Sensual faith lures us back time and time again like cigarettes and candy. We are looking for the same fix, the same psydo-consummate sensation: we repeat the same function for the ecstasy of this fix. This mysterious experience practiced in unbounded variations we have usefully called worship.

Mystics esteem their opinions and their experience above the nature and extent of the greater authority whereby men are saved, sanctified and secured, namely the Word of God. Their obnoxious opinions defy the very ground of biblical faith because their perceptions about God are contingent upon their experience of Him, presupposing God acts in a way He has not acted and says what He has not said. Sure, a consciences mystic may try to provide a kind of biblical argument; however, his proof texts patronize the biblical attestation more than agree with it. If only they heard what they were saying, "God subjectively graces them with a special special revelation beyond and above what he has affirmed with the words of His mouth."
On the contrary, Christians affirm that God shines into our hearts the knowledge of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ acting specially or supernaturally with the same kind of creative power he employed when He spoke the world into existence. Christians also affirm that God works through means namely the sacraments, the Scriptures, and prayer: otherwise there is not an ounce of surety that God acts in a given esoteric way as many mystics protest.

किंग David's Prayer

16 Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 17 And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, [1] O Lord God! 18 And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant. 19 For your servant's sake, O Lord, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things. 20 There is none like you, O Lord, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 21 And who is like your people Israel, the one [2] nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt? 22 And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God. 23 And now, O Lord, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have spoken, 24 and your name will be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you. 25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you. 26 And now, O Lord, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. 27 Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you, for it is you, O Lord, who have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”

Hezekiah's prayer

15 And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: “O Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 16 Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands 18 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. 19 So now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Lord, are God alone.”

Justin Martyr Quotations: given by Dan Saxton

justin: Ch.11: “For the true spiritual Israel, and descendants of Judah, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham (who in uncircumcision was approved of and blessed by God on account of his faith, and called the father of many nations), are we who have been led to God through this crucified Christ, as shall be demonstrated while we proceed.”

Ch. 44: “And you deceive yourselves while you fancy that, because you are the seed of Abraham after the flesh, therefore you shall fully inherit the good things announced to be bestowed by God through Christ. For no one, not even of them, has anything to look for, but only those who in mind are assimilated to the faith of Abraham…..”

Justin on the Law: Ch. 46: “You perceive that God by Moses laid all such ordinances upon you on account of the hardness of your people’s hearts, in order that, by the large number of them, you might keep God continually, and in every action, before your eyes, and never begin to act unjustly or impiously.”