C6ap.4 Quefiions, andCafe,r ofCon!deuce about Adoration,&c. Anfw. The creatures are either, I. Evil fpirics. 2. GoodAngels. 3. Li- via. men. 4. Saints departed. Queff. Is any Adoration due to theevilfpirits ? Anfw. No : for theyare Gods enemies, and accurfed ofhim, therefore noho- nour is due to them : neither arewe tohave any dealing with them at all, but utterlie to renounce whatfoever comes from them, or their infltumenrs,as Spells Charmes, Enchantments, &c. which ferve to work wonders, but have no fuch vertue fromGod,either by Creation, Nature, Word, or Inftitution. Q_e1t. VVhat Adoration is due to the good e/Ingels ? Anfw. If they did appear tous, and we certainly knew them, wemight adore them, but only with a civil and fociall worfhip. So Gen. 19. i. they refufe Re- ligious worfhip, Rev. 19.10. oefl, VVhat Adoration is due to men? Anfw. That which is meetly civil, and that in refpe&of the gifts ofGod that we fee in them, asalfo of the authority, and place they have amongti us. En- joyned in the fifth Commandment. So we fee in Abraham,G, n. z 3.7. which Adoration mull be according to the laudable cufiome of the Countrey where we live. Quell. (-Waynot religiotts,or mixt 4doration be given to them? Anjw. By no means. `Peter blamed Cornelius for ir, Acis IO. 25, 26. Mor- decai refuted togive it to Haman; Efiher 3.2. Killing the Popes toe is there- foreunlawful, becaufe its a Civil worfhip, mixed with Religious ; tendred to him as to Chills Vicar, and is not done to any Potentate on the earth. Quell. VVhat Adoration isdue to the Saints departed ? Anfw. All .the worfhip that we owe them,isnomore but a reverend efleem of their; perfons, and imitationof their vertues:No religiousworthip is due to them, theyhaving nothing to dowith us, nor we with them. Quefl. Doth any Adoration belono to the unreafonable creatures ? Anfw.. No, there belongsnothing to them, but a reverend and holyufe of them. For Adoration is a ligne offubjeEtion in the Inferiour to the Superiour : but Man is their Superiour, and therefore is notto worfhip them : therefore not the reliques ofSaints, or the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament. Quell. Is any erldoration due to the works of the Creatures, viz. I- mages ? Anfw. None at all : For r. Its exprefly forbidden in the Second Commandment. 2. The Superiour mull perform no Adoration to the Inferiour Now man is a more excellent Imageof God thenany other Image,and therefore better then it : yea, the meaneti worme which is Gods VVorkmanthip, is better thenany Image made by man : therefore we may betterworfhip a worme, then an I- mage. Mr. Perkins, Vol. 2.p. 84,eic. CHAP
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