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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
A. The Sin here forbidden is the corruption of Gods Worship, by making any similitude of any Person in the Godhead, and performing Divine Worship before it, or to it, Exod. 32.8. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten cal•, and have worshipped, and have sacrificed thereunto▪ and said▪ these be thy Gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Deut. 4.15, 16. Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves▪ (for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire▪) lest ye corrupt your selves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female.
Q. 2. What is the second Sin forbidden in this Commandment?
A. The second Sin against this Commandment is Will-worship, consisting in the addition of mans inventions to the Worship of God as a part thereof, Matth. 15.9. But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Col. 2.20, 21, 22, 23. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world; why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not, taste not, bandle not: Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men: which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship and humility, and neglecting of the body, not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.