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Show 355 Part.4.. OF THE KINGDOME CIJdP.45, the Saints {hall be fuch, namely, SpirituallBodies,as St.Paulealls ' . them. there be Intuat namely, , Doctrine contrary the The Power of Nevertheleffe, thatthc Church, the in led foprevai Cafimg out corporeall Spirits, hathlutherto Devil/r, not ufe ofExorCifme,(thatis to fay, of erection Ol'DSVillS‘by Comm-a ll" lame it tion) is thereupon built; and (though rarely and faintly praeti- W"? ".1 "'6 fed)is not yet totally given over. That there were many Daz- anmw Church. moniaquesin the Primitive Church, and few Mad-men, and Other fuch fingulat difeafes, whereas in thefe times we hear of , and fee many Mad-men, and few Pmmoniaques , proceeds not from the change of Nature; but of Names. But how it comes to paile, that whereas heretofore the Apof‘tles , and after them for a time, the Paltors of the Church, did curethofe fingular Difeafes,whieh the now they are not feen to doe; as likewife, why it is notnn power of every true Beleever now, to doe allthat the Fanhiull did then, that irto fay, as we read( mark 16.17.) In Chrtfl: mmeto to at]? out Deg/ills, to fpeah with item Tongues, to take up Serpents, hy Ste/e the cure to med taking, harm drink deadly Poifon without the laying on of their hands, and all this wrthoutpotherwords,but in the Name of Iefm', is another quel‘tion. And itis probable,that thofe extraordinary gifts were given to the Church, for no longer atime, than men trufted wholly to Chrifi, and looked for their telicrty onely in his Kingdome to come; and coniequently, that when they fought Authority, and Riches, and trulted to theirown‘ Subtilty for a Kingdome of this world , thefe fupernaturall grits or . God were again taken from them. in- meither oflmages Another-relique ot‘Gcntilifme, is the Woe/hip Amtlcer rt- Fire. 4 _ 0F, DARKNESSE; egg/ha prime Miniflers, Mofes, and the Higthriefisgbut every man had governed himfelf according to his own appetite, to the utter everfion ofthe Common-wealth, and their own deflruétion for Want ofunion. And therefore the firfl: Law of God was, They [hon/d not take for Gods, A L r E NOS DEOs,that i5,the Gaels offiother 714ti0m,hut that (me/y true Gad, who vettehfifed to commune with Mofer , and hy him to give them law: and direfl‘iem, far their peaee , andfor their ttlwtien fgam their etzemier, And the fecond was, that they [meld not make to themfelver any Image to War/hip , of their enm Invention. For it is the fame depofing ofa King, to fubmir to another King, whether he be fet up by a neighbour nation,or by our felves. , p The places ofSeripture pretended to countenance the fetting up «Infwertamof Images, to worfhip them; or to fet them up at all in the places Win [ermine where God is worlhipped, are Firlt, two Examples; one of the "ml" I'M" Cherubins over the Ark of God, the other ofthe Brazen Serpent: 9"" Secondly, fome texts whereby we are commanded to worlhip cer- tain Creatures for their relation to God-,as to worfhip his Footflool : And laflly, fome other texts, by whichis authorized , a religious honoring of Holy things. But before I examine the force ofthofc places, to prove that which is pretended, I mull firl‘t explain what is to be underflood by War/htppmg, and what by Image; , and Ida/5. Ihave already lhewn in the 20 Chapter ofthis Difcourfe, that It'bittiyll'tr- to Honor, is to value hiohly the Power ofanyperfon: and that fly/p. fueh value is meafured, fyour comparing him with others. But Before our becaufe there is nOthing to be compared with God in Power; we Honor him not but Dillionour him by any Value leile than Infinite. Andrhus llonoris pro erly of its own nature, fecret, and internallinthcheart. Buttheinwardthoughts ofmen, which appearc in.;,,.(;1m,.d,9 SaViour preached, it was the generall Religion of the (Jentilesno outwardly in their words and actions, are the lignes ofour Honoring, and thefc goe by the name of VVORS H ll',ln Latine Cum-us. 11W 46f" flituted by Mofes in the Old, nor by Chrifl; in the New Trila- "mm." "1"" ment; nor yet brought in from the Gentiles; but left amongit 522:??? "if, them, after they had given their names to ~Chrill. not brought worfhip for Gods,thole Apparences that retnaininthr Brain troni HM": the imprellion of cxternall Bodies uponthe organsoi their Settles, which are commonly called Ideas, Idoi'r, I'himmjmer,Content, .is being Reprefentations of thofe externallBodies,whichcantethem, and have nothing in them of reality, no more than there is in the things that feem to {tand before us in a Dream .- And tl.:s :S the reafon why bt.Paul fays, Wee know that .m lulu/1'; Aer/ctr: Not that he thought that an Image of Metall, Stone, or Wood, was nothing; but that the thing which they honored,or feared in the Image, and held for a God, was a meet Pigment, "lilul‘ll'. place, habitation, motion, or exii‘tence, but in the motions or the Brain. And the worlhip of thefe with Divine Honour, gs t;i.‘.t which is inthe Scripture called Idolatry, and Rebellion againit (iod- For God being King ofthe _[ews, and his Lieutenant being r'irit Mo- fes, and attcm'ard the High Prielt; irthe people had been pctmitted to worlliip, and pray to Images, t which are chititzr rations 0ftheir own Fancies, )they had had no farther thl‘cliLlC1?~C on the true God, of whom then can be no iitnt‘ntude; not-tn .15 ' .I" L -v7 Therefore, to l'rayto, to Swearby, to Obey, to bee Diligent, and Otherous in Servmg : in fumme, all words and actions that betolten Fear to Offend, or Delire to Pleafe, is IVor/bip, whe- therthofe words and actions be fincere, or feigned : and becaufe they appear as fignes of Honoring, are ordinarily alfo called. Honor. ‘ The \Vorlhip we exhibite to thofe we el‘teem to be but m'en,:ts to Difiing‘tmibeKings, and men in Authority, is Cruz/l War/hip: Bur the worlhip tween Diem: we exhibite to that which wethink to bee God, whatfoever the ":1 (,"W/ words,ceremonics,gefiures, or other actions be, is [In/me Vl/far- "0'9"!" fit/p. Tofall prollrate before a King, in him that thinks him but :1 Man,is but Civill Worthip: And he that but putteth otfhis hat in the Church, forthiscaufe, that he thinketh it the Houfe ofGodflvorihippeth with Divtne VVorlhip. They that feek the diltinction of Dryine and Civill \Norlhip, not in the intention ofthe Worlhipper, but inthe Words J M51, and M7941, deceivethemfclves. For where- as there be two forts of Servants; that fort,which is of [hofc that Z 2. are |