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. This may be further confirmed from Acts 7.40, 41, 42. where it is said, that because of this si • they were given up to gross idolatry which could not be, had this been idolatry of the grosses • sort.

The Second instance is from Judges 17. where you will find that that Idol, which Micah made is not by him or his Mother accounted God, but is made use of by them, as they think, for furthering them in Gods service, as appeareth, 1. From this, that it getteth not the name of any strange god. 2. That he seeketh a Levite for a Priest to it, and promiseth to himself Gods blessing from that, not that the Idol would bless him, but Jehovah, ver. 13. 3. That it is said, the Priest asked counsel of Jehovah for the Danites, Judges 18.6.

The Third instance is that of Jeroboam, who did sin and made Israel to sin, by the Calf he set up at Dan and Bethel, that they were not intended to be worshipped as Idols, for themselves, but as means, whereby they might be helped to worship the true God, may appear, 1. From Jeroboam's motive, which was not to divert the people from the true God, at least as he supposed, or to make them alter their God, but to alter their manner of worship, and to divert them from going up to Jerusalem to worship, from which his fear of their revolt to Rehoboam arose; hence the Calves are not provided to prevent worshipping of God, but are put in place of their going up to Jerusalem; as the colour of reason pretended by him for this alteration showeth; and so one service is