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Thesis 53.
The worship it selfe therefore is not required in this [ 53] Commandment, if only the time of worship be enjoyned: and if ignorance or prejudice did not by asse and sway mens judgements from the naked and genuine meaning of each Commandment, it would soon appear that the whole wor∣ship of God it selfe, is contained in the three first Com∣mandments, and therefore nothing left that could pos∣sibly be enjoyned by the fourth, but onely the time: I know a time of worship may in some respect be called worship, but the worship it selfe in all other respects is not required in this but in other Commandments; for in the first Commandment we are to have God to be our God, by love of him, trust to him, delight in him, &c. (which nature, as it were, cals for, if God be our God) then all that which we call naturall worship, is required here: and if devi∣sed formes of worship bee forbidden in the second Com∣mandment, which are of humane invention and instituti∣on, then all Gods instituted worship must bee commanded herein: and if vaine and irreverent manner of worship be forbidden in the third Commandment, then all common worship as some call it, or rather all that holy and reverend manner of worship which we owe to God is required in the same command; and if all naturall, instituted and com∣mon worship or holy manner of worship be required in the three first commands, I marvaile then how any worship (any further then as a time of worship, may be called wor∣ship,) can be required in this fourth command, The time therefore, and not the worship it selfe is required herein: for if any worship be required, it's either the whole wor∣ship of God, or some speciall kinde of worship; if the whole worship, then there should be no worship of God required directly in the three first Commandments, but the very same which is commanded in the fourth also, which grosse Tautology is most absurd to imagine in the short summe of these ten words; but if any speciall kinde of worship should be required and not the whole, then the Sabbath day is sanctified to some one kind of worship, ra∣ther then to the exercise of all kind of worship, which is most false and prophane: for who will affirme that the Sab∣bath is to bee sanctified, suppose by that kinde of wor∣ship which is publick, and not private also, by externall, and not by internall worship also; by naturall worship in love and fear God, &c. and not with instituted in the use of all