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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90660	The loyal non-conformist, or, The religious subject, yielding to God his due, and to Cæsar his right being a discourse from the pulpit touching true gospel worship and due subjection to magistrates / now printed, as it was preached (for the most part) in the month of August, 1662, by T.P.P---N-C.	T. P., P---N-C.	1644 (1644)	Wing P203B; ESTC R42780	86,090	259

be don● according to the revealed Wor● of God rather than what hath been or is done according to the opinions and humours of men Now we are to see how Christ gives satisfaction to this Woman after that he had provoked he thirst after him and his Grace 1. He resolves her touching the true worship 2. He makes himself known to her that he is the Christ that gift of God and that living Water The latter of these lies beyon● my Text and so is not within the Verge of my discourse I am but leading you to the Text upon which I shall fasten Well then as to his resolution concerning the true worship It is an answer to the question propounded vers 20. Whether the Samaritan or Jewish worship was the true worship Now the Answer is not direct as to a decision of the controversie betwixt the Jews and Samaritans which of these two Religions or Worships was the best But the Answer is in effect to this purpose That she needed not so much to trouble her self about this seeing the best of the two was not to continue long as the other ought not to have been at all for Christ sought not to bring her over from the Samaritan Religion to the Jewish but rather to make a Christian of her Jesus said unto her Vers 27 Woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this Mountain nor at Jerusalem worship the Father Woman believe me Thou acknowledgest me to be a Prophet and if I be a Prophet I am to be believed as being guided by an infallible Spirit therefore believe what I say I tell thee The hour cometh c. Here may be three Questions Questions fit to be answered by the way Quest 1 Quest 1. Did the Samaritans Worship the Father Christ his words seem to imply that they did Answ Answ They pretended to worship the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob this was the Father but indeed they did not worship him therefore Christ in the next verse plainly revokes what he seemed in this verse to grant there he saith Ye worship ye know not what when I come to those words I shall shew you what the Samaritan Worship and Religion was Quest 2 Quest. 2. Why doth Christ say Ye shall worship the Father rather than thus Ye shall worship God Answ Answ Calvin thinks that Christ here calls God Father Videtur eum oblique oppone●e patribus c. Calv. in loc in opposition to the fathers which the woman spake of Jacob and his twelve sons the Patriarchs according to whose example the Samaritans worshipped in this mountain pretending to them as their fathers though indeed those Patriarchs were not their fathers for the Samaritans were people of other Nations of the Heathens whom the King of Assyria placed in the Cities of Samaria in stead of the people of Israel who were carried away Captives into Assyria 2 King 17.24 Christ tells this woman that whereas now the Samaritans pretended to worship God in this mountain for which they had no warrant but the example of pretended fathers and the Jews did indeed worship God in the Temple at Jerusalem as God had given command the time was coming when they and the Jews should have one common Father Ac si diceret Deum communem sore patrem omnibus Ibid. even God the Gentiles also being taken into Covenant so that God should hereafter be worshipped without difference or distinction of places or people according to that prophesie Mal. 1.11 But there may be a further Answer given to the question Why Christ saith Ye shall worship the Father rather than ye shall worship God This may be to shew how God is to be worshipped God worshipped as in relation under what notion or consideration viz. not as absolute but as in relation 1. Considered as in the relation of the persons in the Divine Essence between themselves A Divine person is Modus Divinae Essentiae the Divine Essence modified The three persons in the Divine Essence are the Divine Essence considered three manner of ways 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 distinguished from the Essence not by a real distinction as if the Essence were one thing and the Person another but as the manner of the thing We are to observe the order of the subsistence of these Divine Persons In order of subsisting the Father is before the Son and the Son before the Holy Ghost but we must know that they are equal in regard of Time Majesty Glory and Essence The Father is the first person existing from himself not from any other in respect both of Essence and Person Joh. 1.14 The Son is the second person who in the consideration of his person doth exist from the Father by eternal generation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but as to his absolute Essence is of and from himself The Holy Ghost or the Spirit is the third person in respect of his person proceeding and flowing from the Father and the Son but in respect of Essence Joh. 15.26 being God of himself with the Father and the Son And we must know that * Deus sunt inconfuse trinus in unitate indivise unus in trinitate 1 Jo. 57. the Trinity of persons doth not take away or destroy the Unity of the Divine Essence as the Unity of Essence denies not the Trinity of persons these three are one Now this God is to be worshipped as in such a relation of Father Son and Spirit 1 As Father Son and Spirit as considered in such a modification of the Divine Essence we must worship the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity otherwise we worship not God aright nor worship the true God As God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are the object of Divine Faith so they are the object of Divine Worship Prayer is to be directed to God the Father Son and holy Ghost but we must not pray to either of the persons but as united to the other The Apostle tells the Ephesians Ephes 2.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they were without God in the world they were Atheists in the world and how doth he make this good that they were Atheists why thus they were without Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without the knowledge of Christ Though a man acknowledgeth That there is a God and but one true God yet if he knoweth not this God in Christ he is without God in the world he is an Atheist and an Atheist cannot worship God Now here in the Text when the Father is named the other two persons are included We are to call upon God the Father in the name of his Son by the help of his Spirit So that Turks and Jews who acknowledge not Christ worship not God nor many of our common people who understand little or nothing of the Doctrine of the Trinity 2. God the Father is to be worshipped as in relation to Us

it is performed in formality without any care of preparation for it without attention and affection in it when there is no Soul-labour no Spirit-work in all our Worship but a resting in the bare outward act and when that which people do in point of Worship is meerly out of custome or for fashions-sake without any true respect toward God or tendency of the Soul unto him And when people behave themselves carelessly irreverently and rudely in the place and time of VVorship and while they themselves pretend to be worshippers This is corrupt rotten Worship 3. VVorship is horribly corrupted in respect of the kinds and parts of it by taking away from or adding to Gods Institutions or making an exchange with God following our own fancies or other mens inventions instead of God his prescriptions Now Worship that is thus corrupted any of these wayes is not true Gospel-worship or that which is approved of God True Gospel-worship is pure VVorship Now that is pure VVorship for the Object of it which is exhibited to the true God alone conceived of according to the Revelation of him in Scripture And that is pure Worship as to the manner of it which is performed reverently conscionably spiritually and affectionately And that is pure VVorship for the matter in respect of the kinds and parts of Worship which holds strictly to God his appointments when nothing is done in the VVorship of God Contra vel praeter against or besides the VVord of God Thus you have the Demonstration of the point True Gospel-worship is a Worship in Spirit and in Truth For This onely will please God and This onely is a VVorship suitable to God and This is pure VVorship Now I come to application Applicat And I shall in the first place draw up three Inferences for Information 1Vse for Information Infer 1 1. If true Gospel-worship be a worship in Spirit performed with a renewed mind and a renewed heart and affections then the Worship of the prophane person and of the Formalist and Hypocrite is not Gospel-worship for it is not Spirit-worship These men are not renewed in the Spirit of their mind by the Holy Ghost transforming them into the Image of God which stands in Righteousness and holiness of Truth nor do they worship God with their Spirit Men that are notoriously ungodly who devote themselves to carnal pleasures and to the service of base lusts may sometimes act the part of those that seem to be Religious And many there are that put on a made face of Religion and that walk in a disguise seeming to men to be Worshippers of God but there is no truth in their inward parts There is some Religion before men who judge according to outward appearance but there is no Religion in the sight of God who searcheth the heart and trieth the reins Oh! how vain is the Religion of Formal hypocrites that pretend many times to exceeding great Reverence in managing the outward part of Worship and are very Zealous about Circumstantials and Ceremonies placing all or most part of their Religion in gestures and forms and other accidents of Worship and in External observances of humane Constitutions in a pack of Complements but have no regard to the inward Substance and life of Worship are so far from prizing and honouring this that they can reproach revile and rail upon the true tender conscienced sincere spiritual Worshippers and this in Pulpits with blood in their faces and fire in their eyes and the poyson of Aspes under their lips What sentence doth the Spirit of God pass upon such Worship and Worshippers Mat. 15.7 8 9. Ye hypocrites well did Esaias Prophesie of you saying c. Christ here condemns the Worship of the Scribes and Pharisees because they placed Religion in Ceremonies and made up a worship of humane Traditions and preferred these Traditions before God's Commands and he tells them that this is vain worship that which hath no approbation with God is of no advantage to them and is frivolous in it self It is but an idle Mock-worship in which there is not Spirit-work the labour of the heart and affections toward God and wherein men satisfie themselves with a few Superficial Hypocritical Complemental Services This is to offer to God● Sacrifice of husks and shells and lifeless carcasses and will God be pleased with this Let me here insert a word o● Caution to prevent mistakes I have not pitched upon this Text as aiming it or the Doctrine from it or any inference from the Doctrine against al Forms of Worship My Judgement stands not against the u● of a well composed Litugy o● Form of publick Worship I doubt not but there may be Spiritual Worship and heart Devotion and fervency of affection i● the use of a Form though experience may teach us that we a● apt to loose much of our affection by a constant use of the same words or Forms without any interposition of such matter or expressions as may serve to ca● home and quicken affection and attention But alas how many are there that are meerly for Forms without any heart-Devotion that not only are regardless of but even defie and deride Spirit-worship and are zealous for such or such a Form of worship meerly out of humour or haply out of design and in opposition to Gospel-worship and Gospel Worshippers And how many are there that worship God according to their own humours and in such a formal way of purpose to shift off God's Worship that which is Spiritual and Cordial who offer him the lips in repeating Prayers after the Reader that the heart may be excused who if they had not some customary Service to perform and some bodily Worship to be employed in would find little or nothing to do in our Assemblies And how many are they who I dolize the Liturgy and place all their Religion in it Now our Text and Doctrine lies against such Worship and Worshippers as naught as being far from Gospel-worship and Gospel-worshippers Infer 2 If Gospel-worship that which suits with Gospel-times and accords with the Gospel-rule be a Worship in Spirit i. e. a Spiritual Worship in opposition to that which is Carnal and Ceremonious if it be a Worship stript of the cloathing and dress of Ceremonies then hence may be inferred a just condemnation of a body of Ceremonies introduced into the Church of mystical signification by Institution humane appropriated to Divine Worship and made necessary thereunto and parts thereof Spiritual Gospel-worship stands in opposition to a pompous train of Ceremonies and to that Worship which confisteth so much of body What then shall we think of the Popish Worship which is as Ceremonious as ever was the Jewish which is indeed a very Mass of Ceremonies The Apostle Paul tells the Jews Gal. 4.1 2 3. that they were but children when their Ceremonies were in use and indulged to them so that it seems the Popish Religion is a childish Religion The