A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

This was the devils trick to effect that Art, by fraud, wch he could not Mart, by open war. Let me a little increase your detestation of idolatrous worship, that you may more sincerely worship God.

This was the devils trick to effect that Art, by fraud, wch he could not Marte, by open war. Let me a little encrease your detestation of idolatrous worship, that you may more sincerely worship God.

1 It is a pleasing sin, therefore more pernicious: few that love it, can be brought to acknowledge it. A Turk believes nothing less, than his Alcoran to be Idolatry. A Monk at his Mass is so far from thinking himself an Idolater, that he calls ⟨p. 146⟩himself a Spiritual man. Though nothing be more reproved in Gods Word, and punished in his works, than Idolatry; yet there is in corrupt nature a strange proclivity to it. The Prophet calls Idols,^k Delectable things: Their delectable, or desirable things shall not profit them. The Idolater is like a woman inflamed with love toward some proper young man: her affection is so set, that forgetting all modesty, she sends for him, and brings him to the bed of love:^l Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. Such a whore is the Church of Antichrist, Revel. 17. Whose doctrine like the wine of fornications, goes down merrily, to the intoxication and poison of souls. Only the Gospel hath brought this Land a remedy, no other than the blood of Christ to purge it.

1 It is a pleasing sin, therefore more pernicious: few that love it, can be brought to acknowledge it. A Turke beleeves nothing lesse, than his Alcoran to be Idolatry. A Monke at his Masse is so farre from thinking himselfe an Idolater, that hee calls