10. And seeing our faith, that the Scriptures are the word of God, began from the confidence and trust we repose in the _church_; there can be no doubt but that their _interpretation_ of the same Scriptures (when any doubt or controversy shall arise, by which this fundamental point, _that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh_, may be called in question) is _safer_ for any man to trust to, than his _own_, whether _reasoning_ or _spirit_, that is to say, his own _opinion_. 11. Now concerning men’s _affections_ to _Godward_, they are not the same always that are described in the chapter concerning passions. There, for to love, is to be delighted with the image or conception of the thing loved; but God is unconceivable: _to love God_ therefore, in the Scripture, is to _obey his commandments_, and to _love one another_. Also to _trust God_, is different from our _trusting_ one _another_: for, when a man trusteth a man, (chap. IX. sect. 9) he layeth aside his own endeavours: but if we do so in our trust to God Almighty, we disobey him; and how shall we trust to him whom we know we disobey? To _trust_ to _God Almighty_ therefore, is to _refer_ to his _good pleasure_ all that is _above our_ own power to effect: and this is _all one_ with _acknowledging one_ only God, which is the first commandment. And to trust _in Christ_, is no more but to acknowledge him for God; which is the fundamental article of our Christian faith: and consequently, to trust, rely, or, as some express it, to cast and roll ourselves on Christ, is the same thing with the fundamental point of faith, namely, that _Jesus Christ is the son of the living God_. 12. To _honour_ God internally in the heart, is the same thing with that we ordinarily call honour amongst men: for it is nothing but the _acknowledging_ of his _power_; and the signs thereof, the same with the signs of the honour due to our superiors, mentioned chapter VIII. section 6, viz. to _praise_, to _magnify_, to _bless_, to pray to him, to thank him, to give oblations and sacrifices to him, to give attention to his word, to speak to him in prayer with consideration, to come into his presence with humble gesture, and in decent manner, and to adorn his worship with magnificence and cost: and these are natural signs of our honouring him internally: and therefore the contrary hereof, to neglect prayer, to speak to him _extempore_, to come to church slovenly, to adorn the place of his worship worse than our own houses, to take up his name in every idle discourse, are the manifest signs of contempt of the Divine Majesty. There be other signs which are arbitrary; as, to be uncovered, as we be here, to put off their shoes, as Moses at the fiery bush, and some other of that kind, which in their own nature are indifferent, till, to avoid indecency and discord, it be otherwise determined by common consent. ------- CHAPTER XII.