j. Command. vpon the Commandements. 21 What ezpo&ions your book giueth,you may looke and marke,adding for plain- mire therevnto thus much,that the very meaning of this commandement in effe& is thus much : as if the Lorde Ihould haue faide : Although the corrupt Nature of man be fuch,as naturally he defireth my pretence in fomevifible forme and fhape, foolifhly thinking that he is molt neere veto mee,when nee hash before his Eyes force vifible Pure ofinee : yet for as much as this, and the worfhippe htetéby, donevotomee,is neyther agreeable to my will nor nature, I therefore command thee,that thou make to thy felfe no grauen Image, &c. That is, that thou got not about to prefent mee by any likeneffe òf any creature whofoeuer, neyther to worship me in or vnder any fi; h fhowes, or after any way than out of my w orde; thou learner+ to be agreeable both to my will and nature. Eafily 'then may wee fee that wee are oceanoned heere in this Commandement to confider of,namely, ' t The making of Imager. a Thewar/hippináofthem. 3 The reafons Godvfeth here. Touching the firff, then vfuallyvpon this occafion is mooed thisqueftion,whe_ ther fimply it be vnlawfull, and milltked of the Lorde, to make any kinde of I- mage, by Painting, Carving, Ingrauing, &c. And it feemeth yea, becahfe'th-e words are fo Batte ,without exception: Thou Ault not make anygrauenhsnsge ,&c." For Anfwere wherevnto, three feuerall l udgements are found amonglt men. Some thinke indeede, all Pictures and Images to bee vnlawfull, afwell in dud' vfe,as in Religious ; And fuch are t hefe Turks by Namc,if it bee truely written of them. Whofe Money(they fay)hath neuer any Image vpon it,but certaine e.4rabirre Letters : Theyr other workes,asCarpets, Couerings,Quifhings, &c. utterly alto without any Image of Man,or any liuing creature vpon them,and all becaufe ehey.thinke it vnlawfull.' Others thinke it lawfull to make any Pi&ure at all,yea,euen of God himfelfe. So that the fame be not wctrfhipped,as a hare piéture and Image. And they vn- derftand this Commaundement of Images, made to be adored. There are our Papilts. The third judgement and belt, is of them that thinks it Lawfull to make pie: eures of things which wee haue fcene, to a Ciuill vfe , but not to vfc them in the Chùrch, and for religion. Now, for the firft opinion, it is out of all queflion falfc, and too Superftitious. For howfoeuer theTurkes receyue not filch proofe, yet wee that embrace and cleaue to theauthoritie of Gods worde , knowe that the Lorde hash not left this Commandement,neither any otherwithout large and plaine Expoftion in other places of the Scripture: and therefore wee are to conferre place with place, prac- tice with precept, and fo tofee whether indeed. all Images bee forbidden to be made,orno? Fitt+ then, mark a the word es i n Leuitictu, TeeJball make you no Idoles,nor grauen Image, neyther reare you op any Pillars, &c. Out of which place, thus I reafon : Leuit.16.t. Looke how the Lordeforbiddeth the rearing vp of a Pillar, and fo doth he for- bid themaking of Images,for bee ioyneth them here in one prohibition : but he cloth not (imply forbid, and in all refpedts the rearing vp of a Pillar, therefore neyther the other. The fecond propofition is proued thus : Iacob pitched the Bone on ende, that had lyen vnder his head all night, powred Oylc on it,and calleth it Beth-el, the Gen.sli3° houle of God. IoJ7rn h, conimaunded by the commaundementof God , twelue fronts to bepitched vp. Same/pitched vp a Stone allo, betwixt C.,*Ío,t eh and lotua -. Shea, and called the name thereof Ebenezer. a.S a.y..t s. There-
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