o cr. XI. in Gods SÍAtutes,44 keeping his 9udgements. the work ofgodlinefs, Is thy heart atany timeovercharged, and even drunk with thecomfortsof this life ? Reprove and chidethy felf. Count every day and hour loft that dochnot make for Heaven one way or other. SERMON XCV. That Converted Terfn.f are -very (areftell and Tender of the Wor/hip of god , objrving that andon& that uhichhe hath commanded. ái E z a K. 36.17. I willcattle theta to malle in my Statutes, and keep my .udgemtnts, and do teem. W E fubdivided theGrace herepromifed in the later part of the Chapter, wherein wasconfiderable, The Aetion,Iwiücaufeyou to ;Talk: a. The Obje&of the Altion, Inmy Statutes; and this we are to trest upon at ahis time. Now although there arethree words in the Scripture, whichoftenre ufed for the fame thing, Commandments, Statutes and judgensents, yet there is alfo in many places a difference betweenthere. Command- Commandments being properly thole perpetual rules ofthe moral Law, which mC1es, enjoyo the lame Duties in allages of the Church. 7adgemenrs are aridly ufed for thofe Duties of the Judaical Law, whisk con- Jade enoeuts, ternJufrice and equity oneto another. statutes: Statutes are all thof Rites, and that manner of wodhip whichGod had com- manded;; and howbeit we may in this Text make Statutes and Judgements all. ene, :yet as better to diflinguifh them, becaufe the holy Ghofi doch here teem as it were to branch out the whole praéìice and lifeofa converted perfon, which lieth in two things, His Duty to God, and that is, To*akin Godt Statutes; His Da-, ty to man, and that is, To Walls- in ha; fudgements todo them. And although in theNew Tefiament, wehave not the fame Statutes of wotfhip as they had, nor the fame judicial Law for juffice and equity between man and man, yet the mea. ningis, that God willcaufehis people to walk in all that worihip and equity which God at any timefhall command : And it is very ufual in the Old Tetilament to expreffe the Worfhipof God, which fhall be ufed in the times of the Gofpel under thefe names, which were proper tothe legal Adminiliration. This then ii the fence, That whenGod hath put thisnew heart and new fpirit intohis children, he will make them diligent inall that worfhip which he hark commanded, they will be careful to worlhtp him in that pure and holy manner, which is appointed s All their WOrfhipwill beStatute- worfhip, there is the Statute-Law or the Scrim pture for it. They dare not take up any form or manner of workfhip con,. cerningofwhichGod may fay to them,Who path required thefe [hint[atyour hands? Fromwhence obferve, That converted Pea-fansare vary curefiJi staid reniAriii the worfhip of God, alrer- pei. wing aOE rhas, andsorely that which he bath commanded, YOtt may difcover the work ofGrace in a man; as muchatom. h s principles rod prahlte
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