Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Our Worship is more spiritual than their worship was. As that known place in Joh. 4. 23. where Christ saith to the woman of Samaria, You serve God in this place: But the time shall come that they shall serve him every where, for God is a Spirit, and will be worshiped in spirit and in truth. There is more spiritual worship in the time of the Gospel than was in the time of the Law: The Lord carried them on in a carnal and a sensitive way: and indeed this hath been a great design of Antichrist to bring men to a carnal way of worship, To carnal Ordinances, for so they are called in Scripture, the Commandments of God by Moses, are called carnal, Heb. 9. 10.
For their worship was in comparison of the worship in the Gospel but carnal; (I say) it hath bin the design of Antichrist to darken the glory of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, by bringing the Church to a carnal way of worship, and to take away spiritual, and therefore they are altogether about carnal Institutions, whereas Jesus Christ hath instituted but only two Sacraments, wherein there are outward carnal things, wherein we worship God through the Creature, otherwise His worship is altogether spiritual; but now Antichrist he would bring in altogether carnal things, he would and a hundred inventions of his own, as building sumptuous Temples, railing in of the Communion Tables, and then turning them into Altars; with such kind of apish gestures, foolish garments, and Heathenish music, all which was carnal worship, the devices of men to please children and fools with: exceedingly much against the very life and soul of Godliness, and the only rule of worship in the Word of God.
Besides this ridiculous and carnal way of worship, made the worshipers twofold more the children of Satan than they were before. But now the more spiritual any worship of God is, the more spiritual it makes the heart, the less we stick to the creature while we are worshipping of God, the more communion we come to have with Christ, and so it doth raise holiness to a more higher pitch.
For the reference, see:
reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com
For their worship was in comparison of the worship in the Gospel but carnal; (I say) it hath bin the design of Antichrist to darken the glory of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, by bringing the Church to a carnal way of worship, and to take away spiritual, and therefore they are altogether about carnal Institutions, whereas Jesus Christ hath instituted but only two Sacraments, wherein there are outward carnal things, wherein we worship God through the Creature, otherwise His worship is altogether spiritual; but now Antichrist he would bring in altogether carnal things, he would and a hundred inventions of his own, as building sumptuous Temples, railing in of the Communion Tables, and then turning them into Altars; with such kind of apish gestures, foolish garments, and Heathenish music, all which was carnal worship, the devices of men to please children and fools with: exceedingly much against the very life and soul of Godliness, and the only rule of worship in the Word of God.
Besides this ridiculous and carnal way of worship, made the worshipers twofold more the children of Satan than they were before. But now the more spiritual any worship of God is, the more spiritual it makes the heart, the less we stick to the creature while we are worshipping of God, the more communion we come to have with Christ, and so it doth raise holiness to a more higher pitch.
For the reference, see:
Jeremiah Burroughs on the greater spirituality of New Testament worship
Our Worship is more spiritual than their worship was. As that known place in Joh. 4. 23. where Christ saith to the woman of Samaria, You serve God in this place: But the time shall come that they s…
reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com
