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…

4 The fourth way how Creatures are idolized by men, is in their fear, when men or events are feared more than God, and fear maketh men sin, or at least keepst them back from duty, in less or more like those Professors, who for fear of the Jews (John 12.42.) did not confess Christ. Thus men may idolize their very Enemy • whom they hate, when they fear more him that can kill the body, than him that can destroy both soul and body. Thus great men and powerful in the world are often idolized, and good and well-qualified men may be made Idols also, when men become so addicted and d •voted to them, as to call them Rabbi, and to be (as it were) sworn to their words and Opinions (as the ••ct •ries in Corinth were, and such at all times, for the most part, are to their L •aders) when it is not the matter or reason that swayeth, but the person that teacheth such Doctrine, or holdeth such an Opinion.

4 The fourth way how Creatures are idolized by men, is in their fear, when men or events are feared more than God, and fear maketh men sin, or at least keepst them back from duty, in less or more like those Professors, who for fear of the Jews (John 12.42.) did not confess Christ. Thus men may idolize their very Enemie • whom they hate, when they fear more him that can kill the body, than him that can destroy both soul and body. Thus great men and powerful in the world are often idolized, and good and well-qualified men may be made Idols also, when men become so addicted and d •voted to them, as to call them Rabbi, and to be (as it were) sworn to their words and Opinions (as the ••ct •ries in Corinth were, and such at all times, for the most part, are to their L •aders) when it is not the matter or reason that swayeth, but the person that teacheth such Doctrine, or holdeth such an Opinion.