John Trapp on Psalms 115:4
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Psalms115:4
Verſ. 4 Their Idols are ſilver and gold] Take them at the beſt, they are no better; and what is ſilver and gold but the guts and garbage of the earth? But ſome of them might ſay as Priapus in Horace, Olim truncus eram ficulnus inutile lignum.
Herodotus telleth us,In Euterpe. that Amaſis had a large laver of gold, wherein both hee and his gueſts uſed to waſh their feet. This Veſſel hee brake and made a God of it; which the Egyptians devoutly worſhiped. And the like Idolomany is at this day found among Papiſts; what diſtinction ſoever they would fain make betwixt an Idol and an Image, which indeed (as they uſe them) are all one.
The work of mens hands] And therefore they muſt needs bee goodly gods, when made by bunglers eſpecially,Act. & Mon. fol. 1340. as was the rood of Cookram; which if it were not good enough to make a God, would make an excellent Devill, as the Maior of Doncaſter merrily told the complainants.
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