§. I. The _Duty of Man_ towards God lieth chiefly in these two Generals. 1. _In an holy Conformity to the pure Law and Light of God, so as both to forsake the Evil, and be found in the Practice of those perpetual and moral Precepts of Righteousness and Equity._ And 2. _In rendering that Reverence, Honour and Adoration to God, that he requires and demands of us_; which is comprehended under _Worship_. Of the _former_ we have already spoken, as also of the different Relations of _Christians_, as they are distinguished by the several Measures of Grace received, and given to every one; and in that Respect have their several Offices in the _Body of Christ_, which is the _Church_. Now I come to speak of _Worship_, or of those Acts, whether private or publick, general or particular, whereby Man renders to God that Part of his Duty which relates immediately to him: And as _Obedience is better than Sacrifice_, so neither is any Sacrifice _acceptable_, but that which is done according to the Will of him to whom it is _offered_. But Men, finding it easier to _sacrifice_ in their own Wills, than obey God’s Will, have heaped up _Sacrifices_ without _Obedience_; [Sidenote: True _Worship and Duty to God-wards corrupted._] and thinking to deceive God, as they do one another, give him a Shew of Reverence, Honour and Worship, while they are both inwardly estranged and alienated from his holy and righteous Life, and wholly Strangers to the pure Breathings of his Spirit, in which the acceptable Sacrifice and Worship is only offered up. Hence it is, that there is not any Thing relating to Man’s Duty towards God, which among all Sorts of People hath been more vitiated, and in which the Devil hath more prevailed, than in abusing Man’s Mind concerning this Thing: And as among many others, so among those called _Christians_, nothing hath been more out of Order, and more corrupted, as some _Papists_ and all _Protestants_, do acknowledge. As I freely approve whatsoever the _Protestants_ have reformed from _Papists_ in this Respect; so I meddle not at this Time with their Controversies about it: [Sidenote: _The _Popish Mass (Idolatry)_ denied, with all their_ Trumpery.] Only it suffices me with them to deny, as no Part of the true Worship of God, that abominable Superstition and Idolatry the _Popish Mass_, the _Adoration of Saints and Angels_, the _Veneration of Relicks_, the _Visitation of Sepulchres_, and all those other superstitious Ceremonies, _Confraternities_, and _endless Pilgrimages_ of the _Romish Synagogue_. Which all may suffice to evince to _Protestants_, that _Antichrist_ hath wrought more in this than in any other Part of the _Christian Religion_; [Sidenote: _If_ Protestants _have made a_ perfect Reformation.] and so it concerns them narrowly to consider, whether herein they have made a clear and perfect Reformation; as to which stands the Controversy betwixt them and us. For we find many of