A Body of Practical Divinity

Resp. 1. Because we are led much by Visible Objects, and love to have our Senses pleased. Men naturally fancy a God that they may see, though it be such a God as cannot see them, yet they would see it. The true God is invisible; this makes the Idolater worship something that he may see.

Resp. 1. Because we are led much by Visible Objects, and love to have our Senses pleas'd. Men naturally fancy a God that they may see, though it be such a God as cannot see them, yet they would see it. The true God is invisible; this makes the Idolater worship something that he may see.

2. 'Tis a Mercy to be delivered from Idolatrous Places, because of the greatness of the Sin of Idolatry. It is giving that Glory to an Image, which is due to God. All [Greek or Hebrew] or Divine Worship God appropriates to himself; 'tis a Flower of his Crown; the Fat of the Sacrifice God laid claim to, Levit. 3.3. Divine Worship is the Fat of the Sacrifice which God reserves for himself. The Idolater devotes this Worship to his Idol, which the Lord will by no means endure, Isa. 42.8. My Glory will I not give to another, neither my Praise to Graven Images. Idolatry is Spiritual Adultery, Ezek. 23.37. With their Idols have they committed Adultery. To worship any other than God, is to break Wedlock. This makes the Lord disclaim his interest in a People, Hos. 2.2. Plead with your Mother, plead, for she is not my Wife. And Exod 32.7. Thy People have corrupted themselves; no more my People, but thy People. God calls Idolatry Blasphemy, Ezek. 20.27, 31. Thus your Fathers have blasphemed me. Idolatry is Devil-worship,