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earth_n	body_n	heaven_n	soul_n	16,244	5	5.2792	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61809	Of the reverence due to God in his publick worship a sermon preach'd before the King & Queen, at White-Hall, March 25, 1694, being the 5th Sunday in Lent / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Nicholas Lord Bishop of Chester.	Stratford, Nicholas, 1633-1707.	1694 (1694)	Wing S5937; ESTC R687	12,865	32

was represented both in the Tabernacle and in the Temple by the Figures of the Cherubin woven in the Curtains of the former and carved in the Walls of the latter And if the Angels gave their attendance at the Jewish can it be thought that they pay not as much respect to our Christian Worship If that low and carnal Service had so great an honour vouchsafed to it can it be imagined that that which is more Spiritual and more becoming the Divine Nature should have less If any Man can entertain a thought so unreasonable he may soon be convinced of his error by calling to remembrance That St. Paul took it for granted that the Angels were present at Religious Christian Assemblies and thought this alone a sufficient Reason why Women should there present themselves in a decent Dress For this cause saith he ought the woman to have power 1 Cor. 11. 10. on her head because of the Angels By Power is here meant a Veil the Token of her Husband's Power over her by a Trope not unusual in Holy Scripture so that the Meaning is Such regard ought to be had to the Angels who attend our Publick Worship and observe our Demeanour in it that the Woman out of Respect to them ought to be decently habited to have a Covering on her Head in token of her Subjection to her Husband Were this peculiar Presence of God with his Holy Angels duly consider'd one would think it should cause all Women professing Godliness to present themselves in the Church in a more modest and humble Dress than some of them do To compose us yet to greater Reverence let us consider 4. What the Meaning and Intention of Divine Worship is Is it not as far as we are able to honour God according to his excellent Greatness to acknowledge the infinite distance that is between Him and us to make profession of our entire dependence upon him and subjection to him This surely is the plain Import of every part of Religious Worship In praising God We declare the peerless Excellencies of his Nature and ascribe to him the Glory of his admirable Works In putting up our Petitions to him for the prevention or removal of all evil and for the obtaining of all good things we acknowledge his All-sufficiency and our own Emptiness And what do we else in Thanksgiving but gratefully own our Obligations to his bounteous Goodness for all the good things we either have or hope for Thus the Meaning of every Act of Divine Worship is to give Glory to God by entertaining such Thoughts of him and Affections toward him as are in some sort suitable to the Perfections of his Nature and to those Relations we stand in to him and by representing to others by outward Signs the inward Devotion of our Souls toward him And though it be true That the Body may bow when there is no submission of the Soul to God the Hands may be lifted up to Heaven when the Heart is in the Ends of the Earth yet when the Soul is possessed with the Fear of God it will naturally discover it self by a suitable Composure and Deportment of the Body And therefore when the outward Behaviour is such as no way testifies our honourable Esteem of God we cannot truly be said to worship him because we do not then honour but rather despise him And such is the Carriage of too many Persons in many of our Religious Assemblies so far from giving God the Glory of his incomprehensible Majesty that they durst not behave themselves so disrespectfully in the Presence of their Earthly Prince especially when they come to pay their Homage to him to receive his Commands or to beg some great Favour of him For would any Man shew that Contempt of his Prince as not to attend to his Voice but turn away from him and talk with another Man while his Prince is signifying his Will and Pleasure to him and laying his Commands upon him Would any Man laugh in his Prince's Face at the same time that he is begging the Pardon of his Rebellions and supplicating to him for his Life But how lightly soever these Persons may behave themselves in the Church if at any other time they can prevail with themselves to be serious I beseech them to consider 5. How highly they hereby incense the Displeasure of God against them Contempt though from an Equal can hardly be born with Patience how much more provoking must it needs be from an Inferiour and more yet from a Dependent Were another Man so entirely your Creature that he could not stir a finger or so much as draw one breath without you would not any the least Disrespect from him greatly provoke your Displeasure against him With what Indignation then think you must the Sovereign Lord of All resent the insolent Contempts of such poor impotent things as cannot subsist a moment longer than he pleases and whom with the least breath of his Displeasure he can blow into Hell By the blast of God they perish by the breath of his nostrils they are consumed as Eliphaz Job 4. 9. speaks God is not wont I grant to suffer his Anger to break out upon the first provocation nay he commonly bears long with the most presumptuous Offenders Such is his Goodness that he is not willing that any should perish he therefore gives them time to repent and in that time lays before them the most powerful Motives to bring them to it But though he bears long yet he will not for ever bear with them his Patience will have an end and when that is once expired his Wrath will kindle against them And who knows the power of his Wrath Can you think you shall have Courage to bear up against or Strength to resist his Almighty Arm Can the dry Stubble contend with devouring Fire If not it then concerns you to consider 6. That our God is a consuming Fire This very Argument the Apostle uses to awaken us to Fear and Reverence in his Worship Let Heb. 12. 28 29. us have Grace saith he to serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear Why for our God is a consuming fire The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Stile of the New Testament more especially denotes that serving of God which consists in his solemn Worship and so plainly implies That God is a consuming Fire not only to those who do not worship him at all but to those also who worship him without Reverence and godly Fear Thus he was to Nadab and Abihu the Sons of Aaron in the proper literal sense they Lev. 10. 1 2. presuming to offer Incense with common Fire a Fire went out from the Lord and devoured them Should God be so severe to all those who offer up their Prayers to him with common Affections and put no difference between their Deportment in his House and in any Civil Court how many that come to the Church would never go from