ISBN: 9781153861403

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1839. Not … Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1839. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... RULE VI. Every thing in the Decalogue is not obligatory to Christians, is not a portion of the moral or natural Law. When Moses delivered the ten commandments to the people, he did not tell them in order which was second, which was fifth: and upon this account they have been severally divided, as men did please to fancy. I shall not clog these annotations with enumerating the several ways of dividing them; but that which relates to the present inquiry is, whether or no the prohibition, of graven images be a portion of the first commandment; so as that nothing is intended, but that it be a part or explication of that: and that it contain in it only the duty of confessing one God, and entertaining no other deity, viz. so that images become not an idol, or the final object of our worship as a God; and therefore that images are only forbidden as ''Dii alieni,'' not as the representations of this one God, and they are capable of any worship but that which is proper to God: or else it is a distinct commandment: and forbids the having, or making, and worshipping any images, with any kind of religious worship. These are the several effects, which are designed by the differing divisions of the first table; I will not now examine, whether they certainly follow from their premises and presuppositions; but consider what is right, and what follows from thence in order to the integrating ''the rule of conscience.'' That those two first commandments are but one, was the doctrine of Philo the Jew (at least it is said so); who, making the preface to be a distinct commandment, reckons this to be the second; Deos sculptiles non facies tibi, nec facies omne abominamentum solis et lunae, nec omnium quae sunt supra terram, nec eorum quae repunt in aquis, ego sum Deus Dominus tu... Jeremy Taylor, Books, History, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor (Volume 12) Books>History The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 12; Original Publisher: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Publication date: 1839; Subjects: Theology; Christian life; Episcopacy; Sermons; Lord's Supper; Religion / Christianity / Anglican; Religion / Christian Rituals<

ISBN: 9781153861403

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1839. Not … Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1839. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... RULE VI. Every thing in the Decalogue is not obligatory to Christians, is not a portion of the moral or natural Law. When Moses delivered the ten commandments to the people, he did not tell them in order which was second, which was fifth: and upon this account they have been severally divided, as men did please to fancy. I shall not clog these annotations with enumerating the several ways of dividing them; but that which relates to the present inquiry is, whether or no the prohibition, of graven images be a portion of the first commandment; so as that nothing is intended, but that it be a part or explication of that: and that it contain in it only the duty of confessing one God, and entertaining no other deity, viz. so that images become not an idol, or the final object of our worship as a God; and therefore that images are only forbidden as ''Dii alieni,'' not as the representations of this one God, and they are capable of any worship but that which is proper to God: or else it is a distinct commandment: and forbids the having, or making, and worshipping any images, with any kind of religious worship. These are the several effects, which are designed by the differing divisions of the first table; I will not now examine, whether they certainly follow from their premises and presuppositions; but consider what is right, and what follows from thence in order to the integrating ''the rule of conscience.'' That those two first commandments are but one, was the doctrine of Philo the Jew (at least it is said so); who, making the preface to be a distinct commandment, reckons this to be the second; Deos sculptiles non facies tibi, nec facies omne abominamentum solis et lunae, nec omnium quae sunt supra terram, nec eorum quae repunt in aquis, ego sum Deus Dominus tu... Jeremy Taylor, Books, History, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor (Volume 12) Books>History, General Books LLC<