The Works Of George Fox Volume 4

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... A HAMMER To break down all Invented Images, Image-makers, and Image-worshippers. Showing how contrary they are both to the Law and Gospel. By this, therefore, shall the Iniquity of Jacob be. purged, and this is all the Fruit to take away his Sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. Isa. 27. 9. Thou sawest till that a Stone ivas cut out of the Mountain without Hands, which smote the Image upon his Feet, that were of Iron and Clay; and break them to pieces. Dan. 2. 34. Ye shall defile the covering of thy graven Images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten Images of gold: thou shall cast them away as a menstruous cloth, thou shalt say unto it, "get thee hence." Isa. 30. 22. Thy graven Images also will I cut off, and thy standing Images out of the midst of thee; and thou shall no more worship the Works of thy Hands. Micah 5. 13.--By G. F. The Lord God made man and woman in his own image, and in his own likeness, and set them above all the works of his hand; but when man and woman lost the image of God, and his likeness within them, by transgressing his command, in eating of that which God had forbidden; then by transgressing of his command, the serpent that was under them, got over them, and in them, so that the body of death and sin then entered into man and woman, for sin brings death, and then it came to be a body in man and woman; and so from that, all transgression arose, and the original sin in man and woman; so the devil was the beginning of it, in man and woman, and not God; and so this death reigned in man and woman from Adam, the entering of it by transgression until the law came, which restrained man and woman from sin, and so from...