A Body of Practical Divinity

3. We please God when we dedicate our Heart to give him the best of every thing. Abel gave God the fat of the Offering, Gen. 4.4. Domitian would not have his Image carved in Wood or Iron, but in Gold. Then we please God, when we serve him with love, fervency, alacrity, we give him golden Services; herein lies our Wisdom and Piety, to please God; there is but one God, therefore there is but one whom we have chiefly to please, namely God.

4. If there be but one God, then we must pray to none but God. The Papists pray to Saints and Angels: 1. To Saints; a Popish Writer saith, When we pray to the Saints departed, they being touched with compassion, say the like to God for us, as the Disciples did to Christ for the Canaanitish Woman, Matth. 15.23. Send her away, for she crieth after us. The Saints above know not our Wants, Isa. 63.16. Abraham is ignorant of us; or if they did, we have no warrant to pray to them. Prayer is [Greek or Hebrew], a part of Divine Worship which must be given only to God. 2. They pray to Angels. Angel-worship is forbidden, Col. 2.18, 19. and that we may not pray to Angels, is clear from Rom. 10.14. How shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? We may not pray to any, but whom we may believe in; but we may not believe in an Angel, ergo, we may not pray to him. There is but one God, and it is a sin to invocate any but only God.

4. If there be but one God, then we must pray to none but God. The Papists pray to Saints and Angels: 1. To Saints; a Popish Writer saith, When we pray to the Saints departed, they being touched with compassion, say the like to God for us, as the Disciples did to Christ for the Canaanitish Woman,