,9z Allfalfe mor/hipnot Jdolettry. en i If one man preach in one method and ano- therin another ; One by written Notes to help his memory,and another without, one by his oWn gifts only, and another by the help of others; whici of there is the falfe prophet,the falfe Wor- Ihipper or Idolater ? Math God laid you táa11 sre Notes in preaching ? No more bath he faid,, you fhallpreach zrithout Notes : yet bath he command- ed both, tofeverall perfons where edification Va- riedly requireth it- Is he an Idolater that ufeth Meeters, Tines, Verrons, Tranflations,Direeto- ries, Pulpits, Cups, Table Cloaths, Fonts,Bafins, tc. which God commandeth not. OLord pity thy poor Church, whofe Paftors themfelves are fo peevilh in their ignorance, and tempt other men by their follies, to juf}rfte all their feveri- ties againa them and others But what Text of Scripture is it that ever tolçl thefe men that all falfe morfhip is Idolatry ? what text do they name, but fuch as if they did it on ptlrpofe, to thew their boldnefs in adding to Gods Word ? The fecond Commandment is the chief which they infifl on. But what ever Expofitions they may forge, there is no fuch word nor fenfe ita` the Commandment. We all hold that as the grofs direl-t Idolatry, is the warihipping of a falfe God, againft the firfl Commandment; fo to make any filch falfe reprefentation ofthe true God,by cords or deeds, as maketh him like an Idol, and contra diaeth his nature, andfo to aorfhiphim, this is alfo a fecondary kind of Idolatry : Becaufe God is none )`itch as they reprefent him, and therefore it isnot God indeed , but an Idol which they worfhip, And becaufc God is not like to any thing corpo. real
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