A65285:1983
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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2. They who shut the Truth out of Doors, hate God. Jephthah proves, that his Brethren did hate him, because they laboured to shut him out of his Fathers House, Judges 11.7. The Idolater shuts the Truth out of doors: He blots out the Second Commandment: He makes a shape of the invisible God: He brings a Lye into Gods Worship, which is a clear proof he hates God.
2. They who shut the Truth out of Doors, hate God. Iephtha proves, that his Brethren did hate him, because they laboured to shut him out of his Fathers House, Iudges 11.7. The Idolater shuts the Truth out of doors: He blots out the Second Commandment: He makes a shape of the invisible God: He brings a Lye into Gods Worship, which is a clear proof he hates God.
3. Idolaters, though they love the false Image of God in a Picture, yet they hate the true Image of God in a Believer. They pretend to Honour Christ in a Crucifix, yet persecute Christ in his Members: These bate God.
Use 1. This may confute those who plead for Image-worshippers, they are very devout People, they adore Images, they set up the Crucifix, kiss it, light Candles to it: They love God. Nay, but who shall be judge of their Love? God saith, they hate him: They give Religious Adoration to a Creature: These hate God, and God hates them: And they shall never live with God, whom he hates: He will never lay such Vipers in his Bosom: Heaven is kept as Paradise, with a Flaming Sword that they shall not enter: And Deut. 7.10