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Make it your rule for worship. To serve God according to your own inventions, or mens prescriptions, is Rebellion and dis-service. As the Moth eats out the Garment, and the Rust the Iron, so doth an Apocryphal worship in time eat out an Evangelical worship, Mat 15.7. All worship of God without warrant, is like private coining money, high Treason against the King of Heaven. God (though men durst not) charged Jeroboam with this crime, He offered upon the Altar which he had made, in the month which he had devised of his own heart, 1 King. 12.33. He took liberty to worship, when, and where he pleased; not when, and where God pleased. Till man can be his own maker, he may not be his own Law giver; While his dependence is on God, God expecteth observance from him. The Gospel is not only a royal law, but a perfect law, James 1.25. It needs not additions, or traditions from men to supply its defects. Its horrid blasphemy to accuse Scripture of deficiency, Christ Jesus was faithful in all his house, which he had not been, if the Laws he left ⟨p. 63⟩us were not sufficient for Gods service; Those that add to his word, tell us, though not plainly, yet interpretatively, that he was an unfaithful Prophet. Friends I beseech you keep close to this rule. It will be a good Antidote against the infections of the Papists; when the shops are full of adulterate ware, men that would not be cheated, will bring what they buy to the light, To the law and to the testimony Isa. 8.20.

Make it your rule for worship. To serve God according to your own inventions, or mens prescriptions, is Rebellion and dis-service. As the Moth eats out the Garment, and the Rust the Iron, so doth an Apochryphal worship in time eat out an Evangelical worship, Mat 15.7. All worship of God without warrant, is like private coyning mony, high Treason against the King of Heaven. God (though men durst not) charged Jeroboam with this crime, He offered upon the Altar which he had made, in the moneth which he had devised of his own heart, 1 King. 12.33. He took liberty to worship, when, and where he pleased; not when, and where God pleased. Till man can be his own maker, he may not be his own Law giver; While his dependance is on God, God expecteth observance from him. The Gospel is not onely a royal law, but a perfect law,