that God is and that he ought to be worshipped It appeareth by our Saviours reasoning Iohn 4. 24. God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in Truth He giveth directions about the manner of worship but supposeth it that he will be worshipped When God had proclaimed his name and manifested himself to Moses Exod. 34. 8. Moses made hast and bowed himself and worshipped It is the crime charged upon the Gentiles that when they knew God they glorified him not as God Rom. 1. 21. They knew a divine power but did not give him a worship at lest competent to his nature God pleadeth his right Mal. 1. 6. If I be a Father where is mine honour If I be a master where is my fear And God who is the common Parent and absolute Master of all must have both a Worship and Honour in which Reverence and Fear is mixed with Love and Joy So that if God be worship is certainly due to him They that have no worship are as if they had no God The Psalmist proveth Atheism by that Psal. 14. 1. The fool hath said in his heart there is no God and ver 4. They call not upon God The acknowledgement of a King doth imply subjection to his Laws so doth the acknowledgment of his God imply a necessity of worshipping him III. That both Worship and Service is due to God him shalt thou worship and him shalt thou serve The worship of God is both Internal and External The Internal consisteth in that Love and Reverence which we owe to him the External in those offices and duties by which our honour and respect to God is signified and expressed Both are necessary both believing with the heart and confession with the Mouth Rom. 10. 9 10. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved For with the heart man believeth unto Righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation The soul and life of our Worship and Godliness lyeth in our Faith Love Reverence and Delight in God above all other things the visible expression of it is in Invocation Thanksgiving Prayers and Sacraments and other Acts of outward Worship Now it is not enough that we own God with the Heart but we must own him with the Body also In the Heart serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Psal. 2. 11. Such as will become the Greatness and Goodness of God with outward and bodily worship you must now own him in all those prescribed duties in which these Affections are acted The spirit must be in it and the body also There are two extreams some confine all their respect to God to bodily worship and external Forms Mat. 16. 8. This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth and honoureth me with their lips but their hearts are far from me They use the external Rites of worship but their Affections are no way suited to the God whom they Worship It is the Heart must be the principal and chief Agent in the business without which it is but the carcass of a duty without the life and the soul. The other Extream is that we are not called to an external bodily worship under the Gospel why did he then appoint the Ordinances of Preaching Prayer Singing of Psalmes Baptisme and the Lords Supper God that made the whole man body and soul must be worshipped of the whole man Therefore besides the inward Affections there must be external Actions whereby we express our Respect and Reverence to God IV. That both these Religious Worship and Service are due to God alone I prove it by these Arguments 1. Those things which are due to God as God are due to him alone and no Creature without Sacriledge can claim any part and fellowship in that Worship and Adoration neither can it be given to any Creature without Idolatry but now Religious worship and service is due to God as God he is thy Lord and worship thou him Psal. 45. 11. Our worship and service is due to him not onely for his supereminent Excellency but because of our Creation Preservation and Redemption Therefore we must worship and serve him and him onely Isa. 42. 8. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give to another nor my praise to graven Images God challengeth it as Jehovah the great self-being from whom we have received Life and Breath and all things This Glory God will not suffer to be given to another And therefore the Apostle sheweth the wretched estate of the Galatians Chap. 4. 8. When ye knew not God ye did service to them that by nature are no Gods that is they worshipped for Gods those things which really were no Gods There is no kind of Religious worship or service under any name whatsoever to be given to any Creature but to God only for what is due to the Creator as Creator cannot be given to the Creature 2. The nature of Religious worship is such that it cannot be terminated on any Object but God for it is a profession of our Dependance and Subjection Now whatever invisible Power this worship is tendered unto must be Omniscient Omnipresent Omnipotent Omniscient who knowes the Thoughts Cogitations secret purposes of our heart which God alone doth 1 King 8. 39. Give unto every one according to his ways whose heart thou knowest for thou even thou onely knowest the hearts of all the children of Men. It is Gods Prerogative to know the inward motions and thoughts of the heart whether they be sincere or no in their professions of dependance and subjection So Omnipresent that he may be ready at hand to help us and relieve us Ier. 23. 23 24. Am I a God at hand and not a God afar of can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him saith the Lord do not I fill heaven and earth saith the Lord. The Palace of Heaven doth not so confine him and inclose him but that he is present every where by his essential presence and powerful and efficacious Providence Besides Omnipotent Psal. 57. 2. I will cry unto God most high unto God who performeth all things for me Alass what a cold formality were prayer if we should speak to those that know us not and who are not near to help us or have no sufficiency of power to help us Therefore these professions of dependance and subjection must be made to God alone 3. To give Religious Worship to the Creatures it is without command without promise and without Examples and therefore without any Faith in the Worshipper or acceptance of God Where is there any command or direction or approved example of this in Scripture God will accept onely what he commanded and without a promise it will be unprofitable to us and it is a superstitious Innovation of our own to devise any
is Trust This is another Foundation of worship Psal. 62. 8. Trust in the Lord at all times pour out your hearts before him Well then inward Worship lyeth in these two things delightful Adhaesion to God and an intire dependance upon him Without this Worship of God we cannot keep up our service to him Not without delight witness these Scriptures Iob 27. 10. Will he delight himself in the almighty will he alwayes call upon God Isa. 43. 22. But thou hast not called upon me O Iacob but thou hast been weary of me O Israel They that love God and delight in him cannot be long out of his Company they will seek all occasions to meet with God as Ionathan and David whose souls were knit to each other So for dependance and Trust it keepeth up service for they that will not trust God cannot be long true to him Heb. 3. 12. Take heed lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God They that distrust Gods Promises will not long hold out in Gods way for dependance begets observance when we look for all from him we will often come to him and take all out of his hands and be careful how we offend him and displease him What maketh the Christian to be so sedulous and diligent in duties of worship so awful and observant of God his All cometh from God both in life natural and spiritual In life natural Psal. 145. 15 16 17 18. The eyes of all things wait on thee and thou givest them their food in due season Thou openest thy hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing c. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him to all that call upon him in truth He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him he will hear their cry and will save them The Lord preserveth all them that love him Implying That because their eyes are to him the Author of all their blessings therefore they call upon him and cry to him 2. Serve him That implyeth external Reverence and Worship Now we are said to serve him either with respect unto the duties which are more directly to be performed unto God or with respect to our whole Conversation 1. With respect unto the duties which are more directly to be performed unto God such as the Word Prayer Praise Thanksgiving Sacraments Surely these must be attended upon because they are Acts of love to God and Trust in God and these holy Duties are the ways of God wherein he hath promised to meet with his people and hath appointed us to expect his Grace and therefore they must not be neglected by us Therefore serve him in these things for Mar. 4. 24. With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you It is a rule of commerce between us and God 2. In your whole Conversation Luk. 1. 74 75. That we might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the dayes of our life A Christians conversation is a continual Act of Worship he ever behaveth himself as before God doing all things whether they be directed to God or Men out of love to God and fear of God and so turneth second Table duties into first Table duties Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world Iam. 1. 27. Eph. 5. 21. 22. Submitting your selves one to another in the fear of God And next verse Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. So Alms are a Sacrifice Heb. 13. 16. But to do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased 3. Worship and serve God so as it may look like Worship and service performed to God and due to God onely because of his Nature and Attributes His Nature Iohn 4. 24. God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth When Hearts wander and Affections do not answer Expressions is this like worship and service done to an All seeing Spirit His Attributes Greatness Goodness Holiness 1. His Greatness and glorious Majesty Heb. 12. 28. Let us serve him acceptably with Reverence and godly Fear Then is there a stamp of Gods Majesty on the duty 2. His Goodness and Fatherly Love Psal. 100. 2. Serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with singing 3. His Holiness 2 Tim. 1. 3. I thank God whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience 2 Tim. 2. 22. With them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart SERMON VII MATTH 4. 11. Then the Devil leaveth him and behold angels came and ministred unto him IN these words you have the Issue and close of Christ's Temptations The Issue is double I. In respect of the Adversary II. In respect of Christ himself I. In respect of the Adversary then the devil leaveth him II. In respect of Christ himself Behold angels came and ministred unto him I shall consider in both the History and the Observations First The History of it as it properly belongeth to Christ And there 1. Of the first Branch the Recess of Satan then the devil leaveth him 1. It was necessary to be known that Christ had power to chase away the devil at his pleasure that as he was an instance of Temptations so he might be to us a pattern of Victory and Conquest If Satan had continued Tempting this would have been obscured which would have been an infringement of Comfort to us The devil being overcome by Christ he may be also overcome by us Christians 1 Ioh. 5. 18. He that is begotten of God keepeth himself and the wicked one toucheth him not That is he useth all care and diligence to keep himself pure that the devil draw him not into the sin unto death and those deliberate scandalous sins which lead to it Christ having overcome Satan in our name and nature sheweth us the way how to fight against him and overcome him 2. Christ had a work to do in the Valley and therefore was not alwayes to be detained by Temptations in the Wilderness The Spirit that led him thither to be tempted led him back again into Galilee to preach the Gospel Luk. 4. 14. Iesus returned in the power of the spirit into Galilee All things are timed and ordered by God and he limiteth Satan how far and how long he shall tempt 3. In Luke it is said chap. 4. 13. He departed from him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a season He never tempted him again in this solemn way hand to hand but either abusing the simplicity of his own Disciple Mat. 16. 22 23. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him saying Be it far from thee Lord this shall not be unto thee But he turned and said unto Peter Get thee behind me Satan thou art an offence unto me Or else
the Mount he went down to suffer at Ierusalem 2. This was an offence to the Apostles that their Master should dye Matth. 16. 22 23. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him saying be it far from thee Lord this shall not be unto thee 3. This was the Jews stumbling block 1 Cor. 1. 23. We Preach Christ Crucified to the Iews a stumbling block 4. This was prefigured in the Rites of the Law foretold in the Writings of the Prophets In the figures of the Law it was represented Heb. 9. 22. and almost all things are by the Law purged with blood and without the shedding of blood there is no Remission especially the Apostle urgeth the entring of the High Priest with Blood to the Mercy-seat verse 23 24. All the legal Sacrifices were slain their blood brought before the Lord. So the predictions of the Prophets Isa. 53. 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make thy soul an offering for sin c. And Dan. 9. 26. The Messias shall be cut off but not for himself In short that Christ should dye for the sins of the World was the great thing represented in the Law and Prophets Rabbi Simeon and Rabbi Hadersim out of Daniel that after Messias had Preached half seven years he shall be slain 5. It was necessary that by death he should come to his Glory of which now some glympse and foretast was given to him Luke 24. 46. Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and rise from the dead the third day that is with respect to the predictions verse 44. All those things which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Book of Psalms concerning me may be fulfilled and again Luke 24. 21 26. Oh fools and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to have entered into his Glory 6. The Redemption of the Church by Christ is the talk and discourse we shall have in Heaven the Angels and Glorified Spirits are blessing and praising him for this Rev. 5. 9. Thou art worthy for thou wert slain and hast Redeemed us to God by thy Blood The Angels verse 12. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and streneth and glory and honour and blessing The Redeemed Church and glorified Saints and Angels have all one song and one praise the honour of the Lamb that was slain 7. It is an instructive pattern to us that Christ in the midst of his Transfiguration and the Glory which was then put upon him forgat not his Death In the greatest advancements we should think of our desolution if Christ in all his Glory discoursed of his death surely it more becommeth us as necessary for us to prevent the surfeit of Worldly pleasures we should think of the change that is comming For surely every man at his best estate is vanity Psalm 39. 5. In some places they were wont to present a deaths head at their solemn Feasts merry dayes will not alwayes last death will soon put an end to the vain pleasures we enjoy here and the most shining glory will be burnt out to a snuff 2. The notion by which his Death is expressed his decease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies the going out of this Life into another which is to be noted 1. In respect unto Christ his death was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for he went out of this mortal Life into Glory and so it implyeth both his suffering Death and also his Resurrection Act. 2. 24. God hath raised him up having loosed the pains of Death because it was impossible he should be holden of it The Grave was like a Woman ready to be delivered it suffered Throws till this blessed burden was egested 2. With respect to us Peter calls his death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 1. 15. I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease the death of the Godly is a going out but from sin and sorrow to glory and immortality as Israels going out of Egypt whence the second Book of Moses is called Exodus was no destruction and cessation of their being but a going out of the House of Bondage into Liberty Paul saith I desire to be dissolved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 1. 23. a setting sail for the other World In Scripture language the body is the House the soul is the Inhabitant 2 Cor. 5. 1. We know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were disslolved we have a building of God an House not made with hands eternal in the Heavens The soul dwelleth in the body as a Man in a House and death is but a departure out of one House into another not an extinction but a going from House to House 3. The necessity of undergoing it in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this word accomplish noteth three things 1. His Mediatorial duty with a respect to Gods Ordination and Decree declared in the Prophesies of the old Testament which when they are fulfilled are said to be accomplished Whatsoever Christ did in the work of Redemption was with respect to Gods Will and Eternal Decree Acts 4. 28. To do whatsoever thy hand and counsel determined before to be done Now this was the more binding being it was a declared counsel in the Prophesies and Figures of the Old Testament therefore Christ cryed out at his death Iohn 19. 30. It is finished or accomplished Meaning principally that the Prophesies and Figures and Types which prefigured his death were all now accomplished 2. His voluntary submission which he should accomplish noteth his Active and voluntary concurrence it is an active word not passive not to be fulfilled upon him but by him for though his death in regard of his Enemies was violent and enforced yet he voluntarily underwent it for our sakes no man could have taken his Life from him unless he had laid it down Iohn 10. 18. it was not forced upon him but he yielded to it by a voluntary dispensation as to men it was an act of violence but as to his Father it was an act of obedience as to us an act of Love on Christs part his Enemies could not have touched him against his Will as indeed they cannot also one hair of our heads but as God permitteth 3. That it was the eminent Act of his Humiliation for this cause he assumed humane Nature his Humiliation begun at his Birth continued in his Life and was accomplished in dying all was nothing without this for less could not serve the turn then the death of the Son of God then all sufferings were undergone which were necessary to take away sin therefore there is a consummation or perfection attributed to the death of Christ Heb. 10. 14. By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are Sanctified there is done enough to expiate sin
Creatures and the infinite Majesty of God the brightness of his Glory soon burdeneth and over-burdeneth the infirmity of the best Creatures 2. Because of our Weakness 1. Natural We faint when we meet with any thing extraordinary and therefore no wonder if we are astonished with the near approach of the Excellent Majesty of God and made unfit for any action of Body or Mind If we cannot look on the Sun how can we see God our Felicity in Heaven would be our Misery on Earth This Wine is too strong for old Bottles 2. Sinful Infirmity consciousness of guilt is in it also and our disconformity to God through sin Isa. 6. 5 6. Wo is me I am for undone I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips and mine eyes have seen the king the Lord of hosts So Peter Luk. 5. 8. Depart from me for I am a sinful man this raiseth a fear in us upon every eminent approach or discovery of Gods Glory Before the Fall God and Adam were Friends he would have endured God to speak to him yet after the fall the appearance of God became terrible When he heareth his voice he is afraid and hideth himself and something of this fear sticketh to the best of his People and when God is eminently near it is discovered For persons that have sin in them to be near to so Holy and Glorious a Majesty that is a part of the reason of this Fear and Trouble Well then both these causes go together the Representation of the Majesty of God and the sense of our own frailty and weakness USE Is to press us to two things I. To press us to an holy Awe and Reverence when we come near to God II. To take heed that our fear of God do not degenerate into a slavish fear First To press us to an holy Awe and Reverence of God when we draw nigh unto him Surely we should in all our Worship have such thoughts of God as may leave a stamp of Humility and some Impressions of the Majesty and Excellency of God upon us and we should fall upon our faces though not in a way of Consternation yet in a way of Adoration And because usually we bewray much slightness and Irreverence in our converses with God and Approaches to him I shall press it a little 1. I will shew how the Scriptures in the general do call for this Holy Awe of the Majesty of God in all our Worship Psal. 111. 9. Holy and reverend is his name and therefore never to be used by us but in an awful and serious manner Psal. 96. 4. The Lord is great and greatly to be praised he is to be feared above all Gods Whether we pray or whether we praise God still the heart must be deeply possessed with a sense of his Excellency and we must admire him above all created or imaginable greatness whatsoever and so mingle reverence with our most delightful Addresses to him Again Psal. 89. 17. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of his Saints and to be had in reverence of all that are round about him Holy Angels and sanctified Men who of all Creatures have nearest Access to God should most adore and reverence him because they are best acquainted with him and have the clearest sight of him that mortal creatures are capable of The Angels are an assembly of holy Ones that alwayes behold his Face therefore alwayes Lauding and Glorifying God So God is said to be terrible in his holy places Psal. 68. 35. whether Heaven or the Church indeed the awful carriage of his people in his Worship should be one means to convince of the Excellency and Majesty of God 1 Cor. 14. 25. The Apostle sheweth there that an Unbeliever coming into the Christian Assemblies when they are managed with Gravity and Awe is convinced and judged and will fall down on his face and worship God and say God is in you of a truth That is seeing their Humility brokenness of Heart hearing their praises and admirations of God and seeing their orderliness and composedness of Spirit whereas rudeness slightness and irreverence doth pollute and stain the glory of God in their Minds 2. Other Addresses will not become Faith and Love 1. Faith for whosoever cometh to God must fix this principle in his Mind that God is Heb. 1. 6. We do not worship God aright if we do not Worship him as Believers and if we worship him as Believers we will worship him with reverence and godly fear Faith giveth us not only a thought of God but some kind of sight of God and sight will leave an impression upon the heart of reverence and seriousness surely a sight or believing thought of God should be able to do any thing upon the soul. It is the great work of Faith to see him that is invisible Heb. 11. 27. We should in our whole conversation live as in his sight and live as those that remember God standeth by and seeth all that we are about but especially in our worship we then set our selves as before the Lord. Pray as to our Father that seeth what we do Mat. 6. 6. Pray to thy father which is in secret and thy father which seeth in secret will reward thee openly Hear as before the Lord Acts 10. 33. We are all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God Then the Soul should turn the back upon all other things that the mind may be taken up with nothing but God 2. No other worship will become Love Worship is an act of love and delight Now love is seen in admiring the Excellencies of that glorious Being whom we love and ascribing all to him as being deeply affected with his Goodness Rev. 4. 10. The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne and worship him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne saying Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created They fell down not out of astonishment but reverence and cast their Crowns before the Throne Whatever Honour they have they had it from God and are content to lay it at his feet from whom they have life and being and all things They have such an high esteem of God that before him they cannot be too vile They are unworthy to wear any Crown in Gods presence and are content that their Honour be a footstool to advance and extol his Glory Certainly those that are heartily affected to God will go about his Worship as with Chearfulness so with Humility and Reverence Secondly To take heed that our Humility and Reverence do not degenerate into servile Fear and Discouragement It is apt to do so even in the best of Gods People We can hardly keep the middle between the extreams our Faith is
sheweth the esteem of his heart so Ier. 2. 27. saying to a stock thou art my Father and to a stone thou hast brought me forth So under serving sacrifice is comprehended 2 Kings 17. 35. Ye shall not fear other gods nor bow your selves to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them Again burning of Incense Ier. 18. 15. My people have forgotten me they have burnt Incense to vanity Preaching for them Ier. 2. 8. The Pastors also have transgressed against me and the Prophets prophesied by Baal Asking counsel of them Hos. 4. 12. My people ask counsel at their stocks and their staff declareth unto them for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err and they have gone a whoring from under their God So building Temples Altars or other Monuments unto them Hos. 8. 14. Israel hath forgotten his maker and buildeth Temples and 12. 11. Their Altars are as heaps in the furrows of the Fields Erecting of Ministeries or doing any ministerial work for their honour Amos 5. 26. Ye have born the Tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your Images the star of your God which ye made to your selves As God appointed the Levites to bear the Tabernacle for Communion in the service of them 1 Cor. 10. 18. Are not they that eat of the sacrifices partakers of the Altar ver 21. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils ye cannot be partakers of the Lords Table and of the Table of devils So 2 Cor. 6. 16 17. what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols In short for it is endless to reckon up all which the Scripture comprehendeth under service and gestures of reverence Exod. 20. 5. Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them Bowing the knee 1 Kings 19. 18. I have left me seven thousand in Israel which have not bowed the knee to Baal Kissing them Hos. 13. 18. They kiss the Calves Lifting up the eyes Ezek. 2. 15. He hath not lift up his eyes to the Idols of the house of Israel Stretching out the hand Psal. 44. 20. If we have stretched our hands to a strange God So that you see all gestures of Reverence are forbidden as terminated to Idols Thus strict and jealous is God in his Law that we might not bow down and worship the Devil or any thing that is set up by him Doctrine That Religious service and Religious Worship is due to God only and not to be given to Saint or Angel or any Creature Thus Christ defeateth the devils temptation and thus should we be under the awe of Gods Authority that we may not yield to the like temptation when the greatest advantages imaginable are offered to us Here I shall shew I. What is Worship and the Kinds of it II. I shall prove that Worship is due to God III. Not only Worship but service IV. That both are due to God alone 1. What is Worship In the general it implyeth these three things an act of the Judgment apprehending an excellency in the object worshipped an Act of the Will or a readiness to yield it sutably to the degree of excellency which we apprehend in it and an external Act of the body whereby it is expressed This is the general nature of worship common to all the sorts of it 2. The Kinds of it Now Worship is of two kinds Civil and Religious Religious worship is a special duty due to God and commanded in the first Table Civil Honour and Worship is commanded in the second Table They are expressed by Godliness and Righteousness 1 Tim. 6. 11. and Godliness and Honesty 1 Tim. 2. 2. 1. For Religious worship There is a twofold Religious worship one when we are right for the object and do only worship the true God this is required in the first Commandment The other when we are right for the means when we worship the true God by such means as he hath appointed not by an Image Idol or outward representation Opposite to this there is an evil Idolatrous sinful worship when that which is due to the Creator is given to any Creature which is primary or secondary Primary when the Image or Idol is accounted God or worshipped as such as the sottish Heathens do Or secondary when the Images themselves are not worshipped as having any Godhead properly in themselves but as they relate to represent or are made use of in the Worship of him who is accounted God we shall find this done by the wiser Heathens worshipping their Images not as Gods themselves but as intending to worship their gods in these and by these so also among some who would be called Christians Thus the representing the true God by Images is condemned Deut. 4. 15 16 17. Take ye good heed unto your selves for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire lest ye corrupt your selves and make you a graven Image the similitude of any figure the likeness of male or female Again sinful Worship is twofold more gross of Idols representing false gods called worshipping of devils or more subtil when worship is given to Saints or Holy men Acts 10. 25 26. As Peter was comming in Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshipped him But Peter took him up saying stand up I my self also am a man Acts 14. 14 15. Paul and Barnabas when they heard this rent their clothes and ran in among the people crying out and saying Sirs why do you these things we also are men of like Passions with you c. Or to Angels Rev. 22. 8. When Iohn fell at the Angels feet to worship him he said see thou do it not for I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren the Prophets 2. Civil Worship is when we give men and Angels due Reverence and 1. With respect to their stations and relations whatever their qualifications be as to Magistrates Ministers Parents great Men We are to Reverence and Honour them according to their degree and quality according to the fifth Commandment Honour thy Father and thy Mother 1 Thess. 5. 13. and to esteem them very highly in Love for their works sake Or 2. A reverential worshipping or esteeming them for their qualifications of Wisdom and Holiness Acts 2. 47. Good men had favour with all the people Such respect living Saints get such Angels may have when they appear Gen. 18. 2. Abraham bowed himself towards the ground and Gen. 19. 1. Lot rose up to meet them and bowed himself with his face towards the ground Now whether the worship be Civil or Religious may be gathered by the circumstances thereof as if the Act End or other circumstances be Religious the action or worship it self must be so also It is one thing to bow the knee in salutation another thing to bow in Prayer before an Image II. That worship is due to God These two notions live and dye together