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The way of the churches of Christ in New-England, or, The way of churches…The vvay of the churches of Christ in New-England, or, The vvay of churches…
The way of the churches of Christ in New-England, or, The way of churches walking in brotherly equality, or co-ordination, without subjection of one church to another measured and examined bight golden reed of the sanctuary, containing a full declaration of the church-way in all particulars / by Mr. J. Cotton ...The vvay of the churches of Christ in New-England, or, The vvay of churches walking in brotherly equalitie, or co-ordination, without subjection of one church to another measured and examined bythe golden reed of the sanctuary, containing a full declaration of the church-way in all particulars / by Mr. J. Cotton ...
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1645
THE Way of the Churches of Christ in NEW-ENGLAND, Measured by the G… › Chapter 4 › Section 4
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Furthermore, the Image forbidden in the second Commandment, is not only a false means of worship, devised by man, but a false manner of worship also; and therefore when the Samaritan-strangers knew not the manner of worshipping God in the Calves of Jeroboam, it is said, they knew not the ⟨p. 73⟩manner of the god of the Country (2 Kings 17.26.) and one of the Priests of the high places was sent to teach them the manner of the fear (or worship) of Jehovah, ver. 28. and so they feared Jehovah after the former manner, ver. 34. and that was in serving him in the graven Images of their own devising, ver. 41.
Furthermore, the Image forbidden in the second Commandement, is not onely a false meanes of worship, devised by man, but a false manner of worship also; and therefore when the Samaritane-strangers knew not the manner of worshipping God in the Calves of Jeroboam, it is said, they knew not the ⟨p. 73⟩manner of the god of the Countrey (2 Kings 17.26.) and one of the Priests of the high places was sent to teach them the manner of the feare (or worship) of Jehovah, ver. 28. and so they feared Jehovah after the former manner, ver. 34. and that was in serving him in the graven Images of their owne devising, ver. 41.
So that under this one kind of false worship of God in graven Images, is forbidden by a Synecdoche, not only all worship of God in carved or molten or painted Images, (all bodily representations of God) but all spiritual Images also, which are the imaginations and inventions of men, whether they be ordained for worship, as the high places erected to the true God, 2 Chron. 33.17. and the devised feast of the eighth month, 2 King. 12.33. or whether they be brought in and used for helps and means of worship, as the strange fire of Nadab,