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Catechistical guide to sinners, and to such converts that are babes in Christ wherein…
Catechistical guide to sinners, and to such converts that are babes in Christ wherein all the necessary points of religion are methodically proposed in Scripture-language, abundantly confirmed by the Holy Scriptures, and in some places concisely expounded : in the whole, all controversies are warily shunned, so that all true Christians, of what persuasion soever, may (if they need the help of others) use this catechism for their children, or others that are under their power and card / written upon request, by a lover of truth and peace.Catechistical guide to sinners, and to such converts that are babes in Christ wherein all the necessary points of religion are methodically proposed in Scripture-language, abundantly confirmed by the Holy Scriptures, and in some places concisely expounded : in the whole, all controversies are warily shunn'd, so that all true Christians, of what persuassion soever, may (if they need the help of others) use this catechism for their children, or others that are under their power and card / written upon request, by a lover of truth and peace.
London: printed by J.D., 1680
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2. Our Saviour shows, why such Worshippers, and such a way of Worship must be: This he does first barely express in these words, For such the Father seeketh to worship him, vers. 23. Then he briefly explains it, vers. 24. where he discovers;
2. Our Saviour shews, why such Worshippers, and such a way of Worship must be: This he does first barely express in these words, For such the Father seeketh to worship him, vers. 23. Then he briefly explains it, vers. 24. where he discovers;
1. Why the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit. Therefore now at length, having a mind to discover himself more clearly than in times past, he will no longer be worshipped after the more gross and carnal way of the Law, but in a more spiritual and excellent way, yet in such as was prefigured by the Law. This is to worship in Spirit and Truth, i.e. in such a way, as being compared with the legal, does as much differ from it, and excel it, as the Spirit, that is, the signification of a Letter differs from, and excels the Letter it self. The like may be said of a Shadow and its Body; see Rom. 3.29. & 7.6. Col. 3.3.
2. What it is for the Father to seek such to worship him. To seek, is, to command, which is here signified by the moral necessity that Men have of worshipping the Father ⟨p. 49⟩in Spirit and Truth. And therefore they that worship him, must worship him in Spirit and Truth.