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A29049 A brief treatise about the spiritual nature of God and of His worship by Edw. Bagshaw ... Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671. 1662 (1662) Wing B405; ESTC R9965 16,963 38

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his Relation unto your Excellent Lady then by his Resemblance and Imitation of the same Vertuous and Noble Qualities Vnto whose indeavours on my behalf I have me thinks made but too faint a return since by his means I have been made partaker of one of the greatest Temporal Happinesses I could ambition and that is an acquaintance with and a Personall Relation to your Lordship and Family in which who ever fails of living virtuously must fall inexcusably by his own Fault since he is every day taught the contrary and that by Eminent and Illustrious Examples As for that other Maske of a Glittering and Pompous Worship which makes the Romane Religion so taking with Vulgar and Injudicious Observers and by which their eyes are so dazzled that they are unwilling to admit of any thing which may undeceive them I did conceive nothing could better take them off from doting upon that Painted Carcasse of Devotion then to make a discourse ahout the Inward purity of Gospel-worship which depends upon and flows from the consideration of Gods Spiritual Nature which were it but once thoroughly understood men would presently spurne and trample upon all that Devised and Fantastick Beauty of the Romish Dagon and when true worshippers felt how much the Splendor of service which feeds the eye is short of the Spirituality of it which satisfies the soul they would no longer feed upon Huskes or let their senses lead them in the choise of their Religion Since it may be found by experience that Thretrical Pomp Delightful Aires Wel-tuned Orisons and the loud Insignificant Jargon of Latine Payers do only glut and sate the appetite but leave the Understanding unfruitful like Rich and Poinant sawces they gratifie the Flesh but perish with the Using and after all the Immoderate care about them their end must be to be cast out into the Draught I have therefore in this short Treatise endeavoured to raise the Soul that it might understand the True Height of Religious Worship by fixing an intent eye upon the Author of it which may be of great Vse in this Age we live in as equally opposing the Bold Atheisme of some and the mean-spirited Superstition of others and because I entend it as an Introduction unto my following Discourse against the Pope and Church of Romes Infallibility I humbly begg your Lordship's acceptance of it which is the only way to make both It and the Author Considerable Since to omit your Lordship 's other Excellencies even in this very part of Learning which argues a great and universal insight of Accurate and close writing as well as speaking your Lordship hath gained such a General and Deserved Esteem that if this piece doth pass into the World under the Countenance of your Lordships Approbation it will be a sufficient pass-port without any other Recommendation But I shall forbear to urge what though it may become me to speak because I speak knowingly yet your Lordship may be unwilling to hear since you care not for living in the Aire of your own praise I shall conclude therefore with desiring that your Lordship may be long preserved to do what you have alwaies hitherto done things truly great and Noble that while others begin to scorn Religion you may still go on to practice the Truth and stricktness of it That with Your Honourable and Virtuous Lady and Family You may shine in the brightest Sphere of Honour here and of Happiness hereafter this is and shall be the Constant Prayer of Drury-Lane Feb. 15. 1661. My Lord Your Lordships most Obliged and most Obedient Servant and Chaplain Edw. Bagshaw Iohn 4.24 God is a Spirit and be will be Worshiped in Spirit and in Truth IN this Chapter is contained the Substance of a Discourse between our Saviour and the Woman of Samaria Vers 19 who perceiving at last that our Saviour was a Prophet because he had told her a thing which she thought concealed from all the World thereupon she presently desires satisfaction in that great and famous Controversie which at that time was handled with great Animosity Namely Whether God was to be Worshiped on Mount Gerizim according to the Samaritan or on Mount Moriah which was Sion according to the Jewish Institution She It seems thinking it absolutely Necessary that God should be served in one of those two places and in no other and to defend her self in her present way of Worship she makes use of that common Asylum of Lazy and Ignorant Superstition I mean Tradition and the Practise of her Fathers Our Fathers saith she Worshipped in this Mountain Vers 20 but ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship To this Demand our Saviour is graciously pleased to return a double Answer First In general whereby he takes away the ground of her Scruple for whereas she erroneously thought that God must necessarily be served in one of those two places our Saviour tells her that the hour or time was approaching when neither on this Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem ye shall worship the Father i.e. that God would no longer have his Worship limited and fixed to this or that peculiar place Mal. 1.11 but as all places were in their own Nature Equal so in every place where men met together to serve God pure Incense viz. of Prayer and Praise should be offered up to God and that it should not be material where but how men served him as to his acceptance of them Secondly And more particularly our Saviour refutes her fond Argument whereby she nuzled up her self in her own Superstition Ye i. Samaritan● Worship saith he ye know not what i. e. However ye plead prescription and Custom of your Ancestors yet in Religious Worship ye ought not to be guided barely by the Example of your Fathers nor draw over you the Mask of Antiquity to countenance an Error for trace up your Opinion to the Top and let it run as high in Antiquity as you please yet as long as you have no certain and infallible Rule to walk by but devise forms of your own Heads and serve God not according to the Word of God but your own Inventions the Older your Opinion is the worse it is as being nothing else but Gray-headed Ignorance and Dotage made incureable by Time But saith he We know what we worship i. We Jews have received from God himself Ordinances and Rites of Worship according to which we serve him not weakly confining God to a Place as you do but obediently worshipping him in that place which he himself hath appointed and of which many glorious things are spoken as that this Mountain shall be exalted above all Mountains Isa 2.2 and all Nations shall flow in unto it And that a Law shall go out from Sion and the Word of God from Jerusalem M●cah 4.1 with many other special Priviledges which long since have been prophesied of in reference to Jerusalem our place of worship by which we know