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…

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, Rom. 6.16. An Idol is something excessively esteemed of, and Idolatry is the transferring of God's due, outwardly or inwardly▪ to what is not God, whether we esteem it God or not.

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 •cts 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,