A25467:1135
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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SECT. II.
II. It is a prevalent Notion of Truth, That the Worship of God ought to be beautiful and glorious: The very Light of Nature seems to direct unto Conceptions hereof. What is not so, may be justly rejected, as unbecoming the Divine Majesty; And therefore the more holy and heavenly any Religion pretends to be, the more glorious is the Worship prescribed in it, or ought so to be: Yea, the true Worship of God is the height and excellency of all Glory in this world; it is inferior unto nothing, but that which is in Heaven, which it is the beginning of, the way unto, and the best preparation for. Accordingly even that Worship is declared to be glorious, and that in an eminent manner, above all, the outward Worship of the Old Testament in the Tabernacle and Temple, whose Glory was great, and as unto external Pomp, inimitable. To this purpose the Apostle disputes at large, 2 Cor. 3.6, 7, 8, 9, 10. This therefore is agreed, that there ought to be Beauty and Glory in divine Worship, and that they are most eminently in that which is directed and required in the Gospel. But withal the Apostle declares in the same place, that this Glory is Spiritual, and not Carnal; so did our Lord Jesus Christ foretell that it should be; and that unto that end all distinction of places, with all outward advantages and Ornaments belonging unto them, should be taken away, John 4 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.
II. It is a prevalent Notion of Truth, That the Worship of God ought to be beautiful and glorious: The very Light of Nature seems to direct unto Conceptions hereof. What is not so, may be justly rejected, as unbecoming the Divine Majesty; And therefore the more holy and heavenly any Religion pretends to be, the more glorious is the Worship prescribed in it, or ought so to be: Yea, the true Worship of God is the height and excellency of all Glory in this world; it is inferiour unto nothing, but that which is in Heaven, which it is the beginning of, the way unto, and the best preparation for. Accordingly even that Worship is declared to be glorious, and that in an eminent manner, above all, the outward Worship of the Old Testament in the Tabernacle and Temple, whose Glory was great, and as unto external Pomp, inimitable. To this purpose the Apostle disputes at large,