TheftcondClmmAndement. . . ,_ \- ', . . Thoe(/halt Hot mak.! fg thJfolfeanj gr~~~'n image; 111r th1 ~ ltk!neffo ofany rbmg inheant~t,&c. . . - , · .J)o&fr. FirA, in that God fets downe this Com'm~ndemen·t (o ;::eni~ n:1.. _lar~ely,fo p~ai~1ly ..and in (o '?uny !f\'OF~s,. h~.P't~w~s .~ow · ·frone t.~ cxceedmg read1~ we are to·fall t.o the -breach o~lt. ?cnce~vc Jdolame may_ gather this geuerall dothme, That our natt_lre is wonanvl fuper• c. 1 .I i 1 . d . d d' lftitioa. denul prone to 'o atue, an we are very apt an rea 1e to wodhipGod falfely and fuperHitiouOy.For ifit werenot fo, whywould not he content himfelfe to bee as ibort here, as ·-he is in tno!l ofthe_re{l? But we fee,for this and theSabbath, ; ,.howamplyhec fets them downe, mounding and fencing . :them, on euery fidel with llroog reafons : which declares -that he -kriowes vs ·verywilling, vpon ·the Icall occafion, to breake out frotn keeping of them. As we may marke: firll ··hee faith; -Thoujhalt mafe.! to thyfolfe n:iimage. None? might fo_tneearnall man fay. Indcede wee will makeno image of -anyearthly thing, for that is too bafe to reprefent God: but ,for heauenly things, they bee more exGellcnt. Therefore ·to .preuent this, God lhuts out all excufes, and faith> that no .m3n mull make the imageofany thing,inhea11en, orearth,or -.ft4, or in. any place whstfoe~c~. Bu; yet flelh. and blood would fluft and fay, Indeede 1t ts true, we mufl make no re– .femblanceJ or image, or peeceofan image, ofany thing, to that-intent to giue any diuine worlhip to it,andhonour it as · ·God~but wee honour them with an inf~riourworfhip,re• fcruing the chiefe and higheil to Godhimfelfe. Nay, faith God,ThoH foalt not flow dow•e to them, no1' \tJorfoipthem. Nei– ,ther giue them thegrcatefl honour,nor the leanhonour ,nor any honour at all. Sothat Gvdmeets witheucry obietHon; -~thatour fldhmight hauc no pretenceofbrcakingthiscom– mandement,lc.fcvnto it. - ·· . , Then the grieuous threatning, that God vfeth, to terrifie ..men from i~:,t11cwes .t.hat they are readie and willing to bee .drawne vnto it,and that there is a Orange pronendfe and in... clination ineuerymans nature tothis l1nne offalfewotiliip• . io., Deut.7.zs.~6.God labours with the people ofifrael . - there,
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