--..s.mAIMIEGEEMIMEI....mommos,seremIcingiVER 164, The right manner of Sanflifyins the. muff look upon that not only as a thing appointed co work up- on my foul, and:to favemy Soul by, not as a thing that hath any efficacy put into it in a natural way as the other huh ot is not the nature of the thing that carries fuch apower in it, but it is the In- ititutionof God, and cheOrdinance of God in it : Now then, when I come to wait upon God in an Ordinance for the fpiritual good that is beyond the vertueofany creature to convey tome, certainly I worthip God, that is a fpecial part of worfhip to wait uponGod in this ways Therefore in thefe two refpe?ts, the hea- ring of Gods Word it is a part of the Worfhipof God, and I be. feech yortremember thefe two things every time you come to bear.. I come now to give a Teftimony chat I am not able toun- deritandGod, and the way to eternal life of my felf, but I dode- pend upon God for the knowledg of it. And here I come to wait upon God for the conveyance of that good to my foul that isnot in the power of any creature to convey : Now l worfhip when I do thefe. But further, (you thal find it more plain when we come to open howwe should fanttifieGods Name in the hearing of His Word.) This is DivineService, as much as any Service can be performed. Heretofore our Prelates and thofe kind of men, made all theWorfhip of God tobe in their DivineService (as they call'd it ) whichwas of their own inventions, and made light ofthe preachingor hearingof the Word, but the Word is agreat part of chat DivineService that God requires of us in His Wm- fhip, and in is you do tender up your Homage to Gods You therefore muff not onlywhen you come to hear, think, I come to get fomthing, I come tounderhandmore than I did, and to hear fuch a mans parts, and the like ;but remember you come to tender up your Homage to God, to fit at Gods feet, and there to profefsyour fubjeCtion to Him : That is one endof your coming tohear Sermons. ckuell. Now then you wil fay, What fhould be done in the - dear. gods Word,fo as gods damemay be Saltaified? Ant: For chat, as we opened in theGeneral, That in the Du- ties of GodsWorfhip, there muft be preparation,and thenan an=, fwerablebehavior of the foul. Sohere,theremat shit be a prepa- ration ofthe foul to thisWiadt, and then an anfwerablebehavior oithefoui in iti . ' i . There : amidigimil=illiagliliirANIIIMEr
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