3. But this is not all. For, in the second place, so far as respects the _positive_ part of the question, Holy Scripture is full and express AGAINST any worship or invocation of the creature, however disguised or modified or palliated by the closely harmonizing distinctions and definitions of Paganism and Popery: inasmuch as the Pagans, though slanderously misrepresented by the doctors of the Council of Trent, did in truth defend their Idol-worship against the primitive Christians, on the self-same plea and principle of _relative adoration_, as the said doctors themselves and their followers the Romish Clergy defend their Image-worship against us Reformed Catholics. {50} (1.) _Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image_, _or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven_. _above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth_. _Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them_, _nor serve them_: _for I_, _the Lord thy God_, _am a jealous God_, _visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me_, _and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments_. {51a} (2.) _Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image_, _an abomination unto the Lord_, _the work of the hands of the craftsman_. {51b} (3.) _They_, _that make a graven image_, _are all of them vanity_; _and their delectable things shall not profit_: _and they are their own witnesses_; _they see not_, _nor know_; _that they may be ashamed_. {51c} (4.) _None considereth in his heart_, _neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say_: _I have burned part of it in the fire_; _yea also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof_; _I have roasted flesh_, _and eaten it_: _and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination_; _shall I fall down to the stock of a tree_? {51d} (5.) _What profiteth the graven image_, _that the maker thereof hath graven it_: _the molten image_, _and a teacher of lies_, _that the maker of his work trusteth therein to make dumb idols_? _Woe unto him that saith to the wood_; _Awake_: _to the dumb stone_; _Arise_, _it shall teach_. _Behold_, _it is laid over with gold and silver_; _and there is no breath at all in the midst of it_. {51e} (6.) _Then said Jesus unto him_: _Get thee hence_, _Satan_: _for it is written_; _Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God_, _and him only shalt thou serve_. {51f} (7.) _Let no man beguile you of your reward_, _in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels_, _intruding __into those things which he hath not seen_, _vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind_. {52a} (8.) _When I had heard and seen_, _I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things_. _Then saith he unto me_: _See thou do it not_; _for I am thy fellow-servant and of thy brethren the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book_. _Worship God_. {52b}