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Show Part.4 "n.4- OF THE KINGDOME C114,.43, inthe wer oftheir Mafiers,as Slaves taken in war, :icdahthgiiuIlfIM, who? bodies are not in their own power, ( their litres depending onthe Will of their Mafiers, in {uch manner as to forfeit them upon the leafi diiobedience, ) and that are bought and fold as Beafts, were called AWI,_that is roperly, Slaves, and their Service AmI": The other, whichiso thofe that fervc (for hire, or in hope of benefit from their Maflers) voluntarily; are called 9‘7", that is, Domefiique Servants; to. whoIe fervtce the Ma- flers have no further right, than is contained m the Covenants made betwixt them. Thefe two kinds of Servantshave thus much common to them both, that theirlabour is appomted them by another; And the word Arm", is the generall name of both, fignitying him that worketh for another, whether, as a Slave, or avoluntarylSehr- vant:Sothat Annie fignifieth generally all SCYVICC; but Mwa g fervice of Bondmen onely, and the condition .of Slavery . it both are uied in Scripture (to fignifie our SerVice of God) promikuoufly. MAM, becaufe we are Gods Slaves, Ame", becau ebtxéee Serve him :and in all kinds of Setvtce is contained,not onely 0 e ience,bur alfo Worfliip, that is, fuch actiOns, gei‘tures, and words, as nor. . An Image fignAlifiicIIiioe (in the mofi flrié‘t fignification of the word ) is the all) at. Refemblance offome thing vifible :‘ In which .ienfe the ‘Phantaflfi- PI: antanN I call Formes,Apparitions, or Seemings of vrfible Bodies mlt e SiOht, are onely Images, fuch as are the Shew ofa man, osrot ier thing in the Water, by Reflexion,.or Refraction-pr of the up, or Stars by Direct Vifion in the Air, which are nottzing tea in the things {een,nor in the place where they feem to beer nor Ere their magnitudes and figures the fame With that or the object, ut changeable, by the variation of the organs of Sight, or by g‘laflhes; and are prefent oftentimes in our Imagination,and in our Dreams, when the objeét is abfent; or changed into other colours , and fliapes,as things that depend onely upon the Fancy. Apid :ieie-arg the Images w rich are originally and inoft properly call; I {41,} an 3595 Matter to thole Shapes, and make the m in Woo And thefe are allo c allcd Images, not for d,Clay Mama?! the relem- hungry. blance of any corporeallrhing, but for the relEinblanm of Ionic Phantafiicall Inhab or Metall. itants ofthe Brain of the Maker. Buti nthefe Idols, as they are originallyinthe Brain, and as they are painted, carved, moulded, or moultcn in matter, there is a fimilitude of the one to the other, for which tIIC Mate riallRodi/made by Art, 3y be (aid to be the Image ofthe Phantafiicall Idoll made by Nature. But in a larger 1er ofthe word Image , is Conta prefentation of one thing by another. So an earthined alto, anv Rebe ca led the Image of. God: And an interiour Mae'ily SOVCI‘JIgI‘I may ltrate the Image or an earthlySoveraign. And many times in tlie Idolatry or the Gentilesrhere was little regard to the limilitude or. their Materiall Idol to the Idol in their fancy, and yet it was called the Image of it. ForaStoneunh ewn hasbeen let up {or Neptune, and diver s other lhapestarditiercnr from the lhtipes thet' conceived of their Gods. And atthis day we leemtinvImagesor‘ihe Virgin Mary, tindothtr S.unts,unlilte one another, and without t‘()l‘l'£lb0iltlc‘iiii€ to any onciiians Ilincv, and yet lei've well enou gh for the pill" pole they were erccred {03; which was no more but by the Names onely, to rtprtieut the Perlons mentioned in the l-Iilioi‘y; to which every man .tpplitth a Mentall Image of his owne milking , or none at all. And thus ,ln Image :n the large-II (cute, 1‘4 ei- ther the Iieleiiiblance, or the Repi‘ elcntation or tome thin (T P Vilible, or both tt‘igethei' , (h it happeneth tor the molt part. but the name or Idol] is extended yet furth er in Scripture, to iignzlie .ilio the Siinue ,or ii SLIHCMI‘ .inv other ()i'uitiii't'q'iiiblts mIIII'HIIOIL‘. \\ lcn they are \i‘oi‘lhippcd fol Gods. Haring ihtwii what 1» War/hip, andu.'hat,in Imag e, IDOL s , and derived from the language or the ercrans,\vit 1w mm I will now I'.uiatr) put Iilt'nlI(\‘:1(Iiltl',tlntl etaiiune what that Inoi A I at is, which is forbidden in the Sicond Lt)IIIllltllltifll'lcnl' , and the word hm fignifieth to See. They are alto called Pri A tit A s M e 5-, Scriprtuc. which is in the (ante language, APP-Arlti'OfiJ. 'I‘owtxihip an Image, is voluntarily to (loc (hole exterutill acts, which are lignes oi honoring L‘IIIILl‘IllClIlJl'ICF ot the [ma gt, which is \VOULI, Stone, Metill, or louie otl ier Vilibl e And from theie Images it is that one of the faculties of. mans Nature,I is called the Imdglnaflofl. And from hence it is maniteft, tiat there neither is, nor can bee any Image made or a thing Imi- fible. ‘ . I - It is alfo eVident, that there can be no Image of a thing n finite : for all the Images , and Phantalmes that are made by the Imprcflion of things vifible, are hgured : but Figure, is a quantity every way determined : And therefore there c3: bee no Image of God; nor of the Soule ofMan, not or Stilm», but onely ot Bodies Vifible, that is, Bodtesrhat have light int iem(elves, or are by fuch enligtened. _ . Fiaionr. or DARKNESSE; C/141/J.4§'. Centaures, Chimxras, and other Mon {ters neve r feen: So can he alto give And whereasa man can faney Shapes he never law; making ulp a Figure outof the parts ofdivers creatures; 35th: Poets make at: other placcsof the creature; or the I'hantaliiit oi the brain, for the i‘eleinblanc e, or reprelbntatmn u'htrtor, iht iiitittcr was formed and named -,or both ti):§ctliCi',;Is one animate Body, Compoiedol the Matter and the l'hant aline , :isotzi Body and Soule. To be uuCovered, betore a man or Power rind Authoritygn' beh ire the Throne ofa l'rincc,or in Iiich other places as lite ordeuneth to th it Pill‘pmt‘ in his ablenCe, is to \Vorihip that man, or l'rinte with ()1t'ill \Vorlliip; as being a Iigne,not or honoringr the [tool-,or place-,but the l'eribiizand is not Idolatry. in: liIlL‘C that doth it, ihoul d iiippoie the Soiile orthe Prince tobe inthc Stool, orthoiiltl preterit a Petition to the band, it were Divme \Vorihip, and Idolatry. Z z 7. T3 FliJn‘f, |