Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The Worship of Images is a Practise of all most opposite to the Spirit of Christianism, and the most contrary to the dignity of Man. It’s to do great wrong to a Man, to oblige him to humble himself before Wood and Stone, which are so far below him.
Men should not flatter themselves: It’s the great Scandal of the Jew, he hath Images in abhorrence; and when he looks on Christian Religion, on that side, he conceives a mortal aversion from it. So we cannot imagine that to be a small Affair, an Article which retards that great Work of the Conversion of the Jews, without which the Church will never be perfect. ...
For the reference, see Pierre Jurieu on image worship and Jewish evangelism.
Men should not flatter themselves: It’s the great Scandal of the Jew, he hath Images in abhorrence; and when he looks on Christian Religion, on that side, he conceives a mortal aversion from it. So we cannot imagine that to be a small Affair, an Article which retards that great Work of the Conversion of the Jews, without which the Church will never be perfect. ...
For the reference, see Pierre Jurieu on image worship and Jewish evangelism.
