What They Said

"But the principal and adequate reason of all divine worship, and that which makes it such, is what God is in himself.  Because he is, that is, an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting, self-sufficient, all-sufficient being; the fountain, cause, and author of life and being to all things, and of all that is good in every kind; the first cause, last end, and absolutely sovereign Lord of all, the rest and all-satisfactory reward of all other beings; therefore, is he by us to be adored and worshipped with divine and religious worship, hence are we in our hearts,minds, and souls, to admire, adore, and love him; his praises are we to celebrate; him to trust and fear; and so to resign ourselves and all our concernments unto his will and disposal; to regard him with all the acts of our minds and persons, answerably to the holy properties and excellences of his nature."

John Owen