Sermons on Deuteronomy
On Saturday, the 28th of
September 1555 The 80th Sermon, which is the first upon the twelfth Chapter
These are the ordinances and laws which you shall keep, that you may do them in the Land which the Lord God of thy fathers has given thee to possess all the days which thou shall live upon the earth.
2. You shall destroy all the places wherein the pople, whom you shall conquer have served their gods, whether it be upon high mountains, or upon the hills, or under any manner of green trees.
3. Also you shall dig down their Altars, and break their images, and burn their woods with fire. You shall destroy the images of their gods, and dispatch the names of them out of that place.
4. you shall not deal so with the Lord your God.
5. But look what place so ever the Lord your God shall chose out of all your tribes to set his name in and to dwell in: there shall you seek him, and thither shall you resort.