Excerpt from A Second Treatise on the Notes of the Church: As a Supplement to the Sermon Preach'd at Salters Hall, January 16, 1734; Being a Substance of Two Sermons Preach'd at the Wednesday Lecture at the Old Jury, Jan. 22, and 29 Again, the worfhip of images, pictures, dead mens bodies, relicks, and the' like things, is a contradietion to the plainefi dictates of truth and reafon, which lead us to the adoration and worfhip of God, the {upreme and ultimate object of worfhip; who cannon: be reprefented by any fenfible appearances, nor approve of any veneration given by rational beings to dead inanimate objects, tbat have neither eyes rajce, nor ears to bear, nor tongues to/peak fwit/j. I am willing to allow, that the worfhip paid to thefe things is relative only, or given to them for the relation they have to the objects they reprefent So alfo was the worthip paid by many Heathens d to the images, temples, and altars, of their Gods; which n0twithfianding the Scriptures con demn as a very heinous fin, and monfirous impiety And with the highefl reafon be caufe dead and lifelefs images, or pictures, can be no proper reprefentations of the li ving, fpiritual and invifible God; and there fore nor worthy of any relative veneration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.