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A sermon preached before the Commons-House [sic] of Parliament, in Saint Margarets Church at…A sermon preached before the Commos-House [sic] of Parliament, in Saint Margarets Church at…
A sermon preached before the Commons-House [sic] of Parliament, in Saint Margarets Church at Westminster, the 18. of February. 1620. By James Usher. Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin, in IrelandA sermon preached before the Commos-House [sic] of Parliament, in Saint Margarets Church at Westminster, the 18. of February. 1620. By Iames Vssher. Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Dublin, in Ireland
London: printed by I.Dawson for John Bartlett, 1624London: printed by I.Dawson for Iohn Bartlett, 1624
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The other place of Scripture, is the 4. of Deuteronomy: where Moses useth this speech unto the children of Israel.
The other place of Scripture, is the 4. of Deuteronomy: where Moses vseth this speech vnto the children of Israel.
The Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the Words, but saw no similitude, only ye heard a voice, verse 12. And what doth he infer upon this? Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves, (saith he in the 15. vers.) for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire. Left ye corrupt your selves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth. Where we may observe: first, that God in the delivery of the Law did purposely use a voice only; because that such a creature as that, was not to be expressed by visible lineaments. as if that voice should have said unto the Painter, as Echo is feigned to do in the iPoet.
The Lord spake vnto you out of the midst of the fire: yee heard the voyce of the Words, but saw no similitude, onely yee heard a voyce, verse 12. And what doth he inferre vpon this? Take yee therefore good heed vnto your selues, (saith he in the 15. vers.) for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake vnto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire. Left yee corrupt your selues, and make you a grauen image, the similitude of any figure, the likenesse of male or female, the likenes of any beast that is on the earth, the likenes of any winged fowle that flieth in the aire, the likenesse of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likenes of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth. Where we may obserue: first, that God in the deliuery of the Law did purposely vse a voyce onely; because that such a creature as that, was not to be expressed by visible lineaments. as if that voyce should haue said vnto the Painter, as Eccho is fayned to doe in the