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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…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First then, That there is such a kind of Idolatry in worshipping of Images, when men rest not on the Images, but direct their worship to the God represented by them, we may clear it divers ways.
First then, That there is such a kind of Idolatry in worshipping of Images, when men rest not on the Images, but direct their worship to the God represented by them, we may clear it divers wayes.
And 1. From the Heathens, who though some did, yet all of them did not account their Images their gods, but only some representation of them, and first we may gather this from, Rom. 1.22, 23. where it is said of them, 1. That they knew God, and yet 2. That they turned the glory of that incorruptible God into the similitude of Beasts and men, corruptible creatures. Their fault is not that they accounted these representations or Images, which they made gods, but that they declined in their worship, in the worshipping of the true God by such Images.
And 1. From the Heathens, who though some did, yet all of them did not accotnt their Images their gods, but only some representation of them, and first we may gather this from, Rom. 1.22, 23. where it is said of them, 1. That they knew God, and yet 2. That they turned the glory of that incorruptible God into the similitude of Beasts and men, corruptible creatures. Their fault is not that they accounted these representations or Images, which they made gods, but that they declined in their worship, in the worshipping of the true God by such Images.
2. It may also appear by the frequent changes of their Images, while they retained their former gods, and by their multiplying Images of one sort, and divers sorts to one and the same god, and by their giving all these Images one name, and when it is said that Solomon and other Kings set up Images to Asht roth, Baal, &c. It cannot be thought they supposed these Images to be the very gods themselves which they worshipped, but that they were only set up for their honour, Kings 23.13. And when Manasseh made Chariots to the Sun, he supposed them not to be to the Sun,