A fragment on the worship due to God from man Isaac Newton c. 379 words Newton Project Brighton 2012 Newton Project, Sussex University

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 c. 1710s-1720s, in English, c. 352 words, 1 p. 1 p.

in English

 Part of a study of Revelation [SL255.7]SL255Fragment on Revelation [SL255.5] SL255.6, Location Unknown Location Unknown SL255.6 SL255.6

The whole of SL255 was bought at the 1936 Sotheby sale by Emmanuel Fabius for £13.10s. This portion was offered as section 8 of Lot 511 at the 2004 New York Sotheby sale but not sold. It had been acquired by the bookdealers Estates of Mind by early April 2010.

 c. 1710s-1720s England English Isaac Newton ReligionDoctrine Transcribed by Stephen Snobelen Tagged by Shannon Higgins Revised by Shannon Higgins Tagging checked by John Young Catalogue information compiled by John Young Final-checked by John Young

5. The worship wchwhich is due from us to God Almighty as our God is incommunicable. To give that worship or any part of it to any other is to have another God & by consequence to break contrary to the first commandmtcommandment. And what that worship is may be learnt from yethe worship which the Iews gave him in their Temple by the law of Moses. For And if the ceremonial part of the Law be set (from wchwhich we are now freed) be set aside; it consisted chiefly in these two things: in giving him honour & glory & thanks praise & thanks for creating all things & for giving us our daily bread & for all his blessings what ever blessings we receive; & in supplicating him for what ever we want. By the first sort of worship such worship we acknowledge his power & infinite goodness & power & wisdom, by the second & that he is always every where invisibly, a property peculiar to himself. The four Animals in the Temple in this prophesy worship him day & night morning & evening saying Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, wchwhich was & is & is to come; & the 24 Elders at the same time fall down before him & worship him that liveth for ever & ever & cast their crowns before the throne saying, Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory & honour & power: for thou hast created all things, & for thy pleasure they are & were created. This is his daily worship wchwhich we are directed by this prophesy to give him in his Temples wchwhich publick worship our Churches represented here by his by his Temple. And another part of his publick worship is singing praises to him as God Almighty. For the 144000 Lamb stood on Mount Sion with the 144000 & they sung a new song with wthwith harps before the throne & the Victors standing on yethe sea of glass sung the song of Moses & the Lamb saying Great & marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty &c. And another part praying to him of his publick worship is praying to him as God represented in this prophesy by the Angels offering up