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3. Argument, That in religious Worship which derogates from the Kingly Office of Jesus Christ, so far as it doth so, is false Worship. Unto the Office of Christ, it inseparably belongs that he be the sole Lawgiver of the Church, in all the Worship of God. The rule of his Government herein is, Teach men to do and observe whatsoever I command. But the Worship treated about, consists wholly in the Institutions, Commands, Prescriptions, Orders and Rules of Men; and on the Authority of men alone doth their Impositions on the practice of the Church depend. What is this, but to renounce the Kingly Office of Christ in the Church?

3. Argument, That in religious Worship which derogates from the Kingly Office of Iesus Christ, so far as it doth so, is false Worship. Unto the Office of Christ, it inseparably belongs that he be the sole Lawgiver of the Church, in all the Worship of God. The rule of his Government herein is, Teach men to do and observe whatsoever I command. But the Worship treated about, consists wholly in the Institutions, Commands, Prescriptions, Orders and Rules of Men; and on the Authority of men alone doth their Impositions on the practice of the Church depend. What is this, but to renounce the Kingly Office of Christ in the Church?

§ 17. TO the Major of your 3d. Argument I answer, 1. There is that in Worship, [as the badness of the men, &c.) which is no part of the Worship, and therefore no false Worship. 2. True Worship materially may be so abused, as to derogate from the Kingly Office of Christ. 3. But it is granted, That all your own, or other mers Errors, or Sin in Worship, (which no man is totally free from) do in some degree practically derogate from the Kingly Office of Christ, (which should be better obeyed) and so is so far false Worship.