Rhemes against Rome: or, The remoouing of the gagg of the new Gospell, and rightly placing it in the mouthes of the Romists, by the Rhemists in their English translation of the Scriptures. Which counter-gagg is heere fitted by the industrious hand of Richard Bernard ...

Confuted by their owne Bible.

1. IT doth forbid them, Deut. 4. 23. where is forbidden the making of a grauen similitude: which Moses saith is a forgetting of the Couenant. And in verse 15. hee saith, You saw no similitude in that day. And a reason is giuen, Lest perhaps deceiued, you might make you a grauen similitude, or Image. Here the drawing of any similitude of God is vtterly condem∣ned. So in Rom. 1. 23.

Exod. 20. 4. Thou shalt not make to thee a grauen thing, nor any similitude, &c. thou shalt not adore them, nor serue them.

Here is not onely a grauen thing, but any similitude forbid∣den, without any restriction, or exception at all, and also the adoration of them. And a reason is in Esay 42. 8. I will not giue my glory to another, nor my praise to grauen things: nei∣ther can God be likened to any thing, or an Image be made of

him, Esay 14. 18. & 46. 5. Act. 17. 29. Wisd. 14. 17. This commandement condemneth in matter of Religion, the ma∣king of our owne heads a grauen thing, and any likenesse, not onely of things which be not (which they say are Idols, repre∣sentations of things which are not, false Similitudes,) but a gra∣uen thing, and similitude of any thing which is in heauen, which is in earth, and of things which are in the waters, to adore and serue them, Leu. 26. 1.

Secondly, their Bible layeth folly to their charge, and affir∣meth that such are vaine in their cogitations, and their fablish heart darkened, who make God in similitude of a man, Rom. 1. 21, 22, 23. This hath God fearefully punished, and that with a spirituall plague, Rom. 1. 26. Hee is pronounced accursed, that makes a grauen and molten thing, an abomination to our Lord, the worke of the hands of Artificers, and puts it in secret (how much more openly?) to worship it; and all the people are to say, Amen. Let them be confounded, (saith the Psalmist) that a∣dore sculptils, Psal. 96. 7. The Iewes to this day, hate Images: which shewes, that they were taught by the Law to hate them.

Thirdly, by their Bible we learne, that this was an Heathe∣nish practice. The Heathen inuented this making of Images of the dead, Wisd. 14. 15. They decked them, lighted Candles be∣fore them, offered to them, Baruch 6. and worshipped them, Wisd. 14. 17, 18. and their Priests were shauen, and beguiled the people Baruch 6. as the shauen Priests of Rome doe.

Fourthly, their owne Bible telleth, that no good commeth thereof, but euill, Hab. 2. 18, 19. What profiteth the thing engrauen, that the forger thereof hath grauen it a molten and a false Image? What canit teach? Hee telleth vs, that an Image cannot teach. The Doctrine of their vanity is wood, saith Ieremie, chap. 10. 8. and euery Craftsman confounded in his sculptill, because it is false, which hee hath melted, and there is no spirit in them. They are vaine things, and a worke worthy to be laughed at, verse 14. 15. It is changing the verity of God, into lying, Rom. 1. 25. For the shadow of a Picture, is a labour without fruit, the louers of euill, are worthy to haue their hopes in such things: both they that make them, and that loue, and that worship them,

saith the Author of the Booke of Wisedome, ca. 15. 4, 6.

Fiftly, by their Bible wee learne, that men worshipping the worke of their owne hands, they doe worship idols, Diuels. 1. Therein we finde Heathen idols, Diuels, 1. Cor. 10. 20. repre∣sentations of false gods. 2. We finde the Israelites worshipping the worke of their owne hands, the golden Calues, falsly repre∣senting the True God, and these calues were idols, Act. 7. 41. and diuels, 2. Chro. 11. 15. Whereby wee see the representing of the True God falsly, is a diuellish idol, as well as the repre∣senting of a false god. 3. We finde idols, and so the worship of Diuels among the Papists, Reu. 9. 20, 21. where the workes of mens hands, of gold, siluer, brasse, stone, and wood, are called idols, and diuels. But they worship the workes of their hands, made of such things; and therefore worship idols and diuels. Thus God condemneth Imagerie for idols and diuels. And this very place may fitly be vnderstood of Papists. For first these ido∣laters, here spoken of, are such as fall out to bee vnder the sixt trumpet, long after the destruction of the Heathen idolaters. 2. They are such as be after the Starre is fallen, chap. 9. 1. and become a King of the Locusts. But what Clergie man since Christ, euer wore a Crowne, but the Pope? 3. They are such, as those great Armies, verse 16. were raised vp to plague, for their idolatry. But what can these be, but Turkes, the scourge of Popish idolaters, & idolatrous Christians? 4. They are such as ouer-ranne the true Religion, so as Christ sends out his Word to recouer his from vnder this idolatrie, and from among them, chap. 10. 11. But who haue spred their idols ouer the Church? Not Iewes, nor Turkes, but Papists. And hath not Christ sent out his Word to regaine his from among them? 5. And lastly, the words, chap. 9. 20, 21. doe set out Papists. 1. They repented not of the works of their hands, whē they saw the Easteme Churches ouerthrowne by the Turkes for their idolatrie, after the second Nicene Councell there establishing it. 2. These committed Murthers, Sorceries, Fornication, and Thefts. And doe not all know how these raigne among Papists? For murders, their massacres of Christians, and vnheard of cru∣elties vpon poore Indians, many millions witnesse them. For

Sorceries, is not spirituall Babylon, that is, Rome, full thereof, chap. 18. 23? Rome now is that Whore, drunke with bloud, chap. 17. which deceiued the Nations by her Sorceries, chap. 18. 23. For her Fornication, she is called the Mother of whore∣domes, chap. 17. And doe not her Stewes witnesse it? What shall I speake, how vnder colour of vowed pouertie, by Dispen∣sations, Pardons, Indulgences, shee robbed euery Kingdome? Therefore these are Papists, worshipping idols, and diuels, and cannot so well bee applyed to any other vnder heauen, all the former circumstances seriously and throughly weighed. See B. Carleton his Booke of Thanksgiuing, how he presseth this text vpon Papists.