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

WE have showed that the first Commandment requireth, that we serve and worship Jehovah, the only true God. In the three other Commandments of the first Table, is showed how he is to be worshipped, and the time when. The manner of his worship is, how he is to be served in his solemn and set service, required in the second Commandment, or how he is to be glorified at all times in the whole course of our lives in the third. The time when he is principally to be worshipped, is upon his Sabbaths, required in the fourth Commandment. In the second Commandment, God requireth that we worship him the true God, after a right and lawful manner, and by such means as are agreeable to his nature, and which in his Word he hath prescribed unto us, unto which we ought not to add, from which we ought not to detract any thing, as hath before been showed. For this is our reasonable service, to worship so great a God, not after our own phantasies, but according ¹to his own will, and with such a service in which he delighteth. Now he delighteth in such a worship as is agreeable to his nature; which being spiritual and true, yea Trueth it self, it followeth, that we must worship him by spiritual and true means, and after a spiritual and true manner, that is, we must conform all the service which we offer unto God, according to the prescript rule of his Word. And thus we are to worship God, both inwardly with our souls, and outwardly with our bodies; Privately by our selves, in our families, and publicly in the congregation, in which we are to perform all our service, with unanimity and joint affection, as if we all worshipped God with one heart and mind; and with uniformity in all outward rites and actions, as if we had all but one body.