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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, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
The Sinfulness of Worshipping GOD With Men's INSTITUTIONS › DOCTRINE
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A. 1. We may consider it negatively,
And here,
1. It doth not necessarily suppose a change of the object; though it may be so interpretatively, for God is not pleased to acknowledge that to be done to him, which is not done by his order, but still, it may be professedly devoted to the honour of the true God, so was that feast, Exod. 12. 5. Men may pretend a true object, and yet use a false medium: it is left as a mark of infamy upon the Jews, that they offered Sacrifice ⟨p. 10⟩in the high places, (places which they had consecrated of their own heads, and put holiness upon;) although it it was only to the true God, 2 Chron. 33. 17.
2. Nor are they only guilty, that wholly lay aside the institutions of God, and surrogate the Inventions of men in their room. The Jews, under their greatest Apostasy, kept up Temple-worship, observed the days that were of Gods own appointment, attended on the stated feasts, offered those sacrifices which had been appointed them by Moses, though possibly they (were not so careful and constant in them,) but they tacked 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.