Of idolatry a discourse, in which is endeavoured a declaration of, its distinction from superstition, its notion, cause, commencement, and progress, its practice charged on Gentiles, Jews, Mahometans, Gnosticks, Manichees Arians, Socinians, Romanists : as also, of the means which God hath vouchsafed towards the cure of it by the Shechinah of His Son / by Tho. Tenison ...

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Of idolatry a discourse, in which is endeavoured a declaration of, its distinction from superstition, its notion, cause, commencement, and progress, its practice charged on Gentiles, Jews, Mahometans, Gnosticks, Manichees Arians, Socinians, Romanists : as also, of the means which God hath vouchsafed towards the cure of it by the Shechinah of His Son / by Tho. Tenison ...

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Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.

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London :: Printed for Francis Tyton ...,

1678.

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Idols and images -- Worship.

Idolatry.

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Contents

• imprimatur
• title page
• To the Right Honourable ROBERT Earl of MANCHESTER, One of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bedchamber, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Huntington, &c.
• The CONTENTS of the CHAPTERS.
• ERRATA.
• CHAP. I. Of the notions of Superstition and Idolatry, as they are usually confounded; and as they ought, of right, to be distinguish'd.
• CHAP. II. Of the Notion of Idolatry.
• CHAP. III. Of the Causes and Occasions of Idolatry in the World.
• CHAP. IV. Of the Time in which the Vanity of Man in∣troduced Idolatry into the World.
• CHAP. V. Of those who are charged with Idolatry; and of the conformity or inconformity of their worship to the Nature of Idolatry. Of Gen∣tiles, Jews, Mahometans, Christians. A∣mongst them who have professed Christianity, of the Gnosticks, Manichees, Arrians, So∣cinians, Roman-Catholicks, the real Catho∣licks of the Communion of the Church of England. And first of the Idolatry charged on the Gentiles.
  • PART 1. How far the Gentiles were Ignorant of one Supreme God.
  • PART 2. Of their worship of Universal Nature, &c. as God.
  • PART 3. How far the Gentiles owned one true God.
  • PART 4. What Applications they made to one God.
  • PART 5. Whether they worshipping one God, could be guilty of that sin.
  • PART 6. Of their Idolatry in worshipping the Statues of God.
  • PART 7. Of the Idolatry of the Gentiles in their worship of De∣mons.
  • PART 8. Of their Idolatry in worshipping the Images of Demons.
  • PART 9. Of their Worshipping Daemons more than God.
• CHAP. VI. Concerning the Idolatry of the Jews, and parti∣cularly of their worshipping the Golden Calf. Also of the Egyptian Symbol of Apis, as at that time not extant. And of the probable Reasons which set up Moses as the Original Apis.
  • PART 1. Of the Provisions made by God against Idolatry among the Jews.
  • PART 2. Of the Idolatry of the Jews.
  • PART 3. Of the Worship of the Golden Calf.
  • PART 4. Of the Idol Apis.
  • PART 5. Of the Originals of Apis and Serapis.
  • PART 6. Of the Egyptian Apis; Whether he were Moses?
  • PART 7. Why Moses might be Idolized among the Egyptians.
  • PART 8. Why Moses might be honoured by the Symbol of an Ox.
  • PART 9. Why Moses might be called Apis.
  • PART 10. VVhen the Worship of Apis commenced.
  • PART 11. Of the Idols Apis and Mnevis, and the Commencement of their Worship.
  • PART 12. Whence the Original of Apis might be obscured.
• CHAP. VII. Of the Idolatry of the Mahometans.
• CHAP. VIII. Of the Idolatry with which some are charged, who profess and all themselves Christians. And first of the Idolatry of the Gnosticks and Manichees.
  • PART 1. Of the Idolatry of the Gnosticks.
  • PART 2. Of the Idolatry of the Manichees.
• CHAP. IX. Of the Idolatry with which the Arians and So∣cinians are charged.
  • PART 1.
  • PART 2. Of the Idolatry of the Arians.
  • PART 3. Of the Idolatry of the Socinians.
• CHAP. X. Of the Idolatry with which the Roman-Catho∣licks are charged; and how far they are just∣ly, or unjustly accused.
  • PART 1. Of the Charge which is drawn up against them.
  • PART 2. Of the mitigation of the charge of Idolatry against the Papists.
  • PART 3. Of the Idolatry charged on the Papists in their Worship of Saints.
• CHAP. XI. Of the Idolatry Charged on the Papists in their Worship of Images. And first of the Worship of an Image of God.
• CHAP. XII. Of the Idolatry charged on the Papists in the worship of Images.
  • PART. 1. Of the worship of the Image of Christ.
  • PART 2. Of the Idolatry charged on the Romanists in the Worship of the Images of Saints.
• CHAP. XIII. Of the Idolatry charged, without any tolerable colour, on the Church of England.
• CHAP. XIV. Of the means which God hath vouchsafed the World towards the cure of Idolatry; and more particularly, of his favour in exhibiting, to that purpose, the Shechinah of his Son.
  • PART 1. Of the Cure of Idolatry.
  • PART 2. Of the Cure of Idolatry by the Shechinah of God.
  • PART. 3. Of the Shechinah of God from Adam to Noah.
  • PART 4. Of the Shechinah of God from Noah to Moses.
  • PART 5. Of the Shechinah of God from Moses to the Captivity.
  • PART. 6. Of the Shechinah of God, from the Captivity to the Messiah.
  • PART. 6. Of the cure of Idolatry by the Image of God in Christ God-man.
  • PART 7. Of the Usefulness of this Argument of Gods Shechinah.
  • PART 8. Of the Usefulness of this Argument of Gods Shechinah, with relation to the Worship of Angels and Images.
• CHAP. XV. A REVIEW and CONCLVSION.
• An ALPHABETICAL INDEX.
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S.
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  • V & U
  • W
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