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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23818	The reform'd samaritan, or, The worship of God by the measures of spirit and truth preached for a visitation-sermon at the convention of the clergy, by the reverend Arch-Deacon of Coventry, in Coventry, April the sixth, 1676 : to which is annexed, a review of a short discourse printed in 1649, about the necessity and expediency of worshipping God by set forms / by John Allington ...	Allington, John, d. 1682.	1678 (1678)	Wing A1213; ESTC R2327	57,253	87

outward Expression be not answerable to the inward Meaning if we think one thing and say another though we say better than we think there is no sincerity nor truth in what we say Even so here if we pretend in Spirit to have in us the dreadful apprehension of our God when in outward appearance we shew nothing less if this be to worship in Spirit it is not it cannot be in Truth For the signes of Fellowship of Familiarity and of Boldness they can no more be the true expressions of the inward apprehension of Majesty Terrour and an infinite Distance than can Vomiting be of Sobriety outward Cheating of inward Honesty Railing and Wronging of inward Charity For they who know any thing of Truth cannot but know that Truth in general is nothing else but an outward Conformity to the inward Apprehension a real Evidence and Interpreter of the inward meaning And therefore wheresoever the outward conformity is not answerable to the inward conception and the outward Demeanour is not proportionable to the Spirit that acts within let people pretend what height and holiness of Spirit can be imagined Spirit and Truth are never evidenced in God's Worship or which is all one to God's honour and glory unless the outward Demeanour be proportioned to the inward Spirit and the Spirit within be really conformed to his Greatness 1 Cor. 14. St. Paul speaking of a Christian convert whose Spirit was touched with the Greatness Goodness and the Glory of his God tells us so active and powerful was the inspired Spirit that it inforced a manifestation of the truth of it for Falling down on his face he worshipped God Now without peradventure had those who pretend to have the most holy and best spirits such a feeling and real sense of the Goodness Greatness and the Glory of God as had the Convert Even they as well as he would fall upon thier Faces or at least in God's publick Worship give some more probable and better evidence that they fear God and that they are before him but as Dust and Ashes for if the spiritual man is the greatest discerner if he is most sensible of what a God he serves certainly then either there is no truth in him or he is the most devout and the humblest worshipper in the world Amongst us men in case God should sensibly reveal himself and manifest himself to the Eye as in the Bush to Moses or in the habit of the Captain of an Hoast to Joshua or in Thundring and Lightening upon mount Sinai In such a case as this I believe very few if any but would say we were bound to worship and in pursuance of that worship to humble our Bodies to fall upon our Faces and even ontwardly to use the utmost reverence that we could And here I have a special Appeal to those who themselves confessing are in the religious attendance of their God put on their Hata To them I appeal whether if the Great God even now should at this instant break in upon them and shew himself as I have already said as terrible as upon mount Sinai or in a flaming Bush or but as he did to Joshua with a Sword in his Hand I desire such to consider whether such an Apparition or such a Manifestation would not not onely move but hasten them to throw off their Hats to fall upon their Knees yea prostrate on their Faces Now then if it be so I beseech you let us calmly consider what is the solemn real and serious bottom or motive for which we ought to give unto our God all Glory Honour Reverence and Worship Is it Visibility or is it Sight If so then none are bound to Reverence Worship Kneel or fall down before him but those onely who see him with their Eyes and behold him as a thing sensible whereas God himself hath told us Exod. 33. 21. There shall no man see me and live The ground then Foundation and Motive to glorifie and worship God it is not in Sense but in Faith it is not the seeing but the believing the Glory Majesty Dominion Power and Greatness of our God that should move Christians to fear adore and worship And therefore if we believe God to be in Heaven as glorious as the Angels see him as terrible as the Damned finde him or as dreadful as he appeared upon Mount Sinai If we believe him to be a God mighty in Power glorious in Majesty and that God who is to be feared above all Gods In the Name of that God I beseech you let us but manifest that Faith and my Text is done for so to do doubtless is to worship the Father both in Spirit and in truth Matth. 18. 20. Where two or three are gathered together in my Name there am I in the midst of them Our Saviour did not say there you shall behold or see me yet he positively said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There am I. Now being God will be worshipped where he is not seen let us but so pray so praise so sing so worship where he is though not seen as if we did see him we believe we ought there would never be any further dispute or demur about outward Worship For the Spirit of God and Truth are in such a perfect union that he who worships in Spirit that is in the due Faith and fear of God he will be devout he will be humble he will by a meet demeanour and outward deportment shew the reality and truth of such a Spirit for such cannot but conclude the truth No publick Worship can or ought to be in Spirit onely Thirdly The Christian practise of worshipping God by Adoration and Liturgies demonstrates that they held that way the way of worshipping God in spirit and in truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adoratio or as we render it Worship it is taken either in Abstracto or in Concreto as the School that is either for an Act of it self or as in Conjunction with some other Christian-duty Matth. 4. When the Devil made his last assault upon our Saviour he did require neither Prayer nor Praise nor Sacrifice nor Oblation onely thus said Vers 9. All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me He onely required an outward act of Worship abstracted from all Duty Whence it appears to me that Adoration or Worship abstractly considered when it onely imports God's Majesty and our Distance even thus and no more it is of great account with God Almighty or else the subtile Devil would never have attempted by a single act of Adoration to have robbed the World of a Redeemer by thus doing to make the Saviour of Mankinde a Sinner But by Worship in the Text we are not to understand Worship in the Abstract but as going along with other Duties such as make up Christian Worship Now that it may appear that unless the Christian Church for of Schismatical and Fanatick spirits unless by pity