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
and occasions and appearances of that sin are likewise forbidden Mat. 5.21 22 27 28. Thus our Saviour interprets Commandments So that I say the second Commandment forbids not only the making and worshipping of Images the grossest Idolatry but also all Superstitious devices of men in the worship of God And doth not God charge his people not to turn aside from his Commandments Deut. 5.32 either to the right hand or to the left When men out of prophaness or Atheism worship not God at all this is to turn aside to the left hand and for men under pretence of Religious zeal and good intentions to set up in the worship of God that which he hath not commanded this is to turn aside to the right hand and this is forbidden When we have not the light of God's Word to direct us in our worship we offer to him a Sacrifice without eyes Now let us see what the Scripture speaks of such devised Will-worship that we may see how God likes it and what good it is like to do us See our Saviour his censure of such worship Mat. 159 Isa 29.13 quoting the Prophet Isaiah Deo non probantur quaecunque extra verbum de consilio hominum in sacris constituuntur Chemn in locum In vain do they worship me teaching for Doctrines the commandments of men and surely this is the worst of all vanities when our Religion and Worship shall procure a vain thing Yea such Will-worship of humane invention is so far from being profitable to us or pleasing to God that God accounts it done to Devils not to him This is no rash assertion of mine or gratis dictum Ye may read it in Scripture Levit. 17.7 Deut. 32.17 They shall bring their Sacrifices to the Lord to the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation they shall do herein according to my appointment and shall no more offer their Sacrifices unto Devils And in the latter of those Texts viz. in Deut. 32. forasmuch as they worshipped Idols they are charged with sacrifising unto Devils 2 Chron. 11.15 Rev. 9.20 And Jeroboam his Idols are called Devils and so are Antichrist his Idols This is God his estimation and censure of Idolatrous worship and all devised fictitious worship wch is not according to God's own appointment wherein men worship an Idol of their own brain whatever they intend or pretend not God but the Devil is served by such forbidden uninstituted worship Jeroboam did not plainly renounce the true God but pretended and intended still the worship of God when upon a politick account he set up the Calves in Bethel and Dan nor did the people that went up thither intend the worship of Devils yet God in his Word tells us that Jeroboam set up this worship to Devils O how cautelous should men be and fearful lest they worship Devils instead of God how careful to keep close to God his Institutions Now you have seen that our Saviour his answer here to the Samaritan woman teacheth us how vain idle and how distastful to God that worship is which is devised and oppointed by men contrary to the Word or without Scripture warrant Well then it follows hence 1. That the worship of Turks and Jews is an idle Idol-worship because they worship God out of Christ conceiving far amiss of that God whom they pretend to worship and making an Idol of him there being no such God made known in the Word to be the Object of worship 2. That the worship * In scripturis Idololatrae vocantur qui Divinum cultum Idolo sive proprie dicto sive figurate tribuunt Rainoldus Quis tam amens ut Dei formam imaginem statua referri perhibeat Euseb Quam imaginem ponetis ei qui spiritus est c. Hier. in Esai cap. 40. of Papists is an idle Idol-worship for they conceive amiss of God and of his worship as if his presence were tied in a special manner to Images or as if he were to be worshipped in Images or could be represented by Images there is no such God They conceive amiss of Christ as if he could be held in the hands of the Priest after the consecration of the bread or host as they call it there is no such Christ so that they worship a God and a Christ of their own devising and they have monstrously corrupted the whole worship of God by a multitude of inventions and superstitions and devised rites of their own they have many new forms of worship which God hath not commanded they have introduced a multitude of Ceremonies which they make the worship of God in which their Religion mainely consisteth They worship they know not what 3. The worship of a number oâ— Protestants is an idle Idol-worship Oh how many are they whose worship justly falleth under thiâ— censure As 1. They that have no understanding of the Doctrine of thâ— Trinity no knowledge of the personal relations of Father Son anâ— Spirit to be considered in thâ— Godhead and yet pretend tâ— worship God These worship theâ— know not what 2. They that worship God oâ— therwise than he hath appointed and in such ways and by such means of worship as he doth not approve of that follow their own fancies or other mens inventions with a neglect of or in opposition to Gods prescriptions These do in the point of worship they know not what and that of which they can give no account to God 3. They that seek not to be resolved in their own Judgement and Conscience that what they do in the business of Religion suits with the mind of God and so is his Worship but cast themselves upon the streams to be carried which way that runs 4. They that have no other apprehensions about Religion or the Worship of God but the Laws of the Land or the Constitutions of the Church in which they live that trouble not themselves to enquire whether it be right or wrong whether it be acceptable to God and consonant to his Word but this is commanded by Superiors and this they do and therefore they do it and will do it as if Superiours were infallible and could not possibly command that which ought not to be done Thus Seneca the heathen said of himself Non tanquam Diis gratum led legibus jussum That he observed the worship of their Gods not as acceptable to the gods whom he thus worshipped but as commandeâ— by the Laws But Christianâ— should know and do better and the Word of God teacheth otherwise viz. to look to God's Lawâ— and attend to his mind and seeâ— to please him in our worship Vse 2 Let us therefore look to this that our worship be rational and rightly founded viz. upon the Word of God Men are very prone to invent worship have naturally a delight to make a worship of their own and man is naturally apt to regard and adherâ— to humane inventions rather than Divine prescriptions The
9.10 as the Apostle calls them And the generality of the Jews were so grosly carnal in their apprehensions of the business of Religion that they stuck in the outward Ceremonies having no respect at all to Internal and Spiritual Worship norminding that which was signified by those carnal Rites and Shaddows though the understanding godly true Worshippers that were among the Jews worshipped Spiritually with their Spirits and truly in Truth so that the Worship under the Law which God approved of was in its Soul and substance Spiritual yet the Worship then was cloathed with such a dress of Ceremonies that as to the Shew and External part of it in respect of the outward Form and Body it was but carnal Worship Whereas the New-Testament Worship is ordered to be in Spirit i. e. without such a carnal body or covering of Ceremonies and in Truth i. e. without Figures and Shadows Well it is clear that Gospel-worship is here put in opposition to the Carnal Ceremonious Worship of the Jews and to the heartless devised Worship of the Samaritans which was a false Worship wanting the truth of God's Word appointing and warranting the matter of it as well as the truth of a good heart and holy Devotion in the manner of performing it Now we may easily see what is the import of this expression in Spirit and in Truth First as for the tearm Spirit it notes 1. A renewed mind and a renewed heart and affections together with due expressions of those affections in suitable actions of Religious Worship 2. A Spiritual kind of Worship in opposition to that which is carnal and Ceremonious a Worship stript of that cloathing and dress of Ceremonies to which the people of God were tied under the Law which are abolished by the coming of Christ Note Note by the way That they who burden the Church with a multitude of Ceremonies go about to destroy Gospel-worship which must not be Ceremonious do what in them lies to cast Christ out of the Church and to bring in Moses in his stead and that they who affect and plead for and delight in a Ceremonious Worship seem to forget that these are Gospel-times and do in effect deny that Christ is come for it is most evident that our Saviour here points out the difference between Jews and Christians in point of Worship and it is clear that the difference is not in the inward Substance and Soul of Religion but in the outward Form and Body Well you see how the tearm * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spirit is here to be understood Secondly The tearm * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Truth signifies 1. Sincerity as opposed to hypocrisie 2. It signifies the very kernel and substance of Religion that Worship which is real and substantial which standeth in the truth of those ancient Figures and Shaddows that which was figured by the offering of legal Sacrifices and by Ceremonious observances 3. Truth signifies a Consonancy to the Word of God that which is according to Truth written True Gospel-worship is that which is commanded and ordered by Christ that which is exercised according to the simplicity of Gospel-Institution True Gospel-worship is a Worship performed in Spirit and in Truth i. e. it is Cordial Holy Sincere Spiritual Substantial Instituted Scripture-worship that which hath the Word of God for it's Foundation and Rule Proof The Text is as a clear foundation so a full proof of our Doctrine and our Saviour tells the Pharisees Mat. 15.9 that In vain do they worship God teaching for Doctrine the Commandments of men That is a vain idle Worship an unprofitable Worship which is ordered otherwise than God hath appointed which is not directed to the true God rightly conceived of and performed in a right manner suitable to his Will and Nature and which hath not God's Word for its foundation and Rule This was an observation which you had from the 22 verse which Christ saith Ye worship ye know not what Now for demonstration of the point We have two demonstrations in the Text. This assertion That true Gospel-worship is a Worship in Spirit and in Truth is proved 1. 1. Demonstration From the Will of God The Father seeketh such to worship him This is the argument here used They that worship God must see that their Worship be such as will please God Now onely such spiritual sincere instituted-worship pleaseth him Therefore onely such Worship is to be performed 2. A second reason is drawn from the Nature of God God is a Spirit he is a pure spiritual Essence and he must be worshipped with a Worship suitable to his Nature Thus to worship God is reasonable service God is a Spirit in a kind of singularity and excellency and eminency above all Spirits God is a most Intelligent Spirit his understandig is infinite They who satisfie themselves with a carnal external Worship such as is but a Carcaise without any Soul of Heart-devotion in it without holy spiritual motions and affections of the inward man these apprehend not God to be a Spirit the God and Father of spirits and the searcher of hearts but deny his Spiritual Nature and make him a God of flesh while they bring stesh to him for an Offering If God be a Spirit he must be worshipped with our Spirit and truly he calleth for this My Son give me thy heart Prov. 23.26 he re-requires a preparation of the heart for Worship and the activity of the inward man in the performance of Worship and the Soul's intentness upon the work in hand God loveth spiritual performances Again God is a Spirit most simple void of all Composition and uncapable of division Such must our Worship be suitable to the most simple Nature and Being of God It must be uncompounded undivided Worship 1. There must be no Composition in it no mixture of our own conceits and devices or any humane inventions a patched sophisticated linsey-woolsey-worship fuits not with the simplicity of God the Object of Worship 2. There must be no division in our Worship it must be whole entire Worship head and heart understanding and affections Soul and Body all must joyn unanimously in the Worship of God I will adde one Demonstration more Arg. 3 3. Corrupt Worship is not true Gospel-worship that which is expected from Gospel-professors But that Worship which is not performed in Spirit and in Truth according to the import of those tearms as they have been opened to you is corrupt Worship For Worship is corrupted these three wayes 1. In respect of the Object as Worship corrupted 3 wayes when something else is worshipped in stead of God or when other Objects of Worship are taken up besides God and together with him so also when people have carnal gross unsuitable apprehensions of God and so worship not the true God with a Worship suitable to his Nature a spiritual simple pure Worship 2. There is a corruption in the manner of Worship when
2. As our Father as Our Father loving Us as sons and so we are to come to him with an humble boldness as his children crying Abba Father If we cannot say Our Father we cannot worship God Thus have I answered a second Question arising from the 21th Verse Quest 3 Quest 3. How doth Christ say that they should no longer worship the Father in Jerusalem when God saith of Jerusalem Psal 132.14 that it is his Rest for ever Answ Answ That spoken in the Psalm is true especially of the Church signified by Jerusalem it is true likewise of Jerusalem the type in a limited sence Jerusalem Circumcision Legal Worship were to be for ever i. e. until Christ and the beginning of the new world in him till the coming of the Messiah Gen. 17.13 Thus the Covenant of Circumcision is called an everlasting Covenant and so it is said that the feast of the Passover should be kept by an Ordinance for ever Exod. 12 14 17 24 Exod. 40 15. and so the Levitical Priest-hood should be for ever Well this is that which our Saviour teacheth in this one and twentieth Verse That in the new Testament distinction of place for the worship of God is taken away and that the Temporary Priesthood and External Rites are abolished by Christ his coming In the Old Testament God revealed himself in the Temple over the Mercy-seat but now Christ is the true Temple and the true Propitiatory The Body being come the Shadows are vanished I pass on to the two and twentieth Verse Vers 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ye worship ye know not what or that which ye know not This is spoken by way of anticipation Per praeoccupationem a Figure in Rhetorique very common Christ is here aforehand with the woman giving an Answer to a Question which she might be ready to propound having occasion given her by his former Answer She might say Though neither of these Worships must long continue yet at present one onely of them is right or one is better than the other I would know which that is Not yours saith Christ for ye worship ye know not what but ours for we worship that we know Though Christ had told the woman that both these Worshippers both of the Samaritans and the Jews should cease so that neither of them was that which shortly he would have to be yet he doth not equal them in his censure of them accounting one as good as the other but he condemns the Samaritan worship and approves of the Jewish worship viz. that which the godly among them performed As for you Samaritans ye worship ye know not what nor how though you will say you have a good meaning and direct your worship unto God and pretend the example of your fathers yet forasmuch as your worship is not directed or warranted by the Word of God Custus Dei astimandus est qui verbo Dei nobis praescribitur but taken up by you without this Rule and Foundation it is indeed an ignorant foolish worship which cannot please God but now as to the Jews while they have God his Word for their Rule and Warrant their worship is with knowledge and judgement and that which God approves of But in as much as the time is at hand when the Levitical Priest-hood and Worship shall be abolished if any Jew after such abrogation shall worship with observance of Levitical Rites his worship will then be as bad as yours is now Now let us see what Christ here teacheth Ye worship ye know not what The Samaritans in their meaning did worship a Deity yea the God of the Jews and their Worship was somewhat refined from that gross state in which it was at first yet because they did not conceive aright of God nor worship him in the appointed place and appointed mode but had another Temple and another Priesthood and Ceremonies of their own devising for this reason they are said to worship they know not what i. e. a fancy of their own brain an Idol not the true God Hence we may conclude Doctr. That it is but an idle and Idol-worship which is not directed to the true God rightly conceived of as he hath revealed himself in Scripture and which hath not Gods Word for its Foundation and Rule God himself is turned into an Idol when people have false gross apprehensions of him and worship him with any other than Scripture-worship such as is ordered or allowed by the Word of God I say when people have carnal gross unsuitable apprehensions of God or do not conceive of him aright in his Attributes Properties and Relations as he hath revealed himself in his Christ they worship an Idol in stead of God and it is vain idle worship when people follow their own or other mens inventions in stead of God his prescriptions Who but God himself can tell what worship that is with which he will be pleased Therefore hath he in the Old Testament declared his mind from time to time concerning this with many strait prohitions of adding or altering any thing In nothing substantial or circumstantial must we make our own fancies or mens inventions or prescriptions the Rule of our worship but we are tied strictly to the Word of God for the kinds and parts of Worship to have them determined by God and we are also tied in circumstanstances of worship not to act in particulars contrary to the general Rule of Scripture The matter of God's worship whatsoever is acted as a part of worship must be something commanded by God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in the modifying of worship we must see that nothing be done contrary to the Word or unworthy of God The Heathens grosly fancied a plurality a multitude of ridiculous gods and they tell us that each god is to be worshipped and served according to his own directions So Socrates can teach us that God is to be worshipped as he himself will And what doth the Scripture teach us why this That the Lord our God is one God and that him we must fear and keep his statutes and his commandments which he commands us God often calls upon men to take heed that they follow not their own hearts that they go not in the way which themselves shall chuse that they do not what seemeth stood in their own eyes The scope and summe of the Second Commandment is to order us in the solemn Worship of God in Religious exercises and therein under an express prohibition of Image-making and Image-worship which was the cheif invention of men for corrupting of Divine worship I say under that one instance God flatly forbids all mens devices and inventions about his Worship For this is a Rule to be observed for the understanding of the Commandments that where any sin is expresly forbidden under that general expressed all the species and individuals and degrees of that finne together with all the causes and means
of a Carnal Commandment Heb. 7.19 and the generality of the Jews were so grossly carnal in their apprehensions of the business of Religion that they stuck in the outward Ceremonies having no respect at all to internal and spiritual worship nor minding that which was signified by those carnal rites and shadowes but if the Ceremonial Law were observed in offering Sacrifices and in the point of Meats and Drinks and Washings c. they reckoned that all was well enough This is that which God upbraideth them with and for which he sharply reproveth and threateneth them Now according to the Antithesis here intended Spirit signifies the heart and it s renewed spiritual motions and affections together with the expressions of those affections in such outward actions as necessarily flow from them Truth signifies sincerity as opposed to hypocrisie and it signifies the very substance and kernel of Religion that worship which is reaâ— and substantial which stands in the Truth of those figures and shadowes that which was figured by those legal Sacrifices and other ceremonial Ordinances that which is indeed the thing that God looketh after and Truth likewise importeth a consonancy to the Word of God True worship is that which is ordered and commanded by God that which is according to the Rule So then worship in Spirit and in Truth is opposed to the Carnal Ceremonious worship of the Jews and to the heartless and devised worship of the Samaritans which was a false worship wanting the Rule of God's Word appointing and warranting the matter of it as well as the truth of a good heart for the manner of performing it Worship in Spirit and in Truth is sincere spiritual instituted worship Scripture-worship which hath the Word of God for its foundation and rule This is true right Worship Obj. Did not the true worshippers in the Old Testament worship God in Spirit and in Truth Answ God is always the same so that from the beginning of the world he was never pleased with a worship not spiritual and true and undoubtedly the godly worshippers among the Jewes worshipped spiritually in Spirit and truly in Truth but yet in the worldly Sanctuary at Jerusalem and in shadowes and figures and with the observation of many outward Ceremonies so that in shew and as to the external part their worship was Carnal we may say that the Worship under the Law was in it's substance and soul as I may call it spiritual but in respect of the outward shape and body of it it was in some sort carnal and earthly Whereas the New Testament worship is in Spirit without such a carnal body and covering of Ceremonies and in Truth without figures and shadowes Obj. 1 With outward Ceremonies But do not we now under the Gospel worship God as bowing the Knee lifting up the Hands and Eyes in Prayer c. And are not our Sacraments as to the visible matter of them carnal Elements Answ The former sort of these Ceremonies are natural such as flow from the Nature of the thing and serve to a lively expression of the inward motions and affections of the Soul and so appertain to the worship which is in Spirit for spiritural worship is not only the inward affection but also meet outward declarations and expressions thereof in action As for the latter sort of Ceremonies viz. the Sacramental Rites they are instituted by God himself but they are so sew and so plain and significant that they do not at all diminish or obscure the spirituality of the Worship Now to fetch some Doctrine out of the Text. Doct. That which I shall conclude from thence is either implied or expressed in the words The Doctrine implyed is this That true Gospel-professours are true Gospel-worshippers Doct. 1. implied All true Christians do indeed worship God Our Saviour here speaks of Christians in contra-distinction to Jewes and Samaritans and this is the description and Character of them They are true worshippers The Doctrine expressed is this Doct. 2 Doct. 2. expressed That true Gospel-worship is that which is performed in Spirit and in Truth Doct. 1 Doct. 1. True Gospel-professours are true Gospel-worshippers I shall in a word open the Subject Explication of and insist a little on the explication of the Attribute The Subject of the proposition 1 the subject Gospel-professours These are such as own the Doctrine of the Gospel and profess the Name of Christ profess themselves to be of that Religion which the Gospel teacheth and they who hold forth such a profession are called Christians Now profession is either feigned or unfeigned either in hypocrisie or in sincerity either a profession in word only and in shew or that which is a profession indeed and in truth Now our Doctrine doth not speak of all profession as to say that all who profess themselves to be Christians are Gospel-worshippers but of true professours such as are Christians indeed all that do with judgement own and with affection embrace the Doctrine of Christ and sincerely profess the Christian Religion These are Gospel-worshippers and do truly worship God This is the Attribute of the proposition 2 of the Attribute which cometh now to be explained Quest What is it to worship God What is carried in this notion of worship when it is related to God as it's Object Answ Religious adoration or the Worship of God is either natural or instituted 1. Natural-worship I call that which doth arise from the consideration of a Deity that which Nature it self will tell us is due unto God Whoever acknowledgeth that there is a God will easily acknowledge that he is to be worshipped i. e. believed feared loved invocated trusted in c. 2. Instituted-worship is that which depends on and answers to the Revelation of Gods will any way or means appointed by God for the exercising of Natural worship which is due to God as God any work or service of divine institution to be performed unto God This Notion of worship in such a strict sence of the word is especially to be considered of in the prosecution of the second Doctrine but now in the first point I shall take it in the largest sence of the tearm and you may take this description of it True Worship Worship described is a Religious holy observance of and obedience to the only true God as our God in all things commanded by him performing all duty in Faith through Jesus Christ the Mediator unto the glory of God I shall give you the sence of this Description in five conclusions Description explained Concl. 1 1. The Object of Religious worship is God the true God our God This first Conclusion hath three Branches Trimembris 1. God is the Object of Worship Religious worship is to be exhibited only to God the Father Son and Spirit to him and to him onely must our worship be directed for worship is a Solemn acknowledgement of a Deitie Therefore