Gospel-Worship

You will say this is a very hard thing to perform a duty so as that we should give God the glory that is fit for a God to have: Certainly this is not done by every manner of performance of a duty of Worship: yet you shall hear this opened to you, and I hope you shall have it made very plain before you.

You will say this is a very hard thing to performe a duty so as that we should give God the glory that is fit for a God to have: Certainly this is not done by every manner of performance of a duty of Worship: yet you shall hear this opened to you, and I hope you shall have it made very plaine before you.

First therefore I shall show you, that when we are to perform a duty of worship, we should set our selves to glorify God as a God, that is to do it in that manner that God may have that glory that is fit for a God to have. As now in the duty of Praise Psa. 66. 2. make his praise glorious, that is, do it so as you may lift up His Name in it, and that God may be glorious in your praise. And Rom. 1. 21. there the Apostle speaking of the Heathens; he doth rebuke them; For what? It was for this, because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankfull• now this is spoken especially of the worship of God: for he saith afterwards ver. 23. that they changed the glory of the incorruptible God, into an image made like to corruptible man &c. So that it's spoken of the worship of God; that they glorified not God as God. That is then to sanctify Gods Name, to glorify God as God: and therefore our Saviour in the 4. of John when he spake to the woman of Samaria, he tells her that God is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and truth, that is we must labour to suite, our worship to what there is in God; that our worship may be proportionable in some measure even to the nature of God himself; And therefore God being a Spirit, his worship must be a Divine worship. I have read of some of the Heathens that did worship the Sun for a God, and they would offer to the Sun somewhat suitable; therefore because they did so admire at the swiftness of the motion of the Sun, they would not offer a snail to the sun, but a flying horse, a horse with wings; now a horse is one of the swiftest creatures, and the strongest creature to continue in motion for a long time together; and they added wings to the horse, and they thought that suitable to be a sacrifice for the Sun. So when we come to worship God, that is, to sanctify his Name, we must behave our selves so as to give him the glory that is fit for a God to have. As now in those three particulars which I