No Such Thing as True Worship by 'Seekers'

Quoting Richard Stock . . .

	Without the knowledge of God, a man cannot know himself. The knowledge of a man in things natural is an excellent knowledge, yet it is nothing without the knowledge of self, as Augustine says. Though a man knows all mysteries, to the breadth of the earth, and the depth of the sea, but does not know himself, he is like to a man that makes a building without a foundation. Without the knowledge of God, no man can know himself. Because of that wicked pride that is naturally in man, that when he looks upon himself, he thinks he is so holy, just, and pure, that he perceives injustice to be justice, impurity to be purity; but if once he comes to see the face of God, then he sees his own justice to be injustice, and his own purity to be impurity, and his own righteousness to be folly. Therefore it is the principal thing for a man to know God; without this a man can not worship God rightly . . . which is the end [goal] of his creation, and to this purpose there are many places of scripture, "Come, let us worship the Lord for He hath made us" (Proverbs 12:13). The worship of God is commanded in the first [5 of the 10 commandments], and the principle thing declared there is the knowledge of God; thus, there is no worship of God where there is no knowledge of God. Therefore, so that man might know how to worship Him, He first declares Himself, "I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage" (Exod. 20:2); and this is the method which David lays down to Solomon, "know thou the God of thy father", and then, "serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind" (1 Chr. 28:9).
From:	Day by Day with The English Puritans