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A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D.…A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D.…
A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgess his rejoinder for D. Morton The first partA fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgesse his rejoinder for D. Morton The first part
Amsterdam: printed by the successors of Giles Thorp, 1633
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And yet if this was granted, which sense gainsays, •ee how unhappy he is in his expression, for neither in •his would any worship properly appear. That which •ppertaines to the right doing of every act of obedience as such, that cannot make up the proper nature of worship: but to be done in virtue, and so in conscience of Gods command, belongs to every action of the Decalogue: what ever is not done of faith is sin Rom. 14. last.
And yet if this was graunted, which sense gaynsayes, •ee how unhappy he is in his expression, for neither in •his would any worship properly appeare. That which •ppertaines to the right doing of every act of obedi•nce as such, that cannot make up the proper nature of •orship: but to be done in vertue, and so in conscience of Gods commaund, belongs to every action of the Decalogue: what ever is not done of faith is sinn Rom. 14. last.
The fifth Division. Immediate worship, is either properly so called or else reductively. Proper immediate worship, is any action done to the honouring ⟨p. 136⟩of God immediately, and in that act it self, […] are all such ordinances, which God hath appointed. Improper worship is any act done, to the honouring of God by the orderly, and comely usage of his own ordinances which because they point at Gods honour in their remote end, as they determine their first end, and use upon men, as tending to order, decency, and edification, an• therefore but improperly acts of worship.