item: #1 of 11 id: A28435 author: Blount, Charles, 1654-1693. title: Great is Diana of the Ephesians, or, The original of idolatry together with the politick institution of the gentiles sacrifices. date: 1680 words: 11634 flesch: 47 summary: What have Sacrifices to do with sins ? could none but their unenlightned Priests make peace between God and man , when sins were committed ? was there no address to be made to the Divine Majesty , but by their Intercession ? were they the Courtiers of Heaven , and must they be first bribed before men could receive a pardon for their sins ? an inward and hearty Repentance avail'd nothing amongst them . Sect. I. Before Religion , that is to say , Sacrifices , Rites , Ceremonies , pretended Revelations , and the like , were invented amongst the Heathens , there was no worship of God but in a rational way , whereof the Philosophers pretending to be Masters , did to this end , not only teach Virtue and Piety , but were also themselves great examples of it in their Lives and Conversations ; whom the People chiefly follow'd , till they were seduced by their crafty and covetous Sacerdotal Order ; who , instead of the said Virtue and Piety , introduced Fables and Fictions of their own coining ; perswading the Vulgar , that as men could not by any natural abilities of their own , know the best manner of serving God , so it was necessary that He should reveal the same to his Priests in some extraordinary manner , for the better instruction of the People . keywords: death; god; gods; good; heathens; life; man; men; nature; people; power; priests; reason; religion; sacrifices; self; sheep; tcp; text; things; time; worship cache: A28435.xml plain text: A28435.txt item: #2 of 11 id: A38015 author: England and Wales. Parliament. title: An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the utter demolishing, removing, and taking away of all monvments of superstition and idolatry out of all the churches date: 1643 words: 1587 flesch: 53 summary: be utterly taken away and demollished ; And also all Communion Tables removed from the East end of every such Church , Chappell , or place of publick Prayer , and Chancell of the same , and shall be placed in some other fit & convenient place or places of the body of the said Church , Chappell , or other such place of publick Prayer , or of the body of the chancel of every such Church , Chappell , or other such place of publick Prayer ; And that all Rails whatsoever , which have been erected neer to before , or about any Altar , or Communion Table , in any of the said Churches or Chappells , or other such place of publick Prayer at aforesaid , shall before the said day be likewise taken away ; And the Chancell ground of every such Church or Chappell , or other place o● publick Prayer , which hath been within twenty yeers last past , raised for any Altar or Communion Table to stand upon , shall before the said day be laid down , and levelled as the same was before the said Twenty yeers last past ; And that all Tapers , Candlestickes and Basons , shall before the said day be removed and taken away from the Communion Table in every such Church , Chappell , or other place of publick Prayer , and neither the same , nor any such like shall be used about the same at any time after the said day ; And that all Crucifixes , Crosses , and all Images and Pictures of any one or more Persons of the Trinity , or of the Virgin Mary , and all other Images and Pictures of Saints , or superstitious Inscriptions in , or upon all and every the said Churches or Chappells or other places of publick Prayer , Church-yards , or other places to any the said Churches and Chappels ; or other place of publick Prayer , belonging , or in any other open place , shall before the said first day of November be taken away and defaced , and none of the like hereafter permitted in any such Church or Chappell , or other places as aforesaid . And be it further Ordain'd that all and every such removall of the said Altars , Tables of stone , Communion Table Tapers Candlesticks and Basons , Crucifixes and Crosses , Images , and Pictures as aforesaid , taking away of the said Rayles , levelling of the said grouds , shal be done and performed , and the walls , Windowes , Grounds , and other places which shall be broken , impaired or altered by any the meanes aforesaid , shall be made up and repaired in good and sufficient manner , in all and every of the said Parish-churches on Chappels , or usuall places of publick Prayer belonging to any Parish , by the Churchwarden , or Church-wardens of every such Parish for the time being respectively ; And in any Cathedrall or Collegiate Church or chappell , by the Dean or Sub-Dean , or other chiefe Officer of every such church or chappell for the time being ; And in the Universities , by the severall Heads and Governours of every Colledge or Hall respectively ; And in the severall Innes of Court , by the Benchers and Readers of every of the same respectively , at the cost and charges of all and every such Person or Persons , Body Politick or corporate , or parishioners of every parish respectively to whom the charge of the repaire of any such church , chappell , chancel , or place of publick Prayer , or other , part of such church or chappell , or place of publick prayer doth , or shall belong : and in case default , be made in any of the Premisses by any of the person or persons thereunto appointed by this Ordinance from , and after the said first day of November , which shall be in the yeer of our Lord God 1643. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A38015 of text R26121 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E2069A). keywords: church; place; prayer; publick cache: A38015.xml plain text: A38015.txt item: #3 of 11 id: A41594 author: Gother, John, d. 1704. title: A discourse of the use of images in relation to the Church of England and the Church of Rome in vindication of Nubes testium against a pamphlet entitled The antiquity of the Protestant religion concerning images, directed against some leaves of that collection. date: 1687 words: 11341 flesch: 57 summary: Church of England -- Customs and practices. If a Christian has a Respect and Reverence even for the House of God , or Church , above other Houses , that are not Dedicated to his Service ; may not he shew this Respect , by Vncovering his Head ? keywords: christ; church; churches; doctrin; england; god; holy; honor; images; pictures; respect; reverence; rome; use; words; worship cache: A41594.xml plain text: A41594.txt item: #4 of 11 id: A42351 author: Gurnay, Edmund, d. 1648. title: An appendix unto the homily against images in churches, by Edm: Gurnay Bachelour in Divinity, and minister of Gods Word at Harpley in Norfolk date: 1641 words: 10720 flesch: 57 summary: ●f Gazements sake ; yet were ● wisdome in Governours to ●ndescend thereunto ? yea , ●●ere naturall Governours ●ve also in that respect bin ●iser then so ; witnesse those ●Lacedemonians which would ●t suffer any kinde of Ima●es to stand in their Senate-●ouse , only for fear lest they ●●ould grow remisse in their ● will consultations by the ●ceans ; witnesse also those ●uropians , which not only ●●●mitted no Images to stand ● their Temples , but also ●ould scarce indure the com●on light to shine into them : ●hereof the deviser of that Common-wealth gives this honest reason ( the goodnesse of his wit making him forget the qualitie of his Religion ) f quia parciore & veluti dubia luce intendi animos & riligionem putab●nt . AN APPENDIX UNTO THE Homily against IMAGES IN Churches NEither an Idlenesse nor yet a rashnesse can it be esteemed in any under the Government of the Church of England to write or speak against the Images ; the pronenesse of the Times to advance them , making it rather an act of necessity then of idlenesse to oppose them ; and the expresnesse of our Church doctrine against them making ●t rather an act of Authority then of rashnesse utterly to deface them . keywords: beauty; bee; churches; doe; god; gods; hee; images; kind; lord; persons; places; saith; scripture; temple; text; things; time; wee; yea; ● e; ● ● cache: A42351.xml plain text: A42351.txt item: #5 of 11 id: A42355 author: Gurnay, Edmund, d. 1648. title: Toward the vindication of the second commandment by Edm. Gurnay ... date: 1661 words: 14058 flesch: 58 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A42355) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 108755) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1672:1 or 2478:7c) Toward the vindication of the second commandment by Edm. keywords: doth; god; gods; good; hath; honour; images; instruction; kind; lord; man; men; senses; things; thy; time; yea cache: A42355.xml plain text: A42355.txt item: #6 of 11 id: A45420 author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660. title: Of idolatry date: 1646 words: 21003 flesch: 49 summary: § 4 Secondly , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Gods , the many false Gods of the heathens , by the Greek seven times rendred {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Idols , unlesse perhaps it may be conjectured , that they which so rendred it in those places , mistook , or misread {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Gods ( which in other places they constantly render {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , at least two hundred times ) for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} nothings , vanities , which is very near in writing and sound unto it , and such mistakes are no great news in those translatours . And to the same purpose the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} abomination , or filthinesse , ( and so most commonly rendred {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ) is sometimes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Idol also . keywords: god; gods; hath; heathen; idolatry; idols; images; man; matter; men; non; place; saith; set; sinne; thing; thought; vers; word; worship; worshiping cache: A45420.xml plain text: A45420.txt item: #7 of 11 id: A51303 author: More, Henry, 1614-1687. title: An exposition of the seven epistles to the seven churches together with a brief discourse of idolatry, with application to the Church of Rome / by Henry More ... date: 1669 words: 67508 flesch: 62 summary: And Caninius in general pronounces , Alia sunt innumerabilia quae deperdunt G : which implies it to be but a weak melting Consonant , and such as easily degenerates into Y , and , as it may be placed , is easily quite lost . Which argues that the sound of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are near enough for paronomasticall Allusion in any indifferent man's judgement whatsoever . And that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the same that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , besides that common Analogie of making nomina parasyllaba ( as they are called ) from the fifth Declension , as from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , there is an example exquisitely answering this of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , namely , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . keywords: apoc; asia; beginning; body; book; christ; church; churches; conclusion; council; divine; earth; end; epistles; exposition; faith; god; good; holy; idolatrous; idolatry; images; intervall; john; judgement; life; love; man; men; nature; object; pergamus; philadelphia; power; present; propheticall; reason; right; roman; rome; saints; second; self; sense; spirit; state; thee; things; thou; thy; thyatira; time; truth; verse; virgin; vision; way; world; worship cache: A51303.xml plain text: A51303.txt item: #8 of 11 id: A66405 author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709. title: The papist represented, and not misrepresented being in answer to the first sheet of the second part of the Papist misrepresented and represented : and for a further vindication of the catechism truly representing the doctrine and practices of the Church of Rome. date: 1687 words: 4550 flesch: 61 summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 62580) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 951:82) The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines. keywords: author; church; images; papist; tcp; text; worship cache: A66405.xml plain text: A66405.txt item: #9 of 11 id: A66406 author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709. title: The papist represented, and not misrepresented being in answer to the second sheet of the second part of the Papist misrepresented and represented : and for a further vindication of the catechism truly representing the doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, in the point of their praying to the cross. date: 1687 words: 6538 flesch: 68 summary: That thou wouldest vouchsase to bless this Wood of thy Cross , that it may be a wholsom [ saving ] remedy to mankind ; a stability of Faith , an increase of good works ▪ the Redemption of Souls , a comfort , protection and defence against the evil darts of the Enemies , through our Lord , &c. And as if this were not sufficient , after the consecration of the Incense , the Bishop sprinkles the Cross with Holy-Water , and Incenses it ; Saying , Let this Wood be sanctified in the name of the Fa ✚ ther , and of the S ✚ on , and of the Holy ✚ Ghost . A comely and bright Tree , Adorn'd with the Purple of the King , Chosen out of a Stock worthy , &c. To touch so sacred Members , Hail , O Cross , our only Hope , Increase Grace in the Godly . keywords: author; catechism; christ; church; cross; hymn; piece; saith; wood; worship cache: A66406.xml plain text: A66406.txt item: #10 of 11 id: A71070 author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699. title: An answer to several late treatises, occasioned by a book entituled A discourse concerning the idolatry practised in the Church of Rome, and the hazard of salvation in the communion of it. The first part by Edward Stillingfleet ... date: 1673 words: 83814 flesch: 59 summary: ●●ist . G●●ad . de E●cl●s d●gmat . keywords: answer; apostles; authority; believe; book; case; catholick church; christian; church; church authority; church hath; churches; council; doctrine; doth; faith; god; good; guides; hath; idolatry; infallibility; infallible; know; man; matters; men; persons; places; principles; reason; religion; roman; rome; salvation; scripture; sense; things; think; way; words; ● ● cache: A71070.xml plain text: A71070.txt item: #11 of 11 id: A97089 author: Walton, John, 1624-1677. title: A brief answer to the many calumnies of Dr. Henry More, in his pretended Antidote against idolatry. Shewing that no prudent person can, upon any rational ground, be deterr'd from returning to the communion of St. Peter's chair, by any of the doctors best and strongest evidences to the contrary. date: 1672 words: 20710 flesch: 64 summary: Only first I observe , that when Protestants read this their Second Commandment , Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image , or any likeness , that is in Heaven above , or that is in the water , under the earth ; Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them , nor serve them ▪ ) and withall are informed that Papists make Pictures and Images of Christ , place them in their Churches , put off their Hats , and bow the Knee before them , presently they endite the practise within their brests as guilty of idolatry ; most inconsiderately , no less than uncharitably , charging Idolatry upon the practice of the Church , for doing those self-same things , which God himself commanded the Jews to do , to whom he gave this very Precept . God himself commanded the making of Images , even after he had given the Second Commandment of the Decalogue : Ergo , Papists can make no Images , but they are Idolaters . keywords: answer; body; chapter; christ; church; conclusion; council; doctor; god; gods; honour; idolatry; image; man; person; saints; self; thing; words; worship cache: A97089.xml plain text: A97089.txt