An Anſwer to the Lamentation of Cheap-ſide Croſſe. Together with the Reaſons why ſo many doe deſire the downfall of it, and all ſuch Popiſh Reliques. Alſo the downfall of Antichriſt.
By Samuel Lovedeay.
London, Printed for T. A.
FOraſmuch as ſome have undertaken to oppoſe (by word and deed) ſuch as deſired the aboliſhing of al Images, more eſpecially, that of Cheapſide-croſſe, ſhewing that it is an ornament to the City, and of antiquity, which reaſons are of no great conſequence: We deſire to give you ſome Reaſons why wee deſire the extirpation of it and all ſuch like.
1. Becauſe it is in its own nature a monument of Idolatry, and may ſute wel with an idolatrous place, and may be compared to Dagon, ſpoken of in 1. Sam. 5. and the beginning, which when the Arke came nere he fell downe flat. Intimating unto us that whereſoever the Arke of God comes all Idols and idolatry muſt be done away: now we have great cauſe to hope that our Arke is comming home againe which the Philiſtin•s have ſo long kept from us, and therefore good reaſon dumb idols ſhould fall before him.
2. From Gods command in Exod. 20. twice repeated in that Chapter, aand flatly forbidden, that wee ſhould not make any graven Image in the 23. verſe of that Chapter.
And in the 27. of Deutrinomy and the 15. verſe, Therr is a curſe pronounced againſt him that ſhould make any Image, and ſo in Exod. 32. How the wrath of God broke out upon for this ſin, and how he plagued them in the laſt verſe them of that Chapter.
A Third Reaſon may bee drawn from the men that ſtand for them, upholding of them in their lives and converſations, according to Gods Word, the world ſaith our Saviour loves his owne.
It is prone to our natures to deſire a Viſible God, we cannot endure to ſerve a God inviſible. Therefore we may bee eaſily drawne to Idolatry.
The fourth Reaſon may be drawne from the unſutablenes of them to this City, a place of ſo much preaching of Gods Word. If Solomon deſcribes the attire of an Harlot to bee anſwerable to her perſon, why not the attire of Idolatry to Idolatrous places, and of Paul in the 5. to the Phillippians, Sayed, have not covetouſneſſe nor fornication once named among them as become Saints, then let not the leaſt thought of Popery be ſeene among us as becomes Proteſtants.
The fifth reaſon is drawne from our Nationall Proteſtation, We deſire it may be abolliſhed, otherwiſe we ſhall bee gu•lty of breaches of Covenant, if we doe not endeavour to ſuppreſſe and alſo to abandon all Popery and Popiſh Innovaons.
The ſixt Reaſon may be drawn from the evil conſequence of its ſtill continuing both to our ſelves and others,
Firſt to our ſelves, it will bee ſmoake to our eyes, and thornes in our conſciences, while they remaine amongſt us, it will alſo ſcandalize our pure profesſion of Religion.
Secondly prejudiciall to others, it wil be an occaſion to keepe them from comming in to looke for Chriſt in an inviſible way ſo long as they ſee him in a viſible, it is credibly reported that ſome have beene ſent to worſhip that Croſſe.
Therefore you that plead for it, your grounds cannot be good, it is a fitter ornament for Rome or ſome ſuch place (I meane whilſt the Image and Croſſe remaine on it) then for this City. All which had their aimes and originals from Rome, all Croſſings and ſuch like, they may ſtand with a non-Reformid Nation. Yet I do not ſay that it is ſo fit for every one to pull them downe, but them them in authority as thanks be to God the Parliament have took it into conſideration, and commanded that all in Churches ſhould down, and ſo now alſo the reſt, for which happy Parliament let our prayers and praiſes be continued to God alwayes.
THE aforeſaid Iaſper having ſufferd much by loſſe of his Members from his body, your delayes of reliefe have proved very prejudiciall to his health: for being (as I ſuppoſe put into a heat by that ſuddaine incounter, and then being expoſed to the violence of the weather, and a cold piercing into his bodie through the open Pores, and not bleeding currantly, I feare it feſters inwardly, whereby many radicall humours are congealed therein, that in reſpect of his age, his diſeaſe (occaſioned by their delayes, and obnoxious) will prove very deſperately uncutable, without one medicine can bee procured to apply to him, and that is a Parliamentarie Playſter, as a preſervative of his life. You doe well to watch with him and pray to him, and comfort him as well is you can. Onely uſe ſuch medicines as may preſerve his preſent life: for as yet the obſtructions cannot be removed: if you pleaſe you may give him a vomit, and applie a playſter to his ſores.
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