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ing of the fleſh 7. cepts and dottrins of Men abour r-lisious abſtinences, had a re of wiſdom; and *twas but a meer ſhew, a bare DCLnr: 2” cious appearance, fair colour of wiltom, which is of no wor! not the reality and truth of Chriſtian wiſton \ however ir m Ws beguile thoſe that were taken more with ſhadows than GP 1nc-. Ve 3, 448,17. 2(1.) In arbitrary ſupcrſtition, or t1yman i:1- vention, or ſelf-will d Religion rather than divine infticyrions - as all the Ancients and almoſt all the moderns dg intornrer tHe word, it having no good but an ill Characicr, Accomntin” the compound word here which we render wil! worſhip, wo Ke import, as to the ordainers of worthip, than the two fn. words of which it is compounded, expretfing human arbir: 7. neſs and worſhip, v. 18, (even as the Apofile dvth by a com- pound word which ſignifies peace-mating, <, 1. 25. underf-2 the very ſame thing which he expreflec! by the two tim; !c
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then that wil-worſhip is hateful to God, and the more voluntary the more abominable. It being, moſt juſt, that not in what way we will and chuſe, but only in that way which he will and chuſeth we ſhould worſhip him with acceptance (which ſhould be our greateft care, 2 Cor. 5. g.) we know, amongſt men, choſe perſons of honour that give Liveries to their Servants
would diſcard ſuch of them as ſk:At{ come to attend them in new ones of their own deviſing, though thoſe Servants mizht be fo fooliſh as to conceit thoſe of their own deviting were more expreſhve. of their humble reſpetts, Much more is worſhip of Man's deviſing diftafteful to the all-wiſe God, who ſees through all colours, and though he loves a willing worſhipper, yet he hates wil/-worſhip, o However it be palliated (z.) with a Pre- tended demiſhon of mind, or an attcaation of humility, as if
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more ſelf-abalement were deſigned in ſich an arbitrar: way of worſhip, like thoſe Hypocrites in their faſts, who put on mor- tih=d looks, and a neglected Garb, with diſguiſed Countenances Mai, 6, 16, ſhewing themſelves mot ſubmiffive ro the orders of their ſuperiors, in that way of Man's devifing. p Wherein th- more ſuperſtitioufly devout do labour to out-do others, ( 2.) In puniſhing, not ſparing, negletting, or afficting the Body, (as {ome Morks at this day in the Papacy) in denying it that, wii; wizich nature ſhould he ſupplied. q. Not in any honour, which a l-arned Man thinks the Apoſtle would have read as included in a Parentheſts, as Conceiving the ſerics of his diſcourſe require; theſe to be joined, viz. Negletting of rhe Byiy as to what tortit;s to the ſansf1ing of the fleſh, So by (nor im bonour ) is not here moat a {paring of the body in order to real ſanciitication, ts MPcrancc andl continence, in oppoſition to the dithononing, of the body by Luxury (as, X99, 1. 26, with 1 Cor. 6, 18, 19; 20. 1 Thr 4. 4. Heb. 13. 4.) That honour of the boily the Apoſtle dot, elſewhere require, he doth here oppol” to the leducers pretend: ed mortifications. For their Relivious abſtinency was not tom that, which occation'd Luxury, only from jome certain forts ot meat, the uſc of whichno way denles the body, nor violates in any manner the holinels and honour it ought to be kept in, Others read zeeleing the body, which is in #9 eftecyt, » Fo P41 ering the jlcjh, Not in any cſteem, 7. e, with Gol, or 1:6t in any honour to God, but ina tendency only to male proviion fur the fleth, (as, Rom. 13.laft) others take honour for revard, 4. de in no regard, to the ſupplying of nature with that which is due to it, Othegs take honour for having a care of, 1 1is, 5. 3.4. t, neglecting the body in taking no care of it, or not at all valuir
| Vatlluind the things that are requiſite to the duc nouriſhment of ic ; th:is is ſomewhat generally received, Having nocare that the body may have that which will fatisfie nature ; and if the laſt phrai- which we tranſlate ro the ſarisfying of 1h: fol, feem not tt wel} to expreſs moderate fatiety, we Foul conver "tis id in goud tenſe God filleth the hungry with prod thevps, Luke 1. 575,
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