A65285:1944
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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Use 1. It reproves and condemns the Church of Rome, who from the Alpha of their Religion, to the Omega, are wholly Idolatrous; they make Images of God the Father, painting him in their Church-Windows as an Old Man, and an Image of Christ in the Crucifix. And because it is against the Letter of this Commandment, therefore they sacrilegiously blot out the Second Commandment out of their Catechises, dividing the Tenth Commandment into Two. Now this Image-worship must needs be very Impious and Blasphemous, because it is a giving that [Greek or Hebrew], or Religious Worship to the Creature, which is only due to God. It is vain for Papists to say they give God the worship of the Heart, and the Image only the worship of the Body; for the worship of the Body is due to God, as well as the worship of the Heart, and to give an outward Veneration to an Image, is to give that Adoration to a Creature, which only belongs to God. Isa. 42.8. My Glory will I not give to another.
Use 1. It reproves and condemns the Church of Rome, who from the Alpha of their Religion, to the Omega, are wholly Idolatrous; they make Images of God the Father, painting him in their Church-Windows as an Old Man, and an Image of Christ in the Crucifix. And because it is against the Letter of this Commandment, therefore they sacrilegiously blot out the Second Commandment out of their Catechises, dividing the Tenth Commandment into Two. Now this Image-worship must needs be very Impious and Blasphemous, because it is a giving that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or Religious Worship to the Creature, which is only due to God. It is vain for Papists to say they give God the worship of the Heart, and the Image only the worship of the Body; for the worship of the Body is due to God, as well as the worship of the Heart, and to give an outward Veneration to an Image, is to give that Adoration to a Creature, which only belongs to God. Isa. 42.8. My Glory will I not give to another.
Obj. 1. But the Papists say, they do not worship the Image, only make use of it as a Medium, they worship God by it; Ne imagini quidem Christi in quantum est Lignum sculptum, ulla debetur reverentia, Aquinas.