278 OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for her- self, where she may lay her young, even thy altars, O Lord of hosts; my King and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house : they will be still prais- ing thee. Selah.' But a greater than David is here. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself did upon all occasions declare his de- light in, and zeal for, all the ordinances of divine wor- ship, which were then in force by virtue of divine in- - stitution and command. For although he severely re- proved and rejected whatever men had added thereto, under the pretence of a supererogating strictness, or outward order, laying it all under that dreadful sen- tence, Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be plucked up, and cast into the fire; ..yet as to what was of divine appointment, his delight therein was singular, and exemplary to all- his disci- ples. With respect hereto was it said of him, that the zeal of God's house had eaten him up, by reason of the affliction whichhe had in his spirit, to see thewor- ship of it neglected, polluted, and despised. This caused him to cleanse the temple, the seat of divine worship, from the polluters and pollutions of it, not long before his ,sufferings; in the face and to the high provocation of all his adversaries. So with earnest desire he longed for the celebration of his last passo- ver. Luke xxii. 15. ' With desire have I desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.' And it is a sufficient evidence of the frame of spirit and prac- tice of his disciples afterwards. In reference to the duties of evangelical worship by his appointment; that the apostle gives it as an assured token of an unsound condition, and that which tendeth to final cursed apos-
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