IT is against the Apostles precept 1. Io. 5.21 . PROOFES OF THE MAIOR . Babes keepe your selves from Idolls . For the explanation wherof two thinges are to be scanned first : what is meant by an Idoll . Secondly : how farr we are to keepe our selues from the Idoll . An Idoll is whatso euer besides God is worshiped with divine honor . quicquid preter deum diuino colitur honore : and though some restraine an Idoll to a visible forme : because it is deriued of apotou eidous ●et as a learned writer obserueth Zanch. de redem P. lib. 1. cap , 17 , Ths . 5 : Qui de omnibus Idolatrie generibus acturi ●unt , latius nomen Idoli accipiant necesse est Idoli igitur nomine intelligiur quicquid homo tanquam deum vel ●●mpliciter vel katati sibi extra verum Deum proponit fingitque colendum . Neither is this spoken without good rea●●n , for nothing is properly an Idoll , as it is a visible forme ▪ but as it is religiously worshiped . quate ●●s est visibilis forma , sed quatenus reli●●ose colitur If therefore it be worshipped it m●y be an Idoll though it be no visible shape otherwise the worshipping of Angells and the soules of the iust men were no Idolatry , seeing these are invisible spirites . and therefore the signe of the Crosse . If it be religiously worshipped , may proue an Idoll though it be transiens quiddam a thinge vanishing in the Ayre and no permanent forme . For as that learned Zanche speaketh there is a duplex A twofould Idol the on reall the other imaginarie conceiued only in the minde Idolum , the one reall the other imaginarium et tantum mente conceptum .

For answer to the Second question . Men may keepe themselues from Idolls two wayes viZ. a cultu , et ab vsu Idoli from the worshipp , and from the vse of the Idoll . For the first , How farr we are to keepe our selues from an Idoll , 1 Cor. 10.15 , to 23. S. Paule is so strict that he alloweth not the christians so much as to be present in the temple at the Idolatrous feasts , though they did it without any internall opinion , or externall action of worshippinge the Idoll .

But Iohn in this place doth not speake s● much of the worship as the vse of the Idoll for ( as Aug. in psalme 113. well obserueth ) th● Apostle commaundeth vt caueant non tantum a cultu simulacrorum , sed a simulacris ipsis . that they a voyd not only the worshipp of the Images , but also the images or Idolls themselues .

Now the vse of an Image , or Idoll , may be ciuill or religious , and both of them publike or priuate .

That an Image , even such an Image as is Idolatrously worshipped , may be made & retained for cyvill respects of ornament , story or such like : we make no question . though the tollarating of them in open and publick places , even extra cultum be offensiue and turne into a snare , as Gideons Ephod was to his posteritie : when it was abused to Idolatrie . And vppon this ground we yeld , that though the Crosse be apparantly an Idoll , yet in Princes Banners , Coronations , Coyne , Crowne , or any other cyuill respect it may haue a lawfull vse . But that any thinge of mans deuisinge being worshipped as an Idoll should be used religionis ergo & in the worshipp of God , seemeth directly against S. Io●● precept , for , how doe I keepe my selfe from the Idoll , or how doe I sheew my Zealous d●testation of that filthy Idolatry : when I r●tayne it : and vse it so honorably , as in th● Temple , in the Sanctuary , in the service o● God . Which interpritation of this place of S. Iohn , the Church of England e e Homil. ●ga , perill of Idolatrie part 2 doth on th● warrant of Tertullian approue & comend .

And this poynt is further strengthened by the second commaundement : f f Exod. 23 & 34 13 Deut ▪ 7.5 Ps , 16 , 4 which forbiddeth not only to worshipp : but even to make any Image , or any similitude whatsoeuer , to witt , ad cultum , or for religious vse : as according to the scripture the best g g Caluin , insti . li: 1 cap. 11 V●●in . cathe . in expos●t , secundi , precept . Petr. Martyr loc comclas 2 cap 5 ; sect 22 Hooper in 2 precePt . Zanch : de redemp●● . lib 1 c●p . ●5 interpret●ors , partly against Images in Churches , partly on the words of the precept doe most naturally expound it . for suerly , if Idolatry it selfe as a most execrable thing be forbidden , then all occasions and meanes leading therevnto are likewise prohibited . And what stronger prouocation to that spirituall whordome : then erectinge Images in the place of Gods worshipp ? Plus Babington on the 2. commaundement . Perk. set : caus . ca , 21 Allen on the 2 Com. Dod on the 2. com , enim vt rectu Avgustinus in psal. 113. Valent simulacra ad●uruandam infelicem animam , quod os ●abent , oculos habent , aures habent , ●ares habent , manus habent , pedes ha●ent , quam ad corrigendam quod non ●oquentur , non videbunt , non audient , ●on odorabunt , non tractabunt , non ●mbulabunt .

And therefore without doubt the mea●ing of the commaundement is to bynde ●he Church : from all such snares and al●uerments to sinne , and therefore doth Au●ustyne in quest. suꝓ Leuit. q. 68. well ●onclude from this commaundement that ●uch making of an Idoll can neuer be iust or ●awfull .

Now if no similitude at all be tollarable ●n Gods service , then much lesse any that ●ath bene and is worshipped Idolatrously .

Tertullian against the Gnostickes : ac●ompted them Idolaters not only which wor●hipped , but those also which made and retained Images ( nemppe ad cultum or for holy vse ) and in his booke de Idolatria , he vehemently reproued the very makers of Images , though they did not themselues worshipp them , which sheeweth in what execration the primitiue Churches held any religious vse of an Idoll .

The like we may finde in Epiphanius ad● Iohannem Epūm Hicrosal . Where he reporteth , that finding an image of Christ , or some Saint , hanging at a Church dore , he●rent it in peeces , avouching that to hang a● picture in the Church of Christ , was contra autoritatem scripturarum contra religionem christianam : contrary to the authoritie of the scriptures and the christian religion .

From hence I conclude , that if the godly fathers were so vehement against erecting● Images of Christ , and of Saintes , even a● that time : before any worshipp was giuen vnto them . Much more would they withstand it now after men haue made Idolles of them . And if they would not suffer an Idoll so much as in the place of Gods worship : would they endure themselues to vse such an ●doll as the Crosse : in the seruice and sacramentes of God . Their Zeale against that spirituall fornication : would neuer permitt ●hem so highly to honor , such an execrable thing : neither was their Zeale herein without ground of knowledge : For the spirit of God in Psa. 115.8 . speaking of Idolls , They ( saith he ) that make them , are like vnto them , and so are all they that trust in them . Where a plaine difference is made : betweene makers : and worshippers of Idolls : and both condemned , as curssed transgressors of the law , shall any then make the Idoll of the crosse and that religionis causa and yet be innocent ?

Qu●stionlesse by Dauids Psa 16 , 14 example we must make no mention , that is keepe no honorable memory of an Idoll , and therfore with out doubt : not giue it so much honor as to vse it : or the memoriall thereof in the house of God , and in his holy worshipp , but as Isai saith Isai 50.22 , We must pollute the reliques : and the very couering , and ornament of the Idoll , & cast them away as amenstrous cloth , and say vnto it gett thee hence .

PROOFE OF THE MINOR Now if any doubt whither the signe of the crosse be adored : and so made an Idoll , lett him well consider the tract of Bellarmine de a doratione crucis , where distinguishing the Crosse on which Christ was hanged , from the similitude thereof he saith , other crosses like to this , are accounted sacred Images cetere cruces illi similes inter sacras imagines numerantur and after he distinguisheth those similytudes of Christes Crosse into the Image and signe of the Crosse , so that if the Image of the crosse be taken for an Idoll ( & who knoweth not that it is the vniuersall Idoll of popery : and to be adored , euen cultu●latrie ( which worshipp as they themselues hould is due only vnto God ) the signe of the crosse must needes be taken for no better . Besides the same , De Image lib , 1● 3● . Bellarmyne hauing as is said distinguished the crosse : into three sortes : the crosse , the Image of the crosse , and the signe of the crosse , he layeth downe this doctrine generally of them all , omnes cruces adoramus and perticulerly of the signe of the crosse he saith , we adore all crosses de Imag. lib , 2 cap. 29. signum crucis quod in fronte vel in aere pingitur esse sacrum et venerabile . To this agreeth Portiformus Sarisb : 4 where it is thus professed adoramus crucis signaculum per quod salutis sumpsimus sacramentum .

And that the Image and signe of the crosse is of one , and the same account with papists , appereth evidently as by diuers : so perticularly by Hart : For Docter Raynoldes Confer : with Hart Cap ; 8 : diuis-4 sheewing that the Church of England , hath iustly left the signe of the crosse out of the supper for the Idolatry thereof , doth proue that it is worshipped as an Idoll , by such testimonies as indeede belonge to the Image of the crosse , which Hart no way excepted against , doth imply , that looke what estimation they haue of the Image : the same they haue of the signe , and what honor is due to the one : is due to the other . For in very deed , they carefully teach , Andra. orthod: e●pli lib 9. Bellarm. de imag , l●b , 2 cap , ●0 Tho. Aquin part 3. q. 2 art. q●art . & diuers other that it is not in regard of th● matter , wherein the crosse is painted , or th● couler whereby it is shaddowed , but only an● simply for the expressing of the liknes o● Christes crosse , and for the representing o● Christ crucyfied ( which the signe performeth as well as the Image ) that the adore th● crosse with the same honor , that is due vnt● Christ himselfe . And this no doubt was th● meanning of Aquinas when he saith th● every effigies or liknes of the crosse ( wherof the signe is one ) is to be adored cul●latrie and Costerus doth avouch that th● same worshipp is due to the signe , Ibidem as belongeth to the very crosse of Christ , when ● saith ( though falsly ) Coster . En●h●● , cap 11 , christiani a Chris● temporibus semper summa venerati●ne coluerunt ipsum signum dominic● crvcis et signum crvcis qvo se qvotidi● maniunt Marke that the signe of the cro● is worshipped summa veneratione with t● highest degee of honor , and as O●thod . expl●ce . lib , 9 : Andra●●s in expresse words saith in the same man●er , that the Image of Christ himselfe is ●orshipped , then the which what can be ●ore clere to proue that not only the Image : ●ut the signe of the crosse is by the papistes ●ost Idolatrously worshipped ?

Yf any say that to the signe of the crosse ●one boweth the knee or vaileth the bonnet , ●nd therfore it is not adored . I answer . First ●hat adoration is interne and externe : and ●he externe adoration is therfore Idolatry , ●ecause it proceedeth from the interne , as ●ancheus Zanch : de redempt. lib 1 ca : 17 Thes: 5 very learnedly , and largely , ●eeweth .

Yf a man invocate to an Angell or giue a ●y honor internall to a creature , shall it not ●e called Idolatry , Ephe. 5.6 Colos. 3 5 exceept he bowe outward● vnto it ? How then doth Paull say that co●etousnes is Idolatry ? For a rich man doth ●ot outwardly worshipp his goodes , yet be●ause he giueth vnto it interne Mark 10 24 1 Tim 6 19 Luke 12 : 15 confidence ●hich is due vnto God , it is truely called his ●doll , as vnto the Sardanapali Phii 3.19 there belly is termed there god : Right so the Papistes ascribinge to the signe of the crosse , that honor and confidence which belongeth to God , doe make it an execrable Idoll : and so most vnfitt to stand in the sanctuary , or to be annexed to the holy thinges of God . For first they ascrybe vnto the signe of the crosse : power and vertue , to mcryt pardon at least for veniall sinnes , quest , disputat , de venal pecto as appea-reth by ( r ) Tho. Aquinus ( s ) Bellermine and ( t ) Rhemistes .

de effect sacrument . li 2 1 Tim 4 sect 13.14 Bellar. de effect sacr. lib 2. cap , 31 Vnto a rude clowne whos dull vnderstandinge cannot reach to higher thinges , this only ( saith h● ) sufficeth for his sa●uation . Also it is held to partake of power efficient , and imediatly ( v ) operatiue , and that t● conuert sinners Marshal de cruce fol. 114 115. yea to gaine saluation , Hosius ( x ) contra Brent . p. 227. and generally the whole rabl● of Romish Doctors do teach to putt great affiance in this signe for chasing away deuils , and curinge diseases , and sanctifiynge both man , and other creatures , to the vse of man .

Secondly , I say indeed they doe giue outwarde , aswell as inward worshipp to the crosse . For it is apparant that they invocate it in the same manner , that they invocate saints when they say per crucis hoc signum fugiat procul omne malignum by this signe of holy Crosse let euills all flie farre from vs . Againe , by the signe of the holy Crosse , In officio sanct. cruce printed in English anno 1599. from our enimies deliuer vs o Lord our God Also in another place , victorious Crosse and admirable signe , make vs triumph and ioy : in heauenly courtes divine . Yea in prayers they ioyne it with Iesus Christ , as in officio missae is to be seene , where they supplicate : By the mercy of Iesus Christ , by the a●de & signe of the crosse , by the intercession of the blessed virgine , ●per mise ecordiam Iesu Christi , per aux ilium et signum crucis , per intercessionem beate Mariae &c. They couple it also with the bloud of Christ in these words defend me Iesu ab omnibus vitiis , malis preteritis , presentibus et futuris , per signum sanctae crucis , hor. present ad us●m sarum Parisijs impre●s . anno 1498. et per inestimabile pretium iusti et pretiosi sanguinis tui . All which doth most manifestly proue , that amonge the Papistes it is religiously honored ●oth with inward confidence , and outwarde reuerence . And therfore if their Idolls may in no sorte be annexed to the seruice of ou● God , the crosse in Baptisme ought necessarily to be crossed & cursed out of our liturgy Neither is it a sufficient answer to say , tha● the crosse amongst vs is neque numero n●que vsu , the same that theirs is , and thoug● their crosse be an Idoll , yet ours is not . Fo● when God commaunded his people to break● downe the Images of the heathen and to extinguish the very name of them , had they performed that charge if they had burnt al● the Idolls of Canaan , and afterwarde mad● newe of the same forme , and to another vse● though not Idolatrous : yet religious ? or how haue we discharged our dueties and sheewe● our detestation of that filthy Idolatry , if hauing defaced all the popish crucifixes and Idolls , we erect them newe in our Church though not to worshipp them , yet to any other holy vse whatsoeuer . It is true that our crosse and theirs is the same , both in name , and forme , but not in vse , for then were it Idolatrous , now I doe not say that the church of England , doth commit Idolatry : but that it ought to absteine not only from the Idolatry or worshipp , but euen from all religious vse of such humaine ordinances and inventions , which others haue and doe Idolatrously adore . For , if to erect crucyfixes , and other popish Images for holy vse be ( contrary to the commaundement ) a keeping of an honorable memory of the Idoll , Exod: 23.15 Deut: 12 : 3. Hos. 2.17 . howe can the religious vse of the crosse in Baptisme being aswell an Idoll as any of their Images be reteyned without breach of the law , Babes keepe your selues from Idolles .

obiection .

The signe of the crosse in the first institution was free from superstition and Idolatry , and if the abuse which grewe after be remooued why should it not recouer his auncient vse & indiffrency , like as as the bread in the Lords supper which the Papistes doe religiously adore ?

Answer . Of this nature are Churches , Pulpets &c. thinges of necessarie vse and warranted by God himselfe . but the reteyning of the brazen serpent was noe where commaunded .

There is great difference betweene that which God hath created and commaunded and that which man hath ordeyned , for 〈◊〉 one is necessary and no abuse can alter t● nature of it , the other indifferent and by ●buse may become vnlawfull ; and therefo●● Hezekia did worthely breake the brasen se●pent not seekinge to redresse the abuse of i● Now howsoeuer Bellarmyne would insinu● that the crosse is founded on scripture , y● the weaknes of his argumentes doe bewray the vnsoundnes of the matter , aut enim sgnum crucis habere vim speritualem Potissimum ex instituto Dei li. 2. de effect : sacra . et li. 2. de Imag ca : 29 conatur venerationem , crucis scripture autoritate stabilire de coronami ! . and therfor● Tertullians iudgment is to be preferre● which plainly saith , that there is no warran● in scripture for it horum inquit ( 7 ) si legem postules scripturarum nullam in v●nies , traditio tibi pretenditur autrix co●suetudo confirmatrix fides observatrix

Nowe it is further to be noted that a double vse of the Crosse is mentioned in antiqu●tie , one ciuill , the other religious , against th● former we doe not dispute yeldinge all reuerence , to those christians which by that not● sheewed their reioycinge and glory , in that which the heathen counted their shame , bu● now , that abuse hath turned both the Image and the signe of the Crosse into an Idoll , it seemeth thereby to be made execrable . For Gideons Ephod beinge first a ciull monument of victory , when the people went a whoring after it , was it lawfull for the Magistrate to erect in the tabernacle or sinagogue though not the same , yet the like , both in name and forme to any religious vse ? would it haue sufficed to say this is not the same Ephod that Israell maketh an Idoll of neither is it sett heere to be worshipped ( for your brethren doe grevously sinne therin ) but only to keepe ●n minde they great victory that God by Gideon gaue to Israell ? Right so the crosse vsed by the auncients to sheew that they were not ●shamed of Christ crucified being meerely ●yuill , and yet expressinge a most christian ●esolution , hauing bene abused , yea , continu●ng to be worshipped , both in imagine and ●n signo , it seēeth that this filth hath made ●t vnfitt , on any pretence of restoringe it to his auncient vse to be annexed to the holy thinges of the sanctuarie : especially wh●● their are so many papists that superstition● a●use it among vs . Now for the religio●● vse of the crosse by the auncientes , it was n●uer free from sinne and superstition as afte●wardes is sheewed , and if it were , yet it bei●● an humaine ordinance , and now not only ●bused to Idolàtrie , but becominge it selfe ● most abominable Idoll , no water can clen●● it , nor any pretext purifie it for the holy se●vice of Iehouah . But in very deed to spea● as the truth is , the crosse is reteined among vs with opinion very superstitious and er●●nious , for in the late Canons it is said , th●● the child Canon 30. is therby dedicated vnto the s●●uice of him that died on the crosse . What 〈◊〉 this but to equall mans ordinance with God● and to ascribe that vnto the crosse , which 〈◊〉 due vnto Baptisme ? a conceite fitter for ignarant papistes , then learned christians 〈◊〉 assent vnto . Neither doe we vse it as the au●cientes did , for Cyprian , Augustine , Chris●stome & others , Turtul● . de bapti ; ca. 7.8 Euseb. li 6 , ca. 48 , Innocent 1 , epist , cap. 3. Rab. ma●de insti . cleric . cap , ● . Durand . de ritib. eccles. li. 1. cap. 20 , it is apparant that thos● times did consecrate the elimentes therwith ●nd did not crosse the childs forhead at all , ●ut referred that vnto the Bishopps confir●ation , so that our crossing the Infants for●ead and not the element of Baptisme , is a ●eere noueltie without any warrant of that ●ntyquitie , Our vse of the crosse a Noveltie of some 60-yeares standing . neither will that place of Tertul●ian de resurrectione carnis proue the con●rary . The flesh is washed that the soule may ●e purged , the flesh is annoynted , that the soule may be consecrated , the flesh is signed , ●hat the soule may be guarded , the flesh is ●hadowed by the imposition of handes , that ●he soule may be by the spirit inlightened , ●he flesh doth feed on the bodie and bloud of Christ , that the soule may be filled and far●ed of God . In which wordes he ioyninge to●eather diuers cerimonies of the christians , ●oth indeede mention the signinge of the ●aithfull , but it may as well be referred to ●onfirmation expressed by imposition of hands ●s to Baptisme , vnderstood by the washinge ●f the body , and that one better reason , for it is more than probable that the signe of t●● crosse was not yet vsed in Baptisme , se●ing Iustin Martyr in defens . ad Antonin a & Tertull. de Baptismo et de corona miltis , As for Martial his epist are iustly suspected : doe describe the forme of Baptisme vse● in those times and yet make no mention o● the crosse therin , which in all liklyhood the● would not haue omitted if it had bene vse● therin especially Tertullian , who in that very place speaketh of the crosse , as vsed out o● Baptisme in the ordinarie blessing of them selues .

obiection .

But the signe of the crosse is not vsed i● Baptisme , but when baptisme is ended .

Ans. Yf you take Baptisme only for tha● dipping & sprincling of the partie it is tru● and so none of the popish additions , whereby they defile that holy sacrament are in bapti●me , for those which Apud Bellar. Baptis● comitantur are not impious , but if you tak● baptisme as indeed we doe : for the administration of that sacrament , then both th● prayers before and the prayers after , the actions after the dipping : doe all indifferently belong to one and the selfe same thinge , yea it is all vna et ) on continual action of the administration of the ●acrament . continua actio administrationis sacramenti .

Sure it is that it must be said to be , either in baptismo extra baptismum aut nullibi , if it be out of baptisme , In Baptisme or out of Bapr . or no where , how is it by common consent of all , said to be signum crucis in baptismo .

Obiect . The signe of the crosse is very auncient .

Ans. So are many other popish traditions . And if on that ground we are to retaine it , why doe we not giue the baptised milke & ho lactis ●et mellis concordiam . Why doe we not bring offrings for the dead . For Turtullian the first of the Fathers that euer mentioned the Crosse : doth establish these , and the signe of the crosse by one and the selfe same warrantie . Besides , if vpon the fathers tradition we vse the crosse , then must we receaue and vse it as they haue deliuered it vnto vs that is , with opinion of vertue and efficacie , not only in the act of blessing our selues , an● in the expelling of diuills , but even in t● consecration of the blessed Sacramente● For the first , Tertullian is w●nes de coron mil 〈◊〉 omnem progressum , ad omnem promotum● ad omnem ad 〈…〉 ad vestitu● et calce atum , frontem crucis signaculo ferimi● For chasinge of deuills , Ierom councelle● Demetrius to vse the crosse . Ep●stol . 1 ad Demetriam . Et crebro ●9 inquit signaculo crucis munias frontem tua●ne extermmator Aegipti in te locum reperia● Lactantias ( de hoc signo scribens ) lib. 4 cap. 17 ait clirit● sactatores , inquinatos spiritus , signo passioni● excludere Chrisostom : in psal. 108. ( 11● crux inquit munit mentem : ea Demones v●● cilcitur ea tollit morbos anime .

But these superstitions are small in regard of that efficacie which in the sacraments , a●tiquitie ascribed vnto the crosse , for Cypr●●an ( being the auncientest that maketh me●tion of the crosse in Baptisme ) speaking of 〈◊〉 ( 12 ) cuius vertus omnia peragit sacramenta● sine quo signo nihil est sanctum , neque aliqu● consecratio meretur effectum . & againe , Cyprian de pa●o●e . Qui cunque sunt sacramento ruin ministri , quale● cunque sunt manus que vel mergunt acceden●es ad baptismum vel vngunt qualecumque ●ectus de quo sacra exeunt verba , operationis ●utoritas in figura crucis omnibus sacramentis ●rgitur effectum , Augustine in Ioh: tract . 18. Quod signum inquit nisi adhibeatur siue ●ontibus credentium siue ipse aque qua regene ●antur fiue oleo quo chrismate inunguntur siue ●crificio quo aluntur nihil eorum rite perficitur ●t were superfluous to reherse the rest . But ●ereby it is evident that the religious vse of ●he crosse , was even at the first sinnfull and ●uperstitious , neither can it be sheewed , without admixtvre of supertition : that ●uer it was vsed by the Fathers , religionis , ●go sine admixta superstitione , and this in●ention did noe sooner creepe into the sacra●ent but it drewe vnto it selfe such supersti●ous conceite of efficacie and necessitie , that ●ithout it , the meanes which God appoin●d for the consecration of the elements see●ed over weake , yea , vnauailable according ●s some Latly in Surey a child● rebaptised because the crosse was omitted , amongst vs account not theire ●hildren lawfully baptised , yea , will haue ●hem rebaptised , if the crosse haue bene omit●ed , out of which may be obserued , first how dangerous a thing it is to bring in any h●mane inuention into the seruice of God , si●● in the very pure age of the Church , it w●● punished with such a spirituall curse of ho●rible superstition .

Secondly , though at this time popery w●● not hatched , yet the misterie of iniquity w●● then a working , and the begining as it wer● of the whorish fornications was found eve● in the Fathers times , so that , as worshippin● of Angells in Paules time , Colos: 2.18 : prayers & oblations for the dead in Tertullians time , be righ●ly counted popish and Antichristian , thoug● as yet that monster was not borne . So this & other Ceremonies ratified by the popish Canons & constitutions , may well be taken for popish & Antichristian , euen in the Father times , seeinge they then made away for th● beast , and since haue receaued further impl●●etie and autoritie from him : Esai . 52 , 11 , wherfore to co●clude as Isai exhorteth Gods people , to keep● themselues from the rites and pollutions o● the heathen , saying , depart depart ye , goe o●● from them & touch noe vncleane thinge . So the spirit in the same manner chargeth the Church not to medle with the corruptions of Antichristian Babilon , Apoc , 18 , ● but goe out of her my peoplc saith he , that ye may not be partaker of her sinnes , and that ye receiue not of her plagues .

The feare of which curse doth keepe us from all the superstitious and Idolatrous cerimonies of that whorish sinagogue .