Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

56 What is required to fatting venues andgood worker: worfhip oftheonly true God, performed in vptightneffe of hart,with a good chfcience,without which euen thofe aéli- ons ofGods feruice which himfelfe hath cómanded, are odi_ ous & lothfome vnto him:fo when the Ifraelites offered out- ward duties and failed in thefe, the Lord faith vnto them by Efayr.tz.t3. his Prophet, who required this at your hands to treade in my 54. courts ? bring me no moe oblations in vaine ; incenfe is an abomi- nation vnto me : l cannot fufer your new moons, nor Sabbaths, nor felemne dales (it is iniquitse) nor folemneaffemlelies: my flute hat ethyour new moons, andyour appointed feui-ls, theyare a hurt hen vista me, lam wearie to Beare them. And in another Efay 66.3. place he faith, that he that Fulled a bullocke was as he that flew a man, 4e that facrificeda jheepe,as of hecot of a dogs necke; hee that offered an oblation, as if he ofered fries blood, he that re- men bred incenfe, as if he bleffed an idol!, &c. Not becaufe thefe things were not good in theinfeiues, for God had enioyned thé, but becaufe they were not ioyncd with Gods true wor- fhip,but done with wicked and hypocritical! hearts, and in a cuflomable and formall- manner, without any loue,faith or sine taltu vent feare ofGod.To this purpofe Ambrofe faith, that without the Dei edam qua wor/hip of the true God, that is fnne lbhich feemeth to be vertue; turte petta- reeishercan any man pleafe God,, without God: and be that plea tum eft nee f th not God, whom pleaferh he but himfelfe and the diuell? So placerevi/us that there is no true vertue out ofthe Church, where the on- Dee fioeVeo ly true God is worlhipped after a true manner. Men, &tc. More efpecially there is required that there vertuesand Gent good duties, doe proceed from Tome chicle fundamental' car. Gcnt.lib, g P r.cáp.r. verrues;asfirli from true godlineflè, for pietieand honellie §.SeíI.4. mull be joined togethcr,and where the one is wanting,there Our venues the other is hypocriticall,and counterfeit: neither is it polfi- mun be gym- ble that there Ihould be any found iuf}icey honefiie or loue did on terse Ihewed towards men, vnleffe it proceed from religious du- Piltasiei-i fun tiefirl' performed vntoGod .Hereofitis that pietieiscalled dawentumom- the foundation avenue, becaufe whatfoeuer vertue is not nisvirtutú.. built vpon ir, like a houle without a foundation, it isfirbieóì: Ambrof. de of- to ruine, when thofe weake props of worldly refpeóis are &c.lia .cap.27. pulled away. As forexample, he that is vcrtuous becaufe he is vnder gouernmeur, will ceafe to be vertaouswhen he is let 1 e.....