The Eight and Fortieth accused Point.
That it is not lawful to make or to have Images.
Ans. This Lie hath conquered the blush∣ing Passion. 1. Can such men believe
The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
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- The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
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- Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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- 1692.
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- Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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that there are no Protestant Painters? Are there none of their Shops in London, or Holland? Do none but Papists make or sell Pictures? Are not the Statues of Kings at the Exchange, the Stocks-Market, Chaering-Cross? Are there no Images on our Coyn? Nor our Banners? Nor on the Escutcheons of the Nobility and Gen∣try of this and other Lands: Are there no Images at the Sign-posts in all London, nor in all the Cities, and Market-Towns in the Kingdom? Nor in any of the Church-Windows?
But perhaps they will say, tho' we speak so universally (to deceive the ignorant,) yet we meant it of Images of Religious sig∣nification and use. Ans. And do not all the Lutherans keep them in their Chur∣ches? Are they not continued in most Church-Windows in England?
Obj. But at least it's true of the Calvi∣nists or Puritans? Ans. 1. And will you therefore slander the rest? 2. But we must not hastily believe any thing that false ac∣cusers say? Have not the Holland Calvi∣nists multitudes of Pictures? Did you ne∣ver see Beza and others, Icones virorum illustrium, nor Mr. Samuel Clerk's Lives with Images? Nor the Puritans English Geneva Bible, with the Images of the Hi∣stories?
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Nor the Dutch Quarry-Bricks for Chimneys, on which most of the Hi∣story of the Bible is painted? O! for Truth or Modesty.
2. But we confess that there are some Images Bawdy, some Superstitious, Ido∣latrous, or Blasphemous, which we leave to such as choose them, they being not for our use, (of which after.)