A37046:320
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.
There is no exception which the Papists give in here against this Argument, but the like might have been given by the Israelites.
For 1. If they say, They worshipped not the true God before these Images, that is answered already.
2. If they say, it was condemned because they represented him by such images, that is not enough: For 1. The Command forbiddeth all images of any thing: 2. The opposition mentioned, Deut. 4. Thou sawest no likeness, or Image, but heardest a Voice, hath no middle, but argueth against all alike: Hence these Images, Psalm 115. that had Noses and Mouths, but smelled not, and spoke not, were condemned as well as those complained of, Rom. 1.
2. If they say, it was condemned because they represented him by such images, that is not enough: For 1. The Command forbiddeth all images of any thing: 2. The opposition mentioned, Deut. 4. Thou sawest no likeness, or Image, but heardest a Voyce, hath no middle, but argueth against all alike: Hence these Images, Psalm 115. that had Noses and Mouths, but smelled not, and spoke not, were condemned as well as those complained of, Rom. 1.