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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66577	Cultus evangelicus, or, A brief discourse concerning the spirituality and simplicity of New-Testament worship	Wilson, John, M.A.	1667 (1667)	Wing W2926D; Wing W2901; ESTC R9767	88,978	144

of worship but require it expect it and take complacency in it 2. Because to worship God in spirit is more agreeable and sutable to his nature than other kind of worship Sutableness is desirable in every thing and therefore should not be neglected in the servcie of God As we would have him to furnish us with sutable mercies so we should yeild to him sutable service Now to worship God in spirit sutes better with his nature than other worship doth He is not made up of matter and form subject and accident act and power or the like ingredients proper to created beings but is a most simple essence He consists not of a gross corporal substance like the Heathen Idols made of silver and gold that have mouths and speak not eyes and see not ears and hear not but is a most pure spirit as void of matter as he is of either sin or mortality Hence that of the Prophet to whom will ye liken God or what likenss will ye compare unto him And the Apostle upbraids the Gentiles for their Anthropomorphitism in that they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and fourfooted beasts and creeping things Yet were there some amongst them that took him to be a spirit and so taught Numa following the doctrine of Pythagoras forbade the Romans to believe that God had any form or likenss either of man or beast And upon this consideration they used no pictures or images of him accounting it sacriledge to represent Heavenly things by earthly forms And with this doctrine of the antient Romans agrees that of the modern Witness that of the famous Tully Neither can God himself saith he who is understood of us be understood any other way than as a mind loosed and free segregated from all mortal concretion What 's this but in a Periphrasis to tell us that he is a spirit And if he be a spirit then to worship him in spirit must needs be more proper than to do it in another way After this manner our Saviour himself reasons God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit It is Argumentum à conjugatis and implyes as much as if he had said God is a spirit and therefore they that worship him must worship him in spirit For though the illative or rational particle be not expressed yet it is evidently implyed and therefore we must not look upon the words as a bare precept only requiring us to worship God in spirit but also as a rational argument to induce us to it And indeed what can be more rational than that if God be a spirit we should worship him in spirit For if it be reasonable that since men have bodies we should reverence them with the body it must then needs be reasonable that since God is a spirit we should worship him with the spirit 3. Because to Worship God in spirit is the most excellent kind of worship As it is such worship as agrees both with his will and nature so it hath a peculiar excellency in it above all other worship and that in respect of the efficient or subject from whence it proceeds which is the inner man or reasonable soul. And what a rare and excellent piece that is is worthy the pen of an Angel to describe It is not a thing of such mean and homely extraction as the body made up of earth water and other elements ready to tumble into the grave not and putrifie every day it 's of a more divine and generous descent and of a more refined and immortal nature indued with several noble and usefull faculties each of them capable of performing excellent operations and services It is the candle of the Lord a Celestial spark a beam of light darfed down from God out of Heaven The Jewish Rabbi's have such an high esteem of it that they compare it in divers respects to God himself And not only they but Plato Tully Seneca Epictetus and other Heathens that dealt but with principles of Philosophy and could fee no further then the dimm eye of Nature would carry them have as Morney shews out of their writings many notable passages concerning it They say it came from God is a kin to him of the same off-spring with him and that it is like him and must never die but return to him again And indeed the excellencies of it are so many and so great that it s no easie matter to set them forth It is that which exalts a man above a beast and qualifies him for high and noble services It makes him fit to stand before Princes sit upon the throne of government converse with Angels serve his maker and enjoy communion with him Man is the beauty and glory of this lower world and the soul is the beauty and glory of man It is the fairest flower in all the reasonable creature the jewel in the Cabinet the diamond in the ring and so pretious that it is of more worth than all the riches of the Indies nay than all the World According to that of our Saviour what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul Hence it is that wise men who understand somewhat of the nature of it set such an high value upon it David calls it his darling Deliver saith he my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the dog The word here rendered darling is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies my only one and so is rendred by Pagnine and others Whereby it appears he valued his soul so much that he regarded nothing else besides it Nay he was so choice and tender of it that he would trust it with none but God and therefore commends it to him Into thine hands saith he in another place I commit my spirit He looked upon the worth of it as so great and the welfare of it as so much concerning him that he thought none fit to be trusted with it but God and therefore passing by all others both men and angels he commits it only to him He esteemed not any place safe enough but the Cabinet of Gods gratious providence wherein he locks up the souls of all his servants and therefore he commits it to him to be preserved and kept by him And hence it is likewise that God himself makes such account of it and stands so much on it calling for it from every person and looking for it in every duty My son saith he give me thy heart He doth not say thy body thy head or thy hand but thy heart He stands not so much upon those things as he doth upon the heart That he looks for in every ordinance and in every performance And hence it is likewise that Satan aims so much at it laying all the