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A26751	Corporal vvorship discuss'd and defended in a sermon preached at the visitation April 21, 1670, in Saviour's-Church Southwark, and published to prevent farther calumny / by W.B.	Basset, William, 1644-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing B1051; ESTC R37086	18,178	37

made the Centurion say Truly this was the Son of God but also in all points agreed with the Prophesies in the Old and his own words in the New Testament after which having rose again according to the Scripiure he appear'd to above five hundred at once and having commanded his Apostles to teach and baptize all Nations he fitted those illiterate men for so great a task by extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost by which they spake in so many tongues as wrought admiration in all the Proselytes that heard them all which both proves his Divinity and shews he came to Buy us with a price Now God having such an absolute Soveraignty over right to and propriety in us as he is our Creator and Redeemer the conclusion very strongly follows Therefore glorifie God in your body and spirit which are Gods As man is compounded of matter and form so God commands us to glorifie him in both glorifie God in your body and spirit the Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the same with the Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The meaning of which words we may take thus Glorifie i. e. declare the divine perfections and excellencies of God which is done several wayes By intention of the Soul in all the duties In Spirit and Body or exercises of religious worship By innocence and purity of life which is opposed to the Corinthians fornication And also by decent gestures reverent behaviour and corporal adoration in all places and times of divine worship Without intention of the Soul you give God but the husk and shadow Without such reverence and adoration you offer him but an imperfect service Therefore those which God hath joyned together let no man put a sunder but Glorifie him in your body and spirit which are his In all the several factions and parties amongst us there is scarce a man that will not grant it a duty to glorifie God in the Spirit and indeed they separate from us meerly upon pretence of setting up a more pure and spiritual worship and when we speak of such reverence and adoration they think to stop our mouths with that Text John 4.24 The true worshippers shall worship in spirit and in truth if we take the words as much in their sense as we can they do not exclude such reverence and adoration for this is in and flows from a spiritual devotion they may as well hold that he that prays or sings should not speak at all because the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 14.15 That he will do both in the spirit and in the understanding but though this be a Text very illy and absurdly applyed to their purpose as having quite another design for by this Christ shews the Samaritan woman that the time is coming when the true worshippers shall worship not with types and shadows of things to come as in the Old Testament but according to the verity of things exhibited in Christ yet their quoting and wresting of this Scripture doth plainly shew that as on the one hand they seem very zealous of glorifying God in their spirits so on the other they are very averse from and resolute against glorifying him in their bodies I need not therefore insist on the chiefer part it being own'd not only by our Church but by all those who would make themselves our Adversaries too consider them under what notion or terms you please and will therefore discourse on glorifying God in our bodies by decent gestures reverent behaviour and corporal adoration They cannot deny but that God made the body as well as the soul for else the body can be no creature or part of the creation Neither can they deny but that God redeem'd both for else the body can never partake of future happiness seeing without redemption there is no salvation and consequently if there be any glorified souls they shall never be re-united to their bodies after the resurrection but remain in perpetual separation and if so what reason can they give for denying God that glory and worship which is due from one seeing he hath the same right and title to both They likewise as well as we expect and hope that their bodies should be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus and we know that a reward doth necessarily presuppose a duty upon what ground then can they hope that God should glorifie their bodies hereafter if they refuse to glorifie him in their bodies here Should they say they do it sufficiently by keeping their bodies as much as in them lyes from being instruments of sin as fornication or the like I think I may answer this is but a negative devotion which alone cannot denominate any man religious for ex puris negativis nihil concluditur as there is a positive happiness for body and soul so there are positive commands and consequently positive duties to be perform'd by each But because they may instance in some positive duties they perform with their bodies as well as the soul such as be singing praying and preaching I therefore add As God hath by Creation Redemption Preservation Promises and the like lay'd all the obligations upon us that can be to be religious so we should use all means or wayes possibly of glorifying him and if such reverence and adoration be not one I hardly know what is for as the soul is the chiefer part of man but yet is no man till it be joyn'd with the body so the internal devotion of the soul is the chiefer part of religious worship but yet this worship is imperfect till it be accompanied with the reverence and adoration of the body and that exercise of the body before mention'd in singing praying and preaching if there be any other such small things do make up but a very lame service whilst reverent gestures and corporal adoration is wanting they throw in their Annis and Cummin whilst the greater matters of the body are still neglected Let me urge for adoration which being proved decent gestures and reverent behaviour will be proved too as omne majus continet minus or as they are smaller parts of such adoration God did forbid the Jews Exod. 20.5 to bow down to any graven Image which corporal adoration is a part of divine worship else it would not be forbid to be done to Idols whence it appears that this bowing the head or body is unlawful only when terminated to wrong objects as Images and consequently is lawful and necessary too when terminated to the right as the true God and therefore this manner of worship must needs be at least lawful nay necessary if done to the true God only or out of reverence to him toward the place where he is most especially present and accordingly we find that this was practis'd by the Jews without any imputation of sin as I shall shew anon Neither can they say that this was abolished by Christ For the morality of this command doth sufficiently shew it's perpetuity as it is a

perpetual prohibition Thou shalt not bow down to any graven Image so it is a perpetual obligation Thou shalt bow down to the true God for so long as corporal adoration of Images remains forbidden so long corporal adoration of the true God is a part of divine worship and so remains our duty and I hope you will be unwilling enough to take away this command when you consider the consequences of it for the command being taken away that which is forbid by it will become lawful and so we may worship Images They cannot possibly wind off this by saying they do it sufficiently in kneeling to him in prayer for this is but a part of corporal adoration but to come so far to them should they answer thus they must allow kneeling to be a duty and if so why I wonder should it be a duty in their private families and none in the publick Congregation where their practice shews that they think it enough forsooth to sit upon their tails with their hats it may be half on their heads We read of such manner of adoration before there was any law in the world beside that of nature and special revelation for Abraham bowed himself before God and the Gentiles in all parts of the world did the same to those things which they own'd as Gods which shews that this is natural and consequently perpetually obliging for as reason and conscience tells us that there is a God so they oblige us to worship that God with all reverence and adoration imaginable and as many Authors build an argument upon the former to prove the existence of a Deity so we may build as strong an argument on the latter to prove corporal adoration for the law of nature binds as strong in the one as in the other and though in that first age of the world God appeared by created Angels or otherwise in visible shapes which some possibly may think required such special reverence and adoration yet we have his promise that when two or three are gathered together in his name he will be in the midst of them and the Apostle likewise 1 Cor. 11.10 tells us that Angels are present in places and times of divine worship and therefore we are as much oblig'd to pay this reverence and adoration as if God by those Angels or any otherwise was visibly amongst us being undoubtedly assured both by his promise and the Apostle too that he is present especially in consecrated places at such times of worship As this is a part of worship and therefore necessary in it self so it is necessary not only as it speaks the internal devotion of the soul for how can I declare this or any awe or fear of God without reverence and adoration words are not sufficient for many will hardly believe words unless they see suitable actions nor yet is a sober virtuous life enough for some of the Heathen were eminent for moral virtues and yet were very slack or no worshippers of any God at all and we find it no great rarity to see virtue shine very bright in some whom the Presbiterians themselves confidently brand for carnal men but also as it heightens that internal devotion for a being bare standing kneeling bowing and the like must needs affect man with thoughts of his own vileness and the awefulness of that Majesty he is before like Abraham who falling on his face said I am but dust and ashes it being natural to man to ascend from things sensible to those that are purely intelligible and certainly 't is a part of prudence as well as duty to use all means possible of raising our devotion as high as we can That men may not still think this a late invention of our Church or an old error of Rome from whence they fancy we have whatever is decent and comely they may see the Apostle himself very pressing to this purpose 1 Cor. 11. where he both tells the men their duty in Churches and likewise reproves the women's irreverence there verse 4 5. Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered dishonours his head and every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonours her head where by prophesying we must understand singing which hath commonly that term put upon it not only in the Old Testament but amongst the Heathen too who sometimes call'd their Poets Prophets as the learned Mede doth very largely shew for women were not suffered to speak in the Church in a way of teaching now the fault was the same in the women to be uncovered or the men to be covered and the argument he uses to disswade them from those undecent customs to this more reverent behaviour is because of the Angels verse 10. they being present in places and times of divine worship we ought to behave our selves reverently and as they are there all the time so should we be reverent all the time too which is very poorly practis'd by those who are willing to be so far reverent as to be uncover'd at the singing Psalmes which are almost spoyl'd in Hopkin's Poetry or as one speaks in Meeter and good meaning but are unwilling to be uncovered at the reading Psalms or any other parts of Scripture which they have purely from the original which being cover'd and uncover'd we may extend to other parts of external reverence and corporal adoration for it is impossible there should be too much of decency reverence and adoration where God is present by his Angels as Jacob having seen them ascending and descending in a vision said when he wak'd how dreadful is this place it is no other than the house of God! so methinks their presence in such places should awe us into the greatest of internal devotion and external reverence too for how dreadful are such places because of the Angels It is very strongly held by some the fore-quoted Author in particular that some or other of the Angels are constantly in consecrated places and therefore when ever we enter into or pass through those places we ought to shew something of reverence whether it be at time of Service or no and that upon the same reason because of the Angels Suppose we cannot undoubtedly prove this so yet I am confident we can bring far better arguments toward the undenyable proof of it than can possibly be brought against it therefore this must needs be the safer way and certainly except men out of a spirit of contradiction were grown fool-hardy in matters of Religion they would never run the hazard of irreverence and contempt of holy things and places but in time of service it is undenyable from the Apostle's words that we ought to be reverent because of the Angels I may urge farther Churches ought not to be prophan'd or put to common uses as the Apostle shews by an allusion in the next preceeding verse viz. know ye not that your bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost which he urges as an argument to