A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

2. Let us beware of Idolatry, Satan loveth it, and that is motive enough; we should hate as Christ hateth, and love as he loveth, Rev. 2▪ 6. and on the contrary, love what Satan hateth, and hate what he loveth, naturally we are wondrous prone to this sin, and therefore Idolatry is reckoned as a work of the flesh, Gal. 5. 20. man naturally hath a corrupt, and working fancy and imagination, which depending upon sense, formeth fleshly conceptions, and notions of God; and therefore are we so prone to err in this worship: 'tis not needful, (I hope) to speak to you of Paganish, and Popish Idolatry: Let me only now dissuade you,

2. Let us beware of Idolatry, Satan loveth it, and that is motive enough; we should hate as Christ hateth, and love as he loveth, Rev. 2▪ 6. and on the contrary, love what Satan hateth, and hate what he loveth, naturally we are wondrous prone to this sin, and therefore Idolatry is reckoned as a work of the flesh, Gal. 5. 20. man naturally hath a corrupt, and working fancy and imagination, which depending upon sense, formeth fleshly conceptions, and notions of God; and therefore are we so prone to erre in this worship: 'tis not needful, (I hope) to speak to you of Paganish, and Popeish Idolatry: Let me only now disswade you,

First from making the true God an Idol in your thoughts, by forming apprehensions unworthy of the glory of his Essence, Psalm. 50. 21. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether like thy self; Now thus we do when we conceive him of such a mercy as to hold fellowship with one that continueth under the full power of his sins, so weak as not to be able to help in deep extremities,