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the
place
where_
God
bath promised
to
communicate
his
blessings,
and where
I
have
so
often tasted
that
the
Lord
is
gracious."
REMARKS
on
the
second head.
L
Remark.
Howvery different are they from the
temper
of
David,
who
enjoy public
ordinances continually,
and
are
weary
of
them
?
Who
appear
before God
frequently
on
the
Lord's
day,
and
yet
cry,
what a weariness
is
it?
When
will
the Sabbath
be gone,
Mal.
i. 13.
and
iii.
14.
Autos
viii. 5:
When
shall
we
return
to
the
world again
?
What
is
the reason
of
this
great
aversion
to
divine
worship among those
who
;
call themselves
cl
istians
?
Truly
the greatest
part
have
nothing
of
christianity be-
sides
the mere
name:
Some
are stupid
sinners, and have
no sense
of
divine
things; and
they
think
it
is
all
lost
time
:
They
have no
need
to come before
God,
but
that
it
is
the custom
of
their
country,
or of
the
family
where
they
live,
and
they must do it
;
they do
not
know how
to
spend the hour
elsewhere
without
reproof
and
censure:
Or
they
came
merely to
see,
and
to be seen,
as
is
the
fashion .of'the land.
Some
perhaps
have
a
sense
of
religion,
and yet
they
cannot
look upon
God
any otherwise
than
as
their ene-
my,
and
so they come
before
him
without
any
love
or
delight
in his
company; and then
no
wonder
if
they
are
weary
of
it.
They
do
not
come
as
friends
to
take
plea-
sure
in
his
presence;
they would be
well
enough
pleased,
if
they could
live
for ever in
this world,
and never have
any
thing
to do
with
God
:
Their
chief
motive
is
the
fear
of
hell,
and therefore
they drudge on in toilsome
and
un,
delightful
religion.
And indeed
this
is
one
great
reason
why so
many
true'
Christians
feel no
more longing
after God, either
in
pub.,
lic
or
in
private worship
;
because, though they have some
faith and
some
cold hope, yet they
are contented to
abide
in this
state
of
uncertainty, without
joy
and
assur-
ance,
and
do
not
make
it
their
business to
advance in
christianity They
cannot
rejoice in
God
as
their father,
or
their
friend, with
a
lively
sóul; and
they
find
but
lit
-
tie
pleasure in
his house.
But
it
is
a
divine
pleasure,
and
a
-kin to
heaven,
when
a
child
of
God,
with
a
lively
faith
and joyful
spirit,
comes
before
God
as
:
his
God,
;rid
entertains hiwself,with
all
the blessed discoveries