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Author: Philopater, F. P.
Title: The nurse of pious thoughts wherein is briefly shewed that the use which Roman Catholikes do make of sacred pictures, signes, and images is not idolatry or any other misdemeanour (as some imagine), but the nurse of pious thoughts and healthfull meditations / written by F.P. Philopater.
Print source: The nurse of pious thoughts wherein is briefly shewed that the use which Roman Catholikes do make of sacred pictures, signes, and images is not idolatry or any other misdemeanour (as some imagine), but the nurse of pious thoughts and healthfull meditations / written by F.P. Philopater.
Philopater, F. P.
Douay: [s.n.], 1652.
Notes:
Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.
Subject terms:
Idols and images.
Catholic Church and art.
Theology, Practical.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54780.0001.001
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To the Right Honorable Lords, worshipfull Knights, Esquires, Gentry, and all the free-born people of England, who desire the redresse of notorious scan∣dalls, health and all happinesse.
The Preface to the Reader.
The Contents of the Chapters.
The Nurse of Pious Thoughts.
CHAP. I. What our thoughts be in generall, and how they are visions, or words, or speech∣es of our hearts.
CHAP. II. Of Pious and impious thoughts, and what Pious thoughts are.
CHAP. III. How all evills proceed from evill thoughts:
CHAP. IV. The excellency of Pious thoughts, and how good works, and heroicall actions proceed from them.
CHAP. V. How the thoughts commonly follow the sen∣ses, and that the senses consented unto beget our thoughts.
CHAP. VI. The power which the senses have to move the mind, to think good or evill, as they present.
CHAP. VII. How pious objects, and sacred Pictures furnish our souls with pious thoughts.
CHAP. VIII. The necessity of sacred artificiall Pictures, Signes and Images, to the nourishing of pious thoughts, and what we call sacred Pictures and Signes.
CHAP. IX. What we mean by a relative Religious Worship and of the distinction of honor and worship.
CHAP. X. That a Relative Religious Worship be∣longeth unto sacred things, Pictures, Signes and Images, as they immediately or mediately conduct us to God.
CHAP. XI. Almighty God never prohibited either the making of sacred Pictures, Signes and Images, nor yet their relative religious Worship.
CHAP. XII. That it is lawfull to make holy artificiall Pictures, Signes and Images, which may immediately or mediately bring us to think upon God and heavenly things, and place them in Churches or Temples.
CHAP. XIII. That in time of peace, when there is no persecution, the pictures and images of Angels and Saints ought to be placed in Christian Churches, and there honored with a relative religious worship.
CHAP. XIV. How the Nurse of Pious Thoughts doth not only consist in the having and behold∣ing sacred pictures, signes and images, but also in giving unto them an outward and inward relative religious worship, not for the materiall things themselves, but for the sacred things which they represent.
CHAP. XV. How free Roman Catholiques are from i∣dolatry, by worshipping of sacred pi∣ctures, signes and images, with the a∣foresaid relative religious worship.
CHAP. XVI. By the second Commandement, God com∣manded all men to honor and worship his Name, which is but a sacred signe, pi∣cture or image of himself, with a rela∣tive religious worship, thereby to beget pious thoughts of him in our souls.
CHAP. XVII. The third Commandement commandeth all men to honor and reverence the Sabbath day, which is but a sacred sign.
CHAP. XVIII. Of the sweet name or signe of Jesus, and how this name respectively is to be wor∣shipped with a relative religious wor∣ship above all names, thereby to beget pi∣ous thoughts of Jesus above all things.
CHAP. XIX. Greater honor to be given unto the name Jesus, as it signifieth Christ our Lord, then to any other name of God.
CHAP. XX: How terrible the name of Jesus is unto the divells, when it is honored with an in∣ward and outward relative religious worship.
CHAP. XXI. Many miracles wrought in confirmation of the inward and outward relative honor and worship given to the name of Jesus.
CHAP. XXII. Of the honor and glory of the Crosse of Christ, as it representeth his person, and passion, and how it shall distin∣guish the faithfull from the followers of Antichrist.
CHAP. XXIII. That the faithful in the Primitive Church used an inward and outward relative religious worship towards the sacred sign of the Crosse.
CHAP. XXIV. The Crosse adored with an inward and out∣ward relative religious worship in the Primitive Church.
CHAP. XXV. Of four sacred images which were made of Christ our Lord, whilest he lived up∣on earth, and of the relative religious honor done unto them, to the inriching of their minds with pious thoughts.
CHAP. XXVI: Of the enemies of the Crosse, and sacred Images, and of the miseries that befell Images, and of the miseries that befell them.
CHAP. XXVII. The visible and invisible relative religious worship, which the faithfull in the Pri∣mitive Church used towards the sacred pictures, signes, and images of the writ∣ten Word of God, and thereby learned the true sense, and indued their soules with wholesome meditations, and pious thoughts.
CHAP. XXVIII. Answer to Objctions.
The Conclusion.