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

God hath given special promises, or promises of his ⟨p. 31⟩special grace unto them that attend upon him in his worship in a due manner, and hereunto also belongs that sacred Relation, which by virtue of divine institution ▪ is between the sacramental elements, and the especial Graces of the Covenant which they exhibit and confirm; and the mixing of these promises with faith, according as they are appropriated unto any particular institution, belongs also to the right sanctification of the name of God. So also, 4. doth our delight in them: now this delight in the worship of God so much commended in the Scripture▪ and proposed unto our example, consists not in any carnal self-pleasing, or satisfaction in the outward modes or manner of the performance of Divine Worship, but it is an holy soul-refreshing contemplation on the will Wisdom, Grace and Condescension of God; in that he is pleased of his own Sovereign mere will and grace, so to manifest himself unto such poor sinful creatures as we are; so to condescend unto out weakness, so to communicate himself unto us, so to excite and draw forth our souls unto himself, and to ⟨p. 32⟩give us such pledges of his gracious intercourse with us by Jesus Christ: by the contemplation of these things is the soul drawn forth to delight in God.

God hath given special promises, or promises of his ⟨p. 31⟩speciall grace unto them that attend upon him in his worship in a due manner, and hereunto also belongs that sacred Relation, which by vertue of divine institution ▪ is between the sacramentall elements, and the especial Graces of the Covenant which they exhibit and confirm; and the mixing of these promises with faith, according as they are appropriated unto any particular institution, belongs also to the right sanctification of the name of God. So also, 4. doth our delight in them: now this delight in the worship of God so much commended in the Scripture▪ and proposed unto our example, consists not in any carnall self-pleasing, or satisfaction in the outward modes or manner of the performance of Divine Worship, but it is an holy soul-refreshing contemplation on the will Wisdom, Grace and Condescention of God; in that he is pleased of his own Soveraign meer will and grace, so to manifest himself unto such poor sinfull creatures as we are; so to condescend unto out weakness, so to communicate himself unto us, so to excite and draw forth our souls unto himself, and to