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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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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, Levit. 10.1, 2. and Davids new Cart to carry the Ark, 2 Sam. 6.3. with 1 Sam. 15.13. or whether they be used for manner and form of worship, as preaching in the wisdom of mans words, (or in carnal Eloquence) which is but a painted Image of preaching (1 Cor. 2.4.) and so forbidden in this second Commandment. In like sort, Women's praying in public bare-headed, and men covered, 1 Cor. 11.4, 5. Mens praying or prophesying in strange tongues, and many of them at once, 1 Cor. 14.22.26. the celebrating of love-feasts in holy Assemblies, together with the Lords Supper, (1 Cor. 11.21.23.34.) are all of them Images or imaginations of men, forms or manners of worship devised and used by man, but not ordained by God, and so forbidden in this second Commandment.
So that under this one kinde of false worship of God in graven Images, is forbidden by a Synecdoche, not onely all worship of God in carved or molten or painted Images, (all bodily representations of God) but all spirituall 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,