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…

6 Distinguish betwixt Heart-Idolatry, Ezek. 14. Exod. 14.11, 12. and 16, 2, 3. and external Idolatry, the former consisteth in an inward heart-respect to some Idol, as this tumultuous people were enslaved to their case and bellies in the last two fore-cited places; the other in some external Idolatrous gesture or action.

6 Distinguish betwixt Heart-Idolatry, Ezek. 14. Exod. 14.11, 12. and 16, 2, 3. and external Idolatry, the former consisteth in an inward heart-respect to some Idol, as this tumultuous people were inslaved to their case and bellies in the last two fore-cited places; the other in some external Idolatrous gesture or action.

In practical Idolatry we are to distinguish betwixt the letting ⟨p. 32⟩out of our affections upon simply sinful objects, and the letting them out excessiv •ly upon lawful objects. Thus men are guilty of Idolatry with sinful objects, when they love and covet another mans House, Wife, or •oods, when things unlawful and forbidden have the heart. Again, men are guilty of Idolatry in making lawful obj acts Idols; as when by excess or inordinateness of love to their own Means, Wife, House; &c. they put them in God's room, •s Nebuchadnezzar did with Babylon, Daniel 4.30. So then, in the •ormer sense, men make their lusts or sins, whatever they be, their Idols, Gluttons that serve their appetite, Drunkards their drunkenness, make their Bellies and Appetite their Idol; for to whatever men yi ld themselves to obey, they are servants unto that which they obey,