2. It is spiritual-worship, and therefore you may not be distracted in it. Joh. 4.23, 24. The true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship him. **Others may seek to worship the Father, but the Father seeketh such to worship him, to wit, that worship in Spirit and in Truth, In Spirit, and so not like the formal ⟨p. 42⟩Jews, In Truth, and so not like the ignorant Gentiles. And then vers. 24. God is a Spirit, and must be worshipped. Here's Must and Shall, and Reason for it. As a spirit can do nothing at eating, so a carcass can do nothing at praying. The elegantest tongues on earth cannot take one stroke at prayer; no, the soul must be in it, and the soul must be busy too*. If we had only an Idol to serve, the body were enough, but God is a spirit and cannot be conversed with without the spirit, yea and the whole spirit also. Fond man, that thinks with his narrow soul to deal with God and somewhat else, who alone is immense and beyond our greatest capacity. He must be taken up, and go out of the world in a sense that will get into Heaven. The soul on the lip, and the soul in the ear, do rid work in the service of God.
2. It is spiritual-worship, and therefore you may not be distracted in it. Joh. 4.23, 24. The true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship him. **Others may seek to worship the Father, but the Father seeketh such to worship him, to wit, that worship in Spirit and in Truth, In Spirit, and so not like the formal ⟨p. 42⟩Jews, In Truth, and so not like the ignorant Gentiles. And then vers. 24. God is a Spirit, and must be worshipped. Here's Must and Shall, and Reason for it. As a spirit can do nothing at eating, so a carkass can do nothing at praying. The elegantest tongues on earth cannot take one stroak at prayer; no, the soul must be in it, and the soul must be busie too*. If we had only an Idol to serve, the body were enough, but God is a spirit and cannot be conversed with without the spirit, yea and the whole spirit also. Fond man, that thinks with his narrow soul to deal with God and somewhat else, who alone is immense and beyond our greatest capacity. He must be taken up, and goe out of the world in a sense that will get into Heaven. The soul on the lip, and the soul in the ear, do rid work in the service of God.
- **Ubi putas Sacrisicia justitiae Sacrisicari nisi in templo mentis & con tilibus cordis? Deus enim in ipsis rationalis animae secretis (qui homo interior vocatur) & quaerendus & deprecandus est. Aug. lib. de magistro.Ubi putas Sacrisicia justitiae Sacrisicari nisi in templo mentis & cū tilibus cordis? Deus enim in ipsis rationalis animae secretis (qui homo interior vocatur) & quaerendus & deprecandus est. Aug. lib. de magistro.
- *[Greek or Hebrew], &c. neque erum ipsa orationis verba per se solaque prosunt quidpiam: at ita demum juvant, si ex animo ac studioso mentis affectu emittantur. Basil. conc. 9. de oratione.〈non-Latin alphabet〉, &c. neque erum ipsa orationis verba per se solaque prosunt quidpiam: at ita demum juvant, si ex animo ac studioso mentis affectu emittantur. Basil. conc. 9. de oratione.
