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The fallibility of the Roman Church demonstrated from the manifest error of the 2d Nicene & Trent Councils, which assert that the veneration and honorary worship of images is a tradition primitive and apostolical.
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Whitby, Daniel, 1638-1726.
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Ceremonies none of which was found or practised among the Primitive Professors of Christianity And now from what hath been discoursed in these Chapters I infer § Inference 1. 4. 1. That the Councils received by the Church of Rome as the infallible Proposers of their Faith namely the second Nicene Council and that of Trent have erred and have imposed a false Interpretation of that Precept which doth command us not to bow down to the similitude of any Thing in Heaven or Earth and therefore they are falsly said to be infallible in Matters of Faith or true Interpreters of Holy Scripture And indeed whosoever seriously will consider of those Scriptures which are produced either by this whole Council or by Pope Hadrian with approbation of this Council or offerr'd by some Members present or contained in some of the Citations produced by them for the having Images in Christian Churches or for the giving Adoration to them will find them so apparently perverted and horribly impertinent as that he will be forced to question not only the Infallibility but even the common Wisdom or Discretion of those Men who had the confidence to use them to these purposes For 1. John the pretended Vicar of the three Oriental Patriarchs saith That (a) Act. 4. p. 200. Jacob wrestling with him saw God Face to Face which yet can do no Service to the Maker or Worshipper of Images but by supposing with the old Hereticks call'd Anthropomorphites that God hath Face or Features like a Man. Leontius Bishop of Neapolis saith (b) Act. 4. p. 239 240. If thou accusest me for worshipping the Wood of the Cross thou must accuse Jacob for blessing wicked and idolatrous Pharaoh which instance will be only pertinent when it is proved that Pharaoh was an Image and that Blessing is an Act of Adoration Pope Gregory the Second saith That (c) Cum figuram vellet aut simulacrum videre ne force erraret orabat Deum dicens Ostende mihi teipsum manifesstò ut te videam p. 11. when Moses desired to behold an Image or Similitude lest he should be mistaken in the Visien he said to God Shew me thy self manifestly that I may see thee but doth not prove that Moses desired to see an Image or material Likeness of God or that God shewed him any such Similitude Germanus Bishops of Constantinople argues for Images after this manner (d) Act. 4. p. 304. In the Book of Numbers the Lord speaks to Moses saying Speak unto the Children of Israel and bid them make themselves Fringes in the borders of their Garments and put upon the Fringe of the Border a Ribband of Blue and it shall be unto you for a Fringe that you may look upon it and remember all the Commandments of the Lord and do them Now if saith he the Israelites were bid to look upon these Fringes and remember his Commandments much more ought we by the inspection of the Images of Holy Men to view the end of their Conversation And yet there seems to be some little difference betwixt a Fringe and a graven Image betwixt remembring God's Commandments to do them and to break them Pope Hadrian finds in Isaiah a Prophecy concerning Gospel-Images as clear as the Nose upon your Face for Ecce signum (e) Quemadmodum Esaias propheta vaticinatus est Act. 2. p. 110. In that Day there shall be an Altar to the Lord in the midst of the Land of Egypt and a Pillar at the Border thereof to the Lord and it shall be for a Sign He also finds the sweet Singer of Israel harping oft upon the same String and prophesying of Images to be adored in the gospel-Gospel-times saying (f) Magnoperè vultum ejus secundùm humanitatis ipsius dispensationem adorari praemonuit inquiens c. Psal 4.6 The Light of thy Countenance signatum est super nos is signed upon us And again Psal 25.8 Lord I have loved the Beauty of thy House and the place of the Tabernacle of thy Glory And a third time Psal 27.8 Psal 44.12 Thy Face Lord will I seek And a fourth Even the Rich among the People shall intreat thy Face And Psal 96.6 lastly in those words Honour and Majesty are before him Strength and Beauty are in his Sanctuary And what can be more evident for Image-worship than these Texts which do so plainly mention the Face and Countenance of God. Theodosius proves That we Christians must have Holy and Venerable Images because 't is said (g) Act. 4. p. 213. Whatsoever things were written 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aforetime were written for our Learning wherefore the venerable Images being written upon Wood and Stone Rom. 15.4 and Metal must be for our Instruction Away with those ignorant Fellows who can derive the Pictures of Christ and his Apostles no higher than St. Luke and Nicodemus this Theodosius finds them among the Writings of the Prophets as clear as the Noon Day see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they were engraven afore-time even before Christ's Humane Nature or his Apostles had a being and had it not been thus we Christians had been void of Hope for these things were written that we through comfort 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of these Pictures might have hope They have all found it in the Book of Canticles or something which makes for it for there it is most appositely said (h) Act. 6. p. 408. Cant. 2.14 Psal 48.8 Shew me thy Face and let me hear thy Voice for thy Voice is sweet and thy Countenance is comely And in that of the Psalmist As we have heard so have we seen (i) Act. 4.197 Ezekie 's Temple was made say they with Cherubims and Palm Trees so that a Palm Tree was between a Cherub and a Cherub and every Cherub had two Faces so that the Face of a Man was toward a Palm Tree on the one side and the Face of a young Lion toward the Palm Tree on the other side and thus it was throughout the House round about So that it seemeth to them to have been an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or an House of Imagery and yet should you ask them where this Temple was built or what Existence had these Cherubims but in the Vision of the Prophet it will puzzle their Infallibilities to answer you Lastly They argue from the Author to the (k) Ibid. Hebrews thus Verily the first Covenant had also Ordinances and a worldly Sanctuary there was a Tabernacle made in which was first the Candlestick and the Table and the Shew-bread which is called Holy and after the second Veil the Tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all which had the Golden Censer and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with Gold wherein was the Golden Pot that had Manna and Aaron 's Rod that budded and the Tables of the Covenant and over it the Cherubims of Glory shadowing the Mercy-Seat If then say they (l) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉