Thtpc1ndComm4nt:kmtnl. ,.3· ·but loath and detefl it. But if this knowledge and loue be _· wanting; you are in continuall daunger, to runne to fpi– rituall whoredome, ( whatfoeuer you can fay OOW) if OC– cafton were offered. Thus much for the grofle and direct brea~h of this Comtnandement, by tnaking or worfl1ipping Images. · The third breachofit, is fiJperflition: when one doth not ~ . goe to floc;kes and ~iot!es, but yet v_fcch thofe waies and in- ~~~:rai. uentio.ns,in worf.htpptng God, whtch are not commanded . ofGod inhis word, but be deuices ofmen. ForMatch. I 5·9. Chri£1: faith, that they 'W9rfoip him in vaint, teAchingfor dfJ8-rines mens precepts. If it haue no further beginning then ·mens brainr,God will giueno bleffing to it: yea,he fends a curfe vpon it; for curfed is hc:e that addes any thing to the booke ofGod: God will adde fo much to his plagues. And the rea(on is,becaufehe makes himfelfe wifer or better then God.For,1fGod be perfeCtly wife>then hee knew belt what woril~ippe would pleafe himfelfe: and if hee be perfeetly good, then hee would reueale vnto vs, what eucr hee knewe fit for vs to pra6Hfe. Agabe, it is a great iniurie offered to' God, when,we will let his deadly enemies haue the ordring and appointingofhis feruice, rather then hinlfelfe. · A Kingwould thinke it a greJt indignitie, that his fer– uants fhould not yeeld tohis ~irection; but fome bafe per- .~- , fon, that were a profeffeJ enemie, fbouid fet downe what feruice hee muft haue, and in what manner hee rnuH bee cbeycd, what fhall bee his attendants and prouifion. But much more abfurd and iniurious it is, that wee will let the wit and will of the fldh beare the fway in Gods wodbip: for thefe two doe ioync wich the diuelJ, and are enmitie to God. And if wee will haue this prehcmin~nce in our hou– fes,that ourferuants mufl doe, as wee bid them, not wha-t they themfelues thinkegood,(forhee isa good feruant that doth his M1Hers will, not his owne) then why J'hould not we thinke it right,that God mull be Lord in .his houfe? and _w·e mufi doe his feruice> afier his appointmentJ and no~ our owne. This
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