be donâ— according to the revealed Worâ— of God rather than what hath been or is done according to the opinions and humours of men Now we are to see how Christ gives satisfaction to this Woman after that he had provoked he thirst after him and his Grace 1. He resolves her touching the true worship 2. He makes himself known to her that he is the Christ that gift of God and that living Water The latter of these lies beyonâ— my Text and so is not within the Verge of my discourse I am but leading you to the Text upon which I shall fasten Well then as to his resolution concerning the true worship It is an answer to the question propounded vers 20. Whether the Samaritan or Jewish worship was the true worship Now the Answer is not direct as to a decision of the controversie betwixt the Jews and Samaritans which of these two Religions or Worships was the best But the Answer is in effect to this purpose That she needed not so much to trouble her self about this seeing the best of the two was not to continue long as the other ought not to have been at all for Christ sought not to bring her over from the Samaritan Religion to the Jewish but rather to make a Christian of her Jesus said unto her Vers 27 Woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this Mountain nor at Jerusalem worship the Father Woman believe me Thou acknowledgest me to be a Prophet and if I be a Prophet I am to be believed as being guided by an infallible Spirit therefore believe what I say I tell thee The hour cometh c. Here may be three Questions Questions fit to be answered by the way Quest 1 Quest 1. Did the Samaritans Worship the Father Christ his words seem to imply that they did Answ Answ They pretended to worship the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob this was the Father but indeed they did not worship him therefore Christ in the next verse plainly revokes what he seemed in this verse to grant there he saith Ye worship ye know not what when I come to those words I shall shew you what the Samaritan Worship and Religion was Quest 2 Quest. 2. Why doth Christ say Ye shall worship the Father rather than thus Ye shall worship God Answ Answ Calvin thinks that Christ here calls God Father Videtur eum oblique opponeâ—e patribus c. Calv. in loc in opposition to the fathers which the woman spake of Jacob and his twelve sons the Patriarchs according to whose example the Samaritans worshipped in this mountain pretending to them as their fathers though indeed those Patriarchs were not their fathers for the Samaritans were people of other Nations of the Heathens whom the King of Assyria placed in the Cities of Samaria in stead of the people of Israel who were carried away Captives into Assyria 2 King 17.24 Christ tells this woman that whereas now the Samaritans pretended to worship God in this mountain for which they had no warrant but the example of pretended fathers and the Jews did indeed worship God in the Temple at Jerusalem as God had given command the time was coming when they and the Jews should have one common Father Ac si diceret Deum communem sore patrem omnibus Ibid. even God the Gentiles also being taken into Covenant so that God should hereafter be worshipped without difference or distinction of places or people according to that prophesie Mal. 1.11 But there may be a further Answer given to the question Why Christ saith Ye shall worship the Father rather than ye shall worship God This may be to shew how God is to be worshipped God worshipped as in relation under what notion or consideration viz. not as absolute but as in relation 1. Considered as in the relation of the persons in the Divine Essence between themselves A Divine person is Modus Divinae Essentiae the Divine Essence modified The three persons in the Divine Essence are the Divine Essence considered three manner of ways 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 distinguished from the Essence not by a real distinction as if the Essence were one thing and the Person another but as the manner of the thing We are to observe the order of the subsistence of these Divine Persons In order of subsisting the Father is before the Son and the Son before the Holy Ghost but we must know that they are equal in regard of Time Majesty Glory and Essence The Father is the first person existing from himself not from any other in respect both of Essence and Person Joh. 1.14 The Son is the second person who in the consideration of his person doth exist from the Father by eternal generation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but as to his absolute Essence is of and from himself The Holy Ghost or the Spirit is the third person in respect of his person proceeding and flowing from the Father and the Son but in respect of Essence Joh. 15.26 being God of himself with the Father and the Son And we must know that * Deus sunt inconfuse trinus in unitate indivise unus in trinitate 1 Jo. 57. the Trinity of persons doth not take away or destroy the Unity of the Divine Essence as the Unity of Essence denies not the Trinity of persons these three are one Now this God is to be worshipped as in such a relation of Father Son and Spirit 1 As Father Son and Spirit as considered in such a modification of the Divine Essence we must worship the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity otherwise we worship not God aright nor worship the true God As God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are the object of Divine Faith so they are the object of Divine Worship Prayer is to be directed to God the Father Son and holy Ghost but we must not pray to either of the persons but as united to the other The Apostle tells the Ephesians Ephes 2.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they were without God in the world they were Atheists in the world and how doth he make this good that they were Atheists why thus they were without Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without the knowledge of Christ Though a man acknowledgeth That there is a God and but one true God yet if he knoweth not this God in Christ he is without God in the world he is an Atheist and an Atheist cannot worship God Now here in the Text when the Father is named the other two persons are included We are to call upon God the Father in the name of his Son by the help of his Spirit So that Turks and Jews who acknowledge not Christ worship not God nor many of our common people who understand little or nothing of the Doctrine of the Trinity 2. God the Father is to be worshipped as in relation to Us
the Scripture holds out to us this Object of worship excluding all others 1 Sam. 7.3 Prepare your hearts to the Lord and serve him only Mat. 4.10 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve 2. We must worship the True God or worship God as God therefore we must have true apprehensions of God right conceptions of him in his Nature Attributes and Properties and a true knowledge of God in Christ and as he hath revealed himself in the Covenant of Grace 3. God must be worshipped and served as our God with an appropriation of him to our selves apprehending our Covenant-Relation to him and Interest in him Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God God the true God our God is the sole Object of Religious worship Concl. 2 2. The right worshipping of this our God is a religious holy observance of him and obedience to him so that true full worship takes up the inward and the outward man and takes in all sorts of duties and all points of obedience there is an Universality both respecting the Subject of worship which must be the whole man and respecting the Parts of worship how far it is to extend in point of duty to all duty it must be whole obedience First Inward worship there must be the worship of the inward man heart-worship soul-worship which consisteth in 1. A right knowledge and acknowledgment of God as he hath revealed himself in his Word and Works And 2. A Religious holy affection toward God thus known and acknowledged for we must know that the Law of God which is the rule of his worship is Spiritual reaching the understanding and affections and all the powers of the Soul We have both this knowledge and acknowledgement of God and this affection toward God called for by Moses Deut. 6.4 5. Hear O Israel the Lord thy God is one Lord know this and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and withal thy might Now Religious holy affection towards God hath in it and noteth out to us Internal duties all the internal duties of worship which are the Souls more immediate actings wherein we glorifie God It cannot be expected that I should name them all I shall but touch upon some few specialties 1. 1 Faith Faith is one part of the Internal worship of God I say Faith to believe God and Faith to believe in God for there is a great difference between these two And the first of these viz. to believe God is to be taken in a double sence 1. 1 To believe God Credere Deum to believe the Being of the true God that there is a God and that he is such a God as the Scripture speaks him to be 2. Credere Deo to assent unto and be thoroughly perswaded of all that God hath spoken in his Word so submitting our judgement and stooping our reason to Gods revelations resting satisfied with them This surely is part of that worship and honour which every soul oweth to God To believe God his Being and to believe his Sayings Then 2 To believe in God to beleive in or on God is to have the Soul carried by Faith unto God in Christ as my God and Father and to apply to my self the promises of Grace which in Christ are yea and amen So casting my self upon God and depending on his Fatherly goodness for all good things for Soul and body This Faith is to be lookt upon as a vertue or work of the Soul which appertaineth to and is part of the inward worship of God 2. 2 Love Another ingredient of Divine internal worship is Love when knowing God to be the chief good and apprehending our own interest in him we love him truly and above all other things desiting nothing so much as communion with him and to be conformed to him This worship is called for in Scripture Mat. 22.37 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God withal thy heart and withal thy soul and with all thy mind 3. 3. Fear The fear of God is the internal worship of God when reverencing the Word of God and the Majesty and Holiness and Justice of God we flie sin as being fearful to offend God and careful to please him in all things This holy fear is called for in many places of Scripture Deut. 6.13 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God Fear the Lord ye his Saints Psal 34. â— In thy fear will I worship saith David This fear of God is such a special part of inward worship that is is not rarely put for the whole worship of God for all Religion and godliness The Prophet Esay saith Isa 29.13 Their fear toward me is taught by the Precepts of men Our Saviour quoting this Text gives us the sence of it thus Mat. 15.9 In vain do they worship me teaching for Doctrine the commandments of men 4. 4. Repentance True Gospel-Repentance which comprehends Faith in it and is the turning of the whole Soul unto God lookt upon as an effect of Sanctification is the internal worship of God When we acknowledge our sinnes and acknowledging them bewail them and cast our selves by Faith upon the Mercies of God through the Merits of Jesus Christ firmly purposing by the help of Grace to abstain from sin and to obey God in all things herein we give God the glory of his Omniscience and Holiness and Justice and Mercy and this is surely to worship God when in our hearts we reverence him and give him the glory of his Attributes This is that worship which Paul taught Repentance toward God Act. 20.21 and Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ 5. The inward worship of God is with a thankful heart to acknowledge the goodness and beneficence of God towards us looking upon our selves as utterly unworthy of any of his gifts seriously purposing to glorifie our good God I might multiply particulars wherein the internal worship of God consisteth But these few hints shall suffice Secondly Outward worship As concerning External worship I shall only hint what it is in general To worship God Externally is sincerely and regularly to professe and practice true Religion carefully and conscionably endeavouring to perform all outward duties incumbent on us by the command of God I say sincerely to profess and practice true Religion in performing such duties Note Note this by the way Though Internal worship may be where there is at present no acting of that which is External yet there is no External worship which is indeed worship without Internal that which is only an action of the outward man meerly bodily exercise and not an act likewise of the inward man the act of the heart and Soul moving toward God that is not the worship of God However the Soul may and doth often act toward God in holy Worship in Faith and Love and godly Fear c. when no visible
several ages of the Church have given sad experience of this we have therefore need to look to our selves and from what hath been already said and made good from Scripture we may judge how careful people should be to see that they go upon right grounds in the worship of God Do we not in worship seek God if we do not then there is no reason in our worship we are no better than bruits Well if we would find God or have any benefit by our worship we must be able to say We worship that we know We must have the knowledge of God and a knowledge of his Will must understand how he is to be worshipped must therefore look into his Word must see what he hath appointed there and must take directions from thence I have been long enough in the Context therefore I will stay no longer from the Text An approach to the Text. wherein we have the very pith and highest pitch of our Saviour his discourse with the Samaritan woman The immediate connection of the words But before I fasten upon the Text it will be convenient to shew you the more immediate Connection of the words The Dialogue or Colloqui between Christ and this woman is from the nineteenth verse plainly about the Worship of God concerning which the Woman puts forth a Question to Christ and desires to be resolved by him in the twentieth verse Our Fathers worshipped in this Mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem men ought to worship Whether are we or you in the right Our Saviour's first Answer was as I have already hinted to this effect That she needed not to be be solicitous about this because neither of these two worships was long to continue Believe me woman The hour cometh when ye shall neither in this Mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father Here he teacheth her that there shall be an abrogation of Moses his Ceremonies and of the whole Levitical Service for under the name or title of the place of worship Jerusalem he comprehends the whole Jewish worship which for the most part of the Ceremonies was by God's appointment to be performed there and not elsewhere Well but though neither of these worships must long continue yet for the present one is right or one is better than the other Which is that Not yours saith Christ but ours Yours is stark naught for ye worship ye know not what your worship hath no word of God instituting or warranting it but we worship that we know our worship is grounded upon the Word of God Rom. 3.2 For Salvation is of the Jews i. e. to them are committed the Oracles of God The saving Doctrine of the Covenant of Grace is among the Jewes Diod. in loc with them is that word wherein they have a saving manifestation of God in Christ though not yet so clear as shall be and a discovery of the right way of worshipping God unto Salvation and surely this is the right worship which is taught and warranted by the Word of God Object But if the Jewish worship be grounded upon the Word of God how shall it be abolished Sol. To this Christ answers that God had prescribed and appointed that way of Mosaical worship not for perpetuity but only to continue till the fulness of time should come Gal. 4.1 2 3 4. Heb. 9.10 till the time of Reformation i. e. till the time of the New-Testament when all that was signified by those Ceremonies and outward Services being fulfilled in Christ that temporary Ceremonious worship shall be changed into a spiritual and more excellent worship which shall neven be abrogated And Christ tells the Woman that now the term of that Levetical worship is expired the Messiah being come to put an end to it Here is the summe of Christ his Answer There is a double Word of God respecting his worship One Word concerning the Levitical worship delivered by Moses which was to be in force till the coming of the Messiah that word belongs not to the New-Testament worshippers There is another word concerning the Spiritual Worship of God that is perpetual which word also the Patriarchs before the Law and the godly under the Law did observe though both before and under the Law it was hooded and cloathed as it were with certain Ceremonies appointed by God but now in the New-Testament this is the voice and plain open expression of the Gospel-word The true Worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth This is the Connection of the words which I have made out as plainly and as briefly as I might The Text is an assertion of the true nature and state of right Gospel-worship Text devided with a double reason to confirm it Gospel-worship is asserted to be a worship in Spirit and in Truth Now of this there are two Demonstrations 1. The first Demonstration is drawn from the Will of God The Father requireth such to worship him God stands upon it to have such Worshippers and this is the worship which he commandeth which will please him 2. The second Demonstration is taken from the Nature of God he is a Spirit a pure spiritual Essence therefore the worship done to him must be Spiritual answerable to his Nature The true Nature and state of Gospel-worship is asserted in the former part of the Text The true Worshippers shall now worship in Spirit and in Truth I shall a little open these words and then conclude something from them opened The hour cometh i. e. the time is at hand Here he teacheth that the Mosaical Ordinances were not perpetual but imposed onely for a time and that they were at this time even out of date Yea the hour now is viz. in part Christ being come hath already obscured the grace of the legal-worship and Now is the time of reformation Now the time is come that the true worshippers shall worship after another manner The Temple and Priest-hood and ritual worship which hitherto have been used with approbation must henceforth be laid aside and now the Father must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth To let pass these various acceptions of the terms Spirit and Truth I shall onely shew you what is the import of these tearms here what it is to worship in Spirit and in Truth That we may understand this we must note the Antithesis here intended by our Saviour he opposeth Gospel-worship to both the former worships spoken of in the Context that of the Samaritans and that of the Jews the Samaritan worship was hypocritical and counterfeit not that which God had appointed for the internals or externals of it it was heartless devotion and uninstituted worship and the Jewish worship as to the external part of it as instituted by God stood in Meats and Drinks and divers Washings and Carnal Rites and Ordinances so called by the Apostles Heb. 9.10 and the institution of that worship is said to be The Law
He that believeth will not make hast The godly are spoken of Psal 123.2 as having confidence in God and waiting for his goodness 3. Faith keeps the heart in a praying disposition frame sets the Soul on work to pray again and again often to ask the same things till we have a clear and full Answer from God And Faith makes the Soul importunate with God still rising higher and higher in holy importunity I believe that this Mercy will come in answer to Prayer therefore I will pray instantly that it may come and constantly till it doth come Thus Faith is necessary with respect to prayer-worship which is indeed a principal part of the Worship of God Secondly Faith is necessary to the Worship of God in general or to all Worship and that upon this account or for these reasons 1. Because to the worship of God there is required a knowledge of his Will and of the Rule of Worship and an assent unto and approbation of the Truth and Holiness and goodness of his Revelations and an Interest in him Can a man worship he knows not whom or when he understands not how he is to worship or when he is not perswaded in his own conscience that what he doth is right or when the Soul hath no recumbency on the Object of Worship Now this knowledge and this assent and this perswasion and this recumbency is Faith 2. Without Faith the Soul hath no way to God and so cannot draw nigh to him in Worship Jesus Christ is our onely way to God in him we have access with boldness and confidence to the Throne of Grace Now it is Faith in Jesus Christ which gives us the benefit of this way no Faith no Christ no Christ no way to God no possibility of any approach unto him without a Mediator for God out of Christ is a consuming Fire and poor Christless Souls have cause to fall into trembling when they think of God Now faithless souls are Christless and without Faith the Soul hath no access unto God or communion with him therefore Faith is necessary to the Worship of God It is only in this way of recumbencie by Faith on Jesus Christ that the Soul hath any peace toward God and hope and comfort in it's approaching unto him While we look unto weak corrupt sinful Self and upon our own imperfect faulty sinful performances there must needs be doubts and fears and unquietness of spirit Being justified by Faith Rom. 5.1 we have Peace toward God Peace i. e. that tranquility of Conscience or that comfort and joy which a Believer hath in a Conscience sprinkled with the blood of Christ and that boldnesse which he hath toward God as being his Father in Christ Jesus 3. Faith is necessary to the worship of God because where Faith is not there can be neither will nor ability for any hold action for any duty of worship What desire can the Soul have to draw near to God till it hath some hope through Christ of it's acceptance with God till it hath some hold-fast on the Covenant of God his Love so long as the Soul is estranged from Christ it is a stranger to God and God is a stranger to it Till there be an Vnion between Christ and the Soul even a Marriage Vnion there will be no desire of Communion or Spiritual Intercourse Christ his Spouse is delighted to see him even thorough the lattices to hear his voice at the door but she rejoyceth greatly to be with him in the Galleries to have his company in the Chamber delighteth to enjoy him in Ordinances and converse with him in worship Where there is such an Union to Christ there is pleasure in seeing him and hearing him joy to be with him The Soul having tasted the sweets of his Love desires to be led up to a more full enjoyment of him and so is making toward him in the use of means in attending on Ordinances and performing Duties Now this Union between Christ and the Soul is by the means of Faith it is by believing that the Soul comes to be one with Christ and so to be desirous of conversing with him to delight in his Ordinances and Worship Again It is by Faith that the Soul being made one with Christ doth fetch strength and abilities from Christ without whom we can do nothing that good is Of Christ his fulness the believer receiveth grace for grace Christ dwelling in the heart by Faith makes a holy heart is the worker of Grace in the heart and furnisheth the Soul with abilities for Duty that the Soul being justified and so sanctified by him may serve God and worship him acceptably Lastly There is one thing more which is considerable in the description of Worship viz. the End of it concerning which our Conclusion is this Concl. 5 5. The main end which we must aim at in all our Worship and Service is That God may be glorified by us This is God his great end of all his Works of all his appointments and Commands even his own Glory God hath made all things for himself and he will have all to be done to him 1 Cor. 10.31 Do all to the glory of God we are called upon to glorifie God in our souls 1 Cor. 6.20 and in our bodies Then may we be said to glorifie God when apprehending him to be such a God as he in his Word and Works hath discovered himself to be we make a sutable profession in Word and Deed really acknowledging his Power and Wisdom and Holiness and Goodness and Faithfulness and the rest of his Attributes and Properties reverently and humbly worshipping and serving the onely true God to whom all Worship and Service is due from us referring all our actions to the right end terminating all in him Paul would have the Philippians to be filled with the Fruits of Righteousess Phil. 1.11 which are by Christ Jesus to the praise and glory of God Thus I have finished the Explication of the Point explaining the Subject briefly and the Attribute more largely Proof Now for Proof of the Doctrine I shall refer you to the whole Sacred Story Look thorow the Book of God and you shall find it verified in all true Professors that the Scripture maketh mention of they were all worshippers of God I shall give you two words for the demonstration of the Point viz. That true Professors of the Christian Religion are worshippers of God according to the Principles and Rules of the Religion which they profess that real Christians do indeed worship the Father The first Demonstration shall be 1. From the true state of Religion 1. Demonstration and of a profession of Religion Religion properly notes a right acknowledgment and holy pure worship of God according to the rule laid down in his Word And Profession is a plain open declaration of our owning embracing and adhering to the true Religion Now Profession may be either that which
is verbal only or that which is real as well as verbal and the profession real may be either regular or irregular A Verbal profession practically contradicted is invalidated by such a contradiction so that it is to be accounted as no profession He that in word professeth himself to be of the Christian Religion i. e. a Worshipper of God in Christ and yet in practice is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that doth not worship God surely he is no true Professor Nor is he a true professor of Religion who though he doth act something in the worship of God yet acteth not according to the rule of true Religion and worship Religion and Christianity is not a meer Notion but it is something Practical it notes not only the Minds reception of and the Wills subscription to the principles and rules of Christianity but also the framing of the heart and of the whole man to be acting and working in those Principles and Rules Thus stands the Argument A true profession of Christianity is real there is practical Religion and Christianity in the life and it is Regular so that the business of Religion the true Professour acteth according to Rule therefore they who truly professe the Christian Religion and are true real Christians are real and regular Worshippers of God the Father 2. It must needs be 2. Demonstration that true Christians are real worshippers of God because they are possessed and acted by the Spirit of God and Christ which Spirit is the efficient of holy Worship leading Souls to it and acting them in it Every thing acteth according to it's Principles Principiatum respondet suis principiis Christians are principled by the Spirit of Christ which doth efficaciously incline and govern them to do that which is pleasing to Christ The Spirit 's in-Being is argued by the Spirit his working in the Soul The Spirit of Christ is a sanctifying Spirit that sets the heart right toward God and orders the conversation aright in all points of holy Obedience so that they who have this Spirit must needs be worshippers of God Now I have dispatched the Doctrinal part of my Discourse Application I come to Application I shall make but two Uses of the Point The first for Conviction the other a Use of Exhortation Vse 1 First for Conviction And as the way or Medium to the Conviction aimed at Conviction I shall propound this clear Inference from the Doctrine If all true Gospel-professors be true Worshippers then they who are not true Worshippers are no◠true Professours Now if we come to try the hearts and practices of people by the description of true worship what a multitude of nominal Christians shall we find that are by our Doctrine shut out of the number of true Professors and real Christians How few Souls that are religiously observant of God and obedient to him Where there i◠no observance of God and obedience to him there is no true profession of Religion where there is no care to conform to the mind of Christ there is no rea◠Christianity What a number o◠Souls are there that do not believe do not love God do no◠turn to him do not thankfully acknowledg his goodness toward them do not set themselves to glorifie him for his Mercies Ah Souls Do you choose God for your portion and cheif good Do you affectionately accept of Jesus Christ to be your Saviour and Lord not only acknowledging his Sufferings and accepting of Pardon and Salvation through him but also acknowledging his Soveraignty and submitting to his Government and way of saving Where there is not such a choice of God and such an acceptation of Christ there is not that Faith which is a part of Internal Worship Do you love God above all inferiour earthly things loving these things but with a love subordinate to the love of God Where God is not thus loved the Soul doth not worship him Now alas how doth Self-love Creature-love love of the World yea and the love of Lusts shut God out of the affections of very many of us Where is that fear of God to be found which in all addresses to God composeth the Spirit by an awful apprehension of that infinite distance which is betwixt God and Us Where is that fear of God which fenceth the Soul against temptation unto sin and is operative and instrumental unto holy walking How few true Penitents are there that disallow and detest fin and carefully abstain from it and do actually resist it and turn from all sin unto God unto Piety and acts of Religion Now Friends If you do not believe do not love God and fear him and turn to him what Religion is in you what is your Profession where is your Christianity And now for external Worship to try men upon that account Some are not worshippers so much as in appearance practise no worship in their Families and seldome appear in the place of publick Worship And some there are alas how many that are worshippers only in appearance their Worship is meerly External they draw not near to God with their Spirits in any act of Worship nor is that which they do in point of Worship done with Conscience of God's Command or with any respect to his Glory or with Faith in the Mediator And how much vain Worship is taken up which is not ordered by God but by men which is not according to pure holy divine Institutions but according to corrupt rotten human inventions Now gather up all this and hence take conviction home to your selves You that do not acknowledge God in your hearts and lives You that do not believe his Revelations and believe in his Son You that love the world and love sin but love not God You that do not reverence the Holiness and the Majesty of God that stand not in awe of his Word that are not afraid to sin against him You that will not turn from your sins unto God You that regard not to worship God in publick and in private and you whose Worship is meerly External Take Conviction to your selves that you are not right Gospel-professors or real Christians forasmuch as you are not true Worshippers Vse 2 Being thus convinced learn what it is truly to Worship God Exhortation and become true Worshippers Labour to know the Lord and acknowledge the true God and believe in God and love God and fear God and worship him regularly according to the Scripture-rule as ever you desire that God should look upon you as Christians and own you as true Professors of Religion Now that you may be a little quickened Motives If you look into the Word of God you may thence take up Arguments fit for you to press upon your selves that you may be perswaded to give your selves up unto this Counsel The Apostle tells us Heb. 11.6 that God is a plentiful rewarder of them that diligently seek him that call upon his