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Public Worship interdicted by the Archbishop. Refuses to revoke his Interdict. He fled to Guadalupe and took Sanctuary. Refused to leave the Altar. The Arrest at the Altar. "Placuit pinturas in ecclesia esse non debere, ne quod colitur vel adoratur, in parietibus pingatur Pictures ought not to be in the churches, nor should any that are reverenced or adored be painted upon the walls."
Yet that his meaning was better than his expression, and that he meant not that adoration should be given to the flesh of Christ, but to the Godhead, whose footstool the flesh is, it is plain from those words which Burges himself citeth out of him: “To whatsoever earth, i.e., flesh of Christ, thou bowest and prostrate thyself, look not on it as earth, i.e., as flesh; but look at that Holy One whose footstool is that thou dost adore, i.e., look to the Godhead of Christ, whose flesh thou dost adore in the mysteries.” Wherefore if we would give any sound sense to their words who say that the flesh of Christ is to be adored, we must note with A. Polanus, that cum dicitur carnem Christi adorari, non est propria sed figurata enunciatio; quia non adoratur proprie caro secundum se, quia creatura est, sed Deus in carne manifestatis, seu Deus carne vestitus.
Qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur. Qui locutus est per prophetas. "Et unam Catholicam et Apostolicam Ecclesiam. Confiteor unum Baptisma in remissionem peccatorum. Et exspecto Resurrectionem mortuorum. Et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen." "Well done!" said several, enjoying the last word, as being the first and only one they had recognized.
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