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So in 106. Psal. from 35. to 39. ver. He shows the cause, progress, and reward of this idolatry in the Jews: they mingled themselves with idolaters, what came of that? then they learned their manners, and what then? that was their ruin. There he shows, that they did not root out idolaters, as God commanded them, but would grow in acquaintance with them, and by that means learned their ways, and their manner of ⟨image 41⟩serving God, till at length they became so zealous & so hot, as that they would offer their own children to the idols, indeed to devils, for they would imitate Abraham, & that which he was content to have done, that they would do indeed, he was willing to offer Isaac to god, but they went further, they offered them up indeed to their idols, & so thinking to please God, they did that which he abhorred, & thereby defiled and stained themselves and the land, for as Gods ordinances do cleanse & purge men, so the inventions of the flesh do pollute and defile, and hereupon his wrath flamed against them, so that he gave them up to their enemies that hated them, because they gave themselves to that which he hated. So Psa. 135. 15. The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, even the work of mens hands, they be but the workmanship of man at the most, and therefore inferior and less then men, for always the work is inferior to the maker of it; and then he describes them, They have eyes and see not, ears and hear not, feet and go not, &c. And so saith he, are those that make them, and those that trust in them, j. hope by their means to fare the better, think by kissing, knocking, kneeling, &c, unto them, to get any good; Idolaters and idol makers, will you know what they be? they have eyes and see not, ears and hear not, mouths and speak not, they have no use of soul or body, for if they had they would never be so base minded, as to hope for any good from stocks and stones, or look to be helped of them. Therefore they are even as blockish and foolish as the idols themselves. But here may be an objection to; Did not Solomon make Cherubins in the temple, and did not Moses make the brazen serpent? Why then should idols and images be so odious and hateful unto us. But to this we may answer, that God forbids to make an image to our selves:

So in 106. Psal. from 35. to 39. ver. Hee shewes the cause, progresse, and reward of this idolatrie in the Iewes: they mingled themselues with idolaters, vvhat came of that? then they learned their manners, and vvhat then? that vvas their ruine. There hee shewes, that they did not root out idolaters, as God commanded them, but would grow in acquaintance with them, and by that meanes learned their waies, and their manner of