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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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