Chap. 3 Y. An expoflaion xeon tks 'Book of J o B. Verl. 28. sot Thirdly, They thät (ware falfuly deny God eminent ly,though they doe it never fo covertly. Such eyther fuppofe that God doth not know they fware falfely, or that God will not punifh nor be a rift witrt.(as he hath fayd he will, Math. 3 5.) agai fI .fslfe frvearer.t. Fourthly, Not to love God is to deny him, for he that doth not love God, doth not acknowledgehim to begood, and fo de- nieth him tobe. We love that which we judge to be_good, there- fore they who doenot love God, denyhis goodness and fo (up- on the matter) his very !Peeing ; feing God can no more ceafe to be good, thenhe can ceafe to be. Fifthly, ( which iis the fpcciall.way of denyingGod intended in this teat) Theworfhip ofa faife or Idol God , is a denial! of the true, ofthe living God. And the Idolater may wel be fayd to deny Godwith a lye ; becaufe he that loth not acknowledge and reverence Godbut the creature goeth againfi the di&ates of his own mind; Icing manby nature may not only fee God in tits creature, but diftinguifb him from the creature. At belt, Idolaters deny God by attributing thathonour to. creatures which God never gave them, nor allowed) us to give toany but himfelfe. The noblefl creatures in the world, the holy Angels in heaven, arebut our fellow. fervants. When john would needs fall downe before the Angel,and worfhip him, he fayd, See. thou doe it not, Ians thyfeller, fervant : and as the higt eft crea- tures are our fellow fervants, fo all other creatures are our fer vents; Godmade the wholehoft of heaven, and all things here below co ferve man, as-hash been (hewed before : therefore to worfhip them, though we (h tuld fay we doe not terminate our rera.'a e;9, geo worfhip in them, but offer our worfhip by them,yet that is ade- d""'"' feas coere,prs crrr., vying of God.Idolaters put a worfhip upon God inftead ofwor- "eater's. rarar tore íhipping him ; Will- worfhip is the worfhip ofour ovinewill,not the worfhip ofGod, who will be wotihipped only as himfelfe witleth. But as for thofe who not onlywer(h'pGod by the creature, but the creature for or as God , they deny God mott groffeiy ; Nan at1eri rster for though they deny not that God is, yet they deny what God >t) ex. u!i, ;,fr,;e is ; They eyther deny that God . is but one, or that he is filch a. veci dei Nega. one as he path manifetted himfelfe to be, both in his word, and ti''ae, rumre works. Indeed to bet up another God, or to fay, there are many qurrrt,t p.ttte,, c19 efea. gods,
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