592 Chap. 3 r. An Ex¡ojttion upon thr Rook of J o B. Verf. 28, No,n;numMai- gods, is to fay, there is no God, 'Polytbei¡me is Atbeifine. And tzii!dtne:n' nu^ therefore the Apóflle concludes of Idolaters ( Rom: s, i y.) They minus efje nul. lirare n ajjerit change' he truth (fGod into a lie; that is, into an Idol. Idolls are a .A:h.inaftut, o lie, eyther firft, because they promife, or pretend what they are rot: Contro I- not in truth ; or fecondly, because they are a plaine denial] of the dololac: true God. III ( faith fob) had Adored the Sunne,I fhould have deiaied the God that is above,yea though I should notwithiland- ing that, acknowledge him to be above all gods ; and that my bumbling or bowing my felfe to the creature, was nor to abate but rather to exalt my worfhip of him,that being only (as I might pretend) a helpto my devotion.For he that bowed) before or to a creature in worfhip, whether he faith he doth it only as a meanes todraw up his heart to God,or as a Egne of the prefence of God, or as to a Mediator between God and him, (in the for- mer fence Papi.fts worfhip Images, and in the latter Saints and Angels, he I fay, that doth any of their) will be found a denier ofGod, howmuch foever he boafteth of the worfhip of the one true God, and deni-eth that he worfhippeth the creature as God. I/h uld have`denied the God that i.e above, f ob ufeth that word above fignificantdy, having fpoken of the Sunne andMoone before, which are above us or on high , he adds, If1 hadworfhipped Sunnt, andM.ssone, I had denied the God that is above, not only above the earth, but above the Sumac and Moone, and all the hoff of heaven. The Sun is below in com- parifon of the God above ; this God who is above all in power, and above all in place, above all inglory, above all in d gnitie. Mould I have denied. Hence note. God is above by rt more eminent and keciall prefence. Goths neither above nor below as circumfcribed is; any place, God is both above and below as filling all places, God is not more above then he is below as to his reall pretence, but God is more above thenhe is below as to themanifïzflation ofhis pre- fence. In this fence yob fpeakes of God as above; and we find throughout the Scripture; that all prayers, and fpeeches,direfted to God, are direc`fed to him as above, As letters lent to a Prince, are
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