{"number":56,"title":null,"part":null,"questions":[56],"paragraphs":[],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"Is it a sin to worship any creature?","answer":"Yes. They served the creature more than the Creator,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"They served the creature more than the Creator,","proofs":["Romans 1:25"],"refs":[{"printed":"Romans 1:25","osis":["Rom.1.25"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Or the image of any creature?","answer":"Yes. Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image an abomination unto the Lord,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image an abomination unto the Lord,","proofs":["Deuteronomy 27:15"],"refs":[{"printed":"Deuteronomy 27:15","osis":["Deut.27.15"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"May we not worship the host of heaven?","answer":"No. Lest when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, thou shouldst be driven to worship them,","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Lest when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, thou shouldst be driven to worship them,","proofs":["Deuteronomy 4:19"],"refs":[{"printed":"Deuteronomy 4:19","osis":["Deut.4.19"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Nor great and good men?","answer":"No. Why do ye these things, we are also men of like passions with you,","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Why do ye these things, we are also men of like passions with you,","proofs":["Acts 14:15"],"refs":[{"printed":"Acts 14:15","osis":["Acts.14.15"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Nor good angels?","answer":"No. Let no man beguile you of your reward, by a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels,","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Let no man beguile you of your reward, by a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels,","proofs":["Colossians 2:18"],"refs":[{"printed":"Colossians 2:18","osis":["Col.2.18"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"Is it a sin to plead for idols?","answer":"Yes. Will ye plead for Baal?","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Will ye plead for Baal?","proofs":["Judges 6:31"],"refs":[{"printed":"Judges 6:31","osis":["Judg.6.31"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Or pray to them?","answer":"Yes. One shall cry to him yet he cannot answer,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"One shall cry to him yet he cannot answer,","proofs":["Isaiah 46:7"],"refs":[{"printed":"Isaiah 46:7","osis":["Isa.46.7"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Or trust in them?","answer":"Yes. They shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"They shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images,","proofs":["Isaiah 42:17"],"refs":[{"printed":"Isaiah 42:17","osis":["Isa.42.17"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Or attribute any thing to them?","answer":"Yes. Lest thou shouldst say, My idol hath done them,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Lest thou shouldst say, My idol hath done them,","proofs":["Isaiah 48:5"],"refs":[{"printed":"Isaiah 48:5","osis":["Isa.48.5"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Or give them any part of religious worship?","answer":"Yes. If my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand this were an iniquity, to be punished by the Judge,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"If my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand this were an iniquity, to be punished by the Judge,","proofs":["Job 31:27"],"refs":[{"printed":"Job 31:27","osis":["Job.31.27"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"Is it a sin to worship the true God by images?","answer":"Yes. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, for ye saw no manner of similitude,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, for ye saw no manner of similitude,","proofs":["Deuteronomy 4:15–16"],"refs":[{"printed":"Deuteronomy 4:15–16","osis":["Deut.4.15-Deut.4.16"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Can we form any image of God in our minds?","answer":"No. To whom will ye liken God?","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"To whom will ye liken God?","proofs":["Isaiah 40:18"],"refs":[{"printed":"Isaiah 40:18","osis":["Isa.40.18"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Is it impossible then to form it with our hands?","answer":"Yes. For we must not think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver, or stone graven by art or man’s device,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"For we must not think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver, or stone graven by art or man’s device,","proofs":["Acts 17:29"],"refs":[{"printed":"Acts 17:29","osis":["Acts.17.29"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Do those therefore that attempt it put a great affront upon him?","answer":"Yes. They change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"They change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man,","proofs":["Romans 1:23"],"refs":[{"printed":"Romans 1:23","osis":["Rom.1.23"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"Doth this commandment forbid all superstitious practices in worship?","answer":"Yes. In all things ye are too superstitious,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"In all things ye are too superstitious,","proofs":["Acts 17:22"],"refs":[{"printed":"Acts 17:22","osis":["Acts.17.22"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"And all sinful compliances with the invention of men?","answer":"Yes. Touch not, taste not, handle not after the commandments and doctrines of men,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Touch not, taste not, handle not after the commandments and doctrines of men,","proofs":["Colossians 2:21–22"],"refs":[{"printed":"Colossians 2:21–22","osis":["Col.2.21-Col.2.22"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Does it particularly condemn the idolatry of the papists in worshipping a consecrated host?","answer":"Yes. For it is bread that we break,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"For it is bread that we break,","proofs":["1 Corinthians 10:16"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 10:16","osis":["1Cor.10.16"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Is it enough that these things are not expressly forbidden?","answer":"No. They offered strange five, which the Lord commanded them not,","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"They offered strange five, which the Lord commanded them not,","proofs":["Leviticus 10"],"refs":[{"printed":"Leviticus 10","osis":["Lev.10"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]}],"text":null}