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
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
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
external act of worship is put forth when there is nothing done in point of worship that may fall under the notice of man But this I pray observe That worship which is meerly External is not to speak properly any worship at all but meer hypocrisie and formality and carnal compliance and conformity to custome so that you are not true worshippers before God and in his account and so are not right Gospel Professours and real Christians if your worship be onely External if you satisfie your selves in performing the outward acts of duties not drawing neer to God with the heart this is to bring flesh to God for an Offering and this is not reasonable service 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for God is a Spirit and it is reasonable to offer to him that which is suitable to him spiritual service And as they are not Gospel-professors or true Christians in the account of God who worship not him with an internal spirit-worship though they be never so frequent and constant in external acts of Religion so they that will not afford God the service of the outward man in publick and private actions of Religion and Worship do declare themselves to men not to be real Christians or Gospel-professors because they are not Worshippers of God For as God observeth the heart and judgeth according to what he findeth there so man judgeth according to the outward appearance They who have no care or desire to worship God outwardly in the way of his own Ordinances it is sure that they do not worship him inwardly do not acknowledge him nor believe in him nor love him nor fear him in their hearts Thus you see that true Worship takes up the inward and the outward man Concl. 3 3. As God is to be worshipped with the whole man so with whole Worship Our Worship must extend to all duty God must be observed and obeyed in all things commanded by him in point of Worship we must do that which God hath commanded onely that and all that and as commanded by God 1. Onely that which God hath commanded Seeing all Worship is to be directed to God we must for the matter and substance of Worship be directed and ordered by God that we may know it pleaseth him and that what we do may not be excepted against with a Quis injunxit Who required this at your hands The Word of God is the Christian's Rule for his whole practice nothing ought to be done but what the Scripture commands or allows 2. In worshipping and serving God we must have respect to the whole revealed Will of God to do all that he hath commanded Ye shall observe all my Statutes Lev. 19.37 and all my Judgements and do them Mat. 28.20 Ye shall teach them to observe and do all things whatsoever I have commanded you We must not half it with God in the business of Religion 3. That which we do in the Worship of God the matter whereof is God his Command must be done as commanded with conscience of Gods Command in Obedience to it with respect to God's Will that in doing it we may please him I will praise the Name of God saith David Psa 69.30.31 This shall please the Lord Paul prayeth for the Colossians that they may Walk worthy of the Lord unto all well pleasing Col. 1.10 This is that which a Christian should look to in all his services This is my duty God hath commanded it and in doing this I shall please God therefore I will do it Thus I have briefly shewed you the extent of worship respecting the matter of it all duty omne praeceptum all that God hath commanded with a limitation tantum praeceptum onely that which is commanded and a regulation quâ praeceptum as commanded Concl. 4 1. What we do in point of Worship must be done in Faith through Jesus Christ the Mediator There are divers significations of the Word Faith in Scripture which I shall not now trouble you with but shall plainly shew the meaning of this fourth Conclusion for the opening of our description of Worship 1. We must worship God i◠Faith i. e. with knowledge being well resolved in our ow◠judgment and conscience that what we do suits with the mind of God and so that it is his worship that which he requires and approves of as the Apostle in the case of indifferent things in point of eating or not eating such and such Meats and touching the observation of dayes saith Rom. 14.5 Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind This is the Apostle his meaning there Though to eat or not to eat be indifferent in it self yet let every man take heed in eating or forbearing to eat and see that he doth it with knowledge being well perswaded that what he doth is pleasing unto God Let him that eateth be sure that he doth not sin in eating and let him that forbeareth be sure that he offends not God or his brother in forbearing Now whereas the Apostle requires such a full perswasion about things indifferent much more is it required about necessary things which God hath commanded or forbidden that in these matters we be well resolved of what we take up in practice A man may do that which God commands and forbear that which he prohibits and yet sin in such an action or omission because what he doth he doth not with knowledge his action proceeds not from a judgement well informed and so he doth it not upon good grounds It greatly concerns us that our worship be according to knowledge Whatsoever is not of Faith in this sence is sin It is sin for us to do any thing in the worship of God ignorantly and doubtingly we must be well perswaded that the action pleaseth God as knowing that he hath commanded it or allowes it 2. There must be Faith in our worship i. e. Faith to eye God and to deal with him in every religious duty or exercise Faith to believe in Prayer that God can and will hear and help and give us that which we ask in his Son's Name Faith in reading and hearing the Word of God to believe that it is true in its predictions and promises and threatenings and to apply it to our selves Faith in the use of all Ordinances to believe that God will accept us in them and bless them to us for good There must be Faith to see assistance in the power of God and to fetch strength from the promise T. M. and to see acceptance in the Grace of God and a Reward in the Bounty of God This Faith must be in our Worship that it may be pleasing to God and profitable to us 3. God must be worshipped and obeyed in Faith through Jesus Christ the Mediator i. e. There must be an application of the promise of Grace and an affiance on Jesus Christ for the acceptance of our persons and services Without a Mediator we cannot
once enjoyn and earnestly press subjection to Magistrates There is a wide difference betwixt that liberty which Christ hath purchased for us and that libertinism which Fanatical spirits plead for And as to that other Text which they urge 1 Cor. 7.23 Ye are bought with a price be ye not the servants of men To this I Answer that the Apostle there speaking of the subjection of Servants to their Masters forbiddeth sinful subjection and not civil subjection By Servants of men he meaneth not those that do civil service to their Superiours he forbids not Christians thus to be servants but he speaks of an inclination to gratifie their finful desires and a readiness to obey their wicked Commands for servants were then forced by threatnings and strips and by the terrours of death to obey all the Commands of their unbelieving Masters were they never so dishonest and wicked therefore the Apostle gives this admonition to believing Servants that were under the power of such Masters to take heed that they be not terrified into wickedness that they so serve men as not to offend God and wrong their own Consciences Thus Pareus interprets the place and so Chrysostome Noliâ—e eis parere si impia praecipiant Obey not their ungodly Commands And this admonition is very suitable with respect to the subjection and obedience of Subjects to their Rulers and Magistrates I may and must serve and obey the Magistrate but I must not sin at his Command * Major erga Deum obligatio quam erga homines illa absoluta haec conditionalis Supremae majestati debetur major reverentia Domino quam servo major obedientia When men command what God forbids in such a case God must be obeyed rather than men Walk ye not in the Statutes of your Fathers Ezek. 20.18 19. c. Walk in my Statutes I wish saith Calvin that these things were deeply printed in the minds of all men then would not so many serve the lusts of men as if they themselves were to be bought and sold Well here is the point They whom Christ makes free are free indeed but it is from bondage to their own and other mens lusts not from obedience to the honest Commands and righteous Laws of their Superiours Divers other frivolous objections and absurd pleas there are which have been fully answered over and over again and the Answers are in Print Obj. In Christ say they all are equal there is no distinction of Superiours and Inferiours Gal. 3 28. all are one in Christ Sol. To this it is Answered That politick inequality is not against Spiritual equality Obj. And whereas it is alleadged That Christ is the Christians only King therefore Christians must be subject only to Christ. Sol. The Answer is That though Christ be the sole King of the Church yet he is not the only King in the Church nor is his Kingdom contradictory to or destructive of civil Powers and Government Subordinata non pugnant There is no repugnancy where there is a subordination Kings in the Church serve Christ the great King of the Church and Christ keepeth up Order and maintaineth Government in the Common-wealth for his Church's sake for his own Kingdom 's sake I shall go no further in this Use of Confutation nor shall I stay much longer in the Application of the point only I shall add one word for Information and another of Exhortation Vse 2 We see here Information that Piety is not opposite to civil Authority that true Christianity opposeth not Magistracy that Religion maketh not Rebels but Subjects for subjection and obedience to Magistrates is one of the Principles of true Religion Indeed this is the common slaunder raised by the Devil and his Instruments against Christ and his Kingdom and Servants as if the true Religion and Professors of it were most dangerous to civil States as if the best men were the worst Subjects as if those that are most Religious were worst to be trusted as if there were most need to watch them and keep them under See what an Oration Haman made against God his people stuffing it with malignant Criminations Est 3.8 See what a pestilent Letter Rehum and Shimshai wrote against the Jews sending it to the King Artaxerxes Ezra 4.11 Was not Christ himself accused and condemned as an Enemy to Caesar and a mover of Sedition was it not laid to Paul his charge once and again that he was a pestilent fellow and a mover of Sedition and a Sect-master And thus Popish and profane and Atheistical malignant Spirits have been alwayes ready to cast such aspersions upon sincere Professours of the Gospel upon the most Religious and Conscientious and faithful Ministers and people Oh! they are Factious and Fanatical they are troublers of the Church and State they have a Spirit of Rebellion in them it is not fit they should live Thus the Devil would scare men from embracing the Truth and the Ordinances of Christ and from all forwardness in professing Religion But doubtless the godly Preachers and sincere professors of the Gospel are so far from denying the right of Princes and from a Spirit of Rebellion as that the Doctrine which they bring and which they entertaine and desire to hold fast establisheth the power of Rulers in their hands They are as one saith like Solomon his Workmen that built the Temple and built the Kings's Throne too And surely the more that any man takes in the Principles of the Gospel and of a Christian and the more power Religion hath upon his heart the better Subject will he be The Gospel commandeth all lawful obedience even to Infidel Magistrates such as were when Paul wrote this Epistle to the Romans and the more that the Doctrine of the Gospel comes in power upon the heart the more and better obedience there will be Rulers have no better friends than such as make Conscience of their wayes they are the best subjects to Princes on earth that do truly fear the God of Heaven These pray for Rulers while others do Curse and Swear and drink Healths as they call them thus constantly breaking the Kings Laws and by their wickedness provoking God to bring Judgement upon King and people These that fear God obey for Conscience sake and so as to keep a good Conscience when others obey onely for fear or according to their humour and without Conscience and however such talk of Loyalty and boast themselves the only Loyalists it would I think be no hard matter to demonstrate that none can be truly and certainly Loyal but such as are truly religious They that do not truly fear God do not truly Honour the King Though they may flatter Rulers for their own ends and be ready to serve them in many things so farre as they may serve themselves upon them and carry on their own designes and in those matters that may suit with their own humors yet to serve their lusts