From the ground unto above the door [were] cherubims and palm trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple.

Ver. 20. And on the wall of the temple.] Yet this is no warrant for the use of pictures in our churches, whether for worship, as Papists, or for ornaments only, as Lutherans. At a consultation held not many years since at Hamburg by Lutheran ministers, concerning the cause and cure of Germany's calamities, they concluded it was because their images were not adorned enough, which, therefore, they would procure done. a A sad business!

a Mr Burroughs on Hos., vol. i. p. 465.

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