the Nttture .md Caufes ofit•.- I r7 to ·honour the Father, is that which makes us Chrifiians,and which nothing elfe will fo do. This honour of the Perfon of Chrifi may be con!idered in the Dutie.r ofit, wherein it cloth confifr; and in the Principle, Life, or Spring of thofe Duties. The Duties whereby we afcribe and exprefs Divine Ho. n·ouruntoChrifi,may be reduced untotwo Heads. (1.) Adora– tion. (2.) Invocation. Adoration is the Projlration of foul before him as God, in the acknowledgment of his Di-vine Excellencies and the Afcrip– tion ofthem unto him. It is expreffed in the Old Tefiament by il,nMt!;il , that is, humb{y to bow down our .felves or our fouls unto God. The LXX render it confrantly by 7reJ(!XU– JJew ; which is the word ufed in the New Tefiament unto the fame purpofe. The Latines expreffed it ufually by acloro. And thofe words,though ofother deriv-ations,are of the fame fignification with that in the Hebrew ; And they do all of them include fome external jig,n of inward Reverence, or 31. readinefs thereunto. Hence is thatexpreffion, He bowed down his Head ancl worjhipped. See Pfal. 95.6. And thefe External' jigns are of two forts. (I.) Such as are natural and occa!ional. {2·) Such as are folemn, frated or infiituted. Of the firfr fort are the lifting up ofour eyes and hands towards Heaven upon our though~sof him;and fometimes the cafiing down of our whole Perfons-oefore him, which deep thoughts with Reverence _will produce~ Outward inflituted jig,ns of · this internalAdoration are ;:tll theOrdinances ofEvang,elical worjhip. In and by them do we folemnly profefs and exprefs our in– ward veneration of him. Other waies may be ~ny~nted to · the fame purpofe, but the Scripture knows them not, yea condemns them. Such are the Veneration and Adora-tion of the pretended Images of him, and of the Hoft, as they call, it 2 among the Papiffs. , This.
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