A69076:880
A treatise of Christian religion
A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity. By T.C.A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole bodie and substance of diunintie. By T.C.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1616
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
A. Images of God: for it is a great sin to conceit or imagine in our hearts, that he is like any thing, how excellent soever we do think it; but it is much worse so to set him out to the view of others, considering that the mind can conceive a further beauty, then the hand of the Artificer can express. And therefore the children of Israel did sin grievously, and were 1worthily condemned, for worshipping God, in the Image of a Calf.
A. Images of God: for it is a great sinne to conceit or imagine in our hearts, that he is like any thing, how excellent soeuer we doe thinke it; but it is much worse so to set him out to the view of others, considering that the mind can conceiue a further beautie, then the hand of the Artificer can expresse. And therfore the children of Israel did sin grienously, and were 1worthily condemned, for worshipping God, in the Image of a Calfe.
Q. Did not the Israelites worship the Calf as God, as the Papists say?
Q. Did not the Israelites worship the Calfe as God, as the Papists say?
A. No: but they worshipped God in the Calf: 1for they said, Let us make a feast to morrow to the Lord.