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A85780	Ortholatreia: or, A brief discourse concerning bodily worship: proving it to be Gods due; to be given unto him with acceptation on his part, and not to be denyed him without sin, on ours. A thing worthy to be taken into consideration in these dayes, wherein prophaness and irreverence toward the sacred Majesty of God hath so much corrupted our religious assemblies, that men are regardless of their being before God, or of Gods being amongst them in his own house. / By S.G. late preacher of the Word of God in the Cathedrall Church of Peterburgh.	Gunton, Simon, 1609-1676.	1650 (1650)	Wing G2247; Thomason E592_8; ESTC R206877	34,540	64

God IT appears by the example of Moses and Aaron that it is not safe for a man to hold his peace when there is occasion to vindi cate Gods honour lying at stake or called in question for we read in the Twentieth Chapter of the book of Numbers how that the Israelites came to the wilderness of Zin and murmured there because there was no water and because Moses and Aaron did not believe the Lord to sanctifie him in the eyes of the children of Israel by declaring his Power and Providence that God both could and would provide things necessary for them for this Omission God was so angry with them that he would not suffer them to enter into the promised Land as appears plainly at the twelfth Verse of the same Chapter And at the eight and twentieth Verse is recorded how that this sentence was executed upon Aaron for God sent him up into mount Hor and there he died And in the twenty seventh Chapter of the same book of Numbers vers. 12 13 14 and likewise Deut. 32. 49 50 51. mention is made of the death of Moses in mount Nebo for the same fault of not sanctifying the Lord in the midst of the children of Israel We cannot conceive of this otherwise then that it was set for a president and an exemplary Caveat to the Magistracie and Priesthood in all succeeding Generations to the worlds end that they be careful to vindicate and maintain Gods honour with his Divine priviledges and prerogatives in the sight of the people lest God stop the passage against them and deny them entrance into the heavenly Canaan The consideration of which is necessary for these days of ours wherein there is great murmuring that Corporal Reverence and Worship should be given unto God and it is not onely neglected and opposed but branded with ignominy slander and reproach which whether they be just or injurious I shall God willing according to my ability endeavour to make appear in this ensuing Discourse upon a portion of Scripture which alludeth to that Subject Adorabis Dominum Deum tuum Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God It cannot be objected with any shew of reason that the Spiritual Worship of God I mean that of the Soul onely should be here precisely understood the occasion will lead us to the sense which may be deduced from the Verse going before where we see what a large proffer the devil made unto our Saviour that he would give him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them if he would fall down and worship him And surely it was Corporal worship that the devil would have had The devil saith Mr Perkins desired of Christ no more then the prostrating of his body and the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the devils proposition which is for falling down plainly demonstrates as much being taken in the common course of Scripture for no other then a Bodily act Besides if our Saviours reply to the devils temptation should not be taken in the same sense of Corporal adoration as the devil propounded it then did not our Saviour give a pertinent and satisfactory answer to the devils motion which were vile to think The devil was a subtil Sophister and if he should have seen our Savior to lie open in that ward as to intend Spiritual worship when h spake of Corporal he would soon have replied Worship the Lord thy God with thy spirit according to thine own meaning and worship me with thy body according to my meaning Therefore it cannot be but that our Saviour confuted the devil in his own sense of Bodily worship by laying the Law before him whereby he shewed him how that all men and himself amongst the rest were bound to give their Worship unto God and not to alienate it from him as the devil would have had him done It was the most presumptuous motion that ever the devil made to have had Christ worship him Never was such a thing heard of before that the foul fiend the cursed angel should seek to be worshipped of Him whom all the blessed Angels worship and adore How durst he attempt to rob God of his Royal priviledge of Corporal adoration and require it even from the Son of God But we see the devils pride and what his aim is To exalt himself into Gods Chair of State and if he can to deprive him of his incommunicable prerogatives Nothing will serve his turn but the things that pertain to God to despoil God of these is his desire and glory And this may give us occasion to apprehend a fair probability that Religious Bodily worship is Gods propriety and due that the devil was so eager upon it and for this bethought himself to assail our Saviour with the strongest temptation that possibly he could to wit the Wealth Honour and Glory of this world thinking that if any thing would prevail it must be that Because with this bait he had taken many great ones in preceding Ages of the world he thought he might at this time take our Saviour also But the great Deceiver found himself greatly deceived And as he was deceived in himself so I wish he may no longer deceive those that oppose themselves against Bodily worship denying that it should be given to God For to this the devils policy works that if he cannot get Corporal adoration to himself amongst Christians as he hath of some poor Heathenish people in some places of the world then he will do what he can to hinder God that he shall not have it neither Nec mei nec Dei cries the devil then Let it be neither mine nor Gods Put we have a contrary voice in this Scripture Adorabis c. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God We see then in what sense these words are to be understood of Outward not onely Inward of Corporal not onely Spiritual adoration Here saith Mr Perkins we must understand our Saviour Christ to mean Outward Divine Worship as if he should say Thou shalt religiously submit bow or prostrate thy body unto God in Prayer and Thanksgiving And the word which our Saviour useth here and is also commonly used in other places serving to this purpose may import as much {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith Zanchie is derived from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifies a Dog as if Man was sent {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to school to this dumb creature to observe how he croucheth and humbleth himself at the foot of his master being of all creatures most familiarly docible this way that from thence Man might learn to prostrate himself in all humility before God Proceed we now to the examination of this business observing this Order 1. To examine what is commonly objected against it on the negative part 2. What evidence or authority may be produced to defend or require it on the affirmative part

Ορθολατρεία OR A BRIEF DISCOURSE CONCERNING Bodily Worship Proving it to be GODS DUE To be given unto him with acceptation on his part and not to be denyed him without Sin on ours A thing worthy to be taken into Consideration in these dayes wherein Prophaness and Irreverence toward the sacred Majesty of God hath so much corrupted our Religious Assemblies that men are regardless of their being before God or of Gods being amongst them in his own House By S. G. late Preacher of the Word of God in the Cathedrall Church of PETERBURGH PSAL. 89.7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the Saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him 95.6 O come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker 99.5 Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his footstool for he is holy 132.7 We will go into his Tabernacles we will worship at his footstool MICAH 6.6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bow my self before the high God MATTH. 22. 21. Render unto God the things that are Gods London Printed for Gabriel Bedell M. M. and T. C. and are to be sold at their shop at the middle-Temple gate in Fleetstreet 1650. PREFACE WHen a Kingdom or People stand in need of Reformation as none ever were in more need then we it is undoubtedly a good way to observe the same Method that God himself did in his proceeding to judgement against the house of Judah Ezek. 9.6 beginning at his Sanctuary The things that are amiss there let them be rectified and amended as deserving it in the first place and then like lines extended from the Centre to the Circumference Reformation will the more happily diffuse it self into other places For the Sanctuary being the fountain whence help and divine protection issue Psal. 20.2 the treasury where all blessings are to be obtained by the people of God when they make their holy humble and devout addresses to him cleanse That and the things there and then the Streams will flow more fairly into such places as want watering For this purpose here is a Besom to sweep away an horrid abuse wherewith the adversary to God and Man Religion and Decency hath much and long corrupted our Publike Assemblies before God in his Sanctuary and that is Profaness and Irreverence toward the sacred Majestie of God before whom the appearance is which is after so rude a manner as if God were equal nay inferiour to the meanest of us Though contrarily the expulsion of Corporal adoration and reverence out of our Publike Assemblies be now accounted an act of Reformation 't is no wonder when in all corrupt Ages and Places Evil hath been called Good and Good Evil Vices have been called Vertues and so embraced and Vertues Vices and so detested Piety having been branded with Nick-names and Irreligion assuming specious appellations That hath gotten Spittle from the mouth This kisses from the lips Now for this poor Treatise creeping forth into publike view if it may to reform what is amiss and to advance the honour of God in this particular I am not ignorant how that in many respects it may receive such a Terrifying Advertisement as Moses did from Pharaoh Exod. 10.10 Look to it for evil is before you Some because they see not the name of some learned Worthy which commonly is a great advantage to a Book prefixed may say in scorn with those in Siracides What fellow 's this Some again apprehending by the Title-page the general Subject or galloping the Treatise it self over with an hasty eye may say as the Iews did against S. Paul This fellow perswadeth men to worship God contrary to the Law A Third sort may accuse the Work of Unseasonableness That it came not forth into the world like the Shunemite-woman into the Kings presence just when the thing was in the words when the business was in agitation but long after the Question is ceased and the general inclination hath since been to the Negative But as the Apostle said in another case None of these things move me Let these and greater Evils then these arise against this poor Treatise I pass not so I have Truth and Religion on my side for which upon my best though I confess but weak examination 1 finde nothing why I should decline any ludge whatsoever whether it be God himself whose Cause this is and whose Minde in this case is to be seen in his written Word or any inferiour under him either Ancient or Modern Christian or Heathen the Atheist onely excepted and amongst Christians him who hath so firmly betrothed himself to a Prejudicate Opinion that he will not be divorced from it And for thee Reader whoever thou art If knowing and hast concerning this Subject greater illuminations in thine Heart then these in thine Hand impart them if not accept of these If ignorant thy thoughts having not as yet been conversant in these things Do not think that I have any designe to abuse or deceive thee as if I would convey a mote into thine eye by presenting this Treatise to the view of it No God is witness my aim is to elevate thy Devotion to that just height as that thou mayst fully and compleatly acknowledge God by worshipping him with thy Soul and Body not superstitiously hypocritically affectedly or any other irregular way but humbly and sincerely according to thy duty in thy appearances before him when his own eye and the eyes of his holy Angels are upon thee observing thy behaviour in those approaches which if it be not answerable to his Divine presence thou canst have no cause to think but that God will dislike thee as Achish did David when he counterfeited Madness before him letting the spittle fall upon his beard Take heed then lest thou go out of Gods presence guilty of Iacob's over-sight Surely the Lord is in this place and I was not aware and so though thy coming in might be in hope of a blessing yet thou goest away without it having by thy profane rudeness provoked God so as neither to accept thy Person nor thy Prayer nor any Duty which thou hast performed but with the rich in the Gospel to send thee empty away And perhaps more then so hast provoked him to wrath that he should execute positively some vengeance upon thee making a breach upon thee as upon Uzzah for that thou hast not sought him after the due order in such an humble and reverent way as befitteth so great and glorious a Majesty If thou have a desire to prevent these things and to excite Gods henevolence towards thee beware of rude irruptions into and dissolute continuance in Gods presence I shall say no more but commending thee to the race of God and this poor Treatise to thy discreet Perusal bid thee Farewel ὈΡΘΟΛΑΤΡΕΊΑ MATTH. 4. 10. LUKE 4. 8. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy