for a time ofLiberty. 4. When men do not thus pull down the Ordinances, the throne of Chrift ; but drive the Lord Jefus away out of his Ordinances, (though they have his Ordinances with them) by their fecret defilings, pollutions,fpiritual pollutions of the glorious Ordinances of Chrift ; this the Lord frequently complaineth of in Prem. and EkeJ. The very great reafon why the Lord did leave his Temple, where their fathers did praife the Lord : theyhad pollu- ted and defiled it,that was the reafon ofit: They had dri- ven the Lord away from his throne, and this doth pull down the princely power of the Lord in his Churches. I know, there be many fins and defilements ; and the Eons of men have hidden wayes ofpolluting the Ordinances of the Lord, that a man (hallfit under all the Ordinances of the Lord ; and as it is laidof Mount Gilboah, not any dew fall upon him; never fee good, when good comes; the Lord is not dear, that is the reafon of it. Oh, thy fecret defilements of the Ordinances of the Lord, have driven the Lord far from you. There are many, I fhall only name three principally, that there may be a little heed taken of them. Firft. When there is a fecret contempt grown upon a mans fpirit of the Ordinances of Chrift, attended with a fecret wearinef e of them : this doth now pollute the Or- dinances of the Lord, and this Both drive the Lord from his Ordinances : Mal. i. 7. Te have ofered polluted bread; wherein have we done it, fay they ? this was the caufeof it ; Tefay, that the Tableofthe Lord is contemptible; the mea- ning is, youdo defpife my Table andOrdinances, and fo now do defpife me too,and fo ye do vilifie andcontemn the Ordinances of the Lord : Therefore faith the Lord, in the conclufionofthat Chapter, t erf. i i . From the rjng of the Sun, my name itfhall be l uìvn. As if he fhouid fay, I am not bound to you,l can have a people, among wiroin my name fha!l be great ; For, faith the Lord, lam a great King. lfone fhould have askedmen in thole dayes what good is in !lour facrifices ? what great glorycan ye fee in them ? the Saints can fee a great deal of glory in mean outfides Now when this is wanting, the name ofthe Lord is polluted, and fo the Lord driven from his Ordi- nances. Heb. 12. 1$. T4,e heed, fell there be in any ofyou an evil roorof bitterneffe Bringing up, and many thereby be defiled. When men do live in fecret lufts, or open pro- fanner ei a man that hath a profane hD earrt,fuch a heart as 39 4. 1.
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