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The sinfulness of worshipping God with men's institutions as it was delivered in a…
The sinfulness of worshipping God with men's institutions as it was delivered in a sermon / by Samuel Willard.
printed by Benjamin Harris and John Allen, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Nor are they only guilty, that wholly lay ••ide the institutions of God, and surrogate the inventions of men in their room. The Jews, ••der their greatest Apostasy, kept up Temple worship, observed the days that were of Gods •wn appointment, attended on the stated feasts, ••fered those sacrifices which had been appointed them by Moses, (though possibly they were not so careful and constant in them,) but they •acked their own Traditions to them, and so made a mixture of one and the other; men may go to the House of God, and attend upon his Worship in those Ordinances which he hath Instituted, and they may annex unto them a worship which he never gave any Order about: the men that offered in the high places, came to the Temple too.
2. Nor are they only guilty, that wholly lay ••ide the institutions of God, and surrogate the ••ventions of men in their room. The Jews, ••der their greatest Apostasy, kept up Templeworship, observed the days that were of Gods •wn appointment, attended on the stated feasts, ••fered those sacrifices which had been appointed them by Moses, (though possibly they were not so carefull and constant in them,) but they •acked their own Traditions to them, and so made a mixture of one and the other; men may go to the House of God, and attend upon his Worship in those Ordinances which he hath Instituted, and they may annex unto them a worship which he never gave any Order about: the men that offered in the high places, came to the Temple too.
2. Positively, in two things.