A37046:319
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.
Fifth Argument: If that Idolatry committed by the Israelites in the Wilderness▪ Exod 32▪ and that which was set up in Israel by Jeroboam, and that of Manasseh […] 2 Chron 33. be to be condemned as Idolatry; then that which is practised among• the Papists in worshipping of their Images, and God by them, is to be condemned ⟨p. 43⟩as Idolatry: But the former is condemned in Scripture as gross Idolatry, because it falleth off, and declineth from the way of worship the Lord hath prescribed, and turned Gods People like to Idolaters in their way; therefore also the latter is to be condemned as idolatry▪
Fifth Argument: If that Idolatry committed by the Israelites in the Wilderness▪ Exod 32▪ and that which was set up in Israel by Jeroboam, and that of Manasses 〈…〉 2 Chron 33. be to be condemned as Idolatry; then that which is practised among• the Papists in worshipping of their Images, and God by them, is to be condemned ⟨p. 43⟩as Idolatry: But the former is condemned in Scripture as gross Idolatry, because it falleth off, and declineth from the way of worship the Lord hath prescribed, and turned Gods People like to Idolaters in their way; therefore also the latter is to be condemned as idolatry▪
There is no exception which the Papists give in here against this Argument, but the like might have been given by the Israelites.