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December 08, 2009 Book 1, Chapter 11, Sections 13-16: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God…
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Whether it is expedient to have images in Christian temples.
Absurd defence of the worship of images by the second so-called Council of Nice. Sophisms or perversions of Scripture in defence of images in churches.
Passages adduced
12 min
December 01, 2009Book 1, Chapter 11, Sections 9-12: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God…
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Of the worship of images. Its nature. A pretext of idolaters refuted. Pretexts of the heathen. Genius of idolaters.
Evasion of the Papists. Their agreement with ancient idolaters.
Refutation of another evasion or sophismâ€”viz. the distinction of Î´Ï…Î»Î¹Î± and Î»Î±Ï„ÏÎ¹Î±.
Third division of the chapterâ€”viz. the use and abuse of images.
Participants: Camden Bucey
12 min
December 01, 2009 Book 1, Chapter 11, Sections 9-12: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God…
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Of the worship of images. Its nature. A pretext of idolaters refuted. Pretexts of the heathen. Genius of idolaters.
Evasion of the Papists. Their agreement with ancient idolaters.
Refutation of another evasion or sophismâ€”vi
12 min
November 24, 2009Book 1, Chapter 11, Sections 5-8: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God…
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Objection,â€”That images are the books of the unlearned. Objection answered, 1. Scripture declares images to be teachers of vanity and lies.
Answer continued, 2. Ancient Theologians condemn the formation and worship of idols.
Answer continued,â€”3. The use of images condemned by the luxury and meretricious ornaments given to them in Popish Churches.
The Church must be trained in true piety by another method.
The second division of the chapter. Origin of idols or images. Its rise shortly after the flood. Its continual progress.
Participants: Camden Bucey
13 min
November 24, 2009 Book 1, Chapter 11, Sections 5-8: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God…
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Objection,â€”That images are the books of the unlearned. Objection answered, 1. Scripture declares images to be teachers of vanity and lies.
Answer continued, 2. Ancient Theologians condemn the formation and worship of idols.
13 min
November 17, 2009Book 1, Chapter 11, Sections 1-4: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God…
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God is opposed to idols, that all may know he is the only fit witness to himself. He expressly forbids any attempt to represent him by a bodily shape.
Reasons for this prohibition from Moses, Isaiah, and Paul. The complaint of a heathen. It should put the worshipers of idols to shame.
Consideration of an objection taken from various passages in Moses. The Cherubim and Seraphim show that images are not fit to represent divine mysteries. The Cherubim belonged to the tutelage of the Law.
The materials of which idols are made, abundantly refute the fiction of idolaters. Confirmation from Isaiah and others. Absurd precaution of the Greeks.
Participants: Camden Bucey
18 min
November 17, 2009 Book 1, Chapter 11, Sections 1-4: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God…
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God is opposed to idols, that all may know he is the only fit witness to himself. He expressly forbids any attempt to represent him by a bodily shape.
Reasons for this prohibition from Moses, Isaiah, and Paul. The complaint of a heat
18 min
November 10, 2009Book 1, Chapter 10: In Scripture, the True God Opposed, Exclusively, to all the Gods of the Heathen
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Explanation of the knowledge of God resumed. God as manifested in Scripture, the same as delineated in his works.
The attributes of God as described by Moses, David, and Jeremiah. Explanation of the attributes. Summary. Uses of this knowledge.
Scripture, in directing us to the true God, excludes the gods of the heathen, who, however, in some sense, held the unity of God.
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Participants: Camden Bucey
10 min
November 10, 2009 Book 1, Chapter 10: In Scripture, the True God Opposed, Exclusively, to all the Gods of the Heathen
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Explanation of the knowledge of God resumed. God as manifested in Scripture, the same as delineated in his works.
The attributes of God as described by Moses, David, and Jeremiah. Explanation of the attributes. Summary. Uses of this k
10 min
November 03, 2009Book 1, Chapter 9: All the Principles of Piety Subverted by Fanatics, Who Substitute Revelations for Scripture
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The temper and error of the Libertines, who take to themselves the name of spiritual, briefly described. Their refutation. 1. The Apostles and all true Christians have embraced the written Word. This confirmed by a passage in Isaiah; also by the example and words of Paul. 2. The Spirit of Christ seals the doctrine of the written Word on the minds of the godly.
Refutation continued. 3. The impositions of Satan cannot be detected without the aid of the written Word. First Objection. The Answer to it.
Second Objection from the words of Paul as to the letter and spirit. The Answer, with an explanation of Paul’s meaning. How the Spirit and the written Word are indissolubly connected.
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Participants: Camden Bucey
12 min