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there
muff
bee no addition
of
men
in
any Law
whatfoever,
but
onely
the
timings
of
Chrift
that
are
meerly fpiritual;
if
there bee
any
natural help,
or
civil
help
,
as
wee that
are
men
cannot bee
exe
-cited
in
thingsthat
are
fpiritual;
ith-
out
fome
natural
and
civil
helps
,
there certainly
the pru-
dence of man may
come
in
;
but
this cannot come
to
fet
up
any
new
Ordinances ,
or
fer up
any
new
Officers
in
the
Church,
or make any new Laws
that (hall concern the fpi-
ritual
Worfhip of God,
to
work my
heart in
a
fpiritual
way to
God,
or
God unto mee; here
lyes
the
evil
of mans
inventions
,
when
there
(hall
bee
any
inventions
of man
that
shall come
inftead of
a
fpiritual
Ordinance, that (hall
bee
fet
by
mans
Inftitution
, and
have more
put
upon
it
than
it
hath in
a
natural
and civil way
to
bee helpful,
why
then it
comes
to
bee fuperftition,
I
fay, when any
thing
is
fet
by
man
in the
wor(hip
of
God,
that
(hall
have
more
in
it
than
that that
is
natural
or
civil
to
help
,
then
it
comes
to bee
finful
and
wicked.
When
I
think
that
by
any
thing
of
mans
appointment,
God (hall
come
nearer to mee or
my
heart
(hall
bee
drawn nearer
to God,
by
vertue
of
any
Inilitution
of man
,
here
is
the
very
proper
nature of In
-
Laudon
;
As
for inftance
,
Some
thing
that
is
natural
or
civil
to help Gods
worlhip,
that man
may appoint,
but.no-
thing
that
is
fpiritual
to
draw my
heart
nearer to God
, or
God nearer
to
mee.
As
thus,
If
the
Church
of God
meet
together for Ordinances
it
mull
meet
in
fome
place,
this
is
a
natural help
to
have
a
convenient meeting-place
,
to
have
a
place
to
keep them from
the
air
,
or
rain,
or
wind
,
this
is
natural
but if it
go
one ftep higher
than natural-
nefs
of the place ,
If
I
(hall
make
this place
by
the con-
fecration of man
to
bee ufed
as
an Ordinance
to
draw mee
nearer
to
God,
or
God nearer
to mee,
that
is,
to
think
that
my
prayers in
that
place are more acceptable
than
in
ano-
ther
,
that
becaufe
I
perform
fervices
in
that
place
it
(hall:
bee
more accepted , Here
I
fay ,
man
raifes
it
higher.
than
natural , and puts
a
Divine
Inílitution
upon
it
,
and
fo
it
comes
to bee finful
;
and
fo
now you may come
to know
L
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