Attributes of God - Charnock - XIII - Chapter 4 (Spiritual worship) continued

Required reading
Attributes of God by Charnock (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Continue Chapter 4 (A discourse upon spiritual worship) by reading up to the paragraph beginning 'IV.  To make use of this: Use 1. First, it serves for information.' (page 321 in the Banner edition).

My summary
We continue learning about spiritual worship.

Last week Charnock gave us some general propositions as his first point.

This week we read his second point, what is spiritual worship.  It is:
(i) a worship from a spiritual nature;
(ii) done by the influence and with the assistance of the Spirit of God;
(iii) done with sincerity;
(iv) performed with an unitedness of heart;
(v) performed with a spiritual activity and sensibleness of God;
(vi) performed with acting spiritual habits.

Then the third point examines why spiritual worship is due to God, because:
(i) the best we have is to be presented to God in worship;
(ii) we cannot else act towards God according to the nature of rational creatures;
(iii) without this engagement of our spirits, no act is an act of worship;
(iv) there is in worship an approach of God to man;
(v) to have a spiritual worship is God's end in the restoration of the creature, both in redemption by his Son, and sanctification by his Spirit.

What grabbed me
Really good point about the best we have should be presented to God: 'The best we have is to be presented to God in worship. For since God is the most excellent Being, he is to be served by us with the most excellent thing we have, and with the choicest veneration. God is so incomprehensibly excellent, that we cannot render him what he deserves. We must render him what we are able to offer; the best of our affections; the flower of our strength; the cream and top of our spirits. By the same reason that we are bound to give to God the best worship, we must offer it to him in the best manner. We cannot give to God any thing too good for so blessed a Being: God being a great King, slight services become not his majesty, Mal. i. 13, 14. It is unbecoming the majesty of God, and the reason of a creature,to give him a trivial thing: it is unworthy to bestow the best of our strength on our lust, and the worst and weakest in the service of God. An infinite Spirit should have affections as near to infinite as we can: as he is a Spirit without bounds, so he should have a service without limits. When we have given him all, we cannot serve him according to the excellency of his nature, Josh. xxiv. 19. And shall we give him less than all? His infinite excellency, and our dependence on him as creatures, demand the choicest adoration: our spirits being the noblest part of our nature, are as due to him as the service of our bodies, which are the vilest. To serve him the worst only, is to diminish his honour.'

Although we cannot give him all he deserves, we must endeavour to give him all that we can!

Next week's reading
Conclude Chapter 4 (A discourse upon spiritual worship).

Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.