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A34874	The history of the Old Testament methodiz'd according to the order and series of time wherein the several things therein mentioned were transacted ... to which is annex'd a Short history of the Jewish affairs from the end of the Old Testament to the birth of our Saviour : and a map also added of Canaan and the adjacent countries ... / by Samuel Cradock ...	Cradock, Samuel, 1621?-1706.	1683 (1683)	Wing C6750; ESTC R11566	1,349,257	877

of Idolatrous Worship For God foresaw that men would be very prone to be pleased with and to dote upon sensible Representations and averse from raising up their minds to Him as endued with pure intellectual and spiritual Perfections So that He expresly forbids making any Images or Similitudes in order to worship Him thereby * Neque tantum imagines faciebant multorum Deorum Cultores sed magico ritu existimabant spiritum quendam aetherium in eas deduci imagines Tertullianus libro de spectaculis Daemones ait operari in simulacris Minutius Foelix isti impuri spiritus sub statuis imaginibus consecratis delitescunt Et huc pertinet ni failor locus Zach. 10.2 Grotius in explicatione Decalogi And in this Prohibition we may conceive this positive Precept to be also implied and intended viz. that in our Devotions and Religious Services which we perform to God we should raise our minds above gross sense and phantasie and should labour for high and worthy Conceptions of God and should apprehend Him incomparably superiour to all things which we do see and know and we should direct our minds to him as to a Being transcendently perfect in Wisdom Holiness Goodness Justice and Power and should as our Saviour Commands Worship him in spirit and truth Joh. 4.24 and perform such Worship to him as is agreeable to his spiritual Nature and is commanded by Himself And the Lord was pleased to add this reason to this Prohibition For I the Lord thy God am a jealous (u) There is great danger in Idolatrous Worship lest the heart of the Creature be thereby drawn away from God Therefore the breach of this Commandment is called Scortatio Persidia Violatio foederis conjugalis God is angry for the breach of any Commandment but he is jealous lest his Worship be corrupted and his Glory given to Creatures God that is a God very tender of my Honour and of my Right impatient of any Competitor or Sharer with Me in the Duties and Services which properly and incommunicably are due unto Me. I am the Lord saith God by the Prophet Isaiah that is my Name and my Glory I will not give to another nor my Praise to graven Images Isa 42.8 This jealousie doth imply not only a great dislike but a fierce displeasure against the Infringers of this Law Visiting the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate (x) Populus Dei sponsa vocatur foedus conjugium Idololatria scortatio Quemadmodum amoris signum est fidelitas conjugalis sic fidei violatio odii testimonium est Riv. Deum odisse in sacris literis peculiariter imo unicè ait Maimonides illi dicuntur qui falsos deos colunt me God hereby intimates that he shall look upon those that transgress this Law and commit this kind of Idolatry here forbidden as Enemies and haters (x) Populus Dei sponsa vocatur foedus conjugium Idololatria scortatio Quemadmodum amoris signum est fidelitas conjugalis sic fidei violatio odii testimonium est Riv. Deum odisse in sacris literis peculiariter imo unicè ait Maimonides illi dicuntur qui falsos deos colunt of him because their actions signifie a disposition of mind in them repugnant to his Mind and Will When a man loveth God less than his Idol that may well be esteemed hatred of God 2ly He declares That He will not only punish these persons themselves who commit this Idolatry whereby He is so much wronged and dishonoured but to deter men the more from it He declares That it shall go ill with their Posterity for their sakes Their Children to the third and fourth Generation shall be more strictly and severely dealt with and upon this score shall receive less of Favour and Mercy from him than otherwise they might have received Not that God will arbitrarily inflict undeserved Punishments upon the Children of bad men for the Faults of their Ancestors He disclaims such kind of dealing Ezek. 18.20 Deut. 24.16 Jer. 31.30 The Son shall not bear the Iniquity of the Father the Soul that sinneth it shall die Every one shall die for his own Iniquity Every man that eateth sowre Grapes his own teeth shall be set on edge c. But notwithstanding God may justly for the Sin of the Parents withhold his free Favours from their Children which else according to the general course of his goodness they might have been capable of As particularly He may withhold that measure of Grace from them that might have effectually retained them from Sin and consequently have prevented their Guilt and so their Punishment But if such Children do fall into personal sins God may without Impeachment of his Justice and Goodness severely visit them and sharply punish them for them and that not only upon their own but their Fathers account also And therefore the Lord is pleased to add this Commination the more to deter and restrain men from committing this sin of Idolatry it being like to bring damage to their Children and Posterity (y) Examples of which proceeding do in the Divine History often occur As in Solomon in Rehoboham in Baasha in Ahab in Jehu of whom Parents of all things use to have the tenderest regard and are afraid to be the causes of their Ruine and Calamity Shewing mercy unto Thousands of them love me and keep my Commandments And as God deters from violation of this Precept by threatening a long train of Punishments to the Transgressors of it so he encourageth to yield Obedience to it by a Declaration of his intention not only graciously to Reward the obedient Persons themselves but their Posterity also unto a thousand Descents God will shew mercy and deal more favourably with the Children of good Parents for a long tract of time for their Father's sake And though God will punish the offending Children of good Parents yet their Misdeeds shall not interrupt his kindness towards the rest of their Posterity or quite abolish the remembrance of their Fathers (z) So we may see that God dealt with Abraham and the Patriarchs passing by in memory of their faithful Obedience to him the manifold Provocations of their Cildren goodness And here we may take notice how the expressions of God's Mercy do exceed those of his Justice He will visit the Iniquities of disobedient Fathers unto the third or fourth Generation but He will shew Mercy to a thousand Generations of them that love and obey Him And further we may observe That loving God and keeping his Commandments are conjoyned as terms equivalent They are indeed inseparably connected Love being a certain cause of Obedience and Obedience an infallible sign of Love See Joh. 14.21 III. Commandment Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes his Name in vain HEre is first a Precept 2. A Reason deterring

Courage and Strength and will so dispirit and weaken your Enemies with fear that one of you shall chase a thousand of them that is a few of you shall vanquish great numbers of them see Deut. 32.30 Levit. 26.8 Judges 15.15 2 Sam. 23.8 But know ye for certain That if ye Revolt from the good way of your Obedience to God wherein you have formerly walked and cleave to the remnant of these Nations and joyn your selves with them in Leagues or Marriages then the Lord will not drive them out before you but they shall be Snares and Traps unto you and Scourges in your Sides and Thorns in your Eyes that is they will be continually by their allurements drawing you into Idolatry and other Sins and so will catch you with their Wiles and by their Baits draw you to commit spiritual and corporal Whoredom with them and then by their Injuries will vex and disquiet you until you be cast out for your sins from this good Land which the Lord has given you And now behold I am going the way of all the Earth I must die as all other men that live upon the Earth must do And seeing my death approacheth I thought good to tell you before-hand what will become of you if ye transgress the Covenant of the Lord your God You know there hath not any of the good things failed of coming to pass which the Lord promised you see Ch. 21.45 And as the Lord hath hitherto been very good to you in performing all that He had promised you so if ye transgress his Covenant He will bring upon you all the Evils which He hath threatned against the Transgressors of it and even at last will cause you to be carried Captive out of this good Land Josh Ch. 23. whole Chapter SECT CXXI JOshua now calls an Assembly of the Representatives of the Nation to Sechem in-intending as it seems there solemnly to inter Joseph's bones see vers 32. of this Chapter And upon this occasion he removes the Tabernacle and Altar thither as upon extraordinary Occasions they sometimes did see 1 Sam. 4.4 And there the Elders and Heads of the Tribes their Judges and Officers presented themselves before the Lord that is before the Tabernacle where God was pleased to manifest his gracious Presence among them Joshua now speaks unto them and gives them his solemn farewel Exhortations pressing them to continue constant in their Obedience unto God after his death He sets before them God's free Goodness in rescuing their Father Abraham out of that way of Idolatry wherein he had been bred in his Father Terah's House when they lived beyond Euphrates and chusing him of his free Grace to be the Father of his peculiar people when there was nothing in him to move the Lord to shew him such special favour He tells them how God led Abraham through the several quarters of Canaan and preserved him in a strange Land among so many barbarous people and blessed and prospered him and caused him to be highly esteemed among them And multiplied his Seed giving him Ishmael and six Sons by Keturah but He especially blessed him in giving Him Isaac whom He made the Heir of Promise And though Isaac had two Sons Esau and Jacob yet he passed by Esau though He made his Posterity great and gave them Mount Seir to inhabit and established his Covenant with their Father Jacob his younger Brother And Jacob and his Children went down into Egypt and in process of time being grievously there oppressed He delivered them miraculously by the Hand of Moses and Aaron Then He led them through the Red-Sea putting Darkness between them and the Egyptians that pursued after them with Chariots and Horse-men and drowned the Egyptians who ventured to follow them bringing the Sea upon them He tells them That many of them that were under twenty years old when they came out of Egypt might remember the Wonders He did for them in Egypt and the Plagues He brought upon the Egptians till they did let them go They might also remember how He sed them and preserved them during their long Travels through the Wildness They might remember how He at last brought them to the Borders of Canaan and destroyed Sihon and Og the Kings of the Amorites on the other side Jordan and gave them their Lands for an Inheritance When they were come thither they might remember how Balak King of Moab prepared to make War against them intending to have set upon them if he could have got Balaam to curse them but the Lord would not permit him to do it but forced him contrarily to bless them and so they were delivered out of his hands They might remember how from hence they passed over Jordan and laid siege to Jericho and how the men of Jericho prepared to resist them shutting up their Gates against them though afterwards they had not as it seems an heart to lift up a Weapon in their own Defence when they saw their Walls so miraculously to fall down They might remember how in the succeeding War the Lord delivered the Amorites Perizzites Canaanites Hittites Girgashites Hivites and Jebusites into their Hands And they prevailed not against them by their own Sword or Bow but by the Power of God who sent the Hornets * See Exod. 23.28 Deut. 7.20 Wisd 12.8 among them great Venemous Flies that stung many of them to death as He had by them before annoyed the Subjects of Sihon and Og upon which Judgment many of them 't is like fled out of the Country He tells them The Lord had given them a fruitful Land whose fruitfulness they had not procured by their own labour He had given them Cities † They destroyed only Jericho At and Hazor see Josh 11.14 and reserved the rest for themselves to dwell in to dwell in which they built not He had given them Vineyards and Oliveyards which they planted not By all which great and signal Mercies they were strongly engaged to fear the Lord and to serve Him in sincerity and truth all their days He advises them to forsake and abominate all the Idols which Terah Nahor and even Abraham himself before his Calling and Conversion worshipped whilst they lived beyond Euphrates in Vr of the Chaldees as also the Idols which some of their Father● had worshipped in Egypt (s) Hinc liquet quod alibi nuspiam proditum etiam Israelitas non paucos in Aegypto Idola coluisse Indicat tamen hoc ipsum non obscure Ezek. 23.3 8 19 21 27. Amos 5.25 Actor 7.42 'T is like he feared there were still some such secret Worshippers of Idols among them as it is manifest in the Wilderness there were see Amos 5.25 26. Acts 7.42 43. He shews them there was so vast a difference between the true God that brought them out of Egypt and had done so many and great Wonders for them and Idols that were meer vanity and nothing that one would scarce think it possible