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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
Answ 1. The meaning of the second Commandment (mistaken by many) is directly to forbid Corporal or Interpretative Idolatry, and worshipping God by Images, as if he were like • Creature: And scandalously symbolizing with the Idolaters▪ 1or Worshippers of false Gods▪ by doing that which in outward appearance is the Worshipping of a false God, though the mind be pretended to be kept free. Now the Worshipping of the true God in the words of the Liturgy, hath none of this; nor will any but a sinful C•nsurer think that it is the worshipping of a false God.
Answ 1. The meaning of the second Commandment (mistaken by many) is directly to forbid Corporal or Interpretative Idolatry, and worshipping God by Images, as if he were like • Creature: And scandalousl• symbolizing with the Idolaters▪ 1or Worshippers of false Gods▪ by doing that which in outward appearance is the Worshipping of a false God, though the mind be pretended to be kept free. Now the Worshipping of the true God in the words of the Liturgie, hath none of this; nor will any but a sinful C•nsurer think that it is the worshipping of a false God.
- 1I desire the ••ader to […] the most judicious •o•• rate Exposition o• th• s• cond Commandment (a o• all the est) i• Mr. George Lawson's Thopolitica.