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 Christ, it is as if a wife should prostrate herself to a strange lover, and then say, God knows my heart is towards my husband: Idolatry may be idolatry, altho' men intend not idolatry, in worshipping the creature. They who say John intended to worship the angel, have not well considered the place: John directed both his inward-worship and his knee-worship to God, and took the angel to be God; otherwise the angel's reproof. I am thy fellow-servant, &c. were not worth a straw. And yet he is rebuked for idolatry in directing knee worship to an angel. Cornelius intended not to give to Peter what was due to God: he kend as it was told him that Peter was a man, yet he thought, for his Master's sake, and the gospel's sake, he would bow his knee to him; for which he was rebuked

The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy. This is the testimony of Christ, which comes from the Spirit of Christ, who reveals things to come; as ministers are witnesses for Christ, so they must see and hear, otherwise they cannot depone upon their consciences to the people; they must have the Spirit that John had, John xv. 26. Cor. xii. 3. ''None can call Jesus the Lord. but by the Spirit''. This will tell men, if they be rightly called ministers; and if they want the Spirit, they found not with the trumpets. but with rams' horns, I shall add no more, Amen.