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SEREZ.
XTII.1
HERE
AND
HEREAFTER,
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be
not
a
pleasure to
you,
heaven
itself cannot aflòrd
you
pleasure
;
for
that
is
but
one
great
religious
family,
of
which
Jesus Christ
is
the head
:
And
if
the business
of
that
place
be
not your
delight, you shall
never have
a,
place
there.
Shall
I
ask
the servants
of
this house, when you
are
called
in to
morning and evening prayer, what
is
your
end
?
Do
ye
cone
with
hope
and
desire
to
appear
be-
fore
God
?
Or
is
it
merely to obey the
orders
of
the
house,
and comply
with the
custom
of
the
family,
for
the sake
of
your temporal
interest?
Ask yourselves, my
friends, what
is
it that
brings
you in
constantly
at
the
seasons
of
reading and praying
?
Is
it
a design to
get
near
to God.
Shall I ask
the children, when you come
in
at
the
hour
of
worship, do you set yourselves
as
before
God
!
Do
your
thoughts
go
along
with
the words
of
him
who
prays?
Do
ye
attend
to
the
word read,
as
the
word
of God,
whereby
you must
be
judged? Or
do
you satisfy
your-
selves
to wear
out the
quarter of
an
hour,
in
sitting
still,
f
in
kneeling
as
others
do,
without
thoughts
of
God
3*-.,
S
.each
of
us
ask our own
hearts,
how do
we
pass
the time
of
daily worship
?
Are
we
careful to
lay aside
all our thoughts
of
the
world,
that
we
may be
at
leisure
for
God
?
Remember,
that
not
only
in
the morning
and
evening devotion, but
at
every meal
we
appear
before
God
:
Now do
we
join
in
prayer
for
a
blessing on
our
food'and
in
giving
thanks? Or
do
we
think the word
of
-otie
who
speaks
sufficiently
sanctifies
and
blesses
the
meat
for
all who
taste it
?
Let
us
further
ask
our
consciences this
one
question,
do
we
remember
God
all
the
day, as
those
who
have
ap-
peared
before
him
at
worship
in
the morning?
Do
we
walk among
men, as
those
who dwell in
a
house
of God
?
Do
we
eat,
and drink, and
speak,
and
live,
as
those
who
profess
so
much religion
and
worship.
Let
us
think
on
these things, and
consider
who
there
is
among
us
that
ventures to
trifle
with the
great and
dreadful God
in such
appearances
before
him?
Or pro-
voke
him with
a conversation unsuitable
to such
profes-
sions?
Blessed
be
God, there
is
more than
the form
of
god-