Ergo, it is no scandalous object. Ans. All our Divines hold, that Heathens of old, and Papists of late, worship Images, as religious memorative signes of God, Hooker with one dash of his Pen, against the Prophets and Scriptures, acquiteth them of Idolatrie, therefore the Crosse may be adored, without any opinion of Dietie in it.Obj. Be it true, that crosses were purposely appointed to adored, yet not so now. The Jewes would not admit of the Image of Caesar in the Church, yet they abolished it not, but admitted it in their coyne. The adored cross differeth as farre from this, as the Brazen Serpent that Salomon made to beare up the Cisterne of the Temple, and that which Israel adored in the wilderness, And the Altars that Josiah destroyid, as being meere Instru∣mentsHooker. Ibid. of Idolatrie, and that which the Tribe of Reubenrected beyond Jordan. Salomon distroyed not the Temple and Idols framed only of purpose for the worship of forrains Gods, becauseReligious Mo∣numents of Idolatrie are to be removed. they stood now as forlorne, and did no harme. Josiah afterward razed them for some inconvenients, yet God saith both these Kings, in religion walked straightly.Ans. 1. Though the Cross were first framed for no adorati∣on; yet we plead against the Images and Crosses of Lutherans as not necessarie, in divine worship, and therefore to be remo∣ved, though never adored.2. The people thinke Baptisme incompleat without the Crosse, Ergo, to them it has the like necessitie, as water.3. How will Hooker prove never any burnt Incense to the Brazen Serpent, but beleeved it really to be God? that is his dreame, beside the Text.4. By this Luther have their desire; for actuall intention that Images be lawfull remembrancers of Christ, without inten∣tion of adoration, shall make Images as lawfull teaching Cere∣monies, as Hooker will have the sigue of the Crosse.5. We remove not crosses from coyne, no more then the Jewes did the image of Csr. But wee agree with them. Hooker being judge, in Banishing them from the worship.6. Ezechiah then might have broken the old, and made a new Brazen Serpent, for a memoriall of the miraculous cure, so 0