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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 1. Is of Refutation against the Idolatry of Papists, who as they commit Idolatry against the first commandment, in praying to Angels and Saints departed, and the like; so here they commit secondary Idolatry, 1. In that they make Images of God the Father, Son and Holy-ghost; which is expressly forbidden. 2. In that they honour with divine worship these and other Images. 3. In that they make the worship it self Idolatrous, which they would offer to God, while by the intervention of an Image they thrust it upon God, against his own revealed will. And this amongst others, gives just and necessary cause to all the godly of making separation from the Church and worship of Papists: Because such a worship is abominable to God, and ought to be in abomination and detestation with all the godly.
Use 1. Is of Refutation against the Idolatry of Papists, who as they commit Idolatry against the first commandment, in praying to Angels and Saints departed, and the like; so here they commit secondary Idolatry, 1. In that they make Images of God the Father, Son and Holy-ghost; which is expressely forbidden. 2. In that they honour with divine worship these and other Images. 3. In that they make the worship it self Idolatrous, which they would offer to God, while by the intervention of an Image they thrust it upon God, against his own revealed will. And this amongst others, gives just and necessary cause to all the godly of making separation from the Church and worship of Papists: Because such a worship is abhominable to God, and ought to be in abhomination and detestation with all the godly.
Use 2. Is of Exhortation, as well for thanksgiving to God, that he hath delivered us from such Idolatry, as unto care and caution, that we communicate in no manner with such Idolatrous ordinances.
Doct. 3. Such Images are diligently to be shunned of us.