...crouch unto fuch mean reAfts xvii. prefentations ! It is St. Paul's difcourfe ; Being, faith he, a9- the offspring of God, we ought not to think, that the Godhead is like unto gold, orjilver, orjlone, graven by art and man's device. How injurious alfo to that moft excellent nature...

...your ' own poets have said, For we are also his off' spring. Forasmuch then as we are the off' spring of God, we ought not to think that ' the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or ' stone, graven by art or man's device.' f * ' Their previous conceptions, instead of helping...

...; and as such, he must not suppose him subject to be acted upon, or influenced by human services. " We ought not to think, that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's detice." 2. It is further necessary to the worship of God...

...striking. St. Paul's words on this subject are very express ; "Forasmuch then as we are the oilspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto geld or silver; or stone graven by art or man's device." Does not the force of this passage plainly...

...learning and the liberal arts, was " wholly given to idolatry (I) ;" and he told the Athenians, that they ought not " to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven byart and man's device (m)." In his Epistle to the Romans he condemns those...

...discountenance such unworthy practices as dishonour our Maker : Acts, xvii. 29, he saith, Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver, or stone engraven by art and mans device. And in Rom. i. 22, 23, in numbering and particularizing...

...our being ; as certain also of your poets have said, For we are also the offspring of God. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." Here the apostle, iu order to confute the subtle...

...image it is, and the best that is upon the earth. But now from hence the apostle argues", " Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think, that the godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone graven by art and man's device :" If the invisible, inexpressible part of man is the...

...therefore, ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you, — GOD, that made the world. — Forasmuch, then, as we are the offspring of GOD, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." Admitting the word which is rendered " too superstitious...

...above, cannot consist of component parts; because he is Immaterial and Immortal. Hence it is written, " We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device," Acts xvii. 29. And though in the Scripture, mention...