And Secondly, Because it was in the principle of it concreated with the nature of man, as that which suited, directed, and enabled him to answer the Law of his Creation, requiring this obedience of him in his dependence on God. And this Worship is invariable: but it concerneth ⟨p. 3⟩those outward ways and means whereby God hath appointed that faith, and love, and fear of him to be exercised and expressed unto his glory. And this kind of Worship ▪ though it depend not upon the nature of God, but upon his free and arbitrary disposal, and so was of old liable unto alterations; yet God did ever strictly require in the several states and conditions that his Church hath gone through in the World. And this is that, which most commonly in the Scripture is called by the name of the worship of God; as that whereby all the acceptable actings of the souls of men towards him are expressed, and the only way of owning and acknowledging him in the World, as also of entertaining a visible intercourse with him. This therefore he calls for, and requires indispensably of all that draw nigh to him, and that because he is the Lord our God, Rev. 14.6, 7. Mat. 4.10. Deut. 10.12, 13. For his observance hereof, doth he so approve of Abraham, Gen. 18.19. And sets it down as an everlasting Law unto all others, that in a holy observation thereof, he will be sanctified in all that draw nigh unto him, Lev. 10. ⟨p. 4⟩1, 2, 3. his commands also concerning it, are multiplied in the Scripture, with the approbation of all those that attend unto them. We may not think to find acceptance with God, or to inherit the promises, if supposing our selves to adhere unto him in Worship internal and natural, we neglect that which is external and of his free appointment: for besides, that we renounce thereby our inward dependence on him also, in not observing his commands, as Adam did in transgressing an Institution, we become wholly useless unto all the ends of his Glory in the World, which is not the way to come to an enjoyment of him.
And Secondly, Because it was in the principle of it concreated with the nature of man, as that which suited, directed, and enabled him to answer the Law of his Creation, requiring this obedience of him in his dependance on God. And this Worship is invariable: but it concerneth ⟨p. 3⟩those outward wayes and means whereby God hath appointed that faith, and love, and fear of him to be exercised and expressed unto his glory. And this kind of Worship ▪ though it depend not upon the nature of God, but upon his free and arbitrary disposal, and so was of old liable unto alterations; yet God did ever strictly require in the several states and conditions that his Church hath gone through in the World. And this is that, which most commonly in the Scripture is called by the name of the worship of God; as that whereby all the acceptable actings of the souls of men towards him are expressed, and the only way of owning and acknowledging him in the World, as also of entertaining a visible intercourse with him. This therefore he calls for, and requires indispensibly of all that draw nigh to him, and that because he is the Lord our God, Rev. 14.6, 7. Mat. 4.10. Deut. 10.12, 13. For his observance hereof, doth he so approve of Abraham, Gen. 18.19. And sets it down as an everlasting Law unto all others, that in a holy observation thereof, he will be sanctified in all that draw nigh unto him, Lev. 10. ⟨p. 4⟩1, 2, 3. his commands also concerning it, are multiplyed in the Scripture, with the approbation of all those that attend unto them. We may not think to find acceptance with God, or to inherit the promises, if supposing our selves to adhere unto him in Worship internall and naturall, we neglect that which is externall and of his free appointment: for besides, that we renounce thereby our inward dependance on him also, in not observing his commands, as Adam did in transgressing an Institution, we become wholly useless unto all the ends of his Glory in the World, which is not the way to come to an enjoyment of him.
