Good as these affections are in the heart of the worshipper, they receive an external complement of goodness and perfection by being blazoned forth in vocal utterance, singing, bending of knees,--by the erection and embellishment of temples, and offerings of gold, silver, precious stones, and incense,--and by men thronging those temples in multitudes for social worship,--provided always that the inward devotion of the heart be there, to put a soul into these outward demonstrations and offerings. 7. Concerning these religious observances interior and exterior, it is as idle to pretend that they are _useful_ to Almighty God as it is irrelevant to object that they are _useless_ to Him. Of course they are useless to Him. All creation is useless to God. A Being who can never receive any profit, increment, or gain, dwells not within the region of utilities. Theologians indeed distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic glory, that is, between the glory which God gives Himself by His own contemplation of His own essence, and the glory which His creatures give Him. They say that God is thus capable of extrinsic increment, to which increment the praise and worship of His creatures is useful. But, after all, they are fain to avow that the whole of this extrinsic increment and glory is no real gain to God, giving Him nothing but what He had before in an infinitely more excellent mode and manner from and of Himself. Thus it appears that the extrinsic glory of God, to which the worship paid Him by man contributes, is valued, not because it is properly _useful to Him_, but because He is most properly and highly _worthy of it_. "Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honour and power: because thou hast created all things, and for thy will they were, and have been created." (Apoc. iv. II.) And being worthy of this glory, He wills to have it, and does most strictly exact it, for which reason He is called in the Scripture _a jealous God_. So those who reflect some sparkle of God's Majesty, and under some aspect represent His person upon the earth, as do princes, lay and ecclesiastical, have many observances of honour and respect paid to them, which are not _useful_ as supplying a _need_--for who needs a salute of twenty-one guns? nevertheless their dignity is _worthy_ of them, and they require them accordingly.