The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

To the tongue belongeth open profession of God and of all good duties: Be ready ^oalways to make profession to every one that asketh of you, an account of the faith which is in you: ^pfor with the mouth men make confession to salvation. Ye ^qshall make no mention of the names of other gods, neither shall they be heard out of thy mouth. Their ^rsorrows shall be multiplied that endow another god. I will not pour their burnt Offerings of blood, nor take their names in my lips. And hither are to be referred all outward marks of this profession; as in Gods service, The calling upon of his Name; Bowing and kneeling, Lifting up of hands, eyes, &c. as the people did, Nehem. 8. 16. answering all, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands, and stooped and bowed down to JEHOVAH with their face to the ground ward. In doing reverence to Superiors, ^suncovering our head, and rising up before them, &c. The contrary whereof is, Open profession of wickedness, when a man need not to dig, to find out their sins, as the Prophet speaketh, Jer. 2. 34. they are so plain and manifest unto all: or as it is in ^tEZEKIEL, When they set their sin upon the cliff of the Rock (in the open face and view of the World) and do not pour the same upon the earth to cover it with dust, loth it should be seen. Such is that, Isaiah 3. 10. The obstinacy of their face testifieth against them, and they do not conceal, but utter their sin, (openly, shamelessly, and obstinately) as Sodom, whose impudency ⟨p. 126⟩of sinning was such and so audacious, that the ^u