Exodus — Chapter 20

He that lieth with a brute beaft, dying let him die. 20. He that facri- -ficeth to Gods, fhal be putto death, but to the Lordanly. 21. Thou ihale mot to take bribes.10.The feuenth yeare and day al muft reft. 14. Three pring cipal feafts muft be folemnsxed eucrie yeare.2.0. Conduction and protection of am angel is promifed. 24, The people is againe commanded to deflroy laels. 29.Why their enemies shal be deftroyed by litle and bile. A, Hov thalt not admita lying voice ; neither fhairthou ioyne » thy hand to fay falfe teftimonie for a wicked perfon. 2. Thou fhale not folow the muiticude to doe euil : neither fhalkthou in udgement argreetothe fentence ofthe moft part, to {tray trom the truth, 3. The ( 4.) poore man aifo thou thalt noe --- PAGE 223 --- EXxXODVS. lawes. 20% not pitic iniudgement, 4..1f thou meete thy enemies oxe or afle going aftray , bring it backeto him, 5, If thou fee the affe of him that hateth thee lye vnderneath his burden, thou fhalt not paffe by, bur thalt lift him vp with thre ame, 6. Thou fhalt not decline the poore mans iudge- ment, 7, A lye thou fhale auoid, The innocent and iuft perfon thou thalt not put to death: becaufe I abhorre the impious man, 8. Neither fhalt thou take bribes, which doe blind alfo the wife, and peruert the wordes of the iuft.y, The ftranger thouthalt not moledft, for you know 4 the harts of {trangers : becaufe your felues alfo were ftrangers in the Land of Agypt. 10, Six yeares thou fhale fow thy ground, and fhalt gather the corne therof.11, But the feuenth yeare thou fhait let it alone, and make itto reft, thatthe poore of thy people may eate , and what- foeuer fhal be left, let the beafts of the field eate it : fothalt thou doe in thy vineyard and thy oliuete, 12, Six dayes thou shale worke : the feuenth day thou shalt ceafe , that thy oxe may reft and thine affe ; and the fonne of thy handmaid may be refreshed, and the ftranger,13.Keep al things that I haue faid to you, And by the name of foren Gods you thal not {weare , neither thal it be heard out of your mouth. 14. Three times euerie yeare you fhal celebrate feaftsto me, re. Thou shale keep (4) the folemnitie of Azymes, Seuen dayes (hale thou eate azymes, as commanded thee , in time of the month of new corne, when thou did{t come forth out of Agypt: thou fhal not appeare in my fight em- ptic. 16, And the folemnitie of the harueft (¢) ot the firft fruits of thy worke, whatfoeuer thou didit fow inthe field. The folemnitie alfo in the end of the yeare, (d) when thou hait gathered al thy corne out of the field, 17, Thrife a yeare fhal al thy male fexe appeare before the Lord thy God. 18. Thou fhalt not facrifice the bloud: of my victime vpon leauen, neither fhal the fac of my folemnitie remaine vntil the Morning, 1g, The frit fraits of the corne of thy ground chou fhalt carrie into the houfe ot the Lord thy God, Thou fhalt not boyle a kid inthe mulke of his damme, 20. Behold 1 wil fend myne Angel , which shal goe before thee, and keep thee in thy iourney , and bring thee into the place that I haue prepared, 21.Obferuehim,and heare his voice,neither doe thou thiake him oneto becontemned: tor he wil not forgiue when thou haft finned , and my name is in him, 22. But if thou wilt hearc his voice, and doe al thatI {peake , I wil be enemie to thyne eneinies , & wil afflict them that afflict thee.23. And myne Angel fhal goe before thee, and thal bring thee in vnto the Amorrheite, and Hetheite, & Phe- rezeite,and Chananeite,and Heueite,& lebuzeite, whom wil deftroy.

Our Lord faid more- -198 a gn fe) This and-o- ther cere:no- nial precepts are derermi-. nate lawes, for obferumg the commandméts of che firft ta- ble pertaining te God, 1Proreftants charge al Ca- tholikes to be Idolaters, They abufe their folewers, - Thep belie the Church naili- tant. triumphaot,. Blafpheme the: + of anie one of the ExXODYVS. Geremonies moreouct to Moytes : This (hale thou fay tothe children of Iftael: You morie of my name thal be : 1 wil come to thee, and wil bleffle thee, ~-be difcouered. ANNOTATIONS, HAP. XX. 3 Strangs Gods,} Proteftants pretend here to proue , that al Catholikes are Idolaters , for honoring Saints , and their Relikes and Images, And they hauefo detamed Catholike Religion im this behalfc,that the vulgar fort of deceiued peo- ‘ple, otherwife knowing Catholikes to be ordinarily of moderate conuerfation in life, of iuft dealing towards their neighbours,addiced to prayer,fafting,almes, and manie food works , more wanting among themfclues: yet fuppofing them, rotwirftanding thefe laudable qualities , to be Idolaters, are therby auerted this dangerous bleck of erroncous conceit , we shal here note fome of the Prote- flants ceregious lies againft the whele Church militant,and blafphemous repro- ches againit the glorious Saints : then briefly declare the true and finceredo- Grine and praéife of the Catholice Churchin this point. Luther in his poftil vpon the. Ghofpel of our Eordes Incarnation , fayth: Papifia Virginem Mariam Deum confitwune : Omnipocensiam ei incalo c in serra tribwans, The Papifts ( fair he) inearth, In Papiltrieal expeGed more fauour and grace fromher , then from Chrifthimfef. His fcholar Melanéon ( ia locis consmuntb.) poftilling the frit Pre. cept, faith : Papiftes.inuocate Saints , and worship Images in heathnish manner, Caluin (li, deneceff refer, Eechef, ) faith: thofe of the Emperonrs religion (meaning al Catholikes } fo dinide: Gods offices among Saints , that they ioyne them to the Soueraigne Gods as collegues ; in which multitude God lteth hid- den, Againft the moft glorious virgin mother the fame Luther ( fir. de nasalovirg, tar.) feared not to fay, that he efteemed no more of the prayer of S. Alane,then ople. And his reafon is worfe then his wicked affertion, for that.(faitl he) al that believe in Chrift are as iuft,& as holie as the virgin Marie, or anie ather Saint how grearfoeuer, The Magdeburgian Centuriators (li, 1, Cent: afirme that the virgin Marie finned gricuoufy.yca cépare her imagined faults withthe finne of Eueinparadife. ( 4.2.) They charge S, Perer and $.Paul (alfo after their conuerfions j with diuers great crimes. Caluin (li. 5. Inf. 2, Ludas Machabeus fer fuperftitious and prepofterous zeale »in cauling Sacrifice to be offered for the dead, In hiscommentaric (in 32.Exodi) heaccufeth mot holie from Catholike Religion. And furcly it were aiuft caufe, if it were true. As. } wel cherforeta purge eur felues of fo haynous an imputed crime, as to remoue make the Virgin Marie God : they attribute to her omnipotencie inheauenand [ rag, .t,) condemneth Sara and Rebecca af great fiunes (c.4.) reprehendeth haue fee that from heauen I haue fpokentoyou.+3, Youthal notmake Gods of filuer, tior Gods of gollthal you make to you, 24, An Altar (¢) of earth youthal maketo me, and ‘you thal offer vponit your holo- cafts and pacifikes , your fhecp and oxen in euerie place where the me-

flene , and without jteps. cétaining Di- - uine L awes, Moral, Cere- WN D our Lord (pake al thefe words. 2.1 am the Lord thy onal » & Ty RA God , which brought thee forth out of the Landof &- } gypt, out of the houfe of feruitude. 3, Thou fhalt not haue” ttrange Gods before me. 4. Thou fhalt not make tothe a(a) grauen thing , nor any fimilitude thar isin-«) InHebrow heauen aboue,& that is in the earth beneath,neither of thofethingsthac ‘Pe/et, in are inthe waters vnder the earth. 5. Thou thaltnocadore them, nor Greek ations feruethem: 1 am the Lord thy God mighiie, ielous , (5) viliting the ‘pile ee fowl iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vpon the chird and fourth ‘glith 4 granen generation of them that hate me: 6. and doing mercie vpon thoufands thing. to them that loue me, and keep my precepts. 7. Thou fhalt nottakethe 2) This com- name of the Lord thy Godin vaine, For the Lord wil not hold himin. (hie and nocent that ihal take the name of the Lord his God vaincly. 8. Re- Peden the fn member that thou fanttifie the fabbach day. 9, Six dayes thalt thou commandment worke , and fhale doe al thy workes, 10, But on the feauenth day is the perteyne:hto fabbath of the Lord thy God : thou {halt doe no workein it, thou and euerie one of thy fonne , and thy daughter, thy man {eruant, and chy woman feruant, ibe nine an thy beait ,and the ttranzer that is within thy gates. 11, For fixdayes tech, Ro, ae the Lord made heauen and earch, and the fea, and al things that arein q. 9. them , and refted in the feuenth day , therfore the Lord bleffed the fabbath day , and fanctified it.12. Honour thy father and thy mother, The Epiftle that thou maylt be long liued vpon the earth’, which the Lordthy God 9 wednefday . wilgiuethee. 13, Thou fhalt not murder. 14. Thou {halt not commit jn ehe tnd aduoutrie. 15. Thou thalt not {teale. 16. Thou thalt not fpeake againit conment. thy neighbour falfe tettimonte. 17, Thou thale not couet thy neigbours houfe ; neither ihalt chou detire nis wite , nor feruant, nor handmaid, nor oxe, nor affe,nor any thing thacis his. 13, And al the people faw the voices, andthe flames, andthe found of the trumpet ,and the mount fmoking : and being frighted and frucken with teare they ftood a farre off, 1g. faying to Moyits ; Speake thou to vs , and we wil heare: let notour Lord fpeake to vs, leit perhaps we die. 20, And Moyfes faid tothe people ; Feare not: tor God came to proue you , and that his terrour might be in you , and you fhould not finne,

Thou fhalt not adore their Gods, nor ferue them, Thouthalt nor doe their workes, but fhale deftroy them , and breake their ftatues. 25.And you fhal feruethe Lord your God, that I may bleffe your bread & waters, and may take away infirmitie trom the middes ot thee,

thou lift vp thy knife ouer it, it Jhal be polluted. . 26, Thou fhalt not goe vp by griefes vnto myne Altar, left thy turpitude . —w EXODYVS. 199 holie and meeke Moyfes of atrogancie and pride, And ( 1i,.3, Initit, c. 20. p. 27.) he fcuruily fcoffeth ar al Saintsin genecal , faying : If they heare morral mens prayers, they muit haue eares fo long, as from heauen-to earth, And calleththem not only hemines mortuos, dead men , (which S,Hierom reproued in Vigilantius ) but alfo umoras, laruas , colduniem : shadowes , night goblins, fisnching filth : yet more, (li, de veravefor, Eeclef rat.) he calleth chem Monfiva , carnifices, beflias , monflers, hanzmen , beafts. Thefe and like blafphemies modeft men can not but abhore and derett, Their lies alfo are conuinced by S, Hierem , handling this matter of pur- pofe againit Vigilantius, by $. Auguttin touching it by occafion (li. 20. 6¢, #1, ) ag zinft Fauftus the Mantchce, Thomas Waldentfis ( Te. 3. sie, 13. de 3 acramentalibus ) again Wiclif, by al Catechifines and Chriftian Inftru@ions , teaching nothing like, but quite contrarie to thefe mens reports, In fumme they al teach,that Saints are to be honoured with religious honour, which is greater then ¢tuil , but inft- nicly inferiour to diuine , asthe excellencie of God farmountcth al excellencré created, For better declaration wherof, it is to be confidered , that feeing by the law of God and nature honour is due toexcellencie , there muf be fo manie diftind kinds of honour , as there be general kinds of excellencie , which arethree, The firft of God , infinit, and incomparably aboue al : the fecond is fupernaceral,but created , as of grace and glorie: the third is humane or natural , corfilting in ma- tural guifis, or worldlie power and dignitie, al three as diftin& as God, heauen, and earth. To thefe three general kinds of exccllencie perteine therfore other three as diftin@ kinds of honour, to wit , Diuine due to Gad only, called by vfe and appropriation of a Greeke word Lasria : the fecond Dalia, belonging co Saints, and other holie things , cleuated by God aboue the courfe of naturc, in diners degrees , but within the ranke of creatures : the third is ciuiLhonour, due to humane and worldlie excellencie , according to diuers ftaces and qualities of nen, The firft of thefe,which is diuine,may in no cafe be giuen Co ante creature, how excellent foener. The third which isciuil, as both Catholikes and Pro- teftants hold for certaine, is nor competent nor agreable to Saints, but to mortal worldlie men in refpect of temporal exeellencie. Ad the controuerfie therforeis about the fecond. Which Caluin ( li.1.Infis.c.t1.¢ 13. ) and al Proteftane writers denice & reie& , and fo would haueno honour at al giuen to Saints. Obiedting as old heretikes did, that Catholikes doe al the faine external aces, as ftandin: bare-head, bowing, kneeling, praying,and the like to Saints,as to God himfelf. We anfwer, that the diftin@ion of honour confifterh not alwayes in the external action, butintheintention of the mind, For when we doe fuch external a@es of honour to God , we intend therby to honour the Creator and Lord of al, am fo it 1s dinine honour ; but doing the fame-cxecrnal ates toa Saint, we cenceiue of him , asa glorious feruane of God , and fo-we honour him asa fanctified and glo- rified creature, Gods fubiect and feruant. Without this diuerfitie of intentions in yourmind, you cannot fhew difference between the honour youdoe to God, and that you dee ro the King, by bewing , kneeling, and the like, For rt ts thefa- me external action: yet no Chriftiandoubreth but he honoreth God watli dinine honour, & the King with ciuil: Againe we anfwer, thas ve doe noc al the external ations of honour to Sains, which we doe to God. For Sacrifice is done only to God , and to na Saint;and becaufe Altars perteine to Sacrifice,they are erected to God only, though oftentimes in memorte of Saints. Both which anfwers S. Auguftin gaue long fince to Fauftus the Manichee arguing that Carholikes by. doing the fame external adtes ; worhhipped Martyrs with dininehonow , and foturned them into Idols , as that heretike inferred. Wherenpen S. Auguitin declareth , that Chriftian people celebrate rogether the memories of Martyrs with R eligs-us folemauie, to ftir vp imitation,to be partakers of their merites , and to be holpen by their prayers, Yet fo that we erect nor Al- tars ( becaufe they are for Sacrifice to anie Martyr, though in memerie of Mar- Ee tyrs 'S, Angnftin AI modeft men. wil condeine thefe blafphe- inies, } Catholike do- rine & pra- Gife conuince their lies. The true Ca. tholike do- Grin, excellencie, Three kindes of excellencie. kindes af ho- nour, ‘ Proteftants denie anic ho~ nous tobe due. to Sainty, Their obie- ion, Fist anfwer, Frample of this neceflary diftin@ion, ‘Second an- fwer, declarerh this devtrin : and gineth both the foriner an faers,. Honeur dueto} Therfore three], [Three caufes lor celebrating Satats memo- tl€s. Latriais ho- nour proper to God, Sacrifice: only to God. — Proteftants cd. feffe that the ancient Fa- thers honoured {Saints , and {their Relikes, Manna was jour ina gol- den veffel, Ab. 9, How faticie are heretikes tofcoffe at fo renowmed a DoGor! {Proteftants Yhaue corrup- ted the text inal their En- io lifin Bibles, EXODVS. tyrs, butto God of Martyrs. For who euer ftanding atthe Altar, in places of Saints bodies, faid: Weoffer to thee Peter , or Paul, or Cyprian , but that which is offered , is offered to God » who crowned the Martyrs , at their me- mories , whom he crowned , that by commonition of the very places , greater affection may arife, to enkindle charitie, both cowards them , whom we may imitate, and towards him , by whofe help we may. We honour Martyrs with that vorfhip af loue and focietie , wherwith holic men are worfhipped in this life. Whofe hart we perceiue is prepared to like futterance forthe Euangelical veritie :.but Martyrs more deuoutly , by how much more fecurely , after al vn certainties are ouercoine , and with how niuch more confident praife , we preach them now viGours in a more happie life , then others yet fighting in this, Buc with that worfhip , which in Greeke is called Lasria , a feruice properly duse so God, which in Latin can not be exprefled by one word , we neither worlhip , nor teach to be worfhipped but one God. And fer fo much as offering of Sacrifice pertaineth to this worthip ( wherof they are called Iuolaters , that offer facri- fice to anie Idols ) we by no meanes offer anie fuch thing ,nor teach to be offe- red , either to anie Martyr, or blefled foule , or holic Angel. Thus farre S, Au- guitin, The fame teacheth Theodoret (4. 8. ad Graces ) Our Lord hath depriued falfe Gods of the honour , they had in Temples , and 1n place of them caufed his Martyrs to be honoured : yet not in the fame manner, for we neither bring hoftes, nor libaments to Martyrs, but honour them , as ’olie men, and mot deare freinds of God. Ir would be too long to cite manie ancient Fathers , teftifying and tea- ching that Saints are to be honoured. More compendioufly we wil take our aduerfaries confeffion , the Magdcbur- gian Centuriators, Who (Pref.Cent.6.) holding that the Church was only pure from idolatrie the frft hundred yeares of Chrift ,and that it beganto faile in the fecond and third age , more in the fourth and fifth , and was vtterly perished in the fixth , impute the caufe of her ruine , thatthe very chiefe men taught and pradtifed the honour of Saints, Firft of al (fay they) thefe horrible and perni- cious darknes , as certaine black clouds coucring the whole frmament , rofe vp in the verie affemblie of teachers.For that partly the very Dogors of the C hurch, partly other fuperfticious men , augmented ceremonies and humane worships in the Temples. For facred houfes began to be builtin al places , with great cofte , alrogether in heathnish manner : not principally to the end Gods word might there be taught , but that fome honour might be exhibited to the Re- likes of Saints , and that feolish people might there worship dead men. And how pleafaatly eloquent is that Gregoric, called the Great, how feruertt, when as from his three footed ftoole, he preached the manner of confecrating thefe houfes ? And a litle after, By this occafion dead creatures , and bloudles half wormeaten bones began to be honoured , inuocated , and worshipped with di- uine honour, Al which Zhe Def¥ers of the Cherch not only winked at, but alfo fet forward, Thus the reader feeth, notwithftanding their lies , {coffes, and blaf- phemies , Proreftants doe confetie , that the Church and her chiefe pillars , ftreight atrer the firft hundred yeares of Chrift, fiue hundred next folowing , ho- noured Saints and their Relikes, Neither want there authentical examples of ho- lie Scriptures , wherby the fame is proued. eAs Gen, 52. 48. Exodi.3.32. Nom, 22, Tofue §. 3. Reg. 18.4, Reg. 2, Pialm, 98. andelswhere, ;

There thal not be a fruitlefle nor barren bodie in thy land: I wil fl the number of thy dayes.27.1 wil fend my terrour to runne betore thee, and ito be trtte ver~ tues, when iuftice is noes] Girft obferueds] $. Hicroms.in Pfal. 52. es ia Prom, 31, Three princi- ‘pal feafts be- fides the Sab- bath, & fome ‘others. (6) Pafch in memorie of their deliue- jtie from 'AEgypt, ( ¢)Pentecoft, when they receiued the - Lav. %& cles in memre-. rie of Geds protc@ion fourtie yeares inthedefert, (4) Taberna- } --- PAGE 224 --- ‘] Peace with infidels for- bidden to [ Geds people. «) As when brought the THraelites from bondage, and receiued the law for them ihe built an Al- tar for Sacri- fice: fo Chrift hanitig” redee- med vs, and Biuen vs a Law, for ap= lication of he fruit therof ‘Alrars are ere- ed, & Sacrifi- ce offered, le ) This was Hone corpo- rally to the Tewes, In Chriftians cand wil kil al people, to whom thou fhale enter: and wil rurne the Moyfes had oo EXODVS. 106 Judicial lawes, al thyne enemies before thee: 28. fending ferth hornets be- backes of fal ck, fe away the Heueite , and Chananeite, & Hetheite, before thou enter. 29. 1 wil not caft them out fremthy face in one yeare : left theland be broughr into a wilderneffe , and beafts encreafe againft thee. 3@. By litle and litle 1 wil expel chem from thy fight , til theu be increafed , and doft poffeffe the Land. 31. And I wil fet thy bounds from the Red fea vnto the fea of the Paleftines , and from the defert vnto the riuer : I wil deliuer the inhabitantes of the Land in your hands , and wilcaft them out from your fight. 31. Thou thalt (e) not enter league with them, nor with their Gods, 33- Let them not dwel in thy tand » left perhaps they make thee to {inne againit me , if chouferuc their Gods : which vndoubtedly wil be a {candal co thee.