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Either this latter sort is to be called Worship, or not: If it be, then it falls under his opposition: If not, then, 1. He must give us a definition of Worship, which shall exclude it; and so Worship must be somewhat else than the direct or immediate acting or expressing honour to God: And then who knows what he meaneth by it? 2. And then when we plead for mens making none but this, he should to avoid deceit, confess that the Controversy is only of the Name (whether Modes and Circumstances of God's instituted Worship, may be called Worship), and not at all of the Thing (whether it be lawful or not): This had been like a Christian Teacher.

Either this latter sort is to be called Worship, or not: If it be, then it falls under his opposition: If not, then, 1. He must give us a definition of Worship, which shall exclude it; and so Worship must be somewhat else than the direct or immediate acting or expressing honour to God: And then who knows what he meaneth by it? 2. And then when we plead for mens making none but this, he should to avoid deceit, confess that the Controversie is only of the Name (whether Modes and Circumstances of God's instituted Worship, may be called Worship), and not at all of the Thing (whether it be lawful or not): This had been like a Christian Teacher.

Now I answer, 1. to his first Proposition: 1. Worship which is neither instituted particularly, nor in the general, appointing man how to choose it, is unlawful. 2. And to invent worship without God's allowance, contrary, or of the same kind, as if he had not done his part, is unlawful. 3. But for man to choose and use such worship as is but the right ordering of God's Institutions, is commanded by him, and a Duty; and therefore not unlawful.

2. As to his Minor, or Second Proposition, I answer, Kneeling at the Sacrament, and communicating with Parish Churches that have tolerable Ministers, are not instituted of God in particular, but the Genus of them is instituted, and we commanded to choose our selves, according to God's general Rules, to the best of our understanding: and so they are our Duty, and not unlawful.