Idolatry is…to give that honor and worship to the creature which is due only to God (Rom 1:25)…Now when this worship is made common, communicated to other things, whatever they are, we hereby make them idols and commit idolatry. And giving that to them which is due only to God, they hereby become guilty of idolatry…That this may be more evident, that covetousness, uncleanness, and other lusts are idolatry, let us consider what it is and the several kinds of it. “The lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1Jo 2:16), i.e., pleasures, and riches, and honors, are the carnal man’s trinity, the three great idols of worldly men, to which they prostrate their souls. Indeed, every reigning lust is an idol and every person in whom it reigns is an idolater. For the apostle, who here makes covetousness to be idolatry, counts voluptuous 1 persons idolaters also, where he speaks of some who make their belly their God (Phi 3:19).
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God (Ephesians 5:5).Ī covetious man-and the like may be understood of the rest- is an idolater…Not only the covetous, but the unclean, are idolaters.
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