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h looked upon the worship of ths common people, that it is nne unvaried ftystecn of base ^indabominnble tdolatrr, unrelieved by tatte^ undignified by knowledge; that the priests witnrssesand promoters of it; and that if aprii flhould sec the wickedness of it, be could not bd| it, nor Atand before it, hut must either njlire ti some regular order, and hide his pure ;ind sjiirili worship in a cell, or, by declaring bis con?tctbi openly in bit own church, become a martyr to \\ faith of Chri«tJcsn&. or 6nally protest, as did fathers as:aiast il.and betake htmselfto thebt of the Protei^lantt, however weak in our failb, aJ uUspiritual in our liies we have become. The K<^^^ fundamental nnkle, and most con^ siantly operative idea, of the Chtistian religion n the idea of l>ud, a±t Ihe King^ eternal, rmmorli and invisible, whom no eye hath w^en. neithi can flcc. nnd to whom ahme wor^iip i^ due, in all creation, but nu where mible in it. I VUJ IRKtAND't EVIL COHDITIOV* I0|8 cording to llie word of the I-ord, " No man haib seen God at any lime; Iho oniy bcgotlec Sot wbicli is in the boeotn of the Father, he h;itb re- vealed hiraf— wlio is to be wor^ippcd cquaJly ia CTory place, though conbned to uo particular jilace, according to that utlier word of (he Lord, *' Tbv hour conietb, when yo sliall uisitbcr in th» tnoimtain, nur yet ia Jerusal^m^ worship (hc Father. But the hourcometti. and now i«, when the true worsliippcrs shall worship the Father in Spirit and io truth ; for the Father fleeketb auch to worship him. God i» a Spirit, and they that wortdiip him n)u«t worship him in Spirit aad in truth." This great idea of Uie spiritual worship of a being every-where present to the spirit, and Dowherc present to the sense, hath the cffcet, when entertained \n the Spirit, of making erery act of knowledge concerning him, every act of faith upon him, uvi^ry act of prayer nntu him, vvery act of obedience unto him, that is, the whole of rcligioa, to proceed from the Spirit, and to be dooe in the Spirit, and consequently to redeem the Spirit from tht: fle»b, and to quicken it with a continual life. ItaUomaketh this spint-quicken*- intif worship convenient to all tiinesp aud to all places, and to all companies ; oi^ly requiring of the worshippers to sink into the imperrious and undisturbed iiccrecies of his own spirit, and wor- ship there io spirit and in truth. Yet doth it not tight against fttate<l times of priirate prayer, family devotion^ or public worship, wliich have their reasonableness and duty in the laws of our do-