A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

2 This Idolatry is either 1. Doctrinal, or Idolatry in the Judgment, when one prof •ssedly b •lieveth such a thing beside Go • to have some Divinity in it; as Heathens do of their Mars and Jupiter, and Papists do of their Saints: Or 2. It is practical, when men believe no such thing, and will not own any such Opinion, yet on the matter they are guilty of the same thing as covetous men, &c. The first taketh in all Heathens, Turks, H •reticks, that by their Doctrines and Opinions wrong the true God, or his worship: The second take •th in all self-seeking, ambitious, covetous, and voluptuous persons, &c. who fall in with the former in their practise, though not in Opinion.

2 This Idolatry is either 1. Doctrinal, or Idolatry in the Judgment, when one prof •ssedly b •lieveth such a thing beside Go • to have some Divinity in it; as Heathens do of their Mars and Jupiter, and Papists do of their Saints: Or 2. It is practical, when men believe no such thing, and will not own any such Opinion, yet on the matter they are guilty of the same thing as covetous men, &c. The first taketh in all Heathens, Turks, H •reticks, that by their Doctrines and Opinions wrong the true God, or his worship: The second tak •th in all self-seeking, ambitious, covetous, and voluptuous persons, &c. who fall in with the former in their practise, though not in Opinion.

3 It may b • distinguished into Idolatry that hath something for its object, as the Egyptians worshipped Beasts, and the Persians the Sun or Fire, and that which has nothing but mens imaginations for its object, as th se who worship feigned Gods; in which respect the Apostle saith, an Idol is nothing,