Idolatry: Objects of Described as Vanities of the Gentiles

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Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? are not you he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait on you: for you have made all these things.
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Paul and Silas in Thessalonica and Berea.
... The associates of the Jews are described as "lewd ... existed in the earth; to abolish
idolatry, and withdraw ... and to raise them to eternal and invisible objects. ...
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CHAPTER III.
... any figurative covering, the effect is described which will ... With regard to the other
two objects mentioned in ... Lord makes them disgusted with idolatry, and all ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/chapter iii.htm

Impiety of Attributing a visible Form to God. --The Setting up of ...
... how aid is implored from dead and senseless objects, by beings ... pretexts in defence
of the execrable idolatry in which ... in the very way which has been described. ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 11 impiety of attributing.htm

Homilies on the Gospel of John.
... Fornication, worse than idolatry, its punishment, [954]234; persons ... 298; folly of
losing it, for vanities, [1009]ib ... 1015]17; impossible to be described, [1016]28 ...
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The Sibylline Oracles.
... begins with an exhortation to the Gentiles to leave ... things ye worship and many other
vanities which it ... his eyes the abominations of Egyptian idolatry, and was ...
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A Discourse
... The tower of Lebanon is described as looking towards ... debauchery, inhumanity, profaneness,
superstition, and idolatry,' will be ... the eye out at, to objects at a ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a discourse.htm

The Saints' Privilege and Profit;
... His definition of the difference between grace and mercy is very striking: 'Mercy
signifies pitifulness to objects in a miserable condition. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the saints privilege and profit.htm

Israel's Hope Encouraged;
... hence all things here are called vanities, nothings, less ... gospellers,[15] that from
among the Gentiles pretended themselves ... is as I have here described, is not ...
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Christ a Complete Saviour:
... (1 Peter 5:5, Acts 20:19). (5.) For zeal, where is that also? Zeal for
God against sin, profaneness, superstition, and idolatry. ...
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Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ;
... another way. He gives some up to idolatry; he gives some up to uncleanness,
to vile affections, and to a reprobate mind. Now these ...
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