Excerpt from A System of Divinity and Morality, Vol. 2: In a Series of Discourses on All the Essential Parts of Natural and Revealed Religion There is fuch a v'ai't difproportion between an image, and the divine nature, that we cannot liken one to the other, without afi'ron'ting and difhonourn ing God. An image can only be made of corpo real things; and for fuch as are finite and corrup tible, to make an image of God, is to bring down that infinite being to the dimenfions of a finite crea ture and in effect to deny the fpirituality and incor ruptibility of his nature. And therefore we find a very firiet charge given to the Ifraelites, againlt image making Take good heed unto yourfelves, for you faw no' image in the day when'the Lord fpake unto you in Horeb, out of the midfi ofthe fire that you corrupt not yourfelves; and make you a grayen image. And in this commandment, we have an expieis prohibition of making any likenefs or fimilitude of God, by any thing either in h'eaven above, 'as by the fun, moon, and ftars; or in the earth beneath, as by the fowls of the air, the four-footed bealls, or creeping things; or-ih the water under the earth, by the fifh, or anything in the fea no. 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.