7. Bowing down to them, and fo adoring of them, Alt. x. 25, 26. Rev. xxii. 8, 9.

USES.

1. Worship nothing but GOD.

2. Do not worship Him under any Image or Similitude.

II. Inward Idolatry, Ezek. xiv. 7.

So,

1. Covetousness, Coloff. iii. 5. Eph. v. 5.

A covetous Man

1. Minds his Riches more than GOD.
2. Takes more Pains for them, S. Matth. vi.

24.

3. Loves them better, 1 Tim. vi. 10.

4. Fears to lose them, Alt. xix. 25.

5. Puts his Truft in them, S. Luk. xii. 18, 19. 1 Tim. vi. 17.

6. Makes them his chiefeft Good, S. Luk. xviii. 19.

7. Sacrifices both Body and Soul for them,
S. Matth. xvi. 26.

2. Carnal Pleasures, Phil. iii. 19.
A Voluptuous Man

1. Loves Pleasure more than GOD, 2 Tim.

iii. 4.

2. Takes more Delight in them, Rom. viii.

5, 6.

3. Takes more Pains for them, Rom. xvi. 18.

3. Popular Applaufe, S. Joh. xii. 43.

The Ambitious Man

1. Defires his own Honour more than

GOD's.

2. Prizes it more, Dan. iv. 30.

3. Is more troubled at the Lofs of it, than
of GOD's Favour, 2 Sam. xvii. 23.

4. Sin, efpecially beloved Sin, which
1. You prefer before GOD.

2. Will not part with for His fake.
3. Venture more for it, than for GOD.
5. Satan.

1. You do his Will more than GOD's, S. Joh. viii. 44.

2. Are more pleafed with his Works than GOD's.

II. Whence proceeds this inward Idolatry? 1. From Ignorance in the Mind.

2. Perverfnefs in the Will.

3. Disorder in the Affections.

III. How doth it appear, that this is plain Idolatry?

1. Others worship Idols with their Bodies, we with our Souls.

2. Thefe give the principal Part of Divine Worship to thefe Things.

3. Thefe Things alienate our Minds from GOD, Ephef. ii. 12.

USES.

1. Have no other Gods but the LORD, Exod. *x. 3.

Confider,

1. They cannot fave you, Ifa. xlv. 20. Jer.
ii. 28.

2. Take you off from the Service of the
True GOD, Pfal. x. 4. 1 King. vii. 28.
3. Separate you from the True GOD, Ifa.

lix. 2.

4. Incenfe

4. Incenfe GOD's Wrath against you. 5. Yea, deftroy you for ever, 1 Cor. vi. 9. 2. Worship Him alone, S. Matth. iv. 10. 1. He made you, Pfal. cxxxix. 14.

2. He made you to worship Him, Prov. xvi. 4.

3. He preferves you, A. xvii. 28. 4. He keeps you to ferve Him. 5. He redeemed you, I Cor. vi. 20. 6. Your Happiness confifts in worshipping Him, Pfal. xix. 11.

7. Worship Him here, and enjoy Him hereafter, Hebr. xii. 14.

3. Worship Him aright.

1. Love Him, S. Matth. xxii. 37.
2. Fear Him, Isa. viii. 13.
3. Long for Him, Pfal. xlii. 2.
4. Pray to Him, Pfal. Ixv. 2.
5. Truft on Him, Prov. iii. 5.
6. Rejoice in Him, Pfal. xxxvii. 4.
7. Obey Him, 1 Sam. xv. 22.

I COR.

I COR. X. 16.

The Cup of Bleffing which we blefs, Is it not the Communion of the Blood of Chrift? The Bread which we break, Ís it not the Communion of the Body of Chrift?

W Hofoever rightly receives the Sacrament

of the Lord's Supper, doth really partake

of the Body and Blood of Chrift.

I. What is the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper?

1. GOD had no fooner made Man, but He enters into a Covenant of Works with Him, Lev. xviii. 5.

2. The Covenant of Works being broken, He' enters into a Covenant of Grace, Gen. iii. 15.

3. This Covenant of Grace He was pleased to feal under the Old Teftament, Rom. v. ii. with feveral Sacraments: Some,

1. Tranfitory, the Clouds and fiery Pillar, Manna, Red-Sea, Water out of the Rock.

2. Fixed, Circumcifion, Gen. xvii. and the Paffover, Exod. xii.

4. Under the New Teftament, He was pleased to change these Seals into Baptifm and the Lord's Supper.

5. Thefe of the New differ in several Things from the Old.

[Vid. Expofit. on S. Luk. xxii. 19. Vol. IÍ. p.194.]

6. They

6. They agree also in several Things;

1. The Author.

2. The principal Thing fignify'd.

3. The Relation of the outward Signs, &c. 4. Inftrument.

5. End.

7. The Things they agree in, conftitute or make up the Effence of a Sacrament in general.

8. Thefe Things therefore being all applied to the Lord's Supper, will discover the Nature thereof to be an Ordinance inftituted by Chrift, wherein, under the outward Signs of Bread and Wine, Christ is represented, offered, conveyed, and fealed to the worthy Receiver.

1. It is an Ordinance inftituted by Chrift, and in his Inftitution of it, two Things are confiderable.

1. His Facta.

2. His Dicta; which were,

Προςακτικά,

Οριςικά,
Εξηγήτικα,

Νομοθετικά.

2. An Ordinance, wherein, under the Signs of Bread and Wine, Chrift, with all His

Benefits, &c. are represented, offered, conveyed, fealed to us.

II. What is required to our Receiving of the Sacrament worthily.

1. Knowledge.

1. Of the Fundamentals of Religion.

1. GOD, that He is what He is.

2. Chrift Jefus.

1. His Perfon.

2. His Office.

3. The Holy Ghost.

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