A37046:328
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.
3. It is Idolatry, when idolatrous worship, used in the Service of Idols, is given to God contrary to his Command; so Deut. 12. 30. 31. Thou shalt not do so to the Lord thy God; and 2 Chron. 33. 17. Their keeping up of Groves for the worship of God; and that invention of Jeroboam's Calves, are condemned as Idolatry.
3. It is Idolatry, when idolatrous worship, used in the Service of Idols, is given to God contrary to his Command; so Deut. 12. 30. 31. Thou shalt not do so to the Lord thy God; and 2 Chron. 33. 17. Their keeping up of Groves for the worship of God; and that invention of Jeroboams Calfs, are condemned as Idolatry.
Fourthly, When any thing of that External worship, which is due to the true God, is given to any other, even though it be with a purpose not to shut him out altogether from his due, yet when it is in part given to any other thing, as to the Cross, Saints, Images, &c. it is called worshipping of them; see Exod. 32. compared with Psalm 106. 19, 20. there they worshipped the Images of gold and silver, &c. yea, vers. 37. Devils, though they intended to worship God in these Images.