CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Rome had a Temple called [Greek or Hebrew], wherein they would have all kind of Gods, and there was nothing so much as love to Idolatry, that made men so opposite to the Christian Religion, yea though the Prophet describeth the brutishness of the Idolater, that with one piece of wood makes an Idol, with another makes a fire: Well doth the Scripture compare Idolaters unto the Idols themselves, they are nothing, empty, they do not understand; and the more subtle and specious idolatry is, as in Popery, be thou the more afraid of it. It's a bold and unheard of expression of Valentia the Jesuit, that saith, There is a lawful Idolatry. What will not men say, rather then come out of Egypt?

Rome had a Temple called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, wherein they would have all kinde of Gods, and there was nothing so much as love to Idolatry, that made men so opposite to the Christian Religion, yea though the Prophet describeth the bruitishnesse of the Idolater, that with one piece of wood makes an Idol, with another makes a fire: Well doth the Scripture compare Idolaters unto the Idols themselves, they are nothing, empty, they do not understand; and the more subtle and specious idolatry is, as in Popery, be thou the more afraid of it. It's a bold and unheard of expression of Valentia the Jesuite, that saith, There is a lawfull Idolatry. What will not men say, rather then come out of Egypt?

2. Is God the only true God, then observe the first Commandment,¹ Let us have no other Gods besides him; for not only the Heathen that worships Stock and Stone, is an Idolater, but every Christian that puts this hope and confidence in any creature, that placeth the chiefest of his affections and desires otherwise then on God, he is a spiritual Idolater. Thus covetousness is called Idolatry, Col. 3.5. Charge them that are rich, that they trust not in uncertain riches, but in the living God, saith Paul,