14t SERMONS trpön Serm, i 6, to Worfhip 5 fo there mutt be a fpecial Purgation, and Exoneration, and dilburdening of the Soul of thofe Sins, which we have committed. 3. We mutt converCe with him in a holy manner ; Levit. 10 ..3. I will be fanllìfied in all that draw nigh unto me : God will be Can &ified upon us, or by us ; here We are to fanaify him in our Hearts with fpecial Reverence and Holinefs of Mind. Thofe that ferved before the Heathen Gods, were cloathed in White, an Emblem of Purity and Innocency : And our Communion with God in Heaven is thus expref ed ; Rev. 3. 4. They Pall walkwitb we in While : So fhould we here, as much as we can, walk with God inWhite,with heavenly pure Souls,put up holy Prayers in an holy manner. And in the time of Worfhip be at the greateft diltance and Elongation from Sin : Many Men, out of a natural Confcience, will be devout in time of Duty. You would be athamed, if an holy Man fhould know what Thoughts you have in time of Worfhip, and dareft thou conceive them in the pretence of an Holy God ? what odious Creatures fhould we be, if our Thoughts were as audible, and as liable to publick notice, as our Words ? Alas ! God knoweth Thoughts as well as Words ; all your carnal, unclean, vain Thoughts are known to him; therefore take heed, how will your holy Father brook this ? 4. We fhould go away the more holy fromWorthip. You havebeenwith an holy God, what of his Holinefs do you carry away in your Hearts ? They that have looked on the Sun, go away with a glaring in their Eyes, and they feem to fee the Sun in all that they look upon. You fhould carry away the Inlightnings of Worthip along with you. When Mofes came from God, his Face (hone ; he had been converting with the God of Glory, and he went away with Tome It ayes of Glory in his Face. We fhould not be as the Beafts in Noah's Ark, to go in unclean, and cote out unclean. God's People are matt full of Indignation againft Sin, when they come from God. Exod. 3a. rg. When Mofes had talked with, God in the Mount, at his return, feting them facrifice to the Calf, he brakg the Tables. The more Communionwe have with. God, the more (hall we hate what is contrary to God. When Jfaiah faw God in his Glory, he began to loath him - felf; Ifa. 6. S. WO is me, for I am undone, becanfe 1 am a .Man of unclean Lips, and I dwell among a .People of unclean Lips, and mine Eyes have Peen the King, the Lord of Hob. And thofe who have effeftually converfed with God in Meditation and Prayer, they come away from him with a perfect hatted of Sin ; for a fight of God worketh an Abomination of what is contrary to him. In a Shop of Perfitmes,,you carry away the Scent in your Cloaths. You wonder that a Man fhould come away cold from the Fire; and it is as great a wonder to come away from the holy God with vile Affeftions. Here you come to make Experiments, whether God be an holy One, yea or no, . whether he be originally effeftually holy. The Syrians, that were Strangers to God's Difpenfations, could fpeak of him only by hear -fay, We have heard that the Gad of Ifrael is a merciful God: but the Ifraelites that were acquainted with him could fpeak of him by Experience, we know it. Asa Man that hath never been acquainted with, the life of Fire, may fay, I. have heard that the Fite willwarm; but he that bath been at the Fire, he knows and feels it : So others can only difcourfe notionally of God's,Holinefs. In Duty we come to him for real Experiences; Lord, we know that thou art an holy God. S ER LWI;
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