A manuel of controversies clearly demonstrating the truth of Catholique religion by texts of Holy Scripture, councils of all ages, Fathers of the first 500 yeers, common sense and reason, and fully answering the principal objections of Protestants and all other sectaries / by H.T.

The major is manifest, and needs no proof.

The minor is proved. Two Cherubins saith God to Moses) shalt thou make of beaten gold, on both sides of the Or••cle, &c. let them cover both si••e of the propitiatory, &c. and I will speak to thee from the two ••••••••s of the Cherubins which shall •••• upon the a••k of the testimony, all things that I shall command the children of Isra••l by th••e▪ Exo ••. 25. 18 And when the Temple was built again by Solomon ••••e two Cherubins were renew••d and set in the middest of the inward Temple▪ 3 Kings 6. 24 Nor did he only command two Ch••rubins, but divers other carved w••rks and images to be made on the Oracle, and the walls of the Temple, as you may see in the same chapters; replenishing Beseleel and Oliab with his own holy Spirit, to devise whatsoever might be artificially made of gold silver, brasse, marble, &c▪ Exod. 31. He commanded the Jews to adore the Ark. Psal. 99. which is only the footstool of God, and a signe of his power, 1 Chron. 28. He com∣manded his own name to be honoured, and sanctified, Ezod. 20. S. Matth. 6. In the name of Iesus every knee bow, &c. Phil. 2. 8. Now

the name of Jesus is only a signe or image of our redemption, or God made man; and the name J••••ova, of our creation, which was in so great honour with the Jews, that the common people durst not utter it, nor the Priest. but only in time of sacrifice and solemne benediction, according to Phil•• in the life of Moses. Nay the very Plate on which the name of God was written on the high Priests forehead, is call'd the Plate of sa∣cred veneration, Exod. 38. 26, 28. finally hecom∣manded the Temple (which was an image of his heavenly house) to be honoured as a holy place, reproving those Priests who pol∣luted his Sanctuary, and put no difference betwixt a holy thing and a prophane, Ezech. 22. 26.