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A12808 A sermon on the Second Commandement preached in Saint Pauls Church, Ianuarie 6. 1623. By Iohn Squire vicar of Saint Leonard in Shorditch by London. Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653. 1624 (1624) STC 23115; ESTC S121755 30,399 59

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Thou diddest promise to heare me and obey mee Exod. 19. 8. three words three Arguments 1. Thou shalt worship him alone who is Iehouah thy Creator But an Image is a creature not Iehouah thy Creator Therefore Thou shalt not worship an Image 2. Thou shalt worship him alone who is Elohim the true God But Images are not Elohim true Gods but Elilim false gods Therefore Images are not to be worshipped 3. Thou shalt worship none but Thy God who did purchase thee and whom thou didst promise But an Image is not Thy God it did not purchase thee thou didst not promise it Therefore Thou shall not worship an Image If a confirmd Idolater could 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out-face these three Arguments these three Titles of God God doth send out Seconds a supply and doth re-enforce his perswasion by two other Attributes a iealous God Two things animate an Adulteresse to be impudent and incorrigible in her Adulterie if her husband be either milde that he wil not or if he be awed that he cannot reuenge that iniurie God here argueth from the contrarie to these two I am sayth he God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is fortis strong and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 El. Kanna Zelotes iealous and thus lieth the Argument Thou shalt not prouoke him who both can and will plague thee by worshipping Images But I am a strong iealous God who both can and will plague thee Therefore Thou shalt not worship Images Finally God is sometimes termed the Husband of his people Ier. 2. 2. and Idolatrie Adulterie Ier. 3. 20. therefore as the iealous man doth rage and will not spare in the day of vengeance Prou. 6. 34. so God menaceth from the same metaphor Thou shalt not worship any Image For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God But the seruile nature of some people is so slauish that they will not feare the threatning of their Master till they feele the Whip our Lord therefore doth as it were shew vs the Rod I will visite that is punish and plague the worshippers of Images According to the Psalme 89. 32. If they breake my Statutes and keepe not my Commandements I will Visite them with a rod and their sinnes with scourges and in our owne language the Plague and Gods Visitation are vsuall Synonima's The sinnes of the fathers on the children here he alludeth to their being in Egypt Whilest your fathers were there sayth he some of them did worship some of those Images for the Egyptian Cow did teeme that Calfe of Israel Ex. 32. I did winke at them but I see you and you shall feele mee If you doe here as they did there worship Images I will plague their sinne on you I will visite the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children Nor will I stay there but as you propagate your children so will I propagate my punishments from the Father to the Child to the Grand-child and to the Child after him You shall suruiue and your eyes shall see that propagated plague I will visite the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation And for a most iust cause because the worshippers of Images doe Hate mee All sinners in generall and therefore Idolaters in speciall I haue proclaimed to bee my enemies Malach. 2. 8. From these premises he concludeth this Argument You should feare to commit that sinne which doth cause you to hate God and God to plague you for the fathers in the children and on your owne persons But the worshipping of Images is a sinne which doth cause you to hate God and God to plague you to visite you from the fathers to their children euen to the third and fourth generation Therefore you should feare to worship Images This fearefull punishment is such a fearefull Argument that mee thinketh it should make the eare to tingle and the heart to tremble of any person which doth but bow to an Image if he doth but heare these words pronounced If you doe worship Images on such I will visite the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation Finally although in a bad cause Pyrrhus could not perswade Fabritius neither by affrighting him with his Elephant nor by alluring him with his gold yet in a good cause many are more moued with Gods mercies than forced with his iudgements I conceiue therefore that the most weightie argument lieth here in the bottome of my Text where Gods goodnesse is proposed vnto vs in three branches the Qualitie I will shew mercy in the Postills phrase mercy of Confection mercy of Refection and mercy of Perfection that is all Gods mercies in regard of our Creation Regeneration and Glorification shall bee conferred vpon and confirmd vnto such as will not worship Images The Quantitie Gods mercy is like a Mathematicall line shot throughout the whole world hee will shew mercy vnto Thousands vnto such as will not worship Images The Qualification for Gods Goodnesse as he doth shew it so his seruants may know it that they shall haue it by a sure token by a token Impressed if they loue mee and Expressed if they keepe my Commandements To such as loue mee and keepe my Commandements I will shew mercy if they will not worship Images So from Gods Goodnesse considered three wayes we may consider three Arguments against Images in Thesi in Antithesi Hypothesi 1. In Thesi If thou doest desire my Mercy thou shalt not worship Images But thou doest desire my Mercy Therefore Thou shalt not worship Images 2. In Antithesi If thou doest desire my Mercies a thousand times surpassing my Iudgements Thou shalt not worship Images But thou doest desire my Mercies a thousand times surpassing my Iudgements these being but to the fourth those to a thousand generations Therefore Thou shalt not worship Images 3. From Gods Goodnesse in Hypothesi we may frame an Hypotheticall Syllogisme If thou doest loue me and wilt keepe my Cammandements Then wilt thou not worship Images But I know thou doest loue mee and wilt keepe my Commandements Therefore I know Thou wilt not worship Images To inuolue all in one If there bee a Gehenna and a Paradise if there be an Hell and an Heauen prepared then dare not wretched men be so desperate of the one and so presumptuous of the other but they will be perswaded not to worship Images But if they will worship Images let them looke for poena sensus and poena damni let them be assured to lose the one and to feele the other For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God and visit the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation in them that hate mee Although I shew mercie vnto thousands in them that loue me and keepe my Commandements Let mee craue your patience that I may reade ouer my long Text once more Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image nor any likenesse of any thing in