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I know none so vain as to affirm in direct terms, that corporal Worship, and the outward solemnities of Religion alone are grateful to God; perhaps that which makes them to be so at all, is, their being conducible hereunto, or significative hereof. But without this, all outward splendor otherwise very acceptable to God ) is but a kind of Religious Pageantry, and a more solemn and notorious mocking of Almighty God, and is extremely 〈 ◊ 〉 to his Divine Majesty; as you find 〈 … 〉 protesting, especially under the 〈 ◊ 〉 Testament when their more early zeal was apt to spire 〈 ◊ 〉 those verd but fruitless expressions of Religion like the Fig-tree by which they are emblemated in the Gospel, Mat. 21, 19. Our Saviour in answering that important question about the manner of Divine Worship, in the 4th. Chap. of St. John, 24. Verse. does not exclude corporal Worship: |
I know none so vain as to affirm in Direct terms, that corporal Worship, and the outward solemnities of Religion alone Are grateful to God; perhaps that which makes them to be so At all, is, their being conducible hereunto, or significative hereof. But without this, all outward splendour otherwise very acceptable to God) is but a kind of Religious Pageantry, and a more solemn and notorious mocking of Almighty God, and is extremely 〈 ◊ 〉 to his Divine Majesty; as you find 〈 … 〉 protesting, especially under the 〈 ◊ 〉 Testament when their more early zeal was apt to spire 〈 ◊ 〉 those verd but fruitless expressions of Religion like the Fig tree by which they Are emblemated in the Gospel, Mathew 21, 19. Our Saviour in answering that important question about the manner of Divine Worship, in the 4th. Chap. of Saint John, 24. Verse. does not exclude corporal Worship: |
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