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Heaven. That the Order and Difcipline of the Catholick Church, into which we are admitted by Baptifm, oblige, not only to inward Peace, but alfo to an outward Decorum, and vifible Uniformity; which, tho' confeffedly one of the Minora Legis, or leffer things of the Law, yet if it be voluntarily and prefumptuously neglected, will certainly commence a great and heinous Sin. A Sin being not always to be esteem'd according to the value of the Duty omitted, but from the Difobedience of the Heart, and from the Perverfe and Lawlefs determination of the Will in omitting it. That, laftly, they have no regard to the Exhortations and Examples of the Saints both in the Old and New Teftament, which loudly call upon us, not for the Adoration of our Souls only, but for our Bodily Worship alfo.

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come, i fays the Pfalmift, Let us wor- i Pf. 95.6. ship, and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker: And again, We will go into his Tabernacle, and fall low on our Knees before his Foot-ftool. k Daniel k Daniel kc.6.v.10. kneel'd upon his Knees three times a Day, and Prayed. St. Stephen kneel'd 148. 7.60 down, when, with his laft Breath, he interceeded for his Murtherers. And *St.

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St. Paul us'd the fame humble Pofture, when he took his leave of the Afiatick Bishops at Miletus, and afterwards of his Tyrian Friend on the Sea-fhore. He kneeled down and Pray'd with them mA. 20. all, m fays St. Luke, m And they all brought us on our way, with Wives and Children, till we were out of the City: And we kneeled down on the Shore, and Pray'd. In fhort, our bleffed Saviour himself (whom certainly they will not charge either with Unskilfulness or Superftition) hath taught us by his own infallible Example to demean our felves after this manner in our devotional Addresses to our Heavenly Father. He was withdrawn from them, fays the forecited Evangelift, c. 22. about a Stones caft, and kneeled down and Pray'd. Let us then, my Brethren, be always careful to glorifie God with our Bodies, as well as with our Spirits, with the reverential and becoming Gestures of the one, as well as with the humble and pious Difpofition of the other, fince (as St. Paul moft truly tells us) they are neither of them our own, but his. Let us, I fay, with all due proftration both of Body and Mind, adore the Blessed Name of Jefus, by which alone we can be fav'd, and

which was given him by the Father to this very End and Purpose, that at the Name of Jefus, every Knee should bow of things in Heaven, and things on Earth, and things under the Earth. Let us more especially at his Holy Table, when we commemorate his infinite Love in dying for us, and have the Blessed Inftruments and Pledges of the Divive Grace reach'd out to us by his Representative, with a Prayer for our Eternal Happiness upon the due reception of them, behave our felves with Reverence and Godly Fear. Then let us worship, and fall down, and kneel before the Lord, our Redeemer, and if there be any thing viler than the Duft, or any place lower and bafer than the Earth, let our finful Bodies be proftrated and lie there.

5. Come to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in Love and Charity with all the World. This our great Mafter explicitly commands in his Sermon upon the Mount. If thou bring thy Gift to the Altar, fays he, and there 23 24 remembreft that thy Brother hath ought against thee; leave there thy Gift before the Altar, and go thy way, first be reconcil'd to

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thy Brother, and then come and offer thy Gift. For the moft judicious Interpreters agree, that by the Altar in this Place our Lord particularly means his Holy Table, which he, and after him fucceeding Ages, call by that Name, not because his natural Body and Blood are there really offer'd up by the Priest, unto the Father, as the Romish Doctors would have us against Senfe, Reason, Scripture, and Tradition to imagine; but because we there offer up our Prayers, our Praises, our Alms, our broken and contrite Spirits, and our whole felves, Souls and Bodies, which in the See rf. Language of the Holy Ghoft are fre141.2. Pf. quently til'd Sacrifices. And indeed! 50.14,23 there is nothing more repugnant to 15,16. Pf the harmonious and bleffed Temper 51. 170. of the Gospel, than Malice and ReRom. 12.1, venge. They render us unfit for any

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act of Worship, and therefore we are commanded in our Prayers to lift up Holy Hands χωρὶς ὀργῆς καὶ διαλογισμῶν, without Wrath and Difputings. They exclude us from all hopes of Pardon, and call for immediate Vengeance upon our Heads: For as often as we fay the Lord's Prayer, we appeal unto the Divine Omnifcience, that we defire

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the Pardon of our Sins no otherwife, than as we remit the leffer Injuries of our Brethren to our felves. Forgive us our Trefpaffes, as we forgive them that Trespass against us. If we

retain then in our Hearts the Seeds of Rancour and Malice against any of our Brethren, we pronounce Sentence against our felves, we change our Prayers into Imprecations, and instead of the great Bleffings of Pardon and Peace, we confign our felves over to the tremendous Effects of Almighty and Everlafting Vengeance. Nay, They are the visible, diftinguishing Badge of the Prince of Darkness, the Livery of him, who by their inftigation firft brought Calumnies and Lies, and then Sin and Death into the World. P For in PEp.3.10, this (fays St. John) the Children of God 15. are manifeft, and the Children of the Devil: Whofoever doth not Righteouf ness, is not of God, neither he that loveth not his Brother. And whofoever hateth his Brother is a Murderer; and fuch (I have juft now reminded you) is the Devil from the beginning. If you defire then to approve your felves the Elect of God, Holy

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