Sect. 53. (Book 49)
The bra••en Serpent, the emblem of our Saviour, curing the sting•• of the fiery Ser∣pents, our sins, while we wander in this
Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.
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- Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.
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- Collop, John.
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- 1667.
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wildernesse of error, may be erected. But if the old Serpent creeps into the body, and tempts to Idolatry, a Monk, like an Idols Priest, can give responses from a rood, and make it move by a wire to induce a puppet-play in religion: a prestò be gone befits both the Jugler and his Hocus:* 1.1 had not foure Councels condemned them, and a jury of Fathers, Basils and Eus••bius testimonies on their side mistook: Athanasius, Chryso∣stoms, and Damasus suffrages for them sus∣pected: therefore with Saint Hierom, nos unam tantum veneramur imaginem,* 1.2 Jesum nempe Christum, qui est imago patris. Though Basil saies, the honour due to the abstract, is due to the pattern; if any one can show such an image of Christ, as Christ is of the Father,* 1.3 we will worship, else we may believe with the Father,
Errare om∣nino meruerunt, qui Christum non in divi∣nis codicibus, sed in parietibus quaerunt:Or as Irenaeus saith, where Pastors became dumb, there Images became their Pastors.
These books of the unlearned, though made use of by Paulinus Bishop of Nola, since wooden Priests leave the rabble as un∣learned as their books, it is better the images of Christ be defac'd in Churches, then the image of Christ should be defac'd in the people, which should be the Temples of the holy Spirit.
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But if any be lawfull, sure the picture of the Father cannot, being a piece of in∣tollerable folly, which in our fecunditie of sects, may tempt a weak brother to re∣imbibe the humour of an Anthropomor∣phite. God who loves decency in his spouse, is so jealous of his honour in her, that he cannot approve that fucated face of Reli∣gion, which may shame honesty out of countenance: This Italian wash, and Spa∣nish die, disfigures the face of Religion, whose grace is simplicitie. What Caesar of his wife, can we believe Christ should ex∣pect lesse of his spouse, to be free not only from crime, but even suspicion.
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* 1.1
2 Ephes. Con. 2 Canstan. Eleboris Canon 26. Concil. Carth.
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* 1.2
Canon 14. Euseb. lib. 10. cap. 4. Hieron. in Ezek. 4. & 16.
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* 1.3
Epiph. haer. 79. A. 34. de moribus Eccl. lib. 1. cap. 10. de Consen▪ Ec∣cles.