.f heJijC(J~aCo/t!mttndement. 5:9t _ther.~,th~t wQe.n in-the lapd ofCanaan, theymec withIdols, cquered withgold& filuer, they fhould notcouct _or touch_ one parcell ofthe plate, or meddle with tt: for ifthey did, it would infnare them, and make them remember the IdoH, and from remembring, fall to liking, and at laH towodhip ic. Therefore it is an abomination toGod, and hee that will keepapiece ofgold ofthe Image,it is the next way to mak~ him a woriliipper ofthe Idoil. . · · This appearcs alfo by the examples ofthe children of If– rael,which were the Church ofGod~and the feede of.A!Jra.. ham:for all theworld bdidc were hcathenilh,and the -whole earth was ouerflowen with afca t1fldolatrie.But chefe lfrae.. lites were but a while among the Egyptians: and wee fee k.ow foone theywere inf,Ctcdwith their difeafe. But vvhen God had puld them out ofthat hell ofrhe world,which was fa full Huf:fed with all fuch abomination, and brought them into the wildernetfe, where they 'v\!ere alone, and no people elfe to proltoke them to it: yet, when Mofos that reffr'!ined thc1n, was away but fourtie daies, they tooke hbertie, and .the luLl that had been fmoothered by his prefence, now. braft foorth,and they gauc themfdues and their befi Jewels to theeretl:ingofan Idola.trous Calf~. And;after,when Gcd had brought them into the hmd·ofPromife, and theyhad been there a while)they could no fooner haue any little time ofcafe and profpcritie, buc prefcndy they ranne a tnadding afcer the Idols of the land: fo that God was faine, almoH continually, to keepc them vnder with affiitlion and trou– ble. And after when D11uidand Salomrm h:zd raigned maNy yeeres, and moH faithfiJJly ellablifhed thepure wodl1!p of God: it might hauebeen thought, that in that fpa"ce, all re– liqueg and remembranq: ofldolatrie had been quite baui– lhed and fwept away; fo that no tnan tbould euer haue per– fwad~d them to that courfe againe. Bmno fooner hacJ JtriJ– .IJrulmdeparted from the houfe ofDauid~ and fct vp the two _Calues, but without any lt~y, the whole tenne tribes_, gene– .rally, became worfhippers ofCalues: fo that thefe infecH– :ous Idols.)which bee fet vp, did them 1nore harme, then all :thegood e~;tmpl.es and in.ftru6lions, that were in ~hedaies - E ·· of
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