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Show 77. what is meant hy Image . . h Word of God, are redu-d~ menrs, that .pl finnes fo{btdden 111 t&ll ruller the prohibition of ced to the ten C~mandemll!l~, aitd fi 11brit is a tranlgreffion of one of them or other, for there IS no~~ tJub.3+and upon the feme or other commandemenJ t tfe! ,.~d the Prophet~, Mat. 22, two T abies _of th~ Law h.sng t 1 e ~ rlot contained in the letter 4C· Now it IS plame, ,that all ~nd ;~e refore there is nd judicious of the ten CommandementS' n I e f 1 Gommandements f b th the etter o t Je Expofitoro themd, ~~opene. St•necdocha to comprehend all S d l an ,v,eto,.ymza ; " d . ~y ryncf 0~ ";. 1.~ '·il1de and all the d'grw thereof, an Metanymru fmnes o t~.c :fJf a/:;e1 and meanu and occafions t~ereof;fo that to comp~e.hcn [. c d Commandement, which forbids both rna• f~t·opcmn~ the efhln ing of any image or fimilitude, it is requifite kmg ar2idd t .e \~~~at f~Jfe orrefpeC'cs Imagu or fimilitudet are forco conl eon ~ . . f( rb' dd in the fecond Com· bidden: Images or fi:nilitudes are. o fi I llfalfo ob. elJt Of worlhip mandement,not as ab;el.1J ofworlhip, or a d'J , ], I !·Ire god" fOJbidden in the firfr Cornman ement; maget arc t 1e "~ ' · h r d C d t then and fimiliwdu are fOI biddenm t e •econ ~:m~man e_men ' not as rra I1"e ob J' CaL.ls ofw odhip' wherein •t he• wohrl h1p ISG teordm mF ateId( d £ ll ed but as falfo meanu of worfhrPfJzng t e tme , or o :~e tl~e I~la~es confidcred that are forbidden in the Word. The go lde nca/1,~:e; was no t COIJfidered as the God ofr ,I yael, ft hha t b'r:lo'bu ghaht them up out of the Land of .£gypt, but as an mage o t at J~ u:'. which did bring them up out of the Land of .A':Jtypt. Wh~ce ~~ faid,that Aaron proclaimed: a &afr, not to.the ca~,but td~J e7ml 1 whereof thecalfewas but an Image. Tomorrow, faith he, u tJ folem" nr·t z·e ( or rr ea1n1. ) to J'1'e hovah ' Exod • 32 . "1 . The C4lfe therefore was • rlhi ped not the god, but the Image of the gad w~1ch .they wo . P ,as that which refembled him,and put them m m]nde of h1m, llel~ their hearts nearer to him, or his prefence neoarer ~o them: ~s!r IS written in the Pfalme, that they turned their glo•t int~ the fim•lrt:~te of an axe that eateth graffi, Pial. I06: 20. And m th1_s oxe. or c they looked at Jehovah ar mare unto them, and a< gomg w•t~d-' and before them, Exod. 3 2. 1. Furthermore, the Image for 1 1 en in the fcx;ond Commandernent, is not onely afalfo meaner of wo: fhip, deviled cy man, but a falfo manner of worlhlp alfo; and th~r· fore when the Samaritane-ftrangers knew not the manner of W ~h !hipping God in the C<1lves of Jeroboam, it is faid ,they knew not e mannlf' Sea. 4• forbidden in the (econd Commandement. manner of the god of the Cuumrey ( 2 Kings 17. 26.) and one of the Priefrs of the high places was Cent to teach them the manner of the fwe (or worlhip ) of]ehoilab, ver. 28. and fo they feared Jehovah afur the former m"nner, ver. 3 4-and that was in ferving him in the f}'a"" ven Imagu of their onme devifing, ver. 4I. So th.at und.er this one kinde of &lfe worlhip of God in gravel! Images,Is forbidden by a SynecdiJcbt, not onely all worflup of God in carved or mol~~ •r painted Imagu, (all bodily reprefentations of God) but all JPtrztuall Imaget alfo ,which are the imagination! and ht· ventionr of men, whether they be ordaiQed for worlhip, as the high placer erected to the true God, 2 Chron·:S3· I7· and the deviftdfea[f oftheeightbmoneth, 2 King.12. 33· or whether they be brought in and ufed for hdpu and meaner of worlhip, as the Jlrange fire ofN~dab, Levit. IO. I, 2. and 'DIJ7Jidi new Cart to carry the Arke, 2 Sam. 6. 3· with I Sam. I 5. 1 3· or whether they be ufed for manner and fornu of worlhip,as preaching in the wi[doftiof mann:vordJ',( or in car• nall Eloquence) which is but a painted Image of preaching (I Co,-. 2.4.)and fo forbidden in this fecond Commandement. In like fort, Woment praying in publicftbare·headed, and men covered, I Cor. II. 4, 5· Mens praying or prophecying in jlr.:111ge tonguei, and many of· them at once, I Car. I4· 22. 26. the celebrating of love-feaj11in ho- · ly Affembli!!f, together with the Lordi Supper, (I Cor. II. 21, 23·34·) are all of them Images or imaginations of men, formes or mannerz of worlhip devifed and ufed by man , but not ordained by God, and fo forbidden in this fecond Commandement. ,. The reafon whereof1s qken from tlie perfi:ction of the wifdome of God revealed. in Scripture, tom~ the man of God perfe[/ to eve>jl' good work.£, 2 Tim. 3. 17. No wifdome of mans device, as any other worlhip, or any other helper or meamr ofworfhip, or any formet or nl4111leri of wotlhip, acceptable to Gbd; but wha't the wifdome of God hath directed Us in his Wotd. Befides, the Church is com- ~ pleat:e in Ghrifr, (Col<{. 2. Io.) fo as wee need uo'other Prieft to make atonement but him, nor other fpirituall King but him to rule our confciences, no other Prophet to teach us but hlmfelfe,and fuch as he hath appointed to t!fa~.end;,t?usthe fi~ an~ fubllance I>Qth ofL!m> and· Cf~f}el, ·lead liiho I.'efl: m th, ordinances Of God, a~d:nott.? helpeourfelvesbY'tfJtfin'{entidns of~e~, for'thc ad' lllmftratiOn of the wor{hjp of God. To apply this then to fet- L formet |