290 OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. can but love and delight in that which he hath found, by experience, to be the way and means of communi- cating to him the most invaluable mercy, the most in- estimable benefit, whereof in this life he can be made partaker 2 He who hath found a hidden treasure, al- though he should at once take away the whole of it, yet will he esteem the place where he found it; but if it be of that nature, that no more can be found or taken of it at once but what is sufficient for the present oc- casion, yet is so full and boundless, as that whenever he comes again to seek for it, he shall be sure to ob- tain present supply, he will always value it, and con- stantly-apply himself to it. And such is the treasure of grace and divine love, that is in the ordinances of divine worship. If we are strangers to these things, if, we never re- ceived efficacious intimations of divine love to our souls, in and by the duties of divine worship, we can- not love them and delight in them as we ought. What do men come to hear the word of God for l What do they pray for l What do they expect to receive from him? Do they come to God as the eternal fountain of living waters ? as the God of all grace, peace, and consolation l Or do they come to hiswor- ship without any design, as to a dry and empty show? Do they fight uncertainly with these things, as men beating the air l Or think they bring something to God, but receive nothing from him l That thebest of their business is to please him in doing what he com- mands ; but to receive any thing from him, they ex- pect not, nor do ever examine themselves whether they havedone so or not l It is not for persons who walk in such ways, ever to attain a due delight in the ordinances of divine worship.
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