Q. 67. What else art thou commanded in the se∣cond Commandement?
A. Not to leane to mine owne knowledge, Prov. 3. 5. nor to serve God by the precepts of
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A. Not to leane to mine owne knowledge, Prov. 3. 5. nor to serve God by the precepts of
men, Esa. 29. 13. nor as men bid me, Marke 7. 6. nor according to the Traditions and customes of the lives of our fore-fathers, 1 Pet. 1. 18. I am commanded to doe, not only in matter what, but also in manner, as the Lord commandeth. Gen 6. 22. For otherwise my prayers and services that I doe unto God, and all my Sacrifices, and oblations, are no better then murder, or a Dogs neck, or Swines bloud, or Idolatry, so indeed it as, if I serve him after my owne wayes, Isa. 66. 3. not only stickes and stones are Idols, Levit. 26. 1. But carnall fancies, imaginations, dulnesse, dead∣nesse, luke-warmnesse; for their be Idols in the heart, Ezec. 14. 3. 4. Covetousnesse is Idolatry, Col. 3. 5. Stubbornnesse is as Idolatry, 1 Sam. 15. 23. A carelesse Christian is an Idoll, there is an idoll Professor, an idoll Christian, an idoll Shep∣heard, Zach. 11. 17.