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2. Though making of Images simply be not unlawful and discharged by this Commandment, yet thereby every representation of God (who is the Object to be worshipped) and every Image religiously made use of in worship is condemned (though civil and political Images and Statues, which are used as ornaments, or badges of honour▪ or remembrance•s of some fact, &c. be not condemned,) 1. Because such Images cannot but beget carnal thoughts of God, (as Acts 6, 29.) contrary to this Commandment. 2. Because God discovered himself, Deut. 4, 15, 16, &c. by no likeness, but only by his Word, that they might have no ground of likening him to any thing. 3. Because it is impossible to get a bodily likeness to set him out by, who is a Spirit and an infinite Spirit, so then every such image must be derogatory to God, as turning the Glory of the invisible God, to the Shape of some visible and corruptible Creature, which is condemned, Rom. 1. 22, 23. for every Image supposeth some likeness; Now there can be no conceivable or imaginable likeness betwixt God and any thing, that we can invent, therefore it is said by the Lord, Isai. 40. 8. To whom will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare unto him▪ where it seemeth it was no Idol, but God they aimed to represent by their Images, which was the fault condemned▪ vers. 25. As also when we cannot conceive of God, and of the Mysteries of the Trinity, and Incarnation as we ought, what presumption must it be to paint them▪

Therefore upon these Grounds, 1. We simply condemn any delineating of God, or the Godhead, or Trinity; such as some have upon their buildings, or books, like • Sun shining with beams, and the Lords Name, Jehovah, in it, or any other way, this is most abominable to see, and a heinous wronging of Gods Majesty.