A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of…

Explication.

These two things all men see by nature.

First, That God, however they mistook in their apprehensions of him, would be and was to be worshipped with some outward solemn worship. So that although some are reported to have even cast off all knowledge and sense of a divine being, yet never any were heard of, that came ⟨p. 6⟩to an acknowledgement of any God, true or false, but they all consented, that he was constantly and solemnly to be worshipped. And that not only by individual Persons, but by Societies together, that so they might own and honour him whom they took for their God. And thus far outward worship is required in the first Commandment; namely, that the inward be exercised and expressed. When we take God for our God, we take him to worship him, Deut. 10.12, 13. Other thoughts, namely of inward worship, without outward expression at all, or any time, or in any way, are but a covert unto Atheism. And,

First, That God, however they mistook in their apprehensions of him, would be and was to be worshipped with some outward solemn worship. So that although some are reported to have even cast off all knowledge and sense of a divine being, yet never any were heard of, that came ⟨p. 6⟩to an acknowledgement of any God, true or false, but they all consented, that he was constantly and solemnly to be worshipped. And that not only by individuall Persons, but by Societies together, that so they might own and honour him whom they took for their God. And thus far outward worship is required in the first Commandment; namely, that the inward be exercised and expressed. When we take God for our God, we take him to worship him,