Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht

SECT. 14. Against the reservation of Reliques in the Sacrament.

Obj. HAving thus (as I conceive,) manifested their errour aforesaid, I shall say something concerning their super∣stitious reservation of the Reliques of the Sacrament, which they gather from Gods command to the Israelites to keep a gomer of Manna, Exod. 13. 32. to evidence to their posterity how, and by what meanes they were sustained, and preserved in the Wildernesse for so many yeares.

Ans. That Relique was an holy Relique, kept by the Com∣mandment of God, not to be adored and worshipped, but to put the people in minde of that benefit in feeding of their Fa∣thers in the Wildernesse; but the keeping of this Relique doth offend against all these rules: As,

1. God hath not commanded them to keep any such thing. 2. In that they shew them to the people for adoration, and not for the commemoration of any benefit. 3. The Manna which putrified, being one day kept contrary to the Commandement of God, Exod. 16. 20. indures many hundreds of yeares by his appointment, but Popish Reliques are not preserved from pu∣trifying, therefore God hath not ordained them so to be kept. 4. God commanded that no part of the Pascall Lambe should be reserved untill the morning, which doubtlesse was to take away

the cause of superstition, lest they might have adored and abu∣sed the Reliques of the Passeover; which charge given to the Israelites may also reprove the superstition of the Papists, which doe reserve the Reliques of the Sacrament, and of Saints carrying them about to sick folkes, as things of great vertue and holinesse.

Obj. Josephs bones was carried from Aegypt to Cannan, Gen. 50. 26. ergo the Reliques of Saints may be preserved.

Ans. Joseph was laid in a Coffin, they did not rake out his ushes, and take his bones and carry them about to work Miracles, as the Papists seeme to doe by the bodies of Saints (if they be their bodies) and in that Joseph desired to be carried to the Land of promise, the Scriptures directly sheweth the cause to have been the profession of their faith, and hope, that the Land of pro∣mise should be given unto them, as Joseph had formerly said (in these words) God shall surely visite you, and you shall carry my bones hence, Gen. ••0. 25.