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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Lecture 35: The thirty fifth Lords days.Lecture 35: The thirty fifth Lords dayes.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Use 2. Is of Direction, that in worshipping God, we have a precise regard of Gods own holy Ordinances in the ministry of the Word, Sacraments, and Discipline; and on the other part, that we despise all humane devises, with how soever fair colour and pretence they may be commended to us.
Use 2. Is of Direction, that in worshipping God, we have a precise regard of Gods own holy Ordinances in the ministry of the Word, Sacraments, and Discipline; and on the other part, that we despise all humane devises, with how soever faire colour and pretence they may be commended to us.
Doct. 2. God is not to be worshipped, at, or before an Image.
For otherwayes Images in this place are not absolutely forbidden, because there is a civill, lawful, use of some Images; but only the use of Images in Gods worship: Neither are such Images only forbidden in Gods worship, as are of counterfeit Gods, as Papists will have it; but also of the true God, Deut. 4 1•. Where Moses opposeth the voice of the true God, which the people had heard in the Mount, unto all Images of the same God, and not of other counterfeit gods. This was also said expressly to have been signified in the sin of the Israelites, about the Image that they made, Exod. 22. ⟨p. 220⟩verse 6. that they would make a Calf for an Image, or representation of Jehovah: The distinction therefore between an Image and an Idol, in which, and by the which Image God is served, hath no ground neither in writing, nor right reason, nor in common use of words. The grievousness of this sin every where appeareth, that in scripture it is commonly called Idolatry: For such as worship the true God at or before an Image, they do not altogether and professedly forsake the true God; and therefore do not commit that principal and essential Idolatry; yet are they guilty of secondary Idolatry, and that which is such indirectly, and by participation.