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A85780	Ortholatreia: or, A brief discourse concerning bodily worship: proving it to be Gods due; to be given unto him with acceptation on his part, and not to be denyed him without sin, on ours. A thing worthy to be taken into consideration in these dayes, wherein prophaness and irreverence toward the sacred Majesty of God hath so much corrupted our religious assemblies, that men are regardless of their being before God, or of Gods being amongst them in his own house. / By S.G. late preacher of the Word of God in the Cathedrall Church of Peterburgh.	Gunton, Simon, 1609-1676.	1650 (1650)	Wing G2247; Thomason E592_8; ESTC R206877	34,540	64

bodies of ours into his presence and permit them to appear before him whereas he might justly debar them of this happines by reason of the infinite Disparity betwixt Himself and them Shall these Bodies then appear before this presence without expression of reverence and worship Be astonished O ye heavens at this Certainly if any man may be ranked in the number of those whom holy Job taxeth for rebelling against the light it is he that is perswaded he may rush into and be in Gods presence without reverence and worship I say Against the light for it need not be doubted but that even Nature and Grace do both of them project their light this way teaching Bodily reverence and worship unto God Naaman will bow in the house of Rimmon so propense is Nature it self to present Bodily adoration to that deity which the Fancie hath conceived The Muscovites not many yeers since when they entred into one anothers houses they first looked about them to see what Images there were which when once they espied they worshipped and then saluted their friends If we must salute men in the house of God of which for my part I see no necessity or not so Great necessity as of that which respects God himself it were good if we would take notice of God first But we can rush into Gods house and there diligently spend our salutations and obeysances upon this and that body and God because he hath no Body to appear visibly honourable must be accounted No body Either he shall have no worship at all or a very slight one For a man to come before so glorious a God to hear to pray to sing and to do it with no more nay perhaps less reverence then if he were coming into some Trades mans shop What is it to sacrifice a lamb as if be cut off a dogs neck if this be not But what occasion does this administer unto Heathenish Idolaters to triumph over us Christians that they should be ruled by Nature in giving reverence and worship to their gods though false ones whereas we who pretend much to Grace will not be taught by it to adore and worship the true God from whom our grace comes Would any Idolater in the world though blinde yet devout in his way be so irreverently loose and profane before his Devil as we before the great God of heaven and earth Although such Idolaters shall themselves be condemned for their Idolatry yet certainly they shall rise up in judgement against us Christians and condemn us for our profaneness As God urged the Heathens holding them to their gods Jer. 2. 11 against the levity and inconstancy of his own people in changing him so will he produce their reverence and worship to their gods against our slackness in not giving him that Bodily worship which is due unto him Amongst those many sins which threaten the ruine of this our sinful Nation and call on us for amendment we may justly fear that this is not the least Let us then in the Name of God consider the Majestie of God before whom we appear our own unworthiness to appear before him the infinite distance and disproportion that is betwixt him and us that his own eyes and the eyes of his holy Angels are upon us observing our behaviour in coming into and abiding in his presence that we are called upon to yeeld him due reverence and worship not onely with our Souls but our Bodies likewise And if our hearts be not obstinately bent to resist the Truth which God forbid we shall see what pressing engagements lie upon us to worship the Lord our God These Arguments I conceive both for number and weight sufficient to establish this Truth Yet I shall make request in the words of Elihu Job 36.2 Suffer me a little and I will shew thee that I have jet to speak on Gods behalf I shall produce two Arguments more and those shall be from the very words themselves Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God The first of them shall be from the manner of our Saviours alleadging these words Our Saviour immediately before saith Scriptumest It is written Now we know that Bodily worship to be given unto God is written in many places of the Old Testament But what particular place is it which our Saviour may be thought to have had respect unto that this his allegation may be referred to it and compared with it I think it not amiss to follow the margin in our Bibles which directs us to Dent 6.13 and Dent 10.20 Examine either of the places and compare them with our Saviours allegation and see some difference in the terms Moses saith Timebis Thou shalt fear and our Saviour saith Adorabis Thou shalt worship And what may be the reason of this difference I answer The Feat of God may have a twofold consideration First to be taken strictly for an awful dread terrour or trembling at God Which Fear is properly belonging to that passion or affection that is in the soul and is either upon a sad apprehension of Gods Justice as was in David Psal. 119.120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements or upon the sense of Gods Presence as was in Moses who exceedingly feared and quaked at that fearful manifestation of God upon mount Sinai This Fear should be in us all at all times Though we see not so much of God as Moses did yet we are in his presence and more especially when we come into his House there to present our selves before him And this Fear should beget in us Humility Reverence and Worship towards so * great and terrible a God Whence as Piscator observes that which is Fear in that place of Moses is rendered Worship by our Saviour in this place by a Metonymie the Effect being put for the Cause worship for Fear They then who deny that Bodily worship is to be given unto God and refuse to yeeld it unto him when they come before him though I will not judge them yet themselves make it manifest by their rude carriage and demeanour that they have not this fear in them for if they had they would surely come into Gods presence worshipping in the lowliest manner that possibly they could Or secondly Fear may be taken generally for the whole duty and service that Man oweth unto God Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man Eccles. 12.13 Now * Fear being as the tree comprehending as branches all the several duties that we owe unto God Bodily worship urged at this time by our Saviour may be comprehended in Moses his Fear as the Species in the Genus a Particular in the General So that they who deny Gods Bodily worship deny likewise his Fear in its general latitude and capacity depriving the Genus of a Species the Tree of a main Branch the Fear of God of its Bodily

Ορθολατρεία OR A BRIEF DISCOURSE CONCERNING Bodily Worship Proving it to be GODS DUE To be given unto him with acceptation on his part and not to be denyed him without Sin on ours A thing worthy to be taken into Consideration in these dayes wherein Prophaness and Irreverence toward the sacred Majesty of God hath so much corrupted our Religious Assemblies that men are regardless of their being before God or of Gods being amongst them in his own House By S. G. late Preacher of the Word of God in the Cathedrall Church of PETERBURGH PSAL. 89.7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the Saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him 95.6 O come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker 99.5 Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his footstool for he is holy 132.7 We will go into his Tabernacles we will worship at his footstool MICAH 6.6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bow my self before the high God MATTH. 22. 21. Render unto God the things that are Gods London Printed for Gabriel Bedell M. M. and T. C. and are to be sold at their shop at the middle-Temple gate in Fleetstreet 1650. PREFACE WHen a Kingdom or People stand in need of Reformation as none ever were in more need then we it is undoubtedly a good way to observe the same Method that God himself did in his proceeding to judgement against the house of Judah Ezek. 9.6 beginning at his Sanctuary The things that are amiss there let them be rectified and amended as deserving it in the first place and then like lines extended from the Centre to the Circumference Reformation will the more happily diffuse it self into other places For the Sanctuary being the fountain whence help and divine protection issue Psal. 20.2 the treasury where all blessings are to be obtained by the people of God when they make their holy humble and devout addresses to him cleanse That and the things there and then the Streams will flow more fairly into such places as want watering For this purpose here is a Besom to sweep away an horrid abuse wherewith the adversary to God and Man Religion and Decency hath much and long corrupted our Publike Assemblies before God in his Sanctuary and that is Profaness and Irreverence toward the sacred Majestie of God before whom the appearance is which is after so rude a manner as if God were equal nay inferiour to the meanest of us Though contrarily the expulsion of Corporal adoration and reverence out of our Publike Assemblies be now accounted an act of Reformation 't is no wonder when in all corrupt Ages and Places Evil hath been called Good and Good Evil Vices have been called Vertues and so embraced and Vertues Vices and so detested Piety having been branded with Nick-names and Irreligion assuming specious appellations That hath gotten Spittle from the mouth This kisses from the lips Now for this poor Treatise creeping forth into publike view if it may to reform what is amiss and to advance the honour of God in this particular I am not ignorant how that in many respects it may receive such a Terrifying Advertisement as Moses did from Pharaoh Exod. 10.10 Look to it for evil is before you Some because they see not the name of some learned Worthy which commonly is a great advantage to a Book prefixed may say in scorn with those in Siracides What fellow 's this Some again apprehending by the Title-page the general Subject or galloping the Treatise it self over with an hasty eye may say as the Iews did against S. Paul This fellow perswadeth men to worship God contrary to the Law A Third sort may accuse the Work of Unseasonableness That it came not forth into the world like the Shunemite-woman into the Kings presence just when the thing was in the words when the business was in agitation but long after the Question is ceased and the general inclination hath since been to the Negative But as the Apostle said in another case None of these things move me Let these and greater Evils then these arise against this poor Treatise I pass not so I have Truth and Religion on my side for which upon my best though I confess but weak examination 1 finde nothing why I should decline any ludge whatsoever whether it be God himself whose Cause this is and whose Minde in this case is to be seen in his written Word or any inferiour under him either Ancient or Modern Christian or Heathen the Atheist onely excepted and amongst Christians him who hath so firmly betrothed himself to a Prejudicate Opinion that he will not be divorced from it And for thee Reader whoever thou art If knowing and hast concerning this Subject greater illuminations in thine Heart then these in thine Hand impart them if not accept of these If ignorant thy thoughts having not as yet been conversant in these things Do not think that I have any designe to abuse or deceive thee as if I would convey a mote into thine eye by presenting this Treatise to the view of it No God is witness my aim is to elevate thy Devotion to that just height as that thou mayst fully and compleatly acknowledge God by worshipping him with thy Soul and Body not superstitiously hypocritically affectedly or any other irregular way but humbly and sincerely according to thy duty in thy appearances before him when his own eye and the eyes of his holy Angels are upon thee observing thy behaviour in those approaches which if it be not answerable to his Divine presence thou canst have no cause to think but that God will dislike thee as Achish did David when he counterfeited Madness before him letting the spittle fall upon his beard Take heed then lest thou go out of Gods presence guilty of Iacob's over-sight Surely the Lord is in this place and I was not aware and so though thy coming in might be in hope of a blessing yet thou goest away without it having by thy profane rudeness provoked God so as neither to accept thy Person nor thy Prayer nor any Duty which thou hast performed but with the rich in the Gospel to send thee empty away And perhaps more then so hast provoked him to wrath that he should execute positively some vengeance upon thee making a breach upon thee as upon Uzzah for that thou hast not sought him after the due order in such an humble and reverent way as befitteth so great and glorious a Majesty If thou have a desire to prevent these things and to excite Gods henevolence towards thee beware of rude irruptions into and dissolute continuance in Gods presence I shall say no more but commending thee to the race of God and this poor Treatise to thy discreet Perusal bid thee Farewel ὈΡΘΟΛΑΤΡΕΊΑ MATTH. 4. 10. LUKE 4. 8. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy

in spirit and in truth God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth Here it is required that we worship God in spirit therefore Bodily worship is not to be given unto him For the right understanding of this place of Scripture we must know that Spirit there for the strength of the Objection lieth in this word is not to be understood of the soul in opposition to the body and so Outward bodily worship to be done away and the Inward worship of the soul to come in stead of it but it is to be understood in opposition to the Sacrifices and other Ceremonies of the Mosaical Law where with the Samaritanes did then worship God in that mountain by themselves in a Temple of their own and the Jews by themselves in their Temple at Jerusalem Notanda est antithesis inter spiritum externas figuras saith Mr Calvin the opposition is to be noted betwixt spirit and the outward figures For we know that the Worship or Service which the Samaritanes and Jews did then generally use consisted in External Rites and Visible Sacrifices of beasts and other Oblations which manner of Worship being shortly to be abolished a Spiritual or Evangelical Worship should be introduced into the place of it wherein no Typical nor Figurative Sacrifices should be offered And if it be rightly considered it will appear that those out ward Sacrifices of the Law had little or no affinity with that which our Saviour intends in this Scripture Matth. 4.10 and which we call Corporal adoration or Bodily worship which in its furthest extent is but personal Our Saviour then in that place of S. John doth no way thwart the worshipping of God with the body I conceive I have enough for it from Beza who in his Annotation upon the place is driven to make his defence against some of the Papists accusing him in some of their Writings Conferences or other ways that seeking to establish the Spiritual worship of God he should deny that God was to be worshipped with the External worship of the body But of this he clears himself Imò utrunque Deo semper debitum fuisle deberi absit ut insiciemur Yes saith he both the Inward and Outward worship have ever been and shall be due unto God God forbid that we should deny this Yet if this be not sufficient I can raise my authority higher to the great Apostle of the Gentiles who although he speaks in the very words of our Saviour Phil. 3. 3. We are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit c. yet this did not detain him from worshipping God with his body as may appear Act. 20.36 21.5 Eph. 3.14 I rehearse not the words because I would have the Reader peruse and judge But would it not seem strange if I should say that Corporal worship unto God under the Gospel is Spiritual If I should so affirm there are and those of no mean credit that would confirm it Not to trouble my self with setting down what Aquinas speaks or others in this case I shall content my self with what Zanchie writes The Scripture saith he calls External worship as well as Internal spiritual because it proceeds from our spirit renewed by Gods Spirit and is done in faith and tends to the honour and glory of God And he cites this very place of S. John for it To which let me adde the c. Whence we conclude that notwithstanding this place of S. John Bodily worship stands firmly due unto God and is to be performed to wards him by vertue of the present Scripture which we have in hand Adorabis c. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God These are the common Objections on the negative part which buz into the ears of men that Bodily worship is not to be given unto God to which I hope I have given satisfactory Answers I come now to examine what evidence may be produced to defend and require it on the affirmative part In pursuance whereof I shall first produce such Arguments as from solid Grounds may be drawn to prove it and afterwards such Testimonies from authentick Authors as may further confirm it The first Argument may be drawn from the consideration of our bodies themselves Here are three things to be taken notice of which might afford so many several Arguments but I shall comprise them all in one 1. The Creation 2. The Redemption 3. The Glorification of these our bodies There is no Corporeal substance what ever it be that is so much ennobled and honoured by the bounty grace and mercy of the great Creator as these lumps of Flesh our bodies are First in respect of their Creation though not for Substance yet for Priviledge above other bodily Creatures all other Creatures being made for the use and sustentation of these bodies Some creatures bring their Flesh to feed them some their Wooll and Skins to clothe them some their Medicinal vertues to heal them The Sun affords them light and refreshment the Fire warms them the Water purifies them the Air affords them a breathing place the Earth accommodations for adwelling place All the Creatures in their several squadrons present them with their serviceable respects from the meanest even to the highest order of Creatures the holy and blessed Angels who have from God the tutelary charge over these our Bodies And shall these our Bodies receive these benefits and acknowledge no Homage nor Worship unto God whose goodness hath vouchsafed them Hath God created our Bodies for Themselves and no way for Himself but left them at liberty nay secluded them from this service that they should not worship nor bow nor kneel before the Lord their Maker If our Bodies be not bound to this duty and service What difference then is there betwixt the bodies of Reasonable men and the bodies of Bruit beasts towards God Secondly for the blessing of Redemption In this no bodily substance hath any interess but the bodies of men alone Christ sprinkled not his blood upon the Sun nor upon the Moon nor upon the Stars nor upon the Heavens nor upon the Terrestrial creatures but onely upon the Bodies of Men is the effusion of that inestimable Blood And still must our bodies be ingrateful Are we not bought with a price and must we not therefore glorifie God in our bodies and in our spirits because they are Gods Look yet further to the Third the Glorification of our Bodies which are designed to such glory and immortality in the highest heavens as that no Corporeal creature besides hath the like happiness prepared for it And shall our bodies still remain stiff stubborn and inflexible Let us take heed lest this benumming stupidity endanger us not both souls and bodies Let us consider that our Souls and Bodies are twins and that God hath united them together as in one man so in one participation of his