was it also] That is, the calfe which Israel did adore, was invented by themselves, no lesse then that of their fathers set up in the wildernesse of Sinai: and the worshipping of the calves in which the children of Israel professed they worship the true God, is false and reproved by God, being but a humane invention, as all other idolatries are.
broken in pieces] Being the work of the Goldsmith, and nor of God, the stuffe by the workman shall be laid upon the anvill againe.