John Trapp on Psalms 115:7
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Psalms115:7
Verſ. 7 They have hands, but they handle not] Curious and artificiall (for Art is Natures ape) but uſeleſſe, and for ſhew only. (if Eſculapius, or the Lady of Loretto reſtore the lame or the blind, it is the Devill with his lying wonders, 2 Theſ. 2.
Feet have they, bus they walk not] As thoſe pictures in Plato made by Dedalus, which if they were not bound; would fly away; or Vulcaus three-footed ſtools in Homer, which [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 letter]eigned to have run on wheels of their own accord, to the meeting of the Gods; and after that to return in like fort back again. The Tyrians beſieged by Alexander chained up their God Hercules that hee might not go from them in that ſtrait, and yet they were not delivered.
Neither ſpeak they through their threat] They do not ſo much as chatter like a Crane, or [illegible: 1 word] a Dove, Iſa. 38.14. [illegible: 1 word] are [illegible: 1 word] idols, as the Apoſtle calleth them. Theſe are things commonly known [illegible: 1 word] thus [illegible: 1 word] for the [illegible: 1 word] of [illegible: 1 span]; who yet are ſo bewatched that they will needs [illegible: 1 word] upon theſe gods of their own making. O vanas hominum mentes, &c. — O the ſpirit of fornication, &c.
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