560 7 ñeprstteifi ofthe Spirit, of walking Secr.Xl. praftice in the worship of God, as about moral principles and aftio Idola- trical and fuperftitious worship grollypadded, is no morecontinent with grace, then prophane and ungodlywayes. I grantindeed thateven godly men may for want of light andbetter information five in tome reliques of fuperftitious wor. fhip. As in force good Kings Reigns, the high-places were not taken away; and 7obarDifciples, yeaand ChrilsDdciplesthey were but old bottles , they were not able fuddenly to receivehuhpure and fpiritual worship, as Chrilt intended for them : Nay in the Infancyof theChurch howmuch were Believers led afide with their love of, anddoting upon the ceremonial Worfhipl they would be . tumcjúd (till, they would obferve meatsand dayes ftill,yea the worship ofAngels cir was broughtin underpretecce of humility. Confederations To open this point confider, to open the Firft, Tbat Divin , makea two foldWorfhip, Internal and External, Ìuteraal . Poi . L Area/ltbatei irirualgrates of:befoal, Wbirhareimmediarly umbrae's! lea god bimfelf. Thus faith in God, and love of God, to givt him the prebeminency and chief room in the heart,is theworship of God : Thisi fpiritual and inward, and this Worfhip is commanded in thefira Commandment. But the external Woe- Tipof Godcont3fts in all thofe vifrbleparts and means of worship which God bath appointed, as in theOld Tettament praying, reading theWord, offering of Sacrifices, and many bodilyadoration; and there arecommanded in the fecood i Commandment: for whenGod forbids the worfhippingof him by Images, he cloth thereby forbid the making to a mans felf, without the Commandment of God, any part or meansof Divine Worfhip. In the New Tenement Gods ex. ternal Worfhip liethinprayer, readingand hearing the Word, adminikrationof the Sacraments, fanditying of his Sabbaths, andfinging of Pfalms; fo then he who is truly godly, he will be carefall to perform all thole Duties of Religious Worfhip,wh,ch arecommanded in the New Teftemenr. He doth not take up the vain cuftoma ofmen, neither doth he follow the traditional worship of his Fathers, bu. he worlhippethas it is written, he knoweth God is molt jealous of his Woribip; God is very fenfible ofany abate of his Worfhip,any corruption or mixtureof it by humane prefumptioh. Secondly, Alrbosgi,Codhark commended:hie Statrteasorfhip, yet that goltles Ruleofour Saviour, muß' Tole, be remrm6red, Johng. where Chrift taking off the woman of Samaria fromher old traditional worship, thinking that Inch a Mountain wasbetter toworship God on, then other places, God (faith he) ie aSpirit, andwill be wor/iJppedits Sfriri: andtru:h, midmyFarber feeketb (web : By thiswe aread:nirably inftraded, that allexternalnorf ip of godmidiyet be/iri_ tad: It is not the bowingofthe body nor the external humiliation that God looks after, Godis aSpirit, and fodoth chieflyrequireSpirit- worship : This Text would have been like theflaming fieryfword tohavekeptoff that intollerablebut. den of fade worfbipwhich afterwardscrept into the ParadifeofGod. It is a fin that we arc very proneunto, to tell upon anexternal worship, not lifting up our heartsunto God, and that made theApoftle fpeak fo contemptibly even of the ceremonial Worfhip, and all thofeJewith Ordinances though appointed byGod, calling them carnal andbeggarly elements. Thefuperftitioas Jewes made them Elements, even the fir(i principles and foundationof Religion , but he cals them beggarly, becaufe they were without Chrift ; fo thatall thy outward fervice and worfnipof God is but anempty, beggarly Religion, unleffe it be 1piritually per- formed, and that is mainly by idling on Chrift in thofeOrdinances. But Ido not intend an exalt treatingupon the religious and divineWorfhipof God; I (hall thereforein the next place inilance in twoor threeoftheNew Teftament Statutes whichGod hath commanded to be religiosity obferved,and thenPhew the grounds ofthis pious and religiousdifpoftion inconverted perlons. Payer. And full oneof Chatsmain :Statute-worfhips is Prayer. Not in the Salvia', fenfe whomake Peyera new initituted worshipbyGod, andthat it was not a Duty
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