recommended. 4 t ference between them and the wicked when S E R M. he fhall bring every work into judgment, and XV, every fécret thing, whether it be good or evil? `.....v Agreeable to thofe juft and rational prin- ciples are the inftruaions of chrifli.anity on the fubjet of what is ftri &ly called religion or piety. We are taught to worfhip the Lord our God and him only to ferve, not with a multitude of pompous rites and cere- monies, but with pure hearts and clean hands ; with fincerity and a careful abi i- nence from every thing which is vicious and wicked, with fervent love and awful reve- rence, with confidence in his mercy and humble fubmifi'ion to his will in all things, with hearty purpofes of obeying all his com- mandments, and perfevering in our obedi- ence. In a particular manner, the fimpli- city and purity of that external worfhip which the gofpel prefcribeth is much to be admired ; wife men have always agreed in their opinions concerning the inward adora- tion which is due to the Deity, that it con- fifteth in fear, love, fubmiffion, dependance, and the imitation of his moral attributes yet as fome outward rites are apparently necef- fary, the fettling them feemeth to be a work too difficult for human wifdom ; for in the heathen world where men were left to their own
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