A37046:329
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.
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.
5. When any thing of this worship, due to God, is given to Servants or means, as if something adorable, and to be worshipped, were in them, although they be not accounted God himself: Thus Cornelius sinned in worshipping Peter, Acts 10. 25, 26. when he knew he was not God, and Peter rejecteth it on this ground, that he was a Man and not God; and that therefore it was due to none but God: which Reason, taketh off all that can be said by men for palliating this kind of idolatry: Thus the scope of the Command, and the reason and ground of worship being considered, it is evident that all these are idolatry.
We would now further consider, first, the positive part of this Command, and next what is forbidden in it.