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mestic, social, and civil constitution, whereto God hath accommodalcd bis visible- church, which yet in tbcmsclvcs havoa continual tendency to become 1214 lUrLAXOa KTIL CONDITION. [Bit: local and circuDiHlaiitiftI, ften^ua) an<l siifithettcd and cannot be prv&crvi^d &pirituat, but by Ibc con* tinual presence of the great principle of all wor- »hip, that " God ifi a Spirit, and tJicy thai woi*- ship him mustworship him in spirit and in truth,*' Now, observe bow the Uomanists, in their endear vour to help the Spirit, by means of the sense,^ lK%LriD|<, imft^ation, and uQdcr»tan<ting of tl natural man, have wholly cbaoged its chamcter. They have consecrated churches, as indeed ha^ otherAp and made pil^roagcs to them to be ai counted of great merit ; they have conjiecrated af worship, canonical times, matins and ve»] days, and months, and yeai^, fur solemn and moi solemn worship; they have consecrated number*, making the times of laying prayer a iiecc«fiary condition of their value in the si^ht of God ; ibey have made worship an adjunct of time, place, and number: I might aIno add, of ge^iture, and of clothinf^, and of every thing the most Tolatile and changefiiK But this is not all, they made Ike object of their worship visible, not by pictures and byetatucsonly, but by tbcir dDCtrinc ot the sensual presence in the Sacrament; which, howcrer it be understood bylhc more enlightened, is by the mul- titude, both of priests ami people, and 1 shrewdly conjecture by almost all wor«Jiipped, and bowed down to, and implored as the true and very pre«efi< of God. Thia in the idolatry of tdolatriei stronghold of the &ea3G, the sanctitication the deification of it^ (he dcKlnalton of the Spiril and the sealing of its destruction among all tl people by whom it is sledfastly beliered. But that no one may accitte ns of ovcrteaj an important step of this argumeDl. I shall folli VH.] tR£tAND'S LVIL CONDETIOV, 1215 out the effect which this ecDfiualizing of the idea of the Trinity hath upon the d^tailji of relig^ioiiA stTvice aiiioii^ the Rumati- Catholic i»eople. If Christ, the Mediator and Intercessor, bad been a distinct and separate subi^tance from the Fa- ther, instead of being a distioct person only and the same jiiib^ancc, then the orthodox faith would have bcCQ liable to all the objectiooa which the reasfm^-worshippcTB bring against it, of mak- ing another God, who intercepteth nil the worahip and revercDce, and homage, of the only linnf^ and true God, Which the Catholics bring about in very deed and truths by making intercessors of f^an