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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34542	The remains of the reverend and learned Mr. John Corbet, late of Chichester printed from his own manuscripts.; Selections. 1684	Corbet, John, 1620-1680.	1684 (1684)	Wing C6262; ESTC R2134	198,975	272

Acts of observance towards God we are upon this ground immediately obliged unto they are Natural Worship due to God as our Creator All Natural Worship due to God as Creator is discernable by natural revelation or the Book of Nature In Nature intire it was clearly and compleatly thereby discernable but in Nature fallen more dimly and defectively yet not for want of objective evidence but for the indisposition of our faculty Likewise to God our Redeemer there is a Worship due from us naturally and immediately arising from our redemption and our relation to God therein founded And it is our redemption being supposed no more of Gods arbitrary institution than that Worship which is founded in the Law of our Creation and primitive State To the knowledg of this sort of Natural Worship we come by means of that Divine revelation by which we come to the knowledg of our redeemed state But the knowledg of our redeemed state being supposed natural Reason will shew that such and such Acts of observance in specie are naturally and indispensably due to God our Redeemer § 6. Of Divine instituted Worship INstituted Worship is that which depends in specie and immediately upon Gods free Will and Arbitrary institution But the institution being made and continuing it is naturally and necessarily due to God so far as he requires it tho it be not immediately natural For our natural and unchangeable relation to God necessarily and perpetually obliges us to whatsoever God hath appointed so far and so long as he hath appointed it § 7. Of Moral and Ceremonial Worship THis distinction being commonly used must here be taken notice of It is wholly coincident with the former For that which is commonly called Moral is for the most part but not all of it natural Worship nor perhaps is all natural Worship to be called Moral for there may be some natural Ceremonies that is to say naturally laudable tho not absolutely necessary Nor is all instituted Worship Ceremonial but some is Moral as observing of the weekly Sabbath or Lords day Nor is all Ceremonial Worship instituted For besides natural ceremonies other ceremonious religious Acts may be used arbitrarily and occasionally and but once indeed such Acts may be called instituted as Instituted is opposed to Natural but not as it betokens stated or setled The word Moral is ambiguous and as I suppose inconveniently used in this matter as it also is when used in distinguishing the divine Law into Moral and Ceremonial For every Law is Moral or circa mores and all Worship is Moral as being an Act of our behaviour conformable to the divine Law Nevertheless we must yield to use which hath the dominion of words and inquire into the meaning of this word in this point Sometimes the word in this case is taken by them that use it for that which is of perpetual right But that this is not the adequate sense appears for that some things not ceremonial but esteemed moral are not perpetual And there is a common distinction between Moral natural and Moral positive and that Moral positive is not in the nature of the thing perpetual is unquestionable and it is evident that some Moral positive is not de facto of perpetual right as the old seventh-Seventh-day Sabbath Concerning which day tho there might be something ceremonial in the corporal rest thereof especially under the Mosaical dispensation yet the observing of that measure of time and that special day every week set a part for Gods solemn Worship was not ceremonial nor yet natural but Moral positive yet not perpetual Besides there is nothing in the nature of the thing to hinder the perpetuity of some ceremonial Law or Worship if it pleased God to perpetuate it Yea there are some ceremonial Ordinances of Divine Worship now instituted that are to indure to the Consummation of all things namely the two Sacraments of the New Testament The best distinguishing-terms that I can find to express what is generally meant by Moral and Ceremonial Worship is That the former is substantial ●nd by it self Divine Worship the later is but a supplemental as an appurtenance to the former the better to express it and set it off and externally to compleat it I suppose the term Complemental might here fitly enough be used but that it sounds ill from the sense which it hath in common use And meer ceremonial persons do indeed but complement with God according to the common meaning of that word Tho ceremonial Worship be but supplemental to that which is called Moral and Substantial yet being appointed of God it is not to be lightly esteemed but to be valued according to its importance And there be some parts or kinds thereof that are of high importance in Religion as the Sacraments and Sacrifies under the the Old Testament and the Sacraments of the New-Testament § 8. The parts of Worship distinguished from the adjuncts or accidents thereof WOrship may be considered both as a generical and as an integral whole and accordingly it hath specifical and integral parts Every specifical part or kind thereof hath in it the common name and nature of the genus And every integral part of the same species is homogenial and hath the name and nature of that species And the specifically different parts may be considered as integral parts and heterogenial that go to the making up of one intire Divine Service It imports much to discern and distinguish rightly between Worship it self and the accidents thereof without which it is not performable or at least not performable in due manner such as are order method phrase or form of words degree frequency time place furniture These things appertain to Divine Worship not in any peculiar reason but in common as to all grave civil or humane actions Nor do these things immediately and directly respect God and his Honour to whom the Worship is directed but Man and his convenience by whom the Worship is performed Nevertheless God and his Honour is concerned in them in as much as he is concerned that men be set in all convenient circumstances for his Worship and therefore ultimately they respect him and they are to be used for the hallowing of his name I take not this to be any constitutive or consecutive difference between the Worship it self and its adjuncts that the one makes acceptable to God and is a means of Grace from him and the other not For I conceive both the one and the other may have this effect tho not in equal degree Tho Ceremonial Worship be but an appurtenance of that which is called Moral yet it is truly a species of Worship as having the common nature of Worship in it Howbeit it is but an Analogical species as having the nature of its genus but in an inferior way §. 9. Of those acts of Religion that are Moral Natural Worship THE acts of Religion that are Moral Natural Worship are the hearing of Gods word with