They make them goodly Images

They make them goodly Images.

There is a very fine elegant paranomasy, According to their good Lands, so goodly Images. Now this word that is translated Goodly, it signifies also Beauty. They that were good Benefactors to their Images, they made their Images beautiful: and it is the same word used in the story of Jezebel where she is said to tire her head, it is the same word that is here for making goodly Images, she made her self a goodly head. Oh how great a shame is it to do so much for Images, dead Images, & to do so little for the Images of God? Shall Idolaters not care for what cost they bestow upon their dead Images, and shall you see a man or woman that carries the Image of God with them in a lively way, shall you see them naked, and looking hunger-starved, and looking rufully and miserably, and will you deny to one that has the Image of God? Every man has the Image of God in some measure, even in wicked men, but especially in those that are godly there it is a renewed Image, there the very life of God does appear, the divine nature does appear: and what a charge will this be, when God shall bring Idolaters at the day of Judgment against you, that shall bestow so much upon their dead Images, and you shall let these Images of God to suffer want so as they do? Certainly so long as there is any that has God's Image upon them that wants, and wants miserably too, for you to think of encreasing your estate now and to be richer than in former times, it must needs be very vile.