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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Eight and Twentieth accused Point.
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2. As the first Commandment forbiddeth us to have any God but one, so the ⟨p. 111⟩second forbiddeth us to worship so as the Heathens did their Idols, because it is Bodily interpretative Idolatry and Scandal: But the Heathens used to pray to their under Deities, whom they judged to be much like that which the Papists judge of Angels, and praying to Invisible Spirits is to imitate them as scandalously as praying toward Images: No wonder therefore that you so usually leave out the second Commandment.
3. Gods Word is the Rule of all acceptable Religious Worship, (tho' but a General Rule in many Modes and Circumstances,) and therefore we fear swerving from it.
4. Angels themselves never demanded it, nor Christ bespake it for them, yea, they twice forbade it John: See thou do it not.
4. Angels themselves never demanded it, nor Christ bespake it for them, yea, they twice forbad it John: See thou do it not.