Thirdly, to _kisse images_ is the principall worship of idolatry, as God saith, in the 1 of _Kings_ 19.19. _Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth that hath not kissed him._ But if that were so, it would follow, that all men, who kisse the Testament after they are sworn, should be idolaters. But because that is not so, since that act is but a simple worship, by the same reason it will follow, that to bow the head, cannot be reputed for idolatry. Fourthly, Experience sheweth, that in all Nations the ceremonies that men use mutually one towards another, is to bow the head; And also there are degrees thereof, according to the quality of the person with whom they speak; which shew that in the opinion of all nations, it is no idolatry, and therefore much lesse, to reverence the Law with bowing of the body. Fifthly, In _Asia_ (and it is the same almost in all the world) the people receiving a decree, or order of the king, they take it, and kisse it, and set it upon the head. We owe much more to Gods word, and to his divine Commandments. Sixthly, _Ptolomeus Philadelphus_, receiving the 72 _Interpreters_ with the book of the Law, into his presence, he rose from his seat, and prostrating himself seven times, worshipped it, (as _Aristæus_ assures us.) If a Gentile did this to a law which he thought did not oblige him, much more do we owe reverence to that Law which was particularly given unto us. Seventhly, The _Israelites_ hold for the Articles of their Faith, that there is a God; who is one in most simple unity; eternall, incorporeall; who gave the written Law unto his people Israel, by the hand of _Moses_, the Prince, and chief of all the Prophets; whose Providence takes care for the world which he created; who takes notice of all mens works, and rewardeth or punisheth them. Lastly, that one day _Messias_ shall come to gather together the scattered Israelites, and shortly after shall be the resurrection of the dead. These are their Doctrines, which I believe contain not any idolatry; nor yet in the opinion of those that are of other judgements; For, as a most learned Christian of our time hath written, in a French book, which he calleth the _Rappel_ of the _Iewes_ (in which he makes the King of _France_ to be their leader, when they shall return to their country,) the _Iewes_, saith he, shall be saved, for yet we expect a _second_ coming of the same _Messias_; and the _Iewes_ believe that that coming is the _first_, and not the second, and by that faith they shall be saved; for the difference consists onely in the circumstance of the time. THE THIRD SECTION.