A37049:344
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.
5th. Argument: If that Idolatry committed by the Israelites in the Wilderness, Exod. 32. and that which was set up in Israel by Jeroboam, and that of Manlisses, 2 Chron. 33. be to be condemned as Idolatry; then that which is practised amongst the Papists in worshipping of their Images, and God by them, is to be condemned as Idolatry: But the former is condemned in Scripture as gross Idolatry, because it falleth off, and declineth from the way of worship the Lord hath prescribed, and turned Gods People like to Idolaters in their way; therefore also the latter is to be condemned as Idolatry.
There is no exception which the Papists give in here against this Argument, but the like might have been given by the Israelites.
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1. If they say, They worshipped not the true God before these Images, that is answered already.