7. Idea of worship not innate.
That God is to be worshipped, is, without doubt, as great a truth as any that can
enter into the mind of man, and deserves the first place amongst all practical principles. But yet it can by no
means be thought innate, unless the ideas of God and worship are innate. That the idea the term worship stands for
is not in the understanding of children, and a character stamped on the mind in its first original, I think will be
easily granted, by any one that considers how few there be amongst grown men who have a clear and distinct
notion of it. And, I suppose, there cannot be anything more ridiculous than to say, that children have this practical
principle innate, "That God is to be worshipped," and yet that they know not what that worship of God is, which
is their duty. But to pass by this.