A65285:1936
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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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.
IN the First Commandment is forbidden the worshipping a False God, in this, the worshipping the true God in a false manner.
1. Thou shalt not make unto thee any Graven Image; this forbids not the making an Image for Civil use, Mat. 22.20. Whose is this Image and Superscription? they say unto him Caesars. But the Commandment forbids setting up an Image for Religious Use or Worship.
2. Nor the likeness of any thing, &c. All Ideas, Portraitures, Shapes, Images of God, whether by Effigies or Pictures, are here forbidden. Deut. 4.15. Take heed lest ye corrupt your Selves, and make the Similitude of any Figure. God is to be adored in the heart, not painted to the Eye.
2. Nor the likeness of any thing, &c. All Ideas, Pourtraitures, Shapes, Images of God, whether by Effigies or Pictures, are here forbidden. Deut. 4.15. Take heed lest ye corrupt your Selves, and make the Similitude of any Figure. God is to be adored in the heart, not painted to the Eye.