I92 614,1.AL1,i:,11.ca.,.;:LALLL1#.4411;4,`1A wb{aaoï%4am°?Tö'ifl}Of:,. U* WESE4%RIe.-3¡M1 THE EXPOSITION OF THE SECOND Commandment. CHAP. I. The general parts of this Commandment. 1. The Precept. Z. The Saullion. The Pre. eept is Negative, forbids Idolatry, and implies the Affirmative. r. Tbat Codmat be worfhipped as he, requires. z. That reverence mull be chewed in theperformance. Peaks, ns, why this, and the fourth Commandment, are larger than the refl. Reafons for theAffirmative, and Negative part. Addition 13. That the makng of Images was abfolutely forbidden the Jews, and in that refeltthe Precept was pofitive, and reached only unto them. Addition 14. Whether all voluntary, or free worfhip be fora bidden under the name of will. worfhip. Thou fhalt not make to thy felfany graven Image, de. HE Commandments of the firft Table, concern the worship of God inward, and outward; of which, the firft Commandment containeththe inward duties, and the threeTaft the outward. The . outward are either continual, or to be performed on a fet,orcer- tain time or day : or are either private,or publique. That which is for a fet day, andpublique, is required in the fourth Command- ment. The other which are continual and private, concern ei- ther the outward gefturein honore, ( for, reverentia, exhibeturpergeflus, the gefture difcovereth our reverence) contained in this fecond Commandmet : or ir, !dude, in praife, which is exhibited by theTongue, or in fpeech, in the third. Or elfethey concern either the manner of worfhip in this fecond : or the end of it in the third. This Commandment which concerns the manner of our outward worfhip, and how we are to behave our felves in it conteins, s. A Precept fee down by way ofa Prohibition. Z. A Sanction, or Penalty annexed. Or (ifyou will ) a Charge, and aPenalty. t. The Prohibition,in thefe words, Nonfaciatibifculptile, not to make Images, to worfhip them. z. The Sanction, which is brought in by way of reafdn, in thefe, Ego enimDew tunsfun zelotypus, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. It is in this , as in the Laws of Princes , after they have fignified their command , what they would have done , or not done i e is added Qui fleas. fault punietur , he that fhali tranfgrefs againft this Lav,3 11 bepunifhed. So here, he that breaks this Com- mandment, Godwill vif t, t$e. which is the Penalty, orfanEtio precepti, that part ofthe Precept, thatcontaineth the corrective, [hewing how they lhall becorrected, that will not be directedby thisLaw. This Commandment, as it prohibiteth Idolatry directly, fo implicitely it en- joyneth the true worfhip of God , preferibieg the manner how that worfhip is ro be performed. May we not worfhip, or ferve falfe Gods? then there is a truc God tobe ferved and worthipped, we are not mafterlefs Men, we are under the a q authority of another (as this Centurion) we have a Mailer , there is a God ( certainly ) to be ferved. Concerning the performance of this worfhip, two things are commanded. Firft, Godwill have modistes a fe prafcriptum, our fervice muffbe done in that man- ner
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