A Body of Practical Divinity

Use 1. Let us give God no just cause to be jealous. A good Wife will be so Discreet and Chaste, as to give her Husband no just occasion of Jealousy. Let us avoid all Sin, especially this Sin of Idolatry or Image-worship: It is heinous, after we have entered into a Marriage-Covenant with God, now to prostitute our selves to an Image. Idolatry is Spiritual Adultery, and God is a jealous God, he will avenge it: Image-worship makes God abhor a People, Psal. 78.58. They moved him to jealousy with their graven Images. When God heard this, he was Wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel. Image-worship enrageth God, Prov. 6.34. Jealousy is the Rage of a man: It makes God divorce a People, Exod. 32.7. Thy People, lo-ammi, Hos. 2.2. Plead with your Mother, plead, for she is not my Wife, Cant. 8.6. Jealousy is cruel as the grave. As the Grave devours Mens Bodies, so God will devour Image-worshippers:

Use 1. Let us give God no just cause to be jealous. A good Wife will be so Discreet and Chast, as to give her Husband no just occasion of Jealousie. Let us avoid all Sin, especially this Sin of Idolatry or Image-worship: It is heinous, after we have entred into a Marriage-Covenant with God, now to prostitute our selves to an Image. Idolatry is Spiritual Adultery, and God is a jealous God, he will avenge it: Image-worship makes God abhor a People, Psal. 78.58. They moved him to jealousie with their graven Images. When God heard this, he was Wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel. Image-worship enrageth God, Prov. 6.34. Iealousie is the Rage of a man: It makes God divorce a People, Exod. 32.7. Thy People, lo-ammi, Hos. 2.2. Plead with your Mother, plead, for she is not my Wife,