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 Men are forbidden to make either similitude or likeness, that is, no sort of Image, whether that which is engraven in, or hewn out of stone, wood, silver, &c. or that which is made by painting, all kinds are discharged.

2 Men are forbidden to make either similitude or likeness, that is, no sort of Image, whether that which is ingraven in, or hewn out of stone, wood, silver, &c. or that which is made by painting, all kinds are discharged.

3 No sort of worship or service religious is to be given to them, wh •ther mediate or immediate, whether primarily as to themselves, or secondarily with respect to that which they represent. This is understood under the second part of the Commandment, Th •• shalt not bow down to them, nor serve or worship them: under which two, all external reverence is discharged, which is clear from the reason adjoined, because God is jealous, and he will not only not endure Idolatry, but whatever may look like it; as a jealous Husband will not abide any suspicious-like carriage in his Wife.

3 No sort of worship or service religious is to be given to them, wh •ther mediate or immediate, whether primarily as to themselves, or secondarily with respect to that which they represent. This is understood under the second part of the Commandment, Th •• shalt not bow down to them, nor serve or worship them: under which two, all external reverence is discharged, which is clear from the reason adjoyned, because God is jealous, and he will not only not endure Idolatry, but whatever may look like it; as a jealous Husband will not abide any suspicious-like carriage in his Wife.