What They Said

In speaking of the excellence of contentment:

"1. By contentment we come to give God the worship that is due Him.  It is a special part of the devine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.  I say it is a special part of the devine worship that the creature owes to the infinite Creator, in that I tender the respect that is due from me to the Creator.  The word the Greeks have that signifies 'to worship' is the same as to come and crouch before someone, as if a dog should come crouching to you. and be willing to lie down at your feet.  So the creature in apprehension of its own baseness, and the infinite excellence that is in God above it, when it comes to worship God, comes and crouches to this God, and lies down at the feet of God:  then the creature worships God. "