The law unsealed

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.

3. If they say, It was not lawful then, but is lawful now; this were to say, that the Gospel admitteth of more Carnal Ordinances then the Law, whereas its Service is more spiritual without all doubt.

From all which we may clearly conclude, that in such Service there is a twofold Idolatry committed: 1. In that, because of some holiness and venerability, that is supposed to be in such Images, Relics, &c. Religious worship (though inferior to what is attributed to God) is given to them for themselves, according to the Decrees of that second Counsel of Nice: 2. In that they pretend by such Service to worship the true God, though in an idolatrous manner forbidden by him, besides what Aquinas and his followers maintain, who give to the Images of God, Christ, Mary, and the Cross, [Greek or Hebrew] it self, part 13. q. 25. 1, 2, 3. And Reason sayeth, it is a snare unto them that worship them, and a scandal to others; for, as Augustine (speaking against the expressions used by Heathens from