Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

1. Bodily worship is due to God. He hath a right to an Adoration by our bodies as they are his by Creation; his right is not diminished but increased by the blessing of Redemption, 1 Cor. 6.20. For you are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies and your Spirits, which are Gods. The Body as well as the Spirit is redeemed, since our Saviour suffered Crucifixion in his body, as well as Agonies in his Soul: Body is not taken here for the whole man, as it may be in Rom. 12. But for the material part of our nature, it being distinguished from the Spirit: If we are to render to God an obedience with our bodies, we are to render him such Acts of worship with our bodies, as they are capable of. As God is the Father of Spirits, ⟨p. 140⟩so he is the God of all flesh: Therefore the flesh he hath framed of the Earth, as well as the noble portion he hath breathed into us, cannot be denied him without a palpable in justice: The service of the body we must not deny to God, unless we will deny him to be the author of it, and the exercise of his providential care about it. The mercies of God are renewed every day upon our bodies as well as our Souls, and therefore they ought to express a fealty to God for his bounty everyday; [^* both are from God, both should be for God. Man consists of Body and Soul, the service of Man is the service of both. The body is to be Sanctified as well as the Soul, and therefore to be offered to God as well as the Soul. Both are to be glorified, both are to glorify: As our Saviours Divinity was manifested in his body, so should our Spirituality in ours. To give God the service of the body and not of the Soul, is hypocrisy; to give God the service of the Spirit and not of the body, is sacrilege; to give him neither, Atheism.] If the only part of man that is visible were exempted from the service of God, there could be no visible Testimonies of piety given upon any occasion: Since not a moiety of man, but the whole is Gods Creature, he ought to pay a homage with the whole and not only with a moiety of himself.

1. Bodily worship is due to God. He hath a right to an Adoration by our bodies as they are his by Creation; his right is not diminisht but increased by the blessing of Redemption,