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A62960	An exhortation unto reformation amplified, by a discourse concerning the parts and progress of that work, according to the word of God, delivered in a sermon preached in the audience of the General Assembly of the Massachusets colony, at Boston in New-England, May 27, 1674, being the day of election there / by Samvel Torrey ...	Torrey, Samuel, 1632-1707.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1674 (1674)	Wing T1916; ESTC R13732	47,259	54

holiness of heart in the Worship of God we must be holy pure spiritual Worshippers we must keep up the Worship of God in the internal spiritual power and purity of it in our hearts these pure Churches Worship and Ordinances will not cannot stand without internal spiritual power and purity If we do corrupt the Worship and Ordinances of God by our Carnality Formality Hypocrisie and Spiritual Idolatry and such like spiritual corruptions and heart-abominations in the exercise of it God will take it from us It is our Spiritual and Heart-Apostacy from internal spiritual power and purity of Worship that is the deep and most dangerous defection of these Churches in Worship And although we do yet retain purity of Worship in the external Form of it yet if we do not speedily recover that which we have lost of the internal spiritual power and purity of Worship but persist in our spiritual Apostacy from it whatever our pretended professed zeal for visible and external purity of Worship may be we shall let go lose all pull down all and bury our selves in our own ruines New-England will be no more unto God then any other people Jer. 9.26 Egypt and Judah and Edom and the children of Ammon and Moab for all these Nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart 4. We must labour to recover our first holy Care and Watchfulness against all Will-worship corrupt Worship and Corruptions in Worship Surely it hath been heretofore and almost hereunto the Commendation of these Churches that they have been sincerely fervently stedfastly zealous against all kindes and degrees of Will-worship It was the Commendation of this Church of Ephesus in her declining state Rev. 2.2 6 how thou canst not bear them that are evil Yet this thou hast God grant that these Churches may never lose this part of their Commendation that our Lord Jesus may never have occasion against us to reprove us and threaten us for our carelesness negligence sinful Connivance and Indulgence in this point as he did the Church of Pergamus Rev. 2.14 and of Thyatira ver 20. because thou sufferest It may be we are too secure and not aware of any danger of corrupt Worship let me say The more need we have of this warning for Will-worship doth ordinarily creep into Reformed Churches whilst they are asleep gradually secretly and insensibly and grow up unto a considerable and formidable height and strength before it appears and before Churches are aware thus the Church of Laod cea deeply corrupted with corrup Worship and knew it not Rev. 3.7 O these Churches in this declining scure lukewarm frame are in great danger of it let us therefore remember and receive the Apostles Exhortation Gal. 5.1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not again intangled with the yoke of bondage 1. Let us take heed and beware of all dispositions and inclinations unto Will-worship Watch against the spirit of it Corrupt Worship gets in first by the spirit and principles of it and by the spiritual working of it in the heart of a people It gets first into the heart a people may uphold the pure Worship of God in the visible and external Form of it with much seeming love and zeal and yet their heart deeply corrupted with a spirit of Will-worship When the heart of a people is gone from God and his Worship it argues their heart is corrupted with a spirit of Will-worship as in Isa 29.13 there is a whorish heart Ezek. 69. They have broken me with their whorish heart there is a spirit of Whoredome Hos 4.12 How far the heart of New-England is corrupted with this spirit of Will-worship with prae-dispositions and inclinations thereunto would we may fear too soon and sadly appear under a temptation thereunto 2. Let us watch against all the wayes and workings of it even the secret subtile insensible infinuations and intrusions of it against all the depths and devices of Satan working by the darkest and deepest Counsels of Hell to introduce Will-worship into Reformed Churches We may think our selves secure from it unless over-born by the over-powering violence of some external Temptation but believe it Satan hath divers and various Forms of Will-worship suited and accommodated to the divers constitutions conditions of Churches and the diverse spirit and disposition of people that he hath to deal withall he hath many Antichrists 1 Joh. 2.17 there is a divers working of the spirit of Antichrist 1 Joh. 4.3 This spirit worketh by the power of Satan in a Mystery of Iniquity 2 Thess 2.7 And truly we have had many Antichrists It hath been alwayes Satans design to introduce corrupt Worship into these Churches under the most specious and spiritual Forms of it by a direct contrary Extreme unto gross Ceremony and Superstition the more cause we have to be very watchful against all such wayes and workings of it 3. Let us watch against all Temptations unto corrupt Worship whether more secret or more open There are many Temptations thereunto there is the Temptation of false Teachers corrupting the Doctrine of Worship and teaching of Will-worship Mat. 15.9 Teaching for doctrines the Commandments of men Rev. 2.20 to teach and to seduce There is the Temptation of corrupt Communion tempting Communion Col. 2.18 Let no man beguile you c. There is the Temptation of Division and Dissention tending to drive dividing Parties into Extremes in those matters of Worship which they contend about 1 Cor. 3.4 17. The Interest of a Party it is a very great and strong Temptation a spirit of Division especially when acting and working with a blinde inordinate preposterous superstitious Zeal in matters of Worship and when it is become judicial and incurable never fails to bring in corrupt Worship at one door or another It is the design of Satan to bring in Will-worship in the smoke and smother of the fire of Contentions Divisions do alwayes corrupt Churches There is also the Temptation of an undue Toleration which doth open a way to all the former and lead into corrupt Compliances in wayes of corrupt Worship Rev. 2.20 There is also the Temptation of Persecution and Tribulation O there are many Temptations unto corrupt Worship and these Churches have not been without some of these Temptations thereunto such Temptations are likely to multiply upon us O what cause have we then to be zealously and wakefully watchful more especially against such Temptations which are instant and most urgent and prevalent and of which we do already begin to see and feel the sad and lamentable effects and that confidering there is such a prae-disposition in the very Spirit and Constitution of the Generation to enter into this Temptation and such a powerful working of a Spirit of Libertinism to make way for and lead into this Temptation and also that men of corrupt Spirits Principles and Practises scandalous corrupters and broachers of corrupt Worship