A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughtsA treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts

II. Point Howe doth a man by thinking deny God in his heart?¹ Ans. Two ways first, by turning the true God into an idol of mans brain: secondly, by placing somewhat that is not God in the room of the true God. For the first, the Imagination of every man naturally, without further light from the word of God, doth turn the true God into an idol: and therefore Paul saith of the Galatians, that before, their vocation, ^xthey did service to them which ⟨p. 35⟩were no gods; and of the Ephesians, that ^ythey were without God in the world: even because they did not in their minds conceive of God aright, and accordingly worship him, though the wiser sort amongst them did acknowledge one God the creator of heaven and earth. And therefore David saith plainly, that^z all the gods of the Gentiles are Idols, or vanities: nay, as the Apostle saith, devils. 1, Cor. 10. 20. That which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice unto devils & not unto God.

II. Point Howe doth a man by thinking denie God in his heart?¹ Ans. Two waies first, by turning the true God into an idol of mans braine: secondly, by placing somewhat that is not God in the roome of the true God. For the first, the Imagination of euery man naturally, without further light from the word of God, doth turne the true God into an idoll: and therefore Paul saith of the Galatians, that before, their vocation, ^xthey did seruice to them which ⟨p. 35⟩were no gods; and of the Ephesians, that ^ythey were without God in the world: euen because they did not in their mindes conceiue of God aright, and accordingly worship him, though the wiser sort amongst them did acknowledge one God the creator of heauen and earth. And therefore David saith plainely, that