,111/1111111. ,JBMOINIMP' The truefenji ,.pt the z. Commouinsent. i93 real iii heav-en or earth ; therefore he that makith an image of any thing in Heavenor earth as like to God, or to reprifent him, he maketh an idol of God by blafphemy. To what will you hat tjhould be like unto it Pith the Holy one? This is thi idolatry forbidden in the SecondCommandment: it isnot all falfeworfhip, but onefort of!tile roorfhip which is idolatry what Ore that CommAdment forhiddeth is neither ailed Idolatry) nor can fci be proved. It is an odious found, tohear an ignorant,rtai; felf-conceited perfon, efpecially a Preacher, to cry out, idolatry, Idolatry, againfi his brethrens, prayers to God, becaufe they have fomething in them to be amended ; while perhays his own prayers have fo muchhiredoetrine in them, on fair; fire of carnal paffions and uncharitablenefs; is maketh it a much harder queftion, whether it be lawful, to joyn with filch as he is, while he abhorreth fomuch to joyn with others. , All that know me know that it is not my own cafe and intereft, that I fit this reprehenfion to. It is twenty times harder to me to remember a Form of words, than to exprefs what is in my mind without them. But we mutt not fit our opi- nions of all our brethren's prayers, to our own' temperament; A go. IREC
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