| John Leland - 1740 - 408 pages
...Apoftle expreffes it) " they changed the Glory of the incorruptible *f God into an Image made like to corruptible Man, ..'* and to Birds and four-footed Beafts and creeping " Things, and wormipped and ferved the Creature " more than the Creator, Rom. i. 23, 25." The Knowledge and Worfhip... | |
| Samuel Clarke - 1743 - 500 pages
...vain in their imaginations, and changed the Glory of the uncorruptible God, into an Image made like to corruptible man, and to Birds and four-footed Beafts and creeping things. And the Jews were ftill more inexcufably guilty of it, when in the wildernefs they worfhipped the Golden... | |
| Nathanael Torriano (the elder.) - 1757 - 228 pages
...reprefent the Trinity, which is the very Crime that St. Paul charges upon the Heathens (i), who changed the Glory of the incorruptible God into the Image of corruptible Man and Birds. But though the Romanijh fhould not make any Picture of the Father, or Holy Ghoft, yet they are... | |
| Thomas Sherlock - 1759 - 418 pages
...glorified him not as God; but changed the Glory of the uncorruptible God info an Image made like unto corruptible Man, and to Birds, and four-footed Beafts, and creeping things. And was not Nature an excellent Guide to follow, that thus ftumbled at the very Threfhold, and, having... | |
| 1808 - 488 pages
...the worship of Godpure, down to the days of Abram ? T. No. They fell into gross idolatry, changing the glory of the incorruptible God into the image of corruptible man, and of birds and of four-footed beasts and creeping things ; after they had worshipped the sun, moon and... | |
| John Wesley - 1812 - 462 pages
...certainly they worship the most vile and contemptible idols. It were more excusable if they only " turned the glory of the incorruptible God into the image of .corruptible man;" yea, or " of birds, or of four-footed beasts, or reptiles," or any creature which God has made. But... | |
| Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1816 - 570 pages
...glorified him not as God, " but changed the glory of the uncorruptible ** God into an image made like to corruptible " man, and to birds, and four-footed beafts, " and creeping things™." And as to the difcharge of your moral duty, and the warnings of your confcience, you provoked God by your... | |
| John Wesley - 1827 - 548 pages
...certainly they worship the most vile and contemptible idols. It were more excusable if they only " turned the glory of the incorruptible God into the image of corruptible man ;" yea, or " of birds, or of four-footed beasts, or reptiles," or any •creature which God has made.... | |
| 1829 - 396 pages
...strength of human reason ; and on the value of that wisdom, which has not prevented men from changing the glory of the incorruptible God, into the image of corruptible man, anc) of birds, and of four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Indeed, many a sad lecture, on the vanity... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 pages
...vegetables. How men came to part with the religion of their ancestors for such trash, and ' 'to change the glory of the incorruptible God into the image of corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things,' the apostle who remonstrates against the indignity,... | |
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