christs image efore his owne face If any shall yet inferre that though all other Scriptures say nothing for the bowing at the Name Jesus at the Judgement day yet it is enough that it be specified in one Text as viz. in this present Text of Phil. 2. 9 10. I answer It is utterly against reason to imagine that if bowing at the Name Jesus were to be done at the Judgement day that the Holy Ghost would omit to specifie it in so many cleere places treating of the Judgement day and would set it downe in an obscure Text that treats not plainly of the Judgement day but as it must be enlightned by other cleere Scriptures and that in such words and phrases that are different in sense to all those words and phrases

his great and glorious Name of Power and Glory accompanied with his Mightie Angels in flaming fire who shall then yeeld unto him their fullest service and subjection which is the bowing that they shall willingly performe unto him at that day To the end that he may make all his enemies to tremble that they shall licke the dust and become his foot-stoole give them a full and finall overthrow thrust them into the bottomles pit which is the bowing in the Text which they shall performe to Christ against their wills and that he may wholly free his Saints from the corruption of their natures and renue them perfectly according to his image and reward them with everlasting blisse and happines which is the bowing that they shall willingly yeeld unto him and that he may renue the creature which now groanes and travaileth in paine by reason of mans sin This their exposition makes it to be nothing else but a * Ceremony a corporall bowing at the title Jesus which will be a poore honour to Christ a poore affrightment to his enemies a poore advancement to his Friends It will make this glorious day of the Lord to have no glory in it yea it will make Christs kingdome in the height and perfection of it to be but a ridiculous mock-kingdome such a kingdome in effect as his enemies ascribed to him Mat. 27. 29. Who platted a crowne of thornes and put it on his head and bowed the knee before him and mocked him Yea these in some sort deale worse with him than they for they dealt thus with him in his extreame humiliation but these doe it in the greatest height and perfection of his Kingdome This opinion therefore darkneth diminisheth yea overthroweth the kingdome of Christ therefore it is a blasphemous opinion not to be endured SECTION XIII THe bowing at the Name Iesus is neither typified nor prophesied of in the old Testament therefore it is no way probable that it is a due honour to Christ in the new Testament The Consequent is proved by these places Act. 10. 43. Act. 3. 24. What is there any thing materiall concerning Christ but it was fore-shewed Yea the Law hath jots and Titles concerning Christ small matters of him were foretold as his flying into Egypt his bringing up at Nazareth his birth at the Towne of Bethlehem the Souldiers casting Lots for his Garments the not breaking of his bones But this honour in the Text is the honour of Christs kingdome which indeed is foretold according to the true meaning of the Text as Psal. 2. 8 9 10 11 12. Is 45. 23. But whereas all other honours concerning Christ both externall and internall are foretold corporall bowing at his Name is not foretold and seeing jots and titles concerning Christ are foreshewed and bowing at the Name Jesus if it were the Evangelicall honour of Christ not foretold it would lay an high imputation on the Majestie of God and impute that crime to Gods charge that our Saviour justly laid to the charge of the Pharisees Mat. 23. 23. Who tithed Mint and Cummin and neglected the weightier matters of the Law SECTION XIV THere is no example for bowing at the Name Iesus in the whole New Testament therefore it is not probable that it is a commanded dutie The consequent is plaine for what necessary dutie is there but there is sufficient light in Scripture that it was practised We reade of the often meeting of the Church together in the New Testament of their Prophesyings Prayers with the severall gestures of them but there is not the least intimation in the Scripture that ever bowing at the Name Jesus was practised As there must be offences for the hardening of the wicked so God will have Examples for the benefiting of his people and for the leaving the wicked without excuse The Apostle saith 1 Cor. 6. 2. That the Saints shall judge the world that is one way of their judging of them by their vertuous examples God was ever mindfull that there should be examples Iohn 13. 15. Phil. 2. 5. 1 Thes. 1. 7. 2 Thes. 3. 9. 1 Tim. 4. 12. The Apostle having spoken Heb. 11. of the faith of Gods Worthies and of the singular fruits thereof concludes Heb. 12. 1. Seeing there is such a cloud of witnesses let us run with patience the race that is set before us There are a cloud of witnesses for other duties not one witnes for this bowing What will God have us run in other duties and stand still in this it is impossible if it were of his appointment Seeing then there is neither example nor shew of example in the whole Booke of God for bowing at the Name Iesus it is a strong convincing Argument that it is none of Gods appointment SECTION XV THis opinion and practise was not knowne in the purest of ancient times yea it was not knowne within seven hundred yeares after Christ I might goe yet a great way further as some doe It is the usuall wont of these men to boast that generally all the Fathers are on their side whereby they deceive poore simple soules But they must not thinke to carry it away with big words of ostentation but they must prove what they say and not bring halting proofes but full to the purpose Generally saith Zanchy the Fathers doe understand the Name above every Name either of the Name of God or the Name of the onely begotten Sonne of God and some of Christs Glory how then could they expound the Text as these men do If three or foure Fathers may be brought to make the Name Iesus the Principall Name which are either not the most ancient or most orthodox they are nothing to the generall streame of the other more ancient or more orthodoxe that doe not make the Name Iesus the principall Name Yet these three or foure as Master Page confesseth doe not say that adoration must be done at the sound of the Name Jesus yea he affirmes that there is no full authoritie for bowing at the Name Iesus from the Fathers Some Divines doe conjecture that this custome was brought up first to testifie Christs divinitie against Arrius but they neither prove it neither can they and if it were so it overthrowes these mens grounding it upon the Text The best instance which these Bowers bring from the Fathers is that of S. Hierome whom yet they doe pittifully wrest This Father commenting on Isa. 45. 23. sheweth that this Text is now fulfilled in Christ For saith he Moris est Ecclesiastici Christo genu flectere It is an Ecclesiasticall custome to kneele or bow the knee to Christ But Hierome speakes of Christ not Jesus He doth not say that this kneeling or bowing should be done at the name Jesus It is also the manner of Christians to bow to God doe they therefore bow at the Name God And indeed what Hierome saith is now verified by every true Christian

be made unequall yet may one be preferred before or undervalued beneath another by some mens opinion or practise For as Arrius undervalued the Sonne beneath the Father in that he attributed unto him a Name below the Name of the Father And as we prove against Arrius that Christ is God equall with the Father because of the identitie and samenes and equalitie of his names and attributes with the Father being called Jehovah Sonne of God called omniscient eternall c. So it will be evidently proved by necessary consequence against these men that hold that opinion howsoever they positively deny it that they are in some degree in an extreame with Arrius preferring Christ above the Father because they attribute unto him a Name greater than the name of the Father Secondly They answer that the second Person though of himselfe he be equall with the Father yet in respect of us he is greater because of the worke of redemption which he hath wrought for us I reply This is a strange answer and very unsound for 1. the Scriptures doe every where as much extoll the love of God in giving his Son as the love of Christ in giving himselfe 2. This answer doth not agree with the Text for the Text injoyneth the bowing therein not onely to us men but generally to all creatures over whom Christs Name is advanced for therfore is every knee of every thing to bow to Christ because he having a Name above every Name hath also a Name above their Names Therefore if the Son have a Name above his Fathers Name by the same reason the Father must bow to the Sonne 3. By this answer they contradict themselves for when they be challenged that in bowing at the name Jesus onely they honour the Sonne above the Father they deny it and affirme that they honour all alike at the name Jesus which indeed they cannot affirme if the second Person be greater to us than the other Persons then we to whom he is greater must honour him more than the other that to us are not so great Even as to the supreame Magistrate in a Kingdome we give a greater honour than to those that to us are not so great as he Thirdly Thus it is answered that the name Jesus is a common name to every Person in Trinitie and therefore though it be above other Divine Names yet it doth not make inequalitie between the Persons and in bowing at that onely they honour all alike Now thus they goe about to prove their Assertion God say they was called Saviour before Christ was incarnate and Jesus and Saviour is all one therefore the name Jesus denominates every Person of the Trinitie 1. I reply If Saviour and Jesus be all one why then doe they not bow as well at the sound of Saviour as Iesus for their reason is the same for both 2. I affirme that they are not all one the word Saviour indeed before Christ was incarnate shewed what God would doe in the fulnesse of time viz. send his Son to be our Redeemer but it is no proper Name Jesus is a proper name never appropriated to the second Person till Christ was incarnate and some good Authors affirme that it is the name of his humanitie onely because given him upon his incarnation and he being called generally by that name in the dayes of his flesh and sundry men being so called as Types of Christ though if it be so it doe denominate unto us his whole Person God and Man because of the inseperable union of the two natures But Bishop Andrewes assertion here is very strange who affirmes that the name Jesus is the proper and chiefe Name of God but how can it be so when it is not the proper name of Gods eternitie but was given unto the second Person in time by reason of mans fall But the name Jehovah denotes Gods eternall Being and therefore is the proper and chiefe name of God indeed And how doth the Bishop agree with himselfe in that place For thus he saith The Person is taken out of our sight all that we can do cannot reach unto it but his Name he hath left behinde to us that we may shew by our reverence and respect to it how much we esteeme him For if the name Iesus doe denominate the Person of Christ as taken out of our sight then it denominates onely his humanitie which onely was in our sight for the Deitie was never in our sight But if it be true as he saith that Jesus is the proper name of Christs Deitie then in this sense he is not gone from us but is with us alwayes unto the end of the world Mat. 28. 20. and lives and dwelles in the hearts of his Saints Eph. 3. 17. Secondly It is absurd to affirme that nothing we can doe can reach to Christs Person because it is out of our sight by the same reason nothing that we doe can reach to God the Father or the Holy Ghost because they are invisible then farewell all Religion If nothing that we can doe can reach to Christs Person then the whole bowing can reach but to the Name none to the Person and to worship the Name without the Person is grosse Idolatry by their owne confession And how can these men affirme that they honour the Three Persons alike at the name Jesus when nothing they doe can reach to the Person of Christ Thirdly By the Bishops reason if we must bow at the Name of our Saviour because he is not present then we must not bow at the name Jesus which name saith he signifieth the Deitie which is alwayes present but at the name Christ which saith he though without ground is the name of the humanitie onely which is gone from us Secondly If Jesus be the proper and chiefe name of God then should all those that were called ordinarily by that name besides Christ be called by the proper and chiefe name of God which without horrible blasphemy could not be yeelded unto It is Antichrists impietie to call himselfe God 2 Thes. 2. 9. Yet worthy men were called Jesus and never tooke any offence at it and were never blamed for it Seeing then the name Jesus was given to the Second Person onely upon his Incarnation it cannot be the proper and chiefe name of God or of every Person in Trinitie and it no where denominates any other Person but the Second Person onely therefore it is a name peculiar to the Second Person onely Lastly This answer overthrowes their owne ground from the Text for if the name Jesus be the name of the Three Persons then cannot it be the name above every name in the Text for that Name is proper onely to the Sonne For 1. God gave him this Name and that after his humiliation therefore was it not a name naturally inherent in him as a Person of the Trinitie because he had it not before Secondly the Person onely in the Text that suffered received this