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B09543 The great sin of formality in God's worship: or, The formal worshipper proved a lyar and deceiver. Being the subject of a sermon preacht on the weekly lecture in Boston. / By Joshua Moodey ... Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697. 1691 (1691) Wing M2522; ESTC W24941 19,180 50

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presumption thus to impose upon God to fight against him with our Lies to cover his Face and ask who smote him 5. It is folly in the very Exaltation of it such formal Services are Fools services Solomon calls rash sudden hasty unprepared Sacrifices the Sacrifices of Fools Eccl. 5. 1. I am sure lying ones are such It 's folly for any thus to go about to impose on the Omniscient God the height of folly once to dream of deceiving him and worse than madness it self to do so by him if they did not think they could deceive him 6. It disposes to a vain unprofitable Atheistical Conversation in our whole Deportment As we are in our Worship so we are in all our Walk He that is Formal and Atheistical there will be so elsewhere 2. The soreness of the punishment And you may well imagine that God will in Justice provide a strange punishment for such workers of Iniquity were it only that one Text it were very dreadful Mala. 1. 14. Cursed be the Deceiver If doing the work of the Lord deceitfully does then much more the doing of the worship of the Lord decitfully will bring a Curse Jer. 48. 10. Particularly 1. All such lying worshippers will lose all that they have wrought 2. Joh. 8. all our deceitful Hearing Praying Sabbath-keeping c. will be utterly lost as to any real profit that shall ever come to us by them Oh the many costly laborious services that many Ignorant zealots have lost the painful performances of the Papists that are Lies are all lost the fair out-side shews of the Hypocrite are all lost Those that are least or nothing in the Inside are most in the out-side and they all whose Services are a lye not having the Heart in them use to lye most splendidly of any but they shall get nothing by their lying nothing from God nothing of his Company or Blessing a little Reputation from men they may get but what does that signify They do but worship him in vain Mat. ●5 9. and therefore God bids such deceitful Offerers to bring no more such vain oblation Isa 1. 13. They were utterly in vain as to the great end of them Communion with God by them There were a company of Professing Believers Joh. 2. 23 25 unto whom Christ could not commit himself they seemed to trust him but he would not betrust himself with them because he knew their hearts he knew they were Lyars and Deceivers in their hearts and their outward profession without inward sincerity could obtain nothing with Christ Lying spoils all conversation among men and hinders converse with Christ Pro. 19. 22. The poor man is better than the lyar He that serves God with his Heart though his poverty allows him to offer no more than two mites shall be accepted of God while the more liberal Contributions of heartless and therefore deceitful men shall be rejected The want of the Heart makes it a lye and every lye is lost to the Maker 2. Nay more than so such worship is not only lost to them but very provoking to God they cannot anger a jealous God more than by such Deceitful Services his Anger smokes against lying Prayers and the more of such prayers the more Anger Hence in the first Chapter following on the Text it 's said They increased Lies and Desolation what Lies did they increase sure those lies in worship for which they were blamed in my Text they continued in their formal worship multiplied their Sacrifices and did the while but multiply lies their new Sacrifices were but Compassing God about with new Lies and what did they further increase thereby why they increased Desolation Increase of such Services was increase of Lies increase of Lies was increase of Provocation unto God and consequently of Desolation unto them It 's hard to say whether people do more provoke God by their sins or by their Prayers and Confessions performed with so much Guile and Hypocrisie especially when by those Duties they think to expiate their sins While they are compassing God about with Lies he is compassing them about with Threatnings which like a storm of Hail shall sweep away their Refuge of Lies Outward Judgments are often sent by God upon a Professing People as a Testimony from Heaven against such Falshood and Dissimulation Is not this one main cause of Gods Severity towards us at this day viz our prevaricating with him in his Worship either the total neglect of it in many the deceitful performances in some or the unanswerable walking in all has had a deep share in procuring these Calamities under which we are now labouring Does not the Lord render his Rebukes in flames of Fire for our coldness or false Fire in his Worship The sudden stroke on Nadab and Ab●hu was for their offering up of strange Fire and Lies is strange Fire The Arrow shot out of such a deceitful Bow flies back to the damage of him that shoots it Hos 7. 16. Thus Paul tells us that for the abusing of that Ordinance sickness and death were sent among them 1 Cor. 11. 30. And no way is an Ordinance more abused than by this way of lying Spiritual Judgments though more secret and not so much taken notice of are yet more dreadful and no less certain As evil men and seducers in point of Doctrine so evil men and deceivers in point of Worship wax worse and worse 2 Tim. 3. 13. deceiving and being deceived they deal Deceitfully with God do deceive others as has been already noted and do most lamentably deceive themselves into a false peace till at length they find themselves irrecoverably lost Their worshipp●ng imholdens them to sinning They sin and then bring their Peace-offering and so pay the old score and then begin upon a new Prov. 7. 14. As if by their Duties they ●ad made amends for their past sins and obtained a Dispensation for the committing of more Thus the Prophet brings them in Jer. 7. 9 10. As Stealing and committing Adultery c. and then by Standing i. e. Worshipping or Sacrificing in Gods House think themselves delivered to do all those Abominations i e. delivered from the wickedness already done and licensed to hold on the same Trade still Thus as some turn the Grace of God into Lasciviousness Jude 4 so these turn the Worship of God into Lasciviousness and what greater Spiritual Judgment than to be given up of God to this It is rendered there as a mark of men of old ordained unto Condemnation Nothing more fatal than by vain Services to to be left to vain Confidences till unexpected Ruine at last overtake them And that is the last thing here to be considered viz. 3. The final destruction of such Deceit●●● Worship●●rs whose Plagues will be most wonderful Hypocrites have the forest punishment allotted them Every piece of Deceitful Worship will be an Article in the Indictment They make themselves Twofold more the Children of Damnation than the poor