The divine right of church-government and excommunication

There is a twofold intention in worship, one formal and properly¹ Religious, and is expounded Morall, Ex naturâ rei, to be Religious, it being such an intention, as can have no other state in worship, but a Religious State, as if the three Children should bow at the Commandment of the King of Babylon, though intending to worship the true God. Here should be an intrinsecall intention, Ex naturâ & conditione operis, to worship, and that from two grounds conjoined together: 1. Here is bowing down: 2. Bowing down to a Religious Object, commanded by a Prince, and so cometh under the Moral notion of the command of a Judge. When the object of bowing down is Religious, the signification that we give divine honour to God by kneeling is as inseparable (saith Raphael de la Torres) from kneeling or bowing down, as a bearing testimony by word, that God is true, and knoweth all secrets, and will be avenged on perjury, is inseparable from vocal swearing by the name of God, or as any man should be an Idolater, ⟨p. 89⟩who in express words should say to an Idol, O my God Jupiter help ²me, though that Adoration were feigned, and he who so prayeth, should in his heart abhor and detest Jupiter and all false Gods: But there is another intention not Religious; if a Child read a Chapter of the Bible, that he may learn to read and spell, that is an action of Art, not of Worship; because the object of the Child's reading, is not Scripture as Scripture, but only the Printed Characters as they are, Signa rerum ut rerum, non ut rerum sacrarum, signs of things, not of holy things, and here the object not being Religious, the intrinsical operation cannot raise up any Religious intention of the Child. Upon this ground, it is easy to determine whether or no an intention of Worship be essential to Worship or not, the former intention which is intrinsical, and Intentio operis, may be essential, it resulting from the object; but the latter intention of the worker, is so far extraneous to Worship, as whether it be, or be not, the nature of Worship is not impaired nor violated.

There is a twofold intention in worship, one formall and properly¹ Religious, and is expounded Morall, Ex naturâ rei, to be Religious, it being such an intention, as can have no other state in worship, but a Religious State, as if the three Children should bow at the Commmandment of the King of Babylon, though intending to worship the true God. Here should be an intrinsecall intention, Ex naturâ & conditione operis, to worship, and that from two grounds conjoyned together: 1. Here is bowing down: 2. Bowing down to a Religious Object, commanded by a Prince, and so cometh under the Morall notion of the command of a Judge. When the object of bowing down is Religious, the signication that we give divine honour to God by kneeling is as inseparable (saith Raphael de la Torres) from kneeling or bowing down, as a bearing testimony by word, that God is true, and knoweth all secrets, and will be avenged on perjury, is inseparable from vocall swearing by the name of God, or as any man should be an Idolater,