The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally…

To. 2. Hom. I. The Scriptures use the two words (Idols and Images) indifferently for one thing alway. They be words of divers things (Gr. & Lat.), but one in sense and signification in the Scriptures, and matters of of Religion. — Wherefore our Images, if publicly suffered in Temples and Churches, be indeed none other but Idols, as unto which Idolatry hath been, is, and ever will be committed.—Hath it not been preached unto ⟨p. 87⟩you since the beginning, &c. How by the Creation of the World, and the greatness of the work, they might understand the Majesty of God, the Creator and Maker of all, to be greater than that it should be expressed or set forth in any Image or bodily Similitude. And that in the First Table, and the beginning thereof,—is this Doctrine aforesaid (not briefly touched, but) at large set forth, and that with denunciation of destruction to the contemners and breakers of this Law, and their posterity after them.

To. 2. Hom. I. The Scriptures use the two words (Idols and Images) indifferently for one thing alway. They be words of divers things (Gr. & Lat.), but one in sense and signification in the Scriptures, and matters of of Religion. — Wherefore our Images, if publickly suffer'd in Temples and Churches, be indeed none other but Idols, as unto which Idolatry hath been, is, and ever will be committed.—Hath it not been preach'd unto ⟨p. 87⟩you since the beginning, &c. How by the Creation of the World, and the greatness of the work, they might understand the Majesty of God, the Creator and Maker of all, to be greater than that it should be express'd or set forth in any Image or bodily Similitude. And that in the First Table, and the beginning thereof,—is this Doctrine aforesaid (not briefly touch'd, but) at large set forth, and that with denunciation of destruction to the contemners and breakers of this Law, and their posterity after them.

Expl. 49. We have here principally observable, (1.) The order; (2.) The matter of the Commandment. From the order, we are to observe, that God doth prefer the inward worship of the heart, which is required in the first Command, to the outward worship of the body, which is here principally directed, that the later, or that of the body, without the former is but hypocritical; and the former without the later but partial; so that God is to be worshipped with all our bodies and spirits. Those therefore who do present their bodies in Idol-worship (as that of the Mass) and yet plead they keep their hearts for God, are here condemned. (2.) The matter, or argument and scope of the Command, i. e. to prevent all miscarriages and abuses in bodily worship, and to instruct men how they may present their bodies as well as their souls a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. Yet to prevent mistakes about what is forbidden in this Command, we are to note these two things. (1.) That not all making of