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| worship : worship honour: honour Complete text of 61126667:But honour Them As They honour Men Thirdly, for the worship which naturally men exhibite to Powers invisible, it can be no other, but such expressions of their reverence, as they would use towards men; Gifts, Petitions, Thanks, Submission of Body, Considerate Addresses, sober Behaviour, premeditated Words, Swearing (that is, assuring one another of their promises,) by invoking them Complete text of 61126685:And to the worship , which naturally men conceived fit to bee used towards their Gods, namely Oblations, Prayers, Thanks, and the rest formerly named; the same Legislators of the Gentiles have added their Images, both in Picture, and Sculpture; that the more ignorant sort, (that is to say, the most part, or generality of the people,) thinking the Gods for whose representation they were made, were really included, and as it were housed within them, might so much the more stand in feare of them: And endowed them with lands, and houses, and officers, and revenues, set apart from all other humane uses; that is, consecrated, and made holy to those their Idols; as Caverns, Groves, Woods, Mountains, and whole Ilands; and have attributed to them, not onely the shapes, some of Men, some of Beasts, some of Monsters; but also the Faculties, and Passions of men and beasts; as Sense, Speech, Sex, Lust, Generation, (and this not onely by mixing one with another, to propagate the kind of Gods; but also by mixing with men, and women, to beget mongrill Gods, and but inmates of Heaven, as Bacchus, Hercules, and others;) besides, Anger, Revenge, and other passions of living creatures, and the actions proceeding from them, as Fraud, Theft, Adultery, Sodomie, and any vice that may be taken for an effect of Power, or a cause of Pleasure; and all such Vices, as amongst men are taken to be against Law, rather than against honour Complete text of 61128420:It remaineth therefore that we consider, what Praecepts are dictated to men, by their Naturall Reason onely, without other word of God, touching the honour and worship of the Divine Majesty Complete text of 61128421:honour And worship What Honour consisteth in the inward thought, and opinion of the Power, and Goodnesse of another: and therefore to honour God, is to think as Highly of his Power and Goodnesse, as is possible Complete text of 61128427:Severall Signes Of honour From internall honour , consisting in the opinion of Power and Goodnesse, arise three Passions; Love, which hath reference to Goodnesse; and Hope, and Fear, that relate to Power: And three parts of externall worship ; Praise, Magnifying, and Blessing: The subject of Praise, being Goodnesse; the subject of Magnifying, and Blessing, being Power, and the effect thereof Felicity Complete text of 61128430:worship Naturall And Arbitrary There be some signes of honour , (both in Attributes and Actions,) that be Naturally so; as amongst Attributes, Good, Just, Liberall, and the like; and amongst Actions, Prayers, Thanks, and Obedience Complete text of 61128435:But when Free, the worship consists in the opinion of the beholders: for if to them the words, or actions by which we intend honour , seem ridiculous, and tending to contumely; they are not worship ; because a signe is not a signe to him that giveth it, but to him to whom it is made; that is, to the spectator Complete text of 61128443:But God has no Ends: the worship we do him, proceeds from our duty, and is directed according to our capacity, by those rules of honour , that Reason dictateth to be done by the weak to the more potent men, in hope of benefit, for fear of dammage, or in thankfulnesse for good already received from them Complete text of 61128444:Attributes Of Divine honour That we may know what worship of God is taught us by the light of Nature, I will begin with his Attributes Complete text of 61128454:Actions That Are Signes Of Divine honour Concerning the actions of Divine worship , it is a most generall Precept of Reason, that they be signes of the Intention to honour God; such as are, First, Prayers: For not the Carvers, when they made Images, were thought to make them Gods; but the People that Prayed to them Complete text of 61128467:Seventhly, Reason directeth not onely to worship God in Secret; but also, and especially, in Publique, and in the sight of men: For without that, (that which in honour is most acceptable) the procuring others to honour him, is lost Complete text of 61128475:And because a Common-wealth hath no Will, nor makes no Lawes, but those that are made by the Will of him, or them that have the Soveraign Power; it followeth, that those Attributes which the Soveraign ordaineth, in the worship of God, for signes of honour , ought to be taken and used for such, by private men in their publique worship Complete text of 61128476:Not All Actions But because not all Actions are signes by Constitution; but some are Naturally signes of honour , others of Contumely, these later (which are those that men are ashamed to do in the sight of them they reverence) cannot be made by humane power a part of Divine worship ; nor the former (such as are decent, modest, humble Behaviour) ever be separated from it Complete text of 61128477:But whereas there be an infinite number of Actions, and Gestures, of an indifferent nature; such of them as the Common-wealth shall ordain to be Publiquely and Universally in use, as signes of honour , and part of Gods worship , are to be taken and used for such by the Subjects Complete text of 61130389:That they should not obey, nor honour the Gods of other Nations, in these words, "Non habebis Deos alienos coram me," that is, "Thou shalt not have for Gods, the Gods that other Nations worship ; but onely me:" whereby they were forbidden to obey, or honor, as their King and Governour, any other God, than him that spake unto them then by Moses, and afterwards by the High Priest Complete text of 61131787:And the worship of these with Divine honour , is that which is in the Scripture called Idolatry, and Rebellion against God Complete text of 61131826:On the other side, if a King compell a man to it by the terrour of Death, or other great corporall punishment, it is not Idolatry: For the worship which the Soveraign commandeth to bee done unto himself by the terrour of his Laws, is not a sign that he that obeyeth him, does inwardly honour him as a God, but that he is desirous to save himselfe from death, or from a miserable life; and that which is not a sign of internall honor, is no worship ; and therefore no Idolatry Complete text of 61131844:For Idolatry is to worship by signes of an internall, and reall honour : but Scandalous Worship, is but Seeming worship ; and may sometimes bee joined with an inward, and hearty detestation, both of the Image, and of the Phantasticall Daemon, or Idol, to which it is dedicated; and proceed onely from the fear of death, or other grievous punishment; and is neverthelesse a sin in them that so worship , in case they be men whose actions are looked at by others, as lights to guide them by; because following their ways, they cannot but stumble, and fall in the way of Religion: Whereas the example of those we regard not, works not on us at all, but leaves us to our own diligence and caution; and consequently are no causes of our falling Complete text of 61131873:And the same may be said of the Images of Angels, and of men dead; unlesse as Monuments of friends, or of men worthy remembrance: For such use of an Image, is not Worship of the Image; but a civill honoring of the Person, not that is, but that was: But when it is done to the Image which we make of a Saint, for no other reason, but that we think he heareth our prayers, and is pleased with the honour wee doe him, when dead, and without sense, wee attribute to him more than humane power; and therefore it is Idolatry |