before the Lord. And of this I shall say, that it is 1. an act of obedience to that precept of glorifying God in our bodies, as well as souls. 2. A transcribing of Christs copy, who kneeled, and even prostrated himself in prayer, of many holy men in Scripture, who are affirmed to have done so (and that affirmation written for our example) and even of the Publican, who though standing yet by standing afar off, by not looking up, by striking his breast, did clearly joyn bodily worship to his prayer, of [Lord be mer∣cifull to me a sinner] used at his coming into the Temple, and in that po∣sture thrived better then the Pharisee in his loftier garbe, went away more justified, saith our Saviour, as a vessel at the foot of a hill, will (say the Artists) receive and contain more water, then the same or the like vessell Vide Clav. in Sacr. Bosc. c. 1. on the top of it would be able to do (and he that shall do the like, that shall joyn adoration of God, and nothing but God, to the use of that or the like servent ejaculation at his entrance into Gods house, will sure have Christs approbation of the Publicans behaviour, to justifie him from any charge of superstition in so doing) and besides 3. the most agreeable humble gesture, and so best becoming, and Cum hi motus corporis fi∣eri nisi motu animi praece∣dente non possin, eudem rsus exterùs visibiliter factis ille interior invisibi∣lis augetur. Aug. l. de cu∣ra pr mr. 5. evidencing, and helping the inward performance of that most lowly dutie of Prayer, and consequently that it may be charged with blas∣phemy, as well and as properly, as with superstition, and probably would be so, if the latter were not the more odious of the two: and indeed why kneeling or bowing should be more lyable to that censure, then either mentall or orall prayer, there is no reason imaginable, it being as possible that one may be directed to a false object (and so become Idolatrous, or superstitious in the true notion of those words (as they denote the worship of Idols, or dead men, or superstites) as the other, and (for the improper notion of Supersti∣tion (the one again as much capable of being an excesse in Religion (the mind or tongue being as likely to enlarge and exceed as the body) or of using a piece of false Religion, as the other, the bodily worship duly per∣formed to God, being the payment of a debt to God (and no doubt ac∣ceptable, when it is paid with a true heart) and no way an argument of want, but a probable evidence of the presence and cooperation of inward devotion, as I remember Nazianzen saith of his Father, Or. 8. , He shewed a great deal in the outside, but kept the greater treasure within in the invisible part. And on the other side, the stiffnesse of the knee, an argument of some eminent defect, if not of true piety, yet of somewhat else, and Christs prediction, John 4. that the time should come that the worshippers should worship God in spirit and truth, (being not set in opposition to bodily worship, but to the ap∣propriating 0