A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

And these are the works which we must leave undone on the Lords Day; from which as we must abstain, as the matter of our employments, so also from doing the Lords works after our own manner. Neither is it enough that we refrain from all sinful and worldly actions, and do the duties which God requireth of us, seeing if we do them not in that sort and manner as he requireth; that is, spiritually, holily, zealously, and religiously, with upright hearts and good consciences, we make them no better then profane and servile works, which God will reject as odious and abominable. For if we worship the Lord only with the outward man, and not with our hearts and souls, with the lips alone, and not in Spirit and ⟨p. 388⟩Truth, in show and hypocrisy after a formal, cold, and careless manner, and not with upright hearts, substantially and zealously, he will demand of us as of the Jews, Who hath required these things at your hands? He will ¹complain of us as of them; This people draw near unto me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. He will censure our service, as he did their sacrifices; ²He that killeth an Ox, is as if he slew a man: he that sacrificeth a Lamb, as if he cut off a Dogs neck: he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered