for a time ofLiberty. men keep thefe fins with unfenfible hearts of them, ye do refift the holy Ghoft, ye feel not your need of the Lord ; therefore ye keep your fins , and your woes yoy 'hall have for them. Thirdly, Where there is a fpirit of unbelief, that there is not a Peeking to Chrift Jefus, to wafh away the polluti- ons ofhis heart and life, in his attending Upon the Lord in his Ordinances. Tit. 1. 15. r the unbelieving nothing is pure ; but even their mind and confcience is de- filed. Exod. 30. 29. It is Paid, Every thing that touched the Altar, was clean; and hence , without this, all is unclean : When a poor foul (hall come to the Lords Or- dinances, and prepare himfelf before hecome ; and in all, it hath many weakneffes, yet it Both leave it felf with jefus Chrifl ; every thing that Both touch this AI. tar, is fanaified, and is not polluted. But now when men fhall enjoy Ordinances, and make no great matter offins in Ordinances ; efpecially if fecret : fuch is the ve- nemous nature of fin, it Both defile the earth a man doth tread on : Nowwhen men !hall have thefe fins, and know them, and yet never leave themfelves with Chrift, and lay themfelves on this bleffed Altar by faith ; they do pollute the Ordinances of the Lord, Fourthly, When the foul Both not fo openly , mani- lefily drive away the Lord; but when men fhail come to the Ordinances, and never come to the Lord Jefus in them; now the Lord is caft off: A great Prince that comes to a mans houfe, though he be not driven out of doors; yet if not attended on, he accounts himfelf call off. The Lord Jefus Chrift is in his Ordinances, Ezek, 48.35. The Lord is there ; the Saints, they come to God in them,and are carried to him by them : Therefore, 'tisfaid, .4f#s to. 33, 34. Now therefore, we are allpre- fent before God, to bear all things that are commanded thee of God, and Pfal. 84. 7. Every one of them in Sion app -areth before God. Now the Saints and people of God, when they do thus come to the Lord, they find many difficulties to break through, a vaily of Baca. Sometimes their heart is turned from the Lord,and fome- times God is turned from them : to that now, the Saints when they dó come to the Lord in his Ordinances; Theygo through thevalue ofBuca, that they may fee God in. Sion. But now, when men do never break through dif- feulties , but_gire way to a fluggifh heart; when it is thus
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