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A53750 A true and lively representation of popery shewing that popery is only new-modell'd paganism, and perfectly destructive of the great ends and purposes of God in the Gospel. Owen, Thankfull, 1620-1681. 1679 (1679) Wing O830; ESTC R18583 46,596 82

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Egypt especially when the execution done upon all the Tutelar Deities of Egypt was yet fresh in their minds who were notable to save themselves or protect their charge when God destroyed all the First-born in the Land 3. The people of Israel acknowledge that the Cherub or Calf that Aaron made was the symbolical presence of that God that brought them out of Egypt now they never thought that it was either Serapis or Osiris or any other Egyptian Deity that brought them out of Egypt but the true God the Creator of Heaven and Earth whose presence they lately saw in such terrible Majesty upon Mount Sinai 4. When Aaron had finished the matter of their sin he makes a Proclamation throughout the Camp To morrow is a Feast of the Lord v. 5. not to the Idol or false God but to Jehovah the true God whereas if this Golden Calf had been the symbol of some Egyptian God and the people had fallen into Paganish Idolatry it had been very improper for Aaron to have proclaimed this his Sacrifice a Feast to the Lord. 5. Neither here nor afterwards when Aaron relates the whole proceeding to Moses when he came down from the Mount is there any mention of any thing that may give the least suspition or intimation that this graven Image was the symbol or representation of a false God but much to evince the contrary forasmuch as here is no name of any particular false God which yet is usual in Scripture when in other places it relates their lapse into Polytheism and Idolatry but a Solemn Feast proclaimed to the Lord Jehovah And although this Calf was only intended by them to be a Symbol of the presence of the true God yet being directly contrary to his Command and having Divine Worship given to it it became a perfect piece of gross and soul Idolatry Another instance of the like nature we have in the Idolatry practised by Jeroboam for that the Calves which he placed in Dan and Bethel and built Altars and sacrificed to them were Hieroglyphicks or symbolical representations of the true God and not the Images of false Gods is plain and evident 1. In that there is no mention of Jeroboam's worshipping the Gods of Egypt or any other adjoyning Paganish Nation whereas when Solomon in his old Age was drawn away by his Wives to commit Idolatry there is a particular account and enumeration of the false Gods he adored as Ashtoreth the Goddess of the Zidonians Chemosh the God of the Moabites and Milcom the God of the Children of Ammon but of Jeroboam it is only said that he made two Calves of Gold and said to the people It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem 1 Kin. 12.28 29. Behold thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt And he set the one in Bethel and the other in Dan. 2. The sin of Ahab which was the Introduction of Polytheism and the height of Pagan Idolatry and therefore is signally called in Scripture the way of Ahab is accounted greater in Gods sight than the sin of Jeroboam which is a plain sign that the way of Jeroboam was not the worshipping false Gods for that is called the way of the House of Ahab but the worshipping the true God in an Image Thus it is written of Jehoram the Son of Ahab 2 Kings 3.2 3. And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord but not like his Father and like his Mother for he put away the Image of Baal that his Father had made Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat which made Israel to sin he departed not therefrom 3. In that the object of his Idolatry was a Golden Calf it seems to be the very same prevarication that Aaron was led into by the Israelites soon after the delivery of the Law or ten Commandments upon Mount Sinai and that these Calves as well as that made by Aaron were designed for symbols of the presence of the true God and that being a violation of the express Command of God and so interpreted by him in the severe punishment of the sin so likewise were these and both alike Idolatry 4. The same form of words is used by Jeroboam at the Dedication of these Calves that was afore-time made use of by the Israelites when Aaron made the Molten Calf These be thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt Now they knew and never thought otherwise that it was neither Chemosh nor Milcom nor Ashtoreth nor Dagon nor any other Pagan Deity but the true God who delivered them from the Egyptian Bondage 5. Jeroboam continues the same Feasts and way of worship which were at Jerusalem and therefore 't is most likely he designed still the worship of the true God in these Calves which were set up as symbols of his presence 6. It was not agreeable to the Political end or reason which Jeroboam propounded to himself to establish that part of Pagan Idolatry which consisted in Polytheism for his only aim was to hinder the people by this Project from going up to do Sacrifice in Jerusalem lest by that they should be tempted to return to the obedience of their natural Prince for thus he expresses his own fears And Jeroboam said in his heart now shall the Kingdom return to the House of David 1 Kin. 12.26 27. If this people go up to do Sacrifice in the House of the Lord at Jerusalem then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their Lord even unto Rehoboam King of Judah and they shall kill me and go again to Rehoboam King of Judah Now if this worship which he established had been the worship of strange and forreign Gods it would no ways have comported with his end which was to assure the ten Tribes to himself 7. Jeroboam only argues against the place and not any thing against the way or manner of worship performed at Jerusalem for he only tells them it was too much for them to go up to Jerusalem but if they would hearken to him they might worship God as well in another place as there for he placed an Image at Bethel and another at Dan which being symbols or visible representations of the presence of the true God that brought them out of Egypt they might sacrifice and perform their other Divine Rites and Ceremonies to them and not trouble themselves any further 8. To which may be added in the last place that it is the most unlikely and improbable thing in the World that Jeroboam at his very first entrance upon the Kingdom should establish the very same Idolatry for which the Kingdom was rent from the house of Solomon for when the Prophet Ahijah tells Jereboam that the Lord would rend the Kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give ten Tribes to him and make him King over Israel the reason is given 1 Kings 11.33 Because they had forsaken