o Chap. 31. An E:vpc;rsicse upon the 'Book of Jo a. Verf. z6 andcreep=ng things. Kinwas at firft created in the irwge of God alter hic likenes ( Gen. r 26. ) Bot woe-unto thofe o. ho change the gory ( that is, the invfibilicy, Iimplícity, eternity, and in. comp'ehenhhillty) of God into an image or the likenes ofman. yet Idolaters doe work and goo lover then this, They change the glory of God into the likenes of a beaft; The Ifraelites did fo tc6. 20.) They charged their Glory (that is, God who in- deed was and [h ould have hero by them accounted their glory ) into the likenes of an Òxe that eatethGrafe. The Idolater changes the gloryofthe living the ever-living God into the ltkenes of live- kite things or into things which are themfelves as liveleffe, as an Image or likenes is, Tine Sun ami Mocee. Thirdly, O`Serve, Idolatry is a very great fin. The firft Commandement forbids it (ex4. 20. 2, 3.) Those ¡halt have noneether gods bat rne; That is, Thou (halt not letup a falle God to worfhip.;nor (halt thon fet up a falle worfhip ofthe true God,that's forbidden in the fecondCommandement ; Thou fhalt not make to the felfe anygraven image. As we are to worfhip none but God, fo God will not endue to be wor(hipped in any other way or by any other meanes then himfelfe is plea led to ap- poynr.- Idolaters poflìbly thinke themfelves full ofzeale for God while they devile a worfhip for God, yet indeed they are haters ofGod, and :ò they are called in the fame law, (y 5 ) For I the Lord thy God am a jealous cad, viliting the iniquityof the f thers topo» the children unto the thirdand fourthgeneration ,f them that hate one. We can Chew no love to God but in keeping his Com mandements ; therefore they that let up falle gods co worfhip,or worfhip the true God in a falle manner, are haters ofGod, fèirg while they pretend to worfhip God they dilhonour him by breaking his Commandements. (I;a. 42.8.) c../1/1y glory will I not give to another, neither my praife tograven images. It is the Glory ofGod that he is fts free in giving, yet he will not give a- way his glory, neyther to any thing of cur making by art, fuch are graven Images, nor to any thing of his owne making in na- ture, fuckare the Sunneand Moone. Thegloryof God is fuch a flower ofhis Crowne, as Godwill nót part with in the leaft to a- ny CreattKe, Idolatry is the higheftfacriledge, It fteales that. from
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