come neer unto God our best services are so faulty and so filthy that in themselves they are rather a dishonouring of God than otherwise and therefore cannot be pleasing to God but onely through Jesus Christ in whom the Father is well pleased Therefore when we worship God we must gather into Jesus Christ and lay hold upon his Righteousness and present our services to God through Christ and leave our duties with Christ to be offered by him to his Father and our Father that they may be accepted through him as from him and for his sake I shall insist a little longer upon this forth Position that we are in hand with further to evince the necessity of Faith in the Mediator unto a right worshipping of God First I shall shew it respecting Prayer in particular and then respecting all Worship in general First respecting Prayer Faith is necessary To set Prayer on foot and To carry on the work and duty of Prayer and To the concluding of Prayer with an Amen and To keep the heart in a right frame after Prayer 1. It is necessary to set Prayer on foot or to bring the Soul to Prayer Can a man have any stomack to go and crave and make request where he hath no hope to speed Now where effectual Faith is not there can be no hope to speed in any suit to God and that upon this twofold account 1. It is upon account of the relation in which any soul standeth unto God that it can have any hope of obtaining that which it seeketh from God It is the consideration of God his Father-Hood and our Son-Ship that must bring us to Prayer giving us encouragement to go to God with our petitions The Prodigal saith I will arise Luk. 15.18 and go to my Father A Child hath reason to hope that his Father will hear him and do for him when he cannot expect it from a stranger Now how come we into the Religion of God to have him to be our Father How come we to have the Son-ship of Christ upon us by vertue of which we may be admitted into the presence of God and be received by him See that Scripture John 1.12 As many as received him to them gave he this Power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this Priviledge to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his Name Ye are all the children of God Gal. 3.26 saith the Apostle by Faith in Christ Jesus 2. We cannot stand before God without Righteousness and this the Soul hath not of its own in it self We cannot look upon our selves but as sinful guilty persons nor upon our duties but as very defective The Righteousness which we must have that we may be accepted of God must be a Righteousness out of our selves another's Righteousness viz. the Righteousness of Christ which yet must be ours that it may do us good Now it becomes ours by Faith the Righteousness which gives us access to God by Jesus Christ is the Righteousnes of Faith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 3.22 the Righteousness of God which is by the Faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all that believe Now for as much as without this Righteousness we can have no hope God-ward How can we with any confidence draw neer to God till such time as by Faith we close with Jesus Christ and apply his Righteousness to our selves Upon this account Faith is necessary to set Prayer on foot to set the Spirit of Prayer on work 2. Faith is necessary to carry on the work of Prayer and for the discharging of the duty 1. That we may with humble holy boldness with a Child-like confidence pray unto God Eph. 3.12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the Faith of him 2. That we may lift up holy hands in Prayer I will saith the Apostle that men pray every where 1 Tim. 2.8 lifting up pure hands without wrath or doubting It is Faith that purifies the heart 2 Cor. 7.1 Having these promises let us cleanse our selves form all filthyness of the flesh and spirit Revelations concerning the Love and good Will of God concerning Christ and Grace do purge the Soul that takes them in 3. Faith is necessary for the enlarging of the heart in Prayer and to make us lively and earnest in praying I believed therefore have I spoken The believing Soul will utter it self and even pour it self forth before the Lord being perswaded it shall through Christ obtain at the hands of God that Grace which it sues for but the Unbelieving heart is straitned and where Faith is not fervency cannot be and where fervency is not the success of prayer is doubtful at least The effectual fervent Prayer of the Righteous man availeth much 3. Faith is necessary to the concluding of our prayers with an Amen testifying as our desires to have our petitions granted so our reliance on God and a penswasion that he will for Christ his sake grant our requests For it is by Faith that we leave our prayers with Christ in whom all the promises of God are Yea and Amen 4. Faith sets and keeps the Soul in a right frame after Prayer 1. It sets the heart at rest and keeps it quiet When I consider that Christ hath the offering up of my prayers and that God will not throw aside any of the petitions which his dear Son brings to him this quiets my heart 1 Sam. 1.18 When Hanna had prayed she did eat and her countenance was no more sad If she had not Faith her stomack would have been no better nor her heart quieter after Prayer than it was before but now believing that God had looked on the affliction of his Hand-maid and that he would give her that blessing which she prayed for now I say she goes away rejoycing in the goodness of God apprehended by Faith and eats her bread with a merry heart David being among many enemies and in the midst of dangers Psa 3.5 having prayed could lye down and take his rest believing that the Lord would preserve and deliver him as he had prayed 2. Faith sets the Soul and keeps it in a patient waiting frame and this is that which God requires and that which he loves psa 27.13 14. I had fainted saith David unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living wait on the Lord c. David's Faith resting on the promise of God upheld him to wait on the Lord for the accomplishment of his promise The Apostle tells us Hebr. 10.36 We have need of patience that after we have done the Will of God viz. in praying and using such means as God hath appointed we may receive the Promises There is a Promise of God to waiting Souls Isai 30 18 Blessed are they that wait for him Now it is onely the believing Soul that is a waiting Soul Isai 28.16
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
Church is now no babe Augustine in his time complained of the unreasonable burden of Ceremonies saying That the condition of the Jews was more tollerable in this respect than of Christians But alas how much is the burden encreased beyond that it was in his time so that the little finger now is heavier than the whole body was then Jer. 3.16 Jeremiah hath a Prophecy of Gospel-times that then the Jewes should forget the Ark i. e. all those external Symbols and Ceremonies which were in use before the Ark was laid aside and they should now be Spiritual worshippers The Antichristian Faction as if these were not Gospel-times have received many Jewish and Paganish rites and with those hypocrites which the Prophet Esay speaks of Isa 66.5 insult over the true Spiritual worshippers despising them and their plain simple Gospel-worship saying Let the Lord be glorified let him be honoured with a more decent splendid Worship such as we give him But men shall one day find that God will give them no thanks for going about to honour him with their gawdy Ceremonies Well beloved If this be a note of the true Gospel-worship that it shall not be Ceremony but Spirit then surely the Popish Ceremonious Worship and all Worship that is modell'd in imitation thereof cannot be true worship And I pray let this be considered which I have formerly hinted to you that they who burden the Church with a multitude of Ceremonies go about to destroy Gospel-worship which must not be Ceremonious and do what in them lieth to cast Christ out of the Church and to bring in Moses again and they who affect and plead for and delight in and practise a Ceremonious Worship seem to forget that these are Gospel-times And if men shall alleadge that many of the vulgar sort have as much need of such helps as the Jewes had surely this is a vain plea for we must alwayes consider how God will have his Worship to be managed surely he knows what is best and what is necessary and expedient Infer 3 If Gospel-worship be a Worship in Truth i. e. that which is consonant to the Word of God according to the true revelations of his Will that which is commanded and ordered by Christ and exercised according to the simplicity of Gospel-Intitution then all devised Wil-worship wherein there is an adding to the Word of God or a mingling of mans inventions with God's Institutions must needs be excepted against as no true Gospel-worship All Gospel-worship is built upon the sure pure foundation of Divine Gospel-institutions The Word of God doth appoint and order the Worship which he will have in every Essential part of it and it is a general Rule for Circumstantials It doth not indeed particularly command and order every circumstance but the Church must take heed that under the name of Circumstances and under pretence of Church-power herein she do not bring in Worship Meer Circumstances belonging to religious Actions are left to Humane determination but it is not left unto men to appoint any kinds parts or means of Worship Now Ceremonies properly sacred and significant by Humane Institution are judged to be more than Circumstances to be indeed parts of Worship to be Ceremonial Worship and that Worship which is not commanded by God is not warrantable approved Worship We have in the Scripture strict prohibitions of adding to the Word of God Deut. 4.2 Ye shall not adde to the word which I command you Deut. 12.32 Whatsoever thing I command you observe to do it Thou shalt not adde thereunto These Texts forbid all Humane Ordinances and establish God's Word as the onely Rule we must attend unto in his Worship Every word of God is pure Prov. 30.5 6. saith Agur. Adde thou not to his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a lyar Here is a prohibition to keep men from corrupting or adulterating the Name of God in his Word by an addition of mens inventions and traditions when they are imposed as if they were the express Will of God Then there are two great Considerations to enforce this Prohibition 1. God will reprove such Adders to his Word 2. God who is Almighty and infinitely wise and holy and just will take in hand such Corrupters of his Name and Word so that he will demonstrate to them and convince them of their horrible wickedness in adding to his Word by foysting in mens inventions and he will make them to bear their iniquity with terrour And they shall be convinced that they have lyed against God and shall be made to bear the guilt of such lying and shall suffer the punishment shall receive the doom of lyars These are weighty Considerations to deter men from corrupting the Word of God There is another terrible Text to this purpose in the close of all the Scripture Rev. 22.18 If any man shall adde unto these things God shall adde unto him the plagues that are written in this Book Thus you see how the Word of God witnesseth against all devised Will-worship which is not Worship in truth Now surely if men did look at God as God and look upon the Scriptures as his Word owning the Soveraign Authority of Scripture they would then be fearful to corrupt the Worship of God seeing God in his Word doth so strictly prohibit and so earnestly testifie against such Corruption But here is the mischief that however men may say that they believe the Scriptures to be the Word of God yet they are indeed no better than Infidels concerning the Scripture and the Name of God in it Jer. 6.10 The word of God is to them a reproach they have no delight in it Men think that they have as good words as the Word of God is and that they have Traditions which are of as great Authority as God's Revelations Now when Scripture is slighted so that it lays no awe upon mens spirits no marvel that men follow their own inventions Well Beloved Gospel-worship is a Worship in truth Regular worship which hath its foundation in the Word and is ordered according to the Word of God VVe read in Scripture of pure Religion certainly Jam. 1.21 that Religion is most pure which hath its foundation and dependence upon the VVord of God and this Religion stands for ever will stand in the Judgement-day when all other Religions will be condemned to Hell The VVord of God endures for ever and so do they that conform themselves to it Now for such as slight Divine Institutions and cast off the onely sure Foundation they make other Rules to themselves and ground their Worship upon other rotten Foundations As 1. The imagination of their own hearts Me thinks saith one and another this is very good Worship this is decent and this is good order But God often forbids the setting up of such a Rule telling us that we must not follow our own hearts we must not go in the way
must pray for Magistracy and Magistrates pray to God to maintain and uphold the Office his own Ordinance and to inspire and guide and preserve and bless the Officers both Supream and Subordinate to whom he hath committed the Sword to be born by them whom he hath invested with Power and Authority over us that are the Powers ordained of God We must pray for the continuance and support of Magistracy with respect to the honour of God whose Ordinance it is for his own Glory in opposition to unruly Libertines and antimagistratical spirits that defie this Ordinance of God And we are to pray for the upholding of Magistracy with respect to our selves in regard of the necessity and utility of this Ordinance in as much as it is ordained for our good And we must pray for Magistates for those whom God hath set over us to govern us that under them we may lead a quiet and peaceable life 1 Tim. 2.3 2. in all godliness and honesty 2. We must contribute toward the support of the Powers which God hath ordained by a chearful payment of such Tribute or Customes as are legally and reasonably required of us for necessary supplies Render to all their dues Rom. 13.7 Tribute to whom Tribute Custome to whom Custome belongs Counsel 5 5. Let us honour Magistracy having a high esteem of the higher Powers acknowledging their Office to be God's Ordinance and a jurisdiction delegated from God himself who invests Government with Majesty I have said ye are Gods Magistrates are God his Lieutenants as it were his Deputies and so bear his Title therefore their Calling is honourable and they must be honoured But this will fall in under the notion of Subjection to which the Apostle here exhorteth from the consideration of the Authority of Magistracy and that is it which I shall hereafter speak of The second Doctrinal conclusion from the Text is this Doct. 2 2. That every Christian must be subject to the powers ordained of God In handling this point I shall by way of Explication shew 1. What is the import of this tearm Subjection 2. To whom Subjection must be yielded 3. Who must be subject 4. I shall open the duty Subjection endeavouring to give you the true state of it Quest 1 Quest 1. What doth this tearm Subjection import or what is it to subject Answ Ans Subjicere is to lay or put under as it is said David brought forth the people that were in Rabba subjecit serres c. and put them under Sawes and harrows of Iron subjected them to such grievous punishments but the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greek word here in the Text signifies something further than to be under or to be put under it signifies an orderly subjection to be put in order under another Let every soul be subordinate to the higher Powers i. e. Subject in his place and order The word being of a middle voice may be translated either passively or actively but here it must be of an active signification for it is an exhortation to the performance of a duty Let every soul be subject according to God his Ordinance who hath by his Ordination and Command subjected every Soul to the higher powers so that here is noted a willing orderly subjection And the word is a general word comprehending all other duties and services it notes the whole duty of an inferiour estate particularly it implies due reverence and a ready full obedience without resistance or reluctancy Quest 2 Quest 2. To whom must this subjection be yielded Answ Ans To the higher Powers and to all the powers that are ordained of God to Magistrates supream and subordinate Supream powers are intended principally but not only we read elsewhere of Principalities and Powers Tit. 3 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The former word notes those that have a primary more immediate and more plenary power under God for administrations in their Dominions as Kings and cheif Governours The other word signifies such as exercise Authority under them deriving power from them to act as Governours by delegation There are Kings 1 Pet. 2.12 as supream and Governours sent by them These are the object of this duty of subjection or subjectum cui the subject to whom subjection must be yielded and we are to look not only at the persons that bear Rule have Power and are in Authority but also and more especially at the Order Office and Calling it self Quest 3 Quest 3. Who must be subject Answ Answ The Text saith Every Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our proposition it is every Christian All persons under Government of whatsoever age rank capacity calling quality or condition all must be subject to Magistrates to the powers supream and subordinate Quest 4 Quest 4. What is the duty here called for in the expression of the Text Answ Answ A willing and orderly subjection Subjection implies which implies Reverence and Obedience 1. Reverence 1 Reverence which is a kind of honour and observance joyned with some awe and special humility and submission of the mind and body exhibited by an inferiour to a Superiour having a regard to his person and place and worth and words and actions This Reverence must be inward and outward 1. 1. Inward Inward Reverence of the heart The Apostle saith that the Law is spiritual it is so in every Commandment it reacheth the inward man Thus in this point of honouring Superiours there is a Law laid upon the heart This inward reverence is to have a due estimation of their Superiority and Authority and in acknowledgement thereof to have due respect to them in our hearts to have them in high account and to stand in awe of them Contrary to this inward reverence is a sleighting and despising of Superiours as those children of Belial despised Saul 1 Sam. 10.27 and those impure Hereticks which the Apostle speaks of Jude 8. are said to despise Dominions Now we are to honor Magistrates in our hearts as they are in God's place esteeming them to be higher and worthier than others and standing in awe of them Prov. 24.21 Fear God and the King The Lord magnified Joshua in the fight of all Israel and they feared him Josh 4.14 i. e. reverenced him as they feared Moses c. The people said unto David Thou art worth ten thousand of us 2 Sam. 18.3 they had a reverend high esteem of him The Church accounted King Josiah the breath of their Nostrils Sam. 4.20 he was precious in their account 2. There must be outward reverence 2 Outward which is an expression of the mind in reverend and lowly speeches and gestures 1. We must speak reverently and respectively of In speech and especially to Magistrates Aaron though the Elder Brother and High-Priest honoureth Moses with the Title of Lord he being by Gods appointment the Captain-General and Chief Magistrate Governour of the
which we our selves shall choose we must not do what seems good in our own eyes 2. Men desire to satisfie the flesh and therefore delight in a sense-pleasing worship Thus the Papists have a Worship pompous and outwardly glorious meerly sensual pleasing their eyes with their goodly Images as the Prophet calls them and with their costly Furniture and pleasing the ear with their Musick and the smelling with incense and persumes All Worship of God is the exercise of Faith and to draw out spiritual Meditations not to please the senses That Worship which is most pleasing to the flesh is to be suspected as most displeasing to God 3. Antiquity is a great prop of false Worship and traditions of Fathers are much pleaded by the Superstitious but what saith Christ Call no man Father on earth i. e. so as to relie on his Authority and what said Cyprian Christ is Antiquity to me Antiquitas mihi Jesus c. and not Custome but Christ is the Truth 4. The Name of a Church goes very far with many Thus the Papists will be bound up wholly by the Determinations and Constitutions of the Church whatever they be and they cry out What will you go against the Church and if you enquire what is the Church it will be found to be nothing else but the will and resolution of a proud Pope or the Antichristian Prelacy Mr. A. B. Indeed the Authority of a true Church shining with Scripture-light must not be a Cypher but it must not be all things VVell Beloved If we profess our selves Christians it greatly behoveth us to be well settled in the right foundation of religious Worship that as touching what we do herein we may be able to answer this Question Who hath required it otherwise God and Christ will reject our Religion and Worship as not being in Truth not being Gospel-worship and it will be found an empty vain thing by which we are no way advantaged and for which there is no reward laid up Vse 2 Well to proceed in Application Instruction Having inserted some clear consequences from the Doctrine I come now in the second place to a Use of Instruction 1. We are here taught wherein the Worship and Service of God doth principally consist viz. in the inward motions and affections of the heart This is Spirit-worship this is to worship God in Spirit and Christ tells us here that this is true Worship He that doth not thus serve God with his Spirit worshipping him with the inward motions and affections of the heart doth but mock God in saying his Prayers as ignorants phrase it and in coming to Church and hearing a Sermon c. Such a one deals with God as the Poets fable that Prometheus dealt with Jupiter in giving him bones covered with skin when all the meat was taken off 2. Learn here That as in God's VVorship we must feel inward motions stirring and the affections must be up so these motions and affections must be spiritual excited in us by the Spirit of God or else we cannot truly be said to worship God in Spirit Now 1. This doth make against all unregenerate persons or hypocrites that are not rerenewed by the Spirit of God however they may feel sometimes some flashings of affection in their Devotion yet these motions are not from the santifying Spirit of God and so they are not true Worshippers 2. It makes against all Idolatrous and Superstitious Worshippers commonly such mens Devotions are very dead usually false worship is grosly hypocritical This people saith God draw near me with their mouth Isa 29.13 and with their lips do honour me but have removed their heart far from me and why Their fear toward me i e. their Worship is taught by the Precepts of men Or if such Worshippers be not grosly hypocritical yet there is a secret hypocrifie and want of spirituality in their Worship The inward motions and affections of the heart which they may feel stirring are not Spiritual but Carnal arising from their own deceitful hearts This is a sure Rule Mr. D. D. said an emiuent Divine The Author of any Worship is in a manner the performer of it Now God his Spirit is not the Author of an Idolatrous or Superstitious Worship but Satan and Man's brain are the Authors of it and surely the Spirit of God owes their inventions no such Service as to attend upon them and help them in the performance of such Worship Let them talk what they please of the usefulness of their Inventions and Additaments and devised Ceremonies for working upon the affections and to excite Devotion The truth is that only the Spirit of God excites true Devotion and in doing this he blows with his own bellowes there is good ground therefore to supect that Devotion which is stirred up by such means as men talk of 3. Learn here that in performing any solemn Service to God there must be a Conjunction of Spirit and Truth There must be a true matter of Worship grounded upon the Word of God it must be no devised Worship and there must be a true manner of Worship it must be done with the very Spirit and come from the heart it must be no formal complemental Worship As one speaks wittily and also solidly Though it must not be Will-worship as opposed to prescribed Worship it must not be a Worship according to our own imaginations or humours or wills yet in regard of performance it must be Will-worship i. e. it must be performed with the Will and Affections These are the two common Errours in men's Worship If there be Truth so that it be a true Worship for the matter of it yet they worship not in Spirit with a true heart and fervent affections Again if there be Spirit some blind kind of Zeal some affections in the service performed yet there is no Truth the Worship is like that of the Samaritans in Mount Gerizim it wants the Truth of God's Word to warrant it Thus some are Samaritans some Jewes either a false Worship or a true Worship with a false heart there are few true worshippers You see here that true Gospel-worship is a Worship in Spirit and in Truth Vse 3 Now there are these Counsels which I would Exhortation from the Text and Doctrine suggest to you and press upon you Is true Gospel-worship a Worship in Spirit and in Truth and is there much Worship in the world among those that pretend to Christianity which is no right Gospel-worship Then Counsel 1 1. Let there be a due examination and tryal of Worships of that which the Word of God commands and commends and of those wayes and modes of Worship which men prescribe and use and which the flesh is ready to close with Let us compare the one with the other and consider which is the best for us to pitch upon and stick to This is a great reason of peoples miscarriage in point of Worship as well as