A37046:311
The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
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.
The Fourth instance is that corrupt practise, used sometimes in Judah of setting up high places and groves, when yet they did not thereby intend to serve Idols, but the true God, and yet they are reproved for this as a gross Corrupting of the worship of God.
And it would seem clear sometimes in Judah, and often in Israel, even when they are charged with Idolatry, that yet the knowledge of the true God, was not obliterate among them, nor they so brutish in their worship as other Nations about them; we take it then for a clear truth, that they often did worship the true God, by Images, when they did not worship the images directly.
And it would seem clear sometimes in Judah, and often in Israel, even when they are charged with Idolatry, that yet the knowledge of the true God, was not obliterate among them, nor they so bru•tish in their worship as other Nations about them; we take it then for a clear truth, that they often did worship the true God, by Images, when they did not worship the images directly.
The Second thing may be easily cleared and made out, to wit, that all worshipping of God by images though the worship be pretended to be given to the true God, and not to the image, but to the thing signified or represented by the image, is yet unlawful and Idolatry, forbidden by this commandment what ever sort of worship it be, if it be religious, as hath been said, and this we shall make out by these Arguments.